The funny thing about the LGBT civil rights movement is its unpredictability. Sometimes our community makes unbelievable strides, like the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and sometimes it is a smaller advance, like hospital visitation, which is enacted and goes practically unnoticed by our community. While the big things like marriage and employment non-discrimination…
This week’s column is dedicated to those of you who have a story to tell but who have yet to find the time, place or support structure to tell it. Your story might be a memoir, a poem, something short or a novel. It might recount the color and spectacle of your own life, from…
There was a bit of controversy around whether the Victory Fund should endorse City Councilman Carl DeMaio in the mayoral race. After all, DeMaio is gay and the Victory Fund’s purpose is to expand LGBT persons in elected and appointed office across the nation. I applaud the Victory Fund’s apparent decision not to endorse DeMaio…
“Where are the jobs?” That’s the unabashed clarion cry House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner bellowed upon taking the lectern as speaker in 2011, and it’s the same sad song he sings when, after nearly two years of proposing nary a jobs plan of the Republicans’ own, he needs to appear relevant again. Sure the…
The San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF) has announced that Executive Director Tony Freeman is leaving his post to return to the ministry of the Metropolitan Community Church. During this transition period, long-time supporter and past board member of the foundation, David Miles has been appointed interim executive director. Together with board Vice President Drew…
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This simple phrase from the Declaration of Independence helped launch our nation. But as a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender…
Here’s an overview of some of the smaller, less publicized exhibitions happening in town that might be of interest. The Women’s Museum of California has a new home. The organization that celebrates the experience and contributions of women began in a private home in Golden Hill back in the 1980s. Now it has settled into…
The Civil Rights Agenda, an Illinois LGBTQ advocacy organization has released a statement confirming that Chick-fil-A is ceasing anti-gay donations, and has clarified its stance on gay customers and employees. From the statement: The Civil Rights Agenda … has learned that Alderman Moreno has finalized his negotiations with Chick-Fil-A. Alderman Moreno has confirmed that Chick-fil-A…
EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE BY THOM SENZEE “If you just hang out at these bars, the older guys who have been frequenting these gay bars for twenty-five years will tell you these stories,” previously discredited author Jerome Corsi quotes former ‘gossip columnist in Chicago for various blogs,’ Kevin DuJan, as telling him. “Obama used to go to…
Ryan Trabuco, president of the San Diego Log Cabin Republicans, wrote an eloquent response to my desire to understand LGBT Republicans. What I find interesting is that while his arguments were written beautifully, they can easily be refuted. First Ryan says, “Our very first Republican platform in 1856 advocates ‘equal rights for all citizens,’ a…
