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- The obituary for Jeffrey Earl Auman, who was curious about different religions and volunteered in the Tenderloin and Castro neighborhoods.
- Psychiatrists, attorney to be appointed for defendant in homophobic, antisemitic SF church vandalismA man accused of vandalizing a local church who once allegedly threatened a mass shooting of San Francisco gays and Jews didn’t appear in court March 12, as previously scheduled.
- The Bay Area Reporter, America’s longest continuously published LGBTQ newspaper, today announced that advertising space reservations are now open for its special 55th Anniversary Edition, publishing April 2, 2026.
- Unlike a certain undeservingly Oscar-nominated actor, we love ballet and opera, specifically San Francisco Ballet, now that the taint of their potential performing at the illegally renamed Trump-Kennedy Center is scratched. You can enjoy their amazing dances, as well as wonderful visual arts, performing and nightlife activities, including Oscar watch parties, chosen here for your […]
- As a new affordable housing project affirming of LGBTQ seniors eyes a 2029 opening date in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, conversations are already underway on how to ensure a majority of its residents are queer and transgender older adults.
- The number of LGBTQ people serving on state courts across California continues to grow, marking a 4% increase over the last 14 years on the official annual tallies released by the Judicial Council of California.
- Rates of sexually transmitted infections in San Francisco continued to decline in 2025, according to year-end statistics released by the city’s health department.
- The San Francisco Pride Band is welcoming its new artistic director for its concert ensemble with its first community concert of 2026 later this month.
- The executive orders that President Donald Trump has issued since he returned to the White House last year have upended new practices and policies that were on the cusp of becoming standardized.
- A visually rich and thoughtfully crafted collaborative work by photographer Arthur Tress and poet-novelist Trebor Healey from Mexico City, “Navel of the Moon/Ombligo de la Luna” is part travel notebook, part visual dream, and a book that feels quietly intimate.
- More than 50 years after “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the peak of popularity for the Python troupe (and the source of most of the musical’s book), “Spamalot” and its touring company lean hard on nostalgia. Audiences over 50 are the crutch that let Eric Idle’s adventurers continue to wander the world.
- In the face of anti-LGBTQ attacks by the federal government, San Francisco Pride will keep resisting this year.
- What initially drew Nidhi Chanani to a career as a comic book author was wanting to see the culture of her native country India reflected in the field.
- From March 13 through August 23, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will present a new exhibition, “Conjuring Power: Roots and Futures of Queer and Trans Movements.” The exhibition will explore how queer and trans communities have harnessed creativity to build culture.
- In the second of our Spring books series, we present an enticing selection of LGBTQ books about androgynous European party people, a queer man’s Mexican heritage, the true beauty of nonbinary fashion, and a spicy glimpse inside the provocative worlds of kink and BDSM.