Saturday Night Live recently hired a new female comic, Kate McKinnon, known for her work with Upright Citizens Brigade and the Big Gay Sketch Show. The latter hints at the fact that, yes, McKinnon is gay, which effectively makes her SNL's first openly lesbian featured player. (Terry Sweeney, who appeared in the disastrous 1985-86 season, was the show's first openly gay guy.) She makes her debut this Saturday when Sofia Vergara hosts. more ›

Another reason we love SFGate's Catherine Bigelow? Shot like this: Society dowager Dede Wilsey posing next to male performers Adam Musgrave and Ronnie Reg Waite at a tricked out SOMA loft on Thursday night. (Typical Dede!) The bash was in honor of Jean Paul Gaultier's Bay Area arrival and his new exhibition at the deYoung. Read/see all about it. more ›

Concocted by the minds at San Francisco-based Cute Tank, this sartorial... stoke of genius? monstrosity? unbridled gayness? all of the above? Well, it will debut at their upcoming San Francisco fashion show party on March 17. Sure, you can tear your tussled hipster-gay hair out over the asymmetrical tank top's gloriousness, but you won't be rolling your eyes once you see it on Michael Fassbender? Ha! more ›

Anti-gay reporter Roland Martin was at it again during Sunday night's Madonna concert (cleverly sandwiched between a football game) when the CNN political analyst took to Twitter to tell his followers to beat any guys interested David Beckham's H&M underwear ad. Behold: more ›

Forget about SOPA! Homosexuals across the land should be more than a little concerned this morning as news of a major security breach at Grindr and Blendr reaches the wires. It turns out the iPhone-based hookup apps (Blendr is the straight one, for those who didn't know it existed) didn't have any real security at all, according to an Australian hacker, who built a website on which you could search for any Grindr user, regardless of whether they were online, view their favorites, nude pics, chats, etc., and even impersonate them! more ›

Teenagers canb be horrid creatures. You know this already. In addition to being B.O.-laced, hormone-filled beasts, many of them lack clarity and independent thought. Exhibit D-: this 14-year-old girl from California leaping on the hatemongering bandwagon with this depressing video calling for Americans to boycott Girl Scout Cookies. Why does she want you to shun Girl Scout Cookies? Because seven-year-old Bobby Montoya, who identifies as a girl, wanted to join his local Girl Scouts chapter. Even though Montoya didn't join the troupe, "the decision to allow him to do so instantly infuriated some conservative troupes, who called the move 'extremely confusing' and an 'almost dangerous situation.' " Thus, the boycott. more ›

The contract that established Apple Computer Company sold at auction today for a whopping $1.59 million. Purchased via phone by an anonymous bidder, the contract was signed on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. more ›

Mission Mission reports that on Friday, October 14, an alleged gay bashing incident occurred near Mission and 19th Streets. Eight men apparently jumped out of a truck and attacked four men outside of Taqueria Cancun, seriously injuring one. Via Missed Connections, here's what went down: more ›

Now that the 49ers have made a Gloria Swanson-like comeback, hordes of folks have Ped Egg'd their crusty feet in order to jump on the bandwagon. Take, for example, the gays. Many have now urged the local NFL team to create an 'It Gets Better' video for anti-gay bullying efforts. Sean Chapin, a native San Franciscan and lifelong 49ers fan, jumpstarted the petitioned. (Chapin, if you recall, got the Giants to release an "It Gets Better" earlier this year, which sparked seven more Major League Baseball teams to follow suit.) more ›

No meth blend? Seems like a meth blend would result in pure comedy gold. Whatever. Fine, no meth blend. Oh, what are we talking about, you ask? Gay Coffee, that's what. After running a coffee shop near Smith College (of course) for years, Melissa Krueger will bring her tasty brew for homosexuals (and others!) to the Castro Street Fair on Sunday. "All five blends are made from fair trade organic beans, sourced from Royal Coffee, each celebrating a different aspect of gay culture, humor, and history," reports Inside Scoop. "Like many others in her position, she says she looks up to cult coffee roasters like Blue Bottle, and the path to success they’ve laid out." more ›

An anti-gay group in California have deceived citizens into thinking they are signing a petition to help stop child molestation and give stronger sentences for molesters. This, sadly, is not the case. "In fact, they are signing a petition to repeal SB 48, the state's just-approved LGBT education bill," reports Joe My God. SB 48 would allow classrooms to teach the contribution and history of gays (as well as disabled people) in the state of California. The misguided anti-gay effort is part of Stopsb48.com. (Please feel free to comment on their Facebook page, if the mood should strike.) Below: video from an Oceanside petitioning stand. more ›

Gay? Need a job? Want a tough job that requires patience, handling weaponry, and dealing with the public at large? Well, the San Francisco Police Department will accept Q2-Entry-Level Police Officer applications beginning this Friday, August 26. If you're interested in law enforcement, head over to www.jobaps.com/sf to create an applicant account to apply for a position. The city of San Francisco will only accepting 2,500 applications. You can turn yours in as early as 8 a.m. on Friday. more ›

On Saturday night, three white males described as being in their "mid-teens" attacked a 52-year-old Santa Barbara man with a baseball bat near Market and Sanchez in the Duboce Triangle. The teens, who yelled homophobic slurs at the victim during the attack, fled with the man's keys and had not been found as of Monday evening. more ›

