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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors' lone LGBTQ member plans to request a hearing be held this year on the city's plan to preserve its LGBTQ cultural heritage. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the city's LGBTQ Castro district, will be seeking a public airing on San Francisco's groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy. First released in draft form in 2018 and then published with revisions last summer, the 56-page document provides city leaders myriad ideas for preserving and strengthening San Francisco's LGBTQ community. Other than being taken up by the cit...

California health officials have now updated their tracking system online to include LGBTQ COVID data. It comes several days after San Francisco began asking COVID-19 test takers what their sexual orientation is in addition to their gender identity. Monday, December 21, the California Department of Public Health announced that it had moved forward on starting to track the COVID SOGI data. In an advisory to the media, it noted that "as part of its commitment to reduce health inequities and ensure the best outcomes for all Californians, the state has launched a Health Equity Dashboard on www.co...

San Francisco is now asking COVID-19 test takers what their sexual orientation is in addition to their gender identity. It comes one week after city officials had informed the Bay Area Reporter they were working with their sponsored testing provider, Color, to expand the data requested at the time of testing or during registration to ask a question about sexual orientation. It makes San Francisco one of the few municipalities in the state to be collecting the SOGI data. "SOGI data collection has been added to the city's testing site registration through Color lab," Clair Farley, a trans wom...

Meanwhile, San Francisco officials are working to improve their SOGI data collection through its testing sites. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the Bay Area Reporter Thursday that he plans to send a legislative audit request to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in order to examine how state health officials are collecting not only sexual orientation but also gender identity demographic data. Since 2018, a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services were to be collecting SOGI data after lawmakers enacted several pieces of legislatio...

Meanwhile, San Francisco officials are working to improve their SOGI data collection through its testing sites. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the Bay Area Reporter Thursday that he plans to send a legislative audit request to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in order to examine how state health officials are collecting not only sexual orientation but also gender identity demographic data. Since 2018, a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services were to be collecting SOGI data after lawmakers enacted several pieces of legislatio...