Arts & Entertainment Scenes From SF Pride Weekend, Trans March, Dyke March, And The Parade While tension and violence have marred a lot of demonstrations and celebrations around the world in the last year most notably the Bastille Day massacre in Nice last year, and this past weekend's
Arts & Entertainment The Best Gay And Lesbian Clubs And Parties In SF It's been a minute since SFist has run down the coolest lesbigay clubs and parties around town, and a few things have closed and ended and some others have popped up since we
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News SF Pride Parade To Officially Look More Like A Protest This Year, Will Lead With 'Resistance' Contingent At least in 2017, the annual Pride parade and Civic Center celebration on Sunday isn't going to be just about straight teens and allies wearing rainbow socks. SF Pride announced Monday that this
Arts & Entertainment Google Doodle Honors Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker's Birthday New Google Doodle Celebrates Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker on What Would Have Been His 66th Birthday https://t.co/wViMwmebem pic.twitter.com/P8KYWXdjuK— Towleroad (@tlrd) June 2, 2017 In honor of
SF News [Update] President Trump Expected To Sign Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Executive Order This Week Three months after a draft executive order was leaked that many saw as a thinly veiled attack on LGBTQ equality, sources close to the White House say that President Trump is aiming to
SF News Gay, HIV-Positive Asylum Seeker From Russia Living In Bay Area Detained By ICE In Florida The stakes are very high for 30-year-old Russian national Denis Davydov, who traveled to the US legally in 2014 and overstayed his visa, requesting asylum as an HIV-positive gay man who faces persecution
Arts & Entertainment Gilbert Baker, Creator Of The Rainbow Flag, Dies at 65 As announced by his longtime friend Cleve Jones on Facebook, Gilbert Baker, the creator of the first rainbow flag to symbolize gay equality, has died. He was 65. Jones recently spoke to SFist
SF News LGBT Activists Livid After U.S. Census Bureau Removes Topic Of Sexual Orientation From Proposed 2020 Census LGBT rights advocates are speaking out in anger after the U.S. Census Bureau seemed to be reneging on a proposal to include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the upcoming
SF News Could The Texas Supreme Court Actually Roll Back Marriage Equality? In a first of its kind challenge to the "settled law" of marriage equality, the Texas Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that questions to what extent Texas has to
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
Arts & Entertainment Video: How SF Is (And Is Not) A Queer Safe Space "San Francisco is a city that is so queer it's easy to forget that, not long ago, it wasn't a safe place to be queer." So says filmmaker Heather Smith, who along with
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Announces New Two-Year Lease, And Plans To Move To New Location After That SoMa’s longest-surviving gay bar The Stud looked cooked this summer, when a 150% rent increase threatened the continued existence of the 50-year-old San Francisco institution. But a newly-formed Stud collective founded late
SF News Video: U.S. Navy Dedicates First Ship To LGBT Person, USNS Harvey Milk Tuesday afternoon, a ceremony was held on Treasure Island, formerly a Navy base, officially announcing the naming of the previously announced USNS Harvey Milk, the first Navy vessel dedicated to an openly gay
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
SF News San Jose Police Face Legal Battle Over Gay Cruising Bathroom Sting Harkening back to the 1950s, the San Jose Police Department conducted a sting operation between 2014 and 2015 in which an undercover decoy officer was used to lure unsuspecting gay men into a
Arts & Entertainment The Stud Is Saved, For Now, As 15-Member Co-Op Secures Funds To Purchase Historic Club Official word arrived Thursday that the co-op that formed to figure out a path forward for iconic 50-year-old SoMa nightclub The Stud has succeeded in securing funds to purchase the business from current
SF News Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Will Tell Republican Convention He Is Proud To Be Gay The common wisdom has been that Silicon Valley billionaire, Facebook board member, Paypal cofounder, and noted Libertarian person Peter Thiel hated Gawker media because they'd outed him to the public as gay. That
SF News California Schools Finally Almost Ready To Teach Kids LGBT History It's been over four years since a new state law took effect requiring California schools to teach students about some of the LGBT people who have made significant contributions to US history, however
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Gay Bars In San Francisco For Every Occasion In honor of Pride Week, SFist brings you this comprehensive guide to San Francisco's gay bar scene, tailored to each of your potential needs on any given night of the week. Sometimes you
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Explores Largest Gay Mass Murder In US (Before Orlando) The most disturbing aspect of tonight’s Frameline documentary about “ the largest gay mass murder in US history” is that it’s no longer about the largest gay mass murder in US history.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Looking' Finale Film Trailer Drops Ahead Of Pride Weekend Premiere Somebody is getting married possibly Doris and we find out from the Looking finale movie trailer that we're jumping ahead a couple of years in time with Patrick, Dom, Augustin and the gang
SF News Big Gay Kiss-In Planned In Castro Tonight Following Orlando Mass Hate Crime While there is no appropriate or satisfying response to what happened in Orlando on Sunday, LGBT communities around the world have responded with huge vigils and outpourings of love, horror, and support. A
SF News Remembering The Gay San Francisco Church That Was Torched Out Of Hate In 1973 Following the attack on Pulse nightclub in Orlando Sunday that took the lives of 49 victims, most of them Latino gay men, the New York Times reminds us of earlier attacks on the
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
