Is the world ending? My poor family flew into New York. That same day they got hit by Hurricane Irene. Then we all came to San Diego, where we all got to experience the blackout. I felt sorry for my family and thought, wow, we need a vacation from this vacation. My family was in…
Having to take medications for high cholesterol has become quite the norm. From the age of 20, doctors warned me of dangerously high cholesterol. And yes, it’s all bad and not good cholesterol. At 30, my physician recommended Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease. In this trailblazing treatise based on years of critically…
A gay man who slashed the face of his ex-boyfriend with a knife in Hillcrest in 2008 was sentenced Sept. 20 to 365 days in jail and ordered released immediately from jail, since he has already served that amount of time. Amier Rocky Issa, 34, will live with a relative in Los Angeles as part…
Bail has been set at $500,000 for a 53-year-old man who was charged with attempted murder during an attempted rape of an acquaintance at knifepoint in a camper in Hillcrest. Kenneth John Bauer pleaded not guilty Sept. 15 to all charges, which also include assault with a deadly weapon and assault with intent to commit…
Eden is hosting a special event honoring the life and remembering the death of Seth Walsh, the Tehachapi gay teen whose suicide is said to have been caused by hate-based bullying at school, this Wednesday, Sept. 28. That date marks the one-year anniversary of the day when Wendy Walsh lost her son. “His laugh was…
Exercise and social awareness converge Sunday, Sept. 25, when as many as 8,000 participants take part in the annual AIDS Walk & Run San Diego, an event intended to raise funds and awareness for the agencies and programs that help the thousands of San Diegans living with HIV. The AIDS Walk & Run is…
ARIZONA – An Arizona law that would have ended domestic partner benefits for state employees has been prevented from taking effect by the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. In September 2009, Gov. Jan Brewer signed a budget provision passed by the Arizona legislature that eliminated state workers’ domestic partner benefits by…
MARYLAND – Teonna Monae Brown, 19, who pleaded guilty last month to first-degree assault and a hate crime in the beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, at a McDonalds restaurant, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, plus three years of supervised probation. The April attack drew national…
CALIFORNIA – Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that will bar the state of California from entering into contracts in excess of $100,000 with businesses and other entities that deny equal benefits to the same-sex spouses of their employees. The Equal Benefits bill (SB 117) was authored by Sen. Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego) and sponsored…
NORTH CAROLINA. – A majority of North Carolina voters oppose a Republican proposed constitutional amendment that would ban the state from recognizing same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships. Fifty-five percent would vote against the amendment and only 30 percent would vote in favor of the amendment. The recent Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey also…
