Tag Archives: The Castro

Last night my pal Matt Foreman and I were walking to dinner when we came across quite the scene on Castro Street as dozens of homelessness activists occupied a vacant storefront. A massive and helmeted SFPD riot contingent responded and gathered in several different huddles before rushing the storefront from all directions, with one squad blazing up from a side …

I think this storefront used to be Tower Records.

Several parking spots on Castro Street have been removed for a “public parklet.”

This Friday drop by the Edge in the Castro after 8pm and meet some of your fellow JMG readers. Our last San Francisco meetup was two years ago!

The 38th annual Castro Street Fair is this Sunday and the San Francisco GLBT Historical Society has posted the below archival footage from 1976.

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Weiner says he hasn’t yet decided on introducing a ban on public nudity, but if he does the bill will exempt street fairs and parades. From the Bay Area Reporter: After last week’s story was published, Wiener contacted the B.A.R. to clarify that if he does submit a public nudity ban it would only apply to …

As we’ve discussed here several times before, it is completely legal to be fully nude on the streets of San Francisco, provided one does not appear to be in a “sexually excited state.” A handful of nudists from other neighborhoods like to congregate in the relatively sunny Castro, where they are hassled less often by residents. But nudity may soon …

This Sunday the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence will lead the 29th annual AIDS Candlelight Memorial in San Francisco’s Castro District. Similar events will take place that day throughout the world. Health, faith and community-based organizations in some 115 countries will use the event to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS, to support those living with HIV and …

Roger Ebert just tweeted that San Francisco’s magnificent and legendary Castro Theater is changing its focus away from movies. Others on Twitter report that some of the employees have already been let go. (The theater’s online calendar still shows a full schedule through the end of December.) The blog that Ebert links to says that the venue will still host …

It’s still legal to walk the streets of San Francisco while nude, but dropping in somewhere for a bite is now verboten. The city’s Board of Supervisors has adopted new rules that ban naked people from eating in restaurants, and forces nudists to place a cover on public chairs and benches before they sit down, the San Francisco Examiner reported. …

This weekend undercover San Francisco cops will be working the bars of the Castro in a campaign to stem a renewed wave of pick-pocketing incidents. San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Station’s liaison to the LGBT community, said the operation would begin this week, but he wouldn’t specify when. Officers would be “specifically looking for individuals that target bars …

In a pre-Folsom Street Fair event that is sure to draw the scorn of America’s wingnuts, a group of male nudists plans to hold a “nude-in” at the corner of Castro and Market streets tomorrow. George Davis, a 65-year-old nudist best known for his unsuccessful run against Gavin Newsom in the 2007 mayor’s race, said the nude-in is just about …

Clever ad for an AIDS LifeCycle fundraiser.(Tipped by JMG reader Aaron)

As you might expect, this story is all over the wingnut blogs this week. While the majority of the second-grade parents were in support of the field trip, the school is under fire by a handful of parents* who questioned whether the Castro is an appropriate destination for 8-year-old boys. One parent in particular reached out to SFGate and expressed …

San Francisco’s A Different Light bookstore is said to be going out of business. The Castro’s A Different Light Bookstore, one of the few remaining LGBT bookstores in the United States, is apparently closing. This comes on the heels of the closure of the Mission’s Modern Times, another independent progressive bookstore. “Everything must go” signs were spotted in the store …

Shot yesterday by JMG reader Matt Baume.