dvd of the week Something about the wildly successful American Sniper struck a chord, and it’s not clear what. Pundits argued about its politics, about whether it was for or against the war in Iraq, whether the film is racist or just murderous, whether it’s true or not, whether or not it deserved to receive…
dvr this HBO, repeatedly on multiple times or on demand While Queen Latifah may never come out and say she’s a lesbian, her performance as the great bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith is so raw, honest, sexy and believable I really don’t care. She’s made a great film about a queer icon. Bessie went from…
thursday, may 21 Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast The Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast is designed to bring together more than 1,000 diverse San Diegans – business, labor, Democrats, Republicans, all communities, all ages, all San Diegans who support equality and justice – to celebrate the memory of this influential civil rights activist. This year Phill WIlson,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on its constitutionality next month, reports Justin McCarthy for Gallup. This is up from 55% last year and is the highest Gallup has found on the question since it was first asked in 1996. Public support for…
MENLO PARK, Calif.– Two out of every three new HIV infections in the U.S. today are among gay and bisexual men. Yet, according to a national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, few are talking about HIV with their health care providers. Greater Than AIDS is working to break that silence. Leading HIV doctors give…
Today, HRC released a new trailer for the ABC Family documentary series Becoming Us. From Ryan Seacrest Productions comes ABC Family’s new docu-series “Becoming Us.” The series centers on a teenager named Ben who is learning to live with his dad becoming a woman. The series will follow Ben, his family and his friends as…
After a months’ long search, Ken Selnick has joined the staff of Lambda Archives of San Diego as their new digitization archivist. Selnick is a part-time librarian at the National City Public Library. He has Bachelors in History from San Diego State and a Masters of Library Science with an archival concentration from Simmons College…
SAN DIEGO — More than 1,100 leaders from the LGBT, Latino, African-American, labor and business communities will gather for the Seventh Annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast at The Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, 1 Park Blvd in San Diego in celebration of Harvey Milk’s life and work for human rights. During the event, which starts…
SAN DIEGO — The Hillcrest community continues to reinvest its share of parking meter funds with another new service, The Park Hillcrest Lunch Loop! The Uptown Community Parking District has partnered with the UC San Diego Health System, the Hillcrest Business Association and coordinated with Scripps Mercy along with Hillcrest restaurants to pilot this project…
Steam Room Stories looks to the future in its latest episode as a fortune teller (Jordan Raggio) arrives to predict the future. First up is Steam Room regular Chris Reid who is told that he has a hot hook-up (Karamo Brown) in his future. Chris soon learns that you shouldn’t believe everything a fortune teller…
