The Evolving Landscape of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in College Football
The 2026 college football season has kicked into high gear this fall with at least three NCAA Division I teams in the Bay Area: UC Berkeley’s California Golden Bears, the Stanford Cardinals, and the San Jose State Spartans. (The Santa Clara Broncos, Saint Mary’s Gaels, USF’s San…
NLGJA’s Deep San Francisco Roots
The story of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists is fundamentally woven into the cultural and civic fabric of San Francisco. In 1990, former Oakland Tribune executive editor Leroy “Roy” F. Aarons gathered a small group of open-minded reporters in his Bay Area living room. Driven by…
LGBTQ+ Crush Season Escape to Wine Country
Late summer through early November is Crush Season in California’s Wine Country. During its peak period, wineries harvest grapes and immediately press or “crush” them to begin fermentation. At a time when there is so much urban disconnect from farming rituals and nature’s cycles of life, it…
About Our Cover 8.13.26
August 2026 marks the fifth Transgender History Month observed in San Francisco. Former Mayor London Breed declared the first such month in August 2021, making San Francisco the first city in the U.S. to do so. Santa Clara declared August as Transgender History Month in 2022, followed…
How Golden Gate Park Became California’s Largest Queer Green Space
When nineteenth-century critics dismissed San Francisco’s ambitious park plan as a foolish attempt to grow greenery on barren ocean dunes, few could have predicted the triumph that would rise from the sand. Today, Golden Gate Park stands as an engineering and ecological miracle, spanning over 1,017 acres—a…
Revisiting Dolly Parton’s Final Full Concert in the Bay Area
Dolly Parton, on September 24, 2016, performed what would become her last full concert in the Bay Area. The show, at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, was part of her Pure & Simple Tour. The San Francisco Bay Times publishers, Betty Sullivan and Jennifer Viegas, along…
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By Joanie Juster— I am alternately bemused, disgusted, and infuriated by the unbridled hypocrisy of those who claim to be “patriots,”…
Midterm Mayhem and How to Fight Back
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A Stark Warning About the Midterms From the Walls of Mexico City
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis— Our mouths gaped as soon as we entered the room to the left of the…
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