Bob Ross, the founder and editor of the Bay Area Reporter, the mainstay GLBT newspaper for San Francisco, has died this week. He took the usual 'bar-rags' that told the then-nacent community where the bars were, and made a new type of local paper that delved into politics and social issues and everything else.
Thirty years ago, no one could have imagined the growth and power of our community. Bob did.-- Assemblyman Mark Leno. I never got the chance to meet him, although I saw him at many events. At least his work and paper and legacy go on, to the benefit of us all.