First to all of our visitors, welcome to San Diego for our 37th annual LGBT Pride parade and festival. San Diego Pride is a time to celebrate the diversity of the LGBT community, as well as honor everything that is San Diego. As you enjoy what San Diego has to offer; fabulous weather, beautiful beaches…
Comedienne Wendy Liebman didn’t always want to have a career in comedy. While attending Wellesley College, she majored in psychology with plans of being a therapist. But once she enrolled in a night class, How to Be a Stand-Up Comedian, at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, she shifted her career focus. “In the end,…
San Diego’s LGBT Pride weekend is upon us, so brace yourself for floats and fun and rainbows and paintings. Yes, paintings! In its mission to reach and involve all segments of the local LGBT community, San Diego Pride recognizes the creativity that has defined our community, well … forever. For many years now, our local…
It’s funny, or rather it’s queer, that the summer TV season is always derided for lacking the same punch as its fall through spring counterparts. While that may be the case, it’s the season that brings us the shudder-inducing Toddlers and Tiaras, there is actually a plethora of pink-themed shows, which are the equivalent of…
San Diego Pride is upon us! The San Diego Leather Realm is back again this year, educating those who are “kink” curious. The kink curious persons are normally those who have kinky thoughts, but most of the time feel they are the only ones who feel that way, until they meet other like-minded men and…
Every government institution has its peculiar traditions. Lawyers in English courts still wear wigs. White House press conferences always end with a “Thank you, Mr. President” from the senior correspondent. And on the floor of the state Assembly, if you want to speak, you signal that by raising your microphone on its flexible stalk. On…
Please explain … Could someone please explain to me why all the gay Catholics (like Nicole Murray Ramirez and Ray Carter, from your last issue) are still Catholics? According to the Pope, they are all sinners. What don’t gay Catholics get about the fact that the larger Catholic Church, and its people, don’t want them?…
We all know that San Diego is a pretty fabulous place to live and to visit. But it is easy to overlook and even take for granted a lot of the wonderful things that are available to us throughout the year. In addition, there may be many fun things to do in San Diego that…
MOVIE REVIEW: Last week, gay Newsweek senior writer Ramin Setoodeh tried to rustle up some controversy around Horrible Bosses by writing an article about how Jennifer Aniston’s sociopathic sexual harasser character calls Charlie Day’s character “a little faggot” when he tries to explain all of the ways she’s inappropriate. Setoodeh became infamous after writing in…
If I could give out honorary LGBT cards, U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis would be at the top of my list. As the representative from California’s 53rd District, which includes Hillcrest, she has stood up for the LGBT community at every turn. Many congressmembers check all the right boxes: “No” on 8, “yes” on marriage equality,…
