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Political Notebook: LGBTQ parents council prioritizes gender-neutral bathrooms at SF schools

Political Notebook: LGBTQ parents council prioritizes gender-neutral bathrooms at SF schools

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jan 29, 2025

An LGBTQ families advisory body for the San Francisco Unified School District has made access to gender-neutral bathrooms at all school sites its first priority issue to address this year.

Study may lead to traffic changes for the Castro

Study may lead to traffic changes for the Castro

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jan 29, 2025

A proposal to study traffic patterns in San Francisco's Castro district may have wide-reaching impacts for vehicles using Market Street trying to access Duboce Triangle and westside neighborhoods in the city.

Editorial: 2 national LGBTQ groups step up

Editorial: 2 national LGBTQ groups step up

  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 29, 2025

The editorial board looks at websites of national LGBTQ organizations to see how they're providing information about President Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

  • by Leslie Ewing
  • Jan 29, 2025

Bay Area cartoonist and lesbian activist Leslie Ewing provided this editorial cartoon to the Bay Area Reporter.

Editorial: LGBTQ youth left in dark by CA health officials

Editorial: LGBTQ youth left in dark by CA health officials

  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 29, 2025

With the anti-LGBTQ executive orders coming from President Donald Trump at a rapid clip, it's been frustrating and appalling that California health officials have decided to pull a Trumpian move of their own by canceling an LGBTQ youth contract.

Two-Spirit powwow aims to welcome community

Two-Spirit powwow aims to welcome community

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Jan 28, 2025

This is a big week for Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits. The nonprofit organization is holding a delayed 25th anniversary dinner Thursday, followed by its 14th annual powwow Saturday, February 1.

South Bay man sentenced in murder of trans drag performer

South Bay man sentenced in murder of trans drag performer

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jan 28, 2025

A Milpitas man has been sentenced by a jury in the 2021 murder of a transgender drag performer.

Trump bans transgender service members from U.S. armed forces

Trump bans transgender service members from U.S. armed forces

  • by Christopher Kane, Washington Blade
  • Jan 28, 2025

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a series of executive orders focused on the military, including banning transgender service members from the U.S. armed forces and a directive gutting the Pentagon's diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Trump halts PEPFAR funding, withdraws from WHO

Trump halts PEPFAR funding, withdraws from WHO

  • by Liz Highleyman
  • Jan 28, 2025

In the first week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump has stopped funding for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, jeopardizing the lives of people who receive HIV prevention and treatment through the global aid program.

SF supervisors' committee forwards key Castro neighborhood report to full board

SF supervisors' committee forwards key Castro neighborhood report to full board

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jan 27, 2025

A San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee forwarded a critical report about the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District to the full board.

Former B.A.R. photographer Ron Williams dies

Former B.A.R. photographer Ron Williams dies

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Jan 27, 2025

Former Bay Area Reporter photographer Ron Williams, a gay man whose photo of an empress riding an elephant in the 1975 Pride parade became one of the LGBTQ newspaper's most iconic front-page images, died January 10 in Rancho Mirage, California.

LGBTQ Agenda: LGBTQ, HIV-related content scrubbed from White House website

LGBTQ Agenda: LGBTQ, HIV-related content scrubbed from White House website

  • by John Ferrannini
  • Jan 27, 2025

Nearly all LGBTQ and HIV-related content has been removed from the White House's website as advocates continue to react to the "days of thunder" of Donald Trump's return to the U.S. presidency.

Political Notes: Gay Redwood City councilmember flags impact of new smoking fines

Political Notes: Gay Redwood City councilmember flags impact of new smoking fines

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Jan 27, 2025

Members of the City Council in Redwood City on the Peninsula presented it as a commonsense approach to protect people from the ill effects of secondhand tobacco and marijuana smoke.

London police search for 3 men seen leaving flat where drag queen Heklina was found dead in 2023

London police search for 3 men seen leaving flat where drag queen Heklina was found dead in 2023

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Jan 24, 2025

Nearly two years after drag queen Heklina was found dead in a Soho flat in London, police there have issued a bulletin asking three men seen on camera footage leaving the flat to come forward.