SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and other expert witnesses will brief State Treasurer John Chiang and members of his Cannabis Banking Working group on how to provide banking services to California’s soon-to-be-legalized recreational cannabis industry in San Diego on Friday. Chiang, who created the 17-member panel late last year, has held a series of…
thursday, july 6 Greg Santos Born and raised in Las Vegas to immigrant parents from Cuba, Greg Santos made his way out to San Diego, where he started doing stand-up comedy in 2009. Now in Los Angeles, Greg has performed at SF Sketchfest (2017 and 2016), RIOT LA (LA’s alt comedy festival) in 2015 and…
MONTRÉAL — Canada Pride Montréal 2017 (Fierte Canada Montreal), today unveiled the programming for the event weeks before the launch of festivities. Over 11 days, festival goers and revelers will have an unprecedented choice of over 200 activities including DJ sets and the free large scale shows every night. “The activities we offer are really diverse!…
San Diego State University is hosting its 10th annual Pride Flag Raising Ceremony July 7 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union, San Diego State University. The flag symbolizes the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities in the SDSU community. The ceremony gives the campus community an opportunity to…
Five big X’s. That’s what you’ve got on your calendar, running in a line right across the week you’re on vacation. Yep, five days away and you’re already planning on what to pack – so don’t forget a book… OUT IN JULY Your vacation will be happier with novels by Julie Garwood, Daniel Silva, Susan…
Fourth of July is right around the corner and the Steam Room Stories guys are getting into the spirit early. After revealing a surprise from underneath his towel, Evan Bonifant and Ray Tezanos discuss the true meaning on the annual Independence Day festivities. As they look forward to ‘brews, bros and BBQs’ the homoerotic undertones…
This week the U. S. Supreme Court announced that in the fall it will hear the case “Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.” The case – which will have many of us LGBTQ Americans on pins and needles – will argue the parameters of one’s right to practice their religion and their right to…
CHICAGO — Chuck Renslow, 87, a longtime pillar of the LGBTQ community in Chicago and around the world, has died after multiple long-term health issues, Windy City Times reports. Renslow reigned over a seven-decade empire, starting more than two dozen businesses—bars, discos, photo studios, health clubs, bathhouses, gay magazines and newspapers, hotels, restaurants and bookstores. He fostered organizations and dealt with Mafia…
NEW YORK. N.Y. — Thursday, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), the leading post-9/11 veterans empowerment organization, issued the following statement in recognition of national LGBT Pride Month, celebrating and supporting LGBT Americans: “Diversity is a force multiplier for our armed forces as well as for our nation. Equality and inclusion are good for…
