Socialism 2005: Build the Left Alternative
ISO San Diego,

A weekend of political discussion, debate and entertainment
 http://www.socialismconference.org
July 1-4 in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare
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Homophobic Fresno Mayor backs Sen. Feinstein
San Francisco queer,

Autry endorses Feinstein
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Of Gnats and Camels
Lee CARLETON,

Moral Priorities: WWJD?
Can we trust the morality of the myopic?
Commentary on the bogus morality of the religous right and Jesus' challenge to the Pharisees, the religous right of his day.

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Donna Frye Speaks to Queer Democrats
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

City Councilmember Donna Frye made a surprise appearance at the April 28 meeting of the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club. She said she definitely would run in any election to fill the term of lame-duck Mayor Dick Murphy and pleaded with club members to lobby the City Council to schedule an election as soon as possible instead of filling the vacancy with an appointed interim mayor. The Council will consider the question Monday, May 2 at 11 a.m. The meeting's program also included a discussion of the same-sex marriage issue and a report from Jess Durfee, former club president and current chair of the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee, on the likely candidates for Mayor.
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SD/Tijuana: 10 Years of Border Photograhy
Michael Klam,

Maria Teresa Fernandez will be showing her acclaimed photographs of the SD/Tijuana region for one night in the Museum of the Living Artist, Balboa Park, Wednesday, 5-11 at 6:30 pm. Do not miss this chance to meet the photographer. There will be question-and-answer and open mic to follow.
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Same-Sex Marriage: New Civil Rights Moment
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

California will be THE political battleground over same-sex marriage rights in 2006, said Evan Wolfson, former staff attorney with Lambda Legal Defense and currently executive director of Freedom to Marry, in a speech at the Center April 21. A marriage equality bill is being pushed through the California legislature this year, while radical-Right activists are seeking to put on the ballot an initiative that will not only block same-sex marriage in California but repeal the state's pioneering domestic partner law as well and leave same-sex couples in this state with no legal recognition or protection whatsoever.
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Border Photography, Music, and Spoken Word
Michael Klam,

Free Speech Arts in the Museum of the Living Artist, hosted by Michael Klam. Food, entertainment (featured artists/music/poetry/photography), open mic, general audience, all ages.
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Newsom Blasts Democratic Party Elders
E.A. Barrera,

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke to students and facilty at UCSD on April 11. The 37-year old mayor defended his decision to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples and blasted the leadership of the Democratic Party for being week on the issue.
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Church Groups Oppose SD Boy Scouts
Lindsey ,

Court filing reflects dispute between Boy Scouts and religious denomination, as Unitarian Universalists oppose Boy Scouts' control of San Diego parklands
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Gender PAC hosts Gender Connections event
Amber,

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition will be holding a GenderConnections event at the Center San Diego.
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A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day
Lucy Parsons,

 http://www.dominantfiction.com/mayday.htm
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The Ideology Of Victimization
anonymous,

The Ideology Of Victimization

by Feral Faun
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Council to Hear Living Wage Ordinance 4/12
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Mark this date in red on your calendars: TUESDAY, APRIL 12. The San Diego City Council is FINALLY scheduled to hear the badly needed Living Wage Ordinance at 2 p.m. at their regular meeting at city hall, 202 "C" Street. A rally to show community support before the Council meeting will be held at 12:30 p.m. at the Community Concourse outside city hall. Kudos to Councilmembers Michael Zucchet, Toni Atkins, Anthony Young and Donna Frye for signing the discharge petition that forced anti-labor Mayor Dick Murphy to put the Living Wage ordinance on the Council agenda.
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Differences Between Republicans and Democrats
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

State Senator Joe Dunn (D-Orange County) spoke to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club March 24 and gave an impassioned analysis and call to action centering around the differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. He argued that the Democrats have historically stood for justice and economic independence, while the Republicans have stood for individual liberty and corporate dominance. Dunn said a second American revolution — a struggle likely to take decades — is needed to reverse the current Republican dominance and win back for Americans their political, religious and economic independence.
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San Diegans Celebrate S.F. Marriage Decision
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Over 40 San Diegans turned out Monday, March 14 for a rally and march to celebrate the ruling, announced earlier that day, by San Francisco superior court judge Richard Kramer that California's ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriages violates the California constitution's equal protection clause. The mood was jubilant, but speakers like San Diego Democratic Club president Stephen Whitburn warned that supporters of marriage equality need to get ready to fight a radical-Right attempt to reverse this decision through a voter initiative.
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Transcript, 3/14/05 Marriage Equality Rally
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Transcript of the rally held by the San Diego chapter of Equality California Monday, March 14 to celebrate Judge Richard Kramer's ruling in San Francisco that the state laws restricting marriage to partners of the opposite gender are unconstitutional. After the rally about 40 people marched from Centre Street to Third along University Avenue and back. For the full text of Judge Kramer's decision see  http://www.eqca.org/atf/cf/{687DF34F-6480-4BCD-9C2B-1F33FD8E1294}/Kramer%20Decision%203-14-05.pdf
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volunteered slavery 1
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Interviews with people who have voluntarily adopted a lifestyle of slavery within the context of a BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadomasochism) relationship, and an analysis and attempt to understand this phenomenon. The existence of volunteered slavery suggests that humans may have an inbred desire for dominance and submission, and calls into question whether non-hierarchical arrangments of government, economy and society are workable in the long term.
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volunteered slavery 2
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Second half of the "Volunteered Slavery" article published in Zenger's Newsmagazine, April 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Mark Gabrish Conlan for Zenger's Newsmagazine; used by permission.
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The HIV "Super-Virus" Hype
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

