NAVAL AIR STATION NORTH ISLAND, Calif. – Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW), located at Naval Air Station North Island San Diego (NASNI), and Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), located in Patuxent River Maryland, are hosting an LGBTQ+A Pride event. The NASNI celebration will take place on 22 June 2017 from 10:00-12:00 in the Commander Naval…
NEW YORK– June 22, PEN America will host a ‘Reading for Remembrance’ to spotlight the literary legacy of AIDS and its profound impact on future advocacy movements. During the first NYC Pride Week to feature a dedicated public memorial to the AIDS epidemic, the reading takes place under the dramatic, angular steel canopy of the…
NEW YORK — National nonprofit, Path2Parenthood (P2P) (formerly known as The American Fertility Association), will host LGBT Family-Building Tents at Pride festivals nationwide, throughout June, and September. Locations are slated to include New York, Minnesota, and California. Each Path2Parenthood tent will house free materials produced by the organization, including handbooks for gay men, gay women,…
Every June, Pride comes to our cities and towns. We break out the rainbow flags, march in parades, and celebrate our uniqueness and being together. But as Pride Month starts, this year feels different. Sure, we will still celebrate this remarkable, diverse and loving community, but we are haunted by the wave of senseless violence…
Ahead of today’s Pride parade in D.C., new TWEET and FACEBOOK posts from Sen. Kamala Harris highlight a new Pride flag placed in front of her office Friday. Above the picture Harris posted, “Added a new flag to my Washington office this month – because in California we’ve got pride.” Sen. Harris is currently the…
NEW YORK — As part of VisitBritain‘s Love is GREAT campaign, the British government will celebrate LGBT rights by participating in local Pride events in 16 cities across the US, Mexico, and Canada this year, and will launch a nationwide sweepstakes June 10 to win a trip to Great Britain. The UK is proud to be…
When news of Will X. Walters’ suicide broke there was shock and anger throughout the LGBTQ community and beyond – shock at this senseless waste of life and anger that a simple apology could have prevented these prolonged proceedings many years before. At a memorial service, Jan. 7 powerful eulogies were given in celebration of…
SAN DIEGO — A Public Candle and Flower Vigil in Memory of Will Walters will be held today at 2 p.m at the Pride flag located at the corner of University Avenue and Normal Street in the heart of San Diego’s historic LGBTQ Hillcrest neighborhood. There will be remarks and remembrances from community members, colleagues…
SAN DIEGO — Will Walters, who sued the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) for discrimination when he was arrested for wearing a short kilt-like costume at the LGBT Pride festival in 2011, was found dead Wednesday at his apartment in Hillcrest in an apparent suicide. Dec. 13, an eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court…
Following a week of testimony in the civil suit of Will Walters v. City of San Diego et al, the jury rejected the claim that five San Diego police officers discriminated against Walters for wearing a short kilt-like costume at the LGBT Pride festival in 2011. The eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court for…
