Joseph Plaster News Today

The Downtown SF Partnership has announced that "Drag Me Downtown," a weekly series of pop-up drag performances, is returning for Pride Month after a successful run last year.

Rare ABC7 film shows the nation's earliest known "gay liberation" organization protesting for LGBTQ+ rights in San Francisco in 1966 before Stonewall.

In response to anti-gay violence, the Reverend Raymond Broshears formed the Lavender Panthers, an armed self-defense group, in 1973

From classy to slightly crass, bold to beautiful, we’ve got concerts, plays, art exhibits and drag shows aplenty (which harm no one!) for you to enjoy and support, all in our weekly Going Out events listings.

An important new scholarly book, "Kids On the Street: Queer Kinship & Religion In San Francisco’s Tenderloin" by Joseph Plaster, has unearthed the queer history of ’outsider youth’ that has long remained hidden.

From classy to slightly crass, bold to beautiful, we’ve got concerts, plays, art exhibits and drag shows aplenty (which harm no one!) for you to enjoy and support, all in our weekly Going Out events listings.

From classy to slightly crass, bold to beautiful, we’ve got concerts, plays, art exhibits and drag shows aplenty (which harm no one!) for you to enjoy and support, all in our weekly Going Out events listings.

It’s no surprise that thousands of readers flock to our expansive arts and nightlife listings. Each week, yours truly sorts through hundreds of press releases for the most interesting events, and this week’s crop is bountiful.

It’s no surprise that thousands of readers flock to our expansive arts and nightlife listings. Each week, yours truly sorts through hundreds of press releases for the most interesting events, and this week’s crop is bountiful.

From classy to slightly crass, bold to beautiful, we’ve got concerts, plays, art exhibits and drag shows aplenty (which harm no one!) for you to enjoy and support, all in our weekly Going Out events listings.