The last time I spoke with dyke icon Alison Bechdel three years ago, current U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was the governor of Vermont, and Bechdel, author of the ...Read more →
Late San Francisco mayor George Moscone and city supervisor Harvey Milk (the first openly gay politician ever elected in America) were key in passing San Francisco’s first gay civil rights ...Read more →
I remember the first short story I had published years ago. I didn’t get paid a penny, but it sure felt good to see my name and words in print. ...Read more →
I bought a fabulous paperback at a second-hand book sale the other day, The Violet Quill Reader: The Emergence of Gay Writing After Stonewall, which chronicles the eight now-mythical "Violet ...Read more →
Irshad Manji has a big mouth and God bless her for it. I can’t tell you how many times over the years I’ve heard people say nasty things about her, ...Read more →
Saskatchewan’s senior Liberal cabinet minister Ralph Goodale is living proof plenty of Western Canadians should just pack their bags and leave this country for good. For years, Goodale was the ...Read more →
Atlanta Braves catcher Javy Lopez is so hot he can sit on my face. That’s as far as I’ll go, though: The last thing I want is Lopez and his ...Read more →
The godfather of America’s black civil-rights movement, Bayard Rustin, would have loved it: Last June at the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, homos packed the historic 1,300-seat Castro ...Read more →
The straight world this week has gone completely, certifiably nuts. First you had 20 straight hoodlums all dressed in black trashing the Nash Mir (Our World) Gay & Lesbian Center’s ...Read more →
Piknic Électronik will be celebrating its 10th season this summer, with 20 events featuring over 100 acts from May 20 to September 30. From the press release: “Those who remember [...]
