SF News According To Justice Thomas, SCOTUS Just Admitted They're Ruling In Favor Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage We're still likely months away from a final ruling from the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage nationwide only two short years after the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in
Arts & Entertainment Once Again <i>The Advocate</i> Crowns Random American City That Is Not SF As 'Queerest' Just To Be Different Every damn year The Advocate has to pump out another list of America's gayest/queerest cities, and every year they try their hardest to be edgy, or something, by switching up the criteria
Arts & Entertainment GLBT History Museum Seeks End-Of-Year Donations To Help Relocate Their Archive The Castro-based GLBT History Museum is reaching out for end-of-the-year, tax-deductible donations because one of the big projects they've got to undertake in the new year is moving their entire, diverse archive of
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour. SFist
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
Arts & Entertainment Did Guerrilla Queer Bar Get Co-Opted By A For-Profit Startup? We got an email just this week from Brian McConnell, one of the founders of the infamous Guerrilla Queer Bar which many remember fondly from the dot-com days. Now someone's copying the idea,
SF News Is Someone Seriously Calling Themselves The 'Real Name Police' For Facebook? Someone who has nominated themselves to be Facebook's "Real Name Police" has launched a Twitter account (only three followers so far) to show others how to report drag queens using stage names to
SF News Scott Wiener Jumps On Truvada Train, Tells The World He Is On It Sometimes our gay Supervisors have to battle it out for who's courting the gay vote better, and this week it's all about Truvada the HIV-prevention pill that Supervisor David Campos says more people
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
Arts & Entertainment Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today One of the final pieces in the major sidewalk-improvement project in the Castro had its dedication ceremony this morning, and that's the series of embedded plaques dubbed the Rainbow Honor Walk. The plaques
SF News Manslaughter Verdict In 2011 Buena Vista Park Gay Killing The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office announced today that a Superior Court jury has found 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz — who stood accused of murdering a man he had a sexual encounter with
SF News Jurors Deliberate Over Salacious Evidence In 2011 Gay Murder In Buena Vista Park Arguments in the trial of 25-year-old David Munoz Diaz ended Monday after jurors heard two weeks of salacious, kink-related evidence in the 2011 murder case of 23-year-old Freddy Canul-Arguello. The two men met
Arts & Entertainment Oakland To Host Its First LGBT Pride Parade This Year Oakland's traditional Labor Day Weekend Pride festivities will, for the first time this year, include an actual parade. As the Bay Area Reporter tells us via Oakland Pride's newsletter, the plan is to
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News Study Proves What We've All Known: The Castro Is Getting Straighter Whether you're just a casual fan of the gay hedonist character of the Castro, or a vehement homo-separatist, this news is likely to cause some exclamation marks to get thrown around on Facebook
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Once Again On Chopping Block The annual pre-Pride celebration in the Castro known as Pink Saturday, much like Halloween in the Castro did several years ago, has outgrown its more innocently festive, neighborhood roots and is threatened with
SF News Exclusive: Kink.com Begins Shooting In Las Vegas Ahead Of Possible Condom Law In advance of the potential passage of a state law that would require condoms on all pornography sets in California, Kink.com (NSFW!) has made good on a threat to leave San Francisco
SF News Federal Health Survey Concludes 2.3% Of Population Identifies As Gay Or Bisexual For the first time in its history, the Centers for Disease Control included a question about sexual orientation in its National Health Interview Survey, providing the federal government with its first clear, hard
SF News Blood Drive For Gay Men This Friday Aims To End Decades-Long Gay Blood Stigma Every few years someone tries to remind the masses that the Red Cross and the FDA still won't accept blood from gay men or from any man who has had sexual contact with
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'O'Reilly Factor' Minion Mocks Gay Pride, Tells Mark Leno His Pants Are Too Tight Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox News resident blowhard Bill O'Reilly just filed a segment—a week late—about the S.F. LGBT Pride celebration that happened on June 29.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Panders To Gay Fast Food Fans With 'Proud Whopper' Stunt At S.F. Pride Burger King scored a potentially viral advertising hit at least among left-wing beef eaters with this new video about the "Proud Whopper," which was launched as a limited promotion at a single location
SF News Protest At Prison-Themed Pride Party Turns Violent, Six Arrested [Update] There was a protest outside the Prison of Love party on Saturday at the Kink.com Armory, with about 150 protesters who—though mostly peaceful—pelted guards and early partygoers with fruits and
SF News Tim Cook Marches With Huge Apple Contingent In S.F. Pride Parade At the massive LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, not-openly-gay Apple CEO Tim Cook joined thousands of other Apple employees in a company contingent, marching to show their support. Several employees
SF News The Gay Rights Fight Started In California, Two Decades Before Stonewall This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, and, for that reason, this is the weekend that the cities of San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Paris,
