misc At Last, Your Vast Collection of Brooding Self-Portraits can be Put to Good Use Ha ha, just kidding, heterosexuals can help too! But seriously, they don't want pictures of straight people. The "Shades of LGBTQI" project is looking for donations from the community; they want photographs --
misc Correction: Can You Spot the Heterosexuals? The Chronicle couldn't. And neither could we. That is, until we read today's most awesome "Corrections" on SFGate. -- In Saturday's story about the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the sexual orientation of the
misc It's National Coming Out Day And just who will come out on this most pointless day of days? Matthew McConaughey? Wolverine? That one guy on that one show you think you saw one time at the Cafe? 50
misc Kicking It at Barbary Lane Senior Communities What the hell? We're no where near 40 yet. So why are we receiving the following flyer in our mailbox for assisted independent retirement living? Still, we love the idea of queer-littered retirement
misc Dear Abby Supports the Gays Even more pressure to stop screwing around and settle down, this time from advice columnist Jeanne Phillips, aka Abigail Van Buren, aaka Dear Abby. "I believe if two people want to commit to
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
misc Miller Brewing Company Pulls Out Closeted homosexual Journalist Randy Hall of Cybercast News Service got his feathers all ruffled over this not-so-clever Folsom Street Fair (which he describes as a "multi-city block party for homosexuals") ad, which tamely
misc Lookout Behind You! Bisexuality Is On The Rise! ...sexual intercourse is becoming less about reproduction and more about affection. He said that shift could, within three generations, cause more people to identify as bisexual. Activists and bisexuals are, of course, soiling
misc Sean Penn To Play Harvey Milk, Matt Damon To Play Dan White No word yet on who gets the choice diva role of Dianne Feinstein, but her part had best steal the film. How could it not? The career-making footage of Feinstein telling the media
misc Approved and Veto-Ready: Homosexual Marriage Gays of the Golden State: rejoice! For a few moments! State legislators approved "gender-neutral marriage" for the second time. And for the second time it bites its nails, waiting for Governor Schwarzenegger to
misc Jerry Lewis Hates Gays Who Can't Read Wow, we're getting all alternative lifestyle on you these days, aren't we? But wait! We have another fun bit of homophobia with which to beat you senseless: Jerry Lewis saying "illiterate fag" during
misc Happy Birfday, Juanita MORE! Happy birthday, Juanita! We would come visit you tonight, but our crippling agoraphobia unfurled just in time for the holiday weekend. Drats! But that doesn't mean that you, dear readers, can't visit her
misc Losing the Fuzz Via Gender Reassignment: John Mark Karr God bless the Bay Area Reporter. In this week's issue, Ed Walsh reports that former JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect and one-time possible kiddie porn connoisseur, John Mark Karr, "had sought gender reassignment surgery,
Arts & Entertainment A Bi-Transgender Fight Namely, the Chasing Amy Social Club (which you may remember from Gay Pride this year, complaining about the lack of bi visibility at the Pride Parade) has gotten called out by local literary
misc Bearforce1 Oh my. The first all-singing, all-dancing, all-pastel sporting bear group, Bearforce1. They're from the Netherlands, or somewhere in the East Bay, or wherever. We're not exactly sure. Anyway, behold:
misc Ban Ki-moon and His Gays The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, gave a speech to the World Affairs Council at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel yesterday, but was upstaged by a few gay (or bear) activists.
misc SF Gays Are Boring: Meth Use Down, HIV Rates Stable Wired News just reported about the San Francisco Department of Public Health's finding that speed use among SF gays and SF-native Stephanie Tanner has decreased over the past three years. (Is there some
misc Dykes On Bikes Win Hair-Pulling Trademark Battle Dyke on Bikes -- the women who kickoff the annual Pride Parades and Dyke March by riding on their mechanical clitorises, with mammary glands fluttering to and fro -- have won the right
misc <em>Dreamgirls</em>' "Family" Via NBC's Family in the '80s Here are some of your favorite NBC stars from many, many years ago, singing one of the weaker ditties from Dreamgirls. Who knows? Maybe this will jumpstart cast members from The Office and
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 31: Starrbooty Whoops, sorry we're so late getting this post up -- we lost our notes and tore up the house before resigning ourselves to the idea that somewhere, someone is going to find a
misc Pride Pix SFist photo friend Matt Cohen has some excellent snapshots on his Flickr stream of the festivities. After the jump: underwear, cheerleaders, balloons, and Carole Migden!
misc Elizabeth Edwards Has Pride Hey, newsflash! Gay people vote! Taking advantage of this breaking news, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, will be addressing the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic club at their
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: Lez be Friends But the execution ... oh dear. The film is presented as two half-hour sitcom episodes, and the jokes seldom manage to rise above quality. One typical exchange: when a lesbian finds out that her
misc KRON-4 Having Trouble With Pride Parade Broadcast Due to Fucking FCC The reason that the station can be put out of business for a single incident is because the FCC is charged with enforcing community standards. The airwaves belong to the public, and it's