SAN DIEGO – San Diego-based nonprofit Community Housing Works (CHW) has announced its newest North Park development to be located at the intersection of Texas Street and Howard Avenue. The mixed-income development is proposed to include 118 market-rate multifamily homes and 76 affordable apartments for seniors. In partnership with the San Diego LGBT Community Center…
SAN DIEGO – In support of its 40th anniversary, The San Diego LGBT Community Center has launched its #GivingTogether campaign. “For four decades, The Center has stood as a beacon of hope for LGBT San Diegans, and for others across the nation,” said Dr. Delores A. Jacobs, The Center’s chief executive officer. “Today, we continue to…
The San Diego LGBT Community Center held its 40th Anniversary Gala at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel last Saturday. Approximately 1,000 community members and supporters gathered to celebrate The Center’s ruby anniversary. The idea of The Center was born after New York’s 1969 Stonewall riots. The founders envisioned a gathering place where the community…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as I’ve said before, “The pink ribbon should be as important to the GLBT community as is the red.” During those dark, early and lonely years of AIDS in the 1980s lesbian women were the unsung heroes who many times took care of their then dying gay male…
Five years may be the blink of an eye on the road to justice, but when you’ve celebrated victory only to have it snatched away, when the fundamental worth of your family has been actively denied at the ballot box, it can seem like a very, very long time. Now, after five long, painful years,…
I love the story in Matthew 14 where Jesus asks Peter to walk on the water – what great drama about faith! Peter was willing to risk everything on just the word of his teacher. We hear in the Scripture that the disciples have been asked by Jesus to take a boat and go on…
I am sometimes asked that if Jesus were walking the earth today, whether he would be standing up for social justice issues and promoting human rights. I immediately answer, “Yes.” In looking at his life, all he did and all he was, that answer is a no-brainer. From tax collectors to shepherds to fishermen to…
