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B.A.R.'s Bestie balloting begins

September 25, 2023

It's time for Bay Area Reporter readers to cast their ballots for the LGBTQ newspaper's annual Best of the Bay contest.

Dr. Patricia Grayhall's 'Making the Rounds'

by Laura Moreno
Nov 8, 2022

Beginning with her earliest memories of trying to fit in, 'Making the Rounds: Defying Norms In Love & Medicine' is an interesting memoir and Grayhall's first book.

America is a gun: The Lavender Tube on Uvalde's atrocities

by Victoria A. Brownworth
May 31, 2022

At the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, parents had to find and identify the bodies of their 8, 9, 10 and 11-year-old children; little kid bodies that had been decimated by an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

Going viral: microbiologist Joseph Osmundson's 'Virology'

by Mark William Norby
May 31, 2022

Joseph Osmundson's new book establishes itself as a unique and singular archive of COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, queer theory, sociopolitical criticism, and a record of the viruses that are present in our guts, on our skin, and in our blood.

LGBTQ Agenda: Gay nonbinary Stanford doc receives fellowship award to study LGBTQ fertility

by Eric Burkett
May 20, 2022

A gay nonbinary Stanford scientist has been awarded a grant to study lesbian family-building, and ultimately, in the broader queer community.

Getting high and falling out on GHB

by Adam Echelman
May 11, 2022

The fall is so quick that most people can only remember where they landed: in someone else's bed, on a park bench, or in a hospital room.

Meth without GHB is like 'coffee without cream'

by Adam Echelman
May 4, 2022

Justin used to sell "Happy Meals" for $135: an ounce of G, an eighth of meth, and two to three Viagra.

GHB: The 'elixir' that no one is talking about (but everyone is drinking)

by by Adam Echelman
Apr 27, 2022

Franz Lao had a few quiet hours at work so he left the office to take some meth and drink some G.

'How To Survive A Pandemic' David France's new documentary as activism

by Brian Bromberger
Mar 29, 2022

In 'How To Survive A Pandemic,' acclaimed investigative journalist and Academy Award-nominated gay filmmaker David France takes an insider's look at the historic, multi-national race to research, develop, regulate, and launch COVID-19 vaccines.

Lyon-Martin center breaks from HealthRIGHT 360, changes name

by Eric Burkett
Mar 23, 2022

Lyon-Martin Health Services has a new name and is now independent from HealthRIGHT 360,

Frank Bruni's memoir, 'The Beauty of Dusk'

by Brian Bromberger
Mar 8, 2022

"I went to bed seeing the world one way. I woke up seeing it another," writes gay journalist Frank Bruni in his new memoir about that fateful morning in 2017 when he awoke with blurred vision resembling a thick fog.

Outside the rainbow: Black lesbian couple's memoir

by Cornelius Washington
Feb 22, 2022

Naomi W. Scales and Marilyn J. Jordan's co-authored memoir, 'From Pain To Love: Our Journey Outside The Rainbow,' is very timely, reflecting just about everything that is pathological about the African-American community.

COVID breakthrough infections strike summer tourists visiting Provincetown

by Chris Johnson, Washington Blade
Jul 15, 2021

Dozens of summer tourists who were among those visiting the gay resort town of Provincetown, Massachusetts over the weekend came back with more than beach memories and a tan: They tested positive for COVID-19 — even though they were fully vaccinated.

Third B.A.R. Talks panel focus on news coverage of HIV/AIDS

by Jim Provenzano
Jun 27, 2021

'B.A.R. Talks 3: AIDS/HIV in Print,' the third of the Bay Area Reporter's monthly 50th anniversary online panels, will feature Liz Highleyman, Tom Burtch and Guy Clark, who will discuss the paper's decades of covering the AIDS pandemic, online July 1.

Limited supply slows COVID vaccine rollout

by Liz Highleyman
Feb 10, 2021

San Francisco has expanded its capacity to administer COVID-19 vaccines but is limited by an inadequate supply, Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said this week at a media briefing and a web forum sponsored by the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club.

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