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    GGBA Member Spotlight: Torres Wine Tours

    This month’s spotlight GGBA member business is Torres Wine Tours, which specializes in creating safe, fun, and memorable wine tasting tours in Sonoma, Napa, and beyond. It is LGBT owned…

    Integrating Services in San Francisco to Tackle a Primary Cause and Consequence of Homelessness

    Integrating Services in San Francisco to Tackle a Primary Cause and Consequence of Homelessness

    By Brett Andrews– For decades, a medically focused paradox has existed within the U.S. health care system. Americans spend substantially more money on health care than any other industrialized nation.…

    Addressing the Homeless Crisis

    Addressing the Homeless Crisis

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– You see the size of encampments growing all over the Bay Area. In addition, there are more and more people living in their cars or RVs.…

    Our State Can Lead the Way to Obtain Properties on County Auction Lists for Affordable Housing

    Our State Can Lead the Way to Obtain Properties on County Auction Lists for Affordable Housing

    By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– We are facing a stark and rising crisis of housing affordability and homelessness. In our area, homelessness has skyrocketed in recent years, and…

    Policy Brief Demonstrates How Trump Administration Expanded Policies and Practices Harmful to LGBT People

    Policy Brief Demonstrates How Trump Administration Expanded Policies and Practices Harmful to LGBT People

    The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health on January 23 released a policy brief demonstrating that in 2019, the Trump Administration dramatically expanded upon discriminatory, anti-LGBT policies implemented in 2017 and…

    Greg Sarris: Novelist, Screenwriter, Professor, and Indian Chief

    Greg Sarris: Novelist, Screenwriter, Professor, and Indian Chief

    Greg Sarris is a renowned author, scholar, teacher, and Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which is the site of the well-known Graton Resort & Casino. His identity…

    Favorites from the 2020 Winter Fancy Food Show

    Favorites from the 2020 Winter Fancy Food Show

    The specialty food industry, representing nearly $150 billion in annual sales, gathered in San Francisco for the Winter Fancy Food Show held at the Moscone Center from January 19–21. Hosted…

    Food Trends for 2020

    The Trendspotter Panel of the Specialty Food Association (SFA) each year forecasts specialty food trends. Denise Purcell of the SFA says, “As the specialty food industry hits a record year…

    Controversial Gay Film Set in the Country of Georgia Is Worth Watching

    Controversial Gay Film Set in the Country of Georgia Is Worth Watching

    By Gary Kramer– And Then We Danced is writer/director Levan Akin’s engrossing drama about a closeted young dancer in Tbilisi. The film, which opens February 21 in the Bay Area,…

    Sister Dana Sez, “So now that we’re in a new month since New Year’s resolutions, how many of those resolutions have we already broken?!”

    By Sister Dana Van Iquity– Sister Dana Sez, “So now that we’re in a new month since New Year’s resolutions, how many of those resolutions have we already broken?! Go to the gym…