San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

(Editor's note: "Tantrums and Tiaras: Battle of the Bar Queens 2020" returns on Sunday, Feb. 16 at Observatory North Park. The show is an over-the-top drag competition where representatives from some of the community’s bars with little or no drag experience compete for the crown.

The ever popular Tantrums & Tiaras: Battle of the Bar Queens is just 11 days away, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 at the Observatory North Park. Audience members can expect over the top drag fun while raising funds for the programs and services of the San Diego LGBT Community Center.

Join one of San Diego's most creative and inspiring dance companies on Sunday, Feb 9 at New Village Arts for a dance workshop and performance!

Dance Spirit Magazine and the San Diego Union-Tribune call "PGK Dance! one of the best, most thrilling, entertaining professional companies in SoCAL."

Starbucks is making sure LGBT inclusivity in advertising is an all-year event and not just reserved for Pride month.  

Social media has found a Starbucks UK television spot wherein a young trans man named James is having a rough time with people always calling him Jemma, the name he was apparently given at birth. Even his father is aloof. 

The Super Bowl was charged with Latinx political statements during the spectacular half-time show starring Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. But the LGBT community was also well-represented, much to the dismay of some conservatives, during the intermissions. In fact, according to GLAAD this was a landmark broadcast as far as representing the pink dollar. And it's not even June. 

The U.S. has a history of promoting western sports to the inscrutable East. Back in the 1930s, Lefty O’Doul, Moe Berg and Ted Lyons went to Japan to teach baseball seminars at Japanese universities.

Get ready for a bumpy but amusing and wonderful psychological ride when you take your seat at Moxie Theatre for Svich’s “Red Bike.”

Lisa Berger directs the San Diego premiere of this wondrous 90-minute two-hander – the first in a seven-play cycle – through Feb. 16.

Although his movie performances are getting a lot of attention, Adam Driver seemed to question whether or not a role in his latest appearance on Saturday Night Live was transphobic or not. 

During his opening monologue, Driver went long and he said it was for a good reason.

Kim Chi from season 8 and Miz Cracker from season 10 of RuPaul's Drag Race are making television history this weekend. The two will be the first ever-drag celebrities featured in a Super Bowl ad.

A teaser was released this week for the Sabra Hummus ad in which the two queens get ready to watch the big game. 

“Ready, Cracker?” Kim Chi asks in the video. 

Some people have a childhood so horrendous it’s downright funny. Of course, they’re fictional (and in this case, invented by that loony writer, Roald Dahl).