Just around the corner from landmark restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, and down the hill from the original Peet’s Coffee in Walnut Square, is Pot-Pourri, a remarkable gift shop that…
By Liam P. Mayclem– Lahaina, the charming little town on Maui that gifted memories to the many millions of people who have visited over the years, is now just that,…
By Joanie Juster– Lahaina may be 2,350 miles from San Francisco in travel time, but it is clearly much closer in the hearts of so many here who have deep…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– When Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909), San Francisco’s Lavender Boy Poet, visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1868, he was immediately taken with the beauty and the boys…
By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet– Paradise burned. Within minutes. I couldn’t believe it. My friend Michael had friends in Maui who told him about the fires even before the…
By Jeff Cotter– In early August 2023, several wildfires broke out in the state of Hawaii. The fires were mainly centered on the island of Maui. On August 8, wind-driven…
By Ann Rostow– Dog Days Apropos of nothing, are we headed for successive generations named for letters of the alphabet? The “Greatest Generation” fought a world war to earn their…
By Joanie Juster– Transgender History Month has been celebrated throughout August in San Francisco since 2021, when Mayor London Breed signed a mayoral proclamation officially recognizing August as a commemorative…
On an August evening in 1966, three years before the Stonewall riot in New York City, the patrons of the Compton’s Cafeteria in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district fought back against…
Photos courtesy of The Transgender District and Juan R. Davila Mayor London Breed on August 2 joined city leaders and community members to raise the transgender flag at City Hall…
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