INNdulge, the Palm Springs resort just a few minutes from the city center with its international style restaurants, the shopping experiences in town or at Cabazon and hiking at the top of the aerial tramway, is celebrating its 20th birthday today. Originally, this property was built in 1958 as the “Golden Palm Villa”. In 1995,…
Friday, Oct. 23 in Portland, Ore., LGBTQ royalty from all over North America and Mexico will be gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Imperial Court System at the Golden Jubilee Gala State Dinner at the historic Sentinel Hotel in downtown Portland. Those attending include the Rev. Troy Perry (Founder of the Metropolitan…
A new book chronicling the lives of nine transgender women across the country who have been incarcerated comes amid historic progress for such prisoners. “The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons,” by Kristin Schreier Lyseggen, was released in September. Schreier Lyseggen, who lives in Berkeley, Calif., traveled around the…
NEW YORK, New York – NYC Pride, producers of NYC’s iconic LGBT Pride events, announced today that New York City has been selected to host WorldPride 2019. WorldPride 2019 will be held in conjunction with Stonewall 50, the official commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. 2019 marks the first time that WorldPride, a global LGBT…
The famed author John Steinbeck once said, “I’ve taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.” The talented writer uttered these words some years back in describing his penchant for drinking. You can accept your consequences too during this spooky and eerily delicious time of the year. The overindulgence of candy during the…
The San Diego LGBT Community Center’s Masquerade event has been rescheduled. Originally planned for this coming Friday the event will now be a Mardi Gras celebration Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. Announcing the change in an email, Dr. Delores Jacobs, CEO of The Center wrote: As a result of recent unexpected community events, at the requests…
SAN FRANCISCO– To celebrate the 35th Annual San Francisco Fleet Week, LGBT active-duty service members, veterans, and straight allies gathered at The Café in San Francisco for the first ever Fleet Week LGBT Military Mixer Oct. 10. The event was coordinated by local LGBT military leaders as a way to thank visiting service members, discuss…
“I’m standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid living at the YMCA in a $6-a-night room with no job, no prospects for the future, no real place to live and no money in my pocket. I’m thinking, What am I going to do? And it came to…
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a year-long series of events highlighting some of our region’s vibrant cultures. Launched in 1990, the Division of Social Sciences’ department is an interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in the study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, sexuality,…
U.S. political leaders have long opposed walls. Twenty-five years ago when President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law he said, “Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.” At his 1987 address at the Brandenburg Gate, former President Ronald Reagan answered the delayed call of Eastern Europeans suffering…
