Washington, D.C. writer Zak Salih s striking literary debut,
Let s Get Back To The Party, chronicles the ongoing reunion of two gay men who were friends throughout childhood yet became estranged by the ebb and flow of adult life.
Sebastian Mote, an art history teacher in northern Virginia, is attending the newly Supreme Court-advocated marriage of two men with his co-worker Dani, who is eager to lift his sagging spirits. Sebastian has been melancholy since his longtime boyfriend Jake abandoned their experiment in domesticity in favor of a marketing job in California and left without much warning or fanfare.
At the wedding, Sebastian spies Oscar Burnham, the buddy from his younger years whose family packed up and left the area abruptly. Their reunion is a study in how much they ve both grown up and how far apart they ve drifted from the scared, burgeoning youth they once were.
When it comes to recognizing and embracing promising talent, the gays have been at it longer than practically everyone else. Remember the Bette Midler/Barbara Hershey movie
Beaches? Remember the opening sequence with the lead characters as children? That was a young Mayim Bialik in one of her earliest film roles, playing Midler s C.C. Bloom as a kid. Ask any of us and we ll tell you we knew she was going to be a star.
Since then, Bialik has had her own hit network sitcom in the 1990s as the titular
Blossom and stole the show in every scene in which she appeared in the even more successful 21st-century sitcom
On March 5, the Disney-owned FX announced the Emmy- and Peabody-winning
Pose will end with the third season. The final season will consist of an abbreviated seven episodes and debut Sunday, May 2, at 10 p.m. with two episodes. The series finale will air June 6, for Pride Month.
There have only been two TV series telling the story of the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and 90s: the current British series
It s a Sin and
Pose. So this is a loss. But the show s creators were upbeat. We got to tell the exact story we wanted, as we wanted to tell it, and I m incredibly honored and grateful, co-creator Ryan Murphy said in a statement March 5.
The San Francisco Department of Elections has approved a recall effort of District Attorney Chesa Boudin to begin the signature-gathering process.
Matthew Selby, campaign services division manager for the elections department, confirmed to the Bay Area Reporter March 9 that the petition was approved for circulation March 4.
As the Bay Area Reporter previously reported, Richie Greenberg, a business adviser and activist who in 2018 was a Republican candidate for mayor, began the recall effort after a petition urging Boudin to resign received almost 15,000 signatures.
That petition was started amid a public outcry after a parolee was allegedly responsible for a hit-and-run that killed two pedestrians in the South of Market neighborhood on New Year s Eve.
First things first
According to rising playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza, New Orleanians who spoke out about government neglect and unpreparedness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina were prophets. They were prophets, she emphasizes, who were not listened to.
In San Francisco last week for rehearsals and filming of the SF Playhouse/Lorraine Hansberry Theater production her play
[hieroglyph], about a 13-year-old New Orleanian girl displaced to Chicago in the wake of Katrina, Dickerson-Despenza, herself black and queer with an extended family based in New Orleans, pointed to the devastating 2005 storm as a harbinger of things to come from the institutional unpreparedness that led to America s embarrassing year- long coronavirus fumble; to the blithe blindness about climate change that has left thousands of Mississippi households still without potable water after last month s unseasonable Southern freeze.