Little money raised to repeal Prop 8 in 2010
The campaign to repeal Proposition 8 this year raised just over $15,000 in 2009, according to finance reports filed with the secretary of state's office this week.
Groundbreaking lesbian health book released
The Lesbian Health and Research Center at UCSF celebrates a decade of putting lesbian health in the national spotlight with the release of Lesbian Health 101: A Clinician's Guide, the first-ever textbook on the subject.
Community activist Benjamin Gardiner dies
Benjamin Gardiner, a longtime activist in the LGBT and recovery communities, died of heart failure on January 23. He was 88.
San Francisco Ballet is back for its new season with its annual gala and 'Swan Lake'
Big-time dance kicked in last week, starting Wednesday, and it kicked in big-time. With San Francisco Ballet back in the Opera House, and San Francisco Performances bringing in major touring companies from around the world, and some of the most important independent choreographers from the Bay Area doing their thing, too, there was too much going on for a poor old country boy like me.
Queer studies at the Sundance Film Fest
This year the Sundance Film Festival has a new programmer, John Cooper, and a fresh vow of cinema relevance. We'll see about that, but one thing's for sure: the state of Sundance, artistically and financially, has a hell of a lot to do with the treats that will sustain art-house maniacs. What follows are my hunches as to what may make it out of Park City and onto screens from 40 feet to four inches.
The Professor and Other Writings
Stanford professor and lesbian scholar Terry Castle is known for her groundbreaking studies The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture and The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. But her latest volume, The Professor and Other Writings (Harper), is a much more personal and non-academic affair.
Daddy Long Legs
The story told in Daddy Long Legs has certainly been an enduring one, for reasons that range from the frivolous to the Freudian. First published as a serial in the Ladies' Home Journal, it became a best-selling novel in 1912. Jean Webster adapted her novel for the stage the following year, and a long tour and a Broadway run ensued. Mary Pickford starred in a silent-movie version, and Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron danced in Cinemascope for a 1955 movie musical that was true to the Daddy Long Legs title but hardly to the original plot.
Coming Home
Athol Fugard has built for himself such a foundation of good will through his plays exploring the human toll of apartheid that the instinct is to embrace his latest play about life in South Africa. But rollover affection need not be tapped through most of the first act of Coming Home, now at Berkeley Rep, as Fugard brings up-to-date the heart-rending story of a starry-eyed rural girl he introduced in his 1995 play Valley Song. The situation, however, changes in the second act as the central character is rendered dramatically inert and the plot gives over to manufactured conflicts, resolutions, and sentiment.
Defense witnesses agree Prop 8 discriminates against gays
The only witnesses called by the backers of California's same-sex marriage ban in the federal court case examining whether the measure is unconstitutional both testified this week that the anti-gay law, known as Proposition 8, discriminates against gays and lesbians.
API Wellness ends services outside SF
A San Francisco-based nonprofit that works to help Asians and Pacific Islanders, including those who are HIV-positive, has ceased its operations in Oakland and Daly City.
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