WASHINGTON – The Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board is looking into whether the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage (NOM) violated state law by refusing to disclose the identities of its donors during its efforts to oust state Supreme Court justices in 2010 and 2012. NOM launched an aggressive campaign to interfere with the state’s…
Despite besmirching the Shijonawate Fire Department reputation, two young Japanese firefighters, both 20, were suspended for six months after it was discovered they appeared in adult films, reports the TokyoReporter.com. According to the story, the pair were approached by an adult video scout on a beach in the Suma Ward of Kobe. After being complimented…
I’m not sure why Woody Allen decided to set Blue Jasmine in San Francisco. He can turn a city into a main character of his films; from Manhattan to Vicki Cristina Barcelona to Midnight in Paris. But in Blue Jasmine, the city is neither lovingly shot nor does it really have a role to play…
Audiobooks are still a fairly rare commodity when it comes to gay literature. Unlike reading your fantasy gay novel on the beach or lying in bed on a lazy Sunday afternoon, audiobooks can bring those characters you fantasize about to life in new and exciting ways. And that’s just so with Jordan L. Hawk’s“Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin).”…
You never thought you’d get this old. When you were five, for instance, twelve was a big age. At twelve, you thought twenty-one was the height of maturity. At twenty-one, eighty seems unattainable. Yet, somewhere along the line, you learn what it takes to use the years well. Does wisdom come with age? Is it…
Well, I talked to Mayor Filner the night before he started his two weeks of therapy and, yes, I believe it will be good for him, and he will discover a lot about himself. There is much weighing on Bob and I believe that this time will give him a chance to reflect on things…
dvd of the week After nearly twenty years of big name American directors circling an adaptation of the classic beat novel On the Road, it was the Brazilian Walter Salles, who directed Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, who managed to get it made; his first English-language film. Nowhere near as acclaimed as those two…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Tuesday, August 13, 1:15am TCM has The Hunger listed as a “horror” film, but it’s not. The movie is somewhat suspenseful, but it’s certainly not scary. It just happens to be about vampires. Really, really, really sexy vampires. Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are a centuries-old vampire couple until Deneuve…
“I don’t recall.” From President Reagan to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, it has been the mantra of elected and appointed officials forced to testify. Should Mayor Filner’s alleged behavior indeed lead he or staffers to court, it’s a safe bet it will be uttered at least once by someone who has blocked a potentially damaging…
We attended the celebration of Danza Mexi’cayotl dancers’ thirty-three years of San Diego tradition at the Historic Chicano Park July 21. La Danza Azteca is not only a modern mystic folk dance tradition of Central Mexico based on the cultural legacy of the Aztecs, their enemies and their descendants; it is a way of life,…
