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LGBTQ Agenda: Survey says bisexuals make up most of the rainbow umbrella

LGBTQ Agenda: Survey says bisexuals make up most of the rainbow umbrella

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Feb 28, 2023

The percentage of American adults self-reporting as non-heterosexuals remained steady last year — and almost three-fifths of those are bisexual, a Gallup survey found.

Political Notebook: 16 seek SF drag laureate post

Political Notebook: 16 seek SF drag laureate post

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 24, 2023

Sixteen applicants are seeking to become San Francisco's inaugural drag laureate. City Hall officials expect the person to be announced this spring, well ahead of Pride Month in June.

News Briefs: SF to end COVID health emergency

News Briefs: SF to end COVID health emergency

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Feb 22, 2023

The San Francisco Department of Public Health has announced that the city's COVID-19 public health emergency declaration will end February 28.

Transmissions: Six days in February

Transmissions: Six days in February

  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Feb 22, 2023

On the afternoon of February 11, a girl by the name of Brianna Ghey was found on a path in Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Pronounced dead at the scene, she was the victim of multiple stab wounds.

Out in the World: Photo book provides an intimate look inside queer Chinese youths' lives

Out in the World: Photo book provides an intimate look inside queer Chinese youths' lives

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Feb 16, 2023

A new photo book, "Solace: Portraits of Queer Chinese Youth helps give LGBTQ Chinese youth a voice at a period in their country's history when its government is cracking down on homosexuality and being queer is taboo.

Political Notebook: Gay Vallejo councilman aims to address teen smoking

Political Notebook: Gay Vallejo councilman aims to address teen smoking

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 15, 2023

Vallejo's new gay City Council member is aiming to address teen smoking in his Solano County city this year.

News Briefs: Oakland LGBTQ center offers Black History Month films

News Briefs: Oakland LGBTQ center offers Black History Month films

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Feb 15, 2023

The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is presenting its Black History Month film series that continues through February.

Out in the World: Japan's PM apologizes for anti-same-sex marriage comments, fires top aide

Out in the World: Japan's PM apologizes for anti-same-sex marriage comments, fires top aide

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Feb 10, 2023

Rather than roses and chocolates to start the month that celebrates love, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and one of his top aides faced criticism within parliament and from the public for comments seen as being anti-same-sex marriage.

Political Notes: Additional queer female icons to be featured on US quarters

Political Notes: Additional queer female icons to be featured on US quarters

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 10, 2023

The female namesake of an LGBTQ health clinic in the nation's capital and a lesbian poet and activist are among the latest American women chosen to be featured on U.S. quarters.

Political Notebook: Lesbian CA Senator Menjivar settles into Sacramento

Political Notebook: Lesbian CA Senator Menjivar settles into Sacramento

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 8, 2023

Providing a video tour of her Sacramento office via Twitter in early January, lesbian state Senator Caroline Menjivar (D-San Fernando Valley) showed off the entry area and shared workspace for her staff.

Business Briefing: Spice shop shakes up couple's wedding plans

Business Briefing: Spice shop shakes up couple's wedding plans

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 8, 2023

Four days shy of Christmas in 2021, Matthew Green and Phuong Mai got engaged and began making wedding plans. Together nearly six years, the San Francisco couple had expected to set a date sometime in 2023.

Transmissions: Being dragged into a culture war

Transmissions: Being dragged into a culture war

  • Feb 8, 2023

Decades before the upper floors of a three-story building at the corner of Broadway and Kearny in San Francisco became a co-working office space, it was home to a nightclub called Finocchio's.

LGBTQ Agenda: Artists and others speak out as bills advance in 3 states that would criminalize drag

LGBTQ Agenda: Artists and others speak out as bills advance in 3 states that would criminalize drag

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Feb 7, 2023

LGBTQ civil rights groups and drag artists are sounding the alarm about bills in three states that if they became law would restrict drag performances.

Political Notes: US senators call for LGBTQ data about scientific workforce

Political Notes: US senators call for LGBTQ data about scientific workforce

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 6, 2023

A group of Democratic U.S. senators is calling for better data about the number of LGBTQ people employed among the country's scientific workforce.