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20 May 2022

Local Web Series “City Folx” Brings Drag King Laughs

Drag performance may be getting its moment in the pop cultural spotlight thanks to the likes of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”  However, that spotlight’s mainly shining on drag queens, not drag kings.  Instead of waiting for some mainstream media outlet to notice the talent of drag kings, local director Rae Dawn

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12 Aug 2021

Queer Wave Coffee: The New Queer, Indigenous, & Socially Conscious Brew

By Kristen Pizzo When you think of social justice, I doubt coffee is the first thing that comes to mind. But like so many heavily consumed products, there are so many people, resources, and processes behind the scenes that it’s almost impossible to keep social justice out of the coffee

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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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14 Oct 2020

Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret Is Kickstarting a Feature-Length Movie

In a normal year, right now we’d be buying tickets to go see a spooky live Halloween musical show put on by Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret. But it’s since 2020 is a fucked up year of endless horrors, there are no live performances we can attend. But Kat and her

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12 Oct 2020

There’s a Rad New Coalition of Queer & POC Bay Area Cartoonists

The world of comic books and cartoonists is far too often associated with geeky straight white dudes like this: Once you step away from mainstream pop culture though you realize there are cartoonists of every ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference. And there have been decades of underground comic books representing

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18 Feb 2020

Kickstarter Votes to Unionize, Becomes First Tech Company to Form Union

Our Tech Column was made possible by the fine folks at Mozilla Firefox.  The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.  And that’s why we love Firefox as our browser, and you should too. Brooklyn-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter

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10 Jan 2017

Kaytlin Bailey : A Comedian You Should Know

The ‘Comedian you should know series’ is about celebrating artists on stage.  The wonderful, strange, and brilliant performers that light up our theaters, auditoriums, clubs, and sidewalks.  A kick-ass, all-female comedy team, has done something interesting, they’ve collaborated with kickstarter to pre-sell tickets to the shows on their tour.  Meet Kaytlin Bailey of Cake Comedy,

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25 Apr 2016

The Gay Agenda: A New Daily Calendar Celebrating LGBTQ Heroes

Guest post by Kaspar K The Gay Agenda, is satire with a heart. Poking fun at the right-wing propaganda that says the gays are destroying the country was definitely part of the motivation, but as the content started to take shape, we realized this little project could in fact help

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13 Apr 2016

Game Developers Blew Kickstarter Money on Booze and Strippers

Guest post by Christophe Blake Parker Go ahead and picture your average gamer. What do you see? What images first come to mind. A pimple-faced teenager holed up in his room playing World of Warcraft? A businesswoman tapping frantically at her screen while she plays the eighth billion level of

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