Academy of Friends Gala goes Bond
So what if this is the dreariest crop of Oscar-nominated films in recent memory? So what if a movie about a pregnant 16-year-old is the only Best Picture nominee that didn't make you want to kill yourself? So what if the most burning question of the movie year was whether or not the Oscars would go on at all? The 28th Annual Academy of Friends Gala on Sunday night at Fort Mason is set to put the glamour back in Oscar night with its James Bond-themed party, <italic>Shaken, Not Stirred</italic>.
'Decline to sign' campaign launched
A coalition of groups supporting same-sex marriage is asking for volunteers to help defeat an effort to make same-sex marriage unconstitutional in California.
Woman of notes: Melissa Manchester returns to SF
It is a glorious, crisp day in Oxnard, but Melissa Manchester is feeling boxed in. Moving boxed in, that is. With their two children now in college, Manchester and Kevin DeRemer, her husband of 25 years, have pulled up stakes and are settling into a new home. Slowly. "We're taking our empty-nesting very seriously and trying to see what we can unload, which is a very good feeling. You get to know what the important stuff is." The light at the end of her cardboard tunnel is a return to San Francisco this Saturday for a concert appearance at the Herbst Theatre with longtime friend and sister songwriter Amanda McBroom.
SF vigil for slain Oxnard student
A week after the shooting death of gay teenager Lawrence King in an Oxnard junior high school in Southern California, a vigil was held at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Tuesday, February 19 to remember the young man.
Fight for gay skiers heats up the slopes
The competition for LGBT tourists is no longer confined to urban cities or tropical destinations. The battle over gay travelers is increasingly being waged on the ski slopes.
Blood Knot
It's easy to feel a superior remove from the apartheid world of South Africa of the not-too-distant past. But the dangerously sticky racial situation that two brothers create for themselves in Athol Fugard's <italic>Blood Knot</italic> would have been equally dangerous in many areas of America in 1961, the year that Fugard's play premiered in Johannesburg.
Hot pockets
A weekly view of what's going on, arts-wise, San Francisco.
Versatile & underrated: Director Franco Zeffirelli
He's directed Elizabeth Taylor and Maria Callas, filmed the life of Jesus, which earned him attacks from Catholic conservatives, is openly gay in traditionally homophobic Italy, serves as a Senator in its legislative body, but isn't known for championing queer causes. Franco Zeffirelli (b. 1923) is difficult to classify, but he's achieved success in opera and movies, often combining the two effectively. His most celebrated film, the exquisite <italic>Romeo and Juliet</italic> (68), is being revived at the Castro Theatre tonight, Feb. 14, by impresario Marc Huestis, and will be followed by an on-stage interview with the picture's star, Olivia Hussey.
Online series looks at legal arguments in marriage case
In preparation for hearing oral arguments March 4 in the same-sex marriage case, the state's Supreme Court justices had to digest more than 90 briefs filed by the parties to the six consolidated lawsuits and from <italic>amici curiae</italic>, or "friends of the court," with an interest in the case.
Isn't it romantic?: Gay love on a classic soaper
Spring, 1978. Around the country, LGBTs are glued to the popular daytime soap <italic>text</italic>. After weeks and weeks of a slow-building attraction to each other, divorced roommates Joanne Curtis (Kay Heberle) and Kay Chancellor (Jeanne Cooper) are forced to face what viewers can plainly see: their attraction to each other. Joanne dramatically packs her bags, preparing to move out. As thunder and lightning rage, Joanne turns to Kay and asks, "Can you honestly tell me that you're not a lesbian?"
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