With seven-in-10 reported hate crimes in San Francisco occurring against gay men — the FBI is fully committed to enforcing federal hate crimes statutes regardless of who is in the White House, agents told an audience in the Castro.
A number of nonprofits representing minority groups, including the LGBTQ community, are grateful for grants from the state aimed at fighting prejudice.
The new co-executive directors of San Francisco's Transgender District said the conditions in the neighborhood, and in the country at large, are the biggest challenges the world's only cultural district of its kind faces.
Due to the election last November of gay San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres, the District 7 seat he had held on the seven-person board that oversees the San José-Evergreen Community College District has been vacant this year.
Unable to pass their anti-transgender agenda through the state Legislature, conservative parent groups are working to put a trio of ballot measures restricting the rights of trans youth before California voters next year.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta this week filed a lawsuit against the Chino Valley Unified School District because its board voted last month to adopt a mandatory gender identity disclosure policy.
Two weeks after San Francisco's only medical and social service organization built by and for sex workers quietly announced that it's shutting its doors, questions about how this hole in the city's safety net will be filled are still unanswered.
Bill Hirsh, right, the outgoing executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, was presented with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's HIV Advocacy Network's Catalyst of Change Award.
