Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel May 10, 1990 Street Talk My Mother, Mildred By Doris Fish Sentinel Arts Writer My mother, Mildred, and Marilyn Monroe shared a birthday, though Mil is three years older. They also shared a slight physical resemblance which I inherited to an uncanny degree. Unfortunately,…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel May 17, 1990 Street Talk Sin City By Doris Fish How could I sink so low as to lip-synch to ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and yet still have it be one of the high spots at that low dive, DNA? When housework seems suddenly…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel May 24, 1990 Street Talk Oh George, You Poor Miserable Thing By Doris Fish (Note from Tree (transcriber) Included at the end is the article Doris refers to: ‘Get a Life’ by George Buchanan, originally published in the Bay Times. TW: Nasty and hurtful comments…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel May 31, 1990 Street Talk A Quiet, Dressy Evening By Doris Fish Doris Fish, Ms. Bob Davis, Ambi Sextrous and Tippi. Photo courtesy Phillip R Ford. Date TBD, likely between 1988-90. Commissioned by Bob Davis, Doris painted this in 1990. From the left,…
San Francisco Sentinel June 14, 1990 Street Talk Birthday Boy By Doris Fish Before I regale you with “The Phil Ford Party Saga”, I must clear up slight blurring of the facts from a few weeks ago. It seems I suggested that my good, good friend Miss X was a lush! Not in…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel Street Talk June 21, 1990 Oh No, Not Another Gay Day! By Doris Fish My, how time flies! Has it really been a year? I’ve had twelve months to get ready, and I still don’t have a thing to wear! “What are you…
San Francisco Sentinel June 28, 1990 Street Talk Our Little Brothers and Sisters By Doris Fish I had difficulty feeling like part of an oppressed minority last week. If only for a few days, we were on top of the heap. We’ve been abused for centuries, we’ve been the faggots on the bottom…
San Francisco Sentinel July 12, 1990 Street Talk Hideous Old Queen By Doris Fish For once I don’t mean Miss X; I’m referring to the Queen I see in the mirror. Yes, I admit it, I’m no spring chicken. It doesn’t seem that long ago. I was carelessly calling anyone who…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel July 19, 1990 Street Talk A Letter from Paris By Doris Fish “Dear Possum, “I would write more often but nothing happens. I thought Princess Di would be plaguing me with phone calls and invitations for ‘at-homes’ with Elton John at the piano,…
Doris Fish’s San Francisco Sentinel Columns San Francisco Sentinel July 26, 1990 Street Talk Miss Sushi Takes a Walk By Doris Fish “A day without a lesbian is a day without sunshine,” was a piece of graffito I used to see each day scratched into the sidewalk near the Castro. Well, I had…