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he San Francisco Police Department says its officers will be the first in the nation to wear special patches during Pride Month in June. Initially announced via Twitter April 4, the Pride patches are lined in the colors of the rainbow flag with the city’s crest in the center. They will be optional for officers to purchase internally for $20 with proceeds being donated to Larkin Street Youth Services, a nonprofit that provides youth, including LGBTQs, with education, housing, and employment training. “We hope this will really build bridges for us, as well show that within the organization there are many of us,” Commander Teresa Ewins, a lesbian who sits on the board of the SFPD Pride Alliance, a group for LGBT officers, told the Bay Area Reporter last week. Ewins said the department is proud to support Larkin Street, particularly because many queer youth receive essential services from the agency. She wants the patches to show youth that, they too, can be police officers. “[They] can be anything they want to be in the police department. Hopefully, we show them that we are an example,” Ewins said. The department will also once again have a contingent in the San Francisco Pride parade Sunday, June 30. This year’s Pride theme is “Generations of Resistance.” It celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an LGBT rebellion against police forces in 1969 in New York City that gave rise to the modern gay rights movement and was the event that spurred the nation’s first Pride parades. But it seems that not everyone is thrilled to have a police contingent in the parade. The department has marched in it for many years. In late March, graffiti on the sidewalk near Bank of America at 18th and Castro streets read “Police Out of Pride.” As well, some LGBT leaders say although the rumblings of anti-police messaging from the community might be quiet this year, that doesn’t mean they aren’t there. “I don’t think it’s been well publicized that it’s happening, but I’ve heard it around,” said Janetta Johnson, a trans woman of color who is the executive director of Transgender Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project, a nonprofit that works with trans and gender-nonconforming people inside and outside of prisons, jails, and See page 8 >>

n recent months two out staffers at San Francisco’s public hospital have come forward to air their grievances with management of the Mission district facility. One has filed a whistleblower complaint alleging retaliation against them, while the other has complained about being placed on investigative leave after criticizing how his minority colleagues are treated. The staffers’ complaints come as they help lead a campaign to force city leaders to change the name of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. The hospitals’ registered nurses and their union, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, are trying to qualify a ballot measure for the fall election that would remove the name of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg from it. He and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, secured the naming rights for the hospital Rick Gerharter with a donation of $75.5 million to its founeviving a neighborhood tradition af- thousand eggs were filled with either toys or dation. The name change prompted crititer a lapse of several years, the Friends candy and distributed on the upper lawn of cism from the start and has only intensified of Duboce Park sponsored a Spring the park. The Easter Bunny also made an apThe Los Angeles Blade covers Los Angeles and California as the Silicon news, Valley firm has been embroiled Egg Hunt for children Sunday, April 14. A pearance. in one controversy after another. politics, opinion, arts and entertainment and features national and See page 11 >> international coverage from the Blade’s award-winning reporting

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or a guy who acknowledges that 20 years ago he would gladly have taken a pill to turn himself from gay to straight, Pete Buttigieg showed an extraordinary level of confidence and comfort Sunday as he announced his formal campaign bid to become president of the United States. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, evoked the memory of his 17-year-old self Sunday afternoon as he explained to the world why he has the “audacity” to run for president now, as a 37-year-old Midwest millennial. Without saying the word “gay” in his 35-minute speech, he talked about being gay, included a gay icon’s song in his pre-speech warm-up music, echoed an LGBT “It Gets Better” mantra, and embraced his husband, Chasten, on stage at the end, before the couple walked off hand-in-hand. “Running for office is an act of hope,” said Buttigieg to several thousand people crammed into Studebaker Building 87 in South Bend, as thousands more stood outside in the rain, and millions more watched on the campaign’s livestream, numerous mainstream media livestreams, and on television at an estimated 400 watch parties around the country. “You don’t do it unless you think the pulleys and levers of our government can be used and, if necessary, redesigned to make the life of this nation better for us all,” he continued. “You

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don’t do it unless you believe in the power of a law, a decision, sometimes even just a speech to make the right kind of difference, to change our lives better, to call us to our higher values. Things get better if we make them better.” As the Bay Area Reporter noted in an online story Sunday, Buttigieg’s entry in the 2020 race won early attention for his being the first openly gay candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and additional attention for the apparent difficulty many television news

interviewers had with pronouncing his Maltese American last name (In his recently released memoir, Buttigieg offered “Buddha-judge” but his campaign now pushes “Boot-edge-edge.”) But within two months of launching his exploratory campaign in January, the relatively unknown candidate had capitalized on that early media to introduce his serious, compassionate, and faith-based self to a growing base of supporters far beyond his small Midwestern homeSee page 12 >>

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Guerneville man gets jail time in hate crime case by Alex Madison

North Bay man was sentenced to nine months in county jail and three years probation last week for a hate crime conviction tied to an incident in which he threatened to “bomb the gay people in Guerneville” at a local Safeway store last year. Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Peter Ottenweller told Vincent Joseph O’Sullivan, 56, of Guerneville, that he did not believe O’Sullivan was remorseful for his actions and did not understand the impact on the local community. O’Sullivan has been in custody since March when a Sonoma County Superior Court jury found him guilty of the felony criminal threat charges. O’Sullivan had pleaded not guilty and was represented by attorney Martin Woods. In May 2018, O’Sullivan targeted Hank Myers, a gay man who works as a manager at a Starbucks located inside the Guerneville Safeway store off Highway 116. According to witness testimony, O’Sullivan told Myers, “I am going to kill all the motherfucking gays,” and “I am going to blow you up you motherfucking faggot.” O’Sullivan was convicted last year of stealing a rainbow flag from the Guerneville Plaza flagpole with another man, Michael Tomas Campos, 35, who was found guilty of petty theft. The flag had been stolen more than half a dozen times. When arrested for that theft, O’Sullivan described the flying of the flag as “disgraceful and offensive,” claiming it had no place on the pole, which was dedicated to veterans, according to an assistant district attorney’s statement. Myers, 62, was present with his partner at the April 10 sentencing and read aloud a victim’s statement. “You have given me anxiety and nightmares, loss of sleep, appetite from your hateful actions and statements,” Myers said in court. “I have many frequent, sleepless nights where I have been afraid to leave my home in fear of the threats that you have made to our entire community if given the opportunity. I feel my life has been permanently altered in a very negative manner.” In his statement, Myers did not ask that O’Sullivan serve jail time, but instead have to do community service, in particular, with the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a nonprofit organization comprised of drag nuns who frequently give grants to local nonprofits. “The pain caused will always be with me for the rest of my life,” Myers

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said, adding that he felt O’Sullivan had no remorse for his actions, but felt that somewhere deep inside O’Sullivan was a good person. O’Sullivan did not make eye contact with Myers as he read his statement. Assistant District Attorney Brian Morimune asked for nine months jail time and three years probation. He said that was an appropriate sentence given the mental and emotional turmoil O’Sullivan caused Myers and the local LGBT community, along with O’Sullivan’s lack of accountability. “He has had the highest degree of refusal to take any accountability for his actions,” Morimune said. “He has painted himself as the victim even after two guilty counts from a jury.” In a news release, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch, who’s lesbian, said, “In a community known for tolerance of all sorts of people and issues, this conduct was rightly prosecuted and punished. The outcome of this case should serve as a strong message to anyone considering the use of hateful speech or conduct.” Woods, commenting on Myers’ statement, told the court he does believe O’Sullivan is a good person and asked the judge to allow him to give back to the community. “He’s done enough time. More time won’t do anything,” Woods said. “Let’s see Mr. O’Sullivan do some possible good in the community so you can see him in the same light that I do.” In his statement to the court, O’Sullivan, in handcuffs, said, “I do feel bad that this all happened. There is remorse here.” The judge did not believe this, saying he was “bewildered” by O’Sullivan’s behavior. He referred to a probation report from the flag stealing case in which O’Sullivan described himself as the victim and claimed Myers was simply trying to get attention by sabotaging O’Sullivan.

Ottenweller also said he felt O’Sullivan should have an understanding of discrimination due to his Irish heritage. “The reason I am bewildered by this is because you should be fully aware of what your hateful comments mean to not just one person but a class of people,” Ottenweller said. The judge also commented on the fact that O’Sullivan used to frequently order coffee from Myers at the Starbucks. “To say the things you did to someone who has been respectful to you shows your complete lack of control and the hatred coming out of you,” Ottenweller said. “Twelve people believed your behavior constituted a hate crime and that your behavior is not tolerated in this community. I am not sure you get that or how your words and behavior affect people.” The judge also sentenced O’Sullivan to 12 anger management classes.

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After the hearing, Myers said he felt the sentencing was enough and that, “this kind of behavior is not tolerated. There is no tolerance for hatred.” He also felt O’Sullivan did not feel contrition for his actions saying, “He feels like he’s the victim, and it’s society that is wrong. He wouldn’t even look at me. He has no remorse.” Beth Streets, a straight ally who started a Flag Supporters group, which, on multiple occasions replaced the stolen rainbow flags, said she was disappointed in the sentence. “I don’t think three years probation is enough,” Streets, who was there to support Myers, said. She has attended nearly all of O’Sullivan’s court hearings dating back to the petty theft charge. “Three years for a hate crime is not sufficient.” See page 12 >>

Correction The April 11 article, “Trans office wants $700K for housing” was incomplete. The San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives/Our Trans Home-San Francisco has put in a budget request of $965,200. The amount includes $700,000 for rental subsidies, housing navigators, and to develop a trans housing plan. The online version has been corrected.

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here are fundraising – and just plain fun – events taking place in Sonoma County as residents in Guerneville work to recover from the February floods and get ready for Pride events.

Russian River flood aid

First up this weekend is Love WinsRussian River Flood-Aid, a four-part fundraiser from Thursday, April 18, to Sunday, April 21, presented by the Lazy Bear Fund and Rodger’s Play Haus Productions. All funds raised will go to West County Health Centers to provide direct support for flood victims through its Patient Hardship Fund. WCHC spokeswoman Jennifer Neeley said the agency incurred an estimated $200,000 in operational losses from the flooding, including $25,000 to replace a furnace for offices, which had more than four feet of water. According to Love Wins organizer Rodger Jensen, all fundraising events have been underwritten by either Sonoma County Pride or Guerneville businesses including Big Bottom Market, boon restaurant, or the under-renovation R3 Hotel; each will provide volunteers to run the benefits. Action starts at the Rainbow Cattle Company, which will host “Give Back Thursday” including a buffet, auction, and raffle from 5 to 8 p.m. with no cover, sponsored by Sonoma County Pride and Santa Rosa Gaydar. Jensen said they had a matching pledge for the first $5,000 raised, from the owners of the Rainbow Cattle Company and the Edge and Midnight Sun bars in San Francisco. He also announced that a $5,000 grant from a foundation run by Laura Richardson means Love Wins already has raised $10,000. Big Bottom Market is hosting the

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Rodger Jensen, co-producer of Love Wins-Russian River Flood-Aid, holds a poster showing the many events rasing funds.

Friday night #BetterTogether reception, with a requested $30 to $50 donation. The event will include wine, cheese, and a high-end silent auction including an “Academy-esque swag bag.” Seven Sonoma County wineries are participating and Jensen promised “unlimited tastings.” Gay comedian Bruce Vilanch will host the Flood Aid Extravaganza Saturday night at the Guerneville Veterans Hall with a suggested donation of $20. The party will include comedy and a drag show, with comedian Shann Carr and a performance by the Backwoods Barbies. Bar and raffle proceeds will entirely go to flood relief, and Jensen emphasized that no one will be turned away for lack of funds. That evening has been underwritten by Young’s Market Company, a beverage distributer that serves the Bay Area. On Sunday, Easter in the Plaza initiates what Jensen said he hopes will be a “new tradition” held at Guerneville’s downtown plaza starting at noon. That event will include a Main Street Easter egg hunt, an Easter barbecue sponsored by boon restaurant (adults $10),

Easter bonnet building, and outdoor karaoke with Country Dan. Jensen said a video of Carrie Underwood’s hit song “Love Wins” will be professionally shot starting at 3 p.m.; a short tribute to Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins is also planned, to thank her and the county for help recovering from the floods. Organizers said “creative Easter outfits” are encouraged. Jensen hopes Easter on the Plaza will become as beloved as Easter in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park and underlined that the “money will stay here in West County.” Advance tickets for Friday’s reception and Saturday’s Flood-Aid Extravaganza can be purchased via Brown Paper tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com). Advance ticket buyers will get the best seating for both shows.

Flood recovery continues

Even as fundraiser planning was underway, two businesses profiled in the March 7 Bay Area Reporter continued to recover in Guerneville. According to the R3 Hotel’s general

manager Jeff Bridges, “Most of the demolition has been completed, and we are approaching the rebuild phase.” He said he hopes to announce the R3 open date by May 1 and revealed, “We are tentatively shooting for the Memorial Day weekend.” Bridges, who is gay, also echoed what the Russian River Chamber of Commerce has been saying for weeks, “Our Main Street merchants were not affected by the flood and are open.” Bridges, 58, is the Chamber president. Berlin Fisher’s West Sonoma Style Bar hair salon suffered severe flood damage as well, but it has reopened in its original, ground-floor location on Third Street in Guerneville, only five weeks after being forced to relocate. “Sonoma County was good at working with people who were impacted by the flood,” Fisher, who is gay, said. “Permits [to renovate] were processed the same day, across the street at their relief center.” Using GoFundMe, Fisher, 52, raised over $10,000 to cover his uninsured renovation costs. “I was able to give out five grants for about $4,000 total because I needed only $6,000 for my repairs,” he said. “I felt like the community raised the money.”

Pink Sonoma Saturday

Next up, in just two weeks, is the first part of the 2019 edition of the Gay Wine Weekend produced by Out in the Vineyards (www.outinthevineyard.com), founded by gay Sonoma resident Gary Saperstein. With a long background in the hospitality business, Saperstein leveraged his time in local institutions like the Auberge du Soleil and the Girl and the Fig to start Out in the Vineyard 11 years ago. “My events are all about hospitality and giving people an experience,” he said. This year, for the first time, he’s organized a one-day event called Pink

Sonoma Saturday. “I’ve been thinking about it ever since Pink Saturday in the Castro was canceled four years ago,” he said. “With the rise in people drinking rose wine, I thought we could do that Sonoma-style, and offer an afternoon celebration of everything pink.” The event will be held Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the General’s Daughter restaurant in the town of Sonoma. It will feature over 20 wineries pouring their current rose, a DJ, light bites, and an auction to benefit Positive Images, which provides support and advocacy for LGBTQ youth in Sonoma County. “This cause has become so important to me,” Saperstein said, “because they are going to be carrying the torch.” Young people served by Positive Images will be staffing the silent auction, featuring items donated by wineries. The restaurant also donated the space for the event. Tickets are $65, with $5 from every ticket going to Positive Images.

Sonoma County Pride

Just a few weeks later, from Friday, May 31, to Sunday, June 2, Sonoma County Pride has organized the second Pride weekend to be held in Santa Rosa, after it switched from its Guerneville location. Last year’s location attracted thousands more attendees than previous West County Pride celebrations. Pride weekend starts with a kickoff party titled “Neon Love” Friday evening at the Casa del Mar, presented by the Letter People, an association of LGBTQ+ professionals in Sonoma County. On Saturday, June 1, the Sonoma County Pride parade will start moving at 11 a.m.; this year’s theme is See page 12 >>

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Retired ER nurse with HIV in need of liver by Alex Madison

fter helping others for 15 years as a registered nurse, John Hoskins is now in desperate need of a partial liver transplant. The 63-year-old, gay, HIV-positive San Francisco resident was diagnosed almost two years ago with having a rare genetic disorder that restricts his liver from breaking down toxins, the medical name of which is Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. Two lobes of his liver need to be replaced, and he is currently on the transplant list at UCSF Medical Center. Today, he’s living at Maitri Compassionate Care hospice in the Castro and hopes to spread the message that the greatest donation a person can give someone is an organ, the gift of life. As is true for most organs, livers are in high demand but short supply. The number of people awaiting a liver far outnumbers the availability of organ donors. As well, Hoskins wants to inform people that it’s possible for HIV-positive people to be organ donors. April is National Donate Life Month, another factor that prompted Hoskins to share his story. “I want to get people to understand that donating is the best gift you can give anyone in the world, to be able to let them love,” Hoskins told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview last week. In August 2017, Hoskins was

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rushed to the emergency room after waking up vomiting blood. The varicose veins near his esophagus had ruptured due to his non-functioning liver. He spent time in the intensive care unit, until a biopsy of his liver revealed the rare gene, which was exacerbated by his HIV status. He’s been on the liver transplant list ever since. Shortly after his diagnosis, Hoskins underwent what is known as TIPS surgery, or transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt. A tube was inserted between the portal vein, which carries blood from the intestines and intra abdominal organs to the liver, and the hepatic vein, which carries blood from the liver back to the heart. He first began his hospice care at Richard M. Cohen House, a San Francisco residential care facility spe-

cializing in HIV/AIDS patients that is run by Dolores Street Community Services, a nonprofit that provides services to the HIV, low-income, and immigrant communities. His experience there was not positive, he said, and he eventually moved to Maitri in February. He said Cohen House did not have the proper resources to handle his rare condition. Mason Jeffrys, associate director of DSCS, said the agency couldn’t comment due to privacy concerns. “In accordance with HIPAA, we are not allowed to confirm any of the names of our residents nor disclose any information about them even if they have disclosed information themselves,” he wrote in an email, referring to the health privacy law. “Maitri actually saved my life,” Hoskins said. Once he was moved to Maitri, Hoskins’ condition improved. He had previously been diagnosed with diabetes at Cohen House, but at Maitri it eventually cleared up. Still, everyday is a struggle for Hoskins. His husband, Chad Bank, is also spending time in a medical facility, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, after suffering a spinal cord injury when he fell from the second story of a business where he was installing cable for a friend. Due to his accident, Bank is no longer eligible to donate his liver. Hoskins’ condition has been hard on both of them. Not having a func-

tioning liver causes physical and mental issues for Hoskins. “I have difficulty concentrating, difficulty seeing things,” Hoskins said. “I have cognitive issues, problems communicating effectively. When the toxins are high in my liver, I have to evacuate them in order to stay aware of what is going on and to complete my sentences.” Bank talked about the ups and downs of being his husband’s caretaker and that he has had to relearn how to do many things including simply communicating with Hoskins. “I didn’t understand what it meant to be a caregiver,” Bank, 44, said. “I learned how to listen to him more and not challenge him and his thinking. His mind can get really foggy sometimes, which can be stressful as a caregiver. We had to navigate how to find a different style of communication.” The couple switches between spending days at Laguna Honda and Maitri. For those considering organ donation, Bank said, “Really think about it because a lot of people are in need of a liver and you can save a life.”

