SAN DIEGO – Mayor Bob Filner will open the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus “Summer of Love” Encore Gala on Saturday, June 15 at Liberty Station, Point Loma.

All proceeds from the Sixties-themed event will benefit the 150-member chorus’s mission of making social change through musical outreach.

Filner is no stranger to the turmoil of Sixties, having been one of the first people to enter the Deep South as a Freedom Rider in 1961, protesting racial injustice in Mississippi. Filner was arrested for his activism and was incarcerated until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction.

SAN DIEGO -- Southern California Edison said today that the troubled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will be shut down permanently.

California Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) hailed the decision to retire the nuclear power plant.

“Given the safety concerns and uncertainty surrounding operation of SONGS, I applaud Edison's decision,” she said. “Ever since the facility shut down, I have advocated for a transparent process that does not saddle ratepayers with the costs of operating a non-functioning plant.

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

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Staley and Garance Franke-Ruta, cast members of the Oscar-nominated documentary film "How To Survive A Plague," will participate in a screening and panel discussion presented by AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) on Wednesday, June 12, at 7:30 pm at the Silver Screen Theater in the Pacific Design Center.

The special “One City One Pride” event is presented by Collective Effect at APLA, and is sponsored by the City of West Hollywood and Symphonic Love Foundation.