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City moves SOMA leather cultural district forward by David-Elijah Nahmod

he supervisors’ Land Use Committee voted Monday to move a plan to establish an LGBTQ and Leather Cultural District in South of Market forward to the full board for approval. Next week, gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy is expected to introduce a resolution to establish a Castro cultural district that would be included in Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s larger historic district legislation. Around 45 people from the leather community attended the land use panel’s meeting Monday, April 23. Speakers noted that SOMA was once home to a thriving leather community, including businesses and bars. The proposed LGBTQ and Leather Cultural District would run from Division to 7th streets, from Howard to Harrison streets, and along Harrison from 7th to 5th streets. Committee members Supervisors Katy Tang, Jane Kim, and Ahsha Safai all voted in favor of establishing the cultural district. “San Francisco’s SOMA district has been the center of gay leather culture for over 50 years,” Jonathan Schroder, general manager of Mr. S. Leather told the Bay Area Reporter. “But the area is changing fast. So fast that it’s hard to say what SOMA will look like in another five years. The leather district is essential to making sure our culture isn’t swept away as San Francisco rapidly transforms itself once again.” The Land Use Committee hearing followed a meeting last week of the Leather and LGBT Cultural District Community Group, which has been working toward making the cultural district a reality. According to Chair Bob Goldfarb, the group’s goals include revitalizing the area and bringing back leather and LGBTQ businesses. Goldfarb noted that, at its peak, the neighborhood was served by more than 30 businesses catering to the leather community. “That number is much smaller now,” he said. The group is also interested in making sure there is affordable housing in the area and will See page 10 >>

BALIF splits in SF judicial races

by Alex Madison

ay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom endorsed two deputy public defenders and two incumbents in the San Francisco Superior Court judicial race in the June 5 primary: Maria Evangelista and Nicole Judith Solis and Judges Curtis Karnow and Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee. Evangelista and Karnow are running

against each other. Solis, a lesbian, is running against Judge Jeff Ross. Lee is running against deputy public defender Kwixuan Maloof. BALIF did not endorse for Seat 4, where deputy public defender Phoenix Streets is challenging Judge Andrew Cheng. In Alameda County, BALIF voted to endorse lesbian Superior Court Judge Tara Flanagan for re-election.

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The candidates for San Francisco Superior Court judge, from left: Judge Andrew Cheng, Maria Evangelista, Judge Curtis Karnow, Judge Cynthia Lee, Kwixuan Maloof, Judge Jeff Ross, Niki Solis, Phoenix Street, and Elizabeth Zareh, talked at a recent forum held at Golden Gate University.

The LGBT bar association endorsements were voted on exclusively by the BALIF Board of Directors and announced online Friday, April 20. BALIF declined to comment on the endorsements to the Bay Area Reporter and stated it would not comment further on its website. Incumbent judges in San Francisco and See page 10 >>

Prop I not an easy sell in SF

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by Alex Madison

he NBA champion Golden State Warriors are in the midst of another postseason run, with fans packing watering holes and holding viewing parties for the games. But some people are upset the Warriors will soon leave Oakland for San Francisco, and a June 5 ballot measure would ask the city to formally apologize for enticing the team’s move across the bay. To Allen Jones, a black, homeless San Francisco resident who identifies as a homosexual, it is a prime example of San Francisco City Hall’s greed and lack of compassion toward the city of Oakland, which will also soon see its pro football franchise the Raiders decamp to Las Vegas. “I am riding up as a sports fan and San Franciscan who knows right from wrong,” Allen said in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “San Francisco has a $10 billion-a-year tourism industry and are taking Oakland’s jewel from the black community and giving it to a white community.” Jones is the author of Proposition I on the June 5 ballot. It’s a declaration of policy that states City Hall will “not endorse or condone the relocation of any team with an extensive history in another location.” The language also asks the city to submit a formal apology to the city of Oakland for wooing the Warriors. Although Prop I does not have the power to stop the Warriors from jumping ship, it will, in Jones’ eyes, demonstrate just how many people – presumably the 14,686 who signed the

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petition to get the measure on the ballot plus whoever votes for it – do not support the move and bring awareness to the negative impacts it will have on Oakland. “A lot of people look at the situation and realize what’s going on here,” he said. “[San Francisco] will squeeze the life out of the community. The policy is an apology and commitment to not act this way again and a record of how San Francisco City Hall conducted itself.” The Warriors soon-to-be home, Chase Center, is an 18,000-seat, multi-use arena on an 11-acre

plot in Mission Bay that is currently under construction. The land was purchased by the Warriors in 2015 from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The project was unanimously approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in December 2015, and ground was broken on the site in January. The Warriors plan to start playing at Chase Center in 2019. It was an accumulation of events that inspired Jones to pursue the ballot measure. He said San Francisco City Hall has discriminated See page 13 >>

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Fred Lopez, executive director of the Castro Street Fair, discussed some of the operations for the event at an April 21 community meeting to talk about changes for the event.

We gave back $55,000 in 2017.” Lopez said that there’s been a steady decline in booth rentals. “We want to increase the amount of revenue we get from booths,” he said. Among the other challenges faced by the fair is competition from the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which happens in Golden Gate Park the same weekend. Two charts were displayed that referenced 2017 expenses and revenue sources. They showed that the fair takes in $63,999.33 from exhibitor registration, $46,421 from gate donations, $42,325 in grants from the city, $41,215.96 from beverage sales, and $39,500 from sponsorship. Listed as expenses were $55,089.17 for donations awarded, $26,890.61 for public services, which includes portable toilets, and $20,939.06 for equipment rental. Attendees broke up into small groups to discuss ways to improve the fair. Ideas included taking booths off of Castro Street and relocating them on 18th or Market streets so that Castro could be for gathering and entertainment. Another suggestion was to network with a ride share company to make it easy for people to get from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass to the Castro. One

person noted that fairs are the same all over the city, while several said that more artists were needed. It was also stated that the fair needs to appeal to a wide range of people. Other ideas included having more family-focused events that would be separate from the adult activities, to incorporate Milk’s message of hope into the fair, and that more political engagement was needed. It was also suggested that Castro Street restaurants should have booths, and that there could be tables and chairs where people could eat – this included installing bleachers by the stage so that people could watch the performances while they ate. Youth and trans people need to be more involved, people said. “This being the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, it will be important this year to have an open space to remember Harvey and the camera store, and to allow people to visit the camera store,” said fair board Co-President Javier Suazo. “The camera store won’t be covered up with booths and fencing.” Suazo was referring to the camera store Milk operated during the 1970s, out of which he ran his See page 8 >>

Diaz held for trial on attempted murder charge by Alex Madison

ollowing a preliminary hearing earlier this month, convicted arsonist David Munoz Diaz will face trial on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from an incident in which he was captured on video lighting a homeless person on fire. Diaz remains in custody in San Francisco County Jail. He also faces two counts of arson of property, possession of an incendiary device, and attempted arson, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. The preliminary hearing was held April 2. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Braden Woods ordered Diaz be held without bail due to his previous arson convictions and revoked his felony probation, which stemmed from earlier cases. As the Bay Area Reporter previously noted, court documents filed last month stated the homeless person’s arm was burnt, but did not specify how severely. It is not known where or when the alleged incident occurred, though the court filing states that the victim was sleeping. Diaz was still on probation from a November 2016 incident when most

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recently arrested in which police said Diaz handcuffed and bit a chunk out of another man’s scalp while impersonating a cop. He pleaded guilty to false imprisonment in exchange for assault and other counts in the case being dismissed. He was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to comply with a midnight curfew and wear an ankle monitor. As previously reported by the B.A.R. in 2014, Diaz stood trial for the June 2011 death of Freddy Canul-Arguello, 23, in Buena Vista Park. During the trial, Diaz testified

that Canul-Arguello had asked to be choked during a sexual encounter and that he’d accidentally killed him. Jurors acquitted Diaz of seconddegree murder but convicted him of involuntary manslaughter and arson, among other charges. He was released from jail in September 2014. During Diaz’s sentencing hearing in that case, Superior Court Judge Donald Sullivan dismissed the arson count. Sullivan said that keeping the count would require Diaz’s “lifetime registration as an arsonist,” which would “mar his character.” Prosecutor John Rowland objected to the arson count being dismissed. It was after Diaz’s 2016 guilty plea to possessing an incendiary device that he was required to register as an arsonist. That case stemmed from incidents in 2015 when Diaz was arrested again for allegedly starting fires in the Castro district. He pleaded guilty in August 2016 to possessing an incendiary device and a count of second-degree burglary. He was released that September after being sentenced to a year of mandatory supervision, the arsonist registration, and other terms. His next court date is scheduled for May 10, which will be a pretrial conference. t

Vote NO on E Prop E is a ban on ADULT choices

California recently changed the tobacco purchase age to 21, and the real solution is to strictly enforce the new Age 21 law, punish retailers and other sources who violate the law, and focus the millions of dollars the City and County receives for youth tobacco prevention education to actually educating our kids on the harms of tobacco use.

Banning choices is not what San Francisco is all about

Support San Francisco’s longstanding spirit of not restricting freedom of choice. We’ve never been about telling adults what they can and cannot do. Let’s not start now.

Respect everyone’s choice of how to live their life

Smoking and vaping is a choice, and even if we don’t approve of the choices adults make we shouldn’t tell adults who to be and what to do. Proposition E goes too far by limiting choice and telling adults what to do.

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or nearly a decade, Cassandra “Cassie” Blume has worked on behalf of Santa Clara County’s LGBT youth as the director of programs at the LGBTQ Youth Space in San Jose. Through the past decade of tremendous change, she’s helped develop young community leaders, offered them a place where they can feel safe, and helped them take care of basics like charging their phones or getting clothes. On April 21, she quietly stepped down from her role to pursue new goals professionally and personally. Two days later, Adrienne Keel, the program’s outreach manager, stepped into the position as director of LGBTQ programs of the Family and Children Services and Caminar for Mental Health in Santa Clara County, which oversees the space. “I’ve been pretty invested in this work for a long time,” said Blume, a 35-year-old queer woman. “It’s my first role out of college and it’s just grown, and I’ve got to grow with it, but now it’s time for me to step aside.” She felt that now was the right time to step down with a strong staff, funding, and community support in place. “It also feels like a good time to hand this over,” she said. Yet, the decision wasn’t easy. “I really miss it tremendously,” Blume told the Bay Area Reporter after just coming out of a staff meeting last week. “This [is a] big change for me. It’s going to be, personally, not easy, but I have the comfort of knowing how great the team is here and how much wonderful work lies ahead. So, that’s going to ease it, but it will be hard for me to go. I really have an enormous amount of appreciation for folks here.” Keel, a 31-year-old lesbian, said she would also miss working with Blume, but was also excited for the future. “I’ll absolutely miss Cassie’s guidance. She’s a wealth of experience and strength that I constantly am trying to pull from,” said Keel. “I’m really looking forward to developing my own professional skills and also helping folks develop their professional skills.” Michael Hutchinson, executive director of the Santa Clara County Region of Family and Children Services of Silicon Valley, expressed his sadness about Blume’s departure and his confidence in Keel taking over the leadership of the LGBTQ Youth Space. “It’s a loss, a loss for FCS, it’s a loss for the community,” said Hutchinson, adding. “We’re happy for her in terms of being able to pursue something she really wants.” At the same time, he was excited about Keel stepping into Blume’s shoes. “We feel very lucky that we have a Adrienne,” he said. “We’re really

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Adrienne Keel, left, the new head of the LGBTQ Youth Space, stands with former director Cassandra “Cassie” Blume.

fortunate in that we’re not going to really, like, skip a beat or anything in terms of keeping the Youth Space and the programs where they’re at. We can continue to operate the same way and in the same direction and keep the quality.”

Empowering youth

Blume started working with queer youth at the Billy De Frank LGBT Community Center soon after graduating from college a decade ago. She immediately identified a diverse range of needs of LGBT youth in the South Bay that they weren’t receiving. In 2008, an opportunity arose when two county agencies, focused on youth and mental health, received funding for an LGBT youth program. Blume became head of the program and began creating inclusive services to meet youths’ needs, especially transgender and nonbinary young people. In the spring of 2009, the Youth Space opened its doors on First Street in downtown San Jose welcoming LGBT youth to drop in to hang out, get some food, use the computers, and also to receive health care, counseling, and leadership skills. “Young people in general have a really diverse range of needs across all of Santa Clara County,” said Blume. Long before gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings became state law, the space offered safe bathrooms and support for transgender and nonbinary youth. Last year alone, the space provided a safe place for 400 LGBT youth in Silicon Valley who utilize the drop-in center, and 50 young people received counseling. The space operates with nine full-time and three part-time staff members and many volunteers. Its annual budget is $878,649, according to Blume and Maryanne McGlothlin, director of grants and communications at Caminar. The agencies didn’t disclose Keel’s salary. Blume said that her biggest accomplishment was helping develop future LGBTQ leaders.

“Without question the people who have come through, especially young people who have gotten involved and taken on leadership positions here,” said Blume about the youth who have taken on important positions at the space. “So many of our staff are people who started as young participants, and I got to see them really become leaders of the community over time.”

New chapter

Seven years ago, Keel came onboard as a part-time outreach coordinator before becoming the fulltime outreach manager. Monday marked her first day taking the helm to lead the space into its next chapter. She’s fully aware that while there have been many positive changes within the past decade for LGBT youth, there is still much work that needs to be done in the South Bay. “It’s great. It’s phenomenal,” said Keel about the progress during recent years that has led youth to come out at younger ages. At the same time, said Blume, “The more visibility there is, the more you realize how deep the needs are. So there is actually more work to do and we recognize what’s going on.” The first big event Keel’s helping the youth produce is the second annual South Bay Youth Pride on May 12. Keel is set on continuing to bring the space’s resources and support to youth who don’t have the ability to get to the space. Her bigger plan is to provide off-site counseling by the space’s therapists to youth throughout the county. “It’s not realistic for all young people to get here, right, for a variety of reasons,” said Keel, who has already started some off-site services at local high schools. “Equipping stakeholders in communities, or in schools where kids already are, to do this work is really important to me.”t

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Obituaries >> Damien Grey December 5, 1961 - April 21, 2018 Damien Grey died peacefully April 21, 2018 at Maitri hospice in San Francisco, after a long struggle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 56. Born in Montana, raised in Oregon, Damien moved to New York City in 1982

and studied briefly at the Cooper Union, but his rich knowledge of art, literature, poetry, and classical music was largely self-taught. He came to San Francisco in 1987, became an early advocate for medical marijuana, and co-founded the Temple Whores, a band that played on Castro sidewalks during the darkest years of AIDS. He is best known as a poet and impresario, who threw legendary literary salons where he would read absurdist verse in signature resonant baritone, and present macabre puppet shows as the Puppet Fister.

A wanderer on the road less traveled, he was an intrepid adventurer. Once he fell ill, his herculean endurance became a model to all – he outlived life expectancy by a decade. Even at his darkest hour, he remained gracious, witty, and charming. But his greatest gift was his loving heart, a refuge of compassion to so many friends. His favorite trope was, ‘We’re here to lift each other up, not put each other down.’ Hear, hear! He is sorely missed. There will be a memorial as part of the Urban Beltaine Celebration on Tuesday May 1, starting at 1 p.m. at Hashbury Gardens, 1433 Haight Street, SF, CA.

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The Times’ disservice to Baldwin T

ammy Baldwin, the U.S. Senate’s first out lesbian member, has been targeted for defeat by Republicans in her re-election bid this November. There are many reasons conservatives don’t like Baldwin, like her support for abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act, as was mentioned in a lengthy New York Times story on Tuesday. But let’s be clear that the real reason the right wants to unseat Baldwin wasn’t found anywhere in the Times story: her sexual orientation. This is just the latest example of the mainstream press dropping the ball when covering the LGBT community. Among the many benefits and achievements of coming out, LGBTs have won elective office at the local, state, and federal levels. But mainstream reporters – and their editors – remain reluctant or ignorant when noting that an officeholder or candidate is LGBT. Baldwin has always been out during her political career. There’s no reason why the Times story could not mention that important fact, and that it’s largely the reason why Republicans have taken aim at her. We can hear the GOP’s catcalls now. Instead, the story uses “telegenic” to describe one of Baldwin’s rabid right-wing opponents, Kevin Nicholson. And the story notes that some Democrats have “expressed concern” that the negative advertising already underway has “whittled away” at Baldwin’s support. Instead of complaining, these Democratic groups should marshal resources for Baldwin’s race. Baldwin herself does have a “formidable” campaign chest, the article reported, but if national groups are starting to get queasy, it would be wise to step up to the plate and start writing those checks. Nationally, the midterms could turn into a blue wave for Democrats, but regaining control of the Senate is a challenging task given that most of the seats the party must

same-sex parents, adoption rights, and more. In fact, Trump’s judicial picks so far have been overwhelmingly white and male, which should concern anyone who believes in a qualified judiciary that reflects the diversity of the country. Addressing many important issues will depend on tough Senate races like Wisconsin. Being a lesbian informs Baldwin’s outlook. She brings a unique set of skills and life experiences to the Senate in part because she is a lesbian. It’s shameful that the Times could not include this important fact about Baldwin, especially since it motivates so many right-wing bigots to drive her out of office. The paper did her a disservice. AP

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defend are in red states. That includes Baldwin’s, as Wisconsin went for Donald Trump in 2016 in what was a shocking rebuke to Hillary Clinton’s much-lauded – and since the election, much-ridiculed – campaign by analytics. Clinton took Wisconsin for granted, and her experience there should serve as a dire warning for November. There’s one reason that control of the Senate is crucial for our community: it has the power to confirm federal judges and Supreme Court justices. Already, the Senate has seated many anti-gay judges. Just this week, the Senate confirmed Kyle Duncan for a lifetime appointment to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Louisiana. Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund CEO Rachel Tiven called Duncan one of Trump’s “worst nominees,” stating that he opposes voting rights, women’s right to access contraception, and civil rights for the LGBT community. He has targeted LGBT children and families, Tiven said. The timing could not be worse as courts across the country are currently hearing cases on child custody between

SF streets get some help

Mayor Mark Farrell’s announcement that he’s hiring 10 new workers to remove syringes from streets and sidewalks is a welcome first step in curbing an epidemic of used needles littering the city. Syringes, unlike many other forms of litter, are an urgent public health problem and an environmental health issue. Health Director Barbara Garcia is correct when she says improperly discarded needles affect everyone. However, we’re not so impressed with the mayor’s decision last week to quickly clear tent encampments in the Mission. Clearing the tents and forcing homeless people to move elsewhere is a temporary measure that does nothing to solve the lack of shelter and emergency housing, or mental health beds. When he was a supervisor, Farrell authored Proposition Q in 2016, which we opposed but voters passed. It allows city officials to remove tents from city streets if the homeless are given 24 hours’ notice and offered shelter. We’re certain that most of those camped out in the Mission have no desire to go to a shelter, or are mentally ill and can’t really make those decisions. Either way, this stop-gap action will only result in the tents going up somewhere else. What’s needed is a broader (and comprehensive) homeless and housing plan, and hopefully one that the next mayor can fully implement. t

SF fur ban may spark larger social movement by Rob Daroff

he San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently voted to ban fur sales, making it the third and largest U.S. city to pass such a prohibition. Thousands of activists, like myself, who pushed for the ban view it as another key step toward the complete end of society’s mistreatment of animals. Introduced by the Berkeley-based animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere, the ban on fur draws a rather arbitrary line that continues to permit the mistreatment of animals for leather, food, and medical testing, among other uses. That line will likely continue to be redrawn, and the pace of change may surprise us all. Our own city’s fur ban is indicative of the increasingly mainstream embrace of animal rights – and it’s not limited to the fringe issue of fur. A 2014 Gallup poll found that a surprising 32 percent support granting animals the “same rights as people,” while another poll revealed that 47 percent of Americans support a ban on slaughterhouses – numbers that are likely even higher in the progressive San Francisco Bay Area. Contrasting those figures with the relatively small numbers of vegetarians and vegans highlights a fundamental but encouraging misalignment of our collective behavior with our common values. We need only convince people to stand up for what they already believe – that it is wrong to inflict unnecessary suffering on other sentient beings. I feel we have not only public sentiment and a winning moral argument, but also the organizational capacity necessary to fundamentally shift society. We also have history on our side. In 1983, Evan Wolfson, then a third-year student at Harvard Law School, wrote a dissertation predicting that gay people would achieve marriage rights within a generation. Not surprisingly, Wolfson was

Dr. Rob Daroff stands outside San Francisco City Hall.

decried as radical and foolish at the time. Yet, as we all know, Wolfson’s prediction came true in 2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court enshrined marriage equality. As a gay man in the 1980s and 1990s, the mere idea that I could ever legally marry another man was wholly unimaginable to me. This was an era when people like me were regularly fired, imprisoned, or even killed simply for being queer. Instrumental in social progress for the LGBTQ community was the activist and legislative leadership of cities like San Francisco, Berkeley, and West Hollywood – each breaking new ground in the recognition of same-sex partnerships. Their models established a sense of momentum and inevitability around social change, which extended far beyond their jurisdictions.

