Chris Kehoe’s election as our city’s first openly gay official was one of the most important moments in the history of our LGBT community. Since then LGBT San Diegans have been elected judges, district attorney, state assemblymembers and county supervisors, etc. To many of us, Kevin Beiser’s election to the school board was the second…
Last week was the 10th Annual Christmas Wreath Auction at the award winning restaurant/nightclub, Martinis above Fourth in Hillcrest. For ten years, the owners and outstanding staff have been putting on this holiday charity event which has resulted in more than $180,000 being raised for the Queen Eddie Conlon Youth Fund administrated by our GLBT…
San Diego is the 8th largest city in the nation and there continues to be serious issues facing our city. Now more than ever, we need a qualified man with leadership experience; a moderate that can work with both Democrats and Republicans. Our city cannot afford “on the job training” in leadership and non-partisanship. If…
David Alvarez When it comes to GLBT issues and equality, our community has two solid candidates, supporters and friends in Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez. While I do appreciate both of these candidates reaching out to me after the primary, I have not totally made up my mind, but will endorse a candidate in my…
There is that saying that if we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. Also, if we allow people to change history and rewrite it, how indeed can we learn from it? The recent media hullabaloo over the old San Diego Police headquarters on West Harbor Drive opening up as a retail…
The mayoral primary is coming up and as I have stated before when the dust settles it will be Kevin Faulconer vs. Nathan Fletcher battling it out for the general election. I was not impressed with David Alvarez’s campaign as it seemed mostly aimed at Latino voters, though millions were spent on it. I think…
Sometimes it seems our community loves to eat their own. We put people up on pedestals, and then try to knock them down. Recently, a so called “gay writer” released a book, that took him eight years to write, trying to destroy the late Matthew Shepard. I know his parents and most people have gotten…
My phone rang off the hook recently over the back cover ad in the October issue of San Diego Pix magazine. It featured two hunky guys sharing what is known in the drug world as a “shotgun.” I have always admitted my own personal drug problem since the 1960s (mostly quaaludes and coke) and trust…
In one of my past columns I personally took my own responsibility as a longtime friend and supporter of Bob Filner for not speaking out to him about his conduct. The facts are that almost all of us heard, talked, gossiped about Bob and his hitting on women, not for years, but decades. We laughed…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as I’ve said before, “The pink ribbon should be as important to the GLBT community as is the red.” During those dark, early and lonely years of AIDS in the 1980s lesbian women were the unsung heroes who many times took care of their then dying gay male…
