2008 ushers in new laws
There must have been a lot of rainbow confetti on New Year's Eve as the LGBT community celebrated another record setting year of legal protections that went into effect January 1.
Juliet, O Juliet! Here art thou, Juliet!
See what's happening in the Bay Area in the upcoming months!
Trans teacher changing lives in SF jail
Life is different for transgender teacher Dana Rivers, who lost her high school teaching job in Sacramento nearly 10 years ago. The media spotlight that was her life for nearly three years has faded, she now lives in the Bay Area, and while she still teaches at the high school level, her students are different.
Where the Boys Are
Where the Boys Are is the latest collection of urban gay erotica from Cleis Press. Editor Richard Labonte combines short stories and memoirs from 14 different writers (two of them women) who focus on urban gay erotica.
Suspect charged in hit and run death
A woman suspected in the hit and run death of a gay San Francisco man has turned herself in to authorities and faces felony charges in the December 23 incident, officials said.
Gays campaign for Clinton
Gay and lesbian supporters of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid are working overtime in Iowa, where caucusgoers will meet tonight (Thursday, January 3). And locally, those campaigning for the New York senator's bid for the Democratic nomination insist that she is the one candidate who can win back the White House.
Ringing in the new year
The first Backstage column for a new year should be forward-looking, and so here are eight promising and/or intriguing theatrical opportunities for the first weeks of 2008.
Frozen autos & fetish outfits
It's that time of year when we look back fondly or not on the year past, and cast a hopeful eye toward the future. 2007 has been jam-packed with interesting exhibits, retrospectives - Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto nearly took over the town - original as well as visiting shows, and groundbreaking ceremonies for new museum facilities designed by cutting-edge Euro architects.
One for the books
When you come right down to it, is there any artistic pursuit quite so personal and intimate as reading a book? When you attend a concert, the theatre or cinema, you're in a room with an audience, whose public response is often key to your experience. When you're reading a book, there's nothing but the author's voice in your head, and you the reader. The experience proceeds at your own pace; you can go back and re-read, or skip ahead. Books are artistic artifacts that take the form closest to actual thought, to consciousness. Here are 11 books that informed our experience of 2007; we quote passages from some of them.
Highs & lows at the opera & symphony
The San Francisco Symphony season is rapidly approaching the halfway mark, and the San Francisco Opera's first fall series of repertory under new general director David Gockley has recently ended.
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