Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion are synonymous with not only founding and producing IndieFest and the band Danielle LoPresti and The Masses, but also with creating an independent music and culture scene in San Diego that simply did not exist before. They work hard to bring talented artists to San Diego, as well as looking…
The movers and shakers in the world of sales and consumption now aim most, if not all, of their heavy advertising, political pandering and entertainment events at the new ultra-important consumers: the millennials. This means those born after 1980; you know, the ones we refer to as kids. The members of the next group in…
The GSDBA has been one of our community’s most outstanding organizations and I have been, and will continue to be, a strong supporter since its establishment, having been close friends with your late founders. It was I, who through then President Clinton’s administration arranged that the GSDBA became the first gay business association to sign…
It’s no secret that I absolutely worship Debbie Gibson. I have been a true blue fan of hers since she first hit it big with hits like “Only In My Dreams,” “Shake Your Love” and “Foolish Beat.” “Foolish Beat” entered Debbie into the Guinness Book Of World Records as the youngest artist in history to…
When I was at grad school one of my professors gave me an old book that described homosexual life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The book was an example of ethnographic research whereby the author/researcher immersed herself into the world of gay people (mostly men) to understand the subculture from within. The hardcover…
In the gloam of the Senate immigration debate, despite conservative Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s religious harrumphing about how any measure that included allowing bi-national LGBT couples the same opportunities as heterosexual ones have to apply for citizenship would derail reform, he, and many others, could not have possibly imagined what would happen Wednesday, June…
The LGBT community and Russia have been the rage in the media lately. Some LGBT activists and other supporters have suggested a boycott of the Winter Olympics that will be held in Sochi, Russia in February. The argument goes that we should not allow countries that discriminate or support human rights violations to be able…
The Canyons To say the least, it’s rare that a movie with a budget of $250,000 becomes the subject of a 7,600 word article in The New York Times Magazine. It makes a little more sense, when you know that The Canyons was directed by Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and…
It’s hard to believe that less than two months have passed since the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and effectively ended Proposition 8. It’s even harder to believe that we already need to be watching the courts again. There are of course the various marriage equality cases that are peppering the…
