BARtab :: Sexuality
Pop music and AIDS: The good, the bad and the silent in a long overdue history
Astonishingly, Matthew J. Jones "How to Make Music in an Epidemic: Popular Music Making During the AIDS Crisis, 1981–1996" is the first academic book on pop...
In through the out door with David Bowie - Sexuality and sexual culture from "Hunky Dory" to "Let's Dance"
David Bowie exploded on the scene in 1972 and it caught the world off guard. But his glam rock influences can be traced to multiple artists including Jayne...
Playgirl's pages - 'Official History of a Cult Magazine' bares (almost) all
For gay and bisexual men of a certain age, Playgirl provided the first in-hand periodical that featured full-frontal male nudity. This 50th anniversary book...
How to Find the A-Spot
If there's one thing I love, it's finding new ways to feel pleasure! You may have learned the best ways to have a clitoral orgasm, or how to locate the infamous...
LGBTQ Agenda: Castro is No. 4 gayborhood of the year, Grindr states in year-end report
San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro neighborhood is the fourth "gayest gayborhood of the year," according to "Grindr Unwrapped," the queer dating and meet-up app's...
Connecting with Confidence: Flure, The Dating App Revolutionizing LGBTQA+ Romance
Tired of endless, boring swiping that leads nowhere? Ready for a dating app that truly gets you? Meet Flure, the revolutionary LGBTQA+ dating app made to...
Local LGBTQ+ Media Giving Day is October 8
News Is Out, a collaboration of six LGBTQ+ media representing more than 250 collective years of experience covering the community, is launching the first Local...
The Legend of Mickey Squires - '80s porn star returns, as himself
As one of the iconic gay porn actors of the 1980s, Mickey Squires cornered the butch erotic aesthetic. Now, as himself, Richard Bernstein is the subject of a...
Kink ink: Folsom books threeway
Welcome to Folsom Week here in beautiful, diverse, and, yes, kinky, San Francisco! Here are three books of interest that have published in the past month...
US led world in daddies, Grindr states in year-end report
The United States led the world in the percentage of Grindr users who describe themselves as daddies this year, according to "Grindr Unwrapped,"
B.A.R.'s Bestie balloting begins
It's time for Bay Area Reporter readers to cast their ballots for the LGBTQ newspaper's annual Best of the Bay contest.
To 'Sur' with love: lost gay porn classic resurrected
"Sur" was a 1970s gay porn film shot by Tom DeSimone at the lush and beautiful beaches of Big Sur, California. A new short documentary tells the tale of its...
Jamie Stewart's 'Anything That Moves'
Jamie Stewart's "Anything That Moves," an erotic catalog of collected memories of the non-binary performer's sexual experiences shifts from the awkward to the...
'Daddy Lover God' – Don Shewey's sensual sexual memoir
Don Shewey's book "Daddy Lover God" bills itself as a memoir and instruction manual, but it primarily chronicles Shewey's psycho-sexual-spiritual adventures.