9th Annual Hillcrest Mardi Gras Event Scheduled
Save the date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010

San Diego, CA – The 9th annual Hillcrest Mardi Gras Street Party celebration will be held on Fat Tuesday, February 16, 2010 on University Avenue between First and Fourth Avenues. The time of the event is 6:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. The festival will take place rain or shine.

The event is sponsored by the GSDBA Charitable Foundation and the Hillcrest Business Association. All proceeds from the street party benefit both organizations. The GSDBA Charitable Foundation issues annual Youth Scholarships.

The festival will feature live entertainment, special guest performers, and an exclusive V.I.P. area. Food and other drink will be available for purchase from participating vendors and venues. Additionally, full liquor will also be served during the event. An array of other surprises, plenty of beads, and various other party favors will also be part of the festive evening. Hillcrest Mardi Gras remains a 21 and up age event.

Advance ticket price is $15 advance (or $20 day of) and $50 advance (or $75 day of) for a V.I.P. Pass which includes express entry, private reception area, and private bathrooms. Tickets are available at the following Hillcrest area locations: Baja Betty’s at 1421 University Avenue; Urban Mo’s at 308 University Avenue; and Obelisk Bookstore at 1029 University Avenue.

Patrons can also purchase tickets online at the website HYPERLINK “http://www.hillcrestmardigras.org/” www.HillcrestMardiGras.org. Ticket purchases are tax-deductible. No refunds are offered on ticket purchases – the festival will take place rain or shine. Tickets are on sale now.

Our very own Morgan will be on RuPaul's Drag Race tonight at 9pm on Logo! Come into Gossip Grill and watch the show with sound!

Join RuPaul, the most famous drag queen in the world, as the host, mentor and inspiration on Logo's second season of RuPaul's Drag Race, the ultimate drag queen competition. Playing a dual role, RuPaul reigns supreme in all judging and eliminations, while RuPaul, the man, helps guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge. Contestants include the nation's most outrageous, cutting-edge, talented and stunningly gorgeous drag queens all fighting for the title (and tiara) as top drag queen of the land. Each week, through the trials and tribulations of glam, glitter and show-stopping performances, one drag queen is eliminated until finding America's next drag superstar.

February 18, 2010

One performance only!

Meet Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, or as they're affectionately known, the Trocks. And should there be any lingering doubt, there's not a woman among them - despite the high quota of tutus, tiaras and tights onstage.

In the words of their online blurb, the show is a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody form and en travesti. Or, to put It bluntly, ballet performed by blokes in drag.

RUN TIME
approx. 2 hours, including intermission

CHILDREN
Children must be at least 6 years of age to attend this event
For your enjoyment and the comfort of others, use discretion when bringing children to live Theatre performances.
All ages must have their own ticket in same seating area..

Pricing (includes $2.50 Facility Fee)
$69.00 - $49.00 - $39.00

For Tickets: http://www.sandiegotheatres.org/eventstickets/eventdetails.cfm?eventID=2151

Discounts available for Seniors, Students, Active Military and Groups of 10 or more...call us for details!

CTV.ca News Staff

Date: Sunday Jan. 31, 2010 3:15 PM ET

Millions of men will get together next weekend to watch the Super Bowl, but according to the big game's U.S. broadcaster, football fans don't want to see those men get too close.

According to online reports, CBS has rejected a 30-second ad for ManCrunch.com, a Toronto-based dating website for gay men who are not open about their sexuality.

The site bills itself as "the premier service connecting men with other men and allowing them to open up about the down low."

The ad features two guys, one wearing a Green Bay Packers jersey and another sporting a Minnesota Vikings jersey, sitting on a couch seemingly enjoying a game on television.

When their hands meet over a bowl of chips, sparks fly and the two begin kissing.

Entertainment websites such as TMZ.com and PerezHilton.com, as well as the site for Advertising Age magazine, picked up the story Saturday, posting links to the ad.

They also quoted a statement from CBS, which read: "After reviewing the ad -- which is entirely commercial in nature -- our Standards and Practices department decided not to accept this particular spot. As always, we are open to working with the client on alternative submissions."

A call and an email from CTV.ca to a press officer for ManCrunch were not immediately returned Sunday.

