The new film of trans and non-binary writer/director Jane Schoenbrun, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is an astonishing homage to slasher films yet it also presents a sensitive queer love story.

Some of the best advice I ever received includes the words “stay curious.” No matter the age or circumstances, feeding the brain is important and fun. For years, I have done this as a professor at the ...

San Francisco’s annual foggy summer musical celebration Outside Lands was a jam-packed sellout with crowds of over 75.000 enthusiastic fans mobbing the multi-stage festival in Golden Gate Park.

Somewhere off the coast of Africa, a hunk of brown algae the size of a small country decided this was its year. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is currently drifting toward Florida, Mexico, and the ...

Remember back in the day when Napa wine tastings were free? The idea was that you’d traipse up to Napa, try some tasty wines, ...

Last month, I took some time away from Rainbow to attend the annual American Cheese Society (ACS) Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. When folks come into the store and ask me where I have been, and I ...

August 2026 marks the fifth Transgender History Month observed in San Francisco. Former Mayor London Breed declared the first such month in August 2021, making San Francisco the first city in the U.S.

Michael G. Lee has done all of us a great favor. With When the Band Played On, he has written a biography of Randy Shilts, one of the most influential and controversial chroniclers of San Francisco’s ...

Hello San Francisco Bay Times Readers, My name is George Jeffery Smith III, and I am honored to serve as President of the Board of Directors of Oakland Pride, Inc. On behalf of our Board, sponsors, ...

For many of us who grew up in Southern California, going to the beach was a way of life. We played beach sports, frolicked in the ocean, and showed off our golden, sun-kissed tans. Southern ...

While much has changed since the dark, early years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the needed work to fight HIV/AIDS remains and the compassion of AIDS Walk San Francisco participants is as strong as ever.

Bob Hermann, the President of The Rotary Club of San Francisco, was celebrated at an event on June 14, 2025. It was to honor his successful term as President, which is drawing to a close. A host was ...