G. I. Jesus and the End Time Apocalypse
by Debra Schaffer Hubert,

G.W. Bush is part of a maniacal cult that promotes wars against Muslim countries, with young "christian soldiers" doing the fighting, laws that take away women's rights to make decisions about their bodies, and other anti-sexual and homophobic ideas...
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Veteran Queer Leathermen Speak on S/M
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Veteran Leathermen Lonnie Cothron and Don Kandis spoke to the San Diego League of Gentlemen May 6 and talked about their experiences in the Leather-S/M community, including their participation in "Spanking Clubs." Cothron knew some of the pioneers in founding the modern Queer movement in L.A. and talked about the early years, and both men corrected the common misperception that S/M is exclusively about sex. Often, they said, it's simply a form of male-bonding and the emotions it raises are parental as or more often than they are romantic.
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Pat Washington v. CSU petition for rehearing
Bob Alba,

Pat Washington takes case to the FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. This is a copy of the motion for rehearing.
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Queer Democrats Endorse Wilson/School Board
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club endorsed Jim Wilson over incumbent Katherine Nakamura for the District B seat on the San Diego Unified School District board at their regular April 27 meeting. This marked a reversal from their position four years ago, when they picked Nakamura over a Teacher's Union-backed candidate in a race in which then-Superintendent Alan Bersin's controversial education policies were the main issue. The club also maintained its acceptable ratings for three of the Democratic candidates running against Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter — Derek Casady, Karen Otter and John Rinaldi — despite pressure from some members and the Gay & Lesbian Times newspaper to endorse Rinaldi because he's openly Gay.
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CFA supports Pat Washington's appeal efforts
repost by Bob Alba,

Resolution in Support of Pat Washington
Adopted by the CFA Assembly April 23, 2006
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Free Speech with reg e gaines in Balboa Park
Michael Klam,

The Museum of the Living Artist invites writers and artists to present their visual and written/spoken work at Poetry and Art on Wednesday, May 17, 2006. The free speech quarterly event at the San Diego Art Institute will feature special guest performers reg e gaines, author, playwright and director, and San Diego’s top competition (slam) poets, including Rudy Francisco, Viet Mai, Whitney Lawrence, Brian DeBenedictus, and Sunflower Dubois.
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4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Bob,

Punk Rock Opera
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Immigration: Open Letter to LGBT Community
repost,

April 10, 2006


An Open Letter to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community:

We are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people of color who work in the LGBT movement. We are writing to you in response to Jasmyne Cannick's article "Gays First, Then Illegals", which ran in The Advocate, in which she, a black lesbian, argues that she cannot support the current battle for immigrant rights because LGBT people have not yet won the right to marry. We are writing to express our profound disagreement with her, and to offer alternative LGBT perspectives to the current immigration battles happening across the country.
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New Effort to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper, San Diego,

There is a New effort in Congress to Repeal the 1993 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law which governs the right of homosexuals to serve in the military.
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Lesbian Activist Starts Walk for Togetherness
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Lesbian activist and mother of four Jennifer Schumaker kicked off her "Walk for Togetherness" this Saturday morning, April 8 in Balboa Park. She will do a solo 500-mile walk from San Diego to San Francisco over the next two months to start a statewide conversation for marriage equality and protection for Queer youth. The article is an interview she gave to Zenger's Newsmagazine before she started the walk, which was published as the cover story of its April issue.
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Queer Dems Reluctantly Endorse Susan Davis
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club on March 23 endorsed Susan Davis's re-election bid for Congress 30 to 7, despite some discontent over her refusal to co-sponsor a bill to end discrimination against Queers in the U.S. military. Davis campaign staffer Daniel Nava said she was trying to build support for repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy by meeting with military leaders in her role as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, but the statement Davis sent to the club to explain her position sounded to many club members suspiciously like the rationales used to enact the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the first place.
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Leslie Feinberg Lecture: brief report back
concerned student,

