This month, San Diego’s Spanish-language transgender group Transgenero 2000 celebrates 17 years of education, advocacy, community activities and support to those in need. Their Facebook page spells out their mission: “Serving our LGBT Latin community in San Diego since 2000, in the fight to educate our community to achieve justice and dignity in our society.”…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — “Picturing Kinship: Portraits of Our Community,” a new exhibition offering a 35-year overview of portraits in painting and photography by San Francisco artist Lenore Chinn, opens June 9 at the GLBT History Museum. The subjects are individuals who have contributed to the diversity of San Francisco’s cultural landscape in such fields…
It’s all about who you know. The guy who bags your groceries might have stock tips for you. A co-worker introduces you to your next best friend. You find a great restaurant from your stylist, a new job from a former classmate, and your neighbor gives you gardening advice. It’s all about who you know…
Part of why people loved Guardians of the Galaxy so much when it came out in 2014 was how surprised they were: The Guardians are not well-known characters outside of diehard Marvel Comics fans; no (at-the-time) major starred in the movie and few knew of writer-director James Gunn beyond his screenplay for Scooby Doo. There…
thursday, may 11 San Diego Surf Film Festival The 6th Annual San Diego Surf Film Festival (SDSFF) builds momentum year after year due to its incredible event schedule and film lineup. The SDSFF returns through May 13 with its headquarters at Misfit Gallery in La Jolla and once again offers a very ambitious program. Festival…
LONDON — Josh Gutteridge, a gay ex-Jehovah’s Witness, speaks about his experience of coming out and being disassociated from his family and religious community in A new BBC series Queer Britain. Queer Britain is presented by YouTuber and journalist Riyadh Khalaf and gets under the skin of queer culture and shines a light on the…
WASHINGTON — The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), the business voice of the LGBT community, has welcomed the National Basketball Association (NBA) to its list of nearly 200 top corporations and government agencies seeking certified LGBT Business Enterprises (LGBTBEs) into their supply chains alongside other diverse communities. This kind of inclusion not…
TEL AVIV — The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo announced today that the theme of the 2017 LGBT Pride Parade is “Bisexuality Visibility” The parade will be the first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate the theme bisexuality. Starting June 3, hundreds of thousands of people from Israel and around the world are…
In Bayard & Me, award-winning filmmaker Matt Wolf shares the little-known story of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and the lengths he went to legalize his relationship with his partner Walter Naegle. The civil rights activist is best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1980s,…
Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black has married his partner, British Olympic diver Tom Daley. The BBC reported that the couple got married in a service at a luxury hotel on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. Daley shared a picture of the wedding on Facebook posting, “Thank you to everyone who made this weekend…
