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• OutShine film fest’s online selections
  If you can’t wait for the Frameline International Film Festival to start in June, and you’re tired of scrolling through your streaming services to find the right queer film, then hit up Outshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
• LGBTQ Agenda: Federal trans prisoners will have another day in court, DC circuit judges rule
  A federal appeals court vacated a lower court ruling that kept 17 incarcerated transgender women from being moved to male U.S. Bureau of Prison facilities in response to President Donald Trump’s day 1 executive order on gender.
• ‘That Alien, Sound’ – bizarre sci-fi coming of age story includes a lesbian twist
  In “That Alien, Sound,” the debut feature from writer/director/editor Brando Topp, a young woman named Mika (Mia Danelle) becomes possessed by a soundwave that’s been floating around in outer space. No really, that’s the plot of this film, which is also a delightful coming of age tale.
• CA Gov candidates pledge to back gender-affirming care
  Ending transgender, nonbinary, and intersex youth’s access to the healthcare they require to live as their authentic selves has been a main goal of the Trump administration.
• ‘Michael’ biopic isn’t all bad, just not a thriller
  It’s incredible to think that it took this long for Michael Jackson, the late “King of Pop” who died two months shy of his 51st birthday in 2009, to be the subject of a big-screen biopic (in IMAX, no less). Unfortunately, the mono-monikered “Michael” comes off as nothing more than a glorified Lifetime movie.
• Lurie appoints gay man to be city’s 1st arts and culture ED
  San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed Matthew Goudeau to become the city’s first-ever executive director of arts and culture Monday.
• Political Notes: Mahan, Porter pledge to protect AIDS funding if elected CA governor
  Funding for LGBTQ services in California routinely turns into a budgetary tug of war between legislators and the governor.
• Author Tom LeNoble on his memoir, ‘My Life in Business Suits, Hospital Gowns and High Heels’
  Sitting at a cafe in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, Tom LeNoble is happy his memoir, “My Life in Business Suits, Hospital Gowns and High Heels” has already received a number of accolades. But it’s only the entrepreneur and philanthropist’s first salvo into the literary world.
• B.A.R. Talks 4: That’s (adult) entertainment with John F. Karr and Cornelius Washington
  In the fourth edition of the Bay Area Reporter’s monthly online chats celebrating the 50th anniversary of our publication, veteran writers John F. Karr and Cornelius Washington discuss the history of (mostly gay) sexuality in the publication.
• Everything old & new: Heart, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp & more music
  Classic rock bands have remastered albums out now, and you’ll want to hear the great songs anew.