The 2015 NewFest, New York’s LGBT Film Festival, concluded its 27th anniversary year at the Bow Tie Chelsea Theater – and the recently completed screening room at the LGBT Community Center – with a sold-out screening of Girls Lost. The highly successful six-day festival screened nearly 100 films to a number of sold-out audiences and…
San Diego LGBT Weekly won a record 12 awards at the San Diego Press Club 42nd Annual Excellence in Journalism Awards Tuesday night. With the new awards, LGBT Weekly has now won a total of 47 awards for journalism excellence since it was founded in 2010. The sold-out gala event, held at the Jacobs Center…
Meet Lezbhonest: The first Laotian lesbian boat racing team debuts this Halloween Exactly three things come to my mind when the topic of rowing comes up in a conversation, the chances of being swallowed up by a black hole by the end of this article being greater. One is Merchant Ivory Productions with their assortment…
San Diego has two of the most haunted destinations in all of America. The Kate Morgan room at the Hotel Del Coronado and the Whaley House in Old Town. Before you read on, I want all of my readers to know that everything in the following story is true. It is based on historical documents,…
And they lived happily ever after. Even today, years after you’ve outgrown fairy tales, those words make you smile. Ohh, how you love a happy ending, even though (and maybe because) life doesn’t always work out that way. As a matter of fact, in Nothing Looks Familiar, a new short-story collection by Shawn Syms, sad…
Best of Enemies, impeccably crafted by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon, tells the story of the televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. during the 1968 Republican and Democratic National Conventions. In order to create excitement for their coverage of the conventions, ABC decided to pit the two most entertaining political wits…
CBS, Mondays, 8 p.m. CBS’s Supergirl is based on Superman’s cousin’s heroic adventures in Los Angeles-like National City. Avoiding the darkness of the DC heroes’ films, Supergirl, like The Flash, is bright and cheery, positive and inspiring. As Kara Danvers and Supergirl, the titular Kryptonian refugee who becomes super-powered under the Earth’s yellow sun, Melissa…
“Making porn is harder than it looks,” he said between appetizer nibbles and cocktail sips. I hadn’t seen my buddy “Pierce” in several months. He’s a newbie in gay adult films; tall, lean and ruggedly handsome. We caught up over dinner at Hexagone one recent balmy evening. “Performing under hot lights for six hours with…
Every so often a woman escapes from the clutches of a mad kidnapper who has held her, and often other women, and often the children born in captivity, in a dank basement, a locked attic or a backyard shed. I always think it can be hard to turn these kinds of stories into serious art;…
thursday, oct. 29 Hay Fever Retired stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two bohemian adult children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and…
