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HIV rages among black gay men

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n alarming 60 percent of black men who have sex with men in the United States will become infected with HIV by the age of 40, according to the latest research presented at Bob Roehr the XIX InternationSheldon D. Fields al AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. The HIV Prevention Trials Network study (HPTN 061) involved 1,553 black men in six cities – Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington – between 2009 and 2011.

It found that 2.8 percent of the study parSee page 12 >>

Permit troubles delay shelter expansion

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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lans for a space welcoming to LGBT homeless people are facing more delays after officials discovered that the existing shelter set to house the project doesn’t have the permit to operate as a shelter.

The problems involve the Dolores Street Community Services-run space at 1050 South Van Ness Avenue. Work to establish the gay-friendly space began not long after a Board of Supervisors committee hearing in March 2010 in which LGBTs testified about harassment in San Francisco’s shelters. Late last year, some involved with the project had predicted that the space would be open by mid-February.

But in an interview this week, Dolores Street Executive Director Wendy Phillips said that in December 2011, “We were ready to go with the rehab work on the expansion for the new queer-friendly space, and when the architect went to pull the permits, they realized our existing space had a permit for social services, but not for sleeping accommodations.”

In addition to the shelter, there’s a childSee page 12 >>

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he annual Up Your Alley street fair south of Market saw leather enthusiasts enjoy sunny San Francisco weather Sunday, July 29. Christopher Atilano-Galvan and Enrique Chavez played around at the fair, a run-up to the larger Folsom Street Fair in September. Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which produces both street fairs, said that this year exhibitor booths for Up Your Alley increased by about 10 percent from last year. He estimated attendance at a little over 12,000, up from last year, and there were no problems reported. “This was our smoothest one yet, all things considered,” he said. This year’s Folsom Street Fair takes place a week earlier than usual, Sunday, September 23 and main stage headliners will be The Limousines, Little Boots, and Ladyhawke. For more information, visit www.folsomstreetevents.org.

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ay Catholics in the Bay Area and elsewhere offered mixed reactions to the Vatican’s announcement that Oakland Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has been named the new archbishop of San Francisco.

Danny Buskirk The blog Whispers in Archbishop-desthe Loggia first broke the news stateside of Cor- ignate Salvatore Cordileone dileone’s appointment, playing up Pope Benedict XVI’s “courageously bold – or stunningly brazen – American appointment” of a “lead hand behind the U.S. bishops’ national effort to defend the traditional definition of marriage.”

It’s a jarring juxtaposition: A visible and outSee page 5 >>

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Special service to honor Golden Gate Bridge suicides

by Matthew S. Bajko

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arold Wobber, a World War I veteran, has the dubious distinction of being the first known person to have committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Wobber went to the iconic span to take his own life August 7, 1937 just 10 weeks after it officially opened to the public. Over the ensuing years at least another 1,557 people are known to have died jumping from the Golden Gate.

To mark the 75th anniversary of Wobber’s death, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav (which means “Golden Gate” in Hebrew) will honor the dead with a special ceremony next Tuesday night known as a Yizkor for the Fallen.

“I know there are people in the congregation who know people who have jumped from the bridge,” said Rabbi Camille Shira Angel.

In Hebrew Yizkor means “may God remember,” and the service involves the recitation of a memorial prayer for the departed. Jewish synagogues normally conduct the Yizkor ceremony four times a year, with the recitation of the names of deceased loved ones a way to publicly remember them.

Shortly after the Bay Area celebrated the Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th anniversary in May, several congregants at the predominantly LGBT

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The iconic Golden Gate Bridge has been the sight of at least 1,558 suicides since the span opened 75 years ago.

synagogue approached Angel about conducting a special Yizkor specifically for those who had committed suicide off the Golden Gate. It is believed to be the first time such a ceremony

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SFPD released this sketch of a person of interest in the recent homicide of a gay man.

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San Francisco Police Inspector Len Broberg speaks with a San Francisco resident about the importance of reporting crime incidents.

Sketch released by police in gay man’s death; reporting crime encouraged

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an Francisco police have released a sketch of a person of interest in the recent homicide of gay city resident Steven “Eriq” Escalon.

Escalon, 28, was found “bound, gagged, and deceased” at 6 p.m. June 12 in his bedroom at 5004 Diamond Heights Boulevard, police said in a bulletin released Tuesday, July 31. Sergeant Scott Warnke, of the San Francisco Police Department’s homicide unit, hasn’t said how Escalon appears to have been killed.

The bulletin says the suspect was seen getting into a cab with Escalon in front of the bar 440 Castro at about 1:30 a.m. the day he was killed. Escalon had visited “a few” bars in the neighborhood, police said.

The suspect is described as a white or Hispanic man, 25 to 30 years old, 5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches, with a slim build. He was last seen wearing a black T-shirt.

Police have suggested that whoever killed Escalon stole a TV and other items from his home.

Need to report crimes Cases like Escalon’s have concerned gay SFPD Inspector Len Broberg, who’s seen “a little bit of an uptick” in such homicides in the last couple years. Broberg encourages people to report crimes to police, even those that may appear minor, in part because it can help prevent others from becoming victims.

He also talked about the importance of reporting crimes that may occur during hookups.

“We all make mistakes,” Broberg said, “... Don’t be embarrassed about it, and do what you can to help others from being victimized like you just were.”

He said, “I couldn’t even tell you” how many cases there have been of people hooking up with others then waking up to find wallets and other items have been taken. “So many of these instances are not reported.”

Victims may have the reaction, “It wasn’t that bad,” but “each time somebody commits a crime, they become a little more bold,” and it “increases the opportunity for the next time, where they have to use a greater level of violence,” Broberg, who joined the police department 17 years ago, said.

“I can’t tell you how many times we arrest guys that are in possession of property we know is stolen,” such as driver’s licenses and credit cards, “and it was never reported to the police,” he said.

A key point about unreported crimes is that they cannot be prosecuted.

“If it’s not reported to the police, then basically it’s a crime that didn’t happen, and it’s a case that can’t be prosecuted,” Broberg said. He sug-

gests taking a picture when one meets another person and decides to go home with them and sending the photo to friends.

Escalon isn’t the only man who appears to have brought someone home with dire consequences.

Police in the Ingleside district recently reported that on July 12 a man in the 1100 block of Bosworth Street said that he’d “brought a friend home and he stayed until the early morning hours.” The victim woke up to find property missing. Officers did a record check using the name provided by the victim, but found no matches.

In response to emailed questions, Ingleside Police Captain Daniel Mahoney said the victim is 65, and the suspect is 26. The older man had met the suspect downtown and brought him back to his apartment, where “heavy drinking occurred,” Mahoney said. The victim told the other man to leave, then found money missing from his wallet and prescription pills missing from his bathroom, he said.

Mahoney said that so far this year, “This reported type of crime has occurred less than five times in the Ingleside.”

Broberg said it frustrates him that by not reporting crimes, “We allow other people in our community to continue to be victimized by these guys, these predators. And they do prey on people.”

Broberg is the investigating officer in a case involving Antoine Dilworth, who allegedly carjacked and stabbed a man he’d met in the Castro early in the morning of July 12. Dilworth has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the incident.

“It was not his first theft,” Broberg said. “There was a pattern of theft,” and the most recent incident “became violent.”

Erin Crane, who’s been appointed as Dilworth’s attorney, didn’t respond to an interview request.

Problems with police But for some people in San Francisco, factors other than embarrassment can make them reluctant to report crimes to police.

Anna Rivera is office coordinator for El/La Para TransLatinas, which is primarily an HIV prevention organization.

Rivera, who is transgender and spoke of some of the challenges facing transgender Latinas, said one reason they don’t report crimes is “because the police retaliate. They verbally assault the women themselves.”

“I have not just seen it, I have experienced it in my own life,” Rivera said. “... I’ve been called every name in the book,” including by the police.

Comments have included “faggot” and “Look, that man’s trying to be a woman,” she said.

Police “can be just as cruel” as oth-

ers trying to assault transgender people, Rivera said. “You’d be surprised.”

The women face crimes such as physical assaults and robberies in the area around 16th and Mission streets, where her agency’s based, one to three times a week, she said.

“I would say more than half aren’t reported,” Rivera said.

She said there are also “many cases” of incidents not being reporting to police because the victims have “immigration issues,” meaning they’re undocumented.

Rivera said she’s aware of the notion that reporting crimes to the police can help prevent incidents from happening to others, but she wondered why people would talk to officers if they’re “just going to get harassed by the cops themselves?”

“Why am I going to go and report it if I’m going to sit there and get mocked while I’m making this report, which is what usually happens,” Rivera said. Rivera said she hasn’t filed complaints with the Office of Citizen Complaints.

Rivera also said, “We’ve asked for volunteers to come and escort some of the women home. That’s how bad things are right now.” She said that’s been going “so-so.”

“Some of the women choose not to, because it attracts more attention” from police, she said. When officers see a transgender person with someone who’s not transgender, they assume they’re prostituting, she said.

Isa Noyola, El/La’s program supervisor, pointed to transphobia as an issue.

“One thing that’s constant is the amount of transphobia that exists in our city,” Noyola, who identifies as gender fluid, said. Other issues can also include language barriers.

Because of experiences with police and others, to think that transgender Latina women would consider police allies “or think of them as a resource is not reality,” Noyola said.

There’s a sense “that they have to figure it out on their own and they have to just swallow it,” Noyola said.

Sergeant Chuck Limbert, who’s the LGBT liaison for the SFPD’s Mission Station and has often spoken about the importance of reporting crimes, didn’t provide comment for this story, despite multiple interview requests.

Alex Bastian, a spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, said, “We encourage the public to report crimes. Only by speaking up can we confront the problem together.”

Anyone with information in the Escalon case is asked to call Warnke or Inspectors Daniel Dedet, Kevin Jones, or Robert Velarde at (415) 553-1145; after hours at the department operations center, (415) 553-1071; or the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444.

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eave it to the Vatican to douse San Francisco with cold water. That’s exactly what happened last week when word came that Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone was being promoted to San Francisco archbishop. Cordileone is only 56 so it’s likely he will serve in the position for many years.

During a news conference Friday to announce his appointment, Cordileone expressed frustration that he keeps getting asked about Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban. But during the campaign four years ago Cordileone was in the forefront of the Yes on Prop 8 campaign.

In San Diego at the time, he led a procession into Qualcomm Stadium for a religious event featuring the A-list of Christian conservatives that sought to encourage people to vote for the discriminatory measure. It’s been reported that Cordileone helped raise $1.5 million to put Prop 8 on the ballot.

When someone is at that level of involvement, he will be questioned about it, and Cordileone is no exception. He believes in debunked theories about gay parenting and supports opposite-sex marriage “because children can only come about with the embrace of a man and a woman together.”

“I don’t see how that’s discriminatory against anyone,” he said at his news conference.

That’s disingenuous. Of course he knows that Prop 8 stripped a class of Californians from their rights. And while that may be his belief, it is not the reality of today’s families. Same-sex couples are having children in greater numbers than ever. The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law reports that today, more than 110,000 same-sex couples are raising children, up from 63,000 couples in 2010.

So many in the LGBT community and our allies who support marriage equality did not greet the news that Cordileone will preside over about a half-million Catholics in dioceses that stretch from San Francisco to Stockton to Las Vegas cheerfully.

But Cordileone certainly isn’t the first San Francisco archbishop who is anti-gay or against marriage equality. In fact, there aren’t any gay-friendly Catholic bishops or cardinals, for

that matter. As we reported three years ago, Cordileone’s predecessor, San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, quietly reached out to Mormons he had met while he served as bishop in Salt Lake City and asked them to get involved in the Prop 8 campaign in 2008.

Former San Francisco Archbishop William Levada is now the Vatican’s prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and in that position has tried to rein in U.S. nuns for challenging church teachings on homosexuality and the male-only priesthood, the San Francisco Chronicle reported last week. Cordileone may be more outspoken and actively involved in anti-same-sex marriage circles, but San Francisco has a history of Catholic leaders who try to impose the Vatican’s will on civic – and civil – matters.

One of the tragic things about this appointment is the fate of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro. For years it has provided a welcoming place for LGBT Catholics, though recently it, too, has come under fire from the archdiocese. Last December, three out gay clergy from other denominations were unceremoniously disinvited from speaking during

the church’s Advent season. It’s safe to say that with Cordileone set to become San Francisco’s next archbishop, out gay clergy won’t be invited to Most Holy Redeemer any time soon, and that’s a shame.

Business bucks At about the same time that Cordileone was being introduced as San Francisco’s next archbishop, it was learned that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, donated a whopping $2.5 million in support of marriage equality in Washington state. Voters there will be deciding in November whether to uphold a state marriage equality law that was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor in February.

Bezos’s contribution to Washington United for Marriage, the group working to uphold the state’s marriage equality law, is the largest ever publicly reported contribution to a marriage campaign, according to the Associated Press.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and co-founder Bill Gates each donated $100,000 last month, according to a report by C-Net. So while the leadership of the Catholic Church is stuck in some past century, leading tech founders clearly see the future – and that future is equality for all, including same-sex marriage.▼

Reversing AIDS’ lethal trends

by Ernest Hopkins

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very two years, the global AIDS community gathers to share ideas on HIV prevention and care, learn about the latest medical advances, and renew our shared commitment to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This year’s International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C., was the first held in the United States in more than two decades. It provided an important moment in the epidemic for us all to collectively examine where we stand and what we must do to create the AIDS-free generation that President Barack Obama so boldly envisions.

The conference gave domestic advocates a wonderful opportunity to learn more about pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, and how this HIV prevention method can and should be implemented at the community level. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug Truvada for use by HIVnegative individuals at high risk for infection as part of a comprehensive prevention package that includes regular condom use, HIV testing, and risk reduction and adherence counseling. Now gay men, transgender people, and the HIVnegative partners of HIV-positive people, in particular, have another effective tool to prevent HIV infection. San Francisco will soon play a pivotal role in the future of PrEP when it hosts several upcoming demonstration projects and studies to determine the most effective ways to deploy this new tool, including how to get it to people who need it most, how it will be delivered, and how to pay for it.

AIDS 2012 also provided incontrovertible evidence that, while new HIV infections are going down in the majority of populations, the number of infections continues to rise in gay men. Moreover, young black gay men are the only group to

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see a statistically significant increase. [See story, page 1.] This group is becoming infected with HIV at three times the rate of their white counterparts, according to interim results released at the conference from the Brothers study.

That is an unacceptable statistic for our country, and we must do more to address the reasons these young people continue to experience such high rates of infection – especially when science tells us that they are not engaging in riskier behaviors or having more sex partners than other men. The leadership of the National Institutes of Health must be brought to bear on this problem to understand and address the underlying causes of this troubling disparity.

Two years ago, Obama introduced the country’s first national HIV/AIDS strategy. In doing so, he provided us with a long-overdue roadmap for the path to an AIDS-free generation. This roadmap is something we had prayed for since the very beginning of the

epidemic, and it clearly states that in order to make ours a country where new infections are rare, we must be strategic in the allocation of resources to address glaring HIV-related health disparities in hardest-hit communities.

Thirty years into the epidemic, 60 percent of new HIV infections occur in gay and bisexual men, and no group in this country is harder hit than black gay men. We can fix this, if we marshal the will and resources to do so. We’ve done it before. We need look no further than our efforts to virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child in the U.S. to know that when we put our minds to it, we can reverse lethal trends. It’s time we translate this success into making new HIV infections among gay men extremely rare.

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed the Obama administration’s and America’s commitment to our leadership in the global pandemic. Using the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and our bilateral programs at USAID as the foundation, we will continue to partner with other nations to ensure that access to medical care, treatment, and other prevention tools like condoms and adult male circumcision are made available around the world. All this must be done and will be done with resolve and commitment to justice and health care as a human right.

Most importantly, we learned at AIDS 2012 that now is not the time to slow our efforts or let down our guard. We have made tremendous inroads in the past 30 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and we have more prevention tools than ever at our disposal. But until we can make those tools available to everyone who needs them, and until we can erase significant health disparities in our nation and across the globe, truly creating an AIDS-free generation will remain a dream. I know we can make it a reality.▼ Ernest Hopkins is director of legislative affairs at San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

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Atheists barred from Scouts, too One point Chuck Colbert neglected to mention in his article “Boy Scouts keep gay ban” [July 19] was that the Boy Scouts of America also denies known atheist kids membership. I’m both pansexual and a non-believer in supernatural deities, of which I’m proud. At age 86 I’m hardly a candidate for scouting now. However, as a kid who at the time was unaware of his sexual complexity, although being of atheist parents, religion just made no sense to me. I wanted to join the BSA troop in my small New England hometown as some of my classmates were involved. However, my mother had a lady friend who lived right next to the scout troop’s meeting place, a building converted from a one-room country schoolhouse. Her friend complained that the boys were too loud and verbally abusive to her family. So my mother didn’t allow me to join as she didn’t want me to hang out with a bunch of roughnecks. I saw nothing wrong with it at all as it was the kind of rough horseplay we were used to in the schoolyard. But I’m glad now that I didn’t become involved with such a bigoted outfit.

Harry Siitonen Berkeley, California

Don’t forget about the bookstore Very much enjoyed Heather Cassell’s article on Portland, Oregon – well-written and informative [“Portland, Seattle offer funky, hip time for tourists,” July 26]. But she omitted one of – if not the – major landmarks of the city (at least to this antique bibliophile), Powell’s City of Books, arguably the largest new-and-used bookstore in the world, occupying a square city block downtown. In

an age when conventional bookstores are an endangered species, Powell’s has managed to survive and thrive with the largest inventory of books imaginable, at great prices.

I was there in 1994, and could have spent my whole vacation there. I understand they’ve even enlarged, adding another floor to the place. To those of you who still love – and read – real books, ya gotta make the pilgrimage!

Frank Brooks San Francisco

Concerned about nude men It seems Supervisor Scott Wiener and city officials are concerned about families leaving the city. They don’t seem to be very concerned about the nude men walking in my neighborhood (Castro), and we also have families.

James Robinson San Francisco

Sensationalism seen in coverage I was pleased to read Carrie Wipplinger’s thoughtful letter about your coverage of the charges against Larry Brinkin [Mailstrom, July 26]. I, too, was disturbed by it, especially your use of a mug shot, when your library must include many good photos of the man. Larry is rightly held in high esteem for his decades of stellar leadership.

Doesn’t that earn him at least a wait-and-see response from the community he served with such devotion?

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? It’s a mistake to believe that everything coming out of this incident is as reported and it’s reprehensible that our main gay paper contributes to the sensationalism.

Naphtali Offen San Francisco

High court asked to hear Prop 8 case compiled by Cynthia Laird

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roponents of California’s Proposition 8 have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the landmark federal appeals court ruling in Perry v. Brown, which found the state’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional Earlier this year the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 that Prop 8 was discriminatory.

The case is now formally known as Hollingsworth v. Perry.

The move by Prop 8 proponents, announced Tuesday, July 31, was not unexpected and attorneys for the plaintiffs said they would oppose the petition.

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spoken Catholic bishop who opposes same-sex marriage installed as archbishop of arguably the nation’s gayest city.

“This is a clear slap in the face to the local community,” said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA, a national LGBT Catholic advocacy organization.

“Bishop Cordileone has proven himself to be an anti-gay activist, who encourages and promotes discrimination against LGBT people,” Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement.

“The appointment sends a chilling message that, in the eyes of the hierarchy, same-sex relationships are not worthy of equal dignity and respect.”

“It’s a sad day for the Catholic Church,” said Jim Salt, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Catholics United, a nonpartisan, nonprofit social justice Catholic advocacy group.

Cordileone’s new assignment “affirms a trend that has been in ascendance for 20 years now, which is that [the late pope] John Paul II’s ‘Yes’ men are increasingly rising to positions of power; and it’s resulting in a more rigid ideological expression of the faith, less about being an inspiration to the culture and more about applying a rigid orthodoxy to all things Catholic,” said Salt.

Closer to home, one reaction was even more pointed.

