By John Chen– San Francisco Gay Flag Football League’s Rubén Mojica Hernandez recently took the stage and took his clothes off for a good cause. Mojica Hernandez told me for…
By Donna Sachet– Happy Pride to you! Whether LGBTQ or anything in between, we have room for you in this wonderful, loving community and we anxiously await your participation in…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity– The San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and Celebration is one of the largest gatherings of LGBT people and allies in the nation. The Parade kicks…
By Marsha H. Levine– Sometime amid my late teens, I became aware and moved from being an oblivious child to a burgeoning adult. Atom bombs were very much a stark…
At a New Year’s Eve party several years ago, a few members of our San Francisco Bay Times team wound up in a long restroom line next to Lorraine Bannister.…
By Cinder Ernst– Stairs suck when you have knee pain. Today, I’m going to give you ways to make going upstairs instantly easier. For thirty years, I have been helping…
By Donna Sachet– The Book of Pride: LGBT Heroes Who Changed the World, painstakingly compiled by Mason Funk, was unveiled at Opera Plaza’s Books, Inc. last week and it is…
By David Landis– When I first moved to San Francisco to open Davies Symphony Hall in 1980, the surrounding neighborhood (now called Hayes Valley) was a scary proposition. There were…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Green carnations. Red neckties. Violet corsages. Colors and symbols used for many years by gay men and lesbians, often strangers in the night, to identify each…
By John Chen– Sports has been my bridge to meeting many amazing LGBT people over the years. Their capacity to overcome great physical, emotional and psychological obstacles has earned them…
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