Arts & Entertainment Video: LGBT Activist Ken Jones Talks About The Impact Of 'When We Rise' Ken Jones, a longtime activist in SF's LGBT community, is one of the primary characters portrayed in ABC's somewhat fictionalized though mostly based-in-fact miniseries, When We Rise. As we noted the other day
SF News Could The Texas Supreme Court Actually Roll Back Marriage Equality? In a first of its kind challenge to the "settled law" of marriage equality, the Texas Supreme Court this week heard arguments in a case that questions to what extent Texas has to
Arts & Entertainment Ahead Of 'When We Rise' Part Two, ABC 7 Airs Pioneering AIDS Video Diary By Late Reporter Onetime ABC 7 entertainment reporter Paul Wynne decided in 1990, after being diagnosed with HIV and beginning to show the deterioration signs of AIDS, to document the final period of his life in
Arts & Entertainment These Are The Real-Life San Francisco LGBT Heroes Portrayed In ABC's 'When We Rise' The first of four installments of ABC's docu-drama miniseries When We Rise premiered last night, and will be available for your on-demand binging pleasure for a while to come (with the remainder of
SF News Apple, Uber, Google Speak Out Against Trump's Trans Rights Rollback; Facebook, Twitter So Far Silent Some big tech companies came out in support of trans rights and in opposition to the Trump Administration's latest attack on them, the directive issued Wednesday by the Departments of Justice and Education
SF News Pelosi, Newsom Respond To Trump Directive Reversing School Policy On Bathroom Use For Trans Students In an effort to pander to religious conservatives who desperately want to make America straight and cisgender again, President Trump's administration issued a directive late Wednesday, as they had been expected to do,
Arts & Entertainment Video: How SF Is (And Is Not) A Queer Safe Space "San Francisco is a city that is so queer it's easy to forget that, not long ago, it wasn't a safe place to be queer." So says filmmaker Heather Smith, who along with
Arts & Entertainment Castro Street Fair Gets Major Makeover After Nearly Going Under In 2016 "We're always living in fear of the day it rains," says Castro Street Fair Board President Juan Garcia. "The moment it started it raining, we were all looking at each other. We knew
SF News First State-Funded Inmate Sex Reassignment Surgery Takes Place In San Francisco Thursday marked the first court-mandated sex reassignment surgery for an incarcerated person in the United States, and the procedure took place in San Francisco. As KRON 4 reports, 57-year-old convicted murderer Shiloh Heavenly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Historic Castro Cafe Flore Sold To LGBT Buyers Who Plan To Keep It The Same The 43-year-old Cafe Flore has been purchased by new owners, who like the present ones are LGBT and who tell the Bay Area Reporter that they plan to keep the classic Castro watering
Arts & Entertainment Castro Bars Blare George Michael Hits, In Mourning Of A Gay Icon The passing of a gay icon like George Michael, way before his time, will continue to hit hard in the Castro and around the Bay Area for days to come a devastating blow
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Cancels Spring Shows In North Carolina Over Anti-LGBT Law Following in the footsteps of multiple corporations, Bruce Springsteen, and the NBA, the San Francisco Symphony is giving the middle finger to North Carolina and its pro-LGBT-discrimination law known as HB2, and canceling
Arts & Entertainment Watch Whoopi Goldberg, Guy Pearce, Rosie O'Donnell And More In 'When We Rise' Trailer The ABC miniseries event about the LGBTQ rights movement, When We Rise, shot earlier this year in San Francisco and elsewhere, is set for a February premiere, and the network just released the
SF News [Update] Supposed Escape Tunnel Under Historic Market Street Gay Bars Fails To Delay Large Development We learned last month of a skirmish occurring as a massive condo and hotel development at 950 Market Street is heading for its final approvals, due to the presence of several buildings that
SF News Gay Shame, AKA The 'Queers Hate Techies' Cabal, Target Local Campaign Offices, Wiener The loosely affiliated rabble-rousing group Gay Shame, which has for years postered the city in protest of mainstream LGBT groups and SF Pride, in support of Chelsea Manning, and last year with posters
SF News LGBT Community, GLIDE, And Homeless Advocates Protesting Props Q, R In Castro To protest propositions Q and R, San Francisco LGBT groups, organizations like GLIDE, and advocates for homeless people will come together in the Castro at Harvey Milk Plaza today, Thursday, at 5:30
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iconic 48-Year-Old Pac Heights Bar, The Lion Pub, Is Now Closed [Be warned a couple of images below are NSFW] An iconic fern bar on Divisadero, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before becoming more of a straight-people hang in
SF News In Blow To Anti-Gay Group Suing City, Judge Rules Dolores Park Pissoir Can Stay The gentlemen of Dolores Park's Gay Beach can pee easy today following a San Francisco Superior Court judge's ruling that the barely controversial pissoir can remain perched atop the southwest corner of the
SF News Site Of Long-Gone Gay Bars Could Stymie Mid-Market Development As Compton's Cafeteria Revival Proposed In New Building As we reported back in April, a couple of people are attempting to block a large mixed-use development on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth by saying that the long-ago sites of a
SF News Google's Decision To Sponsor Visa Of Anti-Gay Kenyan Activist Creates Internal Conflict Google is facing criticism from within today following news that the company invited a prominent anti-gay activist to attend a Mountain View tech conference this Friday. What's more, The Guardian reports that Google
SF News Chelsea Manning To Get Gender Reassignment Surgery: 'I Hope This Sets A Precedent' After a battle with the US Army dating back to her 2013 imprisonment on espionage charges, Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) has finally won permission to receive gender reassignment surgery. As CNN reports,
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's LGBT Pride Parade Is This Weekend The 7th annual Oakland LGBT Pride celebration goes down this weekend, and attendees should expect live music, parties, and, of course, a parade. Headliners include Deborah Cox and Lisa Lisa, and there will
Arts & Entertainment 1015 Folsom Cancels Performance By Virulently Anti-Gay Reggae Artist Sizzla Kalonji Notoriously anti-gay reggae artist Sizzla, a.k.a. Sizzla Kalonji, who is nonetheless one of the most prolific and popular contemporary reggae musicians in the world, was set to perform at SoMa nightclub
SF News Video: U.S. Navy Dedicates First Ship To LGBT Person, USNS Harvey Milk Tuesday afternoon, a ceremony was held on Treasure Island, formerly a Navy base, officially announcing the naming of the previously announced USNS Harvey Milk, the first Navy vessel dedicated to an openly gay
SF News Gay Widower Of Former KRON 4 Employee Sues After Being Denied Pension Benefit A pending legal case was brought to our attention this week by LGBT civil rights group the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) in which SF resident David Reed is suing the parent
