Charles McKain, 65, from San Diego, died Saturday, March 17 after battling an undisclosed illness. McKain retired as a staff attorney for the Fourth District of the California Court of Appeal. He graduated from Hoover High School in 1963, and went on to earn a history degree from Stanford University and Juris Doctorate from the…
WASHINGTON – More than 15,000 people are calling on Mitt Romney to fire his National Finance Chair, Frank VanderSloot, for his extensive activities aimed at demonizing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The petition, launched by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) last week, calls on people to demand Romney fire VanderSloot and return the money…
NEW YORK – The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the launch of its Commentator Accountability Project. The project aims to educate the media about the extreme rhetoric of over three dozen activists who are often given a platform to speak in opposition to LGBT people and the issues that affect their…
BRUSSELS – The European Parliament has adopted a resolution protecting same-sex couples’ inheritance rights throughout the European Union (EU). The resolution says individual countries that do not recognize legal partnerships between gay couples should not be able to deny a gay widow or widower the rights they have to their late spouse’s estate under the…
dvr this Season premiere, AMC, 9 p.m., Sunday, March 25 The best show on television, and one of the best ever, Mad Men returns after almost a year and a half. In case you’ve been living under a rock: It is the story of the private and professional lives of New York advertising executives in…
If sidesplitting comedy is what you are after, you are in luck, times three, because this Saturday night at 8 p.m. for your delectation The Birch North Park Theatre presents the Queer Queens of Qomedy. The Queer Queens are comprised of three of the country’s reigning LGBT comics, Gina Yashere, Fortune Feimster and Poppy Champlin….
One of the best series’ on television, at least according to the American Film Institute, is AMC’s Mad Men, now in its fifth season. In fact, back in 2007, the Television Critics Association also named the production “best television show.” At the same time, aggregating the review “scores” of 31 professional television critics, Metacritic.com gave…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced that The Weinstein Company co-chairman and anti-bullying advocate Harvey Weinstein will present a Special Recognition Award to high school student Katy Butler at the 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards March 24, 2012, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Seventeen-year-old Katy Butler launched a…
X-Files star, Gillian Anderson has revealed that she had a lesbian relationship when she was a teenager in high school that at the time was “freaking people out.” In an interview with Out magazine Anderson said, “I was in a relationship with a girl for a long time when I was in high school, and…
In support of gay art Dear Editor, This is in response to the article by Andrew Printer called “More gay art, please!” in the San Diego LGBT Weekly. I am a gay artist and have been living in San Diego for over 10 years. My experience of showing gay–art themed paintings in this city has…
