As we come up on Pride, the reason for the season is not lost on me. There is so much more to the joyous weekend we spend being loud, proud and often, out of control.

This year what is specifically on my mind is a story that I’ve been told many times over the last five or so years. It is a story that I don’t want to ever forget. It is a story that predates the real reason we have and celebrate Pride – Stonewall – and it happened right here in our neighborhood, not across the country in NYC. It is a story that needs to be shared so that we never forget.

People often ask my perspective on which movies I think are the most significant lesbian films ever released. As the founder of Wolfe, the world’s largest exclusive distributor of lesbian and gay movies, I have been working with lesbian film and lesbian filmmakers since 1985.

Within the proposed California state budget is language that, if passed, would force local county jail facilities to keep incarcerated individuals who otherwise would be sent to state prison local.

This change would presumably save the state nearly $243 million dollars, the main reason behind the legislation. Besides saving money, however, I believe this change would do much more.

It presents an incredible opportunity to reform our archaic sentencing structure, allowing it to finally adapt and change to meet today’s needs and demands.

Americans continue to get fed propaganda by our corporate-led government, military and media.

In early June, the New York Times reported the “discovery” of vast mineral resources in Afghanistan as follows:

"Armed with the old Russian charts, the United States Geological Survey began a series of aerial surveys of Afghanistan’s mineral resources in 2006, using advanced gravity and magnetic measuring equipment attached to an old Navy Orion P-3 aircraft that flew over about 70 percent of the country.