The days leading up to Pride weekend were like the drawback of a tidal wave (Pridal wave?). In preparation, we cut two industrial-sized buckets of limes, around three days’ worth. We stacked boxes on boxes of beer and seltzer in the walk-in, evacuating our supplies to higher ground. By Thursday night, we were ready. A coworker and I earned the privilege of clocking out early.

It’s a sin when success complains. That’s how I feel as a gay man who moved to San Francisco from what Californians affectionately call “flyover country.” It’s pretty damn great, living here. So what if everything closes at 2am (#4) and there aren’t any bathhouses to go to (#5). Compared

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Last week the 53rd annual San Francisco PRIDE Parade and Celebration happened all throughout downtown, and City Style was back once again with all your best dressed revelers and party seekers. SF PRIDE always has a theme, and this year it was “Looking Back and Moving Forward.” The entire area

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

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

There’s a new generation of queer creatives coming up in San Francisco and they’re going to blow you away. They have a lot to say and they’re not shutting up anytime soon.

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

Frameline is one of those local cultural events which show why the phrase “representation matters” remains meaningful.