It’s fitting then, and not really coincidental, that the San Francisco fur ban follows similar ordinances previously passed only in West Hollywood and Berkeley. While there’s perhaps reason to dismiss the earliest adopters – West Hollywood has a small population, and Berkeley, a radical reputation coupled with negligible fur sales – San Francisco’s national prowess and powerful fur retailers like Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, and Saks Fifth Avenue feels like something very different. It feels like a revolution. Like Wolfson and the gay rights community a generation prior, today’s animal rights movement presents a bold vision of a world in which we respect others despite our differences. And we’re similarly laying the kindling necessary to ignite a massive movement for change. The first U.S. community center for animal rights opened in Berkeley in 2016 (https:// www.berkeleyarc.com/). Bay Area activists are engaging in mass civil disobedience to disrupt the status quo. And hundreds are regularly taking to the streets to demand change, united behind truly transformative initiatives. The animal rights community doesn’t need to persuade others of some radical new ideal, but to bring to the surface a tension that already exists. In many ways like the once normalized discrimination of LGBTQ folks, society’s violence toward animals is a product of apathy and misunderstanding, not active hatred. A ban of animal factory farming or even a ban on using animals for food and clothing altogether may no longer be so unimaginable. We don’t need to ask if our violence toward animals will end, but why it’s taking so damn long. And we need to ask ourselves what more we can do to make it happen. t Dr. Rob Daroff is a clinical professor in psychiatry and activist with the grassroots animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere living in San Francisco. For more information, visit https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/.

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Leno criticized by women

When the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to remove London Breed as acting mayor and replace her with Supervisor Mark Farrell, the most obvious beneficiary was Mark Leno. Two of his key endorsers for mayor were behind the move to replace an African-American woman from the mayor’s office with a venture capitalist. Supervisor Aaron Peskin orchestrated the maneuver, and Supervisor Norman Yee made the motion. Significantly, women and African-Americans were particularly upset about the move and many people w e r e surprised by the vote. More startling were the comments from Leno, who called the women defending Breed “disgusting” and sent out an email to his supporters on February 6 saying “they should be ashamed” of their support for the City’s first female mayor in 30 years! But anyone familiar with Leno’s history with women would not have been surprised. After being appointed by then-mayor Willie L. Brown, Leno ran a negative campaign against Eileen Hansen, a progressive stalwart who later served on the city’s Ethics Commission. Leno and supporters relentlessly attacked Hansen for being a pro-Palestinian extremist who associated with left-wing fringe Jewish groups. It worked. He now says he wants to make history as the city’s first LGBTQ chief executive, but he refused to support Roberta Achtenberg, an out lesbian, when she ran for mayor in 1995, declining to even take her calls to discuss the race. After being elected to the state Assembly, Leno decided to take on and demonize incumbent state Senator Carole Migden, who had successfully passed major HIV/AIDS legislation and helped set the table for marriage equality by masterminding a series of legislative victories around domestic partnerships with her lesbian colleagues Sheila Kuehl, Christine Kehoe, and Jackie Goldberg. Leno and his campaign team relentlessly attacked Migden in what became one of San Francisco’s most negative races. It worked. More recently, Leno sent out a campaign video touting that he was the “first gay man” elected to the California state Senate, conveniently ignoring the pioneering women who came before him, the aforementioned Migden, Kehoe, and Kuehl. Rendering women to invisibility in politics is just another version of “women should be seen, but not heard.” We will be heard in this election. We of all genders and sexualities must turn out in droves and ensure that we return a woman to Room 200 at San Francisco City Hall. Roma Guy Debra Walker, Past President, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club San Francisco

Rainbow flags for Cuba

In Havana, people celebrate LGBT Pride on May 17, which is International Day Against Homophobia and a big deal in this country. For 11 years, Cubans have marked IDAHO and next month I will be in Havana to distribute thousands of rainbow flags and trinkets to queer folks and their allies at no cost. Funds and gently used rainbow jewelry are needed to make sure my baggage is fully stuffed with as many rainbow items as possible.

During my visit to Cuba in March for over two weeks, the number of times I saw the rainbow flag, in any form, on display was less than a literal handful – only four occasions. That needs to change. Whenever I donned my gay apparel, a large rainbow cape that was stylishly draped over my shoulders, it attracted much attention from bemused adults and giggling kids and allowed me opportunities to explain in broken Spanish the gayness of my garb. At every LGBT-friendly club or venue, or walking the streets of Havana or peddling around town on a rental bike, proudly and happily sharing the highly visible queer rainbow of love, I regretted not having rainbow stickers, at the very least, to share with people and exchange friendship and solidarity. Upon returning home to the queer mecca, I thought of a Gays Without Borders project – Rainbows for Cuba/Arcoiris para Cuba. I am returning to Havana a week before May 17, to widely share rainbow flags in various forms in the days leading up to IDAHO: cloth flags, silicone wristbands, bandanas and necklaces, crack-and-peel stickers, and other trinkets in different sizes, put into the hands of Cuban queers and their many allies. My friend and Bay Area Reporter and freelance photographer Rick Gerharter, who’s visited the island many times, is joining me on this adventure and will document how I share the rainbows. We have two enormous pieces of luggage just for rainbow flags. Can you donate money or unused Pride jewelry? If your answer is yes, don’t delay, please. To contribute financially, visit my crowdfunding page at https://www.youcaring.com/michaelpetrelis-1165106, and to give costume jewelry email me at MPetrelis@aol. com to make arrangements for me to get things from you. And to see reports and photos of how I delivered rainbow flag awareness during my first visit to Cuba, check out my Facebook page. Thanks in advance to all potential donors and supporters of Rainbows for Cuba/Arcoiris para Cuba!

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Death of female impersonator

It was unfortunate that the LGBT media did not report the news of the recent death of Lavern Paul Cummings. The world-renowned Cummings, 90, was killed in a crosswalk last month in Las Vegas. Cummings was a legendary female impersonator who had performed for many years at the famous Finocchio’s revue in San Francisco’s North Beach. Most of all, Cummings will always be remembered as a forerunner in the beginnings of LGBT history in San Francisco. Cummings will be truly missed as a “rare gem” in the female impressionist as an art form. Many thanks goes out to historian Ron Ross (San Francisco History Association), who was quick to alert the community of the loss of this remarkable person. Mel Domingo Honolulu, Hawaii LGBT PROGRESSIVE CATHOLICS † OUR FAMILIES & FRIENDS

Holliday to headline Bliss compiled by Cynthia Laird

rammy- and Tony-winning vocalist Jennifer Holliday will headline Maitri Compassionate Care’s annual Bliss benefit Sunday, May 6, from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street in San Francisco. Maitri’s hospice has provided endof-life care to people living with HIV/ AIDS since 1987. It is marking its 31st anniversary. Other entertainers who will be performing include guitarist and vocalist Jonny Zywiciel, vocalist Frenchie Davis, and comedian Jason Stuart. The host and auctioneer will be David Johannes. The event will feature a reception and silent auction, followed by dinner and the program. Among those being honored are former Executive Director Bill Musick for 20 years of leadership and service. Longtime volunteer Kirsten Havrehed will also be recognized. New Executive Director Anne Gimbel will also be on hand. Tickets are $275. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit http:// www.maitrisf.org/.

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Farrell announces new team to remove syringes

Mayor Mark Farrell announced this week the creation of a new public health team hired specifically to address the syringe litter epidemic on San Francisco streets. According to a news release, 10 additional workers will be hired for syringe cleanup duties. The city currently has four workers in a rapid response team to do needle cleanup and respond to resident complaints.

The new hires will be contracted through the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conduct targeted sweeps of hot spots based on complaint data collected from 311, the city’s one-stop center for reporting information on municipal services. “The city’s increased investment will allow us to build upon current disposal efforts which result in the collection and disposal of more than 275,000 used needles per month,” SFAF CEO Joe Hollendoner said in a statement. “I am deeply thankful to the mayor and the Department of Public Health for their steadfast commitment to the public’s health and safety.” Along with increasing staffing, the city will add an additional three disposal boxes for used needles. Health Director Barbara Garcia said needle litter is “an environmental health issue that affects everyone in the city, and it is a problem for cities all over the world. By increasing our response capabilities we expect to see a significant reduction in needles on the streets.”

Oakland LGBTQ center to hold holistic health day

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Lesbian health official seeks CA House Seat by Matthew S. Bajko

health executive and retired nurse is mounting an underdog campaign in California’s southeastern desert region to become the first lesbian from the Golden State to serve in Congress. Marge Doyle is vying to oust entrenched Representative Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) from his 8th Congressional District seat he has held since 2013. At first glance, her bid sounds improbable. Republicans outnumber Democrats in registered voters in the district by nearly 10 percent, and the conservative region voted for President Donald Trump by a double-digit margin in the 2016 election. This year Cook is also facing a challenge on the right from former GOP state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks. Cook has raised $549,127 since January 2017 and reported having $879,630 in his campaign account as of March 31. While Donnelly has yet to report any fundraising amounts, Doyle raised $348,186 between October and March 31 and had $273,264 in cash on hand as of the start of April. She is aiming to ride an expected blue wave of anger against national Republicans this year to victory and help return control of the House to Democrats. In what could be a good omen, prior to the 2012 redistricting of House seats, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) had held the state’s 8th Congressional District. (She now represents the 12th District.) “We are going in the right direction, but it is still a red district, and I know that very well,” Doyle, 61, told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent phone interview. “My focus is really local issues and taking care of and listening to my constituents, which the current quoteunquote representative does not do.” She has experience running for public office. Upset with the poor management of a local hospital facing

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campaigns for supervisor. He made history when he became the first out gay person to win elected office in San Francisco and California with his 1977 victory, and was

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Congressional candidate Marge Doyle

closure, Doyle in 2014 won a seat on the Morongo Basin Healthcare District and served as its president, helping to keep the medical facility open. She currently is director of operations and clinical services for Pamorris Healthcare Solutions, which helps private medical clinics provide services to HIV-positive clients. It was Cook’s vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, after ignoring her advice against doing so, that prompted Doyle to run against him. “I told him, ‘Paul, I am really mad about that vote.’ He told me, ‘It doesn’t matter. The Senate will fix it.’ And it absolutely does matter,” said Doyle, as there was no guarantee that the Senate would fail to overturn President Barack Obama’s legislative achievement. A native Californian who grew up in the Los Angeles area, Doyle and her wife, Wendy Cohen, a real estate broker, have lived in Joshua Tree since 2005. The former Palm Springs residents married in 2004 in San Francisco during the city’s “Winter of Love” and had a church service in April of that year. Due to their civil marriage being annulled by the courts, they married assassinated, along with then-mayor George Moscone, in 1978 by disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White. The store, located at 575 Castro Street, is now a gift shop and action center run by the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT rights organization.

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again in 2008 during the brief window when same-sex couples could do so that year. While she doesn’t mention her spouse on her campaign site, Doyle does promote her endorsements from LGBT groups Equality California and Run With Pride. “I have been out since we moved up into the high dessert. When it comes up, I am of course honest,” said Doyle. She does highlight her Christian faith, proclaiming on her website, “As a Christian, I consider myself a child of God and believe that we all are,” adding that, “If we are all equal before God, then we must treat each other with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender identity, sexual preference, religion, or country of origin.” Doyle is a former president of the Seventh Day Adventist Kinship, a support group for LGBT members of the faith, and now belongs to a local Metropolitan Community Church. “For me, my faith is important and it is the root of how I come at social justice and other sorts of things in my political life. It is important to me because it is just basically at my core,” she said. “It is a difficult issue for LGBTQ folks, and I wanted to make a statement that you can be both.” Faith, Doyle noted, is important to many people in the district. “I just wanted people to know who I am as a whole person. Yes, I am lesbian. Yes, I am married. Yes, I have been a nurse. Yes, all these things are true about me,” said Doyle. “I am not just one of those things. I am a whole integrated human being who cares about the outcome of various issues for people of my district.” Another topic Doyle doesn’t shy away from is gun control. While she backs the right to own guns under the Second Amendment, Doyle has called

for banning the sale of assault weapons and allowing for federal research into gun violence in order to prevent people from being slaughtered in mass shooting attacks. “I support peoples’ rights to bear arms; I am not going to take their firearms away,” said Doyle. “We have the right to bear arms but also the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When those intersect, we have to make judgments on how to uphold both of those.” With a number of military bases and installations in the district, Doyle has also been vocal on calling for better treatment of enlisted officers, their families, and veterans. She is on record opposing Trump’s move to ban transgender people from serving. And she told the B.A.R. she would be a strong backer of passing federal protections to end discrimination in all areas against LGBT people. “I do support including LGBT folks in the protected classes,” she said. To date, California has had only one out member of Congress, gay Democrat Mark Takano from Riverside. He is expected to easily win re-election this fall to his 41st Congressional District seat. In the 25th Congressional District seat north of Los Angeles, queer geologist Jess Phoenix and bisexual homeless advocate Katie Hill are among the Democrats running to defeat Representative Steve Knight (RLancaster). Hill is seen as having a good shot of surviving the June primary, where the top two vote-getters regardless of party affiliation will advance to the November general election. Doyle’s game plan to win her race is to travel throughout the sprawling district, registering voters, especially younger people, along the way. She believes her practical, no-nonsense

After the meeting, several attendees expressed their satisfaction. “I like the board’s receptivity,” said Emma Marie Gabriel, a transgender woman. “It was a great event in that they wanted to listen to other voices from the community,” said Bruce Beaudette, a gay man. “This is my first time being asked for my input – cool. And to hear other people’s ideas.” Drag queen and Bay Area Reporter nightlife columnist Juanita

MORE!, who’s working with Jones to help create new energy at the street fair, said she wants it to be “fun.” “San Francisco is rapidly changing, and after 44 years the fair has changed, too” MORE! told the B.A.R. “I want it to be fun, successful, and feel fresh again. So this year, instead of sitting back and bitching about it, I’ve reached out to the fair board and offered my assistance. I throw a lot of parties and events and know what a daunting task it

style will serve the district well. “I am not radical. I am just let’s get it done,” said Doyle. “I am not interested in fighting people or polarized dogma and rhetoric. I am interested in helping my community, and that is the most important thing.”

SF supe candidate courts ‘swing’ vote

A pro-development candidate running for a seat on the Board of Supervisors this fall is courting San Francisco’s “swing” voters, i.e. residents who are polyamorous. Sonja Trauss, a co-founder of SF YIMBY, for Yes in My Backyard, and the San Francisco Bay Area Renters’ Federation, is seeking the District 6 seat that includes South of Market and the Tenderloin. The moderate is facing off against progressive school board member Matt Haney and former planning commissioner Christine Johnson in November to succeed Supervisor Jane Kim, who is termed out of office this year and running in the June mayoral special election. Trauss is co-hosting a public forum next week aimed at clarifying the political and legislative needs of the city’s sex positive and polyamorous communities. While not polyamorous herself, she is working with leaders within those communities, as well as the leather community, to create a legislative agenda she can carry at City Hall should she be elected. Co-hosts of the forum include San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Vice President Dahn Van Laarz, also known as Sister Dana Van Iquity and Dennis McMillan, promoters of the non-monogamy community Organ House, and organizers of the Burning Man Camp And Then There’s Only Love. It will take place from 8 to 11 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, at the community motorcycle garage Piston and Chain, located at 1285 Folsom Street in SOMA. t

is to organize an event of that size, especially when you are relying on volunteers.” MORE! noted that she had not attended the fair in several years because “the sparkle was starting to fade.” “There are many people out there who want to keep it alive,” she said. “I’m happy to use my voice to hopefully bring people together to help preserve a piece of queer history.”t

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an Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell, right, an Irish American who earned his master’s degree from University College Dublin, and Tony Fitzgerald, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, signed MOUs at a ceremony in City Hall Monday, April 23, that commit the sister cities to jointly seek membership in the Rainbow Cities Network. They would be the first cities in their countries to join the global network of municipalities committed to protecting the rights of their LGBT citizens. “We want to continue to fortify the bond between our cities,” said Farrell, who named Monday Tony Fitzgerald Day in the city and county of San Francisco.

He also presented his counterpart with a framed image of the U.S. postage stamp honoring the late gay Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first out LGBT person elected to public office in San Francisco, and four of the Milk stamps. Fitzgerald returned the honor by giving Farrell a pen set with Cork’s motto, “A safe harbor for ships,” embedded in crystal and a copy of the book “The Freedom of Cork,” which includes a story on the late President John F. Kennedy’s visit to the city. “In our time we like to say it means a safe place to live and work,” said Fitzgerald.

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t Growing up in the South was ‘resistance’ for Davis

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by Sari Staver

rowing up in segregated schools in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, social justice activist Angela Davis said she learned the importance of “daily resistance.” Davis, 74, currently professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department, talked about how her childhood experiences helped shape her radical political philosophy at a sold-out event at the Herbst Theater April 13, produced by the California Institute of Integral Studies. Davis spoke for over an hour with Danielle Drake, an assistant professor at CIIS. When Davis, who came out as lesbian in a 1997 Out magazine article, grew up in Birmingham, it was the most segregated city “and one of the most violent” in the nation, she said. Oftentimes, when people learn she grew up there, they’d comment about how hard it must have been to live there. In fact, she said, “I learned a lot and I’m actually glad I grew up in Birmingham in segregated schools. “I got to learn so much about the history of black people,” she said. “I can remember that we sang the negro national anthem. There was something really powerful growing up there. I learned the importance of daily resistance.” Davis and her classmates observed first hand the racial inequality in the South, she said. The white

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Angela Davis spoke earlier this month in San Francisco.

representatives from the local board of education “called the black teachers by their first names,” she recalled. And the black teachers who pushed back and said “I’m Mrs. So and So” were fired, said Davis. Davis said a childhood game she played illustrates the way she and her friends learned to resist. Davis’ family lived on a street that was on the “dividing line” between the black neighborhood and the white section, she recalled. Blacks were strictly forbidden from entering the white section unless it was for an “economic reason” like going to work as a domestic servant. “As

kids, we developed a game daring each other to run across the street,” into the white section, she said. “We’d run up and ring the doorbell and run away before they answered,” she said. “Resistance doesn’t have to be spectacular. People assume they have to be like Dr. Martin Luther King” to resist. Instead, said Davis, what is important is the “development of consciousness that encourages us in the smallest ways to resist and speak back to power,” she said. When asked how her experiences as a teenager and young adult shaped her philosophy, Davis, who

came out in 1997, said she felt “constrained” living in the South so after her second year of high school, she transferred to a Quaker school in Greenwich Village, which had a special program to bring black students from the South to live with white families while attending school in New York. “I assumed moving south to north would bring a greater measure of freedom” to me, but that wasn’t the case, she said. Day-to-day life was filled with prejudice, she said. After high school, Davis moved to France to study, becoming part of a number of radical political groups protesting the treatment of Algerians and North Africans. “I found a sense of togetherness and camaraderie with people from all over the world. Freedom appeared to be closer on the horizon,” she said. When Davis returned to the U.S., she got involved with the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party USA, and accepted a position teaching in the philosophy department at UCLA. At the urging of then-governor Ronald Reagan, the university fired Davis because of her membership in the Communist Party, although she was later reinstated and fired again for using inflammatory language. In 1970, Davis was catapulted into the national spotlight when she was arrested and jailed for the murders of four people in a shootout in a Marin County courthouse. Davis

had purchased the guns for the people who shot the victims and was listed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. After 16 months in detention, she was released on bail and later acquitted, the jury finding that ownership of the guns was insufficient to establish her responsibility in the crime. The experience taught Davis the importance of organized movements because her release came about only after thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad worked to free her from prison and paid her legal expenses. “They not only saved my life but demonstrated to me that it was possible to achieve what many had thought was impossible,” she said. “People all over the world demonstrated that we could win if we stood up against power in a unified way.” “Everything I’ve done has happened as a result of communities and collectives. These are the people who transform history,” she noted. Davis urged the audience to look critically at popular culture, to enjoy it but at the same time critique it. “You have to learn how to inhabit contradictions,” she said. For example, the blockbuster film “Black Panther” depicted many strong black women, but “the king was still a man,” she said. “We have to ask ourselves if we want to be assimilated into a structure that fundamentally remains the same.”t

Longtime SFSP ED to retire after gala by Charlie Wagner

our comedians will perform at the 30th Laughs for Life Gala Thursday, May 3, to benefit San Francisco Suicide Prevention, which was founded by the late gay Anglican priest Bernard Mayes in 1962. Hosted by Allie Zisfein, comedians scheduled to appear include Paul Conyers, Nick Aragon, and Dash Kwiatkowski. The evening will be a grand sendoff for Executive Director Eve R. Meyer, who is retiring after 30 years, and includes a VIP reception, seated dinner, and silent auction. Meyer’s roots in comedy inspired her to add a comedy show to the annual event after she was hired in 1988. Meyer described Mayes as a “movie star handsome” man who came to San Francisco in the early 1960s to research a story on San Francisco’s suicide rate, then the highest in the U.S. When he asked about a suicide hotline, like he had seen in Britain, he was told, “we don’t believe in them,” Meyer said. Mayes was not a person to sit still for long, Meyer said. With the LGBTQ community in mind, Mayes handed out matchbooks in Tenderloin bars with his phone number and the words, “Thinking of ending it? Call Bruce”

