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FilmOut: Q&A with “Buffering” filmmakers Darren Flaxstone and Christian Martin | VIDEOS

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

British filmmakers Darren Flaxstone and Christian Martin of "Shank" fame have teamed up together to create "Buffering," a comedy about a gay couple struggling to make their mortgage and keep their romance alive.

Nation's first-ever Harvey Milk Street signs to be unveiled Tuesday in San Diego

SAN DIEGO -- Community members will celebrate the unveiling of the first street in the nation to be named after LGBT civil-rights hero Harvey Milk at a ceremony at 5 pm Tuesday, May 22.

The event, which will take place on what would have been Milk's 82nd birthday, will include brief remarks from community leaders and a reception.

SDGLN Poll: Majority of readers plan to attend unveiling of Harvey Milk road signs on Tuesday

A thin majority of readers of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News who took our poll say that they plan to attend the unveiling of the Harvey Milk Street road signs at The Center on Tuesday.

Our poll question was: Will you attend the unveiling of the Harvey Milk Street road signs on May 22 at The Center in Hillcrest?

The results, which are not scientific, reveal that 51% of readers plan to attend the Harvey Milk Street sign unveiling, and 49% won’t.

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FilmOut: Q&A with Paul Baker, La Mesa native making directing debut with anti-bullying film "Andie" | VIDEO

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

Paul Baker, director of the short film "Andie" that will have its world premiere at FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival on June 2, grew up in the San Diego suburb of La Mesa.

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FilmOut: Q&A with Michael D. Akers, director of “Morgan” | VIDEO

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

Michael D. Akers, producer/director/writer/editor of "Morgan," speaks to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News about how his romantic movie featuring a paraplegic lead character is groundbreaking in LGBT cinema.

LGBT active duty servicemembers, vets invited to march in Pride parade

SAN DIEGO – In 2011, San Diego made global news as being the first city in the United States to have an active duty military contingent in a Pride Parade. Three hundred men and women took part of the historic event, even though “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was still on the books.

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FilmOut: Q&A with Austin Head, co-star of "Positive Youth" documentary | VIDEOS

(Editor's note: San Diego Gay & Lesbian News will be previewing the 14th annual FilmOut San Diego LGBT Film Festival, which runs May 30 through June 3 at the historical Birch North Park Theatre. Look for Q&A interviews with celebrities and directors as well as film reviews.)

Austin Head, aka the “Glamour Boy of Phoenix,” is one of four HIV-positive youth featured in the 44-minute documentary "Positive Youth."

BREAKING NEWS: Rainbow flag will fly high in Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO -- Very soon, San Diego's LGBT community will see a colorful symbol of their pride flying high above the Hillcrest neighborhood.

Today, the City Council voted 7-0 to approve a proposal by the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) to install a 65-foot flagpole in the median on Normal Street where it intersects with University Avenue.

City Councilmember Lorie Zapf was absent from the vote.

The plan calls for the pole to fly an 18 foot x 12 foot rainbow pride flag year-round, and include some minor enhancements to the median, around the base of the flagpole.

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Experts: Anti-gay bullying is much different, and much worse | VIDEOS

SAN DIEGO – Lawrence “Larry” King was a 15-year-old youth coming to terms with his sexuality and being open and honest with his classmates when he was murdered by a 14-year-old boy in a classroom in Oxnard, Calif.

Seth Walsh was a 13-year-old boy who faced a daily gantlet of bullying at his school in Tehachapi, Calif. His mother, through a veil of tears, explains how her son was constantly taunted and harassed even outside the school – and how she found him hanging from a tree in the family’s backyard. Seth would die days later after life-support measures proved unsuccessful.

San Diego's first bike corral to open today in Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO -- The first city-owned bike corral, located in Hillcrest on Fifth Avenue just north of University Avenue, will officially open today during a noon ribbon-cutting ceremony.

San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria, bicycle advocates, neighbors and business owners will celebrate the completion of the corral, which provides dedicated on-street parking for 12 bicycles in the space normally taken by one parked car.

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