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Business Briefing: Oakland DJ James helps show off city's Pride

August 16, 2022

East Bay native Christie James is helping to showcase the local LGBTQ community next month as one of the organizers of the Pridefest Oakland 2022 celebration.

LGBTQ Agenda: Bonta joins AGs in 14 states and DC to file briefs opposing Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' law

by Eric Burkett
Aug 16, 2022

Joining the attorneys general of 14 other states and Washington, D.C., California Attorney General Rob Bonta has signed onto an amicus brief in a lawsuit opposing Florida's notorious House Bill 1557 — the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Political Notes: Summer primaries mostly favor LGBTQ candidates

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 12, 2022

Out candidates for a variety of races have won their primary races and now head to the November elections.

Out in the World: OutRight appoints Sjödin new executive director

by Heather Cassell
Aug 11, 2022

OutRight Action International has officially announced that Maria Sjödin is the international LGBTQ organization's new executive director.

Out in the World: Ugandan LGBTQ umbrella group ordered to cease operations

by Heather Cassell
Aug 11, 2022

Ugandan authorities denied registration of Uganda's leading LGBTQ rights organization last week, calling it an "illegal entity."

Political Notebook: Trans dad seeks Oakland school board seat

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 10, 2022

Oakland resident Nick Resnick, a married father of two sons, is vying for a seat on the school board that oversees the Oakland Unified School District.

News Briefs: Peralta colleges offer incentives for fall semester

by Cynthia Laird
Aug 10, 2022

Laney College in Oakland and College of Alameda, both part of the Peralta Community College District, are offering incentives for students for the fall semester.

LGBTQ Agenda: Southern groups help LGBTQ kids as schools begin new year

by Eric Burkett
Aug 10, 2022

When some LGBTQ kids go back to school in various Southern states this year at the end of their summer breaks, they may find support in a surprisingly intimate little detail. Handwritten notes of encouragement. From strangers.

Transmissions: How do you tell you are transgender?

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Aug 10, 2022

If one goes looking, they can find plenty of online quizzes and tests that will supposedly tell them just how transgender they are.

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

by Cynthia Laird
Aug 9, 2022

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

Out in the World: LGBTQ Azerbaijani activists angered by lenient sentence in gay journalist's murder

by Heather Cassell
Aug 5, 2022

LGBTQ activists in Azerbaijan are angered that the Baku Court of Grave Crimes gave the lightest sentence possible to the man convicted of the murder of a prominent Azerbaijani gay activist and journalist.

LGBTQ Agenda: InterACT hails HHS intersex rule proposal for ACA

by Eric Burkett
Aug 2, 2022

It was an announcement Maddie Moran, and countless others like them, had waited a long time to hear.

News Briefs: SF library to screen 'AIDS Diva' doc

by Cynthia Laird
Jul 27, 2022

The San Francisco Public Library will screen "AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman" Saturday, July 30, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium at the main branch, 100 Larkin Street.