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McElhaney opens up about loss of queer son by John Ferrannini
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akland City Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney said people are wrong about her late son, Victor McElhaney. “The narrative most people believe was that he started drumming when he was 3,” Lynette Courtesy City of Oakland McElhaney told the Bay Oakland City Area Reporter. “He was Councilwoman drumming as soon as Lynette McElhe could sit up. When I haney asked, at age 1, ‘how are you?’ He’d say: ‘I drum.’” Victor McElhaney grew up to become a 21-yearold jazz musician at the University of Southern California. This month’s Oakland Pride prompted his mother to open up about his killing last year. “Victor was a very dynamic human being – one of those people who was truly renaissance,” McElhaney, who has represents District 3, which includes West Oakland, Jack London Square, and nearby neighborhoods, on the Oakland City Council since 2013, said. “He was fascinated by science, read existential poetry, listened to jazz
A new leather flag is on order to replace the tattered one flying over Eagle Plaza, but it won’t be raised in time for the virtual Folsom Street Fair Sunday.
Cho to headline virtual Folsom fair by John Ferrannini
Mourning Justice Ginsburg Rick Gerharter
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he death of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday, September 18, unleashed a wave of sadness throughout the country. That evening in the Castro, several hundred people
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The National LGBT Media Association unanimously endorses the Democratic ticket.
held a vigil mourning the late justice, who was a champion for women’s rights as well as LGBTQ equality. For more, go to https:// www.ebar.com/index.php?id=297337.
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he answer is always “no” if you don’t ask – but because Folsom Street Events took the plunge, Margaret Cho will host this year’s eponymous street fair. “We asked her,” Angel Adeyoha, the queer and nonbinary executive director of Folsom Street Events, told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent interview. “The situation we found ourselves in with the pandemic has made a lot of the usual things very different. People don’t have to travel and people are very involved in supporting our community when we have faced such a financial hit, when the primary event isn’t happening in-person.” A San Francisco native, Cho is bisexual and has worked as a dominatrix. See page 8 >>
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