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SERVING OUR LGBT COMMUNITY
Uniting all for
World AIDS Day
8 INTERVIEW
Free HIV testing, educational events
and ceremonies held locally to continue
global fight against HIV & AIDS
By Monica Garske | GSD Reporter
Kylie’s 25 years
9 DINING
Members from the transgender community in San Diego helped fly the transgender flag at the Hillcrest Flag
Monument on Nov. 20. (Photo by GSD)
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Saturday, Dec. 1 marks World AIDS
Day, and local community organizations
are doing their part to commemorate the
day by providing free HIV testing, educational events and candlelight vigils in
honor of those who have lost their battles
to the ongoing global epidemic.
From 5 to 7 p.m., Mama’s Kitchen and
Village Hillcrest will partner to host the
21st annual Tree of Life Lighting Ceremony, at 3965 Fifth Ave.
First-ever flag raising praised as those lost to anti-transgender violence honored
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By Anthony King | GSD Editor
The community gathered Nov. 20 for a series of
events for Transgender Day of Remembrance, including a groundbreaking moment to honor those who
have lost their lives to anti-transgender violence. Over
265 transgender people worldwide were killed since
last year’s event.
Beginning with a ceremony and raising of the transgender flag at the intersection of Normal Street and
University Avenue, the day of remembrance included
a silent candlelight march in the evening followed by
a program and celebration at The LGBT Center in
Hillcrest.
“Every year on Nov. 20 we remember those we’ve
lost to anti-transgender violence,” said Connor Maddocks, co-organizer of the day’s events. “This year,
over 265 people were murdered throughout the world
simply for being their true, authentic selves. Our hope
is that someday we will not have to have this day.”
Began in 1999 by activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith,
the Transgender Day of Remembrance has grown to
be an internationally recognized day and culmination
of Transgender Awareness Week. The first event was
held in San Francisco to honor Rita Hester, who was
murdered in Boston the previous year. Hester’s murder remains unsolved.
The flag raising is significant as it was led and
supported by the Hillcrest Business Association, who
oversees the Hillcrest Flag Monument and organized
to have the permanent rainbow flag replaced with the
transgender flag in honor of the day. Similar campaigns, including in San Francisco’s Castro district,
came upon some resistance.
Speaking at the flag raising, City Commissioner
Nicole Murray Ramirez said San Diegans were lucky
to live in a city that supports its transgender citizens.
Ramirez, who lived as transgender for five years, also
said it was important to remember transgender individuals throughout history.
Court case. “We want everyone
in the country to be informed …
so that people know that these
were the arguments [and] that
this is the evidence,” Black said.
“It’s so exciting to see how close
we are to the U.S. Supreme
Court deciding to review this
case.”
The court is scheduled to
discuss the case in closed chambers on Friday, Nov. 30, making
see Black, pg 7
see Unite, page 19
see Remembrance, pg 4
Celebrities, local leaders anticipate the best for Dec. 3 announcement
By Anthony King | GSD Editor
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(l to r) Frank Lechner, Tom Brown, Dustin Lance Black, Gregory Cruz,
Todd Gloria, Jerry Sanders and Nicole Murray Ramirez on Nov. 19
(Photo by Big Mike)
conflicts.
In the question and answer
period hosted by Nicole Murray
Ramirez, Ramirez called Black a
“hero” for equality and honored
the “Milk” and “J. Edgar” writer
with the International Jose Julio
Sarria Civil Rights Award.
“I know we’re going to reach
that mountain top of equality
with people like him leading us,”
Ramirez said of Black.
Black was quick to draw attention to the pending Supreme
(Courtesy Mama’s Kitchen)
The free evening ceremony sheds
light on World AIDS Day and is held in
remembrance of those whose lives have
been affected by AIDS. The tree will be
decorated with ornaments that represent
the individuals who have lost their lives to
HIV/AIDS.
“The Tree of Life Ceremony allows the
San Diego community to gather together
and remember those who are no longer
with us because of AIDS,” said Alberto
Cortes, executive director of Mama’s
Kitchen in a press statement. “Through
this event we can also embrace and show
support for members of our community
confronted by the daily challenges of living with HIV/AIDS.”
The event will include a candlelight
vigil lead by Terry Cunningham, chief of
the County of San Diego HIV, STD and
Hepatitis Branch of Public Health Services. The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus
will perform and Kona Coffee will provide
refreshments.
Representatives from Mama’s Kitchen
expect more than 200 people to attend the
ceremony in Hillcrest, with all donations
from the event to benefit the nonprofit.
This year, the theme of World AIDS
Day is “Getting to Zero,” which focuses
on zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths and, in
turn, 100 percent awareness that this
global epidemic has not gone away.
For their part, the health organization
Lead the Way – which operates a HIVtesting center and mobile testing sites for
residents in an effort to fight transmission
of the virus – will set up two free testing
locations on Dec. 1.
The testing stations will be held at the
Supreme Court tops discussion at ‘8’
The pending announcement
on whether the Supreme Court
will hear arguments in the Proposition 8 appeal was the main
topic of discussion at the sold-out
reading of “8,” which took place
Nov. 19 at the Birch North Park
Theatre. Dustin Lance Black, the
play’s writer, fielded questions
regarding the case and trial, as
well as the play’s production.
“8” chronicles the Ninth
Circuit Court’s Proposition 8
trial, which resulted in a ruling
for marriage equality. Calling the
2008 voter-approved proposition
“unconstitutional,” the decision
– currently being appealed to the
Supreme Court – allows samesex couples the right to marry.
Local resident and actor
Richard Dreyfuss, actor Annette O’Toole, comedian Bruce
Vilanch and singer Lance Bass
headlined the 20-member cast.
Councilmember Todd Gloria
was scheduled to read a part in
the play, but was replaced by
Doug Bilitch due to scheduling
Participants hung ornaments at a previous Tree of Life ceremony.
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‘Rizzoli & Isles’ strikes again on the page and screen
Hit show is a whirlwind of fun for lesbian fans
By Morgan M. Hurley | GSD Assistant Editor
When the medical mystery
series “Rizzoli & Isles” hit cable television’s TNT channel in July 2010, it
was an immediate hit, especially in
lesbian circles.
The show is based on the suspense series by San Diego native
Tess Gerritsen. Gerritsen, who
now lives in Camden, Maine, was
in town last month to plug the 10th
book in her popular Rizzoli and
Isles series, “Last to Die,” which
was released in August.
Gerritsen made a signing
appearance at Mysterious Galaxy
Bookstore in Claremont Mesa on
Nov. 5, well in advance of the Nov.
27 start of the five-episode miniseason on TNT.
The cable channel produces 10
episodes in July and another five in
November to appease eagerly awaiting fans of the show, which is now
in its third year. In season one, fans
waited almost an entire year after
the first set of 10 episodes to see
the two crime fighters again, so the
five episodes produced during the
second season halfway through the
year now placates them.
The lead characters, Boston
detective Jane Rizzoli (played by
Angie Harmon) and Chief Medical
Examiner Maura Isles (played by
Sasha Alexander) are not lesbians
in the book or the television series
– so what is the hook?
If you ask lesbian fans of the
show, its writers have everything to
do with it.
Former journalist-turned-scriptwriter Janet Tamaro adapted the
book series to the small screen and
serves as executive producer of the
show. She personally heads up the
team of writers that have taken Gerritsen’s two “dark” characters, made
them less dark and added humor to
the mix. The recipe has made “Rizzoli & Isles” the number-one watched
cable network television show.
Some lesbian fans say writers have filled it with a surprising
amount of lesbian subtext, which
has created an entire subculture
that watches the show while tweeting, using hash tags like #RizzoliandIsles, #RandI and #Gayzzoli.
Producers of the show have also
dived headfirst into social media
to promote the show and keep
fans interested during the long
lulls between seasons. They even
created fictitious Facebook and
Twitter accounts for the characters,
with ongoing, interactive dialogue
running between them and their
attentive followers.
On the lesbian online entertainment resource Afterellen.com,
Dorothy Snarker – the pen name
of a writer Gerritsen knows but did
not share – writes a weekly “lesbian
subtext wrap-up” of the show that is
insanely popular. Snarker recently
released the “Counting down the
Top 10 Gayzzoliest Moments on
Rizzoli & Isles,” in honor of the fiveepisode mini-series.
In an interview with Afterellen.
com during the show’s second
season, Tamaro did not pull any
punches about her feelings regarding writing a show with strong
female characters that has a large
female audience.
“This is as important and I am
not slumming by writing a show
that appeals to women – all women,”
Tamaro said in the interview. “I love
that your audience loves this show.
I am delighted. It sincerely makes
me happy, because I love women
and I write for women. I don’t give a
crap if they are straight or gay. I just
like that they like this show and see
pieces of themselves in it.”
The author herself said she is
also pleased. “I’m grateful to the
lesbian fans,” Gerritsen said. “So
many are showing up and they are
loyal and kind.”
Gerritsen attended the first
annual RizzlesCon – a convention
of lesbian fans dedicated to the
show who bonded through social
media – in Los Angeles last summer
and was the only person associated
with the show to come. Next year’s
convention is scheduled for July in
Anaheim, Calif.
Gerritsen said she was one of
106 Maine writers who joined together to promote marriage equality
in Maine this past general election.
They took out half page ads in newspapers across the state in support,
and said if Maine became the first
state to legalize marriage equality
by popular vote it would “send a
signal to the Supreme Court” when
they hear California’s Prop 8 case.
Amendment One in Maine passed
on Nov. 6, ensuring Gerittsen’s efforts were not in vain.
Gerritsen said she knew she
wanted to be a writer from an early
age, but the career choice was
not an option in her strict, AsianAmerican household so she became
a doctor instead. Now retired from
that profession to be a full-time
suspense novelist, she has put her
skills as a doctor to work in support
of her characters.
When she was first approached about adapting her series to television, Gerritsen said
she was not sure how
these two dark characters would work, but
once she met Tamaro,
she knew her characters
would be in good hands.
Gerittsen’s dark characters with Tamaro’s injection of humor is a “winning
combo,” the author said.
Other on-set changes
were made to make the duo
more palatable on TV that
have also worked, and Gerritsen
said she could not be more pleased.
She visits the set often, even allowing herself to be influenced.
“The TV show induced me to
strengthen [Jane and Maura’s]
relationship,” she said. “Last to
Die” is already on the New York
Times best-seller list and recently
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Tess Gerritsen (Photo by Jessica Hills)
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Award for 2012. Book 11 in the
series is already in the works, and
was inspired by a recent safari Gerritsen took.
“I will focus a lot on leopard
biology,” she said. “As well as the
silently, solitarily Africa.”
With 24 books in 25 years
and a 1,000-page-per-day per-
sonal standard, Gerritsen said
she enjoys sharing her craft and
experience with other would-be
writers. “The important thing is
to give yourself permission to
write badly,” she said.
“Rizzoli & Isles” will have five
new episodes every Tuesday, starting Nov. 27 on TNT. “Last to Die” is
available now. For more information
visit tessgerritsen.com.t
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REMEMBRANCE
“For those of us that lived in
those years of the 60s and 70s, the
only job you could have was [on] the
streets,” Ramirez said. “But think
about what some of those street
queens did. They were at Stonewall.
While other people were scared, they
fought back.”
The Stonewall Riots of 1969 are,
for many people, the mark of the
LGBT civil-rights movement. Police
repeated raided the Stonewall Inn in
New York City, often arresting those
who frequented the bar. In a series of
riots that lasted several days, transgender individuals, transsexuals and
drag queens fought back after a raid
in the early morning of June 28, and
within six months several gay rights
organizations were created in the city.
“They started our gay revolution,”
Ramirez said. “It was the transgender
community. It was Puerto Ricans. It
was African-Americans. … Don’t let
them erase that history.”
District Three Councilmember
Todd Gloria attended the flag raising,
which was held at 9:30 a.m. Representing the city, Gloria said he understood the significance of remembering those lost, and recognized the
significance of the event.
“I hope you’ll forgive me to take
a moment to celebrate this flag and
what this community has done to
honor our transgender brothers and
sisters,” he said. “We realize we have
(l to r) Brenda Watson, Elena Albee, Tracie O’Brien, Ms. Trans San Diego Malva Sanchez, Mr. Trans San Diego
Angel Adrian P. Estrada, Jennifer Miller and Connor Maddocks on Nov. 20. (Photo by GSD)
a shared destiny where all of us must
come together to advance our cause
for equality.”
