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    Welcome to Oakland Pride!

    Welcome to Oakland Pride!

    By John Eric Henry At this year’s Oakland Pride, we have expanded our focus to bringing well-known headliner entertainment, while also highlighting Bay Area and Oakland-based local emerging talent on…

    SF LGBT Community Center Plans Upgrade, Expansion

    SF LGBT Community Center  Plans Upgrade, Expansion

    The San Francisco LGBT Center works every day to create a home for the community—a vibrant and welcoming place where people, relationships and ideas can flourish. The building is an…

    Missed Jane Lynch in SF? You Can See Her Show in Carmel!

    Missed Jane Lynch in SF?  You Can See Her Show in Carmel!

    From the minute many of us here at the San Francisco Bay Times saw Jane Lynch, we were major fans. Her intelligence and sheer presence alone are captivating. Visually, she…

    Openhouse’s Emotional Support Program: A Bridge to Resources and Mental Health Services

    Openhouse’s Emotional Support Program: A Bridge to Resources and Mental Health Services

    One of Openhouse’s most important goals is to build and strengthen community connections for LGBT older adults and seniors. When such individuals experience mental distress and are not able to…

    Responsible Vs. Carefree: It’s Your Pick

    Responsible Vs. Carefree: It’s Your Pick

    Responsibility or carefreeness? This week’s Volkswagen and Audi give us two similarly priced answers to that question, and they each have style and refinement that’s above and beyond others in…

    Making History at the U.N.

    Making History at the U.N.

    Subhi Nahas, an openly gay Syrian refugee from Idlib, a city north of Damascus, made history recently when he and a gay Iraqi refugee addressed the first ever meeting of…

    In the News

    By Dennis McMillan  Center for American Progress Calls Out GOP Candidates on LGBTQ Issues The Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund is calling out the field of 2016 GOP…

    Frida Kahlo’s Truth Lives on in Her Art

    Frida Kahlo’s Truth Lives on in Her Art

    Everybody loves Frida Kahlo…now. Barely 60 years after her death, she and her art have inspired over 65,000 web sites, hundreds of books and articles, documentaries, movies, and fashions. Reproductions…

    Ann Rostow: Updates

    Ann Rostow: Updates

    By Ann Rostow Updates Last time, I mentioned that the Republican National Committee was poised to consider a bunch of non-binding resolutions during their summer meeting, including a couple of…

    The Rule of Law

    The Rule of Law

    As efforts to exclude LGBT couples from marriage continue in a handful of locales mostly in the South, the language of United States District Judge David Bunning’s recent ruling rejecting…