Here in my adopted hometown of San Diego, California, I was asked to speak at this year’s San Diego Pride Stonewall Rally about open service for transgender servicemembers in the U.S. military services. The rally was held on July 20, 2012; the 20th through 22nd is Pride Weekend here. This was an important LGBT year [...]

San Diego’s biggest 4th of July fireworks show the Big Bay Boom apparently lived up to it’s name…well, in the sense there was just a single boom . All the fireworks — due to what is being called a “technical glitch” — went off at once about 5-minutes before the 20-minute fireworks show was supposed [...]

On the day my legal change of gender, my home city of San Diego became the first city in my home state of California to name a street after lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community civil rights icon Harvey Milk. The street renaming occurred on what would have been Harvey Milk’s 82nd birthday. The [...]

In San Diego, we have two credible gay candidates vying for election to mayor. The Christian Post describes it this way in their article 2 Gay GOP Candidates in San Diego Mayoral Race: San Diego’s mayoral race is featuring two openly gay candidates as leading contenders. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, 59, and City Councilman Carl [...]

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From Karen Occamb at LGBT POV come this report from about 350 active duty servicemembers who joined a movement to appear in San Diego Pride's event held today.