CalSTRS board updates Corporate Governance Principles on Corporate Board Diversity to include sexual orientation and gender identity

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) Investment Committee has updated their Corporate Governance Principles to expand the definition of board diversity to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The CalSTRS Corporate Governance Principles outline the basis for how the fund implements governance initiatives with its portfolio companies. Today’s action aligns…

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San Diego LGBT musician creating video for LGBT rights beyond marriage equality

SAN DIEGO, – Rob Lord, San Diego-based, LGBT singer-songwriter, is producing a music video whose aim is to bring all types of LGBT citizens and their allies together. The goal is to raise awareness about LGBT rights beyond the Marriage Equality movement.  Music for the video is from a song he wrote titled “Together Now.”…

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‘Spring to the Past:’ a Centennial celebration in Balboa Park, April 11

The Balboa Park Heritage Association and its community sponsor  the Women’s Museum of California present Spring to the Past, the first Balboa Park Centennial event for 2015, celebrating the Panama California Exposition of 1915. Turn the clock back to the 1915 Exposition with hundreds of period costumes, Penny Farthing riders of period velocipedes and bicycles,…

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