How has COVID-19 — and the political and societal turmoil of the past year — affected our mental health? How are LGBTQs coping?
Even as some Bay Area counties enter the less-restrictive orange tier, our social connections have been severely limited for more than a year, and will likely continue to be for a while with troubling virus variants and the limited vaccine supply hampering efforts to get shots into arms.
Many people have lost income, homes or both; some have lost loved ones. All this on top of four years of anti-queer politics by the Trump administration, an incredibly divisive national election, a long overdue reckoning with systemic racism, and here in the West, intense wildfires — remember the eerie orange day last year when we