Growing up gay in the Mormon community gave up-and-coming alt-country musician Justin Utley a unique perspective. After spending two unsuccessful years in church-run ex-gay therapy, he split from the church in 2005 and moved to New York City to pursue a music career. Utley’s second CD, Nothing This Real, chronicles his journey. Abby Walker: How…
Hulu has launched its new LGBT category heading on the free, ad-supported Hulu and Hulu Plus. Implemented as a navigational tool to facilitate easier access to Hulu’s substantial offerings of LGBT films, this new category heading arises out of an initiative spearheaded by LGBT film distributor Wolfe Video. Hulu.com’s LGBT genre category can be accessed…
With a gay councilman a lesbian district attorney, a newly independent assemblyman who supports marriage equality and a straight U.S. congressman with a 100 percent score from the Human Rights Campaign, local LGBT political coverage has understandably focused on the race for San Diego mayor. While there is no doubt that electing an openly gay…
It’s all about words this week – spoken and read. I have praised San Diego’s tight little literary community several times in the past. If you enjoy writing or listening to writers perform their work then there is always something going on. This week for example you can enjoy a couple of events. First up…
NEW VIDEO FROM LGBT WEEKLY MEDIA PARTNER, CNN Balloons, signs, tears, and joy may not be unusual sights on military bases when family and friends await their returning veteran’s safe return home from a long deployment, but a wedding proposal by a boyfriend to his Marine boyfriend is. That’s what happened Tuesday at Camp Pendleton,…
The Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA), one of the largest specialty chambers in San Diego County and the second largest lesbian, gay and supportive chamber in the nation, has announced its opposition to Proposition B, which appears on the June ballot in the City of San Diego. In a press release issued Wednesday the…
BRIDGEPORT, Ohio – Bridgeport resident Jennifer Tyrrell has been told that, because she is gay, she would no longer be able to serve as a den leader of her son’s Cub Scout chapter by the District Councilmember. In response, parents and scouts from Pack 109 held a peaceful protest outside of the local Boy Scouts…
RALEIGH, N.C. (CNN) – May 8, voters in North Carolina will head to the polls to vote on Amendment 1, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would define “marriage between one man and one woman” as “the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized.” According to same-sex marriage advocacy group…
QOM, Iran – Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an Islamic scholar based in Iran’s holy city of Qom, has said in a speech among his followers that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, according to The Guardian. The Iranian cleric, who is entitled to issue juristic rulings according to the Sharia law, was condemning western lawmakers…
Being from the big city (Portland, Maine: 75,000), my one memorable experience of rural life was a Boy Scouts overnight trip to a farm. First, tents were put up in a pasture, carefully avoiding the cow pies and then off to the fields for “tasseling the corn.” Having no idea what that meant, I gamely…
