Drag story hour hosts, under attack, dig in their heels
After focusing on transgender athletes and youths, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is now targeting drag storytimes, with interruptions and other protests.
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After focusing on transgender athletes and youths, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is now targeting drag storytimes, with interruptions and other protests.
Drag queens were among the first on the front lines of some of the most pivotal events in LGBTQ history, including the Stonewall Uprising.
The burning of a Pride flag in Pacifica at an elementary school earlier this month is being investigated as a hate crime, police said Friday.
The words of Shakespeare have stood the test of time, but imagine hearing these stories told in a new and different way. That's exactly what's happening in Orinda, in Cal Shakes' adaptation of Shakespeare's most well-known love story, Romeo and Juliet.
Devin Fehely reports on how gay writers have only been able to embrace authenticity in the more modern era (6-15-2022)
There have always gay writers and artists. But for much of modern history, their most personal stories have been left at the margins.
President Biden announced several executive actions Wednesday afternoon to address discriminatory laws and practices against LGBTQ children and adults, as a number of states enact anti-LGBTQ measures.
A leading transgender health association announced this week it lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries.
Officials at a school district in the East Bay expressed outrage after someone vandalized a flagpole flying both the LGBTQ pride and American flags late Monday night.
At Watsonville High School, hundreds of students, parents, lawmakers, friends, and neighbors recently gathered to celebrate the courage of young people.
Several high-profile incidents and threats against the LGBTQ+ community in the Bay Area and across the country have law enforcement on high alert.
The sports world has historically not been the most inclusive with the LGBTQ+ community, but San Francisco's Varsity Gay League is changing that.
State Sen. Scott Wiener vowed he would continue to fight for the LGBTQ community despite receiving a death threat that prompted authorities to search his San Francisco home for potential bombs over the weekend.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is investigating a group of men who disrupted a drag queen storytelling event on Saturday with homophobic and transphobic slurs.
One person who knows well the painful history that played out in the 1980s in the Castro is David Hegerty, organ director for the iconic Castro Theatre.
Tens of thousands streamed through Golden Gate Park over the weekend to see the National Memorial AIDS Quilt.
Max Darrow reports on AsiaSF's involvement with providing a safe space for transgender entertainers (6-12-2022)
On Saturday morning, KPIX 5 documented the opening ceremonies of the AIDS quilt display in Golden Gate Park.
For nearly a quarter century, Larry Hashbarger and his team at AsiaSF have provided evenings of entertainment in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood for people from all over the world.
San Francisco's Castro neighborhood is central to the heartbeat of LGBTQ America but things are changing in the Castro and not everyone is happy about it.
Saturday morning in Golden Gate Park, the AIDS Quilt went on display again in the city where it was created.
Inside an East Bay warehouse to the beat of disco music, and the clank of a sewing machine, Gert McMullin is hard at work. She's sewing a fabric edge onto a brightly colored piece of fabric.
While the pride flag is bright and colorful, history shows us the ties between law enforcement and the LGBTQ community has been dark and full of tension.
At any Pride celebration, the ubiquitous rainbow flag can be found hanging from business and homes, clutched in hands and even painted on faces.
For 25 years, former anchor and reporter Hank Plante covered some of the biggest stories in the Bay Area. But none as profound or consequential as the AIDS crisis.
