Clad in paint-smeared T-shirt and jeans, Trevor Copenhaver is dancing with a large canvas; and by dancing I mean painting. The dance routine is simple: step up, brush brush, step back, pause. Step up, brush smudge, step back, pause. Copenhaver is working feverishly to complete 20 new works for an upcoming exhibition. Even though opening…
LGBT Weekly talks to IndieFest cofounders Alicia Champion and Danielle LoPresti on the success of their move to City Heights “I have seen the transformative power of culture as a driving force for positive and social change, and I can attest to the singular effect San Diego IndieFest had on the early years of North…
LGBT Weekly reviews the impact of the City’s new ordinances Nineteen years after California voters approved Prop. 215, which made medical marijuana legal in the state, San Diego’s first permitted medical marijuana dispensary opened March 18, 2015. While both the City and County fought against medical marijuana dispensaries for years, they finally came to an…
A judge April 13 set sentencing for May 11 for a 30-year-old gay man who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spreading HIV to a former boyfriend. Thomas Miguel Guerra, of San Diego, faces a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, said his attorney, James Fitzpatrick. The probation…
Bail was set at $200,000 April 10 for a 20-year-old man charged with robbing and shooting a 74-year-old man with a taser who had placed an ad on Craigslist for a date. Lucas Churchill Holmes, of El Cajon, pleaded not guilty to robbery, elder abuse, burglary and identity theft for using the victim’s credit card…
As this is my 200th brief, I want to use it to thank my readers for their support. I enjoy the challenge of juggling senior oriented advice and humor. Naturally, I write from my viewpoint as a senior gay man, but I try to make the comments and examples enjoyable and pertinent to the entire…
Gay icon, AIDS advocate leader, author, etc.; people either love him or hate him – Larry Kramer has been one of the most important voices in the LGBT community and civil rights movement. Larry and I have not really been friends but have had to deal with each other these last three decades. While we…
dvd of the week Joaquin Phoenix plays Larry “Doc” Sportello, a pothead private investigator who works out of a doctor’s office near the beach in 1970s Los Angeles. He’s disheveled, confused, bumbling and occasionally philosophical. One day, his ex-lover, an ethereal blonde named Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston, serving hippie realness), appears out of nowhere…
dvr this Streaming on Netflix The first series in the Netflix portion of the Marvel Comics cinematic universe, Daredevil sets the scene for a gritty Manhattan-based world featuring Jessica Jones, Power Man and Iron Fist, all who will eventually form the Defenders. I’ve always found Daredevil to be one of the more fascinating superheroes. An…
