North Park welcomes the 48th Annual North Park Toyland Parade and Holiday Fair this Saturday, Dec. 3 starting at 11 a.m. The historic parade will travel down University Avenue between Utah and Iowa Streets, with marching bands, upbeat dance groups, vintage cars, beauty queens, city officials and more. Santa Claus will be riding atop his…
Pleasures & Treasures’ new location in Hillcrest is where you need to be Friday night from 7-10 p.m. if you’re a fan of that eternally young and beautiful bruiser named Tom of Finland, for a fundraiser to support emerging LGBT artists and makers of LGBT art. Billed as a place where you can “explore your…
WASHINGTON – The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO) has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in the House and Sens. Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in the Senate, would provide benefits for same-sex domestic partners…
BALTIMORE – Two Baltimore County police officers who were denied health benefits for their same-sex spouses have won their cases before an arbitrator, the first disputes of this kind to be decided in the department. As reported in the Baltimore Sun, officers Margaret Selby and Juanika Ballard got the word last week that an independent…
NEW YORK– Despite laws in some states that impede the practice, a growing number of lesbians and gay men are adopting children in the United States – at least half of them providing families for boys and girls from foster care and 60 percent adopting transracially, according to the results of an extensive new survey…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – In just a few months, gay couples will get the right to marry in the Church of Denmark – that is if the new church minister has his way. The government plans to introduce a bill just after the New Year that will allow same-sex couples to hold weddings in the Church…
dvd of the week I must admit that I walked into The Help expecting to be offended. Because I knew it to be about a young white woman writing a book about the black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Miss., perhaps unfairly I expected it to be a prequel of sorts to the insidiously racist…
dvr this I have no idea how this will turn out, but in the season premiere of Made, MTV’s long-running show about wish fulfillment, a gay teenager is turned into a rapper. Knowing that MTV has long been the most progressive voice for gay rights on TV for 25 years, this episode could be amazing….
The concept of how the lives of gay men and straight women converge into a wonderfully complex and rewarding friendship, which is akin to having a wife and husband, respectively, has been the focal point of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Fridays, 9 p.m. on the Sundance Channel). The second season of the…
