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Openhouse and On Lok are among the agencies serving LGBTQ seniors in San Francisco that've had to pivot due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Openhouse and On Lok are among the agencies serving LGBTQ seniors in San Francisco that've had to pivot due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Around the country, among allies and foes alike, San Francisco often acts as a byword for progressivism and queer liberation. But the city is also the epicenter of the state's housing crisis, and for many LGBTQ seniors — particularly those who are of color or trans — who've dealt with that experience, life in the City by the Bay hasn't always been somewhere over the rainbow. Veronika Fimbres, 68, who is a former San Francisco veterans affairs commissioner and in 2018 was a Green Party candidate for California governor, has lived in the city's Sunnyside neighborhood for a dozen years. Her...

New 'San Francisco Principles' Turn the Spotlight on HIV Long-Term Survivors Kevin Zhou It started during the 2020 International AIDS Conference. Normally a massive in-person gathering of tens of thousands, the weeklong meeting instead became virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We realized our experience with HIV and AIDS is kind of unique,” said HIV/AIDS advocate and long-term survivor Vincent Crisostomo. In online presentation after online presentation, Crisostomo and fellow advocate Hank Trout also began to realize something else: a lack of perspectives from long-term HIV/AIDS survi...