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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 18h

The third San Francisco location for Angela’s Ice Cream should be opening in the city’s LGBTQ Castro district.

Business Briefing: Frozen treat brands scoop up SF locations

Should everything go as planned for siblings Cielo Garat-Zanella and her older brother, Ignacio "Iggy" Garat, the third San Francisco location for their Angela’s Ice Cream will open in the city’s LGBT...

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 18h

"At conception, I am pretty certain I was a couple of somewhat differentiated cells at the time and did not have an inherent sexual identity, though, to be fair, my memory of that time is pretty sketchy," Gwen Smith wrote in the latest Transmissions. www.ebar.com/story/159223

Transmissions: My reality

In about a month, I will have to spend a week in Georgia for my day job.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 18h

Lu Lukah Orona, a Latine trans man who embraces gender fluidity and challenges binary norms, wrote our latest guest opinion.

Guest Opinion: How Los Angeles hospital failed me, other trans patients

I was 17 when I began my medical transition at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 18h

Details about the Imperial state funeral for Garry McLain, also known as Empress XXV Marlena, have been announced.

Imperial state funeral set for Garry McLain

Details about the Imperial state funeral for Garry McLain, also known as Empress XXV Marlena, have been announced.

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A reader supports the Bay Area Reporter's recent editorial urging a yes vote on Prop 50.

Letters to the editor: Vote yes on Prop 50

A reader supports the Bay Area Reporter's recent editorial urging a yes vote on Proposition 50.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 19h

The Friends of Sunset Dunes will hold its fifth annual Great Hauntway Oct. 26, 1-4 p.m.

News Briefs: Great Hauntway returns to Sunset Dunes

The Friends of Sunset Dunes will hold its fifth annual Great Hauntway at the Ocean-fronting park, Sunday, October 26, from 1 to 4 p.m.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 19h

Marc Benioff’s riff with reporters was not helpful: not to his friend, San Francisco Mayor Lurie, not to San Francisco’s police officers and other first responders, and not to the residents who call the city home, the B.A.R. editorial board opines.

Editorial: Benioff riff a buzzkill

Add Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to the list of tech billionaires who have turned to unabashedly support President Donald Trump.

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 20h

A man previously convicted of killing a gay hair stylist whose homicide and robbery convictions were overturned more than a year ago fired his attorney for being gay.

SF homicide defendant Rickleffs fired attorney for being gay, ‘the Antichrist’

A man previously convicted of killing a gay hair stylist whose homicide and robbery convictions were overturned more than a year ago fired his attorney for being gay.

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Representatives of 160 community-based organizations are learning how to more closely work together despite America’s intertwined crises of social isolation and rising extremism.

With social isolation tied to extremism, California convenings aim to bring communities together

Representatives of 160 community-based organizations are learning how to more closely work together despite America’s intertwined crises of social isolation and rising extremism.

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In advance of Halloween, we present a quartet of intriguing books about women, dealing with witchy powers, ghosts and other supernatural creatures, including themselves.

Supernatural stories – Four fun books get sapphically gothic for October

In advance of Halloween, we present a quartet of intriguing books about women, dealing with witchy powers, ghosts and other supernatural creatures, including themselves.

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Classic tracks and new stuff include albums from Boyce Farm, Nation of Language, gay duo Levell, Naïm Amor and Kid Congo Powers, Model/Actriz and longtime favorite Cazwell’s greatest hits are featured this week to get you grooving in a retro-modern vibe.

You should be dancing – Great grooves will get you going

Classic tracks and new stuff include albums from Boyce Farm, Nation of Language, gay duo Levell, Naïm Amor and Kid Congo Powers, Model/Actriz and longtime favorite Cazwell’s greatest hits are featured...

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few years after Austin Butler became a household name in Baz Luhrmann’s meh “Elvis,” he’s finally been given a lead role in a movie worthy of his gifts. www.ebar.com/story/159097

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 1d

New York poet Kay Gabriel’s latest collection, “Perverts,” is peopled by smart, competent, accomplished and substance-affected trans women and gender non-conforming people in all their maribou-feathered and crotchless-pantied glory.

