By Terry Canaan
December 1, 2008
Back in 2006, I wrote a post I called “A Delusion-Based Global AIDS Policy.” Since it was way back in the days before we had any hope of reason in the White House, the news on the global fight against HIV/AIDS wasn’t all that good. The Bush administration, […]
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Elaine Santore on location, Colma BART station.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
November 13, 2008
“Most peculiar, Mama”
November 5 was a very long day for yours truly. I woke up early in the AM, wrote a column for all the beautiful, fabulous and all-around-superior readers of Fog City Journal, then jetted off to my night class.
Of […]
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Tanene Allison
By Tanene Allison
November 10, 2008
Too often have I woken up the morning after an election having less rights than I did the night before. If you are a member of the LGBT community, this is a familiar sensation to you. As a lesbian, in 2004 I work up on the morning after the […]
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Elaine Santore
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
October 28, 2008
In the daytime, Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park looks idyllic and serene. But nighttime is a whole different story: the calm waters hold secrets from the dearly departed who have broken on through to the other side.
The waterfall at Stow Lake.
Photo by William Buckley via […]
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By Patricia Cain
October 20, 2008
The proponents of Proposition 8 have unleashed an ad in which a law professor proclaims that unless marriage rights are denied to same-sex couples, churches risk losing their tax exemptions. The claim is pure nonsense and any lawyer who makes such a claim should apologize for misleading the many religious leaders […]
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From the BBC
October 16, 2008
A US judge has thrown out a case against God, ruling that because the defendant has no address, legal papers cannot be served.
The suit was launched by Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers, who said he might appeal against the ruling.
He sought a permanent injunction to prevent the “death, destruction and terrorisation” […]
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