Support for Forum comes from Rancho La Puerta, a wellness resort on 4,000 acres in the mountains of Baja, California, just 45 minutes from San Diego.

Family owned and operated since 1940, Rancho La Pueerta offers adult summer camp-like vacations for anyone who enjoys hiking, mindfulness, and fitness classes.

Special rates and offers are available for summer stays and

first-time guests. Learn more at Rancho LePuerta.com. Support for Forum comes from Broadway

SF, presenting Parade, the musical revival based on a true story. From three-time Tony-winning composer

Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and Lucille Frank, a new story. From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and

Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused

of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

and devotion. The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade

plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th. Tickets on sale now

at Broadway, sF.com.

From KQED.

Music From KQED. From KQED. From KQED,

Mimmy Tempest, electric new poetry collection from City Lights is a wild ride.

Words come flying out of unusual parts of the page, lines break in ways you don't expect.

There are plays, violence, jokes.

What is it to be a black queer femme in America, in the Academy, in the Bay Area?

Tempest's work is bedeviled by the knowledge

that different performances of her blackness

would be fond over and published,

while others might be ignored or even reviled.

But the best defense is a good offense, no.

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