The Tales of Two Cities podcast is back for another season featuring brand new audio stories about Oakland and Richmond. Our first episode, “I’m not from here”, focuses on people (and birds) trying to establish themselves in new and strange places. The episode includes stories on pigeons, Oakland’s sister city in China, jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, […]
Former Congressman Barney Frank implored LGBTQ delegates at last week’s Democratic National Convention to get their friends to vote for nominee Hillary Clinton. Frank, long known for his blunt talk, minced no words as he addressed the LGBTQ Caucus July 28 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. “I’m not going to tell you to vote for […]
Members of the LGBTQ community rallied on the steps of San Francisco City Hall this week to ask that Supervisors Scott Wiener and Mark Farrell withdraw their proposed ballot measures they say will negatively impact queer and trans homeless people. Farrell’s ballot measure would allow authorities to remove tent encampments as long as they give […]
Yellow police tape surrounds a crime scene. This time there is no lifeless body lying on the ground, but a mural, celebrating LGBT pride, displayed on the side of a residential building in the Mission, charred by an arsonist. The voiceless mural speaks volumes about how some in the Mission still feel about LGBT people. […]
A nonprofit that has provided families of seriously ill loved ones with an inexpensive place to stay will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a benefit next week. The Family Link operates a guesthouse in San Francisco’s Castro district where visitors with limited financial means can stay when they visit their loved ones who have life-threatening […]
A lesbian couple’s video travel diary in which they interviewed LGBTs around the world brought people to the Castro Theatre one night this week, as part of a Lesbians Who Tech and eBay event. The documentary, Out and Around , stars Jennifer “Jenni” Chang and Lisa Dazols and follows their journey, interviewing LGBT activists from […]
She had made it to the top 10 and had a crowd of supporters at a San Francisco restaurant cheering her on. But in the end, MK Nobilette, an out lesbian singer, was eliminated from American Idol last week. Nobilette, 20, the first openly gay contestant on the show, will go on to perform in […]
Khaled Sayed San Francisco Police Officer C. Stokes, right, takes a A rally in the Castro to affirm and celebrate black LGBTQs briefly turned ugly when some of the demonstrators went to a bar and said they were met with hostility. Organizers with Queer #BlackLivesMatter held the February 28 rally to mark the end of […]
The building housing one of San Francisco’s oldest gay bars has been sold and the owner said he’s retiring and moving to Hawaii, leaving the club’s future uncertain. Stud bar owner Michael McElhaney announced the news at a July 3 emergency meeting. The bar was filled with emotions as the owner spoke before a crowd […]
About 100 people gathered inside Mission High School’s auditorium Tuesday to voice their concerns about San Francisco police officers as part of a listening session held by the U.S. Department of Justice. Most people who spoke were angry at the San Francisco Police Department in light of recent killings of men of color, including Alejandro […]