Meyer’s path to the SFSP was completely different but infused with drama. Coming from a stressful marketing position at a hospital, Meyer thought she might “get a rest at a quiet nonprofit.” She soon found working for SFSP was “not relaxing at all,” but added, “Moments after I got here, I had an eerie feeling I was ‘at home.’” When she conveyed that to her older brother, his response was “you forgot something.” That something was her family’s unique and traumatic history. Her father was director of public health in Berlin, and though Jewish, assumed he was safe in the early days of the Hitler regime. That soon changed and in 1939, her grandmother, father, mother, sister, and brother fled to Belgium, where, after the death of her sister under mysterious circumstances, they were all rounded up and taken to a holding camp in southern France. Months later, assuming they would soon be taken to a concentration camp and murdered, they escaped and reached the French-Spanish border. Guards examined their hastily-prepared papers and denied them permission to continue. Her parents and grandmother decided on the spot to walk into the Mediterranean, presumably to their

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San Francisco Suicide Prevention Executive Director Eve R. Meyer, left, and development director Jimmy Ancheta.

deaths, taking her 8-year-old brother with them. Her brother became hysterical, screaming and splashing to pull free. A guard witnessed the whole thing and was so distraught he waded into the water, told them their papers were in order, and cleared them to cross the border. They took a boat to safety in the United States. Meyer believes her parents never recovered from the trauma of their imprisonment and escape. “They had, what we now call, posttraumatic stress but which was then called ‘your fault,’” she explained. So, her own family’s brush with suicide many decades before adds an extra resonance to Meyer’s boast that SFSP has turned into a success story. SFSP is the model for over 500 suicide prevention organizations nationally and an 800 number connects callers across the country with their nearest hotline center. SFSP operates on a budget of about $1.2 million, with about half of that coming from the city. As Meyer pointed out, “Our users rarely provide funds because we almost never find out who they are. There’s a real wall between us and the clients unless someone’s life is in danger.” SFSP’s approach to suicide prevention has evolved over the years and has changed to what Meyer described as “a more practical and safety-oriented plan.” Meyer and SFSP believe, “Time is your friend. Suicide is the result of pain, but pain is a temporary condition. We want to get people through their crisis.” As a result of SFSP’s work, the current suicide rate in San Francisco is below that of the U.S. in general. And, Meyer pointed out, “We’ve never lost anyone on the phone.” Volunteers are always welcome, she said. Training lasts eight weeks and commits volunteers to one four-hour shift a week. Meyer was married by a gay rabbi in 1988 and currently attends a mostly gay synagogue and considers herself a straight ally. Of the 15 SFSP staff, three are LGBTQ, including the hotline director, weekend coordinator, and director

of development, Jimmy Ancheta. Ancheta said that, “LGBTQI people are more susceptible to depression,” and noted that, “though they make

up only about 5 percent of our calls, about 50 percent of those are highrisk calls.” He noted that volunteers

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Trans woman hired to lead St. James Infirmary by Alex Madison

The former executive director, Stephany Ashley, who identifies as queer, left St. James in October 2017 for a job at Tipping Point Community, an organization based in the city that works to fight poverty in the Bay Area. Johanna Breyer, co-founder of the clinic, has been the interim executive director since Ashley’s departure. Newman, 55, will remain in her current position as development

officer for Maitri Compassionate Care until May 8 and begin at St. James the following day, something she said she is very excited about. “This job is something so close to my heart. I am really compassionate about the mission of St. James,” Newman said. In her first year at St. James, Newman wants to find a new location for the clinic, which is currently at 1372 Mission Street after facing eviction at its last location at 234 Eddy Street. With about three more years left on the clinic’s current lease, Newman said she is just looking, but hopes to find a centralized location downtown and one near public transportation. A boost of $300,000 on top of the little more than $1 million budget of the organization is another goal Newman would like to accomplish during her first year. The funds will be used to increase services and reach, including extended hours at the clinic. Just this year, the clinic launched mobile services in the Mission, Tenderloin, Civic Center, and South of Market neighborhoods. As the B.A.R. previously noted, the

clinic has around 5,000 people enrolled in its services and its syringe access programs serve thousands more. Faculty and staff would also see an uptick in their wages from the increased budget. Newman stated her own salary will be $90,000 a year. Ashley reported an income of about $70,000 annually, which in 2016 was one of the lowest salaries paid to a LGBT- or health-related nonprofit head in San Francisco. Although sad to see Ashley leave, Breyer said the clinic family couldn’t be happier to welcome Newman. “We will be welcoming, for the first time, a transgender woman of color to take the helm and it’s phenomenal,” Breyer said. “We hope it will send a message that transgender women of color are true leaders and that sex workers have such an amazing role model.” Newman brings years of nonprofit experience to the job. She’s a former interim director of development and communications at the To Help Everyone Health and Wellness Center in Los Angeles, and worked as a strategic

fundraiser and legislative aide for Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy organization. “Very impressed,” were the words Breyer used to describe Newman’s experience and fundraising capabilities for Maitri Compassionate Care’s annual gala, Bliss, which Newman has organized for the past three years, and will be held May 6. She is also a best-selling author of her memoir, “I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman,” released in 2011, which discusses her life and difficult 25-year transition. From Jacksonville, North Carolina, Newman spent 10 years as a professional mistress to high-end and celebrity clients. This experience inspired her to write a screenplay, called “The Erotic Professionals,” that she is trying to get made into a feature film. If successful, Newman will be the first African-American transgender person to do so. With St. James Infirmary’s 20-year anniversary taking place in June 2019, Newman will soon begin planning for that milestone celebration. t

group $150,000. In return for this the developer wanted members of the group to attend an April 26 planning commission hearing and support its efforts to construct a new building at 1140 Harrison Street. “We had a discussion with them about the effects of their development on the neighborhood and this was their response,” said Goldfarb. Much of the discussion at Wednesday’s meeting was to decide whether to accept the money and whether to attend the planning commission meeting. Ultimately, attendees voted 12-3, with three abstentions, to accept

Hanover’s offer of $150,000 and attend the planning commission meeting. The third goal of the community group is to set up public installations, such as bronze prints and standing stones, along the lines of the Leather History Walk on Ringold Alley. These would commemorate businesses and people who are now gone. It was noted that one developer has agreed to include in their leases an acknowledgement that tenants are moving into a cultural district that has a long history of leather events and nightlife. “We want them to know that our events are not like the Union Street

Fair,” Goldfarb said. “We want them to be informed.” Attendees of the community group meeting were in favor of this, as well as the proposal to pressure developers to create more affordable housing. Gay housing advocate Brian Basinger, executive director of the Q Foundation, urged attendees at the meeting to remain actively engaged in all efforts to establish the leather and other LGBTQ cultural districts. “Q Foundation threw the first brick that led to the creation of Compton’s TLGB district by filing the appeal to demolish the historic gay bars on the

900 block of Market Street,” Basinger said. “We were able to instigate, inspire, and organize others to join our call for LGBTQ controlled spaces. The strategy was a three-pronged approach: Compton’s, SOMA, and the Castro. Building community is about showing up for one another so it is natural for the Q Foundation to show up to support the SOMA Leather District.” Goldfarb said that he was confident the full board would approve the establishment of the leather cultural district. t

Although he didn’t mention the name, Maloof told a story of a current judge who denied reducing charges against a white woman with an African-American sounding name before seeing her, but agreed after seeing the race of the defendant. “Not basing decisions on the color of people’s skin, but on the content of their character is the very first step,” he said. Maloof has been with the public defender’s office since 2001 and a managing attorney since 2008. He is also the former president of the Charles Houston Bar Association. In a 2015 case, as the B.A.R. previously reported, Maloof represented a man accused of attacking a transgender woman. Maloof repeatedly referred to the woman as male and used male pronouns for her saying, “Unless he’s had an operation,” the victim was still a man. Ross, at the forum, said he understands implicit bias as he has faced discrimination because he is Jewish. He talked about establishing the Law Academy when he was president of the Bar Association of San Francisco. The academy mentors students, many Latino and African-American, and encourages job opportunities for underserved students. “I have done this because it’s important to understand the communities in which we work,” Ross said. “I am aware of implicit bias and focus on it everyday.” Evangelista, who would be the first Mexican-American woman elected to the bench, said, “The best way to get to the root of implicit bias is by having members of the court on the bench be actual members of the community.” This was a theme she mentioned numerous times throughout the forum, recruiting more community members to the court. She continued with a jab at Karnow, who has taught training courses and written books on implicit bias in the legal system.

“Just taking a class is not going to change 50 or 60 years of implicit bias,” she said. In response, Karnow, who has a background as an antitrust and intellectual property litigation attorney, said, “I have spent years researching this material and it is effective.” Karnow issued the injunction that kept City College of San Francisco from losing its accreditation. Both Karnow and Lee gave examples of a time they stopped proceedings to insist all people in the courtroom be referred to by surnames when some female lawyers were being called by their first name. “When judges take action in a decisive way it makes a difference,” Karnow said. Lee, who served as the court’s first Asian-American female presiding judge, continued with how she deals with implicit bias. “The question every judge needs to ask, and one I ask at all times, is if the person in front of me were a different race, would I be trying them the same way? Would I rule the same way?” Streets, Solis, and Maloof all cited statistics that African-Americans and other minorities face harsher treatment throughout many steps of the legal system. “There is an undeniable truth that there’s a problem in San Francisco,” Solis said. “There is a problem with race and crime in the justice system. The statistics are clear, 55 percent of inmates are African-American when they only make up 4 percent of the population.” Solis was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the state bar’s Criminal Law Advisory Commission, and she’s also served as president of the San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association. She would be the first lesbian Latina on the bench if elected. Streets, a black man said, “Our system is failing,” a phrase he used many times throughout the forum. “We have to address that the system disproportionately affects people of color. The problem is implicit bias

and not nearly enough is done to stop it.” The candidates were asked what they would do to reform the bail system without the use of legislation. Karnow and Lee suggested a risk assessment for inmates to determine release, and Karnow suggested setting conditions upon release, including monitoring and tracking to decrease re-offending. Maloof, Zareh, and Streets talked about alternatives to bail, including house arrest and electronic monitoring. “You can commit a felony and hurt someone, but if you have bail you can get out. But if you don’t have enough money for bail, you can’t get out. That is ridiculous,” Streets said. Ross touted the need for programs in San Francisco that pair inmates with a case manager who provides support services upon release. “When you have the support and resources you need, you can release people safely into the community,” he said. Evangelista scrutinized the judges for not doing enough on bail reform, calling out her opponent, Karnow, specifically. “[Curtis] never once sat on the bench and said ‘I am going to release you.’ If you remain silent and don’t bring it up isn’t that complicity?” she asked. During their closing comments, Cheng gave a statement defending all the judges and noted they all were endorsed by the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee endorsement. “It wasn’t an accident that we got the DCCC’s endorsement. They concluded that we have benefited the community,” Cheng said. He went on to question the legitimacy of the challengers’ campaign. “We have to ask ourselves the rationale behind the campaign. What’s it about? Is it an attack on who appointed us? Is it right? Does it benefit San Francisco?” Zareh expressed the need for

improved technology in San Francisco’s legal system particularly the filing system. She also called out her opponent, Lee, who earlier in the forum stated she treats everyone she works with with respect. “I heard my opponent say she has respect for her litigants, but her reputation doesn’t speak to that,” Zareh said. In the packed audience were law students, lawyers, and community members. To some in the audience, the challengers’ reasoning for pursuing election was not specific enough and some even called it a political statement. Jim Brosnahan, a Berkeley resident who has practiced law for more than 50 years, said, “Overall it was the judges on the bench, I think, who displayed enormous confidence in many different ways,” he said. “For some of those who want to take over the courts, it sounds very political. When they were talking about equality and race, they weren’t very specific. The incumbents have worked very hard on social issues, and you shouldn’t judge them by who appointed them.” Another audience member, Carolyn Lee, a San Francisco resident for 15 years, who is also a lawyer, said she thinks having an election is healthy, but said she feels the incumbents have done a great job. “The judges have shown the highest level of integrity and professionalism. I have not seen implicit bias in their civil litigation, said Lee.” t

former sex worker herself, Toni Newman will be able to say to her clients she has walked in their shoes as the new executive director of St. James Infirmary. This is the first time St. James has named an African-American transgender woman as its leader. “I started from the bottom and worked my way up with hard work and dedication,” Newman said in a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “I want to enlighten and educate others to make life changes and to show them there is more out there if you are willing to put the time and effort in.” St. James Infirmary offers nonjudgmental social and health care services to current and former sex workers of all genders and their families, including primary care, HIV testing and counseling, holistic healing, a transgender hormone therapy program, and harm reduction services like needle exchange and naloxone. It is the country’s only occupational health and safety clinic run by and for sex workers.

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be asking future developments in the neighborhood to designate more apartments as affordable units. “One of the things that happen in a cultural district is that new developments come in and displace residents,” Goldfarb said. “They also tend to increase the density and cost levels of new housing. We’re trying to mitigate the effects of the upscaling brought on by these developments.” It was noted that one developer, Hanover, had offered the community

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most counties usually do not draw challengers. In February, the four San Francisco deputy public defenders shocked the legal establishment by filing to run against four sitting judges because Republican governors appointed them to the bench. The judges are all registered Democrats. Of the 13 San Francisco Superior Court judges up for re-election this year, only Karnow, Lee, Cheng, and Ross are being challenged. The judges’ appointments and the need for a new perspective have been the main messages coming out of the challengers’ campaigns, which has been criticized by some, including gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who said in a San Francisco Chronicle article, “This whole notion that these are ‘Republican appointees’ is absurd.”

Candidate forum

But at the first forum April 12 at Golden Gate University, the nine candidates went head to head as the challengers, more specifically, expressed their vision and the incumbents defended their years of experience. (Attorney Elizabeth Zareh is also running for Lee’s Seat 9.) The two-hour forum focused primarily on implicit bias in the legal system and bail reform. The incumbents talked about their accomplishments, while the challengers made statements about what is wrong with the system, including mass incarceration and racism. The first question of the forum, “What would you do to reduce implicit bias in the legal system?” elicited the most tension among the judges and their challengers. Maloof, a black man, accused the current judges of not being aware of their biases “Understanding there is implicit bias is number one. If you don’t understand there is bias, it’ll be impossible to fix the solution,” he said.

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t Take a quick visit to Palm Springs before summer by Charlie Wagner

ou may have no interest in tennis, tanning, or cocktails by a pale blue pool, but sometimes, San Francisco is just too cool and gray. What about a place where locals boast, “Winter’s over in less than a month?” At this time of year, that place is Palm Springs. Besides simple pleasures of the flesh, Palm Springs offers great hiking and walking, a good art museum, unique and sometimes whimsical architecture, great indoor/outdoor dining, a surprising variety of live entertainment, and some delightful shopping. We stayed at the InnDulge Resort at 600 South Grenfall in the very gay Warm Sands area of Palm Springs, arriving in time to relax around the clothing-optional pool. If you drive down via Interstate 10, consider stopping at Hadley’s Fruit Orchards in Cabazon to enjoy one of the essential elements of Palm Springs cuisine, the date shake. InnDulge charged $219 per night for a spacious poolside onebedroom unit with breakfast. The resort is marketed as men-only, however, nearby is the clothing-optional, straight-friendly Terra Cotta Resort and Spa, which welcomes same-sex couples of all genders.

Hiking and walking

Palm Springs can have extreme weather conditions between April and October so hike descriptions often include warnings about the safest months to hike. One excellent guidebook is “100 Great Hikes in and near Palm Springs” by Philip Ferranti. Take hiking poles if you have them as many trails have significant elevation changes. About three miles from Warm Sands and easily bikeable, the Indian Canyons are the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. Admission to Indian Canyons is $10.25 per car and gives you access to many trails. Horseback riding is allowed but dogs are not. We were relieved to read that rules also included, “No drones or remote control vehicles.” The Andreas Canyon Trail is one of the easiest in the canyons, a 1-mile loop hikeable with running shoes, though not wheelchair accessible. Outbound the trail follows a pretty stream with plenty of shade; the return crosses an exposed ridge. The trail passes hundreds of native Fan Palms as dramatic, jagged red rocks tower overheard. You won’t be alone in Andreas Canyon, and there are picnic tables and toilets at the trailhead. Allow an hour for the hike. Hikes in Palm Canyon are a big step up, but not strenuous. The 8-mile Lost Paradise hike is highly recommended and the tranquil, rocky pools at the end are a perfect lunch spot. Palm Canyon is the world’s largest California Fan Palm oasis. The Museum Trail, starting behind the Palms Springs Art Museum, is much more difficult with a 1,000 foot elevation change over 1 mile. Dogs are allowed but there is no shade on this trail. We laughed at a sign about halfway up the trail, asking hikers to choose between two routes, one simply marked “more difficult.” Easy decision. With that as our “conditioning” hike, the Araby Trail seemed fairly easy with an 800 foot elevation change over 3 miles, for a total of 6 miles. It took about three hours at a modest pace. At the top, the Araby connects with a network of other trails, so a longer loop is possible; see “100 Hikes” for ideas.

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This Araby Trail is called “hike to the stars” because you get close-up views of the former homes of Bob Hope and Steve McQueen. There’s no fee to park at the trailhead; dogs are prohibited due to bighorn sheep in the area. Often recommended by locals is the Whitewater Canyon Trail, which can include a gorgeous wildflower display with snow-capped mountains in the background after a wet winter. The canyon contains the Whitewater River, which charges the aquifer beneath the Coachella Valley, the source of Palm Springs’ water. Joshua Tree National Park is another hiking area highly praised by locals, though also best after a wet winter. That’s about a 45-minute drive from Palm Springs. Our local source said his favorite is the 2.5-mile Split Rock Loop, but this should not be done in summer. For more information, check http://www.nps.gov/jotr/index. htm. Several hikes are rated “Do not attempt in the heat” and some cross rocky areas where it is easy to lose the trail. Do not hike alone. For those with limited mobility or traveling with children or just not interested in anything called “hiking,” a better choice might be the Living Desert in Palm Desert, also about 45 minutes away. The emphasis is on kid-friendly wildlife displays but it’s entirely accessible and offers the Eisenhower Peak Loop Trail for the more ambitious. Admission is $20 for adults. Less than two miles from Warm Sands and only $5 a person is the Moorten Botanical Garden at 1701 South Palm Canyon Drive, a local enterprise run by the third generation of the Moorten family. It features over 3,000 varieties of desert plants plus Tank, an African spurred tortoise who was lunching on strawberries and lettuce during our visit. It is accessible. The Sunnylands Center in Rancho Mirage also offers easy strolling and is the former home of philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg. The tour of the house is $48 (reservations required) but the self-guided tour of the gardens is free, no reservations required. Sunnylands is the largest Palm Springs estate open to the public; both house and gardens are accessible. For those with an interest in old Palm Springs and able to walk for about two hours, the Palm Springs Historical Society offers nine different walking tours for $20 a person, with at least one every day of the week (http://www.pshistoricalsociety.org).

Desert art, architecture

Located in downtown Palm Springs, the Art Museum at 101 Museum Drive is a pleasant, medium-sized museum with a light-flooded interior and a casual restaurant inside. If you need to rest after your visit, the front entrance has orange cushions scattered on the steps. The museum also operates the Architecture and Design Center in downtown Palm Springs, in a former bank built in 1961, plus a smaller museum and sculpture garden in Palm Desert (http://www. psmuseum.org). Its current show is “Andy Warhol Prints” (through May 28), which includes paintings made with diamond dust and rarely-exhibited prints of men in sexually explicit poses. The museum’s collection includes works by David Hockney, Bay Area ceramicist Robert Arneson, and Dale Chihuly. Palm Springs is one of the most architecturally distinct cities in the

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Vocalist Sharon Sills performed at the Purple Room in Palm Springs.

U.S. with numerous, mostly-intact mid-century buildings. Thousands visit during Modernism week, typically held in mid-February. Albert Frey is one of the most acclaimed architects of that style and worked in Palm Springs for most of his life. A local group is currently raising money to move Frey’s famous but neglected “Aluminaire” house, designed in 1931, from New York to directly in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Dining

One of the treats of desert dining is how restaurants seem designed for people-watching. Trio is one of the best and consequently one of the most popular gay restaurants in Palm Springs. Located at 707 North Palm Canyon Drive, Trio served good food and the tab was reasonable at $96 (three drinks, before tip). Arrive before 6 p.m. to order the $19 prix fixe and $3 cocktails. The restaurant Eight4Nine, up the street at number 849, is equally good for food and people-watching.

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California Fan Palms are in abundance along Andreas Canyon in Indian Canyons.

