Category: HIV & AIDS
Academy of Friends: 40 years of fundraising
In 1980, Kile Ozier threw a “small” Oscars viewing party: “just” 25 friends with champagne, fancy food, and plenty of glitz and glamour. His party…
This Month in SF Gay History: April
Alice B. Toklas April 30, 1877 On this date in 1877, lesbian author Alice B. Toklas, partner of Gertrude Stein, was born in San Francisco….
This Month in SF Gay History: February
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin at their City Hall wedding in February of 2004. February 3, 1874 On this date in 1874, Gertrude Stein, author…
World AIDS Day
December 1 marks World AIDS Day, an international day of awareness for the AIDS pandemic that has been observed every year since 1988. The very…
Danny Williams (1952 – 2014)
Comedian Danny Williams, formerly of San Francisco, died of a staph infection in a Maryland hospital on November 4, 2014 according to the Bay Area…
This Week in SF Gay History: October 27 – November 2
November 1, 1937 On this date in 1937, Tom Waddell, Olympic athlete and founder of the Gay Games who is now honored on the Castro’s…
This week in SF Gay History: October 6 – 12
October 11, 1972 MaryEllen Cunha and Peggy Forster received their liquor license for the Twin Peaks Tavern. They uncovered the plate glass windows (which had…
The Castro Sweep: Martial law in the Castro
Cover Photo: Rick Gearharter, October 6, 1989. It started out as a routine protest by the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT/UP). The organization had…
Leonard Matlovich (1943 – 1988)
On September 8, 1975, Leonard Matlovich appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, “I Am a Homosexual,” catapulting him into the national…
Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)
On March 23, 2011, the gay community lost one of its earliest staunch celebrity advocates, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, two time Academy Award winner, one of the…
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