Opinion

Guest Opinion: Biz support needed beyond Pride Month

Guest Opinion: Biz support needed beyond Pride Month

Another Pride, another year of people expressing frustration about the large corporate presence at the parade.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letters to the editor.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.

Editorial: Stop the flip-flopping, Kamala

Editorial: Stop the flip-flopping, Kamala

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jul 10, 2019

Last week in this space we praised Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' debate performance for confronting former Vice President Joe Biden on his opposition to federally mandated busing to desegregate public schools. Biden was flummoxed.

Guest Opinion: Jose Sarria's history is important

Guest Opinion: Jose Sarria's history is important

Jose Sarria has been called the "Rosa Parks of the gay rights movement" of the 1960s. His history is important and now there's an effort underway to induct him posthumously into the California Hall of Fame.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letters to the editor.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.

Editorial: Harris throws a punch — and lands it

Editorial: Harris throws a punch — and lands it

Former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in the first Democratic presidential primary debates punctured his aura of an inevitable frontrunner and sowed doubts among primary voters and pundits.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.

Guest Opinion: Awoke and fighting back

Guest Opinion: Awoke and fighting back

Although I was firmly planting roots in San Francisco, I was also itching to see other parts of the world. I was in the prime of my life and I wanted new experiences, new faces, new surroundings.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.

Editorial: Cities fly their Pride

Editorial: Cities fly their Pride

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jun 26, 2019

This June numerous cities around the Bay Area displayed their Pride.

Guest Opinion: The day I was told I didn't belong in society

Guest Opinion: The day I was told I didn't belong in society

It was in early 1984 when I picked up the Sunday San Jose Mercury News and read an opinion piece by a local state Assembly member stating that homosexuals should have no legal, social, or political standing in society.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.