EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: CLICK HERE TO WATCH I’m aware that attitudes in society, and even in the LGBT community, about trans women are often negative and sometimes hostile. As a trans woman, the idea of being arrested is a scary thought because I know those negative and hostile attitudes are at least as commonplace in police…
Having watched the Republican Primary debates unfold, it has become clear to me that you will soon run out of candidates to surge to the top of the field. With nearly a month until the Iowa caucuses, only Rick Santorum and John Huntsman have not had their day in the sun. Before you again beg…
Thank you to everyone who attended the San Diego LGBT Weekly 1st anniversary party at the award-winning Busalacchi’s restaurant. It was great to see Mayor Jerry Sanders, Congressman Bob Filner, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, Sheriff Bill Gore and so many other VIP’s, businesspeople, community leaders and activists having such a great time. Community members need…
In Erie, Pa., everyone roots for two teams on a college football Saturday: Notre Dame and whoever is playing Penn State, or Penn State and whoever is playing Notre Dame. Having spent a summer in University Park during high school, I chose the latter. Through medical school and graduate school, I went to the Penn…
Between Nov. 11 and Nov. 25 this year are many days that leave me between feeling sorrowful and thankful. Owning it all is a difficult thing, but owning it all is important. Nov. 11 this year, as it is every year, was Veterans Day. I’m very well known these days as a transgender military veteran…
You wouldn’t have known it in California, but Tuesday, Nov. 8, was Election Day. The third year of a president’s term typically has few marque races, but there were a number of states with elections impacting the progressive movement and the LGBT community. Arizona. In one of the night’s biggest surprises, state Senate President Russell…
I’ve become painfully aware that I don’t always live up to my own standards. Two recent incidents serve as perfect examples of my higher mind giving into the primal instinct of anger and to the age-old desire for revenge. Indeed, I have failed to live up to my own standards. The particular standard I failed…
The holidays are fast approaching so please support the Imperial Court’s annual blanket drive for the homeless and veterans; the food drive/grocery vouchers for GLBT parents and children and toy drives for GLBT families, most who are out of work. For more info: 619-692-1967. Thank you and God bless. LGBT Veterans Wall dedication tonight One…
One stage. Nine challengers. Forty million viewers. And the winner takes home a six-month national TV campaign, plus a $500 million advertising contract, and a chance to challenge the current champion – one-on-one. If that whets your appetite for a new cycle of America’s Next Top Model, I’m sorry to disappoint. It’s just the Republican…
A few columns ago I wrote that I believe the HRC, when it comes to transgender community issues, is an anvil and not a hammer; a thermometer and not a thermostat. I stated this in relation to a Martin Luther King Jr. quote from Strength To Love: “Longfellow said, ‘In this world a man must…
