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Q-Music: Family affairs; worth a listen

Q-Music: Family affairs; worth a listen

Five singer-songwritrs and bands -Eliza Gilkyson, Lilly Hiatt, Justin Townes Earle, Frankie Cosmos and Echosmith- share a familial connection to other artists.

Online Extra: No Place Like Home features K Flay & more music acts

Online Extra: No Place Like Home features K Flay & more music acts

No Place Like Home, a local music online festival and fundraiser, features numerous bands, including (May 5) K Flay.

Living in the grey: Democratizing sex amid a crisis

Living in the grey: Democratizing sex amid a crisis

What constitutes being a kinkster? In what way is being a leather person different from being kinky? With the ever-growing categories of emerging sex subcultures, how do we clearly demarcate someone's sexual identity? Is that even important?

Castro amid COVID

Castro amid COVID

On San Francisco' Castro Street, many businesses are open for limited shopping, food and drinks take-out in makeshift window and doorway booths, amid a sparse open ambiance.

Homing's In: Arts, Nightlife & Community Events

Homing's In: Arts, Nightlife & Community Events

Enjoy the wonderful array of arts, nightlife and community events online. Also, many of these events are accepting donations to help keep their venues afloat during the shutdown.

Thanks to matching offer from anonymous donor, Bay Area Reporter extends fundraising appeal

Thanks to matching offer from anonymous donor, Bay Area Reporter extends fundraising appeal

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  • by Michael Yamashita
  • May 1, 2020

Thank you very much, it has been both humbling and encouraging receiving your generous support when so many are also in need of help. So far, we have raised just over $25,000 and are just 15% away from reaching our goal of $30,000.

Online Extra: Queer Nightlife Fund disburses grants

Online Extra: Queer Nightlife Fund disburses grants

Grants in the first round of applications for the San Francisco Queer Nightlife Fund are now being disbursed to 176 applicants, according to the organization that has thus far collected $160,000 in donations.

Online Extra: Frameline's screenings, fundraiser and new distribution director

Online Extra: Frameline's screenings, fundraiser and new distribution director

Amid the pandemic crisis, Frameline wraps up its fundraiser, screens films and documentaries, and announced the hiring of its new Director of Distribution and Educational Programming.

The Forgotten Pandemic - Echoes of AIDS History in COVID-19

The Forgotten Pandemic - Echoes of AIDS History in COVID-19

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  • by Michael Flanagan
  • Apr 28, 2020

Flurries of articles contrasting COVID-19 with HIV have been published in the past few months. None of them initially drew my attention, as the pandemics seem quite different from one another.

Online Extra: GLAAD, Sondheim fundraisers wow at-home viewers

Online Extra: GLAAD, Sondheim fundraisers wow at-home viewers

In a battle of simultaneous streaming events, GLAAD's Together in Pride: You are Not Alone and Broadway.com's Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration both won the war of raising needed funds while keeping us entertained.

Gooch website unveiled - nightlife photographer offers prints for fundraiser

Gooch website unveiled - nightlife photographer offers prints for fundraiser

He's photographed countless events and local luminaries in Bay Area nightlife. Now Gooch, the charming ever-busy Brit whose photos have graced Bay Area Reporter pages for years, has unveiled his new website, with a special offer of prints for sale.

Linda Lavin offers 'Love Notes'

Linda Lavin offers 'Love Notes'

  • CABARET
  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Apr 21, 2020

Linda Lavin, Tony-winning actress, best know for her TV show 'Alice,' has new music and new hope. We talked with her by phone from her Manhattan apartment, at the pandemic's U.S. epicenter.

Playing with gender: Erotic expressions that break binaries

Playing with gender: Erotic expressions that break binaries

  • DRAG
  • by Race Bannon
  • Apr 21, 2020

Bending and manipulating gender is not historically in my sexual wheelhouse. So, I put out a call to some friends and acquaintances asking if anyone would be willing to share their experiences playing with gender expression as part of their erotic lives.

Online Arts, Nightlife and Community Events

Online Arts, Nightlife and Community Events

Another Saturday night, or Blursday, and you ain't got nobody to be with, if you're staying in, which you should. But you can enjoy the wide array of arts, nightlife and community events online.