DVR This: ‘On the Town’

Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, July 3, 10 a.m. On July 4 weekend, the networks flood their schedules with the most American of films, and one of my favorites is On the Town, one of the greatest musicals ever made. Directed by the occasional lovers Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen (no, really, they were!) and starring…

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San Diego LGBT newspaper

Louis Marinelli, former NOA administrator, raises funds for Marriage Equality Tour

Last summer, Louis Marinelli was a power-player for the National Organization for Marriage’s “Summer for Marriage Tour” – an event designed specifically to discourage marriage equality and promote a strict, DOMA-inspired definition of marital union. But that was then. Fast forward one year, and Marinelli can now be found gearing up for what he hopes…

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LGBT newspaper San Diego

Southwest Airlines pilot issues apology for crude anti-gay rant

James Taylor, a Southwest Airlines pilot based in Argyle, Texas, issued a written apology Tuesday after accidentally recording an extended anti-gay and discriminatory conversation on the FAA’s radio system last week. MSNBC reports that Taylor unintentionally left his microphone on during a conversation in the cockpit, during which complained about a surfeit of “gays, grannies…

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