San Francisco

Today is “Harvey Milk Day,” a day of honor for the slain gay-rights activist, which is officially recognized by the State of California and celebrated worldwide. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mayor Ed Lee will restore all of the nearly $8 million in federal HIV/AIDS funds that the city expects to lose in the fiscal year beginning July 1. [ Read more → ]

The proposal to name a U.S. Navy vessel after Harvey Milk is drawing mixed reactions in San Francisco, where the slain gay rights leader served as a city supervisor. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- An at times tearful Nancy Pelosi joined with local AIDS agency leaders and Castro business owners at the debut Wednesday of a new permanent display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in San Francisco's LGBT district. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Several straight students at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco’s Marina district have created a program to address homophobia in their school. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Police Department has become the first police department in the county to produce an "It Gets Better" video, part of the nationwide campaign to end suicides among LGBT youth, and to bring awareness to bullying of of gay kids. [ Read more → ]

Bradford Wells breathed a sigh of relief this week following the news that his Australian-native spouse, Anthony Makk, won’t be forced to leave the United States anytime soon -- Wells received a letter from U.S. Customs & Immigration Services that potential deportation action on Makk won’t happen for at least two years. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- At least three gay and lesbian clergy members were disinvited from participating in Advent services at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The call for the gay clergy not to attend came from the... [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A panel of federal appellate justices signaled Thursday that they see no reason to overturn a ruling against California's same-sex marriage ban due to the trial judge not disclosing his long-term relationship with another man. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Mia Tu Mutch, a 20-year-old transgender female in San Francisco, spends many of her days assisting LGBTQ youth, and facing an former foe of her own -- homelessness. [ Read more → ]

On this day, 33 years ago, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White took a gun to City Hall and shot openly-gay Supervisor Harvey Milk five times — the final two shots had White pressing his gun directly at Milk’s skull, according to the medical examiner. [ Read more → ]

It was a big night for many openly gay and lesbian candidates across the nation, with several races resulting in first-time victories for openly LGBT candidates in several state and local governments. [ Read more → ]

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area Reporter has formally endorsed the openly gay San Francisco City Supervisor Bevan Dufty, to become the city’s next mayor. [ Read more → ]

The following is a simple commercial from openly gay San Francisco mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty. You've probably seen it before but it bears repeating in its proper context. It shows that the loving and raising of children is not something strictly owned by the heterosexual community or a stereotypical nuclear family. [ Read more → ]

Gay pioneer, writer, and neighborhood activist Arthur Evans, who lived at the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco since 1974, died Sunday, September 11 at his home. He was 68. [ Read more → ]

After some legal wins in the cases of bi-national gay and lesbian couples, this devastating story comes out of San Francisco. [caption id="attachment_30911" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Bradford Wells and Anthony John Makk"][media-credit name="Noah Berger, Special to the SF Chronicle" align="alignleft" width="250"][/media-credit][/caption] The San Francisco Chronicle reports... [ Read more → ]

The man accused of murdering 23-year-old Freddy Canul-Arguello and then setting fire to the victim's remains, has claimed that Canul-Arguello's death was accidental, according to his attorney, San Francisco public defender Alex Lilien. [ Read more → ]

San Francisco police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of a gay immigrant whose body was discovered last month burned beyond recognition. [ Read more → ]

In an act of appreciation and in solidarity with the greater LGBTQ community of the Empire State, when New York's first same-sex marriages commence this Sunday, the New York state flag will fly above San Francisco's famed Castro neighborhood. [ Read more → ]

On Friday, June 10, San Francisco firefighters, responding to a reported brush fire incident in Buena Vista Park in the city’s famed Haight district, made the grisly discovery of a gay immigrant’s corpse, burned beyond recognition in an nearby dumpster. [ Read more → ]