Who would be in charge of securing acts for President-elect Trump’s inauguration! After yesterday’s reassuring announcement that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will perform a whole new kerfuffle has broken out over another set of artist slated to perform – the Radio City Rockettes! Following an announcement Thursday that the Rockettes would perform, Variety reported that…
2016 has been a year of progress for the LGBT community, but unfortunately the entire year is best characterized as the year of backlash. Whether it is the election of the Trump/Pence ticket, that attack on the trans community with respect to bathroom access or the deadly massacre at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, 2016…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Restaurants fail every day. Each time one closes, there’s a good chance a restaurateur’s dream dies with it. But occasionally, a restaurant’s closure also means employees don’t get their final paychecks. That’s exactly what…
It is only fitting that the Electoral College did their job and made Donald Trump the president. After all the Electoral College was established for two reasons: to ensure that the general populace could not elect the president because they were not qualified to do so and to guarantee that the “Three-Fifths Compromise” in the…
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has accepted an invitation to sing at the swearing-in ceremony during the presidential inauguration for President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Michael R. Pence.at the U.S. Capitol next month in Washington, D.C. This performance will mark the sixth time the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has sung at an inauguration. These inaugural…
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, thousands will gather to march at the San Diego Women’s March, held in solidarity with the Women’s March On Washington. Women, men and children of all backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities, religions, orientations and political affiliations will come together at 10a.m. for this peaceful event the day after the presidential inauguration in response…
RALEIGH — After breaking their word by refusing to allow a clean vote on full repeal of HB2, Republican lawmakers are now blaming Democrats for not going along with the GOP plan to leave parts of HB2 in place indefinitely. Instead of fully repealing HB2, Republicans proposed to indefinitely extend the provision of HB2 prohibiting…
Today, the North Carolina General Assembly failed to repeal the state’s deeply discriminatory HB2. Full repeal of HB2 was a central part of a deal negotiated by Governor-elect Roy Cooper that included the recent repeal of Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance. At the last minute, GOP leadership in the General Assembly blew up the deal when they…
North Carolina’s infamous “Bathroom Bill” HB 2 could be repealed today. House Bill 2, signed into law in March, bans people from using public bathrooms that don’t correspond to their biological sex. Following Charlotte City Council’s rescinding of its nondiscrimination ordinance a special session by the state legislature to repeal HB2 is expected today. “The…
SAN FRANCISCO — A new exhibition at the GLBT History Museum will feature the work of cartoonist Fran Frisch as a starting point for exploring the history of the bear community, a subculture that developed in the 1980s to celebrate older, larger, hairier, ruggedly masculine gay men who had been largely excluded from standards of…
