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Movies

Drag legend Terence Alan Smith takes center stage in ‘The Beauty President’

Alex Arabian - August 12, 2021

As Joan Jett Blakk, the performer made two historic runs for president. A new short film asks what could have been.

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: The show goes on!

Marke B. - June 15, 2021

Juneteenth in-person and online, plus 'Manifesto,' the Symphony returns, 'Genderation,' Queer Visions, more. Breathe in!

Business + Tech

Activists ‘defend’ Hibernia Beach after sacred Castro mourning space threatened

Marke B. - January 20, 2021

Harvey Milk Club members, others converged on MLK Day to reaffirm the site as community space

COVID

COVID denial is a grim rerun of AIDS denialism

Bruce Mirken - November 17, 2020

Two decades ago, a cult-like crowd believed that HIV was harmless and AIDS was a plot. Many of them ended up dead.

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex...

Culture

This year, the giant Pink Triangle bursts into 2700 twinkling lights

Joshua Rotter - June 12, 2020

Other cities have their Pride parades, rainbow flags, and disco ball balloons. Only San Francisco has the Pink Triangle. Over the past 25 years, San...

Fall Arts Preview: 37 cool things to do this season

Marke B. - September 4, 2019

FALL ARTS PREVIEW Let's keep this short because there's a lot to do and see, obviously! Proclamations of the SF arts scene's demise—despite the...

Lit

AIDS, sex, and ‘Illuminations on Market Street’

James Tracy - August 14, 2019

LIT Author Benjamin Heim Shepard is a Brooklyn-based activist who has published 10 books, including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of...

News + Politics

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Tiny - May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

Onstage

‘The Normal Heart’ still beats ferociously at Theatre Rhino

Elaine Elinson - November 14, 2017

ONSTAGE In the opening line of The Normal Heart (through Nov. 25, Theatre Rhinoceros at the Gateway Theater, SF), a young gay man in...

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