Bay Area Reporter
Arts & Culture
- Lady Gaga remains an unmatched icon of the queer community, winning three categories in Grindr’s year-end report released earlier this month.
- The Choose U World AIDS Day panel brought together three longtime advocates living with HIV to talk about care, stigma, and what living with HIV over the long-term means to them.
- In agreeing to pay a $1,000 fine to settle an ethics investigation, queer San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women member Sophia Andary is ready to move beyond the matter and focus on protecting the governance powers of her oversight body.
- With nearly $47.6 million in funding awarded to it by a California agency, an affordable housing project affirming of LGBTQ seniors is closer to breaking ground in San Francisco.
- The Sacramento LGBT Community Center is holding a town hall Tuesday, December 16, following a series of violent, troubling incidents in the city’s queer neighborhood.
- A writer for independent magazines and an online seller of comic books based in Palm Springs, Ferguson Porter in the last two elections for the U.S. House seat that represents the LGBTQ retirement and tourist destination in California’s Coachella Valley had worked to elect the gay candidate, attorney Will Rollins.
- The 2026 California governor’s race so far lacks a clear frontrunner – and, with the exceptions of state schools chief Tony Thurmond, who’s mired in the low single digits, and Congressmember Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin), who has vaulted to a top position, many candidates have not offered full-throated support for the transgender community.
- The pews at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood were packed with celebrants who paid tribute to transgender pioneer Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during a celebration of her life December 6.
- Eight years ago, Hal Mayo began working with stained glass and was hired by a studio in San Francisco’s Richmond district that focuses on the art medium.