Email Author Lauren Smiley

Awards

• 2011 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published February 3, 2010

  "The ABC's of Ditching School"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 21, 2009

  "Exporting the Dead"

• 2009 - Peninsula Press Club Awards, published May 14, 2008

  "Score!!!"

• 2008 - GLAAD Media Awards, published July 11, 2007

  "Girl/Boy Interrupted"

• 2008 - Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, published October 3, 2007

  "Escape from San Francisco"

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2010 Stories by Lauren Smiley

• Can You Beat These Giants Fan Get Upsr

  published Oct 21, 2010

  So you call yourself a fan at heart. Big boop-boop-a-deal. We want to see it in your fashion.At Wednesday's game, no one could beat this little lady right here. The Giants' own little Miss Betty Boop.... More >>

• After LGBT Suicides, Mission High Schoolers Urge Classmates to Come Out

  published Oct 20, 2010

  rIn response to the recent rash of suicides of LGBT teens across the country, students in the Gay Straight Alliance at Mission High School hit the halls at lunch on Wednesday to get classmates and tea... More >>

• General Hospital Wants You To Identify Tiny, Unknown Patient

  published Oct 19, 2010

  With confidentiality laws, hospitals are usually loathe to hand out identifying information about patients. Yet today, General Hospital is actually giving out all sorts of identifying information abou... More >>

• One-Third of Gay Middle Schoolers In S.F. Have Attempted Suicide, Study Claims

  published Oct 18, 2010

  The recent coverage of gay teen suicides has the country on high alert, with even President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, speaking out against bullying. While many of the "It Gets Bette... More >>

• Aiyisha Hassan Memorial Saturday

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Father Says Death Not Linked To BullyingrAiyisha Hassan's memorial will be held Saturday at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond at 2 p.m. -- the church where her father, The Rev. Kamal... More >>

• Tom Ammiano Tells Latinos He Won't Call Meg Whitman A 'Puta'

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish&n... More >>

• Lana Lawless, Transgender Woman Golfer, Sues LPGA

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Transgender golfer Lana Lawless is suing two of the country's top golf associations to do away with their ban on trans-women athletes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association -- better known as the L... More >>

• LGBT Suicides: Aiyisha Hassan, Daughter Of Marin Non-Profit Executive Director, Takes Life

  published Oct 12, 2010

  rUpdate, 10/15: Aiyisha Hassan's memorial will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 16, at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond, California. Her father, Rev. Kamal Hassan, sa... More >>

• Tracking Device Found on Santa Clara College Student's Car -- FBI Wants It Back

  published Oct 11, 2010

  Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old college student from Santa Clara, was surprised to discover a GPS tracking device on his car a week ago during an oil change. We can bet he was even more surprised when, aft... More >>

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  Only In SF: Folsom Street Fair, Open-Air Sex Fest, Deemed Too Mainstream

  published Oct 08, 2010

  Two weekends ago, throngs descended on Folsom Street for the world's biggest and most famous leather festival. No, not a trunk show of fine riding boots or Italian aviator jackets. As any true San Fra... More >>

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  Couples Have Sex In Coffin Buried In Dumpster (VIDEO)

  published Oct 07, 2010

  The Mile High Club is so cliche -- but how many can claim membership in the Six Foot Under Clubr Possible necrophiliacs, voyeurs, and your run-of-the-mill sex-positive folks descended on the pariSoma ... More >>

• Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina Shun Sarah Palin Event

  published Oct 07, 2010

  It seems the two Republican women running for office in California don't want to self-apply the label "Mama Grizzly" anytime soon. The New York Times reports that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina wi... More >>

• Woman Named Skye Sues Ben & Jerry's Over 'All Natural' Claim

  published Oct 05, 2010

  A wholesome food warrior named Skye is suing Ben & Jerry's for claiming its ice cream is "All Natural" on the label, when in fact -- horror of horrors -- ingredient No. 36 is alkalized cocoa. We f... More >>

• Mother of Issiah Downes Suing San Francisco for $50 Million

  published Oct 04, 2010

  The mother of Issiah Downes, an inmate in San Francisco County Jail who suffocated while being restrained by sheriff's deputies, is now suing the city for $50 million, arguing that city employees kill... More >>

• Jobs Now! Workers Keep Working -- Thanks to Grants

  published Oct 04, 2010

  You may have heard that federal funding for the Jobs Now! -- the program that allows employers to pay workers with federal stimulus dollars -- expired Friday, waiting for Congress to pass a bill to re... More >>

• Gang Injunction Includes Three Men Acquitted of Murders This Year

  published Sep 30, 2010

  Three men acquitted of first-degree murder charges earlier this year aren't out of the legal spotlight. Emon Brown, Joc Wilson, and Floyd Jackson are among the 41 alleged gang members listed in the ga... More >>

• Executions Stalled Across Country Due to Drug Shortage

  published Sep 30, 2010

  It turns out that California isn't the only one making life-or-death-penalty decisions based on the availability of the drug sodium thiopental -- the first of three drugs used to render the inmate unc... More >>

• Twitterers Dub TechCrunch Women's Panel a #catfight

  published Sep 28, 2010

  You know the age-old complaint: When a man bosses people around, he's "in charge," but a woman who does the same is a "bitch." Well, here's a new one for the cyber age: When women in tech hold a provo... More >>

• Albert Brown To Be Executed Just Three Hours Before Drugs Expire

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed the lethal injection of Albert Brown to 9 p.m. Thursday night. That will give Schwarzenegger time to consider Brown's clemency case and let the appeals court wei... More >>

• Prosecutors frown on guy who makes dentures for ex-cons

  published September 29, 2010

  In recent years, the ex-convicts and former addicts graduating from the Delancey Street Foundation have been able to replace missing teeth in... More >>

• Transgender Republican Gun Advocate To Speak At San Francisco Gun Conference

  published Sep 24, 2010

  San Franciscans probably have their ideas about the sort of folks who will descend on the Hyatt Regency airport hotel this weekend for the Second Amendment Foundation's gun rights conference: white, T... More >>

• Mattel Launches News Anchor Barbie

  published Sep 23, 2010

  Just when you thought certain airheads on network cable news couldn't get anymore plastic, Mattel has immortalized the entire profession with its very own Barbie. Actually she won in the inaugural glo... More >>

• Sexpert: Handcuffs For 'Kinky Fun,' Not For San Jose Sex Police

  published Sep 22, 2010

  Maybe barging into the house and handcuffing your stepdaughter's teen lover is the way hardass cops roll in San Jose. We're pretty sure the Sex Police smack-down struck fear into the hearts of horny b... More >>

• Senate Votes Against Taking Up DREAM Act. Local Students Bummed.

  published Sep 21, 2010

  The U.S. Senate today voted against taking up the the defense budget bill -- curtailing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's last-minute plan to tack on an amendment to give illegal immigrants who go t... More >>

• Senate To Vote On DREAM Act Tuesday. Local Activists To Picket Feinstein's Office.

  published Sep 20, 2010

  You may recall our July cover feature on young undocumented immigrants waiting for the DREAM Act, a bill that would give illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military a path to citizen... More >>