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    LGBT Latinx Athlete Brings Global Outlook to Sports, Environmentalism … and Stripping!

    LGBT Latinx Athlete Brings Global Outlook to Sports, Environmentalism … and Stripping!

    By John Chen– San Francisco Gay Flag Football League’s Rubén Mojica Hernandez recently took the stage and took his clothes off for a good cause. Mojica Hernandez told me for…

    Historic Documentary Before Stonewall Gets a Re-Release

    Historic Documentary Before Stonewall Gets a Re-Release

    By Gary Kramer– The newly restored 1984 documentary Before Stonewall will screen at the Roxie Theater on July 18, 19 and 22. The film—directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert…

    Trevor Hailey’s Legacy Thrives in the Castro

    Trevor Hailey’s Legacy Thrives in the Castro

    It is hard to imagine Castro Street without its iconic rainbow flag, but when Trevor Hailey (1941–2007) created Cruisin’ the Castro walking tours, such symbols of the LGBTQ community were…

    Cruisin’ the Castro Walking Tours Honored as First San Francisco Legacy Business Tour Company

    Cruisin’ the Castro Walking Tours Honored as First San Francisco Legacy Business Tour Company

    The San Francisco Small Business Commission last month unanimously approved Cruisin’ the Castro Walking Tours as the city’s first and only Legacy Business Tour Company. Founded in 1989 by historian…

    Eagle Plaza Ground Breaking, Rink Throwback and More!

    Eagle Plaza Ground Breaking, Rink Throwback and More!

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    Ann Rostow: The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

    Ann Rostow: The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

    By Ann Rostow– The Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer It’s summertime, everyone. Pride festival, the longest days of the year, the onset of those timeless weeks of sun, salt,…

    Legal vs. Lived Equality

    Legal vs. Lived Equality

    By Brett Andrews– As we celebrate Pride, it is hard to believe how far the LGBTQ movement has come since the Stonewall riots in 1969. Then, conditions on the ground…

    Up Close and Personal with Outgoing SF Pride Executive Director George Ridgely

    Up Close and Personal with Outgoing SF Pride Executive Director George Ridgely

    By Louise “Lou” Fischer– George Ridgely, the sixth Executive Director to lead SF Pride, announced back in May that after five and a half years, six Pride weekends and thousands…

    San Francisco Bay Times Pride Parade Contingent 2019: Generations of Resistance

    The San Francisco Bay Times Pride Parade contingent for 2019 will be the largest ever in the history of the paper, with an estimated 24 wheel monitors, 6 motorized vehicles,…

    International Pride

    The State of New York this year is hosting the largest international celebration of LGBT Pride in history: Stonewall50. This is possible, in part, because the majority of North America’s…