What kind of leather and fetish drag will trend this year at the 30th annual Folsom Street Fair? Ponies? Bronies? Codpiece big bonies?

The Cinch is currently the only gay bar on Polk Street, or one of the few, if you count the gay-friendly spaces. This is from a high which numbered between 20 and 30 venues in the neighborhood during Harvey Milk’s era.

As Russia’s anti-gay hatred escalates before the Sochi Winter Olympics, local nightclubs and bars are still at odds over whether to boycott Stoli vodka, all Russian vodka, or whether to boycott anything at all.

With a wry comic edge that can leap into slapstick or caricature, Boxx’s performances balance classic drag with contemporary pop sensibility. She’ll be performing in San Francisco on September 6, 7 & 8 at Rebel.

On Saturday, August 17, Sister Roma (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) and Fudgie Frottage, drag king extraordinaire, will co-host The Biggest Drag Queen Competition in the World.

The multi-talented Bryan Batt, a star of Broadway musicals, hit TV shows, and an author and designer, brings his cabaret show "Batt on a Hot Tin Roof" to the newest cabaret venue at the Hotel Rex, August 15 through 17.

Four parade cowboys in sweat stained fancy shirts reined in their horses. Wes and I were in Guerneville outside the Rainbow Cattle Company at 16220 Main Street.

It was Sunday, July 4, 1976. The City was celebrating a twin bicentennial. Sailors were in town! We meandered the Embarcadero, loading our cameras with "seafood" until lunchtime.

With a new ’gentlemens’ club’ proposed in the Castro, we asked a few folks in the gogo-friendly nightlife scene for their perspective on hip-thrusting entertainment.

It was Gay Freedom Day; Sunday, June 27, 1976. Things were very different then; very different.

This year’s Pride events enjoy the fourth incarnation of the multi-event Eden in the Bay production team. With pop stars, ’celesbian’ chefs and dance parties each day and night of the weekend, women’s events in San Francisco have taken a step up.

Two weeks ago, Andy Cross brought the title of International Mister Leather (IML) home to San Francisco. He shared some stories about what led him to the leather scene.

San Francisco's Tenderloin is roughly bounded by Market, Mason, Geary, and Van Ness. It has a rap sheet dating back to the Gold Rush. By the Roaring 1920s, it had become infamous for its nightlife, jazz clubs, and vice dens. Mocambo was one of those 1970s

Sometimes, your parents are right. And in the service industry, "the customer is always right." Here’s a recap of the preferred nightlife selections from the April 2013 Best of the Gays readers poll, published in the ’Bay Area Reporter’ (our parent public