Recently, a simple coffee break with friends produced several puzzling points for me to ponder. The first occurred when I innocently offered my spoon to a friend to stir his coffee. True, I had just used it in my own coffee, but I had not licked it, rubbed my filthy fingers on it, nor placed…
“I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.” — Sheryl Crow I feel you, Sheryl. I occasionally enjoy a beer for breakfast, too. Because there’s a bagel in every bottle, or, if you prefer, a croissant in every can. So imagine my eagerness when the editor asked if I’d be interested in writing…
October in San Diego, without the change of seasons and colorful foliage usually associated with autumn, can mean only one thing – Oktoberfest! The celebration of all things German. A time for consuming cold beer and grilled sausages to the accompaniment of a polka band. Germans love their meat and, on average, consume 134 pounds…
The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Veterans Memorial Project is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to raising funds to construct an LGBT Veterans Memorial in our nation’s capital. According to the organization, the funds raised in support of this project will be used to build a memorial at the historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C….
Many of you will probably remember that I started talking about naming a public school after Sen. Christine Kehoe and finally establishing an AIDS memorial in San Diego in this column years ago (as well as a street named after Harvey Milk). The GLBT Historic Task Force was established to focus on these three major…
When you see people on television who have experienced a natural disaster, you try to imagine what it would be like to be in their situation. How would you react? Unfortunately, my partner Scott and I found out first hand with Hurricane Odile. For my partner Scott’s birthday, we take our customary vacation to our…
When it comes to out members of the U.S. Congress, Democrats currently lead Republicans six to nothing, including five representatives and one senator. Moderate Republicans hope to change that this year, both to broaden their base and to woo back some large LGBT donors. The road for LGBT Republican candidates isn’t an easy one. In…
thursday, oct. 2. A Discourse on The Wonders of the Invisible World The year is 1702, 10 years after the Salem witch trials made famous in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. About to leave the colonies forever, long-lost Abigail Williams arrives at the Frontier Tavern of her childhood witch conspirator, Mercy Lewis, desperate to understand the…
The Blacklist was one of network television’s few breakout hits last year, and after I caught up on it this summer, I realized why. It’s James Spader, playing Raymond “Red” Reddington, a murderous criminal mastermind who decides to help the FBI catch the world’s worst criminals. When he is not spitting out campy insults at…
