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The 19th-Century Trans Man Who Worked As a Reporter and Went to War

For Trans and Queer Divas in the Mission, HIV Prevention Was an Art

An illustration of transgender women protesting outside of Compton's Cafeteria in the Tenderloin in 1966.

How the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Supercharged San Francisco’s Fight for Trans Rights

Trans People Have Always Existed and Always Will

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Forget Haunted Toys, Sunnyvale Once Had a Haunted Toys R Us

An older Arabic woman stands on a lawn looking windswept but joyful.

The Palestinian Therapist, Teacher and Music Lover Who Built Cultural Bridges

Your Complete Guide to Summer Fun in the Bay Area Is Here

A pale white woman with purple hair in a long black dress walks along a narrow path with elaborate iron railings.

6 Exceedingly Strange Bay Area Walking Tours

A New Graphic Novel Explores the Life and Strange Times of Eadweard Muybridge

Book covers of The Fate of the Day, Ginseng Roots, Girl on Girl, Questions Without Answers, The Sea Gives Up the Dead, The Secret Life of a Cemetery.

There’s Some Revolutionary Reading Coming Your Way This Week

Two men stand staring at a wall featuring the word LIQUOR, plus American and South Vietnamese flags. There is graffiti on the wall depicting the shooting of Nguyen Van Lem.

12 Television Shows Influenced by the Vietnam War

A book cover featuring three Black soldiers in Vietnam.

10 Fiction and Nonfiction Books Inspired by the Vietnam War

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