“Butch” apologized for being late. “I overslept,” he explained. I didn’t mind. He was only fashionably late and I was sitting at the wood slab bar sipping an Orderville India Pale Ale (IPA) ($7) while soaking in the ambience of One Door North. The high-ceilinged space, with a nod to discovery and adventure, has an…
On Netflix Baz Luhrmann’s long-gestating period musical series about a rag tag group of kids in the Bronx coming of age during the late 1970s birth of Hip-Hop showcases the best of Luhrmann and the problems of extending his aesthetic across the many hours of a TV series. The musical scenes, featuring ecstatic dancing and…
SAN DIEGO – Legislation by California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) to require all restaurant and bar employees who sell or serve alcoholic beverages to undergo Responsible Beverage Service training was approved by the State Senate on a unanimous 36-2 vote today. It now returns to the Assembly for final consideration. Assembly Bill 2121 will make responsible beverage training mandatory…
At a ceremony in San Francisco Tuesday, the U.S. Navy made history by naming a new Military Sealift Command ship after Harvey Milk, the former Navy diver and pioneer in the LGBTQ civil rights movement who was assassinated in 1978. In another historic first, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus selected transgender Navy veteran Paula…
The University of California San Diego has been named the 14th best university in the world for the fourth year in a row by the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Nationally, UC San Diego was named the country’s 12th best university. “UC San Diego’s culture of innovation, collaboration and risk-taking has once again…
https://youtu.be/DdqbYjivr1o To an outsider, Tracey Norman had it all. She was a sought after model who graced the pages of top fashion magazines and had her face on a box of Clairol hair color. Inside, she was harboring a secret: she was transgender. When her secret was revealed, her modeling career came to an abrupt…
LOS ANGELES– Equality California (EQCA) announced today that it has endorsed Proposition 63, the “Safety for All” ballot initiative backed by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Following the shootings in June at an Orlando LGBT nightclub, a spike in homicides of LGBT people and an ongoing worldwide epidemic of murders of transgender women, Equality California has made…
Celebrate the ratification of the 19th amendment! The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified Aug. 26, 1920. In honor of this major milestone in women’s history join the Women’s Museum of California for the 11th annual Suffrage Parade and Rally through Balboa Park, Aug. 24. The Suffrage Rally starts at 5 p.m. at…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today responded to Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech delivered Monday in which Trump said people should take a test before being allowed to immigrate to the United States. “In the Cold War, we had an ideological screening test,” Trump said to a crowd in Youngstown, Ohio. “The time is overdue…
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The C.A.R.E. (Comprehensive AIDS Resource and Education) Program at Dignity Health – St. Mary Medical Center has been awarded a $90,000 grant to fund a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Center of Excellence. Tuesday, Aug. 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved funding for the Los Angeles County Department of Public…
