Why Coyotes Have Sunk Their Fangs into This Author
Coyotes have become a Bay Area icon. In ‘Trickster at the End of a World,’ author and artist Helen Shewolfe Tseng shares what they could teach us.
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A Gay Situationship in a Doom Loop: A 2,000-Year-Old Play Makes Everything New Old Again
‘Satyricon’ brings sex, excess, and the decline of an empire to a historic San Francisco leather bar.
A Sapphic Fairy Tale For All The Monster Lovers
A comic for lesbians, monsterfuckers, and everyone in-between.
The Most Groundbreaking Dance Party in San Francisco Was on ’90s Public Access TV
‘Lavender Lounge,’ a queer variety show that ran from 1991 to 1995, returns to the screen for the first time in 30 years in a new documentary short.
Still Gay After All These Pours: The Queer Baristas Keeping the Bay's Coffee Culture Alive
As AI bros, private equity, and Decent espresso machines dominate the narrative, the gays hold the line.
Forget "Redefining Masculinity." These Artists Are Blowing the Whole Thing Up
A Castro gallery show and a new Oakland bar ask what masculinity could look like if we stopped trying to nail it down.
Philz Coffee Deals Lethal Blow to Gay 'Little Treat' Culture
The beloved coffee chain nixed its Pride flags in the name of “inclusivity.” What the hell?
Tuesdays with the Baddies: Meet the East Bay Billiard Club Making Pool More Inclusive
In bars and back rooms, a radical group of pool players is creating space for women and nonbinary, trans, and queer folks — one break at a time.
So You’ve Finally Gotten Up the Nerve To Visit a Gay Bathhouse. Now What?
You must provide your own shower shoes, and woe betide you if you forget them. That’s the uniform.
‘Joy Is at the Core’: Drag Story Hour Sashays Into Its Next Decade
Despite Trump, transphobes, and a pandemic, the San Francisco storytelling event-turned-international-movement has plenty to celebrate.