Tag: California

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Biden, former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate, compared President Donald Trump on Friday to the late George Wallace, a prominent supporter of racial segregation. Wallace, known for his white supremacist views, served as governor of Alabama for 20 years from 1967 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination several times. His 1972 presidential bid ended when he was shot, but he survived. Wallace died in 1998. Biden, on a campaign swing in California,...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Billionaire Tom Steyer, a longtime friend and key donor to liberal candidates and causes, says he decided to run for the Democratic presidential nomination next year because no other candidate was offering a “mandate for change”. But by deciding to fund his long-shot bid with $100 million of his own money, some Democratic activists believe all he will end up doing is denying his money to grassroots organizations and candidates in Senate and House races...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by October 2025, a big win for workers and labor groups, even as it remained unlikely the bill would pass a Republican-controlled Senate. The move comes at a time when the $15 minimum wage fight, first started by fast-food workers in New York in 2012, has been gaining momentum around the country with several states and large...

The Center Launches the Host Homes Program On the heels of the startling news that homelessness in Los Angeles County rose 12 percent over the last year, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is doing its part to curb the crisis by introducing Host Homes, a new program in which youth experiencing homelessness are sheltered in local private homes. The Center is seeking a diverse pool of residents who are interested in opening up their homes for short periods of time to...

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected emergency bids to temporarily set aside its recent decision allowing the Trump administration to enforce a “gag rule” that could strip Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers of federal funding for family planning. By a 7-4 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals let stand its June 20 decision lifting injunctions blocking enforcement of the rule, which makes clinics ineligible for Title X family planning funds if they provide...

Man Attacks his own girlfriend in a family brawl at ToonTown – Disneyland, California I have no idea what recently caused a battle of blows between two families at Anaheim’s Disneyland Park, but what was captured on camera is wildly mortifying. In a video that’s now gone viral, a vicious dustup emerged at Mickey’s Toontown this past Saturday as a man and woman exchanged heated words and it escalated to the woman spitting in the man’s face. His response was...

In May 2018, Maebe A Girl became quite possibly the first drag queen elected to public office when the California performer became the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council representative of Region 5. Now, the genderfluid/trans performer has announced her intention to run for California state congress. In a recently released statement, she said: “I’m running because representation matters. California’s 28th District has a diverse demographic and as such requires a representative that can relate to the oppression experienced by so many of its constituents....

Google employees were told that they can’t protest Google’s policies if they march with the company in a Pride parade. An internal memo was obtained by The Verge that said that Google employees who planned to march with the company in the upcoming San Francisco Pride parade would be punished if they wore clothing that protested the company or otherwise made a statement against Google or its policies. The company has come under scrutiny this past month for its harassment and...

A Fresno County Judge has tentatively ruled that transgender woman Maddie Wade didn’t experience “discrimination” or “harassment” when her Starbucks manager repeatedly misgendered her and cut her work hours after Wade began medically transitioning. Wade, a 19-year employee with the coffee chain, alleged that her manager Dustin Guthrie repeatedly called her “bro” and “dude” in front of other customers and co-workers after she began transitioning. After she complained, Guthrie allegedly cut Wade’s hours and told her to quit, driving Wade to...

Ryan Thompsen was riding his bike home from work last Thursday in San Jose, California when the driver of a grey Nissan illegally blocked the bike lane. When Thompsen stopped his bike to confront the man about it, the driver went off on a homophobic tirade. And the whole thing was caught on tape. “That’s the bike lane,” Thompsen can be heard saying in the video, which appears to have been recorded from his helmet cam. “Hey, no sh*t,” responds the driver. When...

Langer’s Deli, a 72-year-old delicatessen in Los Angeles’ Westlake neighborhood, allegedly ejecting a lesbian couple earlier this month for kissing during the city’s Pride weekend celebration. The restaurant has since said that it forbids kissing of any sort, but the ejected lesbians think the restaurant targeted them for being a same-sex couple. In a statement about the incident, lesbian customer Rachel Curry wrote: “My date and I had finished eating and we shared a kiss in our booth. Suddenly a man...

The scandal-ridden former Representative Aaron Schock (R-IL) appears to be preparing to run for office again. Schock served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 2009 to 2015, when he resigned in disgrace after being accused of misusing campaign and public funds. He was the subject of a congressional ethics investigation and was indicted by a federal grand jury. Federal prosecutors dropped charges earlier this year in exchange for paying $110,000 in restitution and taxes. He has also been photographed making out...

The Trump administration announced that it would immediately shut down an HIV research contract with a university and the move was hailed by an anti-LGBTQ hate group. In a statement, the Department of Health and Human Services said that it would be reviewing research contracts with the National Institute of Health (NIH) that use aborted fetus tissue. “Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” the statement...

A California court ruled in favor of a man who was denied service at a barber shop because he’s HIV-positive. In 2017, the owner of the King of Kuts barbershop in Los Angeles, Ramsy Milton, refused to cut personal trainer Nikko Briteramos’s hair and said that no one who worked at the shop could either after he found out that Briteramos is living with HIV. Milton allegedly said that he was worried that his “celebrity clientele” would stop coming to the...