“However, we recognize that this case presents constitutional issues of national significance, and are ready to defend our victories before the Supreme Court,” plaintiffs’ counsel Theodore Boutrous Jr. said in a statement from the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which brought the federal lawsuit challenging Prop 8.

“The Supreme Court has long held that the freedom to marry is one of the most fundamental rights – if not the most fundamental right – of all Americans,” plaintiffs’ lead co-counsel David Boies said in the statement. “As we have said from the very beginning of this case, the denial of that fundamental right seriously harms gay and lesbian Americans and the

children they are raising. Today’s petition presents the justices with the chance to reaffirm our Constitution’s central premise of liberty, equality, and human dignity.”

It is not known if the justices will agree to hear the case. The 9th Circuit’s decision was more narrowly written than trial court Judge Vaughn Walker’s sweeping ruling against Prop 8 two years ago.

It takes four justices to agree to hear a case. If the court declines to hear the case, it would clear the way for same-sex marriages to resume in California.

“We are hopeful and confident that the Supreme Court will grant review and ultimately uphold its precedent and the will of the people.” Protectmarriage.com, which ran the Yes on 8 campaign, said via Twitter after its filed its petition.▼

“This was a great gift for Oakland,” said Kara Speltz, Catholic chair of Soulforce, an LGBT advocacy organization. In referring to Cordileone’s departure, she added, “My condolences to San Francisco. But I am so glad that he is out of here. He’s vying to be one of the worst bishops in the country.”

In his new position, Cordileone will oversee the Diocese of Oakland, along with several other California cities.

He is set to be installed October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, for whom San Francisco is named.

While some LGBT Catholics, gay rights leaders, and allies reacted sharply to Archbishop-designate Cordileone’s appointment, other responses were more nuanced, conciliatory, and hopeful.

An upbeat statement from Dignity/ San Francisco, a chapter of the national organization, extended a “welcome” to Cordileone. “We long for unity and collegiality within our church,” said Ernest Camisa, chapter secretary and local spokesman.

“Catholics believe that God works in mysterious ways,” he added. “Perhaps the spirit will work through his appointment to accomplish a change of heart, or at least allow members of our church with differing perspective to enter into a new dialogue.”

The Reverend Brain Costello, pastor of Most Holy Redeemer parish in the Castro, is in agreement with Camisa’s approach.

“Let’s take a wait and see attitude,” he said over the telephone. “I am inviting [Cordileone] to celebrate Mass

here and get to know the community.”

Costello, who has known the archbishop-designate for some time, also said that Cordileone “will listen.”

“We need to open up a dialogue with Bishop Sal,” said Costello. “Not to change people’s minds.” Rather, “so that people have a better understanding of the other side’s point of view.”

There is little doubt where Cordileone stands on marriage equality.

During a July 27 press conference that was live streamed from St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cordileone, 56, spoke to the challenges and strengths of San Francisco archdiocese, in response to reporters’ queries.

Traditional marriage, he said, is a “foundational good. One of the challenges [here], including all through the West, is the erosion of family life, the break-up of families, children growing up without their parents, especially their fathers.”

“Children deserve to have a mother and a father. We need to do everything to strengthen marriage. It’s the greatest good we could do for children,” said Cordileone.

Pressed further by reporters he explained, “Cultural challenges revolve around family life. Essentially it comes down to our understanding of the human person, the purpose of human sexuality, and how God calls us to live, and how he calls us to love.”

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New technology could be the future of TV

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rganic light-emitting diode is a replacement for LCD and plasma that is thinner, lighter, and more efficient than its predecessor, and also provides a better image quality.

OLED can even be made in paper thin, in flexible, bendable sheets, and because of its many advantages, all of the leading flat panel display manufacturers are working hard to scale up this technology and reduce cost so that it can become the mainstream display technology.

At the forefront of Kateeva, the company that develops manufacturing equipment for the new kind of flat panel display technology is gay co-founder and CEO Conor Madigan, Ph.D. Today, OLED is used in many high-end smartphones, but due to manufacturing challenges that make it difficult to make OLED displays at low cost and in large sizes, the technology has not yet broken in to the large ($100 billionplus, per year) television market. This is where Kateeva comes in.

Its goal is to supply manufacturing equipment to enable OLED to be 30 percent lower cost than LCD and plasma, which would in turn enable OLED to rapidly replace LCD and plasma entirely, according to Madigan.

“To accomplish this goal, Kateeva is utilizing its proprietary OLED printing technologies and expertise to develop sophisticated, high precision printers for use in OLED manufacturing lines,” said Madigan.

Madigan, 34, started working on OLED manufacturing technology, and specifically on OLED printing, as a sophomore at Princeton University in 1998. He worked on the technology continuously since then, continuing his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his doctorate degree.

“The decision to start Kateeva was made collectively by myself, two MIT Ph.D. student colleagues,

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Kateeva co-founder and CEO Conor Madigan, Ph.D.

and two MIT faculty; we had all worked together on OLED research at MIT, and decided in late 2007 that we could leverage the technologies we had developed to solve the most difficult OLED manufacturing challenges,” said Madigan.

Madigan admits that none of his new partners had direct business experience, and was fortunate to have a sixth co-founder, Sass Somekh, Ph.D., join the team shortly after conception of the company.

Somekh was experienced in business from the semiconductor equipment industry and now serves as executive chairman.

Kateeva’s major challenge in the beginning was that it was a highly capital intensive.

“We estimated it would take $100 million and seven years to bring a successful flat panel display manufacturing product to market,” said Madigan. “It was not the ‘cookie cutter’ type of start-up in Silicon Valley, so it took some strategizing to figure out the right investors.”

Kateeva, based in Menlo Park, currently has 55 employees. Madigan declined to report on the valuation of his company.

“I started the company with no previous business experience and had to figure out how to swim as the

CEO quickly,” he said. “I would not have succeeded if I had not had a great mentor in our executive chairman, and had not had great advisers in our initial investors.”

As Kateeva’s board grew, Madigan continued to benefit enormously from each board member’s advice and guidance.

“As a company, we have also focused on hiring highly experienced experts, both at the engineer and executive level, to ensure that at all levels, we are rarely encountering an obstacle that no one has seen before,” added Madigan.

Madigan, who attended his first StartOut event two years after forming Kateeva, said that the organization has not directly assisted him with building the Kateeva business.

Instead he said that it has been helpful in enabling him to build a personal network of people with whom to discuss ideas.

“The StartOut community is an amazing group of smart, dedicated, inspiring people,” he said, “and I frequently use their events as a great opportunity to bounce around business ideas and getting many different insightful perspectives quickly.”

Madigan, who is single and lives in San Francisco, currently serves on the board of governors for StartOut. “I would recommend StartOut as an excellent resource; there are many challenges in starting a company and it is always worthwhile to engage a community that is already biased towards your success,” said Madigan.

He also added that it was important to explore other communities to which people belong and look for community groups that may support entrepreneurs or businesspeople.

On the topic of investors, Madigan recommended evaluating any potential investor and board member carefully on the basis of individual personality and reputation.

“There are many firms with money, but the most important differentiation for an entrepreneur is to have investors and board members that are smart, engaged, and easy to work with – it is easy to fall into an adversarial relationship with investors and board members and it is just as easy for that kind of relationship to kill a company,” he added. ▼

Hot time in the city as panel debates hooking up

by Peter Hernandez

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onfessions, expressions, and sexual revelations permeated a panel of three authors discussing the shortcomings and possibilities of hooking up in a modern society torn between the physical world and convenient virtual encounters at the GLBT History Museum.

A writer of a futuristic romantic novel, a gay historian, and an associate professor at UC Berkeley were met by an audience entrenched in a personal conflict of virtual versus physical connections and an expressive question-and-answer session.

The museum drew a crowd of some 50 people who weren’t afraid of voicing their often-edgy reactions to the panelists’ even edgier, and sometimes-pessimistic view of the virtual world of romance.

“You can get a blowjob as easy as you can get a pizza delivered,” said Oscar Raymundo, the youngest panelist and blogger at Queerty and GayCities.com. He offered a

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Martin Meeker, left, makes a point with fellow panelists Juana Maria Rodriguez and Oscar Raymundo at a discussion hooking up in a modern society.

critical perspective on Grindr and Scruff, criticizing the rapid growth of virtual hook-up websites seen in developments like Grindr’s recent expansion to 100 employees, and questioning the legitimacy of online dating, which is the second most

common way of starting a relationship, according to a survey this year by psychologists at the University of Rochester that was reported on in the Guardian (U.K.) See page 13 >>

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Courtesy Engardio for Supervisor campaign

District 7 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio, left, and his partner, Lionel Hsu

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District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague

Endorsement battles loom in SF supe races

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ugust is shaping up to be a hot political month as local candidates must meet filing deadlines and the endorsement battles for San Francisco races are heating up.

Two out supervisor candidates, in particular, face considerable odds as they hit the campaign trail. Incumbent District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, a bisexual Latina appointed earlier this year to represent the leftleaning district, has drawn criticism from progressives in recent weeks upset with her stances on a host of issues.

In the race for the open District 7 seat, where incumbent Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is termed out of office, political newcomer Joel Engardio is learning that being gay does not guarantee support from LGBT electeds or politicos. So far the only out politician to endorse Engardio is gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who also endorsed one of his opponents, Mike Garcia.

Olague has had an easier go of it in attracting out endorsers. Her list of supporters includes gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), whom she marched with in the Pride Parade; gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, who appears headed to an easy re-election win this November; and city Treasurer Jose Cisneros.

While she has attracted progressive endorsers, such as Campos and Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Olague has seen former D5 Supervisor Matt Gonzalez recently withdraw his initial backing of her and gay state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) endorse one of her opponents, John Rizzo, a member of the community college board.

Ammiano told the Bay Area Reporter this week he is open to making additional endorsements in the D5 race and is expected to meet soon with Olague.

“I have known John for a long time. I have trust that he will vote in a manner that will be consistent,” he said of his early backing for Rizzo.

“Sometimes it gets troubling when candidates, even colleagues, might go back and forth on an issue.”

In the D7 race Ammiano has given unranked endorsements to Port Commissioner Francis “FX” Crowley and Norman Yee, president of the city’s school board. He has not ruled out endorsing a third candidate.

“Whether or not I do another one is to be determined,” said Ammiano, who has spoken to Engardio a few times at public events but has not formally met with him to discuss his candidacy.

In an email and a phone interview last week with the B.A.R. Engardio expressed frustration in not being

able to line up more support from the city’s LGBT elected family. While he has spoken to Campos, Cisneros, and Leno, as well as mayoral aide and former supervisor Bevan Dufty, none have offered him a formal endorsement.

“While I understand an election should be based on merit and not sexual orientation, as a gay man it’s sad to see what seems to be a lack of support for our LGBT candidates by our LGBT Leaders,” wrote Engardio, a former journalist who has devoted his full attention this year to running for public office.

The first out candidate to seek a supervisor seat in the city’s more conservative neighborhoods, Engardio has secured the endorsement of the national Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. He noted the group does not support candidates it thinks can’t win.

“I was able to show them my plan to win. I was also able to show that even in San Francisco, there is new ground to pioneer for LGBT candidates in a district where an openly candidate has never won the seat before,” wrote Engardio, who has qualified for city matching funds and expects to have $70,000 in campaign cash on hand as of mid-August.

Ammiano told the B.A.R. that Engardio’s griping sounds “a little selfserving.” Nowadays LGBT candidates should not automatically assume they have a lock on the LGBT vote, he added.

“I think there was a time where to have anybody openly gay was a good thing for visibility. I also think a more sophisticated approach is more appropriate now,” said Ammiano, who saw how divided the LGBT community can be when he ran for mayor in 1999 and again in 2003. “You don’t want to endorse someone based on orientation, there could be quite a few positions you are divergent on. It doesn’t have to be uncivil but it has to be expected.”

In a phone interview Engardio said he isn’t surprised at his inability to land more political endorsers, as “politicians gravitate to those they know.”

He said he has attracted the support of many gay and lesbian couples that have moved into the district to raise families.

“We had good talks,” he said of his conversations with those electeds he has spoken with so far. “So I don’t expect anything. They saw a gay candidate and reached out and gave good advice. To be honest, they should endorse whoever is the best candidate, not just someone who is gay.”

His disappointment may continue, though, when it comes to whom the city’s LGBT Democratic clubs endorse. In fact, both Olague and Engardio can expect stiff competition

from several straight opponents also expected to seek the support of the city’s two main LGBT Democratic Clubs.

Unlike during the 2010 election, when the even-numbered supervisor seats were up for grabs, neither the moderate Alice B. Toklas nor the more progressive Harvey Milk opted to suspend their by-laws and grant early endorsements in this year’s election.

Instead, the two clubs’ members will be voting in coming weeks to endorse one of the 11 people who have pulled papers, so far, to seek Olague’s Haight and Western Addition centered seat, and must choose among the eight candidates running for Elsbernd’s seat covering neighborhoods west of Twin Peaks.

“I think we have an awful lot of strong candidates,” said Alice Co-Chair Martha Knutzen when asked to handicap the competition for the club’s endorsement in the D5 and D7 races.

Candidates have until Friday, August 10 to turn in the required paperwork to seek the odd-numbered supervisor seats and the city’s two BART board seats. There are also four seats up for grabs on both the school and community college boards.

One week later Alice will kick off its endorsement process. The club’s political action committee will meet Saturday, August 18 to make its recommendations.

The full club is expected to then vote Monday, August 20. A candidate for one of the six supervisor seats on the fall ballot needs to receive 66 percent of the vote to secure a sole endorsement in their race.

In contests where there is no clear favorite, then the club will re-vote on making ranked choice endorsements in those races. Under San Francisco’s voting system, voters can rank up to three candidates in the supervisor races.

Asked specifically about Olague and Engardio’s ability to secure an Alice nod, Knutzen said this week that she believes “they both have a good chance at it, especially if we are doing ranked choice endorsements.”

Their being members of the LGBT community will certainly play a factor, added Knutzen, though that does not guarantee a candidate an Alice endorsement.

“People will definitely look at their candidacy and evaluate them,” she said. “The kind of candidate we look at we look for experience in politics and very strong support of the LGBT community. We also look at the viability of their campaign and their ability to build coalitions.”

The Milk Club is hosting debates with candidates in the D5 and D7 races before its members vote in mid-September on whom to endorse for either seat. With Engardio a selfidentified moderate, and Olague’s ties to Mayor Ed Lee, neither is assured of winning the Milk Club’s support.

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Outdated imagery

by Roger Brigham

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ay what you will about the relative politics and artistry about the opening ceremonies of this year’s Summer Olympics in London, there’s no denying the historic moments that occurred. A country’s flag being carried by a woman track star who years before had to endure challenges to her gender, a man in drag parachuting out of a helicopter into the stadium and Mary Poppins besting Voldemort in a battle over national health care – the only thing that could have made it more complete would have been to have Mitt Romney hang around long enough to praise British culture for having brought enlightenment to so many savages across the globe.

Some musings from the Olympics thus far: • Memo to NBC: We are well into the 21st century, and it is high time you understood that communications have evolved. Television has the ability to be the fastest reporting medium on the planet. Your decision to tape-delay sports events relegate you to irrelevance and cheat us all of the live dramatic visuals you have the ability to deliver but do not. You were pioneers of in-depth personality background features that showcased your live coverage in years past, but now you overproduce and over-inject yourselves.

• Question to International Olympic Committee: Did you even bother to read the Women Sports Foundation’s position paper on the participation of intersex athletes in women’s sports before you adopted your medieval inquisition policy just weeks before the Olympics?

The IOC published its “Regulations on Female Hyperandrogenism” in June to little immediate fanfare. The regulations were generated as a policy response to the emergence in track of 800-meter runner Caster Semenya of South Africa, a world champion woman with an intersex condition. In brief, the policy, which is available at tinyurl.com/7l237pt, rules that women whose testosterone levels are at what are considered normal for males may be ruled by a threemember medical panel ineligible for women’s competition.

“Nothing in these regulations is intended to make any determination of sex,” the document states, and there is a bitter validity to that statement.

The IOC is in effect acknowledging such women are women, but do not fit the IOC’s image of what a woman should be and therefore not allowed to compete with their peers.

In an article in the American Journal of Bioethics, Hida Viloria, global chair of Organization Intersex International, and former Spanish hurdles champion Maria Jose Martínez-Patino wrote, “It is evident that the new policies do not ensure or address fairness for all. Rather, they were devised to ease social discomfort and appease prejudicial complaints against the women they target. The fact that the IAAF and IOC prioritized these complaints over human rights was enabled by the fact that legal experts in Lausanne confirmed that women with hyperandrogenism lack legal protections.”

In fitting Olympic conflict, supporters of Semenya celebrated her

selection to carry the national flag for the team during the opening ceremonies, while critics of the IOC were launching an online petition to end gender testing. The petition can be found at http://www.allout. org/olympics. The WSF’s position paper on intersex inclusion can be found at tinyurl.com/cmb33uw.

And a wonderful discussion on the lack of scientific basis and gross prejudice behind the policy is available at http://www.med.stanford. edu/121/2012/Karkazis.html.

Semenya’s first heat will be on Wednesday, August 8.

• Donning drag and same-sex competitors at the Olympics: Wouldn’t it be cheeky of NBC if that were the way it packaged the Olympics? And so literally true. The parachutist impersonating Queen Elizabeth II for the opening ceremonies was a man dressed in drag, and only same-sex couples can compete in synchronized diving and synchronized swimming. Maybe that’s the key to acceptance of same-sex marriage: just add water.

• Boo hoo, Bela. Judging from NBC’s early gymnastics coverage, you’d think the main events in the sport were a) crying; and b) Bela Karolyi getting his quadrennial 15-minutes of fame bellyaching about the rules. It would have been nice if the network had spent a fifth of the time it spent on tears and gripes after the opening round of the women’s competition on the success of Alexandra Raisman and Gabrielle Douglas advancing to the finals of the all-around competition.

• Tell it like it is. Archer Karen Hultzer of South Africa became the latest to join the list of out Olympians in 2012. After her partner, Tracey Kim Saunders, told Mamba Online that Hultzer was gay, the archer wrote to Outsports, saying, “I am an archer, middle aged and a lesbian. I am also

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South African Caster Semenya carried her country’s flag during the Olympics opening ceremonies.

cranky before my first cup of coffee.

None of these aspects define who I am, they are simply part of me. I am fortunate that my sexual identity is not an issue, and I don’t suffer the level of discrimination and violence that black lesbians in South Africa do.

I look forward to the day when this is a non-issue and as relevant as my eye color or favorite sushi.”

• Reason No. 37 we wish rugby

was an Olympic sport. The London Broncos of Rugby League’s Super League will hold their first ever LGBT Day on Saturday, August 4, with a home match against Salford Reds. Gay Games Ambassador Ji Wallace, a silver medal on the trampoline in 2008, will be the special guest of the game. The event is being held in conjunction with the Olympic Pride House. ▼

David Miree, SF HRC

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener addressed attendees during the “Setting the Agenda: Issues Facing LGBTQ Elders of Color” discussion on July 26.

LGBT seniors of color speak out

by Heather Cassell

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GBT seniors of color and their allies filled the Audre Lorde room at the Women’s Building in San Francisco last week for a unique discussion about aging and remaining part of the community.

The discussion, “Setting the Agenda: Issues Facing LGBTQ Elders of Color,” was attended by an estimated 70 LGBT seniors of color, advocates, and elected officials.

LGBT elected officials and community leaders’ goals for the July 26 meeting were twofold. First, it was to continue getting the word out to San Francisco’s LGBT elders about the LGBT Senior Task Force and to ensure diversity in the selection process for members. Second, was to get community input on issues for the task force to investigate.

The ordinance creating task force was spearheaded gay Supervisor Scott Wiener and supported by out Supervisors David Campos and Christina Olague. It was passed by

the Board of Supervisors on June 5 and recently signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee. The supervisors’ rules committee, which will make recommendations for the 15-member task force to the full board, has tentatively set a meeting for September 6 at 1:30 p.m. Applications are due to the Board of Supervisors August 27, said Wiener.

Tom Nolan, 67, former executive director of Project Open Hand who has been working part-time for the Department of Aging and Adult Services, has been tapped to facilitate the task force.

