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    The AGUILAS 30th Anniversary Celebration

    The AGUILAS 30th Anniversary Celebration

    By Eduardo Morales, Ph.D.– This year marks the 30th anniversary of AGUILAS, which provides services to the Latinx LGBTQI+ community. Founded in 1991, AGUILAS was funded by the San Francisco…

    The Price of Freedom

    The Price of Freedom

    By Derek Barnes– For more than 200 years after its independence, Haiti has been plagued by crises and political disruptions. The latest incidents of gang violence and crime have contributed…

    Rita Rockett, a Hero During the Darkest Days of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Welcomed Back to San Francisco

    Rita Rockett, a Hero During the Darkest Days of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Welcomed Back to San Francisco

    Rita Rockett, fondly known as the “Brunch Goddess of Ward 5-A” for her work uplifting hospitalized HIV/AIDS patients during some of the darkest moments of the pandemic in the 1980s…

    Donna’s Chronicles, “Loyal readers of ‘Donna’s Chronicles’…

    Donna’s Chronicles, “Loyal readers of ‘Donna’s Chronicles’…

    By Donna Sachet– Loyal readers of “Donna’s Chronicles”may turn to this column for its coverage of major San Francisco events, from Imperial Coronation and Opening Night of the Opera to…

    Simon Tseko Nkoli: ‘The Personal Is the Political’

    Simon Tseko Nkoli: ‘The Personal Is the Political’

    By Dr. Bill Lipsky– When Simon Tseko Nkoli was born in Soweto, South Africa, on November 26, 1957, everything about his future was determined by a brutal apartheid government that…

    First Comes Love

    First Comes Love

    By Andrew Shaffer– When Phyllis Lyon (1924–2020) and Del Martin (1921–2008) met in 1950, they couldn’t have known how many barriers their love would drive them to break down. In…

    Lesbian Activists Ambassador Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry Meet in Manila, Philippines

    Lesbian Activists Ambassador Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry Meet in Manila, Philippines

    In a significant moment for LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, two prominent lesbian activists, Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry, recently met in Manila, Philippines, to discuss the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights in Asia…

    Rink Remembers: David Mixner (1946–2024)

    Political activist and author David Mixner, known for his decades of work in anti-war and LGBTQ+ rights advocacy, passed on March 11 at the age of 77 from long COVID-19.…

    Opening Night: Jewelle Gomez’s Unpacking in P’town at the New Conservatory Theatre Center

    Opening Night: Jewelle Gomez’s Unpacking in P’town at the New Conservatory Theatre Center

    Photos by Rink On Saturday, March 9, members of the San Francisco Bay Times team were in the audience and applauded loudly during the opening night of Unpacking in P’town by…

    Staten Island’s Inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    Staten Island’s Inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    San Francisco Bay Times contributor Fernando Camino—whose livecast on Saturday, March 16, presented the annual New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade—reported observing no LGBTQ contingents once again this year,…