LGBT census outreach launches
Efforts to educate LGBT people on how to fill out the 2010 census forms are kicking into overdrive in the Bay Area, with a meeting today, Thursday, October 22 in San Francisco with leaders of various organizations aimed at mapping out how to outreach to the local community.
Minorities, housing must be part of AIDS strategy, White House told
Speakers lined up last week at a meeting in San Francisco and told President Barack Obama's top domestic AIDS policy adviser that they want to see funding, minorities, housing, transgenders, and other areas of concern addressed in the national HIV/AIDS strategy that the administration is developing.
Mamet goes political in 'November'
At first director Ron Lagomarsino was reluctant to take on David Mamet's political farce November, but once he read it, he was hooked. Now he's helming the San Francisco premiere of Mamet's Broadway hit. What challenges did he find? Read on... Plus a rare production of a long-forgotten 1950s musical comes to the stage.
Rhino returns... all over town
Theatre Rhino abandoned its longtime home on 16th Street this past summer, yet are back with a new, more modest season, as John Fisher, the company's executive director, explains. Expect a SF premiere of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick - Boom, as well as the return of such holiday attractions as the annual reading of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory (December 14) and Marga Gomez's New Year's Eve show.
Keeping Score :: Double your pleasure
Writer Jonathan Ames' The Double Life Is Twice As Good - Essays and Fiction is out in a Scribner paperback, and Out There dove right into devouring it... that and more in this week's Out There.
Flashback :: With Castro unscathed, LGBTs lent a hand in '89 quake relief
Twenty years ago the 7.0 Loma Prieta earthquake hit San Francisco. With Castro unscathed, many of its residents took to assisting in the relief effort. Here's a look back.
Schwarzenegger signs Milk, marriage bills
In a surprise for supporters of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed a bill that will designate May 22 - Milk's birthday - as Harvey Milk Day, a day of special significance.
National Equality March follow-up :: Estimated 100,000 on Mall
About 100,000 LGBT people and their supporters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to a rally on the west lawn of the Capitol Sunday, October 11. The National Equality March, held on National Coming Out Day, called for action to correct the second-class citizenship of gays.
Leather family mourns 'Mister Marcus'
Mourners from San Francisco and beyond have paused to pay their respects to Marcus Hernandez, the Bay Area Reporter's longtime leather columnist who died recently.
Roberto Notes... the (Spike Lee) joint is jumpin'
Spike Lee brings new life to Passing Strange... this time as a film. High fashion comes to Mill Valley (the Film Fest, that is)... Catching up with the John Baldessari exhibit and more about the missing Warhols... and what to read in the magazines this week in Roberto Notes...
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