Tag Archives: The Castro

DOMA Rally In SF Today At 5PM

Judging by a flurry of tweets I’m seeing, it appears that there will be a DOMA-related “celebration of love” at Market & Castro at 5PM today. If you attend, please tweet or email us your photos!

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Gay Walk Of Fame Planned For Castro

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 …

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LGBT History Museum Opens In SF

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 …

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Cleve Jones: Harvey Milk Would Be Horrified To See HRC In His Castro Store

(Via – Queerty)

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HomoQuotable – Dustin Lance Black

“Harvey Milk spent the last years of his life fighting not only for rights for gays and lesbians across the nation, but also against the idea that the only way to achieve those rights is to lobby the government and financially support so-called ‘straight allies’. Harvey believed the best way to secure our rights was through grassroots action, coalition building …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Human Rights Campaign Moves Into Harvey Milk’s Camera Shop

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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The Full Castro

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, …

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Quote Of The Day – David Frum

“Halloween is overwhelmingly an adult holiday. This year, for example, Americans spent an estimated $800 million on costumes for children, $1 billion on costumes for adults. Where did that adult dress-up party begin? As best we can tell: in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. In the 1970s, that neighborhood emerged as the heart of a new home-owning, bourgeois, coupled gay community. …

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Castro Evacuated Due To Gas Leak

I’m getting dozens of emails and tweets reporting that much of the central Castro business district has been evacuated due to a major gas leak. Some write to say that they can actually hear gas rushing out of a broken main line. A high pressure gas line has been ruptured by workers using a backhoe at 18th and Castro. Street …

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SLIDESHOW: San Francisco JMG Meet-Up

I had a fantastic time meeting a ton of JMG readers at last night’s meet-up at the Castro’s Edge Bar. Many longtime JMG’ers were in the house, including Huntington, Castro Craig, Sean Chapin, KitchenBeard, and NoCal Drummer. Wacky SF performance artist Philip Huang even showed up! I was sorta pulled in ten directions at once, so I hope I got …

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Morning View – Castro & Market

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Reaching Out To The Gay Teabaggers

JMG reader Sean Chapin tips us that the gas station at the intersection of Market and Castro is putting up a sign to advertise Sarah Palin’s coming appearance in San Jose.

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JMG Reader Meet-Up: 8PM Friday, October 8th At The Castro’s Edge Bar

We decided on the Edge because it’s not too loud and shouldn’t be too crowded with others at that hour. Plus, I heart dive bars. This is your chance to meet the JMG reader behind that sexy avatar. Hope to meet lots of you there!

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SAN FRANCISCO: “It Gets Better” Flash Mob To Film In The Castro On Sunday

JMG reader Matt Baume writes us to announce an It Gets Better flash mob to be filmed in the Castro on Sunday. San Francisco will be jammed for Folsom Street Fair this weekend so if you’re attending the fair, please consider participating in the shoot first. Here’s the event’s Facebook page. NOTE: This Sunday there will also be a marriage …

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Suspect Cleared In Castro Shooting

San Francisco police have cleared the man they had in custody after a fatal shooting at the annual Pink Saturday pride party in the Castro. Authorities say the .357 revolver found on 20-year-old Ed Perkins was not the weapon used to kill 19-year-old Stephen Powell in San Francisco’s Castro district late Saturday. Witnesses did not place Perkins at the scene …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Three Shot, One Killed At Pink Saturday Pride Celebration

A young man was killed at San Francisco’s Pink Saturday celebration in the Castro this weekend in an altercation between gang members. Three people were shot, including the deceased, and police have made two arrests. San Francisco Police arrested a second suspect Sunday in connection with the deadly shooting during the Pink Saturday gay pride street party, KGO-TV news is …

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SF: GLBT Historical Society Inks Five Year Lease In New Castro Space

San Francisco’s GBLT Historical Society has negotiated a deal with Walgreens to take over a new space in the Castro for the next five years. The Bay Area Reporter’s Matthew Bajko reports: The deal calls for the historical society to take over two-thirds of a defunct coin-operated laundry on 18th Street while Walgreens will expand its specialty pharmacy next door …

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Police Find 11 Other Victims On Video Of SF’s Anti-Gay BB Gun Attackers

The San Francisco police have found eleven other victims on the video made by the three men arrested for shooting a gay man with a BB gun. The men have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime and assault for allegedly firing a BB rifle Feb. 26 at the face of a man they believed was gay. The …

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SF’s Dolores Park To Close For 2 Years

JMG reader Adam tips us to the news that San Francisco’s Dolores Park, favorite sunning place for the city’s gay boys, will close for up to two years for a massive $12M renovation. The project scope will include the repair and/or renovation of the courts, field, and clubhouse; restoration of existing roads and pathways; upgrades to subsurface infrastructure, irrigation and …

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The Castro To Get Trader Joe’s

Trader Joe’s will be opening a new store in the years-empty former Castro location of Tower Records. Pending approval of traffic studies and other permits, residents can expect the grocery store known for its specialty items and low prices to open its doors by next year. This will be the fifth Trader Joe’s in San Francisco. The store will have …

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