SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Board of Directors of San Diego Pride announced Friday that they had selected a search committee to review applicants for the position of executive director. The initial review of applicants by Nonprofit Management Solutions has resulted in several qualified candidates. In a press release the board said, “Interviews are expected…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The San Diego City Council fell short of actions many hoped it would take Monday regarding a San Diego State University report about racially biased traffic stops executed by the…
Seven leading education organizations representing millions of students, families, and educators submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Gavin Grimm in the case of G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. Several of the organizations issued this joint statement regarding the brief: “This case brings to the nation’s highest court an issue GLSEN…
SOUTH DAKOTA — The South Dakota legislature has sent a ‘License to Disriminate’ bill to the governor for signing. The bill, SB 149 would enshrine taxpayer-funded discrimination into state law by allowing state-funded adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ youth in their care and to reject qualified prospective LGBTQ adoptive or foster…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thursday, the Senate confirmed Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). An outspoken opponent of LGBTQ equality, Carson will now oversee the enforcement of fair housing laws as well as programs that provide crucial assisted and public housing. Carson’s confirmation comes at a time when more…
“All this love ever really was – was sex, deceit, manipulation.” That’s what a young man angrily told a judge Feb. 24 that his band teacher at Bonita Vista High School had seduced him at age 16, which “has forever changed my life.” The victim, now around 23 years old, did not report the 2010-11…
A woman pleaded guilty Feb. 24 to conspiracy to obstruct justice in lying to authorities over the whereabouts of her husband who is accused of murdering his wealthy boyfriend in Mexico at the time. Taylor Marie Langston, 22, faces up to 20 years in federal prison when she is sentenced May 5 by U.S. District…
The San Diego City Council voted 5-1 Monday to join with other cities in a legal brief on behalf of a Virginia transgender student who is suing a school board for his right to use restroom facilities with the gender he identifies with. Dozens of speakers spoke out about the issue Monday before the Council…
WASHINGTON – Today, individuals and institutions from across the country representing a diverse and extraordinary cross-section of interests, perspectives, and concerns filed friend-of-court briefs in support of Gavin Grimm, a 17-year-old high school student from Virginia whose case against his school board over their refusal to allow him access to the boys’ restroom at school…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus announced today that it is re-launching the Transgender Equality Task Force. This task force was first launched during the 114th Congress, and was the first such task force created by the Caucus. The Transgender Equality Task Force will be chaired by Vice Chair Rep. Joe Kennedy (MA-04)….
