Queer Leaders Keep Pushing Marriage Issue
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Despite the overwhelming passage of initiatives in 13 states in the 2004 elections to ban legal recognition of marriage between same-sex couples — and, in eight of those states, the leaders of Equality California (EQCA), the state’s Queer rights lobby, have made it clear that marriage remains their number one legislative priority in California. At a January 7 “community summit” meeting at the San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center, EQCA executive director Molly McKay urged support for the group’s bill to legalize same-sex marriage in California and discussed the proposed state constitutional amendment to ban all legal recognition of same-sex relationships.
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Zapatista Events at Chicano Perk
Chicano Perk c/o lotus,

A month of events about the Zapatistas at Chicano Perk!

Lecture: ¿Qué es el Zapatismo?
Monday, January 10th, 2004
6:30pm

Tonights lecture is our way of bringing the world of academia out of the institutions and into the barrio. Please come support our first of a series of lectures in the barrio around the theme of the EZLN.
Title: Que es el Zapatismo?
Entrance is free and open to the general public.
619.702.5414
www.chicanoperk.com
 info@chicanoperk.com
Chicano Perk cafe y cultura strives to bring free and culturally empowering programming to the Barrio and overall Chicano community in San Diego/Tijuana. If you have an idea and would like a venue in which to exercise your own creativity please feel free to contact us. Please support us by fowarding this message to your own contact lists. Thank you.

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OBGO Film Night - The Times of Harvey MIlk
Marc,

In 1978, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco city council, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California. One year later, he and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by Milk’s fellow council member, former police officer and fire fighter Dan White.
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Same-Sex Marriage Fight Continues in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Extending civil marriage to Gay and Lesbian couples in the U.S. may have looked like a dead issue after November 2, but marriage equality activists and Gay and Lesbian couples themselves are not giving up. As part of a statewide campaign, Marriage Equality California (MECA) put on an event at San Diego State University December 6 that included films and speakers about the issue, clearly meant to rally the troops and mobilize grass-roots campaigns around two bills recently introduced into the California legislature.
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Big Media Censors Queer-Accepting Church
posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

The United Church of Christ (UCC) attempted to put an ad on the major TV networks advertising their church as Queer-friendly and were censored because the ads were allegedly "advocacy" and "controversial." As Carlsbad UCC pastor Rev. Madison Shockley argues below, this not only denies his church the right to advertise its believe but leaves the anti-Queer radical religious Right as the ONLY "Christian" voice permitted or tolerated by corporate media.
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Looking Back Five Years to The Battle of Seattle
santacruz.indymedia.org c/o lotus,

November 30, 1999 represented a triumphal moment for worldwide civil resistance against a global economic system that gives private corporations more power than governments. In the morning hours of N30, 1999, tens of thousands of activists from across the globe converged in the streets of downtown Seattle, to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization, the undemocratic, international governing forum of neoliberal globalization.

The conflict became infamous around the world, partially because of the violent police response to the largely peaceful demonstrations. In years since, N30 has been remembered in the streets of Seattle and around the globe, with marches, rallies and celebrations of resistance. Dialogues about the effectiveness of the movement have multiplied in number, both within and beyond activist circles. The date is also remembered as the birth of the Independent Media Center, www.Indymedia.org.

At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.
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Ground Zero Players Harrassed at Rally
STARR,

A brief description of the harrassment we were forced to endure at the peaceful Nov 13th anti-war rally downtown.
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Bush Offers Dick To Japan's Leader
Dick,

Bush tries to get laid while in Chile.
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300 March, to Honor Transgender Victims
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Over 300 people marched through the streets of Hillcrest at 6:30 p.m. November 20 for the international Transgender Day of Remembrance, held every year to honor and mourn the lives of Transgender people killed since the previous event. The names and histories of 21 reported Transgender victims were read, and candles representing their lives were snuffed out, during the emotionally intense event.
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Hillcrest Should Secede From San Diego
Kris Mitchell,

I can't take four more years of NAZI Bush.
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10th Annual Changemaker Celebration
Foundation 4 Change c/o lotus,

"New Voices, New Visions"

Friday November 19, 2004

Balboa Park Club Ballroom
Balboa Park, San Diego

(Park Blvd. to President's Way. Go west and park in the Pan American Plaza near the San Diego Automotive Museum.)

5:30 p.m. - Reception and Silent Auction
6:30 p.m. - Family-Style Dinner & Program
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"Kinsey": Brilliant Biopic of Sex Researcher
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Bill Condon's film "Kinsey," released so far in a few major cities and scheduled to open in San Diego this weekend, is a brilliant and worthwhile biopic of pioneering sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey. Among other things, it vividly dramatizes the battle Kinsey fought against the radical religious Right of his time and is even more important now that people who deny scientific truths about sex, evolution and many other parts of human knowledge are effectively running the U.S.
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San Diego Transgender Day of Remembrance
Amanda Nicole Watson and Autumn Sandeen,

The Remembering Our Dead Project has documented over two-hundred-ninety-seven transgender individuals killed from anti-transgender bias and violence since the project began recording the homicides; twenty-one names were added to the list in the past twelve months.
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A Bush/Rove plan to OUTLAW homosexuality (& d
RecountNow,

In the wake of an election riddled with irregularities, before most states have certified their election results, with recounts being called for in several states, and long before the Electoral College has cast the only deciding "vote" for President, the Bush Gang is reportedly cooking up plans to continue marching toward religious dictatorship while shredding what's left of the Constitution. Read up, spread the word--and PLEASE DONATE NOW to the recount effort!

