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SF Pride pushes back against attacks on LGBTQ+ rights ahead of weekend celebrations
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Friday, June 23, 2023 12:32AM
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Advocates and lawmakers from across the country united Thursday for the first-ever San Francisco Pride Human Rights Summit in preparation to continue the battle for LGBTQ+ rights.
“I feel like everything crept up in a very scary way in terms of all these bills that are popping up across the country, affecting and impacting LGBTQ+ rights,” said MichelIe Meow, producer and host at the Commonwealth Club of California, which hosted the summit.
“Even between different red states or maybe different approaches and different methods,” said Sue Robbins with Equality Utah Transgender Advisory Council. “We need to use to engage both the public and the legislators in order to be effective.”
Robbins has long been on the frontlines fighting for transgender rights in Utah.
SF Pride hosts 1st annual Human Rights Summit in fight for LGBTQ+ equality
“If we share these thoughts and share what works, then we can help to have more equality across the country and start shifting the tide away from this wave of bills to more positive efforts for our community,” Robbins said.
The ACLU is currently tracking nearly 500 bills taking aim at LGBTQ+ rights — many of them aimed at transgender youth, like 18-year-old Oleander, who fled from Georgia and now lives in San Francisco.
“I feel safer. I feel more accepted,” said Oleander. “I feel like I’m more likely to pass here because people just care a lot less about what gender you are here.”
“People do come here to be who they are, and I came here to be who I was. I knew that as a young child that if I could get here someday, I could be me,” said Suzanne Ford, executive director of SF Pride, noting a key piece to the summit is learning ways to support those fighting in states hit hardest by hate. “I’m proud of San Francisco Pride because this is the work that we’re supposed to do, to use our platform to help people in our community.”
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s $27 million mansion is a ‘lemon’ with a leaky pool, lawsuit alleges
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Sam Altman’s $27 million San Francisco luxury abode is apparently plagued with issues, ranging from a leaky infinity pool to faulty piping that dumped raw sewage on the property. That’s according to a lawsuit that The San Francisco Standard linked to the OpenAI CEO’s residence, which claims Altman purchased a “lemon” with “pervasive shoddy workmanship and corner-cutting.”
The 9,500-square-foot estate is situated on San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street, where it overlooks the city and the bay. As you can see in this walkthrough of the home, some of its key features include a four-sided infinity pool that hangs off the edge of the house, a “Batcave” leading into a garage, as well as a system that uses recycled rainwater to irrigate an expansive garden and flush toilets inside the house.
But the $27 million mansion might not be all it’s cracked up to be. In a lawsuit filed last week in a San Francisco court, Altman’s legal team claims the real estate developer Troon Pacific “misrepresented the condition of the Property as of the highest quality” to sell it “as quickly as possible.” The plaintiff also accuses the developer of failing to hire qualified contractors, some of whom allegedly “retaliated” by “filling drainage and sewer pipes with contractor bags and debris” over claims they weren’t paid on time.
That “shoddy” workmanship has led to the pool leaking a “flood of water” into the home’s lower level last August, causing “the gypsum ceiling in that area to fail” and “the widespread presence of mold,” as claimed in the lawsuit. Altman’s legal team estimates the cost to repair the pool would be upwards of $4 million, and that’s not counting the “unconnected bathroom sewer line that dumped raw sewage on the ground,” “numerous leaking irrigation lines,” the “water intrusion at skylights,” among other issues.
For now, Altman might be stuck dealing with some inconveniences around the house while the lawsuit runs its course. But maybe he can ask ChatGPT for help fixing some of its issues — or, better yet, give him suggestions on how to find a new place.
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San Francisco Skate Week kicks off with pop-up venue in the Presidio
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed on why she's seeking another term
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Building a Better Bay Area means giving you the information you need to vote. And what happens in the San Francisco mayor’s race will impact not only the city, but the entire Bay Area.
On Tuesday, the incumbent San Francisco Mayor, London Breed joined ABC7 News at 3 p.m. to talk about why she’s seeking another term, and on topics including crime.
San Francisco is a frequent target of republicans and the city got bashed Monday night at the convention.
Tech billionaire David Sacks – who is a resident – was the latest to go after the city.
MORE: San Francisco mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie shares vision for safer city
“In my home town of San Francisco, Democrat rule has turned the streets of our beautiful city into a cesspool of crime, homeless encampments and open drug use,” Sacks said.
Breed responded to Sacks’ comments.
“It’s easy to bash San Francisco and to use San Francisco as an example – it’s another thing to actually roll up your sleeves and do the work,” Breed said. “And in fact many of these people who continue to bash our city, who are not folks out on the streets every single day seeing it visibly for themselves. Are there problems? Yes. But to use San Francisco consistently as an example when this is happening and far worse in other cities is just wrong.
The mayor also pointed to data that she says shows crime on the decline.
Watch the full interview in the media player above.
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