The Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) will auction the 1984 Hillcrest Sign to the highest bidder in an online event that will have a $3,000 minimum bid. The organization’s board decided unanimously to have the auction with two stipulations, the first being that “once ownership is procured the sign must be displayed in Hillcrest,” and that…
An anti-hate-crime fund originally endowed by and for the LGBT community is likely to contribute an additional $5,000 to augment a reward being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s) of an arson hate crime against a San Diego Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall – a church noted for its opposition…
The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center announced that it has received a $5,000 grant from the Union Bank Foundation to support The Center’s Sunburst Youth Housing Project. “For almost a decade, Union Bank and the Union Bank Foundation have been steadfast supporters of The Center and Sunburst Youth Housing Project (YHP),”…
San Diego LGBT Weekly set out to learn the real meaning of Christmas and on the way, found December is full of meaning for people of many different faiths and non-faiths. One San Diego cleric says it’s about more than gifts under a tree. “Christmas is about sharing – sharing with family and friends,” MCC…
Local musician Chris Hassett has been a fixture on the San Diego scene for more than a quarter of a century. Performing around town in a variety of venues and settings, his time on stage has also included gigs for benefit concerts, such as The Friends and Lovers Concert Series, that has helped raise thousands…
A man who was staying temporarily with Vance Shazier, a “beloved member of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC),” pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of Shazier, 67, in 2009. Thomas Lee Daniel, 40, faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in state prison. San Diego Superior Court Judge John Einhorn set…
San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria has been selected by his colleagues to chair the Budget and Finance Committee in 2012. He has served as chair in 2011 and previously led the Land Use and Housing Committee in 2009 and 2010. “I am honored by the confidence my colleagues have in my ability to lead…
A 53-year-old gay man broke down in court Dec. 6 and tearfully apologized to a young man he had stabbed repeatedly when the man refused to have sex with him in his camper in Hillcrest. Kenneth John Bauer was sentenced to nine years in state prison and fined $1,224 by San Diego Superior Court Judge…
The City Council voted 8-0 Dec. 6 to appoint Jeff Gattas to the Centre City Development Corporation board of directors for a term that will last to May 1, 2014. Gattas, a member of the board for The LGBT Community Center, was nominated by Mayor Jerry Sanders for whom he worked for several years as…
Urban Mo’s, Baja Betty’s and Gossip Grill are leading an effort throughout Hillcrest to help bring smiles, food and gifts to underprivileged children, youth and those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS this holiday season. The local group of restaurants, owned by Chris Shaw, has signed on to two different programs benefiting The San Diego LGBT…
