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The Muni entrance at Harvey Milk Plaza, currently closed due to the pandemic, is the focus of an effort to renovate the public space.

Hundreds of people took part in the People’s March on Polk Street at California and Pine streets last June.

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Friends group hits reset on Milk plaza

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riends of Harvey Milk Plaza has commenced yet another online survey seeking community feedback about changes to the space’s design. The booster group also will conduct two town hall events later this month, its interim executive director said April 1.

The announcements were made during the monthly Castro Merchants Association meeting, at which time Brian Springfield, the interim executive director of Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, gave a presentation.

The Friends group has been involved with plans to renovate the plaza for the last several years.

The remodel proposal has been fiercely opposed by some in the community who have countered the goal of better honoring Milk can be achieved within the confines of the current design and at less cost than the estimated $10 million price tag for the fuller renovation proposal.

Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected in San Francisco when he won a supervisors’ seat in 1977 and represented the Castro at City Hall. Several years after he was killed nearly a year into his first term, city officials named the aboveground entrance area into the LGBTQ neighborhood’s Muni station after the pioneering politician.

While a bronze plaque and photomontage of Milk was installed at the plaza, neighborhood leaders have long felt more can be done to properly memorialize the area’s namesake.

They embarked on an overhaul of the plaza and secured $1 million in state funding from gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) toward the remodel project.

But earlier design proposals were shelved after being met with public criticism and tepid support from some city agencies that reviewed them. So the Friends group has basically hit reset on the project.

Last summer, San Francisco’s planning department concluded that Harvey Milk Plaza is historically important and eligible for listing on the California Register of Historical Resources.

It remains to be seen, however, if such listing for the public parklet above the Castro Muni Station will be sought either by the city or a community group.

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iss GAPA Mocha Fapalatte was part of the entertainment during a rally against Asian American and Pacific Islander hate at Jane Warner Plaza in the Castro Saturday, April 3. The Prism Foundation (formerly the GAPA Foundation) sponsored

the event, which drew nearly 150 people, who heard speeches from community leaders. The GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance held a similar rally and march last month, following the Atlanta-area shootings that left six women of Asian descent dead.

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here may not be an official San Francisco Pride parade this year due to the pandemic, but that’s not stopping another group from moving forward with its second protest march.

Meanwhile, Prides in Sonoma County, San Diego, and Portland are going ahead with some in-person events as the clock ticks for other LGBTQ civic celebration organizers to determine their 2021 plans. For the second year in a row the COVID pandemic has upturned the annual Pride season, with most events held between June and September.

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San Francisco supervisors back leather district sidewalk markers

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plan to commemorate 50 locations tied to San Francisco’s leather and LGBTQ culture with sidewalk markers has been endorsed by the Board of Supervisors and will file for civic design review this week. The resolution in support was taken up on an expedited process this week due to pending deadlines and a streetscape improvement project underway that could incorporate the installation of the plaques.

As the Bay Area Reporter first reported in September, the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District has proposed recognizing current and former businesses in the area by placing bronze plaques in the sidewalk near where they operated or currently are located. Such storied establishments as the Folsom Street Barracks, The Arena, Ramrod, The Brig, and the Club Baths of San Francisco would be memorialized with historical markers.

Plaques would also be installed in front of existing businesses such as the SF Eagle, which now fronts the new Eagle Plaza public parklet honoring the leather community built out of a portion of 12th Street at Harrison, and The End Up nightclub at the corner of Sixth and Harrison streets. One would also be located at the former home of the B.A.R at 395 Ninth Street. The

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A rendering of one of the leather district plaques pays homage to the former locations of Folsom Street Barracks and Red Star Saloon at 1145-1147 Folsom Street.

weekly LGBTQ newspaper, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, called the location home from December 1988 until October 2013.

Leather district leaders plan to file by Friday, April 9, to have the city’s arts commission review the designs for the plaques now that the supervisors voted 11-0 at their April 6 meeting to back the project. Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael

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Mandelman asked to be added as a co-sponsor.

The district will also be seeking an estimated $120,000 to pay for the plaques from the community impact fees the developer L37 Partners will be required to pay for its 244-rental unit housing development in SOMA. The city’s planning commission recently approved the project to be built at Folsom and 11th streets adjacent to the gay nightclub Oasis.

“Each one of these steps will determine whether it goes ahead and whether we can get the money or not,” Robert Goldfarb, chair of the leather district’s board, told the B.A.R. prior to the supervisors’ meeting.

The approval processes will take anywhere from nine to 18 months, said Goldfarb. The leather district has been in close talks with the city’s Public Works Department and the office of District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents SOMA, about incorporating some of the plaques into Folsom Street’s sidewalks as part of the pedestrian safety improvements for one of the main corridors through the area. Its timeline for completion was delayed due to the COVID pandemic.

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he Rob Hill Campground in San Francisco’s Presidio will welcome back campers this summer as it gradually becomes safe to stay in larger groups.

A lottery will be held monthly to accept reservations and started this week for June dates. Lisa Petrie, media relations specialist for the Presidio Trust, noted that the lottery in May will be for July dates, June for August, July for September, and August for October.

The price is a bit higher because they’re specifically group sites; $100 per site, per night during peak times; and $75 per site, per night during off-peak nights. The regulations will change over the months as the San Francisco health regulations change.

Rob Hill is one of just two campgrounds in San Francisco, containing four group campsites. It offers natural park camping experiences within the city, with the smell of the ocean and the sound of the owls in the surrounding Cypress trees.

The lottery system may make adjustments depending on current safety protocols. For more information, go to https://www.presidio.gov/lodging/rob-hill-campground/making-areservation.

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People camp at Rob Hill Campground in San Francisco’s Presidio.

In other Presidio news, various businesses are reopening, such as the Walt Disney Family Museum (reserved tickets are required), the Lodge at the Presidio and the Inn at the Presidio are open to leisure travelers, and Presidio Bowl opened April 1. The Presidio Golf Course is also open.

With Earth Day coming up April 22, people can download the Birds of Mountain Lake Guide and become acquainted with some of the more than 300 species of birds that frequent the Presidio.

Not everything is open, however.

The Presidio Trust announced that some trails are temporarily closed to dog walkers from now until early September for coyote pupping season.

This includes the Park Ridge Trail from Mountain Lake to the Presidio Promenade as well as the Bay Ridge Trail from the Rob Hill Campground to the Presidio Golf Course. These precautions protect dogs, their owners, and the coyotes, the release stated.

For more information about activities at the Presidio, go to https://www. presidio.gov/.

SF observes Climate Action Month

The San Francisco Department of the Environment will observe Climate Action Month in April with more than 50 COVID-safe events. They include outdoor activities, virtual events, and workshops. All are free.

Some of the upcoming events include a health home workshop Saturday, April 10, presented in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library. It will include tips on a healthy home, safer cleaning alternatives, and safe disposal of household toxics. To register, go to https://sfpl. org/events/2021/04/10/workshophealthy-homes.

On Saturday, April 17, the library

will present “Climate Change: The Top 10 Things You Should Know in San Francisco.” The presentation will feature Cyndy Comerford, climate program manager at the San Francisco Department of the Environment explaining how climate change will affect local communities, especially the most vulnerable, and the solutions available to address these near and long-term impacts.

For registration, visit https://sfpl. org/events/2021/04/17/presentationclimate-change-top-10-things-youshould-know-san-francisco.

A panel that takes place Saturday, April 24, will look at edible food recovery during COVID-19. Speakers from community organizations will talk about how they are recovering edible food for people in the community who need it most. To register, go to https://sfpl.org/ events/2021/04/24/ panel-edible-foodrecovery-during-covid-19.

The aforementioned events take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

For more activities, go to www.sfenvironment.org/ climateactionmonth.

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‘Normal Heart’ reading

The Invisible Histories Project, in partnership with ONE Archives Foundation, will present a virtual reading of the late Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” Saturday, May 8, at 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

Directed by Emmy Award-winning director Paris Barclay, this new presentation will be the first time the Tony Award-winning play features a cast that is predominantly BIPOC and LGBTQ, according to a news release.

The virtual reading features an allstar cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox, Jeremy Pope, Guillermo Diaz, Daniel Newsman, Jay Hayden, and Danielle Savre. It will feature a special introduction by Martin Sheen.

The event is a fundraiser for Invisible Histories and the ONE Archive and will highlight both the historical realities of the early AIDS crisis and the continuing effects of the epidemic, particularly in the South.

ONE Archives Foundation is the independent community partner that supports the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world.

The Invisible Histories Project started a few years ago to preserve queer Southern history, particularly in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Tickets range from $10 to $100 and are available beginning April 8 at https://www.onearchives.org/.

Park service seeks youth applicants

San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park is seeking applicants for the 2021 Youth Conservation Corps summer program to work and learn alongside National Park Service staff.

