SF News Under Conservative Pressure, Boy Scouts Delay Decision on Allowing Gay Members After conservative organizations countered President Obama’s push for the Boy Scouts of America to accept gay members, the organization has delayed a decision until May, citing "the complexity of this issue". The
SF News Gay Former 49er Charged With Beating His Ex-Boyfriend Kwame Harris, former San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders offensive, will appear in court this week for allegedly assaulting his ex-boyfriend outside a Chinese food restaurant in August 2012. The fight, it seems,
Arts & Entertainment 2012 Gays In Review In a city that, let's face it, isn't as welcoming to the gays as it once was, Marke B. turned out a joyous and thoughtful review of LGBTs in 2012, touching upon both
SF News Semper Fidelity: Marine Makes First Gay Marriage Proposal In The White House U.S. Marine Corps captain Matthew Phelps sparked the envy and ire of gay men across the country after proposing to his boyfriend, Ben Schock, in the White House on Saturday. This effectively
SF News Carnival Cruise Forbids Drag Queens During Drag Cruise [Update] In the words of Latrice Royale, "The shade, the shade of it all." Around 1,500 passengers who booked tickets aboard Al and Chuck Travel's Drag Stars at Sea -- 2012 Caribbean Adventure
Arts & Entertainment Ma, I'm Queer: Tell Us Your Coming Out Story Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day, a day when you can either come out of the closet to family and friends, or share your own coming out story. For those of
SF News Activists Protest San Francisco's New Tipsy Archbishop Roman Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone made his debut performance on Thursday at St. Mary’s Cathedral amid dozens of civil rights advocates gathered outside the church. Why? Cordileone is staunchly anti-gay and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infographic: Gays Drink, Dine Out More Than Straights Target 10 (via SF Weekly) turns your attention to this helpful infographic that, once and for all, gives proof that queer folks drink more and dine out more often than their heterosexual brethren.
SF News Video: Castro Theatre Manager Goes Off On Nudists, Journalist George Davis, a transplant from Tennessee who once ran for mayor of San Francisco, likes to get naked in the Castro. And good for him. The Castro, famous for being the queer historic
SF News Berkeley On The Fence About Official Bisexual Day Bisexuals are often shunned (and often altogether disbelieved) by their straight and queer counterparts. Which is why, in part, Berkeley wants to make September 23 the city's official Bisexual Day. The City Council
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Just In: The Gays Get To Keep Eagle Tavern This just in: The San Francisco queer community gets to keep the Eagle. Via a very, very excited update on the Save the Eagle Facebook page, "Gays sign Eagle Lease!!!! Party at Lone
Arts & Entertainment John Cameron Mitchell's Mattachine Dance Party This Saturday Noted for being one of the first "homophile" organizations in the United States in 1950, the Mattachine Society were an anarchistic bunch of fun gays who liked to drink while being pinko political.
SF News Chick-Fil-A Judgement Day Ends With Accusations Of Fascism, 'Christophobia,' Possible Brain Damage After yesterday's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day drew hundreds of thousands of people clogging drive-thrus and arteries across the country, the media had a chance to put the whole controversy over Dan Cathy's comments supporting
SF News God Hates Flacks? Chick-Fil-A Spokesman Dies Of Heart Attack Donald Perry, Vice President of Corporate Public Relations for Chick-Fil-A, has reportedly passed away this morning in Georgia due to a heart attack. Chick-Fil-A, we assume everyone knows at this point, has been
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rick Santorum Spreads Chick-Fil-A Love With Subtle Gay Bashing Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum wormed his way back into the news the only way he knows how: with confusion and hate. After this week's news that the Jim Henson company parted
Arts & Entertainment Lesbian To Sue Comedian Eddie Griffin For Taunting Her During Stand-up Show San Jose resident Fiona Walshe, 39, is mad. She went to see comedian Eddie Griffin perform in Pleasanton recently, and he wasn't very nice to her. Walshe says that she and her partner,
SF News Internet Tries To Figure Out Sally Ride's Posthumous Lesbian Revelation Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, passed away yesterday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Ride, who joined the space program in 1978, led something of a reserved life up
SF News After Gay Co-Founder Gets Hitched, Facebook Adds Adorable Same-Sex Marriage Icons To Timeline Blessed be the July 4th week news dump. Let's see, so far we've got TomKat and aliens, Anderson Cooper (finally!) coming out as gay, and now we have news that the fine folks
Arts & Entertainment Watch San Francisco Gay Pride Parade Live! While catching up on the OccuPride drama, be sure to also watch Donna Sachet and Michelle Meow host the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade live right now! Behold: Live Video streaming by Ustream
SF News OccuPride Intercepts SF Gay Pride Parade OccuPride, the Occupy movement for Gay Pride, temporarily blocked the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade today, effectively slowing down the route for contingents while making their presence known in a peaceful manner. An
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops, San Francisco's Very First Gay Sports Bar, Opening This Fall Out of the appletini-infused rubble of Lime shall sprout the life of a glorious new bar in the Castro. A gay sports bar, at that. It shall be christened Hi Tops. And it
SF News 'Gay' No Longer A Slur, Says New York Court A mid-level appeals court in New York ruled on Thursday that gay is okay — specifically, it's no longer considered a slur to call someone "gay." The ruling was sparked after Mark Yonaty of
Arts & Entertainment Flowchart: When It's Okay To Say 'Gay' The wonderful folks at Laughing Squid bring our attention to this handy flowchart created by comic Sam Killermann (of It's Pronounced Metrosexual) that lets you know when it's appropriate to use "gay." He
SF News San Diego Gets Harvey Milk Street Down in the land of flip flops and fish tacos, Harvey Milk's legacy will be honored via a new street name. San Diego will rename a street in honor of the slain gay
SF News 'He Let Go Of Fear': Reaction To Obama Evolved Stance On Gay Marriage In light of this week's announcement that Barack Obama supports gay marriage, making him the first-ever sitting U.S. President to make such a profound statement, response to the news has been mostly