Waiting game

As is the case for many people in need of an organ, each day is a waiting game for Hoskins. He said he is trying to remain healthy to be strong enough to undergo the transplant surgery, which lasts about four to six hours. At one point, he was matched with a donor, but they ultimately de-

clined to donate. “A lot of people have fear around it,” Hoskins said. “There are a lot of misconceptions in the community about donating organs. You can donate a liver without it affecting you or killing you. The liver is the only organ in the body that grows back.” According to UCSF’s website, “the liver begins to regenerate almost immediately. Most of the regeneration occurs in the first two weeks after surgery, followed by a slower phase of growth over the next year.” The organ of the donor is said to grow back to its normal size about three months after the surgery. Another misconception Hoskins is trying to clear up is that HIVpositive individuals are not excluded from donating organs. Last month, surgeons at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore performed the world’s first kidney transplant from a donor living with HIV to another HIV-positive recipient, according to http://www.HIV.gov. Until this transplant, all organs donated to HIV-positive recipients had come from deceased donors with HIV. In 2013, the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act was passed by Congress enabling the use of HIV-positive organs for transplantation, as well as authorizing the transplantation between two people who are HIVpositive. However, such transplants are currently only allowed among See page 7 >>

Nurses ask Congress to ban health care bias by Matthew S. Bajko

urses in California are asking Congress to outlaw anti-LGBT bias in health care settings, as more states move to adopt so-called religious freedom laws. The Service Employees International Union Nurse Alliance of California, which represents more than 35,000 registered nurses from both public and private sector health systems in the state, wants congressional leaders to direct the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to disband its Conscience and Religious Freedom Division and instead work to eliminate bias in health care. In January 2018 the Trump administration moved to allow providers to use their religious beliefs to discriminate and refuse services

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to a patient. In a news release at the time, the federal health agency said “no one should be forced to choose between helping sick people and living by one’s deepest moral or reli-

gious convictions.” It prompted widespread condemnation from LGBT advocates and their allies. San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the policy “a thinly-veiled attack on the health and well-being of women and LGBTQ communities.” The nurses alliance launched a change.org petition calling on Congress to act. It raised objections to seeing federal rules allow a nurse to cite their religious beliefs as for why they could not care for a transgender person or include the spouse of a gay or lesbian person in their health care decisions. “Nurses and the communities we serve demand the right to health care without discrimination,” stated the petition. “This is a central part of our nurse practice acts, state-by-state, and we call on the U.S. Congress to

pass legislation to prevent the Health and Human Services from implementing policies designed to give health care workers the unprofessional right to discriminate.” It garnered 11,501 signatures and was recently closed due to surpassing its goal. Nurse Sasha Cuttler, who is genderqueer and works for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, helped launch the petition. “Many people don’t even realize that it wasn’t until the Affordable Care Act came into existence that there were protections mandated for LGBTQ people and for women’s health care that didn’t exist before,” said Cuttler. “In particular, the thing that’s so noxious about this is that nurses are nurses; nurses work with all sorts of different people and take care of all sorts of different people, and part

of being a professional means you eat whatever feelings you have.” The nurses, said Cuttler, plan to deliver their petition to the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). Her spokesman Taylor Griffin told the Bay Area Reporter that she supports their goals. “The creation of HHS’ Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is the Trump Administration’s latest ploy to license discrimination against the LGBTQ community and deny women their right to comprehensive health care,” wrote Griffin in an emailed reply. “Speaker Pelosi is thankful for the Nurse Alliance’s advocacy in shining light on this issue as we work to end discrimination and ensure quality access to health care for all Americans.” t

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Regional effort on homelessness needed T

he day after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors rejected a 63-unit housing development with 15 below-market-rate apartments because it would cast an evening shadow on a South of Market park, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute issued a report on the regional housing crisis. Its conclusion: cities and counties in the Bay Area need to work together, ideally with the state, for meaningful improvement to occur. “Until very recently, homelessness was considered the problem of individual cities and counties,” read the report’s executive summary. “For a metropolitan region like the Bay Area, which is divided into nine counties and 101 cities, this approach fails to meet the needs of an intraregionally mobile homeless population. For instance, the Bay Area’s myriad datasets on homelessness are incompatible, and assets are planned and built without coordination or optimization.” Granted, this is not a new idea. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, and some gay Bay Area elected officials – notably state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), Emeryville City Councilman John Bauters, and El Cerrito City Councilman Gabriel Quinto – are among those who have long pushed for a regional approach. This new report, “Bay Area Homelessness: A Regional View of a Regional Crisis,” substantiates their arguments. Leaders in larger cities like Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose must look beyond their borders for comprehensive responses. In San Francisco, at least, such an approach appears to have taken a back seat while at the same time the supervisors prioritize shade issues at a park over people sleeping on the streets and residents squabbling about where to put a Navigation Center. As Mayor London Breed

tweeted after last week’s board vote, “You cannot claim to be pro-housing and then reject projects like this one.” The institute’s report examines the profiles of Bay Area homeless: “Compared to the general population of the Bay Area, it is disproportionately comprised of homeless men, unaccompanied youth, and people of color.” Families, which make up large segments of homeless people elsewhere in the country, are only 14 percent of the overall Bay Area homeless population, according to the report. (And it’s worth noting that in San Francisco, at least, huge strides have been made to house homeless families in recent years, city officials have told us.) The report states that 25%, a relatively high proportion, of the region’s homeless identify as LGBTQ. That’s not surprising to us – 2018 estimates of queer homeless youth in the city were 43% of the estimated 1,500 homeless youth. The other important fact gleaned from the report is that the vast majority of homeless people in the Bay Area have lived in their current county for more than a year, which

is related to the affordability crisis – it’s just too expensive for a lot of people to live here. “Given this information, the region’s crisis is one of its own making, and not a product of the migration of homeless individuals from other states or regions,” the report states. It adds, however, that some movement does occur and that “data-sharing initiatives between counties are beginning to identify how certain individuals are utilizing services across the region over time.” So yes, more cooperation between Bay Area cities and counties would help the situation. Of course, the obvious solution is to build more below-market-rate housing. But when our regional neighbors look at the board’s rejection of the 63unit development last week, they’re likely asking themselves, “If San Francisco can’t even do this, why should we?” That is exactly the wrong approach. Instead, leaders should be reaching out to colleagues and strategizing and identifying locations for mixed-unit housing developments. The intransigence of some political leaders in the face of the Bay Area’s housing crisis is breathtaking. Leaders must look beyond their borders and work with their neighbors for a comprehensive approach to address homelessness in the entire region. They need to convince residents – and each other – that more cooperation would be beneficial than addressing the problem separately.

Postscript

Last week we editorialized that every district in San Francisco should have a Navigation Center. This week, we got word from Supervisor Matt Haney that he’s called for exactly that. We’re sorry we missed the news, but happy he’s put forth legislation. Now, if the rest of his colleagues can unanimously vote for that – like they voted against that other development – the city could get started on housing people all over the city. t

DNC to trans people: Drop dead by Katrina C. Rose

emocratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez said the party chose Milwaukee, Wisconsin for its 2020 convention “because the city embodies who we are as a party.” And with that convention under the leadership of former HRC president Joe Solmonese, he felt “confident those values will be at the forefront as we celebrate our nominee and prepare for the general election.” I, too, feel that it is appropriate that, with the Democratic convention being held in the state of Wisconsin, Solmonese is the perfect chief executive for the soiree. After all, the Badger State is the only one remaining with a gay rights statute that does not protect trans people along with lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. Perhaps Perez has forgotten that if Solmonese had gotten his way in 2007, the same would be true for the entirety of the United States. Or maybe he was never aware and never cared. Let me assure him, though: trans people were aware. We did care. We damn well have not forgotten. And we never will. Clearly, however, the DNC is counting on more people having forgotten than remembering the first trans-inclusive Employment NonDiscrimination Act bill and Solmonese’s willingness to let it die in the birth canal. That ENDA bill, years of distrust of HRC by trans people, and the near-total lack of any trans people being allowed to earn a living in HRC’s palatial D.C. headquarters collectively constituted the baggage Solmonese brought with him to Atlanta in mid-September 2007. There, for the first time, a leader of HRC would address Southern Comfort, the nation’s largest trans gathering. “We try to walk a thin line in terms of keeping everything in play and making sure that we move forward,” Solmonese told the attendees, “but always being clear that we absolutely do not support, and in fact oppose, any legislation that is not absolutely inclusive. And we have sent that message loud and clear to the Hill.” “That,” HRC’s token trans board member Donna Rose (no relation) said afterward, “was huge for everyone in attendance to hear.” Except that it was a huge lie, one worthy of any of the media mouthpieces of the administration

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that the candidate anointed at the Milwaukee convention will attempt to take down. In less than two weeks in 2007, gay former Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) decided to go with his preferred product: a gayonly ENDA that was introduced to supplant the inclusive one. A group of local and national civil rights organizations signed a letter not only reiterating support for inclusion but pledging to oppose a non-inclusive bill. The one notable absence? Solmonese’s HRC. United ENDA, as it came to be known, declared in part, “We oppose legislation that leaves part of our community without protection and basic security that the rest of us are provided.” Despite no form of ENDA having any chance of being signed by evangelical darling George W. Bush, HRC would not budge. To Capitol Hill and the mainstream media, it insisted on sending its real message, which was the exact opposite of what Solmonese fed to Southern Comfort’s attendees. “I am angry at HRC leadership for what I can’t help but perceive as lying and deceiving,” said Rose, who resigned during the ENDA crisis. “Damage has been done and continues to be done that cannot be repaired.”

In the face of protests against him and his organization at the Dallas Black Tie Dinner, Solmonese made a “solemn vow” to the crowd that he would “do everything to harness the power and the passion and energy in order to achieve a fully inclusive ENDA.” Yet, he also made clear that his top priority was access for access’s sake, rather than actual progress. Asked if opposing a gay-only ENDA would be problematic for HRC’s relationships on Capitol Hill, he answered, “Unquestionably. We would absolutely not be at the table, and I am committed to being at that table.” Trans people and our supporters were, and still are, expected to believe that he did not hold the same position on September 14, 2007. And those who didn’t come to an HRCfriendly opinion were subject to manipulation. That November, HRC’s website featured a mechanism by which users could have the organization send an e-mail in their name to their congressional representatives in support of the gay-only bill while nevertheless describing that bill as one “that would make it illegal to fire, refuse to hire, or refuse to promote employees simply based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” And then came an HRC-commissioned poll that purported to show 70% of the LGBT community supported the gay-only strategy. However, the poll’s use of explanatory language asserting that a gay-only ENDA “is a step toward transgender employment rights,” a dubious claim, led it to be decried as, at best, seriously flawed and, at worst, blatantly fraudulent. Solmonese has never apologized for any of it. If anything, he’s doubled down on it, in 2017 claiming “no hope of passing any legislation into law” in 2007 with Bush as president justified sticking with the gay-only bill. (Begging the question of why, if it knew that no ultimate success was possible, HRC had never pushed a trans-inclusive ENDA prior to 2007, a question that, admittedly, it would be equally proper to insist that one of Solmonese’s predecessors, Elizabeth Birch, answer.) While the dust of 2007 was still settling, See page 7 >>

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t We need a rent board member who can fight for us by Deepa Varma and Tommi Avicolli Mecca

s tenant advocates, we fight every day to keep our neighbors and our communities here in the city. Our organizations counsel the vast majority of rent control tenants who seek help in San Francisco. We know how difficult the fight is right now and how important it is to have experienced advocates on the San Francisco Rent Board. That’s why we can’t support the mayor’s appointment to the rent board commission, an appointment made without consulting tenant advocates, something every mayor since Dianne Feinstein has done. The commission decides on crucial issues we face, such as whether we get a rent increase or not, the difference between being forced out of our apartments or staying in them. It also makes the rules and regulations that give us rights, such as adding a roommate and not being forced to sign a new lease that is materially different than the one we have. It hears appeals of decisions by the administrative law judges at the rent board. The commission is made up of two tenant representatives, two landlord representatives, and a “neutral” homeowner. Tenant groups have always chosen the tenant representatives, and landlord groups the landlord representatives. Tenant groups have always chosen commissioners based on who is most qualified to do the job of fighting for our rights. This is not a political appointment, or a reward for loyalty or service. It’s about who has the experience to do the best job of keeping us in our homes. It’s a lot of work, for little pay. It doesn’t come with a lot

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Solmonese tried to utilize the triedand-true political amulet of claiming to have “misspoke” at Southern Comfort. And not long after that attempt at self-absolution, he addressed a New York event being picketed by trans activists. There, he smugly declared that the protesters would have no effect on HRC’s fundraising, telling the attendees that the “complaining” had to stop. “We must see, instead, the big picture,” he said. Here’s the big picture today. In 2020, the DNC convention will be presided over by a man who lied through his teeth to trans people, engineered a poll justifying HRC’s position that was so sketchy even people who were willing to accept a gay-only ENDA didn’t believe, and then stuck to his disproven reasoning with the repellent ferocity of a faith healer whose trickery has been exposed. And the DNC convention itself will

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participants under a clinical trial at an approved organ transplantation center, according to guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health in 2015, states HIV.gov. The interim executive director of Maitri, Michael Smithwick, explained to the B.A.R. in an emailed response that HIV-positive people were once stigmatized when being considered for organ donation. “Since our beginnings at the start of the AIDS epidemic, Maitri has always been about community, taking care of community. Positive-to-positive organ donations are simply an extension of that history,” Smithwick wrote.

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Reese Aaron Isbell, left, stands to the side during a meeting of the Board of Supervisors rules committee Monday as other people wait to speak.

of fanfare, or political power. It does, however, provide an incredible service to our tenant community. That’s why we are so concerned about the mayor’s appointment of Reese Aaron Isbell for this position. While we applaud Isbell for the good work he has done in the LGBT community, the Democratic Party (in helping to elect Democrats in last year’s midterm elections), and with Friends of the Public Library, he’s not right for this job. Isbell has next to no experience with the issues that are adjudicated by the rent board. While one doesn’t need to be a lawyer to serve on the commission, legal experience does help a lot, especially up against landlord attorneys. Even someone with many years of tenant counseling under their belt couldn’t handle the complicated legal arguments that

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ensue when an appeal is heard. As tenant advocates who have sat through commission hearings, we can attest to the often-incomprehensible (to lay persons) nature of some of the discussions that happen there. Why didn’t the mayor simply reappoint Polly Marshall, who has been a rent board commissioner for over 30 years? She was reappointed by every administration since Feinstein. She has more knowledge about the rent ordinance and how it interacts with state law, and how it is applied in the courts than almost anyone else in the city. She has been central to the functioning of the rent board. She was willing to continue serving. If the mayor wished to replace Marshall, she should have consulted with tenants rights organizations. That has always been the protocol at City Hall, in order to ensure the balance that was intended when the commission was set up. We are dismayed at this disregard of protocol and worried that it sets a precedent that will not be good for tenants in this city. Our concern about the appointment of Isbell is not that he is objectionable as a person or as a political leader, but that he lacks the experience in rent board matters that is so essential to his job as a commissioner. t

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spotlight House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) who was speaker of the House when HRC and Frank accomplished the ENDA bait-and-switch in 2007 and who, two years later, stood by as hate crimes and the desires of one tiny percentage of LGBTs for employment in one particular profession (the military) were allowed to trample the need of all LGBTs in all states and all occupations for protection against employment discrimination. I have no intention of “walking away” from the Democrats in 2020. I know how the corrupt, fossilized monument to the slave-owning rural elite of two centuries past – sometimes still referred to as the Electoral College – works, so I will vote for the Democratic Party’s nominee, whoever it may be. And I will do so even if the DNC doesn’t wise up and replace Solmonese. But I have no intention of not remembering how the DNC was not even willing to wait two months after the death of its first trans member,

Babs Siperstein, to insult the trans community by thrusting back in our faces one of the more toxic symbols of trans-exclusive elitism that Gay Inc. will ever produce. You can parade all of the young, cutesy, telegenic trans HRC employees that you want in front of the network television cameras. With Solmonese in charge, none of it will matter. Just as anyone who today looks at the Wisconsin statute books knows what it did in 1982, trans people know what Solmonese did in 2007 – and he’s shown that he has not changed any more during that time than Wisconsin’s civil rights laws have.t

Maitri opened in 1987 as a response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and today is the only AIDS-specific care facility in California that focuses on those dying of AIDS, according to its website. “Up until now, it seems that HIVpositive individuals in need of organ transplants were left waiting because many health care providers and organ donors questioned the wisdom of ‘wasting’ a healthy/negative organ on an individual who was likely to die prematurely from AIDS anyway,” said Smithwick, who returned to Maitri as interim ED in March, after Anne Gimbel’s unexpected departure from the role. Smithwick served as ED from 2011 to 2016. “Now that antiviral medications are allowing HIV-positives to live longer, healthier lives, it is encourag-

ing to see other positives willing to help those less fortunate with their organ donations,” he added. “The implicit message is that those with HIV still have a lot of life to live and are typically just as worthy of an organ transplant as someone untouched by AIDS.” Hoskins remains positive despite his condition and is hopeful he will find a matching donor. “I want to live. I feel I have many more years left,” he said. t

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tries to address as much as possible within the space constraints and other limits the curators faced. “This show proposes a future where everyone can feel safe and a sense of belonging,” said Fogarty. For more information about the museum and the exhibit, which costs $5 in addition to the $16 general admission ticket, visit http://museumca.org/ exhibit/queer-california-untold-stories.

he black and white photo, at first glance, could be of any sharply dressed couple. The woman is adorned in her Sunday best and the gentleman sports a pinstripe suit. They stand in front of a vehicle with bags packed for a trip, posing for the camera with a law enforcement officer. Their smiles, however, belie the legal nightmare the woman, Lucy Hicks Anderson, would face. (Neither of the men in the photo is identified.) The socialite and entrepreneur thrived in Oxnard, California during the time of Prohibition. But Anderson, a black transgender woman who died in 1954, and her second husband were found guilty of fraud and imprisoned for signing a marriage license application that identified her as female. The image and brief synopsis of her life – dated to 1945 – are included in a timeline of significant events in the history of California’s LGBT community at the Oakland Museum of California’s latest special exhibit titled “Queer California: Untold Stories.” It is the first museum exhibition of its kind, according to the institution, and has been in the works for nearly a decade. The show, up through August, “is affirming the identities, culture, and stories of the LGBTQ community when so many of those stories are under assault,” said museum director and CEO Lori Fogarty during a press preview last week. It aims to delve beyond the better known chapters of the Golden State’s LGBT history to introduce museum visitors to events, places, and people like Anderson that they are likely unaware of, since only recently have schools begun to teach about such topics. The show intentionally puts an emphasis on women, transgender individuals, and people of color. “We tell stories never told,” said Christina Linden, 40, the exhibition curator who lives with her wife in San Francisco and is a professor of curatorial practice at the California College of the Arts. (She no longer works for the museum.) For example, the show mentions the late San Francisco Supervisor

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This image of Lucy Hicks Anderson, center, by an unknown photographer is part of the “Queer California: Untold Stories” exhibit now at the Oakland Museum of California.

