SF News Oregon Court Rules 'Nonbinary' A Legal Gender In Case Of Retired Army Vet In a ruling that is believed to be the first of its kind within the United States, PBS reports that an Oregon judge ruled on Friday that an individual can legally change their
SF News Pride Organizers, Castro Businesses Reassess Security Measures In Wake Of Orlando Shooting Following the deadly mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, Supervisor Scott Wiener is convening safety meetings with the SFPD and members of the LGBT nightlife community to discuss security preparations for the upcoming
SF News As Many As 10,000 Attend Castro Rally, March To City Hall In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims Thousands of people people turned out last night at a Castro District vigil to honor those killed and injured in Sunday's mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub, an event that turned to a
SF News In Honor Of Orlando Shooting Victims, Castro Lowers Pride Flag To Half-Mast In advance of tonight's vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting, the Pride flag in San Francisco's iconic Castro District has been lowered to half-mast this afternoon. As you doubtlessly know by
SF News SFPD Vows Increased Police Presence In Castro For Pride Month Following Orlando Shooting Though there have been no credible threats against Bay Area targets, it stands to reason that the minds of LGBT people here have likely already leapt to the possibility of further, copycat attacks
SF News Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi, SF Mayor Ed Lee Respond To Orlando Mass Shooting As follow-up stories and reactions spread across the country early Sunday in the wake of the horrific mass murder at an Orlando gay nightclub, the Bay Area woke up to the news just
SF News Video: Reality TV Show 'Transcendent' Drops Season 2 Trailer Season two of Transcendent, the reality TV show that highlights the trans performers of AsiaSF, premiered last night on Fuse. Just like with the trailer for season one, the second season looks like
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Says Lawsuit Won't Deter Them From Throwing Civic Center Party News went around the gay web last week, via a Los Angeles law firm, that San Francisco's LGBT Pride celebration - the part that occurs throughout Pride weekend at Civic Center but grows
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Escalator Unveiled In Castro Welcomes Visitors To 'Gay Disneyland' A photo posted by Darwin Bell (@darwinbell) on May 19, 2016 at 9:27pm PDT While the population of the Castro may be getting a lot straighter, thanks to SFMTA the gayberhood's escalators
SF News Lawsuit Filed To Shut Down LGBT Pride Party At Civic Center Because Of Shootings It is true that shootings resulting in injuries have occurred at or around the massive Civic Center Pride celebration in each of the last several years. And following lawsuits involving a couple of
Arts & Entertainment Bob The Drag Queen, Winner of <i>Rupaul's Drag Race</i>, Coming To Castro Memorial Day Weekend The "Drag Queens of Comedy" tour, which arrives at the Castro Theatre for two performances on Saturday, May 28, has just added to the bill the breakout star from Season 8 of Rupaul's
Arts & Entertainment Film Shoot Damages Castro's Rainbow Crosswalks 'When We Rise' Shoot Causes Damage To Castro's Rainbow Crosswalks: https://t.co/RjXfcGNrAn by @YourProtagonist pic.twitter.com/iv8SXatD62— Hoodline (@HoodlineSF) May 14, 2016 The Castro's rainbow crosswalks were damaged last week
Arts & Entertainment 1970's-Era Star Pharmacy, Landmark In The Early Days Of AIDS, Recreated For One Day For Castro Shoot As mentioned briefly yesterday, more shooting has been going on in the Castro for When We Rise, the ABC documentary mini-series written by Dustin Lance Black, and based in part on the forthcoming
SF News Kasich Comes To San Francisco To Admit Gay People Are 'Probably' Born That Way Republican presidential non-hopeful John Kasich was in the Bay Area along with the rest of his compadres this weekend for the state Republican convention, and he spoke Friday at an event at the
SF News Historic Gay Bars Cited As Possible Reason To Block Massive Mid-Market Development A massive, 12-story mixed-use development that would include 250 residences and 232 hotel rooms just ran into trouble, and could potentially be pushed back years, as a result of the efforts of one
SF News Everything Rainbow: Castro Muni Escalators Getting Rainbow Lights Now In addition to rainbow crosswalks and a giant rainbow flag, the Castro will be getting one more reminder that it is the gay neighborhood: rainbow lighting up and down its Muni station escalators.
Arts & Entertainment Open Casting Call For LGBT History Series Shot In SF, 'When We Rise' That LGBT documentary mini-series that we told you about a few months back, When We Rise, has been shooting in recent weeks in Vancouver most notably, they just shot parts of the White
SF News Yep, Religious Group Now Suing Over Dolores Park Pissoir It turns out that threat of a lawsuit a couple months ago over the new Dolores Park pissoir from one conservative, anti-LGBT group, the Pacific Justice Center, has turned into a reality, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Kicked Out Of Tenderloin Bar For Looking Too Queer, Bar Apologizes A man who goes by Bubbles, but who's also known as local artist and queer character Anthony Torres, was summarily kicked out of one his regular watering holes on Thursday morning, and told
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gangway, SF's Oldest Gay Bar, *Might* Be Saved After All We at SFist and many others seriously lamented the potential imminent loss of The Gangway back in January, when a liquor license application showed that the place was in the process of being
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
Arts & Entertainment Behold: 100 Female, Queer, And Non-White 'Techies' In Portraits And Interviews "Techie" has become a narrow, and quite often, a narrow-minded term. That's why Helena Price, a startup worker turned photographer, put out the call for stories from "underrepresented" techies — a group she identified
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill 2,
SF News Bill To Make All SF Single-Occupancy Restrooms All-Gender Moves Forward San Francisco is poised to take a step toward common sense, as legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos to make all single-occupancy restrooms within the city all-gender was approved in committee yesterday. So
SF News Former Trans Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Speaks Out About Her New Transition, To Civilian Life Many of you will recall the plight of trans prisoner Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who last year became the second trans inmate to be granted state-funded sex reassignment surgery only to be paroled shortly thereafter.
