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Skip to main content 'It's a Sin' on HBO Max shows an utterly devastating view of AIDS in 1980s London Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Lydia West as Jill Baxter and Nathaniel Curtis as Ash Mukherjee in "It's a Sin" on HBO Max.Ben Blackall/HBO Max “La!” Sung cheerfully, that one syllable occurs again and again in HBO Max’s "It’s a Sin" as a marker of group identity. Set in London in 1981 (but filmed in Manchester), the show stars a group of gay men and their straight den mother who utter "la" to one another in every possible context. It's Liverpool slang, but sun-spoken in their...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Why SF's legendary The Stud is a 'queer bar,' not a 'gay bar,' and why LGBTQ+ words are changing Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Editor's note: This story contains sensitive language relating to gender and sexuality. For its 13th season, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” updated its initial words of encouragement to the contestants. For years, RuPaul started each show by saying, “Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman win” (with “woman” emphasized with a winking tone). This season, that became “Racers, start your engines, and may...

SF considers establishing trail-blazing new city office of 'drag laureate' Who should be the queen of queens? Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Sister Roma strikes a pose.Gooch Although San Francisco nightlife is very much on pause due to the pandemic, it's still possible to look ahead and see green shoots for the city's LGBTQ+ community. Supervisor Matt Haney wants to create a nightlife recovery fund to ensure that independent venues survive, for one. There may yet be a more targeted federal stimulus. And San Francisco may establish a new city-sanctioned office: that of drag laureate. A...

I don't know how. joe frisco has a frown, and it is due to the clown. mcdonalds is deliciously skirting san francisco's ban on free toys in kids' meals pie charging 10 cents for folks who want a toy and they are donating the money to the nonprofit ronald mcdonald house. last year, the city became the first to nix the knick-knacks. unless the food meets nutritional guidelines. tired of looking at the kids? come back to me. the law goes into affect today. and as the sf weekly quotes, in order to have the privilege of making a 10 cent charitable donation, you actually -- you must buy the happy me...