Organizers announced the second annual Guerrilla Pride will take place June 14 from 2-10 p.m. The event weaves queer-themed workshops, a community meal, live music and a radical art show into a fun and educational event for Southern California’s queer community. The event will take place at the Canvass for a Cause headquarters at 2139 First Ave. in…
In a story that largely went unnoticed last week, Janet Napolitano, the current president of the University of California university system, announced Tuesday that she will appoint a President’s Advisory Group on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues to advise her on how best to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for LGBT students, faculty and…
San Diego’s leaders and public officials flooded the hall at the Balboa Park Club Friday as Assemblywoman Toni Atkins was ceremonially sworn in as this city’s first speaker of the assembly and the California State Assembly’s first lesbian speaker. Even though Atkins’ official swearing in happened last month in Sacramento, a jubilant atmosphere filled the…
San Diego’s new downtown Central Library at 330 Park Blvd. will host the 39th annual Nicky Awards dubbed “The Gay Academy Awards” by the Union Tribune. The Nicky Awards are one of the oldest LGBT community awards in the nation. The award’s founder, City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez, who established the awards almost four decades…
A new network of bike lanes and routes meandering through Bankers Hill, the Gaslamp District, downtown and several other San Diego neighborhoods was unveiled by Mayor Kevin Faulconer and City Council President Todd Gloria recently. The two officials dedicated the latest addition of two-wheeled infrastructure to the cause of making the city more bicycle-friendly and…
A judge June 3 ordered a robber suspected of being the “Peep Bandit” to stand trial for five robberies of adult bookstores and three other hold-ups. Four detectives who interviewed the employees of Mercury Books, Adult Emporium, 7-Eleven and two Subway sandwich shops were the witnesses in the preliminary hearing of Oscar Augustin Smith Jr.,…
obituary Dec. 25, 1967 – May 22, 2014 David Louis Zabludowski, 46, of San Diego, Calif. passed away Thursday May 22, 2014 peacefully with many friends and loved ones by his side. David was preceded in death by his loving mother Carol and brother Daniel. David was born in Milwaukee, Wis. and attended Cudahy High…
Hypoxia, or altitude sickness, reduces the amount of oxygen in the brain causing a variety of symptoms including mental confusion. Many in the LGBT community suffer from advocacy hypoxia, a condition that I define as one who has reached a certain level within the advocacy community that causes altitude sickness, creating mental confusion. Let me…
thursday, june 5 Twelfth Night Lamb’s Players Theatre, Coronadocelebrates their 20th year in Coronado with the Bard’s effervescent comedy of love, longing, impersonation and mistaken identity by setting it at the Hotel Del in 1949. Lamb’s Players Theatre, 1142 Orange Ave. in Coronado, 7:30 p.m., tickets from $18, 619-437-6000, lambsplayers.org friday, june 6 Taiwan Cinema:…
SAN DIEGO – Left to a citywide vote, the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update in the form of propositions B and C was repealed. Despite this outcome, Environmental Health Coalition (EHC) and plan supporters insist the community will ultimately prevail in implementing the plan it needs to improve children’s health. “Barrio Logan is my home and…
