San Diego Gay and Lesbian News

San Diego's LGBTQ community is experiencing an increase in targeted hate crimes, and yet many in the LGBTQ community don't report these crimes due to negative experiences with law enforcement or challenges with the reporting system. 

Join City Attorney Mara W. Elliott as she brings together Mayor Todd Gloria and Council President Dr. Jen Campbell to hear from the community: 

City of San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria will be the guest speaker at tonight's Hillcrest Town Council (HTC) meeting, held on Zoom. 

The mayor is expected to discuss citywide and neighborhood issues of importance and take questions from participants. This is Mayor Gloria's first visit to the HTC since taking office in December.

The San Diego City Council, sitting as the San Diego Housing Authority, on Tuesday approved the San Diego Housing Commission’s acquisition of the Hillcrest Inn in order to create more middle-income housing units and preserve low-income housing units for San Diegans

Former San Diego City Councilmember (District 3), Council President, and Interim Mayor Todd Gloria announced he is running for mayor. In a YouTube video posted on Wednesday Gloria made his announcement and if he wins he will be the first person-of-color and first openly gay mayor in city history.

Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) wants Californians to know there are new medications that can substantially slow the spread of HIV. There are about 220,000 people who are at high-risk of exposure in California alone. 

Over 500 children from all over San Diego got a visit from the Easter Bunny at the 16th annual Easter Egg Hunt at Trolley Barn Park in University Heights on Sunday.

This popular event brings the community together every year as they collect baskets and bicycles to give away to underprivileged children county-wide.  

Today the Equality March on Washington was also celebrated by over 116 cities around the country.

Right here in San Diego, thousands took to the streets from curb to curb marching through downtown heading toward the city’s administration building.

"The fact of the matter is that this should be followed up with he was falsely accused."

That was the response of one Josh Newman supporter who was handing out flyers in Orange County over the weekend.

He was referring to verbiage on the ad that intends to smear former City Councilmember Carl DeMaio (R) seen in the video below.