NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Building Movement Project (BMP) today released a new report, Working at the Intersections: LGBTQ Nonprofit Staff and the Racial Leadership Gap, analyzing the experiences of people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ) working in the nonprofit sector. The report builds on data from BMP’s Nonprofits, Leadership,…
Ready for Pride? The San Diego LGBT Weekly 2017 Pride Guide is available now. The only printed guide available for this year’s Pride, the LGBT Weekly Pride Guide is your indispensable reference for all things Pride. The Pride Guide lists community events, speakers, Pride Music Festival entertainment schedules, Pride Music Festival map, Pride workshops and…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.— The County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control has announced that dozens of exotic and venomous reptiles were seized Friday during a multi-agency operation in which officials recovered species including several American Alligators, Gila Monsters, Mexican Beaded Lizards and numerous snakes from two locations. Venomous snakes seized included Gaboon…
https://youtu.be/DZeUG_VLwr4 HICKORY, N.C. – In the lead up to and immediately following Faith in America’s effort to engage the Southern Baptist Convention around the harm LGBT children and youth experience every day from being raised in highly rejecting households and churches, nearly 200,000 people of faith – conservatives and progressives alike – have united in…
Warning: Video contains explicit content. Real-life exchanges from mobile dating app Grindr are at the center of a powerful new awareness campaign spotlighting HIV stigma and its effects on the LGBTI+ community. An initiative of the HIV Foundation Queensland (HIVFQ) in partnership with Queensland Positive People (QPP), the Real Conversations of Grindr campaign started as…
St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego Pride, and San Diego’s interfaith religious leaders will celebrate the historical connection between LGBT people of faith and affirming communities, as well as the origins of San Diego Pride in 1974 with the first “Pride with Purpose and Pride with Prayer” event of Pride week. The event will take…
EUGENE, Ore. — College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, has published a ranking of the 50 Best Colleges for LGBTQ Students. Choosing a college is an overwhelming process in and of itself. But for LGBTQ identified folks, the task is all the more intimidating. To succeed academically it’s important to…
“It’s finally here and I’m so excited,” author Jake Biondi said of his seventh Boystown book, which he released on July 7, 2017. “The fans’ wait is over and they can now discover what happened to their favorite characters whose lives were hanging in the balance at the end of the sixth book.” The seventh…
Eric Hufford aka Sister Iona Dubble-Wyde, founder of San Diego Remembers, Blue Dog Democrats of San Diego and Turn Your Back on Demaio, wrote this Letter to the Editor in response to Nicole Murray Ramirez’s July 6 commentary: “Will LGBT radicals shut down Pride parade?” Dear Sirs, Ma’ams or whatever you identify as, I am…
In this political climate hate speech is becoming common use. And there has been an uptick of the use of the n-word, even from the mouths of people one would not expect. While it came as no surprise to most people of color in Boston when in May Orioles outfielder Adam Jones said Fenway fans hurled…
