Email Author Lauren Smiley
So you call yourself a fan at heart. Big boop-boop-a-deal. We want to see it in your fashion.At Wednesday's game, no one could beat this little lady right here. The Giants' own little Miss Betty Boop.... More >>
rIn response to the recent rash of suicides of LGBT teens across the country, students in the Gay Straight Alliance at Mission High School hit the halls at lunch on Wednesday to get classmates and tea... More >>
With confidentiality laws, hospitals are usually loathe to hand out identifying information about patients. Yet today, General Hospital is actually giving out all sorts of identifying information abou... More >>
The recent coverage of gay teen suicides has the country on high alert, with even President Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, speaking out against bullying. While many of the "It Gets Bette... More >>
Father Says Death Not Linked To BullyingrAiyisha Hassan's memorial will be held Saturday at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond at 2 p.m. -- the church where her father, The Rev. Kamal... More >>
Reiterates His Demand to Governor: "Kiss My Gay Ass!"Leave all the "whore" talk to Jerry Brown. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, always reliable for a comedic zinger, prefers the Spanish&n... More >>
Transgender golfer Lana Lawless is suing two of the country's top golf associations to do away with their ban on trans-women athletes. The Ladies Professional Golf Association -- better known as the L... More >>
rUpdate, 10/15: Aiyisha Hassan's memorial will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 16, at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond, California. Her father, Rev. Kamal Hassan, sa... More >>
Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old college student from Santa Clara, was surprised to discover a GPS tracking device on his car a week ago during an oil change. We can bet he was even more surprised when, aft... More >>
Two weekends ago, throngs descended on Folsom Street for the world's biggest and most famous leather festival. No, not a trunk show of fine riding boots or Italian aviator jackets. As any true San Fra... More >>
The Mile High Club is so cliche -- but how many can claim membership in the Six Foot Under Clubr Possible necrophiliacs, voyeurs, and your run-of-the-mill sex-positive folks descended on the pariSoma ... More >>
It seems the two Republican women running for office in California don't want to self-apply the label "Mama Grizzly" anytime soon. The New York Times reports that both Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina wi... More >>
A wholesome food warrior named Skye is suing Ben & Jerry's for claiming its ice cream is "All Natural" on the label, when in fact -- horror of horrors -- ingredient No. 36 is alkalized cocoa. We f... More >>
The mother of Issiah Downes, an inmate in San Francisco County Jail who suffocated while being restrained by sheriff's deputies, is now suing the city for $50 million, arguing that city employees kill... More >>
You may have heard that federal funding for the Jobs Now! -- the program that allows employers to pay workers with federal stimulus dollars -- expired Friday, waiting for Congress to pass a bill to re... More >>
Three men acquitted of first-degree murder charges earlier this year aren't out of the legal spotlight. Emon Brown, Joc Wilson, and Floyd Jackson are among the 41 alleged gang members listed in the ga... More >>
It turns out that California isn't the only one making life-or-death-penalty decisions based on the availability of the drug sodium thiopental -- the first of three drugs used to render the inmate unc... More >>
You know the age-old complaint: When a man bosses people around, he's "in charge," but a woman who does the same is a "bitch." Well, here's a new one for the cyber age: When women in tech hold a provo... More >>
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed the lethal injection of Albert Brown to 9 p.m. Thursday night. That will give Schwarzenegger time to consider Brown's clemency case and let the appeals court wei... More >>
In recent years, the ex-convicts and former addicts graduating from the Delancey Street Foundation have been able to replace missing teeth in... More >>
San Franciscans probably have their ideas about the sort of folks who will descend on the Hyatt Regency airport hotel this weekend for the Second Amendment Foundation's gun rights conference: white, T... More >>
Just when you thought certain airheads on network cable news couldn't get anymore plastic, Mattel has immortalized the entire profession with its very own Barbie. Actually she won in the inaugural glo... More >>
Maybe barging into the house and handcuffing your stepdaughter's teen lover is the way hardass cops roll in San Jose. We're pretty sure the Sex Police smack-down struck fear into the hearts of horny b... More >>
The U.S. Senate today voted against taking up the the defense budget bill -- curtailing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's last-minute plan to tack on an amendment to give illegal immigrants who go t... More >>
You may recall our July cover feature on young undocumented immigrants waiting for the DREAM Act, a bill that would give illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military a path to citizen... More >>
