Verizon rejects gender policy
A shareholder proposal to amend Verizon Communications Inc.'s written equal employment policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity was voted down May 1, but backers of the plan say they were encouraged by the amount of support it got, and the group that proposed the resolution will bring it back next year.
Signature counts show marriage measure on track for ballot
Backers of a measure that would amend California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage appear to be well on track to turning in the number of signatures required to get their proposal on the ballot in November.
Final Pride marshals chosen
The board of directors of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee Inc. has named Theresa Sparks the lifetime achievement grand marshal for this year's San Francisco LGBT Pride celebration.
Star power
The San Francisco Marriott will be swarming with LGBT luminaries on Saturday night, May 10, for the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation honors those who promote positive images of our community in the media, and this year the lineup of honorees and presenters is especially stellar.
Rare musicals come to Oakland
There is indeed a there there, the "there" in question being the City of Oakland that Gertrude Stein so famously dissed.
Figaro
Theatre de la Jeune Lune, which makes its home in Minneapolis, is a troupe with an unmistakable imprint - which doesn't mean that you can predict how its theatrical adventures will find life on the stage.
The Little Prince
Forget all the talk about "children's opera." The San Francisco Opera production of The Little Prince bubbles over with charm and delight. Fanciful, touching, and ultimately mystical in its fusion of earthly realities with interstellar travel, it will transport you far from the nightmares of our current neocon universe to a place where wonder, adventure, love, and pure joy are the order of the day.
Hearing set in hit-and-run case
The preliminary hearing for a woman charged in the hit-and-run death of a gay man in San Francisco has been set for June 17.
Looking for love on a tiger-skin rug
Out There was Johnny-on-the-scene as the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival kicked off last Thursday night with a screening of French director Catherine Breillat's costume drama <italic>The Last Mistress</italic>, starring the astonishing Asia Argento and the dazzlingly beautiful Fu'ad Ait Aattou.
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