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 Pioneering Trans Performer And Onetime Marilyn Monroe Impersonator Aleshia Brevard Dies At 79 One of the first trans women in the US to receive sexual reassignment surgery, and a performer known for small roles in film and television as well as her spot-on Marilyn Monroe impression
SF News East Bay Antique Store Owner Harassed Over Displaying Rainbow Flag A longtime shop-owner in the community of Niles a town nestled in a canyon within the city limits of Fremont says that two men verbally harassed and tried to intimidate her on Thursday,
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From SF Pride Weekend, Trans March, Dyke March, And The Parade While tension and violence have marred a lot of demonstrations and celebrations around the world in the last year most notably the Bastille Day massacre in Nice last year, and this past weekend's
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 Drag Queen Juanita More! Kicks Off Pride 2017 With Three New Murals In SF "2017 marks my 25th year in drag in San Francisco, so these murals are very special to me," says local drag icon Juanita More!, a performer and fundraiser who is equally at home
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
SF News State Senate Approves Bill To Protect LGBT Seniors A bill authored by state Senator Scott Wiener and sponsored by Equality California to protect the rights of LGBT seniors in long-term care facilities was passed Wednesday by the California state Senate in
SF News UC Berkeley Plans To Build All-Gender Locker Room The University of California had already become the first university system in the US to add gender-neutral restrooms to its campuses back in 2014. But Berkeley being Berkeley, the school is moving the
SF News Chelsea Manning Will Remain On Active Duty When She's Released From Prison Private Chelsea Elizabeth Manning will be released from Leavenworth Prison in Kansas on Wednesday, May 17. When she's finally free, the transgender soldier and leaker of national security secrets will remain an active
SF News [Update] President Trump Expected To Sign Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Executive Order This Week Three months after a draft executive order was leaked that many saw as a thinly veiled attack on LGBTQ equality, sources close to the White House say that President Trump is aiming to
SF News Gay, HIV-Positive Asylum Seeker From Russia Living In Bay Area Detained By ICE In Florida The stakes are very high for 30-year-old Russian national Denis Davydov, who traveled to the US legally in 2014 and overstayed his visa, requesting asylum as an HIV-positive gay man who faces persecution
SF News LGBT Activists Livid After U.S. Census Bureau Removes Topic Of Sexual Orientation From Proposed 2020 Census LGBT rights advocates are speaking out in anger after the U.S. Census Bureau seemed to be reneging on a proposal to include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the upcoming
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Betty Who To Headline LGBT Pride Event At The Armory Australian pop star and burgeoning gay icon Betty Who is going to be headlining a major music event during Pride weekend in San Francisco this June, as SFist can exclusively report this morning.
SF News Suspect In Berkeley Homicide Prefers The Pronoun 'They,' Spurring Debate In early January, 22-year-old Pablo Gomez Jr., a senior at UC Berkeley, is suspected of brutally stabbing 27-year-old Emile Inman at the home she shared with several roommates on the 2400 block of
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Apologizes To LGBTQ Vloggers After Non-Sensitive Content Gets Filtered For Some Users There's been an LGBTQ vlogger revolt on YouTube that prompted an apology from the video platform Monday, but it's unclear if the issue that upset them has been resolved. As CNet reports, vloggers
SF News AIDS Memorial Grove Director Talks Museum Aspirations The National AIDS Memorial Grove, nurtured by more than 175,000 volunteer hours and visited by countless people, is preparing for new growth, perhaps adding a museum to present the history of the
SF News An AIDS Museum? National AIDS Memorial Grove Staff Explores Possibility Word is out regarding a "nascent" effort being "discreetly" explored by the staff of the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. The New York Times reveals the early stages and aspirations
SF News Woman At Center Of Valencia Standoff: 'That Was Not A De-Escalation, That Was An Escalation' We're now learning more about the suspect who was at the center of the shelter-in-place emergency and seven-hour standoff at the Crown Hotel on Valencia Street Friday. 57-year-old Samantha Helstrom, a trans ex-Marine
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
