Showing Pride in Oceanside: Catching the Pride Vibe with Laura Jane Willcock
by lisa lipsey – The North County LGBTQ Resource Center, under the direction of Max Disposti, has flourished and so has their annual Pride by the Beach weekend. This year’s event, chaired by Lisa Nava, is coming up on Saturday, October 12 and features live entertainment, a dance tent (country western, Latin, dance hall), food, […]
Lorna Luft: A Legacy of Talent That’s Her Own
by bill biss – Lorna Luft, the only daughter of Judy Garland and Sid Luft has “lived it” and she sure has a lot more living to do! Before heading to London, this star is performing at Martinis Above Fourth Table + Stage on Wednesday, September 18 and Thursday, September 19 in her own cabaret. […]
Oh, Canada! Vancouver’s Beautiful, Gay Heartbeat
by joel martens – Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and Canada’s coastal mountains, Vancouver, B.C. is the latest location I’ve had the pleasure to explore and enjoy. I spent a long, delightful weekend there perched on nature’s edge, basking in the hospitality the stunning city is known for. To my added delight, I was fortunate […]
San Diego Restaurant Week 2019: Same Delicious Deals, More Adventure
by brandon cazares – San Diego Restaurant Week is back this month with eight straight days of fun hangouts, delicious meals and endless variety. Foodies from all around will be able to sample over 180 restaurants and eateries in the San Diego area to get a real taste of what California cuisine has to offer. […]
“Skintight’s” Will Brittain: Defying Labels with Idina Menzel
by lisa lipsey – For its West Coast premiere, Geffen Playhouse has reassembled the original six cast members for Joshua Harmon’s (Significant Other, Bad Jews) new comedy Skintight, which debuted at New York’s Off-Broadway Roundabout Theatre last summer. Harmon brings neurotic family drama to the forefront, but throws in the questions: How do we age […]
Red Dress Party: So Much More Than Just A Pretty Red Frock
by joel martens – When cofounders Steven Shyne, Vince Dwyer and Marvin Hanashiro attended the outrageous Red Dress Parties in other cities, they wondered why San Diego did not have a philanthropic event like them. Especially when they saw how much event resources impacted organizations that serve the local HIV communities in which they were […]
Lily Tomlin & Jana Fonda: Activism, Confidence and The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s 50th Anniversary
by lisa lipsey ~ 1969 was a banner year in American LGBTQ history, from coast to coast: from New York’s Stonewall Riot to the founding of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. That was 50 years ago, which was four years before homosexuality was removed from the American Index of Mental Disorders. To celebrate such significant […]
Out on the Mountain Returns with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Stars Alaska, Ariel Versace, and Mariah Balenciaga
Over 5,000 are expected at Out on the Mountain, the LGBTQ night at Six Flags Magic Mountain, on Friday, September 13 from 6 p.m. to 1a.m. It will be a night of thrill rides including Six Flags Magic Mountain’s world’s tallest pendulum ride CraZanity. Plus, live performances from Alaska (RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 2 […]
Love Outside Convention: Director Chanya Button Discusses “Vita & Virginia”
by joel martens ~ History has a lot to teach us about fighting for what you want in the face of oppressive social conventions. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West were two women who—though alive at a time when expectations of marriage, motherhood and subservience to a husband were de rigueur—quietly defying those strictures by creating […]
In The Thick of It With David Mixner: Lessons From a Political Legend
~ by joel martens ~ One of the LGBTQ community’s great elder statesmen, David Mixner has been at the center of American politics and social change for the last 60 years. He’s helped to organize and lead countless fights since picketing and sending his own money as a teen to Martin Luther King Jr. during […]