San Diego LGBT Pride Festival

Solace International to sell wares at San Diego Pride Festival, benefiting global communities in need

John Greenwell - Special to SDGLN
July 20th, 2012

Beni Ghale, a woman in Nepal, was abandoned by her husband with no source of income and two children to care for on her own.

Rather than resort to prostitution, and with only herself to rely on, Beni began to ask local restaurants in Kathmandu for their used rice sacks. She worked hard to replicate the traditional grass baskets by making tote bags and purses from these recycled sacks.

San Diego Pride offers discounted 2012 festival tickets this month

SDGLN Staff
December 8th, 2011

SAN DIEGO – Just in time for the holidays, San Diego Pride is offering a discounted rate on tickets to next year’s LGBT Pride Festival.

As part of its “12 Dollar Tickets in the 12th Month for 2012” promotion, a limited number of single day tickets to San Diego’s LGBT Pride Festival, to be held July 21-22, 2012, will be sold for $12. The discounted rate will only be available through Dec. 31, and will not be offered again.