A critique from an AIDS dissident perspective of the recent reports of a so-called “super-strain” of HIV infecting a New York City man. The print version in the April 2005 “Zenger’s Newsmagazine” erroneously stated that the individual had contracted major opportunistic infections and had died. In fact he was diagnosed with AIDS on the basis of fatigue, sore throat, malaise and a low CD4 T-cell blood count, and at this writing is still alive. The version posted below has been corrected.
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Pedophilia & S & M
Wayne,

GOP pedophilia and S&M trysts: A long history going back to Bush 41 and Reagan

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

March 3, 2005—The recent scandal involving gay male escort and right-wing faux journalist Jeff Gannon (a.k.a. James Dale Guckert and possibly a few other aliases) is not welcome news for the purported sadomasochistic hedonists in the White House administrations of both George W. and George H. W. Bush.

As with their fascist fellow travelers in Hitler's Germany, Franco's Spain, and "The Colonels'" Greece, many of the fascists associated with the Bush family have a predilection for sex with children and young recruits within the U.S. military. However, since the 1980s, the Bush cabal has been able to keep the GOP's dark secrets away from the disinfectant of sunshine and media attention.

Except for the outbreak of news stories concerning the Franklin Credit Union-Lawrence King-Craig Spence child prostitution scandal in 1989 that involved midnight tours of the White House for underage male sex slaves from Nebraska and reached high into the upper echelons of the elder Bush administration, little has been heard about the sex crimes of top Republicans. That is, until it was revealed that "Jeff Gannon" was intricately tied to GOP operatives ranging from George W. Bush political "Svengali" Karl Rove, to White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, and Texas GOP provocateur Bobby Eberle. In typical Bush scandal fashion, Eberle's "Talon News Service" has disappeared as fast as Jeff Gannon from the James Brady Briefing Room and Doug Wead's secret tapes of Bush from the public ear—tapes that, at the very least, indicated Bush's prior use of marijuana, cocaine, and LSD.

As this writer has previously reported, during the early 1980s, a number of naval officers were implicated in a child pornography ring that extended from Oregon to the San Francisco Bay area and to Chicago and Washington, DC. The story about that ring was covered up by then-Secretary of the Navy John Lehman who engaged in similar cover-ups of


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Why an HIV Vaccine Can't Work
Questioning AIDS,

Twenty+ years of AIDS and no vaccine, why?
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Log Cabin Repubs Meet in Hillcrest on Monday
Queer Radical,

The Log Cabin Republicans, a Queer support group for the corporate agenda, will be holding their San Diego Chapter meeting and mixer on Monday at 7:00PM at the Abbey Cafe 127 University Ave (next to Rainbow Road) in Hillcrest, with speaker Delores Jacobs, "CEO" of the San Diego Queer Center. Real Queers will be there to greet them. Please join in the fun.

Log Cabin Republicans
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Photos of Challenging White Supremacy Workshp
aymara,

Here are some photos of the Challenging White Supremacy workshop which took place on February 19th at Voz Alta. Thank you so much to everyone who came. The turnout was amazing. Lots of people of all different ages and backgrounds came out to this 6 hour workshop to work on how to challenge White Supremacy as it operates within movements for social justice.
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SAMHSA: No gay/transgender suicide prevention
Susan Forrest,

Government funders within the Bush Administration at SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) block a workshop title that included the words "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual", and "transgender".
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In Hot Water with SpongeBob SquarePants
duko,

>SpongeBob SquarePants is known all over the world. He
has his own cartoon show on Nickelodeon and people of all ages seem to have at least one toy or
product with his image on it. Having just been on the big screen, he had the spotlight on him long before
James Dobson and his group, Focus on the Family, launched their attack on him accusing the sponge of
being "pro-homosexual" and tolerant of people of different sexual orientations.

SpongeBob recently agreed to meet with the RW at his home--a pineapple
under the sea--to talk about all the controversy surrounding him and what
is at the heart of it. What follows is an unedited transcript of our conversation.






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Queer Liberation, Not Assimilation
Queer radical,

Marriage Equality is an organization for elite Queers who want to imitate their elite straight counterparts, brought to you by the same people who have given us fucking corporate pride.
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RALLY for MARRIAGE EQUALITY MON. 14 FEB. 12pm
Jeff Graves,

There will be a Rally in supoport of marriage equality for all @ 12:00pm Noon @ the San Diego County Administration Building 1600 Pacific Highway – South Parking Lot (corner of Ash & Pacific Highway, across the street from the "Star of India" ship and Holiday Inn on the Bay) Bring signs, banners, etc. and some may be provided.

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Or, a radical critique of Marriage Equality and Queer Assimilation here
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Queer Democrats Endorse Filner for Congress
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger‘s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club gave progressive Democratic Congressmember Bob Filner an early endorsement against moderate state legislator Juan Vargas, who will run against him in the 2006 Democratic primary. Filner, who participated in direct action for civil rights long before he sought elective office, told club members at their January 27 meeting that only a combination of aggressive street activism and involvement in electoral politics will enable progressives to defeat the Bush agenda.
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Laramie, Wyo. Comes to El Cajon
Andy Trimlett,

“On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyo., savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality that shocked the nation.” These are not words that you would expect to find in an advertisement for a local high school drama club’s latest production. In a city that is, to put it mildly, not commonly associated with flying a rainbow flag, the El Cajon Valley Players (ECVP) are currently presenting The Laramie Project.
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Republican Websites Hacked in Protest of Inau
Internet Liberation Front,

In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.
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