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I Navy brass honors Milk at ship ceremony House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, left, joined Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Supervisor Scott Wiener, Stuart Milk, Paula Neira, and Nancy G. Brinker at the naming ceremony for the USNS Harvey Milk Tuesday on Treasure Island.

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ore than 200 dignitaries, members of the U.S. Navy, and local LGBT community members gathered on the Great Lawn at Treasure Island Tuesday, August 16 for a ceremony naming an about-to-be-built supply

vessel after the late Harvey Milk.

Milk was the first out gay person to be elected to public office in California and San Francisco when he won his race in 1977. He served as a San Francisco supervisor for only 11 months when he was assassinated in his City Hall office in November See page 10 >>

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ith transit officials set to add a second elevator at the Muni station in the Castro, they are also floating ideas to remodel the public plaza that surrounds it.

Named for Harvey Milk, the city’s first gay elected official who was killed in office in 1978, the plaza has long vexed neighborhood leaders since it first opened nearly four decades ago.

Its design has been derided as uninviting with poorly laid out spaces little used other than by smokers or homeless people.

Over the years various ideas have been touted to improve the plaza. In 2000 artists wanted to float a pink cloud over it, an idea that never got off the ground.

A decade later the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District presented plans to install benches to the walkway on the top level of the plaza in order to meet demands from the public for outdoor seating in the city’s gayborhood. The colorful benches were ripped out two years later amid complaints they attracted homeless people and transient youth.

Now two city agencies, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and San Francisco Public Works, are proposing to make several changes to the plaza’s design as part of a project to improve pedestrian access throughout the space.

“We have been working with folks in the neighborhood and the SFMTA and DPW for a while now brainstorming ideas, with the overall goal being to open up the plaza and to turn

Harvey Milk Plaza, with the site of the planned new elevator in the foreground and the proposed location of a new wall in the background.

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this space into a useable plaza,” said District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, a gay man who represents the Castro at City Hall. “The way it is designed right now, it is so broken up with narrow spaces it is not useable. It ends up leading to problem activities.”

One idea is to rip out the concrete planters along the upper walkway and leave the space entirely open. A memorial to Milk or the local LGBT community could then be installed on the newly exposed wall running the length of the plaza.

On the plaza’s second level at the bottom of the stairs and escalator where Castro and Market streets intersect, planter beds could also be removed to increase the size of the plaza.

A mural could then be painted on the newly exposed wall in the space, and special paving materials could be used to create a design on the ground.

“Right now it needs some work. People don’t even know it is Harvey Milk Plaza,” said CBD Executive Director Andrea Aiello.

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n what is believed to be a first for the local bench, a gay Asian judge is now serving on the San Francisco Superior Court.

Judge Roger Chan took his oath of office Courtesy Governor’s office July 22 and has been assigned to hear traf- Judge Roger Chan fic cases at the Hall of Justice. Governor Jerry Brown appointed him in late June to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Richard A. Kramer.

He first applied to be considered for a court vacancy three years ago. In addition to being the first out Asian judge on the local court, Chan is the first known LGBT person of color to serve on the San Francisco bench.

“If that is indeed the case, that is quite an honor,” Chan told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview Monday while speaking from his chambers. “For me, it is very important the bench reflects the community we serve. I think it helps the public to have greater confidence in the court.”

Being appointed to succeed Kramer carries its own honor, added Chan, as he ruled in 2005 that California’s exclusion of samesex couples from marriage, under Proposition 22, was unconstitutional. Although the Court of Appeal overruled him, the state Supreme Court reversed that decision in 2008, agreeing with Kramer though on different grounds. The decision laid the groundwork for the passage of Proposition 8 that November, and later the federal lawsuit it sparked that won back the right to wed for same-sex couples in the Golden State in 2013.

“It is also a great privilege to be appointed to take his seat,” Chan said.

As is routine when it announces judicial appointments, Brown’s office did not disclose Chan’s sexual orientation when it released the news of his being picked for the vacancy.

The B.A.R. only learned about the historic nature of his selection last week after fellow gay Judge Joe Quinn had lunch with Chan and contacted a reporter afterward.

“As an LGBT person of color interested in the lives of young people, Roger will give more voice to important communities and help ensure that the court continues to grow in ways that reflect the diversity of the city,” Quinn told the B.A.R. Asked for comment about Chan’s appointment to the court seat, a former co-chair of the LGBT legal group Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom was also surprised by the news. Nonetheless, attorney David Tsai hailed the appointment.

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wo out politicians from Orange County were special guests at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club’s annual dinner, which marked the 40th anniversary of the progressive organization.

The August 11 event at SOMArts Cultural Center was attended by hundreds of people and featured a keynote address by Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen, who’s running for Congress.

“Thanks to Harvey Milk and his grassroots political army, I am an openly gay Vietnamese immigrant who taught in public schools in Orange County, served on the school board, and became the first openly gay mayor ever to be elected in Orange County,” Nguyen said.

“I never could have done that if the Mayor of Castro Street had not spent his life fighting oppression and fighting to get more gay legislators elected,” he added, referring to the nickname bestowed on Milk when he was a political activist in the Castro in the 1970s.

Milk won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 1977, only to be murdered a year later when disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White shot him and then-Mayor George Moscone in their City Hall offices.

Nguyen, 36, came out in July 2015. He came in second in the June primary for the open 46th Congressional District seat that is being vacated by Representative

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Orange County congressional candidate Bao Nguyen, left, greets Supervisor and state Senate candidate Jane Kim at the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club dinner.

Loretta Sanchez (D), who is facing off against state Attorney General Kamala Harris for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer.

Nguyen underscored the need for more LGBT teachers and legislators as he recalled an incident two years ago when Robert Hammond, an Orange County Board of Education trustee, referred to gays as “sodomites” in an email chain.

“There are still people trying desperately to push America backwards,” Nguyen said. “People like Robert Hammond who still think it’s OK to bully people and call them names. People who want to tell others they can’t marry the person they love, people who want to tell others they can’t use the same bathroom, they can’t vote without two valid forms of ID, they can’t worship God

if they call him Allah, they can’t control their own bodies if those bodies happen to have a uterus.”

Nguyen noted that it’s a “scary time” to be an American, referring to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as “an orange demagogue with tiny hands.”

“We need people in power that will lift everyone up,” Nguyen added. “That was Harvey Milk’s message. If I’m elected I’ll be the first openly gay immigrant to serve in the U.S. Congress – I’d like to be able to give people hope.”

Nguyen’s speech was met with thunderous applause.

The second speaker from Orange County was Angel Van Stark, a former San Francisco resident.

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Jury still out in Green trial

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More men say they’re victims of alleged Pacifica rapist

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everal more men have come forward saying they’re victims of a San Mateo County man who’s already charged with raping other men, according to police.

Prosecutors last week charged Joseph Paul Courtney, 32, of Pacifica, with numerous felony counts including sodomy by use of force, sodomy by anesthesia or use of a controlled substance, sodomy of an unconscious victim, possession of child pornography, second degree robbery, and allegations that he tied or bound his victims.

The district attorney’s complaint also includes an allegation that Courtney committed the alleged offenses knowing that he has AIDS. Captain Joseph Spanheimer, a Pa-

cific police spokesman, said Monday that five or six more victims have come forward since police announced Courtney’s arrest July 28. Police are “working closely” with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office and new charges may be filed, he said.

“As far as I know, they’re all men,” Spanheimer said of the people Courtney’s accused of victimizing.

He said some were minors when the alleged incidents occurred.

Courtney, who’s in custody in Redwood City’s Maguire Correctional Facility on $5 million bail, already faces the possibility of life in prison based on his current charges.

He hasn’t entered a plea. His next court date has been set for September 12 in order “to see whether additional charges involving additional

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victims will be filed,” according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

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volving three separate male victims, [Courtney] met with the victim for consensual sex twice at his residence and once at a Comfort Suites Motel,” Wagstaffe said in a case summary.

“On each occasion,” Wagstaffe continued, Courtney “drugged the victims with GHB (date rape drug) and other drugs, knocking them unconscious.”

Additionally, the DA said, Courtney “and unidentified male associates proceeded to have sex with the unconscious victims and on one occasion showed the victim the video recording of the unconscious sex by multiple men.”

In an email, Spanheimer said, “While the identities of other suspects are being developed, we are not able to release any names or

descriptions as doing so may compromise the investigation.”

The charges stem from incidents that allegedly occurred in May, September, November, and December 2015, but Spanheimer said that the incidents started in 2007, and police had been investigating Courtney “for almost a year” before his arrest.

Spanheimer said in a news release that, “Investigators found that Courtney often used websites and smartphone ‘apps’ to contact his victims,” and that he’d “also had contact with minor males for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse.”

Several of the charges would require Courtney to register as a sex offender if he’s convicted.

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Ryan White film marks 26th year of CARE Act compiled by Cynthia Laird

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here will be a free community screening Sunday, August 21 of Bad Blood, a documentary about Ryan White, the young Indiana boy who contracted AIDS via a blood transfusion and whose story sparked massive changes in the federal response to the epidemic.

The film, by Marilyn Ness, will be shown at the UCSF Parnassus campus. The event commemorates the 26th anniversary of the Ryan White CARE Act (now called the Ryan White Treatment Modernization Act), the largest federal program focused specifically on providing HIV care and treatment services to people living with HIV. According to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Ryan White funding reaches about 52 percent of

all those diagnosed with open at 3:30) at the UCSF HIV in the U.S. School of Nursing, Room White was 13 when he N-225, 513 Parnassus was diagnosed in 1984.

Avenue. People can use He fought AIDS-related the UCS/Parnassus gadiscrimination in his rage; parking validation Indiana community and will be provided, or Muni rallied for his right to N-Judah. attend school, gaining Those interested in Courtesy HRSA national attention. He attending should RSVP died in 1990, one month Ryan White

by Friday, August 19 to before his high school sonam.choden@ucsf.edu. graduation.

His Time for Prime Timers’ mother, Jeanne White Ginder, election meeting went on to become an outThe San Francisco Prime Timspoken AIDS advocate. ers, a social club for older gay and Following the screenbisexual men, and younger adult ing, there will be a dismen who admire them, will hold its cussion and reception annual election for officers Sunday, with Dr. David FranAugust 21 and have announced that cis, executive director new members are welcome. of Global Solutions for Board member Ray Brown said that Infectious Diseases, and all gay and bi men over 21 are welcome Dr. Paul Volberding, director of the to attend meetings, which are typically UCSF AIDS Research Institute. held the first and third Sundays of the The event begins at 4 p.m. (doors

month, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at the Sequoias, 1400 Geary Boulevard.

Moore said that the club is currently seeking members with administrative ability due to the recent loss of the group’s president and vice president.

Annual dues are $35, which are prorated over the year and include membership, newsletters, and connection to Prime Timers Worldwide, of which SF Prime Timers is a part.

There are over 60 chapters affiliated with Prime Timers Worldwide, both in the U.S. and internationally.

In addition to meetings, SF Prime Timers engage in a variety of activities such as pre-planned dinners, trips, and other social events that are offered monthly.

For more information, people can contact SF Prime Timers at (415) 552-6641 or sfprimetimers@ sonic.net. Additional information is available online at http://www.sfprimetimers.org.

SF transportation group seeks citizen members

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority has announced it is seeking members for its Citizens Advisory Committee who represent Districts 9 (Mission) and 11 (Excelsior).

The CAC has helped guide the transportation authority board and is likely to consider issues like the Caltrain downtown extension, bus rapid transit, safer streets and sidewalks, and bike lanes. Over the past decade the authority has guided the investment of over $1 billion in local transportation sales tax funds – matched with federal, state, and other local funds – into projects that improve transportation in every neighborhood and citywide.

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he federal government continues to lack a consistent policy for marijuana even as voters in more states than ever, including California, will soon vote on whether to legalize small amounts for recreational use. Medical cannabis is legal in 25 states and the District of Columbia – and is also on the ballot in other states this year – yet the feds prohibit almost all research, except for a small program at the University of Mississippi. That’s about to change, as the Drug Enforcement Administration announced last week that it will make more marijuana available to researchers, the first step in allowing universities, research institutions, and other scientific organizations to finally conduct studies that advocates have long requested.

Unfortunately, the DEA last week declined to move marijuana from Schedule 1 – reserved for the “most dangerous” drugs – to the less restrictive Schedule II, which includes drugs like cocaine, Vicodin, and OxyContin, which are illegal to use recreationally but are seen to have medical benefits.

Of course, as we have seen in recent months, public awareness of opiate addiction from powerful drugs like OxyContin have been growing. Last month, in a rare feat, Congress passed – and President Barack Obama signed – the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. Republicans, however, blocked any funding for the bill, which pledges greater efforts to protect drug-dependent newborns and assistance to their parents.

Marijuana belongs in Schedule II; it’s nowhere nearly as bad as heroin and LSD, which top the Schedule I list, and the DEA should recognize that.

But Charles Rosenberg, the head of the DEA, wrote that cannabis would remain in Schedule I because “it has no currently approved medical use in treatment in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.” Yet the absence of research that could demonstrate any benefits is perpetrated by the very same government agency.

Thankfully, the DEA has opened the door to more research. According to the New York Times, marijuana grown by approved institutions will qualify for use in clinical trials seeking the approval of federal regulators, and can be marketed. And some advocates said that removing the University of

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Mississippi’s monopoly on research could have more benefits than reclassifying the drug.

The DEA has missed an opportunity to be proactive and diminish bias against cannabis.

In the nearly two decades since California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis, there have been numerous medical advances in drug research. But because of stigma dating back to the old 1936 film Reefer Madness that scared parents, funding for legitimate cannabis research is extremely difficult to obtain. That should begin to change and we urge research institutions – public and private – to grow into their marijuana studies. Drug companies likewise should begin clinical trials to develop marijuana-derived medication.

And California can – and should – lead the way. The state has world-class public university systems that could support such research.

The state took the initiative in 2004 with the passage of a measure establishing stem cell research, which created an agency to distribute grants. Today, millions of dollars is spent looking into new therapies for a variety of diseases. That’s what is needed for marijuana, and if the federal government won’t do it, then state lawmakers should.

In the meantime, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is on record as supporting moving cannabis to Schedule II, and should she win in November, researchers could benefit from a more helpful administration.

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My bookshelf now holds a revelatory exhibit of half-dozen Hirschfeld volumes the extraordinary gay that reflect the breadth of his pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld interests, including Men and is set to appear at the GLBT Women: The World Journey of History Museum in San a Sexologist, Sexual History of Francisco’s Castro district. the World War, Sexual AnomaIt promises to illuminate lies, and Transvestites: The our sexual past as it charts Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress. our sense of gender and Hirschfeld’s ambition was, sexual identities today. On in his words, nothing less than view will be rare artifacts to “map out and unify the scithat survived the infamous ence of sex.” For 25 years he book-burning of 1933, when conducted research in sexual Nazis destroyed the library biology, pathology, sociology, and archives of Hirschfeld’s Courtesy Collection of Gerard Koskovich and ethnology. In 1919 he pursex institute in Berlin. Also Magnus Hirschfeld, shown chased a fine Berlin building to featured will be accounts of on the cover of Voil magazine become the site of his Institute the world’s first homosexual in 1933, is one of the items for Sexual Science, a worldemancipation organization in the exhibit at the GLBT renowned center that provided that Hirschfeld founded in History Museum. health services including birth 1897, a historic film about control and gender-confirHirschfeld’s impact and mation surgeries, public talks work, and a book he signed three weeks before about sexual problems, and consultations on his death in exile. For anyone unfamiliar with medical-legal court cases. The institute Hirschfeld, this exhibit will reveal his profound also housed a vast library of 20,000 influence as an advocate for sexual and gender volumes, 35,000 photographs, and diversity, social justice, and human rights. an array of exotic sexual instruI’ve been intrigued with Hirschfeld for more ments from around the world. than a dozen years. I once planned to include Visiting Hirschfeld’s center was him in a historical novel in which the protagolike an immersion in sexual varinist sought sex-change surgery in Germany. In ations and practices.

2002 my partner-now-husband, Dale Danley, I’m eager now to view and I traveled to Berlin to meet Ralf Dose, a “Through Knowledge to Justice: prominent Hirschfeld scholar and co-founder The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld of the Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft, an (1868-1935)” curated by Koskovich. He is one association that researches and publicizes of the top Hirschfeld scholars in the United Hirschfeld’s work. Dose gave us a tour of his States with decades of experience as a public organization and accompanied us to the outhistorian, antiquities collector, and rare book door sculpture and plaque in the Tiergarten dealer. He has long been dedicated to ensuring that memorializes Hirschfeld. We discussed that the life and contributions of Hirschfeld his ongoing study, the books he planned to become better understood and appreciated. write, and my own research into Hirschfeld’s Koskovich notes that Hirschfeld’s sex retour of the United States in 1930-1931. search was “prescient.” “With its emphasis on Several years ago, Gerard Koskovich, the ‘sexual intermediacy’ – the notion that sexualicurator of the new GLBT History Museum ty and gender are not fixed in binary categories exhibit, enthralled me with his collection of heterosexual-homosexual and male-female of Hirschfeld books, vintage periodicals, – Hirschfeld’s work also appears as an ancesand ephemera. He pulled out French magator to contemporary concepts of genderqueer zines from the 1930s with Hirschfeld and his identities, the continuum of sexual orientalover featured on the covers and the several tion, and sexual fluidity,” he said. Koskovich Hirschfeld books he had collected. I purchased points to the hit Amazon TV series Transparwhat I could manage and left his Mission disent as an example. It devotes several flashbacks

to Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science.

The exhibit is especially timely this year in San Francisco, coming at the 85th anniversary of Hirschfeld’s only visit to the city in 1931. He was rightly regarded one of the foremost sexologists in the world at the time, and his status prompted Adolph Hitler’s Nazi thugs to put him on a hit list of dangerous, undesirable degenerates. He fled Germany and sought refuge in a three-month lecture tour across the United States. After a stop in Los Angeles where he met Albert Einstein, Hirschfeld visited San Francisco as a celebrity with newspaper and radio interviews. He lectured on “Homosexuality, Its Causes and Implications” before the Commonwealth Club and the San Francisco Medical Society. He also addressed a GermanAmerican assembly at California Hall. He included a visit to San Quentin Prison where he discussed the inmates’ “sexual starvation” with Tom Mooney, the unjustly incarcerated labor activist. He added that he observed hundreds of homosexuals “one third of them black” who worked separately in the prison laundry. Days later he departed on an ocean liner bound for Asia.

As excellent as “Through Knowledge to Justice” promises to be, visitors might imagine how much more depth of analysis and breadth of exhibits might be possible if the GLBT History Museum commanded a larger, more expansive space. Such a possibility is in the works. Don’t hesitate to contribute to the capital campaign. In the meantime, the new exhibit is essential for a fuller understanding of our often-hidden LGBTQ history.t “Through Knowledge to Justice” runs August 19 through November 23 at the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street, San Francisco. The museum is open Monday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Admission $5; $3 for California students; free for members. An opening reception takes place Friday, August 19, from 7 to 9 p.m.; admission $5.

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I trust that in the near future you will come down just as hard on Hillary Clinton and (the Clinton Foundation) for accepting millions of dollars from barbaric, homophobic Muslim regimes who slaughter our gay brothers and sisters.

I am sad (but not surprised) that you took the opportunity to dismiss Donald Trump’s words of support to the gay community [“Trump’s disingenuous ploy for gay support,” Editorial, August 11]. If the man is going to be elected, of course he must reach out and attend functions sponsored by the American Renewal Project if he is to have any chance of winning. It doesn’t mean he

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Out candidates well positioned in SF fall races

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ith the filing deadline to enter the fall municipal races now closed, it appears San Francisco will again elect a gay man to represent it on the BART board of directors and could see three gay men win seats on the city’s community college board.

