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Philip Wong Managing Editor |
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 | The Question of Pride It’s been estimated that close to 1,000,000 people attend San Francisco Pride every year. That’s a lot of people coming together to party, mingle, coast and cruise. But don’t let the blocks and blocks of easy-going revelers mislead you into questioning what cause is left for celebration. Our purpose and aim have remained largely unchanged in the past 37 years or so since Pride’s inception in the 70s.More |  | A Good Time With The Boys In Richard “Scrumbly” Koldewyn’s musical revue “Wilde Boys", the famous decadence of Victorian England surfaces less in its setting and more in the clandestine winks and nudges of its songs, which altogether makes for an entertaining, albeit slightly contained, hour long musical.More |  | Pride For All Break out your rainbow flags and party hats folks, it’s Pride time! But, the San Francisco Pride Celebration is about much more than partying. Pride is a wholly interactive experience, and the entire month of June is packed with loads of special events and parades in addition to the weekly parties that locals have come to love. SF Gay has highlighted the rest of the month for you and picked out the events best designed to give you the most complete Pride experience.More |  | What Goes Up… Modesty, in some cases, can turn you on as much as confidence. I realize that a little self-effacing humor can be cute and healthy once in awhile; after all, nobody wants to be seen with someone who appears too confident for his own good. But on the flip side, it’s also no fun hanging out with a Debbie Downer. Even so, lately (and by "lately" I mean for the past 5 or years so) I feel like I’ve put myself into that latter category.More |  | Pride Not Prejudice San Francisco’s annual Pride has always been about embracing our differences and celebrating our similarities. This year’s theme “Pride Not Prejudice” not only seeks to highlight that principle, it aims to cement that motto into our psyche. It’s about taking time to remember the first Pride celebration in 1970, called “Gay In,” around the time of the Stonewall uprisings. It’s about taking time to remember the origins of the Rainbow Flag, created by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 parade. It’s also about giving ourselves time to reflect on how far we’ve come since then, and how far we still have to go.More |  | The Rising Sum At what point did we start measuring worth by the notches on our nightstands instead of nickels and dimes? Living in a Gay Metropolis may seem to have its perks, but I’ve seriously begun to question whether the benefits still outweigh the costs. While watching the parade of available attractive men walk by can send anyone into a tizzy, it’s less fun when you actually have to try to catch one. No matter how beautiful your friends say you are on the inside, you know that inevitably strangers will only notice the outside. This constant preening often leaves me feeling less like a peacock and more like a chicken.More |  | A New Weekly Column If good things really do come to those who wait, then I should be holding court with King Midas instead of counting change with Uncle Scrooge. It’s time to take a new tack. But in the crush of the gay landscape, is there still room for squares? This column will offer answers to that question -- sometimes in jest, often in truth, but always in a cardigan and glasses.More |  | Retaining San Francisco’s Visitor Visibility Every June thousands of people descend upon San Francisco for a celebration that is entirely San Franciscan in its origin. For more than 35 years now, the San Francisco Pride celebration has been the hallmark of the LGBTQ community calendar and since its inception has branded our city as the LGBTQ capital of, if not the world, at least the Western Hemisphere.More |  | Equality In The Face of Inequity For 18 years now, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has put together the GLAAD Media Awards to reward the mainstream media for its fair and accurate portrayals of the LGBT community, however scarce they may be. Though such depictions remain few and far between, there is no shortage of talent and passion in the field that deserve recognition and praise.More |
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