On Sunday, July 31, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was assaulted and called a "faggot" during an early morning attack in the Castro district. The incident happened at around 2 a.m. According to the Bay Area Reporter, this is how the alleged hate crime went down. more ›

As the list of companies continues to climb, Cupertino-based Apple decided to yank its precious iTunes music service from noted hate group "Christian Values Network" (CVN). It all started after Western Washington University student Ben Crowthe's started a petition on Change.org going after the Stephen Baldwin- and Michael Lohan-backed group for exploiting Christianity for dastardly anti-gay and anti-woman schemes. more ›

Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Milk and a board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, will bring California's same-sex marriage brouhaha to the Great White Way. His new Prop 8 drama will hit the Broadway stage later this year with the title 8. New York Times reports: "Roughly a dozen people from the trial are portrayed as characters, including Theodore B. Olson and David Boies, the lawyers for the two gay couples who sued California over the ban; Charles J. Cooper, the lead defense counsel; Kristin M. Perry and Sandra B. Stier, a lesbian couple who were among the plaintiffs; and the judge, Vaughn R. Walker of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California." more ›

After news broke yesterday that local transgender/drag icon Miss Vicki Marlane died, many folks in the queer community were taken aback. To say the least. Given the moniker "The Lady With the Liquid Spine" due to her trademark flexibility while lip syncing, Marlane was profiled in the New York Times two years ago, presumed to be the oldest, continuously performing, transgender performer in the U.S. at the time of her death. We asked a few local drag luminaries to give us their thoughts on Marlane's passing and her legacy. Here are there responses. more ›

The future school kids of California will soon learn the valuable contributions to history by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by reading about them in their textbooks. Yesterday, the Assembly approved a bill okaying the addition of the info to our state's textbooks, and that bill lands on the desk of Governor Jerry Brown today. more ›

On Sunday morning, thousands of people converged on Market Street to celebrate Gay Pride 2011. New York, of course, was showered with lots of West Coast love this afternoon -- if you recall, the New York GOP-controlled Senate approved same-sex marriage on Friday -- but today was all about San Francisco queer appreciation. Everyone from Mayor Ed Lee to Sen. Mark Leno to almost every mayoral candidate to a smattering of celebrities (Olympia Dukakis!) and noted scribes (Susie Bright!) to cash-hungry corporations made contingent appearances at today's big parade. more ›

Robert Jeffrey shared with the world this joyful lip-sync routine set to Madonna's triumphant "Vogue," which he performed in 1991 during a vacation with his parents. He was nine-years-old at the time. Jeffrey explains: more ›

When noted knee-jerk conservative queer pundit Andrew Sullivan slammed the annual Hunky Jesus contest in Dolores Park as "tired," "lame," and bigoted, heaps of SFist commenters chimed in with their thoughts. That was fun. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who put on the annual Jesus flesh festival, issued a statement in response to Sullivan. Which is also fun. The Rev. Sr. Merry Peter speaketh: more ›

Uh oh. A pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves is in hot sweet tea for making anti-gay remarks AT&T Park last weekend. TMZ reports: "Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell has been accused of targeting a group of male fans last weekend at a Giants game in San Fran -- allegedly asking them, 'Are you a homo couple or a threesome?' " The announcement was made today by--who else?--the world's favorite buttinski, Gloria Allred. more ›

Ladies, before you fooled yourselves into liking bourbon, cycling, and major league sports to trap yourself a man in your mid-to-late thirties, you probably suffered through a gay boyfriend or four during your high school days. We feel your pain. So does My High School Boyfriend Was Gay, a site that's "a celebration of our most tragic, hilarious and heinous teenage memories." That is to say, those of you had pre-closet relationships, and just didn't know or didn't want to know. A few of the images are startling and captions chortle-worthy: "Dressed up for the opening night of Spice World," "Rod touched up his roots then requested a shot in front of the baby grand," and our personal favorite, "Claire and Jeff likes: 10000 Maniacs, Winona Ryder films, The Bell Jar." Check it out now. more ›

While the battle cry for jesuit school's radio station gets louder and louder, the outcry over the closure over San Francisco's queer and HIV institutions grows quieter and quieter. (Except for a noted SoMa leather bar, naturally.) Local activist Michael Petrelis has compiled a surprising list of such establishments either in peril or shuttered. "I've gathered a comprehensive list, just to map out failed business enterprises in the Castro and other city districts, to get an understanding for myself of the queer landscape in San Francisco over the past two years," Petrelis writes. "Only entities that died or faced significant challenges since 2009 are included." more ›

At what we thought would be the Eagle Taven's final beer bust yesterday, we were surprised to hear that, instead of 4/29, the SoMa leather bar's new tentative closing date would be at the end of May. Possibly later this year. An Eagle "official" announced the news on the patio stage, later confirmed to us by a frisky bartender. What does that mean for you? Well, you now have a few more beer busts to savor before the local institution closes its doors forever. (Eagle beer busts include, among other things, free BBQ, bottomless beer for a scant $10, the occasional public oral sex act, a sea of super friendly men, and all the second-hand marijuana smoke you can handle. Highly recommended.) more ›