SF News Pink Saturday Officially Cancelled This Year Pink Saturday is no more. The street party that has traditionally taken place the Saturday before the Pride parade, dubbed the Pink Party last year, will not happen this year, reports The Bay
SF News Gay Fraternity Returns To SF State After 24 Years San Francisco State just welcomed back the first gay fraternity on campus in almost a quarter of a century. The fraternity, Delta Lambda Phi, is a national organization founded by gay men in
SF News Cleve Jones: We Have To Preserve Gayborhoods Because They Save Lives Outspoken human rights activist Cleve Jones has been on the front lines of LGBT liberation and equality fights since the early 1970s, when he arrived in San Francisco as a young man and
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Arts & Entertainment Dustin Lance Black And Gus Van Sant Return To Familiar Turf With SF LGBT History Doc Series The writer and director of 2008's Milk, Dustin Lance Black and Gus Van Sant, will be reuniting returning to the topic of LGBT history in San Francisco with When We Rise, an eight-part
SF News Bay Area Woman Becomes First Openly Gay Servicewoman Killed In Combat, In Afghanistan News broke late Tuesday that Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, a recent transplant to the San Francisco Bay Area, had become the first openly gay US military servicewoman to be killed in
SF News SF Trans Woman Attacked For Second Time This Year, Coffee Thrown In Face “I came here for safety and acceptance," Samantha Hulsey, a 25-year-old trans woman who moved to San Francisco from Savannah, Georgia in 2013, told the Chronicle after she was brutally assaulted for the
SF News [Update] Utah Judge Takes Foster Child Away From Lesbian Couple In Favor Of Heterosexual Couple, Citing Science A ruling Tuesday in a Utah court indicates just how much further we have to go, in various parts of the country, when it comes to LGBT equality. Judge Scott Johansen ruled that
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Video: 'Who Do I Look Like, A Girl Or A Boy?', A Documentary Short About Shannon Pat Local trans woman and all around eccentric Shannon Pat is an occasional fixture in the LGBTQ nightlife scene in San Francisco, though not many who meet her get to know much about her.
Arts & Entertainment Juanita More Talks About The End Of The Eight-Year Run Of Castro Club Booty Call Wednesdays Thanksgiving week will mark the end of an era for Castro nightlife as drag queen DJ and promoter Juanita More is ending her weekly party at Q Bar, Booty Call Wednesdays. Eight years
SF News Mayor Says He'd Be 'Open' To Letting Gay Bathhouses Back In SF, But Will That Happen? Mayor Ed Lee has been making the rounds of local publications, allowing himself to be interviewed by editorial boards in preparation for an election he's all but guaranteed to win (see the Chronicle's
SF News California Becomes First State To Set Guidelines Governing Sexual Reassignment Surgery For Transgender Inmates The California Department of Corrections Tuesday announced official guidelines regarding sexual reassignment surgery for transgender inmates, making California the first state to publicly set such standards. This move, which comes after two cases
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
Arts & Entertainment 42nd Annual Castro Street Fair Dedicated To Memory Of Late Drag Queen Cookie Dough Sunday marks the 42nd annual Castro Street Fair, a non-profit event founded by Harvey Milk in 1974 during the neighborhood's burgeoning days as a gay district. These days it is the calmer, less
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Ladies Of AsiaSF, Stars of 'Transcendent,' Offer Their Beauty Tips The new SF-based reality show I told you about last month, following the lives of five trans women who work and perform at AsiaSF in SoMa, is getting its premiere on the Fuse
Arts & Entertainment SFist's First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend 2015 As some in the local gay community call it, Folsom Street Fair weekend is the "high holidays," whereas Pride weekend is just "the holidays." And the high holidays are upon us once more.
SF News Caitlyn Jenner Is Coming To SF In February, Tickets On Sale Tomorrow The celebrity trans person that even your grandmother knows all about is coming to the City by the Bay, and it's likely to be a popular appearance. Caitlyn Jenner, who already has a
SF News Three-Year Study In SF Shows No New HIV Infections Among PrEP Users A 32-month study at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center found that among sexually active gay men who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) the HIV-prevention treatment program using the drug Truvada no
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of SoMa's 30-Year-Old Lone Star Saloon Says Bar Could Be Endangered Tony Huerta, the owner of the well worn and well loved SoMa gay bar The Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), wants to get out the vote this November for a local ballot
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
SF News Transgender Inmate Granted Parole, State Probably Won't Have To Pay For Surgery The transgender inmate who fought to have the prison pay for her sex reassignment surgery is unlikely to have it happen after being granted parole. In April, a federal judge forced the state
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
Arts & Entertainment Gay Porn Studio Adds Trans And Bio-Female Porn Stars, Controversy Erupts A notorious local gay porn studio is set to release a gangbang porn flick with a woman and a trans woman in starring roles, but the gang’s not all on board. Treasure
Arts & Entertainment One Of The GlamCocks Talks About Bringing Burning Man Energy (And Costumes) To Gay Nightlife As SFist noted in this roundup of gay parties last month, one of the most noticeable trends in SF gay nightlife the last year or so has been the infiltration of Burning Man
Arts & Entertainment [Semi-NSFW] The Dirty 30-Year History of the Up Your Alley Fair (AKA Dore Alley) The Up Your Alley Fair, informally known as the Dore Alley Fair, celebrates its 30-year anniversary with this Sunday’s bare-chested, manly iteration. To mark the occasion, the SF Leathermen’s Discussion Group
