SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News Lawsuit Filed To Shut Down LGBT Pride Party At Civic Center Because Of Shootings It is true that shootings resulting in injuries have occurred at or around the massive Civic Center Pride celebration in each of the last several years. And following lawsuits involving a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SF LGBT Pride 2015 Complaints about the increasing heteronormativity of the event aside, and despite a handful of arrests for public drunkenness and a couple of handguns seized, Sunday's LGBT Pride Parade was a largely peaceful, altogether
Arts & Entertainment When, Exactly, Did Pride Become A Party For Straight Teens? This is not going to be a long-winded essay, because the question has been asked for years now and the answer is pretty simple. When did LGBT Pride, which was once called Gay
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho To Host Pre-Pride Benefit Called 'Cirque' At Dirty Habit SF-born comedian Margaret Cho, whom we've been seeing a whole lot more of since her recent divorce, will be back in town hosting a pre-Pride affair on Thursday, June 25, at Dirty Habit
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
Arts & Entertainment Like Pink Saturday, Dyke March To Start Much Earlier This Year In an effort to curtail late-night crowds, hooliganism, and violence, in the Castro, the entire schedule of the Saturday of Pride weekend is shifting up by several hours, which includes the traditional early
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday," even
Arts & Entertainment Pink Saturday Will End At 8 PM, Will Have More Music And Stuff In the ongoing negotiations over how to move forward with Pink Saturday the traditional Saturday night sh*tshow in the Castro post-Dyke March, pre-Pride parade day the LGBT Center has stepped up to
SF News Exclusive: Protesters From Prison-Themed Party At Armory Released Pending Further Investigation Three protesters from the demonstration that turned reportedly violent outside the Armory on Saturday night, stemming from a controversial Pride weekend circuit party with a prison-fetish theme, were released from Sheriff's Department custody
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Panders To Gay Fast Food Fans With 'Proud Whopper' Stunt At S.F. Pride Burger King scored a potentially viral advertising hit at least among left-wing beef eaters with this new video about the "Proud Whopper," which was launched as a limited promotion at a single location
SF News Protest At Prison-Themed Pride Party Turns Violent, Six Arrested [Update] There was a protest outside the Prison of Love party on Saturday at the Kink.com Armory, with about 150 protesters who—though mostly peaceful—pelted guards and early partygoers with fruits and
SF News Tim Cook Marches With Huge Apple Contingent In S.F. Pride Parade At the massive LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, not-openly-gay Apple CEO Tim Cook joined thousands of other Apple employees in a company contingent, marching to show their support. Several employees
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 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
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
Arts & Entertainment 'The Advocate' Once Again Tries To Convince Us That San Francisco Isn't Gay Enough Even though The Advocate is barely even a publication anymore, they have a website and some sort of shoestring budget and every January they update their idiosyncratic, totally arbitrary list of the gayest
SF News Bradley Manning Verdict Arrives [Updated] The verdict in the court-martial of former Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning was expected today from the military judge hearing the case at Fort Meade, Maryland, and it all hinges on whether
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
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
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
