SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF News SF Artist Who Once Painted Kamala Harris On Heart Sculpture Becomes 'Ken' In Viral Video At South Bay Marshalls An artist and onetime LGBT talk-show host in San Francisco, Tim Gaskin, has popped up in a video that's gone viral after he was heard spewing a homophobic epithet and other angry words at a store employee in the South Bay over a demand that he wear a face mask.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Big Freedia Announced As Headliner for SF Pride 2020, More Artists Join Two-Day Online Celebration San Franciso Pride's virtual June 27–28 tribute to LGBTQ luminaries and queer solidarity now includes "the Queen of Bounce" Big Freedia as its headlining performer, with other notables like singer-songwriter Betty Who as well.
SF News SF Nonprofit Behind Bay Lights To Transform Pink Triangle Into Public Light Display for 2020 Amid social distancing requirements, 2020’s Pink Triangle on Twin Peaks — which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year — will be modified into a public light display for onlookers to appreciate from afar, illuminated by over 2,700 LED nodes.
SF News SF Queer Nightlife Fund Announces Second Round of Fundraising To Support Industry Workers After raising over $180K — procured largely from individual donations — the San Francisco Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF) announced a second round of fundraising Friday and, too, will accept new grant applications throughout May.
Arts & Entertainment SOMArts To Host Online Panel Discussing Virtual Frontiers for Performance Art Faced with the mounting uncertainty of what’s still to become of nightlife, the offbeat drag group Toxic Waste Face will host an online symposium in partnership with SOMArts to address queer artistry amid COVID-19 — and help envision a pathway forward.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Tenderloin Museum and the Roxie Present 'Gay San Francisco' Online Screening Tuesday evening, the Tenderloin Museum is presenting a screening of an underground documentary, shot on 16mm film, that captures some of crazier and most rarely seen images from real-life queer San Francisco in the late 1960s.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Canceled For the First Time; Organizers Promise 'Grander' Festivity In 2021 Following a week of vague messaging that gained some negative momentum in the press, SF Pride officially announced Tuesday that the 2020 parade and celebration in late June is canceled and will not be postponed to the fall.
SF Politics Supervisor Proposes Re-Legalizing Gay Bathhouses In San Francisco Over three decades after the scourge of the early HIV/AIDS crisis drove public health officials and then Mayor Dianne Feinstein to push for the shutdown of all gay bathhouses in San Francisco, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says that it's time to overturn this anachronistic and stigmatizing ordinance.
SF News SFPD to Host LGBTQ 'Listening Session' Tonight at GLIDE on the 53rd Anniversary of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot The SFPD will join Glide in hosting a "Reflection and Reconciliation Session" tonight. The first in a series of communal forums, these two-plus-hour conversations will offer the city’s police force the chance to hear from the LGBTQ+ folk they serve.
Business & Tech Eight LGBTQ YouTubers Sue Over The Company's Alleged Discrimination Against Them In an ever-evolving uproar around the tech-gargantuan that gave rise to viral makeup tutorials, eight LGBTQ YouTubers are suing the Google-owned video platform, saying, per court-released documents, that they’re being illegally discriminated against.
SF News Here Comes The Gayborhood: Castro May Be Designated As An LGBTQ Cultural District It’s no accident that Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s proposal to honor the Castro as an LGBTQ Cultural District goes before the Board on Tuesday of Pride Week.
SF News Attorney General Jeff Sessions Officially Rescinds Workplace Protections For Transgender People On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo rescinding workplace protections for transgender people. BuzzFeed procured Sessions' memo reversing the Obama Administration policy, which reads, in part: "Title VII’s prohibition on
Arts & Entertainment 'Saw' Ad Campaign Brings Awareness To Discriminatory FDA Blood Donation Regulations In a new ad campaign to promote Jigsaw, the Saw sequel nobody saw (sorry not sorry) coming, Lionsgate threw its money and weight into highlighting a longstanding issue with healthcare. In addition to
SF News Chelsea Manning Addresses Crowd In Berkeley At The 'March Against White Supremacy' In further evidence that Chelsea Manning is now a resident of the Bay Area, she showed up as a surprise speaker at a Berkeley rally Saturday to address crowds of anti-fascist marchers and
Arts & Entertainment A (Mostly) Gay Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend Parties It's time again for the city to fill up with tourists, not of the conventioneer and Alcatraz sweatshirt-buying kind, but of the latex bodysuit and leather chaps-wearing kind and it's the annual time
SF News UC Berkeley Students Find Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Abortion Chalk Graffiti On Campus Late last night, UC Berkeley students found Sproul Plaza covered in chalk graffiti containing hateful anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration, anti-abortion messages. A few of the tags read: "Illegals, ICE is coming"; "Build a wall, deport
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend's
SF News Queer Nightlife Personality Bubbles Fatally Shot On Tenderloin Street Anthony Torres, the flamboyant 44-year-old DJ and nightlife personality known around the Tenderloin as Bubbles and typically wearing large wigs and pink lipstick, was reportedly shot and killed early Saturday morning across the
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Oakland Pride, Feat. Alex Newell and Andra Day It's time again for the Bay Area's much smaller, much more recently inaugurated LGBTQ Pride celebration, Oakland Pride. On Sunday, for only the eighth time ever, Oakland celebrates its LGBTQ people with a
SF News Gay Sex Worker Attacked By 'Clients' Last Week In SF Blames Alt-Right Rally Gay sex worker and sometimes porn performer Jessie Colter opened up on social media over the weekend about an assault he was the victim of in a San Francisco hotel room by two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] SF's Oldest Gay Bar The Gangway Is Once Again Set To Close, May Become 'Kung Fu' Laundromat (Or A Straight Bar) We knew as of January 2016 that the owner of The Gangway, the oldest continually operating gay bar in the city, at 841 Larkin Street in the 'Loin, was looking to sell the
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
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
