Art & Soul, Being Alive’s signature fundraising event, is an annual happening, formerly known as Soul Plates. Each year, celebrity artists create one-of-a-kind art pieces that are auctioned off. The event is typically attended by 250 guests. While the event is said to be great fun, its underlying purpose is serious – to increase awareness…
A meeting to learn about The Quilt Conversation, a project presented by the San Diego Museum of Art as part of its Summer Salon, will be held 6 p.m. Friday, May 25, at the San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray Street in North Park. Organizer and San Diego LGBT Weekly arts columnist Andrew Printer will…
I have two small items this week. Both are important community arts events and both rely on you to make them successful. Saturday, June 9 Women Occupy San Diego (WOSD) will be hosting Occupy OUR Arts: A Celebration of the 99% Culture and Creative Arts. WOSD are responding to the arrest and three-day detention of…
QOM, Iran – Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an Islamic scholar based in Iran’s holy city of Qom, has said in a speech among his followers that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, according to The Guardian. The Iranian cleric, who is entitled to issue juristic rulings according to the Sharia law, was condemning western lawmakers…
There will always be fundraisers and good causes. When you think about it, there seems to be one for everything. People get very passionate, as they should, about their charities and some industries today even have created their own. This year, we will celebrate the 6th annual event called Dining Out For Life. This fundraiser…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced its involvement in a variety of activities around the 19th International AIDS Conference (known as AIDS 2012), which will be the first to be held in the U.S. in 22 years. HRC will be hosting panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt open for public viewing in…
Auntie Helen’s Fluff n’ Fold, which provides free laundry services for people with AIDS throughout San Diego County, will be celebrating the completion of their first major renovation with a rededication and re-opening ceremony Thursday, April 19 6-9 p.m. at 4028 30th Street in San Diego. Auntie Helen’s started in the garage of founder, Gary…
It has already been more than a year since the passing of Elizabeth Taylor (March 23, 2011). Although she was of my mother’s age and generation, she managed to stay in the limelight her entire life. There are many things that were extraordinary about Elizabeth Taylor. But the one thing that the LGBT community needs…
Many of us were taught that God is perfect in every way. Then life experiences happen and challenge these assumptions about God. How do we understand God’s role in suffering, evil and natural disasters? In our computer age, we demand a broadband God who responds to our needs immediately (on a 4G network). Any delay…
STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled Sweden’s Supreme Court was right to convict four men of hate crimes for distributing homophobic flyers at a school. According to the ECHR finding, the leaflets were “unnecessarily offensive” to be protected by free speech laws. According to Swedish news source The Local,…
