LGBT Weekly

Kevin Melton confirms candidacy for 2016 78th District State Assembly seat

Community advocate and local politician Kevin Melton has announced his confirmed candidacy in the upcoming election for California’s 78th District State Assembly seat in 2016. Melton is a familiar face in San Diego. As a member of the “Kevin Faulconer for Mayor” campaign finance committee, Melton successfully cultivated significant partnerships with many organizations in San…

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Movie review: ‘Jupiter Ascending’ serves up action and romance

My biggest fear before I saw Jupiter Ascending was that the Wachowskis would take themselves too seriously, yet again, and try to drench the audience with wishy-washy New Age philosophy, a la “everything is a facsimile!” in The Matrix Trilogy and “we’re all connected!” in Cloud Atlas. But they restrained themselves, thematically anyway, and instead…

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Mixed feelings about the Creating Change Conference

The 27th annual Creating Change Conference held in Denver last week brought forth over 4,000 GLBT people from all over the United States (with some special GLBT observers from around the globe.) This annual conference has become the largest GLBT conference in the nation and is sponsored by the National LGBTQ Task Force. I have…

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Birdman

dvd of the week Innovative, hilarious, and moving, Birdman is a film about theater, film and actors, as well as regret, love, family, and, in a way, the meaning of life, and it soars. Michael Keaton is blockbuster star Riggan Thomas, who wants to earn respect by appearing on Broadway, so he writes, directs and…

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Glee

dvr this FOX, Fridays, 9 p.m. I never gave up on Glee, though I understand why so many people did after the second season, when things started getting so absurd, inconsistent and repetitive that it was hard even to call it camp. Last season was disastrously bad, with half of the action taking place in…

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