Kay Gabriel’s ‘Perverts’ – Whipsmart celebrity-stuffed dream poems

New York poet Kay Gabriel’s latest collection, “Perverts,” is peopled by smart, competent, accomplished and substance-affected trans women and gender non-conforming people in all their maribou-feather...

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When the Salzburg festival mounted a production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” in 2024, it wasn’t the usual gamble. Peter Sellars, the out director with spiky hair whose ideas once seemed radical, staged the production, and it worked splendidly.

Prokofiev’s ‘The Gambler’ – director Peter Sellars makes a winning bet

When the Salzburg festival mounted a production of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” in 2024, it wasn’t the usual gamble. Peter Sellars, the out director with spiky hair whose ideas once seemed radical...

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 1d

This latest version of 'Kiss of the Spider Woman" is a goulash of political persecution, camp, queer romance, and song and dance, switching back and forth between the harsh realities of an austere, repressive world versus lush cinematic fantasy. www.ebar.com/story/159137/

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Bay Area Reporter, America's LGBTQ Newspaper since 1971 @bayareareporter.bsky.social · 1d

“Don Bachardy: An Artist’s Life,” Michael Schreiber’s oral history, at length delves into the experiences of the prolific painter and decades-long partner of acclaimed author and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood. www.ebar.com/story/159125

‘Don Bachardy: An Artist’s Life’ – Michael Schreiber’s oral history shares plenty

“Don Bachardy: An Artist’s Life,” Michael Schreiber’s oral history, at length delves into the experiences of the prolific painter and decades-long partner of acclaimed author and screenwriter Christop...

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Netflix’s new eight-episode series, based on Greg Cope White’s memoir “A Pink Marine,” blends sharp humor and heartfelt storytelling to explore queerness and survival in the 1990s Marine Corps. www.ebar.com/story/159057

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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins, the first openly gay person named to the state’s highest court, will retire at the end of October.

Gay CA Supreme Court Justice Jenkins to retire

California Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins, the first openly gay person named to the state’s highest court, will retire at the end of October.

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The preliminary hearing for the alleged killer of Eduardo Xol, a gay man and former reality TV star, was delayed until Dec. 16.

Attorney asks for delay in preliminary hearing in Eduardo Xol killing

The preliminary hearing for the alleged killer of Eduardo Xol, a gay man and former reality TV star, was delayed until December 16.

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Fulfilling a promise he had made in the spring, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law legislation aimed at combatting the high rates of suicide and depression in LGBTQ youth. www.ebar.com/story/159034

Newsom enacts LGBTQ youth bills into law

Fulfilling a promise he had made in the spring, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law legislation aimed at combatting the high rates of suicide and depression in LGBTQ youth.

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San Francisco’s only queer adult homeless shelter has tripled in size.

SF’s Jazzie’s Place LGBTQ shelter triples in size

San Francisco’s only queer adult homeless shelter has tripled in size.

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The month of October is filling up with various political events, including a Yes on Prop 50 virtual town hall, and a special fundraiser for a San Francisco-based queer surfing group being held at a city park that has made political waves of late.

Political Notes: October calendar chock-a-block with political events and queer surf fundraiser

The month of October is filling up with various political events, including a Yes on Prop 50 virtual town hall, and a special fundraiser for a San Francisco-based queer surfing group being held at a c...

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Alex Wan has seen first-hand how Georgia’s largest city has grown into an economic powerhouse in a journey along with the rest of the South.

LGBTQ Agenda: Gay Atlanta councilmember discusses challenges for Southern metropolis

Alex Wan, the first gay and the first Asian American member of the Atlanta City Council, has seen first-hand how Georgia’s largest city has grown into an economic powerhouse in a journey along with th...

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Arlo Smith, a former San Francisco district attorney best known for leading the office in the aftermath of the 1978 assassinations of gay supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone, died Oct. 8, the day before his birthday.

Former SF district attorney Arlo Smith dies

Arlo Smith, a former San Francisco district attorney best known for leading the office in the aftermath of the 1978 assassinations of gay supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone, died October ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill its author had hoped would give Californians easier access to HIV prevention medications as of Jan. 1.

Political Notebook: Newsom vetoes PrEP access bill

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill its author had hoped would give Californians easier access to HIV prevention medications as of January 1.

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