San Francisco AIDS Foundation CEO Neil Giuliano is being honored with his very own public park. The city of Tempe, Arizona, where Giuliano served as mayor from 1994 to 2004 and continues to own a home, is dedicating a lakeside open space in his honor on May 10. The date coincides with the twentieth anniversary […]
Construction on the long-awaited sidewalk-widening project in San Francisco’s gay Castro district is steaming along at full speed. Workers have begun digging up the west side of the 400 block of Castro Street. Parking has been eliminated on both sides of the block, as the traffic lanes have been down-sized to one lane in each […]
The leader of a small Baptist church in Westboro, Kansas, who made a name for himself by traveling the country to hoist up “God Hates Fags†placards, is dead. A spokesman for Westboro Baptist Church, whose website address is godhatesfags.com, told CNN today that Fred Phelps, 84, died of natural causes. Although certainly appalled by […]
The annual Easter party and Hunky Jesus contest held at Dolores Park is hopping over to Golden Gate Park this year. Due to the renovation work on the public open space that broke ground in early March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are relocating this year’s bash. It will take place Sunday, April 20 at […]
A man was robbed at gunpoint at 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at Market and Castro streets in the Castro district. According to a San Francisco Police Department summary, the incident started as the victim, 21, was walking on Market. Two men, whom police described only as white, walked up to him. One man pulled […]
A man pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court this week to charges that he attacked an older man with a bottle in the gay Castro district. Ryan J. Day, 20, allegedly blocked a sidewalk near 18th and Noe streets Thursday, March 13 and insisted that the victim, who’s 71, walk around him, according […]
There will be plenty of rainbows at the intersection of 18th and Castro streets in the heart of San Francisco’s gay neighborhood. On Thursday, March 13, District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener announced the winning design and location for rainbow crosswalks that will be paid for by the Castro Upper Market Community Benefit District. The crosswalks […]
San Francisco’s LGBT Pride parade and celebration will be represented in this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Saturday, March 15, and according to Pride organizers, it will be the first time they’ve had a contingent in the parade. The announcement comes as St. Patrick’s Day parades in Boston and New York City continue blocking open […]
Two people who’d been accused in attacks that occurred shortly after last year’s Pink Saturday street party in San Francisco’s Castro district pleaded guilty this week to some of the charges they’d faced. Johnay Davis, 20, and Julian Williams, 22, had been with Christopher Porter-Bailey, 23, June 30, just after thousands of people had filled […]
As Walgreens officials seek community input about adding liquor sales to its store on upper Market Street in San Francisco, the company is planning to completely revamp its store at 18th and Castro Streets in the heart of the city’s gay business district. The news comes as its chief rival, CVS, readies to open its […]
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