IRELAND – Openly gay Irish Sen. David Norris has finally secured enough nominations to stand for president. With less than 24 hours to go to the close of nominations Sen. Norris secured a nomination with the endorsement of Dublin City Council with 30 councilors voting for his nomination, six against and 11 abstaining. This now…
Well, my doctor has grounded me from flying for a week and, to tell you the truth, I’m kinda happy about it. So, I’ll finally have a weekend in San Diego after all these months. Hooray! Marching in Spokane In the last month there have been nine gay suicides in the state of Washington. Also,…
dvd of the week The winner of the Palm D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Terrence Malick’s tone poem about love, family and the meaning of life is not widely loved. Some people hate it, but I am not one. I think it’s one of the great achievements in film of at least the…
dvr this There are three gay things about The Playboy Club that have flown under the radar: 1) The lead bunny, blonde bombshell Amber Heard, is an out lesbian. 2) A major subplot involves funneling tips to the Mattachine Society, the 1960s gay rights group. 3) Eddie Cibrian seems to be contractually obliged to take…
LAUGH OUT PROUD, San Diego’s only gay-produced comedy show for the LGBT community, returns Oct. 13, featuring Los Angeles-based standup comic and TV personality Renee Santos and a number of local comedians. The show will be at Hillcrest’s Martinis Above Fourth from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Santos, who appears on Showtime’s new stand-up comedy…
Patti Stanger, presenter of TV’s Millionaire Matchmaker has tried to defend and apologize for her offensive remarks on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live (WWHL). The Int’l. Business Times reported that Stanger sparked an initial outrage after making some discriminatory comments against gay men and Jewish men on the live show last week. When a viewer…
MTV and The Associated Press revealed last Friday results from a new study exploring the pervasiveness of digital abuse, how it is affecting America’s youth and how they’re responding to it. According to the study, 76 percent of 14-24-year-olds say that digital abuse is a serious problem for people their age. More than half (56…
Playboy Club actor, Sean Maher, has publicly come out as a gay man. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly (EW) he opened up about his sexuality. He told EW, “I was nervous coming here today because I’ve just never talked about it. But, it’s so liberating. It was interesting to be coming to have…
San Diego LGBT Weekly is celebrating national LGBT History Month throughout October, bringing you news and features ranging from the very beginnings of our struggle for basic human and civil rights, which began at a New York watering hole called Stonewall to the coverage of life during the first weeks after the historic repeal of…
