Ben Cartwright delivers the San Diego Pride TV weekly video podcast
(video: San Diego Pride at YouTube)
This July, San Diego Pride will be honoring longtime-partnered and legally-married GLBT community members, Linda Smith & Niki Morehead (35 years together) and Vern Miller & Ray Wooding (50 years together).
Benny advises San Diego’s GLBT community to make a mad dash for the closet and drag out your kinkiest boots for a good cause!
It’s time once again for a weekly round-up of what’s happening in sleepy conservative progressive San Diego:
Tuesday, 28 April:
The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality will be meeting at the First Unitarian Universal Church in Hillcrest. Agenda items include: Planning for ‘Day of and Day After Decision’ Actions, discussion and formation of ongoing committees, becoming a project of LGBT Pride, fundraising, LGBT Pride Torch Relay event, May Day- 5/1/09, as well as other future actions.
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: First Unitarian Universal Church, 4190 Front St, San Diego, CA 92103, in Hillcrest
Parking: It is across the street from UCSD Hospital, park in the church parking lot and we will have parking validation for you.The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME) is an open, democratically-run organization committed to fighting for LGBT rights including marriage equality. Volunteers and peace monitors are still needed for the Day of Decision event, and Wendy Sue wants to recruit you.
Wednesday, 29 April:
College Democrats & LGBTQIA present
Don’t Ask, Don’t TellFeaturing: Iraq Vet and West Point Grad, Lt Dan Choi
Join us for an informative and in-depth look at Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell! The event will begin at noon, in Price Center Plaza. At 1PM, we will move to the Eleanor Roosevelt College Room in Price Center for a Q&A session with Lt. Choi.
Our speaker will be Lieutenant Dan Choi of Knights Out. Knights Out is an organization of OUT Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) West Point Alumni, along with their Straight West Point Alumni counterparts, who are united in supporting the rights of LGBT soldiers to openly serve their country. OUT members include former West Point professors, Rhodes Scholars, decorated combat veterans from the Vietnam War, Iraq and Afghanistan, peacekeepers who served in Haiti and Bosnia, men and women from the first co-ed class (1980), an ordained minister, and many others, coming out from their silence to serve their country in a new way.
Dan Choi is a 2003 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point. He is a combat veteran of the Iraq War. Choi serves in the Army National Guard as an infantry platoon leader, a job that allows him to lead soldiers on the ground level and fully utilize his combat training and experience. While at West Point, he majored in Arabic Language and Environmental Engineering.
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Price Center Plaza
Phone: 714 392 2900
Email: swshim@ucsd.edu
Friday, 1 May:
LGBT Pride Festival at San Diego State University
The first ever Pride Festival at San Diego State University hosted by the Pride Action Committee and Associated Students/CASE! This is going to be the largest LGBT event ever held at SDSU. Hundreds of people are expected to come party the night away and celebrate LGBT Pride at SDSU. Invite all your friends and don’t miss out!
Hosted by: Regina of Divas Night Out
Entertainment by: MC Flow, Divas Night Out (Drag Show), and Rhythm and the Method
Featuring: Free food, drinks, glow sticks, and rainbow wristbands, community information booths, large dance floor with DJ Richie spinning live, cage dancers, bungee trampoline, henna tattoo artist, live art wall, and more!
Time: 7:00pm – 10:30pm
Location: San Diego State University
Street: Campanile Walkway
City: San Diego
Saturday, 2 May:
Project OUT-Reach for Equality
From Marriage Equality USA-San Diego: Project OUT-Reach is a project where we are going into the areas around San Diego County where we lost Prop 8 looking for new supporters while educating the community about what’s happening around the issue of marriage equality and getting them involved in the next steps towards equality. Even by starting right now, we have less than two years to change the hearts and minds of 250,000 + 1 Californians by using earned media, demonstrations, public outreach and education. To be successful we cannot just organize in areas that are supportive. We must also reach out to communities that have not traditionally been our allies in this fight to bridge the gap in understanding. We will have conversations with people, both at their doors and in busy public spaces to raise consciousness about the issue as well as funds for the cause. We will keep our community energized and engaged as activists, fighting to win back our fundamental right to marry.
Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Lips Restaurant – in North Park
Street: 3036 El Cajon Blvd
City: San Diego
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