Following international outrage at Guido Barilla’s comments that the company would never make an ad with gay people and if they didn’t like it they can find another brand of pasta, Barilla has issued a video apology. In the video Barilla says: “Yesterday, I apologized for offending many people around the world. Today I am repeating…
A paralyzed LGBT Navy Officer and his partner have become the latest beneficiaries of local San Diego charity Embrace’s, (www.embrace1.org) home restoration program. The program, Mission: H3 healing our heroes’ homes is about to send a team to start renovating U.S. Navy Commander Brian Delaney’s home. Watch the video and hear Brian’s story and how…
Kayce Brown and Matt Conn started the idea of having the first LGBT gaming convention in 2012 through a Kickstarter project. Aug. 3-4, the highly anticipated GaymerX was held in San Francisco’s Japantown. We took a trip up north to join our fellow gamers. We attended a few panels in Hotel Kabuki including “So you…
Despite besmirching the Shijonawate Fire Department reputation, two young Japanese firefighters, both 20, were suspended for six months after it was discovered they appeared in adult films, reports the TokyoReporter.com. According to the story, the pair were approached by an adult video scout on a beach in the Suma Ward of Kobe. After being complimented…
Every once in a while, YouTube delivers unto the world a bona fide star. So it did again less than four weeks ago when more than a million people watched Steve Grand’s music video, “All-American Boy,” having been seduced by the 23-year-old’s sublimely earnest eyes, his persuasive voice, and his all-out, highly emotive performance of…
YouTube Sensation and out country star, Steve Grand, will make his West Coast performance debut at San Diego IndieFest 8. (See interview here) Grand went from being an unknown to the latest YouTube viral celebrity. His self-funded music video for his song, “All American Boy,” spread like wildfire across more than 1.6 million computer screens…
(CNN) – A military judge has found Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history, not guilty of aiding the enemy – a charge that would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison. Manning was also found not guilty of unauthorized possession of information relating to national…
One LGBTweekly reader spotted a political sign in Phoenix that is causing some controversy. In his race for Phoenix City Council District 4, HIV/LGBT advocate Austin Head’s roadside campaign signs have, apparently, been mis-interpreted by some! On a more serious note Head knows all too well what it’s like to be discriminated against. Last year…
Following two historic victories at the Supreme Court on marriage, the Human Rights Campaign hit the road for a tour across the country to support the fight for LGBT equality and to underscore the fact that there are two Americas when it comes to LGBT issues. In one America—in California, for instance—LGBT people are achieving increasing…
The Backstreet Boys have a new video called “In a World Like This” and there is a lesbian couple celebrating marriage equality. Watch here!
