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Closure of queer API programs averted

Stop AIDS, SFAF talk merger

by Matthew S. Bajko

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alks of a merger between the Stop AIDS Project and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation have heated up again as funding for HIV programs has declined, the Bay Area Reporter has learned.

According to sources, the two agencies’ boards of directors are once again seriously considering combining the two Jane Philomen Cleland agencies. Such a Kyriell Noon collaboration was first floated in the fall of 2008 as local nonprofits began to experience significant reductions in financial support due to the faltering economy.

Should an agreement be reached, which could come as early as this month, it would be the third local LGBT agency to be consolidated into the AIDS foundation.

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Police still searching for gay man’s killer

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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ast weekend marked the first anniversary of the murder of San Francisco resident Philip DiMartino.

The gay 36-year-old was found dead in his apartment, located at 138 Hermann Street, on August 2, 2010.

The person responsible for DiMartino’s death hasn’t been caught, and police, family, and friends are Philip DiMartino hoping someone will was murdered in come forward with his San Francisco information. home just over a “This weekend year ago. was rough,” Lisa DiMartino, 39, DiMartino’s sister, said in an interview Monday, August 1. “My family and I think about Phil every day, of course, See page 12 >>

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he Up Your Alley street fair Sunday, July 31 brought a taste of leather and more to South of Market ahead of the larger Folsom Street Fair coming up in September. Above, flagger Jen Neil lets loose at the fair. Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which produces the event, said early estimates put attendance at

10,000, similar to last year. But a change in beverage pricing by offering $2 off when people donated at the gates, saw beverage sales increase by $10,000 “despite the less than stellar weather,” he said.

Moshoyannis said there were no major problems at the fair, with only about two ambulance transfers.

“It was a great weekend,” he added.

he pending closure of two programs aimed at LGBT Asian and Pacific Islanders in San Francisco is expected to be averted, as the city’s HIV Prevention Section has committed to keep them operating.

Due to changes in how the health department funds HIV prevention services, set to kick in September 1, the API Wellness Rick Gerharter Center had expected to end its Aqua 25 Athila Lambino program for queer API youth and its Ramen program for LGBT API gay men. After center officials and its clients voiced an outcry over the funding cuts, See page 13 >>

DA candidate Onek seeks to bridge law enforcement, communities

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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ne of the top contenders so far in the race for San Francisco district attorney is criminal justice expert and former Police Commissioner David Onek, who recently told the Bay Area Reporter his campaign is about “building trust between law enforcement and the community.”

He’s a senior fellow and founding executive director at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice, where he’s worked to build partnerships between law enforcement and the community using what his website calls “innovative and research-based criminal and juvenile justice policy approaches.”

The 41-year-old Onek also served in former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Criminal Justice. He sat on the city’s Police Commission from 2008 to 2010.

In an interview last month at the B.A.R.’s offices, Onek spoke extensively about his background, which includes examining alternatives to incarceration, and counseling “delinquent kids” at Walden House, a substance abuse treatment center.

He said it’s also important to “keep the kids of today from becoming the adult criminals of tomorrow.”

Onek referred to the Hall of Justice, at

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David Onek, candidate for San Francisco District Attorney, speaks with supporters Zoe Garvin and Rebecca Johnson during a recent campaign event.

850 Bryant Street, as “a fortress.” He said the district attorney needs “to be out of the Hall of Justice all the time, in the community.” He said as DA he’d be out in the city “building relationships” with people. He said he’s not seen as “some hot-shot politician. I’m just seen as David.”

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Onek claims to have more than 1,900 public supporters. Many are considered progressives, including out gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) and Rafael Mandelman, a past president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.

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Attorney calls death accidental

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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he San Francisco man accused of killing a gay man in Buena Vista Park had had consensual sex during the incident, according to the alleged killer’s attorney.

Deputy Public Defender Alex Lilien referred to Freddy CanulArguello’s death as “a terrible accident.” He said Canul-Arguello, 23, and his client, David Munoz Diaz, 22, had been having sex when CanulArguello suffered “some type of erotic asphyxiation.”

Canul-Arguello’s burned body was found in the park at 4:39 a.m., Friday, June 10. Diaz was arrested Friday, July 22.

A week later, July 29, he pleaded not guilty in San Francisco Superior Court to four felony counts that included charges of murder, robbery, arson of a recycling bin, and mutilating/maiming/disfiguring a body. He also pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of destruction of evidence.

In a Monday, August 1 interview, Lilien, who repeatedly emphasized he still has more to learn about the case, couldn’t provide more details on Canul-Arguello’s asphyxiation. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office report in the case is pending.

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Suspect David Munoz Diaz

Lilien said Diaz is currently being held in the hospital for observation.

Diaz is “very distraught,” Lilien said, but he wasn’t sure “at this point” if there’s a concern Diaz would kill himself. Diaz’s bail has been set at $5 million.

Diaz and Canul-Arguello had known each other for “at least several months” before Canul-Arguello’s death, Lilien said. He said his understanding is that the two had been “sexually intimate in the past.”

They had been drinking together the

night they went to Buena Vista Park, he said.

Lilien said he couldn’t explain why Diaz would set the body on fire, but based on the information he has so far, “I think he panicked,” he said.

Homicide Inspector Robert Velarde has said Canul-Arguello was last seen alive near 18th and Castro streets at 3 a.m. the morning his body was found. Friends have said he’d been drinking with people at the Cafe, a popular gay dance club on Market Street near the heart of the city’s gay district.

Erica Derryck, a spokeswoman for the DA’s office, said last week that “Various items of personal property belonging to the victim were not found when police searched the crime scene,” referring to CanulArguello’s wallet and cell phone.

Lilien said Diaz “didn’t rob” Canul-Arguello. “That’s not what this was,” he said.

He also said Diaz “might have had a citation in the past” but he has no previous criminal convictions and has “no type of violent history.” That couldn’t immediately be verified.

Assistant District Attorney Harry Dorfman has been assigned to prosecute the case. The next court appearance is expected August 12 to set a date for a preliminary hearing.▼

East Bay senior facilities open up to training on LGBT issues

by Tony K. LeTigre

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GBT senior citizens are already benefiting from a cultural sensitivity initiative currently under way in the East Bay that specifically targets their needs.

Lavender Seniors of the East Bay has partnered with the Center for Elders’ Independence and Salem Lutheran Home to develop a needs assessment and training program to improve services and care for LGBT seniors in Alameda County.

“Studies have noted that LGBT seniors are among the most invisible and underserved populations in the country,” said Lavender Seniors Executive Director Dan Ashbrook.

“They often don’t have the financial and familial support networks that others have. And then you add a deep-seated distrust of service providers that stems from a lifelong experience of discrimination.”

The project, Growing an LGBT Senior Service Community, began in February with a needs assessment developed by Lavender Seniors in partnership with San Francisco consulting firm Gil Gerald and Associates.

“We drew on a history of community-based research going back to 1993 for the survey,” said Gerald, president and CEO of the firm. “We looked at the literature on LGBT seniors, which is a new field, relatively speaking. Doing a survey like this is an intervention in and of itself. It’s part of bringing social change and raising awareness. During the process, we had people come out – both clients and residents.”

The assessment revealed positive results for LGBT seniors – for instance, it found that 94 percent of elders receiving care felt comfortable sharing in activities with LGBT people and thought agencies should be welcoming and inclusive – but also indicated the need for information and training, particularly around transgender issues.

“We interviewed staff at facilities in Alameda County and found that they don’t have an issue with LGBT people, but they lack knowledge,” Ashbrook said. “The majority of those interviewed didn’t know the

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Salem Lutheran Executive Director Gilbert Carrasco talks with Carol Elmstedt, a resident and chair of the facility’s resident council.

proper terminology for referring to LGBT people, didn’t understand LGBT family structures, and what transgender means. They don’t know how to structure their services to be welcoming.”

Lavender Seniors is now in the process of implementing positive change in the form of a series of training sessions at Salem Lutheran Home and CEI. Salem Lutheran Home, founded as a single cottage in 1924, is a selfcontained community in Oakland’s Dimond District and part of the umbrella nonprofit Elder Care Alliance. It accepts residents of all faiths and is based on the Eden Alternative, a philosophy developed

by Dr. William Thomas to combat what he called “the three plagues” of old age: helplessness, loneliness, and boredom.

To this end, it features independent living in cottages and fully appointed apartments, landscaped grounds and gardens, a library, an interdenominational chapel, a resident art gallery, a volunteer-run country store and thrift shop, learning lectures, and pets, which residents are allowed to keep.

“Our idea is to create a habitat or biosphere as an alternative to the Garden of Eden, incorporating plants and animals as well as other humans,” Salem Lutheran Executive

Director Gilbert Carrasco told the Bay Area Reporter during a tour of the property. “We want to dispel the myth that retirement means that your growth and development stop.

This is a life worth living.”

Carrasco spoke to the diversity of the Salem Lutheran community, which has 158 residents.

“Lutherans account for a little under 50 percent of our population,” Carrasco said. “The rest are mostly another religion. We have four Jewish residents, and a few who are agnostic.

Several have lived here for more than 20 years, several are over 100 years old. Six are openly LGBT – that I know of.”

Carrasco, who is openly gay himself, said Salem residents took the Lavender Seniors survey in February, and got the results in May. “We had a training for selected staff at the end of June, with another allstaff training coming up in August,” he said.

Residents appreciated Salem Lutheran’s programs.

“I respect peoples’ individuality, and that diversity is something that enriches my life,” said resident Betty Watson. “We have 12 committees – on everything from animal welfare to conversations to the library to recycling and hospitality.”

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▼ Redistricting maps a mixed bag for out candidates

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he release last week of the final proposed maps for California’s legislative and congressional districts can best be described as a mixed bag for the various LGBT incumbents and candidates nervously eyeing the process.

Two clear winners to emerge, should the decisions made by the Citizens’ Redistricting Commission stand, are openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and lesbian Stockton City Councilwoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, who is running for Assembly next year.

The news is less good in San Jose where two gay men are mapped into the proposed Silicon Valley Assembly District. They now await the outcome of a game of political musical chairs to determine if they will continue with their bids.

In the Los Angeles area one gay candidate has ended a bid for state Assembly at the urging of gay Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles). And a lesbian seeking an Assembly seat now faces the prospect of running against a sitting Assemblywoman with strong ties to the LGBT community. [See Political Notebook, page 5.]

Overall, redistricting observers said the LGBT community came out a winner this year in shaping the new lines and keeping most of the state’s gayborhoods intact. It marked the first time in the country’s history that LGBT people were considered a community of interest that warranted special attention when drawing political boundaries.

“The LGBT community made huge strides in being a part of the process, being recognized, and being a really critical piece of the puzzle,”

said Paul Mitchell, a Democratic consultant based in Sacramento who specializes in the redistricting process.

“They moved lines to keep them intact, that is a first in the country.”

San Francisco and its LGBT community will no longer be carved up into two state Senate seats come 2012. Instead, the city will be combined into one district, which has been given the number 11. It also includes Daly City, Colma and parts of South San Francisco.

Leno currently represents the state’s 3rd Senate District, which runs from San Francisco’s eastern side across the Golden Gate through Marin reaching into portions of southern Sonoma County. He is up for re-election next year, and had the new district been given an even number, Leno would have had to wait until 2014 to seek the seat.

In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter this week, Leno said the news he can run next year benefits not just himself. It is also “exceptionally good” for the city as a whole, he said, because it ensures San Franciscans will not have to wait until 2014 to elect their next senator.

As for whether he will now face a strong intra-party challenger, Leno said, “Only time will tell.” He already has close to $102,000 in the bank for his campaign, according to the latest campaign finance reports.

While incumbency usually clears the field for lawmakers, particularly among fellow party members, that was not the case when Leno defeated lesbian state Senator Carole Migden three years ago in a nasty Democratic primary battle. And with the city losing its second state Senate seat, it means other politicians looking to advance may be more inclined to take on a fellow party incumbent.

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State Senator Mark Leno will run for re-election next year.

The state’s change to a “jungle primary” system, where the top two vote-getters in the primary regardless of party status move on to the general election, further alters the old political playbook.

With that in mind, Leno said his “candidacy becomes official the moment on August 15 when the commission makes the number 11 official, and I will be in it to win it.”

Another happy camper in the redistricting lottery is Stockton’s Eggman. The Democratic lawmaker now faces the prospect of running for an open state Assembly seat that covers her entire hometown and the city of Tracy in the far southeastern edge of the Bay Area.

Under the current legislative map, Stockton had been divided into several Assembly Districts and had no one from within its city borders representing it in Sacramento. San Joaquin County, which includes Stockton, also has not had anyone

from within its borders in the statehouse during the last decade.

“My reaction is very positive.

I think it is going to be a good competitive seat,” said Eggman, who has nearly $30,000 in her campaign coffers. “I think it makes a lot more sense than the last district lines made.”

Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani (D-Livingston), the holder of the 17th Assembly District seat where Eggman currently resides, is termed out of office next year.

So far Eggman is the only declared candidate from either party, and she does not expect a fellow council member to run against her.

“As far as I know, I am the only Democrat running,” said Eggman, noting the proposed district gives Democrats a double-digit edge in voter registration over the GOP. In a queer quirk of numbering, Stockton’s new Assembly seat has been given the number 13, which had been Leno’s and Migden’s old Assembly District that is currently held by openly gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco).

Ammiano will now run for reelection next year in the new 17th Assembly District based in San Francisco’s eastern neighborhoods.

The district’s new northwestern boundary is Van Ness Avenue, as the Marina and Laurel Heights are now slated to be in the city’s western Assembly District, which will be numbered 19 and is held by Democrat Fiona Ma, who is also up for re-election next year.

Ammiano, with almost $107,000 in campaign cash, is expected to easily win a third term, as the district will continue to have a large percentage of LGBT voters. Despite it picking up more conservative voters in Visitacion Valley and Sunnydale, the

new district will include more of the LGBT-friendly enclaves Twin Peaks, the Haight, Cole Valley, and Diamond Heights.

Disappointed to see the Marina areas removed, LGBT politicos nonetheless said they are pleased with the proposed map and believe the Assembly seat will remain in LGBT hands come 2014.

“On balance it is still a favorable district for an LGBT candidate,” said openly gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose District 8 falls within the Assembly seat.

South Bay In the South Bay, the chance of electing two openly gay candidates to the state Legislature, one in the new San Jose district and the other to the new Silicon Valley seat, has been dashed.

Instead, openly gay Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, who lives in San Jose, and openly gay Campbell City Councilman Evan Low are both in the new 28th Assembly District, dubbed the Silicon Valley seat. Further complicating their ambitions for state office is that Low’s boss, Democratic Assemblyman Paul Fong, is considered the incumbent for the seat.

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oth the left and right alike are deeply disappointed in the “compromise” debt bill that Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed this week. While averting default, which would have likely disrupted the U.S. markets and global economy, the deal hammered out by congressional leaders and the vice president could end up harming the country just as much, if not more so. Republicans who opposed the deal did so because they felt the budget cuts – $1 trillion by this November alone – weren’t enough.

We agree with the Democrats and more liberal-minded political leaders who complained loudly that increasing revenues was missing from the legislation.

What the country saw during the failed votes, backroom maneuvering, and constant statements from the president during this weeks-long debacle was simply this: the 46 Tea Party caucus members in the House of Representatives took control of the debate and basically forced a bill through with no tax increases, even though only about half voted for the final bill. A cuts-only budget also means that government spending is effectively cut off, which is about the worst thing that can happen in a depressed economy such as ours. There is little private sector hiring – that much is obvious in the dismal monthly unemployment rate figures – and plenty of people have been unemployed for a year or more. But the immediate cuts will come from discretionary domestic programs, meaning that they will affect the poor and other vulnerable Americans.

People living with HIV/AIDS also will be affected. The HIV Medicine Association and the Ryan White Medical Providers Coalition issued a joint statement this week on the debt-ceiling bill, warning of far-reaching consequences for not only PWAs, but also those at risk for HIV infection in the U.S. and abroad.

The groups point to scientific advances this year that offer “a clear path to make real headway

against HIV disease in the U.S. and around the world.” The groups also note that HIV care and treatment “not only saves the life of the individual with HIV infection but also reduces HIV transmission by 96 percent.”

“Yet only 50 percent of people with HIV in the U.S. have reliable access to HIV treatment, and as many as 1.5 million people in developing countries wait for access to lifesaving therapy,” said Dr. Kathleen Squires, chair of HIVMA, and Jim Raper, cochair of the Ryan White coalition.

Both urged Congress to seriously consider the human impact of the funding and policy decisions they will be making.

The debt bill calls for a “super committee” made up of Republicans and Democrats to determine the cuts. Those will be subject to an up or down vote in November and if they don’t pass, severe cuts

will be implemented across the board.

We’re left shaking our heads that tax increases were left off the table. Not only are taxes at their lowest point in quite some time, there are plenty of corporate tax loopholes (think about the billions of dollars in oil company profits) that could have been closed, leading to increased revenue.

Much like California’s budget process this year, which resulted in cuts because four Republican lawmakers could not be found to vote to maintain an existing sales tax hike and other revenues, Congress has been hijacked by a small group of Republicans who are hell-bent on reducing the size of government. The problem is that such drastic measures, taken in the midst of high unemployment and stagnant growth, won’t help get the economy back on track in the short term.

We certainly hope voters remember that next year when those Tea Party members will be up for re-election.▼

The doctor’s in the Senate

by Kate O’Hanlan

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would like to share some frequently asked questions that I sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month for inclusion in the evidence for repeal of Defense of Marriage Act. This is the first time that a case has been made that sexual orientation and gender identity are definitely biological and should have protected “suspect” status.

1. Aren’t there medical organizations whose mission it is to convert homosexuals?

Yes, some religious-based associations have clinics that offer reparative therapy that typically enforces celibacy while not changing the orientation. The AMA and the APA have both declared such “reparative” therapy malpractice: It stigmatizes a normal behavior, the therapy will fail because orientation is an unchangeable trait, and when one fails in therapy, they are further stigmatized as failures.

In 1400, Galileo revealed that his scientific observations showed that the earth rotated around the sun. The church insisted that the sun rotated around the earth, and excommunicated him to his death, only to apologize 500 years later. Speaking science to faith systems is difficult because people have to release their dogmatic, but incorrect thinking; which is why only scientific research should be the basis for our laws in this country.

2. Where does your research come from? Why haven’t we seen this before?

The scientific evidence is multispecialty, coming from experts and journals of neuroscience, pediatrics, endocrinology, psychiatry, gynecology, pathology, genetics and genomics. While many doctors are experts in their narrow fields, few will study in depth so many other fields unless legislation is pending.

All of the references are from the National Library of Medicine of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., or from the expert association websites with their policy reviews, which rely on the 40-plus years of research retained in the NLM, from which to draw their conclusions.

3. What about children? Don’t they suffer from having same-sex parents? Doesn’t research show

that children are better off with a mother and a father?

There is a research study that shows that children do better in a two-parent home than with a singular parent. But the data comparing outcomes of children from two male parents or two female parents with those who come from a male-female household show no differences in the children’s outcomes.

4. Are children with same-sex parents more likely to be gay?

Not according to the research.

Only one study mentioned that some of the boys might be less sexually aggressive and more nurturing, and those girls might be more sexually adventurous, but I doubt that would be a problem for society.

5. Aren’t gay people more likely to be depressed?

Homosexuality does not cause depression.

But stigma and discrimination, especially constant stigma and discrimination, do cause depression, isolation, poor self-concept, and low self-care. And since the very laws of our country discriminate in so many ways – telling our gay and lesbian citizens that they are undesirable – they contribute to the great harm that discrimination inflicts on the psyche of each new generation of children.

