San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

(SAN DIEGO) San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced earlier this week that 19 felony charges have been filed against eleven individuals accused of conspiracy, grand theft, credit card forgery, and identity theft. The defendants are primarily Russian and Armenian nationals. If convicted, the defendants face between six and 35 years in state prison.

(LINWOOD, N.J.) Oct. 9 /The Miss America Organization (MAO) announced yesterday that Rush Limbaugh has been named as one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant. The pageant will be held at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, January 30 and broadcast live on TLC.

(LOS ANGELES), The U.S. Administration on Aging has given the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center an historic three-year grant, valued at $380,000 in the first year, to expand its Seniors Services Department, one of the Center's fastest growing programs. It's the first such award to an LGBT organization.

A year ago on November 4, 2008, Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition passed in the November general election. The measure added a new section (7.5) to Article I of the California Constitution. The section reads: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”

Gay activist and author Charles Merrill, who originally donated thousands of dollars in the National Equality March on Washington, D.C., coming up on Oct. 11, 2009, is calling upon the gay community to cancel the march.

(WASHINGTON) – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he planned to appoint openly gay attorney David Huebner as the U.S. ambassador to New Zeland and Samoa.

(CHICAGO)-- While the cold and flu season serves as a primary culprit in workplace absences, the economy may be a factor as well this year. According to an annual survey by CareerBuilder, nearly one-third of workers have played hooky from the office this year, calling in sick when they were well at least once.

The Newsom for California campaign announced today that Sam Diego Congressman Bob Filner, Chairman of the House of
Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has endorsed Mayor Gavin Newsom for governor.

(SAN DIEGO)--An Oceanside lesbian whose doctors denied her infertility treatment based on her sexual orientation has reached a settlement with her former physicians in her historic lawsuit against them.

(SAN DIEGO) Barney & Barney, San Diego's oldest and largest insurance brokerage firm, officially ended its summer-long centennial celebration last week with an October 1 event at the San Diego Natural History Museum. As part of the commemoration, more than $260,000 in grant funding was allocated to local charities.