The latest installment of San Diego’s serial of races for mayor is over. Kevin Faulconer will be the 36th mayor of San Diego (or 37th, if you count Interim Mayor Todd Gloria). As of this writing, the final – though still unofficial – tally of votes from Tuesday’s special election to replace former mayor, Bob…
In 1972, at the then Royal Inn Hotel the first Imperial Court Coronation was held, making it the first homosexual public event ever held in a hotel in San Diego. This past weekend, the Lafayette Hotel’s ballroom was standing room only as the 42nd monarchs were elected and crowned, Emperor XLII Robert Rodriguez and Empress…
We joined an elephant tour and watched them pull and push huge logs, have a tug of war and dance (a hula!). Later we fed them expensive bananas, but declined a jaunt in a dirty, flimsy howdah; we stayed on the ground where nothing untoward could happen. While some in our group were riding and…
One of Mayor-elect Faulconer’s campaign pledges was to bring back the “Community Advisory Boards to the Office of the Mayor”. (Latinos, veterans, Asians, GLBTs, African Americans, etc.) These boards are very important as they keep the mayor in contact and more knowledgeable about our city’s diverse communities and neighborhoods. These mayor’s advisory boards were established…
The lexicon used to describe artists and their creations can be abstruse, elitist and just plain ridiculous. Take, for example, this description of photographer David LaChapelle’s exhibit in Mexico City in 2009 entitled Delirium of Reason from Art Pulse Magazine: “The subjectivity manifest in LaChapelle’s discourse is an artistic response to the new ecology of…
The struggle for LGBT equality is part of the fight for civil rights for all minorities, and a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement started by Dr. Martin Luther King, Bayard Rustin and other legendary activists during the 1950s and ’60s, according to leading LGBT-rights activists. Yet, says author and activist, Rob Smith, who is…
Meet Michael Sam. Sam is a college football player for the University of Missouri, aka Mizzou. Sam has decided that he wants to be the first openly gay NFL player, so he decided to come out; before the draft. I can’t express how much courage Sam has exhibited. Would you risk potentially millions of dollars…
The Lego Movie The Lego Movie could be the greatest advertisement ever made. I mean this in two ways: First, after I saw the movie, I walked immediately to Target and bought Legos, the first time I’d given myself and not a child Legos since I was a child myself. I’m sure that the sales…
Wednesday, we learned that Kevin Faulconer would be the next mayor of San Diego. While the final vote count will continue to trickle in, he appears to have defeated fellow Councilman David Alvarez by a comfortable margin, taking an early lead with absentee ballots and holding it well into the night. Alvarez needed a surge…
