Earlier this month I mentioned the SF AIDS Foundation’s new avatar campaign to encourage regular HIV testings. Here’s their latest image. The first one on the left is wearing a Towleroad t-shirt, so we know who that is. But I’m told that’s me to the right. Holding a MAC? Come on! I guess the third one is Dan Savage, the …
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Via Jerusalem Post: Gad Beck, an anti-Nazi Zionist resistance fighter and the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, died on Sunday in Berlin. He passed away in a senior citizens’ home six days before his 89th birthday, which would have been on June 30. Beck was a pioneering gay activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World …
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His mother has launched a webpage: This is my son, Evan Flanary, 22, 6ft 1, 160 lbs, blonde/blue wearing blue jeans and gray hoody. Last seen on foot in the mission district in San Francisco on June 19 2012 meeting a stranger from a social phone app contact. This is not like him to disappear. He has no money and …
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Huge cheers for them from the crowds: “Some of my best memories from my boyhood are of my scouting days,” Takei told GLAAD. “I played bass bugle in our troop’s drum and bugle corps. We marched in Fourth of July parades. We learned teamwork and brotherhood from camping together. The Boy Scouts built my character. As an adult, I was …
Read More »SFist has the details: OccuPride, the Occupy movement for Gay Pride, temporarily blocked the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade today, effectively slowing down the route for contingents while making their presence known in a peaceful manner. An estimated hundred or so protesters intercepted annual walk up Market Street. The group chanted such gems as, “Out of the sidewalks into the …
Read More »It’s not all good news: “The court let stand the part of the law that requires law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being undocumented.”
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