Tuesday evening, the Uptown Planners, a city recognized community-planning advisory board representing seven communities including Hillcrest, handed a significant victory to the LGBT Community by backing a proposal to rename Blaine Avenue to Harvey Milk Way. Blaine Avenue runs about five blocks from the LGBT Center to Cleveland Avenue. The proposal had significant resistance as…
From contraception to same-sex marriage, the past two weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind in progressive politics on a variety of levels. Rather than the wins and losses, I’d like to take on a few potentially dangerous myths before they fester into facts. President Obama planned to force religious entities to fund contraception…
More than 200 people took to the streets Tuesday to celebrate the ruling of a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals striking down Proposition 8. Braving the rain, participants gathered at 6 p.m. at the corner of 6th Ave. and University Ave. for a short march to the Joyce Beers Community Center…
Photo Credit: Facebook.com/PrideFlag The Uptown Planners will collaborate on the Hillcrest Pride Flag project on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 6pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center on Vermont Street just north of University Avenue. Hillcrest residents and those in surrounding areas are invited to participate in the meeting to let the planners know that the…
