LGBTQ+
SF Lights Up Rainbow for Harvey Milk Day (May 22)
LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco San Francisco City Hall and SFO airport are both lighting up in beautiful rainbow colors for Harvey Milk Day on May 22, 2022. It’s been nearly 44 years since Harvey Milk left us too soon. On what would have been his 92nd birthday, San Francisco celebrates the life and legacy of more...
SF Considers Reviving Gay Bathhouses
LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco In an effort to create more safe spaces for San Francisco’s LGBTQ community, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman on Tuesday proposed creating new zoning regulations that would allow for the revival of gay bathhouses. Under Mandelman’s proposed legislation, a new zoning category for adult sex venues would be created, making way for such more...
SF’s Pride Parade & Festival Back for 2022 (June 25-26)
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to Reggie Aqui from ABC7 for letting us know that San Francisco’s Pride is planning a return for 2022 for both the big Civic Center festival as well as the parade. SF Pride is back. Let’s get sickening (in the good way). https://t.co/5SrLD6deqY — Reggie Aqui He/Him (@reggieaqui) February 16, 2022 After two more...
Asian Art Museum’s New Exhibit “Seeing Gender” (Jan. 21 – Sept. 5)
Artsy Fartsy, Brand New, LGBTQ+, Museums / Cultural Institutions, San Francisco, Sponsored Seeing Gender is the museum’s first exhibition to explore the collection through the lens of gender. “Gender and sexuality are so central to conversations our society is having today, especially in the Bay Area. With its diverse holdings, the museum can make an important contribution to that dialogue,” explain the more...
SF’s Glorious 180° Rainbow This Morning
LGBTQ+, San Francisco, Wow Did you see the amazing full rainbow on Monday morning in SF? It’s a great start to MLK Day. One of our favorite local photographers @stuinsf captured this shot from his apartment in Russian Hill and it’s got our hearts singing. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Stu Berman 📷 more...
Navy Ship Named For Harvey Milk Launches
LGBTQ+ A Navy ship named for slain gay rights icon Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego Bay on Saturday. The USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler, was christened with a traditional champagne bottle break alongside the hull by Paula Neira, clinical program director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender more...
SF’s Folsom Street Fair Returns as “Megahood” for 2021
Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, LGBTQ+, Reopening, San Francisco, What's Closed / What's Open We’re taking you back to basics. Bringing you into the future. Giving you a vision of where we were and where we’re going on this journey of sexual liberation for ALL. The first Folsom Street Fair in 1984 was called MEGAHOOD. Megahood / Folsom Street Fair 2021 Sunday, September 26, 2021 | more...
SF’s Transgender District’s “Riot Block Party” (Aug. 29)
Celebrations, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco On Sunday, August 29 from noon to 4 pm, the Transgender District will be hosting a neighborhood block party, “The Riot Party,” featuring food, live music, performances, and more. The event will also honor community members who have advanced trans rights in San Francisco and beyond. In observance of one of more...
SF Now Has a “Transgender History Month”
Brand New, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco On the 55th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots, San Francisco recognizes the country’s first Transgender History Month. San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed today officially declared August as Transgender History Month in San Francisco. Developed in partnership with the Transgender District and Office of Transgender Initiatives, today’s proclamation signing at more...
Iconic SF Nightclub AsiaSF Reopens July 29
LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Reopening It takes more than the worst pandemic in 102 years to wipe out a legendary, internationally-known entertainment icon and nightclub. Celebrating 23 years of sold out spectacles, AsiaSF, the storied San Francisco dinner theatre and cabaret featuring the world-famous transgender Ladies of AsiaSF, is set to welcome back its first paying more...
Historic Home of Lesbian Rights Movement Will Be SF Landmark
Brand New, City Insight, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco Thanks to CBS News for sharing the story that San Francisco will have a new historical landmark. The first lesbian couple to legally wed in San Francisco, late lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin formed the Daughters of Bilitis, a political and social organization for lesbians in 1955. Their home located more...
SF’s Lighted Pink Triangle Coming Back June 1
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco On June 1, Illuminate will again light the Pink Triangle. One year after creating a sensation in San Francisco with a full acre of pink light above the city, Illuminate will again bring (night) life to Patrick Carney’s epic canvas triangle on Twin Peaks. And this year, the Triangle will remain more...
SF’s Castro Theatre Movies Return (June 2021)
Bay Area Favorites, LGBTQ+, Pride, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Thanks to Broke-Ass Stuart for digging up the news that SF’s iconic Castro Theater has finally scheduled its first movie screenings in more than a year. Although a full reopening isn’t planned yet, the first indoor screenings at the nearly 99-year-old theater are set for the Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival in more...
SF’s Brand New “Bearrison Street Fair” Coming in October
Brand New, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco Join the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Bears of San Francisco for the inaugural Bearrison Street Fair. Come as you are or in nothing at all. Everyone is welcome to celebrate who you are or who you want to be as we celebrate body positivity and community. The brand new Bearrison more...
Mission Queer Bar “Jolene’s” Reopens After 1 Year
Bay Area Updates, Eat & Drink, LGBTQ+, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open One of the last remaining lesbian bars in the country has just reopened after being shut for over a year. Thanks to NBC News for sharing that Jolene’s, one of only two lesbian bars in California, and just one of the last remaining 16 lesbian bars across the country, down from more...
