The Rev. Cecil Williams was a charismatic minister who turned a fading church in the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco into a vibrant hub of worship, activism, and social services.
When the Rev. Cecil Williams took over leadership of Glide Memorial Church in the 1960s and began transforming it into a national powerhouse for social justice and nonprofit services, he became an early ally of Tenderloin residents who were then among the city’s most marginalized: gay men, lesbians and transgender youth. In the 1960s, San Francisco was still “a pretty conservative town” and police, supported by City Hall, regularly targeted gathering spots for LGBTQ men and women, arresting them for merely being social. As part of Williams’ mission to welcome the poor and disenfranchised into his Tenderloin congregation, he began […]
There are no further city hearings on the plan to renovate Harvey Milk Plaza in the city’s Castro neighborhood at least until the project is "shovel ready," according to a leader of the group advocating for major changes to the public parklet above a tran
There are no further city hearings on the plan to renovate Harvey Milk Plaza in the city’s Castro neighborhood at least until the project is "shovel ready," according to a leader of the group advocating for major changes to the public parklet above a tran
There are no further city hearings on the plan to renovate Harvey Milk Plaza in the city’s Castro neighborhood at least until the project is "shovel ready," according to a leader of the group advocating for major changes to the public parklet above a tran