Harvey Milk

Figaro Project gives admirable premiere of 'Camelot Requiem'

2013-05-15 11:04:00

Since "Nixon in China," the 1987 masterwork by John Adams that launched what some wag described as a new genre labeled "CNN Opera," contemporary events have been fairer game than ever for composers and librettists. The list of newsy operas, which...

Under Patsos, Loyola balances history, culture and basketball

2012-03-15 00:31:00

Joe Boylan was sitting with Jimmy Patsos at last Saturday's Loyola-Duke lacrosse game when the former athletic director asked the man he had hired as the school's basketball coach eight years ago if he had any preference as to where Greyhounds would...

In our supposed democracy, guns continue to rule

2012-01-29 03:00:00

In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people. So it was painful to watch last week as the will of the people was overturned and one of Arizona's duly elected representatives was forced from office. It wasn't a recall...

Three Californians to receive Harvey Milk award at White House

2013-05-21 08:34:00

State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) is heading to the White House on Wednesday to be honored as one of 10 gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender officials to be named a Harvey Milk Champion of Change. Lara’s selection comes a month after the...

Cannes Film Review: 'Behind the Candelabra'

2013-05-21 04:30:05

During his lifetime, Liberace sued (and won) when publications hinted at his homosexuality. In "Behind the Candelabra," former lover Scott Thorson gets the final word, serving as the basis of a film that gleefully thrusts itself into those aspects of...

Justice league: Marriage equality takes center stage in "8"

2013-05-17 12:54:03

In November 2008, a ballot proposal and a state constitutional amendment known jointly as Proposition 8 passed in California by public vote. The passage attached language to the state's constitution that spoke loudly and clearly: same-sex marriage was...

Crowds cheer as gay marriage opponents mourn tradition in Minnesota

2013-05-14 07:24:02

The crowds inside the Capitol were thinning, but David Schorn's smile kept widening. The Minnesota Senate had voted earlier Monday afternoon to legalize same-sex marriage, and the bill was headed to Gov. Mark Dayton, who made plans to sign it into law...

SIDE STREETS: Today is a good day to meet your neighbors

2013-04-27 12:24:04

Did you know today is a holiday? Well, it's more of a wannabe holiday for neighborhoods. A social media group, GOOD, is today launching international Neighborday. GOOD describes itself as a global community, based in Los Angeles, created for...

How "The Addams Family" was born again...and again.

2013-04-03 15:16:00

Taking cartoon panels from the page to the stage was a tricky thing for "The Addams Family." For the musical-comedy coming to Broward Center April 9 through 21, it wasn't the whole bizarro-macabre thing that was the challenge for the show’s book...

Andrew Lippa to star in world premiere of 'I Am Harvey Milk'

2013-04-02 08:10:00

"I Am Harvey Milk," a new oratorio from Tony and Grammy nominee Andrew Lippa, will make its world premiere in June at the Nourse Auditorium in San Francisco as part of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus 35th anniversary. The composer, who penned the...

Gay marriage supporters rally in Santa Ana ahead of DOMA hearing

2013-03-27 10:26:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. Gay marriage proponents are riding into Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court discussion about the Defense of Marriage Act on a wave of support from Proposition 8 debates a day earlier....

Gay marriage goes before the U.S. Supreme Court today

2013-03-26 06:50:00

SAN FRANCISCO — As the battle over gay marriage takes center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, a new survey shows that attitudes on same-sex marriage have shifted rapidly. Polling data consistently show that knowing a gay person is a...

Academy Award-winning documentary about San Francisco's first openly gay elected city official who was slain in 1978.

2012-12-18 16:01:24

It's not just that faux-creaminess and the many ritual ways to eat it (scoop out the filling first?; eat it like an ear of corn or like a hot dog?). It's the deeply useful metaphor of "Twinkies," a word describing something foolish and empty-calorie inconsequential.

2012-12-17 12:00:12

Wednesday: A conservative group is asking parents to protest the celebration of Harvey Milk Day.

2012-05-16 00:00:00