Thursday, Nov. 17 The San Diego LGBT Community Center held the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) ceremony to honor members of the trans community who lost their lives to violence this past year. San Diego Police Officer Christine Garcia, the first openly transgender police officer in the San Diego Police Department, had played an…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria will join City officials and community members, Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 12 p.m. to kick-off the long-awaited construction phase of the new Mission Hills-Hillcrest public library, to be known as the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Harley and Bessie Knox Branch Library. Originally opened in 1961, the Mission Hills-Hillcrest…
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sunday several actions to protect civil rights and combat hate crimes in New York, including the creation of a State Police unit to investigate reports of hate crimes, an expansion of the state’s human rights law to protect all students, and the establishment of a new emergency legal…
Free event for the LGBT community to be held Tuesday, Nov. 22 from 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. (ET), hosted by Kristen Darcy. NEW YORK — National nonprofit, Path2Parenthood (P2P) and fertility expert and life coach, Kristen Darcy, have teamed up to bring urgently needed information on post-election legal safeguards for gay parents and hopeful…
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is still refusing to admit defeat in the state’s gubernatorial race despite vote tallies showing that Roy Cooper has increased his winning margin to nearly 6,600 votes. McCrory, ousted by voters in large part because of the discriminatory HB2 legislation he signed into law, has a history of attempting to…
The calamity of this election has confirmed an unimaginably deep disturbance in our society. As always, the progress we have made brought along with it a tailspin of backlash. In the endless cycle of history, there is no choice but to press on immediately and cohesively toward our goal of an inclusive society. I’m not…
SAN DIEGO — With San Diego Hunger Coalition’s new Rx for CalFresh report, healthcare professionals in San Diego County and beyond are better equipped to identify patients struggling with hunger and connect them with the food assistance they need. One in six people in San Diego County has limited or uncertain access to enough nutrition….
Jesus Castro’s Covered California health plan premiums for 2017 are not going up — they are actually going down by about $250 each month. And he couldn’t be happier. Castro, who is a partner in a safety consulting business and lives in Martinez with his wife, says that he currently pays around $780 a month…
Jared Milrad and Nathan Johnson, the history making same-sex couple featured in Hillary Clinton’s viral presidential campaign commercials (“Getting Started,” “Equal”) with 10 million+ views worldwide – will discuss their widely anticipated new book, “So, You Want To Get (Gay) Married,” (now available for sale at howtogetgaymarried.com), Dec. 9 at Book Soup in West Hollywood. Milrad and Johnson are the first openly gay couple to appear in…
Focus Features Loving is now playing in additional cities; expanding across the country Wednesday, Nov. 23. From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live…
