Mission Eyes: The Bodies Are Back
Nearly 30 years after her show was shut down for indecency in London, feminist art pioneer Margaret Harrison returns with those original pieces plus some new ones. The exhibit, The Bodies Are Back,...
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Transgender Latinas Organize at City College
TransLatinas was formed to get more transgender people in school and to combat homophobia in the Latino community. En Español Andrea Flores recalls getting stares and muffled comments by Latinos when...
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“Walk Straight, Behave Like a Boy,” and Other Self Esteem Challenges for...
En Español Building a positive self-image has not always been easy for Bersath Verdugo who was born a male but felt, at a young age, that he should have been a girl. “My parents would chastise me and...
View ArticleClinic on the Verge
“Well,” says Dawn Harbatkin, medical director of Lyon Martin Health Services, “we’re a community clinic. I’ve never known a community clinic that didn’t operate on the edge. Health care for adults...
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Pride Weekend Takes Off With Trans Gathering
And March – The Transgender march is the first parade on Pride Weekend.
View ArticleLyon-Martin: Back From the Brink
This summer, at Dyke March, Lyon-Martin Clinic was doing what it usually does, which is free clinical breast exams in Dolores Park. “People kept on walking up to us,” says Dawn Harbatkin, the clinic’s...
View Article60 Seconds: Points of Pride
With Pride about to be upon us this weekend, we wanted to know what that evocative word, “pride,” means to some members of the LGBTQ community. We talked to a few of them at “The Bi-B-Q,” a...
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Art Show Filled With Elegance, Beauty and Subtlety
The artists presenting their work at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts’ gallery as part of this year’s Solo Mujeres show come from around the world, but they represent a range of experiences...
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