SAN DIEGO — Thursday, Nov. 17, over 100 members and allies of San Diego’s Transgender community held a march and ceremony to embrace transwomen and transmen who lost their lives to violence this past year. The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is held yearly on or around November 20, to memorialize those murdered as a…
SAN DIEGO, CA – Just a few days removed from the City Council’s approval of an updated community plan for the Uptown neighborhoods, San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria joined Library Director Misty Jones, San Diego Library Foundation Chief Executive Officer Jay Hill, Friends of the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Branch Library President Phyllis Marion, and community…
A 75-year-old man who took expensive real estate courses from the defunct Trump University was thrilled Friday upon learning that President-elect Donald Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement in a class action that will repay losses to him and about 7,000 other former students. “Incredible! I’m thrilled!” said Sonny Low to KFMB-TV (Channel 8)…
127 officers killed in the line of duty in 2016! That is how many Thanksgiving tables will be missing a loved one this year. The San Diego Police Officer’s Association (SDPOA) will provide dinner to our officers while they serve and protect our community on Thanksgiving Day. We need your support! San Diego will have…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The health care industry, our nation’s largest private sector industry and employer, makes up more than 17 percent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The US health care industry has grown accustomed to the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA) business climate and faces uncertainty heading into a Trump Administration–one that has vowed to…
SAN FRANCISCO – Hornet, the world’s second largest gay social network, announced today that it has raised its first round of institutional funding led by Ventech China to support rapid business growth and user adoption across the globe. Hornet is committed to strengthening the gay community by providing quality social interactions with more ways to…
One of the nation’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ leaders, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has met with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss a potential position in his Administration’s Department of Education. Falwell was one of Trump’s earliest and most outspoken Religious Right supporters, reported Right Wing Watch. He appeared in Trump campaign ads, hosted…
LOS ANGELES – In honor of World AIDS Day, The Advocate, with the generous support from Michael J. Libow and in conjunction with The NAMES Project Foundation, is bringing three installation panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Los Angeles for display at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and The Beverly Hills Public…
Thursday, Nov. 17 The San Diego LGBT Community Center held the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) ceremony to honor members of the trans community who lost their lives to violence this past year. San Diego Police Officer Christine Garcia, the first openly transgender police officer in the San Diego Police Department, had played an…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego City Councilmember Todd Gloria will join City officials and community members, Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 12 p.m. to kick-off the long-awaited construction phase of the new Mission Hills-Hillcrest public library, to be known as the Mission Hills-Hillcrest Harley and Bessie Knox Branch Library. Originally opened in 1961, the Mission Hills-Hillcrest…
