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The Pope’s messages are more important than his religion Dear Editor, This letter is addressed to San Diego LGBT Weekly publisher Stampp Corbin. So I can better understand from where you’re coming, please indulge me and tell me what your religious preference is? Obviously you’re not Catholic, so are you a Protestant or an atheist?…

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New GOP embraces gays Dear Editor: As a dedicated reader of GLBT online newspapers, including yours, I’m amazed by how endlessly hateful and intolerant the reporting is on the Republican Party. There is a new day for gay people in the GOP. Consider this: The Republican National Committee has removed all anti-gay planks from their…

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SB 731: A step in the right direction for LGBTQ youth in foster care Dear Editor The California legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown took vital action by passing into law Senate Bill 731 (“Protections for transgender foster youth signed into law,” Oct. 12, 2015), a step that could vastly improve the lives of California’s transgender…

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Letters Thanks for having my back Dear Editor, Thanks for your publisher’s editorial on diversity at San Diego Pride (issue 179, Aug. 6). I can be impressed by shirtless 30-year-olds partying but to have only a +55 shade place for seniors is beyond insulting and is noticed. I supported LGBT Pride with contributions and attended…

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Letters You helped me make up my mind Dear Editor, I had long been a proponent of marriage equality on general grounds but had been somewhat ambivalent on the matter of civil partnerships. Was a civil partnership “close enough” to actual marriage? Should same-sex couples be satisfied with that? A quote attributed to Stampp Corbin…

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letters San Diego needs to talk about HIV not remember AIDS Dear Editor, While I applaud the people behind the San Diego AIDS Memorial for taking the leadership in such a meaningful endeavor, I do have to question the timing of it. Memorials are something that we build like the World War II Memorial or…

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Re: Firing of Atlanta fire chief by Atlanta mayor Dear Editor All hail the firing of homophobic Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran, for distribution of homophobic religious literature, to Atlanta City employees. Mayor Kasim Reed is to be commended, for his actions. Former Fire Chief Cochran whines about discrimination, based on religious belief, but no…

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A thank you to Stampp Corbin Dear Editor, This is just a personal expression of appreciation for your editorial “I Can’t Breathe” (San Diego LGBT Weekly, Issue 162). As an eighty-one-year old activist, who has worked on race/class/gender/LGBT issues for fifty years and who finds that (despite spurts like Brown vs. Board of Education and gay…

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Transphobic? Dear Editor, Hey folks, I would appreciate no one use the term “transphobic” to describe the editorial folk at San Diego LGBT Weekly. They may disagree with you personally on what should or shouldn’t be acceptable commentary in the comment threads for my columns, but the publisher is giving a platform to folk who…

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Nicolasaurous Dear Editor, Stampp’s standing up to Nicole is brave and badly needed. Nicole has stayed at the party way too long and it’s time to go. Have you ever zipped up too fast and gotten your nuts caught in the zipper? Well, that is what 40 plus years of Nicole feels like. Someday the…

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