Trans March turns five Published 06/26/2008 Bay Area Reporter by Matthew S. Bajko Kinnari urged spectators to join the annual Trans March as it passed down Market Street last year. Photo: Rick Gerharter Now in its fifth year, the annual Trans March will kick off Pride weekend Friday night with what organizers expect will be [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Activists to boycott gay-rights group dinner
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Activists to boycott gay-rights group dinner http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/25/BA4J11ECVE.DTL Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, June 25, 2008 As gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people prepare to celebrate gay pride in San Francisco this weekend, many of them also are organizing a boycott and protest of the country’s largest gay rights organization. Activists plan to be on [...]
Boycott of HRC event grows
Thursday, June 19th, 2008http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3095 by Matthew S. Bajko Bay Area Reporter m.bajko@ebar.com alls to boycott this year’s Human Rights Campaign gala dinner in San Francisco are growing louder as the national group’s July 26 fundraiser grows nearer. The Washington, D.C.-based LGBT lobbyist organization upset many in the Bay Area’s LGBT community last year when it backed passage of [...]
2008 why protest HRC
Sunday, June 1st, 2008What Does the HRC Have to do With a Trans-Inclusive ENDA, and Why are we Protesting Their Dinner? Because HRC leader Joe Solomonese is a habitual liar who has betrayed every other major LGBT organization in the nation: At the Southern Comfort Conference (SCC) in September 2007, Solomonese promised that HRC would oppose any attempt [...]
Tenants testify about CitiApartments’ bad behavior – May 2008
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Tenants testify about CitiApartments’ bad behavior On Monday, May 12, 2008 at 1 PM, tenants from across San Francisco testified at the Board of Supervisors Land Use Committee against CitiApartments, one of the biggest landlords in the San Francisco. For the last three years CitiSTOP, a group of CitiApartment tenants and housing organizations, have demanded [...]
NBC 11 Broadcast on Rent Control and CitiApartments
Sunday, June 1st, 2008NBC 11 Broadcast on Prop 98 and the Lawsuit against CitiApartments NBC11′s Jean Elle reports on San Francisco’s lawsuit against the City’s largest landlord and the effects it has taken on its residents. June, 2008.