SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Pippi Lovestocking Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cardiac Incident at Heklina’s Memorial Since suffering a severe medical incident at Heklina’s memorial in May, Pippi Lovestocking has endured an induced coma, sepsis, and lost both hands and feet, but has opened up about the experience in a just-published interview.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
Arts & Entertainment Fresh Off Blockbuster Run in ‘Chicago,’ Jinkx Monsoon Announces U.S. Tour With SF and San Jose Dates After “single-handedly reviving ‘Chicago’ on Broadway,” frequent SF drag performer Jinkx Monsoon has announced a 44-city U.S. tour, with two Bay Area dates in August, one at the Warfield.
SF News Group of Alleged Proud Boys Spew Vitriol at Bay Area Library's Drag Queen Story Hour; Hate Crime Investigation Is Underway On Saturday afternoon, SF drag queen Panda Dulce was reading during Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library when about ten alleged Proud Boys stormed the room, yelling slurs — forcing all in attendance to hide in a back office before being escorted away by security.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'Three's Company' Comes To Oasis Next Week Much like they've done with The Golden Girls, Sex and the City, Designing Women, Star Trek, and Absolutely Fabulous over the years, San Francisco's more comedic drag queens are for the first time
Arts & Entertainment Queens Of The 'Imperial Court': Rediscovered Photos From '70s SF Drag Balls "Coming Out," Joey Plaster tells 48 Hills, "originally referred to the act of being formally presented at drag balls that gay men patterned on respectable debutante balls." And in San Francisco, what balls
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Lady Bunny On Her Fu****-Up New Show 'Pig In A Wig' One of the most influential (and curvy) figures in the history of modern drag culture, Lady Bunny hops in from New York City this weekend for a three-night run of her new cabaret
Arts & Entertainment 'RuPaul's Drag Race's Adore Delano Performs Tonight At DNA Lounge Adore Delano, who many of you might know from RuPaul's Drag Race, brings her fabulous and fierce self to San Francisco tonight with a performance at DNA Lounge. She's on tour for her
SF News Examiner Needs Course in Drag 101 Pardon us, San Francisco Examiner, but Donna Sachet is not "a drag queen dressed in a red ball gown." She is THE drag queen dressed in a red ball gown. Next you'll be
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: <em>Rupaul's Drag Race</em> Season 2 Teaser Watch Gay Video & Lesbian Movies Perhaps you couldn't give two shits about the state of drag as we know it. But like it or not, you live in a city that remains
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Virgin Mary Drag Nothing says Christmas like a drag performance, right? New York-based drag performer Mimi Imfurst is doing the second of two shows tonight in San Francisco at Finn's Funhouse (814 Grove St) of her
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens On Ice: A Gallery A troupe of about fifty assorted drag queens, gays, lesbians and others took the Union Square ice rink by storm yesterday -- all in the midst of the afternoon storminess that included a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag <em>Golden Girls</em> It's becoming a holiday (and June) tradition for a quartet of San Francisco's finest drag talents to tackle, on the live stage, word-for-word, a selection of old episodes of The Golden Girls --
Arts & Entertainment Local Drag Legend Vicki Marlane Makes the <em>New York Times</em> We feel truly remiss in not catching this sooner, but since when did the Grey Lady start covering the San Francisco drag beat anyway? Local legend, national treasure, and at age 75 possibly
Arts & Entertainment Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her
SF News Local Drag Queen Makes History at AT&T Park We're a little late on this one, but: local tranny Donna Sachet made history this past week by becoming the first (?) drag queen to perform the "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a Major League
