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Delegates at the Democratic convention called for unity.

Dems embrace LGBTs by Lisa Keen

arney Frank ignored the boos. Robby Mook ignored the question. But almost nobody ignored LGBT people. That was the Democratic National Convention’s first two days, as the four-day confab got underway this week in Philadelphia. History was made Tuesday when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated a presidential candidate of a major party. She will address delegates Thursday night. On Tuesday, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, delivered a deeply personal speech as he worked to reintroduce his wife to millions of Americans, many of whom already have fixed opinions of her. But for two things, this week’s Democratic gathering might have been a lovefest compared to the contentious Republican National Convention last week: Supporters of Clinton’s chief challenger for the nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I) – and a WikiLeaks release of internal Democratic National Committee emails that suggested the DNC favored Clinton over Sanders during their bitter primary fight. Sanders supporters smarting from the loss of the nomination and the fresh news about the DNC emails booed gay former Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who served as co-chair of the convention’s rules committee, when he reached the podium Monday afternoon. Frank supported Clinton publicly all along and the Sanders campaign had unsuccessfully tried to bump him from the co-chair post. That was enough to prompt some in the Wells Fargo Arena to boo him. But others claimed to be unhappy with what one Sanders delegate characterized as Frank’s “condescending, abusive” treatment of Sanders delegates. Although the boos could be heard only faintly from television, Frank apparently heard them. “Thank you. Thank you or not, as the case may be,” said Frank, stepping up to the microphone. Robby Mook, Clinton’s openly gay campaign manager, was confronted with a difSee page 11 >>

Repairs coming to Castro crosswalks Rick Gerharter

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Robbins explained that San Francisco Public Works would he rainbow crosswalks in need to coordinate scheduling of the Castro that were damthe repairs with Muni, whose 24, aged during filming for a 33, and 35 lines cross 18th and CasTV show should be repaired in tro streets numerous times daily. September, city officials said. “My understanding is that the In April, ABC-TV crews took delays are partially due to the over portions of the Castro and many pieces of the puzzle that other parts of the city to film need to be coordinated to accomscenes for When We Rise, a historiplish this work,” she said. cal drama about the early days of It will take about four days of the LGBT rights movement that’s work to take out the asphalt, redo partly inspired by a forthcoming the asphalt, paint the white lines book of the same name by longand then replace the rainbow time gay activist Cleve Jones. crosswalks, Robbins explained. Rick Gerharter During filming, however, the rainAdditionally, Muni would need Black markings, left when adhesive material was removed for bow crosswalks were unintentionally to deactivate the electric bus a TV shoot, have damaged the rainbow crosswalks at 18th and damaged. They remain in a state of lines without impeding public Castro streets. disrepair more than two months transportation. after the film crew has left the city. Bernard Tse, with Public Works, the damage remains. According to a May 14 story said the agency met with the conTra-Mi Callahan, of ABC publicity, told the published on Hoodline, the crosswalks were tractor Tuesday and anticipates an early SepBay Area Reporter that the network fully indamaged when the TV crew covered them with tember date for the repair work, “so we have tends to pay for the cost to repair or replace the a thick black material in order to hide them – enough time to perform outreach to the comrainbow crosswalks – the east and north stripes the rainbow striping did not exist during the munity and avoid events during the summer.” were damaged beyond repair and do need to 1970s, the setting for When We Rise’s Castro Muni spokesman Paul Rose told the B.A.R. scenes. After the production left the city, the be replaced. Callahan refereed the paper to Su- that his office was in contact with Public Works sannah Robbins, executive director of the San in order to work out the details so that work covering was removed, but numerous pieces of Francisco Film Commission. it remain adhered to the crosswalk’s rainbowcould proceed. “The delay is not in any way caused by the colored stripes. “We are aware of the needed repairs and are Several attempts were made to clean the production, but a scheduling issue with all of currently working with Public Works to identify the different agencies and people that need to crosswalks with pressurized cold water and the appropriate time frame in which the work be involved,” Robbins told the B.A.R. via email. with non-corrosive street cleaning solvents, but can be done as soon as possible,” Rose said.t

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Folsom Street, looking southwest from the Powerhouse bar, is proposed to be part of an LGBTQ cultural heritage district.

ork on the long-stalled creation of an LGBTQ cultural heritage district in part of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is expected to begin in 2017, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. It has been three years since the Board of Supervisors called for establishing such a special use district in western SOMA when it adopted the Western SOMA Community Plan. The planning document also called for a separate Filipino cultural heritage district centered on Sixth Street. While work on the special Filipino zone advanced earlier this year, the LGBTQ district has continued to languish. Initially, planning department staff pointed to the need to first complete the Japantown Cultural Heritage and Economic Sustainability Strategy. Yet after that document was approved in the fall of 2013, little attention has been given to the LGBTQ district. Focus instead in recent years has gone toward the adoption of a local historic context statement that surveyed the entire city’s LGBTQ history. See page 11 >>

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was an infrared camera. “Then he pointed the The shooting survivor, gun back at me and startwhose name the Bay Area ed shooting me,” said the Reporter isn’t publishing woman, who’d still been because she’s a crime vicstrapped into her seat. She tim, said that she, Warren, estimated he shot her nine and other friends left Club to 10 times. OMG, 43 Sixth Street, She passed out, and “anCourtesy SFPD around closing time that Michael Sione other friend woke me up Sunday morning, and as Green again and tried to basically she drove Warren into a keep me alive, talking to parking lot at Sixth and Jessie streets, me,” she said, occasionally dabbing a man started walking toward them. her eyes with a tissue as she talked. (Another witness has indicated that Warren’s girlfriend, Tiffany man was Green.) Cohen-Carson, who witnessed the As Warren’s friend slowly backed shooting, testified last week that the up, she said, she accidentally hit a killer was a tall man with a longparked car. sleeve black shirt, long hair, and disA woman came to her door “cusstinctive eyebrows. Other witnesses ing me out,” and the man who’d gave similar descriptions. been walking “socked me” on the The woman said Monday she left side of the face, she said. couldn’t recall now what the shooter Warren got out of the car, and anor the man who’d hit her had been other man approached and “pointed wearing. a gun at me,” Warren’s friend said. But in previous statements, which “I froze,” she said. she reviewed on the stand, she’d The man then aimed his gun at described the shooter as wearing a Warren, who friends have testified button-up shirt with red and blue was standing with her hands in the that was striped or checked and air, saying, “Wait.” See page 12 >>

Ex-Chron editor’s home targeted in second break-in by Sari Staver

week after a person who invaded the home of a Castro family was sent to state prison for four years, another person attempted an early morning break-in at the same address. On July 16, at approximately 1 a.m., Ward Bushee, the retired editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, was awakened when a motion detector triggered his backyard floodlights, he told the Bay Area Reporter in a telephone interview. Bushee, 67, who has lived on the 300 block of Eureka Street with his wife for the past five years, saw someone prowling in his backyard. Bushee said he yelled at the intruder and called 911. The suspected burglar then jumped a six-foot fence into a neighbor’s yard and had quickly gained entry into that home and was looking around with a flashlight, Bushee said. Bushee telephoned his neighbor, who scared the prowler away, but not before a laptop computer was stolen. Last November, Bushee and his wife had been the victims of a break-in after a burglar jimmied the lock on a door, broke in, and ran out with a mobile phone and laptop

computer before the famsubpoenaed to testify, alily woke up. though she was not called Last week, that person, as a witness. Bushee asked Robert Romero-Alston, that his daughter’s name 22, pleaded guilty to one not be published. charge of residential burBushee’s daughter was glary and was sentenced to at last week’s sentencing, four years in state prison, he said. The family got a Courtesy SFGatte.com according to Max Szabo, Former San “sense of justice” by folspokesman for the San Francisco lowing the case closely Francisco District Attor- Chronicle editor through the investigation ney’s office. Ward Bushee and trial, he added. Romero-Alston, who “The police did an exidentifies as a transgender woman, cellent job nailing” the intruder, was accused of three other home Bushee said. burglaries, including another in the After the first home invasion, Castro, one in Noe Valley, and one Bushee “learned all I could” about in Corona Heights. Romero-Alston protecting his home, choosing to has no prior criminal convictions, install floodlights triggered by moaccording to court records. tion detectors. He also strengthBushee said he still likes the Casened locks on the front door, and tro, despite his experiences. installed a gate on the side gangway. “It’s not the neighborhood,” said Bushee said his neighbors “really Bushee. “It’s life in the city today.” look out for each other.” During the first break-in, Bushee’s As to solutions, Bushee said, adult daughter had been an overnight “It was our perception that drugs houseguest and caught a glimpse of played a huge part in the first home the fleeing suspect. Investigators told invasion. And of course we know the family that their daughter was the that there are many people on the only eyewitness in any of the four street with drug problems who burneighborhood invasions Romeroglarize to support their habit. We’ve Alston had been thought to be inbeen fortunate that nobody has gotvolved in and she was subsequently ten hurt.”t

Homeless youth org closer to move-in by Seth Hemmelgarn

San Francisco nonprofit that provides basic medical care, syringe access, and other services to homeless youth in the Upper Haight district is closer to moving into a new office after a neighborhood group removed a hurdle. In recent months, Homeless Youth Alliance has been working on moving into 607A Haight Street in the Lower Haight to use as office space. The location formerly housed the Vapor Room medical marijuana club. Some had expressed concern that the move would draw homeless youth to the site. In May, the Lower Haight Merchants and Neighbors Association, or LoHaMNA, asked the planning commission to review HYA’s permit application through the dis-

cretionary review process. out a building in which it But last Friday, the neighcould welcome clients. A borhood group dropped supporter has allowed staff that request, according to to use her home for office HYA Executive Director work. Mary Howe. LoHaMNA’s An HYA handout made co-presidents couldn’t be available in May says the reached for comment. lease on 607A Haight reKelly Sullivan “We now are just wait- HYA Executive stricts use of the space to ing for final approval of Director its “employees and agents” the change of use from Mary Howe who are doing administhe planning department trative work and “strictly” in order to move in,” Howe said in prohibits services from being carresponse to emailed questions. Her ried out at the site. group won’t have to go before the “All of our interactions with parplanning commission August 4, as ticipants will continue to take place, had been set. as they always have, in the Upper More than two years ago, HYA had Haight close to Golden Gate Park, to move out of its drop-in center at an area that has been an epicenter for 1696 Haight Street after the landlord youth experiencing homelessness for decided not to renew the lease. the past 40 years,” HYA has said. Since then, the agency has conSee page 12 >> tinued providing services, but with-

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Mexican trans beauty queen burned to death by Heather Cassell

aulett Gonzalez, a transgender woman who won the Nayarit 2015 Gay Beauty Queen Pageant, was found burned to death in Celaya, a town in the state of Guanajuato, on July 22. The Puerto Vallarta native had been missing since early June, reported Vallarta Daily. Gonzalez was traveling to visit a friend in Irapuato, a city in the state of Guanajuato. Authorities ran genetic tests to determine her identity. Gonzalez’s parents identified the 24-year-old, who was born Luis Jean Gonzalez Virgen. Friends expressing condolences on Gonzalez’s Facebook page described her as a “charismatic” and “friendly” person. Authorities aren’t ruling out that Gonzalez’s murder was a hate crime, Mara Rojo Sanchez, president of the Civil Association to be Free, told the media. Violence against transgender Mexican women continues to be a problem that was highlighted in the “Report on Human Rights Conditions of Transgender Women in Mexico,” published by the Cornell Law School LGBT Clinic and the Transgender Law Center earlier this spring. According to the report there have been at least 120 transphobic murders since 2010. That same year registered same-sex marriages in Mexico City were legally recognized throughout the country.

Romanian court puts same-sex marriage to Parliament vote

In a step backward, Romania’s

Constitutional Court unanimously voted July 20 to allow an initiative to restrict marriage to between a man and a woman to move forward with a vote in the country’s Parliament. Currently, Romania’s constitution states that marriage is between “partners” and does not specify the gender of the spouses. It was one of two major cases involving marriage equality brought to the court. The first case involves a RomanianAmerican gay couple who are fighting for legal recognition of their marriage. There is no law that clarifies legally recognizing same-sex marriages or civil unions conducted abroad. The court will decide in September on legally recognizing marriages performed in the European Union when the couple returns to Romania. Romania decriminalized homosexuality in 2001. The majority Eastern Orthodox country doesn’t legally recognize same-sex relationships. Romania became a member of the EU in 2007. With last week’s decision allowing an initiative to move forward in Parliament, Valer Dorneanu, president of the court, effectively declared that the “right to family is not a fundamental right,” wrote Vlad Viski, president of MozaiQ, a Romanian LGBT organization, in an editorial for Gay Star News. Dorneanu effectively agreed with the more than 3 million people who signed a petition requesting to change the definition of marriage to between a man and a woman that was backed by the Orthodox Church. It is now up to lawmakers in the conservative country to approve the legislation by a two-thirds major-

ity. It’s expected to “pass in the campaign and will easily through both the put a spotlight on the Senate and the Chamber democracy, which is in a of Deputies,” wrote Viski. delicate position, he said. If the initiative passes Romania is neighbors Parliament it will go up with countries that are for a vote as a national leaning toward a more referendum. authoritarian leadership, The other case brought such as Hungry, Poland, www.diariocontraste.com to the court was by gay and Russia, Viski pointed spouses Adrian Coman, a Paulett Gonzalez out. The country’s leaders Romanian national, and want to stay in the good his husband, Clai Hamilgraces of the EU, however, ton, who is an American. The couple, it continues to hold a low ranking (23 both 44, tied the knot in Brussels in out of 100) with its poor record on 2010, but as soon as they crossed the HIV/AIDS, human rights, and other Romanian border it was null and issues that affect the LGBT commuvoid, according to media reports. nity, according to the International The couple has been fighting to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender have their marriage recognized in and Intersex Association-Europe. Romania and claim that the current Viski envisions that marriage law is unconstitutional. equality potentially being at the cenThe court’s decision sparked an ter of the election will bring Romaimpromptu protest that caught ponia’s LGBT community and its allies lice off guard. together. He also sees a potential for A handful of anti-gay protesters conservative politicians’ desire to also showed up to the rally, but postrike a compromise with LGBT aclice blocked them. tivists to legalize civil unions rather Viski wrote that the spontanethan a ban on same-sex marriage. ous protest, which is unusual for Congress urges Moldova Romania, demonstrated that there to reject anti-gay bill is an emerging LGBT movement Members of Congress urged ready to battle against the powerful Moldovan lawmakers to reject a Coalition for Family and the Orthoproposed Russian-style anti-LGBT dox Church in the country. During bill last week. the first half of this year, anti-LGBT It is the latest appeal to the small forces have created an “extremely former soviet country’s lawmakers. hostile atmosphere for LGBTI peoIn a July 19 letter to Andrian Candu, ple throughout Romania,” he wrote. speaker of the Parliament of the ReRomanians expected the court public of Moldova, 24 members of to uphold the constitution and upCongress urged the lawmakers to hold democratic principles, but it protect human rights and to “comfailed to do so and have angered the mitment to basic freedoms guarpublic. anteed in the Moldovan constituViski sees this as a silver lining in tion,” according to a July 21 Human Romania’s fight for LGBT rights in Rights Watch news release. an election year. Moldova is a small country surIn November, Romanians will rounded by Romania and the Ukraine. head to the polls. If the initiative beIn 2014, leaders signed and ratified an comes a national referendum, marAssociation Agreement with the EU, riage equality will be a central issue

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which advanced the coalition’s policy priority of EU integration, according to the CIA World Factbook. The country’s status has been pending since then, but appeared to be getting back on track at the beginning of the year as political stability seems to be evolving in the country. Similar to Russia’s Anti-Homosexual Propaganda law, the bill would impose fines for promoting homosexuality to minors in a variety of forms from the internet to public meetings, limit the freedom of expression and speech, limit the freedom of assembly, and threaten the existence of LGBT organizations. The bill was approved by parliamentary committees in May. HRW LGBT rights representatives Boris Dittrich and Shawn Gaylord have been following the bill closely while urging Moldovan lawmakers to reject it. The most recent campaign was lead by Representative Alan Lowenthal (D-California) along with Gaylord. “Moldova has already made great democratic, constitutional, and economic advancements. It was only three years ago that the nation took an important stand for human rights and basic freedoms when it overturned a similar anti-LGBT propaganda law,” said Lowenthal in the release. “The current legislation runs counter to the protection of fundamental human rights.” Lowenthal stressed the importance and value of human rights in its relationships with countries, Moldova being one of them. It’s unclear when members of Parliament will take action on the proposed law.t Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at 00+1-415-2213541, Skype: heather.cassell, or mailto:oitwnews@gmail.com.

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Sanders’ supporters need to let it go

upporters of Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran an energetic, important campaign for the presidency, now need to get on board with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The booing of party officials at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia – including, at times, Sanders himself – was off-message and did nothing to foster party unity at a time when the country faces the very real possibility of Republican Donald Trump winning in November. Even Sanders converted to an ardent Clinton supporter after his own wild primary campaign in which he repeatedly boasted he was trying to start a “political revolution.” Comedian Sarah Silverman, a former Sanders supporter who’s now voting for Clinton, said it best from the podium Monday night in response to hecklers while speaking with Minnesota Senator Al Franken: “Can I just say to the Bernie-or-Bust people, you are being ridiculous.” Like Sanders supporters, we too were angered by the hacked Democratic National Committee emails showing internal communications between staffers attempting to discredit Sanders. Moreover, it was disturbing to learn that many experts agree that the DNC hacks were done by Russia, casting an eerie pall over the whole convention. It’s alarming that a foreign power allegedly attempted to insert itself in U.S. presidential politics, coincidentally, just as Trump set to receive a national security briefing. The DNC’s failures however, do not disqualify Clinton’s nomination. The fact is, Clinton won more votes during the primary process, and on Tuesday, she was formally nominated. But the diehard Sanders supporters won’t accept that, and think that by

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A Bernie Sanders supporter applauds at the Democratic National Convention.

disrupting the convention they can alter the outcome. Unfortunately, that change might not be what they envisioned if Trump is victorious. Not only do they risk alienating fellow Democrats, they also lose credibility, as Sanders himself said this week. They are also playing right into the hands of Trump and the Republican Party, which will certainly exploit any weakness – real or perceived – during the fall campaign. Republicans are eager to put their own troublesome convention behind them, and what better tactic than by showcasing the Democrats in disarray? While the Bernie-or-Bust folks will not be swayed, it’s likely that most Sanders supporters will vote for Clinton in November. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts each made forceful cases against Trump – and for Clinton – during their primetime convention speeches this week. Warren pointed out Trump has skipped out on debts and “only cares for himself every minute of

every day.” Warren said, “Our choice is Hillary Clinton and I’m with Hillary.” Sanders had the more difficult task Monday night, as he worked to mollify his supporters who greeted him with prolonged cheers. He rightly said that he understands that many of his supporters are disappointed with the final stages of the nominating process. He also told them that they should be proud of the “historical accomplishment we have achieved,” referring to his progressive campaign that championed the working class and raised some $8 million in individual campaign contributions, and garnered 13 million votes during the primaries. He pledged to continue the political revolution he started. But Sanders was also unsparing in his remarks that Clinton is the nominee and that his supporters should vote for her. “Based on her ideas and leadership, Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States,” he said. The convention ends Thursday, when Clinton, in her acceptance speech, has an opportunity to win over skeptical voters, many of whom view her with suspicion. Clinton has been in public life for 25 years. She has listened to and worked with people from all over the country while serving in her roles as first lady of Arkansas, first lady of the U.S., senator from New York, unsuccessful presidential candidate, secretary of state, and now, the historic Democratic nominee. She has evolved on many issues, including those that affect the LGBT community like marriage. Clinton will fight for us, our children, and the country. Trump won’t do any of that for us as he prefers to sow division, spew racist rhetoric, and ad lib our nation’s foreign policy. It’s time for Sanders supporters to let it go and work hard to defeat Trump by redirecting their energy to ensure Clinton’s victory.t

