Pride In Recovery With Pride season in mind, we asked a few local sober folks with different lengths of recovery time what celebrating Pride is like for them now that they are sober. BY PAULO MURILLO FEELING CONNECTED “I’m performing at the Pride festival. I have worked a few Prides hungover and that was not fun.…
Photo by Paulo Murillo CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD AND CHRISTOPHER STREET WEST TO HOST ANNUAL ‘WEST HOLLYWOOD DYKE MARCH’ Lesbians and their allies will gather by the hundreds on Friday, June 10, 2016 to celebrate community and increase visibility at the annual West Hollywood Dyke March. The gates for the West Hollywood Festival at West Hollywood Park, located…
Christopher Street West (CSW), the non-profit organization responsible for organizing LA Pride in West Hollywood, changed their tune on a lot of their plans for this year’s Pride Festival on June 10-12, after community members threatened to boycott the event due to several complaints surrounding the way CSW was being run. Community members had issues around…
By Paulo Murillo – SAVE THE DATE!!! The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center announced the return of legendary Miss Coco Peru to the Reinberg Theatre stage with limited performances of her show, A Gentle Reminder: Miss Coco Peru’s Guide to a Somewhat Happy Life on Fridays and Saturdays, May 13-14 and May…
By Paulo Murillo Point Foundation, the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit, invited legends, leaders and stars of the screen and stage to their annual Point Honors gala at the New York Public Library, April 11, to celebrate the accomplishments of Point’s higher education scholarship recipients. Creator and executive Producer of ABC’s “How to…
By Paulo Murillo Another Gay bar closed its doors in Southern California, signaling yet another end of an era. Pistons Bar in Long Beach, one of the longest operating leather gay bars in the U.S. has shut down after serving the gay community for 51 years. Pistons held a Last Dance Barbeque Beer Bust on…
The hottest women in the world are hitting the Vegas Strip for Dinah Vegas 2016. Girl Bar, in association with Total Rewards by Caesars Entertainment, ignites Sin City with the ultimate lesbian weekend as DINAH Vegas sizzles April 28-May 1, 2016 in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Host hotels for 2016 are the Flamingo Resort and…
Palm Springs CA –California’s largest gay and bisexual men of color vacation getaway is counting down to its 10th anniversary celebration in Palm Springs, California May 5-8, 2016. Blatino Oasis is the first event to successfully bring gay men of color to the city of Palm Springs on an annual basis, and is now…
By Paulo Murillo – Four-time Olympic gold medalist, Greg Louganis will finally get to eat his Wheaties…with his image on the box. 41,000 online petitions were collected on change.org to put Louganis on the box 8 months after the release of the HBO documentary “Back on Board: Greg Louganis.” He joins two other overlooked Olympic champions, hurdler…
LOS ANGELES – After an extensive national search the board of directors at the ONE Archives Foundation has selected Jennifer C. Gregg as their incoming Executive Director. Ms. Gregg was most recently the Executive Director of the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio, the home of the humorist, author, and New Yorker cartoonist, James Thurber. The Thurber House…
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures debuts on HBO April 16th BY JOE FARAGHER I was lucky enough to attend an advanced screening of the new HBO documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures at LACMA last night. This was a complete coincidence. I am not going to pretend to have been privy to this documentary or the fabulous…
International Mr. Leather and outgoing Mr. Los Angeles Leather Patrick Smith on sexual proclivities, game changers in HIV prevention and helping our LGBT brothers and sisters abroad facing the threat of assault on a daily basis. BY RACE BANNON | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM I have always contended that International Mr. Leather (IML) is the Grand…
After four award-winning seasons of high acclaim and Youtube popularity, Where the Bears Are is coming back with a fifth season, pending the success of their Kickstarter Campaign. Where the Bears Are is a murder-mystery meets sitcom meets bathhouse, essentially. What sets this particular gay comedy serial apart are the scenes of absolute extravagance–water skiing, wedding…
BY VICTOR MELAMED APLA Health & Wellness (APLAHW) announced the launch of their new “It Feels Good” Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) advertising campaign last month. The new ads educate the public about the HIV prevention tool and how to get more information. They have begun appearing on select Metro bus and rail lines throughout Los Angeles.…
BY JOE FARAGHER Photos of Chavez by Jon Wells Sitting in Juan Chavez’s home in Highland Park, overlooking Northeast Los Angeles, an enormous flurry of bees races past the open window. Chavez, 31, from Palm Springs, California, floats over and shuts the glass. He takes a moment to look out at the insects vanishing into…
PUSHING LIMITS Courtney Act explores gender fluidity in new EP, “Kaleidoscope” BY JOE FARAGHER Ever since Australian Idol rejected vocalist Shane Jenek and he, undeterred by the judges’ decision, re-auditioned and made it on as the glamazon Courtney Act, the Australian pop-star turned international drag sensation has been pushing the gender envelope and bringing…
Director, writer, and artist J.B Ghuman, Jr. released his newest original art expression, “+Singularity =Of= The Soul-“ with an intention to make viewers feel something rather than find some sort of meaning. J.B. who lives in Skid Row L.A., is known as the modern Keith Haring, who has the tendency to destroy all serenity with his…
