We just finished celebrating the DCCC Ultimate Women’s Power Luncheon hosted by Leader Nancy Pelosi. Last year, the luncheon featured Hillary Clinton. This year, it honored Senator Boxer, and every…
On September 30, I along with my colleagues on the City Council held a Special Council Meeting on Housing and unanimously passed Oakland’s Housing Equity Roadmap—a comprehensive plan to address…
Life-saving changes are well under way through federal health care reform, or the Affordable Care Act, and we must stand up to the challenge. We all know someone with no…
By Dennis McMillan Protections for Transgende Foster Youth Signed into Law Legislation authored by Senator Mark Leno (and co-sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Equality California and Transgender…
On October 7, Governor Brown signed the LGBT Disparities Reduction Act that requires four state agencies to collect voluntary self-reported demographic information on sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill…
By Ann Rostow She’s Still Standing My friends, I thought I was done with Kim Davis back in August. Yet every two weeks, the minute this column goes to press,…
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,…
On the first Monday in October, the U.S. Supreme Court commenced a new term. To mark the occasion, Marriage Equality USA sent each of the five Justices who voted in…
If the Pope could get John Boehner to resign, couldn’t he use his special powers to bring back Nancy Pelosi? It would be an answer to my prayers. #KateClinton The…
In the News By Dennis McMillan Castro Street Fair Is Set for October 4 Always the first Sunday in October, from 11am to 6pm, The Castro Street Fair is located…
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