This year the Concrete Hero 2013 Urban Obstacle Challenge will be held at Los Angeles State Historic Park and will feature several new L.A.-themed obstacles and an extended five-mile route through the streets and alleyways of downtown. Last year, nearly 1,000 participants raised over $400K in just three months for...

A constellation of Broadway, television and film stars lit up the stage of the historic Saban Theater in Beverly Hills this past Saturday for the 29th annual S.T.A.G.E. (Southland Theater Artists Goodwill Event) Gala. The event, Broadway My Way raised $285,000.00 for AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).

In 2010, amid a rash of gay teen suicides, Dan Savage created a YouTube video, "It Gets Better," and invited people from across the nation to contribute their own "It Gets Better" video messages. The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles contributed a video rendition of...

Mark St. Germain's play, Freud's Last Session. is receiving its West Coast premiere at Broad Stage in Santa Monica with the original New York director Tyler Marchant at the helm.

It's 1939. Hitler is rising in power. England is on the brink of declaring war on Germany. Against this...

Being from the New York area, I find there are only a few quintessential Los Angeles experiences that consistently declare for me that the joy of the holiday season is upon us. One particular event is the holiday show that the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles produces...

It seems a rare theatrical phenomenon when a playwright understands how to emotionally connect with a generation; the audience for which they write. John Robin Baitz does this brilliantly in his Pulitzer Prize finalist/Tony Award nominated family drama, Other Desert Cities, that is running at Mark Taper Forum through January...

For a holiday treat overflowing with joy, fun, and some of Cole Porter's greatest classics, run to the Ahmanson theatre where the tour of the 2011 Tony Award winning production of Anything Goes sails through January 6, 2013.

The 1934 musical was a grand respite from the depression era...

"I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. ... What do I have to do so people will listen to me? No one in my school cares about preventing suicide, while you're the ones calling me [gay slur] and tearing me down."

These were the words written...

Recent statistics indicate job growth is slow to non-existent. This does not mean that there are no jobs available. It does mean that there are still too few available jobs for the amount of people in the market. Inevitably, this leads to a stress-inducing increase in the length...

There is theater history to be witnessed on the stage of Ahmanson Theater, where God of Carnage opened on Wednesday night with the much celebrated, original Tony-nominated Broadway cast intact (Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis).

In Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage (best known for...

The numbers are crawling. They are crawling slowly. Nonetheless, unemployment numbers are moving in the desired direction: down! My personal experience illustrates this, as I see clients and friends going back to work after being engaged in a job search for months -- even years. Recently, a concern that I...

If tribal elders are lost, adults will be lost; and if tribal adults are lost, youth will be lost. long-time community activist and psychologist Dr. Don Kilhefner

What does it mean to be a gay adult in 2011? Just like the whole world, the gay community and individuals in...

As we begin a new decade many have ambitiously begun to tackle "resolutions" to create change that brings about greater fulfillment. Unfortunately, at this point you might also be feeling the beginnings of your resistance to sticking to your resolutions and asking yourself why discipline and willpower seem to elude...

Thanksgiving is arriving quickly, and with that the final days of the decade are upon us. Although I encourage everyone to reside in gratitude all the time, the annual gratitude ritual that is Thanksgiving brings an opportunity to begin bringing this decade to a powerful close.

With a New...

On Oct. 24, 2010, members of GMCLA (Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles), along with their friends and supporters (including me), gathered at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles to sing a song of hope and love.

I can write a long article about how on Sunday when we...

I sometimes wonder what my life would be like if I didn't have gay allies loving me and supporting me since long before the time I came out, until the very moment in which I am writing this article and I expect beyond the time that I transition into my...

"Our hope is that our family's personal tragedy will serve as a call for compassion, empathy and human dignity. "
--Clementi Family

The tragedy referred to in the quote above is one no family should ever have to endure. This statement came after Tyler Clementi, an...

With June behind us so is the month we have designated as LGBT pride month across the globe. As some of the largest gay pride celebrations in the world came to completion this past weekend in cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Houston, I found myself contemplating the...

Saturday, May 22 was a significant milestone in the history of the LGBT Equality Movement. Thanks to a bill sponsored by Equality California and authored by openly gay Senator Mark Leno, in California we officially celebrated the birthday of Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk, who became the first openly gay...

"A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim."

-- James Hillman, The Soul's Code

Ever noticed how people that are passionate about what they do for a living seem more energized, excited, satisfied and...