Voters could also elect the first lesbian to political office in the city since 2008, and there is a strong chance of seeing LGBT representation return to the city’s school board for the first time in seven years.

After surviving the June primary, a gay judicial candidate is aiming to be the first out African-American elected to the local bench. And a gay supervisor is trying to ensure San Francisco’s state legislative delegation includes out representation.

The 10 out candidates on the fall 2016 ballot mirrors the same number that ran two years ago in San Francisco. While that November saw just one win their contest, several of the LGBT candidates running this year appear to be much better positioned for victory.

In the race for the District 9 seat on BART’s board of directors, gay former District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty appears headed for an easy victory to succeed Tom Radulovich, who is stepping down after two decades on the regional transit agency’s board.

Since the incumbent opted not to run, candidates had until 5 p.m. Wednesday to file for the race. As of the Bay Area Reporter’s press deadline that afternoon, the only other person to have entered the race was gay activist Michael Petrelis.

Lisa Feldstein, who is bisexual and a former city planning commissioner, had been expected to run and had secured Radulovich’s endorsement.

But she announced via Twitter last Friday, August 12 that she had decided against it.

“I am withdrawing from the BART Bd race. My opponent’s name recognition will be too $$ to overcome. Thank you for your support!” wrote Feldstein, apparently in reference to Dufty, who most recently served as Mayor Ed Lee’s adviser on homelessness.

Gay men are also expected to do well in several other down-ballot races. Mark Sanchez, who served eight years on the San Francisco Board of Education, including two years as president, is now running to be elected again to the oversight body. There are four school board seats on the November ballot, with one open, and five other non-incumbents in the race.

Sanchez, who for the past five years has been the principal of Cleveland Elementary School in the city’s Excelsior district, would be the first out candidate elected to the San Francisco Board of Education since he left it in early 2009.

In the race for four seats on the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees, one of which is also open, gay incumbents Alex Randolph and Rafael Mandelman are both expected to win re-election, with Tom Temprano, a gay Mis-

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In the contest for the San Francisco Superior Court’s Seat 7, Paul Henderson is in a tough race against attorney Victor Hwang, who placed first in the June primary. Henderson, who is gay, has been serving as the mayor’s deputy chief of staff and director of public safety.

Like Hwang, he is a former assistant district attorney.

The other odd-numbered supervisor race that drew an out candidate is in District 7 west of Twin Peaks. Among those challenging incumbent Supervisor Norman Yee, who is running for a second four-year term, is Joel Engardio, a gay man who writes a column for the San Francisco Examiner.

In their 2012 race, Engardio landed in fourth place. And in June he lost his bid to retain his seat on the Democratic County Central Committee, which he was appointed to last summer. In a recent editorial board meeting with the Bay Area Reporter, Engardio chalked up his loss to lacking the name recognition of many of the Democratic officials who ran this year to lead the local party.

He said his strategy was to focus on residents of District 7 in the DCCC race with an eye toward building support for his fall contest.

Yet he and the three others challenging Yee face daunting odds running against an incumbent, as the only sitting supervisors to not win reelection since the board reverted back to being elected by district in 2000 have been those appointed to fill a vacancy.

If Alvarenga and Engardio both lose their races, it would mark the first time since 1977, when Harvey Milk became the city’s first gay supervisor, that no LGBT candidate has won a supervisor seat. Under such a scenario, the mayor would face enormous pressure to name an LGBT person to the District 8 supervisor seat should Wiener be elected to the Senate.

(Yet if voters pass Proposition D, authored by Avalos, then the person picked would be barred from running for the seat. And a special election would be held to elect the person to serve out the remainder of the term.)

“We are looking at the potential of a Board of Supervisors without LGBT representation. That is shocking,” Temprano said.

Supervisor, state Senate races will be key

Should gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener lose his bid for the city’s state Senate seat, then for the first time since 1996 San Francisco will not have an LGBT person representing it in the statehouse. His opponent, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, eked out a surprise victory in the June primary, bolstering predictions she will defeat Wiener in November to succeed gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who is termed out of office and backing Wiener.

Straight lawmakers, Phil Ting and David Chiu, hold the city’s two Assembly seats and are expected to easily win re-election come November. A victory by Kim would mean, for the first time, the city’s trio of state lawmakers would all be Asian-Americans.

If Wiener pulls off a victory in the race, then there is the remote possibility that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors could have no LGBT members come January 2017. He would be sworn into the state office in early December, while the board’s other gay member, District 9 Supervisor David Campos, will be termed out of office in early January.

While no LGBT candidate filed to run for Campos’ seat, which has been held by gay men for nearly two decades, there are two out supervisorial candidates on the fall ballot.

Lesbian union organizer Kimberly Alvarenga is running for the board’s District 11 seat, as Supervisor John Avalos is termed out of office and has endorsed her bid. The seat covers the city’s southern neighborhoods of the Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, Outer Mission, and Crocker-Amazon. Also mounting a strong challenge this year is Ahsha Safai, a fellow labor leader who lost to Avalos in 2008.

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As it turned out, I quickly learned one of the reasons for his reluctance.

For him, part of his coming out included a concern that his existing friends and family would see him as effeminate or unmanly, or perhaps expect him to suddenly take to drag, performing around the house. For him, it was important, in one way or another, to push back against my identity for fear of how that would affect his identity.

The same can be true for transgender people, too. The same books I was reading about coming out at that time stressed letting people know that just because you identified as transgender did not mean you were gay as well, as if being such was an even worse horror to foist on your Aunt Connie than merely one’s trans identity.

I came out a couple decades ago, but this remains an uneasy border even now.

Several months back, at a speaking engagement for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I was pulled aside by a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The Sister in question, with a tightly trimmed beard framed with the signature white makeup, as well as their full habit and wimple, spoke to me alongside a busy road in hushed tones.

They saw the Transgender Day of Remembrance as an important day,

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but had found it difficult to explain to others in the area. Yes, they understood the importance of speaking out against these murders and honoring those lost, but they did not know how to explain to others – presumed to be non-transgender gays, lesbians, and bisexuals – why the fight for transgender people mattered to them.

This discussion stayed heavy in my mind for the rest of my time at the event, and is something I’ve pondered a lot since then.

On the surface, yes, it may well be hard to see a similarity.

First and foremost, the “L,” “G,” and “B” parts of the equation are far more concerned with sexual orientation.

They are the parts of a movement that champions the rights of those who want to be in a relationship with a person of the same gender or, in the case of bisexuality, with either of the dominant genders. Or, in the case of the latter, perhaps more than simply two genders – but I’m getting ahead of myself.

The “T” in the equation, however, is more involved with gender identity and expression, and seems less of a fit with the others. This is, however, too simple of a worldview.

I think we belong together, unified with other sexual and gender minorities. We are stronger together

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as a coalition, rather than scattered into smaller and smaller subsets, unable to find common ground like some queer tower of Babel. I’ve always been a believer in working together on common causes, and supporting each other during those times when one or another of us needs support. It’s what I expect in a community. I also know my views are excessively optimistic, and we’re unlikely to make a perfect harmony of voices – but we can try.

Beyond this simple plea for an effective, beneficial community, I think there are more things that bind us together. Yes, trans identities are not, on the surface, the same as gay, lesbian, or bisexual ones – but we do cross over on expression. It may seem a radical approach, but I often look at gay and lesbian identities as being closer to a subset of trans, much more than the opposite.

Consider again my friend from high school. The concerns he pushed back against were not about whom he chose as a sexual partner, but about how his masculinity would be impacted when he came out as gay. That seems to me to clearly fall in the realm of gender expression far more than sexual orientation. By that same token, I could have pointed out to the member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who pulled me aside that they were, at that very moment, transcending gender, presenting in traditionally feminine garb while also sporting male facial hair. They were, indeed, transcending gender far more than I was, presenting traditionally female, albeit in women’s slacks and a simple blouse and jacket combo.

There’s truth to this union from our side as well. While many trans people may not identify in a more, shall we say, traditional sense as “gay” or “lesbian,” surely our gender expression muddies the waters of See page 10 >>

Discussing depression and disability

by Belo Cipriani

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epression is common. But more common is the fact that, as a society, we don’t openly talk about depression and its impact on our communities. And while depression is very debilitating, and is recognized as a disability by the Americans with Disabilities Act, its constant misunderstanding causes people who suffer from it to be misjudged.

For Anthony J. Williams, a 27-year-old, black, cisgender, queer man with depression and anxiety, it wasn’t until very recently that his disability was formally identified.

“I’ve dealt with depression since I was about 14 years old, was first diagnosed with mild depression when I was about 22, and, this last year, was ‘officially’ diagnosed with depression and anxiety,” said Williams.

But even though Williams has struggled with depression, and admits that his disability has caused a few missed opportunities, his condition has also served as a catalyst.

“One of the privileges of being a high functioning depressive is that the pressure of external motivation usually pushes me to achieve, even if it means burning myself out more than I planned,” he said.

Williams believes that a lot of people think depression is not as serious as people and ads make it out to be.

“I think too many people think we’re faking it, or that it isn’t as bad as we claim. When we think of de-

pression, there is often a pression is that both LGstock photo that pops to BTQIA+ and black commind of someone who is munities deal with it, but gloomy, grumpy, and powe are often reluctant to tentially suicidal. We, as a talk about it. Anecdotally, society, need to recognize I’ve noticed that many of that there are high funcmy black and/or queer tioning depressives like friends don’t talk about myself,” he said. it and instead choose to Williams is a UC self-medicate through Berkeley alumnus, and Anthony J. Williams drugs and alcohol,” Wilnow works for his alma liams pointed out. mater as a research as“On a broader level, sistant for the school’s equity and there is a notion within the black inclusion division. Additionally, he community that we must remain is a community organizer and menstrong and never let them see us fail. tal health advocate, and, through ‘Them’ being the anti-black world, Twitter, he has sparked conversaand often the very white world that tions around toxic masculinity and only cheers for us when we’re exblack excellence with the hashtags ceptional and sees any weakness as #MasculinitySoFragile and #Blackproof that we are inferior,” he added.

WomenDidThat. Williams is Williams is quick to note that now working with black while the LGBTQIA+ and black women and others to communities do not freely discuss develop #BlackWommental illness, he has received supenDidThat into a larger port from his friends and fammovement, so that everyily, who largely include people from one can learn about black these groups. Still, he believes both women’s past and prescommunities have room for growth ent accomplishments. in this area.

Williams is also an “Both the LGBTQIA+ and the actor and had a small role in the black communities could be more movie The Diary of a Teenage Girl inclusive of people with mental – a film that discusses the complexior emotional disabilities, by first ties of a young girl’s sexuality in the recognizing the impact we have on 1970s. others, particularly with our lanAs a mental health advocate, Wilguage,” he said. “One thing that I’ve liams openly talks about his depreslearned, from being such a frequent sion, anxiety, and his experience Twitter user, is about the discourse with antidepressants through aron ableism and inclusion. Too often ticles and social media – something [we are] using ableist slurs, because he feels has been well-received, as we don’t think it’s a big deal. I also there is a huge need for such connotice that there is a lot of disrespect versations, especially in the LGfor people’s pronouns, and when we BTQIA+ and black communities.

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devastating report by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that LGB students face physical violence and bullying at much greater levels than their heterosexual counterparts.

According to the CDC report, which was released August 11, LGB students are more than three times as likely to be physically forced to have sex, two and a half times as likely to experience sexual dating violence, over two times more likely to experience physical dating violence, and almost twice as likely to be bullied at school or online.

The Youth Risk Behavior Study is the first nationally representative study of the health risks of U.S. lesbian, gay, and bisexual high school students (ages 14-17).

Even more alarmingly, more than 40 percent of LGB students have seriously considered suicide, with 29 percent reporting having attempted suicide during the past year. Sixty percent of LGB students reported having been so sad or hopeless they stopped doing one of their usual activities. They are also up to five times more likely than their heterosexual peers to have used illegal drugs, the study said. And more than 10 percent of LGB students reported missing school during the past month due to safety concerns.

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Risk Behavior Study, considered the best source on adolescent health.

The CDC also analyzed data from 25 state surveys and 19 large urban school district surveys, though a number of states eliminated sexual orientation questions from their surveys, so the story is not complete.

With 2 percent of students identifying as gay or lesbian and 6 percent as bisexual, these figures would put the number of LGB high school students in the U.S. at 1.3 million.

YRBS for the first time added two new questions: one asking how students identified themselves sexually and secondly the sex of their partners, allowing for the normal fluidity of adolescent sexuality. Some students identified themselves as heterosexual even though they had sexual contact with only persons of the same sex, whereas some students who identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual had not had sexual contact or have had sexual contact with only persons of the opposite sex.

There was no option on the questionnaire for teenagers to identify themselves as transgender, though the CDC does plan to add gender identity questions to future surveys.

LGBT organizations reacted strongly to the report.

“Anti-LGBTQ bullying and harassment have serious and heartbreaking consequences for young people and these numbers make that more clear than ever,” Mary Beth

Maxwell, the Human community, and family Rights Campaign Founsupport for LGB youth. dation’s senior vice presi“Because many healthdent for programs, rerelated behaviors initiated search, and trainings, said during adolescence often in a statement. “From the extend into adulthood, messages youth receive they can potentially have at their kitchen table, a lifelong negative efin their classroom, and fect on health outcomes, Brian Bromberger on primetime TV, we educational attainment, all must do more to put LYRIC’s employment, housing, an end to anti-LGBTQ Jodi Schwartz and overall quality of stigma. life. Many LGB students, “Policymakers, for one, can start therefore, need coordinated action with the passage and implementato meet their needs and improve tion of local, state, and federal antitheir health and well-being,” the rebullying policies and nondiscrimiport stated. nation protections,” Maxwell added.

The CDC did not report on the Abbe Land, executive director causes of these negative outcomes. and CEO of the Trevor Project, Valerie Gruber, a clinical profeswhich focuses on suicide prevensor of psychiatry at UCSF School of tion among LGBT and questioning Medicine who also works at the HIV youth, primarily through their TrevClinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco or lifeline toll-free number, noticed General Hospital, when apprised of a significant deficiency among the the CDC study results, immediately numbers reported. reacted by saying that such negative “Although it is progress that outcomes could lead students to an some sexualities have been included increased risk for HIV. in this study, we recognize that the “Having experienced violence and wide spectrum of sexualities and bullying or not felt much support gender identities have yet to be from their families can be traumatic, studied,” Land said in a statement. meaning they don’t feel worthy to “More data needs to be collected on protect themselves or pay attention transgender youth, as nearly half of to warning risk signs,” Gruber said. young transgender people have se“They might also open themselves to riously thought about taking their abusive relationships or perhaps sexlives, and one quarter report having ual predators, feeling it is safer to be made a suicide attempt.” in a dysfunctional relationship than In its conclusion, the CDC recnot to be in any relationship even if ognized the importance of school, that means being exploited.”

Jodi Schwartz, executive director of the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, said the report shined a light on existing problems.

“This is not new news, as in dialogue with our peer organizations throughout the country these numbers reflect what’s going on in the rest of the country as well as here, despite a more supportive environment for LGBT students in San Francisco,” Schwartz said. “We are focused on middle school, where bullying and violence is most acute.”

Schwartz said that LYRIC aims to empower students “to be able to grow into their own leadership and have schools that look like their families, with LGBT content represented in the curriculum, whether it be history to mark key events, in math use samples that highlight LGBT concerns, or just on Valentine’s Day to celebrate love in all its forms.”

She added that school culture needs to change.

“For example, students report that teachers or staff they knew to be gay didn’t feel supported, which makes them apprehensive,” Schwartz said.

Maxwell, while noting the importance of professional development training for teachers, child welfare workers, and counselors to promote queer youth well-being, said, “While See page 10 >>

based upon what people really need.”

Newmark also said he’s inspired by other tech leaders.

“I actually get inspiration from other people, like Marc Benioff,” he added, referring to the Salesforce founder and CEO. “But, if you talk about the emerging civic engagement community, which is a very big deal, actually, I’m hoping to see a lot more of that from folks, including the people I work with at the White House. It’s a big, serious thing. It’s like taking the community organizer stuff, expanding it and doing more with it, and then, even more with it.”

Newmark said that he also works with veterans groups such as Swords to Plowshares and Vets in Tech, which help veterans learn about the tech community and get jobs.

“I like working with Iraq and Afghanistan vets,” he said. “The deal is that the American public is beginning to forget that we owe veterans.

What’s worse, we don’t know that we owe veterans’ families. So, I’m taking every opportunity like this one, to remind everyone that we owe vets, we owe their families.”

When mentioning the White House, Newmark was asked about Barack Obama’s presidency, which is winding down as he prepares to leave office in January.

“I think that the president has done a great job, under very trying circumstances,” he said. “I’m looking forward to what might happen after his presidency. I think he’ll ask everyone to get more involved with helping people out.”

As for the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, Newmark stated, “I’m a Hillary supporter. My focus, this election, is on nonpartisan voting rights. The Declaration of Independence states that we are all equal, under the law. That means that everyone should be able to vote, and I’m putting a lot of energy into that.”

When Craigslist took off in the late 1990s, it was a revolutionary idea: providing free and low-cost ads that potentially reached millions of people online. It soon rendered classified ads in newspapers, including LGBT papers like the Bay Area Reporter, nearly obsolete,

drastically changing the advertising landscape and a once-potent source of revenue. For his part, Newmark dismissed such criticism.

“In my research, I’ve learned from the news economics people that there’s been no evidence of that,” he

and personal ads made up a good chuck of ad revenue, Newmark stated simply, “I appreciate that.”t

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Craig Newmark, left, presented a $25,000 donation to St. Anthony’s Executive Director Barry Stenger.

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t. Anthony’s San Francisco, a nonprofit organization that has served the poor and disenfranchised for many decades, recently received a donation for technological upgrades from one of the pioneers of online advertising.

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and CraigConnects, his philanthropic organization, presented a $25,000 check August 8, which will be used to create and install free Wi-Fi and electronic turbo-charging for the guests of St. Anthony’s dining room, a facility that feeds thousands of people every day, and the clients of its Tenderloin Technology Laboratory, a space that provides free computer classes, personal tutoring and internet clinics, at all skill levels, including drop-in use, six days per week, free of charge.

The new service “switched on” last week, according to a post on St. Anthony’s website.

In an interview, Newmark praised the nonprofit, even as he downplayed his generosity.

“I’m not a big deal, in any regard,” he said. “The people who are a big deal are the folks here at St. Anthony’s. They run a great cafeteria service that feeds so many people, and the technology lab really helps people out. We are doing new things today. It’s the people on the front lines who deserve the real praise. I help, then, I try to help some more,

said. “This is an area wherein I am an outsider. I’m a news consumer, so, I talk to people who know stuff.”

When given the explanation that LGBT news media is a small, but vital, part of American media, and the revenues generated by classified

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A Beastly failure

by Roger Brigham

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hile audiences around the world were being thrilled and entertained by some of the greatest and most historic athletic achievements at this year’s Summer Olympics, an epic journalistic failure reminded us that despite the display of universal brotherhood, many of us remain targets for ridicule and discrimination.

