From the LGBT Caucus of the California Democratic Party: Our LGBT Caucus family lost one of our greatest members and champions on September 22, with the passing of Gloria Johnson, who served as co-chair of this Caucus from 2003 to 2007. A memorial service has been scheduled for Thursday, November 7, at 1:30 p.m. at…
Gloria Johnson, who died recently at the age of 76, devoted her entire life to the cause of equality for all Americans. She was not just an LGBT activist, but a human rights activist who spoke out and worked for the causes of any people or community who were discriminated against. Gloria was born in…
Recently two long time GLBT activists/leaders passed away – Jose Julio Sarria and Gloria Johnson. Both very different but yet so much the same. Jose, a World War II veteran, drag queen and the first openly gay candidate to run for public office in North America (1961). Gloria, a feminist, hard core Democrat, anti-war and…
SAN DIEGO – Gloria Johnson, an iconic figure within the San Diego LGBT community has died at the age of 76. Johnson, who died on Sunday, was a past president and longtime board member of San Diego Democrats for Equality. For more than four decades, Johnson was known as one of California’s most strident activists…
San Diego citizen Jeff Olson (who is gay) made national news headlines when he was arrested for just writing his protest message against American banks in chalk on the streets. (I call this political art.) Of course, it was arch right-wing (check out his state legislative record) City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who made the decision…
This is the official statistic from the San Diego County Health Department. But we who have been involved with this HIV/AIDS epidemic since its early dark days of the 1980s (when indeed AIDS = death was true) know that countless people died of AIDS and they were not reported as such but as cancer, heart…
