You might have noticed that artists and writers are beginning to look back and reflect upon the 1980s and that era that has come to be known as the “AIDS crisis”? I am thinking about Just Kids by Patti Smith, a memoir that chronicles her early years in New York and her pivotal friendship with…
It’s the end of January already! How many of you have still kept your New Year’s resolutions? I spent New Year’s Day taking down all of my holiday decorations, boxing them up, putting the boxes in the rafters of my garage and then cleaning up. I mean a deep cleaning. Polishing the furniture, vacuuming, cleaning…
Volunteers with the Empowering Spirits Foundation (ESF), a national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization working to achieve equality through community service activities, worked alongside members of the faith-based community and other San Diego organizations to clean up Cholas Creek and the grounds of The Jacobs Center for Innovation as part of…
WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced today that Jeff Krehely is joining the organization as the chief foundation officer. Krehely currently serves as the vice president of the LGBT Research & Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. In his new role at HRC, Krehely will oversee all of the HRC…
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – Max Disposti, executive director of the North County LGBTQ Resource center has received Oceanside’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award, the city announced today. The Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award acknowledges outstanding community civic leaders. Disposti was given his award at a breakfast awards ceremony Monday. Born in Rome,…
The seventh annual Dining Out for Life San Diego, benefiting HIV/AIDS services and prevention programs at The San Diego LGBT Community Center, will take place Thursday, April 25. Dining Out for Life San Diego is highlighted by enthusiastic community efforts to fill some of San Diego’s best restaurants in support of this dynamic fundraising event….
Hillcrest Mardi Gras 2013 Dear Editor, Recently The Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) board announced in SDGLN and Gay San Diego that they would not participate in the production of this year’s Mardi Gras celebration event. For the past 10 years, this event has been a joint effort on behalf of the HBA and the GSDBA…
When I decided to write this article I got very excited because the topic of brunch is one that I thoroughly enjoy. Being able to hop from one restaurant to another examining the meal period was a treat all in itself. There is just something about waking up on Sunday morning with no plans other…
thursday, jan. 17 Pygmalion Renowned director Nicholas Martin returns to the Globe to direct George Bernard Shaw’s most popular modern masterpiece (which Lerner and Loewe adapted as the musical My Fair Lady ). The poor flower-seller Eliza Doolittle is in the right place at the right time, just as speech professor Henry Higgins makes a…
San Diego LGBT Pride announced this week that Executive Director Dwayne Crenshaw will take a leave of absence effective Jan. 31, to pursue his candidacy full-time for San Diego City Council in District 4. The organization has brought on Stephen Whitburn as interim general manager. Whitburn has a professional background in management and public affairs,…
