A news site that covers the postal service revealed this week the design for the long anticipated Harvey Milk stamp. According to Linn’s Stamp News, it features a black and white photo of Milk, the first LGBT person to be elected to public office in San Francisco when he won a seat on the Board […]
A new coffeehouse fronting Jane Warner Plaza in the city’s gay Castro district is expected to win approval from the Planning Commission this week. The oversight body will vote on approving Hearth Coffee Roasters’ permit application to open in a nearly 1,500 square-foot storefront on 17th Street that had been a tanning salon. (Seen in […]
AIDS and LGBT global rights activist Michael Petrelis will officially kick off his campaign for San Francisco’s District 8 supervisor seat this Saturday. Petrelis, 55, a longtime critic of local politicians, health officials, AIDS agencies and gay rights groups, plans to start fundraising in order to cover the $500 filing fee to run for supervisor. […]
The long-awaited preliminary hearing in the murder of Steven “Eriq” Escalon, a gay San Francisco hairstylist whose body was found bound and gagged in 2012, has been delayed for about three weeks after his public defender called in sick and the judge and prosecutor didn’t get the message. James Rickleffs, 47, who’s been charged with […]
An effort to pressure U.S. Postal Service officials to unveil the planned Harvey Milk stamp in San Francisco in May has yet to draw widespread public support. A check of the petition today (Thursday, March 27) found that just 15 people had signed it. It can be found online here. As the Bay Area Reporter […]
Peralta Community College Board of Trustees member Abel Guillen will seek a seat on the Oakland City Council this fall. Should he win the race, he would be the second person from the LGBT community in recent years to be elected to public office in the East Bay city. Guillen, who identifies as two spirit […]
Still struggling to overcome a boycott call after its chairman disparaged gay families last fall, Italian pasta company Barilla sponsored a fundraising event with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Monday night (March, 24) as part of its ongoing outreach to the LGBT community. The company underwrote the fundraiser for the Tyler Clementi Foundation so […]
President Barack Obama on Monday (March 24) announced a man who’s living with HIV as the new director of the Office of National AIDS Policy.  In his new post, Douglas Brooks, who’s gay, will lead the Obama administration’s work to reduce new HIV infections, improve the health of people living with HIV, and eliminate HIV […]
San Francisco AIDS Foundation CEO Neil Giuliano is being honored with his very own public park. The city of Tempe, Arizona, where Giuliano served as mayor from 1994 to 2004 and continues to own a home, is dedicating a lakeside open space in his honor on May 10. The date coincides with the twentieth anniversary […]
Construction on the long-awaited sidewalk-widening project in San Francisco’s gay Castro district is steaming along at full speed. Workers have begun digging up the west side of the 400 block of Castro Street. Parking has been eliminated on both sides of the block, as the traffic lanes have been down-sized to one lane in each […]
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