On behalf of the board, I’m delighted to welcome you to our 17th (!) Soirée! This event is near and dear to my heart because I started volunteering with the…
Mayor Breed Appoints San Francisco’s First LGBTQ Fire Chief: Jeanine Nicholson Mayor Breed on March 13 announced her appointment of Deputy Chief Jeanine Nicholson as the city’s fire chief. A…
By Ann Rostow– Bad Things Afoot Last January, the Supreme Court struck down two injunctions that had been protecting transgender military recruits from Trump’s ban on transgender service. That move…
By Andrea Shorter– The once “radical” notion that LGBT people should be protected by federal law against discrimination could be nearing its end. The awaited reintroduction of the Equality Act…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– It sounds unbelievable, but it’s unfortunately true. Low-wage Californians leave roughly $2 billion in refunds on the table because they don’t claim their state and federal…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– Earlier this year I authored a resolution to declare a local state of emergency on homelessness in Oakland that was passed unanimously. However,…
GGBA Foundation Founded in 2017, the GGBA Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting diversity by funding educational opportunities for the LGBT and allied business community of San…
By Dr. Marcy Adelman– The event was billed as a celebration and review of work in progress, but it was also an opportunity for city leadership to double down on…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In my psychotherapy work (primarily with gay men) over the last four decades, probably the most common question I’ve been asked is, “How can I find…
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