San Antonio voters in Districts 1, 4, 8 and 9 will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for an LGBTQ City Council candidate in the May 4 General Election. This election season brings five queer candidates, a record number. LGBTQ candidates have run for the City Council in the past including previous District 1…
Applications for Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee Now Being Accepted
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg announced on February 23 that his office is accepting applications for his LGBTQ Advisory Committee. The announcement was made via Maria Luisa Cesar, the mayor’s deputy communications director who also serves as his liaison to the LGBTQ community. The application, which is available at this link, was developed by a…
With Declining Membership, Stonewall Dems Contemplate Future
The banquet room at Luby’s Cafeteria was filled to capacity on January 24 when the Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio held their candidate endorsement forum ahead of the March primary. The place was packed with politicians and their handlers, media, Stonewall members and others from the community who wanted to get a close-up look at…
San Antonio scores 90 on HRC’s Municipal Equality Index
The City of San Antonio increased it’s rank in the Human Rights Campaign’s 2015 Municipal Equality Index. Now in it’s fourth year, the MEI scores cities on their nondiscrimination laws, their recognition of LGBT relationships, their LGBT policies, the services they offer to LGBT citizens, the police department’s relationship with LGBTs and the “city leadership’s…
Photography exhibit for SA women, by SA women
“San Antonio was and is being built by the hands of women. I dreamt up the vision for this show because of a longing I have for these women to be honored and showcased in the elegance and rawness of photography,” says Anel Flores, lesbian artist, author, and co-curator of the upcoming photography exhibit Women…
LGBT community leaders on panel to interview police chief candidates
Three activists from the LGBT and allied community were chosen to be a part of a panel of local citizens who are providing input on the selection of San Antonio’s new police chief. Ruby Krebs, who is on the mayor’s LGBT advisory committee, Carolee Moore, co-chair of the Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio and Patricia…
City’s human relations liaison is named at council budget meeting
City Manager Sheryl Sculley has named the person who will run the mayor’s proposed Department of Diversity and Inclusion. The announcement came during a budget discussion at the City Council’s B Session on May 13. The position of human relations liaison will be filled by Claryssa Cortez who, according to Sculley, currently works in the…
LGBT committee finally meets with Taylor
Members of the LGBT advisory committee finally had a meeting with Mayor Ivy R. Taylor on April 21 after waiting since last October to see her. The committee, comprised of Equality Texas community organizer Robert Salcido, LGBT liaison Marsha Warren and trans advocate Ruby Krebs, were appointed last fall to advise the mayor on developing…
LGBT committee has first meeting with Mayor Taylor
Members of the LGBT advisory group met for the first time with Mayor Ivy Taylor on October 9. The committee of three includes Marsha Warren, the LGBT liaison to the mayor’s office, and activists Ruby Krebs and Robert Salcido. Also present at the meeting was Leilah Powell, the mayor’s chief of policy. Warren told Out…