Recalling Cycle for Life 30 years later by Jim Sutherland

the best newspaper coverage CFL received. ost of us who lived in the The ride had its problems. It was 1980s haven’t forgotten what a a physically challenging undertaking. demoralizing time it was to be LGBT. We were 17 strong personalities who AIDS was devastating our comsometimes had our differences. But munity. In 1985, many Americans throughout the ride, regardless of believed AIDS was a “gay disease” the obstacles we encountered, every confined to cities like San Francisco rider kept focused on our mission. and New York. This rationale conSeventy days later, on August 3, we tributed to the woefully inadequate arrived in San Francisco, having covfederal response to the crisis at that ered over 4,000 miles. time. CFL was met by a huge crowd LGBTs in large cities watched of well wishers and reporters at the friends and loved ones succumb to north end of the Golden Gate. We the disease in numbers that dourode across the bridge, down Twin Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle bled every month. As the death toll Peaks, through the Castro, led by an rose, so did the frustration of the Cycle for Life riders roll into San Francisco in August 1986. LGBT motorcycle group. We were survivors. Many organized to fight overwhelmed by the reception we against the national indifference and received in the Castro. The ride finwhen 17 predominantly LGBT riders left Coinaction. ished at the Ringold Alley Fair in a lumbus Circle in New York City. Our goal was Scott Lechert was 27 and living in New York ceremony emceed by the late Mister Marcus. to reach San Francisco 70 days later. Friends, City in 1985. He watched as New York City’s Supervisor John Molinari presented each rider family, and TV reporters saw us off. Thanks AIDS service organizations struggled to serve with a certificate of honor from the city. to a UPI reporter, a story about CFL appeared growing numbers of AIDS patients. He was By the end of 1986, the nation’s apathy about the next morning in most major newspapers also grieving friends lost to AIDS. the crisis began to shift. CFL was not solely rethroughout the country. Lechert’s sense of helplessness and anger, sponsible for this change, as there were other The bicyclists came from across plus his experience as a long-distance bicyclist, LGBT groups fighting for more governthe U.S. and included one Canagave him the idea for an AIDS bike-a-thon ment response. But for 70 days that dian. Riders from the Bay Area across America – something never done before. summer, there was continued coverage were Peter Tannen, Jill McIntyre, Cycle for Life’s (CFL) purpose was to raise more in the media, which followed CFL and J.T. Blazer, and myself. Each of awareness of AIDS on the national level, and reported on what we were doing. us shared Lechert’s vision – solicit funds to fight the disease. The ride was It is impossible to know how do something, anything – to to start in New York and end in San Francisco. many thousands of people were change the status quo. CFL bicyclists would be self-sufficient (no reached by that coverage. Nor can Fundraisers were scheduled support vehicles). They would carry their own we know the impact CFL had in in 11 major cities en route to San equipment and camp out. getting people to take a second look Francisco. CFL received a warm First, Lechert sought corporate sponsors at a problem they didn’t think conand enthusiastic welcome from local LGBT to finance the event. But, at the mention of cerned them. CFL helped in breaking down communities in every city where we appeared “AIDS,” any potential interest evaporated. No the national indifference with regards to AIDS at these events. company, in 1985, wanted to be associated in the 1980s. While we were not worried about harasswith the word. Astounding progress has been made with ment for being LGBT as we rode through these With no corporate sponsors, Lechert looked LGBT issues in the last 30 years, including large cities, we did have some concern about for bicyclists who could commit to the ride LGBTs in the military and marriage equalour safety riding in rural areas in between. The and pay their own expenses. In mid-1985, he ity. As we celebrate these milestones, let’s not acceptance of LGBT people, which is common began a national recruiting campaign for ridforget of smaller grass root events such as CFL now in the U.S., was light years away in 1986. ers who could meet in New York City in May and the valuable contributions they made to At first, we did little to draw attention to 1986, to begin CFL. the larger LGBT history. ourselves while in these remote areas. But TV I heard about CFL in October 1985, and Details about the actual ride can be found in coverage of CFL’s activities in the large cities contacted Lechert. Like Lechert, I was an expethe column I wrote, “On the Road,” appearing propelled the news of our arrival into the outlyrienced cross-country bicyclist. I shared his moin June, July, and August 1986 issues of the Bay ing areas. Soon, we were met by reporters from tivation – close friends who were battling AIDS. Area Reporter.t local papers as we entered their towns. They I was also fed up with the national apathy. wanted to know what we were doing and why. I helped Lechert publicize CFL on the West The archived issues of the B.A.R. can be CFL riders talking to these reporters did Coast by interviewing potential cyclists, forfound at the San Francisco Public Library, much to raise AIDS awareness in these rural 100 Larkin Street, or the GLBT Historical warding press releases to Bay Area media, and areas. The stories that appeared on the front Society’s archives, 989 Market Street, lower soliciting local organizations for support. level. pages of these small town papers were among CFL officially kicked off on May 25, 1986,

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Objects to gun photo

Why would you put a picture of a lady firing a gun in the Bay Area Reporter “LGBTs debate gun laws,” July 14]? Did we learn anything from Orlando, Florida, the fatal police shootings of two African-Americans, and the list goes on? Mautuse Miles San Francisco

Honor walk oversight ‘indefensible’ I agree with Mike Kitay’s letter [Mailstrom, July 21], regarding the absence of poet Thom Gunn from the Rainbow Honor Walk. Kitay makes a more-than-convincing case for honoring Gunn with a place on the walk. Leaving off “the poet laureate of the AIDS crisis” is simply indefensible.

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No empathy for undocumented immigrant

We should all support Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their efforts to remove Heriberto Nolasco from this country [“Gay SF man fights deportation,” June 30]. Of course, June is Pride Month. But I am not proud to have him as a member of our community. To summarize the article, Nolasco is an illegal immigrant and a convicted drunk driver. It is important to note that according to the National Transportation Safety Board, 10,076 people were killed in drunk driving crashes in 2014.

Luckily, Nolasco didn’t kill anyone. But we should never forget the case of Drew Rosenberg. Rosenberg was a 25-year-old student at Golden Gate University when he was struck and killed by an illegal alien drunk driver, Roberto Galo, who ran over his victim twice attempting to flee. The first time a tire got stuck on the victim’s head; the second time a wheel rested directly on Rosenberg’s abdomen. Had Galo simply stopped his vehicle after he initially bumped Rosenberg, he would be alive today. But Galo had to leave the scene – for obvious reasons. Galo was convicted of manslaughter and spent a mere six weeks in jail. This was in 2010, it took three years to deport him. Not all states track DUI and mortality statistics by immigration status. California doesn’t: it wouldn’t be politically correct. The group http://www.unlicensedtokill.org has estimated that over 3,000 people are killed by illegal aliens behind the wheel each year. Yet we tolerate this carnage, and Barack Obama’s (and Hillary Clinton’s) nonsensical immigration policies. Nolasco has been involved in other illegal activity as well, his employment as a bartender has taken a job away from an American, or legal immigrant. The prosecutor in his DUI case also believed there was enough information to charge him with providing false information to a police officer. Nolasco admits to having entered the country illegally more than once.

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Controversial lesbian harbor commissioner seeks re-election by Matthew S. Bajko

abrina Brennan, a lesbian whose first term on the San Mateo County Harbor Commission has been marked by controversy, is kicking off her re-election bid with a fundraiser this weekend. One of four members on the fiveperson oversight panel whose seats are up this November, Brennan is expected to be the sole LGBT candidate in the race. “I’ve worked hard and made measurable progress while serving my first term. I’m happy to report that significant change has been accomplished and more is in progress; with new management in place we’re becoming a well-run district,” Brennan wrote in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter when asked why she had decided to run again. Last week she picked up the endorsement of Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group. “We endorse outstanding LGBT candidates at the local level,” said EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur in a statement. “Sabrina Brennan has blazed trails as the first lesbian candidate to win a countywide election in San Mateo County, as the only openly LGBT member of the county Democratic Central Committee, and as the county’s highestranking lesbian elected official. We’re proud to endorse her.” Elected in 2012 as an outsider candidate who pledged to make the harbor district more responsive to the public, Brennan’s tenure on the obscure political body the last four years has been a rocky one. She has been a vocal critic of the organizers of the Titans of Mavericks surf contest for not allowing women to compete, a policy the state’s coastal commission has demanded it change. Brennan, 45, early on also butted heads with other commissioners and agency staff, as the B.A.R.’s online Political Notes column reported last summer. A few weeks after being sworn into her seat, she accused the district’s then-general manager of harassing her in a complaint she filed. In June 2015 she gave up the commission’s presidency following accusations that she had verbally threatened the recently hired interim general manager, Glenn Lazof,

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San Mateo County Harbor Commissioner Sabrina Brennan, right, signs re-election papers in the county election’s office as friend Meg Fried looks on.

who instructed all staff not to have any contact with her outside of public meetings. Two other district employees filed lawsuits alleging harassment by Brennan, with one receiving a $300,000 settlement. The legal filings are a main reason why Robert Bernardo, a gay man who also serves on the commission and is not up for re-election this year, is not endorsing Brennan in the race. (The commission used to have a three-person out majority of members, but Nicole David, a marine biologist who is bisexual, resigned last fall citing health issues.) “While I admire Commissioner Brennan for her activism and her core values as a fellow Democrat, she lacks a very important leadership quality – the ability to play well in the sandbox with colleagues, with harbor district employees, and with some members of the community,” Bernardo wrote in a statement to the B.A.R. Yet Brennan continues to prove she has grassroots support in the county. Last month she won her bid for a seat on the San Mateo County Democratic Central Committee. In her contest for one of six seats from the county’s 3rd District, Brennan landed in fourth and is the sole LGBT elected member on the oversight body. And as she listed in her statement to the B.A.R., Brennan can tout a number of achievements while at the harbor district. Just last week she won the support of the board for two sand volleyball courts at Pillar Point Harbor north of Half

Moon Bay. It is one of two harbors the commission oversees; the other is Oyster Point Harbor in South San Francisco. She also pointed to her championing fiscal oversight, so that the district is now debt free for the first time in four decades, and focusing attention on how sea-level rise will impact its harbors, as among the reasons why she deserves a second term. She would like to be re-elected as the district’s “to-do list is still long,” added Brennan, citing among the needs a dredging plan for the harbors, replenishing sand along the shoreline, making coastal trail repairs, renovating piers, and upgrading the two marinas’ infrastructure. “Achieving a turnaround in less than four years would not have been possible without the help of dedicated community stakeholders, our new general manager, new accounting team, and the Harbor Patrol. Now that we have strong leadership on the board and a new management team the district is well positioned to serve San Mateo County,” wrote Brennan, who owns Digital Fusion Media and is married to Aimee Luthringer. Her campaign kickoff event will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 30 at a private residence in Half Moon Bay. For the location’s address, email host Meg Fried at meg.fried@ yahoo.com.

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Gay man re-elected San Mateo Dem chair

Despite losing his re-election bid to the San Mateo County DCC, Jeffrey Adair will remain as chair of the county party. Adair, a gay married florist who lives in Redwood City, came in fifth place in the June primary race for four seats from his county central committee’s 4th District. Nonetheless, after the new committee members were sworn in last week, they re-elected Adair to another term as party chair. The county party’s bylaws state that its executive board members can be unelected members of the committee. “I’m the first chair to not be an elected member of the DCC,” Adair, who is serving as a first alternate on the oversight body, told the B.A.R. Party chair since January 2015, Adair co-founded, and led for a time, the Peninsula Stonewall Democrats, a political club for LGBT See page 12 >>

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Victoria offers history, scenery for tourists by Ed Walsh

he line, “Newlyweds, nearly dead, and flowerbeds,” was what people used to say about Victoria, British Columbia, roughly 75 miles southwest of Vancouver. You’ll still hear it, but as locals will tell you, it is not reality anymore. Victoria is Canada’s best kept secret with a combination of the country’s best weather, picturesque scenery, and historic architecture. Being surrounded by water means that Victoria seldom gets below freezing and rarely gets over 80 degrees. It is also relatively dry; Vancouver gets twice as much rain. The city’s charms are not lost on the high tech industry, which is booming now. The tech companies are able to more easily entice workers with the perk of living in a beautiful city with housing costs that are a little more affordable than Vancouver. The techies are helping to lower the demographic age well below the “nearly dead.” Victoria is the capital of British Columbia and government is its biggest employer, followed by high tech and tourism. The greater Victoria area has a population of nearly 350,000 people, compared with nearly 2.5 million in the metro Vancouver area. The geography is a little confusing because Victoria is on Vancouver Island, which is a huge island three times the size of the Big Island of Hawaii, but Vancouver is not on the island. It is on the BC mainland.

Similarities to San Francisco

Victoria is very much historically connected with San Francisco despite being more than 700 miles apart. Like San Francisco, gold put Victoria on the map. About 10 years

after the original 49ers flocked to San Francisco, Victoria had its own gold rush. Some of the 49ers headed north to follow the gold after prospects dried up in northern California. Victoria boasts North America’s second-oldest Chinatown, after San Francisco, because of the gold rush. Many Chinese came to the town, selling needed supplies and not-soneeded services in the red light district that flourished in Chinatown with brothels, opium dens, and gambling houses. In the late 1800s, Vancouver was once little more than a train depot servicing Victoria. Passengers and cargo were ferried to Victoria after making it to the last stop in Vancouver. But by the early part of the 20th century Vancouver came into its own. The railroad meant that it was a lot more practical to do business on the mainland and there wasn’t much reason to go to Victoria after the gold rush. The early evolution of Victoria is part of the reason why tourists flock there today. There wasn’t the big economic pressure to tear down the old buildings in the city to make way for high rises as there was in Vancouver. Victoria still retains some of the charm that got swallowed up in big cities. Like San Francisco, Victoria has a long history of tolerance. Back in 1865 it was the first city in North America to elect a Jewish mayor, Lumley Franklin, who had followed his brother, Selim, to Victoria from San Francisco. Selim Franklin was elected to the BC legislature even earlier, in 1858. In 1866 Victoria elected a black city councilman, who was acting mayor for a time. And that evolution continued through the late 20th century with

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The Sunken Garden at Victoria’s Butchart Gardens is the site of a former quarry.

the city’s warm embrace of LGBTs. Victoria spreads out its Pride weekend over 10 days, including a series of events and, of course, a parade. The parade celebrated its 22nd year earlier this month. Two of the city’s intersections are permanently painted in rainbow colors in tribute to the LGBT community. While Victoria has no gay neighborhoods, LGBTs are integrated and accepted throughout the city. Victoria’s one gay bar, Paparazzi, is conveniently situated downtown (http:// www.paparazzinightclub.com). The bar’s address is 642 Johnson Street, but if you go by that address, you won’t find it because the entrance is around the corner on Broad Street. The bar’s attractions include dancing, drag shows, and karaoke. Like California, bars in Victoria close at 2 a.m. but when it comes to drinking, it is a little looser there. The drinking age in British Columbia is 19. Despite its size, Victoria has a thriving theater scene. Intrepid Theater hosts an LGBT-themed series

of presentations in late June called Outstages. The Victoria Fringe Theater Festival is also very gay-popular and gets underway in late August, running through early September. It showcases new and uncensored work and all the proceeds go to the artists. The theater is very active year round.

Sights

When in Victoria, do like the locals do: walk. Along with Vancouver, Victoria deservedly ranks as one of Canada’s most walkable cities. One of the best ways to get the lay of the land is through one of Discover the Past walks (https://discoverthepast. com/). The most popular are the Ghostly Walks but the Discovery and Chinatown tours are every bit as compelling, thanks to the walk leaders who combine a passion for history with a talent for storytelling. Respected local historian John Adams runs the company and regularly leads tours. He passed along his enthusiasm for history to his son, Chris,

and his other well-trained guides. Victoria has some amazing stories that are recounted on the walk. One of the most famous includes a love triangle involving Francis Rattenbury, the famed architect who designed BC’s Parliament buildings. After his own scandalous personal history, he was murdered by the young man who was having an affair with his wife. The killer eventually went on to become a World War II hero. Victoria is very bicycle-friendly and one of the best overall tours of the city is by bicycle. The Pedaler (http://www.thepedaler.ca) offers some great city tours that take sightseers through parks and bike trails not accessible by car and too far to walk. The guides are well versed on Victoria history and have good insider tips for first-time visitors. Victoria’s most famous attraction is Butchart Gardens (http://www. butchartgardens.com), about a halfhour drive outside of downtown. The property’s 55 acres of public gardens has been in operation for over 100 years. The former quarry was transformed from an eyesore to one of the world’s most beautiful gardens. It is open year round with evening summer entertainment, including a spectacular fireworks show. Christmastime is also big in the gardens with the property adorned in holiday lights. The best way to get there is by a CVS bus (no connection with the drug store chain). CVS, as well as Gray Line, also run excellent overall tours of the city. The focal point for tourism in Victoria is its iconic harbor, fronted on one side by the Empress Hotel and other by the Parliament buildings, which are outlined at night by a string of lights. Gardens are everywhere in Victoria and fittingly, flowers spell out “Welcome Victoria” on See page 11 >>

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t Irish lives recounted in book about marriage fight by Brian Bromberger

or Charlie Bird, a straight man with a distinguished career in broadcasting, involvement with the LGBT community started 30 years ago when he worked with a gay man who was struggling to come out. This was during a dark time in Ireland when homosexuality was criminalized, so revealing one was gay could result in going to jail. “I could see every day he was agonizing over being gay and as I was writing this book, that man and his torment was at the back of my head,” said Bird, who has written A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories, that recounts last year’s stunning referendum vote in favor of samesex marriage in Ireland. Bird, 66, is one of Ireland’s bestknown journalists, having been chief news reporter, chief news correspondent, and Washington correspondent for RTE, the largest, most popular news source in Ireland. In April 2015 he chaired the launch of the “Yes, Equality” marriage referendum campaign, and on May 23, 2015 the country became the first nation in the world to approve marriage equality by popular vote. Having traveled throughout the country during that extraordinary campaign, he met people potentially affected by the referendum results, both gay and straight, and decided to bring to life their poignant struggles dealing with inequality and oppression. The book is a series of often heartbreaking, mostly randomly chosen interviews, as gay novelist Colm Toibin wrote in his forward, “that make clear being gay in Ireland was perhaps a more essential aspect of Irish history and Irish reality than anyone was aware.” Bird spoke with the Bay Area Reporter in a recent phone conversation from his Dublin home. “For me what was so remarkable was ordinary people coming out to vote, especially the families of LGBT people,” Bird said. “I had to record what happened to them. Most of the people in the book had never been publicly interviewed before, expressing such a wide range of emotions. Some of my best friends are now people I met this past year during this incredible journey.” A few of the interviews affected him deeply. Enda Morgan, formerly a banker and now a wedding band musician, has a lesbian daughter Rachel, who when she revealed to him she was gay, was shaking and crying uncontrollably, having bottled it up for years before speaking to him. “She was living a double life, suffering severe anxiety,” Bird said. “Once she told her parents, her panic attacks disappeared. When I heard her story, as a father myself, it made me cry.” Then there was Adam Hannon, living in rural Ireland, who brought his boyfriend to his Debs (the Irish version of a prom) in high school, “in the only county in Ireland to vote no. That took enormous courage, which impressed supporters in Dublin,” Bird said.

Author Charlie Bird

on social media, motivated young people who had emigrated to come back to Ireland and vote yes.” Not surprisingly, the Roman Catholic Church was the chief opponent in the referendum. But even that opposition was enough to deter same-sex marriage supporters; the vote was a lopsided 62 to 37 percent. “The church doesn’t have as much influence as it once did. Many of their schools are now multi-faith and their hold on the educational system is declining,” said Bird.

