Tag Archives: San Francisco

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 …

Sean Chapin made this fantastic clip which recaps the events that have taken place in SF over the last few days to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassinations of Harvey Milk and George Moscone. From the clip description: The evening started out as a Memorial Concert and featured performances from the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the San Francisco …

Here’s a slideshow of last night’s sweaty shenanigans. Go here for full-screen versions of the shots. If you don’t want your photo included here, please email me.

Castro Street, Saturday, 12:30 PM Leif and I are walking up the crowded Castro Street sidewalk when he calls out to a handsome bearded cub. Leif: Andy, you sexy motherfucker! Andy : Oh, hi….Leif….uh, these are my parents. Introductions were made to Andy’s tiny elderly parents who politely pretended not to have heard. I didn’t catch their names because I …

Serendipitilicious = happening to be in San Francisco on the same weekend that Blowoff is in town. The fur begins to fly at Slim’s at 10PM. Every single person we ran into on the street today said they’re going, it should be a crazy night.

I’m heading back to San Francisco this weekend to attend the SF Gay Men’s Chorus’ world premiere of New World Waking!, the latest work by my fabulous pal Steve Schalchlin, whom you may recall from his recent Off Broadway hit, The Big Voice: God Or Merman? Three-time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie will introduce the evening, which features Tony Award winner …

Last week Bill O’Reilly, using some cleverly edited images, attacked San Francisco as an example of what is to come for the rest of the country under the Obama administration, citing homelessness, open drug use, and the toleration of the commercial sex industry. The homelessness situation in San Francisco is indeed horrible- it can feel like a third world country …

Under the title The Elijah-Jezebel Showdown, wingnut anti-gay preacher Lou Engle has posted a lengthy diatribe/sermon about Friday night’s incident in the Castro. Engle is the architect of the massive anti-gay rally at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium. (The clips were sent to me by a straight Mormon woman who says she’s left her church in outrage over their assault on …

On Friday night, police in riot gear had to rush to the Castro District to protect a group of Christianists seeking to convert gays. In San Francisco’s Castro District, people on both sides of the same-sex marriage controversy confronted each other on Friday night, as police tried to keep the peace. Proposition 8 passed in a close vote and eliminated …

The staff of the 20th anniversary Real Bad party held their check presentation ceremony last night where they donated a record-setting $160,000 to five LGBT charities: AIDS Legal Referral Panel, GLBT Historical Society, Dimensions Clinic, openhouse, and The Positive Care Center at UCSF. Real Bad is the fantastic closing night party of the Folsom Street Fair put on by Grass …

Last night at the Castro Theater I attended the “People’s Premiere” of Milk, the Harvey Milk biopic by Gus Van Zant that opens nationwide on November 26th, the day before the 30th anniversary of Milk’s assassination. My longtime buddy Robert Cameron is the VP of Brand Marketing for Levi Strauss, the presenting sponsor of this premiere, and he was kind …

Last night my buddy Leif Wauters (below right, with the silver claw) took me to Oakland for a giant sci-fi themed 40th birthday party for local bear Noel Casale, pictured here showing his expired Logan’s Run light. The party was held at Bench And Bar, a cavernous gay Latino club which was wall-to-wall mylar and tin-foil adorned bears. Crazy, fun, …

On Friday, San Francisco saw one of the largest Prop 8 protests to date. Crowd estimates run as high as 25,000. These photos are via JMG reader James Loduca. Thanks James!

It’s a spectacular day today, brisk and clear, so I took a long walk along the waterfront, something I rarely did when I lived here. I ran into JMG reader Billy on the F Line streetcar on the way home, big shoutout to him.

I’m in San Francisco for a few days, staying downtown next to the Embarcadero. I’ve got the balcony door open and the wet fog is just whipping through the room, it’s kinda fabulous. If you embiggen this pic, you can see the a bit of the Ferry Building and the Bay Bridge. Not much to do today except maybe stroll …

JMG reader Joe Rodriquez sends us this live photo from his phone as an estimated 5000 angry gays and supporters rally at San Francisco City Hall in protest of the vote on Prop 8.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went on local San Francisco television on Friday to oppose Proposition 8. Pelosi has said that campaign finance laws prevent her from making an anti-8 advertisement because her name is on this year’s ballot, although her campaign did make a $10K donation.

On Tuesday, San Franciscans get to vote on Prop R – the renaming of a local sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush. Proponents will hold an Election Night party at City Hall hosted by drag impresario Peaches Christ. Yes On R!

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has laid low in the marriage equality fight ever since the Yes On 8 side scored big with their “Like It Or Not” ad. But yesterday he launched a new round of fundraisers and media appearances in a last minute bid to turn the polling around. In the last week of what could be one …