6. Aren’t domestic partnerships enough to ensure the health and well-being of same-sex couples?

No. The very name conveys disdain from our state for our families to our children, because children understand marriage, and they understand discrimination. Marriage is the standard for uniting a family all over the school, because most of his friends’ parents are married.

The word marriage conveys to the country that all the families of all our citizens are equal, and all are ready to access the 1,138 federal rights and responsibilities of marriage that the United States government deems so essential for the health of the heterosexual family.

7. What is the benefit to heterosexuals from having civil marriage endorsed?

Currently, our children must be taught in early school that the registered domestic partners some kids’ parents are relegated to is not the same as the marriage that most other kids’ parents have. Telling kids that their parents are treated as different destabilizes their trust in their parents. With all families treated equally, all kids (96 percent heterosexual) of same-sex households will have more confidence in their parents and their family’s position in society.

By removing the stigma against homosexuality, heterosexual parents will come more quickly into securely accepting their pre-homosexual children (3 percent), and feel more assured of their child’s safety in the schools, and likelihood of a satisfying life after that. They will deal less often with other families condemning their child, using cruel words such as “Hate the sin, love the sinner,” which effectively calls their child a sinner.

Extended families will feel less stigma about incorporating their gay relatives into family traditions, providing more extended family closeness, maintaining family traditions, and enhancing support to children.

8. Isn’t homosexuality unnatural, at least biologically, since the genitals do not have the natural anatomic fit, and they cannot produce children?

Sexual orientation appears to be a natural phenomenon influenced by many known and unknown hormones that affect the developing fetal brain during the first third of pregnancy.

There is a whole spectrum of orientations from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual with shades of bisexual in the middle. ▼ A longer version is online at ebar.com.

Dr. Kate O’Hanlon is a gynecologic oncologist, surgeon, and past president of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association.

She presented this data to the American Medical Association last November, which led, in part, to the AMA issuing policy that denial of marriage harms gay and lesbian families.

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New maps upend out LA candidates’ game plans

by Matthew S. Bajko

icy aide to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and was a longtime executive director at the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom, a fellow Democrat, is also seeking the seat and has $133,415 in cash on hand.

Osborn has been setting the stage for a legislative run since 2009 and reported having nearly $256,000 in the bank for her campaign.

She told the B.A.R. this week she has no plans to drop out so Butler can run.

“I am in this race to stay,” said Osborn. “I announced two years ago and have been campaigning for seven months.”

As she sees it the new district heavily favors herself as she has lived and worked there for most of her professional life. It also allows West Hollywood a chance to elect an LGBT person to represent it in the state Assembly for the first time.

“I have deep roots all across the district,” said Osborn. “My resume matches this district. The redistricting gods were very, very kind to me.”

While Prang called Butler the incumbent in the race in his statement, Osborn argues there is no incumbent since no sitting Assembly member up for re-election lives in the new district. Therefore, if anything, she said Butler would be a “carpetbagger” parachuting into the district.

“She lives in Marina Del Rey ... she is very rooted there,” she said.

“If she had moved to that tough district, I would do everything I can to help her. Instead of facing down

a Republican, she wants to take on a sister Democrat.”

The race will also be a test for Equality California and its new Executive Director Roland Palencia.

Two years ago when Butler first ran for Assembly one of her opponents was Mitch Ward, the openly gay African American mayor of Manhattan Beach.

The statewide LGBT advocacy group, however, endorsed Butler, a longtime supporter and former EQCA board member. But this go around her receiving EQCA’s backing is less assured as Osborn is a considerably more formidable candidate than Ward was in 2010.

Elsewhere in L.A. Silver Lake resident Luis Lopez, a gay Latino activist, is in the new 51st Assembly District.

One of three Latino Democrats running for the East Los Angeles district, Lopez has nabbed the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund’s endorsement and has $103,443 in campaign cash.

Lopez did not respond to a request for comment this week. His partner, Hans Johnson, president of the D.C.-based Progressive Victory, told the B.A.R. that there is ongoing grumbling about how the redistricting commission has carved up the Los Angeles basin and there is a slight chance things could change.

Lopez could find himself in the new 43rd Assembly District based in Burbank, he said. Incumbent Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake) is in the new district as currently drawn and expected to seek re-election to the seat.

Gay Assemblyman Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) will seek re-election in the new 58th Assembly District centered in Downey. Lara, who has $71,134 in the bank, could also opt to run next year for the new 33rd Senate District centered in Long Beach as it runs north into his Assembly district.

As for Perez, who reported having $241,080 in the bank, he is in the new 53rd Assembly District in downtown Los Angeles. Assemblyman Mike Davis (D-Los Angeles) also landed in the district but he is termed out of office next year.

The website Around the Capitol has compiled data on the new maps, demographic info and potential candidates for the state’s various congressional and legislative seats into an easy to read and navigate resource.

To access the website, visit www. aroundthecapitol.com/districts/.▼

Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Los Altos) will run for re-election in a seat that now extends west from Mountain View over the mountains to the coast.

It had stopped at the ridgeline and ran south through Saratoga into Los Gatos but will now stop at Cupertino.

Gordon is not expected to face a challenger and has just $31,630 in cash on hand.

On the coast Santa Cruz could find itself represented in the state Senate by its former mayor and termed out Assemblyman John Laird, an out gay Democrat who is now serving in Governor Jerry Brown’s administration. The new state Senate District 17 includes the entire liberal college town and reaches northeast into the Bay Area and San Jose. Its southern boundary is outside of San Luis Obispo.

Should Laird decide to run, something he is openly pondering, it could be a rematch of the race he waged last summer against Republican Sam Blakeslee for what had been the vacant 15th Senate District seat. Only parts of Santa Cruz were in the district – Laird rented a house in the Santa Cruz Mountains in order to run – and it was seen as a swing district tilted

more toward the GOP. The new district has a solid Democratic advantage, raising speculation that Blakeslee may opt against seeking re-election. Yet he already has banked close to $100,000 for a run, while a campaign account set up for Laird reported having less than $50,000 in the bank.

Assemblyman Bill Monning (D-Carmel) is also exploring a bid for the Senate seat and reported having more than $12,000 in a Senate campaign account. He also has close to $64,000 in his Assembly re-election account.

In San Diego lesbian Democratic Assemblywoman Toni Atkins finds herself in the new 78th Assembly District, which continues to cover much of the city’s LGBT neighborhoods but now includes more northern coastal communities.

She is likely to be unopposed next year and has nearly $80,000 in the bank.

While Republican Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher is also in the new seat, he is running to be San Diego’s mayor next year. Republican Assemblyman Martin Garrick, who was recently arrested on DUI charges, is also in the district but is termed out in 2012.▼

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ompared to other California cities with sizeable gayborhoods, Los Angeles’ LGBT community is experiencing perhaps the most volatile shakeup in gay statehouse politics due to redistricting. And at the forefront of the campaign chess playing is gay Assembly Speaker John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles), who is rearranging the ballot board in hopes of capturing a two-thirds majority and the power it brings to pass a budget without GOP support.

This week Perez pushed out openly gay West Hollywood Mayor Pro Tempore Jeffrey Prang from seeking the newly created 50th Assembly District seat that stretches from Santa Monica on the coast inland through Hollywood and into the gay enclave Prang represents. The reason for the arm-twisting is that Assemblywoman Betsy Butler (D-Marina Del Rey) plans to move into the district to seek re-election.

In a statement he released this week to a local news website, Prang noted he has been friends with Butler for nearly 20 years and called her “a strong progressive voice on the environment, LGBT civil rights, and many other progressive values.” He also stated that he told Perez he is willing to step aside in favor of having Butler run.

“Therefore, I am suspending my campaign for the state Assembly effective immediately and will consult with my advisers, friends, and family to assess my options,” stated Prang, who had already banked close to $66,000 for a bid.

Butler’s hometown landed in the new 62nd Assembly District based in Inglewood and was drawn to be an African American seat. Assemblyman Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), who is black, plans to run for re-election in the new district.

Rather than move south into the new 66th Assembly District based in Torrance, which is seen as a swing district and thus would be a harder race, Butler and Perez believe she has a stronger shot for re-election by moving north.

Doing so, though, means Butler, who has a war chest of $134,506 for her re-election bid, will take on out lesbian Torie Osborn, a former pol-

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Yeager, who has raised $10,000 since entering the race in June, did not respond to a request for comment this week. He is unlikely to run against Fong and has been coy when asked if he would compete against Low for the seat.

Unless Fong decides to run for state Senate, which he is seriously considering, Low will postpone his campaign until 2014 when his boss will be termed out of office. Low has nearly $219,000 in cash for a bid.

“I am pretty confident we will have a sense of things certainly by the end of the year,” said Low. Until then, Fong and Low will likely continue to joke about their predicament. Any event scheduled outside the Assembly district often prompts a knowing question from his boss, said Low. “He is always asking, ‘Are you sending me to places because you want me to explore a Senate run?’ I always tell him, ‘No, not at all,’ “ said Low. Nearby in the Peninsula’s new 24th Assembly District, gay incumbent

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San Francisco jury delivered a mixed verdict in the criminal trial of Willie Adams, who had spent 10 years trying to become a San Francisco Patrol Special Police officer.

The jury on July 28 found Adams guilty on four counts, one of which was a felony, and not guilty on eight counts. The jury was hung on seven other counts, according to Adams’s attorney Randall Knox and prosecutor Diane Knoles.

Adams was charged with 19 counts, 10 of which were felonies, ranging from drug possession to drug paraphernalia, loaded firearm, impersonating a police officer, theft, forgery, false registration of vehicles as police cars, and false statements to the Department of Motor Vehicles. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

“The important take away is that this vindicates that Willie Adams is not a thief or a perjurer or a liar,” said Knox.

Knoles stated, “The jury made their decision. Obviously we charged what we thought was appropriate and the jury made the decision about the evidence in the case.”

“The defendant is no longer going to be able to do what he was doing before and that’s a good result for me,” she added.

Adams, 47, a gay black man living with HIV, was arrested and charged three months after he filed a discrimination lawsuit against the city in 2006 after finding out he was rejected for the patrol special because of “moral turpitude.” It was his second attempt to become a patrol special. Nearly a year and a half later that lawsuit was tossed out

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by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Patrick Mahoney.

At the beginning of his criminal trial last month, Adams said he had faith that “justice will prevail. I feel it in my heart and I always have.”

Adams said he sold everything he owned to fight the charges and was looking forward to starting his life over again.

The Bay Area Reporter made several attempts to speak with Adams, who was with his family after the verdict, but he didn’t comment by press time.

The verdict The jury found that Adams was guilty of not registering a gun he purchased and improperly transporting a loaded gun in the trunk of his car. Adams was also found guilty of operating as a private patrol operator and patrolling without a permit.

“I think [the judge] will reduce the one felony count of not registering

the gun to a misdemeanor. I’m virtually certain he will,” said Knox, because the “jury found that he bought it in good faith.”

The charge of keeping the gun loaded and improperly transporting the weapon is a “flat out misdemeanor. It cannot be elevated to a felony,” Knox added.

The jury didn’t find that it was illegal for Adams to own the patrol special beats, they found that Adams simply wasn’t allowed to patrol the beat or hire someone else to patrol, said Knox. The California Business and Professions Code, which states it’s a misdemeanor to operate as a private patrol operator without a state license, is a “strict liability” issue, said Knox, brushing it off.

Adams was found not guilty of impersonating a peace officer, because patrol special police are not police officers, as the San Francisco Police Department clearly states on its website. Patrol special police are regulated by the San Francisco Police Commission and sworn in by the chief of police.

Adams was also found not guilty of registering his two vehicles as police cars with the DMV, stealing patrol special beats 141 and 144 located in St. Francis Woods and Ingleside/Taraval areas, and perjury.

The disputed beats were returned to patrol special Officer Cliff Stevens, who had allegedly sold the beats to Adams, when the Police Commission rejected the sale.

The jury was unable to reach verdicts on the charges that included drug possession and drug paraphernalia.

The district attorney’s office is currently considering refiling the seven charges on which the jury could not decide, Knoles said.▼

Questions raised over benefit for paper

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n ad stating that the Bay Times and the Human Rights Campaign would be beneficiaries of a fundraiser later this month has raised questions over whether the LGBT newspaper can adequately cover the nation’s largest gay rights group if both are accepting money from a third party, in this case the little-known Do Good Coalition.

A full-page ad in the July 28 issue of the Bay Times invites readers to a benefit for the Bay Times and the Human Rights Campaign. The party, to be held August 24 at Gingerfruit, a new restaurant in the Castro, promises “exclusive alcohol and food tastings,” along with a photo kissing booth, ping-pong shots, and a raffle.

The ad caught some media observers off guard. Additionally, the website of the Do Good Coalition lists the Bay Times on the site’s “Featured Nonprofits” section, leading some to wonder if the paper became a nonprofit.

Betty Sullivan, the owner of Betty’s List who took over as publisher of the Bay Times in June, acknowledged the ad created some confusion but said the paper remains a for-profit enterprise.

“I do understand that the ad about the August 24 event has caused questions to be raised, and as a result, there will be care given to the content of the next announcements in the Bay Times and on Betty’s List to avoid or overcome confusion,” Sullivan said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter.

Sullivan said she was unaware the Do Good Coalition had also selected HRC as a beneficiary. A Do Good spokeswoman confirmed that.

“She did not” know that HRC had been selected,” Liz Bell, Do Good’s director of social media, told the B.A.R. Tuesday. Bell also said that the coalition designed and paid for the ad. The price was not disclosed.

Bell also does marketing and sales for the Bay Times.

Bell said Wednesday that the coalition would be donating money raised to the HRC Foundation,

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the 501 (c)3 arm of the lobbying organization that produces programs such as the HRC Coming Out Project.

Bell said that Do Good was formed last year and is a nonprofit.

The executive director is Raj Prasad.

Bell said the coalition has no budget or paid staff members. It typically relies on donations from alcohol companies and food providers and hosts benefits for charity, mostly public schools in the Bay Area.

Asked why the coalition was raising money for a for-profit newspaper, Bell, an out lesbian, said the coalition was happy to see the publication start up again and wanted to support it. (The Bay Times, under former publisher Kim Corsaro, had been published sporadically during much of this year. Under Sullivan’s leadership the See page 11 >>

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e’s been on the job just about one month and already is facing a possible referendum on one of Equality California’s major legislative victories.

But that possibility [see story, page 9] is not stopping Roland Palencia from envisioning an organization he hopes to see address the larger issues in the fight for equality – and to bring in people who may not financially contribute to the state’s largest LGBT lobbying organization.

Palencia, who took over as executive director July 5, said recently that he’s determined to listen to all communities when it comes to what the statewide LGBT lobbying group should be doing.

“We represent all LGBT Californians, whether they donate to us or not,” Palencia said during an interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

“I talk to everyone that wants to talk to me.”

Palencia and Rebekah Orr, EQCA’s new communications director, visited the B.A.R.’s office Thursday, July 21, during Palencia’s first trip to San Francisco in his new post.

Besides his availability, Palencia also discussed issues such as Proposition 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban, and bringing LGBTs of color on board by focusing on issues such as health care disparities.

California voters passed Prop 8 in November 2008. A federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the law is currently winding its way through the courts.

Asked about whether EQCA supports trying to undo Prop 8 through a 2012 state ballot measure, Palencia said the board hasn’t made a decision but is “vigorously having

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that conversation right now.”

He referred to Prop 8 as “an open wound” and said, “There is nothing more we would like than to have marriage equality back.”

Palencia said there are a number of factors to consider, including the federal lawsuit, which is known as Perry v. Brown.

EQCA held a series of town hall meetings this spring to share research and gauge public interest in a campaign to repeal Prop 8. But data presented at a May 19 meeting in San Francisco – attended by about 50 people – indicated significant obstacles remain.

At the time of the San Francisco meeting, Palencia was still the community benefits director for L.A. Care Health Plan.

Listening Asked about having such a gathering in the future, Palencia said, “We are definitely going to have community forums. ... How we’re going to do that, we haven’t figured that out.”

EQCA has been experimenting with Facebook town halls, and held one of those recently that attracted about 30 people.

And while the town hall in San Diego had about 100 people, a similar event in Palm Springs had about 20 attendees.

Orr said “it will take time” for people to become more engaged. She said LGBT leaders have to “make sure they know we’re listening.”

How much Palencia and other EQCA officials are listening is likely

to be monitored closely in the coming months.

During 2008’s No on 8 campaign, which worked unsuccessfully to defeat the state’s Proposition 8 samesex marriage ban, former EQCA head Geoff Kors was seen as a public face of the efforts, although he did not run the day-to-day campaign. Kors, who had been one of 16 members of the No on 8 executive committee, resigned from EQCA in March after nine years with the organization.

He explained when announcing his departure that he was “ready to do some different things.”

The No on 8 campaign had largely ignored communities of color and conservative parts of the state.

In 2009, EQCA brought on Andrea Shorter, who’s worked as co-founder and director of And Marriage For All, a public education campaign engaging communities of color in dialogue about same-sex marriage.

Shorter will remain in her position as marriage and coalitions director, Palencia said.

But Palencia talked about engaging the statewide LGBT community in other discussions as well.

“We have to address systemic issues of racial justice,” he said.

Palencia wants to “create a conceptual framework,” he said, that will intersect the movement and “belong to every community.”

“LGBT issues are not in isolation,” he noted.

And he acknowledged that EQCA will need to work with other organizations. While it may be the largest statewide LGBT group in California, he said EQCA “has 15 staff in a state of 37 million” people.

EQCA’s budget is between $6 million and $6.5 million.

Legislation Another one of EQCA’s main functions has been pushing for state legislation that ensures LGBT equality.

Palencia’s background includes expertise on LGBT, health care, and other issues. It remains to be seen how effective he’ll be pushing legislation in his new job. The organization has staff in Sacramento.

He indicated he’s eager to do the work. “We want to continue to look at the legislative agenda and close any gaps of inequality,” Palencia said.

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Decline to sign campaign developing

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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quality California, the Courage Campaign, and other groups are developing their efforts to fight repeal of Senate Bill 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act. If petition signature gatherers are successful, a referendum to repeal the law, which was designed in part to ensure that school students learn about LGBT contributions to history, could go to state voters in June 2012.

So far, the key part of the effort is a decline to sign campaign to dissuade potential petition signers.

EQCA communications director Rebekah Orr said in an interview Tuesday, August 2 that there have been “a couple reports” of signature gatherers in Oakland and Concord.

Orr said when a signature gatherer is reported, a “truth squad” will be dispatched to perform duties such as ensuring “potential petition signers know the facts about what the law is.”

She said organizations working with EQCA include GSA Network, Courage Campaign, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. GSA Network and Courage Campaign both have sent out email blasts about the effort. NCLR confirmed its involvement Tuesday.

“First our opponents wanted to ban love, so they invented Proposition 8,” said Rick Jacobs, chair and founder of the Courage Campaign, referring to the samesex marriage ban that passed three years ago. “Now, they want to use the same fear tactics to prevent California high school students from learning history.”

Orr said EQCA and GSA Network are working together to coordinate the work. Both co-sponsored SB 48.

“We are working to create a campaign infrastructure

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Courage Campaign founder Rick Jacobs

that doesn’t just belong to one organization,” Orr said. She also said it’s “important to be clear neither EQCA or GSA Network have absolute control” over the SB 48 efforts. Plans include hiring a campaign manager.

SB 48 was authored by openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). It amends the state Education Code to require that schools teach about LGBT people’s role in – and contributions to – the economic, political, and social development of California and the U.S. It also prohibits classroom instruction and schoolsponsored activities that promote a discriminatory bias on the basis of sexual orientation, and requires that social-sciences textbooks and other social sciences instructional material used in California adhere to the bill’s requirements.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill July 14. The next day, Paulo Sibaja, director of communications and legislation at the Capitol See page 12 >>

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Gay WWII vet Arch Wilson dies

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rchibald “Arch” John Wilson, a gay World War II veteran and a charter member and past commander of the Alexander Hamilton Post 448 of the American Legion, died July 6 at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He was 87.

