Former SF Bay Times publisher Kim Corsaro dies
Kim Corsaro, the former longtime editor and publisher of San Francisco Bay Times LGBTQ newspaper best known for successfully suing a former police chief who tried to suppress the publication, died unexpectedly Monday, January 31.
She was 68. Ms. Corsaro, a lesbian, had recently moved back to San Francisco after a decade in Ohio, where she suffered a series of debilitating medical issues that left her in a wheelchair and on oxygen.
Ms. Corsaro sold the Bay Times, originally called Coming Up, to current publishers Betty Sullivan and Jennifer Viegas in 2011.
According to a GoFundMe campaign, Ms. Corsaro's medical issues began in in 2012. That year, Ms. Corsaro was hired by the Obama campaign to work on his reelection; the campaign sent her to Cincinnati. "At the end of the successful campaign, Kim had an accident that landed her in the hospital.
