dvd of the week Despite writer-director Derek Cianfrance’s Herculean efforts at creating country noir and Ryan Gosling’s smolder, the film doesn’t quite work. The main reason is the film’s conceit, that the plot, focusing on three men in upstate New York over a generation, would be completely linear. In the first act, a daredevil motorcyclist…
thursday, aug. 1 Jess T. Dugan: artist’s talk Queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity…
I often think about the Scripture Luke 6:31 – a statement of the golden rule. That Biblical verse states, “Treat others the same way you want them to treat you.” I often think too about the statement made by Martin Luther King Jr. when he said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are…
My heart is full this morning. Every experience we go through changes us. Every interaction we have affects us. I was gone one Sunday and so much has happened! Can you say marriage equality? Congratulations to Gabe and Wes (first Wednesday walk-in) and everyone else married in the last several weeks! Not only is your…
http://youtu.be/Du6mAOeq1XE BY ANTHONY GIOFFRE After living in New York City in the late ’70s, Miami through the ’80s and San Francisco through the ’90s, I’ve seen some struggles. From the glamour days of Studio 54 and weekends on Fire Island, to carrying, sometimes literally, thousands of people with AIDS to their grave, followed by their…
The Nicky Awards board of governors have announced District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis as the recipient of this year’s Mayor Moscone Award. Police Chief Bill Lansdowne and Sheriff Bill Gore will present the prestigious award to Dumanis at the 38th annual Nicky Awards, Aug. 25. According to the board, Dumanis is receiving the award because ” … of…
The community gathered at Martinis Above Fourth for The 38th Annual Nicky Awards Nomination Party July 8. The crowd was all smiles as they cheered each other on. It’s great to see so many organizations and community leaders being recognized for their hard work. It’s an honor to be nominated among them in several categories….
The continuation of the celebration of marriage equality feels good – as evidenced by a record-breaking Pride attendance! It feels like finally justice acted on behalf of marriage equality and for many of us, it’s very personal. It feels as if justice were enacted on our behalf. But what about the times when we feel…
It’s as if the 1960s has crash landed smack in the middle of America 2013. Marches for racial equality. Fights for civil rights. Soldiers deployed to small, far-away lands. Believe it or not, today’s social challenges are actually born of decades of progress. They are rooted in seeds planted more than 50 years ago by…
Voters in one of northern Mexico’s most violent cities have elected the country’s first openly gay mayor. Benjamín Medrano Quezada, of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), will become the mayor of Fresnillo, which has a population of 110,000, when he is sworn in. According to Box Turtle Bulletin, Quezada won on a campaign aimed at…
