Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Family Restaurant Here's a trailer for a new film for children called Family Restaurant, which is geared toward kids with gay or lesbian parents. It features restaurant objects come to life, like talking ketchup and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Cancels Gay Wedding Dinner, Allegedly Blames Bad Feng Shui Setting aside the sadness of having one's wedding reception catered by an Asian-fusion restaurant, allow us to relay the tale of a gay wedding plan gone bad in New York City after the
SF News Gold's Gym Becomes Fitness SF Following 2010 Anti-Gay Donations As promised, Gold's Gym this week will become Fitness SF as its contract with the Gold's brand has just run out. Some of you may recall that in 2010, Gold's Gym members (the
SF News Chuck Nevius Weighs In on Castro Nudists, Again What'd we tell you? C.W. Nevius couldn't wait to chime in once more about the nudists in the Castro, this time voicing his full support and commendation for Supervisor Scott Wiener's most
SF News Castro Nudists Draw More Controversy Over Cock Rings The band of birthday-suited dudes who enjoy strutting the plaza at 17th and Castro and taking pictures with tourists has come under some fire recently from what they're referring to as "cock ring
SF News Grindr Gets Political With 'Grindr For Equality' Launch Grindr, the popular sex-radar app that every gay friend of yours has used at least once and is probably logged into as we speak, is going to use its vast reach across the
SF News Gay Couple Sues Airline Over Dildo Shaming A gay couple is suing Continental Airlines (now part of United) over a May 2011 incident in which a certain private item was removed from their luggage and put on display for everyone
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay iPhone Ad for the Castro This guy made a little spoof of the iPhone 4S/Siri ads, featuring stuff in the Castro. And it's mildly amusing. In case you didn't know, Hand Job is actually a nail salon
SF News Catholic Archdiocese Trying to Downplay Drag Ban at Castro Church Last week we mentioned the kerfuffle surrounding Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro, the gay-friendly Catholic church that has struggled over the years with tensions between its gay parishioners, neighborhood LGBT organizations that
SF News Castro Catholic Church Bans Drag Queens Once and For All Well, shucks. Under pressure from the archdiocese, the new pastor at gay-friendly but nevertheless Catholic Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro has banned all forms of drag on the premises. The church
SF News Second Petition Effort to Repeal Gay History Law Fails The California law requiring public schools to acknowledge the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in history lessons will live on without challenge another few years. A petition drive to get
Arts & Entertainment Reluctantly Gay Author Chuck Palahniuk 'Remixes' His Gayest Book, Comes to Castro Theater Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk only quietly, reluctantly came out of the closet a few years ago in an Advocate interview, after letting a statement in 1999 that he had "a wife" go
SF News Video: 'Call Me Kuchu,' a Documentary About Being Gay in Uganda We've already heard a number of people talking about this documentary, which screened at the Castro Theater as part of Frameline on Tuesday. The screening and the directors, Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax
SF News Porn Community Mourns of the Loss of Erik Rhodes, Dead at Age 30 The gay porn community lost one of its last true "stars" early this morning with the passing of Erik Rhodes, a.k.a. James Elliott Naughtin. He died in his sleep, reportedly, at
Arts & Entertainment Should Castro Bars Ban Bachelorette Parties Too? Take note, gay bars, The Abbey in West Hollywood has taken a stand against the scourge of bachelorette parties, as reported over at LAist. The bar has decided enough is enough, and despite
SF News Fidel Castro's Niece Arrives In S.F., Republicans Balk Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, was granted a visa by the U.S. government this week, causing a stir among Republicans who want to
Arts & Entertainment Who Put Up This Dirty Ad On Muni?! Someone posted this ad on Muni, and while we sort of chuckled at it we have to say it might offend the more PC and sensitive among us not to mention those of
SF News Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert React To Obama's Gay Marriage Evolution We imagine many of you were waiting to see how The Daily Show and The Colbert Report reacted to President Obama's historic endorsement of gay marriage yesterday. Well, in case you missed them,
Arts & Entertainment Gay Jesus Play Still Drawing Conservative Ire Over A Decade Later It's been fourteen years since Terence McNally's play "Corpus Christi" debuted in New York, off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club in 1998, and because this country of ours is really slow to grow
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For Straight People In Gay Bars This being San Francisco, we have a lot of gay bars and clubs where go-go boys dance in tiny underwear, and drag shows that straight women like to go to, etc. Increasingly, gay
Arts & Entertainment Benefit Screening of 'Milk' at Castro Theatre in May In honor of Harvey Milk Day on May 22, the Friends of Harvey Milk is doing a screening of Milk at the Castro Theatre to benefit the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy the
SF News Activists Protest Gay Rodeo Fundraiser At Powerhouse Bar Here's something you didn't know you'd be reading about today: the rights of grown gay men to put panties on a goat. Some animal-rights activists gathered outside the Powerhouse Bar yesterday to protest
SF News S.F. Gay Couple Make Plea To Prevent One Partner's Deportation San Francisco couple Brian Willingham and Alfonso Garcia have been together over a decade, after meeting in the Castro on Halloween (remember when they had that?). Recently, Alfonso was detained and thrown in
Arts & Entertainment Notable New York Club, Mr. Black, Debuts In SF Thursday Homosexual visitors to New York in the mid- and latter 2000s may have found themselves in the downtown club known as Mr. Black, which was the brain-child of promoter Stuart Black and originated
SF News Did You Get VD Last Year? A Lot of People in S.F. Did So, San Francisco is a regular hotbed of STDs, according to the Bay Area Reporter and the public health department, with cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia soaring in particular in 2011. The only
