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State Senator Scott Wiener, left, the Reverend Amos Brown, and District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown spoke at Monday’s news conference.

The sister of David Zarda, above, who died before his case was resolved, is fighting her late brother’s firing from a recreational parachuting company.

Supreme Court will hear 3 LGBT cases

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n what one legal expert called an “aggressive move,” the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up the issue of whether existing federal law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace. The eventual ruling has the potential to give a strong boost toward equal treatment of LGBT people in the workplace or to dramatically set back advances made over the past several decades. The court has agreed to review lower court decisions in three cases that define the limits of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Title VII prohibits discrimination based on sex in the workplace. The cases will be heard during the court’s next term that begins in October. Two of the three cases ask whether sex should be read to also prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. In one of those cases, the lower appeals court said yes, in the other, it said no. Those two cases are being consolidated and will be heard together. The third case asks whether Title VII should be read to prohibit discrimination based on a person’s status as transgender, or based on sex stereotyping. Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said he was surprised to hear the court took all three appeals. “This is an aggressive move and suggests that the court wants to resolve whether Title 7 protects LGBT workers,” said Minter. “These will be hugely important decisions for LGBT people and underscore the urgency of passing federal and state laws that expressly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, so that these critical protections do not depend on the courts.” Minter added that, while he thinks the legal arguments on behalf of LGBT employees are strong, “this is an extremely conservative court.” “These cases will tell us a lot about whether this court can deal fairly with issues affecting LGBT people,” said Minter.

Civil rights leaders unload on AHF over Wiener mailer

by Cynthia Laird Steven Underhill

orrest Gump Jesus, aka Nevin McConnell, center, took top honors as this year’s Hunky Jesus Sunday, April 21, at the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s 40th anniversary Easter party in Mission Dolo-

res Park. Also on hand was comedian Bruce Vilanch, right, who was a celebrity judge. The Sisters had a great time, as did the thousands of people who attended the event. For more photos, see BARtab’s Shining Stars, page 24.

an Francisco African American community leaders ripped into the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation Monday for the agency’s use of a race-baiting mailer to oppose gay state Senator Scott Wiener’s housing legislation. AHF and Michael Weinstein, its president, sent See page 12 >>

New owners of Pink Sonoma venue have anti-LGBT past

by Charlie Wagner

ontroversy about Out in the Vineyard’s upcoming Pink Sonoma Saturday event erupted late last week because one of the new owners of the venue has penned anti-LGBT posts on social media. Ownership of the General’s Daughter, a wedding and event space where Pink Sonoma Saturday will be held, recently changed hands. Stacy and Ken Mattson, the new owners, have spent $80 million over the past three years purchasing 26 properties throughout Sonoma Valley, according to the Sonoma Index-Tribune. The newspaper reported April 18 that before changing her Facebook page last week to make postings private, Stacy Mattson’s posts included one in 2013 describing how the Rose Parade was “high-jacked by the gay agenda” and another in 2015 describing U.S. Supreme Court rulings on “Obamacare” and same-sex marriage as “truly horrible.” Gary Saperstein, owner of Out in the Vineyard, responded with his own Facebook post April 19. “I get to share stories of hate & discrimination on a weekly basis on my Out in the Vineyard Radio Show,” he wrote. “And now it has hit close to home, in our very own backyard, in our very own city.”

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The General’s Daughter, a wedding and event venue in Sonoma, was recently purchased by new owners, one of whom has posted anti-LGBT messages on social media.

Stacy Mattson’s missives were publicized after an earlier Index-Tribune article about the Mattson’s real estate purchases motivated Sonoma food writer Sarah Stierch to discover and circulate screen shots of the Facebook posts. Adding to the furor was the fact that the couple’s business partner, Tim LeFever, of LeFever Mattson Property Management, has served as board chairman of the Capitol Resource Institute, which lobbies against LGBT rights. Saperstein decided not to cancel Pink Sonoma

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Saturday because the venue’s previous owner had donated the space, allowing a portion of every ticket to go to Positive Images, which provides support and advocacy for LGBTQ youth in Sonoma County. “There is no money going into the hands of the current owner,” he wrote. “If there were, I would have moved and/or canceled the event.” Currently, the website for the General’s Daughter displays a Human Rights Campaign logo. The See page 5 >>

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Saturday, April 20, at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley. Sueyoshi was the guest of honor at the event, where she received the organization’s Phoenix Award. SF State officials said Sueyoshi becomes the first woman appointed to the position in the college’s 50-year history. She had served as interim dean of the department since January 2018.

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gay Australian DJ has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of kidnapping and child endangerment following a bizarre incident in the Castro whereby he allegedly grabbed a 2-year-old boy and took off with him. Roscoe Bradley Holyoake, 34, of Perth, is being held without bail, according to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. Holyoake entered his plea April 18, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. The incident occurred Friday, April 12, at around 12:30 p.m., when Holyoake allegedly approached a 32-yearold mother at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro and grabbed her 2-yearold toddler, running off with the boy in his arms. According to a report in Hoodline, bystanders gave chase to Holyoake, who placed the child down and continued running. Several bystanders caught Holyoake at 17th and Noe streets and held him until the police arrived. According to the sheriff’s department’s inmate locater, Holyoake also

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faces misdemeanor charges of assault upon an officer and emergency personnel, resisting a peace officer, and battery. Bill Pung, co-owner of Orphan Andy’s, a popular Castro eatery, told the Bay Area Reporter that one of the restaurant’s surveillance cameras captured the incident. According to Pung, a camera on the front of the building filmed Holyoake standing near the door to the restaurant. The video shows Holyoake grabbing the child and running down 17th Street, but does not show the bystanders detaining him. The footage was handed over to the police, Pung said.

“It was awful to watch a crime happening right on our camera,” Pung said. “You hear about these stories happening all the time, but to see it happening right at your doorstep takes it to a different level. I’m thankful that the bystanders were able to detain this person. They risked becoming victims themselves.” Media reports said the boy suffered minor injuries and that the family declined medical treatment. DA spokesman Alex Bastian said that Holyoake’s next court appearance is May 10, for a pre-trial hearing. Holyoake is being represented by Steve Olmo of the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, who declined to comment on the case. According to SF Gate, Holyoake was previously investigated for a February 27 incident in Australia in which he was found at a Sydney apartment complex, asking a stranger if he could play with their child. At the time, Holyoake was transported to a local hospital for a medical evaluation. Holyoake performs under the moniker DJ Roski and recently played at Sydney Mardi Gras. t

SF to hold concert for Notre Dame Cathedral compiled by Cynthia Laird

an Francisco will hold a solidarity concert for Notre Dame Cathedral Monday, April 29, at 6 p.m. at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street. The concert is free and open to the public. Norte Dame, a centuries-old gothic cathedral in Paris, suffered major damage in a fire last week; Paris and San Francisco are sister cities. The concert will include performances by the San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Opera; American Bach Soloists; Johann Vexo, the organist from Norte Dame; and others. “Watching Notre Dame de Paris engulfed in flames was a shock for all Paris lovers,” said Emmanuel LebrunDamiens, a gay man who is consul general of the French Consulate of the Northwest and based in San Francisco. “Beyond a monument and an architectural mas-

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terpiece, it is a part of the world history of art and our common identity that was being damaged.” Mayor London Breed said San Francisco is proud to stand with its sister city. “Watching Notre Dame burn was devastating, just as it was also horrible to witness a series of historic Louisiana churches burnt in recent arson attacks,” Breed said in a statement. “Our houses of worship hold a special place for our cities and

our people, and we are proud to support the people of Paris as they begin the work to rebuild the iconic monument in the heart of their city.” According to media reports, a cause of the massive blaze has not been determined. French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to have the cathedral rebuilt in five years. Already, French business and fashion leaders have donated millions of dollars for the effort.

Rainbow World Fund benefit party for Cuba

The Rainbow World Fund will soon have a delegation heading to Cuba and will hold a benefit party Sunday, April 28, from 3 to 6 p.m. at 2004 Gough Street in San Francisco. Hosts include gay AIDS activist Cleve Jones, who is going on the trip and will be honored in Cuba, and Dr. John Newmeyer, a gay man and former epidemiologist. The benefit will feature a Cuban band, three-hour hosted bar with Cuban cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres. There will also be a silent auction See page 12 >>

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SF Pride names more honorees by Madison Silva

he San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee has rolled out more community grand marshals and other honorees ahead of this year’s parade and festival in June. Comedian Sampson McCormick will receive the Audrey Joseph LGBTQ Entertainment Award. The self-proclaimed “big ol’ homosexual” started his career in comedy 18 years ago. McCormick was one of the first out gay black comedians in the country. He has long been critical of comedy and entertainment being a “straight white man’s game,” he told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview. “Passion and love are the things that keep you in there,” he said. McCormick has made appearances on various television networks such as BET, Viceland, and TV One. His work in the entertainment industry propelled him to write and produce the film “A Different Direction.” He has headlined at venues in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, co-starred in Oscar-nominated shorts, as well as produced the documentary, “A Tough Act to Follow.” McCormick told the B.A.R. that gay entertainers are “overlooked pioneers and trendsetters. We have a responsibility to be a beacon of light for people.” San Francisco native and former empress China Silk is the recipient of the José Julio Sarria History Maker Award. Silk’s love of her city and community has inspired a lifelong dedication to fundraising, according to an SF Pride news release. Silk’s work is shown through her fundraisers, like the annual Chi-

nese New Year’s event, benefitting the California Community Health Center, and her legacy Cinco de Mayo event honoring Emperor 32 Fernando Robles. Silk, who marks her 15th anniversary at being crowned an empress, participates in the AIDS Walks and various other LGBT events. Twenty-five years ago, mothers Barbara Richmond and Peggy Ermet honored the memories of their sons by founding the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, now named the Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation. As the foundation marks 25 years of service to the LGBTQ community, it is being recognized this year with the Heritage of Pride, Pride Community Award. In 2015, REAF shifted its focus and broadened its services. In addition to HIV/AIDS, it now funds services for homeless LGBTQ youth and hunger programs, like Meals on Wheels San Francisco. REAF has raised and distributed nearly $4 million to over 34 agencies. The NIA Collective, which will receive the Heritage of Pride, 10 Years of Service Award, was founded at the Lesbians of Color Conference in San Francisco in 1987. “NIA,” Swahili for purpose, was founded by and for African American lesbians. Its purpose was to create a safe space for those individuals, where they were both seen and heard. African American lesbians and other people of color have used the collective as a platform for teaching and learning, all without the fear of judgment, for 30 years, according to the release. NIA participates in gatherings annually and partners with various organizations with the community, all with the aim of supporting LGBTQ youth as they find their voices. San Francisco native and UC

tion of work includes her first film, “The Watermelon Woman,” which won best feature in 1996 at the Berlin International Film Festival. More recently she has directed several episodes of “Queen Sugar” for Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay. Dunye’s feature, HBO’s “Stranger Inside,” was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards.

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Comedian Sampson McCormick

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Berkeley graduate Bob Haas will receive the Heritage of Pride, Pride Freedom Award. From 1984 to 1999, Haas was the CEO of Levi Strauss & Co., “the first Fortune 500 company that offered benefits to same-sex couples,” according to the release, and an established corporate leader during the AIDS crisis. The Levi Strauss Foundation provided $70 million to HIV/AIDS nonprofits, sponsored volunteer activities, educated employees, and created support groups. Haas is a board member of the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, which was started by his parents. It assisted in the creation of the Freedom to Marry campaign. Seven years ago, Cristal Veronica, a queer Chicana feminist, photographed her queer friend’s wedding and fell into the profession after getting two higher education degrees. This year, Veronica will be receiving the Heritage of Pride, Pride Creativity Award. Veronica’s business, Cristal Veronica Photos, focuses on LGBTQ and people of color couples. Ve-

ronica documents what queer love looks like to her clients. Veronica, residing in San Francisco, said in the release that she “wishes Tupac was still alive and making music,” and she “is always craving sushi and donuts.” Receiving the Gilbert Baker Pride Founder’s Award, Lyon-Martin Health Services provides intersectional health care to women and transgender individuals, with ability to pay being no factor in their services. Named after LGBTQ activists Phyllis Lyon and her late spouse, Del Martin, Lyon-Martin Health Services was established by medical providers and health care activists to confront the issue of health services available to lesbians. LyonMartin merged with HealthRIGHT 360 in 2015 and now provides even more extensive services, including transgender health care, mental health care, and all HIV care. This year, African American director, writer, and actress Cheryl Dunye will receive the Teddy Witherington Award. Dunye’s collec-

SF Pride also announced additional community grand marshals. Ms. Billie Cooper is a transsexual woman who has lived and thrived with HIV for 33 years, according to the release. A client of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Cooper is the founder of the agency’s TransLife program, a weekly group for trans men and women, gendernonconforming and gender fluid people. Donna Personna, a transgender woman, was also named a community grand marshal. She got her start with the Cockettes and has served on the boards of the Trans March and Transgender Day of Remembrance. She recently wrote an immersive play, “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riots,” about the events that took place in San Francisco in August 1966 when trans patrons of the diner fought back against police harassment. Previously, SF Pride announced that Vince Crisostomo, Mrs. Vera, and API Equality-Northern California were selected as community grand marshals. SF Pride takes place June 29-30. This year’s theme is “Generations of Resistance.” For more information, visit http://www.sfpride.org. t

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AHF sinks to new low

n the ongoing saga over state housing legislation, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation has sunk to a new low that should disgust all participants in the debate. Last week it unleashed an ad blitz directed at opposing gay state Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) Senate Bill 50, which would create new zoning standards for constructing housing near job centers and public transportation, along with protections against the displacement of renters and vulnerable communities living in those areas. AHF, through its Healthy Housing Foundation, sent racially incendiary mailers to San Francisco residents using a 1963 quote from gay civil rights icon James Baldwin that equates SB 50 with redevelopment policies of a past era that displaced African Americans in the Western Addition. It attributes the nearly 60-year-old quote to Baldwin: “San Francisco is engaging ... in something called urban renewal, which means moving the Negroes out. It means Negro removal.” Obviously, Wiener’s bill does not do that – and AHF President Michael Weinstein knows it. SB 50 will help people stay in San Francisco (and other cities) by creating new zoning standards and legalizing apartments and affordable housing in the 70 percent of the city where it is currently illegal to build anything other than single family homes or two-unit buildings. San Francisco has a housing crisis. We hear about it everyday and political leaders all say the city needs more housing. But when a specific plan is proposed (see: Mayor London Breed’s Navigation Center along the waterfront) or a bill is authored (like SB 50), residents start screaming that they don’t want homeless people living near them or that development projects will cause

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s mailer against state Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 50

them to lose their homes. According to Wiener, SB 50 has the strongest anti-displacement, antieviction, and anti-demolition language possible. The racial content of the AHF mailer is counterproductive and troubling, coming from an HIV/AIDS organization that has served people of all ethnicities. Baldwin’s words are taken out of context and applied to an unrelated situation decades later. The ad assumes black people are poor and disproportionately affected by Wiener’s legislation. All kinds of people are being priced out of San Francisco, blacks have been leaving the city for years, and so have many others, including queer people. In short, dramatic action is necessary to construct more housing, including affordable and below-market-rate units so people can afford to live here. Breed, who grew up in the Western Addition and supports SB 50, wrote on Twitter after the

