Tag Archives: San Francisco

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The city says it cost $17,000 to clean up.

In a project similar to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, 20 noted LGBT figures have been selected for the Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk. Not all of the honorees were San Francisco residents. Matthew Bajko reports at the Bay Area Reporter: Fourteen men and six women have been chosen to be the first group of 20 LGBT luminaries to be honored …

If all the people in the world had to live in one city, here’s how big that city would be based on the population densities of six examples.

A federal judge in California has ruled that state employees may sue the federal government for excluding their partners from a long-term health care program. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland denied an Obama administration request to dismiss the suit Tuesday and signaled that she is likely to overturn provisions of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denies …

Tomorrow San Francisco’s GLBT History Museum will stage its grand opening on 18th Street in the Castro. The museum is the only one of its kind in the United States and one of only two in the world. Via press release: “A quarter century after the founding of the GLBT Historical Society, we’re proud to open a museum to showcase …

Blowing horns and screaming over a public address system, a group of Move Of God street preachers descended on a transgender woman to “lay on hands” and perform an exorcism. They announce on YouTube: “Believed he was a woman for 20 years. In fifteen minutes he is totally set free.” Based on this clip, it appears their hapless victim is …

(Via – Queerty)

The Human Rights Campaign has announced that they are moving their Castro gift shop across the street and into the storefront that once housed Harvey Milk’s camera shop. In a press release, the organization is painting the move as a marriage of two greats in the gay civil rights fight: “We are the beneficiaries of [Milk’s] groundbreaking activism and are …

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According to Lauren Smiley’s cover story in the latest issue of SF Weekly, some locals aren’t taking too well to the recent mini-explosion of nude men strolling around the Castro. Nudity, per se, isn’t illegal in San Francisco, but even lots of gay men don’t like running into twigs and berries while doing their shopping. It’s a long feature story, …

(Via – Boing Boing)

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Courtesy of the publisher, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is Mary Ann In Autumn, the latest in legendary gay author Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City series. Mary Ann In Autumn is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. More than twenty years have passed since Mary Ann left her husband and child in San Francisco for the allure of a …

This year’s Real Bad party, the closing event of Folsom Street Fair, raised a record-breaking $180,000 for local LGBT and HIV/AIDS groups. Via press release: Five selected LGBT health and community service organizations are sharing the funds raised, which include 100 percent of the money collected from general admission ticket sales. The beneficiary organizations are Maitri, the only residential care …

Next year San Francisco’s voters may see a ballot question that would ban the circumcision of males under 18 years old. “It’s genital mutilation,” said Lloyd Schofield, the author of a San Francisco ballot measure that would make it a “misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the…genitals” of a person under 18. Baby boys in San Francisco may be …

Lt. Governor-elect Mayor Gavin Newsom and Brian “The Beard” Wilson go by right at the beginning of this clip.

San Francisco has banned the sale of Happy Meals, or more specifically, banned the giving away of toys in meals which get more than 35% of their calories from fat. McDonald’s says they are “disappointed” with the city’s decision. Today Buzzfeed list provides a top ten list of things banned in San Francisco, such as plastic bags, smoking, Happy Meals, …