La Jolla Playhouse announces 2016 ‘Performance Outreach Program’

LA JOLLA, Calif. – La Jolla Playhouse announces its 2016 Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour production: Alice Chan, co-written by Robert Lee and Tony Award-winning actor and 2014/2015 Playhouse Artist-in-Residence BD Wong, who will also direct the play. The piece will tour schools throughout San Diego County February 1 – April 1, 2016. Commissioned by…

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Club Skirts welcomes the first transgender DJ to the Dinah roster

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – In an industry that is categorically dominated by males, female DJs have been progressively multiplying in the nation’s clubs, bringing their own unique sounds and individual talent. Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend has continuously been championing this blossoming movement, year after year, proving these DJs can more than rise to the occasion….

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Grindr sells majority stake to Chinese gaming company

Grindr, the hugely popular mobile hook-up site have announced that they have sold a majority stake in their company to Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech company, reports Business Insider. The deal, valued at $155 million, is the second announcement this week of a Chinese company taking over a recognizable American brand with Dalian Wang’s…

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‘The Danish Girl’ banned in Qatar

The movie The Danish Girl, which has received international acclaim, with multiple BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations has been banned in Qatar. Situated on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula bordering  Saudi Arabia, the Islamic nation of Qatar has not taken well to the Tom Hooper film. Homosexuality is illegal in Qatar and trans people aren’t…

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Santorum: Allowing gay marriage like redefining ‘the chemical equation for water’

GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum has come up with another anti-LGBT analogy as he campaigns in Iowa. Right Wing Watch reported that Santorum told Iowa radio host Simon Conway that allowing states to expand marriage to same-sex couples is like saying “the states have the right to redefine the chemical equation for water, it can…

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HRC calls on Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to support LGBT non-discrimination protections in his state of the state address

WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) urged Indiana Governor Mike Pence to join the overwhelming majority of Hoosiers and endorse fully-inclusive non-discrimination protections for all LGBT people in Indiana during his State of the State address tomorrow night. In the year since Gov. Pence threw Indiana into chaos by signing a law allowing…

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Marco Rubio moves further to the Christian Right with new ad (VIDEO)

This week Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio moved unashamedly further to the Christian Right with the formation of a religious liberty advisory board, which includes such notable anti-LGBT figures as megachurch pastor, Rick Warren, Kelly Fiedorek and Doug Napier, lawyers with the anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom and others. According to a report in The Advocate,…

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