dvr this HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. HBO’s latest newest prestige drama was created by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese and it focuses on the 1970s music business in New York. With that pedigree, it shouldn’t be surprising that the show is full of drugs, sex, violence, raw rock and roll and sublime R&B. Bobby Cannavale…
In its heyday, bathhouses were as common in major cities as discos. It was the 1970s and the sexual liberation movement was at its zenith. Gay men, who were still socially ostracized, had fewer options for hooking up. Sure, cruising parks and truck stops offered a modicum of relief, but were risky and often accompanied…
Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, March 15, 9 p.m. In one of Warren Beatty’s great roles (which is saying something), he plays George, a hair stylist to the more wealthy and fabulous women of Beverly Hills. He also spends of good deal of time sleeping with them, both the married and single ones, and he’s basically…
Until 1976 I knew many homosexual men and women who were sent to state mental hospitals by a judge or the signature of one of their parents. Many received electric shock treatment and never came out of these hospitals the same person they were. It is in this environment, this hostile and hating society that…
The “Congressional Roll Call” is considered the political bible of Washington, D.C. In a recent article about possible future Democratic congressmen from California our very own City Council President Todd Gloria got some major play and a picture (the only one) stating that he was a “protégé of Rep. Susan Davis” and he was seen…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, April 21, 1 a.m. While the musical Hair is a beloved classic, there is an unspoken problem with the staged version. It doesn’t really have much of a plot. The movie, on the other hand, which was directed by the great Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, March 9, 2:30 p.m. Before Stephen Spielberg started making Oscar bait, he made Oscar-worthy adventure films, and from that early period in the 1970s, I think Close Encounters of the Third Kind is his best film. Based on the classification of UFO encounters in which the third refers to human…
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is not only the meek, mild, obedient woman the Christian tradition has turned her into, but also, a strong, morally autonomous, independent woman who does her own thinking, her own questioning, her own discerning and her own deciding. For many of us, it’s a very different way of thinking about…
My heart is full of pride for our community … always there for the Imperial Court’s annual toy, food and blanket drives. Among the many children who received toys and food vouchers were 200 children of GLBT parents. Thank each and every one of you. You make our holiday drives the success they have been…
Thank you for all your positive comments on my and Stampp Corbin’s political and civil rights interview on both the KPBS radio and TV shows. David Copley turned his back on HIV/AIDS and his gay community When President Ronald Reagan died almost all of his good accomplishments were hailed and praised, but almost all of…
