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Jinkx Monsoon is Little Edie is "Schizophrenic"

05.07.13 - 7:10 am | Marke B. |

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I don't know who any of those RuPaul Drag Race queens are, goddess love 'em. And I sure as hell don't need anymore invites to local parties where one or more of them are appearing (seriously, it's like a plague of TV wigs, smelly bodysuits, bad names, and hastily assembled signature "songs" upon the gay bars -- NO TEA NO SHADE).

But I do recognize a style sister when I see one, and Jinkx Monsoon of Seattle caught everyone's eye with her killer Little Edie from Grey Gardens impression on this season of Drag Race, then went on to win it all -- I guess, judging from the "squeeees" clogging my Facebook feed last night. Even better, she's actually recorded a pretty amazingly groovy and deep track with SF's techno version of googly-eyed puppy cuddles, Two Dudes in Love.

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Guest opinion: LGBT supporters of Bradley Manning

05.02.13 - 9:11 am | Tim Redmond |

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Editor's note: At least 24 LGBT community leaders and activists have signed on to the following statement in support of Bradley Manning as a Pride grand marshal.Read more »

The most bitter Bradley Manning-Pride piece yet

05.01.13 - 12:46 pm | Tim Redmond |

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Lots of people angry about the Pride Committee's decision to fire Bradley Manning as a grand marshal. But the most savage, all-out assault comes from Steven W. Thrasher, a former Village Voice writer who has nothing good to say at all about Pride or the people who run it -- or for the more mainstream parts of the LGBT movement:Read more »

Oh look, suddenly Pride is interesting

04.28.13 - 9:45 am | Marke B. |

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So. Pride did a thing. After years of being no more politically risky than an bowl of strawberry Jell-O, the Pride committee -- or some kind of mole within the Pride committee, according to SF Pride board president Lisa L. Williams' utterly weird statement about the whole thing -- announced that Bradley Manning (a.k.a. Breanna Manning), jailed and pallid hero of the Wikileaks generation, soon to face court-martialling, was to be a Pride Grand Marshall.

An honor usually reserved for washed up TV actresses who once said the word "gay" on CBS prime time in the '80s and craven politicos with dead eyes and hard hair, the Grand Marshallship has before this stirred up about as much controversy outside the community as the color beige. And yet, on Friday afternoon, the world's head exploded. (The canny queen who leaked the decision sure knew her press cycles -- Wikileaks lives!) When your dad in Detroit calls you almost immediately after the news breaks to ask how you're covering it, you know its grabbing virtual headlines.

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The Liberace movie trailer is here. Gay heads explode.

04.08.13 - 10:57 am | Marke B. |

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Matt Damon in a see-through Speedo and '80s porns star hair. Michael Douglas creeping in a hot tub. Rob Lowe's over-tanned needlenose. And fabulous, fabulous, fabulous fabulosity and scandal everywhere. "Behind the Candelabra," airing May 26 on HBO, truly has it all.

The Performant: The sacred and the profane

04.04.13 - 3:03 pm | Nicole Gluckstern |

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Blessing the wafers at “Sing-Along Jesus Christ Superstar.” Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

Join Christ on the chorus. “Sing-Along Jesus Christ Superstar.” Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

The cross at Zombie Christ Haunted House. Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

Sacred bleeding heart of Jesus at Zombie Christ Haunted House. Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

Prop 8 is coming to get you at Zombie Christ Haunted House. Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

Christ has risen. Photo by Nicole Gluckstern

Putting the "good" back into Good Friday at “Sing-Along Jesus Christ Superstar” and Zombie Christ Haunted House

They might seem merely irreverent, or downright blasphemous, to conservative churchgoers, but I’m pretty sure the original JC Superstar would have dug the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- you know, the water-into-wine Jesus who supported sex workers and preached tolerance and respect for the marginalized.

The Sisters, who have been preaching the same since 1979, really get a chance to shine (and glitter) come Easter Weekend. One of SF’s most singular events, Easter Sunday in Dolores Park grabs the lion’s share of the attention, what with its iconic Easter Bonnet contest, the sainting of local community heroes, and the ever-popular Hunky Jesus competition, being rescheduled as we speak due to spring showers. But for those of us who find it difficult to get up early on a Sunday morning, hardbody of Christ or no hardbody of Christ, the Sisters have expanded their influence across the weekend, creating plenty of opportunity for the nocturnal among us to grab a little of the resurrection gusto for themselves.

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Live Shots: LGBT Community Center celebrates 11 colorful years

03.26.13 - 2:36 pm | Ariel Soto-Suver |

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LGBT Community Center celebrates 11 years. Photo by Bowerbird Photography

Photos by Bowerbird Photography

Last Saturday, the disco ball sparkled from above, while below on the dance floor, party-goers glittered in gold. There was much to celebrate, with the SF LGBT Community Center's annual gala "Soiree" celebrating 11 years of sercing the community -- and even more to drink, with bottomless bottles of champagne. There were also plenty of sights to drink in, including a few bottomless pairs of pants!Read more »

Alt-folk singer Michelle Shocked goes on homophobic rant, Yoshi's says she won't be back

03.18.13 - 12:35 pm | Emily Savage |

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UPDATE: now with audio of the incident.

What is going on with Michelle Shocked? The Texas alt-folk singer-songwriter, formerly known as a leftist-feminist relic of the late 1980s/early '90s, apparently went on a homophobic rant at one of her two Yoshi's shows this past Sunday in San Francisco.

As the Bay Area Reporter notes, Shocked, who seems to have found religion in the past decade, told the Yoshi's crowd: “When they stop Prop 8 and force priests at gunpoint to marry gays, it will be the downfall of civilization and Jesus will come back.” Read more »

Trouble down under: SF indie film banned in Australia

03.05.13 - 4:26 pm | Caitlin Donohue |

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Cuddle porn, banned in Oz? The Australian Classification Board took exception with auteur Travis Mathews' tender look at life and love among gay men in San Francisco -- which included explicit sex scenes. Film fanatics at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Sydney's Queer Screen, and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival will be missing out on Mathew's work -- I Want Your Love was scheduled to screen at all three this year.

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Who's hungry for a 'Shrimp Dufty'? UPDATED

02.26.13 - 8:16 am | Marke B. |

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I'm not really sure what the connection is between "homeless czar" and former Castro district supe Bevan Dufty embracing pescetarianism on his 58th birthday and raising money for an LGBT-friendly homeless shelter, but Sliderbar is certainly making it.

Tonight, Tue/26, 6-10:30pm, the Castro burger joint is hosting a fundraiser celebrating Dufty's birthday and creating a "shrimp sandwich" especially for him. (In case you're not up on such things, every successful restaurant opening in the Castro lately has been burger-based -- not sure if it's something to do with mainstreaming of gay culture or what but it's sizzling red meat everywhere -- so a seafood option is certainly welcomed. No horsemeat, please! j/k, Sliderbar, j/k)

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