Gloria Casarez was born on December 13, 1971. She was an American civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia. Casarez was born in Philadelphia and raised Catholic. She grew up in the Kensington neighborhood of North Philadelphia. Casarez came out as a lesbian at the age of 17, graduating from Haddon Township High...

RuPaul Andre Charles, known mononymously as RuPaul, is an American drag queen, television judge, musician, and model. Best known for producing, hosting, and judging the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race, he has received several accolades, including 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice...

Harvey Milk was the first political gay man to be elected to public office. He was born on May 22, 1930 in New York City and died from an assassination on November 27, 1978 in San Franscisco. When he was a kid, he would get bullied by other kids for having big ears, nose, and feet and this tended to get the attention of him...

Josephine Baker was an openly bisexual singer, actor, and performer who fought equity for the queer people, women, and people of color througout her life. Josephine Baker was born June 3,1906, St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up without a father figure in her life and was living in poverty, throughout her time, and developed a...

Zanele Muholi was born on July 19, 1972 in Umlazi, South Africa. Muholi is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, explaining that "I'm just human.”  She’s a visual activist that changed the image of of Black queer South Africans through her portaiture and oraganzing during a time when the country’s LGBTQ+ media respresentation...

Javier Sotelo is a freshman at Hoover High School and his dream is to attend a four year college and become a teacher. Javier is a very bubbly person and his motto is “be nice to people.” His birthday is January 15, and he was raised in San Diego. However, when he is older he wants to move to Seattle, Washington. His favorite...

Karl Heinrish Ulrichs, born in 1825 in Aurich Germany and is considered the first gay man in world history. Ulrichs was known for campaigning for gay rights. Ulrichs helped forge the concept of sexual identity as an innate human characteristic in pamphlets he wrote from 1864 to 1879. Ulrichs was the very first queer person to...

“Welcome to the first annual Hoover Film Festival,” said film festival founder Eric Sanchez, and the lights went off and films began. The first annual Hoover Film Festival was an event that allowed students to create any type of film as long as they fell into five categories: Personal Short film, Stop Motion, PSA, Silent...

Teachers deserve higher wages. They have put passion and effort into creating lessons for us as students to be successful. According to recent data, federal, state, and local governments budget $584.9 billion or $14,418 per pupil to fund K-12 public education, and this shows how important the United States invests into education....

City Heights is a dense urban community in central San Diego, California. City Heights represents the very best of San Diego with its diverse communities. City Heights is known for its friendly people and several family-owned businesses. It isn't flashy, but the people that live here make it a pleasant place to live. You become...

Summer is rolling around, the sun's hot and brighter than ever. Don't you just want to get some cool refreshing water for your dry throat? It can be a real challenge to think if you aren't drinking enough water, or an unfortunate accident can happen if you don't drink any in the hot sun. As your body needs some water every...

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods was born on December 30, 1975, and is an American professional golfer. His ethnic background is African American, Thai, and Chinese.  Woods grew up in Orange County, California and was a child prodigy who was introduced to golf before the age of two by his athletic father Earl Woods. Earl was a single-digit...

Many students believe that the old bell schedule should come back to Hoover High School. I am one of those students. My parents are deported and I have been living in Baja California, Rosarito for six years now and with the new bell schedule, it has affected me dramatically. Don’t get me wrong, entering school an hour later...

Have you always wondered if you wanted to make movies for a living and has it gone far enough to the point it affected your entire life? To me, it has affected my life entirely. When I was a fifth grader in elementary school, I was first introduced in a short film with my older brother called Mi Familia Project. That short...

One of the best shops in City Heights, in my opinion, would be Goodwill. While you can argue that Goodwill can be found in other communities, a shopping trip to Goodwill in City Heights can never be replicated in any other place. The things you find will be so unique and true to our community that it will leave you constantly...

Despite the fact that many kids sleep later than they should, all students must be able to wake up at a specific time for school unless it is the weekend, when they normally have plans. In most cases, young people should have a set number of sleep hours to ensure their health. Based on statistics, kids from 3-5, should get...

Harry Rivera is in the class of 2022, and is going to UCSD( University of California San Diego). This shows that he has so many things and does his best at school to get to a competitive school like UCSD. He is also the president of our club, the Academic League. He was open and nice to talk to because what I need from him is...

Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, is an actor, businessman, and former professional wrestler. He wrestled for WWE for eight years before pursuing an acting career. He is widely recognized as one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. Johnson is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood. He was born...

What is the graduation waiver? According to the San Diego Unified website, this waiver allows seniors to get their highschool diploma without having to meet all of the requirements in their high school in light of the pandemic. This is a great tool for those students who could not pass the graduation qualifications; however,...

For me as a senior, I feel as if work has been thrown at me, especially since it’s the end of the year, and we only have two weeks left of school. We had a lot more time for certain projects, but once May started it does feel like we're getting rushed to finish all work. And in May testing was happening for AP classes, and...