YCC is a paid outdoor work program that provides a safe, educational, and meaningful experience for young adults of all backgrounds and interests, a news release stated.

The purpose of the program is to provide local youth (ages 15-18) an opportunity to gain work experience and skills, learn about their local environment, and explore careers in environmental science, conservation, and parks and recreation. YCC members will assist with a variety of work projects to help restore and protect the natural and cultural heritage of SF Maritime, the release stated. The program also includes several educational field trips and on the water experience.

The work program runs for eight weeks, June 14-August 6, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. YCC members are paid the state minimum wage of $14 per hour. Applicants must be able to commit to the full eight weeks.

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BART adds gender-based violence campaign

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new campaign to demand a stop to sexual violence and harassment against girls and genderexpansive youth, particularly on BART, began April 2.

The campaign, #NotOneMoreGirl, will feature 300 posters and 50 large billboards produced by girls partnering with Nisha Sethi of Betti Ono, an art space in Oakland, throughout the BART system, as well as upcoming community events.

The price tag is $35,000, according to Alicia Trost, the chief Courtesy BART communications officer for BART, which includes “printing needs, Rexy Tapia is one of the models featured in BART’s new campaign graphics, events, paying artists and against gender-based violence. youth.”

Haleema Bharoocha, 22, a are very aware police don’t always harassment and help girls feel safe straight ally, spearheaded the projprioritize safety,” Bharoocha said. on BART.” ect as part of her role as senior advo“For many, police intervention can Bevan Dufty, a gay man who cacy manager at Alliance for Girls. result in increased harm.” serves on the BART board of direcBharoocha told the Bay Area BART board President Mark tors, is supportive of both the camReporter April 1 that the project Foley and Vice President Rebecca paign and the policy changes. is the result of years of listening to Saltzman, a lesbian, also plan to “I enthusiastically support policy feedback from girls and gender-exbring forward two recommendachanges adding sexual harassment pansive youth, particularly those of tions from this initiative. On April 8, to BART’s Code of Conduct – and color, who said they did not feel safe a request will be made to hire tranTAY will be front and center in helpon BART. sitional-age youth (18-24) to serve ing select our counselors to ensure In a 2019 report, “We saw almost on hiring panels for BART’s new they are culturally competent,” every single girl and gender-expanambassador and crisis intervention Dufty said. Most of all, BART wants sive youth experienced violence in specialist positions. Further, Foley to send a clear message – we are orpublic spaces, and did not receive plans to move at the April 22 meetganizing and mobilizing to change support from bystanders. Public ing to include sexual harassment in the culture that has normalized hatransportation became a big issue the rider code of conduct. rassment and sexual violence. across the board,” Bharoocha said.

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Queer BART director Janice Li, who represents San Francisco along with Dufty, did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

Trost, speaking for BART police, stated that the department supports the campaign and changes.

“They are in support of this campaign,” Trost wrote in an email.

“The chief worked to get the new reporting category on BART Watch and they helped us develop some of the content for our new resource website.”

Bharoocha talked about the process.

“It was very powerful because BART executives met us in a place we were at and met us in conversation,” Bharoocha explained.

“Through the process – bringing in partners like Black Girls Brilliance – we were able to ensure a meaningful partnership.”

L.B. Williams, Ph.D., a queer person who is the founding director of Black Girls Brilliance, jumped at the opportunity to “make our girls’ voices were brought into the project.”

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“One of my close friends and colleagues sent me an email. There was an ask for people to be featured

in the campaign,” she said. “When I first read about this campaign I wanted some trans representation, so I responded to that email with enthusiasm. I went to a photo shoot, and here we are.”

Tapia said that safety comes in different forms for different people, but that generally girls and genderexpansive youth have to take it more into consideration.

“I think safety is so personal,” she said. “There are many different forms of attack that happen to our community, ranging from physical to personal, [such as] unwanted stares. Even without a perpetrator, knowing it’s a possibility can be the scariest part. I can ride BART every single day and not get attacked for one month but knowing it’s coming? That’s scary.”

Williams echoed those sentiments.

“Safety for girls is, in various ways, at the forefront of when we leave our homes, the places we desire to go to,” Williams said. “There is always the thought: ‘can I go down that street?’ ‘can I take that bus number?’ It’s a matter of planning.”

Bharoocha said that “there’s a broad range of violence riders are facing that people do not want to acknowledge.”

Tapia said #NotOneMoreGirl is about people looking out for each other.

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Supes should reject Dikas for preservation panel T he San Francisco Board of Supervisors should reject Mayor London Breed’s nominee, Christina Dikas, to the Historic Preservation Commission. While Dikas is a qualified architectural historian, as the seat is designated, her appointment would leave the commission without LGBTQ representation. Breed had an opportunity to rescind Dikas’ nomination – and in fact we called on her to do just that in March – but it moved forward with a hearing before the supervisors’ rules committee April 5.

The committee, chaired by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, unanimously rejected her nomination, but it will go to the full board April 13. The Board of Supervisors recently approved three straight members to the preservation commission. In February, Breed did not reappoint the Historic Preservation Commission’s two gay members, Jonathan Pearlman and Aaron Hyland, who had been serving as the commission’s president. Pearlman’s Seat 3 is to be filled by an architectural historian, and LGBTQ community leaders had encouraged Breed to name Hyland to it; instead, the mayor nominated Dikas, a straight woman.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is vice chair of the rules committee, was eloquent Monday in stating his objection to Dikas as he recalled Harvey Milk, the late gay supervisor who once represented the Castro. “Harvey Milk believed really strongly and said frequently it is important not just to have allies in positions of power but to have queer people as it was important for all minorities to be represented on commissions and elected bodies,” Mandelman said.

During their remarks, Mandelman and committee member Supervisor Connie Chan affirmed that Dikas is qualified for the seat. Nonetheless, they felt it important that a member of the LGBTQ community serve on the commission, which will be considering several queer-related items in the coming months, from landmarking of LGBTQ historical sites to designating queerowned legacy businesses.

“I was disappointed and saddened, without saying anything negative about Ms. Dikas and I believe she would be a fine commissioner.

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Historic Preservation Commission nominee Christina Dikas spoke at the April 5 rules committee meeting.

I do not think her history of allyship means that she will be able to step in and do the work Commissioner Hyland was,” said Mandelman.

“Regretfully, and with sadness and no bad feelings, I don’t think this is the right appointment and I am not planning to support it.”

Chan said the issue is about representation.

“For me, being a good ally means supporting Supervisor Mandelman,” she said at the committee meeting.

During her remarks, Dikas did state that she worked on an oral history project involving the Polk Gulch eatery Grubstake Diner, which catered to the transgender community in the 1970s.

Shayne Watson, a lesbian and architectural historian who coauthored the citywide LGBTQ historic context statement, also opposed Dikas’ nomination in a letter to the committee.

“The ‘Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco’ was adopted in 2015 by a Historic Preservation Commission that included three members of San Francisco’s LGBTQ communities: Andrew Wolfram, Aaron Hyland, and Jonathan Pearlman,” Watson wrote. “With San Francisco’s LGBTQ population hovering around 12%, lack of representation on the Historic Preservation Commission could be detrimental to our progress as an underrepresented minority community.”

The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club also sent a letter to the rules committee.

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“In light of the important role the commission plays in recognizing and memorializing our community’s history, having no LGBTQ representation on this body is unacceptable,” the club’s political action committee and executive board wrote. “As the organization tasked with upholding the political legacy of the first openly gay person elected to public office in California, it is our responsibility to call out politicians who claim to be our allies, marching alongside us in corporate sponsored Pride parades, only to deny us a seat at the table.”

But the club also pointed out that someone who is LGBTQ must bring more than that identity to the job on the preservation commission.

“In the same breadth, we emphasize that LGBTQ representation is not enough if that LGBTQ representative has not demonstrated a commitment to the work of elevating the Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco,” the club stated. “There are no shortage of LGBTQ historians in San Francisco with the expertise, qualification, and availability to serve in this capacity, and we urge you to appoint someone to this seat who will honor the city’s investment in the preservation of queer space and queer heritage in San Francisco. We would be happy to work with you to identify appropriate candidates for this position.”

Should the Board of Supervisors not be convinced that an LGBTQ person needs to be named to the Historic Preservation Commission, there is another aspect of Dikas’ nomination that is concerning and was brought up by several speakers during public comment at the rules committee meeting. Dikas works for architecture and design firm Page and Turnball, which has done many projects in the city.

That would be a potential conflict of interest for Dikas if she were seated on the preservation commission when the firm’s projects come before it.

