San Diego mayor, Bob Filner, planted a peace tree last Saturday at the Sri Chinmoy Peace Garden located in the community of Normal Heights, on the corner of Adams Avenue and Arizona Street. At the ceremony Filner said: “As we progress as a city and we talk about tourism, and we talk about the navy,…
Day of Decision, Wednesday, June 26: The LGBT community took to the streets and rallied at the Hillcrest Pride Flag to celebrate the Supreme Court’s rulings on DOMA and Prop. 8.
If you want to bring water to the San Diego Pride Festival, make sure it is in a sealed bottle. Opened bottles of water or any beverage will not be allowed inside and you will be told to finish it or pour it out. This is a San Diego LGBT Pride policy to deter the…
Goodness gracious! I just remembered pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Fact bible Wikipedia says it is the worst, leading to all the others. Yet here we are holding a parade and festival for it. Surely, there has been a mistake in the translation of the ancient tongue. What is there to celebrate?…
San Diego citizen Jeff Olson (who is gay) made national news headlines when he was arrested for just writing his protest message against American banks in chalk on the streets. (I call this political art.) Of course, it was arch right-wing (check out his state legislative record) City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who made the decision…
The Newsroom returns to HBO July 14, and before then you can binge on the first season of Aaron Sorkin’s sometimes comic drama about the backstage goings on at a cable news show hosted by a truth-telling independent. Sorkin, who created The West Wing and wrote The Social Network, has a practically patented style of…
Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, July 7, 1 p.m. The movie that made James Dean a star is about a, yes, rebellious teenager in the 1950s whose charisma persuades a girl (Natalie Wood) and a boy (Sal Mineo) to question the stringency of post-war America. Wood and Mineo were both nominated for Oscars, while Dean became…
Being invisible is not easy, but it is a situation LGBT seniors face daily. We are not ignored, that is deliberate; we are just not there. It saddens and, at times, infuriates seniors to be denied the chance to communicate our knowledge and experiences to the younger crowd; to compare our lives and enrich each…
About the San Diego leather community article Dear Editor, Thank you for sharing a brief overview of the leather, kink, and fetish community in San Diego (San Diego LGBT Weekly June 20, issue 123). I encourage anyone who wants to know more about who we are to reach out and find us! I am compelled…
