Opinion

Editorial: Newsom right to stand tough on textbooks

Editorial: Newsom right to stand tough on textbooks

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jul 19, 2023

The state of California will not tolerate public school districts that ban textbooks based on false claims by district officials.

Guest Opinion: Book details US fight for LGBTQ equality

Guest Opinion: Book details US fight for LGBTQ equality

The exhilarating days of Obama-era LGBTQ activism have given way to a dangerous complacency that threatens all the unprecedented gains of the past 20 years.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

A reader thanks those who helped install the pink triangle display atop Twin Peaks.

Guest Opinion: Hope, inclusion needed now more than ever

Guest Opinion: Hope, inclusion needed now more than ever

Growing up in southwestern Virginia, in a family so poor our home had no running water, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I never had an LGBTQ+ role model to turn to or to emulate as I tried to understand who I was.

Editorial: 6th Circuit deals a blow to trans kids

Editorial: 6th Circuit deals a blow to trans kids

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jul 12, 2023

The hammer came down on trans kids with a 2-1 decision by a panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allows a state ban in Tennessee to go into effect.

Editorial: A 'fake' case leads to bad opinion

Editorial: A 'fake' case leads to bad opinion

By now it's clear that the six conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices were pranked by one of the most anti-LGBTQ legal organizations in the country.

Guest Opinion: Trans rights are human rights: Advocating for equality and understanding

Guest Opinion: Trans rights are human rights: Advocating for equality and understanding

Over the last few years, LGBTQIA+ community members have been hit with an onslaught of legislation aimed at silencing their voices, hiding their identities, and stripping them of their rights.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Readers weigh in on SF Pride, the mayor's recent trip to Israel, and the co-founder of the pink triangle installation thanks those who helped out.

Editorial: Grim report on CA hate crimes

Editorial: Grim report on CA hate crimes

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jun 28, 2023

Two days after California Attorney General Rob Bonta rode in the San Francisco Pride parade to the cheers of thousands, he issued the California Department of Justice's annual hate crimes report.

Guest Opinion: Our LGBTQ students need a voice at the table

Guest Opinion: Our LGBTQ students need a voice at the table

Last year, Paso Robles High School, located in my state Senate District 17, experienced a deeply disturbing incident.

Editorial: Sticking up for LGBTQ Hayward students

Editorial: Sticking up for LGBTQ Hayward students

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jun 21, 2023

The Hayward Unified School District Board of Trustees stuck up for LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff last week despite the outrageous homophobic comments made by board member Joe Ramos.

Guest Opinion: LGBTQ+ youth + mental health is top priority for Pride 2023

Guest Opinion: LGBTQ+ youth + mental health is top priority for Pride 2023

I've been a San Francisco resident for all of my adult queer life. Thirty of those I've spent inside my current tiny Tenderloin apartment — when I swing open the door, I pass by 20 feet of salon-style, self-commissioned artwork.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

A former city resident recalls the heady days of the early 1980s in the South of Market and the Castro.

Editorial: SFAF should rethink overdose messaging

Editorial: SFAF should rethink overdose messaging

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jun 14, 2023

We fully support the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's expressed interest in helping to run an overdose prevention center, but we think the agency stumbled with recent messaging equating needles to life and police to death.