Concurrently, Nolan hopes a survey about LGBT seniors will get under way within the next month.

Private funds to match the $30,000 set aside by the city must first be raised, he said.

The task force is expected to deliver its recommendations to the supervisors at the end of its 18-month term.

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Serving the LGBT communities since 1971

Obituaries>>

▼ Linguist and tutor Gerald Fabian dies

by Cynthia Laird

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erald Langston Fabian, a linguist and longtime gay San Francisco resident, died July 25 in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 88.

The cause of death was heart disease, according to his friend Lew Ellingham.

Mr. Fabian, known as Jerry, led a vividly bohemian life in North Beach and elsewhere in the city and was a fixture at the old Black Cat bar, where Jose Sarria sang and danced, Ellingham said.

A lover of the romance languages, Mr. Fabian worked mostly as a teacher and translator. Ellingham said that Mr. Fabian was expelled from UC Berkeley in 1950 because he was gay. Mr. Fabian was welcomed back to the university about a decade later, however, and was able

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to complete his degree in French. By then, he was already tutoring students.

Mr. Fabian was born in or near Butte, Montana on June 6, 1924.

When he was young his mother remarried, to Louis Fabian, and the family resettled in southern California.

Mr. Fabian joined the Navy during World War II and served in the Pacific, serving once under his stepfather, who commanded Mr. Fabian’s ship at Iwo Jima.

While at UC Berkeley, Mr. Fabian became acquainted with several of the members of what later became the Berkeley/San Francisco Renaissance literary movement: Robin Blaser, Robert Duncan, and Jack Spicer.

A person of culture, erudition, and talent, with an enormous en-

Courtesy Lew Ellingham

Gerald Langston Fabian

Obituaries >> Jenifer Diers March 2, 1958 – July 19, 2012

Jenifer Diers died July 19, 2012 surrounded by loved ones, after a threeyear struggle with ovarian cancer. Fourteen happy years shared with the love of her life, Esther, included friendships, hiking, traveling, and appreciating films. Her Nichiren Buddhist practice of

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Cordileone

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themselves in the cultural issues we face today.”

During the Proposition 8 campaign, Cordileone, then based in San Diego, cut a high public profile, leading the charge for the same-sex marriage ban and raising significant sums of money ($1.5 million) to ensure the constitutional amendment would appear on the ballot. Prop 8, which voters passed four years ago, bans same-sex marriage.

More recently, Cordileone raised eyebrows when he asked the Berkeley-based Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministries to sign oaths of “personal integrity,” a request CALGM’s leadership has refused.

Both actions and words characterize the prelate’s persona. Cordileone’s most famous sound bite is one he made comparing advocacy of same-sex marriage to a plot by “the evil one.”

Most Holy Redeemer parishioner Matt Dorsey offered his thoughts about that comparison. Most people, including Catholics, “just roll their eyes,” he said over the phone.

“I accepted a long time ago that the head of the Catholic Church is Jesus Christ. Popes, bishops, and cardinals don’t have much bearing on the spiritual life I have,” said Dorsey, who is gay and an elected member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee.

Asked why he remains in the church, Dorsey said, “There are no accidental parishioners at Most Holy Redeemer” where the church welcomes and supports gays, lesbians, transgender people form all over the area.

“There is something special here.

It reminds me of where I grew up,” said Dorsey.

Another parishioner offered additional thoughts.

“I don’t foresee Cordileone’s appointment having much impact on LGBT and allied Catholics or Most Holy Redeemer,” said Eugene McMullan. “We are well acquainted with the anti-gay strain of church teaching and this particular bishop’s involvement in anti-gay activism.

He doesn’t like us, and consistently

30 years allowed Jenifer to realize her dreams and contribute to improving the world. Jenifer’s intelligence and compassion helped others see possibilities and change in positive ways.

Leaving Chicago in the 1980s, Jenifer attended SF City College and graduated from UC Berkeley. She earned an MSW at Smith College, leading to 20 years as a child welfare worker and supervisor at Alameda County Children’s and Family Services. Jenifer’s creative approach helped hundreds of families reunite under challenging life circumstances. Her love of literature inspired her to achieve

an English Literature M.A. from Cal State East Bay in 2006 and teach college writing.

Jenifer’s laughter and bright smile will be deeply missed by many, including her spouse Esther Martino, father Arthur Diers, and brother Peter Diers and his family. We will celebrate Jenifer on Sunday, August 26, from 2 to 6 p.m., at Berkeley’s Frances Albrier Community Center, 2800 Park Street. Donations can be made to the Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland, or the organization of your choice.

implies that our relationships harm children. He thinks we are in league with the evil one. What can you say to that?

“I would like to think he just doesn’t know us, but my scholarly training was in history and theology, not psychology. Perhaps he is homophobic; perhaps a careerist; perhaps a traditionalist who sincerely but naively hopes to turn back the clock,” said McMullan who recently earned a doctoral degree in history from the Graduate Theological Union.

And yet, “it will be an adjustment to think of him as my bishop, said McMullan, who is a lead organizer of Catholics for Equality in California.

ity on the issue of immigration. We have acted more like the dominant culture,” he said.

Ordained in the Metropolitan Community Church, Mitulski, who was raised Catholic, also spoke of his experience in “theological dialogue” with Cordileone and other theologians.

Over the course of a year and a half, Mitulski said, he and other theologians asked Cordileone for two things.

One, “please, don’t legislate legal and social policy from your church’s doctrine,” Mitulski explained. And two, “think about the impact of your language on people.”

“We got further with the second point than with the first,” he said.

“The purpose of the dialogue was to see if we could find a way to talk about each other in public discourse that was more civilized,” said Mitulski, explaining that the Cordileone did not want to be called a “bigot,” while gay people told him they did not want to be called “morally disordered.”

Also important to keep in mind, Mitulski said, Cordileone “is a very smart guy. He does listen, but he has a fundamentally different, pre-modern view about procreation and the role of men and women. His views on men and women are more at play here than issues of sexuality. He is clear in his convictions and it’s clear he is not going to change.”

At the same time, gay Catholics in church ministry also see signs of encouragement. “CALGM remains in active dialogue with Archbishopdesignate Cordileone,” said Arthur Fitzmaurice, the group’s resource director. “We were encouraged last week when [Cordileone] said, ‘We need to continue to learn how to be welcoming, to let [LGBT Catholics and their families]a know that we love them.’”

In his assessment, New Ways Ministry’s Executive Director Francis DeBernardo pointed out that because, “Bishop Cordileone’s record on LGBT issues has not been welcoming,” he may well “have to learn to be more sensitive and pastoral” in San Francisco, “which has a large LGBT Catholic community and very active and organized groups and parishes of LGBT Catholics. The experience of working with such a vibrant and diverse community can help him grow personally and pastorally.”▼

Other voices Non-Catholic gay clergy were upbeat in their view of a new San Francisco archbishop.

“I hope that his appointment will continue to open opportunities for dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the LGBT community,” said the Reverend Tommy Dillon, the out rector of St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, located in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood.

While disagreeing with Cordileone’s views on marriage, Dillon said, “I’d encourage him to listen to our stories, to be part of our routines and table conversations, and to worship and pray with us, and especially to break bread with us.”

“The church has long believed that marriage is a way in which God can be incarnated and made manifest in the world,” Dillon explained. “I’d like [Cordileone] to meet the many faithful gay and lesbian families I know who are blessing the world with God’s presence by and through their relationships.”

The Reverend Jim Mitulski, director of worship and campus pastor at the Pacific School of Religion, and pastor at New Spirit Community Church, also finds seeds of hope in the advent of Archbishop Cordileone.

“My dream is to find an issue we both care about passionately, say immigration,” he said over the telephone, referring to the LGBT community and the archbishop. “Immigration is a critical issue of our time.

In California, gay people have not distinguished themselves in solidar-

joyment of life, Mr. Fabian spoke fluent Italian and Piedmontese; he also had a good grasp of Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and Provencal.

He gave classes in several of these languages. He worked as an actor in stage productions in San Francisco.

He appeared in the 1971 films THX 1138 by George Lucas and The Orchid by Samuel R. Delany.

Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s he lived in New York and Washington, tutoring French, and was active in theater. For many years he wrote and published poetry in the Bay Area. In 1991 First Alamo Square Press published his translation from the French of the 1925 novel Pei Yu: Boy Actress (Bijou de Ceinture) by Georges Soulie de Morant, about a boy actress in Chinese opera.

Mr. Fabian was active for years in

12-step addiction recovery and in gay community groups.

He also taught for a time at the University of San Francisco and worked as an English as a second language instructor.

About 10 years ago Mr. Fabian moved to southern California and resided at an assisted living hotel in Santa Monica. Ellingham said that he last saw Mr. Fabian a couple years ago.

Jack Curtis Dubowsky’s documentary Submerged Queer Spaces, which was featured at this year’s Frameline film festival, featured Mr. Fabian; his account of an incident in Union Square in the 1950s is particularly memorable and one of several descriptions highlighting the opening of gay presence in the Bay Area.▼

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Black gay men

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ticipants became infected with the virus each year, a rate almost half again that of white MSM, said Kenneth Mayer, the study co-chair and medical research director at Fenway Community Health in Boston.

“For younger black MSM, those under the age of 30, there was an HIV incidence rate of about 5.9 per year, or about three times the rate of white MSMs,” said Sheldon D. Fields, assistant dean for clinical affairs and health policy at Florida International University. “These rates are comparable to [what is seen in] countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are hardest hit by the epidemic.”

Almost all of the participants (97 percent) agreed to take an HIV test. More than half either did not know their HIV status or believed that they were negative when they entered the study, but in fact, 165 of those men (12 percent) were already infected but did not know it.

“Black MSM in America are more affected by HIV than any population in the developed world, it rivals the epidemic that we find in the developing world,” said Phill Wilson, president of the Black AIDS Institute.

“Black gay and bisexual men account for only 1 in 500 Americans, but 1 in 4 new HIV infections,” he said. “They are significantly less likely to be alive three years after being diagnosed with AIDS than are white or Latino MSMs.”

Country’s failure The public face of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. in the 1980s was of white gay men, “but from 1985 on there was a disproportionate impact in the African American

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care program run by a separate agency at the site, Phillips said. The child-care center runs during the day, and the homeless shelter operates at night. Dolores Street also offers case management.

The shelter first opened about 11 years ago, said Phillips, who took over as executive director in March after serving in the position on an interim basis since May 2011. (She replaced previous Executive Director Eric Quezada, who died in August 2011.) Currently, around 50 men stay at the shelter, Phillips said.

She said they need a conditional use permit from the Planning Department, as well as permits from the Department of Building Inspection to do the rehabilitation work.

“It could take several months, but we’re going to do whatever we can to expedite that process,” Phillips said. She said her agency needs to get approval from the city’s Human Services Agency, which is so far the source of all the money for the project.

“We have to get approval from them for a broader scope of work, which means more money,” Phillips said. If the additional funding is approved, the conditional use permit application will be submitted, she said, but “now that it’s a broader project, we may have to work with [the Human Services Agency] to look for money elsewhere,” she said.

“We’ve just received the cost estimate from our estimator based on the architect’s drawing, which includes bringing the existing use into compliance, as well as the expansion,” she said.

The expected cost for the LG-

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community,” said Cornelius Baker, a veteran AIDS advocate based in Washington. “We failed very early on to grapple as a country to wrestle with that disparity.”

Baker said it is important to acknowledge the proactive steps that black gay men have taken to educate themselves and create a sense of community and support, often in the face of racism, AIDS phobia, and homophobia within the broader black community.

It has been difficult to financially sustain those efforts because of high rates of poverty within the black community that limit both financial support for organizations and access to health care, according to Baker.

An initial assumption was that black gay men must have been doing something different from other gay men that put them at higher risk for infection. But evidence over the years has shown that is simply not the case, said Gregorio Millett. He is a researcher with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and played a leading role in writing the national HIV/AIDS strategy for the United States, released in 2010 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/ default/files/uploads/NHAS.pdf).

“They engage in comparable, if not less risky, behavior than other gay men,” Millett said. Young black gay men in particular “are less likely to have amphetamine use, injection drug use, less likely to use drugs during sex, but they are still five times more likely to be HIV-positive and two-and-a-half times more likely to have an STD [sexually transmitted disease].”

“We need to refocus on the context,” Millett said.

A leading factor is that the prevalence of HIV is higher among the pool of black gay men with whom

30-40 beds with patients suffering from opportunistic infections that are preventable if the patient is receiving medical care, said Carlos del Rio, an AIDS physician at Emory University. Often that care begins much later than it should.

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they tend to have sex. Higher rates of poverty also mean that black gay men are less likely to be under medical care for their HIV. “In terms of viral suppression, we are far less likely, at least 50 percent less likely, to be virally suppressed [below the level of detection] compared to white gay men,” Millett said.

Each of these factors increases the likelihood of being exposed to the virus. It means that the same level of risky behavior for black gay men carries a greater risk of becoming infected than it would for other gay men.

Speakers also pointed out that it is important to understand the role that homophobia and discrimination play in the lives of black MSM. It often plays out on the “down low,” particularly in the South where many black gay men from small towns and cities travel to party in Atlanta.

Atlanta is the epicenter of AIDS for black MSM. While other big city hospitals have closed their AIDS wards, Grady Memorial still fills

There is “an urgent need for bold action and leadership, not business as usual, at every level to reduce the epidemic among black MSM in America,” said Wilson. He called for effective targeting of black MSM “with high impact prevention, to build sustainable community infrastructure.”

It is important that “In the black gay male community people understand what PrEP is, how it works, and whom it is appropriate for,” he said, referring to pre-exposure prophylaxis using the drug Truvada to prevent infection.

Fields added that a prevention study under development that he is co-chairing – HPTN 073 – will look at how to best use PrEP in combination with other prevention tools among black gay men.

Full implementation of the health reform under the Affordable Care Act will be “perhaps the biggest game changer” for black gay men, said Millett.

“It is going to help out enormously,” he said.

High portions of black gay men do not have health insurance. The ACA provides coverage for persons making up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, and has a floating scale of subsidies for persons with somewhat higher income.

Increasing access to health care will result in higher rates of testing for black gay men and linkage to care. That in turn will reduce the

BT-related expansion had been $178,000, Phillips said. She said that the new figure would be “maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars” more.

A call to the Human Services Agency wasn’t returned.

Problem missed Phillips said she didn’t know how it had been missed that the shelter didn’t have the permit it needed to operate.

“The shelter opened before any of the current staff were working here, so I think that because we’ve been getting funds from the city for so many years to operate it, we just assumed that it had the proper permits,” she said.

She said the agency remains on board with the expansion.

“I think it’s just going to be an issue of if we can work together to find the resources to make it happen,” she said.

Issues involved in expanding the shelter have included redoing bathrooms and setting up partitions.

The designated space is in a second floor section that’s been used as a classroom.

Gay Supervisor David Campos led the March 2010 hearing on LGBT homeless issues. He, too, was caught off guard regarding the permit problems.

“The reason we wanted to go this route is we wanted to work with an existing shelter that was already permitted,” he said in an interview last week.

Campos said if they had known about the site’s situation, “We would not have gone this route.” However, he said that “given that we’ve done so much and we know now everything that needs to be done,” the decision was to stick with Dolores Street.

“I don’t know how that was missed, to be honest with you,” Campos, who learned of the permit problem several months ago, said, “I couldn’t believe that when we were told that.”

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Dina Boyer stands in front of the Next Door Shelter at 1001 Polk Street, where she says she endured anti-trans harassment from other clients.

Campos expressed support for Phillips. He said she’s “a very capable woman who is doing a great job.”

Planning Department spokeswoman Joanna Linsangan said she hadn’t received enough information about the situation at 1050 South Van Ness to comment for this story.

Department of Building Inspection spokesman William Strawn said that everything around his agency “is usually complaint-driven.” Staff tends to look specifically at whether there’s an issue of noncompliance with the building code or a public safety issue.

Strawn said that he’d just spoken with staff “familiar with that part of the city,” and “they weren’t aware of there even being a homeless shelter in that area.”

However, records on the agency’s website show the department has had some history with the site in recent years. Data include information filed in November 2011 related to remodeling the second floor bathrooms “in conjunction with a homeless shelter.” The work refers to the space intended to be LGBT-

welcoming.

In May 2010, someone complained “the shelter is not wheelchair accessible,” the records show.

The case was eventually abated.

Waiting for space As the permitting issues are sorted out, Dina Boyer, a 48-year-old transgender woman, has stayed in three homeless shelters since June and it has not been a welcoming experience. She said problems at the first two, Next Door and the Sanctuary, included clients making comments such as “I don’t want to use the bathroom with men” and “What is he doing here?”

At Next Door, Boyer said, staff “would just look at me like I was stupid” when she tried to talk to them.

She completed complaint forms at both shelters, but a Sanctuary staffer refused to take her complaint.

At Multi-Service Center South, staff at one point indicated they wanted to house her with men, but she was eventually allowed to stay with the women, Boyer said.

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level of HIV viral load within the community and the likelihood that the virus will be passed on to another person.

However, those provisions of the ACA are not slated to take effect until January 2014. More importantly, they are dependent up states buying into and helping to pay for an expansion of state Medicaid programs. Many Republican and a few Democratic governors have been reluctant to take on that long-term financial responsibility.

Millett said the formula for distributing AIDS funding under the Ryan White program is shifting from one based upon the cumulative number of cases to one that uses the current HIV caseload. That should benefit the South where the epidemic struck later but continues to grow at a faster pace than in the rest of the country.

The CDC already has begun to shift prevention and testing support to target communities most at risk, particularly black MSM. Shame, discrimination, homophobia, and poverty are important underlying structural factors that must be addressed, speakers said.

“If we are going to mobilize black gay men, maybe we need to mobilize across broader issues than just HIV, talking about poverty, talking about unemployment, talking about those structural factors,” said Wilson.▼ A report from the Black AIDS Institute issued in July, the 76-page “Back of the Line: The State of AIDS among Black Gay Men in America 2012” (http:// www.blackaids.org/docs/back. pdf) documents the scope of the epidemic. Fields said they will be updating research priorities in light of new data presented at the conference.

ters for Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco, which runs Next Door and Sanctuary, said, “We try really, really hard to house people with dignity and respect, and to keep them safe.” All staffers from both shelters go through mandatory transgender sensitivity training every year, she said. Staff members also have to go through training that includes LGBT issues once a year.

“To my knowledge, staff had not overheard other clients being inappropriate with [Boyer],” Treggiari said. “If they did overhear it, they’re mandated to write it up.”

She did not know how widespread the problem is.

“I have 534 beds out of 1,134 beds in the city ... so I don’t have statistics on how often we hear” such complaints, but she said the agency mostly hears from transgender women, as well as other women.

Boyer’s complained to the city’s Shelter Monitoring Committee about MSC South but not directly to the shelter, she said. Calls to MSC South and St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Francisco, which oversees the shelter, weren’t returned.

Boyer, who lost her job this year, had worked producing the country’s first public access TV show about the trans community until it was defunded by the city.

Boyer said she’s aware of the work to expand the Dolores Street-run shelter.

“It’s taking too long,” she said.

Campos said he’s “very frustrated” and “very upset” with the issues around the site.

“I’m sorry that this has taken so long,” he said. “I am certainly trying to do everything I can to remedy that.”

However, Campos added, “It’s not just about opening up the shelter, but making sure we make changes across the whole system so this doesn’t happen in any shelter.”

He said he’s already called for more training, and there would probably be another hearing later this year.▼

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“Honestly, I don’t know,” said Milk club president Glendon Hyde, also known by his drag name Anna Conda, when asked whom the club was likely to back in those races. “There isn’t really someone the club feels is echoing their sentiments at this time.”

Tuesday, August 14 the Milk Club is hosting a debate with D5 candidates. It will grill D7 candidates Tuesday, September 4. Both debates take place from

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Martin Meeker, author of a history book on gay and lesbian communications, initiated the discussion with a briefing of the history of gay hook-ups. Candid men looking for sheepherders and cowboys in the 1960s through personal ads in gay publications replaced coded language in discrete classifieds in hobby magazines in the 1940s.

