Pets provide LGBTQ San Diegans love, companionship and so much more. To set out on a discovery of what dogs and their owners can do in and around the neighborhood, my Jack Russell Terrier-Chihuahua mix pup, Ollie and I decided to make a doggie day of it and run around town to see what we…
There’s nothing special about you. You’re just an ordinary kid, nothing unique, except, there is. You have your own thoughts, passions, creativity and sense of humor. There’s nobody else like you; you’re ordinary and special and so is Jazz Jennings. In her new book Being Jazz, she writes about being an everyday kid, with a…
This week, Tongan swimmer, Amini Fonua sat down with LGBT Olympic Analyst, Charley Walters to discuss LGBT culture at the games, his role models and who’s on Grindr! Find the full story here on Advocate.com
The first-ever professional “Pride Match” has been held in Australia as part of efforts by Aussie sports to stamp out homophobia. It was played on national television between two very high profile Professional Australian Rules Football teams. St Kilda Football Club took on Sydney Swans in the inaugural AFL Pride Game at Etihad Stadium Saturday Aug….
thursday, aug. 18 Titanic the Musical Maury Yeston’s riveting and haunting musical based on the worst nautical disaster in history (and not the movie), depicts the final hours of the real-life people who set sail on the “unsinkable” Titanic. Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Titanic celebrates the human spirit of the rich…
dvd of the week Orry-Kelly won three Oscars for costume design, including for Some Like It Hot and An American In Paris. He designed the costumes for Auntie Mame, Casablanca, 42 Street and several of Bette Davis’ most iconic roles: Jezibel, Dark Victor, and The Letter. This career makes him important, but he was also…
“Butch” apologized for being late. “I overslept,” he explained. I didn’t mind. He was only fashionably late and I was sitting at the wood slab bar sipping an Orderville India Pale Ale (IPA) ($7) while soaking in the ambience of One Door North. The high-ceilinged space, with a nod to discovery and adventure, has an…
On Netflix Baz Luhrmann’s long-gestating period musical series about a rag tag group of kids in the Bronx coming of age during the late 1970s birth of Hip-Hop showcases the best of Luhrmann and the problems of extending his aesthetic across the many hours of a TV series. The musical scenes, featuring ecstatic dancing and…
The University of California San Diego has been named the 14th best university in the world for the fourth year in a row by the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Nationally, UC San Diego was named the country’s 12th best university. “UC San Diego’s culture of innovation, collaboration and risk-taking has once again…
https://youtu.be/DdqbYjivr1o To an outsider, Tracey Norman had it all. She was a sought after model who graced the pages of top fashion magazines and had her face on a box of Clairol hair color. Inside, she was harboring a secret: she was transgender. When her secret was revealed, her modeling career came to an abrupt…
