Join Lambda Archives on a walk through Hillcrest’s LGBTQ history. Do you know where San Diego’s early gay bars were? Have you read the hate crimes plaque? Have you looked at the base of the flag pole? Have you peeked into the secret garden? Lambda Archives next walking tour of Hillcrest will be Saturday, Aug….
Do you know where San Diego’s early gay bars were? Have you read the hate crimes plaque? Have you looked at the base of the flag pole? Have you peeked into the secret garden? How much do you really know about Hillcrest? To celebrate Pride week, Lambda Archives will have two evening tours: Wednesday July 13 and…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has a long tradition of documenting the full breadth of the American experience and what it means to be an American. The LGBT narrative is an important part of that American story, and the Smithsonian has been documenting and collecting related objects for many years. Tuesday, Aug. 19,…
Until 1976 I knew many homosexual men and women who were sent to state mental hospitals by a judge or the signature of one of their parents. Many received electric shock treatment and never came out of these hospitals the same person they were. It is in this environment, this hostile and hating society that…
Hours before a highly anticipated LGBT mayoral forum at The Center, sponsored by San Diego Democrats for Equality, Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher announced that he has decided to leave the Republican Party and will become an independent. Fletcher said that he has struggled with the decision but came to it in an effort to do “what…
Since its installation in 2008, the popular exhibition entitled ‘Creating the United States’ has drawn more than 1.5 million visitors to the Thomas Jefferson building in the Library of Congress. The display is designed to demonstrate how the Declaration, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are “living instruments” integral to the evolution of the…