Eight4Nine features white walls, white chairs, and white tables, which somehow feels very Palm Springs, and has lots of outdoor seating. Dinner for two was $92. Another night we dined at locals’ favorite John Henry’s at 1785 East Tahquitz Canyon. You enter through an outdoor patio giving you the opportunity to check out every patron before you enter the smaller indoor section. It’s not quite the bargain it reportedly used to be; dinner was $95. It’s treasured for its large drinks and desserts. Be sure to reserve ahead. For old Palm Springs glamour, consider either Melvyn’s at 200 West Ramon or Spencer’s at 701 West Baristo. Both have an indoor/outdoor design with lots of light, are great for people-watching and often have live entertainment. Service and presentation is a slice above the other restaurants, and the slightly dressier crowds give both places a more sophisticated atmosphere. Plan to spend around $150 or more per couple. Our favorite lunch place was the

Corridor at 515 North Palm Canyon Drive. That complex includes several casual restaurants, a branch of the LGBTQ-popular coffee shop Koffi, and an open courtyard with seating on the lawn for more great people-watching.

Entertainment

The entertainment discovery of our trip was Michael Holmes’ Purple Room, billed as a premiere supper club. With photos of the Rat Pack on the walls, the look is unmistakably retro, and the room is indeed purple. There’s nothing like it in San Francisco, and we were completely charmed. The room has three seating areas. Sight lines are best in the main dining room, but you are expected to order dinner if you sit there. Shows without a cover are done Tuesday through Thursday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Every seat is assigned by the host, including those around the bar. Dinner is good but pricey at $150 for two (three drinks, before tip). See page 14 >>

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Union organizer, teacher John Mehring dies by Cynthia Laird

ohn Mehring, a gay man who was a local union organizer and teacher, died March 30 at a hospital in Minneapolis. He was 65. Mr. Mehring came to the attention of Bay Area Reporter readers in 2013, when he led the effort to share the story of late gay political pioneer Bill Kraus more widely by installing new signage at Corona Heights Park.

Mr. Mehring had been a longtime resident of San Francisco, his former housemate Dr. June Fisher told the B.A.R., but he relocated a couple of years ago. A former teacher in San Francisco, he wrote in an email to friends on February 15, the day before his birthday, that he was marking his retirement from paid work. Fisher and Mr. Mehring’s sister, Diana Williams, said that Mr. Mehring died of cancer.

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Five years ago, Mr. Mehring sought to make Kraus’ connection to Corona Heights Park visible to the public. Kraus, a campaign adviser and political aide for slain supervisor Harvey Milk and his successor, Harry Britt, would often head to the hilltop open space above the Castro district to strategize for his bosses. After Kraus died in 1986 at the age of 38, city officials designated a section of the park after him. Kraus had battled AIDS and contracted meningitis a few weeks prior to his death. As the B.A.R. noted in a 2013 article, a memorial bench with a plaque bearing Kraus’ name was installed in the protected green space, but there was nothing to alert park users of the fact that the nearby meadow and pathway are named for him. While Mr. Mehring said he was not a good friend of Kraus’, he said the men were colleagues. Mr. Mehring organized a group of volunteers, unofficially dubbed the Friends and Supporters of Bill Kraus, to raise money and petition park officials, as well as boosters of Corona Heights Park, to sign off on their proposal. Eventually, the group raised about $1,500 in private funds and placed signage about Kraus on the backside of an existing trail sign at the park entrance. A dedication was held January 11, 2014, on the anniversary of Kraus’ death. Fisher told the B.A.R. that the Kraus project fit into Mr. Mehring’s worldview. “He was fierce if he thought there was an injustice and he thought the lack of recognition [for Kraus] was an injustice,” she said. “He wasn’t the guy who was at the head of the march, but he was the steady person pushing on.” Fisher, a retired physician who practiced occupational medicine and taught medical students and others about product design, said

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John Mehring sat on a bench dedicated to Bill Kraus overlooking Bill Kraus Meadow in Corona Heights Park in April 2013.

that Mr. Mehring used to work with health care employees. Long involved with organized labor, Mr. Mehring was praised by retired union members. “He was the best of what the labor movement brings to our society,” Ed Kinchley, who’s retired from Service Employees International Union Local 1021, wrote in an email to the B.A.R. “He was an effective part of a movement to push employers to change practices and equipment like syringes to radically improve blood-borne pathogen protections for health care workers when HIV was new and very scary. “He also pushed unions to educate their members about working safely and demanding safe equipment,” he added. “It was never about him.” According to Mr. Mehring’s email, he worked as a psychiatric technician at the old Presbyterian Hospital (now California Pacific Medical Center) in San Francisco from 1980-1990, including service as a union shop steward and activist. He participated in the summer 1988

strike as a strike captain and union bargaining committee member for the affiliated hospitals. Mr. Mehring then worked as a health and safety organizer for SEIU from 1989-2006. He worked as a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District from 2006-2014, and became a fulltime reading tutor in Minneapolis when he moved there. Fisher said that Mr. Mehring was proud of his teaching career. Decades ago, many LGBT teachers were not out, and Californians had to decide on the Briggs initiative in 1978 that would have banned out teachers. It was rejected at the ballot box. “The idea of an open gay man being able to teach kids was a historic personal goal for him,” she said. Mr. Mehring became a founding member of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club’s AIDS Education and Information Committee, and it worked with writers and artists to develop the popular safe-sex brochure, “Can We Talk?”, in 1983. He was also involved in producing the club’s Gayote newsletter in the 1980s. In a 2013 interview with the B.A.R., Mr. Mehring said that he was HIV-positive since 1984. Mr. Mehring was born February 16, 1953. It was Williams who alerted friends to Mr. Mehring’s passing. “... I truly realized what a wonderful brother I had,” Williams, who lives in Australia, wrote in an email to his friends. “I always knew it, as he and I were partners in crime, so to speak, as we grew up with social justice issues in mind and helping those who can’t help themselves.” A celebration of Mr. Mehring’s life will be held Monday, April 30, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Alameda County Central Labor Council, 7750 Pardee Lane, Suite 110 in Oakland. t

Marathoner conquers North Pole by Roger Brigham

asked Larry Rich what it was like running a marathon at the North Pole. He spoke to me about the strange sound the snow made beneath his feet. That made all the sense in the world to me. I should explain. Rich, a gay man who is involved with the current Bare Chest Calendar contest, is a local running fanatic and the founder of a coaching effort called Sweat Tracker. You know how runners are: they keep track of things, set goals, and knock things off their bucket lists as they hither and yon about the world. On a bit of a marathon binge, Rich has taken his passion to serious lengths in recent years. In 2013, he started conquering continents one marathon at a time. You know: #quest4seven. He started with the marathon course that inspired all of the marathons that have come in the centuries since: the course across the Greek countryside from Marathon to Athens, which he covered in a very respectable 3 hours, 56 minutes and 43 seconds. In 2014 he tackled Asia with the Great Wall Marathon (5:31:39) and Antarctica (5:32:24) in the Antarctic Ice Marathon. In 2015, he visited Africa for the Big Five Marathon in South Africa (5:55:31); in 2016, he knocked off the Americas with a 3:36:55 finish in the Boston Marathon and a grueling 11:16:23 in the Inca Trail Marathon to Machu Picchu. He followed that with the Australian Outback Marathon in 2017 (5:58:13). This year, having run out of continents, he took on the North Pole Marathon, a fun little jaunt across the

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Larry Rich stands with his medal after the North Pole Marathon.

floating patch of ice that surrounds the North Pole in the endless sunlight of spring and under the watchful eye of heavily armed Russian troops guarding against polar bears. Now, I’m a bit of an arcticphile. I lived in Alaska for nine years (the first three without a winter coat) and have kayaked north of the Arctic Circle on a river so remote that at night we had to scrape the bear crap off a rocky ledge so we’d have room to set up our tents. I’m familiar with the winter days that have no sunlight and the summer days in which the sun neither rises from the horizon nor sets below it. My favorite moment in my Alaska days was showing my mother Mount Denali at midnight, its western slopes hundreds of miles away from us swathed in a golden glow as dusk set in, its eastern

slop simultaneously illuminated by the first rays of the morning sun. So I wanted to know what struck Rich when he started to run on the icy patch so far removed from civilization, so frozen and barren under the unblinking eye of the sun and the guards and the bears. “The sound,” Rich said. The sound. “The sound,” he repeated. “It’s a strange sound. It’s almost like Styrofoam.” I know the sound well. It is a strange sound and it is a good sound. It is the sort of thing you would notice when you are alone with your thoughts trudging across a patch of semi-crusty snow, crushing the crystals in to dry and tightly packed masses beneath your feet, compressing them tighter and tighter as you run over the same snowy patches again and again, repeating over and over again the loop course that has been hastily set up just hours before around an impromptu landing field, crossing again and again into the wind and out of the wind, into the wind and out of the wind, seeing runners in front of you and behind you, never seeing their eyes but only the clothing bundled in layers on them and around them, clouds of steam rising from their breath, the sun shining in their eyes and casting the longest shadows, all of you dancing in circles around and around in the snow and the sun until on this course and this runway that both will be gone hours See page 13 >>

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against the black community for decades. James Erickson, an insurance salesman and Oakland resident, joined forces with Jones and shelled out $50,000 for signature gathering for the proposition to qualify for the ballot, he said. Erickson said the petition demonstrates that an overwhelming number of city residents don’t agree with the move and is a decision solely decided by “billionaires” and “corrupt politicians.” The men specifically pointed out the loss of jobs Oakland will face with the move. “This will cost people jobs,” said Jones, who also runs a nonprofit called Direct Help, which helps support low-income children. “I have a union document right now that shows people at Oracle will lose their jobs,” he said, referring to the arena where the Warriors currently play. (Jones made news in 2011 when he pushed San Francisco city leaders to honor the late Oliver Sipple, a gay disabled veteran who was credited with thwarting an assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford when he visited San Francisco in 1975. While the city did name September 22, 2011 as “Oliver W. Sipple Day,” Jones told the B.A.R. he was upset more wasn’t done to celebrate the honor.)

Tepid support

Although Jones and Erickson have support from some people, the measure has not received many endorsements. Every member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, except one who voted no contest, voted for a recommendation to vote no on Prop I. David Campos, a gay man who’s chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, said it was because

SFSP ED

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receive specific training on LGBTQ topics and HIV. Issues that frequently arise in those calls are fear of coming out, usually connected with people in transitional housing or broken situations, problems

News Briefs

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from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the facility, 3207 Lakeshore Avenue (entrance on Rand Avenue). The event will feature speakers, demonstrations, vendors, panel discussions, and more. Topics include LGBTQ mental health, trans health, meditation, QTPOC yoga, nutrition education, queer family health, and much more. In other center news, co-founder and board President Jeff Myers recently sent an email to supporters stating that the organization is seeking volunteers to help with San Francisco and Oakland Pride activities. Interested people can email volunteer coordinator Fern Stroud at stroudmgmtent@gmail. com. San Francisco Pride is June 23-24; Oakland’s Pride is September 9.

Jock Talk

From page 12

after you leave, running and running through the layers of sweaty clothes you unwrap from your body until the deed is done and you can rest with the memory of that Styrofoam crunch. Strange that something as artificial as Styrofoam and so natural as snow should make the same sound, but there you have it.

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none of the committee members understood the reasoning behind the proposition. “The general sense that people had was that they didn’t understand what the point of it was,” he said in an interview with the B.A.R. “If you go to the ballot, there needs to be a point to try and accomplish.” Jim Lazarus, senior vice president of public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, agrees with Campos that the policy does not have an impact. “It’s a bad idea because it’s a political statement that has no legal impact,” he said. “There is a cost to putting these things forward, and we think policy statements that don’t direct city government to conduct an action is a waste.” The Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club voted no on endorsing Prop I, while the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club took no position. Another significant component of Prop I is condemning the $40 million in bond debt the Warriors allegedly owe the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority, a joint powers agency established by the city of Oakland and Alameda County that own the Oracle Arena. In 1996, the Warriors signed a 20-year lease with the Coliseum Authority, which issued $140 million in bonds to renovate the arena to accommodate changes requested by the Warriors. The Warriors have paid a significant portion of the debt, but are now suing Oakland for the remainder, claiming the language of the contract does not hold the organization responsible for the debt if they are no longer using the arena. The lawsuit goes to arbitration in July. Rebecca Kaplan, a lesbian who is the at-large member of the Oakland City Council, is asking the Warriors to drop the suit and pay the debt, which she said Oakland taxpayers will be burdened with. “The people of Oakland will be

left with a huge cost and burden if the Warriors move forward with trying to not pay the $40 million in bond debt,” said Kaplan, who has started an online petition on the matter. “That means less after-school programs, less money to help the homeless, fix potholes, illegal dumping, real needs for Oakland.” She also said African-American and other minority groups will be disproportionately affected by the move, especially if Chase Center begins to host concerts and other events that would otherwise be booked at Oracle. She condemned San Francisco for its encouragement of the move saying, “How would San Francisco feel if another city encouraged their companies to relocate and deadbeat on $40 million of debt?” Kaplan, who supports Prop I, also mentioned the negative consequences of building Chase Center next to UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. The arena, located at 16th and Third streets, sits across the street from UCSF, which offers emergency services. UCSF sent a formal letter to the late mayor Ed Lee during the approval process that voiced the university’s opposition. “Our major fear is that the Mission Bay site will lose its appeal – not only for the new biomedical enterprises that the city would like to attract here, but also for most of its current occupants. The result could critically harm not only UCSF, but also the enormously promising, larger set of biomedical enterprises that currently promises to make San Francisco the envy of the world,” read a letter by UCSF heads, faculty, and staff. The last straw for Jones was when the California Supreme Court in January 2017 threw out lawsuits by the Mission Bay Alliance, a group of academics, staff, and benefactors of UC, to stop the construction of the new arena on the grounds it would create major traffic, inflict upon the services of the medical center,

and other negative environmental impacts. Campos and Lazarus said these issues have been worked out among city officials and don’t foresee any major issues with the Chase Center. The B.A.R. reached out Warriors spokesman Raymond Ridder, but did not receive a response by press time. The Oakland Alameda County Coliseum Authority also did not respond to a request for comment. For more information, visit Jones’ website at www.goodneighborcoalition.org.

of bullying at home or in the classroom, substance abuse, and grief issues. “Rejection by family is frequently part of the anxiety of youth callers, who are coming out at younger ages,” Ancheta said. He has observed that, “Calls about health questions and HIV have increased since the (last national) election.”

Meyer emphatically refutes the assumption that people should avoid talking about suicide because they will put the idea in another person’s head. “Many studies show talking about it does not do that,” she said, and then suggested this approach, “Say, ‘I want to help you.’” t

Besides the 24-hour Crisis Line (415-781-0500), SFSP has six other programs: an HIV Nightline (415-434-2437); a Drug Line (415-362-3400); a Relapse Line (415-834-1144); Peer Workforce Supportive Services for professionals of mental health services; Grief and Survivors Programs for people who have lost a loved

one to suicide; and a Youth Risk Reduction Program, which trains students and staff of local schools and youth agencies.

D8 residents can vote on budget proposals

SF Carnaval crowns 1st drag titleholder

in looking fierce and having an even more fierce performance,” according to her bio. Also crowned at last weekend’s royalty competition were Queen Tainah Damasceno Harvey, the assistant artistic director at BrasArte, and King Adonis Damian Martin Quiñones, a Cuban dancer who moved to the Bay Area in 2013. The four titleholders will lead the televised 40th Annual Carnaval San Francisco Grand Parade through the city’s Mission district Sunday, May 27.

According to a news release, the Women’s Community Clinic will begin its move Friday, May 4. LyonMartin will be open for a half-day, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. that day, and will be closed Monday, May 7. The two programs will re-open Tuesday, May 8, at 8:30 a.m. New hours will be: Monday-Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; and Friday, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www. lyon-martin.org.

New hours at Lyon-Martin

Queer prom in San Jose

Gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy has announced that residents can now vote for participatory budgeting proposals in the district. Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that gives community members the opportunity to set budget priorities and make decisions on which community projects should be funded. There is $250,000 to be allocated in District 8, Sheehy said in a news release. All D8 residents 16 and up can participate in the voting process. Non-U.S. citizens, regardless of immigration status, are also invited to participate. “I am very proud to initiate District 8’s first participatory budgeting process,” Sheehy said. The deadline is May 1. To vote, visit https://sfpbd.sfgov.org/district/8/ ballot.

It was Rich’s 80th marathon. “When I say it was the toughest race that I have done, I’ve got a few to compare it to,” Rich, 49, said. “Almost immediately you step in some loose snow, in some places as deep as your knee, so I knew right away it was not going to be any where as fast as the Antarctica marathon.” The runners raced in a loop, covering the course 10 times. A base camp offered runners repeated chances to peel off wet clothes and replace them

Organizers of the annual SF Carnaval have crowned Black Opal as the event’s first Drag Majesty titleholder. This year marks the celebration’s 40th anniversary. It also is the debut of the Drag Majesty and gender-neutral Royale titleholders as part of the event’s Royalty Court. Transgender actor Jaylyn Abergas, currently appearing in the Tenderloin Museum’s show, “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot,” will serve as the inaugural Carnaval Royale ambassador. And after holding a competition Saturday, April 21, that saw four drag queens compete for the Drag Majesty crown, Black Opal emerged the winner. According to her bio posted by SF Carnaval, Black Opal is a trained dancer who favors jazz, hip-hop, and contemporary styles when she performs. She “is definitely an aspiring look queen who finds strength

with dry ones, as well as to eat food that had not yet frozen, but Rich said he limited his stopovers so as not to waste time. On the third lap he found the energy bars he had were frozen; on the sixth lap he was blinded by goggles that fogged up. For two laps he gutted into the direct glare of the sun without the goggles. “Marathons are a lot about mental toughness,” he said. The logistics coming in and getting out were in constant flux, depending

Other SF props

Other local measures include Proposition F, which provides cityfunded legal representation for residential tenants facing eviction. Gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who supports Prop F, said in an editorial board meeting with the B.A.R., “it would identify the bad actors” and help stop serial owner move-ins. Board of Supervisors President and mayoral candidate London Breed said she supports the intention behind Prop F, but that legal representation can be provided through an ordinance put forth by the Board of Supervisors. Opponents include the San Francisco Apartment Association. More clean energy is the focus of Proposition A, a charter amendment. The amendment would authorize the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to issue revenue bonds for facilities to produce hydroelectric power for city and port land, including developments on Treasure Island, the Hunters Point Shipyard, Pier 70, and Mission Rock. The amendment was introduced by Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Katy Tang. The Libertarian Party of San Francisco is against Prop A, saying on its website that the measure gives politicians the “power to incur debt without voter approval to force all

Lyon Martin Health Services, which recently joined with the Women’s Community Clinic and is a program of HealthRight 360, has announced new hours as it moves to 1735 Mission Street beginning May 8. Lyon-Martin primarily serves women and trans people. All services are provided regardless of ability to pay.

on what was happening with how the runway reacted on the ice floe. And then there was the chance to get on a helicopter and fly a few miles to where the actual, for real geographic North Pole is. “For a moment I thought, ‘Wait – we’re standing in this snowy place and then we’re going to stand in another snowy place,’” Rich said. But of course, he hopped on the copter and stood at the other snowy place, the one that was 40 degrees below

residents to get all our power needs from the city and no one else.” Peskin said in an endorsements column in the Semaphore, “This will not come at an expense to taxpayers. The SFPUC has proven that they can manage ratepayer finances responsibly.” Proposition B, spearheaded by Peskin, is another charter amendment. It formalizes an unenforced policy that members of city boards and commissions resign their seat when they decide to seek elected office. Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown was known to kick people off of city boards and commissions when they entered a race, but the policy was never codified. City Controller Ben Rosenfield said in a letter to the Department of Elections that if passed, “It would have a minimal impact on the cost of government.”

Regional measure

Known as the “Bay Area Traffic Relief Plan,” Regional Proposition 3 would increase Bay Area bridge tolls (on all but the Golden Gate) by $3 by 2025 to fund $4.5 billion in capital improvements to Caltrain, BART, Muni, and several highways. The measure would add new BART cars, extend BART through downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, expand ferry services, extend Caltrain to the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, and add new carpool lanes on the Marin-Sonoma Narrows on U.S. Highway 101, and maintenance. The legal text of the measure states, “Between now and 2040, the Bay Area’s economy is expected to add one million jobs, while our population is expected to grow by two million residents.” The plan includes 35 projects and programs to help relieve traffic and enhance public transportation. Terence Faulkner, the former chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, does not support the initiative. t

Laughs for Life starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom, 465 California Street. Tickets are $300. For more information, visit http:// www.sfsuicide.org.

Queer youth are invited to attend the Queer Prom in San Jose Friday, May 4, from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Avenue. Youth between the ages of 14-20 are welcome. They must present school or California ID at the door. See page 14 >>

zero, rather than the snowy place at the runway course that was only 30 degrees below zero. And there far from the surreal constructs of the Great Wall of China or the mysteries of Machu Picchu, as far from the Antarctic penguins as it is humanly possible to get, Rich strode atop the globe, crossing through every time zone with just a twist of his body, the Styrofoam crunch beneath his feet, the possibilities of human efforts forever frozen in his DNA. Cool.t

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Organizers said that formal wear is not required. The evening will include dancing, raffles, performances, food, and a resource fair. The event is being organized by William C. Overfelt’s gendersexuality alliance, in partnership with Santa Clara County’s Office of Education, the LGBTQ Youth Space, Tobacco Use Prevention Education, and the Office of LGBTQ Affairs. While the prom is free, there is a $5 suggested donation that will benefit the LGBTQ Youth Space and the WCO-GSA. For more information and to sign up, visit https://wcogsa.weebly.com/ queer-prom-sj.html.