AHF flyers hit mailboxes, “SB 50 is about tackling our housing crisis, plain & simple. It has nothing to do with urban renewal & suggesting it does is deeply offensive to communities like mine that are still living with the consequences. Scott Wiener is an ally to the African American community in SF.” At a news conference Monday, Wiener was joined by local civil rights leaders and elected officials who denounced the mailers and TV ads. “This propaganda does not speak for our black community,” said Jacqueline Flin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute San Francisco. The Reverend Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called the ads “despicable.” AHF has tangled with Wiener before over its opposition to PrEP, calling it a dangerous “party drug.” While its pharmacy in the Castro will fill PrEP prescriptions, AHF opposes another of Wiener’s bills that seeks to make PrEP available without a prescription. When Wiener was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, AHF sued him over his legislation meant to tighten formula retail rules. (A judge later issued a proposed order granting a motion to dismiss the case and AHF dropped the suit.) So, AHF’s latest tactics do not surprise Wiener. Housing near transit centers, which SB 50 encourages, is one part of the solution to the Bay Area’s crisis as it would help reduce vehicle miles traveled and be better for the environment. As Wiener pointed out in an email to constituents, “Communities of color feel the negative impacts of air pollution from cars the most.” AHF should focus on germane arguments against the proposed legislation and not confuse the issues by employing blatant racial overtones by quoting a black gay icon out of context.t

Why I support Buttigieg for president by Kevin Dowling

had heard of Pete Buttigieg before he started running for president in February. Former President Barack Obama was asked a couple of years ago to name the future leaders of the Democratic Party. He answered with senator and former vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine (Virginia), California Senator Kamala Harris, and “the Mayor of South Bend.” He couldn’t remember his name. Buttigieg ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee in January 2017 where he impressed many party leaders but eventually dropped out as Tom Perez was elected. This massive Democratic field (19 and counting) running for president in 2020 is like a yearlong Christmas for political junkies like myself. I tend to like mayors and governors for president who have a record of doing things since I am a former city councilman. I started to look at candidates as they announced and started to give small amounts to people I liked. I donated funds to former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julian Castro and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. Then, Buttigieg announced his exploratory committee. I gave him money right away, thinking that a gay candidate should make the Democratic debate stages in June (candidates need 65,000 donors). As he began making the rounds of cable shows and speaking in early primary states, he continued to impress me. Smart and articulate, but also nuanced, he does not lecture to voters in a law professor way (Obama, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren) or like a prosecutor (Harris). I hosted some friends for his CNN town hall in mid-March – he was very impressive and all my friends became fans. In 2007-08, many African American voters were wary of supporting Obama, worried that voters would not support an African American with a funny name. I wondered whether America was ready for an openly gay candidate with a funny name and a husband. That changed when the Buttigieg campaign announced it had raised $7 million from over 150,000 donors at the end of March. He outraised two governors (Jay Inslee, John Hickenlooper) and three senators (Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and Klobuchar). Unlike when I was elected to the Hayward City Council in 1998, LGBT candidates are being elected statewide now (Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, Oregon Governor Kate Brown) and as big city

Pete Buttigieg speaks to supporters during his formal campaign announcement April 14 in South Bend, Indiana.

Mayors (Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot and former Houston Mayor Annise Parker). Last year Californians elected Ricardo Lara as insurance commissioner, the first time a gay man has been elected to statewide office here. So maybe America is ready for “something completely different.” About a week before Buttigieg’s formal April 14 announcement, I decided to use some Southwest Air miles and head to South Bend, Indiana. South Bend is two hours from Chicago. I traveled from Northside Chicago through rural Indiana and Gary. This area is so industrial – many miles of train tracks. South Bend reminded me of Stockton or Fresno – some cool historic buildings downtown but also empty land and parking lots. While Bay Area residents complain about traffic and new housing, many parts of the country could use new jobs and residents. April rain showers decided to interrupt the Buttigieg event so the campaign moved it from the renovated riverfront to the infamous former Studebaker car plant. The massive facility is filling with new businesses but the campaign was able to use part of the building. The crowds were big despite the constant rain and cold – 4,000 made it inside and 1,500 watched on a big screen outside. The event was great, although the three mayors who spoke before Buttigieg were a little long (shout out to California’s own West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, a gay man). I was happy to be able to attend a historic day for the LGBT community – a gay elected official declaring for president and kissing his husband on national TV. So here is my case for Buttigieg for president:

He’s super smart. He speaks seven languages including Arabic (President Donald Trump barely speaks English). He’s a Harvard and Oxford graduate and a Rhodes scholar. He’s a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He would be the first veteran as commander in chief since George H.W. Bush. Buttigieg didn’t have “bone spurs,” as Trump claimed to avoid the military draft, and volunteered for service, taking a leave of absence as mayor. I was struck at his kickoff rally that they recited the Pledge of Alliance and sang the national anthem. He’s religious but welcomes people of no faith. Many of the voters that Democrats need to win back are religious. Trump claims to be religious but can barely talk about the bible and is a gambler and porn star-loving president. He’s from the industrial Midwest. That is exactly where we need to attract former Obama voters, back in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. He’s a millennial who is also traditional. Democrats tend to win the presidency with younger candidates (John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Obama). He has a record of success in South Bend. He fixed or tore down 1,000 abandoned houses while also spending $1 million to help local homeowners to fix up homes. He raised $60 million for the downtown river project and local parks. Led a downtown revitalization, which brought $100 billion of private investment to downtown South Bend. The city is growing again after years of population loss. He spent $2.3 million for lead abatement in homes. He is the first LGBT person who is a serious candidate for president. I think he deserves the support of the LGBT community. Can Buttigieg beat 18-plus other Democrats and beat the worst president in U.S. history? He would need to beat nationally known candidates like Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden. While Trump is an embarrassment as president, he is a great campaigner, as Hillary Clinton and many impressive GOP primary candidates discovered. Many Democrats are desperate to beat Trump and the Bay Area will go into a massive depression if Trump gets re-elected on November 3, 2020. Buttigieg is worth consideration and your support. t Kevin Dowling is a lifelong Bay Area resident and served as a Hayward City Councilman from 1998-2010.

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Philly lawyer aims to be 1st trans male judge

by Matthew S. Bajko

Philadelphia lawyer is aiming to make LGBT political history this year by becoming the country’s first elected transgender male judge. Henry Sias is running in the May 21 Democratic primary for one of six seats on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Should he advance to November, he is all but assured of winning the seat due to the city’s heavy Democratic electorate. Not only has he the backing of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, the national group that helps elect out people to office, but the local Democratic Party also endorsed his judicial campaign. According to Sias, it marks the first time a transgender candidate has earned the local party’s support. “That carries a lot of weight with it,” Sias told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent phone interview about his candidacy. He joked, however, “I don’t think the party had much opportunity in the past” to endorse transgender candidates. Sias, 42, grew up in Detroit and moved to the Bay Area in 2000. He and a former girlfriend at the time lived in Antioch while he worked for the outdoor clothier and goods chain REI in Concord. Due to the high cost of living on the West Coast, the couple moved to Colorado and then to Connecticut when Sias enrolled in Yale’s law school. He has lived in Philadelphia since 2007; in 2013 he married his wife, Carey, the assistant director of technology services at Jenkins Law Library where they first met. Since graduating law school Sias has clerked for a number of judges in Pennsylvania and worked at several law firms. He currently works as a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. He serves as a commissioner on Pennsylvania’s Commission on LGBTQ Affairs and founded a nonprofit that helps low-income people expunge their criminal records. Sias also teaches appellate advocacy at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law. In 2017, Sias first ran to become a judge yet lost amid a slew of 43 candidates. But the local bar gave him a high rating that year, instilling in him a belief that he shouldn’t give up seeking a judgeship. “I knew I was starting a conversation last time,” Sias said of getting his name known by voters and local political leaders. Nearly 30 people are running in this year’s judicial race. In addition to vying to be the country’s first male transgender judge – three female transgender judges are known to serve on the bench – Sias would also be the first transgender person elected in Philadelphia. “I am definitely a legitimate candidate. But I never want to come across at all as entitled. We have a lot of work to do,” he said. “We have some great candidates this year. It is all about getting out there and connecting with voters.” He has not shied away from his gender identity in his campaign. In fact, it is the first thing he tells voters

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about himself on his campaign site, and he released a video earlier this year that directly talked about his historic candidacy and gender identity. “We are having a paradigm shift wherein we must confront explicitly the inclusion of transgender people,” said Sias. “The other issue is transgender men are a generation behind transgender women in terms of our visibility. With visibility comes exposure and some risk with that.” Even if he doesn’t succeed in his race, Sias is using the platform that comes from his candidacy to serve as a role model for trans-masculine youth. It is why he posted his video and has been vocal in talking about his campaign. “One reason why masculine-oriented transgender kids have such a high suicide rate is because they are not having role models,” said Sias. “They are not having enough guys like me out here saying, ‘Yeah, I am trans and here is all this other stuff I am doing. Here is this person who loves me and the family I have found.’ I think getting that message out there will help those kids have a future.” Gay state Representative Brian Sims of Philadelphia, who has a national following on social media, turned his Facebook page over to Sias, as well as to a transgender woman running for a local city council seat, in March for the annual Transgender Day of Visibility. “Henry is a champion attorney and advocate who’s dedicated his life to representing underserved communities,” wrote Sims. “Henry is running to be a Judge and will make history when he’s seated as the first Trans male judge in America!” To learn more about Sias, visit his campaign website at https://www. henrysiasforjudge.com/.

Lesbian SF judge retires

Longtime lesbian San Francisco Superior Court Judge Carol Yaggy has retired after serving 31 years on the local bench. The court announced the news Monday, April 22. Yaggy had begun as a deputy public defender in the city prior to being appointed to the court as a commissioner in 1987. clientele. As new owners, we have insisted that this history of inclusion continue. We also know that a truly diverse community benefits from the discussion of a broad range of ideas. We hope that all our guests, clients and employees will join in on this discussion.” The Index-Tribune noted that some have called for a boycott of businesses that operate in Mattson-owned properties. “I understand why people would

She then won election to an open judicial seat on the bench in 1998. She handled juvenile cases and small claims cases as well as oversaw 26 homicide cases. In 2017, she presided over two headline-making trials of Lee Bell, convicted of killing his girlfriend whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase, and Binh Thai Luc, an undocumented Vietnamese immigrant convicted of killing five members of a Chinese family he had befriended. Yaggy earned a reputation for her quick wit from the bench and easing tension in her courtroom. Presiding Judge Garrett L. Wong called her retirement “a profound loss” for the local legal community in a statement. “She will be remembered as a legend on the San Francisco trial bench. In her daily life and in work, she exemplified what we all strive to achieve as judges – fidelity to the law, honor and integrity,” he stated. “Judge Yaggy was a devoted and phenomenal jurist and I wish her all the best in her welldeserved retirement.” Former Presiding Judge Cynthia Ming-mei Lee, a close friend of Yaggy, called her “an incredibly nurturing person” who was “the heart and soul of the court during her tenure.” It will now be up to Governor Gavin Newsom to name someone to Yaggy’s seat on the court.

SF out mayoral appointees fizzle

San Francisco Mayor London Breed appointed two out people to city oversight boards that ended up leaving their seats, as the B.A.R. reported online last week. Last Friday the mayor moved Reese Aaron Isbell into an alternate seat on the rent board after initially naming him to be a tenant representative on the panel. Isbell, a gay renter, had come under fire by tenants rights advocates for lacking legal skills and being named to the semi-judicial body without consulting them. He will step in when Kent Qian, who was sworn in as a rent board commissioner Friday, is unable to attend meetings. Qian, who is straight and a tenant, is a deputy city attorney for the Oakland City Attorney’s office. And Felicia Elizondo, a transgender woman and longtime AIDS survivor, resigned April 16 from the San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services Commission after just a few weeks in the post. She told the B.A.R. she decided to step down after becoming overwhelmed by the work required of the commissioners.t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. The column returns April 29. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 829-8836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Physique mags helped usher in the gay market by Brian Bromberger

ne never knows what treasures they might find in an attic. David K. Johnson, associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, was researching his first book in the attic of a 1960s gay rights activist, looking for typewritten correspondence in the 1950s and 1960s documenting the federal government’s Cold War purge of suspected homosexuals as threats to national security, when he discovered copies of magazines called Drum, Physique Pictorial, and MANual, full of images of nearly naked men. This was in the 1990s and, at first, he disregarded them as commercial entertainment, not seeing them as historically important, but soon galleries and museums had retrospective exhibitions. In an email interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Johnson, 58, explained what then inspired him to write a book on this subject. “I saw a disconnect between how gay men appreciated the works of 1950s physique artists and photographers and how most scholars studying the history of the LGBT movement dismissed them,” wrote Johnson, who is gay. “Art houses like Taschen published increasingly lavish coffee-table books of their work, Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland got their own nonprofit foundations, and yet academics only saw evidence of racism, self-loathing, or the closet. I thought these pioneering gay artists and photographers deserved a closer look. “The new field of the history of capitalism provided the perfect lens for this examination,” he continued. “I decided to look not just at the im-

ages they created but the businesses they sponsored. And I soon discovered that they were enmeshed in a larger consumer culture network of gay merchandise, books, and clothing all available through magazines and mail-order catalogs.” By the end of that decade, a few scholars began taking these physique magazines seriously as historical artifacts, even though LGBT community historians had minimized their significance. Part of the problem was gaining access to them as only recently have academic and community-based libraries began collecting them. “Many early historians of the LGBT movement, with roots in a gay liberationist ethos that was explicitly anti-capitalist, viewed for-profit enterprises such as physique publishers with skepticism, considering them peripheral to movement politics ... favoring homophile and nonprofit publications over commercial ones,” Johnson wrote. Finishing his book, “The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government,” Johnson traveled around the country researching the idea of a “gay market” that existed a decade before Stonewall. He discovered that “with a circulation rate ten times that of their homophile competitors, physique magazines were the primary gay media outlet in the nation such that by 1963, domestic sales of physique magazines topped nine million per year,” he wrote. Johnson realized that “by making gay desire visible, by marketing it to the masses and defending it from government censorship, physique entrepreneurs helped create a sense of a national gay community,” such that

consumer culture played a pivotal role in shaping gay male cultural life and later political engagement. “They created a sense of a virtual or imagined community,” Johnson wrote. “Gay men throughout the country, in small towns and big cities, could find these magazines on their local newsstands or subscribe to them through the mail. Through these magazines, they knew there were tens of thousands of other ‘physique enthusiasts’ like themselves out there. Grecian Guild went further and offered membership in a fraternal order, complete with regional conventions, pins, chaplains, and local chapters. Others started offering pen pal clubs and gay book clubs. They would print letters and photos from customers, often including their mailing address. The magazines became increasingly interactive – offering customers opportunities to connect with other customers, a kind of analog version of what today we call social media.”

