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Strengthening Divorce Protections for California Families
By Catherine Stefani– When families go through a divorce, the legal system should protect the people involved, especially children and financially vulnerable spouses. That’s why I introduced AB 1297, and…
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Who Is ‘Qualified to Pray for Peace’?
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors return to Earth each…
Paving the Way to a New Life: Izzy’s and Rainbow Railroad Help LGBTQ+ Refugees
By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet– Many folks judge a restaurant solely on food and service. I certainly agree that those two qualities should be the main priority. That said,…
Last Call Before the Stars Go Out
By Dina Novarr– Sometimes the universe shows us exactly what we need to see, when we need to see it. Last week, three black holes were caught red-handed devouring massive…
The World’s Queerest Grocery Store Provides a Blueprint for Democracy
Perhaps it is the longer days, the mixture of fog and sun, or the influx of visitors, but summer in San Francisco for hundreds of years has been synonymous with…
Ann Rostow: Deadline? What Deadline?
By Ann Rostow– Deadline? What Deadline? Hello, my friends. Today we begin with a quiz from Kayla Kumari Updhyaya, writing in Autostraddle, headlined: “Which Lesbian Cleaning Tool Are You?” And,…
About Our Cover 07.31.25
The primary image on the cover of this issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, of a Castro Night Market scene, was taken by award-winning photographer Mike Kirschner. Many of…
Castro Night Market Thrives
Photos by Rink Following a blockbuster turnout for its June event during Pride Month, the Castro Night Market once again drew a large crowd that filled the streets on Friday…
No One Can Do Everything, But We Can All Do Something
By Joanie Juster– I was in college at UC Santa Cruz during the Vietnam War. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Daniel Ellsberg, whose leak of the Pentagon Papers…
AIDS Walk 2025
While much has changed since the dark, early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the needed work to fight HIV/AIDS remains and the compassion of AIDS Walk San Francisco participants is…
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