If you have moved to the Bay Area recently, you no doubt think of Sausalito as a quaint touristy town - the perfect sort of place to take visiting relatives. It hasn't always been that way.

LGBTQ Pride Month goes by in a big pink blur, and Out There never has enough time to catch you up with our multifarious activities. So this week, we offer a few brief reprises.

The start of the Pride Parade has a secret - and it's hidden! The downtown assembly area on the waterfront is among the oldest LGBT neighborhoods in the city, and there is barely a trace of it left.

It's time to catch you up on some of the cultural events your gay uncle Out There has been sampling this month. We've been running behind at keeping you abreast of our civil activities. Let's fill you in.

It was a one-two-three knockout punch of San Francisco culture for your gay uncle Out There last week. Let us walk you through our cultural calendar.

Behold the 2017 Besties, the B.A.R. 's LGBTQ Best of the Bay awards. Here are the results in nine Arts & Culture categories. Congratulations to all the winners and also-rans!

Male prostitution is probably as old as the city itself. Edward Prime-Stevenson wrote in 1908 that soldiers in the Presidio were for rent during the Spanish-American War. It is certainly as old as the homophile organizations.

The Clement Hotel Palo Alto generously invited Out There and our bosom buddy Pepi for an overnight stay in the luxurious six-star hotel down the peninsula. It was OT's first time overnighting in an "all-inclusive luxury" property.

Bill Irwin knows that we are blessed to live in a world that was graced by the great Irish poet, dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett. His show "On Beckett," at ACT's Strand Theater through Jan. 22, is Irwin making his case.

Based on gay historical novelist Thomas Mallon's brilliant "Fellow Travelers" (2007), the opera of the same name centers on a gay romance during the "Lavender Scare" of the McCarthyite 1950s in Washington, DC.

Let's catch up with our cultural perambulations, shall we? The holiday season goes by in a blur, but Out There took the time to attend local theatre and performance.

Artists, art-lovers, artisans! Philanthropists, philanderers, philistines! Alphas & betas, tops & bottoms, butches & femmes, dominants & submissives! Join Out There in queer solidarity and popular resistance to the coming proto-fascist regime.

The Mostly British Film Festival will offer a free holiday triple feature on Wed., Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco.

This week Out There finds ourselves back in Washington, DC, and environs, where we grew up, came out, and spent our wild youth. We're glad we're here before the Reactionary Right-Wing Apocalypse transforms this town.