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he former executive director of Pets Are Wonderful Support, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, says the agency recently made him quit. Aaron Chandler, Courtesy Aaron Chandler who led the nonprofit for just over a year, Former PAWS said he’s unsure why Executive Director the agency, which Aaron Chandler helps low-income people who have disabling HIV/AIDS and other illnesses care for their pets, wanted him to go. But in a Facebook exchange with the Bay Area Reporter this week, he criticized the agency’s board. “I was forced to leave,” Chandler, 31, of San Francisco, said. “Most boards are completely comprised of good people – but almost no board members of community-based nonprofits like PAWS have any nonprofit work experience, and wouldn’t be qualified to work in any position at the organization they are on the board of.” Chandler, who said he identifies as “gay or queer,” added that he doesn’t “know all the reasons” why the nonprofit wanted him to go, but he said PAWS is “in the final stages of a merger conversation, so I presume that may’ve had something to do with it.” He said he’s “looking for new opportunities.” In an interview before the B.A.R.’s exchange with Chandler, Sarah Cramer, PAWS’ new executive director, wouldn’t explain Chandler’s departure. Asked why Chandler left, Cramer said, “We agreed with him that the message was he was leaving to pursue other opportunities. That’s the commitment we made with him.” Cramer, 28, who lives in Oakland, joined the agency in November and served as the development and marketing director before being named interim executive director after Chandler’s May 19 departure. She recently took over the executive director position permanently. She wouldn’t say whether there had been problems with Chandler. “We’re going to decline to comment on that,” she said. As to whether Chandler had been asked to leave, Cramer said, “I’m also going to refer to my previous comment.” She said information about PAWS’ plans See page 2 >>

by David-Elijah Nahmod

ess than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, delegates at the Episcopal General Convention overwhelmingly approved resolutions that will allow gay and lesbian couples to wed in church. Both voting clergy and lay delegations at the de-

nomination’s convention in Salt Lake City approved the canonical and liturgical changes. Grace Cathedral in San Francisco held a special Pride service July 2. Planned before the convention vote was taken, it turned into a celebration of the decision and included a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. See page 13 >>

Artistic Director Tim Seelig conducts the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at its performance last week at Grace Cathedral. Jane Philomen Cleland

Hundreds turn out to support defaced mural by Khaled Sayed

wounded community came together to heal as hundreds turned out at a recent rally following repeated vandalism of a mural in San Francisco’s Mission district that depicts gay, transgender, and lesbian Latinos. The July 1 rally, held in front of the Por Vida (For Life) mural that is hosted by Galeria de la Raza at 24th and Bryant streets, brought together community members and political leaders who denounced the vandalism, which included defacing it with paint and an effort to burn the piece. The mural, by artist Manuel Paul of the Los Angeles-based Maricon Collective, shows a gay couple, a transgender man, and a lesbian couple. The first incident occurred Monday night, June 15. It was discovered that someone had spray-painted over about half of the piece. The next night, the mural was again defaced. The gallery repaired the damage, but the mural was defaced again with spray paint around midnight Sunday, June 21. On June 29, the mural was set on fire, damaging a third of it. Police are investigating the incidents as a hate crime. San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who represents the Mission, spoke at the rally after a Latin dance troupe performed a ritual dance. “It is hard to see from where you are, but the scene from my point of view of this diverse crowd is truly beautiful,” Campos said. Campos, who was born in Guatemala in Central America, said he was closeted until he was 26.

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Hundreds of people attended a July 1 rally in support of the vandalized Por Vida mural in the Mission.

“I know first hand how hard it is to come out to family and friends, especially in a Latino family, and it is especially hard for a transgender person who faces more challenges,” Campos, 44, said. “For me, as a gay Latino man, to go from the incredible high of what happened in the last few days, with the United State Supreme Court issuing a ruling supporting same sex marriage. To go from that high to seeing this – it was a very painful experience,” he said, pointing to the vandalized mural. Campos said that LGBT people are part of

every community, and the Mission has always had that queer presence. “The Mission has always had queer people living here,” Campos said. “It is painful to see this, and it was important for me, not only as a supervisor, but as a human being, to call this out.” Gay former state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano said he believes that the mural vandalism is deliberate and very provocative, but he finds it a mystery and he questions where it is coming from.

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he teenager accused of shooting a man who had been attending this year’s LGBT Pride celebration in San Francisco appeared in court this week to face charges that include attempted murder. Joshua Spencer, 19, of San Francisco, is also charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic rifle and a count of intentional discharge of a firearm with great bodily injury. Spencer is in custody and appeared in handcuffs Tuesday, July 7 before Superior Court Judge Edward Torpoco. Assistant District Attorney Nathan Quigley said in court that video of the incident shows Spencer firing at one of the two victims. The victims are the man who was actually shot, and the person that Spencer had allegedly been firing at. The gun was found in the same block as the shooting, Quigley said, and Spencer’s “palm prints were found on the magazine of the gun.” Quigley also said video shows about 50 people at the scene of the Saturday, June 27 shooting, which happened in United Nations Plaza

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shortly after 6 p.m. as the nearby Pride festival was ending for the day. A 64-year-old Pride spectator was shot once in the arm and transported to San Francisco General Hospital that night in stable condition. He was eventually released, according to police spokesman Carlos Manfredi. Manfredi previously said that the situation was believed to have started when several groups of men,

“unrelated to the Pride event,” got into a verbal argument near or inside the venue. “The incident escalated when one of the subjects pulled out a gun and fired several shots,” Manfredi said. He said in a news release that Spencer was arrested Thursday, July 2 in Vallejo after the San Francisco Police Department’s Gang Task Force Unit followed investigative leads and identified him as the suspect. Tuesday, Torpoco set Spencer’s bail at $2.5 million, saying he was “concerned about the protection of the public.” According to Quigley, Spencer has “a prior wardship for assault with a stun gun,” indicating that alleged incident occurred when Spencer was a juvenile. Spencer didn’t enter a plea Tuesday. The case was continued to Thursday, July 9. Deputy Public Defender Yali Corea-Levy, who was appointed Tuesday to represent Spencer, wasn’t available immediately after the hearing for comment. Spencer declined the Bay Area Reporter’s request for an interview when a reporter visited San Francisco’s County Jail #4 Monday, July 6.t

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woman jailed after the death of a former Bay Area Reporter writer was recently released from custody after pleading no contest to a charge related to the case. Sabrina Eileen Ahrens-Gravelle, 40, had been in jail since she was arrested along with Kyle Billy Fletcher, 35, soon after the April 15 death of Daniel James Aiello, 53. Prosecutors charged AhrensGravelle with residential burglary, possession of methamphetamine, and transportation and sale of meth. Fletcher is being charged with Aiello’s murder, along with robbery and the burglary and drug counts. Ahrens-Gravelle pleaded no contest to the burglary charge June 23, Shelly Orio, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County District Attorney’s office, said. She was released that day on her own recognizance, according to Officer Sharon Chow, a spokeswoman for the Sacramento County Sheriff ’s office. A no contest plea is similar to a guilty plea. Orio said she didn’t have any indication that the other two counts against Ahrens-Gravelle had been dismissed. Her next court date is August 14 for sentencing. Fletcher hasn’t entered a plea, according to Orio, and his next court

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Sabrina Eileen Ahrens-Gravelle

date is August 14 for a settlement conference. He remains in custody. The Sacramento County Coroner’s office has determined Aiello was strangled to death and died at 3:51 a.m., according to a senior office assistant at the agency who would give her name only as Angela P. She couldn’t say what Aiello’s specific injuries were. Court records indicate a belt was used. The full coroner’s report hasn’t been completed. Aiello, a gay man, worked for the B.A.R. as a freelance writer who covered marriage equality and other issues before opening the Midtown Moped shop in Sacramento. He’s

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would be shared “in the coming weeks and months,” but she wouldn’t provide any details of what those plans would include, and she didn’t respond to follow-up requests for comment. Board chair Scott Jacobs was similarly tight-lipped and would only say, “Aaron left to pursue other opportunities.” Jacobs repeated that line when asked whether Chandler had been forced to leave, but eventually added, “It’s policy for PAWS not to get into any HR situation like this where someone left. My hands are tied.” He wouldn’t talk about whether the nonprofit is discussing a merger. “I don’t have time to go through an interview with you right now,” he said. “... I’m running a company here.” Jacobs is the founder and

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PAWS Executive Director Sarah Cramer

principal of Benjamin Madison Wealth Advisors. The B.A.R. tried to ask about Chandler’s comments regarding the board’s lack of nonprofit expe-

been described as a “passionate” journalist and generous friend. Megan Juring, 52, of Long Beach, a friend of Aiello’s, said in an interview this week that she hadn’t been aware of Ahrens-Gravelle’s release until a reporter told her. “I’m rather surprised,” Juring said. However, she said, “I don’t know the legal system well enough to second guess how it would be handled. I assume if she pleaded guilty to the charges the system will do its job.” Police have said officers responded at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday, April 15 to Aiello’s shop, at 1326 X Street, after a neighbor reported hearing “loud noises and crashing.” Fletcher and Ahrens-Gravelle were allegedly at the scene loading items into a vehicle, and they were arrested. Aiello, who was found inside the building, was soon pronounced dead. Attorney Jeff Raven, who previously represented Ahrens-Gravelle, said earlier this year that she “had no knowledge or role in the homicide.” Raven said Fletcher had “portrayed himself, to her and to the world, as part owner and partner of the moped shop,” and as far as his former client had known, he’d gone to Aiello’s shop that night “to get his belongSee page 3 >> rience, but Jacobs, who had grown angry, refused to let the reporter make any more inquiries. “I know where you want to go with this,” he said, before concluding, “I’m in the business of ending this conversation.” A statement dated May 27 on PAWS’ website thanked Chandler for his service. “As a board, our role is to ensure that PAWS fulfills its mission, stewards the dollars that our community so generously provides, and treats our donors, volunteers and clients with the respect they deserve,” the nonprofit commented. “With new leadership in place, we feel PAWS is in a stronger position to achieve its goals, and can renew and strengthen the relationships we have with all of our community members.” Chandler said he wouldn’t interSee page 14 >>

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Out captain heads Tenderloin police station by Seth Hemmelgarn

Anyone who’s walked through the Tenderloin has likely had the experience of being offered drugs for sale at all hours of the day and night. Ewins said addressing drug dealing involves “making it difficult for them to sell.” The station will look at foot, bike, and patrol car beats to see “how can we do it better and be more effective,” she said. However, Ewins added, while “having a presence on the street is obviously a deterrent,” it can also be important to get people help. Part of an officer’s job is “having conversations with these young men and women about what their choices are,” she said, including when officers are arresting people. “If we need to get people into programs, that’s what we’ll focus on,” Ewins said. That’s especially the case for young people, to show them “there’s something more they can do with their lives” than dealing drugs. One project Ewins points to as a recent success is “a join effort” involving Tenderloin station and others to address “a major issue with drug dealing” on Leavenworth Street. Several people were arrested, which Ewins said has “made a very large impact.” Another concern has been people struggling with mental health issues,

many of whom are homeless. Ewins said she’s been talking to Bevan Dufty, who serves as director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement for Mayor Ed Lee, to look at the services available to people. Dufty, who’s gay and served for years as the supervisor of District 8, which includes the Castro, said he’s worked with Ewins “for almost 20 years.” “I have the highest regard for her professional capability, her work ethic, and her creative problem solving, and Tenderloin station requires all three,” he said. With Ewins’ “experiences at special investigations and the special victims unit, I think she’s had highlevel leadership experience. Tenderloin station has a lot of complex issues, but the captain is often the person right in the center pulling the city together to address the issues or work through a problem. ... She’s uniquely qualified to take those challenges on.” Whatever issue is being dealt with, Ewins spoke of the importance of working with other police stations and city agencies. “It has to be a solution to the problem so it doesn’t become somebody else’s problem,” Ewins said. Another important element is district residents, business owners, and others. “Without community involvement, we can’t do our jobs,” Ewins said. “There’s no way.” The district, which is home to many low-income people living with HIV and AIDS living in singleroom occupancy hotels, hasn’t yet seen as much redevelopment as other parts of the city, but Ewins said, “Everything is changing pretty rapidly,” with the arrival of new restaurants and other changes. Noting the area’s rich diversity, she said she’s “excited” to lead the station. With its problems, many people steer clear of the neighborhood, but the Tenderloin “is not a bad place you should fear,” she said. Aja Monet, 45, a gay longtime Tenderloin resident who often spoke to Cherniss about problems in the district, said he’s seen transgender women in the neighborhood being harassed. It doesn’t happen “a lot,” Monet said, but “a person should be able to feel free to walk around the neighborhood” without being verbally attacked. Verbal attacks can sometimes lead to hate-related physical assaults, although there haven’t been any recent reports involving LGBT victims in the Tenderloin. Ewins said advocates have told her that hate crimes are underreported. She said it may be helpful that people know “they have somebody that they can go to,” and it’s possible “having somebody that’s out” like her will “make it more comfortable for them.” Ewins, who lives in the East Bay and whose annual compensation a city website lists as $187,954, recently divorced. She said after July 4, she’d switch from the surname Gracie to Ewins. She may be reached at teresa.gracie@sfgov.org.t

a hard-working, dedicated parent, and a good person.” Paul Irish, Ahrens-Gravelle’s most recent attorney, didn’t respond to an interview request. Juring, Aiello’s friend, said, “I think the question that had remained in my mind was just how she could have been present and engaged in the burglary and not have any connection to the murder, as well.” Like Juring, Christine Allen, 65, of Sacramento, hadn’t known of Ahrens-Gravelle’s release.

“I’m very surprised, and I’m disappointed,” Allen said. “... I find it very difficult to understand how she possibly could have been present” with Fletcher the night of the arrests “and have had no idea what was going on. I find that very hard to understand. I find it very hard to believe.” A phone number couldn’t be found for Ahrens-Gravelle, and neither she nor people who knew her provided comment through Facebook messages Monday, July 6. Chow said Ahrens-Gravelle had listed Chico as her city of residence.t

n out lesbian now heads the Tenderloin police station, which oversees a diverse San Francisco district known for crime and poverty. Along with the challenges of tackling issues like drug dealing and people with mental health issues, Captain Teresa Ewins is facing the expansion of the station boundaries. But Ewins, a 20-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department whose first day as station captain was Saturday, June 27, seems undaunted by the work ahead of her. “It will be a great district,” she said. Both sides of busy Market Street, from Third Street to South Van Ness Avenue, are likely to be included in the district by late July. The expanded area would include Westfield San Francisco Centre mall at Market and Fifth streets. “Absorbing Westfield Mall will be a difference for the Tenderloin,” Ewins said, but with “intelligent, smart” policing and staffing, “we’re definitely up for the challenge. ... We’re going to make it work.” The proposed changes to the Tenderloin and other police districts are driven by several factors, including expected population growth. Additionally, the Board of Supervisors has required the district station boundaries be analyzed every 10 years. Drug dealing and auto burglary are among the crimes in the district’s proposed new territory, and Ewins noted her officers already deal with those types of problems. It hasn’t been decided yet whether the western end of Tenderloin station will stay at Larkin Street or go to Polk Street, which is crowded with bars and restaurants. Ewins, 49, is one of only a handful of lesbians to reach the rank of captain, and she’s the first woman to lead Tenderloin station. She takes over from Captain Jason Cherniss. In an email to residents June 22, Cherniss said he’d “made the heart wrenching decision to leave” his Tenderloin post “to attend to some difficult personal matters.” He added, “The trajectory of the Tenderloin neighborhood is a good one.” The Hoodline news site recently reported that Cherniss had had shoulder surgery and was joining the Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative, which is connected to the city’s Department of Emergency Management Services and, according to its website, works on preparations related to “terrorist incidents and catastrophic events.” Cherniss wasn’t available for comment, but in an email, Catherine Spaulding, the initiative’s assistant general manager, said the SFPD has assigned Cherniss to her agency as the police liaison. Among other posts, Ewins has previously served in Southern station, which includes the South of Market neighborhood; Mission station, the district that oversees most

Aiello case

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ings.” (The B.A.R. hasn’t found any records indicating Fletcher actually co-owned Aiello’s shop.) Raven said, “I would guess” that Ahrens-Gravelle and Fletcher were “friends” or “acquaintances. I don’t believe they knew each other long.” He doesn’t think Ahrens-Gravelle knew Aiello. He said his client has “absolutely no criminal history, and from all accounts of family members, she is

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Captain Teresa Ewins

of the Castro area; and Bayview, Northern, and Tenderloin stations. She’s also worked in the SFPD’s homeland security division and headed the SFPD’s special investigations division, which includes hate crimes and other incidents. Ewins was promoted to captain last August and oversaw the special victims unit. Before taking over Tenderloin station last month, she worked in the tactical unit. When she met with a reporter Thursday, June 25, she was still wearing the blue jumpsuit and black boots that are part of that unit’s attire. She introduced herself as “Teresa” to several station staffers as a strand of hair hung loose from her ponytail, indicating she’s among the “working cops” she lauded during the interview. She also said the station’s scores of officers are “very motivated” and “doing a great job.”

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Ruling will help secure other rights W

hile the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized marriage for same-sex couples in all 50 states was a major victory, we still have other unfulfilled goals to achieve full equality. The marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, will effect policy and legal changes, which are likely to happen quicker and with more support from those who either once opposed us, or were lukewarm to the issues affecting our community. Much of this rests on the strength of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion, with its recognition of “equal dignity” for same-sex couples.

Workplace discrimination

Same-sex married couples living in traditionally red states, especially in the South and Midwest, need laws that protect LGBT people from workplace discrimination. The tired but true phrase “married today but fired tomorrow” likely will be experienced by some and they will need legal assistance and perseverance to succeed. But as awareness of this issue grows – and neighbors see news stories about people being fired from their jobs because of who they love – the political momentum for change will accelerate. This could speed up with help from the business community as companies adopt non-discrimination workplace policies – or it may take lawsuits to make that happen. And this doesn’t only apply to gays and lesbians. Transgender people, with an assist from Caitlyn Jenner’s media savvy, are also seeing increased attention paid to their employment issues. While Jenner doesn’t have to worry about her options – her reality TV show starts this month – she has indicated in recent comments that she wants to help other trans folks. As long as she’s smart about that, she could influence public opinion positively. The introduction of anti-LGBT discrimination laws should include sexual orientation and gender identity. At the federal level, it’s paramount that the LGBT community abandon the tired Employment Non-Discrimination Act – it’s not going anywhere in Congress and, more importantly,

has been so larded down with religious exemptions that it won’t accomplish its intended goals. President Barack Obama last year issued an executive order that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected categories in the existing executive order covering federal contractors. Increasingly, businesses realize that LGBT workplace equality is good for their bottom line. Just last month, Exxon Mobile, long the scourge of LGBT organizations for its lack of workplace protections for LGBT employees, allowed members of its gay employee group to march in the Houston Pride parade with a company banner. (The story landed on the front page of the business section of the New York Times.) In many ways, company CEOs are leading the fight for workplace equality because they know that, in the long run, satisfied employees are more productive workers. But it will take more than the Tim Cooks and Marc Benioffs of the business world to bring about workplace equality. Congress must eventually act, and that’s where business leaders, especially those whose companies operate in red states, can have an impact. They’re the ones who donate to Republican politicians, and they should start conversations with GOP lawmakers about ending workplace discrimination. Unemployed LGBTs mean more people on public assistance rolls, and GOP lawmakers should appreciate any efforts to prevent that. The state-by-state approach is ineffective. The most glaring retreat was by Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who had the legislature

revise a religious freedom law after his state faced a backlash from businesses and others. But then again just this week, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a staunch homophobe, issued an anti-LGBT executive order “protecting” the religious freedom of Kansas clergy and religious organizations and pandered to the false notion that they will be stripped of their First Amendment rights due to the Supreme Court’s marriage decision. Instead of ENDA, the Human Rights Campaign should advocate for a simpler bill – and it needs Republican lawmakers on board. HRC has long described itself as a bipartisan organization, despite common knowledge that it heavily favors Democrats. With the marriage issue settled, HRC needs to be able to do the very heavy lifting necessary to advance workplace protections. If that means a leadership change at the top for the organization, so be it.

