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MARCH 2021 voluMe 2 issue 8
March 5, 2021 voLuME 2 iSSuE 8
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TavoLa nosTra Take a Seat, You Are Family Here! p14
Life Beyond Therapy Conflict Can Be Good for You p5
disTriCT aTTorney news Don’t Get Duped by Unsolicited Unemployment Payments p4
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arTisT profiLe: John Carlos Llamas and Cam Matthews p12
ConversaTions Big Mike wiTh niCoLe & friends LGBTQIA+ Leaders Stand with Kevin Crosland p8 Council President Campbell p7 geTTin’ ziggy poziTiveLy MiChaeL generaTion sTew! wiTh iT Millennials – Coping Learning I was Confronting Gender with The Pandemic p11 HIV Positive p9 Stereotypes p10
a noTe froM Toni March 2020 Came in Like a Stampede p6
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66-Year-Old Suspect held to Answer in 1983 Gay Homicide p15
7TH aNNUal TraCIe JaDa O’brIeN TraNsgeNDer sTUDeNT sCHOlarsHIP Setting up the next generation For SucceSS By cesar a reyes
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uring the upcoming San Diego Trans Day of Empowerment (Friday, April 2, 2021), the annual student scholarship recipients will be announced. But we still have plenty of time for students to send in their applications (deadline is March 14). We sat down with Founder and Community Activist Tracie Jada O’Brien and a past recipient Trenton Brooks, to talk about the importance of the scholarship and the work that never ends to ensure the future looks bright for the younger generations. The scholarship has been given to 100 trans students in the community. The scholarship fund is one of the first scholarships of its kind focused on transgender student success in San Diego. They believe that strong community support can give our local transgender students the confidence to beat the odds. The volunteer-led committee has been able to distribute scholarships totaling $48,000 to local transgender students over the past 6 years. The average student GPA was 3.5. Students are studying law, medicine, social work, psychology, and more. They are attending schools as close as City College and SDSU to as far away as the University of Chicago and Harvard University.
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(courtesy images) Tracie Jada O’Brien (courtesy image)
DIversIONarY DI THeaTre Securing the Future oF our beloved LGBTQ+ coMMuNiTy arTS coMpLEx Jenny case, Managing Director Diversionary Theatre
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Diversionary Theatre Launches a $2.5 million Securing Our Future campaign payfor new building improvements including pay ing off the mortgage, theatre upgrades, an ad additional new cabaret/performance venue, a new Education Center to support their increased free arts education programs, and a litany of Covid safety improvements that will ensure the safest theatrical re-opening possible. Diversionary Theatre has raised 89% of their $2.5 million goal for the Securing Our Future campaign. The campaign, which will provide funds for new building improvements including paying off the mortgage, theatre renovations and upgrades, an additional new cabaret/per cabaret/performance venue, adding an Education Center, and a litany of Covid safety improvements that will ensure the theatre has the safest theatri theatrical re-opening possible as well as expanding the beloved theatre’s education programing for youth and senior citizens. Construction has already begun and is expected to be completed June 2021, making the theatre ready to reopen with all new safety features as soon as the State and County mandates allow.
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