By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– As we waited in line at Newark Airport to board our flight home to San Francisco after a recent trip back east, we struck…
By Gary Kramer– The 43rd edition of Frameline will unspool on area screens June 20–30. The LGBT film festival opens with Vita & Virginia and closes ten days later with…
By Sister Dana Van Iquity– Sister Dana sez, “I wish everyone a HAPPY FATHER’S DAY (June 16) to all the Fathers (Gay and Straight and Leather Daddies) who mean so much…
Rusalka, soon to be presented by San Francisco Opera, is a fairytale fantasy based on the same story that inspired The Little Mermaid. It looks beyond the storybook world of…
By Galen Till– With the first onstage dress rehearsal of Dvořák’s fantasy opera Rusalka just days away, the costume studio at the San Francisco Opera is bustling. Given that the…
By Donna Sachet– The Book of Pride: LGBT Heroes Who Changed the World, painstakingly compiled by Mason Funk, was unveiled at Opera Plaza’s Books, Inc. last week and it is…
By David Landis– When I first moved to San Francisco to open Davies Symphony Hall in 1980, the surrounding neighborhood (now called Hayes Valley) was a scary proposition. There were…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– Green carnations. Red neckties. Violet corsages. Colors and symbols used for many years by gay men and lesbians, often strangers in the night, to identify each…
San Francisco’s wildly popular FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender and queer performance returns next week, featuring transgender theater trailblazers, world champion bachata dancers, vogue superstars, a queer retro boy band,…
By John Chen– Sports has been my bridge to meeting many amazing LGBT people over the years. Their capacity to overcome great physical, emotional and psychological obstacles has earned them…
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