As COVID-19 cases are back on the rise, California and the U.S. continue to face another public health epidemic that is going in the wrong direction — sexually transmitted infections.

In February 2022, I was elected as your assessor-recorder and I am honored to represent and serve you.

Looking back at the last two years, it feels like an eternity.

Last month, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 293, the TGI Inclusive Care Act.

The long-awaited reimagining of Harvey Milk Plaza and the Castro Muni Station have broad public support in the neighborhood.

I didn't come out as gay until my late 20s. I feared that if I showed my true identity, I would be judged, rejected, or discriminated against.

The recall of San Francisco school board President Gabriela López and Commissioners Faauuga Moliga and Alison Collins united the entire city in demanding competent leaders for our children, and it would not have happened without the LGBTQIA community.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition calls for action to honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

While smoking rates have declined nationally in the past 20 years, this reduction has not been shared equally among Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities or the LGBTQ+ community — and especially among those with intersecting identities.