For as much as they discuss the Ten Commandments, you might think that social conservatives would endorse legislation that made schools tell the truth. Nope. They are organizing in opposition, and frantically so. California SB-48, The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, requires that schools include the contributions of LGBT Americans in social…
Thursday, July 28 Damn Yankees Vanguard presents Damn Yankees. Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. Based on the novel by Douglas Wallop The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the show…
Do you like the film genre known as “teenage runaways who become prostitutes” with characters named Cookie and a pimp named Duke? How about unearthed and all-but-forgotten, work by actresses and actors that have gone on to award show glory? Or, perhaps, another female-based genre, simply known as “chicks who kick a**” is more or…
There are women of color and there are disabled women; there are lesbians and there are women of faith; there are mothers and there are servicewomen; there are women veterans and bisexual women, and that’s hardly an exhaustive list of the subcategories of women. Women’s experience intersects with multiple labels and multiple identities; each woman’s…
Author and activist Anne Lamott once said, “I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” I was so proud of the several faith communities who were proudly marching in Pride. Oh, if only those who have gone…
The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) presents GuyTunes, featuring the best of the boy bands from the ’60s through today on Saturday, July 30 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 31 at 3 p.m. Both performances are at the historic Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego. The high-energy song and dance production features more…
Open for a split second in San Diego this winter, you now have no excuse not to see this gorgeous and moving story about a young gay man and his best girlfriend, who fall in love with the same beautiful boy. As I wrote in my review, “You might expect that Heartbeats, a film about…
On Monday morning, July 18, volunteers with The Clean T.E.A.M. (Together Everyone Achieves More) emerged at the corner of Park Boulevard and University Avenue to begin cleaning up the neighborhood after the weekend’s Pride celebration. More than 40 individuals showed up and donned gloves at 7 a.m. to sweep Hillcrest’s sidewalks and raise funds for…
The Hillcrest Wind Ensemble presents Summer Pops Concert, featuring music from stage, screen and the small screen, at the historic Mississippi Room of the Lafayette Hotel on Saturday, July 30, 7 p.m. The concert features cabaret-style seating and complimentary hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m. and a no host bar throughout the evening. Under the direction…
In an effort to promote LGBT equality and to address the shortage of blood donors in the U.S., Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has launched an initiative to overturn legislation which currently prevents gay men from giving blood. Sen. Kerry is working closely with a colleague in the House of Representatives to prove that the ban,…
