Queer Comix From Prison Depict Incarcerated Life
Casper Cendre started writing letters to queer people in prison when they were in high school. Cendre wanted to know what queer life was like from the inside and was a little shy, so getting…
‘The Most Important Election of Our Lives’
The election now underway is “the most important election of our lives,” says the Human Rights Campaign. It’s about more than just the presidential race. The HRC and other LGBTQ organizations say motivating people to actually…
Helping Queer Youth Through COVID
How are young LGBTQ people coping with COVID-19? Especially as so many students must attend school virtually, if they’re still able to attend at all. When schools and colleges closed in the spring, many queer…
Why Local Elections Matter. VOTE!
This week’s guest says four years of Trump’s presidency, COVID, and the Black Lives Matter movement have inspired a new generation of queer leaders to seek elected office in the Bay Area. And that was before…
Frameline 44 Queer Film Fest Opens with Drive-In!
Frameline 44, San Francisco’s international LGBTQ film festival, opens with a live, in-person drive-in event Thursday Sept. 17. It’s the world premiere of Shit & Champagne, written by and starring Oasis night club owner D’Arcy…
Liberace and his Spectacular Crystal Closet
What a year! We needed a break from current reality and figured you might too. So sit back, relax, and let the music and story of one of the world’s most fabulous entertainers ever wash…
In Good Company: A Play for Our Ears to Aid Theatre
With performance venues closed since March, how are theatre companies surviving? Many are using relatively new technologies – Zoom and other video conference platforms, for example – but a small SF theatre company has turned…
Meet Breanna Sinclairé, trans opera soprano
Breanna Sinclairé fled from a conservative, religious, sometimes abusive family in Baltimore and moved to the West Coast to study opera at the California Institute of Arts and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She…
NCLR Leader on Voting, Helping Most Marginalized and Intersectionality
Meet Imani Rupert-Gordon, the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ new executive director. A long-time social worker and activist for LGBTQ people of color, Rupert-Gordon took the helm at the ground-breaking SF-based feminist LGBTQ legal organization in March, just as COVID-19…
EQCA-Comcast Fellowship Engages LGBTQ College Students with California Policy-Making
Through a generous grant from the Comcast Foundation and in partnership with the California LGBT Legislative Caucus, the Equality California Institute – Comcast Fellowship brings LGBTQ youth and allies to Sacramento to learn about California politics, the…