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“Mass attendance is greatly down and the number of priests has declined, with few young people going to church. The sex abuse scandals may have blunted their impact and made it hard for them to talk about this issue. A number of priests even spoke out publicly in favor of the referendum.” Despite the stunning result, death by suicide among LGBT youth, as they struggle with their sexuality, is still a huge problem in Ireland, he said. “Our former President Mary McAleese [she has a gay son] conducted a study on the Irish LGBT community which showed that suicide is increasing among young gay men, the most at-risk group, at a horrific rate, in spite of the referendum,” Bird said. “There hasn’t been enough work done in schools to educate kids on this issue. Six or seven people profiled in the book told me they had thought about ending their lives at one point or another.” One interviewee, Kathleen Sharkey – who talked about her gay brother, Anton, who died by suicide because he couldn’t cope any more with his life – suffered another tragedy when, the day after the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, her gay 22-year-old son, James, was

A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories

“homophobically bullied and then took his own life,” Bird said. “Those people who bullied him are as culpable as that killer in Orlando,” said Bird. “Bullying is a tremendous problem here with prejudice ingrained. That is why I want this book to be read in every school in Ireland, so students can identify with people in these stories and hopefully come out safely. That is also why I’m giving all the royalties from the book to groups dedicated to suicide awareness.” Bird claims there has been no backlash in the year since the

referendum. “People are bursting with pride over the result. We’ve all become more educated,” he said. “Gay couples say it is easier to walk down the streets holding hands, even in rural areas. I have met people who voted no and now say they regret it.” Bird said that more than 60,000 people took part in this year’s Dublin Pride parade. “A few years ago, they would have struggled to get even several hundred to watch it,” he said. “Hundreds of couples have gotten married and I’ve attended two weddings myself. LGBT people are coming to Ireland from other countries because they feel it is a safe place. Activists from around the world who want to legalize same-sex marriage are coming here to find out how we did it and get advice from us.” The book is selling well in Ireland, even after three major publishers turned it down, saying it wasn’t commercially viable, said Bird, who added that a play based on the campaign and the book will come out early next year.t A Day in May: Real Lives, True Stories is available at http:// www.amazon.com or check local booksellers.

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What amazed Bird was how little rancor there was during the campaign. “Perhaps Ireland had matured, after bruising battles years ago on legalizing divorce and decriminalizing homosexuality,” Bird said. “There was no confrontation, even on TV, no vicious insults, no fighting or shouting people down. I think people realized that everyone knows someone who is LGBT so their right to marry was very personal to them. “All the main political parties supported Yes, as did President Michael Higgins and former President Mary McAleese,” Bird added. “The Home to Vote campaign, which was huge

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Horizons takes over Give OUT Day compiled by Cynthia Laird

ive OUT Day, an online national LGBT giving day that has proved popular among Bay Area nonprofits and donors, will take place next week under the new leadership of the Horizons Foundation after the original organization ceased operations. For the last few years, Bolder Giving had overseen the day, which was held in May. But after it announced that it was closing earlier this year, Horizons, a San Francisco-based LGBTQ philanthropic organization, stepped in so that it would continue. Give OUT Day this year will take place Tuesday, August 2, said Roger Doughty, president of Horizons. “This is the only event of its kind in our community, and we’re a bit proud that it’s now being run out of the Bay Area,” Doughty said in an email last week. Since 2013, Give OUT Day has raised $2.4 million. Doughty added that Horizons has always been active with Give OUT Day, using it to promote and support Bay Area LGBTQ nonprofits in raising more funds. Horizons did not raise money for itself through the effort, he said. “Partly as a result of Horizons’ efforts – but mostly the efforts of the organizations themselves – the Bay Area raised the most of any part of the country,” Doughty said. Ginna Brelsford, co-executive director of Genders and Sexualities Alliance Network (formerly GayStraight Alliance Network), told the Bay Area Reporter that her group is looking forward to the online giving day. It was “definitely a surprise,” Brelsford said about Bolder Giving closing. “But I was thrilled to hear Horizons was taking it over.” She said that some GSA Network

about PrEP Wednesday, staff and board members August 17 from 8:30 a.m. have already created perto 12:30 p.m. at the Marin sonal pages for the event Health and Wellness and noted that people can Campus, 3240 Kerner schedule a donation in Boulevard in San Rafael. advance so that it counts Speakers will include on Give OUT Day. Dr. Oliver Bacon from “We’ll also have a social the San Francisco Departmedia strategy,” Brelsford Courtesy Horizons Foundation ment of Public Health; said, declining to reveal Dr. Benjamin Cox from specifics so as to keep it a National Give OUT Day returns August 2. Kaiser; and a community surprise. resource panel featuring In terms of the summer ley Marina. The event runs from 10 Marin Health and Human Serdate, Doughty said that Horizons a.m. to 6 p.m. both days and is free. vices, the Marin AIDS Project, and didn’t have much of a choice, given There will be kite competitions, Planned Parenthood. the late date Bolder Giving sent out the Octopile – giant show kites that Breakfast and continuing educaits announcement. fly in formation – and much more, tion credits are included. “Even the August date has such as pony rides, a petting zoo, To register, email Jessica Price been a big push,” Doughty Sumo soccer balls, and free kite at jessica.price@ucsf.edu or Linda said. “We considered other making for kids. Food and beverDobra, RN, at ldobra@marincoundates, but between the [poages will be available. ty.org. litical] conventions, the For more information, visit www. Olympics, later August berkeleykitefestival.com. Oakland’s Youth Radio doldrums, Horizons’ gets $1.8 million grant own annual gala on PrEP community Congresswoman Barbara Lee October 1, and the forum in North Bay (D-Oakland) has announced that many orgs’ year-end There will be a community forum fundraising pushes, August 2 came up as the best option.” Brelsford said that she realizes lots of people are on vacation during the summer months, but was glad Give OUT Day would be returning. GSA “We have not been able to idenby Roger Brigham last year came in third place in the tify anyone willing to step forward Bay Area for most funds raised, she he San Francisco Bay Area Bid for beach volleyball, ice hockey, said. Committee has submitted a figure skating, squash, or volley“It’s a great way to bring new do$5,000 bidders fee to the Federa- ball and are considering dropping nors in,” Brelsford said. tion Gay Games as the next step in these from our proposed sports Doughty didn’t rule out Give receiving proprietary data on past events, but no final decision has OUT Day returning to a May or events to help it with its bid to host been made and we continue to seek early June date, and Horizons is the 2022 Gay Games on the ananyone interested in taking on the committed to running the event niversary of Gay Games I in San role of director for these events,” through 2018. He noted that an Francisco. said Ken Craig, co-president of early June event offers a potential The local bidders should know the bid committee. Anyone inPride tie-in. which of the other 10 cities that terested in those posts can conIn the meantime, people interestexpressed initial interest remain in tact the bidders through http:// ed in learning more can visit http:// the running after July 31, when all www.2022sanfrancisco.org. www.giveoutday.org. Donations cities going forward must match The cultural coordinators workcan be made between midnight and the $5,000 fee. ing on the bid are Gene Nakagima, 11:59 p.m. August 2. In the past couple of months, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony; Tim the San Francisco bidders have Seelig, San Francisco Gay Men’s Berkeley Kite Festival identified numerous coordinators Chorus; and Lawrence Turner, OakThe Berkeley Kite Festival will for most of the proposed sports land East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus. take place this weekend, July 30-31, and cultural activities. A few sports Sports coordinators identified at Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkehave not had coordinators identi- are: Michael Moore, aquatics; Tony fied, putting their status in the bid Jasinski and Brian Perlman, basketat risk. ball; Mary Figliulo, bodybuilding;

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Richard A. Perez and Cathy Patterson, bowling; Citabria Ozzuna and Photis Pishiaras, dance sport; Kathy Levinson, field hockey; Ilisa Kessler, soccer; Andrew Bundy road races and track and field; Allen Wood, martial arts; Sam Nelsen, rowing; Ellen Owens, rugby; Heather Stewart and Jan Crosbie-Taylor, sailing; Vincent Fuqua, softball; Tyler Cole, tennis; Mike Locke, triathlon; and Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes, wrestling and grappling. Organizers said they were in the process of confirming coordinators in badminton, cycling, golf, and table tennis. The next meeting of the bid committee will be in late August. Craig will have a video presentation of the preliminary bid at the FGG annual meeting in Sydney in late October. The presumptive winner will be announced a year later in Paris.t

Volunteers sought for Castro’s Harvey Milk school

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Oakland’s Youth Radio will receive a $1,845,000 grant award from the National Science Foundation. The funds will be used to expand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education through multimedia journalism and related app development. “Youth Radio is a gem in our community and a global leader in innovative science journalism,” Lee said in a statement. “I am pleased that they have been selected to receive this competitive funding from the National Science Foundation. STEM education is the key to our economic future. We must equip young people with the necessary skills and creativity to succeed in the 21st century global economy.” Over the last eight years, Youth Radio has demonstrated its STEMdriven curriculum can engage underserved youth and put them in leadership positions in techno-

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he new school year is just around the corner and people interested in helping students at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in the Castro can attend an informational meeting next week. Prospective volunteers who can spend at least one hour a week can learn more about the opportunities Wednesday, August 3 at the Harvey Milk school, 4235 19th Street, between Collingwood and Diamond streets. The meeting runs from 1 to 4 p.m. Volunteers begin working at the public elementary school in early September, several weeks after the beginning of the school year and are asked to commit to volunteering until the end of the school year next spring. Volunteers can work with students either individually or in groups or can provide general classroom assistance, said Tom Laursen, the senior coordinator for volunteer engagement at the San Francisco Education Fund, the nonprofit that partners with the school district to recruit and train the city’s 500 regular volunteers. “There is just one requirement” to become a volunteer, said Laursen in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter. “You must like kids. No special background or training is required.”

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George Kelly is a longtime volunteer at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy in the Castro.

Volunteer recruitment has been streamlined to encourage community members to learn about volunteer opportunities at the Harvey Milk school, one of two city schools added to the city’s literacy program this year, said Laursen. Ordinarily, volunteer applicants are asked to attend two different meetings and are then assigned to a school, said Laursen. But thanks to longtime Milk volunteer George Kelly, Castro residents have the opportunity to volunteer in their own neighborhood this year, according to Laursen.

Kelly, 56, a gay man who has volunteered at the Harvey Milk school for two decades, organized Inscribe, the 2015 project to commemorate World AIDS Day in the Castro in which students, volunteers, and community residents inscribed the names of hundreds of people who had been affected by AIDS on the sidewalk. “I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love being a volunteer at Harvey Milk,” said an alwaysenthusiastic Kelly, who lives in the Castro and works part time as a health educator at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. For the past 19 years, Kelly has devoted “at least” three hours a week to volunteering at the school. After his morning shift, Kelly often hears of some additional work that could be done and winds up staying the entire day, he told the B.A.R. in an interview. “Getting to know the kids, the families, and the teachers has been really wonderful,” he said. “There is so much love there.” After the informational meeting, those interested in signing up must undergo fingerprinting and a background check at a cost of $78. The fee will be waived for anyone with a financial hardship, Laursen said. For more information, contact Kelly at geokellysf@att.net or Laursen at tlaursen@sfedfund.org.t

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Victoria

around with glowing smart phones as they go on the hunt.

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the slope of the seawall in front of the Parliament buildings. The aforementioned Chinatown is another big Victoria attraction. Despite San Francisco’s Chinatown being older, the buildings in Victoria’s Chinatown are older because of the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed San Francisco. The most famous Chinatown attraction is Fan Tan Alley, which is only about 35 inches wide at its narrowest point. A scene from the 1990 Goldie Hawn and Mel Gibson movie Bird on a Wire was shot there. Be sure to stop by the Fan Tan Trading Store. It includes a display of artifacts of Chinatown, including items used to play the fan tan gambling game for which the alley is named. The shop is nicknamed the “Neverending store” because it meanders away from the alley and onto the street. The city’s biggest open space is

LGBTQ district

From page 1

That document, completed last fall, noted that a citizens advisory committee for the SOMA LGBTQ district was supposed to be formed “to guide the planning department on support for LGBTQ businesses, preservation of cultural heritage assets, and leverage of Community Benefit Agreements.” Yet no such advisory body has been formed to date. In the fall of 2013, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents western SOMA, had told the B.A.R. it was up to community leaders to see that the LGBTQ district become a reality. During an interview this spring, Kim said her office was “slowly reaching out” to LGBTQ community leaders about creating such a district. She noted the delay in its creation partly had to due to its novelty. “The city has never done this before,” said Kim. Several SOMA LGBTQ community members contacted by the B.A.R. in the last week said they had yet to be invited, either by Kim’s office or the planning department, to any meetings about a SOMA LGBTQ district. (Kim’s office did not respond to the B.A.R.’s inquiries for this story on if it had or would begin holding meetings about forming the district.) For several years now SOMA leaders have been busy pushing for

Dems

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ferent source of discontent among the Sanders supporters: Emails. Not the State Department emails on Clinton’s private server, but emails from the DNC’s internal communications. Close to 20,000 such emails were published online by WikiLeaks July 22 – the day after the Republican convention adjourned and three days before the Democratic convention opened. Most of the emails seemed to convey news blurbs and routine administrative communications about meetings and agendas, but some suggested the DNC, chaired by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, favored Clinton over Sanders. In one email, the DNC’s finance officer suggests the DNC get “someone” in Kentucky and West Virginia to ask an unnamed candidate who says he has a “Jewish heritage” about his religious beliefs. Sanders was the only such candidate at the time. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Mook, “What is the reaction of the Clinton campaign to the DNC emails suggesting that top officials ... were actively discussing ways to hurt Bernie Sanders in the primaries?” Mook replied that he thought “the DNC needs to look into this

Accommodations

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Michael Dwyer, left, and his partner, David Marshall, own the charming Dashwood Manor Seaside Bed and Breakfast Inn.

Beacon Hill Park, which got its name from the two signal beacons that once helped ships avoid crashing on the rocks off the island’s coast. The park includes a number of gardens

as well as a children’s petting zoo. The zoo and all the attractions in the park are free. By the way, Victoria is not immune from the Pokemon Go craze. You will see parkgoers walking

the creation of a leather-themed public parklet on 12th Street in front of the gay-owned Eagle bar, as well as helping to craft LGBTQ historical place-making elements for the redesign of Ringold Alley between 8th and 9th streets, once a popular late-night cruising area for gay and bisexual men. Backers of the pair of streetscape projects, which are being financed by developers of adjacent housing developments, have touted them as helping to push forward the LGBTQ cultural district. While work on the alleyway is ongoing and expected to be completed next year, the developer of the parklet has yet to formally propose its plan to the city’s public works department, which needs to sign off on the required permits. “We are not waiting around for anyone to tell us what to do. Our best chance is to work with developers to memorialize our history,” said Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which produces this Sunday’s Up Your Alley fetish fair and the larger Folsom Street Fair in late September. “Nobody wants to be forgotten.” Two weeks ago, in calling for a hearing on how to preserve the city’s dwindling LGBTQ nightlife venues in response to the possible closure of the Stud bar, gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener also asked for a status update on the LGBTQ cultural district. While he was the lone vote against the Western SOMA Community Plan, due to his con-

tention its zoning changes would be harmful to LGBTQ entertainment establishments, Wiener does support the LGBTQ cultural district. “The Board of Supervisors has required this LGBT cultural district be created in western SOMA. It has been about three or four years since we passed this requirement,” said Wiener, who is facing off against Kim this fall for the city’s state Senate seat. “I know it is in process in the planning department. It has taken a while and I want to make sure it moves forward.” In response to the B.A.R.’s questions about the status of the LGBTQ cultural district, a spokeswoman for gay Planning Director John Rahaim said this week that “he’s looking forward to the LGBTQ cultural district work starting in early 2017.” And Timothy Frye, a historic preservation officer with the department, told the B.A.R. there was “nothing new to report just yet. We are preparing for the hearing and will have more information in the next few weeks.” The supervisors’ land use committee, which meets Monday afternoons, is expected to hold a hearing on the matter sometime in early September. Wiener, who spoke to Rahaim prior to calling for the public hearing, said he is confident it is on the department’s radar. “I think some preliminary work is happening, but it won’t move in a significant way until next year,” said Wiener. “It has been a very long process.”

and take appropriate action, and I’m sure they will.” “What’s disturbing to us,” said Mook, in his next breath, “is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the DNC, pulled these emails, and other experts are now telling us that Russian officials are releasing these emails for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” He then pointed to changes in the Republican platform “to make it more pro-Russian” and Trump’s statements that the U.S. might not come to the aid of certain NATO allies. By Monday, Wasserman Schultz resigned her DNC post, not even gaveling open the convention. What most people watching the convention from home on their televisions or through mainstream media reports did not see was: • A record number of openly LGBT delegates (516, comprising almost 12 percent of delegates overall – up from 8 percent in 2012); • A record number of openly transgender delegates (28); • A strong platform on LGBTrelated concerns, including calls for efforts to combat discrimination in schools, housing, and other areas; • A visit and a roundtable discussion by Clinton on the Friday before the convention to pay respects to the victims of the Orlando nightclub

The gay-owned Dashwood Manor Seaside Bed and Breakfast (http://www.dashwoodmanor. com) is perfectly situated across the street from Beacon Hill Park on one side and the ocean on another. The couple who own the property are very much hands on. Michael Dwyer cooks up delicious gourmet breakfasts and his partner, David Marshall, helps with serving and taking reservations. It has all the character of the historic home that it is with the amenities you will find in the finest modern hotels. The gay-owned Albion Manor Bed and Breakfast (www.albionmanor.com) is another charming option in Victoria. The 1892 Victorian mansion is decorated with artwork throughout. The owners, Fernando Garcia and Don Halton, are artists and their artistic touches are

Protecting historical ties

As the B.A.R. has previously noted, calls for protecting SOMA’s historical ties to the LGBTQ and Filipino communities were first raised in 2008. A document released in 2011 established the boundaries for an LGBTQ Social Heritage Special Use District, with Folsom Street from 12th to 3rd streets serving as the central thoroughfare. Ideas for how to create the district ranged from renaming streets in honor of LGBTQ historical figures and creating walking tours of the area to designating certain sites and buildings as being of LGBTQ historical significance. The western SOMA zoning document listed such steps as surveying, identifying, and evaluating historic and cultural heritage resources in the designated zone, like events and alleys with ties to the LGBTQ community, and called for the creation of a timeline and implementation plan to achieve the policy objectives. During an interview with the B.A.R. in January, Rahaim said the historical evaluation component had been achieved through the historic context statement, which included detailed research on SOMA’s gay bars, sex clubs, bathhouses, and leather and fetish scenes. One of the main issues planning staffers have been struggling with, said Rahaim, is how to define what an LGBTQ cultural district would look like.

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First lady Michelle Obama gave a rousing, heartfelt speech at Monday’s Democratic National Convention.

massacre, where a gunman shot and killed 49 patrons and wounded even more last month, and; • At least ﬁve LGBT people were named DNC vice-chairs, including Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, LPAC co-chair Laura Ricketts, and transgender activist Marisa Richmond. In addition to Frank, many LGBT people spoke or will speak from the podium, including Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney of New York,

former National Basketball Association player Jason Collins, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Griffin, and the first openly transgender speaker at any major party convention, Sarah McBride, a press spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Also at the podium was Daniel Driffin, a young African-American gay man who is a leader in efforts to prevent the spread of HIV among African-American men in Atlanta. Many of the straight allies who spoke from the podium, includ-

evident throughout the property. If you prefer a full service hotel, you would be hard pressed to do better than the Parkside Hotel and Spa (http://www.parksidevictoria.com), in downtown, just a couple of blocks from the Empress Hotel. The hotel includes a full service spa as well as a large indoor swimming pool and fitness room. A theater in the hotel has free movies for guests daily. The hotel worked with Victoria Pride earlier this month for a special Pride package. If you want to be a part of history, the Fairmont Empress Hotel (http:// www.fairmont.com/empress-victoria) is the city’s oldest hotel and one of the most luxurious. The hotel has kept its historic facade while almost constantly modernizing and updating itself with the best amenities and furnishings that high-end travelers demand.t For more information, Victoria’s official tourism web site is http:// www.tourismvictoria.com/.

