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Editorial: National Dems need a reboot

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • May 14, 2025

No wonder national Democrats remain deep in the wilderness.

Editorial: HHS gender report is harmful for trans youth

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • May 7, 2025

A new report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on pediatric gender dysphoria does about what one would expect: muddies the science, cherry picks evidence and, most troublesome, does not disclose who wrote it.

Editorial: CA digital newspaper archive in peril

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • May 7, 2025

We all know the state of the newspaper industry has been dire for years.

Editorial: 2 SF grants are crucial to Castro’s success

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 30, 2025

The Castro is finally starting to show signs of recovering from the COVID pandemic-era shutdowns and the accompanying economic turmoil. It’s been a long slog, from any perspective.

Editorial: Francis wasn’t perfect, but he led with empathy

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 23, 2025

Pope Francis, who died Monday, April 21, was a contradiction when it came to LGBTQ people.

Editorial: We must all advocate for Andry’s release

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 16, 2025

Gay makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero sits in a notorious prison in El Salvador for no good reason.

Editorial: The resistance is stirring

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 9, 2025

Finally, after nearly three months of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, people are getting fed up with his policies that seem to help no one but himself and his cronies.

Editorial: McMahon overreaches with jab at CA

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 2, 2025

For someone who wants to close the federal Department of Education, President Donald Trump has shown that he’ll use the agency when it suits him.

Editorial: Lee for mayor, Wang for city council

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Mar 26, 2025

Oakland voters have an opportunity to begin recovering from the city’s recent political scandals when they vote for a new mayor in the April 15 special election.

Editorial: Newsom will never be president

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Mar 19, 2025

California Governor Gavin Newsom can spout anti-trans rhetoric all he wants, but that won't endear him to conservative Republicans, some Democrats, and the many independent voters he would need to win the presidency, should he decide to seek it.

Editorial: Measles outbreak outruns RFK Jr.

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Mar 5, 2025

The nation's top vaccine denier, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is being overrun by current events and scrambling to contain the fallout.

Editorial: We're queer and still here

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 26, 2025

President Donald Trump and his administration may want to sideline LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people, but the news from Gallup is that the number of adults identifying as something other than straight has actually increased.

Editorial: Outrageous deletions on Stonewall site

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 19, 2025

It is appalling and wrong that the federal government on February 13 deleted references to "transgender" and "queer" from the web pages of the Stonewall National Monument.

Editorial: At Supreme Court, Trump admin abandons trans youth

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 12, 2025

President Donald Trump's obsession with attacking the transgender community ratcheted up a notch last week when his deputy solicitor general informed the justices that the administration was switching sides in U.S. v. Skrmetti.

Editorial: Some hospitals cave on trans care

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 5, 2025

It was shocking to see the news that Children's Hospital Los Angeles, on Tuesday stated it is pausing the initiation of gender-affirming hormonal care for trans patients under the age of 19 because it needs to assess President Trump's executive order.

Obituaries: Richard Bolingbroke

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Feb 5, 2025

The obituary for Richard Bolingbroke, a leatherman and artist who assisted with the giant murals inside Harvey Milk Terminal 1 at San Francisco International Airport.

Editorial: 2 national LGBTQ groups step up

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 29, 2025

The editorial board looks at websites of national LGBTQ organizations to see how they're providing information about President Donald Trump's anti-trans executive orders.

Editorial: LGBTQ youth left in dark by CA health officials

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 29, 2025

With the anti-LGBTQ executive orders coming from President Donald Trump at a rapid clip, it's been frustrating and appalling that California health officials have decided to pull a Trumpian move of their own by canceling an LGBTQ youth contract.

Editorial: Trump repudiates trans people

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 22, 2025

Well, that didn't take long. Only hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation's 47th president, he signed a slew of executive orders.

Editorial: MAGA got played by Trump

  • NEWS
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Jan 15, 2025

The countdown is on to Monday, January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump becomes the 47th leader of the United States.