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The rights of LGBT Californians and other minorities are under attack, and we must make our voices heard! Join Equality California, the ACLU, APLA Health, GSA Network, LA LGBT Center, Lambda Legal, Project Inform, NCLR, SF AIDS Foundation, and the Transgender Law Center for LGBT Advocacy Day in the State Capitol on May 16, 2017 and lend your voice to help pass critical civil rights and social justice legislation! When: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm Where: California State Capitol, Sacramento, CA We will be lobbying on a variety of issues important to the LGBT community including healthcare, […]

SAGE is launching a 30-day campaign to tell the Trump administration that LGBT elders MUST NOT be erased from an important national survey on aging. We need you to help amplify their message. The backstory: The National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants is used to determine what services will be provided to older Americans in need. Trump wants the survey to stop gathering information about LGBT elders. If they aren’t represented, their needs won’t be met. It’s a first step in erasing the LGBT community from the American map. So many of our LGBTQ seniors survived the AIDS epidemic. They don’t deserve […]

California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) and Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) held a press conference Thursday to highlight the disastrous impact building another wall along the US-Mexico border will have on California’s economy, environment and people. The lawmakers spoke as the California Legislature prepares to debate two bills that oppose Trump’s border wall, which could cost American taxpayers billions of dollars. “Trump’s ‘big, beautiful wall’ will be a multi-billion-dollar blight dragging down California’s economy, hurting our environment and dividing our communities,” said Sen. Lara. “With Senate Bill 30, we are asking companies to take taxpayers’ side against […]

  David Gubser with his partner, Richard Lieboff. It was time to give back, he decided. As David Gubser started to revise his will, he began to think of the causes that meant most to him. In the wake of the hate-based shootings that occurred last year at an Orlando, Fla., nightclub with a largely gay clientele, Gubser resolved to offer support to local LGBT programs. Among his plans, he established a $200,000 endowment through his estate that will support scholarships for LGBT students as well as Critical Gender Studies majors at UC San Diego. “We are inspired by Mr. […]

  Nicole Murray Ramirez San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez has been elected as a national co-chair of the upcoming National March for Equality set for June 11 in Washington, D.C. Commissioner Ramirez, who has been a Latino gay activist now for almost half a century, holds the distinction of being the only gay activist to be elected to all six of the LGBT marches on Washington. The first march was held in 1979 and the last one in 2009. Ramirez has also served as a national co-chair of three national marches as well as an elected national chair […]

  A California Chick-fil-A franchise is waiting for its cows to come home after thieves absconded with three mascot costumes from a storage shed earlier this week. The shop posted news Tuesday on Facebook of the Sunday night theft from a store in the city of Folsom. The post pleaded with customers to help find the kidnapped cows. James Daack, the store’s hospitality director, said Thursday they just want the cows back with no questions asked. “We’re hoping that through us reaching out in numerous ways, that the people who took the cows will come to their senses and bring […]

This spring and summer, many San Francisco cultural organizations are sponsoring special events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, when a countercultural convergence put the city on the map as an international center of the 1960s youth uprising. The GLBT History Museum is taking part by mounting a new exhibition opening April 7: “Lavender-Tinted Glasses: A Groovy Gay Look at the Summer of Love.” The curator of the show is Joey Cain, a San Francisco-based activist and historian who has created queer-history exhibitions about Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter and Harry Hay for the San Francisco Public […]

Amid escalating reports of the Trump Administration’s indiscriminate raids on immigrants’ homes and heart-wrenching stories of parents being snatched away from their children, Assemblymember David Chiu (D – San Francisco) was joined by workers from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California and the California Labor Federation to unveil legislation that represents California’s latest and boldest challenge yet to Trump’s hateful agenda against immigrants.  AB 450 affirmatively protects workers from immigration enforcement through workplace raids, many of which unlawfully violate worker rights. For example, past raids occurred under the auspices of narrow individual arrest warrants that ICE used to question […]

  Covered California’s annual open-enrollment period may be over, but if you are still uninsured, you may be able to get financial assistance to help you purchase health care coverage. And rest assured, Covered California health plans, financial assistance, and rates are locked in for 2017. Between now and Oct. 31, those who are eligible can sign up for coverage through Covered California’s special-enrollment period, as long as they do so within 60 days of a qualifying life event. The following circumstances are among the more common reasons individuals become eligible for special enrollment: They lose their health coverage because […]