‘Paddle Fest’ returns to Mission Bay for the third year

Urban Surf 4 Kids has set Sunday, Oct. 12 for its 2014 Paddle Fest, an annual stand-up paddleboard (SUP) race and expo.  Proceeds from the event will to go to Urban Surf 4 Kids’ Dreaming of Aloha Achievement Program, which will take participating foster youths to Hawaii this December. Paddle Fest features three different courses…

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YouTube sensation Steve Grand to headline ‘Orange Is Best With Black’ Halloween Eve Party in North Park

SAN DIEGO – Thursday, Oct. 30, gay viral sensation and overnight YouTube celebrity, Steve Grand, returns to San Diego to headline the Orange Is Best With Black Halloween Party at Queen Bee’s, 3925 Ohio St. in North Park. This will be Grand’s first appearance in San Diego since October 2013. He will be promoting his upcoming new single, due…

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The Fault in Our Stars

dvd of the week The hugely successful tearjerker starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, earned my tears, even if the filmmakers took a few shortcuts to get them. Unless you’ve managed to ignore all of the advertising and hype surrounding the movie, you know the movie is a story about kids with cancer. The narrator…

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Susan Davis moves to force House vote on ENDA, emphasizes importance of transgender protections

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) pushed for a vote in the House on the bipartisan Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The House majority has blocked a vote on the ENDA bill passed by the Senate last year. Davis and her colleagues signed a…

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Detroit jeweler adds LGBT designer Rony Tennenbaum’s new wedding jewelry collection

DETROIT – Tapper’s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry stamp its mark in its 37th anniversary with the arrival of a new wedding jewelry collection from LGBT designer Rony Tennenbaum. Tapper’s, Michigan’s most trusted jeweler since 1977, is expanding its demographic reach and marketing to include the LGBT community by adding a new wedding & engagement jewelry collection created to…

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‘Larry King Now’ with Mel B on AGT finale, Spice Girls reunion and breakup details (VIDEO)

Former Spice Girl Mel B gets detailed with Larry King on a recent episode of his Emmy nominated series Larry King Now about the season finale of NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent, (AGT) what ended her band’s reign of global girl power, her path to success post-Scary Spice and life as a workaholic mother….

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New York Blood Center receives $2 million in NIDA funding to develop HIV self-testing intervention

NEW YORK — New York Blood Center’s Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI) Laboratory of Social and Behavioral Sciences has received a three-year, $2 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to develop and test an HIV self-testing intervention for young, Black, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men.   This…

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Bangladesh set to veto UN rights for gay and lesbian people

BANGLADESH — Bangladesh says it will veto the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) proposal to provide rights for gay and lesbian people, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “It goes against our values. Like many other countries including those Muslim and Christian, we opposed it,” Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the UN Abdul Momen told the Dhaka Tribune….

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