Gay man takes helm of state Assembly
Already numbering in the hundreds, the rubber duck collection of openly gay state Assembly Speaker-elect John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) is about to be flooded with more featherless friends. March 1 Perez will take over the gavel from outgoing Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), becoming the first out person to lead the Legislature's lower body.
Oscar parties abound in Bay Area
Is San Francisco big enough to hold two Oscar viewing parties that cater to the LGBT community?
SF Pride is without main stage producer
Just four months before San Francisco's LGBT Pride Parade and festival, the event's main stage is without a producer.
Ann Bannon :: queen of pulp lesbian fiction
Ann Bannon's 1950s pulp lesbian fiction is now the source of a play -- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles -- that's had its SF premiere this past week. Bannon was on hand for the opening and for this interview.
Stage scene :: Gay play finds SF home & Jeffrey Dahmer revisited
Playwright Richard Sanders endured a damning New York Times review to write again, but is learning that the gay themes in his latest plays have made it a difficult sell in some regions of the country. Also, Jeffrey Dahmer lives (at least on stage).
San Diego Tragedy - Resident Believed to Be Responsible for Murder-suicide in San Diego
Two gay men were found dead in a San Diego apartment on Friday, Feb. 5, in what San Diego police have labeled a murder-suicide. The alleged shooter in the tragedy was Robert Bob Agnew, a former Fairfax, Va. resident, who moved to San Diego last year to earn a master's degree.
Pushing back against the pricks
Is satiric cheesecake still cheesecake? Is titillating imagery of voluptuous flesh bursting forth from peek-a-boo bras and garter belts pornographic even when it's delivered with a generous dose of irony and savage humor? This thorny dilemma, replete with alleged assaults on the gender of superheroes (more on that later), caught a 30ish, classically trained, feminist artist named Margaret Harrison in its clutches and threatened to derail her promising career. In 1971, the police shut down her first solo exhibition the day after it opened in London; a show that, in Harrison's words, "tread the fine line between irony, sexuality, transgender, transvestism, power, masculinity, objectification and exploitation."
San Francisco Ballet's programs 2 & 3
Critics came from several New York papers to report on San Francisco Ballet's programs 2 and 3, excellent mixed bills which opened last week and continue through this Sunday at the War Memorial Opera House. The critics were here to see how the company dances the great Balanchine pieces on program 3, and most of all to check out the impact and potential staying-power of the new work on program 2, Ghosts, the fifth new ballet choreographed for SFB by the bright-shining young choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
tick.. tick...BOOM
Theatre Rhinoceros has resurfaced with its first full-scale production since leaving its Mission home last June, and while it's good to see the long-running LGBT theater up on its feet, the vehicle for that return is a bit wobbly.
'Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America'
In many ways he was a warrior born, a man's man who went to the top schools, the best of the brightest. As a Marine, he would train for war during one of those rare moments when his country was technically at peace. In the mid-1960s, when only a few suspected the crisis that American "advisors" in Southeast Asia would prompt, he would test theories of counter-insurgency warfare by actually leading troops into battle against an increasingly elusive enemy. A head shot from the time reveals a man with piercing eyes, uncomfortably resembling those of that archetypal American figure, the 19th-century lawman Wyatt Earp, who resorted to ruthless methods to tame the lawless West.
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