WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), today announced that Shonda Rhimes will be honored at the organization’s 2015 Los Angeles Gala Dinner Saturday, March 14, 2015. “We are thrilled to honor such a fierce and longtime advocate for LGBT equality at this year’s HRC Los Angeles Gala Dinner,” said HRC President Chad Griffin. “Shonda…
The Imperial Court de San Diego’s board of directors will be conducting candidate screenings for the positions of emperor and empress Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m. at the LGBT Community Center, 3909 Centre Street in San Diego. Those interested in applying should bring a completed application form and $100. Applications may be downloaded here. For questions…
With just over three months to go before Neil Patrick Harris takes center stage at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the 87th annual Academy Awards, Peter Debruge, the chief international film critic for Variety.com, takes an incisive look at the upcoming foreign language film contenders and what it says not only about the state…
Zachary Quinto has issued a response to the heated discussion generated by his OUT100 interview where he commented on the “complacency” of the gay community when it comes to the spread of HIV and the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The debate has centered around the concept of monogamy within gay relationships and whether PrEP…
Thanksgiving is the time of the year when families and friends get together and remember what they’re thankful for…or should we say what they hate about each other! In the latest episode of Steam Room Stories Charlie Merlo, Ray Tezanos, Chris Reid, Adam Bucci, Moronai Kanekoa and Josh Wise come together to celebrate Thanksgiving but…
Culture Club have announced the cancellation of their forthcoming North American and U.K. tour because Boy George has developed a throat condition that may need surgery. In a statement the band said that the cancellation was necessary this week, ” … when a polyp was discovered in George’s throat. The throat specialist has ordered George…
It was dubbed the wedding of the year. After suffering homophobic heckling at their first ceremony in August, Gary Jackson and Oscar de la Salas’ October wedding redo in Coronado received many column inches in the press. Their story is well-known and Jackson and de la Salas became media celebrities. What is less well-known are…
Boy George has reunited with the band that brought him international stardom, Culture Club, for a new tour and album which is preceded by the lead single “More Than Silence”. With a career spanning over 30 years, the Grammy Award-winners first shot to international stardom in the 1980s as one of the U.K.’s biggest exports…
When you’ve seen as many LGBT-themed movies as I have, after a while the descriptor “gay coming of age” attached to a film makes me sigh. Really, another one? Part of my exhaustion with the genre is that they tend to have virtually identical plots, despite cultural or historic specifics, and another part of my…
Lunch, as described in the English Oxford Dictionary from 1580, is a “meal inserted between more substantial meals”. During the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, factory workers brought a small nosh with them to eat during the middle of the day. Soon after, an hour-long midday break became the workday norm, and small eateries sprang…
