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Virtual events ramp-up as Pride Month nears

Virtual events ramp-up as Pride Month nears

  • by John Ferrannini
  • May 20, 2020

As Pride Month approaches, events celebrating the LGBT community the world over are adapting to the novel coronavirus outbreak by moving from the streets into virtual space.

Thanks to matching offer from anonymous donor, Bay Area Reporter extends fundraising appeal

Thanks to matching offer from anonymous donor, Bay Area Reporter extends fundraising appeal

  • by Michael Yamashita
  • May 1, 2020

Thank you very much, it has been both humbling and encouraging receiving your generous support when so many are also in need of help. So far, we have raised just over $25,000 and are just 15% away from reaching our goal of $30,000.

You can help support the Bay Area Reporter fundraising campaign

You can help support the Bay Area Reporter fundraising campaign

  • by Michael Yamashita
  • Apr 15, 2020

San Francisco is one of 11 US cities that is fortunate to have a legacy LGBT publication by us, for us, and about us. Help preserve the BAR as an historic and important community institution for the future.

San Francisco Pride official magazine now accepting space reservations

San Francisco Pride official magazine now accepting space reservations

  • by Advertising Department
  • Feb 25, 2020

'INSIDE PRIDE', the official magazine of San Francisco Pride is now accepting space reservations.

10th annual readers' poll starts

10th annual readers' poll starts

  • by Cynthia Laird
  • Jan 29, 2020

This year marks the 10th annual Bay Area Reporter readers' poll, the Besties, and voting begins Thursday, January 30.

Pride 2019: Five decades of queer rebellion

Pride 2019: Five decades of queer rebellion

  • by BAR staff
  • Jun 27, 2019

Welcome to the Bay Area Reporter's special Pride section. Stories are headlined with "Pride 2019."

Pride 2019: Pride-alicious! Musicians and MCs on the big show

Pride 2019: Pride-alicious! Musicians and MCs on the big show

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Jun 26, 2019

SF Pride promises a plethora of exciting live entertainment on the mainstage, Sunday June 30. From drag queens to singers, to political leaders and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the line-up offers a wide variety of sights and sounds.

Pride 2019: Why Judy Garland still matters

Pride 2019: Why Judy Garland still matters

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Jun 25, 2019

While she was not the greatest singer of the 20th century, Judy Garland was possibly the greatest entertainer of the modern age. June 22 was the 50th anniversary of her untimely death at age 47 from an accidental overdose of barbiturates.

Pride 2019: Pride books for the young

Pride 2019: Pride books for the young

  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Jun 25, 2019

Celebrations of families with same-gender parents, "My Two Dads and Me" and "My Two Moms and Me" (both Doubleday), by Michael Joosten and Izak Zenou, feature kids having breakfast, going to the park, having lunch.

Pride 2019: The Master, remarkable Noel Coward

Pride 2019: The Master, remarkable Noel Coward

  • by Tavo Amador
  • Jun 25, 2019

Prominent stage, movie, and television actor. Dramatist. Novelist. Lyricist. Composer. Singer. Cabaret star. Theatre and film director. Celebrated raconteur. Insightful diarist. Noel Coward (1899-1973) was all those things.

Pride 2019: LGBTQ Pride whirlwind

Pride 2019: LGBTQ Pride whirlwind

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Jun 25, 2019

There's an old comic movie about a European charter tour called "If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium." Likewise, you could call the movie of our whirlwind last week "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Frameline."

Pride 2019: Confab shows growing interest in queer history

Pride 2019: Confab shows growing interest in queer history

  • by Heather Cassell
  • Jun 25, 2019

Half a century after the Stonewall riots ignited a community that had long lived in the shadows, LGBT historians from around the world gathered in San Francisco for the Queer History Conference last week.

Pride 2019: Making a rainbow out of cloth

Pride 2019: Making a rainbow out of cloth

  • by Gilbert Baker
  • Jun 25, 2019

An excerpt from Gilbert Baker's posthumous memoir, "Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color."

Pride 2019: Book sheds light on gay closeted Eisenhower aide

Pride 2019: Book sheds light on gay closeted Eisenhower aide

  • by Veronica Dolginko
  • Jun 25, 2019

The years during and surrounding Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency were some of the most socially conservative this country has ever seen.