By Michael Gunther– Starting your own business is no small feat. You spent countless hours dreaming about your new business, then many more on research, marketing, finding funding sources, and…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– After California voters gave Democrats a super-majority in both the state Senate and Assembly following the 2018 elections, we were able to send Governor Newsom key…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In his insightful new book Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), clinical psychologist Walt Odets begins by asking, “Are gay…
By Dr. Marcy Adelman– When Tom and William met, fell in love, and decided to live together in Tom’s apartment, they never thought about putting William on the lease. They…
October White Noise Through November 10 Berkeley Rep 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley http://www.berkeleyrep.org Berkeley Rep presents the West Coast premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Suzan-Lori Parks’ play. Four old friends,…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– In 1974, Harvey Milk and Scott Smith gave a block party and invited the immediate world. On August 18, some 5,000 people joined them at the…
By Gary Kramer– As Judy Garland, in the last year of her life, Renée Zellweger gives a knockout performance in Judy, an uneven biopic that focuses on her London concerts…
By Ann Rostow– Nightmare on Washington Street This morning I tossed and turned, thinking about how I would soon have to get up and write about the Arizona Supreme Court’s…
By Francisco O. Buchting– Because the San Francisco Bay Area has a worldwide reputation as a welcoming place, it might be assumed that LGBTQ people here are, put simply, doing…
By Nikole Pagan– April 18 was Give OUT Day, the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community. And together, we made history, raising $1.1+ million for 475+ nonprofits—the…
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