San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

San Diego Pride is next week, and on July 12 at Balboa Park, Trans Pride will be having their annual event celebrating transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary folks of all walks of life!

The first time I went to the Spirit of Stonewall Rally was in 2000. It was only a few weeks before that I had been homeless and living in my car.

I was from the rural border town of El Centro and didn’t know what Pride really was, but I knew there were LGBTQ people there and I knew it was in Hillcrest.

Our queer resilience and ingenuity have made us experts at the concept of found family.

Eugene Lee Yang of YouTube's The Try Guys has made perhaps the most important video of his life. Titled "I'm Gay," it chronicles his coming out and people are relating to it on a very personal and emotional level. 

If you were at the massive vigil held in memory of the innocent lives lost at Pulse nightclub in 2016, you probably remember the moving public performance by the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus. They will raise their voices once again tonight. 

San Diego's Flicks is hosting a special evening to honor those 49 innocent souls lost in Orlando, Florida three years ago. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has introduced the LASD Pride Patch to honor LGBTQ Pride Month.

Law enforcement agencies across America wear the shoulder patches to represent the department and the people who wear the uniform. 

NYC Pride, organizers of WorldPride NYC 2019 | Stonewall 50, announced today that Madonna will make an appearance, and is expected to perform a few songs, at Pride Island on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Madonna was the first to announce the news through a video aired during the Monday, June 3, 2019 broadcast of NBC's The Today Show. 

With the celebration of national Pride month and San Diego’s very own Pride celebration currently in development, we should also draw our attention to parties and charitable events that help those in the community. 

One such event is The Red Dress Party. 

In 1981, just 12 years after the Stonewall Riots, San Diego Pride board member Doug Moore created a list of Pride organizers from around the country, and from that list in 1982 InterPride was founded with a half dozen Pride organizations meeting in Boston that year.

May 22 is Harvey Milk’s birthday! Not everyone knows that Harvey Milk lived in San Diego before moving to San Francisco. He was stationed here while serving in the U.S. Navy and credited the experience with his love for California and his eventual move to San Francisco.