SF News Confused Catholic Group Slams Board of Supes as "Nazis" In a continuing tactic used against anyone who goes against the religious right's attempts to harm and degrade the queer community -- which involves intentionally abusing the term "beliefs" -- they recently used
SF News Gay Pride Month Could Become "Gay Pride Month" June -- also known as the time of year when queer movies litter KQED and theater screens; lesbians come out of hiding, sporting oversized t-shirts and flip flops in an effort to remind
Arts & Entertainment Bevan Dufty Wants Floating Pink Cloud Above Castro In addition to the meth cloud that hangs above Beck's Motorlodge -- we kid! sort of. but not really. -- Supervisor Bevan Dufty would like to create a pink cloud that would float
SF News Breaking: New Hampshire Approves Gay Marriage "New Hampshire legislators," according to AP, "have approved a measure that would make the state the sixth to allow gay marriage." And Gov. John Lynch will, most likely, sign the legislation sometime this
SF News Alameda Schools Approve Curriculum on Gay Tolerance Parents of students in the Alameda School District are split down the middle regarding the district's decision to proceed with a new set of classes aimed at curbing anti-gay bullying. Starting next year,
SF News Prop 8 Upheld, Rules California State Supreme Court As anticipated, the California State Supreme Court ruled to uphold prop 8, the same-sex marriage ban. That means that gay marriage in the state of California is still considered illegal, effectively stripping away
SF News Prop 8 Announcement Today At 10 a.m. this morning, the state supreme court will announce its ruling whether to overturn or uphold prop 8, the gay marriage banned that passed last November. The constitutional amendment barely
SF News Gay Marriage Will Benefit Ailing Economy Gay marriage as an attack on small businesses? Because said small businesses would have to pay healthcare? Not even close, Michael Steel, chairperson of the Republican National Committee. That is a lie. What
SF News Openly Gay Student Wins Lawsuit Against Vallejo School District View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. NBC Bay Area reports that Rochelle Harrison, who has been openly gay since the age of thirteen, was ridiculed on a daily basis
SF News Gay.com Honor Thrills Mayor Newsom Gay.com named the winners of their annual Travel Awards. To no one's surprise, San Francisco was named Favorite Domestic Destination. Woo hoo! Gavin, of course, was equally elated. Because this means more
SF News Gap Recalls Children's Coats San Francisco retailer Gap Inc. has issued a voluntary recall for some Baby Gap coats due to a choking hazard. The coats, according to KTVU, have little "toggle fasteners," one that could detach
SF News 'Craigslist Killer' Into Male Genetalia? According to new reports, Philip Markoff, AKA the Craigslist Killer, accused of murdering 26-year-old masseuse Julissa Brisman, also went after biological men. An anonymous source in Boston told NBC News "I posted an
SF News Civil Rights Groups Ask Ninth Circuit to Reconsider Denial of Asylum to Gay Guatemalan After allegedly being beaten, sexually assaulted, threatened by a Guatemalan congressman, and chronically harassed by Guatemalan police, gay Bay Area resident Saul Martinez fled to the United States in 1992. Now, after years
SF News UPDATE: Amazon "Glitch" Causes Uproar Among the Gays Over the weekend, much of the GLBT community sent itself into hysterics after Amazon seemingly removed sales rankings from a large amount of LGBT books for deemed "adult" in content. That is to
SF News Iowa Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage Iowa became the third state in the U.S. (and the first in the heartland!) to legalize gay marriage today.The Iowa State Supreme Court "upheld a lower court's ruling that found a
Arts & Entertainment Gay Bears to Launch Surprise Attack on Badlands in Castro EXTRA EXTRA! Calling all bears! Guerrilla Queer Bar is launching a surprise Guerrilla Bear Bar attack on the more preppy/twink-friendly Badlands on 18th Street in the Castro. 5-10PM tonight.
SF News Newsom Named Grand Marshall for Long Beach Pride In an effort to sweet talk SoCal during his run for Governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom will be the Grand Marshall at the Long Beach Queer Pride Parade. Whether you like it or not.
SF News Equality California Debuts New Vidzzzzzzzzzzzzz Check out the above-embedded video -- it's fantastic stuff, produced a few months ago by Causecast. It elicits goosebumps. It's inspiring. It's upbeat without being sugary; and it's intense without being angry. It
SF News Courage Campaign Working on Something Big to Fix This Prop 8 Situation One of the big criticisms (and there are many) of the No On Prop 8 campaign was that there wasn't enough person-to-person canvassing. According to the folks managing the campaign, they had to
SF News Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW "Everyone has to be ready to have difficult conversations NOW," said Kate Kendall (Exective Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and one of the architects of the No On Prop 8
SF News East Bay Express Fuels Prop 8 Harassment Myth Ever since Prop 8 donor names were revealed, those who donated to allow discrimination in the California state constitution have feared retaliation from angry citizens. Problem is, we have yet hear one example
SF News SFist Fibs: Another American Apparel Post What with Bush out of office, American Apparel has, unfortunately, turned into a lightening rod for San Francisco's wrath. And who are we to argue with traffic gold? That said, American Apparel's "Legalize
Arts & Entertainment March in the Chinese New Year Parade with API Equality There's a lot to love about SF's fantastic Chinese New Year parade -- and a lot of love the parade as well. Marching for the fifth time in a row this year is
SF News New Prop. 8 Donor Names Released After all the brouhaha the Yes On 8 sect put the courts through finally subsided -- trying to keep proposition 8 donor name hidden, even though they were the first ones to threaten
SF News Branching out on Behalf of Gay Marriage: A Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Somewhere in Between? Just about everyone agrees: gays can win more support for civil equality by partering with ally-communities. This is a nice-sounding idea, particularly in the San Francisco bubble. But what does it mean --
