Healing & Safer Communities

In June of 2020, San Diego Pride released a plan to chart a course forward to better address the public safety needs of our LGBTQ community and to hold law enforcement agencies accountable for bias in policing that disproportionately harms our transgender, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community members. Our Path to Healing & Safer Communities plan intentionally centers Black LGBTQ San Diegans. We honor the progress that has been made and the work we have yet to do.

San Diego Pride is actively engaged in community-based organizing work to advocate for criminal justice reform policies that build safer communities for all San Diegans, while centering our BIPOC LGBTQ community’s lived experience.

The below policy and practice recommendations from the work of the Healing & Safer Committee are directed to San Diego Pride, law enforcement agencies, and policymakers / elected officials. These recommendations from the committee range from small practice adjustments to significant shifts in policy and structure. 

Pride’s Pillars of Justice build on our mission, vision, and values to guide our work in policy, advocacy, and community organizing. These issue areas are core to the achievement of LGBTQ+ equality locally, nationally, and globally. While our focus areas and specific policies may shift often based on community needs, these pillars of justice build the stable foundation of our education and advocacy work. 

San Diego Pride offers LGBTQ+ inclusivity, diversity, and equity trainings to a wide variety of different audiences. These trainings are offered to law enforcement agencies as a form of harm-reduction for our LGBTQ+ community and are in compliance with new state laws requiring LGBTQ+ inclusivity trainings for law enforcement agencies in the state of California.