In 1981, just 12 years after the Stonewall Riots, San Diego Pride board member Doug Moore created a list of Pride organizers from around the country, and from that list in 1982 InterPride was founded with a half dozen Pride organizations meeting in Boston…
Read MoreMay 22 is Harvey Milk’s birthday! Not everyone knows that Harvey Milk lived in San Diego before moving to San Francisco. He was stationed here while serving in the U.S. Navy and credited the experience with his love for California and his eventual move…
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My father, a devout Catholic man from Mexico, and my mother, a Jewish woman raised by Orthodox parents whose family left Russia and Austria respectively to escape persecution and death, each explained to me as a young person the discrimination I would face because…
Read MoreHere in San Diego, more than 18,000 people are currently living with HIV, and across the US that number is closer to 1.1 million. We have come a long way in combating the HIV virus, increasing public health education, and fighting the stigma around…
Read MoreIn the 1950’s, long before the Stonewall riots, “homosexuals” were hunted within the federal government and ejected as they were pegged security risks and communist sympathizers. In 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which barred members of the LGBTQ community from…
Read MoreCommunity events, programs, and fundraisers put on by Pride & other LGBTQ-serving organizations happen all throughout the year!
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