San Francisco Sentinel November 9, 1989 De-Frocking Ourselves By Doris Fish The week after Halloween is awful. Drag is anathema to even the most benign citizens. One has to be very careful; I can’t even wear my day-glo Doris Fish t-shirt to Rhythm & Motion aerobic classes without hearing a less-than-enthusiastic, “Doesn’t she…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel November 2, 1989 City Beat Oh, You Stunning Queens! By Doris Fish You were all stunning! I mean it, Saturday night on Castro was as lovely as ever. And thanks to the Police persons for being there. I saw no trouble during my twenty-minute promenade and hope that none of…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel October 26, 1989 City Beat Putting on the Frock By Doris Fish Everyone was shopping last week. They were three-deep at Cliff’s candle counter; the bottled water was all gone at Cala and the flashlights and batteries were the hot items at Pay N’ Pak. I wish I could say…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel January 5, 1990 Bay City Beat ‘She Who Would Be Empress’ By Doris Fish Of all the many ridiculous ways to waste time, running for Empress ranks up there with housework. Although I’m no expert on housework, I’m pretty proficient at ridiculous time-wasting projects so I guess I should know. Why anyone…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel Theatre January 11, 1990 Men, Lesbians and Transsexuals By Doris Fish, Sentinel Arts Writer Joke about AIDS will never be a real trend, but I hope the nineties will bring some humor to our dastardly situation. We loved and laughed at “Terms of Endearment” and “Steel Magnolias” (even at the…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel January 26, 1990 Street Talk Fish on a Soapbox By Doris Fish Arts Writer “Save the Pigs!” was the headline for a discarded column I started some weeks back. It was not very amusing, with long turgid ramblings about the shocking cruelties inflicted on our porcine brothers for no other…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel January 19, 1990 ‘I’m Serious About My Career’ By Doris Fish Many years ago, I told myself, “When I hit thirty, I’ll give up show business.” Now I say, “I’ll get serious about this showbiz stuff when I hit forty.” I’m close enough to start thinking about a career again. …
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel December 29, 1989 Street Talk ‘Send In the Lions’ By Doris Fish I considered going to Mass on Christmas. My boyfriend and I spent the holidays with his family. I just couldn’t do it. My youthful animosity towards the Church of Rome has recently been rekindled, ironically at the…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel December 21, 1989 “Fish and Dips” By Doris Fish Lacking photographic evidence, you’ll just have to believe what I tell you! I was traffic-stoppingly beautiful last week, making one of my rare public appearances at the lovely home of the still unmarried Gwynn Waters (well she’s famous to me!). I…
DetailsSan Francisco Sentinel March 1, 1990 Street Talk Catholic Kids By Doris Fish, Sentinel Arts Writer When Catholics go “bad” they go whole hog. At a recent photo session for West Graphics, it came out that we’d all been Catholic children and hellcats ever since. Billi Gordon, the enormous black model from…
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