11 New Cases Reported; Whooping Cough Vaccine is Available Are you and your child up-do-date with the whooping cough immunizations? There are three ways to get the vaccine to protect yourself and your family from the disease that keeps infecting people in our region. The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) is recommending... »

Victimization Relates to Lowered School Connectedness for LGBT Youth, Institutional Support Relates to Greater Connectedness, GLSEN Article Finds NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2010 – New research, conducted by GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), examining how in-school victimization and institutional support affect LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) student connectedness at school, has... »

Oakland, CA – August 24, 2010 – The theme for Oakland’s inaugural LGBTQ Pride festival is “We Got The Funk” and they are not playing around! The event has booked the legendary singer-songwriter Chaka Khan to headline the Oakland Lesbian, Gay,... »

Senator Roland W. Burris issued the following statement tonight in response to President Obama’s speech on the end of combat phase in Iraq: “Tonight, President Obama spoke to the nation about the end of the combat phase in Iraq.  I join President Obama, my fellow Senators and my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services... »

Jacobs calls Conservative Groups’ lawsuit “the height of hypocrisy…frivolous and desperate” LOS ANGELES — Earlier today, the conservative Pacific Justice Institute petitioned California’s 3rd District Court of Appeals to force Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a Federal District Court ruling that declared California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Proponents of the... »

The 35th presentation of what are considered the “Gay Academy Awards of San Diego” drew a standing room crowd as hundreds of GLBT San Diegans, families and friends packed the LGBT Community Center on Sunday, August 29th. In celebration of the history and diversity of these annual community awards that have raised hundreds of... »

San Francisco – The Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative legal organization, has petitioned the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento to force Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to defend Proposition 8. Both have publicly stated that they will not appeal Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling that deemed the discriminatory marriage ban unconstitutional. In... »

HONOR Fund will be dedicated to building LGBT support in Latino communities. Los Angeles, CA – Today, civic and community leaders convened at Los Angeles City Hall for a breakfast briefing to formally launch HONOR Fund, a new 501c3 Latino LGBT organization in California.  HONOR Fund is dedicated to advancing the rights of Latino lesbian,... »

Calls for Action to End Cell Phone Communication from Prison OAKLAND – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today a major takedown of key members of the Nuestra Familia gang who commit murders and other violent crimes “orchestrated in prison” by gang leaders using cell phones. As part of an operation code-named “Street Sweeper,” a... »

Omaha World Herald hears a proud father’s request and changes its wedding announcement policy to include legal same-sex weddings WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBT equality – today applauded the change in the Omaha World Herald’s wedding announcement policy. OWH will now include same-sex wedding announcements... »

Top 250 Largest Delinquent Sales and Use Tax Accounts Over $100,000 Posted Online The California State Board of Equalization (BOE) today announced the list of California’s largest unpaid sales and use tax delinquencies has been updated at www.boe.ca.gov.  The BOE replaced 22 names on its list of debtors.  Those added to the list... »