WASHINGTON, D.C.- Main Street Alliance small business owners warned of a Donald Trump presidency and the potential impact the election results could have on their businesses in the months and days leading up to the election. They expressed concern over his attacks on women, immigrants, refugees, the LGBTQ community, and people of color, as well…
SAN DIEGO – Danielle LoPresti has released a final teaser video for her upcoming music video Holy. The new teaser features television star John Barrowman, best known for his roles on Torchwood and Arrow, who appears with his real-life husband Scott Gill, actress Anna Khaja (Quantico, Silicon Valley), and LoPresti herself. In this final teaser,…
BERKELEY, Calif. —The campaigns for the 17 measures on California’s ballot raised more than $446 million combined. MapLight, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in politics took a look at the money behind the biggest winners and losers in those races: Winner: The Pharmaceutical Industry The industry spent more than $109 million…
The Huffington Post Friday released the trailer for “The Zainab Salbi Project,” a HuffPost Originals series covering global issues from a woman’s perspective. The six-part series will follow Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi-American women’s rights activist, humanitarian, author, social entrepreneur, and media commentator, as she travels the world shedding light on those issues through personal stories…
Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m., in honor of Veterans Day, Lambda Archives will present our next installment of Out At the Archives in conjunction with Diversionary Theatre’s Open Monday series. “Do Ask, Do Tell: LGBTQ in the military” will take a look how members of our community before, during and after Don’t Ask, Don’t…
The San Diego Pride Youth Leadership Academy is taking place this Saturday, Nov. 12. The San Diego LGBT Pride the Youth Leadership Academy is a one-day workshop packed with outdoor activities, bonding exercises, and empowering educational discussions. Workshops will include an introduction to LGBT history, youth advocacy, higher education, and more. “Over the years, Pride…
LOS ANGELES — For its annual Year in Review issue, The Advocate looks back at a series of moments that collectively shaped 2016. The retrospective look at this past year includes a collection of events that have impacted our society in a variety of ways. One of these incidences includes the Pulse Nightclub massacre, the…
Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. Sony Music confirmed the legendary artist’s passing on his Facebook page, Thursday writing: “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away. We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries. “A memorial…
Forty percent of cancers diagnosed in the U.S. may have a link to tobacco use, according to this month’s Vital Signs Report. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of cancer and cancer deaths. It causes more than lung cancer — based on current evidence, it can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, voice…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. This year’s induction ceremony at the Benjamin Dillingham III and Bridget Wilson LGBT Veterans Wall of Honor was a more – maybe the word is “authentic” – experience for one of the wall’s new…
