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March 13-26, 2020 voluMe 1 issue 12
MarCH 13-26, 2020 voluMe 1 issue 12
enteRtainMent
Tom Goss Live at Martinis Above Fourth C10
on stage La Cage Aux Folles at Cygnet Theatre C12
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lGBTQsD.NeWs
Conversations with Nicole C7
Life Beyond Therapy C8
My Good Tootie C14
Trans Talk with Connor C15
Somos LGBTQ Film Show Case at the San Diego Latino Film Festival C11 City Attorney News Using California’s Red Flag Law to combat hate crimes C6
night liFe
CoMMunity VoiCes
Big Mike & Friends C9 Out of the Archives C16
The Bar Social Scene Nightlife for working professionals C18 North County A Latinx Flag Flourishing C5
CeleBRating
What you see is not alWays What you get:
WoMens histoRy Month exPlorinG the her-story of women’s riGhts
Gay men who look in the mirror and lie to themselves
By Paula J. luttrell uttrell
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n 1987, Congress declared March as National Women’s History Month in perpetuity. A special presidential proclamation is issued every year, which honors the extraordinary achievements of American women. The first steps to reach this came in February 1980, when President Jimmy Carter declared the week of March 8 as National Women’s History Week. By 1986, 14 states had declared March as National Women’s History Month. This year will also mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of gender. Initially introduced to Congress in 1878, several attempts to pass a women’s suffrage amendment failed until passing the House of Representatives on May 21, 1919, followed by the Senate in June of the same year. It was submitted to the states for ratification on Aug. 18, 1920; Tennessee became the last of the necessary 36 states needed to secure ratification. The 19th Amendment was officially adopted on Aug. 26, 1920; the culmination of a decadeslong movement for women’s suffrage.
By M.G. Perez senior reporter
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nthony Ward, aka “Torch,” has a story to tell. The 29-year-old gay man is a survivor of drug abuse, alcoholism and the addiction of self-hatred disguised as a very poor body image. He says, “[The name ‘Torch’] was given to me by an ex-boyfriend because of my personality. It continued while I was using and promoting clubs and involved in other exotic activities.” Those activities included a dismal collapse into the underbelly of the PnP (party and play) subculture plaguing the LGBTQ community worldwide. He used crystal meth and the highly intoxicating drug GHB for enhanced sexual encounters. “I call it my drug destruction,” Ward reflects. “It was the destruction of my life, my spirit, my emotions and my family. It took me places I thought I’d never go. I worked out my body at the gym regularly and once I used, I lost my worth, my self-respect and I lost my health when I became HIV-positive.”
Women’s History Month continues on C2
CoRonaViRus Disease (CoViD-19)
Pandemic? Panic? Political?
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By Jon-Paul emerson
f you do an internet search for coronavirus, you will get about 4,290,000,000 results in 0.76 seconds. Is that overkill? Is that feeding the panic? Too much information is not always a good thing and we humans tend to not think clearly when we panic. Let’s start with the basics. The coronavirus is not anything new. Coronaviruses were first discovered in the 1960s. The earliest ones discovered were an infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two viruses from the nasal cavities of human patients with the common cold that were subsequently named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43. Other members of this family have since been identified, including: SARS-CoV in 2003 (do you remember that outbreak? Was there this much hysteria?); HCoV NL63 in 2004; HKU1 in 2005; MERS-CoV in 2012 (did that outbreak catch this much news and cause this much panic?); and SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV) in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections. Coronavirus continues on C3
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