Due to the probable closure of the Lyon-Martin Health Clinic, there will be an emergency community meeting tonight. An email being sent around reads: "As you may have heard, Lyon-Martin Health Clinic is closing at the end of the business day on Thursday. Tonight we are pulling together a community meeting at 7pm at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, room 301. The intent of the meeting is to formulate a community response./demands and develop an action plan. At 6:30pm, a few of us are planning ... come up with a tentative agenda for the meeting." more ›

As Eve Batey pointed out in today's SF Appeal's daily newsletter, the SF Board of Supervisors just began their special meeting to choose an interim mayor for SF, which you can watch online or on Comcast channel 26. So, you know, if you're one of the 100 or so people who care about such things, be sure to tune it. (Spoiler alert: Ed Lee will be the next mayor.) more ›

Speaking of Prop 8, there will be a public forum tonight at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. If the mood should strike, you can attend to make your feelings heard on gay marriage and next week's California Sate Supreme Court hearing. But, you should remember, this is a public forum, and those are invariably old-fashion. And also symbolic. Typically, these kinds of forums are crowded with smash-the-state kind of Boomer and Gen X activists (compared to, say, younger activists who want to infiltrate and change the way one sees things) looking for face time and an adrenaline rush. Anyway, the meeting happens from 6:30 pm (or 6 pm) to 9 pm tonight. Be sure to check it out as it should prove entertaining if not informative. more ›

Pretending it will make a difference, the SF Police Commission will give San Franciscans the chance to voice their feelings on what they want from their newest, yet-to-be-announced Chief of Police. San Francisco Police Commission President Theresa Sparks tells CBS 5/KCBS, "My intent is to also have at least a couple of public meetings in the city to give community members the opportunity to tell us what they would like to see in a new chief." Heather Fong, if you recall, announced her retirement a couple of weeks ago. The commission, it seems, didn't know about her plan to turn in her badge until 45 minutes before appearing on Newsom's Cabaret Variety Hour radio show, where she made the news public. Which: rude. Anyway, tonight's meeting will take place at 6 p.m. at City Hall. more ›

Last night's Marriage Equality Community Forum was neat! It started with a brief hello from former New Paltz mayor Jason West. We tried to get a picture, but as you can see, he is simply too dreamy and wonderful to be captured by normal photographic equipment. more ›

Apologies for coming at you at the last minute with this, but there's an important town hall meeting on the California gay marriage ban. Happening tomorrow. And we were only given two days' notice (and no Facebook invite! bah!) so please pardon the tardiness. more ›

During some sort of pre-meeting to see if maybe, perhaps, possibly Newsom wants to throw his hat into the California's Governor race, the San Francisco Mayor held a "beta meeting" at his alma mater, Redwood High School, in Larkspur. Prefaced by the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up," more than 100 Marin residents sat in Newsom's old school library to participate in the town hall-ish meeting. more ›