This week’s submission is from Rev. Houston Burnside Sr. who’s been a Baptist preacher and a college professor. He is also a friend of mine. I hope you enjoy his article. – Pastor Dan. Jerry was blind – blind from birth. He was about my age. He, along with my new 18-year-old fiancé and I,…
Transprogressive BY AUTUMN SANDEEN In a recent San Diego LGBT Weekly column, “What good is improved VA gender policy if it’s inaccessible?” I wrote about how I was pretty much the only transgender military veteran in the United States who was unable to take advantage of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA‘s) new policy for…
Scene Out BY KIM RESCATE AND ANA PINES We drove up to Los Angeles for the New Beverly Cinema’s 5th annual All-Night Horror Show. We didn’t know what to expect. We managed to make it through virtually all of the six movies. There were breaks in between and prior to the features; trailers of other…
BY STAMPP CORBIN San Diego LGBT Weekly has exclusively obtained a memorandum sent from Competitive Edge, a firm that specializes in political polling, campaign voter contact and grassroots advocacy. The memo, dated October 17, 2012 and addressed to Tony Krvaric of the Republican Party of San Diego, says that the mayoral race is tied. The…
The San Diego U-T published a poll suggesting that Carl DeMaio is ahead in the mayoral race by ten points. Shocking. You mean Doug Manchester and the U-T have conducted a poll that supports his candidate, DeMaio? No other poll has shown DeMaio in the lead. So I guess the cheese stands alone, as the old…
Many are asking whether US Attorney Laura Duffy should resign amid allegations of a conflict of interest. The answer is a resounding yes. Duffy, reputedly a lesbian, organized an event for the Jewish community that had mayoral candidates Bob Filner and Carl DeMaio debating. Duffy not only organized the event, she established the parameters and…
BY JONATHAN YOUNG Lance Bass is accustomed to being in the spotlight. He’s performed with the record-breaking NSYNC, trained to be an astronaut, cut a rug with swing dance champ Lacey Schwimmer on Dancing with the Stars and has revealed to the world he is gay with a cover story in People magazine – just…
When I decided to launch San Diego LGBT Weekly, the goal was to ensure that San Diego had an independent media voice in the LGBT community. A voice that was laser focused upon the issues that matter most to us, whether they are political, news-related or simply fun entertainment stories. We began our journey with…
In an email exchange between San Diego Democrats for Equality and Hale Media Oct. 10, Hale Media indicated it would not accept any political ads that support mayoral candidate Bob Filner. The local political organization wanted to place a leaderboard advertisement on San Diego Gay and Lesbian News (SDGLN), a Hale Media Web site. The…
