The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has announced that it will honor out actress Jane Lynch, of Glee and Julie & Julia, for using her fame as a platform to further LGBT equality, and for being an outspoken advocate for creating safer, welcoming schools for LGBT children. Lynch will receive the honor at the…
thursday, feb. 2 Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future An exhibition of original Bob Simmons planning hulls and related surfboards, objects, photographs and film clips. Simmons’ application of aerodynamic principles and his early use of composite construction processes in surfboard building from 1947-1954 parallels California’s post war modern design movement and was profoundly influential in the birth…
Somewhere, maybe just off to one side, there’s a hole in your heart. It’s not life-threatening. Though you feel like you might, you won’t die from it. It’ll never show up on an X-ray or CT scan. No doctor will ever be able to find the hole in your heart but you know it’s there;…
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced the nominees for its 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards. By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media industry and complement GLAAD’s work to bring LGBT images and stories to Americans….
Contraband, starring producer and Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter, The Departed), is a gritty, balls-to-the-wall, intense, action thriller, that will keep you guessing, and interested, even though there are many holes in the script and too many close calls that are just not plausible. Whalberg plays Chris Farraday, a smuggler turned family man, who…
ABC has announced that the series Work It has been cancelled after two episodes. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and other LGBT advocacy organizations including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) had spoken out against the series for its potential to cause harm to transgender people. The series debuted Jan. 3, to low…
thursday, jan. 26 San Diego Italian Film Festival monthly screening: L’uomo che verrà ( The Man Who Will Come ) In the fall of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole south of Bologna, fascism showed its face in one of the worst massacres on Italian soil. Giorgio Diritti illuminates the incident in a very…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced a new anti-bullying PSA featuring WWE (formerly World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) “superstars and divas,” Eve Torres, Kelly Kelly, Alicia Fox, Sheamus and Kofi Kingston. The Amplify Your Voice PSA, produced with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), debuted Dec. 13 on USA Network as part…
This year’s Imperial Court de San Diego’s Coronation XL, from what I have heard, can be expected to feature the leather contingent out in full force. I won’t say any more about that until I get an official word. Still, I’m confident it will be worth your while to go if you’re interested in leather….
also playing The buzz on The Iron Lady has been that Meryl Streep is amazing as Margaret Thatcher and the movie isn’t very good. Since I don’t read reviews before I write mine, I’m not sure why the buzz isn’t that Streep is amazing and the movie is excellent. Because I loved it. Told in…
