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2012 Stories by Keith Bowers

• Our Streetlight Imaginations

  published May 2, 2012

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a pioneer in the business of bookselling (City Lights was the nation's first all-paperback retailer), and he turned the... More >>

• Sex in Black and White

  published April 4, 2012

  Between them, Rachel Kramer Bussel and Susie Bright have probably edited or written 100 books relating to sex, and contributed to almost as many... More >>

• Holding the Bag

  published April 4, 2012

  Keith Lowell Jensen hates Chicago. But he has a reason. He spent a night in jail there after being caught with a handgun in the airport. But it... More >>

• Hell on Wheels

  published April 4, 2012

  San Francisco bicyclists face constant battles. Rain. Hills. Rainy hills. Cars with outraged drivers. Jaywalkers wearing headphones. FiDi workers... More >>

• Judge Not

  published March 14, 2012

  Vaughn Walker did what federal judges occasionally do: He was appointed by a Republican president (George H.W. Bush), but he’ll forever be... More >>

• Quick Look at Forever

  published March 14, 2012

  Any gay or bisexual man will tell you that finding a quick hookup with another man in San Francisco (or anywhere in the world, really) is so easy... More >>

• Naked Is the New Black

  published March 14, 2012

  I read it for the articles. That was a common defense of men who were caught with Playboy magazines in past decades. Although sometimes it... More >>

• Salvation Spoken Here

  published February 29, 2012

  In late 2010 we attended a reading we’ll never forget. We didn’t know it, but a madman was about to take the stage. Except he... More >>

• Expose Yourself to Activism

  published February 29, 2012

  Hippies loved the Volkswagen van. It represented rebellion and counterculture. Yet one afternoon we sat behind a VW van -- on a bicycle, at a stop... More >>

• Thought for Food

  published February 22, 2012

  “Food addiction.” On its face it sounds absurd -- like maybe “air addiction” or “water addiction.” How can we... More >>

• The Low Road

  published February 22, 2012

  It took filmmaker Terry Zwigoff nine years to make the documentary Crumb, about the underground comic artist of the same name.... More >>

• This Is How the World Ends

  published February 22, 2012

  Ron Garrigues takes a subtle approach to the most vexing of issues: overpopulation, destruction, and extinction. A person might call his... More >>

• The Body Can’t Lie

  published February 8, 2012

  Seeing a dance choreographed by Holly Johnson is like going to a Tennessee Williams play where the actors have forgotten how to speak and instead... More >>

• Darkness from the East

  published February 8, 2012

  The fall of the Soviet Union freed not only political prisoners and some high-end vodka brands but also truckloads of culture -- including some... More >>

• Heart Over Heels

  published February 1, 2012

  Formalwear is life's cruel joke. Men usually rent tuxedos rather than owning them, and it's almost always for weddings -- where they're under... More >>

• Sex Work and Society

  published January 25, 2012

  San Francisco has an unusually high number of sex workers per capita. They’re not only prostitutes (some of whom seek decriminalization of... More >>

• Socio-Political Psychosexual Literary Cabaret

  published January 18, 2012

  Ginger Murray, editrix of a magazine called Whore!, embodies a dangerous mix of literary, political, social, and sexual savvy, and... More >>

• Dirty Fun -- Fox News Says So

  published January 18, 2012

  Simon Sheppard's reading series has been attacked on Fox News, and it's no wonder. First of all, he writes gay porn, and the very name of the... More >>

• Short Path to the Long Term

  published January 18, 2012

  Any gay or bisexual man will tell you that finding a quick hookup with another man in San Francisco (or anywhere in the world, really) is so easy... More >>

• The Crush of Simplicity

  published January 11, 2012

  A science museum can be intimidating. “I don't know anything about science,” you might say, “and I don't know where to... More >>

• Portraits of Pain

  published January 4, 2012

  “After having a section of my leg removed, I began researching medicine from the Middle Ages through the 18th century.” That remark... More >>

• Join the Lynch Mob

  published January 4, 2012

  Motivational speaker Clam Lynch could have taken a stage name like Victor Cashflow or Rock Awesome, but no. We bet he kept that name to show he... More >>

• The Archaeology of War

  published January 4, 2012

  America once had a national war. It happened about 150 years ago. It was over slavery and state sovereignty and also about land. It lasted about... More >>