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Political Notebook: In US Senate race, Lee banks on LGBTQ support

September 6, 2023

As she crisscrosses the state vying to succeed retiring U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein next year, Congressmember Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) is banking on the support of LGBTQ voters to help her survive the March primary and advance to the November ballot.

Transmissions: The world has changed

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Sep 6, 2023

I had the best of intentions.

Political Notebook: Gay educator Hale seeks open San Jose college board seat

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 30, 2023

Due to the election last November of gay San Jose City Councilmember Omar Torres, the District 7 seat he had held on the seven-person board that oversees the San José-Evergreen Community College District has been vacant this year.

News Briefs: 2 LGBTQ SF groups seek funds for Maui fire victims

by Cynthia Laird
Aug 30, 2023

Two San Francisco LGBTQ organizations are seeking funds to help victims of the recent wildfires in Maui, Hawaii.

LGBTQ Agenda: Lara responds to report finding insurers making PrEP access more difficult

by John Ferrannini
Aug 29, 2023

Gay California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's office is responding to a report showing how insurers prevent patients from using preventative care mandated under federal law, including PrEP.

Political Notebook: Housing, safe streets top of mind for Sunnyvale's Mehlinger

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 23, 2023

Before he won his seat last November on the Sunnyvale City Council, Richard Mehlinger had been chair of the South Bay city's advisory body for bicycle and pedestrian issues.

News Briefs: SF to hold 3rd trans immigrant symposium

by Cynthia Laird
Aug 23, 2023

Several organizations will co-host the third San Francisco Transgender Immigrant Symposium Friday, August 25, at Strut, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's health center in the heart of the LGBTQ neighborhood at 470 Castro Street.

Transmissions: Checkmate

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Aug 23, 2023

As we've all seen, the last few years have been chock full of attacks on transgender rights.

LGBTQ Agenda: Gay Libertarian presidential candidate says he's running 'confident, aspirational' campaign

by John Ferrannini
Aug 22, 2023

A gay Libertarian from Georgia is making waves in his run for his party's nomination for U.S. president — becoming the first-ever third-party candidate to speak at the Iowa State Fair Political Soapbox.

Political Notes: Queer San Diego supervisor candidate Goldbeck concedes primary race

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 18, 2023

Queer military veteran Janessa Goldbeck has failed to survive the primary for a vacant seat on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.

Political Notebook: Gay former CA legislative staffer Ruiz seeks LA Assembly seat

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 16, 2023

For six years in the 2010s Ari Ruiz worked for a member of the California Legislature. Come next December, the gay immigrant hopes to be serving in the state Assembly himself.

Out in the World: Queer Persian-owned Toronto restaurant serves as a hub for Iranian activism

by Heather Cassell
Aug 16, 2023

In Toronto, family-owned restaurant Banu has served as a place of resistance and refuge for Iranians — including LGBTQ Iranians — fleeing the country's theocratic government that has been ruled by strict Sharia law for nearly 45 years.

LGBTQ Agenda: Florida college DEI programs shut down as school year starts

by John Ferrannini
Aug 15, 2023

A national nonprofit that works for safer college campuses for queer students is condemning the "dismantling and closure" of LGBTQ support offices and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida's public colleges and universities.

Out in the World: Ugandan president pushes back after World Bank suspends billions in future funding due to anti-LGBTQ law

by Heather Cassell
Aug 11, 2023

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni lashed out at the World Bank Group after it decided to halt any new funding proposals due to the African country's new anti-LGBTQ law.

Political Notebook: Gay former congressional staffer Ratevosian vies for LA House seat

by Matthew S. Bajko
Aug 9, 2023

Years before being appointed by President Joe Biden as the most senior Armenian American official at the State Department, Jirair Ratevosian, Ph.D., had served as legislative director to Congressmember Barbara Lee (D-Oakland).

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