SAN DIEGO -- With San Diego LGBT Pride weekend here, there is a lot to celebrate. Along with the installation of the Hillcrest Pride Flag, military servicemembers being authorized to wear their uniforms in this year's Pride parade, and other advances in the fight for equality like the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," community members will be spending the weekend reflecting on these steps forward.

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 – After months of planning, fundraising and hard work, a rainbow flag will finally fly permanently over Hillcrest.

Friday at 6:30 pm, the Hillcrest Pride Flag will be raised for the first time during a special ceremony that will kick off “America’s Pride” weekend in San Diego. Community members who attend San Diego Pride’s annual Spirit of Stonewall Rally, which will be held on Harvey Milk and Normal streets in Hillcrest, will be able to witness the flag’s first official raising at the end of the program.

SAN DIEGO -- One of the biggest challenges many face when heading to the annual San Diego LGBT Pride Parade is choosing where to view the parade from.

As the 38th annual parade, dubbed "America's Pride" this year, passes by this Saturday, one of the best places to view it will be from Eden in Hillcrest, where SDPIX/SDGLN and the nightclub have teamed for the "Official Parade Viewing Party."

Not only will those who attend the party be situated at one of the best spots along the parade route, they will be surrounded by other parade revelers celebrating America's Pride.