San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer will join State Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, General Dynamics NASSCO officials and local leaders today to celebrate the start of construction for the future USNS Harvey Milk T-AO 206 fleet oiler for the U.S. Navy – the second of six vessels in the John Lewis class named in honor of American civil rights leaders.

Free speech is one of the cornerstones of American Democracy. However, what are the boundaries of free speech? In the current political milieu, the protection of free speech appears to have an amorphous and wide expanse when it comes to sexist, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and xenophobic rants on many social media platforms and college campuses.

All City of San Diego administrative offices will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, in observance of Thanksgiving Day. (Note: The Development Service Department will be closed both Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29.)

Now in a moving memoir, “A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston,” by Robyn Crawford depicts their friendship and love story.

Seven years after Whitney's death, Robyn Crawford says, "I'd come to the point where I felt the need to stand up for our friendship. And I felt an urgency to stand up and share the woman behind the incredible talent.”

[Editor's Note: this letter was published in Out.]

On Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) responded to troubling federal data showing unacceptably high levels of hate crimes — and an increase in those targeting LGBTQ people — as reported by the FBI this week.

Sometimes the best way to look at oneself is through a play. Joshua Harmon’s timely and satirical drama “Admissions” is one such production, and it’s now appearing here in Boston.

Dear Pride Family,

In many ways, veterans were in part responsible for building our strongest LGBTQ communities across the country.

Halloween is one of America’s favorite yearly activities. Unfortunately, Halloween can be America’s scariest, too - especially for those of us seen as costumes you wear rather than the human beings that we are. Asian Americans, Native Americans, blacks, and Muslim women in burqas, hijabs, and Muslim men in turbans with beards are frequent targets of race-themed costumes.

Black Christians give away forgiveness like it’s confetti, and white Trump evangelicals give it away sparingly, if at all. As an African American, the act of forgiveness appears to be our immediate go-to place in the face of unimaginable racial honor done to us.