Tag Archives: San Francisco

SF: Thousands Rally On Eve Of Justice

(Photo credit: Lacy Atkins/SF Chronicle)

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The End Of Virgin

Virgin Megastore has announced that it will close its San Francisco location at the end of April. NYC’s Times Square store closes then too, with the Union Square store following at the end of May. That leaves the chain with three remaining locations: Denver, Orlando, and Hollywood. However an industry insider tells me today that those three stores will shutter …

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I’m Killing The Chronicle

Yesterday San Francisco’s CBS station ran a piece about how blogs are killing newspapers, using the example of how many blogs used the SF Chronicle’s story about legalizing marijuana as a source. Amusingly, the reporter used this here website thingy as one his examples, inserting his face into my facehole on this blog. Can’t embed it, go look here. I …

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Silencefiction & Fauxnique – Lipstique

Via SFist: National treasure Fauxnique and Silencefiction (the swellest chap you’ll ever run into at a club) collaborated on this smashing project. “Lipstique,” which boasts former Miss Trannyshack Fauxnique listing her favorite lipstick colors backed by an addictive disco beat. But it’s so much more than that. Silencefiction’s “Lipstique” (Looq Records) is meshed with cameos by Fauxnique, Peaches Christ, Kiddie, …

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Sign Of The Times

Local artist Alex Zecca managed to rechristen a long stretch of signs along San Francisco’s famous Bush Street today before the coppers caught on to his sticker schtick. (Tipped by JMG reader Brad)

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Tax Man Assesses Extra $15M For SF Catholic Church, Wingnuts Cry Foul

Last year the Catholic diocese in San Francisco reorganized their real estate holdings, prompting city tax assessors to deem the move a “sale” and therefore subject to $15M in property transfer taxes. Wingnuts are crying foul, claiming the city is retaliating against the church for supporting Proposition 8. From the Christianist news service, LifeSite: Assessor Phil Ting concluded that the …

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San Francisco Begins Issuing ID Cards To All, Regardless Of Immigration Status

To howls of protest across the wingnut blogosphere and talk radio, today the city of San Francisco began issuing photo ID cards to all residents who can provide proof of living in the city, regardless of their legal immigration status. The cards, also available in New Haven, Conn., and being considered in other cities, have sparked fury among advocates of …

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TB Outbreak Traced To Castro Bars

A small outbreak of tuberculosis has been traced back to Castro-area gay bars, where a bartender was apparently infected by a patron. SF’s public health department is screening bar employees all over the Castro. San Francisco health officials have traced several cases of tuberculosis to patrons of Castro gay bars, with one of the people infected a bartender in the …

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Gay SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty Introduces Resolution Condemning Church Vandalism

Yesterday openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty introduced a resolution that condemns the vandalism of the Most Holy Redeemer Church. WHEREAS, Most Holy Redeemer Church, a Catholic community established in 1900 and located within the heart of San Francisco’s Castro District, is widely known as a Gay-friendly parish; and WHEREAS, For over 20 years the community of Most Holy …

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Catholic League On Church Defacing

The Catholic League (famously dissed by Kathy Griffin as “one guy with a computer”) has issued a reaction to yesterday’s defacing of a Catholic church in the Castro. Part of the blame for the latest attack goes to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Both Newsom and the Board have shown nothing but contempt …

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Castro Catholic Church Vandalized

Playing right into the hands of wingnuts nationwide, some idiot vandalized the gay-friendly Most Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro. Vandals spray-painted swastikas on a Catholic church in San Francisco’s Castro District Saturday night. It appears the vandals are upset about the Catholic church’s support of Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal in California. But, the Most Holy Redeemer …

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Point/Counterpoint

JMG reader Mike send us this great shot from SFist in which photographer Ben Golub captures an amusing counterprotest to a San Franciscan wingnut.

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Flashback: Ten Years Ago Tonight

Left to right at a NYE 1998 party at my place in the Castro: Marty, me, Jerry, Robb, Jim, Robert (center, my roommate), Ed, and Ken. Half of those guys were visiting from Fort Lauderdale….the house was very busy that weekend, as I recall. Regarding my silver metallic shirt (since I know you’ll bring it up) – I used to …

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Lesbian Gang-Raped In Bay Area

Somehow I missed this horrible story last week. A woman in the San Francisco Bay area was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building, authorities said Monday. Detectives say the 28-year-old victim was attacked Dec. 13 after she got out of her car, which bore a rainbow gay …

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Ribbon-Cutting For Passionate Struggle

Last night the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Passionate Struggle, the new Castro exhibit I mentioned here earlier this week. Go here for my slideshow of the exhibit. Among those at the ribbon are Levi’s vice president Robert Cameron (first man on the left) and openly gay SF Supervisor Bevan Dufty (kneeling with his daughter …

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Our Passionate Struggle

Two weeks ago I visited a new exhibit from the SF GLBT Historical Society called Passionate Struggle: The Dynamics Of San Francisco’s GLBT History, which is housed on the corner of Castro and 18th Streets in a storefront that once was the site of Wolf Camera. This exhibit explores the dynamic tensions between passion and struggle that have forged San …

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Santacon 2008

Hundreds of San Franciscans got dressed up as Santa Claus this weekend for Santacon 2008, during which they got hammered and crashed a wedding to cheer the bride and groom. Tipped by JMG reader Adam.

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Trolley Dolly Follies

To great fanfare, today Emirates Airlines begins nonstop flights between San Francisco and Dubai. However, the SF Chronicle points out that the airline’s rules specify that it will not hire openly gay flight attendants – making the company in violation of laws regarding any entity that does business with the city. The airline, which is run by the government of …

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Flashback: Wigstock West 1996

I couldn’t resist sharing this old photo of me and Project Runway’s Chris March, taken at Wigstock West in 1996, the one year (I think) that Wigstock came to San Francisco. We used to see Chris at all the major events in outlandish costumes like this. I got the pic yesterday from my old SF roommate Eduardo, who’s now gay-married …

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Magical: New World Waking!

At Davies Symphony Hall on Monday night, I attended the sold-out world premiere of Steve Schalchlin’s New World Waking!, performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus on their 30th anniversary, with Jennifer Holliday appearing as their guest vocalist. I was there because I’ve been a huge fan of Steve’s work for years, but also (as I semi-bragged here) because …

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