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Political Notes: CA state library announces $750K in LGBTQ history grants

Political Notes: CA state library announces $750K in LGBTQ history grants

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 7, 2022

LGBTQ history projects across the Golden State, from digitizing periodicals and films to preserving archival material related to gay rodeos and Santa Cruz's LGBTQ community, are receiving $750,000 in grant funding from the California State Library.

Political Notebook: Laird reflects on 1st year in CA Senate

Political Notebook: Laird reflects on 1st year in CA Senate

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Mar 2, 2022

Gay state Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) discusses his first year in the Legislature's upper chamber.

News Briefs: SF trans film fest among Horizons' new grantees

News Briefs: SF trans film fest among Horizons' new grantees

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Mar 2, 2022

Horizons Foundation has released its latest slate of grants through its community issues program, which supports grassroots LGBTQ organizations in the Bay Area.

Out in the World: Singapore high court rules to keep law criminalizing gays

Out in the World: Singapore high court rules to keep law criminalizing gays

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Mar 2, 2022

Singapore's top court has punted the country's law criminalizing gay sex to parliament in a decision that activists called a "partial victory."

LGBTQ Agenda: Fallout from Abbott, Paxton letters sows confusion for trans people in Texas

LGBTQ Agenda: Fallout from Abbott, Paxton letters sows confusion for trans people in Texas

  • by Eric Burkett
  • Mar 1, 2022

Agencies in Texas that serve trans children and youth say that they will keep providing services in spite of a letter from Governor Greg Abbott ordering state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care on minors as child abuse.

Political Notes: Transgender actress ramps up 2022 bid for Pelosi's House seat

Political Notes: Transgender actress ramps up 2022 bid for Pelosi's House seat

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 28, 2022

A transgender actress is ramping up her campaign for San Francisco's newly numbered 11th Congressional District seat ahead of the June 7 primary.

Political Notebook: Gulledge aims to be first gay Black CA state senator

Political Notebook: Gulledge aims to be first gay Black CA state senator

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 23, 2022

South Los Angeles resident Jamaal Gulledge is aiming to be California's first gay Black state senator.

News Briefs: GLBT Historical Society Museum reopens

News Briefs: GLBT Historical Society Museum reopens

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Feb 23, 2022

The GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district reopened this week after being closed for a month due to the Omicron surge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transmissions: Common ground

Transmissions: Common ground

  • by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
  • Feb 23, 2022

By the time you read this column, Florida's House of Representatives may have already voted on House Bill 1557/Senate Bill 1834.

Out in the World: Russia hits snag in first attempt to shutter LGBTQ rights organization

Out in the World: Russia hits snag in first attempt to shutter LGBTQ rights organization

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Feb 23, 2022

A court has stopped, for now, Russia's attempt to shut down the parent organization to the country's largest LGBTQ organization.

Out in the World: New Zealand, Israeli health ministry move to ban conversion therapy

Out in the World: New Zealand, Israeli health ministry move to ban conversion therapy

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Feb 18, 2022

Israel and New Zealand are the latest countries to take significant steps toward banning conversion therapy for minors and adults.

Political Notebook: Lesbians seek Bay Area county school superintendent posts

Political Notebook: Lesbians seek Bay Area county school superintendent posts

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 16, 2022

Since winning election in 2018 as San Mateo County superintendent of schools, Nancy Magee has yet to meet a counterpart in another county who is also LGBTQ.

News Briefs: AIDS grove honors Black History Month

News Briefs: AIDS grove honors Black History Month

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Feb 16, 2022

The National AIDS Memorial Grove has announced special online programming to honor Black History Month.

Political Notes: Campos, Mahmood support collecting LGBTQ data on California's state employees

Political Notes: Campos, Mahmood support collecting LGBTQ data on California's state employees

  • by Matthew S. Bajko
  • Feb 14, 2022

As efforts to track LGBTQ demographic data continue to increase at all levels of government, two of the candidates seeking San Francisco's vacant 17th Assembly District seat support collecting SOGI information among California's state employees.