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Jose Sarria, the Widow Norton, at the grave of Emperor Norton where she is now at rest. December 2012 – Hi Tops, which professes to be the City’s first gay sports bar — and certainly the first to fully dedicate itself to the theme — opens on Market Street.
- January 15, 2013 – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approves granting landmark status to the Twin Peaks Tavern.
- August 19, 2013 – Jose Sarria, the Widow Norton, First Empress of San Francisco, passes away at the age of 89 or 90.
- September 6, 2013 – Over a thousand mourners attend Jose Sarria’s funeral services in Grace Cathedral, with Right Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, presiding. Sarria is interred in the grave Sarria purchase decades earlier at the foot of Joshua Norton, the self-proclaimed Emperor Norton who died in 1880.
- October 2013 – New owners of the Midnight Sun remodel it, including putting in new windows, making it the final gay bar in the Castro to get windows, a trend started by the Twin Peaks Tavern in 1973.
- January 2015 – Eddie Bell, known as the drag queen Cookie Dough, founder of the Monster Show, dies after falling ill with meningitis in Mexico.
- June 5, 2018 – Mark Leno runs for Mayor of San Francisco in a special election to replace Mayor Ed Lee, who died suddenly in December. He finishes second, about 1% behind the winner, London Breed.
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