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LGBTQ Jews

State Sen. Scott Wiener waves to the crowd during the San Francisco LGBTQ Pride Parade on June 29, 2025. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inBay Area

After ‘genocide’ statement, will Wiener’s LGBTQ Jewish base still support him?

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

For many LGBTQ Jews in the Bay Area, state Sen. Scott Wiener has long been “their guy” in the Legislature. “He’s always had the back of trans people,” Levana Schector, […]

Nancy Gonchar at 32 with her dog Emma, named for the anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman, on a 40 acre farm that she owned with a partner in upstate New York. (Courtesy)
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Queer Jewish elders share their lives with USF students

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 28, 2025January 20, 2026
Rabbi Shua Brick in the sanctuary at Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation, where he has worked since 2020. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inPride

In Oakland, a gay Orthodox rabbi is paving the way for Jews like him

Alix Wall by Alix Wall June 11, 2025June 11, 2025
The Hebrew word "emet," meaning truth. (Flickr user zeevveez CC SA 3.0)
Posted inOpinion

Nonbinary Hebrew transforms the language for everyone

by Lior Gross June 5, 2025June 5, 2025
Sasha Velour in "The Big Reveal Live Show!" (Greg Endries)
Posted inOn Stage

Jewish drag superstar ready to sashay into Bay Area for her ‘Big Reveal’

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett May 21, 2025June 6, 2025
SF Pride Parade
Posted inLocal Voice

The government is trying to criminalize my existence — again 

Rabbi Eliana Kayelle by Rabbi Eliana Kayelle April 15, 2025April 17, 2025
Havdalah ceremony
Posted inOpinion

‘Can’t check our identity at the door’: Insights from first survey of Queer Jews of Color

by Sage Cassell-Rosenberg February 24, 2025February 24, 2025
Two girls wear banners with the slogan "Abolish child slavery" in English and Yiddish, probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City. (Photo/JTA-Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Posted inFirst Person

How Yiddish taught me to embrace the joy and defiance of being queer

Noa Baron by Noa Baron July 20, 2023
Kai Shappley, actress and trans rights activist, speaks to Jewish youth at the BBYO International Convention in Dallas, Texas, Feb. 17, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Jason Dixson Photography)
Posted inU.S.

BBYO’s planned convention in Florida poses conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and allies

by Andrew Lapin June 23, 2023June 23, 2023
Dina Angel-Wing's sculpture honoring Gilbert Baker (the figure on the left), who designed the LGBTQ rainbow flag. (Photo/Frank Wing)
Posted inCulture

Local Israeli sculptor seeks home for piece honoring ‘gay Betsy Ross’

by Dan Pine June 22, 2023November 9, 2023

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