San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

Poor Emily Brontë.

She only wrote one book, and now look what’s happened to it.

Those two crazy guys, Phil Johnson and Omri Schein, have crammed one of the favorite novels of 19th-century English lit – “Wuthering Heights” – into a zany one-act play in which the two of them play all the parts.

Or at least all 14 listed in the program.

Huh? Yes, you read it right.

Ida, at 18, just wants out of the suffocating Chicago housing project in which she shares a place with her disabled mother. Surrounded by 7-story cookie-cutter designed apartments, she can hardly see the sun in the tiny central courtyard where the homeless Klass has taken up residence on the lone bench, surrounded by boxes and bags of his stuff.

Ken and Barbie have been an item for nearly 60 years. Barbie has progressed through the decades undergoing a change last year with new body types, skin tones, and hairstyles.

Mattel announced on Tuesday that they are now focusing on a “new and diverse” Next Gen Ken with three new body types, including “slim”,” “broad” and “original.”

The last time I reviewed Elton John’s “Aida,” I closed with this line: “I’ll take my Verdi straight, please.”

That said, Moonlight Stage Productions offers (through July 1) a fine production of John’s pop version of the Aida story, which uses Leontyne Price’s children’s book as its text source.

The UK television show DIY SOS left two gay dads in tears after they built a new home for them in the Isle of Sheppey in Kent reports European LGBT publication Pink News.

If you did most of your gay coming of age or coming out in the latter part of the 90’s, those lyrics are all too familiar and will probably be in your head for the rest of the day. Sorry about that.

One Christian Facebook page has said that if you use the rainbow flag emoji on their page they will ban you.

Last week Facebook let you be a little more colorful with your reactions by adding a rainbow flag to the emoticon toolbar for Pride month.

The ever-outspoken Lady Bunny had a few things to say about the LGBT community and its current state of political correctness.

The iconic queen is not too happy with the community and its constant bickering, and had this to say about it all:

The summer is heating up as Overdrive returns this week and as always it's a fun nighttime experience, with the best music and DJs, the best light and laser choreography and the best looking people.

If he’d believed what the “experts” told him, the world would never have had such classics as “Peggy Sue,” “That’ll Be The Day” and “Everyday.”