But the bottom line to us is about queer representation on a city commission that regularly decides on LGBTQ-related projects. At a minimum, one person on the seven-member panel should be from our community. We strongly urge members of the Board of Supervisors to send that message to the mayor by rejecting Dikas’ nomination. t

Investing in behavioral health for all

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t just past the one-year mark of COVID-19, we have seen the devastating consequences of the pandemic in every aspect of society. One of the most troubling impacts of the health crisis has been its toll on behavioral health, particularly with regard to substance abuse.

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found four in 10 adults reported symptoms of anxiety or depression during the pandemic, compared to one in 10 adults who reported such symptoms prior to COVID-19. These mental health impacts have been acutely felt by our LGBTQ communities. According to a Center for American Progress study, 69% of LGBTQ people reported feelings of nervousness or anxiety because of the pandemic; 60% felt “down, depressed, hopeless, or had difficulty falling/staying asleep,” and 54% reported feeling unable to stop or control their worrying.

The pandemic’s strain on our mental health has exacerbated the experience of those grappling with substance abuse. The same Kaiser study found 13% of adults reporting new or increased substance use due to coronavirusrelated stress. Pandemic-induced challenges can lead them down a lethal path, as reflected by the alarming rise in overdoses. For those with a substance use disorder, the pandemic diminished their ability to get critical clinical treatment. Last year, 669 San Franciscans died from overdoses – a 59% increase from the prior year.

Even before the health crisis, California and San Francisco have only been able to treat a small fraction of those with substance use issues. In the past year, about 2.7 million Californians had a diagnosable substance use disorder, yet only one in 10 of these individuals received treatment. The shortage of counselors and clinicians who work in the substance use field has been a major factor in the explosion of the opioid and behavioral health crises.

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ism and substance use counselors are currently certified in California, and fewer than 700 of the state’s nearly 140,000 licensed physicians maintain a substance use specialty certification. Substance use treatment providers regularly cite the “lack of qualified staff” as their primary concern.

Despite intense needs, the substance use disorder workforce has been underfunded for years.

While Californians approved Proposition 63 in 2004 to provide funding for behavioral health, its funding cannot be spent on substance use disorder-specific services. Last year’s state budget included $50 million in additional funding for mental health workforce development, but had no allotment for the substance use disorder workforce. At a time when overdoses are spiking, behavioral health care providers are seeing budgets shrink: 61% of community behavioral healthcare organizations reported cutting at least one program due to the pandemic, while nearly all organizations reduced operations.

To address these glaring issues, I recently introduced Assembly Bill 666 (a number I did not choose) to boost the substance use disorder workforce pipeline and increase the capacity of California’s treatment programs. This effort

would provide tuition assistance for students in behavioral health related fields and fee waivers for testing and other certification expenses. If it becomes law, AB 666 would add over 1,000 certified behavioral health workers to California’s workforce in the short term, and also require a statewide analysis of substance use disorder workforce needs to plan for the long term.

AB 666 would also address the reality that California’s behavioral workforce currently fails to reflect the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds of the state’s population, by providing grants to diversify the workforce and build a more culturally competent field. This is critical when substance use disorders have become increasingly prevalent among our state’s most vulnerable communities. We know that LGBTQ+ adolescents are 90% more likely to use substances, and that a majority of our chronically homeless residents – including the 40% of homeless youth who are LGBTQ+ – struggle with substance use.

While substance use disorders have long been a persistent challenge in our community, the pandemic has shown a spotlight on our society’s lack of capacity to treat those who are suffering.

By passing AB 666, we can provide much-needed healing for those in dire need and can also turn the corner on the opioid crisis.

In the meantime, critical organizations in San Francisco – including HealthRIGHT 360, PRC, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and many others – provide culturally competent, clinical treatment to our LGBTQ+ communities and beyond. If you are able, please support the lifesaving work they are doing. t Assemblyman David Chiu, a straight ally, represents San Francisco’s 17th District. He contributes op-eds on a quarterly basis to the Bay Area Reporter.

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As intersex bill stalls, trans rights advance in CA statehouse

by Matthew S. Bajko

Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill in the fall over last minute concerns it would inadvertently out transgender and nonbinary individuals. It was the first LGBTQ-focused bill carried by lesbian former senator Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton), who was termed out of office last year.

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s legislation banning unnecessary medical procedures on intersex youth again stalls in the California Legislature, state lawmakers are advancing a number of bills strengthening protections for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The legislative strides are in contrast to the various transphobic laws Republican-controlled statehouses have been enacting in recent weeks.

Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco) is carrying two trans rights bills this session that would bolster protections for individuals who have transitioned their gender. His Assembly Bill 1184 would strengthen the privacy rights of people receiving sensitive health care services, such as gender-affirming care.

It would expressly prohibit health care providers from disclosing services a patient receives under an insurance policy held by another person, such as a parent or spouse. Thus, a youth receiving transgender health care under their parent’s policy can request their health provider not inform them their child is receiving such care.

While federal privacy laws offer some protection from a person’s medical information being disclosed, and California law already allows a patient to opt in for confidential communications either verbally or in writing, there have been issues when a person is not the primary policyholder. An insurance company may send their guardian or spouse who is the main person on the health insurance policy an explanation of benefits letter or another form of communication that discloses the type of procedures requested by their dependents covered by their policy.

“Transgender youth may not want their parents to know they are transitioning and accessing these services,” said Chiu, noting that due to the Affordable Care Act, children can now be covered under their parent’s health insurance until the age of 26.

In his first interview about the bill, Chiu told the Bay Area Reporter that it is needed so that insurance companies do not reject a person’s request that their medical care not be disclosed to a primary policyholder. It aims to make the privacy of a person’s medical records automatic, he said.

“The enforcement of current law has been problematic,” said Chiu. “If your medical information is disclosed, you can file a complaint with the state but by that time the damage has been done.”

The Assembly Health Committee will take up AB 1184 next Tuesday, April 13. Chiu’s other bill, AB 245, that prohibits public universities from deadnaming trans and nonbinary students on their diplomas and academic records made it out of the Assembly Higher Education Committee on a unanimous

A number of bills have advanced in the California Legislature strengthening protections for transgender individuals.

bipartisan 11-0 vote in late March and is now awaiting a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

“I was heartened even Republicans were able to support this bill, that is a good sign for the bill,” said Chiu, who had pulled a similar bill last year due to the COVID pandemic upending the 2020 legislative session.

Tuesday, April 6, the Assembly Health Committee voted 10-1 in support of AB 493 authored by Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda). It allows for the option of nonbinary as the gender identity on death certificates. It is similar to the 2017 legislation Senate Bill 179, authored by lesbian Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), which authorized people to use nonbinary on their birth certificates, court documents, and driver’s licenses.

Sam Brinton, who is nonbinary and vice president of advocacy and government affairs for the LGBTQ youth focused Trevor Project, urged the committee members to support the bill so they and others would not face erasure in death.

“I can write my will, plan my estate, arrange my funeral but not be properly marked as nonbinary in death,” said Brinton. “It will honestly feel like erasure after death. Affirm nonbinary folks like me in life and in death.”

Bauer-Kahan authored the bill after one of her staffers lost a nonbinary friend who was not listed as such on their death certificate. She noted her bill advances the work started by Atkins and would require a simple change to state codes.

“It is a simple yet meaningful addition in the code of one word – nonbinary,” said BauerKahan, who marked upon how other states are restricting trans and nonbinary youths’ health care and sports participation.

The Assembly Judiciary Committee in March passed on an 8-3 vote AB 218 aimed at allowing Californians to update their marriage certificates and the birth certificates of their children to accurately reflect their legal name and gender. It now goes before the health committee on April 20.

Gay Assemblyman Chris Ward (DSan Diego) revived the legislation after

Intersex bill shelved again

With there being a lack of support for SB 225, known as the Bodily Autonomy, Dignity and Choice Act, in the Senate’s Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) decided to once again shelve it for the time being. It would require parents and doctors to postpone elective surgery on intersex children until they are 12 years of age and can take part in making such a medical decision.

As the B.A.R. reported online April 5, Wiener made the decision to pull it from the committee’s hearing schedule Monday, as he was unwilling to water it down to secure its passage. As it is a two-year bill, SB 225 could be brought back in January should Wiener and intersex advocates decide to try again next year.

“I’m deeply committed to the fight to protect intersex children from harmful and medically unnecessary genital surgeries, and we are not giving up,” stated Wiener.

Since 2019, Wiener has tried to get a legislative ban passed to no avail.

Medical groups in the state have opposed such a policy, and Wiener has been unable to win enough support for it from his Senate colleagues.

Approximately 1-2% percent of people are born with variations in bodily sex characteristics. Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. People are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes.

Physicians will perform sex assignment and genital modification surgeries on intersex infants in order that they can be classified as either male or female. The procedures can entail infant vaginoplasties, clitoral reductions, or the removal of gonadal tissues.

