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August 30, 2003


Make-A-Wish turns down topless tranny fund-raiser

Club Obsessions promoter Mike Sorenson loves the Make-A-Wish Foundation. "I think [it's] a great cause," he says. On July 11, the Garden Grove, California, club dedicated the funds from its weekly Topless Transsexual Show to Make-A-Wish Orange County. "But to be honest with you, the agency didn’t want anything to do with us." A spokeswoman for Make-A-Wish would only say,"This organization chose to hold an event for us without notifying us, and we were unable to proceed with it." "They said we could do a generic fund-raiser and give them the money," says Sorenson, "but we couldn’t use their name." Orange County Weekly




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