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NEWS

Changes afoot for SF Pride events
Revelers attending the various Pride events this weekend can expect to find
plenty of changes ahead of the celebration's 40th anniversary next year. From a
revamped Pi...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4011

Over GOP objections, Assembly proclaims Pride

The California Assembly passed a resolution Monday proclaiming June as LGBT
Pride Month and recognizing several community leaders, but like the last such
event three y...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4012

Marriage supporters need 1,000 voters a day

Nearly 1,000 new supporters a day.

That's the message from marriage
equality supporters to the LGBT community as they embark on a series of town
hall meetings...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4013

New SFPD chief pledges a diverse command

Mesa, Arizona Police Chief George Gascón, Mayor Gavin Newsom's pick to
replace outgoing Chief Heather Fong, is pledging to install a diverse command
staff that refl...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4014

Frank introduces inclusive ENDA

The LGBT community erupted in anger in the fall of 2007 when Representative
Barney Frank introduced a version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that
excluded pr...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4015

Census to count gay couples

It has been widely reported in the last few days that "the White House
said" it was going to start counting same-sex married couples in the U.S.
census. Alth...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4016

Creative rainbow flag

Tai Trang checks out the finished rainbow flag made with dyed rice at the
pedestrian plaza at 17th and Market Streets Sunday, June 21. The flag was made
with dyed rice...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4017

Tel Aviv's sizzling gay women's scene

The women are hot in gay old Tel Aviv and their party scene is even
hotter.

Sheri Granite, 22, a photography student at Tel
Aviv University, described the que...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4018

Quick guide to Tel Aviv

Here's a quick rundown of information for gay women visiting Tel
Aviv.

Tel Aviv LGBT media (Hebrew only): City in Pink (Ha'ir
Berarod) and P...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4019

School safety advocates praise DOE pick

Advocates for LGBT student safety received a hopeful boost recently when U.S.
Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the appointment of Kevin
Jennings...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4020

Gay man sues Pride sponsor Virgin America

A gay San Francisco man is suing Virgin America Airlines for wrongful
termination and employment discrimination, among other claims.

Virgin
America is a princ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4021

77 reps ask Obama to suspend DADT

Seventy-seven members of Congress have written President Barack Obama
requesting that implementation of the anti-gay military policy known as
"Don't Ask, Don't Te...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4022

Online extra: Obama memo falls short on benefits for federal workers

President Barack Obama on Wednesday, June 17, signed a memorandum that he
said "paves the way for long over-due progress in our nation's pursuit of
equality"...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4008

Milk center opens in Duboce Park

Many of those involved in the remodeling and expansion of the Harvey Milk
Center for Recreational Arts help to cut the ribbon to open the new facility,
which is locate...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4023

Political Notebook: Gay congressman criticizes Obama

Openly gay freshman Congressman Jared Polis , a Democrat from Boulder,
Colorado, finds himself in the middle of his first gay brouhaha since being
sworn into of...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4024

News in brief:
Women set for Maud's reunion

Former patrons of the legendary Maud's lesbian bar and others are invited to
a reunion Saturday, June 27 from noon to 6 p.m. at Finnegan's Wake (the old
Maud's), 937...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4025

Online extra: San Francisco
welcomes new police chief

At a City Hall news conference Wednesday, June 17 Mayor Gavin Newsom
introduced his pick for the city's new police chief to replace outgoing Chief
Heather Fong, Mesa...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4009

Online extra: Political Notes: Pride ceremony returns to CA Assembly

Three years after the state Assembly's inaugural (and until now only) Pride
ceremony, state lawmakers will once again mark LGBT history and honor leaders
within the ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4010

Online extra: Outgames
registration below target

Despite an extended registration period that closed Monday, June 15,
organizers of World Outgames 2 in Copenhagen said that the number
of participating athletes fell...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4007

Online extra: Pride Parade will be chock-a-block with political marchers

San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration Committee has long had a policy
against political candidates campaigning along the parade route. But that
hasn't stopped those...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4026

ARTS

Television - Forever Phyllis!


Cloris Leachman's laugh is deep – a rumble. She laughed frequently
during a recent telephone conversation. This year's Pride Celebrity Grand
Marshal is "exc...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=television&article=127

Books - Objectifying desire


For the last few years, William J. Mann has been has spending a lot of time
on luxury yachts sailing off the coasts of Corsica and Spain. He's been
continent-hopping f...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=448

Out There - A boy's own gay liberation manifesto


We're here, we're queer, we've got column inches to fill! A big gay welcome
to all the LGBT tourists in town for Pride 2009, the gayest week of the whole
damn gay cale...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outthere&article=218

Film - The best of the rest of the fest


These last four days of the Frameline 33 film festival are especially flush
with foreign-produced treats, particularly British ones.

Shank
"Good f...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=643

Film - Ambiguously gay hero of the skating world


Pop Star on Ice Hands-down the most impressive and wildly entertaining
nonfiction film in this last weekend of the Frameline festival is David Barba
& James...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=644

Theatre - Theatre of the really ridiculous


Could that sweet, warm, and wise Angela Lansbury really have dropped the
F-bomb on the Cockettes? What seems to be undisputed is that the actress
conspicuously departe...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=theatre&article=531

Film - Shorts illustrated


The Frameline 33 festival's final weekend offers a scattering of special
pleasures normally on display only in the queer shorts division.

Raw
Love In M...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=645

Books - Queer excavations


Pre-Gay LA: A Social History of the Movement
for Homosexual Rights by C. Todd White; University of Illinois Press,
$25

The probl...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=449

Theatre - Hooking up online


That the Internet opened a new frontier for sexual connections is old news.
In fact, the new frontier is as settled as suburbia. But solo performer Jeffery
Self has bu...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=theatre&article=532

Books - Girl power


Risk by Elana Dykewomon; Bywater Books, $14.95


Oakland-based novelist, teacher, and lesbian feminist Elana Dykewomon
follows up...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=450

On the Town - Gayest week & weekend of the year!


Last Wednesday's 24th Anniversary Castro Lions Club Dinner was held atop the
Marriott Union Square in a sprawling penthouse room with spectacular views. The
evening in...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=onthetown&article=122

Music - Dance music is so gay!


Beginning in the mid-1980s, pop duos Erasure and Pet Shop Boys were at the
forefront of electronic dance music, gay or straight. Teamed up with hetero
Vince Clark (of ...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=623

Music - Bach that swings


Jacques Loussier Plays Bach: The 50th
Anniversary Recording (Telarc)

Want lots of sunshine without risking
overexposure? Feeling a need...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=music&article=624

Karrnal Knowledge - Stretching cotton


How long is a lifetime in the porn world? Matthew Rush knows the answer. A
lifetime in porn is longer than a Dog's Year, but shorter than a decade. Rush
is/was famousl...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=karrnal&article=173

Film - Phantoms of the cinema


I thought he was cooked meat. Pad Thai. Done on both sides. Hardly done, but
quite possibly done in. Apichatpong ("Joe") Weerasethakul seemed in
danger of no...
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=646

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