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FilmOut: Q&A with Michael D. Akers, director of “Morgan” | VIDEO

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

Michael D. Akers, producer/director/writer/editor of "Morgan," speaks to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News about how his romantic movie featuring a paraplegic lead character is groundbreaking in LGBT cinema.

LGBT active duty servicemembers, vets invited to march in Pride parade

SAN DIEGO – In 2011, San Diego made global news as being the first city in the United States to have an active duty military contingent in a Pride Parade. Three hundred men and women took part of the historic event, even though “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was still on the books.

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FilmOut: Q&A with Austin Head, co-star of "Positive Youth" documentary | VIDEOS

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

Austin Head, aka the “Glamour Boy of Phoenix,” is one of four HIV-positive youth featured in the 44-minute documentary "Positive Youth."

BREAKING NEWS: Rainbow flag will fly high in Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO -- Very soon, San Diego's LGBT community will see a colorful symbol of their pride flying high above the Hillcrest neighborhood.

Today, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve a proposal by the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) to install a 65-foot flagpole in the median on Normal Street where it intersects with University Avenue.

City Councilmember Lorie Zapf was absent from the vote.

The plan calls for the pole to fly an 18 foot x 12 foot rainbow pride flag year-round, and include some minor enhancements to the median, around the base of the flagpole.

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Experts: Anti-gay bullying is much different, and much worse | VIDEOS

SAN DIEGO – Lawrence “Larry” King was a 15-year-old youth coming to terms with his sexuality and being open and honest with his classmates when he was murdered by a 14-year-old boy in a classroom in Oxnard, Calif.

Seth Walsh was a 13-year-old boy who faced a daily gantlet of bullying at his school in Tehachapi, Calif. His mother, through a veil of tears, explains how her son was constantly taunted and harassed even outside the school – and how she found him hanging from a tree in the family’s backyard. Seth would die days later after life-support measures proved unsuccessful.

San Diego's first bike corral to open today in Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO -- The first city-owned bike corral, located in Hillcrest on Fifth Avenue just north of University Avenue, will officially open today during a noon ribbon-cutting ceremony.

San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria, bicycle advocates, neighbors and business owners will celebrate the completion of the corral, which provides dedicated on-street parking for 12 bicycles in the space normally taken by one parked car.

Pre-marathon midnight towing comes to an end in Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO -- An annual 12:01 am police-imposed parking restriction during the annual Rock 'n' Roll Marathon, vexatious to nightlife patrons of Hillcrest and considered by many to be unnecessary, unfair and deceptive in nature, is finally coming to an end in Hillcrest.

The Rock 'n' Roll San Diego Marathon and 1/2 Marathon to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, scheduled for Sunday, June 3, recently released information on race route street closures and parking restrictions on its website.

SDGLN Poll: Readers think Obama's support for marriage equality will not be an election issue

A majority of readers of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News who took our poll say that they believe that President Barack Obama’s declaration of support for marriage equality will not harm his re-election chances.

Our poll question was: Will President Obama's support of marriage equality hurt his re-election chances?

The results, which are not scientific, reveal that 53% of readers think that Obama’s re-election chances won’t be affected, 25% are not sure, and 22% think it will be an issue.

VIDEO: Man stabbed in Hillcrest early this morning

SAN DIEGO -- A man was stabbed in his abdomen around 2 am this morning while walking on the 1200 block of Cleveland Avenue, reports say.

The man, who was walking with another man and a woman, had left a local bar when four men approached them, and seemed to be trying to get the attention of the woman.

Reports say that there was some sort of verbal exchange between the two groups, as the four men were trying to get the attention of the woman.

One of the men with the woman stepped in to try to help her, when one of the men from the other group stabbed him.

VIDEO: Sean Sala speaks against anti-gay "conversion therapy"

SAN DIEGO -- Local activist Sean Sala spoke Wednesday to San Diego's Channel 10 News about his experience with anti-gay "conversion therapy."

The 26-year-old who grew up in Dallas, Texas, said that he was sent to a program at the age of 15 after telling his church leaders that he was struggling with his sexuality.

Sala says he joined a bi-weekly program presented by Exodus International which set out to "fix" him, and make him lose his same-sex attraction.

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