Those opposed to the practices point out that the medical intervention can result in extreme scarring, chronic pain, incontinence, lost sexual sensation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and incorrect gender assignment. Both Human Rights Watch and the World Health Organization have condemned performing surgeries on intersex infants, while the United Nations deems doing so akin to torture.

“Practices that put these children at risk of harm are unethical and unacceptable, and we at interACT won’t stop fighting for intersex bodily autonomy,” interACT Executive Director Kimberly Zieselman, an intersex woman, told the B.A.R. t

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I enjoyed the 50th anniversary edition of the B.A.R. Missing in the coverage was the AIDS Emergency Fund (not PRC, which took it over) and its beneficial relationship with the paper and its founder Bob Ross. Ross was an active member of the AEF board.

He and the leather community were essential supporters of endless fundraisers that enabled AEF to give out $500 grants to people living with AIDS in San Francisco and the East Bay. Marcus Hernandez was also a staunch promoter of AEF. Parenthetically, a longtime AEF volunteer, Pat Smith, just died this week at 92, still recalling her time with other AEF volunteers and clients in my weekly visits with her.

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s it marks its reopening this weekend with a free art event open to the public, a queer social club in San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro district is planning to offer daytime access to nonmembers starting June 1. Up until now The Academy, housed in a historic gay bar space at 2166 Market Street, has largely only been accessible to its paying members and their guests since it opened May 31, 2017.

The business, impacted by the COVID pandemic over the last year, has only been able to allow its members very

limited use of its facilities, in particular its outdoor patio space. In September, it welcomed barber David Hone as a tenant due to the closure of nearby barbershop Male Image where he had long worked. Starting out cutting hair in the backyard, Hone has since taken up residency in the Academy’s glassed-in front window area to see his clients.

While shutdown for most of the past 12 months, The Academy owners have worked on securing a liquor license so that they can serve alcoholic beverages without the need to obtain special permits or work with vendors, such as wine tasting hosts, in order to do so. It

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also plays into their plans to open up the venue on weekdays for what is described as a “social club experience.”

Stressing that it is not meant to be a co-working space, the club owners instead envision it as a way for people who have been sequestered at home to meet up with friends over drinks, or use it as a place to catch up on emails outside the confines of their living room. The offering has been dubbed Academy Daylight and will be available from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays.

The social club is looking to partner with a food purveyor to offer snacks for purchase and plans to provide complimentary coffee, tea, and nonalcoholic sodas. Once allowed to do so, it will also offer a cocktail menu.

“We have been planning this for a long time – ever since we opened our evening social club back in 2017 – and we feel like now is the right time. People have been cooped up in their homes for over a year, craving more social interaction and a change of scenery, especially during a grinding workday,” said Nate Bourg, who launched the business with his friend Paul Miller. “Academy Daylight will be a place to get exactly that and more. We really encourage people in the community to check it out – all are welcome.”

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two and half years. They are finalizing the drawings and the plans at the moment,” said Goldfarb. “My understanding is they are going to start groundbreaking in the fall, so maybe October or November. The plaques would be part of that, but it is not entirely clear where we would fall in the project timeline.”

Folsom Street at one point was known as the city’s “Miracle Mile” due to the many gay bars and bathhouses that operated on or near it in the 1960s and 1970s. But the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s soon would diminish SOMA’s leather scene. The health crisis resulted in most gay bathhouses and sex clubs in the area closing their doors.

By the 1990s, gentrification of the neighborhood began to push out the remaining gay bars, with only a handful left in business today. Further development in the area over the last two decades led community and city leaders to officially recognize a portion of

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The Academy co-owner Nate Bourg, shown in 2019, plans to open up the queer social space with a new daytime program.

Nonmembers of The Academy will be able to pay for a subscription to Daylight for repeat visits or purchase a single pass for the day. While the final details are being worked out, monthly passes will cost $80 and an annual subscription will cost $800. Members of the club will also need to pay to access the daytime offering but at a 50% discount.

Regular memberships to The Academy cost $45 a month for people who live at least 30 miles away from the club, while city residents can choose between a $125 or $175 monthly membership with various perks. There is also a one-time activation fee and

scholarships available for those with limited incomes.

Between 6 and 10 p.m. Friday, April 9, The Academy is hosting a free art exhibition featuring Nick Aitken’s two portrait series “Pretty Masculine” and “The Wallflowers.” Anyone wishing to obtain a ticket, which will allow access to up to six people, can do so in advance via The Academy’s website at https://www. academy-sf.com/. t

western SOMA as an LGBTQ neighborhood in hopes of preserving it.

A number of historic SOMA leather businesses have already been memorialized on stone plinths in the San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley. Dedicated four years ago, the side street project spans Ringold Alley between Eighth and Ninth streets and sports bronze bootprints embedded in the sidewalk honoring various leather community leaders, some of whom owned the remembered businesses.

The SOMA LGBTQ plaque project is similar to one undertaken several years ago by the Top of Broadway Community Benefit District in the city’s North Beach neighborhood.

It has installed sidewalk markers at the site of historic businesses in the city’s Italian district, including a trio of LGBTQ nightlife spots shuttered decades ago.

With businesses in the leather district devastated by the COVID pandemic, which shuttered bars and nightclubs for much of the past year, boosters of the sidewalk plaques pro-

posal hope it will bring in an influx of visitors to the area who will support the establishments as they begin to reopen their doors due to the health crisis ebbing. LGBTQ and leather tourism has been near nonexistent over the last 12 months with the outbreak severely limiting travel and canceling the in-person parties and street fairs that catered to the fetish scene.

“This is not only appropriate from a historical perspective but of tremendous interest to tourist visitors. It will drive visitors and helps not only our culture but our economy,” said Race Bannon, the B.A.R.’s former leather columnist who is active in the SOMA leather scene and community, told the supervisors’ land use and transportation committee Monday, April 5.

There has long been interest in learning about the various leather and LGBTQ establishments in SOMA. The late college professor Eric Rofes, a gay man who studied the city’s gay male culture, led popular walking tours of the neighborhood in 2005,

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of Feinstein by El Scorp, which read in part, “Mrs. Feinstein’s chart has several points in common with the city’s chart. Her moon is conjunct to the city’s Ascendant, and her Jupiter is also conjunct to that of the city.” Feinstein would go on to become mayor after the assassination of mayor George Moscone (and gay supervisor Harvey Milk) in 1978 and has represented California in the U.S. Senate since 1992. To view the issue, go to https://archive. org/details/BAR_19711101/mode/2up.

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Gay Jewish philanthropist Al Baum dies

by Cynthia Laird

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lvin H. Baum Jr., a gay man whose philanthropic efforts benefited the LGBTQ and Jewish communities for decades, died March 28. He was 90.

Mr. Baum, widely known as Al, passed away at his San Francisco home, according to an article in J, the Jewish News of Northern California, which first posted the news.

Horizons Foundation, which provides grants to LGBTQ nonprofits, was one of the beneficiaries of Mr. Baum’s charitable donations.

President Roger Doughty remembered Mr. Baum in an email the nonprofit sent to supporters April 2.

“Al was not only remarkably generous, but also committed and strategic as a donor and as a community leader. He loved San Francisco.

He loved the LGBTQ community,” Doughty wrote. “Together with his beloved husband Robert [Holgate] for these past 17 years, Al gave again and again and again – and he gave with his heart. He knew that it took not just generosity but consistency to create great organizations, the kind of organizations that would serve and advocate for every member of our community – today and for generations to come.”

Doughty stated that Mr. Baum – and later with Holgate – supported Horizons for 37 years.

Charlie Spiegel, a gay man and longtime attorney in San Francisco, also praised Mr. Baum’s life.

“In addition to his willingness to fearlessly gore anyone’s ox (or sacred cow), and his good cheer and twinkle in his smile, Al’s joining of, and years of service on, the Lambda Legal national board in the 1990s opened up doors to Bay Area donors of an entirely different and higher level for Lambda,” Spiegel wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter, referring to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, of which he is a former national board chair.

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San Francisco Pride, of course, announced March 24 that it will proceed with some smaller in-person events, with neither the Market Street parade nor Civic Center Plaza celebration slated to take place the last weekend of June.

2020 brought a new addition to the city’s Pride events, unaffiliated with the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee – the People’s March and Rally down Polk Street to City Hall. It followed the route of the first “gay-in” in 1970 that grew to become the official San Francisco Pride parade.

Organizers of that event, such as Alex U. Inn, indicated at the time it would be an annual event. Inn stated to the Bay Area Reporter April 6 that the event will indeed take place Sunday, June 27.

“We are hoping that it will start at the original Polk Street location like we did last year, but with Governor [Gavin] Newsom announcing today that California will be 100% back on June 15, it might disrupt some of our planning because that means we may not end up at the Civic Center but straight to the Castro,” Inn stated.

