News

News Briefs: LGBTQ legal professionals mobilize to 'Legalize Drag'

News Briefs: LGBTQ legal professionals mobilize to 'Legalize Drag'

  • NEWS
  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Apr 26, 2023

Legal professionals in the LGBTQI+ community will take the stage at Oasis Saturday, April 29, for "Legalize Drag," a fundraiser for grassroots organizations in Tennessee.

Editorial: Republicans behaving badly

Editorial: Republicans behaving badly

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 26, 2023

Last week's House passage of an anti-trans sports bill is an example of how Congress has changed since Republicans took control in January.

B.A.R. planning special issues for Pride Month

B.A.R. planning special issues for Pride Month

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 26, 2023

The Bay Area Reporter will be publishing special reports throughout all five Thursdays of this year's Pride Month — including in a mammoth-sized issue days before the parade and celebration marking the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Safety project along upper Market Street wraps up

Safety project along upper Market Street wraps up

  • NEWS
  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Apr 26, 2023

A $10 million project aimed at improving pedestrian and bicycle safety along upper Market Street will be wrapping up in early May. It has also brought new lighting for the palm trees lining the roadway's median.

B.A.R. planning special issues for Pride Month

B.A.R. planning special issues for Pride Month

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 26, 2023

The Bay Area Reporter will be publishing special reports throughout all five Thursdays of this year's Pride Month — including in a mammoth-sized issue days before the parade and celebration marking the 54th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor opine on the Castro Theatre and tobacco use among LGBTQ youth.

Obituaries: Roy Haynes Carr

Obituaries: Roy Haynes Carr

  • NEWS
  • by BAR staff
  • Apr 26, 2023

The obituary for Roy Haynes Carr, who, with his late partner, James Meko, operated a successful printing and design company that catered to the leather community.

San Francisco supervisors repeal ban on travel to anti-LGBTQ states

San Francisco supervisors repeal ban on travel to anti-LGBTQ states

  • NEWS
  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Apr 25, 2023

San Francisco's ban on taxpayer funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ laws and doing business with companies headquartered in them is coming to an end.

Gay man recovering after Union Square-area shooting, robbery

Gay man recovering after Union Square-area shooting, robbery

  • CRIME
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 25, 2023

A gay man who was shot and robbed near his San Francisco apartment is out of the hospital and doing better.

New Castro welcome center opens amid fanfare

New Castro welcome center opens amid fanfare

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 25, 2023

A gift shop and welcome center pop-up has opened in the Castro — a bright spot in the San Francisco LGBTQ neighborhood hurt by a spate of business closures.

Biden announces reelection bid

Biden announces reelection bid

  • NEWS
  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Apr 25, 2023

Coming four years to the day after he announced his 2020 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden on April 25 formally launched his 2024 reelection effort.

SF supervisors' committee delays vote on Castro Theatre landmarking for 2 weeks

SF supervisors' committee delays vote on Castro Theatre landmarking for 2 weeks

  • NEWS
  • by John Ferrannini
  • Apr 24, 2023

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee on Monday voted 3-0 to wait two more weeks before giving its final stamp of approval to amend the interior landmarking ordinance for the Castro Theatre.

Out in the World: Museveni calls for changes to Uganda's anti-gay bill

Out in the World: Museveni calls for changes to Uganda's anti-gay bill

  • NEWS
  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 24, 2023

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni returned the country's Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 to Parliament on the eve of the deadline to take action on the legislation and ordered it to be improved with some sort of rehabilitative mechanism.

Out in the World: India court begins hearing on same-sex marriage case

Out in the World: India court begins hearing on same-sex marriage case

  • NEWS
  • by Heather Cassell
  • Apr 24, 2023

India's Supreme Court has started hearing oral arguments on a landmark same-sex marriage case, but the proceeding was postponed after one of the judges became sick with COVID.