Today, Thursday, April 24 is the eighth annual Dining Out for Life San Diego, and participants have their choice of more than 80 locations to dine out for breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and dessert. Dining Out for Life has quickly become a community tradition, with great enthusiasm behind it. Local restaurants and bars agree to…
It’s no secret that I bemoan the lack of LGBT, or queer art in San Diego. Yes, the community has a theater that prioritizes gay productions and yes, there is the Art of Pride exhibition space that shows the work of a different LGBT artist each month. But, beyond this there is very little. Yet…
A friend recently pointed me to a video of trans advocate Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech at New York City’s 1973 Liberation Day Rally. In the speech she stated, “I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights or else I would not be out their fighting for our…
When John McGillion first purchased Lulu’s in the Greenpoint neighborhood of northern Brooklyn, he had no idea that less than 10 years later it would become an up-and-coming neighborhood with an increasingly diverse gay and lesbian population. After all, Greenpoint’s history points to a large farming community mostly owned and tilled by first- and second-generation…
LOS ANGELES — Equality California, the largest statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization in California, announced today that its executive director, John O’Connor, will step down in July following a successful, 18-month tenure leading EQCA through a period of extensive organizational transition. EQCA also announced that board member Rick Zbur, a senior partner…
The extreme hardship of being young and homeless is something most of us may witness within our community, but will likely never experience first-hand or fully comprehend. Homelessness is constantly referred to as one of our communities’ biggest social issues, but few can actually empathize with the issues of the population or have had the chance to…
Boy George, the hit making wunderkind from the 1980s whose chart-topping singles included “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me,” “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya,” “Miss Me Blind” and “Church of the Poison Mind,” is set to kickoff Israeli Pride in the southern port city of Eliat. The festivities, which run from May 15 to the…
This Last week, I went out to see the movie based on the life of Latino icon and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. It was a most moving movie and like the Oscar award-winning movie on Harvey Milk it brought back so many memories for me and had me crying, laughing and leaving the theater…
I know I’m getting old. I used to watch the television show Roseanne when it was in the first run, and thought it was pretty funny. I thought it was pretty progressive, often having lesbian characters sprinkled through storylines. And, with Roseanne Barr being an executive producer on the show I thought she must have…
http://youtu.be/0eyKmpffiZ0 LAS VEGAS (KVVU) – Continuing in its pursuit to draw LGBT visitors, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority premiered on Monday its first national television ad campaign geared toward that community. In the commercial titled The Check In, a man and woman prepare to check in at a hotel. The woman steps away…
