NEW YORK – In two weeks, the 2nd annual Give OUT Day (www.giveoutday.org) will bring together over 400 LGBTQ nonprofits and thousands of donors to support the LGBTQ community. “Give OUT Day offers a chance for our country to come together and support the hundreds of LGBTQ groups – community centers, arts groups, organizers, clinics,…
A4Out in the Line Up, an award-winning documentary exposing the taboo of homosexuality in surfing premiere’s in San Diego at the upcoming San Diego Surf Film Festival (SDSFF), May 9. After 20 years of silence, former state champion surfer David Wakefield feels ready to reveal a secret that could turn his life upside down. He…
LOS ANGELES – Today, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the nation’s leading national nonprofit organization promoting LGBT literature and writers, announced the recipients of the 2014 Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize and the Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award. This year the Mid-Career Novelist Prize recognizes Michael Thomas Ford and Radclyffe; the Emerging Writer…
San Diego filmmaker Janice Villarosa’s new movie, Shunned will be premiering at the upcoming Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival at Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino. Shunned, a film about the lives of transsexuals in the Philippines, will be screened May 1 and 2. A reportage, Shunned profiles ladyboys, Philippine transsexuals who change their appearance…
Imagine if, after fifteen years as a lesbian couple, your partner turned to you and said, “I think I’m really a man.” What would you do? How would you respond? For Diane and Jacob (née Suzy) Anderson-Minshall this isn’t a hypothetical question. It’s what really happened. Eight years later, the couple not only remains together,…
PALM SPRINGS – With an influx of more than 30,000 attendees over the course of the weekend, Jeffrey Sanker’s annual White Party in Palm Springs celebrated its 25th anniversary with the most diverse crowd ever. The three day event drew attendees from around the globe – ranging from longtime White Party alumni, to a new…
LOS ANGELES — Dario, the openly gay pop star featured by San Diego LGBT Weekly in March will debut his highly anticipated sixth album, Evolution, this Tuesday followed by a star studded CD release celebration in Hollywood May 4. The event will include opening performances, one of which will be from the season three X…
SAN DIEGO — Tickets are now on sale for the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus’ (SDGMC) biggest show ever, LUV Madonna—Music of the Material Girl. The spectacular two-show Madonna tribute will kick off San Diego’s Pride Week at the chorus’ new home, the historic Balboa Theatre July 12 and 13. “If you’ve ever seen a…
“Books enrich us, they help make us more human and they help diminish the fear that we might have of each other.” — MICHAEL NAVA Michael Nava published his first book in 1986. That novel, The Little Death, was published by Alyson Publications, a small gay press that accepted the book after 13 other publishers…
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Prop. 8 are relegated to their rightful places in the dustbin of history; it seems like pretty much everyone who wants to be open about their sexual orientation is; and it appears to many that HIV is a minor concern. So what’s there left for an LGBT Center to do?…
