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LGBTQ Community Leaders Remember Sally Miller Gearhart
Susan Leo, July 14, 2021:
Sally slipped these earthly bonds last night after a long illness. In her last days she had been visited by many who loved her, both in the flesh and in spirit and she seemed ready to let go.
Sally was remarkable: sharp in her thinking, clear in her politics, fiercely determined, warmly compassionate. She was an immense presence in San Francisco, arriving in 1970 and becoming the first openly lesbian professor at San Francisco State University in 1973.
In 1978, she worked closely with Harvey Milk (1930–1978) in leading the campaign against Proposition 6, the California ballot measure that would have banned openly lesbian and gay teachers from public schools.
Memory lives in the blood. Our ancestors live in us.
July 21, 2021
Bay View Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir read libations honoring our recently transitioned ancestors at the Monumental Reckoning unveiling at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. The event was the opening day of artist Dana King’s 350 Ancestors – bronze, wire and steel sculptures of the original 350 Angolan captives taken from home in 1619. The unveiling was held on a beautiful Friday, June 18, 2021. – Photo: James Watkins
by Arts and Culture Editor Wanda Sabir
People are rising up to remove and destroy these symbols of racism and white supremacy which guide the thinking and economic and political policies making this country. On the first Juneteenth National Observance, San Francisco installed 350 African Ancestors.
Joan Baez singing to a sold-out audience in Albany, New York, at the Egg Performing Arts Center in 2016. (Wikimedia Commons/Jim Gilbert)
More than a decade ago, I wrote to the chair of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, expressing my hope that that year, 2010, would be the one in which Joan Baez would be one of the honorees for the center s annual award for the performing arts. She has used her gifts fully, I wrote, noting that she had given more than 40 concerts a year since the late 1950s, when she began singing in the folk clubs of Boston. Her voice remains as pure as it was when the nation first heard it at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Equally so, her commitment to nonviolence and human rights has been unwavering.