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Development of a gay market and gay identity formation reinforced one another. Johnson tells the story of the rise and decline of physique magazines during the period from 1951 to 1967 in his new book on the subject, “Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked A Movement” (Columbia University Press), as well as arguing that both homophile organizations and physique enterprises were fulfilling many of the same functions – fostering community, providing legal advice, and fighting repression among others, but the latter surpassed the former both in numbers and influence such that gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay movement but a catalyst to it. “Historians tend to focus on the role of the homophile organizations

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such as the Mattachine Society and ONE,” Johnson wrote. “But homophile mailing lists were a tenth the size of those of physique publishers. Homophile leaders were jealous of the physique’s popularity and income stream. They kept a very close watch on these publications and slowly began to copy their formats. Once the battle against postal censorship was won, the two types of publications merged. It’s why I suggest we think of this period not as the homophile era but the physique era, since they were the dominant gay media presence of the period.” There were business directories so that customers could find other gay services, bars, and resources. Furthermore, physique entrepreneurs, building on their financial success, developed other businesses, creating a new niche gay market that included the Cory Book Service, the Grecian Guild (gay social fraternity), and the Adonis Club (pen pals). Only when these gay entrepreneurs organized into large conglomerates with nationwide distribution systems were they able to acquire the resources that enabled them to fight censorship. It is here that Johnson sees a historical connection between his first book and his new work. “In some ways ‘Buying Gay’ also looks at the homophobic Cold War policies of the federal government,” he wrote. “But it looks at how they

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were carried out by an agency of the federal government we don’t think much about – the post office and its army of postal inspectors. The post office determined that these magazines were encouraging homosexuality in American society and launched a campaign to stop them. They infiltrated physique photographer mailing lists, raided production facilities, and made ‘educational visits’ to customers to get them to seek psychiatric treatment. In their campaign against physique consumers, the post office signaled out teachers, knowing that they were particularly vulnerable. So ‘Buying Gay’ like ‘The Lavender Scare,’ is very much about federal government efforts to police a growing gay subculture.” Johnson said that physique publications had vigorous and public fights with postal censors. “They stood up for their right to publish these materials, both editorially and in court. They helped create See page 12 >>

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Buttigieg dodges GOP attack at town hall by Lisa Keen

he loudest and most sustained applause for gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg during a CNN town hall Monday night came for his politically unorthodox response to a recently launched attack on him by the Trump administration. CNN moderator Anderson Cooper, who is also gay, broached the subject with just a few minutes left in the one-hour forum, which had been preceded by one-hour forums with each of four other Democratic presidential candidates. Although in previous venues, Buttigieg had mentioned his dismay with Vice President Mike Pence’s longstanding, well documented record of opposing equal rights for LGBT people, this time, he criticized President Donald Trump for his “chest thumping and self-aggrandizing, not to mention abusive behavior. ...” Cooper noted that Buttigieg had gotten into a “back-and-forth” recently over his criticism of Pence. (Pence’s wife tried to dismiss Buttigieg’s portrayal of the vice president as anti-gay as a campaign gimmick “to get some notoriety.” A Pence spokesperson noted that, when Buttigieg came out publicly as gay, then-Governor Pence said he held Buttigieg “in the highest personal regard.”)

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Now, said Cooper, “the current ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who is also gay, weighed in” on the row. Grenell, said Cooper, has been “saying you have been ‘pushing this hate hoax [about Pence] along the lines of Jussie Smollett for a very long time now, several weeks.’ How do you respond to that?” (Gay actor Smollett garnered considerable negative media attention recently when he was accused of filing a false report of an anti-gay assault against him. The charges were later dropped.) Buttigieg did not hesitate.

“I’m not a master fisherman,” said Buttigieg, “but I know bait when I see it, and I’m not gonna take it.” The audience erupted in sustained applause and cheers. Cooper moved on, but the newcomer had dodged his first political Molotov cocktail from a surrogate for President Donald Trump, a Goliath of insults. Monday night’s event with Buttigieg was his second nationally televised town hall forum on the cable network. The first such forum, in March in Austin, Texas, boosted Buttigieg from a virtual unknown on the national political stage to a top tier contender for the Democratic nomination for president. The latest national poll, released April 23, showed him in third place among Democratic contenders nationwide (as well as in early primary states), with name recognition of 64%. (The poll of 1,992 registered voters by Morning Consult was conducted April 19-21, with a margin of error of plusor-minus 1%.) The April 22 forum seemed to position Buttigieg for continued success. “CNN’s town hall Monday night in New Hampshire was the clearest sign yet that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a candidate who’s still catching up to his own popularity,” said the lead in CNN’s coverage of the forum. But while the audience of area college

students gathered at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire clearly liked Buttigieg, the forum wasn’t a cakewalk. Buttigieg also dodged a legitimate question raised by New England College student Trevor VanNiel, who asked, “How would you cooperate with countries that view homosexuality as a sin and a crime that is punishable by death?” “Well, I think it’s wrong to harm or punish people because they are part of the LGBTQ community,” said Buttigieg. “I get that not every country is there. In some dramatically milder respects but very still bothersome ones, our own country is not there. I believe this is an example of why the world needs an America that is strong, that’s credible, and that people believe keeps its word because, frankly, our ability, and the ability of the next president and of the U.S. to lead on this issue, I mean to really try to guide countries toward doing the right thing, largely depends on whether we have any moral authority at all.” Buttigieg said America’s moral authority today has “plummeted.” “And whether it’s LGBTQ rights or, frankly, any kind of human rights or democracy promotion that we want to advance ... it’s really important for the U.S. to be a credible messenger,”

he said, before wandering into a discussion of “different models” of government around the world. Most of the other Democratic candidates at the forum Monday night –Senators Bernie Sanders (IVermont), Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), and Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota) – were not asked LGBTrelated questions. Senator Kamala Harris, who appeared before Buttigieg, did respond to a question on LGBT rights by stating that she refused to defend California’s Proposition 8 anti-same-sex marriage ban when she served as state attorney general. (Prop 8 was later thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court, legalizing same-sex marriage in the Golden State in 2013.) Harris also pointed out that, as San Francisco’s district attorney, she convened a symposium for other DAs to learn how to combat so-called gay- and trans-panic defenses, a legal strategy that asks a jury to find that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s violent reaction, including murder. Fox News announced Tuesday that it has scheduled a town hall in Claremont, New Hampshire, with Buttigieg Sunday, May 19. The program will be broadcast live beginning at 4 p.m. Pacific Time. t

Catholic foster care agency loses case against Philly by Lisa Keen

or the first time, a federal appeals court has ruled that a local government can exclude a child foster care agency from city-funded programs if the agency refuses to abide by a local ordinance that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. In Catholic Social Charities v. Philadelphia, the Catholic-run child place-

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waiver that allows it to funnel federal funds to foster care agencies that discriminate against LGBT people and people of certain religions. In Philadelphia, the city Department of Human Services learned that two child placement agencies receiving funds from the city were refusing to place children with same-sex couples who were willing to serve as foster parents. When confronted, the two agencies claimed they were acting on their religious beliefs. The city did not challenge that claim but stopped referring children to the two groups. One of the groups, CSS, filed a lawsuit, claiming its First Amendment right to free exercise of religion was being violated. A district court judge ruled against CSS’s request for a preliminary injunction and the appeals panel upheld that ruling. Typically, the case would go back to district court for a hearing on the First Amendment issues raised by CSS. But the group could choose to ask the full appeals court bench for a hearing or even go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court with a petition. A similar dispute in Massachusetts ended with Catholic Charities pulling out of state-funded child placement programs. In Michigan, a federal judge ruled against St. Vincent Catholic Charities last September, saying a lawsuit on behalf of the same-sex couples by the ACLU could proceed against a state policy allowing adoption agencies to discriminate if the agencies claim such adoptions would violate their religious beliefs. That conflict is still under litigation, but another faith-based child placement group in Michigan announced Monday it would end its policy of excluding same-sex couples. t

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Vienna is ready to shine for EuroPride by Heather Cassell

ainbow flags and banners will fill Vienna’s Ringstrasse as more than 200,000 people are expected to parade through the Imperial City’s main boulevard to its Town Hall for EuroPride in June. “Once a year this boulevard is ours,” said Andreas Brunner, a 56-year-old gay man who is one of the co-founders of the Rainbow Parade. “Face it. Here we are in our diversity from the Dykes on Bikes to half-naked dancing boys on trucks to lesbian groups drumming. That’s our colorful Pride.” The Ringstrasse is the city’s famed boulevard that replaced the fortress that once circled Vienna. Nearly 20 years after Vienna first hosted EuroPride, the city is ready to welcome all of Europe and American friends to celebrate under the banner “Together & Proud” from June 1-16.

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“I’m getting excited,” said Katharina Kacerovsky, CEO of Stonewall GmbH, the organization that oversees the annual Rainbow Parade and Pride Village at Town Hall. “I love to connect people and bring completely different cultures ... together for fusion.” That’s exactly what Kacerovsky and her team are doing, working with about a dozen different Pride organizers to truly make the event a celebration of Europe’s LGBT community. There will be more than 40 events during the first half of Pride Month, offering something for everyone. The festivities range from family days at the Schönbrunn Zoo and parks to a conference to parties to a mass wedding at the 5-star Hotel Le Meridien (http://bit.ly/2KSlUGj). It will all lead up to the EuroPride parade June 15 and two celebrations at the Pride Village and Pride Park. In December 2017, the Austrian Constitutional Court legalized samesex marriage. Same-sex marriages began on January 1 this year. However, it’s been a bittersweet victory. Austria’s conservative government limited marriages for binational couples to only those who come from countries where same-sex marriage is legal, Viennese activists said during a recent trip to Vienna. The mass wedding will be both a celebration and a demonstration. There will be a “focus on the fact that not everyone is allowed to marry. We still did not reach the goal with our government,” said Kacerovsky, a 38-year-old lesbian who was an international DJ for two decades when she took the helm of the organization. “EuroPride, with its multifaceted program, is the perfect occasion to celebrate and explore a city that has emerged from being a hidden gem to becoming a hot spot for the LGBT community,” said Norbert Kettner, 51, a gay man who is the director of the Vienna Tourist Board. For the first time, the city’s tourism agency will have a truck in the EuroPride parade, Tom Bachinger, a gay man who handles travel trade relations for the U.S. market for the Vienna Tourism Board, told the Bay Area Reporter. Viennese LGBTQs are getting excited about the events. “Vienna is one of the most LGBTfriendly cities in the world,” said Ian Goudie, a gay man who formerly led Stonewall GmbH and now works with Richard Zanella, one of the city’s

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top gay bar and nightclub owners. “Vienna is an absolutely beautiful city. It’s going to be an amazing event.” In 2001, Vienna first hosted the European-wide LGBT Pride celebration only five years after the Austrian capital hosted its first Pride parade. An estimated 25,000 Pridegoers attended that first Pride event in 1996, said Brunner, who was inspired by Stonewall 25 celebrations in New York two years earlier. The 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, which sparked the modern gay rights movement, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in June. “Visibility was the main issue for us,” said Brunner, who is co-manager of QWIEN (http://www.qwien.at), Vienna’s LGBT archives, and runs LGBT Vienna history tours. “It still is.” EuroPride is “something that we should really celebrate,” said Peter Holzinger, a 44-year-old gay man who owns Samstag Shop, a fashion boutique (http://samstag-shop.com). However, Holzinger said it was important to remind younger LGBTs “that someone had to fight for this right to live such a carefree and great life today.” To commemorate the events of EuroPride and Stonewall 50 this year he has gathered 13 of the shop’s artists to design limited edition EuroPride and Stonewall 50 T-shirts. He was inspired by T-shirts on display at the GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco’s Castro district during a trip last year, he told me during one of the shop’s many exhibitions celebrating the launch of new designs by international queer artist and designer Jakob Lena Knebl. Knebl’s works will also be exhibited at Vienna’s MUMOK June 10-16 during EuroPride. The goal of the T-shirts, which will be unveiled during a special event June 6, is to honor the unity of the LGBT community in the “fight for the recognition of our rights and our culture,” Holzinger said in a statement sent to the B.A.R. EuroPridegoers will be able to purchase their own T-shirts at the shop, online, and at various locations during the festivities.

Heading to EuroPride

The gay districts are centered around the MuseumsQuartier; Mariahilfer Strasse, the main shopping street; and the famed Naschmarkt (http://bit.ly/2Gwxp1J), the city’s largest open-air market filled with restaurants and shops in the tightly knitted together fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts. Visitors will know they are in the heart of Vienna’s gay districts as the pedestrian signals outside the MuseumsQuartier on the Ringstrasse light up with same-sex couples when they cross the street. Here is where cafes, bars, restaurants, and shops, as well as museums and high-end shopping along the Mariahilfer Strasse, bustle with fabulousness. Gay guide Niki König, 46, showed me all of the city’s gay hot spots as we walked through the trendy neighborhoods, stopping in at Felixx Bar (http://www.felixx-bar.at), one of the city’s best gay bars. Next month the bar will also open during the daytime as a cafe serving coffee and cakes among its menu selections. Goudie said B.A.R. readers who order a coffee and mention this article would receive a free cake to celebrate visibility in Sonoma. “I have chosen to stay and have one big fabulous gay celebration for our community and allies with Pink Sonoma Saturday,” he said. “The Pride flag will be flying high as we celebrate our community here in Sonoma,” he wrote.

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Vienna’s Pride Village at the Town Hall was packed during the Pride festival.

EuroPride and the opening of the cafe. Just a few blocks away, König pointed out one of his personal favorite spots, Marea Alta (http://mareaalta.bplaced.net). It has a bar upstairs, while downstairs it’s a nightclub that hosts a number of events where the city’s lesbian-feminists party.

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We then wound our way down to the Naschmarkt, where across the street is one of the most popular places in Vienna, the historic Cafe Savoy (savoy.at/en/index.php). The gay men playfully teased that only the men are left at the more than 120-year-old cafe that was once a straight pickup salon. The cafe is currently open during an expansion that will take it back to its original size. The Savoy serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner and is popular among locals and visitors. At night, it turns into a queer hangout. Other popular cafes around the city are lesbian-owned Fett+Zucker (http://www.fettundzucker.at), and the feminist cafe Frauencafe (8, Lange Gasse 11). The Viennese love their eclectic cuisine, which has evolved beyond the standard fare to a more international farm-to-table flavor. I enjoyed exploring Vienna’s ever-emerging restaurant scene, dining at LGBT favorites Labstelle (http://www.labstelle.at), Wrenkh Wiener Kochsalon (http://www.wrenkh-wien.at), Glacis Beisl (http://www.glacisbeisl.at/ info), and 1500 Foodmakers (http:// www.1500foodmakers.at). Glacis Beisl and 1500 Foodmakers offer latenight dinners. When LGBTs aren’t dining or imbibing coffee or wine from the vineyards that are on the outskirts of the city, they enjoy the great outdoors and sunbathing or using the sauna. There are two unofficial gay beaches on the Donauinsel, a small island in the middle of the Danube River, and the Neue Donau. Locals also enjoy strolling along the Danube River, or relaxing in one of the city’s many parks. That is when the men aren’t enjoying a bath at the historic gay sauna, Kaiserbründl (http://www.kaiserbruendl.at). The sauna has enjoyed centuries of popularity among gay men, especially with Emperor Franz Joseph’s younger brother, Archduke Luziwuzi, who got in trouble hitting on a soldier during the mid-1800s. “It’s the most beautiful gay sauna I know in Europe, probably,” said König. He recommends the sauna to every gay man who visits Vienna. “That’s something really special that we’ve got here in Vienna,” he said.

Tickets for Pink Sonoma, which takes place Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., are $65 and available online. For tickets and more information, visit http://www. outinthevineyard.com. t

Where to stay

I stayed in the heart of the MuseumsQuartier as a guest of 25Hours Hotel (http://www.25hours-hotels. com/en/hotels/vienna/at-museumsquartier), a fun and trendy concept hotel that has queer staff and is very gay-friendly. The hotel has a California-Italian inspired restaurant, the aforementioned 1500 Foodmakers, and a rooftop bar, the Dachboden Loft. It’s close to all the action and sites, and the perfect retreat after exploring the city and partying late into the night. During a previous visit, I stayed at the nearby artsy Altstadt Hotel (http://www.altstadt.at). EuroPride Vienna has also partnered with 12 other hotels to host guests. For more information, visit https://europride2019.at/travel-info.

