Ad declines lead gay media to cut back

The staff layoffs and downsizing plaguing mainstream news outlets is also hitting gay media newsrooms as advertisers pull back due to the faltering economy.

by Michael Wood | Jan 24, 2009

Summit planners stingy with No on Prop 8 dollars

With hundreds of LGBT marriage equality advocates expected to attend the Equality Summit in Los Angeles Saturday, January 24 it appears that more than half of those organizing the event failed to contribute to the No on Prop 8 campaign during last year's election.

by Michael Wood | Jan 23, 2009

Obama takes reins as 44th president

Calling for an end to "petty grievances" and "worn out dogmas," President Barack Obama Tuesday addressed a vast global audience - and millions of people on the Mall in Washington, D.C. - taking the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to lead the nation from the highest office in the land.

by Michael Wood | Jan 22, 2009

Continental shift

Arts writer Sura Wood called it the "Most Unfairly Overlooked" art exhibition of 2008, the massive Asian-American art survey currently at the de Young Museum with the somewhat unwieldy title Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970 (through January 18).

by Michael Wood | Jan 19, 2009

This is what addiction looks like

An addict himself, author Benoit Denizet-Lewis breaks the anonymity and silence around addiction by demystifying what he considers a public health crisis and a cultural phenomenon.

by Michael Wood | Jan 18, 2009

Pajamas, pizza & politics

That Christine Ebersole is a multi-talented performer should not be news to you. Ebersole made her mark in the much-lauded 1979 revival of Oklahoma! as Ado Annie, the girl "who cain't say no," quickly followed with playing Guinevere opposite Richard Burton's Arthur in Camelot.

by Michael Wood | Jan 17, 2009

T.I.C. (Trenchcoat in Common)

The gay dad who suddenly finds himself raising a sperm-donor teenage daughter with goth tendencies is amazed that she can rattle off an appropriate quote for any situation.

by Michael Wood | Jan 16, 2009

Cinema auf Deutsch

14th annual 'Berlin & Beyond' at the Castro Theatre

by Michael Wood | Jan 15, 2009

SF fails to cut HIV in gay men by 50 percent

San Francisco health officials set for themselves a fairly high mark five years ago in their fight against HIV: reduce new infections among gay and bi men by 50 percent by 2008.

by Michael Wood | Jan 19, 2009

Gay physicians' group raises profile

A longtime advocacy and grant-making group, Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights, is attempting a resurgence in difficult financial times, but at precisely the moment when its fundraising efforts are most needed. The foundation arm of BAPHR, a group created in 1971, recently granted $78,000 to 12 Bay Area organizations dedicated to health and wellness in the LGBT community.

by Michael Wood | Jan 18, 2009


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