Oakland Events to Add to Your 2026 Calendar Peter Gamez, the openly gay President & CEO of Visit Oakland, already has a full calendar of events in the works for…
By Joanie Juster – What a year it has been. I suspect many of you would join me in saying “goodbye, and good riddance” to 2025, the year our country…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis – The superb new Slate podcast When We All Get to Heaven tells the story of the pivotal role the San Francisco MCC (Metropolitan…
By Brandon Miller – The holiday season has a way of speeding everything up. Calendars fill, inboxes overflow, and suddenly you’re juggling festive plans, family logistics, travel costs, year-end deadlines,…
By Jay Greene – As LGBTQ+ community members in the San Francisco Bay Area age, thoughtful elder care planning becomes key to maintaining independence, dignity, and connection. This involves legal…
By Aaron Boot-Haury – As 2025 quickly draws to a close, it is hard to believe how fast this year has gone by. The months seem to have blurred together,…
The résumé of Clarence “CK” Kwan is packed with some of the biggest names in tech, such as Meta and Amazon. After years of working as an in-demand architect and…
Photos Courtesy of On Lok By Grace Li – For its participants, Openhouse + On Lok Community Services is more than a day center. It is the place where they…
Mercy Housing California and Openhouse on December 11, 2025, announced that the 1939 Market Senior Housing community has been awarded funding through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) Program, administered…
The San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women issued a call to action following the Commission Streamlining Task Force’s October 15, 2025, vote to downgrade the commission from a…
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