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Kippy Marks and Gypsy Love

San Francisco Bay Times columnist and violinist Kippy Marks and former Bay Times columnist and performer Gypsy Love (GL) have been friends and collaborators...

By Ann Rostow—

Times

I just checked the American Civil Liberties Union’s graph of anti-GLBT bills around the states. Of the 530 such bills introduced, 337 have been defeated, 40 have been passed into law, and 84 are advancing. The rest have been introduced but have yet to go forward.

We’ve always seen large numbers of anti-g...

By Joanie Juster—

Transgender History Month received its official kickoff on August 7, 2026, with a celebration in San Francisco City Hall that featured the raising of the transgender flag on The Mayor’s Balcony, a program of community leaders speaking about progress that has been made, and the ongoing need for further work to be done to ensure the safety, secur...

By Pamela Sevilla—

Before the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot became a landmark in transgender history, Compton’s was part of daily life in the Tenderloin: a neighborhood where transgender women, drag performers, and queer young people built community amid persistent harassment and exclusion.

Sixty years later, a group of transgender and nonbinary classical a...

Photos courtesy of GLBT Historical Society

Marking Transgender History Month is the latest exhibition at the GLBT Historical Society Museum. Where We Made Room, a solo exhibition and archival installation by artist Aleo Landeta, explores the queer and trans home as a space carved out, imagined, and fought for. Drawing on the society’s archives, Landeta ...