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May 24, 2012
San Francisco Attempts to Recruit Even More Gays to the Castro
Obviously, San Francisco is still reeling from the disturbing fact that not only are we not the gayest city in the nation, but apparently Salt Lake City, Utah does a better job at catering to its homosexuals. That alone is enough reason for San Francisco to up the ante when it comes to making this c ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2012
San Diego Claims Harvey Milk as One of Its Own
Aside from being located in the same state, there's very little San Francisco and San Diego have in common, except perhaps our affinity for men in sailor suits.In any event, we came across a more important thread that links these two disparate communities: our love for Harvey Milk.As the Bay Area Re ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Gay Senior Citizens Busted for Smoking Medical Marijuana in the Castro
Earlier this week, we told you about how a cancer patient was booted from UCSF for using medical marijuana to ease her physical pain. As if that isn't shocking enough, San Francisco police recently busted two elderly men for toking up in the Castro as treatmeant for their own ongoing -- and painf ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Keep VD Out of Valentine's Day, Use a Condom
While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are camping onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem. Today, the California Family Health Counci ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
San Francisco Is a Hotbed of STDs
Do you need someone from the health department to slip it in for you?Just a year ago, the city's Health Department proudly released the female condom 2 with forceful fanfare. But after reviewing some preliminary stats on STD cases over the last year, we've concluded that those touted contraceptiv ... More >>
News
November 30, 2011
Hate Expectations: Police and Prosecutors Are Quick to Claim the Presence of Racism — but Juries Are Not So Sure
Do you need someone from the health department to slip it in for you?Just a year ago, the city's Health Department proudly released the female condom 2 with forceful fanfare. But after reviewing some preliminary stats on STD cases over the last year, we've concluded that those touted contraceptiv ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
HIV Activist Calls Mayor Ed Lee a Name the Chronicle Would Never Print
Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults. According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>
News
June 15, 2011
A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy
Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults. According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>
News
May 4, 2011
Brokeback Festival: How Financial Mismanagement Marched Pride to Brink of Disaster
Wonder how he feels about Jeff Sheehy ... In this election, Mayor Ed Lee has been called many charming names -- crooked, double-crossing, sneaky, Republican. Now he can add "dick" to that growing list of insults. According to the Bay Area Reporter, Jeff Sheehy, who was the HIV czar f ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Dennis Herrera Implies Homosexuality Is a Choice; Upsets Gays
Weighing the gay voteThe gay-friendly, Dennis Herrera, San Francisco's city attorney who last year filed a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on gay marriage, "accidentally" referred to homosexuality as a sexual preference rather than an orientation. In other words, he made it sound like being g ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2010
A Wiener Grows in the Castro
The election was depressing. Watching Buster Posey on TV is not.The Week In GayA heartfelt apology to Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But who can resist cracking wise about the name of the presumptive winner in race to represent District 8? You've gotta recognize the magnitude of ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
The Week in Gay: Argentina! Clay Aiken! Toilet Water!
In Argentina, homosexuals can now tango and marryThis week Argentina's senate voted 33 to 27 in support of marriage equality and now it's legal down there. Frankly, I don't know a lot about Argentina. Apparently, it's winter there now. Isn't that fascinating?
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Everyone Sing the Bay Area Media Songs!
Joyce GoldschmidGet out your banjo, Warren, and sing the company song!On May 26, financier Warren Hellman invited throngs of hangers-on to a Great American Music Hall bash to celebrate the launch of the Bay Citizen, the news nonprofit he tossed $5 million.The highlight, apparently, was an offici ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2010
San Francisco's Harvey Milk Day Plans Are Pathetic
Jerry PritikinHarvey Milk stood for ... tricycle races? This Saturday, May 22, is the inaugural Harvey Milk Day in the State of California. As you'd expect, there's lots of stuff happening in San Francisco commemorating the gay icon. What you might not expect is how tame San Francisco's event ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
The Week in Gay: New Trend in 2010 -- Same-Sex Bedpans!
Uppity Fag has his eye on the one on the bottom left...Late yesterday afternoon President Barack Obama signed a mandate that extends hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples in hospitals throughout the country. Whatever. While some may hail this as a victory for gay rights, the bot ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
CBS Reporter Hank Plante Spanks Newsom For On-Air Hissy Fit
Do we all remember when Mayor Gavin Newsom got huffy with the press last fall for covering his media silence after dropping out of the governor's race? The most gruesome example was when he got ticked off at CBS' even-keeled Hank Plante on-camera when the political reporter dared to ask him about ... More >>
News
November 25, 2009
When it comes to S.F. politics, Cleve Jones isn't here to recruit you
Do we all remember when Mayor Gavin Newsom got huffy with the press last fall for covering his media silence after dropping out of the governor's race? The most gruesome example was when he got ticked off at CBS' even-keeled Hank Plante on-camera when the political reporter dared to ask him about ... More >>
News
October 1, 2008
The Rise and Fall of the Monster
Gay porn star Michael Brandon goes from meth addict to antidrug poster boy and, tragically, back to meth addict.
Music
July 2, 2008
Nonconformity Still Reigns!
The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.
Calendar
January 16, 2008
This Will Pinch a Little
The top eccentrics of San Francisco, and that's saying something.
News
October 18, 1995
Out, and Down and Out, in S.F.
A shutdown Sentinel and turmoil at Bay Times signal upheaval in the city's gay press
News
June 28, 1995
Conscientious Injectors
The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

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