Opinion

Guest Opinion: Trump's Title X gag rule is detrimental to HIV/AIDS health care

Guest Opinion: Trump's Title X gag rule is detrimental to HIV/AIDS health care

During his 2019 State of the Union address President Donald Trump revealed his administration's new 10-year plan to "end the HIV epidemic in America" (https://www.hrsa.gov/ending-hiv-epidemic), with a goal of reducing diagnosis rates to less than 3,000 pe

Editorial: Newsom should use surplus money

Editorial: Newsom should use surplus money

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Nov 26, 2019

Last week the bipartisan Legislative Analyst's Office reported that California is expected to have a $7 billion budget surplus next year.

Editorial cartoon

Editorial cartoon

This week's editorial cartoon.

Editorial: AIDS quilt, welcome home

Editorial: AIDS quilt, welcome home

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Nov 20, 2019

The Names Project Foundation's announcement this week that it intends to transfer stewardship of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to the National AIDS Memorial Grove was welcome news indeed.

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Editorial cartoon

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Guest Opinion: On smokeout day, trans folks need a world worth quitting for

Guest Opinion: On smokeout day, trans folks need a world worth quitting for

  • GUEST OPINION
  • by Amaya Wooding, Lynn Chan, and B. Chen
  • Nov 20, 2019

Thursday is the Great American Smokeout. Depending on which research you believe, as many as one in three trans people uses tobacco.

Editorial: Seismic shift in SF DA's office

Editorial: Seismic shift in SF DA's office

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Nov 13, 2019

Deputy public defender Chesa Boudin's upset victory in the hotly contested San Francisco district attorney's race has sent shockwaves through the city, and continues a national trend of electing criminal justice reformers as top prosecutors.

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Editorial cartoon

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Guest Opinion: Traveling while trans

Guest Opinion: Traveling while trans

I was singled out by TSA for being a transgender woman and I am not the only one.

Editorial: Open meth sobering center soon

Editorial: Open meth sobering center soon

Now that Mayor London Breed has won a full four-year term — with 68% of the vote, according to unofficial returns — it's time for her administration to quickly complete the process for opening a meth sobering center.

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Editorial cartoon

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Guest Opinion: SROs shouldn't be permanent housing

Guest Opinion: SROs shouldn't be permanent housing

When I read the article about the city awarding $1.15 million in contracts to two reputable nonprofits over the next two years, I was overjoyed, especially since the recipients, St. James Infirmary and Larkin Street Youth Services, are well qualified.

Guest Opinion: Recalling Purple Hands protests of 1969

Guest Opinion: Recalling Purple Hands protests of 1969

Halloween has long been one of the queerest of holidays, but on October 31, 1969, San Francisco LGBT activists found new ways to confront their terrifying fears of media misrepresentations and police violence.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week's letters to the editor.