If you are a writer of any kind (fiction, memoir, poetry), then San Diego is a great place to live to hone your craft, exercise your public reading skills and maybe even launch a career. The community colleges and UCSD Extension offer a range of classes; there are also several non-profit organizations offering weekly or…
Ah, the summer of 1969: a time of social change, free love, flower power and radical revolution. These days, we may think of hippies and beatniks whenever we wax nostalgic for the late sixties and early seventies – and yet these were also some of the darkest days of discrimination for the American gay community….
Antony Cotton, star of the hit British soap opera Coronation Street, told reporters for New magazine that he is pleased and proud that the show will be depicting gay parenting in a positive light in the upcoming Easter episode. Cotton, who plays Sean Tully on the show, explained that his gay character will be reunited…
Film director/writer Morgan Spurlock came to town to discuss his hilarious new Sony Pictures Classics’ film, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold , a film about the preponderance of product placement in films and TV. Spurlock gained notoriety with his earlier film in 2004, Super Size Me, when the film was nominated for…
thursday, april 21 Japan’s beckoning cats The Mingei International Museum presents Maneki Neko, an exhibition of Japan’s beckoning cats. This exhibition includes selections from a collection of 155 cats given to the Museum by collector Billie Moffitt. Made in the 19th and 20th centuries, each cat is unique. Most are made of clay, but some…
Based on Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning trilogy of three one-act plays, this classic film focuses on the life and loves of Arnold Beckoff (Feirstein), a Jewish torch-song-singing drag queen struggling in post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS New York. Feirstein is hilarious and heart breaking, and Anne Bancroft (as his mother) and Matthew Broderick (as one of the boyfriends) are…
While there were more than a few pro-gay demonstrations and protests before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, it was Stonewall that has become the symbolic beginning of the modern gay rights movement, and its anniversary is what Pride celebrations mark every year. If you don’t know the story already, or if you only think you…
I’ve never liked horror movies or slasher films. As a genre, they’re usually exploitative; they go for the basest emotions, the simplest reactions, using buckets of blood to gross you out, gratuitous sex to get a rise out of you and the lamest of surprises to get you to jump out of your seat. The…
West Hollywood residents have been calling and writing to their city hall to ask for a street to be named after actress and AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor, who died recently at age 79. Taylor, a major early force in AIDS fundraising, spent time at West Hollywood spots, including the Abbey, where she sipped shots of…
Wanda Rolón, a pastor of the First Christian Church in Northern Puerto Rico, has attacked Ricky Martin on being gay. During his Music, Soul and Sex tour in Puerto Rico, Rolón said, “I want to say to Ricky Martin that there is no need to go to the extreme by making our children and youths…
