SF News Resist-Themed Pride Draws More Than A Million To Downtown SF, Avoids Major Violence With 250 contingents marching, Sunday’s San Francisco Pride parade was the largest ever in the event’s history. But even with this year’s resistance-themed political overtones, the parade and Civic Center
Arts & Entertainment Video: Dykes On Bikes Rings In 41 Years Of Pride Loosely established in 1976, the quintessential opening act of all SF Pride parades, Dykes on Bikes, rolled through SF for the 42nd time on Sunday. As KTVU reports, there were just two dozen
Arts & Entertainment Rainbow Lips Light Show Coming To Twin Peaks Pink Triangle For Pride Weekend Since 1995, the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle has festooned our annual SF Pride weekend celebrations with a gigantic, one-acre pink homage to the LGBTQ community that’s visible from 20 miles away. But
SF News SFPD Warns Of Pride Bag Inspections, Size Restrictions As you of course know, San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebration is this weekend. Part of hosting the "largest LGBTQ celebration in the country," the San Francisco Police Department says, is ensuring the safety
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To Pride 2017 No doubt, this year's SF Pride is going to be one for the books, if only because as the nation remains bitterly divided about its identity and its future. So in some part
SF News SF Pride Parade To Officially Look More Like A Protest This Year, Will Lead With 'Resistance' Contingent At least in 2017, the annual Pride parade and Civic Center celebration on Sunday isn't going to be just about straight teens and allies wearing rainbow socks. SF Pride announced Monday that this
Arts & Entertainment Watch These Goats Prepare Twin Peaks For Pride's Big Pink Triangle In a little more than a week, Twin Peaks will again be home to the Pink Triangle of San Francisco, the Pride commemoration, the icon's website reads, "of the gay victims who were
SF News Man Shot At Last Year's Pride Celebration Can Sue Organizers, Judge Rules The San Francisco Pride celebration was marred by an act of violence last year when an innocent bystander was hit by gunfire as two groups of men argued. The man fortunately survived, and
Arts & Entertainment 'Still Here, Still Queer': Scenes From Dyke March 2016 It's not the Lesbian Parade, it's the Dyke March, and that wording might tell you everything you need to know about the event's 24th incarnation this past Saturday. The festivities began, as is
Arts & Entertainment Want To March In The Pride Parade? You Still Can With One Of These Groups. Maybe you’ve always wanted to march in the Pride Parade, maybe you’re motivated by the tragedy in Orlando, or maybe you have designs to someday run for elected office. Whatever your
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
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
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
SF News Did Nancy Reagan Really Mock SF Gay Pride Parades? In speaking of Nancy Reagan on the day of her funeral, Hillary Clinton praised the late former first lady for helping to start a national conversation about the AIDS epidemic. Ronald and Nancy
Arts & Entertainment 'Black Lives Matter' Named As Grand Marshal Of San Francisco's 2016's Pride Parade San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is a huge event, with an estimated million folks at the last one in 2015. The event is so massive, in fact, that they typically have
SF News SF Pride Reaches Secret Settlement With Man Shot During 2013 Celebration Over two years after a shooting during San Francisco's LGBT pride celebration left a Los Angeles man with a shattered leg, the event's organizers have settled with him for an undisclosed amount of
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 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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger King Panders To Gay Fast Food Fans With 'Proud Whopper' Stunt At S.F. Pride Burger King scored a potentially viral advertising hit at least among left-wing beef eaters with this new video about the "Proud Whopper," which was launched as a limited promotion at a single location
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Pride Parade Photos: Turnout Includes Google Protesters, NASA, Apple More than a million people attended the 44th Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29 and it might have been the largest turnout ever. The official numbers are not yet in, but Pride publicist
SF News The Gay Rights Fight Started In California, Two Decades Before Stonewall This weekend marks the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, and, for that reason, this is the weekend that the cities of San Francisco, New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, Paris,
Arts & Entertainment EJ Johnson, Magic Johnson's Newly Famous Gay Son, To Bring #Flawlessness To SF Pride Parade Not sure how I missed this earlier, but San Francisco Pride scored serious points with one of their celebrity Grand Marshal picks this year at least in the eyes of reality television watchers
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Shirley Temple On: Here's Your 2014 Sober Pride Guide By Beth Spotswood While alcohol can definitely enhance certain experiences, it can also ruin others: like driving a car or healthy communication. More importantly, booze isn’t necessary to have a good time;
Arts & Entertainment An Insider's Guide To Pride Week 2014 Every year, we try to bring you an overview of all the LGBT goings-on about town during this most festive of weeks on the gay (and lesbian and trans and bi and queer
Arts & Entertainment Prison-Themed Pride Party At Armory Causes Stir Among The Easily Offended A prison-themed circuit party geared toward gay men, organized by national big gay party promoters Masterbeat at the Kink.com Armory, is causing panties to be wadded in certain LGBT circles. Why? Because
