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• LGBTQ Agenda: Lady Gaga tops Grindr music categories in year-end report
  Lady Gaga remains an unmatched icon of the queer community, winning three categories in Grindr’s year-end report released earlier this month.
• Choose U ambassadors share lived experiences with HIV, personal reflections, and insights
  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.
• Political Notes: With ethics matter resolved, queer SF women commission member fights to retain her body’s oversight powers
  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.
• State awards funding for San Francisco LGBTQ senior housing project  
  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.
• Sacramento LGBTQs respond to several unnerving incidents in queer neighborhood
  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.
• Political Notebook: Gay comic book seller Porter eyes Capitol Hill
  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.
• Editorial: Most CA gov candidates fall short on trans issues
  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.
• US Supreme Court declines case of Bakersfield baker’s appeal over same-sex wedding cake
• SF memorial for Miss Major Griffin-Gracy illuminates her lifelong actions
  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.
• Business Briefing: SF market caters to kinky holiday shoppers
  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.