SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Broadway/San Diego has announced its 2017-2018 season and the San Diego premiere engagement of Hamilton. This is the biggest season ever with shows direct from Broadway, mega-hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rodgers and Hammerstein, and returning San Diego favorites all sponsored by San Diego County Credit Union. The 2017-2018 Season…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a new report previewing battles against anti-LGBTQ state legislation expected in the year ahead. With at least 40 anti-LGBTQ bills in 16 states introduced so far, HRC anticipates that, as in 2016, anti-equality activists will push for legislation giving a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people under the guise…
Organizers have estimated nearly 80,000 people showed up Saturday to the San Diego Women’s March and walked together in peace in solidarity with the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. The march started at Civic Center Plaza next to San Diego City Hall, and ended on the steps of the San Diego County Administration Center about…
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The City of West Hollywood is taking bold action to reaffirm its commitment to its core values and to work to defend the rights of community members as Donald J. Trump takes office in Washington, DC. At its regular meeting on Monday, December 5, 2016, the City Council of the City of…
Donald J. Trump’s inaugural speech may have broken with tradition and to some cast a grim picture of the reality of our country. The Huffington Post reports that Author Randa Jarrar, capturing the grim mood, tweeted a poem she’d written using the Trumpian terms ― supplemented with some common words such as “a” and “my”…
WASHINGTON — Wednesday, at a ceremony in the Pentagon, Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning awarded The American Military Partner Association (AMPA) President Ashley Broadway-Mack the Secretary of the Army Public Service Award. The award was presented in Secretary Fanning’s office just prior to his official farewell ceremony. “Ashley Broadway-Mack is a phenomenal advocate for our nation’s…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Within minutes of Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday, his administration has removed all mention of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from the White House Web site, and selected LGBT-related documents have disappeared from the Department of Labor website. The Office of National AIDS Policy appears to have been closed, and its web…
NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union has taken legal action seeking documents on conflicts of interest and violations of the Constitution and federal law posed by President Trump’s and his family’s business interests. The organization also released a Seven-Point Plan laying out how it intends to challenge other Trump policies and protect the Constitution. The efforts are made possible by the organization’s new Constitution Defense Fund,…
In 1972 LGBT San Diegans started meeting to organize a local chapter of the International Imperial Courts of North America. The Imperial Court System has been described as the “gay Shriners or Elks,” and was founded in 1965 by World War II Veteran Jose Julio Sarria. A gay icon, who in 1961 became the first…
Donald J. Trump was sworn in today as the 45th president and pledged to be a president for all Americans in his inaugural speech. “We are one nation — and their pain is our pain,” said Trump.”Their dreams are our dreams; and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and…
