Last year North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s ignited a national controversy over HB2, the anti-LGBT legislation he pushed and signed into law. Since then, McCrory has staked his re-election on standing by his hateful law, despite the consequences for the states. While in 2012, McCrory was easily elected by more than 11%, according to the Real…
NEW YORK, NY – Logo Thursday announced that “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 6 winner and fan favorite Bianca Del Rio will star in “Not Today Bianca,” two original half-hour comedy specials that follow the drag queen superstar as she takes on Hollywood. Debuting this December, the specials will co-star Emmy® Award-winner RuPaul, comedy actress and Emmy® Award-winner Kristen Johnston; actress and New…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera and the San Diego City Council announced Thursday the second year of My Voice in the Arts, an educational program that provides free season subscriptions to San Diego Opera performances to middle or high-school students (plus their chaperones) in each of the nine San Diego city council districts….
In the past few weeks, I’ve had yet another transgender woman friend I’ve met through activism take her own life. It shook me. Like me, she had an underlying mental health condition; well, let’s not sugar coat it. She, like me, lived with a mental illness. Ours both had depression as components of that mental…
What an election year. The presidential race features the two least popular candidates in history. California’s ballot has a Senate run-off with no Republican and seventeen Propositions. San Diego has two different initiatives about a Chargers stadium – or is it a Convadium? With 12 days until the votes are counted, here is where things…
There’s no better time of year to be unabashedly, unequivocally, unflinchingly gay than Halloween, and this year pop culture provided us a treasure trove of costume ideas. Here you’ll find the most topical, haute, and hilarious gay-friendly Halloween costumes of 2016. From controversial public policies come to life to the roasting of Ann Coulter to…
How many remember way back in 1966 when renowned crossdresser Virginia Prince met with San Diego Police to argue against the city adopting an ordinance used to harass transgender people? Or when Nicole Murray Ramirez founded the Christine Jorgensen Society in 1974 and organized transsexuals to picket the San Diego County Courthouse? And do you…
In the 1960s and ’70s the San Diego Police Department was headed by a racist, homophobic and sexist police chief. Our bars were raided and LGBT people were harassed and treated like second class citizens. People of color and us gays referred to the downtown police station, then on Market Street, as “Gestapo Headquarters.” Recently,…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. The big moment was at hand. Butterflies in her stomach, spine stiffened and her mind trained on listening for the cue that would prompt her to stride with purpose alongside her guide dog, Camille,…
A San Diego woman pleaded guilty Oct. 20 to felony vandalism of Urban Mo’s Bar & Grill when she threw rocks through a glass door, shattering it, after she had been ejected from the popular gay business. Raquel Bonilla, 23, will be sentenced Jan. 18, 2017 by San Diego Superior Court Judge Polly Shamoon. She…