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Alvin H. Baum Jr. was a noted philanthropist who gave to LGBTQ and Jewish causes.

“So like he did in so many other organizations, Al’s active participation increased resources for serving LGBTQ+ communities 100-fold because of his work, and his imprimatur,” Spiegel added. “There’s a hole not just in my heart, but in the heart of the Bay Area philanthropic community where Al’s memory sits, and for the twinkle in his often mischievous eyes.”

Gay former state senator Mark Leno told the B.A.R. that Mr. Baum’s passing is “a great loss.”

“Al was likely the most beloved and admired person in San Francisco,” Leno said in a phone interview.

“I don’t know that I’ve ever heard critical comments about Al. “He was a great teacher – an inadvertent great teacher – just by living as he did,” Leno added. “He was a beautiful and positive spirit.”

Leno said that he officiated at Mr. Baum and Holgate’s wedding in 2014, which was held at the Presidio.

Rabbi Mychal Copeland at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, the predominately LGBTQ synagogue in San Francisco, praised Mr. Baum.

“Al Baum was a giant in the LGBTQ, Jewish community. Kind, generous, inspiring,” Copeland wrote in an email. “He helped sustain the orga-

nizations central to our communities and fought for visibility and equality on multiple fronts. Countless members of our Sha’ar Zahav community have reached out to me with personal stories of how he inspired them and were supported by him.”

In 2013, Mr. Baum was the recipient of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s Lifetime Achievement grand marshal. In a B.A.R. article at the time about the honor, he was humble.

When he found out that he was receiving the award from SF Pride he sort of downplayed it, questioning “Why me?” and telling friends he was receiving the honor for being around for so long, he told the B.A.R. at the time.

“I just did what seemed to me what I could do or should do,” said Mr. Baum about his storied career as an activist and philanthropist working on LGBTQ rights, Jewish causes, local politics, and much more.

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Inn was referring to news April 6 that California tentatively plans to lift most COVID-19 restrictions (though not the mask mandate) June 15 – in the middle of LGBTQ Pride Month.

That comes as organizations throughout the state, and up and down the West Coast, are cautiously rolling out their plans to mark this year’s festivities after last year’s were forced into virtual space due to the pandemic.

The B.A.R. has contacted 12 other organizations that host Pride and Pride-related events on the West Coast and has heard from five.

On March 30, Sonoma County LGBT Pride announced “a monthlong series of COVID-19 aware microevents in varied venues throughout Sonoma County.” More information about the nature and timing of these events will be decided this week, Christopher Kren-Mora, the president of Sonoma Pride, told the B.A.R. “We have two big meetings tomorrow, which we are hoping to get our final answer on two of the events,” Kren-Mora wrote in an April 6 email.

This year’s theme is “Beyond the Rainbow: Surviving, Reviving, and

Thriving,” which is inspired by the classic film, “The Wizard of Oz.” Cheryl Kabanuck, the secretary for Sonoma Pride, stated in a news release that the events will put “the beloved film’s lessons into perspective.”

“There’s no place like home being back together with our community,” Kabanuck stated. “Courage leads us here, knowledge is how we survive, and heart is what keeps us together.”

San Diego Pride also announced March 30 that while “there is still no certain path to safely produce Pride events at the same immense scale we did prior to the pandemic,” there will be a main virtual event July 17 and a series of in-person “satellite” events.

“The details such as time, location, capacity, and entertainment content for Pride 2021’s limited-capacity inperson events will be announced the first week of June,” a San Diego Pride news release states. “If public health guidance allows, capacity at these events may increase as the date of each event approaches.”

Fernando López, executive director of San Diego Pride, said they’re grateful to volunteers, donors, staff, board members, merchants, and officials in the area who stepped in to lend their support.

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cago, Max came to San Francisco in the summer of 1969 after a stint in the U.S. Air Force. Right away, he knew he was home, and he proceeded to touch the lives of all those lucky enough to cross his path with his kindness, generosity, and humor.

During the disco era, you would find him dancing the night away at Buzzby’s on Polk Street. Every Halloween, he dressed up as a pill-popping Car-

men Miranda, truly a sight to behold.

For the last decade, Max took care of his beloved mother, Esther, who preceded him in death last June. I will miss our road trips, dining out, laughing and shrieking and carrying on. I don’t want to live in a world without Max, but the show must go on, as he always reminded me. Until we meet again, my friend – someday, some way. Keep ‘em laughing. t

Early life

Born and raised in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, Mr. Baum discovered his Jewishness serving in the military in Germany in the 1950s. A secular Jew, he attended Shabbat services for the first

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time in his life to escape boredom.

He found a profound connection that manifested throughout his life, mostly with the coming together of LGBTQ Jews with the Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco in 1996. (The group later became the LGBT Jewish Alliance at the JCF in 2001.)

“It felt like an achievement,” Mr. Baum told the B.A.R. in 2013 about merging his gay and Jewish identity.

He became a member of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav.

The federation dissolved the alliance in 2011, replacing it with Keshet Bay Area and A Wider Bridge.

Mr. Baum wasn’t concerned about changes in the organization that he founded and that was pivotal in his life, he said.

“I think some people expected me to be very troubled by the changes, but I wasn’t,” said Mr. Baum. “The real question is if the federation continues to care about the LGBTs and it’s obvious to any unbiased person, yes, they do still care.”

After his time in the military, Mr. Baum moved to San Francisco. He began his public service career in 1962 working as a city planner. He went to law school, became an attorney, and then later returned to school to earn a master’s degree in social work. He’s had careers as an attorney, psychotherapist, and real estate investor.

Came out later in life

For many years, Mr. Baum kept the pieces of his life separate, the 2013 B.A.R. article noted. Just as he evolved into his Jewish identity, he took his time realizing his gay identity, coming out in his 40s.

By that time the Compton’s Cafeteria and Stonewall riots happened and the gay liberation movement

was exploding into U.S. consciousness.

Mr. Baum came out to himself in 1971, but it took another four years before he began engaging fully as an out gay man.

“I didn’t really come out publicly until I was 45 years old and that happened gradually and largely because the world changed,” said Mr. Baum, who was inspired by his friend, the late Jim Foster, who was the first openly gay man to address a Democratic National Convention, and the energy of the gay liberation movement.

It happened during an interview for an article about the Lavender University, a former continuing education institute, in the San Francisco Chronicle. An interviewee didn’t show up and Mr. Baum took his place and was quoted in the article.

“After that it just seemed natural to participate in the gay community and I did,” said Mr. Baum.

He found himself recruited as an out gay man for the boards of the Jewish Family and Children Services of San Francisco, JCF, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He also served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the former New Leaf: Services for Our Community, and was the founding member of the New Israel Fund, among other organizations.

Mr. Baum has received awards for his activism, community service, and philanthropy, including: the Silver SPUR Award; the James C. Hormel Community Service Award from the Human Rights Campaign; the Community Service Award from the San Francisco AIDS Foundation; and the Charles M. Holmes Community Service Award from the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. t

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“It is each of them, each of you, who lifts up our community and makes Pride possible. Your individual strength, brilliantly diverse creativity, and unstoppable drive keep our community and our movement resilient,” López, who is queer and nonbinary, stated in the release. “While I know that this year’s Pride events may again look different, next year’s Pride will be a massive unforgettable celebration.”

Pride Northwest in Portland, Oregon told the B.A.R. in February that it was looking at a hybrid strategy.

Debra Porta, the executive director of Pride Northwest, stated to the B.A.R. March 30 that the organization has

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Castro to City Hall that occurred on November 27, 1978 after the assassinations of Milk and then-mayor George Moscone. It’s also being looked at historically for its role in the White Night Riots of May 21, 1979, which occurred after Dan White, the disgruntled ex-supervisor who killed Milk and Moscone, received a lenient sentence for the crimes.

After the evaluation “the project received a $1 million state grant to create an LGBTQ space at Harvey Milk Plaza,” Springfield said, referring to the funding Wiener was able to obtain.

SWA Group, an international landscape, architecture, planning, and urban design firm, is now working on the project. This is the second company involved with the design; Perkins Eastman did several concepts for the plaza but those have been scrapped.

In 2017, the plaza got $500,000 from a gay California man that was used for the first design competition and Perkins Eastman.

“The way we approach a project is different from how an architect would work,” said Daniel Cunningham, the SWA project lead and an associate in the firm’s San Francisco office, who also is a Castro neighborhood resi-

dent. “We are landscapers.”

SWA is currently working on a project at Portsmouth Square in Chinatown.

“We want our project to be rooted in the community and we want the project to feel like the Castro,” Cunningham, a landscape architect, said.

Cunningham went on to speak to the merchants about different memorials SWA has or is working on, including the Sandy Hook Memorial in Newtown, Connecticut; the Grand Candela in El Paso, Texas to memorialize those killed in a 2019 mass shooting there; and the Harry S. Truman Memorial in Independence, Missouri.

