misc Marriage = 1 Whomever + 1 Someone Else Possible benefits of gender-neutral weddings: "over $100 million in increased business revenues" for California, including $7 million for the state in sales tax, according to the not-at-all impartial Institute for Gay and Lesbian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
Arts & Entertainment Just in Case Having a Wedding Didn't Garner You Enough Attention Already Are you a gay couple planning a wedding? And are you bold and self-confident in the face of overwhelming obstacles? (You'd sort of have to be, wouldn't you?) Well, you might want to
misc It's Crept up on us Yet Again Blah blah blah, morality laws -- who cares? It's Dore Alley, the smaller, smuttier, queerer cousin of late-summer's Folsom Street Fair, and it's this Sunday. For one glorious, beautiful day, you can strut
Arts & Entertainment Glamberloin? Tenderfab? We need to come up with a new word to describe the tasteless, fabulous, trashy, glamorous style of the Tenderloin. It's not just a slummy neighborhood; it's a slummy neighborhood with a can-do
misc Domestic Partnership Law Affirmed Sunny day! The California Supreme Court affirmed without comment the state appellate court's decision that the California domestic partnership laws do not violate the "marriage is between a man and a woman" Proposition
misc Something to be Proud of There were tons of lovely floats; one of our favorites was for Wells Fargo, which gets extra gay points for incorporating a showtune (but also loses gay points for it being a showtune
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Tammy Faye: Death Defying Tammy Faye was present for Frameline's screening of the new documentary, and the audience ate her up. She got a standing ovation just for walking into the house before the movie started (is
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Who's the Top</i> and <i>Paris is Burning</i> What is there for us to point out about , a 1990 documentary about Harlem drag balls, that hasn't already been said by far greater minds than our own? Between 1987 and 1989, filmmaker
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Scary, Mary! We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Ned Rorem: Word and Music</i> Ned Rorem: Word and Music. Ned Rorem certainly was a hottie. It's easy to see how this handsome, talented, literate 25-year-old American slipped comfortably into Parisian artistic and social circles of, shall we
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: The Lady in Question is Charles Busch As a young actor, Charles found it tough to get work as an impersonater of classic film stars. So he turned to writing, creating plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," which allowed him
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: SFist has you Covered We're awash in trannies! Frameline, San Francisco's annual GLBT film festival, has decided to highlight the "T" portion of the acronym this year, but there's still plenty of G, L, B, and P
misc Niners Apologize Long-time readers of this site may remember a certain, um, "so-best fixation" we had on a certain picture of our mayor and his then-wife, in happier times. Well, it looks like Niners PR
Arts & Entertainment Hey, That Rhymes! There's an advantage to this -- if you don't like one page, just look to the next for something completely different. But it's also a little numbing after a while; how many times
Arts & Entertainment Mysterious Boy Berry's parents, friends, shrink, religious leaders, doctors, and the ambiguously sexual eccentrics who admire his moxie all seem to have their own plans for Berry; none of them help him to figure out
misc FDA Guarding Against Fabulous Sperm We must confess that we're rather attached to our bodily fluids. But not everyone hoards theirs as selfishly as we, and that's got the FDA all riled up: under new recommendations, gays will
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Life in a Box</i> World Premiere It's long been our experience that when a significant other says, "I think we should have an open relationship," what they really mean is, "let's ensure that our impending breakup is painful and
Arts & Entertainment Now You, Too, can be a Gay Usher Just when you were starting to worry that The Castro Theater might've gone all ex-gay, along comes Frameline 29, the 29th annual San Francisco International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, or
Arts & Entertainment The Alternative Press Expo (APE) Kicks Our Ass And Takes Names At the Alternative Press Expo (or APE), overstimulation is an understatement. There is a ton going on here. Held yearly in San Francisco, heretofore in February, APE took place this past weekend, April
misc The Blacks and The Jews get Behind the Gays "On behalf of Equality California," EQCA Public Education Manager Sylvia Rhue said in a statement, "thank you NAACP and the ADL. We are humbled by your tenacity and bravery, and we will certainly
