Team hopes to expand probation program
A gay San Francisco deputy adult probation officer started a program this summer to help homeless probationers in the city.
SF ID cards to help TGs
Undocumented residents and transgender individuals are among those who will be able to obtain a municipal identification card beginning next August to assist them with accessing city services as well as employment, banking, and other needs.
Madama Butterfly
Why do we continue to flock to Puccini's <italic>Madama Butterfly</italic>, even though so many of us have seen it on multiple occasions? Is it perhaps because, like the proverbial Tin Man, we feel impelled to constantly check for our hearts, to make sure they remain intact? Or is it because, living in an era where sentiment is constantly exploited for profit, we long for intense emotional expression and release that we know to be real?
Temporary holiday insanity: Bay Area stages
If eggnog is so tasty, why don't we drink it year round? The fact is, this thing we call "The Holidays" temporarily rearranges our senses, which snap back to normal soon after the sun rises on a new year. The theater can always be counted upon to contribute specialized sights and sounds to the sensory realignment, whether that means reinforcing traditions or gaily upending them.
Sharp message delivered on World AIDS Day
As hundreds gathered for World AIDS Day at the National AIDS Memorial Grove Saturday, December 1, there were tears, laughter, and photographs as people remembered loved ones they've lost to the disease. Others were recognized for their HIV/AIDS-related work. And there were also reminders that, like the lives it's taken, AIDS shouldn't be forgotten, either.
Retail politics hit the Castro
Development concerns and retail politics in the Castro will take center stage at numerous meetings over the next week as merchants, city planners, and residents engage in policy debates over chain stores, late night venues and new housing proposals.
Battle brews over cafe plans
Cafe Flore has been a beloved Castro institution for more than three decades. The Market Street restaurant has served as a living room for countless residents, and visitors the world over consider it their home in the city's gay neighborhood.
Love in the age of AIDS: Two films explore the human cost
In honor of World AIDS Day, we consider two fine films that illustrate the pain of love and loss in the age of AIDS. Both are presented by Bay Area-based, lesbian-owned Wolfe Video.
We remember dear old Marvey Milk! & other gay personages
Our respected colleagues in the gay press over at the <italic>Bay Times</italic> recently unwittingly re-named slain city supervisor <slug>Harvey Milk</slug> in a front-page photo-caption oops, bestowing upon him the indelible moniker <slug>Marvey Milk</slug>. Well, in fact, there <italic>are</italic> quite a lot of marvey things stirring right now on the storied streets of San Francisco.
Report: Law firms should diversify
Competition for top talent at the country's premiere law schools is increasingly being waged over how gay-friendly law firms are. Recruiters for law firms report that even straight graduates are looking to see if firms have LGBT-supportive policies as they weigh job offers.
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