Smoking Gun

Tobacco industry documents expose an R.J. Reynolds marketing plan targeting S.F. gays and homeless people. Its name: Project SCUM.

Follow-up article:
Smoked Out

Outing the Marlboro Man

Document reveals new details on how tobacco companies target gays

No Joke

What’s scariest about ACT UP San Francisco’s message is that people are listening

The House That Chuck Built

What nasty business is behind the biggest donation to the new gay and lesbian center?

Hard Labor

County Jail No. 3 is a hell hole. Can an ancient form of meditation improve life for the inmates?

Follow-up article
Transcendental Incarceration:
The first San Bruno Jail inmates to take part in an experimental meditation program say it has helped to free their minds, if nothing else

The Adventures of Capt. GayMan

The Bush administration has released the first-ever Army training manual on homosexual policy -- as a comic book

Spiritual CULTivation

In China, Falun Gong practitioners are beaten and persecuted, so the U.S. is granting them asylum. But is this movement as harmless as it seems?

Follow-up article

Split Personalities:
A new Falun Gong sect is raising a challenge over who is the spiritual movement's True Master

The $32,000 Question

Who the hell is Stan Flouride, and what was he doing on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

Torture of a Transsexual

In a landmark case, Amanda DuValle, allegedly brutalized in Nicaragua because she is a transsexual, escaped deportation from the U.S. by invoking the U.N. Convention Against Torture. But if she won, why is she still in jail?

Follow-up article
Freedom for a Transsexual:
A refugee from torture is finally let out of jail

NOTE: These articles are from 1999 and 2000 and the term "transsexual" is considered outdated and inappropriate as an umbrella term. So is referring to a person as "transgendered" versus the currently preferred "transgender." For a glossary of terms and explanations of how to accurately report on transgender people today, see the GLAAD Media Reference Guide.