SAN DIEGO – Nearly 30 years since the initial passage of the Uptown Community Plan, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria announced today the City Council’s approval of the Uptown community plan update. The passage of the community plan update brings the Uptown community plan into conformance with the City’s General Plan and the Climate…
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, the world’s largest non-profit dedicated to achieving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workplace equality, today announced details of its 2016 Out & Equal Brazil Forum, which will take place Nov. 17 in São Paulo. Out & Equal Founder and CEO Selisse Berry will deliver the keynote…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced it has received a $50,000 challenge grant from Tony Award winner, artist and activist Sara Ramirez. She will match each gift — dollar for dollar up to $50,000 — that is made as part of The Center’s fundraising campaign through the end of the…
Join the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF), 6 p.m.-9 p.m., Nov. 16 for their Glow What Fun event in celebration of Bloomingdale’s 10th anniversary at Fashion Valley and SDHDF’s 20th anniversary. Enjoy sips, bites and a presentation of Stylist Dean Hall’s 10 Glow Getters, the seasons must haves for your holiday gift list. Shop…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is withdrawing its proposal to provide medically necessary gender confirmation surgery for transgender veterans, as a result of funding issues. A statement from the department to Military.com said, “VA has been and will continue to explore a regulatory change that would allow VA to perform gender alteration surgery and…
For the eighth and final time, First Lady Michelle Obama will invite the 12 winners of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award to the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m., EST to recognize their programs’ effectiveness in developing young people’s learning and life skills by engaging them in the arts or…
SAN DIEGO – Danielle LoPresti has released a final teaser video for her upcoming music video Holy. The new teaser features television star John Barrowman, best known for his roles on Torchwood and Arrow, who appears with his real-life husband Scott Gill, actress Anna Khaja (Quantico, Silicon Valley), and LoPresti herself. In this final teaser,…
BERKELEY, Calif. —The campaigns for the 17 measures on California’s ballot raised more than $446 million combined. MapLight, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that tracks money in politics took a look at the money behind the biggest winners and losers in those races: Winner: The Pharmaceutical Industry The industry spent more than $109 million…
The Huffington Post Friday released the trailer for “The Zainab Salbi Project,” a HuffPost Originals series covering global issues from a woman’s perspective. The six-part series will follow Zainab Salbi, an Iraqi-American women’s rights activist, humanitarian, author, social entrepreneur, and media commentator, as she travels the world shedding light on those issues through personal stories…
Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m., in honor of Veterans Day, Lambda Archives will present our next installment of Out At the Archives in conjunction with Diversionary Theatre’s Open Monday series. “Do Ask, Do Tell: LGBTQ in the military” will take a look how members of our community before, during and after Don’t Ask, Don’t…