Trans re-entry resource fair

A Woman’s Place will hold a trans re-entry resource fair and town hall Friday, May 4, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Latino Hispanic Community Room at the main San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street. Girlfriends Connect at UCSF is also collaborating on the event. Organizers said that agencies and providers will have tables to discuss and distribute information about resources for this community. A panel of speakers will talk about their experiences with incarceration and re-entry services. There is no cost to attend. Refreshments will be provided.

Palm Springs

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Dining is required for the shows with a cover on Friday through Sunday nights. For the no-cover shows, there’s no food minimum beyond the expectation you’ll order a drink. Tuesday, we heard Rose Mallett and her trio performing songs made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jarreau, and Carmen McRae. For the cost of a few drinks, Mallet’s group presented an excellent show. We returned Thursday to hear sassy and equally talented Sharon Sills, with a different trio of musicians, sing more pop songs in a silver lame dress and chandelier earrings. Her sets included songs like “YMCA” and “Straighten Up and Fly Right” and she had fun with campy versions of a few other songs. Also on the same three nights, a vocalist and piano entertain from 4 to 6 p.m., with no cover. Sunday night, the Judy Show is on at 7 p.m., which friends described as hilariously funny and with some audience participation. Reserve well in advance. We did catch a production of “The Cocktail Hour,” a comedy by A.R.Gurney at the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Annenberg Theater. It was mildly entertaining though tickets were $60. Other nearby live entertainment venues include the Palm Canyon Theater (“Sister Act” was playing during our visit), the Copa Room, McCallum Theater, plus CV Rep Theater in Rancho Mirage (Edward Albee’s “The Goat or who is Sylvia” was playing) and Desert Theatreworks in Indio.

LGBTQ Mormons to meet in SF

Affirmation: LGBTQ Mormons, Families, and Friends, will hold its Bay Area regional conference in San Francisco May 4-6. The theme for the conference is“AView From Here,” and will highlight thought leaders in the Mormon queer space. The conference begins with a welcoming event at Salesforce Tower Friday night, and a day of workshops on Saturday at the Harvey Milk Center for the Arts, 50 Scott Street, followed by a bonfire at Ocean Beach. Special honorees will be Gary and Millie Watts and Kate Kendell, the outgoing executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights who is a former Mormon. Author Greg Prince will speak about his upcoming book on the intersection of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and LGBTQ issues. Workshop topics include LGBTQ parenting, trans and intersex issues, and a discussion with progressive LDS leaders who are making a difference in their congregations for inclusion of queer members. Affirmation is the world’s largest support group for LGBTQ Mormons and former Mormons. The cost for the conference is $60 Evening events are free but require preregistration. For more information, visit https://affirmation.org/event/ bay-area-regional-conference/ or contact Brandt Hill, Bay Area conference co-chair, at brandthill@gmail.com. t Matthew S. Bajko contributed reporting.

Shopping

Palm Springs stores offer an exceptional selection of mid-century furniture in all price ranges, including both vintage and reproduction pieces. This site has a list: http://www.midcenturypalmsprings.com. For a different type of retail entertainment, visit the 14-shop complex at 1345 North Palm Canyon. Stores in the gay-owned complex carry a fascinating collection of objects ranging from furniture to fashion to paintings to vintage Moroccan rugs. The newest addition is the Backyard, opened in October 2017 by Bret Baughman with help from his husband. They transformed a pile of sand behind 1345 into a stylish retail space displaying cacti, containers, and accessories for sale. Baughman also offers landscape services. For his favorite cactus, he nominated the “simple paddle cactus,” featured on his web site, http:// www.thebackyardps.com. Locals raved about the Sunday tea dance at Oscars (125 E. Tahquitz Canyon), where the crowd includes all ages and genders. It offers live entertainment on other days and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. A helpful LGBTQ site is http:// www.visitgaypalmsprings.com. The Desert Sun newspaper also publishes the LGBT Newsletter; sign up at http://www.desertsun. com/newsletters. For more live entertainment ideas, visit local performer Les Michaels’ site at http:// www.lesmichaels.com. t

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APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038077900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOLSOM DENTAL GROUP, 3085 24TH ST #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ULLOA AND LUQUE DENTAL CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/02/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/02/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26 , 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038064900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF SHOTCRETE, 318 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BRADY CONSTRUCTION INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/21/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038055900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: QUEST CLINICAL RESEARCH, 2300 SUTTER ST #208, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LALEZARI MEDICAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/09/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038066600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRITS, 210 JONES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JAKINS CO (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 03/27/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038061300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SILO, TWO EMBARCADERO CENTER, FLOOR 8, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SILO TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (DE The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/09/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038068800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JK SOUND, 1425 DAVIDSON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JK SOUND INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/22/99. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038071400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORNELL & MUNZER LLC, 326 BRAZIL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CORNELL & MUNZER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 07/14/14. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038068200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OINK & OSCAR, 87 YERBA BUENA LANE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed OINK, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038068000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COCOSUEÑO, 865 MARKET ST, STORE 497, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed YBL PARTNERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038069200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE VOLUME; THE WAKING HOUR, 465 S. VAN NESS AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CULTURE VULTURE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/28/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038075800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GORKHA KITCHEN, 1386 9TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HALESI MAHADEV LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/30/18.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035157300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CORNELL & MUNZER, 326 BRAZIL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by ROBERT MUNZER & SUZANNE CORNELL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/13.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036478200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CULTURE VULTURE, 465 S. VAN NESS AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by YBR PROMOTIONS LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/15.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037375300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: THE WORD, 465 S. VAN NESS AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by YBR PROMOTIONS LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/06/16.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036739000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: NOB HILL GENERAL STORE, 1398 LEAVENWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business was conducted by a married couple and signed by TIMOTHY ANDREW TALBOT. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/15.

APR 05, 12, 19, 26, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038060700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUILDCORP, 666 MONTEREY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FLORENCE LY. 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 03/23/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARILYN ROSE SHERIDAN IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-18301660

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of MARILYN ROSE SHERIDAN, MARILYN SHERIDAN, MARILYN R. SHERIDAN. A Petition for Probate has been filed by LYDIA SHERIDAN in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that LYDIA SHERIDAN 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. 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 07, 2018, 9:00 am, Dept. Probate, 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: Jayleen Janell Woodbury (CA BAR #289808), The Woodbury Law Office, 875 University Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825; Ph. (916) 837-8211.

APR 12, 19, 26, 2018 SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, CIVIC CENTER COURT, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: BRYAN CHAUVEL, SCOTT NOLEN, JASON LALAK & DOES 1-5, INCLUSIVE, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: 100 VAN NESS ASSOCIATES, LLC CASE NO. CGC-16-553342 NOTICE!

You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Francisco Civic Center Court, 400 McAllister St, San Francisco, California 94102 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: Francisco G. Torres (SBN 156169), 625 Market St, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105; (415) 977-0444 ext. 224, Date: July 29, 2016. Clerk of The Court. NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant. On behalf of: Limited Liability Corporation.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038086500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIRE 2 SMOKE, 1954 48TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DONALD MICHAEL BUDETTI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/09/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/09/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038082300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ADVERTISE ON SEARCH, 548 MARKET ST #19013, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARTER KASH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/05/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038080600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIX TRADITIONS, 800 CORTLAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FVI INVESTMENT CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038087000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KNR CLEANING COMPANY, 145 BRITTON ST APT G, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KYWANNA REED. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/09/18.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038047500

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038084900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TEICHOSCOPIA, 866 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SALEM EVANS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/18/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/18.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JACOBSEN WINES, 1387 DEHARO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JACOBSEN WINES LLC (CA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 01/01/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/06/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038082700

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037539100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EKO KITCHEN, 3090 26TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIMILEOLUWA ADEBAJO. 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 04/05/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038078500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VOLDI EVENTS, 1151 POST ST APT 3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLAU FERNANDES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/03/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/03/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038049400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TARANTINO’S, 206 JEFFERSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HERRINGBONE TAVERN INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038066900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORVERA’S TOWING, 2000 MCKINON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HOWARD N. CORVERA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 08/21/07. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038071700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TAZ STREET CLEANER, 1450 SUTTER ST #322, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH MASKINS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/22/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038055600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTH SOUTH CONSTRUCTION, 1657 JENEVEIN AVE, SAN BRUNO, CA 94066. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NORTH SOUTH CONSTRUCTION INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/22/08. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038081300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMPLE, 2620 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AP SIMPLE (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: E BUY STORE, 2750 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by XIU MEI LI. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/31/17.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038049100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MINT, 1942 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MINT PARTNERS INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/18.

APR 12, 19, 26, MAY 03, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-553836

In the matter of the application of: CHERRY MARY SHEEDY, 391 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHERRY MARY SHEEDY, is requesting that the name CHERRY MARY SHEEDY, be changed to CHERRY SHEEDY. 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 17th of MAY 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 19, 26, MAY 03, 10, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038081400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE ERGO LADY, 1519 OAK ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CAMERON STIEHL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/29/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/05/18.

APR 19, 26, MAY 03, 10, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038087100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RED SHELF, 1232 UNION ST, OAKLAND, CA 94607. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed OBAIDALLAH MEDHAT KAMAL MAHMOUD. 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 04/09/18.

APR 19, 26, MAY 03,10, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038072700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN MARCOS RESTAURANTE, 98 LELAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SULMA YOJANA CASTANON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/18.

APR 19, 26, MAY 03, 10, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038091600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AGENCY ALL ABOUT CHILDREN, 1410 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWARD Y. ROMANOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/18.

APR 19, 26, MAY 03, 10, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038083200

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APR 19, 26, MAY 03, 10, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037279800

APR 26, MAY 03, 10, 17, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038101500

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APR 26, MAY 03, 10, 17, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038102600

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his year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the presidential candidate and ardent advocate for civil rights and the poor, slain at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Three days following his death, a funeral train carrying his body departed New York City and headed toward Washington, DC, where he was to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. See page 24 >>

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an Francisco Ballet ends their season with a splashy festival of new works. They’ve been building towards this all season, holding back a stellar dancer, Solomon Golding, whom we’ve never seen before but bowled us over on opening night in a cameo role. SFB is capitalizing on what the company is famous for abroad. In London they’ve set box-office records for first-night walk-ups, and critics point to our troupe as “where ballet is going.” See page 24 >>

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in this intensely moving drama from Iceland. As the two women find themselves falling outside society’s safety nets, they turn to one another to find a way out of their predicaments. Winner of the Best Director - World Cinema prize at Sundance.” The Centerpiece Documentary, “When the Beat Drops,” directed by Jamal Sims, will have its West Coast Premiere on Monday, June 18. “Choreographer Sims directs this bold, energetic documentary exploring ‘bucking,’ a dance subculture popular within the black LGBTQ community in the South, from its beginnings at historically black colleges and universities, through its evolution at underground clubs, and on to fierce competitions at large venues.” Centerpiece Episodic, “Bonding,” directed by Rightor Doyle, has its North American Premiere on Thursday, June 21. “Struggling to pay his rent, a shy, aspiring stand-up comedian teams up with his best friend, who moonlights as a dominatrix. ‘Bonding’ had its world premiere at the inaugural Cannes International Series Festival in April.” Some other highlights from the first slate of announced films: “High

Fantasy,” directed by Jenna Cato Bass, will have its Northern California Festival Premiere on Sunday, June 17. “Captured by four friends with smartphones, a camping trip deep in the South African wilderness takes a sharp turn toward the weird when they wake to discover they have switched bodies with one another, in this high-energy riff on sexuality, gender, and race.” “Man in an Orange Shirt,” directed by Michael Samuels, will have its U.S. Premiere on Friday, June 15. “Produced by the BBC, two connected love stories, set 60 years apart, explore the evolving challenges of gay life for men in England from the post-WWII era to the present day, in this well-crafted, sophisticated drama that stars Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Morris, Laura Carmichael and Julian Sands.” Showcase feature “Mapplethorpe,” directed by Ondi Timoner, will have its West Coast Premiere on Thursday, June 21. “Starring Matt Smith, this vibrant biography dramatizes the life and legacy of visionary photographer and sexual outlaw Robert Mapplethorpe, from the early days of his friendship with Patti Smith to his success as an artist and provocateur, then to his ultimate struggle with AIDS.” Our insatiable curiosity is piqued. Bring on the LGBTQ film fare!t

pop. Her song titles alone speak volumes: “Pull Up to the Bumper,” “Love Is the Drug.” Backstage, a hyper-happy male fan, armed with a Sharpie and a record album, pleads with his diva. “Grace, I’ve waited 25 years to see you!” Jones responds kindly but firmly, laying down the rules of engagement, the unspoken irony that an autograph line must be conducted by her rules alone. “One [signature] only, give me your favorite item. Hurry up, dear, my mother’s waiting backstage.” Director Sophie Fiennes divides her piece into two worlds: Grace on the road in full performance mode, and Grace at home with her extended island clan. I label the first part “Grace, all business,” and the second, “Trouble in Paradise,” indicating the odd trajectory that smallisland-nation folks have to navigate in this post-superpower universe. When she’s rehearsing or planning to perform in Paris, New York, or other culture hotspots, Jones is very particular about her workspace, that all hands on deck be as committed to the project as she is. Explaining that her financial survival depends on the concerts paying for the records, and the records creating demand for the concerts, Jones screams over the phone to her producer, “Robbie, I’m paying for the record myself, and I’m worried it won’t be done on time!” In a film that showcases unguarded moments with family and island friends, Jones gives pithy quotes. Reflecting on the importance dance music has had in fueling her spectacular rise up the Billboard charts, she notes, “I’m serious: Disco really

was like going to church.” Perhaps the liveliest segment is when she tells off the Paris crew that has constructed a stage set she feels frames her in a lurid, almost pornographic context. “I’m like a madam in a whorehouse. I’m like a lesbian madam, with all her girls dressed as in a brothel. I’m a pimp. I am the madam of all these girls. Give me a fucking break!” The hardest part for Grace Jones fans to accept is the long, rambling section where she describes physical abuse at the hands of her Bible-obsessed father. “You weren’t allowed to watch TV. All of that was forbidden. If you were caught doing that, you’d be beaten for a week. My father would declare as he was beating me, ‘I’m doing this because I love you.’ Whip, whip!” “Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami” is a bit of a puzzle: there is too little introduction of family members. The film could have done with a “Frontline”-style narration. The photography is excellent, quite in the cinema verite fashion, so that in the best moments you feel like a fly on the wall. The production numbers are also first-rate, and the film should expand Jones’ fan-base. One technical glitch: the dense blue font chosen for the closing credits, impossible to decipher on my screener copy. Grace Jones is a fabulous act, far more than the sum of her overthe-top costumes, hairstyles and stage sets. A few quotes: “Love is a drug, and I need to score!” “Men all need to be penetrated at least once!” Rated R, mostly in English, with readable subtitles for sections in the local dialect. Opens Friday.t

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • April 26-May 2, 2018

Fractured fairy tale a la Go-Go’s by Jim Gladstone

ntil the mid-1600s, female characters in English-speaking theater were all played by males. Shakespeare tickled the underbelly of this tradition by writing characters who further cross-dressed for comic confusion. Hence the likes of As You Like It, in which a boy actor played a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to seduce a girl played by another boy actor. Head Over Heels, the exuberant new musical that opened at the Curran Theater last Wednesday night in advance of a Broadway opening this summer, ups the Edwardian ante for identity-bending comedy. Through songs by 1980s rockers the Go-Go’s and a scriptin-verse loosely based on Arcadia, a 16th-century tale by Sir Philip Sidney, Head Over Heels takes assumptions about not just gender, but gender roles and sexual orientation, and sets them spinning. The overarching plot is simple. The king of Arcadia and his subjects embark on a road trip in order to avoid a prophesied disaster. Their itinerary includes Lesbos and Bohemia. But the delight is in the details, and by journey’s end, all of the major characters have grown by reckoning with fluidity of the Id. Spurning a slew of hunky suitors, vain and pushy Princess Pamela (Bonnie Milligan) slowly comes to realize that she leans toward ladies.

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Peppermint (center) as Pythio, The Oracle of Delphi, and the ensemble in “Head Over Heels.”

Little sister Philoclea (Alexandra Socha) also proves open to samesex attraction. The meek shepherd Musidorus (Andrew Durand, hilariously hybridizing Don Knotts and Jim Parsons) finds his inner strength while donning a thigh-revealing skirt and conical bra. The King and Queen (Jeremy Kushner and Rachel York) rekindle old affection through unplanned experimentation. And the oracular Pythio played by Peppermint, who will soon become the first transgender woman ever to originate a major Broadway role, reunites with her ex-husband after he relinquishes his fear of the

nonbinary and embraces a new use of pronouns. While San Francisco’s opening night audience greeted these developments with happy laughter and roars of approval, it’s hard to imagine Head Over Heels connecting with mainstream American theater audiences even a decade ago. But in society as in comedy, timing is everything. In the wake of Drag Race, the bathroom wars, and nationwide rapture for The Book of Mormon, the many creative risks taken in Head Over Heels may yield Broadway success. Director Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American

Idiot) handles the challenging material with an unexpectedly sweet touch. The fractured fairytale is funny, but outright camp is largely kept in check. Among his greatest assets is Alexandra Socha, who plays her ingénue princess with a much more natural style than the rest of the cast brings to their more caricatured roles. Socha’s warmth and unornamented singing provide Head Over Heels with a down-to-earth element that invites the audience in and provides a necessary counterbalance to the predominant zaniness. Scenic and lighting design by Julian Crouch and Kevin Adams bring a lovely Maxfield Parrish prettiness to the proceedings. Amplifying the show’s spirit, Spencer Liff ’s choreography largely dispenses with gender roles. The chorus, in costume designer Arianne Phillips’ exaggerated codpieces and unisex kilts printed with sheet music, spins into both same- and mixed-sex duos during celebratory, stage-filling numbers including the title song and “Mad About You” (a solo hit for Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle). Liff ’s crisp, angular movement and postures give the show a fresh, contemporary kineticism that keeps it from falling too far into the realm of storybook parody. But when only two or three characters are on the stage, there are obvious lulls in energy. Hopefully these passages will be tightened before Broadway, lest

they become Achilles heels for the arrows of the New York press. Another easily addressed flaw is in the costuming. While the chorus and Pythia are dressed to kill, the royal family, especially King Basilius and Princess Pamela, seem dressed for a children’s make-believe party, with giant faux gemstones and cheap, tinselly headgear. But these are minor quibbles about a show that jubilantly leaps over major hurdles. The orchestration of Go-Go’s songs by Tom Kitt (composer of Next to Normal) finds a richness in the music without sacrificing the band’s ecstatic earworm hooks. A common criticism of the GoGo’s music at its most popular was that the lyrics were hard to make out, so kudos to Mayer, Kitt and cast for some of the clearest singing in any recent rock-based musical. This clarity is essential for the dialogue as well, since Magruder’s ribald verse, often from the “Old Man of Nantucket” school of poetry, is intricate and needs crystal-clear articulation. Though it contains cheerful echoes of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and the recent Shakespeare spoof Something Rotten, in both its assembly and its content, this is a singularly novel work of theater. By no means should it be considered a jukebox musical. Head Over Heels forego-goes cheap nostalgia for a smart, sparkly queerquake of innovation.t

Unconnected dots by Jim Gladstone

Magic Theater’s world-premiere production of the author’s own stage adaptation presented to me as a teaser, it could well inspire me to head for a bookshop.

