Editor’s note: Last week, Michael Spradley brought you a tasty piece on breakfast and lunch, San Diego style, with a review of Fig Tree Café. This week, we’re bringing breakfast back, as we introduce The Restaurant Insider. It’s a fresh, new weekly feature by a San Diego LGBT Weekly contributor with whom many readers are…
If you’ve ever wondered about the mechanics of “treating” transgenderism, as it were, there are specific guidelines called the Harry Benjamin Standards of Care. A newly-revised edition of the Standards of Care was released Sept. 25, at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) conference in Atlanta. There are significant changes to the psychiatric…
Last week, in There’s a miracle in your house, part one, we reviewed the story found in the Old Testament of a woman raising two children on her own; she had lost her husband and her means of supporting her family; she owed a lot of money and didn’t have the means to pay and…
See this week’s print edition of San Diego LGBT Weekly for more puppies, furries and piggies (oh my) – available at coffee houses, bookstores, CVS stores, and newsstands near you. How many years have you been making RubberDawg hoods? I have been doing it for about six years. How long does it take…
After her breakup with longtime girlfriend Kelli Carpenter in 2007, Rosie O’Donnell is back in the swing of things after falling in love with new girlfriend Michelle Rounds, 40, PEOPLE magazine reports. The timing is well-placed for O’Donnell who, in addition to celebrating new love, will also celebrate her encore debut of The Rosie Show,…
The controversial case of Brandon McInerney who killed 15-year-old Larry King in what was an alleged hate crime will now come to a new fruition amidst today’s announcement that McInerney will now be tried as an adult. The Ventura County Star reports that McInerney will face “murder charges with the special allegation of lying in…
It wouldn’t be October if Michele Bachmann didn’t get spooked at a pumpkin farm. But instead of ghouls and goblins striking fear in the presidential hopeful, it was a group of roughly 60 students from the liberal Grinnell College that got the job done after the group protested Bachmann’s appearance. Bachmann attended a fundraiser at…
San Francisco mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty has, for the first time in campaign history, released an ad campaign featuring his daughter Sidney, 5. As one of the 16 candidates running for mayor of San Francisco, Dufty is setting himself apart in the race with the commercial showing his daughter boarding a MUNI locomotive. In the…
In his speech at a Human Rights Campaign function, President Obama was applauded when he said, “no one has to live a lie to serve the country they love.” Just weeks after the fall of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the president expressed strong sentiment in his speech, explaining, “I’m hopeful, I’m fired up, too!” But…
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced today its intent to find the organization’s next new president by March 2012. As a part of their recruitment process, HRC has enlisted Russell Reynolds Associates, one of the nation’s top recruitment firms, to aid in the executive search process. “The new president will be called upon to champion…
