Obituaries News - Bay Area Reporter
WEBOBITUARIES. by Cynthia Laird. Aug 14, 2024. Nathan Purkiss, a gay man who worked for gay former San Francisco supervisor Mark Leno at City Hall and in Sacramento after Leno was elected to the state Assembly, died July 25, at his home in Davis, California.
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Lesbian CA legislator's out sister aims to succeed her in …
WEBDec 21, 2022 · On Wednesday Cervantes' younger sister, Clarissa, announced her candidacy to succeed her sibling in the Assembly District 58 seat. Clarissa Cervantes, 32, who uses she and they pronouns, identifies as bisexual and queer, as the statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization Equality California noted when …
Folsom Street Fair 2022 - Bay Area Reporter
WEBMonday September 26, 2022. Share this Post: Kink in all its glory hit the South of Market streets for the annual Folsom Street Fair on Sept. 25. Attendees dressed in leather, rubber, fetish gear, drag —and for some not dressed in much at all— enjoyed strutting their kinky garb. www.folsomstreet.org.
Doors to Bay Area gay sex venues swing open
WEBJun 2, 2021 · Bay Area gay sex venues are welcoming back patrons as the region reopens up after over a year of lockdowns due to the COVID pandemic. Eros, a gay sex club on San Francisco's Market Street, has been open since May 20. It is open Wednesday-Sunday, from noon to 9 p.m. Co-owner Ken Rowe said that people in …
The White Horse Bar's gay 90th, and a new owner - Bay Area …
WEBThe longest-running LGBTQ bar in the United States is under new queer ownership. Patty Nishimura Dingle took over Oakland's White Horse Bar from longtime gay owner, Chuck Davis, who owned the bar for more than 20 years, on July 4, 2022. Dingle, a 50-year-old "futch Blasian" lesbian, didn't announce the change in ownership until March 30 in a ...
Burr, in the closet during TV career, comes to life in new book
WEBby Ed Walsh. Wednesday June 25, 2008. The longtime partner of Raymond Burr says he has not seen the new book out on the late actor but is planning on writing his own tome about his life with Burr. Robert Benevides, 78, told the Bay Area Reporter that he is working with a writer to tell the story of his 33-year relationship with the TV legend.
Online Extra: Parole denied for killer of Bay Area transgender teen
WEBSep 11, 2019 · Michael William Magidson, the last of the four murderers of trans teen Gwen Araujo who is still in prison, was denied parole this week during a hearing at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California where he is being held, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Sylvia Guerrero, Araujo's mom, wrote in …
Emily Saliers: Singer-songwriter on Indigo Girls' success
WEBAug 13, 2024 · The Indigo Girls — Emily Saliers and Amy Ray — are having a moment. Since the release of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie in the summer of 2023, in which the queer duo's "Closer to Fine" was heard repeatedly, to today, when they are prominently featured in Tom Gustafson's "Glitter & Doom" and Alexandria Bombach's doc "Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All," Indigo Girls are hotter than ever.
50th_anniversary News - Bay Area Reporter
WEBSep 25, 2023 · B.A.R. Talk 12: history in print. by Jim Provenzano. Mar 29, 2022. In closing our yearlong celebrations of the Bay Area Reporter's 50th anniversary, our twelfth online panel on April 7 will focus on five decades of the newspaper's history, with several current and former editors and writers.