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Vol. 52 • No. 46 • November 17-23, 2022
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District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey spoke at the Chinese American Democratic Club in October.
Nguyen Pham is the new San Francisco Pride board president.
SF Pride board names new president
Gay, HIV-positive SF supe Dorsey wins full term
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an Francisco Pride has a new president. Nguyen Pham who, until his selection on November 7, served as vice president, was elected to the post by fellow board members. Pham is the first gay Vietnamese man to hold the position. Pham, who lives in the LGBTQ Castro neighborhood, replaces former president Carolyn Wysinger, a lesbian who was elected last week to the El Cerrito City Council. Wysinger served as Pride president from 2020 until her term ended earlier this month and will remain on the Pride board. SF Pride interim Executive Director Suzanne Ford, a trans woman, congratulated Wysinger on her victory.
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New mural graces SF City Clinic
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taff from the San Francisco City Clinic, muralists, and others from the Department of Public Health celebrated the dedication of a new mural, “Sanctuary for Health,” on the facade of the clinic’s building at 356 Seventh Street Tuesday, November 15. A news release from DPH noted that the mural was completed in collaboration with Precita Eyes Muralists, with funding provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. City Clinic is an outpatient center
where medical staff work to prevent, diagnose, and treat sexually transmitted infections and HIV, as well as serve the sexual health needs of San Franciscans. “This mural represents the deep collaboration between staff, clients, and community across San Francisco and is an inspiring addition to the neighborhood that will add a renewed sense of welcome as patients enter the clinic,” stated Dr. Grant Colfax, a gay man who is the city’s health director.
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Tyller Williamson, left, is Monterey’s first out and first Black mayor. Tina Nieto is Monterey County’s first lesbian and Latina sheriff.
Monterey voters elect gay mayor, out Latina sheriff
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n Monterey County voters elected as their first lesbian and first Latina sheriff Tina Nieto, who will also serve as the county coroner, in the November 8 general election. Meanwhile, in the coastal tourist mecca of Monterey, City
Councilmember Tyller Williamson has become his city’s first gay and first Black mayor. Currently the police chief of the seaside city Marina, Nieto is a 33-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. Once sworn into office, she will be the first out LGBTQ Latina sheriff in California. See page 10 >>
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n winning a full term on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey has become the city’s first HIV-positive elected supervisor. His win also continues the presence of two gay men on the board, as gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman easily won his November 8 reelection bid. Mandelman first won election to the seat that covers the LGBTQ Castro district in a June special election in 2018 where he trounced gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, a longtime survivor of HIV who had been appointed to fill a vacancy. In the November general election that fall, Mandelman easily won a full four-year term. See page 2 >>
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Val Robb, right, a registered nurse, visits Ambassador Hotel resident David for a checkup in 1993 in San Francisco.
SF was at epicenter of lesbians helping gay men during AIDS crisis by Cynthia Laird
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hen Leslie Ewing walked into Daddy’s, a Castro gay bar, in the mid1990s during the horrible years of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, she was nonplussed by a comment she overheard. “I heard, ‘I smell fish,’” Ewing, a lesbian long-
time activist, recalled in a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. She knew then, she said, that her role was important. Ewing had gone to Daddy’s in her capacity as president of the board of the AIDS Emergency Fund, a nonprofit founded in 1982 by gay men that provided cash payments to people living See page 8 >>
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