CineArte, the 5th annual arts festival of the queer Latinx community presented by the Los Angeles LGBT Center, announces a special, red carpet event and an advance screening of the first two episodes of the STARZ network’s highly anticipated new original series VIDA – tonight – Saturday, April 21, at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza,…

(Photo: Jeremy Sanchez. RIP) A star high school quarterback in East Los Angeles broke up with his boyfriend to date a girl. His boyfriend allegedly took the hyperbolic teenage cliché, “If I can’t have you, no one will,” to the extreme, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles, and murdered his ex and dumped his body…

(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: 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,…