SF News Protesters Accuse Alcatraz Cruises of Being Anti-Gay and Anti-Union Protesters gathered at Pier 33 yesterday to draw attention to the firing of longtime Alcatraz Cruises employee Vincent Atos, who was suspended last year over a sexual harassment complaint for being "too gay.
SF News Correction: LGBT Center Not Bleeding Cash, Only Seeking $157K Loan SFist received a call from the LGBT Center over the weekend regarding our and the Chronicle's stories about their financial difficulties, which they say were grossly misrepresented. "We're not in foreclosure, we're not
SF News The LGBT Center Is Bleeding Cash, Needs a Mortgage Bailout It's not a shocker that the not-quite-vibrant LGBT Center (you'd think it would be, it has a nice building, but it's not exactly a well-frequented space) is facing some tough times eight years
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tick Tick Boom from Theatre Rhinoceros The nation's oldest queer theater organization, SF's Theatre Rhinoceros, is celebrating its 32nd season this year without a permanent space to call home, having left their space on 16th Street due to lease
SF News Prop 8 Trial Judge Is Gay; Should This Matter? On Sunday, Matier and Ross carefully stepped into some potentially controversial territory in pointing out the open secret that federal Judge Vaughn Walker is gay. Walker will be delivering a decision concerning the
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: <em>Rupaul's Drag Race</em> Season 2 Teaser Watch Gay Video & Lesbian Movies Perhaps you couldn't give two shits about the state of drag as we know it. But like it or not, you live in a city that remains
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Drops In On SF Bar for Surprise Pre-Show? Possibly as a small thank you to the gay community who helped give her a leg up in '08 while she was still touring around in semi-obscurity, Lady Gaga allegedly dropped in on
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Virgin Mary Drag Nothing says Christmas like a drag performance, right? New York-based drag performer Mimi Imfurst is doing the second of two shows tonight in San Francisco at Finn's Funhouse (814 Grove St) of her
SF News <em>NY Times</em> Singles Out Vallejo As Battleground Between Gays & Christians Last week, the NYT wrote this rather provocative piece about the collision between evangelical Christians and transplanted LGBT people in Vallejo -- which as you should know is right in our backyard and
SF News Video from Last Night's Vigil in the Castro for Jorge Mercado, Gay Teen Slain in Puerto Rico 19-year-old Puerto Rican teenager Jorge Mercado was stabbed, dismembered and beheaded last week by 25-year-old Juan Martinez Matos, and Matos has since confessed to the crime using the gay panic defense. Matos was
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kaleidoscopic Kitty YouTube character Gay Carrington is, near as we can tell, a stoner transsexual puppet who occasional chimes in to talk to her fans in Old Hollywood-style English about her moods, pets, and experiences.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Playboy</em> Names Orphan Andy's in Castro One of Nation's Best Late-Night Diners As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's.
Arts & Entertainment Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her
SF News Pebble Beach Gays Become Suspects In Their Own Art Robbery Did you happen to hear about this art theft down in Pebble Beach in which 13 paintings, totaling somewhere between $27 million and $80 million in value depending on who you ask, were
Arts & Entertainment Pics From Castro Street Fair Yesterday, in addition to being Day 3 of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and the serotonin hangover day for LovEvolution attendees, was also the 36th annual Castro Street Fair -- a tradition started by Harvey
Arts & Entertainment Folsom Street Fair '09: A Gallery - SOME NSFW! - UPDATED It was a lusty, warm day at Folsom Street Fair yesterday, and people showed up in droves to show themselves off in their leather harnesses, bustiers, jockstraps and the like. They also showed
Arts & Entertainment A Folsom Street Fair/Leather Week Preview You may not be into leather or the BDSM scene, but if you live in San Francisco you've probably breezed through Folsom Street Fair once or twice. Call it what you will, but
SF News Gay Marriage to Split California in Two, Chaos to Ensue by Chris Jones Turns out that an attorney representing some married gays in a federal court case for marriage equality has his own nefarious yet completely insane reasons for taking on this case
SF News VIDEO: Union Square Kiss-In Protests Anti-Gay Kissing Bias For those of you not aware of the current rumblings in the SF gay community, Prop 8 is so five minutes ago and everyone (especially local drag star Anna Conda) is UP IN
SF News Gay Couple Dissed By Utah Paper A California gay couple who were legally married in San Francisco last summer have had their wedding announcement rejected by a southern Utah newspaper that claimed to be friendly to gay wedding announcements.
SF News Equality California Decides to Wait 'Til 2012 for Gay Marriage Fight In a decision that is probably wise and shouldn't be too shocking, Equality California announced today that they will put off the ballot fight for gay marriage until 2012, rather than going for
Arts & Entertainment Pics from Up Your Alley (Dore Alley) Street Fair - SOME NSFW! Amdist threats of a crackdown on fun (and nudity, and lewd behavior), the fetishy gays and their fetishy friends gathered under an unseasonably warm sun on Folsom Street on Sunday for the annual
Arts & Entertainment More Kicks Than Pricks: A Dore Alley Preview Attention all gays and super-fetishy others: It's Up Your Alley (a.k.a. Dore Alley) fair weekend, and despite threats of a police crackdown on nudity, we're pretty sure it's going to be
misc Gay Gamers Treated Badly by Kids in Gaming Universe It's probably not news to anyone who's played an internet-enabled, multi-player video game in the last few years (or anyone who's ever met a teenage boy, for that matter) that LGBT gamers often
Arts & Entertainment Vote for SF Drag Queens in <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i> Web Casting There is less than a day (t-minus 19 hours as of this posting) to vote for a number of San Francisco-based drag queens in the first round of web casting for the second