“Part of the problem is we haven’t decided what ‘it’ is yet, whether it is a district designation or a program to help businesses or whether it is ultimately some combination of those mechanisms,” he said. “This is outside our typical land use controls.” From the community’s perspective, there has been a question of who, or what city agency or local group, should take the lead in advocating for the LGBTQ cultural district’s creation. “There are individual people working on these two individual projects,” said Moshoyannis, referring to the alley and parklet plans. “But I don’t know whose responsibility it is to enact or make sure the western SOMA plan is fully actualized.” It also remains to be seen what impact, if any, will come from having an LGBTQ cultural district in place. It is unclear if it can protect the existing LGBT-owned businesses and nightlife venues from the development pressures sweeping through the neighborhood. “This is global and happening in major cities. All across the world we are seeing districts with LGBT establishments giving way to development,” noted Moshoyannis. “We have seen some businesses go away, like Stompers, and others like the Stud in jeopardy. But there are still many businesses that are here and fighting to stay here. In comparison to many other cities, we have a lot to be grateful.”t ing many headline speakers during primetime, gave prominent nods to LGBT people and issues. In her rousing address to the convention Monday night, first lady Michelle Obama recognized the devotion of people who donated blood following the Orlando nightclub massacre. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts criticized Trump for choosing as a vice presidential running mate a man who supported making it legal to discriminate against lesbians and gays. “We believe ... no matter who you love, equal means equal,” said Warren. “Thanks to marriage equality, more children grow up with two moms or two dads,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York). Others including mention of LGBT people in their remarks included former President Clinton and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey. There were numerous LGBTgroup events being held around the convention in Philadelphia, including a luncheon by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund on Wednesday, with guest speaker Chelsea Clinton. In a call with reporters Monday, Maloney, co-chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus in Congress, said that, in the Democratic Party, LGBT people have “made a home for ourselves.”t

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logical innovation, Lee’s statement said. The funding will allow Youth Radio to scale up and create the Youth News Network, a nationwide feeder system for youth reporters and educators. Youth Radio was founded in 1992.

CBD brings tables, chairs back to plaza

The Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District announced last week that tables and chairs have returned to Jane Warner Plaza as part of a new effort to activate the space in the Castro. The furniture had been removed due to abusive behavior by some people utilizing the plaza. Andrea Aiello, executive director of the CBD, also said that two new plaza stewards will be on site

Homeless youth org

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Howe said this week that although she’s “grateful” LoHaMNA dropped its request, the filing stagnated “an already lengthy process and incurred a high cost of both time and money on a small nonprofit.” An online petition signed by over 1,000 HYA supporters noted that for months the group’s been paying over $4,500 a month on the space. HYA’s lease is for five years. “I am frustrated the concerns of very few people seemed to be honored by the group against the overwhelming majority of the neighborhood,” Howe said. “Hundreds of signatures of support were gathered by neighbors,” and “We only had one merchant not sign on to the support of the change of use, which speaks volumes.” Despite the problems the discretionary review request brought, she said that through it, “I have met so many amazing individuals who both live and work in the Lower Haight. Their support and the way

Political Notebook

From page 7

people in San Mateo County. In a Facebook message last month that he posted a few days after losing his re-election bid, Adair hinted that he might remain as party chair. “My shock at losing my election has given way to gratitude. For all

Shooting

From page 2

had a white T-shirt underneath. She didn’t remember if he’d been wearing a jacket. She’d also previously stated that he was 6 feet 7 inches or 6 feet 8 inches tall, which is several inches taller than Green, who bowed his head a little but watched the woman’s testimony. She said that a man who’s been identified as Green and is shown in video surveillance footage recorded just before the shooting was the assailant. In the footage, however, Green appears to be wearing a black long-sleeve shirt with a white T-shirt under it. The woman said she told police that the man looked like the shooter, but his clothing didn’t match. She identified Green by his facial hair, dreadlocks, and thick eyebrows, she said.

Singer’s testimony

Most of the people who’ve testified didn’t actually see the crash, and the surviving victim’s account was one of the only ones that described a man approaching her car just before the accident. Funaki Moala, a singer who knew Green and who’d just performed at Club Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, the night of the shooting, was another.

from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday to manage the furniture, keep the plaza clean, remind people not to smoke, greet and assist performers, and welcome visitors. Events and performances are scheduled for the plaza every weekend through October. Other changes include a new LED lighting installation. The “Seed by Aphidoidea” was selected through a competitive public process, in consultation with various city agencies, and is expected to be temporary and could be installed next spring. Finally, Aiello said, the plaza pavement will be replaced. The original colored asphalt broke apart with pressure washing. Under the terms of the original sidewalk improvement project, new durable pavement will be installed this summer at no new cost to taxpayers. For a full list of upcoming events, visit http://castrocbd.org/ live-in-the-castro-events/.t they have shown up for us has been quite moving, and I feel welcome in the neighborhood.” Howe said that being able to do things like making phone calls in private and holding staff meetings “may seem trivial to some,” but “an office and space for staff to gather and work together will strengthen our direct service work we do on the street every day.” The group still aims to open a new center in the Upper Haight, “so young people who are living on the streets can have a place to receive services, to get non-judgmental support, to get their basic needs met, and to have a place to simply be themselves and have some privacy,” she said. John Pollard, 49, who lives with his family a few blocks away from the new HYA site, has supported the nonprofit for years. He told the Bay Area Reporter in May that the move is “a good idea,” because the organization’s been rejected by numerous landlords, and “they need an office where they can better facilitate homeless youth’s needs,” even though the clients won’t be there.t my central committee members who have reached out to me to acknowledge the hard work I’ve put in as chair of the party and to insist that I stay,” wrote Adair, who watched this week’s Democratic National Convention from home. He said this week his being reelected chair is “gratifying. I guess I’m doing something right.”t Moala testified earlier in the trial that she’d encountered Green in the parking lot after they left the club. She said she was chatting with Green when a car “stopped in front of us as if we were in their way,” and she motioned for the vehicle “to go around us.” But the car backed up, she said, and Green walked toward it. “I was like, ‘Leave it alone,’” Moala said. The vehicle backed up until it “clipped” a parked car. Green “walked a little faster toward the car,” she said. “... He looked like he was ready to fight.” Moala got distracted, though, and she didn’t see what happened next. She said she heard 12 gunshots and hid behind a car. She didn’t see the shooter, she said. Marshella Ryan, another friend of Warren’s who witnessed the killing, picked out the person identified as Green from the surveillance video and testified last week that she was “100 percent sure” it was him. She also identified him in court as the shooter. Green, who’s in custody on $50 million bail, fled to Florida after the shooting but was arrested there in May 2014 and extradited to San Francisco. The trial, which started July 13, is expected to continue into early August.t

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACCESS BIOPHARMA TRAINING, LLC, 660 4TH ST #323, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ACCESS BIOPHARMA TRAINING, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/12/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/16.

JULY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036542100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: A & M TOWING SERVICE, 150 TOLAND ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by ALSON HO. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/23/15.

JULY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552231

In the matter of the application of: TINA BHUTANI, 350 EWING TERRACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TINA BHUTANI, is requesting that the name TINA BHUTANI, be changed to TINA BHUTANIJACQUES. 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 30th of August 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037145400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: N3XT, 340 PAGE ST #207, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT J. THOMAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037170700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VILLA AROMA, 801 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAVID CHANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/11/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037171000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WORKERS RIGHTS LAW OFFICE, 360 RITCH ST #201, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL DAVID NELSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037146400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NORTH BEACH PSYCHIC, 527 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HOLLY MARKS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037163500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FUELING STATION, 2436 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LILLIAN W. WONG. 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 07/01/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037153400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARIEL EXPRESS #2, 2359 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARTA S. FIGUEROA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/27/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037171400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREEN SPA & NAIL, 347 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed HAO KIM LAM & HOANG CHUC PHUNG. 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 07/11/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037145900

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037181400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HALAL SF GYRO, 1390 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MUHAMMAD AKMAL KHAN. 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 07/18/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037155300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONNIE’S BEAUTY SALON, 5011 GEARY BLVD APT C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIAHUA ZHENG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/28/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037169800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREAMSCAPES, 980 TERESITA BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SUSAN LANDRY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037181700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NAAN N CURRY, 2154 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ALMEER FOOD INC (CA). 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 07/18/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037172600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WEST HALYARD, 924 MINNESOTA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CAPITO LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 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 07/12/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037172901

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEADS FIRST SALON; H F SALON, 1700 A UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed LINETTE WATSON & GEORGE WATSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/12/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037152000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE JELLY BUS; THE PIANO BUS, 171 COLERIDGE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ABACAXI, 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 06/27/16.

JULY 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037185900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PICCIONE FLOREALE, 1254 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed GENNARO PICCIONE & BELEM PICCIONE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/16.

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 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037146700

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

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONCLER, 212 STOCKTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MONCLER USA RETAIL LLC (NY). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/21/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037170800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIMONCELLO, 1400 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ALIMENTO, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/11/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/16.

JULY 14, 21, 28, AUGUST 04, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037077700

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.

JULY 28, AUGUST 04, 11, 18, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037183100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: GREEN SPA & NAIL, 347 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by MUI CHANH VONG. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/16.

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.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOE VALLEY SMILES AND BRACES; NOE VALLEY SMILES & BRACES; NOE VALLEY SMILES FOR KIDS, 3932 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JAFARI DMD INC. AND SIAMAK JAFARI DENTAL CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/24/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/24/16.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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antastical gay men are, politely speaking, “exercising their virilities” at the GLBT History Museum, though there’s nothing polite about the sexually explicit imagery and full-frontal nudity on uninhibited display in Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Walls, a touring historical retrospective of erotic illustrations by artists whose work appeared in gay men’s magazines from the 1950s through the 90s. See page 22 >>

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orty-nine dancers were murdered last month in Orlando. They have been called gay or Latino or lesbian or transgender. They have been identified as a pharmacy tech, a travel agent, an entrepreneur, a student, a store manager, and a Walt Disney employee. They are dead, but not for those reasons alone. They died because they went out on a Saturday night to enjoy themselves the best way they knew how – by dancing. There has been a deafening silence on the subject in the dance press, and indeed, it is a very heavy subject to take up. It’s much easier to think of them as gays or lesbians or Latinos. Are they really dancers if they’re not professional dancers? But of course they are. Some of

those people go out every night. I’ve done it, and I know. You recognize the regulars, even when the tourists bop in and take up places that already belong to others, or grind up against people you know don’t welcome that. Indeed, gay dance clubs have historically been our main locus of solidarity. They were the temples of our people in the days when we had to stay in the shadows. They are the Rubicons, the Concords of Gay Pride: the first places where our people took a stand and fought back, in the Tenderloin bar, at Stonewall – and it was the drag queens and trans folks who did it. They’d gone there because it was the only place they felt at home – they could drink, and pick up johns, and do their solo performances and read the world, and they could dance and rise above it all. See page 21 >>

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Grand Hotel by Roberto Friedman

ast week Out There was in the grand old house for a pre-publication party celebrating The New York Times bestselling author Amor Towles and his new novel A Gentleman in Moscow (Viking, releases on Sept. 6). Our cocktails ground zero was the French Parlor in the Palace Hotel, a party room overlooking the hotel’s elegant Garden Court. The posh choice of venue was apt, as the gentleman of the book’s title is a Russian aristocrat living under house arrest in Soviet-era Moscow, seeing out the rest of his days at the grand hotel Metropol. Towles’ novel is big and sprawling, perhaps self-consciously echoing the Golden Age of Russian literature – everything from Chekhov to Tolstoy – encompassing 30 years of Russian history as reflected in the life of the hotel. There Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov enjoys his days, dines, wines, and eventually serves guests, during a period from the Stalinist purges through to the Khrushchev Era. It’s an impressive sweep, told handsomely through the Count’s life, the advent of his maturity and paternity. We were happy to meet Towles, who earned his MA through the same program at Stanford that OT did. And we were happy to hang in the luxurious digs of the French Parlor, a reception room on a terrace above the Garden Court. We feel a real history with this grand hotel as well, and with the GC, where we were first taken by our supervisor at The Recorder, where we had our first publishing job. The dear man loved taking the “proof-room boys” out to a glamorous lunch at one of the great old San Francisco places, which at that time in the 1980s were still alive and thriving: Ernie’s,

Enrico’s, and not least the GC in the Palace. But of course the Palace Hotel has always been bigger than just the Garden Court. We’ve had many a memorable rendezvous in the Pied Piper bar, where we thank Zeus that the Maxfield Parrish painting still hangs. In it, the PP is luring all the children of the village away to their certain doom because the town elders reneged on their exterminator bill. Parrish set the tale in a landscape he based on the red rocks of Sedona, AZ. A previous management had actually considering cashing in on the painting, selling it and replacing it with what?, video Muzak?, until a public outcry and various natterings of the press convinced them to keep it. Back to the Metropol. Towles points out that 12 years after its opening, the grand hotel in Moscow was a literal bastion in the war between the Bolsheviks and the Tsar’s forces. After the Revolution, renamed the Second House of the Soviets, it housed government bureaus and officials. But by 1922, the Metropol was restored to its

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splendors as luxe hotel, serving as an international crossroads of diplomats, spies, world travelers and Soviet officials, and as a watering hole for its press corps. Despite being right around the corner from the Kremlin, Towles notes, it became one of the classic hotels found in capital cities like the Ritz in Paris, or the Plaza in New York. The Palace is right up there in their league, in our estimation. As it happens, the week before our visit there for the book-launch party, the Palace was the subject of The New York Times’ “Check In” column, in which a family of four checked in to check out their room, the general amenities and dining. With this last checkpoint they had to give credit to the Garden Court, “with its soaring stained glass ceiling and Italian marble columns, dominated by nice dangling pale pink Austrian crystal chandeliers. The only downside was the jarring disconnect between the room’s fairy-tale elegance and the sloppy sartorial style of American tourists, in sweatsuits, basketball shorts, flip-flops and T-shirts.” Oh well, at least the serious drinkers in the Pied Piper bar know how to dress when they’re out in public and tying on a few. A Gentleman in Moscow doesn’t get reviews until its release in the fall, but we can say from reading an advance uncorrected copy that it’s a big, fun read packing a lot into its 464 pages. Towles clearly cares about the novel’s overall structure, something most readers don’t pay overt attention to but all fictionwriters do. For what it’s worth, all of the words of all of the subchapter titles begin with the letter A. And the Count takes his place as an unforgettable fictive character who makes hay within the confines of a proscribed world. P.S. Last weekend we attended the Northern Nevada Pride parade and celebration in Reno. It was great to cheer on our LGBT brothers and sisters outside the bubble of the Bay Area. Our rallying cry rang loud and clear: “Love trumps hate!”t

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Beauty parlor and the beasts by Richard Dodds

he hair is big in Stale Magnolias: The Musical. The humor comes in small, medium, and only occasionally, large. Before it became a musical, Sean Owens’ beauty-parlor comedy was first staged in 2009 in a beauty parlor, and the novelty of that probably helped ramp up the laughs. Now a musical edition is at Oasis, and it’s a bit of a letdown at the venue where the redoubtable D’Arcy Drollinger and Heklina often hold forth. This is a not a hoot-and-hollerin’ affair, though it often seems the dialogue is aimed toward that end. But then a wan punchline arrives, deflating the anticipation built by the setup. Still, there are laughs to be had, more reliably arising from situations and performances rather than the words themselves. The new sink girl with a corpse in her car’s trunk, bull semen in the water supply causing male-pattern baldness in women, and a child sired by a hermaphroditic celebrity are among the situations the denizens of the Last Chance Salon must face. The setting is Rectal, Texas, which is signal enough that the script has not been written with too sharp a pencil. But no matter how low the brow, when you have a gathering of characters (mostly) in drag in a beauty parlor in a dusty burg, the ripostes need zing from some sort of wit that can be crude or clever or even just gross. Insults and bitchery are rightly expected, but something stronger than, say, “She looks like the Lusitania after it sunk” is needed. The songs created for this musical adaptation of Owens’ play – he provided the lyrics for Don Seaver’s music – can help boost the proceedings. A duet of hate between archrivals has energetic venom, helped by the strong performances from Jef Valentine and Robert Molossi as Last Stop regulars, and Michael Phillis, as a space-cadet sink girl, gets laughs out of a sung murder confession. But some of the songs don’t fit even a loose interpretation of the loose proceedings. The cast sings about “the hottest wheels in town” in a song that seems inspired by Grease, though it starts well enough as a quite funny ’Drew Todd as the meanest gal in town starts rocking out in her wheelchair. Marilynn Fowler as the owner of the salon has to deliver a

Café Society

From page 16

Allen mixes neurotic one-liners and overbearing Jewish mothers with a dose of realistic violence, completely alien to Allen’s younger editions. Unlike in the mostly inert Celebrity, in which the talented Kenneth Branagh found his pitch-perfect Woody imitation upstaged by a brash young Leo DiCaprio, in Cafe Society Allen, approaching 80, gives his new surrogate Eisenberg, an actor/playwright 43 years younger and a strong contender for the Allen throne, free rein to impose his personal style and comic chops on the role. It doesn’t hurt that this is also Eisenberg’s third screen pairing with Stewart, their comfortable chemistry picking up neatly from their 2009 outing in Greg Mottola’s amusement-park comic romp Adventureland. While it may not interest you to wonder if and when Jesse officially inherits the Allen baton, Cafe Society is funny enough to push the matter out of mind for this summer treat until final credits roll. It offers a sweet look at a young master-in-training and a couple of classic Woody jokes tossed in to seal the deal. “Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living, but the examined life is no bargain either.” And: “Life is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer.” A blissful moment in this summer of Trump.t

Gareth Gooch

’Drew Todd, Marilynn Fowler, Jef Valentine, Robert Molossi and Michael Phillis play denizens of a small-town beauty parlor where jealousies, secrets, and vendettas arise in Steel Magnolias: The Musical at Oasis.

solemn song about her mother’s suicide in an uneasy shift in tone. If there is no meaningful need to go down that dark road, at least another serious moment, still slightly odd, has a

context as breast cancer and falsies are revealed in a scene led by a roller-skating Latina played by Jerry Navarro. Director Cora Values, outfitted in her signature role as the proprietress

of the Gas ’n’ Gulp, also serves as an amiable hostess. Jef Valentine’s costumes are properly, and increasingly, outrageous, but it’s the wigs by Jordan L’Moore that reach as

high as an elephant’s eye.t Stale Magnolias will run through Aug. 6 at Oasis. Tickets are $25$35, available at sfoasis.com.

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18 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 28-August 3, 2016

Gay man leaves a religious family by Sari Staver

he idea for the new documentary Who’s Going to Love Me Now? began like a lot of gay stories: with a one-night stand. The film, winner of Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival, screens Sat., July 30, 9:15 p.m. at the Castro Theatre, part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. The film, directed by Tomer and Barak Heymann, also screens the next evening at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley. The idea for the film came to Tomer Heymann in 1994, years before he’d made his first film, after a steamy 12hour tryst at his Tel Aviv apartment that followed a chance meeting with Saar Moav at a nearby café. Though not yet a filmmaker, Heymann knew a good story when he heard one. Moav, then 21 and about to move to London to start a new life, told Heymann, then 25, that he’d had a bitter falling out with his conservative family when they learned he was gay. Moav was asked to leave the religious kibbutz where he lived with his parents, five brothers, and sister. In a telephone interview from Tel Aviv, Tomer Heymann recalls their first night together. “When we met, we had a strong physical attraction,” he said. “We seemed to have much in common.” Heymann noted that both came from large Jewish families. “But Saar’s family did not understand or accept his homosexuality. I distinctly remember how depressed he was about the situation, and he told me he had even

Saar Moav joined the London Gay Men’s Chorus (scene from Who’s Going to Love Me Now?).

considered suicide.” Moav moved to London soon after, and the men didn’t stay in touch. But in the meantime, Heymann had begun making films. Seven years later, on a trip to London, Heymann and Moav had a chance encounter on the street. Heymann, travelling with his camera, asked his friend if he would sit for an interview. Three hours later, “I knew this was a story I wanted to tell,” said Heymann. Moav’s bitter struggle with his family had continued, but in the meantime, he had found a good job in London with Apple, and had

joined the London Gay Men’s Chorus, where he found support and camaraderie as an out gay man. But when a three-year-long relationship ended, Moav went into a tailspin of drugs and unprotected sex, and he’d recently learned he was HIV+, he told the filmmaker. “This was the first time I had met someone who shared their story that they were HIV+,” said Heymann. “I know that sounds strange now, but this was 12 years ago. In Israel back then, HIV was not something discussed openly.” Certain that the story had the

potential to become a film, Heymann had to put the project on hold after Moav asked him to delete the footage. This time, though, the men stayed in touch, and when Moav visited London in 2012, he thought it might be time to tell the story of his struggles fitting in with his Orthodox family. He was still in good health, but when he confided his HIV status to his parents, they both asked him to consider moving back home. “Saar told me that if I could convince his family to be interviewed, we could go ahead with the film,” said Heymann.