Leslie Feinberg spoke earlier today (3/28/2006) on the SDSU campus at 2PM in Hepner Hall 221, as close to 200 students filled the seats, stairs, and floors with eager faces. Leslie talked about his experience as a lesbian / transgender / genderqueer in the struggle for gay liberation and his experience as an activist who relates to the struggles of people of color because it was the right thing to do at the time and still is. Leslie mentioned the inspiration he has received from the large turnouts in Los Angeles and other cities in opposition to the Senssenbrenner bill HR 4437. Leslie ended the speech by addressing the struggle of Pat Washington, who was fired from the Womens Studies Dept in 2002 and has is suing SDSU for discrimination. After most of the audience had gone, a couple of women from the department began their defensive attack against what they felt was Leslie's attack on them.

 http://transgenderwarrior.org
 http://patwashington.org
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/114449.shtml

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What does it mean to be a “boy”?
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

"Daddy" Don Cherkis and his partner, boy joe, spoke about their "Daddy/boy" relationship at the March 3 meeting of the San Diego League of Gentlemen, a Gay male Leather group. They were recently chosen as U.S. Daddy and boy at a contest in Arizona, and their talk focused on the dynamics of their partnership and the joy joe gets out of serving Don.
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Surviving Rwanda: Her Personal Story
Maren Dougherty,

If you missed it the first time, now's your chance! On April 5, you can catch the encore performance of "I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda." It's a powerful and inspiring play based on the true story of a Rwandan refugee who flees to the UK. Following the play will be a short panel discussion.
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OpenHack Night / Mar 15 / borderLands Hacklab
sd hacklab,

Calling all anarchist hackers, revolutionary web designers, radical media makers and artists eager to learn more about technology!

Are you a hacker that wants to put your skills to work for social justice? Are you a person who wants to learn more about computers to create positive social change? Are you someone who wants to learn to use technology, but feels like you've been excluded from the discussion?

Bring your computer, your imagination or your latest idea for a Free
Software project or a digital art project to Voz Alta for the
borderlands Hacklab and indymedia Open Hack Night! We'll be creating a
digital playground for creating the future of resistance, tearing down
the digital divide or just discussing the latest cool gadgets and having a beer next door... We will have a dj from radioActive sanDiego coming to spin some tunes, so come and hang out!

Open Hack Night: Wednesday, March 15th, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Voz Alta, 1544 Broadway, 15th and Broadway downtown.

 http://sdhacklab.org ||  http://radioActiveradio.org
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Press Release - Support Pat Washington
Bob,

Show up for 9AM appeal hearing. Find out more here:  http://patwashington.org

Columbia University Professor Delivers Remarks to Support San Diego Plaintiff Following Appeal Hearing
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The McDonaldization of Intersex activism
Curtis E. Hinkle,

Many intersexuals are marginalized by groups which speak for us.
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Queer Democrats Discuss Military Issue
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

The predomninantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club rated three Democratic challengers to incumbent Congressmember Duncan Hunter — who pushed through the triple border fence and wants to extend it across the entire U.S.-Mexico border — acceptable at their February 23 meeting. They also heard presentations from Tracy Jada O'Brien on Transgender issues and Bridget Wilson of the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network on the rights of Queers in the military. Wilson said that even those opposed to the Iraq war and U.S. imperialism in general need to get behind the civil-rights issue of the right to serve in the military, especially since for many working-class Americans today military service is virtually the only way they have to go to college and work their way up in the world.
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“HIV/AIDS": Faith-Based Science
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Veteran alternative AIDS journalist Celia Farber recently published an article, "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science," in the March 2006 Harper's Magazine, blasting both the unscientific propaganda put out by the AIDS establishment to justify the assertion that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS and the destruction of the reputations of scientists who dare to question the orthodox view of AIDS. This article contrasts her piece to more typical articles on AIDS that reflect the mainstream view and accept it uncritically, and suggests that former President Eisenhower's warning of the dangers of a "scientific-technological elite" (from the same speech in which he used the phrase "military-industrial complex") have come true in AIDS policy.
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Pat Washington, Ph.D. appeal support
posted by Pat Washington supporter,

