Want a free ticket to Pride? Need to get an HIV test before the fun starts? Schedule an appointment for a free, confidential HIV Early Test with the UCSD Antiviral Research Center and get a free one-day ticket to the Pride Festival. The free Pride ticket offer is only good for appointments between June 13…
GSGRA-Greater San Diego Chapter hosts a Wii Olympics fundraiser June 11, 2-6 p.m. at Numbers (3811 Park Blvd., in Hillcrest). The competition includes events in bowling, tennis and golf. Each event is $5 to participate in. Medals and prizes are awarded in each event. Contact Summer White at 619-379-8736 for more information.
A gay City Heights man posed as a divorced straight man “looking for fun” and he drugged and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old man whose body was found about 800 feet from the defendant’s home in 2008, a prosecutor told a jury on June 1. Deputy District Attorney Gretchen Means said Philong Huynh, 40, was linked…
The National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP) is hosting a San Diego Foster Care Orientation for people in the LGBT community to learn more about foster parenting or how to support a foster kid. NYAP is a foster family agency working with kids ages 12-18 in San Diego County. There are many children and youth in…
Games on June 11 will decide the champion of the San Diego American Flag Football League’s 2011 season. The playoff games are at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. at Doyle Park Recreation Center (8175 Regents Road in La Jolla); the championship game is at 1 p.m. On field No. 1, True North Aztecs plays Martinis…
WASHINGTON – A lawsuit filed by three men who claim they were disqualified from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series near Seattle for not being gay enough is set to go to trial. The men, Stephen Apilado, LaRon Charles and John Russ, all members of the team D5, were playing in the finals of the…
CALIFORNIA – The California State Senate has passed legislation that would eliminate a statutory difference and inequity between marriage and domestic partnerships. Authored by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) the Domestic Partnership Equality Act (SB 651) passed in a 24-15 vote. Specifically, the bill would eliminate the requirement that a couple wishing to enter into…
NEW YORK – Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, a leading funder of anti-gay attacks concentrated on denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry, has declared that the opponents of equality are being repudiated by young people and have “probably lost” on same-sex marriage. In an interview in the June 4…
SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda, Jon Qwelane, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment. The South African Human Rights Commission’s spokesman Vincent Moaga said a judge ruled that the newspaper column in question, which was headlined Call me names, but gay is not…
NEPAL – Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics has given official recognition to gay and transgender people in this year’s Nepalese census. For the first time data was collected on the third gender from 5.6 million households across the country. This has been seen as a major victory for equality in a country that only decriminalized…
