SF News Dyke March Officially Cancelled, But May Happen Anyway It hasn't exactly been the most organized and controversy-free event of the Pride Season, but this year's Dyke March is apparently coming with some extra organizational turmoil.
SF News Census Bureau Might Finally Ask About Sexual Orientation on 2030 Census Now, maybe, finally, more than 50 years after the movement began for LGBTQ civil rights, the U.S. Census Bureau is moving ahead with adding long-overdue questions about gender identity and sexual orientation.
Arts & Entertainment Gemini, a New Monthly Queer Day Party In SoMa, Aims to Bring Everybody Back to the Dancefloor A group of friends got together last year to imagine a new, post-pandemic LGBTQ party that would be ready to liven the scene at just the right moment. And they're hoping that's Gemini, which has its first outing at Holy Cow on Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Gilbert Baker, Creator Of The Rainbow Flag, Dies at 65 As announced by his longtime friend Cleve Jones on Facebook, Gilbert Baker, the creator of the first rainbow flag to symbolize gay equality, has died. He was 65. Jones recently spoke to SFist
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
SF News Ridiculous Ballot Measure Calling For Killing Of Gay People Tossed Out By California Judge In case there was any doubt, and needless to report, a California judge has summarily dismissed the proposed Sodomite Suppression Act, a ballot measure written by a bigoted Orange County lawyer that advocated
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
SF News Local Trans Icon Teresa Sparks On Caitlyn Jenner: 'This Could Be A Movement Shift' Former Police Commission president, one-time candidate for supervisor and now executive director of the SF Human Rights Commission, Teresa Sparks spoke with KRON 4 yesterday as the media was flooded with the images
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF News New Poll Confirms What Everyone Knows: SF Is Way Gay You know how we're always making fun of The Advocate when they pump out that click-bait list every year where they try to say some city like Dayton, Ohio is gayer than San
SF News Castro Braces For Big Pink Saturday/Pride Weekend As Sisters Bow Out As Organizers This year's Pride Weekend in June is set to be one of the biggest ever as the Supreme Court is more than likely going to decide in favor of federal gay marriage once
SF News This Week Marks The 11th Anniversary Of Gay Marriage In SF While the Supreme Court is hinting that the time has finally come this year for nationwide, federally sanctioned same-sex marriage, the whole idea is yesterday's news for the Bay Area. Literally. Yesterday, February
Arts & Entertainment SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park? Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood's history
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Not Safe For LGBT People? First it was drag queens, and now Native Americans have been the target of a Facebook crackdown over "fake" names, which actually are not fake. And it looks like this dates to around
Arts & Entertainment Once Again <i>The Advocate</i> Crowns Random American City That Is Not SF As 'Queerest' Just To Be Different Every damn year The Advocate has to pump out another list of America's gayest/queerest cities, and every year they try their hardest to be edgy, or something, by switching up the criteria
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour. SFist
Arts & Entertainment Should The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee Be Reaching Out To LGBT-Owned Businesses? Since this is the Bay Area, the nexus of the LGBT civil rights movement and home to one of the largest LGBT populations in the country, shouldn't the host committee for Super Bowl
Arts & Entertainment Cleve Jones' Birthday Honored With Moving Speech By Dustin Lance Black, 'Hair' Number By Jonathan Groff There was a big party Saturday night at The Café in the Castro in honor of the 60th birthday of longtime gay-rights activist Cleve Jones. He said all he wanted for his birthday
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
Arts & Entertainment NSFW: This Is What Foreskin Painting Looks Like, Everyone As I warned you over the weekend, there was indeed live painting happening at Castro Street Fair on Sunday, with one man's penis serving as the only paintbrush. Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project founder
SF News Live Foreskin Painting Will Happen At Castro Street Fair Sunday [NSFW] Anyone who's been to Castro Street Fair in recent years knows that there are always at least two booths there devoted to denouncing circumcision and celebrating "foreskin pride" and foreskin mutilation awareness. Well,
SF News Castro Crosswalks Turning Rainbow Today One of the final pieces of the months-long Castro Streetscape Improvement project falls into place today, and boy is it garish! Yes, the crosswalks of the neighborhood will forever be stained rainbow, like
SF News University of California Adopts Transgender-Inclusive Restrooms by Eric Wuestewald On Monday, University of California President Janet Napolitano instructed the 10-campus school system to install gender-neutral restrooms to better accommodate LGBT individuals. The result is a huge victory for gay
SF News Is Someone Seriously Calling Themselves The 'Real Name Police' For Facebook? Someone who has nominated themselves to be Facebook's "Real Name Police" has launched a Twitter account (only three followers so far) to show others how to report drag queens using stage names to
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
