Tag Archives: Castro District

Dapper Leather Bears!

Posted on November 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Posted in Gryphon Van Der Hole, Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Signage

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Got Spotted Dick? Sight seen at Magnet in San Francisco

Posted on November 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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Seen in an exam room at Magnet, the Castro District health service spot, art gallery and de facto community center. The cartoon syphilis sore was part of an education campaign from about ten years ago called “Healthy Penis.” And spotted dick is something Brits eat. Seriously.

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Posted in Comics, Food, iPhone, San Francisco, Sickness and Health, Signage

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Leather Week in SF ends…all quiet in the Village

Posted on September 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Via friend of this site SMG. The Leather flag replaces Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow flag that normally flies above the Castro District.

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Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures

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Surveilling the SFPD: Beauty and the Beast

Posted on May 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Beauty and the Beast

This odd couple is on patrol in San Francisco’s Castro district. We were struck by the picturesque contrast. For more sights seen in and around the village, click here.

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Posted in Men, Military, Photography, San Francisco, Surveillance

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Homotextual Slide Show: Obey Milk Now, Christian Underpants, and…

Posted on March 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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…other sights and signs seen in the Castro District and other assorted San Francisco City sites. For more homotexuality, click here and here.

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Posted in Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

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From Azerbaijan to the Ukraine, San Francisco GLBT Gay History Museum is World-wide News

Posted on January 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Opening Night at the Gay History Museum

The GLBT History Museum that just opened in the City is making news in (among other places) Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Serbia and The Ukraine. This just in from Belarus. From curator and friend of this site Gerard Koskovich, who is always looking for new and better multi-lingual search strategies. For an original content slide show from opening night, click here.

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Posted in Collecting, Europe, History, Russia, San Francisco, Subcultures

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San Francisco Castro District’s New Gay Supe: Scott Wiener sworn in as D8 Supervisor

Posted on January 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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In the 30-some years since Harvey Milk held the Castro district seat, it has become almost a tradition for the San Francisco District 8 supervisor to be gay. Scott Wiener, who was sworn in on Saturday, follows Bevan Dufty, who replaced Mark Leno. Both gay. Dufty is now planning a run for mayor, and Leno is a state senator. Before that, lesbians Susan Leal and Roberta Achtenberg held the spot.  Wiener’s opponents were Rafael Mandelman and Rebecca Prozan. Gay and gay. Wiener beat the further-left Mandelman and the fellow moderate Prozan to take the 8th district. Wiener joins District 9 Supervisor David Campos to double the current gay composition of the board. Congratulations, Scott, and Good Luck!

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Leather Week at SF’s Castro Magnet features Jok Church MENdalas

Posted on September 22, 2010 by | 3 comments

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 Magnet, the men’s health clinic slash community center slash art gallery in the Castro, is featuring an exhibit of digital prints on stretched canvases by the quirky, multi-talented Jok Church. A long-time gay activist, Church is also a Leatherman, a cartoonist and the creator of the children’s TV science series Beakman’s World. His web design includes the sites for the French artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude and  for the local watercolorist Richard Bolingbroke.

Church calls these highly-manipulated photographs MENdalas, a take-off on the meditative mandalas of Hindu and Buddhist iconography.  The show opened with a splashy reception that drew such luminaries as Donna Sachet, the first lady in red of San Francisco drag, and Mark Leno, State senator for district 3, which includes the city and county of San Francisco and Marin and Sonoma counties. Church is donating 100% of sales to Magnet and to the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. Sales were brisk at the opening, with more than half the work sold by evening’s end. Sister Dana Van Iquity, SOPI, wrote a review for the San Francisco Bay Times. The show continues at Magnet, located at 4122 18th Street at Castro, through the end of September.

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Pink Saturday Shootings in the Castro. One dead, two wounded.

Posted on June 27, 2010 by | 2 comments

Police secure the crime scene at Castro and Market Saturday night

On the eve of San Francisco’s annual Gay Pride parade and celebration, a young man was shot and killed. Another man and a woman were wounded. The suspect is in custody and the weapon has been recovered. The victim, Stephen Powell, and the suspect are both 19 years old.

In recent years, the Halloween celebration in the Castro has been plagued by “bridge and tunnel” violence, including some fatal incidents instigated by straight youths who use the masked occasion to settle beefs imported from the ‘burbs. It is not known at this time whether this incident was gang-related, gay drama related, a bashing…or what.

In other news, former Mr. SF Leather Ray Tilton reports via Facebook that he was roughed up by four unknown assailants outside of the 440 Club, site of the former Daddy’s bar. He is shaken and sore, but otherwise alright.

Local news and KPIX video is available at the CBS news channel 5 website.

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