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Editorial: Ugandan LGBTQs on edge over harsh bill

Editorial: Ugandan LGBTQs on edge over harsh bill

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Mar 29, 2023

Ugandan lawmakers have passed a harsh anti-LGBTQ bill that President Yoweri Museveni has indicated he supports, and LGBTQ residents in the country are on edge.

CA family leave bills aim to benefit LGBTQ workers

CA family leave bills aim to benefit LGBTQ workers

  • NEWS
  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 29, 2023

When their friend goes in for gender-affirming surgery at a Bay Area health care facility in April, Fresno resident Kaede Coronado-Acuña has offered to drive them and help care for them post the procedure.

Youth march for trans rights in SF

Youth march for trans rights in SF

  • NEWS
  • by BAR staff
  • Mar 29, 2023

Young people took to the streets Saturday, March 25, for a Youth 4 Trans Liberation March, which started at Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin and ended outside San Francisco City Hall.

News Briefs: Activists plan 'Drag Up, Fight Back' rally

News Briefs: Activists plan 'Drag Up, Fight Back' rally

  • NEWS
  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Mar 29, 2023

Angered by the anti-trans and anti-drag hysteria that is being whipped up around the country, activists have planned a "Drag Up! Fight Back!" march and rally for Saturday, April 8, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in San Francisco over the Easter holiday weekend.

Guest Opinion: Time for trans people to stand up

Guest Opinion: Time for trans people to stand up

  • NEWS
  • by Gabriel Haaland
  • Mar 29, 2023

This is the worst year in history for anti-trans and anti-drag legislation. Full stop.

Prasad settling in after bond granted in immigration case

Prasad settling in after bond granted in immigration case

  • NEWS
  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Mar 29, 2023

Salesh Prasad, who was granted bond by an immigration judge late last year, has settled into transitional housing in San Francisco, where he also now has a job.

Vallejo trans archive to reopen after crash damage

Vallejo trans archive to reopen after crash damage

  • NEWS
  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Mar 29, 2023

One year after sustaining damage in a hit-and-run crash, the Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive in Vallejo is set to reopen on Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, and a community open house is planned for next month.

Ex-SJ leader solves cold case murder of gay porn actor

Ex-SJ leader solves cold case murder of gay porn actor

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Mar 29, 2023

How did a gay stay-at-home married dad end up solving the 33-year-old cold case murder of a Los Angeles gay porn star?

Political Notebook: LGBTQ leader seeks Alameda supervisor appointment

Political Notebook: LGBTQ leader seeks Alameda supervisor appointment

  • NEWS
  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 29, 2023

A gay East Bay college board member is seeking to be appointed to a vacancy on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.

Trans woman crowned Miss San Francisco

Trans woman crowned Miss San Francisco

  • NEWS
  • by Marijke Rowland
  • Mar 29, 2023

The Miss California Organization, part of the long-running Miss America pageant, has crowned the first transgender local winner in the state group's 99-year history.

Queer people more likely to vaccinate early, embrace COVID response, data show

Queer people more likely to vaccinate early, embrace COVID response, data show

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Mar 29, 2023

Gay and lesbian adults were more likely to take up COVID-19 vaccination early — and less likely to distrust the jabs, but nonetheless data collection has made statistics hard to come by, according to data from the CDC.

Gay Castro hair stylist found dead in Grand Canyon

Gay Castro hair stylist found dead in Grand Canyon

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Mar 28, 2023

A gay man who had worked at a Castro neighborhood hair salon was found dead in the Grand Canyon in Arizona earlier this month.

Trans woman alleges sexual retaliation by St. James Infirmary staff

Trans woman alleges sexual retaliation by St. James Infirmary staff

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Mar 28, 2023

The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development has ordered St. James Infirmary to investigate a claim by a trans woman that she is a victim of sexual retaliation by some of the nonprofit's workers.

Nashville police say Christian school shooter identified as trans

Nashville police say Christian school shooter identified as trans

  • CRIME
  • by Brody Levesque, Washington Blade
  • Mar 28, 2023

Nashville police said that a person who opened fire at a private Christian school Monday was a former student who identified as transgender.