Cunningham said each has a special purpose. The Grand Candela is designed to look like a prayer candle and be visible from across the Mexican border (the victims included both U.S. and Mexican nationals). The Truman memorial includes walkable space because the 33rd president enjoyed taking walks.

“We want to focus our conversation on the memory of Milk,” Cunningham said. “We all walk by the site, we go to work, and it’s a space – but it’s not a place. ... For folks taking transit, this is the front doormat to the Castro, and it’s also the last thing

you’ll see when you leave.”

Due to the COVID pandemic, the Muni station has been fenced off and closed since last March other than a brief three-day reopening last August. SFMTA has yet to say when it will reopen.

As for the proposed plaza renovation, some questions that will have to be answered is whether the Milk memorial will be more focused on him personally or the LGBTQ-rights movement in general; whether the focus will be more San Francisco specific or global; and whether the design elements will be more traditional or out-of-the-box, Cunningham said.

“The project has the opportunity to reshape people’s perception of the Castro in a major way,” Cunningham said. “It’s a way to bring everyone together in a positive way after this dark time as we move to the light.”

The online survey is at https:// www.harveymilkplaza.org/hopeandaction.

The virtual town halls will be held Thursday, April 15, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, April 17, at 11 a.m. Anyone who wants to attend can sign up through Eventbrite The latter meeting will be a reprise of the first one, Springfield said. t

decided to move forward with that.

“We will be filming a virtual parade in early June and broadcasting on June 20 (which would have been our typical parade day this year),” Porta wrote in an email. “The June 20 parade broadcast will also include pre-recorded local performances and other commentary, building out to a two-hour (give or take) ‘show.’ ... Local CBS affiliate KOIN will also be broadcasting a half hour (maybe longer) celebration of Pride on ‘regular’ television. It will be the weekend of June 19-20, but still TBA for details.”

Pride Northwest will also include other activities.

“We are collaborating with the Portland Queer Documentary Festival folks for a two-day film festival. This will be an in-person, safely spaced,

ticketed event on June 16-17,” Porta wrote. “The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus’ 2021 virtual Pride Concert will be part of Pride Northwest programming, scheduled for the evening of June 18.

“The premiere of film and original music (written by openly trans composer Mari Esabel Valverde) coming from the Resonance Ensemble will be part of Pride Northwest programming, scheduled for June 19. Time TBA,” Porta continued. “The LGBTQ+ mural is still scheduled to be ready to unveil in late June/early July.

We will be looking at fall for a potential street fair celebration for that.”

As the B.A.R. reported February 10, Seattle Pride announced it was “hopeful that we will be able to host a smaller scale in-person event for Seattle’s LGBTQIA+ community in the

fall,” in addition to its virtual events the weekend of June 26 and 27.

When reached for comment, Seattle Pride told the B.A.R. to expect further announcements this summer.

David Heitstuman, a gay man who is the executive director of the Sacramento LGBT Center, which produces the capital city’s Pride events, had told the B.A.R. in February that an in-person event there is unlikely this year. As of March 31, that holds.

“Our position hasn’t changed,” Heitstuman stated. “We are monitoring guidance closely and will make an announcement about our plans sometime later in April.”

Christopher Street West/Los Angeles Pride had announced in February that it was currently developing “a variety of programming that

will be announced soon.” CSW/LA Pride spokesman Chris Prouty told the B.A.R. subsequently “there likely won’t be any details announced before mid-April, unfortunately.”

Santa Cruz Pride, which did not respond to a request for comment, states on its website that Pride there will occur June 6 at 11 a.m. (though it is unclear, as per the announcement, whether that will be virtual only or inperson).

“Will be a blast,” the chyron states.

“Be a part of making it happen!”

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walking tours and site-specific performance pieces honoring SOMA’s queer past. Once installed, the sidewalk markers will allow people to take their own journey through the neighborhood’s history.

In conjunction with the leather

district plaques will be self-guided walking tours the cultural district plans to host on its website. There will be audio components in addition to write-ups about the various locations, according to Goldfarb.

As David Hyman, who is also in-

volved with the SOMA leather district, noted during the land use committee hearing, “Many visitors who come for Leather Week and other special events ask about these places. They are not forgotten, but in most cases, they are invisible.”

A full list of the 50 SOMA locations where plaques are planned can be found in the supervisors’ resolution at https://bit.ly/3cVdObK. t

OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556187 In the matter of the application of LILIA OUNDI KAZEMI, 840 POST ST #906, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LILIA OUNDI KAZEMI is requesting that the name LILIA OUNDI KAZEMI be changed to LILIA KAZEMI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 22nd of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VALENTINA SADIUL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/16/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/09/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039289500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as AUSSIE RECRUIT, 1387 FRANCISCO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed AUSSIE SF BAY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/18/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/21.

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requesting that the name MOLLY ROSE BRUNO be changed to MOLLY ANIELA ROSE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 27th of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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Nor is it clear how the determination that the plaza itself is of historical importance – and that it contributes to having the entire Eureka Valley/ Castro Street commercial historic district be designated a California Register Historic District – will impact plans to renovate the plaza. The city’s public works department, in partnership with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, is planning to install a new elevator in the plaza to provide better access to the underground Muni station from the street for individuals who use wheelchairs and others with mobility issues.

“People want to see Harvey represented with something special and a gathering place for the community so the place named for Harvey is better integrated in the community,” Springfield said at the meeting.

SFMTA’s Castro Accessibility Project will include a four-stop elevator, as the Bay Area Reporter recently reported. SFMTA’s website states construction is slated to start this fall on the $14.5 million project. It is scheduled to be completed in 2024.

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believed to be the first such walks down SOMA’s leather memory lane.

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Brian Springfield, interim executive director of the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, gave a presentation on the proposed renovation project to the Castro Merchants Association April 1.

Springfield said that with these changes coming to the space, now is the time for the community to make its voice heard as to what other changes it wants to make to the plaza.

“The change is coming,” Springfield said. “What do we want the site to look like when it’s torn apart and put back together?”

Springfield said that since he had last spoken to the merchants group, the project underwent a historic resource evaluation due to the role that the site played as a gathering space for the candlelight march from the

Legals>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556140 In the matter of the application of HANNAH VICTORIA CENTER, 818 VAN NESS AVE #307, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner HANNAH VICTORIA CENTER is requesting that the name HANNAH VICTORIA CENTER be changed to HANNAH VICTORIA CENTER MAVERICK. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103 on the 13th of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556141 In the matter of the application of CHELSEA DORA TURNER, 818 VAN NESS AVE #307, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHELSEA DORA TURNER is requesting that the name CHELSEA DORA TURNER be changed to CHELSEA DORA SHAFRON MAVERICK. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. Dept. 103 on the 13th of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556149 In the matter of the application of BISERA JAHICFERRERO, C/O ALEXANDER M. KALLIS (SBN 264915), 951 MARINERS ISLAND BLVD #300, SAN MATEO, CA 94404, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BISERA JAHICFERRERO is requesting that the name BISERA JAHIC-FERRERO be changed to BISERA JAHIC FERRERO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 13th of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039281900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 24 BART LIQUOR STORE, 3347 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BINAYA POKHAREL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/01/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039277400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CURATED STATE, 26 BRODERICK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed COURTNEY NORRIS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/01/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039278300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CREATIVE MUSIC OF SF ONLINE; CREATIVE MUSIK EMPORIUM, 911 SADDLEBACK DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELBA CLEMENTELAMBERT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/85. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/01/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039287900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VALENTINA SADIUL PHOTOGRAPHY, 680 8TH

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039289900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE FRESH CUP, 798 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CYNTHIA OLMEDO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039289300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY CITY VENDING, 310 HAMILTON ST #4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MIA MIKA ANDERSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039283200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VALDEZ OPTOMETRY, 231 MONTGOMERY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LYNN VALDEZ OPTOMETRY (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/21.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039273400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GROSVENOR ATRIUM, 1690 BROADWAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed VGA LLC (CA), GENERAL PARTNER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/77. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/25/21.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038486300 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as ANA ELLIOTT & ASSOCIATES, 55 MANCHESTER ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by ANA ELLIOTT. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/22/19.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038382800 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as HARMONIOUS GOODS, 2490 46TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed

by HARMONIOUS GOODS LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037897900 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as BAY HOTEL, 124-128 JONES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by BAPU DOLATSINH LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/13/17.

