SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two transgender rights bills into law. The Gender Nondiscrimination Act makes “gender identity and expression” its own protected category at work, at school, in housing, at public accommodations and in other settings. The Vital Statistics Modernization Act, makes it easier for transgender people to get a court-ordered gender…
AUSTRALIA – Prominent South Australian Labor Party politician, Tom Kenyon has apologized for saying openly gay minister Penny Wong should not be allowed to marry her pregnant partner. Wong’s partner, Sophie Allouache, is pregnant, and the baby is due sometime in December. The Australian newspaper reported Kenyon, who is from Labor’s “hard Catholic right faction”…
WARSAW –Anna Grodzka, president of Transgender Europe (TGEU) member organization Trans-Fuzja, a Polish transgender support group, has become the first openly transgender woman to be elected into the Polish parliament. Grodzka, who has been working for transgender and intersex issues for more than four years, was a candidate of the Palikot Movement, a new political…
Sometimes, it’s hard not to laugh. When your favorite four-year-old says something hilariously profound, you bite your lip, knowing that you’d be in trouble if you bust a gut. If your beloved does something silly (but well-meaning), you twist your lips to avoid the outburst you know is coming. When your great-aunt shows up at…
As many of you know, October is national breast cancer awareness month and our lesbian sisters are affected almost twice as much as their straight counterparts. Please support the Toni Atkins Health Fund at The Center. Thank you. Gay Marine gets threats In 1948, when President Truman issued his executive order (No. 9981) marking the…
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher dvd of the week As I wrote in the spring, I laughed out loud several times while watching Bad Teacher. The younger men in the audience when I saw the movie were particularly enamored with the movie, especially when the issue of breasts was first and foremost. While Bad Teacher…
dvr this I’d rather prep for Halloween with a witchy comedy than silly horror film. So, thanks to TCM, we can see the 1959 movie, Bell, Book and Candle, that was the inspiration for Bewitched. The film is a delightful romantic comedy featuring Jimmy Stewart (in the role that would be Darren in the TV…
You may not have heard of Elizabeth Olsen yet, but you will soon be able to see her in several new movies. The beautiful, young actress will be sharing the screen with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver in Red Lights; and in Very Good Girls she will appear with Dakota Fanning; while, in Liberal…
The 12th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival, which takes place Oct. 20-28, features a wealth of cinematic glimpses into the world around us, courtesy of Pan-Asian filmmakers with entries from all corners of the globe – including San Diego. UltraStar Cinemas in Mission Valley at Hazard Center will play predominant host to the nine-day…
Hidden behind door after door of ritzy, high-end La Jolla Art Galleries, filled with traditional gallery art, you will find Thumbprint Gallery; a small hidden urban-art gem created by Johnny Tran and Paul Ecdao. With Tran and Ecdao’s bags recently unpacked and their taxi cab still at the curb, Thumbprint Gallery’s owners recently completed their…
