Arts & Entertainment New Online LGBTQ Magazine Details Bar Reopenings and Pride Parties Happening Again In-person nightlife events are starting up again, and a new online weekly event listing site called Fa-Word details all the events and reopenings that are here and queer in SF.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Raises $160K, Starts Distributing Grants to Eligible Applicants COVID-19 has surely hindered San Francisco’s queer nightlife community, leaving bartenders sans pay and prompting entertainers to embrace Twitch. In response, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund has been amassing donations to aid those workers and will begin distributing some $160K to accepted applicants.
Arts & Entertainment This Year's Online Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary Contests Helped Our Spirits Rise Again SF’s annual Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contests took place online this year — like most events these days. The Easter Sunday 2020 display of skimpily dressed Jesus and Mary look-alikes was, truly, a spiritual sight to behold from its respective Zoom and Twitch channels.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Launches to Bring Financial Relief to the Community Two days into San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, it’s as clear as ever that our local nightlife community needs our help. Yesterday, some respected SF LGTBQ figures rallied together to launch the city's Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF), which will offer monetary aid to that affected cohort.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
Arts & Entertainment Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today One of the final pieces in the major sidewalk-improvement project in the Castro had its dedication ceremony this morning, and that's the series of embedded plaques dubbed the Rainbow Honor Walk. The plaques
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Artists Seek Donors For 'Gay Men Draw Vaginas' Book A pair of Oakland-based artists/humorists have been setting up vagina-drawing booths over the past two years, sometimes making appearances at Gay Beach in Dolores Park and in the Castro, asking gay men
SF News The Gay Rights Fight Started In California, Two Decades Before Stonewall This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, and, for that reason, this is the weekend that the cities of San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Paris,
Arts & Entertainment EJ Johnson, Magic Johnson's Newly Famous Gay Son, To Bring #Flawlessness To SF Pride Parade Not sure how I missed this earlier, but San Francisco Pride scored serious points with one of their celebrity Grand Marshal picks this year at least in the eyes of reality television watchers
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Shirley Temple On: Here's Your 2014 Sober Pride Guide By Beth Spotswood While alcohol can definitely enhance certain experiences, it can also ruin others: like driving a car or healthy communication. More importantly, booze isn’t necessary to have a good time;
Arts & Entertainment An Insider's Guide To Pride Week 2014 Every year, we try to bring you an overview of all the LGBT goings-on about town during this most festive of weeks on the gay (and lesbian and trans and bi and queer
Arts & Entertainment Hard French Throws Pride Party Dedicated To Six Iconic Queer Artists This year's fourth annual Hard French Hearts Los Homos party, which happens on Sunday after the big Pride parade at Mezzanine, is dedicated to "Los Idolos," a half dozen icons of recent queer
SF News Gavin Newsom Demands Apology From Rick Perry Over Gay Comments Lieutenant governor and gay marriage hero Gavin Newsom took to Twitter yesterday to scold Texas governor Rick Perry for his ignorance about gay stuff. And he's demanding that Perry apologize. To recap, Perry
SF News Video: 1980s News Coverage Of S.F.'s Pioneering Gay Rights Advances This is pretty weighty stuff, so not a palate cleanser, but in honor of Pride month, check out this pretty stunning, hour-long supercut of archival news footage pertaining to gay rights and the
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About Her 10th Annual Pride Party, Jake Shears, and Teaching Uber Some Manners It's happening. Once again it's Pride Month, and soon it will be Pride Week, and for the tenth year running local drag star Juanita More will be throwing her big end-of-the-weekend bash, which