MAR 18, 25, APR 01, 08, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556197 In the matter of the application of MOLLY ROSE BRUNO, C/O EVA M. MARTELLE (SBN 233139), ALLAN & MARTELLE LLP, 2076 LINCOLN AVE, SAN JOSE, CA 95125, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MOLLY ROSE BRUNO is

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556195 In the matter of the application of TARA VEERATHANONGDECH & MICHAEL PICCIRILLI, 941 PAGE ST #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioners TARA VEERATHANONGDECH & MICHAEL PICCIRILLI are requesting that the name MAGNUS VEERA PICCIRILLI be changed to MAGNUS LUCA PICCIRILLI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 27th of APRIL 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039291700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as QUICKFOOT BOOKS, 555 ULLOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN MAINARD ODELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/12/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039284400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as REALLY GOOD SOUND, 2393 MISSION ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CONAN MATTISSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/27/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039292800 The following person(s) is/are doing business

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as THRIVING LIFE WELLNESS CENTER, 2126 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTINE L. CANTWELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/06/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039293000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LATER DAZE, 631 O’FARRELL ST #1214, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANA A. CHRISTY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/11/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039285800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YOU RULE THERAPY, 58 WEST PORTAL AVE #110, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CYNTHIA HOFFMAN MFT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039295900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOSFRENTALS.COM, 2740 GREENWICH ST #103, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DEBBIE J. MILLIGAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/07/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/17/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039284000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TIP TOP DENTAL; TRUSTING DENTAL, 2279-A MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DR. SOE DENTAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/02/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039276100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO SPINE SURGEONS PC, 1 SHRADER ST #600, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO SPINE SURGEONS PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/26/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039279700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOVEMINT RELOCATION CONCIERGE, LLC, 1365 10TH AVE #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MOVEMINT RELOCATION CONCIERGE, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039292300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DYNAMICO.SPACE, 447 SUTTER ST SUITE 405, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GOLDEN BAY CAPITAL, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/12/21.

MAR 25, APR 01, 08, 15, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556211 In the matter of the application of KENYADIE Y. SHAW & JERRON PAUL FULLER, 2600 ARELIOUS WALKER DR #311, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioners KENYADIE Y. SHAW & JERRON PAUL FULLER are requesting that the name KAYDEN SHAW be changed to KAYDEN MAURICE FULLER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 4th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556219 In the matter of the application of JONATHAN ARNOWITZ TAYLOR, 74 POND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JONATHAN ARNOWITZ TAYLOR is requesting that the name JONATHAN ARNOWITZ TAYLOR be changed to JONATHAN SETH ARNOWITZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103, on the 11th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556207 In the matter of the application of KENNETH JIA YI CHEN & CLARA HUI HUANG CHEN, 1250 39TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KENNETH JIA YI CHEN & CLARA HUI HUANG CHEN is requesting that the name TIFFANY CHEN be changed to TIFFANY LE YI CHEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 6th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556208 In the matter of the application of JESSICA CHEN, 1250 39TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JESSICA CHEN is requesting that the name JESSICA CHEN be changed to JESSICA YING YI CHEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103 on the 6th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039297900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MAGGIE’S TAX SERVICE, 4392 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAGDALENA M. ZEVALLOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/00. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039298800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HLORGANIC SKIN CARE, 36 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HELEN LAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/03/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039290100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SOUL CROWN CO., 191 SANTA MARINA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY MEGAN WILSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039296600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JZA ARCHITECTURE, 152 LUNDYS LN, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH Z. ARMIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/18/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039304500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARK & OLIVE, 70 OCEAN AVE #17, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KATHRYN MCBRIDE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039307500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VK AUTOSPORT, 955 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VANDA DURU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/05/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039302800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF DOG CAST, 3580-A 18TH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KATHLEEN GERNATT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/10/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039286400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PROPAGATION, 895 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed NGUMAN LLC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039296700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ROCKWELL PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT, INC., 2489 MISSION ST #22, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ROCKWELL PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/04/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039303600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as AIGA SAN FRANCISCO, 595 PACIFIC AVE 4TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/84. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/21.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039059500 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as ONTO, 483 46TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by CORNER DESIGN STUDIO INC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/06/20.

APR 01, 08, 15, 22, 2021 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR- 10-3041 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JOSHUA GEORGE, KELLY PETERS, TARA GEORGE, WILLIAM GEORGE, AND NIKA GEORGE,

DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2013.

TO DEFENDANT: TARA GEORGE YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for CHARLESTON County on DECEMBER 3, 2020. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Newton I. Howle, Jr., Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Newton I. Howle, Jr., SC Bar # 2729, 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405, Telephone # 843-339-8761.

APR 08, 15, 22, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF EDWARD FRANCIS JASINSKI IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304368 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EDWARD FRANCIS JASINSKI, C/O NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN #320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. A Petition for Probate has been filed by MARY JASINSKI in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that MARY JASINSKI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: APRIL 27, 2021, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN #320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; Ph. (415) 552-0059.

APR 08, 15, 22, 2021 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF ELIAS GUTIERREZ MACIAS (AKA ELIAS M. GUTIERREZ, AKA ELIAS GUTIERREZ) IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-21-304369 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of ELIAS GUTIERREZ MACIAS, AKA ELIAS M. GUTIERREZ, AKA ELIAS GUTIERREZ, C/O NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN #320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. A Petition for Probate has been filed by GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ 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: APRIL 27, 2021, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE C. KELLY (SBN #320379), THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; Ph. (415) 5520059.

APR 08, 15, 22, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556235 In the matter of the application of ALVIN YANG, 2334 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ALVIN YANG is requesting that the name ALVIN YANG be changed to ALVIN CHEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 13th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause

why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556223 In the matter of the application of JARELL MARSAE GREEN, AKA JARELL GREEN, 2500 ARELIOUS WALKER DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JARELL MARSAE GREEN, AKA JARELL GREEN is requesting that the name JARELL MARSAE GREEN, AKA JARELL GREEN be changed to JARELL MARSAE BOYD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the11th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE JD18-3146 In the matter of the application of SELENA RAIN HURSHMAN, C/O AHTOSSA FULLERTON (SBN #196939), WASACZ HILLEY & FULLERTON LLP, 459 FULTON ST #209, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner SELENA RAIN HURSHMAN is requesting that the name SELENA RAIN HURSHMAN be changed to SELENA RAIN ALTAMIRANO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 425 on the 7th of MAY 2021 at 10:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556238 In the matter of the application of JANE ELIZABETH PHILIPPS ROSS, 18 LOYOLA TERRACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JANE ELIZABETH PHILIPPS ROSS is requesting that the name JANE ELIZABETH PHILIPPS ROSS be changed to JANE ELIZABETH PHILIPPS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 18th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-21-556243 In the matter of the application of GILLIAN GARRETT MACMANNIS, 301 MISSION ST #33F, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GILLIAN GARRETT MACMANNIS is requesting that the names GILLIAN GARRETT MACMANNIS be changed to GILLIAN JAMES and AVERY JUNE MACMANNIS be changed to AVERY JUNES JAMES MACMANNIS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N on the 18th of MAY 2021 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039306900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as

SOHAIR STUDIO, 1538 PACIFIC AVE #115, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SOHEA HYUN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/25/21.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039307800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DESIGNSPEAK, 333 GONZALEZ DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JULIA AYANA AIRAKIAN-MANCE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/30/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/26/21.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039296100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EDWARD LAU FILM, 1527 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWARD C. LAU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/07. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/17/21.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039308200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LIMPIO PROFESSIONAL CLEANING, 1275 FAIRFAX AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FABIO GARCIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/29/21.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039298700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NATIONAL PETROLEUM – SAN FRANCISCO, 2831 CESAR CHAVEZ, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ENGINEER’S ASSOCIATES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/21.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039305500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BODY AND SOUL YOGA COLLECTIVE, 3271 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LOTUSLAND INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/12/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/24/21.

APR 08, 15, 22, 29, 2021 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039298200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OTTAVINO WINES; OTTAVINO, 495 BARNEVELD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed OTTAVINO WINES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/14/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/21.

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s the 1990s approached, films began to offer more positive portrayals of LGBTQ people, often as the loyal best friend/confidante, with characters beginning to be more fleshed out, having lives rooted in their sexuality but not necessarily ruled only by it (i.e. Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991). Straight society could identify with the queer search for happiness despite facing oppression and traditional values (i.e. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, 1994).

One remaining taboo was public displays of affection and intimacy, especially two men kissing. That hurdle would be overcome in the 2000s (and even lampooned in the 1998 indie Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss) as major movie stars sought to play queer sexually active characters, which in decades past could have meant the end of a career (with aspersions the performer was secretly gay) but could now result in a possible Oscar nomination.

The B.A.R. became adept, primarily through Tavo Amador’s columns, of revisiting Hollywood classics, appreciating their often veiled LGBTQ content or allusions a la Vito Russo, as well as the contribution of female divas (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh) in LGBTQ lives, especially as inspiration to become performers themselves, with or without drag.

