By Donna Sachet– Loyal readers of “Donna’s Chronicles”may turn to this column for its coverage of major San Francisco events, from Imperial Coronation and Opening Night of the Opera to…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– When Simon Tseko Nkoli was born in Soweto, South Africa, on November 26, 1957, everything about his future was determined by a brutal apartheid government that…
By Andrew Shaffer– When Phyllis Lyon (1924–2020) and Del Martin (1921–2008) met in 1950, they couldn’t have known how many barriers their love would drive them to break down. In…
In a significant moment for LGBTQ+ rights and visibility, two prominent lesbian activists, Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry, recently met in Manila, Philippines, to discuss the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights in Asia…
Political activist and author David Mixner, known for his decades of work in anti-war and LGBTQ+ rights advocacy, passed on March 11 at the age of 77 from long COVID-19.…
Photos by Rink On Saturday, March 9, members of the San Francisco Bay Times team were in the audience and applauded loudly during the opening night of Unpacking in P’town by…
By Gary M. Kramer– Extremely Unique Dynamic, cowritten and codirected (with Katherine Dudas) by stars Harrison Xu and Ivan Leung, is a shaggy, amusing meta-movie about Ryan (Xu, who grew…
By Jan Wahl– I’ve interviewed many interesting famous people. They are often surprising. Tom Cruise was delightful, Paul Newman political, Joan Fontaine gossipy, Hugh Jackman joyous, Kim Novak heavenly, and…
San Francisco Bay Times contributor Fernando Camino—whose livecast on Saturday, March 16, presented the annual New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade—reported observing no LGBTQ contingents once again this year,…
The Town of Babylon (fiction – paperback) by Alejandro Varela In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity—Andres, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his…
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