Transgender drop-in center is reborn
The Trans Project was reborn last week as the Trans: Thrive Drop-in Center after the San Francisco Department of Public Health took over the project at the end of June from the University of California, San Francisco.
Picking up the pieces: Tourists come back to New Orleans
While San Francisco's LGBT community and city government were struggling with a safe approach to celebrating Halloween and shut down the Castro this year, New Orleans was opening its arms to the community for a celebration with a renewed excitement and taste for fun. Last month, the New Orleans Metropolitan Visitors and Convention Bureau invited a group of travel writers to the city with the goal of showing off the city to LGBT tourists.
Jury acquits SF politico in prostitution case
A Fremont jury has acquitted a Castro resident and perennial candidate for local office of prostitution charges stemming from an online sex sting two years ago.
Killer to be paroled this week
The man who killed a gay man in 2002 and left his body to rot in a bathtub for weeks before it was discovered is scheduled to be paroled this week to San Francisco.
The Rainmaker
His legacy lives on thanks to The Rainmaker, but N. Richard Nash actually had a terrible Broadway track record as a playwright. Even The Rainmaker, which opened in 1954, managed only a modest 125 performances, but that's a long run compared to his other five original plays.
PlanetOut, Olivia tout good news
Gay media conglomerate PlanetOut and Olivia, the lesbian-focused vacation company, are touting positive developments in their ongoing battles to keep the San Francisco-based businesses afloat.
The unsinkable Tammy Grimes
It was two days into Tammy Grimes' run at the Empire Plush Room, and the polite crowd was small and not the type that applauds knowingly at the mention of famous stage roles or a few bars into a song that Grimes introduced.
Questions already haunt Halloween '08
Halloween in the Castro died a quiet death this year as the crowds that normally descend on the gay neighborhood heeded city officials' pleas to stay home last week. Gone with the hordes was the violence that has marred past celebrations, but in its place were protests that the area felt like a police state.
Drawn into a trickster's world: 'Kooza' director David Shiner on doing clown therapy
In Fool Moon, Bill Irwin and David Shiner had a kind of good clown-bad clown dynamic going on. "I was sort of aggressive and angry and brash, and Bill is kind and gentle and nice," Shiner said recently. "We just work great together because the energy is so different."
Vallejo mayor's race is a nail biter
Vallejo resident Gary Cloutier's bid to become the Bay Area's first elected openly gay mayor was stalled in a dead heat with challenger Osby Davis as the two men waited for election officials to count provisional and absentee ballots. After polls closed Tuesday night the two men were tied with exactly 5,158 votes each, unofficial returns showed.
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