San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

A year before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, the first group of enslaved Africans depicted as “20 and odd Negroes” arrived sometime during the final week of August to the Virginia colony of Jamestown. The fact that the exact date cannot be pinpointed assists in obfuscating the origins of slavery in the United States.

My mother is a retired teacher who oversaw the department for students who were blind and low vision.

 I was sitting in the mid-size meeting room with 3-foot square tables and plastic yellow and red chairs, talking with Oussama, a 28-year-old gay immigration detainee, when a tall-ish, blonde woman in a nice dress and high heels sashayed over to us.

SAN DIEGO, CA -- In the race for San Diego City Council District 3, Stephen Whitburn reports the strongest total cash contributions for the first reporting period from January 1 - June 30, 2019.

The fundraising report filed with the San Diego City Clerk’s office shows Whitburn’s total exceeding $60,000.

Did you watch Tuesday night’s Democratic debate? The race to the White House for Democrats is an exhausting one, and I’m simply watching the battle on television. 

The topic of President Trump’s xenophobia and racism will dominate these debates.

I always have plenty of time to think when I’m visiting at Otay Mesa Detention Center because getting through processing is time-consuming. I’ll spare you all the really boring details, but sitting in a room for 1 to 2 hours without a cell phone is a lesson in patience.

I am feeling nervous. I haven’t heard from Baltazar and unless he calls me, I may never know what happened to him.

The movie adaptation of the musical Cats dropped a trailer on Thursday and is not getting the respect that the studio wanted I'm pretty sure. It was actually a full trailer and not the hype generating teaser used so often these days to tantalize the audience. I'm thinking the PR department did that anticipating people would love it. Alas, they didn't.

The first time I heard the racial trope “Go back to where you came from,” I was getting off of a school bus in a white section of town in Brooklyn, New York.

Little did I know then I’d hear those words from K through 12, and the n-word was usually coming at the end of the phrase than the beginning.

We are about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that gave birth to the international Pride movement.

We don’t have Pride because we’re free. We have Pride because we’re not. Our collective efforts all year round now culminate in the creation of intentional space for our community where for a weekend, a day, a few hours, or a moment - our people can revel in joy.