Sing-song voiced Stanley Roberts met his match recently during a segment for KRON 4's addictive People Behaving Badly. Filming law enforcement ticketing titularly bad drivers, one sassy law breaker sporting an Elmo t-shirt goes off on Roberts, calling him a "fat, lazy, non-relevant, non-factor ass." Among other things. He also threatens to break the camera and suggests "1-800-GET-THIN, cubby butt." more ›

A brutal gay bashing inside an Ohio high school classroom was captured on video last week. 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 ›

Guy Fieri (née Guy Ferry) hosts Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network. It is (in)famous as one of the most unpleasant shows in Food Network history. (The Two and a Half Men of FN, if you will.) So it should come as no great shock that, according to David Page, a former producer of DDD, Ferry isn't too keen on the gays and the Jews. Allegedly. 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 ›

The weather might just be nice enough down in El Rio's lovely backyard (3158 Mission Street) just in time for the monthly Eagle in Exile Beerbust, which starts at 3 p.m. Today's event benefits Homobiles, the fabulous donation-based LGBT-friendly car service -- "Moes Gettin' Hoes Where They Need to Goes!" 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 ›

As a friend succulently pointed out just now, "Obama just ended 'don't ask don't tell.' So much for staying in tonight." Indeed. President Barack Obama today signed a certification of Congress' repeal of the United States' antiquated ban on gay men and women from serving openly in the military. The 18-year-old Clinton-era law will officially be squashed on September 20 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 ›

Barry Zito, Sergio Romo, and Matt Cain are just a few of the San Francisco Giants who took part in the "It Gets Better" campaign, a LGBT anti-suicide project spearheaded by Dan Savage. Here's the video they shot to tell young queer teens that, in fact, being gay does get better as you grow up. more ›

San Francisco-based writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the iconic Tales of the City series, was in Australia last week for a book tour when he visited Alice Springs with his husband Chris Turner. (They were there to promote Mary Ann In Autumn, by the way.) When he and his spouse decided to take a break and hit Bojangles, billed as an "'80s saloon and dining room," things took a turn for the horrifying. more ›

Organizers of the annual Dyke March are putting out the (probably empty) threat that they might have to cancel the parade/rally this year unless someone coughs up $30,000. The march traditionally happens the Saturday evening before Pride Sunday, shortly before Pink Saturday festivities in the Castro, and it's the one occasion of the gay calendar when the ladies get to rule the roost and overtake Dolores Park, bared breasteses and all. It's been going on since the early 90s and draws a good 10,000 to 20,000 people. more ›

Members of the Lower Polk Neighbors association put the kibosh on a proposed LGBT history mural that might've brightened up some of the gray concrete near Hemlock and Polk. Reason being? The mural was too gay. According to the Bay Area Reporter, last fall local artists Helen Bayly and Aaron Bo Heimlich were tasked by the SF Arts Commission and Lower Polk Neighbors to "design a mural depicting the influence of Polk Street's Beat poet community on the LGBT movement." more ›

Yesterday, Facebook added more options to their relationship status updates. Namely, the ability to add either "in a domestic partnership" or the more separate-but-equal "in a civil union" to your personal profile. more ›

City Attorney and mayoral candidate Dennis Herrera made a "major" mistake on his campaign website. According to the BAR, the city's most fully-clothed queer print publication, here's what went down: "Rather than use the term sexual orientation, the website erred and had used the phrase 'sexual preference.' " Oops. (Unless, of course, he was referring to sex positioning preferences, in which case: kudos to you, Dennis.) more ›

The GLBT Historical Society, whose home is in S.F., just opened the nations's first GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th Street, in what was formerly a retail and laundromat space. The Society previously had a temporary exhibit up last year in a space at the corner of 18th and Castro, featuring artifacts and documents from their archives ranging from costumes and campaign paraphernalia belonging to drag queen-turned-activist Jose Sarria, to a suit belonging to Harvey Milk, to naughty limited edition board games from the 70s. more ›