After several visits and many hours of getting acquainted, the family agreed to be filmed, Heymann said. Moav’s father, a strict military man; and his brother, married with his own children, were both outspoken in their fear of homosexuality and misconceptions about whether HIV could be casually transmitted. His mother, a more sympathetic figure, clearly loved her son and hoped he would move back to Israel. The film describes Saar Moav’s complicated decision about whether to remain in London or move back to Israel. His ultimate decision to that question is also the answer to the film’s title, Who’s Going to Love Me Now? Convincing all of Moav’s family members to be interviewed “was a very long and difficult process,” said Heymann. “Ultimately, we were able to convince them that if they would participate, they could become ambassadors of a new message about people with HIV living in religious communities, where just being gay is a heavy issue. Once I got to know the family, I found them to be very brave, honest, and open. The film is the story of an outsider in a religious Jewish family in Israel.” Another film by Tomer Heymann, Mr. Gaga, also screens at the Castro on Sat., July 30, and at the Roda Theatre on Sun., July 31. This documentary, which won the Audience Award at South by Southwest Film Festival, is the story of Ohad Naharin (“Mr. Gaga”), Israel’s rock star choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company.t

The power of Noir by Erin Blackwell

n my current attempt to earn my living, I find myself in the company of young actors. They don’t talk about acting; they talk about Star Wars, Pokemon Go, and some online game they’re immersed in but wise enough not to try to explain to me. They’ve heard of Tennessee Williams and maybe done a Stanley monologue from Streetcar in some acting class, but I doubt the name Tyrone Power means anything to them. That’s a shame because he was a classy dude, an actor from a long line of actors, who struggled to be an artist in the glamourpuss cesspit of the Hollywood studio system. You can see him do his stuff in the marvelous Nightmare Alley (1947), playing Wed., Aug. 3, at the Castro Theatre. Power is a very pretty man, which both helped and hurt him in his quest to be something other than a

Courtesy I Wake Up Dreaming series

Helen Walker and Tyrone Power in the classic noir Nightmare Alley.

male model in fancy dress looking intense or charming as a director demanded. His eyelashes, thick as thieves, hug his glowing black eyes like well-trained, furry caterpillars. His smile is knockout, his voice a

cocky croon, and the blackness of his hair and eyebrows lights up a black-and-white movie with magnetic negative force. His face simply draws you in and down; you can’t look away. That doesn’t make him a

great actor, but it proves he was up to something, on to something, doing something subliminal with the audience’s gaze. In Nightmare Alley, Power plays a carny, or carnival worker, with a broken childhood, who achieves renown as a mentalist before destroying himself through hardearned cynicism. This isn’t, strictly speaking, a pretty-boy part, and the first 50 minutes of the movie are out of synch with Power’s perfect beauty. The epic narrative, based on William Lindsey Gresham’s book, methodically paints the step-bystep rise of a sociopath learning the tricks of show-biz illusionists before applying them to well-heeled suckers made susceptible through grief. Gresham laid bare the “spook racket,” and Power chose the role to offset his own involvement in the Dream Factory. Around minute 50, Power’s character meets his match in the form of a psychologist, played by Helen

Courtesy I Wake Up Dreaming series

Scene from director Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly.

Walker, who is archly skeptical about the nightclub mentalist’s truthiness. This clash of professional personalities is the film’s pivot point, and it’s a doozy. Walker’s character is named Lilith, a name you’ll encounter maybe nowhere else in 1940s Hollywood. The apocryphal Lilith, the first-created human, said “No” to God and was destroyed for her refusal to submit to Adam. Walker’s eyebrows are less lush than Power’s, but her face is similarly symmetrical, and she goes profile to profile with him in a brilliant mirror-imaging that spells doom for the protagonist. After a first appearance all dolledup in evening dress, trying to trip up the smooth-talking mind-reader, Lilith reverts to stark office wear: a tailored black skirt-suit with an odd sort of non-bowtie at the collar of a surgical white shirt. Through successive scenes, Lilith plies her trade on the unsuspecting Power. Or rather, he does suspect, but she soothes his anxieties in the manner of a practiced illusionist. “It takes one to catch one” is the line of dialogue describing their mutual attraction and exploitation. It’s not about sex; it’s about control. Who pulls the strings. Who’s the chump. Nightmare Alley kicks off a series of five Wednesday-night doublefeatures from the classic Noir period. Some of you will go because you already know how great old movies can be. Take a young actor with you, would you? For my sake. Maybe to the final film in the series, Kiss Me Deadly (1955), on Wed., August 31. Robert Aldrich’s directorial debut turns tough guy Mike Hammer on his head by plunking the macho knucklebrain down into a radical rewrite of Mickey Spillane’s rightwing agit-prop pulp. That film is so right on, while maintaining such a high visual style and blowing your mind with the switchbacks of seasoned double-cross in the service of nuclear disaster, it almost makes me proud to be an American.t

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July 28-August 3, 2016 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 19

Tropical maladies by Tim Pfaff

n Nicole Dennis-Benn’s stunning new debut novel Here Comes the Sun (Norton/Liveright), the women own the story, if precious little else. What’s invaluable to them is reliably taken away, only most conspicuously their sweet little Jamaican beach town, where meager meals are never finished off with an aromatic cup of Blue Mountain. It’s a rum life, and they are the ones who have to live it, until the developers get their way and, with their bulldozers, reduce the place to a dull memory. Most of the locals are stripped of their innocence before their eyes are fully open. It’s a world in which money is everything and sex is a fungible currency. There’s a long tradition of novels about the sexploitation of the poor, the current twist on the genre being the implication that if you tut-tut it while reading, perhaps on the beach, you’re pre-redeemed for any infractions after dark. What DennisBenn’s novel does to a degree I’ve not encountered before is chronicle that particular circle in hell on earth where mothers knowingly, and not always reluctantly, sell their pubescent children into sexual bondage – often, unsurprisingly, “just this

once,” as if there were seconds on a child’s virginity. In a remarkably assured authorial voice from which every last molecule of self-pity has been atomized by a profound compassion, DennisBenn looses an unforgettable cast of characters, including some men. One of the morally least compromised of all – despite committing a murder before our very eyes – is Charles, a poor local boy who loves the teenager Thandi so ardently that his sole concern is not pushing her sexually faster than she should go. (There are, of course, things he doesn’t know.) His counterweight is Alphonso, an affluent secondgeneration hotelier, spendthrift and debtor whose unflagging interest in women and girls lacks anything resembling such patience. If the other men seem shallow, so they are: crude facsimiles of human beings. All of Dennis-Benn’s women, however minor as characters, command attention and reward forbearance. Most are caught in the grinding cycle of sexual exploitation that, like everything else in the tropics, rots at a rate you can watch. They’re also individuals who, whatever their circumstances, cling to the primacy (or illusion) of choice in their lives until it is finally torn from their grasp.

Chief among them is Margot, who convinces herself that she has sacrificed her life, body and soul, to give her younger sister Thandi a better one. To that end, she has become a sex machine who knows how to keep her coif in place between jobs, servicing men. She’s a human flame in a hotel uniform, and everyone who comes near her gets singed, sooner, later or routinely. She’s also the kind of scrappy fighter who gets and keeps you in her corner. You get uneasy every time she’s gone for more than a few pages. Her mother, Delores – yet another of fiction’s mothers to end all mothers – is a ball of far less focused or sublimated rage. Her black selfhatred, common coin in this culture, plays out on the war zone of Thandi’s defended, terrorized body. Rumors fly that the girl is pregnant, but her baggy clothes conceal strata of oils and emoluments to bleach her ebony skin, her entire trunk wrapped in Saran Wrap to increase their potency – this in a climate whose withering heat, and the rages it can induce, is invoked with

Dantean specificity. Since childhood, Margot has, in various ways and to varying degrees and ends, been in love with Verdene, who is of this place (where she is a “known” dyke) but also has seen an alternative world through an education in England. Margot feeds their mutual fantasy of some future “gated-community” love nest, where they will escape hate and retire in splendid isolation. To realize that, Margot brings ruin on the only other no-doubt-about-it new dyke in town – a former beauty queen who is brought to the hotel as an “ambassador” to wealthy foreign tourists – to get the professional position she is convinced she has sacrificed her own sexuality for. In this community the only thing worse than being a darkskinned black is being a lesbian, which is to be a devil, or from one. The town’s tomboy peepers conduct an unrelenting witch-hunt, and even the two lesbians with the means of escape are harried out of home and office. Let me be the first to say that Nicole Dennis-Benn is not “the lesbian Marlon James,” referring

to the Jamaican-born gay novelist whose A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Booker Prize, and whose earlier novel, The Book of Night Women, takes a similarly unblinkered look at the defilement of women in Jamaica. Both writers make musical use of the local patois in written dialogue, but the fact that they even transliterate it differently shows how individual their powerful voices are. Dennis-Benn knows better than to conjure this geographical “paradise” realistically; rather, she presents it like a photographic negative: we see what a beautiful place it is by witnessing its rape. The only beach described is of the ocean’s claw variety, and there are no Technicolor sunsets. Sunny Caribbean art plays a role in the story, but Dennis-Benn does not daub silver linings onto the impending clouds. She deploys an art of an altogether different kind, one that allows her to tell this unrelievedly unsentimental story in an un-excerptable language of cumulative, almost radiant beauty. It’s the sheer, unornamented beauty of real, sweating people getting through unimaginable hardships, yet showing up, just as they are, for another shitty day in paradise.t

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20 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 28-August 3, 2016

The Trumping of America on TV by Victoria A. Brownworth

here was one big TV show this past week, and it was in Cleveland, of all unlikely places. CNN, MSNBC and PBS broadcast the entirety of the Republican entrant in the Olympics of politics, while ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox all broadcast the prime time speakers. The kickoff had been on CBS’ 60 Minutes, which aired one of the most bizarre interviews we’ve ever seen with Donald Trump, his LGBT-hating/ woman-hating VP pick Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) and veteran reporter Lesley Stahl. The interview was done in Trump’s gold-plated home, which provided a hella backdrop for a populist narrative. As we go to press, the Democrats are in Philly, and Hillary Clinton gives her acceptance speech July 28 in prime time, making not just American history, but world history. We spent last week in the hospital, so now we know how high our blood pressure and heart rate spike when the GOP starts talking en masse with no rebuttal. Our previously anecdotal belief has now been validated by medical technology and science. Words we did not hear at the RNC. Neither Trump nor Pence believes in evolution or climate change. Trump famously said in May that the California drought would be fixed by his “turning on the water.” Our vantage point also made us acutely aware of how much is at risk from the Trump Train, including the Affordable Care Act, which has made health care accessible to so many LGBT people we know as well as millions of others. Yet nearly every speech called for the overturning of the ACA. One thing that was unusual for a GOP convention was the utterance of LGBTQ and the word “gay.” Proto-fascist billionaire creator of Pay Pal Peter Thiel became the first person to declare they were gay at a GOP convention in prime time on July 21, the peak night of the event. It’s difficult to embrace Thiel, who describes himself as a “conservative libertarian,” but there he was telling the world he was “proud to be gay” even as he supported a ticket with the homophobic Pence on it. CBS News anchor Gayle King spoke to Thiel on the floor. She seemed incredulous that a gay man could be pro-Trump. Four of the major talking heads were gay: CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, former ABC News political director Amy Walter, now with PBS, and MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow. Lemon was the best we’ve ever seen him. Trump had billed the convention as an extravaganza with celebrities and sports stars. Extravaganza was one word for it. We’ve never seen anything quite like it, and we have seen a lot of politics and a lot of TV. Those celebrities Trump touted turned out to be less “star” than Clint Eastwood’s empty chair in 2012. One of the D-listers was the still-smoking-hot Antonio Sabato Jr., former star of The Bold & the Beautiful, General Hospital, Melrose Place, Dancing with the Stars, and former underwear model for

Trump’s convention speech, as per Van Jones on CNN: “It was a psychopathic, Mad Max moment.”

Calvin Klein. Sabato told ABC News that speaking at the convention had put his career at risk, but “So be it.” Sabàto, who was born in Italy and may have grown up with a little too much Mussolini mythology, brought the house down. He told a Obama-hating crowd of 97% white delegates, “We had a Muslim president for 7 1/2 years. He also said that “our rights have been trampled and our security threatened” by the Obama Administration. He told ABC News from the convention floor that “I believe that [Obama’s] on the other side, the Middle East. He’s with the bad guys.” Openly gay actor and GLAAD Award winner Tuc Watkins (One Life to Live) took to social media after Sabato’s speech. “On behalf of former soap stars nationwide, I’d like to thank Antonio Sabato Jr. for further cementing our collective reputation as a bunch of dunderheads,” Watkins said on his Facebook page, adding the hashtag #VoteHillary. Another former soap star and speaker at the convention, Kimberlin Brown (Bold & the Beautiful), who left full-time acting to become an avocado farmer in California, gave a tearful interview to Fox News, saying she’d been bullied online once her name was revealed as a speaker. The “biggest” star to speak at the RNC was Happy Days alum Chachi: actor Scott Baio, who is best known these days for calling Hillary Clinton the c-word on social media and for his wife Renee’s homo-lesbophobic rhetoric. The two tag-team troll Twitter often. Baio appeared on Emmy-nominated Tamron Hall’s MSNBC program, where she called him out for misogyny in a brutal takedown after Baio spoke about his Christian faith at the RNC. “Did you think about that in church when you tweeted it out?” Hall asked. “You talk about religion coming back to this country and us having a moral barometer. Where was your moral compass when you put a photo of a woman that you disagree with politically and use that word and think that’s fine?” Hall also called out Baio for misogynist

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tweets about Michelle Obama being unattractive. Baio said he was just joking. Hall asked, “But does joking about a woman that way make America great again?” Speaking of the First Lady, who knew she’d be such a part of the GOP convention? The main speaker on the first night was Melania Trump, and the whole world knows by now Melania’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama. On July 22, ABC’s World News Now offered a simultaneous split-screen with both women speaking at the same time. Wow. Speaking of FLOTUS, during the Republican festivus of white supremacy, she starred in one of James Corden’s fabulous Carpool Karaoke segments on July 21. Corden, deservedly nominated for an Emmy, managed to convince the First Lady to participate. Together they sang Stevie Wonder and Beyonce. Then hip hop artist Missy Elliott popped up out of the back seat of the car and they all sang who else but Missy Elliott: “Get Ur Freak On.” FLOTUS singing “Get Ur Freak On.” What a time to be alive. We will miss her. Hillary was the first FLOTUS who had an impact on us: not a background character but a woman with agency whom we saw on our TV screen doing more than choosing china patterns and ball gowns. Michelle Obama has been the first FLOTUS of the 21st century to have that same impact, and her presence has been so powerful for women and girls. The sheer joy and ebullience of her performance with Corden lifted some of the pall of the GOP convention. Corden needs to put out a DVD set of these Carpool Karaoke performances. They are each priceless in their own way, and Corden is always perfection. How is he not gay?! Melania Trump has her own story, she didn’t need to borrow from FLOTUS. But the series of doubling-down interviews with Republican strategists, from Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort, who denied any plagiarism, to Chris Christie, who said it was just a little bit of plagiarism, to Sean Spicer, who said Michelle borrowed the words initially from an episode of My Little Pony, was astonishing. Newt Gingrich said if the speech was indeed FLOTUS’, then Melania did a better job than Michelle of delivering it. Which prompted Jimmy Kimmel to say, “So it’s not plagiarism, it’s a cover.” Other highlights included Ted Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump because Trump said his father killed JFK, and Cruz, the leader of the Tea Party, being booed off the stage. The myriad Trump children giving sycophantic speeches was creepy, especially since Tiffany is not accepted as part of the family. There

was unctuous Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who claimed Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who terrified us by saying “I made another pledge that Obama would not fill [the Supreme Court] seat. That honor will go to Donald Trump next year.” Gov. Mary Fallin (OK), who hates gay people so much she barred all national guardsmen in her state from getting spousal benefits just so she could deny them to same-sex couples, was given pride of place the final night. Gov. Christie, fresh from not being chosen as VP, gave a rambling speech about Hillary and led the crowd in a chant of “Lock her up,” which became a mantra. The entirety of the convention was the indictment of Hillary that Trump had wanted but didn’t get. No plans, no policies, just Hillary is Satan and everything’s going to be tremendous. Then there was Ivanka, who sounded like a Hillary supporter with her calls for equal pay for women, fully-funded child care and non-gendered workplaces. Ivanka claimed her father is “color blind and gender neutral” in her introduction to Trump’s acceptance speech. It was perhaps the most blatant lie of the entire convention. Until her father spoke, of course. But the meat of the convention was Trump’s speech, and we came away from that much like Van Jones on CNN: “It was a psychopathic, Mad Max moment.” At one point a female protestor from Code Pink was forcibly removed, picked up and carried out while Trump kept reading the Teleprompter: “I have no patience for injustice.” On a split screen. Irony died in front of us. Garry Kasparov, chess champion and chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, noted, “I’ve heard this sort of speech a lot in the last 15 years, and trust me, it doesn’t sound any better in Russian.” The American Enterprise Institute’s Norman Ornstein said, “If Leni Riefenstahl were alive, Trump would hire her to film this speech. Then not pay her.” Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press, said, “I thought it was an extraordinarily dark speech.” NBC News contributor and Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace said, “We are now represented as a party by a man who believes in protectionism, isolationism and nativism. The Republican Party that I worked for for two decades died in this room tonight.” CNN contributor and The View co-host Ana Navarro, a native Nicaraguan as close to a moderate Republican as they make these days, went ballistic after Trump’s speech, saying it “does nothing but bring out the darkness in America.

