The wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former LGBT Pride executive director, Ron deHarte has been quietly settled out of court, with the amount and terms undisclosed. “I’m pleased with the outcome. I’m not permitted to talk about the settlement,” said deHarte Monday. “I’m not permitted to talk about the case at all.” DeHarte was fired…
North Park welcomes the 48th Annual North Park Toyland Parade and Holiday Fair this Saturday, Dec. 3 starting at 11 a.m. The historic parade will travel down University Avenue between Utah and Iowa Streets, with marching bands, upbeat dance groups, vintage cars, beauty queens, city officials and more. Santa Claus will be riding atop his…
As reported at LGBTweekly.com this week, San Diegans Billy Canu and husband Michael Harbron were flying home after spending Thanksgiving away with friends and relatives. Canu, CEO and cofounder of a successful search engine optimization and Web marketing services firm with offices in San Diego and London, and Harbron say they got a rude awakening…
Pleasures & Treasures’ new location in Hillcrest is where you need to be Friday night from 7-10 p.m. if you’re a fan of that eternally young and beautiful bruiser named Tom of Finland, for a fundraiser to support emerging LGBT artists and makers of LGBT art. Billed as a place where you can “explore your…
WASHINGTON – The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (DPBO) has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in the House and Sens. Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in the Senate, would provide benefits for same-sex domestic partners…
BALTIMORE – Two Baltimore County police officers who were denied health benefits for their same-sex spouses have won their cases before an arbitrator, the first disputes of this kind to be decided in the department. As reported in the Baltimore Sun, officers Margaret Selby and Juanika Ballard got the word last week that an independent…
NEW YORK– Despite laws in some states that impede the practice, a growing number of lesbians and gay men are adopting children in the United States – at least half of them providing families for boys and girls from foster care and 60 percent adopting transracially, according to the results of an extensive new survey…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – In just a few months, gay couples will get the right to marry in the Church of Denmark – that is if the new church minister has his way. The government plans to introduce a bill just after the New Year that will allow same-sex couples to hold weddings in the Church…
San Diego is missing the most important non-medical component of HIV/AIDS prevention, according to a local housing advocate, and, he says, the result is unnecessary death and illness from the disease. Tom McSorley is director of development at Townspeople, a housing program for the city’s most vulnerable residents – especially for homeless people who are…
Talmadge is one of San Diego’s older neighborhoods. It is a beautifully maintained community, just east of Kensington, that was originally developed back in the 1920s. But what you may not know is that Talmadge has a very unique history. Talmadge was named after three sisters, Norma, Constance and Natalie Talmadge, who were all silent…