The cause of death was congestive heart failure, said post Commander Mario Benfield.

Mr. Wilson most recently served as judge advocate of Post 448, the only predominately LGBT American Legion post in the country. He was considered by many to be the heart and soul of the local post and was active in post matters right up to the

end, said Benfield.

At the last general membership meeting on June 16, Mr. Wilson gave an impassioned speech calling for members to unite in their fight with the War Memorial Board of Trustees to insure veterans’ rights and control of the War Memorial Veterans Building.

“The building was meant by the voters of San Francisco to benefit the average veteran in need of care and service,” he said, according to post members, “not the wealthy fine arts people.”

Thomas E. Horn, a member of the War Memorial board (and the publisher of the Bay Area Reporter), praised Mr. Wilson’s contributions to the LGBT community.

“I knew Arch Wilson for over 30 years. His early contributions to the nascent gay liberation movement in San Francisco and the Bay Area made him a community hero for so many of us just asking for equal and dignified treatment,” Horn said in an email. “His commitment to our nation’s veterans and particularly members of the LGBT community who had served over the years was unfailing. While he and I didn’t always agree on strategy or tactics, I always admired his commitment to the causes he believed in and greatly admired the goodwill he showed everyone equally. He was a good friend, and I will miss him.”

Benfield said that Mr. Wilson would be remembered for his steadfastness.

“He stuck to his guns regarding veterans and veterans’ rights in relationship to the veterans building,” Benfield said.

Mr. Wilson was also instrumental in forming Post 448, which was founded in 1984 by the late Paul Hardman. The post was granted a charter in 1985 after threatening legal action. In 1996 the post did file suit against the statewide American Legion association, claiming it had opposed, harassed, and discriminated against the largely gay post. That case was eventually settled.

Archibald “Arch” John Wilson

Mr. Wilson was born December 26, 1923 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He enlisted in the Army in 1943 and was assigned to the Quartermaster Corps and was sent to firefighter school at Fort Lewis, Washington.

In typical Army fashion, he was then sent to Europe as an infantry rifleman, arriving in France on the day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.

After the Nazis were defeated in Europe, Mr. Wilson was transferred to the South Pacific in preparation for the invasion of Japan. He was honorably discharged at Fort Bragg in February 1946. Mr. Wilson’s experiences during World War II were chronicled in the book My Country, My Right to Serve by Mary

Ann Humphrey in 1990, and in numerous interviews.

After being discharged from the service, Mr. Wilson attended Columbia University, receiving a bachelor’s degree. He spent most of his working years with Bank of America in San Francisco.

In addition to his leadership positions with Post 448, Mr. Wilson was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Veterans for Peace. He was a longtime member of historical preservation organizations the Victorian Alliance and the California Heritage Council.

Mr. Wilson was an avid patron of the performing arts and the opera, and was a gay rights and human rights activist. He belonged to Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Amnesty International, Greenbelt Alliance, and the Interfaith Alliance.

Mr. Wilson is survived by a brother, David, of Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. His remains will be interred in the Columbarium in San Francisco.

Post 448 will hold a celebration of life for Mr. Wilson on Sunday, August 14 from 1 to 3 p.m. in his beloved War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 207, in San Francisco.▼

Obituaries >> Russell Martin Moodie March 3, 1960 – July 4, 2011

Russell passed away on Monday, July 4 in Twain Harte, California, with his brother Rick at his side. He was part of the Castro community through the 1980s and 1990s. He helped found the Folsom Street Fair and tended bar at the Phoenix for years. His partner of six years, Bryan Gordon, passed one week earlier.

A celebration of their lives is being planned for October at a location to be determined. Please contact Chris at (415) 298-4129 for further information.

Bill (Willis) Warner Dr. Bill (Willis) Warner died of cancer at the Veterans Administration Hospital on July 31. He was 81.

Dr. Bill, as he was

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push was Senate Bill 48, also known as the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act. Among other things, FAIR amends the state Education Code to require that schools teach about LGBT people’s role in – and contributions to – the economic, political, and social development of California and the U.S. EQCA and others are working to prevent anti-gay groups

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the conventional senior residence that’s a high-rise made mostly of cement,” added fellow resident Carol Elmstedt, who moved into the community three years ago following an amputation.

Both Watson, 85, and Elmstedt, who declined to give her age, are longtime volunteers of the Lutheran Church with a history of advocacy on behalf of other seniors. They take part in various activities and organizations within the Salem

known, was born January 28, 1930 on a farm in upstate New York. He served as an AIDS adviser to former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, retiring in 1986.

He served in the Navy in Korea in 1950 and went to medical school on the GI bill (OB/Gyn).

An arrest in 1961 for public sex effectively ended his marriage.

Dr. Bill joined the Gay Artists and Writers’ Kollective in 1987 and started GLB Publishers. He and Jon Sugar started writers’ workshops and proceeded to fulfill many writers’ dreams, with over 100 titles other publishers rejected, including Leather Rogues, Dorr Legg’s Homophile Studies; and many others.

Dr. Bill’s web site is www.glbpubs. com.

He is survived by his 92-year-old sister, along with nieces, nephews, and friends. Respond to Jon Sugar via Facebook.

Mark Edward Reed died at home

Sunday, July 24, after a long battle with multiple medical problems. He leaves behind his spouse and companion of 13-plus years, Frederic Johnson, his sister Karen Reed, and his beloved eight dogs, six cats, and a ferret.

There will be a remembrance gathering in the Boston area; the time, date, and place will be on Facebook shortly. He asked that any donations in his name be made to the Humane Society in Laconia, New Hampshire or to the Best Friends Society.

Mr. Reed was a founding member of Boston Area Gay Lesbian Youth in Boston, and a onetime member of the San Francisco chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. He spent some time in New York City and at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Mr. Reed will be long remembered by friends and family for his engaging presence and for the energy felt whenever he entered a room or a conversation.

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers form lack of imagination.” – Oscar Wilde

from repealing SB 48 through a referendum.

Out state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who worked with EQCA on SB 48 and other legislation, expressed confidence that Palencia is up to the task.

“I think he has hit the ground running,” Leno said. He also said he’s “very appreciative” of Palencia’s and EQCA’s efforts leading up to Governor Jerry Brown signing SB 48 into law in July.

“I know that many thousands of emails were received by the

administration urging the governor to sign the bill through the efforts of Equality California,” Leno said.

National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell also voiced support for Palencia.

“I think he is a person of deep humanity” who “clearly has a lot of integrity,” Kendell said. “He listens well, and the thing I most appreciated is he understands that not coming from a political background or working in politics directly, he’s got a learning curve and appreciates what he doesn’t know.”▼

community, including the resident council, of which Elmstedt is chair.

“Since moving to Salem I feel more secure about my future,” said Watson. “I sold my home, I don’t have to move again, I don’t have to cook but food is served, and if I need people, they’re here.”

“There are still times when people are bored, helpless, or lonely, but we fight them as a community,” Carrasco said.

Ashbrook said that LGBT elder care is an issue still in its infancy.

“I feel there has been substantial change, but it still feels like very

little because there are so few organizations doing this work,” he explained.

Lavender Seniors, he said, is the only organization of its kind in Alameda County. The others in the Bay Area are Openhouse in San Francisco, Rainbow Community Center in Contra Costa, and Spectrum in Marin, which serves the LGBT community in general with a component for seniors.▼

Mark Edward Reed February 11, 1963 – July 24, 2011

Learn more by visiting www.lavenderseniors.org and www.salemlutheranhome.org.

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Former band singer Terry Hutchison dies

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erry Hutchison, the openly gay lead singer of the Buena Vista Band, which had its heyday in San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s, died July 23 while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean near Boston while on vacation. He was 61.

Mr. Hutchison’s sister, Jackie Kline, said that preliminary indications are that he may have suffered a heart attack while swimming but that the actual cause of death wouldn’t be known for several months.

Buena Vista performed at various gay and straight venues, including the old Stud, the Rainbow Cattle Company, and the Palms.

Additionally, the band, which specialized in Motown music, played at the Castro Street Fair and the gay Pride Parade and festival, said Paul Ferris, who was in the band with Mr. Hutchison.

There were nine people in Buena Vista, Ferris, who played keyboards, said. The band included a rhythm section, singers, and horns.

“We played Motown at a time when Motown was not popular,” Ferris recalled.

But Ferris and Mr. Hutchison soon became friends and the band enjoyed regular gigs. It was also featured in the documentary The Word Is Out (1977), which told the stories of more than two-dozen gays and lesbians. The band released a single around the movie, but afterwards there was a change in personnel and styles, Ferris said.

Eventually the band broke up and Mr. Hutchison went to New York for a couple of years.

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paper is currently being published every other week.)

“The Bay Times is a voice we wanted to support,” Bell said.

“We’re actually looking at providing branding. We just wanted to help.”

Bell acknowledged it was her error to list the paper under the coalitions “nonprofits” heading.

“Usually who we support are nonprofits,” Bell said, adding that in this case the coalition wanted to support “the underdog.”

Sullivan, however, was clear that the paper would be working with the nonprofit Use the News Foundation to establish a new initiative for LGBT young adults and that the foundation, not the Bay Times, would be the co-beneficiary of the upcoming benefit. Use the News is a 501 (c)3 that Sullivan and two colleagues founded in 1998.

As for its ability to cover HRC, Sullivan was confident her staff was up to the task.

“To suggest that the ability of the Bay Times to cover news related to HRC or any other community group involved in an event such as this might be compromised, well, this is simply wrong,” she wrote. “‘Church versus state separation’ is often used in explaining that what the business side of a news company does is separate from and does not affect what the editorial side does.

Reporters and commentators will cover HRC with gusto and balance going forward, just as they always have.”

Local blogger Michael Petrelis was critical of the fundraiser, writing last week that Sullivan “should immediately explain” the situation.

He said he found it objectionable on many levels for an independent gay newspaper “to be raising funds for any organization they cover...”▼

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Terry Hutchison

him on Castro Street one day,” Ferris said. “He was not in good shape but we reconnected.”

Ferris and Mr. Hutchison started a cabaret act that performed around San Francisco and in other cities for a time.

Debi O’Leary, Ferris’s wife, was also friends with Mr. Hutchison, who had jobs tending bar at Hamburger Mary’s and as a manager at the Paradise Lounge.

“We were friends with him for 34 years,” O’Leary said.

His longtime roommate, Doris Brown, was also good friends with Mr. Hutchison. The two had friends in common and once worked together at the Paradise Lounge. An avid swimmer, he taught her how to swim, she added. They also traveled together.

“I will miss his zest for life, his laughter, and his spirit,” she said.

Mr. Hutchison was born on October 14, 1949 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, to James and Ila Hutchison. He graduated from Washington High School in Washington, Pennsylvania and went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, his sister said.

“He moved to San Francisco in 1972 or 1973,” Kline said, adding that Mr. Hutchison had hitchhiked across the country, first settling in San Diego, where he lived for a few years.

Mr. Hutchison always knew he was gay, his sister said, and left for the West Coast as soon as it was clear that he would not be drafted.

Kline was close to her older brother. She first visited him in San Francisco in 1979, shortly after the White Night riots, in which the city exploded in violence following the lenient jury verdicts for Dan White,

who assassinated then-Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

“He was so well-known for his R&B and more specifically, Motown,” Kline recalled. “He was a very accomplished artist.”

She said what she will remember most were the stairway concerts and late night phone calls.

“When I was little he babysat a lot and would sit at the top of the staircase with his guitar and sing to me,” she said.

Kline said that she and her brother talked often on the phone, and had talked the day he died while he was at the beach. “He just visited in June,” she added.

Diagnosed with AIDS in 2002, Mr. Hutchison had been in good health in recent years, Kline said.

Mr. Hutchison was predeceased by his parents and an older sister, Mona Lee. In addition to Kline, Mr. Hutchison is survived by two brothers, Bill and Dave; and a sister, Debbie.

Mr. Hutchison did not want a funeral, Kline said. There will be a private memorial.

Kline and Mr. Hutchison’s friends said they took some comfort in the fact that Mr. Hutchison died doing something he loved.

“His Facebook tagline was, ‘Life’s a beach, if you’re lucky you’ll die with a tan,’” Kline said. “And he did.”▼

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but hitting the one-year mark was tough.”

In its report on DiMartino’s death, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said injuries included 48 stab wounds, most of them in his back.

The cause of death was listed as “sharp force injuries with blunt force injuries.”

DiMartino’s body was found after a co-worker who had gone to check on him looked through a window and saw “a pair of what appeared to be bloody legs on the floor,” the report said. The co-worker did not enter the apartment, according to the report.

Fire and police personnel responded to the scene and entered through the unlocked front door, the report said. Police have said there were no signs of forced entry.

Asking for help In January, the mayor’s office authorized a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and prosecution in the case.

On July 30 – one year to the day police believe DiMartino was most likely killed – friends in San Francisco distributed fliers asking people to come forward with information. They also established a memorial at 18th and Castro streets.

Lisa DiMartino said her family is “very grateful” for the friends’ efforts.

“We just want to remind people what a great person he was and hope somebody knows something, and maybe their conscience will cause them to come forward,” DiMartino, who lives in Chicago, said. She added that her brother had planned to visit his family there the same week his body was found.

Like others, DiMartino recalled her brother’s sense of humor. She said DiMartino, who had been a senior marketing manager for the Archstone apartment company, had told coworkers he was headed to the Castro neighborhood for happy hour after work.

“We are fairly confident he was at Badlands,” a club on 18th Street, the night he is believed to have been killed, she said. She said she didn’t know if he had also gone to other bars that night, but she said he was home by 10:30 p.m. She declined to be specific on why she was confident of that.

San Francisco homicide Inspector Richard Martin said in an interview Monday that the DiMartino

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Resource Institute, filed paperwork with the attorney general’s office to begin the referendum process.

“Governor Brown refused to listen to the calls of pro-family voters asking him to veto SB 48,” stated Karen England, executive director of

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In 2007 both Magnet, the gay men’s health clinic in the Castro, and the Stonewall Project, which provides harm reduction services to transgender males and gay men, merged with SFAF. In June 2009 the B.A.R. first disclosed that the foundation had begun merger talks with the Stop AIDS Project. The discussions have percolated ever since and took on an increased urgency earlier this year when it became clear there would be cuts in funding from the health department for HIV prevention programs.

In March Stop AIDS Executive Director Kyriell Noon disclosed to the B.A.R. that the agency was once again “looking at a number of options,” which included possibly merging with another agency.

Since then Stop AIDS laid off several staffers and relinquished

Rick Gerharter

Last Saturday, friends of Philip DiMartino walked by 138 Hermann Street, his home where he was murdered over a year ago. The group also erected a small sidewalk memorial and passed out fliers asking for help in finding his killer.

investigation is active and the case is “one we want to solve very badly.”

“We believe we have the suspect’s DNA that was left at the scene,” Martin said. He wouldn’t comment specifically on what kind of DNA evidence police have.

Martin said the DNA evidence is periodically run through the Combined DNA Index System, which a government website describes as “the core of the national DNA database.”

“So far we have not gotten a hit,” Martin said, but police hope that they’ll eventually find the person responsible for DiMartino’s death as they continuously run the data.

“The person will have to be arrested at some point for some type of crime where his DNA will be collected for him to be uploaded into CODIS,” Martin said, referring to the DNA database.

Martin wasn’t sure how often the DNA from the scene is checked against the system. A staffer in San Francisco’s crime lab referred questions to a supervisor, who wasn’t available for comment Tuesday.

Lisa DiMartino indicated the family is satisfied with the police investigation. “I do think they’ve done a lot of work on this,” she said, attributing the case status to a lack of leads.

Some clues Police have said that the suspect may have cut himself, most likely on the hand, during the assault.

The medical examiner’s report said that “Two notes were located in [DiMartino’s] living room that bore Spanish language,” but the report didn’t include what was written in the

notes. Martin couldn’t say this week what the notes said.

Asked whether the incident was being considered a hate crime, he said, “That’s being looked into.

Everything’s being looked into.”

Martin said police have “traced [DiMartino’s] trail” from the Friday night he’s believed to have died, but he declined to provide details. He wouldn’t confirm whether DiMartino had gone to happy hour at Badlands.

Thomas Om, who was tending bar at Badlands last Saturday afternoon, said he remembered DiMartino as a regular at the bar, and that DiMartino used to drink Bacardi rum and Diet Coke.

He said that DiMartino “liked to have a good time” and recalled seeing him smiling and dancing.

Om had usually seen DiMartino around 10 p.m. He said the last time he’d seen DiMartino had been a year ago, but he couldn’t remember the exact date.

A few blocks away from Badlands on Saturday, David Ruiz and other friends were across the street from Dolores Park. As other people lounged in the sunshine, DiMartino’s friends were preparing to distribute fliers bearing his photo.

Ruiz, 29, who’s said he was “pretty much [DiMartino’s] best friend in San Francisco,” said he and the others were working to “not have him be forgotten.”

“I miss him every day,” Ruiz said.

Anyone with information in the case is asked to call the homicide unit at (415) 553-1145, the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444, or text a tip to 847411 and type SFPD, then the message. The case number is 100704683.▼

the Capitol Resource Institute and its affiliated Capitol Resource Family Impact.

Sibaja and England didn’t respond to interview requests for this story.

SB 48 opponents were given the go-ahead by the secretary of state’s office last week to begin collecting signatures in their effort to place a referendum on the 2012 ballot to

overturn the law.

The group pushing for the referendum, stopsb48.com, has until mid-October to collect 504,760 valid signatures.▼

its satellite office space on Sanchez Street near Market in order to absorb a drop in funds.

Asked this week if a merger between the AIDS foundation and Stop AIDS would be finalized in August, Noon refrained from discussing the status of negotiations.

“We are still in conversation about it. The talks haven’t stopped; that is all I should say right now,” said Noon, adding that Stop AIDS’ finances have stabilized.

The two agencies have already teamed up on a new HIV prevention contract to provide services to black men who have sex with men starting in the fall. The lead agency is SFAF, with Stop AIDS serving as a subcontractor.

SFAF spokesman Ryan McKeel, asked about the merger talks this week, declined to say when news of a decision would be forthcoming.

“All I can say is just that we collaborate with a lot of community partners regularly and engage in

merger discussions with other agencies in the community. Stop AIDS is one of those agencies we have held merger talks with,” said McKeel.

During a community forum this week about the city’s changing HIV prevention funding, an AIDS foundation employee seemed to suggest that the agency was also in talks to merge with the St. James Infirmary.

While McKeel said he could not confirm if such discussions are taking place, St. James Infirmary Executive Director Naomi Akers told the B.A.R. they had no plans to merge.

“No, not all,” said Akers.

The two agencies are collaborating on two city contracts set to go into effect September 1, with SFAF the lead agency for both. One is to distribute clean needles to intravenous drug users, while the second is to provide HIV testing to gay men, transgender females and IDUs.▼

For more information on the effort to stop the referendum visit www.eqca.org or www.couragecampaign.org.

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API programs

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health officials agreed to continue supporting the programs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looks like we will be able to fundâ&#x20AC;? programs for API men who have sex with men at risk for HIV, said Dr. Grant Colfax, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV prevention director.

While the exact dollar amounts need to be worked out, API Wellness Center Executive Director Lance Toma told the Bay Area Reporter that both of the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs should remain in some form next month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We continue to challenge each other and have been in deep, active discussions,â&#x20AC;? said Toma about the ongoing negotiations with health department staff. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking at, trying to figure out how to continue some programs. There are no details yet.â&#x20AC;?

