JAPAN – Taiga Ishikawa, 36, has become the first openly gay person to be elected to office in Japan. He recently won a seat in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward Assembly in the city’s local elections. He quickly drew attention to his victory’s significance for the nation’s LGBT community. In a statement to AFP, Ishikawa said, “I…
ZIMBABWE – President Robert Mugabe has condemned gay “filth” in Europe. The Zimbabwean leader, speaking at a recent funeral, hit out at Western powers for maintaining their asset freeze and travel ban on him and his inner circle. “We don’t worry ourselves about the goings-on in Europe,” he told thousands at the burial of deputy…
Growing up, every year for Mother’s Day I would go to the nursery with my grandmother and pick out potted flowers. There was a space reserved in the yard specifically for my mother and me to plant these gifts called, for lack of imagination as a toddler, her Mother’s Day garden. The garden contained both…
Hooray for our Navy Seals and President Obama’s administration. We have struck a big blow in our continuing fight against terrorism. Well, now I’m off to Arizona. District 3: The melting pot of San Diego There are more than 30 languages spoken in the City Council’s 3rd District. This district brought us our first elected…
LGBT baby boomers, who will begin retiring in 2011, were 24 years old during the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, and are part of the estimated 1.5 million senior LGBT Americans many have called the first “out and proud” generation. Yet, too often they have been excluded from the social science research regarding…
In 1979, Chuck Renslow and his partner Dom Orejudos (Etienne) started the International Mr. Leather contest, which grew from its humble beginnings of Mr. Gold Coast Contest, a bar contest. The contest attracted contestants not only from Chicago, but from surrounding states as well. The contest quickly outgrew the Gold Coast Leather Bar and was…
Sometimes it is hard living in a democracy. It is hard for some to live up to the creed of this nation, that all men and women are created equal. We know that our government discriminates against the LGBT community reflecting the views of Americans who are increasingly in the minority with their opposition to…
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Wet Stone Winebar and Café 1927 Fourth Ave. San Diego, CA 92101 619-255-2856 wetstonewinebar.com One of the greatest things about living in San Diego is the dining scene never ceases to surprise me. Over the years, I have seen restaurants come and go, new top chefs hailing stoves around town, and mom and…
At this past Monday’s Redistricting Commission public hearing, the LGBT Redistricting Task Force presented its first draft of a new City Council District 3. The new proposal would shift the District 3 boundaries to the west, eliminating some communities like City Heights and Azalea Park from the east, and adding areas such as Mission Hills,…
