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Queer artists of color installing two murals at prominent Castro & Duboce Triangle locations

Queer artists of color installing two murals at prominent Castro & Duboce Triangle locations | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Two new murals from queer, Black and Latinx artists will be completed soon at prominent locations in the Castro and Duboce Triangle neighborhoods.

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Megan Rohrer Elected As 1st Openly Transgender Bishop In U.S. Lutheran Church

Megan Rohrer Elected As 1st Openly Transgender Bishop In U.S. Lutheran Church | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Rohrer, a pastor in San Francisco, will serve as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Sierra Pacific synod, which includes congregations across Northern California and Nevada.

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The First Draft of 50 Years of LGBTQ History

The First Draft of 50 Years of LGBTQ History | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Bay Area Reporter started out covering gay culture but would go on to do serious journalism in the post-Stonewall era.

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San Francisco Giving Away $1,000 To 130 Struggling Artists

San Francisco Giving Away $1,000 To 130 Struggling Artists | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

San Francisco is guaranteeing $1,000 for more than 130 artists per month for six months. Artists can apply by April 15 at 11:59 PT.

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SF’s Busiest Bartender Doesn’t Even Have a Bar

SF’s Busiest Bartender Doesn’t Even Have a Bar | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Always a hustler, bartender Christian Suzuki-Orellana maintains a rigorous schedule a year after a competition helped kickstart his passion project.

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Queer feminist identity takes the spotlight in new Chinese Culture Center exhibit

Queer feminist identity takes the spotlight in new Chinese Culture Center exhibit | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

When filmmaker Tina Takemoto decided to make an experimental film about celebrated San Francisco lesbian Margaret Chung—the first American-born Chinese female physician, famous for opening a medical clinic in Chinatown in the 1920s and for playing with gender identity—they thought they would b

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Photo Essay: Then and Now — The Gay Community of San Francisco

Photo Essay: Then and Now — The Gay Community of San Francisco | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Mirroring the past with the present

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Mayor Breed teams up with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to hand out masks in Dolores Park

Mayor Breed teams up with Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to hand out masks in Dolores Park | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

With a heat advisory going into effect Saturday in San Francisco, the mayor was out in Dolores Park handing out masks.

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A journey from straight Texas to gay San Francisco

A journey from straight Texas to gay San Francisco | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

SF Gay Men’s Chorus director pens stirring memoir

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'Orlando' art exhibition showcases ongoing fascination with Woolf's gender-change novel

'Orlando' art exhibition showcases ongoing fascination with Woolf's gender-change novel | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

One of the most famous scenes in Sally Potter’s 1992 film, “Orlando,” contains many of the themes that have kept the story relevant for generations of artists.

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‘Digging your heroes out of trash cans’: Spotlighting gay writers who died of AIDS

‘Digging your heroes out of trash cans’: Spotlighting gay writers who died of AIDS | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Flyers reading “Have You Seen This Man?” were plastered around San Francisco when gay poet Karl Tierney disappeared in 1995. Now those words are the title of the first collection of his work.

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San Francisco's Transgender Film Festival Explores Life Beyond the Gender Binary

San Francisco's Transgender Film Festival Explores Life Beyond the Gender Binary | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The San Francisco Transgender Film Festival returns to the Roxie Theater this November for its 23rd year.

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Viral Social Media Post Helps Artist Locate Man He Painted in San Francisco Pride Portrait

Viral Social Media Post Helps Artist Locate Man He Painted in San Francisco Pride Portrait | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Artist Robert Lange used social media to locate the man who was the inspiration behind a portrait he painted after San Francisco's Pride celebration--and it took mere hours.

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SF LGBT Center replacing fnnch honey bears with 'Queeroes' mural

SF LGBT Center replacing fnnch honey bears with 'Queeroes' mural | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The new project is an opportunity to start a new chapter after controversy over fnnch art.

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Four Queer Shorts Screening at This Year's San Francisco Greek Film Festival

Four Queer Shorts Screening at This Year's San Francisco Greek Film Festival | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

There are still a few more days to watch films screening at the 18th Annual San Francisco Greek Film Festival, which ends April 25. The more than two dozen features, documentaries, and shorts are available online for free with a reservation...

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Third Culture Bakery distributing AAPI, LGBTQ safety kits in Bay Area

Third Culture Bakery distributing AAPI, LGBTQ safety kits in Bay Area | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Third Culture Bakery is making more than 5,200 safety kits to distribute for free at community sites such as senior homes and vaccination sites.

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Plans announced for San Francisco Pride 2021

Plans announced for San Francisco Pride 2021 | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

SF Pride's 2020 event was largely online

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Art & Politics in San Francisco, 2021: Portraits of a City in Upheaval, Again

Art & Politics in San Francisco, 2021: Portraits of a City in Upheaval, Again | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Bay Area artist and teacher, Miranda Bergman, knows by heart the most famous lines in The Tempest. She ought to. Her Old Left parents named her after Shakespeare’s feisty heroine who exclaims, “How amazing! How many wonderful creatures there are here! Mankind is so beautiful! Oh, what a wonderful new world that has such people More

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San Francisco LGBTQ homeless youth find hope through federally-funded 'Host Home' program

San Francisco LGBTQ homeless youth find hope through federally-funded 'Host Home' program | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The "Host Home" program finds volunteers to house homeless LGBTQ youth ages 18 to 24 for a period of three months to one year.

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Frameline44 revisits LGBTQ+ lessons from the past

Frameline44 revisits LGBTQ+ lessons from the past | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Varied film lineup addresses themes that reverberate today

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Mutual aid effort delivers groceries to Black queer and trans people

Mutual aid effort delivers groceries to Black queer and trans people | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Buying groceries for someone else seems like such a simple gesture, but during the coronavirus pandemic, the idea has taken on an undeniable emotional weight. It’s a confirmation of community solidarity, of a commitment to making sure everyone in your sphere is doing OK. On July 31, San Franciscans Brianna Johnson and Chantel Heard launched Black Queer Groceries, an initiative that delivers goods to Black and LGBTQIA+ residents of...

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San Francisco Covid-19 response may be guided by 1980s HIV experience

San Francisco Covid-19 response may be guided by 1980s HIV experience | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

San Francisco's residents recall what it was like to live in the city that was once the center of the HIV epidemic. The memories stayed with them, and are informing their response to Covid-19.

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Meet the queer skate kids of San Francisco

Meet the queer skate kids of San Francisco | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The scene may be lacking in inclusivity, but these skaters are carving out their own space and they're unapologetically themselves.

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SF Lives: Learning what a gay man could do and be

SF Lives: Learning what a gay man could do and be | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Moisés Garcia wasn’t alive at the time The City was shaken by its tragic events of 41 years ago

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Mill Valley’s LGBTQ population finds acceptance and faces new challenges

Mill Valley’s LGBTQ population finds acceptance and faces new challenges | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

At Mill Valley, students are inclusive, but there’s still a long way to go.

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