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    Tenderloin Tessie 2026 Free Easter Dinner

    Tenderloin Tessie 2026 Free Easter Dinner

    A dedicated team, including Juan Davila of the San Francisco Bay Times as the Easter Bunny, made possible another successful free Easter Dinner as part of the nonprofit Tenderloin Tessie…

    Queer Joy Unleashed: Sistory From the Archives at the SF LGBT Center

    Queer Joy Unleashed: Sistory From the Archives at the SF LGBT Center

    A pop-up exhibition and party, Queer Joy Unleashed: Sistory From the Archives, was held on April 3, 2026, at the SF LGBT Center followed by an After Party at the…

    San Francisco No Kings March and Rally on March 28 Expected to Be One of Nation’s Largest Demonstrations

    San Francisco No Kings March and Rally on March 28 Expected to Be One of Nation’s Largest Demonstrations

    As of this writing, organizers across the U.S. are planning for over 3000 marches and rallies on March 28, 2026, for the No Kings Day of Nonviolent Action. San Francisco’s…

    Democracy Under Trump Administration Is Deteriorating at Unprecedented Rate, New Report Finds

    Democracy Under Trump Administration Is Deteriorating at Unprecedented Rate, New Report Finds

    Democratic backsliding is now happening in well-established democracies. Democracy in the U.S. is deteriorating at unprecedented speed, and media and journalists are increasingly targeted across the world. This, and more,…

    Drag Queens and Self-Employment Taxes

    Drag Queens and Self-Employment Taxes

    By Brandon Miller— It’s the early 2000s during Kentucky Derby season, and I’m dressed in full drag, water balloons handling the chest situation, when suddenly my left “breast” made a…

    2026 Medi-Cal Long-Term Care in the Bay Area: Essentials for LGBTQ+ Families

    2026 Medi-Cal Long-Term Care in the Bay Area: Essentials for LGBTQ+ Families

    By Jay Greene, Esq. CPA— The New 2026 Medi-Cal Landscape As of January 1, 2026, California reinstated the asset test for most long-term care Medi-Cal programs. These cover nursing home…

    Why Do Probates and Trust Administrations Take So Long in California?

    Why Do Probates and Trust Administrations Take So Long in California?

    By Deb L. Kinney— A loved one has died. The family is grieving. There is a trust, or a will, or maybe both. Families often expect that settling the estate…

    Former San Francisco Bay Times Columnist and City Commissioner Andrea Shorter

    Former San Francisco Bay Times Columnist and City Commissioner Andrea Shorter

    Andrea Shorter, a former San Francisco Bay Times columnist, longtime Commissioner on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women, and a revered LGBTQ+ activist, passed earlier this month,…

    Oakland City Council Reaffirms Commitment to Gender-Affirming Care

    Oakland City Council Reaffirms Commitment to Gender-Affirming Care

    The Oakland City Council on March 16, 2026, passed a resolution to protect the rights of transgender, gender-nonconforming, intersex, and Two-Spirit (TGNCI2S) residents to access medically necessary healthcare. The resolution…

    Protest Held in Washington, D.C., by the Save HIV Funding Campaign

    Protest Held in Washington, D.C., by the Save HIV Funding Campaign

    Photos courtesy of San Francisco AIDS Foundation Long-term HIV survivors, health advocates, community health providers, and faith leaders gathered on March 16, 2026, in Washington, D.C., to hold a symbolic funeral…