Kids, teens, and adults are invited to explore literature, writing and entertainment at the fourth annual San Diego County Library Book Festival. The Festival is taking place Saturday, Oct. 13 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the Encinitas Branch, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas 92024. This year’s theme is sports and features Lonnie Burstein Hewitt,…
CNN presenter Anderson Cooper has made his first public comments about being gay since he came out last July. Speaking Monday on his new daytime show Anderson Live, he told his guest co-host Kristen Chenowith, “Everybody in my life … since I’ve been an adult and since I was a kid, I mean, I came…
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has honored Ellen DeGeneres by giving the out television personality a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony happened 11:30 a.m. PST today in Hollywood. Hollywood LAist reported that American Idol host Ryan Seacrest and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel both spoke at the ceremony, which comes just…
Actor and LGBT advocate Wilson Cruz has joined The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s (GLAAD) staff as the strategic giving officer. Cruz will be part of GLAAD‘s development team, helping to fund GLAAD‘s work amplifying stories from the LGBT community that build support for equality. Announcing the appointment Herndon Graddick, president of GLAAD said,…
Nine men were arrested Saturday after yelling anti-gay slurs over bullhorns as they demonstrated at Southern Decadence in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The Times-Picayune reported that “street-preachers” Patrick O’Connell, 45, Rolando Igleasias, 31, Cesar Chavez, 22, Daniel Hoogerhuis, 26, Danny Guevera, 20, Larry Craft, 52, Montes Diego, 32 and Gary Brown, 33 were arrested on…
Gay advocacy organizations to host screening of The New Normal for Utah residents. Following Salt Lake City, Utah NBC affiliate KSL-TV’s decision to not air the upcoming NBC series The New Normal, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Equality Utah and the Utah Pride Center have announced plans to host a panel discussion…
‘Richard III’ at The Old Globe, through Sept. 29 A review presented as a one-act coffee house caricature dialogue by San Diego’s most unpredictable theater critic, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Thom Vegh Place: Filter Coffee House, San Diego Time: Another unrelenting sunny day around 10 a.m. (As the curtain rises KIP, an arts writer for…
Steve Levitan, the creator of the hit ABC comedy Modern Family has thrown down a challenge to Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, after she revealed to ET’s Nancy O’Dell that the show was her favorite. Levitan Tweeted, “Thrilled Ann Romney says ModFam is her favorite show. We’ll offer her the role…
SALT LAKE CITY – KSL-TV, an NBC-affiliated television station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, is refusing to air the upcoming NBC show, The New Normal. The TV station is owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The New Normal follows…
San Francisco 49ers Tape \’It Gets Better\’ anti-LGBT bullying video The San Francisco 49ers have become the first NFL team to join the “It Gets Better” public service announcement campaign, which seeks to assure LGBT youth that, despite whatever circumstances they now face, being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender doesn’t mean being doomed to live…
