Harvey Milk's original Advocate obituary from 1979
The gay rights icon was memorialized in the January 11, 1979 issue of The Advocate. Read the obituary below.
May 22, 2024
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S.F. Cancels the Castro's Halloween Revelry
The hundreds of thousands of people who usually flock to an annual Halloween street party in San Francisco are being warned to stay home or go elsewhere after several episodes of violence in recent years. City officials have advised would-be revelers through fliers, public service announcements, and juvenile probation officers that they won't find many treats in the Castro District, home in past years to the largest Halloween happening in the San Francisco Bay area. What they will find are hundreds of extra police officers, shuttered restaurants, stepped-up sobriety checks, and no bus or train service after 8:30 p.m.
November 1, 2007
Frameline Announces Program for World's Largest LGBTQ+ Film Festival
The festival's theme this year is "The Coast Is Queer."
May 25, 2022
Milking the Castro's Queer History
San Francisco's Castro district is bracing for a flood of tourists after its star turn in Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk. Shot on location, the movie stars Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay men elected to public office.
November 12, 2008
15 of the Queerest Places to Spend New Year’s
Whether it’s with millions of people or with a few, check out these places to go to have a queer New Year’s Eve.
December 31, 2023
Study: Gayborhoods for Many Budgets
San Francisco's Castro still claims a huge concentration of gay residents, but there are LGBT-friendly areas with lower housing prices, according to a real estate analysis.
June 16, 2012
Obama's Win Prop. 8's Loss?
It's nerve-wracking in the Boiler Room, and No on 8 volunteers are wondering: Could Obama's win be Prop 8's loss? "He's got a little too much good news a little too early," mutters one guy. No on 8 volunteers fear that with the election all but won for Barack Obama, California Democrats who would have otherwise waited in line after polls closed might be inclined to call it a night -- bad news for Prop. 8.
November 5, 2008
The Trulia List of 20 Affordable Gayborhoods
Living in a gayborhood doesn't have to be expensive.
June 22, 2012
Obama Ends ‘Wet Foot, Dry Foot’ Cuban Policy
President Obama has ended a policy that gave Cubans who escaped the island legal residency even without visas.
January 13, 2017
San Francisco Lifts Gay Bathhouse Ban
The ban was a holdover from the height of the AIDS crisis.
January 27, 2021
Hate Crime in the Castro? Arrest Made After Alleged SF Attack
Police have asked for pretrial detention due to the 20-year-old man's alleged threat to the public.
June 12, 2023
Mariela Castro Points to Progress on LGBT Rights in Cuba
At the Equality Forum in Philadelphia, she emphasized the work she and others are doing to improve conditions for LGBT people in the nation.
May 5, 2013
Halloween: Is the Party Over?
Once a place for gays to parade the outlandish and the outrageous, Halloween street parties have been overrun by college kids and gangbangers, appropriated by stroller-pushing moms and out-of-towners, and regulated by angry residents and city officials. Have we lost Halloween forever?
October 19, 2007
1978 Report: Murder And Mourning in San Francisco
On the 35th anniversary of Harvey Milk's death, The Advocate reprints its report of the days and events that followed.
November 27, 2013
Documentary: What You've Heard About Latino Dads of LGBT Kids Isn't True
A new documentary, El Canto del Colibri, explores the relationship between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBT children.
August 23, 2016
Right-Wing Extremists to Protest School Board Meeting Over Pride Flags
Because the Castro Valley Unified School District decided to paint inclusive murals featuring the Progress Pride flag, right-wing radicals plan to protest.
September 14, 2022
Op-ed: Why We Shut Down the Castro
As the #BlackLivesMatter movement forges ahead, white LGBT people don't have to sit on the sidelines.
February 2, 2015
The Milk Effect: It Does a Neighborhood Good
With interest in the movie at a fever pitch in the Castro, businesses are taking advantage -- just as the man himself would've wanted.
October 22, 2008