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    Top of Your Stack – Recommendations from Book Passage 5.5.22

    Burn the Page (nonfiction/memoir – hardbound) by Danica Roem This is a wonderful combination of inspiring memoir, social manifesto, and entertaining prose. Danica Roem made national headlines when—as a transgender…

    Ten Ways to Enjoy Sweet Cherries

    Ten Ways to Enjoy Sweet Cherries

    By Debra Morris– Cherry season is here and the season is short so hustle over to your local farmers’ market and get farm-fresh, just-picked sweet cherries before they’re gone. There…

    Cocktails with Heather: Cuatro Highball

    Cocktails with Heather: Cuatro Highball

    By Heather Freyer– As day becomes night, savor the refreshing Caribbean flavors of Añejo Cuatro rum and ginger ale. It’s called the Cuatro Highball, or as we like to say,…

    Celebrate Bike Safety Month at My Bike Fair on May 14

    Celebrate Bike Safety Month at My Bike Fair on May 14

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– Thank you to everyone who attended my April 26 Budget Town Hall to give input or share ideas about the state’s next fiscal plan. Hearings will…

    Vice President Harris Visits UCSF to Support Black Maternal Health

    Vice President Harris Visits UCSF to Support Black Maternal Health

    By Elizabeth Fernandez– Vice President Kamala Harris visited UCSF on April 21 to draw attention to the critical need for addressing disparities nationwide in health care for Black people during…

    Ann Rostow: When Will It End?

    Ann Rostow: When Will It End?

    By Ann Rostow– When Will It End? It’s another week of nonstop anti-GLBT state legislative news, as “Don’t Say Gay” bills begin to litter the country. They’re not all as…

    San Francisco LGBT Center 20th Anniversary Soirée

    San Francisco LGBT Center 20th Anniversary Soirée

    Photos by Rink To those of us who attended the Grand Opening of The Center twenty years ago, the 20th Anniversary Soirée brought back many memories. San Francisco Bay Times…

    Be the Change You Want to See

    By Kochina Rude– It was a pleasure to have an easy conversation about tough subjects for the forum Drag Activism at The Academy SF on April 7 with Sister Roma, Afrika…

    Focusing on Hope

    Focusing on Hope

    By Joanie Juster– Spring has definitely sprung in San Francisco. The Sisters have blessed San Francisco again with their only-in-San Francisco Easter festivities in Dolores Park. A lucky few are…

    We Need More Homekey to Get Californians Housed

    We Need More Homekey to Get Californians Housed

    By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– California is facing a housing affordability crisis with housing costs exceeding growth in wages, particularly for low-income households. In California, approximately 2.5 million…