Great article, I am very excited for another year of boycotting the Manchester Hyatt. The more we boycott the Manchester, the more other business owners will think twice about donating against our civil rights next go round.

Cleve is awesome!

Boycott On

Is it Manchester who is hurting San Diego's economy, or the boycotters who falsely equate the fight for gay equality with the fight for union swag, and who target a gay-owned business in Old Town that won't go along with unreasonable union demands?

No silly boycott will change the minds
of California's voters. Such intimidation
will only make donors contribute more
next go-round.

Send this puny Cleve back to Frisco where
he belongs. He's a con artist selling
snake oil to the naive. Giving a
charging elephant a hot foot stops
nothing. Get real.

cleve jones is a hero to me and tens of thousands of others, myra! you and your friends are living in fantasy world, as usual. it must be very irritating to you seeing san diego turn gayer and gayer every day. i make sure to remind my friends family and business associates to find other accommodations and eating/drinking establishments, rather than patronize manchester hotels. doug manchester and his gay mercenary, howard bragman think they are going to mitigate the impact of this boycott, i say think again! the gay community will prevail in the end. gay marriage WILL be legal in california. our community has plenty of experience fighting people like doug manchester and the prop 8 bigots. we know how to find your vulnerable spot honey, and you better believe your gonna feel the pain, just as we have at your hands.

I lived in San Francisco for 20 years.

The very last thing San Diego needs is San Francisco-style gay politics!

I'm gay, too, honey. Gay enough to spot a
phony who wants to use the gay community
to promote his own union-paying agenda.

Since I've never used a Manchester-owned
property or needed advice as to where I
should eat/drink proves you haven't a
clue as to (a) what tactics it takes to
win at the polls; (b) what constitutes
a hero; or (c) how San Diego differs
politically from San Francisco.

Andrew what are you talking about??

When I was unjustly harassed and ultimately laid off from my workplace for being openly gay, my union was the only recourse for me to get my job back and fight back against the harassment i faced at my job. Unions project all workers and especially lgbt workers who are subject to discrimination due to our orientation.

Andrew, a fight for union swag??? did you read this article. we should be happy that the union is helping out with the boycott and standing against doug manchester's homophobia!

To "Old Town is not gay owned:"

Nicole and our local Democrat politicians recently called for a boycott of two gay-owned old town businesses.

They called for the boycott because the gay man from Chula Vista who bought the businesses chose not to have unionized employees, as was his right.

Contrary to a lot of claims that were made, he didn't fire the union workers. They were already gone, because the businesses had failed before he bought them.

To "Unions are not good for the lgbt community:"

I'm glad your union helped you. My union in the airlines was only good for helping people who showed up to work drunk and other extreme cases. The average worker got no support. Instead, the union officials were bought off by management and given cushy do-nothing jobs. They then refused to do anything to make work conditions better for the average worker.

Unions are just a way to force workers to support the Democrat politicians who have bankrupted this state and are now bankrupting the nation.

Members have to contribute dues, and the dues are used to make campaign contributions to the Democrats.

If you're a gay Democrat who is impressed by Obama's failure to take the lead in supporting ENDA and repealing DOMA and DADT, fine.

If you're not, then your union dues are being used to support political causes with which you disagree.

Let's not pretend that this hotel workers union cares in the slightest about gay rights. What they care about is building their own empire, and using gays to that end.

Well said, Andrew. Some people just don't
know what side of the bread the butter
is on.