Arts & Entertainment

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Film Review: ‘Romeu & Romeu’

  A very young set of Brazilian filmmakers have very loosely adapted Shakespeare’s classic love-story Romeo & Juliet and made it a contemporary queer romantic drama.  This web series was also set in the fictional Italian city of Verona, and is now where the Campelos and Monteiros families have vehemently hated each other for generations after a major falling out. Openly gay Romulo (Arthur Chermont) falls for Ramon (João Mesquita) from the family he is supposed to hate,  who it turns out isn’t straight after all. Ramon shares his grandfather’s diary that he has just discovered which reveals the fact that […]

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Book review: ‘The Tiger’s Daughter,’ by K. Arsenault Rivera

Rivera, K. Arsenault, The Tiger’s Daughter. Tor. $15.99. 528p. PB. 9780765392534 The Tiger’s Daughter opens on a young empress lounging in her room, preparing for her day. She receives a package from one of her senior house servants, who remarks that the handwriting is terrible. The empress immediately knows from whom the package came and declares that she is not to be disturbed unless she calls for an attendant. This is how the story of O-Shizuka, Divine Empress of Hokkaro, and Barsalayya Shefali, Qorin warrior, begins. The story unfolds through the letters Shefali has written to Shizuka, recounting all that they’ve […]

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Jane Lynch ‘A Swingin’ Little Christmas’ to Happen Dec. 10 in SF

Sunday, December 10 at 7:00 pm Presented in the historic Venetian Room of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel All Decked Out for the Holidays         Bay Area Cabaret is thrilled to present Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Jane Lynch in her Venetian Room debut. The star of Glee and host of NBC’s Hollywood Game Night will be joined by special guests Kate Flannery (NBC’s The Office), Tim Davis (Glee), and The Tony Guerrero Quintet. In an eclectic evening of music and humor, they’ll be performing songs from their Top 20 Billboard album, “A Swingin’ Little Christmas!”.         Jane Lynch is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winner […]

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Celtic Harp & SpokenWord This Saturday at Occidental Center foor the Arts

Saturday November 18 @ 8 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts Patrick Ball: Come Dance With Me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country. World renowned modern day bard and premier Celtic harpist Patrick Ball tells a musical and dramatic new story based on the life and works of Ireland’s greatest poet W.B. Yeats. He weaves the narrative together with ethereally gorgeous Celtic harp melodies into a warm and magical performance that will leave the audience spell-bound. $20 Advance/$23 at the door. Fine refreshments for sale; Art Gallery open for viewing. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. Wheelchair Accessible. THOSE DISPLACED BY NBAY FIRES […]

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Kinsey Sicks Brings “Things You Shouldn’t Say” to Ner Shalom December 3

Named one of the top ten shows at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and profiled in the October 16, 2017 New Yorker Magazine. This is the remarkable true story of four friends from San Francisco who had a life-changing epiphany at a Bette Midler concert that led to them to form The Kinsey Sicks in an effort to find joy during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis. Now that the era of Trumpism is upon us, they’re sharing their hilarious, inspiring and at times heartbreaking tale, showing that hatred and deceit can be fought with humor and heart. Critics […]

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New from Rutgers University Press: ‘A Queerly Joyful Noise’

New from Rutgers University Press, A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group singing within the civil rights and labor movements, Julia “Jules” Balén maps the relationship between different forms of oppression and strategic musical forms of resistance. She also explores the potential this queer communal space creates for mobilizing progressive social action. Herself a proud member of numerous queer choruses, Balén draws from years […]

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SF Gay Men’s Chorus to Perform ‘Home for the Holidays’ in SR at F2F Benefit

The acclaimed San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC) returns to Santa Rosa, CA for the 27th Annual “Home for the Holidays” concert in Santa Rosa, benefitting Face to Face. This year, the concert is being held in the historic performance auditorium of Santa Rosa High School. The recent and devastating wildfires that swept through Sonoma County in early October will make finding suitable housing for F2F’s most vulnerable clients more difficult, but not impossible. Your support of the 27th Annual “Home for the Holidays” Concert will provide necessary resources to satisfy the agency’s most vital needs. “Home For The Holidays” […]

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GLAAD Releases TV Diversity Report

GLAAD today released its annual Where We Are on TV report. Where We Are on TV analyzes the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and assesses the number of LGBTQ characters on cable networks and original streaming series on the services Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix for the 2017-2018 TV season. This marks the 22nd year that GLAAD has tracked the presence of LGBTQ characters on television. This year, the Where We Are report is being released at a time where LGBTQ acceptance is slipping, and where the Trump Administration is actively working to roll back the […]

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‘The Laramie Project’ Returns to NYC After Almost 10 Years

Direct from an award-winning run at Washington D.C.’s Capital Fringe Festival, The Wandering Theatre Company brings its bold new staging of contemporary classic The Laramie Project to New York City’s Access Theatre. The story of Matthew Shepard broke headlines in 1998. A gay college student, he was kidnapped and beaten by two men, tied to a fence, and left to die in the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. The play is based on more than 200 interviews with Laramie residents conducted during the year immediately following the crime by playwright Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project. Nearly […]

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Hard-Hitting PRETTY BOY BLUE Coming-of-Age Novel Follows a Young Lesbian’s Tumultuous Journey to Self-Acceptance

Nikki Blue knew that she was different from other girls. One day, her slice of the American dream would include a white picket fence and a wife. While she looks like a debutante, she has the swagger of a cocksure boy—a dichotomy that is as mystifying as it is alluring. In the debut novel PRETTY BOY BLUE by Monika M. Pickett, Nikki finally learns the value of self-love and the wisdom of the old adage “that which does not kill you will make you stronger.” PRETTY BOY BLUE (Next Level Publishing) is available on Amazon.com and PrettyBoyBlue.com. PRETTY BOY BLUE […]

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