The announcement was made Monday, August 1 at a community forum held to discuss the pending changes in how San Francisco plans to drastically reduce HIV transmission in the city. As the B.A.R. reported last month, a greater emphasis is being placed on testing people for HIV and connecting those who are HIV positive to health care services with the goal of reducing new infections in half by 2017.

Less emphasis is being placed on health education and risk reduction strategies as new contracts worth nearly $7 million take affect next month. Based on local data of who is most at risk for contracting HIV, funding has been prioritized for services targeting gay and bisexual men, transgender women, intravenous drug users, and black and Latino men who have sex with men.

The lack of funding designated specifically for San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large API community had sparked some of the most vocal criticism of the new funding allocations. The omission was a focal point at this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public forum and drew many API speakers who demanded that they not be overlooked in the HIV prevention funds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am deeply alarmed that the city of San Francisco, where one-third of residents are API, has no clear

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Backers also include former police chiefs Heather Fong and Anthony Ribera. Supervisors John Avalos and Carmen Chu, two San Francisco politicians who usually represent opposite ends of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political spectrum, are also listed among his supporters.

So far, Onekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main opponents are current DA George GascĂłn and veteran Alameda County prosecutor Sharmin Bock.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely helped Onek draw progressive support is his stance on the death penalty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will not seek the death penalty under any circumstances, period,â&#x20AC;?

Onek said. He said the death penalty isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cost-effective, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make people safer, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not â&#x20AC;&#x153;fair and equitable.â&#x20AC;?

He said his views on the death penalty reflect â&#x20AC;&#x153;bold leadership.â&#x20AC;?

GascĂłn has told the B.A.R. heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;not a believerâ&#x20AC;? in the death penalty, citing costs, disparities in treatment, and wrongful convictions as reasons. However, he said recently, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to recognize it is state law.â&#x20AC;? Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said his ideas include calling for a statewide referendum to repeal the death penalty.

Bock opposes capital punishment.

However, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said she would continue with former DA Kamala Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special circumstance committee to review cases individually and make recommendations on capital

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plan for the API community. San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Public Health must include APIs in the San Francisco HIV prevention plan in a concrete and meaningful way,â&#x20AC;? said Athila Lambino, an API Wellness Center client who works as a health educator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave me out.â&#x20AC;?

Nearly 100 people, many either AIDS agency personnel or clients, attended the meeting at the LGBT Community Center. Some expressed concerns that those agencies chosen to deliver services can do so in culturally component ways to various people of color and gender identity.

Others questioned if enough outreach will be done to connect the homeless, undocumented immigrants, and people living in the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s single-room-occupancy hotels to HIV services.

Billie Cooper, a longtime HIV survivor and a transgender health advocate, expressed concerns that using the acronym MTF, which stands for male-to-female, would dissuade transgender women from seeking out services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am sick and tired of being under the label of MTF. I am a transgender woman,â&#x20AC;? said Cooper, adding that transgender women of color also need additional resources. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You need to do more because gay white men arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only ones dying.â&#x20AC;?

Another group seemingly overlooked in the HIV prevention plan are people over the age of 55.

As the B.A.R. has reported, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV cases are increasingly among older adults, yet this age group is not singled out among the strategies being funded. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to speak for the invisible and underrepresented population of the aging persons with HIV,â&#x20AC;? said John Weatherman, 68, who is HIVpositive and works for Shantiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LIFE Program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is nothing more invisible than an old white guy.â&#x20AC;?

Colfax, who was invited to take part in the forum along with his deputy director, Tracey Packer, said they were there to hear â&#x20AC;&#x153;with open heartsâ&#x20AC;? suggestions on how to improve the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV prevention plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are challenges,â&#x20AC;? he acknowledged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are concerns about potential gaps.â&#x20AC;?

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punishment.

Newsom appointed GascĂłn, who was then the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police chief, to the DA post in January, just before Newsom became the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lieutenant governor.

Onek said he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;absolutelyâ&#x20AC;? surprised when Newsom appointed GascĂłn as the district attorney, and he said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;very problematic to have a former police chief â&#x20AC;? in that post.

The issue has presented controversy for GascĂłn, since many see it as representing a conflict of interest that hinders his ability to ensure justice.

GascĂłn has discussed accusations from Public Defender Jeff Adachi that police officers had stolen property from drug suspects or conducted illegal searches. He said that among other steps heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken, he established a trial integrity unit and his office has been working with federal officials.

discriminatory bias on the basis of sexual orientation.

Governor Jerry Brown signed the bill last month, but anti-gay activists are working to repeal it through a referendum.

Safety for LGBTs Onek expressed a desire to ensure safety for LGBTs. He said he sees Senate Bill 48 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act authored by out state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as a public safety bill. The bill â&#x20AC;&#x153;could lead to a drop in hate crimes,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Among other things, SB 48 aims to ensure that school students learn about LGBT contributions to history. It also prohibits classroom instruction and schoolsponsored activities that promote a

The changes to how San Francisco combats what is now considered to be an HIV endemic, meaning rates of infection have stagnated over the last decade, have been under way since Colfax took over the health departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV Prevention Section in 2007. From the start he had made increasing HIV testing a singular priority.

He has also embraced the concept of viral load suppression as another key tool in achieving the goal of seeing San Francisco become the first U.S. city to eliminate HIV transmission. With many men not using condoms based on the perceived HIV status of their sexual partners, seeing that HIV is undetectable in HIV-positive people is a key component of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prevention efforts.

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turn to a test and treat model has raised alarms, as some question the medicalization of HIV prevention. Even among those who have embraced the changes, there remains some concern about whether the city can provide care to those people who test positive.

Health Commission President Steven Tierney, a gay man who was formerly the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s HIV prevention director, told the B.A.R. he hopes the switch in tactics will lead to further reductions in HIV infections. Under his watch, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual estimates for new HIV infections dropped from a high of 1,100 to a low of 500, where it remains today. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think getting as many people access to health care is really important. I know that is what they say this plan will do,â&#x20AC;? said Tierney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My concern has always been that gay men, people of color, and people living in poverty have access to care. So if we test people but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t provide them access to care then we are providing false hope.â&#x20AC;?

Despite the problems people have voiced, Stop AIDS Project Executive Director Kyriell Noon remained confident the differences can be addressed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had grave concerns at first but I think we can make it work,â&#x20AC;? said Noon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality of the situation is there is not as much money available. We are all being asked to do more with less.â&#x20AC;?â&#x2013;ź

Fundraising According to Onekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s August newsletter, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raised a total of more than $283,000. Campaign finance records filed with the city show he received a total of about $126,000 from January 1 through June 30, 2011.

Bockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report shows a total of just over $240,000 came in during those six months. Jon Golinger, Bockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign manager, said that includes $1,000 she loaned her campaign. He wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say how much she brought in in July.

According to GascĂłnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign finance report, he brought in almost $235,000 during the sixmonth period. His campaign didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respond to an email Wednesday morning, August 3, asking about total contributions through July.â&#x2013;ź

On the web Online content this week includes the Jock Talk and Wocknerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World columns; a photo for World Hepatitis Day; and articles on the debt deal in Congress and the SF circumcision ban. www.ebar.com.

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To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : PREM BAHADUR TAMANG. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 925 Cortland Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110. Type of license applied for:

In the matter of the application of JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD for change of name. The application of JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD for change of name having been ďŹ led in Court, and it appearing from said application that JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD ďŹ led an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JOHN PETER GAUDINO Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 15th of September, 2011 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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64- SPECIAL ON-SALE GENERAL THEATER JUL 21,28,AUG 4, 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : YAC & AT CORP. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1849 Union St., San Francisco, CA 94123-4307. Type of license applied for:

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JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-11-547865 In the matter of the application of KALLIE ANN LEWIS for change of name and gender. The application of KALLIE ANN LEWIS for change of name and gender having been ďŹ led in Court, and it appearing from said application that KALLIE ANN LEWIS ďŹ led an application proposing that his/her name be changed to KALEB WESLEY LEWIS and his/her gender be changed from female to male. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 8th of September, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033654000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STUDIO GALLI PRODUCTIONS, 5173 Diamond Heights Blvd., #119,San Francisco, CA 94131.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Andrew J. Galli.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/11.

JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-0336615000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THIRD PYRAMID, 531 Duboce St., San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Thomas D. Hubbard.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 06/30/11.

JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033668800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FASHION POND, 125 Camden Drive, #10D,San Francisco, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Vered Ozarov.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 07/05/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/05/11.

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Legal Notices>> statement file A-033671100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE HAPPY COLLECTIVE,158A Yukon St.,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Myke E. Reilly.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/06/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033661000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KING DRYWALL, 275 5th St.,Suite 409,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Gary King.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033661100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CONSTRUCTION CONSULTING UNLTD.,INC.,275 5th St.,Suite 409,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Renee A. Clark.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/11.

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : FRONT PORCH RESTAURANT LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 65 29th St.,A, San Francisco, CA 94110-4910. Type of license applied for:

47- ON-SALE general eating place jul 28,AUG.4,11,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : FRANCO MONTARELLO. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1106 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102-3804. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER and wineeating place jul 28,AUG.4,11,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-547879

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHAO TIAN ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS, 1503 Pershing Drive, Apt. B, San Francisco, CA 94129.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Shun Chao Deng.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/06/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/06/11.

In the matter of the application of ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL for change of name. The application of ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to TONY QUINTERO Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 8th of September, 2011 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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The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANIMEZINGWORLD, 530 Francisco St.,Unit 418,San Francisco, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Edward Young.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as GRAND CENTRAL FURNITURE,353 9TH St., San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jhovani Manzanares.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/21/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as WEN XING BILINGUAL FAMILY DAY CARE, 1153 Goettingen St.,San Francisco, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Bi Xian Zhu.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as URBAN GARDEN SF,237 Kearny St., #289, San Francisco, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, signed William Hoag.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/14/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/14/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as H & A COMPUTER SERVICES,870 Market St.,Suite 1056, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Serge Ulyanov.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ENCYCLOMEDIA OUTPUT GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO, 1504 Bryant St., Suite 101,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Timothy M. Cheng.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 07/14/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as MELA TANDOORI KITCHEN, 536 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Sohel Subedar.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 07/08/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY AREA SPECIALITY SUPPLIES,8 Meadowbrook Drive, Pittsburg, CA 94565. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Areeb Sa’Aadat.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as LATKER DESIGN SOLUTIONS,80 Uranus Terrace,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Craig Latker.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/13/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : ROXIE THEATRE THE. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3117 16th St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Type of license applied for:

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as INTERSTICE ARCHITECTS INC,587 Shotwell St., San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Zoee Astrachan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/98. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as REMAINCOM,290 Division St., Suite 306,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Stewart McKenzie.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/00. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/11.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033714500 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.PATTIWAGON, 2.PATTICAKES, 121 Kensington Way, San Francisco, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Patricia Doyle.

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 07/12/11.

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statement file A-033644300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ALEX FITNESS, 2275 Market St.,Suite #4, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by limited liability company, signed Alexander Shula.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/23/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033691900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WILLI’S WILD FLOWERS,2469 27th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Julie Martin.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/111. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033698600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DAR AL FIKER LP, 1116 Polk St., San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an limited partnership, signed Adris Algohem.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 07/19/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : LEANIMALE LIMITED LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1310 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133-3904. Type of license applied for:

41- On-sale Beer and wineEating place aug 4,11,18,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : HYO JOO LEE. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 6314 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94121-1824. Type of license applied for:

41- On-sale Beer and wineEating place aug 4,11,18,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-547904 In the matter of the application of JENNIFER LYNN WINER FAHRION for change of name.

The application of JENNIFER LYNN WINER FAHRION for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that JENNIFER LYNN WINER FAHRION filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to NIFER KILAKILA Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 22th of September, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033700000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TACO SAN BUENA, 2598 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94080. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Esquival Santana.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/19/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/11.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033700800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DAKINI AYURVEDA, 43-B Vicksburg St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Courtney LaCava.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/10/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/11.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033703400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE FITNESS RESOURCES, 722 Larkin St.,#6,San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kenneth Scott.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/13/11.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FORK CAFE,469 Castro St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Bassem Sirhed. 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 07/20/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as STRAND BEACH ESCAPE,248 Hester Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Freddie Little Jr.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/11.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 petition to compel discovery case number: FDi-10-773641 superior court of san francisco 400 mcallister st. San francisco, ca 94118 petitioner: OXANA SHELL RESPONDENT/DEFENDANT: CHRISTOPHER SHELL NOTICE OF MOTION: TO COMPEL DISCOVERY ATTORNEY FEES AND COSTS TO RESPONDANT – CHRISTOPHER SHELL A HEARING ON THIS MOTION for the RELIEF REQUESTED IN THE ATTACHED APPLICATION WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS DATE:10/04/11 AT 9:00AM RM 404, 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-547943 In the matter of the application of NA LI TRAN for change of name. The application of NA LI TRAN for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that NA LI TRAN filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to LINA TRAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 514 on the 6th of October, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033664900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PLANETSKILL PRODUCTIONS,2938 Moraga St., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Luke Esquivel.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/11.

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AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033697000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as JANG SOO B.B.Q.,6314 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Hyojoo Lee.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/18/11.

AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033719800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ESSENCE CO.. 15 Delta St., San Francisco, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a husband and wife, signed Biu Wing.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/28/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/11.

AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033710100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LAIZA.,4 Mayfield Ave., Daly City, CA 94015. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Daniel Singnan.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/11.

AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033715100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as IZAKAYA SOZAI, 1500 Irving St., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Suemee Osuka.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/11.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/26/11.

AUG.4,11,18,25,2011 statement file A-033726800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARAGON PHILANTHROPY, 701 Broderick St., San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Andrzej Kozlowski.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/11.

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an Francisco Ballet last Sunday gave their by-now annual free outdoor midsummer show in Stern Grove, where every week all summer long there is a free concert (this Sunday: Aaron Neville). The Festival – did I mention it’s free? – has been going since 1932, and is one of the outstanding reasons to live here.

So how can you criticize it? The concerts are all great, and the park itself is wonderful.

You descend by winding down paths into a deep, romantic chasm lined with eucalyptus trees, the forest floor covered with nasturtiums whose gold spangles glow like fairy lights in the deep green shade. An acoustically perfect amphitheater nestles in this declivity, and all you have to worry about is where to sit, the weather, the possibility of bee-stings, and the roaming people who occasionally block your sight-lines. You could wish at times for theatrical lighting to heighten the mood. But did I mention it’s free?

It’s also wonderful to see your fellow citizens; this is the kind of event that creates community, shows us our gay-friendly multicultural mix of humanity, comfortably dressed, babes in arms, picnicking, some of us rapt with attention.

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wenty-five years ago, I spent an exhilarating hour with a then-unknown filmmaker as he explained how his new documentary, The Thin Blue Line, had already sprung an innocent man from a Texas death row, and would eventually not only set him free but see that the real killer took his place. Errol Morris not only convinced me of the innocence of Randall Adams, but allowed me to see that the gross miscarriage of justice that had caused an innocent man to be framed for the murder of a Dallas police officer could just as easily have happened to me. It was scary to see how much I and

Adams resembled each other, and to realize that Adams’ only mistake had been to hang out with a charismatic young teen, David Harris, an error I could easily have committed. Only a stylistic tic by Morris, the repeated spilling of a milkshake in a dramatic recreation of the crime, kept Thin Blue Line from copping a best doc Oscar.

This year, another compelling true-life criminal justice doc, Bay Area director Yoav Potash’s riveting cliffhanger Crime After Crime (opening Friday at the Roxie), seems very Oscar-worthy.

Potash and pro bono attorneys Joshua Safran and Nadia Costa

have worked a minor miracle in securing the freedom of an LA woman unjustly incarcerated for the murder of her abusive pimp.

At one point the fact that Deborah Peagler served more than 25 years in the Chowchilla women’s prison for the alleged murder-forhire of a man who started dating her when she was 15, who forced her into prostitution, beat her with a bullwhip and threatened her family with retaliatory violence, would have taken center stage in any film about her ordeal. But as luck would have it, Potash and her See page 28 >>

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Crime After Crime director Yoav Potash at this year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

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Sensations of the tabloid press

by Roberto Friedman

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t’s a nice bit of coincidence that Academy Award-winning documentary-maker Errol Morris has opened his new film Tabloid in theaters during this Tabloid Scandal summer of 2011, but the movie has nothing to do with amoral media magnate Rupert Murdoch and his minions. Morris gives new life to a tale that captivated the British tabloid press in the 70s: did American Southern belle Joyce McKinney kidnap the object of her desire, young Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson, tie him up to a bed in rural Devon county, and make juicy, mad love to him without his consent?

You can see why Fleet Street seized on this story, for it has everything: daring blonde beauty queen, S&M hardware, possible sex crime, magical Mormon underwear, a “sordid” past of model/escorting. Even more bizarrely, in a kind of coda, years later McKinney delivered DNA from her

beloved dead dog Booger to a clinic in Seoul, South Korea, where it was successfully cloned into five Booger replicants. We’re not making any of this stuff up.

Anderson did not consent to be interviewed for Morris’ film, so there’s none of the “he said/she said” dynamic you’d expect. McKinney parries accusations of raping her manacled Mormon by suggesting that a woman can’t rape a man: the analogy she uses is, you can’t stuff a marshmallow into a parking-meter coin-slot.

We had to puzzle that one out, but finally got it: there was no Viagra or Cialis back then. But even just hearing her own version of events forces viewers to the conclusion that, as one writer for the British scandal sheets puts it, Joyce is, was, and always has been “barking mad.” Still, she makes for great copy.

Blue moonings Many musical offerings have helped us get through this mad

summer, but none quite so chirpily as Blue Songs, the second album from Hercules and Love Affair, releasing Aug. 16 on Moshi Moshi.

Their self-titled 2008 debut blew us away with its neo-disco sound: “He took us to town, pushed us around, little boy Hercules.” Their club hit “Blind” featured falsetto vocalist Antony: “As a child, I knew that the stars could only get brighter.” Soon Antony was popping up everywhere, a true avant-garde darling.

We remember dancing looselimbed to the glamorous sounds of Herc & Love Affair at a long-past YBCA opening-night party. But that was then, this is now. There’s no Antony on Blue Songs, but Hercules founder Andy Butler tells the press his sophomore effort is a growth thing. “There’s definitely jacking house and there’s definitely even more full-blown disco, but there’s also more experimental, softer music.” Still, we like the new album best when it gets carried away by insistent rhythms. An anthem of sorts: “I won’t bear this cross, I won’t wear these chains. I will find my own fire!” Kirk Anderson’s theme song?

We’re loyal to recording artists that have brought us aural pleasure through the years, no matter what the format. Songwriter/singer Sam Phillips has just issued Solid State, the first physical release from her digital-only Long Play project. Solid State is a sampling of material written and recorded for Long Play between Aug. 2009 and Feb. 2011, dressed up for those of us who enjoy physical releases.

Speaking of, scene and style icon Grace Jones has a new release, Hurricane, out Sept. 6 on [PIAS] America. Jones was a muse to no less than Andy Warhol, who created a series of iconic portraits of her.

Produced by Jones and Ivor Guest, Hurricane has received widespread praise in the U.K. and Europe, where it was released in 2009. The video for the track “Corporate Cannibal” was directed by Nick Hooker. The new release will also include a bonus-disc dub version of the entire album.

Meantime, record label-less Morrissey played down his recent appearance at Glastonbury festival, telling Pitchfork, “Every time I opened my mouth, I swallowed rain. Under such conditions you can’t really expect much from an audience. I think they were there for U2 anyway, understandably. U2

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The young Joyce McKinney at a London film premiere, from Tabloid.

have an enormous Star Wars set with drumsticks that light up northern Africa, and a sound system that would drown out an earthquake. I can’t compete with that. Not with my post-office savings account. All I have to offer the world are songs.”

