By Lyndsey Schlax– (Editor’s Note: Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts launched the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course in 2015. She…
By Michele Karlsberg Michele Karlsberg: For this issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, I present a guest article written by author and television producer Stefani Deoul. “For the oppression…
By Jamie Leno Zimron– Have you ever noticed that life is really one big breath? The first thing that happens when we’re born is an inhale, and our last act…
Louise (Lou) Fischer and Eric Lukoff, Co-Chairs of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club: We were deeply saddened by Mayor Edwin Lee’s passing. We extend our deepest condolences to…
Compiled by Dennis McMillan U.S. Supreme Court Begins to Undermine Marriage Equality The U.S. Supreme Court has begun undermining marriage equality, just two years after it became the law of the land. In deciding not to take…
By Ann Rostow– Are We Going Down?– Friends, I’m feeling a little sick to my stomach right now. I’ve rewritten the start of this column a few times because I…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– When Taiwanese and international intersex activist Hiker Chiu as a teenager saw their childhood medical records for the first time, one question kept resounding…
By Andrea Shorter– Tis’ the season for year-end wrap ups of the news highlights before we ring in the New Year. There will be the usual array of most spectacular…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting– When California students learn about civil rights, in addition to studying Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s “I Have a Dream” speech and discussing Cesar Chavez’s championing of…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– In August 2017, the Oakland Police Department knowingly assisted with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in West Oakland. OPD’s participation contradicts…
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