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LGBTQ Community Leaders Remember Sally Miller Gearhart Susan Leo, July 14, 2021: Sally slipped these earthly bonds last night after a long illness. In her last days she had been visited by many who loved her, both in the flesh and in spirit and she seemed ready to let go. Sally was remarkable: sharp in her thinking, clear in her politics, fiercely determined, warmly compassionate. She was an immense presence in San Francisco, arriving in 1970 and becoming the first openly lesbian professor at S...

IN 1935, after watching a play at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool, two teachers from Darlington’s Polam Hall School made a £5 bet with the star of the show that he couldn’t make repertory theatre work in their hometown. And so, in 1936, Charles Simon, an actor from Wolverhampton, pitched up in Darlington to try to win the bet. He established the Darlington Permanent Repertory Company, which was based at the Theatre Royal in Northgate. Within months, the theatre was sold for conv...

By Deborah Craig– Sally Gearhart was a toweringly brilliant woman I encountered quite by accident. I teach Public Health at SF State and am a filmmaker too. While helping LGBTQ public health expert Mickey Eliason with a study of lesbian health, I met so many perceptive and funny women that I began a short documentary about lesbians and aging. Mickey’s collaborator Penny Sablove mentioned an octogenarian she knew still living on women’s land in Northern California and cutting her own firew...