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
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: HALLOWEEN! The Ballad of Michele Myers Local drag queen Raya Light transforms herself into Michael Myers' drag counterpart, Michele Myers, in this hilarious "horror musical" that mashes up moments from favorite horror films and The Facts of Life. It
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Saturday: 'Death Becomes Her' With Drag At The Castro Local legend and midnight-movie enthusiast Peaches Christ is doing a first-ever screening of the modern classic Death Becomes Her Saturday night at the Castro Theatre, and it will, like all of Peaches' events,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Party with SFBG and Drag Queens for Cindy Sherman The SF Bay Guardian will join creative forces with SFMOMA for a rooftop party tonight marking the end of the Cindy Sherman show: "A toast to Cindy Sherman." Details? We have them. Boy,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars' Trailer Get More: Watch RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race Full Episodes, Logo TV Speaking of drag, the very first all-stars season of Rupaul's Drag Race kicks off October 22 on Logo, and the trailer
Arts & Entertainment SomeThing Does Some 'Chorus Line' Drag Friday; Faux Queen Pageant Happens Sunday at DNA As an aid to San Francisco's thriving, though sometimes not so well publicized drag scene, we may have to start bringing you weekly highlights of drag queen (and king) events you should check
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vogue Brawl 2012, Manchester, England With all this talk of kikis and "werking" it and the general upsurge in ball-culture influence in the gay community, is it any wonder that vogueing is back in a big way in
SF News Catholic Archdiocese Trying to Downplay Drag Ban at Castro Church Last week we mentioned the kerfuffle surrounding Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro, the gay-friendly Catholic church that has struggled over the years with tensions between its gay parishioners, neighborhood LGBT organizations that
Arts & Entertainment Next Up in Retro TV Drag Queen Parodies: 'Roseanne' Heklina has been hard at work this summer expanding her repertoire of drag-queen re-enactments of old TV sitcom scripts, and expanding her repertory company of drag performers to help re-enact them. For years
Arts & Entertainment Video: Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters Has A Kiki With S.F. Drag Queen Glamamore Last night, Scissor Sisters played the Fox Theater in Oakland, and afterwards there was a crowded afterparty at the Redwood Room in San Francisco attended by many a young gay man wearing eyeliner.
Arts & Entertainment Get Yourself Some Tickets For Pride Weekend Festivities While You Can Gay Pride is almost upon us, and there are a few rainbow flags on Market Street to prove it. The governor has, in fact, declared this whole month Gay Pride Month. So if
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Gays, Others Rally Support For Sharon Needles To Win 'Drag Race' If you've been breathlessly following Rupaul's Drag Race in its fourth season, then you already know by now that last night's finale wasn't the finale. It was a non-finale. And kind of frustrating
