San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

A former music teacher at Brownsburg High School in Indiana claims that he was fired because he didn’t want to call a transgender student by their preferred name due to his religious beliefs.

Wanda Villanueva was on a flight back from California when she met Glendy and her 7-year-old son, the two were on their way to Rhode Island to stay with some family. That sounds like a nice story until you realize as Wanda did that there was something more heartbreaking to it.

In yet another story about a ridesharing driver who kicked out a gay couple, this one actually lost his Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) operating license.

“It’s 2018 in New York City, and this isn’t the way we live anymore,” TLC spokesman Allen Fromberg said.

Today, the San Diego City Council issued a proclamation declaring Friday, June 22, 2018, to be Dr. Delores Jacobs Day in the City of San Diego. Jacobs, who has been at the helm of The San Diego LGBT Community Center as its Chief Executive Officer for the past 17 years, will end her service to The Center on June 30.

A Los Angeles man has accused his neighbors of harassment because he is gay. Retired journalist and Air Force veteran Ryan Gierach says since he moved into his apartment in San Pedro two years ago he’s been relentlessly targeted by people who use homophobic slurs.

An unidentified man, 41, was hit on his rideshare Bird scooter in Hillcrest Monday night. Police say he suffered major injuries after he was struck on Washington Avenue by a Toyota Prius that was exiting northbound 163.

Another rainbow crosswalk has been permanently placed at an intersection of an American city, this time it's Maplewood New Jersey. This symbol of inclusivity is located at the four-way stop on Valley Street and Oakview; it was officially unveiled on Thursday.

Lucero Felicita Camarena didn’t speak until she was six-years-old; afraid of the judgments a cruel world can have on those who feel different. Camarena was assigned a gender at birth that did not fit who she was inside and for more than 20 years she struggled to overcome an internal strife that made it difficult for her to accept herself.

The Los Angeles Pride festival was the scene of police helicopters, fire code enforcement agents and police in riot gear on Saturday night due to an oversold music event.

“What were they expecting, Stonewall?” said a visiting Jerwyn Morton from New York.  “I have never seen so many cops in my life wearing riot gear at a gay event.”

More than 35 survivors of the Pulse Nightclub massacre are suing the City of Orlando and its police department in federal court for what they claim was negligence in offering appropriate assistance during the mass shooting two years ago. That incident took the lives of 49 people and injured 53.