#WeAreOrlando

As we celebrate Pride in America’s Finest City, we are Orlando. The tragic events at the Pulse Nightclub touched so many in the LGBT and Latino communities, yet we must remember that #WeAreSandyHook, #WeAreSanBernadino, #We AreParis, and #WeAreInstanbul, just to name a few. While the event in Orlando awakened our community to the gun control…

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Equality Florida’s Pulse victims fund surpasses $7m

An online fundraiser for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting set up by Equality Florida has raised $7M in a campaign that continues to break records for online philanthropy. Equality Florida launched the GoFundMe campaign hours following news of the horrific shooting with an initial goal of raising $100,000. The campaign became the quickest to…

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Kesha won’t hold back for anyone — especially at Pride

San Diego LGBT Pride Music Festival headliner Kesha may not have set out on a career trajectory intending to become an educator of straight men, but boy has she schooled a few. Take for instance an Internet troll who recently made the mistake of publicly criticizing the megastar recording artist’s posterior. Here’s the stunningly concise,…

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Diversity of UC San Diego’s new fall 2016 freshman admits up by 46.2 percent

The University of California San Diego has admitted a record 30,273 freshman and 9,802 transfer students for the fall 2016 term. The number of new freshmen is up 3,773 compared to last year and there is also an increase among transfer admits by 1,652 students. Historically underrepresented students are up 46.2 percent at freshman level…

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Listen: GLAAD and Interscope Records release musical tribute benefitting victims and families of Orlando massacre

GLAAD and Interscope Records today released “Hands,” a musical tribute to the victims of Orlando, featuring Mary J Blige, Jason Derulo, Tyler Glenn, Selena Gomez, Halsey, Ty Herndon, Imagine Dragons, Juanes, Adam Lambert, Mary Lambert, Jennifer Lopez, the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, Kacey Musgraves, MNEK, Alex Newell, P!nk, Prince Royce, Nate Ruess, RuPaul, Troye…

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

dvd of the week Continuing their string of damn fine moderately budgeted comedies –I Love You, Philip Morris, Crazy Stupid Love, and Focus – Glenn Ficarra and John Requa turned Kim Baker’s Afghanistan foreign correspondence memoir into a fantastic vehicle for Tina Fey and her deeply satisfying trademarked feminist comedy. Fey plays Kim, a bored…

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Animal Kingdom

dvr this TNT, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Animal Kingdom is loosely based on the Oscar-nominated 2010 Australian film of the same name; it keeps the basic premise, a family of career criminals headed by a steely mom, and ramps up the sex and sociopathology. Instead of Jacki Weaver as the mother nicknamed Smurf, we have professional…

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The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, july 7 Macbeth Tempted by an evil prophecy, and encouraged by his wife ever deeper into his own dark ambition, Macbeth murders his way to the throne of Scotland. Shakespeare’s chilling tragedy is filled with ferocious battles, supernatural horrors, famously gorgeous poetry and some of the Bard’s most vivid characters. A stellar cast, under…

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