Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Queer

Queer medalist Adam Rippon talks youth advocacy and post-rink living

After figure skating star Adam Rippon came out publicly in the fall of 2015, he became the first openly gay U.S. athlete to qualify...

Arts Forecast: The week’s best moments to honor Momma

ARTS FORECAST Every day is a good day to show Mom love, but this weekend is an excuse to go in big. Mother’s Day...

What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas

"Television is not nor has it ever been the ultimate form of drag," Oaklash Drag Festival co-founder and performer and East Bay-based drag queen...

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...

Examined Life: On shaky ground

EXAMINED LIFE We are, none of us, on steady ground. This is a spiritual truth, but it’s also increasingly become a practical truth, especially in...

Arts Forecast: Easter with the Sisters returns to Dolores Park, more

ARTS FORECAST Everybody loves a Hunky Jesus, a Foxy Mary, a too-cute Easter egg hunt, and of course the most elaborate bonnet competition this side...

Arts Forecast: Stern Grove and Yerba Buena Festivals head into bloom

ARTS FORECAST Spring is here, and all's a-bloom and sneezing. So what better time to plan your outdoor sunshine festivities? After our official festival season...

Reviews: Gender under the microscope in ‘Queent’ and ‘Boys in Trouble’

DANCE What happens when drag gestures are codified as dance? What happens if drag struggles are brought to the dance arena? And how can...

Sean Dorsey Dance continues to shatter boundaries, 15 years on

DANCE "I'm still pinching myself at this 15th anniversary milestone!" says Sean Dorsey, whose groundbreaking dance company celebrates a decade and a half this...

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...