SAN DIEGO – AIDS Walk & Run San Diego and The San Diego LGBT Community Center have launched a community education campaign to help end new HIV infections. “#BeTheGeneration” is designed to strengthen prevention and education efforts, and increase access and utilization of HIV testing and treatment options. It also aims to help lessen the…
CHULA VISTA – Speaker of the California State Assembly Toni Atkins has endorsed Steve Padilla for Chula Vista City Council, Seat 1. Speaker Atkins said, “Steve Padilla has a proven record of building consensus and getting things done. I am proud to endorse Steve Padilla for Chula Vista City Council because he will create safe…
A Compton school board member has pleaded not guilty to oral copulation of his friend while he was asleep while they were staying in a San Diego hotel. Skyy de Anthony Fisher, 31, is free on $100,000 bond and is awaiting a Nov. 5 preliminary hearing in San Diego Superior Court. The lone charge is…
The First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego will be hosting a city-wide event, Celebrating Who We Are: Diversity and Inclusiveness in San Diego, Wednesday, Sept. 17 at their location in the heart of Hillcrest, 4190 Front Street directly across from the UCSD Medical Center. Communities throughout San Diego are invited to participate in this…
Barbara Niven, actress and Hollywood’s top video marketing coach, has been confirmed as a guest speaker for 2014 BeInspired, which will be held Sept. 26-28 at the San Diego Hilton Resort and Spa in Mission Bay. The International Association of Women Entrepreneurs and Professionals BeInspired Annual Business Women’s Conference is the Premier Educational and Networking…
SAN DIEGO — The 3rd Annual One Love Movement Charity Yoga Event will take place at San Diego’s new Waterfront Park near San Diego Harbor and the County Administration Building Saturday Sept. 13 from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. Free parking is available at Solar Turbines located at Grape St. and North Harbor Drive. The organization is…
The community is invited to attend San Diego Pride’s 2014 Town Hall meeting on Monday, Sept. 8 from 6-7 pm at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. At the event, members of San Diego Pride’s staff and board of directors will be on hand to discuss the signature Pride events, and will also discuss board…
A judge Tuesday ordered a 29-year-old gay man who is charged with a lone misdemeanor count of spreading HIV to stop using online dating Web sites. Thomas Miguel Guerra, aka Ashton Chavez, agreed to do so after San Diego Superior Court Judge Dan Link called it “a reasonable request” from Deputy City Attorney Taylor Garrott….
A spray painting vandal tagged Metropolitan Community Church in San Diego Aug. 29 at night in four places, writing the words “fags,” “queers,” and X marks over two church banners. The hate crime was reported to San Diego Police Saturday, Aug. 30 after the vandalism was discovered. An officer took photographs, and the graffiti was…
An ex-convict who set three fires at a Spring Valley Catholic church in a hate crime against religion was sentenced Aug. 27 to 28 years and eight months in prison. Eugene William Volk, 46, of Spring Valley, will have to serve 80 percent of the sentence before he can be paroled, said Deputy District Attorney…
