Front Runners provides running and walking activities for the LGBT community. It meets every Monday and/or Wednesday at 6pm in Balboa Park at the southeast corner of Sixth and Laurel under the big tree.
E.A.G.E.R. II (Expectation Around Gender Expression & Roles) is a discussion and support group for transgender and trans-questioning adults ages 18+. This discussion group often uses media clips, movies, and art projects to facilitate discussion about issues facing the transgender youth community. This group meets Saturday evenings from 5:30-7pm at The Center.
Monthly potlucks and social gatherings for men who are vegetarian or who are interersted in a vegetarian lifestyle.
***MEETS IN BALBOA PARK in the Playground near 6th & Spruce. Always FREE. Everyone welcome regardless of physical condition.
Front Runners North County
More detailed information on http://www.northcountypridesd.org, select "Groups and Events", then "Front Runners North County"
A fitness & social group for GLBT and friends and families to walk and run on the beach in Carlsbad. We meet each Saturday morning at 9am in MaGee Park in Carlsbad, California. After that, we meet in a cafe with tea and coffee for chatting nice. Tell your friends about this nice group. Oh, so you know, it's FREE!!
Urban Mos/Kickers Country Western Dance Instruction 7:00 to 8:30 Free of charge. 308 University Ave @ Third Ave.
Morning Coffee
Every Wednesday & Saturday at Filter
Filter A great way to catch up on the local news and gossip, make new friends, connect with old, and jump-start your day.
TIME: 10 AM.
LOCATION: Filter, 4096 30th St. (at 30th and Polk Streets)
COST: Free
First Saturday of the month – Celebrate this month’s’ birthdays with cake and song.
Second Saturday of each month – -Raffle for the most FABULOUS prizes.
No writing experience necessary. Join Fergal and the guys for a fun, creative workshop! Sponsored by Positive Action. Please call coordinator to sign up. Where: the San Diego LGBT Community Center every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Project OUT-Reach is an in-person campaign that puts a face to the issue every single Saturday.
10am – Get a training and coffee
11am – Go out with a buddy that’s done the canvass before
2pm – Return to base to report back your experience and get lunch
3pm – Out the door to enjoy the rest of your weekend knowing that you made a difference
Project OUT-Reach – a project where we are going into the areas around San Diego County where we lost Prop 8 looking for new supporters while educating the community about what's happening around the issue of marriage equality and getting them involved in the next steps towards equality. Even by starting right now, we have less than two years to change the hearts and minds of 250,000 + 1 Californians by using earned media, demonstrations, public outreach and education. To be successful we cannot just organize in areas that are supportive. We must also reach out to communities that have not traditionally been our allies in this fight to bridge the gap in understanding. We will have conversations with people, both at their doors and in busy public spaces to raise consciousness about the issue as well as funds for the cause. We will keep our community energized and engaged as activists, fighting to win back our fundamental right to marry.
For more information you may contact:
(619) 861-7939
meusasd@gmail.com
www.marriageequalitysd.org
You are encouraged to bring friends and family along. Please RSVP via email to volunteer@marriageequalitysd.org with the number of people you will be bringing. Let us know if you speak Spanish so we can have enough materials in Spanish.
Weekly women's discussion group geared specifically towards lesbian, bisexual and transgender women of color. This group meets downstairs at The Center (3909 Centre St. Hillcrest) in the Latino Services room.
Topics for August/September/October 2010:
Aug 14th - Substance abuse/depression in the gay community
21st - Presentation by Jacqueline and Azul: "Prop. 8 Recap: What Has Happened
and What You Can Do to Help"; followed by: Is being gay a civil rights issue?
28th - Fun day
Sep 4th - Accepting yourself
11th - When your partner has been abused
18th - Coming out later in life
25th - Fun day
Oct 2nd - Lesbian parenting
9th - Dating outside your race
16th - Safe sex
23rd - Effective goal setting
30th - Fun day
For more info: lbt.womenofcolorunited@gmail.com
this is a drop-in class and meets every saturday
it focuses on same-sex competition dancing - any level
we're meeting at: CHEEK2CHEEK dance studio, 4360 morena blvd, san diego, ca 92117
more info: http://kpdancehouse.com - click on DIVERSITYDANCESPORT
New swimmers and drop-in visits encouraged. Please go to our web site for more information and be sure to check out our calendar for any last minute schedule changes. www.DSST.org
In 2009, over 1,000 volunteers went door to door with us across the state to talk with voters about the importance of marriage equality for gay & lesbian couples. This year we’ve already talked with voters at their door in places like Santee and El Cajon. How great is that?
We know we’re on the right path, but California’s a huge state and we have to change the minds of 800 San Diegans this year alone or we WILL continue to lose this fight.
For our door-to-door canvass we’re gathering a team of volunteers to go in pairs to neighborhoods that mainly voted Yes on Prop 8, and we’re having conversations at the door about voters' stance on marriage. Currently in San Diego 25% of the people we talk to come closer to supporting marriage for LGBT couples. We prepare you with a great training and role play then pair you up with a volunteer who’s canvassed before.
It’s really important that we get all of our supporters out with us doing this important work. We all need to do our part.
Fellowship of Older Gays (FOG) meets every Saturday at 10:00a.m. at Lily's Coffee House, 3501 Adams Ave (entrance around the corner on 35th Street)., San Diego for coffee and socializing. FOG is a social activity group for older gay men. Visitors are always welcome.
Diversionary Theatre presents ‘[title of show]’
July 8-August 8
A love letter to musical theatre and to the joy of collaboration, [title of show] is a witty new musical written by two struggling writers about two struggling writers writing a witty new musical. A can’t miss for those who love Broadway!
