According to a Princeton Review survey that asked 126,000 students at 378 top colleges to rate their schools on dozens of topics and report on their experiences at them, the college which topped the list of most LGBT-friendly colleges was Boston’s Emerson College. However, the school that earned the No. 1 spot on the most…
The guitar-toting, power-pop prodigy behind the music video, “Bears,” that garnered 100,000 YouTube hits in three days, is hitting the road for a national tour from now until late fall. On his stop, he will perform at the Bamboo Lounge, 1475 University Ave. in San Diego, Sunday, Aug. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Tom Goss, hailing from Washington,…
Following on the heels of April’s historic announcement by Vietnam’s Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice’s Ha Hung Cuong has called for the end of marriage discrimination against same-sex couples. In a statement released Monday, the Justice issued a road map for the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage including the recognition of property between two…
Four teenagers have been arrested in New York Four for an alleged anti-gay hate crime. They have been accused of physically attacking two men while shouting anti-gay epithets in the early hours of July 21 outside a train station in Babylon, N.Y. The Long Island Press reports that the alleged attackers punched, kicked and shoved…
San Diego IndieFest is back! After a hiatus due to the birth of their son, San Diego IndieFest creators/ producers Alicia Champion and Danielle LoPresti have been busy creating a renewed look and format for IndieFest 8, still featuring the kind of roster you’ve come to expect— filled with formidable Indie revolutionaries to excite and…
BY WILL RODRIGUEZ-KENNEDY SAN DIEGO — In the wake of two landmark decisions by the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and ruling the people who brought the Proposition 8 case did not have standing, hundreds of jubilant community members gathered at the Hillcrest Pride Flag and the San Diego LGBT Community…
I am sure that you have heard about the outcry by many within the LGBT community concerning Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt. Kaitlyn is a lesbian who began a relationship with a 14-year-old female high school classmate. It has been reported that the relationship began when Kaitlyn was 17. Last month, the 14-year-old girl’s parents went…
by Neal Putnam On January 19, two East County men pleaded guilty to felony assault of a gay man on Halloween in North Park. Both men face up to one year in county jail. Christopher Matthew Blount and Michael John Brandon, both 23, admitted to beating Jacob Harsh-barger, 32, as he was walking his two…
