San Francisco has become the first city in the country to launch citywide police station “safe zones” for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, staffed with police liaisons trained to serve that community. All 10...
Editor’s note: With this column, Mission Local is resuming its biweekly conversations with District 9 Supervisor David Campos, addressing issues and events in the Mission. If you have questions for Campos, send an email to...
Elvira Zayas, a 19-year-old Mission poet and youth advocate, has endured months of legal battles, jail time and thousands of dollars in legal fees defending herself against alleged gang-related felony assault charges, later reduced to...
World AIDS day was this weekend, and Mission Local reader Jason Wyman sent us his reflection on this event. From the World AIDS Day organization: World AIDS Day is held on December 1st each year...
“Many people who are supporting the band of nudists who have made their beachhead here clearly believe that encouraging this behavior will somehow help keep the neighborhood gay. Now I don’t understand this equation between...
“The Foxy Lady was successful because it served everybody. We did ‘Rent,’ we did Don Johnson’s costumes. We served the regular straight people. We’ve been in the gay parade. We did Carnaval,” said Janine Dominski,...