Citing discrimination in health
organizations, employment and housing, Gloria said the LGBT community
must come together to “fight hatred
and ignorance, both outside and
within our own community.”
“The T in LGBT is often too
silent,” he said. “It’s our responsibility … through living out our lives
authentically every single day to raise
the visibility of transgender people.”
Sister Raven Lunatic of the San
Diego Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence blessed the flag before it was
raised, as the crowd watched in
silence.
Raising the visibility of the transgender community was a key component to the candlelight vigil and
program held later that day, at which
Maddocks said violence against
transgender individuals must stop.
“I know there’s plenty of people
out there in the world who don’t
know us,” he said. “They don’t know
who we are. They don’t know that we
are mothers and fathers and brothers
and sisters. We’re doctors and lawyers, and scientists and schoolteachers. We’re just like everybody else.”
Transgender Day of Remembrance statistics show eight antitransgender-related deaths reported
in San Diego, including four in 1990
alone. Jamie D. Ford was killed in
1973 after being stabbed, with the
most recent death listed having occurred in 2005.
For Angel Adrian Estrada, Mr.
Trans San Diego 2012, the San
Diego deaths represent one part of
the greater issue.
“To me, [today] is the day where
we have the opportunity to inform
the community what is going on,
not only locally but internationally,”
Estrada said. “This is an opportunity
for us to encourage others to join
us as we courageously stand as one
against hate. I know that together we
can make a difference and make it
safer for us and for our future.”
After the 6:30 p.m. vigil, organizers lowered the flag and returned
to The Center for a program that
honored the 265 current deaths. Of
them, attendees choose to read the
names, ages and dates of death of
approximately 40 victims.
Mayor-elect Bob Filner attended
the evening program, briefly speaking on the deaths by calling them
unacceptable and intolerable.
“It’s another bittersweet day in
the community as we remember
almost 300 transgender deaths in
one year,” Filner said. “We have to
speak out and come together. … The
leadership of our community has to
speak up.”
Filner will be inaugurated as
mayor Monday, Dec. 3, and Ramirez
said it provided a good opportunity to
place transgender individuals in civic
positions, in part to be more visible.
“We have a new mayor and this
mayor has said that his administration is going to reflect the city,”
Ramirez said. “I do not want to see
his first term end without a person
from the transgender community being on city boards and commissions.
… Let’s be more visible, and let’s be
more powerful.”t
Taking initiative to get things done
Spearheaded by Roy Dahl, new angled parking brings relief to Hillcrest
By Morgan M. Hurley | GSD Assistant Editor
Some residents of Vermont
Street just south of University
Avenue in Hillcrest are singing a
happier tune this week, after one
of their neighbors recently took
the steps to address a longstanding
parking issue in the area.
Roy Dahl, an operations
research analyst by trade and
homeowner on the 3700 block of
Vermont Street, recently spent
eight years on the Uptown Planners board. When some parking
spots on his street went from
parallel to angled, and then back to
parallel in the last year, he decided
to find out why.
The west side of Vermont Street
is wider than the east side, offering
room to accommodate alternatives.
“I understood the value of public
parking,” he said.
Though his original focus was
that 3800 block between University Avenue and Essex Street, after
working with Councilmember
Todd Gloria’s office and being
presented with additional information on the value of adding spaces
to the adjoining blocks along Vermont Street between Essex and
Robinson streets, and Robinson
and Pennsylvania streets, Dahl
said he decided to take on the
entire effort.
The master plan entailed identifying a segment of the available
parking along each of the three
blocks in question, and converting
those to angled parking, thereby
adding a total of eight additional
spaces to the area.
The city’s ensuing task
amounted to three separate petitions containing signatures that
would equal 75 percent of residents affected, one for each block
involved. For the next four weeks
and with the help of his partner
of 28 years, Bill Sutton, Dahl
set about gathering signatures
by approaching his neighbors
organically on the street instead of
knocking on their doors.
While Dahl said he met some
opposition to the plan overall, he
exceeded the number of signatures
required, obtaining 28. He submitted the completed petitions to the
city in April of this year.
By June the matter went before
the Uptown Planners but was
quickly tabled when clarification
regarding who was allowed to sign
the petitions arose. Once this was
resolved, Dahl said, the petitions
were then passed to the Uptown
Community Parking District.
“After receiving funding from the
[Parking District], most of the spaces
were added several weeks ago,” he
said, adding that the final section was
scheduled to be complete Nov. 20.
Roy Dahl stands in front of the angle parking he helped create.
(Photo by GSD)
The end result means that 12
parallel spaces became 19 angleparking spaces, including one new
accessible parking space, spread
out over three neighborhood
blocks.
“I want to thank Ben Verdugo
of the Uptown Community Parking District for helping me deal
with both the city and Uptown
Planners,” Dahl said. Verdugo is
the Parking District Operations
Manager.
Previous longtime resident
Katie Wooley lived directly across
from the area Dahl was originally
concerned with, and said she was
happy to hear of his efforts.
“The switch back to parallel
parking took away parking spaces
for visitors and consumers who
want to spend money and enjoy
Hillcrest,” she said. “Parking is
super hard to find there, so I’m
glad they brought back the angled
parking.” Wooley moved to North
Park earlier this year.
“Roy is a one-man activist,”
said Benjamin Nicholls, executive director of the Hillcrest Business Association, praising Dahl.
“Some people talk about things
that need to be done. Roy gets
things done.”
Dahl’s own involvement with
the Uptown Planners began after
he navigated the permit process
for upgrades to his Hillcrest home.
“I was on the board until this year
when I reached the maximum of
eight years, and was not able to
run again,” he said, adding that he
hopes to run again once the time
is right.
In the meantime, he said he is
happy with the results on Vermont
Street. “Angled parking helps
everyone,” he said.t
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San Diego receives perfect
Equality Index score from HRC
The Human Rights Campaign
(HRC) announced the results from
their first Municipal Equality Index,
rating cities on 47 LGBT-inclusive
criteria in six categories: non-discrimination laws, LGBT relationship
recognition, employment practices,
inclusiveness of city services, attentiveness of law enforcement, and
relationship with city leaders. San
Diego received a perfect score, and
Councilmember Todd Gloria said
he was proud of the score. “This
is the result of decades of work by
many in the LGBT community with
incredible support from our allies,”
he said in a release. “I am proud to
have played a direct role in championing this progress by authoring
the City’s Equal Benefits Ordinance.” On the HRC scorecard, the
city earned bonus points for having
openly LGBT city leaders, of which
Gloria is currently a part. “In addition to the criteria considered by the
HRC, we’ve created a culture that
is not only inclusive, but celebrates
San Diego’s rich diversity,” he said.
“San Diegans deserve recognition
as well for being open minded and
progressive thinkers who not only
support our movement toward
equality, but continue to elect
LGBT representatives and our
allies to all levels of government.”
One of 11 other perfect scores,
San Diego ranks highest with four
other California cities, including
Los Angeles, Long Beach and San
Francisco. Other perfect-score cities
are Seattle, Portland, Ore., Boston,
Cambridge, Mass., St. Louis, New
York City and Philadelphia.
Paula Rosenstein appointed to
San Diego Superior Court
Gov. Jerry Brown appointed
San Diego resident and openly gay
lawyer Paula Rosenstein to the San
Diego Superior Court on Nov. 21.
Rosenstein will replace Linda Quinn
upon Quinn’s retirement and has
been in practice since 1987. She
served as co-president of the Tom
Homann LGBT Law Association and
specialized in domestic partnership and employment cases. “In
addition to her success as a litigator,
Paula has been a leader on issues
affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender (LGBT) and women’s
communities,” said Assemblymember Toni Atkins in a statement.
Atkins has known Rosenstein for
25 years. “As an advocate for the
under-served and marginalized, she
possesses the empathy necessary
for finding just solutions.” Rosenstein holds a bachelor’s of arts
degree from the University of California, San Diego and a law degree
from the University of San Diego
Law School. “Justice in San Diego
took an important step forward with
this appointment, and I am grateful
to Gov. Brown for his action,” Atkins
said.
UC San Diego AntiViral
Research Center to offer new
HIV program
A couple HIV testing and counseling program based at Emory
University is now being offered by
the University of California, San
Diego AntiViral Research Center
(AVRC). Called Testing Together
and funded by the MAC AIDS Fund,
the program provides gay couples
with free, confidential HIV testing
and counseling as a couple. “We
know from our recent research
that by testing together and getting
results together, couples can start
an ongoing healthy conversation
about HIV and talk openly about
building a plan to address sexual
health issues in their relationship,”
said Patrick Sullivan, project director at Emory University, in a statement. Due to confidentiality issues,
couples are currently prevented
from testing and discussing results
together. With the new program,
clients sign consent forms agreeing
to working together during each
phase of HIV testing. Representatives from AVRC said testing and
hearing results together are the first
part of the program. “The other is
the specialized counseling couples
receive. Unlike most HIV testing
counseling that focuses on past risk
behaviors, Testing Together encourages couple to openly discuss their
sexual relationship and establish
agreements about sex and health,”
AVRC said in a press release. Testing Together will be offered at two
locations: AVRC at 220 Dickinson
St. and Lead the Way at 3830 Park
Blvd., both in Hillcrest.
Wells Fargo named ‘Best
Places to Work’ for Equality
For the 10th consecutive year,
Well Fargo & Company was given a
100 percent ranking on the Human
Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate
Equality Index (CEI), released
Friday, Nov. 23. The CEI provides
in-depth analysis and rating of larger
United States employers based on
workplace policies and practices
pertinent to LGBT employees. “For
the past decade, Wells Fargo has
been recognized with a perfect 100
score on the [CEI], an achievement
that has great meaning for our
company,” said Jimmie Paschall,
executive vice president of Diversity
and Inclusion, in a statement. “We
believe diversity is fundamental to
our success – it is part of our Vision
and Values – and it helps us develop
an inclusive culture that is accepting of differences and open to new
ideas. …”
A total of 889 businesses were
rated by HRC this year, with 252
considered “best-in-class.” Wells
Fargo began participating in the
rankings in 2003, and has earned
100 percent each year. Wells Fargo
CAO Pat Callahan said the company
has “made many strides” toward
LGBT equality over the years. “This
year, in particular, we are celebrating 25 years of support for our
LGBT team members, customers
and communities,” Callahan said in
a the same release. “In 1987, Wells
Fargo added sexual orientation to
our nondiscrimination policy and
since then, we’ve continued to foster
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a culture of equality for our LGBT
team members.”
San Diego Opera receives NEA
grant for new production
The National Endowment for the
Arts (NEA) announced Tuesday,
Nov. 27 that San Diego Opera was
recommended for a $50,000 grant to
support the creation of a new staging of “Murder in the Cathedral,”
scheduled for March and April 2013.
The Opera is one of 832 non-profit
organizations nationwide to receive
NEA grants. “I’m proud to announce
these 832 grants to the American
public, including San Diego Opera”
said NEA Chair Rocco Landesman
in a press release. “These projects
offer extraordinary examples of
creativity in our country, including the creation of new work. …”
San Diego Opera said the classic
Ildebrando Pizzetti opera has never
been professionally produced in the
United States, to the best of their
knowledge, and the company will
be constructing new sets, designed
by Ralph Funicello. The set is currently under construction at the
Opera’s Scenic Studio. The Opera’s
NEA grant was selected from a
group of 1,509 eligible applications,
requesting more than $74 million in
funding. The final 832 grants total
$22.3 million and span 13 artistic
disciplines and fields. “Murder in
the Cathedral” is the fourth production in the 2013 season, following
“The Daughter of the Regiment,”
“Samson and Delilah” and “Cruzar
la Cara de la Luna” and preceding
“Aida.”
Congresswoman Davis holds
lottery for Presidential
inauguration tickets
Constituents in Rep. Susan
Davis’ 53rd District can enter a
lottery to received tickets to the Jan.
21, 2013 inauguration of President
Barack Obama in Washington, D.C.
Davis announced the contest via
an enewsletter, saying “Some lucky
constituents will have a chance to be
a part of history. During inaugurations, Americans come together to
celebrate our enduring democracy.
