All this month, I’m out of state every weekend except for the last one when I will return as your emcee at Nightmare on Normal Street in Hillcrest. Join thousands of people at Normal Street and University. I will be the “pig in a wig” on the mic. Is the 3rd Council seat the gay…
Last Sunday, more than 20 agencies that provide mental health services gathered at the Embarcadero Marina Park to celebrate recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. The event was scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. but was pushed back to 11 a.m. due to a conflict in scheduling with the City of San Diego and another…
A standing-room-only crowd packed the Marriott Mission Valley Hotel last week for the 37th annual Nicky Awards, sometimes called the “gay Oscars of San Diego.” True to that billing, the Nickys included a live red carpet kick-off where interviews were conducted with local VIPs and personalities en route to the ballroom. Allan Spyere, president of…
Congratulations to Big Mike Philips, who this past weekend marked his 24th anniversary of moving to San Diego from Texas … their loss; our gain. Carl DeMaio and Johnathan Hale = Ronald and Nancy Reagan The entire GLBT community laughed its head off when Carl DeMaio told the San Diego media that his lover, Johnathan…
I will not comment on the Johnathan Hale Media-pushed “Balboa Park lily pond” vandalization incident until after my meeting with Police Chief Lansdowne and other city officials. Next mayor and city council to be right-wing? When I first arrived in San Diego in the early 1970s our city was controlled by a conservative right-wing mayor…
Well, my doctor made me cancel my Texas trip last weekend and so I got to enjoy some of our Pride, but the heat made a lot of participation impossible. GLBTs boo, turn their backs on DeMaio It was so noticeable that even the Union-Tribune, among other media, reported that people all along the Pride…
Q&A WITH BIG MIKE What would you call your reality show? MICHAEL BREITENSTEIN San Diego Yes, I would be on a reality show. The subject of the show would be My Gay Life. KIRK HINKLEMAN San Diego Yes, boring-ass suburbia. Straight and married with two children. BETH GALLAGHER Oceanside I…
Well, I’m off to our state capitol for five days of meetings and some speeches. Our governor could be naming a new gay or lesbian judge for San Diego soon. Police Officers’ Widows/Orphans Fund gets GLBT support Not long ago Police Officer Jeremy Henwood was shot and killed after stopping by a McDonald’s to buy…
Sunday morning, I started getting really early phone calls from back East as my picture made the New York Times society page and was done by famed photographer Bill Cunningham who caught me at a gala GLBT charity event. Laura Duffy has let us all down When openly lesbian Laura Duffy was appointed a United…
Big Mike Phillips’ recent birthday event has raised $1,000 for aNoteToMyKid.com. More than 40 people joined Big Mike for the fundraiser at the Los Angeles Getty Center, Saturday March 3.
