Sabrina Crawford, of The Examiner Staff, scrawford@examiner.com
SAN MATEO -- In the small cozy kitchen adjoining the Edison HIV/AIDS Clinic at San Mateo Medical Center, fall leaves, holiday greetings and photo collages of smiling clients and volunteers decorate the walls encircling a communal table. Small, red heart stickers, like teardrops, rest close to some of the faces, indicat
J.K. Dineen, of The Examiner Staff, jdineen@examiner.com
Bob Ross, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, one of the country s oldest and most influential gay newspapers, died Dec. 10 at the California Pacific Medical Center. He was 69. The cause of death was complications from diabetes, said Tom Horn, the newspaper s legal counsel and trustee of Ross estate. Ross had been ill
San Francisco Examiner - Thursday, September 18, 2003
Alison Soltau and J.K. Dineen, Of The Examiner Staff
Former San Francisco health commissioner Ronald Hill will face trial on charges of intentionally exposing a former lover to the HIV infection. The case is the first of its kind in California, prosecutors say. Hill, appointed to the Health Commission partly because of his efforts in the field of HIV prevention, was indi
Only sheer luck prevented Supervisor Bevan Dufty from becoming infected with HIV after some youthful mistakes, but at the ripe old age of 48 he s single once more and a convert to condoms. Faced with the alarming news that more and more young San Franciscans are becoming addicted to methamphetamines and developing HIV
Bill Picture Of The Examiner Staff, bpicture@examiner.com
Jon Ginoli, founding member of queer Bay Area rock foursome Pansy Division, says he s more than glad to step up to the plate and be a gay role model because, frankly, there aren t enough of them out there. I could have used a gay role model to look up to when I was young but there weren t any, he says. So if I can be t
Stacks of vandalized books at the San Francisco Public Library are being transformed into symbols of hope and tolerance instead of symbols of hate. In early 2001, library staff in the main and Chinatown branches began to discover books that had been slashed beyond repair. The common thread of the vandalized books was t
Taking more than just a stand against AIDS, 20,000 people ran, skipped or walked their way past the finish line in Sunday s AIDS Walk. The 17th annual 10k event, held at Golden Gate Park s Sharon Meadow, raised $3.1 million for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and 33 other AIDS organizations in the Bay Area. Even thou
J.K. Dineen Of The Examiner Staff, jdineen@examiner.com
Mike Salinas, a former hard-charging Bay Area Reporter writer and editor who was a central player in many of the San Francisco gay community s great controversies of the 1990s, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 46. Police ruled the death an accidental heroin overdose, but a preliminary coroner s report suggests he
Standing with teachers, parents and campaign supporters, Supervisor Tom Ammiano on Thursday announced a nearly $7 million plan to fund schools, HIV/AIDS programs and hospital translators. Ammiano s plan calls on the supervisors budget committee to cut battalions at the fire department, cut the police overtime budget an
The City has slipped a painkiller to a handful of health services that faced closure under the weight of planned budget cuts. While the rest of San Francisco dreads the mighty budget ax, services like the Bayview Thunderseed mental-health day treatment center and the North of Market drop-in sobriety center will be amon
SAN MATEO -- Results coming out of the medical marijuana research project at the San Mateo Medical Center are making waves in the scientific community. The first clinical trials, which ended in February, are still being analyzed. But psychologists were treated to some surprising data from an initial Medical Center surv
San Francisco s county jail system is feeling the pain of budget cuts, in the form of a proposal that would privatize the jail s health-care services in order to slash Department of Public Health expenses by $40 million. Doctors and nurses are alarmed at the prospect of losing their jobs and warn that the effort to sha
With HIV infection on the rise among African Americans, and blacks dying at a faster rate from the virus in San Francisco, the quest for a vaccine is taking on new urgency. The Department of Public Health and a coalition of AIDS groups made their first tentative foray into the community last week to explain the world o
The nurses and doctors on the front lines of The City s so-far successful battle to keep SARS out of San Francisco have a monumental task. On the one hand, they have to quell the fears of the public. One the other hand, they go to work knowing that if anyone is at risk, it is health care workers. Here is a disease that
Asian community leaders are uniting to raise awareness about Hepatitis B, which affects one in 10 Asian and Pacific Islanders. One in four of them will die from liver cancer, said Dr. Samuel So, director of the Liver Cancer Program at Stanford University. A lot of Asians don t know how common this is, So said. On Fri
Donald Currie s gay coming-of-age story, which he shares in a hilarious four-part CD memoir titled Sex & Mayhem, is one to which most every gay man surely will relate. But its universality is surprising considering its subject is a third-generation San Franciscan who grew up in one of the most liberal cities in the
Twiga Mbunda, the first person to venture abroad from her small village in Tanzania , is now a jewelry designer and the owner of Twiga Gallery in Laurel Heights. She sees her art as an extension of her roots and has started a nonprofit that will help orphaned kids in her village. Nina Wu: Tell me about the orphanage
The City s public health officials said Tuesday they are alerting local labs to be on the lookout for a particular aggressive strain of drug-resistant staph that has shown up in gay men in Los Angeles. Any lab work that gets done, they ll look and see if it is there and report it to city officials, said Department of P
The City s gay community and HIV prevention workers are aghast at a Rolling Stone article they say overstates and sensationalizes bug chasers, or men who intentionally seroconvert to HIV-positive status for erotic or fetishistic reasons. It was a hit piece, meant to be shocking, said Shana Krochmal of the San Francisco
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