SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Gay-Owned Beatbox Nightclub To Close In July, After Pride Sad news for gay club-goers today as the five-year-old nightclub Beatbox (314 11th Street) has announced it will shut down for good as of July 3, the weekend following Gay Pride. The announcement
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Says Lawsuit Won't Deter Them From Throwing Civic Center Party News went around the gay web last week, via a Los Angeles law firm, that San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration - the part that occurs throughout Pride weekend at Civic Center but grows
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
SF News Kasich Comes To San Francisco To Admit Gay People Are 'Probably' Born That Way Republican presidential non-hopeful John Kasich was in the Bay Area along with the rest of his compadres this weekend for the state Republican convention, and he spoke Friday at an event at the
Arts & Entertainment Hollywood To Reenact The White Night Riot (Again) Outside City Hall Tonight Just like they did eight years ago during the Milk shoot, Hollywood has returned to San Francisco to reenact the famous White Night Riot, when an army of very pissed off gay men
SF News Everything Rainbow: Castro Muni Escalators Getting Rainbow Lights Now In addition to rainbow crosswalks and a giant rainbow flag, the Castro will be getting one more reminder that it is the gay neighborhood: rainbow lighting up and down its Muni station escalators.
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Kicked Out Of Tenderloin Bar For Looking Too Queer, Bar Apologizes A man who goes by Bubbles, but who's also known as local artist and queer character Anthony Torres, was summarily kicked out of one his regular watering holes on Thursday morning, and told
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gangway, SF's Oldest Gay Bar, *Might* Be Saved After All We at SFist and many others seriously lamented the potential imminent loss of The Gangway back in January, when a liquor license application showed that the place was in the process of being
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "underrepresented" techies — a group she identified
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill 2,
SF News Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year Pink Saturday is no more. The street party that has traditionally taken place the Saturday before the Pride parade, dubbed the Pink Party last year, will not happen this year, reports The Bay
SF News Responding To Marina Gay-Bashing Incident, Gay Mafia Will Converge On HiFi Lounge The alleged gay bashing of 28-year-old Jeffery Lafayette outside of the Marina's Hi Fi Lounge last weekend is a painful reminder that, even in San Francisco, violence is still perpetrated against people because
SF News Confirmed: Gay Bashing Took Place In The Marina, Outside Hi Fi Lounge The story of 28-year-old Jeffery Lafayette's beating by a group of guys on the Saturday before the Super Bowl went viral after he posted a video on Facebook in which he was trying
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Cleve Jones Found A Bunch Of Straight 'Tech Bros' In A Castro Bar And Now Everyone Is Flipping Out This week the UK Guardian built a story around the fact that longtime gay activist and friend of Harvey Milk Cleve Jones was sounding alarm bells about seeing a group of men he
Arts & Entertainment Queens Of The 'Imperial Court': Rediscovered Photos From '70s SF Drag Balls "Coming Out," Joey Plaster tells 48 Hills, "originally referred to the act of being formally presented at drag balls that gay men patterned on respectable debutante balls." And in San Francisco, what balls
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
