There’s nothing remotely interesting about Blue is the Warmest Color except everything. The three-hour lesbian love story in French that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year features all of the oldest tropes of both love stories and queer love stories. We have the same boy meets girl, loses girl, tries to get girl…
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Calvin Manson’s soulful production about the life and music of Nina Simone is a beautifully crafted piece. Four performers played Nina at different points in her life and took us from her humble beginnings to her training as a classical pianist and eventually becoming active in pursuing dreams of living…
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Writer/director, Nicole Conn known for her groundbreaking lesbian movies Claire Of The Moon (1992), Elena Undone (2010) and A Perfect Ending (2012) featuring Jessica Clark (vampire goddess “Lilith” from HBO’s True Blood), will direct a Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) public service announcement (PSA) that will be released in December. “Music and video projects like this have…
SAN DIEGO – Today, the San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC) announced the appointment of Kathleen Hansen as the chorus’ first-ever assistant artistic director. After an extensive search process, SDWC’s board of directors extended the offer to Hansen, who started in the position Oct. 19. Ms. Hansen will work closely alongside long-time SDWC Artistic Director Christopher Allen,…
LOS ANGELES – Award-winning out writer/director, Angela Robinson, who’s written and produced the upcoming Girltrash: All Night Long as presented by Power Up is severing all formal ties with the non-profit film company over creative differences and professional, moral and ethical issues. Robinson, one of the executive producers of HBO’s True Blood and a co-executive producer…
Gloria Johnson, who died recently at the age of 76, devoted her entire life to the cause of equality for all Americans. She was not just an LGBT activist, but a human rights activist who spoke out and worked for the causes of any people or community who were discriminated against. Gloria was born in…
We had the honor of attending Hidden Leaves, the Ilan-Lael 30th anniversary celebration Sept. 28 at First Unitarian Universalist Church in Hillcrest. The church is the site of founder James Hubbell’s first important volunteer-assisted major outdoor sculpture installation. Hubbell and his wife Anne founded the company in 1982. The celebration included food, wine, a silent…
Queer in Aztlán A reading was held at Centro Cultural de la Raza to commemorate the release of the anthology Queer in Aztlán featuring the book contributors. The book explores issues of queer youth identity, sexuality, masculinity, homophobia, sexism and violence in Mexican and American culture, presenting a complex view of queer Chicanos/Mexicanos, and contests…
Not long ago I was searching for a bartending job, and while scouring Craigslist I fell upon an ad for a bar in my neighborhood that called for someone just like me. Must be gay-friendly the ad warned, as the bar was in a gay neighborhood and the clientele were predominately gay. Perfect, I thought,…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, has announced the premiere of the film Before God: We Are All Family Oct. 1 at the GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, D.C. The film tells the story of five religious Latino families…
