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Bay Area Reporter :: Working for words: a B.A.R. writer reminisces

In 1985, I moved from Minneapolis to attend the University of San Francisco with a double major in humanities and communications. I was eventually admitted to USF's Honors College where I learned to fall in love with learning. Planting new roots in San Francisco enabled me to flourish as an independent person in a place very different from where I had come. It opened a universe of possibilities combined with the pride I found in discovering there was a city that embraced me as a queer person.
On weekends, friends from the university joined me and we escaped our dorms, left the work on campus, and explored the richness of the city's nightlife. Hitting the bars in the Castro, dipping into the seediness of the Polk, going to the Alta Plaza Bar gay men's club in Pacific Heights, and eventually finding the hidden parties South of Market delivered new texture to the very act of living.

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Bay Area Reporter :: The Producers: Behind the scenes at the B.A.R.

Some of the
Bay Area Reporter's production designers were, and are, not only accomplished computer whizzes, but also artists and nightlife stars, like DJ and musician Adriana Roberts, who, with Scott King, share a bit of the backstage scoop from recent B.A.R. history.
Adriana Roberts worked at the B.A.R. from June 1995 to January 2008, before moving to Berlin. She shared how she contributed the paper's current tagline/motto, "and changed it sneaky-style!" The computer wizard, who could lay out an entire issue in a matter of hours, and is also a worldwide phenom of mash-up DJing, and a Burning Man celeb (and creator of the event's daily newspaper, Piss Clear) tells the tale.

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Bay Area Reporter :: Bay Area Cannasseur: Pandemic brings changes to cannabis industry

Cannabis consumers switched from flowers to edibles during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the practice of passing around a joint, or smoking or vaping anything were reported to carry an increased risk of contracting the virus.
At the same time, the industry ramped up its production of infused edibles, with new products, including infused wine, beer, and cider as well as upscale non-alcoholic low-dose drinks with exotic herbs such as ginger lemongrass, blood orange cardamom, and cranberry sage.
"During the height of the pandemic, we saw a huge shift to edibles — and also a big increase in online orders for delivery or pickup," said Eliot Dobris, spokesman for the Castro's largest dispensary, the Apothecarium. In an email to the Bay Area Reporter, Dobris said the dispensary is "beginning to see in-store shopping rebound along with sales of flower and vapes."

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Bay Area Reporter :: Go West: How the B.A.R. brought me to California and halfway around the world, twice

With more than 900 articles penned for the
Bay Area Reporter, I feel a strong connection as the newspaper celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. I've written columns, listings and reviews since 1992. Having assigned and edited the expansive features in this section, I thought to share some behind the scenes tales as well.
My career in journalism started in 1989 in New York City with
OutWeek, the revolutionary weekly publication that emerged from ACT UP, Queer Nation, but didn't last long.
After a 1990 visit for the OutWrite literary festival, my second working visit to San Francisco was in early 1992, on a freelance assignment for

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Bay Area Reporter :: San Jose queer spaces looking for new home

The LGBTQ Youth Space and LGBTQ Wellness programs in San Jose are searching for a new home.
Adrienne Keel, director of LGBTQ programs at Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley, a division of Caminar, announced the youth space's impending move on its Facebook page March 26. The agency's LGBTQ programs department oversees the two community services, which are both currently housed at the youth space's downtown San Jose location at 452 South First Street.
This will be the youth space's third home since launching in a small room in the Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center in 2009. The youth center moved to its current location in July 2012.

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Bay Area Reporter :: Political Notebook: Programs aim to assist DACA applicants

Several programs are providing free services to undocumented immigrants who wish to remain in the U.S. and obtain work permits. One based in San Francisco is specifically looking to help LGBTQ people apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program or renew their participation in the federally administered program.
Meanwhile, the Boston-based nonprofit Immigration Help is offering free assistance to anyone eligible for the DACA program. Immigrants from across the country can visit its website at http://www.immigrationhelp.org/ to request assistance.
"We have been able to help several thousand individuals at different stages of the process. We help determine if they are eligible to helping them submit their forms to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services," said Fernando Urbina, a gay student at Harvard who is the nonprofit's director of outreach. "It is all free of charge. We help them bypass paying the thousands of dollars to an attorney to help them complete these processes."

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Bay Area Reporter :: Guest Opinion: A front row seat to LGBT news

For 50 years the Bay Area Reporter has chronicled the development of the LGBT movement in San Francisco. From its nascent beginnings as the Gay Liberation Movement through its present iteration with more letters and symbols than I can keep track of, the B.A.R. has covered it. I have had a front row seat.
No discussion of the B.A.R. at 50 can be told without recognizing the significance of Bob Ross. He was a submarine sailor, cook, opera lover, community organizer, proud Emperor of the Imperial Court of San Francisco, president of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District board, and friend of mayors and other powerful political and appointed figures locally and often nationally. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Ross settled in San Francisco after serving in the navy and did what he knew how to do: run restaurants. It was the 1960s when San Francisco flourished with gay bars and supper clubs. It was a roaring '20s for gay people in San Francisco.

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Bay Area Reporter :: News Briefs: SFO's Milk terminal receives healthy design award

San Francisco International Airport's Harvey Milk Terminal 1 has earned the Fitwel Best in Building Health Award from the Center for Active Design.
According to a news release, Fitwel is a building rating system that provides guidelines on how to design, construct, and operate healthier buildings. In the Retail v2.1 category, SFO and the design-build team of Hensel Phelps, A Gensler/Kuth Ranieri Joint Venture won the design award for the Terminal 1 Center project, part of the $2.4 billion Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Redevelopment Program.
"Harvey Milk Terminal 1 was designed with the health of both our passengers and employees in mind," airport director Ivar C. Satero stated in a March 25 news release. "Achieving Fitwel certification for this terminal — a first in the world — helped us to establish a new benchmark for the airport experience."

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Bay Area Reporter :: Editorial: B.A.R. looks back at its proud history

Yeah, we'll toot our own horn. We've come a long way from when the first issue of the Bay Area Reporter rolled off the presses (or a mimeograph machine in the back of a gay bar) 50 years ago — April 1, 1971. It was no April Fools' joke. The paper had a purpose — to bring the LGBTQ community together, at least as far as letting us all know what was going on — and we continue to fulfill that promise. It hasn't always been easy. It definitely hasn't been without controversy or occasional missteps. But here we are, 50 years later, in the midst of another pandemic, continuing to inform queer readers on issues that matter to them.

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Bay Area Reporter :: Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza launches new survey; will hold town halls soon

Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza has commenced yet another online survey seeking community feedback about changes to the space's design. The booster group also will conduct two town hall events later this month, its interim executive director said April 1.
The announcements were made during the monthly Castro Merchants Association meeting, at which time Brian Springfield, the interim executive director of Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, gave a presentation.
The Friends group has been involved with plans to renovate the plaza for the last several years. The remodel proposal has been fiercely opposed by some in the community who have countered the goal of better honoring Milk can be achieved within the confines of the current design and at less cost than the estimated $10 million price tag for the fuller renovation proposal.

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