How to get there

Austrian Airlines (http://www.austrian.com) offers nonstop flights from select U.S. airports, such as Los Angeles, to Vienna or there are one-stop flights on other airlines.

Gay guide Niki König stands near pedestrian walk signs, which feature same-sex couples in the gay neighborhoods.

An inexpensive way to get to Vienna is to fly into Munich, Germany and take a four-and-a-half-hour train ride that starts at around $50 one-way. I took Omio (http://bit.ly/2UHHIJ0), formerly GoEuro. Getting around Vienna is easy. The city is very walkable, especially around the gay area. Visitors can also get a Vienna Card (http://www.viennacitycard.at), which provides unlimited transportation and discounts into museums and sites as well as at more than 210 restaurants and shops. The cards are available for 24-, 48-, and 72-hour increments. Remember to validate the cards at the machines in the metro station. They are conspicuous boxes located about 10-feet from the escalators. t For more information, including EuroPride entertainment headliners, which weren’t available at press time, visit https://europride2019.at or http://www.wien. info/en/vienna-for/gay-lesbian.

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r. Richard Green, an American psychiatrist and lawyer who helped lead the fight to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, died April 6 in London. He was 82. With the exception of psychologist Evelyn Hooker, whose pioneering research in the 1950s showed no difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals with regard to healthy mental adjustment, Dr. Green was perhaps the seminal heterosexual advocate supportive of gay men in that rudimentary period after the 1969 Stonewall riots sparked the gay rights movement. However, Dr. Green was a maverick from a young age, caring little what other people or society felt about him. His obituary in the Guardian hinted that this attitude might have developed in the Brooklyn-born Dr. Green because of the prejudice he encoun-

tered as a Jew. He was accepted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine at a time when it limited how many Jewish students could be admitted. He testified as an expert witness in 1962 in support of Chester Morales, a Nicaraguan man being deported because of his homosexuality despite having lived in the U.S. for 10 years, in what became a groundbreaking legal victory. At Johns Hopkins he studied with the renowned sexologist John Money, who specialized in the biology of gender, with both men trailblazing gender reassignment surgery for transsexuals (the term used then). However, Dr. Green’s pinnacle moment came in 1972 when he published a paper in the International Journal of Psychiatry in which he argued against the American Psychiatric Association continuing to label homosexuality a mental illness. He wrote that the issue should be decided by “historical

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cepting gender minorities, and “The Sissy Boy Syndrome and the Development of Homosexuality” (1987), which showed the arduous road many effeminate boys traveled on their development into gay men. He was criticized for some of his terms (sissy boy) and early transgender definitions. He was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for Sexual Research in 2006. In a 2007 interview for an Atlantic Monthly article on homosexuality and biology, he believed that in the reporter’s lifetime, “we will find a gene that contributes substantially to sexual orientation.” Christopher Carrington, associate professor of sociology and sexuality studies at San Francisco State University, whose research focuses on gay and lesbian family life and relationships, praised Dr. Green in an email to the Bay Area Reporter. “Dr. Green was a true pioneer in the field of sexology, someone who fought vigorously for the application of the scientific method to the task of understanding human sexuality,” Carrington wrote. “I encountered Dr. Green many times in his role as edi-

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tor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, one of the leading journals in the field. I often assigned his work, particularly the ‘Sissy Boy Syndrome and the Development of Homosexuality’ during the late 1980s and early 1990s.” Carrington said Dr. Green’s work was not often “greeted with open arms by students, particularly by gay male students, who often expressed discomfort with the title.” “Once students read the work, however, their views of Green often improved,” Carrington added. “When I think back to it now, the book was published in the Reagan era, and in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and I suspect both of these factors led many gay men at the time to seek out and to embrace overly-conventional gender presentations of themselves. “Today, in the era of RuPaul and genderqueer, there is a lot less stigma associated with being a ‘sissy boy’ and whole lot more embracing of gender and sexual variation,” Carrington wrote. “I found Green’s work refreshing, particularly in its matterof-fact approach, and detailed interview transcripts that really captured the lives of gay men as they developed from boys into men. It was an approach that didn’t stigmatize gender and sexual variation, but rather attempted to understand it.” Carrington wrote that he and Dr. Green were impressed with some of the gay men who “strongly embraced their ‘sissy boy’ experience and identity in the face of overwhelming resistance from their families, communities, and many parts of society.” “Their resistance to conformity and their tenacity to be themselves left a clear impression on Green, an impression that led him into becoming an even fiercer advocate for inclusion, understanding, and equality,” Carrington wrote. t

embers of the New IRA apologized for last week’s killing of prominent lesbian journalist Lyra McKee by one of its volunteer members in a statement to the media Tuesday. McKee was shot in the head April 18 while covering a raid on “dissident republican activity” near a police SUV in Derry (also known as Londonderry). Police arrested a 57-year-old woman in connection with McKee’s shooting April 23 but CNN reported she’s been released. Two young men were arrested and released without charges over the weekend. On the night of the raid, there were some explosions and gunfire. Two cars that were set on fire were captured on video. McKee’s last tweet was a photo of the raid captioned, “Derry tonight. Absolute madness.” Irish politicians are calling for the violence to stop in Northern Ireland and for justice for McKee, 29, who was a rising star as a freelance investigative journalist. She was immediately taken to a nearby hospital where she died, Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton told reporters at a news conference last Friday. “There is no comfort for us in knowing that her killing, unlike that of Martin O’Hagan or Veronica Guerin, was not targeted,” Ciarán Ó Maoláin, the Belfast secretary of the National Union of Journalists, told the Irish News. McKee is the seventh journalist murdered on the job in 2019 and the

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Northern Ireland investigative journalist Lyra McKee.

first in the United Kingdom. Violence against journalists is on the rise, and 2018 was one of the deadliest years ever for journalists, according to Reporters Without Borders. McKee was set to speak next month on World Press Freedom Day about the dangers of reporting violent conflicts, according to Gay Star News. “Lyra was a great young journalist, whose commitment to truth was absolute and whose laughter could light up a room,” said Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland program director of Amnesty International. “Journalists put themselves on the frontline in the battle for truth every single day,” Corrigan continued. “Every day, it becomes more dangerous for reporters to do their job on behalf of us all.” Her death happened the night before the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violent clashes between Catholics and Protestants. It was also days before the anniversary of

the historic 1916 Easter Rising, known as the Easter Rebellion, which ended with Ireland’s independence, with the exception of Northern Ireland. McKee wrote about the “illusion” of peace in Northern Ireland four years ago. “With the signing of the Good Friday agreement, my generation, the children, and grandchildren of the civil rights protesters were told we would be the first to enjoy peace in decades,” she wrote, reported The Times newspaper. “But just because we’re not at war any more doesn’t mean the shadow of the gunman has left the room.” The New IRA is a militant Irish nationalist group that disagrees with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. A longer version is at ebar.com. t Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at Skype: heather.cassell or oitwnews@gmail.com.

Correction The April 18 article, “North Bay recovers from floods, readies for Pride” contained incorrect beneficiary information for Russian River Flood-Aid. Two organizations will each receive 50% of the proceeds: West County Community Services and a nonprofit run by the Russian River Chamber of Commerce. Its Small Business Flood Relief Fund will use the money for small businesses affected by the floods, according to producer Rodger Jensen. The online version has been corrected.

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As in a mirror by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

o often when people who are not transgender speak of transgender people, there is one important thing they get terribly wrong, and I think it’s a core part of understanding exactly what it is to be transgender. As an example, I want to talk a bit about Chelsea Manning. I’m not bringing her up to discuss whether what she did was right or wrong, or if she is a patriot or a traitor. That can be a discussion for another time. She will, however, illustrate my point. Manning is back in jail, held in contempt of court for not testifying in a case against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Manning had originally been jailed after being convicted in a court-martial of providing nearly 750,000 documents to WikiLeaks, but had her sentence commuted by President Barack Obama shortly before he left office. Oh, and Manning is a transgender woman, who committed her initial crime while still legally under a different name and presenting in a different gender. I mention this not to be factual about Manning’s gender identity – remember that’s for later – but because this becomes important when one looks at the way stories about Manning’s current incarceration hit the media. It should be no surprise that the right-wing media has had a field day referring to Manning under her birth name and pronouns. While they do have hatred toward her, they also have a general dislike of transgender people and seek to

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reinforce the gender binary. Calling Manning by male pronouns and her birth name is par for the course: they would do the same about, oh, Caitlyn Jenner. Or for that matter, about me. For this group, the concept is simple: you are born a man or a woman, and that is who you are for the rest of your life. Ergo, to them, it is their duty to refer to you by the name and gender presented to you while you were still too small to even keep your eyes open. You’ll also find similar misgendering of Manning in circles of people who are otherwise supportive of transgender people, but do not approve of Manning’s actions. These may be people who consider themselves allies of transgender people, but their tolerance has a limit. By calling Manning by her birth name, they are declaring that their acceptance is conditional, and Manning’s

actions violated that standing. These are the same people who might make transphobic jokes about Ann Coulter, or enjoy a laugh about caricatures of President Donald Trump in a dress, embracing Vladimir Putin. They may argue that they’re not attacking the “good” transgender people, but that their support requires a sort of quid pro quo. I have bad news for this second group: you have proved yourself not to be the ally you think you are. You have shown that your support goes only as far as your comfort. You are truly not that different from the first group, wielding the same sort of willful cruelty while assuming you can cloak yourself in a guise of a supporter of transgender people. I think there’s a third group to consider: these are the people who would otherwise be supportive of Manning, but when speaking of her life, might nevertheless revert to the pronouns she had at birth when describing her pre-transition self. This, unlike the first two groups, is not born out of any sort of animus, but out of a misguided belief that they’re being factual about Manning. After all, they might argue, at the time, Manning was using a different name and a different set of pronouns than she is today, so it would be right – even respectful – to use them to refer to who Manning was then. While this third group doesn’t display the same sort of willful cruelty, they’re still revealing a lack of

understanding about what it means to be transgender. They may even be approaching this from a very subconscious level, not even realizing why they might think this would be correct. For a non-transgender person, their sense of their own masculinity or femininity is a core part of their gender identity. They don’t think about if they are a man or woman. For them, they simply are. As a result, the idea of transition is to become something different from who they are. They’d become another person, very different from who they are today. Seen through this lens, it would make sense to think of Manning – or any other transgender person – by their birth name and pronouns when referring to their pre-transition life. That, they might argue, would be a person’s core identity before they transitioned to some other core identity. Put in allegorical terms, the nontransgender person pictures transition as a Jekyll and Hyde transmog-

rification, where a person triggers a monumental change in themselves, but that core identity, under the surface, remains. For transgender people, however, their sense of their own masculinity or femininity is also a core part of their gender identity. It simply is opposite of what we were assigned at birth, opposite of what others raised us to understand, and opposite of who non-transgender people think we are. For us who are transgender, we did not so much transition from a core identity into another, as a nontransgender person might envision. No, we have always been ourselves, and transitioned away from a body that doesn’t match our core identity, and away from social expectations based on that body. For a transgender person, we are not Dr. Jekyll, but more akin to the ugly duckling of Hans Christian Andersen. We have revealed our truth, the core being we always have been. t Gwen Smith was going to reference the Matrix, but that’s too on point. You’ll find her at www. gwensmith.com.

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he 2018 Gay Games in Paris were not merely successful at pulling in enough participants to create strong tournaments in virtually every sport. Gay Games X became the first Gay Games held outside of the United States to turn a profit, leaving a financial legacy to benefit the region’s LGBT sports community. The Paris organizing committee has been disbanded and is being reorganized into Foundation Inclusion for an Environment full of Respect, or FIER, which will administer and distribute foundation funds. “The surplus of Paris 2018 is nearly 150,000 euros ($168,000),” Paris 2018 co-president Manuel Picaud told the Bay Area Reporter. “Since 2015, we also have raised 200,000 euros for the foundation. This fund has not been used yet. This is a good start for the first and largest French foundation for the LGBT community.” “There was a surplus from the organization of Paris 2018,” Federation of Gay Games co-president Sean Fitzgerald confirmed. “We had a finance committee meeting last week and are still determining details. A part of these funds are being used to start the foundation.” Paris 2018 organizers also said in their closing reports that “Kent State University conducted an independent study to measure the economic impact of the event, which totaled more than 100 million euros, including the creation of 1,429 full-time job equivalents, which is higher than forecast and previous editions. The Gay Games have particularly contrib-

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The Foundation Inclusion for an Environment full of Respect will distribute some of the funds remaining from Gay Games X in Paris.

uted to the recovery of tourism in the capital and shops in the Marais had their best month [in] August.” Information about FIER can be found on a dedicated page of the Gay Games X website, http://www.paris2018.com/fier. According to the website, “The new board defined all types of projects, which would be able to be financed in sport and culture areas and LGBT+ issues, but also modalities of selection in liaison with a committee of sponsors and a committee of experts to analyze the project.” This is the second consecutive time that the Gay Games have finished in the black – the 2014 event in Cleveland wound up donating $120,000 to the Gay Games LGBT Legacy Fund at the Cleveland Foundation and $27,000 to the Gay Community Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation – and the third time in the last four quadrennial cycles. It also means that half of the 10 Gay Games have finished with a surplus. That’s reassuring news for skeptics who doubted the viability of LGBT

sports festivals in general – questioners who thought financial failures and organizational shortcomings with some of those events indicated that LGBT sports events had become irrelevant, lost purpose, or suffered from a burned out participant pool. It is easy to see why such general skepticism existed. Most EuroGames have largely been successful, but the 2015 Stockholm EuroGames were an organizational and communications disaster, and the European Gay and Lesbian Sports Federation had to intervene with Rome organizers this year to get them to scale back their ambitions in order to try to salvage the 2019 EuroGames. Year in and year out, Exhibit A for the cynics was the Outgames, global and continental editions. The past few continental Outgames have either been canceled or staged under another name without the Outgames licensing. The second World Outgames, in Copenhagen in 2009, were the only ones to report a profit, but had disappointing participation levels and operational difficulties. The first World Outgames, Montreal in 2006, lost millions of dollars. The last one, Miami in 2017, was called off at See page 13 >>

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LGBT cases

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The cases

The two consolidated cases regarding sexual orientation include: Altitude Express v. Zarda: This appeal comes from an employer in New York, challenging a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said Title VII does cover discrimination due to sexual orientation. The case involves a recreational parachuting company, Altitude Express, which fired one of its trainers, David Zarda, after learning he was gay. Zarda died before his lawsuit could be resolved, but his sister has pursued his claim. The 2nd Circuit covers New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. Bostock v. Clayton County: This appeal comes from a gay man in

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featuring wine, spirits, restaurant certificates, massages, and more. RWF is funding $25,000 in scholarships that will enable hundreds of LGBTQ activists from the country’s 16 provinces to travel to Havana to attend Pride, network, organize, and attend a week of training. Tickets range from $50 to $500. To purchase tickets, or for more information, visit https://rainbowfund.networkforgood.com/ events/12442-party-help-fund-lgbtq-pride-in-cuba.

