City College of San Francisco (CCSF) is one of the largest community colleges in California, and yet since 2012, it has been threatened by the loss of its accreditation due…
We just finished celebrating the DCCC Ultimate Women’s Power Luncheon hosted by Leader Nancy Pelosi. Last year, the luncheon featured Hillary Clinton. This year, it honored Senator Boxer, and every…
On September 30, I along with my colleagues on the City Council held a Special Council Meeting on Housing and unanimously passed Oakland’s Housing Equity Roadmap—a comprehensive plan to address…
Life-saving changes are well under way through federal health care reform, or the Affordable Care Act, and we must stand up to the challenge. We all know someone with no…
By Dennis McMillan Protections for Transgende Foster Youth Signed into Law Legislation authored by Senator Mark Leno (and co-sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality California and Transgender…
On October 7, Governor Brown signed the LGBT Disparities Reduction Act that requires four state agencies to collect voluntary self-reported demographic information on sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity Sister Dana sez, “Did everybody do their patriotic duty during Fleet Week – and take a sailor home?!” The trans community has been an intriguing…
By Ann Rostow She’s Still Standing My friends, I thought I was done with Kim Davis back in August. Yet every two weeks, the minute this column goes to press,…
Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is teaching the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course, according to district officials. In this column,…
On October 15, 2005, amid celebrations, speeches and ceremonies, the people of San Francisco welcomed a new museum building unlike anything they had ever seen before. A decade later, this…
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