I’m embarrassed of my party. He sounded like a fearmonger. This is not Republicanism.” Trump mentioned the LGBTQ community, something no other GOP presidential candidate has done. Seth Meyers noted on his show, “He said LGBTQ like he was giving Pat Sajak letters for Wheel of Fortune.” It seemed apparent Trump had never uttered LGBTQ in any other context before. But when he said he would protect LGBTQ people from Islamic terrorism, from “hateful foreign ideology,” the crowd cheered, to which he retorted, “As a Republican, it’s so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said.” But the key word is “foreign.” Because it’s the domestic attacks on LGBTQ that impact us daily. Trump used Orlando to manipulate LGBTQ voters. And to further demonize Muslims. Trump’s running mate is known for his anti-LGBTQ stance, and the Republican Party platform cites a series of anti-gay policies, reading in part, “Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values.” So Trump’s protection for LGBTQ people is from ISIS only, not his own party or his running mate. And when Trump says repeatedly that there will be no more political correctness, we know that means no attention to identity politics–race or gender or sexual orientation. Van Jones expressed our feelings best on CNN when he said, “I’ve never felt this way in my life. I have read in history being in moments where there’s some big authoritarian movement and some leader that’s rising up, and I felt that way tonight, and it was terrifying for me. This speech divided the country. It terrified me.” The 76-minute speech, the longest in modern convention history, depicted an America most of us would not recognize, where those of us who are not straight white men might feel demonized. We heard pundits say from dawn til dusk on July 22 that Trump was less extreme in his speech and more disciplined, but that’s not true. He blamed Hillary Clinton for all that’s wrong in the world today, and blamed people of color and Muslims for all that’s wrong in America. He claimed the mantle of the “law-and-order candidate,” which set off the iconic music from TV’s longest-running drama in our head along with fears of dictatorship. ABC’s political director George Stephanopoulos noted, “Trump labeled Clinton the candidate of death, destruction, terrorism, weakness and mass lawlessness.” CBS’ Norah O’Donnell noted that Trump said “violence” 11 times and “terrorism” nine times, but didn’t say hope once. The view from Cleveland was entirely different from the view from Philadelphia, where a picture of a more diverse America reigned as delegates reflected the demographics of America and TV cameras didn’t have to search for the less than 1% of black delegates in the arena. On July 28 the Democrats end their convention, and a few days later the real Olympics begin. There may or may not be a break from the political drama as the world’s athletes convene in a Zikainfested, corruption-ridden Rio, but at least we know for a couple of weeks we can focus on the sleek bodies of swimmers, runners and gymnasts, and a competition in which no lives are at stake, and where misogyny is left behind as women and men compete on one of the few equal playing fields in the world. For that, you know you really must stay tuned.t

July 28-August 3, 2016 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 21

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Queer History Walking Tour @ Tenderloin Museum

Bay Area Musicals’ production of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s nine-Tony-winning musical adaptation of the French film about a nightclub owner and his partner. $20-$100. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 31. 2961 16th St. www.bamsf.org

Tours and kick-off reception for the new Compton’s Cafeteria Riot exhibit, with Cruzin d’Loo, Susn Stryker and Felicia Elizondo. 6pm-8:30pm. Aug. 4, 7pm: Cruising the Tenderloin in the 1960s with Felicia Elizondo. Reg. hours Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, $6-$10 ($15 includes walking tour). 398 Eddy St. 351-1912. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

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La Cage Aux Folles @ Victoria Theatre

Ady Lady’s solo show explores the search for happiness and higher consciousness amid daily life. $20$100. Thu 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Thru Aug. 27. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Garret + Moulton @ YBCA Theater Janice Garrett and Charles Molton’s new dance spiritually-themed work, Speak, Angels, includes 36 dancers, live singers and instrumentalists. $27$40. July 30 includes gala reception ($75-$500). Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. www.garrettmoulton.org www.ybca.org

Pulse

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Dancing may be the oldest art, as it comes from way deep in our natures. We are indeed not the only animals that dance. But our nearest relatives don’t dance – it’s birds and bees and seahorses who are most like us in this. And we’re the only ones who use the beat. Club dancing is inconceivable without a commanding beat. Those who will accept the regularity of the beat, and delight in its subdivisions, get a lift that’s like riding a wave, that magically lightens you and makes you float, that gives you that oceanic feeling and gets you high and sailing. Grace pours through you, you can whirl and dart and hover and pounce and fly and stomp on the downbeat and let your imagination carry you away, and you can dance all night if the D.J. knows what to play. In many cultures, dance is used to induce an altered state – to channel the ancestors, to raise up the spirit of defiance. And I’ll venture to say a whole gay club chanting “I will survive” as they dance to the music gets very close to the kind of energy that goes into a Maori war chant. Moving together to a beat creates a bond, a group emotion, and a sense of fellow-feeling that anyone who’s experienced it will cop to – though none of us can account for it, and it will be decades before scientists with their electrodes will be able to measure the pathways by which it works. This feeling is strong but it is generalized, and it can be used for good or ill. Hitler knew its power; he sent the young swing dancers of Germany to the gas chambers; they were a potential rallying point for freedom of expression, and along with the intellectuals, he destroyed them first. If Hitler recognized dancing as dangerous, so do Puritans of other stripes. The old joke goes, “Q: Why do Baptists forbid kissing standing

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. Aug. 1, 7pm: Rhino in the Castro, the new play reading series, presents Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Reinhart’s 1920s queer-themed The Bat. Also, exhibits Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/ AIDS. Thru Aug. 7. $5. 4127 18th St. www.dancerswelost.org/exhibit/ www.glbthistory.org

up? A: It might lead to dancing!” But in fact, Baptists did anathematize dancing, along with drinking and sex outside marriage. It looks to me like Omar Mateen was acting almost as the agent of the American evangelicals. It’s not surprising if you think that enemies tend to polarize increasingly as their hostilities become more acute, and after a while the opposing sides are as similar as photographs are to the negative image they’re printed from. Mateen had been to the club, he’d felt its energy, and he felt, though he feared, its pull. Perhaps he was committing suicide by police. If you’re in the Castro and have some time to spare, maybe drop in on the GLBT Museum, and look at the poignant exhibition of Dancers we Lost to AIDS, which is devoted to professional dancers, and also the superb short documentary about the transvestites who fought back, long before Stonewall, from the bar they called home in the Tenderloin. I have to say, in my view dancers who dance because they must are at least as much dancers as those who do it for a living. They profess it, in the original sense of the word. I’ve seen fabulous dancing in clubs, and of all the dancers I wish I’d seen, I think I most wish I’d seen Merce Cunningham when he went up to the Savoy ballroom – the birthplace of the Lindy Hop and all the African American dances that are the ancestors of the dances we do in clubs today – and danced by himself in the corner. I am so glad that so many of the dancers at Pulse have spoken up. They’ve certainly made me proud. Their testimonies bring tears to my eyes, since they were shot down while “having the time of my life” and lived to tell the tale. Dancing is only one of the things people do in the course of a life, but it is one of those things that give you a feeling of what a better world might be like, where grace abounds and we all love one another so much.t

Fri 29

Sat 30

The Awakening @ Exit Theatre

Grand Concourse @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

World premiere of Oren Stevens’ drama based on Kate Chopin’s feminist masterwork novel. $20. ThuSat 8pm. Thru Aug. 20. 156 Eddy St. www.breadboxtheatre.org

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 Gathering @ Live Oak Theater, Berkeley West Coast revivial 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

John Leguizamo: Latin History for Morons @ Berkeley Rep The award-winning comic, stage, TV and film actor performs his solo show about trying to teach his son about Latin history, with satirical takes on the Civil War, Aztec and Incan history. $35-$60. 8pm. Tue-Fri & Sun 8pm. Sat 7pm & 10pm. Also Sun 2pm. Thru Aug. 14. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Sell/Buy/Date @ Berkeley Rep Tony Award winner Sarah Jones performs a multi-character workshop presentation of her NYC-bound solo show about sex workers. $20-$40. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 31. Osher Studio, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

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

Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition, a new multimedia exhibit about the prolific filmmaker (thru Oct. 30). Other exhibits, lectures and gallery talks as well. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 655-7800 thecjm.org

Sun 31 Abrazo, Queer Tango @ Finnish Brotherhood Hall, Berkeley Enjoy weekly same-sex tango dancing and a potluck, with lessons early in the day. $7-$15. 3:30-6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley. (510) 8455352. www.finnishhall.com

Ed Ruscha @ de Young Museum 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

Mon 1 Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials celebrating the two decades of the LGBTQ collections. Also, Bar Rags to Mainstream Press: San Francisco’s Local LGBT Newspapers & Magazines, at the

Main Library, 100 Larkin St., 5th floor. Thru Aug 7. 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. sfpl.org

Tue 2 The Black Woman is God @ SOMArts Cultural Center Exhibit of works reclaining “the God Code,” exploring race and women as icons. Thru Aug. 17. Tue-Fri 122pm7pm. sat 12pm-5pm. 934 Brannan St. www.somarts.org

Will Durst @ The Marsh The political comic’s updated solo show, Elect to Laugh: 2016, adds topical jokes about the bizarre election season. $15-$100. Tuesdays, 8pm. Extended thru Nov. 8. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Wed 3 Keshet at the Movies @ Jupiter Taproom, Roda Theater, Berkeley The gay Jewish organization hosts dinner and drinks, then a screening of The Freedom to Marry. $ for dinner. 6:30pm. 2181 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. RSVP: www.keshetonline.org

Modern Comedy @ Modern Times Bookstore Natasha Muse, Allison Mick, & Nato Green plus others perform at the comedy event. 7pm. 2919 24th st. www.mtbs.com

Thu 4 Altered State: Marijuana in California @ Oakland Museum The first-ever museum exhibition to focus on pot, with art, political documents, scientific displays. Thru Sept. 25. Other exhibits include Oakland, I want you to know.., an exhibit of Oakland resident portraits and reflections on gentrification. Free/$15. Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). 1000 Oak St., Oakland. (510) 318-8400. museumca.org

STARRING MEG MAKAY & SHARON MCNIGHT

LAURA BENANTI

LEANNE BORGHESI

MAME IN CONCERT

July 29 – 31

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August 11 – 13

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Being Dietrich by Brian Bromberger

Marlene: A Novel of Marlene Dietrich by C.W. Gortner; William Morrow, $26.99 hen Marlene Dietrich died at age 90 in 1992, her New York Times front-page obituary heralded her death with the headline “International Symbol of Glamour and Sex.” In his new book Marlene: A Novel of Marlene Dietrich, Gortner has produced a shadow biography disguised as historical fiction, told in Marlene’s voice, and upholding the Times’ description. With her singing and acting talents, Dietrich reinvented herself throughout her life, setting the template for Madonna and Lady Gaga. While not totally successful, Gortner does remind us why this charismatic, indomitable legend still fascinates us almost a quarter-century after her passing. Born in 1901 to an aristocratic but money-poor Berlin family, Marlene (Lena) was dominated by her mother, who instilled in her daughter a strong work ethic, even willing to

clean houses so Marlene could attend private school. Sent to Weimar Academy to study to become a virtuoso violinist, Marlene seduces her instructor, but realizes she doesn’t have the talent to succeed. Instead, Marlene studies voice and theater, graduating from small chorus parts to headlining cabaret acts in seedy, sexually fluid Weimar nightclubs, becoming a sensation at drag balls with her sultry voice, and dressing androgynously in mannish tuxedos. These years will help Marlene define her style. She moves in with a female lover, though still attracted to men. She meets an assistant casting director, Rudi Sieber, who gets her a screen test, leading to a small film role. She will wed Sieber in 1923, their daughter Maria born the following year. But marriage and motherhood aren’t Marlene’s destiny. With her sexual charisma, she has affairs with both men and women. She auditions for the tyrannical German director Joseph von Sternberg, who gives her the breakthrough role of the temptress Lola

Lola in The Blue Angel. Her success leads to a Hollywood career guided by Sternberg, who discovers how to photograph her most seductively. She perfects the femme fatale, but also plays spies, vamps, prostitutes. She proves adept at romantic comedy in Desire, and as a saloon

singer in Destry Rides Again. She becomes one of Paramount Pictures’ greatest stars, having romances with such (often married) luminaries as Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Wayne, Anna May Wong, Jean Gabin, and author Erich Maria Remarque. Her husband will take a mistress, Tamara, who will befriend Marlene, and they’ll all live together for awhile. The world seems in love with Marlene, including Adolph Hitler, whose promise to give her whatever she wants if she will return to Germany is publicly spurned. Instead she becomes an American citizen, then takes up Bette Davis’ offer to join the USO, feeding soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining the troops, raising war bonds, and visiting hospitals in Europe at great personal risk to herself and her family in Germany, conducting more tours than any other celebrity and given the rank of Colonel. Her affair with General George Patton

envelope artistically. The story arc is fractured, with key scenes from the first act repeated for emotional effect towards the story’s finale. What could be irritating or confusing in a longer narrative, here is tolerable, even endearing. Illustrative of what the filmmakers and their humpy cast pull off are a couple of scenes. First, Rafa tries to avoid his close hetero friend Guille’s urging that he date a teen girl named Marta. Guille: “The other day Marta asked me if you wanted to hang out again.” Rafa: “Look, Guille, I don’t like Marta. I just don’t. Forget it, man.” “Take it easy. No need to explain.” “Thanks.” In the very next scene the

filmmakers flip the story and show Rafa’s ongoing involvement in getting his boy crush Ibra to normalize his status and thus obtain Spanish citizenship. There’s a montage of scenes of the boys eating, bowling, playing water polo and other European adolescent male pursuits. Hidden Away shows the subtle differences in how one’s place on the Kinsey Scale is measured in the new Europe, as opposed to in the more repressed American teen scene. While the boys don’t truly “get it on,” their various forms of foreplay get the job done, so that we greedily anticipate more than we get, yet are not disappointed. Rafa and Ibra’s lips hover near the point of frisson a couple of times, allowing our imaginations to fill in the blanks.

The filmmakers also make the most of what will be, for many viewers, unfamiliar locales of Northern Spain in and around the ancient Basque city of Bilbao. Kudos particularly to Kenneth Oribe’s camerawork, the nuanced editing of Chema Alba, and a young cast that just went with the flow against imaginative backgrounds like underwater polo scenes and amazing vistas from onboard a mountain cable car.t

filled by a proliferation of gay men’s magazines easily purchased at the local drugstore or newsstands. Though many masqueraded as bodybuilding or health-and-fitness publications, “Most of the men bought [them] because they were gay,” exhibition curator and New York artist Robert W. Richards writes in the show’s catalogue. “It

was nearly their only opportunity to see handsome, well-made, virtually naked men.” It was also one of the few avenues open to them for investigating physical intimacy, exploring fantasy love/lust objects, and seeing reflections of their sexual identity. Social significance aside, the show’s art is exceptional, with a high level of professional draftsmanship applied to exaggerated male anatomy done in a cartoon comicbook style; hard-core material with muscular players and erect cocks in your face and up the ass; and in substantially less raunchy, idealized fantasies, which may be the gay male answer to the Vargas girls, those knowing, slim-hipped, big-breasted creatures that once roamed the pages of Playboy. George Quaintance’s “Glen Bishop” (1956), an oil painting of a tawny, movie star-handsome dreamboat a la Tab Hunter, is a prime example of the latter genre. Ensconced in sunlight, naked except for a discreet baby-blue speedo, his buff body is cradled in a tree branch. In a similar romantic vein is Michael Breyette’s dewy summer idyll “A Place in the Sun” (2009), a pastel which seamlessly blends Mediterranean Sea and sky with a long, toned male torso. Needless to say, the wellendowed men who populate these works are blessed with spectacular physiques – this must be the largest collection of immense, tumescent, mile-long schlongs ever assembled in one place. For those with a fragile constitution, however, it may be a penis too far. Roughly a quarter of the 80 original artworks from the LeslieLohman Museum of Gay and

Lesbian Art in New York City, where the show originated, made the trip to San Francisco. Augmenting the exhibition are backgrounds of the 24 featured artists, detailed in text panels adjacent to their pieces, a component that enhances the appreciation of a largely forgotten body of work. Among the most famous of those represented are Colt (Jim French), a producer of magazines and gay video erotica whose original drawing was emblazoned on a T-shirt worn by the Sex Pistols back in the day; and Tom of Finland (nee Touko Laaksonen, and actually from Finland), known for his stylized, hypermasculine, sexually charged images and regarded as one of the more infamous gay artists of the 20th century. Though he once told a colleague, “Most of my works are pornographic illustrations, not pieces of art,” three decades later MOCA in L.A. saw fit to make TOF the subject of a major retrospective that may or not have included “Biker Fuck” (1965), a graphic drawing that words fail to adequately describe. Quite a few of the artists are art-school grads and started and/ or supported themselves as fashionmagazine illustrators. Bastille/ Frank Webber, for instance, a New Jersey native, trained at the Pratt Institute. His work informed by Jean Genet and W.S. Burroughs, he began illustrating for French fashion magazines and Esquire in the 1950s. By the 1980s, his homoerotic works were widely exhibited. In images that imprint themselves on the psyche such as “SAUNA-FICTION” (1982), he envisions S&M dungeons

will enable her return to a destroyed Germany as she witnesses Nazism’s evil firsthand in ruined cities and liberated concentration camps. Gortner wisely concludes his novel when the war ends with a four-page afterword outlining the remainder of her life. Her solo cabaret act in Las Vegas is such a hit she travels the world with it for the next 20 years. Still, one wonders whether historical fiction is the right genre for Marlene, who with her bisexuality seems more contemporary than archival. Gortner excels in the gender-bending Weimar period, but whether he gets the essence of Marlene is debatable. Gritty, ambitious, self-absorbed, and chilly, Marlene focuses on getting what she wants, not caring about the consequences. But like most great stars she is a kind of Rorschach test onto whom audiences can project their fantasies. So we never get to know the private Dietrich, only her public persona. She remains alluring but elusive, yet so innovative that she seems as in vogue today as she was at her peak.t

Bilbao bonding

by David Lamble

n the absorbing, offbeat homobuddy adventure Hidden Away (TLA) two attractive teen boys, Rafa and Ibra, at first find a flirtatious bond through food fights, water polo and playful wrestling. Then (bam!) they’re in love, an attachment that shocks both friends and family. Spanish director Mikel Rueda makes the most of the sturdy talents of his adolescent leads. German Alcarazu was 15 when he played the increasingly lovesick Rafa, and Adil Koukouh gives a subtler turn as the enigmatic Moroccan lad who fears expulsion from Spain because of his illegal migrant status. Filmmaker Rueda pushes the

Stroke

From page 15

First, some context: In the 1950s, the government supported a draconian crackdown on so-called sexual perversion, driving gay men further into the closet and stifling expressions of their sexuality. That suppression contributed to a void

Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York City; gift of the artist

Kent, “The Mechanic” (1992), acrylic and pencil on illustration board. Published in Men (November, 1992).

and hooded, trussed men in any number of anatomically challenging, impossible positions, viscerally rendered in a gouache, tempera painting style he perfected in 1980. Treading on the softer side, French homoerotic artist Benoit Prevot serves up vintage scenes with advertising panache and a whiff of Weimar “cabaret” decadence, like the come-hither portrait of a teasing, young and beauteous man in a top hat, shirt unbuttoned and no pants, of course, seated on a gilt, orange upholstered chair. (“John O3,” 2013). A doll collector, cover illustrator of books and one-time favorite of Playboy, Mel Odom, too, specializes in ravishing, sensual young men (“My Uncle Oswald”), and noble-featured, leonine males da Vinci might lust after. Partial to sexual subcultures, Rex (real name undisclosed) brought a blunt toughness to the burgeoning gay leather scene of the 1970s. His frank pointillist style is on offer in a 1983 untitled pen-andink portrait of a character with an insinuating demeanor, Ray-Bans, black leather jacket slung over his shoulder and enough below the belt to make a grown man cry. Jack Fritscher of the Leather Archives wrote of him: “He draws for big boys grown up enough to face their fantasies.” And what about grown up big girls? After this show closes on October 16, an equally steamy female-centric exhibition might be in order.t For more info: www.glbthistory. org

Sharon White

Rich Stadtmiller

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On the Town

Shining Stars Vol. 46 • No. 30 • July 28-August 3, 2016

Finding Dore Up Your Alley returns to SoMa by Race Bannon

t’s late July in San Francisco. That means it’s time for the Up Your Alley street fair and the flurry of events and happenings that surround it. This year the Fair happens on Sunday, July 31, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. As it was last year, the Fair will take place on Dore Alley between Howard and Folsom and continuing on Folsom from 9th to Juniper and the adjoining block of 10th Street. See page 24 >>

MenOnEdge.com

A kiss before cruising Up Your Alley street fair.

Mike Gaite Porn stud shares his kinky side by Cornelius Washington

he Nob Hill Theater exhibits genius with their booking of two of the most natural and unaffected studs in the business. Mike Gaite and David Benjamin are brilliant, straightforward and sizzling hot, in a vein that does not include overly art-directed muscles, piercings or tattoos. They’re both so refreshing and versatile in their myriad performances with all of the major porn studios. See page 25 >>

Mike Gaite gets bound by Van Darkholme and Sebastian Keys.

