Commentary: Conversations with Nicole BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ The facts are that a major earthquake will, sooner or later, occur in California according to all the experts. Also the FBI and Homeland Security have in the past named San Diego as one of the top cities for a possible terrorist attack. San Diego is right…
Nearly $10,000 was raised April 2 at Pastor Dan’s Birthday Bash fundraiser that is going toward the ministry programs at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) in San Diego. Approximately 125 people attended the evening event to honor Rev. Dan Koeshall at The LGBT Center in Hillcrest. MCC used to meet there before the church bought a…
Nicole, thank you for your wonderful kind words Dear Editor, How simply wonderful to read Nicole’s precise words on the raping of Aunties in November of last year, (LGBT Weekly issue 106 Nov. 29, 2012) and your recent follow up (LGBT Weekly issue 116 March 28). I was more than the bookkeeper. I was the…
LOS ANGELES — Equality California (EQCA) has announced the receipt of a $250,000 grant from The California Endowment to educate and enroll at-risk and marginalized lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Californians in Affordable Care Act approved health care plans. This funding will be used for a campaign named “Health Happens With Equality,” with outreach up…
NEW YORK — The New York City AIDS Memorial’s Board of Directors revealed new renderings of the final design for the memorial and formally launched their capital campaign at a press conference last Wednesday evening in Manhattan. The effort to build the memorial, which started in 2011 as a grass-roots advocacy campaign led by two…
I struggled as I decided to write this particular “Message from our Publisher.” Many will accuse me of playing the race card, stirring the pot or not letting sleeping dogs lie. I cannot help but see the double standard in the San Diego community. What is causing my rancor? Lilygate. It has been more than…
Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, are available to people that have a high-deductible health insurance plan. The HSA is used for medical expenses such as your deductible, co-payments, medications, prescription glasses and dental care. The cash deposited into an HSA is pre-tax money. And money withdrawn from the HSA is also tax-free if used for…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Should the Supreme Court overturn a federal law that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman, some married same-sex couples will save $8,000 or more in income tax, a new analysis finds. This week, the court will hear a case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996…
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz dug in his heels about gay marriage after an investor complained that the company’s support was eroding its bottom line. “If you feel respectfully that you can get a higher return [than] the 38% you got last year, it’s a free country,” said Schultz, during the annual…
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has announced that beginning in May, three hospitals will be permitted to perform gender reassignment surgery, announced Nguyen Huy Quang, director of the Department of Legal Affairs for the Ministry. According to an internal document, in 2,000 newborn babies, one has genitals not fit to the chromosome. And 1 in…
