SF News Uber Driver Accused Of Refusing To Drive Gay Couple During Pride A couple celebrating Pride were dismayed when they say their Uber driver refused to drive them after the two men exchanged a quick kiss. The men allege things got even worse, reports ABC7,
SF News Microsoft Claims 'Coordinated Attack' Turned Its Lovable Twitter Bot Racist Microsoft today issued an official statement regarding its wildly racist, sexist, antisemitic, homophobic, transphobic, 9/11 truther Twitter bot with the lovable name of "Tay." The machine learning, artificially intelligent bot was taken
SF News Microsoft's Tween Twitter Bot Instantly Goes Full Racist, 9/11 Truther Microsoft is doing damage control today after an artificial intelligence Twitter bot it created went totally batshit insane — tweeting vile racist, sexist, 9/11 truther, and other garbage at the world. The AI,
SF News Bigoted Oregon Bakery Owners Finally Pay Up For Refusing Lesbian Couple Service The once-proprietors of an Oregon bakery who made headlines two years ago when they refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple have finally coughed up the fine they were court-ordered
SF News Report: 14 Cops Investigated In SFPD's Racist Text Scandal, Terminations Coming Soon Sure, all we can think about today is the SF Jail Fight Club (first rule of SF Jail Fight Club: Fight, or you get pepper sprayed). But don't forget San Francisco Police Department's
SF News Fallout From SFPD's Racist And Homophobic Text Scandal Continues It was late Friday when the news broke: four current San Francisco Police Department officers are "under investigation" after court filings alleged that they'd participated in racist and homophobic text conversations with a
SF News SFPD Officers Behind Racist And Homophobic Texts Identified The four other SFPD officers behind the racist and homophobic text messages revealed by federal prosecutors on Friday have been identified and could potentially lose their jobs. The Chronicle reports that all four
SF News Four SFPD Officers Under Investigation For Racist And Homophobic Texts Four San Francisco Police officers are under investigation after texts revealed conversations that included dozens of racist and homophobic remarks. KQED reports the text messages were part of a filing by federal prosecutors
Arts & Entertainment <i>Looking</i> Star Russell Tovey Apologizes For Homophobic Remarks There was much hubbub on the internet yesterday over some comments that Looking star Russell Tovey (who plays Kevin on the show) made in an interview with the UK Observer. Tovey, who stars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Driver And Customer Respond Regarding Curry Boyzz Delivery Incident The tale of the alleged homophobic attack on Sunday from a Curry Boyzz delivery guy in the Castro may, naturally, have more sides to it. SFist has reached out to the owners of
Arts & Entertainment Gary Oldman Calls Nancy Pelosi A C*nt, Apologizes For Offending Jews Giving truth to the old saw that one "just reads Playboy for the articles," it seems like everyone's been talking about actor Gary Oldman's recent interview with the magazine, in which he made
SF News Cal Student Allegedly Gay Bashes, Robs Other Student A UC Berkeley student accused of making homophobic remarks before beating and robbing a classmate may face hate crime charges for the assault, according to a crime report posted by the schools police
SF News 49ers Owner Says We Can Crucify Player Who Made Homophobic Remarks. OK! Just days after NFL-bound Michael Sam told the world "I am an openly, proud gay man," one local reporter reminded us the trouble the 49ers have run into when attempting to navigate issues
SF News California Judges Possibly Banned From Being Boy Scout Leaders Because Of Discriminatory Policies A proposal from an ethics advisory committee to the California Supreme Court will potentially ban California judges from belonging to the Boy Scouts of America because of the organization's discrimination against gays. 47
SF News A&E Puts 'Duck Dynasty' Kingpin Back In The Spotlight Fans of Cracker Barrel merchandise and bearded swamp men can breathe a sigh of relief: after a tense eight days of suspension, Phil Robertson, America's patron saint of duck calls, will be allowed
SF News Publicist Was AWOL for Duck Dynasty Star's Homophobic Rant Atop an ATV An unfortunate publicist is now caught in the crossfire following Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson's homophobic remarks. TMZ reports that, according to sources familiar with the situation, a publicist did accompany Robertson to
SF News 'Duck Dynasty' Family Makes Official Statement, So Does Everyone Else Phil "Duck Commander" Robertson's comments to GQ sparked a whole mess of controversy earlier this week, getting responses out of everyone from Sarah Palin to Jon Stewart. The media circus is familiar: Robertson
SF News A&E Puts 'Duck Dynasty' Kingpin In Time Out After Homophobic Remarks A+E Networks has decided to put Phil Robertson on indefinite filming hiatus from his insanely popular reality show after his lame-duck remarks about LGBT folks hit newsstands and web browsers today. In
SF News 'Duck Dynasty' Kingpin Says Homosexuality Is Like Bestiality [Update] Phil Robertson, the daddy duck to the camo-clad Robertson clan featured on A&E's reality blockbuster Duck Dynasty, is quacking up a storm in the latest issue of GQ. In a profile
SF News S.F. Giant Speaks Out About Overcoming Crippling Homophobia In his new memoir To Stir a Movement: Life, Justice, and Major League Baseball, Giants pitcher and noted Jesus fan Jeremy Affeldt describes his experience coming out as a straight icon in a
SF News Boy Scouts To Lift Ban On Gay Members, Continue To Bar Gay Adults On Friday, officials of the Boy Scouts of America proposed a resolution that would allow openly-gay youth members of the organization with the statement that “no youth may be denied membership in the
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn's Son 'Hopper' Drops Racist, Homophobic Slurs At Paparazzi Dr. Phil should feature a very special episode on why the Penn Family is always so aggro. Until then, we're stuck with shocking videos like this soon to be classic TMZ clip of
Arts & Entertainment Is Michelle Shocked Just Crazy, Screwing With Us, Or Both? [Updated] Whether Michelle Shocked is indeed as homophobic as she seemed to be to everyone present at Yoshi's San Francisco on Sunday, or whether she was just trying to be provocative in an albeit
SF News Career Suicide: Venues Cancel Upcoming Michelle Shocked Tour Dates After launching into an anti-gay tirade onstage at Yoshi's in San Francisco Sunday night, alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked unleashed a torrent of backlash that looks like an apparent career suicide. The fallout of
SF News Michelle Shocked Launches Into Anti-Gay Rant On Stage at Yoshi's [Updated] Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked, who gained wide fame on college radio and MTV in the late 80s and early 90s but has more recently become a born-again Christian, literally shocked audiences on Sunday