At the start of the Olympics, Nico Hines, who was issued a press

credential by the International Olympic Committee to cover the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro for the Daily Beast, decided to write about sexual activity in the athletes village by seeking out sexual dalliances on dating apps. After all, the IOC had provided nearly half a million condoms for athletes to use during the Olympics. The clickbait article, written with a fifth grader’s sense of humor and an earthworm’s grasp of political and social issues, appeared on the website under the headline,

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“I Got Three Grindr Dates in Under an Hour in the Olympic Village.”

Neither Hines, a straight, married white man from Great Britain, nor his beastly editors thought anything wrong with the article, a cheeky piece on muscular sex-crazed gays in the Olympics. “No prizes for guessing that Grindr proved more of an instant hookup success than Bumble or Tinder,” Hines quipped in the article.

But although Hines did not name the men he connected with on Grindr, he provided sufficient information about them, such as height, appearance, sport, and country of origin, so that they could be easily identified.

That could be a problem for closeted athletes from countries with strong anti-discrimination laws who are not yet out to their families.

For athletes from countries where homosexuality is criminalized, it could be life-threatening.

Outrage – from fellow journalists, human rights groups, athletes, and just about anyone with a shred of decency – was swift. The Daily Beast responded by editing out some of the personal details from the story and toning down the headline, and then ultimately removed the article entirely. When demands started to have Hines’ credential revoked, it was reported the journalist was no longer in Rio. Too little, too late. Damage done.

The most vociferous, on-point reaction came from gay Tonga swimmer Amini Fonua, who wrote a series of explosive Twitter postings. Among them: “As an out gay athlete from a country that is still very homophobic, @thedailybeast ought to be ashamed. #deplorable ... Imagine the one space you can feel safe, the one space you’re able to be yourself, ruined by a straight person who thinks it’s all a joke? ... No straight person will ever know the pain of revealing your truth, to take that away is just ... I can’t. It literally brings me to tears ... It is still illegal to be gay in Tonga, and while I’m strong enough to be me in front of the world, not everybody else is. Respect that ...

Obituaries >> Heather Monroe 1952 – 2016

Heather Monroe died July 28, 2016 in a fire in her apartment on Bay Street in San Francisco. The cause of death was smoke inhalation, said her best friend, Barbie Mendivil.

Ms. Monroe, a transgender woman, was an internet entrepreneur. She also used to go to Diva’s, 1081 Post Street, which is where a celebration of life will be held Thursday, August 25, beginning at 4 p.m.

Ms. Monroe is survived by her father, Terry Underwood, and her sister, Stephanie Underwood.

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November 8, 1948 – August 10, 2016 Robert Scott passed away August 10, 2016, his husband and loving friends at his bedside. A four-month struggle with brain cancer ended peacefully and without pain.

Robert’s San Francisco life included a 30-plus year career advocating for civil rights as a manager for the federal Department of Education following his graduation from a master’s program at Stanford.

He was a pioneering aerobics instructor whose “killer classes” at the Central YMCA were a Saturday tradition for decades. A towering figure in the recovery community, Robert shared his experience, love, and hope with scores of his fellows. In retirement, he put his handsome face to work in a new career as an actor and model.

Survivors include Robert’s husband, Dick McIntosh; his sister-in-law, Laurie Kurnick; his incredibly devoted friends; and his beloved cocker spaniel, Archibald McIntosh-Scott. Robert’s love is precious and irreplaceable. We will carry it with us as we go on without him.

Daily Beast reporter Nico Hines

Shame this inhumane CREEP who thought it’d be funny to endanger people’s lives in the village. ...”

And: “You fucking disgust me. Do you realize how many people’s lives you just ruined without any good reason but clickbait journalism? ... Some of these people you just outed are my FRIENDS. With family and lives that are forever going to be affected by this ... 1 of the guys you just outed is only 18 years old ... I was 18 once & nowhere near ready to come out, fuck you.”

The reality for many closeted athletes from repressed countries is that an international sports competition, whether it is a World Cup, an Olympics, or even a Gay Games, may be a rare and precious opportunity to experience for a few hours or days a sense of freedom outside of their homelands. It may be a rare chance to meet other gays and lesbians without fear of reprisal – to be themselves, as athletes and humans. For an event such as the Gay Games, where mere attendance can be a dangerous red flag if discovered back home, that requires layers of ensuring confidentiality is protected.

“During Gay Games IX in Cleveland, one area where we did our best to preserve the participant’s privacy was during the visa application process,” said Shamey Cramer, a board member of the Federation of Gay Games. “For those coming from nations requiring a visa, we asked the registrant to inform us when

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the more moderate of the city’s LGBT political clubs.

“Christopher is an incredible political talent,” stated Kim in a news release. “He also represents a generation of young San Franciscans who are taking political leadership and action to address our affordability crisis.”

Gustavo Arroyo, who owns Sacramento-based Margin of Victory Consulting, had been managing Kim’s Senate bid, with Eric Jaye, the founder and president of Storefront Political Media, serving as her campaign consultant. Jaye and his firm are continuing in that role.

But, with early voting set to begin in 55 days, Kim has decided to bring in someone with more knowledge of the city to oversee her final weeks of campaigning. Vasquez, 33, once interned for Dufty when he was a supervisor and volunteered on Rebecca Prozan’s unsuccessful 2010 bid to succeed Dufty as District 8 supervisor. Since 2009 Vasquez has worked for the Allen Group, LLC in various capacities, working on capital projects at San Francisco International Airport and BART. “Jane’s fighting for a community that works for all of us,” stated Vasquez. “I know she is committed to finding real solutions to our most pressing issues.”

Gay West Sacto mayor cakewalks into new term

With no one filing to run against

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their interview at the U.S. embassy or consulate in their homeland occurred. We would then forward that information to our contacts at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., who would then mark the application as ‘Confidential.’

“Every U.S. embassy or consulate overseas hires staff from the local country to assist with various matters, including those in the visa application department. Once a visa application is marked confidential, only U.S. citizens working at that post in the visa application department will have access to that application,” Cramer said. “This significantly reduces the ability for the applicant’s private information to be accessed and possibly misused by local employees.”

Gay Games participants also have the option of refusing permission to have their photos used and names reported in results. I have even fielded requests years after the fact from individuals whose circumstances have changed and find they need now to have their names removed from published results.

But sometimes one’s performance commands so much attention it is impossible to keep bottled up.

Konstantin Yablotskiy is a gay figure skater from Russia.

“After Gay Games VIII in Cologne in 2010, Konstantin returned home to discover his story of competing was featured on one of the highest rated national sensational news magazine programs,” Cramer said. “He was unaware of this until he received a call during the program from his own mother. This is how his family came to know he was gay. Shortly thereafter, Konstantin was stripped of his credentials to judge figure skating, which he appealed and lost.”

But Hines wasn’t reporting on an athletic performance in front of a global audience. He was lurking in the precious private moments of strangers looking for a few minutes of peace and acceptance. He risked their lives and well being for a few dozen clicks and chuckles.

Not an Olympic effort.t him by last Friday’s deadline, gay West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon is cakewalking into his seventh two-year term overseeing the riverfront city.

“Since none of my 51,000 neighbors threw their hat into the ring to change city direction, I’ll be sworn in as Mayor for 11th time. Onward!”

Cabaldon posted on his Twitter account Saturday.

Cabaldon, 50, who is Filipino and a principal co-owner of Sacramento-based education consulting firm Capitol Impact LLC, is one of the state’s longest serving gay elected officials, having first won a city council seat in 1996, though he didn’t come out of the closet until 2005.

The year prior he became the first mayor directly elected by West Sacramento voters. Previously, members of the city council would elect one of their colleagues to serve as mayor. Cabaldon had served four yearlong terms as mayor while a council member.t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion.

This week’s column reported on calls to change an SF street sign honoring LGBT history.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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“I am impressed by Governor Brown’s appointment of very qualified judges of diverse backgrounds, including Judge Roger Chan,” wrote Tsai, who is gay, in an emailed reply to the B.A.R. “I’m especially happy to see the appointment of the first Asian-American gay judge to the San Francisco Superior Court. It is important to have qualified judges on the bench who reflect the community they serve.”

Along with other LGBT legal groups across the state, BALIF has

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Milk plaza

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Other than the handful of photos of Milk and a bronze plague affixed to a nearby wall, Aiello said there is just one sign denoting the area is named Harvey Milk Plaza.

“I think a lot of people feel there should be more,” she said. “We would be delighted to work with the community and SFMTA in bringing together something we can all be proud of.”

A new elevator will be installed in the garden area behind the fence now affixed with a photographic tribute to Milk. It will be accessed via the upper most walkway and provide

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‘Gray area’

Steven Chase, Courtney’s attorney, said in an interview, “The charges sound horrible, but when looked at in view of the facts,” there’s a “very, very gray area.”

“I’m not sure that a crime has been committed,” Chase said.

“From what I can tell,” he said, the case involves “people engaging in indiscriminate sexual behavior, the kind of which we saw more in the 1960s than you see now,” and people “vol-

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to fill these vacancies starting in September. The authority strives for ethnic diversity and geographic representation but accepts applications for all districts on a rolling basis.

The CAC consists of 11 members and assists the authority by reflecting community values in the development of the mission and programs of the authority; and communicating information about those plans back to the community.

The CAC typically meets monthly on the fourth Wednesday of the

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VanStark, who prefers genderneutral pronouns, is running in November for a seat on the Anaheim City Council.

VanStark, 24, previously served on the San Francisco Youth Commission and was a board member for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. VanStark told the Bay Area Reporter that they are the first Hispanic city council candidate, as well as the youngest.

VanStark attended the Milk Club dinner in order to express support for District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who’s currently running for state Senate against gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, and to encourage young people and Latinos to become more politically involved.

“Orange County is changing,” VanStark said. “Republicans are losing their stronghold. There’s a growing Latino population and activism is on the rise. The people of Anaheim have fought for district elections, and this year will be the first time we move toward that style of elections.”

VanStark recalled their past as a homeless teen, an experience that fuels VanStark’s activism.

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long advocated to see the governor name more out judicial nominees when vacancies arise on the bench.

According to an annual report about the demographic makeup of the state courts, released March 1, there were 45 self-identified lesbian, gay, and transgender judges among the 1,672 jurists serving as of December 31, 2015.

The report, which is based on the voluntary answers submitted by judges, found no bisexual members of the bench. San Francisco’s Superior Court had the second highest number of out judges last year, with four lesbians and three gay male

trial court judges.

Over the last six years several gay Latino attorneys have sought to become judges, whether through gubernatorial appointments or via the ballot box, but have fallen short. This November could see the first gay African-American join the bench if attorney Paul Henderson, a top adviser and deputy chief of staff to Mayor Ed Lee, wins his race against attorney Victor Hwang for the San Francisco court’s Seat 7.

Chan, who turns 44 on Monday, will go before voters to retain his seat in 2018. He is a former deputy public defender at the San Francisco

access to the station’s concourse level and the inbound platform.

The current elevator is across the street from the plaza near Pink Triangle Park where 17th Street meets Market Street. When it is out of service, wheelchair users have no way to access the Castro Muni station.

By adding an additional elevator to the station, SFMTA officials note that the “existing elevator can be serviced without disrupting access and provides continuous access to the station and trains.”

According to the SFMTA, it will be seeking input from Castro neighborhood residents and merchants on the elevator’s “look and design.” In September the agency expects to reveal

as many as four different designs for the skin of the elevator bank that the public will be asked to vote on.

“In the coming months, SFMTA will solicit feedback in the Castro neighborhood via surveys and community meetings on the proposed designs of the elevator and plaza changes,” states the agency on the project’s website at https://www. sfmta.com/castroaccess.

Aiello expressed hope that the second elevator would be “something really attractive” and not look like the original elevator banks built at the Muni stations along Market Street.

“It would be nice if they had some cool architectural design for this elevator so it is not an eyesore,” she said.t

untarily engaging in the use of drugs.”

“Once a police department gets involved in something like this, it tends to become a witch hunt,” Chase said, with people coming out of the woodwork saying, “Me too, me too.”

He declined to say whether Courtney identifies as gay, but he said, “I think what’s driving these charges is homophobia. I believe that as great advances as we’ve made in the last few years for the rights of gay individuals. ... The fear of them still is pervasive, particularly in a small town like Pacifica. Take that for what it’s worth.”

Chase said he’d seen police reports on the three incidents Courtney is currently charged in, and “a bunch” of text messages involving “conversations back and forth.” He declined to share details of what’s in the texts.

“There’s much more coming,” he said. “There’s supposed to be 3,200 pages of text messages I haven’t seen.”

Courtney is “a kind and thoughtful person,” Chase said. Asked how his client’s doing, he said, “He appears to be depressed. He’s very concerned about his family,” and his dog. He added that Courtney’s

“been quite forthcoming with me in everything I’ve asked him.”

He wouldn’t say what Courtney’s told him about what happened.

Asked in an email whether it’s accurate that Courtney is living with AIDS, Chase responded, “I can’t comment on any health condition my client may or may not have ... for a variety of reasons, including [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] issues. That is something for the prosecution to prove, if they can.”

Courtney declined an interview request with the Bay Area Reporter

made through a deputy at the Redwood City jail Friday.

A woman at a house in the 700 block of Saint Lawrence Court in Pacifica that’s listed as Courtney’s address told the B.A.R., “I’m not going to talk to you.”

A man who was in a house a couple doors down said Courtney’s “a nice kid” who “always waved,” but he declined to comment further and wouldn’t give his name.

Police say people with information in the case can call (650) 7387314 and ask for an investigator or call the tip line at (650) 359-4444.t

month from 6 to 8 p.m. at the authority’s offices, 1455 Market Street, 22nd Floor.

Applicants are required to attend one of the Plans and Programs Committee meetings to speak on their own behalf. The committee then makes recommendations to the full authority board, which makes the final decision. The authority board consists of the 11 San Francisco supervisors.

The Plans and Program Committee will meet Tuesday, September 20 at 10:30 a.m. at San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, room 263. For more informa-

tion about the CAC or to submit an application, visit www.sfcta.org/ cac or contact the authority at (415) 522-4800.

The California Department of Public Health, Office of AIDS, is currently recruiting for the next California Planning Group membership term that begins March 1.

The group is a statewide HIV planning body that enables key stakeholders, communities, and providers to engage in active and ongoing dialogue in the Office of

AIDS to reach the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Applicants have the option of applying for either a three-year or five-year term.

The Office of AIDS is reaching out to recruit members that represent the diversity of HIV-positive populations, providers, and stakeholders in HIV prevention and care, and representatives of services and organizations engaged with identifying the social and structural determinants of HIV-related health. Some planning group members will be selected via an open application process while others will be nominated by their

local HIV planning bodies.

Those interested in applying for an at-large (community/stakeholder) seat should visit www.cdph.ca.gov/ programs/aids/Documents/2017CPGAtLargeRecruit_Final.pdf.

Those interested in applying for a nominated member seat should visit www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ aids/Documents/2017CPGNomina tedRecruit_Final.pdf.

The application deadline is September 30.

For questions or more information, email cpg@cdph.ca.gov or Katrina Gonzalez at katrina.gonzalez@ cdph.ca.gov.t

“California is the home to one out of every three chronically homeless persons and 25-30 percent of the homeless youth population, nationwide,” VanStark said. “It makes no sense that a state with so much economic success can also be home to the largest economic misfortune.”

VanStark noted that homelessness among LGBT youth was particularly high.

“Poverty rates for children under the age of 18 are at 21 percent statewide, and 24 percent in Anaheim for those same youth; folks who don’t have a vote in any election,” VanStark said. “Forth percent of the youth identify as LGBTQ, so it is clear that homelessness is the next step in our LGBTQ movement. It is the next step in our human rights movement.”

The evening included musical performances by opera singer Breanna Sinclaire, who moved the audience to tears with a stunning rendition of “Somewhere” from West Side Story – images of LGBT people who died during the past year flashed on screen, including many trans women of color, rock legend David Bowie, and Good Vibrations founder Joani Blank.

ment of people and organizations during the awards portion of the program.

The Hank Wilson Activist Award was given to the Coalition on Homelessness, while gay outgoing District 9 Supervisor David Campos received the Bill Kraus Leadership Award.

Isa Noyola of the Transgender Law Center took home the Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Award.

Longtime labor organizer and District 11 supervisor candidate Kim Alvarenga received the Howard Wallace Labor Leadership Award.

Sally Gearhart, the first lesbian tenured professor at San Francisco State University and a close ally of Milk’s, was honored with the Harry Britt Lifetime Achievement Award but was unable to attend.

Galeria De La Raza, an arts and political collective for the queer Latino community, was the recipient of the Sylvester Pride in the Arts Award.

Women’s Building co-founder Roma Guy was named as the recipient of the Eileen Hansen Social Justice Award.

School board member Matt Haney and teacher Lyndsey Schlax were given the Community Ally Award for their work in making the

San Francisco Unified School District more LGBT inclusive and for implementing LGBT studies into the curriculum.

Milk Club President Peter Gallotta delivered a rousing address to the audience.

“We’re here, we’re queer, we’re 40, and we’re not going anywhere,” Gallotta said as he acknowledged the presence that evening of longtime activists Guy, Britt, Cleve Jones, and former Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, among others, all of whom were at the first meeting of what was then the San Francisco Gay Democratic Club in 1976.

“Forty years later the Milk club is still committed to supporting queer progressive candidates,” Gallotta said. “What would San Francisco look like without the Milk Club?”

After the dinner, Gallotta and Nguyen told the B.A.R. that they were pleased with the evening, which served as the club’s biggest fundraiser of the year.

“It was wonderful to celebrate the legacy of Harvey Milk with a diverse group of queer progressive activists and allies,” Nguyen said. “I was honored to be invited as the keynote speaker, and I look forward to continue working with the amazing orga-

nizations and individuals who helped make the event such a success.”

Gallotta reiterated those feelings.

“We could not have been happier that Bao Nguyen was our keynote speaker,” he said. “He really represents a new wave of progressive Democratic politics coming out of California. If we want to see progressive change on a national level, we have to elect and support candidates like Bao.” Gallotta was also quite happy that so many past progressive leaders attended the dinner.

“It was great to see some of our club’s longtime LGBT progressive leaders like Harry Britt and Tom Ammiano in the same room with a new generation of LGBT leaders running for office like Tom Temprano and Kimberly Alvarenga,” he said Friday, referring to Temprano’s bid for a seat on the City College board.

“The bullhorn is really being passed but the values have stayed the same.

And that’s a sign of the club’s longevity and continued impact after 40 years. There’s a lot at stake this election year, and if last night is any indication, the Harvey Milk club is going to be in a strong position to take on what lies ahead this year and in years to come.”t

Awardees

The Milk club honored an assort-

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Public Defender’s office, where he worked from 2003 to 2009 and from 1999 to 2000. He also served as an attorney at the Alameda County Public Defender’s office from 2000 to 2003 and in 1999.

A San Francisco resident, Chan since 2009 had served as the executive director of the East Bay Children’s Law Offices. He represented children in various child welfare and juvenile justice cases, using a clientcentered approach he now plans to utilize as a judge.

“There aren’t a lot of juvenile lawyers on the court. I bring an experience that is not common,” he said. “I

want to use that to benefit the court and the families that come before it.”

He earned a Juris Doctor degree from UC’s Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley. A Democrat, Chan will earn $189,041 as a judge.

“I have been enjoying my new job. I am looking forward to learning how to do it well,” said Chan, who is single. “The staff and other judges are very welcoming and very knowledgeable and very helpful. I have enjoyed seeing the wide range of people who come before the court in traffic court. I like that interacting with the public.”t

Courtesy SFMTA

A rendering of the new elevator planned for Harvey Milk Plaza.