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a sense among their readership of being part of an oppressed minority group, one that required a collective response. They helped take the struggle of gay people out of the realm of psychiatry and place it in the context of civil rights and the First Amendment,” he wrote. Lynn Womack, developer of a publishing empire of gay novels and magazines (Guild Press), fought against censorship, culminating in the famous 1962 Supreme Court decision in MANual v. Day that gay publications were not obscene “because they were not patently offensive,” Johnson wrote. Directory Services Inc., which marketed directories of gay businesses, won a landmark federal district court decision that the Constitution included protections for DSI’s homosexual customers, by allowing full frontal male nudity and open homoeroti-

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mailers and ran television ads featuring gay African American civil rights icon James Baldwin in an effort to portray Wiener’s bill as “urban renewal,” and a 1963 quote attributed to Baldwin that says, “San Francisco is engaging in ... something called urban renewal, which means moving the Negroes out. It means Negro removal ...” The mailer states Senate Bill 50, authored by Wiener (D-San Francisco) would “continue to displace existing working- and middle-class communities.” The flyers arrived in mailboxes last week. Wiener said at his news conference that the TV ads are still running. African American leaders stood united behind Wiener at the April 22 news conference at the African American Arts and Culture Complex in the city’s Western Addition neighborhood. “As president of the San Francisco branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, I stand here today that we don’t need anyone to pimp African Americans’ pain for purely political gain,” said the Reverend Amos Brown. “And the per-

Georgia, challenging an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to dismiss his Title VII lawsuit. Gerald Bostock was an employee working in child advocacy for the Clayton County Juvenile Court System for 10 years. But after he joined the Hotlanta gay softball league and urged other players to consider volunteering for the county agency, it fired him. Bostock filed suit, saying his firing violated Title VII. The 11th Circuit (which covers Georgia, Florida, and Alabama) dismissed the lawsuit, saying it had already ruled that sexual orientation discrimination is not covered under Title VII. In asking the Supreme Court to review the 11th Circuit’s decision, Bostock’s attorney acknowledged the appeals court’s previous ruling but argued that other circuits have ruled differently. He also argued that the

Supreme Court’s 1989 ruling in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins requires courts to read sex discrimination to include gender-based stereotypes. And he argued that the 1998 Supreme Court decision in Oncale v. Sundower underscored that sex discrimination had to be read more broadly. The third case, regarding gender identity, is: Harris Funeral v. EEOC. This appeal comes from an employer in Michigan and asks whether gender identity or transgender status is covered under sex discrimination in Title VII. The employer, RG & GR Harris Funeral Home, fired a longtime male employee after he began transitioning to female and refused to wear a man’s business suit supplied by the funeral home. The employee, Aimee Stephens, first took her complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-

sion, which ruled in her favor. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said sex discrimination in Title VII includes transgender discrimination. On appeal to the Supreme Court, the funeral home argued that its dress code applied equally to men and women and that the courts do not have the authority to say that sex includes gender identity. The reason the word “sex” was added to Title VII, said the funeral home, was to ensure “equal opportunities for women.” This case may be the most attractive to the conservative justices because they could deny protections to transgender employees and all LGBT people by simply claiming the lower courts have no authority to expand the definition of sex in federal law. The 6th Circuit includes Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Jennifer Levi, transgender rights

project director for GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, expressed optimism for a ruling upholding protections for transgender people. “Federal non-discrimination law has been an important source of protections for transgender people,” said Levi. “The legal case for protecting transgender employees under Title 7 is strong.” But there is risk, said Levi. “The Supreme Court could create an artificial line that somehow distinguishes sex discrimination from discrimination on the basis of a person’s transgender status or status of being gay, lesbian, or bisexual. If it were to do that, it would undermine an important source of protection against employment discrimination and significantly narrow the kinds of claims that LGBTQ people could bring.” t

niversary party and fundraise for the Eagle Plaza project Sunday, April 28, from 3 to 6 p.m. at 398 12th Street. The beer bust will feature food, performances, and door prizes. The event supports the world’s first public plaza dedicated to the living commemoration of leather heritage. Earlier this year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a street encroachment permit so the plaza project can get started. Local development firm Build Inc. will construct the plaza as part of a $1.5 million in-kind agreement with the city for approval of its mixed-use development across the street from the Eagle bar on what was a surface parking lot. Construction began last summer at 1532 Harrison Street on three seven-story buildings consisting of 136 rental homes.

Place Lab, started by Build and now part of the nonprofit San Francisco Parks Alliance, is overseeing the design of, and permits for, Eagle Plaza. It will be approximately 12,500 square feet in size. The parklet’s estimated cost is $1.85 million. In addition to Build’s contribution, the city awarded $200,000 in grant money to the plaza. The Friends of Eagle Plaza is aiming to raise $150,000. So far, about $62,000 has been raised, according to the website. For more information, and to donate, visit eagleplaza.org/.

from the greatest number of individual donors in multiple categories.

Give OUT Day, the national day of giving for the LGBTQ community, raised over $1.1 million for more

than 475 nonprofits, organizers said. The online giving day was held April 18 and raised funds for nonprofits in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and, for the first time, Puerto Rico. Give OUT Day also broke its previous record for number of donations made through the campaign: nearly 14,000. San Francisco-based Horizons Foundation organized the event. “The record-breaking success of Give OUT Day demonstrates the incredible power of our communities when we come together,” Horizons President Roger Doughty said in a statement. In addition to the funds raised by individuals, Horizons, with support from other foundation partners, awarded leaderboard prizes worth nearly $100,000 to nonprofits that raised funds

cism, “paving the way for the sort of modern gay press we have come to know and love,” he wrote. Furthermore, physique photographers and publishers offered a new vision of gay masculinity. “With depictions of muscular male bodies and invocations of heroic Greek warriors, they represent an avowedly masculine aesthetic that rejected the language of camp and drag common in gay bars of the period,” Johnson wrote. “These were masculine-identified men who enjoyed looking at each other’s bodies and enjoyed hanging out together naked at the pool.” However, heterosexual weightlifters resented the success of these magazines despite the fact they indirectly promoted their sport. “Mainstream bodybuilding magazines such as Strength & Health and Iron Man saw these new gay-oriented physique magazines cutting into their bottom line,” Johnson wrote. “They warned readers about these new ‘little

queer magazines’ on America’s newsstands. They were jealous of their economic success and some objected to what they saw as a group of immoral perverts taking over their sport.” Despite these advances, the allowance of full frontal nudity and public marketing of gay films (mostly porno) by the mid- to late-1960s put most of these physique magazines out of business, but a publication like the Advocate would have been impossible without the legal victories of Guild Press and DSI. Also, Grindr, Scruff, and other gay hookup apps are a legacy of these magazines. “What physique magazines were selling was contact, both real and imagined, with other customers,” Johnson wrote. “Their pen pal clubs, directories, and address exchanges were precursors to Grindr and Scruff. They are all commercial enterprises that help gay men connect. You can’t form a movement if you can’t find each other.” Johnson noted that the late San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk

opened Castro Camera that offered gay-friendly film-developing services and not just to sell cameras. “It became an important gay community center because it solved a problem that existed throughout the physique era – it provided a place for gay men and women to develop homoerotic images.” By meeting together, they could discuss common problems, especially discrimination, which led to political activism and gay power through economic clout (the gay and labor organized boycott of Coors beer), launching Milk’s groundbreaking election to the Board of Supervisors in 1977. (He was assassinated a year later.) Johnson summarized that gay activism didn’t begin with Stonewall, that commercial enterprises formed a key component of the early gay rights movement, and that physique entrepreneurs such as Mizer were early gay rights activists. “He began publishing Physique Pictorial as a way to provide gay phy-

sique photographers like himself a safe space to offer their products as they were being pushed out of mainstream fitness magazines,” Johnson wrote. “He offered photographs of healthy, fun-loving homoerotism that normalized same-sex desire. His images substantiated his friend Alfred Kinsey’s findings that homosexual desire was normal.” So, according to Johnson, the physique era laid the foundation that made Stonewall possible. “Stonewall was also about the right to consume – the right to buy a drink with others like oneself,” he wrote. “So yes, I think physique magazines, by winning the right of gay consumers to buy homoerotic images and magazines, laid the foundation for the rebellion of the patrons of the Stonewall Inn. Before we could think of ourselves as a political movement, we saw ourselves as an economic force. ‘Gay Power’ as initially conceived was about economic as much as political muscle.” t

son behind this measure should understand we don’t have permanent friends or permanent enemies. But we won’t stand by what we consider an insult to the African American community.” In opening the news conference, Wiener pointed out he authored SB 50 with 15 co-authors from around the state, both Republicans and Democrats. He said the housing crunch in the state is “not a red issue and not a blue issue.” “California has a housing deficit of 3.5 million homes,” he said. SB 50, according to Wiener, will legalize more housing, including affordable housing, near public transportation. He said it has “the strongest” anti-displacement, anti-eviction, and anti-demolition protections for residents. “It’s about adding, it’s not about substituting,” Wiener said. He criticized AHF and Weinstein for taking advantage of “despicable history in San Francisco,” referring to redevelopment that decimated the city’s predominately black community in the Western Addition. Brown said the problems started in 1948 over the city’s public policies at the time. “It’s a terrible scar that will always

be there,” Wiener said of past redevelopment. “Our African American community has been trying to recover ever since.” He called AHF’s mailers “unconscionable.” Jacqueline Flin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute San Francisco, a national organization that Randolph started with gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in 1965, said that Wiener has long helped with outreach with her organization, including helping people in public housing and seniors in the Western Addition to register to vote. “We are strong in San Francisco,” Flin said. “Our community will not be fooled by ... race-baiting tactics, using our black faces and our black history to manipulate the truth.” Andrea Shorter, an African-American lesbian who sits on the San Francisco Commission for the Status of Women, also spoke in support of Wiener. “SB 50 is a way forward,” she said. “What we’ve seen in this particular episode from Mr. Weinstein and his organization is nothing less than atrocious. It’s insulting to our character, insulting to our history, and insulting

to our intelligence.” District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown also criticized AHF’s mailer. Brown was one of two supervisors who stood up against the board vote of a resolution against SB 50. “When I first saw this flyer, I thought, ‘How dare you?’ The Western Addition has started to heal from what happened during redevelopment. This type of fear-mongering is the same thing Trump says,” Brown said, referring to President Donald Trump. Housing is a Human Right, a housing advocacy division of AHF, issued a statement Monday. “On Tuesday, April 16, Wiener sent out a chain of 13 tweets. The tweets came only hours after the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to oppose his bill, SB 50. Just before the vote, LA Councilman Paul Koretz said the bill was a ‘handout for developers.’ LA Councilman Mike Bonin said: ‘I’ve got a neighborhood, Del Rey – mainly low-income, mainly Latino community – that would be ravaged by this. There’s not enough protection in there,’” the statement read. “The vote was a major blow to SB 50 – only a week earlier, the San Francisco

Board of Supervisors voted to oppose the bill. Coalition for Economic Survival Executive Director Larry Gross praised the San Francisco supervisors’ vote,” the statement continued. “Describing SB 50 as a ‘trickle-down economic bill,’ he said it ‘will undermine affordable housing, increase gentrification and displacements, and will destroy the quality of life for low-income and working families.’ “The AHF mailer featuring Baldwin makes the same points offered by Koretz, Bonin, and Gross. It notes that ‘SB 50 is a handout to greedy developers,’ that the bill will continue to ‘displace existing working- and middleclass communities,’ that the bill will ‘displace working-class communities of color,’ that ‘SB 50 bans cities from rejecting big residential luxury developments containing only a small number of affordable units,’ and that the ‘trickle-down housing bill would accelerate the consequences of gentrification in California.’ These issues must be addressed in any discussion about housing policy and, specifically, about SB 50,” AHF’s statement read. t

Give OUT Day raises over $1.1 million

AHF pharmacy open house

Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is embroiled in a fight with gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) over his housing legislation, Senate Bill 50 [see related story], but its pharmacy in the Castro will have an open house Friday, May 3, for tips on living a healthy lifestyle. The event, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 518-A Castro Street, will include a free lunch, raffles, and health tips. AHF will provide information on blood pressure, diabetes screening, HIV testing, and holistic nutrition. For more information, call (415) 255-2720. t

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April 25-May 1, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 13 IFR co-founder Gardner Pond dies

Friends and family of Gardner Pond, a former San Francisco resident who was a co-founder of International Front Runners, have announced he died April 9, in Palm Springs, California. He was 91. He is survived by his husband, H.L. Todd. In an email, Todd wrote that Mr. Pond remained active. “After a hip operation-replacement he stayed active, but no hiking. He was still very proud that at 90 he was still walking a mile a day.” Todd wrote that his late husband was also proud of having gone to the Burning Man festival. While Mr. Pond rarely dressed in drag – Todd could only recall one time at the Red Dress benefit in Palm Springs – Mr. Pond and his former partner were involved with the Imperial Court. Todd said that he met the late Jose Sarria through Mr. Pond’s activities with the court.

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Mr. Pond also knew the late supervisor Harvey Milk. Mr. Pond, who lived in San Francisco from the early 1950s until 2002, and Jack Baker listed a “Learn to Jog” class in a queer free univer-

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038582600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as:WUSUTRAINING, 1770 NORTH POINT ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signedTOLULOPEWUSU.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: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.

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-038576000

APR 04, 11, 18, 25, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038579000

sity newspaper in San Francisco, Lavender U, in the early 1970s. The class’s first run was in January 1974. Over the next few years the class grew into a running club and became the first gay-centric organization many of its members had ever joined. The group codified its organization in 1978 under the name Front Runners – a name inspired by the best-selling novel of the late Patricia Nell Warren. “Jack and I were both joggers,” Pond told the San Francisco Chronicle in a 2004 interview. “We were not runners. When we’d get the occasional person to show up who was a real runner, of course, they were thoroughly disappointed.” Pond told the paper that, in those early days, it was a relief to have some place “you could be open and not play that double life bullshit. One youngster said he’d never dreamed he’d find another runner he could run with, because he was gay.” t

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

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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.TOBIASARCHITECTS, 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

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 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.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFEALMA, 888 INNES AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HUDSONVENTURES 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.

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

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

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.

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. PADILLASTEMMELEN. 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.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENIORE’S PIZZA, 2415 19THAVE, 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.

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.

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.

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14 • Bay Area Reporter • April 25-May 1, 2019

Legal Notices>> 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 3rd 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 parentchild 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 3rd Ave, Rm W325, Seattle, WA 98104, 206-296-9300 SERVE COPY OF RESPONSE ON: David Andersen, 5507 35th 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 SKYVIEW 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.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, 280 NEWHALL ST #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CRYSTAL TIMMS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. 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-038602100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLUSH NAILS SPA, 1791 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed UT SON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. 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-038606400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CARBON CORPORATION, 530 HOWARD ST, LOWER LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALEXANDER WOLFE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038572800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EJ FOOD DISTRIBUTOR, 301 TOLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET, INC. (DE). 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 03/21/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBWAY SANDWICHES 36339, 1099 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LETAP GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/27/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

APR 18, 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038587200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUBWAY SANDWICHES 7307, 2375 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LETAP GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/27/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/01/19.

