Casually interested in my high school classmates I have kept up with the gossip, I mean, the news through a few old pals, but I never attended the reunions until recently when my curiosity peaked and I sallied forth to the rock-bound coast of Maine for my 50th. About 60 classmates plus spouses showed up…
You simply could not resist. You always thought that getting a dog was something that required forethought. It was something you planned. Getting a dog was getting a best friend, a work-out companion, a burglar alarm or a child substitute; but a dog was not an impulse item. And then you saw that fur-baby. And…
Now that my doctor has grounded me from out-of-state traveling for two months, I’ll be able to attend more local events. Dear Sean Sala … I found Sean Sala’s recent, lengthy commentary on a local LGBT Web site to be well written but also full of inaccuracies. In my opinion, both Sean Sala and Ben…
dvd of the week One of the better movies of the summer was also its most under-watched. Crazy, Stupid, Love is about the divorce of Steve Carell and Julianne Moore; Carell’s friendship with an expert lothario played by Ryan Gosling and Gosling surprisingly falling in love with Emma Stone. It’s quite funny and enormously insightful…
Aiden Leslie’s “Trying to Leave Now” is about salvaging what is right in a relationship before losing everything. Penned by the artist, the single is the follow-up to “World’s Away,” his song that nabbed the top spot on Logo’s “Click List” countdown show for four consecutive weeks last summer. “I wrote ‘Trying to Leave Now’…
Once again singer Kelly Clarkson has taken the opportunity to deny rumors she is lesbian. Appearing on The View, Clarkson admitted that she had never been in love and was finding it very difficult to date because of her busy work schedule. She believes this is the reason people accuse her of being a lesbian….
Roland Emmerich is a world-class movie director with many hits on his resume. Currently the director of the lavish Columbia Pictures Elizabethan action-drama Anonymous, Emmerich enjoys the distinction of having racked up worldwide box office receipts of more than $3 billion during his career. Born in Stuttgart, Germany Nov. 10, 1955, Emmerich extended his interest…
What if William Shakespeare didn’t write Romeo and Juliet? What if he was nothing more than an arrogant actor who hung out with the likes of writers Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and took credit for every sonnet and play that he supposedly wrote? In German director Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous, he, along with writer John…
“Put your hands on the bar” was the familiar order of the San Diego Vice Squad during the ‘70s. Homosexuality and engaging in sex with someone of the same sex was a criminal offense except “in private;” and then the definition of “in private” was subjective on the part of the arresting officer. Behind closed…
The fall TV season is in full swing and some of the shows have already been strung up in a hangman’s noose, but they haven’t left viewers twisting in the wind about their ability to hold us enraptured. It has truly been a case of survival of the fittest, and some series have been gone…
