This holiday season, make the Yuletide gay with drag queens and feather boas! Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s annual show, The Christmas Ballet, will take place at the Blue Shield of California…
By Jan Wahl– The holiday spirit can be elusive these days, so I have two fabulous events that I go to in order to find the glittering, positive, candy cane…
By Gary M. Kramer– Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, adapted from William S. Burrough’s novel, is a dark, and at times surreal, drama about addiction. The director’s films are nothing if not…
By Jewelle Gomez– I recently learned that, in Paris, Halloween is not a widely celebrated holiday as it is here in the states. That was a bit of a surprise…
The City and Its Uncertain Walls (fiction – hardcover) by Haruki Murakami This is a love story, a quest, and an ode to books and libraries, set in a surreal…
Masquerade by Mike Fu Set in Shanghai and New York, Masquerade is replete with odd strangers and strange disappearances, eerie coincidences, and potential ghosts. What’s not to love? Nightmare Before…
By Susan Berston– When award-winning filmmaker Deborah Craig was making her short documentary A Great Ride (2018), about lesbians and aging, she received a tip from aikido sensei Penny Sablove…
By David Landis, The Gay Gourmet– “Just hear those sleigh bells jingling,Ring ting tingling too Come on, it’s lovely weather For a sleigh ride together with you”—”Sleigh Ride” by Leroy…
(Editor’s Note: This article will be the last for the column authored by Debra Morris, who recently retired “after 55 years of nonstop work”! She is looking forward to putting…
Cocktails with Dina– For 13 long years, the 18th Amendment prohibited the buying or selling of alcohol. But the ban unwittingly sparked a transformation of the industry still felt today.…
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