If you've ever been tossed from a taxi for necking with a same-sex paramour, sporting leather and chains en route to the San Francisco Armory, or harassed by your cabbie for donning drag designs, a smart new option will now safely whisk you around San Francisco. It's called Homobiles, a 24/7 queer car service that caters to LGBT folks around the city. (However, you don't have to be gay to use it; all kindhearted souls are welcome.) more ›

Washington D.C. area Starbucks are caving to pressure from LGBT groups and converting their gender-specific restrooms to gender neutral ones. The D.C. Trans Coalition led the push to convert the single-occupancy bathrooms at D.C.'s 52 Starbucks, citing an amendment to the District's 2006 Human Rights Act which states "individuals [have] the right to use gender-specific restrooms and other gender-specific facilities such as dressing rooms, homeless shelters, and group homes that are consistent with their gender identity or expression," and also stipulates that single-occupancy restrooms with gender-specific placards be re-labeled with gender non-specific ones. Starbucks will be switching out the placards throughout the next month. more ›

Tired of trying to network with other homosexual types at, say, the Bar On Church when it's packed wall-to-wall with tweaked Lady Gaga fans? Can't get a word in between fistfights at the Lexington? Will no one listen to your deft business proposal in the backroom of the Powerhouse because they're too busy sexually assaulting you? Well then, head over to a brunch for dot429, billed as a "social network for LGBT professionals." more ›

It's probably not news to anyone who's played an internet-enabled, multi-player video game in the last few years (or anyone who's ever met a teenage boy, for that matter) that LGBT gamers often face name-calling and harassment in the game-o-sphere when they advertise their sexual orientation. The Bay Area Reporter just published this investigative report in which they speak to several people in the industry -- including Flynn DeMarco of gaygamer.net and Caryl Shaw, a senior producer for the Sims and Spore -- who discuss things they've heard and seen. The takeaways: The Sims welcomes all kinds of sexual proclivities, gender identities and whathaveyou, but the multi-player environment of Xbox Live -- which is particularly rife with children and teens -- does not allow players to display their sexual orientation in their profile, gamertag or elsewhere. more ›

Yes, everyone: The LGBT Pride Fest and Parade in San Francisco is the largest and best attended thing of its kind in the U.S. (and for those who've seen the fests in NY and LA this shouldn't be a surprise). This year, in the wake of Prop 8 and the Don't Ask Don't Tell bullshit, the parade on Sunday will come with a renewed sense of urgency and protest. But of course, for most lesbians and gays about town, this weekend is primarily about partying. So without further ado, here's a guide to all that's going down, in a gay way, this weekend. (Special thanks to The Sword - NSFW) more ›

Every Pride season, there are a legion of LGBT film fests accompanying the legion of regional Pride fests across the land, now that gay pride isn't just for major metropolitan areas anymore. San Francisco has the largest and best attended Pride parade in the country, and we also have one of the oldest, biggest and most respected gay film fests, Frameline, which opens its 33rd season tonight with Quentin Crisp biopic, An Englishman in New York (pictured). more ›

You heard it here first, folks. Well, actually, you might have heard it here, if you read that sort of thing. An "openly gay sales rep" named Valerie has come forward to say that she dated Prejean's mother, Francine Coppola. Heh. We totally believe this and might even have to buy this issue of Star. PREVIOUSLY: Trump Says Miss California Gets to Keep Crown, Miss California Partied With Famed NYC Tranny, Newsom Defends Miss California more ›

Over the weekend, much of the GLBT community sent itself into hysterics after Amazon seemingly removed sales rankings from a large amount of LGBT books for deemed "adult" in content. That is to say, books like James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, The Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students, and feminist/general sexuality were considered too hot for Amazon viewers' eyes. more ›

If activists, like Michael Petrelis and other Castro frequenters, really wanted to focus attention on a part of the world where gays are suffering, maybe they could take a look at Iraq. Because this is, for lack of a better word, depressing. It's unreal but all too real. Iraqi gays will be "executed in batches" this week, convicted of the crime of being queer. UK Gay News has the details. more ›