SAN DIEGO – San Diego Opera have announced a group of dedicated donors will match up to $500,000 in donations from the community to create a new vision for San Diego Opera. This $1 million campaign will keep San Diego Opera strong, and ensure the company will continue to present world-class opera for many more…
LOS ANGELES – Today, Here Media, the world’s leading LGBT media and marketing strategy firm, and video streaming platform, Vimeo partnered on a new initiative to spotlight the groundbreaking work being created by LGBT filmmakers. The partnership extends Vimeo’s commitment to diversity in the LGBT space with an investment in quality LGBT programming. The deal…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that the critically acclaimed television series “Empire” will be honored at the 2016 HRC Los Angeles Gala Dinner. HRC also announced that producer Nina Jacobson, whose work includes the blockbuster hit “The Hunger Games” and FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” will be…
American Idol singer Rayvon Owen has come out in his new music video. At the end of the video titled “Can’t Fight It,” released on Valentine’s Day, Owen meets a mysterious man across the room – Shane Bitney Crone, reports The Advocate. Crone is known for his 2013 documentary, Bridegroom, which is about the discrimination…
New Orleans Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia, had to explain to fans on social media why her recent show was cancelled at The Dollar Box Showroom in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The show, which was scheduled for Friday February 12, was cancelled after the club owner, Ben Shemper, got a call from a State Alcohol Beverage Control…
What traditionally goes ignored by the mainstream media is an epidemic that disrupts the status quo of reporting. We commonly do not see abuse as something that affects men, however a CDC/DOJ National survey and statistical analysis points to men being the primary recipients of intimate partner violence. A Man Is The Victim Of Domestic…
Artist and entertainer Davis Mallory has released a new song titled “Anyone Would Know” about love equality. Released to coincide with Valentine’s Day, Mallory tells LGBT Weekly, “I wrote this song with the same duo of writers (Ben Goldsmith & Tori Tullier) with whom I wrote the MTV’s Diem Brown tribute song which received wide…
Happy Valentine’s Day from San Diego LGBT Weekly. Be sure to check out our feature “Valentines Among the Vines” here.
Years from now, it’ll all seem so sweet. There’ll always be a soft place in your heart for your first kiss, your first I-love-you, and for the person who gave them to you. You’ll never forget the electricity of holding hands or the rush of being together even after, as in the new novel “What…
Today, OUT released its annual Young Hollywood list; a collection of hot new talented artists to keep on your radar! This year’s esteemed list of Hollywood up-and-comers includes: Logan Miller – The former Disney star breaks into queer indie land in, The Stanford Prison Experiment Joe Seo – A highlight at Sundance, Seo discusses how…
