Documentary channel: 7th annual DocFest plays SF & Berkeley
This Pandora's Box of truth-telling, the 7th San Francisco International Documentary Festival (Roxie & Shattuck Cinemas, Oct. 17-Nov. 6), features the most unfiltered, uncensored, un-expurgated reality checks this side of premium cable TV.
Prop 8 Briefs: Licenses back to bride, groom
The gender-neutral terms Party A and Party B are out on California marriage licenses, state officials said this week.
SFPD promotes trans man
A transgender man who's been with the San Francisco Police Department for more than two decades was recently promoted to lieutenant.
Milk club backs Leno, keeps Pelosi endorsement
The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club swung its support this week behind Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) in his bid for a state Senate seat and beat back an effort to drop its backing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), and instead, endorse war activist Cindy Sheehan.
Castro Halloween fears fizzle
A lackluster turnout at a Castro meeting about Halloween this week is a sign that fears about the holiday are subsiding in San Francisco's gay neighborhood, city and neighborhood officials said this week.
Red alert: No on 8 needs $10 million; 'Our lead is gone'
With the campaign to defeat anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 behind in money and in two recent polls, Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors declared Tuesday, "We are going to lose this election if we don't raise the money we need to stay on the airwaves."
Physique pictorial
In "The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions" (Universe), author David Leddick has gathered photographs and artworks from 140 artists to deliver a sort of "state of the nation" for the naked male physique. Many of the artists are familiar names in the art world (Duane Michaels, Nan Goldin, Pierre et Gilles), many of them were new to us, but all of their pictures have something delectable to offer.
Queer reading list, fall 2008
Look at the calendar. It's that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the temperatures are getting chillier, and you're probably thinking of ways to make good use of all that time you'll be spending indoors. Here are some books of LGBT interest being published this fall.
Boogie nights
You don't need the white suit. Really! Just stand, legs apart, bend your right knee and thrust your right index finger heavenward, and you've made the leap. No, not to "The Time Warp" - that's just a jump to the left! - but to the hottest scene of three decades past. John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever - in a word, disco!
A Child of Our Time
It's remarkable how much of "our time" Sir Michael Tippett's <slug>A Child of Our Time</slug> is. The crushing realities of political oppression and social injustice that inform Tippett's early cantata seem at least as urgent today as they did at the beginning of World War II, when the composer, one of the most "out" of last century's front-rank composers, wrote it to a libretto of his own. It was the Nazi pogrom of Kristalnacht that provided the impetus for the work, but by the time Tippett completed it, historical incident had given way to a more mythic, universal fable.
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