By Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Historically, LGBT leaders and elected officials have needed to fight for our rights even when we were the only ones bringing up a topic,…
While working as a contract writer for MGM in 1941, Tennessee Williams submitted a screenplay titled The Gentleman Caller. In a classic “Are you kidding?” moment, the studio rejected the…
On March 31, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the groundbreaking LGBT Senior Long Term Care Facilities Bill of Rights. The much-needed ordinance, the first of its kind…
By Miriam Frank The Bay Area’s vibrant heritage of queer community is matched by a long and powerful history of labor organizing. Labor/ gay connections hearken back to the mid-1930s,…
In addition to being an amazing mind-body game, golf is truly “The Business Sport.” Last week I co-presented a webinar entitled “What Playing Partners Can Tell You About Business Partners.”…
As the momentum builds toward a United States Supreme Court decision in favor of nationwide marriage equality, the LGBT community in recent weeks has faced an onslaught of proposed or newly enacted state laws aimed at…
By Ann Rostow And the Land We Belong to is Grand! One of the many antigay proposals now floating through the Republican majorities in many of America’s state legislatures has…
By Tisha Floratos I’m a strong believer that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we are all led on a path to discover later that we are right…
By Jill Cruse Making $700 a summer at Girl Scout Camp in 1978, I remember sitting at the Camp Staff house, loving my job and listening to Cris Williamson’s “Waterfall”…
By Judy Dlugacz It sure has been an amazing ride, hasn’t it? When I think about what Olivia means to me, I find myself thinking about the ways Olivia has…
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