Denise Louise Gunderson, 50, who is better known as the Bridal Bandit, pleaded guilty Feb. 10 to two counts of grand theft and two counts of identity theft that involved stealing credit cards from brides during their weddings. Gunderson, who is also known as Denise Burns, has agreed to accept a 7-year term in state…
Lambda Archives of San Diego, a nationally-recognized nonprofit archive dedicated to the local history of LGBT people, will host the Heroines, Pioneers & Trailblazers awards gala brunch Saturday, March 19 at 12 noon at the San Diego Woman’s Club. The event includes an awards program to honor women, LBTQ and straight, who stepped up and…
SAN DIEGO– Fire up the spotlights and start praying for a win! It’s time for Hollywood’s most glamorous and glorious night – the Academy Awards! Yes, it’s the Gay Super Bowl day of days as the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) hosts the biggest Academy Awards viewing party in San Diego Sunday, Feb. 28,…
No not Diana Ross, the other Supremes, the Supreme Court. Each presidential political season the Supreme Court gets short shrift because the average American does not often feel the impact of a Supreme Court decision on their life. There is nothing farther from the truth for the LGBT community. The LGBT community fully knows why…
SACRAMENTO – Equality California (EQCA) is sponsoring two bills authored by Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley) that would prohibit the use of state funds to support entities that allow discrimination by creating exemptions based on religious beliefs. “I’m proud to be a voice for the LGBT community throughout the state and across the country,” Low said….
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. HBO’s latest newest prestige drama was created by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese and it focuses on the 1970s music business in New York. With that pedigree, it shouldn’t be surprising that the show is full of drugs, sex, violence, raw rock and roll and sublime R&B. Bobby Cannavale…
dvd of the week Michael Fassbender was nominated for an Oscar playing Apple founder Steve Jobs, who is on screen at virtually every moment in the film written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. Few of his dialogue partners – played by Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels, among others – are…
thursday, feb. 18 Guards at the Taj At morning’s first light, a new edifice representing the soaring power of the empire will be unveiled, the glorious Taj Mahal. But for the two hapless guards assigned to protect the palace, morning will set the wheels in motion for a ghoulishly funny existential crisis that will shake…
With the Apple annual meeting only days away, the spirited event just got more spirited with news from Cupertino the corporation will fight a court order to cooperate with the FBI investigation into the encrypted Apple iPhone of the dead ISIS sympathizers who viciously murdered 14 co-workers Dec. 2. It is a bold move for…
A symbolic anti-equality resolution is advancing in the Tennessee State Legislature. Without debate in an entirely symbolic voice vote yesterday, the House Civil Justice Committee advanced House Joint Resolution (HJR) 529, a resolution that allows lawmakers to express their animosity for the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of nationwide marriage equality last June. “Though only…
