Several projects celebrating the leather and kink history of San Francisco s South of Market neighborhood are inching along, from the completion of a public parklet named after an iconic bar to the installation of sidewalk markers recognizing current and former LGBTQ businesses in the area.
A new crosswalk sporting the blue, white, and black colors of the leather flag now marks the start of the Eagle Plaza public parklet on 12th Street at Bernice. The $1.85 million project, begun in 2019, is turning a portion of the roadway into a community gathering space. Nearly complete, it is named after the gay-owned Eagle bar that sits on the corner of 12th and Harrison streets at the other terminus of the parklet.
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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
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