While his Holiness is more or less meh when it comes to non-consensual sex between a man and a boy, same-sex marriage just ain't cool in his book. So stop, says Pope Benedict. While not directly referencing yesterday's California Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, the Pope spoke to family values groups in Europe (white trash chic!) yesterday, saying: The union of love, based on matrimony between a man and a woman, which makes......

Heads have been exploding throughout California ever since this morning's delightful news about same-sex marriage was announced. City Attorney Dennis Herrera, in particular, is beaming--at least according to a press released sent out an hour after the ruling was announced. "I am profoundly grateful, not only for a decision that will end marriage discrimination for gay and lesbian partners in California, but for the Court's eloquence in stating its conclusion," said Herrera. "Our democratic......

According to ABC 7--who just mercifully brought The View to a screeching halt to inform viewers--the California State Supreme Court struck down the gay marriage ban. So: same-sex marriage is now legal, at least according to the California Supreme Court. ...

(image courtesy of Dan Berkes and SFGTV2) Sexual outlaws and neighborhood invaders, beware! We're back with the story of Hole in the Wall Saloon and its proposed 1.5-block relocation in the lovely SOMA neighborhood. You thought this was over? You thought wrong! Jakkee Bryson, neighborhood activist, is back in action and scheduled to appear before the Board of Appeals this evening (Wednesday, April 7) at 5PM. Location is the same as before: City Hall,......

In addition to National Step-Kick-Step-Kick-Pivot-Step-Walk-Walk-Walk Day happening on Friday, tomorrow is also National Day of Silence, a day bringing attention to all of the anti-queer name-calling, bullying, and crap-kicking that takes place throughout schools across the world. (Remember when 15-year-old Lawrence King was shot and killed in a Fresno an Oxnard classroom earlier this year? By a guy he asked to be his Valentine? During our post-Queer Eye era?) Usually, this means college kids......

We would go, but we're located in Eastern SOMA. And one day, by the will of God, we shall destroy Western SOMA. Mwah hah hah. But for those of you who live in Western SOMA, wherever that border begins/ends, there will be a meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bessie Carmichael Elementary School at 55 Sherman. Some of you might be interested since a certain SOMA resident, Jakkee Bryson, is trying to have......

After three years, she's kicking him out of the guest room for good. We thought you should hear it from us first. That is all.......

Unless you're a major wonk, there's no need to watch the above footage in its entirety. (It's Obama prattling on endlessly about losing to Clinton in Pennsylvania, how he'll win, how some of his best friends are white trash, "yes we can," health care, change, lobbyists, unicorns, apple pony princesses, etc.) Just check out the three pieces of tail standing in the background. They're all sporting noticeable Abercrombie & Fitch designs. Barf. But as......

South of Market is home to one of the largest networks (with the fewest dropped calls?) of queer-friendly businesses in San Francisco. It has been this way for decades and doesn't appear to be changing. Or is it?...

For many a San Franciscan, Laura Linney's portrayal of Mary-Ann Singleton sparked their move to the Bay Area. And after reading Deborah Solomon's interview with Linney in the last week's New York Times Magazine, we found yet another reason to adore her: SOLOMON: As a graduate of Brown University, do you think acting requires intelligence? LINNEY: No. Brilliant.......

Starting this Thursday (Feb. 14) and going until next Monday (Feb 18) will be the International Bear Rendezvous, a yearly party for bears and bear lovers, sponsored by the Bears of San Francisco. What are bears, you ask? Bears are above-averagely hairy and/or fat men of the homosexual persuasion. Although considered a subset of the overall queer community, they were, arguably, quite popular for a brief moment in time, or so sayeth the holy......

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, Emile Hirsch as activist Cleve Jones Although the reportedly very considerate Milk production crew requests that you not take pictures, our awesome readers know when to disobey. Harvey would've been so proud. Sniff. Image credit: GayCities Photos......

Guess what time it is, kids? Smear tactics time! We came across this jarring and chortle-worthy footage, claiming that possible presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is on the down-low. The Harpo DL, if you will. We're being told he could have engaged in bear-ish homosexual activity, is what we're saying. Do we believe it? Meh. Is it exciting to speculate and think about? But of course. Have no fear, fans of Obama, or...whoever you're under......

Hint: gay.......

But that's the entire point! Anyway, RicardoSF tells us in the comments section here that: In January's issue of The Advocate in the Rants & Raves section -- unavailable online -- "I think what goes on at that fair is pretty disgusting. Just because you are gay doesn't mean you support the Folsom Street Fair or go there. I don't." -- Openly gay Vallejo, CA, Mayor Gary Cloutier, when asked at a Vallejo religious......

Andy at Towleroad sent us this update on the magnificent, color-blasted mural over at Given, which used to be Castro Camera, Harvey Milk's former headquarters/living space. (Why, we were just there the other day to find those poo & pee dolls for a friend's one-year-old. We completely failed to notice this piece going up.) Given's owner, Nick Romero, commissioned this mural for his store to memorialize the slain city supervisor. (Other than a sidewalk......

