Harvey Milk Academy students take to the streets
Mar 4th, 10 in Community, The Castro by Mark
About a hundred students from the Castro’s Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy took to the streets today as part of a statewide “Day of Action.” The students and teachers were protesting the slashing of statewide education budgets.
See related SFGate article.
Check out the pics. More »
Confirmed: Trader Joe’s coming to the Castro
Jan 12th, 10 in Community, Food & Drink, The Castro by Lotus
Set to open in about a year, the new Trader Joe’s will take over the former Tower Records space. Finally!
Mexico City assembly legalizes same-sex marriage
Dec 21st, 09 in Community, Travel by Lotus
Congrats to our friends south of the border! Mexico City is now city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage. Buenos Aires legalized same-sex civil unions in 2002 and Uruguay has legalized civil unions nationwide. Now we’re up to seven countries and counting that currently allow gay marriages: Canada, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium. Read more here.
Castro Commons: Make it permanent!
Nov 28th, 09 in Community, The Castro by Mark
The Castro and 17th pilot project has been a smashing success, at least from my point of view. There’s no other public gathering place in the Castro to just hang out with friends, cruise, or eat your Zapata burrito. The problem is, the temporary structures that have in place since May are starting to look like a bit of an eye sore. The planters look like cardboard tubes with scrawny trees planted in them. It’s not a pretty sight! The area has so much potential. It’s time to make this pedestrian area permanent! More »
Support for same-sex marriage gaining
Nov 9th, 09 in Community by Lotus
Could the debate over marriage equality resolve itself in our favor over the next 20 years? That may be overly optimistic but it’s not entirely wishful thinking if current trends are any indicator.
Joe Mazza: The man behind all those sexy Manhunt photos
in Arts/Culture/Fashion, Community, The Castro by Mark
On Saturday I sat down with local photographer and actor Joe Mazza. Joe’s recent photo work includes two projects for local non-profits: The annual SOMA Bare Chest Calendar, and a great piece of work for the Stop AIDS Project, a 2010 calendar entitled Black Men in the Castro. His recent acting work includes a supporting role in Speed Racer, and you can catch him on tonight’s episode of “Trauma” on NBC. More »
SF anti-gay marketing company revealed
Nov 4th, 09 in Community, SF Life by Lotus
Finally, the name of the company that earned nearly $700K to create anti-same-sex marriage ads for Stand For Marriage Maine. As reported by our friends at SF Appeal.
San Francisco company Criswell Associates really earned their money yesterday, as they were successful in in their campaign to strip away the rights of Maine’s same sex couples to marry.
Read the SF Appeal story here and check out the one at SFist here.
Photo Blogging: Castro Halloween 2009
Nov 1st, 09 in Community, Photo Blogging, The Castro by Mark
The “official” Castro Halloween was cancelled a couple years back because of some downright frightening crimes perpetrated by a bunch of out of town thugs. However, plenty of party goers showed up on Saturday night to show off their ghoulish and campy costumes. Revelers had a fantastic time as SFPD kept a watchful eye for any shenanigans. Check out some of the great costumes from this year’s “unofficial” festivities. More »
Dot.GAY?
Oct 26th, 09 in Community by Lotus
Spotted this over on Edge. The Dot Gay Alliance, a group of gay and gay-friendly social entrepreneurs, is seeking approval of a LGBT domain identifiable by its suffix. The purpose of the establishing the top-level domain is to provide “a reliable and ethical source of funding for LGBT civil rights.” According to the group “51% of all profits earned will be returned to the LGBT community in the form of grants to leading civil rights organizations.” Sounds great but adoption of less popular top-level domains hasn’t exactly been through roof with the majority of people purchasing them primarily to protect their .com offering. In addition many view any business that doesn’t own a dot.com extension as an amateur. What are your thoughts? Read the full story here.
Absolut Vodka bares all for gay rights
Oct 25th, 09 in Arts/Culture/Fashion, Community, Food & Drink by Lotus
Long time supporter of the LGBT community Absolute has removed the label from it’s iconic bottle as part of it’s latest iniative — In an ABSOLUT World, There Are No Labels. The limited edition naked bottle launched globally this month featuring only a small removable sticker encouraging consumers to discard their labels and to visit absolut.com/nolabel. The program seeks to challenge prejudice about sexual identities.
