On the day my legal change of gender, my home city of San Diego became the first city in my home state of California to name a street after lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community civil rights icon Harvey Milk. The street renaming occurred on what would have been Harvey Milk’s 82nd birthday. The [...]

Today is a day for celebration — to stop and reflect on the sacrifice and activism of Harvey Milk on his birthday rather than on the day he was taken from this earth by bullets fired from the gun of fellow San Francisco Supervisor Dan White in 1978. Milk was an ordinary man with a [...]

Yesterday (Monday, February 13, 2012), while taking my daily three-and-three-quarter mile walk, I was at a corner waiting for the walk light to turn green. Three young men in their early twenties were at the same corner, and one of them asked me a question in that way that was clearly meant to make me [...]