By Assemblymember Phil Ting– California has some of the best legal protections in the country today for the LGBT community, but the road to get to this point hasn’t been…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– As Oakland’s citywide elected Councilmember, who also serves on the countywide Transportation Commission, I recently proposed that Oakland adopt regulations for shared bicycle…
By Stuart Gaffney– May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and this year I’ve been reflecting on what it was like to attend summer camp in Wisconsin in the early…
By Paul Pendergast– On Friday, May 12, Equality California is going to be honoring Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and LaVerda Allen for the historic inclusion of LGBT-certified businesses in…
At the third in a series of four community meetings on April 14, Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza (FHMP) in partnership with the architecture firm Perkins Eastman presented four preliminary…
By Dr. Tim Seelig– One of my favorite songs is “I Come from Good People.” I do come from good people. I also come from fat people—hearty stock, as we…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In the late 1980s, when the Prozac family of anti-depressants became available, I saw the new drugs make dramatic changes in the lives of many people.…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– It would have been the trial of the century, had there been a trial. In 130 A.D., attendants found the body of Antinous, the handsome young…
By Roma Guy and Debra Walker– London Breed is the exact person we need to lead San Francisco. All of us supporting her have long recognized her ability to identify…
By Gary M. Kramer– In the fabulous new TV show Vida, debuting May 6 on STARZ, two estranged sisters, the sexpot Lyn (Melissa Barrera) and the uptight Emma (Mishel Prada),…
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