By Donna Sachet– One of the most amazing opportunities our life in San Francisco presents is meeting celebrities. But, as the old saying goes, “Never meet your heroes,” meaning those…
August is Transgender History Month, and to mark the observance, the trans flag was raised at San Francisco City Hall during a ceremony on Thursday, August 1, 2025. The team…
Morey Riordan, founder of the Transgender Strategy Center and an out transgender man, on August 4, 2025, was named the new Executive Director of Openhouse, the senior-serving nonprofit co-founded by…
Dr. Deborah Hawkes, formerly the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the national network CAN Community Health, has been appointed the new CEO of PRC, the San Francisco-based…
By Jewelle Gomez– I love discovering historical facts, especially those that reveal how powerful women and lesbians have always been— despite being disappeared, tortured, and humiliated into silence. I don’t…
By Ann Rostow– Deadline? What Deadline? Hello, my friends. Today we begin with a quiz from Kayla Kumari Updhyaya, writing in Autostraddle, headlined: “Which Lesbian Cleaning Tool Are You?” And,…
The primary image on the cover of this issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, of a Castro Night Market scene, was taken by award-winning photographer Mike Kirschner. Many of…
Photos by Rink Following a blockbuster turnout for its June event during Pride Month, the Castro Night Market once again drew a large crowd that filled the streets on Friday…
By Joanie Juster– I was in college at UC Santa Cruz during the Vietnam War. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Daniel Ellsberg, whose leak of the Pentagon Papers…
While much has changed since the dark, early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the needed work to fight HIV/AIDS remains and the compassion of AIDS Walk San Francisco participants is…
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