LGBTQ+ students seek to rebuild fractured community
David McAllister/Staff
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the student experience of every undergraduate at the university, but some challenges facing LGBTQ+ students remain unique.
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Sufjan Stevens dodges his own bullets in “Reach Out / Olympus”
After the 49-track debacle of “Convocations” rolled out in April and May, it’s tempting to accept anything from Stevens with lyrics and a hummable melody.
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Merrily we role model along
This is a flowery way of saying that my resistance is defensive. Personal. A role model can be a hard thing to find in the gay community.
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Freddie brings glamour to queer radicalism in summer single ‘Bashback!’
‘Bashback!’ is a versatile summer single: It’s equally meant for the dance floor and for watching the system burn.
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St. Vincent’s down, out but album, ‘Daddy’s Home,’ points upward
Some may dismiss it as an attempt at musical time travel, but it is not so much the present returning to the past as the 1970s being dragged into the 2020s with runs in its stockings and curlers in its hair.
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Nightjars soars with CA acoustics on debut EP ‘Modjeska’
Like all great narrators, Nightjars’ vocal performance is soft and sophisticated when it needs to be, but it is the sheer rhetorical craft behind their songwriting that makes the EP truly sing.
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Orville Schell, Yiyun Li transcend pandemics and revolutions through great literature at 7th annual Bay Area Book Festival
One thing was evident from the evening’s discussion. Regimes can be abandoned, nationalities jettisoned, but stories are impossible to leave behind.
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Burning thoughts turn to mass demonstration in Andy Mister’s solo exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents
“Solemn Anthems” lacks cohesion and connective tissue, but it holds a great deal of thought, and a great deal burns.
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Love at last sight: St. Vincent courts 70s sound for ‘Daddy’s Home’
The songs that inspired “Daddy’s Home” represent more than just a musical epoch; they are the sound of a generation, a culture cut loose from the 1960s but not yet thrown into the conformity of the 1980s.
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Lil Nas X drops ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name),’ a sensuous queer anthem with a twist
His “Call Me By Your Name” is more than just a coming-out story — it is an audacious step into the public eye as an unapologetically queer Black man.
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