One year later,
Lyon-Martin still open
by Seth Hemmelgarn
One year ago, in late January 2011, Lyon-Martin Health Services' board of directors shocked the city when it announced the clinic was more than $500,000 in debt and would close within days.
The board had neither established a transition plan nor informed city health officials, and the San Francisco agency's closure would have meant the abandonment of about 2,500 patients.
Community supporters quickly rallied to save the clinic, and in the months following the near-collapse, fundraising efforts brought in $600,722. (read more)
Breaking: Prop 8 tapes to remain under seal
The Proposition 8 trial tapes will remain under seal, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The panel ruled unanimously February 2 that former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker, the federal district court judge who presided over Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now called Perry v. Brown), abused his discretion last February when he showed a clip from the videotape to a public audience he was addressing. (read more)
SFPD likely
to promote gays
Despite being known for decades as a haven for gay men, San Francisco doesn't have any out gay men ranking above sergeant on its police force. (read more)
Report: Black gays
need more than
marriage equality
A new report suggests that marriage equality alone cannot address systemic inequalities among black gay and transgender people. (read more)
Trigger bar paying off $50,000 in fines
City officials and neighbors of San Francisco's Trigger nightclub are expressing frustration with the bar's owner as he works to pay off $50,000 in fines he accumulated in 2008. (read more)
HUD announces anti-bias rule for federal housing programs
Shaun Donovan, secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Obama administration, used the Creating Change conference on Saturday, January 28 as the backdrop for his announcement that the agency would codify its proposed ban on anti-LGBT discrimination in federal housing programs this week. (read more)
Arrest made
in 1983 murder
A man is set to be arraigned today (Thursday, February 2) in San Francisco Superior Court for allegedly killing another man in 1983. (read more)
AEF gears up
for 30th anniversary
For the past three decades the AIDS Emergency Fund has provided one thing – emergency financial assistance – to people disabled by HIV/AIDS who are too sick to work. (read more)
2012 'Hearts' benefit
features out artists
Two San Francisco-based out artists are set to contribute to the seventh annual Hearts in San Francisco benefit for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. (read more)
LGBT history walk
launches design contest
The backers of a history project in the Castro have launched
an international contest to seek a design for plaques that will memorialize
influential LGBT people.
(read more)
City Hall backs LGBT senior initiatives
Agencies that receive city funding to provide services to the elderly in San Francisco will likely be required to undergo cultural competency training on the unique issues that LGBT seniors face. (read more)
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Openhouse expands LGBT senior services
For close to a decade the agency known as Openhouse has been most closely associated with building San Francisco's first senior housing project dedicated to LGBT people. (read more)
Online extra: LGBTs protest prayer breakfast
Roughly two-dozen LGBT activists from GetEqual and other groups protested outside the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 2. (read more)
UN head calls for
African leaders to respect LGBT rights
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon this week called for African nations to respect the human rights of LGBT citizens. (read more)
Maine marriage advocates plan
return to ballot
Equality Maine will submit more than 105,000 signatures to put on the November ballot a measure seeking to establish marriage equality. (read more)
Connie Wolf takes
helm of Stanford's
Cantor Arts Center
Connie Wolf started the new year with a new job as the John and Jill Freidenrich director of Stanford University's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. (read more)
Ammiano, archbishop share stage
There was a coming together of sorts last weekend when Assemblyman Tom Ammiano joined with religious leaders, including San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, to reform the state's Secure Communities, or S-Comm, deportation program. (read more)
Mayor hires Dufty
as homeless czar
Mayor Edwin M. Lee has hired former gay District 8
Supervisor Bevan Dufty to oversee his administration's homeless policies.
(read more)
Richard Chicotel,
CFO of Shorenstein Properties, dies
Richard A. Chicotel, the chief financial officer of Shorenstein Properties, died unexpectedly at his San Francisco home January 10. He was 52. (read more)
Political Notebook: Board adopts revised rules for Castro plazas
San Francisco supervisors adopted rules governing the Castro's two outdoor plazas after several revisions were made to placate homeless advocates' concerns. (read more)
News in Brief:
Warner plaque dedication Sat.
The plaque dedication for Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro will be held Saturday, February 4 at 2 p.m. (read more)
Jock Talk:
LGBT athletes on display
We celebrate Groundhog Day with news and notes from the world of sports as we decompress from the 49ers amazing season and await the first sounds of spring training. (read more)
Online Extra: Political Notes: City Hall tackles SF electoral changes
Election politics is dominating the discussion at San Francisco City Hall as a task force refines new boundaries for supervisor districts and the board tackles proposed changes to the public financing of campaigns and ranked-choice voting. (read more)