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-19-554777

In the matter of the application of: JIAYI LI HAYNER, 1222 HARRISON ST # 4408, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JIAYI LI HAYNER, is requesting that the name JIAYI LI HAYNER, be changed to MADISYN LI HAYNER. 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 6th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554786

In the matter of the application of: JOSE LUIS JIMENEZ GOMEZ & METADEL GEBYAW YIRDAW, 1617 HOWARD ST #12, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JOSE LUIS JIMENEZ GOMEZ & METADEL GEBYAW YIRDAW, is requesting that the name MARCOS JIMENEZ GOMEZ, be changed to MARCOS JIMENEZ-GOMEZ. 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 11th of June 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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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038602200

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LORRAINE D. ELLIOTT IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302771

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHACHI’S, 1008 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL NEMIROVSKY. 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 04/02/19.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LORRAINE DRISCOLL ELLIOTT, LORRAINE D. ELLIOTT, LORRAINE ELLIOTT. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JENNIFER REZENTES in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JENNIFER REZENTES 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., Dept: 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102-4514. 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: BRYAN D. CORYELL, 420 AVIATION BLVD #201, SANTA ROSA, CA 95403; Ph. 707-543-4900.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038621900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAGOMEDOV LAW GROUP, 534 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YULIYA MAGOMEDOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038613800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUGA STUDIO, 499 ALABAMA ST #112, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NOBUTO SUGA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/25/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038620400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A.G.WELLNESS & CO., 126 TERRA VISTA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANGIE WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/18/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038618500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TAX & ACCOUNTING SERVICES, 474-A 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIE T. DIEP. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038596100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BONDED BEGINNINGS, 20 QUARTZ WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EMILY GOVERNALE. 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 04/05/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038618200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL PARCE CAFE, 517 O’FARRELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAURICIO BEJARANO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JGKSF CONSULTING, 153 ALPINE TERRACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JO ELLEN GREEN KAISER. 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 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038615200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOUADRA FOUED, 1208 CONNECTICUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual and is signed FOUED CHOUADRA. 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 04/16/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MAGIC OVEN, 214 SHRADER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOYCE LAGOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRULLLA SOFTWARE, 875 VERMONT ST #101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SLAWOMIR LIGUS. 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 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038592100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A F SEWING CO., 245 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE #302, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QI FEI LI. 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 04/03/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038611700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MG HAIR AND BEAUTY SALON, 2772 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XIAOMEI PENG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: URBAN FLEUR, 660 4TH ST # 525, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JANE DAVID. 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 04/12/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038604300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE WOODS, 910 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SANDRA CHU. 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 04/11/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038600600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VISUAL PRESENTATION, 301 8TH ST #210, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JEANNE HANGAUER & TAINA KISSINGER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/99. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/09/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038617400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FINESSE PAINTING INC., 601 VAN NESS AVE #E610, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FINESSE PAINTING INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038590400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL TESORO TAQUERIA AND GRILL, 710 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FAJITA EXPRESS INC (CA). 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 04/02/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038588800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASON DINER, 320 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed KI YOUNG CHUNG & SARAH CHUNG. 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 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SASA BEAUTY, 1112 TARAVAL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SA & G 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 04/12/19.

APR 25, MAY 02, 09, 16, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038609100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHIC CHICK SIAMESE EATERY, 2550 GEARY BLVD # 306, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MITT SINTH LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/12/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/12/19.

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Vol. 49 • No. 17 • April 25-May 1, 2019

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Erik Tomasson

Survival tactics

Amphibious aims

by Sura Wood

SF Arts Commission

I Ed Aulerich-Sugai, “Ghosts and Demons: Oni” (1989). Mixed media on paper.

n “With (out) With (in) the very moment,” a small new exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, a group of San Francisco-based artists muse on leading a thriving creative life in the shadow of AIDS, having lived through the Gay Liberation Movement and the call to action sparked by the disease and governmental indifference in the 1980s and 90s. See page 18 >>

by Paul Parish

t was déjà vu all over again as San Francisco Ballet danced “The Little Mermaid” in a revival of the 2010 production last Friday night at the Opera House. The production is at least as welldone as last time, it runs through April 28, and is well worth seeing as an example of how to use all the theatrical resources of an opera house to stage a melodrama. See page 18 >>

Yuan Yuan Tan and Aaron Robison in John Neumeier’s “The Little Mermaid.”

Classic Italian cinema gets its due

Ugo Tognazzi in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man.”

by David Lamble

Courtesy of Warner Bros.

ith the queer classic “La Cage aux Folles” as its centerpiece, the Castro Theatre spotlights the films of actor, writer, director Ugo Tognazzi (1922-90) on Sat., April 27. With a resume totaling over 150 films, Tognazzi was a mainstay of what is now recalled as a Golden Age of Italian Cinema: the early 70s through the early 80s. See page 19 >>

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16 • Bay Area Reporter • April 25-May 1, 2019

Mermaid, fashionista, whistleblower

Courtesy SFFILM

Mario Elias

Fashion designer Halston and his best friend Liza Minnelli in director Frederic Tcheng’s “Halston.”

Scene from one of this San Francisco Ballet season’s NiteOut parties for the LGBTQ community at the War Memorial Opera House.

by Roberto Friedman

t was another exciting week of culture-hopping over in Out Thereland! Let us walk you through it. Last Friday night we were absorbed by the splendor of San Francisco Ballet’s opening night performance of choreographer John Neumeier’s “The Little Mermaid,” reviewed in this week’s issue by Paul Parish. The ballet sent us over the moon, if also under the sea. Afterwards came the last of this season’s “NiteOut” soirees for the LGBTQ community and our straight allies, complete with libations, bites, partying dancers and sparkly face-painting downstairs

in the Opera House bar. Hosted by gregarious dancer-choreographers Myles Thatcher and Solomon Golding, this month’s NiteOut party recognized SF’s GLBT Historical Society. Nick Large (“Yes, like the size”) from the GLBTHS Board of Directors accepted the honor. It’s worth noting that in this adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, both the Mermaid and the Poet are head over heels (or tail) in unrequited love for the humpy, bare-chested Prince. Mermaid, we wanted to tell her, don’t forsake your watery paradise for the malevolent human male. Poet, find a gay bar.

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Keira Knightley stars in director Gavin Hood’s “Official Secrets.”

The next night we were in the house of SFMOMA for the SFFILM Festival’s West Coast premiere screening of director Frederic Tcheng’s “Halston,” a look at the life of the brilliant if doomed fashion designer. Director Tcheng, producer

Roland Ballester, Halston designer Naeem Khan, and Halston’s unnamed nephew were present at the screening, enthusiastically introduced by SFFILM exec director Noah Cowan and presenting host Mark Rhoades.

Halston was an artistic genius, a megalomaniac and a control freak, and his ever-expanding empire eventually imploded under the weight of his ambition. But for a spell he was the most famous fashion designer on the planet, a talent on the level of Cristobal Balenciaga, and the 1970s and early 80s could legitimately be called “the Halston era.” This doc, though burdened with a superfluous framing story, brings us right back to his milieu: Studio 54, Andy Warhol’s Factory, Halston introducing “hot pants,” mixing couture with readyto-wear. There are a lot of charismatic persons parading through the proceedings – jewelry designer Elsa Peretti makes a spirited defense of cocaine addiction. But the absolute most fabulous talking head belongs to none other than Liza Minnelli, who refuses to dish her best friend Halston because she knows what trash-talking did to her mother, the immortal Judy Garland, and father, the film director Vincente Minnelli. This movie increased our respect for her exponentially. Closing night for the 2019 SFFILM Fest came all too soon. The closing-night film was director Gavin Hood’s “Official Secrets,” a true story in which intense actress Keira Knightley plays Katharine Gun, a whistleblower working for the UK’s intelligence agency who leaked internal emails documenting governmental deceptions that led up to the second Iraq war. In a new twist, the fest’s closing-out party came before rather than after the night’s screening, with a lovely reception in the new SoMa restaurant Palette, in the former Lulu’s space. The SFFILM Fest has unwrapped all its packages for this year, and we can only marvel at their bounty.t

It’s curtains for Joy by Tim Pfaff

ith writers and publishers working at their own, inscrutable paces, maybe it’s the zeitgeist that is responsible for the spate of absorbing recent novels postulated on filling in the blanks in the biographies of actual gay men. They’re kin to physicists’ transfixing recent pictures of black holes. Christopher Castellani’s deeply felt new “Leading Men” (Viking) exhibits another compelling aurora. Castellani closes one of the few gaps in the memoirs and subsequent biographies of Tennessee Williams with his novel’s structurally central, indelibly hallucinatory episode. His novel’s larger subject, however, is the 15 years during which the Italian-American Frank Merlo was Williams’ lover, companion, caretaker and, ultimately, cancer-ridden cast-off. The gap in the historical record is 10 days in late July and early August 1953, when Williams, in Italy, declined – then at the last minute attended – a party Truman Capote gave in Portofino. The gathering introduced Williams and Merlo to American novelist Jack Burns and his opportunist lover Sandro, and, in Castellani’s retelling, Bitte and Anja Blomgren, a Swedish lookalike

mother and daughter. Post-party the guest sextet make a day of what is planned as a seaside, cliff-hiking frolic. They are accosted by a gang of teenage “gypsies,” one of whom is killed in the chaotic ensuing struggle. Even so, these menacing lords of the flies, “making that racket with the sticks and the rocks and their trilling voices and their eyes wide and wildly blinking,” spook the company long thereafter, no one more than Anja, the principal object of their primitive lust. Before inadvertently becoming a child sacrifice, one boy takes a bite out of Anja’s leg. Williams fanatics – and people who saw the 1959 movie of “Suddenly Last Summer” when it was in theaters – will recognize the scene as an alternative version of the film’s final scene, in which feral boys revel in the Fellini-esque cannibalism of a poet. Transposed to the Italian coast and with a different cast of characters, the scene’s abrupt, lurid horror is captured more believably than in the film’s nightmare coda. (Do surrender to the temptations of the rentable 1959 film, for which both Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn got Oscar noms.) Hair-raising as Castellani’s writing is, he’s even more probing in his account of the event’s everlasting

aftermath for the characters. The ghastly rite of summer is the jarring shell of the author’s unflinching look at the agony of the artist’s ecstasy as it plays out among the creator’s supporting cast. The continual fascination he engenders notwithstanding, the real-life Tennessee Williams doesn’t come off much better in nonfiction accounts than he does in this new novel, which unsurprisingly portrays him as a self-obsessed, boozeand barbiturate-fueled child-artist with a knack for being entertaining. But Castellani’s genuine feeling for the genius of “Tenn” deftly skirts cliches. The novel’s lesser characters, from gay luminaries Truman Capote and Luchino Visconti to a host of ancillary players, real and invented, queer and otherwise, are also rendered three-dimensionally. But its principals, never long out of sight, are “Frankie” (“The Little Horse”) Merlo and the fictional film star Anja Blomgren (screen name Bloom). For all their eccentricities, both are more humane if not human than Tenn, and deeper and truer friends with each other than their capers with the stage-stealing Williams allowed. The novel’s other, later lodestar is a different faux-Williams drama. A fictional, late-life, unpublished playlet, “Call It Joy,” takes shape in cunning stages, until Castellani actually comes through with its complete script. There’s far worse authentic late Williams. “Call It Joy” is bad, or meant to be, and Anja has the only copy. A couple of young gay blades, one of them the son of Burns’ Italian boyfriend Sandro, concoct a seance with Anja in hopes of acquiring the lost play. The risible ritual culmi-

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“Leading Men” author Christopher Castellani.

nates first in Anja’s nearly burning the manuscript but then in her consent to stage, direct and act in the play’s hot-ticket premiere in Provincetown. Preposterous as the whole scenario is, it works until, at the last minute, the play’s not the thing, and Castellani draws the curtain on the performance itself. But the author penetrates Anja’s innate reserve, reinforced by her circumstances and her practiced comfort with playing roles. Her equal in the story is not Tenn but the long-suffering, no-life-without-Tenn Frank. Castellani compensates for shutting the reader out of the “Call It Joy” premiere by

pulling back the curtain on Frank’s hospital death, a horror equal to the Portofino spectacle. The climactic, empty surface event is Williams’ last-minute rush to his former lover’s deathbed, but its core enacts the endless accommodation (“I was used to you”) underlying adoration of artists, abandonment in three long acts. We’re reminded perhaps too often that the muscular, handsome Frank is (like Jack) elsewhere less well-endowed. But he’s all heart, and we observe his tireless capacity to show up when it matters, right through to his own, private, boneexploding death.t

On the web

This week, find Victoria A. Brownworth’s column, “The Lavender Tube reads the redactions,” and Jim Gladstone’s review, “Hollow chocolate,” online at www.ebar.com.

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Spring break at Davies Symphony Hall by Philip Campbell

chromatic harmony, and the results rapport with the musicians. Her Symphonic sea were captivating. A true symphonic muscular beat carried throughThe week before, Russian conhile San Francisco Sympoem, “Die Seejungfrau” touches on out the concert. While admitductor Andrey Boreyko brought anphony Music Director themes in the fairy tale without too tedly exciting, it was frequently other fantasy to life in DSH with the Michael Tilson Thomas remains much specificity. It is a feast for the brash. It worked well enough in first SFS performances of Zemlinon hiatus until early May, the imagination instead, and Boreyko the brighter sections of Ravel’s sky’s “Die Seejungfrau” (“The MerOrchestra plays host to some collaborated beautifully with the jazzy Piano Concerto in G maid”). The composer’s opulent outstanding guest conductors musicians in creating a wondrous Major, and was downright specsymphonic take on Hans Christian at Davies Symphony Hall. The soundscape. tacular in her no-holds-barred Andersen’s tragic “The Little Mer“auditioning” side of their visits Boreyko partnered with veteran “Scheherazade.” maid” is a world apart from Dishas gone, since Esa-Pekka Sapianist Emanuel Ax on the first half Returning pianist Louis Lortie ney, but closely in the mood of the lonen was named Music Direcof the concert for a dutiful reading provided some needed subtlety source inspiration. The Orchestra tor Designate, replacing MTT of the Brahms Concerto No. 2. The in the exquisite Adagio assai of joined Boreyko in a luxurious sea of in September 2020. It still seems Brahms First is more frequently the Piano Concerto, and he one recent SFS debutante did performed, and frankly, its was a brilliant cohort in the not get the memo. stronger expressions might be exciting framing movements. Australian conductor Simone better suited to Ax’s touch. The It should have been a more Young made quite an impression lyrical aspects of the Second cohesive rendition, but this last week, replacing originally were somewhat lost in a curiwas definitely a victorious scheduled conductor Fabio Luisi, ously heavy interpretation. test of his personal virtuosity. who cancelled due to scheduling There were still many mo“Scheherazade” has been conflicts resulting from his apments of luminosity, especially an introduction to the claspointment as Music Director of when Ax was joined with celsics for many a young lisBerthold Fabricius the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. list Peter Wyrick’s solos in the tener, and Young agrees. Her Guest conductor Simone Young. That was months back, and Andante movement. After a approach to the fabulous Young created something of a thunderous standing ovation at score is in keeping with the tation on l’esprit Francais. Greeted buzz in the meantime. Doubtthe end for Ax, they paired again boldly colored imagination by squeals of welcoming approval, less, some fuss stemmed from the of a child. Her loud and delirious for an encore with a delicate duet Young took the microphone and relative novelty of seeing a woman magic-carpet ride lacked nuance, from Schumann. soberly put the first piece in context on the podium, but that glass ceilbut no one could ignore the Musical spring breakers enof the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral. ing has been pretty well shattered, thrills and spills. It also pushed liven DSH again this week, with Music and art can offer comfort at at least in Northern California. It is the big sound of the SFS to its James Gaffigan conducting Mostressful times, and Ravel’s “Pavane more likely word-of-mouth about lavish limits. Each section dazzled zart’s Symphony No. 31, “Paris”; pour une infante défunte” (“Pavane Young’s expansive orchestral conand moved to Young’s constant Wagner’s “Good Friday Spell” for a dead princess”) did seem sertrol and dramatic interpretations of demands. Concertmaster Alexanfrom “Parsifal”; and Samuel endipitously appropriate. opera roused special interest in her der Barantschik’s sweetly intense Barber’s remarkable Symphony The performance was marred by SFS debut. violin gave luxurious voice to the No. 1. Sensational pianist Hean excessively slow and indecisive She inherited Rimsky-Korsakov’s titular spellbinder, and other solene Grimaud appears to play tempo, despite some lovely conChristoph Ruttger “Scheherazade,” on the second half loists pierced through with their Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto.t tributions from harpist Douglas of the program, from Luisi. She own seductive details. This was Guest conductor Andrey Boreyko. Rioth, and the effect proved more opened, however, with two works by Scheherazade with cleats on her sfsymphony.org a reflection on Young’s uncertain Maurice Ravel, each a sort of medislippers.

