(Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood. Photo courtesy of Wayne Shimabukuro) The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division unveiled its newest art exhibit, Adelaide Drive: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at the West Hollywood Library, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. The exhibit features images of the famous couple taken…
(Photo: Assemblymember Evan Low (D-San Jose), author of AB 2943) State Could Make History as First in the Nation to Protect Both Children and Adults from Abusive, Ineffective Efforts by Labeling Them ‘Consumer Fraud’ SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Legislation to ban efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, sometimes called “conversion therapy” or “reparative…
Timothée Chalamet – the amazing Oscar nominated actor who starred in Call Me By Your Name – stars in a new film – out July 27. The film Hot Summer Nights stars Chalamet as a teen who winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner. A directional debut for Elijah Bynum, the…
(Photo: Hunter Sigmund (L), Jake Bain) For seniors Jake Bain and Hunter Sigmund, it was their final high school dance together. And the two gay St. Louis athletes made the most of it this weekend, reports Outsports. “Prom this year was amazing,” Sigmund, a swimmer and water polo player told Outsports. “It was my fourth school…
(Photo: Harvey Milk) San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell on Monday signed legislation that approves naming the new Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport for Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California history, reports SF Gate. Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977 and was assassinated a…
Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, has reversed a ban on gay content after the LGBT community accused the company of unfairly grouping gay content with violence and pornography, reports Newsweek. On Friday, Weibo announced plans to remove violent, pornographic and gay videos and cartoons over the next three months, singling out a genre of manga that…
(Photo: John Travolta) A former security guard for the Church of Scientology has revealed the behind-the-scenes rivalry between the church’s most high-profile members and how he was allegedly brutally punished for speaking to them, reports The Daily Mail. Working at its global headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, Brendan Tighe, 37, had an unrivaled view of ‘Scientology VIPs’…
(Photo: Reza Aslan) Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he’s somehow been anointed by God to become President. Nevermind the Russian election scandal, his affairs with porn stars and unwarranted sexual acts towards…
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shows CNN’s Nia-Malika Henderson around a new memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama that names some of the over 4,000 lynching victims in America. WATCH:
(Photo: Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur) Equality California held its fourth annual Fair Share for Equality event last week at the Paramount Studios lot. The program, with close to 400 attendees, included TED-style presentations from LGBTQ community leaders, as well as breakout discussions with legislators and advocates at local, state, and federal levels. Special guests…
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) shares some of her new sponsors. “It’s my right to bully people without being bullied in return.” WATCH:
Users of the Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo started an online protest with the hashtag “I am gay” in response to a ban of “homosexual” content, reports Newsweek. About 170,000 Weibo members had used the hashtag by midday Saturday before they were apparently silenced, Agence France-Presse reported. The platform, which is similar to Twitter, said on…
(Photo: A Kid Like Jake, in theaters on June 8.) If Transparent introduced transgender adults to a wider audience, then A Kid Like Jake will highlight the ways children explore gender and how their identity is shaped by the views of the adults around them, reports IndieWire. Starring Claire Danes and Jim Parsons as well-meaning parents, the…
(Photo: Ricky Martin) Britney Spears accepts GLAAD’s Vanguard Award at the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on April 12. In her speech, Spears sent a message of acceptance saying: “To be accepted unconditionally and to be able to express yourself as an individual through art is such a blessing. Events like this…
(Photo: Pose) Set in the world of 1986 – Ryan Murphy’s new FX series Pose “looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.” “The show is about the search for being authentic,…
(Photo: John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, “Anything”) Matt Bomer plays a trans sex worker in the Mark Ruffalo-produced indie drama Anything, reports Screen Crush. The first trailer for the film follows John Carroll Lynch as a widower whose life turns around when he meets his neighbor Freda (Bomer), a trans sex worker living in Los Angeles. The two pursue a romantic relationship,…
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(Photo: Kesha) Bob Dylan, Kesha and St. Vincent have reimagined popular love songs to honor the LGBTQ community, and the singers are doing it by switching pronouns, reports Billboard, The six-song album, Universal Love, was released digitally last week and includes Benjamin Gibbard of alternative band Death Cab for Cutie, singer-songwriter Valerie June and Kele…
Transgender activist and HRC National Press Secretary Sarah McBride appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers this past week night to promote her new book, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, reports LGBTQ Nation. McBride talked about what she wants people to understand about the transgender community, opens up about her…
(Photo: Robert Páez) Robert Páez, 23, a professional diver from Venezuela, who represented his country in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, has just come out publicly in a moving op-ed on Outsports. Here’s an excerpt: “I’ve been in sports since I was 7 years old. Growing up in Venezuela, I knew from a very young age that…
(Photo: “Love,Simon”) This year we’ve seen a number of mainstream stories focusing on straight people’s relationship to queerness — which insist that queer people are “normal” and “just like you!”— rather than queer people’s relationship to their own identities, writes BuzzFeed contributor John Sherman. “‘Gays are just like everyone else’ has been the rallying cry of a…
(Photo: Lee Daniels) CAA and GLAAD are teaming to launch the Creators Summit, a daylong function aiming to increase authentic, inclusive representation of the LGBTQ community in entertainment, reports Deadline Hollywood. The event, which will take place April 7, features panels and presentations to offer insight and resources on how to better support the visibility of…