Trans military service

In June, the Air Force announced a change to its decision authority for involuntary separations for enlisted airmen diagnosed with gender dysphoria or who identify themselves as transgender. While the Defense Department’s policy of not allowing open trans service remains in place, the Air Force and the Army, which instituted a similar policy change in March, have now made it more difficult to discharge a trans person from those branches. The new policies mean that separation action in most cases now must first be reviewed by the secretary of the Air Force Personnel Council for a recommendation, then decisions will be made by the director of the Air Force Review Boards Agency. Last week the Navy and Marines followed suit. Supporters of open trans service pointed to the Air Force and Army changes as positive first steps for a portion of the approximately 15,000 current transgender service members serving across all branches. Much like the long road to repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” that prohibited open service by LGB service members, the recent changes regarding trans service members have started slowly, but are building crucial support. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter must commit to updating regulations to allow for open military service by transgender people.t

Imperial Berlin’s police can teach the SFPD a thing or two about LGBT tolerance by Luisa Hulsrøj

Hirschfeld, who championed the idea that non-normative sexuality, efore I attended historian Robincluding what we now call transert Beachy’s recent talk at Stansexuality, was innate. Hoping to ford, I was unaware that modern bring justice through science to sexgay identity was born in turn-ofual minorities, the two men worked the-century Berlin. Fascinated as together to support and popularize I was, I promptly checked out his sexological research. Scholarly visigroundbreaking book, Gay Berlin. tors to Berlin were consequently as To my surprise, Beachy’s book Courtesy Stanford University likely to spend a day with the sexsuggested that the progressive atologist as to receive a guided tour of Luisa Hulsrøj titudes of Berlin’s police helped to the city’s gay bars and cross-dressing destigmatize homosexuality. balls from the police president. Since the German Empire is famed for Known as it is for its vibrant gay culture, nothing if not conservatism, I was taken modern-day San Francisco can stand to learn aback by how effectively Berlin’s police a something from Berlin’s erstwhile collaboracentury ago supported sexual minorities’ tion between activists and police. self-expression. By comparison, the approach The astonishment evoked by the of the San Francisco Police Department recent defacement of the Misseems lackluster. sion’s Por Vida mural shows how Although the SFPD has already taken steps glibly San Franciscans usually asto foster good relations with the LGBT comsume that anti-LGBT crimes are munity, police in one of America’s most LGrare here. However, the more BT-friendly cities would do well to emulate the quotidian mistreatment of the proactive ways in which Imperial Berlin’s law most marginalized groups goes enforcement engaged with vulnerable sexual unreported and, hence, unminorities. noticed simply because police From the 1880s onwards, Berlin’s police, outreach efforts seldom touch under the direction of Leopold von Meersthem. cheidt-Hüllessem, monitored yet tolerated gay This deceptive calm came up repeatedly at hangouts. The police president, in Beachy’s a recent meeting of the SFPD’s LGBT Comwords “a pragmatist with a profound faith munity Advisory Board, all of whose members in science,” accepted progressive sexologists’ either live in or are affiliated with the Castro explanation of homosexuality as a congenital neighborhood. Understanding that the city’s trait. center of gay life is already well served, these Interpreting the German Empire’s antivolunteers hope that measures like holding sodomy statute to permit homoerotic socialboard meetings in police stations across the izing, Hüllessem was more interested in proscity on a rotating basis will allow those living ecuting flagrant crimes, such as the blackmail outside the Castro to make their voices heard. male prostitutes routinely perpetrated against Thus far, however, efforts to engage with their clients, than in hounding gay men or still-stigmatized communities have met with cross-dressers. mixed success. Like the community advisory Hüllessem maintained a close working reboard’s efforts two years ago to reach out to lationship with the famous sexologist Magnus transgender sex workers, most such programs

falter due to lack of interest from both the targeted groups and the police. At its meeting, I got the impression that board members have regretfully accepted their inability to help everyone, even as they sorrowfully recalled the death of a young gay immigrant whose body was found in the bay last year. It should be noted that the SFPD is already at the forefront of LGBT-friendly policing. In 2012, it released an “It Gets Better” video, in which over a dozen officers recount their coming out and unexpected law enforcement careers. At the instigation of the community advisory board, all police stations have furthermore been declared LGBT Safe Zones, where LGBT victims of crime can demand to speak to a liaison officer. Well-meant as these measures are, Chief Greg Suhr’s police force still lags behind Hüllessem’s in terms of proactively engaging with sexual minorities. In an email interview, Beachy pointed out to me, “that modern police departments need to know and understand the communities they police to be able to work effectively. This was certainly true of the Berlin police, beginning with Hüllessem, who made it his responsibility to study Berlin’s sexual minorities.” By engaging minorities as actively as did its counterpart in turn-of-the-century Berlin, the SFPD can lay the foundation for a safer exploration of identity among some of the city’s most vulnerable residents.t Luisa Hulsrøj recently graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in history. Come fall, she is headed to the University of Cambridge to pursue a master’s in philosophy in modern European history.

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Where we go after same-sex marriage

Victories, like the recent Supreme Court decision on our right to marry, are celebrated. As we go forward, I am reminded that many of us at the onset of the fight for gay marriage felt leery about the amount of energy and resources placed solely and primarily on this issue. We raised questions about LGBTQ’s support in context of communities of color priorities, or for less affluent LGBTQ people issues of housing and health care, and homeless youth. Kate Kendell opened a door with her statement after the Supreme Court decision reminding us to remember those other issues. The Reverend Jim Mitulski of Metropolitan Community Church of the Rockies in Denver, Colorado in the recent Bay Area Reporter Guest Opinion, “Why Charleston matters to the LGBTQ community” [June 25] delineated it clearly: “We should care because the new ‘Gay Agenda’ from this moment forward has no more important goal than to end racism.” He offers ways to work toward this goal by educating ourselves, challenging racism in its large and small ways every day, joining a group that makes a difference in a tangible way, protesting and praying (http://ebar.com/openforum/opforum. php?sec=guest_op&id=519). As we go forward in the LGBTQ community let us be conscious of the Black Lives Matter movement, not only dedicating resources and energy to end racism, but to follow the wisdom of electing Alicia Garza a community grand marshal and to accept and welcome leadership from queer women of color. The opportunity comes to us once more to end corporate control of Pride, and any agenda set under white supremacist leadership. Patricia Jackson San Francisco

Israeli-Palestinian debate

In truth, I could not read all of Joe Barrett’s letter about the treatment of queers in Arab countries and asking how can we rally against Israel (and Frameline’s accepting money from that government) since they are such a democratic country [Mailstrom, June 25]. Joe is quite mistaken. There is not democracy in Israel unless one is Jewish. Israel is a Zionist State – a genocidal institution intent on wiping out Palestinians, queer or not, in any corner of this Zionist hate-filled place. Anyone born of a Jewish mother who moves to Israel is afforded instant Israeli citizenship, while people who have lived on the same land forever – the Palestinians – are denied any basic human civil rights. Joe needs to learn more before criticizing – and, in truth, I doubt even Israeli queers are safe from those who hate us. And, to be clear, there are Jews around the globe who agree with what I’ve written and denounce Zionism for what it is. Also, there are as many Arab queers embraced by their families as in any other population. L.A. Hyder San Francisco

Letter on Israel is off the mark

This letter responds to Joe Barrett’s correspondence, which decried activists’ concerns regarding Frameline’s history of accepting money from the Israeli consulate and questioned criticisms of Israel’s efforts to court the favor of the LGBT community. Barrett’s letter is way off the mark. I’m not convinced that Israel’s record on queer issues is quite so glowing as that described in his letter. Even if one were to accept that portrayal as correct, the author misses the point of the protests. Last year’s bombing of Gaza resulted in thousands of casualties and deaths. The Israeli government continues to expand settlements on the West Bank and destroy the homes of Palestinians. A possibly acceptable approach to LGBT issues fails to excuse Israel’s abysmal history with regard to the Palestinians. Barrett provides some legitimate examples of queer persecution in a number of countries. I submit that many in the LGBT community are equally concerned with the lives of our queer brethren around the globe and with injustice in all forms.

Thanks from pink triangle co-founder

The 20th annual pink triangle was a huge (one-acre) success because of all the many hard-working people who participated. Thank you to the 200-plus volunteers who helped install the pink triangle on Twin Peaks on Pride weekend. Also, thank you to the 28 people who helped take it down after the parade, including members of Gay for Good. The installation and de-installation couldn’t have happened without all of the volunteers. The pink triangle is a community-building project and it really does take a village. The first pink triangle went up in the dark of night so we wouldn’t be arrested; now it is celebrated and christened by many of our elected officials. Thank you to the dignitaries at the commemoration ceremony, who included San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, state Senator Mark Leno, former Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Assemblymen Phil Ting and David Chiu, Assemblyman Mike Gipson, San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros, Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener, Director of HOPE and former Supervisor Bevan Dufty, City College of San Francisco Trustees Rafael Mandelman and Alex Randolph. Also, the deputy consul general of Ireland, Kevin Byrne, spoke about Ireland being the first nation in the world to approve marriage equality via popular vote. A splendidly dressed and shimmery Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow flag, and namesake of the Gilbert Baker Pride Founder’s Award, spoke and made a presentation. The weekend started with the joyous news from the U.S. Supreme Court that marriage equality is now the law of the land. At the pink triangle event, part of celebrating where we are on any given Pride weekend is remembering where we have been. To truly appreciate our victories, we need to reflect on our past struggles, and acknowledge those we still face. The ceremony began with a very moving and informative “History of the Pink Triangle,” which was told by Michelle Meow, host of Swirl Radio and Swirl TV, and a San Francisco Pride board member. The three-part history then included a short anecdote by Bill Wilson regarding the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and how the simple act of giving lipstick to women who survived helped restore a semblance of their individuality and their humanity. Then, a current-day example of the LGBTQ community fighting back was told by Oleksiy Stepanovskiy, who gave a personal eyewitness account of the positive tone of a recent demonstration for LGBTQ rights in Ukraine. A big thank you to our 2015 sponsors: Toad Hall, Badlands, the Apothecarium, SF Pride, the Castro Lions Club Charities (for funding the T-shirts), the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Berkeley Steamworks, Hodgkins Jewelers, Haus of StarFish, Starbucks for the coffee and tea, Barefoot and Bubbly for the champagne used in the christening. For help inspiring volunteers, the Bay Area Reporter, and Betty’s List/SF Bay Times for media sponsorship. San Francisco Public Works for clearing the site of poison oak, non-native thorny plants and of broken glass and other debris before the installation; the San Francisco Police Department for 24-hour coverage; and Katie Hickox and Sean Horan for keeping up the pink triangle website. (www.thepinktriangle.com). Thank you all. Thank you to the incredible San Francisco Lesbian/ Gay Freedom Band for their ongoing participation. Thank you to Musical Theater star Leanne Borghesi, who sang “San Francisco,” and other rousing tunes, accompanied by the SF L/G Freedom Band. Also, thank you to Jenn Bishop of Weatherford BMW for directing that a new BMW be custom-wrapped in pink as the honoree car for the pink triangle contingent in the parade. What a huge thrill it was riding in the Pride parade with so many volunteers dressed to the nines in pink.

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SF LeatherWalk gets new partner compiled by Cynthia Laird

he annual LeatherWalk, long a fundraiser for the AIDS and Breast Cancer Emergency Funds that kicks off Leather Week, will have a new partner this year with the aim of boosting participation and, thus, donations. Last week Folsom Street Events, producer of the Folsom Street Fair and other parties and fairs, and AEF/BCEF announced a new partnership that will see FSE sublicense the LeatherWalk name and assume the lead on producing the cherished

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ity California Institute, Should Ammiano opt Thursday, July 2 ahead not to run then Campos of the Fourth of July could very well decide to holiday. jump into the race. He The Latino politician will be termed off the is the only LGBT person Board of Supervisors as to hold one of the city’s of January 8, 2017, and seven elected executive in recent months, has positions. Cisneros, 59, vigorously disagreed with Rick Gerharter who quietly married his Wiener over development longtime partner, Mark issues in the Mission dis- State Senate Kelleher, last August, has trict and throughout the candidate held the treasurer post, city. Scott Wiener which is not term limited, Even if neither of the since 2004 when thentwo gay progressive leadMayor Gavin Newsom appointed ers enters the race, and District him to fill a vacancy. 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, who is In 2005 he was elected by the votstraight, jumps in, arguments about ers to a full four-year term and was the need to elect an LGBT person to re-elected in 2009. In 2013 he won succeed Leno are likely to be muted. election to a two-year term due to a Wiener was a very vocal supporter voter-approved switch to the city’s of electing Chiu to the Assembly election timetable that aligned both seat last year, and Leno, who has enthe treasurer and city attorney elecdorsed Wiener to be his successor, tions with races for mayor, district opted to remain neutral in the race. attorney, and sheriff beginning in Thus running on the need to elect 2015. an LGBT candidate, “it would be Cisneros, who did not face an ophard at this point for Scott and his ponent in his last two elections, once supporters to make that argument,” again is the only declared candidate said Rafael Mandelman, a gay man to date in the race. He is expected to and local Democratic go unchallenged this fall. Party official who unIn its endorsement announcesuccessfully ran against ment, EQCA applauded Cisneros Wiener for supervisor for steering “the city successfully in 2010. “Maybe people through the 2008 recession,” and will think it looks diffor fighting for “the economic wellferently now than in the being of working families.” Campos, Chiu race.” “Even before his time as an Asked about the elected official, Jose proved himself argument of seeing an effective leader and a strong adan LGBT person be vocate of the LGBT community,” elected to his seat, Leno stated EQCA Executive Director told the B.A.R. it is up Rick Zbur. “We are excited to ento voters to decide how important dorse him for another term.” that issue is for them when deciding which candidate to back in the Lesbian reappointed race. to entertainment body “The issue of identity politics Lesbian Entertainment continues to evolve, and Commissioner Audrey it certainly is up to each Joseph will serve another voter to make the decifour-year term on the San sion as to how best to be Francisco oversight body represented,” said Leno. for nightlife issues and Noting that he has the permitting of bars endorsed and worked to and nightclubs. Her new elect numerous LGBT term will expire July 1, lawmakers over the years, Rick Gerharter 2019. Wiener said considerRick Gerharter Mayor Ed Lee reing a candidate’s sexual Entertainment appointed Joseph to her orientation is one factor Commissioner seat last month, and the among many he looks at Audrey Joseph Board of Supervisors in determining whom to voted 11-0 at its meeting support for elected office. Tuesday, July 7 to confirm her re-ap“I am a big believer in electing pointment. Joseph has served on the LGBT people to office. But somecommission since it was founded in one being LGBT is one important 2003, with stints as vice president factor among various factors on and president. how I decide who I am supporting,” In his nomination letter to the said Wiener. board, Lee wrote that, “I am confiAs for the Chiu and Campos race, dent that Ms. Joseph, an elector of Wiener said both are “good people” the city and county, will serve our but in the end he decided that Chiu community well.” was the “best person to represent The former gay nightclub owner San Francisco in the Assembly.” was diagnosed with ovarian cancer He noted that some of the “most in September. Joseph underwent 18 vociferous” people arguing that rounds of chemotherapy, and her Campos needed to be elected to cancer is now in remission. the Assembly in order to maintain As the inaugural recipient of the seat as LGBT had supported the Audrey Joseph Entertainment straight candidates over gay candiAward, created by the San Francisco dates in the past. LGBT Pride Celebration Commit“People need to be honest. We tee board, Joseph rode in a car in last all review candidates on their track month’s Pride parade. It marked the record and make a decision,” said first time since the early 1980s that Wiener. “There are times when we Joseph, who had long overseen the will go with a straight candidate main stage at Pride, did not work in because we think they are the best some capacity producing the LGBT candidate to represent the city. celebration.t That is true across the political spectrum.”

EQCA endorses Cisneros’s re-election

Equality California has endorsed the re-election of San Francisco’s longtime gay city treasurer, Jose Cisneros. The statewide LGBT advocacy group announced its endorsement of Cisneros, who has served on the board of the Equal-

Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion, is on hiatus. It will return Monday, July 13. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8298836 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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Scouting for every girl by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

everal decades ago, a cousin of mine was a member of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Her mother – my aunt – became troop leader for her troop. My own mother got roped in to help. My mom would pick me up after school and drag me along to the meetings. And this is how I ended up being an unofficial Girl Scout. While this was long before I came out, I already had a good sense that I was transgender. I, of course, never had a uniform, never received a patch – though I did ask for them once – and wasn’t exactly a formal member: I doubt it would have been allowed at that time. All that said, it was a boon to me back then to have an experience where I could participate in some of the same events and projects as the rest of the troop. It made me a better person. Several decades later, a transgender girl by the name of Bobby Montoya wanted to join the Girl Scouts of Colorado. When her mother attempted to get Montoya into the local troop, however, she was turned down. The troop leaders told her that Montoya’s “boy parts” precluded membership. The story did not end there: the Girl Scouts of Colorado, in light of the story, said that a mistake was made, and that Montoya was indeed welcome to join. In May of this year, the American Family Association published an online petition asking the Girl Scouts to restrict membership, threatening that “Boys in skirts, boys in make-up, and boys in tents will become a part of the program,” and that “this change will put young innocent girls at risk.” In response, chief girl expert Andrea Bastiana Archibald, Ph.D., developmental psychologist, program development and research at Girl Scouts of the USA, reaffirmed the organization’s inclusive policies on the Girl Scouts’ blog. “If a girl is recognized by her family, school, and community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl,

Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe,” wrote Archibald. “Inclusion of transgender girls is handled at a council level on a case by case basis, with the welfare and best interests of all members as a top priority.” It’s a good policy, and one that serves all girls – but a policy is only as good as how the individual Girl Scout councils stick to it. The Girl Scouts of Western Washington recently received a $100,000 donation, which would benefit some 500 girls in the organization. A sum of this size is a boon to a nonprofit like this, and could really do a lot of good. There was only one catch: after the aforementioned blog post and the media surrounding same, the donor insisted that none of the money be used for transgender participants. A lesser organization may have done just that, perhaps being somewhat duplicitous in order to keep the donor happy while serving the majority of its members. But the Girl Scouts is no such organization. The Girl Scouts of Western Washington returned the money – and then went public with the story. It

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turned to an Internet-based fundraising platform with a campaign called “Girl Scouts is #ForEVERYGirl.” This is located at https:// www.indiegogo.com/projects/girlscouts-is-foreverygirl. Through it, they sought to replace the $100,000, offering a number of nice perks, such as T-shirts, special patches, and even time at camp. Word of the fundraiser went viral. The Scouts quickly exceeded their $100,000 goal and doubled it within 24 hours. The fundraiser topped $300,000 within its first week. As of this writing, the campaign still has an additional 21 days to go, and could likely hit at least $400,000 by its end. We’ve seen so many big victories

recently, most notably the marriage decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. These have all been important, yes – but I can’t help but look at the legacy that the Girl Scouts is building and realize what a fundamental shift is underway for transgender people. The Girl Scouts of Colorado could have turned away Montoya in 2012 and, quite honestly, that could have been the end of it for a while. Certainly they could have covered it up well enough with a nice letter about how they would review the incident and consider what they might do in the future, and so on. The Girl Scouts of the USA could have not chosen to include transgender girls in its mission. It proba-

bly would still be a while before such a decision would be challenged, and again, they could have easily kicked the can down the road a bit. Likewise, Archibald could have just as easily not responded publicly to the fear mongering of the American Family Association. All of this would have been the politically expedient, the careful, and frankly the cowardly way to react. It would not, however, have been the Girl Scout way to respond. The Girl Scout Law charges its members to be, among other things, courageous and strong. It also demands that Scouts make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout. And so they have remained true to their law. My cousin won’t speak to me now, and my aunt refuses to set foot in my house. Clearly, they chose not to embody that law I learned oh, so many years ago. Girl Scouts, however, have set themselves up to continue to lead in the 21st century, and continue to support every girl. I cannot help but salute them for that.t Gwen Smith gives a shout out to the Spanish Trails Girl Scouts Council. You’ll find her on Twitter at @gwenners.

