In a city known for its long and pioneering LGBTQ history, the buildings and businesses that are part of that heritage have been disappearing from the city’s landscape — By Spud Hilton There is some question about which of San Francisco’s gay bars was the oldest and longest operating. The Old Crow opened on Market Street in 1935, closing in 1980, while the Gangway on Polk opened in 1910, but was not clearly LGBT-affiliated until much later.

Even America’s psychologists — the people tasked with knitting people’s psyches back together — are fighting over politics. And the battlefield is their role in the nation’s war on terrorism. — By Joe Garofoli Even America’s psychologists — the people tasked with knitting people’s psyches back together — are fighting over politics. And the battlefield is their role in the nation’s war on terrorism.

By Gary Kamiya San Francisco has been called the Paris of the West, but for decades it could have been called the New Bedford of the Pacific. Between 1885 and 1905, San Francisco was the leading whaling port in the world, home to a fleet of dozens of ships and…

By Caille Millner The day after I learned Ivanka Trump was shutting down her namesake women’s fashion brand, I went searching for its remains. Trump’s statement about why she was shutting the line down didn’t make sense to me. “After 17 months in Washington, I do not know when or…

By Roland Li Were it a country, the Bay Area’s economy would be larger than Saudi Arabia’s, getting rich from its residents’ minds rather than minerals pumped from the ground, according to a new report. The Bay Area’s annual growth rate of 4.3 percent over the past three years was…

A young boy taken from his mother went on solo trip through 4 states in 6 months — By Karen de Sá At 5:30 a.m., barely dawn, they came for Jorgito. It was December, and he and his mother had spent three days detained at the U.S. border near San Luis, Ariz. Immigration authorities assigned the 4-year-old boy an alien number. He was screened and given a notice…

By Roland Li As fast-growing tech companies strain housing, transportation and other civic resources, cities are pushing to increase their taxes. There’s one exception: San Francisco. Last week, Mountain View’s City Council placed a business tax on the November ballot that would disproportionately affect one major employer, Google. If voters…

By Otis R. Taylor Jr. It happened again: a white woman called — or pretended to call — police on black people over a minor transgression. You’ve probably already heard about it: The viral video in which a Bay Area resident was recorded and accused of being racist features Alison…

By Heather Knight For a week, San Francisco political insiders huddled every afternoon in the bland basement of City Hall to get the latest vote counts in the mayor’s race, crunch data and make colorful precinct maps showing who was winning where. He’s up! She’s up! She’s up by more…