“Sixty-seven, hairdresser, into opera and semi-classical music. Two and a half years in Navy. Contacts desired,” read Martin from an inconspicuous personal ad and the source of the title

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the opportunity to continue shaping the report during the process through joining an advisory committee or attending public hearings and meetings, elected officials and community leaders said.

“Our community is surviving and thriving and it is diverse. That is a positive thing, but we have to plan for the future with our aging LGBT population,” said Wiener at last week’s meeting.

Olague added that it is “critical” for LGBT individuals “to be able to age in San Francisco because for us it is a sense of community and a certain acceptance that we really don’t have in other areas of the state or the country.

So many of us feel a need to be here because it is where we are able to be who we are politically, personally, in every which way.”

The discussion, moderated by San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffers David Miree and Zoe Polk and also sponsored by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, awoke a sense of hope among LGBT seniors of color. Many expressed throughout the two-hour meeting that they felt they finally had the ears of elected officials and community leaders.

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come together and receive some comfort in a religious setting and acknowledge one another. That hasn’t been able to happen,” said Eve R. Meyer, a straight member of Sha’ar Zahav and the executive director since 1988 of the nonprofit San Francisco Suicide Prevention agency. “The only setting people have come together was in a political setting where they have to say I have been harmed by this, please help me.”

Having it take place in a religious setting is also significant said Meyer, as various faiths have long viewed suicide as one of the worst sins a person can commit and those beliefs can be devastating for loved ones of the dead to grapple with.

“It is one more way of healing.

There is a tremendous amount of healing that has to happen,” said Meyer. “If you have 1,500 deaths each of those affects a minimum of five people.”

Using a list compiled by John Bateson in his book The Final Leap, the ceremony will incorporate the

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7 to 9 p.m. at the Eric Quezada Center, 518 Valencia Street in the Mission.

The Milk club’s PAC will then meet over the weekend of September 15-16 to make its recommendations. The full club will finalize the endorsements Tuesday, September 18.

The club revamped its endorsement process this year to address how to rank candidates in races where voters can choose up to three people, such as supervisor and mayor. Members must score the candidates on a scale of one through five, with five be-

ing the best score.

To be endorsed candidates have to receive 60 percent of the vote. If more than one person reaches that threshold, then they will be ranked first, second or third based on the scoring system.

Due to her ties to Lee, whom she pushed to run for a full term last year and was then rewarded with the supervisorial appointment, Olague likely has a better shot at gaining Alice’s endorsement than she does the Milk Club’s, where Rizzo has been gaining traction.

In the D7 race Yee is the one to watch at Milk, while Garcia, president of the city’s Board of Appeals, could walk away with Alice’s nod.

It isn’t out of the question for both clubs to name a straight candidate as their number one choice in both races. Last year neither Alice nor Milk endorsed a gay candidate as their top choice for mayor.

At this point the only gay supervisorial candidate likely assured endorsements from both clubs is Campos, as he has not drawn any

serious challengers.

Next Thursday, August 9 Campos will officially launch his re-election bid with a party from 6 to 8 p.m. at 780 Cafe, located at 780 Valencia Street.▼

of his book Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Community and Connections, 1940-1970.

Juana Maria Rodriguez, Ph.D., associate professor of gender and women’s studies at UC Berkeley, was brought into the forum after organizer Amy Hoister read a chapter of her book (Queer Latinidad: Identity Politics, Discursive Spaces) titled “Confessions of a Latina Cyberslut.”

“When you talk about technology, you feel really old,” said Rodriguez, whose statement spoke to the disparity between young and old queers, whose differences may also speak to the inner conflicts observed during the forum.

Rodriguez referenced her sexual adventures online, or her path toward discovering her sexuality and interests. The stories usually had an undercurrent of sexual discovery, or a personal revelation – like her taste for butch on butch wrestling.

Nonetheless, her segment resonated with a blatant concern among the audience: is online dating further filtering an already picky world of finding romance?

The panel turned into a platform for a vocal assertion of opinions, like a rowdy gay town hall.

A seemingly inspirational story about an audience member’s mother, who has been having more sex

than in her earlier years as an obese 60-year-old due to online sexual networking, drew applause from the rest of the audience.

And another member complicated the question of filtering by acknowledging that different bars appeal to different markets – like Latinos at Esta Noche, blacks at the old Pendulum, or Asians at the old Q.T. Raymundo asserted that expectations have become requirements seen as filters in romantic encounters.

Raymundo also read from his upcoming novel titled Confessions of a Boytoy, in which a forebodinglytitled biotech app called Stalkr replaces Grindr, and in which physical

connections are often limited to a handshake that grades the romantic chemistry between two people.

The importance of “living in the moment” and embracing the tangible, physical world seeped into each panelist’s musings, whether it be Meeker’s interest in the decline of gay bars along the Peninsula, Rodriguez’s adoration for her wrestling magazines, or Raymundo’s dismissal of mobile hook-up apps.

The panel was the first of three forums spearheaded by curators Hoister and Brendan McHugh, whose “Making History Now” series will focus on accessible topics for the community.▼

“It’s wonderful because, especially with the supervisor there, we can do something about it,” said Dion Wong, 68, a gay man. Wong is taking a year off from leading the GAPA 35-plus group that he has coordinated for 10 years.

“This is the first time I felt like I wanted to voice certain things and that somebody might be listening,” Bill, a 59-year old gay African American man who only wanted his first name used, told the Bay Area Reporter.

Larry Saxxon, a gay African American social worker, attended the meeting because many of his peers are “reaching an age where we are in need ourselves.”

He expressed concern over the lack of visibility of elders in the LGBT community and the lack of intergenerational communication.

“We [he and his partner of 32 years] go out to the Castro now and we feel like strangers in a strange land. I feel like a dinosaur in my own community. There used to be the days when I couldn’t wait to be a silver fox.”

Yet, he was encouraged by the possibility to change past patterns of disappointment, discrimination, and oppression working with gay white male leadership in the community.

“I am making a major leap of faith that the traditional gay white male community is willing to hear this. I prefer to take the higher road rather than be bitter,” said Saxxon, who added that he hopes to have a “more powerful voice at the table.”

gion, sexual orientation – and being tokenized and forced to choose their identity when accessing services.

They also talked about the erasure of their communities from census forms and reports developed by the government and other organizations.

LGBT seniors of color talked about their experiences from access to health care to housing and social services to making rental properties accessible so seniors could age in their homes.

They also talked about issues of cultural sensitivity – non-American born and American-born communities – and language barriers, including how language is used, not always identifying as LGBT, and having translators with knowledge of medical terminology for monolingual communities.

Seniors expressed concern for fellow LGBTs who suffered from internalized homophobia and discrimination in faith communities.

They voiced the need for training children of LGBT parents to advocate for their parents, as well as elder care workers during each point of care. They spoke about experiences of discrimination – age, employment, gender, identity, race, reli-

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“This is so important,” said Maya Rupert, NCLR federal policy director. She felt so strongly about the discussion that she rearranged her schedule to fly out from Washington, D.C. to attend the meeting.

“This is the beginning of this conversation. We are making sure that this task force is dedicated to the needs of LGBT elders, not just inclusive of, but at the very stage being built with the concerns of LGBT people of color at the forefront.”

Michelle Alcedo, a queer women of color who is director of programs for Openhouse, added, “There were just so many profound and eloquent speakers today. It was thrilling for me to be here to see what is happening in our community.”

Rupert, a 31-year-old African American straight ally, believes that the meeting was the first step in a process that will build over time.▼

names of all of the known suicides from the bridge. Bateson and his collaborator, Dayna Whitmer, compiled the list of names from online newspaper articles, the archives of San Francisco news reporter Malcolm Glover, and names released by the Marin County coroner.

“This is a way for us to say we have to have compassion for people who take their own lives and their loved ones who need a place to grieve,” said Jenni Olson, a nonJewish member of Sha’ar Zahav with her wife, who is Jewish, and their children.

It was one of numerous projects officially sanctioned by the bridge district during the yearlong commemoration of the bridge.

But Olson said she felt underwhelmed by the exhibition, which was largely obscured by the hoopla and fireworks show conducted during the bridge’s birthday weekend. It prompted her to work with Meyer and approach Sha’ar Zahav about holding the special Yizkor ceremony.

In 1995 Olson’s friend Mark French, who was a co-director of the LGBT film festival Frameline and co-authored a gossip column in the Bay Area Reporter with Olson, committed suicide off the Golden Gate.

A decade later Olson directed the award-winning documentary The Joy of Life that examined the history of suicides at the span.

The film led her to become a vocal advocate for seeing a suicide barrier be erected along both sides of the bridge. After a hard-fought campaign that many suicide prevention advocates and the friends and family members of the deceased waged, officials at the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District in 2008 voted to erect

the barrier.

“People have been advocating for a barrier really since right after the bridge was built,” said Olson. “My perspective is it is a public safety issue and a public health issue. There needs to be a barrier erected.”

Meyer said suicide barriers have proven to be effective. At other locations where such a preventative measure was put in place, such as the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building, the problem of suicides has largely been resolved.

“When deterrents were put up in other sites the suicides have stopped.

They have come to a screeching halt,” she said.

But the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide barrier, estimated to cost $45 million, is still years away from being built. Bridge district officials are still finalizing the design plans while they try to secure funding for the project.

This summer, in what bridge district spokeswoman Mary Currie called “good news” for the barrier effort, language was inserted into a federal transportation bill that will allow the project to seek funding on Capitol Hill.

Spiritual connection Meyer hopes that participants of the Yizkor ceremony will feel a spiritual connection to the people who have been lost.

“There is so much shame and stigma associated with suicide.

Much of it has come from our religions, and it should not come from them,” she said.

During the bridge’s birthday celebration this spring, there was an exhibition of shoes placed on Crissy Field to recall those people who committed suicide from the span.

Variety of experiences But meeting participants didn’t only come with complaints; many also came with potential solutions to the problems they face.

It was noted throughout the meeting that members of certain communities, such as the transgender and lesbian community, weren’t present. LGBT seniors and advocates in those communities encouraged others to spread the word to get people to apply to the task force and encouraged the elected officials and community leaders to continue doing more outreach by hosting town hall meetings.

Others suggested having people who are regularly accessible and available and who are connected with the task force within each of the communities. Marty Martinson requested that the supervisors be flexible with their outreach and selection for the task force “until we can get the appropriate diversity.”

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To apply to be on the LGBT Senior Task Force, complete an application (www.sfbos.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=19462) and submit it to the Board of Supervisors by August 27.

For more information about the application process, visit www.sfbos.org/index. aspx?page=3135.

“The project is now eligible for federal funding. That is a pretty significant milestone,” said Currie.

The bridge district expects to have completed the design work next year. Once the money is secured, it is estimated the barrier will take up to three years to be fabricated and installed, said Currie.

“We will certainly be in Washington looking for those funds prior to completion of the design early next year,” said Currie. “It is really virtually unpredictable when funds will be flowing into this project. It is really about political will at this point.”

By having the Yizkor ceremony, advocates for the barrier hope to add pressure on lawmakers and bridge district officials to get the project built.

“I believe this will happen in my lifetime,” said Meyer. “I think the pieces are in place and the major obstacles have been removed.”▼ The public is invited to attend the special Yizkor service. It will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday August 7, at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, 290 Dolores Street at 16th Street.

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JULY 12, 19, 26, August 2, 2012 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name FILE A-032766700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: PING AND MING 306, 613 La Salle Ave., SF, CA 94124.

This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Rui Ming Zheng. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/10/10.

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Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name FILE A-031806700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MAX CAB, 2121 Evans St. #A, SF, CA 94124. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Steven B. Gee. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/26/09.

JULY 12, 19, 26, August 2, 2012 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name FILE A-032512800 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: SUPER NAILS & SPA, 3251 20th Ave. #234, SF, CA 94132. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Christine Nguyen.

The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/22/10.

JULY 12, 19, 26, August 2, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 07/25/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MICHAEL BIAGIO TUFO. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 4763 MISSION St., SF, CA 94112-2729. Type of license applied for

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Dated 07/06/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: VIETNAM FOOD CORPORATION. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1406 Polk St., SF, CA 94109-4616. Type of license applied for

41 - On-sale BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE JULY 19, 26, AUG 02, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS

Dated 06/12/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: 7682 LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 313 Ivy St., SF, CA 94102-4310.

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42 - On-sale BEER AND WINE PUBLIC PREMISES JULY 19, 26, AUG 02, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beve rageS Dated 07/12/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: NELLY NICOLAS GHASSAN, GHASSAN JOSEPH GHASSAN. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1201 MINNESOTA ST SF, CA 941073407. Type of license applied for

20 - OFF-sale BEER AND WINE AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 07/26/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: TOUT SWEET PASTRY COMPANY, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 170 OFARRELL ST SF, CA 94102-2208. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-sale BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE 58-CATERER’S PERMIT AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 07/26/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: GDL SFO, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 165 JEFFERSON ST SF, CA 941331234. Type of license applied for

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Dated 07/26/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: DOUBLE TAP, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2243 & 2247 MARKET ST SF, CA 94114. Type of license applied for

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALDOCELL, 2640 Mission St., SF, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Alonso Morales. 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 07/16/12.

47 – ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 06/29/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: KATHERINE KHAMSI BEST. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2165 UNION ST SF, CA 94123-4003. Type of license applied for

41 – ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE AUGUST 2, 9, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034459800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NATURAL PERMANENT MAKEUP LAB, 476 Grove St. SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Kim Mijini. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/13/2012. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034462000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PALACE, 4460 Mission St., SF, CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Thomas P. Lacey. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/16/2012. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/16/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034459600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A FOTO VIDEO MAIL & MORE, 3041 Mission St., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Dylan A. Siddiqui. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/29/2012. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034454600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARC OLIVIER LE BLANC MOBAFOTO, 612 Alabama St., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Marc B. Abonnat. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/2010. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/12/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034459300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ABULEY, 3 Bayside Village Place #317, SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Yixuan Ma. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/13/2012. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034453800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GALAXY GLASS, 2806 28th Ave., SF, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Nardein Mirza. 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 07/11/12.

JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-548815 In the matter of the application of: QUANG DUY NGUYEN for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner QUANG DUY NGUYEN is requesting that his/her name be changed to QUANG DUY PHAM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 13th of September 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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JULY 19, 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 notice of application FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF alcOholic beverage LICENSE Dated 07/19/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: NEW BIG LANTERN INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3170 16th St., SF, CA 94103-3363. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE – EATING PLACE JULY 26, AUG 2, 9, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 07/12/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: E.D.M. HOSPITALITY INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1653 Polk St., SF, CA 94109-3614. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE – EATING PLACE July 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 notice of application TO SELL alcoholic beverageS Dated 07/23/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: WARREN J H LI. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 1515 Clay Street, Suite 2208, Oakland, CA 94612 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1063 Market St., SF, CA 941031605. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE – EATING PLACE July 26, Aug 2, 9, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-548814 In the matter of the application of: NAM VAN NGUYEN & THANH THI NGUYEN for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NAM VAN NGUYEN & THANH THI NGUYEN are requesting that the name NAM VAN NGUYEN be changed to NAM VAN PHAM and the name CALVIN DUY NGUYEN be changed to CALVIN DUY PHAM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 13th of September 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JULY 26, Aug 2, 9, 16, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF california, county of san francisco file CNC12-548816 In the matter of the application of: BENSON DUY NGUYEN for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BENSON DUY NGUYEN is requesting that his/her name be changed to BENSON DUY PHAM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514 on the 13th of September 2012 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JULY 26, Aug 2, 9, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034464800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANCELLOR GIFT SHOP, 433 Powell St., SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Michael Song. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/17/12.

JULY 26, AUG 2, 9, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034456000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1111 PINE ST ASSOCIATES, 1111 Pine St., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Kinta Haller. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/12/12.

JULY 26, AUG 2, 9, 16, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME statement file A-034456200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KNOWNLEADER, 992 Portola Dr., SF, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Ken Nangle & Mike Berg. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/2012. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/12.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1240 7TH AVE ASSOCIATES, 1240 7th Ave., SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Kinta Haller. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/12/12.

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Andrew Veenstra, as Albert, rides atop his beloved horse Joey, created by Handspring Puppets for the hit play War Horse, now at the Curran Theatre.

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ore people saw Stephen Spielberg’s big-screen War Horse on its opening weekend than will see the stage production in an entire year. But for Michael Morpurgo, who wrote the novel that inspired the international theatrical sensation, which in turn led Spielberg to create his cinematic epic, it is the stage version that is the gift that keeps on giving. And we’re not talking about bankable treasure here.

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“When a film comes out, it’s a bubble, it’s Oscars, it’s over, and then it joins the list of films you can watch in your hotel room,” Morpurgo said during a fly-in from England to help herald the arrival of War Horse at the Curran Theatre. “But when I’m sitting at home in little Devon in the middle of nowhere, and I know that every night these casts are on stage, it’s profoundly important to me.”

The play is, on a most basic level, a boy-and-

his horse story. But the great conceit of the novel is that it is told totally from the horse’s point of view, with Joey narrating his life as a farm animal under the loving tutelage of young Albert, to his conscription into the British cavalry for battle on the front lines of World War I, to a brief idyll with an elderly French farmer and his granddaughter, to capture by the Germans who have him hauling artillery, to reconnection to the British forces as the war ends. No spoilers

here, but Albert did promise Joey that someday they would be reunited.

The idea for War Horse came from watching one of the children at Farms for City Children, a program created by Morpurgo and his wife that brings urban children to a working farm during the summer. One boy had such a profound stutter that he refused to speak until Morpurgo observed him in a smooth conversaSee page 29 >>

When Nanki-Poo met Yum-Yum Lamplighters’ ‘The Mikado’ begins its Bay Area run

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Moira McManus as Yum-Yum and Robert Vann as Nanki-Poo in Lamplighters Music Theatre’s The Mikado.

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an Francisco’s Lamplighters Music Theatre, the best Gilbert & Sullivan troupe west of the Atlantic, opened their 60th season last week at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek with The Mikado or The Town of Titipu. Generally regarded as the magnum opus in a glittering catalog of treasured works, The Mikado seems a fitting choice for the sturdy Savoyard’s diamond jubilee.

Opening night was not without problems, and there was a curious lack of energy in the audience, but if the performance didn’t generate much sense of fun, it still conveyed the earnest

concentration of the cast and their intense efforts in getting it right.

The Lamplighters are known and beloved for their ultra-traditional approach. Every word and note of music is always carefully in place. Once they relax and start enjoying themselves with this production, it will communicate better to the audience. The rest of the run should be a typically happy romp through one of the wittiest and most tuneful operettas ever written.

The Mikado remains appealing not only for the continuous stream of Arthur Sullivan’s memorable tunes, but also for the trenchant humor of

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William S. Gilbert’s book. The story is actually more understandable than some in the duo’s hilarious canon, but the plot is really just an excuse for one great musical number after another. H.M.S Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe all have their fabulous charms, but Mikado has an embarrassment of riches. Truly lovely ballads and arias are mixed with droll comic material that never seems to age.

When the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko recites his famous little list (“As some day it may happen”), the traditional addition of some contemSee page 29 >>

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It’s the Olympics, sweetie darling

by Roberto Friedman

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hile the rest of the world watched the spectacular opening ceremony for the London Olympic Games, Out There was watching a screener of the new Absolutely Fabulous episode that takes place during the London Olympic Games. Fans of the classic British sitcom greeted the U.S. premiere of the third new 20th anniversary Ab Fab special on Logo this week with laurels and hosannas. If OT could afford Bollinger champagne on our B.A.R. salary, we’d have popped it and poured ourselves a Bolly-Stoli.

Eddy (Jennifer Saunders, also the series’ creator) has rented out her house to Hollywood royalty Michael Douglas during the Olympics, but she and best chum Patsy (Joanna Lumley) plan to stick around and glom onto MD’s pile of A-list invitations. Daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), just back from her new life as part of a po-

lygamous marriage in Africa, and Mother (June Whitfield) complete the domestic picture, with Eddy’s assistant Bubble (Jane Horrocks) just about stealing the show in a series of Olympic athlete outfits. Truly, Bubble does a wicked Nadia Comaneci.

