Last week, the San Diego Redistricting Commission unanimously approved a final map of new City Council district boundaries by a 7-0 vote. The new map maintains an LGBT-friendly District 3, even with its boundary changes, according to the LGBT Redistricting Task Force. “From the LGBT perspective, we could not have done any better, I think,”…
San Diego Feeling Good (SDFG) is holding their Feeling Good Roundup this upcoming Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-4 at the Handlery Hotel, 950 Hotel Circle North in San Diego. SDFG’s mission is to work together to create a celebration of the LGBT recovery community. SDFG recognizes that the rates of alcoholism and addiction are especially…
Music, fun, food and prizes will be in-store for prospective singers and volunteers attending San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus’s (SDGMC) “Join the Chorus Info Night” on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. at the chorus’ rehearsal space at University Christian Church in Hillcrest. All interested singers and non-singing volunteers who would like to join the chorus…
Kevin Beiser never really promoted himself as the gay candidate when he ran for the San Diego Unified School District Board last year. Instead, he focused on some serious issues facing the local students and faculty: reducing class sizes, expanding arts as well as technical programs, preventing layoffs and creating a strategic plan, just to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As scrutiny over campaign finance laws intensifies, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has issued a memorandum detailing the National Organization for Marriage’s (NOM) unprecedented attempts to circumvent election disclosure laws, and how federal courts and state election boards continue to reject NOM’s claims – on at least six different occasions, the most…
TEXAS – A judge has told a man in Texas that he cannot leave his children in the care of his husband. The man, William Flowers, had married Jim Evans in Connecticut early in 2011 and had later moved to Texas. Flowers who had fathered three children from a previous marriage to a woman then…
AUSTRALIA – In an Australian first, marriage equality advocates have met the country’s prime minister, Julia Gillard, to put their case for reform. Gillard has consistently made clear that she does not support the legalization of gay marriage, saying that she believes, “The Marriage Act is appropriate in its current form, that is recognizing that…
ICELAND – The world’s most northernmost capital, Reykjavik, is hosting its annual Bears on Ice weekend Sept. 8-11. This small and friendly four day event (Thursday through Sunday) offers bears, cubs, admirers and friends the opportunity to see a little bit of Iceland and have fun with like minded guys. The weekend of fun and…
The Indianapolis Star has reported that state Rep. Phillip Hinkle, who has been an opponent of same-sex marriage, responded to a local posting on Craigslist, offering a young man $80 plus tip to spend time with him on a Saturday night at a hotel. The Craigslist ad stating “I need a sugga daddy” was posted…
Representatives from the Latino and African American LGBT communities chastised the San Diego Pride board of directors last week, criticizing the lack of ethnic diversity at the 2011 celebration. In addition, they announced intentions to re-launch the Latin Pride and Ebony Pride events if steps are not taken to make future festivals more diverse. “I…
