The dramatic and inspiring story of how Rehoboth Beach came to be what it is today can be found in gay historian James T. Sears's revealing new book "Queering Rehoboth Beach: Beyond the Boardwalk."

Along with the usual ongoing arts and nightlife events, we've got some particularly unusual happenings for your midsummer enjoyment this week in Going Out.

With "Inheritances," acclaimed pianist Adam Tendler commissioned 16 composers to create short piano works related to an unusual moment in his life after the death of his father. Tendler brings the concert to Brava Theater Center July 17.

This week, two wildly different Bay Area productions offer new spins on icons of 20th-century pop culture. Here's a look at Drunk Drag Broadway's salacious take on Disney cartoonery, and "Mrs. Doubtfire"'s musicalized nanny buffoonery.

Painfully funny and crackled with intelligent ambiguity, "The Lifespan of a Fact," now playing at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre, is but a single link in an unlikely lineage of artistic and philosophical responses to a suicide that took place 22 years ago.

Luke Gilford's 'National Anthem' comes at an opportune moment, bringing much needed fresh air in a story about sexual outsiders finding sanctuary among themselves in rural America's LGBTQ rodeo subculture.

Now through September 8, San Francisco Mime Troupe will perform "American Dreams," a new musical that opens their 65th season. The political show is a contemplation of what the future of the United States and the world might look like.

Along with politics heating up the airwaves, TV stories with queer characters include 'Orphan Black: Echoes' and 'General Hospital,' and the new Celine Dion documentary will melt your heart.

Shed those post-Pride blues, and the ennui about July 4 (Thanks, democracy; you had a nice run) with uplifting arts and nightlife events in Going Out, each week online.

"Friends of Dorothy" is a new compilation album featuring music and spoken words by queer artists from all over the world. Available exclusively on vinyl, the album is the brainchild of producer/musician Moon Trent and his partner David Cole.

Gil Cuadros' long-awaited posthumous new book of short stories and poems, "My Body Is Paper," was recently released. Although Mr. Cuadros died in 1996 of AIDS, the book's editors worked to bring this new book to fruition.

Confronted with censorship, queer graphic novelist advocates for freedom of expression, visibility for comics and artistic rights. Their efforts have made them a significant figure in the fight against book banning, inspiring others as well.

The first thing you're going to want to know about "A Quiet Place: Day One" (Paramount) is that the cat survives. You know it's been on your mind since you saw the first of several trailers months ago.

If you've been waiting for the great summer read of 2024, your patience has been rewarded with the publication of "Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell" (Dey Street, 2024) by acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers.