Imagine you live on an island in the Caribbean Sea. Your home is one of more than 7,000 islands in the immediate region. Your island is one of only 27 territories and sovereign nations into which a local galaxy of isles are politically organized. You, your family, your friends, and most of your fellow islanders…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. The Party of No learned how hard it can be to shake a bad habit last week. This week, 32 million Americans wait to see if the GOP’s bad habit of saying no to…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Dalila Ali Rajah will be in San Diego May 19 headlining the next engagement of LGBTs In The News with Thom Senzee. With roles on Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, NCIS – not to mention her Best Actress performance in Quiet as Kept – and too many others…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. A new political class has assumed power in America. They’re the voters to whom conventional wisdom gives credit for putting Donald J. Trump in the White House despite his epic loss of the popular…
What does it mean to be transgender in America today? The San Diego Press Club recently hosted a panel of six transgender activists to discuss the topic at Urban Mo’s Bar and Grill in Hillcrest. The event was part of the larger series LGBT In The News, started in 2013 by noted southern California journalist…
LGBTs In The News returns to Hollywood as The Los Angeles Press Club @ Steve Allen Theater welcomes a panel of leading LGBT journalists, activists and allies for a night of engaging conversation and audience participation–and you’re invited. Sponsored by SAG-AFTRA and now in its third year, LGBTs In The News with Thom Senzee comes…
Massive global interest in the passing and memorializing of Nelson Mandela last week illustrated again that people of color were humanity’s conscience during the 20th century. My question is will LGBT people be the conscience of the 21st century? If the systematic oppression, torture and denial of the basic human rights of a minority class…
Heterosexual-male chauvinism thrives in oil-rich places like nowhere else. Whether the evidence is brought to light by the Supreme Court of the United State’s decision last week to allow Texas to eliminate safe places where a woman can have an abortion; or Afghanistan’s recent move toward returning to its penal code death by stoning for…
BY VICTOR HOFF Last night, approximately 30 people attended a seminar sponsored by the San Diego Press Club entitled ‘Reporting on LGBT Issues.’ The event, which was held at KGTV Channel 10, was moderated by award-winning journalist and former San Diego LGBT Weekly editor Thom Senzee and included a diverse array of panelists from San…
