SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Six local artists recently recognized for their outstanding achievements in the field of Visual Arts will be featured in the San Diego Art Prize booth [#114] at this month’s ART San Diego. Rizzhel Mae Javier, Alexander Kohnke, Miriam Gabriela Garcia Aquirre, Cathy Breslaw, Michelle Montjoy and Rebecca Louise Webb have been…
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Former President Barack Obama spoke out today on President Donald Trump’s ending of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “To target these young people is wrong ― because they have done nothing wrong,” Obama said in a statement. “It is self-defeating ― because they want to start new businesses, staff…
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Equality Federation has issued a call to action to tell swing vote lawmakers to support the Dream Act of 2017, and stand-up to Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. “President Trump’s announcement that he will end DACA, a program that protects undocumented young people who grew up in America from deportation, is a cruel and…
NEW YORK — With the announcement this morning of the Trump administration’s intention to phase out DACA, a program that had protected nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S as children from deportation, social media exploded. In fact, in the hour following the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions (12 noon to 1…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The San Diego LGBT Center will hold a “Defend DACA Rally” at 6 p.m. today, Tuesday, Sept.5 at the San Diego County Waterfront Park — water fountain facing Harbor Drive (1600 Pacific Hwy, San Diego). Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), is an Obama program started four years ago. The government…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Lambda Legal and 46 other national, state, and local LGBT groups from across the country strongly opposed the confirmation of Eric S. Dreiband to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Dept. of Justice, citing his “overwhelmingly anti-civil rights record” and his efforts to “diminish…
WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration today announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program will officially terminate in six months when the matter will be handed over to Congress. Nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants are at risk of deportation if the president and members of the House and Senate…
Last year was a particularly rough one. Every time you open a newspaper or turned on the computer or TV, it seemed as though someone – a Hollywood actor, singer, or stage performer you liked – had died. Even now, whether it was six months, a year or, as in Somebody to Love by Matt…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. In the weeks since news outlets across the globe picked up a story that WeHo Times broke about the death of a 26-year-old Texas youth at the home of politically influential West Hollywood resident,…