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Excellent review of Two Women

Just wanted to say thank you to Philip Campbell for his excellent review of the premiere of Marco Tutino’s opera, Two Women [“Women of courage and humanity,” June 18]. In 1961, at 16, I saw the film on which the original book was based – three times! I was not prepared for the experience, and I mean that in the best possible way. No one who saw that amazing film could forget Sophia Loren’s astounding performance, which won her virtually every film acting award available that year, including the best actress Oscar, the first for a non-English-speaking role. Stripped of all glamour with no make-up, she was electrifying. In an Englishlanguage version, she did her own dubbing – superbly. The grainy black and white cinematography, Vittorio de Sica’s direction and excellent supporting work by a young Jean-Paul Belmondo as the intellectual Michele, Raf Vallone as Cesira’s neighbor/lover Giovanni and a 12-year-old Eleanora Brown, in her film debut, as Rosetta – all at the top of their form. Success or failure, if the opera does nothing more than encourage people to enjoy (if that’s the right word) this unforgettable film experience, it will have been well worth it. Frank Brooks San Francisco

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ebuting amid heated debate over the Bay Area’s sky-high real estate prices is Million Dollar Listing San Francisco, the latest installment of the hit Bravo TV show. And among the new season’s three stars is Andrew Greenwell, a gay man who owns his own firm based in the East Bay city of Pleasanton. Before the first episode had even aired Wednesday night, the show had already generated a fair bit of controversy and media attention. Complaints focused on the lack of female agents in the cast and the show glorifying expensive housing being scooped up by newly minted tech millionaires as longtime residents are priced out of the city and region. While a writer for San Francisco magazine said the three stars of the show – the other agents are Justin Fichelson and Roh Habibi – are plenty entertaining to watch and “easy on the eyes,” they also described watching the series as having “a front row seat to your own wake” for anyone without deep enough pockets to purchase the multi-million dollar properties being featured. In promos for the new season Greenwell, 31, boasts that he expects to sell $100 million worth of real estate this year. During a recent phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Greenwell said real estate agents are not behind the high housing costs, nor is the TV show to blame. “I definitely follow that a lot of people don’t like how tech money

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has influenced housing values. But at the end of the day, the show doesn’t have control over that. It is just telling a story,” said Greenwell. “Cities change and we are not the catalyst for that change. We are a part of it. It is just the way things are; cities evolve and San Francisco is evolving again.” The benefits of participating in the show far outweighed any risks, said Greenwell, who relocated to the Bay Area from Seattle in 2011 after being recruited by real estate firm Keller Williams to be CEO of its East Bay office. Last fall he opened his own firm, Venture Sotheby’s International Realty in Pleasanton, where he serves as CEO and principal. “It was a really great opportunity that was too hard to pass up,” said Greenwell, who in April married Paal Salvesen, a fellow East Bay Realtor he met four years ago who now works for Greenwell’s firm. “It gives our clients great exposure for their property, that is the most important thing.” A native of the Sunshine State, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Florida State University, Greenwell founded his first brokerage at the age of 19 while a freshman in college. In 2007, Realtor magazine named him one of the “Top 30 Realtors in America Under 30.” Today he specializes in multimillion dollar properties, from historic Victorians in San Francisco to high-priced houses in Marin and the East Bay. Prior to signing on to the Bravo show, of which he has only seen the first episode, he was friends with fellow cast mate Fichelson. He was pleased with how he was portrayed in the first episode and isn’t concerned about being pigeonholed into a reality television trope of an effeminate gay man. “When we decided to do this, we made the decision to be ourselves. The way we looked at it was to do what we do everyday. We just happened to have a camera crew follow us,” said Greenwell, who hosted a premiere party for his friends

Wednesday night. “The difference in our show than most reality shows is it is a business show. It is about the real estate. Other reality shows are great, but this is not about us going to dinner and throwing wine at each other.” He said the experience of taping season one was “really awesome” and is looking forward to having the show be picked up for a second season. Million Dollar Listing San Francisco airs on Bravo Wednesday nights at 10 p.m.

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Fourteen years ago James Aarons and his husband, Mark Taylor, left San Francisco to move to Mokelumne Hill, an old Gold Rush town an hour due east of Stockton. Faced with rising rents during the city’s last dot-com boom, Aarons, 53, mentioned to a friend he was thinking of moving to New England. She suggested the couple instead visit her in the Sierra foothills and buy a place. “I started looking around. It is a very beautiful and very special town,” said Aarons. “In the 1960s many gay men bought property up here.” A dancer turned ceramicist, Aarons set up his studio in town to produce his award-winning works of pottery, ceramic arts, and drawings. His creations can be found hanging in hotels, medical settings, and other buildings throughout the country. “Honestly, my work is much more urban than it is country,” said Aarons, who owns a pied-a-terre in San Francisco with Taylor, a media studies professor at the University of San Francisco, that the couple often uses. “I don’t use a rural sensibility creatively. But the colors of the Sierra have found their way into my work.” In late July he will be back in San Francisco to take part in the 40th annual American Craft Council Show being held at Fort Mason Center. At the 2011 craft show, Aarons received an Award of Excellence. See page 13 >>

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Suggestions vary for cutting STD rates in SF by Matthew S. Bajko

s HIV cases continue to decrease in San Francisco, local health officials are increasing their efforts to see a similar trend in cases of sexually transmitted diseases. This week the Department of Public Health’s section responsible for STD prevention turned directly to gay and bisexual men for help. They held two town hall forums to hear from men who have sex with men what their ideas are for reducing transmission of STDs. The suggestions varied from reframing HIV prevention messages to be more broadly aimed at sexual health, emphasizing condom usage as an STD prevention tool, and placing social marketing campaigns outside of the gay Castro district in neighborhoods more home to youth and people of color. Austin Nation, a queer black man who is a nursing doctoral student at UCSF, attended the July 6 meeting held in the Tenderloin at Glide, a church and provider of various health and social support services. He applauded the health department for holding the town hall in the neighborhood and urged the agency to look at employing new strategies to reduce rates of STDs. “I hope this turns into more than an idle conversation,” Nation, who volunteers at Magnet, the gay men’s health center in the Castro, told the B.A.R. following the meeting. Less than 20 people attended the first town hall, with a majority either DPH staff or people with some connection to agencies that provide health services. Much of the conversation focused on how the patients they interact with are more concerned about becoming HIVpositive than contracting a sexually transmitted infection, since nearly all STDs are curable. Asked to fill out a survey with

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Dr. Jonathan Fuchs moderated a town hall meeting for gay, bisexual, and trans men concerning prevention measures for STDs.

questions about STDs and condom usage, the majority of people in attendance, 57 percent, said it is uncommon for gay, bisexual, and transmen in San Francisco to mention condoms “but people use them if they want to.” No one felt that condoms are no longer used, nor did anyone say they believe “mentioning condoms means you might not get laid.” But several men said that condoms are too often associated with HIV prevention due to past public health campaigns and need to be repositioned more as a way to prevent STD transmission. Views on the need to use condoms have changed, said the men, due to the recent focus on PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, the once-a-day pill aimed at keeping people HIV negative, and treatment as prevention, where people who test positive for HIV are encouraged to immediately start taking HIV medications to keep the virus in check and reduce the chance of transmitting HIV to their sexual partners. One person commented that nowadays “condoms are seen for preventing pregnancy, they aren’t

for gay men.” Deputy Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip, the director of disease prevention and control in the health department’s population health division, told those at the meeting that their suggestions will be “really helpful” for her section’s efforts at addressing the rise in STD transmissions. “We are really trying to think broadly and build on the wisdom, experience and knowledge we know exists in the gay community and other communities in San Francisco,” said Philip. She listed several of the strategies the city already employs to combat STDs, from providing direct health services to treat infections at City Clinic, Magnet and other medical settings to distributing condoms for free throughout the city at various locations. “We do know what works against STDs. Condoms do work,” said Philip. “We also know these strategies have to be acceptable and originate from the community. It can’t be something DPH does alone. We have to partner together to make San Francisco a healthy city overall.”

Data unclear on PrEP, STD rates

“We don’t want PrEP to be the scapegoat for STD increases,” she said. “Condoms are being used less in San Francisco, but we don’t think PrEP is the sole reason that has occurred.” Health officials have long suggested the increase in STD cases is likely attributable to several sexual practices gay and bisexual men have adopted as community norms. Many HIV-positive men forgo using condoms by choosing to only partner with other HIV-positive men, a practice known as sero-sorting, thus increasing their risks for contracting STDs from their sex partners. HIV-negative men who seroposition, meaning they determine how they have condomless anal sex based on the HIV status of their sexual partners, also are at risk of contracting an STD. The result has been a steady decrease in HIV infections, which have been on the decline in the city since 2006 and hit a new low of 304 cases in 2014. At the same time the polar opposite has occurred with STD rates. As the Bay Area Reporter has documented since 2005, cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia have all been on the rise over the last decade. According to the health department, 40 percent of chlamydia

cases and 70 percent of gonorrhea cases in San Francisco in 2014 were among patients identified as MSM. The most recent monthly STD report, with data through the end of May, showed that cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia are all out pacing the numbers seen during the same period in 2014. During the first five months of 2015, gonorrhea cases numbered 1,688, compared to the 1,197 cases seen during the same period in 2014. Chlamydia cases totaled 2,812 between January and May of this year, a significant increase from the 2,312 cases reported during the same time frame last year. As for syphilis cases, the city reported 606 cases as of May; in 2014 the number stood at 527 cases by this point. The year-to-year increase in cases is likely to continue throughout the rest of 2015, as STD cases historically have been higher in the summer and fall. But by deploying new STD prevention methods embraced by the public, health officials are confident the rising rates can be reversed as has been done with HIV. “We have seen an amazing decline in HIV. We want to build on this success story,” said Philip.t

One challenge facing the department, acknowledged Philip, is how to encourage condom usage while at the same time supporting PrEP, which some men see as a way to have condomless sex without putting themselves at risk for HIV. PrEP, however, does not protect them from acquiring an STD. So far it is unclear what impact, if any, PrEP usage in San Francisco is having on STD rates. Philip noted that the drug intervention has only been available for 18 months, whereas STD rates, “well before the introduction of PrEP,” have been climbing for years.

LGBT Austrians celebrate 20 years of Pride by Heather Cassell

either the rain nor the National Assembly’s overwhelming vote against same-sex marriage deterred Austrians last month as the rainbow colors popped against the century-old gray buildings for the 20th annual Vienna Pride. Some people simply pulled out their rainbow umbrellas and joined the crowds that took over a portion of Vienna’s Ringstrasse for the June 20 parade. The historic Ringstrasse, the circle road that marks where the former wall of the medieval European city once stood protecting the palace, is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. The Bay Area Reporter was in Vienna learning about Austrian LGBT history and where the movement currently is today. Austria, in particular Vienna, has earned a reputation for being a welcoming city for the LGBT community, especially after 2014 when Conchita Wurst, a drag queen dubbed the “bearded lady,” won the Eurovision singing contest. However, much like other European countries and the U.S., Austria still has its own struggles toward gaining full equality.

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In spite of Austria’s progressive society under the Social Democrats, the party that came into power in

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Wolfgang Wilhelm, head of the Vienna Anti-Discrimination Unit for same-sex and transgender lifestyles, explained Austria’s LGBT history to a tour group.

1970, the country’s acceptance of its LGBT community is only very recent. In the past, Austria was equally discriminatory of same-sex relationships between men and women, according to lesbian and gay activists and historians Ines Rieder and Wolfgang Wilhelm, who took our group on a tour of Vienna’s Townhall. Rieder works with Qwien, the center for gay and lesbian culture and history, and Wilhelm is the head of Vienna’s Anti-Discrimination Unit for same-sex and transgender lifestyles. Homosexuality wasn’t frowned upon or illegal up until the 16th century. It was then that the Catholic Church in the Roman Catholic country labeled it as a crime against nature and it became punishable

by death through burning, said the historians. However, in 1787, Austria became the first country in the world to ban executions of LGBT people, reducing the penalty to one to five years in prison. “Austria has a very good history because it became the first country in the world that stopped the death sentence for same-sex sexuality in 1787,” said Wilhelm. During the Nazi era, an estimated 20,000 gay Austrian men were sent to concentration camps and an unknown number of lesbians were also sent to the camps. However, Rieder discovered court records and police reports that detailed many wellknown lesbian circles and networks that were influential in Vienna. She found out that some of the women survived the camps and others escaped Austria never to return. Today, there are four temporary monuments dedicated to LGBT victims of the Holocaust, said Wilhelm. The goal is to establish a permanent monument in Vienna. Austria decriminalized homosexuality in 1971. However, Austria had an anti-homosexuality law similar to Russia’s until 1997, when it was abolished, said Wilhelm. The anti-homosexuality law impacted efforts to fight HIV/ AIDS during the 1980s and 1990s, said Wilhelm. Police confiscated educational material claiming it was “commercials for homosexuality,” he said. See page 14 >>

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Cheers (and whispers) for women’s sports by Roger Brigham

ith the women’s national soccer team partying in the World Cup finals like it was 1999, Carli Lloyd leading the way with a historic blink-and-you-missed-it hat trick, culminated by a shocking 54-yard goal that was Steph Curryesque in its aesthetic and shock value, and almost 5 million more Americans watching the final victory than saw the U.S. men tie Portugal in the 2014 men’s World Cup, Yankee women’s sports fans such as myself should be jumping up and down with unrestrained glee. Should be, but aren’t. Not unrestrained. As has been the case all too often in the course of the glorious rise of American women’s sports in the past few years, we find our reasons to celebrate to be reasons to pause and reflect. Just when we want to shout, “Rah! Rah! Rah!” we real-

ize we just might be getting a deal that is raw, raw, raw. But first, let’s concentrate on the fun stuff before I go all buzz kill. The 2015 second-ranked U.S. women’s soccer team was on a mission. Everything coalesced at exactly the right time. Megan Rapinoe, who came out as lesbian shortly before the London Summer Olympics and will be inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame with me in Chicago this month, scored two goals in a 3-1 opening round victory against Australia, but clearly the team was not functioning with the offensive efficiency expected. Later in the tournament, coach Jillian Ellis, also a lesbian, juggled the lineup to create more offensive threats in the midfield. That led to a power surge by Lloyd through the rest of the tournament, triggered a 2-0 shutout of firstranked Germany in the semifinals,

and was capped off with a 5-2 blowout against third-ranked Japan in a match that was even more lopsided than the final score would indicate. Yippee! Nearly 23 million Americans got a chance to see why kick for kick, women’s sports are as much fun to watch as men’s sports, no matter what troglodytes such as Sports Illustrated’s Andy Benoit or ESPN’s Colin Cowherd say. Millions of girls got a chance to see the payoff hard work and dedication to the sport can have, giving them role models and goals to fuel their dreams and passions. For a few blessed hours, we were spared ESPN reports on who doesn’t want to play with Carmelo Anthony. And yet ... Every time those girls watched U.S. goal keeper Hope Solo make another save, they had to be wondering what exactly transpired in the domestic abuse incident at her sister’s house in which she was charged, or why U.S. Soccer allowed her to play without taking the inci-

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Megan Rapinoe scored two goals in an opening round win over Germany, then celebrated her 30th birthday with a July 5 finals victory over Japan.

dent seriously. Sepp Blatter, embattled head of the international soccer federation who never misses a men’s World Cup, was nowhere to be seen for this year’s women’s World Cup. Must be a little difficult making international travel arrangements when you and your entire organization are under multiple criminal investigations for racketeering, corruption, and money laundering; and perhaps it’s just as well considering the sexist comments Blatter and the official FIFA website have made about women players. By not being there, Blatter was able to avoid embarrassing questions about why FIFA allowed the matches to be played on artificial turf (no men’s World Cup matches have been played on anything but grass; a lawsuit by women players was unable to force this year’s event to be held on grass but did win a return to real grass for the next go round). And then again, there’s the prize money. The U.S. women’s team got $2 million for winning the whole thing, which sounds like a lot until you realize the men’s team got four times that much for losing in the first round. Or that the German men got $35 million for winning their championship. Suddenly a 78cents on the dollar pay gap doesn’t sound so bad. FIFA obfuscates by saying the prize disparity is because men bring in more revenue. Really? The men into whom you have

poured millions and millions of more dollars and marketing over decades? Go figure. Reality is FIFA doesn’t pay women equally because to do so would go against the greed and sexism that have been institutional hallmarks of FIFA. When the U.S. women won in 1999, it was hailed as a sign that Title IX had paid off. And yet, since Title IX came into being four decades ago, we’ve seen a massive displacement of women in the coaching and administrative posts. We’ve seen Title IX used as an excuse by lazy university administrators to cut diverse sports opportunities for men while continuing to plow millions into concussion-dependent football. We’ve seen women coaches get paid drastically lower salaries than their male counterparts while being held to stricter standards of conduct, essentially infantilizing the very women athletes they are supposed to empower. We’ve seen modern day witch hunts against lesbians in sports. We’ve seen the NBA create the WNBA with the successful intent of driving the women-controlled American Basketball League out of business, enabling the NBA to move women’s pro games out of season and pay the players less money, essentially ghettoizing the entire women’s sport. We’ve seen the WNBA players have to endure the naming of sexual harasser Isiah Thomas as president of the New York Liberty. And then, when Miss Universe contestants emerge looking like progressive world leaders for having the courage to withdraw from any involvement with the sponsorship money of presidential candidate Donald Trump after he accuses Latin American countries of dumping their unwanted rapists and felons on American shores, the LPGA wimps out along with every other golf organization and says we don’t like what he says but we’re happy to play on his courses. So, yes, lots to cheer as an American fan of women’s sports last weekend. Oh, look – three U.S. women in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon! But even as we cheer, we wish just as wholeheartedly that women would be allowed to take control of their sports and stop letting men fuck things up.t

