San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

It seems when it comes to gay characters, Hollywood can't make up its mind about who is and who isn't especially when the person is a major player. The hit sci-fi/horror series on Netflix, Stranger Things, made an LGBT reveal this year for its third season, but questions still linger about Will Byers' (Noah Schapp) and where he falls--if he does--in the spectrum.

It may seem strange to see a bunch of hoodlums – killers, even – break out in dance at the top of Leonard Bernstein’s iconic musical “West Side Story” – and it’s not hip-hop or break dancing. But by now, most of us are used to it.

Pablo Picasso lives again. That crazy Spaniard, who upended the art world with fanciful, sexy, goofy and/or stunning art works returns to the stage at New Village Arts to allow us mere mortals to spend 85 minutes with genius. 

Are you old enough to remember the Wall of Sound? Would you even recognize a 33 1/3 long-playing vinyl record if you saw one?

Count on Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company to come up with thought-provoking drama. This time, it’s British playwright Shelagh Stephenson’s 1997 “An Experiment with an Air Pump,” a time-jumping consideration of the ethics of science in general and of medical research and genetic testing in particular.

Toss in clever dialogue and a bit of a mystery, and you’ve got a winner.

For those who watch the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of New York (RHNY), you know that Luann de Lesseps (a.k.a. Countess Luann) has been working on a self-titled live cabaret show for some time. It debuted in New York in early 2018. 

Life may have imitated art as American DJ, songwriter, and producer Diplo made a revelation about his sexuality just as he thought his private plane was going to crash.

Original director and choreographer Jerome Robbins conceived the idea for “West Side Story” basing it on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” This revered musical tells the tragic love story of Tony and Maria as they seek “a somewhere” where their love can survive in the midst of chaos of two warring gangs who clash in a turf war on the gritty streets of New York City of the 1950s.

Late in 2018, Victoria's Secret's President and chief marketing officer Ed Razek was in the news for comments he made about not wanting trans women to model lingerie during runway shows. 

The star of Disney's Andi Mack, Joshua Rush, published a Tweet today: "first to respond to this tweet is bi lol" to which he promptly answered himself: "first! i win! it's me. i'm bi. And now that I've said that, I have a few things to rant about.