A memorial will be held next month for Dr. David Rudolph Kessler, who became the first openly gay psychiatrist at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital back in the 1970s.
A memorial will be held next month for Dr. David Rudolph Kessler, who became the first openly gay psychiatrist at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital back in the 1970s.
A memorial will be held next month for Dr. David Rudolph Kessler, who became the first openly gay psychiatrist at UCSF’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital back in the 1970s.
See the exclusive, in-progress Houston premiere of 'Mekong: SOUL,' a multi-disciplinary performance piece by Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ that tells powerful and multi-sensory stories about life on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.
Invented a new identity for himself. andrew desilva, he made up stories about a gilded past, about accomplishments that never were. and impress those men by appearing well read and cultured. told them he loved art and opera. so, andrew was being in more elite circles now and traveling. he went to the san francisco opera house in 1990, a chance meeting afterwards would change his life. and change history. that meeting was with gianni versace, who was in san francisco designing costumes as the sketch shows for the opera capricious. there was a party where versace was going to appear, and andrew s friend scored some tickets, and so during the party he claimed, and other people claimed, that andrew met versace. mind you, antonio, remember him as versace s partner, he was at the party and claimed that meeting never happened. but andrew s excitement was off the charts, he couldn t contain himself with some of his friends. he jumped on the foot of their bed and said i met versace, i m