viewing pleasures Three movies with music underscoring their plotlines have made their way to the high quality promised land, known as Blu-Ray. The first two are full-fledged musicals that celebrate the big band era of the 1940s in a great metropolitan city and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius two decades later, while the…
Long before they became synonymous with being lesbian performers, The Indigo Girls picked the first part of their name out of the dictionary, and got their stage presence perfected at Emory University in Georgia. Now, they will school the crowd at Humphreys Concerts by the bay on how to solidify the marriage between folk and…
Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis is the special guest at Soul Plates 7, a gala benefiting Being Alive HIV/AIDS services in San Diego. Presenting sponsor Moms Pharmacy has partnered with Being Alive to coordinate the event, which is scheduled for June 25, 6 p.m. at Inn at the Park (525 Spruce St., across from Balboa…
Qualcomm has donated $40,000 to The San Diego LGBT Center. The grant supports the Hillcrest Youth Center. “We are proud to be one of a handful of organizations that pioneered a transformation in how housing providers across the United States understand and address youth homelessness,” Christopher Mills of The Center said in an announcement. “Qualcomm’s…
The New Children’s Museum (NCM) and the Anti-Defamation League invite children and families to “dig our differences” at Diversity Day, Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Offering free admission, the community is encouraged to celebrate the region’s diversity, including the many races, religions, national origins, genders and sexual orientations that thrive and contribute…
A young straight man told a jury June 16 that murder suspect Philong Huynh gave him “a relaxing pill” and he later woke up in a Tijuana motel without any money and apparently had been raped. The story by Ryan, now 23, is similar to two other stories by two other young straight men who…
KENTUCKY – There is outrage in an eastern Kentucky city after two gay males were ejected from a city-owned pool. A maintenance technician told the couple and the group present, “We own this place and can tell you to leave if we want to.” Staff at The Pavilion in the city of Hazard allegedly entered…
With an estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV and with one out of five people infected with HIV having no knowledge of being infected, the National Association of People with AIDS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is sponsoring the annual National HIV Testing Day June 27. Commenting on the AIDS epidemic,…
FRANCE – Despite increased public support for gay rights, the French parliament has rejected a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. The National Assembly voted by 293 votes to 222 to throw out the bill. Opposition was led by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP, while other left wing members supported the bill, which said, “marriage can be…
Fires, floods, earthquakes, heads rolling down the street, but what is the nation focused on? The Wiener (sic). As the good Senator Weiner (sic) has said stop trying to come up with a new joke; he’s heard them all. My high school friend had the same name with the appropriate first name Richard (think…