Holding a lottery gives everyone
who wants a ticket a fair chance.”
Those living in the new 53rd District
must enter by midnight, Sunday,
Dec. 2 and randomly chosen winners will be notified by email by
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Desert AIDS Project honors
World AIDS Day at Festival of
Light Parade in palm springs
The Desert AIDS Project will
sponsor a float for the first time in
the Palm Springs Festival of Lights
Parade, held this year on Saturday,
Dec. 1. The date coincides with
World AIDS Day, which was first
observed in 1988. Desert AIDS
Project was honored at Greater
Palm Springs Pride in early November, where the HIV-services
organization also participated in
the Pride parade. “We saw that we
could get two uses out of our float,”
said David Brinkman, CEO of
Desert AIDS Project, in a release.
“With World AIDS Day falling
on the same day as the Festival
of Lights Parade, we’re going to
put some lights on our float and
make it look like something new
and beautiful, all while advocating
for those we serve.” Other events
see Briefs, page 6
events attheCenter
Monday, December 3
a neighborhood toast
to Mayor Bob Filner
Wednesday,
December 5
Guys, Games & Grub
6:30-8:30 pm, the Center
6:30 pm, the Center
The election of Bob Filner was a
victory for neighborhoods. San
Diego’s central communities will host a celebration of a
new era at City Hall with a party on the night the new
mayor is sworn in. Join the communities of Hillcrest,
North Park, South Park, University Heights, Normal Heights,
Mission Hills, Golden Hill and more for free food, drink,
entertainment and an appearance by Mayor Bob Filner.
All are invited! For more information, contact Sarafina
at events@thecentersd.org or 619.692.2077 x246.
Guys, Games & Grub has become a San Diego phenomenon! On
the first Wednesday of every month, nearly 200 men of all ages
(21+) gather at The Center for a night of games, pizza, drinks and
socializing. Some of San Diego’s most interesting men are here —
come join them. For more information, contact aaron heier
at aheier@thecentersd.org or 619.692.2077 x211.
Monday, December 3
Queen eddie
Wreath auction
7:30 pm, Martinis above
Fourth (3940 Fourth ave.)
Head to the 9th annual Charity
Wreath Auction benefitting the
Queen Eddie Conlon Youth Fund and bid on some fabulous
greenery! Preview the goodies during regular hours on
Saturday, Dec. 1, then get your bidding arm (and your $10
minimum door contribution) ready for Monday. Think you’ve
got master wreath-making skills? Submit your own (artificial
greenery please) wreath by Friday, Nov. 30. For more
information, call 619.400.4500. The Queen Eddie Conlon
Youth Fund provides assistance to San Diego youth for housing,
education-related expenses, books, supplies and clothing.
Saturday, December 8
Dump It!
10 am - 2 pm, the Center
Not sure what to do with all those old electronics hanging
around the house, cell phones and charger cords cluttering up
the junk drawer, computers, computer parts — even old large
appliances? Dump ‘em! Bring all of it to the Center parking lot for
our e-recycling event. Old hard drives that need to be destroyed?
Bring those too. Vacuum cleaners, power tools, digital cameras
and photocopiers — if it plugs into the wall or uses batteries, it
can be recycled. You can clean up the clutter, keep it out of the
landfill and benefit The Center all at the same time. Find a
more complete list of things that can be recycled at
http://www.thecentersd.org/pdf/recycle-these.pdf
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BRIEFS
in Palm Springs for World AIDS
Day include free admission to
the Palm Springs Art Museum in
observance of “A Day With(out)
Art,” which will offer programs
corresponding with the theme “In
Memoriam: Loss, Identity and History in the Age of AIDS.” The Festival of Lights Parade begins at 5:45
p.m. on Palm Canyon Drive and
organizers estimate over 80,000
people will attend. Lorna Luft, Jim
Burba, Bob Hayes, Jim Casey and
Barbara Keller will ride the Desert
AIDS Project float. “As we mark yet
another World AIDS Day, we must
continue to ask the tough questions about whether we are doing
enough to provide care, to prevent
further transmission of HIV, and to
move closer to an eventual vaccine
and/or cure,” Brinkman said.
Editorial
Why 2012 should take
its place next to 1969 in
LGBT history
By Abby Dees
Fights and fabulousness make
history; good news and policy
shifts rarely do. As an example, I
don’t think I’ve seen more than two
pictures from the 1969 Stonewall
riots, but my mind is filled with
images of those amazing ’60s-era
drag queens using handbags like
weapons and kicking out the back
of a police van with stiletto heels.
Stonewall is so burned into my consciousness as The Beginning that it
hardly matters that I’ve never really
seen what it looked like.
Did you also know that four
years earlier there was an organized gay rights protest in front
of the White House? In 1965,
brave members of the Mattachine
Society and the Daughters of
Bilitis put on suits (the men) and
dresses (the women), carried
signs and politely picketed one
Saturday afternoon. This was
no small thing, considering that
homosexuality was still listed as
a mental disorder. Still, it looked
more like a bunch of accountants
protesting tax code changes.
I’ve seen a lot of pictures from
that day, and I might even argue
that 1965 is Year One of the modern LGBT rights movement, not
1969. Yet that protest has become
not much more than an interesting
footnote in our collective historical
memory compared to the sheer
brass of Stonewall.
I have a feeling 2012 might go
down like 1965. There’s hardly
any photographic evidence this
year of a critical mass of queers
pushing down the fences and
stopping traffic, and I don’t
remember a word being about
LGBT rights in the Presidential
debates, though I did nod off a
few times. You could even say
2012 was boring, which would be
a shame, because I believe that
historians will one day look back
and declare 2012 a great civil
rights turning point.
Let’s not say goodbye to 2012
without giving it its due:
Obama “evolved” on samesex marriage. Right, overdue,
whatever. But then he went on to
become the first president elected
on a platform of full LGBT equality.
That didn’t happen in 2008, and it
couldn’t have. For the last 12 years,
LGBT rights have been used as a
wedge issue to get out the conservative vote. Notice how little of that
there was this time around, though
there were marriage initiatives in
swing states – oh, and Obama took
all the states that put marriage on
the ballot.
We didn’t have a Prop 8. We
didn’t even have a loss. After 28
straight defeats for marriage equality at the state-level, by popular
vote, since 1998, we won four marriage referenda in one shot, three
of which were ballot measures legalizing same-sex marriage. We’ve
never been able to vote down a
marriage ban and suddenly people
are all for it in places as un-swishy
as Maine.
Emboldened by the passage
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of North Carolina’s draconian
Amendment One in May, The
National Organization for Marriage
(NOM) decided to bet the house
on the overwhelming opposition
to marriage equality among racial
minorities. Then NOM lost. Nov. 6
exit polls show that both AfricanAmerican and Latino voters support marriage equality by a large
margin. (Can we finally put that
myth to rest, everyone?)
Tammy Baldwin, from Wisconsin, became the first openly gay
member of the U.S. Senate, and
she was just one of the 152 openly
LGBT candidates up for election
on Nov. 6. Seventy-seven percent of
them won in such notoriously pink
bastions as North Dakota and West
Virginia.
Stacie Laughton of New Hampshire became the first openly trans
person elected to state office, and
self-described pansexual Mary
Gonzales of El Paso became a
Texas state representative.
2012 also set the stage for
what could be our biggest legal
victory yet: three different circuit
courts (the 1st, 2nd and 9th)
ruled for marriage equality. The
odds favor at least one of these
cases making it to the Supreme
Court next year, which has
implications for LGBT rights
far beyond marriage. While the
Court could rule against us, good
money says it won’t, especially
if it chooses to hear the DOMA
cases instead of the Prop 8 case.
Either way, the outcome will send
us out in the streets, in celebration or fury. And watch: that will
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FilmOut announces student
filmmaker contest
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of FilmOut San Diego, organizers
have announced a student filmmaker
contest for next year’s LGBT Film
Festival. “FilmOut San Diego views
the short film as an important art form
and springboard for young talent,”
said Michael McQuiggan, festival
programmer. “The purpose is to open
up the younger demographic audience
at the student level. We have been
planning to do some kind of filmmaking contest for a few years, so we
decided to wait and include it as part
of the 15th anniversary of FilmOut.”
Currently enrolled students at a college or university in San Diego County
are encouraged to enter, with three top
cash prizes being awarded. Additionally, the top 10 films will be screened at
next year’s festival, scheduled for May
29 – June 2, 2013 at the Birch North
Park Theatre. Submissions will be
judged on quality of LGBT topic, story,
production, cinematography, editing,
sound, score, acting and directing,
and films must adhere to the three- to
10-minute length. All production must
have been completed in 2012 or 2013,
and chosen filmmakers must attend
the screening next year. McQuiggan
said if the contest is successful, they
will make it a regular part of the annual
festival. “We are supportive of local student filmmakers, and this gives them
a showcase to have their work seen in
a theatre with an audience, most for
the first time,” he said. Deadline for
submissions is March 31, 2013. For
complete information contact McQuiggan at michael@filmoutsandiego.com
or visit filmoutsandiego.com.
DA Bonnie Dumanis prepared
for revised 3-strikes law
Announced Nov. 21, District
Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office
participated in the first resentencing
of a defendant under the revised
three-strikes law passed Nov. 6 by
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INAUGURAL OCEAN BEACH
RESTAURANT WEEK SET
For five days, over 20 Ocean
Beach restaurants participating in
the inaugural Ocean Beach Restaurant Week from Dec. 3 – 7 will offer
special discounts or prix-fixe menus
for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
“Restaurant week is an opportunity
to eat delicious food and it’s also a
chance for our business community
to come together and showcase the
great things OB has to offer,” said
Kevin Alsobrook, Operating Partner
at Nick’s at the Beach/Pier, in a
release. “Most of the participating
restaurants are locally owned and
operated and have been for years,
and we’re very proud of that.” Diners do not need tickets or passes,
but may show up or make reservations at participating locations. “We
have it all here in OB. Cafes, bistros,
delis, pubs [and] five-star dining …”
said Chris Stavros, owner of the Olive Tree Marketplace and Kecho’s,
in the release. “We’re inviting all
of San Diego to venture out to our
little beachfront community and
re-visit an old favorite restaurant or
discover a new one.” For a complete
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California voters. Dumanis said her
office had been preparing for the
potential of Proposition 36 passing
for several months. “We stand ready
to review the hundreds of petitions
that are expected to be filed by
inmates, remaining mindful of our
primary obligation to protect public
safety,” Dumanis said in a press release. “Prior to passage of the threestrikes initiative, our office had
already been working with the Innocence Project and the San Diego
Public Defenders Office to identify
defendants sentenced to 25 years to
life who don’t pose an unreasonable
risk to public safety and might be
appropriate for resentencing.” In
the first resentencing, the defendant
had been convicted of non-violent
drug possession for sales and
already had two felony strikes. As a
result, the defendant was sentenced
to mandatory 25 years to life under
the 1994 voter-approved threestrikes law. In the resentencing, the
defendant’s sentence was reduced
to 15 years, 4 months. With no record of discipline in state prison and
high ratings from instructors, Superior Court Judge David Danielsen
released the defendant after being
given credit for time already served.
“This first case demonstrates
the importance of why providing
reentry services, like drug rehabilitation, is necessary for inmates
whose crimes are driven by drug
addiction. Such reentry services are
a critical component of stopping the
revolving door to prison,” Dumanis
said. In the resentencing process, a
Superior Court Judge will have the
final determination on whether to
reduce the sentence.
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Maneuvering for newly vacated District 4 council seat
al lan ac e v e d o
Political
Spectrum
Just when people thought the
election cycle was over, the San
Diego City Council majority we
worked so hard to attain will be
put on hold as current Council
President Tony Young has decided
to step down to take a post as the
CEO of the local Red Cross.
District 4, Young’s district, is
a diverse area in Southeast San
Diego. It has an active AfricanAmerican population and Young and
his predecessor are both AfricanAmerican. This is a perspective and
ethnicity we should ensure remains
represented on our council. We also
must ensure that whoever takes
over for Young is also a strong supporter of full equality.
While many have said this
is a more socially conservative
district and one that voted against
Proposition 8 in 2008, it is still a
heavily leaning Democrat district
– the most recent numbers from
the County Registrar of Voters
have it at 53 percent registered
Democrat – and there is no better
opportunity than now to change
the narrative of the district.
