Our seniors helped make our LGBT community what it is today, but they are more than just part of our past; they are woven into every part of our community, helping to shape who we are and showing us who we will become. As the first generation aging as an openly LGBT population, they…
The San Diego family, which includes the Imperial Court, puppies, sisters, cowboys, bears, local business owners, men and women of the leather community and a few elders, all came together on Sunday, May 15 at Dutch’s “Pink Palace,” a beautiful estate, to send-off Anthony Rollar, Mr. San Diego Leather 2010, to International Mr. Leather (IML)…
Thursday, June 2 Flower Drum Song San Diego Asian American Repertory Theater in residence at La Jolla Playhouse presents Flower Drum Song: A Musical Revival in Concert. Based on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s legendary Broadway musical Flower Drum Song follows Mei-Li, who flees Mao’s Communist China and immigrates to San Francisco in the 1950s. She struggles…
Janet Mock has a career as a writer and journalist; she’s an editor for People.com. She’s young, beautiful and African American. Recently, she came out as a woman of transsexual experience. Mock came out in conjunction with releasing a video for the It Gets Better project – a video series created by Dan Savage to…
Strange things happen in this world. Bizarre things! I remember as a child, my mom had just made a bologna sandwich, complete with Wonder Bread. Just as I was ready to take a bite – plop! – a bird had just flown over and snatched the sandwich from me. Strange things happen. And sometimes these…
Three decades, 650,000 deaths in the United States, 7,000 known deaths in San Diego County and still no cure. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome – commonly known by its acronym, AIDS – was first documented on June 5, 1981 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The LGBT community has never been the same. AIDS…
Editor’s Note: Not by any means is this meant to be an exhaustive list. It is simply a tribute to the talent and energy lost to AIDS in the local LGBT community. Albert Bell “At some point in your life, you’re faced with: ‘Are you going to shut up and die quietly? Or are you…
Before the AIDS epidemic hit, the gay and lesbian communities were largely separated; however, nothing brings together people like grief. As gay men were dying, the lesbian community stepped forward to help care for the sick. They became “buddies” for those suffering from HIV and AIDS – cooking food, cleaning apartments, running errands and too…
