Tag Archives: San Francisco

Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Fantasy Records, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is a special pink double vinyl copy of Sylvester’s Mighty Real: Greatest Dance Hits, which has been reissued nationwide today. Proceeds from this re-release benefit San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand, per Sylvester’s will.  You can download the album on iTunes or purchase a physical CD copy at Amazon. …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Newspaper Publisher Cancels Michelle Shocked Concert

The Michelle Shocked concert scheduled for pride weekend in San Francisco won’t be happening. Via the San Francisco Chronicle: In a statement, San Francisco Examiner Publisher Todd Vogt said: “I am officially canceling the plan to have Michelle Shocked come to San Francisco and perform a free concert and apologize for her recent anti-gay comments. I had hoped that her …

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SF Examiner To Sponsor Free Michelle Shocked Concert On Pride Day

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Naked Acrobat Terrorizes BART Riders

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: A video emerged Monday depicting a bizarre incident at a San Francisco BART station last month, with a naked man accosting several passengers and doing flips, handstands, the splits and other gymnastic maneuvers on the BART turnstiles. The video, recorded May 10 by a BART station agent at the 16th Street Mission Station, shows the …

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Sylvester’s Greatest Hits Re-Release To Benefit San Francisco AIDS Charities

As some of you doubtlessly know, Sylvester willed the future royalties from his catalog to San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand.  And just in time for gay pride, next month Fantasy Records will re-issue his greatest package on multiple formats. From the press release: Twenty-five years after his untimely death, the iconic legacy of Sylvester, the “Queen …

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Harvey Milk Day – Hope

Video by Sean Chapin. “What came to be called ‘The Hope Speech’ was initially conceived as a stump address, wherein Milk attempted to embolden a strong GLBTQ nationalism within the Castro, while also appealing for an alliance with other disenfranchised groups and straight folks,” wrote Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III in their anthology An Archive of Hope: …

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Harvey Milk Terminal, Not Airport

The bid to renamed San Francisco International for Harvey Milk has apparently ended in a compromise agreement to name one of the airport’s terminals for the slain gay rights icon. Under a deal aimed at avoiding a ballot fight and a load of potential political embarrassment, Supervisor David Campos has settled for putting Milk’s name on a yet-to-be-determined terminal. The …

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Male Strip Club Slated For Castro

According to a press release issued by investors, a combination restaurant and male strip club will open in the iconic Castro and Market building that most recently hosted a Diesel outlet. Via SFist: “Our aim is to bring an upscale dining and entertainment experience to the Castro and the gay community at large,” said RR-SF spokesman Adam Alberti. “RR-SF seeks …

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RI Gives SF Archbishop The Sadz

“The meaning of marriage cannot be redefined, because its meaning lies in our very nature. Therefore, regardless of what law is enacted, marriage remains the union of one man and one woman – by the very design of nature, it cannot be otherwise. Marriage is the only institution that unites a man and a woman to each other and to …

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Taxi Fares Compared By City

USA Today reports on taxi fares around the nation. At USA TODAY’s request, TaxiFareFinder.com calculated estimated one-mile, five-mile and 10-mile fares in the 60 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Fares in Honolulu, San Jose and San Francisco are among the highest. Fares in Detroit, Dallas and Pittsburgh are among the lowest. The most expensive one-mile estimated fares are $8.01 in San …

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SF Pride Grand Marshal: Bradley Manning

Imprisoned WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has been named one of this year’s grand marshals for San Francisco Pride. Pride’s electoral college, which is made up of former grand marshals, has selected Army Private First Class Bradley Manning as its choice for grand marshal. Manning has admitted to leaking 700,000 classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks and is facing court-martial. He …

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Bay Area Reporter Restructures

The Bay Area Reporter has announced a restructuring deal that includes a partnership with other local newspapers. B.A.R. publisher Thomas E. Horn and general manager Michael Yamashita announced to the paper’s staff Monday, April 22 that the Bob Ross Foundation, which owns the B.A.R. , has signed a letter of intent with Todd Vogt and Patrick Brown. Vogt and Brown …

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SF Marriage Proposal Flash Mob

(Tipped by JMG reader Beeblemeyer)

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GLAAD To Honor SF Giants

Next month the world champion San Francisco Giants will become the first professional sports team to be honored by GLAAD. In 1994, the San Francisco Giants became the first-ever professional sports team to host an HIV/AIDS benefit game, “Until There’s A Cure Day.” Since then, the Giants and the Giants Community Fund have repeated the effort, generating more than $1.3 …

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The Lost Gay Bars Of San Francisco

From the Pop-Up Museum Of Queer History, an interesting map. I recently began a mapping project of lost San Francisco gay bars using ads from magazines, matchbooks from archives and mentions in gay papers to try and reconstruct San Francisco in the years before the epidemic. What struck me most is that —in a far more hostile era there seemed …

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Porno Pete Stalks Gays In San Francisco

In a blog entry posted today, Porno Pete LaBarbera revealed that he traveled to San Francisco last month in order to stalk the performers and attendees at the “uber blasphemous” Hunky Jesus contest held every Easter by the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence at Dolores Park.  But Porno’s creepy cross-country crusade was tragically for naught, as the contest was postponed due …

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Archdiocese Of San Francisco Responds To Flap About Anti-Gay Facebook Avatar

During last month’s Supreme Court hearings on Prop 8 and DOMA, the Archdiocese of San Francisco changed their Facebook avatar to a division symbol with a scriptural reference beneath.   The avatar was later deleted along with hundreds of furious comments.  Yesterday the Archdiocese finally responded to media inquiries about the incident. Via San Francisco’s KQED: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has been …

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From SF Archbishop Drunk Driver

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has posted the above mockery of the most famous profile avatar in Facebook history.  The scriptural reference does seem apt:  “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.”  At this writing over 200 angry comments have been posted under the photo.  It doesn’t appear that …

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Thousands Rally For Marriage In SF

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Drunk Driving SF Archbishop: Won’t Somebody Please Think Of The Children?

“To legalize marriage between two people of the same sex would enshrine in the law the principle that mothers and fathers are interchangeable or irrelevant, and that marriage is essentially an institution about adults, not children; marriage would mean nothing more than giving adults recognition and benefits in their most significant relationship. How can we do this to our children? …

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