Similar to Assemblymember
Ben Hueso getting elected to
District 8 as a strong supporter
of equality despite the socially
conservative Latino base in his district, a new progressive Democrat
voice can and should be expected
to be elected to District 4 in the
2013 special election.
There are a number of candidates already vying for this position,
but most give pause for concern.
Bruce Williams has already
announced his intention to run.
Williams was a former city council
opponent of Young and a registered Republican. He currently
works for Young, who has himself
only recently begun to evolve on
the issue of marriage equality.
Also, if residents are looking to
point their finger at anyone for the
added expense of what could cost
as much as $350,000 for a special
election to fill the vacated space, it
would be a surrogate of Young’s.
Williams is likely to earn the endorsement of Young, but I wonder
how much that would help.
Ron Lacey is also a name being tossed around as a potential
candidate. I would be concerned
about putting someone into office
with so many ties to Downtown
special interests. Lacey currently
works for Republican Mayor Jerry
Sanders in Community Outreach.
Ties to a Republican mayor would
not help Lacey in such a heavily
Democrat district.
Myrtle Cole’s name has also
been mentioned as someone
who could throw her hat in the
ring. Cole currently works for
the United Domestic Workers
Local 3930 union in San Diego.
She brings with her a mixed
bag of experiences. She ran the
city council campaigns of both
Young and current Assemblymember Toni Atkins. When Cole
was running Young’s campaign,
they issued a damaging piece
on Dwayne Crenshaw, then a
candidate in the race himself,
attacking Crenshaw on the issue
of marriage equality.
Cole’s union has also failed
to endorse any openly LGBT
candidate running for the County
Board of Super visors. In 2010,
they did not endorse Stephen
Whitburn, who ran to represent
District 4 on the board, which
includes Hillcrest. And this year
they actually endorsed Republican Brian Bilbray’s chief of
staff, Steve Danon for the board.
Luckily, Danon lost to openly gay
Solana Beach Deputy Mayor Dave
Roberts, making Roberts our
first openly LGBT super visor in
county histor y.
Cole’s union made two endorsements of LGBT candidates,
one of which was her former boss
Atkins, who now said she is in
support of Cole’s council run. Cole
sounds to me more like a pragmatist willing to align herself with
anyone who can help her advance
her agenda, rather than someone
who stands up for her ideals. This
is not someone I would like on my
city council and someone District
4 should be concerned about.
Brian “Barry” Pollard has already officially announced he would
be running for this seat again after
being Young’s opponent in 2010.
Pollard, for many, seems like a frontrunner candidate, but his stance on
LGBT issues is unclear and his track
record in the community could use
some help. The San Diego Ethics
Commission slapped Pollard’s campaign with a $1,500 fine for failure
to timely file campaign statements
in 2010, and Pollard also chaired the
District 4 redistricting committee.
Indeed, Pollard’s involvement in the
redistricting process could bring up
a few red flags of self-serving political maneuvering.
The candidate that I think
would best represent this community and begin to change the
narrative of District 4 is Crenshaw.
Crenshaw has been a tireless
advocate for his communities.
During his tenure as executive
director of the Coalition of Neighborhood Councils (CNC), they
maintained an annual budget of
$1.4 million and had 26 employees.
Since his termination in December
2009, CNC has fallen below seven
staff and now has little money in
the bank. They offer almost none
of the programs they did before
his departure, including a nutritional meals program for kids,
which ended in 2010.
Crenshaw later went on to
complete a juris doctorate at
California Western Law School
and currently ser ves as Executive Director of San Diego LGBT
Pride. He has name recognition
having twice run for the city
council seat himself, and has
a strong base of support both
within the LGBT community and
the communities of District 4.
He has lived in the district for
37 years, and is a resident of the
Encanto neighborhood.
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From page 1
BLACK
an announcement Monday, Dec.
3 on whether they will hear the
appeal. With the appeal pending,
Black said they were prepared to
continue staging “8” until it was
no longer needed, including “one
monster production” in Washington, D.C. should the court hear
the case.
If the court decides to not
hear the case, the Ninth Circuit
Court’s ruling will stand and
LGBT couples in California will
once again be allowed to marry.
If the court decides to hear the
case, which is included in appeals
striking down the nation’s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA),
a decision is not expected until
mid-year 2013.
“The other option is [they]
are going to hear this case, in
which case our lawyers David
Boies and Ted Olson have
already said that they will expand
it so that this decision covers all
50 states,” Black said, adding
that the American Foundation
for Equal Rights, the leading
sponsor of Proposition 8’s legal
battles, was optimistic that the
Supreme Court would ultimately
rule in favor of marriage equality.
“The Supreme Court doesn’t
like to be 10 steps ahead of the people, historically. It likes to be about
two. It never wants to be behind the
arc of history when it comes to civil
rights,” he said. “I think they know
that [marriage equality] is inevitable. … They know that if they don’t
take this case now, or they turn it
down now, they’re going to see it
again next year.”
In discussing Proposition 8, City
Commissioner and LGBT Weekly
Publisher Stampp Corbin said the
—Allan Acevedo is co-founder
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(l to r) Dustin Lance Black was
honored by Nicole Murray
Ramirez. (Photo by Big Mike)
2008 election was difficult. “What
was so unfortunate was the fact that
African-Americans got blamed that
Proposition 8 didn’t pass,” he said.
“That just was not true.”
Corbin then went on to
express the need for “coalition
building,” saying it is important
not to blame specific people for
election outcomes, and highlighting the importance of voting.
“Unfortunately our community didn’t show up,” he said. “We
had 25,000 people march in San
Diego after we lost. We couldn’t
get 2,500 people to show up to
the Prop 8 office.”
Gloria also spoke on the importance of being an active voter,
saying everyone has a role to
play. “Civil rights is not a spectator sport,” he said. “We have a
wonderful human being in Dustin
Lance Black who took his talent
for storytelling and put it to use
for the cause. What is your role?”
Production & Celebrity
Entertainment produced the
staging. Directed by Brian Wells,
the production was sponsored in
part by Viejas Band of Kumeyaay
Indians, Merrill Lynch and the
Imperial Court de San Diego.t
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Ian as We Speak
Across
1 Testy response, or testicles
5 Antislavery author
10 Made it to second base, so to speak
14 Stage piece
15 Part of a makeup kit
16 Kitchen foray
17 First name in lesbian fiction
18 Gay porn director Francis
19 Java vessels
20 Janis Ian song about biracial love
23 Little fairies
24 Leave as is
25 “That’s a wrap!”
28 Bring shame to
32 After 20-Across, book about Janis Ian
38 They’re performing, in “Fame”
39 Barbeque locale
40 Peril for Patty Sheehan
41 Nero’s thus
42 Pink slip actions
Ian As We Speak solution on page 15
44 “Proud Mary” singer Turner
45 Dickhead
47 “Lake Wobegone Days” author
49 Shakespeare’s dusk
50 Three, in Napoli
51 Janis Ian song about teenage angst
56 “___ Let the Sun Go Down on Me”
58 Cosmetics name
59 Where orientation is determined,
some say
62 Actress Skye
63 Turner that goes either way
64 Tibet’s setting
65 Moved one’s ass
66 Comes over
67 Winetaster’s guess
Down
1 “Morning Edition” airer
2 “Exodus” author Leon
3 The Tin Man’s best friend
4 “O beautiful for ___ skies” (Katharine
Lee Bates)
5 What hibernating bears do
6 Fouls, to the Pinball Wizard
7 Nothing but
8 Houdini’s birth name
9 How Homo sapiens walks
10 Gay nocturnal flyer?
11 Banjoist Scruggs
12 Swedish soprano Jenny
13 Scores by David Kopay
21 “___ the end of my rope!”
22 Enjoy phone sex
25 Stock up on
26 Line from Porter
27 First-rate mate
29 March follower
30 Plumed military cap
31 Keyed up
33 Willa Cather classic
34 Setter’s sound
35 “When I see ___ will believe ...”
36 Porking noise?
37 Eager beavers
42 Montagues, to Capulets
43 k.d. lang record label
46 Made a profit of
48 Street named for writer Harper?
51 Shakespeare’s Hathaway
52 Brandy bottle letters
53 Sundance’s Place
54 It’s a gas on Broadway
55 What Sam twitched on “Bewitched”
56 Bad-mouth
57 Caveman of comics
60 Woody’s ex
61 Stonewall Inn, for one
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Forever Kylie
Music and movie icon looks back at 25 years
of gay fans, bad fashion and girl kisses
By Chris Azzopardi | Q Syndicate
Kylie Minogue was just 19
when she landed a record deal
that would turn the soap star into a
singing superstar. This year marks
a quarter-century of Kylie, who’s
celebrating the milestone with
orchestral reinterpretations of her
most popular songs on “The Abbey
Road Sessions,” a greatest hits,
two movies and an upcoming book
chronicling her style over the last
25 years.
We hooked up with the 44-yearold pop icon to talk about those
projects, the outfit she calls an
“abomination,” taking a sabbatical
from music and why she doesn’t
want to know how she became a
gay icon.
Chris Azzopardi: “The Abbey
Road Sessions” really shows a more
sophisticated side to you – one
that people who only know you
from your dance music might not
be familiar with. Why now are you
venturing out into more stylistically ambitious territory and taking
risks? Is it because you’re in your
25th year and you just don’t give a
crap anymore?
Kylie Minogue: [Laughs] that
could be a tiny bit of it! I actually re-
corded “The Abbey Road Sessions”
late last year, knowing it would be
part of what we’ve called K25. But
I can’t tell you exactly why. I’ve just
felt like now is as good a time as
any to do these things that I’ve been
harboring – these desires to do the
Anti Tour and to do an orchestra
album – and I managed to make
them happen.
CA: It’s not even just with music,
though. You’re taking risks with
film, too. You returned to acting this
year in “Jack and Diane” – and you
kissed a girl.
KM: [Sings] “and I liked it.”
CA: What was it like shooting
that scene?
KM: Blink and you’ll miss me,
but I am there! [Laughs] I play a
part-time flame of Riley Keough’s
character, and she’s having drama
with the girl she’s just met and I’m,
like, the older woman.
CA: What brought you back into
the acting world?
KM: I was based in New York
for a year – when I say that, I’m
never anywhere for too long – but I
had an apartment in Williamsburg
Kylie Minogue (Courtesy EMI Music)
and I was hanging out there. It was
brilliant. My acting manager in the
states said, ‘Oh hey, there’s this
independent director, Bradley Rust
Gray. Do you fancy meeting him?’
I met with Bradley and I said OK
because that’s kind of where my
head was and where my mind was
heading, and then “Holy Motors”
came up, and that took it to the next
level.
CA: Did you study any lesbian
flicks, like “Bound” or “The Hours,”
to prepare for your lesbian role in
“Jack and Diane”?
KM: [Laughs] no, I just went
with instinct.
CA: You’ve kissed a girl before
anyway. Remember smooching Geri
Halliwell in 2001?
KM: Oh, that’s right! That’s
true, I hadn’t thought about that.
[Laughs] it was just very straightforward. It’s a film about a couple
of girls who fall in love, and I was a
momentary wake-up call for Riley’s
character. We never discussed it –
the kissing or anything. It just all
happened.
CA: What does your hot Spanish
boyfriend think of your lady lovin’?
KM: [Laughs] he hasn’t seen it.
I don’t think he minded at the time.
He’s very open-minded, which is
good.
CA: A lot of people who are
working the same job for as long
as you have might move on to
something else. In these 25 years,
was there ever a moment – maybe
during your battle with cancer in
2005 – where you thought about ...
KM: … going off and living in
Taos, New Mexico? Somewhere
easy, somewhere kind of mystical?
Maybe for a brief moment, but no,
I was just eager to finish what I’d
started. I wanted to get back on
stage, and I wanted to be better and
stronger and not as stressed-out as
I always was. I wanted to make it
work for me as well as working for
“it.” So no, I’m really so fortunate
that I have a lot of different types of
opportunities – thank god, because
otherwise I would be off! That’s
why I’m doing so many different
things, and fortunately my audience
understands that about me and
almost expects it of me these days.
It’s harmonious. It’s not like I go
off and do something and they just
think, ‘She’s just disappearing for a
while and then she’ll be back.’ They
come with me.
CA: Gay fans are super loyal.
