Mayoral candidates: Do the right thing
Last week I had a great lunch with Gay San Diego publisher David Mannis and his editor, handsome Anthony King. Welcome to San Diego, Anthony. The Center welcomes the Filipino community Many times, our LGBT Community Center hosts other community events. This past Saturday the Philippine American Society for Arts & Culture held its installation…
Cynthia Nixon: ‘Gay is better’
Sex and the City star, Cynthia Nixon has sparked controversy among gay activists by describing her lesbianism as “a choice.” In an interview with the New York Times, Nixon said, “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and…
NCLR to honor ‘Glee’s’ Jane Lynch
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has announced that it will honor out actress Jane Lynch, of Glee and Julie & Julia, for using her fame as a platform to further LGBT equality, and for being an outspoken advocate for creating safer, welcoming schools for LGBT children. Lynch will receive the honor at the…
Making it up: Wendy’s prince of style, Merrell Hollis
When Merrell Hollis felt ready to spread his wings, he packed his makeup case and booked a one-way ticket from Atlanta to Manhattan. It’s been a fast ride ever since. In that time he has sculpted the faces of celeb royalty from Mary J. Blige and Usher to Ludacris. Hollis has even held the coveted…
Creating ‘The World’ in five years
The World Islands are a man-made creation of various small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map. They are located about two and a half miles off the coast of Dubai, which is an emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A city within the emirate is also named Dubai. The emirate…
LGBT voters care that we may have a gay or lesbian mayor
I read with great interest the article in the San Diego Union Tribune last Sunday entitled Prospect of gay SD mayor greeted with a shrug. The article postulates that the San Diego mayoral race rightfully should be focused upon the fiscal and infrastructure issues of the city. In fact, all the candidates, as well as…
Two endorsements are better than one
On National Coming Out day in October 2011, after 36 years, the San Diego Democratic Club (SDDC) officially changed their name to the San Diego Democrats for Equality. The goal, as explained by the leadership and encapsulated in a coming out video, was to no longer use “cute names that blended in, but were identifiable…
The City: Top to Bottom
thursday, feb. 2 Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future An exhibition of original Bob Simmons planning hulls and related surfboards, objects, photographs and film clips. Simmons’ application of aerodynamic principles and his early use of composite construction processes in surfboard building from 1947-1954 parallels California’s post war modern design movement and was profoundly influential in the birth…
The battle of the burger continues with a twist
If there is one food that America is definitely known for, it has to be the hamburger. For centuries, we have been consuming them avidly. Just look around, everywhere you turn you can find a new hamburger joint popping up. It almost seems like the clock has been turned back 50 years – when diners…