Harvey Milk, arguably one of the most famous LGBT Californians, just twice. His historic victory in 1977 as the first gay person to win elective office in the state and his tragic assassination a year later are included in the timeline assembled on a wall in the last room of the exhibit. The curators, said Linden, grappled with the question of what to leave out and what to include. “A lot is left out of this show,” said Linden, who was given the title Baroness Curator of the Imperial Court after mounting the Oakland museum’s 2017 exhibit about the philanthropic drag group. Devising a broader show about LGBT history had been talked about for close to a decade, recalled Linden, who started working on it three years ago. Throughout the exhibit the political – such as buttons from ballot measure campaigns of long ago – becomes the personal and the personal – a video montage featuring queer Native Americans – becomes the political. “To me, the show as a whole is political,” said Linden, “and long overdue at this museum.” One section is devoted to a museum within a museum – the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art – founded in 2013 by Chris E. Vargas. A transgender man who spent a decade living in Oakland as an artist, he moved to Bellingham, Washington in 2013 and is a professor in studio art at

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the local state university. “This is the first time it has taken the semblance of an institutional look,” said Vargas, 41, of the MOTHA installation, which features photos and ephemera from various transgender people and a wallpaper treatment he created from archival material. One of the items featured is a copy of Cruise News and World Report from August 1966. It features a headline, “Young Homos Picket Compton’s Restaurant,” and a story about how 25 patrons of the eatery picketed the night of July 18 due to “physical and verbal abuse by both the management and the Pinkerton Special Officers assigned there.” It was a prelude to the riot that took place in August that year at the eatery, which Vargas also features in the MOTHA exhibit and is included in the larger exhibit’s timeline. But neither reference to the event includes an exact date for it, which preceded the better known Stonewall riots that occurred 50 years ago this June. That has been lost to history, like so many stories about the LGBT community. “There are gaps in archives,” noted Vargas, “that make it so hard to tell transgender history.” The same can be said of LGBT history in general, something the show

had throughout the years among the department’s Pride Alliance board members regarding the community’s aversion to police marching in the parade, the support has outweighed those voices, said Ewins. “I’ve heard no opposition this year,” Ewins said. “Even those years that there were conversations about us not marching, the welcome we received in the march was pretty imminent. People are happy to have us there.” Johnson said that for communities of color and the trans community this isn’t always true. “I don’t go to Pride because I always see someone get beat up by the police,” Johnson said. In 2016, Johnson was a community grand marshal for the parade, but withdrew after it was announced that policing would be increased in the wake of the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead and occurred shortly before the San Francisco parade. Other Pride honorees also backed out that year, citing similar reasons. For Ewins, it’s essential that SFPD march in the parade because it allows the community to see first hand that the department has LGBT members. “It’s important because we strive to be a diverse department,” Ewins said. “A part of our diversity is the amount of LGBTs we have. We have officers at every rank. I came out in the parade. It’s one of those things that we can truly be proud of and show our community who we are.” Ewins also said there is value in showing the city’s youth the unity among SFPD and the communities it

The Board of Supervisors Tuesday seated transgender women on a pair of important oversight bodies in San Francisco that advise local lawmakers on a number of policy concerns. At their meeting Tuesday, April 16, the supervisors approved Jessy Ruiz Navarro’s appointment to the Immigrant Rights Commission for a term ending June 6, 2020. Navarro, who was born in Mexico, is the first transgender person to serve on the body and its first commissioner whose primary language isn’t English. San Francisco SRO Task Force commissioner Jordan Davis received another term for an indefinite time period. She is the only LGBT person on the body that addresses issues in the city’s single-room-occupancy hotels, of which she is a resident. Last week, Davis had taken to social media to voice concerns that District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin would block her appointment. But an aide to Peskin had told the B.A.R. that he would vote in support of the recommendation from the board’s rules committee, which last week had endorsed the trans women in addition to a number of straight applicants for the oversight bodies. As expected, Peskin voted with the other nine supervisors present to unanimously seat all of the applicants.

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The supervisors also voted Tuesday for a second and final time to adopt an ordinance regulating the appear-

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Graffiti urging police not to participate in the San Francisco Pride parade was spotted in the Castro in late March.

vows to protect. “How can we not show kids, young people in San Francisco as well as across the country, and to certain government entities, that we are unified in community and represent the larger community of LGBT? This is who we are,” Ewins said. Tony Montoya, a gay man and president of the San Francisco Police Officer’s Association, the police labor union, echoed Ewins’ sentiments toward SFPD’s participation in the Pride parade. “The SFPOA remains staunchly opposed to discrimination and the politics of division,” he wrote in an email response to the B.A.R. “We plan on proudly participating in this

ance of the signage for the Harvey Milk Terminal throughout San Francisco International Airport. Mayor London Breed is now expected to sign it into law. It requires that all of the signs for the Milk terminal use the name of the late gay supervisor and global icon for LGBT rights. It also instructs SFO officials to ensure Milk’s name is given prominence on all of the exterior signs for the terminal, which is currently undergoing a years-long $2.4 billion renovation. The legislative measure was in response to SFO officials wanting to use Milk’s name sparingly on the signs for the first of the airport’s three domestic terminals. Otherwise, they were concerned travelers would be confused and unable to navigate through the aviation facility. LGBT leaders and advocates, however, grounded those plans, arguing the airport staff’s concerns were unfounded. They noted other airports have successfully incorporated people’s names into the wayfinding markers for their terminals. Milk is the first LGBT person to be given such an aviation accolade. As noted above, he made history by becoming the first out gay person elected to public office in both San Francisco and California in November 1977 by winning a seat on the Board of Supervisors. Tragically, he was killed 11 months after being sworn in as a supervisor inside City Hall along with thenmayor George Moscone by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. A photomontage exhibit inside the Milk terminal will recount his life and achievements. The first travelers to use the Milk terminal are expected to do so this summer when a portion of the facility reopens. The project is slated to be complete by 2024.t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check ebar.com Monday mornings for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column reported on a list of small and medium sized cities ideal for LGBT retirees.

year’s Pride parade. We call upon any individual or organization looking to exclude others from this event to practice what this event preaches; inclusiveness, acceptance, and a focus on showcasing the best of what San Francisco has to offer to the world.” Montoya added that the alliance’s decision to help Larkin Street is also important. “Our support for Larkin Street Youth Services underscores our commitment to finding solutions to our ever-increasing homelessness epidemic and dire need for wraparound services for our youth,” he wrote. “This community-based organization is a beacon of hope and the SFPOA is committed to assisting its programs reach more youth and families.” When asked if she felt there was value in the police marching or to show the LGBT diversity of the department, Johnson said, “That might be true for some people, but for our population and for the people I know, those people don’t necessarily represent us.”

Past tensions

Joey Cain, a queer man and former president of the board that oversees San Francisco Pride, said he has not heard of any resistance to the police contingent this year, but that it has been a narrative at many Pride events throughout the years. He also added that relations between SFPD and the LGBT community are vastly better. Cain served on the Pride board form 1998-2004. See page 10 >>

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Gay SF supe against rent board pick by Matthew S. Bajko

ay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman shares the concerns of those who are questioning the credentials of gay rent board member Reese Aaron Isbell. In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday, Mandelman said he would vote to unseat him next week. “I don’t think he should be on the rent board,” said Mandelman, the lone out person on the Board of Supervisors. “I have a lot of personal affections for Reese, but the tenant representatives on the rent board for 40 years have been accomplished, experienced, and knowledgeable tenant advocates and primarily lawyers.” The supervisors rules committee Monday recommended that Isbell be unseated from the rent board. The supervisors will take up the matter at their April 23 meeting and can reject Isbell with a super-majority vote of eight supervisors. “I was concerned when he was appointed that he didn’t have the history of tenant activism or legal knowledge I would expect of a rent board commissioner,” said Mandelman. “That concern was amplified and confirmed as I watched the hearing yesterday.” Mandelman also questioned how the mayor’s office handled the appointment, faulting the administration for not consulting with tenants rights groups about it as previous mayors have done. Despite Mandelman’s decision, it is likely Isbell will receive the four votes he needs to remain on the rent board. Mayor London Breed is standing by him. In a statement to the B.A.R. following the rules committee vote, she called Isbell “an incredible advocate for tenant protections and rights,” adding that “just as importantly he’s been a strong and steadfast fighter and advocate for the LGBT community.”

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Reese Isbell, right, addresses the San Francisco Board of Supervisors rules committee Monday.

Isbell knows from “firsthand experience,” noted Breed, that “LGBT people, particularly those living with HIV and our trans communities, experience higher rates of homelessness and housing insecurity ... Reese is the right person to represent all renters on the rent board because as a tenant himself, he knows firsthand what it means to live with housing insecurity.” The brouhaha began when Breed swore in Isbell, a Democratic Party activist and former state legislative aide, onto the oversight body March 29. The rent board oversees how much property owners can annually raise rents on rent-controlled units and resolves tenant complaints against their landlords. Isbell’s first meeting was Tuesday, April 9, replacing longtime rent board commissioner Polly Marshall. She had blasted how the mayor’s office handled her desire to be nominated for another term in an interview with the B.A.R. She found out that Isbell had been named to the seat by reading about it in a B.A.R. story posted online the day

of his swearing in. The news prompted tenants rights activists supportive of Marshall to question Isbell’s qualifications to serve on the quasi-judicial panel. A number of progressive supervisors have echoed those concerns, including District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen. Chair of the rules committee, she called for Monday’s hearing and voted along with District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar to recommend that Isbell be removed from the rent board. “I want to explore today the depth and breadth of your knowledge in this subject area,” she told Isbell before asking him pointed legal questions. “Given the importance of this position, it is incumbent of the supervisors to carefully examine and scrutinize the qualifications of the mayor’s appointee.” Stressing that her concerns were not focused on him personally, Ronen said she questioned his knowledge about local rent laws and ability to handle cases that come before the rent board. “I have no question about your

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SF holds Easter events compiled by Cynthia Laird

the complicated divide between red and blue America. Black, who won his Oscar for “Milk,” is expected to reflect on his personal journey to self-acceptance and success and share his perspective on bridging the divides in the country today. Tickets are $25 for club members, or $55 for premium seating and a copy of the book; and $35 for nonmembers, or $65, premium, which includes a copy of the book. For more information, visit www. commonwealthclub.org and click on “Events.”

here are several events taking place Easter weekend. On Good Friday, April 19, Temenos Catholic Worker will hold its annual Tenderloin Stations of the Cross. The theme is “Stations of the Cosmic Christ.” People should gather at noon at McAllister and Polk streets, near City Hall. From there, organizer Father River Damien Sims wrote in an email, the group will walk and remember the suffering of those who have no home, health insurance, food, or a living wage. Sims said volunteers are needed to serve as readers. If interested, contact him at (415) 305-2124 or temenos@ gmail.com. On Easter Sunday, April 21, Tenderloin Tessie will serve its annual dinner for those in need. The event includes ham with all the trimmings and a gift bag. Free clothes will also be available. The dinner takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street, between Geary and O’Farrell. All are welcome. To volunteer, call Michael Gagne at (415) 584-3252. Finally, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will celebrate their 40th anniversary with an Easter party Sunday in Mission Dolores Park. The fun takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and includes the Easter bonnet, Foxy Mary, and Hunky Jesus contests. Admission is free but donations will be accepted. For more on the Sisters’ 40th anniversary, see

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Miguel of Les Noche, left, kisses the hand of the Easter bonnet contest winner, Todd AtkinsWhitley, at the 2018 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s annual Easter celebration that was held in Golden Gate Park.

the Bay Area Reporter’s recent article at https://www.ebar.com/news/ news/274442.

Dustin Lance Black to speak in SF

Gay Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will be in San Francisco next month talking at the Commonwealth Club’s Inforum program about his new memoir, “Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas.” The event takes place Wednesday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the Marines Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter Street, second floor. In the book, Black reveals his conservative origins and provides personal and philosophical insight into

LGBTQ financial planning day

Horizons Foundation will hold its annual LGBTQ financial planning day Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street. This free event allows participants to receive one-on-one consultations to increase their financial literacy. In addition to Horizons and the LGBT center, the event is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Financial Planning Association. Workshops will focus on estate planning and retirement management. Organizers said that the sessions would be “especially useful for LGBTQ seniors.” For more information and to RSVP, visit http://www.horizonsfoundation.org.

April Follies ballroom dance competition

April Follies, the largest and longest-running queer dance competition in North America, will be held Saturday, April 27, at Just Dance Ballroom, 2500 The Embarcadero in Oakland. See page 12 >>

dedication to tenants and to your commitment and intelligence and to your experience whatsoever. With almost any other commission in the city, I agree, the ability to learn on the job is completely possible,” Ronen said. “My particular concern with the rent board is that practically every meeting you could be creating precedent that then locks in for the future other tenants. These are very intricate and difficult areas of the law.” Mar said he believes the rent board appointment “requires much deeper knowledge and expertise on tenant issues” as for why he decided to oppose Isbell for the seat. District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton voted against recommending Isbell be unseated. He said he was confident that Isbell was up to the task. “He is working hard to learn everything he needs to be successful in this role,” said Walton. “He knows the inequities himself as a renter.” Isbell argued that his 20 years of policy work on local and state is-

sues had given him the necessary experience to be a member of the rent board. He also spoke of his experience fighting his landlord’s attempt to raise his rent after his husband moved in following their marriage. “I know what it is like to come home to find a piece of paper under my doorway giving me notice from my landlord and being terrified to open it,” said Isbell. He pledged to work with tenants rights groups and noted he had reached out to various individuals working on housing issues since joining the rent board. “I bring my own experiences as an unemployed renter with me to these discussions,” he said. “I am not the same as everyone else on the rent board. I plan to use those different experiences with my own expertise in advocacy and policy at the federal and state level to find new ways to keep renters in their homes.” A number of speakers urged the supervisors to reject Isbell due to his lack of legal expertise on housing issues and asked that Marshall be reappointed. Others spoke on behalf of Isbell and his ability to do outreach to the community. Ronen said the responses to her questions did not give her faith that Isbell was up to the task of the position. She suggested it would have been better had he been named as an alternate to the rent board so that he would have time to become knowledgeable about the laws involved. “Clearly you have the passion, the intelligence, you have the passion to do this job,” she said. “My only concern is the subsequent knowledge.” t

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n an action one civil rights lawyer called “a deeply disturbing message about the value placed on LGBTQ lives,” the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from a man on death row who said anti-gay bias motivated his jury’s decision to give him the death penalty. According to the appeal, some jurors said that, because Charles Rhines is gay, a life sentence in prison with other men would not be a punishment. Just two years ago, the Supreme Court intervened in a case where there was evidence of anti-Hispanic bias in a jury’s deliberation of sentencing. Several national LGBT legal groups joined a brief in support of Rhines’ appeal, arguing that the jury’s bias violated the man’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. Rhines has been on death row since 1993, when a jury found him guilty of stabbing to death a 22-year-old employee of a Rapid City, South Dakota, doughnut shop Rhines was robbing. Rhines repeatedly stabbed his victim, even as the young man pleaded for his life. Under South Dakota law, a person convicted of first-degree murder can be given the death penalty if the offense was “outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim.” Rhines’ attorneys made no claim of jury bias in their first three motions for appeal, but did so on their fourth and fifth claims. Attorneys for South Dakota argued that Rhines’ claims of jury bias were supported only by “dubious evidence that has never been subject to judicial review.” But the Rapid City Journal reported there were sworn affidavits from jurors, saying bias played a role. According to the paper, one juror said, “If he’s gay, we’d be sending him where he wants to go” by sentencing Rhines to life in prison. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, and the Human Rights Campaign all signed onto a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the death sentence in this case constituted a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. They said their concern was to defend the right of an accused person to have an impartial jury where bias based on sexual orientation could “play no part in jury decision-making,

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and especially in the determination of whether a person lives or dies.” In such cases, they said, “litigants must be allowed to present evidence of bias based on sexual orientation to the court.” “The history of discrimination against lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in nearly every aspect of life illustrates the need to safeguard against sexual orientation bias in our nation’s judicial system,” said the brief. The brief urged the Supreme Court to allow the trial court to take a look at the jury deliberations in Rhines’ trial and sentencing. It said “there is disturbing evidence that, if credited, shows the jury sentenced Mr. Rhines to death in significant part because he is gay. Yet Mr. Rhines has never been allowed to present this evidence to a court.” The groups pointed to a Supreme Court decision in 2017, PeñaRodriguez v. Colorado. In that case, the court said that when there is clear evidence that a juror relied on racial stereotypes or animus with regard to a defendant, a trial court should be able to review jury deliberations. The Supreme Court’s denial of Rhines’ appeal means it will not require a similar safeguard for stereotypes or animus based on sexual orientation in jury deliberations. There was no indication of dissent in the order. But, interestingly, just three days earlier, the court’s four liberal-leaning justices dissented from the court’s refusal to uphold a stay for a death row inmate in Alabama who sought a less painful means of execution because the man missed a deadline for making his request. Justice Stephen Breyer asked the majority to discuss the matter in conference the next morning, but the majority refused.

SFPD

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“Always, people have concerns about police marching in the parade, and I totally understand that. Yes, relations have improved a lot, but I believe they can always be improved more with our community and any community with the police department,” Cain said. Police used to raid gay bars in the city. In August 1966, trans people tangled with police in what became known as the Compton’s Cafeteria

Speaking for the dissent (which included Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan), Breyer wrote, “To proceed in this way calls into question the basic principles of fairness that should underlie our criminal justice system. To proceed in this matter in the middle of the night without giving all members of the court the opportunity for discussion tomorrow morning is, I believe, unfortunate.” Legal experts said the court’s refusal in the Rhines’ case sends a troubling message. “The Supreme Court’s silence in the face of explicit, anti-gay bias [in the Rhines appeal] sends a deeply disturbing message about the value placed on LGBTQ lives,” said Ria Tabacco Mar, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which led the brief joined by the LGBT groups. “As Chief Justice [John] Roberts wrote in a case involving racial prejudice, when bias plays a role in the decision whether to sentence someone to death, that is a ‘disturbing departure from the basic premise of our criminal justice system: Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.’ The evidence of anti-gay bias in Mr. Rhines’s case challenges that basic premise.” The Supreme Court’s denial of review leaves Rhines as one of two men on death row in South Dakota. A date for his execution has not been set. A spokesperson for his attorneys said Rhines still has litigation pending in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “on whether his expert is allowed to see him in the prison to prepare a report for his clemency petition.” In other Supreme Court news, the high court has still not indicated whether it intends to review any or all of three cases testing whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act can be read to prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. It has not yet decided whether to take a case testing the right of a business to deny service to a same-sex couple based on the business owner’s professed religious beliefs. And it has not indicated whether it will hear the appeal of students challenging a school policy that allows transgender students to use the high school restroom and locker room consistent with their gender identity. All five cases are on the court’s list to consider in private conference Thursday, April 18. The court is expected to release its next orders list, accepting or declining appeals, Monday, April 22.t riots, which took place three years before Stonewall. Decades ago, tensions were high between the SFPD and LGBT community after Dan White, a disgruntled ex-supervisor and former city firefighter and police officer, assassinated gay supervisor Harvey Milk and thenmayor George Moscone in 1978. The light sentence White received for a voluntary manslaughter conviction led to riots. In response, police raided the old Elephant Walk bar in the Castro. See page 12 >>

Obituaries >> Memorial for John Iversen

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There will be a celebration of life for John Iversen, a gay man and longtime East Bay AIDS activist who died last fall, Sunday, May 5, from noon to 2 p.m. at the South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street in Berkeley. Mr. Iversen died October 1, 2018 after experiencing a massive stroke. He was 69.

Among Mr. Iversen’s many accomplishments was his starting ACT UP/East Bay in 1989 and Berkeley’s needle exchange program a year later. At that time, syringe exchange was illegal. He was also a musician and artist. For more information, visit the Facebook page at https://bit. ly/2Z9VJxF. To read the Bay Area Reporter’s obituary, visit https://www. ebar.com/news/news//266583.

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4/20 offers special events and sales by Sari Staver

pril 20, the cannabis high holiday, falls on a Saturday this year, enabling people to start celebrating in the morning at Golden Gate Park’s Hippie Hill and end the day with a swanky underground dinner. In between, there are lots of other gatherings, including concerts, a stoner comedy festival, and dispensary sales galore. Over the years, various stories have circulated about the origins of 4/20, the most popular of which says it first began in 1971 when a group of San Rafael High School students met at 4:20 p.m., just after classes, to smoke a joint. The Oxford English Dictionary added the term “4/20” recently, citing this story. The Hippie Hill event, the second since recreational pot became legal and the first to fall on a weekend, promises to be bigger than ever, according to sponsors. Beginning at 9 a.m. in Robin Williams Meadow, the city has again permitted the event and brought in sponsors to help pay for fencing all around the perimeter of the meadow, increased security, portable toilets, food vendors, and an improved sound system and DJs for entertainment. The cleanup crew will also be beefed up, said sponsor Alex Aquino in a telephone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. Aquino, owner of the Haight Street clothing shop Black Scale, said the minimum age requirement was

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People enjoy 4/20 at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park.

brought down to 18, from 21, with hopes that this will reduce the number of people spilling out into the surrounding neighborhoods of the Haight and north Panhandle during the day. Aquino said that around Hippie Hill there will be at least eight food trucks as well as vendor booths, medical staff, and the music stage. And because a record crowd is expected, Aquino said organizers have arranged for more ambulances on site for those who might overindulge. Once again, organizers have prohibited the sale of pot and alcohol and prohibited the possession of any glass objects, including bongs, although previous parties have ignored these rules, offering lots of edibles and flowers for sale. Last year, the 4/20 celebration at-

tracted an estimated 20,000 people, said Aquino. If the weather is good this year, he said attendance could be “considerably larger.” If you’re not planning to attend the event, you’d be wise to steer clear of the Haight that day.

