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Oakland LGBTQ Port Bar vandalized overnight, co-owner says

CRIME | October 4, 2023

The sun came up over Oakland's Port Bar this morning with its two front windows and glass entrance door apparently shot through in what its co-owner believes was an intentional act.

Editorial: Feinstein was a trailblazer

NEWS
by BAR Editorial Board
Oct 4, 2023

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California), who died last week at the age of 90, will be remembered for a lot of things, but to many older LGBTQ people, she is recalled as the steadfast leader who worked to heal San Francisco following a tragedy.

Editorial: Butler should seek full Senate term

NEWS
by BAR Editorial Board
Oct 4, 2023

Governor Gavin Newsom's selection of Black lesbian Laphonza Butler to replace the late senator Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate fulfilled his promise to pick a Black woman should he need to appoint someone.

News Briefs: SF library panel discusses banned books

NEWS
by Cynthia Laird
Oct 4, 2023

This week is Banned Books Week, and the San Francisco Public Library and Litquake will host a panel of children's and young adult authors who will discuss what it's like to write as a creator whose work has been banned or censored.

Political Notebook: Vallejo leader Wilson vies to be 1st gay Solano supervisor

NEWS
by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 4, 2023

Michael Wilson, a gay former Vallejo city councilmember, is vying to become the first known LGBTQ member of the Solano County Board of Supervisors.

Gay photographer and San Francisco LGBTQ historical society butt heads

NEWS
by John Ferrannini
Oct 4, 2023

A longtime gay photographer said the GLBT Historical Society is not forthcoming with him about why it no longer wants to be his fiscal sponsor.

Transmissions: Ghosts, specters, and very old bones

NEWS
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Oct 4, 2023

It's frightfully common for anti-transgender activists to rely on old tropes in place of actual arguments, and one of the favorites in their arsenal nowadays seems simple on the surface, but gets crueler the deeper you dig.

Cheer abounds at Castro fair

NEWS
by BAR staff
Oct 4, 2023

Cheer SF, the pep squad made up of LGBTQ and allied members, and the city's official cheer team, performed at the intersection of 18th and Castro streets Sunday, October 1, during the Castro Street Fair.

Castro gets new rainbow flag

NEWS
by BAR staff
Oct 4, 2023

Volunteers helped to raise the new, oversize rainbow flag in Harvey Milk Plaza at Castro and Market streets Friday, September 29, ahead of the Castro Street Fair.

Obituaries: William Lonon Smith

NEWS
Oct 4, 2023

The obituary for William Lonon Smith, who loved the San Francisco arts scene.

CDC issues first doxyPEP guidelines for STI prevention

HEALTH
by Liz Highleyman
Oct 4, 2023

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first proposed guidelines for using the antibiotic doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent sexually transmitted infections, an approach known as doxyPEP.

SF Badlands reopening Wednesday afternoon

NEWS
by John Ferrannini
Oct 4, 2023

At long last, Badlands is reopening this afternoon for the first time since the COVID pandemic, the new co-manager confirmed to the Bay Area Reporter on October 4.

Butler sworn in as US senator

NEWS
by Cynthia Laird
Oct 3, 2023

Laphonza Butler was sworn in Tuesday as California's new senator, succeeding Dianne Feinstein, who died last week.

SFPD: Two suspects get away after Castro bar break-in

CRIME
by John Ferrannini
Oct 3, 2023

Two suspects got away after allegedly breaking into the Lookout bar in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood.

LGBTQ Agenda: Queer trio honored by US government for fighting for equal workplace rights

NATIONAL
by John Ferrannini
Oct 3, 2023

The United States Department of Labor has announced a date that it will honor three LGBTQ people who fought for equal rights in the workplace and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling three years ago.

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