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If you see something, say something. That appeal to the public gained traction after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, today, remains relevant as the LGBTQ community prepares to celebrate the first in-person San Francisco Pride events since 2019. The reason, of course, is the uptick in some strange and frightening events over the past several weeks, both locally and across the country.

San Francisco has seen its first probable case of monkeypox, part of a global outbreak that now involves nearly 800 people, mostly gay and bisexual men, the Department of Public Health announced Friday evening, June 3.The health department said the person had recently traveled to a location experiencing an outbreak, but gave no further details about the case. The individual is in isolation and has reported no close contacts in San Francisco during the period when they could have spread the virus."The risk to the general population from this virus is believed to be low as the known cause of spread is prolonged contact and bodily fluids," the health department said in a statement.

Cross Border Xpress in San Diego, which I recently became aware of when some friends and I used it to enter the country for a destination wedding.  Mountaintop view of Puerto Vallarta skyline Initially opened in 2015, the entry point was designed by pioneering Mexican architect Ricardo Legoretta, and its main feature is a 390-foot enclosed pedestrian skybridge that quickly and easily connects travelers to the Tijuana International Airport. In its first five years, more than 10 million travelers crossed the U.S.-Mexico border using CBX, with a record 2.9 million travelers crossing in 2019 alone.CBX has gained more attention during the pandemic, since American citizens are now required to provide proof of a negative COVID test before flying back to the States.

A proposed ordinance by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to enhance shelter solutions for people experiencing homelessness and sheltering on the city's streets hit an unexpected snag during a committee hearing May 12, and has left Mandelman trying to decide what to do next. The proposed ordinance, titled "A Place for All," would make it the policy of San Francisco to offer all people experiencing homelessness in the city a safe place to sleep.

Calaveras County in the Sierra Nevada foothills gets its name from the Spanish word for skulls. Early Spanish explorers reported seeing skulls of Native Americans along what is now called the Calaveras River. But it was gold, not skulls that would put the region on the map.

Kenneth William Topper, a gay man and longtime state government worker in Sacramento, died April 17 at his home in Arden, North Carolina. He was 65.According to an online obituary posted by his family, his passing was unexpected.

California legislators are once again pushing forward on a number of bills aimed at improving the lives of the state's transgender and nonbinary residents. And due to the legislative attacks on trans children in several other states, lawmakers in Sacramento are also focused on assisting those youth and their parents who are trying to access gender-affirming health care.In addition to improving transgender medical care in the Golden State, lawmakers have introduced bills that will require California community colleges not to deadname their trans and nonbinary students, faculty or staff; require the governor to annually proclaim November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance; and create an advisory body for a statewide pool of funds for trans services that would be renamed the Transgender, Gender-Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness and Equity Fund.Other bills would protect LGBTQ people who want to become foster parents, establish a pilot project to assist LGBTQ youth receiving child welfare services, and require affordable housing builders to contract with LGBTQ-owned businesses.Tuesday, April 19, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the language for the bill he plans to officially introduce this month that will make California a refuge for trans kids and their families persecuted by their own governments in states such as Texas and Idaho.The Idaho House of Representatives passed legislation last week to make it a felony for parents to allow their children to receive gender-affirming care, while similar policy is under consideration by lawmakers in Louisiana and Arizona.

SACRAMENTO — After the governor of Texas ordered state agencies to investigate parents for child abuse if they provide certain medical treatments to their transgender children, California lawmakers proposed a law making the state a refuge for transgender youths and their families. When Idaho proposed a ban on abortions that empowers relatives to sue anyone who helps terminate a pregnancy after six weeks, nearby Oregon approved $15 million to help cover the abortion expenses of patients from out-of-state. As Republican activists aggressively pursue conservative social policies in state legislatures across the country, liberal states are taking defensive actions.

Across the country transgender youth and their parents are coming under attack by Republican elected officials. Even in California, anti-LGBTQ groups continue to rail against legislative attempts to bolster the rights of such children and their families.Missing from the debates in Sacramento has been the voice of a state legislator whose child is transgender or nonbinary.

With the appointment March 25 of Andi Mudryk to the Sacramento County Superior Court, California will now have two transgender judges serving on the state bench. Mudryk is the first trans person to be appointed to a judicial vacancy in the Golden State.Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski in 2010 became the country's first elected transgender trial court judge.

If legislation being proposed by gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) moves forward, California could become a refuge for transgender children and their families from states whose own governments have become decidedly hostile to them. Wiener is expected to formally make the announcement later Thursday morning on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento.

