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, Results have been posted from the caucus-level election of Bernie and Biden delegates for the upcoming 2020 Democratic National Convention. We want to congratulate club members Rebecca Philpott, Cipriano Vargas, Gloria Conejo, Jose Caballero, and board member Evlyn Andrade on their wins! Statewide, California Democrats will send 495 delegates and 35 alternates to …
Democrats for Equality, After our club’s executive board met this weekend, we are excited to announce that we will be holding a special club meeting on Saturday, June 6 at 2:00pm! We will be meeting via Zoom, and we’ll have the meeting registration link and more information forthcoming. Also, we will …
Democrats for Equality, Last night’s totally-not-overly-complicated endorsement meeting via Zoom (I hate Zoom) resulted in several new additions to our list of club recommendations for this 2020 election season! We passed and have now officially endorsed in a number of post-primary races on consent, including Kate Schwartz for State Assembly District 75, Terra Lawson-Remer for County Board of …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, we sent out a call-to-action e-mail for the two special elections next Tuesday (May 12th). If you would like to help out with some calls or texts to voters to help elect Elizabeth Romero in State Senate District 28, and/or Christy Smith in Congressional District 25, we added all the volunteer …
Democrats for Equality, Yesterday, our club’s immediate past president and current Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy announced on Facebook that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Doctors at the VA Medical Center continue to monitor him in the ICU. Additionally, club member and our endorsed candidate in Council District 9 Kelvin Barrios announced that …
