LGBTQ

Join us Wed/20 for a discussion on overdose prevention in queer nightlife

LGBTQ+ nightlife community activists and health experts come together to help make partying safer.

Nightlife Marke B. - August 18, 2025

Thinking outside (and above and around) the gender box at Fringe Fest

'Box [M]' uses circus arts and dance to tell the story of a Asian American father's relationship with his trans son.

Onstage Marke B. - August 5, 2025

How to be butch (or not)

Clark Henley's scandalous, witty, ultimately heartbreaking 1982 gay classic 'The Butch Manual' rides again.

Lit Marke B. - July 29, 2025

‘Flowercloud’ of queer power comes to Cabrillo Music Fest

Composer Darian Donovan Thomas honors 63rd gathering's founding gay spirits with blooms, chimes, poignant commotion.

Music Marke B. - July 28, 2025

Nightlife

Why beloved drag club Oasis is closing—and how its spirit must live on

Marke B. - July 22, 2025

'I want to see SF continue to have an underground art scene,' says owner D'Arcy Drollinger. 'But this is where we're at, and it's sad.'

Immigration

Drag performer taken by ICE, morning after Pride Week pageant

Marke B. - June 27, 2025

Hilary Rivers was detained during a scheduled immigration appointment in downtown SF after Miss & Mr. Safe Latino Pageant.

Party Radar

PRIDE PARTY RADAR: Viva la Lesbianaissance + 35 more rainbows to ride

Marke B. - June 25, 2025

Pink Block, Juanita More Pride, Hard French, Purple Disco Machine, partying for prison abolition, a slew of dyke bars... too much? Never!

Editorial

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

Marke B. - June 23, 2025

Bastardizing the fight for gay rights to justify war, whether on Gaza or Iran, is ridiculous and must end.

Lit

‘Queer Food’—or, the cruel enigma of the spinach soufflé

Marke B. - June 19, 2025

Author John Birdsall dishes about his new history of LGBTQ+ food writers and chefs, and how queer cookery can meet the moment.

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LGBTQ

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

Marke B. - June 18, 2025

'The worst affront to the equal protection clause since Plessy v. Ferugson,' says longtime trans activist, urging unity.

Onstage

At Fresh Meat queer arts fest, ‘conformity isn’t an option’

Joshua Rotter - June 16, 2025

Mudd the Two Spirit, more brilliant performers continue to lay annual showcase's transformative groundwork.

Contest

Win a free ticket to a Frameline Film Fest movie

Marke B. - June 16, 2025

Join us at the world’s original—and largest—LGBTQ+ film festival in the world for Pride month.

Protest

The Dyke March needs help to return full-throttle

Marke B. - April 22, 2025

New organizers launch fundraiser to restore Pride Weekend's radical centerpiece to its sprawling, outspoken self.

LGBTQ

PHOTOS: Families march on Newsom’s house for trans rights

Marke B. - April 1, 2025

On Trans Day of Visibility, more than 100 parents and kids descended on the governor's Kentfield residence—and then danced to 'Pink Pony Club.'

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LGBTQ

Poem: ‘Trans Power and Unity’

Nina Ruth Mir - March 27, 2025

For Trans Day of Visibility, a meditation on the electric manifestations of trans power.

LGBTQ

After Newsom abandons trans people, a fairly tepid response at SF City Hall

Tim Redmond - March 9, 2025

Local officials were surprisingly cautious about responding to the governor's alarming (and inaccurate) statements.

News + Politics

Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself

Bruce Mirken - February 9, 2025

Administration moves to purge scientific facts, stifle essential research, and erase entire populations.

Editorial

All the worst people in the world

Marke B. - January 25, 2025

How we survived the stifling political atmosphere of the 1980s, and what it means as we enter another dark age.

Remembrance

A great LGBTQ ally dies… and so does a great villain

Marke B. - January 10, 2025

'70s boycotts were their battlefields, but Allan Baird and Anita Bryant were as different as beer and orange juice.

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LGBTQ

Join us Wed/20 for a discussion on overdose prevention in queer nightlife

Thinking outside (and above and around) the gender box at Fringe Fest

How to be butch (or not)

‘Flowercloud’ of queer power comes to Cabrillo Music Fest

Why beloved drag club Oasis is closing—and how its spirit must live on

Drag performer taken by ICE, morning after Pride Week pageant

PRIDE PARTY RADAR: Viva la Lesbianaissance + 35 more rainbows to ride

No, you can’t ‘save’ queer people by bombing them to death

‘Queer Food’—or, the cruel enigma of the spinach soufflé

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

At Fresh Meat queer arts fest, ‘conformity isn’t an option’

Win a free ticket to a Frameline Film Fest movie

The Dyke March needs help to return full-throttle

PHOTOS: Families march on Newsom’s house for trans rights

Poem: ‘Trans Power and Unity’

After Newsom abandons trans people, a fairly tepid response at SF City Hall

Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself

All the worst people in the world

A great LGBTQ ally dies… and so does a great villain

Be a 48 Hills Hero!

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