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News Briefs: Castro biz group launches flag donation program

NEWS | October 11, 2023

The Castro Merchants Association has announced the new Rainbow Flag Donation program whereby the giant rainbow flags that fly at Harvey Milk Plaza at Castro and Market streets will be given to a nonprofit group when they are retired.

Newsom signs set of trans bills

NEWS
by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 13, 2023

The last two remaining LGBTQ-related bills adopted this year by California lawmakers have been signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.

SF health department reports September mpox spike

HEALTH
by John Ferrannini
Oct 13, 2023

San Francisco saw an uptick in mpox cases last month, according to the city's Department of Public Health.

Political Notes: Gay SF health commissioner Bernal gets waiver to take UCSF job

NEWS
by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 13, 2023

Gay San Francisco Health Commission President Dan Bernal has secured the waiver he was seeking to become UCSF's vice chancellor of community and government relations.

Political Notebook: Gay Pelosi chief Bernal seeks waiver for UCSF job

NEWS
by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 11, 2023

Dan Bernal, the longtime gay chief of staff to Congressmember Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), is seeking a waiver from San Francisco's ethics watchdog body in order to take a job with UCSF as its vice chancellor of community and government relations.

Gay SF man's 2018 killing gets new look from TV's Grace

NEWS
by Ed Walsh
Oct 11, 2023

Nationally known legal commentator and television personality Nancy Grace is blasting the San Francisco Police Department's handling of the grisly killing of a gay man in 2018.

LGBTQ History Month: In its past, US women's group NOW purged lesbians

HISTORY
by Victoria A. Brownworth
Oct 11, 2023

The online National Women's History Museum describes Betty Friedan as "co-founder of the National Organization for Women" and "one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s."

LGBTQ History Month: Dallas LGBTQ leader Harris looks back on history

HISTORY
by David Taffet
Oct 11, 2023

When George Harris and Jack Evans became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Dallas County, they had already been together 54 years.

Business Briefing: SF coworking space incubates lesbian restaurateurs

BUSINESS
by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 11, 2023

In the coming weeks Suki and Katya Skye will open a restaurant near San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood featuring fare from their Eastern European roots.

Editorial: Newsom's health vetoes send wrong message

NEWS
by BAR Editorial Board
Oct 11, 2023

Governor Gavin Newsom's vetoes over the weekend of two health-related bills send the wrong message to LGBTQs and straights alike.

LGBTQ History Month: History done 'The Dallas Way'

HISTORY
by David Taffet
Oct 11, 2023

Folks in Texas often have their own way of doing things, even when it comes to keeping track of history. And in Dallas' LGBTQ community that means preserving their history "The Dallas Way."

Guest Opinion: Attacks on queer youth ramp up in CA

NEWS
by Paulina Angel
Oct 11, 2023

There is an attack going on here in California, and the victims are transgender and gender non-conforming youth.

Breed presents Fauci with key to city

NEWS
by BAR staff
Oct 11, 2023

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, left, presented the key to the city to Dr. Anthony Fauci during a ceremony in the mayor's office at City Hall Wednesday, October 4.

Out in the World: SF gay Jewish business owner caught in Israel after Hamas attack

NEWS
by Heather Cassell
Oct 11, 2023

San Francisco gay Jewish cafe owner Emanuel "Manny" Yekutiel finds himself in an unimaginable situation following the surprise attack by Hamas in Israel October 7.

HRC, other LGBTQ groups, endorse Biden-Harris for 2024

NATIONAL
by John Ferrannini
Oct 10, 2023

Three national LGBTQ groups — including the Human Rights Campaign's political action committee — endorsed President Joe Biden's re-election campaign October 10 in their first joint endorsement.

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