The San Diego Wrestling Club will be hosting their 8th annual Bulldogs Wrestling Tournament Saturday Feb. 15 starting at 1 p.m. in the main auditorium of The Center in Hillcrest. Spectators are welcome to come and check out the wrestling competition during the tournament for a $5 donation to the club. The annual San Diego wrestling…
BERLIN — The David Kato Vision & Voice Award has announced that the 2014 award will go to Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy. Now 75 years old, she has spent the last two decades working to establish a national network of organizations to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people across the country. Sou will…
Mariah soared, boy bands strutted their stuff and high-energy music had us pumpin’ up the jam across the dance floor. Relive that megawatt decade with the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) as they present Wow! The Chorus Sings the ‘90s at the Garfield Theatre, April 5 and 6. “This show is amazingly fun! It’s…
The alleged getaway driver in 11 robberies and attempted robberies in Hillcrest and elsewhere will face a Feb. 20 preliminary hearing. The crimes all occurred Feb. 2 to pedestrians in Hillcrest, Ocean Beach, Golden Hill, Mission Beach, UCSD, and the Midtown area. Benjamin Hernandez, 23, pleaded not guilty Feb. 5 before San Diego Superior Court…
A prosecutor is seeking a 7-year 8-month prison term for a La Mesa man who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license and treating people with HIV/AIDS and cancer with expensive and useless treatments. Keith Allen Barton, 52, appeared Monday before San Diego Superior Court Judge Amalia Meza who re-scheduled his sentencing for March…
FAIRFAX, Va. – A first-of-its-kind study by researchers at George Mason University’s Department of Global and Community Health and Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion draws some conclusions to an age-old question: What does love have to do with sex, in particular, among gay and bisexual men in the United States? While most research about love has been…
Media Matters for America reports how, during discussions with Equality Matters, officials from a number of California’s largest school districts pushed back against right-wing misinformation about a new state law guaranteeing transgender students access to proper facilities and programs. Evidence continues to mount that a new California law allowing transgender public school students to use the restroom facilities…
Michael Sam, the first Division I college football player in history to come out as gay, has generated a firestorm of opinion on the Internet after announcing on ESPN that he is, in fact, a “proudly open gay man.” While the reaction has been mostly positive, publicly anyway, there have been significant pockets of resistance…
A lighthearted video produced by the Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion which shows two men getting into position for a doubles luge in slow-motion while the Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” plays in the background has generated the ire of some of the league’s top players. “The games have always been a little…
It is an interesting experience to be the subject of these slightly bizarre personal attacks by Nicole Murray Ramirez. Is it just me or did that last one seem particularly … frenzied? My essays addressed issues of policy and leadership. I hoped for some articulate rationale for a mayoral endorsement that works against LGBT community…
