With all 54 precincts counted, Dwayne Crenshaw advanced in the District 4 City Council election. Crenshaw received 15.31 percent of the vote. The race was won by Myrtle Cole who received 32.87 percent of the vote. Crenshaw, the executive director of San Diego Pride who serves on several community non-profit boards and councils, has been…
BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ The Voice and Viewpoint homophobic attack on 4th District City Council candidate Dwayne Crenshaw is an attack on all of us … period. I call upon all elected officials, civic leaders and communities to take a stand. Speak up as the silence of so many is even more harmful. There are…
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 – San Diego LGBT Pride has announced a partnership with the Tom Homann LGBT Law Association and California Western School of Law’s Pride Law to help the LGBT community get in touch with local legal services. Pride is expanding services by establishing a new volunteer run Pride Legal Clinic to address the legal…
SAN DIEGO — Environmental Health & Justice Campaign (EHJC), an organization that fights toxic pollution in low-income communities of color, has announced that it has endorsed Dwayne Crenshaw in the City of San Diego’s City Council race for District 4. EHJC focuses on pollution issues in the disadvantaged communities south of I-8 where the District…
For many, St. Patrick’s Day is that one day when the vast majority of people who can’t stand the color green are forced to pick out that one green shirt they own or be assaulted by friends, family and pretty or many, St. Patrick’s Day is that one day when the vast majority of people…
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…
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, San Diego LGBT Pride has announced today that Freedom to Love and Marry is the theme for the 39th annual Pride celebration weekend, July 12 – 14. Announcing the theme, Fernando Lopez, administrative and public affairs director wrote in an email, “We are standing at a critical moment in…
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…
