Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. If you want to hold a big party in a big public park, say a festival celebrating gender and sexual diversity like the one held for more than 40 years in San Diego’s historic…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride announced today that due to the success of this year’s Pride event, they are able to donate $80,000 of their proceeds back to 40 LGBT-serving organizations through their annual Pride Community Grant Program. Each year Pride works to return profits from the annual LGBT Pride weekend to the…
SAN DIEGO — Will Walters was just 29 when he was inexplicably manhandled, assaulted and arrested for wearing a leather kilt at the 2011 San Diego LGBT Pride festival. For Walters, the ensuing five years has been a quest for justice and overcoming myriad delays and challenges presented by the legal team of San Diego…
After a long silence, the Board of San Diego LGBT Pride (Pride) today released a statement announcing changes to how the organization will be run. This comes after months of friction between Pride and a significant number of local LGBT community members operating under the name of Save S.D. Pride which resulted in an overwhelming…
SACRAMENTO, CA — Following his service as a San Diego City Councilmember, San Diego City Council President, and the City of San Diego’s Interim Mayor, Todd Gloria (D – San Diego) was officially sworn in to office today as the California State Assemblymember for the 78th Assembly District. “I could not be more excited or…
SAN DIEGO—After five years and myriad motions to delay or dismiss Will Walters’ 14th Amendment discrimination civil rights lawsuit against the City of San Diego, whose Police Department wrongfully arrested him when they applied a tougher, discriminatory standard of enforcement of the city’s nudity ordinance at the 2011 LGBT Pride Festival than the standard of…
SAN DIEGO – In his final days of service on the City Council, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria joined Human Relations Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez, Transgender Services Coordinator for the San Diego LGBT Center Connor Maddocks and young transgender community activist Lily Rubenstein Thursday to designate the first official gender-neutral restroom inside a City-owned…
San Diego Supervisor Dave Roberts has conceded the closely fought race for County Supervisor. Roberts led on Election Night with close to 2,300 votes. With more than 226,000 ballots counted in the District 3 race, Kristin Gaspar has gained enough votes over the past 20 days to now lead by 1,242 votes. 50.27% Gaspar 49.73%…
https://youtu.be/hIpJM4KioE4 SAN DIEGO, – With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria will visit small neighborhood businesses in North Park tomorrow as part of Small Business Saturday, the national day to celebrate and support local small businesses, in an effort encourage all San Diegans to “shop small” this…
SAN DIEGO, CA – Just a few days removed from the City Council’s approval of an updated community plan for the Uptown neighborhoods, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria joined Library Director Misty Jones, San Diego Library Foundation Chief Executive Officer Jay Hill, Friends of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Branch Library President Phyllis Marion, and community…
