Games on June 11 will decide the champion of the San Diego American Flag Football League’s 2011 season. The playoff games are at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. at Doyle Park Recreation Center (8175 Regents Road in La Jolla); the championship game is at 1 p.m. On field No. 1, True North Aztecs plays Martinis…
WASHINGTON – A lawsuit filed by three men who claim they were disqualified from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series near Seattle for not being gay enough is set to go to trial. The men, Stephen Apilado, LaRon Charles and John Russ, all members of the team D5, were playing in the finals of the…
CALIFORNIA – The California State Senate has passed legislation that would eliminate a statutory difference and inequity between marriage and domestic partnerships. Authored by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) the Domestic Partnership Equality Act (SB 651) passed in a 24-15 vote. Specifically, the bill would eliminate the requirement that a couple wishing to enter into…
NEW YORK – Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, a leading funder of anti-gay attacks concentrated on denying same-sex couples the freedom to marry, has declared that the opponents of equality are being repudiated by young people and have “probably lost” on same-sex marriage. In an interview in the June 4…
SOUTH AFRICA – South Africa’s ambassador to Uganda, Jon Qwelane, has been found guilty of hate speech for an anti-gay column he wrote before his appointment. The South African Human Rights Commission’s spokesman Vincent Moaga said a judge ruled that the newspaper column in question, which was headlined Call me names, but gay is not…
NEPAL – Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics has given official recognition to gay and transgender people in this year’s Nepalese census. For the first time data was collected on the third gender from 5.6 million households across the country. This has been seen as a major victory for equality in a country that only decriminalized…
On May 18, 1995, Lincoln Aston was brutally murdered in his San Diego home. Instead of dwelling on the tragedy of his death, Aston’s family and friends came together to begin the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, a resource that promotes equality and tolerance among the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. From the humble…
Tickets are now on sale for the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus’ (SDGMC) summer concert, GuyTunes. The high-energy song and dance production features more than 100 hit songs made famous by award-winning boy bands over the last five decades. The concerts are July 30 at 8 p.m. and July 31 at 3 p.m., at the…
On Sunday, City Councilman Carl DeMaio announced he is running for mayor of San Diego, making him the second Republican from the LGBT community to enter the race. Bonnie Dumanis, currently serving as the first open lesbian District Attorney in the country, announced her intention to run earlier this year. State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, also…
Todd Gloria today announced he will seek re-election as San Diego City Councilman, representing the LGBT neighborhoods of District 3. “Today, I officially launched my reelection campaign,” Gloria said on his Facebook page. Election regulations prohibit any campaigning before today, one year before the June 5, 2012 election. An openly gay man, Gloria represents the…
