Mike Tidmus

The American Family Association’s Nimrod in Residence, Bryan Fischer, has apparently spent the entire weekend obsessing about butt-sechs passion amongst the Sodomites. The Christian clown has unleashed a biblical deluge of oral diarrhea in the form of a half dozen or so of the whackiest and most illogical sermonettes against the rights of America’s gay [...]

Details and reactions are being added as they come in … Tonight! Summer’s here and so’s equality. The time is right for dancing in the streets. Day of Decision II in San Diego: There will be a march and town hall meeting tonight in San Diego: We’ll march at 6:00 pm from Sixth & University [...]

“GOProud should not even be considered a gay Republican group, and should not be called so. They are a Republican ultra conservative group, apparently made up of only a handful of members. They don’t even support pro gay Republicans. In California last month they endorsed the same candidate in the U. S. Senate race as [...]

Activist and possible Presidential candidate, Fred Karger‘s organization Californians Against Hate has a brand new nationwide focus, a brand new look and a brand new name: Rights Equal Rights. Here’s a taste of the online announcement that went up this morning: We’re Changing Our Name Rights Equal Rights It’s been just two years since a [...]

If this goes through, Californians living with HIV and AIDS and any remaining gays that still give a flying fuck about AIDS and what was done and what was not done at the height of the AIDS crisis should observe the day by burying Reagan’s Simi Valley grave in red ribbons. Reagan Day Bill Advances [...]

It’s the same old song and it didn’t have a beat you could dance to the first time around: “The group believes the commission does not have the authority to conduct the investigation,” said NOM’s attorney of the state’s official investigating body, the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. That commission, on a [...]

… or something like that.* The NOMmies seem terribly and tragically traumatized by the beginning of the end of Perry v Schwarzenegger. Final arguments for and against the hateful and discriminatory Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that eliminated the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry in California, are scheduled for tomorrow. I’d imagine [...]

Some curious news from San Diego: Papa Doug Manchester is giving up control of his Downtown Hyatt. For just under two years, the posh hotel has been the subject of a highly successful boycott — millions in lost bookings and cancellations — due to Manchester’s $125k donation to kick off California’s notorious Proposition 8, which [...]

A high-ranking Iowa Republican official, reacting to Californians Against Hate‘s role in bringing the National Organization for Marriage to justice in Maine, has vowed, via an email, to ‘abort’ the political aspirations of the group’s founder, Fred Karger. Karger and Californians Against Hate have aggressively hounded anti-marriage equality organzations across the country — including NOM [...]

Californians Against Hate founder, Fred Karger, to Mitt Romney: Apologize! (all photos: Mike Tidmus. Fair use encouraged) As former Massachusetts governor and presidential aspirant Mitt Romney signed copies of his new book, No Apology – The Case for American Greatness, a dozen demonstrators from Californians Against Hate assembled on the sidewalk outside the posh suburban [...]

As if! (graphic: Mike Tidmus. Here’s the real cover … boring) So hey, San Diego! Come on out meet and greet presidential aspirant Mitt Romney on Monday at 6:00 in La Jollies. The Mittster will be signing copies of his new book (that kinda looks like the one above) at the Deseret Bookstore in the [...]

Two Peas Same Liberal Pod – Tom Campbell Barbara Boxer Proposition 8 California (video: NOM at YouTube) They’re back! The carpetbagging con artists of the Washington DC-based National Organization for Marriage are back in California trying to win friends and influence elections. According to Eric Ross, writing at The Examiner: On March 15th, the National [...]

Ann Marimow, writing at the Washington Post’s DC Wire blog, notes that the desperate anti-gay religionistas are madly scrambling to find their own “activist judge” who will aid the bigots in their relentless quest to subvert the law and force it to conform to their own personal flavor of superstitianity: Same-sex marriage opponents appeal, advocates [...]

On the heels of yesterday’s news that staunch advocate for traditional marriage and contributor to California’s Proposition 8 Papa Doug Manchester has been granted a legal separation from his wife Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Manchester, who filed for divorce in August, we learn the American Psychological Association has cancelled its August meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in [...]

If you’re an anti-gay pastor watcher like me, you’re well aware that San Diego area radical clerics Miles McPherson and Jim Garlow relish both the spotlight and the media attention that comes hand-in-hand with being two of California’s better known anti-LGBT advocates. When he’s not mentoring young Christians like former beauty queen turned soft-porn celebrity Carrie [...]

Mormon church documents headed to Prop 8 trial? (video: Chino Blanco at YouTube) Over in Mormonland, they must think of the founder of Californians Against Hate as some kind of Great Gay Satan. Lock up the wives and children. Here comes Fred Karger!! Karger was nominated recently at a popular Mormon blog in a poll [...]

8: The Mormon Proposition, a film by Reed Cown (video: Minority Films at YouTube) As we Californians are aware, those Mormons sure do love to meddle in elections. The Salt Lake Tribune this morning reports that, despite the fact that Reed Cowan, the director of 8: The Mormon Proposition, scored the most votes in a [...]

Papa Doug Manchester’s worst nightmare (all photos: Mike Tidmus, fair use encouraged, drop me an email for larger sizes) Close to 300 LGBT activists, union workers and allies descended on Doug Manchester’s Grand Hyatt in Downtown San Diego yesterday afternoon. The demonstration and rally were staged to commemorate the anniversary of Manchester’s donation of $125,000 [...]

(photo: mine) On Saturday the first major demonstration of the new year will take place at Papa Doug Manchester’s Grand Hyatt in Downtown San Diego. The event will coincide with a conference of the American Historical Association. The organization booked the hotel in 2003, and, while many of the group’s members asked that the conference [...]

January came in like a lion … somewhere (photo: Mike Tidmus) With the holidays behind us, things are starting to get back on track, and, from readings and writings to meetings and gatherings, there’s something for everyone coming up in the month of January. Here’s a look at what’s happening in the San Diego community: [...]

Ready to bring in the new year (photo: Mike Tidmus) This week brings both 2009 and the aughties to a close. What a year it’s been! Lots coming up in the month of January in the San Diego activist community: Tuesday, 5 January: Coffee & Conversation with Cool Women Don’t miss the next Coffee & [...]

On 16 December 2009, the New York Times Magazine ran a piece on the Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, Robert P George. The Times piece lauded George as the intellectual force behind the Manhattan Declaration, a document signed by scores of radical religious right leaders and Catholic bishops. The Manhattan Declaration was nothing [...]

Proposition 8 Documentary To Debut At Sundance (video: ChinoBlanco at YouTube) Immediately after it was announced that Reed Cowan’s film detailing the Mormon’s meddling in California’s Proposition 8 would premiere at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, a website was thrown up calling for a boycott. Nancy Van Valkenburg, writing at The Standard, filed this report: [...]

He’s a mean one, Papa Doug … In February of 2008: Doug Manchester paid $125,000 to help ensure that Proposition 8 has enough signatures to qualify. His hotel, the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown, refuses to offer workers job security, even in these rough economic times. So, in July, San Diego LGBT Pride, Californians Against [...]

If you’re thinking about making a holiday donation to the American Civil Liberties Union, don’t. The ACLU has come down on the side of the radical religious reich and the phony-baloney preservers of traditional false-witness bearing. This morning we learn the ACLU thinks the Yes on H8 crowd should not have to comply with Chief [...]