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- A San Francisco supervisor committee is set to vote on emergency funding aimed at keeping open the nation’s first and only Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South transgender immigrant-led organization.
- San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who earlier this year told the Bay Area Reporter that he was likely staying out of the contested District 8 supervisor race, has endorsed gay candidate Emanuel “Manny” Yekutiel.
- How to proceed with a request from San Francisco leaders to have all of the city’s local landmarks be listed on the California Register of Historic Resources has flummoxed the state office that oversees the registry.
- Reunited with his former Sugar bandmates David Barbe and Malcolm Travis, Bob Mould is playing a series of live shows featuring Sugar fan favorites, along with some new songs. They’ll perform in San Francisco September 26 at The Warfield.
- A new report from Outright International examines the impact of global funding cuts to LGBTQ organizations.
- Fall into fun this week with some of the fabulous arts and nightlife events. You can see a hit show, enjoy a concert with queer musicians, explore a fascinating art exhibit, or simply hang out with pals at a local bar. It’s all in this week’s Going Out.
- Voters will elect three commissioners to the San Francisco Board of Education in the November 3 election. We endorse the following candidates.
- City College of San Francisco will see three new faces on its board of trustees following the November 3 elections, as none of the incumbents opted to run again.
- Ahead of the Labor Day weekend, gay Tracy Mayor Dan Arriola welcomed the popular, organic-focused Sprouts Farmers Market to his San Joaquin County city, two years ahead of when the Arizona-based company is expected to open its first location in San Francisco.
- A bipartisan pair of state lawmakers has co-authored a bill proclaiming September 25, or 9-2-5, as Dolly Parton Day in California.
- Two Bay Area LGBTQ community centers are looking for new office space.
- “There are different forms of resistance,” says Margaret Cho. “Mine happens to be comedy.” The native San Franciscan, who will bring a six-performance residency of her current stand-up show, “Choligarchy,” to Berkeley Rep beginning on September 15, is a veteran of the resistance trenches.
- Our fall dance preview continues! Last week we looked at the first wave of dance performances happening across the Bay Area through mid-September. The season barrels forward into early December, with artists exploring an extraordinary range of subjects and dance forms.
- Welcome once again to autumn, and with that seasonal change comes a boatload of new books and authors to enjoy and become fascinated and obsessed with. Here, in the first installment of our series, we present a series of fiction offerings, some which are certain to make you contemplate the queer conditions of other regions […]
- Drawing from more than eighty films and a rich archive of personal materials, the documentary “Barbara Forever” tells the story experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, largely in her own voice.