SF News Drag Queens Renew Fight Over Facebook 'Real Name' Policy, Demand That Company Be Banned From Pride Parades Using the hashtag #NoPrideForFacebook, a San Francisco group headed by the same drag queens who went to war with Facebook last fall are now calling for a ban on Facebook's participation in the
Arts & Entertainment Drag Version Of 'The Facts Of Life' Coming To Oasis This Month Because SF's drag queens have not yet run out of old TV shows to reenact, in drag, D'Arcy Drollinger and a cast of friends bring you The Facts of Life, premiering April 23
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Wins Mr. SF Leather Title In a definite first, and a sign of the ongoing changing nature of the leather scene both here and elsewhere, the 2015 title of Mr. SF Leather was awarded on Saturday to Trevor
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Community Mourns Death Of Cookie Dough A beloved drag queen has died, and all too soon. Cookie Dough, a.k.a. Eddie Bell, succumbed to complications from meningitis at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco Thursday night. She was 52.
Arts & Entertainment Local Drag Queen Cookie Dough In A Coma In Mexico Local drag queen and party hostess Cookie Dough has fallen into a coma while staying in Puerto Vallarta this week, and her prognosis is unclear. Cookie was in Mexico along with the cast
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'S**t & Champagne' At Oasis Heklina’s new nightclub Oasis opened its theatrical side last night with Shit & Champagne, D’Arcy Drollinger’s fantastic drag farce that originally ran last year at the space formerly known as
Arts & Entertainment Photos: 5th Annual Drag Queens On Ice Skating into their fifth year, local drag queens took to the ice at Union Square last week. Missed it? That's what this gallery is for. "Donning their most gay apparel," Mutha Chuka, Kylie-Pop,
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Heklina Talks About Mother, The New Incarnation Of Trannyshack At The Oasis Earlier in the year, local drag star Heklina announced that she would be retiring the name "Trannyshack" after careful consideration, and after getting significant flack from a younger generation of fans. As she
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Does Halloween In honor of our nation's favorite holiday for getting bloodied and/or tarted up, we bring you this pair of videos by comedian Drew Droege, seen here in his fictionalized drag persona of
Arts & Entertainment New York Times Columnist Confuses (Female) Beach Blanket Babylon Performer With Drag Queen Yesterday, the New York Times, which is a newspaper based in New York City (get a rope), wrote an article about Tuesday night's San Francisco Giants game. As one might expect, the Times
SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
SF News Is Someone Seriously Calling Themselves The 'Real Name Police' For Facebook? Someone who has nominated themselves to be Facebook's "Real Name Police" has launched a Twitter account (only three followers so far) to show others how to report drag queens using stage names to
SF News Zuckerberg Has Always Believed That We're Only Entitled To One Identity Whether you accept that Facebook's "real name" policy is vital to them doing business or not, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear years ago that he has no patience or sympathy for people
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
SF News Facebook Grants Meeting To Drag Queens Regarding Name Policy [Updated] The story that SFist broke last week about Facebook cracking down on drag queens and other performers who use drag names in place of their real names has spread all over and even
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P. Arturo Galster, S.F. Drag Performer Known For A Spot-On Patsy Cline [Updated] San Francisco lost a legendary figure in the arts and drag community this week with the passing of Arturo Galster. Tributes to the performer — known for his impeccable Patsy Cline and appearance in
Arts & Entertainment SF Institution Trannyshack Changing Name Amid PC Pressure It's the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she'll be taking the "tranny" out of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drag Comedienne Dina Martina At Rebel This Weekend Seattle-based drag performer/comedienne/performance artist Dina Martina, who's also well known to Provincetown and New York audiences, is making a rare appearance in S.F. this weekend. She's been called "the most
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe Sevigny's 'Easter' All around funny man Drew Droege (and director Jim Hansen) are back with a brand new installment in their Chloe Sevigny drag series. “I have whagonloads of childhood mammaries of E-asters past," says
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Drag Race' Queen Bianca Del Rio Schools An Offended Heckler At The Café Over the weekend, some of you might have attended The Drag Queens of Comedy show, which played to a near-sellout house for two consecutive shows at the Castro Theater on Saturday. One of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Work MORE at SoMArts Local drag star Vivvyanne Forevermore, a.k.a. Mica Sigourney, the host of the weekly Friday night shindig at the Stud known as SomeThing, got a residency at SoMArts as part of their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miss Coco Peru Plays 'Grand Theft Auto 5' Can Miss Coco Peru make this a regular thing? The world (gaming or otherwise) needs more Peru commentary while playing video games — especially one as violent (and fun) as GTA 5.
SF News Go Do This Tonight: Drag Queens On Ice The headline says it all, folks. Drag Queens. Ice. Top 40 hits. Gowns. Wigs. Union Square. Blades of whorey. Rad. Everything you need to to do tonight happens on the ice. Join Donna
Arts & Entertainment Jinkx Monsoon To Reprise Her Little Edie Impression At 'Grey Gardens' Screening Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race who are still annoyed at the paucity of representation from San Francisco (no disrespect to last season contender Honey Mahogany, who performed admirably despite that kaftan incident) can
