National and local civil rights leaders gathered before a large crowd at San Diego State University Friday, Sept. 28 to endorse Congressman Bob Filner for mayor of San Diego. African American Congressman Bennie Thompson from Bolton, Miss., where he once served as mayor, told the crowd that Bob Filner, as a teenager, went down South…
The San Diego Kings Club will celebrate their twelfth anniversary Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. with a show at Numbers Night Club, 3811 Park Blvd. in San Diego. Created in the fall of 2000 by Drag King Chest Rockwell, the San Diego Kings Club are one of the oldest drag king groups still in existence….
Art of Pride is presenting an exhibition of the works of Bill Mead and John Keasler at the San Diego LGBT Pride Office, 3620 30th Street in San Diego. There will be an opening reception Saturday, Oct. 13 6 – 9 p.m. Bill Mead has been an artist all his life and discovered photography when…
Restaurants in Mission Hills will host the first annual Taste of Mission Hills Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 5 – 9 p.m. Council President pro tem Kevin L. Faulconer will announce and dedicate the area of India Street North, International Restaurant Row at 6:30 p.m. A free Old Town Trolley shuttle will transport tasters to participating…
Circle Circle dot dot will host their second-annual costume gala fundraiser as a Halloween-themed event at Queen Bee’s Arts and Cultural Center, 3925 Ohio Street in San Diego, Oct. 13 7 p.m. – midnight. The event, A Zombie Affair to Remember, will feature live entertainment including local bands, DJs, zombie-themed cabaret acts and several best-zombie-costume…
A Web site launched to track the use of homophobic words on Twitter has revealed some startling statistics. NoHomophobes.com launched by The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) at the University of Alberta in July has tracked over 2.5 million uses of the word “faggot,” nearly 1 million uses of “so gay” or…
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Hundreds of University of Notre Dame employees are urging the Roman Catholic school to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination clause. The campus newspaper, the Observer, ran a full-page ad last week that was signed by 366 school employees urging Notre Dame “to make the protection, recognition, and equal treatment” of…
Well, I’m off to Canada this weekend (more on that in an upcoming column). Just ugly This has been one of the most ugly and negative mayoral races in our city’s history and no candidate for mayor has been so disliked or rejected by GLBT, Latino, African American and Asian leaders and voters as Carl…
Right about Roosevelt, Obama Dear Editor, I want to thank you for the article titled “Re-election could unleash new jobs plan” on page 4 of the Sept. 27 issue. For those of us who know and love New Orleans, we knew before Katrina that the federal “levy protection system” was bullshit. I also believe that…
The funny thing about the LGBT civil rights movement is its unpredictability. Sometimes our community makes unbelievable strides, like the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and sometimes it is a smaller advance, like hospital visitation, which is enacted and goes practically unnoticed by our community. While the big things like marriage and employment non-discrimination…
