LOS ANGELES — GLAAD have announced the nominees for its 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, presented nationally by Ketel One Vodka, Wells Fargo, and Hilton Worldwide. By recognizing and honoring media for outstanding images of the LGBT community, the GLAAD Media Awards serve as a benchmark for the media industry and complement GLAAD’s work to…
LOS ANGELES, — Dr. Rizi Timane, minister, social worker, and outspoken advocate for the LGBT community, has issued the following statement on Nigeria’s criminalization of gay marriages and civil unions: I grew up in Nigeria. In Lagos, to be exact. And I have known since I was eight years old that I am transgender. I was born as a…
Pitting the old against the new, a group of young, impatient LGBT activists are challenging the status quo in Orange County by refusing to be marginalized any longer among the nation’s largest Vietnamese-American population. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, a group of millennials, headed by Hieu Nguyen, have formed Viet Rainbow…
Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Irby, Karl Urban, Michael Ealy and Minka Kelly in Almost Human dvr this: Fox, Sunday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Possibly, the most anticipated new show of the fall is about a future in which every Los Angeles police officer is teamed up with an android. Detective John Kennex (Star Trek’s…
After a blistering critique appeared on Vice’s blog, NBC Universal has cancelled their annual Bill and Ted Halloween Show, reports RawStory.com. The show, which screens annually at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, is based on the characters Bill Logan (Alex Winter) and Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves) from the hit 1989 comedy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure….
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, a California adoption agency based in Los Angeles, was awarded an HRC Foundation’s All Children – All Families seal of recognition at the RaiseAChild.US Harvest Celebration at Mauro Café Fred Segal Melrose Oct. 1. ACAF trainer Rob Woronoff presented the seal to Louis Josephson, PhD, the CEO of Vista…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the nation’s oldest LGBT advocacy organization, will commemorate its 40th anniversary at Celebrating 40 Years, a fundraising brunch and celebration, Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, Calif. The brunch will be hosted by Rea Carey, executive director of the Task Force, and will honor…
http://youtu.be/2T7iMA1Uo6k Rising LGBT pop artist, Daniel Sobrino has just released his new single and music video entitled, “Power of Us.” A powerful gay anthem it has already got more than 50,000 YouTube views and has been featured on The Backlot, EQ Music, Gay.com, and more. Originating from Mexico City, Sobrino has always loved music, having memories…
LOS ANGELES — Students making great strides to become the leaders of tomorrow were celebrated by stars of today and celebrity legends at the Voices On Point concert and dinner benefiting Point Foundation (Point), the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) students of merit. Performing at the Sept. 7 event at…
Put on your cowboy boots and hat and get ready for the second annual Wrangler Weekend L.A. over the Labor Day weekend – and it’s all for a great cause. The series of events will kick off Thursday, Aug. 29, with free admission to the Boots & Briefs Party at Oil Can Harry’s, 11502 Ventura…
