GLBT Issues

Will Gay Mecca Relocate From San Francisco To Des Moines?

Disdain of San Franciscans' disdain of all things Midwestern has become nearly as clichéd as the original sin. And, yet, there's always a touch of schadenfreude anticipating city residents' chagrin whenever legitimately good news emanates from the Midwest indicating its denizens have out-progressiv ... More >>

Gay Iowan Transplants to California Ponder Today's Gay Marriage Ruling

They are a rare species, these gay Iowans who have moved out to the Golden State, the perfect journalistic formula to comment on today's news of the Iowa Supreme Court approving gay marriage while its California colleagues mull this same issue. But we put on our intrepid reporter cap and found two s ... More >>

The Gathering Storm: Lawyers, Loonies, Activists Ready for Prop. 8 Battle

Civic Center Plaza, 6:58 a.m. By 7 a.m., the anti-homosexual zealots were roaring, the police were telling the guy with the Sodomy-Will-Destroy-America message mounted on his Japanese-made truck to move along, and the gay and lesbian chorus with the pink-haired director (quite good!) were warming u ... More >>

Gay Mormons, Black Pentecostals, Jedi Drag Queens, Oh My! Demonstrators Descend on State Supreme Court for Prop. 8 Hearings

Peter JamisonMinister Chauncey Killens thinks gay marriage should be illegal."I don't know any white gay man who sat on the back of the bus." So spoke Chauncey Killens, a black Pentecostal minister from Salinas, as he stood on San Francisco's Civic Center mall yesterday. Like hundreds around him, ... More >>

What’s in David Chiu’s political baggage?

Marriage Equality Non-Profit Publishes Stories of Psychological Fallout from Prop 8

  Since Proposition 8 passed, Marriage Equality USA, an Oakland-based non-profit, has been surveying people online and around California about the effects of the initiative's campaign on their lives. Today, MEUSA published a report entitled, "Prop 8 Hurt My Family -- Ask me How," w ... More >>

Beginnings of an LGBT Media Empire?

Lawyers and executives this week announced the formation of Here Media, an "LGBT media powerhouse" formed through a merger of several companies catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender consumers. While the resulting entity isn't exactly Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, it does represent ... More >>

2008: The Year S.F. Grew Up

Drama Season

Prop. 8 divides Mormon family during the holidays.

California Cities and Same-Sex Couples Join SF's Prop. 8 Challenge

By Lauren SmileyThe San Francisco city attorney filed an amended petition (note: PDF file) challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8 in the state Supreme Court Wednesday, adding seven same-sex married couples and 11 more cities and counties as parties. The amended filing also argues that Prop. 8 ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters: Web Extra

SF Weekly Challenges Guardian Op-Ed on "Border Crossers"

By Lauren Smiley Usually SF Weekly lets its stories speak for themselves, yet the op-ed in the Guardian attacking my "Border Crossers" cover story last week -- comparing me to Jerry Springer and the Weekly to the National Enquirer -- calls for a response. My story took a critical yet sensitive loo ... More >>

Coming Soon: Day Without a Gay

By Lauren Smiley The opposition to Prop. 8 is trying a new, less divisive approach to tilt public opinion in favor of gays, and, by extension, gay marriage. Two gay men in West Hollywood conceived the Day Without a Gay, slated for December 10 to coincide with International Human Rights Day. With t ... More >>

Will Gay Marriage Have to Wait for Democracy to Catch Up?

History's Answer: Yes By Peter Jamison Since Californians voted to enshrine discrimination against gay couples in their state constitution on Nov. 4, the varied strains of lamentation from San Francisco's chattering classes have risen to a choral swell. The success of Proposition 8, which banned s ... More >>

Border Crossers

Long rap sheet? No problem. Transgender Latina hookers in S.F. are successfully fighting deportation by asking for asylum.

Do Gay Rights Have a Future Outside of California? Do We Care?

By Benjamin Wachs Although it’s easy to get lost in the fact that California voters recently decided to put discrimination in the state constitution, a little perspective is in order: gay couples in California still have (almost) full equality under the law, with provisions for civil unions, ado ... More >>

Theatre Rhinoceros Secedes from State of California

Say what?!! Theatre Rhinoceros (a.k.a. the "oldest queer theater in America") is so disappointed in the way California voted on Prop. 8 that its mainstage is seceding from the state. And you're all invited to the freebie secession party tomorrow night. Executive Director John Fisher writes: For thi ... More >>

Campaign for California Families' Efforts to Intervene in Prop 8 Litigation Denied

By Ashley Harrell The California Supreme Court's reentry into the Prop 8 war satisfied almost everybody. Yes on 8 and its supporters figure that the three new court cases, which challenge the legality of a same-sex marriage amendment to the state constitution, don't stand a chance. No on 8 and it s ... More >>

He's No Menace

Gay marriage has been very, very good to Dennis Herrera.

Obama Supports 'Separate But Equal' Principle For Gays

Oh, the irony of it all: When it comes to his views on same-sex marriage, the first black man elected president in the U.S. uses the same principle employed in the past by whites to justify segregation in this country. Barack Obama opposes gay marriage, but he supports civil unions. Separate but ... More >>

"No on 8" activists: please, please, PLEASE, don't turn this into a holy war

Prop. 8 campaign uses Chron content to scare voters

Election Night Storylines

The Unexpected Things SF Gay Newspapers Say About Prop V

Gay Marriage: Next Stop, U.S. Supreme Court

Still No Gay Couples in No on 8 Ads?

The Tragedy of Gavin Newsom & Chris Daly’s Shared Flaw

Will black neighborhoods in S.F. support the gay marriage ban — again?

Prop 8 Ad Wars: The Counterattack

Prop 8 Fueling Vitriol at Folsom Street Fair

Prop 8 Ad Wars Begin

RIP LGBT Activist Del Martin

Last Night: Tobias Wolff at the SF LGBT Community Center

Opposites Attract

Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one) in Chris & Don.

Tourists Live It Up While Poor San Franciscans Take Stay-Cations

Things in S.F. Turning America Gay

Was it Gavin? Sourdough bread? We round up the suspects.

Gay and Stuck in Kern County? Win a Free Berkeley Wedding!

Monday: Phelps Camp VS. Gays and Gavin Newsom at City Hall

Hey! We Were Lesbians First!

The Gay Divorcees

Gay marriage is new. Gay divorce isn't.

Q&A: Victoria Kolakowski

Last Night: Harvey Milk Bust Unveiling at City Hall

Rumor Mill: Historic Day For Gay Marriage in May?

New York county squints at gay marriage: says “That can’t be right!”

New York State recognizes, but won’t perform, gay marriage

Van Sant's 'Milk' Locked, Loaded while 'Mayor of Castro St.' Cock-Blocked By Writer's Strike

Board Of Supervisors: Glen Or Glenda? Ah, Who Gives A Shit

Harvey Milk Biopic to be filmed in SF, Mayor's Office Announces

FEATURE Follow-Up: More Info for Gender Variant Children and Their Parents

Gay Shame in San Francisco -- Mary Wants You!