In his performance at the Human Rights Campaign’s Stand Up For Equality in San Diego last month, D.J. Pierce returned briefly to his Shangela experience to explain to audience members what life was like on RuPaul’s Drag Race. He suggested that Ru might tell two audience coworkers (paraphrase): I’m sorry, my dears, but this week…
Editor’s note: This is Autumn’s personal experience of her recent bilateral orchiectomy. It contains some graphic language. Well, “Oww.” And by that, I actually mean physical pain in my genital area due to gender affirmation surgery. Seriously, my scheduled bilateral orchiectomy (“orchi”) with Dr. Tuan Nguyen was accomplished on Aug. 17. The surgery went well…
After reading mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio’s interview in this past Sunday’s Union–Tribune I posted this commentary on our LGBT Weekly Web site (lgbtweekly.jeffjungblut.com
With a volatile stock and bond market, a dysfunctional congress and unemployment over 9 percent, it can be hard to believe in the American Dream. With Prop 8 still in effect, and a parade of Republican presidential candidates seeing who can hate gay marriage most (Fred Karger being the notable exception), it can be hard…
Sylvia Guerrero, murdered trans teen Gwen Araujo’s mother, has been quoted as stating “If I’ve learned anything since Gwen’s murder, it is that hope alone is not enough. Each of us who hopes to live in a state where our families are protected needs to work toward making California that place … “None of us…
This month is my fifth year anniversary of living in Shady Pines, which I lovingly call my senior living complex. I feel like I’m one of the Golden Girls (I’m Blanche, of course, and my manager Carl is Sophia.) It’s a wonderful complex with really nice neighbors and I live with my very fat black…
At the risk of losing my gay card, I’ll admit I don’t really like reality TV. More annoying is when reality TV invades reality, as when the cast of The Learning Channel’s Sister Wives sued the state of Utah over its anti-polygamy laws. Thanks largely to right-wing talking heads, TV polygamists have entered the marriage…
Looking on the web of late, I’ve found what anti-trans minded folk say about all stripes of trans people, but especially transsexuals. I found something that was a cheerless discovery. Anti-trans sentiments that have been expressed by some radical lesbian feminists read very much like the anti-trans sentiments that have been expressed by some on…
As I’ve said before, I just don’t know why they call these the “Golden Years” as they are really the “Bronze” or “Copper” years when it comes to ageing! The heat really gets us seniors, and my home at Shady Pines isn’t too cool – and now I’m off to the East Coast where it’s…
When the police arrive at your door at 4 a.m., you know two things about the party: It’s great, and it’s over. It’s time for someone to dial 9-1-1 on the Tea Party. They had a good ride, but it needs to end. Neighborhoods are a microcosm of the social contract that makes our government,…
