After Roland Emmerich, the gay, German-born director of The Fourth of July and The Day After Tomorrow, learned about the plight of homeless LGBT youth, he decided to make a movie about them, and that movie transmogrified into the story of homeless LGBT youth who helped start the 1969 Stonewall riots. This is a laudable…
thursday, oct. 1 Two Artist Show: Ofelia Alvarado and Judy Hanford Oct. 1-15, Ofelia Alvarado and Judy Hanford will show their art at Gallery 23 in Spanish Village. Alvarado works in acrylics and Hanford in oils. Maurjo Reser will also be featured during that time. Spanish Village Art Center, Studio 23, 1770 Village Place in…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced that Apple CEO Tim Cook will receive the organization’s Visibility Award at the 19th annual HRC National Dinner Saturday, Oct. 3 in Washington, DC. “Tim Cook is a visionary whose leadership of Apple has been nothing short of remarkable,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “His willingness to bravely and…
Get More: Beautiful As I Want To Be // Logo TV NEW YORK – Logo today announced the premiere of Beautiful As I Want To Be, a digital-exclusive video series spotlighting transgender youth, Wednesday, Oct. 28, on LogoTV.com and Logo’s YouTube. Each of the 4 episodes will be introduced by Geena Rocero, a transgender supermodel…
There will be a special screening of Life in a Walk directed by Yogi Roth next Tuesday, Oct. 6 7:30 p.m. at the UltraStar Mission Valley Hazard Center in San Diego. Life in a Walk chronicles sports broadcaster Yogi and his father along the Camino De Santiago as Yogi comes to the realization that the…
Trouble-hit movie Stonewall bombed at the box office in its limited start at the weekend, grossing $112,414 from 127 theaters for an abysmal location average of $871, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The historical drama by openly gay director Roland Emmerich recounts the events surrounding the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a bloody standoff with police outside a…
Michael Sam believes that he would still be in the NFL if he hadn’t come although he has no regrets for having done so. “I wanted to come out after I made an NFL roster, it really wasn’t supposed to be public,” Sam said on the Dan Patrick Show during a 13-minute interview. “It was just…
Gay Irish blogger Riyadh K has posted a new YouTube video in which he calls his childhood bully to “find out why he did what he did.” “I thought I would be a guinea pig,to show that after time passes, your bullies end up being just normal people,” said Riyadh. “They’re not evil, it’s not…
GLAAD have released a new video on LGBT bullying and this year’s Spirit Day pledge. The powerful video shows what bullying can feel like for LGBT youth and the struggles they face every day. (Warning some strong language). The video’s creator Harold Moss, creative director of FlickerLab, explained the reason behind creating the video, why…
The new movie Stonewall has been the target of boycotts and the recipient of some unflattering reviews. To add fuel to the fire director Roland Emmerich has used the term “straight acting” to describe the hero at the center of Stonewall, saying in an interview with BuzzFeed: “You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this…