LGBTQ history projects across the Golden State, from digitizing periodicals and films to preserving archival material related to gay rodeos and Santa Cruz's LGBTQ community, are receiving $750,000 in grant funding from the California State Library. It is the second time since 2019 that the state has allocated funds to such projects.Three years ago state lawmakers allocated $500,000 toward the Preserving California's LGBTQ History grant program.

If everything felt a little more open, freer, on February 16, that might very well have been because California has loosened its COVID-inspired indoor mask mandate and eight of the nine Bay Area counties have followed suit. Of course, people have been here before.

Gay former District 9 supervisor David Campos and District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney are leading in the special February 15 election for San Francisco's vacant 17th Assembly District seat. They are vying to serve out the term of former assemblymember David Chiu.

In the California Legislature there have long been lawmakers succeeded by their spouses or their siblings. Last year a daughter, Dr. Akilah Weber, won the special election for a San Diego-area Assembly seat vacated by her mother, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber.

With California lawmakers advancing a bill to create a universal health care system in the state, the issue has the two leading candidates in the special election for a San Francisco state Assembly seat sparring over who would be a stronger advocate for the legislation in Sacramento.

Things became testy at a virtual Assembly District 17 candidate forum January 12, with multiple candidates blaming fellow candidate Supervisor Matt Haney for the conditions in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood.

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci was caught on a hot mic Tuesday calling Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kan.) “a moron” during his testimony before the Senate Health Committee on the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

A woman in Argentina appears to be the second person to naturally eliminate HIV without a stem cell transplant, according to a recent medical journal report. Last year, the same research team announced that Sacramento resident Loreen Willenberg was the first person known to naturally clear the virus.

The California Supreme Court agreed to review a case about the constitutionality of a provision of gay state Senator Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) LGBTQ Senior Bill of Rights that requires employees at senior care facilities to address residents by their preferred names and pronouns.

Two former employees of the state Office of AIDS have pleaded guilty as part of a fraud scandal, and state officials claim they are going to take steps to prevent similar crimes from happening in the future.

does perform hysterectomies for non-life-threatening injuries such as chronic pelvic pain or uterine fibroids — despite its purported Catholic beliefs — and Minton would have been able to receive the surgery had he been a cisgender woman, according to Reuters.The hospital later helped Minton’s surgeon, Dr. Lindsey Dawson, obtain emergency privileges at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, another Dignity facility that is not bound by Catholic doctrine, where Dawson performed the procedure a few days later.Minton later filed a discrimination lawsuit against Mercy San Juan Medical Center’s parent company, the Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, and its subsidiary, Dignity Health.

declined the case without comment, which is its usual practice. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch, all conservatives, said they would have taken the case.When officials at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, a Catholic hospital near Sacramento, learned Minton was transgender, they canceled his scheduled hysterectomy shortly before it was to take place in 2016, calling it an “elective sterilization” that went against Catholic beliefs.Minton had the hysterectomy three days later at a Methodist hospital that was part of the same chain, Dignity Health, but farther away for him.

It seems like some legislators in Sacramento do not realize or do not want to acknowledge the severity of the drug overdose crisis in cities like San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. These were the jurisdictions included in gay state Senator Scott Wiener's (D-San Francisco) pilot safe consumption site legislation, Senate Bill 57, which earlier this month was punted to 2022.

Law protects LGBTQ seniors in long-term care facilities from discrimination & mistreatment based on sexual orientation & gender identity

A state appellate court struck down a key provision of the LGBTQ Senior Bill of Rights, which requires long-term care staff to refer to facility residents by their preferred names and pronouns, as unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

Voters in Alameda, San Leandro, and a portion of Oakland head to the polls Tuesday, June 29, or have until then to mail in their ballots, to elect a new Assembly member to represent them in Sacramento. Eight candidates are running in the special election for the 18th Assembly District seat in Alameda County.It has been vacant since Rob Bonta (D) resigned earlier this year following Governor Gavin Newsom naming him to be the state's attorney general.

With an hour-plus commute to his executive assistant job at a tech company on the Peninsula, Chuck Gutro was longing to eliminate the time on the road.But when the city shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gutro (known to many by his drag name, Mutha Chucka) realized he really didn't want to stay cooped up in his San Francisco walkup, where he'd already spent a year recovering from a bout of cardiomyopathy.The 59-year-old gay man, who had a regular gig at the Midnight Sun, realized that with funds from stock options, he could afford a home in either the Palm Springs area or Sacramento.He spent time in both and, last year, chose the former."I decided it was time to cut bait," he said, and leave his home of several

Caitlyn Jenner has released a new campaign video and it’s all about how stupid taxes are and why people need to spend more time worshipping God just like she does every Sunday.Jenner is upset because she claims that if you count all the regulations in California, you will find a total of 21.1 million words, which is, like, 12 times more than the Bible!“Makes sense,” Jenner, who has fundraised roughly $300,000 in her gubernatorial campaign, says.

