Debate Shadows Israeli Films at Frameline
Pro-Palestinian activists are calling foul on Frameline, which opens today (Thursday, June 14), and are attempting to increase pressure on the international LGBT film festival to ditch Israeli government funding.
36th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
The 36th Frameline LGBT Festival (June 14-24 at San Francisco's Castro, Roxie and Victoria Theatres, with selected screenings at the Elmwood Rialto Cinemas in Berkeley) offers an especially strong array of short films.
New HRC President Visits the Castro
Starting his new job a day early and outside of Washington, D.C., Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin made a quick stop in San Francisco last weekend.
Salomania: Anatomy in the Courtroom
Artistic Director Tom Ross offered Jackson a commission to write a new play, they quickly agreed on the Maud Allan scandal as its basis. The result, Salomania, begins performances this week at the Berkeley theater.
On the Tab :: June 8-14
BARtab rounds up the hottest events in the coming week.
Gay Man Takes First Place in San Diego Mayoral Primary
Openly gay conservative Republican Carl DeMaio captured first place in San Diego's mayoral primary election June 5.
Local Trash Company, State Term Limits Winning
Voters in San Francisco and around the state made their choices on several propositions in the Tuesday, June 5 primary election.
San Francisco Ballet School Presents a Showcase
The choreography for even the smallest of the SFB children was a compliment to their intelligence. Their tasks required that they take responsibility for their own movements while also developing a group-mind, create a little world, and move in harmony.
LGBTs Win Seats on SF Dem Panel
In the race for seats on the local Democratic Party's oversight panel, LGBT candidates captured a majority of seats allocated to the city's eastside Assembly District 17 that covers many gay neighborhoods.
Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men
It's a tour de force performance, to be sure, and can illuminate recesses of human behavior. But in the end, we are left behind without a lifeline in the swamp to which Orlandersmith has lured us.
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