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La Toya: Pride’s co-grand marshal talks DOMA, life without Michael and ‘Life with La Toya’
Life with La Toya star, La Toya Jackson will be grand marshal alongside George Takei at this year’s San Diego LGBT Pride Parade. She will also be introducing the winner of the Voice of Pride singing contest during the Pride Festival. San Diego LGBT Weekly spoke with the superstar by phone recently and got some…
Outside the Boxx with Pandora
Ask anyone about RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season Two and the name Pandora Boxx comes to mind. Boxx has become an LGBT household name and while she didn’t win, she represented and proved herself a strong up and coming performer with an array of talents. Drag Race Season Two proved to be a fierce competition that…
Visitor’s guide to San Diego
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Direct from New York City … the remarkable Amanda Lepore
Given the historic nature of Coy Mathis’ victory, it would perhaps be fodder for media dissection long after the ruling came down. But, sandwiched as it was between some of the nation’s most transcendent moments in LGBT history, her story has all but disappeared from our collective national consciousness. Yet it bears repeating if we…
Bill Hardt: The king of San Diego Pride Parties reveals a giving side
You’re on the dance floor working up a good sweat. A throbbing hip-hop beat thumps from the speakers and colored lights flash and spin in sync with the music. You’re having a great time with your friends at one of the many San Diego LGBT Pride Parties. Chances are good that while you’re working up…
Life, love, family shaped Vicci’s art
Life shapes art according to singer-songwriter, Vicci Martinez, who will be performing at Pride’s main stage, Sun., July 14 from 5-5:30 p.m. For Martinez, a few major events that have unfolded during her 28 years have molded her into the artist Pride Festival goers will experience, not least among them her parents’ response to her…
How to be ready for your big fab gay wedding
With last week’s historic decisions from the Supreme Court on DOMA and Proposition 8 as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering the Prop. 8 stay lifted, same-sex marriage is back in California. In addition, by ruling DOMA unconstitutional, the Court said the federal government will now recognize same-sex marriages in states where…
LGBT seniors: looking back at the ‘good old days’
Being invisible is not easy, but it is a situation LGBT seniors face daily. We are not ignored, that is deliberate; we are just not there. It saddens and, at times, infuriates seniors to be denied the chance to communicate our knowledge and experiences to the younger crowd; to compare our lives and enrich each…
Exploring San Diego’s leather community
In mid-May, my editor emailed me some ideas for a possible story on the leather community for an upcoming issue. The story was to cover the leather community in terms of its people and values. I was intrigued by the questions and accepted to do the story. I’ve gone to a couple of leather/fetish related…