Gay Author, Mike Pingel has taken his passion for 70s TV with his new book: The Brady Bunch: Super Groovy After All These Years through BearManor Publishing now available in stores & online.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the media advocacy and anti-defamation organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, will be honoring Lucía Méndez with a GLAAD Media Award for her work to raise visibility of LGBT youth suicide in Spanish-language media. This marks the first time GLAAD bestows an honor outside of the United States.

Writer/director Rob Williams brings Christmas to gay audiences with a sweet romantic comedy about how young love and coming out can both complicate family life. Keith Jordan and Adamo Ruggiero show strong chemistry in this award-winning film.

It was announced today by West Coast entrepreneur Jim Anzide that his Out & About Tours, the first and only bus tour that offers an in-depth yet entertaining look at LGBT history and its hotspots not found in your average LA travel guide, will make its entrance on the LGBT stage in West Hollywood on Halloween day.  Anzide said the tour, aimed at members of all communities 21 years of age and older, will run every Saturday and Sunday of each month from 1-4 p.m departing from the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum in West Hollywood. Tickets, available online at www.outandabout-tours.com, cost $75 per person and include two drink tickets (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and snacks throughout the tour.  Just as LGBT culture is celebrated during WeHo’s annual Halloween Carnival, Out & About tours embraces and examines that culture with a roving reporter’s approach.

As part of Marriott International’s corporate-wide “ Spirit to Serve” global customer awareness week, six Houston-area Marriott hotels will act as collection points for the Star of Hope’s city-wide holiday blanket collection drive November 2-6 and provide kitchen volunteers to the Houston Food Bank on November 6.

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, praised President Barack Obama today for signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law.  The new law gives the Justice Department the power to investigate and prosecute bias-motivated violence where the perpetrator has selected the victim because of the person's actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.  The legislation was added as a provision to the FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act earlier this Summer.  For a comprehensive retrospective and historical overview of hate crimes advocacy visit: www.LoveConquersHate.org.

The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today expanded its Justice For All educational curriculum to cover issues addressing gender identity and expression.  The newest addition to the curriculum provides educators with three new lesson plans that will help them to engage their students in discussing gender identity and how gender identity discrimination affects people in education, employment, and family law.