Other parties

Not to be confused with Hippie Hill, Trippie Hill is a party from 3 to 10 p.m. at the Midway, 900 Marin Street, featuring Berner, Nef the Pharaoh, Los Rakas, and Kool John. Tickets are $45-$100 (plus fees) and available at https://bit.ly/2uaOk36. Over the 4/20 holiday weekend, comedians from North Beach’s Cobb’s Comedy Club, as well as some who have appeared on Viceland, NBC, and ABC, share their best stoner jokes and

SF General

From page 1

The complaints about Facebook have run the gamut from the collection of personal data without users being notified and the spread of disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign to refusing to allow drag queens and transgender people to use their preferred names on their profiles and the rejection of ads by LGBT groups such as the GLBT Historical Society. “Facebook has a lousy track record of respecting transpeople and drag queens’ privacy and has continued to block users who are reported for reclaiming the word dyke and even blocked the historical society as a ‘political ad,’” noted Sasha Cuttler, a genderqueer nurse who began working at the hospital in 1987 and has been its collabora-

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Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital registered nurses Guy Vandenberg, left, and Sasha Cuttler have alleged retaliatory action against them due to their advocacy around removing the Zuckerberg name from the hospital.

tive alliance for nursing outcomes coordinator since 2009.

Cuttler, 58, has been a vocal critic about the hospital name

stories at the inaugural San Francisco Stoner Comedy Festival. In addition to an evening of comedy, California Love Bud will have complimentary prerolls, vape pens, and CBD oils. The shows will be held at Neck of the Woods, 406 Clement Street, Friday, April 19, at 8 and 10 p.m. and Saturday at 7 and 9 p.m. For more information and tickets, visit https://bit.ly/2GfVoBc. For a swanky way to end your 4/20 celebration, the Opulent Chef is holding “The Heightened Series: 4/20 Opulent Takeover” consisting of a session from 4 to 7 p.m. ($75 plus fees) and a sesh plus dinner from 7 to 10 p.m. ($175, plus fees) at an undisclosed private spot in the city. Combining cannabis and fine dining, the dinner includes sun-grown flowers from Humboldt County, concentrates you can try out in vaporizers, and a gourmet meal. For more information and tickets, visit https://the-hightenedseries.ticketleap.com/.

Dispensary specials

And, finally, it’s not 4/20 without dispensary specials. Gay-owned and -operated SPARC, with three locations in the city (http:// www.sparcsf.com), will feature “the biggest sales in the history of the company,” Robbie Rainin, director of retail, said in a telephone interview with the B.A.R. On Saturday only, SPARC

change since it was announced in 2015. In a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Cuttler expressed hope in seeing the naming issue be decided by the city’s voters this fall. “We’re going to be seeking to get a referendum on this for the November ballot to let the voters decide,” said Cuttler, since “they, the people, are the real owner operators of that hospital.” Guy Vandenberg, 56, a gay man who has worked at the hospital as a nurse in its AIDS clinic since 2004, has also been advocating for a name change to the hospital. In an interview at his home not far from the medical center, Vandenberg went so far as to refuse to use its official name. “San Francisco General Hospital is our hospital. The people established it in the 19th century, then rebuilt it and expanded it,” he said, referring to bond measures voters

will knock up to 50% off select products from 9 a.m. to noon, and up to 40% off from noon to 10 p.m. Not to be outdone, the Apothecarium’s three locations in the city (http://www.apothecarium.com/ san-francisco) will have a sale on both Friday and Saturday. According to spokesman Eliot Dobris, the sale will feature 59% off deals from Atlas, Sunday Goods, State Flower, Henry’s Originals, Plus, and Legion of Bloom and one penny deals on fanny packs (with $100 purchase), T-shirts (for early birds), and Pax Era portable vapes (with cartridge purchase). The Castro flagship store, at 2029 Market Street, will also have onepenny chair massages and, from 3 to 3:45 p.m., an appearance by the Waldos, the former Marin County High School students credited with coining the 4/20 term. Most of the city’s other dispensaries will also have specials that likely will be announced at the last minute so be sure to check the website of your favorite shop for deals over the holiday weekend. t Bay Area Cannasseur usually runs the first Thursday of the month; this is a special 4/20 edition. To send column ideas or tips, email Sari Staver at sari@bayareacannasseur.com.

passed to pay for upgrading the facility. “It will always be San Francisco General Hospital. We thank Mr. Zuckerberg for his donation, but he doesn’t get to put his name on it in a private agreement.” Rather than having hospital administrators decide what its name should be, the public should be the arbiter for what to officially call it, contended Vandenberg. “Otherwise where does it end? The Chick-fil-A operating suite next?” asked Vandenberg. He was referring to the fastfood chain that has been the focus of protests by LGBT groups and advocates because of its founder’s contributions to anti-gay causes. Last week, the news of the chain opening at Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport drew condemnation from LGBT leaders in the South Bay. See page 12 >>

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Buttigieg

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town and the LGBT community. He jumped from not being on mainstream polsters’ lists of candidates to being on the list, then 12th on the list, then eighth and, most recently, fifth. A poll of Iowa caucus goers in March and one of New Hampshire voters in April show him in third. And earlier this month, he again garnered widespread media attention when he told a national Victory Fund event in Washington, D.C. that he had had a hard time accepting being gay when he was a teenager. He said that, as a teen, he would have eagerly taken a pill to become straight or cut the gay out with a knife. In accepting himself, he found a way to make his evolution as a gay person relatable to people who are not gay and a kind of metaphor for the nation’s struggle to evolve toward a new and better future. “It will take courage to move on from our past,” Buttigieg said dur-

Hate crime case

From page 2

She also felt O’Sullivan doesn’t believe he is guilty and she found it disrespectful that he wouldn’t make eye contact with Myers as he read his statement.

North Bay

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“Stonewall to Sonoma, a Heritage of Love,” in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City. The Parade is followed at noon by “Love in the Square,” the Pride festival at Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square. From 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., the official Pride after-party will be rocking at the Lounge at La Rosa in Santa Rosa. Pride weekend concludes Sunday

News Briefs

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Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for a day of competition and free dance lessons for all evening ticketholders starting at 6:30 p.m. Spectator tickets and competitor registration are available at www. aprilfollies.com. Advance daytime spectator tickets for the entire day are

SFPD

From page 10

Other incidents included harsh treatment of the late gay cannabis activist Dennis Peron and AIDS activists. “There have been major advancements in terms of the police department in certain parts of the LGBT community,” Cain said. “When I first got here police were hostile in arresting trans and gay people. It was really a class issue. Queer people were being arrested, whether out on the streets to live or to party.” Today, the situation is much improved. The SFPD has done a lot of work to restore that relationship, Ewins said. It’s important that the

SF General

From page 11

As for the hospital, Vandenberg said a billionaire shouldn’t be given the right to put their name on a public institution with no say from the public. “It’s public. It is ours. It is our responsibility,” he argued. “It is our common interest, so we have to pay for it and care for it.” Administrators of the hospital, which is jointly overseen by the city’s Department of Public Health and UCSF, continue to de-

ing his announcement speech. “We are not going back.” “You know, if I did get a chance to go back, it wouldn’t be out of a desire to live in that past,” he continued. “If I could go into the past, I’d go just 20 years back, so I could find a teenaged boy in the basement of his parents’ brick house, thinking long thoughts as he played the same guitar lick over and over again on his little Stratocaster, wondering how he could belong in this world. “Wondering if his intellectual curiosity means he’ll never fit in. Wondering if his last name will be a stumbling block for the rest of his life,” he added. “Wondering what it means when he sometimes feels a certain way about young men he sees in the hall at school. If it means he’ll never wear the uniform, never be accepted, never know love. “If I found him and told him what was ahead, would he believe me?” he asked. “I can picture him,” said Buttigieg as the cheering crowd quieted.

“If I could put my arm around him and tell him he was going to see the world and serve his country. That he would not only find belonging in his town but be entrusted by its citizens with the duty of leading it and shaping it ... to tell him that he’ll be all right, more than all right. “To tell him that one rainy April day, before he even turns 40, he’ll wake up to headlines about whether he’s rising too quickly into becoming a top tier contender for the American presidency,” he added. “And to tell him that, on that day when he announces for president, he’ll do it with his husband looking on.” In the latest national poll, Buttigieg has 4% of support among 559 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters. That puts him in fifth place, tied with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), in a field of 16 viable candidates included in a survey by Quinnipiac University March 21-15 (margin of error 5.1 points). It also was a bump up from the 1% he had registered just one week earlier.

Some speakers at Buttigieg’s announcement were mayors themselves. Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, told the crowd that cities like hers and South Bend are recovering because mayors have “done the hard work of figuring out where to go from here.” Christopher Cabaldon, a gay man who’s mayor of West Sacramento, California, quipped that as a leader of a small city, he was there “for a bigcity mayor like Pete Buttigieg.” (South Bend has a population of about 102,000, while West Sacramento is home to about 53,500 people.) “Mayor Pete sees people for who they are, the trans soldier expelled by the president” because of hate, Cabaldon said. “This is a historic day.” By April 15, presidential candidates had to file with the Federal Elections Commission a report indicating how much in contributions they have raised in the first quarter. While that information was still not yet available from the FEC early Monday morning, Buttigieg’s cam-

paign previously announced that he has raised more than $7 million. The Associated Press ran a story April 9 headlined, “LGBTQ donors help Pete Buttigieg defy 2020 expectations.” Although it said, “Financial support from the LGBTQ community has helped Buttigieg defy expectations by raking in more than $7 million in just over two months,” it cited the name of only one gay contributor and unnamed “bigdollar Hollywood donors.” Late in the story, it quoted LGBTQ Victory Fund President Annise Parker as saying “it’s not the LGBTQ community alone that’s fueling” Buttigieg’s campaign. “He’s not a gay candidate for president,” Parker, a lesbian and the former mayor of Houston, told the AP. “He is a candidate for president and part of his life experience that he brings is being an openly gay man.” t

Another member of the Flag Supporters group, Roger Reed, a gay man, was also at last week’s hearing. The sentence was “too light” in Reed’s opinion and he called O’Sullivan’s actions “unacceptable.” “Hate is still out there. To me, it’s getting worse with what’s happen-

ing in the country as a whole and the leadership of the country,” Reed, a Santa Rosa resident, said. A member of the local Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence was also there in support of Myers. Seamus McChesney, who identifies as a nonbinary queer, said the rainbow flag has been incredi-

bly important to the LGBT Guerneville and Russian River community. As a second-generation queer, McChesney sees Sonoma County as a sanctuary. McChesney and their trans wife attended the first flag raising ceremony in June 2017. “Everyone was so excited about

the flag. To have someone maliciously take it down was a blow to the community. It’s had a significant impact on the community,” McChesney said. Woods did not respond to a request for comment from the B.A.R. t

with Peace, Love & Wine presented by Gay Entertainment Directory magazine, at 1 p.m. and Pride in the Park at noon in Julliard Park in Santa Rosa. The Transgender Youth and Family Picnic starts at 1 p.m. in Juilliard Park. Sonoma County Pride is an all-volunteer nonprofit “dedicated to enhancing the lives and well-being of the LGBT community and allies throughout Sonoma County.” For more information, visit www.sonomacountypride.org.

Gay Wine Weekend

ed to ending HIV in Sonoma County and supporting the health of people living with HIV/AIDS. Saperstein boasted that over the years the charity auctions have raised $350,000. Admission to events requires either the VIP All Access Party Pass ($495) or single tickets ranging in price from $20 to $165. Participants are 85 percent gay men, but Saperstein said the weekend is open to “all LGBTQ people and our allies.” Most attendees are from the Bay Area.

Russian River Pride

$30, for the evening “A” level finals and show, as well as free dance lessons, $40, and for both day and evening, $55. Additionally, April Follies dancers are featured in the 2017 documentary “Hot to Trot,” which is now streaming on iTunes and Amazon video on demand. For more information, visit https://www.hottotrotfilm.com/.

Registration open for Gender Spectrum

children and youth. The weekend is preceded by a daylong professionals’ symposium where those working with youth come together to discuss the most up-to-date information and best practices for serving gender-expansive kids. Tickets for the July 19 professionals’ symposium are $280 until April 30. Early bird ticket prices for the conference are $440 for a family ticket or

$225 for an adult ticket until April 30. Saturday and Sunday lunches are extra. Organizers said that there are sliding-scale tickets. Other options, such as housing, are also available. For more information, visit https://www.genderspectrum.org/. t

department keep an open dialogue, Ewins added, and that it welcomes those who have had bad experiences with police to come forward and share those with the department. “Any bad experience will break down trust, and we can’t have that. We need to keep that trust and build on that instead of tear it down,” Ewins said. “Any conversation is good.” The U.S. Department of Justice in 2016 recommended hundreds of reforms to the SFPD after controversial police killings and escalating tensions between law enforcement and the city’s communities. Among the recommendations was LGBT cultural sensitivity training. The trainings have induced “honest conversations about implicit bias and to try and under-

stand where [LGBTs] are as individuals and the members of the police department,” Ewins said. The SFPD has never had a contingent in the annual San Francisco Dyke March, which has been going on since 1993. Ewins said that some officers do participate as civilians, however. Haley Patoski, a lesbian who’s chair of this year’s Dyke March, said organizers don’t ask SFPD to participate because the community doesn’t want them to. She said the board reaches out to community members to provide traffic control and security. In the past, they have gotten medical professionals from Lyon-Martin Health Services, which offers primary medi-

cal care to women and transgender people, to help out at the march. “We try to be aware that a lot of people in the community don’t feel safe around the police. That is something that is not just unique to the queer community, it does hit them particularly hard,” Patoski told the B.A.R. “We try and limit their involvement as much as possible although we understand that they are always going to be there, it’s their job to monitor things,” she added. Patoski also clarified that she felt this was the consensus among a “majority” of people who participate in, and attend, the Dyke March, not just a small portion. She said officers are welcome to participate as civilians.

“We don’t really want active displays of law enforcement and we have made that clear to [SFPD],” Patoski said. In response to those who feel SFPD shouldn’t march in SF Pride or other LGBT parades and events, Ewins said, “I would ask the question: are you biased against law enforcement because of the uniform I wear or because I am not accepted as a lesbian in this community?” Larkin Street Youth Services declined to comment. Officials at SF Pride did not return multiple messages seeking comment. t

fend changing its name and point to the benefits that have come from the financial support of Zuckerberg and Chan. “For more than 150 years, our hospital’s mission has been to serve the people of San Francisco, regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. We serve more than 108,000 people annually, and operate the city’s only Level 1 trauma center, receiving the victims of stroke, accidents, and violence,” stated Dr. Susan Ehrlich, CEO of the hospital. “We are committed and dedicated to our mission.”

As for the couple’s donation, Ehrlich stated that the hospital continues to be honored that they “thought highly enough of our hospital and staff, and the health of San Franciscans, to donate their resources to our mission.” The “generous gift” from Chan, who was a resident physician at the hospital, and Zuckerberg, noted Ehrlich, went toward acquiring “state-of-the-art technology we use every single day to save patient lives, and by providing continuing support of renovations, improvements in patient care and educa-

tion. In acknowledgement and appreciation of that gift, our hospital now carries their names.” Naming, she added, “is an important convention in philanthropy that encourages additional donors, and our hospital relies on the support of the community, the city and county of San Francisco, and generous private philanthropy.” A number of the city’s supervisors, however, are supportive of the nurses’ effort to place the ballot measure before voters and are hopeful the union will be successful in garnering the signatures

needed to qualify it. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman told the B.A.R. this week that he is thinking of sponsoring an ordinance at the board that would restrict naming city facilities after living individuals. “San Franciscans in general want to call it SF General rather than Zuckerberg hospital,” said Mandelman. “The larger issue is naming civic buildings after living people, no matter how philanthropic they are.”

Saperstein’s Out in the Vineyards is producing its 11th annual Gay Wine Weekend, from Thursday, July 18, to Sunday, July 21. The weekend’s partner hotel is the Lodge at Sonoma. Events include a comedy show, business expo and wine tasting, a winemaker dinner, winery tours, and more. A new event Sunday will be a drag queen brunch hosted by Ruby Red Munroe & Friends, and a wine auction with all proceeds going to Sonoma County’s Face to Face, dedicat-

Registration is now open for Gender Spectrum’s conference and a professionals’ symposium that will be held this summer at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga. The July 20-21 conference provides an array of programs and activities for families with transgender, nonbinary, and otherwise gender-expansive

Other marches

Cynthia Laird contributed reporting.

