Aunt Charlie’s

27 Jul 2020

Support Aunt Charlie’s by Watching this Vicki Marlane Documentary

Adjacent to the icon Aunt Charlie’s, the Tenderloin District’s last working class drag bar, there’s a little-known name tucked away on the Turk Street sign between Jones and Taylor that simply says: Vicki Mar Lane. But who was Vicki Marlane, and why was a street named after her in her honor?

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10 Dec 2019

Drawn From the City: Donna Persona Celebrated Queen of San Francisco

Gustavo started performing drag at age 60. Now their alter ego Donna Persona is a celebrated queen in San Francisco.

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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22 Jun 2017

BAS PRIDE: Trans Support, Compton’s & the Lexington Club returns to SF

Several years ago when I was what could only charitably be termed as a “baby” queer, I had gone to meet some friends for a drink at the carpeted mineshaft that was the former incarnation of the Midnight Sun on Pride Friday.  The Castro was already pulsating with hundreds of

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27 Jun 2014

Join the Trans March in Honouring Vicki Marlane & Win Free Tickets to Hard French Hearts Los Homos! (6/27)

If you haven’t yet noticed the assemblage in Dolores Park, it’s not too late to strap on your chanclas and hustle on down and join the rest of the queer folk.  You will have already missed the elder-youth brunch, but not the chance to add your solidarity to your queer

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29 Apr 2010

OAK Pop-up sale at the Seventh Heart Tonight at 7pm

Sip, shop and shuffle this evening at Market Street clotheshorse The Seventh Heart as that they are holding a pop-up sale/ welcome to town for OAK of New York City. Doesn’t say if they will be of the complimentary variety or not, but there will be spirits’and scenes, and looks,

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04 Feb 2010

Broke-Ass of the Week – Deven Harrison

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit…probably not.

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