Opinion

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.

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.

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.

Editorial: Tech giants need to quash bogus conversion therapy disinformation

Editorial: Tech giants need to quash bogus conversion therapy disinformation

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 19, 2022

Two new reports by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism show that the giant tech and social media companies are failing to block conversion therapy disinformation.

Editorial: Torres for assessor-recorder

Editorial: Torres for assessor-recorder

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 12, 2022

San Francisco Assessor-Recorder Joaquín Torres was appointed by Mayor London Breed last February after she named then-assessor-recorder Carmen Chu as city administrator.

Editorial: SF school board: Recall all 3

Editorial: SF school board: Recall all 3

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 12, 2022

The San Francisco school board has largely made a mockery of itself for a year now.

Editorial: David Campos for Assembly

Editorial: David Campos for Assembly

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 12, 2022

In the special primary election for the 17th District Assembly race in San Francisco, we recommend David Campos, a gay Latino man who has served on the Board of Supervisors and is currently vice chair of the California Democratic Party.