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current federal law provides some support to promote school safety, it does not comprehensively and expressly focus on bullying or harassment and in no way addresses the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ youth.”

Maxwell said that Congress needs to pass the Safe Schools Improvement Act. The legislation “would require school districts to

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gender, and that can further affect the sexual identity of a trans person, as well as those who may have a sexual relationship with us. This becomes even more complex and obvious as the trans community blazes new, non-binary and other trails.

It’s also worth noting that the arguments of so-called transgender panic defense around trans deaths are ones where trans identities and sexual orientation are tightly wound.

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have folks who are experiencing gender dysphoria-induced depression, getting their gender pronouns right can potentially alleviate some of that stress.

“But the largest thing that my communities can do?” he asked.

“Recognize that mental and emotional disabilities exist, they aren’t going away, and that people within our own communities have them.

Disability is not something that lives outside of the black or LGBTQIA+ community. It is something that many of us within these communi-

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1978 by disgruntled ex-supervisor Dan White, who also killed thenMayor George Moscone.

The Navy announced last month that a fleet replenishment oiler, T-AO 206, would be named after Milk. On Tuesday, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus was on hand, along with other officials, to hold a naming ceremony.

The ceremony opened with a performance of the national anthem by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.

Mabus was the keynote speaker and officially named the ship the USNS Harvey Milk. The ship, which is expected to be completed in 2021, is the first Navy vessel to be named after a member of the LGBT community.

“It’s important to recognize and honor Milk,” Mabus said as he addressed the crowd. “He was a person who stood for, and was killed for, justice, equality, and freedom. His assassin tried to silence that voice, but even after death his voice still spoke.”

Mabus also recalled Milk’s service in the U.S. Navy, where he was a former lieutenant and diving instructor.

“Aren’t we proud?” asked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (DSan Francisco). “This ship is another deeply powerful sign of how far we’ve come. We must acknowledge the role that President Obama played in all of this – without his leadership this would not have happened.”

Other speakers acknowledged the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the former federal law that forced LGBT service members to remain closeted, and the more recent lifting of the military’s ban on transgender service members.

Paula Neira, a transgender woman who served in Iraq prior to transitioning, took to the podium in tears. “This is not about me,” she said. “I am just the person selected to represent the LGBT heroes who served our nation.”

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, the city’s first Asian-American chief executive, said that he did not think

adopt anti-bullying and harassment policies that specifically include bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity, along with race, color, national origin, sex, disability, and religion,” she explained.

The CDC urges taking action by funding, implementing, and evaluating programs that address many of the health risks mentioned in its report, especially violence prevention and promoting healthy school environments for all students.t Those who kill us often claim to do so because their masculinity was threatened, and they worried that someone might think they were homosexual.

This, to me, is why the fight for trans people sits firmly alongside our lesbian, gay, and bisexual siblings, and it is why we should learn from each other, grow together, and be ready and willing to stand up for each other.t Gwen Smith fits within three of four letters in LGBT. You’ll find her at www.gwensmith.com.

ties deal with on a daily basis.”

Williams’ future goals include more writing, more tweeting, and grad school. In a few years, he hopes to be mentoring and teaching.t Anthony J. Williams can be contacted via Twitter at @anthoknees.

Belo Cipriani is the award-winning author of Blind: A Memoir and Midday Dreams. He’s a disability advocate, the spokesman for Guide Dogs for the Blind, and the national spokesman for 100 Percent Wine – a premium winery that donates 100 percent of proceeds to nonprofits that help people with disabilities find work. Learn more at www.belocipriani.com.

he could have become mayor if Milk had not sacrificed his life.

“We mourn his loss but celebrate his life,” Lee said. “This ship is part of the legacy of Harvey’s unfinished work.”

The ceremony concluded with a performance by the gay men’s chorus of “Never Ever” from “Naked Man,” an original suite commissioned by the chorus in 1996. After the ceremony, dignitaries posed for photos in front of a drawing of the finalized design for the USNS Harvey Milk.

Attendees were jubilant about the ship naming.

“Being a part of this will remain with me for the rest of my life,” gay Supervisor Scott Wiener told the Bay Area Reporter after the ceremony.

“Harvey would have loved it,” said Carol Ruth Silver, who served on the board with Milk. “It does say how far we’ve come – we still have many leagues to go in the world.”

“This is a momentous day,” added Anne Kronenberg, who was Milk’s campaign manager and one of his aides. “I think Harvey is dancing a jig – I asked Secretary Mabus to paint the side of the ship Lavender.

He smiled and didn’t say no.”

Stuart Milk, Milk’s gay nephew and co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, smiled throughout the afternoon. “Harvey’s legacy is a global message of visibility,” he said. “This ship represents kids in playgrounds and people in corporate boardrooms who endured homophobic remarks.

This is the legacy of my uncle.”

The USNS Harvey Milk will be one of six double-hulled supply vessels in the class that will honor American civil rights icons, according to the Navy. The first replenishment oiler will be named USNS John Lewis after the Georgia congressman and civil rights leader.

Other guests at the ceremony included longtime gay activist Cleve Jones, Nancy G. Brinker, a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and member of the Harvey Milk Foundation, and San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer. The ship will be built in San Diego’s naval port.t

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Date: 04/26/2013; Clerk, by C. TAYLOR, Deputy.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552335

In the matter of the application of: GARY NOGUERA, 942 TERESITA BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GARY NOGUERA, is requesting that the name GARY NOGUERA, be changed to HATUN NOGUERA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 18th of October 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037185900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FANTA TRADING COMPANY, 556 5TH AVE #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LINGXIA XU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/21/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037187200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IRONDOZEN, 1549 CAYUGA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HARUMI DEBONO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/21/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037187300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MELISSA KLEIN CONSULTING, 246 2ND ST #605, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MELISSA KLEIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/16.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552339

In the matter of the application of: QIAN WEI, 1685 CHESTNUT ST #308, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner QIAN WEI, is requesting that the name QIAN WEI, be changed to KRINA WEI TETRAULT. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 20th of October 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037184800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JAMBA JAMBA COMPANY, 1838 42ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RIGGIES B. TANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/21/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037183900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THEA VISION SERVICES, 305 24TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MONICA CHERNOGUZ. 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 07/20/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037183500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOCCER TROPHY AWARDS, 1189 GENEVA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARIANA JIMENEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/18/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/20/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037155800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OM INDIAN CUISINE, 1668 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AJAY RAJ KHADKA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037185500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PENSIONE BENEDETTI HOTEL, 556 GREEN ST #211, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JAMES T. FIORUCCI & GINO T.L. FIORUCCI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/21/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037170100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASHIKO FOLKCRAFT, 1581 WEBSTER ST #216, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed TERENCE DENNIS COOKE & EDWARD WAYNE SANDERS JR..The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037187700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INN AT GOLDEN GATE, 2707 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MANGAL INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037187800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOTEL 32ONE, 321 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HOTEL 32ONE, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/16.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552291

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037198400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GHETTOSABERS, 1883 PALOU AVE #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL EDWARD FARR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037196800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STOP & SAVE MARKET, 784 O’FARRELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAWLAH MUSAED ALHASHI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/29/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037191100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KREHBIEL CONSTRUCT, 4718 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAURA KREHBIEL. 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 07/29/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037192100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALEKSANDRA D FASHION & DESIGN, 643 SPRUCE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALEKSANDRA SOTELO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037188400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TERRA COTTA WARRIOR, 2555 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIE YANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/25/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037188300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MINDFUL LIVING, 2676 PINE ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMY HEPHNER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/25/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037178000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIM SUM KITCHEN INC, 2520 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIM SUM KITCHEN INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037187600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANTON HOUSE GOURMET, 1936 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed K&K INVESTMENT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/22/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/22/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037198300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUNAN HOUSE, 826 WASHINGTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed WASHINGTON CAFE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037195100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN BAY INSURANCE INC., 2826 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GOLDEN BAY INSURANCE INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/28/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASI PUBLISHING, 1404 FLORIDA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDDY A. MARTINEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/18/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/16.

In the matter of the application of: TAI STILLWATERMOON & MAXINE ZYLBERBERG, 32 DEARBORN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TAI STILLWATER-MOON & MAXINE ZYLBERBERG, is requesting that the name SIERRA ZYLBERBERG STILLWATER, be changed to CIARA ZYLBERBERG STILLWATER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 29th of September 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUITSUPPLY, 173 MAIDEN LANE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUIT SUPPLY SAN FRANCISCO, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ABBOTT WENDLER ARCHITECTS, 760 SOUTH VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA. 94110.

This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed LUKE ABBOTT WENDLER & ANN ABBOTT WENDLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/11.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037193300

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037203000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE URBAN HOTEL, 507 BUSH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 363 GRANT AVE ASSOCIATES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037205400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DECCAN SPICE BY M&M, 1142 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed M&M FOODS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOVE LETTER TO LENA, LLC, 1325 INDIANA ST #307, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107-3493.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LOVE LETTER TO LENA, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/16.

AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 25, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037204100

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037206700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHELINA PABANI CONSULTING, 1120 RHODE ISLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHELINA PABANI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/28/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/05/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037198800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CIVIC CENTER PSYCHIC, 1390 MARKET ST #2050, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BLANSY CHRISTOPHER BASTANI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037192700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STANZA COFFEE, 3126 16TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ARAFAT HERZALLAH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037207900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PHYSIOROBOTICS CONSULTING, 2309 NORIEGA ST #49, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANN STERNIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037198200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOUNDATIONS LTD, 765 GEARY ST #408, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GARLAND J. SIMPSON. 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 08/01/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037193900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THEA OPTOMETRIC SERVICES, 305 24TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MONICA CHERNOGUZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/27/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037202500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SYNAPSE HEALTH CENTER, 3580 CALIFORNIA ST #102, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAGHERIAN CHIROPRACTIC, INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037202400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE GRUBBIES, 303 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THE GRUB-BIES CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037202000

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUSTED MULE, 1217 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MIND’S EYE RESTAURANT GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/16.

AUG 11, 18, 25, SEPT 01, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037217500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALIFO ELECTRIC, 362 MOULTRIE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NIGEL ANTHONY MULLIGAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037217000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: URBAN GARDENERS, 163 HARTFORD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANTHONY CRAIG BROCK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037216800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STARDUST TRUCKING, 785 BURROWS ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BETTY TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/16/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037213400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AMPED FRAMES; THE JAM BAND; 219 BRANNAN ST #75, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIN DAHLBECK DAVIS. 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 08/12/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037216000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NINOSKA KINNINGER INSURANCE AGENCY, 2456 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NINOSKA KINNINGER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037210700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARS BAKING, 1903 18TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARCO RANGEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/10/16.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/10/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037213300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMPLE ADVERTISING AND INTERNET DESIGN, 891 POST ST #305, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MATTHEW SHIRK. 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 08/12/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037200300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUBBLE UP ENTERPRISES LLC; BUBBLE UP COIN-OP AND LAUNDRY; 1364 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BUBBLE UP ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/04/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY AREA GRAFFITI ABATEMENT, 1123 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DENNIS DEAN KINKLE. 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 08/02/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADRIZ PRODUCTIONS, 7 GONZALEZ DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALICIA MADRIZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/08/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037207000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANKO KITCHEN ESSENTIALS, 1760 BUCHANAN ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JPT AMERICA, INC. (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037214100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIE, 421 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PAPERO INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/12/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037194600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GLOBAL YOGIS, 44 TEHAMA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed IMPULSE ANALYTICS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/21/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/28/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037208500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUXURIOUS NAIL BOUTIQUE, 4068 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed THE WASHINGTON LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/09/16.

AUG 18, 25, SEPT 01, 08, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036551400

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: LLOYDS LIMOUSINE SERVICE, 1770 PINE ST #401, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MANSOUR TAVAKOLIAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/15.

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Meet museum director Max Hollein

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ax Hollein, the new director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is outgoing and forwardthinking, brimming with confidence and an optimistic can-do attitude, Rick Gerharter qualities he’ll need to lead the city’s historic de Young The new Museum and the Legion director of of Honor. Since the death the Fine Arts of director John Buchanan Museums of in 2011, FAMSF has been San Francisco, in a state of administra- Max Hollein tive upheaval, with interim directors or none at all, and the departure of Colin Bailey, who left the post in April less than two years after he arrived for a job in New York.

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“Grand Canyon with Rainbow” (1912), oil on canvas by Thomas Moran, part of Wild West: Plains to the Pacific, at the Legion of Honor through Sept. 11.

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fter moving out of its longtime home at 16th and Capp Streets in 2009, Theatre Rhinoceros has hung its hat at various venues. The Eureka Theatre has increasingly been used each season, and all shows in the just-announced 2016-17 season will take place at the downtown Jackson Street theater. It’s enough for Rhino to bill it as the “Eureka! We’ve Found a Home!” season. It’s also the 39th season for Rhino, which claims the title as “the world’s oldest continuously producing professional queer theater.”

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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, seen here in the 1930s, are the subject of Gertrude Stein and a Companion, part of Theatre Rhino’s upcoming season.

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nce upon a time, Out There went on lots of world trips.

Nowadays, not so much. That’s all the more reason we make sure to make plenty of whoopee at home.

We do live, after all, in one of the world’s most visited small cities, beloved by tourists and world travelers. San Francisco seems to register vividly in people’s imaginations, for better or worse. Maybe it’s all the classic movies set here. Blame it on Courtesy photo Vertigo.

First stop: the Stanford Court hotel on Nob Hill.

Big reason we enjoy our brand of Staycation is that we’re blessed at communal tables, so you and dinner in the hotel. We enjoyed to be able to live here in were forced to say at Executive Chef Franck Desplechin’s the wonderful world least a good morning new three-course tasting menu inof SF. Oh, OT knows to your fellow guests. spired by the season ($65, wine pairall the flaws in our All good practices. ings add $25). The Potato-crusted Sea little cowtown. But we The Stanford Court Scallops arrived as an appetizer, with also know its beguiling is proud of its history heirloom tomatoes, corn, capicola charms, not all of them with the city, and strives and barbecue aioli. Consensus: Yum. alcoholic. Another big for the local angle in its Our entrée was Kobe Ribeye, with reason we get to Staycadécor. In a nod toward parsley bone marrow, forest mushtion is the generosity the tech world, pillows on rooms and veal jus, very savory and of hoteliers in this city, lobby furniture read Ctrl, satisfying. Dessert was Pluot Baked as well as of restauAlt, Del. Elevator music is by Bay Area Alaska: sable biscuit, toasted almond rateurs and impresarios. If they’re bands, lobby art by Bay Area artists. crème fraiche ice cream, and pluot mentioned at all in our column, it’s sorbet. All paired with impeccable because we believe in them. Othwines. Service was personable and erwise, why would we bother? attentive, even obsessively so. The Other night we were staying Grill is now a central SoMa dinner in a corner room at the Stanford spot, right at the nexus of exciting Court hotel, watching dusk settle cultural ferment: the re-opening over the skyline. With two big of SFMOMA, the renovation at windows set at right angles six MoAD, the programming at the stories up, there was plenty to Contemporary Jewish Museum, see. Two crisscrossing cable car and the recent dedication of the lines like rollercoasters climbing Mexican Museum. the steep streets of Nob Hill. On On Wednesday, you could find one side, all the star skyscrapers: OT chilling in the iconic Redthe TransAmerica Pyramid, the wood Room in the Clift Hotel B&A behemoth. (We know, those for their Indian Summer media corporations are long gone.) The launch, to introduce a new seadeep-blue Bay, the Bay Bridge sonal food and cocktail menu. flashing Leo Villareal’s brilliant Courtesy photo Many of the new menu items Bay Lights, Treasure Island, the Dinner call at The Grill in the St. Regis feature honey from the Clift’s great beyond. From the other San Francisco. own Rooftop Bee Sanctuary and window, an intimate view of the herbs from its Herb Garden.

Fairmont, its elegant back elevaCute postcards feature the Telegraph General Manager Michael Pace tion with wrought-iron balconies.

Hill Parrots, the Stow Lake turtles. was our guide for a “Modern ClasThe beautiful gardens with their We truly felt like we were vacationing sic” ethos tour of the Clift, built as immaculate fountain under colored in our hometown. It was sort of like the first “earthquake-proof ” hotel lights. The wall with the Fairmont glamping, except in a hotel room. in 1915 after the great earthquake logo, its capital F for our last name.

A few nights later we were inof 1906. The Redwood Room has The bartender at the hotel’s Auvited to dinner at the St. Regis San just been named one of the 10 best rea Café was friendly and easy to Francisco’s the Grill restaurant. The hotel bars in the country in the USA chat up. Even when it got suddenly Grill, which began as a pop-up conToday “10Best” travel award contest. busy, he remembered our drinks cept in March, is now a permanent Being hometown regulars, we were and was snappy with them. Space restaurant offering breakfast, lunch there first.t at breakfast the next morning was

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Not Just Another Pretty Face, edited by Louis Flint Ceci; Beautiful Dreamer Press, $16.95 ll of the eroticism, mystery, creativity, and smoldering desire embodied by adult male exotic dancers come to life in Not Just Another Pretty Face, a new anthology from editor and short story writer Louis Flint Ceci and photoessayist Dot (Tom Schmidt). What will strike readers first are the sexy black-and-white photographs (colorized in the electronic book version) of men fronting each of these short works, 27 in all, some by well-known authors and others by newer talents. These pictures represent an ethnically diverse scrapbook of hairy, smooth, frolicsome, solemn, black, white, young and older men; all beautiful, and all of varying backgrounds: “moonlighting ballet dancers, graduate students working on their PhDs, sex workers, porn stars, artists trying to scrape together enough cash to make it in an

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The editor’s poetic “Frontispiece” ruminates on how “the skin is where we start. It is the hook” setting off a cavalcade of stories, poems, essays,

and ruminations on the many manifestations of sex, romance, desire, and body worship.

San Francisco-based writer Lewis DeSimone contributes a piece on how art can shape perception, communication and expression, especially when physical attraction is at play. New York writer Richard Wilde Lopez’s short story treats readers to a night out where the narrator is “standing shirtless at this bar off 1st and 2nd Avenue painfully aware of how sticky the floor is.”

At another bar, Rob Rosen’s characters wrestle with the allure of a performing drag queen and the lipstick that ends up covering two writhing naked bodies. This same theme colors Miles Griffis’ lyrical poem about illusion and sex, and Miodrag Kojadinovic’s three works of subtle yet potent haiku.

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Faggots Around the Labyrinth @ Lands End

Tue 23 Amber Flame at Radar Reading @ SF Public Library

Stage of reason

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an it be that we continue to have more wonderful arts events to choose from? Yes, it can. Can art fight back against ignorance? One can hope. For more events, visit us online at www.ebar.com. For nightlife events, check out On the Tab in BARtab.

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Alphabet Anthology @ Dog Eared Books

The Awakening @ Exit Theatre

Signing with local queer cartoonist contributors to the new book, including Eight Rock, Elizabeth Beier, Scout Tran-Caffee, Tyler Cohen, Diego Gomez, Robyn Adams, Ahri Almeida, Emeric L Kennard, Maia Kobabe, and Dorian Katz. 7pm. 489 Castro St. facebook.com/DogearedBooksCastro

World premiere of Oren Stevens’ drama based on Kate Chopin’s feminist masterwork novel. $20. 8pm.

Thru Aug. 20. 156 Eddy St. www.breadboxtheatre.org

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical @ Orpheum Theatre The stage musical about the life of -and featuring the music of- Carole King, returns. $45-$212. Tue-Sat 8pm.

Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7:30pm. Thru Sept. 18. 1192 Market St. shnsf.com

Colette Uncensored @ The Marsh Berkeley Lorri Holt’s acclaimed solo show about the pioneering writer moves to the East Bay theatre. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Aug. 20. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Comedy Returns @ El Rio The monthly comedy night this time features Marga Gomez, Eloisa Bravo, Justin Lucas, Priyanka Wali, and MC Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Desi Comedy Fest @ Various Venues 3rd annual festival of comics from nine countries, all with South Asian heritage, including Irene Tu, Vasu Primlani, Arjun Banerjee and more. Thru Aug. 21 ineight cities. desicomedyfest.com

Michael Walters as Dame Edna @ Oasis The comic actor performs a loving parody performance of the Australian drag star. $20. 7pm. Also Aug. 18, 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Aug. 18: Cruising (7pm) and Kamikaze ‘89 (8:55). Aug. 19: Halloween (7:30) and It Follows (9:15). Aug. 20: Casablanca (3pm, 7pm) and High Sierra (5pm, 8:55). Aug. 21: Dial ‘M’ for Murder (3pm, 7pm) and Wait Until Dark (4:55, 9pm). Aug. 24: Noir night with Wicked Woman (6:15, 9:45) and Female on the Beach (7:45). Aug. 25: Harold and Maude (7pm) and Minnie and Moskowitz (8:45). $11. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Screaming Queens @ Roxie Theater Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman’s acclaimed 2005 documentary about the history of the pre-Stonewall 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riots. $7-$12.

7pm. 3117 16th St. www.roxie.com

Showgirls! The Musical @ Victoria Theatre Peaches Christ and April Kidwell star in the West Coast premiere of Bob and Tobly McSmith’s hilarious musical adaptation of the high camp film about female strippers. $32-$45.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 27. 2961 16th St. www.peacheschrist.com www.showgirlsthemusical.com

Zoë Klein, Stephanie Bastos @ CounterPulse The two resident choreographers present athletic compelling new works. $12-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 20. 80 Turk St. counterpulse.org

City of Angels @ SF Playhouse Cy Coleman and David Zippel’s Tonywinning film noir musical is produced by the acclaimed local theatre company. $20-$125. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 17.

Kensington Park Hotel, 2nd floor, 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Dandy @ Oasis Leigh Crow and Ruby Vixen host the drag king and music variety show, with Chester Vanderbox, Jack Strano, Jeff Stroker, Meat Flap, Mason Dixon Jars, Sexual Chocolate, Alex U Inn and Kaylah Marin. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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Jack Davis and Jess Curtis/Gravity’s queer ritual and pop-up performance at the installation. Repair work, 1pm, ceremony 3pm; bring organiz materials to make bundles of sticks, offer healing verbal blessing to reclaim the word. 1pm-4pm. laberinthos.com facebook.com/ events/1762294160706936/

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West, an exhibit of the artist’s landscape/text paintings; thru Oct. 9. Also, exhibits of Bruce Davidson photos, Printed Stories, The Sumatran Ship cloth, and works by Kay Sekimachi. Free/$25. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.famsf.org

Grand Concourse @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Help Is on the Way XXII @ Herbst Theater

Heidi Schreck’s new witty drama about the volunteers at a community soup kitchen. $23-$35. Wed-Sun, thru Aug. 21, then in repertory Nov. 26-Jan. 31. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley.

(510) 841-6500. shotgunplayers.org

The Grace Jones Project, Dandy Lion @ MOAD Dual exhibitions of video, performance and artwork about the iconic singer and queer identity; and Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. Free-$10. Both thru Sept. 18. Wed-Sat 11am-6pm.

Sun 12pm-5pm. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd. www.moadsf.org

Marilyn Mitchell, Not From Jersey @ Balancoire CD release party for Mitchell’s new music, and rock and funk, covers and originals with Maria Konner’s band. $10. 9pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. www.tinyurl.com/jessac4

Ed Ruscha @ de Young Museum

On the Red Carpet, the latest edition of the star-studded music and variety show benefit for the Richmond/ Ermet Aid Foundation, with tributes to Stephen Sondheim, David Bowie, Prince and Carole King, and Natalie Cole, performed by Donna McKecknie, Sally Struthers, Contantine Maroulis, Kimberley Locke, La Toya London, Melinda Doolittle, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Jai Rodriguez, Carole Cook, many more, and the cast of Beautiful, The Carole King Story. $50$350. VIP gala dinner and lobby silent auction, 5pm. Concert 7:30pm. Afterparty 9:30pm in Green Room. 401 Van Ness Ave. 273-1620. www.reaf.org

SF Hiking Club @ Redwood Regional Park Join GLBT hikers for a 6-mile hike in Redwood Regional Park atop the Oakland hills. Start downhill on the Tres Sendas trail, and then take the French trail, the most beautiful forested trail in the East Bay. Carpool meets 9:00 at Safeway sign at Market & Dolores. (510) 926-9220. www.sfhiking.com

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Twelfth Night @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s outdoor staging of The Bard’s genderbending romantic comedy. $10-$35.

Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Aug. 21.

Dominican University of California, 890 Belle Avenue, San Rafael. 4994488. www.marinshakespeare.org

Sat 20 Don & Pilar @ Noe Valley Ministry Reunion concert with ‘70s cabaret act Don Seaver and Pilar, with accompanist Laura Boytz. $45. 7pm. 1021 Sanchez St. www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2561467

Tue 23 Marga’s Comedy Salon @ Spark Arts Diane Amos, Judi Nihei, Sharon Birzer, Dominique Gelin, Debi Durst and Justin Lucas perform at the new monthly show in the Castro gallery, with host Marga Gomez. $10. 8pm.

4229 18th St. www.margagomez.com www.sparkarts.com

Mohsin Shafi @ Strut Exhibit of the artist’s multi-layered mixed media collages that depict the complicated life of being a queer Pakistani. Thru August. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Radar Reading @ SF Public Library Julia Delgado Lopera hosts the reading series, this time with Anna Pulley, Mira Gonzalez, Amber Flame, and Fin Lee. Free. 6pm. 100 Larkin St. Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. radarproductions.org www.sfpl.org

Sampson McCormick @ Punch Line Comedy Club The acclaimed gay performer brings his new show, Shea Butter & Jesus, a fascinating take on race and representation in media, to the downtown nightclub. $15. 8pm. 444 Battery St. 397-7573. www.punchlinecomedyclub.com

David Perry’s online and cable interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. www.ComcastHometown.com

Deep Blue Sea: A String of Pearls @ Mission Cultural Center

Spencer Day @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Opening reception of a new exhibit, Through Knowledge to Justice: The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), about the early gay rights pioneer and scholar, whose early museum was destroyed by the Nazis. 7pm. Thru Nov. 23. Also, Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall, Robert W. Richards’ exhibit of gay men’s erotic magazines from the 1950s to the ‘90s. Thru Oct. 16. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials celebrating two decades of the LGBTQ collections. 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.sfpl.org

10 Percent @ Comcast

West Coast revival of Arje Shaw’s drama about the Holocaust’s legacy in Reagan ‘80s America. $35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Aug. 20. 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.thegatheringplay.com

Through Knowledge to Justice @ GLBT History Museum

Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries

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The Gathering @ Live Oak Theater, Berkeley

The cool singer-songwriter-pianist returns to the elegant downtown nightclub with his new show, Western Standard Time. $45-$65. 8pm. Aug. 20, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.spencerday. com www.feinsteinsathtenikko.com

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Through Knowledge to Justice @ GLBT History Museum

Hearts of Palm @ Berkeley City Club World premiere of Patricia Milton’s political comedy about capitalism and romance. $15-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Extended thru Aug. 21. 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. (510) 558-1381. www.centralworks.org

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Dan Hoyle returns with his hit solo show about the polarized sides of right and leftwing America. $25-$100.

Fri 8pm & Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 15. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, a new multimedia exhibit about the prolific filmmaker (thru Oct. 30). Other exhibits about Jewish culture include Lamp of the Covenant: Dave Lane and Pour Crever by Trimpin, Hardly Strictly Warren Hellman, ongoing.

Lectures and gallery talks as well. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen @ Exploratorium New exhibit of the amazing walking sculptures that resemble giant insectlike creatures. Thru Sept. 5. Free-$25.

Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest

Katya Presents @ Martuni’s The Russian exiled empress’ monthly musical cabaret showcase, with Bryn Laux, and pianist Tom Shaw. $11.

7pm-10pm. 4 Valencia St. www.russianoperadiva.com

Simple Magic @ Chochmat Halev, Berkeley Reclaiming Our Ancestry, a performance-lecture about LGBTQ lineage, Jewish ancestry and artist Seth Eisen’s work-in-progress about the life of choreographer, illustrator-author Remy Charlip. 2pm-4pm. 2215 Prince St., Berkeley. eyezen.org chochmat.org

Vinsantos @ Oasis The drag artist, Miss Trannyshack 2000, now in New Orleans, performs Harlequeen Nights, a unique solo show of his best acts and interesting tales. $15. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Mon 22 Black Love @ Strut African American queer reading event with cohosts Beatrice Thomas and Na’amen Gobert Tialhun, and Lisa Evans, Cam Awkaward Rich, and singer-songwriter Magnolia Black.

8pm. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

New Works Festival @ Thick House 3Girls Theatre Company’s fifth annual free showcase of staged readings; works with the theme Women and the Body Politic include Tina D’Elia’s Overlooked Latin@s, about a Puerto Rican butch dyke. Thru Aug. 28. 1695 18th St. 3girlstheatre.org

Thu 25 Disastrous! @ Oasis Champagne White returns in D’Arcy Drollinger’s third edition of the hilarious campy action-packed drag comedy show about our hardy heroine, who’s this time in Acapulco, where espionage and earthquakes are only part of her troubles! With Matthew Martin, Adam Roy, Nancy French and other talents. $25-$35. $200 VIP tables. Thu-Sat 7pm. Thru Sept 17. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

The Golden Age of Physique Photography @ GLBT History Museum Collector John Fagundes shares a slideshow and talk about the beautful sexy history of male muscle imagery, censorship and gay rights. $5. 7pm9pm. Also, Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall, Robert W. Richards’ exhibit of gay men’s erotic magazines from the 1950s to the ‘90s. Thru Oct. 16. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies at the monthly reading and drinking series, with host James J. Siegel, and special guests Donna Sachet, Sugah Betes, Mutha Chucka, Shane Zaldivar and Daft-nee Gesuntheit. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

Sister Speaks @ Spark Arts Sister Roma is the featured speaker at the series of fundraiser lecture-talks for the upcoming Sister Book, with drinks, swag bag and more. $35-$55.

7pm. 4229 18th St. sparkarts.com

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by Richard Dodds

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f you have reveled in the cinematic atrocity that is Showgirls, its spoofing musical version will reward you with cranked-up acknowledgments of what you know is so inexorably wrong with the film. I didn’t see Showgirls at my local cineplex when it was released in 1995, and if I did encounter it sometime later, it was probably on VHS via Blockbuster. After seeing Showgirls! The Musical!, I watched bits and pieces of the movie online, and it’s fairly amazing to realize that what is mercilessly mocked on stage is so solidly deserving of the skewer.

If the audience at the Victoria Theatre had not been admonished in a pre-show welcome from the ample and amply crude hostess Lady Bear, it’s likely there would be those in the enthusiastic crowd that would yell out familiar lines in Rocky Horror fashion. “I am not a whore!” would be a popular one.

After all, Peaches Christ has built a loyal following for her 18 annual screenings of Showgirls bookended with onstage mischief.

When a live musical version surfaced in New York three years ago, a new way to celebrate the enduring camp classic here was perhaps inevitable. Peaches Christ Productions and New York’s Mediumface Productions have joined forces to give Showgirls! The Musical! its regional premiere, and as fun as the results are, they become an absolute scream thanks to April Kidwell’s recreation of her New York role. The role of Nomi Malone was a gut punch to Elizabeth Berkley’s career, but if there is any justice in this world, it should send Kidwell’s soaring.

What Kidwell does with this role of a Las Vegas newbie with big dreams is a source of constant comic delectation. Frequently going topless in no way inhibits Kidwell’s embrace of knockabout physical comedy and hilarious overacting. Kidwell goes berserk when a new friend tries to determine just where she’s from. “Different places!” she screams as French fries go flying from both her hands and her mouth. And when Nomi gets a job as a pole dancer, Kidwell could be channeling Lucy Ricardo as limbs flail as she galumphs up and down the pole.

Nomi mainly works as a lap dancer at a crummy club, but aspires to be in the topless revue at a snazzy joint where the star makes her entrance from the mouth of a smoldering volcano. The star of that attraction is Cristal Connors, an aging marquee name who goes out of her way to humiliate Nomi, seeing her as a fresh-faced rival while harboring lustful feelings for her. All the women of Showgirls seem to be at least bi-curious, and tongues do wag in a most literal fashion.

Peaches Christ cuts a daunting figure as Cristal, coming across as a kind of blend between Ethel Merman and a Sherman tank as she rules her roost without mercy. In the movie, Cristal’s hedonist boyfriend was played by Kyle MacLachlan,

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story is about a bar called Limerick and a beautiful go-go boy who finds himself enjoying a day at Baker Beach with a randy and smitten young bar patron.

Multiple Lambda Literary Award winner Jeff Mann’s poetry evokes hardcore eroticism and sexual desire as an overnight romp with a paid-for dancer, whom he watched “dance in nothing but a silver chain, a black leather wristband, and a black-and-blue lace-up jockstrap,” becomes a study in body rhythms and “imagination’s miracles.”

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In a satire of the notorious 1995 movie, Peaches Christ and April Kidwell play rival Las Vegas performers in Showgirls! The Musical! at the Victoria Theatre.

which is also the name the character gets in the stage version. Tim strandreleasing.com Wagner plays the role with unusual normalcy for this production, but gets to let loose in the notorious swimming pool scene when he and Nomi copulate with the shudders of hummingbirds in heat.

Marcus Deison is another happy holdover from the New York production, playing both Nomi’s sweetas-can-be friend Molly and dancer extraordinaire James, who takes the promising Nomi under his wings.

“You burn when you dance,” he encourages Nomi, “like when I piss.”

In the film, their hot dance scene at a disco is so absurdly photographed that you can’t actually see them dance, but on stage in Rory Davis’ hilarious choreography, we see their full bodies in the kind of spasmodic moves a teenage girl might be improvising in front of a mirror.

Rori Nogee (also from New York) and Anna Muravitskaya play two of Cristal’s woebegone backup dancers, and Bobby “Barnaby” Bryce exuberantly plays a choreographer unambiguously named Gay who dreams of being a showgirl himself.

But Raya Light doesn’t get much traction in the role of the rapist rock star who meets his match in Nomi.

Peaches Christ, who is billed as Joshua Grannell in the director’s chair, keeps the production moving at a moderately fluid place, but knows how to accentuate the laughs that come with happy regularity.

The spotty set is uncredited (unless Ric Ray’s art direction and Patrik Hendrickson’s carpentry cover that base), but Amie Sarazan’s costumes are playful accentuations on the show’s seedy themes.

Since this is a musical, the songs

by Bob and Tobly McSmith must be acknowledged (music direction is BARtab editor and celebrated novelist Jim Provenzano’s short work speaks volumes from the older and wiser perspective of an aging partier toward the dancers at a “gay Burner Faerie warehouse” party. The narrator laments his own past as a go-go boy, having “been up there, thirty years and twenty pounds ago, shaking my ass for tips, because it was fun, and back then I, too, was perfect.”

There are many more enticing pieces in this collection, which embraces the beauty of the male body, and celebrates the work of dancers and the rewards for those who watch and fantasize.t

by Peter Fogel), but the melodies are generically undistinguished, with lyrics that do throw off some quirky surprises or comically telegraph what fans know is coming.

“Everything is so wonderful, nothing could go wrong,” sings Cristal in one of her production numbers, “unless someone pushes me down the stairs, which would never, ever happen.”t Showgirls! The Musical! will run through Aug. 27 at the Victoria Theatre. Tickets are $25-$35, available at peacheschrist.com.

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n the opening scene of Front Cover, a hip, visually adroit, witty and erotic new release, Ryan (Jake Choi), an up-and-coming Chinese American photo-stylist, is barreling across Manhattan when his Yellow Cab stops for a light. Seeing one of his recent shoots spread out across a construction site, Ryan whips out his cell-phone camera to snap a record of his work. Another Chinese American man, a restaurant delivery dude on a bike, swings into view, spoiling the shot for Ryan, and as we later realize, sort of “outing” him to a guy he would not fancy. In quick order we learn that Ryan is a snob who operates in the upper echelons of NYC’s fashion business. Soon, what screenwriters call “progressive complications” will force Ryan to combine his private and professional lives and actively woo another Asian man for fun and profit.

Front Cover is the latest work from director Ray Yeung, whose 2008 London-based Asian sex comedy Cut-Sleeve Boys was a dress rehearsal for this sophisticated urban comedy. As soon as Ryan gets to work, he discovers to his dismay that his emotionally volatile editor has reneged on a long-promised cover story, and has instead assigned him to create a new campaign around an ego-inflated, very cute Chinese fashion model just in from the mainland. From the get-go, Ryan and Ning (James Chen) clash over cultural effluvia. While his Chinese parents are happy he’s not chasing after another white boy, Ryan doesn’t know what he should do with an attitude-flaunting foreigner.

He whines to his British roommate

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Ning (James Chen) and Ryan (Jake Choi) are an unlikely couple in director Ray Yeung’s Front Cover.

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You’re hard-working, talented and bitchy, perfect for the fashion world.”

– from Ray Yeung’s Front Cover and her pre-school-age daughter.

“Maybe my parents are right.

Maybe all Chinese people should only be doctors.”

“Believe me, you would have made a crappy doctor.”

“Well, at least they’d be proud.”

“Come on now, you’re not sleeping on the streets.”

“I’m almost 30, and what do I have to show for it? A bunch of designer clothes and a few spreads in some designer magazines.”

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

You’re hard-working, talented and

bitchy, perfect for the fashion world.”

When Ryan meets Ning, the two men get tangled up over how men, particularly Asian men, should conduct themselves and treat each other. Rejecting Ryan’s choice of a pair of high-end pajamas for him to model, Ning tells him he wants another designer to work with. Ryan decides to confront Ning’s apparent homophobia.

“Is it because I’m gay?”

“No.” “All the good stylists are gay.”

“We are fire and water. We do not

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Ryan (Jake Choi) barrels across Manhattan in a Yellow Cab in director Ray Yeung’s Front Cover.

mix, unless you don’t show your homo side so openly.”

“Let me tell you something. I might be gay, but I have absolutely no interest in you whatsoever, if that’s what you’re worried about.

I’m what you call a potato queen: I’m only interested in white men.

I’ve never slept with a Chinese man before, and I never will!”

You’ll enjoy Front Cover most if you’re familiar with the

discrimination turf battles fought between Asian-loving white guys and Caucasian-loving Asian guys.

Some of these battles took place in San Francisco along Polk Street when an LGBT civil rights group protested bias against Asian gay men by gay bars in the early 80s. Combining a hip insider’s take on fashionistas with a two-worlds-collide, cute-boys implosion, Front Cover is as current as tomorrow’s headlines.t

Out of the cafeteria, into the streets

by Sari Staver

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n honor of the 50th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, the first known instance of collective queer resistance to police intimidation in the U.S., the award-winning documentary Screaming Queens will

screen at the Roxie Theater on Thurs., Aug. 18, at 7 p.m. The film, directed

by Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman, tells the story of the little-known uprising at Compton’s Cafeteria, located at 101 Taylor St. (at Turk) from 1954-72. Compton’s was one of the few places where transgender people

could congregate publicly in the city – they were unwelcome in gay bars.