Instead of Douglas arriving, however, Eddy’s guests turn out to be her diminutive ex-husband Marshall (Chris Ryan) and his American girlfriend Bo (Mo Gaffney), who have been given his London stay as a gift. Bo claims Marshall has “caught” sex addiction from MD. Even playing an annoying, shrewish character, Gaffney stays her inimitable buoyant self.

Eddy and Patsy are grappling with their status as seniors (has it really been 20 years since E. made off with the “P.R. P.R. award?”), and they’re determined to remain party girls to the last. Eddy lends Patsy her “control body” hose, which is a mistake as they wind up “crushing whatever organs she has left.” Feeling for Patsy’s pulse,

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Edina (Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley) star in the U.S. premiere of the third Absolutely Fabulous 20th anniversary special, “Olympics.”

Saffy remarks with horror that she doesn’t have one. Eddy: “She’s never had a pulse, sweetie darling!”

Eddy manages to insult and alienate celebrity designer Stella McCartney and 2004 gold medal winner Kelly Holmes in cameo appearances. But despite their contempt for the Olympics – “bloody sport!” – the Ab Fab gals end up with a private preview of the Olympic Stadium, where they indulge in a fantasy sequence about winning the gold. Ceremoniously, Edina lights the Olympic torch – from which Patsy promptly lights her cigarette.

Just like old times.

In a lead-up to the special, Logo ran a marathon of the Top 10 most popular Absolutely Fabulous episodes, as voted on by viewers. We don’t know which ones reaped the honors, but we hope they included OT’s favorite Ab Fab ep, “Morocco.”

This is the one where Pats and Eddy take a trip to the Casbah, where they carouse, smoke hash (“It’s legal here, so you can’t disapprove,” Eddy tells Saffy), ogle young men, and yes, sell Saffy off to white slave-traders.

Rationale: “She said she wanted to see how the real people live!” Classic. We don’t know how we’ll get through another AbFab drought.

Anyway, preparing for the onslaught of Olympics media coverage, Out There watched a series of YouTube videos of famous fiascos that transpired during opening ceremonies. Perhaps the most can’twatch-it, can’t-look-away of them all was the footage of the Seoul Olympic Games opening ceremony,

which began with the launching of hundreds of white doves to symbolize peace, a worthy gesture. But not all of the doves flew away, and some chose to perch on the rim of the Olympic Torch – so that millions of viewers watched in horror as the Torch was lit and many unfortunate birds were flame-roasted alive.

Tastes like chicken.

Crafty people The 2012 American Craft Council Show will take place at Fort Mason from Aug. 3-5, and two participating artists, Lou Ann Townsend and Mary Filapek, are a same-sex couple with a unique story. Both women are trained silversmiths who met while they were students at the University of New Mexico. Their work is collaborative, with both artists sharing equally in all aspects of design and production for their studio, Mary & Lou Ann. They fabricate the metal framework of each piece in sterling silver, or use a mixture of cast and fabricated sterling components. All cast components are created from masters that they have created in silver and copper, or carved from wax. Find more info at www.maryandlouann.com.

This year, the ACC is honoring San Francisco’s Style Makers, well-known local personalities who are dedicated to handmade craft as both devotees and trendsetters.

They include Zerodivide strategist Tim Wu and Velvet DaVinci gallery owner Mike Holmes, both longtime supporters of the craft industry. Holmes’ partner Tom Hill is an internationally known metal artist and also an accomplished musician – he plays locally with a chamber music group. Also joining the ranks as “Style Makers” this year are CBS5 anchor Roberta Gonzales, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik, KRON-TV host Jan Wahl, Artful Home CEO Lisa Bayne, and community supporter Nancy Bechtle, among others. More info is at www.shows.craftcouncil.org/sf.

GOP sing-along “Off-shore drilling is completely

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Pendant by silversmiths Lou Ann Townsend and Mary Filapek.

safe, you’re getting sleepy!/Tax cuts for the rich create new jobs, you’re getting sleepy!/Financial corporations will police themselves, and illegal aliens are stealing all your pens./Now when I count to three and snap my fingers, you’ll awake refreshed and vote Republican.

“White people are the real victims of racism, sleepy!/Fox News is fair and balanced, sleepy!/Health care is a privilege, not a right,/We can work together to wipe out the middle class./Now when I count to three and snap my fingers, you’ll awake confused and vote Republican.” – Roy Zimmerman, You’re Getting Sleepy (Metaphor Records), which also includes the stand-out tracks “I Want a Marriage Like They Had in the Bible,” “The Unions Are To Blame” and “The Wedding of Church and State.” Hit that reset button for all the brainwashed peeps out there!

“Exxon, I just friended you on Facebook. Citizens United say your voice should be heard./Exxon, you’re a person, too. You got all the rights that people do./You spend millions on elections like a real person would./Citizens United put the mock in democracy.” – “Citizens United.” Zimmerman and his cowriter Melanie Harby make great political song parodies in the tradition of Allan Sherman and Tom Lehrer, the latter of “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park” fame. Tastes like chicken.▼

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Ballet in a chasm of natural beauty

by Paul Parish

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ome 10,000 people turned out last Sunday for San Francisco Ballet’s annual free performance in Stern Grove, the magnificent public park donated to the city by Sigmund Stern, where for 75 years now there have been free concerts open to the public every Sunday all summer long.

San Francisco is a city blessed with wealth and natural beauty, but even in a city with so many spectacular sights, Stern Grove must be counted as one of the most amazing. It’s a deep, romantic chasm sheltering a natural amphitheatre of perfect proportions, shaded by hundreds of eucalyptus trees and carpeted with ferns and nasturtiums, whose golden blossoms wink like fireflies from all over the forest floor.

The Grove’s natural features were enhanced by Lawrence Halprin, the Bay Area’s world-famous landscape architect, in the tradition begun by Capability Brown in the great parks of England. Halprin’s final enhancements to his original designs were completed not long before his death a few years back: his massive fieldstone terracing is yielding to the lichens and mosses he knew would take over, and its majesty is relaxing, already comfortable for picnicking. One audience member had slung a hammock up in the trees.

The ballet presented a lighter program than usual this year, a delightful, fresh, easy-to-like program of superbly danced works in contrasting styles that showed the company’s strengths and high spirits and command of a wide range of styles. From the apprentices and trainees up through the ranks to the principals, everyone showed the superb technique that’s a prerequisite to the art, but on top of that showed the musicality, feeling, and finesse, without which who’d care? The company is recently back from a tour, dancing in Germany and Russia, where the large Russian contingent in our company got a hero’s welcome at the Bolshoi. If they were tired after all that travelling, it didn’t show.

The light fog in the air was perfect for Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, which features a Sylphide as the ballerina and benefits from suggestions of highland mists. There’s a stageful of handsome youths in kilts and sporrans, leaping about like lords, and ladies in diaphanous skirts with smart jackets skipping lightly among them in a free fantasy entirely dependent on Mendelssohn’s Scotch symphony, to which the ballet is set. It’s more a set of kaleidoscopic glimpses of Scottish themes than a narrative. A kilted soubrette flashes through in red knee-socks: Nicole Ciapponi flies in on winged feet, creates a lightning impression, and disappears, never to be seen again. A melancholy laird comes in for the adagio, glimpses a glowing, airy spirit who points him to another world, but hostile forces intervene and separate them. She’s tossed into his arms, then held back by an army of conventional forces, they reunite, she’s gone again – then in the sunny finale, everybody dances together as if there’s no problem.

For most viewers, looking back on the ballet creates an emotional disharmony, but it doesn’t bother you much, since the ebb and flow of the wonderful dance inventions do echo the music naturally, and the ballerina’s astonishing solos are like apparitions of a creature so rare you could barely imagine her. Yuan Yuan Tan had a triumph in the role. In steps of astonishing difficulty, she remained light and free, her upper body, the breast-bone, collarbone floating like a breath, her lovely face like a flower dancing in the breeze. The ballet’s “meaning” is elusive as a Sylphide.

The second act was Spinae, a glamorous showpiece for the company’s

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San Francisco Ballet in Balanchine’s Scotch Symphony, presented at Stern Grove last Sunday.

young trainees and apprentices choreographed by SFB corps dancer Myles Thatcher. This is Thatcher’s second impressive composition: he has a gift for deploying the facility and flexibility and motor-drive of young dancers, creating in this case a palette of birdlike moves and postures for them

that made them look like young gods.

The characteristic pose looks like an eagle stretching its wings back, about to land. They all looked glorious, especially Alexander Reneff-Olson and Lacey Escabar.

Then followed a virtuoso piece danced at top speed by brilliant male

stars of the company: Hans van Manen’s Solo is a quirky piece set to prestissimo violin solos by Bach. Three dancers run onto and off the stage, one at a time, which gives each a chance to breathe and us a chance to enjoy the different colors each Mercurial dancer brings to the choreography. James So-

franko is an adorable punk, Hansuke Yamamoto is sweeter and more abandoned, the genius Gennadi Nedvigin is completely on top of his rapid-fire assignment and has almost more than enough time for his switchbacks and sudden poses. His clarity in the midst of all this flux is astounding.

The show’s finale was Christopher Wheeldon’s perpetual-motion machine Number 9, set to a driving score

by Michael Torke. It’s not the best Wheeldon, but the corps and principals danced it to the nines. Frances Chung and Daniel Deivison Oliveira looked free and easy in its tight figures, and Sasha de Sola, a corps dancer who’s been shining like the brightest star we’ve got for a year now, made it look easy, lovely and natural. Maybe it helps that she’s blonde. Dancers don’t have the benefit of stage lighting at the Grove, have to make do with ambient light, then shine with their own energy. A blonde has the advantage of looking sunny on a dark day, but deSola’s radiance advances steadily from a brilliant center and flashes like a star in all directions. She had the enormous advantage of having the tall, strong, musical, witty Vito Mazzeo as her partner. All the soloists danced well: the others were Vanessa Zahorian, Gennadi Nedvigin, Sarah van Patten, and Carlos Quenedit.▼

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“Me as Warhol in Drag with Scar” (2010) by Gillian Wearing; framed bromide print, edition of six, part of Pier 24 Photography.

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by Sura Wood

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estled under the Bay Bridge and nearly hidden from sight, you’ll find the entrance to Pier 24, one of the more extraordinary experiences available in San Francisco, especially for those who love photography. Several years ago, The Pilara Foundation, established by San Francisco investment advisor Andrew Pilara, splendidly renovated this sweeping, 28,000 sq.

ft. annex, a storage warehouse space with exposed ceilings, light grey walls and a spectacular panoramic view of the bay, to house his collection of 3,000 photographs. Vacant for almost 30 years, the historic 1935 building, which sits next to remnants of railroad tracks that once shuttled shipping cargo to the Embarcadero, has been transformed into a temple for a serenely contemplative viewing of art.

Although the interior is preternaturally quiet and climate-sealed, you can hear seagulls cruising over the bay outside, and fog horns, too.

Intimate in spite of its vast scale, the space is a little like an enormous city library, an impression reinforced by the hushed tones of the people seated at the front desk. Behind them hangs Richard Avedon’s famous triptych self-portrait of the white-haired, casually elegant eminence gris. No more than 20-40 people are allowed inside at one time, and despite flying largely beneath the radar, 25,000 have come through since they opened their doors in 2010. Admission is free; visits, which last two hours, are by appointment only.

Pier 24 wouldn’t appear to be a vanity project for Pilara, whose name is nowhere to be found in what has to

be one of the most gorgeous pieces of real estate in San Francisco, and it’s virtually impossible to persuade the staff to divulge much about the man other than that he began collecting pictures nine years ago with an inaugural purchase at the Fraenkel Gallery.

The collection’s purported emphasis is on changes in the industrial landscape as reflected in 20th- and 21stcentury work, predominantly by a Who’s Who of American photography: Arbus, Winogrand, Friedlander, Lange, Evans, Goldberg, Avedon, Sultan, Frank and others; a smattering of European, African and Asian artists are also on view. Anyone familiar with photography will recognize many of the images.

In keeping with the foundation’s philosophy of a pristine, unfiltered environment for communing with pictures, none are titled or attributed to specific artists except in a few cases, and there’s no text. This is a position I can understand, but I don’t agree that knowledge detracts from enjoyment. There’s benefit derived from

recognizing authors of works and the opportunity to learn more about them. Seniors and recent art-school grads, some of whom better informed than others, are on hand as guides and equipped with a booklet containing background on the photographs, a supplement I would’ve preferred to access directly. To help navigate, you’re given a brochure with a map when you enter.

At Pier 24, it’s the atmosphere that’s singular. As a nonprofit, unconventional enterprise, their shows don’t conform to the usual parameters, and writing about them poses a challenge.

For instance, it’s counterproductive to generalize about their latest exhibition About Face, which focuses on portraiture, when it’s comprised of close to 1,000 images. They’re displayed in 19 spacious galleries, some dedicated to single photographers, others to several. So I’m going to cherry-pick pieces that caught my eye, like Todd Hido’s “Untitled” (2011). A study in tension between the prim and the wanton, it’s a portrait of a doe-eyed brunette with

a string of ladylike pearls around her neck, ample cleavage exposed by her black bra and open cardigan; Hendrik Kerstens, who uses his daughter as muse in different 3/4 poses, created “Hairnet” (2000), a color image of a doleful young woman whose pale complexion, contrasted with a dark background, is reminiscent of Dutch painting; Peter Hujar’s “Queen with Fur Stole, Halloween” (1979) captures a foxy woman in fishnet gloves and veiled hat on the prowl, but the hairy forearms are a dead giveaway; and Hiroshi Sugimoto is represented by the six unfortunate and very dead wives of Henry VIII, photographs made from wax models with similar facial features and hands that are disproportionately large and masculine. At one end of the gallery, as if presiding at the head of the table, sits the mass murderer himself, the king. Avedon’s series In the American West, a cast of outliers, con artists, drifters, criminals and a lone fat boy cradling a shotgun, photographed in uncharacteristiSee page 21 >>

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Griffin to gays: Don’t get married!

by David-Elijah Nahmod Kathy Griffin: Pants Off and Tired Hooker (Shout Factory)

Both of these masterful stand-up routines were shot before live audiences, one in Costa Mesa, CA, the other in Atlantic City, NJ. In both shows, it’s just Griffin alone onstage

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athy Griffin has a message for the gay community: don’t get married! The comic diva does not consider the wedded state to be a blissful one – her own marriage ended badly. “I’m against marriage,” she says cheerfully, “because I’m a bitter divorcee.”

It’s all in good fun. Griffin has stood loudly and proudly for marriage equality, and for all forms of LGBT equality. She’s often been accompanied at equality marches by her 91-year-old mom, Maggie. Mrs. Griffin introduces her daughter to the cheering audience in Pants Off, the first selection in Griffin’s new double-feature DVD. Both Pants Off and Tired Hooker originally aired on Bravo. Seen back to back, the raunchy, raucous specials underscore Griffin’s unique brand of blunt, screamingly funny observations on pop culture and various social issues. We couldn’t have asked for a better best friend.

“I’m all about gay rights,” she states in Tired Hooker to a mixed crowd who applaud wildly. “It’s almost funny how bad the gays wanna get married. Have at it, gays, because it sucks, and say goodbye to sex!”

in a simple pair of slacks and a Tshirt. No music, no lighting effects, no video clips, just Griffin, her voice and her sometimes provocative body language. The two sets add up to nearly 90 minutes of side-splitting laughs.

In this age when digital effects encompass so much of what passes for

popular entertainment, it’s refreshing to see a true performer whose talent doesn’t need to be enhanced via computers.

If you’re a public figure, you’d bettter watch out, because Griffin is watching your every move. Her observations on the Kardashians, N Nancy Grace, and Marcus Bachm mann’s “pray-the-gay-away therap py clinic” are funny in part because G Griffin’s mimicry of her subjects’ sspeech patterns is so dead-on, but aalso because her pointing out how p phony and self-serving they are is sso true. “Curing the gays works eevery time,” she says of Bachmann, w while rolling her eyes. The audieence nearly falls out of their seats.

Griffin’s language is graphic and rribald. She’s not afraid to say what sshe really thinks. When reading aactual postings from Kim Kard dashian’s Twitter pages, she refers to them as Kim’s “twats.” Griffin d doesn’t discriminate, she seeks to offend everyone. In doing so, sh she points out many of society’s fo foibles. You’ll laugh, you’ll cringe, and you’ll also think as you listen to the brilliant comedy stylings of Kathy Griffin.

Shout Factory’s DVD includes bonus footage of six segments that weren’t included when the shows aired on Bravo. It’s highly unlikely she’ll get any interview requests from Katie Couric after these get around!▼

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Scene from Bart Layton’s The Impostor: much to-do about not very much.

Mistaken identity

by David Lamble

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he Impostor What can you say about a documentary that feels like an enervating expansion of a typical CBS 48 Hours Mystery? The premise for Bart Layton’s film (produced for British Channel Four) is intriguing: in 1994, a beautiful blonde 13-year-old San Antonio, Texas boy goes missing. Three years later, Spanish police report finding a runaway who answers to the name but seems to bear no true physical resemblance to young Nicholas. The fly-in-the-ointment, filmwise, is the annoying and increasingly misleading docudrama style where actors play real people, real people sometimes appear as themselves, and it’s all much to-do about not very much. Particularly bad is a private eye, straight out of central casting, who wields a shovel in a stranger’s backyard. We’re led to think that he’s about to dig up a decomposed blonde corpse.

Ultimately, this plays as a nasty British media joke on TV-addled Americans, overfed on fantastical tabloid stories of dark, greasy foreigners plying innocent American kids with date-rape drugs and torture-porn horror stories. Skip this one and rent Nick Cassavetes’ riveting Alpha Dog, about a true-life boy victim whose fate will stick with you. (Opens Friday.)

The Devil, Probably In this nextto-final 1977 film from French genius Robert Bresson, a gaunt, long-haired and severely melancholy young man, Charles (Antoine Monnier), becomes so obsessed with his radical environmental studies that he gradually disengages from school, a hot girlfriend, and life itself. Consumer advisory: the first half of the film is not for the squeamish, with an almost pornographic visual symphony of man’s wicked ways, climaxing in the clubbing of a baby seal. All this is really not a spoiler because the director informs us, right out of the box, that we’re, in effect, viewing a kind of cinema autopsy of Charles: did he die by his own

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cally raw, large-scale black & white, is enhanced by the wide open spaces afforded by this venue. Larry Sultan’s SF Society pictures, from a 2007 color photo shoot for W magazine, feature a regal Dede Wilsey posing in her pink and green mansion in a low-cut, green taffeta gown with a matching set of emerald and diamond jewels, while a solemn immigrant maid in a pink uniform lights pink candles in a nearby candelabra. Vanessa and Billy Getty, sometimes referred to as the jeunesse doree of the city’s social set, are depicted in staged yet informal fashion; she sits on a table, her hair in rollers, next to a sculpture of a hollow horse’s head into which their cat has stuck its head; the formidable Denise Hale stands in her Russian Hill apartment a few feet away from a tiger rug

hand, or was he murdered?

Bresson’s own life nearly spanned the 20th century (1907-99), producing only 13 films, but of a quality that has led him to be hailed as the most influential filmmaker on the French New Wave, a kind of cinema Dostoyevsky.

Here he provides a methodical look back at the young man’s last days, from bratty outbursts in class to flirting with drowning himself in a girlfriend’s tub, to swiping a small revolver from a twobit drug dealer, massaging the bullet in his hands as if judging its worthiness to enter his brain.

You should know that Bresson was Catholic to the nines. A great scene finds Charles bunking down in an empty church with a druggie pal, high as a kite, drinking in music from a portable phonograph. The pal abandons him, absconding with the poor boxes, leaving Charles to mount a philosophical defense of their trespassing to an ultra-bourgeois cop.

Much of the film finds Charles delivering rants about how sad French life has become a decade after the 1968 revolution.

