ENCINITAS, Calif. — A San Dieguito Academy student has started a Care2 petition asking Principal Tim Hornig to install a gender-neutral bathroom. The petition has more than 16,000 signatures. Milo Spearman says he started the Care2 petition because there is a growing population of transgender students at the school. “Hopefully if the school creates a…
Today, HRC released a new trailer for the ABC Family documentary series Becoming Us. From Ryan Seacrest Productions comes ABC Family’s new docu-series “Becoming Us.” The series centers on a teenager named Ben who is learning to live with his dad becoming a woman. The series will follow Ben, his family and his friends as…
A nude prowler who claimed he broke into a Spring Valley home only to take a shower has been sentenced to the 37 days he has already spent in jail after he pleaded guilty to aggravated trespassing. Michael David Dolias, 34, pleaded guilty before El Cajon Superior Court Judge Patricia Cookson, who placed him on…
Today, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s efforts to pass one of his top priorities, anti-LGBT HB 707, were dealt a major setback. By a bipartisan vote of 10-2 to “return to calendar without amendments,” the bill was potentially killed for the session. Jindal, who has variously been named the nation’s least popular governor in 2013, 2014,…
After a months’ long search, Ken Selnick has joined the staff of Lambda Archives of San Diego as their new digitization archivist. Selnick is a part-time librarian at the National City Public Library. He has Bachelors in History from San Diego State and a Masters of Library Science with an archival concentration from Simmons College…
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) will introduce the “Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act” – the first federal legislation to prohibit the practice of providing “conversion therapy” to any person in exchange for monetary compensation or advertising such services. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) called for Congress to rally behind the important legislation in…
SAN DIEGO — More than 1,100 leaders from the LGBT, Latino, African-American, labor and business communities will gather for the Seventh Annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast at The Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, 1 Park Blvd in San Diego in celebration of Harvey Milk’s life and work for human rights. During the event, which starts…
An armed robber who was charged with holding up 11 people in Ocean Beach, Hillcrest, Golden Hill and elsewhere on the same night was sentenced Monday to seven years in state prison. Restitution for the victims against Joseph Andres Garcia, 20, of San Diego, will be determined in a later hearing. San Diego Superior Court…
SAN DIEGO — The Hillcrest community continues to reinvest its share of parking meter funds with another new service, The Park Hillcrest Lunch Loop! The Uptown Community Parking District has partnered with the UC San Diego Health System, the Hillcrest Business Association and coordinated with Scripps Mercy along with Hillcrest restaurants to pilot this project…
Today, with a tweet from the Oval Office, President Obama launched @POTUS, the official Twitter account of the president of the United States. The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. President Obama is committed to making his Administration the…
