SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
Arts & Entertainment 42nd Annual Castro Street Fair Dedicated To Memory Of Late Drag Queen Cookie Dough Sunday marks the 42nd annual Castro Street Fair, a non-profit event founded by Harvey Milk in 1974 during the neighborhood's burgeoning days as a gay district. These days it is the calmer, less
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SF News Three-Year Study In SF Shows No New HIV Infections Among PrEP Users A 32-month study at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center found that among sexually active gay men who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) the HIV-prevention treatment program using the drug Truvada no
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of SoMa's 30-Year-Old Lone Star Saloon Says Bar Could Be Endangered Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment [Semi-NSFW] The Dirty 30-Year History of the Up Your Alley Fair (AKA Dore Alley) The Up Your Alley Fair, informally known as the Dore Alley Fair, celebrates its 30-year anniversary with this Sunday’s bare-chested, manly iteration. To mark the occasion, the SF Leathermen’s Discussion Group
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
Arts & Entertainment How To Do SF Pride: An LGBT Pride Week Guide Of course you must know by now, at least via all the rainbow flags on Market Street or via your one gay friend, that it's LGBT Pride Week. As SFist has discussed in
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
SF News Retail Survey Says: Castro Getting Less Gay, But Remains Very Gay For the past year, a consulting firm has been working on a retail strategy for the Castro and Upper Market, helping to solve the question of why certain retail vacancies in the neighborhood
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Accused Of Attempting To Set Castro Bar On Fire Is Former Gay Web Cam Model A 27-year-old man named Troy Collin McCormick has pleaded not guilty to arson charges in connection with an incident that occurred a week ago Tuesday at Hi Tops in the Castro. As bar
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday," even
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Season 2 Trailer NOT LOOKING - Season 2 Trailer - watch more funny videos Just in time for the finale of Looking, we get the trailer for the new season of L.A.-based web-series parody
SF News New Poll Confirms What Everyone Knows: SF Is Way Gay You know how we're always making fun of The Advocate when they pump out that click-bait list every year where they try to say some city like Dayton, Ohio is gayer than San
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Will End At 8 PM, Will Have More Music And Stuff In the ongoing negotiations over how to move forward with Pink Saturday the traditional Saturday night sh*tshow in the Castro post-Dyke March, pre-Pride parade day the LGBT Center has stepped up to
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Wins Mr. SF Leather Title In a definite first, and a sign of the ongoing changing nature of the leather scene both here and elsewhere, the 2015 title of Mr. SF Leather was awarded on Saturday to Trevor
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, Pink Saturday Not Cancelled, Will End Early And Be Paid For By City Though the story that Pink Saturday was cancelled was widely, incorrectly reported a couple weeks back, the fact is that with or without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manning the gates, 10,000
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Star Russell Tovey Apologizes For Homophobic Remarks There was much hubbub on the internet yesterday over some comments that Looking star Russell Tovey (who plays Kevin on the show) made in an interview with the UK Observer. Tovey, who stars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Resident Greeted With Vicious Homophobia From Curry Boyzz Delivery Driver Many residents in the Castro were amused when a nondescript restaurant on 18th Street transformed five years ago into an Indian/Pakistani restaurant called Curry Boyzz perhaps in an attempt to pander to
Arts & Entertainment SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park? Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood's history
