Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: The SF LGBT Center's Benefit Soiree This Saturday, April 9, the SF LGBT Center will be hosting its 14th annual Soiree fundraiser, this year with the theme The Imaginarium, and organized by drag queen hostess Juanita More. The event
SF News Paypal Kills Plan To Open North Carolina Office Over Anti-LGBT Law Plans by San Jose-based Paypal to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina appear to be off the table following the March 23 signing into law of House Bill 2,
SF News Bill To Make All SF Single-Occupancy Restrooms All-Gender Moves Forward San Francisco is poised to take a step toward common sense, as legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos to make all single-occupancy restrooms within the city all-gender was approved in committee yesterday. So
SF News Former Trans Inmate Michelle-Lael Norsworthy Speaks Out About Her New Transition, To Civilian Life Many of you will recall the plight of trans prisoner Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, who last year became the second trans inmate to be granted state-funded sex reassignment surgery only to be paroled shortly thereafter.
SF News SF Trans Woman Attacked For Second Time This Year, Coffee Thrown In Face “I came here for safety and acceptance," Samantha Hulsey, a 25-year-old trans woman who moved to San Francisco from Savannah, Georgia in 2013, told the Chronicle after she was brutally assaulted for the
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Video: 'Who Do I Look Like, A Girl Or A Boy?', A Documentary Short About Shannon Pat Local trans woman and all around eccentric Shannon Pat is an occasional fixture in the LGBTQ nightlife scene in San Francisco, though not many who meet her get to know much about her.
SF News California Becomes First State To Set Guidelines Governing Sexual Reassignment Surgery For Transgender Inmates The California Department of Corrections Tuesday announced official guidelines regarding sexual reassignment surgery for transgender inmates, making California the first state to publicly set such standards. This move, which comes after two cases
SF News Remembering Anastasia, The Homeless Trans Woman Who Died In The Castro (Who May Not Have Been Trans) No one knew much about the mentally ill, homeless person who called herself Anastasia when she died on a bench outside Peet's Coffee in the Castro on New Year's Eve. Various people in
Arts & Entertainment Trans Women Of Asia SF To Star In New Reality Series 'Transcendent' In the era of Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, Asia SF may seems kind of exploitative, anachronistic, and a little uncomfortable. But the proud, very pretty performers at the trans nightclub/dinner theater
SF News Trans Woman Who Sued Uber For Expenses Wants To Become CEO It's beginning to look like Barbara Ann Berwick, the woman who successfully petitioned the California Labor Commission for reimbursable expenses during her stint as an Uber driver last summer and won a ruling
SF News Local Trans Icon Teresa Sparks On Caitlyn Jenner: 'This Could Be A Movement Shift' Former Police Commission president, one-time candidate for supervisor and now executive director of the SF Human Rights Commission, Teresa Sparks spoke with KRON 4 yesterday as the media was flooded with the images
SF News Rep. Mike Honda Tweets Support For His Transgender Granddaughter As the proud grandpa of a transgender grandchild, I hope she can feel safe at school without fear of being bullied. pic.twitter.com/NDIfOdW9sk— Rep. Mike Honda (@RepMikeHonda) February 18, 2015 Congressman
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 RuPaul, Justin Vivian Bond, And Lady Bunny React To Trannygate Last week's revelation that SF drag queen Heklina was changing the name of her famous Trannyshack party has set off a second whirlwind of infighting in the LGBT community second only after the
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 Authorities Urge Counseling, Not Arrest For Transgender Student Who Lied About Sexual Assault Though investigators say they are considering pressing charges against a teen who falsely claimed Monday that he was sexually assaulted in a Hercules High School bathroom, leadership at the school and at the
SF News Transgender Teen Recants Sexual Assault Story [UPDATE] UPDATE: According to KTVU and AP, the teen has recanted his story. “As the investigation continued officers were unable to substantiate the facts of the victim’s statement; including the time frame of
Arts & Entertainment 'Real World: Ex-Plosion' Cast Gets Education On Trans Identities The cast of this final season of The Real World, which was shot last year in San Francisco, got schooled in the varieties of trans identity and what it means to be genderqueer,
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 Prop. 8 Creep Now Targeting Trans Teens The man behind Prop. 8 may have suffered a setback when his anti-gay marriage campaign was thwarted earlier this year, but Frank Shubert isn't letting that get him down. He's now ramping up