Comedy & connections in loneliness

widowed older woman both go to sleep alone and wake up alone,” says the playwright. “There’s something really poetic about that to me, as if they’re riding the same crest of a wave at different ends. They almost don’t have the words to connect what they’re sharing.” It was Harmon’s own grandmother who first took him to the theater as a child. “I fell in love with it,” he recalls. “At first I thought I wanted to be an actor, but I realized that I fundamentally hate having people looking at me. Playwriting turns out to be the perfect fit for me. You can write on your own in isola-

tion, but then if you’re lucky, you end up in a room full of talented people working hard together for a short period of collaboration.” Harmon describes his involvement with productions of his work as “either all or nothing. For a world premiere, I’m involved in all the design conversations, the casting. For the first production of [his 2012 New York debut] ‘Bad Jews,’ an actor came wearing a gray shirt and a cap. I started to cry. I just couldn’t imagine the character dressed like that. That’s the level of psychosis that I’m going to bring to a first production. But once a play is out in the world,

I have to rely on the stage directions in the script and trust that they’ll be handled faithfully. Otherwise, my whole life would be babysitting.” That’s particularly true given that “Bad Jews” has been one of the most widely produced works of the past few years, and that Harmon’s wellreviewed 2018 play suddenly has hot-button topicality: “Admissions” is a dark comedy about college scandal.t Significant Other, April 30June 15 at San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post St., SF. Tickets from $40. (415) 677-9596.

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on his take on movie romcoms. “It’s not a coincidence,” he says, “that Jordan Berman has the same initials as Janey Blumberg, her main character in ‘Isn’t It Romantic.’ “I see a lot of parallels to writing about women in the 70s and 80s, trying to balance relationships and careers, with writing about gay men today,” he explains. “There weren’t many templates for her characters to follow on how to manage life and David Gordon love. And there’s no long history of out gay men Playwright Joshua Harmon: “If you’re showing younger genlucky, you end up in a room full of erations how to do it. talented people working hard together.” Marriage equality actually passed during the run of ‘Significant Other’ offby Jim Gladstone Broadway.” oshua Harmon has seen his share That said, Harmon doesn’t tailor of romantic comedies. “You often his writing for gay audiences. “One have this gay sidekick to the female of the challenges I set for myself with lead who will come into a scene, this play is reaching the theatergoers say something funny or supportive, who expect characters who are gay then disappear for a while.” only to represent gay people. I think So when it came to writing his the best way to express a universal “Significant Other,” which was first experience is to root it in a very produced off-Broadway in 2015, specific situation. Jordan is a very transferred to the main stem in specific character, and part of that 2017, and makes its local premiere at is being gay, but what’s universal is the San Francisco Playhouse startthat he feels lonely and wants to be ing next week, he wanted to use the in love. stage to fill in those onscreen blanks. “I’ve seen people from all walks “What would be happening if you of life – women, men, gay, straight reframed the focus of that camera – come up after a show to approach and followed the sidekick, turning an actor playing Jordan to tell him him into the main character?” how much they relate to the characThe result is a show that’s at least ter,” Harmon says. as poignant as it is funny, following There’s another universal expeJordan Berman, a gay man in his rience addressed by “Significant late 20s, as he attends the weddings Other” that adds welcome graviof three longtime female friends tas to a play full of bachelorette amidst a consistently middling love parties and bridesmaid’s dresses. life of his own. Along with Jordan and his coterie In an interview with the Bay Area of millennial gal-pals, Harmon has Reporter, Harmon, 35, explained written the role of Jordan’s elderly that the plays of the late Wendy grandmother, who floats on the Wasserstein, particularly “Isn’t It margins of the action. Romantic,” were major influences “This single gay man and this

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With one exception, the participating artists, some of whom made newly commissioned pieces, are HIV positive. Even though their ruminations and respective works may only obliquely reference the diagnosis or political engagement, the show, in its way, may help to foster awareness, among a younger generation, of the hundreds of thousands of brilliant minds and cultural contributions lost to the epidemic. Although drugs have brought the disease under control and reduced its lethal outcomes in certain parts of the world, it hasn’t been eradicated and remains a threat. The exhibition’s primary strength is as a vehicle for acquainting audiences with artists they may not know and should, like the late Ed Aulerich-Sugai, who died from AIDS-related complications in 1994. A painter, eloquent writer, activist, gardener and orchid horticulturist at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, his vibrant, moving artworks from the late 1980s, which warrant an exhibition of their own, are the lynchpin of the show and its main attraction. One is at once captivated by the purity of his colors – perhaps a product of his daily intimate involvement with

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SFB has staged John Neumeier’s stunning spectacle (new in 2005, when it inaugurated the new opera house in Copenhagen harbor, and was dedicated to Queen Margrethe II of Denmark) in a version updated for SFB’s dancers by Neumeier himself, and it is a spectacle of uncommon power. But the choreography is for the most part merely decorative, and in most respects the production, though stunning in its details, is overblown, excessive, and pounds its points home long after the audience has got the meaning. The choreography suffers from being subjected to a gay back-story, the sufferings of the author Hans Christian Andersen as a beautiful youth whom he loves chooses someone else. The strengths and weaknesses of the music, composed in the dramballet mode of Kachaturian, Gliere, and Shostakovich, uses

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the Soviet melodramatic idiom in the service of gay liberation. The young Russian-American composer Lera Auerbach, born under the Soviets in Siberia but educated abroad, at Juilliard and in Hannover, uses an idiom almost as ugly as that of “Spartacus,” which was composed under the dictates of Communist Party apparatchiks to further the propaganda aims of the Soviet regime. Fifteen years ago, the music was serviceable. But the Little Mermaid has suffered the fate of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in that the liberation they sought has been brought about. The rhetoric strove valiantly, but now that the laws have changed, what was once a powerful incentive towards feeling moved to fight for change has become an embarrassment, and the little mermaid’s sufferings as she tries to get the Prince she has rescued from drowning, whom she loves to distraction, have become an embarrassment as her story comes to look like that of an obsessive stalker determined to make her beloved respond to her when, in fact, he loves someone else. The audience seems to love the ballet no matter what. As the curtain fell, several in the audience rose to stand before it even rose again. By the time the heroine, our magnificent ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan, came forth to receive her accolades, the entire floor of the opera house was standing. By the end, all had been swept up in the homage to YYT’s magnificent performance – and indeed, in homage to all the dancers, who had committed themselves to this dubious enterprise with a full measure of devotion. Though the choreography is decorative and never builds to a rhythmic power that carries conviction, it is always appropriate to the drama. Neumeier has created the entire look of the show – the costumes, the lighting, the look of underwater life, the astonishing transitions from the ocean floor to the beach. They are amazing. But it’s still the same old story. The young prince comes back to life after being rescued by the mermaid who’s fallen in love with him and undergone magical and horrifying transfiguration into

a creature with legs whose every step will be like knives piercing her body. Her sufferings are unbearable to see, and we see them on and on. In 2010, five years before the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal, many of us hoped for it but none could take it for granted. But in a couple of years, the subliminal emotions just under the surface have lost their urgency, and the support they provided to the melodrama have lost their force. The piece remains a historical document, but it no longer pushes us forward. The dancers were, across the board, committed to their roles and performed superbly. First among equals after Tan was Ulrik Birkkjaer, as Andersen, whose fevered imaginings form the substance of the ballet in the wake of his rejection by the young male dancer whom he loved.

screened on the soles of shoes, are a nod towards their existential erasure in the eyes of society. “When you walk over these tender beings, you absorb a part of them,” LeMoins says. At the reception desk, next to the display is a loose-leaf binder containing enlarged images of those weathered, careworn faces, accompanied by sorrowful, sometimes feisty quotes from the subjects. “I wish you could see me as I was before I lost it all,” laments one woman. Another warns, “I’m not too old to kick your ass.” Two elegant, monochrome light boxes from Elliot Anderson’s “Average Chandelier,” comprised of a digital amalgamation of photographs of lighting showrooms, call up queer culture’s historic affinity for opulence and grandeur, while Cliff Hengst’s “Your Consciousness Goes Bip,” a watercolor on a long stretch of Stonehenge paper inscribed with ponderous metaphysical phrases from philosopher Alan Watts, cascades into the middle of the exhibition space like a waterfall or unfurled scroll. From there, follow the yellow brick road, so to speak, to an alcove at the back to the gallery where you’ll find “Alternate Endings,” three reels of short videos commissioned by Visual AIDS. Tapping the eclectic personal perspectives and memories of individual filmmakers and collectives, the compilations incorporate a mix of found footage, live performance and still photos.t Through June 22. sfartscommission.org

His feelings become personified in the mermaid, and that’s the fountainhead of the story. Next, Aaron Robison as the Prince she rescues and loves desperately, who has some pity for her but no real passion. Sasha de Sola, the convent-girl he loves and marries, was perfect in the role. The high-society folk in their wonderful ball-gowns, the sailors cavorting to Shostakovich-esque sardonic polkas, the underwater sprites, and the shadows who lift and transport Tan as the mermaid in her underwater undulations, as if they were the “invisible” porteurs of the dolls in Bunrakuy puppet theater, were all outstanding in their roles. “The Little Mermaid” is now a period piece, a curiosity, and a fabulous vehicle for its performers, but the need for it has passed.t

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ingaporean director Eric Khoo creates a unique family drama in “Ramen Shop.” The film celebrates his world-class city’s extraordinary food culture against the backdrop of a beautiful young chef ’s passionate search for his roots. As “Ramen Shop” begins, the delicately handsome, soft-spoken Masato (Takumi Saito) discovers his chef father dead in the kitchen of

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“Property is No Longer a Theft” (1973) Elio Petri offers a powerful film noir that operates on a visceral, sexual, economic, philosophical and even metaphysical level, exploring the peculiar relationships between haves and the have-nots in a modern urban society like post-WWII Italy. At the heart of the film is a neurotic young bank clerk, Total, in a mesmerizing performance by the then-26-year-old novice film actor Flavio Bucci. Sporting a lean-andhungry look like one of Dickens’ street urchins, Total is a furtive lad who sets out to rob a wealthy butcher (Ugo Tognazzi) of his knife, some precious family heirlooms and his young girlfriend (Daria Nicolodi). Featuring a score by the noted film composer Ennio Morricone, this is a powerful and socially relevant film. (10 a.m.) “Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man” (1981) Bernardo Bertolucci, an artist responsible for cinema classics from 1970’s “The Conformist,” with its sinister mix of Fascist politics and outlaw queer sex, through 2003’s political-erotic drama “The Dreamers,” here presents a chilly melodrama where Tognazzi is the owner of a near-bankrupt factory forced to consent to the kidnapping of his son as a means of saving the business. (12:45 p.m.) “In the Name of the Italian People” (1971) Dino Risi directs a political farce whose themes are

their tiny Singapore noodle restaurant. He tries to overcome his grief by investigating how his dad met and married his Chinese mom, who died when Masato was still a boy. In marrying an older Japanese man, Masato’s mom was violating social taboos around Chinese people fraternizing with citizens of the nation that had treated them so abominably during WWII. Going through his dad’s things, he uncovers photos of his parents extremely relevant to our current politics. A ruthless industrialist (Vittorio Gassman) attempts to squirm out of responsibility for the murder of a young woman, by committing his elderly dad to an asylum to prevent him from talking to a judge (Ugo Tognazzi). Like the best films of the era, “In the Name of the Italian People” plays like a political screwball comedy, with jokes concerning bribes, influence peddling and industrial pollution. (3:30 p.m.) “La Cage aux Folles” (“Birds of a Feather”) (1978) Tognazzi is Renaldo, the owner of a unique nightclub where his lover of 20 years, Albin (Michel Serrault), wows an urbane clientele in a musical drag act. In the first act, while Albin is onstage, Renaldo entertains a young male guest. At first we suppose Renaldo and the longhair 20-year-old are lovers. But in fact Laurent (Remi Laurent) is Renaldo’s son, the product of a 90-minute liaison with the opposite sex. The kid, nicknamed “the Little White Master” by the barefoot black butler, has come on a cruel mission: he wants Renaldo to send Albin away so that Laurent can invite his young bride-to-be’s conservative parents over to inspect their future son-in-law’s pedigree. Edouard Molinaro directs one of the most popular foreign-language films ever released in America. Two sequels followed. In 1996, Mike Nichols directed Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman in an Englishlanguage version scripted by Elaine May. Sadly, the lovely actor Remi

as a young couple, and a tiny notebook full of recipes in his mother’s handwriting. The book prompts the young man to reconnect with his mom’s family. Her mother is an angry old woman who still harbors bitter feelings towards the Japanese invaders and the wounds of war. Director Khoo shows how people with tragic histories can negotiate brighter futures through shared experiences, such as the preparation and enjoyment of a truly spectacular cuisine. From the opening shots of food being sliced and diced, woks and pans, and cooks preparing a special pork-rib soup that takes over 10 hours of simmering, “Ramen Shop” is a gastronomical sensory overload. As our guide to fraught memories and fine dining, one-time male model Takumi Saito is himself a picture of grace and understated beauty. By picture’s end you’re as happy that he finally gets to try his grandma’s soup as if he had just met the girl or boy of his dreams. Shot in widescreen format, “Ramen Shop” runs 90 minutes. Characters speak Japanese, English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with English subtitles. Opens Friday.t Laurent (1957-89), died from complications from AIDS. (6:30 p.m.) The Big Feast Party. (8:30 p.m.) “La Grande Bouffe” (1973) The Ugo marathon concludes with a gourmet adventure that is the very definition of a 70s “take no prisoners” approach to art-house cinema. The premise is simple: four middleaged men, best friends, sophisticated, and frankly, bored with life as they’ve known it, come to a Parisian villa to eat themselves to death. Director Marco Ferreri’s ambition was to create a film experience as shocking and outrageous as Passolini’s “Salo.” This time, the subject would be culinary decadence on a scale almost certain to offend middle-class sensibilities. Ferreri’s ace-in-the-hole was a quartet of European actors at the top of their game: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Tognazzi. The actors were surrounded by rich food, and would literally “pig out” for the entire production. Behind the cameras stood an army of expert chefs. One challenge to sitting through all 130 minutes of “La Grande Bouffe” is that it contains a complicated evocation of how food can summon up many dark and disturbing aspects of the human experience. As critic Roger Ebert once opined, “It’s an experience that hammers your sensibilities!” (10 p.m.)t Individual admissions, or an all-day Festival Pass that includes the party. www. cinemaitaliaSF.com.

