By Tom Temprano– I’m about as much of a temperate-weather loving California native as there is. Having grown up in sunny SoCal and spent my whole adult life in San…
Have you ever seen Melissa Etheridge live in concert? Her gutsy, long and heart-felt shows demonstrate her true love for both music and her fans. There are so many reasons…
By Tom Moon, MFT– Ron is well-paid and valued at his job, but despite good performance reviews and repeated assurances that his position is secure, he constantly worries that any…
Compiled by Dennis McMillan City’s Oldest Gay Bar Closes After 108 Years The Gangway, in operation since 1910, closed on January 28. While this establishment at 841 Larkin Street did…
By Ann Rostow– Lunch at Tiffany’s– This has nothing to do with GLBT news, but do you remember the zillion dollar no-bid contract for repair of the Puerto Rican electrical…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting A painful truth that we have learned from the last election is that those with hate in their hearts are more common than we thought. Even…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– The Oakland City Council will hear options for a library funding Measure. One of the options is from the Mayor/Administration, which will have…
By John Lewis– Perhaps the most famous Zen koan (a seemingly nonsensical or paradoxical question that Zen students are instructed to contemplate) is the koan: “What is the sound of…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The beautiful music filling the concert hall may have been familiar to some in the audience, but the sound of it was something unusual, unknown. In…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In the last issue I described “toxic shame” as a deep and sometimes debilitating sense of self-loathing that results from traumatic experiences of being repeatedly humiliated,…
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