SF News SF Opens First Transitional Housing Project For Transgender And Gender Non-Conforming Adults Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony along Washington Street in Chinatown marked the grand reveal of a first for the city: A transitional housing project aimed at helping transgender and gender non-conforming San Franciscans.
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
SF News Orlando Shooter's Wife Grew Up In The East Bay, May Face Charges The wife of 29-year-old Omar Mateen, the man police say is responsible for killing 49 people and wounding another 53 inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, allegedly knew of her husband's plans and
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
SF News Bigoted Oregon Bakery Owners Finally Pay Up For Refusing Lesbian Couple Service The once-proprietors of an Oregon bakery who made headlines two years ago when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple have finally coughed up the fine they were court-ordered
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February
SF News According To Justice Thomas, SCOTUS Just Admitted They're Ruling In Favor Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage We're still likely months away from a final ruling from the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage nationwide only two short years after the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in
SF News Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Setting Stage For Another SCOTUS Decision Bucking the trend of every other federal appeals court in the country thus far, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a much-anticipated decision upholding gay marriage bans in the four states
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Officially Comes Out In Essay: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" Everyone knows that Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay, but he hasn't come out... until now. Writing in a personal essay for Bloomberg Businessweek, he definitively said, "While I have never denied my
SF News Video: 1980s News Coverage Of S.F.'s Pioneering Gay Rights Advances This is pretty weighty stuff, so not a palate cleanser, but in honor of Pride month, check out this pretty stunning, hour-long supercut of archival news footage pertaining to gay rights and the
SF News Chris Kluwe Says He Was Fired Because Of 'Bigot' Football Coach's Views On Gay Marriage Last May, Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken gay marriage advocate Chris Kluwe was released from his contract with the team for what his superiors say were reasons "based on his football performance." Today,
SF News California Mayor Ousted Over Support For Gays Back in July we noted how the arid, tiny Central Valley town of Porterville had canceled their previously announced Gay Pride Month amid some controversy between Mayor Virginia Gurrola and a couple of
SF News Elaborate Drag Funeral Tomorrow For Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria Tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen, there will be a drag funeral on Nob Hill the likes of which have perhaps never been seen before in San Francisco, or anywhere. We're talking about the "state
SF News Obama: Russia Will Be 'Weaker' Without Gay Olympians President Obama spoke out against Russia's new strict anti-gay laws this week. The first gay President first went on The Tonight Show to voice his opinions on the matter that has already sparked
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Sir Ian McKellen In Solidarity With Russian Gays Your awww moment of the day: Sir Ian McKellen (along with local activist Michael Petrelis) posed for this shot while holding a sign that reads, "Solidarity With Russian Gays." This scene was captured
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gays To Dump Russian Vodka Down The Sewer At City Hall Tuesday The controversial boycott of Russian vodka, in response to recent civil rights violations by the Putin regime and reports of violent treatment of LGBT Russians, comes to San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday
SF News PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Dies at 92 Jeanne Manford, who in 1973 decided to march beside her gay son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day March (later known as the New York Gay Pride parade) and went on to found
SF News Justice Scalia Says Bans On Abortion, Sodomy Are 'Absolutely Easy' At a speaking engagement at Washington’s American Enterprise Institute this week, Justice Antonin Scalia was just being himself as he made several off-hand remarks about how easy it would be, constitutionally, to
SF News Psychiatrist Admits He Was Wrong About Bogus 'Turning Straight' Study Robert Spitzer, the shrink who published the infamous 2001 study claiming people could change their sexual orientation from gay to straight with the help of what he called "ex-gay therapy", has decided he
SF News S.F. Gay Couple Make Plea To Prevent One Partner's Deportation San Francisco couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia have been together over a decade, after meeting in the Castro on Halloween (remember when they had that?). Recently, Alfonso was detained and thrown in
SF News Gay Texas Judge Refuses To Wed Straight Couples A Texas judge made her staunch stance on gay marriage publicly known on Tuesday, and her position might surprise you. Judge Tonya Parker of Dallas County made the bold decision to no longer