Guerrilla Pride comes to San Diego June 14

Organizers announced the second annual Guerrilla Pride will take place June 14 from 2-10 p.m. The event weaves queer-themed workshops, a community meal, live music and a radical art show into a fun and educational event for Southern California’s queer community. The event will take place at the Canvass for a Cause headquarters at 2139 First Ave. in…

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‘Queerly Beloved:’ How a couple survived transition and kept their queer identities

Imagine if, after fifteen years as a lesbian couple, your partner turned to you and said, “I think I’m really a man.” What would you do? How would you respond? For Diane and Jacob (née Suzy) Anderson-Minshall this isn’t a hypothetical question. It’s what really happened. Eight years later, the couple not only remains together,…

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‘Chicana Lesbians:’ SD Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation celebrates Women’s History Month

Join the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation for their first ReadOut event of 2014! In honor of Women’s History Month, they will be celebrating queer Chicana life and literature with readings, book signings and a queer Chicana book fair. Two incredible Chicana lesbian novelists, Carla Trujillo and Felicia Luna Lemus, come together in an…

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Gay writing in India: a first collection of queer poems by Shaleen Rakesh

NEW DELHI — At a time when queer rights are being debated vociferously in the media, Shaleen Rakesh, a poet based in New Delhi, India  is set to release his first collection of queer poetry The Lion and the Antler in January 2014. Rakesh lives with the memory of creation and destruction, as forces he has…

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Queer photographer Jess T. Dugan to lecture at the San Diego Museum of Art: Aug. 1

Aug. 1, queer photographer Jess T. Dugan will give an artist’s talk at the San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Summer Break 2013: Double Portraits, which includes Dugan’s work. Jess T. Dugan is a gender variant artist whose work explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. For the past decade,…

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Asal Choi joins Azlar in Uzbek’s nascent queer pop music scene (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/FznR4FfXHkY Despite a staunchly anti-gay government, the anonymous singer known only by the title of his latest song Asal Choi (“Honey Tea”) has released another music video which Uzbekistan’s ‘security services’ have strongly recommended the nation’s pop music video sites pull immediately. The video shows what appears to be a mild cross-dressing crooner (at least…

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Behind the Candelabra

dvr this I haven’t seen it yet, because it’s on my DVR, but there’s hasn’t been a TV movie I have been so excited about in eons. Steven Soderbergh’s film about Liberace and his last lover, the young, blond and clueless Scott Thorson, was too gay and too sexy to be a feature film, supposedly….

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