If you don’t know the show La Cage aux Folles, don’t tell anyone. Your gay card may be revoked and you’ll be exiled to Santee. Here’s the 411. The show is endearingly known as La Cage. In 1973, Jean Poiret’s play La Cage aux Folles opened in Paris and ran for 1,800 performances. The play…
When “Papa Doug” Manchester bought the San Diego Union Tribune, there was a concern that the news might be tainted by right-wing opinion. Few predicted that right-wing opinion would be tainted with sheer fantasy. Yet, that is the only explanation for what happened Saturday, when the U-T San Diego editorial board jumped the political shark…
For me, the most memorable moments of Pride were not the ones made in the clubs boasting a ridiculous door cost – after all, I am a lesbian and I am not willing to pay that much to get in. Let’s get real! I started my Pride weekend on the streets of Hillcrest, Friday, where…
A Sept. 5 trial date has been set for the so-called incense bandit of Hillcrest, an alleged serial robber who is accused of filching everything from an $8.95 package of incense to $1,000 cash from a parking attendant – all in or around Hillcrest. “You guys are too expensive for me,” the alleged robber is…
SD Hoops have put a call out for volunteers to join them at AIDS Walk San Diego 2012. They’re looking for volunteers who want to join them as they pass out water bottles from 5:30-10:30a.m. Sunday, Sept. 30. Volunteers will need to attend orientation Saturday, Sept. 29 from 2-3 p.m. in Balboa Park. All who…
As part of its One Voice at a Time live conversation series, Voice of San Diego is presenting a talk with City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, Thursday, Aug. 16. VOSD CEO Scott Lewis will be sitting down with the city attorney on the patio at Downtown Johnny Brown’s to talk about the ups and downs he’s…
HONG KONG (CNN) – A newly published edition of an authoritative Chinese dictionary has come under fire for leaving out the homosexual definition of a word commonly used to refer to gay men and lesbians. The word “tongzhi” traditionally means “comrade” and has been widely used by the Communist Party. But in recent decades the…
BRUSSELS – A legal challenge has been lodged at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to decriminalize homosexuality in Northern Cyprus – the last place in the Council of Europe where being gay is a criminal offense. Cyprus was required by the ECHR to decriminalize consensual sex between consenting adults in 1993, but Cyprus’…
Well, I got onto a train to Los Angeles to get away from it all (and to see a heart specialist). I stayed at the estate of a world-renowned scientist: Dr. Danne Montague-King. He was a perfect host. But honestly; I slept most of the time. Conversations with Nathan Fletcher and Tom Shepard Not only…
