Arts & Entertainment Before There Was Pride: William Gedney's Pre-Stonewall Photos of Queer Men In San Francisco The work of queer photographer William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) went under-appreciated during his lifetime, which was cut short by AIDS, though in recent years his photographs of life in the Haight-Ashbury just before the Summer of Love have resurfaced thanks to a 2021 book of his work.
SF News Group Trying To Reintroduce Grizzlies To California Launches Cheeky Ad Campaign With Gay 'Bear' The few places you'll find grizzly bears in California include the San Francisco zoo and our state flag: Fewer than 75 years after gold was first discovered in California, the bear was eradicated
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Women Reading Grindr And Scruff Messages Thank you to Second City for giving us these dramatic readings from women using actual message threads from gay men on the apps Grindr and Scruff. Yes, they are full of misspellings, both
SF News Facebook Temporarily Disables User Account For Gay Kiss Pic Well, the gay blogs are making quick work of this one: A Boston-based porn star posted an innocent photo on Facebook, taken yesterday, of himself kissing his husband, and because it was two
SF News Seattle Tops S.F. In Census of Percent of Gay Couples, But We're Still Tops For Gay Men Local homosexual types might joke that San Francisco is a city of bottoms, but we're on top when it comes to having the country's largest population of gay male households. Depending on the
Arts & Entertainment What Are All Of Those Smiling Penises In The Window About? If you've walked around San Francisco's Castro District recently, you might have come across a scene like this: a gaggle of smiling penises starring at you from select storefronts. Don't be frightened. It's
Arts & Entertainment Behold: A Map Of San Francisco's Lost Gay Bars Last month we brought you a roundup of ads from defunct gay bath houses in town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that
Arts & Entertainment New Male Strip Club Trying to Move Into Diesel Store Space In The Castro [Updated] Well, what do you know! An outfit called the Randy Rooster is in escrow to purchase the former bank turned retail space on the prominent corner of Castro and Market, adjacent to Harvey
Arts & Entertainment HBO Shooting New Pilot About Gay Thirtysomethings In S.F. We recently told you about Mike Judge's Silicon Valley comedy pilot being shot for HBO down in Palo Alto, and today we learn there's a second HBO pilot set in the Bay Area,
SF News Westfield Mall In Roseville Throws Out Kissing Gay Couple The same mall that couldn't handle a flash mob or a rowdy Black Friday, couldn't handle a little PDA of the same-sex variety apparently. Daniel Chesmore, a student at U.C. Berkeley, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, The New Gay Sports Bar, Lands In 'Sports Illustrated' A photo of two dudes mid-smooch at the bar at Hi Tops (2247 Market Street), shot just as the 49ers clinched the NFC championship, has landed in the pages of Sports Illustrated. The
SF News Jim Harbaugh, 49ers Would Be Totally Cool With An Openly Gay Player In one of those shouldn't-be-a-story-but-is stories today, Niners head coach Jim Harbaugh has said, more or less, that the team would be totally cool with it if one of the players were to
SF News S.F. Gay Men Warned About Meningitis Risk If Traveling to New York for the Holidays San Francisco gay men are being warned of an outbreak of bacterial meningitis in the gay community in New York, specifically in Brooklyn. There has yet to be evidence of the outbreak outside
misc SFist Tonight Oakland Interfaith Gospel Ensemble: This awe-inspiring gospel ensemble from "the other side of the Bay," noted for its "interfaith, multi-racial, and multi-cultural" makeup -- will get you in the mood. The Christmas-y mood,
Arts & Entertainment Harvey Milk Memorial Concert & Candlelight March Even though we're too vile to appear on screen in a film about his life, legacy, and popper sniffing -- no, we will not let it go, but thank you for asking --
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men</i> Saturday's screening of "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" was like a clip show of gayish movies -- presenter Alonso Duralde made a few quick introductions, and the rest was a whirlwind of
