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    Pacific Edge Voices Welcomes a New Leader

    Pacific Edge Voices Welcomes a New Leader

    By David Landis– Ash Walker is the new, conductor of the 40-year-old ensemble East Bay-based Pacific Edge Voices (PEV). I had the pleasure of speaking with him for the San…

    18 Reasons for Better Cooking at Home

    18 Reasons for Better Cooking at Home

    By David Landis– If you’re like The Gay Gourmet, often at the end of the day you think it’s simpler (especially in foodie-crazy San Francisco) to just go out to…

    The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder

    The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder

    By Michele Karlsberg– “Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother?” wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The true crime was not just a family…

    Lit Snax 3.24.22

    A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns This series of prose poems focuses on a tragic episode from the height of the AIDS crisis when a gay dentist became the…

    Top of Your Stack – Recommendations from Book Passage 3.24.22

    I Was Better Last Night (nonfiction/memoir – hardbound) by Harvey Fierstein This poignant and hilarious memoir bares the inner life of this eccentric nonconforming child from his roots in 1952 Brooklyn, to…

    Cocktails With Heather: Dragonberry & Ginger Ale

    By Heather Freyer– Bacardí Dragonberry Flavored Rum captures the exotic taste of ripe dragon fruit, which comes from a cactus native to Mexico, Central, and South America. Its mildly sweet…

    Being BeBe: The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary Is a Pandemic-Era ‘Movie Miracle’ Close to My Heart

    Being BeBe: The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary Is a Pandemic-Era ‘Movie Miracle’ Close to My Heart

    By Marc Smolowitz– Two years ago, all of our lives changed when the pandemic started, and each of us has our unique version of what life became during the first…

    Ann Rostow: Chugging the Pierian Spring

    Ann Rostow: Chugging the Pierian Spring

    By Ann Rostow– Chugging the Pierian Spring I was struck by an op-ed in Tuesday’s The New York Times written by a Ukrainian woman of Polish descent who has been living in…

    LGBTIQ Ukrainians Fighting for Their Lives

    LGBTIQ Ukrainians Fighting for Their Lives

    By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– We’ll never forget gazing out our train window at the beautiful golden domes of Kyiv as we traveled through Ukraine from Moscow to Bucharest…

    Importance of Expediting LGBTQ Ukrainian Asylum Applications in the U.S.

    Importance of Expediting LGBTQ Ukrainian Asylum Applications in the U.S.

    By Okan Sengun, Esq.– My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine. The LGBT Asylum Project has worked with many Ukrainians through the years and I can’t imagine how…