SHREVEPORT, La. — The Shreveport City Council has beaten back an attempt to undo a month-old Fairness Ordinance that prohibits discrimination in the public and private sector against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in jobs, housing and public accommodations. PACE (People Acting for Change and Equality) of Shreveport and Forum for Equality, a…
August: Osage County In 2008, Tracy Letts’ three-and-a-half hour comic tragedy August: Osage County won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, and it was considered one of the theatrical events of the first decade of the century. Transforming the play into a film was a no-brainer, but whittling three-and-a-half hours to…
Three of the Southland’s most dynamic and daring choreographers will be showcased in Hot Guys Dancing Diversionary Cabaret’s visually stunning and viscerally potent dance series, scheduled for Jan. 9-12. Yes, there are guys, and yes, they are hot and yes, they will be dancing up a storm. , Conceived and directed by Michael Mizerany (Miss…
SAN DIEGO,– The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) announced today the selection of RC Haus as its interim artistic director. Haus begins his role immediately and will conduct the chorus’s spring show Wow! The Chorus Sings the ‘90s. “I am thrilled to be rejoining the chorus in this role. With almost three decades of…
What will you do on Christmas Day if you “need” a peppermint soy latte, or a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, or a plate of cooked salmon? Why, just do what you would do any other day of the year: go to Starbucks, CVS or Harvey Milk’s American Diner. Regardless of what employees think of the…
Naked As We Came, the third full feature film, by director/screenwriter Richard LeMay opened in theaters Sept. 17 to critical acclaim and was recognized as Best Drama at the Out In The Desert Film Festival in Tucson, Ariz. and has won four audience awards nationwide. One of the most award-winning gay films of the year,…
Statement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on same-sex benefits, released by the U.S. Department of Defense today: On Oct. 31, I called on the chief of the National Guard Bureau to work with several states to fully implement Department of Defense policy by providing DoD identification cards to all eligible military spouses, regardless of sexual orientation. Following…
SAN DIEGO — Tuesday, San Diego Unified School Board of Trustees elected Kevin Beiser its new president and fellow Trustee Marne Foster as vice president. “I look forward to working together to continue improving public education with quality schools in every neighborhood,” Beiser said shortly after the meeting. Beiser was elected to the Board of Trustees in…
Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Friday, Dec. 13, 10 p.m. Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway is one of the greatest films ever made. Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay has Nicholson as a detective investigating murder among the early 20th century’s California water disputes….
SAN FRANCISCO, – Union Bank, N.A., announced today that it earned a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2014 Corporate Equality Index. This is the first year that Union Bank participated in HRC’s rating system, which serves as the national benchmarking tool for corporate policies and practices related to lesbian,…
