SF Politics Conservative Supreme Court Justices Once Again Do Injustice to Trans Service Members The Supreme Court has, once again, dealt a blow to transgender people serving in the United States armed forces, allowing President Trump's executive-order ban to stand while its constitutionality is being broadly questioned by lower courts.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Electric Jeep Catches Fire While Charging At Google Campus, Spreads To Other Cars A Boston man was arrested in the Bay Area for smuggling Irish nationals into the US; a boat containing 30 humanitarians, including Greta Thunberg, was reportedly attacked by Israeli drones; and four vehicles were destroyed on Google's campus.
SF News Scenes From The Castro March Against Trump's Plans For Trans People In The Military Protesters turned out in droves in the Castro Wednesday evening to express resistance to President Trump's Twitter declaration that transgender people would no longer be able to serve in the US armed forces
SF News 'Emergency Protest' Planned In Castro Following Trump's Ban On Trans People In The Military Following this morning's tweet-announcement by the president of a ban on trans people serving in the military something that could effect over 2,000 active-duty troops an "emergency protest" has been announced in
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
SF News Google-Owned Robot War Dogs Wail Too Loudly For US Military Use The future of the nightmare-fuel robot war machines designed by Google-owned Boston Dynamics looks bleak after the US Marines announced they would no longer work with the robo-dogs. The reason? The things are
SF News S.F. Pride To Host Military Recruiters Of course. The minds at SF Pride have now decided that it would be a good idea to host military recruiters at this year's San Francisco Pride fete at Civic Center. "Organizers of
SF News Dozens Speak Out In Support of Manning for Pride Marshal; Meanwhile, Manning Himself Begins Court-Martial As we mentioned last week, the SF Pride board relented in the face of growing pressure from the city and held another public meeting Friday regarding their decision to retract the honorary appointment
SF News Attack Ad: Christmas-Loving Rick Perry Ashamed Of U.S. Military Speaking of sanity-estranged, plummeting GOP candidate Rick Perry released an anti-gay television ad today, one that lambastes our country's military while claiming that our children cannot celebrate Christmas in school (which is a
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Blue Angels Aerial Acrobatic Exercises Fleet Week kicked off in our eyes and ears yesterday as the Blue Angels took to the skies to practice for the weekend air show. (They will rehearse again today from noon until
SF News Video: GOP Boos Gay Soldier at Presidential Debate During last night's GOP debate, it was difficult to watch the Google logo stand next to evil, so unintentionally in contrast with its corporate logo. Case in point: Rick Santorum expressing his opinion
SF News 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Ends Tonight at Midnight Your lesbian cousin in the Marines and that hot gay daddy you've been corresponding with in secret from his base in Afghanistan will no longer have to keep their loves undercover as of
SF News Obama Ends 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' As a friend succulently pointed out just now, "Obama just ended 'don't ask don't tell.' So much for staying in tonight." Indeed. President Barack Obama today signed a certification of Congress' repeal
SF News Pentagon to Say OK to Gays In Military Tomorrow Speaking of gay things, the breaking news this afternoon is that defense department officials are planning to certify, on Friday, the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. The WSJ reports that they'll be
SF News Heads Up: F-18's to Buzz San Francisco Any Minute Now Nope - not an early performance by the Blue Angels, but two similar, less blue F-18's will be pulling "practice military maneuvers between the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges from 2:30 to
SF News Troops Told 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Still In Effect Despite President Obama repealing 'don't ask, don't tell,' the U.S. military's ban on gays serving in the military, "Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a memo to troops warning them that it
SF News Senate Moves Forward to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' The Senate today "voted to advance legislation that would overturn the military ban on openly gay troops known as 'don't ask, don't tell.' " That is to say, the ban on openly gays
SF News House Passes 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal The House voted today to repeal the U.S. military's ban on LGBT service. Wednesday's vote, 250-175,"propels the issue to the Senate for what could be the last chance for now to
SF News Discharged Gays Sue Government Over DADT in S.F. Federal Court Three veterans who were all discharged under the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy have filed a new lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claiming that the policy violated their
SF News Troops, Families OK With Gay Service Anyone with a working brain and modicum of commonsense knows by now that there's 0.0 wrong with LGBT ilk serving in the military. AP reports: "An internal Pentagon study has found that
SF News Judge To Deny Government On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Stay According to reports, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said she is "learning toward denying a government request to delay her order halting the military from enforcing its ban on openly gay troops.
SF News Judge Orders Military to Halt 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Immediately U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips of Riverside ordered the U.S. military to "immediately halt all discharges of openly gay personnel under 'don't ask, don't tell,' a policy she declared unconstitutional
SF News 'God Hates Fags' Case Goes Before Supreme Court Today's the day that Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are standing before the Supreme Court in a First Amendment case relating to their military funeral protests. The justices appeared to
SF News Blue Angels Arrive at SFO by Andrew Dalton Right on schedule with some crisp October sunshine, Telstar Logistics (the only logistics company worth following on twitter) lets us know that the Navy's Blue Angels will be screaming in
SF News Republicans Block 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Well, that was quick. Even after Lady Gaga held some sort of quirky rally in Maine, Republicans successfully blocked the senate bill that would've ended the bizarre military policy that won't allow gays
