Arts & Entertainment Upcoming ‘Toy Story’ Prequel Has Disney’s First Ever Same-Sex Kiss — Because Bay Area Pixar Employees Fought For It Disney removed a same-sex kissing scene from the upcoming ‘Toy Story’ installment ‘Lightyear,’ but an uproar from artists at Emeryville-based Pixar got that gay kiss right back into the animated feature film.
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 News Arid Central Valley Town Cancels LGBT Pride Month Due To Straight Concerns In the wake of DOMA and Prop 8 decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court last month, Porterville, California Mayor Virginia Gurrola declared June to be LGBT Pride month, thus bringing the sprawling
SF News Get Hitched This Weekend: S.F. Clerk's Office Will Be Open During Pride After the announcement this afternoon that same sex marriages would begin immediately in California, the city will open the clerk's office in city hall until 8 p.m. Friday night and from 9
SF News Same Sex Marriages Resume Immediately In California! As of Friday afternoon, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has officially opened the floodgates for gay marriages to resume in California. According to the L.A. Times, individual counties can
Arts & Entertainment A History Of Gay Freedom Day, Dyke March, And Trans March Beginning today, the city's LGBT community will begin three days of public events that are widely seen as one big party, but which really have their roots in protest and should still be
SF News The Annotated SFPD Pride Weekend Public Safety Notice From time to time, SFist will, as a public service, lend these pages to copying and pasting from a press release. This is one of those times. Here's the SFPD's official Pride Weekend
SF News City's Homeless Census Finds A Shift In Demographics Although San Francisco's total population of homeless people hasn't changed much since the Human Services Agency last did their census in 2011, the agency included additional details in the demographic survey for the
SF News Complaints Fly Over Gay Pride Flags in Richmond, Calistoga The rainbow flag is flying at Richmond City Hall for the first time ever, this being 2013 and Pride month and gay marriage being front and center at the Supreme Court and all.
SF News Coming Out As Straight Is Hard When Your Dad Is Dan Savage While we can't say from experience whether it would be more or less difficult than coming out as a reformed homophobe, telling your parents that you're straight can be a difficult experience when
SF News S.F. Giant Speaks Out About Overcoming Crippling Homophobia In his new memoir To Stir a Movement: Life, Justice, and Major League Baseball, Giants pitcher and noted Jesus fan Jeremy Affeldt describes his experience coming out as a straight icon in a
SF News Westfield Mall In Roseville Throws Out Kissing Gay Couple The same mall that couldn't handle a flash mob or a rowdy Black Friday, couldn't handle a little PDA of the same-sex variety apparently. Daniel Chesmore, a student at U.C. Berkeley, and
SF News Carly-Rae Jepsen And Train Ditch Boy Scout Jamboree Headlining Gig Due To Anti-Gay Policy The Boy Scouts of America lost the headlining acts for their 2013 National Scout Jamboree today after every scout's viral video crush and pro-gay lady Carly Rae Jepsen bowed out along with popular
SF News It Gets Worse: 49ers Who Appeared In 'It Gets Better' Video Deny Making Video [Update] We get it. The NFL is a more homophobic arena than most. But suffice it to say, following on the whole Chris Culliver debacle, the 49ers need to keep their damn mouths shut
SF News Boy Scouts Possibly Doing An About-Face On Gay Ban In a surprising turn of events, the Boy Scouts of America is apparently close to reversing its stance on allowing gay scouts and scout leaders, just six months after the organization reaffirmed its
SF News Oakland Now Gayer Than San Francisco, Says 'Advocate' There's been a lot of talk lately about how hip Oakland is these days, but you know what no one has been talking about in the neverending San Francisco vs. Oakland debate? Just
SF News Christian Guy Pretends He's Gay, Writes A Book About It, People React Timothy Kurek, a young man from Nashville, Tennessee for whom "being an evangelical Christian was his identity" has sparked controversy with a new book called The Cross in the Closet about his experience