Democrat Daniel Lurie—a philanthropist, founder and former CEO of the Tipping Point Community, an heir to the Levi Strauss ...

Photos courtesy of Cal Fire Official/Flickr Southern California’s LGBTQ+ communities, skilled at organizing and fundraising, ...

The setting was both beautiful and haunting. The jagged snow-capped peaks of the Eastern Sierra gleamed against the clear ...

As we enter a brand-new year, let’s look back at 2024 and its many ups and downs. April led us to a number of major events, including a fundraiser for OUTWORDS, another in the Memory Keepers ...

It’s 2025. We face it with mixed emotions shrouded with varying degrees of dread. This past week, I stepped into the first day of my 75th year. I did so kicking and screaming. OK, I’m 74, I was just ...

As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies ...

“Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and ...

Local film curator Jenni Olson has assembled another program of Trans Masc films that will screen January 17 through February 23 at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) in Berkeley. The ...

Ever play that game around a table full of friends asking, “What is your one favorite character trait of your own?” It is a good question to start us off on a positive during these challenging times.