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B.A.R. endorsements:
Leno for state Senate
Four years ago, when then-Assemblyman Mark Leno squared off against incumbent state Senator Carole Migden, it was one of the most divisive intraparty races of the election cycle. (read more)
Breaking: Lee to restore all HIV/AIDS funds
Mayor Ed Lee will restore all of the nearly $8 million in federal HIV/AIDS funds that the city expects to lose in the fiscal year beginning July 1. Supervisor Scott Wiener confirmed the information to the Bay Area Reporter this morning (Thursday, May 17). (read more)
Talks for single LGBT sports event collapse
Recent negotiations between the Federation of Gay Games and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association aimed at initiating the creation of a joint international LGBT sporting event in 2018 ended in disagreement. (read more)
FDA panel OKs Truvada
for HIV Prevention
Truvada, a once-daily antiretroviral pill, is effective for preventing sexual transmission of HIV and should be approved as post-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted last week. (read more)
Remembering Brandy
A rally was held Sunday, May 13 in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of Oakland City Hall to remember transgender murder victim Brandy Martell and to call for an end to violence against transgender people. (read more)
Ship naming vote
set for Harvey Milk Day
San Francisco supervisors are set to vote on a resolution in support of naming a Navy vessel after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk next week as the state celebrates Milk's birthday. (read more)
More Arts
Fine Arts - Tripping
the light fantastic
Once in a while one stumbles upon an artist whose psychological bent intersects perfectly with one's own, and for me that would be photographer Tom Chambers. (read more)
Film -
Depp shadows
"I ran home from school to watch Dark Shadows" is the mantra often heard at annual Dark Shadows Festivals in New York City and Los Angeles. (read more)
Out There - In the
realms of Henry Darger
In Darger's Resources, a new Duke University Press paperback, Emory University professor Michael Moon explores the work of Henry Darger (1892-1973), the prolific "outsider artist" and writer who created a whole fictive universe. (read more)
Theatre - Summertime approaches
The weather may not be the best gauge of the seasons around these parts, but those theaters that arise when the year's calendar has flipped six pages are one way to know that summer is at hand. (read more)
Music - Raising the bar
In a recent review reporting on female orchestra conductors and their increasing presence on the American music scene, Bay Area readers probably noted an interesting omission. (read more)
DVD - Magnificent
Meryl, then & now
Jane Fonda, the star of Meryl Streep's first movie, Julia (1977), says she knew she would be a great success in films. (read more)
