San Francisco brims with LGBTQ+ history — and not just in the Castro, its world-famous gayborhood, or the Tenderloin, where trans women rioted for their rights at Compton’s Cafeteria in 1966. Since at ...

The Levi’s brand logo stands in front of the headquarters of manufacturer Levi Strauss in San Francisco on March 23, 2025. (Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images) Levi Strauss was a young ...

The two-week KQED series Trans Bay: A History of San Francisco’s Gender-Diverse Community has a simple goal: to affirm trans people’s place in society and culture. From June 9–19, we’ll publish 10 ...

Pleasant, Cagigal tells us, was born into slavery in the South and came to San Francisco in the mid-1800s — defying white society’s constraints to not only amass great wealth, but to use her power to ...