Category: People
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…
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,…
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…
This Month in SF Gay History: May
Cast of the “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” musical in San Francisco (May 2011) May 5, 1921 On this date in 1921, Dorothy Louise…
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….
Eddie Bell/Cookie Dough (1963–2015)
It seemed so unserious at first. “Oh, dayyyyuuuummmm! Shit just got real here in #PuertaVallarta!” San Francisco drag queen Pollo Del Mar wrote on her…
This month in SF Gay History: March
Disco legend Sylvester March 26, 1911 On this date in 1911, Tennessee Williams III (A Streetcar Named Desire), who is now honored on Castro’s Rainbow…
Mary Ellen Cunha (1935 – 2015)
Mary Ellen Cunha, one of the original lesbian owners of the Twin Peaks Tavern, passed away in Palm Springs in January, a month before her…
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