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SF considers establishing trail-blazing new city office of drag laureate
Who should be the queen of queens?
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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.
As the Bay Area Reporter noted, the idea was one of many in S.F.’s “LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy,” a 2018 report that was revised in August amid nightlife’s pandemic near-extinction. The idea of creating another high-profile city position to advocate for queer culture and nightlife seems logical enough, although it may have detractors among fiscal hawks. A formal cost-benefit a
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2020
By Liam P. Mayclem–
2020 was our “annus horribilis” (horrible year), to paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II. For most, 2021 cannot come soon enough, and this next year I hope will be our “annus mirabilis” a wonderful year.
Everyone everywhere, from world leaders and royalty to prison inmates and the homeless, has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic that defined much of 2020. The virus came close to home for me when both sides of my family were hit by the virus here in the U.S. and back home in the U.K. Joyfully, everyone in my family pulled through, but that was not the case for all, and my heart is with all those we lost; too many, taken too soon.