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Sonoma County settles bias suit
Sonoma County officials have agreed to pay $650,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an elderly gay man who claimed the county separated him from his longtime partner and auctioned off their belongings. (read more)
Police decoys
to end in Palm Springs
Palm Springs Police Chief David Dominguez says he won't be doing more sting operations using police decoys to curb public gay sex. Dominguez said he plans to deal with the problem of public sex through more uniformed patrols, education, and community outreach. (read more)
Supes forum
highlights AIDS issues
Housing and employment for people with HIV and AIDS, as well as city funding for prevention and health care, topped the list of issues discussed at a forum last week, the aim of which was to ferret out where candidates in three of this fall's San Francisco supervisor races stand when it comes to AIDS issues. (read more)
Choi discharge is official
It was official first. Now it's public. Army infantry officer and Arabic language specialist Lieutenant Dan Choi has been discharged from the armed services. Choi's military discharge brings to a close 17 months of whirlwind activism that began on national television last May when he declared that he is gay. (read more)
Know thyself: Take the
Oakland LGBTQI census
For a city rich in LGBTQI people of every age and ethnicity, Oakland remains somewhat in the closet about itself. (read more)
LGBT Lutheran pastors received
The Reverends Craig Minich, Megan Rohrer, Sharon Sue Stalkfleet, Dawn Roginski, Jeff Robert Johnson, Paul Richard Brenner, and Ross Donald Merkel are welcomed into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America during a Rite of Reception ceremony. (read more)
More Arts
Fine Arts - Choosy
artists chose this
They Knew What They Wanted, a collaborative production of several galleries, is a clever way to generate buzz during the summer, a season that can be a lethargic one for visual art. (read more)
Film - Gender-
bending genre-buster
In Sally Potter's ambitious 1992 film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's comic novel Orlando now enjoying a limited re-release, Tilda Swinton inhabits a title character whose androgynous beauty as a fawnlike boy so charms an aging Queen Elizabeth I – a real casting coup as the late, incomparable Quentin Crisp truly nails the gender divide embodied by the great queen – that the monarch grants him immortality. (read more)
Out There -
Cremasterpiece theater
The five films that comprise the Cremaster Cycle created by art-world darling Matthew Barney are getting a rare re-release in a series of screenings beginning this Friday, July 30, at the Roxie Theater in SF. (read more)
Theatre - Field guide
to the SF Theater Festival
Queers and clowns, tragedies and glee, on stages abound, and all of it for free. The San Francisco Theater Festival, a one-day event, features 130 shows on 17 stages in and around Yerba Buena Gardens. All 30 minutes or less, shows range from fringe-y unknowns to excerpts from Beach Blanket Babylon. (read more)
Film - Erotic overdrive
In Chinese director Lou Ye's torrid new romance Spring Fever, we are abruptly introduced to two young men driving through the rain. (read more)
Music - Tea-dance divas
whip up a frenzy
Coming as it does just a few years after her triumphant and accomplished Back to Basics disc, Christina Aguilera's Bionic (RCA) is a disappointment. (read more)
