SF News SF Pride Looking to Bolster Security for 2025 Celebration, Anticipating ‘More Threats’ as Hate Speech Rises The first SF Pride of the Trump 2.0 era is planning for a bigger potential threat vector from far-right hate actors, amidst policy attacks on the LGBTQ community and an emboldened sense of entitlement from those engaging in political violence.
SF News Racist Zoom-Bombs at Emeryville City Council Meeting Test Remote Public Comment Policies Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
Arts & Entertainment Welp, Time to Add Carlos Santana to the Anti-Trans Celebrity List After Bizarre Onstage Rant Get ready for guitarist Carlos Santana to be the latest right-wing hero, as video just surfaced of him launching into a completely unprovoked transphobic rant at a late July Santana show in Atlantic City.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Tackled By Armed Man During L.A. Show, Makes Trans Joke Afterward Chappelle was talking onstage Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl about how he needs extra security now that the LGBTQ community despises him. And then a guy rushed the stage in an apparent attempt to physically assault or harm him.
SF News Is This Science Magazine Cover Transphobic? Congresswoman Jackie Speier Says Yes Science magazine put transgender sex workers in Jakarta on its cover this month with an objectifying image that cuts off their heads and focuses on their tight dresses, long legs, and high heels.
SF News Transgender Woman Settles DMV Harassment Suit Amber Yust, the 23-year-old Software Engineer who received a threatening letter from a DMV employee after recording her sex change with the government agency, will recieve a $55,000 settlement the Chronicle reports
SF News Creepy DMV Clerk Warns Transgender Woman of 'Evil Decision' As if going to the DMV wasn't harrowing enough, Amber Yust, a 23-year-old software engineer, had a particularly vile experience when she went to change register her sex denotation at the San Francisco
SF News Kiss-In at Harvey Milk Plaza on Monday Anything and everything but kissing on the lips, you say? We hear that. But, come next Monday, you might change your tune. SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi brings word that the Castro will play
SF News Film du Jour: Homophobic, Hateful Woman Holds Up T-Line SFist reader Stephanie Chu sent us this footage of some choice Muni drama. In her words: I filmed this on a MUNI T train this morning on my way to work. I found
