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Online Extra: Wedding Bell Blues: Advocates visit SF to push senator on immigration issues
Group pushes Feinstein on same-sex binational couples; media coverage favors same-sex marriage. (read more)
Online Extra: Political Notes: UC Davis asks patients about LGBT status
UC Davis adds LGBT questions to its medical records, becoming first academic health system in the country to ask patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity. (read more)
SF Pride: No honor
for Manning
The San Francisco Pride board of directors, met and affirmed its earlier decision: there will be no official honor for the whistle-blower at this year's parade. (read more)
Pride revamps
membership process
People who have tried to become a member of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee have raised questions about the process, citing delays and a change in the online application that makes it more cumbersome. (read more)
Advocates await Supreme Court decisions
The United States Supreme Court will release decisions any day now in two high-profile cases involving marriage and same-sex couples. (read more)
DOMA case could
bring pro-gay tax rules
Same-sex couples across the country could benefit at tax time should the U.S. Supreme Court allow the federal government to recognize their marriages and other legal unions. (read more)
Actions planned for
day of Prop 8 decision
LGBT activists plan to either party in the streets or mobilize protests on the day the U.S. Supreme Court issues its ruling in the Proposition 8 case. (read more)
SF ready to resume
same-sex marriages
Should California be given the go-ahead to resume same-sex marriages, San Francisco city officials plan to be ready to wed same-sex couples as soon as possible. (read more)
Patio Cafe hearing
set for July
As he seeks permits to reopen the long-closed Patio Cafe in the Castro, owner Les Natali is seeking an operator to run the restaurant. (read more)
More Arts
Film - Traviata beckons
When is an opera film not a film of an opera? When it's Becoming Traviata. (read more)
Film - Sissy makes good
The life of poet/shaman/trickster James Broughton will unspool as part of the 37th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on Sat., June 22. (read more)
Fine Arts -
Possessed by celebrity
"Sometimes you have to please your own sweet self" could be the tagline for Annie Leibovitz's latest show Pilgrimage, now at the San Jose Museum of Art. (read more)
Out There - We believe
in Rufus Wainwright
From the moment singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright strode onto the stage of Davies Symphony Hall last Sunday night for a solo concert on piano and guitars, he totally owned the joint. (read more)
Music - SFO's
marvelous 'Tales'
If you think you know Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d'Hoffmann), the opera with the beautiful "Barcarolle" and ridiculously stratospheric "Doll Song," you're in for a big surprise from San Francisco Opera. (read more)
Music - Rising
star at Davies
Recent weeks at Davies Symphony Hall have been noteworthy for the interest of the programming and the distinction of the instrumental soloists – one a returning guest artist, and two drawn from the orchestra's own ranks. (read more)
