The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus urged the Ukrainian government today to take measures to safeguard the celebration of LGBT Pride in Odessa this month. “On behalf of the LGBT Equality Caucus, I commend the leadership of Ukraine for actions taken to ensure that Kiev’s Pride celebrations were able to take place in an atmosphere of…
The San Diego LGBT Community Center has put a call out for AIDS Walk/Run San Diego volunteers. Join them this year and help them get ready for the 27th annual AIDS Walk San Diego. “Simply put, volunteers make AIDS Walk/Run possible – and they make it fun,” said Sarah Merk-Benitez, volunteer coordinator. “AIDS Walk raises…
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday halted a lower court’s order forbidding a Virginia school district from enforcing its discriminatory ban on transgender students using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The 5-3 order in Gloucester County School Board v. Grimm allows the school board’s discriminatory policy to remain in place while the Supreme Court awaits…
As long as your team wins. That’s all that matters, isn’t it – just that they win? You don’t care what they ate for breakfast. And, as in the new book Fair Play by Cyd Zeigler, you don’t care who they sleep with. Less than a generation ago, if a professional athlete came out publicly…
thursday aug. 4 Peter Pan Broadway’s high-flying musical whisks you away to a place where dreams are born and no one ever grows up! Peter and his mischievous sidekick Tinkerbell visit the Darling children’s nursery late one night and with a sprinkle of pixie dust begin a magical journey across the stars. In the adventure…
Aside from making a great deal of money, there was no reason to make another Jason Bourne movie. After three of them – The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum – the amnesiac assassin that the CIA tried to get rid of has regained his memories and gotten revenge. Plenty of people were killed, cars were…
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. HBO’s latest water-cooler hit is a miniseries about a Pakistani-American college student named Nasir (Riz Ahmed, in a career making performance) who wakes up after a one-night stand to find the woman he’s slept with brutally stabbed to death. He panics, runs and then he’s caught and charged with…
dvd of the week Melissa McCarthy plays Michelle Darnell, who is some sort of combination of Martha Stewart, Paula Deen and Leona Helmsley. She talks folksy, but she is ruthless. After a stint in jail for fraud, she emerges penniless and friendless. So, she camps out at the home of her former long-suffering assistant Claire…
Claire Kittrell, who created the viral Gingers Do Have Souls video and starred in the reality show Hollywood Hillbillies, came out as transgender in an YouTube video yesterday. “Please watch the whole way through before you judge,” wrote Kittrell on YouTube. “I am so tired. I’ve tried filming this 100 times today and I am…
The award-winning web series, Where the Bears Are, is back and better than ever having launched yet another incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign! From the creative team of Rick Copp (The Brady Bunch Movie) Joe Dietl (The Thin Pink Line) and Ben Zook (Jack and Jill) comes Where the Bears Are a comedy mystery web series…
