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After a Mississippi college's paper reported on the matter, the paper was shut down for a time, and a gay frat brother drew some ire as well.

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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado becomes the seventh Republican House member to signal his support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

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'These recorded incidents reveal the appalling intolerance and hatred of the homofascists,' says a right-wing website, but that seems a bit hyperbolic.

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After a Mississippi college's paper reported on the matter, the paper was shut down for a time, and a gay frat brother drew some ire as well.

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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado becomes the seventh Republican House member to signal his support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

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'These recorded incidents reveal the appalling intolerance and hatred of the homofascists,' says a right-wing website, but that seems a bit hyperbolic.

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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 1,500 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 didnâ€™t get the message. James Rickleffs, 47, who’s been charged with […]

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This play is, without a doubt, a masterpiece of the American theatre, and director Kenny Leon has given a solid, understated account of it. Set on Chicagoâ€™s South Side in the 1950s, A Raisin in the Sun follows the conflicting dreams among three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee (Denzel Washington), his wife […]

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In Terrence McNally’s often funny, always thoughtful new play Mothers and Sons, mother Katherine (Tyne Daly) pays an unexpected visit to the New York apartment of her late sonâ€™s ex-partner Cal (Frederick Weller), who is now married to another man, Will (Bobby Steggart) and has a young son. She has something of her son’s to […]

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The Friarâ€™s Club Comedy Film Festival opened Tuesday night with the premiere of Psych star James Rodayâ€™s new movie, Gravy. The film is a comedy horror featuring: Sarah Silverman, Michael Weston, Gabourey Sidibe, Paul Rodriguez, Jimmi Simpson, Sutton Foster, Lily Cole, Molly Ephraim, Lothaire Bluteau, Kate Rogal, Gabriel Luna and Ethan Sandler, with appearances from […]

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Playing President Lyndon B. Johnson, son, Bryan Cranston brilliantly captures that president’s tireless energy and ruthless political gamesmanship in this drama about the events between LBJ’s swearing-in as President following Kennedy’s assassination, and his actual election as president around a year later, with a very strong focus on Johnson’s commitment to the passage of the Civil […]

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