Radical Right Mounts Two Rival Anti-Marriage Drives
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two rival radical-Right initiatives being proposed to ban legal recognition of same-sex marriages in California reveal a split in strategy and tactics within the anti-Queer, anti-marriage movement. The California Family Council, affiliated with Jim Dobson’s powerful Focus on the Family organization, is promoting a so-called “Protect Marriage” initiative that would simply write into the state constitution Proposition 22, passed by California voters 61 to 39 percent in 2000, which defined marriage in California exclusively as the union of one man and one woman.

Another group, called the Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative and headed by former California Assemblymember Larry Bowler, is going farther and pushing a ballot measure that would not only define marriage as one man and one woman but would also repeal California’s landmark domestic partnership legislation. Both groups are fighting for large-scale financial backing to pay signature gatherers to get their initiatives on the ballot.

The two rival initiatives are coming up in the middle of a process by which supporters of marriage equality for same-sex couples are pushing their demand in the legislature and the courts. In 2005, both houses of the California state legislature passed a marriage equality bill, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it and said in his veto message that the final determination of whether California should legally recognize same-sex marriages should be made by the courts or by voters.--Read More--

Equality California Website
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San Diego Dyke March/Ride and Festival
two san diego indymedia volunteers,

At noon on July 22, about 100 marchers and over 50 cyclists took to the streets in the 2007 San Diego Dyke March/Ride, traveling from Balboa Park to the Rubber Rose in North Park, the site of an afternoon Dyke Festival.

Marchers and cyclists carried signs reading Dykes, Not Bombs; Girl Kisses are Delicious; This is What A Dyke Looks Like; Pride is Sexy; Dyke Pride; Vagina, Vagina; Just Dyke It; and Free the Newark/Lesbian Seven. Chants, energized by the Radical Fucking Cheerleaders, included: We're Here, We're Queer, We're Fabulous, Don't Fuck With Us; If You're Queer and You Know It And You Really Want To Show It, Clap Your Hands; We Don't Need Your Christian Hate, Separation of Church and State; and What Do We Want? Equal Rights! When Do Want Them? Now! Cyclists provided a safe space for the marchers to take one and sometimes two lanes on the street.

Festival attendees flowed between the cool interior of the Rubber Rose; workshops; a beergarden down the street; the City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen Mobile Clinic; performances by locals MC Flow, Dropjoy, Lauren DeRose, Eileen Myles, Jiggle It! Bitch Burlesque and Addiquit; chillin in the shade with friends; and a giant (painted) vagina.

San Diego Dyke March/Ride & Festival Video: Part One | Part Two

San Diego Dyke March | City Heights Free Skool Bike Kitchen | The Rubber Rose

Additional Pride Coverage: Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration | Recording of LGBT Pride "Celebration" 7/15/07

Comments on landsdowne 'stonewall award':
from techno-tranny-slut: Giving awards to the murderous, violent SDPD is just too much. I'm disgusted. Its a good thing that the radical queer movement in san diego is growing, because this is a disgusting way to honor stonewall.
from Michel: It's almost as bad as having the fuck'in police in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade every god-damn year! We do remember the history of the Stonewall Riots, right! Cops trying to make good? - Hell no! It's just like the blacks & brown fighting a white man's war! You know about the military industrial complex history, right! Or do I have to get into that too? Point being: Fuck the police! Who's streets? Our streets! You racist-sexist-antigay... You can't take my rights away!
from a queer: giving a murderous thug an award has nothing to do with stonewall and everything to do with serving the interests of the elite, who are protected by landsdowne's roving armed gangs. it was made plain last year that the apprehension of the bashers was related to protecting the bonanza that straight and queer rich people make from ordinary folks at corporate pride with their fucking overpriced events, hotel rooms, etc.

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Kehoe Addresses Queer Dems on State Budget
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

