SF News SF To Honor Victims Of Orlando Shooting In Castro Vigil Sunday Night San Francisco will honor the victims of this morning's mass shooting in an Orlando, Florida gay nightclub with a vigil in the Castro District Sunday night. Postcards from San Francisco: 18th and Castro.
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
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
SF News Lawsuit Filed To Shut Down LGBT Pride Party At Civic Center Because Of Shootings It is true that shootings resulting in injuries have occurred at or around the massive Civic Center Pride celebration in each of the last several years. And following lawsuits involving a couple of
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 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
Arts & Entertainment Here's A 7.5-Hour Pride Parade Broadcast You Can Watch Next Time You're Bed-Ridden Assuming that you, like many locals, slept in or otherwise avoided the downtown madness on Sunday, you can thank I Heart Media SF for doing their Today Show- at-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade best to cover the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SF LGBT Pride 2015 Complaints about the increasing heteronormativity of the event aside, and despite a handful of arrests for public drunkenness and a couple of handguns seized, Sunday's LGBT Pride Parade was a largely peaceful, altogether
Arts & Entertainment When, Exactly, Did Pride Become A Party For Straight Teens? This is not going to be a long-winded essay, because the question has been asked for years now and the answer is pretty simple. When did LGBT Pride, which was once called Gay
SF News Local Fox Affiliate KTVU Possibly Canceling Pride Parade Coverage Because Of Nudity Expecting nudity, foul language, and at the very least a lot of jockstraps and bare asses, the general manager of local Fox affiliate KTVU has pulled the plug on its live coverage of
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 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
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho To Host Pre-Pride Benefit Called 'Cirque' At Dirty Habit SF-born comedian Margaret Cho, whom we've been seeing a whole lot more of since her recent divorce, will be back in town hosting a pre-Pride affair on Thursday, June 25, at Dirty Habit
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
Arts & Entertainment Like Pink Saturday, Dyke March To Start Much Earlier This Year In an effort to curtail late-night crowds, hooliganism, and violence, in the Castro, the entire schedule of the Saturday of Pride weekend is shifting up by several hours, which includes the traditional early
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 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
SF News Castro Braces For Big Pink Saturday/Pride Weekend As Sisters Bow Out As Organizers This year's Pride Weekend in June is set to be one of the biggest ever as the Supreme Court is more than likely going to decide in favor of federal gay marriage once
SF News Castro Crosswalks Turning Rainbow Today One of the final pieces of the months-long Castro Streetscape Improvement project falls into place today, and boy is it garish! Yes, the crosswalks of the neighborhood will forever be stained rainbow, like
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
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
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 News Exclusive: Protesters From Prison-Themed Party At Armory Released Pending Further Investigation Three protesters from the demonstration that turned reportedly violent outside the Armory on Saturday night, stemming from a controversial Pride weekend circuit party with a prison-fetish theme, were released from Sheriff's Department custody
SF News Pride's Shame: SFPD Investigating Pink Saturday Hate Attacks In SoMa, Castro In two separate incidents this Saturday, people coming from San Francisco's Pride celebrations were jumped by groups of people who made potentially-homophobic remarks before beating them, in attacks the San Francisco Police Department
