From the mid-'60s through 2008 there was another type of downtown bar - the businessman's bar. The two downtown bars which lasted the longest and had the biggest impact were Sutter's Mill and the various incarnations of Ginger's.

The Amy Winehouse exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum/SF an intimate and intriguing look at the back-story of the gifted singer-songwriter whose life ended tragically in addiction and alcohol poisoning.

Visitors to Pacific Heights could be excused these days for thinking there is little gay about it, save for the gay colors on Victorians like the Painted Ladies in Alamo Square. But this was not always the case.

A warm summer night earlier this month in San Francisco. Out There and our personal-size pizza Pepi found our way down to the Embarcadero, invited to a dinner at the Americano restaurant in the Hotel Vitale.

Gardens of music and brunch delights in this week's edition of Out There!

John Waters returns to the Bay Area this Fourth of July Weekend to host the sixth annual Burger Bugaloo. The film icon talks about his upcoming holiday gig.

Club Chaos (at the Crystal Pistol on 842 Valencia Street) , Club Screw (495 14th Street) and most of all Club Uranus at the End-up (6th and Harrison) both raised and lowered the bar for dance spaces that followed.

Here is a plan for a fabulous summer escape east, where we share the joys of Brooklyn's cultural and natural splendor, with a hot weekend dose of Manhattan and Brooklyn clubs, and Broadway hits with a queer edge.

It's the most marvelous time of the year, LGBT Pride Month. Rainbow flags are a-flappin', gay tourists are a-fappin', and the Frameline film festival is a-tappin' on our shoulder.

San Francisco, Mid-1970s. A perfect place at a perfect time. Mark Abramson's memoir is the next best thing to being there, and here's a sample.

Let's face it: The musical "Annie" was old-fashioned even when it opened on Broadway in 1977. That doesn't mean it's not a crowd-pleaser... along with the other events profiled this week!

Gifted artist Laurie Anderson played four shows at SFJazz last week, and Out There was in the audience on Saturday night. That's just the start of it.

Frameline 39 executive director Frances Wallace promised a slate full of "conversation starters," and from what we can tell from the preview, she is correct.

A project has been launched in California to focus on the state's LGBT history as work advances on a National Historic Landmark LGBTQ Theme Study and proposed framework for the National Park Service.