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    End of Semester Thoughts

    End of Semester Thoughts

    Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is teaching the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course, according to district officials. In this column,…

    Magnificent Women in Pants

    Magnificent Women in Pants

    Although Deuteronomy 22.5 expressly forbids cross-dressing as an “abomination unto the Lord,” San Franciscans have adored transvestite performance since the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Like many other admonitions…

    San Francisco State University College of Ethnic Studies

    San Francisco State University College of Ethnic Studies

    By Dr. Amy Sueyoshi San Francisco State University’s College of Ethnic Studies was established in Fall 1969 after an extended student strike demanding a curriculum that respected the diverse intellectual traditions…

    San Francisco State University Department of Sexuality Studies

    San Francisco State University Department of Sexuality Studies

    By Dr. Jessica Fields The Sexuality Studies Department at San Francisco State University was an early leader in university-based education in sexuality. For fifty years, faculty interested in sexuality studies…

    San Francisco State University Women and Gender Studies Department

    San Francisco State University Women and Gender Studies Department

    By Dr. Deborah Cohler Founded in 1971, the Women and Gender Studies (WGS) Department at San Francisco State University has been offering courses in LGBT studies for more than four…

    San Francisco State University Provides an LGBTQIA-affirming Place to Learn and Grow

    San Francisco State University Provides an LGBTQIA-affirming Place to Learn and Grow

    By Dr. Sue Rosser The Bay Area is world-renowned for its open-mindedness and inclusiveness, and San Francisco State University mirrors that. Though LGBTQ people often find their education disrupted by…

    Goals, Dreams and Concerns of the New Generation

    Goals, Dreams and Concerns of the New Generation

    Here we present members of our younger generations, from Millennials to Generation Z, in their own words. San Francisco Bay Times: Where do you see yourself a few years from…

    Kimberly Alvarenga Files, City College Strike

    Kimberly Alvarenga Files, City College Strike

    Win Kimberly Win! The only regret I have about my recent vacation in Thailand and Cambodia is that I missed my friend Kimberly Alvarenga filing for District 11 Supervisor on…

    Remembering Leslie Feinberg

    Remembering Leslie Feinberg

    A year ago, our communities lost a powerful and important voice, activist, author and more, with the death of Leslie Feinberg. Most known as the author of the deep and…

    Affordable Housing Challenges

    Affordable Housing Challenges

    By Assemblymember Phil Ting Housing costs more in California. And, in California, there is no place more costly than the Bay Area to call home. Consider these numbers. Although 56 percent…