In light of opposition from the new property owners, San Francisco officials appear set to landmark only a portion of the Noe Valley property where the late lesbian pioneering couple Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived for much of their 56-year relationship. Meanwhile, a city open space nearby the property could be renamed in honor of the women.
Preservation groups and LGBTQ historians had sought to see the entire Duncan Street property become a city landmark. They had argued that the adjoining garden plot to the cottage where the women lived should also be included in the landmark because the couple s cremains were interred and scattered on the undeveloped portion. The city s planning department had also recommended the entire property be landmarked.
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Old First Concerts
Rufus Wainwright
The gay singer-songwriter performs A Rufus-Retro Wainwright-Spective, a series of online Friday night concerts including all of his recorded songs. Tickets $20. https://rufuswainwright.com/
San Francisco Bach Choir
Mar. 6, 10am, PT, Healing and Song, with Melanie DeMore. Mar. 13: Russian Songs from the Heart; more weekly online concerts. https://sfbach.org/
San Francisco Gay Men s Chorus
Enjoy concerts like Angels, (commemorating the 30th anniversary of When We No Longer Touch, the world s first requiem dedicated to those lost to AIDS, recorded in 2018) streaming live March 11, 6pm PT; plus guest performers joining the Behind the Curtain series and Summer Reruns (Britney Coleman, Lisa Vroman, Billy Porter, Wilson Cruz, Adam Rippon, Britney Coleman, Laura Benanti, Andrew Lippa); plus Kristin Chenoweth, Chasten and Pete Buttigieg, Wanda Sykes, Sharon Stone, Martha Wash, India s Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil and other performe
The members of a San Francisco supervisors panel are recommending that their colleagues start the process to landmark a gay-owned bar in the city s South of Market district.
At its meeting January 25 the supervisors land use and transportation committee unanimously voted 3-0 in support of having the city s historic preservation commission consider if the Eagle Bar, an important entertainment venue located in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District, should be designated a city landmark. It would be the third gay bar location in San Francisco given such status if approved, and the first LGBTQ city landmark located in SOMA and related to queer leather culture.