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8/19/2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a conference Aug. 15-16 in Atlanta that included new research on HIV’s impact on men who have sex with men in the black community. They also previewed a new campaign aimed at increasing HIV testing and awareness since the CDC estimates that a very high percentage of MSM are unaware of their HIV status.
The “Testing Makes Us Stronger” campaign is part of a $45 million, five-year initiative launched by the White House in 2009. On Aug. 3, the CDC released its new estimates of the annual number of new HIV infections ...
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5/31/2011
A jury awarded openly gay LAPD Sgt. Ronald Crump $1.16 million May 19 in his civil case against the city of Los Angeles. Crump claimed job discrimination and retaliation by his LAPD management superiors.Crump, who had been rising through the ranks as a highly regarded officer, was once the poster boy for the LAPD’s LGBT recruitment efforts. Crump alleged that when he was an LAPD spokesperson with the media relations department, his superior, Lt. John Romero, harassed and humiliated him—and when he complained, he was transferred in retaliation to an undesirable position while Romero was promoted.Ironically, during the ...
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4/14/2011
Mayor Pro Tempore John J. Duran will be sworn in as the new Mayor of West Hollywood, and Councilmember Jeffrey Prang will step up as Mayor Pro Tempore at the annual City Council Reorganization and Installation on Monday, April 25, starting at 5 p.m. at the West Hollywood Park auditorium.
Duran insisted to keep it simple. “This is my third time being mayor and I specifically asked the city manager to not make it an event,” he told Frontiers. “Normally there is a huge ceremony with celebrity politicians swearing you in, followed by entertainment and a lavish party. I asked ...
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3/30/2011
Mayor John Heilman released a statement sending heartfelt sympathies to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11. He also sent his condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the disaster on behalf of the City of West Hollywood.
The 2011 Tohuku earthquake had a 9.0 magnitude that was followed by a 7.1-magnitude aftershock. The quake triggered a tsunami with waves up to 33 feet. The disasters have left an estimated death toll up to 10,901 as of Monday, March 27, a rise from 10,668 the previous day, according ...
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2/17/2011
Outgoing Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors addressed the group’s annual Equality Awards and Gala for the last time Feb. 12, LGBTPOV.com reports. The event, held at San Francisco City Hall, honored new Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris and Vicky Kolakowski, the nation’s first elected openly transgender judge.
Kors, who has headed EQCA for almost nine years, spoke about some of the organization’s legislative victories during his tenure, as well as two bills EQCA is sponsoring this year—one a comprehensive anti-bullying measure, the second to make California the first state in the nation to require public schools to teach about ...
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2/17/2011
A West Hollywood man was arrested in St. Thomas for allegedly selling drugs to fellow passengers aboard the Allure of the Seas cruise ship chartered by West Hollywood-based Atlantis Events, the AP reported Feb. 14.
Federal customs agents allegedly found more than 140 ecstasy tablets, nearly three grams of meth, ketamine and more than $50,000 in cash in the cabin of Steven Barry Krumholz, 51, of West Hollywood, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Jeffrey Quinones said. While agents waited for Krumholz to return to his cabin, two passengers dropped by, allegedly to purchase drugs.
Krumholtz was held on charges ...
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2/17/2011
The Hawaii State Senate passed SB232 on Feb. 16, a civil unions bill that confers all the rights and responsibilities associated with marriage. The bill now heads to pro-gay Gov. Neil Abercrombie.
For two years, a coalition of groups beat back scores of political tactics to pass the previous civil unions bill, only to have the state’s Republican Gov. Linda Lingle veto it. There was an immediate call to boycott Hawaii.
“We were able to turn it around so quickly because of one factor—the governor,” Van Law of Pride Alliance Hawaii told Frontiers. “He made this bill his priority.”
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2/17/2011
The California Supreme Court agreed Feb. 16 to answer two questions from the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the legal standing of Proposition 8 proponents to defend the measure on appeal, the AP reports. California Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled last year that Prop. 8 violated the federal Constitution. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and then-Atorney General Jerry Brown declined to appeal Walker’s decision.
If the proponents lack standing, Walker’s ruling will stand without the appellate court reaching the issue of Prop. 8’s constitutionality. If the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, Walker’s decision is widely believed to stand ...
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2/17/2011
During an eQualityGiving.org-sponsored conference call on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal on Feb. 14, Dan Woods, partner in White & Case—the law firm representing the Log Cabin Republicans in their federal challenge to the constitutionality of DADT—said the LCR case will continue after the DADT law is repealed because, among other reasons, DADT could still be re-enacted.
The Justice Department is expected to file their brief on the constitutionality of DADT on Feb. 25. “We’re going to be very interested in seeing how the government is going to argue that ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is and was constitutional,” Woods said.
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2/3/2011
Illinois has joined the ranks of states that permit same-sex civil unions, and Hawaii seems poised to do the same. Illinois’ Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed that state’s new law Jan. 31 before a standing-room-only crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Chicago Tribune reports.
“We believe in civil rights, and we believe in civil unions,” Quinn said. “We believe in liberty and justice for all.”
Illinois is the sixth state to recognize civil unions; five states and the District of Columbia permit full-fledged same-sex marriage. The Illinois law takes effect June 1 and will afford gay couples many of ...
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