We’ll follow you anywhere.
KM: Oh yeah. Nothing if not
loyal.
CA: For a lot of gay fans, you’ve
been a source of strength and
perseverance. I have a gay friend
who was in the military who said he
listened to you every day and it got
him through.
KM: Aww, really? I love stories
like that.
CA: What kind of stories have
you been told over the years from
your gay fans about how you’ve
inspired them?
KM: That’s really hard for me
to think of a specific story, but in
general, I do hear that kind of thing.
The biggest question is: How did
I end up in this position? My gay
audience just decided. It was like,
‘You’re ours. We’re adopting you.’
And I thought it was brilliant. But
it wasn’t like I was marketed to the
pink pound or anything like that
– that didn’t even really exist back
then, actually.
So yeah, I do hear lots of stories
about people feeling some kind of
support and loving what I do. I don’t
have the answer and I’m asked all
the time, ‘Why do you have such
a gay following?’ ‘Why are you a
gay icon?’ I almost don’t want to
know the answer, because it was so
organic the way it happened.
CA: When you work on a project, be it including mermen in the
Aphrodite World Tour last year or
recording a dance song, how much
do you keep the gays in mind?
KM: I try to keep everyone in
mind, because I don’t want to go
too far and I don’t want to go “not”
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DINING
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DINING WITH
FRANK SABATINI JR.
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Large bu
ttermilk p
ancakes
(Photo by
Perr y’s Café is hardly a “café” when you consider the
From a decent list of Mexican-style breakfasts,
restaurant’s big-box structure and spacious parking lots
we tried the chorizo omelet topped with a roasted,
that can easily accommodate a few 18-wheelers, should
whole Anaheim pepper. The sausage inside was
you arrive in one.
finely ground and incorporated into what looked
Located at the lip of Old Town on an industrial
and tasted like zesty chili, sans the chili beans
stretch of Pacific Highway that feels neither here nor
available in a different omelet. Though good and
there, customers have been coming in droves since the
spicy, the overall heat factor was tame.
mid-80s for breakfast and lunch, ser ved usually with
Fans of frittatas will find numerous choices
lightening speed and a dose of blunt humor.
ranging from those filled with eggplant, Italian
Plastic plants, brown paneling and florescent lighting
sausage, shredded beef, vegetables-only and
appoint the spacious, two-room interior, exactly the pasmore. Based on a few I saw flying past, they
sé motif I expected after spying curiously on the place in
span an entire plate, adhering to the generous
drive-bys before making a
portions commonly
few visits. In earlier days,
seen here.
Perr y’s attracted mostly
Perr y’s is open
blue-collar workers and
from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
truckers. But according
daily, with lunch
to a longtime waitress,
ser vice kicking into
Chorizo-stuffed omelet
the clientele began digear arbitrarily
(Photo by Frank Sabatini Jr.)
versifying a decade ago,
around 10 or 11
as hipsters and families
a.m., depending I
sought alternatives
guess on how many
to crowded breakfast
eggs and pancakes
diners along the beaten
are dominating the
track. Rarely is Perr y’s
grill by late mornso peaceful either,
ing. In addition to
although lines move fast
enchiladas and taco
due to high capacity and
platters, the menu
a rapid-moving army of
covers American
ser vers.
classics such as
“Is the corned beef
chili burgers, club
( L O M A P O R TA L )
hash homemade?” I
sandwiches and hot
asked a waitress, whose
turkey with mashed
no-nonsense tone and
potatoes. Oddly,
sarcastic smirk epitothere are no pies
mized the stereotype of
or cakes available.
brusque diner ser vice on
Blueberr y muffins
P R I C E S : Breakfast,
TV shows.
are the closest you’ll
“Canned,” she said
get to a pastr y fix.
$4.25 to $11.25, Lunch, $4 to $8.75
with knee-jerk brevity, as
In tr ying a couple
though she’d been asked
of sandwiches in past
the question a thousand
visits, the tuna melt
times before.
tasted fishy because
“How about the sausage in the godfather omelet? Is
it probably isn’t made with albacore like so many
that homemade?” I asked.
of us have come to expect. But the tuna filling
“Nope,” she answered in an amusing tone that could
was speckled heavily with celer y, just the way I
have easily been interpreted as “it’s nothing special.”
like it.
The three-egg omelet actually turned out to be a winner,
A crispy Reuben on butter-slathered r ye
with the meat lean and chunky, albeit a tad rubber y, and
delivered greater satisfaction. The corned beef
the accompanying tablet of hash browns crunchy on the
was lean and cut thicker than normal, but
outside, moist on the inside.
perfectly tender. Layered with generic Swiss
Various fruited pancakes and waffles are in the offcheese and kraut, the Thousand Island dressing, all of which come topped with sweet compote from
ing strangely goes missing unless you ask
frozen berries. Passing on those, my companion recently
for it on the side. As for the accompanying
sprung for unadulterated buttermilk hotcakes, which
potato salad, the waitress amusingly assured
proved as golden and fluffy as any you’d find in trendy
us that it comes from a tub.
breakfast kitchens. Whole-wheat versions are also
Whether your wallet is thin or your big
available, but don’t expect too much more in the way of
rig needs a rest, Perr y’s is a reliable pit stop
healthy fare, since the menu remains pretty much frozen
for hefty food portions ser ved at affordable prices and
in time from before egg-white scrambles and granola
with the kind of speedy, straightfor ward efficiency that
came into vogue.
seems a thing of the past.t
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Mentally
healthy
holidays
M I C H A E L K I MME L
LIFE BEYOND
THERAPY
As a psychotherapist, this is
one of the busiest times of year.
Why? Because “The Holidays”
bring up so many unrealistic
expectations for many of us.
Holiday G
We get depressed because we
compare ourselves, our gifts and
our families with what we think
other people experience or have.
We all imagine ever yone else is
having a lot more fun than we
are.
But honestly, we have no
idea how happy or miserable
anyone else is behind their façade. If you could sit in my chair
and hear how unhappy most
people are at this time of year,
you’d stop envying them.
So why not make a goal to
have mentally healthy holidays
this year?
What could that look like?
Here are some suggestions:
Exercise
In San Diego we’re so lucky
we can be outside all year long.
Go for a walk or a jog in Balboa
Park or hike at Mission Trails.
Hit the gym or go out dancing
and break a good sweat. You
can’t buy anti-depressants as
good as the endorphins your
body produces when you exercise, dance, run, skate or sur f.
Just say ‘No’
Do you hate shopping, malls,
crowds and jammed parking
This time of
year can be a
time of joy and
improved selfcare, or bitterness
and resentment.
Be your own Santa
Claus and go for
the former.
lots? Don’t do it. Don’t let yourself get talked into social events
that bum you out. Instead, have
a casual lunch or dinner with
a friend. If you’re invited to
an event and don’t want to go,
graciously say, “Thanks, but I
have other plans.” No one needs
to know that your other plans
involve staying home and watching reality TV.
Make stuf f
I’m not anywhere close to a
Mar tha Stewar t type, but sometimes I find it really fun to make
gifts for my nearest and dearest.
I’ve made pots filled with cactus
and succulents, CD custom music mixes and tie-dyed clothes;
so can you. With a little creativity and money, you can make
some pretty great stuf f that
means a lot more to people than
a gift from a fancy store.
Moderate your alcohol
This time of year may bring
up unpleasant emotions, but
drinking them away only gives
you a temporar y escape (and
a hangover). You want a nice,
healthy escape? Go out dancing
at one of the clubs in Hillcrest.
Limit yourself to a drink or two
max and lots of water, and have
a ball, sweating through your
clothes. And don’t be surprised
if you find yourself smiling on
the way home.
No anonymous sex
This isn’t a good time to
hook-up and feel sad and lonely
after wards. Many people tr y this
to avoid feeling lonely. Too bad
it doesn’t work. Instead, spend
time with people who love you.
If you’re new in town and don’t
know many people, do things
that make you feel good, like
going to the movies, getting a
massage or taking yourself out
to a nice lunch. If you’re having
great sex with someone you
love, well done! If not, focus on
things in your life that please
you.
Stay home
Don’t go anywhere you don’t
want to go. You’re an adult now,
it’s time to be your own Santa
Claus. People may guilt trip you
and tell you you’re selfish, but
why be miserable just to please
someone else? If you want to be
with family, great! If not, visit
them some other time and stay
home in our amazing city with
some of the best weather in
Nor th America.
Think spiritual, not religious
It’s great if the religious
aspects of this time of year are
meaningful to you. If they’re
not, does this mean that you’re
left with commercialism as your
god instead? Fear not, there’s
something else: find a spiritual,
peaceful or calming component
at this time of year. It could be
meditation, walking in nature,
creating a vision board of how
you’d like 2013 to be, or it
could just be sitting quietly and
reading an inspiring book. Find
something centering, grounding and inspiring; the mall ain’t
enough.
Volunteer
One way to avoid the intense
shopaholic-ism of this time of
year is to focus on giving of
yourself, not just your money or
your beautifully wrapped gifts.
It’s invigorating to give your
time and energy to others less
for tunate and bypassing the
ubiquitous commercial messages.
This time of year can be a time
of joy and improved self-care, or
bitterness and resentment. Be
your own Santa Claus and go for
the former. After all, you’ve been
good (enough), right?
—Michael Kimmel is a
licensed psychotherapist who
specializes in helping LGBT
clients. Michael is currently accepting new clients and accepts
most insurance. Contact him at
619-955-3311 or visit lifebeyondtherapy.com. t
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artists as Lady Gaga, Kristine W,
Luciana, Robin S, CC Penniston,
Crystal Waters, and more. but now
you can see her like never before,
right here at CCBC. She, along with
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the desert with a performance like
no other. Book your room now as
there is limited space and room are
going fast!
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Don’t miss out on the world
premiere musical from The La
Jolla Playhouse with Yoshimi
Battles the Pink Robots this
season. It features a 14-foot robot
puppet, dancers in “glowing” LED
costumes and stunning projections – a visually stimulating
experience of this season at The
Playhouse. Get tickets for Yoshimi
before their last show December
16. La Jolla Playhouse advances
theatre as an art form and as a
vital social, moral and political
platform by providing unfettered
creative opportunities for the
leading artists of today and
tomorrow. With youthful spirit
and eclectic, artist-driven approach we will continue to
cultivate a local and national
following with an insatiable
appetite for audacious and diverse
work. In the future, San Diego’s
La Jolla Playhouse will be
considered singularly indispensable to the worldwide theatre
landscape as we become a
permanent safe harbor for the
unsafe and surprising.
As a holiday staple at The Old
Globe, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch
Stole Christmas is back for the
season until December 29! Get into
the holiday spirit and purchase
tickets now to see their 15th anniversary production before the year
ends. The Old Globe produces
a year-round season of 15 plays
and musicals on its three stages,
including its highly-regarded
Shakespeare festival. The Globe
has become a gathering place for
leading theatre artists from around
the world, such as Tom Stoppard,
Daniel Sullivan, and Chita Rivera,
among many others. Numerous
Broadway-bound premieres and revivals, such as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, and Damn
Yankees have been developed at
The Old Globe and have gone on
to enjoy highly successful runs in
New York and at regional theatres
across the country. The Old Globe
is at the forefront of the nation’s
leading performing arts organizations, setting a standard for excellence in American Theatre.
Based on the beloved, timeless
film, this heartwarming musical adaptation of White Christmas features
17 Irving Berlin songs and book by
David Ives and Paul Blake. The dazzling score features well known standards including Blue Skies, I Love A
Piano, How Deep Is The Ocean and
the perennial favorite White Christmas. Nostalgic and charming, White
Christmas is an uplifting musical
worthy of becoming a year round
tradition. San Diego Musical Theatre
(SDMT) is an award-winning, nonprofit theater company that seeks to
bring vibrant musical theatre to the
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of SDMT is to impact audiences by
producing a range of classic and
contemporary musical productions
that engage and enhance the overall
experience. SDMT’s vision is to
create an environment where highquality musical theatre thrives in San
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principal’s office on her very first day
at school.
DeAnna Driscoll, who plays the
Angel as well as other characters,
seems to push all of the players in
the right direction, no matter if she
is playing a principal, an angel, or a
home-repair woman.
Lynaé DePriest does solid work
as Paul’s mother, Marian, even
though she spends a good deal of her
time pontificating about pancakes.
