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Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Yes, the annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast set for next Friday, May 24 is sold out! More than 1,200 tickets have been sold, which will make this the biggest breakfast/lunch/dinner event in the history of our GLBT community in San Diego. Gov. Barbara Roberts and Academy award winner, the handsome Dustin Lance Black (author of [...]
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Thursday, May 9th, 2013

She doesn’t talk about it a lot but Toni was born to very poor working parents in the rural South with no electricity or running water; (yes, an outhouse in the back). But she got an education and this past Saturday she was asked to deliver the commencement address at Emory and Henry College, her [...]
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

Recently, when a high-profile civic leader came out more openly as bi-sexual many of you ask me questions about their bi-sexuality and how this could be. The truth is I’ve always found that many gay people do not understand or believe that a person could actually be bi-sexual! Most of my longtime partners were bi-sexual. [...]
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Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Recently, I was saddened to read some of the attacks and, yes, hate expressed by many GLBT bloggers, writers etc. against religious right-wing leader, the Rev. Rick Warren over the recent tragic suicide of his son, who suffered from depression. My heart goes out to any parent who loses their son because of suicide, bullying, [...]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Commentary: Conversations with Nicole BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ The facts are that a major earthquake will, sooner or later, occur in California according to all the experts. Also the FBI and Homeland Security have in the past named San Diego as one of the top cities for a possible terrorist attack. San Diego is right [...]
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Thursday, April 11th, 2013

The elephant in the City Hall room is the talk going around about a possible recall campaign being launched against Mayor Bob Filner. Now, by elephant I do mean conservative Republicans, some who are distributing “Recall Mayor Filner before it’s too late” stickers. KGTV-10 News premiered these car stickers a few weeks ago. No mayor [...]
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013

18-year-old and HIV Recently, an 18 year-old-friend of mine told me his doctor told him he had HIV. This young gay man was upset but then told me he hardly ever used condoms and none of his other young friends used them either. What the hell! It’s unbelievable, but many of our younger generation I [...]
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Many of us knew, loved and supported Auntie Helen’s founder Gary Cheatham and I know he must be rolling over in his grave over the public scandal that continues to plague his beloved dream. Auntie Helen’s has had to admit financial mismanagement and has been forced to return San Diego County funding and grants because [...]
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Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Many of us Catholics feel that our church has left us. We have not left the church. The last two popes, especially, have used very hurtful and ugly words when talking about homosexuality, divorce, adoption, women’s rights, etc., etc. I truly believe if Jesus came down to Earth he would weep when he would see [...]
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013

When Bob Filner was running for mayor last year the Republican Party, the Tea Party and the downtown millionaires establishment let it be known and did all they could do to defeat Bob Filner. One right-wing Republican leader told me that if Bob Filner won it would be like Vladimir Lenin taking over City Hall [...]