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16 Jun 2016

BAS PRIDE: Contigo and Pulso de Amor Continúa for Orlando Tonight & Sat.

My mother had called me this past Sunday morning to inform me of the incomprehensible horror we all woke up to: 49 people had been mowed down in a gay bar in Orlando, with 53 brutally injured. In the hours that followed, as I read updates and watched report after

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16 May 2016

Ace’s Bartender Back at Work After Taking Sensitivity Classes

You may recall last month when we broke a story about Bubbles being kicked out of Ace’s for looking queer. It was based on audio in which Bubbles asks the bartender if he was being kicked out for the way he looks and the bartender saying yes. As you can imagine

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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15 Apr 2016

San Franciscan Refused Service For Looking Queer

Read the update at the bottom of the article This just floated across my Facebook feed. Anthony Torres, known as Bubbles, shared this audio of himself being refused service at Ace’s for how he looks. As you can hear, its quite alarming. The bartender literally says he won’t serve Bubbles

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04 Dec 2015

black_glitter_high_school_re_union at virgil’s sea room!! (12/5)

As we’ve often surmised before, a quick glance at San Francisco on any given day is essentially an inventory of things we’ve lost.  Sure, the legacy business closures and demolitions are reams long, but even longer and more crushing is the list of citizens expunged by either economic or even lethal force.

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09 Oct 2015

Last-Ever ‘Go Deep!’ Lube Wrestling Tonight at Red Hots Burlesque

A slippery, slidey, sexy institution takes its final bow tonight, as the beloved all-girl lube wrestling event Go Deep! has it’s final installment this evening at BeatBox. For five years, Dottie Lux’s Go Deep! has presented the finest in queer ladies lube wrestling, and tonight’s lube wrestling finale gets down

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01 Jul 2015

BAS Pride 2015 Call to Action: Unity Rally for Chicano LGBT Mural (7/1)

  For the third time, in less than a month, a simple, yet powerful, art installation has been marred by hate. Manuel Paul’s Por Vida, which was installed to great fanfare from the queer Latino community on June 13th, was defaced again late Monday, this time by arson. That it

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17 Jun 2015

BAS Pride 2015- Hanky Code: The Movie in SoMa Wednesday (6/17)

Ah, the hanky: Our community’s polychromatic tradition of flagging the way we like to fuck. Being a perv and a nerd, I’m obviously a fan, with it’s origins supposedly going back in the mists of time to square dances full of randy forty-niners and wayward sailors out for a hot

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05 Jun 2015

BAS Pride 2015: The Q-Sides Opening Night Party! (6/5)

Every once in a while you get the chance to be part of something beyond cool. The Q-Sides, a joint project by Vero Majano, Kari Orvik and DJ Brown Amy, is this for me. It’s the kind of project that makes you feel like the city we love, the gente

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