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Elana Dykewomon (Photo/Jane Tyska)
Posted inTheater

‘How to Let Your Lover Die’: Oakland writer Elana Dykewomon’s first play to premiere at Bay Area Playwrights Festival

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 26, 2022August 9, 2022
Danny Wein, chair of the Jewish Pride Fund, attends the LGBTech gala hosted at the British ambassador’s residence, June 6, to kick off Pride Week in Tel Aviv.
(Photo/Courtesy Jewish Pride Fund)
Posted inPhilanthropy

S.F. Jewish Pride Fund gives $56K in grants, visits LGBTQ grantees in Israel

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene June 10, 2022June 13, 2022
This 1994 photo, "Kindred Spirits," took on a life of its own in the years after Chloe Sherman took it. (Photo/Chloe Sherman)
Posted inPhotography

Iconic Jewish lesbian image in new exhibit of ’90s San Francisco photos

by Heather Cassell June 3, 2022June 13, 2022
Walt Disney employees and demonstrators during a rally against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill at Griffith Park in Glendale, California, March 22, 2022. (Photo/Forward-Alisha Jucevic-Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I was gay and Jewish under apartheid. LGBTQ rights are slipping away in the U.S.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank and Forward June 2, 2022June 2, 2022
Youth at a JQY drop-in center event. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Queer Youth)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish Queer Youth is growing. For closeted Orthodox and Sephardic teens, that ‘means the world.’

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi and Forward May 27, 2022May 27, 2022
two pics: first, a headshot of Imhoff, a smiling white woman; second, the cover of the book
Posted inBooks

New book: A ‘Queer, Disabled’ early Zionist illustrates ‘roads not taken’

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA May 24, 2022
Rabbi Daniel Bogard (left) and Shira Berkowitz lead songs at Camp Ramot Amoona. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Berkowitz)
Posted inU.S.

Jewish summer camp veterans are opening a camp for trans kids. It was filled within weeks.

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 10, 2022May 10, 2022
Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFirst Person

An inside look at the history of Sha’ar Zahav, San Francisco’s LGBTQ synagogue

Ron Lezell by Ron Lezell March 8, 2022March 8, 2022
pride flag waving in the wing
Posted inU.S.

Jewish federations umbrella adds gun reform and LGBTQ advocacy back to policy priority list

by Ron Kampeas and JTA February 22, 2022
Bob Stein holds up the banner for recently formed Congregation Sha'ar Zahav in June 1979 during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. (Photo/Joe Altman-California Historical Society)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Archives Week: How we covered — or didn’t cover — LGBTQ Jews over the years

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 15, 2022February 16, 2022

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