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    OLOC Provides Courage for the Changes of Age

    OLOC Provides Courage for the Changes of Age

    How do you feel about getting old? People often cringe at the idea, or even the word! They dispute me when I claim the term. Yes, at 70 I’m clear…

    Sports Pride in 2015

    Sports Pride in 2015

    June has become Pride Month in locales around the globe, celebrating who we are as LGBTQ people, and the diversity of our lives and loves and choices as equal human…

    Victory and More

    Victory and More

    Dr. Marcy Adelman We have much to celebrate, given all of the recent marriage equality gains both here and around the world. At last our beautiful loving relationships are being…

    Harvey Milk Club Leads the Way, the Mission Rises Up, and New Leadership at City College

    Harvey Milk Club Leads the Way, the Mission Rises Up, and New Leadership at City College

    Happy Birthday, Harvey Milk The Harvey Milk Club gave our community a great present for what would have been Milk’s 85th birthday on May 22. The Club took over the…

    An Issue Our Community Has Grappled with for Years

    An Issue Our Community  Has Grappled with for Years

    Last week, a friend and I were talking about Pride Month, since she had just come back from her employer’s Pride Month reception and celebration. I asked her how it…

    Let’s Talk About Daddies

    Let’s Talk About Daddies

    What makes a daddy? By the old definition, it’s a man who had children. Now, in our new LGBT world full of niches, daddies are older men who could have…

    Queer Cultural Center Brings Together Generations in June Programming Lineup

    Queer Cultural Center Brings Together Generations  in June Programming Lineup

    With so much media (and social media) focused on the millennials, senior LGBTQ people seldom get to see our lives, cultures, and concerns represented in the arts—on stage, screen, or…

    Speaking Out for Civil Rights

    Speaking Out for Civil Rights

    Californians have adopted laws by ballot initiative for over a hundred years. The people have this power in order to hold state leaders accountable and to enact laws elected officials…

    Adult Protective Services – An Integral Part of the LGBT Community’s Safety Net

    Adult Protective Services – An Integral Part of the LGBT Community’s Safety Net

    The overarching mission of the Adult Protective Services (APS) program in San Francisco is to protect elders and adults with disabilities from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and self-neglect. APS strives to…

    In Memory of Sam

    In Memory of Sam

    Regular readers of this column may recall that back in September I wrote about a college friend of mine who had lost his mind and ended up living on the…