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Giving Back at Pride - Celebrating 17 years, and getting ready for 2020
"I remember the first time I marched with a contingent. It was pure magic, stepping off the curb and planting my foot onto Market Street." Philanthropist and event creator Juanita MORE! shares her history of popular Pride party-fundraisers.
The national outreach program makes an update, and the venerable 15 Association celebrates four decades.
In addition to Imperial Council events around the Bay Area through the weekend, Coronation 55, titled 'Disco in the Jungle,' held Feb. 22 at the Park Central Hotel, concluded with the crowning of new Empress Mimi Osa and Emperor William Bulkley.
Leap into a new month's worth of nightlife fun. Then vote for your favorites places, people, businesses and nightlife stuff in our annual Besties Readers Survey!
From dance nights to workshops, fetish play nights to rubber contests, there's always a lot going on in the San Francisco Bay Area for leather and other kinksters.
Coronation 55, titled 'Disco in the Jungle,' held Saturday February 22 at the Park Central Hotel, brought out a festive array of fabulous Royal queens in gowns, daring drag, and some amusing jungle-themed couture.
'INSIDE PRIDE', the official magazine of San Francisco Pride is now accepting space reservations.
Since Hedwig and the Angry Inch debuted as an edgy Off-Broadway musical in 1998, John Cameron Mitchell has steadily worked on other projects, including a new podcast musical, Anthem: Homonculus, one of two projects he'll attend in the Bay Area.
"We used to go to jazz clubs after 2am and drink liquor out of coffee cups. Relations between blacks and whites were excellent. They were glad to have us out in the Fillmore. We were treated like queens, and I don't mean in that sense!"
Members of the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District and bar patrons enjoyed a South of Market bar crawl on February 6. The entourage visited the Powerhouse, the Hole in the Wall Saloon, the Stud, and the SF Eagle.
Jenn Colella is best known for her portrayal of Beverley Bass, the first female captain at American Airlines, in the Tony-winning musical Come From Away, about travelers stranded in Gander, Newfoundland in the wake of 9/11.
Lists checked, dates made, crawl pubs, meet ups, cruise pups; whatever, have fun. Then vote for your favorites places, people, businesses and nightlife stuff in our annual Besties Readers Survey!
The Ms. San Francisco Leather 2020 contest and the SoMa Bar Crawl are among the events covered by our Leather columnist.