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
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
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, Pink Saturday Not Cancelled, Will End Early And Be Paid For By City Though the story that Pink Saturday was cancelled was widely, incorrectly reported a couple weeks back, the fact is that with or without the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence manning the gates, 10,000
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro Resident Greeted With Vicious Homophobia From Curry Boyzz Delivery Driver Many residents in the Castro were amused when a nondescript restaurant on 18th Street transformed five years ago into an Indian/Pakistani restaurant called Curry Boyzz perhaps in an attempt to pander to
SF News Rep. Mike Honda Tweets Support For His Transgender Granddaughter As the proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild, I hope she can feel safe at school without fear of being bullied. pic.twitter.com/NDIfOdW9sk— Rep. Mike Honda (@RepMikeHonda) February 18, 2015 Congressman
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Nooo! Longtime Polk Gulch Trans Club Divas In Danger Of Closing The long, slow death of the LGBT elements of Polk Street has been discussed and mourned frequently for the last two decades. But now an iconic business that has survived all the change
SF News 'ShutdownCastro' Brings MLK Weekend Protests To Gay Community Saturday night in gay white district disrupted @qtpocliberation #shutdowncastro #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/thSEdH71ND— aileen santos (@theraven219) January 18, 2015 With protests happening throughout the Bay Area on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
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 Suspect Arrested, Charged With Hate Crime In Stabbing Of Transgender Woman Brodes Wayne Joynes of San Francisco was identified as the sole suspect in the stabbing of a transgender woman, Samantha Husley, as police Sergeant Monica Macdonald has told the Examiner. Allegedly, it was
Arts & Entertainment GLBT History Museum Seeks End-Of-Year Donations To Help Relocate Their Archive The Castro-based GLBT History Museum is reaching out for end-of-the-year, tax-deductible donations because one of the big projects they've got to undertake in the new year is moving their entire, diverse archive of
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 Fondue, Indigo Girls Karaoke: Lesbians Design Their Dream Bars When Buzzfeed learned of the Lexington Club's impending closure, they asked real live lesbians to design their own dream bars. As queer spaces become a diminished presence in America, the fanciful results are
SF News Apple CEO Tim Cook Officially Comes Out In Essay: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" Everyone knows that Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay, but he hasn't come out... until now. Writing in a personal essay for Bloomberg Businessweek, he definitively said, "While I have never denied my
SF News Case Of Agender Teen Burned On AC Transit Bus May Go To Trial The disturbing case of an agender Oakland teen who was allegedly burned on an AC Transit bus by another teenager — which is being treated as a homophobic hate crime — could go to trial
SF News Pride's Shame: SFPD Investigating Pink Saturday Hate Attacks In SoMa, Castro In two separate incidents this Saturday, people coming from San Francisco's Pride celebrations were jumped by groups of people who made potentially-homophobic remarks before beating them, in attacks the San Francisco Police Department
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 Prison-Themed Pride Party At Armory Causes Stir Among The Easily Offended A prison-themed circuit party geared toward gay men, organized by national big gay party promoters Masterbeat at the Kink.com Armory, is causing panties to be wadded in certain LGBT circles. Why? Because
SF News Man Shot At SF Pride Sues For $10 Million Should past violent incidents at events like Halloween, Pink Saturday, and previous SF Pride celebrations have spurred Pride organizers to increase the level of security for their 2013 event? "Absolutely," says the attorney
SF News In Historic Decision, Medicare Lifts Ban On Sex-Change Surgery A staunch 74-year-old trans woman and Army veteran went toe to toe with Medicare over their denying her coverage of her sex reassignment surgery, and won. In a major decision today, the Department
SF News Christian Hate Group Urges People Not To Accept Mail With Harvey Milk Stamp As you may have heard, the first Harvey Milk commemorative stamps were released for sale by the US Postal Service last week. Now, a group that can always be counted on to say
SF News S.F. Catholic School Cuts Girl's Yearbook Photo Over Tuxedo San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep school got a thwhack from the social media ruler this week after the school banned a girl's yearbook photo because she decided to wear a tuxedo. According
SF News LGBT Teen Who Committed Fake Hate Crimes Against Herself 10 Years Ago Speaks Out This is likely a story you only noticed or cared about if you were a) growing up in Marin in 2004-05, or b) paying close attention to LGBT hate-crime news, but it did
Arts & Entertainment SFFS To Honor Jeremy Irons For Integrity, Ignores His Weird Opinions On Marriage Equality The San Francisco Film Society has announced that this year's recipient of the Peter J. Owens award for excellence in acting will be Jeremy Irons, an artist recently known as much for his
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Trans Performer Vicki Marlane Gets Tenderloin Block Named For Her Local legend and Aunt Charlie's fixture Vicki Marlane, who was a pioneering drag performer going back five decades in San Francisco before her 2011 death, will make history again as the city is