Caution: Bresson was almost insanely methodical with his mostly non-professional actors, reportedly getting them to repeat scenes over and over. This at times produces a semirobotic feel from some of his young cast, but not from our hero. Bresson obsesses about tiny, seemingly inconsequential moments in life: a scene of a Paris bus is broken down so thoroughly that we observe the passengers swiping their fare cards, the driver working the door control, right after a small accident, which we don’t get to see. Later, a boy on his way to his own execution will carefully pause to pay his Metro fare, as if dotting the last i or crossing the last t before his final bout of existential dread.

There’s an old Woody Allen joke: don’t commit suicide while in analysis with a strict Freudian, because he’ll make you pay for the sessions you miss. Keep this joke in mind as you follow this first and last session

between Charles and a pompous shrink his worried friends have pressured him to see.

“Did you know that the feeling of being crushed by the society you live in might well be the result of that spanking you got as a child? That, together with the painful dream of being murdered for a good cause, would point to the development of psychomotor symptoms and explain the root of your disgust and wish to die.”

“But I don’t wish to die.”

“What? Of course you do.”

“I hate life, but I hate death, too. I find it appalling.”

“Come back in two days.”

“But, Doctor, I’m not ill. My illness is seeing things too clearly.”

“Of course. It’s 200 francs a session.”

“Doctor, I don’t think I will ever be able to –” “Pay?” “To do the deed – to think I would suddenly stop thinking, seeing, hearing.”

“That’s why the ancient Romans entrusted a servant or friend with the task.” There’s a whole funny Woody Allen movie in this roiling subtext, a great stab at the talking cure.

Charles’ friends call his shrink from a phone booth and get what they think is good news.

“He’s saved!”

“Do you think so?”

There’s, of course, no movie in that direction. In the end, Charles’ death montage provides weight and a certain amount of tension to what has been a rather slow-moving affair. There is also the slightly comic touch, intentional or not, of the condemned man being interrupted in mid-sentence by a bullet fired by an impatient druggie.

An attempt to locate a bio for actor Antoine Monnier was fruitless.

Pity, he’s my type, but then he’d be too old for me now. The Devil, Probably is precisely the kind of fare that plays most deliciously at the San Francisco Film Society’s 1746 Post St. digs.▼

with bared teeth, who sacrificed his life against his will, I’m sure, to decorate her floor.

I particularly liked Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, a grouping of bent psychological self-portraits that includes Man Ray’s image of Duchamp in drag, and Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura, who uncannily reinvents himself as a voluptuous Marilyn Monroe in nude pin-up mode, posed provocatively on a blood-red background, exhibiting a pair of alarming fake breasts. Morimura also appears in a spooky rendition of Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” Gillian Wearing, a British artist with an “artifice as path to truth” credo, dresses up in fearsome blonde wig, midriff scars and black leather as Andy Warhol, and has variously assumed the identities of her father, mother, grandmother, brother and Diane Arbus, whose 1944 self-portrait, where she appraises her

naked pregnant body in a mirror, is also part of this show within a show.

Some of these pictures are especially interesting to consider in the context of that other great pretender, Cindy Sherman, whose retrospective is at SFMOMA. If you have to budget your time, make sure to check out gallery #9 before you leave.

I spent a full two hours roaming around unhurried, without a trace of fatigue at the end of my shift. It’s a credit to the curators and the painstakingly thought-out, beautifully executed architectural design that such an immense collection never feels overwhelming. I, for one, can’t wait to return.▼ About Face and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood will be up at least through Feb. 13, 2013, or perhaps longer. For further info and to make an appt.: www.pier24.org.

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D’Arcy Drollinger, as Lindsay Lohan, is surrounded by an entourage in his celebrity satire Project: Lohan at ACT’s Costume Shop: the obsessive documentation of unworthy events.

Starlet travails

by Richard Dodds

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Lohan High Heels Cactus” and get several thousand links in under a second? There is a brief mention in Project: Lohan of the actress emerging from a car in stiletto heels and falling into a cactus, an incident that seemed to me absurd even for the luckless Lohan. But fact-checking instincts were satisfied, and with ample written, photographic, and video documentation of the accident, just by entering those five words.

This is the world of Project: Lohan, a 90-minute satire of the voracious appetite of Internet-driven celebrity news and their reportage of events they often enable if not actually cause. Would even an intoxicated Lohan have tumbled into that cactus if she had not been greeted by dozens of shoving photographers with flash cameras aflame? No matter. Lohan helped the story to selfperpetuate by tweeting about it the next day.

Lohan, bless her freckled little heart, provides the perfect fodder for what D’Arcy Drollinger has created. Something like The Laramie Project awash in glitter, this is an actual docudrama that documents not only Lohan’s spin cycles of misbehavior and atonement, but also the obsessive documentation of events that really aren’t much worth documenting. Cue the cactus.

This is a revised version of Project: Lohan that Drollinger first presented in New York last year, and is the first outside production to make use of ACT’s new Mid-Market performance space dubbed the Costume Shop. Drollinger assembled the script from public sources, including interviews, courtroom transcripts, 911 calls, ex-boyfriend testimonials, and gossip-site reportage. And as if the poor girl’s own magnetic misfortune were not enough, she is saddled with her publicity-hungry parents’ tattered baggage. All of this comes at us in a rat-a-tat-tat collection of short scenes often played in a burlesque style. Drollinger is the only member

of the cast of six who doesn’t play multiple roles, but, as Lohan, he is always a-changing. The real Lohan apparently has fickle taste in hair color, well documented, of course, and Drollinger is often at the makeup table swapping out wigs. Her attire is also headline material, and that involves an ongoing costume parade.

Much of the material has built-in easy laughs, like reports that Paris Hilton made Lindsay move to another table in a restaurant, or that Hillary Duff is her latest frenemy.

And the original reason why Lohan is of any interest – her acting career – is also acknowledged, and such co-stars as Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep appear to comment on her skills and work ethic. But despite the slapstick takes on recreated reality, at the core there is a woman in dire circumstances, self-inflicted or not, which can make full-out laughter difficult, and which a final morphing montage of actual images of Lohan acknowledges.

These are among the projections on a large rear screen, which also include various tabloid shots and live video feeds of the onstage action.

Director Tracy Ward’s fast-forward production contains such clever touches as brief quotes from TV theme music to introduce a character or a scene, and the cast matches the overall take-no-prisoners approach. In addition to Drollinger’s woozily resilient interpretation of Lohan, the gender-tumbling cast includes Elizabeth Irene Anderson, Michael Patrick Gaffney, Cindy Goldfield, Sara Moore, and Allegra Rose Edwards.

Drollinger delivers a post-performance epilogue that brings us upto-date on the latest Lohan news, and such is the state of her affairs that a minor automobile accident must be considered good news. She lives, but stay tuned.▼ Project: Lohan will run through Aug. 19 at ACT’s Costume Shop.

Tickets are $25 and available at www.projectlohan.com.

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Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon.

Scene from the Stockton, California-based Fat City.

John Huston as water baron Noah Cross in Chinatown.

The Castro Theatre turns 90 John Huston retrospective is part of a full month of festivities

by David Lamble

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oming up this month is a 12film tribute to director/writer/ actor John Huston, in celebration of the Castro Theatre’s 90th anniversary.

By the time I first glimpsed her on a rainy March night in 1974, the Castro Theatre was pushing 52.

While there weren’t any sassy queens shouting, “Ya hag, ya!,” the old lady was badly in need of a facelift and a new mission. Pushing 30 myself, my first visit to San Francisco had, to that point, been a bust: missed a light show at the old Fillmore and a Dead concert at the Cow Palace, suffered through a 10-day monsoon, the banality of Pier 39, and the worst Chinese food in town. Who would have thought that the highlight of my trip would be a slapdash Castro third-run double bill of Charley Varrick and Day of the Jackal?

Many years later, my first film mentor Artie Bressan would painstakingly explain why the Castro’s perfect sight lines, the impeccable “throw” of its projectors and the faux elegance of its 1920s Jazz Age interior contributed to a moviegoing experience like no other. As the years rolled on, Artie’s theories would test out as I drank in every conceivable film treat there, from a packed house convulsing hysterically at Howard Hawks’ screwball classic Bringing Up Baby to a haunting recreation of the late Silent Era magic of F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise to a five-night orgy of experiencing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s seldom viewed masterwork, the 15-hour dissection of the fall of Weimer Germany Berlin Alexanderplatz, with a boyfriend nestled in the next seat and an ex hovering several rows back. There’s also the time I shared a huge joint with Castro staff and sat stunned in the balcony as the Hepburn/Tracy comedy Adam’s Rib appeared to unspool in 15 minutes.

Later I would learn that the Castro, like a great ship, performed precisely the way its creator, architect Timothy Pflueger, had intended it to. What I didn’t realize and nobody could have anticipated was that the Castro would eventually stand in for a host of vanished cinema palaces, including the flagship Fox Theatre (1929, fell to the wrecker’s ball in 1963). Due to a unique convergence of a great theatre-owning family, the Nasser Brothers, with an unexpected new audience, San Francisco’s queer community, the Castro would age more or less gracefully as a splendid survivor, a living museum to world cinema.

When it opened on June 22, 1922, an estimated 1,875 people cheered as San Francisco Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, the now-forgotten pol who helped launch the Municipal Railway and the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, cut the ribbon for the Nasser

Brothers’ third theatre project, located in this Irish/Swedish workingclass district. Turning their 1908 grocery (at 19th and Collingwood) into the neighborhood’s first nickelodeon, two years later the brothers had raised enough cash to construct the first Castro Theatre (the present site of Cliff ’s Hardware).

The collision between a unique venue, a movie exhibitor with a special vision, and a moviegoing audience in the making is described by veteran film festival director and theatre operator Gary Meyer.

Meyer was fresh out of college when he came under the spell of UC Berkeley-trained impresario Mel Novikoff, who in the mid-1970s saw the Castro as his dream flagship.

“Mel got very interested in the theatre, and I went in with him to look at it before he made the deal.

He had a big spotlight. He said, ‘Look at this.’ And under the dust and dirt were the murals. ‘Look up there at the ceiling. Oh, my god, it’s that beautiful wood décor!’

“From the very beginning, Mel’s goal was, ‘I’m going to clean up, touch up and highlight the beauty of this building,’ in a way that in our lifetimes we’d never seen.

“This was the jewel that Mel was so passionate about. He found a house where he could actually see the marquee and the tower from the front window of his house.”

Meyer, who later scored as cofounder of the Landmark Theatre chain, explains Novikoff ’s approach to acquiring big film treasures from Hollywood vaults. “He went to Disney and said, ‘I’d like to do Fantasia here.’ Fantasia had been out of release for many years. And they said, ‘Well, it’s the gay neighborhood.’

And Mel said, ‘What difference does that make? It’s San Francisco.

If people want to see the movie, they’re going to come no matter what their inclination is.’ So Disney took a chance, and it went through the roof.”

The Castro’s new programmer Keith Arnold is picking up where Mel Novikoff left off, with a 12-film package spotlighting the work of John Huston, whose career corresponds to the Castro’s feisty middle age.

The Maltese Falcon Huston soars in this faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco shamus with a code. Humphrey Bogart imbues his Sam Spade with a succulent blend of witty cynicism and thwarted idealism. This pioneering film noir is addictive, as fresh as its stellar cast: Peter Lorre’s smooth-talking thuggish queer boy Joel Cairo, Mary Astor as the ultimate lying, dangerous babe, and the cool fat man Sydney Greenstreet.

With The Asphalt Jungle. (Wed.Thurs., Aug. 1-2) Fat City While Tully (Stacy Keach) and Ernie (a still puppy-cute

Jeff Bridges) take the punches, it’s Stockton, California (circa 1972) that looks the worse for the wear in this heartbreaking but darkly funny account of working-class white guys who are doomed by fate, DNA and booze-fueled bad choices. Stockton-born Leonard Gardner adapts his novel – like Raging Bull, proof that the worst sucker punches are thrown outside the ring – and Huston lets his cameras loose on some beautifully battered faces. San Francisco’s Susan Tyrell is scary good as a motor-mouth bar broad who draws bums into her life like ants to a picnic. With The Misfits. (Wed., Aug. 22) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre TV fans probably recall this Huston study of men driven mad by greed for its infamous pull quote from the mouth of a Mexican bandit: “Badges, we don’t need no stinking badges.” With Key Largo. (Wed., Aug. 8)

The African Queen This Bogart/ Hepburn African river romance won Bogie an Oscar and gave Katharine material for a deliciously gossipy memoir. In How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston, and Almost Lost My Mind, she goes elephant-hunting with Huston despite Bogie’s warning that this particular “great white hunter” was a mad William Tell. With The Man Who Would Be King. (Wed., Aug. 15) The Night of the Iguana Huston’s treatment of Tennessee Williams’ last great major play plants Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr in a steamy Baja, Mexico ocean-fronting jungle, where troubled souls learn wisdom or face “the long swim to China.”

Gardner was never better as a foul-mouthed, recently widowed innkeeper, while Burton walks his underage-lass-lusting preacher to the end of his leash. With Under the

Volcano. (Wed., Aug. 29) Chinatown “You may think you know what you’re dealing with, Mr. Gittes, but believe me, you don’t.

Why is that funny?”

“It’s what the District Attorney used to tell me in Chinatown.”

“Was he right? Exactly what do you know about me?”

“Mainly that you’re rich and too respectable to want your name in the newspapers.”

“Of course I’m respectable, I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”

That’s from a pivotal scene from Roman Polanski and Robert Towne’s incendiary collaboration Chinatown, in which John Huston portrays ruthless California water baron Noah Cross, one of the most disturbing and insidiously entertaining villains in American movie history. With Prizzi’s Honor. (Tues., Aug. 28)▼

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Les Misérables @ Orpheum Theatre

documentary facts of The Smartest Guys in the Room with the performance style of Avenue Q; yes, there are puppets! $25.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 17. 156 Eddy St. www.enron2012.com

25th anniversary touring production of Boublil & Schönberg’s legendary awardwinning musical based on the Victor Hugo novel about the French Revolution, in a new re-designed production. $30-$150.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat Sun 2pm.

Thru Aug. 26. 1192 Market St. at 8th. www.shnsf.com

Fauxgirls @ Infusion Lounge The classy drag revue celebrates its 11th year; Victoria Secret, Alexandria, Chanel, Maria Garza, Mini Minerva, Kipper, Daffney Deluxe and Ruby LeBrowne; dinner seating at 7pm. Show at 8pm. No cover.

124 Ellis St. 421-8700. www.fauxgirls.com

Jewish Film Festival @ Various Cinemas Festival of films about the Middle East, Israel and Jewish-Americans, at theatres in SF, Oakland, Palo Alto and San Rafael.

Thru Aug 6. Opening night at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St. www.sfjff.org

John Huston Films @ Castro Theatre Retrospective of the prolific film director’s works. The Maltese Falcon (2:30, 7pm) and The Asphalt Jungle (4:30, 9:30). Aug 8, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2:30, 7pm) and Key Largo (4:55, 9:25). Aug 15, The African Queen (2:30, 7pm) and The Man Who Would Be King (4:30, 9pm). Aug 22, The Misfits (2:30, 7pm) and Fat City (4:55, 9:20). Aug 28, Chinatown (2pm, 7pm) and Prizzi’s Honor (4:30, 9:25). Aug 29, The Night of the Iguana (2:30, 7pm) and Under the Volcano (4:50, 9:20). 429 Castro St. $8.50-$11. www.castrotheatre.com

Outlook Video @ Channel 29

Gifts From the Gods

Sweat equity

by Jim Provenzano

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n between viewings of NBC’s censorious and warped coverage of the 30th Olympiad, otherwise known as, “Why isn’t Michael Phelps winning everything?”, you might want to partake of some local events which involve sporty efforts, viewing games with gay pals, or art that pays homage to athletics, aesthetically.

Project Lohan @ The Costume Shop West Coast premiere of D’Arcy Drollinger’s comic, ironic pop culture timeline show about the troubled actress turned media catastrophe. $25-$30 (got a DUI or parole card? Get $5 off!). Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm.

Thru Aug. 19. 1117 Market St. at 7th. www.projectlohan.com

War Horse @ Curran Theatre

Gifts From the Gods @ Legion of Honor Art and the Olympic Ideal, a new exhibit of Greek and Roman artifacts and vintage art related to the lives of athletes of ancient times, also includes modern works that reflect athletics, such as Robert Anderson’s historic “Gay Olympics” poster. Free-$10. Thru Jan. 27. 100 34th Ave. at Clement. 750-3600. www.legionofhonor.org

LGBT news show, this month: SF Trans March, Pink Triangle commemoration, Pink Saturday and SF 2012 Pride Parade. 5pm.

Also streaming online. www.outlookvideo.org

Mil Mascaras at the La Quebradora Closing Party

Touring production of the acclaimed Broadway drama about an English soldier’s horse and the harrowing tale of survival during World War I; performed with innovative life-size puppets. $35-$300. Tue-Sat 8pm.

Wed, Sat Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Sept.

9. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com/ online/warhorse

legend Mil Mascaras (3:30pm), and see the last night of the exhibit about Mexican pro wrestling culture. $10-$30.

7pm. 2868 Mission St. 643-2785. www.missionculturalcenter.org

Antonio Contreras, part of The House of Aviance at Legendary

Join LGBT parents, their kids, friends and family and Our Family Coalition as the Oakland Athletics play the Toronto Blue Jays. $15. 1pm-4pm. 7000 Coliseum Way. www.lgbtqfamilydayoaklandas. eventbrite.com

Gheno Aviance welcomes musicianactor-fab creature Kevin Aviance, Mother Juan, capoeira hunk Antonio Contreras, and other members of the talented creative New York House of Aviance community, with local talents Juanita More and Jason Kending DJing.

9pm-2am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com www.houseofaviance.com

Sat 4 - La Quebradora Closing Party @ Mission Cultural Center Lucha Libre wrestlers combat, meet

Thu 2>>

After Juliet @ Hastings Studio Theater American Conservatory Theatre’s student Conservatory production of Sharman Macdonald’s blank verse drama about the lives of Verona’s famous families after the death of Romeo and Juliet. $15. Thru Aug 4. 77 Geary St. 6th fl. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Andrea Marcovicci @ The Rrazz Room Cabaret veteran performs classic American Songbook hits. $35-$45. 7:30pm. Wed-Sat 7:30pm Sun 5pm. Thru Aug. 5. 2-drink min.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 3803095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Fri 3 GAPA Runway @ Herbst Theatre

Fri 3 - Legendary @ Beatbox

Sun 5 - SF Hiking Club @ Point Reyes Join GLBT hikers for a 10-mile hike at Point Reyes along the Palomarin Trail to Alamere Falls. See spectacular views of the coast, some cool Douglas fir forest, and a short descent down to the beach and the falls. After lunch, swim in Bass Lake (optional). Carpool meets at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores, 8:30am.

(510) 841-3826. www.sfhiking.com

Fri 3 Ho Down @ Thee Parkside Yee-haw! Enjoy live sets by the bands Glen Meadmore and the Kuntry Band, The Whoa Nellies (photo), Andrew Roberts, Pippi Lovestocking and DJ Phatima. $10. 9pm. 1600 17th St. 252-1330. www.theeparkside.com

Humor Abuse @ American Conservatory Theatre Lorenzo Pisoni’s hit solo show about his life in a circus family returns for a limited engagement. $25-$95. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Aug 19. ACT Theatre, 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Into the Woods @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Berkeley Playhouse’s TeenStage production of Stephen Sondheim’s musically intricate and unusual take on the dark realistic side of children’s fairy tales. $15-$20. 7pm. Sat 2pm & 7pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Aug. 5. 1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance’s 24th annual drag and entertainment pageant, with hostess Tita Aida. $20-$50. 7pm-10pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.gapa.org /gapa-runway

See a hilarious dictator parody in Yun’s Happy Hour With Kim Jong Il, a comedy work-in-progress, performed with live music by Candace Roberts, plus it’s free; $5 cocktails and food! Fridays, 6pm. Thru Aug 24. 2120 Allston Way, near Shattuck.

826-5750. www.themarsh.org

King John @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s action-packed royal drama. In repertory with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairy-filled comedy. $20-$35. Season tickets $45-$75. Dinner and pre-show talk $35. Fri-Sun 8pm. Some Sun matinees 4pm.

