Best-selling author and journalist Janet Mock stopped by Oprah Winfrey’s SuperSoul Sessions talk series Sunday at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the session, titled The Path of Authenticity — Embracing the Otherness, Mock talked about her transition into the woman she is today. “I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish, but most…
The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) has named two of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage case its “persons of the year.” In an editorial published Monday, Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon were named NCR‘s persons of the year for 2015 for “… their historic roles as plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges and…
NEW YORK CITY DRONE FILM FESTIVAL 2016 TEASER from NYCDFF on Vimeo. NEW YORK, NY — The FAA estimates that as many as one million drones made an appearance under the Christmas tree this holiday season. If you’re a new drone owner, you might want to consider using your drone to make a movie. You…
400 days after Tamir Rice was killed while playing in a Cleveland park an Ohio grand jury has declined to indict the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot the unarmed black 12-year-old, reports The Huffington Post. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the decision Monday afternoon. Rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann shot Rice after responding…
NEW YORK — The Empire State Building culminated their 2015 Christmas music-to-light show with a colorful and exciting twist on a holiday classic that was simply awesome. This brand-new musical extravaganza featured chart-topping A Capella group Pentatonix, and their Grammy-nominated track, “Dance of The Sugarplum Fairy,” from their No. 1 holiday album, That’s Christmas To…
Two men have pleaded guilty to multiple charges in the “smash and grab” burglary series in Hillcrest and Normal Heights in which the bandits broke windows in restaurants and fled with cash from the registers. Carlos Carranza Castaneda, 25, pleaded guilty to burglarizing the Saffron restaurant, at 3731 India St., and D’Angelo’s Pizza, at 4592…
Chelsea Manning, who is currently serving 35 years for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks launched a Christmas attack against Caitlyn Jenner saying she ‘sold out’ the trans movement. The Daily Mail reported that Manning criticized the reality star over Christmas Eve on Twitter writing, ‘In 2015 @CaitlynJenner was the Grinch who stole (& sold out)…
A transgender couple in Ecuador have made history with a unique pregancy, believed to be the first of its kind in South America. The Associated Press reports that Fernando Machado and Diane Rodriguez went public with the pregnancy through Facebook, announcing that the father-to-be is carrying the baby. The report states that Rodriguez, who was…
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As the New Year approaches, many of us will be making resolutions for 2016. In fact, more than 50 percent of Americans will make a New Year’s resolution with the most frequent resolution being to lose weight. The end result is gym envy. Gym envy is part of the reason that only 64 percent of…
