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 ...

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 ...

What’s more, while each phone in San Francisco was being used roughly four times a day, the phones of Chinatown were a lot more active — used, on average, eight times a day. The Chinese Telephone ...

Levi Strauss and Tadich Grill are two San Francisco businesses that have been around as long as the city. Here’s their history.

(Eric Arnold/KQED) If you were at last year’s History of the Bay Day in San Francisco, you already know. Put on by Lakeview rapper Dregs One, host of the History of the Bay podcast, the daytime party ...

On Tuesday, San Francisco supervisors approved the creation of a special district that would allow the theater to be redeveloped into an eight-story building with 75 apartments, each with two to three ...

So what can the history of challenges against the city’s sanctuary policies tell us about President Donald Trump’s threats to it today? Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The ...

San Francisco dance troupe bears witness to history of human trafficking Lenora Lee, the artistic director of her dance company Lenora Lee Dance, creates large-scale interdisciplinary choreography ...

Finocchio’s attracted celebrity clientele, and was one of the few places trans women could work while being themselves.

Elise Hochhalter presents at the Preserving Your Personal Collections workshop at the Main Library in San Francisco on May 1, 2025. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED) The longer you wait to gather and ...

2024 San Francisco Mayoral candidates debate live onstage at KQED Headquarters.