Hilarious comedian and actor, Hal Sparks, returns to San Diego on Saturday, Aug. 8 for the 4th-annual Reunion Party at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in support of the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF) and the San Diego LGBT Community Center (The Center). Proceeds from this event will benefit the LGBT Senior…
Earlier this week, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed HB 3930, an enhanced hate crime protections law that explicitly includes crimes against transgender people. The existing hate crimes law, signed in 1990 by Gov. James Thompson, included sexual orientation as a protected category, which had been interpreted to include gender identity. The new law, authored by…
Mayor Kevin Faulconer will be honored at the 40th Annual Nicky Awards Sunday, Aug. 23 at the Marriott Mission Valley with the prestigious Mayor George Moscone Humanitarian Award. State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez will be presenting the award. “Mayor Faulconer who was the national co-chair of Mayors for Marriage Equality has been a longtime supporter of…
The first trailer for lesbian drama Freeheld starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page has been released. Based on a true story, the drama follows New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester (Moore), and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree (Page) as they both battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer….
“Bad-ass women” was the unofficial theme at the 16th annual Victory Fund Women’s Brunch, held at Gossip Grill just before this year’s historic San Diego LGBT Pride parade and march got underway beneath a thunderstorm of epic proportions Saturday. “Do we have some bad-ass women here today, or what?” newly installed Victory Fund President and…
An Escondido gay man was ordered July 16 to stand trial for murder in the stabbing death of his partner of 15 years. Six witnesses testified in the preliminary hearing of Ehren Lee Dragt, 35, who is charged with killing Michael Leon Campbell, 44, April 25 in a bedroom of their residence in the 2000…
KMPH FOX 26 | Central San Joaquin Valley News Source FRESNO, Calif. — A 66-year-old transgender woman was murdered in Fresno, Calif. Thursday night in what appears to be a brutal premeditated attack. KMPH reports that surveillance video shows Kenton Haggard of Fresno walking down Blackstone near Cornell in central Fresno. An SUV with several…
After speaking with a friend earlier this year about their experience as gay teenagers, Nate Warden realized there was a serious lack of accessible coming out stories in the LGBT community. An online search yielded few responses and he immediately saw a void that could easily be filled. Less than six months later, 25-year-old Warden…
When I figured out that other people were figuring out I was gay, or maybe gay, or maybe just weird, say around the age of 14, I became hyper-vigilant about how I might be perceived by, well, everyone who was close enough to perceive me. Most of it was in my clothes (carefully disheveled instead…
Mark Hunter always dreamed of opening his own fish market. He spent a lot of time at Point Loma Seafood while he was a deep sea diving instructor, but wanted to “step it up a notch.” His dreams came true when he partnered with Executive Chef Vincenzo Loverso and opened Fresh Catch Fish Market &…
