SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News SF DPH Busting Out Drag Queens In Latest Drug Overdose Prevention Campaign The SF Department of Public Health’s latest effort to prevent drug overdoses is employing local drag queens Kochina Rude and Nicki Jizz to lead a month-long outreach campaign to distribute fentanyl testing strips and teach people how to administer Narcan.
Arts & Entertainment Yes, That Is Peaches Christ on Top of Salesforce Tower If you happen to catch a glimpse of Salesforce Tower just after midnight this month — and from dusk until dawn during Pride Week — you will see the giant head of drag queen Peaches Christ, and a video of her silhouette dancing.
Arts & Entertainment Local Legend Gina LaDivina, Drag Show Hostess and Performer, Dies at 74 San Francisco's queer nightlife world and San Francisco at large lost an icon Tuesday night. Miss Gina LaDivina, a longtime performer at Aunt Charlie's, The Stud, and Oasis has passed. The cause reportedly was complications from cancer.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash, Oakland's Drag and Queer Performance Festival, Returns This Weekend For Its Seventh Year The Oaklash Festival is coming stomping and sashaying back this weekend, celebrating drag and queer performance in all its forms for a diverse and adoring Bay Area audience.
SF News FYI: OJ Simpson’s Father Was an Out SF Drag Queen Known as ‘Mama Simpson’ As many are remembering the complicated (mostly terrible) legacy of the late OJ Simpson today, we look back on his father, who came out as LGBTQ and was apparently a known SF drag queen called “Mama Simpson.”
Arts & Entertainment 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' Returns With Coco Peru Stepping In as Dorothy This year's holiday edition of 'The Golden Girls Live' at the Victoria Theater is every bit as campy and delightful as it always is, but with a new addition to the cast.
Arts & Entertainment The Streets of SF Lit Up With Pop-Up Drag Performances All Weekend for the First 'San Francisco Is a Drag' Thanks to a trio of SF drag legends and funding from the recently launched Civic Joy Fund, 100 drag queens, kings, and performers blanketed different neighborhoods on Saturday and Sunday for the first ever "San Francisco Is a Drag."
Arts & Entertainment The Stud, When It Reopens, Plans to Host SF's First School of Drag The Stud Collective wants to teach the children well who are coming up in SF's drag scene, and they just announced that when the bar reopens in new digs this winter (or spring?), it will be hosting The Stud School of Drag.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Pippi Lovestocking Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cardiac Incident at Heklina’s Memorial Since suffering a severe medical incident at Heklina’s memorial in May, Pippi Lovestocking has endured an induced coma, sepsis, and lost both hands and feet, but has opened up about the experience in a just-published interview.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has A Sheriff’s Deputy Who’s Also A Drag Queen, WooWoo Monroe Here’s a new twist on the “cops at Pride” debate — the San Francisco Sheriff's Department has a deputy who moonlights as one of San Jose’s most prominent drag queens, WooWoo Monroe.
Sponsored Escape Reality With RuPaul's Drag Race Werq The World Tour in SF RuPaul's Drag Race Werq the World Tour continues to dazzle and delight fans as it makes its way through North America, and now it's San Francisco's turn to experience the magic and mayhem of the world's largest drag production on July 19th at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
Arts & Entertainment Peaches Christ Isn't Having Google's Excuses About Pride Party Snub SF drag star Peaches Christ is calling out Google for appearing to kowtow to conservatives and tone down their presence at an employee Pride event this year and pretend that the employees had gone rogue.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Gets Mural Treatment Outside Castro's Cafe Flore Muralist Josh Katz has done a big new mural of the late, great Heklina, just in time for Pride Week, on the Market Street-facing side of the former Cafe Flore, at Noe Street, which remains under renovations.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
SF Politics Sister Roma Honored In State Capitol For Pride Month, Despite GOP Lawmakers Throwing A Fit Republicans are making a habit of disinviting drag nuns The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride events, but they couldn’t stop Monday’s honoring of Sister Roma at the California State Capitol, where Sister Roma ended up getting a standing ovation.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Features Hours of Laughs, and a Few Tears, for a Beloved Queen and Mother The memorial and afterparty stretched well into the night at the Castro Theatre and later at Oasis, and the local community came out in droves to remember one of drag's greats.
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Today Is Heklina Day In the Castro, With a Street Closure and Performances Beginning at 6 p.m. Today is the day for the big Heklina tribute/memorial/celebration of life that is more than likely to sound like a combo funeral, posthumous roast and big, chaotic drag revue. The Castro celebration will be kicking off outdoors at 6 p.m., and organizers are seeking more donations to cover costs.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Names Its First Drag Laureate In a National First, and It's D'Arcy Drollinger One of San Francisco's most seasoned, bawdiest, and hardest-working drag queens, Oasis owner D'Arcy Drollinger, has been named the city's first Drag Laureate.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina to Make Final TV Appearance With Peaches Christ on New Hulu Food Show Premiering May 31 on Hulu will be 'Drag Me to Dinner,' a new, tongue-in-cheek cooking competition show in which drag queen friends compete against each other hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka, along with Bianca Del Rio.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Will Be a Block-wide Affair, With Outdoor Stage and Event Projected on a Closed Castro Street Now dubbed "Heklina: A Memorial (She Would Have Hated This)," the memorial affair for the beloved drag comedienne who died earlier this month has grown into a block-wide event that will shut down Castro Street starting at noon.
Arts & Entertainment Heklina Memorial Scheduled at the Castro Theatre; Heklina to Be Inducted on LGBTQ Wall of Honor In New York Nine days after the death of SF drag legend Heklina in London, we have word of a big memorial tribute set to happen at the Castro Theatre next month — but wouldn't you know it, the free tickets disappeared fast and it is sold out.
SF News “Drag Up! Fight Back!” Rally Planned for Saturday at SF City Hall to Protest Anti-Drag, Anti-Trans Legislation The event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. is set to draw thousands for a rally at SF City Hall and march to Union Square, plus performances and a drag story hour.
Arts & Entertainment Local News Stations Cover Heklina's Passing, Can't Quite Report On That 'Empty Chair' The immediate outpouring of grief on Monday for the sudden death of iconic San Francisco drag performer Heklina included several impromptu gatherings of friends in the city's nightlife scene.