Google exec, landlord Jack Halprin dies by Seth Hemmelgarn

cisco Superior Court cases related to Halprin’s efforts ack Halprin, the gay were pending as of June. Google executive and landThe Mission Local news lord who had been working site quoted an “anonyto evict tenants from his mous friend” of Halprin’s building in San Francisco’s as saying the attorney “was Mission district died from secretly donating [the 812 cancer at the age of 46, acGuerrero] building to Larcording to media reports. kin Street Youth Services,” The San Francisco Exam- Jack Halprin which works with homeless iner reported that Halprin, youth, including LGBTs. “I an attorney for the Mountain Viewhated that people had such an ill based tech company, died Thursday, opinion of my friend when he was July 2. In a Facebook post that day, anything but an evil person,” the according to the paper, Halprin’s person reportedly said. brother Martin Halprin said, “It is In an email to the Bay Area Rewith deep, irrevocable sadness that I porter, Larkin Street spokeswoman tell you my brother Jack has lost his Kathleen Stavis said, “Larkin Street short but difficult battle with canYouth Services can confirm that cer. He passed away peacefully this Jack Halprin was a donor to the morning and is now surely on his organization. We have no knowlway to help Spock compute to the edge of any additional pending last digit the value of pi and smoke a contributions to Larkin Street. We cigar with our dad Ed.” are saddened by his passing and our Activists have vilified Halprin for thoughts are with his family and his efforts to oust tenants from the friends.” building at 812 Guerrero Street that Stavis said in a brief interview he bought a few years ago. At least that Halprin had taken advantage one rally was held outside the home. of Google’s corporate matching gift Most recently, Halprin had been program and donated a total of “less trying to use the state’s Ellis Act, a than $5,000.” 1986 state law that allows landlords The B.A.R. reached out to Martin to evict tenants in order to get out Halprin and to others who knew of the rental business. Tenants are Jack Halprin, but none provided fighting back, and some San Francomment for this story.t

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Local Episcopal leaders praised the changes, and noted that the denomination has been moving in the direction of performing church weddings. “The church has been working toward this for many years,” the Right Reverend Marc Andrus, bishop of the Diocese of California, told the Bay Area Reporter. “Our liturgy has been changed to put LGBT people on equal footing.” Andrus recalled the 2003 confirmation of the Reverend Gene Robinson, a gay man, as bishop of New Hampshire as a turning point. “One person at a time is how this changes,” Andrus said. Robinson was the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop. He retired a few years ago. “This was a major step forward,” Andrus said. “It affected the whole Anglican community and civil society.” He recalled other steps that were taken prior to the Supreme Court ruling. “We worked to provide pastoral blessings in states where there was

Defaced mural

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“It is so deliberate, and it may be a group or individuals who really don’t have a stake in either side, but they want to see a conflict,” he said. Ammiano, who lived in the Mission and worked as a teacher in the 1960s, remembers that there were challenges even back then living in the neighborhood, “because there were no resources,” Ammiano said. “But it was more like live and let live. And yes, there was homophobia of course, but there were also lifetime residents and families who lived

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participation to 250 people this year. Moshoyannis said that for this year, proceeds from the walk would be rolled into the money FSE distributes to its selected beneficiaries. The funds are generated from proceeds from the Folsom Street Fair, Up Your Alley Fair, the Bay of Pigs and Magnitude parties, and the Deviants adult arcade. If FSE continues to produce the LeatherWalk – the current agreement is for one year and does not change ownership – Moshoyannis said FSE would look at separate beneficiaries. Susannah Dunlap, interim executive director of AEF/BCEF, told the B.A.R. that the organizations just don’t have the staffing capacity to increase participation in the LeatherWalk. “It’s really a capacity issue,” Dunlap said. “It’s reached a point now where it can be grown, yet we don’t have a large staff.” She said the agencies looked to FSE because of its success with large-scale events, its history of giving back to the community, and its transparency and integrity. Dunlap also said that she hopes

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“It is really nice to do a home show, as in close to home. It gives me an opportunity to experiment a little more,” said Aarons, who has been accepted to take part in the craft council’s event about 10 times since 1996. “The investment is less cumbersome. I can feature things I might not elsewhere because I feel it is too much of a risk to drag it across the country to another show.” At this year’s show Aarons’ work will also be featured in the Make Room: Modern Design Meets Craft showcase, where four designers are

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no legal marriage,” he explained. Other Episcopal leaders said they approved of the church’s change. “It’s an evolution,” said Father Darren Miner of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in San Francisco. He acknowledged that there were still a small number of conservatives in the Episcopal Church who could refuse to perform a same-sex wedding if they felt it went against their religious beliefs. But, he pointed out, any such dissenters must contact neighboring dioceses who could tend to the pastoral needs of the same-sex couple wishing to wed. Miner said that as a gay married man he was delighted by the church’s decision. “We have to keep moving forward,” he said. Andrus said the denomination is in the forefront of the religious community. “We and the Church of Canada have taken the lead in affirming the rights of LGBT people,” he said. Episcopalians join Presbyterians and the United Church of Christ as mainline Protestant denominations that allow for same-sex weddings in their congregations. The Presby-

terian Church (USA) approved the change in March. UCC approved allowing same-sex couples to wed in its churches in 2005. At last week’s celebratory “Love and Justice Evensong” service at Grace Cathedral, about 120 members of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus performed a musical set, which concluded with Elton John’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” The church’s organist performed “Over the Rainbow,” the classic song from The Wizard of Oz that has since become a gay anthem. An hour of prayer and religious song followed in the packed cathedral. “For us to be invited to a religious celebration at one of the greatest religious institutions in the United States was humbling and an opportunity we could not pass up,” chorus artistic director and conductor Tim Seelig told the B.A.R. after the service. Nathan Ohm, a member of Grace Cathedral’s Board of Trustees and a congregation member, expressed his joy at the recent turn of events. “I am exceedingly grateful to

an awakening of love and reason through the recent decisions of the Episcopal Church and the Supreme Court,” Ohm told the B.A.R. “The acceptance of same-sex marriage in both the church and the nation actualizes a dream that we at Grace Cathedral already know and live as truth.” David Gushee, Ph.D., professor of Christian ethics and director of the Center for Theology and

here who had gay kids, and it was a different era; much more family oriented.” Paul, in a statement released by Galeria de la Raza, explained the reason for the mural. “Por Vida was created to celebrate the LGTBQ Chican@/Latin@culture within the context of a historically Chicano barrio.” Paul explained using the @ symbol to refer to Chicanos or Chicanas: “Through our art and our work we present counterstories that reflect queers growing up in the barrio.” Ani Rivera, Galeria de la Raza’s executive director, thanked the crowd who came to the rally to show

their support. A sign with a printed version of the mural was distributed to attendees. Rivera asked the crowd to raise their signs. The crowd was cheering, and Rivera leaned forward to the microphone and said, “Por Vida.” The crowd responded by clapping and cheering louder. After the attacks started, the gallery installed a video surveillance system, which captured footage of the suspect. Last week, police described the suspect as a white or Hispanic man between 20 and 40 years old, who’s 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. He was wearing a black sweatshirt, black

pants, white gloves, and had a black cloth covering his face. At the rally, gallery officials said they remained determined to support artists. “Galeria is still committed to supporting Chicano, Latino artists that speak to the wealth of the prescriptive of our own people,” Rivera said. “It is in that spirit that we invited the Maricon Collective to present the Por Vida mural.” She also disagreed with the apparent message the vandal or vandals is sending. “The targeted violence that has been visited upon the mural sent a

message that queer Chicano doesn’t exist,” Rivera said. “But I’m here to tell you we do exist.” Every time Galeria de la Raza replaced the damaged mural it cost about $1,200. After the arson attempt, the mural will remain in its burned state, said spokesman Henry Pacheco. According to Rivera the mural will stay up until the end of July. Anyone with information in the case may call the police department’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444, or text a tip to 847411 and type SFPD, then the message. The case number for the June 29 arson incident is 150568699.t

the well-known Folsom brand will help broaden appeal and increase fundraising. “An endorsement from Folsom Street Events will increase the likelihood of having a larger turnout,” she said. In terms of revenue, Dunlap said that the change in donation percentages (AEF/BCEF had previously retained all of the net proceeds) won’t affect the two agencies, which provide emergency financial assistance to people living with HIV/ AIDS and breast cancer, respectively. AEF/BCEF raised about $7,800 last year, before expenses, Dunlap said, adding that the expenses were “very low.” “If anything, we might make more money,” she said. Moshoyannis said FSE doesn’t have a revenue projection for this year, and that the nonprofit has only a couple months to organize the walk. But talks about the partnership deal began a few months ago after Mike Smith, the former AEF/BCEF executive director, approached FSE. Moshoyannis said that this year, FSE will enable walk participants to register and donate online. “Not that we won’t take a check at registration,” he added.

He also said that plans are being worked on to engage the community and participants in the hours between registration and the walk kickoff. “We want to provide entertainment earlier in the day,” he said. Increasing visibility of the walk is also a top priority. “We want to get the word out in some of the bars. We do want to step up that visibility with business participants,” Moshoyannis said, adding that he hoped employees from area leather shops and companies participate. “In this first year, from A to Z everyone in the leather community is encouraged to walk and fundraise,” he said. FSE is also getting assistance from Lance Holman, who has been a longtime walk volunteer for AEF/ BCEF. The walk was started in 1992 by Art Tomaszewski, a former AEF board president and former Bare Chest Calendar man and Mr. Headquarters Leather. In 2001, Sandy “Mama” Reinhardt, a longtime leather community member and fundraiser, took over production of the walk. Then two years ago Holman assumed leadership of it. Overall, Moshoyannis said that FSE encourages people to take part

in this year’s event. “We know it’s good for the community,” Moshoyannis said of the LeatherWalk. “It’s unique and a great opportunity to reinvigorate it. So we’re excited.” For more information, visit www. folsomstreetevents.org.

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creating room vignettes based on a “Four Elements” theme. Designer Gustave Carlson selected two pieces by Aarons for his “air” vignette. At his own booth, Aarons will be displaying examples of his dot compositions, “round pieces of clay that hang on the wall in a specific pattern,” he said. The works can range in price from $300 for a smaller installation to upwards of $1,200 or more for larger pieces meant for an atrium space. “It is all based on the constraints of the space and the needs of the client,” he said. Also presenting at this year’s craft show are Randall Darwall

and Brian Murphy, who have been together 30 years and taken part in the annual showcase since 1980. The men, both in their 60s, live on Cape Cod in Harwich and married 11 years ago when Massachusetts legalized same-sex weddings. Murphy, a former psychotherapist, began designing clothing after meeting Darwall, a noted hand weaver who dyes his own silk fabrics. Each year they bring “new colors, new fabrics, new styles,” to display at the San Francisco show. “We try and excite the base we have developed there,” said Murphy, See page 14 >>

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David Gushee, Ph.D., a Baptist minister and educator, spoke at Grace Cathedral.

Assembly panel to review Prop 13

Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), chair of the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation, will hold a hearing of his committee in San Francisco to review the impact of Proposition 13, the long-standing state property tax law. The hearing is scheduled for Friday, July 10 at 10:30 a.m. in the Milton Marks Auditorium at the State Building, 455 Golden Gate Avenue. Discussion will focus on the inequity of the state’s property tax system, revenue implications associated with potential reforms, and links with education funding. Ting’s office said that the hearing occurs in the context of the state’s need to enact tax reforms and a range of proposals being pursued in the Legislature and through the direct initiative process. The hearing is open to the public.

Public Life at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia and a leader of evangelical Christianity, spoke during the service. Gushee, a Baptist minister, raised eyebrows in the evangelical community when he announced last year that he had become pro-LGBT and that he now affirms same-sex relationships. He explained his stance at a reception following the service. “Over the last eight years my heart has changed,” Gushee said. “Many conservatives remain fixed in their beliefs because they have no meaningful relationships with LGBT people. Getting to know and hearing LGBT stories sent me back to reexamine my faith. There is no justification for discrimination.” He referred to a young lesbian who had been outed at her school. She lost her scholarships. He also recalled a young gay man who died by suicide – the family refused to claim his remains. “This must be resisted,” said Gushee. “My prayer is that one day this fight will end. One day we will realize that human lives matter. I have a dream that there will be reconciliation.”t

Kendell to keynote GGBA lunch

National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell will deliver the keynote address at the Golden Gate Business Association’s inaugural “Power Lunch” Tuesday, July 14. The event takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 Market Street (at 8th Street). Kendell is expected to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. NCLR served as counsel for the couples in Tennessee that were involved in the case, known as Obergefell v. Hodges. She is also expected to talk about other issues of importance to the LGBT community. The lunch will also highlight some of the San Francisco Business Times’ top LGBT-owned businesses in the Bay Area and Mary Huss, the paper’s publisher, will moderate a panel discussion with several of the region’s largest LGBT-owned firms. Tickets to the luncheon are $55 and available online at http://ggba. chambermaster.com/events/details/ ggba-power-lunch-july-make-contact-880.t

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Brian Murphy, left, and his husband, Randall Darwall, are participating in the American Craft Council Show.

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pret the first part of the statement to imply that he wasn’t performing the duties the board tries to ensure. He wouldn’t say more about the possible merger or provide other details. “I can’t disclose the merger or conversation specifics as you probably can appreciate – a confidentiality agreement is in place,” Chandler said. He also wouldn’t discuss issues about individual board members. “The board simply decided – for reasons unknown to me – that they wanted new leadership. I won’t discuss specific issues or challenges I had there,” Chandler said.

Hundreds of clients

As of December, PAWS had “630 active human clients and 812 companion animals,” said Cramer, a former volunteer with the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In June, the nonprofit held its annual Petchitecture fundraiser.

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adding that this year they will be displaying a quilt that “is representative of 40 years of Randy’s weaving.” They will also be selling a variety of silk and woven silk scarves and shawls as well as hand woven jackets and silk dyed jackets. The clothing ranges in price from $60 to $2,000, with quilts costing $10,000 to $15,000. “As we like to say, we will have a little bling in the booth this year, meaning the fabric has some rhinestones in it,” said Murphy. More than 220 artisans will be taking part in this year’s show, showcasing everything from textiles, jewelry, metal and clay sculptures, to woodwork and furniture. The American Craft Council bills the San Francisco show “as the largest craft show West of the Rockies.” People “may have heard of the show or visited before, but the show changes every year,” said Aarons. “Our work evolves, so come and see what we are up to and share in the delight of handmade things.” The show takes places from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, July 31; from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, August 1; and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, August 2. It is located in the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, off Marina Boulevard at Buchanan Street along the city’s northern waterfront. One-day $12 tickets can be purchased in advance online at http:// shows.craftcouncil.org/sf.

Local lawyers named the best

Four Bay Area-based lawyers landed on the National LGBT Bar Association’s 2015 “Best Under 40” list of young LGBT legal professionals. The honorees include Julie Wilensky, a shareholder in the Oakland firm Lewis, Feinberg, Lee & Jackson; Peter Catalanotti, a partner at

Out in the World

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Change of hearts and minds

However, since the late 1990s, Austrians have made progress in changing anti-LGBT laws one step at a time. In 2004, Vienna passed a comprehensive anti-discrimination law protecting LGBT individuals, but the law hasn’t been fulfilled by the Austrian National Assembly. Austrian LGBTs are only protected in the workplace, not in housing and health care. In 2010, Austria passed civil partnerships, but adoption and surrogacy were not fully legal for LGBT people until 2014. In 2013, the Austrian Constitutional Court lifted the ban on second parent adoptions. A year later, lesbian couples won the right to have medically supported fertilization. Single women still are banned

The estimated gross revenue was $140,000. The money will go toward the nonprofit’s budget, which is $898,000. Cramer wouldn’t say what expenses for the event were, indicating she wanted to wait until the figures are finalized. She declined to say what her sexual orientation is. Cramer also wouldn’t say what her salary is, but she said it’s the same as what she made in her previous position at the agency. Her compensation for that post isn’t individually listed in the organization’s most recently available tax filing. Despite the recent turmoil at the nonprofit, Cramer expressed confidence in its work. “I believe really strongly in the work that PAWS does in the community,” she said. “I believe there has been a resurgence of interest in the healing benefits of the human-animal bond, and PAWS, as an almost three-decade old San Francisco-based nonprofit, is wellpositioned to continue to serve lowincome individuals who can benefit from their companion animals.”t Manning & Kas, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP in San Francisco; and Zachary B. Allen, an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP in San Francisco. Also on the list is Shin-Ming Wong, a supervisory helpline attorney at the San Francisco-based nonprofit the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Equality California legislative manager Jo Michael, who is based in Sacramento, was also selected. All 38 attorneys named to this year’s list will be honored at the legal organization’s Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair in Chicago on August 6.

Honor Roll

Bay Area Reporter Bestie readers’ poll winner Valencia Cyclery’s annual sale in June benefitting Project Open Hand netted $9,750 for the San Francisco-based nonprofit that provides meals to people living with AIDS and other diseases. Over the past 20 years the yearly event has raised $132,754 for the agency. The Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation has given a $165,000 grant to Lesbians Who Tech, the San Francisco-based organization that holds events around the country for LGBTQ women in the tech industry. The philanthropy’s namesake and director is a high profile Silicon Valley leader and is married to venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who founded Netscape. The nonprofit plans to use the money to launch a mentorship program it is calling Bring a Lesbian To Work Day and to fund a Coding Scholarship Fund, which will subsidize tuition for women who need financial assistance to attend coding academies.t Got a tip on LGBT business news? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 829-8836 or e-mail m.bajko@ ebar.com.

from artificial insemination in Austria. The International Human Rights Court issued an order for Austria to have a law allowing for same-sex foreign adoptions by the end of this year. According to Wilhelm, some of the biggest issues LGBT Austrians are pushing for today are adoption and surrogacy rights, coming out in the workplace, and marriage equality. Interestingly, discrimination remains an issue for LGBT Austrians in the workplace and on the streets. Many Austrian LGBTs remain closeted in the workplace. Additionally, while the rate of violence on the streets is low, many victims of anti-gay attacks rarely come forward, said Wilhelm. To combat this disparity, Wilhelm’s office launched a workplace anti-discrimination campaign for Vienna Pride.t

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No. D-202-CV-2015-03019 STATE OF NEW MEXICO to Defendant BRIEN BURROUGHS. You are hereby notified that ROBERT WOODFORD and NANCY WOODFORD have filed a FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR DEBT & MONEY DUE AND TO FORECLOSE DEED OF TRUST [NON-OWNER OCCUPIED] against you in the above-entitled Court and cause, the general object thereof being obtain a money judgment on a Promissory Note and to foreclose a Deed of Trust which was recorded on September 2, 2009 as Document Number 2009100363, in the records of the office of the County Clerk of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and concerning the real property described as follows: Unit 3-A of the Sixth Street Lofts Condominiums as described and designated in that certain Sixth Street Lofts Condominium Declaration executed by Quickel Building LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company on June 13, 2005 in Book A98, page 3480, as Document Number 2005084744, and being further amended by that certain Amendment to Sixth Street Lofts Condominium Association, filed November 9, 2005, in Book A106, page 6531, as Document Number 2005166981, records of Bernalillo County, New Mexico. TOGETHER WITH an undivided percentage interest in the common elements and common expenses appurtenant to each unit, as provided for in the declaration; TOGETHER WITH a non-exclusive easement for ingress and egress through all common elements, as more particularly set forth in the declaration. Said Sixth Street Condominiums located within Lots numbered One (1), Two (2), Three (3), Thirteen (13), Fourteen (14), and Fifteen (15), in Block numbered Twenty (20) of the New Mexico Town Company’s Original Townsite of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the same are shown and designated on the plat thereof, filed in the Office of the County Clerk of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, on December 29, 1882, in Map Book D, folio 140. more commonly known as 600 Central Ave SW, Unit 3A, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102. BE ADVISED that unless you respond to the Complaint within 30 days of the completion of the publication of this Notice, judgment by default will be entered against you. SPANN, HOLLOWWA & ARTLEY /s/ J. Kerwin Hollowwa J. Kerwin Hollowwa Attorney for Plaintiff P. O. Box 1307 Albuquerque, NM 87103 (505) 243-3525 WITNESS the Honorable Victor S. Lopez, Second Judicial District Court Judge, and the seal of the Second Judicial District Court, on this 30th day of June, 2015. James A. Noel CLERK OF THE SECOND DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Cathy Chavez Deputy Clerk

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In the matter of the application of: KAREN SEGAL, 125 CAMBON DR #34, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132 for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KAREN SEGAL, is requesting that the name LILAH ROSE SEGAL ANGEL, be changed to LILAH ROSE SEGALANGEL. 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 20th of August 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DAN KRAMER LAW GROUP, 633 BATTERY ST #110, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DJK LAW GROUP, P.C. (CO). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/11/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENGEL & VOELKERS SAN FRANCISCO, 582 CASTRO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS INC. (UT). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/12/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/04/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALA RESTAURANT, 149 FELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LA MILPA 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 06/01/15.

