Gay Men’s Health Services is hosting Cupid’s Workshop, Saturday, Feb. 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The free workshop aims to help participants build and maintain healthy relationships. Participants will meet new people, and develop essential skills to build and sustain a rewarding and healthy partnership.

Group size is limited, so RSVPs are required. Call 619-515-2446 or e-mail gmhs@fhcsd.org for more information. The one-day workshop will be held at the Park Manor Hotel. Gay Men’s Health Services is a program of Family Health Centers of San Diego.

The Center’s Behavioral Health Services offers HIV testing five days a week. The “early test” is available on Wednesdays from noon to 8:30 p.m., with the last test given at 7:15 p.m.

Testing is also available on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Fridays 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 619-260-6380.

Gay literary pioneer Felice Picano will read from and discuss his critically acclaimed memoir Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall. The reading will take place at D.G.Wills Books in La Jolla on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m.

A decade after the Stonewall riots, a small, all-gay press named Seahorse launched, along with Calamus Books and JH Press, which all came together to form Gay Presses of New York. Gay Presses of New York played a pivotal role in the growth of gay bookstores, magazines, newspapers, theater companies and art galleries. During the 1970s through the early 1990s, many hubs for the arts, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, were connected to Gay Presses of New York.

According to Catherine Texiers of The New York Times, “Art and Sex in Greenwich Village is a real who’s who of the gay literary world from the mid-’70s to the mid-’90s. Picano seemingly knew and worked with everyone who was worth knowing and working with in the GLBT community. Part of what makes his memoir invaluable and enjoyable is his willingness to dish. Picano functions, in that sense, as an important historian. In spite of a tendency to self-aggrandize, calling attention to his own talent as publisher, art director and writer – and as an indefatigable, irresistible and ‘classically proportioned’ lover – Picano has assembled a tremendously entertaining collection of anecdotes and portraits that only a witness (and a good writer) could report in such vivid details.”

Picano has published more than 20 books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. He has been a regular writer for the San Francisco Examiner, The Lesbian and Gay Review, and The Lambda Book Report. His award-winning novels include Like People in History, The Book of Lies and Onyx.

D.G. Wills Books is located at 7461 Girard Ave. For more information, call 858-456-1800, or visit www.dgwillsbooks.com.

The February LGBT Community Coalition Breakfast will feature Lorena S. Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council. The breakfast will take place on Friday, Feb. 15, from 7:30-9 a.m. at The Center.

Gonzalez is the first woman and minority to serve as secretary-treasurer of the Labor Council, a coalition of 119 local unions representing more than 120,000 working families in the region, since it was founded in 1902. Prior to being elected secretary-treasurer, she was the Labor Council’s political director. As an environmental attorney, Gonzalez served as a consultant to the Commission on Economic Development and as the Lt. Governor’s principal advisor on policy issues dealing with labor, the environment, energy and infrastructure. She is currently on the San Diego and Riverside Counties Planned Parenthood board of directors and the San Diego District Attorney’s Women‘s Advisory Committee.

The Community Coalition Breakfast is sponsored by the Gay & Lesbian Times, Wells Fargo, San Diego LGBT Pride and Peet’s Coffee. The breakfast takes place the third Friday of each month and its mission is to bring together fair-minded individuals to network, educate and discuss the diverse issues of concern to GLBT and allied neighbors and citizens of San Diego. A full breakfast is available for a $10 donation; coffee and tea are complimentary.

RSVPs are not required. ASL interpretation will be provided upon request, which must be sent to Caroline Dessert at cdessert@thecentersd.org at least seven working days before the event.

The Center is located at 3909 Centre St. in Hillcrest. For more information, call 619-692-2077, or visit www.thecentersd.org.

The San Diego State University Alumni Association recently approved the Aztec LGBT Alumni chapter. Members forming the group presented the application for the chapter to the association’s board of directors at its Jan. 24 meeting.

