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...
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...
One of our favorites in capturing the queer cultural history of San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s. Marilyn’s 2013 interview with former Cockettes member Dolores De Luce. Her memoir, “My Life, A Four-Letter Word:…
Rainbow Honor Walk Teaches Queer History
- October 1, 2015
- Tagged as: Alan Turing, Bayard Rustin, Christine Jorgensen, David Perry, Del Martin, gay, GLBT History Museum, Kathy Amendola, lesbian, LGBT, LGBT history, Phyllis Lyon, queer, Queer Past Becomes Present, Rainbow Honor Walk, Steven Short, Sylvester, transgender, Trevor Hailey, walk of fame
Twenty bronze sidewalk plaques guide pedestrians on a stroll through queer history in San Francisco’s Castro district. The Rainbow Honor Walk, a growing monument along the streets of San Francisco honoring LGBT pioneers, debuted one year...
On April 29th, 2015 at The Oasis Cabaret and Nightclub in San Francisco’s SoMa district we taped the show before a live audience. Full of the best clips from 10 years of our show, Eric…
‘A Simple Revolution’ ~ Poet Judy Grahn
- September 16, 2015
- Tagged as: Judy g, Judy Grahn, KALW, lesbian feminism, LGBT, Marilyn Pittman, Out in the Bay, San Francisco
Judy Grahn’s “Common Woman” poems in the ’60s and ’70s inspired a generation of lesbian feminists. Her 2012 book, “A Simple Revolution: The Making of an Activist Poet,” is part history, part memoir and a brilliant…