On the local front, out gay entertainer Jason Brock will be bringing his campy, wild style to the traditionally straight audiences of the Bubble Lounge in SF this month.

Brock headlines a monthly evening of Champagne and Follies at the Lounge, located at 714 Montgomery St., SF. This month’s event, on Aug. 10 at 7 p.m., will highlight Bollinger Special Cuvee NV. In addition to appearing in venues such as the Rrazz Room and Martuni’s, Brock recently appeared as a demented flower in the Magic Theater production of The Lily’s Revenge. For reservations at the Bubble L., contact Suzanna Koolidge, (415) 434-4204.

DVR alert: “In Sept. 2009, a select group of fans and friends had the rare opportunity to experience Barbra Streisand’s performance in the ultimate up-close and personal setting,” announces KQED Public Television, somewhat breathlessly.

“Accompanied by piano, bass, guitar, and drums, this is the artist at her most intimate.” Barbra Streisand: One Night Only at the Village Vanguard, the legendary Greenwich Village club, airs on Sat., Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. on KQED, Channel 9.

How humiliating!

Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum (Picador Paperback Original) is the essayist’s collected

musings or “fugues” on the title topic.

He considers public humiliation in the abstract and in specific cases (Bill Clinton, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer).

Sample fugue: “Repeatedly I watch clips of Liza Minnelli on YouTube.

I want to see her humiliation. And I want to see her survive the grisly experience and turn it into glory.”

In a collection of fugue thoughts on personal, sexualized humiliation given the chapter title “I Want to Be Your Bitch,” Koestenbaum considers some postings on Craigslist, an arena where, he notes, “the Marquis de Sade would have had a field day.” “A man wants a man to humiliate him over the phone: ‘i have a 5 inch skinny dick and i need a big dick man to tell me what a loser and pussy i am.’”

“Humiliation, like a pigeon, travels in every conceivable direction: guy > guy, guy > girl, girl > girl, girl > guy. But because, historically, women have been (let’s generalize) more often the recipients of bad treatment – that’s the way patriarchy’s cookie crumbles – I detect more radical frisson in situations when a man grovels.”

To his credit, the author concludes his slim volume with a litany of his own personal humiliations, inspired by the SF avant-garde writer Dodie Bellamy, who made such a list of her own in her 2006 book Academonia.

Vintage cringeworthy anecdotes involve bodily fluids like snot, urine, and vomit, gender confusion, and childhood bullying and cruelties.

Good times! “A kid in seventh-grade gym, on the soccer field, called me a ‘wop faggot.’ I was flattered to be mistaken for an Italian.”▼

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Frontman Andy Butler (second from right), with fellow members of Hercules and Love Affair, headed for an imminent release.

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Clowning through dire circumstances

by Richard Dodds

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oth armies and theaters are in the killing business. Soldiers slay their enemies; actors murder their audiences. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes began putting it all together about 2,436 years ago when he wrote his first comedy about the Peloponnesian War. Fourteen years later, he was on his third play mocking the foolishness of the seemingly endless Peloponnesian War, and what better inspiration to cast a wonky spotlight on the longest war in American history – that would be Afghanistan – than to take a page from the master.

Commissioned by the Shotgun Players, and working with director Sabrina Klein, Jeff Raz has created a mash-up of Aristophanes’ three war comedies, thrown in some Brecht, and added some Raz-amatazz to produce The Road to Hades. This new show is part of Shotgun’s annual outdoor weekend performances in Berkeley’s John Hinkel Park, running through Sept. 11.

Raz is a familiar figure around these parts, with his work as a clown, most memorably in the Pickle Family Circus, and his role in founding and running the Clown Conservatory.

He has also toured with Cirque du Soleil, worked with Ringling Bros., and written 15 plays that delve into such personal topics as his father’s depression and suicide, and his decision with wife Sherry Sherman to adopt two children. Raz and Sherman also head the Medical Clown Project,

which brings comedy into hospitals.

Getting laughs in and around dire situations, while not negating their life-or-death seriousness and still yet broadening understanding, is the tricky business that Aristophanes mastered and that Raz is somewhat trepidatiously trying to emulate.

“I got some courage from Aristophanes, but there was a TV show called Harry’s War with Kathy Bates. In this one three-minute section, the scene went from a sort of flash sideways to a graphic depiction of the mutilation of an albino right back into a very light comic tone where Kathy Bates was making a sex joke about laws against fellatio in New Orleans or something. I took some courage from that because I was thrilled by this rollercoaster between wild comedy and deep tragedy that felt very real.”

The notion for Hades that Raz has devised is that you keep doing forever whatever it was you were doing when you died, and through some calamity Aristophanes and his actors all died 2,397 years ago. The troupe was acting, so they keep on acting.

Aristophanes was thinking about a new play, so he essentially has an eternal writer’s block, and the actors just keep doing the same plays over and over, and Aristophanes will call up an appropriate scene whenever it is needed.

The three plays that are in perpetual repertory are The Archanians, written early during the Peloponnesian War, which argues that war is putting a crimp in everyone’s social life, and

Playwright Jeff Raz is Aristophanes, and John Mercer is the god Ares in The Road to Hades, playing weekends in John Hinkel Park in Berkeley for the Shotgun Players.

let’s get back to the orgy. Four years later, Aristophanes presented Peace, which follows a troupe of mortals heading to Mount Olympus, only to find the gods have moved on. They just can’t stand the problems on Earth, and they have buried Peace.

Aristophanes returned to the subject of the still-raging Peloponnesian War a decade later with Lysistrata, in which the women decide to deny sex to men until they make peace.

Raz has added another conceit to the mix, with Aphrodite as a downsized goddess who has lost the

“peace” part of her powers because she has been concentrating on the “love” part of her job description.

“She had decided she wants her job back,” Raz said, “and gloms onto Lysistrata.”

The show operates on three levels that are quickly established. On one level, it’s Jeff Raz and Velina Brown and the rest of the cast in John Hinkel Park on a weekend afternoon. The next level are the characters, with Raz as Aristophanes, Brown as Aphrodite, John Mercer as Ares, Ryan O’Donnell as Hermes, and Johannes Mager, who

wrote the music, as the chorus leader.

And the third level is when they go into one of Aristophanes’ scenes.

Shotgun Players has devised an LT-12 rating for the production (“LT” standing for live theater) for “its potty jokes, mild violence, and sex and war language.” “Aristophanes was down and dirty,” Raz said, “and I wanted to follow his bravery in willing to go from a wild scene about feeding shit to a giant dung beetle to passionate scenes about the realities of war with child rape and slavery, and to puns about sex. I wanted to see if a modern audience would be willing to go there.”

Despite the LT-12 rating, the director has added a children’s chorus that includes kids younger than 12. “There will be some parents who don’t want their kids there, and I absolutely respect that,” Raz said.

“But we also have fire juggling, potty jokes, and the stuff that the kid in all of us adores.”

In an interview about clowning a few years back, Raz said, “If we are doing our job right, sitting on a whoopee cushion will say something about the world.” He still likes the sound of that. “But for this show, just change whoopee cushion to fart joke.”▼ The Road to Hades will run in John Hinkel Park in Berkeley through Sept. 11. All performances are at 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is free; donations accepted. Go to www.shotgunplayers.org for more information.

Theatre Rhino unveils new season

by Richard Dodds

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eja vu, something new, and something overdue are main components in the recently announced 2011-12 season at Theatre Rhinoceros. Continuing its nomadic ways, the five productions will be presented in four venues around town.

The season opens in November with its deja vu re-rendering of SexRev: The Jose Sarria Experience.

Rhino Artistic Director John Fisher’s metatheatrical interpretation of one of the city’s preeminent queer pioneers evokes his popular opera parodies, imagines scenes from his life that included founding the Imperial Court System, and breaks fourth-wall illusions as infighting breaks out among the three actors who share the role of Sarria. Tom Orr, Jean Franco, and Donald Currie return from the 2010 production, with Carlos Barrera taking over the role that Michael Vega originated.

Fisher wanted to return to SexRev for several reasons. The initial run at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory didn’t draw the attention or audiences that Fisher thinks the work deserves. He also has ideas for improving the production. And he thinks its new venue at CounterPulse will help raise the show’s profile. “I think Sarria’s story needs to be heard by more people,” the writer-director said.

On Dec. 31, Rhino will break its long-standing tradition of presenting Marga Gomez at the Victoria Theatre for a pair of New Year’s Eve shows. While Marga did pure stand-up for the Rhino shows, Lea DeLaria, who claims to be “the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier,” has also become an accomplished vocalist and has released four popjazz albums. So there will be a mix of comedy and music, with a grand piano on stage. “I think it will be very classy,” Fisher said.

January will bring a rare staging

Tom Orr and Jean Franco return to their roles as a dueling version of queer pioneer Jose Sarria in a revised version of Sex Rev: The Jose Sarria Experience, opening Theatre Rhino’s season in November.

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of Tennessee Williams’ The TwoCharacter Play to the Eureka Theatre. First produced in 1973, it came at a time when both critics and audiences wished Williams would lock up his typewriter. “I always assumed it was undoable,” Fisher said of the play, “but when I read it I found this wonderful little play.” The backstage story (also known under the title Out Cry) shows a brother and sister deserted by the rest of their acting troupe who must decide whether the show must go on. “It’s

very autobiographical in exposing his frustrations about still trying to do theater,” Fisher said. “And it has all that Southern gothic stuff in it.”

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Escape TV

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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ur BFF never watches TV news because she runs an agency for battered women, and she says she’s living the news on a daily basis and doesn’t need more. After years as a news junkie, we’re starting to see her point.

The weeks-long debt ceiling/deficit debacle in Washington coupled with the global warming heat wave made our head swim and made us want to bitch-slap Reps. John Boehner and Eric Cantor (especially Cantor, and it’s our guess that he’s either going to get caught in a sex scandal or do a power-grab for the Speaker post) into the stratosphere. We weren’t alone in that. Even Bill O’Reilly lambasted the Republicans as the clock ticked out on July 30. That gave us a little frisson of pleasure.

Nightline did a pithy little numbers game about the debt ceiling debate on July 30 that was so smart, savvy and succinct, everyone should see it (ABCnews.com). You’ll be primed for your own debate with the info. But as great as it was to see O’Reilly taking on his own kind and grateful as we were for the Nightline piece, this was slim pickings for any

news junkie. Frustration sent us reeling away from the news, and to our remote and that ever-seductive channel surf. Ooooh, channel surf.

It shocked us how much nonnews stuff is on the tube during news hours. Who knew? Perhaps we’ve been wrong all this time as we flipped from one news network to another.

Perhaps ignorance is bliss. Well, not total ignorance, of course. We still need to know what’s going on in Celebrity World, where no one needs Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. We found out everything we could possibly want to about the J-Lo split from her hubby (she was just too sexy and gorgeous for him, and did you see the guy from her music video? OMG!) and a ridiculous load of psycho-babble crap about what happened to poor, tortured Amy Winehouse (someone please send those videos to Lindsay Lohan, who’s still got a few years left till she’s 27 and the Grim Reaper comes knocking), some of which featured Winehouse’s poor, tortured, working-class parents, who are devastated by their loss. Seeing all the tabloid-TV video of Winehouse just makes her untimely death all the more tragic. What a loss.

Meanwhile, our switch from real news to tabloid also means we now know way too much about whom Ashley might or might not choose on The Bachelorette. Is it just us, or are straight people really tedious, boring and insincere? We spent close to a half-hour of time we will never get back watching The Bachelorette.

Not for the first time were we glad to be queer. Or at the very least, glad not to be Ashley, with her limited world view and choices.

Of all the tabloid shows sharing face time with the real news, nothing is more fun than TMZ for a good laugh at pretty much nothing. The actual celeb news seems a bit scant, but the chatter between Harvey and his cutie-pie staff (like that Ashton Kutcher lookalike) is ROFLMAO funny.

If your tastes lean more intellectual, which could lure you to PBS’ NewsHour with its lulling siren song, turn instead to Fox (no, we aren’t kidding). That’s where you’ll find The Simpsons, still, after 20 years, one of the smartest shows on the tube and consistently hilarious.

Our favorite Simpsons throwaway ever: The Ayn Rand School for Tots.

Obviously, Cantor went there.

Plus, The Simpsons is a show that actually has a queer character: Marge’s sister Patty. Granted, she’s a cartoon, but with so few queer characters on the tube, beggars can’t be choosers.

If you are looking for queer characters, you are going to have to head to the teen shows (we recommend MTV’s Teen Wolf and ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars) or stick with reality TV for the remainder of the summer. Not The Bachelorette, obviously, although some of the bachelor prospects seemed suspiciously bi-curious to us.

The grown-up queers (you can’t count the Glee crowd, because they are pretending to be kids) are all off for the summer, except, of course, for our buddies down in Bon Temps.

True Blood has some new queer and bisexual additions to get the blood (and other things) pumping this season. There are 12 episodes and the season just started, so you have time to catch up. (Seasons 1-3 are available on DVD. Watch fast!)

One of our favorite vampires, Lafayette (maintaining TV’s twofor-one minority rule: queer and of color) has a new partner (which is how you know he’s not human: he’s got someone to be queer with), Jesus, who is also of color, natch.

The delightful Sophie-Anne, Queen of the Vampires (delectable Rachel Evan Wood), seems to be pansexual.

Which on this show could very well mean she also does it with animals.

Amy Winehouse: a tragic loss.

Of course, queer characters are just icing, since True Blood remains in the top five best scripted shows on the tube.

Janina Gavankar who played Papi, the sexiest lesbian character ever on the tube, late of The L Word (not to be confused with the dreadful The Real L Word, which could be used in reparative therapy for lesbians), is now Luna, the shape-shifter/ teacher, on True Blood. Not queer, but when we hear her voice, we still see Papi. We can dream, can’t we? Gavankar had done a stint as another supernatural creature last summer on the steamy vampires vs. werewolves series The Gates, which ABC stupidly cancelled. So it’s been a whole year without her. We are so grateful to True Blood for bringing Gavankar back into our lives.

Speaking of best shows on the tube, Maura Tierney, late of ER and The Whole Truth (another series ABC stupidly cancelled, and which had a gay Latino character, too) and a perennial favorite among lesbian viewers, is currently doing an Emmy-worthy performance on FX’s Rescue Me. We love Tierney, who does vulnerable and acerbic equally well. As cancer survivor Kelly, she gets to do both. Tierney herself had breast cancer, so she brings verisimilitude to the role.

Rescue Me always manages to walk that dicey line between drama and dark comedy, and nearly always gets it right. Tierney is doing a pitch-perfect turn in a show whose final season is looking pretty pitchperfect itself.

But sometimes you just need something that requires only a few brain cells. Same Name fits the bill nicely. The concept is: a celebrity switches lives with someone who has their same name. The July 31 episode featured fag-hag empress Kathy Griffin and a somewhat homophobic African-American woman of the same name. Queerfriendly K.G. forces homophobic K.G. to deal and get real when she sends her out to do stand-up for a gay male audience. We don’t always like Griffin (we find a lot of her humor mean-spirited and antilesbian), but we did approve of her using this show for a teachable moment.

We’re always hoping for teachable moments at CBS, which remains the least queer network. We had to laugh, a bit wryly, when Young and Restless sent two of its main characters to appear as guests on CBS’ The Talk, which replaced As the World Turns last year. (ATWT had the ground-breaking gay

male storylines that ran for several years. Sigh.) One of The Talk cohosts is Sara Gilbert, a lesbian who had originally been tapped to do the show solo. Another co-host is queer-friendly Sharon Osbourne.

Neither was on hand for the Y&R crossover, which was just ghastly. It was so bad, it seemed like a fake talk show. The absence of Gilbert and Osbourne made us think that CBS will do anything to keep queers off their soaps.

There’s a glitch in getting All My Children picked up immediately after ABC cans it for The Chew (do we really need another food show?).

Hopefully this will get worked out so that lesbian icon Bianca Montgomery can continue her lesbian life on the tube. It’s shocking enough that ABC is pulling the show after 41 years, but can we really afford one less queer character on TV? No, we cannot.

We have been pleased to see a bevy of queer contestants on reality shows this summer, however. We adore Ben with his crazy hats on Master Chef, one of the best reality shows on the tube. We loved Dani on America’s Got Talent, although she didn’t make it into the finals. And Lawon on Big Brother is keeping it as real as that show ever gets.

Speaking of keeping it real, can we all take a deep breath and blow out the 30 candles on the MTV cake? It’s hard to believe MTV has come of age, but it has. We credit MTV with doing more for queer presence on the tube than anything else in our TV lifetimes. By advancing music video and queer and bi-curious music greats, the network made TV open for queers in ways it never was before. Music brought queer into the hip realm, and stars like Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson and others revved up queer visibility.

The Real World brought us reality TV in prime time, and queers in reality TV. The late Pedro Zamora, whom we met and interviewed, became an icon for a generation. In the years since, queer has become de rigueur on reality shows as a direct result of what Real World spawned.

MTV made it hip to be queer. MTV helped move queers onto the TV landscape in ways that mainstream TV couldn’t or wouldn’t. And while queers are still often the only one of their kind in the room on the tube, at least we are being seen, we are visible, we are there. Happy birthday, MTV!

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Latino lit

by Jim Piechota Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, edited by Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano; Univ. of Wisconsin Press, $22.95

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azaro Lima, an author and university professor, and well-known, prolific writer Felice Picano have teamed up together to present Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, an impressive collection of stories

by Latino LGBTQ writers that seeks to “provide a timely and representative archive of queer Latino literary and cultural memory.”

Lima’s scholarly introduction is a notably smart and lively assessment of the state of Latino culture, and discusses the true intent and creative nature of Latino writing, which, he notes, can often be considered “narrative acts against oblivion.”

The 17 stories included here highlight the spice of love and relationships and, most often, the conundrum of communication breakdown between Hispanic and non-Hispanic cultures. CubanAmerican author and blogger Achy Obejas opens the volume with “Kimberle,” a tension-tinged tale of two women in a bucolic Indiana town who “reeked of prey” as a serial killer stalks the area. Columnist and public speaker Daisy Hernandez offers “Shorty,” a melodrama of Puerto Rican lesbians that begins with a salsa-dancing night on the town and ends with a tearful misunderstanding. “Imitation of Selena” is Ramon Garcia’s short but potent story of “Pesticida,” a “big, fat ex-70s chola drag queen who was benefactress to a stable of about 20 Modesto drag queens.”

There are no duds in the collection; all of the stories collected here have something to

offer in the way of introspection, variety, and entertainment. Letters and e-mail form the crux of tales involving communication in Tatiana de la Tierra’s “Porcupine Love,” which traces the electronic passages between two crosscountry, long-distance estranged lovers. Susana Chavez-Silverman’s “Magnetic Island Sueno Cronica,” a dramatic story formed through letters, is wonderfully written in Spanglish, which may or may not be a challenge for uninitiated readers. Texas-born author Lucy Marrero closes out the book with her engaging, transformative story of “Arturo, Who Likes to Shave His Legs in the Snow.”

With the introduction of this collection that hopefully will become a recurring series, editors Lima and Picano are obviously working hard to break down the barriers of bias between races, and bring society closer toward understanding what it really means to be queer and Latino in America today. This achievement is made even more universal in that it is accomplished through art.▼

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Roots of forever

by Jason Victor Serinus Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White, Forever (Concord Records)

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rom three renowned pioneers of the electric jazz fusion medium comes Forever, a surprising mix of back-to-the-roots, straightahead acoustic jazz and electric fusion.

