Out × Out Weekly: July 23, 2026
This week: a Portland Pickles brawl that ends in a full-on makeout, the trailer for the new series FOURSOME, a possible Full House coming-out, and Elliot Page stealing Christopher Nolan's Odyssey — plus your complete guide to Dore Alley and why San Francisco is our City of the Week.
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A Portland Pickles brawl that ends in a makeout, the trailer for FOURSOME, and did a Full House star just come out? Plus your complete guide to Dore Alley — and why San Francisco is our City of the Week.
This Week in Gay Life
Charging the mound, then charging in for a kiss: A benches-clearing moment at the Portland Pickles' 'Heated Riv-Dill-ry' night turned into a full-on gay makeout — the exact kind of summer chaos we live for. Outsports
Two couples, one relationship: The trailer for the new series FOURSOME just dropped, following two couples whose lives (and love lives) collapse into one gloriously complicated arrangement. We're breaking our no-video rule for this one — hit play below. Watch the trailer
The 'diarrhea parasite' in your summer salad: A nationwide cyclospora outbreak is turning bagged greens into a gamble — here's what to actually know before your next picnic spread. Them
The gay exec in the Giants' Pride Night mess: Meet Roscoe Mapps, the San Francisco Giants executive caught in the middle of the team's Pride Night controversy — and the fallout that followed. Outsports
Did a Full House star just come out?: Jodie Sweetin — Stephanie Tanner herself — has fans convinced she quietly came out, and the internet is doing what it does best. Go Magazine
Elliot Page steals Nolan's Odyssey: In a handful of minutes as the doomed soldier Sinon, Page becomes the haunting soul of Christopher Nolan's three-hour epic — critics say his small role looms over the entire film. Empire
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The Global Read
It's the leather community's favorite July street party: SoMa's Up Your Alley Fair — better known as Dore Alley — takes over Sunday, July 26. Smaller, grittier, and more local than September's Folsom Street Fair, it's the one the regulars actually swear by. Here's the date, the dress code (or lack of one), the afterparties, and where to stay if you're flying in.
Visit Gay San Francisco
San Francisco practically invented the modern gay scene, and this is one of its rowdiest weekends: Up Your Alley — better known as Dore Alley — turns SoMa into a leather-and-harness street party on Sunday, July 26, the grittier locals' cousin to September's Folsom. But the city's gravity has always been the Castro, where rainbow crosswalks lead to bars that have been pouring since the Milk era. New in town, or just need a plan? Our guide to the best gay bars in San Francisco maps the Castro classics and the SoMa leather dens.
The vibe splits by neighborhood: Castro for history and easy pub-crawls, SoMa for leather and late nights, the Mission for the artsy crowd. Come thirsty.
The Cafe — Two floors of dancing and a wraparound Castro balcony that's been the neighborhood's go-to since the '80s.
Moby Dick — A Castro cornerstone — pinball, a fishbowl window on 18th Street, and a stiff pour with zero pretension.
Lone Star Saloon — SoMa's bear-and-leather clubhouse and ground zero for Dore Alley weekend — the back patio is the whole point.
OASIS — SF's drag palace in SoMa, where the city's sharpest queens put on a genuine show most nights of the week.
The Stud — The oldest queer bar in the city — worker-owned, reliably weird, and back after a pandemic-era reinvention.
Aunt Charlie's Lounge — A tiny Tenderloin time capsule with the legendary Hot Boxxx Girls drag revue on weekends.
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Robbie S.
I'm Robbie, the founder of Out x Out. I'm from Minneapolis, though I'm spending 2026 building this community from the road — somewhere between South America and Asia. The idea for Out x Out came from a trip to Berlin, where the gay nightlife calendar was years ahead of ours: you could see not just where to go out, but which night to go — so naturally I wanted that kind of insider info for every city in the US (and beyond... eventually). I'm more of a behind-the-scenes type, but the whole point of this is connection: I'd take one real one over a hundred surface-level ones, and I'm trying to build that for the community, city by city.
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