One last reminder to join Lambda Archives this Saturday as they honor some of the women who stepped up in the early days of HIV. Saturday, March 19, 2016, noon San Diego Woman’s Club, 2557 Third Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103 GET YOUR HERE TICKETS NOW! Invite your friends on Facebook here! About the honorees: Wendy…
Lambda Archives of San Diego, a nationally-recognized nonprofit archive dedicated to the local history of LGBT people, will host the Heroines, Pioneers & Trailblazers awards gala brunch Saturday, March 19 at 12 noon at the San Diego Woman’s Club. The event includes an awards program to honor women, LBTQ and straight, who stepped up and…
Lambda Archives will be continuing an exciting ongoing series of programs featuring the people, organizations and events that have made LGBT history in San Diego Monday, Sept. 28 at 7:00 p.m. Diversionary Theatre is proud to host this Out at the Archives event as part of its Open Monday series. People of color account for…
A $30,000 state grant which will help preserve LGBT historic sites was approved July 28 by the San Diego City Council. Councilmember Todd Gloria made the motion for the City to accept the money and it was seconded by Councilmember Myrtle Cole in an 8-0 vote. Councilmember Lorie Zapf was absent. Gloria said he wanted…
Lambda Archives of San Diego will be hosting the “Proud to Serve” exhibit on temporary loan after it was featured at the first LGBT Pride ever held at North Island Naval Air Station. The exhibit will open at the Archives, 4545 Park Blvd. Thursday, July 2 at 5:30 p.m. It will open as part of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In recognition of LBGT Pride month, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced Friday that the Henry Gerber House in Chicago, Illinois, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, becoming the nation’s second LGBT related property to achieve such recognition. Once the residence of noted gay rights activist Henry Gerber, the…
Councilman: Demolition of historic LGBT house ‘not … illegal’ District 3 Councilman Todd Gloria says there appears to have been nothing illegal about the allegedly deceptive manner in which the so-called Michels-Carey House, the initial headquarters to San Diego’s fledgling LGBT-rights movement, was demolished to make way for future development. However, Gloria has referred the…
The San Diego Human Dignity Foundation (SDHDF), Diversionary Theatre and Lambda Archives have partnered on the creation of a San Diego LGBT Cultural and Performing Arts Center in the current location of Diversionary Theatre and Lambda Archives at 4545 Park Blvd. in the University Heights neighborhood of San Diego. The first of three community meetings…
The Lambda Archives of San Diego, in cooperation with Diversionary Theatre, will host “Telling Our Stories – LGBTQ Oral History” Saturday, March 21 at 2 p.m. At the event, guests will be treated to stories of San Diego’s LGBTQ history from longtime activists through video, art and storytelling. Long-time activist Steven F. Dansky of New…
San Diego Human Dignity Foundation closed escrow yesterday on 4545 Park Ave. taking ownership of the building from Diversionary Theatre Productions, the non-profit organization that provides year round LGBTQ theatrical productions at the site. This smooth change of ownership will have no impact on the Diversionary Theatre’s work. Housed in the building as well is…
