San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

His brutal murder in 1998 shook our community to our core. As we mourned and raged, we organized to ensure that his story was told in the national media and we worked to pass hate crime legislation.

Fans of Stephen King have been lining up for over a week now to see IT: Chapter Two, the second half of Andy Muschietti and Gary Dauberman’s adaptation of King’s iconic novel.

Eighteen years ago America changed forever as terrorists commandeered four commercial airliners and purposefully flew them into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. The fourth jet was headed to Washington D.C.but crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after the passengers were able to overtake the hijackers. 2,996 people were killed that day, many LGBT people among them. 

 In a personal letter to her constituents, Congresswoman Susan A. Davis announced on Tuesday that this is her final term in Congress.

(Author’s note: the names of the immigrants described here have been changed to protect their safety.)

I met Juan I and Juan II while they were detained in Otay Mesa Detention Center, a San Diego immigration prison. Both are 20 years old, both are gay. Juan I is from Venezuela. Juan II began his journey north in El Salvador.

In 1969 the Stonewall Riots against legal police brutality towards our community inspired organizers in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to hold “Christopher Street Liberation Day" marches or "Gay-ins" in 1970: the origins of Pride events as we know them today.

Long-time readers of San Diego Gay and Lesbian News know that we almost never issue endorsements for political offices.

A year before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, the first group of enslaved Africans depicted as “20 and odd Negroes” arrived sometime during the final week of August to the Virginia colony of Jamestown. The fact that the exact date cannot be pinpointed assists in obfuscating the origins of slavery in the United States.

My mother is a retired teacher who oversaw the department for students who were blind and low vision.

 I was sitting in the mid-size meeting room with 3-foot square tables and plastic yellow and red chairs, talking with Oussama, a 28-year-old gay immigration detainee, when a tall-ish, blonde woman in a nice dress and high heels sashayed over to us.