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Nightlife Events

April 25-May 2, 2019

Let the music play, let your body sway, let a drag queen slay. What the hey, nightlife’s so gay.

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as Vegas-based illusionist Jack Alexander will bring his sleek new stage show, Express, to Oasis next weekend in two benefit performances for the Richmond/ Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF). See page 22 >>

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ver the course of my tenure writing this column, I’ve received feedback that readers often prefer something other than pure reporting on events. As one gentle critic put it, “I prefer you don’t just reword an event’s program,” and they have a point. See page 23 >>

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Mon 29 Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade 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

International Mondays @ Qbar Enjoy world grooves all night. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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

Sat 27

Mango @ El Rio

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Thu 25 Bread & Rose Benefit @ Great American Music Hall Benefit concert for programs that bring music to prisoners; with Lucius, The Nude Party, Seaweed Sisters and Matt Jaffe. $125-$350. 7pm. 859 O’Farrell St. www.slimspresents.com

Dream Bodies @ The Stud

Tue 30 Growlr @ SF Eagle

Nudie Ny Bois @ The Stud

Cruisy night for bears cubs, chubs, otters and more with DJ Russ Rich. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Male burlesque strppers bring a saucy stage show 6pm-8pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Oleta Adams @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Onyx @ Powerhouse

The amazing vocalist-pianist performs jazz, folk, soul and gospel songs with her band at the stylish restaurantnightclub. $30-$70. 8pm, 10pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Steam @ Powerhouse

Opening night party for a mini-fest of performance, readings, screening and workshops, with DJed grooves. 9pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Near-bathouse fun at the steamy monthly night, with towel-clad gogos, Steamworks Berkeley prizes and wet action. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Escort, Planet Booty @ Rickshaw Stop

Uhaul @ Jolene’s

Fun funky and disco-tronica fabulousness with the two bands. $18-$20. 8pm. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest.$5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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

Patty From HR Would Like a Word @ Oasis Michael Phillis’ satirical Human Resources comic solo show. $20-$50. 7pm. Also April 27. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

DJ BoyShapedbox spins at the famous bear bar. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

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

Butch-themed dance night. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Workin’ Stiff @ Lone Star Saloon

Sun 28

Dragsters (host) VivvyAnne ForeverMore, Hollywood Texas, Nikki Jizz and others, DJs Nastia Reigel and Siobhan Aluvalot; theme is bees and flowers. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Beer Bust & Block Party @ SF Eagle

Sat 27 Bearracuda @ SF Eagle The classic bear night, with DJ BoyShapedBox. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Bounce @ Lookout Dance music with a view at the Castro bar. 9pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Crescendo @ Fairmont Hotel

Dazz Band @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Big Boy @ Lone Star Saloon

Stud Finder @ The Stud

Vivvy’s Grand Opening @ The Stud

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Fri 26

Elaine Denham and Robin Simmons are guest-DJs at the two floors of fun dance night. $7-$12. 10pm-4am. 1192 Folsom St. www.polyglamorous.club

DJ Omnibot spins at the ‘working class butch gear’ night. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

The popular two-stepping linedancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons. $5. 6:30pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays 5pm10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

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. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Polyglamorous @ F8

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

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ 13th annual gala benefit, with a cocktail reception, silent auction, dinner and awards, featuring honorees Kristin Chenowith, Adam Rippon, plus presenters Stephen Schwartz, Brian Boitano, Andrew Lippa and Honey Mahogany. $250 and up. 5pm-10pm; black tie optional. 950 Mason St. www.sfgmc.org

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550

Men of Color leather happy hour, with DJ Blackstone. 5pm-9pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Classic funk featuring Eric EQ Young at the nightclub-restaurant. $33-$70. 7:30pm & 9:30pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Fleetwood Macramé @ Elbo Room Jack London The Fleetwood Mac tribute band performs; DJed funk downstairs. $15. 9pm. 311 Broadway, Oakland. www.elboroomjacklondon.com

Mango @ El Rio Women’s dance party with funk grooves by DJs Edaj, Marcella, Olga T and La Coqui. $10. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, with special guests and great music themes. April 27 special guest is Nina West. $15-$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The popular daytime party, where $10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes. April 28 is the bar’s sixth anniversary; proceeds benefit the SF Leather Pride March contingent. 3pm-6pm. The outdoor block party, 2pm-8pm, features hosts Gods Lil Princess, Bebe Sweetbriar and Mr. SF Leather 2018 Matt Welch, with performances by The Boys of Bearlesque and Sadyst Payne, DJs Jackie House, Josh Cheon, Jello Biafra, Russ Rich, Bus Station JohnPaul Goodyear and otherd. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Beer, bears, food and DJed beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities. $15. 4pm-8pm. Weekly Game of Thrones viewing at 9pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada’s fun drag night with Carnie’s Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. finnishhall.org

Renegade @ Atlas The weekly cruisy semi-private party. 6pm-10pm. $5-$10. 415 10th St. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/2094886877491354/

Spellbound @ The Stud Witchy Goth night celebrates Taurus; DJs Infinite Jess, Stephen Quinones, Siobhan Aluvalot. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Tag Team @ Powerhouse Singlet and sports gear fetish night. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Yang Yang @ The Stud Happy hour with Pyramid Records. 6pm-9pm. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun Weekly fun night of games and cocktails. 8pm-12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Killer Queen @ Elbo Room Jack London Nitrix Oxide hosts a punk rock drag show. $5. 8pm-2am/show 9pm. 311 Broadway, Oakland. www.elboroomjacklondon.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 1 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

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

Freeball Wednesdays @ The Cinch Free pool and drink specials at the historic neighborhood bar. 8pm-1am. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.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. www.clubomgsf.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks. April 24 is a 2-year anniversary with Las Vegas gogo studs and Yara Sofia performing. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Thu 2 48 Hills Spring Gala @ Oasis The indie local progressive news & culture website’s 6th annual fundraiser features food, drinks, entertainment and a smart crowd, guest-speaker Pulitzer-winning journalist Martin Espinoza and Latin jazz quartet The Turnaround. $50$500 and up. 6pm-9pm. 298 11th St. www.48hills.org www.sfoasis.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. www.club21oakland.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

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com t

<< Magic

22 • Bay Area Reporter • April 25-May 1, 2019

Jack Alexander

From page 20

And while Alexander doesn’t have a further San Francisco engagement on the books as of yet, he’s knows for sure when he’ll be back at Oasis. “I want to go there as soon as I’m legal,” says the openly gay East Bay-raised magician. All of 20 years old, Alexander looks even younger. But he’s mature beyond his age when it comes to building

his show business brand. “The show that I’m doing at Oasis has been my fantasy for a long time,” says Alexander, who came out four years ago. “I have this vision of doing a magic show that’s not oriented to kids, that’s very sexy and edgy. When I was a kid, David Copperfield was my hero, but now pop stars are my idols. I’ve wanted to do a stage show that was like a Britney Spears concert with magic.” Alexander promises flashy light-

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ing and costumes, male dancers, choreography by a Cirque du Soleil vet, and a dance pop soundtrack— ”Britney, Rihanna, Ariana Grande. All the music that people who get to stay at Oasis afterwards will dance to,” he pouts, jokingly. Alexander was smitten with magic even before he was obsessed with pop divas. “When I was in kindergarten, my mom hired a magician for my birthday party and I wouldn’t stop bothering him afterwards.” He launched his own career shortly after. “By second grade, I was doing other kids’ parties. I was always a little entrepreneur. “I used to perform with two friends, my next-door neighbors— another Jack and James. We called ourselves Triple J. By the time I was ten, I decided to go the solo career route,” he half-jokes. “I was the Beyoncé of the group, if I do say so myself.” A magic-obsessed kid like Alexander lucked out in growing up just a ten-minute drive from downtown Martinez, home of The California Magic Club, one of the rare magic-dedicated performance venues in the country, with professional shows and dinner service every Friday and Saturday night. “I started performing there when I was 10,” Alexander recalls, “Doing walk-around magic before the main stage acts. It’s a small family-run business, and I feel really lucky that I got to develop my craft there.” Throughout his teenage years, Alexander continued to hone his craft and began to purchase and refurbish large-scale illusions on the semi-secret magic supply market. Eventually, he began being booked for corporate gigs for Salesforce and Intel, and stage shows at theaters and casinos. He was 16 when he came out to his parents. “I was lucky, they were cool with it. My mom was not shocked in the least. I mean, look at me, really, would you be surprised? With my bleach-blond hair and perfectly coiffed eyebrows. I’m kinda gay.” It was around the same time that his then-manager introduced Alexander to Ken Henderson of REAF, who began booking him for some of the organization’s multi-performer fundraising shows. “It was great finding them just as I came out,” Alexander recalls. “It helped me meet a lot of good people

Jack Alexander

and get to be more comfortable in my skin in the gay community.” After finishing high school, Alexander moved to Las Vegas, in part to study the magic shows on the Strip, and it’s also an easy hub for flying to gigs around the country. Rents are also affordable for a successful but still early-in-his-career performer. “Also,” he says, “My grandma lives there.” “I really enjoy living on Vegas,” says Alexander, sounding very much his age. “I mean, who doesn’t love an awesome buffet? I go to the Bellagio buffet more than I care to admit. And I can go see Magic Mike Live six or seven times.” On being out in his act, Alexander says, “A lot of people warn me that doing a so-called ‘gay magic show’ could damage my career. But it’s really not more than PG. It’s just that I’m pretty gay and I want to be out and proud and not hide it during the show. I mean, I’m not going to be making out with my dancers or anything. My pet peeve is people who say they support gay rights, but also say I shouldn’t be flamboyant on stage. Well, when I’m onstage I’m very much being myself. “ Alexander says that some of the magicians who have advised him to turn down his fabulousness are bla-

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tant hypocrites. “Let’s just say that I’ve gone to a magic convention and there are like maybe ten magicians I grew up watching who are on Grindr. I saw them as a kid, and now here’s their dick pic.” Beneath his outspoken sass, Alexander is a serious, focused professional. “I’ve never even drunk alcohol,” he says. “I’m a good boy. I don’t have a fake ID. I love performing and I never want to risk not being able to do it. Life in the entertainment business can be pretty weird. I’ve encountered quite a few predators and creepy people. But I stay in my lane and stay out of trouble.” He says that when he turns 21, a whole new world of performance opportunities will open up for him, including gay cruises and other community venues that have been understandably cautious about booking a minor. “I’ve been preparing for these opportunities since I was six years old,” he says confidently. “I’m ready to take on the responsibility.” t Jack Alexander, May 3 & 4, 7pm at Oasis, 298 11th St. $25-$40 www.sfoasis.com www.jackalexandermagic.com

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Leather

From page 20

I decided to take the feedback to heart as I write about the recent International Ms. Leather and Bootblack (IMsLBB) weekend and competition held in San Jose, California. Rather than just a point-by-point recounting, I decided to ask attendees why they like IMsLBB, why is it important, and any other insights gleaned from those who attend. IMsLBB is one of the key national events for leather and kink women and their friends. I think it’s historically one of the better run conference-style events. Many attendees echoed that sentiment. While one might think the weekend is comprised of only women, quite a few men attend. IMsLBB has gone out of its way to make men feel welcome. Just remember guys, if you’re attending a women-centric event, you’re a guest of the women. There is an upside to such inclusion, but the downside can be that the core constituency of an event starts to feel like their territory is overrun. Let’s make sure the women at such

events never feel that way. Everyone along the gender and orientation spectrum mentioned they like that men could more fully participate in this celebration of women. I heard of no friction or drama about it. Some mentioned the competition itself around which the entire weekend has matured. While there are other leather contests that celebrate women, few do so on an international scale and with the intent of including the totality of kink women. One person mentioned it’s important to her to see her own erotic identity reflected from those who hold the titles. IMsLBB runs in large part through the generous donation of time of volunteers who keep the entire enterprise moving. Someone at the registration desk explained that she loves doing so because she gets to see so many old friends and make new ones. Her enthusiasm was infectious. Her attitude is a clear demonstration of why I recommend people volunteer for any leather, kink or LGBTQ event or organization for which the mission resonates. Every volunteer I saw had a smile on their face.

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Barbara Carrellas delivered the brunch keynote address at IMsLBB.

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One of the many fine education classes at IMsLBB. Do you know the hanky code?

The weekend is more than a container for a contest. For many attending, the contest has become secondary to the weekend’s focus. I asked one woman if she was going to the contest. She said no because she was going to be in the play space doing what she came there to do; play. We high-fived each other. IMsLBB gives it attendees plenty of places to play, including a men’s play space. I’m a huge fan of all leather and kink events keeping the sex and play front and center as a priority. Kudos to IMsLBB for doing that. The last feedback I got from attendees is probably the one I heard the most. People came for the classes, contests, and other official happenings, but it’s the hallway conversations they said keep them coming back. I hope all conference producers hear that. Make plenty of time for people to meet and mingle, even outside of any scheduled events. Most of us go to such conferences for the people. Everything else is a perk. I attended the contest and watched as the IMsL contestants, Haley, Heather Kelley and Tuesday

Niles, and the IMsBB contestants, Brooklyn and Gretchen, competed. All did themselves proud. A male audience member who had attended many men’s leather contests mentioned to me how overtly kinky and sexual all the contestants were compared to the men’s contests he’s seen, and he liked that the women were so sexual. My fellow men, take note. Maybe we need to step up our kinky game a bit. After what appeared to be a close contest, based on what I witnessed from the audience, Haley emerged victorious as the new IMsL 2019 while Gretchen won as IMsBB 2019. Haley told me there are many things that make her excited about winning IMsL, but what makes her the happiest is the opportunity to make connections around the world and to spread her message of inclusion. Haley started a project to welcome people on the fringes into our community, the Wallflower Project, which is a hanky people can wear to show that they are looking to be approached and need a little help breaking the ice. Gretchen mentioned to me that

she was happy to win the IMsBB title because it offers her the ability to connect in person with so many people in the leather community. Besides the contest, there was so much else to do at IMsLBB. Seduction ushered in the event on Thursday night. Barbara Carrellas delivered the brunch keynote address. Ruth Marks was interviewed by Sarah Humble as part of the Inside the Leather Series. There were lots of great classes. Play spaces were open every night. The Consent Institute sponsored by Tantus was a success. There was a pool party and a pet park for the animal players among us. If you think IMsLBB might be a fun time for you, I recommend you bookmark the IMsLBB website and check it later for hotel and conference information. The next IMsLBB weekend will be April 16-20, 2020. www.imslbb.org t

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24 • Bay Area Reporter • April 25-May 1, 2019

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he Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence celebrated Easter Sunday and their 40th anniversary on April 21 by returning to Dolores Park for a well-attended picnic-filled party of thousands. Among the highlights: the annual Hunky Jesus contest (winner ‘Forrest Gump Jesus,’ aka Nevin McConnell), Dixie De La Tour as ‘Motorboat Mary,’ who won the Foxy Mary contest, guestjudged by Bruce Vilanch, and Brian “Chickpea” Busta of Comfort & Joy was elevated to Sainthood. www.thesisters.org See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.

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