Tuesday night, St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral lit up its facade in rainbow colors. In a ceremony overseen by Cathedral Dean, The Very Reverend Penny Bridges and attended by Councilman Todd Gloria, City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez and Pride Executive Director Stephen Whitburn, history was made as St. Paul’s became the first Cathedral in San Diego to…
For the last thirteen years, the GSDBA Charitable Foundation has raised funds to provide college scholarships for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies. The Foundation is one of several organizations that help and mentor LGBT individuals to fully develop their futures. Mark Seymour, 32, a former two-times recipient of GSDBA Charitable Foundation…
A Missouri man was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for recklessly infecting one sex partner with HIV and risking the infection of four others. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that African American Michael L. Johnson, 23, a former Lindenwood University wrestler was found guilty of five felony charges after testimony that included experts…
This Friday, July 17, in Balboa Park, from 12-6 p.m., the 2nd annual San Diego Trans* Pride Festival is happening for transgender and gender non-conforming people of all types to celebrate, support each other, build community and make new friends. The event started last year to bring focus to San Diego’s growing and underserved transgender…
The Live and Let Live Alano Club (LLLAC) Sobriety Community Center will hold its 32nd Exclusive Coffee Cart at San Diego Pride, July 17 and 18, complete with a variety of healthy habits to replace addictive behaviors including laughter yoga, Tai Chi, boot camp fitness, spirituality and meditation. In addition to regularly scheduled recovery meetings…
SAN DIEGO — St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral dean, The Very Reverend Penny Bridges has announced that St. Paul’s in San Diego will be the first cathedral in Southern California to celebrate LGBT Pride week by lighting the building in rainbow colors. Kicking off Pride week, the Light Up The Cathedral For LGBT Pride celebration will…
No my message this week is not about your bank account. The “checks and balances” we should all be celebrating this 2015 Pride are in the U.S. Constitution. When you were taught the concept in civics or social studies class, you were probably bored to tears. How would you know that checks and balances would…
2015’s no average year, Emma Hewitt’s no average Pride diva In many ways, Emma Hewitt is a classic diva – a perfect San Diego LGBT Pride headliner. With a legendary electro-mezzo vocal style, Australian-born Hewitt owns the descriptors “haunting” and “yearning” and has every right to claim them in her bio. But it turns out…
SAN DIEGO – The Gaslamp Quarter Association has announced that the tradition of displaying 124 rainbow flags for San Diego Pride along Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter will continue this year from July 12 to 31. The rainbow flags are presented by San Diego Pride, the 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is fostering pride…
What a great theme we have this year for our Pride events: “Liberty and Justice for All.” The Supreme Court decision giving us all the right to marry certainly gives us extra reason to celebrate. So get out and join the crowd beginning with the Hillcrest Block Party Friday July 17. If you want a…
