Today marks a historic victory for the gay rights movement. Celebration will be seen everywhere especially at “Top of the Bay”. It is San Diego’s original LGBT Happy Hour, hosted at the Porto Vista Hotel’s Ripassi Rooftop every Friday night from 5pm-10pm. Top of the Bay is seeing extreme social media traffic and excitement in…
As expected reaction to the Supreme Courts decision granting marriage equality nationwide has been swift. Here is a round-up of reactions to that decision. As the headline suggests it truly represents the good, the bad and the ugly. “Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle that we are all created equal. The project of…
Celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gives same-sex couples across the nation the right to marry — with this iconic song from Kool and the Gang!
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court finally brought marriage equality to loving, committed same-sex couples nationwide. In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court justices announced in a 5 – 4 decision that same-sex marriage is the law of the land. The positive ruling included the usual suspects on the side of marriage equality, Justices Sotomayor,…
The mostly positive comments and support concerning Caitlyn Jenner are encouraging. Seniors remember the different reception which greeted non-rich, non-celebrity Christine Jorgensen. The announcement in 1952 that she was now a woman and had been (gasp!) surgically altered stunned us all. Not the first, but certainly the first one anyone had heard about. There she…
During Carl DeMaio’s congressional campaign I gave a warning in this column that if the LGBT leadership did not speak out against the vicious false sexual smear campaign and gay baiting against DeMaio that in the future others would use this same tactic to destroy gay candidates; now County Supervisor Dave Roberts is being subjected…
Local Habit celebrated their re-launch last March in traditional “La Grande Boucherie” bayou style with a 325 pound milk-fed hog “pulled a hundred different ways.” My studly tattooed dinner companion and I decided to check out the new fare one recent weeknight. We seated ourselves and admired the massive bar made from reclaimed wood and…
The last decade has been one of great progress for the transgender community. There are many who are just beginning to learn, and understand, what it means to be transgender. What is clear is that many people within the LGBT community are on the same journey of discovery. That is why San Diego LGBT Weekly…
LGBT Weekly talks to director Elizabeth Rohrbaugh about her latest film exploration of the transgender community For just under ten minutes, Dylan starts from the Coney Island Stillwell Avenue station and then walks to the shores of Coney Island before disrobing then plunging himself into the Atlantic waters, flopping around happily in his new skin….
