SAN DIEGO – Imagine buying all of your meals, drinks and snacks for $4.27 each day. Could you do it? Sept. 19, San Diego Hunger Coalition begins its annual CalFresh Challenge to help locals experience what it’s like to eat for only $4.27 per day, a reality for many of the 423,000 county residents struggling with…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This Labor Day weekend, the National LGBTQ Task Force is calling on Congress to take more actions that will help our nation’s workers. “Congress must do more to provide workers with the tools they need to provide economic security for them and their families. We need a living wage, not a minimum…
Unless you don’t watch the news, you have heard the San Francisco 49’er quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand for the national anthem. Kaepernick has done so in protest of the treatment of African Americans by police across the nation. The quarterback has been vilified by many in the press and alternatively celebrated for…
Donald Trump is slated to join conservative activists and a number of GOP elected officials at next weekend’s Values Voter Summit, the annual Washington, D.C., event sponsored by the Family Research Council and a number of other anti-LGBT hate groups. Right Wing Watch reports that the GOP nominee has been busy recruiting Religious Right leaders, often while waving…
San Diego State University is among the best universities in the nation for supporting LGBT students. The Campus Pride Index recently ranked SDSU on its 2016 “Best of the Best” Top 30 list of LGBTQ-friendly colleges and universities. SDSU has been included in this ranking for the past seven years in the company of institutions like…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thursday Victory Institute and partner organizations convened Colombia’s major political parties to discuss implementation of LGBTI inclusion clauses in the historic peace agreement between the government and FARC guerilla movement. Advocates shared the continued challenges to LGBTI political participation in the country, and provided party representatives with detailed recommendations for ensuring the…
SACRAMENTO — The California Legislature Wednesday passed a bipartisan resolution by California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and Assembly Republican Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) calling for an end to federal blood donation policies that discriminate against men who have sex with men (MSM). Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 26 calls upon…
AIDS Walk & Run is only 26 days away – Saturday, Sept. 24. Have you registered? Teams make up 70 percent of all funds raised for the multiple organizations that receive funds from AIDS Walk & Run San Diego – and over 100 teams have signed up and are ready to go! This year’s funding…
House painter Mike Montana received 31 years and eight months to life in prison Aug. 24 for shooting CBS Sports Director Kyle Kraska and the term includes three years for threatening the manager of a rowing club in Mission Beach. Montana, 55, of El Cajon, won’t be eligible for parole until he turns 80 years…
