Rainbow Honor Walk adds new honorees
We previously reported on the first 20 honorees for the Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk — a series of bronze plaques in San Francisco’s Castro District…
New museum for GLBT Historical Society?
The GLBT Historical Society is soliciting funds to create a permanent LGBTQ Museum and Research Center. The museum is currently leasing space on 18th Street…
Mark Leno seeks to make SF LGBT history
[Editor’s Note: Mark Leno did not win. After all of the instant run-off votes rolled over, he finished in second, about 1% behind the winner,…
The City’s oldest gay bar to close?
SFist.com is reporting that the Gangway, the oldest remaining gay bar in the City — and perhaps the City’s very first gay bar — may…
Bits & Pieces of LGBT History
Halloween in the Castro (2005) Valencia Rose and Josie’s Cabaret & Juice Joint Michael Flanagan has a lovely piece in the BAR remembering the Valencia…
Looking for Mama: The search for Kathryn Forbes’ childhood home
“For as long as I could remember, the small cottage on Castro Street had been home.” So begins Kathryn Forbes’ 1943 fictionalized memoir Mama’s Bank…
Reviewing Stonewall: What the critics are saying
We previously reported on the controversy that erupted following the release of the first trailer for Stonewall, openly-gay director Roland Emmerich’s take on the 1969…
This month in SF Gay History: September
September 17, 1859 On this date in 1859, Joshua Norton proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, becoming one of SF’s most colorful characters and…
This month in SF Gay History: August
August 2, 1924 On this date in 1924, author James Baldwin (Giovanni’s Room), now honored on the Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk, was born. August 19,…
Stonewall film faces backlash
A trailer released for Roland Emmerich’s film Stonewall, a fictionalized accounting of the 1969 riots in New York City widely cited as the public “coming…
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