Dress up as this year’s hottest memes, social media stars and frightening fanatics with these more-for-less fight-night disguises. It seems like every day is a new nightmare in America, but there’s no substitute for the spooks and scares of Halloween (which is really just Christmas-come-early for you queens). This year, we were blessed with countless…
I can’t remember the first time I saw one of the drawings by Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland. It’s as if they were already in my head, iconic of gayness and man-ness, when I came out in 1992. I’d been titillated by some of the drawings of superheroes in the comic books…
I am not a breakfast person. I spell breakfast C-O-F-F-E-E. With milk and sugar, thank you. If I’m in a diner eating eggs and bacon and toast, then I’m on my way home after a night at the club. But a deadline sometimes forces a person to leave their comfort zone and get the story…
You felt surprisingly safe. There you were, in a place that was certainly iffy, but you were totally comfortable there. No danger, no darkness, no problems – and in the new book The Gang’s All Queer by Vanessa R. Panfil, no world you’ve ever seen before, either. Everybody knows that being a teen isn’t easy….
LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured with a video, bio, bibliography, downloadable images and other resources. Background In 1994, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, believed a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching…
A heartwarming new film, released just ahead of Halloween, explores gender nonconformity, reports Gay Star News. In ‘My Heroes’, a family is shown preparing for Halloween. Mom reveals the costumes the kids requested. Dad looks on hesitantly. Both parents accompany the children as they go trick or treating – watching from a distance as their…
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — According to federal and state data, there are at least 1.4 million adults in the U.S. who identify as transgender. And while American society is becoming more accepting of transgender people, such adults still face substantial difficulties when they seek to have their health-care needs met. Kristie Overstreet, Ph.D. points out,…
thursday, oct. 26 Issues Issues are an Atlanta, Georgia metalcore band formed by former Woe, Is Me members Tyler Carter, Michael Bohn, and brothers Cory and Ben Ferris. A genre-blurring mix of metalcore, R&B-tinged pop and Linkin Park-esque nu-metal DJ breaks, Issues debuted in the Top Ten of the Billboard 100. An acoustic EP, Diamond…
GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will honor The Honorable Eric H. Holder Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States, at its annual Spirit of Justice dinner this Friday, October 27, 2017 in Boston. Holder, who is being honored for his instrumental role in advancing LGBTQ justice and his leadership on voting rights, criminal justice reform,…
San Diego LGBT Weekly won a record 20 awards at last night’s San Diego Press club’s 44th Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. With these awards, LGBT Weekly has now won a total of 77 awards for journalism excellence since it was founded in 2010. Over 400 press and PR professionals mingled among 18 restaurants, nine…
