Sure, we've got your leather, your circuit parties, and your cruisy fun. But we've also got arts and nightlife events that don't have such a kinky dress code, in abundance, in Going Out.

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 film by the directors of "Raw! Uncut! Video!"

Disco is having another moment. Two powerful documentary films, a definitive coffee table book, and a $14 million high-tech Las Vegas experience have arrived in recent months to celebrate the music that dominated the 1970s.

3/4th of the all-female Utah-native band The Aces are queer. It's not four of a kind, but it's pretty good odds, regardless. The Aces' 2023 album "I've Loved You For So Long" features some of the catchiest and queerest songs you are likely to hear.

The San Francisco Pride Band will grace the stage of the Herbst Theater on September 29 with a new concert that they promise will excite and move audiences. Titled "Portraits of the Americas," the concert will feature music from the Americas.

"Will & Harper," directed by Josh Greenbaum, is a compelling blend of humor and heart. This documentary road film takes viewers on a 17-day journey across the US, following longtime friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele as they navigate new terrain.

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 guaranteed to appeal to your kinkier side of alternative sexual proclivities.

San Francisco has the first-ever Transgender District, the Office of Trans Initiatives, and the status as a sanctuary city for trans and gender-nonconforming people, but there's another trans-embracing metropolis on the West Coast: Portland.

You should be dancin', yeah. Along with our pristine/splashy and joyful/contemplative cultural events, once in a while you just need to shake your booty. We've got plenty more in our expansive listings of nightlife and art events in Going Out.

Director Phaedra Tillery-Broughton and co-director ShawnJ West have put a new spin on "Legally Blonde: The Musical" in Ray of Light Theatre's production of the bright and amusing, if not profound, stage adaptation.

San Francisco stages will offer a three-ring circus of hormonal horror in the coming months kicking off (and kicking the bucket) with "Ride the Cyclone" at New Conservatory Theatre Center on September 20.

With their current mounting of "Arsenic and Old Lace," Center Rep pulls off a type of theater that often proves elusive: the Style Piece, a heightened reality in which every member of the acting company is on the same page.

Brian Jordan Alvarez exemplifies that axiom "it gets better." Bullied for being gay as a kid in Tennessee, he's now starring in his own FX series he created, "English Teacher." Our TV columnist also covers FX's "Grotesquerie" & some grotesque politics.

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines's debut album, "Robeson" not only reflects his artistry; it's also one no other singer could match. While transmogrifying "art music," he offers homage to gay Black singer Paul Robeson and composer Julius Eastman.