Marshall Anderson plays the father
and a few other characters, while
Longton and Fareen Adams make
good contributions as Paul’s best
friend and Natalie’s mother, respectively.
Director Colette Robert had her
hands full directing very busy traffic
on stage; scene changes are fastpaced, allowing little time to ponder
and digest the many, and at times,
humorous or chaotic conversations.
Matt Scott’s scenic design
incorporates chalkboards for all of
the walls, handy for the entire cast
to write out words and text that underscore what they are trying to say.
Aside from a few chairs, the main set
piece is a toilet.
In the end, after feathers have
been scattered and Kushner’s play
is put down to rest, everyone begins
flying on their own, headed hopefully
in a better direction, and ready to live
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Through Dec. 8
ion theatre
Thurs & Fri 8 p.m.
Sat 4 & 8 p.m.
619-600-5020
iontheatre.com
materializing through a thick
cloud of morphine-induced
hallucinations. This is the place
where truth finally makes a
grand, uncomfortable appearance.
Jeffrey Jones plays the drug
and alcohol addicted son and
narrator, Danny, while Catalina
Maynard takes on the role of
the resentful daughter, Justina.
Both offer up raw, scorching,
natural performances. Trina
Kaplan plays the morphinedependent mother, Therese,
balancing cruelty and maternal
love with equal measure.
Seven other cast members
make exceptionally
good appearances
in this confined
theatre space. Of
special note, Melinda Miller offers
up a strong, niceand-naughty debut
appearance as
Danny’s druggedup, jailbait gal pal.
Claudio Raygoza
and Glenn Paris,
co-directors of the
production, assist
the cast with work
in multiple roles,
with special kudos
going to Raygoza
for his gritty hospital orderly assignment.
Melanie Chen’s
evocative sound
design sets the
dark mood of the
production, while
Raygoza dresses
(top to bottom) Jeffrey Jones and Trina Kaplan the production
star in ion’s ‘The Little Flow of East Orange.’
in exposed, dark
(Courtesy ion theatre)
projections of the
city.
Although “Little Flower”
is raw and in your face, it is
balanced by an undercurrent
of humor. Its rough-edged
impact should help balance out
the other holiday offerings,
allowing audiences to savor a
powerfully moving, imaginative
piece of drama that entertains
on many levels and underscores the fact that truth is
subjective.t
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Tony Kushner’s “Angles In
America” is the inspiration for Diversionary Theatre’s current 90-minute,
West-coast premiere production,
“when last we flew.”
Angles and flying are the metaphors playwright Harrison David Rivers uses in his play about high school
student Paul (played sensitively by
Cordell Mostellar), who happens to
live in small-town Kansas and is ready,
with Kushner’s tome in hand, to come
out to his family and friends.
Having some knowledge of
Through Dec. 9
Diversionary Theatre
Thur, Fri & Sat 8 p.m.
Sun 2 p.m.
619-220-0097
diversionary.org
“The Little Flower of
East Orange”
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Driven by the classic play,
‘when last we flew’ heads in
the right direction
“when last we flew”
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Angels soaring
Kushner’s “Part One: Millennium
Approaches” may assist your understanding of the production, but is not
required reading.
Paul spends most of his time
behind locked bathroom doors, both
at home and at school, trying to
figure things out. Between bouts of
masturbation among other things, he
ponders Kushner’s words of wisdom
and gay, lyrical invention. His father
has just walked out on his mother and
he is experiencing man-on-man feelings for another student, Ian (Noah
Longton).
A parallel story has Natalie (Rory
Lipede), an African-American high
school student, acting out after an
incident at an all-Caucasian, private
Catholic school. After being expelled,
she attends a public school, where
her rebellion manifests itself with
an outburst that has her visiting the
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(l to r) DeAnna Driscoll, Lynaé DePriest, Noah Longton, Cordell Mosteller, Marshall Anderson, Rory Lipede and
Faeren Adams star in Diversionary’s ‘when last we flew.’ (Photo by Ken Jacques)
ion theatre company has
mounted a memory play called
“The Little Flower of East
Orange” that will play at their
49-seat black-box space through
Dec. 8. It’s a roughly hewn
autobiographical drama inspired
by playwright Stephen Adly
Guirgis’ own mother, and written
when she was confined to hospice care and dying of cancer.
This is only the fourth time
Guirgis has given permission to
produce this 2008 play, a work
that tells the stor y of a mother,
a son and a daughter who fail
quite miserably in conveying
any heartfelt feelings to one another. The result is a constant,
heated onslaught of accusations
and innuendos that are hurled
at one another with outright,
no-holds-barred venom.
The play begins as Danny
escapes rehab with another
heroin-addicted patient, Nadine, and heads to the hospital
where his wheelchair-bound
mother has been delivered
after a failed suicide attempt. It
is in this hospital room where
memories of the past surface
through a flashback device,
many of these “visitations”
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Friday, Nov. 30
FIRST BATCH BEERS:
Not officially open as a tasting
room yet, the Thorn Street Brewery will be celebrating North
Park’s 30th on 30th party by offering their new brew. The tasting
room is located at 3176 Thorn
St., and the brewery is partnering with the San Diego Ceramic
Connection at 3216 Thorn St. for
a pre-sale pottery party to get the
first pick of chili bowls that will
be available at Sunday’s SoNo
Park Fest and Chili Cook-off. The
SDCC is donating $10 from each
bowl sold to McKinley Elementary. Food will be available for
sale, too. For more information
visit 30thstreet.org.
Saturday, Dec. 1
WORLD AIDS DAY: In
addition to events happening in
Hillcrest and La Jolla (make sure
to check out our cover story in
this issue) North County will
be honoring today as well, with
the 13th annual World AIDS
Day at Pilgrim Church at 6 p.m.
Located at 2020 Chestnut Ave. in
Carlsbad, speakers will address
awareness through commemorating those who have passed
and celebrating victories. The
San Diego Women’s Chorus will
perform, and soup and salad will
be served following. Nine panels
from the Names Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt
will be on display, from 10 a.m.
today as well as tomorrow, Dec.
2 at 11:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. For more
information visit pilgrimucc.org.
OB Holiday Parade:
This is the 33rd year for the
annual Ocean Beach Holiday
Parade, one of the city’s most
unique and colorful holiday
celebrations. Newport Avenue
will be lined with floats, classic cars, marking bands and, of
course, Santa Claus. There will
be the San Diego Derby Dolls on
roller skates as well. The parade
runs from Sunset Cliffs to Abbott
Street, and begins at 5:05 p.m.
“OB time.” For more information
visit oceanbeachsandiego.com.
Sunday, Dec. 2
JCC HANUKKAH HAPPENING: The largest community-wide holiday extravaganza
featuring family activities and a
silent auction is the 29th annual
Hanukkah Happening, taking
place from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family
Campus. All faiths welcomed,
of course. The JCC is located at
4126 Executive Dr. in La Jolla.
Tickets are $2 for JCC members,
$3 for guests. For more information visit lfjcc.com or call 858-4573030.
Monday, Dec. 3
Inauguration Ceremony: Mayor-elect Bob Filner’s
inauguration ceremony will take
place at 10 a.m. in the Balboa
Park Club. Open to the public,
there is no RSVP needed and as
many seats as they can fit into the
room. There will be a reception,
too. The Club is located at 2144
Pan American Road in Balboa
Park.
Inauguration CELEBRATION: After mayor Bob
Filner is welcomed into office
today, come celebrate at The
LGBT Center, who will host a
grand party by bringing together
all the neighborhoods in Uptown.
The San Diego Democrats for
Equality will be there, we’ll be
there and Mayor Filner will stop
by, too. Free entertainment and
free food for everyone from 6:30
– 8:30 p.m. The Center is located
at 3909 Centre St. For more information email events@thecentersd.org or call 619-692-1967.
Tuesday, Dec. 4
HOSTED FOOD BANK:
Once a month, the San Diego
LGBT Center is a distribution site
for the Community Cares Project
of the San Diego Food Bank.
From 9 – 10:30 a.m., The Center
is a “one-stop-shop” for receiving food, pre-screening for food
stamps and signing up for other
services. The Center is located at
3909 Centre St. For more information call 619-692-2077.
Wednesday, Dec. 5
HEDWIG AT FILMOUT:
FilmOut San Diego is hosting
one big holiday party in North
Park for their monthly film series,
showing “Hedwig & the Angry
Inch” at the Birch Theatre. Special musical guests The Social Animal & Tiny Frank will perform
“Hedwig” songs, and the evening
will be hosted by Glitz-Glam.
There will be a silent auction,
a raffle and just plain good fun.
Tickets are $10, available online
or cash at the door. The Birch is
located at 2891 University Ave.
For more information and tickets
visit filmoutsandiego.com.
GSDBA HOLIDAY CRUSIE: Get aboard the California
Spirit for the 2012 GSDBA
Holiday Cruse, an annual party
to support the Greater San Diego
Business Association and meet
some great people. Cost is $65
per person, with a hosted bar,
holiday buffet and DJ Laura Jane
spinning on the boat’s dance
floor. The event lasts from 5:30 –
9 p.m., with boarding at 1050 N.
Harbor Drive (at Broadway). For
more information visit gsdba.org
or call 619-296-4543.
Thursday, Dec. 6
LIS(T)EN: Quickly becoming one of the hottest women’s
Thursday happy hour events,
Lis(t)en at 1202 is from 6 – 10 p.m.
and features live music. Stop by
to check it out at 1202 University
Ave. For more information visit
1202SD.com or call 619-203-2047.
Friday, Dec. 7
SULTRY AT MELT: Every
first Friday of the month, Melt
hosts themed nights to support
local artists, musicians, fashion
designers, photographers and
more; December’s theme is “Sultry,” featuring “live artworks on
display and for sale,” an acoustic
set by Charlie Rae, burlesque performances, fire dancers, aerialists
and much more. Proceeds from
the night will go to the Human
Rights Campaign. Special guest
bartender is Mallory O’Hara,
with $4 well drinks all night if you
check in on Facebook early. The
production happens at the Brass
Rail, 3736 Fifth Ave. for more
information visit brassrailsd.com.
Saturday, Dec. 8
WOMEN’S CHORUS
DIVAS: For two nights, today
and tomorrow, Dec. 9, the San
Diego Women’s Chorus will
celebrate women artists who are
powerful, confident and known
for challenging norms and taking
risks in their winter concert,
“Divas.” Disco divas, soul divas
and Broadway divas are all covered, plus there will be a little bit
of Edith Piaf for good measure.
Along with a silent auction,
“Divas” will include a salute to
Aretha Franklin, as well as Lesley
Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” and
“Landslide” by Stevie Nicks. The
concerts – Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. and
Dec. 9 at 3 p.m. – are at the First
Unitarian Universalist Church,
located at 4190 Front St. in Mission Hills. Tickets are $20 for
general admission, with discounts
for early purchase, military, youth
and seniors. For more information and to purchase tickets visit
sdwc.org or call 619-291-3366.
Sunday, Dec. 9
Leather and Lace: A
benefit for Special Delivery, the
leather community and friends
are coming together to host
Leather & Lace at Numbers
Nightclub. Doors open at 5 p.m.,
and donations of new unwrapped
blankets and toys will be collected for the Imperial Court de San
Diego. There will be an auction,
and you can get a naughty photo
with Santa for 5 bucks. Numbers
is located at 3811 Park Blvd. and
there is a $7 cover.
BABETTE’S BINGO
BRUNCH: It’s a very Babette
Christmas Bingo Bruch at Mar-
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Nov. 30–Dec. 13, 2012
tinis Above Fourth, with doors
opening at 11 a.m. and the balls
dropping at noon. Destined to sell
out quickly, get your $10 ticket
soon. Martinis is located at 3940
Fourth Ave. For more information visit martinisabovefourth.
com or call 619-400-4500.
Tuesday, Dec. 11
GSDBA LUNCHEON: The
December guest for the GSDBA
Luncheon series is Kris Michell,
president and CEO of the Downtown Partnership, the leading
advocate for economic growth
and revitalization of Downtown.
Michell will discuss plans for
the partnership in 2013, and
the lunch will be held at Wang’s
North Park, located at 3029
University Ave. from 11:30 a.m.