As lesbigay mainstream acceptance grows, we can now discuss openly whether only LGBTQ actors should play queer roles, a luxurious topic unimaginable to previous generations. Also documentaries and features are chronicling LGBTQ heroes such as Frank Kameny, Alan Turing, Jose Saria, Bayard Ruskin, and Del Martin/Phyllis Lyon, so they can receive their proper historical recognition. And enough time has passed, that movies can reassess the tragic AIDS crisis (i.e. SF’s We Were Here), beginning to comprehend the gravity of what was lost, but how that holocaust, now

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Greg Araki’s The Living End

Film coverage in the B.A.R. through 50 years, part 2

forty years old, changed the queer struggle for justice forever as it continues to impact future generations. Finally, the ascendancy of nonbinary/gender fluid stories on society embracing transgender people more fully seems to be the next exciting theatrical liberation frontier.

As we chart a new decade, it is not inconceivable that we may be entering a Golden Age of LGBTQ cinema with no holds barred, as a new era of equal citizenship beckons, and queer people are prized as much for their perseverance and fortitude as well as their creativity.

Rise of the Indies

A strong current in 1990s cinema was the rise of independent films, which actually began in the 1980s (one thinks immediately of 1986’s Mala Noche, Gus Van Sant’s directorial debut, about the relationship between a gay store clerk and two Mexican boys) but accelerated in this decade and became more accessible to the general public.

As a movement, these movies became so prominent they even merited their own term, the ‘new queer cinema,’ first coined by lesbian academician B. Ruby Rich (profiled in the Bay Area Reporter). It refers to LGBTQ identity and experience, with the word queer being more fluid, permeable, and inclusive than the cumber-

some gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender classification and an umbrella label encompassing any non-normative sexuality or gender expression.

New queer films challenged heteronormativity and weren’t afraid to present negative images of queer people, even depicting them as outsiders, renegades, and outlaws, with sexuality seen as a subversive force that challenged norms of race, class, family, and traditional societal values.

Films often mentioned as new queer cinema examples included Jenny Livingston’s documentary Paris Is Burning (1990), about New York City’s drag ball culture and the People of Color transgender communities involved with them; Todd Hayne’s Poison (1991), a horror film widely interpreted as an allegory for AIDS. Greg Araki’s The Living End (1992) depicted two gay HIV+ guys who go off on a killing spree, and his 2002 Mysterious Skin featured the sexual abuse of two pre-adolescent Little League boys by their coach and how it affected the rest of their lives.

Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992), an imaginative recounting of the notorious 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case emphasized the homosexuality of the killers. Gay director Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho (1991), a road movie, focused on the relationship between two street hustlers, one of whom is a narcoleptic.

The B.A.R.’s Entertainment Editor Donald McLean as Beverly LaSalle, here with Carroll O’Connor, on All in the Family

Groove Tube The B.A.R.’s five-decades of TV turn-ons

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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50th anniversary is an extraordinary event. In a culture that regularly cancels itself, the existence of something valued and valuable for a half century remains an accomplishment.

The nearly 30 years that I have been writing The Lavender Tube TV column for the Bay Area Reporter has been an evolution of both the medium and the message. In 1994, then-B.A.R. Arts Editor Chris Culwell asked me to write about TV for the paper. It began as an experiment: The early columns were meditative and musing. A lot of what-if so-and-so

was gay about various TV characters like The X-Files’s Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’s Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay).

The 1970s

In the 1970s and 1980s, there was very little TV with openly queer content. It’s different now; LGBTQ representation is infinitely better, if still not where it should be.

And unlike those early decades, we have GLAAD to detail every little LGBTQ nuance that constitutes that representation in their annual report, about which I write–and sometimes pointedly refute–each year.

We’ve come a long way from Billy Crystal’s Jodie Dallas on Soap in 1977. Far enough,

Derek Jarman’s Edward II (1991) was a loose historical dramatic retelling of the 14th-century English king’s infatuation with Piers Gaveston which led to his downfall and notorious execution. Rich argues because these films were so unconventional and edgy, they paved the way for more mainstream LGBTQ films in the next decade. The B.A.R. richly explored all these new queer cinema films along with in-depth interviews of their creators, especially Jarman with sizable reporting on his 1994 death from AIDS. Killer Films, co-founded in the early 1990s by lesbian movie producer Christine Vachon, made and distributed many queer independent films in that decade, including Poison, Swoon, the lesbian romance Go Fish, Safe (another AIDS metaphor feature by Haynes), Stonewall, a fictionalized account of the Riots; Velvet Goldmine, a British musical on the early glam rock days of the 1970s modeled after David Bowie.

And Boys Don’t Cry (1999) chronicled the murder of transgender adolescent Brandon Teena which won an Oscar for Hillary Swank’s portrayal. Again, the B.A.R. promoted Killer Films and Vachon, highlighting their films often on the cover of the Arts section.t

Read the expansive two-part feature on www.ebar.com at the Century Plaza Hotel, 500 gay activists staged a sit-in.

I wrote a biography of Rock Hudson in the ’90s. He was tortured, he was typecast, he was gay AF. The leading man of dozens of films in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s shifted to TV in the 1970s and in the 1980s starred on the prime time soap, Dynasty.

It was during his tenure there that Hudson revealed he had been diagnosed with AIDS, the first celebrity to do so. He died of complications from the illness and never did come out publicly as gay.

In 1989, the ABC drama Thirtysomething created an ongoing furor when in a primetime television first, the show portrayed two gay men, series regulars Russell (David Marshall Grant) and Peter (Peter Frechette), in bed together.

Sponsors pulled advertising for that episode. The New York Times estimated that ABC lost $1.5 million in sales. Though the show’s producers insisted the controversy would “not affect how we write the show,” the episode was not repeated and the show never showed the couple in a physical clinch again.

The 1990s in fact, to have Crystal turn homophobic 40 years later.

The B.A.R.’s Entertainment Editor, Donald McLean, did a column in the 1970s called Show Biz. McLean was also Lori Shannon, a wellknown female impersonator who appeared on All in the Family as Beverly LaSalle, a close friend of Edith’s. In one of the episodes, Archie Bunker gives the 6’5” Beverly mouth-tomouth resuscitation, and of course, hilarity ensues. McLean died suddenly in 1984 of a heart attack at only 45.

The 1980s

1980’s Gay Power, Gay Politics, a CBS documentary, aired nationally and stirred up quite the controversy due to its portrayal of gay life.

At a CBS affiliates meeting in Los Angeles

Writing about TV was not without its pitfalls. One irate letter-writer complained I had wrongly insinuated that Rosie O’Donnell was gay because she had hired out lesbian comedian Kate Clinton as a writer on her show.

O’Donnell came out publicly in 2002.

Throughout the ’90s one of the singular issues I wrote about often was the disparate treatment of AIDS on TV. Major storylines ran on daytime soaps, nearly all of which had a character with HIV/AIDS, while prime time pretended it didn’t exist. The Young & the Restless, General Hospital, As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives all featured these stories while prime time ignored the fact of the AIDS pandemic in our midst.t

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by Brian Bromberger

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Film is making big changes to accommodate the pandemic for its 64th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival to be held from April 9-18. Programs include primarily online streaming but some in-person events at the Fort Mason Flix drive-in theater.

Screenings have opened up for filmgoers from across the country. There will be new ways for audiences to connect digitally with artists and other festival-attendees through their website. The Festival’s daring diverse lineup consists of 42 feature films, 56 short films and –new this year– five mid-length films. 41 countries are represented with 57% of the films helmed by female directors and 57% by BIPOC filmmakers. Still, only a handful of the offerings have LGBTQ-related content. For a round up of some of the best films, read the full article on www.ebar.com. For tickets, visit https://sffilm.org/t

50 years in 50 weeks

by Jim Provenzano

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he cover of the May 1, 1971 Bay Area Reporter doesn’t even have a headline, just a photo of two men dressed in headdresses of feathered plumage.

The subsequent two-page thread, ‘David, Gary & Friends: High Camp in the Afternoon,” fails to provide a location or last names of the host pair, who performed drag numbers as nuns. Their friends Eileen and Fred performed a parody of Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy duets, but “Eileen’s hat was so big, poor Fred had trouble getting next to her.”

Gary seems to have “brought the house down” with his banana-tossing Carmen Miranda finale. The hand-typed un-bylined article is typical of the B.A.R.’s first year, comparable to a high school mimeographed newsletter, yet precious in its sweet naiveté.

Enjoy the article, photos, and more, including gossip, horoscopes, Connie’s ‘Evening Out’ at The Mint, a review of a cabaret show at The SavoyTivoli, ‘Auntie Mildred’s Gourmet Capers,’ and a vintage Sweet Lips column, in the B.A.R. Archives at https://archive.org/details/bayareareporter.t

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