San Francisco
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Queer American History
This slideshow is a few weeks old, obviously, because it was posted for Independence Day, but there’s no wrong time to read about queer American history. Some topics covered: Was James Buchanan the first gay president? How important was same-sex…
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Introducing Lit Tease, A Preview/Fundraiser for Lit Crawl
Still hyped up from Beast Crawl and counting down the days until San Francisco’s Lit Crawl in October? Then you’ll want a ticket to Lit Tease, LitQuake’s preview/fundraiser event for the highlight of their annual festival, happening tonight. Tickets are…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Hope your Pride Weekend was pretty, witty, and gay. On that topic, we interviewed Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about her book The End of San Francisco, which asks the question: If San Francisco is “a place where marginalized queers can come to find…
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An Oral History of Unsung Queer Latino Immigrants
The new issue of SF Weekly features the life stories, translated from their own words, of four gay and transgender Latin American immigrants who came to San Francisco in the 1980s. The pasts they left behind are as dissimilar as…
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SF: Phone Booth Sessions
Part four of San Francisco’s Phone Booth Sessions will be taking place tomorrow! Readings, performances, & screenings by Jarett Kobek, Janey Smith, Dean Smith, Davenzane Hayes, Dorothy Tunnell, M Kitchell, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, featuring music from Andy Tisdall. Tomorrow, Wednesday,…
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A Portrait of the Character as a Fictional Creation
Lovers of fiction and art (i.e., pretty much every Rumpus reader), listen up. The Modern Eden Gallery is San Francisco is hosting an exhibition called “Fiction,” in which artists portray literary characters from Dorian Gray to Alice in Wonderland to…
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Parallel Streets of San Francisco: Postcard Edition
Remember our delightful “Parallel Streets of San Francisco” illustrations? They’re now available as postcard-sized screen prints, both on Etsy and at Rag SF. Now you can send a little part of San Francisco anywhere in the world…like, for example, the part…
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Reaching Across the Bay Bridge
In a sort of Bay Area meeting of minds, Scott Hutchins, author of a novel about San Francisco and Silicon Valley, profiles Michael Chabon, whose latest novel takes place mainly in Oakland and Berkeley. Read it to learn about Chabon’s…
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The Last City I Loved: San Francisco
One part of me will always be on my roof in the Sunset District, smoking with my human butt on a damp spot, my cigarette butt about to rest on a similarly moist shingle.
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Make Mine a Double Decker
San Francisco residents (or anyone amused by public transportation shenanigans) should look no further than Muni Diaries’s Five Best Muni Moments. Favorite: “a rider saw two guys selling Starbucks coffee beans out of a suitcase on the back of the 22-Fillmore.…
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Get Out of My Crotch! Reading/Signing
If you live in the Bay Area and have forgotten whose crotch to get out of, have we got a reminder for you: a reading and book-signing of Get Out of My Crotch!, the feminist anthology featuring several Rumpus writers that…
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Mission Art Explosion This Weekend!
San Francisco! Come out this weekend to Art Explosion Spring Open Studios. The opening reception will be held this Friday night at two locations, 2425 17th St and 744 Alabama St, from 7pm-11pm. There will be open studios on Saturday and…