State Senator Christine Kehoe, who became San Diego County's first openly Queer elected official in 1993 and has held elective office ever since, made a surprise appearance at the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club July 26. She talked mainly about why the state doesn't have a budget yet, blaming the impasse on the California constitution's two-thirds vote requirement to pass a budget and the recalcitrance of the 15 Republicans in the State Senate, who have refused to vote for a budget unless it has majority Republican support — and are demanding sweeping cuts in social services and environmental protection as the price of their agreement on a state budget.
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Henry H. Bauer: HIV Can't Be an STD
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Henry H. Bauer, retired professor of chemistry and scientific history at Virginia Tech University, has published a book, "The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory." The three-part book examines the statistical evidence and proves that, whatever the so-called "HIV test" measures, it is NOT the spread of a sexually transmitted virus. Bauer also examines the history of science and analyzes how the idea that HIV causes AIDS hardened into dogma and became part of conventional wisdom despite its scientific impossibility.
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Recording of LGBT Pride "Celebration" 7/15/07
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Recording of the San Diego LGBT Pride "Celebration" July 15 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, featuring presentation of the "Stonewall Service Award" to police chief William Lansdowne (hold your noses!) as well as an inspirational speech by 16-year-old out Lesbian Missy Luber, Seth Kilbourn of the Equality California lobby on how to defeat a California anti-marriage initiative, and performances by entertainers Peech and Noah Sugarman.
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Police Chief, 16-Yr.-Old at Pride Celebration
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego police chief William Lansdowne, who received a "Stonewall Service Award" on behalf of his department for the speed with which they apprehended the Queer-bashers at last year's Pride Festival, and 16-year-old out Lesbian Missy Luber were the highlights of the San Diego LGBT Pride "Spirit of Stonewall Ce3ebration," held July 15 at the Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park to kick off the San Diego Pride parade and festival July 21 and 22. The event, usually held on the eve of the parade on the festival grounds at Marston Point, was moved up five days, and its name changed from "rally" to "celebration" to soften the politics of the event.
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Gender Savagery in Guatemala
Michael Parenti and Lucia Muñoz,

On the outskirts of Guatemala City the body of an 18-year-old woman of indigenous ethnicity was recently discovered by her frantic parents who had been searching long and hard. Forensic evidence showed that she had been repeatedly raped and tortured and that her head had been severed from her body with a blunt knife while she was still alive.

This killing was more than just a passing aberration. Nightmarish crimes against women have been occurring with horrifying frequency in Guatemala. In the last seven years, over 3,200 Guatemalan women have been abducted and murdered, with many of them raped, tortured, and mutilated in the doing. The number of victims has shown a striking increase in the last few years with some six hundred murdered in 2006 alone.

Related: Guatemala Femicide: Happy Mother's Day???? | Video: Violent Evictions at El Estor, Guatemala || More Info: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10
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Homophobic stuff that occurred at Petco Park
Cynthia Oso,

Christian organizations came to express that homosexuality isn't acceptable in the ball park. They could stick with one view in their argument. They confused many Padre fans.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Whitburn for Council
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed its former president, Stephen Whitburn, for San Diego City Council in the 2008 election for the Third District seat now held by Toni Atkins. By endorsing Whitburn, the club defied the Queer establishment represented by the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper, which had urged the club to delay the endorsement until after the first fundraising period at the end of July; and the paper's columnist, Nicole Murray Ramirez, who has personally endorsed Todd Gloria, aide to Congressmember Susan Davis, and has repeatedly urged that Whitburn and all other Queer candidates withdraw from the race to make Gloria the one and only choice for Queer and Queer-friendly voters.
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Anti-gay activists are protesting...
Cynthia Oso,

This was forwarded to me. These people are trippin. Let's meet up with them and see what homophobic stuff they have to say.
love, not hate!
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Bi Inclusion: More than Just a Letter
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The mainstream leadership of the Queer community has done a good job paying lip service to the inclusion of Bisexuual and Transgender people by adding "B" and "T" to the name of its organizations, but it's done a lousy job of actually including them. Acknowledging the lived experience of Bisexual and Transgender people will involve rethinking many of the core assumptions behind the Lesbian/Gay movement of the past 57 years, including the scientifically and experientially indefensible idea that sexual orientation is fixed at, or shortly after, birth and cannot change thereafter.
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Carlos Legazpi: Out, Bi and Proud!
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

American Institute of Bisexuality board member CARLOS LEGAZPI talks about his own life as a Bisexual, anti-Bi prejudices of Gays and Lesbians, and the legacy of the Institute’s founder, pioneering Bi activist Dr. Fritz Klein. (Sorry, boys and girls: he’s married!)
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Stonewall: Reclaiming the legacy
Christina Nelson,

Article dealing with the legacy of pride and the stonewall rebellion
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UCSD Students Confront Vice Chancellor
dj lotu5,

