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Kim Corsaro (1953-2022)

Kim Corsaro, longtime publisher of the San Francisco LGBTQ newspaper The Bay Times, passed away unexpectedly at her home in San Francisco on Monday, January…

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Looking for Mama: The search for Kathryn Forbes’ childhood home

“For as long as I could remember, the small cottage on Castro Street had been home.” So begins Kathryn Forbes’ 1943 fictionalized memoir Mama’s Bank…

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Sex, Drugs & Disco

This week’s Bay Area Reporter has some fascinating excerpts from Mark Abramson’s new autobiography, Sex, Drugs & Disco: San Francisco Diaries from the Pre-AIDS Era….

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