– 1 p.m. Tickets, which include
lunch, are $25 pre-purchase and
$30 at the door. For more information and tickets visit gsdba.org
or call 619-296-4543.
HILLCREST HOLIDAY
POTLUCK: Everyone is invited
to the Hillcrest History Guild’s
sixth annual Holiday Potluck,
taking place tonight at the Joyce
Beers Community Center at 6:30
p.m. Bring a dish to accompany
roasted turkeys, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and bread.
Games and good cheer to get
to know your neighbors, plus if
you wear a Christmas sweater or
funny hat you could win a prize.
Joyce Beers is located at the
Uptown Shopping Center, near
Vermont and Cleveland streets.
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For more information call 619260-1929.
Wednesday, Dec. 12
DREAMGIRLS CHRISTMAS REVUE: Celebrating their
sixth year of making merry,
Urban Mo’s and SDPIX team up
to host the Dreamgirls Christmas
Revue annual party and show. Mix
with the Girls at 7 p.m., including
light hors d’oeuvres and a champagne toast. The show starts at 8
p.m. and there is a $5 cover. Plans?
They will perform once more
on Dec. 19, but my guess is you
don’t want to miss this one. Mo’s
is located at 308 University Ave.
For more information and to make
reservations call 619-491-0400.
Thursday, Dec. 13
TASTE ‘N’ TINIS: Benefitting the Hillcrest Business Association, tonight’s Taste ‘n’ Tinis
classic cocktail party features the
Hill in a festive way for the holidays. From 5 – 9 p.m., take part in
a self-guided walking tour to over
25 restaurants, sampling specialties from their celebrated chefs.
In between bites, step into retail
stores for some shopping fun,
where participating boutiques
will have their own bartenders
pouring holiday martinis (12 of
them total). The HBA will also
host complimentary gift-wrapping
at the will-call booth. Advance
tickets are $20, and $25 the day
of. For more information and
tickets visit fabuloushillcrest.com
or call 619-233-5008.t
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Mission Hills has a new
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Books and Collectibles, which
is owned and operated by the
Schultz family: Steve, Donna
and son, Jim. Having resided
in the charming Mission Hills
neighborhood for 34 years, we
realized that a perfect addition
to the mix of restaurants,
shops and other local businesses would be a bookstore
with indoor and outdoor seating where people can lounge
and take advantage of their
free time while perusing our
elaborate selection of books
and collectibles. We have
created a special place in the
community where authors,
artists, members of book clubs
and other groups can meet.
Our book collection
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subjects ranging from philosophy, art and poetry, to sports,
medicine and science; so, you
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model cars, and vintage
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Whether you are just
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supplement, you will enjoy
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Entertainment
romeo san vicente
Misty and Sunshine and involves
robots, bisexual secrets, Valium
addiction, Women’s Lib, asteroid
assaults and a lot of feathered
hair, pretty much ever ything you
want from outer space that isn’t
already named Buck Rogers.
Check film festival listings first,
but it’ll eventually crash down
into an arthouse near you. Or possibly one in a galaxy far, far away.
Matt Bomer (Courtesy Warner Bros.)
Countdown to Matt Bomer in
“Space Station 76”
Gay Indie Film Alert! Evie
Harris from “Girls Will Be Girls”
has directed a movie. OK, her
alter ego, Jack Plotnick, is the
actual director. But whatever,
same thing give or take a wig or
two. The sci-fi comedy, “Space
Station 76,” is based on a Los
Angeles stage production that
Plotnick’s been developing for
some time, and it’s quite the team
effort. Actors Kali Rocha, Michael
Stoyanov, Sam Pancake and
Jennifer Elise Cox (Jan in “The
Brady Bunch Movie”) all pitched
in on the screenplay and stage
version, while the movie stars
Matt Bomer, Jerr y O’Connell,
Marisa Coughlin, Patrick Wilson
and Liv Tyler. True to its name
and set in the futuristic 1970s,
its convoluted soap-opera plot
involves space travelers named
Lesbian happy endings coming
soon from “Carol”
In 1952, Patricia Highsmith’s
romance novel “The Price of
Salt” did an unexpected thing:
a stylistic detour for its author
– the lesbian myster y author of
“Strangers on a Train” and “The
Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Salt” was
published under a pseudonym – it
also allowed for the possibility
of an optimistic resolution for
its lesbian characters in a time
when those sorts of outcomes
just weren’t on the literar y menu.
Sixty years later, of course, this
doesn’t seem unreasonable at all,
which means the time is perfect
for a film adaptation starring Mia
Wasikowska and Cate Blanchett.
The movie’s called “Carol” – the
name of Blanchett’s character,
a woman who falls in love with
the younger Wasikowska – and
it starts shooting in New York
and London early in 2013. To be
directed by John Crowley (other
credits: the Andrew Garfield
drama “Boy A” and “Is Anybody
There?” with Michael Caine),
the screenplay is from lesbian
writer Phyllis Nagy, which means
one more lesbian line of defense
against the usual movie missteps
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involving male fantasy versions of
women in love with women. Look
for this love affair to light up
screens sometime in 2014.
Kylie Minogue is “Walking On
Sunshine”
It’s a “Glee,” ‘Smash,” “Mamma Mia!” world. We just live in it.
And thanks to this cultural trend,
the jukebox musical’s prospects
have never been brighter (at
least until that “Jersey Boys”
movie hits theaters – we’ll see).
But while the wave is high,
who better to ride it than Kylie
Minogue? The actress-turnedpop-diva-turned-actress, whose
performance of a melancholy love
ballad in the acclaimed art-house
hit “Holy Motors” was that film’s
most tender moment, is having a moment of her own. She’s
signed on to star in “Walking On
Sunshine,” a musical about two
women who fall for the same man
in Spain that’s stuffed full of ’80s
pop hits. U.K. actress Gemma Arterton plays Minogue’s romantic
rival. And it can be assumed she
knows how to carr y a tune, too.
She’d better, anyway. Other wise
when they get to the part where
it’s time to sing “I Should Be So
Lucky,” Kylie might have a bit of
an advantage.
Tina Fey (Courtesy Universal Pictures)
“Admission”: Tomlin’s here,
but you’re probably coming for
Tina
Ever y lesbian we know loves
Tina Fey, even though she plays
for the other team. And when “Admission,” her latest film, opens
next spring, that audience will get
the added bonus of actual lesbian
Lily Tomlin as a co-star. The stor y
revolves around Fey as a college
admissions director who both
falls for Paul Rudd and learns that
the baby she gave up for adop-
tion might well be a maladjusted
genius applying for admission to
her school. It’s always good news
when Tomlin decides to do a film,
but it’s always just as interesting
to see how Fey carries a movie
that she didn’t write. The star
didn’t call her book “Bossypants”
for no reason: as former head
writer of “SNL,” screenwriter of
“Mean Girls” and creator of “30
Rock,” she is, more often than
not, seemingly in charge of her
own destiny. But she’s had pretty
good luck so far, appearing comfortably at home in the comedies
“Baby Mama” and “Date Night.”
And if she can do warm-hearted
romance-and-family comedy without turning it all inside out with
Liz Lemon-style self-deprecation
and absurdity, she’ll be inching
closer to, well, a persona her fans
don’t quite recognize. And you’ll
have to wait until March of 2013
to find out.
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fr y:
Together again
Before “House M.D.” turned
him into a worldwide household
name, Hugh Laurie was better
known, alongside Stephen Fry, as
one half of the U.K. comedy team
whose TV series “A Bit of Fry and
Laurie” launched both their careers. Laurie’s been kind of busy
during the past decade starring on
the planet’s number one show, so
the pair haven’t worked together
in some time. But that’s about
to change with a new animated
version of Oscar Wilde’s “The
Canterville Ghost.” A comic satire
about British/American culture
clash in a haunted English manor
– an American family moves in and
encounters the ghost of Sir Simon
de Canterville (Fry) and that of
his afterlife nemesis, Death (Laurie) – the story has a perennial appeal and has already been adapted
countless times. Just never by Fry
and Laurie as CG animated ghosts.
Directed by Kim Burdon with music by 84-year-old composer Ennio
Morricone, it’ll be a great literary
enlistment tool when you introduce your kids to Oscar Wilde
during the 2014 holiday season. At
that age they’ll appreciate it more
than “The Importance of Being
Earnest.”
Chelsea Handler presents
Fortune Feimster’s furniture
show
Regular viewers of the extremely loose late-night talk show
“Chelsea Lately” know Fortune
Feimster ver y well. She’s the
brash, plus-size, go-to lesbian
comic on staff who can play both
Honey Boo Boo and Honey Boo
Boo’s mother and who regularly
engages in whatever frank sexual
discussions Handler initiates
with the rotating comic panel.
And ABC has taken notice of this
dynamic, green lighting a halfhour sitcom written, produced
and starring Feimster and coexecutive produced by Handler.
It’s called “Discounted” and
it’s a rural, blue-collar comedy
about two sisters (Feimster will
play one of them) tr ying to keep
their Charlotte, North Carolina
furniture store open in the face
of over whelming competition
from an IKEA-like chain of cheap
imports. As with all pilots, it’ll
have to jump through ever y
weird hoop the network decides
to put up as obstacles, but if the
TV-viewing world is lucky, there’ll
soon be a primetime successor
to “Roseanne,” one that doesn’t
have to import any lesbians for its
stor ylines.
Gay documentar y round up:
“Divine” at the “Continental”
Jeffrey Schwarz, the documentar y filmmaker whose most recent movie, the highly acclaimed
“Vito” (about the life of “The
Celluloid Closet” groundbreaking film writer and historian, Vito
Russo) received a coveted HBO
premiere, is hard at work on
his next film. Shining deser ved
light on another gay icon, Glenn
Milstead, aka Divine, “I Am
Divine” will pay loving tribute to
the equally groundbreaking film
star, a man who did for insane
drag what his close friend, director John Waters, did for insane
cinema. The film will feature inter views with Waters, Ricki Lake,
Bruce Vilanch, Tab Hunter, Mink
Stole and Holly Woodlawn and is
currently in post-production.
Meanwhile, “Continental”, the
latest from documentary filmmaker Malcolm Ingram (“Small
Town Gay Bar”) will explore
the heyday of New York City’s
famed Continental Baths. A gay
bathhouse that became a nongay entertainment venue as it
launched the musical careers of
Bette Midler and Barry Manilow,
drawing crowds of celebrities and
regular gay guys in towels looking
for anonymous sex, “Continental”
is sure to open younger gay eyes
to the subculture of 1970s hedonism in the same way that “Paris is
Burning” brought the world of late
1980s drag balls to moviegoers’
attention. Be on the lookout for
both films to turn up at festivals
sometime in 2013.
From “Dreamgirls” to “Twilight” to … Wikileaks?
Gay filmmaker Bill Condon
translated his slowly growing
career success directing movies like “God and Monsters” and
“Kinsey” into a spot helming the
big-budget “Dreamgirls” and,
finally, both parts of the global
smash franchise “The Twilight
Saga: Breaking Dawn.” What this
means now is that he can do pretty
much whatever he wants, so he’s
going to tackle an entirely different
sort of challenge: Wikileaks and
the fate of its head whistleblower
in charge, Julian Assange. You may
remember that Assange started
the website as a source for leaked
diplomatic cables and messages
in order to expose corruption in
world governments, a job for which
he received few thank-you notes.
Negotiations are currently underway to cast James McAvoy opposite
Benedict Cumbatch (“Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy”), who’ll play the embattled Assange, a man still facing
prosecution by the United States.
And if McAvoy signs on he’ll star
as Daniel Domscheit-Berg, whose
book “Inside WikiLeaks: My
Time With Julian Assange At The
World’s Most Dangerous Website”
will serve as one screenplay source
for the DreamWorks project. No
timeline is set for this one just yet,
but it’s going to have to wait until
Condon is finished promoting
those sparkly vampires all over the
globe. Think 2014.
—Romeo San Vicente could
leak all sorts of information, but it
would only embarrass some A-list
male celebrities whose hearts he
broke back in the day. He can be
reached care of Gay San Diego or
at DeepInsideHollywood@qsyndicate.com.t
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KYLIE
far enough. It’s just a case of balance. Like, I
wouldn’t go on a tour that’s got a routine like
we had for “Slow” on the Showgirl tour. You
wouldn’t want that for two hours. I don’t even
think my gay audience would want that for
two hours.
