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Valentine’s Day marked with rallies, protests to call attention to marriage equality
Advocates for same-sex marriage marked this year’s Valentine’s Day with rallies and protests across the nation, many responding to a call from GetEQUAL and Marriage Equality USA to raise awareness about […]
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HRC to share Harvey Milk’s Castro storefront with The Trevor Project
Following a national outcry over the HRC’s announcement that they were turning the space that once housed the camera store owned by Harvey Milk into a gift store, the Human Rights Campaign announced they are donating part of the space to the Trevor Project.
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San Francisco’s Castro district home to nation’s first LGBT history museum
The nation’s first ever museum devoted to LGBT history, opened in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood today, showcasing archives that reflect nearly a century of gay culture and LGBT life.
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Neighborhood association, gay community square off over rainbow flags in Castro district
Community activists in San Francisco’s predominantly gay Castro neighborhood are outraged by a recent statement by the Mission Delores Neighborhood Association calling for removal of the Rainbow flags that are hung from the light posts in the Castro.
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DMV clerk who called transgender woman an ‘abomination’ resigns
The DMV clerk who sent a transgender woman in San Francisco a hate-filled letter telling her that she was an “abomination” and that “all gay people should be put to death,” has resigned as the department nears conclusion of its internal investigation.
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DMV clerk sends transgender woman letter calling her an ‘abomination’
A transgender woman in San Francisco has received a hate-filled from a Department of Motor Vehicles clerk telling her that she was an abomination and that “all gay people should be put to death.”
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San Francisco police resume manhunt for shooter in gay pride slaying
The man arrested on suspicion of opening fire on a crowd attending a San Francisco gay pride event Saturday night is no longer believed to be the gunman responsible for murdering 19-year-old Stephen Powell and injuring two others.
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Shooting at San Francisco gay pride event leaves 1 dead, 2 injured
One man was fatally injured and two other people wounded in a shooting in San Francisco’s Castro District late Saturday night during the “Pink Saturday” gay pride events.
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New charges planned in BB-gun hate crime case
Three men accused of targeting a San Francisco man they thought was gay with a BB gun were taken into custody in a courtroom Friday after a video tape emerged showing 11 more victims. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office said there were plans to file an amended complaint against the men — Shafiq Hashemi, […]
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Three men arrested in anti-gay BB-gun attack
Three Bay Area men are scheduled to be arraigned on assault and hate crime charges in San Francisco next week for allegedly shooting a man they thought was gay with a BB gun. The Feb. 26 incident took place at about 10 p.m. when the 27-year-old San Francisco man had just come out of a […]