Art & Soul, Being Alive’s annual benefit event (formerly known as SoulPlates) will be held Saturday, June 23 6-9 p.m. at the Sunset Temple, 3911 Kansas Street in North Park. The evening event will feature works of art by well-known celebrities and local professional artists as well as live and silent auctions with weekend getaways,…
The Faith-Based Working Group (FBWG) of the Kemet Coalition will be hosting a National HIV Testing Day event Sunday, June 24, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The event will take place in the parking lot of the Rite Aid Pharmacy at 1735 Euclid Ave. San Diego. Along with HIV testing, the event will provide advocacy, education,…
The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) has announced that it has hired Ben Cartwright as its first executive director. After an extensive search process, SDGMC’s board of directors extended the offer to Cartwright, who started in the position May 15. The SDGMC board felt it was time to bring a full-time professional on board…
LOS ANGELES (CNN) – While he predicted Republicans would adopt a bumper sticker slogan of “It’s Obama’s fault” this election year, President Barack Obama maintained he was “very proud” of his work in the past three and a half years. “They’re going to say, ‘Well you know what, you’re still not satisfied, then it’s Obama’s…
NEW YORK – The group of rabbinic Conservatives, which had already affirmed that same-sex marriages have “the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages” have now established rituals for same-sex wedding ceremonies. JTA reports that the landmark vote by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative movement’s…
(CNN) – The daughter of Cuba’s president supports the re-election bid of President Barack Obama, but believes he could do more were it not for the pressures he is facing, she said in an interview broadcast recently on CNNi’s Amanpour. “As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” said Mariela Castro…
MOSCOW – A Moscow court has upheld the decision to ban Pride events for the next hundred years. The Tverskoy district court stated it was lawful for the Russian capital’s municipal government to decline the 102 requests filed by gay rights activist Nikolay Alexeyev for Pride marches every year until 2112. Alexeyev plans to appeal…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The lawyer for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, has filed a notice of appeal, a court official said. Ravi’s roommate, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, killed himself by jumping off New York’s George Washington Bridge into the Hudson…
Ukraine’s legislature is about to vote a brand new bill into law that will make it illegal to be gay or lesbian in public. President Viktor Yanukovych has the power to stop the law, but has chosen to stay silent on the growing anti-gay sentiment. The President says a new alliance with the European Union is…
WASHINGTON D.C. — Army Captain Stephen Hill and his husband, Joshua Snyder, have joined the Freedom to Marry and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN). Hill made headlines this year for being booed in a presidential debate after asking if the military’s discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy would be reinstated if then-hopeful Rick Santorum would…
