Guest Opinion: In 1980, South Bay voters adopted anti-LGBTQ ballot measures

When the gay rights movement was gaining steam across the country in 1977, Anita Bryant, a Miss America runner-up and Florida orange juice pitchwoman, entered the scene.

Guest Opinion: Discovering 50 years of queer history in Silicon Valley

To visitors of all ages, sexualities, and identities, the one comment I hear the most when I'm a docent at the new South Bay queer museum exhibit is, "I didn't know any of this."

Guest Opinion: The day I was told I didn't belong in society

It was in early 1984 when I picked up the Sunday San Jose Mercury News and read an opinion piece by a local state Assembly member stating that homosexuals should have no legal, social, or political standing in society.

Recalling 1986's AIDSphobic Prop 64

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