Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco's 2022 Pride Weekend Felt Like a True Return to Form When the pandemic came down in a life-altering thud back in March of 2020, life as we knew it changed forever. The past two years have seemed like, more than anything else, a race to a semblance of normalcy; SF Pride reached that finish line over the weekend.
SF News East Bay Groups Throwing Pride Prom For LGBTQ+ Teens A PFLAG chapter in eastern Contra Costa County is hosting its first ever Pride Prom in April, inviting LGBTQ+ teens from all the local district's high schools to attend.
Arts & Entertainment Another Beloved El Rio Party, Daytime Realness, Triumphantly Returns This Weekend Daytime Realness was still in the midst of its November-to-March hiatus when the pandemic hit last winter. So now, for the first time in 21 months, this popular queer party at El Rio is returning on Sunday with its first ever pre-sale tickets.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa LGBTQ Mainstays Oasis and The Eagle Reopen For Pride; Oasis Unveils New Party Slate Both Oasis and the Eagle Tavern are reopening indoors and out this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began, bringing LGBTQ nightlife back to SoMa in time for Pride.
SF News One in Six Gen Z Adults Identifies as LGBTQ, Raising the National Percentage By 1.1% According to a newly released Gallup poll, America is getting queerer every year, confirming what many educators around the country have been saying for a number of years.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Art Center Presents 'Trans Resilience is Powerful' Exhibit To Honor BIPOC Trans People Though Trans Day of Resilience — which takes place every year on November 20 to mourn trans individuals murdered by acts of violence — was Friday, the Haight Street Art Center's newest exhibit honoring BIPOC trans people will be on display until January 31.
SF News California Investigating Whether COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects LGBTQ Community The state will start reporting sexual orientation and gender identity in its COVID-19 counts, as LGBTQ activists suspect their community is particularly hard-hit.
SF News 'People's March & Rally' Reminds San Francisco the Fight for Equality Isn't Over on SF Pride's 50th Anniversary Pride in SF this year saw the pandemic shutter its iconic parade and almost all other events. But, one of today's LGBTQ rallies galvanized the notion that the fight for radical, all-inclusive acceptance isn’t over — and helped reintroduce Pride to its activist origins.
SF News Harry Britt, Openly Gay SF Supervisor Who Succeeded Harvey Milk, Passes Away at 82 Harry Britt, the lauded LGBTQ rights activist and former SF supervisor, died earlier Wednesday at Laguna Honda Hospital after suffering from years of health issues; he was 82 years old.
Arts & Entertainment Frameline Still Doing An Online Film Festival in Late June, Announces Lineup The full Frameline is still postponed til fall, but they’re filling your late June with an online mini-Frameline called “Frameline44 Pride Showcase”— which includes a drive-in show in Concord!
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 Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley Will Be Held Virtually for 2020 It's official: Up Your Alley and Folsom Street Fair will continue on as digital events this year, with plans underway to champion each happening's celebrated sex-positivity and sense of community — from behind a screen.
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From Saturday's 'A March to Remember & Reignite Hope' Display in The Castro Juanita MORE!, San Francisco's indefatigable drag matriarch, walked down The Castro — flanked by locals and a sea of sequined regalia — yesterday afternoon to lay wreaths down at both defunct and thriving queer businesses, spotlighting the need to safeguard SF's queer legacy and culture.
SF News Google Could Be Barred From SF Pride For Allowing Homophobic Harassment The historically corporate-friendly SF Pride could end up taking a stand, amidst controversy over Google’s YouTube saying that racist and homophobic videos “don’t violate our policies.”
SF News ‘Straight Pride’ Parade Effort, Regrettably, Has A Bay Area Connection You’ll be none too shocked to hear that the ‘Straight Pride’ publicity stunt is a front for a violent far-right group, but one founded by a Daly City man with a history of assaults at Berkeley rallies.
Arts & Entertainment Security Concerns Prompt Fundraising Drive For SF Gay Men's Chorus Red State Tour In 30 days, we go on tour in the South. We’re adding more security to keep safe - can you donate to help? Donate: https://t.co/vKK4P2QdmT pic.twitter.com/t0w1S9MbqT—
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
SF News Chelsea Manning, Nancy Pelosi And Others React To Proposed Trans Military Ban President Trump's announcement via Twitter Wednesday morning that he planned to ban trans people from military service is already sending waves of anger through the LGBT community and has hopefully, finally, made Caitlyn
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dykes On Bikes Rings In 41 Years Of Pride Loosely established in 1976, the quintessential opening act of all SF Pride parades, Dykes on Bikes, rolled through SF for the 42nd time on Sunday. As KTVU reports, there were just two dozen
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Filmmaker Leo Herrera Imagines A World In Which AIDS Never Killed Our 'Fathers' San Francisco-based filmmaker Leo Herrera has been at work over the last year on a film that explores a vision of a contemporary world in which AIDS never happened, a 59-year-old Keith Haring
SF News California State Employees Now Have Eight States They're Not Allowed To Travel To With Tax Dollars Back in January, in the wake of a series of new laws in mostly Southern states that promote or condone discrimination against the LGBT community, a California law took effect banning the use
Arts & Entertainment The Best Gay And Lesbian Clubs And Parties In SF It's been a minute since SFist has run down the coolest lesbigay clubs and parties around town, and a few things have closed and ended and some others have popped up since we
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News SF Pride Parade To Officially Look More Like A Protest This Year, Will Lead With 'Resistance' Contingent At least in 2017, the annual Pride parade and Civic Center celebration on Sunday isn't going to be just about straight teens and allies wearing rainbow socks. SF Pride announced Monday that this
Arts & Entertainment Google Doodle Honors Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker's Birthday New Google Doodle Celebrates Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker on What Would Have Been His 66th Birthday https://t.co/wViMwmebem pic.twitter.com/P8KYWXdjuK— Towleroad (@tlrd) June 2, 2017 In honor of
