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    LGBT in Oakland: How Far We’ve Come, and Our Next Steps

    LGBT in Oakland: How Far We’ve Come, and Our Next Steps

    (Editor’s Note: A while back, we mentioned the future launch of a new San Francisco Bay Times column authored by Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan. We are now delighted to…

    Remembering Cookie Dough (Nov. 8, 1963–Jan. 29, 2015)

    Remembering Cookie Dough (Nov. 8, 1963–Jan. 29, 2015)

    Beloved entertainer Cookie Dough (Eddie Bell) passed away on January 29 in San Francisco with her husband Michael Chu by her side. According to fellow performer and San Francisco Bay…

    Tribute to Phyllis

    Attorney General Kamala Harris Phyllis has been a supporter since my earliest days in public service. She and Del always encouraged me to focus on caring for the vulnerable and…

    Silver Linings and Writings on the Wall Photos courtesy of Emerge California

    Silver Linings and Writings on the Wall                         Photos courtesy of Emerge California

    California Democrats garnered big wins all across the state earlier this month in the November General Election, and those victories provided a much-needed silver lining to an otherwise bruising and…

    New Opportunities for GGBA Members Thanks to NGLCC, USAID Partnership

    New Opportunities for GGBA Members Thanks to NGLCC, USAID Partnership

    By Paul Pendergast Businesses in the Bay Area, as major importers and exporters to the Pacific Rim, Latin America and South America, know how important trade is to their growth.…

    The Future Is Now for LGBT Business Equality

    The Future Is Now for LGBT Business Equality

    By Sam McClure The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) is proud to be a part of celebrating the 40th anniversary of America’s very first LGBT business organization,…

    Interview with Keith Haring: The Political Line Co-Curator Julian Cox

    Interview with Keith Haring: The Political Line Co-Curator Julian Cox

    Julian Cox, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s founding curator of photography and chief administrative curator, recently took time to talk with us about Keith Haring’s pop art and…

    Keith Haring: The Political Line Reveals the LGBT Artist’s Activism

    Keith Haring: The Political Line Reveals the LGBT Artist’s Activism

    The first major Keith Haring show on the West Coast in nearly two decades, Keith Haring: The Political Line reveals the LGBT artist’s activist side. Although Haring (1958–1990) died of…

    Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Inspired an Entire Generation

    Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Inspired an Entire Generation

    In an era when American taste-makers applauded verse that described a doe as “a deer, a female dear,” Allen Ginsberg, just 30 years old, published his first book, Howl and…

    I Would Be Honored to Serve as Your Next Judge on the San Francisco Superior Court

    I Would Be Honored to Serve as Your Next Judge  on the San Francisco Superior Court

    By Carol Kingsley San Franciscans deserve to have the most qualified and experienced candidate possible as their next judge on the Superior Court. I aim to take my 30 plus…