SF News As Many As 10,000 Attend Castro Rally, March To City Hall In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims Thousands of people people turned out last night at a Castro District vigil to honor those killed and injured in Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, an event that turned to a
SF News In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims, Castro Lowers Pride Flag To Half-Mast In advance of tonight's vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, the Pride flag in San Francisco's iconic Castro District has been lowered to half-mast this afternoon. As you doubtlessly know by
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
SF News Video: Reality TV Show 'Transcendent' Drops Season 2 Trailer Season two of Transcendent, the reality TV show that highlights the trans performers of AsiaSF, premiered last night on Fuse. Just like with the trailer for season one, the second season looks like
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Escalator Unveiled In Castro Welcomes Visitors To 'Gay Disneyland' A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on May 19, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT While the population of the Castro may be getting a lot straighter, thanks to SFMTA the gayberhood's escalators
SF News The Tea Room Theatre, Among City's Last Sex Clubs, Will Close The Tea Room Theatre, a longstanding home for all male adult entertainment and viewer participation in the Tenderloin, will close its doors according to a rumor of which the Bay Area Reporter has
SF News Historic Gay Bars Cited As Possible Reason To Block Massive Mid-Market Development A massive, 12-story mixed-use development that would include 250 residences and 232 hotel rooms just ran into trouble, and could potentially be pushed back years, as a result of the efforts of one
SF News Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To Mississippi After Anti-LGBT Bill Signed By Governor The number of US states to which San Francisco will pay for travel shrank again today, after Mayor Ed Lee banned all city-funded travel to the state of Mississippi after their governor OKed
SF News In Wake Of Anti-LGBT Law Passage, Mayor Ed Lee Bans City-Funded Travel To North Carolina Two days after the governor of North Carolina signed into law legislation that would eliminate protections for LGBT people and ban transgender people from using their gender-identified restrooms, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
SF News Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year Pink Saturday is no more. The street party that has traditionally taken place the Saturday before the Pride parade, dubbed the Pink Party last year, will not happen this year, reports The Bay
SF News Muni Stations Reportedly Defaced With Burning Pride Flag Photos Castro-area Muni riders were hit with a disturbing message Monday morning, when they were confronted with fliers depicting a burning Pride flag as they passed through two area stations. According to SFist tipster
SF News Gay Fraternity Returns To SF State After 24 Years San Francisco State just welcomed back the first gay fraternity on campus in almost a quarter of a century. The fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, is a national organization founded by gay men in
SF News Confirmed: Gay Bashing Took Place In The Marina, Outside Hi Fi Lounge The story of 28-year-old Jeffery Lafayette's beating by a group of guys on the Saturday before the Super Bowl went viral after he posted a video on Facebook in which he was trying
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
SF News Anti-Gay Group Threatens Lawsuit Over Outdoor Urinal At Dolores Park A conservative nonprofit threatened to sue the city of San Francisco on Thursday, claiming that the recently constructed open-air urinal in Dolores Park is illegal and insisting it must go. Arguing that the
Arts & Entertainment Dan Savage's 'HUMP!' Film Festival Adds Extra SF Shows You're in luck if you were denied tickets to next weekend’s HUMP! Film Festival, Dan Savage’s 11th annual collection of short, offbeat porn films from all over the sexual diaspora of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
SF News Bigoted Oregon Bakery Owners Finally Pay Up For Refusing Lesbian Couple Service The once-proprietors of an Oregon bakery who made headlines two years ago when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple have finally coughed up the fine they were court-ordered
SF News Couple Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Assault Of Trans Woman Whom Public Defender Refers To As Male Dewayne Kemp, 36 and Rebecca Westover, 42, an engaged couple, have plead guilty to charges that included assault in a November 15 crime against Samantha Hulsey, a young transgender woman in SoMa. The
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News Do You Recognize This Caught-On-Tape Mission Mural Vandal? The San Francisco Police Department hopes to figure out who's been repeatedly vandalizing a Mission District mural, by releasing video footage of an arson attack on the artwork and asking for public assistance
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
SF News Video: Follow Two Transgender People For A Year In Under 7 Minutes Transitioning | KQED News from KQED News on Vimeo. For State of Health, KQED has closely tracked two transgender people — Jamie Nelson, who identifies as a queer transgender male, and Jetta’Mae Carlisle, who
Arts & Entertainment Video: GaymerX Conference Organizers Debut Queer Gaming Documentary GaymerX, which debuted in San Francisco in 2013 as the first ever LGBT gaming convention, has been a huge success, even earning its own episode on HBO's erstwhile Looking. Now, as Boing Boing
