The Greater San Diego Business Association

Specialties

The Greater San Diego Business Association promotes prosperity and equality for our members, supporters and the LGBT community.

History

Established in 1979.

GSDBA is one of the largest specialty chambers in San Diego County and the second largest gay, lesbian and supportive chamber in the nation. GSDBA prides itself on outreach to other business chambers and to society at large.

Meet the Business Owner

Tom S.

Business Owner

Tom Luhnow is a native of San Diego who returned in 2009 after serving 12 years as executive director of Flying House Productions (FHP), home of the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus. SMC is the largest gay men’s chorus in the world. While working at FHP, he expanded the organization’s fundraising efforts and was instrumental in their starting the women’s chorus.

Prior to joining FHP, Tom ran a small nonprofit in Washington, D.C., dedicated to overturning the Fairness Doctrine, a policy of the Federal Communications Commission that required holders of broadcast licenses to present controversial issues of public importance in a balanced manner. Opponents to the policy argued that it was a violation of First Amendment rights, and the policy was dismantled in 1987.

Tom is also a co-​founder of Forty Plus of Puget Sound, through which he trained hundreds of unemployed executives and professionals in the skills of returning to work at a time when few resources were available.