By Marsha H. Levine– What’s your Pride experience? A day of fun, usually in the sun and with friends, listening mostly to queer music or dancing? This is typically how…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– His words were searing. “I would hate it if [an LGBTQ couple] lived next to me. I would hate to even see [them].” So…
By Eduardo Morales, Ph.D.– One of our unsung heroes in the Bay Area is J. Antonio Aguilar-Karayianni, M.A. He has worked in a variety of health and service promotion agencies…
The National LGBTQ Task Force’s annual Creating Change conference was held, for the first time ever, in San Francisco. The conference took place from February 17–21, 2023, at the Hilton San Francisco. Upon…
Each year, prior to the annual Coronation event, the Imperial Council of San Francisco holds the Imperial Voting Day when the election of the next Emperor and Empress occurs. Leaders…
By Donna Sachet– February’s Divas & Drinks at The Academy honored Black History Month by recognizing Black female leaders in San Francisco and, as it turns out, they are not…
By Kippy Marks– When a candidate campaigns to become a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess, there is always a representation of colors that allows voters to know whom they are…
By Jan Wahl– We all have a favorite Disney song or movie. Our childhoods are full of them. For me, one of my favorite songs is “When You Wish Upon…
By Gary M. Kramer– Out gay filmmaker Carter Smith delivers on the promise of his unnerving 2006 short Bugcrush with his latest feature, Swallowed, now available on demand. (It became…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Charles Warren Stoddard, San Francisco’s lavender “boy poet,” made his first journey to Hawaii in 1864 when he was 21. One afternoon, “lounging at Whitney’s bookstore”…
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