Is the internal brass within the Manchester Financial Group worried that the pro-gay boycott of their two San Diego hotels, the Manchester Grand Hyatt and The Grand Del Mar, will come at a hefty cost? Well if an email recently obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune is any indication, then the answer is a resounding yes. The paper got hold of a correspondence sent to Doug Manchester by his chief financial officer Paul Wilkins, wherein Wilkins reportedly warns that the boycott, brought about because of Manchester's hefty donation to the anti-gay Proposition 8 campaign, ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune has received a copy of an e-mail exchange between Doug Manchester, a large contributor to anti-gay marriage Proposition 8, and Paul Wilkins, his chief financial officer. In it Wilkins expresses concern about the financial impact that a boycott could have on Manchester’s hotel properties and offered suggestions as to how to diminish the threat. Manchester had an interesting response “I appreciate your rightful concern,” Manchester wrote in a July 29 response, but he added: “I am now really angry and I consider this a personal attack on myself and my family.” What a telling example of the ...

Source: San Diego Union Tribune , KOGO Radio , City Wire via 10news   San Diego -- The man who was killed by San Diego Harbor Police during this year's Gay Pride festivities was shot in the back. A medical examiner classified his death as a homicide. Steven Paul Hirschfield, a 37-year-old an actor and dancer from West Hollywood who had been hired to entertain on a charter cruise, was shot with a Glock 40 handgun loaded with .40-caliber hollow point bullets. The bullet entered Hirschfield's back, near the middle on the right side, and exited his upper right chest, ...