SAN DIEGO -- Several dozen community members gathered at The San Diego LGBT Community Center Thursday evening to hear the Hillcrest Business Association's (HBA) plans for the base of the Hillcrest Pride Flag.

The flag pole, which was installed last July, has swiftly become an important community landmark and HBA sought community input at the meeting as it begins work on Phase 2 of the project, which will include a LGBT historical monument at the base of the pole.

WASHINGTON – The Virginia GOP’s 2013 gubernatorial ticket is boasting two radically anti-gay figures whose views on LGBT rights are dramatically out-of-step with the majority of Virginians.

The two men are Ken Cuccinelli, who currently serves as the commonwealth’s Attorney General; and Bishop E.W. Jackson. Cuccinelli has advocated for archaic policies that roll back the clock on equality and harm LGBT Virginians, while Jackson has spoken out against gay people more bluntly – calling them “perverted … very sick people.”

“When I get hungry, I get stupid,” says the titular Tiger (Ron Choularton), by way of explanation for his death.

Death itself, the senselessness destruction of war and the meaning of “tigerness” are among the topics explored by the Tiger’s ghost, who will spend the rest of the evening as narrator and resident philosopher in Rajiv Joseph’s extraordinary play “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” on the boards through June 1 at ion theatre. I advise you to get your tickets now.

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