SF News Do You Recognize This Caught-On-Tape Mission Mural Vandal? The San Francisco Police Department hopes to figure out who's been repeatedly vandalizing a Mission District mural, by releasing video footage of an arson attack on the artwork and asking for public assistance
SF News LGBT Seniors To Get Passed Over In Senior Housing Complex Built For Them? The affordable housing development currently under construction at 55 Laguna Street, on the former UC Berkeley Extension campus between Market Street and Haight, is being co-developed by a non-profit that helps find housing
Arts & Entertainment Catholic Group 'Speaks From The Heart' Against Gay Marriage, Internet Mocks Them A conservative group called Catholic Vote gave the internet a gift last week in the form of a black-and-white YouTube video in which a group of well meaning Catholics all speak cryptically about
SF News [Update] Hateful Vandals Deface Mission LGBT Mural For The Fourth Time By Setting Fire To It Essentially spewing hate speech and threatening LGBT people in effigy, vandals have for the third fourth time defaced the "Por Vida" mural depicting gay, lesbian, and transgender Chicanos on 24th Street in the
Arts & Entertainment Here's A 7.5-Hour Pride Parade Broadcast You Can Watch Next Time You're Bed-Ridden Assuming that you, like many locals, slept in or otherwise avoided the downtown madness on Sunday, you can thank I Heart Media SF for doing their Today Show- at-the-Macy's-Thanksgiving-Day-Parade best to cover the
Arts & Entertainment Photos: SF LGBT Pride 2015 Complaints about the increasing heteronormativity of the event aside, and despite a handful of arrests for public drunkenness and a couple of handguns seized, Sunday's LGBT Pride Parade was a largely peaceful, altogether
SF News How The Castro Celebrated National Marriage Equality Castro Street was closed on schedule at 5 p.m., CNN had a live feed on the rally stage, and SF's cohort of openly gay politicians all got up to speak Friday evening,
SF News Local Fox Affiliate KTVU Possibly Canceling Pride Parade Coverage Because Of Nudity Expecting nudity, foul language, and at the very least a lot of jockstraps and bare asses, the general manager of local Fox affiliate KTVU has pulled the plug on its live coverage of
SF News The Bay Area Reacts To Historic Same-Sex Marriage Ruling; Street Party Planned In Castro Troy Brunet is here standing at 17th and Castro in San Francisco waiving this flag -- "it's like a sigh of relief" pic.twitter.com/4KsaspMWQc— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) June 26, 2015 Cars
SF News Ridiculous Ballot Measure Calling For Killing Of Gay People Tossed Out By California Judge In case there was any doubt, and needless to report, a California judge has summarily dismissed the proposed Sodomite Suppression Act, a ballot measure written by a bigoted Orange County lawyer that advocated
Arts & Entertainment How To Do SF Pride: An LGBT Pride Week Guide Of course you must know by now, at least via all the rainbow flags on Market Street or via your one gay friend, that it's LGBT Pride Week. As SFist has discussed in
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
Arts & Entertainment Watch 'The Rejected,' A Recently Rediscovered 1961 Documentary Thought To Be The First Ever Made About Gay People Two local archivists recently triumphed after a six-year treasure hunt, trying to locate an existing copy of a 54-year-old documentary that aired on PBS stations called "The Rejected." Made in 1961 and produced
Arts & Entertainment Video: Lesbian Couple Goes Online Shopping For Sperm If this video is any indication, the process by which lesbian parents conceive is a long, arduous process. Haley Jude a.k.a. Queer Mama has been vlogging her pregnancy, and one charming
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho To Host Pre-Pride Benefit Called 'Cirque' At Dirty Habit SF-born comedian Margaret Cho, whom we've been seeing a whole lot more of since her recent divorce, will be back in town hosting a pre-Pride affair on Thursday, June 25, at Dirty Habit
SF News Nightmare Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Mocks Trans People For Laughs As if more confirmation were necessary, "controversial" San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has again revealed himself to be a sanctimonious ass. He's done it this time by openly mocking trans people and the
SF News Video: Follow Two Transgender People For A Year In Under 7 Minutes Transitioning | KQED News from KQED News on Vimeo. For State of Health, KQED has closely tracked two transgender people — Jamie Nelson, who identifies as a queer transgender male, and Jetta’Mae Carlisle, who
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
SF News Retail Survey Says: Castro Getting Less Gay, But Remains Very Gay For the past year, a consulting firm has been working on a retail strategy for the Castro and Upper Market, helping to solve the question of why certain retail vacancies in the neighborhood
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF News Twitter Allows Promoted Tweet From Hate-Spewing Transphobic Troll In a case in which it appears Twitter had a not-so-strict screening method for a paid advertisement, several promoted tweets were allowed through the system from a fake account that expressed hatred toward
Arts & Entertainment Like Pink Saturday, Dyke March To Start Much Earlier This Year In an effort to curtail late-night crowds, hooliganism, and violence, in the Castro, the entire schedule of the Saturday of Pride weekend is shifting up by several hours, which includes the traditional early
Arts & Entertainment KALW's 'Out In The Bay' Turns 10 With Taping Party As "Out In The Bay" co-host Eric Jansen tells SFist, it began with the question, "Why isn't there an intelligent radio show about gay topics in, of all places, the Bay Area?" That
Arts & Entertainment Don't Call It Pink Saturday (This Year) As hinted at earlier, the traditional organizers/gatekeepers of Pink Saturday on Pride Weekend in the Castro, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are holding onto their rights to the name "Pink Saturday," even
SF News For LGBT Pride Night, A's Pitcher And Girlfriend Prepare To Pack The Stands Oakland A's closer Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend Eireann Dolan aren't just gearing up for the start of the regular season. They're already looking ahead to June, when the team will host its
