Iconic poet, visionary, outspoken champion of human rights, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, Buddhist, political activist and teacher — Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture.

For 30 years, Academy Award-nominated producer and director Jerry Aronson ("Chasing Ice," "The Divided Trail)" accumulated more than 200 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of “Howl” and other groundbreaking poems.

(Editor's note: SDGLN has exposed a very ugly secret in our community: intentional drugging of victims and male rape. On Thursday, SDGLN published a first-person account of a well-known gay man in San Diego who was drugged and raped sometime after being out celebrating at a nightclub in Hillcrest. We verified the source and his story. Because of the sensitive and personal nature of this incident, we granted his request to run his important first-person story without revealing his name. The story has become the talk of the town.

SAN DIEGO -- Mama’s Kitchen is asking the public to participate in its third annual “Independence from Hunger,” an initiative to encourage individuals, businesses, schools and community groups to host food drives during July 2013 to ensure the pantry shelves are full with nutritious non-perishable food items.

Mama’s Pantry, a service of Mama’s Kitchen, provides a nutritional shopping opportunity at no cost for low income men, women and children of San Diego County affected by HIV/AIDS.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- With 130 entrants in West Hollywood’s LA Gay Pride Parade 2013 flowing down the city’s main drag, we were hard put to photograph all of them and even harder put to choose from the hundreds of shots we took of the (long) day.

It was a joyous occasion that showed the LGBT community in all its diversity, the actuality far different than the critics who slammed the parade and festival before it even happened as an "outdated, adolescent mess.”