The new documentary about longtime lesbian activist Sally Gearhart will get a special screening in Berkeley. The film charts Gearhart's work with Harvey Milk and some delivered omissions that are being rectified.

There's something in the air besides pollutant particulates, and that's the holiday spirit. Whether you're a "Come all ye faithful" type or a downright Scrooge, it's inescapable, so dig in and enjoy it.

Belly up to the bar for a round of potable last-minute gifts, and some choice boozeless booty as well. We've checked our list twice with online purveyors to make sure anything you order by Dec. 15 will arrive in time for Christmas.

Imagine a matchmaking app for theatergoers. Playwright Nanako Winkler's beguiling "Thirty-Six" would fit, but would you reflexively swipe left if a piece's profile included the word "experimental"?

On December 15, "Billy Cross: A Gay Man's Story," a new documentary in which a gay man shares his life story, will screen at the Delancey Street Screening Room. Cross has quite a story to tell. He holds nothing back as he speaks.

As the year winds down and the holidays rev up, 'tis the season to embrace joy and camaraderie and all things convivial. Our Lavender Tube columnist covers holiday light show competitions, cookie cook-offs, and wintry romcoms.

Elton John recently recognized it was time to quit performing live, and ended 50 years of entertaining in North America in 2022. His farewell tour is the subject of a new conventional documentary, "Elton John: Never Too Late," streaming on Disney Plus.

On December 24, 25, and 26 comic extraordinaire Lisa Geduldig returns with the latest incarnation of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy, a Jewish stand-up show produced for Christmas.

On December 20 the glamorous Former Ladies of the Supremes will grace the stage at the Showcase Theater in San Rafael. They'll be singing old familiar favorites as they recreate the glory days, of what is perhaps the most famous girl group of all time.

Some holidays aren't exactly here yet, but Christmas concerts galore have filled our calendar, as well as festive nightlife events like the Santa Skivvies Run and the annual Krampus Pageant. We've got it all wrapped up and ready to go in Going Out.

Gay Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's phantasmagorical kaleidoscopic rumination on gay obsessive desire, A 24's "Queer," based on Beat-era author William Burroughs' novella, has just been released.

"Sugar. Butter. Flour." This three-word refrain rings throughout "Waitress," the musical now being served up as holiday fare at the San Francisco Playhouse. It's not sung sweetly, but with an odd atonality.

When I first spoke with Melanie Senn about her historical novel, "Murray," it sparked an interest in a nano-second. Who doesn't love a story about a gender-bending historical figure.

With wetter weather and cooler temperatures comes more opportunities to amuse ourselves indoors. This selection of queer books in a few different genres will tempt your soul in books by Alan Hollinghurst, Cher, Edmund White, Lewis DeSimone and more.