San Diego gay and lesbian news

ADOPT ME! Take Shyann home!

SDGLN Staff
May 15th, 2013

Shyann is a fawn and white-colored Pug/Beagle mix, weighing 24 pounds. She is 8 years and 5 months old and has been spayed.

Why I'd make a great companion

Whether we snuggle on the couch or enjoy a day at the park, I'm at home as long as I'm with you. I'm an adorable lap-dog who loves to snuggle with my people friends. I'm a mellow and easy-going companion, content just to feel loved. I'm a fantastic companion seeking a family to cherish. I'm known to make a lasting impression on everyone I meet.

SanDiegoPride.com provides ultimate guide to local pride parties and events

SDGLN Staff
May 15th, 2013

SAN DIEGO -- With San Diego LGBT Pride weekend right around the corner, Hale Media - the publisher of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News and San Diego Pix magazine - has launched and updated SanDiegoPride.com as the ultimate guide to San Diego Pride parties and events.

Being Alive accepting recyclables to raise money for services

SDGLN Staff
May 15th, 2013

SAN DIEGO -- Being Alive HIV/AIDS Services is "going green" with the collection of plastic bottles and cans to support the agency's Daniel’s Pantry program that feeds the clients every month.

More than 400 people use the Pantry each month for canned goods, rice, fresh fruits and vegetables and some frozen meat.

Donation bins for recyclables have been placed at local businesses or they can be dropped off at Being Alive during regular business hours, Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

Another gay wedding, another cake denied | VIDEO

Dan Cassuto KATU News and KATU.com Staff
May 15th, 2013

HOOD RIVER, Ore. – Even the most romantic dreamer couldn't imagine a more fairy tale setting to get married.

A wedding beneath towering Mount Hood, overlooking the swift blue water of the Columbia River in the Gorge, truly felt like a fairy tale for Erin Hanson and Katie Pugh.

But when the couple went to find a baker for their wedding cake, they were turned away because they are lesbians.

It's a familiar story. In February, Sweet Cakes, a bakery in Gresham, turned away a gay couple. That became national news.

GLAAD's What To Watch On Wednesday | VIDEO

Megan Townsend - Entertainment and Operations Coordinator, GLAAD
May 15th, 2013

(This post was originally published by SDGLN content partner GLAAD.)

Tonight catch new episodes of "Modern Family," back-to-back "Off Pitch" and "Chicago Fire."

What to Watch: Wednesday, May 15

West Hollywood hosts Harvey Milk Day photo project

SDGLN Staff
May 15th, 2013

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- In anticipation of the fourth annual Harvey Milk Day, the City of West Hollywood is hosting a Community Photo Project to create a series of photos featuring residents and visitors with signs featuring quotes from Milk’s speeches.

The images from the photo sessions will be displayed on the City’s Flickr photo sharing site as well as shown on WehoTV on Harvey Milk Day, observed Wednesday, May 22.

San Diego passes measure allowing breweries to expand

Claire Trageser - Reporter, KPBS
May 15th, 2013

SAN DIEGO -- Large craft brewers in San Diego are one step closer to being able to build bigger tasting rooms and restaurants, thanks to a measure the City Council passed yesterday. But breweries will still need more approval to start building.

The City Council unanimously passed the measure to let large craft beer makers (at least 12,000 square feet in size) add larger full service restaurants or tasting rooms to their beer making facilities.

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COMMENTARY: Tom Joyner's homophobic message to the Black community

The Rev. Irene Monroe - SDGLN Contributor
May 15th, 2013

On May 1, Jason Collins, the 7-foot center for the Washington Wizards and a former Boston Celtics, came out. His statement, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay” made the cover story for the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated.

On May 2, three Morehouse College basketball athletes were accused of raping an 18-year-old Spelman College student. The story didn't hit the airwaves as the Collins story did.

Many in the African-American community were silent on both incidents because they view both as poxes on the community.

America's youngest and oldest cities revealed

SDGLN Staff
May 15th, 2013

Is your city keeping you young or making you old before your time?

Sharecare analyzed health data for America’s largest metropolitan areas generated by its patented RealAge Test to determine the Top 10 Youngest & Oldest Cities in America.

San Francisco, Salt Lake City and San Diego hold the top three youngest spots in 2013.

The oldest city in the U.S.? Louisville, Ky.

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The sound of stigma

Mark S. King - Poz.com
May 15th, 2013

(Editor's note: This essay by Mark S. King — an AIDS advocate, an author and a blogger living with HIV since 1985 — is about why HIV stigma among gay men persists. It runs in the June issue of Poz and is now available online.)

Stigma is insidiously quiet. It is conjured in the mind, born of discomfort and fear, and then it is projected at “the other” among us. It judges them and isolates them. And it happens without a sound.