Democrats for Equality, A couple weeks ago, we updated our club’s website to include a page for Transgender Resources and Guidelines — again, thanks to contributions from our executive boardmembers Dr. Andrea Cubitt and Shane Parmely. Earlier this morning, I took the liberty and added another informational resource to our club’s website — …
Democrats for Equality, We are excited to host a virtual fundraiser for Marni von Wilpert in a couple weeks on Friday, August 28th at 5:30pm. Special guests include our LGBTQ City Councilmembers Chris Ward and Dr. Jen Campbell, and retired State Senator Christine Kehoe. We want to invite all of …
Democrats for Equality, Today, is HERstoric. Our presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has selected our California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. As announced officially from Joe Biden’s Twitter account, it’s the announcement that has been heard around the world. Congratulations to our Senator — and, to echo the words of our Governor: Let’s go …
Democrats for Equality, Thank you to everyone who participated in our special club meeting last weekend! We had a number of things to consider endorsements on — and, despite some limitations on Zoom — we were able to get through everything as efficiently as possible. Our club is the first …
Democrats for Equality, With many thanks to the activism and education of our executive boardmembers Dr. Andrea Cubitt and Shane Parmely, last year we updated our club’s candidate questionnaire to reflect more relevant questions on specific issues relating to our transgender community. Throughout our endorsement process over this 2020 election …
Democrats for Equality, With the Democratic National Convention taking place the same week as our regularly scheduled meeting in August, we will not be meeting on our regular date next month. Instead, we will be holding a special meeting on Saturday, August 1st at 2:00pm which has previously been noticed on our …
Democrats for Equality, First off, thank you to all of our club members who have renewed their memberships! So many of you even renewed and upped to a higher level, and I can’t begin to thank you for that vote of confidence in our club. If you have not renewed …
Democrats for Equality, A friendly reminder about membership renewals! Everyone’s club membership expires on June 30th, so if you have not renewed your membership already, please do so! We were founded in 1975, so this is our 45th year of activism. The only two LGBTQ+ organizations in San Diego that …
Democrats for Equality, Join us this Saturday, June 27th at 2:00pm as we host a panel discussion on racial justice in the LGBTQ+ community. This discussion will be moderated by Genevieve Jones-Wright and our club’s Sergeant-at-Arms Rickie Brown. The County Democratic Party is hosting this for us (thank you Will!) — in case you’re wondering …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, was a landmark moment in history for our LGBTQ community. Our U.S. Supreme Court on a 6-3 vote ruled that an employer who fires an employee simply for being LGBTQ is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Before Monday, you …
