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    Let’s Go Home: 7.25.24

    Let’s Go Home: 7.25.24

    Here are two of the many pets now available for adoption at Oakland Animal Services (OAS): Beatrix is one of the many adorable kittens waiting for their forever homes! Young…

    AIDS Walk San Francisco 2024

    AIDS Walk San Francisco 2024

    AIDS Walk San Francisco, which this year was held on Sunday, July 21, 2024, has raised over $1 million to support multiple beneficiaries. As the organizers share, “[T]he event emphasizes…

    Fourth Annual Bearrison Street Fair in San Francisco Set for October 19

    Fourth Annual Bearrison Street Fair in San Francisco Set for October 19

    Are you a country or city bear? It is a great time to be both. While Lazy Bear Week offers a more rural escape, the Bearrison Street Fair brings bears…

    Holly Near’s Celebration at La Peña of Feminist and Gender Fluid Musicians

    Holly Near’s Celebration at La Peña of Feminist and Gender Fluid Musicians

    Singer/songwriter and activist Holly Near led a concert at La Peña in Berkeley on July 12, 2024, celebrating and empowering feminist and gender fluid musicians. Also appearing were Tammy Hall,…

    Top of Your Stack 7.25.24

    Devil Is Fine: A Novel (fiction – hardcover) by John Vercher This is a story of a biracial American struggling to reconcile the past after inheriting a former plantation from…

    Lit Snax 7.25.24

    Lessons in Teenage Biology by Jim ProvenzanoSet in the 1970s, this pithy novella delightfully depicts the queer coming-of-age rollercoaster. How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality edited, translated,…

    SuperFriends NYC: Thank You to San Francisco Pride

    SuperFriends NYC: Thank You to San Francisco Pride

    Photos courtesy of SuperFriends NYC By Fernando Camino– This year was beyond BONGGA (Filipino slang for “fantabulous”)! Invited by the San Francisco Bay Times, Patrick and I flew to San…

    Pride or Prejudice?

    Pride or Prejudice?

    By Joanie Juster– Sunday, June 30, dawned clear and warm, a perfect day for a colorful celebration of Pride and joy. From my view (Contingent #108), I’ve never seen the…

    Reach Out and Shout

    Reach Out and Shout

    By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– On Friday evening of Pride weekend, we were seated on a BART train, decked out in our activist tuxes and rainbow bow ties on…

    New CA Laws Aim to Reduce Hate Crime and Gun Violence

    New CA Laws Aim to Reduce  Hate Crime and Gun Violence

    By Phil Ting– California just released its 2023 hate crime numbers, and I am happy to see that, overall, there were fewer cases reported—from 2,120 in 2022 to 1,970 last…