Why Local Elections Matter. VOTE!
This week’s guest says four years of Trump’s presidency, COVID, and the Black Lives Matter movement have inspired a new generation of queer leaders to seek elected office in the Bay Area. And that was before…
Frameline 44 Queer Film Fest Opens with Drive-In!
Frameline 44, San Francisco’s international LGBTQ film festival, opens with a live, in-person drive-in event Thursday Sept. 17. It’s the world premiere of Shit & Champagne, written by and starring Oasis night club owner D’Arcy…
Liberace and his Spectacular Crystal Closet
What a year! We needed a break from current reality and figured you might too. So sit back, relax, and let the music and story of one of the world’s most fabulous entertainers ever wash…
In Good Company: A Play for Our Ears to Aid Theatre
With performance venues closed since March, how are theatre companies surviving? Many are using relatively new technologies – Zoom and other video conference platforms, for example – but a small SF theatre company has turned…
Meet Breanna Sinclairé, trans opera soprano
Breanna Sinclairé fled from a conservative, religious, sometimes abusive family in Baltimore and moved to the West Coast to study opera at the California Institute of Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She…
NCLR Leader on Voting, Helping Most Marginalized and Intersectionality
Meet Imani Rupert-Gordon, the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ new executive director. A long-time social worker and activist for LGBTQ people of color, Rupert-Gordon took the helm at the ground-breaking SF-based feminist LGBTQ legal organization in March, just as COVID-19…
Searching for Intimacy During COVID
In the Bay, we’re over 150 days into quarantine and social distancing. Some of us are skin-starved, many of us even love-starved. No hugs, no spooning, no sex. No Friends. No family. It’s a lot…
EQCA-Comcast Fellowship Engages LGBTQ College Students with California Policy-Making
Through a generous grant from the Comcast Foundation and in partnership with the California LGBT Legislative Caucus, the Equality California Institute – Comcast Fellowship brings LGBTQ youth and allies to Sacramento to learn about California politics, the…
How Will Queer Non-Profits Survive COVID-19?
On top of the health risks and financial hardships individuals face, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm critical Bay Area non-profits, from social service providers to cultural outlets. Horizons Foundation says by late August, it…
‘Upon This Rock’ Gay Mystery Author on Church, Refugees and COVID
“Upon This Rock” is a tangled-web murder mystery set in Italy and Vatican City, with Catholic corruption, hidden homosexuality, the international refugee crisis, and much more in the mix. Long-time PR maven and Rainbow Honor…