Opinion

Editorial: SF recall proposal is undemocratic

Editorial: SF recall proposal is undemocratic

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 23, 2022

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last week approved putting a charter amendment on the June ballot that would change the rules for the city recall elections.

Guest Opinion: SFUSD management seeks to fire beloved queer mentor and math teacher

Guest Opinion: SFUSD management seeks to fire beloved queer mentor and math teacher

The national teacher shortage has not spared San Francisco, which is seeing extreme difficulty filling teaching positions.

Editorial: Breed should pick queer parent for San Francisco school board

Editorial: Breed should pick queer parent for San Francisco school board

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 16, 2022

Following the resounding recall of three members of the San Francisco Board of Education, Mayor London Breed gets to select their replacements.

Guest Opinion: Celebrating a name change? Protect your financial future

Guest Opinion: Celebrating a name change? Protect your financial future

If you're transitioning into your true gender identity, legally changing your name marks an important milestone in becoming your authentic self.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

A reader remembers the late former San Francisco Bay Times editor and publisher Kim Corsaro.

Editorial: SF agencies should reopen death case

Editorial: SF agencies should reopen death case

There are a lot of unanswered questions in the March 2, 2020 death of Jaxon Sales, 20, a gay Oakland resident whose body was found in a San Francisco apartment.

Editorial: Bad call by Haas Jr. fund

Editorial: Bad call by Haas Jr. fund

The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund must reverse its decision to "wind down" its LGBTQ equality grant program.

Guest Opinion: Addicted to supremacy

Guest Opinion: Addicted to supremacy

After returning home and putting the food away, our mother instructed [my sister and I] to change out of our play clothes and into our school clothes.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letter to the editor asks the community to give Another Planet Entertainment a chance as it takes over programming at the Castro Theatre.

Guest Opinion: The price of banking

Guest Opinion: The price of banking

What if using a credit card meant being deadnamed every time that you pulled it out. Due to defunct security practices at traditional banks, for most of the trans community that's reality.

Editorial: Biden still has much to do

Editorial: Biden still has much to do

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 26, 2022

President Joe Biden marked his first year in office last week and while he, Vice President Kamala Harris, and the administration have made progress on some LGBTQ-related issues, there is still much to do.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letters to the editor praise the new gay SFPD captain.

Guest Opinion: 'Know Our Place:' The wrong subtext for the Transgender District

Guest Opinion: 'Know Our Place:' The wrong subtext for the Transgender District

As a 30-year resident of San Francisco — who is also a transgender woman — I was elated when I first saw, in 2017, that the city had designated an official and legally-recognized Transgender District, centered at Turk and Taylor streets.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letters to the editor opines about state Senator Scott Wiener's now-delayed intersex bill and his opposition in 2011 to SF's attempt to ban circumcision.