JUNE 18, 25, JULY 02, 09, 2015 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036169300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: BEST WESTERN PLUS THE TUSCAN, 425 NORTH POINT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/21/14.

JUNE 18, 25, JULY 02, 09, 2015 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033409200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: TUSCAN INN, 2455 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/11.

JUNE 18, 25, JULY 02, 09, 2015 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035339200 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: TUSCAN, THE; TUSCAN; TUSCAN HOTEL; TUSCAN HOTEL, THE; 425 NORTH POINT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036124500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CAFE PESCATORE, 2455 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/14.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CAFE PESCATORE, 2455 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEW LIVING, 346 1ST ST #206, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CELINA PHAM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/22/15.

JUNE 25, JULY 02, 09, 16, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036537600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: READ A BOOK PUBLISHING CO, 1321 EVANS AVE #C, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALPHA J. BUIE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/27/03. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ORO, 1299 BUSH ST #401, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JARRETT S. DOWNS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/17/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAIKE VENDING 4U, 660 4TH ST #324, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YONGYUAN YU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/16/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/16/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COCO FRIO, 2937 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94101. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANUEL TORRES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/18/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/15.

JUNE 25, JULY 02, 09, 16, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036539900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOC NOC ON BROADWAY, 515 BROADWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RAHMAT OLLAH SHIRAKHON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/22/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/22/15.

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In the matter of the application of: DAVID SCOTT LLEWELLYN, 25 MIRABEL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner DAVID SCOTT LLEWELLYN, is requesting that the name DAVID SCOTT LLEWELLYN, be changed to DAVID SCOTT LOWE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 1ST of SEPTEMBER 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: PESCATORE; PESCATORE RESTAURANT; 2455 MASON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by 425 NORTH POINT STREET LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LLOYDS LIMOUSINE SERVICE, 1770 PINE ST #401, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANSOUR TAVAKOLIAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/04/93. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ECO SMART ROOF, 61 MINERVA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ARMAND ABELITIS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036543500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BROWS & BEAUTY BAR, 3196 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed SWASTI THAPA; SUJATA ARYAL; SANGITA THAPA. 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 06/24/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036545100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CHILD CARE PROVIDER’S ASSOCIATION; SFCCPA, 445 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO EARLY CARE EDUCATORS RESOURCE PROGRAM (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 06/24/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036549700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: K & D REMODELING, 2706 40TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed K & D REMODELING (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/15/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/26/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036544900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOCTORS OF THE PACIFIC, 300 MONTGOMERY ST #813, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RGA ASSOCIATES, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/24/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036536700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELMAND PALACE, 2424 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HELMAND RESTAURANT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/18/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/18/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036543900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOTEL DIVA, 440 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed 440 GEARY OWNER, L.P. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/13/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/24/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036543700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOTEL UNION SQUARE, 100-120 POWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed 100-120 POWELL OWNER, L.P (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/13/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/24/15.

JULY 02, 09, 16, 23, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036564600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SEIPPEL COACHING & CONSULTING, 1059 UNION ST #E, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHELSEY ANNLYN SEIPPEL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/07/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GARLIC LUVRS SPREAD, 984 OAK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIC C. JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIND’S EYE INTERNATIONAL FILM ACADEMY, U.S.A.; MIND’S EYE INTERNATIONAL FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY; MIND’S EYE CLOTHING COMPANY; 1719 30TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed YING ROYAL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/15.

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Welcome to the Dahl house by Richard Dodds

rowing up in Australia, satirical songwriter and transgressive comedian Tim Minchin was a Dahl baby. “Roald Dahl was absolutely the author of my childhood,” said Minchin. “I was marinated in Dahl,” referring to the author of such paeans to defiant childhood individualism as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. Before finding his niche as a didactic musical comic after rock stardom eluded him, Minchin was a musical-comedy trouper. He even tried to option rights to create a stage musical from Matilda before the Dahl estate scared him off with a request that he actually write some songs. See page 18 >> The kindly Miss Honey (Jennifer Blood, left) and the ominous Miss Trunchbull (Bryce Ryness) flank the children of Matilda, the musical hit coming to the Orpheum Theatre.

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Worthy of Frameline & French awards by Roberto Friedman

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hey came in just after presstime last week, but better late than never. Here are the Juried and Audience Awards announced by Frameline 39. Juried Awards: The Frameline 39 Outstanding First Feature Award was presented to In the Grayscale, directed by Claudio Marcone. The Frameline 39 First Feature Jury awarded an honorable mention to Stories of Our Lives, directed by Jim Chuchu. The Frameline 39 Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary went to Alex & Ali, directed by Malachi Leopold. The Frameline 39 Documentary Jury awarded an Honorable Mention to The Amina Profile, directed by Sophie Deraspe. Audience Awards: Frameline 39 AT&T Audience Award for Best Short: Adrift in Sunset, director Narissa Lee. Frameline 39 AT&T Audience Award for Best Documentary: Game Face, director Michiel Thomas. Frameline 39 AT&T Audience Award for Best Feature: Margarita, with a Straw, co-directors Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar.

Grant recipient for the Volunteer of the Year Award: Frameline39 Volunteer of the Year Jackie Dennis selected the powerful Kenyan anthology Stories of Our Lives to be the recipient of the Volunteer of the Year Award grant. This award is underwritten by an anonymous donor and Frameline, and carries a $2,000 grant for the selected filmmaker. Congratulations to all of the talented filmies!

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Gay historian Gerard Koskovich passed along some exciting literary news: author Alysia Abbott has just received the “grand prix de l’héroïne de Madame Figaro” for the French translation of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, the San Francisco poet, author, editor, and cartoonist Steve Abbott, who died of AIDS in 1992. The prize has been awarded annually since 2006 by Madame Figaro, a leading French women’s magazine, to “celebrate the new heroines of French and foreign literature.” To highlight the award, the French publisher has even issued a belly band (that’s the technical term

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for a promotional strip wrapped over part of the cover). Here’s some of the coverage in the French press: Le Figaro wrote of Fairyland (Éditions Globe), “L’histoire est résumée dans le sous-titre, ‘Un poète homosexuel et sa fille à San Francisco dans les années 1970.’ Le livre devrait faire l’objet d’un film réalisé par Sofia Coppola,” or, per Google Translate, “The story is summarized in the subtitle, ‘A homosexual poet and his daughter in San Francisco in the 1970s.’ The book should be a film directed by Sofia Coppola.” Livres Hebdo wrote, “Dans la catégorie ‘Biographie/Document,’ le prix a été attribué à Alysia Abbott pour Fairyland, paru chez Globe. L’auteure raconte son enfance auprès de son père Steve Abbott, écrivain et militant homosexuel, qui emménage en 1974 à Haight Ashbury, le centre névralgique de la culture hippie à San Francisco, alors qu’elle a deux ans et qu’elle vient de perdre sa mère.” Again via Google Translate: “In ‘Biography/Document,’ the prize was awarded to Alysia Abbott for Fairyland, published by Globe. The author recounts her childhood with her father Steve Abbott, writer and gay activist, who in 1974 moved to Haight Ashbury, the nerve center of hippie culture in San Francisco, when she was two years old and she had just lost her mother.” Thanks, Gerard, Google, and Vive la France!t

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But a decade or so later, the Royal Shakespeare Company had rights in hand, and Minchin was sounded out about his interest in providing songs for Matilda (arriving on July 15 at the Orpheum Theatre). “I just started ranting about how they can’t fuck this up, and you can’t Disney-fy it,” he said. “I said I don’t care if you don’t choose me, but you should be very careful because the thing about Dahl is that he doesn’t condescend to children. And director Matthew Warchus was, like, ‘All right, all right, all right.’ He got the point, and I got the job.” Warchus, best known for directing the Yasmina Reza plays Art and God of Carnage, had already scouted out one of Minchin’s shows combining prickly standup and jaunty songs with a sharp social edge -always performed with his distinct spiky hair, eyeliner and barefoot (although during an interview, feet were clad and eyes were linerless). “He thought I was good but too heady, and didn’t have enough heart,” Minchin said. “He was about to leave, and I did an encore song of mine called, ‘White Wine in the Sun’ [an atheist’s sentimental embrace of Christmas], and it’s pretty and it makes people cry. He said that was my redemption.” Matilda, first published in 1988, tells the story of a precocious young girl whose mistreatment at home is partly assuaged at school by sympathetic teacher Miss Honey, but who See page 25 >>

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Castro offerings between film festivals by David Lamble

uly is an edgy month at the Castro Theatre, coming out of the big, bold LGBTQ film festival and heading into a full slate of films at the San Francisco Jewish Film Fest. Castro film programmer Keith Arnold and the gang will help you forget the drought and our City by the Bay’s ever-changing weather. Inforum Fight Club novelist Chuck Palahniuk and Lidia Yuknavitch present A Night of [Verbal] Mayhem. Further info at: commonwealthclub.org. (7/9) 9 to 5 The big-screen debut of country-music artist Dolly Parton fuels this lunatic political comedy, where three secretaries (Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) gang up on their clueless, misbehaving, sexist boss (Dabney Coleman, then at the height of his powers as the white sexist pig you loved to hate). The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas I was a freshly out-ofthe-closet Houston talk-show host when local-TV personality Marvin Zindler launched a crusade to shut down one of Texas’ most sacred institutions, the hetero “cat houses.” Dolly Parton is the dedicated Madam who fights prudes and powerhungry politicos to keep the world’s oldest profession in business in the Lone Star State. Charles Durning’s tap-dancing governor dukes it out with Dom DeLuise’s decencysquad leader in 114 minutes of film comedy as silly as it gets. The only thing that could top these goofy proceedings would be a recording of Zindler’s infamous Ch. 13 TV sign-off, “Marvin Zindler, Eyewitness News!” And he wore a rug on the air. Go figure! (both 7/10) Scary Cow 26th Short Film Festival Scary Cow is a communitybased film co-op that encourages everyone to find the short film that lurks within. The Cow’s organizers brag that they’ve given over a quarter-of-a-million bucks back to aspiring short-form filmmakers. Info: scarycow.com (7/11) The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. This 1953 gem finds young Tommy Rettig (the TV kid who kept Lassie company) having a musical nightmare involving his whacked-out piano teacher (Hans Conreid), who plans to kidnap 1,000 kids to play

Cast of 9 to 5, the big-screen debut of Dolly Parton.

Blade Runner returns in The Final Cut version.

tunes of his choosing. Sort of a lunatic precursor to Dr. Seuss. Gentleman Prefer Blondes Screwball comedy director Howard Hawks gets an early shot at showcasing the comedy and carnal skills of a 23-year-old Marilyn Monroe, opposite a very smart and sassy Jane Russell. Niagara Rhymes with Viagra. This 1953 Henry Hathaway-directed melodrama allowed Marilyn to demonstrate her range, this time as a hard-hearted wife (to a frightened Joseph Cotton) who’s up to murder and deceit against the backdrop of the world’s most famous waterfall. (all three, 7/12) Blade Runner – The Final Cut Whether this is the cruelest cut of all is up to you as Harrison Ford returns as the stoic android hunter in Ridley Scott’s ultimate dystopian fantasy adventure. For those totally over our current drought, Scott and company showcase a bleak LA where it’s always raining. (7/13-14) The Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart was never better than in his first signature turn as private dick Sam Spade, who gets to match wits with a gaggle of really suspicious characters on the trail of a mysterious black bird statue said to be worth millions. With Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet doing their scene-stealing best. In a Lonely Place Another side of Bogart’s protean talents is on display as he plays a screenwriter heading over an emotional cliff with an assist from aspiring starlet Gloria

short fiction of Raymond Carver. With, among others, Jack Lemmon, Tom Waits, Julianne Moore, Robert Downey Jr., and Frances McDormand. Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino has never been more on top of his game than in this darkly funny shoot-em-up that gave Samuel L. Jackson an insanely bizarre platform from which to shine. Uma Thurman is the sexy damsel brought back from the dead by a drug-addled young dealer with attitude (Eric Stoltz). Bruce Willis is a nervy, crooked boxer, and Christopher Walken tells one of the dirtiest shaggy-dog stories you can imagine. Tarantino manages to coax huge belly laughs from material that is thoroughly repellent but cosmically hilarious. The top of the mountain is Jackson’s charismatically demented preaching riffs. I guess this is the flick that comes to mind if you ever have to talk some lunatic out of a mass-murder killing spree. (both 7/18) The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock traps a sprightly ensemble aboard a European express train. Look for a suspiciously queer-acting male couple and a delightful old female spy (Dame May Witty). The hetero lovers in this one are a screen-debuting and very dashing Michael Redgrave and a pouty, moody Margaret Lockwood. The 39 Steps Another Hitch late-1930s thriller that now seems terribly prescient about Europe’s plunge into Fascist terror. Robert

Grahame. Nicholas Ray (of Jimmy Dean fame) helms this deliciously sordid Tinseltown tale. (both 7/15) Horror of Dracula This 1958 film was one of my first exposures to a cinema blood-fest as my 14-yearold self had to decide when to look away from Long Beach, Long Island’s Laurel Theater’s big screen and when to just head for the lobby until it was safe to cop a peek. This early Hammer Films production is a sublime example of the art behind real horror movies that weren’t merely exploitation rip-offs. The only thing amiss here is that the film’s not running at Midnight. The Wicker Man Christopher Lee often cited this 1973 film as one of his personal faves. Here Lee matches wits with Edward Woodward’s (Breaker Morant) Christian policeman. Ingrid Pitt and Britt Eckland add some carnal ghoulish licks. (both 7/16) Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior) Mel Gibson displays his talent for post-apocalyptic swashbuckling nuttiness in the original franchise’s highpoint. The Hitcher Further down the same mad road: see where your parental units found their cheapest date-night thrills. (both 7/17) Sing-along Annie Rest your vocal chords for this one. Don’t hold back, kids at heart have no vanity. (7/18-19) Short Cuts Robert Altman topped his own greatest-hits tape (1975’s Nashville) with this 22-performer ensemble treatment of the

Donat is an impudent bachelor who gets on the trail of spies when a beautiful dame gets a knife in her back while staying in his London flat. Features many of the thriller tropes that Hitch would so cleverly restage in North by Northwest. (both 7/19) Contempt Jean-Luc Godard was still at the top of his auteur game in this 1963 filmmakers-parody-themselves farce. A nervous screenwriter (Michel Piccoli) is caught between an obstinant European director (Fritz Lang, essentially playing himself) and a crudely commercial Hollywood producer (Jack Palance). Mulholland Drive The brilliantly eccentric David Lynch attempts another weirder-than-weird tale. While not up to his genius-level work in 1986’s Blue Velvet, this one reminds you of Lynch’s grip on the dark side of human nature. (both 7/21) Dusty and Sweets McGee Floyd Mutrux, creator of American Hot Wax, plunges into a hard-core dope-addicts-and-rock-n-roll scene in LA, then just recovering from the murderous rampages of the Manson family. Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) showcases a scary-true Joaquin Phoenix as the hero of the first screen treatment of a Thomas Pynchon novel. With Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro and Martin Short. (both 7/22)t CastroTheatre.com

Irish perspectives by David Lamble

immy’s Hall is the latest and likely the last major work of cinema fiction from the great British naturalist film genius Ken Loach. In it, a young Irishman is persecuted and deported from the Emerald Isle back to America for the crime of gifting his people a dance hall in which to play, drink and cavort. Why was this gift considered a crime most foul? In the eyes of the folks who ruled Ireland, namely the local Catholic Bishop, the landlords and the auxiliary police nicknamed “the Black and Tans,” Jimmy Gralton (Barry Ward) was at best a troublemaker, a pesky gadfly, at worst the kind of rebellious hooligan who could incite the common folks – landless migrant workers, poor tenant farmers, free-thinking women – to disobey their betters and perhaps turn the newly created Irish Free State into a rain-soaked version of a Russian-style Soviet. Fans of the self-described Marxist filmmaker Ken Loach (born in Nuneaton, England, in 1936) are likely breaking out in hot sweats in anticipation of a last summing-up work from the guy who brought them 2002’s Sweet Sixteen, about the pratfalls of a Scottish teen whose ac-

cent is so thick that Loach supplied English subtitles; and 2006’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley, with an incomparably tragic turn from Irish heartbreaker Cillian Murphy. Does Jimmy’s Hall measure up to the Ken Loach standard of mixing politics and a sublime brand of naturalistic acting? Almost. It never reaches The Wind That Shakes the Barley’s throat-clutching plot turns or ultimate heartbreak when the loveliest man in the world (the fairskinned Murphy) allows himself to assassinated by his own brother for the cause of a free Ireland. But Jimmy’s Hall does carry the struggle from the early 1920s through the even more tumultuous 30s, when the crushing poverty induced by the Great Depression caused even the most militantly socialist disciples some soul-shaking late-night angst. I don’t think I’ve ever insisted that there should be a college course-like requirement that my readers see another film to prepare themselves for the one I’m reviewing, but this time I think it would greatly increase your enjoyment of Jimmy’s Hall, opening Friday at San Francisco’s Landmark Embarcadero Cinema, and on July 17 in Berkeley, if you took, rented or streamed The Wind That Shakes the

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Barry Ward as Jimmy in director Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall.

Barley first. Loach and his veteran screenwriter Paul Laverty construct believable scenes where every possible political point of view is elucidated precisely but in down-to-earth language. You not only get where people are coming from, but can sense the deadly consequences when former comrades turn their arms on each other. The photography eloquently understates the landscape’s seductive beauty. This is not Disney’s Emerald Isle, or even John Ford’s.

