Even though Proposition 54 was defeated in Tuesday’s recall election by a wide margin, University of California Regent Ward Connerly, the man who introduced the initiative, said he will try to revive the issue by introducing a rewritten version of the proposition in the future. Read more...

Based on Food and Drug Administration regulations set in 1985, any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 is under a lifelong ban from donating blood or blood products. Read more...

The sound of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles and Vox Femina Los Angeles Women’s Chorus was heard across Bruin Plaza on Wednesday evening, kicking off the grand opening celebration of the newly located Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender campus resource center. Read more...

Razi Michael Zarchy spent a lifetime questioning his gender identity. Born a female, Zarchy always felt he had trouble identifying with his assigned gender. “I felt something was wrong my whole life, but I couldn’t place my finger on it,” said Zarchy, a third-year linguistics and anthropology student. Read more...

Speaking at UCLA’s 1950 commencement ceremony, Ralph J. Bunche told the crowd, “I am a Bruin. I have always been proud of that distinction.” Today, the African American Studies Center is being renamed after Ralph J. Read more...

The bit of good news from Tuesday’s election was that Proposition 54 went down in a landslide. After university students and public health and law enforcement officials spent months organizing opposition to the ill-conceived ballot initiative, voters sent a clear message that attempting to eliminate race and ethnicity from public life is not a good idea ““ a message Ward Connerly missed. Read more...