But AdAge.com quoted a spokesperson for the site who said the company is "really surprised there's a problem. (The ad) is not offensive and it's not racy."

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On January 27th 2010, at Skyline Wesleyan Church near San Diego, California, Exodus International will hold a training session (they call it an “equipping”). The purpose of these equipping events is to teach pastors, ministers, educators and counselors how to deal with “unwanted homosexuality.”

The pastor of Skyline Church is no stranger to LGBT Californians, our families, friends and allies. Pastor Jim Garlow claimed responsibility for jump-starting Prop 8, the California ballot initiative that took away the existing right of LGBT couples to marry; was the driving force behind the pre-2008-Election, anti-gay rally, TheCall, at Qualcomm Stadium; traveled to DC to oppose The Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act; was one of the original signatories of the blueprint for American theocracy called The Manhattan Declaration; and, most recently, tried (unsuccessfully) to worm out of testifying in the Perry v Schwarzenegger Prop 8 trial.

Car-pooling will be available from here:

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
8:00am
LGBT Center parking lot
3909 Centre Street
San Diego, CA

Protest Location:

Skyline Wesleyan Church
8:30 am
11330 Campo Road, La Mesa, CA 91941.

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 25, 2010 19:46:45 EST

The announcement of congressional hearings on the ban on open military service by homosexuals has been delayed at the request of the Obama administration until after Wednesday night’s State of the Union Address because the president may announce that military leaders will support changing the law, according to a key lawmaker.

The Senate Armed Services Committee expects to have a series of hearings, one focusing on the views of military leaders, another on the views of outside witnesses and possibly panels of junior officers and noncommissioned officers, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the committee chairman.

Levin said Monday that an announcement of the hearings has been delayed at the request of senior Defense Department officials until after President Obama’s speech. Levin said he does not know what Obama might say, but he expects it will be an announcement of the administration’s intentions.

Hearings were supposed to start with military leaders, Levin said, but he might change the order to get hearings underway if senior military officials need more time to prepare.

“I am willing to switch things up,” he said. “I am committed to starting the hearings in February.”

Having junior officers and noncommissioned officers and petty officers testify could be an important step in getting the policy changed, Levin said, especially because he believes there are “generational differences” in views about the presence of gays and lesbians in the ranks. Younger people are more likely to be accepting of a policy change than older people, Levin said.

Although Levin supports repealing the ban and the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that derives from it, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., the House Armed Services Committee chairman, said he wants current restrictions to remain in force and will oppose efforts by the Obama administration to change the law that has existed since 1993.

Cathal Kelly

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Having two parents matters. Their gender doesn’t, according to a new study.

A pair of American sociologists spent five years sifting through all the available literature contrasting the outcomes for children raised in traditional families with those raised by a same-sex couple. Their conclusion: no substantive difference at all.

“The upshot of the study is something that should be common sense, but instead there is this enormous belief in the significance of gender. Bottom line: What matters is good parenting,” said NYU’s Judith Stacey. She and colleague Timothy Biblarz published the results of their investigation in the Journal of Marriage and Family on Friday.

Stacey and Biblarz have been involved in the culture wars surrounding gay marriage and gay parenthood since the release of their 2001 study, How Does The Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?

Those who disagreed with their answer to that question – “not that much” – began casting around for their own scientific data. That prompted this follow-up.

“In the U.S. especially, policy makers ... always start their (anti-gay marriage) argument with, ‘Research proves...,’” Stacey said. “But that research is almost exclusively research that compares children with two married parents to children whose parents divorced or never married. It’s completely skewed.

“They were extrapolating from those studies, which can say, on average – and that’s an important qualification – two parents usually are better than one. Not always. That’s another, more complicated story. But it certainly has nothing to do with whether (the parents are) male or female.”

The only discernible and consistent advantage they could come up with for traditional couples: lactation.

Baja Betty’s to Ring in the New Year with Hourly World Toast

And you thought New Year’s Eve couldn’t be improved upon. Well, leave it to Baja Betty’s to figure out a way to do just that. Beginning at 6 p.m. PST, the time Brazilians will be ringing in their 2010 the Betty’s staff invites you to join friends and community members in ringing in the New Year, every hour on the hour, with a countdown and champagne toast. Celebrate with Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, New York, New Orleans, Phoenix, and of course, San Diego, as yet another year comes to a close.