Studies show that most people who identify as gay and lesbian know this at an early age. Our own research supports this: everyone we interviewed said they had feelings of being different or having attraction to the same gender before the age of ten. Those same-sex...
People should have the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions about their own health. Sexuality and sex education have long been an issue that many people find difficulty in talking about and talking to their children. Studies have found that youths who do not...
Always a welcoming city, San Francisco hosted the emergence of many colorful characters over the years. One whose history illustrates San Francisco’s tolerance and embrace of the different, the quirky, and the eccentric was English-born Joshua Abraham Norton. Norton...
In the jungle of offices at Rackspace on the South of Market tech hub, Shahin Shadfar sits at a desk cluttered with tech parts and points to his latest creation, an app called Zurf which is the latest in a string of successes for the San Francisco transplant. While...
In the 1960s, America’s electronic technology was emerging in two key locations: along the Route 128 belt in Massachusetts that curves in an arc with a 15-mile radius around Boston, and on the peninsula south of San Francisco. Both areas drew upon strong university...
Given the focus on the pandemic with the coronavirus, people are looking intently at healthcare in it’s many manifestations. While looking forward, it pays to consider how the country has seesawed from finding a solution that benefits all to attempts to destroy...