The two-CD set, whose release roughly coincides with the 70th birthday of jazz pianist Chick Corea and 60th birthday of acoustic and electric bassist Stanley Clarke, celebrates the men’s perhaps momentary return to an earlier era when, on their way to forming the historic jazz fusion quartet Return to Forever in 1971, they briefly joined with drummer Lenny White to perform as a trio.

The first CD, recorded in 2009 at all-acoustic gigs in Oakland, Tokyo, and Seattle, finds its complement in a rehearsal session for the trio’s 2009 kick-off concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Joined on a few of those tracks by the great violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, vocalist Chaka Khan, and original Return to Forever guitarist Bill Connors, Corea, Clarke and

White perform as if onstage and on fire. Only occasional pre- and postperformance chatter and asides hint at the fact that this was a practice session.

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by Corea, two by Clarke, and one

by Ponty, the artists visit classics by composers Thelonious Monk (“Hackensack”), John Coltrane

(“Crescent”), and the Gershwins (“I Loves You Porgy”). The latter is one of two tracks on which Khan waxes poetic. Moving between jazz standards such as “On Green Dolphin Street” and “Waltz for Debby” and the driving jazz-rock of Corea’s “Captain Marvel,” Corea and crew play with such vitality that you can be sure that retirement is not in the cards.▼

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Mahler under the microscope

by Tim Pfaff

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hose of us who remember the omnisexual Leonard Bernstein’s bringing Mahler out of the closet of a deeply undeserved bad reputation back in the 1960s are as astounded at Mahler’s current position – at the center and peak of concert life – as we are at the rehabilitation of Handel. The torrent of Mahler recordings marking the anniversaries of his birth (1860) and death (1911) is sure to continue, but two fascinatingly interconnected new items flying under the radar merit flagging.

Andy Sommer’s Mahler: Autopsy of a Genius (EuroArts), an exemplary composer biopic, stays with its subject right through his work on the fully scored but unfinished 10th Symphony.

Almost uncannily linked with it is Testament’s first-ever release of two BBC broadcasts of the 10th in the first version of its completion by Deryck Cooke, as well as Cooke’s fascinating 1960 lecture on his work. Cooke, a fine pianist, plays musical examples at the piano and provides others from the studio performance of his completion by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Berthold Goldschmidt. Rounding it all off is a keener but sloppier performance of that version – in muddier sound – by Goldschmidt and the London Symphony in its 1964 London Proms premiere.

As its “autopsy” subtitle hints, Sommer’s film is not as unsentimental as it purports to be, but it does restore balance to the biography. Notably, it vividly depicts Vienna’s “Secession” artistic movement, during which Mahler, as director, made the Staatsoper the world’s standard-bearer, a facet of his life now dwarfed by his achievements as a composer.

For a refreshing change, the film’s talking heads are true greats among present-day Mahlerians, captured saying important things eloquently.

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laud ABC for their work covering what the UN has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the famine in Somalia that is driving refugees into Kenya and makeshift camps run by NGOs like Doctors Without Borders. More than half of the dead and dying in this crisis are children, and an entire generation may be lost to this ongoing crisis.

BBC has been covering this horror for a while, but American news was fixated on the political melodrama in Washington rather than real life-and-death drama playing out

among them is Henry-Louis La Grange, as articulate and engaging here as he is in different ways in his massive, four-volume biography of Mahler. Then there’s Pierre Boulez, gay Apollo to Claudio Abbado’s Dionysus in the pantheon of today’s Mahler interpreters, talking about the composer’s steady “demolition” of traditional harmony: “Mahler brought the first sticks of dynamite to the world of tonality.”

The superb musical clips, tricky to excerpt from Mahler’s complex scores, feature conductors including the underrated Daniel Harding, ingeniously and beautifully filmed, who speaks persuasively and takes up the musical slack with the nonMahler scores (Lohengrin, Tristan, Carmen), as well as some of the Mahler. Bernstein, too, appears both in conversation (showing cleavage) and on the podium.

But it’s Abbado, with his handpicked Lucerne Festival Orchestra, who delivers both the most elevated music-making and the most lingering insights (in both Italian and French). Describing the final minutes of the Ninth Symphony, which we also see and hear him conduct, he explains Mahler’s expression marks – morendo, niente – as signifying “not nothing, but disappearing – like snow falling upon snow.”

The film hews to the notion that in the Ninth Symphony Mahler bids farewell to the past, and in the 10th peers into the future, revitalizing that truism by delving deeply into the sound world of the 10th and Mahler’s last days, as well as those of his wife, Alma. Its depiction of “the most beautiful woman in Vienna” is remarkably unbiased. By providing photographs of the startlingly handsome architect Walter Gropius, with whom Alma had an affair leading to another of her illustrious serial marriages, the film nearly rationalizes her abandonment of Mahler for him – an event some have called the “cause” of the 10th Symphony.

La Grange deadpans the fact

that, at the end of her days (about the time Bernstein was beginning his rehabilitation of Mahler’s reputation) Alma was so deep in her cups that she polished off whole bottles of Benedictine between breakfast and lunch. Bruno Walter himself comments, witheringly, that Alma’s injuring a foot by dropping a bottle on it was “a work-related injury.”

Alma had given her blessing to the completion of the manuscript of the unfinished 10th Symphony but, like the widow Berg with the unfinished Lulu, forbade performances of it after learning of the BBC’s 1960 broadcast. Colin Matthews’ note suggests that the ban came on the counsel of Walter, who thought performances of the unfinished work immoral – a view that, remarkably, survives in some places today. But when she heard a tape of that broadcast, she was carried away by it, and gave Cooke “full permission to go ahead with performances in any part of the world.”

The two Goldschmidt-led performances are hardly the best sonic representations of the score – for that, try Rattle live with the Berlin Philharmonic, or Chailly with the RSO Berlin – but neither are they, to paraphrase Abbado, “nothing.” Having lived with the piece in Cooke’s version since its first studio recording (Ormandy’s with the Philadelphia in 1965), I can’t get enough of it, and I wouldn’t want to be without either of these captivating broadcasts.

In addition to meticulously explaining his method and working principles, Cooke whets your appetite for the music itself by talking about it the way only the most gifted musicians can. With subsequent revisions, his version remains by far the best gateway to a work still far too little known, over whose fourth movement Mahler scrawled, “The devil is dancing this with me.” These truly historical performances are as good a way in as any.▼

between Somalia and Kenya.

This Week has been featuring ABC’s foreign correspondent Lama Hassan giving heart-breaking reports from the encampments for several weeks, but last week ABC sent weekend anchor David Muir to report nightly on the grim situation.

As Diane Sawyer noted, Muir is the only American reporter covering the crisis, and he has been remarkable.

Muir’s coverage has been gutwrenching but essential. It takes so little to bring these children back to life, but the roguestate circumstances in Somalia, combined with the worst drought in 60 years, have made life almost

impossible for so many. Thousands are walking up to 200 miles to get to the camps in Kenya.

ABC has links for helping with this crisis. There are special food supplements that are being used for the children dying of starvation, and other necessities that can be provided through various agencies.

We urge you to check out Muir’s and Hassan’s coverage at ABCnews. com, and check out the links provided to help. In the midst of the summer doldrums, it’s hard to focus on anything but fluff and entertainment, but when people are dying, it’s more important than ever that we stay tuned.▼

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Bluster & blarney in modern Ireland

by David Lamble

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rish playwright John Michael McDonagh’s darkly funny, profane and oddly melancholy freshman film The Guard boasts a circus side-show cast of gun-toting little boys, shy gay cops, photo-taking rent girls, suicidal moms, to-the-manor-born African American FBI agents, Nietzschequoting drug traffickers and frisky young crime-scene photographers.

A depressed rural policeman (called a guard in the local slang) sits in a kind of stupor in his squad car as life in Western Ireland near Galway literally passes by at warp speed.

Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is awoken from his nap by the sound of three drunken local lads turning into crash-test dummies.

Checking the corpse of the driver for drugs – “I don’t think your mommy would be too pleased about that, now” – Boyle slips a tab of acid on his tongue and exclaims, “What a beautiful fucking day!”

Gleeson, Harry Potter’s grouchy Professor Mad-Eye Moody, has racked up an impressive number of star character turns for filmmakers as different in their predilections as mad Mel Gibson (Braveheart) and McDonagh’s twin playwright brother Martin (In Bruges). In the profanityspewing, authority-tweaking Sergeant Gerry Boyle, Gleeson sinks his teeth into a role that is a winking tour de force of bluster and blarney on the surface, masking the mid-life sorrow of a lonely man who sees his closeted junior partner assassinated by a vicious drug gang while his equally depressed, cancer-afflicted mum chooses death by pills.

Just when he needs one, Boyle gets his perfect foil in a slightly prissy African American FBI agent, Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle). Deliberately

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Brendan Gleeson (left) in John Michael McDonagh’s The Guard.

provoking the black cop with a blizzard of racially insensitive jokes and cultural malapropisms, Boyle makes himself useful to agent Everett by pointing out where the bodies are buried, a job shunned by his police colleagues, who are virtually all on the payroll of the drug-runners. Typical of McDonagh’s writing, one of the sauciest scenes features two crooked cops picking up their swag from a sarcastic British hoodlum (Mark Strong).

Boyle displays his battered sensitive soul only to women. In an underplayed scene between two souls in mourning, Boyle talks to the Croatian widow of his young gay partner (Rory Keenan), whose squad car was discovered abandoned near a desolate spot known to the locals as a suicide site. McDonagh gives Gleeson and Katrina Cas, as the widow McBride, a subtextrich chat on the dilemmas of Irish bachelors, visa-seeking immigrant brides, and discreet homosexuals looking for their place in a still deeply conservative society.

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Love & sex

by Gregg Shapiro

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atching Love & Other Drugs (20th Century Fox) means never having to say you’re sorry because you wanted to see more of Jake Gyllenhaal’s body. Not since he threw down in a tent with the late Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain has Jake’s snake gotten so much attention.

A throwback to the romantic dramadies of yore, L&OD begins in 1996, when high-end electronics equipment salesman Jamie (Gyllenhaal) is fired for banging the boss’ girlfriend. Down but not out for long, the charming and handsome Jamie scores a job with pharma giant Pfizer, and puts his ladykiller shtick to good use, charming receptionists and nurses in doctors’ offices in the Ohio River Valley.

Of course, the last thing Jamie anticipates while racking up Zoloft sales and bedpost-notches is falling in love. But while “shadowing” Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria) on rounds, he meets fiercely independent Maggie (Anne Hathaway), who has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 26.

After a rough start, Jamie and Maggie begin a graphically depicted, nostrings-attached sexual relationship.

But that kind of intimacy is bound to lead to something more, and it does.

So as the two of them try to figure out what to do about their increasingly complex feelings, Maggie’s health continues to decline. Manipulating heart-strings between laughs and erotic interludes, L&OD feels like it could have been more, but instead plays it safe and winds up being less.

To its credit, L&OD isn’t very nice to the pharma folks, the insurance industrial complex or the medical profession, for that matter. Perhaps the saddest thing about this movie is that it was one of the late Jill Clayburgh’s last films, and she deserves to be remembered for something much better. The two-disc Blu-ray includes a virtual medicine chest of extras, including deleted scenes and much more.

Self-professed slut, bi Angela (Karin Anna Cheung) has her work cut out for her trying to find out who knocked her up in The People I’ve Slept With (Maya Entertainment), directed by out filmmaker Quentin Lee. The tools at her disposal include gay BFF and fellow gallery/bookstore employee Gabriel (increasingly hot Wilson Cruz) and the stack of tricks’ pix that she converts into trading See page 28 >>

“I can’t think of anybody who would have wanted to do something bad to Aldan.”

“He’s a guard. Somebody somewhere probably had a grudge against him. It’s a better theory than

suicide. Is there anything you can tell me, anything personal?”

“He’s gay – you know, when one man puts his –” “I’m familiar with the mechanics of it, yeah. I just didn’t realize –” “Do you think he might have met someone there who might have done something bad to him?”

“Like a rent boy?”

“Yeah.”

“There’s not much call for rent boys around here, as far as I know anyways.

Why did you marry him? For the visa, I suppose. It’s just between you and me.”

(She whispers:) “Yes, I get a visa and he looks –” “Respectable.”

“Yes, respectable.”

Set in a backward-looking if beautiful swath of Western Ireland where significant segments of the population speak only Gaelic (and many refuse to speak to a black cop), The Guard balances rude talk with

dodgy characters, climaxing in a surprisingly volatile shootout. It’s like a homegrown, Wild West Irish sequel to the Coen Brothers’ “Minnesota nice” bloodbath, Fargo.

In a device borrowed from the theatre, McDonagh provides curtain calls for his mostly unknown Irish cast, starting with the scene-stealing Michael Og Lane (Og is Gaelic for Junior) as an impudent, mini-bikeriding Protestant lad who leads Boyle to a secret cache of IRA guns.

McDonagh’s strong suit as a first-time director is the kind of mordantly funny dialogue that won him and brother Martin kudos from theatergoers enamored of bitter Gaelic humor liberally laced with Anglo-Saxon cuss-words. McDonagh also reveals a classic Anglo-Irish taste for pop ballads, whose sugary flavor he dilutes with his acid wit: a Dublin mobster bares his pop soul in a sweetshop scene underscored by See page 29 >>

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Union Square and at nearby hotels. $25$165. Thru Aug. 7. www.sfchefs2011.com

Love and Anarchy @ Ictus Gallery

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Group exhibit of works by Cece Carpio, Kira Curtis, Fernando Marti, and Jermaine Rogers. Tue-Sat 12pm-5pm hru Sept. 1. 1769 15th St. at Albion. www.ictusgallery.com

Afro Solo Arts Fest @ Various Venues Afro Solo presents its 10th annual free concert, A Concert for Peace, with Jerome Clay and the Jerome Clay Ensemble with special guest, vocalist Gaylyn Arnold, and Bay Area musical prodigy Ranzel Merritt Jr. of The Ranzel Merritt Quartet.

1pm-3pm. Mission St. www.ybca.org.

Aug. 7, Performances for Peace ; Rich Fertile Soil, 2:10pm at Southside Theatre, and Joel A. Brown’s Simplexity, 4:15pm at the Firehouse Theater, both Fort Mason Center, Marina Blvd. at Buchanan. More events thru Oct. www.afrosolo.org

Assisted Living, the Musical @ Imperial Palace Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett’s witty musical about senior lives and the joys and woes of aging; Dim Sum banquet with each show. $79.59-$99.50. Sat 12pm. Sun 12 & 5pm. Thru Aug 14. 818 Washington st. (888) 885-2844. www.assistedlivingthemusical.com

Bali @ Asian Art Museum Art, Ritual and Performance, an expansive exhibit of more than 100 historic art works in exhibits that showcase the practicality of the performing and visual arts in this beautiful culture. Reg. admission: $7-$17.

Reg. hours Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Thu til 9pm. Thru Sept. 11. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

Bay Area Now 6 @ YBCA

What a drag ~ By Jim Provenzano ~

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fter last weekend’s overload of butchness (both faux and real), let’s pull a 180.

Vicki Marlane has died. That’s a drag. She was an amazing pioneer and became a drag legend. Fortunately, a fascinating documentary about her will screen this Saturday night, and any drag performer or fan certainly ought to see it. Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, The Vicki Marlane Story screens at the Castro Theatre for one night only.

Proceeds benefit the AIDS Emergency Fund. $10. Saturday, August 6.

11:30 pre-show. 12am screening. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com For hilarious drag –and a slasher parody to boot– see The Unbearable Lightness of Raya at CounterPulse. Raya Light’s wild one-hour fictional autobiographical musical, and Halloween! The Ballad of Michele Myers, a staged singing of a musical parodyin-progress, is all part of the dance space’s irreverent summer programs. $15-$20.

August 5-7. 8pm. 1310 Mission St. at 9th.

(800) 838-3006. www.counterpulse.org For a delicious brunch with your drag shows, remember the weekly Sunday’s a Raya Light Drag at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room with cohost Donna Sachet. $45. August 7 (and every Sunday). 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Fri 5 >> American Buffalo @ Actors Theatre of SF David Mamet’s intense drama about three petty crooks. $26-$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 3. 855 Bush St. at Taylor. 345-1287. www.ActorsTheatreSF.org

Billy Elliot @ Orpheum Theatre Elton John and Lee Hall’s hit Broadway musical adaptation of the wonderful film about a boy who takes up dance lessons; starring Tony Award winner Faith Prince. $35- Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat, Sun & some Wed 2pm. some Sun 7:30pm. Thru Aug. 21.

1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) SHN 1799. www.shnsf.com

Gaia Festival @ Black Oak Ranch, Laytonville Three-day festival of music, sustainable eco-activism, food and other entertainment; The Wailers, Aaron Neville, The Mighty Diamonds and more. $60 (single day) $700 (four-people full pass).

Thru Aug. 7. 256-TIXX. www.thegaiafestival.com

Hard-Wired/Soft-Wired @ Oddball Film Strange short films about brains, eyeballs and creepy science facts and fiction. $10.

8:30pm. Also, Wild Auditories, eco-based nature films combined with live electornic sound by Amanda A. Hendricks. $10. 8pm.

275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

The Kinsey Sicks @ The Rrazz Room Hilarious dragapella troupe returns to perform their ‘GreatesTits’! $35-$40. 2-drink min. 8pm. Thru Aug. 7 (at 7pm). Then Aug 9-13, 8pm & Aug 14 at 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Labayen Dance/SF, DanceWright Project @ Dance Mission Theater World premieres of new and intensely physical and nuanced dance works by Enrico Labayen, Jamie Wright and Victor Talledos. $18-$20. 8pm. Also Aug 5 & 6, 8pm & Aug 7, 7pm. 3316 24th St. www.brownpapertickets.com

Macbeth, The Complete History of America @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre Marin Shakespeare Company performs the creepy and tragic “Scottish play” in repertory with the comic three-man romp about US history. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm.

Thru Aug 14/Sept 25. $20-$75 (season tix).

1475 Acacia Ave., Dominican Universaty, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Peter Frampton @ The Warfield Popular rock musician from yesteryear re-performs his classic set from Frampton Comes Alive. $45-$69.50. 8pm. 982 Market St. www.PeterFrampton.com www.thewarfieldtheatre.com

SF Chefs @ Various Venues Large-scale, multi-event, celebrity-cheffilled tasting, dining and drinks events in

Group exhibit of local visual artists in varied media. Exhibit thru Sept. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2700. www.ybca.org

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. $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

Cabaret Lunatique @ Spiegeltent Teatro Zinzanni presents another celebration of San Francisco neighborhoods, this month “Celebrate Haight Ashbury,” with La Chica Boom, Brandon Rabe, Nancy Kate, Thomas John, Circus Finelli and more talents. $25-$35. 11:15pm. Pier 29 at Embarcadero & Battery. 438-2668. www.cabaretlunatique.org

Dutch and Flemish Masterworks @ Legion of Honor Famous artists such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Hendrick Avercamp are featured in this exhibit of works from the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. Also, Picasso’s Ceramics (thru Oct. 9), Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel (thru July 24). $7-$11. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Thru Oct. 2. 100 34th Ave. at Clement, Lincoln Park. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

My Fair Lady @ Woodminster Ampitheater, Oakland Woodminster Summer Musical’s production of the classic Lerner & Lowe musical based on G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion, about a British flower girl who is transformed into a society lady by an elocution professor. $10-$42. 8pm. Thu-Sun thru Aug. 14. Joaquin Miller Park, 3300 Joaquin Miller Road.

(510) 531-9597. www.woodminster.com

The Road to Hades @ John Hinkel Park, Berkeley Shotgun Players presents Jeff Raz’s circus stunt-filled pratfall parody of war between the ancient gods. $10. Sat & Sun 3pm.

