LGBTQ+ advocacy

SF Protests Budget Cuts Devastating Safety-Net Services, Thousands of Jobs

By Elijah GlidewellJune 22, 20260 comments

More than 100 San Francisco residents and union workers convened at City Hall on Thursday, June 18, 2026, to protest proposed budget cuts, which they asserted would significantly impair safety-net services and eliminate over 1,500 city and nonprofit positions. Organizers, citing a projected $1 billion city deficit, contended these fiscal adjustments would disproportionately affect 25,000 low-income residents and minority workforces. The demonstration occurred in advance of a crucial vote by the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the proposed municipal spending plan.

What Is a woman?

By Matt StoneJune 1, 20260 comments

The interrogation of ‘what constitutes a woman’ serves as a definitional instrument to exclude trans women from the category of womanhood. This framework, characterized by systemic violence, disproportionately impacts women of color, economically disadvantaged women, and immigrant women, thereby enabling their control and subjugation.