The riot in August 1966, three years before the famous Stonewall riots in New York City, took place after drag queens rebelled against police arrests and mistreatment.

The Compton riot was “the transgender community’s debut on the stage of American political history,” said Stryker in an interview with the B.A.R. The directors, both academic historians who live in the Bay Area part-time, will participate in a panel discussion following the film. Tickets are $12 and available online through the Roxie’s website. When the film was first released 10 years ago, the Compton’s Riot “wasn’t a story that was remembered by very many people,” said Stryker. “It’s gratifying to me that the story has entered the historical consciousness and memory” of many people. “Even Pres. Obama mentioned Compton’s” last year, in remarks he made about LGBT history.

Stryker, a transgender woman who received an Emmy Award for directing Screaming Queens, is currently associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, and founder of the Transgender Studies Initiative at the University of Arizona. The author of a number of books on LGBT history and culture, Stryker’s first book, Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area (Chronicle Books, 1996), is an illustrated account of the evolution of LGBT culture in the Bay Area.

The idea for the film came about when Prof. Victor Silverman, an academic colleague whom Stryker met when both were in Ph.D. programs at UC Berkeley, suggested the two work on a film together. The project “was way more work than I thought,” said Stryker. “It took

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Scene from directors Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman’s documentary Screaming Queens.

longer than my dissertation.”

Early funding for research for the film came in part from Stryker’s postdoctoral fellowship, as well as from Silverman’s budget. Once they had a trailer for the film “so we could show people what we had,” they were able to get foundation funding and, “most importantly,” hire executive producer Jack Walsh, who knew his way around the film world. Through Walsh’s contacts in public television, the team received “enormous help” from ITVS, enabling them to finish production on a budget of less than $250,000.

After a premiere at the Castro Theatre during the Frameline film festival, Screaming Queens was screened at hundreds of film festivals and college campuses around the world, said co-director Silverman. The film is considered “essential viewing in colleges and universities for queer history and transgender studies programs.”

Silverman, a bisexual man, said, “As a historian and an academic, I see film as a way to help large numbers of people understand history.

We wanted to help the transgender community have a better sense of their community making history and changing the world.” The film, said Silverman, is as relevant today as it ever was. “It’s about alliances and how social change comes about in society.” Making the film was “tremendously rewarding,” he said.

The recent massacre at the gay club Pulse in Orlando is a reminder of the importance “of having bars, nightclubs, or restaurants where the queer community can gather and be themselves.”

The Roxie will also screen the film Filthy Gorgeous, the Trannyshack Story on Sat., Aug. 20, at 9:15 p.m., to help raise money for one of the city’s most beloved queer bars, the Stud, where a new landlord has tripled the business’ rent. Filmed over three years, Sean Mullens’ and Deena Davenport-Conway’s documentary is a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary drag nightclub Trannyshack, a weekly feature at the Stud for 12 years, from 1996-2008.

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Broadway legend appears in SF

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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ne of the biggest names in Broadway history, Donna McKechnie won a Tony Award for her performance as Cassie in the original production of A Chorus Line. That was but one of numerous Broadway musicals to star or feature McKechnie. She has also made a few films, performed extensively on television, and is a respected choreographer.

All of McKechnie’s dreams have come true, and she has always been ready to lend her name in support of the LGBT community. On Aug. 21, McKechnie will join other stars onstage at the Herbst Theatre for Help Is on the Way XXII: On the Red Carpet, Idols and Icons. The evening will benefit the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, an organization dedicated to raising funds for AIDS charities. This particular evening will benefit Meals on Wheels San Francisco and the AIDS Legal Referral Panel.

McKechnie spoke to the B.A.R. from her home in New York about what this cause means to her. She recalls seeing the theater community decimated by HIV during the plague years of the 1980s and early 90s. “What I love about Richmond/ Ermet is that they don’t give up,” she said. “When it seems like a crisis is

“I love the organizations that keep going and don’t say that it’s over. Thank God people can be stabilized, but this is not a cure. There are people still living in dire straits who need help.”

– Donna McKechnie over, it’s moved over by the wayside, but the war is not over.”

She noted that in spite of medications that can keep many people healthy for years, AIDS can still kill.

“I love the organizations that keep going and don’t say that it’s over,” she said. “Thank God people can be stabilized, but this is not a cure.

There are people still living in dire straits who need help.”

McKechnie added that she has personal friends who are living with HIV. “To have friends who are doing very well gives me hope,” she said.

“I’m happy to help get the word out – it takes great vigilance.”

When McKechnie appears at Help is on the Way, she’ll be joined by other famous names. Those scheduled to participate include

Spencer Day looks forward & back

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Singer-songwriter Spencer Day, inspired by the great American songbook, will play Feinstein’s at the Nikko.

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pencer Day, the sexiest gay songwriting crooner we’ve got, returns to San Francisco with 100 years of hits. His new show Western Standard Time plays at Feinstein’s at the Nikko on Fri., Aug. 19 (8 p.m.) and Sat., Aug. 20 (7 p.m.).

“I’m taking a musical look at the songs and artists that inspired me over 100 years of the great American songbook,” he says. “It’s a brand spanking new show. I’m planning to do songs by Rufus Wainwright, kd lang, Cole Porter, Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, Peggy Lee, Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, plus some of the 1950s and 90s one-hit-wonders that inspired me.”

In choosing his repertoire, Day says, “I set out to go back literally 100 years to 1916. I found ‘My Buddy,’ a great WWI-era song with a homoerotic subtext, and ‘After You’ve Gone,’ which is a great old vaudeville song. The hardest part of putting the show together is figuring out which songs to cut.” But die-hard Day fans need not worry.

“I’ll throw in some of my originals that people want to hear. The show is about 50% of what people have heard, and 50% of tunes that I’ve

never performed before.”

Day has a philosophical take on why songs from the past continue to inspire us. “Turmoil and uncertainty about the future is pretty universal,” he says. “So we’re drawn to songs from the Golden Age that never really existed.”

Speaking of vintage musical styles, the swinging songster is wrapping up recording tunes for his upcoming CD Angel City at the studio that was once home to Frank Sinatra. “I’ve got nine songs recorded and six more to do,” he says.

“I’m recording with an 18-piece orchestra at Capitol Records. It’s really up-tempo, with a lot of blaring horns and big drums.”

The album was inspired by the former San Franciscan’s time living in L.A. pursuing the elusive dream (which may or may not actually exist) that has drawn legions of dreamers to the City of Angels.

After a month of writing and touring at venues throughout Florida and New York, Day is happy to return to the City by the Bay. “San Francisco has always been so supportive of me trying new things,” he says. “I always look forward to coming back.”t Info: feinsteinsatthenikko.com.

Sally Struthers (All in the Family), Jai Rodriguez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), American Idol’s LaToya London and Melinda Doolittle, jazz great Sony Holland, and X Factor’s Jason Brock, who calls San Francisco home and is a regular on the local cabaret scene.

When it’s McKechnie’s turn to step into the spotlight, she’ll be sharing a story, through song and dance, about one of the most magical nights of her life. “I tell the story of how I met Fred Astaire when I was doing A Chorus Line,” she said.

“It’s one of my favorite stories. I’ll be ‘dancing’ with Astaire during the performance.”

Astaire (1899-1987) is fondly remembered as one of the 20th century’s greatest dancers, and was one of McKechnie’s idols. Recently she worked with another of her idols when she was asked to choreograph a show for fellow Broadway superstar Chita Rivera. McKechnie feels enormous gratitude for all she’s achieved.

She also wanted to give a shoutout to fans of Dark Shadows. Her role on the series as Amanda Harris, aka Olivia Corey, is probably her second most famous character after A Chorus Line’s Cassie. She was disappointed that she couldn’t attend

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Donna McKechnie will appear in Help Is on the Way XXII: On the Red Carpet, Idols and Icons at the Herbst Theatre.

the series’ recent 50th anniversary celebration this past June due to a work commitment.

“I wanted to see everyone,” she said. She was particularly grateful to DS fans who wrote to producers all those years ago regarding Amanda/Olivia’s supernatural love story with Quentin Collins (David Selby), the show’s handsome, immortal werewolf. Fans loved their storyline. McKechnie’s appearance on the show stretched from the originally intended few episodes to six months. She enjoyed being reunited with Selby in recent years to record The Eternal Actress and The Darkest Shadow, two DS audio dramas now available on CD via Big

Finish Productions.

McKechnie also acknowledged the immense fan-base that she has in the gay community – the theater community has always been a safe haven for LGBT people. “I always felt privileged to be in a world that’s so embracing,” she said. “People of all races and all persuasions – I feel happiest when I’m with people who are accepting. There’s a lot of ignorance in the world. Being open and accepting is a very comfortable place to be.”t Help Is on the Way XXII: On the Red Carpet: Idols and Icons, Sun., Aug. 21, Herbst Theatre, SF. Tickets: cityboxoffice.com.

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Remembering Anton Yelchin

by David Lamble

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he rising young Russian-American film star Anton Yelchin was killed on June 19, 2016, when his Jeep Grand Cherokee pinned him to the front gate of his Southern California home. According to police reports the actor may have believed the vehicle was safely in park.

A lawsuit against the automaker by Yelchin’s parents is pending.

The 27-year-old Yelchin had, among his 65 professional credits, a number of films that connected the dots on topics like youth sexuality, drug use, gun violence and the difficulty faced by American kids in making life-and-death decisions in a world where adults frequently abdicate their duty as teachers and role models.

The focus of this remembrance is the 2006 film Alpha Dog. The DVD cover features nine pictures of the film’s cast, eight in sepia tones, the middle square of Yelchin as his character, with the caption: “MISSING: 15-year-old white male.” On second viewing, director Nick Cassavetes’ film made me furious, and for all the right reasons.

Alpha Dog was condescended to by some mainstream critics for being “exploitive,” “too violent,” “sexist.” Not only do I disagree, I think this is one of those rare films that raise key issues concerning the breakdown of values in our country.

Following a montage of childhood scenes, Alpha Dog roars into the first act with a pissing contest between rival drug dealers. Johnny Truelove (Emile Hirsch) is incensed that Jake Mazursky (Ben Foster) has stiffed him on a drug debt. Pretty soon the boys are smashing into coffee tables, doing chokeholds. Truelove pulls a pistol. While Jake is high as a kite and clearly demented, he’s a karate expert, fearless and capable of his own fighting. Jake’s a jerk, but the kind of jerk a kid brother

might look up to. Truelove is a wuss, a guy who seduces others into doing his killing. Jake and Johnny aren’t the main players in our story, but each contains a tragic flaw that will wreak havoc on the lives of others.

Elvis (Shawn Hatosy) is a go-fer who clearly adores Johnny, who treats him like a bitch. Johnny’s right-hand man Frankie (breakout role for Justin Timberlake) pelts Elvis with homo epithets. The film reminds us that cruel taunts sometimes do hurt more than sticks and stones, and these cut Elvis deeply. Hatosy plays this as a truly damaged man, clueless to the depth of his feelings.

Back at the Mazursky family homestead, Jake’s dad (David Thorton) and stepmother (Sharon Stone) are determined to keep Jake’s bad habits from infecting their younger son, cute-as-a-button Zach (Anton Yelchin). Busted by Dad for the bong in his room, Zach stages a home breakout, fatefully wandering into the path of Truelove’s merry men, in one of those white vans that always spell trouble. Johnny breaks the crime-boss rules of order and commits an impetuous act: he orders his boys to grab Zach and toss him in the van. Zach is surprisingly agreeable to his boynapping, and for a long time the movie treats this felonious act as a mere prank that will turn the bubbly kid into a man.

Zach meets some goofy but seemingly benign party kids, Frankie and the goth-appearing Keith (Chris Marquette), a doofus doper with moments of moral clarity. Timberlake seamlessly segues between a dumb underling desperate to please Johnny and a young man with a conscience screaming to let Zach go. Zach pretends to be 17; though he’s busted on

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a film that shouldn’t slip away unseen. This dog can hunt!

I spoke with writer-director Nick Cassavetes, son of American indie-film pioneer John Cassavetes and American film royalty. No one else gets to call Gena Rowlands “Mom” on set.

He explained that the incident inspiring Alpha Dog, the November 1999 Southern California murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz, unfolded in his own backyard. One of his daughters was in school with the gang, headed up by Jesse James Hollywood, put on trial after extradition in 2005 from South America. The project began as a screenplay for a friend, who later backed out of directing it in favor of a role on HBO’s Entourage. I asked Cassavetes to expand on his feeling that Zach’s murder arose from sublimated feelings the kid held for Johnny Truelove.

“I think Elvis would have done anything for Johnny. He wanted his attention, his affection and some of the lost respect back. I think he was willing and able to do anything he could to get those things,” Cassavetes said. But why doesn’t Zach leave when he can? Young Anton Yelchin gives weight to Zach’s fatal confidence that he should stick with his kidnappers.

“The child had so much confidence, along with the usual teenager problems at home,” said Cassavetes.

“He probably idolized the kids who kidnapped him. He knew them, they knew him. He had the idealistic view of the world that youth does: that they’re immortal and nothing can possibly happen to them, and his brother’s a hero who will save the day. He didn’t run when they didn’t guard him because he liked where he was better than home. He didn’t call his parents. He had a good time for a while.

“Anton is a remarkable actor, one who comes along every 10 years, he’s that good. When you consider he was 15 when he played this part, it’s a monumental accomplishment.”

Yelchin left us his own observations, cited from the Internet Movie Database site: “Russia produces Dostoyevsky and Rachmaninoff, then it produces Stalins and Lenins.

Such a strange combination.” “Guilt is a very important part of my personality. There are two things at work here, history and genetics. The history of Ashkenazi Jews has not been very pleasant. I’m not just talking about WWII, but centuries of oppression and pogroms. If you’re a product of that environment, it’s a very big part of who you are.”

Readers interested in exploring other Yelchin films should check out Jack, where he plays a teen whose dad comes out as gay; Fierce People, where he’s the son of an anthropologist abducted to the estate of a wealthy eccentric; and Charlie Bartlett, where his popular teen becomes the boys’ room shrink for his high school classmates.t

theater choruses, but starts designing sets for musicals and dressing performers like Ethel Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn.

Orry and Leach move to Hollywood in 1931, where Archie seeks film work as Cary Grant while Orry designs costumes for Warner Studios under a French-sounding name, Orry-Kelly. He dresses Kay Francis and an unknown Barbara Stanwyck. Orry uses clothes to help the actor and director create a character. Talented and difficult, he has legendary clashes with Jack Warner, who calls him a pain-in-the-ass but “our pain-in-the-ass.” Unlike gay costume designers Adrian and Travis Banton, he doesn’t get married as a cover. In an increasingly homophobic Hollywood, he accepts himself, willing to ruffle feathers to live an authentic life. Cary Grant, on the other hand, marries women, and in-between divorces lives with actor Randolph Scott. He ignores Orry, who has few ongoing relationships, instead picking up sailors at the San Pedro pier.

Orry’s clothes appear in classics Jezebel (though black-and-white, managing to conjure up a red dress on Bette Davis), The Maltese Falcon,

42nd Street, Casablanca, and Arsenic and Old Lace Lace. He is considered a master of color, nuance and silhouette. Actresses love him, especially the hard-to-dress Davis, who remarked, “When he left Warners, I felt I had lost my right arm.” Due to his drinking, he is fired from Warners and freelances at other studies, costuming Oklahoma, Auntie Mame, Gypsy, and Irma La Douche, reaching a career total of 282 films. His peak was Some Like It Hot, including Marilyn Monroe’s famous see-through beaded dress (she resented his comment that Tony Curtis had a better ass than she did). Curtis and Jack Lemmon were so convincingly dressed they could use the studio women’s restroom and pass.

A trip to a sanitarium in the mid1950s led Orry to stop drinking.

But it was too late. He died of liver cancer in 1964.

Orry’s grandniece announced she found a copy of his memoir, Women I’ve Undressed, stored in a pillowcase in the back of a cupboard, too racy to publish during his lifetime. Rumors of its existence led to Orry’s brief reapproachment in the late 50s with Grant, friendly because he was worried he would be mentioned in it. Only minor changes were made to the documentary after Armstrong and writer Katherine Thomson read the memoir. Hardly reverential, Women has a tongue-and-cheek air that celebrates Orry’s life. But there is still an undertone suggesting a man whose only passion was his work. He never got over his love for Grant. Orry appears only in the end credits on a clip, when he accepts his Oscar for Some Like It Hot. Costume designers Ann Roth, Catherine Martin, Michael Wilkinson, critic Leonard Maltin, actors Angela Lansbury and Jane Fonda provide insightful commentary. But the real star is the restored footage showcasing Orry’s dresses and gowns in all their glory.

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this lie, he’s thrown into the deep end of the pool with flirtatious lasses.

The climax may leave you angry and in tears. Yelchin will break your heart in a death scene that packs a wallop. Cassavetes demonstrates that homophobic brutality is designed as much to maintain the prison of enraged masculinity as to keep queers in our American-style Kurdistans. Alpha Dog is a nasty punch in the face that stings but is worth the pain.

Cassavetes is developing a style and voice that deserve to be heard.

Minor missteps – Sharon Stone in a hideous fat-suit, Bruce Willis overplaying his hand as Johnny’s bad-seed dad – don’t distract from

Costume drama

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s part of the continuing trend of reclaiming unsung heroes of the LGBT community, Wolfe Videos has just released Women He’s Undressed, a documentary directed by Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) about the legendary gay Australian Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly, a hit at this year’s Mostly British and Frameline film festivals. Despite his winning three Oscars (An American in Paris, Les Girls, Some Like It Hot), most people have no idea who he was. He died in 1964, with pallbearers Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, directors Billy Wilder and George Cukor, and a eulogy given by Jack L. Warner. Armstrong has rescued Orry from oblivion, despite having had few original sources with which to work. She did have the films and the dazzling clothes Orry produced, though he described himself modestly as a hem-stitcher. Fearing there wasn’t enough material, Armstrong unwisely uses stylized reenactments with actor Darren Gilshenan portraying Orry in a rowboat making comments, often bitchy, about his life. They are stagy distractions, where the fast-forward button on your DVD player can come in handy.

Born Orry George Kelly in 1897 in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, as a child he enjoys dressing dolls, drawing pictures, and the theater. His mother Florence (also depicted in reenactments) encourages his artistic ambitions. Fleeing to Sydney, he works at a bank but wants to perform on stage. He falls in love with an underworld gangster. The affair goes awry, so he bravely boards a ship to New York in 1922, settling in Greenwich Village, where one could live openly.

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Spreading a wide net

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erner Herzog is a big man.

He’s made a lot of big movies over the course of a big career. He’s German, but even Americans have heard of him. Well, some Americans, the kind who go to movies, who like to think, or like to think they think, about their place in the universe in a broadly Germanic, philosophical, verbose, ponderous bordering on pretentious, falling over into surprisingly poignant ways. Herzog is too big to fail because his whole oeuvre is based on failure, or rather ruin, brought on by being too big. I guess that’s a metaphor for the fall of Western Civilization, or have I gone too far? Impossible. So now he’s taken on his biggest challenge so far, the cosmos, via the Internet, in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, opening Friday at the Landmark Embarcadero.

When Herzog started making movies, they were made on film, which ran through a camera and was exposed to light, then took a chemical bath to create a negative, which was then printed as many times as there were movie theaters needing to show it on opening day.