Previously seen as the flirtatious Patrick “Kitten” Braden, the crossdressing devil in search of freedom and a Mitzi Gaynor look-alike mom in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto, in Barley Cillian Murphy is transcendent as an idealist who sticks to his guns regardless of personal cost. A pivotal scene that cuts to the core of this film’s vise-like grip on our emotions features Murphy’s Damien grieving for a deed he has not yet committed: the execution

of a childhood friend for betraying the rebels. Staggering across rugged country as if drunk with grief, holding a loaded pistol towards the chest of another as if pressed towards his own, Murphy manages with agonized body language to convey all the horrible, irreparable damage of war, then adds this blunt admission: “I studied anatomy for five years. Now I’m going to shoot Chris Reilly in the heart. I hope this Ireland we’re fighting for is worth it.”t

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Showboating out on Blu-Ray by Philip Campbell

San Francisco Opera, Show Boat Music by Jerome Kern; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Stage director: Francesca Zambello; Screen director: Frank Zamacona; Conductor: John DeMain; SFO Orchestra; SFO Chorus (Ian Robertson, director); SFO Dance Corps (Michele Lynch, choreographer); Peter J. Davison, set designer; Paul Tazewell, costumes; Mark McCullough, lighting; Tod Nixon, sound. SFO co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera and Houston Grand Opera (EuroArts Music International) he sixth DVD/Blu-Ray release in the San Francisco Opera’s collaboration with EuroArts Music International and Naxos of America took only a year to produce, but for eager devotees of the American musical, it didn’t come a moment too soon. Centerpiece of the SFO 2014 summer season, Francesca Zambello’s and John DeMain’s affectionate re-creation of Kern & Hammerstein II’s groundbreaking Show Boat, enlarged for the opera house stage, proved a big hit with fans and critics, and also scored another one for SFO General Director David Gockley. Worries about the suitability of bringing Broadway and microphones (no matter how subtly employed) to the venerable War Memorial evaporated quickly as the seasoned conductor mounted the podium and launched into the thrilling overture, with the brilliant original orchestrations of Robert Russell Bennett wonderfully

intact. The cascade of songs and production numbers that followed (so many of them right out of the Great American Songbook) almost seemed like a history of popular music in America tracing itself all the way back to operatic roots in the Old World. Working closely with her expert conductor, Zambello fashioned a new libretto based on Hammerstein’s 1927 Broadway original, omitting redundancies, unnecessary exposition and re-ordering song selections in the second act to create a tighter show and a sense of time passing that would appeal to audiences today. The results were pretty darn remarkable. The long first act blazes along with dazzling energy as we are treated to such memorable standards as “Make Believe,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ dat Man,” “You Are Love,” and of course, “Ol’ Man River.” The shorter second act sags dramatically, but we blame Edna Ferber for that. Hammerstein originally did a brave thing, trying to cram virtually all of the novel’s sprawling narrative into one night in a Broadway theatre. He managed to keep most of the controversial subtext of racial discrimination and the sad backstory of chanteuse Julie La Verne intact. And he still covered the travails of four married couples over the course of three decades. That’s a lot of plot for a show that also had to entertain at the popular song-anddance level. Trying to tie up loose ends before the finale inevitably made the second act seem a bit trite. Detail and characterization are necessarily skimpy, but at least in this edition we get soprano Patricia Racette, in her role debut as Julie, singing

the classic “Bill,” and leading lady Heidi Stober as Magnolia Hawks and baritone Michael Todd Simpson as her errant husband Gaylord Ravenal sweetly performing “Why Do I Love You?” Bass Morris Robinson as Joe intermittently reprises “Ol’ Man River” as a leitmotif that helps the melodrama cohere. It was bold stuff 88 years ago, and old racial biases still struggle towards resolution today. The famous miscegenation scene, in which Julie is revealed to be of mixed blood and therefore illegally married to a white man, retains a shocking power, and the model of a single mother raising her child while building a career still poses contemporary challenges. There is plenty of humor and oldtime physical comedy to leaven the mood, and the supporting roles of the good-hearted Cap’n Andy and his crabby wife Parthy are amusingly essayed here by Mr. Noodle himself, Bill Irwin, and the pitiless agent from television’s Frasier, Harriet Harris. Morris Robinson wins the crowd’s heartfelt bravos with his seemingly effortless singing and acting, and Angela Renee Simpson, as his beleaguered spouse Queenie, also rules the stage whenever she appears. Her big number “Hey, Fellah!” helps energize that clumsy second act. John Bolton is ingratiating as the Cotton Blossom’s second banana Frank Schultz, and Kirsten Wyatt as the showboat’s comic soubrette Ellie Mae Chipley (the object of Frank’s affection) actually fares better in high-def than she did in person. Her performance seemed impossibly perky and over-the-top onstage, but we find more of her charm and personality in close-ups.

Which brings us to the upside and downside of the technically superb recording. Flaws found in the theatre are often improved and even repaired by the excellent camerawork, but moments that played well in the big auditorium prove distracting when seen under closer scrutiny. You can see every trembling tonsil and drop of sweat. Heidi Stober’s well-sung but rather generic Magnolia appears downright miscast when she is up-closeand-personal with Michael Todd

Simpson’s more age-appropriate Gaylord, but Patricia Racette’s rendition of “Bill” has deeper impact when we see every careworn line in her expressive face. The colorful sets and costumes have fantastic detail, and the sound, especially when played back in DTS HD Master 5.1, is stunningly accurate. It all adds up to a must-have for lovers of the American musical and the genius of Oscar Hammerstein II, and faithful followers of the San Francisco Opera.t

something of what we are” on “B A Nobody,” she knows what she’s talking about. Her debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream (Rough Trade) wears its Tegan and Sara influences on its tattoo-sleeve. SOAK takes that inspiration and runs with it on “Blud” and “Garden.” But SOAK has her own unique voice on “Sea Creatures,” “Hailstones Don’t Hurt” and the instrumental interludes “A Dream to Fly” and “If Everyone Is Someone, No One Is Everyone.” You might think you were listening to Tony Award-winner Alan Cumming singing on the campy “Sunset Blvd.,” the title track of Promis & Matthews’ concept album (Stroboscopic/JFPMusic). But you’re actually listening to openly gay, Chilean-born singer/songwriter Jose Promis, who has again teamed up with music legend Ian Matthews (ex-Fairport Convention). Promis & Matthews cover Amanda Lear’s “The Sphinx” with compelling results. Of the original selections, the glammy “Stars Are Ageless,” “The Last Pop Star” and “Nobody Ever Leaves a Star” shine brightly. Legendary lesbian guitarist Debbie Smith (Curve, Echobelly) is

back with her new band, the allfemale trio Blindness, and its debut album Wrapped in Plastic (Saint Marie). Standout tracks include “No One Counts,” “Sunday Morning” and “Deserving.” It’s fitting that Honeybird (aka Monique Mizrahi) identifies as bisexual on her album Out Comes Woman (facebook.com/ honeybirdmusic). Like the impossible-to-pin-down bi community, Honeybird’s music is difficult to label. An amalgam of musical influences ranging from punk to jazz to tropical and beyond, Out Comes Woman is challenging and rewarding. Out musician Derek Bishop goes for a retro-disco vibe (read: real musicians, including Pansy Division drummer Luis Illades) on his second album Bicycling in Quicksand (derekbishop.net). Bishop’s got the beat on “Turn Around” and “Baggage,” and there’s a new-wavy influence on “Automatic” and “Taffy.” The new wave also washes over Meanwhile Back on Earth (planetalphanaut.com), the third album by queer artist Alphanaut (aka Mark Alan). Out-of-this-world tracks include “No One’s Normal,” “Is This My Country?” and the Prefab Sprout-ish “Electricity.”t

Post-Pride playlist by Gregg Shapiro

he eponymous 2011 album by Arthur’s Landing was a cause for celebration. A musical collective whose members had previously performed with the late gay musical mastermind Arthur Russell, Arthur’s Landing joined the chorus of others who made efforts to keep Russell’s music and memory alive. Four years later, Arthur’s Landing returns with the double-CD remix disc Second Thoughts (Buddhist Army). It’s hard to imagine what Russell, whose contributions to dance music can still be felt today (just ask gay rapper Cazwell, who sampled Russell’s Loose Joints track “Is It All Over My Face?”), would think about the current state of re-

mixing. Still, it is eye- and ear-opening to hear the Cooked Audio mix of “It’s a Boy,” the Alkalino mix of “Tell You Today,” the Standard Planets mix of “Dumbo Dumbo,” and the Virgin Magnetic mix of “Change My Life,” and the way they make Russell more relevant than ever. Like Russell, Jobriath was a musician far ahead of his time, whom we lost too soon when he died of AIDS in 1983. As groundbreaking an artist as Russell, Jobriath was an unapologetically gay performer, marketed by Elektra Records in the early 1970s as American glam rock’s answer to David Bowie. Walking the walk and talking the talk in equal measure, Jobriath failed to catch on as hoped and was soon set adrift. Over the years, he’s been rediscov-

ered by musicians (hello, Morrissey) and hipsters, and finally got some of his due. The attractively packaged DVD/LP set Jobriath A.D. – A Rock N Roll Fairy Tale + Popstar: The Lost Musical (Factory 25) combines Kieran Turner’s well-received doc about Jobriath (including a wealth of bonus features) with the clear vinyl album containing the previously unreleased songs and Jobriath’s commentary from Popstar, his “lost musical.” The field of prolific gay rappers is so small that it’s easy to be fans of both Cazwell and SoCalled without any of that East Coast/West Coast competitive hype that troubled mainstream rap. Since the release of his brilliant debut The SoCalled Seder 10 years ago, gay, Canadian, Jewish rapper SoCalled (aka Josh Dolgin) has been expanding his musical palette. He continues to do so on Peoplewatching (Dare To Care). Still a wordplay wizard as you can hear on “Dreamin’” and “Everyone Else Must Fail,” SoCalled plays well with others, giving them voice on “Boyfriend Material” (featuring Jordanna Singer and Narcy) and “Never See You Again” (featuring Pierre Perall, Fred Wesley, Rich Ly and Mike Dubue). SoCalled’s brushstrokes also include the Tin Pin Alley meets Brill Building of “Fire on Hutchison Street” and the bonus track, Moe Koffman’s dance number “Curried Soul 2.0.” When SOAK (aka Bridie MondsWatson), a queer, Irish singer-songwriter at the end of her teen years, sings “A teenage heart/is an unguided dart/We’re trying hard/to make

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The Great Kahn by John F. Karr

was a Method actor, but she was a comic.” A comic who was always, always worried that the audience was laughing at her, not with her. Attempting to dignify her characters, she made in-depth studies of their psychology, looking for the truth in every scene. And yet people laughed. This, among deeper-rooted insecurities, made her a neurotic mess. Madison relates that her confidence in her singing had been blasted by her mother, and that her preoccupation with her looks was a gift of her father, who told her she was ugly, then deserted the family. Tie Madeline’s massive insecurities all together, and you have a woman who, like Effie White in Dreamgirls, couldn’t sustain. And so we arrive at the day she was famously let go (i.e., fired) from On the 20th Century (a tale surprisingly told with more acutely revealing detail in the recent biography of show composer Cy Coleman, which will soon be reviewed in the B.A.R.). When director Harold Prince lauded Madeline’s opening-night performance, her sharp-tongued retort was the legendary, “Well, I hope you don’t expect me to do that every night.” And indeed, she didn’t do it every night, despite concessions made by management, like the lower-note

ne need only ponder the effect that Jack Nicholson’s eyebrows had upon his career to understand how greatly Madeline Kahn’s career was shaped and confined by the basic physiognomy of her voice and innate demeanor. As well as her many crippling neuroses and a painful self-knowledge. As David Marshall Grant said of Madeline, “She knew what greatness was, and she struggled because she believed she could never attain it.” It’s a psychological approach that author William V. Madison takes in the first biography of the beloved star, Madeline Kahn – Being the Music • A Life (University Press of Mississippi, $35). As it’s most likely going to remain the only Kahn bio, it’s a good thing it’s good. It’s got lots of photos, and with 300 pages, Madison is allowed to devote a chapter to every single one of her projects. Madeline’s adenoidal voice and brittle posturing sabotaged her. Her poise and control were distancing, making her appear an ironic commentator in an almost Brechtian sense. How could she be so artificial and yet so real? Director Andre Bishop explained, “She behaved and worked like someone who

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alternatives to the score’s plentiful high Cs, which she didn’t think she could hit eight shows a week. Since her dismissal effectively blackballed her on Broadway, she turned to Hollywood and hated most of her roles, those bimbos with breasts, those shrews, feeling that viewers would think she wasn’t acting the character, but was the character in real life. Her limited career in musicals post-20th Century “still involved enormous psychological and practical complications for Madeline,” yet Madison traces the development of her skill, her partial mastering of

Madeline Kahn picks up her 1993 Tony Award.

her traits, and to some degree, her overcoming her neuroses, with an analysis of her performance on a television special of Irving Berlin’s comic song, “You’d Be Surprised” (it’s on YouTube). She didn’t want to do it, thinking it pigeonholed her as a comedian. Madison calls the performance “a mini-masterpiece of comic timing and lyric poise,” which showed that “as an artist, she had arrived at a point where she could deliver exceptional work, even

with material in which she had limited confidence.” She certainly had little confidence in the film roles provided by Mel Brooks, which she felt constantly degraded her. But they paid the bills, and she was nothing if not a trouper. She showed her quick humor when trouping to work in Florida, where a male fan gushed how much he loved her. Madeline didn’t miss a beat. “Oh, really?” she said. “And how long have you been a homosexual?” She ultimately trouped back to Broadway, where the starring role in Born Yesterday (conspicuously not a musical) redeemed her legit career and led to her career-capping (and Tony-winning) performance in The Sisters Rosensweig. Of her performance in the show, critic Michael Specter praised her “not only for her ability to bring down the house, but for the streaks of sadness she lays on top of the laughs.” In every way, the show was a vindication. While having great success on television in Cosby, Madeline struggled with the ovarian cancer that she succumbed to in 1999, and which she had hidden from castmates and friends for several years. William Madison’s biography hides little, from sadness to triumph, and is a fine tribute.t

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Jude the obscure by Tim Pfaff

f there is one thing A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara’s behemoth of a novel (Doubleday) is not, it is little. Authors don’t always get to pick their own titles, but if there’s an explanation of “a little life” in the 700-page text, it went by me. “Life” in the singular does – eventually – reflect the book’s fixation with its main character, Jude St. James; the other named characters are mere moons orbiting around him. His heavily freighted name is not his fault, Yanagihara thereby suggesting that it’s not hers, either. It’s the name he was given when, as a foundling, he was taken in by a community of sadistic American Christian monks. It’s definitely not Yanagihara’s fault that The Atlantic deemed her novel “a book fundamentally about gay male experience,” setting off the predictable media storm about whether it’s the Great American Gay Novel. Early on, then, the discussion changed from “Is it any good?” to the tired old “Is it or isn’t it?” In both cases, it isn’t. The sensibility isn’t gay; it’s fag-hag. The book isn’t just heteronormative; it’s creepy. For starters, hardly anyone in it is gay. Four college friends go on to make tightly interconnected lives (of fortune and, frequently, fame) in a featureless Manhattan and their pricey getaways (Yanagihara can describe living spaces, but there’s little to distinguish Wall Street from the Via Compostelo, which is also one of the locales). They suspiciously resemble the cast of Looking grafted onto Sex in the City. But looks are deceiving. Only one of the guys, the Haitian artist JB, is categorically gay, and he’s a bitch.

Mixed-race architect Malcolm might “squeak bi” if he hadn’t fled to the safe haven of heterosexual matrimony for familial and financial reasons. And then there’s stage and screen star Willem Ragnarsson, a poster-handsome skirt-chaser whose one retreat from unbridled promiscuity is an implausible, decades-long committed relationship with Jude, believably his best friend if without benefits. When it becomes clear that one of the ways he can respect Jude is to seek (undisclosed) sex elsewhere, Willem’s back in the arms, and presumably nether regions, of the ladies. But what of Jude the obscure? Sexually a lost cause? Yanagihara doesn’t clarify. He’s also handsome, of course, if horribly disfigured from the neck down. The victim of grave physical and sexual abuse – all of it with men – from long before his sexual self-identity could have evolved naturally, Jude knows only the attentions of men while recoiling from all of them. If ever there were a man to whom the word “gay” did not apply, it would be Jude. He survives by dint of his genius for advanced math and his skills as a litigator, where his capacity to go cold makes him a barracuda barrister. If he’s perilously close to a stereotype – but not – that’s where Yanagihara’s characterization succeeds. In real life, young people with his experiences are scoured of personality, emotionally shut down (apart from multidirectional rage) and functionally stuck in place. Not dead yet. Their attractiveness – if seldom quite attraction – to men who will reenact the abuse plays out in Jude’s case with a rogue psychiatrist (of course) and a sadistic CEO with

the sinister name Caleb. Yanagihara understands all that, making Jude a sympathetic character from the beginning, one you never stop rooting for. In the Robin Williams Good Will Hunting therapist sense, it’s not his fault, and neither is it yours for getting involved. It’s a made-for-TV weepie.

