Two members of the LGBT community have posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at this year’s ceremony at the White House. Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and pioneering astronaut Sally Ride were honored at the White House ceremony Nov. 20. Their surviving partners – Walter Naegle and Tam O’Shaughnessy, respectively – accepted the awards….
This year, California became the first state in the nation to proactively support transgender students’ rights with the signing of Assembly Bill 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act. The bill guarantees transgender students safe access to restrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that corresponds with the student’s gender identity. Prohibiting a student from doing…
The KPBS-Union Bank Local Heroes celebration at the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla last week introduced a new cadre of human rights, public service and volunteer superstars to a packed house in the museum’s auditorium, with LGBT individuals well represented among the honorees. Max Disposti, executive director of the ever-expanding North County LGBTQ…
The 2014 Absolut Hillcrest Mardi Gras will be held March 4, 2014 in its traditional location between First and Third on University Avenue. The event will be produced by renowned party promoter and producer Bill Hardt. The application for next year’s event was filed with the city of San Diego Nov. 15. “We expect the…
Christmas decorations everywhere and lo, a turkey peeps out of Santa’s bag. Thanksgiving Day must be nigh. How thankful we are this year, especially the newly married same-sex parents and their kids celebrating as really legal families. The rest of us, too, can share the day with friends at home or join the community at…
There is that saying that if we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. Also, if we allow people to change history and rewrite it, how indeed can we learn from it? The recent media hullabaloo over the old San Diego Police headquarters on West Harbor Drive opening up as a retail…
The Beekman Boys, Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, have been making quite a name for themselves in both reality television and in the world of fine foods for some time now. Currently they are adding an heirloom desserts cookbook (a follow-up to their successful The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook) to their list of accomplishments. Is…
