Happy New Year? Well, we hope 2021 will be kinder to us than 2020, but only time will tell. Just a week in, 2021 isn't looking pretty yet.
2020 brought hardships on many fronts — COVID sickness, death, and economic upheaval; continued police killings and other violence against people of color, especially Black people; and continued climate crisis evidenced by wildfires and other natural disasters, to name just a few.
Yet as the Bay Area Reporter's national politics and legal affairs correspondent Lisa Keen told Out in the Bay radio and podcast listeners this week, the past year also brought significant progress for LGBTQ people, despite setbacks in some areas.