Headlines from San Francisco's oldest and largest LGBT newspaper (weekly) for Thursday, February 25th -- news from the Bay Area Reporter:
Lieberman to introduce Senate bill to repeal DADT The push to end the military's anti-gay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy gathered significant momentum this week as Senator Joseph Lieberman announced he would introdu... http://ebar.com/news/article.Gov appoints lesbian judge in Contra Costa Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed out lesbian Rebecca C. Hardie to a judgeship on the Contra Costa County Superior Court. The Moraga resident is the governo... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Gay man takes helm of state Assembly Already numbering in the hundreds, the rubber duck collection of openly gay state Assembly Speaker-elect John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) is about to be flooded with mo... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Oscar parties abound in Bay Area Is San Francisco big enough to hold two Oscar viewing parties that cater to the LGBT community? The answer would appear to be yes, as preparations are under w... http://ebar.com/news/article.
HUD to hold SF town hall for LGBT housing study The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is preparing for an unprecedented look at housing discrimination against LGBTs, will hold a town hall in... http://ebar.com/news/article.
SF Pride is without main stage producer Just four months before San Francisco's LGBT Pride Parade and festival, the event's main stage is without a producer. This year's event, June 26-27, marks Pr... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Man bikes with dog for suicide prevention, basset protection A gay man who credits his basset hound with stopping him from completing suicide has biked to the Bay Area from Chicago to raise awareness for suicide prevention and b... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Two unknowns, sex worker seek Dufty's supe seat Joining the race to replace Supervisor Bevan Dufty are two largely unknown gay men and Starchild, a bisexual sex worker who is making his third stab for the board's Di... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Report touts medical pot; Ammiano bill reintroduced A panel of experts last week released a report concluding that marijuana has therapeutic uses including relieving the pain of neuropathy caused by HIV drugs. The follo... http://ebar.com/news/article.
SF reiterates HIV reduction rate in new plan After not reaching their goal to reduce new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men by 50 percent by 2008, San Francisco health officials will try again. In... http://ebar.com/news/article.
LGBT provisions missing in president's new health care reform proposal President Barack Obama released a new health care reform proposal Monday, February 22 that he says incorporates work done in the House and Senate and adds ideas from R... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Ugandan president feels the heat Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is feeling the heat over a bill pending in that nation's Parliament that would jail gays for life and punish some with the death pe... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Baring their chests raises serious green Hunky Bare Chest Calendar men from the 2010 calendar and representatives from the beneficiaries, the AIDS Emergency Fund and the Positive Resource Center, present the ... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Arrest warrant issued for ex-lesbian mom A family court judge in Vermont Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for ex-lesbian Lisa Miller who disappeared with the child she once shared with her former civil unio... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Retrovirus conference emphasizes treatment, prevention The 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, which took place last week in San Francisco, brought together researchers, public health officials,... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Those pennies do count Students at Marshall Elementary School in San Francisco received an award from the IDS Emergency Fund for being a top performing school in its annual school-based pen... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Political Notes
Gays gain say over Russian River redevelopment The LGBT community has gained direct say over how monies earmarked for redevelopment in and marketing of the Russian River gay resort area will be appropriated. ... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Online extra: Wedding Bell Blues: Facebook group wants married couples [Editor's note: This begins a biweekly online column looking at various issues related to the marriage equality fight in California.] One of California... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Maryland joins NY in recognizing out of state marriages Just days before Washington, D.C.'s new marriage equality law is set to go into effect, the attorney general of neighboring Maryland issued a long-awaited opinion on w... http://ebar.com/news/article.
Political Notes: Gay Republican runs for Assembly in San Diego Ralph Denney, unlike in years past, finds himself the lone gay Republican running for a state office in the 2010 elections. He is unopposed, so far, in his pa... http://ebar.com/news/article.
News in brief: Center gets its L word back This week the San Francisco LGBT Community Center got its L word back. For two and a half years the word "lesbian" affixed to the left side of the ... http://ebar.com/news/article.
ARTS
Theatre - Queen of lesbian pulp fiction The book-jacket blurb tells one story: "Sex, sleaze, depravity." The author of the book tells another: "Gee whiz." In the course of a friendly, rambling conversation with Ann ... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Fine Arts - Not quite Shanghai'ed With Shanghai, a much-hyped, rudderless exhibition timed to coincide with San Francisco's 2010 Sister City celebrations and Shanghai's hosting of the World Expo in May, the Asian A... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Out There - Exaltation of the figure Just as locavores are committed to eating food and drinking wine grown and produced locally, Out There keeps a special spot in our tiny heart for arts & entertainment created by Bay Are... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Theatre - A rural gay menagerie When the critic for The New York Times compared his first play to The Beverly Hillbillies, Nathan Sanders thought it was a compliment. It wasn't, as Sanders soon realized.... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Fine Arts - American fringe American industry takes form in artistic expression this week with the San Francisco debut of fine art photographer Susan Mikula's American Device: Recent Photographs, opening at... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Film - Pre-Oscar buzz party "People are constantly asking Vera Farmiga what it's like to kiss George Clooney – nobody asks me what it's like to yell at George Clooney, and it's spectacular. I would much r... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Out & About - The Man Show Hey, man. What does it mean to be a man? What is manliness and masculinity? See how local artists explore, question and address this concept. Violence in the name of masculini... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
DVD - Animation nominations Remember the first time you saw Nick Park's The Wrong Trousers or Chicken Run? Remember how it made you reevaluate everything you ever thought about claymation? Wes Anderso... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
DVD - Garcia Lorca's heroic gay life Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was Spain's most acclaimed playwright (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernardo Alba ) and poet of the 20th century. He was also openly gay and... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Film - Love & life, German-style While it's not the full banquet of German-language film treasures we've come to expect from the long-running Berlin and Beyond film festival, programming wizard Ingrid Eggers has ... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Film - Yorkshire blood pudding "I've sucked the cocks of the greatest people in the country." "Every boy should have a hobby." In the opening episode of Red Riding (1974... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Music - Wagner World Once upon a time, a new recording of Wagner's Ring cycle from Bayreuth, the Wagner shrine, would have set the standard by which all other contemporary Ring s could, and wou... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
In the Bars - Bar & Nightclub Events
Feb 25 – March 4 Big Top pitches its tent, Latin Explosion spurts out a great time, Testarossa gets all 80s at Trigger. Thu 25 The Crib @ Cit... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Television - The gay gladiator At 6'4" tall, Antonio Te Maioha tends to standout in a crowd, even if that crowd is an equally impressive assortment of tall muscled men. Maioha plays the gladiator Barca in Spartacus:... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Leather Events - Titles & more titles! The focus of this week's column is on the recent and upcoming activity in the titleholder world. It's "title season," so for the time being expect a bit more details about these events.... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Karrnal Knowledge - From babe to bruiser I savor the name: Ty LeBeouf. Oh, baby! That hard and humpy body, bodacious butt, startlingly electric pop-up boner. The twinkle of his butch, the ebullience of his lust! What a surpris... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Music - We're gay: big deal! The Power of Two – Michael Feinstein & Cheyenne Jackson (Harbinger Records) No political slogans, no rainbow flag on the cover. Just two o... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
Music - Queer women sound off We may not be able to legally marry in most states, but we can still start our own families. For some, that includes children, biological or adopted. Warm Sun (The Next Family) by ... http://ebar.com/arts/art_
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