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 ...

(Rae Alexandra/Courtesy of the San Francisco History Center) Underpaid operators fought back. In 1943, 30 Chinese Telephone Exchange workers joined the Telephone Traffic Employees Organization to ...

San Francisco's KQED is bracing for a new round of layoffs as the public media outlet aims to address a projected $12 million ...

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 ...

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 brought out a ...

The historic Alexandria Theater, located in San Francisco’s Richmond District, closed in 2004, and as the building has sat empty, development proposals have come and gone. As officials look for sites ...

When Dregs One finally met Too Short face-to-face this past February, during NBA All-Star weekend in San Francisco, the two weren’t exactly strangers. Short, of course, is a Bay Area rap icon, now 22 ...

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 ...

San Francisco’s sanctuary policies have been contested repeatedly since they were first enacted in the 1980s following an immigration raid at a Mission District dance club that left dozens of people ...

Around 500 people marched and chanted outside Google offices in San Francisco in an effort to get the Silicon Valley giant to stop 'being complicit' in the mass civilian casualties in Gaza following ...

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 ...