NEW YORK, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- "Gentlemen, start your engines! May the best woman win!" After much critical acclaim and widespread popularity, Logo's hit reality competition series "RuPaul's Drag Race" has returned for a second season. This second lap of "RuPaul's Drag Race" will reflect the same hallmarks of the first season that made it a pop culture hit, including the now classic "lip synch for your life" segment. However, with a larger cast of competitors, mega-watt of celebrity guest judges and more extravagant weekly challenges, the second season of "RuPaul's Drag Race" will be the most tweeted about show of the season. The stakes, wigs and heels are higher than ever as RuPaul searches to crown one lucky up-and-coming drag queen the title (and tiara) of "America's Next Drag Superstar." "RuPaul's Drag Race" returns Monday, February 1, 2010 at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- As the decade draws to a close, a new report shows the past 10 years have been a period of dramatic gains in equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in America. Two-thirds of the 36 statistical inatistical indicators compiled in A Decade of Progress on LGBT Rights showed significant advances, including sharp increases in the number of LGBT Americans protected by nondiscrimination and family recognition legislation at the state level. Just over a quarter of the indicators were negative, and two showed mixed results. The report is a joint project of the LGBT Movement Advancement Project and the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr., Fund. The report is available at www.lgbtmap.org.
In the wee hours of this morning, the Senate cleared a key procedural vote by a party-line tally, 60-40, closing debate on its version of health care reform legislation and paving the way for a vote on final passage by Christmas Eve. Senate Democrats secured the votes of all members of their caucus by [...]
In a deeply disappointing decision, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) formally stated today that it will not provide spousal benefits to the same-sex spouse of an employee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. (The Advocate reported about the announcement this afternoon, and the full statement from OPM is available [...]
If you’re headed out shopping this weekend, don’t forget to take HRC’s Buyer’s Guide with you. The handy guide rates hundreds of popular American brands on their businesses’ treatment of LGBT employees. “Buying for Equality 2010†divides businesses and their consumer products into red, yellow and green categories based on their score on the HRC [...]
Fort Lauderdale attorney and radio host Norm Kent plans to launch a new weekly newspaper geared toward South Florida's gay, lesbian and transgendered community. Starting in January 2010 the "South Florida Gay News.com" will be published on Mondays, with more than twelve thousand copies slated for distribution in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.
It was a landmark year for gay and lesbian couples in Wisconsin.
The wound is still fresh for gay and lesbian constituents of Queens and state senators like Hiram Monserrate (D-East Elmhurst), who voted against same-sex marriage two weeks ago.
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