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Gay by the Bay and zero f*cks: Frameline digs up local film scene classics
17+ hour, 7+ min ago (1034+ words) For 50th year, LGBTQ+ film fest goes deep with beloved landmarks, hot-hot shorts, and underground delights. Peter Stein: San Francisco on the Queer Screen Peter Stein jokes that people think he probably attended the first Frameline festival back in 1977 when it…...
Screen Grabs: 50 is the new 20, darling'Frameline celebrates golden year of queer film
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (1182+ words) 48 Hills Screen Grabs: 50 is the new 20, darling'Frameline celebrates golden year of queer film Stars past and present align for world's longest-running LGBTQ movie festival. Here's our inside guide. It's a major achievement for any arts organization to negotiate cultural changes…...
Fresh Meat Fest serves queer Chinese dance, Puerto Rican disability drag flair
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (825+ words) 25th anniversary of queer arts showcase features sterling lineup of talent form all corners of the LGBTQ universe. As Shawn Lee describes their new work for 2026s Fresh Meat Festival, it becomes evident that for the Bay Area choreographer, compassion is every…...
The wild inside story of San Francisco's first gay film festival
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (977+ words) 50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s'and a movement was born. San Francisco, 1977." Location: a formerly Irish working class neighborhood that evolved into a gay mecca and rechristened as'the Castro." The…...
Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest
1+ week, 2+ day ago (212+ words) Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap That got Meyer hired to do'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the likewise SF-set franchise entry many fans still…...
Through the looking glass at the National Queer Arts Festival
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (590+ words) 29th iteration dives into a 'Magic Mirror' of community reflection and ancestral resonance, with sound baths, Black astrology, more. The theme for this year's National Queer Arts Festival, "Magic Mirror" was chosen before new Queer Cultural Center Executive Director Lauren Garcia…...
Trans trailblazer Sean Dorsey: 'When shit gets hard, we choose to show up for each other"
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1068+ words) His legendary dance company's 22nd annual home season offers 'a balm for this moment in America.' These performances (Fri/24-Sun/26) arrive amid escalating anti-trans legislation and cultural hostility, but'Sean'Dorsey'is not interested in surrendering to despair. Instead, he is creating what he…...
Four decades later, seminal queer punk zine 'Homocore' blasts back into view
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1193+ words) New anthology collects the DIY publication's precious few issues, which gave voice to anti-assimilationist sexual outlaws. In a San Francisco increasingly defined by AI companies, disappearing subcultures, and the quiet flattening of once-radical spaces, the return of'Homocore'as an anthology and…...
BIG WEEK: Full Queer Wrestling, Pi Day, Alysa Liu celebration, "Women Who Ride
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (600+ words) Plus: Peaches Christ eats the rich, Duserock, Maria BC, Greek and Irish films, Renegade Orchestra, more to do! Welcome to our calendar feature BIG WEEK, wherein our'expert Arts & Culture writers'recommend the best things to do. GENERAL ARTSCaitlin Donohue is keeping…...
Drama Masks: 'Paranormal Activity' and other things that go bump in the night
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (749+ words) Plus: 'All My Sons' proves Arthur Miller's anti-establishment cred and 'Looking For Justice' finds a broken system. This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask. I…...