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Homeless youth
space to close
A site in San Francisco's Upper Haight neighborhood that's
provided mental health services, clean syringes, and other assistance to
homeless neighborhood youth for over a decade will shut down Christmas Day.
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LGBTs mourn Mandela
LGBT human rights leaders mourned the death of former South
African President Nelson Mandela, calling the Nobel Peace Prize recipient a
true global leader.
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Artworks to benefit
history project
The estate of a deceased Castro artist has donated a number of her portraits of denizens of the gayborhood toward the fundraising effort for a sidewalk-based LGBT history project. (read more)
A global affair
The holiday spirit was evident Tuesday, December 10 in San Francisco City Hall at the lighting ceremony for the Rainbow World Fund's World Tree of Hope. (read more)
Dukes tie the knot
Drag queens and friends converged upon the gay South of Market Club OMG for the December 8 "royal" wedding of two past Grand Dukes of the Ducal Court. (read more)
Feds approve two
new hepatitis C meds
The Food and Drug Administration has approved Gilead Sciences' new hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi), following the recent approval of Janssen's simeprevir (brand name Olysio). (read more)
Manning lawyer
speaks in Oakland
As Chelsea Manning remains confined in the United States
Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, her attorney, David Coombs, addressed a packed house at Oakland's Humanist Hall this week.
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More Arts
Out There - Dancers from the dance
A museum show devoted to still photography of dynamic dancers might seem at first to be an oxymoronic concept, like "jumbo shrimp" or "guest star. (read more)
Theatre - A visit
from gay St. Nick
The play's title, its author agrees, may suggest something Santa Claus Is Coming Out is not. (read more)
Books - Lucky charms
Queer & Celtic, a new collection of Irish memories, poetry, essays, plays, and short stories, is a powerful reflection on family, community, and Celtic culture. (read more)
Television - Babs
follows her bliss
I didn't come to bury Barbra, but I'll admit I was a little skeptical. (read more)
Books - Page-turners
for holiday giving
Shopping in your local bookstore for holiday gifts is a calm and civilized contrast to mall madness. (read more)
Books - Hot reads
for cold months
From the fiction shelf: Midwestern writer and Wisconsin native Glenway Wescott, who counted Monroe Wheeler as a lover and Paul Cadmus and George Platt Lynes among his social circle, has been dead for more than 25 years. (read more)
