SF News 49ers Owner Says We Can Crucify Player Who Made Homophobic Remarks. OK! Just days after NFL-bound Michael Sam told the world "I am an openly, proud gay man," one local reporter reminded us the trouble the 49ers have run into when attempting to navigate issues
Arts & Entertainment 'The Advocate' Once Again Tries To Convince Us That San Francisco Isn't Gay Enough Even though The Advocate is barely even a publication anymore, they have a website and some sort of shoestring budget and every January they update their idiosyncratic, totally arbitrary list of the gayest
SF News Brian Boitano Nonchalantly Sashays Out Of The Closet Olympic figure skating gold medalist, South Park muse, noted cook, and cherished San Francisco resident Brian Boitano officially came out of the closet today. In part of a press release, the American hero
SF News Agender Teen Burned On Oakland Bus Speaks Out For The First Time For the first time since the terrible incident in which Oakland teenager Sasha Fleishman had his clothing burned at the hands of another teenager in what appears, by all accounts, to be a
Arts & Entertainment Anniversary Memorial Candlelight Vigil For Harvey Milk And George Moscone San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated 35 years ago today. To mark the occasion, a candlelight vigil will start at Milk Plaza at 7pm followed by a candlelight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Owners Expanding With New Castro Mexican Spot The runaway success of Hi Tops, the one-year-old gay sports bar in the Castro that has become so much more than that to a generation nay, several generations of local homosexuals, has laid
Arts & Entertainment 'Friends: Live' Coming! Could You Be Any More Excited? Local drag artistes have joined forces to reimagine onstage what is arguably the greatest sitcom ever to air. We are, of course, talking about Friends. (Fine, it's a three-way tie between Seinfeld and
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2013 Fetish fans arrived en masse to the 30th Folsom Street Fair in SoMa for day full of fun, sun, whips, chains, and brazen nudity. The event, which raised $325,000 for local and
SF News Fainting, Open Bar, Clusterf**k: Scenes From SF Pride's Election Seeing as how San Francisco Pride sits in a state of confusion and flux (look no further than the Chelsea Manning SNAFU and the brutal Pink Saturday attacks to see how far the
Arts & Entertainment What Are All Of Those Smiling Penises In The Window About? If you've walked around San Francisco's Castro District recently, you might have come across a scene like this: a gaggle of smiling penises starring at you from select storefronts. Don't be frightened. It's
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Siebel Newsom Stands Up For Russian Gays, Looks Smashing During Friday's SF Opera gala, hordes fancy-smelling types sporting their finest threads showed up at City Hall to kick off the opera company's newest season. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, documentary filmmaker/wife of Lieutenant
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Pioneering Activist Jose Sarria's Grand Drag Funeral at S.F.'s Grace Cathedral Not wanting to leave anything to chance, or to the event planning abilities of others, pioneering LGBT activist Jose Sarria laid out specific instructions for how his funeral would go down. His Imperial
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Football Brunch Features 'Top Chef' Menu, Dudes To coincide with le football américain season (this Sunday!), the fine folks at Hi Tops will have a brunch fit for guys, gals, and guys pretending they're into sports so that they can
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Watch: Sing-along Mary Poppins At The Castro Theatre Yes, this weekend promises the best weather of the year. And yes, most of the city will be basking in jorts along the city's parks and sidewalks. But to capture that authentic summer
Arts & Entertainment Winklevoss And His Khakis Ruin Burning Man Aggressive dom-top daydreams notwithstanding, this Instagrammed Tyler Winklevoss pic from Burning Man 2013 shows that, alas, the party in the desert is officially done. "If you can't beat Mark Zuckerberg, you can at
SF News Pioneering Gay Activist Jose Sarria Dies At Age 90 Jose Julio Sarria, who in 1961 became the first openly gay person to run for political office in the U.S. running unsuccessfully for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco died at
SF News CA Supreme Court Rejects Petition To Reinstate Prop 8 Well, it's done. After twice denying petitions by the backers of Prop 8 to put an immediate halt to gay marriages in California, the state Supreme Court today also denied their petition for
Arts & Entertainment Castro Strip Club Plans Scrapped We thought it might be too good to be true, and as it turns out, the backers of a male burlesque outfit called The Randy Rooster appear to have backed out of the
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Sir Ian McKellen In Solidarity With Russian Gays Your awww moment of the day: Sir Ian McKellen (along with local activist Michael Petrelis) posed for this shot while holding a sign that reads, "Solidarity With Russian Gays." This scene was captured
Arts & Entertainment World's First LGBT Gamer Convention Comes to S.F. This Weekend The gaming world is full of dicks, and not in a good way. Gay guys and women (especially women) aren't typically welcome within this fascinating world of digital dorkdom. (Your SFist editor's own
Arts & Entertainment Breakup Leads To Craigslist Mattress Gold In San Francisco If you don't know how many budding, under-appreciated writers there are out there in the world, simply turn to Craigslist on any given day, and you might stumble on a few gems like
SF News HBO Doc On Fight For Gay Marriage In The Works Billed as "the story of a modern-day American revolution," California's history-making Prop 8 snafu, and its triumphant outcome, will be made into an HBO documentary. NYT has more: The still-untitled documentary will be
Arts & Entertainment Make Your Google Spreadsheet Gay Is your tech office full of gassy, flip flop-wearing brogrammers? Jazz up your office communique and data with a rainbow colored Google Spreadsheet! It's easy: Open up a spreadsheet and spell "pride" across
Arts & Entertainment Photos: S.F. Gay Pride Parade Celebrates Gay Marriage Although Pride season began with a slew of controversy, today's annual Gay Pride Parade went off without a hitch (that includes the very-SF moment when Bradley Manning supporters briefly interrupted the route). Mayor
