With almost two hundred people in attendance, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in conjunction with the Equality Professionals Network (EPN), sponsored a discussion and live panel yesterday to preview their widely anticipated report: Corporate Equality Index 2014. The event was held at the newly constructed auditorium of the Qualcomm headquarters off Lusk Blvd in Sorrento…
This year, California became the first state in the nation to proactively support transgender students’ rights with the signing of Assembly Bill 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act. The bill guarantees transgender students safe access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that corresponds with the student’s gender identity. Prohibiting a student from doing…
As cross-cultural pollinization accelerates, its various permutations can seem both jarring and perfectly normal. Take, for example, the wholly natural assimilation of the story of Sherlock Holmes and his unwavering sidekick Dr. Watson in Chinese culture. Since 2011, when millions of television viewers first laid eyes on Benedict Cumberbatch as the iconic sleuth and Martin…
The KPBS-Union Bank Local Heroes celebration at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla last week introduced a new cadre of human rights, public service and volunteer superstars to a packed house in the museum’s auditorium, with LGBT individuals well represented among the honorees. Max Disposti, executive director of the ever-expanding North County LGBTQ…
The 2014 Absolut Hillcrest Mardi Gras will be held March 4, 2014 in its traditional location between First and Third on University Avenue. The event will be produced by renowned party promoter and producer Bill Hardt. The application for next year’s event was filed with the city of San Diego Nov. 15. “We expect the…
Christmas decorations everywhere and lo, a turkey peeps out of Santa’s bag. Thanksgiving Day must be nigh. How thankful we are this year, especially the newly married same-sex parents and their kids celebrating as really legal families. The rest of us, too, can share the day with friends at home or join the community at…
There is that saying that if we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. Also, if we allow people to change history and rewrite it, how indeed can we learn from it? The recent media hullabaloo over the old San Diego Police headquarters on West Harbor Drive opening up as a retail…
