Harvey Milk

Lech Walesa Street Hosts Transgender Clinic

David Campos: "We're not foreclosing" on possibility of changing title of street named for "one of my heroes." Blink and you'll miss it -- Lech Walesa Street is a small, gritty alley a generous heave from City Hall. For those with no desire to loiter here, it provides a brief glimpse into a painful ... More >>

San Francisco Has Some of the Gayest Buildings in America

Recently, California Home Design decided to honor gay and lesbian history by creating a gallery of the "Gayest Buildings in America." No, the buildings themselves aren't gay, but they do hold special meaning for our LGBT community.  Inspired by the panel "If These "Walls Could Talk," the gal ... More >>

The Best of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012: Friday, Oct. 5

Chuck Prophet takes us on a tour of San Francisco Willie Mays, Carol Doda, and Harvey Milk didn't come to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year, but S.F. rocker Chuck Prophet brought their memories to a crowded and lively set early Friday afternoon. Prophet's latest album, Temple Beautiful, is a story ... More >>

Harvey Milk Club Asks Mayor Ed Lee to Leave Ross Mirkarimi Alone Already

Turns out, Tami Bryant and the inmates over at San Francisco County Jail aren't the only ones who want everyone to leave Sheriff-in-limbo Ross Mirkarimi alone.  The Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club this week passed a resolution demanding Mayor Ed Lee let Mirkari ... More >>

Live Review, 6/5/12: Sleep Forcefully Exhales at the Fox Theater

By ALEE KARIM Sleep Oxbow Kowloon Walled City June 5th, 2012 The Fox Theatre Better than: The rest. And rest. Thankfully. The San Jose-based metal band Sleep is part of a pre-Internet coterie of bands that gained an astonishing reputation in their absence. For every Soundgarden reuniting to cash ... More >>

Your Kids Should Probably Be More Afraid of Dog Bites Than Gay People

Earlier today, we told you about Save California, that right-wing and totally off-base group in Sacramento that's spending a ton of time and money pleading with parents to keep their kids locked inside on Harvey Milk Day -- May 22.But you know what your children should probably be more afraid of tha ... More >>

Portrait(s) of the Artist

Watch Chuck Prophet's Rockin' Tribute to Harvey Milk and George Moscone, "White Night, Big City"

Temple Beautiful, the latest album from local rock songwriter Chuck Prophet, is basically a tribute to San Francisco: Different songs deal with notable parts of the city's history. A few months ago we premiered the song "Castro Halloween," which tells the story of the grisly murders that ended the n ... More >>

Election Money -- Who Gave What in San Francisco

Invest, young man. Invest in politics! ​As of last night, San Francisco's election season is all over except for the shoutin' -- and recriminatin' and fulminatin' and tabulatin' who bought what. Assuming Mayor Ed Lee does pull it out, a number of observers will note he did so in spite of the actio ... More >>

Today Is Billy Sipple Day: Honoring Gay Ex-Marine Who Saved Gerald Ford's Life

Sipple in action​Today is Oliver W. Sipple Day in San Francisco, which honors the man who in 1975 lunged to grab the arm of Sarah Jane Moore when he saw her aiming a 38-caliber pistol at Gerald Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.No, S.F. is not gaga over the half-term president. I ... More >>

Pay Nat Ford His Money and Get Him Out of Here

Coming to take you away. Take you today. ​When it comes to Nat Ford, always we grumble. We grumbled about how much money he was paid to work. Now we're grumbling about how much he'll be paid to stop working and get the hell out of town. The lead rabble-rouser decrying Ford's $384,000 walkin' money ... More >>

Google Doodle Just Isn't Gay Enough

This looks gay to us.​Even if we aren't the gayest city in America anymore, LGBT people everywhere still have high expectations of us when it comes to displaying our gayness. Perhaps that's why Google's genuine effort to celebrate the month of Gay Pride with its rainbow Google doodle just isn' ... More >>

"Beginners": Mike Mills' Twee Autobiographical Film Is a Charmer

June's Literary Events

Week in Gay: Ted Haggard is Bisexual and Anderson Cooper has a 'Companion'

Coming after cousin Geri​This edition of The Week in Gay is a potpourri (either a miscellaneous collection of stories or a mixture of dried flowers and spices) of four categories - plus an extra special bonus!Included are updates on the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the latest stories from San F ... More >>

Polk Street Mural Depicts Neighborhood as Seedy, Enrages Neighbors

This isn't Art​Art is subjective unless you are a Polk Street dweller. Then it's considered objective. In effort to make the area, well, a little less crappy, neighbors have been working for years to revitalize Polk Street, with nicer trees, flowers, and some more tasteful art. But the project hit ... More >>

Harvey Milk's Chair -- Can It Be Given Away?

