SF News Piedmont's Mayor In Trouble Over Racist, Transphobic Facebook Posts Piedmont's Mayor Jeff Wieler recently took to social media to express his frustration with the Black Lives Matter movement, liberals, and trans people and is surprised that his constituents have a problem with
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 Trans March Facing Controversy For Asking Participants Not To Speak To Or Thank Cops San Francisco's 14th Annual Trans March will take place today with Dolores Park events beginning at 3 p.m. and the actual march commencing at 6 p.m. Obviously, as with any major
SF News Video: Chelsea Manning Gives First Post-Prison Interview We have yet to see Private Chelsea Manning speak publicly full-on as Chelsea Manning, in post-transition persona with her current voice since she was charged with aiding the enemy and imprisoned for most
SF News Yelp Feature Will Tell Users If Businesses Have Gender-Neutral Bathrooms San Francisco-based ratings company Yelp is getting five stars from LGBTQ advocates today. After stepping up yesterday to participate in an amicus brief supporting trans student Gavin Grimm in his lawsuit against a
SF News Apple, Uber, Google Speak Out Against Trump's Trans Rights Rollback; Facebook, Twitter So Far Silent Some big tech companies came out in support of trans rights and in opposition to the Trump Administration's latest attack on them, the directive issued Wednesday by the Departments of Justice and Education
SF News In Historic Decision, Medicare Lifts Ban On Sex-Change Surgery A staunch 74-year-old trans woman and Army veteran went toe to toe with Medicare over their denying her coverage of her sex reassignment surgery, and won. In a major decision today, the Department
Arts & Entertainment SF Institution Trannyshack Changing Name Amid PC Pressure It's the end of an era, and a triumph for trans activists, as SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) announced this week that she'll be taking the "tranny" out of
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Trans Performer Vicki Marlane Gets Tenderloin Block Named For Her Local legend and Aunt Charlie's fixture Vicki Marlane, who was a pioneering drag performer going back five decades in San Francisco before her 2011 death, will make history again as the city is
SF News Facebook Embraces Gender Spectrum In a coup for all Ts, Qs, Is, and everyone else on the non-gender-normative spectrum, Facebook has finally decided that one is allowed to be more than just "Other." The site has just
SF News Bullied Transgender Teen Charged With Battery For Fighting Back Jewelyes Gutierrez, a 16-year-old transgender student at Hercules High School in Martinez, California, is facing a misdemeanor battery charge after she fought back against the students who repeatedly tormented her. Although she originally
SF News Classmates Wear Skirts In Solidarity For 'Agender' Oakland Teen Lit On Fire On City Bus We neglected to follow up on this story from last week, in which 18-year-old Luke "Sasha" Fleischman was lit on fire aboard an AC Transit bus*. He was in the habit of wearing
SF News Trans Woman Claims Discrimination At Holy Cow A trans woman claims that she was harassed and discriminated against in recent weeks when she tried to use the women's restroom at SoMa nightclub Holy Cow. This was not on one of
SF News Jelly Belly CEO Doesn't Like Trans Rights Noted Republican campaign donor Herman Rowland Sr., the CEO of Fairfield, CA-based Jelly Belly, has recently donated $5,000 to an effort to get a referendum on the ballot to overturn the California
SF News Trans Male Teenager Prevails Over California School District, Will Be Treated As Male A California school district has been ordered by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education to treat a trans male ninth grader as male, despite his being born female. The teenager, who
