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Dear readers: We don’t know how long the pandemic will last, how long we’ll need to practice social distancing or...

San Diego community leaders have taken immediate action to bring relief to those in the LGBTQ community who need it...

In a classroom, educators call it a “teachable moment.” California Governor Gavin Newsom has encouraged people to “meet the moment”...

  ELIZABETH BLACKWELL Source WomensHistory.Org The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, Elizabeth Blackwell championed the participation...

By M.G. Perez, Senior Reporter   If Pride has a texture, Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone have contributed to its...

By M.G. Perez, Senior Reporter   Anthony Ward, aka “Torch,” has a story to tell. The 29-year-old gay man is...

Jon-Paul Emerson SUSAN B. ANTHONY & ELIZABETH CADY STANTON The women’s suffrage movement arguably began in 1848, when a women’s...

LGBTQ San Diego County News   San Diego is the only major city in North America that does not have...

By Doriam Couto, Mr. San Diego Leather 2018   The year is 1979; the Barbary Coast in Downtown San Diego...

By M.G. Perez, senior reporter New Match Collective is the only theater company in San Diego to exclusively employ womxn...

Franklin Maphis Social Chair, DSST   San Diego’s LGBTQ swim team, “Different Strokes” (DSST), is celebrating its 35-year anniversary! Established...

William (Bill) E. Kelly San Diego City Commissioner Nicole Murray Ramirez (who is associate publisher of LGBTQ San Diego County...

By Chris Azzopardi   In 2019, out glam-rocker Adam Lambert encouraged us to keep fighting, out musician Ben Platt talked...

By Ian Morton   What a difference 25 years makes. On July 25, 1994, North Carolina U.S. Senator Jesse Helms...

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