Suzanne, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 2:29pm
When I saw a post on livejournal about National Coming Out Day, I realized that even here in my sex-positive, queerluscious, kinktastic office, we hadn't talked about the fact that today was...
Chris Hall, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:48pm
If you're a bank or a school, today is Columbus Day, which celebrates the day hundreds of years ago when Christopher Columbus came across the American continent thinking it was India. For the rest...
Simon Sheppard, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 4:21pm
I guess a lot of us hanker to be around to witness a cosmic turning point in history. That would explain why, for a good 2,000 years, Christians have been saying, "Today is the first day of the End...
Kitty Stryker, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 3:42pm
Ah, the bloom of careless youth. We’ve all seen the after school specials and the popular high school TV shows that warn about accidental teen pregnancy because teenage boys don’t want to use...
Suzanne, Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 11:22am
San Francisco comedy performance art theater troupe Killing My Lobster has made some hilarious videos, often about uniquely Bay Area experiences, but they have truly outdone themselves with their...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Amy Marsh, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 4:15pm
It was an ugly death for such a pretty boy. Neighbors complained of the smell. Police clambered into the canyon and soon found the corpse, rotting in a heat wave, a distilled water bottle between...
Delilah Night, Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 2:07pm
I was 19 years old before I learned that urine does NOT leave the body via the vagina. I successfully repressed that humiliating memory until a few months ago when we began to think about...
Margaret Wade, Monday, October 4, 2010 - 4:56pm
Once upon a time, I lived in Japan and worked with junior high school students. Every week or so, I would hear someone repeat a Japanese saying: “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.” It was...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, October 4, 2010 - 9:00am
Sorry to be a buzzkill, but sometimes it's hard to be witty, or snarky, or much of anything but sad.
And it's been a depressing, deadly month.
See, this gay kid named Asher Brown, tired of...
Tim, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 5:58pm
Like many people, I have been deeply affected by the Tyler Clementi tragedy. I find I cannot stop thinking about that fateful series of events that led to a college freshman jumping to his death...
Claudia Ossa, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 4:40pm
I have had sardines more than I would care to recall lately and not the canned-cooked-to-smithereens kind, but the, how-much-did-I-just-pay-for-that-fishy-experience-kind. Sardines have been a hot...
Elmo Painter, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 2:13pm
Hello Everyone,
I have an overwhelming need to spread extremely important information to you right now. My hands shake as I type this. More and more stories of gay teenagers being bullied into...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 4:48pm
For sex workers, getting their stories out to the public in an honest and respectful manner is always a huge problem. In any given news story as presented in the mainstream media, there are only a...
Amy Marsh, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:06pm
After the fall of original sin, Adam and Eve wore aprons of fig leaves to cover their naughty bits. In Western art the effect of this biblical story is so pervasive that we accept the convention of...
Asher Bauer, Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 11:31am
Early transition is a vulnerable time. As we begin the processes of coming out, and possibly of medical transition, we trans folks have all kinds of insecurities. Often, we worry about how we will...
Suzanne, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 6:34pm
As a person who moves primarily among significantly younger people, and dates exclusively younger people (I’m a Lifestyle Cougar) I sometimes come up against things I simply don’t understand....
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:11pm
September 26, 2010 – San Francisco – Folsom Street between 7th and 12th was packed with leather men and women, kinksters, fetishists, and tourists for the 27th annual Folsom Street Fair. The event...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 2:30pm
San Francisco – This year's Gayvn Awards show took the Castro Theatre by the short and curlies with a very hot jailbird theme and sexy self-proclaimed Gaysian host, Alec Mapa. The annual event...