And finally, coming up on Sunday, August 25, is the second annual Russian River Pride in Guerneville; the parade will start at 11 a.m. After a rocky start last year, organizer Jensen promised a smoother experience this time around. “I am handling the permits myself,” he said, a reference to last year’s snafu that saw the parade and street fair canceled. t

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Both Cuttler, who has a Ph.D. in nursing, and Vandenberg believe their advocacy around the naming issue have led them to be retaliated against by hospital leadership. In complaints filed in January with the federal Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Cuttler alleged that after he began speaking out against the naming rights four years ago he was told “to stand down” from doing so by UCSF Vice Dean Sue Carlisle. Another of his supervisors cautioned him not to do “anything political” during his work hours, which Cuttler objected to since he considers his concerns about Facebook’s use of its users’ data in medical research is related to his job at the hospital. In 2016 he also raised objections to how the hospital was reporting patient fall

data, believing it was trying to conceal the information about injuries patients received from falls. His complaints allege that, in retaliation, Cuttler was removed from the leadership of the hospital’s falls task force, another advisory body, and denied multiple promotional opportunities in 2018. The complaints also state that Cuttler has been marginalized and ostracized at work and that “the retaliatory harassment continues to the present.” One example cited stems from last March, when during a meeting of the Nurse Executive Committee, Cuttler spoke favorably about a new LGBT initiative at the hospital he had been selected to teach. He added that he was encouraged to see his union and the hospital administration “find common ground in the current political climate.” The complaint contends that, in response, Chief of Nursing Terry Dentoni said, “We don’t need or want

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Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554496 In the matter of the application of: SARA ANGELICA MATUTE, 850 RUTLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SARA ANGELICA MATUTE, is requesting that the names DIEGO SANCHEZ be changed to DIEGO SANCHEZ-MATUTE & ESTEFANIA SANCHEZ be changed to ESTEFANIA SANCHEZ-MATUTE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 2nd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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your help,” which Cuttler found to be humiliating in front of his peers. “She may not intend to be or may not be personally homophobic or transphobic. But, um, but the effect of saying something as nasty as that is to just to make it clear that you only speak when spoken to,” Cuttler said. “It’s going back to that, you know, the old sexist thing about nurses just need to shut up and listen to the experts about it.” In addition to his public criticism of the hospital name change, Vandenberg believes his speaking up about equity and racial justice issues at work led to him being placed on investigative leave last month. While he is still being paid, Vandenberg is unsure for how long he will be out of work and worries about who is handling the 800 patient caseloads he oversees. “I could not think what I would have done wrong,” he said when notified by his supervisor of having to attend a hearing with his

union rep. For 13 years Vandenberg had received the highest rating employees could receive, he said, but stopped being evaluated when a new manager came on board in 2017. He then was given an evaluation the week of the hearing that said he needed improvement. Following the two-hour meeting, during which Vandenberg said he was only given vague reasons for what he had done wrong at work, he was placed on indefinite leave and barred from the hospital grounds other than for his own health care needs. “It is pure speculation on my part for why I am on leave,” he said. “The university wouldn’t say why.” In a letter he sent April 1 to Dr. Diane Havlir, chief of the UCSF Division of HIV, Infectious Disease & Global Medicine, and to the union, Vandenberg criticized how the matter had been handled. “None of the allegations raised against me that prompted this

In the matter of the application of: HEATHER MARIE HAMPTON, 190 CERVANTES BLVD #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HEATHER MARIE HAMPTON, is requesting that the name HEATHER MARIE HAMPTON, be changed to MAYA STERIN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 2nd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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investigation are of a nature that would warrant the kind of drastic action management has taken,” he wrote, noting that he has been “actively defending the reputation of UCSF and the privacy rights of our patients by advocating for the removal of Mark Zuckerberg’s name from the hospital. I have upheld the core (PRIDE) values of our university in everything I did, and this was reflected in the performance evaluations I received.” Due to both issues involving personnel matters, spokespeople for the hospital declined to comment in regard to the concerns raised by Cuttler and Vandenberg. At the time that Cuttler filed his complaints, spokesman Brent Andrew told several local media outlets that the hospital “follows all applicable federal, state and local labor laws and does not retaliate against employees under any circumstances. We will cooperate fully with all investigations into this matter.” t

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants. Case No. CGC-19-574377 SUMMONS ON FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT [CCP § 751.05] The people of the State of California, to All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, defendants, greeting (See Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] attached.): You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, plaintiff, filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court and county, within three months after the first publication of this summons, and to set forth what interest or lien, if any, you have in or upon that certain real property or any part thereof, situated in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, particularly described as follows: REAL PROPERTY, SITUATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COMPRISED OF SIX (6) PARCELS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING A PORTION OF PARCEL A, AS SAID PARCEL A IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN GRANT DEED RECORDED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2016-K334613 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE BEING ALL OF MARYLAND STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO BEING ALL OF LOUISIANA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE BEING A PORTION OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 406.42 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 3, AS SAID PARCEL 3 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 18.79 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 125.39 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 63.85 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 271.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FOUR BEING A PORTION OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MICHIGAN STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 157.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 4, AS SAID PARCEL 4 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 2 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 9.01 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 11.12 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596); THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 6 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON SAID WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 143.4 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 18.62 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FIVE BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID MICHIGAN STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 18.62 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 1.31 FEET, AND 2) NORTH 87°24’17” EAST 18.63 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 1.12 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL SIX BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID GEORGIA STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PARCEL 1 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 33 FEET TO THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF HUMBOLDT STREET, EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 33 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCELS ONE THROUGH SIX BEING PORTIONS OF APN 4175-017. ATTACHED HERETO IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE INDEX MAP, AND BY THIS REFERENCE, MADE A PART HEREOF. And you are hereby notified that, unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, to wit: quiet title to the Property consistent with the legal description above, against all adverse claims of all claimants, known and unknown, as of the date the Complaint in this case was filed. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, DATE: APR 15 2019 Clerk, By JUDITH C. NUNEZ, DEPUTY [SEAL], CLERK OF THE COURT Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] The following persons are said to claim an interest in, or lien upon, said property adverse to Plaintiff: 1. PG&E, 245 Market Street, N10A, Room 1015, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, CA 94177; 2. City and County of San Francisco, Office of the City Attorney, Room 234, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102, 3. Trans Bay Cable LLC, One Letterman Drive, C5-100, San Francisco, CA 94129; 4. San Francisco Port Authority, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111; 5. California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region, 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94612; 6. NRG Potrero LLC, c/o GenOn, 1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 2000, Houston TX 77056 SUMMONS_revised041619.indd 1

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554704

4/16/19 12:56 PM

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038574100

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038571600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COLDWAR, 850 SOUTH VAN NESS #45, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NITA D. RICCARDI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GARCIA CONSTRUCTION, 2804 GONZAGA AVE, RICHMOND, CA 94806. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS MAURICIO GARCIA LOPEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038567900

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038572400

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038563400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLYNNSPACE TRAVEL CONSULTING, 320 TURK ST #108, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FLYNN DOMINGUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBTRACTION, 940 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RAMSEY WEST ARMSTRONG.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DISCRETION, 27 SEARS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHELLE EMELIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/19.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038572200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUNGERART GALLERY, 1222 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER LEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/19.

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15 • Bay Area Reporter • April 18-24, 2019

Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038570000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 535 47TH AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO, 535 47TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HENRY WILLIAM VOGE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038570700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JAIME’S JANITORIAL SERVICES, 1732 POST ST #14, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FRANCISCO JAIME. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038566000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BOYS WHO SAID NO!, 139 CORBETT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER C. JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038569500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUENA LANE PHOTOGRAPHY, 3150 18TH ST #246, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EILEEN ROCHE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/18/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038576800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CLUB DONATELLO; CLUB DONATELLO; CLUB DONATELLO OWNERS ASSOCIATION, 501 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CLUB DONATELLO OWNERS ASSOCIATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/31/94. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038574800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC BAY ASSESSMENTS & COUNSELING, 1300 CLAY ST #600, OAKLAND, CA 94612. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EILEEN COLORADO LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038576600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLIND BUTCHER, 4058-A 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CHEFSGROUP INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038575600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANCE REAL ESTATE, 2309 NORIEGA ST #78, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed COOCRR INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038559600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIN DESIGN, 2325 THIRD ST #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MIDDAY INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038572100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HDA CONSULTING, 718 LONG BRIDGE ST UNIT 1604, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HELENE T. ROOS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/24/96. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/20/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038566300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOCAL CATERING; TAMALITOS CATERING, 1566 CARROLL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CUEVAS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037063000

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WE GO, 1214 POLK ST #308, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SANG IN PARK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038576000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KORINDIAN PRODUCTIONS, 1834 GREAT HIGHWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GAUTAM BAKSI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038582600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WUSU TRAINING, 1770 NORTH POINT ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TOLULOPE WUSU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038580900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASTERPIECE TATTOO, 766 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual and is signed BRAHIAN MARTINEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038579000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: META MATTERS, 563 DONAHUE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MONICA G. PADILLA-STEMMELEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/19/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038580200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SELVAVISION, 2261 MARKET ST #292, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KRISTIN TIECHE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038576500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHICKEN N WAFFLES PLACE, 1968 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RAMEN-YA (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038581000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENIORE’S PIZZA, 2415 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SENIORE’S PIZZA SF INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/27/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038560200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCFLUX STUDIO, 350 BRODERICK ST # 205, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed J.TOBIAS ARCHITECTS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038578000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF CULTIVATORS; SAN FRANCISCO DISTRO; BULK WEED COMPANY, 1125 REVERE AVE A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124-3422. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GSFCA LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/26/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038581100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAL HARPER, 240 CHATTANOOGA ST #24, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed IN AMERICA PRODUCTIONS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038580800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CUIA ACAI & POSITIVE FOOD, 1 MARKET ST #8, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BOSSA NOVA GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038582200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: THE COTTAGE BAKING COMPANY, 780 WISCONSIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by ARLENE NAOMI KATO. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/26/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE ALMA, 888 INNES AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HUDSON VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/19.

MAR 28, APR 04, 11, 18, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587800

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038578200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RZ MANDARIN STUDIO, 436 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIQIONG ZHU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIAT LUX JEWELRY, 3169 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FIAT LUX LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/26/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/19.

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: JULIO CESAR CAAMAL ARGUELLO, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS MARIA MAGDALENA LUNA GODOY CASE NO. FDI-19-791286

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org) or by contacting your county bar association. NOTICE – RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. 1. The name and address of the court are: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102; 2. The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Maria Magdalena Luna Godoy, 320 Turk St, San Francisco, CA 94102 415-947-9899 March 8, 2019 Clerk of the Superior Court by Damon Carter, Deputy

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 IN SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF KING IN RE THE INTEREST OF: ABRAHAM J. M. GRIBBON, A MINOR. NO. 19-5-00312-1 SEA SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF HEARING RE TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP TO: JOHN DOE (UNKNOWN)

A Petition for Termination of Parent-Child Relationship asks that the parent-child relationship between the above-named parent and child be terminated. You may respond to the Summons and Notice by filing a written response with the Court Clerk and serving a copy on David Andersen. If you do not serve your written response within thirty days after the date this Summons was served on you, the court may, without further notice, enter an Order of Default against you, enter an order relinquishing the child to the Petitioners, permanently terminating your parent-child relationship, and approving the adoption of the above-named child. The child was born on Dec 28, 2016, in Bellevue, WA; The natural mother is Elisabeth Gribbon. The court hearing on this matter shall be on May 13, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. in Rm W325, King County Courthouse, 516 3 rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98104. Any indigent alleged father has the right to be represented by an attorney if so requested; and, upon such request one will be appointed. Your failure to file a claim of paternity under chapter 26.26 RCW or your failure to respond to the Petition within thirty days of the date of service of Summons and Notice upon you, is grounds to terminate your parent-child relationship with respect to the child. WITNESS: The Hon. Henry H. Judson III, Court Commissioner of said Superior Court and the seal of said court hereunto affixed this date: Apr 08, 2019 Barbara Miner, King County Superior Court Clerk, For King County, WA. K Rich, Deputy Clerk FILE RESPONSE WITH: Superior Court Clerk, King County Courthouse, 516 3 rd Ave, Rm W325, Seattle, WA 98104, 206-296-9300 SERVE COPY OF RESPONSE ON: David Andersen, 5507 35 th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105, 206-547-1400

APRIL 11, 18, 25, 2019 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF IMELDINE BLAIR AKA IMELDINE PARTRICIA BLAIR IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302649

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of IMELDINE BLAIR AKA IMELDINE PARTRICIA BLAIR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by RICHARD WILLIAM BLAIR II in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that RICHARD WILLIAM BLAIR II be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 01, 2019, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Mr. Gary R. Lieberman, Esq., 7 Mt. Lassen Drive, Suite A-150, San Rafael, CA 94903 (415) 897-2226.

APR 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038560900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THOUSANDFOLD, 1946 36TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAHEE HAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038588200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WALLFLOWER, 4018 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMIR SALAMEH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038574500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANGOLOTE, 41 THOMAS AVE #9, BRISBANE, CA 94005. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VICTOR J. VILLAMONTE VENEGAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038595000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIMPLES COCKTAIL LOUNGE, 1700 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 1700 DIMPLES INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038591000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUPREME BUILT, 2754 GREENWICH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TALBCO DEVELOPMENT CORP. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038586100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AL’S DELI, 598 GUERRERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FIRST DELI LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038580000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAME OF BUDZ, 1355 TAYLOR ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VERDAMPFER ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/19.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038212900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: L’AMOUR DE SAIGON, 321 W. PORTAL AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by TFLH CORP (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/09/18.

APR 11, 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DONALD EDWARD STEVENS IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302700

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DONALD EDWARD STEVENS. A Petition for Probate has been filed by KATHLEEN M. STEVENS in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that KATHLEEN M. STEVENS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: May 15, 2019, 9:00 a.m., Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Lauren T. Corman #292981, The Corman Law Offices, APC, 740 Front St #200, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, 831-427-2414.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 2019 PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM AND ORDER TO GO TO COURT (SMALL CLAIMS COURT) MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 3501 CIVIC CENTER DR, RM 113, P.O. BOX 4988, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94913-4988 NOTICE TO THE PERSON BEING SUED DEFENDANT: HERBERT DERUNGS AKA HERBIE CHRISTIANSEN, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER: KIA BRUMETT CASE NO. SMC 1910123 Notice to the person being sued: You are the defendant. The person suing you is the plaintiff. You and the plaintiff must go to court on the trial date listed below. If you do not go to court, you may lose the case. If you lose, the court can order that your wages, money, or property be taken to pay this claim. Bring witnesses, receipts, and any evidence you need to prove your case. Read this form and all pages attached to understand the claims against you and to protect your rights. ORDER TO GO TO COURT: The defendant and plaintiff must go to court June 21st, 2019, 10:30 am. Clerk, by Q. Roary, Deputy, James M. Kim.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554758

In the matter of the application of: VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN, C/O TERRY A. SZUCSKO #258096, CFLS, LVOVICH & SZUCSKO, P.C., 50 OSGOOD PL #500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN, is requesting that the name VIKKI CERNIGLIA FRIEDMAN be changed to VIKKI ANN CERNIGLIA; LUCAS COLE FRIEDMAN be changed to LUCAS COLE CERNIGLIA; and MAXWELL FINNEGAN FRIEDMAN be changed to MAXIMILIAN SAMUEL CERNIGLIA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 23rd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554753

In the matter of the application of: MIGUEL CORDERO, 1839 15TH ST #465, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MIGUEL CORDERO, is requesting that the name MIGUEL CORDERO, be changed to MIGUEL-ANGEL CORDEROCHAVEZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 23rd of May 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038613700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WANGND.COM, 355 OCTAVIA ST #34, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMES WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CEBE VISUAL ARTS, 167 SKYLINE WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHE BERAUD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/31/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038605900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAMED UP & PRETTY YOUNG BALLER, 1471 KANSAS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CELINA HARRINGTON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/19.

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here couldn’t be a better moment than this for “Queer California: Untold Stories,” an original exhibition at OMCA that wears its inclusive spirit proudly on its sleeve as it attempts to bring multiple facets of LGBTQ+ cultural, artistic and political history to light. See page 24 >>

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Everybody’s talking about movies by David Lamble

Scene from director Ryan White’s “Ask Dr. Ruth,” playing the SFFILM Festival.

he SFFILM Festival’s final days are filled with treasures, including “Midnight Cowboy,” the 1969 Oscar winner for Best Picture from an openly gay British director at the top of his game, John Schlesinger. Below, find capsules for two dozen features screening at Bay Area venues, including our beloved Castro, the Roxie, Victoria, Grand Lake, Children’s Creativity Museum, YBCA, SFMOMA & BAMPFA (through 4/23). See page 24 >>

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Armistead Maupin, Laura Linney, and showrunner-executive producer Lauren Morelli enjoy the 2019 SFFILM Festival opening-night party at the Regency Center.

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nyone who knows Out There knows we think ALL CAPS are the absolute worst, especially in a headline. But they’re somehow fitting for our column about the 2019 San Francisco International Film Festival’s opening night and first week. So to pay homage to the less wordy and all-caps “brand refresh” SFFILM, OMG, here’s OT! SFFILM’s world-premiere opening-night attraction was the first installment of the new Netflix original series “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City,” in which Mary Ann (Laura Linney) returns to San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter (Ellen Page) and ex-husband Brian (Paul Gross), 20 years after the end of the last series. When Mary Ann first returns to 28 Barbary Lane, it’s rather like Dorothy arriving in the Emerald City of Oz. Anna Madrigal’s (Olympia Dukakis) boarding house, festooned with fairy lights, looms like Cinderella’s castle. This is all very nostalgic and heart-warming even if a touch, erm, delusional. There at the Castro Theatre for an onstage Q&A after the episode

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Scene in Iceland from director Sara Dosa’s “The Seer and the Unseen,” playing the 2019 SFFILM Festival.

were Maupin, Linney, series showrunner Lauren Morelli (“Orange Is the New Black”), director Alan Poul (“Six Feet Under”) and other cast members. Maupin was avuncular and full of homespun wisdom: “Nowadays these kids with their Grindr! In my day we used to walk 10 miles through the snow just to suck a cock!” It was fun to see Mary Ann, disillusioned with her adult life back in Connecticut, fall back under the spell of Mrs. Madrigal and her chosen family in Barbary Lane. But we’re left with so many questions. Why did Army Maupin leave for his new life in London so soon after opening night, missing the rest of the fest? Why did SFFILM executive director Noah Cowan announce his departure from the organization between its first press conference and opening night? Why is the square from Connecticut in these stories (here, Mary Ann’s stiff husband) always named Robert? Was Australian actor Murray Bartlett cast as Michael “Mouse” Tolliver just to confuse us with his role as Dominic “Dom” Basaluzzo in the similar SF-set HBO series “Looking” and its 2016 finale “Looking: The Movie?” For such a gay opening film, it was hard to keep it all straight. Opening night continued with a lovely party at the Regency Center, kicking off the SFFILM Fest with entertainment, dancing, and yummy treats, both gustatory and alcoholic. How very film festive! The 10-part Netflix limited series will debut in early summer 2019.

Icelandic idyll

Then, last Saturday night, OT was in the state-of-the-art Dolby Cinema for the SFFILM world premiere of SF-based filmmaker Sara Dosa’s “The Seer and the Unseen,” a “magic realist documentary about Iceland’s invisible elves, financial collapse, and the power of belief.” The film follows Ragnhildur “Ragga” Jónsdóttir, a grandmother and seer who has the ability to communicate directly with elves or “huldufólk” (hidden people), invisible spirits of nature that over half of Iceland believes in. Press materials put it this way: “Government officials and businesses hire Ragga to consult the elves to learn where they can and cannot develop land. But when Ragga is called upon to be the elves’ ‘Lorax’ and speak on behalf of nature under threat, she enters a political battle to save an ecologically important lava field set to be razed by road construction, just one of the many needless, reactionary projects spurred by Iceland’s sensational financial meltdown in 2008. Through Ragga’s heroic fight, ‘The Seer and the Unseen’ explores the invisible forces that shape our world and transform our natural landscapes, revealing not only what is worth seeing but what is worth saving.” OT thought it was a very poetic, visually stunning approach to the virtues of environmentalism. We got to meet Ragga during the afterparty at BCC Bar around the corner from the Dolby. The locale had us nostalgic for our old digs on 9th Street. We need an invisible elf to get us through!t

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Awakening to the glories of ‘Saul’ by Philip Campbell

eorge Frideric Handel and countertenors are enjoying an unexpected renaissance these days. We’re not just hearing the annual “Messiah” but many of the other great oratorios and operas, with high male voices reclaiming parts often given to mezzos and contraltos. Renewed interest in “authentic” performance practice and a wealth of high-quality countertenors – arguably, more than at any other time in modern history – are awakening listeners to the glories of “Orlando” (set for San Francisco Opera, summer 2019), “Partenope” (SFO revival summer 2020), and most recently, “Saul.” Rising star countertenors, like first freshman to win Princeton University’s Handel Singing Competition in 2012 Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and breakdancing champion Jakub Jozef Orlinski, are getting their rightful places on stage back. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale ended its 38th season with performances in the Bay Area and Los Angeles of Handel’s splendid Biblical oratorio “Saul.” At jewel-box Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, PBO Music Director (and period performance expert) Nicholas McGegan took the podium to finish his next-to-last season, and led a brilliant cast in an exciting performance of the fascinating three-act work. In the role of young David, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen wasn’t trying to steal anyone’s thunder, but he was certainly a memorable standout to listeners who may have been hearing him for the first time. His career is moving at dazzling speed. Merola Opera Program, current Adler Fellowship, Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and First Prize Winner and Audience Choice Winner of the 2018 Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition number in his early accomplish-

ments. There are additional prestigious honors, awards, and grants, including a future starring role as Medoro in Handel’s “Orlando” at the San Francisco Opera in June. The sheer beauty of his tone, strong, pure, and smoothly rounded, is perfect for the expressive airs in “Saul.” As David, lamenting the loss of his beloved friend Jonathan, he brought intense feeling to his grief. Heroic and seductive at other points in the story, he was also dramatically convincing as a youthful hero who could provoke self-defeating doubt and jealousy in the increasingly deranged title character. Petulant and conflicted, with remarkable reserves of cavernous bass-baritone fury, Canadian Daniel Okulitch brought complexity and depth to his portrayal of Saul. Handel and his librettist Charles Jennens collaborated on “Messiah” four years later with a scriptural text compiled from the King James Bible. The characters in “Saul,” freely borrowed from the Bible story, are mostly two-dimensional springboards for the composer’s vivid imagination. Nic McGegan added back-story and personality with his subtly effective stage direction and, most importantly, with dramatic orchestral support. He also assembled a marvelous cast, equally adept at adding theatrical credibility to their parts. Sopranos Yulia Van Doren and Sherezade Panthaki beautifully contrasted as Saul’s daughters Merab and Michal, and tenor Aaron Sheehan, very sympathetic as Jonathon, made a potentially confusing plot easier to follow. The complete libretto in the luxurious program helped, too. Van Doren’s lovely, clear voice contains a hint of warming vibrato. Panthaki’s darker tone is liquid and full, and her spontaneous facial expressions were amusing. They both are capable of fetching and genuine trills. Aaron Sheehan’s airy tenor is also skillfully at ease with Handel’s vocal demands.

