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    San Francisco Provides Temporary Housing for Those Needing to Quarantine

    San Francisco Provides Temporary Housing for Those Needing to Quarantine

    As San Francisco continues to strengthen its response to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the city is working to provide quarantine locations for individuals who have tested positive for…

    Our Unknown and Anonymous Ancestors

    Our Unknown and Anonymous Ancestors

    By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The passing years have preserved the privacy and buried the secrets that the women and men of earlier generations needed to keep in life, but in…

    Words: Resistance, Identity, and Loss

    Words: Resistance, Identity, and Loss

    By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: A vivid, no holds barred page turner, Failure to Appear: Resistance, Identity and Loss is a memoir about a lesbian of conscience who became a fugitive who…

    Wahl vs. Trump: Movie Critic Stand Off

    Wahl vs. Trump: Movie Critic Stand Off

    By Jan Wahl– It is so nice to have some competition. Mr. T [President Trump] decided to issue a critique on the movie Parasite while extolling the virtues of Gone…

    Ann Rostow: I’m Blue, No Matter Who

    Ann Rostow:  I’m Blue, No Matter Who

    By Ann Rostow– I’m Blue, No Matter Who As soon as I mentioned to you that I decided to pin my hopes for defeating Trump on megabucks Bloomberg, I was…

    Lift UP SF Empowers Behavioral Health Consumers

    Lift UP SF Empowers Behavioral Health Consumers

    By Brett Andrews– San Francisco has remarkably low unemployment overall at 1.9%. That prosperity and stability are not shared equitably across our community. A high cost of living, driven primarily…

    Now Is the Time to Get a Real ID

    Now Is the Time to Get a Real ID

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting– The number of Real IDs issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles is lagging behind projected demand. If you anticipate needing one, I advise you…

    Strengthening Youth Voting Will Strengthen Our Democracy

    Strengthening Youth Voting Will Strengthen Our Democracy

    By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– One of the challenges facing our democracy is the underrepresentation of the needs of youth. From the horrors of stop-and-frisk committed against Black…

    From South Carolina on Saturday to Super Tuesday in Denmark—Oops, I Mean California

    From South Carolina on Saturday to Super Tuesday in Denmark—Oops, I Mean California

    By Andrea Shorter– Are you ready for some Primary Election? Good, because next Tuesday, March 3, is the California Democratic Primary Election. As now one of 14 states holding primary…

    Every Moment a Marriage Equality Moment: Breakfast with My Dad at His Retirement Community

    Every Moment a Marriage Equality Moment: Breakfast with My Dad at His Retirement Community

    By Stuart Gaffney– You never know for sure what awaits you at breakfast time at my 96-year-old dad’s Southern California retirement community, where John and I visited over the recent…