The thing about adult sex with children and powerless adolescents that’s often overlooked – because who wants to look? – is that it’s frequently, if not always, focused on inflicting pain. Yanagihara doesn’t overlook. Jude’s primary escape from his pain of all sorts is inflicting more by cutting himself, a life skill

he learned from Brother Luke, the monk who ushered him out of the monastery and into a life of forced prostitution on the lam with pedophiles (who bring their own sheets) in motel rooms, rewarding him with a complete set of often untreated STDs. The most understanding of observers, and Jude has plenty, is unable to tolerate the cutting for long, and Yanagihara drives the point home with countless episodes of it, rendered in grisly detail. The author’s biggest slip with the blade comes when Willem, at his wits’ end, tries to show Jude what it feels like to watch such grim doings by slashing his own chest a half-dozen times. This is a man who makes his living with his beautiful body, but we hear nothing more of that in a novel that otherwise leaves nothing out. That’s the thing. Yanagihara has a great subject, one that merits more attention, and she talks it to death. The novel reads like Infinite Oprah, with Yanagihara not about to be stuck on the fiction writer’s putative choice: do you show or do you tell? She shows and tells and explains and psychologizes, driving the reader over a course of comma clauses that can go on for a page, finally exhausting even themselves. It feels like reading braille aloud. It’s something Michael Chabon can do with cumulative power and Salman Rushdie with driving intensity, both of them (usually) knowing when to stop. Yanagihara traps the reader into an overlong gossipy phone call you’d hang up on if you could. It ends up trivializing its subject.t

True survivor by Jim Piechota

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subject of the documentary film Grey Gardens, is affectionately recounted through a scrapbook of photographs and stories about how Newkirk came to befriend Edie, and how they stayed in touch over the years. His subsequent book of memories with Little Edie, MemoraBEALEia, adds flare to an overstuffed shelf of books and documentaries about the mother-daughter family who lived in squalor on a dilapidated East Hampton estate. The memoir’s most impressive feature is its three generous sections of memorabilia, including marvelous photographs, newspaper clippings, theatrical, literary, and music reviews, gossip columns, original handwritten correspondence, and yellowed pictures of Newkirk’s life with Little Edie and many other celebrities. Readers unfamiliar with this snappy personality will become well-acquainted with him after encountering this fun, illuminating display of strife, success, and celebrity merriment.t

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Low-key, unassuming and surprisingly moving, Darrin is part of an ongoing series in which San Francisco photographer Jamil Hellu has affectionately documented everyday moments of his loving, long-term partnership with his husband, Darrin. The pair married last year in Dolores Park at an “all pink” wedding ceremony. But the spur for the project was something darker. In 2005, Hellu saw a news story about two teenage boys who were executed in a public hanging in Iran on charges stemming from homosexual behavior. “Of the few published photographs of the episode, the most shocking to me was an image of the boys, blindfolded, just moments before their death on the scaffold,” recalls Hellu in his artist statement. “Thinking about ways to counter homophobia, I began to depict my own life in my work to challenge stereotypes in mainstream media. I started to photograph Darrin as an expression of love, aware that relationships such as mine continue to struggle for acceptance and social justice in many parts of the world.” The show of over 30 images, which begins with a large, traditional portrait of a smiling, gentle-faced Darrin, emphasizes the quiet, intimate moments that add sweetness to life and the un-self-conscious domesticity that most married couples, gay or straight, will recognize. Hellu intentionally focuses on sensuality, vulnerability and shared experience rather than the overt homoeroticism that, he says, “typically permeates representations of gay men.” Note the two pairs of wet hairy lower legs standing beside each other outside the shower; Darrin reading in bed in Paris, and in a cowboy hat at Burning Man; the nape of his neck and a glimpse of his hearing aid: a bath for two that necessitates the intertwining of big feet; the two bearded lovers locked in a smooch; and Darren caught dozing, his brawny, naked torso sprawled on a rumpled bed, an image that calls to mind a male version of Bonnard’s “Siesta” (1900). As the subtle emotional power of Hellu’s images accrues, his visual diary of the ties that bind will sneak up on you. TransCuba is the latest body of work from Mariette Pathy Allen, whose stated goal is “the defreakification of gender variant people,” having photographed and advocated for the transgender community for 35 years. Her exhibition of glossy, technically assured color photographs, which is accompanied by a handsome monograph that includes the personal stories of some of her subjects, arrives at a pivotal juncture when relations between Cuba and the U.S. are thawing, and there’s potential for increased acceptance of gays and newfound freedom for transgender people. “As Cuba transitions [away] from strict communism, sexual minorities in this macho-inclined country are becoming more visible and less despised,” observes Allen, adding that the work camps where those deemed to have “corrupt morals” were once dispatched are a thing of the past. “I see transgender Cubans as a metaphor for Cuba itself; people living between genders in a country moving between doctrines.” Allen credits Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, a sexologist, with spearheading an anti-discrimination campaign and improving conditions and treatment. But the farther away one gets from Havana, the more prejudice men who’ve transitioned to living as women encounter; their standard of living tends to plummet, and work opportunities dry up, forcing many to turn to prostitution. When she visited Havana in 2012, Allen

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spent an evening at the Las Vegas Club, one the city’s most outrageous drag-performance cabarets, where she connected with Amanda. She would later meet Nomi and Malu, the “best-known transgender person on Cuba” and the focus of several intense photographs here. The group traveled the country together when Allen returned to the island the following year. She dedicated her book to them. Amanda and Nomi grace its cover; they’re seated together, dressed to the nines with plenty of bling, on a red leather banquette at the Club. Serving up a bring-it-on bravado and attitude to burn despite the oppression and a

host of medical, psychological and financial issues they face, the trio of transgender women became the main, though not the only camera subjects in Allen’s photographs. They took a risk in the simple act of being visible, and have, by necessity, developed a strongly defined sense of self that is communicated and felt in Allen’s images. She shot them at the beach, on the streets of Havana, in their homes and at the cafes and clubs they frequented. No wonder they look like they own the place. Malu posed with her parents and sister outside their house, and in other pictures, she’s alone and naked on a hotel bed or showing off

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Summerifica re you calmed down a bit after all the celebrations? Would you care for a contemplative work of art in a cool space? Remember, each week, for bar and nightlife events that heat up, head on over to On the Tab in the BARtab section. Lynne Fried

Baloney @ Oasis SF’s all-male revue blends sexy and witty styles in original group, solo and duo dance numbers by Rory Davis and James Arthur M, with a hot and handsome cast of men; Michael Phillis MCs. $20 and up. 8pm. Also July 10 & 11. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfbaloney.com sfoasis.com

Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters @ The Marsh Echo Brown’s comic solo show follows a young women’s impending sexual encounter, and its political implications. $20-$35. Thu 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru July 25. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Club Inferno @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ hilarious rockin’ production of Kelly Kittell and Peter Fogel’s glam rock musical spin on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, where the road to fame can be hell, literally! $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 8. 575 10th St. at Bryant. 377-4202. www.hypnodrome.org

Group photo exhibit of drag, theatre, music and gay life by multiple artists, including Daniel Nicoletta, Marques Daniels, Molly DeCoudreaux, Nicole Fraser-Herron, Sara Gobets, Jose A. Guzman Colon, Michael Johnstone, and others. Thru July 18. 50 Scott St. www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

Solo performer Dan Hoyle returns with his acclaimed show about about the slow-tech movement and how personal interactions outweigh technology. $20-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5pm. Thru July 18. Mainstage Theater, 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

The beloved feline Japanese character is celebrated with multi-stage live shows, exhibits, animated art and fashion exhibits, photo ops, and product shopping galore. $25-$35, $125-$250 VIP packages. 12pm, 7pm. July 11, 2pm & 7:30pm. July 12, 12pm. 7000 Coliseum way, Oakland. www.sanrio.com/HKFestival

Dancers’ Group presents InkBoat’s site-specific outdoor performances, dedicated to modern dance innovator Anna Halprin on her 95th birthday. Free. Daily 5pm-8pm. Thru July 11. Fisherman’s Wharf, 2905 Hyde St. www.95rituals.org

Lisa D’Amour’s Obie-winning satire about two very different straight couples in a suburban neighborhood. $32-$50. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. auroratheatre.org

Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival @ Oracle Arena

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95 Rituals @ Hyde Street Pier

Don’t Dream It…Be It! @ Harvey Milk Photo Center

Each and Every Thing @ The Marsh

SPF8 @ ODC Theater

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Detroit @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Love and Information @ Strand Theater The inaugural performances at American Conservatory Theatre’s new satellite theatre; Carol Churchill’s kaleidoscopic play captures the dizzying array of electronic communication that helps and hinders true human connection. $40-$100. Tue-Sat 7:30pm [note earlier curtain time]. Wed & Sat 2pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Aug. 9. 1127 Market St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

SPF8 @ ODC Theater SafeHouse Arts’ eighth annual dance showcase, with works by Project Tremelo, Joe Landini, Emote Dance Theater, Blind Tiger Society, Paige Starling Sorvillo, LV Dance Collective, Jenni Bregman & Dancers, and others. $10-$20. Various daily times. Thru July 12. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. safehousearts.info odcdance.org

Sunset Piano @ SF Botanical Gardens Enjoy site-specific recitals by multiple musicians on a dozen pianos set in the outdoor garden’s 55-acre setting; open to the public for playing as well. Thru July 20. www.sunsetpiano.com www.sfbotanicalgardensociety.org

Outdoor summer stock production of the hit Broadway musical adaptation of the book and Disney film, with 46 actors and a live orchestra. $28-$59. 8pm. Sat & Sun thru July 19. Joaquin Miller Park, 3300 Joaquin Miller Road, Oakland. (510) 531-9597. www.woodminster.com

Melissa Manchester @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Grammy Award-winning singersongwriter performs her great hits and new songs at the intimate downtown nightclub. $60-$75 ($20 food/drink min.) 8pm. Also July 11, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.melissamanchester.com www.ticketweb.com

Top Girls @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Player’s production of Caryl Churchill’s witty play about an ‘80s British employment agency and its women through history. $5-$25. Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Aug. 2. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. shotgunplayers.org

Garrett + Moulton @ YBCA The Luminous Edge, the Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton’s acclaimed evening-length work, is presented in encore performances. $25-$36. ThuSat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru July 12. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 701 Mission St. 978-2787. garrettmoulton.org www.ybca.org

Macy Gray @ Yoshi’s Oakland The talented vocalist returns to the stylish East Bay restaurant/cabaret. $49-$78. 7:30pm & 9:30pm. July 12, 7pm & 9pm. 510 Embaracadero West. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Thu 16 Denise Perrier @ Feinstein’s James Barry Knox

Sun 12 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

Caitlin Moran @ The Chapel The popular British columnist chats with Peggy Orenstein about her new book How to Build a Girl. $30 (includes signed first edition of her book). 2pm. 777 Valencia St. caitlinmoran.co.uk thechapelsf.com

Hysteria @ Oasis Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the new comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. sfoasis.com

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W. Kamau Bell @ The Marsh, Berkeley Acclaimed comic and commentator performs Home by 10, his solo show about current events. Partial proceeds benefit Hearts Leap Preschool. $15$50. Thursdays, 8pm. Thru July 30. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Fri 10 Cymbeline @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s outdoor production of The Bard’s magical romantic comedy. $10-$35. Fri & Sat, some Sun 8pm. Sundays 4pm. Thru July 26. 890 Belle Avenue, Dominican University of California. 499-4488. marinshakespeare.org

Sat 11 Anne Deavere Smith @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre The award-winning performer presents her solo show, Notes From the Field: Doing Time in Education, the California Chapter; with music composed and performed by Marcus Shelby. $25-$89. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm, Sun 7pm. Thru Aug. 2. Roda Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

TransCuba, Jamil Hellu @ Rayko Photo Center Photo exhibit of the prints by Mariette Pathy Allen of Cuba’s transgender residents. Also, in the side gallery, Jamil Hellu’s Darrin, a series of homoerotic photos of his partner. Thru July 31. 428 3rd St. 495-3773. www.raykophotocenter.com

Wed 15 Long-Term Survivor Project @ SF Camera Work Exhibit of AIDS-themed works by Hunter Reynolds, Frank Yamrus and Grahame Perry; Programs about HIV survivorship. Thru July 18. 1011 Market St. 487-1011. www.sfcamerawork.org

Portraits and Other Likenesses @ Museum of the African Diaspora

Body Language @ Slate Contemporary Art, Oakland

New exhibit of collected drawings, paintings and sculptures from three decades of queer donations, guestcurated by Elisabeth Cornu. Free (members)-$5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

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Popular indie NYC band performs; Yukon Blonde and Fort Lean open. $12. 8pm. 155 Fell St. rickshawstop.com

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30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories @ GLBT History Museum

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Chappo @ Rickshaw Stop

Exhibit of contemporary works and historic exhibits of African cultures, with a shared group of works from SF MOMA. Thru Oct. 11. Free/$10. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

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No Nude Men’s production of William Marchant’s 1955 office comedy about technology and company politics. $20. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru July 25. 156 Eddy St. www.theexit.org

July 9, InForum presents authors Chuck Palahniuk and Lidia Yuknavitch in conversation (6pm). July 10: 9 to 5 (7pm) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (9pm). July 11: Scary Cow Short Film Festival (2pm). July 12: The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (1pm), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (3:30, 7pm) and Niagara (5:15, 8:15). July 13 & 14: Blade Runner, The Final Cut (7pm, 9:30). July 15: The Maltese Falcon (3:15, 7pm) and In a Lonely Place (5:10, 8:55). July 16, Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula (7:30) and The Wicker Man (5:30, 9pm). $11-$15. 429 Castro St. castrotheatre.com

Berkeley Playhouse’s production of Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s worldwide hit musical about Russian Jewish family and their hard-lost traditions at the turn of the century. $25-$60. Fri 7pm, Sat 1pm & 6pm. Sun 12pm & 5pm. Thru Aug. 2. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-8542. berkeleyplayhouse.org

Mary Poppins @ Woodminster Ampitheater, Oakland

The Desk Set @ Exit Theatre

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre

Fiddler on the Roof @ Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley

Tue 14 OUTspoken @ City Hall Outspoken: Portraits of LGBTQ Luminaries, an exhibit of photographs by Roger Erickson. Ground floor, North Light Court. Thru Sept. 11. 1 Carlton B. Goodlet Place. sfgov.org

Terry Furry, Philippe Jestin and Lisa Levine show new and recent works. Artist reception 6pm. Thru Aug. 8. Reg.hours, Thu-Sat 12pm-5pm. 473 25th St., Oakland. (510) 652-4085. www.slateart.net

Champagne White and the Temple of Poon @ Oasis D’Arcy Drollinger’s sequel to the hilarious hit comedy Shit & Champagne, with a women’s prisonthemed parody and suspense-filled action-comedy show. $25-$200 (fourperson VIP table). Thu-Sat 7pm. Thru Sept 12. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Denise Perrier @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Bay Area vocalist performs her show Bessie, Dinah and Me, a revue of songs popularized by Bessie Smith, Dinah Shore and Perrier. $25-$40. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.melissamanchester.com www.ticketweb.com

Hardcore Cronenberg @ YBCA Three months of weekly screenings of David Cronenberg’s artful unusual films. Thursdays 7:30pm, repeats Sundays 2pm. Thru Sept. 5. Free (members)-$8. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts screening room, 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Obscura @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Christian Cagigal returns with his touching solo show about family, magic, and tales of the occult; it includes some amazing sleight of hand. $15-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Aug. 8. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. www.impacttheatre.com

Queer Nation Reunion @ GLBT History Museum Gathering of the activist group’s San Francisco chapter, with panels at 6pm & 8pm. a slideshow and audience Q&A. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Call Me Miss Birds Eye @ Geary Theater Denise Wharmby’s musical tribute solo show as iconic musical theatre singer-actress Ethel Merman includes 30 songs, and stories from Merman’s life. $20-$65. Wed-Sat 7:30pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru July 19. 405 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Fri 10

Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival @ Oracle Arena

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Good fun for all ages by Brian Bromberger

n light of the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing marriage equality as the law of the land, it seems fitting that Strand Releasing is just now offering its latest DVD title, Gerontophilia. The film was a surprise hit at last year’s Frameline festival, but its theme that people should be able to love whomever they want resonates even more deeply in light of the cultural euphoria supporting same-sex couples. The fact that it is written and directed by Canada’s taboo-busting provocateur Bruce LaBruce only adds to the delicious fascination of this defiant but deeply satisfying film. Bruce, whose previous movies Skin Flick, L.A. Zombie, Hustler White and The Raspberry Reich have involved the intersection of art and porn, has opted here to produce his first mainstream project. But previous LaBruce fans need not worry, as the characters in Gerontophilia are still very much outsiders. LaBruce is still zeroing in on transgressing lines of race, gender, and class, but avoiding the sexual explicitness of his previous pictures. On the surface Gerontophilia appears to be a queer take on Harold and Maude, or a gay “reverse Lolita” tale. We first encounter 18-year-old French-Canadian Lake (the handsome but vacuous and bland PierGabriel Lajoie) as he is deep kissing his sassy “revolutionary” same-age girlfriend Desiree (the wonderfully droll Katie Boland). She, in-between smooches, yells out names of her feminist heroes to the point of orgasmic glee. But in the next scene we know we have entered a kind of sexual parallel universe when Lake, in his job as a lifeguard at a senior swimming pool, sports an erection

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while administering CPR to an elderly man who nearly drowned. Lake begins to realize he has a fetish, or as the title suggests, love for the elderly. His alcoholic nurse mother takes on a management position at an assisted living facility, and Lake gets employed for the summer as an orderly, cleaning bedpans and giving sponge baths to the residents. Gradually he discovers the old people are being given psychotropic drugs to keep them in a manageable

but almost catatonic state. He forms a strong bond with one patient, the 81-year-old debonair black self-described theater queen Melvyn Peabody. Charmed by Melvyn’s romantic stories of his youth and confessing his dream of seeing the Pacific Ocean one last time, Lake drinks martinis with him (as Melvyn wittily observes, “old men and gin bruise so easily”), sketches naked picSee page 26 >>

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also has to contend with the wicked headmistress Miss Trunchbull. Rallying the other children to mischievous rebellion, Matilda Wormwood begins to develop the powers of telekinesis to counter Miss Trunchbull’s increasingly severe punishments. “It’s totally subversive,” Minchin, 39, said of the musical, which has a book by British writer Dennis Kelly. “I think Matilda is a genuine feminist icon for young girls. It feels like we live in a generation where empowerment

is about saying in the mirror, ‘I am strong,’ but empowerment is actually in education. People have been writing about what it means to be a human all these years. Read the fucking books; that’s your key.” One might even call Matilda a queer show – in a gender transgressive fashion rather than a sexual sense – and Minchin, who is a straight married father of two daughters, seemed close to endorsing that label. “But I have to be careful about the language I use in talking about the show,” he said. “I was having dinner with Dan Savage last night, and it’s weird but I feel with-

out any justification that I belong to the queer community. I’m really interested in this idea that queer is not about what you put your dick into. It’s about disassociating with a societal paradigm that says a man is like this and a woman is like that.” Ever since Bertie Carvel originated the role of the monstrous Miss Trunchbull in England in 2010 and then on Broadway three years later, the role has always been cast with a man in drag. “But it’s not played as a drag queen,” Minchin said. “It’s played with utter truth. She’s cast with a man because of Dahl’s description of how she’s physically built. Other than one easy laugh in the second act, we’re not asking you See page 26 >>

Mia Sinclair Jenness is one of three young actresses who rotate in the title role of Matilda, the SF-bound musical based on Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book.

