SAN DIEGO -- Vincent Pompei, a local educator, activist and organizer of the annual Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership (CESCaL) conference focused on LGBT children, has been selected for "The Advocate's" annual "Forty Under 40" recognition.

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego Democrats for Equality will host a debate on Proposition B - the Comprehensive Pension Reform ballot initiative -at its next meeting on Thursday, April 26.

Moderated by Voice of San Diego political writer Liam Dillon, the forum will feature Lani Lutar, president and CEO of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, speaking in favor of the proposed initiative, and San Diego City Councilmember and Budget Committee Chair Todd Gloria, speaking in opposition.

Anti-gay extremist Scott Lively, has been invited to visit the Draper Park Christian Church in Oklahoma City for three days of “teaching and preaching,” from April 27-29, 2012.

His visit happens to follow both the Holocaust Day of Remembrance and the Day of Silence, which is timely, since much of Lively’s career has been built around attempting to mis-educate and confuse people about the lives of LGBT people and making frankly absurd claims about gay people within the Nazi Party.

One has to wonder what sort of “teaching and preaching” will happen within these three days.

(Editor’s note: Those of us who lived through Proposition 8 experienced the unholy alliance of Catholics, Fundamentalists and Mormons to discredit the LGBT and ally community. The Rev. Canon Albert Ogle, author of SDGLN’s weekly faith and religion column RGOD2, witnessed the same forces at work in the UN AIDS plan last summer where all references to LGBT and other “most at risk” populations globally were removed from the draft Declaration. The financial impact to programs and potential human suffering that could result from this religiously-inspired position is alarming.