Activists have announced more specific plans for the second annual People's March and Rally: Unite to Fight, which in the absence of the official Pride parade has displaced it as a go-to event for Bay Area residents seeking to commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots that kicked off the modern LGBTQ liberation movement.

MirrorOnline reports.News outlet The Black Bay Area posted about the alleged incident on Instagram.It wrote: "A pack of white straight women in a cabana demanded that a queer black woman...

SACRAMENTO – As legislatures and governors in dozens of states across the country advance a record number of bills targeting transgender children, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a budget proposal on Friday that includes $3 million for the California Department of Education to develop an LGBTQ+ cultural competency training curriculum for public school teachers and staff.

A pastor in California became the first openly transgender person to be elevated to the role of bishop in a major American Christian denomination when they were elected on Saturday to lead a synod in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Rev.

When we last heard from Jarec Wentworth, real name Teofil Brank, he was reaching out to his admirers from prison, asking for, among other odd items, a $200 Thor cosplay hammer.That was in January of 2020, and the ex-Sean Cody performer has apparently moved on from such childish playthings and set his sights on Sacramento.Brank, who in 2015 was found guilty of extorting gay Republican millionaire Donald Burns, floated a run in the California recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom, tweeting: “Should I run for governor of California? At this point, why not.”Should I run for governor of California? At this point, why not.— JarecWentworth (@JarecWentworth2) April 28, 2021Brank elaborated in a response to a commenter who was likely referencing

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert blasted newly-sworn-in state Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin as she announced her candidacy for the position of California's chief law enforcement officer in a speech April 26.

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed lesbian former senator Cathleen Galgiani Friday to a seat on a state panel that oversees gambling operations in California. It is the second out commissioner Newsom has seated on the five-person oversight body this year.

rumored earlier this month, but Jenner confirmed her entry as a Republican candidate Friday morning. “As Californians, we face a now-or-never opportunity to fundamentally fix our state before it’s too late,” Jenner said in a press release.

Sylvia Moir has settled into her role as the first woman and first LGBTQ person to serve as Napa's chief of police.

A bill to strengthen the sexually transmitted disease public health infrastructure of California is better than a similar effort that had initially been introduced last year, a principal co-author of the legislation told the Bay Area Reporter.

A California lawmaker is again attempting to ban medically unnecessary surgeries on intersex children in the Golden State. A similar legislative effort died last year in the Legislature, and it remains to be seen if the same fate awaits the bill this year.

SACRAMENTO — In a widely anticipated move to fill the U.S. Senate seat currently held by the departing Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he has chosen the state’s secretary of state, Alex Padilla.

B.A.R. detailed in a feature story in its 2017 Pride issue.

Trans Can Work, a transgender workers' advocacy organization. She wanted to work at a center that shared her interest in that topic, and that is also committed to housing programs for LGBTQ people."It just so happens the Sacramento LGBT center was looking for exactly that," she said.

Long before she decided to help others eat better by becoming a dietitian, Jessica Wilson learned that the profession was unlikely to offer much to people like her. Growing up as a Black girl in a mostly white area of Sacramento, Calif., she was bullied for her size and subjected to unpleasant visits with dietitians, who taught portion control with the aid of unappetizing plastic models of green beans and chicken breasts.

Gay Tracy mayoral candidate denounces homophobic attackOut in the Central Valley gay Tracy City Councilman Dan Tavares Arriola, who turned 31 on Election Day, remains stuck in second place in his bid for the city's open mayor seat, as the incumbent is termed out of office. Arriola, who was vying to be the first LGBTQ mayor and first mayor of color in Tracy, was at 30.34% as of Friday afternoon.Termed out Tracy Councilwoman Nancy Young remained in first place with 35.41% of the vote.

Justice Martin Jenkins

California Supreme Court nominee Martin Jenkins speaks Tuesday during a hearing with the Commission on Judicial Appointments. Jenkins was unanimously confirmed as the first openly gay man to serve on the California Supreme Court. He also is only the third Black man to sit on the bench. Photo: Commission on Judicial Appointments

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