REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik is holding its first international LGBT four day festival Feb 16-19. The Rainbow Reykjavik festival is described as a fascinating mix of culture, amazing nature, fantastic music, great food and a lot of fun. The festival’s event team, together with tour operators Pink Iceland and Reykjavik Excursions, have…
Last week I had a great lunch with Gay San Diego publisher David Mannis and his editor, handsome Anthony King. Welcome to San Diego, Anthony. The Center welcomes the Filipino community Many times, our LGBT Community Center hosts other community events. This past Saturday the Philippine American Society for Arts & Culture held its installation…
The World Islands are a man-made creation of various small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map. They are located about two and a half miles off the coast of Dubai, which is an emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A city within the emirate is also named Dubai. The emirate…
On National Coming Out day in October 2011, after 36 years, the San Diego Democratic Club (SDDC) officially changed their name to the San Diego Democrats for Equality. The goal, as explained by the leadership and encapsulated in a coming out video, was to no longer use “cute names that blended in, but were identifiable…
My expectancy of a certain level of general knowledge is too often sadly unmet as happened this morning with a call to an un-named international airline to change the layover time on a United flight from Tokyo to San Diego via San Francisco. There was only a one and a half hour layover before departure…
ABC has announced that the series Work It has been cancelled after two episodes. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and other LGBT advocacy organizations including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had spoken out against the series for its potential to cause harm to transgender people. The series debuted Jan. 3, to low…
So, we’ve taken a hard look – sponsored in part by Viagra – at the first two installments regarding 2012’s TV shows and movies. But, this year’s musical resolutions aren’t a case of the first Gilligan’s Island theme song, in which I’m presenting an “and the rest” type of scenario. Simply put, it’s time to…
thursday, jan. 26 San Diego Italian Film Festival monthly screening: L’uomo che verrà ( The Man Who Will Come ) In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole south of Bologna, fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident in a very…
Well, my doctor has OK’d a speaking engagement for me in Texas this weekend, but then I’m grounded for another month. Jerry Sanders … the pride of San Diego When Mayor Sanders took office about seven years ago our city was under a dark cloud and the laughing stock of national publications including Time magazine…
In this second part of San Diego LGBT Weekly’s look at the recent inaugural report from the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, questions have inevitably been raised about what needs to be done on a global basis to protect LGBT people worldwide. Among its conclusions, the report…
