SAN DIEGO – At a special event last Friday night at the 1202 Nightclub, San Diego LGBT Pride’s staff and volunteers were on hand to announce that R&B and hip-hop sensation, Monica, and the wildly popular DJ, Morgan Page, will be the headliners for the San Diego LGBT Pride Festival July 13 – 14. Freedom…
As the backlash continues from Friday’s statement from SF Pride’s board president, Lisa Williams, saying that Bradley Manning will not be an SF Pride grand marshal and that it was a mistake LGBT activists are calling for a protest against the SF Pride committee today at 5 p.m. in the city’s Market Street. Advocate.com reported…
If Jane Austen were alive and a writer of technology, she might open this piece thusly: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an iPhone 5. Or a Samsung Galaxy 4. Or a tablet. Or one of a dozen other…
The community gathered April 5 at The Center to celebrate the 10th annual Transgender Day of Empowerment, “An evening of celebration, education, and entertainment.” The auditorium was filled with a diverse standing room only audience including many families and youth. Connor Maddocks was the emcee and welcomed special guests, sponsors, keynote speakers and elected officials….
SAN DIEGO – A diverse and young group of leaders has joined the board of directors of San Diego LGBT Pride, the charitable non-profit that stages the annual Pride parade, rally, and festival to raise money for community organizations. At its March meeting the Pride board voted to add the following four new members Rick…
SAN DIEGO – Lambda Archives of San Diego has received a $2,500 grant from San Diego LGBT Pride for an infrastructure repair project. Stephen Whitburn, the interim general manager of San Diego LGBT Pride presented the Board of Lambda Archives with a giant check Friday, Feb. 22 at the Archives’ second annual Pajama Party fundraising…
San Diego LGBT Weekly has learned that Dwayne Crenshaw, former Pride executive director and current City Council candidate for District 4, was awarded a retroactive raise to his hire date by the Pride board of directors in October of 2012. LGBT Weekly reached out to the current leadership of Pride to better understand why this…
I often comment that there is not enough bold and vibrant gay art in San Diego to cover in this column on a weekly basis. I appreciate that there are annual events like the Art of Pride and smaller shows in a variety of local businesses from month to month. But it would be nice…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego LGBT Pride announced today that Cheli Mohamed will be leaving her position at Pride and moving on to serve as the Corporate & Operations Manager of the California Police Athletic Federation. “Cheli has added more to our organization and in turn to our community than most will ever realize,” said…
(CNN) — Chick-fil-A restaurants’ philanthropic WinShape Foundation no longer funds the most controversial and politically charged anti-same-sex-marriage groups and has not since 2011, according to Campus Pride, a leading national LGBT campus organization. Campus Pride issued a statement Monday claiming that Chick-fil-A gave the organization’s executive director, Shane Windmeyer, access to WinShape’s 2011 “990” tax…
