The BEAT AIDS Coalition Trust is inviting the community to come out for their first annual PrEP In Your Step 5k run/walk on Saturday, January 6 at Mission County Park. The event is timed to coincide with National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day which this year is observed on February 7. BEAT (Black Effort Against the…
Results of survey on LGBT immigrants released
United We Dream, the national network of immigrant youth, and Aquí Estamos, an LGBT activist group based in the Rio Grande Valley, have released the results of what may be the first survey aimed at LGBT immigrants. The survey, titled No More Closets, solicited feedback from LGBT immigrants of all statuses including the undocumented, those…
LGBT Chamber and Small Business Administration form strategic alliance
The San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio office of the U.S. Small Business Administration announced the formation of a strategic alliance that will provide access to the SBA’s services and programs to the chamber’s members. The partnership was formalized earlier this month when the two organizations signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum.…
Equality and inclusion officer to address CAUSA meeting
The city’s diversity and inclusion officer will be the guest speaker at a community meeting organized by CAUSA (Community Alliance for a United San Antonio) on February 1 at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. The Diversity and Inclusion Office was created last May when the City Council approved the new department as part of…
SA Stonewall Dems announce endorsements for March primary
The Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio spent a good part of Sunday, January 24 listening to over 50 candidates ask for the group’s endorsement for the March 1 Democratic primary. The presidential endorsement went to Hillary Clinton. Over 80 candidates were invited to participate. In the end, a little over 50 completed questionnaires and spoke…
UT student initiates online network for local LGBT teens
A University of Texas student is in San Antonio promoting a new online network she created which helps local LGBT high school students find a supportive community of like-minded friends. Anna Weingart is the founder and executive director of the non-profit, SanghaLink. She is completing her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Texas…
Bobby Jo Valentine to perform benefit for homeless LGBT youth
Gay singer-songwriter Bobby Jo Valentine will perform on Friday, January 29 in a concert to benefit the Thrive Youth Center for homeless LGBT youth. This is his third appearance in San Antonio. Valentine has independently produced three albums: A Place to Belong, By My Side and most recently, Home. There’s a new album in the…
Over 80 candidates invited to Stonewall Dems endorsement forum
The Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio will hold an endorsement forum where over 80 candidates have been invited to speak to their members on Sunday, January 24. The March 1 primary includes ballots for president, Congressional races, state offices ( judges, representatives and senators) and county officials including sheriff. (For a complete list of races…
Community to observe Martin Luther King Day
San Antonio’s LGBT community will be out in force on January 18 for the city’s Martin Luther King, Jr. March. “We will be marching in this upcoming MLK march as a reminder that we are still not equal, we are more than marriage. As always, we are marching with the giant flag as individual people…
Art installation examines non-conventional gender binaries
A one-night multimedia installation will examine the concept of gender fuck, the process of consciously and conspicuously challenging traditional ideas of the gender binary often through androgyny, hyperbole, or cross-dressing. The installation, Gender F♡ck by Logan Magz, which is slated for January 23 at Lucha Art Gallery, includes thirteen portraits of Magz’s alter ego Maxxy…