’ve never read Jessica Hagedorn’s novel The Gangster of Love. But were almost any scene from the

Some scenes would intrigue me with glimpses of Filipino-American immigration: Raquel Rivera, her brother Voltaire, and their indomitable mother Milagros debarking a

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ship in San Francisco; settling into a shabby Haight apartment; being urged to move to a safer, less racist neighborhood in Daly City. Others might tempt me with a comingof-age saga: teenage Raquel (Golda Sargento) insisting on being called “Rocky”; becoming a poet; joining a rock band; glaring icily at her mother. There are scenes of sex and romance: Milagros (Sarah Nina Hayon) flirting with her Hawaiian landlord (Lance Gardner); Raquel canoodling with a ginger guitarist; Jennifer Reiley Milagros seducing the Golda Sargento as Rocky, and Jed Parsario banker (Lawrence Raas Voltaire, in “The Gangster of Love” at decker) who might fund the Magic Theater. a catering business she’s fantasized about. also contribute to the cinematic feel. There are two rather As Milagros, Sarah Hayon does an lengthy musical scenes full of vibrant extraordinary job infusing psychorock (if little plot); and a shocking logical depth into an underwritten nude scene that suggests Voltaire (Jed character. Every glance she makes Pasario) is suffering with mental illand every movement at the corner ness. Unfortunately, when seen all at of her mouth has at least as much once, over the course of nearly three to convey as the lines she speaks. hours, each scene still seems like a And Sean San José turns in a relaxed surface-scratching excerpt from a and charming performance as a gay story that never comes. Director Louncle and consummate raconteur. retta Greco parses out colorful dots, But as cinematic as the producbut doesn’t connect them. The Gangtion is, The Gangster of Love lacks ster of Love feels less like a narrative continuity. What provokes Voltaire’s than an outline. descent into madness? Does Rocky In terms of stagecraft, the proget pregnant and have a daughter duction is excellent, with Hana S. sometime during the second act? Is Kim’s set and projection design Milagros ailing for days, months, or taking advantage of the Magic’s years before we see her, out of the sprawling Fort Mason stage to creblue, on her deathbed? ate a constantly shifting environThat deathbed scene is the show’s ment with movie-like transitions most problematic. Rocky has rebetween locations. In scenes set in turned to San Francisco from New Rocky’s bedroom, a saturated porYork to say goodbye, and there are trait of Jimi Hendrix is projected intimations, but no explanations, on a wall, evoking not just a poster, of long-held hostilities between but also her rock-and-roll dreams. mother and daughter. The audience City Lights Bookstore is magically hasn’t seen or felt them though. You evoked, inside and out, with a stagecan feel playwright and director wide storefront and, later, an infinity aggressively yanking at your tear of bookshelves. Sara Huddleston’s ducts. The sentiment they presume fully encompassing sound design is entirely unearned.t and Ray Oppenheimer’s lighting

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Two masters of symphonic repertoire by Philip Campbell

wo weeks of concerts by the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall have included the Orchestra debut of British conductor Daniel Harding and the return of old favorite Yan Pascal Tortelier, in to replace previously scheduled Charles Dutoit (discredited by claims of sexual misconduct). The separate programs introduced internationally honored pianist Paul Lewis to the SFS, and brought back reigning diva, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham for a glowing solo turn. Both concerts also featured the rare appearance of a wind machine in the percussion section, but we’ll get to that later. Initially, the opportunity to hear Paul Lewis play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 seemed the biggest attraction. Many were curious to hear what conductor Daniel Harding would do with Richard Strauss’ “An Alpine Symphony” later in the evening, but Lewis is noted for his impeccably executed Beethoven, and we have already heard Hard-

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ing’s eloquence with Strauss on disc with mixed responses. Surprisingly, Harding turned the tables on our expectations. He rather upstaged Lewis with a thoughtful and gorgeously played rethinking of the orchestral backdrop in the Beethoven Concerto. The elegant pianist was predictably adept, but his tendency to downplay theatrics made him appear more instrumental to the big picture than the actual star. It was a satisfying performance overall, but frustrating. I might

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have liked it better on a recording, but then what would have been the point? Harding let it rip again on the second half with a mighty rendition of a mighty score. The crowd went wild for “An Alpine Symphony,” and the thanks were due, in large part, to the sheer volume of the work. It was entertaining to take the “postcards trip” up and down the mountain. Everyone delights in Strauss’ “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to orchestration. Well, maybe not everyone. That’s

where the wind machine comes in. Sorry to be a party pooper, but I think it is a cheesy sound effect and typical of everything I find kitschy about Strauss’ bloated tone poem. An undeniable orchestral tour de force, the musicians must be up to the challenge. Harding has proved his worth with the piece on disc, but the SFS faltered at times, and the performance seemed simply showy. It was fun, but only because Harding tried to be an amusing guide. Last week the wind machine was employed to much subtler effect in Yan Pascal Tortelier’s concert arrangement of Maurice Ravel’s sensuously scored “Daphnis et Chloe,” Choreographic Symphony in Three Parts. Eliminating the choral parts might have weakened the effect, but Tortelier’s sensitive and seamless version seemed a good choice for concert listening. It was less ballet and more symphony, and the conductor proved again his mastery with the French repertoire. The program also commemorated the great composer’s trip to San Francisco in February 1928, when

he conducted the SFS at the Curran Theatre. His orchestrations of Debussy’s “Sarabande” and “Danse” were on the bill, and so was the local premiere of his own “Sheherazade” for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. All of these works were repeated by Tortelier with the SFS musicians and Susan Graham, with lovely results. I attended on “College Night,” which is a clever strategy by marketing and administration to lure fresh faces to Davies Hall. It was a notable success, and the enthusiastic new listeners were not disappointed by Susan Graham’s beautifully idiomatic “Sheherazade.” Her natural grace on stage shows opera experience, but she really knows how to sell an art song, too. This week, SFS Resident Conductor Christian Reif, surely in the running for MTT’s replacement, conducts his first full DSH concert program (he has conducted before, but not a full bill). Holst’s “The Planets,” some Wagner, and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet are on the menu.t

New adventures in French Baroque by Tim Pfaff

iversity and representation are banging on the doors of the world’s concert halls and operas houses in ways those institutions ignore at their peril. If that’s slightly less true in the case of recorded music, it’s because the un- or underrepresented repertoires and artists can park and hawk their wares to the audiences they address with less administrative and institutional baggage. In the “received” classical repertoire, though, there’s less room to move. Pastiche as it is typically practiced, to present the work of a single artist, has fairly well worn out its existing formats, perhaps because of a world on Shuffle. The solo-singer album, particularly when the fare is opera arias, has shown it cannot be saved by themey programs with dreamy titles. So, when a program does comes along that’s fired with imagination and doesn’t just “package” the music, it’s a revelation, and a welcome one. Two new treatments of French Baroque music – which is still in the process of gaining the commitment of the early-music audience in America – have taken t h e trouble to be strange but honestly so, compelling deeper, repeated listening. “Enfers” (Harmonia Mundi) is just such an achievement, a cassoulet served with hot sauce. Pygmalion, the first new French period ensemble to pull up alongside Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyrique and say “Salut, We’re here,” owes its keen, already integrated profile as a creative collective to the vision of its director, Raphael Pichon. With “Enfers” it invites along the out French baritone Stephane Degout, who has shown a similar interest in expanding his repertoire beyond “opera singer” to tackle both “new” and “early” music. (He’s one of the singers on whom George Benjamin has composed his new

opera, now in rehearsal at Covent Garden.) The fit seems perfect, not least because the French is authentic. The musicians who take us through this Hell commit to a project for now, not a design for the future. It wouldn’t take musicians of this caliber of imagination to make a pastiche buffet of opera excerpts about Hell, but a project with less substance and direction would surely succumb to cuteness at some point. Instead, Pichon has drawn freely from the practice of the funeral of Jean-Philippe Rameau, a Concert-Spirituel that drew on religious music as old as the Requiem of Jean Gilles, then interpolated apposite selections from Rameau’s operas – the tragedielyriques – to make a new work of occasional music. Pichon’s annotators call this new pastiche work a “Mass for the End of Time.” It has a narrative draped gracefully across the liturgical sections of the traditional requiem. Its composite story is told by The Tragedien, here Degout at his most stylistically flexible and dramatically persuasive. The new drama plunges listeners into the deepest regions of hell, gracefully making its way to a hushed, ecstatic Elysium. Had Rousset done such a thing, which he well might have and yet might, it would have had a different character. He and his musicians can dazzle you one minute and make you weep the next with musicianship that is, paradoxically, fundamentally relaxed, in that “We’ve got this; you enjoy” manner. Pichon, his own man in a world of copiers, has consistently demonstrated his depth and integrity if, by contrast, as a leaner, hungrier, more palpably intense leader. Pichon draws his secular music largely from the operas of Rameau (“Castor et Pollux,” “Hippolyte et Aricie” and others) and the “French” Gluck, primarily “Orphee et Eurydice.” The music spans a dra-

matic arc with a precise shape and emotional inevitability. The purely instrumental interludes range from the wildness of Rebel’s “Les Elements” to the sublimity of Gluck’s “Ballet des Ombres heureuses,” and function as connective tissue, not breaks. This masterful pastiche takes hold of you and walks you through this particular Hell like Beatrice does Dante. While the landscape has its fiery terrors, you never want to be anywhere else. This is musicmaking so bold and self-confident

that it locates you, then takes you somewhere else, in all senses moving you the whole time. If by chance you’ve sensed that there was in the music of Gluck something beyond staid formality, this will be your illumination. Taking the opposite tack, pianist Pavel Kolesnikov draws you through a program of the 17th-century keyboard music of Louis Couperin on a modern piano (Hyperion). I found the idea so preposterous on its face – music for a mean-tuned harpsichord on an equal-tempered

modern grand – that I was sure Kolesnikov, a musician of curiosity and daring coupled with consummate taste, was onto something. The natural dissonances of this music are different on a modern instrument, to be sure, but Kolesnikov lets the fundamental strangeness of it all be his and his listeners’ lure. I can count on the fingers of one hand the pianists who have wreaked comparable wonders with French harpsichord music. Kolesnikov’s rapt playing is almost frighteningly intimate.t

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The Other Michelangelo: Antonioni

She moves through the for Vitti as the wide-eyed beauty, and dusty Spanish roads beyond. movie like a melancholy godbut it’s David Hemmings who’s Nicholson bravely lends himself to dess hurt by men’s abandonthe innocent, so distracted by his be discovered as a superficial charmment of traditional pieties. success as a trendy photographer ing twerp, rather than the badass he She leaves a tepid lover only he fails to grasp the significance of often pretended to be. Post-colonial to fall for Alain Delon, whose the image. Until he does. This film African gunrunning is a subject best beauty might be skin-deep. articulates the canker in the rose viewed obliquely. (10 p.m.) Books and paintings are no of apparent prosperity in the West: Amelia Antonucci’s name approtection against widea media blind to secretive forces is pears nowhere on the program but spread ennui. Pure cinema reduced to pimping senseless selfmet me at the publicist’s, who had and social critique wrapped indulgence. Hemmings is Hamlet laid out an ironic plate of Milano up as an off-kilter aesthetic in tight white pants developing his cookies in response to my request manifesto. (1:30 p.m.) own negatives in a dark room. (6:30 for pastry. Amelia, a 40-year veteran “Red Desert” (1964, color, p.m.) of the Italian Ministry for Foreign 115 min., restored digital) “The Passenger” (1974, color, Affairs, has taken it upon herself Richard Harris is an alien 124 min., 35mm) “People will beto promote Italian classic film in presence in an Italian cast, lieve what I write. Why? Because it San Francisco, and for this we say a globalist whose dyed yelconforms to their expectations. And “Grazie” to her, and to her backers low hair never sits naturally Cinema Italia SF of mine as well, which is worse.” here and abroad. Gesturing with on his scalp. His skin color This, the lament of a journalist (Jack eloquent hands and dressed like A scene from director Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura.” is toxic, like the chemical Nicholson) who has had the camera something out of vintage Antocorporation he inherited turned on him by an interviewee nioni, with her pearls, gold jewelry, of Mussolini and strategic bombing by Erin Blackwell from his father. He’s the last and been revealed in all his whiney red lipstick, in a navy pantsuit, she by USA. They were making a comeman Monica Vitti should turn to American sincerity as a lightweight. communicated to me a passion for hen I first saw Antonioni films back, but were the old reflexes still for solace, perhaps, after her suicide This film packs a wallop due to its the filmmaker that rekindled my as a young actress, I was spellthere? Love, Honor, and Faithfulattempt in a mental hospital. And stunning final seven minutes after own. These films remind us what bound by their beauty, intelligence, ness are challenged on a small cragyet. This difficult film posits a hosa dilatory travelogue from Africa art is: a quest for the answers we are rigor, elegance, design, grasp, reach, gy island and amidst antique Italian tile environment of smoke stacks, to London to Munich to Barcelona afraid to hear, yet long to be told.t generosity, compositions, montage, glories of civic architecture. When oil spillage, and cargo ships, but mostly the world of the Italians your best friend goes missing on a which is not a reality anyone who knew better but couldn’t do boat party, how long do you keep in their right mind should better. At the time, I didn’t see the looking for her, before succumbing reconcile themselves to, but critique, only the sensuality. Now I to the charms of her shallow-souled Monica must be a mother see the critique. Antonioni is mad boyfriend? Cool, silken, delicious to her son in this brave new at people for not being better artMonica Vitti’s bland glam deadworld. By turns morose, ists, better humans, when we have pan masks a quicksilver sensibilmaudlin, and melodramatic, the weight of Western Civilization ity. Whimsical and biting ensemble this portrayal of the human in ruins around us. Fifty years later, players from the land of Commedia canary in the coal mine of at least we have these luminous remdell’Arte. (10:30 a.m.) corporate pollution remains nants to gaze into as we slouch down “L’Eclisse” (1962, B&W, 125 prescient. (4 p.m.) deeper into the slough. The first two min., 35mm) Antonioni organizes “Blow-Up” (1966, color, films are the best, and priced to sell at his universe as a series of vignettes 110 min., restored digital) A $12 each. The last two are in English with chaos just an edit away. The meditation on the dangers at $14. There’s a party at 8:30 p.m. narrative is loose-weave, so the of aesthetic hedonism in the See you at the Castro Theatre on Satcamera can catch what it will, and face of political evil, with urday, April 28. montage can prolong a sequence Jane Birkin and Charlotte “L’Avventura” (1960, B&W, 140 past obvious dramatic value. He Rampling as orgiastic extras, min., 35mm) The postwar boom frames Monica Vitti against urban Cinema Italia SF this swinging 60s romp is a brought an influx of material goods landscapes where new construction mystery wrapped in a conun- A scene from director Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up.” and construction projects to Italians meets scrub, and a classical building drum disguised as a shadow. who had been through the horrors hides men’s panic over stock prices. Vanessa Redgrave stands in

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Real grifters, real artists, real scandal by Victoria A. Brownworth

s it safe to go outside, now that we know what will happen when The Big One hits San Francisco? Or is this what “Netflix and chill” was made for? We know if there’s a way for Trump to make those tectonic plates shift, he will. And what’s happening Out There that can’t be happening on your sofa with an array of adorable friends, drinks with cute umbrellas, and those tapas and amuse bouche you’ve been meaning to make from the new season of “Iron Chef Gauntlet?” “Chef ’s Table” is so good and it will prep you for pastry, which is one of the gifts of the world, even in the End Times. The gym? So overrated. Pass around some cans from your After the Big One Hits stash, and everyone can lift while watching the new season of “Real Housewives of New York.” Just remember, Til Brunch Do Us Part. Let’s stop here for a minute, because the person you want to take notes from when The Big One hits is “RHONY” Sonja Tremont Morgan, she of the “Where’s that champagne-pink Roux rinse for the dog, bitches?” Morgans. Sonja, who manages to get everyone to give her something, take her somewhere, make her comfy, stay at their posh place, raid their closets. Watching her operate her high-end grift is mesmerizing. But Sonja is also an object lesson in how not to behave, so take notes this season, because snarking your friends about being fat or needing some work around their eyes is not the way to go on the downside of 50 when the End of the World could be right around the corner. So what else do we want to watch? “Drag Race Thailand” is coming to America on WOW May 4. You know you want that sissy walk. Will you really need those subtitles? High Art and the World Outside are slapping us to learn more, between Nat Geo’s “Genius: Picasso” and “One Strange Rock,” yet more reasons to stay in. And now let us praise Famous Men. “Genius: Picasso,” which premiered April 24, is spectacular. Where Nat Geo’s “Einstein” at times felt like work and not a little punishing, “Picasso” is mesmerizing. Antonio Banderas is why. At 57, Banderas, who was nervous about portraying Picasso, exudes heat and passion from the small screen. Banderas, who came into prominence on the big screen playing gay for Pedro Almodovar, has always been a heartthrob. As Picasso, Banderas makes us understand exactly why people stripped naked for the painter on first meeting, why women fought over him, why he was larger than life. Alex Rich, who plays the young Picasso, is achingly beautiful, if differently spirited. In the era of #MeToo, “Picasso” doesn’t sidestep the artist’s long and checkered history with women. He is abusive and controlling, he uses women and throws them away. Picasso epitomizes the man attempting to recapture his youth with younger and younger partners. It’s the complex part that we must always address with great artists who have ugly personal lives. How do we watch Polanski’s brilliant films, listen to Wagner, read Tolstoy, view Picasso’s art? It will forever be a quandary. Yet as this depiction explicates, Picasso is also the perfect artist for these times. As we battle creeping Fascism, he faced it head-on in Franco’s Spain. What “Picasso” illumines is how art is an essential

piece of resistance. Picasso brightly. Rhimes created facing down the Fascists is these two characters, a as real as it gets. black woman and a gay The single most draman, propelled them matic moment of our onto center stage and art-loving lives was the left them there for seven day we turned the corner seasons to show what it is at MOMA, brought there to be a black woman and by our art history profesa gay man in the halls of sor who had a crush on power, where there has us and we on her, and never been a place at the there was “Guernica” in table for either. all its huge monochroAll the things that hapmatic drama. That was pen to Cyrus are localized like nothing we had ever around homophobia: exexperienced in a museum, ternal, internal. Cyrus is nor have we since. There brilliant, but more than is no other painting like any other TV character it on earth, nor will there except “Breaking Bad” ever be. The debate over Walter White, his browhether art can still be art kenness turns to a bitter if it is political begins and kind of badness, wrecks ends with that painting in the person he was meant its huge, overwhelming, to be. Cancer and no uniexacting, painful, extraorversal health care did it to Courtesy the subject dinary magnificence. Once White. Homophobia did seen, it cannot be unseen. “Real Housewife of New York” it to Cyrus. “Picasso” makes the case Sonja Tremont Morgan. But Rhimes gave him a for that painting being the life that he could love. He pivotal statement the artist had a husband, a child, chill all seven seasons, because it is makes against Fascism. a second husband, a lover, another revelatory. Thus for us, “Genius: Picasso” lover. We saw him literally stripped No more TGIT (That God is a return to sense memory of a bare in one iconic sequence as he It’s Thursday) with “Scandal” sort. As we watch the older Picasso, and his first husband tried to save flanked by “Grey’s Anatomy” and we wonder what happened to that their marriage with brutal naked “How to Get Away with Murder.” young revolutionary, the one who honesty. We saw him living a sexual ABC and Rhimes have created “Stawas taking on the world. But then life, not the neutered existence gay tion 19,” a firehouse/EMT spin-off we see it. And so must men on network are relegated to. of “Grey’s” that now sits in that you. “Genius: Picasso” is His passion for men was not an afpivotal center hour where “ScanTV for these times, and terthought, it was at the core of his dal” once sat. It has good things in Banderas and Rich both being just as his lust for power was it, from strong roles for women of bring the full range of there. color to a gay fireman. But it is not the artist’s life in their Cyrus is in many respects Liv’s “Scandal.” individual portrayals of foil. They start as friends, confi“Scandal” felt like our own. Not his life. dants. He brings her in to help just because we had started our When you’re done him turn Fitz into a president, and journalistic career in Washington, with Picasso, move on they conspire together to make that covering the White House, then the to the second seasons happen. They are monsters. But we U.S. Supreme Court, but because of HBO’s “Westworld” don’t really believe that. They are Olivia Pope, the fixer Kerry Washand Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” inhabitants of the gray areas of real ington brought to vivid real life, was which premiered April 22 & 25. life, and they navigate around the the woman all of us wanted to be Politics and art will continue to be edges of dark and light with facility. when we grew up. Much will be said about the iminterchangeable under the current Olivia “Liv” Pope, with her team pact of this show on the TV landregime, and both these series are of misfit gladiators, her coterie of scape because of Washington’s dyarchetypal for these times. broken people whom we recognized namism and the ground she broke If you missed Season 1 of “Westas real because we know them, for other black women to become world,” go binge it. Season 2 really always knew how to do the right lead characters. How to envision is contiguous to the first. But the thing. Liv took us into the gray areas “Scandal” without her toughness dystopian world of the amusement of real-world politics, the places and vulnerability, her passion and park where anything goes and where the sausage is made. Liv’s her steely resolve? Washington made retribution is not in play just feels own history was crazy sketchy, but us see all the facets of Olivia Pope: so right for now. This is the mostit was how she could be who she her badassery and her deep desire to watched series in HBO history, so was. If she hadn’t been raised by one day head off to Vermont with that tells you something about its a terrorist mother, Maya (Khandi Fitz and live happily ever after. impact. Alexander), and a father, Eli Pope If Washington hadn’t been so On the distaff side is “The Hand(Joe Morton), who put pieces of the very good and Pope hadn’t been maid’s Tale,” which is a preview of past together at the Smithsonian by such a brilliantly written character, what life would be like if Trump day as curator of antiquities, but ran “Scandal” would have been another is impeached and Mike Pence is a covert ops layer of the CIA, B613 one-season wonder. But instead it POTUS. Be careful what you wish by night, Liv would not have known became a cult and critical favorite. for. Life in a dystopian theocracy how to be who she was. Without Olivia there would never never works out well for women and There was a core romance, of have been “How to Get Away with The Gays. course. Liv and the President, Murder’s” Annalise nor “Empire’s” Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant (Tony GoldFinal Scandal Cookie. wyn), she worked to get elected. The second year of the first term The heat of their love affair threads of Trump seems like a bad time to through all seven seasons. They end “Scandal,” but as the show’s crebreak up. They make up. They have ator Shonda Rhimes said on April 19 deviant sex everywhere. They are all as the series finale was mere hours wrong and all right at the same time. away, in this climate, everything It’s real love, messy and complicatthat had once seemed over-the-top ed. He’s married, they have issues. on “Scandal,” is now happening He leaves his wife, she’s still afraid to in real life in Washington. We’re commit. But always that heart beats not ashamed to acknowledge that through season after season, even we sobbed through much of that when they are not together. We root final episode, which was as nearfor them, we want them to make it. to-perfect as a series finale can get. Then there is Cyrus Beene (Jeff Rhimes said on “Jimmy Kimmel” Perry), the gay chief of staff who after the finale that she was literally wanted to be president, but whose re-writing that very day to get that gayness held him back. Just as finale down right. Stevie Wonder, there has never been a character on whose music has filtered through all prime time TV like Olivia Pope, a seven seasons of the series, wrote an black woman lead around whom original song for the finale. That’s everyone else is the satellite, there how big it was. has never been a gay character like “Scandal” was iconic, groundCyrus. Cyrus being so central to the breaking, nothing-like-it-before TV. plot and so openly gay is as ground“Scandal” changed the TV landbreaking as Olivia being a black scape, and if you never watched it, if woman. This is the subversive qualyou thought perhaps it was a “West ity of “Scandal” that made Rhimes’ Wing” derivative or an escapee from genius as a showrunner shine so Lifetime, we urge you to Netflix and

