By Magdalena Rodriguez– Dawn Ackerman, the Immediate Past President of the Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA), is the CEO of OutSmart Office, the first and only LGBT “Tier One Supplier…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– The rain poured down from the sky on Taiwan’s national legislature building on the morning of May 17, 2019, as lawmakers inside debated whether…
By Philip Ruth– Compact crossovers are where it’s at these days, and why not? They combine the aura of an SUV with family-sized practicality, all nestled within parkable dimensions. While…
By Pam Schmitz– Like many people who participate in the AIDS/LifeCycle, I lost someone whom I cared about during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. I was just out of…
When entertaining out of town visitors, such as for upcoming Pride, or for a great staycation, we recommend going on San Francisco Travel’s self-guided tour of women’s history. The tour,…
San Francisco Bay Times columnist and legendary entertainer Donna Sachet, longstanding Bay Times columnist and “Fun Nun” Sister Dana Van Iquity, founding Bay Times contributor Cleve Jones, members of the…
The San Francisco Civic Center was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places eleven years later. We locals often take…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: This excerpt originally appeared in My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton, published by Duke University Press in 2018. It is reprinted here with her permission. My psychiatrist…
By Tom Moon, MFT– Among participants in the AIDS/LifeCycle (ALC), there is a longstanding tradition in which riders read personal testaments—”Why I Ride”—to one another. Here is one, representative of…
By Brandon Miller, CFP– Cartoonists often depict unpleasant shock by drawing characters with their eyes comically popping out of their face. That image keeps coming to mind when I hear…
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