This week at our Brass Rail studio, Aaron and Ophelia were joined by Patrick Wallace, co-founder and Executive Director of ANoteToMyKid.com In just a few short months, Patrick has turned an idea into a movement – that idea being parents expressing unconditional love for their kids through letters. Inspired by the love and support of their parents, co-founders Patrick and Michael Volpatt created ANoteToMyKid.com to provide parents of LGBT and questioning youth, or any parent for that matter, with a platform for expressing this unconditional love. Since the site launched, they’ve received many notes from parents across the country, to their children of all ages – from infants still in the womb to grown sons and daughters living happy, full lives a distance away. Get to know Patrick and learn more about this site and how you can get involved in this movement of unconditional love. You a parent? Send in a note…and tell them you saw it on HSSS.tv. Read More
On National Coming Out Day and the anniversary eve of Matthew Shepard‘s death, They Said hit the Brass Rail studio square table, with Executive Producer Aaron filling in for Ian, to give their take on the week’s big news & topics hot on the headlines. After a quick hat tip to Steve Jobs who passed away last week, the crew discussed the surge in Apple stock and the big iPhone announcement…even bigger was Kelly‘s move from droid (and Sprint) to the cult of Apple. Other hot topics included the apparent suicide at Occupy San Diego, the new Rosie O’Donnell show, Oprah’s Lifeclass, the Netflix pseudo-appology, the Conrad Murray trial and Prince Harry‘s visit to San Diego! Don’t forget, get your cowboy on this coming Sunday, October 16 at the Hillcrest Hoedown and start planning your Halloween costumes for the annual Nightmare on Normal Street party on Saturday, October 29. R.I.P. Matthew Shepard. We will never forget. Read More
Ophelia looking as stunning as ever, braved her raging allergies just to spend time with Aaron at our Copa Bar studio at the fabulous Urban Mo’s to give some lip service on the big news & hot topics of the week. After Ophelia regaled us with her Palm Springs rodeo & adult bookstore exploits, Aaron recapped his weekend spent with good friends at old haunts and a trip to the best farmers market in the city where the pumpkins were ginormous. Then, we dove in to the headlines, first giving an HSSS-style memoriam to Steve Jobs, then dishing the San Diego freeway shooter and road rage, oral sex and throat cancer, Occupy Wall Street and job automation, the 71 year-old granny busted for schtuping her boy-toy in the back seat of a car and the Texas girl with Down Syndrome voted homecoming queen. Don’t forget San Diego Remembers Candlelight Vigil & Empowerment Ceremony on October 11 and get your manscaping on (or not) for the big BearQuake weekend starting October 13. Special shout out to ChristWire.org for thinking HSSS.tv rocks enough to receive their super limited edition handbook – it’s EPIC! Read More
