Looking at the world through green-colored glasses.

Tony Award-winning actress reprises her Broadway role as Florence Foster Jenkins in ’Souvenir.’

Out There goes dancing, well, watches some... A new LA ’Ab Fab?’ Read on.

Out There was about & around Our Nation’s Capital last week while workers were busily constructing the inauguration stage in front of the Capitol, and there was something palpable in the air: change is a-coming.

Early 20th-century artist-illustrator "J.C. Leyendecker" created a world of sophistication and male beauty in his drawings for magazines and commercial advertising.

On a brisk, wintry summer Saturday night in San Francisco, Out There celebrated the warmth and vitality of the local arts scene at both a popular, sceney private-gallery party and the opening of a major triennial offering by a local arts institution.

During LGBT Gay Queer Homosexualist Pride week every year, Out There is always proud to put on our party dress and proclaim, "Welcome, LGBT tourists, to the gayest little cowtown in the wild old West!" Oh, we weren’t always so gung-ho. Prior to our current incarnation as a San Francisco cartoon character (along with the rest of you), we lived several past lives in New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

In these heady days of marriage liberation, it’s great to see evidence, in the Frida Kahlo show now raging at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, that Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the great Mexican mural artist, got married (for their second time) in San Francisco City Hall. There’s a photo of them filling out the necessary paperwork at City Hall, and a reproduction of their marriage license. This week, SF’s Beaux Arts civic palace was the epicenter of the media universe as same-sex duos tied the knot, just like Frida & Diego!

Out There’s paternal grandfather was a middleweight prizefighter pulled from the mean streets of the Lower East Side, NYC. He was happy to be there because he’d barely escaped persecution and pogroms back in Mother Russia. It’s a gritty, up-by-his-bootstraps, star-spangled tale. So you’d think OT would feel a natural pull towards boxing movies, especially ones pitched to the gays. Oh, but let’s back up a bit.

Excuse us if we’re slowly catching up with our so-called life here in San Grandisco after our whirlwind tour to Hong Kong and points beyond earlier this month. Our internal clock still thinks we’re over the International Date Line, while our external clock knows it’s "Presstime!" Now where’s our external snooze button?

They’re a little hard to find, but mainstream LGBT square dancers wanting to move up to challenge level should "allemande right" into Midnight Squares, a challenge level group, one of several LGBT square dance groups in the Bay Area.

Cher A Little Smith (a.k.a. Jonathan Eklund) and John-John (a.k.a. John F. Weber) became San Francisco royalty last weekend after being crowned the 2008 Empress XLIII and Emperor XXXVI, respectively.

Imperial Coronation Weekend began last Thursday with the In-Town Show and Awards at Encore in the Polk neighborhood. Emcees Keith and Gladys Bumps kept things rolling as the drinks flowed, the entertainment proceeded, and tongues wagged with speculation over the results of the previous Saturday’s voting for Emperor and Empress.

Most of the folk who came to see San Francisco film persona Marc Huestis honored for his contributions at the Board of Supervisors earlier this month were on time for a 3:30 p.m. ceremony, but the esteemed body actually did something unheard of - they ran early. Lucky enough to be in the audience was a smattering of Huestis’ glam friends including Frameline’s Michael Lumpkin, DJ Bus Station John, Kabuki Hot Spring madame Kathy Nelsen, Castro Theatre manager Mark Ganter, filmmaker Eric Smith and SF theatre maven F. Allen Sawyer.