Milk Breakfast will draw more than 1,200!

Yes, the annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast set for next Friday, May 24 is sold out! More than 1,200 tickets have been sold, which will make this the biggest breakfast/lunch/dinner event in the history of our GLBT community in San Diego.

Gov. Barbara Roberts and Academy award winner, the handsome Dustin Lance Black (author of the play 8) will be the major keynote speakers and 2013 honorees.

As the founder and co-chair of this civil rights event (along with my co-chairs, City Commissioner Robert Gleason and Dr. Delores Jacobs) I wish to thank everyone for their continuing support, especially the staff and volunteers of The LGBT Center. See you at the Breakfast.

Private reception set for Thursday night

With more than 1,200 people in one room it will be pretty hard to meet and talk to the Harvey Milk Breakfast 2013 honorees, Gov. Barbara Roberts, Dustin Lance Black and Stuart Milk. So, on the evening before, Thursday, May 23 there will be a private invitation-only reception at the Weiss family estate sponsored by the Harvey Milk Foundation and the GLBT Historic Task Force and hosted by Mayor Bob Filner and his first lady, Bronwyn Ingram. A donation for the Milk Foundation is being requested. For further information: 619-692-1967.

Why is the Tea Party nonprofit?

Let’s see now, the Red Cross, United Way, community centers, etc., etc. are all nonprofits and to me the real “IRS scandal” is that Tea Party organizations get to have nonprofit status. Bullcrap, everyone knows that the Tea Party organizations are political and right wing groups. They should never receive any nonprofit status.

About Jose Julio Sarria

Many of you have been asking me about the ongoing health problems of 91-year-old World War II veteran and gay icon Jose Julio Sarria, who in 1961 became the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in North America.

Jose, in 1965, also founded the International Court System which has chapters in more than 68 cities in the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico. The Imperial Courts are like the gay Shriners or Elks, and in 2007 Jose stepped down and I became this international organization’s chairman and executive director.

Well, Jose is not doing well so I ask you to keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

Going to L.A.

Well, this weekend I’m off to Los Angeles for Harvey Milk Day events with the mayors of L.A., Long Beach and West Hollywood.

It’s great that Harvey’s birthday is now an officially recognized day in California (signed into law by then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger) and that so many cities celebrate it with numerous events.

And in the future, I see a postage stamp and naval vessel in honor of Harvey Milk as I read my tea leaves!

Nicky Awards: Aug. 25

The Nicky Awards have been called the gay Academy awards of San Diego by the mainstream media and hailed by the governor of California as one of the oldest GLBT awards ceremonies on the West Coast.

Now, with more than three decades of honoring outstanding achievement in the GLBT community, the 2013 Nicky Awards will be presented Sunday, Aug. 25 and, once again, Allan Spyere is the producer and president of the board of governors. Part of this year’s proceeds will benefit The LGBT Community Center. For information: 619-300-1232 or nickyawards.com

The Great Gatsby is fabulous

As someone who has read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel and seen the Robert Redford and Mia Farrow version of The Great Gatsby this 2013 movie gets five stars and a big fabulous. I love this movie!

Leonardo DiCaprio deserves at least an Academy award nomination.

According to recent surveys, this film is a big hit with older movie patrons (older than 25); and let me tell you it’s one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen.

These people are not just rich but super billionaires and live like ones.

Go see it and tell me what you think, my darlings.