Kinsey Sicks to Christmas: Oy vey!
To prepare for the Second Coming, the Kinsey Sicks are returning to San Francisco to give us the lowdown on the 2007th birthday party for Jesus Christ. <italic>Oy Vey in a Manger</italic>, America's favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet's hilarious hit on Christmas, runs in the city of the quartet's virgin birth for one night only, December 22.
Protagonist
What do an ex-ex gay, an ex-German terrorist, an ex-bank robber and ex-King Fu artist have in common? <italic> Protagonist </italic>is filmmaker Jessica Lu's well-meaning, imaginatively illustrated, but philosophically muddled attempt to link the seemingly disparate life stories of four men who resorted to desperate means to combat childhood bullies.
Former HRC trans business leaders pave their own path
Two transgender business leaders once involved with the Human Rights Campaign have taken matters into their own hands and launched their own employment education project.
LGBTs eye Newsom staff picks
Is there room for LGBT staffers in Mayor Gavin Newsom's second term? It is a question gaining more prominence as news leaks out on just who is in and who is out in the mayor's administration.
Bars thanked for Halloween closures
As he took part in a Castro pub crawl that he helped organize Monday, December 10, District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty said he's "pretty confident" that Halloween will be a citywide event in 2008.
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is a play besotted with love, bursting with revelry, and gleeful in tormenting Puritan philosophies. And so it might seem that setting the comedy during San Francisco's fabled Summer of Love would be a good fit. But as rendered in TheatreWorks' production, the results trip as often as they are trippy.
The Hard Nut
When Samuel Black was a little tap-dancer growing up in the East Bay, he saw <italic>The Hard Nut</italic> in Berkeley and dreamed of growing up to be in Mark Morris' company and dancing in the show. He's made it - this year, he debuts in it at Zellerbach Hall on Dec. 14. Now, how gay is that? Even if he's not queer - it's not polite to ask - I think that makes him one of us.
Vallejo recount ousts gay mayor
Vallejo's wild ride of a mayoral contest took another turn this week as a recount in the race ousted the gay man who held the job for a mere seven days. And the final twist to who will lead the North Bay city has yet to play out, as a court review of the recount tally is expected.
Surprise twist at Adams hearing
The case of a gay man who was beaten to death in the Castro last year took a stunning twist during a sentencing hearing last week. The attorney for the defendant, Kyle Adams, revealed that Adams, 25, is a transgender woman and said that she should be given probation instead of a prison sentence because of the safety risk faced by transgender people in state prison.
Betrayed by experience: Joe Wright & James McAvoy on 'Atonement'
It's not every night that you spy a man who's destined to play an important role in your life. One night in 2001, Joe Wright, a young man who had already overcome childhood dyslexia to claim a prime spot as a BBC-TV director, was attending British gay playwright Jonathan Harvey's <italic> Out in the Open </italic>, a drama hailed for smartly trafficking in secrets and lies. Harvey examines two men thrown together because they shared a now-dead lover. Wright, a friend of the play's director, Kathy Burke, was impressed by a young, unknown Scottish actor, James McAvoy, playing a gay rent boy, Iggy, picked up by one of the grieving lovers at a local pub. "James played a gay hustler, and it was a role that he threw himself into with abandon. And Kathy, who's a bit of a gay icon in London, talked incredibly well of him, and so ever since then, I've been watching his work."
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