In the past few years a few familiar gay bars have left the scene, only to be replaced by new bars not geared toward the gay community. To understand the implications, try to remember the last time a bar "turned gay" in San Francisco.

Famed drag queen Lady Bunny, who will blitz northern California next week to promote her new single, has never been shy about speaking her mind.

Many marchers will not only be celebrating their sexuality, relationships and, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s help, possibly marriage equality, but a large number are expected to march in support of imprisoned gay Army private first class Bradley Manning.

It’s that unpredictability that makes it fun to help the LGBT community shop for cars; our interest in vehicles seems to be more exploratory than those of straight folks.

Actor Chad Allen to receive an SF GLAAD Media Award.

In the wake of a deadly salmonella outbreak, the government may designate peanut butter as a high-risk food, according to a top health official. Dr. Stephen Sundlof, the head of the FDA’s food safety center, told lawmakers that peanut butter may be singled out for special attention as agency inspectors will start routinely collecting samples of peanut butter and other foods for bacterial testing whenever they go into a facility. Currently that’s done only if officials suspect a problem.

To appreciate where Colton Ford is going, it helps to know where’s he’s been. Yes, you may have seen him completely naked, having hot sex with other men in the rush of popular gay porn videos he made in less than a year. Since then, you may have heard his music, thinking it was a path he chose after his porn work. You’d be wrong.

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is trying to expand the newspaper section of its online library to include billions of articles published during the past 244 years, hoping the added attraction will lure even more traffic to its leading Internet search engine.

In a bid to pull hesitant shoppers into their stores, retailers are slashing prices on everything from jeans to dinnerware. But those fat discounts will likely come at a big cost for the companies.

It’s easy to understand the appeal of Apple Inc.’s iPod Nano music and video player: It’s slim and simple to use, and it has a crisp 2-inch LCD screen. Its brand name is considered synonymous with hip tech gear.

A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has moved inflation up on his list of worries, suggesting the time for cutting interest rates is over in view of soaring oil and commodity prices and a weakened dollar.

LGBT beer drinkers might have to take another look at Miller Brewing Company.

United Parcel Service Inc. received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index 2008 despite criticism the company received earlier this year when it refused to provide benefits to civil union partners of its employees in New Jersey.