The Unabomber miniseries on The Discovery Channel has brought back uneasy 1994 memories. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had sent 14 bombs by the end of 1993 and another deadly bomb in December 1994. I was a government official in the summer of 1994 when Republican North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms (1921-2008) bashed me in a speech…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Local business owner Dennis Stein will debut his documentary “Tony – The Movie,” to jumpstart a community discussion on solutions to the region’s homelessness crisis. The free event at the Observatory North Park will also feature Father Joe’s Villages’ animated short film “Shine” and a performance by a choir of people…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – GLAAD today announced its participation in the fourth annual Bisexual+ Awareness Week (#BiWeek) in partnership with BiNet USA, America’s oldest advocacy organization for bisexual, pansexual, fluid, queer-identified, and unlabeled people. #BiWeek takes place from September 17 – 24 with September 23 as the official “Celebrate Bisexuality+ Day.” In 2014, GLAAD co-founded…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — Today, National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day, SAGE announces updates to its SAGE Health Storylines™ app, which helps older adults and their caregivers make better daily health decisions. “This innovative app is incredibly user-friendly in order to better help older LGBT people nationwide who are living with HIV and AIDS,” says…
San Diego, Sept. 16 — Letter to the editor: San Diego is facing a massive Hepatitis A epidemic. Seventeen San Diegans have died of this in the last few months. One this morning. Over 400 in hospital. This has been headline news in Time Magazine, the NY Times and Washington Post. HEP A is always…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On Friday, the last day of the first year of the 2017-2018 legislative session, the California Senate gave final approval to SB 2, legislation authored by Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) that creates a permanent source of funding for affordable housing. SB 2 is part of a landmark package of Senate bills…
One day, out of the blue, I received an email from well-respected writer Renee Bess. In her thoughtful, elegant style, she asked if I would be interested in working together to produce an anthology about the role gay bars have played in our lives. I was on board before I finished reading. A gay bar…
Jaclyn Backhaus’ “Men on Boats” has come to the Speakeasy Stage Company in Boston. And, for 100 minutes the audience experiences a hilariously thrilling adventure with imaginative staging and over-the-top theatrics of the retelling of Major John Wesley Powell’s 1869 daring exploratory trip down the Colorado River through present-day Grand Canyon. The trip was the…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — This past weekend, Hornet took over the pink carpet at RuPaul’s DragCon NYC to speak with some of the most fabulous drag queens and event guests as they worked the Javits Center. Hornet Senior Editor Alex Kacala asked the queens about their wildest fan interactions (good or bad) as well what…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Friday, a broad coalition of civil and human rights, religious, and educational organizations, including The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) to recommend concrete steps the Department can and should take in the wake of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville and…
