(GLAAD) In May, Fox aired a highly offensive episode of Family Guy in which Quagmire’s dad transitioned to become a woman named Ida and featured numerous jokes that were offensive to the transgender community. GLAAD reached out to Fox and asked that the episode not re-air. Despite this, GLAAD has learned that Fox will re-air the “Quagmire’s Dad” episode of Family Guy this Sunday, July 25.

(SFGate) Seven Bay Area gay and transgender pastors were reinstated into the national Lutheran church on Sunday after being barred for two decades from serving in the denomination. It was a day of mixed feelings for the “Bay Area Seven” – the Revs. Jeff Johnson, Megan…

(LA Times) Mayor Gavin Newsom restores funding for initiative aiding group whose unemployment and poverty rates are twice the state average. An economic empowerment program for transgender people has been saved from extinction in last-minute budget negotiations.

(365 Gay) Briana Freeman had been using the women’s restroom at a Denny’s in Auburn, Maine for about a year, until in October 2007 a manager asked her to stop. Last year, she sued Realty Resources Hospitality, the franchise owner of the Auburn Denny’s for the right to use the women’s restroom. This week, the judge hearing Freeman v.

(SFGate) Victoria Kolakowski, who’s running for Alameda Count Superior Court judge in a November runoff election, declares on her campaign Web site that she hopes to make history. “If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in… Superior court – California – United States – LGBT – Transgender

(Phila. Inquirer) Jennifer Collins, a transgender woman from Fishtown, arrived early at Independence Mall Sunday for her first Gay Pride Parade in Philadelphia, the city’s 22d annual event.

(SFGate) Transgender travelers no longer will need surgery in order to change their stated genders on U.S. passports, the State Department said Wednesday. Beginning Thursday, a transgender person applying for a U.S.

(HRC Back Story) In Orlando, Florida last week, thousands of LGBT people from around the world descended on Disney World and participated in a week-long series of LGBT activities known as “Gay Days.” HRC’s field team partnered with volunteers from HRC’s outstanding Orlando Steering Committee to staff HRC tables at the Gay Days Expo. We talked to thousands of people from around the nation (and from other nations) about the critical work we are doing at HRC to overturn the discriminatory Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, to pass a fully inclusive Employment Nondiscrimination Act in the House this year, and to work steadily for marriage and family equality across the nation. Gay Days, and other Pride events that are occurring around the nation this month, and throughout the year, do the important political work of bringing us together as a community for sustenance and solidarity and offer a way to educate those who may not have an opportunity to see large groups of LGBT people out in public.

(The Sexist) On Wednesday,  DC for Democracy hosted a pre-endorsement candidate forum for D.C.’s mayoral candidates. Here’s the final question posed to the candidates: “Transgender people face some of the worst discrimination in the District, despite legal protections. As Mayor, the question to you is: Will you appoint the first transgender member of the human rights board ?” Here’s how Vince Gray , Mayor Adrian Fenty , and Leo Alexander chose to answer that question: Vince Gray : “Yes.

(GLAAD) The highly contested film Ticked Off Tra**ies with Knives by Dallas-based filmmaker Israel Luna is being protested by a group of Texas transgender activists led by Kelli Busey of the group Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies and supported by Trinity Metropolitan Community Church. Community members are protesting Q Cinema’s screening of Ticked-Off Tra**ies with Knives The protest is scheduled for Saturday June 5th, 7pm, the day the film makes its Southwest premiere at Q Cinema, Fort Worth’s International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The film received media attention when the Tribeca Film Festival provided a national platform for the film by selecting it for the festival and GLAAD issued a call to action in response to strong community outcry over the film’s title and the gratuitous violence it displayed against the film’s transgender characters.