The GSDBA Charitable Foundation announced the winners of its 2015 scholarship fund. Five students have been selected to receive $300 to $1250 scholarships from the GSDBA Charitable Foundation Scholarship Fund. The students range in age from eighteen to thirty-nine years old. For the last thirteen years, the GSDBA Charitable Foundation has raised funds to provide…
The 2015 Hillcrest Fat Tuesday celebration will be held Feb. 17. from 6-11 p.m. After a less than stellar outing at a new location in 2014 that produced lower than expected results, the Hillcrest Business Association is returning the event to its original location on University Avenue between First Avenue and Fourth Avenue. This year’s…
The 2015 Hillcrest Fat Tuesday celebration will be held Feb. 17. from 6-11 p.m. After a less than stellar outing at a new location in 2014 that produced lower than expected results, the Hillcrest Business Association is returning the event to its original location on University Avenue between First Avenue and Fourth Avenue. This year’s…
Eugene Cornelius will be the keynote speaker at the GSDBA June 12 Business Luncheon and Annual Board of Directors Induction ceremony. This event is sponsored by the W Hotel. Cornelius is responsible for management and oversight of over 90 offices covering all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and U.S. Territories. As the…
SAN DIEGO — A new CEO has been selected to serve the Greater San Diego Business Association, the LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Barbra Blake will take over February 3, 2014 to lead the organization into its 35th anniversary year. Most recently, Blake was the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Rady School of Management…
SAN DIEGO – The Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) and the Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA) Charitable Foundation are excited to continue the long standing tradition of Hillcrest’s Mardi Gras. The HBA is pleased to announce a new name and location for 2014. “Hillcrest Fat Tuesday” will be held March 4, 2014 with a parade…
SAN DIEGO – The Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA) Charitable Foundation and the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA) have announced that the Mardi Gras celebration in Hillcrest will continue. Absolut Hillcrest Mardi Gras has been held for the last twelve years and the HBA hopes to bring new and exciting elements to the longstanding event….
Tom Luhnow’s sudden and heretofore unexplained departure from the Greater San Diego Business Association (GSDBA) late last summer caused a great deal of head scratching. As promised in the first part of our look into the events that led up to a surprising parting of the ways between the former CEO and one of this…
There has been a lot of speculation about the events surrounding the sudden departure of former Greater San Diego Business Association CEO, Tom Luhnow. Lingering questions among San Diego’s LGBT-leadership, media and business communities include: Was it a firing? Was there a specific, underlying dispute between Luhnow and board chair, Eric Brown beyond the officially…
The GSDBA has been one of our community’s most outstanding organizations and I have been, and will continue to be, a strong supporter since its establishment, having been close friends with your late founders. It was I, who through then President Clinton’s administration arranged that the GSDBA became the first gay business association to sign…
