It is a very difficult life to be transgender … dealing with the reality that you were born in the wrong body. The cold hard facts are that not only do a vast majority of Americans not understand our transgender brothers and sisters, sadly many gays, lesbians and bisexuals do not and many do not…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Before delivering stirring remarks two Sundays ago to a large group of LGBT San Diegans about the need for unity and alliance among America’s minority communities, Rev. Shane Harris, president of National Action Network’s…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Months of discord between San Diego LGBT Pride and a significant number of local LGBT community members operating under the auspices of Save S.D. Pride (formerly San Diego Pride Community Negotiating Committee) was further…
A parolee faces a Jan. 24, 2017 preliminary hearing on charges he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 22-year-old man in a Carlsbad motel. Antoine Demond Henderson, 44, of Chula Vista, has pleaded not guilty to six felony charges that allege he kidnapped the victim in Escondido for purposes of forcible oral copulation Oct. 20. He…
Chula Vista Police have released photos of the attacker of a gay man at a trolley stop in hopes someone can identify him. The victim, who is in his 30s, was aboard a bus at the H Street Trolley stop in Chula Vista in March, 2015. He told police the man kept staring at him…
For those who are familiar with a cancer diagnosis, there are stages of any cancer. Depending upon the prognosis, your doctor can design treatments to strike against America’s egalitarian killer. America itself now has a cancer that is in Stage 3. Stage 0 is called cancer in situ or in-place. Disenfranchised voters in the middle…
With a Bush victory and a promise of a “kinder, gentler nation” taking shape, World AIDS Day was launched. The first official World AIDS Day debuted Dec. 1, 1988, after a long, devastating winter under the Reagan regime. The idea, hatched in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers…
Let’s talk about meat. Succulent meat. Smokey pink meat. Of course I’m talking about barbecue, a centuries old method of “low and slow” cooking which involves a large slab of protein, low heat, plenty of smoke and lots of time. How low and slow can you go? Christian, the friendly and informative busser at Grand…
Your closest friend really gets you. You never have to explain yourself when you’re together; everything said (and unsaid) is understood. There may be many years between you, but it doesn’t matter. There may be differences in background, but no worries. Nothing keeps you apart, and in the new book Elizabeth and Michael by Donald…
When the final book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series was published, after the initial excitement of reading the final chapter, fans of the boy wizard and Rowling’s magical world created were also a bit distraught: It was the end. The cynic would have said, “Oh, please. There’s way too much money involved!” Between Warner…
