Tonight, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will debut “Out. The Glenn Burke Story.” If you haven’t heard of him, he’s worthy of exploration. That Burke purportedly participated in the first high-five in sports history (slapping hands with Dusty Baker when both played for the Los Angeles Dodgers) is cute. That he was the first player in big league history to be openly gay is much more vital.Burke was born in Oakland, ......

San Francisco’s County Jail in San Bruno now has 16 condom machines for its 750 prisoners, according to Matier & Ross, reporting in Wednesday’s Chronicle. Technically, sex among inmates is illegal, but officials admit it happens, defending the program as a way to promote safer sex. “If [providing condoms] saves one or two lives, it’s worth it,” said Kate Monico Klein, who is directing the program for the county’s health ......

A day after the annual AIDS Walk brought 25K walkers to the city for a six-mile hike to fundraise for AIDS/HIV, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation has its tally of 59 community-based organizations that will receive grants from the $3 million-plus that was donated. The total of all grants is $229,000, and they range in size, with the smallest being $1,000 and the largest for $7,000. But the majority of ......