Marvin K. White’s Haight Street Tour Evokes Summer of Love by Barry David Horwitz Walking up Haight Street again reminds me of that long ago Summer of Love in 1967. Even today, the street is painted with psychedelic murals, rock music wafts from storefronts, and rainbows of gay, straight, and gender fluid folks populate…
Jay Bedwani’s Brilliant Docu-Pic Unfolds San Francisco Story by Robert M. Gardner Director Jay Bedwani’s new documentary, Donna, subtly follows the growing self-acceptance of Donna Personna, San Francisco trans cabaret singer. The story centers on Donna’s involvement in a play about the 1966 Compton Cafeteria drag uprising, an event that brings up unsettling memories…
Cheryl L. West Tells Fannie Lou Hamer’s Mississippi Story by Rachel Norby & Barry David Horwitz Fannie Lou Hamer started out as a sharecropper in Mississippi and stayed true to her origins. In 1962, at 44 years old, she first learned she had the right to register and vote. So, she repeatedly challenged the…