CALIFORNIA – Last week, a Department of Education investigation found Tehachapi Unified School District was negligent in intervening in the harassment of Seth Walsh. Walsh, a 13-year-old Jacobsen Middle School student, committed suicide in 2010 after he was the victim of severe harassment due to his nonconformity with gender stereotypes. In a 20-page letter, the…
CALIFORNIA – Jean Harris, an ex-deputy mayor of San Francisco and former executive director of California Alliance for Pride and Equality (CAPE), has died at home in Palm Springs from complications due to several health issues. She was 66. CAPE later became Equality California. Equality California Interim Executive Director Jim Carroll said in a statement,…
RUSSIA – A dozen activists determined to mark the banned Slavic Gay Pride march were attacked by neo-Nazis and then dispersed by the police in St Petersburg last week. The St. Petersburg Times reported that the activists shouting “Russia with no homophobes” and “Equal rights with no compromise” marched to central St. Petersburg. Some carried…
BRAZIL – A Brazilian judge has approved the country’s first gay marriage. Following the recognition of same-sex civil unions by Brazil’s Supreme Court back in May Sao Paulo state Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto has ruled two men could convert their civil union into a full marriage. Globo television’s G1 Website identified the couple as Sergio…
Opponents of both Carl DeMaio and Bonnie Dumanis protested at the candidates’ mayoral campaign events over the past few days. A group of LGBT Democrats organized a protest at a DeMaio fundraiser on Monday, June 27. While DeMaio was inside Eden (located at 1202 University Ave. in Hillcrest), a group of about a dozen people…
Two days after local businessman John Sanfilippo died, his church, Our Lady of the Rosary in Little Italy, canceled a funeral Mass scheduled for Thursday, June 30, because he was gay. The next day, however, the Roman Catholic Diocese in San Diego overturned the decision. Sanfilippo died on Friday, June 24, after a battle with…
About 50 friends of Jason “Cowboy” Huggins held a quiet candlelight vigil at Scripps Mercy Hospital Tuesday, where Huggins remained in critical condition after a brutal assault the week before. “We are here to show him and his family that we care,” said Justin Newman, a close friend of Huggins and organizer of the vigil….
A Superior Court Judge has rejected a suit filed by San Diego Republican Party Chairman Tony Krvaric, alleging the San Diego Redistricting Commission was not properly created, demanding it should be disbanded and asking the City Council to select an entirely new commission. The decision was made by Judge William R. Nevitt Jr. last Friday,…
It only took a jury 92 minutes of deliberations June 24 to convict Philong Huynh of first-degree murder in the 2008 death of Dane Williams, 23, who was drugged and then sexually assaulted. The quick verdict took everyone by surprise, except for the six man six woman jury which heard 4 weeks of testimony of…
The LGBT Community Center hosted Pachanga de Frida June 25 to commemorate the life of Frida Kahlo, one of the most influential Mexican painters of the mid-20th century. The event, entitled Arte, Vida y Tequila, was a benefit for The Center’s Latino Services.
