By Andrea Shorter– Mental health awareness is important every day. While there are mental health services in San Francisco for those living in the margins, there is a clear lack…
The Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer (they/them) will become the first openly transgender bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) when they are installed to the Sierra Pacific Synod…
On August 24, during the 55th anniversary year of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, Mayor Breed declared August to be Transgender History Month in San Francisco. Developed in partnership with the Transgender District…
By Donna Sachet– Back in San Francisco, it didn’t take long to be reminded of how special this place truly is! In short, after a 10-day self-imposed isolation and a…
By Dr. Tim Seelig– The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly grey The glory that was Rome is of another day I’ve been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I’m…
By Jewelle Gomez– Long ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I sublet my apartment for several months while I moved in with a lover in the Bronx. A friend, Stacy.…
Today, August 26, is Women’s Equality Day, which commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits the states and the federal government from denying…
By Gary M. Kramer– A new adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz arrives on DVD August 31. (It is also available on demand.) This sweeping, 3-hour epic about good and…
By Jan Wahl– Three glorious hours in Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles is movie buff heaven. Posters, lobby cards, and scripts abound, but it is the…
(Editor’s Note: This issue marks the launch of a new column in the San Francisco Bay Times from Book Passage, an innovator in bringing the world’s finest authors to the…
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