SF News Chief Justice John Roberts' Lesbian Cousin To Attend SCOTUS Hearings On Gay Marriage Chief Justice John Roberts has an openly lesbian cousin from San Francisco, 48-year-old Jean Podrasky, and she's in D.C. this week to sit in on the Supreme Court hearings on the Prop
SF News Tonight: Major Marriage Equality Rally In The Castro Tomorrow and Wednesday represent a milestone moment for gay rights as the U.S. Supreme Court will review the Prop 8 and DOMA cases to determine the status of marriage equality nationwide. Tonight,
SF News SFPD Sued By ACLU And Homeless Advocate Over Cell Phone Search The ACLU filed suit today against the City of San Francisco and its police chief over what they say was an illegal search of a man's cell phone in the Castro's Jane Warner
SF News Under Conservative Pressure, Boy Scouts Delay Decision on Allowing Gay Members After conservative organizations countered President Obama’s push for the Boy Scouts of America to accept gay members, the organization has delayed a decision until May, citing "the complexity of this issue". The
SF News Episcopal Bishop Barred From Archbishop Cordileone's Installation Marc Andrus, an Episcopal Bishop of California noteworthy for his public anti-Prop 8 stance, was not allowed to be seated at Thursday's installation of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, even though he was an invited
SF News Castro Catholic Church Bans Drag Queens Once and For All Well, shucks. Under pressure from the archdiocese, the new pastor at gay-friendly but nevertheless Catholic Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro has banned all forms of drag on the premises. The church
SF News Nationwide Same-Sex Kiss-In Protest Today At Chick-Fil-A Today at Chick-Fil-A stores throughout the country, same-sex couples are expected to turn out heavily to protest company president and COO Dan Cathy's comments supporting "the biblical definition of the family unit" — as
SF News Chick-Fil-A Judgement Day Ends With Accusations Of Fascism, 'Christophobia,' Possible Brain Damage After yesterday's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day drew hundreds of thousands of people clogging drive-thrus and arteries across the country, the media had a chance to put the whole controversy over Dan Cathy's comments supporting
SF News Mother of Kenneth Harding Sues SFPD Over Son Accidentally Shooting Himself Denika Chatman, the mother of parolee Kenneth Harding who died during a chase with San Francisco police last year in which he accidentally shot himself in the neck while apparently attempting to shoot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor Ed Lee Comes Out Against Chick-fil-A; SF Doesn't Have Chick-fil-A San Franciso Mayor Pak Man came out against notorious anti-gay fast food chain Chick-fil-A on Thursday afternoon via Twitter. And good for him. The reportedly delicious fried chicken sandwich purveyors' unfortunate stance on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rick Santorum Spreads Chick-Fil-A Love With Subtle Gay Bashing Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum wormed his way back into the news the only way he knows how: with confusion and hate. After this week's news that the Jim Henson company parted
SF News One Of These Ladies Had To Die So A Federal Court Could Rule DOMA Unconstitutional Yesterday, a Federal Court in New York confirmed what we've heard confirmed repeatedly this year: The Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The New York court became the fifth federal court to rule
SF News June Is Totally Gay Pride Month, Proclaims Governor Brown You guys, it's Pride month. And how could you not tell what with all of the rainbow flags adorning Market Street, not to mention this provocative move on the part of Coca-Cola Corporation.
SF News Lesbian Arrested After Seeking Marriage License In North Carolina Mary Jamis, 52, a lesbian who attempted to obtain a marriage license in North Carolina on Thursday, was arrested along with a heterosexual friend for refusing to leave a government office. Several other
Arts & Entertainment Week In Women: Equal Pay Day In celebration of Equal Pay Day, which is today — the day that marks when women finally catch up to what men made, on average, in the previous calendar year, we begin the first
SF News Six Reporters Arrested During Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Mother Jones' Gavin Aronsen wrote a first-hand account of being apprehended at the Occupy Oakland mass arrest on Saturday, along with at least five other credentialed journalists and 400 protesters. Aronsen says this
SF News About That Prop 8 Fundraiser... A civil rights group billing itself as Love Honor Cherish has partnered with the NOH8 Campaign to "create a public education campaign telling voters why marriage equality is important." Specifically, the two will
SF News Anonymous to Bring Peaceful Wrath Upon BART on Monday SF Examiner is reporting that Anonymous, the group most famous for giving Scientologists a hard time, is focusing its attention on BART on Monday. As you might have heard, BART police shut down
SF News History is So Gay: LGBT Americans to Be Added to CA Textbooks 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
SF News "Loving" and the Fight for Marriage Equality [Updated] Here's a little taste of the Proposition 8 hearing coming up on Monday in San Francisco -- high-power attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies (conservative and liberal, respectively) just released a video about
misc Meanwhile, Down Under: Australian AG Backs a Law Allowing for Sexual Orientation-Based Expulsions We're not going to claim to know how Australia works, it being the land of theives and tax evaders and all, but their Attorney General is supporting a law that, "exempts private schools
SF News Stamp Advisory Committee Considering Milk Stamp Speaking of cool postage stamps -- Remember when Bay Area Reporter talked about an effort that's underway to get San Francisco artist Jim Leff's stamp memorializing Harvey Milk made into an official U.
SF News Prop 8 Backers Appeal Court Ruling A day after California's gay marriage ban was ruled unconstitutional, proponents of Prop 8 "formally appealed a federal judge's ruling striking down the voter-approved law," reports Sacramento Bee. Both sides of the issue
SF News Photos: Gay Marriage Ban Overturned, San Francisco Today, Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Proposition 8 -- California's discriminatory same-sex marriage ban -- unconstitutional. Here are some scenes from outside the San Francisco Federal Courthouse shortly after Walker's decision was announced.
SF News Prop 8 Decision Comes Wednesday On Wednesday, US District Judge Vaughn Walker will announce his decision on Proposition 8, the California gay marriage ban. In a written statement, Walker will rule on the right of same-sex couples to
