Several months into what’s becoming an increasingly anticipated monthly exhibition of art by local LGBT and allied artists at the sleek offices of San Diego LGBT Pride (you know; the folks who put on the Pride parade and festival) in North Park, painter Jonathan Williams, also of North Park, wooed a modestly sized crowd of…
obituary Retired school teacher and health care worker Diane Marie Cavanaugh of San Diego was born in Oklahoma City. She was the daughter of Albert and Dena Peschl, and had one brother, Jimmie Peschl. Cavanaugh graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Shortly thereafter, she met her future husband, Charles Cavanaugh in 1953. Their first son,…
WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA prohibits the federal government from recognizing legally married same-sex couples and unjustly deprives them of the concrete protections marriage would bring to them and their families. California governor, Jerry Brown –…
SACRAMENTO – Equality California has announced that it intends to sponsor a bill authored by Assemblymember Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) that will ensure state veterans benefits are not denied to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) veterans discharged from the military solely because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. Sacramento Valley Veterans…
WASHINGTON – During a recent major address on HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Ellen DeGeneres has been named as a special envoy for global AIDS awareness. In this role, DeGeneres will use her celebrity platform to raise awareness about the global fight against AIDS. In…
KAMPALA, Uganda – The man who killed leading gay rights activist David Kato has been convicted by a court in Uganda and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ugandan Sidney Nsubunga Enoch told the court that he had no option but to beat Kato to death with a hammer because the gay activist had propositioned…
You tried everything. When you had trouble with insomnia the other night, it seemed like nothing would lull you back to sleep. Warm milk tasted bad. That previously tired book on your bedside table suddenly turned intriguing – even infomercials held your interest, so you started counting sheep. Then you got to wondering … why…
In his letter (also published on this page), local resident and San Diego LGBT Weekly reader, West Moeller offers LGBT Americans serving and fighting for our country in the armed forces a not-so-veiled threat – in fact, a violent threat (not to be confused with a threat of violence). The first red flag in Moeller’s…
How gay times change. In the ’80s and ’90s, a combative gay youth chanted “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”. Then came the young millennium gays who worked to alter their queerness, usually by morphing into muscle jocks, sporting cargo shorts and tight fitting Abercrombie & Fitch tanks. Today’s gay youth have a…