The physical work involved in a

Herzog film, which might be about physical work, was part of the myth of the man. Actors and crews were stretched beyond endurance in a kind of Germanic, mystical way that entailed being existential about everything and wearing yourself and everyone else out by pondering.

He’s older now, and movies are finished. There is only the Internet, the immediate and global navelgazing of distracted mobs freed of all corporeal restraints to dream the most foolish dreams of conquest in a long line of humanity’s hubristic bubbles. This is Herzog territory: the outsize ambition of tiny men, never women, women are never so stupid.

Only men rise up against God and Nature like Elon Musk and develop the driverless car, which has already started killing even tinier humans, before going on to offer high-rollers return trips to Mars. The arrogance, the ambition, the autism of these men who flourish in Silicon Valley, UCLA, Stanford, and Las Vegas is of a Biblical scale even as they pander to trivial needs and promise to destroy the species from the inside by rendering humans obsolete.

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he essay is having a hard time of it these days. The bleeding torso that has not been consumed by the blogosphere has been co-opted by the stable of writers who used to call themselves “working journalists,” and who now appropriate “essay” to refer to the most meager of reviews.

But for a serious take on the venerable form at its most robust, the essay as extreme sport, there’s gay poet Brian Blanchfield’s masterful, boundary-pushing new collection Proxies: Essays Near Knowing (Nightboat Books).

The risk of condensing a poet’s stated scheme is grave, but there is some explaining to do. Among the challenges Blanchfield set for himself in these 24 essays, written as early as 2009 but mainly in 201315, was to compose them without consulting other sources. He took his cue from the great essayist Montaigne, who is said to have addressed his personal library with the question, “What do you know?” Hence the subtitle, essays Near Knowing, and a sub-subtitle, {a reckoning}, that sits so central on the title page you can’t ignore it.

The notion of “proxies,” he explains, addresses a range of “near” states suggested by roles he has taken: stepson, adjunct professor, house-sitter and more. The word’s scientific use to describe a “concession to imprecision” leads to a motto that appears under each of the essay titles, “Permitting Shame, Error and Guilt, Myself the Single Source.” Despite the repetition, you read it every

a discussion of secrets and “being a holding environment for the secret” that leads, by way of a brilliant return to the idea that a dog “smells” its fearer’s fear, to the realization: “The secret is how you feel. Then, one day, you wake up to the new reality that walking the same Earth you have lived on all these years, growing increasingly proficient as the keeper of your contents, is at least one creature endowed with the singular ability to sense something

you are concealing for your life, a creature whose report is loud as a gun. It smells your fear. In its presence I could not contain myself.

Even then, starting then with new dread, I felt myself; I couldn’t have said by what extroversion, but I knew eventually I was coming out.”

Few writers in any genre come out as deeply, about so much, as Blanchfield does in Proxies, which a less humble writer might accurately have titled Dead On.t

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on camera talk about exist at least in their own minds, perhaps principally in their minds. Herzog doesn’t stoop to fact-checking or opposing arguments. He lays out several pieces of the metaphorical, metaphysical pie to form an imperfect circular object representative of some Platonic pie in the sky, which is complete, total, ideal. The most startling of these pie slices is the Catsouras family: father, mother, three daughters, posed as for a formal tragic portrait between their

What do you know? time. The essays are no wade into Lake Lacan; instead they work rather like music, the aleatory John Cage a good “proxy.” Blanchfield includes “sortilege” among his methods. He writes, “Having determined that this would be unresearched essaying, analytic but not academic, I was almost immediately drawn to a second constraint – or, better, invitation: to stay with the subject until it gives onto an area of personal uneasiness, a site of vulnerability, and keep unpacking from there.”

The writing is bravely personal, open, and amused with itself in all the right ways. There’s frank comedy in the fact that the 24 short essays, seldom longer than a halfdozen pages, are followed by the book’s longest section, a 20-page coda: Correction. With a period. For a certain type of footnote reader, it’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Blanchfield’s American sensibility is also “gay” less in its confessions than in its queer alchemy of irony and playfulness. The essays range from “On Owls” to “On Peripersonal Space” by way of “On Br’er Rabbit” and “On Frottage,” while not ducking “On Man Roulette.” Given the draw of the topics, it warrants saying that the writing is not for the faint-hearted. No pantywaists or open-toed shoes allowed. You don’t skate over this prose, and, poet that Blanchfield is, not all of the words are familiar, though all are germane.

Even advanced readers will take to their dictionaries – eagerly, I suspect.

“On Propositioning” (no, not that) begins with reflections on the impact of Helen Keller’s learning words for her experience, then invokes Roland Barthes, “[who] uses nearly the same quivering expression as Keller, writing about the pleasure of choosing a word, not for its fitness or this or that sonorous or rich quality but for its ‘vibrating’ potential, its readiness to be ‘put into play’ with others.” Other essays are more homey. “On House Sitting” drops words like “commensalism” and “citational” into places where they vibrate, speaks tenderly about what constitute gay families, and settles old scores.

There’s a bit of sex, flirty bar stuff that starts with pre-cum and ends with a walk home in “jizzy Jeans.” But there’s far more about intimacy and

kitchen and a table on which are arrayed three trays of muffins. This surreal set-up is, in its way, factual yet searingly evocative.

Mrs. Catsouras commands our attention with an outpouring of words spoken with restrained passion on the subject of a fourth daughter, Nikki, now dead. The other three are posed, motionless and mute, all alike in their dyed blondeness, their contouring and their eye shadow, which makes them look like

they haven’t slept well, and perhaps they haven’t. Their mother’s hair is also blonde, but shorter, perkier, and she alone speaks while her girls are as silent cocker spaniels arrayed at a hearth of muffins. Nikki died a violent death and her decapitated head was photographed, uploaded on the Internet, and forwarded with rude comments to Mr. Catsouras. In close-up she says the most startling thing from a base of middle-class respectability: “The Internet is a manifestation of the Antichrist.”

This is not the final word in the film or even the most “insane.” Everyone in this film is in overreaching their own puny bodies to connect to some concept or project that will release their individual selves or their entire species from the constriction of this physical body, this Earth.

The one who looks the craziest is, of course, the most reasonable. Lucianne Wakowicz, a raven-haired astrophysicist with biceps blazing tattoos, is seen in medium shot so we can focus on the arresting emotional intensity of her speech. After describing the 1859 Carrington Event, in which solar flares set fire to telegraph lines, she dismisses dreams to colonize outer space as nonsense.t

its discontents and the homely sacraments in which people in general, and gay men in particular, find meaning.

“On Containment” opens with a harrowing account of a face-lacerating dog attack on the boy Blanchfield, and of tickling. “In sustained tickling we knew (we learned) there exists an outer lip or membrane between the simple immediate excitement of fear and the shameful and complete loss of bodily control and mental composure.” There follows

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There are six productions in the new season, an eclectic mix to be sure, with one foreseeable entry: a world premiere from the theater’s executive director John Fisher. Also on the bill are a splashy Broadway musical, two intimate dramas, a popular psychological mystery from the 1970s, and an annual New Year’s Eve revue. For a special summer event, Rhino will move outdoors for another of its deconstructions of a Shakespeare play.

The season opens Sept. 24 with The Brothers Size, the second part of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers/Sisters Plays trilogy about African American life in southern Louisiana.

A trio of Bay Area theaters presented all three plays in coordinated fashion in 2010, but they also work as standalone dramas. The Brothers Size is the story of two siblings, a younger brother just out of prison and his older, more industrious brother, working out their relationship, made more complicated when another ex-prisoner arrives on the scene offering further erotic temptations to the younger brother. Darryl V. Jones, professor of theater at Cal State East Bay, will direct the production.

Equus, Peter Shaffer’s London and Broadway hit of the 1970s, will canter in on Nov. 25. The play focuses on a psychiatrist’s efforts to comprehend a teenage boy’s destructive obsession with horses, with actors in stylized horse attire sharing the stage with the human characters.

It will be the Bay Area premiere for Win Wells’ Gertrude Stein and a Companion, starting performances on Dec. 28. The twocharacter play focuses on Stein and Alice B. Toklas as they reminisce about their lives together. Ernest Hemingway is a frequent topic of

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conversation, especially because he dismissively wrote about Toklas in A Moveable Feast as simply Stein’s “companion.” The play had an offBroadway run in New York in 1986, which came three years after its author’s death.

Rhino’s tradition of celebrating New Year’s Eve with the cast and creators of the Foodies! and Shopping! musicals continues in an evening of comedy and song on Dec. 31. Another tradition, the annual new play

by Fisher, returns on Feb. 27, when Ding Dong! begins performances. In the play, a San Francisco drag party turns into an uncharted evening of self-discoveries.

The subscription series concludes with Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which begins its run on May 27.

Using popular pop tunes, this is the musicalized version of the 1994 Australian movie about a troupe of drag performers making their way via a tricked-out bus through the not-always-welcoming Outback to an important gig. The musical debuted in Sydney in 2006, followed by its London and Broadway runs.

The special event that will get Rhino out from under the Eureka’s stage lights and into the sunlight is Lear! at Yerba Buena Gardens on July 7-9.

King Lear gets the Fisher treatment previously applied in the outdoor walkabout productions of Titus! and Timon! It’s a co-production with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

Max Hollein

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They’ve also been plagued by low morale, staff resignations and firings, allegations of misappropriation of funds, a pending investigation by the state attorney general’s office and a spate of bad press. The latest, an article that appeared earlier this month on the front page of The New York Times arts section, detailed the conflict between the board and the museums’ embattled board president and CEO, Dede Wilsey. According to the Times article, whether she’ll relinquish her roles and/or remain on the board won’t be resolved until October. Into the breach comes Hollein, who impresses as a man equal to the task before him, though given the long lead time required for mounting exhibitions, his impact in the short term will mostly be felt in terms of professional style and internal reorganization.

Born and raised in Vienna, Hollein, 47, graduated with parallel Masters degrees in art history and

“The whole world is looking at San Francisco right now. You have great cultural undercurrents, a fantastic history, and also a great history of philanthropy.”

– Max Hollein business administration before launching his career at the Guggenheim in New York. Prior to assuming his duties in San Francisco, he was director of three museums in Frankfurt, Germany: the Schirn Kunsthalle, a non-collecting contemporary art museum; the Städel Museum, which has a collection of European art dating from the early 14th century; and the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection. Newly settled into his home in Noe Valley with his wife, Nina Hollein, an architectturned-fashion designer, and their three children, he officially took the

reins June 1. “It’s certainly a very invigorating time,” he says. The following are edited excerpts from our recent conversation.

Sura Wood: Why is FAMSF a good fit for you, and vice versa?

Max Hollein: I’d been running museums in Frankfurt for 15 years, but it was a moment for a change and a different direction. So I opted for not doing the obvious and going to one of the main museums in Europe, but instead, coming to a city where I feel there is such a great momentum.

It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but it also has a lot of opportunities as well as challenges.

That’s true both for the city and the institutions I’m running. I get my energy and to some extent my satisfaction from working in situations where I feel my leadership and direction can make a difference in going to the next level and moving forward.

I’ve run three diverse institutions simultaneously, so I’m used to multitasking, and I bring a broad network of connections and constituencies in the art world and museum scene.

To many in the art world, especially in New York, San Francisco is regarded as a provincial backwater. Was that a concern for you in coming here?

It wasn’t my perception that it’s either provincial or a backwater.

San Francisco is one of the most interesting urban environments

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The gay Jewish American multi-disciplined artist Remy Charlip is the subject of an upcoming Eye Zen theater experience that will be previewed and discussed on Aug. 21.

Subscription tickets ($135-$155) to the six-play series are now on sale.

Go to therhino.org.

Popping another cork

Exotic dancer and amateur sleuth Champagne White is back for another round of action, adventure, and aggressively bad taste. Writerdirector D’Arcy Drollinger is also the star of Disastrous, running Aug. 25-Sept. 17 at Oasis. This is the third “whitesploitation” movie parody from Drollinger, following the wildly popular Shit and Champagne and Champagne White and the Temple of Poon. Champagne veterans Matthew Martin, Steven LeMay, James Arthur, Adam Roy, and Nancy French are back for more

you can live in. The whole world is looking at San Francisco right now.

You have great cultural undercurrents, a fantastic history, and also a great history of philanthropy. You have institutions that are significant and continue to thrive. I can’t see any signs of it being provincial or conservative.

For a long time the Fine Arts Museums have had an identity problem in terms of how the public perceives them. Your thoughts?

Your analysis is right in the sense that the profile of the FAMSF per se is much wider and more eclectic than a museum devoted to modern and contemporary art, for instance.

It could be seen as confusing, but I see it as a virtue. Our goal and mission is to develop a distinctive identity for each of these two institutions through how the art and culture is presented. What we’re working on is to have – like an editor of a magazine – one concise voice or perspective.

FAMSF has been criticized for its reliance on blockbuster shows and touring exhibitions. Will you be putting in motion exhibitions generated by in-house curators?

Definitely. You would just need to look at the programming I did in Frankfurt. The great thing is that you have a fantastic group of curators here.

You arrive at a time when revelations of internal turmoil are being played out in the press and the reputation of FAMSF is suffering in a very public way. How do you set about rehabilitating, if you’ll pardon the term, the image and stature of the museums under these circumstances?

I understand what you’re saying.

Obviously, the media reports are not fruitful, but I think the Fine Arts Museums have a great reputation.

action. Tickets at sfoasis.com.

Remy & rainbows

Rainbow Logic: Arm and Arm with Remy Charlip won’t premiere until November at CounterPulse, but this celebration of the iconic choreographer, author, and illustrator will be previewed on Aug. 21 at Chochmat Halev Synagogue in Berkeley. Simple Magic: Reclaiming Our Ancestry is the title of the event that combines lecture and performance about the gay Jewish American artist. Seth Eisen’s Eye Zen company is creating the multi-disciplinary work that will be presented in conjunction with the Contemporary Jewish Museum in the fall. For tickets to the Aug. 21 event, go to eyezen.org.t They’re very beloved. I think our biggest concern and one of the reasons I came is we need to focus not only on the external perception, but also on what the museum is and should be about.

One of the knocks on Ms. Wilsey is that she assumed too much power. How much authority will you actually have to lead and implement your plans?

Everybody who knows me knows that I’m a director who’s deeply involved in all aspects, who both manages and programmatically develops the institution. I wouldn’t be coming here without the understanding that I would be fully responsible and fully in-charge.

Your father, Hans Hollein, was a highly influential postmodernist, Pritzker Prize-winning architect, and your mother a fashion designer. How did growing up in a creative, artistic household shape you?

Our family life circled around the work of my father. It was an artistic environment where almost all of my father’s friends were artists, architects, actors, etc., and I was schlepped to exhibitions. My knowledge about art and art history and being able to work with artists stems from that family background.

On the other hand, I developed a very keen interest in business, which was a complete surprise to my parents. They would have loved me to become an artist. My revolution against them was to study business.

Which artwork would you most like to own for yourself if you could?

From my childhood on, I had a deep, almost reverence for the work of Francis Bacon. It has an emotional, transformational quality that might speak to a teenager’s mentality, but I’ve maintained a fascination with it.t

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Drag queens at Compton’s Cafeteria in the 1960s.

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n August 4, Felicia Elizondo led a talk, Compton’s Riot: Cruising the Tenderloin in the 1960s at the GLBT Historical Museum. It made me realize that when we discuss Compton’s cafeteria (101 Taylor) it is generally compared with Stonewall.

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Perhaps it’s because Stonewall spawned the Pride parade, but it takes this event out of its Bay Area context. What happened at the Tenderloin cafeteria on an unknown date in August 1966 makes more sense when we look at events that led up to it.

The incident that first shapes the background for Compton’s takes place across county lines. Hazel’s Inn in Sharp Park was raided in the early morning hours of February 20, 1956. Sharp Park was in San Mateo and would be incorporated into Pacifica in 1957. Sheriff Earl Whitmore told the San Mateo Times, “The purpose of the raid was to let it be known that we are not going to tolerate gatherings of homosexuals in this county.”

Ninety people (including three minors) were arrested, the majority from San Francisco. Most of the arrests were for “lewd vagrancy.”

Risa Goluboff points out in her new book Vagrant Nation that vagrancy charges were used against African-Americans, women, poor people and gays to stigmatize them as people who threatened public order and safety. The charge had the added benefit of being easier to enforce than sex-related charges like sodomy, and was much used by law enforcement in the era of Compton’s.

The juveniles who were arrested were sent to juvenile hall. Hazel’s

was declared off-limits to military personnel, and owner Hazel Nickola lost her liquor license. Names of the people from San Mateo County (including ages and occupations) were listed in the Times.

The message was clear: queers were unwelcome; they contributed to the delinquency of minors, and if you consorted with them, you could lose your livelihood. As the raid occurred after midnight on a Monday morning, it assured those arrested would be late for work. If you weren’t a vagrant before you were arrested, the police wanted to be certain you became one.

On August 14, 1961, another raid occurred that set the stage for the attitudes in the city. The Tay-Bush Inn was an after-hours restaurant only six blocks from Compton’s, at 900 Bush Street. The headline blared, “Big Sex Raid – Cops Arrest 103.”

Again, the raid occurred in the early hours of a Monday morning to guarantee maximum exposure for the people who were arrested. But this raid happened the year after the “Gayola” police payoff cases and the press was a bit more sympathetic toward those arrested.

The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Bob Johnson, the owner of the club. Johnson seemed more concerned about his patrons than himself.

“They were booked on phony charges,” he said. “And the police were real sassy toward them – real rude.”

Above: Cruise News’ August 1966 issue about Vanguard and the picket at Compton’s.

Left: The sign from Chukkers printed in Cruise News.

Below: An advertisement for Compton’s Cafeteria (circa 1940)

By September 6, 1961, when it was reported that Bob Johnson was given a $500 fine, the Tay-Bush was referred to as “now-defunct,” so the threat to close businesses was apparent. The men who were arrested on lewd conduct had their names and addresses listed in the Chronicle.

The judge told them, “We don’t need people like you in San Francisco. Go back where you came from.”

Sympathy only went so far in 1961.

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Top: Felica Elizondo in the 1960s. Bottom: Drag queens in the 1960s, in the film Screaming Queens.

Things started heating up in the Tenderloin two years before the riot at Compton’s. In August, 1964 the Citizen News reported a sit-in was probable at the Plush Doggy (904 Market).

“The management has taken a jaundiced view of customers who dawdle overly long with a cup of coffee,” the paper reported. “Last week a person…was invited by a SF policeman to leave the place or be arrested for vagrancy.”

The following month, however, the paper reported that a truce had been negotiated and the sit-in was called off.

In a February 14, 1965 article, the Chronicle reported on a 2:30 A.M. raid at the Chukker (66 Turk St., one block from Compton’s): “About 200 patrons were roistering in the three rooms of the club, the juke box was wailing, light spun and flickered on the ceiling and young things in bouffant hair-styles and false eyelashes fluttered through the throng.

“Among those arrested was the heavily made-up owner of the Chukker Club, 26-year-old Carlos Lara. Lara, dressed in tight slacks and V-necked sweater, was booked for impersonating a woman.”

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Lara was in for at least a year of police harassment at Chukkers. In May, 1965 Citizen News reported that at Chukker: “Sgt. Ludlow let the word drift down that if the hair fairies did not cut their hair by Good Friday that they would be hauled in for impersonating….There were about 7 of them charged with impersonating women and 5 of them charged with impersonating men.”

By February, 1966, Lara had enough and put up signs in his windows saying, “Chukkers famous for its unusual entertainment now presents police harassment…Last Sat. we had a practice raid. So this week should be the event you’ve all been waiting for.”

