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Divas & Drinks Pride Party for Women @ The Academy Where are the women in the Castro? On Thursday, June 24, many along with allies were at 2166 Market Street for the newly launched Divas & Drinks @ The Academy women’s-themed event series. Co-presented by the San Francisco Bay Times and The Academy and hosted by Donna Sachet, the series had a soft virtual launch in the spring followed by this special celebration for Pride. At the event, Mayor London Breed waved a Bay Times rainbow flag presented by Sachet, and spoke to the standing-room-only crowd about the reopening of San Francisco and som...

Progress flag leaves out many James Coleman's June 25 op-ed "No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us" [Guest Opinion, online], recites the continuing disparities faced by LGBTQ people in homelessness, economic insecurity, and poorer physical and mental health — facts of which we all need to be reminded. However, these realities hardly make an argument for embracing the so-called Progress flag as the successor to the rainbow flag. Instead, they argue for rejecting it. The chevron in the licensed-for-profit (https://quasar.digital/terms/) Progress flag is meant to represent t...

Staff at the San Francisco District Attorney's office will be required to ask, and then use, the correct names, pronouns, and titles for transgender and nonbinary crime victims, witnesses, and the accused, according to a new policy announced June 30. The policy, effective Wednesday, will also allow charging documents to be amended to use their preferred names if the person accused of a crime requests it, though "legal names will also continue to be listed secondarily on all charging documents for the purposes of criminal record-keeping." At an afternoon news conference — held after a Pride ...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is proposing that the city launch the first universal basic income program for transgender individuals as part of her budgets for the next two fiscal years.

In a surprise announcement as part of her balanced budget proposal she introduced Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said she is seeking funds to acquire a site in the city to build the first large-scale, freestanding LGBTQ history museum.