Finding freedom as a gay Black man in San Francisco, and family through Black Brothers Esteem
In honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and Black History Month, we heard from William Dean, a long-time member of SFAF’s community support program Black Brothers Esteem, and co-founder of Brothers Who Read.
We call on our community’s strength, resilience & advocacy
We are deeply concerned by the freeze on federal funding, halt to PEPFAR funding, harmful executive actions, ban on DEI programs, actions against immigrants, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ actions, and more.
In partnership to ensure “every door is the right door”
SFAF partners with organizations across San Francisco to provide quality, culturally-competent sexual health and substance use services through an equity lens.
I wasn't always confident about being a bottom. During my first sexual encounters, I was paralyzed by fear – not just by the vulnerability of the act itself, but of the label.
I survived a politically fraught holiday season. Did you?
I've come to accept that even among well-meaning family members, learning isn't always a straight line, and that there's a fine line between education and emotional warfare.
After CPS took her kids away because of drug use, PROP helped on a journey to reunification
Hitting “bottom” when she was separated from her kids by Child Protective Services, Chelsea found support to end her stimulant drug use through SFAF’s contingency management program, PROP.
He reached a breaking point with his meth use–and then found PROP
Federico shares his journey to three months of sobriety from meth and other drugs with the support of PROP, a contingency management substance use treatment program of SFAF.
I traveled to Europe on DoxyPEP–Here’s what happened
It wasn't until I packed my pills, and headed out for a three-week European adventure that I realized just how ahead of the curve San Francisco really is.
