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Trans-lives: Panel of Diverse Gender Activists Discuss Experiences and Challenges

  LGBT In The News Panel Photo: Veronica Zerrer (Neutral Corner) What does it mean to be transgender in America today? The San Diego Press Club recently hosted a panel of six transgender activists to discuss the topic at Urban Mo’s Bar and Grill in Hillcrest. The event was part of the larger series LGBT In The News, started in 2013 by noted southern California journalist Thom Senzee. The event sponsors included Urban Mo’s, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actor’s Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), the Gender Illumination organization, Dr. Bronner’s Organic Liquids and Soaps, Skyy Vodka, Baja Betty’s Mexican […]

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New Transgender Awareness Course Seeks to End Widespread Workplace Discrimination

The rights of transgender Americans have never been so hotly debated. Whether in the military, in schools, in athletics or in the workplace, ending transgender discrimination has become one of the civil rights causes of this decade. And with a new estimate out last week that there are 1.4 million transgender Americans – double previous figures – it’s an issue that touches every community in the country. Now an experienced transgender awareness trainer is teaming up with education marketplace ZipMart to launch a first-of-its-kind, HR Certification Institute-approved course to help businesses create a truly inclusive workplace – and understand their […]

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Declaring War Against a Silent LGBT Epidemic

The LGBT community is no stranger to attacks on the safety, health and well-being of its members. From the recurring police harassment and violence that precipitated the Stonewall riots to the ravages of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s — coupled with an apathetic government and public — all the way through to the recent Orlando massacre, LGBT people repeatedly find themselves in the crosshairs of dangerous threats. With such monumental obstacles to our health and well-being, it’s easy to overlook a much more subtle but even more deadly killer: smoking. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 30,000 LGBT […]

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San Diego Pride Festival Will Feature Metal Detectors for the First Time

  San Diego Pride announced today that for the first time, the annual festival will feature metal detectors at the entrances. The festival will have more entry lanes to avoid long lines. As always, there will also be a significant law enforcement presence, the San Diego Police Department’s mobile command unit will be stationed in front, and undisclosed additional precautions will be taken. “We want everyone to feel safe while they’re having fun at this year’s festival,” said Stephen Whitburn, San Diego Pride’s executive director. “We encourage people to come out and celebrate Pride with confidence.” The additional security precautions […]

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West Coast Marines Under Investigation for Alleged Threat to Gay Bars

 Two active-duty Marines are under investigation in connection to a social media post purportedly threatening to attack gay bars following Sunday’s deadly mass shooting in Florida.The California-based I Marine Expeditionary Force launched a command investigation after a photo surfaced on social media showing a corporal in uniform holding a rifle with his finger near the trigger. The words “Coming to a gay bar near you!” appear at the bottom of the photo. The picture was posted recently to Camp MENdleton resale, a closed Facebook group for male Marines with more than 25,000 members. The person who purportedly posted it also wrote “Too soon?” […]

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Increased Security Coming to SF Pride After Orlando Rampage

The FBI reached out to San Francisco police after this weekend’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando to offer added security for the upcoming Pride celebrations, while San Francisco’s police chief expressed concern about the prospect of a “copycat” shooting. “Anytime you have something like this happen, you worry about a copycat,” said interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin on Monday, shortly before department officials met with Pride organizers to discuss enhancing security measures for events that include a downtown parade on June 26. “So I’d rather err on the side of caution and put more security out there and […]

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Craigslist Ad Warns San Diego LGBT Community: ‘You’re Next’

Police are investigating an online threat of violence to San Diego’s LGBT community which read, “You’re next.” On Tuesday evening, a 10News viewer saw the post in the men-seeking-men section of the Craigslist San Diego personal ads. He took a screenshot and sent it to us before the post was flagged and removed. The post is titled, “We need more Orlando’s (sic).” It is accompanied by a photo of a hand firing a revolver with a bullet coming out of the barrel. The post read: “Orlando was long overdue. Cleanse your community of the filth that gives decent gay men […]

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California’s Transgender Inmates Just Won Access To Items That Match Their Identity

A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday that state prisons must allow transgender inmates greater access to commissary items that are consistent with their gender identity. The ruling stems from a settlement reached in August 2015 that mandates the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) to pay for a transgender inmate’s sex reassignment surgery. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nandor Vadas said the proposed policy of allowing access to female-oriented items does not go far enough, and that transgender inmates in men’s prisons should have many of the same items provided to inmates in female facilities. According to CBS Los […]

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United States Government Says L.A. Gay Couple’s 1975 Marriage is Valid

The United States federal government has recognized as legally valid the April 1975 same-sex marriage of Richard Adams and Anthony Sullivan, approving the “green card” petition that Adams filed in 1975 for his husband, an Australian citizen.  After Adams died in December 2012, Sullivan sought to have the Immigration Service recognize their marriage and grant a green card to him as the widower of a U.S. citizen. The green card, granting Anthony permanent resident status in the United States, was issued on the 41st anniversary of his Boulder, Colorado marriage to Richard — a same-sex marriage that remained in the […]

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San Diego LGBT Center: Community Vigil to Take Place in Hillcrest Monday Night

This morning, Dr. Delores A. Jacobs, chief executive officer of The San Diego LGBT Community Center, responded to the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. The investigation in Orlando is still underway, and additional facts will become known in the coming hours and days. At this time, it appears an action of terrorism and hate — carried out in part with an assault weapon — has taken the lives of at least 50 people and injured 53 more in a shooting at Pulse, a popular Orlando LGBT nightclub. In addition, earlier today law enforcement authorities in Santa Monica, CA found weapons, […]

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