August 23, 2012 edition of teh Bay Area Reporter

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Senior housing group seeks $53M

Officials take aim at STD spikes

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ith rates of sexually transmitted diseases continuing to rise in San Francisco and across California, public health officials are taking aim at the rate spikes with new Rick Gerharter testing practices and treatment regimens. SF STD chief They are also Dr. Susan Philip deploying mobile devices as a way to reach sexually active gay and bisexual men. The messages sent via cellphones can alert subscribers to the service about upcoming appointments to be tested for STDs or deliver targeted texts with speSee page 13 >>

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assengers on a Blue and Gold ferry cruise got an up-close view Monday of a practice session for the America’s Cup World Series that begins today (Thursday, August 23) on San Francisco Bay. The regatta races this weekend are a warm-up for next year’s Amer-

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ica’s Cup final. Organizers encourage people to watch the 45-foot racing boats from the Marina Green, where an America’s Cup Village will be set up daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is near Marina Boulevard at Fillmore Street. Admission is free.

he hunt is on to find $53 million to build what project sponsors say will be the country’s largest affordable housing development for LGBT seniors. Openhouse, a San Francisco-based agency focused on LGBT elders, has plans to construct 110 units of senior housing at the 55 Laguna project in the city’s lower Haight and upper Market neighborhoods. It is part of a larger infill development that will see an additional 330 new multi-family rental units built at what was the UC Berkeley Extension campus. Last week, for the second time in four years, the city’s Planning Commission signed off on the project. Wood Partners, the lead developer, needed to go back before the oversight panel because it changed the layout of its planned residential buildings as well the location of a community garden and other public amenities. Officials at Openhouse have spent years laying the groundwork to build housing for the See page 12 >>

Candidate SF Pride hands out $142K to groups named to college T board by Elliot Owen

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an Francisco Mayor Ed Lee named a candidate running for the City College board as a trustee Tuesday, instantly giving him a possible advantage in the race by running as an appointed incumbent. Santos for college board The mayor named Rodrigo Santos structural engineer Rodrigo Santos, 54, to serve out the remaining few months of Trustee Milton Marks III’s term on the San Francisco Community College board. Marks died earlier this month of a brain tumor. The appointment, which the mayor announced at a City Hall news conference, comes as San Francisco City College, which See page 13 >>

wo months after hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets to attend the 42nd annual San Francisco Pride Parade and festival, the SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee gathered Tuesday, August 21 at the LGBT Community Center to distribute grant checks to the local nonprofit organizations that helped facilitate 2012’s successful Pride event. The Pride Committee handed out a total of $142,482 to 75 organizations. It’s called the annual check granting party, whereby nonprofits that volunteer during SF Pride through its Community Partners Program are given grants based on their participation as either beverage partners, donation partners, or accessibility partners. Beverage partners oversee Civic Center’s beverage booths, donation partners collect donations at the gates during the entire weekend’s events, and accessibility partners oversee deaf and hard-of-hearing spaces as well as the parade’s wheelchair-accessible grandstands. “Writing checks to organizations who are doing all kinds of important work is by far one of the best parts of this job,” Pride Committee Executive Director Brendan Behan told the Bay Area Reporter. “It’s important that everyone have a piece of Pride’s success.” The LGBT Center’s Rainbow Room was packed with over 100 people who shared stoSee page 12 >>

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Representatives of local nonprofits were all smiles as they received their checks from the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s Community Partners Program at a party Tuesday night.

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