Christopher Lisotta

Photos by Debra Dipaolo (top) and Virginia Lee Hunter Los Angeles has one of the most politically active gay and lesbian communities in the nation. You’d think it would have a powerful contingent of elected officials who are out. But right now, there are none. For years a closeted, then......

Photo by Raul Vega To the uninitiated, the June 10 unanimous decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal to effectively green light same-sex marriages in the Canadian province — and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s announcement last week that he would not fight the court’s ruling, and indeed would introduce legislation......

NBC loves its hit queer comedy Will & Grace. But in the real world the network still refuses to provide same-sex domestic-partner benefits to its gay and lesbian employees. NBC has become the lone big-media exception when it comes to offering benefits for the same-sex partners of its gay-mafia employees......

Planning an entertainment-industry event in L.A. on the first night of Passover takes a certain amount of chutzpah, but Outfest film festival and the studio-employee organization out@warnerbros figured the subject matter would be a draw, at least for the gentile or non-practicing Jew who wanted to learn more about the......

The Riviera Resort in Palm Springs was packed this past weekend, chock-full of vacationing families, sunning Marines and even a klatch of debutante-ball girls. In one corner of the hotel, however, a group of about 60 people, mostly middle-aged white men, met for the Log Cabin Republicans’ (LCR) annual state......

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter For gay Los Angeles politicos, last week brought dismal news. LAPD Deputy Chief David Kalish, a 28-year veteran of the force, was sent home with pay and is under investigation for allegedly molesting minors in the late 1970s. Kalish, whose sexual orientation was an open......

“I‘m sure we are going to get our freedom, I see it everywhere,” said gay activist and organizer Morris Kight in 1971, long before anyone else could even comprehend the mainstreaming of gay life that would take place over the next 30 years. Kight, a longtime L.A. resident, died in......

THE VIOLENT ASSAULTS OF THREE GAY MEN IN West Hollywood is a wake-up call for the diverse city known for its strong lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered LGBT identity. Hundreds of angry residents marched last week in defiance of the brutal attacks, demanding "no more hate crimes" and "not in......