WASHINGTON –The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has partnered with Greater Than AIDS to provide information about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention at 18 LGBT Pride festivals across the country this summer. The partnership builds on the Greater Than AIDS Speak Out campaign, launched last year, to engage the LGBT community in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic…
Chris Shaw, owner of Urban Mo’s, Baja Betty’s, Gossip Grill and the Hillcrest Brewing Company has pledged to match all donations to The Center in June up to $20,000. Announcing his incredible offer in an email Shaw wrote, “I have been fortunate to be part of our San Diego LGBT community for many years, and have…
SAN DIEGO — Actress, television star, and renowned transgender advocate Laverne Cox is coming to San Diego to be the keynote speaker for San Diego Pride’s annual Spirit of Stonewall Rally and flag raising this summer. The rally will be held Friday, July 18 at 6:00 pm adjacent to the Hillcrest Pride Flag at the…
The similarities between the Divergent trilogy and The Hunger Games trilogy are impossible to ignore, so let’s get them out of the way. Both are about preternaturally capable teenage girls who help lead rebellions in dystopian futures, and both have been turned into big budget tent-pole movies with starry casts and Oscar-anointed leads. The Hunger…
LGBTQNation.com is reporting that Ethiopia, the most populous landlocked nation in the world with 93 million people, has created legislation that would make same-sex acts an unpardonable offense. “Ethiopia’s Council of Ministers last week endorsed the measure that would amend the country’s Pardon and Amnesty Law that lists homosexuality along with other offenses as a…
SAN DIEGO, – EXUSMED™, a corporation offering affordable mobile health care solutions for both patients and providers announced today that Dell technology training expert Nathan Stewart has joined the corporation’s Advisory Council. Stewart has had a successful 11 year tenure with Austin-based Dell, Inc. As a technology consultant, Stewart spent the first eight years of…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride’s volunteers, board of directors and staff are hard at work preparing for this year’s 40th anniversary Pride celebration and are looking forward to community participation in this year’s festivities scheduled for July 18-20. Applications for entertainers, sponsors, parade contingents, program guide advertisers, and festival exhibitors are now available online…
Today the White House issued the following statement by Jen Psaki, spokesperson on U.S. concern with the passage of the Ugandan anti-homosexuality legislation: We are deeply concerned by the Ugandan Parliament’s passage of anti-homosexuality legislation. As Americans, we believe that people everywhere deserve to live in freedom and equality – and that no one should face…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Women’s Chorus (SDWC) invites the community to join them for an intimate musical evening at their first Cabaret Night Saturday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at Mission Hills United Church of Christ. SDWC members are excited to share their talents outside of the traditional…
SAN DIEGO – Do you love to sing? Maybe it’s in the shower or in your car or in the middle of Mo’s dance floor on a Saturday night. If so, and you like putting some loco to your motion, come to the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) “Info Night” and learn more about the chorus, its members…
