RT @NicholsUprising: Sikhs at Oak Creek temple are providing water, food to journalists and police as part of religious tradition of hospitality. #templeshooting

Meanwhile, while the country is being blitzed by the non-stop coverage of the strangely unexpected death of 100-year-old, ill-health icon Bob Hope; there’s another sad death of a ubiquitous voice: Jane Barbe  [more...]

Phyllis Lyon, right, and Del Martin cut their wedding cake in June. Photo by Noah Berger, special to the San Francisco Chronicle Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies Rachel Gordon, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday  [more...]