By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– Taipei Pride It seems only fitting that San Francisco and Taipei, sister cities since the year of Stonewall, 1969, host the largest LGBTQ Pride…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– This past October, we were thrilled to attend Taipei Pride, the largest annual gathering of LGBTQ people in Asia. We also then witnessed the…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Cousin Lisa and her fiancé Mike’s engagement party last month was a delightful affair. We’ve known Lisa since the day she was adopted 30…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– In Part 1, published in the prior issue of the San Francisco Bay Times, we discussed our recent trip to China and our impressions…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis We realized that things would be a bit different on our recent trip to China—to talk about love, marriage, and LGBT equality—when organizers of…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Although we met Edie Windsor only once, we’ll never forget the moment. It was on the steps of the United States Supreme Court back…
By Stuart Gaffney When I first came out as gay to my family over 30 years ago, my mom was wonderfully accepting. She already knew. For weeks before I actually…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Three months ago, a young gay couple in their 20s in Aceh, Indonesia, was caned 83 times before a jeering crowd outside of a…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis We title our column “6/26 and Beyond” because, for the last fourteen years, June 26 has been the day the U.S. Supreme Court issued…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis When Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and other gay rights pioneers founded the first LGBT rights advocacy organization in the world in Berlin, Germany, in 1897,…
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