thursday, oct. 2. A Discourse on The Wonders of the Invisible World The year is 1702, 10 years after the Salem witch trials made famous in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. About to leave the colonies forever, long-lost Abigail Williams arrives at the Frontier Tavern of her childhood witch conspirator, Mercy Lewis, desperate to understand the…
The Blacklist was one of network television’s few breakout hits last year, and after I caught up on it this summer, I realized why. It’s James Spader, playing Raymond “Red” Reddington, a murderous criminal mastermind who decides to help the FBI catch the world’s worst criminals. When he is not spitting out campy insults at…
In what has surely unnerved Tom Cruise and his agents, his latest film, the massively budgeted Doug Limon-directed sci-fi action movie Edge of Tomorrow, got among the best reviews of any of the summer’s blockbusters and barely managed to earn half of its budget back in the United States. (The film made a firm profit…
The first California specific LGBT issue bill I ever lobbied for was 2006’s Justice for Gwen Araujo Act (AB 1170). The “What This Bill Will Do” section of Equality California’s fact sheet stated, “In order to dissuade the use of appeals to prejudice and bias in an attempt to gain acquittal, a favorable plea or…
Longtime LGBT advocate Allyson Robinson, who was ordained at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. in June, is featured in an MSNBC Originals video. Headlining the video as “Is this the most radical preacher in America?” MSNBC writes, “West Point graduate, master of divinity and trans mother of four, Allyson Robinson thinks it’s her congregation–and…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), has announced that Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish will be honored at the organization’s 18th Annual National Dinner Saturday, Oct. 25, in Washington, D.C. “We are truly excited to honor such influential international AIDS activists and philanthropists at this year’s national dinner,” said HRC President…
WASHINGTON – On the heels of a meeting of the American Latino Scholars Expert Panel and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced $500,000 in matching grants to help fund 13 projects across the country to increase the number of…
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – The LGBT Community Center of The Desert – a Palm Springs organization serving the desert LGBT community – is honoring Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend founder and producer, Mariah Hanson, with the first ever “ Legacy Award” for her invaluable contribution to the Coachella Valley LGBT community. The 5th Annual Center Stage…
Following revelations yesterday by San Diego City Council District 6 candidate Carol Kim that her opponent, Chris Cate may have committed tax fraud by continuing to receive discounts on his Carlsbad home after he moved to Mira Mesa, it has been revealed that the mix-up was due to an error by the County of San…
LOS ANGELES — Actress Katee Sackhoff broke on to the scene starring as Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on the hit series Battlestar Galactica. She’s now starring as Deputy Sheriff Victoria “Vic” Moretti on the A&E series Longmire and recently started her own advocacy organization, Acting Outlaws, a charitable biker gang that rolls across the country…
