California anti-gay ballot backers miss June target
The backers behind one of the state's anti-gay marriage initiatives that was planned for the June 2008 ballot are admitting they missed their goal, and are now looking at the November 2008 presidential election.
Pelosi remains undecided on ENDA
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Bay Area Reporter this week that she remains undecided on moving forward with a bill to protect transgender people in the workplace.
Classical Action teams with composer Jake Heggie for "Flesh & Stone"
Great music, great singers, great cause. Jake Heggie, the out composer whose heart-wrenching opera <italic>Dead Man Walking</italic> continues to spur re-examination of state-sponsored execution, has teamed with Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS to create the first benefit CD the organization has issued in four years.
Stallions
My absolute favorite part of Stallions is a two-page photo-spread featuring a hunky pair of models, one on the blond side, the other clearly a dark-haired Hispanic. They are wearing only form-fitting, unzipped, black, grey, white and bright-red vinyl racing pants that are pulled down to their bulging upper thighs.
Bryan Batt's art imitating life on AMC's "Mad Men"
For actor Bryan Batt, art really does imitate reality, at least some of the time. The openly gay actor plays a closeted character on AMC's provocative prime-time period drama Mad Men, but the resemblance to Batt's real-life existence pretty much stops there.
Bookstore won't sell gay novel
A bookstore in Oakland that caters to the African American community is refusing to sell the new book by gay author Jonathan Plummer.
Controversy dogs sexuality researcher
A recent examination into methods used by researcher and psychologist J. Michael Bailey, Ph.D., is resurrecting the controversy around his 2003 book The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism and transgender women's anger about who gets to speak for them.
Right-wing groups continue attacks on Folsom Street Fair
Right-wing groups called for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to shut down the Folsom Street Fair, called for a boycott Miller Brewing Company, and were behind an airplane that circled last Sunday's leather festival towing an anti-gay banner.
ENDA vote scuttled
A major controversy has erupted within the LGBT community over a decision by U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) to seek passage of a new version of ENDA that both excludes gender identity and, in the view of a major gay legal organization, is so "riddled with loopholes" as to render it a "far weaker bill" with seriously diminished ability to protect gay men and lesbians from workplace discrimination.
Castro St. Fair on Sunday
In 1974, civil rights leader and local storeowner Harvey Milk started the Castro Street Fair as a community celebration. Unfortunately, Milk, who went on to become a San Francisco supervisor, didn't live to see many of the street fairs; he and Mayor George Moscone were gunned down in their City Hall offices November 27, 1978 by former Supervisor Dan White.<br>
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