Opinion

Editorial: Jenkins must release Brown video

Editorial: Jenkins must release Brown video

When you've got two gay elected leaders who were among your staunchest supporters calling for the release of video in the Banko Brown shooting, as San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has, it's time to disclose the footage.

Editorial: CA DPH's woes must be addressed

Editorial: CA DPH's woes must be addressed

State Auditor Grant Parks released the long-awaited report on the California Department of Public Health's abysmal effort collecting, reporting, and using sexual orientation and gender identity data and it's as bad as we'd feared.

Guest Opinion: The Castro Theatre can thrive again — but it must adapt

Guest Opinion: The Castro Theatre can thrive again — but it must adapt

In January 2022, Another Planet Entertainment announced an agreement with the Nasser family, which owns the century-old Castro Theatre.

Editorial: Republicans behaving badly

Editorial: Republicans behaving badly

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 26, 2023

Last week's House passage of an anti-trans sports bill is an example of how Congress has changed since Republicans took control in January.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor opine on the Castro Theatre and tobacco use among LGBTQ youth.

Guest Opinion: The Castro Theatre belongs to the community

Guest Opinion: The Castro Theatre belongs to the community

  • GUEST OPINION
  • by Tom Ammiano and Michela Alioto-Pier
  • Apr 24, 2023

For over 100 years, the Castro Theatre has been an architectural and cultural jewel in our city's crown and has evolved as an icon of the LGBTQ community and culture.

Guest Opinion: Harvey, the merchants, and the theater

Guest Opinion: Harvey, the merchants, and the theater

The Castro Merchants Association was founded by Castro Camera business owner Harvey Milk in 1974 in response to the anti-gay Eureka Valley Merchants Association.

Editorial: APE has only itself to blame

Editorial: APE has only itself to blame

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 19, 2023

Another Planet Entertainment has only itself to blame after a Board of Supervisors committee gave initial approval to an amendment that would require the Castro Theatre's orchestra seating to be fixed.

Guest Opinion: Not the Mother we wanted, but the one we needed

Guest Opinion: Not the Mother we wanted, but the one we needed

By nearly all accounts, Stefan Grygelko didn't really know what he was doing back when he created his now-legendary drag persona Heklina, on a whim in the early 1990s.

Editorial: Cautious optimism on Title IX rule

Editorial: Cautious optimism on Title IX rule

  • EDITORIAL
  • by BAR Editorial Board
  • Apr 12, 2023

The White House's rollout last week of the Department of Education's proposed Title IX rule regarding trans student-athletes was clunky, to say the least.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

Readers write to us about the Castro Theatre and a recent essay about the closure of gay bars.

Editorial: Amend, don't repeal, CA travel ban

Editorial: Amend, don't repeal, CA travel ban

Lesbian state Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) surprised many last week — including us — when she introduced legislation that would repeal California's law prohibiting publicly funded travel to states that have anti-LGBTQ laws.

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

This week, a reader takes issue with the paper's television columnist.

Guest Opinion: Reclaiming the Resurrection

Guest Opinion: Reclaiming the Resurrection

There is nothing like spending two winters in Duluth, Minnesota to make one appreciate the San Francisco Bay Area and all that it has to offer.