SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF News Photos: Hundreds Gather in Castro in Support of Cleve Jones, Other Tenants Facing Displacement Around 250 people convened at SF's Harvey Milk Plaza Sunday to stand in solidarity with Cleve Jones — the celebrated 67-year-old gay rights activist — as he called attention to his own displacement and others' in the neighborhood.
SF News Famed LGBT Rights Icon Cleve Jones Facing Displacement After New Building Owner Doubles Rent It's a tale at least as old as the first dot-com boom in SF, as elderly renters face displacement or eviction due to the real estate pressures that make rent control precarious. And now one of the Castro's elder statesmen has fallen victim as well.
SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF News AIDS Memorial Quilt To Return To San Francisco Next Month The 32-year-old AIDS Memorial Quilt, all 50,000+ panels of it, will be returning home to San Francisco in December, apparently for good.
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones Talks About The 'Surreal Experience' Of Seeing His Youth Reenacted In 'When We Rise' Local activist and author Cleve Jones first attended an eight-hour premiere screening of the Dustin Lance Black-penned miniseries When We Rise at the Castro Theatre last week. This week he's fielding reactions from
Arts & Entertainment These Are The Real-Life San Francisco LGBT Heroes Portrayed In ABC's 'When We Rise' The first of four installments of ABC's docu-drama miniseries When We Rise premiered last night, and will be available for your on-demand binging pleasure for a while to come (with the remainder of
Arts & Entertainment Watch Whoopi Goldberg, Guy Pearce, Rosie O'Donnell And More In 'When We Rise' Trailer The ABC miniseries event about the LGBTQ rights movement, When We Rise, shot earlier this year in San Francisco and elsewhere, is set for a February premiere, and the network just released the
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Escalator Unveiled In Castro Welcomes Visitors To 'Gay Disneyland' A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on May 19, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT While the population of the Castro may be getting a lot straighter, thanks to SFMTA the gayberhood's escalators
Arts & Entertainment 1970's-Era Star Pharmacy, Landmark In The Early Days Of AIDS, Recreated For One Day For Castro Shoot As mentioned briefly yesterday, more shooting has been going on in the Castro for When We Rise, the ABC documentary mini-series written by Dustin Lance Black, and based in part on the forthcoming
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Cleve Jones Found A Bunch Of Straight 'Tech Bros' In A Castro Bar And Now Everyone Is Flipping Out This week the UK Guardian built a story around the fact that longtime gay activist and friend of Harvey Milk Cleve Jones was sounding alarm bells about seeing a group of men he
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
