Dennis Herrera blasted the oddly-titled Campaign for California Families today for their latest, useless court of appeal tactic to get the gays to stop all of this damn marriage nonsense. The CCF, it seems, filed with the California Court of Appeal another benign motion to stay the California Supreme Court's May 15 decision to let the queers wed. City Attorney Dennis Herrera had this to say: "I am not aware of a process in......

The Sapphic set will be the first to get legally married (and, believe us, the first to get legal divorce after divorce after divorce) in San Francisco. Longtime queer activists Del Martin (87) and Phyllis Lyon (84), who were first wed in San Francisco in 2004, will re-enact their ceremony as soon as gay marriage becomes legal in California at 5 p.m. on June 16. Gavin Newsom will, once again, officiate their ceremony. But......

Wu-Tang Clan and Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist: You've got the phenomenal Wu-Tang Clan plus the smooth DJ stylings of True Skool's Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist. Then, well, you have Ruby Skye. While not nearly at tool-y as its sub-venue, Slide, Skye's size and scope can make the place too much to handle at times. However, the Wu-Tang Clan's sheer coolness (or so we're told by someone certifiably awesome, into that kind of music) overrides......

The legendary Cafe Flore might find its way to the obit page of the B.A.R. soon. Why? Because if it doesn't "get permission to have the option to serve food 24 hrs a day, to have the option to have amplified entertainment to allow a background DJ," or to get the chance to serve booze until 2 am, the place might zip up and never call again according to SaveCafeFlore. Noes! Look, Cafe Flore......

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......

You know you've made it in San Francisco as a marginalized group when you start getting in fights with other marginalized groups -- so a local bisexual advocacy/social group is under fire for their policies excluding certain transgender persons. Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary doyenne and transgender......

Whoops, sorry we're so late getting this post up -- we lost our notes and tore up the house before resigning ourselves to the idea that somewhere, someone is going to find a notebook with "the lighter side of rape" scrawled across the first page. That comment refers to Give Piece of Ass a Chance, a new Bruce LaBruce short that preceeded Starrbooty. It's a speculative spoofing of the Patty Hearst abduction that asks......

Part 1 of SFist Mihi's journey into female sexuality on a lovely Friday night. Part 2 is immediately below this post. After seeing two women-centered movies at the Frameline LGBT Film Festival on Friday night, we've determined that you can tell the difference between a lesbian movie made for a mainstream audience and a lesbian movie made for lesbians by the so-called "butch" in the film. Spider Lilies (Ci Qing), a Taiwanese import, played at......

There was not a very impressive turnout at that celebration of the death of terrorist cell leader Jerry Falwell. SFist photographer Jim reports that when he passed by, there were three protesters present (including the piñata), greatly outnumbered by members of the press. For the rest of the city, though, life went blissfully on -- such was the man's clout over the sinners of San Francisco. Sadly, as irrelevant as Jerry was to our......

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news of so many dead coming out of Virginia Tech, and with so many of the victims and their relatives from the D.C. area, we felt it important to pay......

SFist Jessie helps kick off Opening Night at the SF Women's Film Festival! Yesterday was the opening night party of the Women’s Film Festival ! The night kicked off with LGBTQ films and included acoustic band Trusting Lucy performing before the show, trailers for movies on everything from Gwen Araujo to trannie-bike-messenger-speed-addicts, shorts by writer/ director/ actress and general lesbian-icon Guinevere Turner, and then a Q&A with Ms. Turner herself (yes we have a new......

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up. -Chicagoist had fall on their mind as they made squash and fudge, read "House of Leaves" and ">tried to figure out what's next for the Cubs. Not fall related, but still of utmost concern, the whole skinny black pants thing. -Torontoist fought off an evil scourge of raccoons and went to go see who......

--How come Gavin Newsom'll stop a ski jump for Laurie Beijen but they won't do anything about the Bay Bridge closure for the couple that's been planning their Treasure Island wedding for over two years? --The hang-glider shot by the crazy guy in Fort Funston has died. --Gender is meaningless in local kindergartens. --Bollywood karaoke contest tonight! --Together, united, online poker players will never be defeated. --Lesbians march in Oakland for the Sistahs Stepping Out......

Just LOOK at how happy those lesbians outside City Hall are! (Despite the one on the right having what looks like a dislocated elbow.) They're celebrating SFist's brand new super fantastic orgasmotronic commenting technology! Yes, friends, thanks to a team of magical elves, you can now comment of the posts faster than ever. Each post now has an expandotron-powered commenting form built right into it -- no more clicking "comments" and then waiting for......

The battle over the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is being fought again in the City by the Bay for the obvious reason that the policy shows that the military doesn't love Johnnycakes. And yes, the entire reason we wrote that last sentence is so we could have the first official SFist "Johnycakes/Sopranos" reference because in another couple of weeks, the whole Johnnycakes thing will be totally played out. ...

Local hotels are all smiles as they prepare for cable news talking heads to storm the city en masse as our local politicians have put us in the cross hairs again. And what did they do to bring this upon us again? Go after a bunch of fresh-faced kids. Well, Jesus loving fresh-faced kids, the one's who were here over the weekend for their "Battle Cry for a Generation” shindig. We here those rallies were hookup city. ...

Reacting to criticism that the State Department voted against letting two gay rights groups into a United Nations panel, the State Department issued a statement last Friday denying that the vote was due to any sort of anti-gay bias. Instead, they did it because of a concern over pedophilia. ...

There is a certain type of theatergoer who, upon seeing Joan Crawford turn, a sudden spotlight on her furious eyes and her dark lips snarled in melodrama, cannot help but cream themselves. Of those types of theatergoers, Charles Busch is king, and more often, queen; he's made an acting career out of evoking the acting style of film divas of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Sometimes somber, mostly hilarious, "The Lady in Question is......

SFist is still thinking about Sunnyvale, which we saw at Cinequest last night. We decided to go to this movie because, well ok, the title was a draw, and it is also described as a sort of darkly comic talky relationship movie which we often enjoy. But we're just puzzled by it. There was a lot of talking - some of it funny, much of it stilted, we think unintentionally. It wasn't very romantic but......

While it's always fun to snark on the Religious Right, lately it's just been too darn easy. After taking on Sponge Bob and "No Name Calling Week," those whacky Bible-thumpers are at it again, this time with yet another cartoon (do they watch anything else?) In this case, the upsetting thing is a cartoon airing on PBS, a cartoon about a cute little bunny named Buster. Postcards From Buster is about Buster's adventures travelling to......

As everyone knows, gays and lesbians spend their free time seducing children with tales of cross-dressing necrophiles. But for the first time ever, they'll be taking a break from all that on Sunday, the 23rd, for a day-long series of seminars on gay marriage'n'stuff. It's free, it's local (near Civic Center), there'll be great speakers like the always-gregarious Mark Leno, they'll cover topics like building support for marriage and why anyone cares about marriage anyway,......

Tuesday is here again, and so is the Essefficist, but only to tease and titillate you, dear reader. Every once in a while it takes a little longer than we'd like to gather the information necessary to provide the sort of quality answer you demand for your quality questions and today is a perfect example. We're working on a submission, if you'll let us call it that, from our SFist colleague Rita, who begs us,......

>Reggae in the Park! A fun event sponsored by Global Exchange, where college kids can wear multicolored hats, bob their heads arrhythmically to the beat, and support their favorite anti-gay artists! Well, maybe not so much on the last one -- Global Exchange has just announced that they will be pulling artist Capleton from the lineup...