SAN DIEGO – The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced that the 2013 AIDS Walk & Run San Diego will take place Sunday, Sept. 29 in Balboa Park. The 24th annual event will feature new routes for both the Walk and the Run, and an all-new 5K “Street Challenge” obstacle course. The post-Walk festival…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria contributed $13,549 to upgrade the Neil Good Day Center, and earlier in the week visited the facilities to see the completed improvements. The upgrades consisted of installation of synthetic landscape grass and clean up of the entire outdoor space. “The Neil Good Day Center was…
SAN DIEGO — The inaugural Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Honors will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 2 at The San Diego LGBT Community Center. The awards will be presented by the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) of Washington, D.C., The International Court Council and the San Diego LGBT Community Center. Bayard Rustin (March…
President Obama hosted a reception today at the White House in honor of LGBT Pride Month — something no other president has ever done. He spoke to more than 100 LGBT activists, journalists and allies reflecting on the very long list of advances his administration has made for the LGBT community. The president’s remarks follow:…
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County Library is hosting its third annual Pride & Identity Celebration at the El Cajon Library, 201 E Douglas Ave, Saturday, July 6 from 1-4 p.m. This year’s event will include a performance by the San Diego Women’s Chorus and the Black Storytellers of San Diego, a Human Library, refreshments,…
NEW YORK – The Cherry Grove Community House and Theater in Fire Island has been added to the official list of the National Register of Historic Places of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The house, believed to be the oldest continuously operating gay and lesbian theater in the U.S., is only the second site of…
SAN DIEGO — Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System’s ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times. The…
Today, San Diego Pride announced several new additions to the upcoming Pride weekend! Actor, author and activist George Takei will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Spirit of Stonewall Rally and Flag Raising. He will champion Pride’s 2013 theme “Freedom to Love and Marry.” Takei had this to say about his participation, “Freedom, love…
Despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, Russia’s LGBT film festival Side by Side (Bok o Bok) was found guilty of and fined $10,000 for failing to register as a ‘foreign agent.’ The fledgling organization, which was established in 2007, met the new guidelines according to prosecutor V.V Stepanchenko despite the fact that the law, established…
To celebrate Pride month, the San Diego LGBT Literary Foundation are offering a discount of 25 percent off all new LGBT titles that the multicultural LGBT book club has read or supported. These titles include, Chulito by Charles Rice-González, Gulf Dreams by Emma Pérez, For Colored Boys by Keith Boykin, The Color Purple by Alice…