Yet “Scandal” wasn’t an exercise in political correctness, it was an exercise in subversion, in saying the unsayable. Maya and Eli Pope were the truthsayers of blackness in this series. The things each had to say about what it is to be black in America would drive Trumpers into their bunkers and make white liberals itch to say, “Not all white people.” The soliloquys each delivered resonated in ways that made black America cheer and white America squirm. Eli delivers a speech in the last half-hour of the series finale that is breathtaking in its scope, and what he reveals about his role in the government is cataclysmic. As the series ends, there is no clean nor careful ending. But Shonda Rhimes gave us an ending we could believe in. In the world she created for us, which presciently saw where we were headed as a nation, the women get to win, just a little. The centrist woman president takes the Oval with a black woman who was once her nemesis propelling her forward. The swirling powers of white male destruction are, if not vanquished, at least sent reeling back into the shadows. “Scandal” gave us drama for seven seasons. It was palace intrigue writ Shakespearean large. What was different from other series about politics was that the key players were people like us who never got to say their own lines before Rhimes wrote them. “West Wing” showed us the dailiness of politics, but in that dailiness nearly everyone was a white man. Rhimes wrote what we live, and she gave it to us. “Scandal” was never neat nor tidy. The messes Liv was left to clean up were always as complex as the realities of politics. Sometimes things worked out the way we wanted. Sometimes they did not. With the finale, “Scandal” is now history. But those characters Rhimes wrote for us – Olivia Pope, Cyrus Beene, Mama Pope and Papa Pope, each of the gladiators, Fitz and Mellie – will resonate for years to come. This is one of those series that will end up in graduate school theses and academic journals because it was a pivot, a civil rights moment for women, for black people, for gays. It feels like a lot to hang on a TV series, yet “Scandal” was up to that job of breaking ground, making waves, and leaving viewers just a little shaken week after week. So for the ephemera of reality TV, the breadth of historical bio series, the warning klaxon of dystopian dramas, and the heart and soul of those series that move us forward as a society – for all of that, you must stay tuned.t

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OK thriller, better subplot by David-Elijah Nahmod

who needs to be kept silent. There are several esbian-owned Wolfe Video disturbing sequences offers the crime thriller “Rusin which Darlene is sian Doll,” which offers a bettortured for trying to ter subplot than its main story. escape from her captors. Melanie Brockmann Gaffney “Russian Doll” is stars as Viola, a Boston detective an OK thriller, though still mourning the loss of her far from a great one. wife two years earlier. She and Far more interesting Courtesy of Wolfe Video her partner EJ (Sarah Hollis) are to LGBT viewers is the trying to find and save the life Melanie Brockmann Gaffney (left) and Sarah subplot involving Viof Darlene (Aly Trasher), who’s Hollis (right) in “Russian Doll.” ola’s attempts to move been kidnapped after stumbling on from the memory of true author, driving the author to onto a murder plot involving a her late wife and to start commit suicide. play called “The Russian Doll.” The dating again. Sparks fly when Viola’s Now, many years later, the real playwright-star (Peter S. Adams) Mom introduces her to the beautiplaywright’s daughter and her boyhas lived off the play for decades. ful Faith (Marem Hassler). The friend are plotting to kill the thief. Only he’s not the playwright. He attraction between the two women Darlene is the daughter’s roommate, stole “The Russian Doll” from its is obvious, but Viola finds herself

SFMOMA

From page 17

Kennedy’s idealism and compassion and the shock of his loss galvanized an extraordinary outpouring of grief, expressed in the spontaneous gathering along the railroad tracks of nearly 2 million people – black, white, young and old, families with children, soldiers in uniform, brass bands, people sitting in lawn chairs and in the back of pickup trucks or holding up signs – who came to bid farewell. SFMOMA’s “The Train: RFK’s Last Journey,” a slim but thought-provoking exhibition, assembles the work of three artists from different eras and parts of the world who have documented or interpreted the event through the mediums of film, photography, or a combination of both, for an intellectual examination of a moment that represented an emotional depth charge to the culture. Those seeking a portrait of the idealistic leader, who engendered hope among the ranks of the disenfranchised and the young, may be disappointed. The show is less interested in politics or the man himself than with how historical facts are transmuted into memory, often with the help of photographs, which can supplant actual memories – and the historical record – over time. While each artist’s distinctive point of view advances the show’s intriguing core concept, one wishes that the exhibition as a whole were more substantial.

Unbound

From page 17

Since they must be out of the Opera House for more than half the year (because the Opera is in), SF Ballet make it up by touring the world, and over the span of Helgi Tomasson’s 30+year career as Artistic Director, they’ve wowed them in Europe, Asia, and especially Britain, with programs like the four that opened last Friday night and will run three weeks, into early May. Tomasson’s programs cohere like good menus. Variety rules, but each piece fits the bill, and it deep down makes sense as a whole. Festival fare is spicier, and gets more so. Opening night was sober compared to Program B. If you’re interested in the question mark in “LGBTQ?” Myles Thatcher’s Otherness is the one you need to see, and the overall trajectory predicted by Friday and Saturday night’s shows makes a moonlanding look likely. Program A was excellent, and it headlined our own Alonzo King, whose company Lines has been SF’s outpost of hyperballet for 30+ years, and whose world-premiere The Collective Agreement showed both the up- and the downsides of living in a diverse community: the alienation in urban life (Sophiane Sylve and Tiit Helimets), the fads (the bluebird corps de ballet), the conflicts (James

More than photographs of the official ceremonies or the assassination itself, the color images shot by American photojournalist Paul Fusco, who was aboard the train, have defined the perception of the experience and how it’s remembered. Fusco was on assignment for Look magazine, armed with two Leicas, a Nikon camera and over 30 rolls of Kodachrome film, when he took 1,000 slides, including the 20 or so pictures here. Traditionally, press photographers concentrate on the deceased and their relatives, but Fusco might have been influenced by the example of Henri CartierBresson, who, 31 years earlier, while covering the coronation of George VI, aimed his camera at the people in the crowd rather than at the procession. Forbidden by the Kennedy family to photograph inside the train, Fusco opened a window of a rail car and captured the spectators lining the route. Working furiously as the light waned, his early pictures from the trip are bathed in warm, late afternoon sun, sharp and clear at the center and fuzzy on the periphery from the motion of the train; but as night fell and his shutter speed slowed, the images became increasingly ghostly. Forty years later Fusco’s series inspired Dutch artist Rein Jelle Terpstra, who was only eight when RFK was killed. Terpstra, who explores biographical and collective memory through photography, spent four years tracking down images taken

by onlookers in an effort to reconstruct the event through the eyes of people who were there. He amassed more than 200 slides and B&W and color snapshots frayed and scratched from the passage of time, as well as a half-dozen Super 8 films. Washed-out pictures of children sitting by the tracks, a locomotive whirring by, slides with hand-written notations inscribed on the margins such as, “Waiting and watching for the train,” or, “Here it comes!” and film footage interwoven with the oral testimonies he compiled comprise “The People’s View,” a multimedia work pervaded by melancholy. “Sometimes you can see a kind of loss or an attempt to hold onto a moment of history,” Terpstra observes. “[But] when a photograph comes between you and your autobiographical memory, you often remember the photograph instead.” Fusco’s work also spurred French Algerian artist Philippe Parreno to produce a “reenactment” of RFK’s final voyage for his hypnotic 2009 film “June 8, 1968.” Parreno, who recomposed or drew directly from some of Fusco’s photographs, chartered a train, hired a hundred extras to play onlookers whom he costumed in 1960s-era clothing, and in a stroke of genius, engaged the great cinematographer Darius Khondji, who shot the film with 70mm Panavision cameras from a moving train. For a riveting seven minutes, which warrant repeated viewings,

oppositions at odds with each other. Sofranko), the persistence of ethnic Each group has members who have values (the fabulous Mr. Golding, packages and some who don’t, the new to us from the Royal Ballet, and baby-blue group is elegant (Golding the only one who got the style imis so queeny it’s a scream) while the mediately and actually looked like pinks favor jagged moves, and they a Lines dancer), the possibilities of attack each other and nearly kill the finding someone simpatico (corps dancers Jahna Frantziskonis and sweet pinkie (Seth Orza) who dancJoseph Warton) and the difficulties es like a galoot but kinda falls for the they have. The queer-and-married blue kid (Max Cauthorn) who takes Christopher Wheeldon’s Bound off his sunglasses and his swim-cap, to also appeared on that show and and unzips his singlet by way of was loveable, a puppy-dog-friendly showing he’s Harry Potter sincere. ballet, and the take-away favorite so far. Festival-ballet viewing is always a little feverish. “The thrill of first-nighting” is nothing to the pitch of a festival kick-off, when the barrage of first impressions creates a happy dazzle made of the party atmosphere, the celebrities in the audience, and the self-creating aesthetics of each individual ballet. All have their virtues, and they are all so different, but you could get absorbed in one. Thatcher’s piece fielded a brilliant hexagonal gateway set by Alexander V. Nichols and schematic pink and blue costumes for his two gangs by Sylvie Rood that unzipped to reveal that the Erik Tomasson Sharks and Jets were both yellow fellows deep down inside. Sean Orza and Max Cauthorn in Thatcher’s LGBTQ?-theory- Myles Thatcher’s “Otherness.” based piece sets various binary

unable to let go of her wife’s ghost. She still lives in the house they shared, and two years later has yet to remove her wedding ring. Viola soon has an erotic dream involving herself and Faith that suggests she might be weakening. The film moves back and forth between the two storylines, each of which has nothing to do with the other. It’s almost as though Gaffney is starring in two completely different films. “The Russian Doll” story does offer a few nice twists, such as when it’s revealed that two of the characters are actually the playwright’s daughter and her boyfriend in disguise. In the film’s most shocking sequence, the thief is shot to death live on stage in front of an audience.

The acting is decent. Gaffney is convincing as a cop determined to crack her case. She’s even better as the grieving widow, struggling to come to grips with the memory of her wife, and with her burgeoning feelings for the new woman in her life. Gaffney and Hassler have great chemistry as the fledgling couple. Trasher is superb as the kidnapping victim who’s determined to break free. No matter what her captors do, she fights back. Peter S. Adams is wonderfully creepy as the thieving playwright who ruined someone’s life and just doesn’t care. “Russian Doll” does have its moments. Wolfe’s disc includes the film’s trailer and an English subtitles option.t

the train rumbles along, clicketyclack, through rural and urban landscapes; the wind rustles trees and grass, but the actors remain silent and eerily still. They stand beside the tracks in a trance-like Smoking Dogs Films, courtesy Lisson Gallery state like the group John Akomfrah, “Vertigo Sea,” installation view of friends stopped (2015), three-channel HD color video installation. mid-motion on a hillside, or the armies of penguins, untouched team of baseball icy mountains, volcanoes eruptplayers frozen in place on an athletic ing underwater – are interrupted field. Through June 10. by the murderous interventions Epic sweep and total immerof humankind. Those include the sion coalesce in the spectacular industrial slaughter of whales – the dark poetry that is “Vertigo Sea.” innate cruelty of the bloody busiMonumental in scope, loaded with ness alarmingly vivid, even in grainy experiential ambition and presented B&W footage; the killing of seals in surround sound on immense and polar bears who can’t outrun screens each measuring 94.5” high x their predators’ guns and clubs; and 168” wide, the roiling three-channel the battered bodies of dead slaves HD video created by British, Ghawashed up on distant shores. Layna-born artist John Akomfrah is ering whimsical literary tableaux, an amalgam of fiction, high-toned archival imagery, voiceover passages natural history documentary and from “Moby Dick,” and original and esoteric cinematic essay. Though secondary source material shot in what it’s about isn’t clear, the rethe Isle of Skye, the Faroe Islands petitive opus is enveloping, thrilling, and northern Norway among other and in some stretches, painful to far-flung locales, “Vertigo Sea” may watch. Akomfrah, a founder of Lonbe arduous as odysseys go, but its don’s Black Audio Film Collective, visual roller coaster, like the tides, seduces us with beautiful oceanic never ceases. Through Sept. 16.t landscapes where episodes of nature’s primal wrath and interludes of pristine beauty – frolicking orcas,

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The piece is brainy-modernist and leaves you with lots of questions and lots to dislike. But it’s a brave move for a sissy from Atlanta who’s trying to tell it like he sees it, and bravo to SFB for giving him the chance. The most beautiful thing so far was Yuan-Yuan Tan’s ballerina turn in Christopher Wheeldon’s Bound To, where she embodies the deep contact we all want with another human being: ravishing arabesques in a pas de deux set by contrast to the main thrust of a ballet about the way we live now, cell-phone addictions pulling us apart. Lonnie Weeks embodied the suicidal teenager defenseless against his alienation who’s “trying to breathe,” the kid attacked on social media by haters who don’t know him at all. It’s a virtuoso performance by the newly promoted-to-soloist Weeks. He soars through a series of jumps sailing backwards like Giselle, flying high as if he’d never touched the ground and could use the air as other dancers use the floor, for lift-off. The second most beautiful thing so far was David Dawson’s white ballet Anima Animus, a heavenly beautiful piece in which the dancers seem to float and extend like anemones underwater, reaching out in all directions, arching, spiraling, extending as if their limbs were never-ending, in an abstract ballet that

brings the lakeside scene of Swan Lake into the 21st century. It’s all about longing, about finding a wingedness in the arms and the shoulders that makes you intoxicated by their beauty. The arms extend into places that ordinary people cannot reach; they’re dancing in front of a pearl-gray radiance that back-lights them and puts them in eclipse. You can’t see their faces, even their white tights seem shadowed. It’s mysterious and beautiful, and if they keep dancing it this way, it will have legs and conquer audiences from Moscow and Beijing to the whole world. Last: I must mention Sarah van Patten in the Bette Davis role in Snowblind, the glorious dramatic ballet by England’s Cathy Marston based (lightly) on Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome. It’s a study of a hostile dependent love triangle, with a corps de ballet depicting Calvinist thoughts and a central trio of a man and the woman who married him and the servant girl he loves and who loves him. If it were not for the eloquence of Mathilde Froustey, as the beloved, and the dramatic power of Ulrik Birkjaer as the helpless man caught in this Vermont small-town misery, and van Patten as the miserable unloved wife, the piece could not be strong. But with them, it’s overwhelmingly beautiful. More to come, next week. Joe Bob says check it out.t

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Arts Events

Shining Stars Vol. 48 • No. 17 • April 26-May 2, 2018

SF Eagle

www.ebar.com V www.bartabsf.com

Street meet Big block party planned for Eagle’s fifth anniversary by David-Elijah Nahmod

n April 29 the SF Eagle, one of South of Market’s most popular and iconic gay bars, will celebrate its fifth anniversary under the ownership of Lex Montiel and Mike Leon with what promises to be a huge birthday bash. The party will run from 2pm to 9pm and will include live entertainment, DJs and dancing, and speeches from celebrity guests. There will also be gogo dancers, along with the Eagle’s legendary beer bust. The first 200 people through the door get a free Eagle anniversary T-shirt. See page 27 >>

Gents at a 2017 Bearracuda, one of many popular events at the new SF Eagle.

Our Lady of the Phone Booth

Linda Pancost’s forty years of gay bars in San Francisco

by Michael Flanagan

Rick Gerharter

The Phone Booth in 2005.

hat motivated people to own gay bars when they could be raided by police or the Alcohol Beverage Control board? Money was one factor. For Doris Jennings, opening Club Dori was a good way to make a living. See page 26 >>

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Rick Gerharter

Outside The Phone Booth in 2005.

Phone Booth

From page 25

For others like The Black Cat’s Sol Stoumen, there may have been a political impulse: the notion that the government couldn’t tell him who he could serve in his bar. Yet for others, the sense of camaraderie with like-minded people seems to have been primary. This seems to be what motivated Linda Pancost, owner of the Tower Lounge (1488 Pine Street) and the Phone Booth (1398 South Van Ness Avenue). Pancost was born Evelyn Forbes in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1920 and picked up the name Pancost during a five-year marriage that ended in divorce in 1942. Somewhere between then and 1950, she moved to San Francisco. The City by the Bay must have seemed quite welcoming, at least at first. In 1951 she was named as “one of the other women” in a divorce case in San Francisco. She did not take kindly to the Chronicle photographers attempting to photograph her for the paper. A May 30, 1951 article reported: “She didn’t want her picture taken. She said so loud and often and she backed up her declaration with

some of the fastest, shiftiest footwork ever seen outside a bull ring. She had a good left hook to go with it – and a right nothing short of terrific.” With divorce proceedings behind her, Pancost worked as a hostess at the Curtain Call (456 Geary) in the early 1950s. It was a piano bar that had Marlene Dietrich, Joan Blondell and Ricardo Montalban among its patrons (and later had David Kelsey at the keyboards). By the late ‘50s, Pancost was working at former San Francisco madam Sally Stanford’s Valhalla in Sausalito – although Stanford (who had a good eye for publicity) posed her in a Chronicle photo as a patron in May 1957 in an article discussing how apartments would wreck the restaurant’s view. It was also at Valhalla that Pancost worked with the B.A.R columnist Dick Walters (a/k/a Sweet Lips). In a 1997 column, he wrote: “Golly, Linda, it seems like only yesterday we were working together at Sally Stanford’s Valhalla in Sausalito. I’m saving that story for my memoirs!” By 1964 Pancost was running the Tower Lounge and, from all available evidence, was quite comfortable running a gay bar. The bar was

Left: Linda (then Evelyn) Pancost in a sensational courtroom fight. Above: Linda Pancost’s obituary in the Bay Area Reporter.

a member of the Tavern Guild and by 1967 was advertising in both Bar Rag and Vector. In November 1968, The Tower Lounge was host to a campaign party for Perry, a candidate for the Imperial Court’s Empress IV contest. There were benefits for patrons and by 1968 the bar added a pianist, Sashca. However by 1970, Pancost was no longer the owner. The bar continued for a few years before becoming The Wild Goose, which was open until the 1980s. In April 1974 Pancost took over the Phone Booth that had operated under that name on S. Van Ness since 1951. The bar was named for the proximity to the Telco Building at 3333 25th Street, a phone company building built in 1947, as well as for the small size of the bar. In April 1974, Pancost took over the Phone Booth, a bar that had operated under that name on South Van Ness since 1951. It was named for its size, not because of a phone booth. For at least the first few years, Pancost actively advertised in the B.A.R. with the motto, “We’ve Got Your Number.” The bar disappears from the record for about a decade, showing up again in 1984 in a B.A.R. Sweet Lips column commemorating the tenth anniversary of the bar. In 1993 Pancost purchased a piano for the bar from a piano tuner and took his recommendation for a piano player. That’s how Tim Lewis, interviewed for this article, became the first pianist to work there (for about two years). He had been playing at places like Buckley’s and Charpe’s around town and had built up a reputation. Of the bar, Lewis said, “It was a working class bar with serious drinkers – they were nice people who got along well. It was a mixed clientele, but all of the bartenders were gay.” The mixed nature of the bar included Muni drivers, local business people and a few patrons who were “married, but not to each other.” The bar made its own “cactus juice” (a type of schnapps) and had a neighborhood spirit. Lewis recalled an evening when a transformer blew and the lights went out. Bartenders distributed candles to the tables and the patrons sang in the candlelight. Linda reigned over the bar, telling tall tales of the city in the days of Sally Stanford (among her tall tales: she told Lewis Sally had her hostesses from the city water ski into Sausalito). Throughout the 1990s, the bar

participated in AIDS fundraising efforts, with bartender and Emperor IX Bobby Pace hosting benefits for Continuum and the AIDS Emergency Fund. The bar was also part of the Condoms Now distribution program of the Stop AIDS project – and all of this was narrated by frequent mentions in Sweet Lips columns. This is normally where I would

tell you what a shame it is that they bar is gone. Surprise! It’s still there! Linda sold the bar to her bartenders Jared Wendt and Steve Spingola early in the last decade, and they remain the owners to this day. They still occasionally have community events there, and hosted Absolute Empress XXXV, Suzie Wong’s ‘Turkey Pluck!’ in 2012). After a series of parties in 2003, Pancost retired to Auburn for a year. She moved on to that great cocktail lounge in the sky on Nov. 12, 2004. Her obituary in the B.A.R. said she, “considered all her customers family…she was always there to lend an ear when nobody else would.” I stopped by the bar a few weeks ago and found the bartender charming (she told me her name was “Anita…like Anita drink.”) Framed autographed photos of Tom Selleck and Tom Jones are behind the bar. Though the days of a piano and homemade cactus juice may be gone, there is a pool table and enough kitsch sensibility to entertain anyone. It was called a “Gray bar” (as in the gray area between gay and straight) by the Chronicle in 2006 and was listed as one of SF Weekly’s “50 Top Dive Bars in San Francisco” in 2016. It deserves to a visit (perhaps on the way to El Rio or Wild Side West). Have a drink in memory of Linda!t

Above: An ad for Linda Pancost’s Tower Lounge in a July 1967 Vector magazine. Below: An ad for the Phone Booth in an April 1974 issue of the Bay Area Reporter.

