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    Smoke-Free Bar Patios Protect Workers and Improve Business

    Smoke-Free Bar Patios Protect Workers and Improve Business

    By Brian Davis– When I came out in 1981, the first queer space I went to was a bar in San Francisco. Like every other bar in those days, it…

    Top of Your Stack – Recommendations from Book Passage 7.27.23

    Turning Japanese – new expanded edition (nonfiction/graphic – hardbound) by MariNaomi Turning Japanese is a comics memoir that chronicles MariNaomi’s experiences working in illegal hostess bars in San Jose and…

    Lit Snax: 7.27.2023

    Boyslut by Zacahry Dane Boyslut asks: Why can’t we just live and be slutty? It’s funny, sexy, bisexual, and happily anti-shame. Dykette: A Novel by Jenny Fran Davis This book…

    Barbette and the Cult of Sexual Mystification

    Barbette and the Cult of Sexual Mystification

    By Dr. Bill Lipsky– To those who did not know or had forgotten, the revelation was electrifying. To those who knew, it was still exhilarating. A beautiful young woman, apparently…

    Bits and Bites: The Column

    Bits and Bites: The Column

    By David Landis– As my regular readers know, with my Bits and Bites section, I try to keep my readers abreast of news in the restaurant industry in the Bay…

    44th Royal House

    By Kippy Marks– When a candidate campaigns to become a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess, there is always a representation of colors that allows voters to know whom they are…

    Take Me Home with You: Bronson

    Take Me Home with You: Bronson

    “My name is Bronson! I am an 11-month-old, male Siberian Husky. I am friendly and outgoing, and am eagerly awaiting a family to introduce me to home life. Being a…

    Sparkle Harder

    Sparkle Harder

    By Joanie Juster– The relentless marine layer of one of the gloomiest June Glooms in San Francisco history lifted a bit on Pride Weekend, providing some welcome warmth and sunshine…

    A Call to Embrace the Constitution, Even as the Supreme Court Abandons It

    A Call to Embrace the Constitution, Even as the Supreme Court Abandons It

    By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a powerful dissenting opinion to last month’s disturbing U.S. Supreme Court decision, issued by the extremely conservative Republican-appointed Court’s supermajority,…

    CA Hate Hotline Launches as New Report Shows Hate Crimes Rose in 2022

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– Despite increased awareness and education on how wrong it is to discriminate, bully, harass, or assault someone based on race, religion, sexual orientation, and other protected…