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The Question of Pride
It’s been estimated that close to 1,000,000 people attend San Francisco Pride every year. That’s a lot of people coming together to party, mingle, coast and cruise. But don’t let the blocks and blocks of easy-going revelers mislead you into questioning what cause is left for celebration. Our purpose and aim have remained largely unchanged in the past 37 years or so since Pride’s inception in the 70s. More
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Let’s Get Digital, Digital
Few things in life have remained untouched by the internet. Sure, you could claim innocence if you still grind your own Quaker oats for breakfast, but by and large we’re all guilty of having fallen into the complacency of steady convenience. From necessities like groceries and clothes to less functional things like pork chops half eaten by Elvis, there isn’t anything that hasn’t yet been itemized, commoditized and ultimately digitized. More
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This Delicate Thing He’s Made
Integrity and pop music don’t always go hand in hand (just ask Britney Spears when the last time was she wrote a song). In fact, it’s always been rare in the case of what the public largely likes to call manufactured pop singers, but there are certainly exceptions to the rule. Gladly, Darren Hayes is one of those singers who’d like to prove the critics wrong. More
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A Change Would Do You Good
Some things never change. Gavin Newsom’s hair for instance. Whatever new scandal our inimitable mayor gets embroiled in, you know for sure that his yummy helmet is in shape and in tact. It’s comforting. You even start to take it for a symbol of his unfaltering political agenda. Sure, it’s not a rainbow flag, but in these disparate times, I’ll lock onto anything as a sign. Why is it then that after a weekend of partying in the Castro, I want nothing more than to shake up the status quo? More
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Mass Devotion
If the purpose of film is to offer escape, insight and entertainment, then it shouldn’t matter whether what’s onscreen is an Oscar contender or an offbeat, alternative film. Cult cinema is avidly loved by its audiences precisely because it promises escape from the bounds of mainstream propriety. The extreme devotion that cult films inspire in their audiences has nothing to do with following trends; instead it has everything to do with inspiration. More
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That Is So Gay
Did anyone else listen to "Hibernia Beach" on Live 105 back in the day? It was this gay-themed radio show that they used to broadcast on Sunday nights. Well, I used to listen to it a lot while I tried to cram in those final few Calculus problems before bedtime. Of all the topics discussed on the show (ranging from political to sexual), one topic has always remained most distinct in my mind. It was the night that the on-air DJs bantered over the colloquial use of the term “gay” to indicate distaste. More
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Being Anyone We Wanna Be
Now that Transformers nostalgia is riding high on the back of a blockbuster summer film, I find myself looking back to the childhood role models of the 80s. To be honest, I always looked up to Jem more than I did Optimus Prime. But come to think of it, as a gay kid growing up during the onslaught of the AIDS epidemic, you weren’t given that many role models to choose from. More
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Label Queen
Labels. What would we be without them? We wear them, we use them, and whether we know it or not, we actually need some of them. Without terms like gay, lesbian and bisexual, many of us would cease to matter. Labels like those are pretty self explanatory; they give us some idea about who we are, and without them we’d be largely discounted by society. But don’t get me wrong. By no stretch of the imagination should any of us seek to identify ourselves solely by our sexual orientations. More
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The Track To Maturity
If the truckload of Canadian acts like Leslie Feist, the New Pornographers and all of Broken Social Scene that has recently been making waves hasn’t yet whetted your appetite for all things north of the border, then you’ll probably want to start paying more attention to Tegan & Sara. Having already toured extensively with big name acts like fellow Canadians Neil Young, Rufus Wainwright, and Americans Ben Folds, the Pretenders and Ryan Adams, the sisters will be hitting San Francisco’s own Brava Theatre on July 22 & 23 in support of their new album, The Con, released the following Tuesday. More
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God’s Gift To Men
Has it ever occurred to you how much easier your life would have been if you were the same as all the straight boys in school? When I was in high school, one of the biggest roadblocks to my coming out was my fear of their reactions. Don’t mistake me. I wasn’t under any illusion that it would make them stop talking to me because, frankly, they never spoke to me in the first place. More
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