Won't anyone take Harvey's chair?​You'd think snagging Harvey Milk's old chair in the Board of Supervisors chambers would be an honor his political heirs would stand up for to sit down in.But you'd be wrong -- three times wrong. Supervisor Sean Elsbernd should know. He's been sitting there five ye ... More >>

The Year in Gay, 2010 Edition

What a year it was​Who Will Be The Uppity Fag Of The Year?Let's face it -- this was a messy, messy year for the gays. Much of the news was good, ultimately, but shit dragged on! There were three major federal trials (four, technically -- but two were sorta merged in Massachusetts), promises ... More >>

Who Are You? And How Do You Know?

Cleve Jones Skips His Own San Francisco Political Event

Gil GoldsteinCleve Jones won't be here in San Francisco to recruit you​Iowa isn't the worst place to be for National Coming Out Day. Gay marriage is legal there, after all. That's just one of many reasons no one will confuse Iowa for San Francisco anytime soon. And instead of appearing today at a ... More >>

Humphry Slocombe Hosting Big Gay Ice Cream Truck for Bicoastal Fun

Tamara PalmerHumphry Slocombe's Harvey Milk and Honey Graham Cracker ice cream.​SFoodie's Tamara Palmer, enlisted to edit NBC's local food blog Feast Bay Area (due to go live in September), offered up a rainbow scoop to NBC's New York Feast flagship yesterday ― an East-Coast-meets-West-Coast ... More >>

Scenes From a Castro Kiss-In

Matt BaumeSometimes activism can be pretty...​What do you get when it rains at a kiss-in? A wet kiss-in. A smattering of amorous activists locked lips at Harvey Milk Plaza yesterday in the local incarnation of the "Great Global Kiss-In," a gay-centric event celebrated worldwide to mark the Interna ... More >>

Gay-Centric Kiss-In Today, Rain or Shine

Hey! Wait until 5:30, dammit! ​Today's organized gay kiss-in in the Castro is meant to shed light on how such an activity could get one beaten, arrested, or stoned to death in much of the world. This, as activists love to say, is "empowering." So it wouldn't do for folks to stay home because they' ... More >>

Rally Today for Ferry Worker, Allegedly Fired for 'Acting Too Gay'

While the world's greatest seafaring empire was unabashedly founded on the back of "rum, sodomy, and the lash," it seems even a bit of risque talk can cost one a seafaring job these days. And by "risque" we don't mean in-depth conversations about rum or the lash. The Harvey Milk LGBT club and Pride ... More >>

What Do You Get For Being Mayor of S.F. Library on Foursquare?

The once and future mayor...​Maybe you know someone -- maybe you are someone -- who must compulsively whip out a phone whenever entering a cafe, restaurant, or bar in order to ensure he or she will remain mayor of said establishment on foursquare. It's a fitting metaphor for San Francisco, where m ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

¿Dónde está el jefe?​ Normally, a story about Gavin Newsom going to Mexico and "leaking" would be pretty vile. And, depending on your feelings about the mayor, both of these developments could be interpreted as very problematic ... but not in that way.In any event, it's Friday -- you made it. B ... More >>

While San Fran Attempts to Butt Into Legal Challenge to Prop. 8, Pair of Gay Supe Hopefuls Plead for Patience

Scott Wiener This week, City Attorney Dennis Herrera petitioned to become a party in the case challenging Prop. 8 in federal district court, ramming full speed ahead into the legal challenge to the same-sex marriage ballot initiative.Meanwhile, the debate continues about when same-sex ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for May 20-26, 2009

Ammiano: Gavin Newsom has 'Tainted' Healthy San Francisco

Assemblyman Tom AmmianoAssemblyman Tom Ammiano knows you're angry -- he's angry too! But as many members of the progressive community, his natural base, begin to gripe about the city's plan to plow ahead full-bore with Healthy San Francisco -- the city's universal health care plan -- while slashing ... More >>

Work It Out

Who needs money if you have your health?

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJs AC and Allan

Hurry Up and Slow Down

The decor and presentation try hard at Level III, but the timing is off.

Jim Jones: Cult leader, killer, supporter of suicide barrier on Golden Gate Bridge

City Hall's War Against City Hall: It's ...

SFIndiefest Top Ten Flicks - Including Indiana Jones, Gus Van Sant, and Robbie Conal

BetterKnowanSFBlog -- SFist

News of the Hour -- The Lethal Injection Cocktail, Mike Webb Found Dead, Ted Nugent Found Irritating

Literary Events

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Further Browsing

Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Further Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Political Relativity

Stuck in a strange warp of the space-time fabric, our supervisors can't stop tilting against a dot-com development monster that's dead and buried

Proud and Loud

Have a gay old time at the National Queer Arts Festival

Reel World

Eyes Wide Shut and Stonewall

Cothran

Night + Day

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Dark Sun

The 11th Annual Film Arts Festival spotlights indie filmmaker Paul Budnitz's debut feature

Achtenberg's Third Act

Roberta Achtenberg bristles when anyone dares say that Williw Brown is the one who gets things done. "I have gotten things done my entire life, right?" she says, citing when her accomplishments as a law school dean, her 800-page book on sexual orientatio