BLOCKED SIDEWALK. DEADLY RESPONSE. A TRANS ELDER KILLED FOR SPEAKING UP.

A trans elder spoke up about a blocked sidewalk. Minutes later, she was dead.

https://queerdispatch.org/2026/04/25/blocked-sidewalk-deadly-response-a-trans-elder-killed-for-speaking-up/

♬️ THAT'S WHAT I LIKE: BRUNO MARS DANCE PARTY at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Apr 25, 9:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/04-25.html?utm_source=sp_ma
#dnalounge #thatswhatilike #disco #funk #soul #randb #hiphop #sanfrancisco
We Built This City

Orange Alley at 24th

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Great collection of Sam Crow photos from early 1900’s of SF, 1915 Panama-Pacific Intl Exposition, Santa Cruz,… digitized and posted.

https://sfmemory.org/search/index.php?q=%22sam+crow+negatives%22&_ds=1&bn=0&bs=1000&so0=contains&so1=contains&sk=5&desc=0

Article in today’s SF Chronicle describes how these photos got to sfmemory.org

#photography #SanFrancisco #santacruz

Now for something completely different... my Sherlock Holmes story "Adventure of the Baker Street Vampires" has just been published on House of Long Shadows (home of gothic fiction and art). You can read for free if you register.

https://houseoflongshadows.substack.com/p/hls-no-63-adventure-of-the-baker

#sherlockholmes #fiction #shortstory #crimefiction #mystery #vampires @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon #noir #thriller #sanfrancisco #novel #detective

Founding negotiations for the #UnitedNations began on #ThisDayInHistory in #SanFrancisco in 1945, The Conference on International Organization brought together 46 #Allied countries at war with Germany & Japan, aiming to sketch out a postwar order and means for resolving disputes.