The Clean Syringe Exchange Program received its 1.5 millionth dirty needle in 2011, having broken the one million mark in 2010. The program started in 2002 as an attempt to stem increases in infections from HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C. Two discreet mobile units in downtown San Diego and North Park allow drug addicts twice a…
The San Diego LGBT Community Center is participating in Our Greater San Diego Vision, an effort being billed as an “unprecedented” plan for the future of the greater San Diego region. Center officials are asking for input from the community. “We’d like you to participate as well,” read a statement in The Center’s weekly e-newsletter….
WASHINGTON – During a recent major address on HIV/AIDS at the National Institutes of Health, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that Ellen DeGeneres has been named as a special envoy for global AIDS awareness. In this role, DeGeneres will use her celebrity platform to raise awareness about the global fight against AIDS. In…
KAMPALA, Uganda – The man who killed leading gay rights activist David Kato has been convicted by a court in Uganda and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Ugandan Sidney Nsubunga Enoch told the court that he had no option but to beat Kato to death with a hammer because the gay activist had propositioned…
You tried everything. When you had trouble with insomnia the other night, it seemed like nothing would lull you back to sleep. Warm milk tasted bad. That previously tired book on your bedside table suddenly turned intriguing – even infomercials held your interest, so you started counting sheep. Then you got to wondering … why…
In his letter (also published on this page), local resident and San Diego LGBT Weekly reader, West Moeller offers LGBT Americans serving and fighting for our country in the armed forces a not-so-veiled threat – in fact, a violent threat (not to be confused with a threat of violence). The first red flag in Moeller’s…
We’ve all been to Palm Springs (I am guessing) and I suspect we’ve all been there for just one or two things; the White Party or Dinah Shore, to relax by the pool at a Warm Sands resort or to simply escape the city and find some peace and tranquility out in the desert. But…
Brett Ratner has resigned as the producer of the 2012 Oscars after using a gay slur in response to a question about his methods and procedures as a producer on film sets saying, “Rehearsal is for fags.” In an open letter Ratner wrote, “Over the last few days, I’ve gotten a well-deserved earful from many…
Basking in the hot desert sun, Palm Springs is an ideal oasis for San Diegans looking to escape the fast-paced city life and spend a weekend lounging poolside. Palm Springs, home to the Dinah Shore Open and the notoriously wicked White Party, is about as welcoming and friendly atmosphere an L, G, B or T…
While San Diego LGBT Weekly makes its home in one of the world’s most popular resort and vacation destinations, even we at the newsmagazine and our fellow San Diegans need a place to “get away from it all.” Less than 150 miles from the coast into the desert lies that mythical gay mecca called Palm…
