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The fearless, Emmy-winning Leslie Jordan conquers MA4 C12 on stage ‘Going to a Place Where You Already Are’ C14
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COMMUNITY vOICes
Life beyond therapy Conversations Big Mike with Nicole C7 & Friends C9 How much sex should I be having? C8
The Bar Social Scene Top five tips on making connections C18
The C Word … Community C10
Club San Diego Re-branding Focusing on fun, safety and well-being C16
Trans Talk with Connor C11
Benny on the Block C15
‘LgBTQ+ saN DIegO:
Stories of Struggles and Triumphs’ at the San Diego History Center C3
Rich’s Nightclub Changes Ownership
ryan Bedrosian By nicole murray-ramirez
Ave. 1051 University has long been a
Hillcrest landmark for outstanding entertainment, dancing and socializing beginning in the 1960s as Mickie Finn’s, Metro, Mr. Dillon’s, and for the last 28 years, the award-winning nightclub Rich’s. Popular businessman Nick Moede bought Rich’s 15 years ago and last week announced that he sold the nightclub to his long-time general manager Ryan Bedrosian.
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking.] (courtesy photo)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service By ian morton
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ryan Bedrosia continues on C2
photo by Mel Marcelo
Build OUT 2020
san DieGo PriDe anD HaBiTaT for san DieGo HumaniTy partnership addresses need for affordable housing robert leyh, Programs manager, san Diego Pride San Diego Pride members get to work with Habitat for San Diego Humanity for Build OUT 2020 (courtesy photo)
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ow in its third year, Build OUT brings together two very different organizations while focusing on a common cause – affordable housing. This year, San Diego Pride and its partner organizations brought together 60 volunteers from the LGBTQ community to
work at five different locations throughout San Diego County to support the work of San Diego Habitat for Humanity. Build ouT 2020 continues on C2
t should be impossible to think about the U.S. Civil Rights movement and not picture Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Very likely, when you hear that name, the words “I have a dream” come to mind, as this is the most quoted bit of King’s 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. But King was more than a dreamer or a great orator — he was a doer who spent his time among the people. It is for this reason that having a “Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service” makes so much sense. While King’s birthday was recognized as a federal holiday in 1983 — and observed nationally in 1986 — it was in 1994 that Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act. The legislation which launched this initiative has been folded into the U.S. president’s “United We Serve” project, which is administered by AmeriCorps, the volunteer arm of the Corporation for National and Community Service. While many businesses give employees this third Monday in January a day off from work, United States citizens are encouraged to “make it a day on, not a day off,” by engaging in volunteer work in their community. As we enter into a new year — and a new decade — with all that modern technology has brought us, it is as urgent as ever that we heed King’s call to action. In his words from that famous speech, “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy...Continue to work, with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.” As a black man in the early ’60s, King realized, as many marginalized communities still do today, that the work toward equality and equity must not let up; even if they do not see the full results in their lifetime. mlK Day of service continues on C2