Lucha Libre & Brazilian Music at the Excelsior Night Market! Join us at the monthly Excelsior Night Market for a night of food, fun, and community vibes! It all kicks off this Friday 7/11 with Lucha Libre from Wrestling For Charity featuring Salvadorian luchador Kaka Meng. And there’s live Brazilian percussion, electronic, dance, music from Batuki. Free with RSVP! Kiss Off by Vanessa Gil, Arts &

For as long as I’ve been alive there’s been some moral panic about what the young people are doing. They’re leaving the church. They’re wearing low-rise jeans. They’re losing recipes. We’re frantic over it.  But this one is statistically stark and real. And it has consequences for San Francisco. 20-somethings

San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community staged protests and filed lawsuits against the police for their actions during the White Night Riots and the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) protest, resulting in a quarter of a million dollar settlement for the city.

California is moving to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage of $7.25 during active fires, a policy change that follows years of advocacy to improve pay and working conditions for incarcerated labor.

Summertime by Vanessa Gil, Arts & Events Editor The City provided another beautiful and sunny Pink Saturday in Dolores Park this past weekend. What a wonderful Pride making new memories with friends & family in San Francisco. I’ve been reenergized and am ready for the rest of these summer events. Podcast

We Wanna Send You to the Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market on 7/26 at Faction Brewing! Enter to Win a pair of tickets to the Alameda Rock & Roll Flea Market, PLUS two entrees from Satay By The Bay, and two beers from Faction Brewing! (21+ w/ I.D.) Rock

Hulu’s July offerings include gems like Ryan Coogler’s directorial debut Fruitvale Station, a documentary about the 761st Tank Battalion, a dark comedy about a narcissistic family, and a reality series about a young woman with Tourette’s Syndrome.

Before the riots at New York City’s Stonewall Inn in 1969 and at the Compton’s Cafeteria at Turk Street in San Francisco three years prior, San Francisco’s LGBT community experienced a pivotal moment in which they had to fight for their rights in the face of police harassment and intimidation.