Thru Aug. 12. 890 Belle Avenue, Dominican University of California, San Rafael. 4994488. www.marinshakespeare.org Thrillpeddlers and Marc Huestis’ production of The Persecution and Assassination of JeanPaul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Peter Weiss’ strange drama about 1700s French counter-revolutionary assassination. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. 2781 24th St. 863-0611. www.thrillpeddlers.com www.marchuesticpresents.com

The Waiting Period @ The Marsh Brian Copeland’s popular solo show about his struggle with depression. $25-$50. Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm. Extended thru Aug. 4. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Fri 3 >> Café con Comedy @ Dolores Park Café

Sun 5

Cindy Sherman @ SF MOMA

Help Is on the Way XVIII @ Herbst Theatre

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha

Retrospective touring exhibit of 150 photos by the artist who poses as different fascinating and obscure characters. Free-$18.

Daily 11am-5:30pm, except Wed. late Thu until 8:45pm. Thru Oct. 8. 151 Third St. www.sfmoma.org

The weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. www.comedybodega.com

Edna Wright, Honey Cone @ The Rrazz Room

Helen Reddy makes her return to the stage after ten years at the star-studded cabaret benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, with Carole Cook, Sam Harris, Rex Smith, Maureen McGovern, Tuck & Patti, Paula West, Les Miserables cast members and many more. $30-$175. 5pm-silent auction VIP receptions. Show 7:30pm.

401 Van Ness Ave. 273-1620. www.helpisontheway.org

Berlin-based theatre company Kinderdeutsch Projeckte’s bilingual performance about the wild behavior induced by living in snow-laden polar lands. $15. Fri-Sun 8pm. Aug 4 2pm. Thru Aug 4. 185 6th St. www.kinderdeutsch.org

Enron @ Exit Theatre Open Tab theatre company’s production of the U.K. West End hit that combines the

Classic 70s R&B, soul and girl group concert. $35. 9:15pm. Also Aug 4. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley perform Michael Frayn’s hilarious backstage farce, where a play is performed three times, front, back and out of control. $10-$15. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Aug. 18. 1301 Shattuck Ave at Berryman, North Berkeley.

(510) 649-5999. www.aeofberkeley.org

San Francisco @ City Art Opening reception for the new group exhibit of paintings and works in other media, each visualizing San Francisco.

7pm-10pm. Re hours 12pm-9pm. Wed-Sun. Thru Sept 1. 828 Valencia St. 970-9900. www.cityartgallery.org

Sweeney Todd @ Eureka Theatre Ray of Light Theatre’s production of the deliciously grisly Stephen Sondheim musical about The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with a live on-stage orchestra. $25-$36. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. (Special Goth costume night July 28 with a post-show party; $30.)

Thru Aug. 11. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. 6907658. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

Fri 3 The Quest Unsaid @ CounterPulse Navia Natarajan and Jyotsna Vaideeswaran combine classical Indian dance with modern text and interpretations. $20. 8pm. Also Aug 4.

1310 Mission St. at 9th. 626-2060. www.CounterPulse.org

Sat 4 >> Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm.

Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/ wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Earthquake @ California Academy of Sciences New exhibit and planetarium show with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about our ever-shifting earth. $20-$30.

Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park.

379-8000. www.calacademy.org

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier @ de Young Museum

Kung Pao Kosher Comedy presents a night of hilarious tales from restaurant workers, former and current: Nick Leonard, Bob McIntyre, Carla Clayy, and Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 501 Dolores St. at 18th. www.KosherComedy.com www.doloresparkcafe.com

Arctic Hysteria @ Bindlestiff Studios

Noises Off @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley

Kenny Yun @ The Marsh, Berkeley

Marat/Sade @ Brava Theatre

Sun 5 - LGBTQ Family Day @ Oakland Coliseum

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From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first exhibition devoted to the gay French fashion designer (previously shown in Montreal and Dallas), includes film and stage costumes and haute couture, prints, video clips and more. Also, Chuck Close and Crown Point Press, and exhibit of the painter’s printmaking works, (All thru Oct. 14). $6-$20. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm.

Other exhibits ongoing. Friday night special events 5:30pm-8:45pm. Thru Aug. 19. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Man Ray/Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism @ Legion of Honor Photographs, paintings, drawings and manuscripts that explore the creative interaction between gay artists Man Ray and Lee Miller, two giants of European Surrealism. Also, Marcel Duchamp: The Book and the Box. Free-$10. Thru Oct. 14. Tue-Sat 9:30am-5:15pm. Lincoln Park at 100 34th Avenue (at Clement Street). www.famsf.org

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9pm. 466 Valencia St. at 16th. 571-9855. www.picklewater.com

Royal Families @ SF Public Library, Harvey Milk Branch Exhibit of photographs by Karen Massing of four years of pageantry and royalty in the LGBT International Court System. Thru Sept.15. 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.karenmassingpix.com www.sfpl.org

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104

Tue 7 AIDS Quilt Interactive @ San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles New exhibit marking the 25th anniversary of the AIDS Quilt; a 42-inch interactive touchscreen tabletop that allows users to search through and examine detailed individual images from the 1.3 million square feet of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Visitors experience the size and impact of the quilt in a new way; they can search for an individual’s name to locate panels in the overall collection and find metadata about that panel and person. Opening reception Aug 12, 2pm-4pm. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. (Also 7pm-11pm first Fridays). Thru Oct. 14. 520 South First St., San Jose. (408) 971-0323. www.sjquiltmuseum.org

My Fair Lady @ SF Playhouse Modern stripped-down (11 actors, two pianos) adaptation of the Lerner & Lowe classic musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. $20-$50. Tue-Thu 7pm.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Sept. 29. 533 Sutter St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Myth @ Modern Eden Gallery International group exhibit of paintings that visualize ancient and recent mythological characters and stories. Thru Aug. 5. Wed-Sun 11am-7pm. 403 Francisco St/.

956-3303. www.ModernEden.com

Exhibit thru August. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org

GAWK Party @ Tikka Masala Jon Sugar celebrates his 63rd birthday, with performances by Scarlet Stolic, 2am Music, comis and others. 7pm. 1668 Haight St.

Joanna Pitt @ The Rrazz Room Los Angeles singer makes her Rrazz Room debut with a concert of songs by The Carpenters. $25. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

New exhibit of activist art related to the Occupy protests. Exhibit $8-$10. Thru Oct. 14. Also, David Shrigley: Brain Activity, an exhibit of caustically witty sculptures and visual art. Free-$15. Exhibit thru Sept. 23. $8-$10. 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Exhibit of bold contemporary art with perspectives on life, death, nature and other themes. $12-$15. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Plantosaurus Rex @ Conservatory of Flowers Exhibit of prehistoric plants and flowers (giant ferns, spiky horsetails) from the Mesozoic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with life-size models of dinosaurs. Free-$7.

Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 21. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley Local singer-musician Vernon Bush stars in Berkeley Playhouse’s musical stage adaptation of the Roald Dahl book (a new script adapted with permissions from the Dahl estate), with songs from the original film adapatation, about a boy who wins a visit to a mysterious candy factory. $17-$35.

Thu 7pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 12pm, 5pm. Thru Aug 19. 2640 College Ave. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

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Tue 7 >> Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Life & Death in Black & White @ GLBT History Museum AIDS Direct Action in San Francisco, 1985–1990, focuses on the AIDS activist photojournalism of Jane Philomen Cleland, Patrick Clifton, Marc Geller, Rick Gerharter and Daniel Nicoletta. Selection of other LGBT historic items also on display. $5.

New expanded hours: Mon-Sat 11am-7pm.

Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Wed 8 >>

Occupy Bay Area @ YBCA

Phantoms of Asia @ Asian Art Museum

David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. This week, Perry interviews attorney Fred Hertz about the current state of LGBT rights in Israel. David also speaks with Bishop Otis Charles, the first openly gay bishop in history, about LGBT progress in the Episcopal, and other, denominations.

Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.comcasthometown.com

19th Century San Francisco @ Robert Tat Gallery

Tue 7 The Kinsey Sicks @ The Rrazz Room The hilarious dragapella group returns with Electile Dysfunction: The Kinsey Sicks for President. $35-$40. 8pm (Sun 7pm) Aug 7-12, 14-19. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 3803095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Fascinating exhibit of vintage prints from the Bay Area’s early days. Tue-Sat 11am5:30pm & by appointment. Thru Sept. 1.

49 Geary St. Suite 410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Jokers & Queens @ Tommy T’s Comedy and drag royalty perform (Jackie Cox, Kit Tapata, Holotta Tymes, Ruby Holiday, Cassandra Gorges, Natasha Muse, Ronn Vigh, Pippi Lovestocking), with hosts Gingersnap and Pia Messing. $20. 2-item min, (drink or food). 9:30pm. 1000 Van Ness Ave. www.tommyts.com

Thu 9 >> Angry Geek Show @ SF Punchline

Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Bimonthly comedy show featuring comics with a nerdy perspective; Tony Dijamco, Natasha Muse, Dave Sirius, Erikka Innes, Big All Gonzales and Klee Wiggins. $15.

8pm. 444 Battery St. 397-7573. www. punchlinecomedyclub.com

Transgenders & Friends Picnic @ AIDS Memorial Grove

The Art of Chai @ Conservatory of Flowers

Free, BYO food with provided frozen treats and entertainment. 12pm-4pm. Bowling Green Drive at Nancy Pelosi Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.transgenderlawcenter.org

Pawaan Kothari, proprietor of San Francisco’s well-known Chai Cart, shows you that the best cup of chai is the one you make. Learn what constitutes chatt, Indian street food, as you enjoy a sampling of Kothari’s signature Masala Chai, Rose Chai and a variety of street snacks. $35. 6pm7:30pm. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park.

831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers. org/special-events

Mon 6 >>

Brett Thomas @ Castro Country Club

Picklewater Clown Cabaret @ Stage Werx Theatre

Reflections of My Mind, an exhibit of evocative nature photographs by the local artist, at the LGBT sober space.

Monthly variety show with clowns, jugglers, acrobats and more. Proceeds benefit Oakland Fairyland Park. $10-$15. 7pm &

The Big Eat @ Contemp.

Jewish Museum Enjoy a festive live mix of short talks and presentations by artists, chefs, and distillers, learn about innovations at the intersection of food and art in the Bay Area. $10. 6:30-8:30pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Go Deep @ El Rio Man on man lube wrestling in the pit (an inflatable mini-pool), porn guys, drag queens, clowns, Boylesque performances, DJ Drama Bin Laden and Cajun food! 2nd Thursdays. 8pm-12am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Sat 4 90th Anniversary @ Castro Theatre The classic movie house celebrates 90 years with screenings of classic films.

Mary Poppins Sing-Along (Aug 4, 2pm); The Big Sleep (7:30pm) and Where Danger Lives (10pm). On August 5, Gone With the Wind (2pm) and Citizen Kane (8pm), with live music performances between screenings. $7.50-$15. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

For more bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com

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Plushies and furries were part of the festive crowd at the Up Your Alley street fair last Sunday.

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by Donna Sachet

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an Francisco Beautiful, a nonprofit, community-based organization, has been finding, preserving, and creating spots of beauty in the city for over 60 years. Last Friday, we co-emceed with Supervisor David Campos their 41st awards ceremony at the Mission Armory, otherwise fondly known as kink.com. The central parade grounds provided plenty of space for several food trucks (b.street waffles caught our attention with a maple syrup and bacon-flavored selection), a photo booth, multiple seating areas, and various musicians and other performers, including a lively group of street dancers/contortionists who

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earned applause and groans from the audience. Finally, we arrived at the stage in a bicycle-driven cart to present a check from SF Beautiful to the Women’s Building and several awards to various organizations and individuals. Among the crowd attending were Susan Anthony, Kearstin Krehbiel, Rose Dennis, and Sister Pat N Leather. Watch for SF Beautiful’s annual gala this October!

The next day, despite early indications to the contrary, the weather beamed for Flagging in the Park at the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. If you haven’t been yet, you’ll revel to talented flaggers, great music, and an incredible vibe in a spacious glen of the park. This one benefited the AIDS Memo-

rial Grove, raised over $6,000, and featured DJ Julian Marsh from Ft. Lauderdale and singer Matt Alber.

Glimpsed in the happy crowd were Ed Hardy & James Lombardo, Kyle Ozier, Suzan Revah & Graig Cooper, Lenny Simpson, Richard Sablatura, Jeffrey Doney, Gina Gatta, and Anna Damiani representing State Senator Mark Leno’s office with a certificate of appreciation. The next two parties are scheduled for Sept. 8 and Oct. 6, weather pending.

Later that day, a raucous but wellbehaved assemblage gathered at a private home in Atherton for David Barbieri & Dan Naccarato’s annual pool party. Since it was a private event, we hesitate to report too much here, but suffice it to say, the food was plentiful, the drinks were powerful, and the clothes were See page 27 >>

Coming up in leather and kink Thu., Aug. 2: Koktail Club Happy Hour at Kok Bar (1225 Folsom). Drink specials and Hamisi doing Hammy Time until 10 p.m. 5-10 p.m. Go to: www. kokbarsf.com.

a.m. Go to: www.stallionsaturdays.com.

Thu., Aug. 2: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse.

Strip down for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sun., Aug. 5: Truck Bust Sundays at Truck. $1 beer bust. 4-8 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Fri., Aug. 3: Fridays Underwear at Kok Bar. Boxers, jockstraps, undies and nasty fun! 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Fri., Aug. 3: BENT: Breaking Ground, a Dungeon Event for Kinky Youth at the SF Citadel (181 Eddy). For ages 18-30s. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sun., Aug. 5: Squealin’ Sundays at The Powerhouse.

Guest DJ: Nita Aviance. Free clothes check for those in gear. 7-11 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sun., Aug. 5: Men in Gear Monthly Beer Bust at Kok Bar. 3-7 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sun., Aug. 5: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse. Dollar drafts all day! Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Aug. 6: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. 8-10 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Fri., Aug. 3: Michael Brandon presents Locker Room at The Edge (4149 Collingwood). Go-go boys, gear, and more! 9 p.m.-Midnight. Go to: www. edgesf.com.

Mon., Aug. 6: Dirty Dicks at The Powerhouse. $3 well drinks. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Aug. 3: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). 10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys! Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Tue., Aug. 7: Busted at Truck. $5 beer bust. 9-11 p.m. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Sat., Aug. 4: Michael Brandon presents Steamworks at The Edge (4149 Collingwood). Celebrate the seedy side of bathhouses. 9 p.m.-Midnight. Go to: www.edgesf.com.

Tue., Aug. 7: Florentine Singletails at the SF Citadel.

8 p.m. $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Aug. 4: Iron Dom Contest at the SF Citadel. 2-7 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Aug. 4: Leather Beer Bust at Kok Bar. $5 Rolling Rock, $3 all other beer and well koktails. 5-9 p.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sat., Aug. 4: All Beef Saturday Nights at The Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www. facebook.com/lonestarsf.

Sat., Aug. 4: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m.close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Aug. 4: Stallion Saturdays at Rebel Bar (1760 Market). Revolving DJs, afterhours fun! 9 p.m.-4

Mon., Aug. 6: Rope Peer Workshop at the SF Citadel. 7:30 p.m. $10. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Aug. 7: Ink & Metal at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Tue., Aug. 7: Kok Block at Kok Bar. Happy hour prices all night. Pool tournament, 7-10 p.m., winner gets $25. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Wed., Aug. 8: Bare Bear, a Night at the Baths at The Water Garden (1010 The Alameda, San Jose). 6-10 p.m. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com.

Wed., Aug. 8: Naked Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison), a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Aug. 8: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse. Show off your nips for drink specials. 10 p.m.-close. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

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Jizz worthy

by John F. Karr

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t seems that Titan won’t be releasing any more movies in the Bluray format. I have no company confirmation on that, but there’s been none for the last handful of titles.

That’s a pity, but not too surprising.

The gentlemen of the night who arrive to see my etchings are invariably unfamiliar with the wonders of Bluray. I was flummoxed by the response of a friend who should have known better. After all, he works within the Hollywood film industry. He said he’s resisted the technology because he didn’t want to have to replace all his DVDs. Sheesh, that’s so wrong.

It’s quite the opposite. Your older, conventional DVDs will look even better played on a Blu-ray machine, since it has an internal computer that analyzes the image as it plays and upgrades whatever it can. So upgrade your viewing with the increased beauty and effectiveness of Blu-ray porn. Snap up the Titan run of Bluray films – they’re going to be collector’s items.

Okay. On to the latest Titan feature, Stud Finder. I glommed onto it because I’ve got a crush on Trenton Ducati, who has become a Titan Exclusive. His Raging Stallion and Falcon scenes were hot, so I hope Titan film director Brian Mills gooses him out of this film’s, I’m unsure what to call it, complacency. That’s not a word you want to see connected with porn.

Fine as this movie is, with its attractive cast and expertly filmed sex, it just seems to me that it’s missing that bit of oomph that would lift it from being another good movie to one with a more urgent need to be seen.

I wonder if that’s some sort of company decision, since it’s also reflected in the undefined occupations of the movie’s handymen and builders, and in the movie’s music.

Composers Orlando Moneyshot and Aenimus have written music more pungent than the admittedly perky stuff that bubbles along throughout Stud Finder.

It’s melodic, a little jazzy, with hints of salsa that make a good first impression. But it fades into background chatter after a while – especially as it continues unchanged into the second scene, and you realize how it neither reflects nor supports the quality of the action, which takes place in a butch milieu. It does match up, however, if you consider the movie planned as an MOR experience. Remember that category of pop music? Middle of the Road.

It means however professionally per-

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formed, it’s not gonna rock the boat.

Stud Finder is intriguingly cast.

Titan Exclusives Ducati and Hunter Marx perform dependably, with newer, attractive guys like Ford Andrews, Jed Athens, and Stany Falcone mixing it up with more experienced guys like Will Swagger and, especially, Race Cooper.

Marx tops Swagger in the first scene, in a workshop.

Marx could be taken for a lot of guys in porn, but he’s furry, strong and solidly built and even more-so cocked. His sandy coloring and fur go well with Swagger’s dark hair and smoothness. They swap good blow jobs, and fuck without much engagement except for Swagger’s cock-riding atop Marx, which makes him quiver all over and pump up an agonized load.

Jed Athens is an appetizing dish, slender and young. He’s not only the movie’s youngest performer, but has a lotta boy left in his look. Which is interesting when he proves to be his scene’s most furious fucker. His cock is swell – it’s a creamy light color, with skin stretched achingly taut by the force of his hard-on. Ford Andrews is mid- to upper-20s, with dark hair and

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minimal! Attending were Norm Claybaugh, Joe Pessa, K.C. Dare, Ed Morgan, Rick LeBlanc, Irene Chernis, Gito Garcia, Joe Mac, Rusty Gaspard, and David’s hosting parents, Carl & Ilda.

We’ll leave the full report on Up Your Alley to our colleague Scott Brogan, but we loved the official closing party Play at Mezzanine on Sunday night! DJ Craig Gaibler had the crowd on their feet all night! As a salute to the beneficiary, the GLBT Historical Society, the walls of the club displayed black-and-white images of our history, great reminders of the cause and our ongoing struggle, the many bars of the oncefamous Miracle Mile, and many good times dancing with friends.

Around 9 p.m., the many flaggers on stage presented a coordinated show which had the crowd begging for more. Congratulations to P. Tyrone Smith and his team for a fabulous party. We ended the evening at

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Glee star Chris Colfer signing books at Books, Inc.

BeatBox for Fetisch, a decidedly different party with a German flair, reflective of the Up Your Alley goingson earlier in the day. DJs Spencer Reed and Little Rock kept the mu-

beard, and husky, hairy body. Joining this pair in a three-way is the mature Ducati, yet a third tier of age and increasingly muscled manhood for the scene. An assman, he’s soon licking into Ford’s lightly furred ass crack, and then stuffin’ a hot dick in there.

