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    Donna’s Chronicles, “Loyal readers of ‘Donna’s Chronicles’…

    Donna’s Chronicles, “Loyal readers of ‘Donna’s Chronicles’…

    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…

    Simon Tseko Nkoli: ‘The Personal Is the Political’

    Simon Tseko Nkoli: ‘The Personal Is the Political’

    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…

    First Comes Love

    First Comes Love

    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…

    Lesbian Activists Ambassador Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry Meet in Manila, Philippines

    Lesbian Activists Ambassador Chantale Wong and Selisse Berry Meet in Manila, Philippines

    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…

    Rink Remembers: David Mixner (1946–2024)

    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.…

    Opening Night: Jewelle Gomez’s Unpacking in P’town at the New Conservatory Theatre Center

    Opening Night: Jewelle Gomez’s Unpacking in P’town at the New Conservatory Theatre Center

    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…

    Sonoma International Film Festival to Premiere Meta Movie Extremely Unique Dynamic

    Sonoma International Film Festival to Premiere Meta Movie Extremely Unique Dynamic

    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…

    Jodie Foster and Annette Bening Burn Up the Screen in Nyad

    Jodie Foster and Annette Bening Burn Up the Screen in Nyad

    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…

    Staten Island’s Inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    Staten Island’s Inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade

    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,…

    Top of Your Stack: 3.21.24

    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…