By Michael Gunther– Starting your own business is no small feat. You spent countless hours dreaming about your new business, then many more on research, marketing, finding funding sources, and…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– After California voters gave Democrats a super-majority in both the state Senate and Assembly following the 2018 elections, we were able to send Governor Newsom key…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In his insightful new book Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), clinical psychologist Walt Odets begins by asking, “Are gay…
October White Noise Through November 10 Berkeley Rep 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley http://www.berkeleyrep.org Berkeley Rep presents the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Suzan-Lori Parks’ play. Four old friends,…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– In 1974, Harvey Milk and Scott Smith gave a block party and invited the immediate world. On August 18, some 5,000 people joined them at the…
By Francisco O. Buchting– Because the San Francisco Bay Area has a worldwide reputation as a welcoming place, it might be assumed that LGBTQ people here are, put simply, doing…
By Nikole Pagan– April 18 was Give OUT Day, the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community. And together, we made history, raising $1.1+ million for 475+ nonprofits—the…
By Andrea Shorter– Ah, oh mercy, mercy me Ah things ain’t what they used to be, no no Radiation under ground and in the sky Animals and birds who live…
By Louise “Lou” Fischer– November 5 is another Election Day in San Francisco. While it’s not the momentous “most important election ever in the history of the United States” that…
By Peter Gallotta– When Chesa Boudin was just 14 months old, his parents dropped him off with a babysitter and never came back. That day, they drove a getaway car…
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