This brings the movie’s first sense of oomph; he seems like he really wants to get off, and Anderson lets us know it pleasures him immensely. Athens then surpasses Ducati in fuck intensity, showing great vigor. Then Ducati fucks the kid, and I was hoping for a fuck chain, but without much reason, Ducati and the kid cum. I don’t think I saw Anderson cum at all. Meaning the scene is building to an exciting finale that doesn’t occur, cutting out just where it should’a blasted off.

Stany Cooper is ripped, butchly built and bearded. His cock has a bulging head and fat shaft; I quivered at the sight of his tight leather cockring. He throws the movie’s best fuck into Cooper, who reacts loudly.

It’s a decent finale; Stud Finder is a smooth ride with hot guys who are frequently sweaty and all jizzed up. It’s all very nice, if a little non-committal.

Next week: another new Titan flick, and an entry from their fetish line.▼ www.TitanMen.com

sic earthy, Sister Roma reeled in her entourage, and the fetish shows titillated and delighted the crowd. All in all, a great Dore Alley weekend!

This Friday is the only opportunity you’ll have to see the Reigning Emperor Bradley Roberts in officially sanctioned drag! It’s the annual Emperors’ Night Out with a bus load of Imperials starting at 6 p.m. at Marlena’s with a sumptuous buffet dinner, then traveling to Moby Dick and The Edge. Don’t expect to see beautiful Empresses; this night is strictly for the boys!

We trust we’ll see you at this Sunday’s Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s annual Help is on the Way XVIII: That’s Entertainment concert at Herbst Theatre! A fitting tribute to Tom Nolan, recently retired executive director of Project Open Hand, is included in the night. Just added to the already incredible cast is Helen Reddy, Grammy Award-winning singer. Be sure to check out the silent auction and stay for the reception with the artists after the show.▼

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American horror story

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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t’s been a confusing week on the tube. Two stories led night after day after night on the national news as well as the tabloid shows: the aftermath of the horrific Aurora Dark Knight shootings, and the search for Michael Jackson’s “missing” mother, Katharine, with the ensuing battle for custody of Michael’s three children.

On July 27, while across the pond the exciting official opening of the Olympics began in London (director Danny Boyle provided a tour de force production), information was revealed to the networks that Aurora shooter James Holmes had been seeking treatment, with a specialist in schizophrenia. It’s become a political football no one wants to punt, but one does have to ask: How do we keep diagnosed crazy people like Holmes or the Tucson or Virginia Tech shooters, all super smart, all super nuts and all mass murderers, from acquiring automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition – 6,000 rounds, in the case of Holmes?

The topic was broached on all the political talk shows, but was just as quickly dropped. Yet one glance at Holmes sitting in the courtroom for his arraignment with his eyes rolling and bugging out, and his cartoon “Joker” hair, and it isn’t just 20/20 hindsight that says this is a guy who should never have had access to guns, let alone automatic weapons. The Aurora shootings rise to the level of national tragedy. Twelve people dead, 58 wounded, some in comas. The only reason more weren’t killed was because Holmes’ weapon jammed, and later, police successfully de-activated the bombs set up in his apartment, meant to kill anyone trying to find information on him.

We get why the Aurora story has been headline news and fodder for Nightline, Dateline, 20/20, Rock Center, Inside Edition, TMZ and

numerous talk shows. We get why the tabloid shows have focused on victims. But why do tragic events like this become the purview of celebrities? The President and Mitt Romney, who were in uncontroversial agreement, yes. Even the political pundits, yes. But Demi Lovato, judge on The X Factor? No. It was interesting, however, to watch Debbie Matenopoulos on The Insider buying guns in Colorado. Too easy, we thought. And she’s not crazy.

One of the most striking moments in the Aurora coverage came on ABC’s This Week on July 22, just a day after the shooting. Photos of the Aurora victims were displayed, and host George Stephanopoulos profiled each of the 12 victims, three of whom had served in Iraq. All the victims were in their 20s except for a 51-year-old father of two teenagers he had brought to the film, and a six-year-old girl who had come with her mother, who was fighting for her life in critical condition. Immediately following the profiles of these victims, a list of names of the week’s dead troops in Afghanistan was shown. This Week has been running these lists since the war began: the names, ages and hometowns of the fallen. We are always struck by the youth of these dead soldiers, many as young as 18, more than 80% under 30, and also by how most of them come from small-town America. But this time we were stuck by the attention being paid to the 12 Aurora victims juxtaposed with the lack of attention paid to these other 12 victims: 11 men, one woman. Then there was the irony (TV is so good at showing irony in a rather ham-fisted way) that three of the Aurora dead served in the military, but were killed here.

Added irony: Had they been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan rather than here, we’d never have seen their photos or known anything about them beyond their names. TV news ignores our war dead. We know nothing about them, but everything about the Jackson family feud.

Mass murderer James Holmes was all over the TV news.

Something to think about.

Something else to think about is why the Jackson family’s latest drama has been getting such intense media attention. We expect (but wish we didn’t) to see video of outof-control behavior like Paris and Janet Jackson slapping each other and calling each other names on a tabloid show. But on the national news? Yikes.

We have to wonder what kind of legal guardian leaves her three charges alone and doesn’t let them know where she is for over a week.

In the non-celebrity world, that gets you arrested. So does kidnapping, which is what some were alleging happened to Katherine. Either way, we don’t see any police or social workers involved. But we sure saw tons of reporters. As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Indeed. We would be in jail. They’re just fighting about who gets the money none of them earned.

Speaking of the careless rich, looks like Brad Pitt’s mother, who a couple of weeks ago was slamming same-sex marriage like she was CEO of Chick-Fil-A, is in trouble again. On The Talk, Julie Chen was describing a new battle between Angelina Jolie and her mother-incommon-law. The new issue? Mrs. Pitt insists on buying princess outfits and other girlie clothes for Jolie and Pitt’s daughter, Shiloh, 6, who is an established tomboy. (We’ll have to wait to see if she joins Annette Bening and Warren Beatty’s oldest daughter, Kathlyn, who revealed this week on the tube that she is transgender and now wishes to be known as Stephen Ira.) Shiloh sports a short haircut and wears unisex or boy’s clothes. Jolie, who always wears whatever she wants, even if it’s slit up to here or cut down to there, doesn’t want her daughter forced into apparel she doesn’t feel comfortable in. But Mrs. Pitt feels strongly enough about this to make it another tabloid news story.

Maybe what Mrs. Pitt should do is buy Glee star Chris Colfer’s new kid’s book, The Land of Stories, for Shiloh. Colfer has been all over daytime talk, and was one of the first stars to debut Good Afternoon America, touting his opus that dropped last week and has already garnered a New York Times review as well as listing in the top 100 bestsellers on Amazon. Colfer explained that he’s been writing the book since he was in grade school (it’s 450 pages) and was writing it during his last Glee stint and the Glee tour.

“I’d be thinking about a scene, writing it down, then getting changed and performing ‘Single Ladies,’” he explained last week on The Talk. Colfer is immensely likable,

which is good, because his overachieving might be hard to take otherwise. But then the evil stepmother in Colfer’s book does note that a villain may be a victim whose story hasn’t been told yet.

Oh, Oprah Speaking of villains, we’ve really missed our Oprah since she made the disastrous move from top-rated ABC daytime to bottom-rated primetime oblivion on her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). The move has done more than just ruin her finances (well, not really, she’s still the richest woman in America, but she has lost millions), it’s really done damage to her brand. It’s only been a year since Oprah left network TV for whatever OWN is.

She’s tried some reality shows that have been either tedious or embarrassing. In an effort to breathe some life into OWN, she’s gone back to doing high-profile interviews and even appeared on BFF Gayle King’s failing morning show on CBS. And she’s been doing her Oprah’s Next Chapter series.

It was the latter that led her to India, and the reviews have been less than stellar. The way BBC reported it the morning after, Oprah was a condescending racist who had managed to offend a billion-plus people in the world’s largest democracy.

According to Indian culture critics, Oprah had focused on Indian poverty, insulted women by discussing arranged marriages, and made people feel small by reminding them that their lives without running water and living eight to a room were pretty crappy. The coup de grace, according to critics, was Oprah asking people in an incredulous tone why they still ate with their hands.

American critics have been as rough as the Indians themselves.

We admit we used to worship often at the altar of Oprah. We appreciated her attention to LGBT issues as well as civil rights causes. We loved that she managed to put Tolstoy and Faulkner on the bestseller lists along with other writers in her book club. We know she saved lives with her Angel Network and with her shows on health issues with super-doc Dr. Mehmet Oz. We didn’t always agree with her, but we almost always respected her.

We’d caught Oprah being condescending on occasion. But racist?

Making people feel bad about their poverty? That didn’t sound right to us. Plus, Oprah wasn’t new to India.

When she was on daytime she’d invited an Indian prince to her show where he came out publicly. She’d had numerous Bollywood stars, Indian mystics and health gurus on her show. Deepak Chopra was a regular guest. So it was hard to imagine Oprah presenting India in a

negative light. Oprah did everything they say she did. Just not how they said she did it.

India is much like America: Everyone is worried about the middle class, and no one wants to remember the poor. Oprah was poor. She lived in one room without running water in Jim Crow Mississippi, and wore clothes made from potato sacking. Does anyone really think she would make people feel bad about being poor? Or is she reminding those who aren’t poor that despite the fact that India has an every-expanding economy, the divide between wealthy Bollywoodians and Mumbians and the majority of Indians is widening, and millions are falling into the gap? Oprah has always focused on poverty issues in America. Was she making people feel bad, or addressing an issue people wanted to avoid? She’s done shows on arranged marriages in other countries. Why not India?

Her one faux pas was the “eat with your hands” comment. Considering how much time Oprah has spent in Africa where people eat with their hands, and how many foods she’s eaten on her show with her hands, why didn’t one of her editors catch that? Seriously, Americans eat a lot of food with their hands. Sandwiches, burgers, tacos, pizza, donuts, muffins, French fries.

But that was her one cultural misstep. Most of the series was about alerting her audience to another nation with crippling poverty, and many restrictions on women and queers. If upper-class Indians don’t like Oprah pointing out the circumstances in which millions of Indians live, instead of castigating Oprah for being “culturally insensitive,” perhaps they should be a little more sensitive to their own people.

Speaking of sensitivity, NY Med, ABC’s super documentary series following doctors (including Dr. Oz) and patients at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital, focused its episode this week on a gay man getting a heart transplant. It was stunning. Several years ago, John Rankl, who had served in Iraq, got an infection that caused his heart to fail. The pump that was keeping him alive was now failing as well. What made Rankl unusual was his HIV+ status.

One surgeon noted, “Some people might say why give him a heart, he’s going to die anyway. But he’s not going to die. And he’s already proven he can stick to the kind of drug regimen needed to keep someone with a transplant alive.”

Rankl is an amazing guy. Strong, caring, with a red ribbon tattooed on his arm. Surrounded by his three sisters and father, who had to cope with his being prepped for transplant, then discovering the donor heart had a damaged valve. A few weeks later: a new heart. Now a viable transplant. Rankl talked about how terrible it was to serve under DADT, how damaging it was for other servicemembers. Heartbreaking. Yet his profile was one of survival.

NY Med has addressed HIV/ AIDS on every episode since the series began airing. Because AIDS isn’t over, even though network coverage of the International AIDS Conference, in Washington, D.C. last week, was scant. This despite the fact that 34 million people are currently living with the disease, and D.C. itself has one of the highest incidences in the U.S. Yet every network reported that Mariah Carey will be the replacement judge for J-Lo on American Idol next season. So we applaud NY Med and Dr. Oz and all those who remember what TV can do, especially during tragedies like Aurora and thrills like the Olympics.

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Courtesy Michael Morpurgo

Novelist Michael Morpurgo was dubious when the National Theatre suggested turning his book War Horse into a play using puppets.

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Joey becomes one of the horses shipped to Europe as Britain battles Germany during World War I in War Horse, the London and Broadway stage hit now playing at the Curran Theatre.

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tion with a horse.

Morpurgo has written scores of novels for children and young adults, and is much lauded in his home country. But when War Horse was first published in 1982, it attracted scant notice, and sales were disappointing.

He was startled when several years ago he got a call from Britain’s National Theatre soliciting rights to create a stage adaptation, but dubious when he learned that the creators planned to use puppets to portray the horses.

“I had a profound concern that the puppets would be ridiculous,” he said. “We have a tradition in England called the pantomime, and one

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of the great pantomime characters is the horse with three or four people inside trotting around ridiculously.

So I thought the whole notion of doing something similar around the subject of the First World War couldn’t possibly work.”

Playwright Nick Stafford and directors Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott had in fact put the horse before the cart, looking for material that would allow them to work with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company. The notion to use War Horse for this effort was all “a lovely accident,” Morpurgo said.

“I was on this radio program called Desert Island Discs, and I said something about my book War Horse. This lady listener went out

and bought a copy of the book, and she happened to be the mother of one of the artistic directors of the National Theatre, and knew he had been looking for a project where the central character would be an animal so they could use Handspring Puppets.”

Mom told son to read the book, and two weeks later Morpurgo got the call. There was still that matter of puppets as horses, but Morpurgo’s concerns began to melt when he was shown a video of one of Handspring’s creations. “They had made a life-sized giraffe with three men clearly visible inside it, and what was extraordinary was the way the puppeteers breathed life into this creature and made it utterly credible,”

The Mikado

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porary potential victims (sanctimonious bicyclists, texting motorists, most CEOs, and even Sarah Palin) lets us know we are in G & S heaven.

As performed by F. Lawrence Ewing, it got some of the evening’s biggest laughs. His entrance, “Behold the Lord High Executioner,” alerted us immediately to his star status. With a wig that makes him look like a tall and rubber-limbed schoolmarm, Ewing went through his paces (a clear and amusing reference to one of Danny Kaye’s dance routines in The Court Jester) and some amusing sight gags with careful attention to detail. His singing is more than adequate, and more importantly, his timing is good. What he lacked on opening night was spontaneity, but the potential is there. All he has to do now is cut loose and trust.

As Nanki-Poo, the Mikado’s son disguised as a minstrel and condemned to death for flirting (hey, this was the Victorian era), tenor Robert Vann was a bit tentative vocally, but he looked the part of an ardent young lover, and the metallic edge to his voice was not displeasing.

As his beloved Yum-Yum (oh, those marvelous names!), Lindsay Thompson Roush was a standout.

Her acting and singing were assured, and she appeared to be very comfortable with her portrayal. “The sun, whose rays are all ablaze” at the top of Act II was exceptionally lovely.

Another of the “three little maids from school,” Molly Mahoney as PittiSing, also appeared thoroughly immersed in her role and untroubled by any opening-night jitters. It is not often that her part is given such character and memorable humor. It would seem the women were most ready to let it all out and perform with merry abandon. Certainly, Sonia Gariaeff as the old battleax Katisha didn’t care if she screeched a bit or went down an

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Wm. H. Neil as the Mikado, Robby Stafford as Pooh-Bah, and F. Lawrence Ewing as Ko-Ko in Lamplighters Music Theatre’s The Mikado.

octave or two to get a laugh. Her costume and wig got chuckles the moment she appeared.

The other males in the cast may have fallen prey to nervousness, but it was only apparent from their unnecessarily staid interpretations.

Robby Stafford’s Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else (“I was born sneering”) hit his marks and got the job done with plenty of conviction. “I am so proud” was sung so that each delightful word could be

heard and understood, but it wasn’t as amusing as we would expect. The use of supertitles is really not needed with the Lamplighters, and it also telegraphs the punchlines.

The Mikado himself was a physically impressive Wm. H. Neil (yes, that’s how he is listed in the program), and his sheer size (helped by an impressive headdress) added humorous gravitas to his performance.

He could loosen up a bit, but the part doesn’t call for much clowning

Morpurgo said.

The play’s transparent theatricality allows it to more closely tell the story from the horse’s point of view than did the Spielberg movie, which was a realistic rendering of the story using real horses amid epic scenes both bucolic and brutal. Close-ups of horses’ eyes widened in apprehension and occasional nuzzlings were about as far as the film could take you into the equine mind.

“Because the focus is so much on how the horse is responding to the people around him, the relationships of trust, you are to some extent still inside the horse’s head because you are having to empathize enormously with the puppet,” Morpurgo said. “Everything in the movie is presented for you, but with both the book and the play you have to massively suspend disbelief.”

The creators of War Horse, the play, spent two years in workshops developing the project that opened at the National Theatre in 2007 and

arrived on Broadway in 2011. “They had the actors working with real horses and soldiers so they could see the body language of the horses and the people around them,” Morpurgo said. “That kind of deep study of how it works between man and horse was critical, and that tradition has been handed down in subsequent productions.”

In addition to the continuing London, Broadway, and touring productions, War Horse is in an open-end run in Toronto, and an Australian production will open later this year. “The best news for me is that it will open in Germany next year,” Morpurgo said, “which is wonderful because the point of the whole thing is reconciliation, and they’re going to be doing it in Berlin in the only theater that survived the bombings.”▼

to convince us.

As Pish-Tush, a noble lord, John Melis made a blandly attractive appearance. He, too, should grow into the role as the run continues.

The best part of the show was happening in the orchestra pit. How conductor Monroe Kanouse can make a 21-piece crew sound symphonic is astonishing to me. We applaud the Lamplighters’ tradition of acoustic performances and their remarkable commitment to musical values. I just might have to catch this

diamond jubilee production again when it hits the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. All the ingredients are in place, the show should only get better.▼

War Horse will run Aug. 2-Sept. 9 at the Curran Theatre. Tickets at www.shnsf.com.

The Mikado (stage director: Jane Erwin Hammett) plays the Napa Valley Opera House, Aug. 4-5; Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Aug. 11-12; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, Aug. 16-19; and the Bankhead Theater, Livermore, Aug. 25-26.

Info: www.lamplighters.org.

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an a 19-year-old twink with a 28-inch waist find happiness with a granddaddy three times his age, and a belly three times as wide?

Yes, on Silver Daddies. It’s the place on the Web where young men look for silver-haired dads and bald granddads, where age is appreciated, not scorned.

The main feature of Silver Daddies is the personal ads: thousands of them from the six peopled continents across the globe. Mainly from North America: Canada, the United States and Mexico; but also from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and dozens of other countries and micro-states, including tiny islands in the Indian Ocean.

Silver Daddies features not only older men in pursuit of lost youth, but also a substantial proportion of young men who seek the comfort of senior love. Unfortunately, not all the profiles feature pictures of the members. And many of the members who do show themselves have repetitive admonitions against contact from anonymous, no-picture members.

Silver Daddies also features galleries, two of them: Daddies and Younger. There is no hard-and-fast rule as to what constitutes a Daddy, or Younger. No age cut-off, no weight requirement. So there can be an overlap between the categories, but in general, the younger galleries features men under 35, while daddies are over that age, often way over that age. Both galleries are composed mostly of members who contribute their own nude pictures, but also include less-interesting photos from older/younger com-

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It’s a well-established, longrunning free site, although you can contribute a nominal amount of money and gain additional features and privileges. Free members can send two messages per 24-hour period, paid members have unlimited e-mail privileges and can view private member galleries attached to individual profiles rather than the two main galleries.

Most of the youth are likewise, free, in it for genuine love for and attraction to older men. A small minority are hustlers out to make a quick buck. I didn’t see any senior hustlers, but theoretically there could be geriatric gigolos out to scam innocent teenage college students out of their textbook funds.

The several times I checked out Silver Daddies, over 2-3,000 users were online. No matter what time of day or night, there is always someone younger and older than you around the block, or on the other side of the planet, to talk to and possibly hook up with at Silver Daddies.

There’s a marketplace where you can buy geriatric videos and DVDs, or pay to watch them online, including self-explanatory titles such as Glory Hole Daddies, Old Poles in Young Holes, Boy Toy for Daddy, No Gray, No Play, Worshipping Grandpa, or the more inscrutable Daddy Goes Dogging, dogging meaning having risky public sex. Is it true 20 goes into 60 a lot more than 60 goes into 20? Not so true since the advent of the little blue pill.

Although it’s European-based, and the Younger host is in Copenhagen, Denmark, there’s an English option along with five other languages used on Silver Daddies.▼

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