Michael Leisner, the anti-gay marriage protestor who set fire to a box of Cheerios on the lawn in front of General Mills’ headquarters has died of a heart attack. Leisner’s protest, which went viral, was posted on YouTube Aug. 5 and shows him standing in front of the General Mills sign with box of Honey…
San Diego LGBT Weekly spoke with actress, comedian, singer and all-around performer, Sandra Bernhard in advance of her performance next week at La Jolla Playhouse, and learned a lot about one of the entertainment world’s most enigmatic celebrities. San Diego LGBT Weekly: I won’t say I’ve been a huge fan since I was a little boy,…
BY STAMPP CORBIN Publisher, LGBTweekly.com Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Prop 8 was voted into law in 2008 and established in the California Constitution that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. The ruling does not mean same-sex couples can…
BY VICTOR HOFF Tracking Sean down was no easy task. He’s not inclined to give interviews or, I suspect, he’s much more careful about with whom he speaks, given the rather toxic environment he has left behind in the gay adult entertainment world when he closed the door on ‘Brent Corrigan.’ Luckily, I have the…
An Israeli man and his partner are celebrating the birth of their child after he delivered at Sheba Medical Center Thursday evening. Yuval Topper, 24, a transgender man, reportedly stunned medical personnel when he walked into the facility appearing in every way a man, ready to give birth, Israeli newspaper Y Net is reporting. Topper…
Iowans gather Tuesday for the nation’s first primary season caucus BY JOEL TRAMBLEY Tuesday evening, 100,000 or so Iowa voters will bundle up, brave the cold and head out to one of 800 political gathering places. At 7 p.m. (CST), they will begin the process of picking our next president. Below is a primer on…
Day 1 (Friday, Oct 7): Occupy San Diego begins at Children’s Park Day 2 (Saturday, Oct 8): San Diego Civic Center occupied (occupiers later rename it Freedom Square) Day 3 (Sunday, Oct 9): Canvas for a Cause (CFAC) creates an LGBT safe space tent Day 5 (Tuesday, Oct 11): SAME holds teach-in on the LGBT…
Speaking as the 4 Friends, a collaboration of San Diego’s AIDS Service Organizations, after 30 years of fighting this fight, we should have something to say. Can we say that all who are living with HIV/AIDS has food to eat, medicine to heal, and a place to live? Can we say we have stopped infecting…
Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall is featured in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the web ad, Hall confidently explains, “Over time, equality wins – that’s the beauty of America.” Hall is a playwright and performer from Memphis, Tenn. and is perhaps…
How gay times change. In the ’80s and ’90s, a combative gay youth chanted “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it”. Then came the young millennium gays who worked to alter their queerness, usually by morphing into muscle jocks, sporting cargo shorts and tight fitting Abercrombie & Fitch tanks. Today’s gay youth have a…
