Real Bad XXII Donates Record-Breaking $180,000
November 12th, 2010 Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West), producers of the annual REAL BAD fundraising party that follows San Francisco’s world-renowned Folsom Street Fair, today announced the fundraising results from REAL BAD XXII, which was held on Sunday, September 26, 2010. Despite a difficult economic backdrop, REAL BAD XXII raised an unprecedented $180,000 for [...]
JUNE 24-26: COLOSSUS PRIDE WKND / Gus Presents
COLOSSUS PRIDE WEEKEND – SAN FRANCISCO 2011 Pride Weekend is coming up on June 24-26, and Gus Presents is bringing you some massive events and surprises! Superstar dj/producers PAULO (alegria NYC) and HECTOR FONSECA (NYC) will be headlining the main COLOSSUS event at the Sound Factory, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg! In [...]
Partner Profiles: Gib Bolton
Love My Gays is about gay culture, which is created by fabulous, talented, dedicated and skilled individuals with strong spirits and unique styles. Every gayborhood has a fascinating cast of characters. Partner Profiles introduces and appreciates these individuals, who collectively contribute to our sense of gay community, lifestyle and pride. Meet Gib Bolton of Studio [...]
Loving Your Gays: Are You an Addict?
Are you addicted to Loving Your Gays? Are you gay even when no one is watching? If you’ve completely lost touch with all things straight (not that there’s anything wrong with that!), here’s 12 tried-and-true steps to recovery: 1) Admit that you are powerless over your addiction – that your glittery life has become unmanageable [...]
Daddy Suzan’s Bucket List
I moved to San Francisco to make a career of being the most dedicated fag hag I can be, and by this point there isn’t much I haven’t seen or done. My “bucket list” of experiences no other girl has ever had has dwindled away, with the exception of gaining entry to Blow Buddies or Steamworks. (It’s not like I haven’t tried, trust.)
Gib Bolton – Studio GH Bolton
A San Francisco original hailing from The Big Easy, Gib Bolton’s independent spirit is reflected in his independent business, as a stylist with a solo studio, G.H.Bolton.
This Is Just How We Do
“Only in San Francisco” is a phrase we hear a lot here in Oz. It’s a point of pride, the defining feature of our beautiful bubble. Even when we’re trying to be conventional, relatively speaking, we end up doing things our own way. We can’t help it. Easter in Dolores Park, for example, is a [...]
Reflecting White
Reflecting on the White Party Palm Springs is like experiencing a hot new remix of moments and memories, scenes that affirm all the ways my gays bring it – to the dancefloor, to each other, and to life. Every circuit partyA dance event with historical origins in the gay community’s response to the AIDS crisis. [...]
Rites of Spring, Rites of Passage
There’s something about White Party Palm Springs that keeps me coming back. It’s a rite of spring and rite of passage. It’s hard to think of a more definitively, quintessentially gay getaway. On the one hand, the journey we take and the road trip we endure makes me feel like I’m starring in my own [...]
Let’s Hear It For The Girls
I have to laugh that it takes the annual “girly issue” of Gloss to remind me that I’m a girl and not actually the gay man I think I am. My insistence that I’m not like all the other girls tends to flare up when I’m faced with purses and heels and free-flying hair on [...]
