Arts & Entertainment Gay Pride Parties You Should/Shouldn't Attend Hi, everybody. Welcome to Gay Pride weekend in San Francisco. What's Gay Pride weekend, exactly? Well, it's the time of year when lesbians hold hands walking down Market Street and gay men's pupils
Arts & Entertainment Nine-Year-Old, ca. 1991, Lip-Syncs to Madonna's 'Vogue' [Video] Robert Jeffrey shared with the world this joyful lip-sync routine set to Madonna's triumphant "Vogue," which he performed in 1991 during a vacation with his parents. He was nine-years-old at the time. Jeffrey
SF News Osama Bin Laden Was Gay, Says Fanciful Tabloid Just three weeks after Osama Bin Laden's death, trustworthy essay journal The Globe revealed what your average Arizona-dwelling, 'Merica-loving separatist knew all along: the mastermind behind 9/11 was a homosexual. The Globe
SF News S.F. Game Site Asks if Mass Effect 3 Gay Characters Will Harm 'Traditional Moral Values' A recent article from San Francisco tech website Ubergizmo asks if a new game, Mass Effect 3, will hurt traditional moral values. Why? Because the latest installment of the RPG shooter will allow
Arts & Entertainment Behold a San Francisco 'Tearoom' Customer Survey Michael Petrelis brings word of a Tenderloin tearoom we never knew existed. (A tearoom, for those not in the know, is a bastion of public gay male sex. Hubba hubba.) Petrelis writes: "The
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin's Husband Unleashes New Social Site for Bears Armistead Maupin, author of Tales of the City, just announced on his Facebook page that his husband, Chris Turner, has a new(ish) social site for bears -- i.e., hairy and/or
Arts & Entertainment Peaches Christ Talks 'Mommie Dearest,' Faye Dunaway, and Child Abuse High-glamour child abuse, anyone? You are in luck. On Saturday night, Peaches Christ (Midnight Mass creator, All About Evil writer/director) will once again screen Mommie Dearest, this time in honor of its
SF News Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Respond to Andrew Sullivan When noted knee-jerk conservative queer pundit Andrew Sullivan slammed the annual Hunky Jesus contest in Dolores Park as "tired," "lame," and bigoted, heaps of SFist commenters chimed in with their thoughts. That was
SF News Atlanta Braves Coach Accused of Making Gay Slurs at AT&T Park Uh oh. A pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves is in hot sweet tea for making anti-gay remarks AT&T Park last weekend. TMZ reports: "Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell has
Arts & Entertainment Blog Of Note: 'My High School Boyfriend Was Gay' Ladies, before you fooled yourselves into liking bourbon, cycling, and major league sports to trap yourself a man in your mid-to-late thirties, you probably suffered through a gay boyfriend or four during your
Arts & Entertainment New Eagle Tavern Closing Date: End Of May, Possibly Later This Year At what we thought would be the Eagle Taven's final beer bust yesterday, we were surprised to hear that, instead of 4/29, the SoMa leather bar's new tentative closing date would be
SF News Castro Refused To Lower Rainbow Flag After Liz Taylor's Death After Elizabeth Taylor died last month, many folks in the LGBT community mourned the loss of the screen goddess not only for her body of work and her many dalliances with leading men,
SF News Supe. Kim: Eagle Closure "Really Unfortunate," But S.F. Helpless To Stop It After it was announced Sunday that the Eagle, historic SoMa gay leather bar, would shut operations down on Friday, 4/29, some locals jumped into action. The Eagle will hold a community meeting
SF News The Eagle, Famous Gay SoMa Bar, Set To Close, 4/29 The Eagle -- 30-year-old SoMa gay bar noted worldwide for its Thursday Night Live concerts and spirited Beer Bust Sundays -- will shut operations down on Friday, 4/29. Although, according to a
SF News Examiner Needs Course in Drag 101 Pardon us, San Francisco Examiner, but Donna Sachet is not "a drag queen dressed in a red ball gown." She is THE drag queen dressed in a red ball gown. Next you'll be
SF News Appellate Court Denies Request to Lift Stay on Prop. 8 Ruling A new day, a new ruling in California's discriminatory anti-gay law. "A federal appeals court Wednesday turned down a bid by two same-sex couples to allow gay marriages to resume in California while
Arts & Entertainment Video: Disappointing Gay Best Friend Oh, this is rich. Laughing Squid brings our attention to Tyler Coates and Mikala Bierma's "Disappointing Gay Best Friend," a series of unflinching comedic/tragic shorts that illustrate the demise of a gay
Arts & Entertainment Dan Savage to Speak at SF State This Friday Controversial yet humorous columnist Dan Savage will be in town this Friday to speak about his latest offering, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living. (Side note:
SF News Armistead Maupin Denied Restroom in Australia for Not Being a "Real" Man San Francisco-based writer Armistead Maupin, creator of the iconic Tales of the City series, was in Australia last week for a book tour when he visited Alice Springs with his husband Chris Turner.
SF News Lower Polk Neighbors Association: LGBT Murals Are So Castro By Toshio Meronek Members of the Lower Polk Neighbors association put the kibosh on a proposed LGBT history mural that might've brightened up some of the gray concrete near Hemlock and Polk. Reason
SF News Rep. Speier Makes Statement On Obama's Decision to No Longer Defend DOMA After news broke that Obama will no longer defend DOMA (Defense Of Marriage Act), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Maeo) released the following statement: The Declaration of Independence got it right—we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chick-fil-A Opening In San Francisco/Bay Area? Chick-fil-A, a Georgia-based fast food chain noted for their fried chicken sandwiches and anti-civil rights philosophy, might open shop in or near San Francisco. Gulp. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chick-fil-A plans to
misc Watch Cloris Leachman Snatch Peaches Christ's Wig Who can snatch the wig off a drag queen - a noted drag queen, mind you - and walk away unscathed? Cloris Leachman, that's who. On February 5, Peaches Christ hosted SF Sketchfest's
SF News W's Daughter Barbara Bush Supports Same-Sex Marriage Working with the Human Rights Campaign's New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, former President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara released a video supporting gay marriage in New York. In the video, Barbara Bush, 29,
SF News GLAAD Demands Apology from <em>Saturday Night Live</em> for Transgendered Skit GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, an organization that hands out awards to straight people for being famous) is upset at a recently aired skit on Saturday Night Live, one that
