This Women’s History Month, the GLBT Historical Society is thrilled to present Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995—a new exhibition tracing the everyday efforts ...

Director Cate Shortland’s spectacular drama, Somersault, remains as potent today as it was on initial release twenty years ...

Cruel and Unusual In the last issue we covered several transgender stories, notably the bad bill out of Kansas, as well as the Trump administration’s continuing clampdown on prisoners. Among other ...

Independent commissions, such as the Commission on the Status of Women, are under threat now in San Francisco. The Commission Streamlining Task Force has been making recommendations about ways to ...

San Francisco Bay Times former columnists Jennifer Kroot and Robert Holgate gave us a sneak peek at their new collaboration, the documentary Hunky Jesus. The film tells the story of the Sisters of ...

Photos courtesy of Louise “Lou” Fischer By Louise “Lou” Fischer— Over the weekend of February 20–22, approximately 3,500 State Delegates attended the California State Democratic (CADEM) Convention at ...

At the risk of sounding like a naive school girl with a childish crush, we report with giddy delight that the Kamala Harris who invited us a few years ago to the Vice President’s Residence in ...

In basketball—and theatre—the stakes are high. Climactic action, movement, and emotion escalate to a fever pitch, causing your heart to pound until the final moments. Center court will meet center ...

In her book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag wrote, “Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the ...

Oakland Restaurant Week, from today, March 12, through March 22, 2026, invites food lovers from near and far to explore one of the most dynamic culinary scenes in the country. Fresh off being named ...

Sister Dana sez, “HAPPY MARDI GRAS to one and all! Yes, I know we already had that on February 17 for Fat Tuesday, but we at Krewe de Kinque like to celebrate its spirit on many days!” That’s why we ...

March is a month we collectively agreed to celebrate the women that helped shape this world. So many of these pioneers ...