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An Ode to the Only County Fair With Lakeside Concerts
In Marin, fair time means free rides, nightly fireworks and concerts on an island in the middle of a lake.
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SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO’s $700M Military AI Investment
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‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Is a Clever and Colossal Comeback
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Photos: Decades in, These Women’s Love Was ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’
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SF Bookstore Drops ‘Harry Potter’ Over J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Activism
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Voguing in the Bayview: Ballroom Culture Comes Alive With Joy at the Opera House
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Rightnowish’s Grand Finale: Words of Wisdom From Timothy B.
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Building a Native Arts and Culture Space From the Ground Up
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Artist and curator Marcel Pardo Ariza poses for a photo at the archives of San Francisco's GLBT Historical Society.
‘All The Nights We Got To Dance’ Is a Tribute to Queer Nightlife in SF
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An Ode to the Only County Fair With Lakeside Concerts
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‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Is a Clever and Colossal Comeback
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A Black woman with cropped white hair looks lovingly at a white woman with short grey hair and glasses, who is returning her gaze.
Photos: Decades in, These Women’s Love Was ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’
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SF Band Ditches Spotify Over CEO’s $700M Military AI Investment

Deerhoof will remove its entire catalog from the ‘data-mining scam masquerading as a ‘music company.’’
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An Ode to the Only County Fair With Lakeside Concerts

In Marin, fair time means free rides, nightly fireworks and concerts on an island in the middle of a lake.
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The back of someone's head is visible as they turn to look at a giant, roaring dinosaur in the distance.

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Is a Clever and Colossal Comeback

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali play mercenaries hired to pick up dinosaur DNA. The end result is thrilling.
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A Black woman with cropped white hair looks lovingly at a white woman with short grey hair and glasses, who is returning her gaze.

Photos: Decades in, These Women’s Love Was ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’

Morgan Lieberman’s ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ captures the lives of senior lesbian couples in the Bay Area and beyond.
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SF Bookstore Drops ‘Harry Potter’ Over J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Activism

Booksmith staff said their decision came after Rowling launched a legal fund to ‘retain women’s sex-based rights.’
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Voguing in the Bayview: Ballroom Culture Comes Alive With Joy at the Opera House

At the Bayview Opera House Wednesday night, a voguing competition brought movement, music and love.
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For Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pride Is Still a Riot

The artist sounds off on what Americans can learn from Russia, where gay ‘propaganda’ is illegal.
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