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Of all the potential Republican presidential contenders for 2024, CNN s John Berman seems to have singled out Nikki Haley for special opprobrium. Who knows whether it s out of conviction, or a sense that Haley might pose the biggest electoral threat to President Biden or, as the case may be to Kamala Harris, who shares Indian-American heritage with Haley?
Berman s beef with Haley is over what he has described as her flip-flopping. In a February
Politico article, Haley was sharply critical of President Trump: He let us down. He went down a path he shouldn t have. And we shouldn t have followed him. And we shouldn t have listened to him. We can t let that ever happen again.
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With more than 900 articles penned for the
Bay Area Reporter, I feel a strong connection as the newspaper celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. I ve written columns, listings and reviews since 1992. Having assigned and edited the expansive features in this section, I thought to share some behind the scenes tales as well.
My career in journalism started in 1989 in New York City with
OutWeek, the revolutionary weekly publication that emerged from ACT UP, Queer Nation, but didn t last long.
After a 1990 visit for the OutWrite literary festival, my second working visit to San Francisco was in early 1992, on a freelance assignment for
In 1985, I moved from Minneapolis to attend the University of San Francisco with a double major in humanities and communications. I was eventually admitted to USF s Honors College where I learned to fall in love with learning. Planting new roots in San Francisco enabled me to flourish as an independent person in a place very different from where I had come. It opened a universe of possibilities combined with the pride I found in discovering there was a city that embraced me as a queer person.
On weekends, friends from the university joined me and we escaped our dorms, left the work on campus, and explored the richness of the city s nightlife. Hitting the bars in the Castro, dipping into the seediness of the Polk, going to the Alta Plaza Bar gay men s club in Pacific Heights, and eventually finding the hidden parties South of Market delivered new texture to the very act of living.