SAN DIEGO EXCLUSIVE: An interview with Stuart Milk, founder of the Milk Foundation (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/Du6mAOeq1XE BY ANTHONY GIOFFRE After living in New York City in the late ’70s, Miami through the ’80s and San Francisco through the ’90s, I’ve seen some struggles. From the glamour days of Studio 54 and weekends on Fire Island, to carrying, sometimes literally, thousands of people with AIDS to their grave, followed by their…

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Special Delivery sets fundraising record for annual Pride barbecue at Inn at the Park

SAN DIEGO, – Special Delivery broke its all-time fundraising record for its annual LGBT Pride Barbecue by raising more than $10,000 on the rooftop of the Inn at the Park on the afternoon of Saturday, July 13, announced Executive Director Ruth Henricks. “I’d like to thank the community for its overwhelming support by attending this…

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Oblivion

dvd of the week If you forget that you hate Tom Cruise, you may like him in Oblivion, which is a serious, artful science fiction film hidden behind the veneer of a shoot-‘em-up blockbuster. Cruise plays Jack Harper, who along with his girlfriend Victoria (a most excellent Andrea Riseborough), is tasked with managing and repairing…

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Tootsie

dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, July 27, 5 p.m. Dustin Hoffman is an out of work actor who pretends to be a woman to get a role on a soap opera. It works, and suddenly he’s a star – or rather, his uptight, lightly frumpy alter ego is. To make matters worse, he falls…

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Queer photographer Jess T. Dugan to lecture at the San Diego Museum of Art: Aug. 1

Aug. 1, queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade,…

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