In smaller parts, current SFO Adler Fellow bass-baritone Christian Pursell was impressive, as both Saul’s errand-runner Doeg and the gloomy ghost of the prophet Samuel. In three roles, tenor Jonathan Smucker gave varied personalities to Abner, an Amalekite, and most dramatically, the Witch of Endor in a Count Dracula cloak. Constantly working with various Northern California musical organizations, he is a longtime member of the Philharmonia Chorale, under acclaimed Director Bruce Lamott. The formerly dead acoustics of the elegant Herbst auditorium have

noticeably improved since the Theatre’s renovation, but positioning the Chorale at the back of the stage was still something of a gamble. From the thrilling opening chorus “How excellent thy name” to the closing “Gird on thy sword,” the 26 professional singers resonated triumphantly, sailing easily over McGegan’s big and expertly detailed orchestra. Special mention must go to Jory Vinikour’s tasteful organ continuo and his delightful keyboard glockenspiel solo (Wolfgang Amadeus of “The Magic Flute” would have been chuckling in appreciation), and

Hanneke van Proosdij, who added her softly virtuosic touch on the harpsichord. There is more Handel and another star countertenor slated for McGegan’s last year as Director. The self-proclaimed “soon-to-be-bionic maestro” (he has hip surgery scheduled) is leading “Eternal Source of Light Divine,” alternative title for the “Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne” in Oct. 2019; “Judas Maccabaeus” in Dec. 2019; and, as part of PBO’s Special Event Series in early 2020, “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo,” with extraordinary American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.t

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Tennessee Williams, fast & louche by Jim Gladstone

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ever work with animals or children,” drawls Brennan Pickman-Thoon before one of the exquisitely timed pauses that help make his turn as a Tennessee Williams in “The Gentleman Caller” so compelling. He goes on, “Or Bette Davis.” Then a shorter pause. “Who is both.” It’s not an important line. And this is not an important play. But, as directed by Arturo Catricala and performed on a tightrope of camp and pathos by Pickman-Thoon and Adam Niemann (as William Inge) at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, it’s extravagantly entertaining. That Bette Davis joke stuck with me because the whole play struck me as catnip for Ryan Murphy fans. If you’ve enjoyed the simultaneously winking and mythgilding m.o. of the mega-producer’s “Feud,” the gutter butterflies of his “Pose” or the retro-bitchery of his Broadway “Boys in the Band” revival, you’ll find “The Gentleman Caller” a toothsome morsel. As it happens, the action of playwright Philip Dawkins’ boozesoaked bonbon of a two-hander is set more than 15 years before Williams ever worked with Davis. She starred in the 1961 Broadway premiere of his “Night of the Iguana,” quitting shortly into the run and replaced by Shelley Winters. But Dawkins has framed his story as a memory play, echoing Williams’ structure for “The Glass Menagerie.” During an opening monologue and several short intervals, all set in unspecified far

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William Inge (Adam Niemann) tends to Tennessee Williams’ (Brennan Pickman-Thoon) wounds in “The Gentleman Caller” at NCTC.

future, Williams addresses the audience directly before stepping back into the drama of his past. Dawkins’ older Williams is no different from his younger version. In both time periods, Pickman-Thoon is all Southern smarm, effortless wit, poetic faux-profundity and tuckedaway tenderness – an iconic, “Tennessee’s Greatest Hits” Williams. Think “Mark Twain Tonight!” or the Capote play “Tru.” The meat of “The Gentleman Caller” is a speculative 1944 affair between Williams, 33 (just about to be launched into fame with the pre-

miere of “Menagerie”) and Inge, 30, then a St. Louis newspaper arts critic and later a successful playwright himself (“Picnic,” “Come Back Little Sheba,” “Splendor in the Grass”). In Act I, Williams, who grew up in St. Louis, arrives at Inge’s gloomy basement apartment there, ostensibly for an interview about his budding career. But Inge, whose homosexuality is as repressed as Williams’ is effervescent, secretly longs to connect – physically, emotionally and artistically – with a kindred spirit. Act II takes place a few months later, in a Chicago hotel room where Inge

visits Williams a few days after the opening night of “Menagerie.” With wide, wet eyes and a frantic desire for approval, the bulky, broad-shouldered Niemann plays Inge like a puppy trapped in a depressed Midwesterner. It’s a tough role given the flamboyant company he keeps, but Niemann makes doughy self-loathing as compelling to watch as Pickman-Thoon’s swashbuckling faggotry. Over the pair’s two long sessions of nonstop drinking, an unhinged Inge moves from abashed fanboy to rapey lust-monster, then shame-

spirals into a lumpen manbaby, until he’s prostrate on the floor as Williams, relishing every moment, uses a stockinged foot to teasingly masturbate his predator-turned-prey. Dawkins has clearly done an enormous amount of research into both of his characters’ real-life counterparts, and “The Gentleman Caller” is gently threaded with information about the two writers’ family backgrounds and their very different attitudes about sexuality and artmaking. But the play, while certainly talky, never gets bogged down in biography. A scant but sufficient plot has Williams compensating for his relentless cockteasing by becoming a sort of tough-love life coach for Inge. He ultimately encourages the younger man’s playwriting, urging him to transform his inner pain into artistic expression. During Act II, there’s a scene in which the men gaze across the street through their window, observing a lesbian couple having sex in their own hotel room, an isolated box of light in the darkness. Williams and Inge are both turned on watching these forbidden transgressions, growing hornier and handsier by the moment. There’s a similar thrill to be had in “The Gentlemen Caller.” Watching these two pink panthers circle each other in the cage of 1940s sexual repression is a perversely hypnotic experience.t The Gentleman Caller, through May 5, New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Ave., SF. Tickets ($28-$44): (415) 861-8972, www.nctcsf.org.

A music man, unlimited by Jim Gladstone

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t’s been a while now, but I really stumbled into the world of musical theater,” says Broadway star Joshua Henry, who plays the Bay Area Cabaret series at the Venetian Room on April 28. “So I’ll be doing lots of showtunes. But not in the way they’re usually done. I like to bring some of the feeling of music I grew up with – Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder – to Broadway songs.” The first time many San Franciscans saw Henry perform was two years ago when he played Aaron Burr on the original “Ham-

ilton” tour, but the very first role he stumbled into was Harold Hill, in a Florida Bible Christian School production of “The Music Man.” You know the part, played in various productions by Robert Preston, Matthew Broderick, and Eric McCormack, with Hugh Jackman in the wings for a Broadway revival next year. And you know the show: cornfed, apple-cheeked, Iowan. As they might say in River City, “White with a capital W.” But Henry, the son of Caribbean immigrants, had no preconceptions. “I’d never been to a musical, and this was the first one our high school ever did. To me, this fast-

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talking salesman was such a fun character. And the show has such beautiful songs, like ‘Til There Was You.’” During rehearsals, the school’s vocal music teacher Birgit Fioravante pulled Henry aside. “She told me she thought I could actually do this for a living. That was a huge blessing,” Henry says in retrospect. “And having started with that role in that show gave me a limitless foundation. It never occurred to me that there were parts I couldn’t do. I went off to study theater at the University of Miami feeling I could play literally anything.” Ironically, Henry’s last college role before graduation was another turn as Harold Hill. Fioravante, who still coaches Henry when he prepares for new Broadway roles, helped him prepare his college audition materials, but she couldn’t prepare him for total immersion in theater geekdom. “It was a complete backwards scuba dive,” Henry recalls. “When I got to college I really had to put my head down. After doing the ‘Music Man,’ I’d gone to see ‘Rent,’ which was so jarring. But that was it. I would spend nights in the library listening to cast albums.” In 2007, a year after graduating, Henry was cast in the original OffBroadway production of “In the Heights,” where he first connected with future “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. That show’s transfer marked Henry’s Broadway debut, quickly followed by a string of additional main-stem productions, from Green Day’s “American Idiot” to his Tony-nominated turn last year in “Carousel.” From Harold Hill to “Carousel”’s Billy Bigelow, Henry has triumphed in roles not traditionally cast with black actors. But Henry also expresses great pride, “I’ve also had the chance to embrace who I am in African-American musical theater.”

Arabian kid. Having all of this around made me curious and I think more empathetic. “My Dad had this dusty old guitar in the garage that I started to play when I was 12. I’m self-taught, don’t even use a pick. And I’m obsessed with it. There are two dark spots on my right thumb that don’t have any feeling. “I’ve always dreamed of being a solo music artist,” says Henry. While he has no plans to leave Broadway behind, he is now working on an album of original songs. He and his wife Cathryn have a one-year-old son, SamJason Goodrich son, so his current break from Joshua Henry: “It never occurred to me eight-shows-a-week is a welthat there were parts I couldn’t do.” come opportunity for Henry to spend time with family. “When Samson is napping, His first two Tony nominations I’m really into Anderson Paak, were for his leading role in “The Janelle Monae, H.E.R., Childish Scottsboro Boys,” Kander and Ebb’s Gambino. critically admired takedown of “It’s so funny being in the muracial oppression in the American sical theater world but also havlegal system, and as Flick, the black ing this full-on love for popular soldier and romantic hero who can music. I got to go the Grammys see beyond the superficial in Jeanine this year because ‘Carousel’ was Tesori’s “Violet.” In 2016, Henry was nominated for best cast album. among the starry cast of the George And I’m sitting there with [“Dear C. Wolfe/Eubie Blake musical Evan Hansen” composers] Justin “Shuffle Along,” which also includPaul and Benj Pasek, [“Hamilton” ed Audra McDonald, Billy Porter arranger] Alex Lacamoire and all and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Stokes these other Broadway people, and Mitchell originated the canonical we’re just jamming out to all these Broadway role that Henry says he’d other artists. most like to play, “Ragtime”’s Coal“My album will be a more pophouse Walker. sounding venture, but what I’ve While a latecomer to musical gotten from Broadway is the idea theater, music has always been that the songs should tell great central to Henry’s life. Growing up stories.”t in Miami and attending culturally mixed schools, Henry was exposed Joshua Henry, Sun., April 28, to a huge variety of styles. “The city 7:30 p.m. Bay Area Cabaret, had a real melting pot of reggae, Venetian Room, Fairmont Puerto Rican music, Haitian sounds. Hotel, 950 Mason St., SF. My first-grade class had Chinese Tickets ($40-$75): (415) 9274636, www.bayareacabaret.com kids, Caucasian-Americans, a Saudi

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Celebrating ‘Midnight Cowboy’

Jon Voight as the hustler Joe Buck in director John Schlesinger’s “Midnight Cowboy,” screening at SFMOMA in the SFFILM Festival.

by David-Elijah Nahmod

he Oscar-winning film “Midnight Cowboy” will screen at SFMOMA on April 19, in conjunction with the film’s 50th anniversary. Michael Childers, who for more than three decades was the life partner of the film’s director John Schlesinger (1926-2003), will attend the screening and participate in a Q&A. “Midnight Cowboy” attracted a great deal of attention when it was first released. It told the story of two down-on-their-luck homeless guys in New York City who become family to each other. The film shocked audiences with its realistic portrait of a city that was then in steep decline. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman won acclaim for their performances as Joe Buck and Ratso, a hustler and a con artist living together in an abandoned building, trying to get by as Joe at-

tempts to succeed as a prostitute. The film includes a then-shocking scene in which Joe allows a young man to perform oral sex on him in a seedy Times Square movie theater. It was a brave and daring film to make in 1969, and it became the first and only X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Schlesinger also took home the Oscar as Best Director, and the film has since been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant,” selected for permanent preservation by the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. It was ranked #36 of the 100 Greatest Films ever made by the American Film Institute. “It’s thrilling that San Francisco is honoring ‘Midnight Cowboy,’” Childers said in an interview with the B.A.R. “We’ve had screenings in other cities. 75% of the audience had never seen it on a big screen, and the reaction is extraordinary. It

really holds up, which is the true test of a classic movie.” The SF screening is a kind of a homecoming for Schlesinger. In 1967 the auteur was honored at San Francisco International Film Festival with screenings of his earlier works “Billy Liar” (1963) and “Darling” (1965). Julie Christie, the latter’s star, attended the event. Childers recalled how shocking “Midnight Cowboy” was upon its initial release. “At the time it was considered to be outlandish, and people were outraged,” he said. “By today’s standards, it’s practically PG13. They took an X rating to quiet the turbulence of the reaction, but after it was nominated for all those Oscars, they re-rated it to be restricted. The acting is so good. Just seeing the brilliance of Voight, his pent-up anger, and Hoffman is so good. It is a love story, but it’s not a homoerotic love story. It predates Stonewall by a year. It was of its time.” According to Childers, the film is about two people who came to care deeply for each other, and about survival. “New York was in pretty bad shape at the end of the 1960s and early 70s,” he said. “It was falling apart, and crime was through the roof. At the same time it was the most exciting city in the world. There was Andy Warhol and his Factory, there was Studio 54. New York was filled with theater and ideas, and there was a lot happening then. There were two sides to the coin. It was great for me to be there in the 60s.” According to Childers, Schlesinger was a courageous filmmaker who was always willing to take chances. He followed “Cowboy” with the ahead-of-its-time “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1971), a character-driven study of a young bisexual artist (Murray Head) in simultaneous relationships with a man (Peter Finch) and a woman (Glenda Jackson). “‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ is a

brilliant, classic movie,” Childers said. “It’s very underrated, and sadly the younger gay generation doesn’t even know about it. It was the first movie that depicted gays as normal human beings with love, courage, and partnerships. It was groundbreaking at the time. It was John’s passion to make ‘Sunday’ because in the 60s all the gay films had the gay characters commit suicide in the third act.” Childers remembers Schlesinger as “a warm, fuzzy, wonderful, brilliant man. A great wit.” The two were set up on a blind date, which led to a relationship of more than 30 years. They also worked together. Childers served as Schlesinger’s personal assistant on “Midnight Cowboy.” Though he wasn’t the official photographer on the film’s set, he did take many photos during filming, and will be having an exhibition of these photos in Palm Springs. He remembers the shoot as a wonderful experience. Childers cast the film’s

party sequence, made the underground movie seen during the party sequence, and drove Voight around Texas for 10 days as the actor worked on getting the Texan accent his character required. He also found the small Texas town that stood in for Joe Buck’s hometown. “I was allowed to contribute a lot,” he said. “It was a great learning experience.” When he appears at SFMOMA, Childers will be sharing his memories of working on the film, and his memories of Schlesinger. The evening will include a showing of Voight’s screen test for the film. “I love keeping the film alive,” Childers said. “I love keeping the spirit of Schlesinger alive. The fact that the American Film Institute rated ‘Midnight Cowboy’ so highly makes me pleased for John’s legacy.”t SFMOMA, Fri., April 19, 8:45 p.m. Tickets ($13 SFFILM members, $16 public): sffilm.org.

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Michael Childers will participate in a Q&A at the “Midnight Cowboy” screening.

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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood by Andrew Rannells; Crown Archetype, $26

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andide” is a 1759 satirical novel written by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, concerning the eponymous optimistic hero. Evicted from the castle where he grew up, he travels with companions he encounters along the way, experiencing hardships and tribulations. But, with an instinct for survival, he doesn’t give up hope. Finally he settles into a simple life on a small farm, discovering the best way to be happy is to cultivate your own garden. In his new memoir, gay actor Andrew Rannells tells the contemporary Candide-like adventure of a Midwestern boy relocating to New York City to fulfill his dream of being on a Broadway stage, and the trials he undergoes during the journey. Rannells finds his version of Candide’s garden by accepting who he is and the skill set he has while learning not to care what other people think. His ultimate desire is to reconcile the boy he was when he left Omaha with the man he wants to be. Revealingly, the book’s title “Too Much Is Not Enough” is from a line in the song/movie “Fame.” Readers will be glad they tagged along on this frank, rewarding trip. Born in 1978 to an advertising salesman father and a teen model

“Too Much Is Not Enough” author Andrew Rannells.

mother, watching MGM and Warner Bros. musicals and the Tony Awards on TV (where he saw his first openly gay couple), Rannells knew from an early age he wanted to be a stage star. Not having the foggiest idea how, he intuited “I had to get myself to New York City.” Before he arrives there in 1997, the ambitious Rannells becomes a “shameless entertainer” on the local Omaha theater scene, winning an award for Best Youth Actor. There are chapters on his grandmother Josephine inspiring him, his sexual exploits and lousy relationships, being a student/altar boy at an all-boys Jesuit Catholic high school, and coming out to his parents (they weren’t surprised) just three days before he moves to NYC,

enrolling in the theater program at Marymount Manhattan College. Events did not happen the way he thought they would. His dorm verged on squalor, and he mistakenly followed the bad advice, “If you take your headshot to the stage door and give it to the stage manager, they’ll call you when they have an opening.” Rannells was in for a rude awakening, yet this seeming misstep unexpectedly led to an audition for “Rent,” though he didn’t get the role. Years later the same company cast him in “Hairspray,” his musical Broadway musical debut at age 26. We hear about his successes: meeting his BBF Zuzanna at an audition, nightclub exploits, and summer stock work in the Berkshires. But like Candide, Rannells faces challenges,

such as being sexually assaulted by a priest during confession, then again at his high school graduation party, and losing his virginity to a 40-yearold man he continued to see for two years (thinking he had no other options), who then stalked him to NYC. He opts to leave Marymount after a year so he can pursue theater jobs, supporting himself with positions as a gym front-desk clerk and a Warner Bros. store-greeter. During a lousy second date, he finds out his father (in the middle of a divorce from his mother) died of a heart attack. He secures steady work touring the country for six months in “Pokemon Live!,” but must play a soul-crushing gay clown stereotype, which he swears he will never do again. Tired of bad auditions and rejections, he quit and did voiceover work for an animation production company. But he’s lured back by auditioning for Rosie O’Donnell’s doomed musical “Taboo,” on the life of Boy George. O’Donnell tells him he’s not right for the role, but show

business beckons, as “it turns out I really want this.” Rannells gently disillusions anyone who thinks becoming a success happens overnight. He’s best-known for originating the role of Elder Price in “The Book of Mormon” and playing Elijah Krantz on HBO’s “Girls,” but the memoir mentions neither of these career zeniths, stopping when he makes his Broadway debut in the chorus of “Hairspray.” Even this high-water mark has its shadow side, as his actor boyfriend Todd also wanted the role, and upon hearing Rannells was cast, left him in the middle of the night with a voicemail, “I’m happy for you, but that was my dream, too. I just don’t think I can stand here and watch someone else do it before me.” The book is no literary gem, but Rannells is a born raconteur with a conversational, self-deprecating tone. With Rannells, what you see is what you get, and “Too Much Is Not Enough” will be just sassy enough to enchant the casual reader.t