The mission of the newly formed chapter is to promote and support the development of relationships between SDSU’s GLBT alumni community, current students, administration and community supporters. This will be done through events that allow for social and professional networking.

Membership in the chapter is open to all paid members of the SDSU Alumni Association. The founding board members of the chapter include Pressley Rankin (2006), Ben Cartwright (06), Jeffrey Redondo (02) and Josh San Julian (04).

An inaugural meeting and mixer will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, from 6-9 p.m. at the Bamboo Lounge located at 1475 University Ave. in Hillcrest. Anyone interested in the chapter is welcome to attend.

For more information or to join the chapter, visit http://chapters.sdsu.edu/lgbt.

More than 400 individuals have contributed to Stephen Whitburn’s campaign for the District 3 City Council race, nearly tripling the number of contributors he reported on June 30, 2007. The Whitburn campaign has reserves of more than $60,000 heading into the June primary, according to a year-end report filed with the City of San Diego’s Ethics Commission.

“This growing base of support means we will have the resources we need to win this campaign,” said Whitburn. “With our grassroots activists walking precincts and endorsements from Congressman [Bob] Filner and Councilmember [Donna] Frye, our campaign has the momentum it needs.”

For the calendar year, Whitburn reported income of $105,522. Cash on hand as of Dec. 31 was $63,115.53. During the reporting period of July 1 to Dec. 31, 2007, Whitburn reported income of $87,661. At the June 30 reporting, 133 individuals had contributed to the campaign. By Dec. 31, that number had increased to 406.

Whitburn has won endorsements from Filner and Frye, former Sen. Lucy Killea, the Sierra Club and the San Diego Democratic Club.

Family Health Centers of San Diego’s, Project STAR (Supporting Transgender Access to Resources) will host what it bills as an evening of fun and the best of Transgender and female illusion entertainment at “One Night Only!”

This fund-raiser will support San Diego’s 5th Annual Transgender Day of Empowerment event. Members of the Imperial Court de San Diego will take part in the event. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, local transgender showgirls, and special guests from Los Angeles and San Francisco will also participate.

The event will take place at Bacchus House, 3054 University Ave. in North Park, Saturday, Feb 16, with the show beginning at 8 p.m.

For more information, call Tracie O’Brien at 619-515-2411.

San Diego Pride has announced that festival exhibitor applications are now available for the Pride festival, scheduled for July 19 and 20, at Marston Point in Balboa Park.

The Pride festival is a two-day celebration of Pride and an educational tool to raise awareness of human rights for GLBT communities locally and globally. Special features at this year’s festival will include a new park-and-ride lot at the County Administration Building, a main stage Jumbo Tron screen, a “wine grotto,” an enhanced commitment ceremony, a rally on July 19 during the festival and free “love hats” on July 20. Multiple entertainment stages, food courts and a dozen other special areas will also be featured along with nearly 300 exhibitors.

“A significant number of exhibitors represent nonprofit organizations in our community and they contribute to the grassroots heritage of the festival,” said Ron deHarte, executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride. “This will be the fifth year in a row that a nonprofit organization can obtain a 10x10 tented space for only $250. Showcasing our community’s nonprofit groups is a very important component of the Pride festival and we are proud to keep the fees locked in at 2004 levels.”

Organizations and businesses seeking to increase consumer awareness of their services or products are encouraged to exhibit at the San Diego Pride festival.

Festival applications are available online at www.sandiegopride.org, or through the Pride office, located at 1807 Robinson St., Ste. 106. This year’s Pride theme is “Live, Love, Be,” and will be held the weekend of July 19-20. For more information, call the Pride office at 619-297-7683 ext. 104, or visit the Web site at www.sandiegopride.org.

The Center’s Senior Services department hosts a free telephone information line that provides recorded notices on a number of activities. For up-to-date information regarding events, group meetings and other planned activities for seniors at The Center, call 619-692-2077, ext. 801