The 2015 Academy Awards nominations, which were announced this morning, highlighted films and actors that have focused on LGBT equality, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. “The Imitation Game,” a film about Alan Turing, is nominated for eight awards, including best picture. The film’s stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, were also nominated. Last…
Alliance San Diego has announced the program participants for the 27th annual All Peoples Celebration honoring the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The All Peoples Celebration will take place Monday, Jan. 19, at the Balboa Park Activity Center. Doors…
2015 is here and Steam Room Stories is back with a brand new episode. Kicking off the year is Sex Score where the guys talk about keeping track of their conquests. Steam Room Stories hunks Joe Fidler, Michael Poursh, Chris Reid, Adam Bucci and Tamario Fletcher discuss the amount of people they’ve slept with. During…
San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation’s North County LGBT Book Fair is back and better than ever! The Fair will be held Saturday, Jan. 31 from 10 a.m. -6 p.m. at the North County LGBTQ Resource Center, 510 North Coast Highway in Oceanside. The fair will have over 300 titles, a massive young adult fiction…
CULVER CITY, Calif. — Writer/director Ira Sachs and Love is Strange stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, have teamed up with Tie The Knot as guest designers, creating their own specialty bow ties inspired by the film. In Sony Pictures Classics’ poignant, modern-day love story, debuting today from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Ben (Lithgow) and George…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, has announced that Michael Sam, who made history as America’s first openly gay professional football player, will be honored at HRC’s national Time to THRIVE conference in February. “We are excited and privileged to recognize Michael Sam, and his brave commitment to leading an authentic life in…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera has announced the return of Opera on the Concourse, a series of free lunchtime concerts held for the public on the San Diego Civic Concourse with the stars of San Diego Opera’s season. Discontinued in 2007, San Diego Opera announced the return of this beloved program as a…
After a successful premiere, Ricky Martin’s new single “Disparo al Corazón” is now available on all digital-music outlets. Written by Ricky Martin, Pedro Capó, Yoel Henríquez and Rafael Esparza Ruíz, and produced by the multiple Latin Grammy® winner Julio Reyes, “Disparo al Corazón” is the second single from A Quien Quiera Escuchar. A Quien Quiera…
TLC has created an arsenal of wildly successul reality television shows by sensationalizing the stories of unusual people. Media Matters for America’s latest piece looks at what happens when a network’s search for ratings gold comes at the expense of vulnerable LGBT people. Jan. 11, TLC aired its controversial one-hour special, My Husband’s Not Gay. The…
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association (GALECA), comprised of over 100 critics and entertainment journalists nationwide, today unveiled its first-round picks for the best in movies and television of 2014. The nominations come across 25 categories, from mainstream to LGBTQ-centric, including four newly-added runs such as Film Director of the Year,…
