Money floods Senate race
Special interest groups have opened their spigots and are flooding the contested state Senate primary race in San Francisco with money to see that their favored candidate triumphs next month.
Lesbian takes on Pelosi
Shirley Golub, the lesbian running against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in the June 3 primary, may not have the support she needs from San Franciscans to propel her to victory, but she has been able to tap into a national network of people upset with Pelosi's leadership.
Foundation report examines LGBT giving
The latest sections in a multi-part report from the Horizons Foundation include findings that LGBT donors have a sense of importance, urgency, and connection when it comes to LGBT causes, and they see the community having real needs in the future. But many donors also report they don't have enough information about opportunities to contribute.
Nothing like a dame named Mitzi
San Francisco's very own cock-eyed optimist, producer Marc Huestis, has just announced to Out There his sizzling summer extravaganza -drum roll, please - <italic>A Salute to Legendary Star Miss Mitzi Gaynor</italic> hosted by Bruce Vilanch, on Friday, July 25 at the ol' Castro Theatre.
Noteworthy
From the first few notes, it's obvious that this isn't the usual choral work. <italic>Safeer el-Layl</italic> ("Ambassador of the Night"), written by gay Lebanese composer Ilyas Iliya, will be one of three world premieres at <italic>Making Our Dreams Come True: A Night of Glamour and Gaiety</italic>, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus' Friday, May 16 spring concert at Davies Symphony Hall.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
If Shakespeare's English sometimes challenges your linguistic aptitude, don't worry, the production of <italic>A Midsummer Night's Dream</italic> is only about half in Shakespearean English. Well, maybe worry a little bit, because the other half is a polyglot of seven Indian and Sri Lankan languages.
Painted love
The homoerotic paintings of Aleksandr Nikolaev may be hidden away in a Moscow museum, but their subjects come to life in Ilkhom Theatre's vibrant <italic>Ecstasy with a Pomegranate</italic>, playing at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts May 15-17.
A lesbian MP among the 'bad apples'
For an artist who has spent so many years talking to the "pariahs" of his era, veteran filmmaker Errol Morris is a remarkably jolly man. Sitting in a sunny Nob Hill penthouse suite in his version of dress casual, an open-neck white shirt, he gleefully riffs on the big news of his latest film, <italic>Standard Operating Procedure</italic>, his emotionally and visually devastating indictment of the Bush/Cheney "war on terror."
Moms foster a loving home
Inside the Oakland flatlands home of Shoshana and Nann Phoenixx-Dawn, a cacophony of sound greets a visitor on a recent weekday evening. Two dogs bark enthusiastically as two boys race around the family living room with pinwheels in hand.
MCC-SF ends food program
The Metropolitan Community Foundation, an affiliate of the Metropolitan Community Church-San Francisco, announced last month that it is ending its weekly Simply Supper food program, as well as a weekly brown bag lunch distribution at the Prevention Point needle exchange site. The programs have been providing free meals to the homeless in San Francisco for more than 10 years.
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