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    Nelson Mandela and Maurice Sendak To Be Celebrated at This Year’s Pride Concert

    Nelson Mandela and Maurice Sendak To Be Celebrated at This Year’s Pride Concert

    This weekend, the 36th Annual Pride Concert: Together Strong! celebrates the lives of two very different sup­porters of the LGBT community with premieres of original music for chorus and wind…

    2014 Fresh Meat Festival Brings Award-Winning LGBT Performers to the Stage

    2014 Fresh Meat Festival Brings Award-Winning LGBT Performers to the Stage

      Gender-bending ballroom, a gay vogue-off, transgender hip-hop, grav­ity-defying trapeze, thundering taiko and queer Bomba? It must be the Fresh Meat Festival of transgender and queer perfor­mance—the only event of…

    Federico García Lorca: Deep Songs of the Soul

    Federico García Lorca: Deep Songs of the Soul

    By Dr. Bill Lipsky– More has been written about Andalusian poet, musician, playwright and artist Federico García Lorca than any Spanish author except Miguel de Cervantes, who had the advantage…

    Happy 40th Anniversary Beach Blanket Babylon – Beach Blanket Babylon 40th Anniversary   Before many of us were out and proud, or even born yet, Beach Blanket Babylon was showering gay energy over…

    Continuing Harvey’s Fight to Change the System

    Continuing Harvey’s Fight to Change the System

    Last week, I joined San Francisco’s LGBT community in commemorat­ing the 84th birthday of Harvey Milk. With the unveiling of the United States Postal Service’s Harvey Milk stamp, it is…

    You Can Play!

    You Can Play!

    OK, kids, it’s almost summertime. Days are sunny and warm so, for most of you, there are no excuses to be inside or on the couch in­stead of up, out…

    Black Coalition on AIDS Announces Name Change, New Structure and New Programs

    Black Coalition on AIDS Announces Name Change, New Structure and New Programs

    By Perry Lang I believe there are two critical ques­tions facing small ethnic and LGBT nonprofit organizations today: How do we remain relevant and how do we combat charity fatigue?…

    One of the World’s Most Powerful RNs Pens Lesbian Love Story

    One of the World’s Most Powerful RNs Pens Lesbian Love Story

    What do nursing, mathematics, 18th century lesbian lovers, and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell have in common? The answer is Anna Curren, whom I wish to in­troduce to…

    National News Briefs

    Compiled by Dennis McMillan  Seattle, WA – Gay Scouts Ask Amazon to Cut Funding as National Group Convenes – 5.22 The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is kicking off its…

    Local News Briefs

    Compiled by Dennis McMillan Major Construction Work in Castro To Be Completed Before Frameline Festival and Pride Parade Castro Street between Market and 19th Streets is one of the most…