Bay Area Reporter
Arts & Culture
- The San Francisco Department of Public Health’s proposed 2027-28 budget includes a $750,036 reduction in funding to health access points.
- Rainbowocity continues to spread its glamorous, joyful cheer throughout June. LGBTQ events are sprouting up all over in arts and nightlife. Get your pride on with Going Out.
- With former state attorney general Xavier Becerra the lone Democratic gubernatorial candidate to make the November 3 ballot, LGBTQ leaders are rallying around his candidacy.
- There’s a bit of good news coming out of Washington, D.C. this Pride Month.
- Throughout his political career, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has proved to be a fierce campaigner.
- Set in 2004, the BBC series “What It Feels Like for a Girl” is now available on Prime Video. Adapted from Paris Lees’ 2021 memoir, it features Byron (Ellis Howard), a working-class trans teenager who escapes a dying mining town for the underground club scene in Nottinghamshire.
- Following last week’s primary races for seats in the state Assembly or Senate, the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus is looking at the likelihood of growing by single digits later this year.
- The San Francisco Department of Public Health is anticipating a potential increase in some communicable diseases this summer, it stated in a health advisory sent June 9.
- The first Qatari person to publicly come out of the closet as LGBTQ is spearheading a campaign to call attention to human rights abuses in the Persian Gulf state.
- As expected, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee will seek reelection on the November 3 ballot, she announced last weekend.