SF News FBI Issues Unusual Warning About Potential Terrorist Threats to LGBTQ Pride Celebrations ISIS-affiliated terrorists or their supporters could be plotting an attack on a public gathering during Pride Month, and the FBI and Homeland Security have issued a public warning in order to raise awareness of the potentially heightened threat.
SF News Tiny East Bay School District Becomes Latest to Wade Into Culture War Over Pride Flag As school districts around the country have become the latest battle grounds for the right wing, with parents being told that Democrats are all trying to make their kids trans, a tiny school district in the East Bay has become the latest to show signs of that false panic.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Mayor London Breed Wore a Tutu and More Images From SF Pride 2023 SF Pride was certainly back in full force this year, with BART noting that ridership on Sunday was even up about 20% higher than in 2022. And here are some photos from the parade itself.
SF News ABC News Is Doing a 'Pride Across America' Live Broadcast Sunday Including NY's and SF's Parades In a first, ABC News is doing a live national (streaming) broadcast on Sunday that will span the LGBTQ Pride celebrations and parades in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, with special correspondents covering each.
Arts & Entertainment Immersive Theatrical Party 'Pride In Gotham' to Deliver Campy Batman Experience Inside Historic Hibernia Bank A pretty unique Pride Week offering kicks off Tuesday night at the historic, long shuttered and barely-seen-for-decades Hibernia Bank space at Jones and Market, and it's sure to be a campy queer romp in a very gay Gotham City.
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
Sponsored How to Celebrate Pride 2021 with Eaze Getting “back to normal” is so close we can almost taste it, but with COVID-19 still a serious concern, it looks like Pride Month 2021 may still be a low-key affair for some.
Arts & Entertainment Pink Triangle Lighting Ceremony Was Shrouded In Fog, But Pelosi Showed Up Tuesday night's ceremonial lighting of the newly electrified pink triangle on Twin Peaks was — sort of predictably — inundated by Karla the Fog. But it was attended by activists and dignitaries alike, and an LGBTQ marching band.
SF News San Mateo County Cities to Fly 'Progress Pride Flag' For Pride Month; SF to Fly Traditional Rainbow Flag Across San Mateo County, city and county flagpoles will be flying the Progress Pride Flag in place of the traditional rainbow Pride flag, in recognition of greater inclusivity.
Arts & Entertainment SF Pride Canceled For the First Time; Organizers Promise 'Grander' Festivity In 2021 Following a week of vague messaging that gained some negative momentum in the press, SF Pride officially announced Tuesday that the 2020 parade and celebration in late June is canceled and will not be postponed to the fall.
SF News Google Could Be Barred From SF Pride For Allowing Homophobic Harassment The historically corporate-friendly SF Pride could end up taking a stand, amidst controversy over Google’s YouTube saying that racist and homophobic videos “don’t violate our policies.”
SF News ‘Straight Pride’ Parade Effort, Regrettably, Has A Bay Area Connection You’ll be none too shocked to hear that the ‘Straight Pride’ publicity stunt is a front for a violent far-right group, but one founded by a Daly City man with a history of assaults at Berkeley rallies.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SFPD Unveils Rainbow-Covered 'Pride Patrol' Vehicles 600 animal-rights protesters showed up at a Petaluma duck farm today, FAANG stocks got battered on news of antitrust probes, and a Bay Area tech entrepreneur just paid $4.5 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett.
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Filmmaker Leo Herrera Imagines A World In Which AIDS Never Killed Our 'Fathers' San Francisco-based filmmaker Leo Herrera has been at work over the last year on a film that explores a vision of a contemporary world in which AIDS never happened, a 59-year-old Keith Haring
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
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Juanita More! Kicks Off Pride 2017 With Three New Murals In SF "2017 marks my 25th year in drag in San Francisco, so these murals are very special to me," says local drag icon Juanita More!, a performer and fundraiser who is equally at home
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Betty Who To Headline LGBT Pride Event At The Armory Australian pop star and burgeoning gay icon Betty Who is going to be headlining a major music event during Pride weekend in San Francisco this June, as SFist can exclusively report this morning.
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 Scenes From The 2016 LGBT Pride Parade And Juanita MORE's Pride Party Sunday brought the 46th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride parade, arguably the biggest of its kind in the country, and some perfect sunny weather meant that throngs of people lined Market Street to
SF News Saying They're 'More Afraid Of Police Than Terrorists,' Black Lives Matter Pulls Out Of SF Pride Following news that SF Pride this year would feature security screenings to enter the Civic Center festival as well as an increased police presence in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, some
SF News Weather Report: Pride Weekend Brings Sunshine, Warm Weather Put on some sunscreen and grab those short shorts, because mother nature has oh so graciously decided to bless us with warmth and sunshine for the weekend of Pride. The Chronicle lets us
Arts & Entertainment Gay It Up: Your Official SFist Guide To Pride Week 2016 Is Here Yes, Pride Sunday itself has become a bit less of a gay celebration in recent years, but with its million or so attendees in San Francisco and the strong tradition that many LGBT
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Pride Week is absolutely packed with activities, and while we'll also give you a list of pride/queer specific celebrations and parties to hit up, here's the usual, general smattering of wonderful things
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Rainbow Slip-n-Slide Planned For Dyke March Day In Dolores Park; Dyke March Organizers Object Some folks have launched a crowd-funding campaign, the proceeds of which they are pledging to the Orlando Pulse victims' fund and the SF LGBT Center, and it's all a benefit centered around The
SF News Big Gay Kiss-In Planned In Castro Tonight Following Orlando Mass Hate Crime While there is no appropriate or satisfying response to what happened in Orlando on Sunday, LGBT communities around the world have responded with huge vigils and outpourings of love, horror, and support. A
