SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride announced today that due to the success of this year’s Pride event, they are able to donate $80,000 of their proceeds back to 40 LGBT-serving organizations through their annual Pride Community Grant Program. Each year Pride works to return profits from the annual LGBT Pride weekend to the…
Time has named President-elect Donald Trump its 2016 Person of the Year. Time’s managing editor, Nancy Gibbs revealed the choice on the Today Show, Wednesday. “I don’t think that we have ever seen one person operating in such an unconventional way have an impact on events of the year quite like this,” said Gibbs. Explaining the choice on…
SACRAMENTO—Shortly after being sworn in as the senator representing California’s 39th District Monday, Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego) introduced legislation, SB 2, to create a permanent source of funding for affordable housing. “The Legislature must address California’s severe housing crisis,” Atkins said. “While local communities largely control housing development, there are ways the state can…
WASHINGTON, D.C. and MONTGOMERY, Ala., – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyers’ Committee) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement today in response to nationwide spike in hate-filled incidents nationwide. “Hate crimes and hate-filled incidents stand as a dark cloud over our democracy,” said Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality North Carolina released the results of major post-election polls conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research showing that the majority of the electorate — including voters that supported Donald Trump and Mike Pence — has in no way backed down from supporting LGBTQ equality. Additionally, North…
Monday, David Beckham and UNICEF released a powerful new film to shine a light on the issue of violence against children, highlighting how physical and psychological abuse marks children forever. In the film Beckham’s tattoos come to life representing the millions of children worldwide who bear marks of violence that they have not chosen. David…
SAN DIEGO — Will Walters was just 29 when he was inexplicably manhandled, assaulted and arrested for wearing a leather kilt at the 2011 San Diego LGBT Pride festival. For Walters, the ensuing five years has been a quest for justice and overcoming myriad delays and challenges presented by the legal team of San Diego…
After a long silence, the Board of San Diego LGBT Pride (Pride) today released a statement announcing changes to how the organization will be run. This comes after months of friction between Pride and a significant number of local LGBT community members operating under the name of Save S.D. Pride which resulted in an overwhelming…
SACRAMENTO, CA — Following his service as a San Diego City Councilmember, San Diego City Council President, and the City of San Diego’s Interim Mayor, Todd Gloria (D – San Diego) was officially sworn in to office today as the California State Assemblymember for the 78th Assembly District. “I could not be more excited or…
WASHINGTON – The nation’s major companies and law firms are advancing in record numbers vital policies and practices to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) workers around the world, according to the 2017 Corporate Equality Index released today by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBTQ…
