SANTIAGO, Chile – A young gay man has suffered a neo-Nazi attack in the Chilean capital, Santiago. During the brutal attack Daniel Zamudio, 24, was burned with cigarettes, his body marked with a swastika and he had part of one ear torn off. He was found unconscious in the San Borja Park in Santiago and…
There seems to be two ways to turn a TV series into a movie. Either you take the original show seriously and try to replicate the good stuff while making it grittier and widening the scope. This worked for The Untouchables and The Fugitive, while it was an abject failure for The Mod Squad and…
Monday, March 5, 2012, I went to the Veterans Affairs (VA) San Diego Medical Center to change my gender marker from male to female. The previous Friday, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) informed trans veterans that the VA had clarified their policy, and were now using the U.S. State Department’s standard, developed for…
A movie way, way, way before its time, Tony Richardson’s A Taste of Honey tells the story of a young white English woman (Rita Tushingham) who has an out-of-wedlock baby with a black sailor, and her gay roommate (Murray Melvin) is determined to be the stand-in father. In 1962. A classic of British “kitchen…
Chris Hughes announced he has purchased a majority share of The New Republic Friday, becoming the publication’s publisher and editor-in-chief – all at the tender age of 28. Hughes was the former social media advisor to then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, and a co-founder of Facebook. The gay entrepreneur confirmed his interest and purchase in…
There was a time when the gay community was not welcomed into neighborhoods. The common mindset of the masses was that we would be a negative addition and that we would even bring property values down. However, over the last several decades, this mindset has slowly changed. Not only is our community welcomed in most…
Anti-gay group One Million Moms (OMM) has announced that it has abandoned its call for daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to be fired as J.C. Penney’s new spokesperson. OMM is a project of the American Family Association, an organization the Southern Poverty Law Center designates as a hate group. In an interview with Christian…
Russian lawmakers passed a ‘gay gag bill’ in St. Petersburg Sunday, introducing new legislation that would prohibit any form of communication related to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people. Proponents of the law say it will prohibit “the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors,” but LGBT allies and activists say the law is part…
Shawn Loftis, a director and actor in a series of gay porn films, will be allowed to return to the classroom after the Florida-based teacher was fired for his role in x-rated movies. The actor/director, also known on film as Collin O’Neal, will be allowed to resume teaching in addition to applying as a permanent…
