Carla Coshow
The 1970s found Carla
Coshow driving a borrowed 18-wheeler from bar to bar to pick
up donated kegs of beer for the first Pride Festival,
organized out of a parking lot on Hancock Street. A few years later, in
1982, the community elected Coshow as Miss Gay Hillcrest
1982. That year, Coshow began co-publishing a weekly
newspaper, edited by Christine Kehoe, who went on to become
state senator. By 1994, Coshow, along with four partners,
bought the popular nightclub The Flame, “to establish a
place where lesbians could go and feel at home.” But her
busy schedule didn’t stop her from holding numerous
fund-raisers, including the annual birthday celebrations for
the Live and Let Live Alano Club, which supports meetings
for those recovering from substance abuse in the GLBT
community. Currently the broker for Coshow Real Estate
Group, Carla and her partner underwrote last year’s “Women
Fest” at the San Diego LGBT Center and have presented
several educational seminars to assist first-time buyers and
beginning investors.
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