What do you get when you combine Tony Award winning actor and writer Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy/Hairspray) with pop sensation Cyndi Lauper? The answer? Broadway history. Fierstein and Lauper joined forces back in 2006 with director Jerry Mitchell to create the Broadway musical smash hit Kinky Boots, based on the 2005 film of the…
BY CORRI PLANCK The preparations for AIDS Walk San Diego have never been surrounded by so much optimism for an end to the epidemic levels of HIV infection. While teams are forming and fundraising and volunteers and staffers are busily organizing event logistics, an important community conversation is taking place. In the midst of this…
thursday, sept. 18 Oklahoma! This Rodgers and Hammerstein classic features songs like “ Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”, “Surrey With the Fringe On Top”, “People Will Say We’re In Love”, “Many a New Day” and “I Can’t Say No”. It tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams….
The headlines of the Clairemont Community News read, “Hate crime in Clairemont: Local church vandalized.” As some of you already know, Metropolitan Community Church (The Met Church, MCC) was the target of vandalism recently. The graffiti was defined as a hate crime and a police report has been filed. A couple days later eggs were…
SAN DIEGO – AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) proudly expanded its support of public health in the San Diego community by opening its first specialized HIV clinic in the area Sept. 9, offering specialized, client-centered HIV/AIDS care through its Hillcrest location. A private reception and ribbon cutting was hosted at the clinic Tuesday Sept. 9. The…
SAN DIEGO – AIDS Walk & Run San Diego and The San Diego LGBT Community Center have launched a community education campaign to help end new HIV infections. “#BeTheGeneration” is designed to strengthen prevention and education efforts, and increase access and utilization of HIV testing and treatment options. It also aims to help lessen the…
A Compton school board member has pleaded not guilty to oral copulation of his friend while he was asleep while they were staying in a San Diego hotel. Skyy de Anthony Fisher, 31, is free on $100,000 bond and is awaiting a Nov. 5 preliminary hearing in San Diego Superior Court. The lone charge is…
NEW YORK — Geoffrey Taft and Joshua Altman, owners of Apprize Realty in San Diego, Calif., are the first winners of A&E/FYI channel’s new hit competition series Rowhouse Showdown. The design duo, featured in the current issue of San Diego LGBT Weekly (issue 155) bested three other teams as they battled it out to transform…
The day after Doug Lathrop was born his parents were informed that his legs were broken and he was diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta. By the time Doug was 12 years old he had been hospitalized at least 25 times for fractures or surgeries. Doug Lathrop accepted the fact that he would never walk a day…
thursday, sept. 11 The Monthly Grind Join the Women’s Resource Center this Thursday for another installment of this popular series. This month special guests are Aliza Amar, executive director of Every Three Minutes, and Kathi Hardy. Aliza and Kathi are rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking activists who use their personal stories to break the…