Elizondo verified the harassment at Chukkers at her talk.

She said, “It was against the law to wear long hair.” Regarding Chukkers,

she said Lara would tell people, “Enter at your own risk because this place could be raided at any time.”

At the same time Chukkers was coming under increased police attention, the press was paying attention to an increase in young male hustlers in the Tenderloin. The Chronicle ran a series of articles with titles like “Outcasts’ Strange World of Sin,” “Neon Sex Jungle” and “Police vs. Sin Jungle” that were related to a Glide Memorial report called The Tenderloin Ghetto: The Young Reject In Our Society. The outreach from Glide also helped form the first gay youth organization in the U.S., Vanguard.

Vanguard picketed Compton’s Cafeteria beginning on July 18, 1966.

It is important, however, to distinguish between the picket of Compton’s by Vanguard and the riot at Compton’s in August, 1966. As a political organization, if Vanguard had been involved in planning the riot, they would have written about it in their newsletter and they did not.

Compton’s was a spontaneous event. In Transgender History, Susan Stryker described the scene: “The restaurant’s management became annoyed by a noisy young crowd of queens at one table who seemed to be spending a lot of time without spending a lot of money, and it called the police to roust them—as it had been doing with increasing frequency throughout the summer.

A surly police officer, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele with impunity, grabbed the arm of one of the queens and tried to drag her away. She unexpectedly threw her coffee in his face, however, and a melee erupted.”

The riot was a fight against police harassment and the enforced poverty that transgender women faced on a daily basis for years. It has echoes of the vagrancy arrests at Hazel’s, the lack of respect shown at Tay Bush and the prolonged harassment at Chukkers. It was probably not covered in the press because it did not fit the role the press had assigned them – that of passive vagrant criminals.

But we have both books like Transgender History, movies like Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and the eyewitness testimony of people like Felicia Elizondo to tell us the truth of what really happened. And these stories make more sense when we view it through the lens of Bay Area history, and not in response to Stonewall.t Upcoming Events: Thursday, August 18: ‘Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria’ will screen at the Roxie Theater at 7pm. 3117 16th St. Sunday, August 28: commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot at Boedekker Park at 1pm. 295 Eddy St.

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Felica “Flames” Elizondo receives a proclamation from Senator Mark Leno at her August 4 Compton’s Riots talk at the GLBT History Museum.

Thursday, Sept. 1: presentation entitled “Sex Work in the Tenderloin, Then and Now” at the GLBT History Museum at 7pm. 4127 18th St. Thursday, Sept. 8: presentation entitled “Vanguard Revisited with Rev. Megan Rohrer” at the Tenderloin Museum at 8pm. 398 Eddy St.

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Known as the birthplace of gay bear culture, and a relaxing laidback tavern for many, the bar has been home to sports teams’ beer busts, celebrations, and the popular patio gatherings for decades.

Co-owner Tony Huerta explained the process of gaining legacy status, and how the recent sale of the building where the bar is located, once considered a threat to its livelihod, is now helping secure its future.

“Back in November, after Proposition J passed, I got together with Supervisor Jane Kim, and we filled out the application for the legacy status,” said Huerta in a phone interview. “Six months later, we had a hearing date, we were vetted with the San Francisco Historical Society.

We had passed all the hurdles, and last Monday was our hearing date.”

Huerta, 43, and his business partner J.J. Beck, let friends and employees know about the open City Hall hearing, where he was pleasantly surprised by the turnout of support.

Huerta and his colleagues spoke about the years of community connections with The Lone Star.

Faced with the former owner of his bar’s building limiting his lease renewal to three years, Huerta faced a possible closure. “He knew he could get more money for the building,” Huerta said.

The situation led him to campaign strongly for Proposition J, which provides assistance to owners of buildings and businesses with historical relevance. The Small Business Commission granted nine businesses this status last week.

But that relief was not easy to achieve.

“It was stalled at City Hall for months,” said Huerta. “The Mayor wouldn’t find money for anyone to staff it and move it into the process. He kind of dragged his feet, and it sat there for six months.”

During that time, Huerta said, he remained in contact with Supe. Kim, whom he said was frustrated, too. “We thought things would start moving.”

Then, The Lone Star’s building was put up for sale.

“I thought I would lose everything,” said Huerta. “I could lose my business. You see it happening all over the city.”

Huerta contacted other city officials, including former Supervisor Bevan Dufty and current Supervisor David Campos, who asked Huerta to speak at a news conference at City Hall.

The night before the announced press conferemnce, Mayor Ed Lee agreed to implement the Prop J legislation and hire a staffer, Richard Kurylo.

Huerta said, “Since then, things have moved along quickly.”

The legacy status designation does have limitations. A business should be 30 years old, or at least 20 and facing displacement. It sets aside money in city funds in the form of annual grants, which are optional for landlords to supplement increased rent, based on square footage. Other grants are based on a business’s number of employees.

Although these options are helpful, for Huerta, “The money is nice, and it helps, but what mattered most was the legacy status. The city is reaching out and saying, ‘We hear you, we see you; your contribution and your businesses are important to us.’”

Lone Star legacy

The Lone Star Saloon was opened in June 1989 at 1098 Howard Street by founder Rick Redewell. The bar was later damaged in the October 1989 earthquake, forcing the staff to move undamaged equipment and décor to their current Harrison Street location, across the street from the site of the notorious gay leather biker bar The Ambush, which had closed in 1987.

“Rick wanted to reach out to blue collar working class gay men,” said Huerta. “People were looking for that community.”

Eschewing the shaved, coiffed and buff looks of the Castro ‘80s, The Lone Star, like its SoMa neighbors The Eagle and Hole in the Wall, are part of a long history of alternative gay bars popular with those who like rock music, and men with a bit, or a lot, of scruff.

Around the corner from The Lone Star on 9th Street, Bear Magazine’s offices created the first publication in 1987 focusing specifically on the bigger, hairier men often under-represented in other gay media.

The two businesses combined forces to define a culture.

Rediwell owned the bar for four years before he died of AIDS in April 1993.

“He was such a visionary,” said Huerta. “I feel that legacy each day. As bear culture has become mainstream, the role of the gay bar as a sanctuary becomes less important. That, in a way, is a good thing. But I still go with that vision of a safe space where you can be different and come to The Lone Star and feel accepted.”

Huerta and Beck took over the bar eight years ago, when it was, Huerta said, in rough financial shape. They endured the 2008 economic crash, and its slow recovery.

“When we bought the bar, I thought it was the smartest or stupidest thing I’d ever done,” said Huerta. “Eight years ago, it was hemorrhaging money, and was going to close, if we hadn’t bought it.”

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Top: Lone Star co-owner Tony Huerta. Middle: Lone Star Saloon founder Rick Redewell. Bottom: Lone Star co-owners Tony Huerta, Bill Coulter and JJ Beck in 2009.

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The Lone Star Saloon’s original staff and co-owners outside the bar’s first location on Howard Street, shortly after the October 1989 earthquake.

Huerta called their saving move a “Hail Mary pass.”

Fortunately, they have survived, but he says the bar’s patronage has changed.

“The people that make up my customer base got priced out of the city,” said Huerta, then contrasting, “New people in San Francisco are young, but also working constantly to live. So they no longer need a place to come and be a barfly.”

Still, the bar remains popular, with special events, fundraisers, and even a women’s night.

“The Lone Star is a vibrant viable business, with regular customers and loyal employees. They keep the lights on,” said Huerta. Along with The Eagle and The Stud, “The three of us on Harrison Street are hanging in there.”

But he is concerned about shifting economics, specifically in the Bay Area, and in the gay community.

“We’re living in different times,” he said. “The way we communicate changes the way we go to bars. We used to go to a bar to find out what’s happening, or to meet people.”

That’s still going on, in a way, even if hook-up apps have changed

the way some people meet. Huerta mentioned his bar’s regulars, the hosted birthday parties, Thanksgiving dinners, even memorials and a wedding.

“We’ve raised untold thousands for AIDS nonprofits, for sports groups, breast cancer, homeless people and even dog charities.” Huerta referenced President Obama’s recent designation of New York City’s Stonewall Inn as a national monument to gay culture and civil rights.

“The gay bar is just beginning to be recognized for the cultural importance it’s had,” he said.

But it’s also a business, and, said Huerta, “the marriage of those two things can be complicated. People want businesses like mine to give them comfort and be there for them. They have to remember that our business needs a customer base. That’s how you support bars.

People want to support us when we’re in scary situations. But also, the thing to do visit us and buy a beer.”t The Lone Star, 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

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Hot dancers grind it at the Castro bar with a dance floor and patio. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

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

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun The popular video bar ends each work week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

August 18-25

Hard Fridays @ Qbar DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Aug. 12- 24-Year Anniversary party, with a drag show. Enjoy Latin, hip hop and electro, plus hot gogos galore, and a big dance floor. $10-$20.

9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

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Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the fun sexy night. $100 cash prize for best bulge. $5-$10 benefits various local nonprofits. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Carly Ozard @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The amazing vocalist performs More Shift Happens, a tell-all, sing-all cabaret concert. $20-$35. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.carlyozard.com www.feinsteinsathtebikko.com

Comedy Returns @ El Rio

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall

Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. $7.

10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Showgirls! The Musical @ Victoria Theatre

Spencer Day @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Peaches Christ and April Kidwell star in the West Coast premiere of Bob and Tobly McSmith’s hilarious musical adaptation of the high camp film about female strippers, with musical direction by Peter Fogel (Whoa Nellies) and choreography by Rory Davis (Baloney). $32-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 27. 2961 16th St. www.peacheschrist.com www.showgirlsthemusical.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Desi Comedy Fest @ Various Venues

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Three nights of the amazing Luc Besson science fiction flick, with live performances by Kat Robichaud, Featherpistol, Fou Fou Ha and more, special effects, cash bar, concessions, and a post-screening costume dance party. $30-$85. 8pm doors, 9pm live show, screening 9:30; post-film dancing til 1am. Also Aug. 19 & 20.

636 Jackson St. www.greatstarmovies.com

Maria Konner @ Martuni’s The trans diva multi-instrumental musician plays rock, blues, originals, and even some Pink Floyd. Open mic, too. 6:30-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Mary Go Round @ Lookout Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes’ weekly drag show. $5. 10:30pm show.

DJ Philip Grasso. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Michael Walters as Dame Edna @ Oasis The comic actor performs a loving parody performance of the Australian drag star. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with DJ MC2, themed nights, gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Music night with local and touring bands. $8. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. No cell phones on the dance floor! $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Fri 19

Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted by Cruzin d’Loo. 8pm10pm. No cover. 2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com

Boy Bar @ The Cafe Gus Presents’ weekly dance night, with DJ Kid Sysko, cute gogos and $2 beer (before 10pm). 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Dandy @ Oasis Leigh Crow and Ruby Vixen host the drag king and music variety show, with Chester Vanderbox, Jack strano, Jeff Stroker, Meat Flap, Mason Dixon Jars, Sexual Chocolate, Alex U Inn and Kaylah Marin. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Jackie Beat @ Oasis LA’s sassy, witty drag comic performs her show, Boner Killer. $20-$30.

7:30pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com

Love @ The Stud DJs Christina and Somebody, with Anita Lofton, Mike Biggz and Joey Alaniz, play at a groovy house music night. $5. 8pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Marilyn Mitchell, Not From Jersey @ Balancoire CD release party for Mitchell’s new music, and rock and funk, covers and originals with Maria Konner’s band. $10. 9pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. www.tinyurl.com/jessac4

Sugar @ The Cafe Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club.

9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Sun 21

BeBe Sweetbriar’s Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st.

920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Enjoy daytime partying with bears and cubs, plus fundraisers for the SF Fog Rugby team. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Swagger Like Us @ Oasis The queer hip hop night returns, with Sasha Go Hard, DJs DavO and Wildkatz. $10-$12. 9:30pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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Bearracuda @ Public Works 10th anniversary night for the popular party for bears, cubs, and their pals, with DJs David Harness and Kam Shafaati, hot gogo bears, laser show, and a decade of memories. $10. 9pm3am. 161 Erie St. www.bearracuda.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland The weekly hip hop and R&B night.

8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway.

(510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Dance Party @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy relaxed happy hour cocktails early (open at 5pm) and later dancing in the cozy back room at the newest LGBT bar. Daily 5pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Gameboi SF @ Rickshaw Stop

Mascara @ Eureka Valley Rec. Center Castro Country Club’s monthly drag show benefit, hosted by Intensive Claire, with DJ Hardhat. $15-$20.

7:30pm. 100 Collingwood St. www.castrocountryclub.org

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. Aug. 20: a Trannyshack retrospective of best acts, with John Cameron Mitchell ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch ). $15-$25. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Know, Jorge T. $4. 9pm2am. 2344 Market St. beauxsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (Check the website for a list of recipients). 3pm6pm. Now also on Saturdays. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle DJ Bus Station John spins groovy retro tunes at the popular leather bar, with another Donna Summers vs. Giorgio Moroder tribute. $5. 7pm-12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Luis.

7pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Katya Presents @ Martuni’s The Russian exiled empress’ monthly musical cabaret showcase, with Bryn Laux, and pianist Tom Shaw. $11.

7pm-10pm. 4 Valencia St. www.russianoperadiva.com

Fetish Fair Weekend @ Various Venues Annual weekend of multiple kink & leather events, including meet & greets, discussions, ‘Whips in the Park,’ play parties, and a beer bust at the SF Eagle. www.sfldg.org

Stanley Frank spins house dance remixes at the intimate Castro dance bar. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

The cool singer-songwriter-pianist returns to the elegant downtown nightclub with his new show, Western Standard Time. $45-$65. 8pm. Aug. 20, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.spencerday. com www.feinsteinsathtenikko.com

Latin, hip hop and Electro music night.

June 11, Banda Tierra Del Sol performs live. $5-$25. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Ain’t Mama’s Drag @ Balancoire

The monthly dance party popular with gay Asians and their pals celebrates its 6th anniversary. $8-$15. 9:30pm-2am.

155 Fell st. www.rickshawstop.com

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Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

The monthly comedy night this time features Marga Gomez, Eloisa Bravo, Justin Lucas, Priyanka Wali, and MC Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

3rd annual festival of comics from nine countries, all with South Asian heritage, including Irene Tu, Vasu Primlani, Arjun Banerjee and more.

Thru Aug. 21 in eight cities. www.desicomedyfest.com

The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved $10.

8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www.redhotsburlesque.com

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The drag artist, Miss Trannyshack 2000, now in New Orleans, performs Harlequeen Nights, a unique solo show of his best acts and interesting tales. $15. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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Help Is on the Way XXII @ Herbst Theater On the Red Carpet, the latest edition of the star-studded music and variety show benefit for the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation, with tributes to Stephen Sondheim, David Bowie, Prince and Carole King, and Natalie Cole, performed

by Donna McKecknie, Sally Struthers, Contantine Maroulis, Kimberley Locke, La Toya London, Melinda Doolittle, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Jai Rodriguez, Carole Cook, and many others, plus the cast of Beautiful, The Carole King Story. $50-$350.

VIP gala dinner and lobby silent auction, 5pm. Concert 7:30pm. After-party 9:30pm in Green Room. 401 Van Ness Ave. 273-1620. www.reaf.org

Her Mixer @ Oasis Rooftop party for the women’s social group, with DJs Ms. Jackson and That Girl, BBQ and Her swag. $10$20. 3pm-9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm.

2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht.

9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with guest host Nick Radford. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany’s weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Mule Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy frosty Moscow Mule cocktails in a brassy mug, specials before 8pm.

2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Sat 20

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Mascara @ Eureka Valley Recreation Center

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Mon 22 Drag Mondays @ The Cafe

Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night.

9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge

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

Tue 23

Bandit @ Lone Star Saloon New weekly queer event with resident DJ Justime; electro, soul, funk, house.

No cover. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.facebook.com/BanditPartySF www.lonestarsf.com

Cock Shot @ Beaux Shot specials and adult Bingo games, with DJs Chad Bays and Riley Patrick, at the new weekly night. No cover.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing.

4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Gaymer Night @ Eagle

No No Bingo @ Virgil’s Sea Room

Hella Saucy @ Q Bar

Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Gay gaming fun on the bar’s big screen TVs. Have a nerdgasm and a beer with your pals. 8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com Queer dance party at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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

Hysteria @ Martuni’s Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 6pm-8:30pm.

4 Valencia St.

Marga’s Comedy Salon @ Spark Arts Diane Amos, Judi Nihei, Sharon Birzer, Dominique Gelin, Debu Durst and Justin Lucas perform at the new monthly show in the Castro gallery, with host Marga Gomez. $10. 8pm.

4229 18th St. www.margagomez.com www.sparkarts.com

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents; MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7. Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down as the strippers also take it all off. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Sampson McCormick @ Punch Line Comedy Club The acclaimed gay performer brings his new show, Shea Butter & Jesus, a fascinating take on race and representation in media, to the downtown nightclub. $15. 8pm.

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

Tap That Ass @ SF Eagle Bartender Steve Dalton’s beer night happy hours. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Latin Drag Night @ Club OMG

Vicky Jimenez’ drag show and contest; Latin music all night. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

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Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez. 9pm-2am.

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

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

424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

Bedlam @ Beaux

Weekly event with DJs Haute Toddy, Guy Ruben, hosts Mercedez Munro and Abominatrix. Wet T-shirt/jock contest at 11pm. $5-$10. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle Kollin Holts hosts the weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm-8pm.

398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Bone @ Powerhouse Weekly punk-alternative music night hosted by Uel Renteria and Johnny Rockitt. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops

Pussy Party @ Beaux Ladies night at the Castro dance club.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s

The weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies at the monthly reading and drinking series, with host James J. Siegel, and special guests Donna Sachet, Sugah Betes, Mutha Chucka, Shane Zaldivar and Daft-nee Gesuntheit. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440 Buy a drink and get a wooden nickle good for another. 12pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

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Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the racy night with a $100 wet undies bulge contest at midnight. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Porn stud Dorian Ferro leads the interactive sexy fun downstairs (before his Aug 26 & 27 stage shows with Jackson Fillmore). $10. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell.

397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.com

Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Disastrous! @ Oasis

Classic drag show at the intimate bar, with Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre.

9:30-11:15pm. 133 Turk St. 441-2922. dreamqueensrevue.com auntcharlieslounge.com

Juanita More! presents the weekly scenic happy hour event, with host Rudy Valdez, and guest DJs. No cover, and a fantastic panoramic city view.

5pm-9pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

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Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy whiskey shots from jock-strapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Man Haters @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Irene Tu and Ash Fisher cohost the monthly women-friendly, queerfriendly comedy night, with Clare O’Kane, Aviva Siegel, Kristee Ono and Yuri Kagan, with dJed dancing after. $7.70-$10. 7pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.manhaters.org

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with themed nights, gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

Throwback Thursdays @ Qbar Enjoy retro 80s soul, dance and pop classics with DJ Jorge Terez. No cover.

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Harvey Milk Club’s 40th @ SOMArts

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he Harvey Milk Club’s 40th anniversary, held at SOMArts Cultural Center on August 10, drew local politicans and notable movers and shakers in the Bay Area, including Cleve Jones, David Chiu, Gabriel Haaland, Bao Nguyen, Aaron Peskin, Shaun Haines, Bevan Dufty, Jane Kim, Paul Henderson, Mia Satya, Sophie Maxwell, and Latifa Simon. www.milkclub.org More photo albums are on BARtab’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at www.StevenUnderhill.com.

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