On thursday, June 12th, over 75 students met for a very quickly organized meeting to respond to UCSD's proposed change to their free speech policy. Vice-Chancellor Watson sent out an email with a proposed change to UCSD's policy on speech, literature and demonstrations, changing the policy from a one page document to a 19 page document including free speech zones, restrictions on political speech by faculty and staff and administration approval requirements for demonstrations.
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Jerry Falwell’s Legacy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Jerry Falwell, who died May 15, permanently changed the face of American politics. While he didn't actually found the Moral Majority — he was merely recruited as a figurehead by secular Republican political operatives who wanted to pull the votes of evangelical Christians away from Jimmy Carter in the 1980 election — he and the movement he helped launch have made it impossible to win high elective office in the U.S. without believing in an interventionist God who takes a direct, ongoing role in human affairs. Falwell's movement also has established a relentlessly anti-women's rights, anti-Queer rights base of support for the Republican Party and been a key factor in moving the entire center of gravity in U.S. politics Rightward for the last quarter-century.
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SD Artist Cultivates Spiritual, Sexual Garden
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

San Diego artist François Michel Beausoleil is noteworthy for the rich colors and backgrounds of his paintings and their wide variety of subject matter, from poerful male nudes to peaceful contemplations of the spiritual world. A French Canadian from Montreal, Beausoleil considers himself multicultural and regards his theme as the common nature of humanity. He's currently at work on a series of paintings called "My Spiritual Garden" which he hopes to exhibit as a group; the paintings consist of various individuals posed in the Buddhist meditation pose inside the lotus flower.
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G8: Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Happening
repost from the Star March Coalition,

Star March Coalition

Press Release
May 25th 2007

*G8 2007 Protests in Germany*

*Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Can Happen*
The Star March Intends to go all the Way to the Kempinski Hotel
‘State of Emergency’ Does Not Justify a General Ban

The urgent appeal of the Star March Coalition lodged at the Schwerin
Court has been successful. The Coalition had lodged a law suit against
the general demonstration ban issued by the police department. A general
injunction over a 40 square kilometer area had been designated as a
demonstration free zone. Such an injunction would have been
unprecedented in the history of Germany.

More info here:  http://dissentnetwork.org
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Immigration Activists Clash at Queer Democratic Club
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Immigration-rights attorney Lilia Velasquez and Mary Moreno Richardson, reverend canon of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, were brought in to speak at the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club May 24. While they largely agreed on the need to protect immigrants' rights against abusive Border Patrol enforcement and private Minuteman vigilantism, they disagreed dramatically on the merits of the current "compromise" immigration bill before the U.S. Senate. Richardson hailed the bill as a start for a long-needed discussion on the issue, while Velasquez denounced it as repressive and said that no bill at all would be better for immigrants than the one being proposed now.
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Robert Gallo on the Witness Stand
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

This year, an "HIV positive" Australian man accused of having unprotected sex with three women and giving the alleged "AIDS virus" to one, tried to appeal his conviction on the basis of alternative scientific research that HIV doesn't exist and the tests to detect it are invalid. He lost the case, but alternative AIDS scientists, journalists and activists got a valuable consolation prize when Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV and the man who did more than any other individual to establish "HIV/AIDS" as uunchallengeable scientific dogma, took the witness stand and inadvertently admitted that the declaration of HIV as the cause of AIDS was based on politics, not science.
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UpcomingEvents at the City Heights Free Skool
City Heights Free Skool,

Calendar and updates at  http://ciyheightsfreeskool.org !

Fri, May 25th, City Heights Free Skool Benefit Party!

8pm, Benefit Dance Party Begins!
Kegs and Bands!

Music by:
Chaz
Dr. Bird from Jehova's Fitness
DJ Lotu5
DJ Selectakon 43

$5 donation or a bike part or garden tool for a donation!
Vegan Cupcakes! Prizes, drinks, art, zines!!!

4246 Wightman St, San Diego, 92105
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Queer Democrats Hear Out-of-Town Speakers
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The April 26 meeting of the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club was largely a preview of the state Democratic Party convention that took place in San Diego (for the first time ever) April 27-29. Highlights included appearances by Laurie McBride, board co-chair of National Stonewall Democrats (the nationwide federation of Queer Democratic clubs of which the San Diego group is a major part); Greg Pettis, openly Gay candidate for 80th Assembly District and currently a 13-year veteran Councilmember in the Palm Springs suburb of Cathedral City; and Adi Gutierrez and Ricardo Lara of Honor PAC, a L.A.-based group organized to raise money and awareness of Queer candidates and issues among Latino/a voters.
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Photos: Patrick Henry High Tolerance Posters
Kyle,

Some photos of the posters I made for Patrick Henry High and that were torn down on the instructions of vice-principal Laurie Guido.

For the story, go here:
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/125981.shtml
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