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The Center to host annual "Come Home for the Holidays" celebration

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego LGBT Community Center will host its annual "Come Home for the Holidays" celebration on Saturday, Dec. 15, from 5-8 pm. The event is organized to bring together the diverse cultures and traditions that make up San Diego's LGBT community.

The free event is family-friendly and open to all. It will include music, food, dancing, a secular candle lighting ceremony, a Native American blessing, and a chance to meet others in the community.

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COMMENTARY: The Supreme Court, Prop 8, DOMA and the gun-toting "Christians"

My partner Susan asked me this morning what I thought about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing the DOMA and Prop 8 cases. I just shrugged and said: “I’ll wait until they rule.”

For me to even say anything about what I believe will happen would just be pure speculation. Who even knows what lies in the minds of these Supreme Court justices? It is, after all, the Supreme Court and we all know that in some cases they aren’t doling out any sort of justice.

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DVD REVIEW: “The Men Next Door” is a fun comedy with a wicked twist

Writer/director Rob Williams believes that men who turn 40 get caught up in a dating quandary. Do you date people in their 30s or people in their 50s?

His new comedy, “The Men Next Door,” takes up these questions with a whole lot of humor, and with a rather wicked twist.

Eric Dean (“Nine Lives, “Arizona Sky”) plays Doug, who ends up home alone on his 40th birthday and getting razzed by his straight twin brother (Christopher Schram) who just happens to be a therapist.

Lesbian who faked hate crime found guilty after pleading "no contest"

LINCOLN, Neb. -- In a Lancaster County courtroom Monday, Judge Gale Pokorny, found Charlie Rogers guilty of staging a fake anti-gay hate crime that shocked both the citizens of Lincoln, Neb., and the nation -- first for the brutality of the alleged crime, and then for lying about the crime.

Rogers, 34, pleaded no contest in court this afternoon, a reversal of the not guilty plea she had made in the case earlier in September. Pokorny set the date of her sentencing for February, 14, 2013.

ACTION ALERT | Tell President Obama and the Department of Justice: Speak out on Prop 8

Sign our petition: To President Obama and the Department of Justice: Please speak out on Prop 8 as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the case. Submit a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that a state ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution.

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WATCH LIVE! Today is World Human Rights Day, and Ricky Martin will be at UN ceremony

(Editor’s note: The United Nations will mark World Human Rights Day with a star-studded event that can be viewed at 3:15 pm ET/12:15 PT via the web. Click HERE to watch the ceremonies and to see openly gay superstar Ricky Martin, legendary South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, an outspoken defender of LGBT and human rights.

Cult classic “Hedwig And The Angry Inch” is FilmOut's monthly gem | VIDEO

SAN DIEGO – The cult classic “Hedwig And The Angry Inch” is expected to be a big draw Wednesday night at FilmOut San Diego’s monthly screening at the historic Birch North Park Theatre.

The 2001 Sundance Film Festival entry won awards for Best Director and Audience Favorite. It also won Outstanding Film (Limited Edition) at the 2002 GLAAD Media Awards.

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The Fabulous Beekman Boys win "The Amazing Race"

(This post was originally published by SDGLN content partner GLAAD.)

Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, best known as The Fabulous Beekman Boys, won CBS’s "The Amazing Race" and its $1 million grand prize last night as the couple crossed the finish line in New York City, beating out nine other teams and ending a trip that covered nine countries and more than 25,000 miles.

FBI: Anti-gay hate crimes rise in latest figures

WASHINGTON – For the first time, crimes directed against individuals on the basis of sexual orientation are the second most frequent hate crime committed after crimes based on race, according to the 2011 Hate Crimes statistics released today by the FBI as part of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

Surpassing crimes committed on the basis on religion, the number of reported hate crimes committed against gay men and lesbians increased from 1,277 in 2010 to 1,293 in 2011.

Bel Ami porn stars’ lawsuit against gay cruise line dismissed

A lawsuit by Bel Ami Online, a European company known in the gay community for its line of porn videos featuring extremely young actors, and RSVP, an American company specializing in all-gay charter cruises, was dismissed by a federal judge in Los Angeles last week.

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