By Gary M. Kramer– This year’s Frameline Film Festival opens June 18, 2025, with Jimpa, which has non-binary teen, Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde), wanting to live with their gay grandfather Jimpa…
By Jan Wahl– I recently discovered a new book worth checking out. It’s called Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech by Maureen Dowd. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning…
By T. Kebo Drew — By the time I moved to San Francisco in the mid 1990s, I was burned out. I’d spent most of my youth in Oregon in…
A Pride-season audience favorite, the FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of Trans and Queer Performance, is back with exquisite, extraordinary dance, theater, and live music—June 19–21 at Z Space theater in San…
By Gary M. Kramer– Now available on Prime Video is the addictive new series Overcompensating, which chronicles a year of change in the life of Benny Scanlon (creator Benito Skinner),…
By Gary M. Kramer– CAAM Fest, May 8–11, 2025, at various Bay Area theaters, celebrates Asian American life and cinema. This year’s program showcases three features and six shorts that…
By Jan Wahl– Once in a while a fascinating female comes into my life and takes me on an amazing journey. Most recently that was Tina D’Elia, who is a…
By Gary M. Kramer– In writer/director Amalia Ulman’s deadpan, shaggy dog comedy, Magic Farm, opening May 2 in the Bay Area, bisexual actor Joe Apollonio charms as Justin, a sound…
By Gary M. Kramer– The 68th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, April 17–27, showcases more than 150 films and more than a dozen LGBTQ titles. The festival opens with…
Smuin Contemporary Ballet has a triumphant and colorful new program to delight audiences in Dance Series 2, performing April 25 through May 4 in San Francisco. Imagine great leaps set…
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