When I filed my retaliation complaint against the Women's Studies Department at San Diego State University with the Chancellor's office, SDSU hired an attorney, Nancy Spiezny, to investigate. Spiezny is one of the "civil rights" attorneys SDSU routinely hires to conduct investigations of complaints against the university. Spiezny found evidence of many "troubling" actions against me, but ultimately concluded that "the weight of the evidence did not support my discrimination and retaliation complaint. "

When we challenged her findings, pointing out many of the flaws in her own arguments and evidence that she was taking undue license in explaining away what had happened to me, I came to understand that finding in favor of SDSU represents repeat business for Spiezny, I didn't. The EEOC later investigated and found "reasonable cause" that I had been discriminated and retaliated against and urged SDSU to take corrective action, including promotion and tenure, back-pay, benefits and tenure.

Judge Jay Bloom, who is up for reelection on June 6th, later granted SDSU a summary judgment motion, indicating that it was obvious that my WS colleagues "didn't like me" but that nothing could be done about that in a court of law.

The Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in my case on March 16th at 9am.
Pat Washington ( http://patwashington.org)
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Valentine’s Day Marriage Counter Action
Fernando Lopez,

Join San Diego County EQCA Chapter, MCC and the Get Engaged Tour Team for our Valentine’s Day Marriage Counter Action.
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Sex Worker Art Show @ UCSD, Thurs Feb 16
posted by indymedia oncampus volunteer,

The show is a critically acclaimed eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!

February 16, 2006
San Diego, California
at UC San Diego

Price Center Theatre
7:30pm
$7-$25 sliding scale
No one turned away for lack of funds...

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Interview with Yun Bai, artist
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with Yun Bai about being a Chinese American artist and her Porn Flowers and Secret Nipple Project.
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Stew Albert - RIP Sweet Yippie Prince
repost by Marion Delgado,

Stew Albert, a leading member of the "Youth International Party" (Yippie!,) an unindicted co-conspirator in the infamous Chicago 1968 "Conspiracy Trial," an instigator of People's Park and so much more - died this week.
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Women's Center Events for February
women's center @ ucsd, c/o sd indymedia,

1. Gender Buffet - Women in Mainstream Rap
2. Women's Leadership High School Conference
3. Grad Night at the WC
4. Yarn Factory
5. Remembering Rosa Parks
6. Cross Cultural Center Film Screening "Crash"
7. Movie Nights at the LGBT Resource Center - Every Friday
8. Divas in Denial XI
9. Sally Ride Festival
10. Women's History Museum Hiring!
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Judge Alito, Jesus, Homosexuality & Abortion
aCitizen,

The "religious" right REALLY wants Judge Sam Alito on the Supreme Court. But why? How might Judge Sam help advance their agenda? And do you know what Jesus of Nazareth actually SAID about two of the "religious" right's hot-button issues?
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CDC Wants HIV victim's named
E.A. Barrera, Espresso Newspaper,

California is attempting to change the way HIV tests are reported. The Center for Disease Control has said they will only accept reports with the names of those testing positive for HIV listed. California currently uses an anonymous, code-based system that CDC says is flawed. If the state doesn't comply with CDC, it could lose millions of dollars in research grant funding.
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Interview with Peter Ryan of Cosmetic Vacatio
small WORLD Podcast,

small WORLD interview with Peter Ryan of Cosmetic Vacations.
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Media That Matters Comes to California
Shira Golding,

MEDIA THAT MATTERS IN SAN DIEGO!
Thursday, Jan 19th, 7:00-9:00
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
5998 Alcalá Park
 http://peace.sandiego.edu/about/directions.html

Reception and discussion with filmmaker Johanna Divine and
Amelia Simpson of the Environmental Health Coalition to follow screening.
Light hors d’oeuvres provided.
**FREE**

For more information and to reserve your tickets contact Shira Golding.
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Religious Groups Support Marriage Equality
Eric Alan Isaacson,

A coalition of religious organizations and spiritual leaders have filed a brief in California's pending marriage-equality cases -- supporting marriage as a fundamental civil right, and defending the right of same-sex couples to wed.
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