Pride Month

09 Jun 2025

Know Your SF History: The White Night Riots

San Francisco has long taken a socially open-minded attitude toward homosexuality. Its earliest settlers were mostly men who migrated west to make their fortune prospecting for gold, resulting in a disproportionately high ratio of men to women. Over the decades however, tensions arose between the gay community and the City’s

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28 Jun 2023

Movies You Might Have Not Realized are Queer AF!

Without question TONS of great queer cinema exists: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Birdcage, Moonlight, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Milk, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Out, Brokeback Mountain, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fire Island, etc. There are also so many great queer characters that

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26 Jun 2025

Local’s Guide to Alcatraz: Hidden Trails, Stunning Views, & Forgotten Stories

A veteran tour guide gives us the hidden trails, different seasons, and forgotten secrets on the Rock.

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21 Jun 2023

Rainbow Washing: The Problem with Pride-for-Profit in June

By now, most all y’all know Pride started as a riot in 1970, but most companies didn’t even recognize the existence of the LGBTQ+ community for another 3-4 decades. Thus the mid-aughts brought us pinkwashing, or what is now referred to as, rainbow washing. Essentially, it’s the performative-for-profit strategy and

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14 Jun 2023

How to Politely (and Safely) Piss Off Your Conservative Neighbors During Pride Month

It’s hard out there to be queer, even in havens like San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Ft. Lauderdale (yes, Florida), or NYC, you’re always going to find anti-LGBTQ+ “humans” and sentiments. But don’t let that stop you from celebrating you and yours. Some of us understand and love that the first

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21 Jun 2021

Raiders Player Comes Out As Openly Gay

The Oakland Raiders moved to Las Vegas after the 2019 NFL season, so there hasn’t much reason to root for them since. But there’s a very good reason to root for them now. Monday afternoon, Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib announced in an Instagram video that’s gay, becoming the first

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01 Jun 2021

Happy Pride Month! The Pink Torch Makes Its Journey to Twin Peaks

Pride Month is officially here!  The city will be lit up with the iconic Twin Peaks Pink Triangle Tuesday night, marking the first day of Pride Month. The symbolic torch is making its way from Oakland to San Francisco with a meandering series of celebrations and the torch-bearing procession that

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