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Jane Ethel "Jae" Whitaker, a Black lesbian who experienced San Francisco at the height of the Beat generation, died March 27. She was 86.

This edition of Bay Area Now holds particular significance, taking center stage in YBCA’s 30th anniversary celebration and marking three decades of groundbreaking art and community connection.

PG&E began repairs on a natural gas line near Duboce Avenue and Castro Street on Wednesday after shutting off the gas following a leak.

This article looks at the role of lesbians as caregivers and working in the nonprofit and health care fields during the height of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.

The powerful exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Bernice Bing recently opened at the Asian Art Museum, with its run extended through June. There’s ample reason for the revival of interest in Bing’s work and life.

The powerful exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Bernice Bing recently opened at the Asian Art Museum, with its run extended through June. There’s ample reason for the revival of interest in Bing’s work and life.

The powerful exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Bernice Bing recently opened at the Asian Art Museum, with its run extended through June. There’s ample reason for the revival of interest in Bing’s work and life.

The powerful exhibition of work by San Francisco artist Bernice Bing recently opened at the Asian Art Museum, with its run extended through June. There’s ample reason for the revival of interest in Bing’s work and life.

Through luminous works, influenced by Bay Area figurative painting, calligraphy, the Beats, Buddhism and her identity as lesbian and Chinese American, the artist had an outsized impact, now finally recognized

She was an Asian American woman, a lesbian and a community activist. Bernice Bing, whose intense abstract expressionist paintings fused Eastern and We