{"id":244363,"date":"2011-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/marianne-williamson-keynote-at-san-diego-pride-rally\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T07:00:00","slug":"marianne-williamson-keynote-at-san-diego-pride-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/marianne-williamson-keynote-at-san-diego-pride-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Williamson keynote at San Diego Pride Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6936\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/marianne.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6936 lazyload\" title=\"marianne\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/marianne-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marianne Williamson keynote at San Diego Pride Rally\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 249px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 249\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marianne Williamson <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tucson\u2019s Daniel Hernandez Jr. will also speak<\/p>\n<p>San Diego LGBT Pride welcomes Marianne Williamson, New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Peace Alliance and Project Angel Food in Los Angeles as the keynote speaker at next month\u2019s Spirit of Stonewall rally keynote.<\/p>\n<p>Tucson political activist Daniel Hernandez Jr., who came to the immediate aid of Congressmember Gabrielle Giffords after a gunman fired on her and 18 other people at a public appearance in Arizona in February, will join Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>The rally will be held at 6:30 p.m., Friday, July 15, on the main festival stage at Marston Point in Balboa Park. The event officially kicks off Pride weekend, which features a mile-long parade at 11 a.m., July 16, and a two-day festival in the park, July 16 and 17.<\/p>\n<p>Through The Peace Alliance, Williamson supports Congressional legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace. She is also the author of 10 books focusing on spiritual enlightenment, four of which landed on the New York Times\u2019 bestsellers list.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, she has been featured in such films as \u201cThe Power of Forgiveness\u201d and \u201cLiving Luminaries on the Serious Business of Happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez is a Tucson native and a political science major at the University of Arizona, where he serves as director on the Arizona Students\u2019 Association\u2019s board of directors advocating affordable and accessible education. He is also trained in nursing and phlebotomy, which he utilized to save Gifford\u2019s life. Both President Obama and the national media have celebrated him as an American hero,\u2019though humbly rejects the title.<\/p>\n<p>His political activism extends to working on Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign and Gifford\u2019s congressional campaign. He also helped direct the successful re-election of Arizona State Rep. Steve Farley, who currently serves as assistant minority leader in the Arizona State House. And over the past year he has become an active member on the City of Tucson Commission of LGBT issues.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about San Diego Pride events, or to sign up for volunteer positions, call (619) 297-7683 or visit: SanDiegoPride.org.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson\u2019s Daniel Hernandez Jr. will also speak San Diego LGBT Pride welcomes Marianne Williamson, New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Peace Alliance and Project Angel Food in Los Angeles as the keynote speaker at next month\u2019s Spirit of Stonewall rally keynote. Tucson political activist Daniel Hernandez Jr., who came to the immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Marianne Williamson keynote at San Diego Pride Rally","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}