A group called the “Commitment Campaign” is urging LGBT activists and allies to shift the focus of gay marriage away from equality and toward the value of commitment. According to USA Today, “advocates have long made the case that legalizing marriage for gays and lesbians is a matter of equality, but those who frame the…
WASHINGTON – The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has been called out for using deceitful tactics in New Hampshire. NOM is using a photograph from an Obama campaign event in St. Louis to mislead New Hampshire voters into believing they have more supporters than they actually do. The news was broken by Jeremy Hooper on…
WASHINGTON – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) has filed federal litigation, suing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, on behalf of current and former servicemembers seeking equal recognition, benefits and family support for equal sacrifice and service in the U.S. armed forces. The plaintiffs,…
dvr this The film version of Michael Cunningham’s lyrical, moving 1990 novel about a bisexual love triangle set among AIDS and 1980s New York is not nearly as good as the book, but it’s still a damn fine movie. Dallas Roberts, who is now playing the gay brother on The Good Wife, is in love…
Despite being voted off Dancing with Stars, Chaz Bono will be back on TV screens next month in another documentary. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) recently announced that Bono will be the subject of another documentary, Being Chaz, which will examine Bono’s life after his transition. Bono was previously the subject of an OWN documentary…
Well it has happened again. Another starlet, I use that term loosely, has filed for divorce from her husband after a 72-day marriage. In 2004, pop starlet Britney Spears married in Las Vegas and filed for divorce 55 hours later. Later that year, Spears married Kevin Federline which also ended in divorce. Why does this…
I didn’t plan it this way, but for the second week in a row I’m reviewing a movie that is oddly in tune with the Occupy Wall Street zeitgeist. While Margin Call, which I wrote about last week, is actually about Wall Street, In Time has a slightly more oblique connection; it uses a science…
Seventy major organizations including Google, Microsoft, Xerox, Time Warner Cable, New Balance, Aetna, Levi Strauss & Co., and more have banded together to file and amicus brief in Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders’ (GLAD) DOMA Challenge in the suit of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. The historical brief illuminates the negative impact that…
The glitterbombing continues, and this time, it’s Dan Savage under heat after his visit to the University of Oregon Tuesday turned sparkly as a representative from the “Dan Savage Welcoming Committee” rushed to the stage to dump a bucket of glitter on the sex columnist, the Huffington Post reports. Not all was fun and games:…
insider scoop San Diego LGBT Weekly’s editorial staff have taken their combined wisdom and experience (i.e. lessons learned from past floundering) on the dating circuit to bring you this list of date-night dos and don’ts. • Don’t put your elbows on the table. It’s still bad manners. • Don’t drink too much: You’ll say something,…
