RAGE Reviews: Celebrating Pride at the Movies
by chris carpenter Rocketman–the appropriately flamboyant, occasionally surreal Elton John biopic–may be the gayest movie of the summer (at least from a major studio) but its hardly the only one. As Pride month/season gets underway, there are a number of new and re-released LGBTQ movies definitely worth checking out. But first let’s talk about Rocketman, now […]
Sirens Bar & Restaurant: Savory Seafood From Around The World On Park Boulevard
Featuring Frankie “The Bull” Terzoli at the Helm by brandon cezares ~ Frankie’s travels and years as a young chef are evident in the variety of flavors available to diners at his restaurant. From Italian-inspired dishes like the Creamy Shrimp and Scallop Farfalle to a Japanese Ahi Poke Bowl with wakame and shoyu sesame, Sirens […]
Todd Gloria & The EQCA Equality Awards: Striving For a Healthy, Just, and Fully-Equal World
~ by joel martens ~ Equality California (EQCA) is the nation’s largest statewide civil rights organization. Its nearly 800,000 members work to bring the voices of LGBTQ people and our allies into the institutions and power centers throughout California and across the United States. They do this by “electing pro-equality leaders, passing pro-equality legislation in […]
Murray Bartlett & Tales of The City: Michael Tolliver Lives Again!
~ by joel martens ~ Murray Bartlett went to acting school in Australia and successfully worked there for a number of years, though he felt restless. The industry there is small, so there’s not many opportunities and a lot of actors who want to work. In his 20’s Bartlett, like many of us, was asking […]
Full Release! 2019 Summer Movie Preview
by tim parks – Last year provided moviegoers with some quality LGBTQ representation with films like The Favourite, Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Call Me By Your Name and Love, Simon. There was Bohemian Rhapsody of course, with its knock out performance by Rami Malek, which nabbed him a Best Actor Oscar. Naturally, […]
Brown & Out Fest V: Celebrating The Latinx Experience
by joel martens – What do the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of gay icon Judy Garland, and National LGBTQ Pride Month have in common you might ask? Well, for CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, each of these events represent a part of […]
Harvey: French Stewart in The Playhouse – Everything’s Hopping!
by lisa lipsey – If you were a theatre nerd in high school, chances are you have encountered Harvey. Or maybe you met the lovable Pooka when you saw the Jimmy Stewart film. Written by Mary Chase and directed by Andrew Barnicle, the Laguna Playhouse’s production of Harvey has French Stewart (3rd Rock from the […]
LOS ANGELES PRIDE 2019
#JUSTUNITE & COME TOGETHER ~ by joel martens ~ There’s a lot of talk about the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots this year, what a unifying moment it was when queer people fought back, and what it means to the LGBTQ community. New York is often made the epicenter of the gay rights movement […]
Cameron Hawthorn: Boy Discovered
~ by joel martens ~ The world can sometimes seem to change in a flash and then conversely, at an impossibly slow pace. One thing is for sure, our great social experiment is a never-ending process of transformation, reaction to the alteration… and then even more change. As LGBTQ people, we have seen our share […]
A Million Reasons To Be Proud: Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride 2019
by tim parks The 36th Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Pride theme of “A Million Moments of Pride” is in line with celebrating those milestones, both as individuals and a community as a whole, that have propelled us forward in our quest for true equality. The other part of the focus for this year’s Pride […]