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• ‘Slo Pitch’ – Low stakes pleasures in women’s softball comedy
  “Slo Pitch” is the new 10-episode mockumentary on Canada’s Crave streaming service. Crave is emerging as television’s improbable champion of queer romance, with international hits like “Heated Rivalry,” its hockey melodrama about a secret affair between two players.
• ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ – Britney Spears jukebox musical makes its local debut at SF Playhouse
  The director and two actors in “Once Upon a One More Time,” the Britney Spears jukebox musical, compare their coming out stories related to her music. The Ray of Light Theatre production plays at Barbary Stage on Jackson Square.
• Murray Hill complicates his character – The New York nightlife fixture and ‘Somebody Somewhere’ star plays Bimbo’s
  It was only after finding himself an unlikely object of national affection at age 52, thanks to “Somebody Somewhere,” that Murray Hill decided to share the actual challenges of his personal history, in a mmoir, and onstage.
• Meta silent after multiple Latino gay club social accounts felled
  Instagram and Facebook pages of two Latino LGBTQ clubs in Oakland were taken down last month.
• ‘Mom, I Have Something to Tell You’ – lovely short doc about gay men and their mothers
  Gay Sons and Mothers has released a short, 31-minute documentary called “Mom, I Have Something To Tell You.” It showcases parents and sons who've had uplifting and sometimes difficult conversations about coming out.
• ‘La Bola Negra’ – Gay Spanish wartime film is an epic accomplishment
  Does a gay century-spanning tragic military romantic epic reminiscent of 1960s historical film sagas deserve the overwhelming recognition and praise? In a word, yes, because “La Bola Negra,” with its slant on selfhood, survival, and progress, is queer filmmaking at its pinnacle.
• ‘Scorch Marks’ – Gay apocalyptic chiller is hard to follow
  Despite the welcome return of actor Chris Salvatore, Brendan Haley’s new queer apocalyptic horror film “Scorch Marks,” now streaming on Dekkoo, is very hard to follow.
• Q-Music: keeping the past alive – Classic album reissues by The Beatles, The Cramps, Tom Tom Club and more
  Some bands and their albums stand the test of time. We’ve got reissues from The Beatles, The Cramps, Tom Tom Club and Soft Cell, each as rousing as they were in the 1960s through the 1980s when they were first released.
• Castro volunteer safety group marks 20 years
  Castro Community on Patrol, a volunteer safety group in San Francisco’s LGBTQ neighborhood, is marking 20 years and was recognized by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman at the board’s October 20 meeting.
• Political Notes: San Francisco D8 supe candidates float ideas for shuttered Pottery Barn site
  Since January 2018 the building at Castro and Market streets that had housed a Pottery Barn store has largely sat vacant, temporarily leased over the years by local politicos for campaign headquarters ahead of November elections.