San Diego’s LGBTQ sisters and brothers in North County have sometimes been considered an underrated and overlooked Cinderella community. However, this past Oct. 8, North County’s LGBTQ Resource Center and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence strutted their stuff with their 9th annual Pride by the Beach festival. The event was held in Oceanside, on two…
https://youtu.be/yisD3t9cAQw “Sweet Transvestite” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again, performed by Laverne Cox as Dr. Frank-N-Furter with Ryan McCartan as Brad, premiered Friday on VanityFair.com. Listen above. “I had a conversation [with director] Kenny [Ortega]. We talked about the word ‘transvestite,’ ” the Emmy nominee tells Vanity Fair. “That…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – After a season filled with ferocious runway looks, buzzworthy choices and cutthroat competitors, Alaska has been crowned the winner of Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” season 2. Sashaying away with the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar and a $100,000 prize, Alaska beat nine of the nation’s fiercest all star…
In novels, I love unreliable narrators. I find the precarity of the truth titillating, even thrilling, especially as I slowly discover that what I’m reading isn’t to be trusted. I become a detective, looking for clues to what is really going on. It’s why I love Nabokov’s Lolita and Pale Fire, Peter Cameron’s Andorra, and,…
The first thing I did after finishing Alden Peters’ documentary Coming Out was to Google the term ‘coming out.’ It wasn’t that I couldn’t define it for myself but that I couldn’t define it for others. And that was when it occurred to me: the question was also a significant part of the answer. It’s…
LGBT History Month Special Feature Q&A with Sir Dermot Turing, biographer and nephew of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing BY THOM SENZEE Everyone called him Professor. But Alan Turing, the almost universally recognized father of artificial intelligence and modern computer science, was never actually a professor. Yet who would begrudge Turing’s esteemed nephew, Sir Dermot Turing,…
People say you’re all wet. Maybe that’s not the nicest thing you’ve ever heard but hey! If something’s true, it’s true, right? Yep, you love being in a pool, lake, pond, the ocean, a puddle, it doesn’t matter. And in The Joy of Swimming by Lisa Congdon, you’ll meet like-minded people in swimsuits. At the…
NEW YORK, NY – Logo today announced it has given the go-ahead a second season for “Finding Prince Charming,” a new hit reality dating competition series that premiered in September. The announcement comes just two weeks after one of the highest rated episodes to date which drew a 22% increase in overall viewers from its…
San Diegans are fortunate to live in the land of ‘tos – Roberto’s, Alberto’s, Gilberto’s – a city of ubiquitous mom-and-pop taco shops. This is why you don’t see a lot of Taco Bells or Del Tacos in San Diego. We know what’s authentic and settle for nothing less. My friends have been telling me…
dvr this On Netflix The third of Marvel’s Netflix series stars Mike Colton as the bullet proof, super-strong reluctant hero of Harlem. He first appeared as Jessica Jones’s love interest in her show, and he will be part of The Defenders, which will combine them with Daredevil and Iron Fist (whose show premieres next year)….