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Rick Gerharter

The expanded front room and bar of the SF Eagle after its reopening in 2013.

Rich Stadtmiller

Beer bust patrons at the SF Eagle in 2016.

Eagle Block Party

From page 25

For many, the celebration is particularly meaningful. The current owners took over the Eagle at a time when it was closed, thereby saving an institution from the days when Folsom and Harrison Streets were

the center of a thriving leather community and culture. “We needed to save the bar because they were closing it,” co-owner Lex Montiel told the Bay Area Reporter. “It was uncertain what was happening to the space. We want to keep it in the community.” The bar reopened in March 2013

to long lines for their beer busts. The staff was comprised of both new and former employees. Many celebrated the bar’s return. But according to Montiel, the Eagle is more than just a bar. The venue is also involved in community fundraising. “We’re a community space, the best place to raise funds for organizations,” Montiel said. “There’s a sense of family in the space. In order to maintain that sense of family it is important to have the Eagle.” Montiel noted that the bar is open to all, LGBT or not. But he was also quick to point out that the bar has not lost sight of its leather history. “We’re still primarily a leather bar,” he said. “But because so many people don’t have a space we hold events for other organizations, we welcome everyone.” The Eagle’s birthday party promises to be a fun, lively event, with performances from the bands Ethel Merman Experience, Diesel Dudes and Bitch, Please! There will be speeches from mayoral candidate Mark Leno and State Senator Scott Wiener, while DJs David Harness and Don Baird will be spinning tunes for your dancing pleasure. Montiel said that the bar’s future plans will also be announced at the party, such as a non-profit which will help people purchase leather outfits they can afford. He also talked about the upcoming Eagle Plaza. “Eagle Plaza, which will be located on 12th Street between Harrison and Bernice Streets, will be the first leather plaza in the world,” Montiel explained. “SoMa needs this. There are no green areas in the neighborhood. It’s already city approved and ready to go.”

Georg Lester

Josh gogo dances atop a covered pool table at a 2013 event.

The projected opening date for Eagle Plaza is sometime in 2019. Montiel added that there will also be a group called Friends of the Eagle Plaza. “They’ll be in charge of activities, art, performances, music, and raising money for the best of the community,” he said. The owners hope that the plaza will be 100 percent pedestrian. “There will be trees and benches,” Montiel said. “We hope to serve food and drinks outside, maybe

have a little kiosk.” Montiel also said that he hoped The Eagle would be around to celebrate its 50th anniversary. “Our fiveyear anniversary commemorates 35 years of The Eagle, he said. “I hope to be there in another 15 years, and I hope that someone else will take it over.”t SF Eagle 5th Anniversary Block Party, 398 12th Street. Sunday, April 9, 2pm-9pm. www.sf-eagle.com

BARtab

Andy Cross and Monistat cohosted a wild Halloween party in 2013.

Steven Underhill

Serving up food at a 2015 fundraiser.

Bryn Thomas

The Mr. SF Eagle 2018 contest.

Dragula packed in the crowds in 2014.

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Nightlife Events April 26-May 3

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

Royal Variety Show @ Moby Dick Queen Dilly Dally’s weekly fun variety show of drag, music and even puppets. 9pm-11pm. 4049 18th St. www.queendillydally.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance event celebrates 20 years. Free thru April 29; $5 after. 5pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays. 550 Barneveld Ave. sundancesaloon.org

Wed 2 Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo at Pan Dulce @ Beaux

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 26 After Dark @ Exploratorium The cocktails and science night for adults, with installations throughout the hands-on exhibit museum. April 26: SOFIA, Reflections on the universe from 40,000 feet. May 3: Boundaires, be they cell memrames of bubbles. $20. 6pm-10pm. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. exploratorium.edu

Betty Roi @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Enjoy authentic Parisian romantic music from the Piaf-inspired singer. $19-$40 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Boomtown @ The Stud P Relief, Dionysian Mysteries and Birch Koolman DJ. $5-$10. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Club Beautiful @ Elbo Room VivvyAnne Forevermore’s monthly drag show with pop-up shops and DJed grooves. $10. 10pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. www.elbo.com

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

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

The Speakeasy @ Secret Location

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

The ongoing ‘theatre, booze, gambling and retro costumes’ participatory experience takes you back to Prohibition-era debauchery. $50-$90. Fri & Sat thru June 16. https://www.thespeakeasysf.com

Banda Los Shakas performs live at the LGBT Latinx night. $10. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. club21oakland.com

Startup Art Fair @ Hotel Del Sol Opening party for the annual festival of visual arts and related events (thru April 29). $10-$100. 7pm-10pm. 3100 Webster St. startupartfair.com

Steam @ Powerhouse The monthly bath house-style night returns, with towel-clad gogos, Steamworks Berkeley goodies, and massages. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. April 26 is the 14th anniversary party! $5-$20 is a benefit for SF Night Ministry. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com

Drag Bomb @ Ukiah Brewing Company Valentine hosts the Ukiah Pride event, with drag kings and queens Rusty Hips, Edgar Ellen Ho, Patty McGroin, Max Manchester, Nita Moment and the Mommaz Boys, with DJ Usher of Now. $10. 10pm-2am. 102 South State St., Ukiah. www.ukiahbrewing.com

Euro Disco @ Lone Star Saloon DJ Marcos Moreno Serrano of Barcelona spins grooves. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Gay Pocket Party @ Beaux Sugah Betes and Scott Gessford cohost the fun contest for the cover model of the gay pocket guide, partial proceeds benefit Theatre Rhinoceros; beer bust, raffles prizes. 3pm-6pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Harder @ The Stud Mister Wallace and Michael Romano DJ the hard grooves night. $5-$10. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Fri 27

Lips and Lashes Brunch @ Lookout

Access Happy Hour @ Oasis

Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. lookoutsf.com

Drag show fundraiser for Access SFUSD: The Arc. 5pm-7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The monthly author night, hosted by James J Siegel, features National Poetry Month, with Preeti Vangani, Daniel Ari, Marguerite Munoz, Peter Kline, and Norma Smith. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Bears & Booze @ The Edge

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG

Big Boy @ Lone Star Saloon

KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

DJ BoyShapedBox plays music at the bear bar. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

The weekly happy hour event for bearded guys and thier fans. 4149 18th St., 5pm. edgesf.com

Thu 26 VivvyAnne Forevermore’s Club Beautiful @ Elbo Room

Black Friday @ The Stud Honey Mahogany’s celebration of African American culture and nightlife. April 27 is an after-party for the SF premiere of the new documentary Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami ; with Grace-inspired drag acts. $5-$10. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

DTF Fridays @ Port Bar, Oakland Various DJs play house music, and a few hotties gogo dance at the new gay bar’s weekly event. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

Eva Noblezada @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Tony-nominated musical theatre actress ( Miss Saigon revivial) performs her new cabaret show at the classy intimate club. $33-$65 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Also April 28. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Hot Draw @ SF Eagle Join Mark I Chester, Gay Men’s Sketch and Colton Long (Mr. SF Eagle 2018) at the monthly drawing party, where leather/kink poses become art. $20$25. 6:30pm-9pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Taboo: Denim & Diamonds @ Oasis Chad Bays DJs the Dairy-Dukes hot shorts night, with a midnight drag show. $5-$10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Trog Live @ Oasis Matthew Martin, Heklina and Adam Roy star in a restaging of the hilarious camp drag parody performance of Joan Crawford’s no-budget final film about a scientist and a troglodyte. $27.50-$40. Fri-Sun 7pm. Thru May 12. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Sat 28 Bearracuda @ SF Eagle The ursine fun night returns to the famed leather bar for an underwear night; skivvies galore, and DJs Kevin O’Connor and Collin Bass. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.bearracuda.com

BodyTabooDefiance @ Shelton Theatre Red Hots Burlesque’s monthly midnight cabaret show, with dancers and drag acts galore: Alotta Boutté, Rahni Nothingmore, Hollow Eve, Sylphie Currin, Max Madame, Suppositori Spelling and more. $20-$100. 11pm doors. 533 Sutter St. redhotsburlesque.com/upcoming

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club includes drag shows, with gogo guys, drink specials and table reservations available. $10$20. 10pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show will titillate and tantalize, with guests Alotta Boutté, Shells Bells, Bo Vixxen, Violet Streak, and other guests. $10$20. 7pm-9pm. 399 9th St. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Sat 28

Mango @ El Rio

Mango @ El Rio The popular monthly women and pals dance party features DJs Edaj, Lady Lu and Olga T. $8-$10. 2pm-10pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes. April 28: a special appreance by The Vixen ( RuPaul’s Drag Race ), plus Miss Rahni Nothingmore and Bionka Simone. DJ MC2 plays grooves. $15-$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Onyx @ Powerhouse The Men of Color leather happy hour with DJ Blackstone and boot fetish fun. 6pm-9pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

The Playground @ Club BNB, Oakland Revamped night at the popular hip hop and Latin dance club. $5-$15. 9pm to 3am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Shake It Up @ Port Bar, Oakland DJ Lady Char spins dance grooves; gogo studs, and drink specials, too. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 8232099. www.portbaroakland.com

Sun 29 Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Beer, bears, food and beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities; April 29, Inferno Softball Team. $15. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

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Beverage Benefit @ The Edge

Happy Hour @ The Cinch

Fundraiser and fun, with proceeds going to local nonprofits. $10. 4pm7pm. 4149 18th St. www.edgesf.com

Happy hour at the historic neighborhood bar. 5pm-8pm. 1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com

Big Gay Beer Bust @ The Cinch

Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge

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

Manarchy, the male burlesque revue, is featured at the weekly women burlesque show. $7-$12. 9pm11:30pm. 375 11th St. dnalounge.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

Fifth Anniversary Block Party @ SF Eagle DJs David Harness and Don Baird spin grooves and rock, and bands Ethel Merman Experience, Diesel Dudes and Bitch, Please play at the outdoor/ indoor celebration of the leather bar’s new ownership and renovations; beer bust, too. Commemorative T-shirts for the first 200 patrons. 2pm-9pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle DJ Bus Station John’s monthly retrogrooves T-dance celebrates Donna Summer and Diana Ross, and joins the bar’s fifth anniversary block party celebrations. $5. 7pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge Sing along to shows tunes on video, lip-synched, and live, at the Castro bar. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

Tue 1 48 Hills Gala @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Fifth anniversary May Day gala for the progressive media group, with publisher/DJ Marke B, food from Casa Sanchez and Old Jerusalem. Drinks, arts by Latinx artists and guest speakers. $35-$1000. 6pm-8pm. 2868 Mission St. www.48hills.org

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Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge

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Wed 2 B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location. No cover. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.bench-and-bar.com

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Dick at Nite @ Moby Dick Grace Towers’ weekly drag show at the fun local bar. 9pm-12am. 4049 18th St. http://www.mobydicksf.com/

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

Kosmetik @ The Stud Solar and Inhalt guest-DJ the one-year anniversary of the eclectic night. $5$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo ( RuPaul’s Drag Race ) performs at the hot weekly Latin dance night with drag divas and more, hosted by Amaya Blac and Delilah Befierce, with gogo studs. $6. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio Dulce de Leche and Rahni NothingMore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and Thee Pristine Condition perform, plus karaoke for queens. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. elriosf.com

Thu 3 Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Weekly beer bust and benefit for local charities. 9pm-11pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Double Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.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. www.finnishhall.org

Royal Baby B-Day @ The Stud Rexy’s 21st birthday party is also a fundraiser for Somos Familia and Ministerio Latino; with drag acts, dacing and raffles. $5-$20. 10pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room The weekly brunch and drag show with a panoramic view. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. starlightroomsf.com

Mon 30 Acoustic Diva @ Port Bar, Oakland Live music with BeBe Sweetbriar, Amora Teese and DJ Ricky Sixx; proceeds benefit AIDS/LifeCycle. $15. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. (510) 8232099. www.portbaroakland.com

Cock Shot @ Beaux The weeknight party gets Folsomy, with leather gear dress code, host Leo Forte and a $100 kink gear contest; plus DJ Chad Bays. No cover. 9pm2am. 2344 Market St. beauxsf.com

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

Hysteria Comedy @ Martuni’s Open mic for women and queer comics, with host Irene Tu. 6pm-8pm. 4 Valencia St.

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down with the strippers at the clothing-optional night. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Queer Lens @ Ian Stallings Design Juanita MORE! and Ian Stallings Design present an exhibit of works by David King, Blechmeki, Davy Fiveash, Mr. David, Steven Vasquez Lopez and Daniel Samaniego. Proceeds benefit Trans Youth. $9. open bar. 6pm-9pm. 1100 Sutter St. ianstallings.com

Porn studs Jessie Colter and Dylan James head up the interactive downstairs arcade playtime (before their May 4 & 5 sexy stage shows). $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.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

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My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a weekly ‘90s-themed video, dancin’, drinkin’ night, with VJs Jorge Terez. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90cent drinks. ‘90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Nap’s Karaoke @ Virgil’s Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 8292233. www.virgilssf.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

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femme and friends dance party at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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Startup Art Fair @ Hotel Del Sol Opening party for the annual festival of visual arts and related events (thru April 29). $10-$100. 7pm10pm. 3100 Webster St. www.startupartfair.com

San Francisco Ballet dancers and young choreographers premiere new works. 4 programs thru May 6; LGBT Nite Out May 4. $28-$365. 301 Van Ness Ave. sfballet.org/unbound

Sat 28

Mon 30

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ Herbst The LGBTQ symphony performs works by Ravel, Dvorak and June Bonacich, featuring the Little Stars String Trio. $10-$35. 8pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.cityboxoffice.com

Thu 26

Angels in America @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 26 Angels in America @ Berkeley Repertory Tony Kushner’s multiple awardwinning two-part epic drama about the 1980s, AIDS and politics, returns to the Bay Area, with Randy Harrison ( Queer as Folk), Stephen Spinella (Tony-winning original cast member) and Caldwell Tidicue (Bob the Drag Queen). Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika on separate dates, and a few double-header days; many free events and talks, too. $40-$100. Tue-Sat 7pm. Most Wed, Thu Sat & Sun also 1pm. Thru April 27. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Art Market SF @ Festival Pavilion Large group exhibition and sale of art works in many media, showcased by hundreds of participating galleries. Thru April 29. Fort Mason Center, 1 Marina Blvd. artmarketsf.com

Diffused Reflections @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts 31st annual Solo Mujeres exhibit of new works, curated by Marissa Del Toro. Also, Guerrilleras, Victoria Montero and Rebecka Biro’s exhibit of El Salvador women who endured the Civil War. Both thru April 20. 2868 Mission St. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Disruption @ Z Below 3Girls Theatre Company’s world premiere production of AJ Baker’s whodunit about sexual harassment, social media, miracle drugs and sexual politics. $35-$55. Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 3pm, thru April 28. 450 Florida St. www.3girsltheatre.org

The Effect @ SF Playhouse Lucy Prebble’s play explores romance amid pill-popping culture as a straight couple fall in love, but is their passion from the drug they’re taking? $35-$55. Tue-Sun thru April 28. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

The Gangster of Love @ Magic Theatre Jessica Hagedorn’s stage adaptation of her novel about her immigration from Manila, set in SF’s 1970s Haight district, with live music, poetry and video. $20-$65. Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 2:30pm. Thru May 6. Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg D. www.MagicTheatre.org

The Graying of Gay @ Dog Eared Books Further Stories from the Annals of Senior Gay Memoirists: Loves, Lives, Family, Coming Out, Loss, Maturity, reading from Open House SF’s Gay Gray Writers group. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

SF Symphony @ Davies Symphony Hall Holst’s The Planets is performed, plus Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet pianist, and excerpts from Wagner’s Gotterdamerung. $45-$125. 8pm. Also April 27, 8pm. April 29, 2pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. www.sfsymphony.org

Vietgone @ Strand Theater American Conservatory Theatre’s production of Qui Nguyen’s moving road trip comedy about three Vietnamese immigrants who trek across 1970s America. $25-$55. Tue-Sat 7pm or 7:30pm (some 2pm); Thru April 29. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

You Are My Sunshine @ Phoenix Theatre Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s play with folk songs, based on a true story. $15$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. 414 Mason St., 6th floor. phoenixtheatresf.org

Endangered Species, Enduring Values @ SF Main Library Book launch and showcase with contributing artists and authors in the new San Francisco writers and artists people of color anthology. 1pm-3pm, Koret Auditorium; reception in the Latino Hispanic Community Room, 3pm-4pm. 100 Larkin St., lower level. www.writenowsf.com

Unbound Festival @ War Memorial Opera House

ArtsApril Events 26-May 3

Sun 29

BodyTabooDefiance @ Shelton Theatre Red Hots Burlesque’s monthly midnight cabaret show, with dancers and drag acts galore: Alotta Boutté, Rahni Nothingmore, Hollow Eve, Sylphie Currin, Max Madame, Suppositori Spelling and more. $20$100. 11pm doors. 533 Sutter St. redhotsburlesque.com/upcoming

Spring Fling @ Dog Eared Books Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, with ebullient host Baruch Porras-Hernandez, authors Juliana Delgado Lopera, Brontez Purnell, Luna Merbruja and champagne and desserts. 6:30pm-8:30pm. 489 Castro st. www.dogearedbooks.com

Xian Rui: Ten Years @ Chinese Cultural Center Exhibit of works representing the Center’s first decade. Thru Aug. 18. CCC Visual Art Center, 750 Kearny St., third floor. www.cccsf.us

Empowerment in Print @ GLBT History Museum Empowerment in Print: LGBTQ Activism, Pride & Lust, a mini-exhibit of periodicals from the collection. Also, Angela Davis: OUTspoken, and Faces of the Past: Queer Lives in Northern California Before 1930, part of the Queer Past Becomes Present main exhibit. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Unearthed @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth. Adult nightlife parties many Thursday nights. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Tue 1 Isak Lindenauer @ Dog Eared Books Release party for the veteran gallerist and arts & crafts philanthropist’s book, Outpost, about his life as a gay man in the 1960s and through today. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Adam Strauss returns with his hit solo show about treating his ODC with hallucinogenic mushrooms. $20-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru June 16. 2120 Allston way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.com

Quinteto Latino @ Old First Church Concert of works by Carlos Chavez, and Brazilian composers Liduino Pitombeira and Júlio Medaglia. $5-$23. 8pm.1751 Sacramento St. www.oldfirstconcerts.org

Smuin Ballet @ YBCA Works by Helen Pickett, Amy Seiwet and Val Caniparoli are performed in the Dance Series 02 concert. $39-$79. Thu-Sat 8pm, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru April 29. 700 Howard St. Touring thru Bay Area thru June 2. http://www.smuinballet.org

Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org

Wed 2 Degenderettes: Antifa Art @ SF Public Libraries Exhibit features objects and photographs documenting public performances, including parades, marches and die-ins, by the N. Cal chapter of the Degenderettes. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

The Mystery of Love and Sex @ NCTC Bathsheba Doran’s play about a young man and woman who are very different, but find ways to connect. $20-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru May 20. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Thu 3 Marjorie Prime @ Marin Theatre Company New local production of Jordan Harrison’s stunnind drama about an elderly woman and her programmed companion. $25-$60. Thru May 27. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley www.marintheatre.org

Spring Selections @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery Group exhibit of print and paintings honoring Women’s History Month, featuring works by Lalla Essaydi, Aida Muluneh, Nnenna Okore, Julia Fullerton Batten, Wesaam Al-Badry, Blessing Ngobeni, Omar Victor Diop, Gordon Parks, Hendrik Kerstens, and Julian Opie. Thru May 12. 464 Sutter St. www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.comp

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Daddy Issues @ The Stud

addy Issues, the super-queer, super-diverse roaming dance party, invaded The Stud Bar on March 31. Look for their rambunctiously fun presence in LA, New York City. London, and Mexico City as well. www.facebook.com/daddyissuesparty. The Stud is at 399 9th Street at Harrison. www.studsf.com See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.