SAN DIEGO — S.M.A.R.T., the innovative program that gets substance abusers off the streets and onto a track for success, celebrates its first anniversary today. The S.M.A.R.T. Program was launched by the San Diego City Attorney’s Office on December 1, 2016, as a compassionate solution to the increase in drug and street crimes that followed…
The reality of unarmed African American women – LBTQ, gender nonconforming and straight – being beaten, profiled, sexually violated and murdered by law enforcement officials with alarming regularity is too often ignored – especially with the focus of police brutality on our males. Like so many African American women, Sandra Bland’s death in 2015, resulting…
SAN DIEGO — The City Attorney’s Office today defeated a lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured when a distracted, speeding, and intoxicated motorist drove his pick-up truck off the Coronado Bridge and into Chicano Park below. Superior Court Judge Judith F. Hayes dismissed the complaint against the City of San Diego because nothing…
The Consul General of Mexico Ambassador Marcela Celorio will be honored this Sunday, Dec. 3 at the 42nd Annual Nicky Awards at the Courtyard Marriott Liberty Station. “Ambassador Celorio has been a strong and vocal advocate of the civil rights of all people,” stated San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez (the founder of the…
Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. It is well known that transgender people are disproportionately impacted by the epidemic, but their voices and leadership too often are silenced or marginalized. For this World AIDS Day, the Positively Trans program has released three new videos by and about trans people of color living with HIV….
Today marks World AIDS Day and Senator Corey Booker sat down with NASTAD Board Chair Dr. Shanell McGoy to discuss the history and importance of World AIDS Day, as well as the work ahead of us to end the HIV and hepatitis epidemics at home and abroad. Watch the interview above. Nashville resident Dr. Shanell L. McGoy serves as…
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), a global leader in the fight to end AIDS, commemorates World AIDS Day 2017 by honoring the 35 million lives lost to HIV/AIDS around the world, and urging world leaders to support the 36.7 million currently living with HIV/AIDS with necessary services and care. This…
NEW YORK – GLAAD today denounced the Senate’s tax bill and exposed how the bill targets low income and LGBTQ Americans. This tax bill aims to eliminate the individual mandate, a key component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which will cause 13 million low income Americans to lose healthcare, and its 1.5 trillion dollar…
Travis and Joseph Dasilva, the two San Diegans from Hillcrest arrested in Thailand for taking pictures of their bare buttocks at the Temple of Dawn, are facing more severe charges than first thought. The new charges relate to posting their photos on the internet and taking photos of their naked body parts at a religious…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lambda Legal and 28 other national, state, and local LGBT organizations sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of a vote today urging them to oppose the nominations of Leonard Steven Grasz to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and Mark Norris to the United States…
