SF News Once Again, 'The Advocate' Tries to Tell World That Minneapolis, Salt Lake City Are Gayer Than S.F. It's time once again for the egregious link bait known as The Advocate's list of the 'Gayest Cities in America.' Last year, they crowned Minneapolis the winner.
Arts & Entertainment In Honor of World AIDS Day: AIDS-in-S.F. Doc Shortlisted for Oscar; Who Was the Real Patient Zero? It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that,
SF News Harvey Milk And George Moscone Remembered In Candlelight Vigil, Lively March Sunday marked the 33rd anniversary of the slayings of Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone, and a group of 100 or so LGBT folk and their admirers gathered at the corner of Castro
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Glorious (and Occasionally Gross) Relics Hidden in the GLBT Historical Society Archives Documentary filmmaker Michael Stabile, who chronicled San Francisco's birth as the Smut Capital of America in a short film last year and who has brought us amazing archival footage of Dianne
Arts & Entertainment Chloe Sevigny* and Everyone Else You Missed at the Castro Street Fair We tried to tell you about the drag queen version of Chloe Sevigny a while back, and now that she's risen up the ranks of stardom to headlining a stage at
Arts & Entertainment Marin Gays Really Have It Rough, You Guys A charming gay couple, recently transplanted from New York City to San Rafael -- in part for economic reasons, in part because the gays have got to start to think about their golden years
Arts & Entertainment Lesbians Told They Can't Hold Hands at Gertrude Stein Exhibit This morning's grab bag of delights from Chuck Nevius includes the amusing story of a lesbian couple who were holding hands while browsing the Gertrude Stein exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish
Arts & Entertainment Archival Video Moment: Nightly News Explores Gay S.F. Circa 1981 We just got sent this video in connection with a party happening tonight at Public Works called SPKR: Evolution of the Queer Dancefloor -- it's a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society
SF News Rich Lesbians Sought to Help Bankroll Dyke March Organizers of the annual Dyke March are putting out the (probably empty) threat that they might have to cancel the parade/rally this year unless someone coughs up $30,000. The march traditionally
SF News <em>The Advocate</em> Creates Stupid Formula, Somehow Thinks St. Louis Is Gayer Than San Francisco The Advocate, a gay magazine born of struggle for equality back in the day but which has seen better days itself, just published a list of the 'Gayest Cities in America,'
SF News America's First Gay Museum Opens In Castro The GLBT Historical Society, whose home is in S.F., just opened the nations's first GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th Street, in what was formerly a retail and laundromat space.
SF News Discharged Gays Sue Government Over DADT in S.F. Federal Court Three veterans who were all discharged under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy have filed a new lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco,
SF News Two Sides of the HIV-in-Porn Debate, One from an L.A. Porn Star, One from a Local Gay Producer "Making $10,000 or $15,000 for porn isn't worth your life," says porn actor Derrick Burts to the LA Times, calling for mandatory condom use on porn shoots
SF News Preservationists and Castro Gays Battle Over Rainbow Banners Those rainbow flag banners that hang vertically off the tops of lampposts along Market Street in the Castro? They're apparently illegal according to historic preservationists, who say that nothing but temporary
SF News San Francisco Gold's Gym Franchise Tries to Break With the Brand After CEO Donates $2 Million to Conservative Group Allow us to begin by informing you, in case you weren't sure, that Gold's Gym in the Castro is the gayest place on the planet. The second gayest place?
SF News Head of SF's Gay Pride Steps Down Amid Allegations of Mismanagement San Francisco Pride Executive Director Amy Andre vacated her post this week after it came to light that multiple non-profit groups who ran booths at this year's Civic Center celebration
SF News 'God Hates Fags' Case Goes Before Supreme Court Today's the day that Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are standing before the Supreme Court in a First Amendment case relating to their military funeral protests. The justices
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to SF Pride 2010: Sunday Edition And finally, here is part III of SFist's attempt to round up all the LGBT happenings going down about town this weekend, and this installment covers the big, hot, heaving climax
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to SF Pride 2010: Thursday & Friday San Francisco remains the beating heart of the international LGBT community, and though our gay nightlife scene might not be as crazy and full as other, bigger cities (especially in these Depression days)
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Juanita MORE! Moves Her Pride Party to Dogpatch Knowing that Bambuddha Lounge was closing (you've heard, right?), drag queen and party promoter Juanita MORE! had to find another place for gays of all stripes to congregate after the Sunday
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from the Red Carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards Local celebrities and non-local celebrities joined many besuited gays, lesbians, and their admirers at this past weekend's GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott. The S.F. edition of the awards,
Arts & Entertainment Newly Out Lesbian Country Singer Chely Wright Performs in S.F. Tomorrow The gay and celebrity web-o-spheres were abuzz last month about the teased and pre-planned public coming out party for Chely Wright, the country singer who had huge success starting in
SF News Malawian Gay Couple Pardoned, Freed After facing international condemnation over the fourteen-year sentencing of homosexual couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga (pictured, right) and Steven Monjeza (left back), for gross indecency and unnatural acts, Malawian president, Bingu wa Mutharika, has
SF News Gay Couple in Malawi Sentenced to 14 Years for 'Unnatural Acts' A homosexual couple, Tiwonge Chimbalanga (pictured, right) and Steven Monjeza (left back) were sentenced today to 14 years in prison for gross indecency and unnatural acts in court in Blantyre, Malawi. The two
SF News New Case Pits Lesbians and Straight Men Against Gay Softball League We hate it when gays and lesbians fight, but now the SF-based National Center for Lesbian Rights has taken on a discrimination case on behalf of three straight plaintiffs, Steven Apilado, LaRon