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Queer Dems Hear State Treasurer Angelides
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

On Thursday, October 28 — just five days before the November 2 election — California state treasurer Phil Angelides, who plans to run against Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor next year, gave an inspiring speech to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club linking Schwarzenegger, despite his "feints to moderation," to the radical-Right economic and social agenda of President Bush.
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Queer Dems Raise Funds for Crenshaw Oct. 24
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club hosted a fundraiser October 24 for City Council candidate Dwayne Crenshaw, who's running against former Councilmember George Stevens for the District 4 seat vacated by the death of Charles Lewis. The club strongly supports Crenshaw against the openly homophobic Stevens.
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Phil Angelides/Opportunity, Fairness, Liberty
Phil Angelides (transc. Mark Gabrish Conlan),

California state treasurer Phil Angelides spoke to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club October 28 and outlined the issues at stake in the November 2 election: economic opportunity and fairness, preservation of civil liberties and continuing the advances in justice and civil rights made by Democratic governments since the 1930's.
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THE BUSH/EXTREME-RIGHT AGENDA: GOODBYE CONSTI
HopeNotFear,

In his new book, "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order," Mark Crispin Miller paints a sobering picture of the American extreme right and its campaign to dismantle Constitutional government and replace it with a pseudo-religious, "Christo-fascist" theocracy in which Old Testament law--and the Ten Commandments--would be brutally enforced. Death by stoning for adultery, for abortion, for homosexuality, and even for disobedient children. Could it happen here? Is the Bush administration already pursuing this vision? And will we vote to reject this vision on November 2? Yes, we will!

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Alternative AIDS information
DAG,

The Dissident Action Group of "Interactive Information Resources" covers every aspect of AIDS. Topics like HIV tests, condoms, Latino AIDS, African American AIDS, Dissident Scientists, latex allergies, Robert Gallo, Glaxo Kline Wellcome and many more. Our International Dissident forum is in 12 languages and our links section has over 150 web sites Worldwide.
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Veterans Expose U.S. Military Atrocities
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The September 25 program at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest was advertised as “War Crimes and Atrocities: The Rumsfeld Connection.” While the current U.S. Secretary of Defense was mentioned only in passing, the matter-of-fact tones in which the speakers, veterans Dennis Stout and Dorothy Mackey, told their stories chilled the blood of most of the 250 people in the room.
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Kerry Comrade Speaks to Queer Democrats
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Wade Sanders, a Viet Nam War comrade of Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, usually doesn’t speak in California. But on September 23 he made a galvanic appearance before the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club to talk about Kerry and convince his partisan audience that, though Kerry is behind Bush in the most recent polls, he has the ability and personal resources to come back and win the November 2 election.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Crenshaw/City Council
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Dwayne Crenshaw, who narrowly lost a 2002 San Diego City Council runoff against the late Charles Lewis, in the November 16 special election to fill the District 4 vacancy left by Lewis’s death. At its September 23 meeting the club heard from both Crenshaw and Anthony Young, Lewis’s chief of staff and also a leading candidate in the election to succeed him, and acknowledged Lewis’s and Young’s openness to the Queer community but still went with Crenshaw.
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Lesbian Rights Director Kate Kendell in S.D.
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

When pioneering Lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon became the first same-sex couple legally married in San Francisco February 12, Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLP), was their ring-bearer. Kendell spoke in San Diego September 17 on the same-sex marriage issue and NCLR's other concerns.
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Bush Loses It in New Hampshire Sept. 20
"President" George W. Bush,

This transcript of President Bush's town-hall meeting in New Hampshire September 20 (edited and posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan) shows how utterly incoherent he is without the crutch of a prepared text. The most revealing part is his fascinating misstatement of his Iraq policy: "We’re working with the international partners, we’re training Iraqi troops, we’re reconstructing the — reconstructing the company" — a perfect illustration of how totally Bush equates lassiez-faire, dog-eat-dog capitalism with "democracy."
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NCOR Call for Proposals
NCOR Collective,

This is the call for proposals for the National Conference on Organized Resistance on February 3rd through February 6th, 2005, in Washington, DC!
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Roberts, Murphy Spar in Bitchy Mayoral Debate
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy and his challenger, County Supervisor Ron Roberts, squared off at a debate at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center September 8. The debate revealed little difference between the two on Queer issues and showcased some bitchy exchanges over the city's financial situation.
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Here, queer -- and voting Libertarian
Thomas L. Knapp,

Pink Pistols endorses Badnarik for President
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Queer Dems Won't Prioritize Aguirre
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club has endorsed Mike Aguirre's run for City Attorney but refused to make his race a club priority at their August 26 meeting. The club also declined to make a rating in the race for Mayor of San Diego — in which, since both incumbent Dick Murphy and challenger Ron Roberts are Republicans, they're not allowed to endorse — even though Roberts came to the club and spoke while Murphy bailed out.
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Pat Washington Support Committee Meets
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The support committee for Dr. Pat Washington, former women's studies professor at SDSU who's been engaged in a three-year legal battle to get her job back, held a teach-in at Springfield College August 24. The event showed both the wide range of community support she enjoys inher struggle and the dramatic obstacles she still faces — including having to find new lawyers since her previous ones quit the case when she wouldn't agree to a settlement that would pay her money but end her chances of reinstatement.
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Traditional Marriage and Gay Rights
Mike Rhodes,

Traditional Marriage and Gay Rights
The Battle Lines are Drawn in Fresno

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