For decades, San Diego’s vibrant and eclectic LGBTQ community has come together each summer to celebrate its uniqueness, diversity and achievements while acknowledging the struggles it still faces. From the historic Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country and the growing visibility of the transgender rights movement, to the emergence of medication…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. At a notably young 53, Terry Ellis, founding member of En Vogue, is perhaps more energized for hers and her bandmates’ upcoming appearance in the headliner slot at 2017’s San Diego LGBT Pride Music…
Cazwell is an American born rap artist who hails from the small town of Worcester, Mass. It’s a city in Massachusetts that is best known for being the “Heart of the Commonwealth”. It’s also known for being the city where the first Valentine was mass-produced and where the first ballpoint pen and first typewriter were…
I think the best reason to applaud the ascendance of the Netflix and Amazon TV and film studios is their willingness to fund the ambitious projects of artists like the Wachowskis (Sense8), Jill Soloway (Transparent) and Aziz Ansari (Master of None) – and now Bong Joon Ho, who directed the insane, groundbreaking Snowpiercer, as well…
The San Diego Police Department and San Diego LGBT Pride have gotten word that a group of LGBT radicals along with Black Lives Matter activists are thinking about attempting to shut down this year’s Pride parade. This, after last month’s Washington, D.C. Pride parade was stopped for over an hour, and re-routed by about a…
¡Libertad! Tacos a la Brasa is San Diego’s first not-for-profit restaurant and it’s located in the heart of Hillcrest. A member of the Cohn Restaurant Group (CRG), the casual eatery is one of three new venues opened in the space formerly occupied by 100 Wines. David and Lesley Cohn, founders of CRG, will donate 100…
It wasn’t where you put it down. The last time you saw it, it was over there where you laid it. You remember doing that; you even gave yourself a brain-nudge so you wouldn’t forget but now it’s not where it should be, and that bugs you. Now, as in the new novel Finding Gideon…
July brings Laguna Beach’s famous Pageant of the Masters with tableaux vivant: famous art re-created with real people. We had tableaux in the citywide Our History festival with all schools entering a display. I was corralled into two of them. One was The Salem Witch Trial. We froze in place for an eternity as all…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. During his recent visit to San Diego, legendary LGBTQ, civil, human and labor rights organizer, Cleve Jones, who was a close confidant and protégé of the late Harvey Milk, said that queer people have…
A federal judge has delayed the sentencing for David Enrique Meza to Oct. 23 as officials wanted more time to write a thorough sentencing report about the slaying of Meza’s wealthy boyfriend in Mexico in 2015. The request to move the Aug. 7 sentencing was made by the federal probation department to U.S. District Court…
