After nearly 4 decades, gay bathhouses are now able to apply for permits to open in San Francisco. In the mid-1980s, the city’s health department put in place tight regulations in order…
News Round-Up: July 29, 2020
Some news items you might have missed: • Gay Star News: San Francisco may finally see gay bathhouses return thanks to the city relaxing rules it brought in at the height of…
Gay Man Tells The Tale Of His Experience With ‘Skincare Karen’
Another ‘Karen’ found her time in the spotlight last week when a woman named Lisa Alexander approached Jaime Juanillo in front of his home in San Francisco. Juanillo was stenciling the words…
SF Couple Exchange Wedding Vows With Friends, Face Masks & Social Distancing
Even the coronavirus can’t stop love 🙂 The Bay Area Reporter shares that, just as cities and states began to follow shelter-at-home orders in March, César Salza and Kyle Hill found they…
Fox News Host: SF On Lockdown Because It’s A ‘Big Gay Town’ Full Of ‘Compromised Immune Systems’
While guest-hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show today, Fox News personality Mark Steyn mocked San Francisco for being one of the first cities to lockdown during the ongoing coronavirus threat saying it’s because…
New Law Could Pave The Way For Bathhouses To Return To San Francisco
District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the LGBTQ-centric Castro area in San Francisco, has introduced legislation that would lay the groundwork for allowing gay bathhouses to reopen. Back in 1984, as…
Trailer For Upcoming Revival Of Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales Of The City’
Murray Bartlett and Laura Linney in ‘Tales of the City’ Netflix’s highly anticipated revival of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has released its first official teaser trailer. Based on the serial…
Homophobic Swordsman Arrested After Nearly Severing Man’s Hand In Attack
Leor Bergland arrested for attempted murder with a sword (mugshot via SF Police) San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of slashing and nearly severing the hand of a gay man…
San Francisco: Two Violent Attacks On Gay Men Days Before Pride Weekend
Tim Tait of San Francisco Two men in the San Francisco area were separately attacked on the same night. The violent beatings have left police in both Oakland and San Francisco searching…
News Round-Up: May 2, 2018
(image via Instagram) Some news items you might have missed: • Yes, in case you were wondering, folks do make passes at guys who wear glasses. Especially if you look like Germany’s Obaid…
“Hot Cop Of Castro” Arrested For Hit-And-Run
(photo via Facebook) Sad to hear, and I should note we don’t have all the details. But the arrest was certainly not done without some certainty. Via SFExaminer.com: A well-known San Francisco…
Friday Night In San Francisco
I’ve been attending the annual National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association conference this week in San Francisco. Lots of seminars, conference sessions and all that jazz, but the best part is meeting…
San Francisco Mayor Bans Travel By City Staff To Indiana
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has decided to halt all non-essential travel on the city’s behalf to the state of Indiana over the “license to discriminate” legislation signed into law by Gov.…
San Francisco: “Person of Interest” sought in connection to Feather Lynn murder
The San Francisco Police Department has released video footage of a “person of interest” sought in connection to the homicide of “Feather Lynn”/Bryan Higgins. Apparently there had been inconsistencies about the color…
San Francisco: Castro District resident Bryan Higgins attacked, left brain dead
Bryan Higgins, known to friends and family as Feather Lynn, was brutally attacked over the weekend in the Castro District of San Francisco. Sadly, violent crime has recently been on the rise…
Trans men Ty and Landon celebrate Pride with parents on “Our America”
On this week’s episode of Our America on the OWN Channel, Lisa Ling revisits Ty and Landon – two transgender men – three years after documenting their journey from female to male. In…