Promoters critical of permits at hearing
Speaking to members of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission in a packed City Hall hearing room Tuesday, April 1, openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty said he would not support legislation that would require event promoters to get permits, and he said he will encourage other supervisors to oppose it, too.
Speier courts gay vote
During her nearly two decades as a state legislator, first as an assemblywoman and then as a senator, Jackie Speier proved to be a strong backer of LGBT rights. During San Francisco's "Winter of Love" in 2004, Speier could be found inside City Hall marrying same-sex couples.
Every position possible
If you're up for 100 minutes of sweaty, young male bodies, human jump-ropes achieving every position permitted by the laws of physics, then don't miss Bronson Lee's witty, culturally sensitive, kinetic examination of the struggle of break-dancers from over a dozen nations to earn street cred by becoming B-Boy world champs at a one-day dance-a-thon in a crowded German middle school.
Every position possible
If you're up for 100 minutes of sweaty, young male bodies, human jump-ropes achieving every position permitted by the laws of physics, then don't miss Bronson Lee's witty, culturally sensitive, kinetic examination of the struggle of break-dancers from over a dozen nations to earn street cred by becoming B-Boy world champs at a one-day dance-a-thon in a crowded German middle school.
Life begins when you're 75
Readers of this venerable paper: how many of you are 75? How many gay or lesbian couples do you know who are celebrating their 75th anniversary? Let In the Bars take you someplace that is - the White Horse Inn, at 66th and Telegraph, near the Oakland-Berkeley border, first opened its doors to the public in 1936, 75 years ago. And guess what?
The marrying kind
Within a few months, the California Supreme Court will decide if same-sex couples can legally wed in this state. The issue prompted a <italic>New Yorker</italic> cartoon, in which a wife comments to her husband regarding gay marriage, "Haven't they suffered enough?" The next installment of the <italic>Dueling Divas</italic> series at the Castro Theatre underscores the frightening relevancy of the humorous quip. On Wednesday, April 2, marital turmoil will be onscreen with Joan Crawford as <slug>Harriet Craig</slug> (1950) and Susan Hayward in <slug>Back Street</slug> (1961).
Theater Roundup
It seems an unlikely combination, a Noel Coward play in a Grand Guignol theater. But in 1922, a London company trying to duplicate the success of Le Theatre du Grand-Guignol of Paris chose Coward's one-act play <italic>The Better Half</italic> as part of an evening devoted to naturalistic horror shows. But no blood flows in <italic>The Better Half</italic>, and as Coward later noted, the fit was not a good one.
Statewide meth campaign launched
A state ad campaign targeted at men who have sex with men is under way. The ads feature a diverse group of gay and bisexual men talking about how methamphetamine use has affected their lives. Posters and billboards started appearing earlier this month, and a cable TV ad premiered Monday, March 17.
Hong Kong confidential
"I have a little scoop for you!" said Lillibeth Bishop of the Hong Kong Tourism Board. Out There was toasting the Year of the Rat during the HKTB's annual Chinese New Year's Dinner for the Bay Area press at the venerable dim sum palace Yank Sing in Rincon Center.
Thrilling superficiality, and what lies underneath
Annie Leibovitz, the celebrated celebrity photographer who brought the world a bare-chested Arnold Schwarzenegger in jodhpurs, and a nude, very pregnant Demi Moore, has, uncharacteristically, revealed her private world as well as her outer glitz in Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, an exhibition on view at the Legion of Honor through May 25, 2008.
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