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In Wake of Charlottesville, Bay Area Law Enforcement Girds for Protests
The violence and death sparked by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend was, to most people, a frightening look into a fringe hate-group philosophy that experts say is resurgent across the country. But the images of Ku Klux Klansmen marching and a reported Nazi sympathizer allegedly driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters(…)
Texas Bathroom Bill Dies After Legislature Adjourns Without Action
Protestors try to drown out a press conference with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Lois Kolkhorst as they introduce Senate Bill 6 known as the Texas Privacy Act, which provides solutions to the federal mandate of transgender bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms in all Texas schools. Katie Graham shouts and makes loud noise(…)
Missouri High School Removes Gay Students’ Senior Yearbook Quotes
Two out Missouri high school students say their school removed their senior yearbook quotes because they referenced being gay. Kearney High students Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz told KCTV5 when they checked to see their yearbook quotes under their senior portraits, they were nowhere to be found. “It was a blank picture under my name,” Swartz(…)
Local News
Zipcar Coming to Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa residents who don’t want to own a car but might like to zip around in one sometimes are in luck — Zipcar, the nation’s largest car-sharing company, is coming to town. The City Council today is expected to sign off on a deal allowing the company to operate two of its rental cars(…)
World’s First Chicken Nugget Tasting Room Opens in Sebastopol
Sebastopol’s Hip Chicks, whose organic chicken fingers are now sold in more than 5,000 stores, have opened The Kitchen, a chicken nugget tasting room and lunch counter featuring “flights” of their original, ketchup and maple chicken fingers, fried buttermilk chicken sandos, a chicken meatball sub, turkey burger, egg sandwich with sweet potato hash, apple cider(…)
Civil Grand Jury Says Sonoma County’s Environmental Health Staff Overworked
The section of Sonoma County government responsible for everything from monitoring the Russian River for toxic algae blooms to inspecting the safety of local restaurants is overworked and insufficiently staffed, challenges that hamper its effectiveness, according to a recently released civil grand jury report. In its latest annual analysis published late last month, the 19-member(…)
Inaugural LGBTIQ Benefit Unites Wine Country
On Saturday, September 23rd OutRight Action International (OutRight) will launch the inaugural Crush Out, bringing together the wine country’s LGBTIQ community and allies for the first time to support equality on a global, national, and local scale. The benefit hosted by the historic Trione Vineyards & Winery will support the work of OutRight, the(…)
Arts & Entertainment
Mill Valley Film Fest to Honor Out Director Todd Haynes
The Mill Valley Film Festival is proud to honor acclaimed director Todd Haynes (Carol, Far From Heaven, Safe, I’m Not There) with a Tribute, featuring an onstage conversation and presentation of the MVFF Award in recognition of a career that exemplifies the art of great directing. Haynes was last here for MVFF30 in 2007 and(…)
Book Review: ‘The Ada Decades’
Tick. Tick. Tick. Your grandmother used to warn you not to wish your life away. The years pass quickly enough, she said, so hold each minute. Savor what you have. Enjoy your days, months, years and The Ada Decades by Paula Martinac. Ada’s daddy needed help around the house. Once, that was Clay Jr.’s job(…)
State News
San Francisco’s Oldest Gay Bar the Gangway Could Become a Laundromat
The Gangway opened in 1910 and became a gay bar in 1961. It’s hailed as San Francisco’s oldest gay bar — but perhaps not for much longer. According to a pending liquor license, Sam Young, owner of the sometimes controversial Kozy Kar bar, is in the process of buying the Gangway. And if the license(…)
EQCA: Anti-LGBTQ Statements by Fresno School Board President ‘Ill Informed’
Brooke Ashjian Equality California have responded to statements made last week by Fresno Unified School Board of Trustees President Brook Ashjian in which he suggested that a law requiring schools to include information about LGBTQ people in middle and high school health classes might “sway” students to become LGBTQ themselves. Aug. 4, the Fresno Bee(…)
