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COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

Tim Redmond - July 5, 2020

My poor puppy hates the fireworks. They’re loud and unpredictable. There are many theories, some of them pretty out there, as to why so...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

Movies

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pam Grady - June 29, 2020

Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for...

Opinion

Pride is a defense of Black bodies, and always has been

Carolyn Wysinger - June 25, 2020

This year is Pride 50 — or it was supposed to be. When San Francisco Pride, for which I am President of the Board of...

Party Radar

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Marke B. - June 25, 2020

I've stayed in all Pride Week so far—and I'm already exhausted! Well, I was, until putting together this list of recommendations. Most of them...

Culture

Generations of activism: Checking in with Cleve Jones

Joshua Rotter - June 18, 2020

The LGBTQ community has already survived the tragic loss of Harvey Milk, the deaths of hundreds of thousands during the AIDS pandemic, and decades...

Onstage

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

Emily Wilson - June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

Culture

We’re Still Here: Queer orgs and icons put on online pre-Pride shebang

Marke B. - June 9, 2020

Thanks to COVID, Pride has been scooped up online this year, boooo. But while that may mean you'll be proudly dancing alone in your...

Foreign Correspondent

The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots

Reese Erlich - June 5, 2020

One of Germany's largest dailies ran the headline “This killer cop set America ablaze,” with a photo of the Minneapolis police officer who killed...

Culture

From Angelou to Zinn: An anti-racism resource guide

Marke B. - June 5, 2020

Amid the latest protests against institutional racism, many are looking to sharpen their own knowledge and talk to their neighbors about how they can...

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COVID is devastating the US economy—while the very rich get very richer

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pride is a defense of Black bodies, and always has been

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2020: The protests, the parties (online), the poignant posters

Generations of activism: Checking in with Cleve Jones

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

We’re Still Here: Queer orgs and icons put on online pre-Pride shebang

The rest of the world sees uprisings, not riots

From Angelou to Zinn: An anti-racism resource guide

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