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SF, other Bay Area counties reinstate indoor mask mandate
Public health officials in San Francisco and several other Bay Area counties reinstated an indoor mask mandate this week to combat the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.
James Rickleffs, a San Francisco man found guilty over two years ago in the 2012 murder of a gay hair stylist, was sentenced to 50 years-to-life in state prison August 3.
A gay San Francisco man who once battled drug addiction himself will end his hunger strike outside City Hall Tuesday at 6 p.m. following pledges by seven San Francisco supervisors to declare an emergency around the overdose crisis.
The West Hollywood City Council unanimously approved a drag laureate program August 2, which is expected to launch this fall.
LGBTQ rights groups are continuing to call attention to the Equality Act even as it remains stalled in the Senate more than five months after the House of Representatives passed the landmark bill.
Elected officials joined Jewish community leaders at a news conference in San Francisco July 29 to denounce a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the Bay Area and the nation at-large.
Janice Mirikitani, a poet, LGBTQ ally, and wife of Glide pastor the Reverend Cecil Williams, died July 29. She was 80.
Argentina has become the first South American country to legally recognize gender "X" on government-issued documents, including passports.
For the second time in two months, a plea has been pushed back in the case of a Union City man charged with murdering a San Jose transgender woman with whom he'd been romantically involved.
Revelers at Sunday's Folsom Street Market fair who wanted a drink had to show something more than an ID to the doorman at many of the bars — proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
San Francisco officials allocated $2.6 million for local HIV programs over the next two years in the fiscal budget adopted by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday that advocates had been seeking.
This week, Pew Research Center released a new survey that found a growing number of U.S. adults know a transgender person or someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns.
HIV advocates are concerned that upcoming changes to Gilead Sciences Inc.'s Advancing Access program mean that there will be less money available to local providers for related virus prevention.
A new Market Street Poster Series features professional artists and formerly unhoused residents in San Francisco's Tenderloin district to amplify neighborhood voices.
The authors of two bills benefiting Californians living with HIV are praising Governor Gavin Newsom for signing their legislation into law. He did so without comment on July 23.
Over the last several years, there has been a belief in some circles that the increase of transgender people over the last decade is some sort of "social contagion" brought on by the evil influence of the internet.
In response to a gay passenger's complaint he was ordered to take off a rainbow-colored mask on a Lufthansa flight, the German-based airline is clarifying that its staff have discretion over enforcement of its face covering policy.
One of the Bay Area Reporter's most famous covers greeted Pope John Paul II in 1987.
Folsom Street Events held its Folsom Street Market event last weekend to help businesses in San Francisco's South of Market area.
Readers express their opinions on the rainbow flag in the Castro.
Thew obituary for John Francis Kennedy, the dean of students at Dominican College in San Rafael.