O! What we wouldn't give to attend this press screening in Washington DC tomorrow! DCist has the pleasure of reporting on the anti-invert, pro-missionary sex group called Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH). Tomorrow they will unveil "raw and unedited" footage that they shot during this year's Folsom Street Fair for the National Press Club. "Raw" footage, you say? Oh my. You may remember that there was a scant bit of controversy due to......

After reading this, we were fit to be tied. BigHeadDC claims that recently-retired Trent Lott has a taste for male escorts. Sort of. We think. Coochie-choochie-coo. Who the hell knows. It's a post that's a bit too coy in revealing direct facts, reminding one of the Ted Casablana's maddening gossip column, The Awful Truth. According to BigHeadDC: The boy happens to be real, and his "stage name" is Benjamin Nicholas. One of the politicos......

"I went pale and nearly vomited," says David Phillips about Larry Craig, an IT geek, bear, and 2006 Metro Weekly Cover Boy of the Year about getting fucked by Sen. Larry Craig many years ago while Phillips of was skinny slip of a thing at George Mason University in 1987. Wonkette has the scoop and all its gory details, which we implore you to read. ...

If you noticed a great disturbance in the internet last night, it was because word got out the JK Rowling told a bunch of kids that one Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is, in fact, gay. The whole thing came about when on a book tour, a kid asked if Dumbledore ever loved anyone and Rowling spilled the beans. When the kids clapped and cheered, Rowling added that if she knew this would make so many people happy, she would have told people earlier. She also added the Neville wound up marrying Hannah Abbot but we don't think anybody other than the Neville/Luna Shippers would care and we're still dreaming they got together anyways. The announcement disappointed a whole lot of fanfic writers out there who thought Sirius Black and Remus Lupin were the gay characters and involved in a mad, passionate, torrid affair with each other. ...

On the twenty-ninth of October two thousand and seven in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada's third same-sex wedding ceremony in a federal jail will take place. David Bedard, 22, serving a 10-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter and his partner Sony Martin, 26, serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, will join in holy matrimony. (Oh, my God, you guys. We're so gonna start crying!) This begs the question: which one is the bitch? Like most gay......

The SF Public Library's holding a good old-fashioned photo drive! One day only! Today! They're looking to add to their Historical Photograph Collection, and they need your help -- but heterosexuals need not apply. Ha ha, just kidding, heterosexuals can help too! But seriously, they don't want pictures of straight people. The "Shades of LGBTQI" project is looking for donations from the community; they want photographs -- physical or digital -- that have something......

The Chronicle couldn't. And neither could we. That is, until we read today's most awesome "Corrections" on SFGate. -- In Saturday's story about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the sexual orientation of the Whoreshoes was misstated. Only vocalist Lala Hulse is a lesbian. The other members of the all-female band are heterosexual. O! To read the missive informing the writer that they ain't no goddamn dyke. Not that we know a thing about errors,......

For those of you sad folks who had to "come out" to your parents and loved ones, as opposed to overhearing them arrive at that conclusion on their own as you danced around the living room to "Bibbiti Bobbiti Boo" at age five, we congratulate you. In your honor, today is National Coming Out Day: laughter, tears. And just who will come out on this most pointless day of days? Matthew McConaughey? Wolverine? That......

What the hell? We're no where near 40 yet. So why are we receiving the following flyer in our mailbox for assisted independent retirement living? Still, we love the idea of queer-littered retirement communities for us. And we liken ourselves to the shut-in in the lower right-hand corner, living her last moments in clean-lined and white orchid-filled pristine bliss. Armistead Maupin's limitless possibilities of living after the jump.......

Even more pressure to stop screwing around and settle down, this time from advice columnist Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, aaka Dear Abby. "I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em," the syndicated advice columnist told The Associated Press. "That is the highest form of commitment, for heaven's sake." Pft.......

Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., pulled transgender people from the legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination." And since nothing says action like an angry missive or online petition, a letter signed by gay groups was sent to Congress yesterday demanding them to......

Closeted homosexual Journalist Randy Hall of Cybercast News Service got his feathers all ruffled over this not-so-clever Folsom Street Fair (which he describes as a "multi-city block party for homosexuals") ad, which tamely parodies Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper. Confusing the work of art painted by a probable homosexual over one's fantastic belief in Christ, the ad is decried as anti-Christian. Which? Well, all dildos point to yes. Feeling the pressure from wife-beating/molesting......

The Washington Blade tell us that an Italian physician claims that bisexuality is on the rise. No, not because female admissions are up at colleges, or because coke use among male emo-hipsters is at an all-time high. Dr. Umberto Veronesi, "prominent Italian physician," thinks that: ...sexual intercourse is becoming less about reproduction and more about affection. He said that shift could, within three generations, cause more people to identify as bisexual. Activists and bisexuals......

Local movie star, sometimes activist, and Tosca regular Sean Penn will play gay for pay in the long-incubated version of Randy Shilts' 1982 "The Mayor of Castro Street". (An amazing book for those of you who have yet to read it.) He'll play murdered San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was shot and killed along with Mayor George Moscone by Supervisor Dan White. Perma-boy Matt Damon gets to play the......