The Olympics of Gay Singing
By Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd– (Editor’s Note: Ka Lau and his partner Cameron Gerhold signed consent forms to have their names used in this article.) Dear Ka, I miss you, my friend. We met in the hospital during my first week attending on the UCSF inpatient oncology…
Community Leaders Share Their Favorite Places to Go, Things to Do in the East Bay
Ahead of Oakland Pride 2021, the San Francisco Bay Times asked local community leaders to list their top five favorite places to go and things to do in the East Bay. Joe HawkinsCEO and Co-Founder of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Centerhttps://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/ 1. Lake Merritt – I love…
About Our Cover 8.26.21
Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Debra Walker created the cover for this commemorative edition of the San Francisco Bay Times honoring the 45th Anniversary of Dykes on Bikesâ. Walker is a Commissioner on the San Francisco Arts Commission and serves on the Advisory Panel for Grants for…
History of AGUILAS
By Eduardo Morales, PhD– AGUILAS is an acronym that stands for Asemblea Gay Unida Impactando Latinos A Superarse (Gay Assembly United Impacting Latinxs to Surpass or rise above). Founded in 1991 by members of the Latinx LGBTQ+ community in San Francisco, AGUILAS has a mission that states:…
Filmmaker Recalls Sally Gearhart: ‘She Helped Change the World, and Also Changed Those of Us in Her World’
By Deborah Craig– Sally Gearhart was a toweringly brilliant woman I encountered quite by accident. I teach Public Health at SF State and am a filmmaker too. While helping LGBTQ public health expert Mickey Eliason with a study of lesbian health, I met so many perceptive and…
SF Dykes on Bikes® 45th Anniversary Celebration at Divas & Drinks @ The Academy
San Francisco Dykes on Bikes® gathered in front of The Academy in the Castro on 8/27/21 to celebrate their 45th Anniversary at the Divas & Drinks event co-hosted by the San Francisco Bay Times & The Academy. DOB President Kate Brown is shown greeting Joanie Juster, who…
Features
Whose Pandemic?
By Jewelle Gomez– A friend recently commented that she’d seen my photograph and was surprised to notice that my hair was…
Moon Over San Francisco
By Dr. Tim Seelig– On a recent Saturday evening, Bobby Jo and I attended an event in the far East Bay.…
Donna’s Chronicles, “Saturday was a marathon of Imperial partying..”
By Donna Sachet– Saturday was a marathon of Imperial partying, not for the faint of heart, as the Golden Gate Gaymes…
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