“There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends,” says Albus Dumbledore. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of party politics. Stand up to your party on the wrong issue, and life…
Thursday, May 26 Out and About at La Jolla Playhouse Out and About is an all-inclusive Thursday evening social mixer and performance series for San Diego’s LGBT community. Enjoy signature cocktails and delicious appetizers at a happy hour mixer, followed by an evening production. This Thursday La Jolla Playhouse presents A Dram of Drummhicit. Artistic…
I’ll admit to using moisturizer and Rogaine, but never have I feared getting older. I’ve always appreciated the wisdom that age brings and looked forward to maturity. I figured that my built up database of experiences would lend itself to an expanded perspective of the world and would help me better prioritize and maintain happiness….
One of the things I’ve learned about the LGBT community is that we do a really good job of shooting ourselves in the foot. So with that thought in mind, here’s a question for my peers: How does the LGBT community get more out of the Obama administration in the next two years – those…
Every hospital has one hallway that seems seven miles long. I’ve been to many hospitals and even though hospitals don’t all look alike, they all look like hospitals – and every one of them has one corridor that seems like its seven miles long. It doesn’t matter how long the hallway actually is. It doesn’t…
Violence has marred previous Pride parades in Moscow. RUSSIA – Moscow city officials have rejected an application for a gay Pride parade to be held in the city center later this month, citing a risk of public disorder. The organizers said in a statement that they received a letter last week from Moscow city hall…
The 75th anniversary celebration of the House of Pacific Relations-International Cottages is May 28 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park and the 31st annual Ethnic Food Fair is both Saturday and Sunday at the International Cottages. “Cultural presentations and understanding have been our passion,” says anniversary Chairman Mike Richards. “We were founded during the…
Out May 31 Two fastidious gay New Yorkers – one Martha Stewart’s former on-air doctor, the other an ad executive and ex-drag queen – decide to move to the country, start a farm and star in a reality show about it all. If it sounds like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy meets The Simple…
Gay fashion icon Tom Ford adapted Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name for his first film, and Colin Firth was nominated for an Oscar for playing the gay professor who tries to find happiness after his lover dies. Unfairly criticized for being too much about the 1960s art direction, the film is more than…
