Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Gay News Magazine Headlines (T24T-2)

The Oscar-nominated director will lead the Southern California event in June.

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A nonprofit advertising watchdog group has released a video campaign to warn consumers about deceptive advertising, featuring a trans woman as an example of deception.

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Sam Yagan apologized for donating to a candidate with antigay views, but said that decade-old donation doesn't compare to former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich's support of Proposition 8.

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A Castro group has released a list of proposed history facts to be etched into the newly expanded sidewalks in the heart of the city’s gay neighborhood. They trace the area’s start as a settlement for Native Americans in the late 1770s through the arrival of Mexican and European settlers in the 1800s and 1900s. […]
City planners expect to re-open expanded sidewalks in San Francisco’s gay Castro district by mid June, well ahead of the early October completion date for the project. The new sidewalks will likely be ready for pedestrian use on June 17, and the area’s Castro Merchants group is planning to host a sidewalk sale Saturday, June […]
Castro business leaders elected a new president and board at their monthly meeting this morning and thanked former president Terry Asten Bennett for her two years of service in the position. As expected, the Castro Merchants group in San Francisco’s gay neighborhood elected Mudpuppy’s Tub and Scrub Dog Wash and Grooming co-owner Daniel Bergerac as […]
A new bar featuring classic arcade games is headed to San Francisco’s gay Castro district. The owner of upper Market Street bar Blackbird, Shawn Vergara, and Tiffny Vergara Chung, who is the business manager at Blackbird, are behind the new establishment. Dubbed “Project 22″ for now, due to its location in the new mixed-used development […]
A 68-year-old man was attacked and robbed in San Francisco’s gay Castro neighborhood early Thursday morning (April 3), police reported. The incident occurred at 2 a.m. at 18th and Castro streets. The suspect, described only as a black male age 30 to 35, approached the victim from behind, punched him in the face, and stole […]
Gay Oakland resident Richard Fuentes announced Thursday (April 3) that he is running for a seat on the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees. The Area 7 Peralta seat is open, as current trustee, Abel Guillen, who identifies as two-spirit, has announced he will be running for the District 2 Oakland City Council seat. Voters […]
A news site that covers the postal service revealed this week the design for the long anticipated Harvey Milk stamp. According to Linn’s Stamp News, it features a black and white photo of Milk, the first LGBT person to be elected to public office in San Francisco when he won a seat on the Board […]
A new coffeehouse fronting Jane Warner Plaza in the city’s gay Castro district is expected to win approval from the Planning Commission this week. The oversight body will vote on approving Hearth Coffee Roasters’ permit application to open in a nearly 1,rly 1,500 square-foot storefront on 17th Street that had been a tanning salon. (Seen in […]
AIDS and LGBT global rights activist Michael Petrelis will officially kick off his campaign for San Francisco’s District 8 supervisor seat this Saturday. Petrelis, 55, a longtime critic of local politicians, health officials, AIDS agencies and gay rights groups, plans to start fundraising in order to cover the $500 filing fee to run for supervisor. […]
The long-awaited preliminary hearing in the murder of Steven “Eriq” Escalon, a gay San Francisco hairstylist whose body was found bound and gagged in 2012, has been delayed for about three weeks after his public defender called in sick and the judge and prosecutor didn’t get the message. James Rickleffs, 47, who’s been charged with […]


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