San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

YouTube is celebrating Pride month by encouraging people to use digital media as a tool to express themselves. Titled “#PridetoCreate: Pride 2018,” a video released on Thursday showcases many in the LGBT spectrum who use the platform to make statements about who they are, which hopefully inspires others to do the same.

The 20th anniversary of FilmOut’s San Diego LGBT Film Festival is currently underway, their winner of 2015’s Best Documentary, Tab Hunter Confidential is one of the inspirations for a new biopic chronicling Hunter’s affair with actor Anthony Perkins.

Remember Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man (from “As You Like It”)? These days we’d probably use a medical term for the last stage of number seven: dementia, or its colleague Alzheimer’s.

I was pleasantly surprised with the movie Love, Simon which came out a few months ago. It’s for a new generation, a younger one who missed the John Hughes teen movement, one that didn’t pander to young Gen-Xers, but made their off-beat struggles an intrinsic part of the narrative.

Prepare to get Wild, Troye Sivan is getting ready to “Bloom” for America’s Finest City on Thursday, October 25.

The 20-year-old openly gay provocative pop star and Australian native is touring the world to promote his new album “Bloom” and he doesn’t want San Diego to miss out. He will be joined by special guests Kim Petras and Carlie Hanson.

Stewart Wade is excited and nervous for audiences to see his new film, Say Yes, which will have its world premiere at this year’s FilmOut San Diego Film Festival.

This is not the first time his films have played the festival, but it is the first time he’s bringing a serious drama to their screens.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are giving us some real chemistry in the new trailer for “A Star is Born.”

Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan pair up as unexpected daddies in Andrew Fleming’s hilarious “Ideal Home.” The two have perfect chemistry as aging and privileged gay men who get a wrench thrown into their celebrity lifestyle when Coogan’s 10-year-old grandson moves into their New Mexico home.

The shade continues three-fold as Monet X Change gets her purse first into the Azealia Banks and RuPaul dispute over copyrighted music.

For those of you who don’t know, Mama Ru’s song ”Call Me Mother” from the album American came under fire when Banks accused the Emmy winner of appropriating her vibe. The song in question, Banks’ “The Big Big Beat.”

Fashion designer Kate Spade, known for her colorful handbags has died at the age of 55 according to the Hollywood Reporter. It’s reported that Spade died by suicide in her New York apartment.