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leather-themed week. Their monthly “Mighty Reels” series, curated by media preservationist John Raines, continues with “That’s MS. Leather Even as I’m writing this ahead of to You,” featuring the first-ever Inthis week’s busy leather and kink ternational Ms. Leather competischedule, I’ve noticed a lot of out of tion of 1987. Raines will present an town kinksters are already visiting hour-long video highlighting the our wonderful city. Up Your Alley, excitement, laughs and thrills of this even though it has historically tarplayful erotic romp held at San Frangeted local leathermen, has begun to cisco’s long-vanished DV8 Lounge. attract an increasing number of out The special guest for the showing is of towners. Many of them use the Audrey Joseph, a longtime entertainopportunity to be a tourist ahead of ment producer and LGBTQ rights or just after the weekend. activist who was closely involved with the inaugural Ms. San Francisco Leather event. While Up Your Alley and the overall kink scene in San Francisco has typically been associated primarily with leather, both as a community name and as what we often wear, that’s been changing over the past few years. The iconic leather image is no longer the only game in town anymore. We’ve been embracing a much wider spectrum of fetish dress in recent years. A few events this week showcase those changes in the alternative erotic aesthetic. The first of these is the Full Rich Stadtmiller Nelson Singlet/Gear Party taking Full leather, cigars, and community place at the Powerhouse on Friday, booths are just part of Up Your Alley June 29. Among gay men, sports gear, and wrestling singlets in parstreet fair. ticular, have become one of the go to outfits of choice, especially among the younger newcomers. If you’re one of those visitors Two other parties the following reading this, welcome to our city. night, Saturday, July 30, celebrate We think it’s the best place on Earth, other popular non-leather options. especially if you’re kinky. We have a Rubber Room at the Powerhouse lot for you to do this week. For the is hosted by Rubber Men of San locals reading this, start examining Francisco and they, along with some your calendars because there’s a rubber women, will offer attendees wide array of places where you can an assortment of fun rubber-related revel in your fetishes and kinks. activities. Sneaks at Club Six is hosted In addition to the vast sea of hot by the guys from Polyglamorous who geared-up folks, this year’s Fair will are bringing us a Berlin-style sneaker have more vendors than ever with a and sports fetish dance and play party. record 70 vendor spaces. There will be Earlier on Saturday a unique spaces for the K-9 Unit of San Fran“San Francisco-only” event takes cisco and a big play area run by The 15 place. It’s an event that does not on Association. Coat and clothes check is the surface appear to be of a leathbeing operated by the San Francisco er or kink nature, but its origins Leathermen’s Discussion Group. are since flagging Music is always appears to have a big part of the originated in the fair’s atmosphere men’s leather comand they’ve got a munity. Flagging great lineup of stelin the Park will be lar DJs including held in the AIDS Hawthorne and Memorial Grove in Dan DeLeon. Golden Gate Park I’ll mention a with DJ Sharon few other event White, benefitting highlights here, but the National AIDS please refer to the Memorial Grove. calendar that accomFlagging in the panies this column Rich Stadtmiller Park is one of those for a full listing of quintessential San everything going on Fetish fashions in not just Francisco events this week along with leather at Up Your Alley. and that’s why I’m links and more desuch a fan. Whether tails about the events you’re a local or a visitor, this event mentioned. There’s no way I have the gives you a true San Francisco expespace here to mention everything. rience like no other. BLUFsf, the local network of South of Market tends to get this worldwide “Breeches, Leather most of the attention during Up and Uniform Fanclub,” is hostYour Alley week, but the guys at The ing their annual InGear dinner at Edge in the Castro want you to reSan Ramon’s Mexican Restaurant member that they’re trying to bring on Thursday, July 28. Each year leather back to the Castro with their this dinner is a sellout. So if you’re Code: Up Your Alley Edition party thinking about going, check ahead on Saturday night. to make sure there’s room. If there One of our local kink socializis, throw on your kinky garb and go. ing treasures, Wicked Grounds, is It’s a wonderful event. expanding their hours on the day On Friday, July 29, The GLBT of the Fair, Sunday, July 31. They’ll Historical Society is honoring this From page 23

be open from 9am until 9pm with a full range of beverages and a special streamlined menu of food and milkshakes to help you get powered up for a day at the Fair. Sunday after the Fair there’s still a lot to do, too. A new party called Rough, the official closing party of the Fair, takes place at Mezzanine. It’s a dance party with DJs Russ Rich and Paul Goodyear that will offer some en-

that’s not all. Check out the calendar for a lot of other fun things to do in this embarrassment of kinky riches we have here in San Francisco. Enjoy Up Your Alley and all of the events surrounding it. (Oh, and remember to wear sunscreen at the Fair.)t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him on his website, www.bannon.com.

Leather Events,

July 28 – August 14, 2016 Thu 28 In Gear BLUFsf Dinner @ Don Ramon’s Mexican Restaurant Annual leather/gear/uniform dinner to usher in Up Your Alley weekend. 225 11th St., 6-10pm. www.blufsf.eventbrite.com

Fri 29

That’s MS. Leather to You @ The GLBT Historical Society The Mighty Reels series curated by media preservationist John Raines featuring the first-ever International Ms. Leather competition of 1987. Special guest is Audrey Joseph. 4127 18th St., 7-8:30pm, $5.00 (free for members). www.glbthistory.org

Full Nelson Singlet/Gear Party @ Powerhouse The Pedal Pups are hosting this singlet and sports gear party to get your weekend started. Guy Ruben on the decks with sporty gogo men and boys, drinks, shots, beer and cruising. 1347 Folsom St., 9pm2am. www.powerhousebar.com

Hog Wild - @ SF Eagle The official opening event for Up Your Alley, for folks of a certain mindset, an old school kind of leather party. 398 12th St., 9pm2am. www.sf-eagle.com

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members, 4058 18th St., 9:30pm. www.castrocountryclub.org

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma Gear play party (leather, rubber, harnesses, etc.) for gay men. 442 Natoma St., $15 (requires $5 membership), 10pm. www.442parties.com

Sat 30 The Dore Party @ Mr. S Leather Join hundreds of the sexiest men in the world. Come find the gear that’s going to get you laid. And who knows, you might just meet the guy you’ll be spending the rest of the weekend with. 385 8th St., 11am-8pm. www.mr-s-leather.com

Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove Enjoy the sun, music, flora, and friends in the beautiful National AIDS Memorial Grove. This event is open to all flow artists – fanning, flagging, poi, staff, hoopers, and flow arts supporters. Lots of kinksters attend this event. Music by Sharon White. Nancy Pelosi Dr. and Bowling Green Dr., Golden Gate Park, 12:304:30pm. Benefitting the AIDS Memorial Grove. www.flaggercentral.com/events/sanfranciscos-destination-weekend-2016

Rubber Room @ Powerhouse

Historic video stills from That’s MS. Leather to You, at the GLBT History Museum.

tertaining erotic performances and dancers to add to the somewhat darker than usual tea dance vibe. Another post-Fair option is the Queer Black & Blue post-Up Your Alley Party at The Citadel. Queer Sphere is a club in the Bay Area for people of all genders who identify as queer and kinky and they’re hosting this all-gender play party for all you queer and kinky perverts. Okay, that’s a lot going on, but

Join the Rubber Men of San Francisco (and some Rubber Women as well), in getting the Up Your Alley energy flowing. 1347 Folsom St., 5-9pm. www.rmsf.org

The 15 Association Men’s Play Party @ Alchemy A men’s BDSM play party. 1060 Folsom St., 6pm-12am. www.the15sf.org

Code (Up Your Alley Edition) @ The Edge It’s Up Your Alley Fair season and only one bar in the Castro has a monthly leather/gear night. Bringing leather back to the Castro. 4149 18th St., 9pm-2am. www.edgesf.com

Sneaks @ Club Six Dore Alley weekend, the boys from Polyglamorous bring you a Berlin-style sneaker and sports fetish dance & play party. Guys, gear and hot times. 60 6th St., 9:30pm. www.eventbrite.com/e/ sneaks-dore-alley-aaron-clarktickets-25590308301

Bay of Pigs @ 525 Harrison Folsom Street Events celebrates the 10th anniversary of this over-thetop leather event. 525 Harrison St., 10pm-4am. folsomstreetevents.org/bayofpigs

Sun 31 Special Café Hours @ Wicked Grounds Doors open early at 9am with a full range or beverages and a streamlined menu of food and milkshakes to help you get powered up for a day at the fair. 289 8th St, 9am-9pm. www.wickedgrounds.com

Up Your Alley @ Folsom Street at 9th and Juniper Up Your Alley is only for real players - and not for the faint of heart - where leather daddies rule the streets of San Francisco’s South of Market district. 11am-6:30pm. www.folsomstreetevents.org/ upyouralley

Queer Black & Blue Post Up Your Alley Party @ Citadel Join the sexy perverts of Queer Sphere at the SF Citadel after the Up Your Alley Fair and beat your friends, lovers, partners and/or playmates Black & Blue. An allgenders play party. 181 Eddy St., 6-11pm. www.queersphere.net

Rough @ Mezzanine Official closing party of Up Your Alley weekend. 444 Jessie St., 6pm-2am. https://www.eventbrite. com/e/rough-tickets-22750630749

Mon 1 Ride Mondays @ Eros

Wed 3 Exiles Monthly Munch @ Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe Whether you’re an Exiles member or not, we welcome you to come hang out with us and enjoy the company of like-minded kinky women (along with those selfidentifying as other than male) who are 18 and over. 1805 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 6:30-9:30pm. www.theexiles.org

Fri 5 Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club See Fri 29

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma See Fri 29

Sun 7 Exiles Orientation: BDSM 101 @ Oakstop All those wishing to join The Exiles must attend an orientation so we can ensure that all of our members are introduced to basic BDSM safety and concepts. This is a fun, interactive class presented in skit format. $10 for nonmembers, free for members. Open to all women (and those who identify as “other than male”) who are 18 and over. 1721 Broadway, Oakland, 1-4pm. www.theexiles.org

LeatherWalk Beer Bust @ SF Eagle Haus of StarFish supports LeatherWalk 2016 with their annual beer bust. 398 12th St., 3-6pm. www.sf-eagle.com

Mon 8 Ride Mondays @ Eros See Mon 1

Tue 9 Safeword @ The Citadel An inclusive, kink-oriented 12-step support group/meeting held every Tuesday. 181 Eddy St., 6pm. www.sfcitadel.org

Thu 11 Red Hanky Nite @ Powerhouse Bar night for men into fisting. 1347 Folsom St., 7-9pm. hellholesf.com

Fri 12 Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club

A motorcycle rider and leathermen night at Eros, bring your helmet, AMA card, MC club card or club colors and get $3 off entry or massage. 2051 Market St. www.erossf.com

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Safeword @ The Citadel An inclusive, kink-oriented 12-step support group/meeting held every Tuesday. 181 Eddy St., 6pm. www.sfcitadel.org

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma See Fri 29

Fri 12 – Sun 14 Event for all genders and orientations (18+) into or curious about Human Puppy Play. Event for pups and Handlers, $29-$49. Advance registration required. www.SFK9Unit.org/events/wcw

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I think my sincere enjoyment of all types of sex, and my commitment to treating each new experience as an original adventure, is what makes the Mike Gaite experience unbeatable. When was the last time that you totally submitted to another man, and what did you do? I had an experience being restrained and blindfolded by a trusted playmate, and I literally didn’t know where he was going to go with the session beyond that. He explored all types of verbal and physical domination, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was rock hard the whole time.

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For The Nob Hill Theater’s leather fetish performances, the stage will be set for heavy-duty, hardcore sexuality, complete with dramatic lighting, a suspended sling, a sodomy bench, dry ice and throbbing music. If I were you, I wouldn’t miss it! Mike Gaite, a local porn actor and popular escort, has a lengthy resumé of vanilla scenes, but he’s performed in several intense Kink Men videos, being bound, tied, and plugged by various devices, and men, sometime multiple men, even while tied to a motorcycle. Gaite offered his perspectives and opinions on this kinky weekend. Cornelius Washington: Is this your first time performing at The Nob Hill Theater? What are your expectations about performing at such a legendary venue? Mike Gaite: Yes, this is my first time at the Nob Hill. I am excited and honored to be on stage at this renowned venue, and looking forward to a fun sexual adventure in front of an enthusiastic San Francisco crowd. Is this your first live sex performance before an audience? What do you think the evolution of live sex performances will be? I’ve danced on stage before, but this will be my first sex performance. I think that live performance will continue to have a place in the 21st century, even with the abundance of Internet porn and virtual performances. A live experience is something special and different: more visceral, more engaging, more titillating. There’s nothing like being able to actually see and hear and smell (and touch a little!), plus be part of a throbbing crowd of excited audience members. You’ll be working with David Benjamin for Dore Alley weekend. What will the two of you bring to the stage that no one else can? I have worked with David before and the sexual chemistry was intense. I’m really excited to show an audience the kind of heat and passion the two of us can generate. We’re both intuitive performers who know how to find each other’s hot spots, and we have few limits about where this sexual adventure might go. This is a rare experience you’re going to need to see to believe! In my research, what I love about you if your ever-fresh, unjaded look, despite your volume of work. How do you remain so level-headed? I try to maintain a healthy attitude and lifestyle. Sex is always fresh to me, and I am truly attracted to a great variety of men. I love being able to fulfill my partners’ fantasies and bring them a uniquely pleasurable experience.

With whom would you pay to have sex? Well, my partner of course. But in the porn world, I’d have to say Allen Silver.

Top: Mike Gaite gets bound and pounded by Adam Herst in a Bound Gods scene.

What are your opinions about body image issues within the kink, porn and escorting communities? I sincerely feel attraction to all kinds of bodies, and I believe everyone should embrace who they are. Being comfortable in your skin is the first step toward attractiveness. It saddens me when an older guy or chubbier guy or very hairy guy looks at me and thinks, “He would never be attracted to me.” You’re missing the boat, guys—you’re exactly my type!

Right: Mike Gaite gives Jayden Drake a trim before a plowing.

What kink do you have now that, five years ago, you’d never have imagined yourself loving and doing, and why? My film and escorting careers have led me into a number of kink scenarios that I ended up liking. Fantasy scenes, groups, piss, leather, restraints, some bondage. I’m open to trying a lot of things. As Auntie Mame says, “Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” I still have my eye out for that dirty-minded client with a frisky male Labrador retriever...

who are into kink/leather fetish/ S&M, B&D, etc., are, basically, people who can’t ‘work the middle?’ That’s definitely a misconception. We all need our release, and I have found a lot of men with straightlaced lives who are very into fetishes, and fit them into their lives safely and responsibly. And I’ve had great “vanilla” sex with some guys who enjoy major fetishes, but understand they don’t always have to have sex a certain way. The more variety of experiences and sensations, the better. Everyone should get out and explore. You only live once, guys. What are your favorite on and

make a really worthy film. Public sex at leather fetish festivals: pro or con, and why? I think it’s one of the rare times when people get that kind of opportunity, and I know it’s a huge turnon for some guys. I say, go for it!

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When you visit Up Your Alley this weekend, what do you want to see and do? I just love wandering around and seeing the variety of men and activities and wildness going on. And if you’d a big, gray-haired daddy bear, beware: that slap on the ass might be coming from me!”

off screen sex acts? I love being pinned down and fucked hard, especially by a horny top daddy. Love finding what turns a partner on, however kinky, and taking him to that place.

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What is your opinion of nonleather fetish or kink people filming fetish/kink porn? Like the old advice goes, “Write what you know.” I think the better you understand and embrace a fetish, the more likely you are to produce good fetish porn. That’s not to say that others can’t do it, but you’d most likely need some good consultation and guidance if you want to

Follow Mike Gaite at twitter.com/mikegaite and rentmen.com/MikeGaite Mike Gaite performs with David Benjamin at The Nob Hill Theatre, Friday July 29 and Saturday July 30. Benjamin’s solo shows at 8pm & duo shows at 10pm. $25. 729 Bush St. 397-6758. thenobhilltheatre.com

What is your favorite piece of gear to wear? I love all kind of leather and revealing athletic wear. I look and feel great in an assless wrestling singlet. What item of gear have you never worn, but are dying to wear? Always wanted to rock a pup outfit with paws, a collar, and a tail. What’s your favorite gear on men? So many things turn me on. Everything from a business suit to sweaty gym clothes. I love seeing a sexy daddy with a hot belly poking out under a tight T-shirt. Love gray chest hair and back hair peeking out over a collar. Damn, now I’m getting hard. What do you wish that people understood about kink? That it’s all okay as long as it’s mutual and limits are agreed. I think everyone should get the chance to explore. Do you see yourself directing and/or producing porn? That’s certainly a possibility. I’ve gained a lot of experience, and I have some ideas about what might add to the porn world. With what retired porn star would you want to film a scene, and reboot his career? Gosh, as I’ve said, daddies are totally my thing, so there are too many to choose from. The classic Colt model Bruno has long been a fantasy of mine. What is your opinion to criticism and observations that people

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creative juices flow and wing it. The longer you format a set, the more easily you get stuck.” Long sets were part of White’s heyday at The Saint, where, she said, “We worked with a 12-hour minimum. It’s like being in brain surgery. It’s handson and you shift to guide through the night. You didn’t have a relief DJ.” White said she’s enjoyed the past years of shared nights and collective DJing. “I love playing with other DJs. Our creative juices blend and push the envelope. I love to collaborate, I always have. I also enjoy being a mentor. That keeps me in the loop of what’s going on.” With her online presence being easier than working in clubs night after night, White said that she’s still able to connect with fans, just differently. “It’s sort of freeing,” she said. “People respond and take the time to chat with you online and ask about things. It’s different. You can be so close with a person that you’ve never met.” White said she’s excited to return to San Francisco, where, she said, dance music fans are “edgier, more than New York or LA.” She’s also thrilled to be playing in Golden Gate Park for Flagging in the Park. “I look forward to getting back there. I have lots of really close friends there and I’m pining for them, and to meet my new friends, too.”t

haron White has been playing music for decades, but still keeps up with the newest of sounds. Known for her legendary beginning at the historic Saint parties in the famous and long-gone dome on Sixth Street in Manhattan, the 62-year-old DJ will be the featured guest at this Saturday’s Flagging in the Park, and on Sunday, July 31 at The Lookout bar in the Castro. Don’t expect an old school mix from White. In a phone interview from her New York home, she said, “I’m not a retro DJ by any means. For the most part, fans of older disco are not with us anymore, or are not going out. A lot of that audience listens to me on my podcasts and internet radio.” White said she rarely plays oldies, except for songs that are “restruc- Sharon White, at home in a DJ booth. tured for today’s sound. I relate to my audience by like talking about a collectible car to playing music that they may not someone who doesn’t own one.” have a relationship with. I play After a chat about our old New what’s coming out today or toYork connections, we discussed the morrow.” differences between generations, White got her start playing on ranot just in music and fashion styles, dio stations, where she planned sets, but the reason for dancing all night. only to shift and grow them as her The 1980s were about celebrating gigs lengthened. a sexual revolution, which in the late She DJed at womens’ events at ‘80s and 1990s became benefits to various New York City clubs and on save lives, or dancing late after getFire Island. She also played music ting sprung from jail after an ACT and toured with Bonnie Raitt. UP protest. The historic Saint, once the FillSo, what are nightclub revelers more East rock venue, was also a celebrating today? planetarium in its early days. Since “We grew up in a time when revoits transformation from 1980 to lution was real and we were chang1988 as the gay disco haven, with Sharon White DJs at Flagging in ing things,” said White. “Look how exclusive membership restricted to the Park @ National AIDS Memofar we’ve come as LGBT people in rial Grove, the fun outdoor dance mostly men by owner Bruce Mailthe universe and what’s accepted party and picnic. Donations. man, White did not get a chance and mainstream.” 12:30pm-4:30pm. Nancy Pelosi to play until one morning when White spoke of the continued Drive, Golden Gate Park. DJ Jim Burgess left, giving White a need to dance and get a groove gowww.flaggercentral.com chance to fill in. ing, and how she still plays spontawww.aidsmemorial.org She played frequently after that, neously, working with a crowd to and at historic clubs like Paradise find the songs to mix. White also plays at The Lookout, Garage, Limelight and at San Fran“Unless I’m doing something Sunday, July 31, 3pm-6pm. 3600 cisco’s Trocadero. She still plays 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com. that is a specific occasion, with a live Saint at Large events. soundcloud.com/dj-sharon-white performance, I don’t plan it. I let my “Back in the day, we made about $1500 a night,” said White of her early gigs. “I was part of the generation that had hands-on influence in creating the technology. Panasonic would send us turntables that we beta-test for them. “Now, everybody’s a DJ with a laptop. Songs have a life of nanoseconds. They come out so quickly. It’s a totally different audience now, with 50 new tracks released in a day. As fabulous as it sounds on Monday, by Friday, you’ve got 20 more tracks out.” White spoke of how, in the vinyl days, the tradition was to release an album or single on Tuesday, to give DJs the week to blend it into their planned format. At one point, White had collected more than 25,000 records, and even ran a record store with her thengirlfriend, DJ Susan Morabito, but recently sold them to a fan and collector. “It was gone and I didn’t look back,” she said. “Anything that one might want in retro is available digitally. Nothing is collectible anymore, except for people who want to hold it and look over the liner notes.” White does still long for the classic sounds, though. “Analog sounds so much better anyway. There’s no comparison. That being said, we’ve switched over. We’re working in a modality The Saint at Large that doesn’t have that sound anyAbove: The festive Flagging in the Park. Below: The historic Saint more. The kids today aren’t missing it, so there’s no comparison. It’s

