Legendary Olympic diver and gold medalist Greg Louganis is bringing the global challenge of living with HIV to light. Teaming with the United Nations agency, the International Labour Organization (ILO) he introduces a series of video messages portraying discrimination and even deportation of HIV positive adults. Released today, World AIDS Day, the videos promote the…
True Trans is the story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media. In this eighth episode Laura Jane Grace talks to a number of transgender and gender-variant…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC), the premier non-audition women’s chorus, presents its annual winter concert, Home Is Where the Heart Is Saturday, Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and again on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 4 p.m. SDWC’s new musical leadership team, Artistic Director Kathleen Hansen and Assistant Artistic…
PrideFIT, a new organization that seeks to improve the health and wellness of the LGBT community by organizing fun social events has returned to host their second annual Dodgeball Tournament this Saturday, Nov. 29 at Morley Field Park, 2221 Morley Field Dr in San Diego. The reigning champions, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and second…
He’s known as the “Baron of Bad Taste” and the “Sultan of Sleaze”. His early films are cult classics and introduced the world to Divine’s outrageous character portrayals – who can forget the dog-feces-eating scene in Pink Flamingos? Of course, I’m talking about the legendary director, actor, screenwriter, stand-up comedian and author, John Waters. My…
For many years, the truth is, there has been no difference between saying “I am a sexually active gay man,” and “I am constantly afraid.” I came out to my mother at age 15, and she told me to make sure I did not get AIDS. I was born in 1989 and my father had…
At the end of Catching Fire, the second film in The Hunger Games series, our hero Katniss Everdeen, played by Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, has managed to destroy the high-tech dome in which she and 23 other “tributes” from the 12 districts of the nation of Panem were fighting each other to death. The previous year,…
dvr this Lifetime, Saturday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. The “Internet sensation” known as Grumpy Cat – named so because it’s a cat that always looks grumpy – has been monetized into a Lifetime Christmas movie. This sounds awful and absurd, but it’s also potentially rather funny, since the cat is voiced by the hilariously deadpan…
Between 1784 and 1846, the Spanish and Mexican governments established large land grants, called ranchos, to encourage the settlement of the territory known as California. The ranchos, dedicated to raising cattle and sheep, established land-use patterns and boundaries recognizable today. The community of Rancho Bernardo is one such example. People living on ranchos grew their…
thursday, nov. 27 Scott Carlson Thanksgiving Community Dinner Join the Imperial Court, City Council President Todd Gloria, Nicole Murray Ramirez and many volunteers, organizations and businesses for the annual Scott Carlson Thanksgiving Community Dinner. The San Diego LGBT Community Center, 3909 Centre Street in San Diego, noon-2:30 p.m., free, for more information contact Michael Lochner…
