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…
Several weeks ago, when the Ugandan high court struck down an anti-gay law that would have punished homosexual acts by death, the world of pro-gay rights organizations and their supporters breathed a collective sigh of relief. Never mind that the draconian measure was struck down on procedural grounds or that Uganda will very well take…
With a checkered past and an unsympathetic readership, Well Well Well hopes to blaze a new trail in lesbian glossies as it debuted last Friday in France. The magazine, which will initially be published biannually and focuses on the modern French lesbian woman, hopes to succeed where others have failed. “Earlier this year, Jeanne —…
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…
INDIA — The Indian federal government has asked the Supreme Court to modify its landmark ruling that accepted transgender people as a socially and economically backward caste, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The government also told the Supreme Court that gays, lesbians and bisexuals cannot all be clubbed as transgenders and that such a supposition had created confusion….
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…
The Washington Blade has revealed that the chief executive officer of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute, Chuck Wolfe is set to leave the organization at the end of the year. According to the report, in an email to the Victory Campaign Board obtained by the Blade, Wolfe reveals that he informed the board…
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…
The National Museum of American History has been adding a steady stream of LGBT materials to its collections in an effort to document the movement’s ongoing fight for equality. Included in the collection are artifacts from the TV show Will and Grace. MSNBC News has produced an interesting new video on the Smithsonian’s growing collection…