<< Fine Art

24 • Bay Area Reporter • April 18-24, 2019

Queer California

From page 18

The emphasis is on “attempts,” because one can’t help coming away from this well-intentioned show without feeling it’s both too much and too little. Lacking a coherent narrative thrust, despite or because of the participation of many curators, it’s a lot of stuff without enough substance, a grab bag of costumes, news clippings, short films and videos, personal accounts, nightlife and motorcycle club regalia, and landmark objects like the 1978 prototype of Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag. In the fun department there’s the flashy blue sequined jacket worn by Sylvester, the flamboyant reigning “queen of disco” in the late 1970s and early 80s. One can trip back in time and visualize the strobe-lit dance scene, the singer’s trademark falsetto soaring above the propulsive beat of “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).” It helps that the song is piped into the gallery. “He was black, gay and some form of gender queer before there was that term,” Sylvester biographer Joshua Gamson said. “Things that were the basis for marginalization, he turned into superstardom.” The L.A.-born sensation moved to San Francisco at 22, joined the Cockettes, and later befriended Harvey Milk, performing at Milk’s birthday party in 1978. A beloved fixture at the Elephant Walk gay bar in the Castro, Sylvester would die of AIDS a decade later. The paucity of artworks by LGBTQ+ artists, otherwise wellrepresented in the museum’s collection, is a disappointment. Whether that choice was due to the show’s overly broad concept or OMCA’s

split personality as both a fine art and California history institution is anyone’s guess. The most memorable artistic contributions come from photographers such as the late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar, who died last year. Known for directness and empathy with her subjects, she turned the camera on herself for a series of liberating, nude, blackand-white self-portraits shot in wild California landscapes. Aguilar’s images challenge mainstream perceptions of beauty, race and queerness while revealing anxieties and feelings of vulnerability related to her lesbian sexuality and body size. After discovering butch cowboy archetypes from the 1978 film “Hard Rocks” in a gay porn shop in the Tenderloin, Torreya Cummings recalls inviting a group of “fellow queers” to gather and get-it-on for the camera in the desert and “put ourselves in those roles, once, twice, three times removed and let them shift to accommodate us.” The resulting pictures are playful, raunchy and irreverent. In a more serious vein, L.A artist Cassils sculpts their transmasculine physique through rigorous fitness regimens played out in performance. “Becoming an Image” (2012-present), part of a project aimed at stemming violence against trans and gendernon-conforming people, features a suite of moody, dramatically lit photographs, exhibited in a darkened anteroom. They document Cassils pounding a large mound of clay into submission in front of an audience, a towering example of nude classical statuary hovering in the background. Listed in bold print on a wall entitled “What We’re Called” is a

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A sequined jacket worn by Sylvester and paintings on the back wall by Jerome Caja are included in Oakland Museum’s “Queer California: Untold Stories.”

glossary of some terms, 27 in all here, used to describe a range of sexuality and ways of being in the world. It’s just steps away from the exhibition’s most engaging installation: a timeline from the days of early California through the present. It extends from floor to ceiling and runs the entire length of a back wall displaying posters, photographs, announcements, documents and blue cards detailing the opening and shuttering of popular gathering spots, and seminal events big and small. Included are dates of importance like the first airing of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” on Bravo (2003); the 1983 closing of the Castro’s S/M bathhouse The Hothouse amid the specter of AIDS; the creation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt: The Names Project; the release of “Tongues Untied,”

SFFILM Fest

From page 18

“Ask Dr. Ruth” Director Ryan White uses animation, archival footage and onscreen chats to tell the remarkable survivor’s tale of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a 4’7” therapist and sex advice guru whose life took her from Europe choking on Fascism to a Metro New York radio/TV world ripe for candid rules-of-the-road for people all across the Kinsey scale. Just past 90, Dr. Ruth’s bio is 100 minutes of life lessons. (Castro, 4/21) “Close Enemies” David Oelhoffen directs this crime thriller covering the waterfront of violencefraught European landscapes. The film pairs a pair of world superstars, Matthias Schoenaerts & Reda Kateb, in a suburban Paris melodrama that includes brutal violence and tense chase sequences. (Victoria, 4/21, 22) “Hail Satan?” Filmmaker Penny Lane explores the eccentric beliefs held by a group calling themselves The Satanic Temple, in a serious approach to a wacky subject. (Victoria, 4/20; Roxie, 4/23) “Grass Is Greener” Just as the legal marijuana movement hits its stride, docmaker Fab 5 Freddy provides a two-hour course in how the battle over grass has roiled the culture. With a sublime jazz/pop soundtrack. (Grand Lake, 4/20) “The Elephant Queen” Filmmakers Mark Deeble & Victoria Stone explore the plight of a Kenyan elephant herd as they flee a droughtstricken national park. Although the film is recommended for ages 8 + up, footage depicts the life cycle of these animals in a brutally realistic manner. (Castro, 4/20) “Hala” A skateboarder juggles a devout Muslim family with an awakening libido. With terrific performances from Geraldine Viswanathan as Hala and Jack Kilmer as her boyfriend Jesse. (SFMOMA, 4/19; Grand Lake, 4/21) “Halston” Filmmaker Frederic Tcheng’s portrait of Halston, a leading fashion designer and social trendsetter during the Studio 54 era,

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Still from director Fab 5 Freddy’s “Grass Is Greener,” playing the SFFILM Festival, with a sublime jazz/pop soundtrack.

deftly employs archival footage and chats with remaining members of his inner circle. (SFMOMA, 4/20; Creativity, 4/21) “Midnight Cowboy” (1969) 1969 was a monumental moment for America, polarized by losing the war in the South Asia, an unscrupulous rogue in the White House, and the challenges of bold new film movements seducing young filmgoers from an increasingly arthritic Hollywood studio system. Buoyed by a string of hip social comedies (“Billy Liar,” “Darling,” “A Kind of Loving”), director John Schlesinger found himself drawn to LA to craft an X-rated drama about a naive male hustler (Jon Voight) and a bitter dying street-person, Dustin Hoffman’s Ratso “I’m walking here!” Rizzo. (SFMOMA, 4/19) “Street Food” Foodie director David Gelb returns with this survey of Asian street food. (Grand Lake, 4/20) “Walking on Water” Italian director Andrey Paounov depicts the floating walkway created by environmental artist Christo around Lake Iseo, Italy. (BAMPFA, 4/19) “Meeting Gorbachev” Trust veteran German filmmaker Werner Herzog (with co-director Andre Singer) to provide an arresting portrait of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The last leader of the Soviet state is now 87, and time

has not slowed down his mind. Includes chats with Poland’s Solidarity founder Lech Walesa & former American Secretary of State George Shultz. (Creativity, 4/19; Grand Lake, 4/21) “The Edge of Democracy” Petra Costa shows the bumpy road to democracy experienced by citizens of Brazil. Costa dates the democratic experiment back to 1985, tracking the ill-fated careers of Inacio “Lula” da Silva & Dilma Rousseff. A documentary cautionary tale. (Creativity, 4/19; BAMPFA, 4/21) “Jawline” Liza Mandelup follows the slippery slope of online popularity in this profile of social media whiz-kid Austyn Tester. The kid struggles to stay in the picture as he learns how hard it is to keep your followers tuned in. (Victoria, 4/19; YBCA, 4/21) “Mothers’ Instinct” Belgian director Olivier Masset-Depasse spins a 1950s suburban thriller exploring the dark side of social bliss. (Victoria, 4/21, 23) “Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall” Marshall was a San Francisco photographer in the 60s & 70s when Joplin & Hendrix were topping the rock music scene. A motion picture devoted to some awesome still images. (SFMOMA, 4/18; Roxie, 4/21) “Well Groomed” The world of competitive dog-grooming is as

Marlon Riggs’ powerful 1991 film affirming black gay identity; the establishment in 1965 of the Imperial Court by Absolute Empress de San Francisco, Jose Sarria; and the founding of the direct action group ACT UP in New York City in 1987; among many others. Milestones like the 2015 Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage are noted (two years later, Trump would ignore Pride month – what a guy!) as well as setbacks such as the government’s installation last year of the dubiously named Division of Conscience and Religious Freedom, which essentially gave HHS medical personnel license to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. Nestled amidst the famous ups and downs and little-known tidbits about lesser-known things are some savage facts, perhaps none more so

than those pertaining to the abhorrent eugenics laws legalized in 1909. Designed to institutionalize and control the reproductive freedom of people deemed deviant, they allowed forced sterilization, and remained on the books until 1979. Barbarous surgical procedures were performed in state hospitals without consent on patients suspected of “perversion.” Masturbation, same-sex sexual relationships, transgenderism and cross-dressing were considered justifiable grounds for the operation, with Hispanic women in California unjustly singled out for their supposed immorality and promiscuity. The past can make for disturbing reading. Here’s to brighter days ahead.t

ferocious as that of pro-wrestling. Rebecca Stern’s doc climaxes at the Groom Expo. (Grand Lake, 4/19; Victoria, 4/21. Dogs are welcome at Victoria screening provided they’re registered and sit on the floor.) “The Chambermaid” Lila Aviles profiles Evelia, 24, who cleans rooms at an expensive Mexico City hotel. We see the subtle interactions between workers and guests. (Roxie, 4/19; BAMPFA, 4/21) “The Little Comrade” Estonian director Moonika Siimets cast a wry eye at her tiny nation’s early-1950s struggles with the Russian bear. Sixyear-old Leelo falls in love with the Soviet-sponsored “Young Pioneers” despite her frightened papa’s knowledge that her mom has been taken away. (BAMPFA, 4/18; Roxie, 4/20; Victoria, 4/22) “The Load” Young Serbian van driver Vlada faces physical hazards and deep moral quandaries on a government-sponsored run from Kosovo to Belgrade. (Roxie, 4/18; BAMPFA, 4/21; Victoria, 4/22) “Paper Flags” In a character study/family thriller from 19-yearold French director Nathan Ambrosioni, sibling tensions develop between just-released prison inmate Vincent (Guillaume Gouix) and sister Charlie. A visit from their father serves as pretext for a familial meltdown. (Roxie, 4/20; Creativity, 4/21)

“Moments” In a compelling drama from the Czech Republic, Anezka is a young woman with a judgmental mom, an above-it-all dad and a cancer-afflicted grandmother. Lead actress Jenovefa Bokova deals with a wounded family and an older married lover in director Beata Parkanova’s drama. (Roxie, 4/18; YBCA, 4/19; Victoria, 4/23) “Always in Season” This investigation into the history of lynching in America is illustrated by a probe into the mysterious death by hanging of a North Carolina teenager. Director Jacqueline Olive has SF’s own Danny Glover narrate her script connecting the dots on a national shame. (SFMOMA, 4/18; Grand Lake, 4/19; Creativity, 4/20) “Honeyland” In a triple Sundance winner (Grand Prize Doc), Macedonian director Tamara Kotevska tells the story of a young beekeeper who balances supervising her bees with looking after her ailing mom and dealing with new neighbors who have a wrongheaded approach to beekeeping. (Victoria, 4/19; BAMPFA, 4/20) “The Hidden City” In Victor Moreno’s captivating doc, cameras probe a vast space being created underneath Madrid. (YBCA, 4/19, 21; Roxie, 4/23)t

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Austyn Tester in a still from director Liza Mandelup’s “Jawline,” playing the SFFILM Festival.

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Oaklash

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akland will be a real drag from Friday April 26 to Sunday April 28 when 100 drag queens, drag kings, and radical queer performers take to the stages at in Oakland for a three day drag-a-thon which will include live performances, music, DJs, vendors, and artists. See page 27 >>

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fter two years playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera—The Las Vegas Spectacular between 2006 and 2008, Brent Barrett moved to Germany, where he phonetically sang the part on a national tour of Das Phantom der Oper. These days, one of several projects he’s involved in is The Four Phantoms, a touring concert by a quartet of tenors who, between them, have played the creepy divo more than 6,000 times. See page 26 >>

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<< Cabaret

26 • Bay Area Reporter • April 18-24, 2019

Brent Barrett

From page 25

So it would seem entirely justified if Barrett named his solo cabaret show –which he brings to the intimate Orinda Theater on May 4– after the half-masked man’s signature number “The Music of the Night.” Instead, it’s called “Night Songs.” Off-key marketing? Nope. It’s a title that accurately describes the clever program that Barrett will present in Orinda. In a welcome departure from the many touring theater stars who lean hard on showtunes they’re identified with, or cobble together soppy musical autobiographies, Barrett has put together a refreshingly creative set. “It’s a journey from sundown to sun-up through music,” he explained in a recent conversation with the Bay Area Reporter. The idea came to him about five years ago, inspired by hearing a rendition of “While The City Sleeps,” a song from the Charles Strouse musical Golden Boy. “It was just so appealing to me as a theater person. Night is really when we come alive. I started collecting songs about night and dreams. Part of what I love about the theme is that it lets me work in

Hedda Lettuce

From page 25

Over the years Hedda Lettuce has built up quite an impressive resumé. The performer, actor Steven Polito, has appeared on MTV, Comedy Central, The People’s Court, Sex and

many musical genres, from Broadway to jazz to pop. There’s some theater music in the show, but it’s really a wide range, including Johnny Mercer, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Webb, Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel.” Barrett opens with “Every Night at 7,” originally sung by Fred Astaire in the 1951 film The Royal Wedding, and “Tonight at Eight” from She Loves Me. He explains that while most of the songs don’t have such exacting clockwork in their titles or lyrics, their nocturnal images and moods carry them straight through ‘til morning. Barrett, 62, who hails from the tiny town of Quinter, Kansas (population under 1000), got his big break during his final year in the music theater department at CarnegieMellon University when Jerome Robbins handpicked him for the 1980 Broadway revival of West Side Story. Originally cast as a Jet, Barrett ended up playing Tony for the final three months of the run. Among his other Broadway and West End credits are roles in Candide, Grand Hotel, Kiss Me Kate and Chicago, in which he has regularly returned to the role of Billy Flynn. He has performed as a soloist with The Berlin Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall.

“Not having a regular job here, While maintaining ties to New I’m constantly trying to figure out York and London theater scenes, how I fit in and how I can get inBarrett and his husband, Bernie volved with the community. YesterBlanks (a registered nurse and forday, I sang with a youth orchestra mer actor; the pair met during a that was doing a program of muproduction of Camelot), currently call Las Vegas home. sic from West Side Story. I’d never “I would never have imagined heard them before, but the confiit,” he said, “but when I moved back to New York after coming here to do Phantom in 2006 and staying for three years, well, I was already in my 50s and I realized it was time to get off that New York treadmill.” Barrett and Blanks also recently moved Barrett’s 101-year old mother into an assisted living facility near their home. “I know I’ll be performing in New York and London again,” he says. “But for the next little while, I want to be living here.” Between one-night out-of-town gigs with his solo and quartet concerts, Barrett says he’s regularly discovering new pockets Brent Barrett of culture in off-the-strip Las Vegas.

the City, and had a cameo in the hit drag movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Polito has also been seen with Tyra Banks and Madonna, and even has a connection to President Barack Obama: Lettuce’s Christmas ball ended up on Obama’s Christ-

mas tree. At the time, Lettuce was labeled as one of the top four reasons for the decline in America by Fox News! Hedda/Polito is well known for being one of the few drag artists who sings live, as opposed to lip-synching, as most other drag queens do. Lettuce is often referred to as “The Green Goddess,” but said he prefers being called The Queen Of Green. “Because I have green hair, love money and I am so gorgeous, people are green with envy when they look at me,” Polito said in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. When he takes to the stage at Oasis, Politio will be doing what he does best: making people laugh. He promises ribald improvisational comedy and sultry songs, which include his own outrageous parodies of classic tunes. “Hedda Lettuce is a fun time to have,” said Polito. “Hedda is a comedian, and a singer. I love performing live. I think I’m mostly in my element when I have the energy of a live audience.” The name Hedda Let- Hedda Lettuce tuce came to Polito in a dream. At the time, he was told that it was a horrible mean to toot my own horn, but no name, but he thought it was catchy. one is going to do it if you don’t do He describes his drag persona as it yourself. When you come, you’re bawdy, glamorous, funny and outgoing to see what a very good live spoken, someone you’d like to sit performer is all about. It’ll be a next to at a dinner party because she master class in live performance. It’s says what she feels. a solid show; it’s got a beginning, “I don’t censor myself, especially middle and an end, which a lot of on stage,” said Polito. “I would never things don’t have these days.” say that I was a mean performer, but Polito says his character hails from I like talking to people as part of the Pigeon Tit, Tennessee, where she act, and I’m playful. Depending on grew up with her mamma, Shredda what’s going on in the world, what’s Lettuce, as her deadbeat dad was going on with the audience and never around. She talks about mom what’s going on with me that day, it and dad in her act, along with others can change. I’m sort of like that aunt from her family history. you wish you had.” Polito, who actually lives in New Playful aunt indeed. In addition York City, does all the writing and to his other talents, Polito is a songsongwriting himself. His song parowriter whose compositions include dies run the gamut from Lady Gaga “You Can’t Drink With A Dick In to Frank Sinatra, but he points out Your Mouth” and “Jesus Take The that 90 percent of the act is original Wheel Because I’m Too Drunk To material. Drive.” “I love the connection between “The show has a format, but it the audience and the entertainer,” he also has a free-for-all feel at the same said. “When I talk to the audience, time,” said Polito. “Some of it is comedy sparks from that. The imdefinitely go-with-the-flow. I don’t provisation is the ultimate celebra-

dence and professionalism of these kids was amazing.” t Brent Barrett performs ‘Night Songs’ May 4, 7:30pm at the Orinda Theater, 4 Orinda Theater Square, Orinda. $55-$75. www.lamorindatheatres.com

tion of life, by being in the moment completely with the audience and yourself, and by being a crazy, zany character. It’s scary, but it’s magical when it works.” Polito said that he’s excited about returning to San Francisco, his –and Hedda’s– first visit here in quite a long time. He once lived here for nearly a year, during which time he did a lot of theater, including the infamous Christmas with The Crawfords drag comedy show. While he’s here for his current gig, he hopes to put in some down time; walking around, going to cafes, and hanging out with friends. Polito points out that one of the best things about being a drag performer is not being recognized when he’s out of drag. “You can go to Blow Buddies and no one will know!” t Hedda Lettuce at Oasis, Friday and Saturday, April 19 & 20. $27-$50. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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(left to right) Crème Fatale, Beatrix LaHaine, Laundra Tyme, Scarlett Letter and Mama Celeste at 2018’s Oaklash.

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Left: Anita De Lucio and Jon Leezy and Right: Adrian Clutario, performing at the 2018 Oaklash Festival.

