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Thursday, February 25, 2010

San Francisco Queer News, Arts & Personals - Feb 25, 2010


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.php?sec=news&article=4569

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.php?sec=news&article=4570

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.php?sec=news&article=4571

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.php?sec=news&article=4572

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.php?sec=news&article=4573

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.php?sec=news&article=4574

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.php?sec=news&article=4575

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.php?sec=news&article=4576

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.php?sec=news&article=4577

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.php?sec=news&article=4578

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.php?sec=news&article=4579

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.php?sec=news&article=4580

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.php?sec=news&article=4581

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.php?sec=news&article=4582

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.php?sec=news&article=4583

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.php?sec=news&article=4584 Online extra:

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.php?sec=news&article=4567

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.php?sec=news&article=4568

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.php?sec=news&article=4585

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.php?sec=news&article=4586

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.php?sec=news&article=4587

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_article.php?sec=theatre&article=592

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_article.php?sec=general&article=113

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_article.php?sec=outthere&article=253

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_article.php?sec=theatre&article=593

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_article.php?sec=general&article=114

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_article.php?sec=film&article=723

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_article.php?sec=outabout&article=346

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_article.php?sec=dvd&article=289

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_article.php?sec=dvd&article=290

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_article.php?sec=film&article=724

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_article.php?sec=film&article=725

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_article.php?sec=music&article=694

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_article.php?sec=inthebars&article=137

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_article.php?sec=television&article=134

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_article.php?sec=leather&article=87

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_article.php?sec=karrnal&article=198

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_article.php?sec=music&article=695

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_article.php?sec=music&article=696

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