[title of show] has music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and the book is by Hunter Bell. Directed by James Vasquez, with musical direction by Tim McKnight. The cast of four features Tony Houck, Heather Paton, Karson St. John and Tom Zohar. [title of show] is an official event of San Diego LGBT Pride.
Show times:
Thursday & Monday (July 26) at 7:30pm
Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 3:00 & 8:00pm
Sunday at 2:00pm
Thursday, Sunday, Monday performances: $33
Friday & Saturday performances: $35
Students/Seniors 60+/Military: $4 off
Student Rush: $12.00 tickets for students w/ID starting one hour before curtain.
Please ask for the discount at time of purchase.
Diversionary Theatre
“San Diego’s LGBT Theatre”
4545 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92116
619.220.0097
boxoffice@diversionary.org
www.diversionary.org
Diversionary Theatre presents ‘[title of show]’
July 8-August 8
A love letter to musical theatre and to the joy of collaboration, [title of show] is a witty new musical written by two struggling writers about two struggling writers writing a witty new musical. A can’t miss for those who love Broadway!
[title of show] has music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and the book is by Hunter Bell. Directed by James Vasquez, with musical direction by Tim McKnight. The cast of four features Tony Houck, Heather Paton, Karson St. John and Tom Zohar. [title of show] is an official event of San Diego LGBT Pride.
Show times:
Thursday & Monday (July 26) at 7:30pm
Friday at 8:00pm
Saturday at 3:00 & 8:00pm
Sunday at 2:00pm
Thursday, Sunday, Monday performances: $33
Friday & Saturday performances: $35
Students/Seniors 60+/Military: $4 off
Student Rush: $12.00 tickets for students w/ID starting one hour before curtain.
Please ask for the discount at time of purchase.
Diversionary Theatre
“San Diego’s LGBT Theatre”
4545 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92116
619.220.0097
boxoffice@diversionary.org
www.diversionary.org
50 & Better Art Show
Saturday, July 31, 5-8pm
Wrap up Pride Month at the 50 & Better Art show, taking place in The Center’s auditorium on Saturday, July 31, 5-8pm. Enjoy snacks and beverages while perusing the work of our 50 & Better Together art group. Buy raffle tickets for a chance to win a masterpiece of your own! Members of our 50 & Better creative writing group will also share their work. Entrance is free. 21+
Join LGBT activist Robin Tyler and her wife Diane who will be here from L.A. among many other local LGBT and Labor activist.
GOPROUD will by holding a "Don't Tread on Us" Reception.
Featuring Tammy Bruce:
...Fox News Channel Political Analyst,
National Radio Talk Show Host,
Best-Selling Author &
GOProud's Advisory Council Chair
From 5pm to 7pm they will be holding their reception.
This will be the first LGBT group to proudly violate our community's boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt. Shame on GOProud for not respecting our community! Shame on GOProud for writing a check to the Hyatt!
Check out this quote from an article on their website.
Gay, Inc - The Puppets of the Big Union Bosses
Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director, "The decision by the leadership of the gay left to support the Arizona boycott over an issue totally unrelated to gay rights shows just how beholden they are to the union bosses."
Lets meet out front of the Manchester Grand Hyatt at 4:30pm until 5:30pm. We will have bullhorns, drums, banner, picket signs, etc. Lets send them a message that San Diegans realize that unity, solidarity and coalition building only strengthen the LGBT community! The LGBT community of San Diego are not "puppets to union bosses" we are allies with union members!
Contact Michael Anderson @ 619-516-3737 ext 323 or cell 954-648-1984 or email Manderson@UNITEHERE.org for more information.
Vermin on the Mount, the acclaimed L.A.-based reading series, celebrates its six-year anniversary with a night of irreverent readings in the heart of the East Village.
On July 31, four writers from across the country, touring together in a van out of Tucson, Arizona, will perform alongside four of San Diego’s finest writers. Vermin on the Mount represents a fantastic opportunity for San Diegans to see an eclectic showcase of emer...ging literary stars and exceptional local talent.
AARON BURCH is the author of the chapbook How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew by PANK Press and the publisher of Hobart. Aaron is currently working on his MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
South African writer LISA FUGARD now makes her home in Encinitas. Lisa is the recipient of numerous awards, and her debut novel, Skinner’s Drift, was published to wide acclaim.
AMELIA GRAY is a writer living in Austin, Texas. She is the author of AM/PM published by featherproof books, and Museum of the Weird, published this summer by Fiction Collective 2.
LINDSAY HUNTER lives in Chicago, Illinois where she co-hosts a flash fiction reading series called Quickies! Her collection of slim fictions, Daddy‘s, will be published by featherproof books in September.
San Diego native JESS JOLLETT’s work appears in Driftwood Journal, San Diego CityBeat, and San Diego Writers, Ink Anthology. She is also the communications director for So Say We All.
ENRIQUE LIMÓN is a nightlife columnist and contributing writer for San Diego CityBeat. His column “The Enrique Experience” emphasizes the unusual and the offbeat.
ADAM NOVY is the author of The Avian Gospels, which will be released in two installments by Short Flight/Long Drive Books. Adam lives in Long Beach.
ANDREW ROE’s fiction has appeared in One Story, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and more. He lives in Oceanside with his wife and three small children.
About the host… JIM RULAND started Vermin on the Mount in L.A.’s Chinatown in August of 2004. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, author of the short story collection Big Lonesome, and a freelance book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times.
