Gay San Diego, Vol. 10, Issue 6

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Volume 10 Issue 6

2019

March 15-28, 2019

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Voting now open for Best of Gay San Diego, Page 16

Partner sentenced in domestic violence murder

FILM

By Neal Putnam

Best in Latino LGBT films

7 COMMUNITY VOICES Updated artist rendering of the proposed Normal Street Promenade (Courtesy of the City of San Diego)

Normal Street Promenade receives Uptown Planners support Honoring legendary drag queens

Sara Butler Contributing Editor

is a proposed community space in Hillcrest located along Normal Street between University Avenue and Washington Street. The project will create a “public promenade and pedestrian throughway” by closing traffic lanes, eliminating parking spaces, and incorporating bike lanes. Once constructed, it will host the weekly Hillcrest Farmers Market every Sunday, as well as many other community, art and entertainment events yet

to be determined. Though community outreach, including public meetings, began in 2015, the project was conceived back in 1988. So far, the project has received letters of support from many organizations and city representatives including Hillcrest Business Association, Uptown Community Parking District, Hillcrest Town Council, among others.

Dining around town

The Uptown community had a pretty late night on Tuesday, March 5. Following the Uptown Planners board election from 6–8 p.m., community and city representatives presented the plans for the anticipated Normal Street Promenade to seek approval for the project from the Uptown Planners board. Normal Street Promenade

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The Hillcrest Farmers Market expands

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DINING

THEATER

see Promenade, pg 2

New vendors bring added character to the Sunday event By Frank Sabatini Jr.

“Once upon a time…”

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It’s a typical Sunday morning along Normal Street. The scent of char-grilled chicken dusted in fragrant African spices wafts down a central corridor lined with farmers and merchants selling their goods from tents. Within minutes, the aromas of Korean barbecue, handmade tamales and other international foods also begin permeating the air while waves of caffeinated consumers gawk at the offerings.

One stall flaunts shockingly large grapefruits, a hybrid known as oroblanco. Another displays succulent dates. Nearby, a fisherman sells frozen fillets of wild-caught Alaskan salmon, some of which he’s turned into jerky. Fresh berries glisten in the sunlight while gorgeous loaves of French-style breads stacked in wicker baskets flirt seductively with passersby. In no time at all, the sights and smells of the Hillcrest

see Farmers Market, pg 3

(l to r) Marketing managers Mark Larson and his brother David (Photo by Frank Sabatini Jr.)

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A gay man who stabbed his longtime partner to death in 2015 in Escondido was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison. The case against Ehren Lee Dragt, 39, and his partner, Michael Leon Campbell, 44, had been together for more than 15 years before a domestic violence incident on April 25, 2015, ended with Campbell dead. Dragt called someone in Oregon and talked about his partner being dead. That person contacted Escondido Police and asked for a welfare check at the home in the 2000 block of Lee Avenue. Officers found a despondent Dragt sitting on the steps outside and Campbell was dead from three stab wounds inside. Dragt was taken to a hospital for dehydration before being booked for murder. “I want to apologize for anyone I have wronged,” wrote Dragt on his Facebook account at 2:27 a.m. on April 25 before police arrived. Escondido Police said they had showed up several times previously at the couple's apartment. A deputy medical examiner for San Diego County testified that Campbell died from a wound that penetrated his heart. He was also stabbed in the clavicle area and had a small neck wound. Dragt pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Vista Superior Court Judge K. Michael Kirkman imposed a sentence of 15 years to life plus one year for the use of a knife. Deputy District Attorney Benjamin Barlow filed an unrelated case against Dragt that involved molesting a teenager some

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