LGBT Groups Call for Full Investigation into Deaths At Gay LA Donor's Home

LGBT groups issued statements Thursday calling on Los Angeles County authorities to investigate the death of a second black man at the West Hollywood home of gay Democratic donor Ed Buck.

by Cynthia Laird | Jan 19, 2019

Ministers, Homophiles and Raging Cops - How A Raucous New Year's Day Ball Changed San Francisco

History sometimes seems ruled by events with unintended consequences. That certainly is the case with the Mardi Gras Ball at California Hall - an event that's been called 'San Francisco's Stonewall,' a name that's a bit misplaced.

by Michael Flanagan | Jan 12, 2019

BARchive :: A Celebration of Streetbar - How the First Gay Bar in Palm Springs Signaled A Change

With LGBTQ bars closing down, It's easy to assume that we are in a time of decline. But here is a very different story from a Southern Californian city.

by Michael Flanagan | Jan 13, 2019

Business Briefs: French-Based Rental Site Connects Gay Travelers

Since listing a spare bedroom in his Bernal Heights home on the LGBT-oriented short-term rental site misterb&b, San Francisco resident Alan Lessik has met other gay men from around the world.

by Matthew S. Bajko | Jan 20, 2019

Political Notebook: Milk Plaza Canopy Raises Concerns

It is meant to be the visual focal point for a redesigned Harvey Milk Plaza above the Castro Muni Station. A sweeping canopy that can be lighted at night to evoke the candlelight march that left from the site the evening its namesake was killed in 1978.

by Matthew S. Bajko | Dec 25, 2018

Ex-CHP officer sues over anti-gay harassment

During his 20-plus years with the California Highway Patrol Jay Brome, a gay man, was asked by his superior to take off his skirt and start acting like a man, called a faggot, and even had a gun held to his head.

by Alex Madison | Dec 18, 2018

Arts Committee Signs Off on SF Leather Plaza

As it wends its way through the city's bureaucracy to obtain the required permits it needs, a leather-themed public plaza won approval this week from a committee of the San Francisco Arts Commission.

by Matthew S. Bajko | Dec 24, 2018

20 Questions with Shawn Ryan - The Cabaret Star Plays Multiple Bay Area Gigs

As he prepares for his December 9 show at Guerneville's Main St. Station, singer, actor and naughty comedian Shawn Ryan answered a volley of questions for the Bay Area Reporter.

by David-Elijah Nahmod | Dec 7, 2018

Cue the Guardian Angels!

Like a boutique dusting of California snow, the West Coast premiere of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's "It's a Wonderful Life" opened at the San Francisco Opera last week to make a picturesque start for the holiday season.

by Philip Campbell | Dec 8, 2018

Spiritual Gauguin

The show of 60 paintings from the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen features revelatory examples of the artist's expressive printmaking, painted wood bas reliefs, and over a dozen, lesser-known primitive experiments with ceramics.

by Sura Wood | Dec 9, 2018


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