LA Blade - A Lifeguard Tower that was painted in the bright colors of the LGBTQ Rainbow Pride flag was burned down to its steel frame early Tuesday morning a spokesperson for the Long Beach Fire Department said.
The LBFD responded to a call for a structure fire located on the sand between 12th and 13th places at around midnight.
WEHO Times - APLA Health and the Alliance for Housing and Healing (AHH) announced a merger between the two nonprofit organizations. The two will join forces on July 1, 2021, with a goal to improve the health and well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS and focus on the needs of the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles County.
LA Blade - Shawn Mayotte was one of the most beautiful golden boys of 80’s porn. The fact that his alter-ego, his real-life self, named Doug Probst lived to write a book in 2021, is at the least, astounding, if not down-right miraculous.
Write one, he did. Mayotte: The Musings of a Narcissist, A Survivor’s Story is now in print.
Mayotte the book is as multi-dimensional as the man who wrote it. It is sexually explicit and unvarnished.
WEHO Times - A photo posted on the Gay Vintage Los Angeles for Men Facebook group confirms what we reported earlier today. Lance Bass, of NSYNC boyband fame, who is also part owner to Rocco’s WeHo, signed a lease and he has been handed the keys to the former Rage Nightclub space located at 8911 Santa Monica Boulevard.
The photo shows Lance and a business partner posing with landlords Monte Overstreet and his husband John Cole.
LA Times - Enrique stepped into his childhood bedroom on March 12, 2020, and felt the crushing absence of all that he had gained while at college for the previous seven months.
The walls spoke of the nights he cried himself to sleep after he came out to his parents as a high school junior. “You’re not that kind of person,” they had told him. “It’s probably a phase.”
LA Blade - The Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law released information Wednesday collated from research data that shows the tremendous benefits to LGBTQ people should the Equality Act pass the Senate and President Joe Biden were to sign it into law.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Equality Act, as reported by The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson, put on full display Wednesday the use of fear mongering about women’s safety and the integrity of women’s sports as a tool to thwart attempted progress on LGBTQ rights, although more traditional objections based on religious liberty also played a role.