In follow-up reporting to our coverage of Occupy San Diego, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Rick Braatz asked Lieutenant Andra Brown, media spokesperson for the San Diego Police Department, to respond to some of the accusations made in the story, “LGBTs Occupying Occupy.” After talking with Brown, Braatz then contacted Michelle “Jersey” Deutsch, one of the…
With the LGBT consumer and business market no longer stereotyped as full of affluent “DINK” (double-income, no kids) households, companies are finding they have to do more than just be located in a historically LGBT neighborhood, and throw an occasional advertisement in a local LGBT publication to keep community shoppers buying. To build back declining…
San Diego is missing the most important non-medical component of HIV/AIDS prevention, according to a local housing advocate, and, he says, the result is unnecessary death and illness from the disease. Tom McSorley is director of development at Townspeople, a housing program for the city’s most vulnerable residents – especially for homeless people who are…
Basking in the hot desert sun, Palm Springs is an ideal oasis for San Diegans looking to escape the fast-paced city life and spend a weekend lounging poolside. Palm Springs, home to the Dinah Shore Open and the notoriously wicked White Party, is about as welcoming and friendly atmosphere an L, G, B or T…
While San Diego LGBT Weekly makes its home in one of the world’s most popular resort and vacation destinations, even we at the newsmagazine and our fellow San Diegans need a place to “get away from it all.” Less than 150 miles from the coast into the desert lies that mythical gay mecca called Palm…
Hunters When planning a night out in Palm Springs, one place you won’t want to pass up is Hunters. During the last 13 years, Hunters has gained the reputation as being one of the city’s premier nightspots. This video bar, nightclub and hot dance destination keeps patrons entertained by providing attractive and friendly staff, some…
In an ideal world the repeal of DADT would have been enough to right the societal wrongs that had forced gays and lesbians in the military to live clandestine lives, lying about their sexuality for fear of being drummed out of the service if their true feelings were ever revealed; but that wasn’t the case…
“Put your hands on the bar” was the familiar order of the San Diego Vice Squad during the ‘70s. Homosexuality and engaging in sex with someone of the same sex was a criminal offense except “in private;” and then the definition of “in private” was subjective on the part of the arresting officer. Behind closed…
Americans thirst for change. The Occupy San Diego movement (the scariest thing in decades to powers that be) proves it. But at least for a few days, as the season turns and Halloween approaches, change-thirst becomes blood-thirst. San Diego LGBT Weekly has a few suggestions for quenching yours (if you’ll not mind our use of…
Sometimes, it’s hard not to laugh. When your favorite four-year-old says something hilariously profound, you bite your lip, knowing that you’d be in trouble if you bust a gut. If your beloved does something silly (but well-meaning), you twist your lips to avoid the outburst you know is coming. When your great-aunt shows up at…