CA: I don’t think we’d care. It’s Kylie for
two hours!
KM: [Laughs] I nearly spat my water
across the room right then!
CA: You don’t stop. Another album is
already in the works, and I hear this one’s
supposed to be more personal. How personal
are we talking?
KM: I don’t want to make a personal album
at the expense of a great pop album, so I can
put some personal material in there; I have
done that previously, as well. People don’t
generally know that I write quite as much
as I do, but a song like “Flower” [from “The
Abbey Road Sessions”] – that’s the extreme
end of personal. But it was very liberating, so I
wouldn’t mind more of that. That song wouldn’t
even be on the album if fans hadn’t just loved it
– and they didn’t even know what it was about
before they fell in love with it! It was just an
instinctive reaction to the song; if it’s about my
life, they seem to know it.
CA: “The Best of Kylie Minogue” compilation, released earlier this year, made it easy
to compare all the styles you’ve gone through
since the ’80s. For you, which was the most
ridiculous fashion era? What are some clothes
you’d like to burn – or that you have already?
KM: Oh my god. Gee, I probably have
burned them. Hey, the late ’80s wasn’t that
kind to anyone. There’s a poster in existence
where I have bicycle pants or, like, leggings
under cutoff shorts with polka-dot socks
and ankle riding boots and a huge leather
jacket – and I even think there are stripes involved. It’s just an abomination. If that could
disappear into the black hole, that would be
amazing.
But there’s been some in the kind of “good
period” when I’m supposed to know what I’m
doing [laughs]. Sometimes things just don’t
come together, especially if they’re out of context. I’m thinking of one example of being on
stage, where you’ve got extra stage makeup
on, and then going to something afterward.
You look a bit like a freak.
CA: You crushed my little gay heart when
you debunked rumors about you doing a song
with Madonna for a TV special to commemorate your anniversary. You were kidding,
right? Please tell me this is happening.
KM: Aww. No, for real. There’s nothing. I’ve
always dueted with guys, which is also good, but
the question always comes up: ‘Would you duet
with Madonna?’ ‘Would you duet with Britney?’
And the answer is always yes, because I think
all of those girls are great for different reasons.
Hey, it might never happen, but maybe – if the
moment and the song and the desire came up
from both parties. It is a bit like a gay wet dream,
but who knows. I’ve just always said, ‘Of course
that’s something that’s interesting.’
CA: Is there a gay friend who cuddles up
with you on the couch with a bottle of wine to
watch “RuPaul’s Drag Race”?
KM: Is there “one”? No! Look, I might be
a serial monogamist with my actual boyfriend,
but with my gay boyfriends I’m a floozy. There
are a few. I’ve got one in every port!
CA: What would you like to tell your gay
fans who’ve been following you for these last
25 years?
KM: It’s very simple: I just want to say
thank you. That’s all.
—Chris Azzopardi is the editor of Q
Syndicate, the international LGBT wire
service. Reach him via his website at chrisazzopardi.com.t
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Loft basketball, softball highlight November sports scene
San Diego Hoops
San Diego Hoops (sdhoops.
net) has reached the quarter-season
mark, with all nine of its teams now
having played four out of their scheduled 16 regular-season games as of
Wednesday, Nov. 28. An influx of new
players allowed the basketball league
to increase the number of teams from
eight to nine this season, despite
the departure of 23 players from the
previous season.
Leading the way after four weeks
was The Loft, SD Hoops’ only 4-0
team. Coached by forward John
Crockett, the boys in the blue jerseys
have won three of their games by
double-digit margins; their one
close game came against previously
undefeated Pecs in a 49-44 victory
Nov. 14. Derek Wright is the Loft’s
leading scorer, averaging 17 points
(tied for fourth in the league) and 4.5
rebounds per game.
Bulls & Bears (3-0) and Wsup
Now (3-0) each had early-season
byes, so while they sat a half game
back of The Loft through four weeks,
each remained undefeated. Guard
Paul Demke, one of the league’s
longest-tenured players and owner of
two league championships coaches
Bulls & Bears. Demke’s squad does
not include a bona fide number-one
scorer like most teams. Instead, the
scoring contributions are balanced
throughout the roster, though much
of the offense runs through big man
Tommy Miles (10.3 PPG, 9.7 RPG).
All eyes have been on Wsup
Now this season, its first as a league
sponsor, due to the incredible performances so far by first-year guard
Jeff Leas. Despite playing one fewer
game than his closest competitor (Jay
Irby of Jersey Joe’s), Leas was leading all players with 108 points scored
through four weeks. That works out
to an astounding 36 points per game.
His team’s schedule is about to get
a little tougher as games against the
division leaders loom in December.
To his credit, Leas’ 31 free throw attempts through the fourth week were
more than what two entire teams had
attempted in the season.
Sitting just one game back of The
Loft is Pecs (3-1), coached by twotime Most Valuable Player Patrick
Schoettler. Both he and Brian Jinings
are capable of dropping 20 points on
any given night. Schoettler, who posted triple-doubles (at least 10 points
and 10 rebounds in the same game)
in three of his first four games, ranks
third in the league in scoring and first
in rebounds.
SD Hoops regular season games
take place every Wednesday night
from 6 – 10 p.m. at Golden Hills
Recreation Center, excluding two
weeks off for the upcoming holidays.
The teams are playing a 16-game, 18week schedule before playoffs begin
in March.
Softball heads east for Hurricane
Showdown
My Loft softball team made its
first-ever East coast tournament
appearance over the Thanksgiving
holiday, as 12 players skipped the
traditional holiday feast and headed
to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. for the 18th
annual Hurricane Showdown. Of the
60 teams registered to play in the
The Loft traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. to compete in the Hurricane Showdown (Photo by Vincent Dagostino)
tournament, we were just one of two
teams from west of the Mississippi
River to make the journey, joining the
Sin City Strippers from Las Vegas.
Spending five days in South
Florida, The Loft was recognized
early and often for several reasons.
First, we had traveled over 2,200
miles to be there, so players from
all over chatted us up at the tournament sponsor bars to figure out
who we were. Second, as long-time
Loft player David “Mona” Valenzuela made a point of mentioning
to anyone who would listen, our
team’s motto is “win or lose, we
booze.” We had the pleasure of
meeting so many players from all
across the east coast, made possible
by staying ’til last call every night at
league events.
Finally, and unfortunately
worth nothing, The Loft was recognized as the B team that did not
win a single game: six games, six
losses. Four of the six games were
tied within the final two innings,
but we simply did not hit well
enough. A team of four original
Loft members and eight pick-up
players combined to score only
11 runs over six games. However,
spectators were hard pressed
to find a more relaxed, rowdier
bunch at the fields as we shared
a ton of laughs and had a great
experience just being out there. I
do find a certain amount of humor
in boasting that I can now claim
my first winless tournament on my
managerial record. We left the Sunshine State knowing that despite
the on-field flop, everyone had a
great time and The Loft brand is
definitely now known out East. We
were even lucky enough to have
our friend and sponsor, Andy Clark
(co-owner of The Loft), along for
the trip.
Softball goes on break for us for
seven weeks until our regular unit
heads to Las Vegas for the popular
and ultra-competitive Sin City Shootout in January.
‘We Care’ charity
holiday mixer
Mark your calendars
for Dec. 9 as the fourth
annual We Care Holiday
Mixer takes place at 1202,
beginning at 6 p.m. Event
organizer “Junior” Buendia has again brought
together representatives
from several of our LGBT
sports leagues to attend an
event that will raise money
for local youth. A raffle will
be held for a wide variety
of prizes, all of at least $50
in value, with the proceeds
going to youth programs
at The LGBT Center and
Memorial Prep. Attendees
are encouraged to bring an
unwrapped toy, which will
be distributed to the Imperial Court de San Diego’s
Toys for Kids drive.
Among the organizations
that will be attending are
Front Runners, High Rollers
Bowling, SAGA, San Diego
American Flag Football
League, San Diego Armada
Rugby Club, SD Hoops,
and the San Diego Tennis
Federation. The event will
be held at 1202 University
Av. in Hillcrest, with complimentary appetizers and
discounted drinks provided
by 1202 and The Range
Kitchen & Cocktails.t
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Also on Friday, an HIV/AIDS
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history, prevalence and misconceptions of HIV/AIDS, as well as
prevention and testing information.
Sections of the world-renowned
AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on
display from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the
Price Center east ballroom, and a
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7 to 8 a.m. in conjunction with the
quilt viewing.
Finally, UCSD campus carillonneur Scott Paulson will perform
songs honoring the memory of
those who have passed away from
AIDS in the rooftop carillon room
at noon. A special discussion titled
“Gender-Based Violence and HIV: A
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at UCSD’s Muir College Center.
The university will continue its
AIDS-related education on Friday
with a number of events on campus
throughout the day, including a
“Survivors” photography exhibit
showing longterm survivors of HIV/
AIDS who have surpassed the 10year mark since their diagnosis.
Millard’s Fur Service
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Global Health Concern” will be held
at UCSD’s School of Medicine at
noon as well.
In the end, the World AIDS Day
awareness events in San Diego hosted
by various local groups and organizations aim to remind the public that
HIV/AIDS is still claiming lives.
Current statistics from the World
Health Organization say HIV is one
of the world’s leading infectious killers. The virus has claimed more than
25 million lives over the past 30 years.
In 2011, there were 34.2 people living
with HIV worldwide.
In the United States, 30,000 gay
men are diagnosed with HIV each
year. As many as one in eight gay
men in the U.S. live with HIV, and
up to 25 percent do not know they
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Looking down on a previous Tree of Life ceremony in Hillcrest (Courtesy Mama’s Kitchen)
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at 3904 Park Blvd. and the Lead the
Way storefront located at 3830 Park
Blvd. Both locations will offer free,
confidential HIV testing from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
“Part of the World AIDS Day ‘Getting to Zero’ theme is zero new HIV
infections. The first step in stopping
new HIV infections is knowing your
status,” said Joshua P. Romero of Lead
the Way. “If you don’t know whether
or not you have HIV, you don’t know if
you could be transmitting the virus.”
As part of a series of World
AIDS Day events, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will also
offer HIV testing. On Friday, Nov.
30, the San Diego County Office
of Public Health will provide free,
anonymous HIV testing on their
mobile bus parked on Library Walk
to all UCSD students, faculty and
staff. The testing was also offered
on Thursday, Nov. 29.
All week long, red ribbons have
been distributed on the UCSD campus to signify World AIDS Day. On
Tuesday, Nov. 27, visual arts classes
presented projects and performances
based on HIV/AIDS activism, and
the following day young people affect-
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2012Scion
xD, xB, tC & iQ
& Locks, CD, Cruise, Tilt & More!
96
$
Per
MonTh
+TAx
1200
$
On all Model 1838 in stock without Navigation. Payments + tax & License, 36 mo. closed
end lease with purchase option. $4999 total drive off. $0 security deposit required, On
approved 720+ FICO Tier1+ credit thru TFS. Excess mileage fees of 15¢ per mile. Based on Excluding FR-S in stock!
12,000 miles per year. Residual $11,272 MSRP $19,210
TOYOTA • SCION
OFF MSRP
Hwy 94 & College Exit
Less than 25 minutes from Anywhere In San Diego
0 0
0
0
* down * first month’s payments
* security * due at signing
deposit
*On all 2013 Gas VW models. On approved above average credit. Excludes title, tax, options and dealer
fees. Offer ends 11/30/12
/BobBakerToyota
1-866-907-3333
www.BobBakerToyota.com
*On approved credit. In lieu of factory rebates. Limited terms available. See dealer for details **2012 EPA-estimated mileage. Actual mileage will vary.
All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, $80 dealer document processing charge, any electronic filing charge,
and any emission testing charge. Subject to prior sale. Sale prices not applicable to special orders, dealers, brokers, fleet, or lease co’s. 1 new vehicle purchase per customer. See dealer for details. Vehicle pictured may not be the color of vehicles in stock. Expires 12-2-2012.
BobBakerVolkswagen
760-438-2200BobBakerVW.com
5500 Paseo Del Norte Car Country Carlsbad
All advertised prices exclude government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document processing
charge, any electronic filing charge, and any emission testing charge. Expires 12-2-2012.
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Our 2013 Toyotas are coming, now is the
time to get a great deal on a 2012 Toyota!