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01/25/2025

A new report estimates that roughly 266,000 LGBTQ+ young people and their families have uprooted their lives and left a state because of anti-LGBTQ politics or laws.

01/24/2025

REAF’s One Night Only @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre: photos by Steven Underhill

One Night Only, the Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation’s latest benefit concert, featured singers Jason Brock, Paula West, and cast members from the national touring production of the Broadway hit ‘Some Like It Hot,’ on January 20, at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre. The concert was followed by a festive after-party.
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REAF’s One Night Only @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre

photos by Steven Underhill

One Night Only, the Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation’s latest benefit concert, featured singers Jason Brock, Paula West, and cast members from the national touring production of the Broadway hit ‘Some Like It Hot,’ on January 20, at the Marines’ Memorial Theatre. The concert was followed by a festive after-party. www.reaf-sf.org

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For upcoming nightlife and arts events, see Going Out each week, only on www.ebar.com.

01/24/2025

BREAKING: Nearly two years after drag queen Heklina was found dead in a Soho flat in London, police there have issued a bulletin asking three men seen on camera footage leaving the flat to come forward.

Nearly two years after drag queen Heklina was found dead in a Soho flat in London, police there have issued a bulletin asking three men seen on camera footage leaving the flat to come forward.

01/24/2025

The Castro is seeing a number of changes for neighborhood business as the new year gets underway. Read more here: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=business&id=337510&title=castro_sees_business_changes_as_2025_gets_underway

01/24/2025

Writer Keiko Green and director Jesca Prudencia cheerfully cite “Wayne’s World” and “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” as major aesthetic influences on “Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play,” which opens on Jan. 30 at the San Francisco Playhouse.

“’Saved by the Bell’ and ‘Lizzie McGuire,’ too,” added Green during the pair’s recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

The show, set in 1999, is a kitschy genre mash-up underpinned with intellect and tenderness. Its wild knot of a plot centers on the coming of age of an awkward 14-year-old, Ami, whose self-perception is entangled with umami:

After learning that her Japanese grandfather invented the oft-maligned flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG), Ami’s vivid imagination leads her on a teen-tastic identity quest, spangled with references to anime, video games, ramen and other pop culture totems. It’s a Fantasian American odyssey.

Read more at ebar.com

📸 by Jessica Palopoli

01/23/2025

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President , left, presented a certificate of honor to the Stone family, which runs .

The Castro is seeing a number of changes for neighborhood business as the new year gets underway. The developments are a sign of rejuvenation in the LGBTQ neighborhood after an economic slump.

Read more at ebar.com

📸 courtesy of Mollie Stone’s

01/23/2025

In this week’s B.A.R., we reported on LGBTQ responses to Day One executive actions from President Donald Trump, the departure of AIDS expert Dr. Grant Colfax at the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health, changes for Castro neighborhood businesses and the touching story of a couple who’ve been through thick and thin for a half century. Thank you for supporting LGBTQ media! ✊🌈

01/23/2025

Gwen Smith writes you may not be able to leave X or Facebook now, "but plan your exit — and start building toward it."

There are, of course, bigger issues afoot. As I write this, we are days away from Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, as well as a torrent of day one executive orders.

01/23/2025

Iowayna Peña, a former co-chair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club, has been named director of San Francisco Workforce Development.

01/23/2025

EDITORIAL 📣: "The U.S., even with all of its problems, has always been a great country, and its laws and policies becoming more inclusive was just one example of that." Read more: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=news&sc=news&id=337506&title=editorial:_trump_repudiates_trans_people

01/23/2025

The Reverend Robert Warren Cromey, an Episcopal priest who helped create the early pro-LGBTQ group the Council on Religion and the Homos*xual and performed early same-s*x marriages, died Jan. 14.

The Reverend Robert Warren Cromey, who helped create the early pro-LGBTQ group the Council on Religion and the Homos*xual and performed early same-s*x marriages, died January 14.

01/23/2025

New San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder held a community swearing-in event Jan. 17 at Mission High School.

New San Francisco District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder held a community swearing-in event January 17 at Mission High School.

01/23/2025

President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the federal government will only recognize two genders — male and female — shortly after returning to power, prompting criticism from LGBTQ activists.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring the federal government will only recognize two genders — male and female — shortly after returning to power January 20, prompting criticism from LGBTQ activists.

01/22/2025

DoublePlusGood arts and nightlife still exist in the bubble of Bay Area liberalism amid these stultifyingly absurd times. Art explores, nightlife endures. Check out Going Out.

https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=bartab&sc=bars&id=337512

01/21/2025

"Hockney's Pictures" is an updated and expanded version of the volume from 2004, edited and with a minimum of texts by Andrew Brown, and packed with 522 illustrations. Artist David Hockney's droll wit is also on display.

"Hockney’s Pictures" is an updated and expanded version of the volume from 2004, edited and with a minimum of texts by Andrew Brown, and packed with 522 illustrations. Artist David Hockney’s droll wit is also on display.

01/21/2025

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after s*x — has contributed to a decline in s*xually transmitted infections in Northern California, according to a pair of studies.

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after s*x — has contributed to a decline in s*xually transmitted infections in Northern California, according to a pair of studies published this week.

01/20/2025

Talented local artist and cartoonist Ajuan Mance recently published "Gender Studies: True Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw," a graphic memoir that gives plenty of food for thought.

01/20/2025

"Today, as we stand at the dawn of a new era, we are called not just to resist but also to rise," Justice Horn writes.

Today, as we stand at the dawn of a new era, we are called not just to resist but also to rise.