Election Night 2016: Local media AWOL on LGBT issues

Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. “The gays love …” President-Elect Donald Trump, or so the man himself unabashedly proclaimed following the tragedy at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in June. That quintessentially trumpian declaration was intended to assure lesbian, gay, bisexual…

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Westworld

dvr this HBO, Sundays, 10 p.m. HBO’s latest expensive, sexy, violent, high-brow drama is based on Michael Crichton’s pulpy 1973 sci-fi western about a Wild West theme park inhabited by malfunctioning androids. Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have reinvented Westworld as a series with extraordinary special effects and an astonishingly talented cast that includes Jeffrey…

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King Cobra

also playing Available on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play Continuing his long string of occasionally artful, but mostly exploitative gay roles, James Franco has given us King Cobra, the tawdry and dopey story of the porn star and San Diego gay celebrity Brent Corrigan, his Svengali director at Cobra Video, and the dumb-as-dirt couple who…

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Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund CEO: ‘Amidst last night’s darkness, there were rays of light’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the LGBTQ movement prepares for a presidential administration opposed to LGBTQ equality, LGBTQ elected officials will play an essential role in preventing anti-LGBTQ legislation and demanding equality. Last night several LGBTQ candidates achieved historic wins, and 86 of 135 Victory Fund endorsed LGBTQ candidates won their elections. In response to the…

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