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News Briefs: B.A.R.'s Besties voting is now underway

August 4, 2022

Voting is open for the Bay Area Reporter's readers' poll known as the Besties.

Transmissions: Double nickel

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Jul 27, 2022

I recently had a momentous birthday, reaching 20 years past the age I expected myself to be dead.

Guest Opinion: Let's not forget about LGBTQ immigrants in ICE detention

by Salesh Prasad
Jul 13, 2022

There's a suffocating bleakness to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, detention. We are locked inside 20 hours a day.

Transmissions: What is a woman?

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Jul 13, 2022

Conservative commentator and provocateur Matt Walsh recently released a movie titled, "What Is A Woman?"

Guest Opinion: Liberal status quo brought us to this moment

by Andrew Kelly
Jun 29, 2022

Without a doubt, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling overturning Roe v. Wade's right to abortion will go down as one of the most egregious abuses of judicial authority in our country's history.

Transmissions: Standing up in a post-Roe world

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Jun 29, 2022

I am sure you don't need me to tell you this: in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which established constitutional protections for abortion, as part of a 6-3 decision to uphold an abortion ban in Mississippi.

Guest Opinion: Beyond the bubble: Pride in Israel from the North to the South

by Matan Zamir
Jun 22, 2022

Located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is internationally recognized as the LGBTQ+ capital of the Middle East.

Guest Opinion: LGBTQs ready for smoke-free bar patios this Pride

by Amaya Wooding
Jun 22, 2022

It's Pride 2022, and we are back in the streets to celebrate in-person again!

Transmissions: Predators, prey, and Pride

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Jun 15, 2022

Spurred on by a Twitter account known for its provocative nature, @libsoftiktok, a cadre of alleged Proud Boys members stormed into the San Lorenzo library in the East Bay June 11.

Transmissions: Living hell

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Jun 1, 2022

You would think that discussing a group of people who have literally hacked the code of their own bodies to present in their correct gender would be pretty fantastic, but transgender people are remarkably mundane.

Transmissions: This dichotomy we live in

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
May 18, 2022

The big trend in popular culture is the multiverse, as seen in films like "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness" and "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

Transmissions: The real groomers

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
May 4, 2022

In Watertown, South Dakota, on April 25, Calvin Hillesland, a German teacher at Watertown High School, handed letters to four trans and nonbinary students.