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California National Guard Defies Trump on Transgender Troop Ban

The California National Guard will continue to welcome transgender troops despite a military-wide ban. The Trump administration rule that bans transgender people from serving in the armed forces went into effect on April 12. However, California’s National Guard has made clear that it will not be following suit in adopting the policy. Transgender soldiers ‘will remain in’ California National Guard Major General Matthew Beevers told The Hill that gender identity of soldiers is “the least of our concerns.” He said: “Every [transgender] soldier or airmen currently serving in the California National Guard will remain in our ranks. We will not treat any soldier […]

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L.A. LGBT Center’s New Campus for “Most Vulnerable People” in Community

Just in time for its 50th anniversary, the Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrated the grand opening on Sunday of the highly anticipated two-acre Anita May Rosenstein Campus, an unprecedented complex designed to serve the most vulnerable people of the LGBT community: seniors and youth. To commemorate the momentous day, the Center hosted a free six-hour block party in front of the Campus, to which the public was invited, with a ceremonial ribbon cutting, guided tours of the state-of-the-art facility, and musical performances. “We are immensely proud that the Anita May Rosenstein Campus allows us to greatly expand our services, especially to LGBT […]

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San Jose City Council Pledges to Make New Airport Chick-fil-A The ‘Gayest’ in Country

San Jose’s mayor and city council dropped the ball 13 months ago when they approved a new Chick-fil-A as part of the contract for the concessionaire at Mineta San Jose International Airport. Now they’re doing their best to make up for it. As the SF Business Times reports, the notoriously anti-LGBTQ fast food chain was listed in that contract among the new restaurants that Host International was bringing to Terminal B at the airport, but no alarm bells went off until this week’s agenda item. The item, which appears to have been inspired by openly gay former city councilman turned Santa […]

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Celebrating the Legacy of Aché Magazine

Reprinted with permission from History Happens, the newsletter of the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco)” with a link to our website (www.glbthistory.org). This year marks the 30th anniversary of Achémagazine, a free journal and community organization for, by and about black lesbians that I cofounded with Pippa Fleming. The GLBT Historical Society’s archives preserve a full run of Aché, which was published from 1989 to 1993.Reflecting on the magazine after three decades, I’m struck by the outsized impact it’s had. Over its four-year run, Aché morphed quite a bit. In the beginning, it featured artwork, poetry and a calendar of events, and was less of […]

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Legendary San Francisco Trans Nightclub to Close

A legendary trans bar and nightclub in San Francisco will be closing up shop at the end of the month. Divas bar and nightclub in the city’s Polk Gulch neighborhood will be throwing a final goodbye party on March 30 before closing for good. Divas has billed itself as ‘the largest bar and nightclub in the United States devoted to the TS/TV community,’ and is one of the few trans-focused nightclubs in the US. The three-story venue has been a cornerstone for many in San Francisco’s trans community since 1998. Divas’ previous incarnation was as The Motherlode, which had been situated […]

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Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Every LGBTI Person in Sacramento

A man will be charged for allegedly sending out nearly 50 threatening letters to people, including an LGBTI center. Federal officials took Darnell Ray Owens, 32 from Sacramento, into custody on Friday (22 March). Officials claim he mailed dozens of letters, some containing white powder, to police, churches and an LGBTI center. Sacramento LGBTQ Community Center received two letters on 19 March 2018. Along with hate speech directed at the LGBTI community, he also threatened to ‘murder every fag or queer, lesbian, transsexuals, transgenders in Sacramento.’ He also sent fake threats to the center in June 2018 from a number […]

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Two Shot At Palm Springs Gay Club, Minor Injuries, Suspect Remains At Large, Police Seek Help

The Desert Sun reports: Police are looking for a person who shot two people at a Palm Springs night club early Sunday. The shooting was reported just before 2 a.m. at Toucans Toucans Tiki Lounge, 2100 N. Palm Canyon Drive. Neither victim’s injuries were life threatening, Palm Springs police Sgt. Ryan Raso said. The incident began when two people got into an argument inside the club and were escorted outside. Someone fired two rounds, hitting one person outside and another person inside. Each victim was struck in the lower part of their body, Raso said. Cactus Hugs reports: The unidentified suspect fled […]

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EQCA Praises Gov. Newson’s Decision to Issues Moratorium on Executions

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization released the following statement from Executive Director Rick Zbur in support of Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to impose an indefinite moratorium on executions in the State of California, to be announced Wednesday: “Equality California applauds Governor Newsom for the principled leadership he has demonstrated through this decision. Fairness and equality are fundamental California values. But these core values are not reflected in our state’s broken death penalty system. We cannot accept a system in which certain communities — especially communities of color and the LGBTQ community — are disproportionately vulnerable […]

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Sampling Ten-Minute Tastes of the LGBTQ Past: Preparing for Queer History Conference 2019

Reprinted with permission from History Happens, the newsletter of the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco)” with a link to our website (www.glbthistory.org). bIn June 2019, the GLBT Historical Society is co-hosting an unprecedented gathering in San Francisco: the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History’s first stand-alone conference, Queer History Conference 2019. Founded in 1979, the committee is an affiliate of the American Historical Association that promotes the study of the LGBTQ past by facilitating communication among scholars in a variety of disciplines. As the conference approaches and participants finalize their papers, History Happens dropped in for a chat with the conference co-chairs, Amy […]

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John Duran Steps Down as WeHo Mayor

Hours before a West Hollywood City Council meeting to discuss options regarding Mayor John Duran involvement in the City, Duran announced his resignation as mayor via Facebook. He said that he will still maintain his council seat until the end of his term in November.- Advertisement – “I am handing the mayor’s gavel to my friend John D’Amico as the mayor pro tem to fill the remaining two months of my mayor’s term,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “I am not resigning from council and will complete this term which expires in November of 2020.” Duran said that he […]

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