Oaklash

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What promises to be a wild weekend is the second annual Oaklash Drag Festival, produced by cofounders and drag divas Mama Celeste and Beatrix LaHaine, both of whom are Oakland-based. Oaklash will include appearances by performers from Oakland and around the USA, including San Francisco favorites Peaches Christ and Juanita MORE! Oaklash came about because Celeste and LaHaine wanted to provide a platform for the radical queer underground performance scene which thrives in Oakland. Because of the mainstreaming of drag through shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race, Celeste feels that the unapologetically perverse and punkish drag which is unique to the Bay Area has been pushed into the background. Oaklash seeks to place the Bay Area drag scene center stage and to let people know that it isn’t going anywhere. The Queer underground is in fact thriving in Oakland. Celeste started doing drag around 2012 while still in college. She moved to San Francisco in 2015 and was part of the Queens of 2015, a collective of baby queens who were supporting each other, which led to her taking drag more seriously. Celeste had done academic papers about drag performers and gender during her college years, but she says that once she was actually

part of the drag scene, it was a whole different experience. The San Francisco drag scene in particular drew her in because of the camaraderie among the queens that she didn’t experience elsewhere. Celeste feels that holding Oaklash in Oakland is a statement on the gentrification which is happening all over the Bay Area. The former San Francisco resident found herself in Oakland because she could no longer afford the rents in the city. “Oakland is a breeding ground right now,” she said. “Artists from all over, trans people and people of color flock to Oakland because it’s

a place that has always been rooted in diversity and has always been a safe space for people of all types to come. So I think there’s a melting pot happening here. “San Francisco has a really long, amazing history, but I think there’s a clear separation between Castro drag versus SoMa drag, or between pretty drag vs. punk drag, and I think what’s happening in Oakland is that all of those things are coming together. And that’s what we hope Oakland will provide for this festival, a space for everyone to come together.” Many of the performers at Oaklash share Mama Celeste’s commit-

ment to diversity. Drag artist Nicki Jizz, who hosts the drag revue House Of Hoe at various Bay Area venues, always tries to book queer and trans artists of color, and, according to an article at KQED.org, delivers “sexpositive dance and daring drag.” Oaklash performer Lisa Frankenstein describes herself on Instagram as “the rainbow nightmare you never knew you needed.” Oaklash co-founder Beatrix LaHaine, an Oakland native, says that she’s “a clown school dropout.” Her shows, her bio notes, “are one part punk, one part cabaret, and are always guided by her biting commen-

tary on queer culture over the bar sound system.” Celeste noted that there’s a big difference between the drag queens on Drag Race and the kind of drag found in the Bay Area. Drag Race, she points out, goes for gender illusion: presenting men as women. “In the Bay Area, it’s never been about that,” she said. “It’s been about the performance. Here, you’ll see kings, you’ll see female-identified drag queens, you’ll see monsters and the whole gamut of what drag is, and it’s not necessarily a sequined gown and a pageant wig.” Oaklash will commence with a kickoff party on Friday April 26 at Eli’s Mile High Club in Oakland, which Celeste describes as “an old historical bar, with cool roots in the punk scene and the jazz scene. They’re an amazing venue which has always incorporated art and queerness into the events that they put on.” On April 27th and 28th, performances will take place during the day at Classic Cars West Beer Garden—a showroom, vegan restaurant, and art space in uptown Oakland. It was the home to last year’s Oaklash festival. “It’s a huge venue,” said Celeste. “It was the only logical place for us to go this year. They’re really encouraging this melting pot of events.” t Oaklash’s kick-off party commences at Eli’s Mile High Club (3629 Martin Luther King Jr Way) Friday night the 26th at 8pm. Saturday and Sunday performances at Classic Cars West (411 26th Street) run from 12noon-10pm. For ticket info please visit: www.oaklash.com

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April 18-25, 2019

Local and visiting Asian drag queens’ weekly show with DJ Philip Grasso. $5. 10:30pm show. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. hitws.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 April may bring you showers, but nightlife surely brings you joy, wet or dry.

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Dining Out for Life @ Bay Area Restaurants

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Thu 18 Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The two costars of the hit musical Rent share a cabaret concert. $70$115. 8pm. Also April 19 & 20 (all sold-out). Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Gayface @ El Rio Queer weekly night out with DJed and live music, at the popular Mission bar. 10pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest, with sexy prizes. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Lee Squared @ Oasis An Evening with Liberace and Miss Peggy Lee ; David Maiocco and Chuck Sweeney reprise their iconic performances as the music legends. $25-$35. 7pm. 298 11th st. www.sfoasis.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; third is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Queer Latinx Happy Hour @ SF Eagle Social time for LGBTQPOC. 6pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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The popular two-stepping line-dancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons. $5. 6:30pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays 5pm-10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

When I Get Hoe @ The Stud Hoe is Life dragsters lipsynch to Solange Knowles’ third album When I Get Home. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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420 Party @ Lone Star Saloon

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

Chaka Quan and Boyshapedbox spin at the pot party on the patio. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beatpig @ Powerhouse

$10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes. 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star

Juanita MORE’s monthly night, with DJ stanley Frank. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Beer, bears, food and DJed beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities. $15. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Bunny Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon

Big Gay Beer Bust @ The Cinch

Egg painting, $15 beer bust, and more Easter fun. 4pm-7pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Benefits and plenty of beer at the historic neighborhood bar. 3pm-7pm. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com

Dance Party @ White Horse Bar, Oakland

Daytime Realness @ El Rio

DJed grooves at the historic East Bay gay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Heklina, DJs Stanley Frank and Carnita’s outdoor patio party with dancing and drag fun celebrates Easter Sunday irreverently. $10-$20. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Bare Chest Calendar Prelims @ Powerhouse Meet early candidates for next year’s fundraiser calendar; weekly for a while. 8pm-10pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG

Thu 18

Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Lee Squared @ Oasis

Comedy Returns @ El Rio The monthly comedy show features Maureen Langan, Joe Klocek, Victor Pacheco, Dave Zugnoni and guesthost Bernadette Luckett. $10-$20. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. elriosf.com

Disco Coalition @ Lookout Juanita MORE! and Go BANG! present the weekly series of communitybuilding party-fundraisers for local LGBTQ nonprofits. 5pm-8pm. 3600 16th St. at Market. lookoutsf.com

Firme @ Oasis Oldies, cumbia, R&B dance night. $5. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

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LGBTQ Bay area party. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Friday Nights at the Ho @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com

Glitter Ranch @ The Stud Glitter cowboy/girl night 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Hard Fridays @ Qbar DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club with gogo guys galore and Latin music. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Makeout Party @ SF Eagle Monthly smoochfest with Nark Magazine, Shot in the City photo booth, drinkies and more. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Manimal @ Beaux

Fake and Gay @ The Stud Drag show lipsynchs to the Goat album, also DJs Alex Chapman and Adam Kraft. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Macho Macho @ SF Eagle Latin leather night. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, April 20 includes a Beyoncé tribute, Lilith Bear in the Fez Room, and Tamale’s 4/20 rooftop lounge. $15$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux Josh Carmichael with DJ Salazer host the tattoo appreciation night. $10. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Oaklash Beer Bust @ SF Eagle Drink up and raise bucks for the east Bay drag festival. $15. 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Puffin’ Touch @ Club Six Comfort & Joy’s sexy stoner celebration, with three rooms of fun, DJs Justime, Aili, Blackstone, performances, Chickpea’s colorful décor and more; 10:30pm Sex, Drugs and Queer playshop with host Ariel Vergosen. $20-$50. 60 6th St. http://playajoy.org/

Enjoy a ‘Prince: The Early Years’ tribute at DJ Bus Station John’s monthly T-dance. $5-$7. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Easter in the Park @ Dolores Park The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s annual Easter celebration returns to the Mission park, with drag galore, DJed and live music, early kids events, and the always-fun Easter bonnet, Foxy Mary and Hunky Jesus contests. 10:30am kids events. 12pm-4pm. 18th St at Dolores. www.thesisters.org

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Lip Service @ The Stud Easter Sunday dance night features swoard swallowers, drag queens and wild bunnies. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com The weekly semi-private party. 6pm-10pm. $5-$10. 415 10th St. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/2094886877491354/

Sun 21

Daytime Realness @ El Rio

The Haight gay bar’s weekly music video and cocktails night. 9pm-1am. 1437 Haight St. www.traxbarsf.com

Uhaul @ Jolene’s

Jesus U. BettaWork chosts the monthly queer gigglefest, with featured comic Iris Benson. $5. 7:30pm. 1021 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo. http://jesusubettawork.com/

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle

Renegade @ Atlas

Rose & Javi @ Trax

You Betta Work Comedy Fiesta @ San Mateo County Pride Center

Sing along at the popular musical theatre night, with a bawdy edge; also Mondays and Wednesdays (but not as dirty). 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

DJ Bill Dupp, intimate dance floor, gogo cuties, all in the heart of the Castro. 8pm-2am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Gogo-tastic dance night starts off your weekend. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The popular women’s dance party returns at the new nightclub, now weekly. 10pm-2am. 2700 16th St. at Harrison. http://jolenessf.com

Dirty Musical Sundays @ The Edge

Stallion @ Midnight Sun

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Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Wed 24 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Sun 21

Easter in the Park @ Dolores Park

Mon 22

Tue 23

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade

Dining Out for Life @ Bay Area Restaurants

The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm. 2200 Market St. brewcadesf.com

Enjoy dinner from among dozens of participating local restaurants, and a portion of your bill goes to the SF AIDS Foundation. Register for the sweepstakes for a chance to win dinner with actress Pam Grier! www.doflsf.org

Karaoke Night @ Lookout All-day songfest, 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun

Lizzo @ The Warfield

Weekly fun night of games (video, board and other) and cocktails. 8pm12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

The hot singer performs. $30-$40. 8pm. Also April 24. 982 Market St. www.lizzomusic.com

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun

Karaoke Cocktails @ Ginger’s

Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The new basement tribute to the old Ginger’s Trois hosts weekly singing fun. 8pm-12am. 86 Hardie Place. https://www.gingers.bar/

Underwear Night @ 440

Retro Night @ 440 Castro

Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Jim Hopkins plays classic pop oldies, with vintage music videos. 9pm-2am. 44 Castro St. www.the440.com

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.bench-and-bar.com

Follies & Dollies @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Weekly drag show at the historic gay bar. 9:30pm-11:30pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

NSA @ Club OMG Weekly underwear party at the intimate mid-Market nightclub. $1 well drinks for anyone in underwear from 9pm-10pm. 43 6th St. http:// www.clubomgsf.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio

Paradox & Friends @ Oasis

Midweek drag rave and vocal open mic, with Dulce de Leche, Rhani Nothingmore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and guests. 10pm. 3158 Mission St. http://www.elriosf.com/

Paradox Voice Band’s variety show of music, comedy and more. $20-$40. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Thu 25 Dream Bodies @ The Stud Opening night party for a mini-fest of performance, readings, screening and workshops, with DJed grooves. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Escort, Planet Booty @ Rickshaw Stop Fun funky and disco-tronica fabulousness with the two bands. $18-$20. 8pm. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

PeepShow @ F8 Variety show with drag and burlesque. $10. 8pm-9:30pm show. 1192 Folsom St. www.peepshow-sf.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Rock bands play at the famed leather bar. $8. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night’s 15th anniversary! $5-$20; partial proceeds benefit the SF Night Ministry. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. www.auntcharlieslounge.com t

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy whiskey shots from jock-strapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 Latin beats, Lulu and Jacqueline’s drag show, gogo hotties and a packed crowd. $10-$15. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. club21oakland.com

Linda Eder @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The stellar vocalist returns for a new cabaret concert, If You See Me. $110-$135. 8pm, & April 26 & 27. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko. com

Mon 22

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Arts Events April 18-25, 2019

Thu 18 Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre SF International Film Festival thru April 21. April 22: They Shall Not Grow Old (2:30, 7pm) and Gallipoli (4:50, 9:20). April 23: Police Story (7pm) and Police Story 2 (8:50). April 24: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (7pm) and Boom! (9:20). April 25: Mulholland Drive (7pm) and L’Important C’est D’Aimer (4:50, 9:35). $8-$11. 429 Castro St. http://www.castrotheatre.com/

Darius James, Val Jeanty @ Poetry Center, SF State In Common Writers Series presents a workshop performance and conversation with James ( Negrophobia: An Urban Parable ) and Jeanty a.k.a. DJ Val-Inc. 7pm. Humanities Bldg., 1600 Holloway Ave. www.sfsu.edu

James Graham Dance Theatre @ Joe Goode Annex The Grass is Sleeping, a new work by the Izzie Award-winning local chorographer. $18-$38. 8pm. Thru April 20. 401 Alabama St. jamesgrahamdancetheatre.com

Mattachine: A Queer Serial @ GLBT History Museum New three-part weekly series of talks about the history of the gay rights movement, with historian Joey Cain and podcast creator Devyln Camp. $5. 7pm. Thursdays thru April 18. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Randy Rainbow @ Ruth Finley Person Theater The snarky gay YouTube celebrity performs his new solo show. $39-$85. 7:30pm. 50 Mark West Springs Rd., Santa Rosa. https://lutherburbankcenter.org

Show Us Your Spines @ SF Public Library Dan Lau, Ajuan Mance, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, and Shelley Wong discuss their research projects at the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center’s archives. 6pm. 100 Lartin St., 3rd floor. www.sfpl.org

Smoke & Mirrors: The War on Drugs @ AAACC Opening reception for an exhibit of works by 6 muralists and 20 artists focusing on pot use, hemp, and historical elements of cannabis in communities of color. 6pm-9pm. Reg hours Tue-Fri 12pm-6pm. Sat til 5pm. Thru Aug 31. 762 Fulton St. www.aaacc.org

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SoMa Nights: 1980s-1990s Queer Club Photography, an exhibit of prints by prolific photographer Melissa Hawkins. Also, Two-Spirit Voices: Returning to the Circle, a Native American queer exhibit of the Bay Area organization on its 20th anniversary, including the annual Two-Spirit Powwow organized by BAAITS, indigenous medicine and responses to HIV/ AIDS, and Two-Spirit meaning within indigenous communities. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Amy Sass’ contemplation of life and philosophical queries. $25-$75. Thru May 4. 1540 Broadway, Oakland. www.raggedwing.org

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Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s wacky musical about making a musical… about a musical. $18. Thru April 27. Creative Arts Bldg., 1600 Holloway Ave. www.sfsu.edu

With(out) With(in) the Very Moment @ SF Arts Commission Opening reception for an exhibit about LGBT lives, and surviving AIDS, with Elliot Anderson, Adam Ansell, Ed Aulerich-Sugai, Mark Garrett, Cliff Hengst, Nancer Lemoins, Mark Paron, Anton Stuebner, and featuring Alternate Endings, a series of video programs by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art. 6pm; thru June 22. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfartscommission.org

Fri 19 Actually @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Anna Ziegler’s new play dives into race, gender and sex on college campuses. $35-$70. Tue, Wed, Sun 7pm, Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, thru May 5. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. www.AuroraTheatre.org

Caminos Flamencos @ Cowell Theatre The dance and music company performs Encrucijada (Crossroads), a vibrant new flamenco work with guest artists from Spain. $25-$75. 8pm. Also April 20. Fort Mason 2 Marina Blvd. CaminosFlamencos.com

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory @ Golden Gate Theatre Touring company of the musical stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s popular tale about a contest to tour the magical sweets factory. $40-$226. Thru May 12. 1 Taylor St. shnsf.com

Helen @ NOHspace Theatre of Yugen performs Ellen McLaughlin’s updated contemporary tragicomic version of Euripedes’ Helen of Troy. $15-$40. Fri-Sun thru April 27. 2840 Mariposa St. www.theatreofyugen.org

Home @ Berkeley Repertory Geoff Sobelle’s amazing immersive play, where a two-story house is constructed as its residents tell their stories. $30-$91; thru April 21. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St. www.berkeleyrep.org

The Importance of Being Earnest @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Oscar Wilde’s classic “trivial comedy for serious people” gets an East Bay production. $35-$70. Thru May 12. 2018 Addison St., Berkeley. www.auroratheatre.org

Nigga-roo @ Exit Theatre Dazié Grego-Sykes’ acclaimed solo show exploring blackness as a social construct. $20-$30. 8pm. Fri & Sat thru April 27. 156 Eddy St. www.theexit.org

Pippin @ Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley The Stephen Schwartz musical gets a local production Berkeley Playhouse. $20-$40. Thu-Sat 7pm &/or 1pm, 2pm; thru May 5. 2640 College Ave. http://berkeleyplayhouse.org

Sat 20 The Diary of Anne Frank @ Lesher Arts Center, Walnut Creek Frances Goodrich/Albert Hackett’s dramatic adaptation, based on the world-famous diary of a young Jewish girl hiding with her family from Nazis, is performed by Center Repertory Theatre. $34-$56. Thru April 28. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. www.lesherartscenter.org

Foglifter Contributors @ Strut Contributors to the queer literary journal read. 7pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Show Me as I Want to Be Seen @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist, Surrealist, and activist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (1892–1972), thru July 7. 736 Mission St. https://thecjm.org/

Tender is My Loin @ PianoFight Bambi Lake performs with veteran composer Scrumbly Koldewyn, Birdie Bob Watt and Thrillpeddler stars in the musical revue about the Tenderloin’s more squalid aspects. $20-$25. 7:30pm. 144 Taylor St. www.pianofight.com

Various Exhibits @ SF Public Library In Search of the Glass Slipper, Perci Chester’s ‘70s gay community photo exhibit; thru May 16. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Halston @ SF MOMA Screening of Frédéric Tcheng’s documentary about the worldfamous fashion designer’s life; Q&A with fashion designer Naeem Khan. $15. 8pm. Also, April 21, 3:30pm at Children’s Creativity Museum Theater. www.sffilm.org

In Old Age @ Magic Theatre Part of Nigerian playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle trilogy is performed. $40-$100. Thru April 21. 2 Marina Blvd. www.ufotplays-sf.com

The Jungle @ Curran Theatre Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s acclaimed drama about French refugee camp immigrants, set in an up-close immersive and intimate staging. $79-$165. Thru May 19. 445 Geary St. www.sfcurran.com

Sun 21 Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline @ Oakland Museum Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, Ray Troll’s colorful illustrations paired with paleontologist Kirk Johnson’s research. Also, Take Root: Oakland Grows Food and other exhibits. Friday night events 5pm-9pm. Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org

Queer California: Untold Stories @ Oakland Museum Multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, rare historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11. 1000 Oak St. www.museumca.org

Mon 22 Dorian Katz @ Wicked Grounds The illustrator’s exhibit of queer comics and coloring books; thru April. 289 8th St. www.wickedgrounds.com

Lest We Forget @ Civic Center Plaza Luigi Toscano’s outdoor photo exhibit of 78 large-scale portraits of Holocaust survivors; thru May 19. https://bit.ly/2uSNrfO

Modern Art @ SF MOMA Wayne Thiebaud, Etel Adnan, Alexander Calder, Donald Judd, Louise Bourgeois and many classic Modern works. The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Envioronment and Idealism (thru April 28). Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, thru March 31. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-6pm. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Tue 23 Art Exhibits @ Legion of Honor Small Inventions: Artist’s Books by Charles Hobson (thru July 14) ; Mummies and Medicine (thru April 14)and other exhibits of classical and modern art. Free/$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/

Survey Bay Area @ Montague Gallery Group exhibit of Bay Area glass artists; 5:30pm-7:30pm; thru April 13. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm. Sat 11am5pm. 445A Sutter St. http://montaguegallerysf.com/

Wed 24 Kour Pour @ Ever Gold Gallery Exhibit of vibrant paintings combining historic and contemporary tapestry themes; thru May 4. Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm. Minnesota Art Project, 1275 Minnesota St. at 24th. www.evergoldprojects.com

Survivors of the AIDS Epidemic @ Manny’s A night of storytelling with Bay Area longterm survivors, AIDS activists and younger people in social justice; hosted by the GLBT Historical Society. $6. 7pm-9pm. 3092 16th St. www.welcometomannys.com

Uncertainty Principle @ The Marsh Adam Strauss’ new solo show grapples with OCD and life’s big questions. $20-$100. Wed & Fri 8pm, thru Mar. 29. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Thu 25 An Evening With C.S. Lewis @ Marines’ Memorial Theatre David Payne plays the celebrated Chronicles of Narnia author, who tells stories of his life. $79. Thru April 28. 609 Sutter St. www.shnsf.com

Hot Draw @ SF Catalyst Gay Men’s Sketch and artist Mark I. Chester host the erotic fetish drawing group, with male models in kinky poses; all welcome. $20. 6:30pm, 1060 Folsom St. www.sfcatalyst.org

The Life and Times of Jo Mora @ Cartoon Art Museum New exhibit of drawing, maps, paintings and ephemera by the prolific illustrator of American culture (1876-1947). 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.orgt

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