News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ+ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 during LGBTQ History Month.
The obituary for James (Jim) Thomas Connor, who had a long career as a physician at Veterans Administration hospitals, including the medical center in Palo Alto.
The obituary for Donald Bruce Chambers, who worked at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Services and was involved in Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco and New Spirit Community Church in Berkeley.
Ted "Teddy" Fang, a gay man who was the former publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and other newspapers, died September 9 in his Dolores Heights home.
Marguerite "Maggi" Rubenstein, Ph.D., a pioneering bisexual activist dubbed the Godmother of Sex Ed, died August 19 at her home in Red Bluff, California.
Nathan Purkiss, a gay man who worked for gay former San Francisco supervisor Mark Leno at City Hall and in Sacramento after Leno was elected to the state Assembly, died July 25, at his home in Davis, California.
Larry Bush, a gay man who was a government watchdog and once served as a San Francisco mayoral aide, died July 26 at an assisted care facility in Daly City.
The obituary for J. Michael Wangeman, a gay man who had a career in the financial industry. He also raised funds for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation by doing the AIDS/LifeCycle ride five times.