SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s best brewers, artists and musicians are showing off at the 17th annual North Park Festival of Arts. Nearly 30,000 visitors are expected to visit the festival, spanning the intersection of University and 30th Avenues. The festival is free to attend and sponsored by North Park Main Street, a non-profit organization…
SAN DIEGO — Today, Environmental Health & Justice Campaign (EHJC), an organization that fights toxic pollution in disadvantaged communities south of I-8, endorsed candidate Lorena Gonzalez in the race for Assembly District 80. The environmental justice organization says that Gonzalez will work hard to improve the health and economic well-being of the community members for years to…
SAN DIEGO – Diversionary Theatre have announced complete casting for its production of The Divine Sister written by Charles Busch and directed by Glenn Paris. Performances begin at Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Blvd. in San Diego May 23. The cast includes Maggie Carney as Mrs. Levinson, Yolanda Franklin as Sister Acacius, Lauren King as Agnes,…
April 29, Jason Collins, a center for the Washington Wizards, became the first male athlete to come out while playing on a professional North American sports team. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Kobe Bryant, who had his own anti-gay kerfuffle with the NBA two years ago when he uttered ‘faggot’ at a referee, spoke out…
(CNN) — Big, bright and bubbly — comedian Ross Mathews never apologizes for who he is. Between duties as a “Tonight Show” correspondent and guest appearances on E!’s late-night talk show “Chelsea Lately,” the 33-year-old covers a lot of ground in the 200-plus pages of his new memoir “Man Up!” He shares with readers the…
(CNN) — Rhode Island became the tenth state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage after the state legislature approved the measure on Thursday. Gov. Lincoln Chafee is expected to sign the bill at 5:45 p.m. ET. Last week both the Rhode Island House and Senate approved by large margins measures allowing same-sex couples to…
SACRAMENTO – The Senate today passed legislation authored by Sen. Mark Leno that reforms California’s drug sentencing laws for simple possession. SB 649 allows counties to significantly reduce incarceration costs by giving prosecutors the flexibility to charge low-level, non-violent drug offenses as misdemeanors instead of felonies. The bill also gives judges discretion to deem a non-violent…
(CNN) — LeRoy Butler, a former safety for the Green Bay Packers, is one of many professional athletes to tweet support for Jason Collins, the NBA player who came out as gay this week. “Congrats to Jason Collins,” Butler tweeted April 29, the day Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated cover story. But Butler…
(CNN) — Rhode Island was set to become the tenth state in the nation, and the last in New England, to legalize same-sex marriage Thursday as final legislation cleared procedural hurdles in the state legislature. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an independent, has pledged to sign the bill immediately following its final passage. Last week both the…
If there was a patron saint of contemporary LGBT art a contender for that title would surely be Robert Mapplethorpe. Mapplethorpe sought, found and held onto fame in the 1980s thanks in part to his gorgeously lit photographs of flowers and then his gorgeously lit photographs of naked men in all manner of sexual situations….
