Arts & Entertainment Compton's Cafeteria Site Receives Two Official Historic Landmark Designations Compton’s Cafeteria, site of the 1966 trans uprising, is now the first U.S. historic site recognized for its role in the transgender movement, earning state and federal landmark status last week.
SF News Robert Cromey, Former Trinity Church Rector and Longtime Champion of LGBTQ Civil Rights, Dies at 93 You may not know that there was a liberal priest in San Francisco who was performing same-sex marriages as far back as 1968. But there was, and he was a much beloved and sometimes controversial figure in the local Episcopal diocese.
SF News California, and Maybe SF, May Lift Bans on Official Travel to Anti-LGBTQ States It's become a complicated and perhaps pointless exercise for the State of California to enforce a ban on funding travel to 23 states with anti-LGBTQ laws now in effect, and a lesbian lawmaker is hoping to lift the ban soon.
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
SF News Supreme Court Provides Late-Term Victory for LGBTQ Civil Rights In Flower Shop Case The Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would let stand a lower court's ruling in favor of a gay couple in Washington State who were refused service by their local flower shop when they sought arrangements for their wedding.
SF Politics Bay Area Officials and Lawmakers React to Stunning Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Rights In many ways, the decision announced today by a Supreme Court with a 5-4 conservative majority marks the most significant legal milestone yet for LGTBQ people. Not everyone wants or needs to get married, but virtually everyone needs to find employment.
SF News Facebook Embraces Gender Spectrum In a coup for all Ts, Qs, Is, and everyone else on the non-gender-normative spectrum, Facebook has finally decided that one is allowed to be more than just "Other." The site has just
SF News SF Pride's Call For Grand Marshall Nominees Ends Today It's been a rocky ten months for SF Pride since the controversy first erupted among board members and others over the appointment of Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning to be an honorary Grand Marshall
SF News Pioneering Gay Activist Jose Sarria Dies At Age 90 Jose Julio Sarria, who in 1961 became the first openly gay person to run for political office in the U.S. running unsuccessfully for the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco died at
SF News Obama: Russia Will Be 'Weaker' Without Gay Olympians President Obama spoke out against Russia's new strict anti-gay laws this week. The first gay President first went on The Tonight Show to voice his opinions on the matter that has already sparked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Russian Vodka Spilled At SF City Hall As we mentioned yesterday, there was a protest today at noon in front of City Hall in which some LGBT activists were calling on the mayor to support the boycott of Russian vodka
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gays To Dump Russian Vodka Down The Sewer At City Hall Tuesday The controversial boycott of Russian vodka, in response to recent civil rights violations by the Putin regime and reports of violent treatment of LGBT Russians, comes to San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday
SF News Trans Male Teenager Prevails Over California School District, Will Be Treated As Male A California school district has been ordered by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education to treat a trans male ninth grader as male, despite his being born female. The teenager, who
