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
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria's Grand Drag Funeral at S.F.'s Grace Cathedral Not wanting to leave anything to chance, or to the event planning abilities of others, pioneering LGBT activist Jose Sarria laid out specific instructions for how his funeral would go down. His Imperial
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The San Francisco Album Project On Sunday, while most of you were either recovering from or still reveling in Bay to Breakers, a gang of drag queens and others were performing the inaugural event in an ongoing series
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Red Carpet The much-anticipated season finale of RuPaul's Drag Race airs tonight, and interpid World of Wonder correspondent Damiana Garcia did some red carpet duties, interviewing all the arriving drag queens including Season 4 winner
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drag Queen Sings Seuss A Philadelphia-based drag queen by the name of Martha Graham Cracker was invited, and then disinvited, from doing her song version of Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham for a group of children
Arts & Entertainment Video: Trannyshack Star Search Champ Rides Ejaculating Donkey Speaking of drag competitions, Sue Casa won last week's Trannyshack Star Search competition. Her performance boasts, among other things, riding a large ejaculating donkey. Also of note: flag twirling! [via Marke B. at
Arts & Entertainment Borrowed Kaftan Costs Contestant A Place On 'RuPaul's Drag Race' [Warning: SPOILERS] If you haven't been watching RuPaul's Drag Race, we have some sad news for you. (And if you still have it on your DVR, we apologize right now for the spoiler, but you
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Glorious, Elaborate, Almodovar-Inspired Trailer for the Hard French Winter Ball Please enjoy this lengthy (10 minute) but totally worth it tribute to Almodovar created by Aron Kantor (a.k.a. DirtyGlitter), and starring Ambrosia Salad and Stanley Frank. It's a promotional trailer, of
Arts & Entertainment Petition To Rename Turk Street Block After Late Transgender Performer Vicki Marlane The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club is petitioning the Board of Supervisors to rename the 100 block of Turk Street after pioneering transgender drag performer Vicki Marlane. And since "lane" is already in
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: 'Sex And The City' Live! (And In Drag) After a successful run of live Roseanne episodes and Golden Girls Christmas Specials, the folks from Trannyshack return with their latest take on another classic (or classically trashy) piece of television: HBO's seminal
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Drag Queen Prank Featuring Sharon Needles and Latrice Royale Fans of Rupaul's Drag Race will appreciate this one. On board the Drag Stars at Sea cruise organized by AlandChuck.Travel the same cruise on which Carnival Cruise lines forbid drag queens to
SF News Carnival Cruise Forbids Drag Queens During Drag Cruise [Update] In the words of Latrice Royale, "The shade, the shade of it all." Around 1,500 passengers who booked tickets aboard Al and Chuck Travel's Drag Stars at Sea -- 2012 Caribbean Adventure
Arts & Entertainment Honey Mahogany to Be First San Francisco Queen to Appear on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Over the weekend, RuPaul released the first trailer and teaser interviews with the cast of Season 5 of RuPaul's Drag Race, which premieres in January. And finally, finally, we have someone to represent
SF News Jury Acquits Spaniard In Battery Case Involving Drag Queen, SoMa Bar File under: It's complicated. The visiting boyfriend of a local woman landed in jail on battery charges following a confused incident of drunken jealousy at a Folsom Street nightclub. It seems the man,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rupaul Calls Romney 'Unspookable' Logo and NewNowNext are airing an election special tonight (10:30 p.m., after Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars: Untucked), hosted by out lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes, and featuring Ru him/herself. Listen as
