We attended the celebration of Danza Mexi’cayotl dancers’ thirty-three years of San Diego tradition at the Historic Chicano Park July 21. La Danza Azteca is not only a modern mystic folk dance tradition of Central Mexico based on the cultural legacy of the Aztecs, their enemies and their descendants; it is a way of life,…
Voters in one of northern Mexico’s most violent cities have elected the country’s first openly gay mayor. Benjamín Medrano Quezada, of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), will become the mayor of Fresnillo, which has a population of 110,000, when he is sworn in. According to Box Turtle Bulletin, Quezada won on a campaign aimed at…
Mexico possesses a rich history of popular art that reaches more than 2,000 years into the past and continues today in villages, towns, and cities throughout the country. Through Aug. 17 El Caballo: The Horse in Mexican Folk Art, is on display at the Center for Community & Cultural Arts at the Jacobs Center for…
Yes, the annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast set for next Friday, May 24 is sold out! More than 1,200 tickets have been sold, which will make this the biggest breakfast/lunch/dinner event in the history of our GLBT community in San Diego. Gov. Barbara Roberts and Academy award winner, the handsome Dustin Lance Black (author of…
Commentary: Conversations with Nicole BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ The facts are that a major earthquake will, sooner or later, occur in California according to all the experts. Also the FBI and Homeland Security have in the past named San Diego as one of the top cities for a possible terrorist attack. San Diego is right…
The San Diego Latino Film Festival begins this weekend. As it has for the past seven years it will be continuing its mission to help correct the often distorted images seen on television and in the movies by revealing LGBT lives through international film in the 8th outing of their Cine Gay Showcase. Challenging the…
Feb. 22 GLBT elected and community leaders gathered on the steps of the San Francisco City Hall to hold a news conference and rally in support of the campaign to get San Francisco International Airport renamed as the Harvey Milk San Francisco International Airport. Among the speakers were California state Assemblymember Tom Ammiano; City Supervisor…
The International Imperial Court System, which was founded in 1965 and now has more than 68 chapters in cities across the USA, Canada and Mexico, will convene this coming weekend in San Diego for its sixth session of “Parliament,” a meeting of its governing body: the International Court Council (ICC) and San Diego’s 41st annual…
Well, I’m in town this weekend but will be in Houston, Texas next weekend, then off to Atlanta, Ga. with Stuart Milk to attend the 20th annual Creating Change conference, sponsored by the N.G.L.T.F. and with more than 3,000 GLBT activists and leaders from all across the USA expected. It’s been a month for Mayor…
Mexico has become the first country in North America to lift the ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, according to the Medical Daily. Instead, the new regulations will ask prospective donors to recount their sexual history rather than their sexual orientation. Men who have sex with men (MSM) will be eligible to…
