Alicia Keys wants to change the way people think about HIV. Keys has taken up the issue of women and HIV in America, from who it affects to what a life with HIV can look like to how everyone can make a difference.
LOS ANGELES – Outfest, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting LGBT media, has announced its lineup for the 2013 Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fusion is the only multicultural LGBT film festival of its kind. The festival will include world premieres and L.A. premieres of…
In a move that has become all too familiar to producers of gay content and gay-themed apps, Apple has rejected outright the inclusion of Lust Unearthed, a collection of over 200 erotic images from the library of Hollywood costume and set designer Ambrose Dubek. The book, which was assembled by Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema’s Thomas Waugh…
NEW YORK – The Puerto Vallarta Tourism Board have announced that they will be an exhibitor at this year’s Original GLBT Expo scheduled to take place in New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center March 9-10. Puerto Vallarta a preferred LGBT friendly destination in the Americas is an International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA)…
SAN DIEGO – Lambda Archives of San Diego are to open their second in-house exhibition, utilizing the newly remodeled space and displays in their permanent location in University Heights, 4545 Park Blvd. Suite 104 (behind Diversionary Theatre). Set to open Friday, March 15 with a reception and party from 7 – 9 p.m., the Queer Artists Project’s first…
The Imperial Court de San Diego will once again be sponsoring a Children’s Easter Egg Hunt at Trolley Barn Park in University Heights Sunday, March 31 12-3 p.m. Allan Spyere, president of the board of directors, Imperial Court de San Diego and City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez, founder of the Children’s Easter Egg Hunt have…
Being Alive San Diego will hold an enormous yard sale Saturday March 16 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. at their offices at 4070 Centre Street. The yard sales are conducted with donated items from clients and people in the community. The yard sale proceeds will go to Being Alive’s Food Bank, called Daniel’s Pantry. With…
(CNN) — Science has come a long way since HIV was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are some of the most memorable moments in AIDS history. 1981 June 5, the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report publishes the first mention of what later is determined to be HIV. The report…
SAN DIEGO – California Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins has called on the community to change the future and defeat cancer by enrolling in a novel cancer prevention study. She made her appointment to enroll last week in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study 3 (CPS-3), and wants others to follow her lead. “This…
SAN DIEGO – At its annual board meeting, A. Latham Staples, the founder of the Empowering Spirits Foundation (ESF), a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced his resignation as president and CEO of the organization he started in 2008. Staples who will remain with ESF as Chairman of the Board…
