SAN DIEGO — More than 1,100 leaders from the LGBT, Latino, African-American, labor and business communities will gather for the Seventh Annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast at The Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel, 1 Park Blvd in San Diego in celebration of Harvey Milk’s life and work for human rights. During the event, which starts…
An armed robber who was charged with holding up 11 people in Ocean Beach, Hillcrest, Golden Hill and elsewhere on the same night was sentenced Monday to seven years in state prison. Restitution for the victims against Joseph Andres Garcia, 20, of San Diego, will be determined in a later hearing. San Diego Superior Court…
SAN DIEGO — The Hillcrest community continues to reinvest its share of parking meter funds with another new service, The Park Hillcrest Lunch Loop! The Uptown Community Parking District has partnered with the UC San Diego Health System, the Hillcrest Business Association and coordinated with Scripps Mercy along with Hillcrest restaurants to pilot this project…
Today, with a tweet from the Oval Office, President Obama launched @POTUS, the official Twitter account of the president of the United States. The @POTUS Twitter account will serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him. President Obama is committed to making his Administration the…
As Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan launched the Yes Equality Your Yes Matters get out the vote campaign in Ireland Sunday polls showed that the Yes vote was still in the lead, although down from higher percentages in the mid-70s just weeks ago. “I’m voting YES because I want to live in a country that is…
Steam Room Stories looks to the future in its latest episode as a fortune teller (Jordan Raggio) arrives to predict the future. First up is Steam Room regular Chris Reid who is told that he has a hot hook-up (Karamo Brown) in his future. Chris soon learns that you shouldn’t believe everything a fortune teller…
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – James Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the soon to be decided Supreme Court same-sex marriage equality case, Obergefell v. Hodges, will attend the National LGBT 50th Anniversary Celebration in Philadelphia. He will receive the “Frank Kameny Award.” Obergefell’s is the title case of the four consolidated marriage equality appeals heard before the…
The a capella singing movie Pitch Perfect 2 certainly hit all the right notes on its debut weekend taking in $70.3 million at the box office in the U.S. and Canada according to Rentrack. The Elizabeth Banks-directed sequel to the 2012 hit beat out George Miller’s critically acclaimed Mad Max: Fury Road which landed a…
Thursday, by a vote of 43 to 25, the New Jersey Assembly passed the New Jersey Gestational Carrier Agreement Act – an important bill that would modernize New Jersey law by giving legal parental rights and duties of a child carried by a gestational surrogate to the intended parent at birth. The bill will now…
Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, has become the first EU leader to wed a same-sex partner. According to The Huffington Post, Bettel and his husband, Gauthier Destenay, were among the first couples to marry under a recent marriage equality law that went into effect earlier this year. “I could have hidden it or repressed it…
