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Caitlyn Jenner says transgender girls in women’s sports is ‘unfair’

Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for governor in California, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports at school. Jenner, a 1976 decathlon gold medalist who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, told a TMZ reporter on Saturday that it’s “a question of fairness.” “That’s why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls’ sports in school. It just isn’t fair. And we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools,” Jenner said Saturday during a brief interview in a Malibu parking lot. It was Jenner’s first comment […]

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Caitlyn Jenner launches bid for California governor

Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympian, reality TV star and transgender activist, said Friday she is running to be governor of California, as a recall of the sitting Democratic governor moves forward. In a press release posted to Twitter, Jenner, a longtime Republican, said that she’d make a “formal announcement” in the “the coming weeks” and pitched herself as a “compassionate disruptor” who will campaign on “solutions” and “providing a roadmap back to prosperity” for the state. “California has been my home for nearly 50 years. I came here because I knew that anyone, regardless of their background or station in life, could […]

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Bill that ends criminalization of loitering that targets sex workers advances

Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)’s Senate Bill 357, the Safer Streets for All Act, passed the Senate Public Safety Committee by a vote of 4-1. SB 357 repeals provisions of California law that criminalize loitering for the intent to engage in sex work. These provisions — arrests for which are based on an officer’s subjective perception of whether a person is “acting like” they intend to engage in sex work — result in the disproportionate criminalization of trans, Black and Brown women, and perpetuates violence toward sex workers. SB 357 does not decriminalize soliciting or engaging in sex work. Rather, it simply […]

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Laverne Cox to Appear at Planned Parenthood Benefit in Concord

General Admission Ticket $20 CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! Though COVID-19 has had a profound impact on us all,Planned Parenthood Northern Californiahas kept its doors open throughout the past year thanks to supporters like you!Join us at Stronger and Healthier Together a night of celebration! Saturday, May 1, 2021 6:00 PM Main ProgramVIP Reception to FollowEntertainment Sponsor Featuring Special Guests

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A Queer Quinquagenary: 50 Years of Change at the Bay Area Reporter

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A half century is a long time in the history of the modern LGBTQ rights movement, encompassing more change than could have been imagined in the early 1970s. Nowhere is this better reflected than in the archives of the Bay Area Reporter (BAR), “America’s longest continuously published and highest-circulation LGBTQ newspaper,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with special coverage, events and a new online exhibition with the GLBT Historical Society. The exhibition, “Stories of Our Movement: The BAR at 50” is made possible by generous support of the Bob Ross Foudation, and will debut on the society’s website on […]

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Celebrate Jose Sarria with SF GLBT Historical Society

Joe Castel Discusses José SarriaQueer Culture Club Thursday, April 87:00–7:30 p.m. PDTOnline programFree | $5 suggested donation GLBT Historical Society Executive Director Terry Beswick will interview director, producer, screenwriter and playwright Joe Castel, whose body of work explores Latinx and LGBTQ history and identity. Castel will also discuss his newest documentary, Nelly Queen: The Life and Times of José Sarria (2020), which will be screened immediately following the interview (see the separate event listing). This is the April installment of “Queer Culture Club,” our monthly series each second Thursday that focuses on LGBTQ people who are defining the queer culture of yesterday, today […]

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Equality California Endorses Candidates in Swing Districts

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced early 2022 endorsements of four Congressional incumbents in key 2022 battleground districts on Wednesday: Rep. John Garamendi (CA-03), Rep. Josh Harder (CA-10), Rep. Katie Porter (CA-45) and Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49). Protecting the four incumbents and winning back Congressional seats lost to anti-LGBTQ+ candidates in 2020 will be a top priority for the organization ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. “Protecting our champions in Congress and expanding our pro-equality House majority are critical priorities for the LGBTQ+ community,” said Equality California Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur. “Voters gave the Biden-Harris Administration a mandate in 2020: […]

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LGBTQ Leaders Come Out to Oppose Recall of Gov. Newsom

The California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, the LGBTQ Caucus of the League of California Cities and Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, announced their opposition to the misguided and dangerous effort to recall Governor Gavin Newsom during a virtual press conference on Friday (Facebook, Download). Equality California Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Legislative LGBTQ Caucus Chair Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell), former Chair Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego), Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, League of California Cities LGBTQ Caucus Board Member Palm Springs Mayor Pro Tem Lisa Middleton and BART Board Director Janice Li praised Governor Newsom’s long record of […]

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Ivy Bottini – WeHo Icon & LGBTQ Advocate Dies

Ivy Bottini an artist, mother and a legendary activist, devoting over 50 years to the feminist & LGBTQ  struggle for civil & human rights died on February 25th, 2021 surrounded by close friends and family. She was 94 years old.  Originally from Malverne, New York Bottini was a resident of West Hollywood for over 22 years and a Los Angeles Local for over 40 years.  In 1952, after marrying Eddie Bottini and having two daughters, Bottini began questioning her sexuality.  It wasn’t until 1968 that Bottini experienced a major life change when she accepted the fact that she was a […]

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Upcoming Online Exhibits & Events at SF GLBT Historical Society Museum

Author Talk Last Night at the Telegraph Club: A New Novel Saturday, March 64:00–5:30 p.m.Online programFree | $5 suggested donationAward-winning young-adult author Malinda Lo will read selections from and discuss her new novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books, 2021), a queer coming-of-age story set in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s. The story traces the blossoming of love between seventeen year-old Lily Hu and her friend Kathleen Miller in a Chinatown beset by Red-Scare paranoia and deportation threats. Lo will share details from her research into the midcentury LGBTQ community at the GLBT Historical Society’s archives, and discuss the novel […]

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