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SF Pride and Art Updates

Wow, my last post mentioned the San Francisco LGBT Pride festival & here it is again, the next year later!  Sometimes this blogging thing gets away from me:)  Speaking of the festival, I love Pride week here in SF because it’s like a holy week; Market Street is now lined with rainbow flags, there are [...]
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Multi-Media Event at the CSC

Earlier this year I attended a dual preview night of Thank You for Being Urgent by Silas Howard and Slightly Real Confessions of a Poser by Lynnee Breedlove (both former band members of the queer/dyke punk band Tribe 8). The opening performance art piece was by Heather Acs. The show was hosted at the Center [...]
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Harvey Milk for Everyone

Since I’m a queer-identified woman who is very happily out, and because today is National Coming Out Day, I thought it most appropriate to post “Harvey Milk for Everyone,” a photo collage by Atsuko Morita.  I, along with many others, was photographed for this awesome piece while parading around at this years San Francisco LGBT [...]
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I’ve Got a Lesbian Magazine in My Basket

This is from January 2008, as I was beginning to maneuver through my own coming out process. I cringe at how scared I was, but am so glad I wrote it. If you yourself are going through the coming out process, my heart goes out to you! In my experience though, with time all of [...]
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New Blog: Sexuality & Gender

I’m starting over. Well, more like reshaping. This recession has helped me to strip down to my barest essentials. It’s been sucky and it’s been a blessing. So, I’m starting this new blog to get to my point and share. Exploring sexuality and gender identity personally, academically and artistically has been my main interest for [...]
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LGBTTIQQGFPSUA & LGBFPSUTGTIQQA Pride Flags – A Jam of Sexual Culture

The LGBTTIQQGFPSUA & LGBFPSUTGTIQQA flags above are my responses to the Culture Jamming assignment. For those who need some clarification on the acronym within the flag, the letters stand for: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, GenderQueer, Fluid, Pansexual, Straight, Unlabeled, Allies. The top flag begins with LGBT just to be familiar and [...]
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