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f you heard that the recent West Coast premiere of Broadway Bares, benefiting Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation and Broadway Equity Fights AIDS, was an extraordinary success, you heard right! Hosted at Beach Blanket Babylon’s Club Fugazi, the sold-out Broadway Bares showcased the talents of Jai Rodriguez and David Hernandez as hosts/emcees, Deb Leamy as choreographer, the touring cast of Cabaret, and the sexy performances of locals Kenshi Westover, Bobby Barnaby, Nicolas Bettinger, Jethro Patalinghug, and Cassandra Cass, formerly of Sunday’s a Drag at The Starlight Room. Audience members are still palpitating from a night long to be remembered! Next up for Richmond/Ermet is Help is on the Way, Sunday, August 21, at Herbst Theatre. This star-studded variety show benefits Meals On Wheels of San Francisco and AIDS Legal Referral Panel and brings to us the incredible talents of Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis, Tony Award winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, American Idol stars Kimberley Locke, La Toya

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way musical Beautiful will also lend their talents to the night. Review the ticket offers carefully to attend the VIP reception with silent auction, preshow dinner, and the cast party afterwards. We have long been loyal supporters of this annual gala and hope to see you all there. We were lucky enough to be among the die-hard fans to see the legendary Diana Ross when she appeared at the Orpheum Theatre. Once again, she triumphed in a non-stop performance, evoking the soundtrack of our lives, from Motown to Lady Sings the Blues and from romantic ballads to up-tempo dance numbers. Needless to say, the audience remained on their feet for most of the show. Joining her for a short opening set and the closing curtain call was her daughter Tracee Ellis Ross. Among those with whom we shared this special night were Rick Bartalini, James Holloway, Tommy Taylor, Les Natali, Steven Underhill, Richard Stewart, and Larry Lare Nelson. Only a few performances remain of Bay Area Musicals’ La Cage aux Folles at the Victoria Theatre through July 31. We attended with Kevin Lisle, a true Broadway afficionado, and we both marveled at the chorus choreography, simple but versatile sets, and strong singers. Michael RJ Campbell, in the lead role as Albin/Zaza, elevated the evening considerably with his clear vocals, well-timed gags, and nuanced characterizations. Although the historic theatre has acoustic challenges, sometimes muffling the small band and masking dialogue, Matthew McCoy and Bay Area Musicals are to be applauded for staging such an ambitious show and successfully delivering the heartwarming story, continuous comedy,

and sentimental romance. And what a delight to run into Alameda County Ducal Court’s Mama Portugal and her entourage in the audience! We paid our first visit to the much publicized private club The Battery last Thursday for Bedlam, an annual multi-sensory event designed to mix up various aspects of San Francisco throughout the night. Different musical entertainment and other per-

Above: Marissa Jaret Winokur is one of many stars who will perform at Help is on the Way, Sunday, August 21. Right: Kit Tapata and Patty McGroin cohost the monthly Bourbon & Blanche at The Residence. Below: La Cage Aux Folles plays through this weekend at the Victoria Theatre.

formance art, visual presentations, and conversations with iconic characters took place at various sites. Designer Ken Fulk’s hand was evident everywhere with raw brick and glass open spaces on multiple levels, inviting seating, and perfectly lit architectural details. Rather than generating a feeling of privilege and elitism, the diverse crowd and social buzz elicited a genuine excitement and sense of celebration. Granted this was only one visit, but it appears to us that Michael Birch and Xochi Torres are well on their way to creating an “egalitarian watering hole where they want diversity, not homogeneity, to rule.” Saturdays are becoming quite the day to gallivant here and there, as evidenced by last Saturday, when we hit the Krewe de Kinque fundraiser at The Edge, hosted by Mark Paladini and Deana Dawn, Kylie Minono’s birthday at Midnight Sun benefiting Queens of the Castro, and Patty McGroin’s birthday at The Residence. That last stop deserves additional details, since it was our very first time there. Patty and Kit Tapata host Bourbon & Blanche at The Residence, 718 14th Street, every third Saturday of the month from 7-11PM. It is a free-wheeling, high energy, non-stop show, guest-starring that week Sadie Lady, Au Jus, Sable Jones, and Kendra Monroe of Sunday’s a Drag at The Starlight Room. The next Bourbon & Blanche is August 20; don’t miss it! This Saturday, we’ll be heading to the AIDS Memorial Grove for Flagging in the Park with DJ Sharon White, benefiting the Grove itself. Join hundreds of happy, peppy people in a dazzling display of fans, flags, hoops, and other artistic expressions on a sunny San Francisco summer day. Besides that, you can most likely find us throughout the weekend somewhere amidst the various events surrounding Up Your Alley (formerly Dore Alley) Street Fair. We defer to our Leather columnist, Race Bannon, for more complete details. Yes, we own leather, latex, neoprene, and a couple of uniforms as well. Red comes in many fabrications!t

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trap on your chaps, slap on your Mac (makeup), or however you choose to garb yourself. Nightlife is day life and kink is out in the sun. Enjoy Up Your alley festivit ies and other fun.

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall

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

Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre David Benjamin leads the interactive downstairs sex party ($10, 9pm), a night before his onstage strip & sex shows with Mike Gaite ($25, 8pm & 10pm, July 29 & 30). 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s Poet James J. Siegel’s monthly lit & drinks series, this time with Tusiata Avia, Jason Bayani, Natasha Dennerstein, Bill Dupp, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. No cover. 7pm 4 Valencia St. www.facebook.com/literaryspeakeasy

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

Stale Magnolias @ Oasis Don Seaver and Sean Owens’ drag parody musical blends Southern wit, green tomatoes and designing women. $25-$35 (VIP tables $225). Thu-Sat 7pm. Thru Aug. 3. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Music night with local and touring bands. $8. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. No cell phones on the dance floor, please! $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com

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Ain’t Mama’s Drag @ Balancoire Weekly drag queen and drag king show hosted by Cruzin d’Loo. 8pm10pm. No cover. 2565 Mission St. balancoiresf. com

Big Fat Dick @ Oasis

Thu 28 Nina Daniels at Man Haters @ White Horse Bar, Oakland

Man Haters @ White Horse Stand-up comics Leslie Small, Nina Daniels, Justin Alan, Jane Harrison and co-hosts Ash Fisher & Irene Tu bring forth the laughs; 4th Thursdays. $7.70 for women, $10 for men, because economic sexism. 7pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.manhaters.org www.whitehorsebar.com

David Benjamin, Mike Gaite @ Nob Hill Theatre The two porn studs perform solo (David, 8pm) and in duo sex shows (10pm, with Mike) in a special Up Your Alley show. $25. Also Sat July 30. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.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

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

Hog Wild @ SF Eagle Leather and kink party and an official event of Up Your Alley weekend, with DJs Robot Hustle and Josh Cheon. $10 in gear, $15 not. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.folsomstreetevents.org www.sf-eagle.com

Laura Benanti @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Tony-winning Broadway musical theatre and TV actor returns with her new cabaret show, Tales from Soprano Isle. $75-$95. $20 food-drink minimum. July 29 at 8pm; July 30 at 7pm; 31 at 3pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.laurabenanti.com www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Mario Diaz and his studly Los Angeles gogo crew return, with DJ James Cerne and Juan Garcia. $10. 10pm-3am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Manimal @ Beaux

Bearracuda @ Folsom Street Foundry

Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Saturdays. $10. 11pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Bears and their fans can strip down to undies at the 8th annual Dore Weekend dance & cruisefest, with DJ HiFi Sean from London. $12-$15. 9pm-3am. 1425 Folsom St. www.bearracuda.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

Gogo-tastic dance night starts off your weekend. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Midnight Show @ Divas

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved, with new acts. $10. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes’ weekly drag show. $5. 10:30pm show. DJ Philip Grasso. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge

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Celebrate leather and kink at the newest sex club. Gear/Leather Night July 29, 10pm-late. Blackout Party July 30, 10pm-late. CumUnion, July 31, 3pm-12am. Naked Mondays Aug. 1, 8pm-late. $5 membership, $15-$20. 442 Natoma St. at 6th. www.442events.com

Sneaker and sports fetish dance event (dress code enforced!) from the Polyglamorous crew with DJs Aaron Clark and Mark O’Brien. $15-$25. 9:30pm-3am. 60 6th St. www.clubsix1.com

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. $7. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Sat 30 Bay of Pigs @ Sound Factory

10th anniversary large-scale dance and play party, with lots of hot men, live nude kink shows, DJs Wayne G and Philip Grasso. $50. 10pm-4am. 525 Harrison. folsomstreetevents.org

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

Code @ The Edge The monthly leather party in the Castro returns for Up Your Alley weekend, with DJ Sean McMahon, clothes check so you can change into hot leather-kink garb. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. www.edgesf.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

Sharon White DJs at the fun flagging, flowing outdoor dance party and picnic. Donations. 12:30pm4:30pm. Nancy Pelosi Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.flaggercentral.com www.aidsmemorial.org

Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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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 @ 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

Fri 29 Laura Benanti @ Feinstein’s

Gay Beach Party @ Secret Locale Join hundreds of LGBT peeps at Billy Smith’s ‘silent disco’ DJed, ticketed event, with volleyball, kitesurfing and more. $10. 11am8pm. www.facebook.com/groups/ sfgaybeachparty/

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. July 30: Porn to Rock, with porn director Chi Chi LaRue and a slew of slatternly drag talents, plus porn giveaways. $15-$25. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Mr. David hosts a leather title-holder sash bash. Meet the leatherazzi at the extra-cruisy bar. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Big Fat Dick @ Oasis

Sugar @ The Cafe

Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove

Nutz Up Your Alley @ Powerhouse

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Brunch, booze, sass and grooves, with the Mom DJs, Motown sounds, and soul food. 11am-4pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Techno & kink, leather & industrial night for hardcore fans of either or both, with DJs Kerri Lebon, Topazu and Tom Ass. $10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Know and Jorge T. $4. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Paradox Voice Band @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Soul Delicious @ Lookout

Device @ SF Eagle

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux

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

Local pop-rock a cappella group performs hits and original songs in entertaining vocal styles. $25-$45. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.paradoxvoiceband.com www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Sex Parties @ 442

Saturgay @ Qbar 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

Big Top @ Beaux The fun Castro nightclub, with hot local DJs and sexy gogo guys and gals.. $5. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.Beauxsf.com

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Luis. 7pm-2am. 43 6th St. 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

Hard French Does Dore Alley @ Oasis Enjoy the funky and soul DJ mix (Jacob Meehan, CarrieOnDisco, Brown Amy and Carnita) after the Up Your Alley Street Fair. $10. 6pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com www.hardfrench.com

Rough @ Mezzanine Official closing party of Up Your Alley, with DJs Russ Rich and Paul Goodyear, dancing and a sex play space. $40. 6pm-2am. 444 Jessie St. www.folsomstreetevents.org www.mezzaninesf.com

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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

Grace Towers hosts the racy night with a $100 wet undies bulge contest at midnight. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Bedlam @ Beaux

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 Play board games & win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. HiTopsSF.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge

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

Floor 21 @ Starlight Room

Bearrucuda @ Public Works

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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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

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

Hysteria @ Martuni’s

Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 6pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St.

Underwear Night @ 440

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

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

Up Your Alley Street Fair @ Folsom at Dore Streets

Tue 2

The annual intimate kink and bear and man and beer street fair gets more popular each year; booths beverages, SM demos, and DJed dancing. $5-$10 gate donation. 11am-6pm. Folsom Street and Dore Alley. www.folsomstreetevents.com

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

Mon 1

Gaymer Night @ Eagle

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night. 9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade 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

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

Hella Saucy @ Q Bar

Meow Mix @ The Stud

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

Retro Night @ 440 Castro Jim Hopkins plays classic pop oldies, with vintage music videos. 9pm-2am. 44 Castro St. www.the440.com

Tap That Ass @ SF Eagle Bartender Steve Dalton’s beer night happy hours. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Una Noche @ Club BnB

Queer dance party at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Vicky Jimenez’ drag show and contest; Latin music all night. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Underwear Night @ Club OMG

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

Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials. $4. 10pm-2am. Preceded by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland

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Bulge @ Powerhouse

The snazzy local jazz-pop band perfroms at the cool upstairs lounge. 7pm-10pm. No cover. 20 Cosmo Place. www.klipptones.com www.lecolonialsf.com

Latin Drag Night @ Club OMG 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

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

Pussy Party @ Beaux Ladies night at the Castro dance club. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall 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

Wooden Nickel Wednesday @ 440 Buy a drink and get a wooden nickle good for another. 12pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. www.the440.com

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

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a new weekly ‘90s-themed video, dancin’, drinkin’ night. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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

Picante @ The Cafe Lulu and DJ Marco’s Latin night with sexy gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol. 8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Throwback Thursdays @ Qbar Enjoy retro 80s soul, dance and pop classics with DJ Jorge Terez. No cover. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Music night with local and touring bands. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night; 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

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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

Musical Mondays @ The Edge 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

No No Bingo @ Virgil’s Sea Room Mica Sigourney and Tom Temprano cohost the wacky weekly game night at the cool Mission bar. 8pm. 3152 Mission St. www.virgilssf.com

Opulence @ Beaux Weekly dance night, with Jocques, DJs Tori, Twistmix and Andre. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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Steamworks’ makeover

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A quartet of hot models at the renovated Steamworks Berkeley.

by Cornelius Washington

an Francisco is at its most dynamic during the leather fetish festival season. That’s when you can experience the true spirit of the city’s freedom. Hundreds of thousands of people come here to explore diversity, sensuality and unbridled sexuality. The erotic institution at the pinnacle of all of this is Steamworks Berkeley. It’s where being a gay man among gay men, to bond on every level, is of utmost importance and focus. It’s the place to be uninhibited and uncensored about your sexuality. Recently, in celebration of their 40th-year anniversary, Steamworks has completed a spectacular multimillion dollar renovation that celebrates the ultimate in aesthetic masculinity, in creating stylish space to experience the epitome of erotic escapades. I attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony and tagged along as Steamworks’ co-owner, Ross Moore, gave Berkeley District #2 Councilman Darryl Moore the tour around the new wet area, steam rooms, dry sauna, and new bathing facilities with ramps that are ADA accessible. The new, spacious rooms, with a host of amenties (beds, TVs, phone chargers and even slings for deluxe accomodations) complete with laser lighting, made me grin lecherously, thinking of all that one could truly experience in any porn film fantasy that could possibly come to mind, with a loved one or a stranger. Following the tour, Councilman Moore and I chatted over barbecued ribs, mac and cheese and bread pudding, about Steamworks’ place in Berkeley. The councilman stated, “SteamWorks has been a great community partner, sponsoring all kinds of events and activities. Their emphasis on services to promote public health, regarding their HIV and HepC testing and outreach counseling is wonderful. It’s an honor to have them in our district.” Also at the ceremony was one of the members of the design firm that renovated the space, Barbara Winslow of JSW/D Architects. When I asked her opinion of the results of the renovation, she grinned in a sly manner, saying, “As a woman, I wasn’t uncomfortable with the project. The owners and manager of Steamworks had very strong views about the direction in which they wanted to go, which made our job relatively easy. Our design team had the imagination and an architect who could carry it off.” “I feel fantastic about the results!,” added Winslow. “I’m proud of what we’ve done. I feel that our design firm has contributed to the evolution of the bath house experience.”

When I gave her my opinion, that the post-industrial, minimalist construction and lighting, combined with the golden Asian statuary touches (a holdover from Steamworks previous incarnation as the Sutro Baths) resulted in a heady mix of a sex palace, Winslow laughed. “Well, that’s a very accurate statement. I’ll have to remember to use that.” Men, when you’re ready to have the ultimate sexual experience, in a venue that knows what 21stcentury gay men need in a bath house, the place to go, that is the standard by which all others are judged, is the Berkeley branch of SteamWorks. Just as I was preparing to leave the facility, I asked Ross Moore about his thoughts about gay male sexuality and his contribution to its expression. “I’m very proud and happy with what we’ve done, and I have to

thank our faithful customers, who have stood by us while we were getting the remodeling done, with the jackhammers blasting and everything. I really just want to welcome everyone back, from all over the world. We’ve been here for 40 years and we’re ready to serve you guys for 40 more.” Bravo to SteamWorks! Upcoming events include DJed afternoons and nights all weekend, including Lights Out (Thu. July 28, 4pm-4am), DTF with J Little Rock (July 29, 9pm-4am), Salacious with DJ Robbie Martin (July 30, 10pm-4am), Sunday Service with Mystic Ray (1pm-8pm), post-fair action with DJs Martin and Rock (July 31 8pm-8am), and more on Monday with Mystic Ray (Aug 1, 12pm-6pm).t Steamworks Berkeley, 2107 4th Street, Berkeley. (510) 845-8992. steamworksbaths.com/berkeley

Top/Middle: Steamworks Berkeley, Bottom: Cornelius Washington

Top: Showing off and showering off at Steamworks Berkeley. Middle: Cruising in the sauna at Steamworks Berkeley. Bottom: From left to right: Councilmember Kriss Worthington, owners Rick Stokes and Ross Moore, Councilmember Darryl Moore and General Manager Brian Short at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the renovated Steamworks Berkeley.

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For a perfect fit in a variety of sizes, the new Play Zone kit includes a variety of cock rings for you and your penised-person sex buddies. Why nine rings? It’s no Danteesque irony. “Due dickligence, manifested by rigorously scrutinized trials at Perfect Fit labs, determined that it was

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photos by Steven underhill Stroke @ GLBT History Museum

eautiful original drawings commissioned for adult magaines from the 1950s to the 1990s were displayed at the opening reception for Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall, curated by illustrator Robert W. Richards. Among the evening’s local luminaries were Peter Berlin, GLBTHS Executive Director Terry Beswick, 48 Hills Editor and GLBTHS Board member Marke Bieschke, author Nikos Diaman, B.A.R. writer John F. Karr, and scholars Hunter O’Hanian and Gerard Koskovich. 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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photos by Steven Underhill Playa in the Grove @ AIDS Memorial Grove

olden Gate Park’s National AIDS Memorial Grove glowed at Playa in the Grove on July 23, the first afternoon party hosted by the Comfort & Joy Burning Man queer crew, known also for their popular Afterglow and Touch parties. DJs Bus Station John and Trever Pearson spun groovy grooves, and colorful décor and a contemplative AIDS memorial labyrinth offered meditative moments among the sequoias and other flora. www.playajoy.org www.aidsmemorial.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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