On the day the constitutionality of Prop. 8 was being argued before the Supreme Court, a rally was organized by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, Family Equality Council, GetEQUAL, Marriage Equality USA and the New Organizing Institute. The rally was successful, almost in every way, in how the…
Marva Dawn has written a book called Keeping The Sabbath Wholly. She’s a great writer. The book is practical yet able to draw this beautiful picture of what Sabbath time with God can be, and what’s at stake if we don’t make time for it. In the book she describes the wonderful shape Sabbath might…
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC) has announce that tickets are now on sale for its spring concert, Still We Rise,to be held May 4 and 5 at the University Christian Church in Hillcrest. With special guests Black Storytellers of San Diego (BSSD), Still We Rise will offer a glimpse at women’s legacy…
NEW YORK — The New York City AIDS Memorial’s Board of Directors revealed new renderings of the final design for the memorial and formally launched their capital campaign at a press conference last Wednesday evening in Manhattan. The effort to build the memorial, which started in 2011 as a grass-roots advocacy campaign led by two…
BY DR. GRANT COLFAX, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy Successful implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (the Strategy) requires ongoing collaboration among Federal, state, and local governments and key non-governmental stakeholders. As part of our ongoing efforts to support Strategy implementation, ONAP is convening community discussions across the United States. Discussions are focusing…
wtf? where’s the faith? BY REV. DAN KOESHALL One of the things I love about our church is the diversity we have. Look around – people come from all walks of life and from many different denominations, church experiences and spiritual paths. We are a community church built on the premises of what our founder,…
There’s no doubt about it. San Diego is a great city to live in if you’re an athlete and a member of the LGBT community. With many LGBT-founded leagues and teams in the area, there are opportunities for practically any sports fan. Athletes of all skill levels are welcome to join, compete and, perhaps most…
SAN DIEGO — Dining Out for Life® San Diego has expressed deep gratitude to San Diego’s Mission restaurants, who recently announced that all three of its locations – North Park, East Village and Mission Beach – would donate 100 percent of their day’s sales to the event. “HIV is an issue that hits close to…
SAN DIEGO – A diverse and young group of leaders has joined the board of directors of San Diego LGBT Pride, the charitable non-profit that stages the annual Pride parade, rally, and festival to raise money for community organizations. At its March meeting the Pride board voted to add the following four new members Rick…
The BIL 2013 conference was held in the heart of downtown Long Beach with an attendance of more than 600 people. If TED is mostly attended by over-achieving baby boomers, BIL caters to the boomer’s tech-crazed offspring. It is a quirky, populist unconference that’s named from the 1989 science-fiction comedy film, Bill & Ted’s Excellent…