Thru Sept. 11. Southhampton Ave. at The Arlington. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Seussical the Musical @ Julia Morgan Theatre Berkeley Playhouse revives their recent production of the wacky kid-friendly musical based on the Dr. Seuss books. $15-$30.

Fri-Sun various times. Thru Aug. 14. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org www.juliamorgan.org

Sizzle @ Femina Potens It’s Hot for Teacher: an Education in Health & Awareness night at the women and trans-focused kinky spoken word and performance series; Kitty Stryker, Maggie Mayhem, Maxine Holloway, Madison Young, Buck Angel Drew Deveaux. $10.

8pm. 998 Valencia St. at 21st. www.feminapotens.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 Joan Baez returns to Teatro in Maestro’s Enchantment, the new show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza, with Ukranian illusionist Yevgeniy Voronin, clown Peter Pitofsky, aerialist Bianca Sapetto, trapeze artists The Collins Brothers, singer Kristin Clayton, contortionist Svetlana, plus a five-course dinner. $117-$145.

Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63-$78.

Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Thru Oct. 9. Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Tigers Be Still @ SF Playhouse Quirky endearing comedy about an art therapist whose family and work life is complicated; oh, and a tiger’s escaped from a local zoo. $40-$50. 8pm. Tue & Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept. 10. 533 Sutter St. near Powell. 6779596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Times Square Kiss Celebrations @ Pier 45 Kissing contest near the new installation of Seward Johnson’s outdoor sculpture commemorating the famous Alfred Eisenstadt

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Life magazine cover of a sailor and nurse kissing in Times Square on D-Day. Active duty and veteran military encouraged; costumes and same-sex contestants welcome.

Free. 11am-4pm; contest 12pm-1:30pm.

Part of early events for National Spirit of ‘45 Day (Aug 14), a celebration of ‘ordinary heroes.’ Taylor Street and Embarcadero. www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/thekiss.html

Twelfth Night @ Theatre in the Woods, Woodside Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy about cross-dressing loves, heartache and romance, is re-set in colonial New England at the beautiful outdoor ampitheatre. $15$25. Sat & Sun 1pm thru Sept. 4. 2170 Bear Gulch Road (West), Woodside. www.theatreinthewoods.com

Twice Bombed, Twice Survived @ New People Cinema Documentary fim about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person to have been officially recognized by the Japanese government for surviving both bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US military. Proceeds benefit Friends of Hibakusha, which supports bombing survivors. $10. 2pm. 1746 Post St. 525-8600. www.newpeopleworld.com

Vintage Paper Fair @ Hall of Flowers Victorian memorabilia, postcards, posters, art prints and lots more for sale at bargain prices. Look up dealer Ken Prag for vintage gay photos and postcards. Free admission.

10am-6pm. Also Aug 7, 10am-4pm. Couty Fair Bldg., Golden Gate Park, 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way. www.vtinagepaperfair.com

Sun 7 >> Anatomy of Pleasure @ Center for Sex & Culture Afternoon workshop led by Dr. Carol Queen and her partner Robert on developing your extra-sensual perceptions. $20$60. 1pm-5pm. 1349 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s Best Original Singer-Songwriter portion of the cabaret contest; guest judges include Lua Hadar and Katy Stephen. Trauma Flintstone and Katya Smirnoff-Skyy cohost. $5. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Greg Proops @ Stage Werx Theatre Witty comic ( Who’s Line Is It Anyway?) shares his serio-comic one-man story-show Chicken Delite or How I Worked for a Speed Dealer in Burlingame. $25-$35.

7pm & 9:30pm. 533 Sutter St. near Powell. www.previouslysecretinformation.com

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

East 14th @ The Marsh, Berkeley True Tales of a Reluctant Player, Don Reed’s autobiographical solo show about being raised as a God-fearing church boy whose father was a pimp. $20-$35.

Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. Thru Aug. 7.

2120 Allston Way. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus @ Oakland Asian Cultural Center Gala concert with food and wine (and table seating), a silent auction, and featuring a variety of solos, duets, contemporary and traditional choral music. $25-$490.

7:30pm. 388 9th St. #290. (800) 7062389. www.oabgmc.org

GAWK Party @ Tika Masala Jon Sugar and his Gay Artists and Writers Kollective welcomes hiphopper Archie Vez, progressive rock band Era Escape, activistauthor-singer Tommi Avicolli Mecca, gay hiphop cutie Xavier Toscano and comic storyteller Enzo Lombard. Free. 6pm.

1668 Haight St.

Home After Dark @ Galeria de la Raza Recent Works by Emerging Latino Artists, a multimedia group exhibit. Tonight, a special artist talk with Reno-based Crystal Gonzales, 4pm-6pm. Reg hours Tue 1pm7pm, Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. Exhibit thru Sept 17. 2857 24th St. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

H.M.S. Pinafore

Sea. Men. I love a man in a uniform, and Lamplighters’ production of the classic witty Gilbert & Sullivan nautical operetta H.M.S. Pinafore plays at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Novellus Theater, with lots of sailors onstage. Yo ho ho and a bottle of Bicardi! $14-$50. August 5 thru 7. 8pm. Also Aug. 13 & 14 in Mountain View, and Aug 20 & 21 in Livermore. 400 Howard St. 227-4797. www.lamplighters.org Lost at sea? You’re not alone. See Gilligan’s Island at The Garage, Moore Theatre and Safehouse’s campy stage parody of the classic TV show, with Ginger as the drag queen we knew she always Gilligan’s Island was. $10-$20. Satuardays and Sundays at 8pm. Thru Aug. 28. 975 Howard St. www.MooreTheatreSF.com www.975howard.com

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Maria Volonte @ The Rrazz Room Vocalist and her band perform a unique blend of tango and blues music. $29.50.

8pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Tue 9 >> 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

The Meatrack

A Thin Line @ Visual Aid

Butch treats “You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” Who said that, Oscar Wilde or RuPaul? You have 30 seconds.

While you think on that, get your tickets to San Francisco’s Drag King Contest at DNA Lounge, Friday July 5. The 16th annual night of wildly funny-sexy acts by women, trans men and others showcases ‘butchness’ better than many bio-males.

Proceeds benefit Pets Are Wonderful Support. Drag and pet-themed attire encouraged. $20. 9pm. 375 11th St. www.sfdragkingcontest.com www.DNAlounge.com DRED at the SF Check out the haunting imagery of Leon Drag King Contest Mostovoy at the LGBT Center. His exhibit, Death of my Daughter, a diptych photo series of female-to-male transgendered people with symbolic poses and imagery, gets an opening reception Thursday August 11, 6pm-9pm. Thru Sept 29.1800 Market St. www.leonmostovoy.wordpress.com www.sfcenter.org Is he gay? Is he bi? Or is he just a whore? Find out at Smut Capital of America, the porn/art series of films at YBCA, when they screen a classic early gay porneaux, The Meatrack Aug 5 at 7:30pm. For sexploitation of the hetero kind, see Streetwalkers and His Father’s Call Girl Aug. 11, 7:30pm. Other erotica and documentaries thru August might heat you up through your often chilly San Death of my Francisco summer. $6-$8. 7:30pm. Yerba Daughter exhibit Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2700. www.ybca.org

Outlook Video @ Channel 29 Monthly LGBT news show; Sacramento Pride, Trans March, New york’s gay marriage, Pink Triangle at Twin Peaks and more.

5pm. Other dates elsewhere in the Bay, and streaming online. www.outlookvideo.org

Outside the Lines @ Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Group exhibit of unusual folk and contemporary art. 3pm-5pm. Daily 11am-5pm (closed Tuesdays). Thru Aug. 7.

11101 Highway One. 663-1347. www.galleryrouteone.org

SF Theater Festival @ Fort Mason Center Busy one-day mini-fest of new theatrical works, including Ryan Hayes gay-themed solo show of Walt Whitman’s homoerotic poetry (2pm, The Presidio Room, 38 Fort Mason). Other shows 10am-11pm. Free. www.sftheaterfestival.org

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit of personal artwork, collected work and archival materials showing how the lesbian poet’s life, mostly in Paris, changed over the decades before and after WWII. Free-$10. Thru Sept. 6. 11am-5pm daily (closed Wed), Thu 1pm-8pm. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

The Steins Collect @ SF MOMA Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avante-Garde, an exhibit of pivotal artworks originally collected by lesbian poet Gertrude Stein and her family. 4th floor galleries. Free (members)-$25. Thru Sept.

6. 11am-5:45pm daily. Closed Wed.; open til 8:45pm Thu. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org

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Works by Daniel Goldstein, David King, David Wojnarowicz and Philip Zimmerman.

Thru Aug 31. 57 Post St. 777-8242. www.visualaid.org

Soulful Stitching @ MOAD Patchwork Quilts by African (Siddis) in India, a new exhibit of 32 colorful handcrafted works. Thru Sept. 18. Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Wed 10 >> David Berkeley @ Book Passage Folk rock singer discusses and signs copies of his book 140 Goats and a Guitar, about the inspiration for his new CD Some Kind of Cure. 1 Ferry Bldg., Marketplace Shop #42. 835-1020. www.davidberkeley.com www.bookpassage.com

Same-Sex Dancing @ Queer Ballroom Ongoing partner dance lessons and open dancing in a variety of styles; different each night. $5-$25 open dancing to $55 for private lessons. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. www.QueerBallroom.com

Thu 11 >> The Age of Reason @ The Garage Robillard Theatreworks’ production of a dance-theater adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s book about bohemian underlords and frustrated students. $15. Also Aug 11, 18, 19. 8pm. 975 Howard St. www.brownpapertickets.com www.975howard.com

Alice B. Toklas Club @ GLBT History Museum

Jet Black Hair People @ Oddball Film

Featured speakers tonight at a special discussion about the LGBT political group include Phyllis Lyon, Gary Miller, Connie O’Connor, Pam David and Theresa Sparks.

See the new mini-exhibit about the San Francisco LGBT Democratic political organization as it celebrates its 40th anniversary; part of Our Vast Queer Past, the popular exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items on display. Free for members-$5. Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Peter Conheim of the infamous band Negativland performs experimental music at a benefit for Save KUSF; also, rare Dada and Surrealist films. $10-$15. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

Cityscapes @ John Pence Gallery Group exhibit of paintings of urban San Francisco. 6pm-8pm. Thru Sept 2. Mon-Fri 10am-6pm Sat til 5pm. 750 Post St. 4411138. www.johnpence.com

Comedy Night @ El Rio Host Lisa Geduldig welcome comics Carla Clayy, Joe Klocek, Nick Leonard, and Karinda Dobbins. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. (800) 838-3006. www.elriosf.com www.koshercomedy.com

Janine Brito, Emily Heller @ The Punch Line The two local comics perform “Girl Talk,” an “unladylike” stand-up show. $15.

2-drink min. 8pm. 444 Battery St. 3977573. www.punchlinecomedyclub.com

Marga’s Funny Mondays @ The Marsh, Berkeley Marga Gomez brings her comic talents and special guests to a weekly cabaret show. $10. 8pm. 2120 Allston Way. (800) 838-3006. www.margagomez.com www.themarsh.org

Sunday School @ The EndUp

Mark Kleim Photos @ The Cove

New T-dance and beer bust at the fames disco. Enjoy the sunny patio and grooves

by DJ Hawthorne and the Ghetto Disco crew. 3pm-8pm. www.endupsf.com

Lavender Lounge host’s video slideshow of sexy amusing candids from Up Your Alley street fairs 2003-2009 shows at the local cafe. Daily. 434 Castro St. www.LavenderLounge.com

Picasso @ de Young Museum Masterpieces from the Museé National Picasso, Paris, a new exhibit of classic early modern works by the Spanish master painter. Free (members)-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Wed 9:30am-8:45pm (the Aug). Thru Oct. 9. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Salon for Sex Nerds @ Center for Sex & Culture Chris Hall leads a free-form discussion group about the politics, art, history, theory, and facts of sexuality Donations.

7:30-9:30pm. 1349 Mission St. www. sexandculture.org

Sutro San Francisco @ Rayko Photo Opening reception for dual exhibits. Dan Ross presents 30 large-format color views shot in contrast to the 1910 black and white enlarged originals of the famous Sutro Baths. Also, Fraction Magazine’s group exhibit of prints by a variety of photographers. Reception 6pm-8pm.

ThruSept 15/18. Tue-Thu 10am-8pm; FriSun 10am-8pm. 428 Third St. 496-3773. www.raykophoto.com

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

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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

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Entertainment know-how

by Donna Sachet

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uring a brief respite from major events, we’ve been taking advantage of the great variety of entertainment available around the city. Originally erected as a temporary setting, the historic spiegeltent of Teatro ZinZanni has now been at Pier 29 for over 10 years. For the uninitiated, Teatro ZinZanni presents a gourmet fivecourse meal in a colorful circus-like setting, while costumed performers delight with comedy, song, dance, acrobatics, and more with a live five-piece band. Shows rotate with their other location in Seattle, often starring a notable solo entertainer, most recently local legend Joan Baez. She was in great voice last week and skillfully wove herself into the storyline of the night, supported by a very talented, lively cast and crew. Starting Aug. 4, Melanie Stace stars in Maestro’s Enchantment, featuring lots of startling magic, as well as breathtaking acrobatic, contortionist, and juggling acts. Grab a friend and treat yourselves soon to a night at Teatro ZinZanni!

Many in the musical performing community were devastated a few years ago when the iconic Plush Room of the York Hotel shuttered its doors. But the city that knows how rose to the occasion, and Robert Kotonly and Rory Paull opened the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko. This intimate room with top-quality sound was an instant hit. Two weeks ago, we popped in for Chris Dilley, formerly of Kinsey Sicks, on Monday night.

He showed off his lovely tenor voice and amazing falsetto with classic songs and a few original tunes, including three separate guest stars for a single duet with each.

It was a very personal and tender evening. Last Friday, we relished the rich vocal interpretations of Andrea Marcovicci showcasing

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Choreographer Eric Froman with the five young actors rotating in the title role of Billy Elliot, backstage during REAF’s one-night-only cabaret last Sunday night.

gorgeous torch songs. What could have been a very depressing night, given the theme, became a delightful journey in the hands of this professional, who seamlessly segued from sorrowful lyrics to personal memoirs and funny anecdotes.

She earned a standing ovation from the packed house. Upcoming at the Rrazz Room are acts so varied that there is something for everyone, from crooning Bobby Caldwell to soulful Jerry Butler and from Australia’s eye-popping Thunder from Down Under to a rare appearance by Judy Collins.

Get yourself soon to the Rrazz Room!

Closer to home, after a wonderful meal at 2223 Market, we joined Chris Carnes for some laughter at Harvey’s Funny Tuesday with comedian Ronn Vigh and a handpicked cast of comics. While some jokes brought belly laughs and others only titters, the stand-out of the night was Lynn Ruth Miller, a female comedienne of a noticeably advanced age who skewered the room with her scathing life

commentary. Drop by Harvey’s in the Castro for some laughs any Tuesday night starting at 9 p.m.

Seating goes fast!

Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) bid farewell to its seven-year Executive Director John Lipp last Thursday at its recently purchased headquarters on 23rd St. Staff, Board members, volunteers, and other friends crowded the room, sharing videos, photo books, collected quotes, and other memories and tributes. We emceed the affair, injecting some much-needed humor into the often emotional send-off. Among the crowd were Wilkes Bashford, Ken Gorczyca & Lorenz Obwegeser, Kaushik Roy, Brett Andrews, Richard Sablatura, Lenny Broberg, Anna Damiani, Kathleen Luzzi, Joanne Kipnis, Victoria Long, John’s partner Peter Lunny and his parents. John obviously leaves a loyal support base here as he now turns his attention to his new position as Executive Director for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), Greater Bay Area Chapter.

Friday night, Rebel hosted a Thank GLAAD it’s Friday party with hefty food, generous drinks, and a colorful crowd, including Elliot Elsner, See page 27 >>

Coming up in leather and kink Thu., Aug. 4: Join the Bay Area Reporter and BARtab for A Night in Gay Paris at SFMOMA (151 3rd St.) and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (736 Mission St.), 5:30-8:30 p.m. $25 includes entry to Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories at the CJM and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde at SFMOMA. Both receptions feature light hors d’oeuvres and cash bars. Get tickets at: www.sfmoma.org/gayparis.

Thu., Aug. 4: Locker Room Thursdays at Kok Bar SF (1225 Folsom). 9 p.m.-close. Free clothes check.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Thu., Aug. 4: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Fri., Aug. 5: Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom).

10 p.m.-close. Live shower boys and drink specials.

Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Fri., Aug. 5: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf. com.

Fri., Aug. 5: Sin City: What Happens at Bent Stays at Bent at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 10 p.m. $20.

Bent is for kinky youth: 18, 19, 20s, 30s. Go to: www. sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Aug. 5: Michael Brandon presents Locker Room at The Edge (4149 Collingwood). 9 p.m.-12 a.m. Wear your gear! Hot Go-go studs and shot specials. Go to: www.edgesf.com.

Fri., Aug. 5: Koktail Club at Kok Bar SF. 4-9 p.m.

Malibu Koktails for $4.75, and happy-hour pricing.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sat., Aug. 6: All Beef Saturday Nights at the Lone Star (1354 Harrison). 100% SoMa Beef & Co. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.facebook.com/lonestarsf.

Sat., Aug. 6: Red Meat, a Party for Gay Redheads and the Men Who Love Them, at Club 8 (1151 Folsom). 9 p.m.-3 a.m. $5 cover, redheads

get in free! Features 2 dance floors, 3 bars, gogo studs, drink specials, DJs Robbie Martin and DAMnation. Go to: www.facebook.com/event. php?eid=249889825022877 Sat., Aug. 6: Kok Block at Kok Bar SF. 4-9 p.m. $50 pool tournament starts at 6:30 p.m.

Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sat., Aug. 6: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel.

8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 plus Citadel membership. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sun., Aug. 7: Night Cruise Sundays at Kok Bar SF. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Sun., Aug. 7: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Sun., Aug. 7: PoHo Sundays at The Powerhouse.

DJ Keith, Dollar Drafts all day. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Aug. 8: Trivia Night with host Casey Ley at Truck. 8-10 p.m. Featuring prizes and ridiculous questions! Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Tue., Aug. 9: Busted at Truck. 9 p.m.-close. $5 beer bust from 9-11 p.m. Great music, and the notorious Truck boys. Go to: www.trucksf.com.

Tue., Aug. 9: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m. www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Aug. 10: Golden Shower Buddies at Blow Buddies. This is a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m., play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies. com.

Wed., Aug. 10: Bear Bust Wednesdays at Kok Bar SF. $6 all you can drink Bud Light or Rolling Rock drafts. Go to: www.kokbarsf.com.

Wed., Aug. 10: Nipple Play at The Powerhouse.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Specials for shirtless guys. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

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Basket cases

by John F. Karr

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ne of the pleasures of reviewing a Steve Cruz movie, beside first watching it, is that Steve invariably e-mails a note of thanks, even when I’m critical. He gives me some background of the movie’s creation, which I really like. He’s not making excuses, but helping me know more about what it’s like to film porn.

That can only benefit my articles.

And so, even though I complained last week that Steve’s high spirits led him to splinter a scene in All Access, he wrote that he appreciated my point of view, good or bad.

“Most reviews are summaries,” Cruz wrote. “You really take time to analyze what you are watching.

No one can rip me a new one with the same eloquence and strength of vocabulary.” I think he knows that I only meant to rip him a small one.

Another thing Cruz told me is that his art director got sick before filming began on He’s Got a Big Package, causing scramble and stress. Under those conditions, Cruz was glad the movie’s sense of humor stayed intact, and that I appreciated it. Sure, I like a sense of humor and lightness of approach – but not when it interrupts the sex. Yet like many a fan, I find it fascinating, and only infrequently disillusioning, to see and hear what a porn star’s like when off-camera.

