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Online Extra: Political Notes: Kuehl runs for LA county supervisor
Lesbian former state lawmaker Sheila Kuehl seeks to become first out LGBT county supervisor in Los Angeles. (read more)
Former Pride
GMs speak out
As former grand marshals of the San Francisco LGBT Pride parade vote a second time to select a grand marshal, several spoke out about the clumsy process that led the Pride board to name and then rescind grand marshal honors for WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning. (read more)
Online extra: Petrelis quiet at hearing
Gay San Francisco blogger Michael Petrelis's legal trouble stemming from an incident last fall in which he photographed gay Supervisor Scott Wiener in a City Hall restroom inched toward a conclusion Wednesday afternoon. (read more)
Pride fires staffer
A San Francisco Pride staffer has been fired in the latest fallout over the board's bungled handling of the Bradley Manning grand marshal controversy. (read more)
Bay Area celebrates
Harvey Milk Day
From book readings to movie screenings, the Bay Area is
marking the annual Harvey Milk Day with a variety of events this year.
(read more)
Giants, nonprofit
mark 20 years of
AIDS awareness
Two decades ago, it was a radical idea: enlist a Major League Baseball team to help bring attention to – and raise funds for – HIV/AIDS. (read more)
Latino gay bar
faces fee hurdle
A Mission district gay bar popular with Latinos is scrambling to raise funds to cover the cost of renewing its permits and is turning to the public for help. (read more)
Frank sees a gay
president in 20 years
Outspoken gay former Congressman Barney Frank was in San Francisco this week and told a gathering of the Commonwealth Club that predicted the U.S. could have a gay president in 20 years. (read more)
Activist launches affordable housing campaign
Carmen Simon is a queer activist with a long history of fighting for social justice causes. (read more)
More Arts
Film - I wake
up screening
Tall, balding, with distinguished gray goatee and glasses, Elliot Lavine, 65, feeds his addiction to the hypnotic charms of film noir as director of repertory programming for the Roxie Theater. (read more)
Music - Giant steps
The San Francisco Symphony's Beethoven Project, a two-week festival and symposium guided and conducted by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, ended last Saturday with a fervent and powerful performance of the composer's glorious Missa solemnis. (read more)
Fine Arts -
Outside of the box
"I'm a dyke, and I love being gay and I love women, but I was born to be an artist, not a female or lesbian artist," Nicole Eisenman has asserted. (read more)
Out There -
Where you'll find us
Last Monday a week ago, Out There joined the San
Francisco Symphony and the family of the
late William Bennett, the
Principal Oboist for the orchestra who passed away in February, at a memorial
tribute in celebration of his life in Davies Symphony Hall.
(read more)
DVD - Let us now praise
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand is an incredible star who has had a not-so-incredible
film career.
(read more)
Music - 'Classical Barbra' revisited
For hundreds of thousands of Streisand fans, many of whom were Friends of Dorothy, Classical Barbra was the album that first introduced them to the songs of Faure, Debussy, Schumann and Wolf. (read more)
