Arts & Entertainment #TBT: The First Folsom Street Fair, Way Back In 1984 The world’s most gigantic kinky leather event, Folsom Street Fair, is set to draw some 400,000 leather revelers and gawkers again this Sunday, and is now established as California’s third-largest
Arts & Entertainment GaymerX Conference To Power Queer Gamers Into Multiplayer Mode Add to the list of the too many things to do this week the groundbreaking annual queer gamer conference GaymerX in San Jose (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2). The world’s first LGBT
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Film Explores Largest Gay Mass Murder In US (Before Orlando) The most disturbing aspect of tonight’s Frameline documentary about “ the largest gay mass murder in US history” is that it’s no longer about the largest gay mass murder in US history.
Arts & Entertainment Living Trans In Mississippi Since the 1970s: A Firsthand Account Trans people have never had it easy. But they had it way less easy in rural Mississippi in the 1970s. Meet Jheri Jones, who transitioned to female in 1976, and is the subject
Arts & Entertainment The Eight Most Awesome LGBT Films Playing At Frameline 40 You guys. The world’s longest-running LGBTQ film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night at the Castro Theatre and runs through the end of Pride Weekend, and boy could we use some Frameline
SF News In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims, Castro Lowers Pride Flag To Half-Mast In advance of tonight's vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, the Pride flag in San Francisco's iconic Castro District has been lowered to half-mast this afternoon. As you doubtlessly know by
SF News In Wake Of Anti-LGBT Law Passage, Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To North Carolina Two days after the governor of North Carolina signed into law legislation that would eliminate protections for LGBT people and ban transgender people from using their gender-identified restrooms, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Gay Fraternity Returns To SF State After 24 Years San Francisco State just welcomed back the first gay fraternity on campus in almost a quarter of a century. The fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, is a national organization founded by gay men in
SF News Under Conservative Pressure, Boy Scouts Delay Decision on Allowing Gay Members After conservative organizations countered President Obama’s push for the Boy Scouts of America to accept gay members, the organization has delayed a decision until May, citing "the complexity of this issue". The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, Future Castro Gay Sports Bar, Featured On 'Chelsea Lately' Even before Hi Tops (a new sports bar soon to take over the old Lime spot in the Castro) has opened, it's already making national news. Well, it received a hefty shout-out on
SF News June Is Totally Gay Pride Month, Proclaims Governor Brown You guys, it's Pride month. And how could you not tell what with all of the rainbow flags adorning Market Street, not to mention this provocative move on the part of Coca-Cola Corporation.
SF News 'Gay' No Longer A Slur, Says New York Court A mid-level appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that gay is okay — specifically, it's no longer considered a slur to call someone "gay." The ruling was sparked after Mark Yonaty of
Arts & Entertainment Flowchart: When It's Okay To Say 'Gay' The wonderful folks at Laughing Squid bring our attention to this handy flowchart created by comic Sam Killermann (of It's Pronounced Metrosexual) that lets you know when it's appropriate to use "gay." He
Arts & Entertainment 'SNL' Hires Kate McKinnon, Show's First Openly Lesbian Player Saturday Night Live recently hired a new female comic, Kate McKinnon, known for her work with Upright Citizens Brigade and the Big Gay Sketch Show. The latter hints at the fact that, yes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dear Jelly Belly, Please Do Not Make A 'Santorum' Flavored Jelly Bean Locally based, but nationally beloved gourmet jelly bean maker Jelly Belly is hosting a rally for Rick Santorum at their Fairfield, CA factory today. Why is a GOP presidential hopeful holding a $1,
Arts & Entertainment And Now, Dede Wilsey Flanked By Nearly Nude Gay Guys Another reason we love SFGate's Catherine Bigelow? Shot like this: Society dowager Dede Wilsey posing next to male performers Adam Musgrave and Ronnie Reg Waite at a tricked out SOMA loft on Thursday
Arts & Entertainment Behold The Asymmetrical Gold-Mesh Tank Top For Men Concocted by the minds at San Francisco-based Cute Tank, this sartorial... stoke of genius? monstrosity? unbridled gayness? all of the above? Well, it will debut at their upcoming San Francisco fashion show party
SF News Anti-Bullying Rally At City Hall Gives Gay Teens Hope 14-year-old Jonah Mowry of Lake Forest spoke about his own experiences with harassment and suicide attempts at an anti-bullying rally on the steps of City Hall today. Bullied by classmates over his sexuality,
SF News CNN Journalist Tells Twitter Followers To "Smack The Ish" Out Of Gay Dudes Anti-gay reporter Roland Martin was at it again during Sunday night's Madonna concert (cleverly sandwiched between a football game) when the CNN political analyst took to Twitter to tell his followers to beat
SF News Gay Online Meat Market Grindr Hacked, User Data Compromised Forget about SOPA! Homosexuals across the land should be more than a little concerned this morning as news of a major security breach at Grindr and Blendr reaches the wires. It turns out
Arts & Entertainment Photo: 49ers Drink 'Homo' Milk In Locker Room Circa 1951 Today's Niners gem comes from What's On The 6th Floor, the blog for the San Francisco History Center and Book Arts and Special Collections. And what a collection it is. This week they
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Alex Smith's Arms... Chemistry skyrocketed into the stratosphere and inhibitions went missing for good as Adonis-like 49ers quarterback Alex Smith consoled and caressed New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees after Saturday's emotional NFL divisional playoff. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch Teenage Girl's Terrible Anti-Transgender Rant About Seven-Year-Old In Girl Scouts Teenagers can be horrid creatures. You know this already. In addition to being B.O.-laced, hormone-filled beasts, many of them lack clarity and independent thought. Exhibit D-: this 14-year-old girl from California
SF News Three-Page Apple Contract Sells For $1.6 Million The contract that established Apple Computer Company sold at auction today for a whopping $1.59 million. Purchased via phone by an anonymous bidder, the contract was signed on April 1, 1976, by
SF News Witnesses Sought in Possible Hate Crime in the Mission Mission Mission reports that on Friday, October 14, an alleged gay bashing incident occurred near Mission and 19th Streets. Eight men apparently jumped out of a truck and attacked four men outside of