And that’s why there are Behind the Scenes segments. Filmmakers know we want to experience the sex-saturated, privileged world of camaraderie and cumraderie that surrounds actual filming. We want to see the fluffing, casual sex, the snacking and chatting and trivial activities that take place in a world where cock-coddling is constant, where boners travel everywhere. It makes me jealous, that some guys get to live and work in a world of hard-on, a world of hapenis.

So that’s my advice to Steve – catch that spirit in the sex. But please – put all the rest in a Bonus segment, not amidst the meat of the matter.

Do ya know where, with increasing frequency, that meat’s being put? I’m talking about the expanding incidence of barebacking in mainstream movies and websites.

BelAmi has started mingling barebacking with their regular fare.

Active Duty’s switched to it, as have websites Corbin Fisher, Cocksure Men, and Uncle Jake Cruise. Frat X, too, has announced their flip

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into BB with this statement: “We decided to say ‘fuck it’ to condoms, because we want our big loads in that juicy tight hole.” You know, I can understand the urge to fuck or be fucked without a condom (been there, done that – but remember, I’ve been positive since 1983).

I just can’t fathom sex where the main point and goal is purposeful “breeding.”

And some guys feel that way about oral cum shots. Like anal cum shots, they’re on the rise, but they’re mighty safer (if still not “safe”). You know I like em.

They make me drool. And cum.

I’ll skip a movie that doesn’t have them for one I know does, like a LucasEntertainment flick, where one or two are a dependable part of each feature. Here’s how FDA labeling would deliver the stats on a teaspoon of cum (with threeto-five servings per orgasm): a mere 20 calories, 6 mg fat, 11 mg carbohydrates, and 3 mg cholesterol. Then, wow, a whopping

150 mg of protein. That means the nutritional benefit of ingesting cum may outweigh the miniscule risk of its causing HIV infection. As a little sidelight, here’s what a worldly girlfriend of mine attests (and believe me, this gal knows). “There’s a biiig difference in flavor and tingle factor in guys who’ve had vasectomies.”

Betcha didn’t know that.

Let’s have a high culture finish: I haven’t been much interested in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. I’m into musicals, and it seemed more a circus act. Except for one thing: SpiderBulge. Would the secondskin of a costume show basket? Did the star even have a basket to show?

Bulge Buffs needed to know! Preopening publicity shots were no help. They seemed vetted to conceal protuberance. But after the show’s recent opening, BulgePics have been bountiful. There’s even a photo of Spidey’s six body doubles taking a bow. And that’s a whole lotta basket goin’ on. Is this an attempt to sell tickets? Whatever; we’re sated. Now we never have to entertain the idea of buying tickets.▼

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Adam Sandel, Akshat Gupta, Alejandro Franceschi, and local GLAAD representative Juan Barajas.

Golden Gate Park’s AIDS Memorial Grove has been the setting for many ceremonies and events, large and small, but last Saturday’s Flagging in the Park was incredible! Gathered under sunny skies were hundreds of devotees of the iconic art of flag dancing, led by producer Xavier Caylor to the inspirational music of DJ Susan Morabito, who donated her services for the afternoon. A location perhaps best known for quiet reflection and private remembrance was transformed by flying printed fabric, wafting bubbles, and raucous laughter into a place of familial celebration. The smiling flaggers and observers included Suzan Revah & Graig Cooper, Will Whitaker, Jeff Doney, Marcelo Vigo, Georg Lester, Gil Doron, Adam Martines, Michael Rackley, Jaime Vasquez, and Mark Benjamin. Watch for

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(Left to right:) Akshat Gupta, staff members Elliott Elsner and Alejandro Franceschi at the Thank GLAAD it’s Friday mixer, last Friday night at Rebel.

Flagging in the Park dates in August and October.

So, until the next slew of major events hits, get out there and explore the plethora of entertainment available! In addition, fundraisers are happening every weekend at your favorite local bars, as evidenced

by the over $3,000 raised by longtime Imperials Keith & Gladys Bumps recently at Marlena’s, and nearly $1,000 by Erin Lavery & Erin McCarthy at Lone Star Saloon.

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Blasts from your past

by Gregg Shapiro

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950s & 60s: A voice like Roy Orbison’s only comes along once in a lifetime. When he died suddenly at the age of 52 in 1988, in the midst of a career comeback that found him collaborating with Elvis Costello and others as a solo artist and as one-fifth of the Traveling Wilburys, the loss was profound. Not only did he possess remarkable vocal talent, but he was also a guitar player of note and an exceptional songwriter. The doubledisc/DVD set The Monument Singles Collection (1960-64) (Monument/ Orbison/Legacy) does a thoroughly fantastic job of representing the first part of Orbison’s recording career, featuring the original mono mixes of the complete A and B sides of singles “Crying,” “Only the Lonely,” “Running Scared,” “Blue Bayou,” “Dream Baby” and of course, “Oh, Pretty Woman.”

Founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra following his tenure at Capitol Records, Reprise Records was home to not only the Chairman of the Board himself, but also later to Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, T. Rex, Emmylou Harris, Tiny Tim and many others. Sinatra’s first recording for his own label, Ring a Ding Ding (Concord/ Sinatra), has been reissued on CD in an expanded edition that includes “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart” and “Have You Met Miss Jones?” Songs from the original album include “A Foggy Day,” “In the Still of the Night,” “The Coffee Song” and “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm.” From the cover illustration, it’s clear Sinatra was attempting to put listeners in mind of his mid-to-late-50s Capitol output on this pale but pleasant imitation.

Sinatra’s dear friend and Rat Pack pal Dean Martin is given the special treatment on the double-disc compilation Dino: The Essential

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become connected by the decision of a Catholic priest to take a leave of absence from the church as his gay feelings rise to the surface. Another gay character, a teenage boy in the small town, goes to the priest not for guidance but for sex, which horrifies the priest. “It’s a classic play about characters struggling with religion, sexuality, and adolescence,” Fisher

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Dean Martin (Capitol). Expanding on the excellent 2004 Dino: The Essential collection by six tracks, Martin’s most memorable tunes, including “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head,” “That’s Amore,” “Memories Are Made of This,” “Volare,” “Standing on the Corner,” “You’re Nobody Til Somebody Loves You,” “Everybody Loves Somebody” and “Somewhere There’s a Someone” (see a pattern emerging?) are all lovingly collected and waiting to put you in a retro mood.

Despite their silly name, which made it even more difficult for diehard rock music-lovers to take them seriously, Herman’s Hermits had more hit songs than you might imagine (or recall). Perhaps best known for the novelty hit “I’m Henry the VIII, I Am,” they also struck gold with “There’s a Kind of Hush All Over the World,” “I’m Into Something Good,” “(What a) Wonderful World,”

said. “The crux seems to be queerness and the challenges it presents for not just the two gay characters, but for everyone on stage.”

With the exception of DeLaria’s New Year’s Eve shows, Fisher will be directing all the theater productions on the Rhino season. “I’m the only director I can afford,” he said with a bit of a laugh and sigh about the season he has dubbed The Journey of Queer. Season tickets are now on sale at www.therhino.org. ▼

“Hold On” and “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.” The last two songs can also be found on Music from the Original Soundtrack Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter/Hold On (ABKCO) combo, music from two films in which in which Herman’s Hermits appeared and performed, a la the Beatles in the mid-60s.

1970s: To say that there was no one else like Kate & Anna McGarrigle is not too much of an exaggeration. By the time their 1975 self-titled debut album was released, they had already begun to make a name for themselves as songwriters via Linda Ronstadt’s stunning rendition of their “Heart Like a Wheel.” Both the McGarrigles’ first album and its marvelous followup Dancer with Bruised Knees have been reissued in the triple-CD set Tell My Sister (Nonesuch), which includes a third disc of demos and unreleased recordings from 197174. Coming as it does a year after the

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cards (complete with stats).

Once she decides to keep the baby, Angela is eventually able to whittle the potential number down to five, including a drunken tryst with Gabriel (who considers the experience further confirmation of his homosexuality), and sets out to collect DNA samples from the others. The remaining four range from suddenly dead Ron

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legal team were handed even juicier material when Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley reneged on a written offer to allow Peagler immediate release from prison on the grounds that she had served more than two decades more than the sentence for her actual crime: involuntary manslaughter.

Ironically, the filmmakers make a plausible case that another family member actually arranged for Oliver Wilson to be attacked by South Central gang members, but director Potash asserts that Deborah Peagler felt morally complicit in the death of a violent man whom she merely wanted out of her life.

Gradually, Crime After Crime becomes more than a cold-case probe into the fate of a woman who may just have been collateral damage in the overzealous crusade of an LA County anti-gang strike force in the DA’s office. Once DA Cooley dug in his heels and blocked Peagler’s release, possibly fearing the unfavorable publicity from an admission of even an ancient error by his office in a year when he was running for State Attorney

Deborah Peagler in director Yoav Potash’s Crime After Crime.

General, her defense team began the discovery of a treasure of evidence discrediting not only the LA DA, but also calling into question how successive California governors had undermined the powers of the state parole board.

The filmmaking and legal teams behind Crime After Crime movingly document Peagler’s exemplary life behind bars, get glowing testimonials in favor of her release from the family of her murdered boyfriend/pimp Oliver Wilson, and

demonstrate the groundbreaking possibilities of a 2002 California law allowing domestic violence victims to have murder cases involving their batterers reopened.

While the wheels of justice ground ever so slowly, Peagler received more bad news in the form of a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. Eventually the film becomes a race against time to see if a vengeful DA is able to run out the legal clock and keep Peagler from spending her final days as a free woman.

passing of Kate (mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright), the set is both celebratory and a bit somber. But even more importantly it’s as much a wonderful intro for the uninitiated as it is a reminder for the wellinformed of the sisters’ contributions as songwriters (“Swimming Song,” “(Talk to Me of) Mendocino,” “Complainte pour Ste-Catherine,” “Southern Boys”) and interpreters of their own compositions. A definite must-have.

1980s: Want to feel old? The GoGos’ acclaimed 1981 debut album Beauty and the Beat (IRS/Capitol) has been reissued in a double-disc 30th (!) anniversary edition. The allfemale new-wave quintet’s irresistible hit songs “Our Lips Are Sealed” (cowritten by Go-Go Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall of the Specials and Fun Boy Three fame) and “We’ve Got the Beat” (written by Charlotte Caffey) still sound as delightful as they did the first time you heard them. Songs such as “How Much More,” “Skidmarks on My Heart” and “Can’t Stop the

World” also hold up well. On the second disc, recorded live at Metro in Boston in 1981, you can get a feel for how the band earned its bad-girl reputation.

For someone who spent his formative musical years helming heavy metal gods Black Sabbath and went on to be accused of biting a head off a bat, Ozzy Osbourne had no trouble displaying his sensitive side (something we’ve come to see quite a bit of in his later years) on his 1980 solo debut album Blizzard of Ozz (Epic/Legacy), newly reissued in an expanded edition featuring three bonus cuts. You can hear that side of Ozzy on “Goodbye to Romance” and “Revelation (Mother Earth).” But that doesn’t mean he tossed the hard rock aside. He makes his maniacal case on “Crazy Train” and “Mr. Crowley,” about renowned occultist Aleister Crowley. Ozzy’s 1981 follow-up Diary of a Madman (Epic/Legacy), reissued on a two-disc Legacy Edition, includes the original eight-song album and the Ozzy Live recording.▼

(Danny Vasquez) and Republican politician Jefferson (Archie Kao) to “hung like a dinosaur” but boring Carlton (Randall Park) and young Alan (Chris Zylka, recently seen as Thor in Gregg Araki’s Kaboom).

Angela also has to contend with the disapproval of her socially conservative sister Juliet (Lynn Chen, who played queer in Saving Face) and the liberal yet paternal advice from her father Charles (James Shigeta).

Meanwhile, Gabriel is having his own

romantic crisis. After courting and connecting with cute convenience store clerk Lawrence (Rane Jameson), he almost blows it when he’s caught tongue-dancing with a hot stranger in a bar. Lee (known for the well-received Ethan Mao) has a natural touch for the rom-com genre, and keeps things funny, sexy and, in spite of a touchy subject such as having unprotected sex (!), light and shiny. DVD special features include alternative openings and ending.▼

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year-old. Eventually I wanted to kill him, and when I was 12, I had this confrontation, and that’s when he really beat me. Something about that jarred my mom’s senses, and we ended up leaving in the still of the night. He was a stalker type looking for us – just like Deborah Peagler went into hiding, we went to another county, didn’t have a phone, and I was training to kill him.

I wanted to show him who was the man. He never found us, and it took me several years to work through the anger and humiliation. The irony was here I am representing a woman who never really wanted her batterer dead, and yet he ended up dead because he found her, and my batterer never found us.”

Shortly after Crime After Crime screened at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, attorney Joshua Safran explained how he had been drawn into this eight-year legal battle turned crusade about the plight of victims of domestic violence.

“Deborah described how Oliver Wilson would beat her with a bullwhip and when he was done beating her, he would tend to her wounds by taking raw meat to bring down the swelling. And I said, ‘Oh, yeah isn’t it ironic how raw meat heals raw meat, my stepdad used to do that with my mom,’ and she gave me this look. All of a sudden we began talking like a couple of fellow travelers, we had been down a road together, it was no longer attorney/client, it was like people sharing war stories.

“When I was eight, my mom married a guy who, like Oliver Wilson, came across as a very sweet, charismatic, charming guy. He was going to help her take care of her boy because she was a single mom, and he turned out to be a raging alcoholic and would get on these binges and beat the hell out of my mom. He was very controlling, he would make me do push-ups if I misbehaved, always challenging my manhood as a nine-

David Lamble: So psychically, you were sort of guilty of the crime for which she was serving time.

Joshua Safran: Deborah’s story was a continuation of my or my mother’s stories. The same is true of my cocounsel Nadia. So in a way, it raised the stakes, and proved that domestic violence doesn’t just happen to poor black women in South Central L.A. It happens everywhere: in liberal Jewish homes, in white suburban Contra Costa County, where Nadia grew up.▼

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The program was shrewdly made to show the rise of excellence out of natural talents inherent in the community: students from the SFB school danced the first two numbers (very well indeed), and then the company – which is a mirror-image of us all, just in better shape and with better-honed motor skills – danced Helgi Tomasson’s exquisite eight-person ballet to music from Bach’s keyboard concertos, and finally performed one of the great masterpieces, Balanchine’s Symphony in C, which epitomizes the dance of joy.

The students’ first dance, set on them by one of their teachers, challenged them to find a deep-felt place to bring their movement from.

It’s set to the Andante Sostenuto of Schubert’s great piano Sonata in B-flat, which anyone who’s ever stumbled through it at the keyboard will know is among the deepest and most moving experiences you can have. I’ve never been able to play through it myself without crying.

Though Enrique Martinez’s ballet does not fully realize the visual possibilities this music evokes, I was moved to see the weight and seriousness the student-dancers brought to their work. You could see in them the spiritual, almost

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Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie Joe.”

Gay angles John Michael McDonagh drops by to discuss his witty police comedy’s loose ends, such as why a gay cop?, and the background to his IRA chief ’s quip, “We had to have gay guys to infiltrate [the British spy agency] MI 5.”

“It goes back to the MI 5 traitors Burgess, McClain and Philby [who spied for the Soviet Union]. I think two of them were gay. It’s an easy gag.

“The earlier one with the policeman, who we find out is gay, I needed a reason why his wife, when he goes missing she thinks that it might not be foul play, it might be some other reason that he’s left without telling her. I didn’t want it to be, ‘Oh, he’s run off with another woman,’ because that’s too clichéd, so I thought he’s gay, so she might think he has some other relationship.

But I also wanted it to be a moment where Boyle realizes that he’s judged a person as a cipher, and not in his full complexity.”

David Lamble: Boyle saves his tender side for women: his tarts, his mom, and his partner’s wife.

John Michael McDonagh: All the tender, empathetic scenes he has are with women, especially with his mother, but even with the prostitutes, it’s not done in a sleazy way.

Originally, the subplot with Katrina Cas was going to be romantic, but as we were shooting we thought it’s more melancholic than this. She’s sort of the wife he wishes he’d had, like the little kid running through the movie, the child he might wish he’d had. It’s the parallel life that leads him on to the ambiguous ending.

Boyle seems quite rude, but he’s actually expressing his bitter disappointment at his own life.

He likes to undermine people who think they have power over him – here’s this American guy coming in and ordering everybody around. And there’s that British and Irish comedy idea about saying the worst things you can say to needle somebody – you don’t actually believe what you’re saying. Boyle isn’t a racist, but he’s saying the worst things he can think of to, as we say in England, put Everett on the back foot, so he’s not sure how to treat this supposed partner.▼

monastic level of discipline that ballet requires.

Their next ballet showed just how glamorous and gorgeous they can be. Timepiece, choreographed by SFB corps dancer Myles Thatcher, used the space in fascinating ways, gave boys and girls wonderful ways to partner each other, and was over long before you wanted it to be.

Higher levels of professionalism followed. In the Bach, there was truly exalted dancing from the Spanish-trained Jaime Garcia Castillo. He floated on the music, rose into positions of extraordinary expansion and amplitude, as if the majesty of the music were opening him up, sustaining him, and he had abandoned himself to its power.

Elizabeth Miner, whose early promise seemed to have come under a cloud the last couple of years, rose to this same level and danced with him in a similar way, as if there were all the time in the world and grace abounding. Everybody else danced well, but they were transcendent.

Then, to top that, came the divine Sophiane Sylve in the adagio of Symphony in C, which has a long, sinuous “Arabian” melody (the composer is Bizet) that it takes two oboes to play, one spelling the other, since no single human being has such breath control; Sylve made that music visible as if her whole body were singing.

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San Francisco Ballet’s Vanessa Zahorian and Gennadi Nedvigin in Helgi Tomasson’s 7 for Eight, at Stern Grove last Sunday.

“Bizet,” as this ballet is known backstage, has four ballerinas, one for each movement of the symphony, and by the end each diva, with her cavalier and her little court of dancers, is dancing side by side with the others on a stage full of dancers. The ballet builds to a climax of stupendous joy, and you can go home satisfied. The ballerinas, each of them wonderful, were Lorena Feijoo (partnered by Vitor Luis), Ms. Sylve (Vito Mazzeo), Frances Chung (Isaac Hernandez), and Nicole Ciapponi (Lonnie Weeks). Among

the demi-soloists Courtney Elizabeth stood out, and the aforementioned Myles Thatcher (choreographer of Timepiece) looked very good indeed.

Contemporary turns Across town, our contemporary dancers showed excellent work as well. Indeed, this past weekend our dancers ranked with New Yorkers and anyone in the world. Nol Simonse and Christy Funsch were the last word in Dadaist brilliance, performing at Dance Mission in Simonse’s Etudes in Detention,

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Even more mysterious was the fantastic success of a choreographic collaboration by no less than four dance-makers – Kara Davis, Miguelito Biag, Katie Faulkner, and Alex Ketley – presented at Z Space (in the converted factory formerly known as Theater Artaud) by the Westwave dance festival.

It was a piece of anti-dance that got itself going somehow, rose to a peak wherein two guys danced a pas de deux where one of them wanted to talk and finally declared that they needed to break up, all the while being opposed by his stupid and very sexy lover, who could not see that there was any problem. There were many events along the way, some of them absurd, with cameo appearances by each of the choreographers.

What was most impressive was the sustained mastery of tone – one episode followed another like new landscapes appearing on the drive to Stinson Beach – each emerging naturally, some sunlit, some in very deep shade, but the mood and quality of the movement were somehow always exactly right.▼

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