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Business Briefing: Booksellers uncover market for LGBTQ titles

March 27, 2024

One of the items Australian rare bookseller Douglas Stewart had on display at his booth at the 56th California Antiquarian Book Fair held for the first time in years in San Francisco in February was a campaign sign from Harvey Milk's 1875 campaign.

Tech improvements: How the blockchain could change lives

by Advertising Department -- Sponsored content
Feb 26, 2024

The blockchain has long been touted as one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years, with the potential to cause massive changes within societies.

Business Briefing: Googler Prozan chairs tech industry's SF 'voice'

by Matthew S. Bajko
Feb 14, 2024

For the third year in a row Rebecca Prozan is chairing the advocacy organization sf.citi, which bills itself as "the voice" for the various technology businesses that have a footprint in San Francisco.

Bike lane wars come to the Castro

by John Ferrannini
Feb 1, 2024

Members of the Castro Merchants Association demanded answers from a representative of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency over alleged anti-car animus hurting the city's — and the LGBTQ neighborhood's — economy.

Business Briefing: SF program assists leather, kink entrepreneurs

by Matthew S. Bajko
Jan 10, 2024

Licensed marriage and family therapist David Khalili opened his Rouse Relational Wellness in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district three years ago and now employs seven practitioners.

Staff at sex shop chain Good Vibrations file to unionize

by John Ferrannini
Jan 3, 2024

The staff of Good Vibrations, a Bay Area chain of sex-positive adult toy retailers, have filed for a union election.

Business Briefing: Checking off the gift list at Noe Valley shops

by Matthew S. Bajko
Dec 13, 2023

Just over the hill from San Francisco's Castro district is another neighborhood long a welcoming home to the city's LGBTQ community.

Business Briefing: Scuba instructor provides safe space for LGBTQ divers

by Matthew S. Bajko
Nov 8, 2023

Pursuing a career in Antarctic biology, specifically to study penguins, Danny Khor in January signed up as a volunteer with the Aquarium of the Bay at Pier 39 in San Francisco's bayside Fisherman's Wharf shopping and dining district.

Business Briefing: SF coworking space incubates lesbian restaurateurs

by Matthew S. Bajko
Oct 11, 2023

In the coming weeks Suki and Katya Skye will open a restaurant near San Francisco's Polk Gulch neighborhood featuring fare from their Eastern European roots.

B.A.R.'s Bestie balloting begins

by Cynthia Laird
Sep 25, 2023

It's time for Bay Area Reporter readers to cast their ballots for the LGBTQ newspaper's annual Best of the Bay contest.

Local restaurants get grants

by BAR staff
Sep 20, 2023

The Golden Gate Business Association, the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and Grubhub held a reception last week and distributed grants to local restaurants.

Business Briefing: Queer owner's garage fermentation trials produce thriving cider business

by Matthew S. Bajko
Sep 13, 2023

While working at various San Francisco restaurants in the late 1990s and 2000s, Bex Pezzullo was studying to earn her certification as a sommelier.

Art project seeks to bridge Castro's past, present

by John Ferrannini
Aug 16, 2023

A new art installation in the Castro is seeking to bring the LGBTQ neighborhood's history alive while at the same time enliven empty storefront spaces.

Business Briefing: From Castro start, yoga practice spreads across SF

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 9, 2023

Twenty-five years ago David Nelson got his start as a yoga proprietor when he opened his first studio in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district in 1998 with co-owner Darren Main.

Business Briefing: Wine purveyors uncork joviality in SF SOMA district

by Matthew S. Bajko
Jul 12, 2023

Sommeliers and friends Cara Patricia and Simi Grewal opened their wine bar and shop DECANTsf in San Francisco's South of Market district on May 1, 2019.

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