Before he became one of San Francisco’s premier press agents, Lee Houskeeper was just another 20-something in New York City. It was there in the sweltering humidity of the Lower Manhattan summer, in 1969, that he witnessed the Stonewall riots.
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The onset of fall means more than just an overload of pumpkin-spice lattes. It means that the weather has cooled off enough, hurricane season has passed, and we see the return of wine and food festivals. Up north they may have the leaves changing colors, down here we have the arrival of the celebrity chefs. Here’s the lowdown on the top three food fests, one for each county.
If you’re wondering where the bros from YOLO went, head over to Moxies.
There is perhaps no more critical election in U.S. history than the one in which Americans vote Nov. 5. Vice President Kamala Harris has said repeatedly as she campaigns that former president Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy as well as to a myriad of aspects of Americans’ daily lives.
“The evolution of a company's policies and branding and reputation is a lifelong work-in-progress,” said Bob Witek, a pioneering LGBTQ+ business leader and communications strategist.
Hunters will host the book release party for “Last Call South Florida: 1,001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Hangouts & Haunts” on Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 6-8 p.m.
It’s hard to believe now, but from the time South Florida began to grow in the 1890s through World War I in the 1910s, the land boom of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the 1930s, and World War II in the 1940s, the LGBTQ population lived in relative obscurity.
According to Move for Hunger, approximately 13.1 million children in the U.S. are food insecure. In Delaware, 12.6% of the state’s population — 125,370 people — were food insecure in 2022. And in Florida, 2,935,330 people are facing hunger, including 819,940 children. This is higher than the share of people facing hunger nationwide. (Feeding America.) In a country with 813 billionaires, these numbers are astonishing.
A national repository for historic medical information has added the website of a San Francisco health clinic focused on transgender patients to its collection. It is part of the newly created Sexual and Gender Minority Health web archive that is gathering LGBTQ health resources to preserve them in perpetuity.
Addison Mizner was not a regular architect. He never went to school for it, and the state of New York and California, where he came from, never officially recognized him as such.
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