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 | Room for Squares One thing I’ve learned from the hordes of people who come for Pride is that, when it comes to meeting other people, people are weird. It just seems that the formalities of first impressions almost always get in the way of true introductions. Every single time I meet a new person, I find myself having to sit through an exchange of niceties that is neither informative nor interesting. Meeting people should be easy, and getting to know them should be easier still. We just have to steer clear of a few fatal mistakes.More |  | Room for Squares This week’s entry marks the one year anniversary of this column. While a year isn’t really a long time and making it to the 52nd week of a weekly column isn’t exactly the same achievement as finishing the last chapter of “War and Peace,” it’s still long enough to have afforded me some well learned lessons. I started this column as a means of giving voice to what I thought were a marginalized few in the gay community: the squares. A year later, with Pride 08 just around the corner, I find myself asking the same questions, still wondering if we really are indeed “united by pride” and “bound for equality".More |  | Celebrating the Best In International Queer Cinema This summer’s Frameline Festival, Frameline32: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, will once again turn the focus of worldwide LGBT cinema to the heart of San Francisco. As it does every year, the program promises to provide entertainment and stimulation, to provoke intellect and emotion. In their quest to celebrate the best in international queer cinema, festival organizers have prepared a program that is robust in scope but directed in focus. The festival, which runs for 11 days beginning June 19, will feature 237 films, all of which have been selected for their innovation, cultural value and social relevance.More |  | Room for Squares Between the worlds of straight and gay, there has always been a great divide. Let’s imagine that on one side of the gap stands the Brawny man and on the other, sitting pretty in his Jack Purcells, is Jack McFarland. One is straighter than an arrow and the other is gayer than a pair of cutoff jeans on a navy vessel at a Cher concert. But between the two there runs an entire gamut of gay acting straight guys and straight acting gays.More |  | Hard to believe, but it’s already been 12 months since last year’s San Francisco Pride celebration. If you are lucky enough to have been there, then you’ll be even more excited to see what’s in store for this year’s festivities with celebrity grand marshals like Cyndi Lauper and Charo. But there is so much more to Pride than a weekend party; it’s a month long celebration of everything that is great about the queer community, from films and theatre to art and music, San Francisco Pride’s got it all and then some.More |  | Room for Squares The thing about twins is that they try really hard to separate themselves. Take the Olsens, for instance. One is more flower power hobo and the other looks more well-to-do, plastic chic. Simply put, one could care less about appearance and the other couldn’t care more. So whether or not you’re a fan of either Olsen twin, you have to admit that there is a world of difference between the two. A difference, some would say, not unlike the distinction between Northern California and Southern California.More |  | Room for Squares Another week, another missed opportunity for me to be some seldom heard, often ignored voice of reason. This time, I had intended to write some perfunctory piece about how Pride is good, Pride is great, Pride is hotter than jailbait. That regular mumbo jumbo about how far we’ve come, how we have so much to be proud of, blah blah blah. And don’t get me wrong, we certainly do. But there’s also a lot for which we shouldn’t be proud.More |  | Room for Squares A good bulk of this column’s past entries has centered on the topic of marriage equality. And without last week’s overturning of the ban on gay marriage, I’m not sure how much more anyone could actually have said on the topic. As it stands, however, things have changed. And change, although upsetting and begrudgingly welcomed in most cases, is in this instance a most well received and celebrated turn of events.More |  | Room for Squares How much of being gay in the workplace is your business, and how much of it is your employer’s? The answer to that is a highly a personal decision. But whether by our hands or not, those of us who work in the corporate world will sooner or later become office chatter. In this day and age, most of us are protected from unlawful discrimination by Fair Employment laws. However, even those laws can’t save us from the often guillotine like machinations of office politics.More |  | Room for Squares A curve ball is something you don’t see coming. You could be happily walking along when out of nowhere a fast one comes and hits you upside the head. It makes you see things from another perspective. The paragraphs that follow are just my way of trying to make sense of something that, up until recently, had always been out of the question.More |
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