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Joe the justly celebrated by Cornelius Washington

Joe Dallesandro: Warhol Superstar, Underground Film Icon, Actor by Michael Ferguson; Kindle edition ust as a bisexual relative and I were lamenting the lack of bisexual representation in the LGBTQ spectrum, EarlyBirdBooks. com releases the e-book that celebrates the life and career of the world’s first openly bisexual male nude film star, Joe Dallesandro: Warhol Superstar, Underground Film Icon, Actor. It reveals the life and career of one of the most enduring men in LGBTQ culture. Joseph Angelo Dallesandro displays his physicality, sensuality, and laconic acting technique as examples of the revolutions in cinema, art, music, and fashion. His work as the stud in the Warhol-produced, Paul Morrissey-directed trinity of underground films Flesh, Trash, and Heat pushed the boundaries of gender norms and sexual orientation. “Little Joe” gave us a new representation of what it meant to be a man during the hippie movement, woman’s lib, and the sexual revolution. His stunning face and naked body were immortalized by the iconographers of fame Avedon, Kenn, Duncan, Greg Gorman, Annie Liebovitz, Steven Miesel, Jack Mitchell and Victor Skrebneski. They created im-

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to laugh at the fact that she’s a man. We’re asking you to utterly believe her.” With a cast in which kids outnumber adults, Matilda is usually pegged as a family show recommended for children 6 and up. “But

ages that went beyond sex-symbol status into a new definition of what it means to be young. Little Joe gives us plenty of never-before-published images in the book, along with writing a very loving and amusing foreword. His film work was admired by actor icon Sir Laurence Olivier and writer/cultural critic Norman Mailer. Film critics were not immune to his charms, he drew rave reviews from such notables as Pauline Kael and Vincent Canby. His image appeared throughout all forms of media, including album covers, television, music videos, and commercials, as well as European and American films. The fashion world acknowledged his contribution to style in major ad campaigns for Calvin Klein posed with supermodel icon Kate Moss, for Yves Saint Laurent photographed by creative director/provocateur Hedi Slimane, and as the inspiration for Tom Ford’s sensual new denim line for men. Recently seen in Jody Watley’s music video “Nightlife” and saluted sartorially in Out magazine, Little Joe keeps bringing the big presence for people who have what it takes to appeal to both genders and all orientations, from the atelier to the street. The book reveals Joe as a self-effacing, down-to-earth, strong, self-made man whose dignity, talent, humanity, and instinct for taking advantage of opportunities led

to an astonishing amount of work. Who else’s résumé boasts John Waters, Frances Ford Coppola, Holly Woodlawn, Whoopi Goldberg, Candy Darling and Don Johnson? Also the covers of Rolling Stone, After Dark, and Physique Pictorial magazines. He’s probably proudest of the movie about his life directed by his talented and beautiful daughter Vedra (which he co-produced). It was featured at the 2010 San Francisco International LGTBQ Film Festival at the Castro Theatre. I had the pleasure of asking him a few questions during a Q&A, and snatched the best images of him during the paparazzi frenzy that ensued when he, Vedra and Mr. 2010 San Francisco Leather Brandon Clark got together off-stage in a moment of admiration, glamour, and leather gear. It’s refreshing to see someone like Joe, so shy and polite about the accolades given to him from people all over the world, for his life, career, and contributions to the understanding of LGBTQ culture. His e-book is a mustread. We applaud him and author Michael Ferguson, webmaster of JoeDallesandro.com. Get this book and learn what courage, star quality, and style are all about, from someone who took it beyond 15 minutes of fame into legendary status.t

if you think you’re too grown up for Matilda, come and see it. The most sophisticated, art-savvy person will still be getting stuff after three watches. There’s just a whole lot of shit going on. It empowers kids, and it makes grown-ups cry for their lost childhoods.” With the commercial success of Matilda, still running in London

and on Broadway, Minchin had his choice of follow-up projects. One is a musical based on the movie Groundhog Day that should open next year, and another is Larrikins, an animated epic for DreamWorks that he is directing as well as writing the songs, which isn’t due until 2018. Because of Larrikins (an Aussie

I am the future of the LGBT community. I’m gay. I’m 55. I’ve been out to my family for twenty years. I married a wonderful woman six years ago, and we adopted a baby girl from Vietnam. My family is everything to me. That’s why I’m an avid follower of LGBT rights. Not just marriage, either. I want to make sure that I can travel safely, enjoy my retirement and have my child benefit from my life’s work. I’m the future of the LGBT community. And I read about that future every morning on my work laptop. Because that’s where I want it to be.

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term for a lovable scoundrel), he relocated with wife and children from London to Los Angeles. With the Matilda tour now in Los Angeles, Minchen figures it might be time for his 6-year-old son to finally see the show, although his 9-year-old daughter has seen it every year since she was 4. “She’s a girl, so she’s much smarter earlier,” Minchin said. “She was a little scared the first time she saw it. She got Miss Trunchbull because she’s a monster and kids get monsters, but Mr. Wormwood was just a dad shouting at his daughter, and it reminded her of me.” Beat. “Just kidding.”t Matilda will run July 15-Aug. 15 at the Orpheum Theatre. Tickets are $40-$210. Call (888) 746-1799 or go to shnsf.com.

Gerontophilia

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tures of him, and slowly weans him off his medication. Eventually Lake falls in love with Melvyn and has sex with him, though mostly off-screen (with a used condom as proof), with some mild frontal nudity. Gentle, poignant sensuality is interrupted only by one mercifully brief, creepy fantasy where Lake is licking Melvyn’s bedsores. In a hilarious line after Melvyn shows Lake some pictures of when he was younger and attractive, Lake pines, “I like the way you look now, with your wrinkles,” to which Melvyn replies, “What medication are you on?” With assistance from Desiree, Lake helps Melvyn escape from the institution. They embark on a road trip to the Pacific, leading to a bittersweet conclusion. Gerontophilia is a perverse romantic comedy with dark humor and an emotional tenderness that grabs the audience unexpectedly. Much of its success is due to Walter Borden’s flamboyant but heartfelt performance as Melvyn. Borden, a well-known Canadian stage actor, must have fallen on his 81-year-old knees thanking God for this role of a lifetime. He doesn’t disappoint, even bravely posing naked for the camera. In his ability to seize the day despite the odds stacked against him, he shows how condescending we are in the ways we

Courtesy Tim Minchin

Performer and songwriter Tim Minchin, known for his offbeat takes on contemporary society, provided the music and lyrics for Matilda.

treat senior citizens. In the excellent DVD extra, a 23-minute interview with queer/punk icon LaBruce after a film retrospective at MoMA, the director reveals he learned the term gerontophilia from John Waters, a friend and influence. The irreverent tone and attack on social norms typical of Waters animates Gerontophilia. It could be argued that Lake and Melvyn are mutually using each other (he for his granddaddy fixation, and the randy Melvyn to feel sexy one more time), but there is warmth to the relationship that makes it feel authentic, even if LaBruce characterizes his movie being as if “Ingmar Bergman had directed an afterschool TV special.” LaBruce does not see this emotional attachment as grotesque, but as a passion worthy of celebration despite society’s disapproval. Certainly to gay daddies over 60, this film is a dream come true, with many wishing for a Lake in their lives! But I think LaBruce is subtly attacking gay culture’s fixation on youth and beauty, and courageously focusing on the aesthetic appreciation of loving the elderly. Certainly we have all known successful intergenerational couples, and in his own twisted manner, LaBruce affirms them in his ironic and touching film. The Supreme Court decision urges us to celebrate love in all its diverse forms, and in Gerontophilia, LaBruce has taken that message to heart!t

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he fact that a butt plug was dislodged from Christeene’s crevice and flung into the audience, grazing my jacket’s sleeve before finding its way to the floor, tells me that Truck is rolling full-steam ahead towards the finish line in raunchy style. See page 30 >>

Thu 9 Baloney @ Oasis SF’s all-male revue blends sexy and witty styles in original group, solo and duo dance numbers by Rory Davis and James Arthur M, with a hot and handsome cast of men; Michael Phillis MCs. $20 and up. 8pm. Also July 10 & 11. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfbaloney.com www.sfoasis.com

A trio of handsome Truck bartenders a few years ago.

On the Tab, July 9–16

n actual hot summer may shift your nightlife plans to include the outdoors. It’s all about the patios! Find your place in or out of the sun, or catch a breeze as some ultra hot vocalists and a slew of sexy male strip shows heighten the temperature. See page 28 >>

{ THIRD OF THREE SECTIONS } Spring and summer mean later sunsets and later hours at the Asian Art Museum. We’re open ‘til 9 PM on Thursdays and for just $5 after 5 PM, you can spend an evening in our beautiful building enjoying the galleries, special exhibitions, fun talks, lively gatherings and intimate hangs with artists. On first Thursdays, there are even cash bars, DJs and more. For details, visit www.asianart.org/thursdays

AT THE ASIAN ART MUSEUM

$5 AFTER 5PM

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Some Thing @ The Stud

On the Tab

From page 28

Mica Sigourney and pals’ weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Thu 9

Sat 11

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Bulge @ Powerhouse Grace Towers hosts the weekly gogotastic night of sexy dudes shakin’ their bulges and getting wet in their undies for $100 prize (contest at midnight), and dance beats spun by DJ DAMnation. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, halfoff locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men’s bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jock-strapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar.

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

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

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. July 9: The Dodos and Doe Eye, DJs Omar and Aaron Axelson; Wild Lights art installations and more. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Thirsty Thursdays @ The Cafe

10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Homo Thursdays @ Qbar

Drink specials, Top 40, gogo studs and no cover. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Franko DJs the weekly mash-up/ pop music night. No cover. 2 for 1 well drinks, 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.qbarsf.com

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Karaoke Night @ The Stud

Xcess Thursdays @ The Café

“Sing Til It Hurts” the new weekly night with hostess Sister Flora (Floozy) Goodthyme. 8pm; happy hour drinks til 10pm. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show continues, with gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm2am. 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, with VJs Jorge Terez. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90cent drinks. ‘90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Frisco Robbie and Persia’s dance and pop music night gets the weekend started, with gogo guys and gals. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Fri 10

Barb Wire Dolls, Ultra Violet Rays @ DNA Lounge Punk band night at the SoMa club. $10-$12. All ages. 8:30pm. 375 11th St. www.DNAlounge.com

Brüt @ Beatbox Leather-themed dance event from NYC, with DJ Dan Darlington; kink gear expected. $10-$30. 10pm-4am. 314 11th St. www.Brutparty.com www.beatboxsf.com

Sat 11 Macy Gray @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland

Barb Wire Dolls @ DNA Lounge

The elegant vocalist performs his musical tribute concert to Bobby Darin. $25-$40 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketweb.com

Lua Hadar @ Hotel Rex

DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland’s premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10-$15. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Fri 10

Russ Lorenson @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Sat 11

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

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

Get groovin’ at the weekly R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Cock Block @ Rickshaw Stop

Pride Show @ Half Moon Bay Brewing Company

The popular monthly “dyke, lezzie trannies” night for women and queer pals returns, with DJs Nuxx and Zax. $10. 10pm-2am. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Drag acts Kit Tapata, YB Babie and several others perform at the annual patio show. 2pm-5pm. No cover. Mavericks Beer Garden, 390 Capistrano Road, Half Moon Bay. (650) 728-2739. www.hmbbrewingco.com

Lua Hadar @ Hotel Rex

Saturgay @ Qbar

Enjoy swinging cosmopolitan sounds of popular Parisian-written and/ or themed songs, performed by the gorgeous vocalist and her band Twist. $30-$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

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

JR Bronson, Brian Bonds @ Nob Hill Theatre The muscled stud Bronson makes his Nob Hill debut in solo shows (8pm) and live sex shows with Bonds (10pm). $25. Also July 11. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Lulu, Jacki, and Vicki cohost the festive gogo-filled dance club that features Latin pop dance hits with DJs Speedy Douglas Romero and Fabricio; no cover before 10pm. $6-$12. 9pm4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Fri 10 Brüt @ Beatbox

Lez Be Real @ Oasis DJs Jenna Riot, Workalook and Motive spin at new summer women’s dance night. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

Midnight Show @ Divas 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

Mother @ Oasis

Sex, Drags & Rock n Roll @ Midnight Sun Mutha Chucka’s hilarious drag show includes U-Phoria, Johnny Rocket, Donna Persona, Cruzin D’Loo and more talents. 10:30pm show. 4067 28th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Heklina’s weekly drag show night at the fabulous renovated SoMa nightclub; plus DJ MC2 and guests. July 11, it’s Michael vs. Janet (Jackson) night, with cohostess Coco Montrese. $10-$15. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Soul Party @ Elbo Room

Pound Puppy @ SF Eagle

Sun 12

Tyrel Williams is a guest DJ (along with residents Taco Tuesday and Kevin O’Connor) at the slightly canine and kink-themed (but more cubs and cuties) popular monthly event, with Tony DiCaro grooming. $10. 9pm2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

DJs Lucky, Paul, and Phengren Osward spin 60s soul 45s. $5-$10 ($5 off in semi-formal attire). 10pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. 552-7788. www.elbo.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon The ursine crowd converges for beer and fun. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

Monster Drawing Rally @ Verdi Club

The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits. 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays! 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Southern Exposure’s annual festive benefit, where hundreds of artists draw freehand sketches for donations; beer, wine, live entertainment, too. $15-$20. 6pm-10pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.soex.org www.verdiclub.net

Thu 9 Russ Lorenson @ Feinstein’s

Red Hots Burlesque @ Beatbox The saucy women’s burlesque revue’s weekend show; different musical guests each week. Also Wednesday nights. $10-$20. 7:30pm. 314 11th St. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. 12pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Big Top @ Beaux

Fri 10 Melissa Manchester @ Feinstien’s

Joshua J.’s homo disco circus night, with guest DJs and performers, hotty gogo guys and drink specials. $5-$10. 9pm2am. 2344 Market St. www.BeauxSF.com

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Mon 13 Beat It @ Oasis

80s music party, with black light, cheap beer and acid-wash jeans welcome. No cover. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night, 2014’s last of the year. 9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade

Sun 12 Caitlin Moran @ The Chapel

California Gold Pageant @ Oasis Seventh annual fundraiser drag pageant benefit for the Grand Ducal Council of SF. $10. 5pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Cocktail Robotics @ DNA Lounge Grand finale of the competition of machines serving drinks, with $1000s in prizes. $10-$12. 5pm-12am. 375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag shows takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Jock @ The Lookout

The new weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night include 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

Hysteria @ Oasis Irene Tu and Jessica Sele cohost the new comedy open mic night for women and queers. No cover. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Karaoke @ The Lookout Paul K hosts the amateur singing night. 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.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

Monday Musicals @ 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

Cock Shot @ Beaux Shot specials and adult Bingo games, with DJs Chad Bays and Riley Patrick, at the new weekly night. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Dirty Game Show @ Oasis Psychokitty’s new game show is so naughty, when you win, you get a _____. $10. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

Gaymer Night @ Eagle

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Participatory strip and stripper night. $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 3976758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Switch @ Q Bar Weekly women’s night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Underwear Night @ Club OMG Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials; different hosts each week. $3. 10pm2am. Preceded by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Wed 15

A special Pride edition of the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music by Luke Allen, Byron Bonsall and Aussie DJ Dirty Nelly. 12pm-1am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

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

Juanita More! and her weekly intimate –yet packed– dance party. $10-$15. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.qbarsf.com

Liquid Brunch @ Beaux

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops

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

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

No cover, no food, just drinks (Mimosas, Bloody Marys, etc.) and music. 2pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Morning After BBQ @ Oasis New weekly barbeque brunch on the newly opened rooftop deck, with Mimosas and Bloody Mary cocktails. 11am-3pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com 2nd Sundays night with a variety of music from DJs Chicken, Bobby Please, and Dry Cheri. $2. 1pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

The monthly T-dance, with DJs Lee Decker and Bugie. $7. 3pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Follies @ Oasis

Sunday Brunch, Xtravaganza @ Balancoire

Sunday Brunch @ Thee Parkside Enjoy $12 bottomless mimosas from 10am-3pm at the fun punk rock bar. 1600 17th St. 252-1330. www.theeparkside.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

The Lowest Pair @ Viracocha

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West

Sensation Sundays @ Oasis

Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch, mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant; shows at 12:30pm, 1:30pm and 2:45pm. After that, T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. 920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

Booty Call @ QBar

Folk-Americana duo performs at the boutique of vintage and handcrafted items. We Became Owls also performs. 8pm11:30pm. 998 Valencia St. www.viracochasf.com

Rarebits @ Oasis

Wed 15 Lowest Pair @ Viracocha

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

Tue 14

Chappo @ Rickshaw Stop Popular indie NYC band performs; Yukon Blonde and Fort Lean open. $12. 8pm. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Wed 15

No cover 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

Holotta Tymes hosts the new weekly variety show with female impersonation acts, and barbeque in the front Fez Room. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Man Francisco @ Oasis New all-male striptease revue with a storyline of San Francisco’s history, from the Gold Rush to the tech boom. Weekly. $20. 9pm. Thru July. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Pussy Party @ Beaux Weekly women’s happy hour, with allwomen music and live performances, 2 for 1 drinks, and no cover. 5pm-9am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.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

Man Francisco @ Oasis

Thu 16

The Monster Show @ The Edge The dearly missed Cookie Dough’s weekly drag show continues, with themed events and cute gogo guys. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. July 16: How-To nightlife, DJ King Most, bow-tie making, “How to Talk to Aliens,” and more. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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 @ Eagle Live bands- usually, rock, punk and always good- perform at the famed leather bar. 8:30pm first band. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

Serving the LGBT communities since 1971

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Truck’s Stop

From page 27

San Francisco will simply have to survive without the bar that lasted eight years in the no-man’s land far from the Castro; tucked between Folsom Street’s leather corridor and the heavy foot traffic of the Mission District. But what venues remain for this kind of thing? Truck isn’t considered an institution like the Lexington Club and arguably didn’t reach the iconic status of Esta Noche, both of which preceded the masculinethemed watering hole by closing recently). But in a relatively short amount of time, Truck filled a niche with its crazy parties, theme nights and whimsical décor, complete with hubcap-style ceiling fans and side-view mirrors in the men’s room. “Of course, before we opened, we thought we would take over the country, but eight years has been a wild ride, and hopefully others will pick up the torch,” owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller reflects. Facing a similar fate as a slew of local gay bars before it, Truck has been sold, but will reopen under three new owners (who all happen to all be female), as the Wooden Nickel. Whether or not the new space will continue to cater to gay clientele remains to be seen. Ringhofer-Miller says due to the ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) license process, it’s not clear exactly when the bar will close, but as of June 12 they had 60 days. In the meantime, the Final Days of Truck is a series of events that gives patrons more than enough chances to say goodbye. I tried going to the Soul Stomp, an event

Cabure Bonugli

Christeen’s premiere performance at Truck in 2009.

Dallis Willard

Suppositori Spelling’s final Cocktailgate took on a Mad Max theme.

featuring the Hard French DJs, but the event was postponed until this Friday, July 11. My photographer Dallis Willard and I sat as the only customers in the bar for over an hour on a Friday night. Robert Driggs, who only recently started bartending at Truck to help his friends out, says it’s a typical scene if there isn’t an event going on. He says maybe he’ll get the 1 a.m.

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Truck owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller (in vest) with bartenders a few years back.

rush of people wanting that one last drink before heading home. The following weekend was quite the opposite. It’s a little after 10 p.m. and DJ Jimmy Swear noticeably bumps up the volume as his mix treats the crowded house to Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much,” Aaliyah’s “More Than A Woman,” TLC, and Outkast. A group of men ask for Campari at the bar, which seems to have overshadowed Fernet as the spirit of the times. I’m patiently waiting along the bench that lines the wall for the performance to begin. “We’re on drag time,” says Meg, a patron who comes to check out drag nights at Truck. She says she’s heard of some illicit stories about this place. The rumors are true, and not just at underwear events. On special nights, parties like Throb, Slut Shame, Daddy Saddle and LumberTwink got particularly sexy. A few gay porn videos have also immortalized the bar, including one with the not-subtle title Truck. Truck also had some of the best bar food in town, and a series of creative costume parties beyond Halloween. A red carpet New Year’s Eve event provided a light parody of Hollywood flair, and the variety of drag shows rivaled bigger nightclubs.

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A near-to-last Cocktailgate at Truck.

And who could forget Truck’s 2007 Pride float, where the bar’s motto, “More fun than playing in the dirt,” was visualized by a flatbed full of underwear-clad men and women playing in kiddy pools full of mud. Meanwhile, back to my night out, someone in purposely smeared makeup and a messy brunette wig, who refers to anyone in their path as “lady,” poses for pictures with other clientele. She’s not wearing much, but does have white fishnets, sock gloves, and what looks like matching bandages or gauze wrapped around her fit-tattoo-covered body. It’s obvious she’s borrowing her look as a disciple of Christeene, who finally takes the stage after Hoku Mama Swamp’s opening set. Eyes caked heavily in makeup

fit for Twiggy, a full-figured Hoku is not afraid to go topless for the room. She gets the most laughs with a sleazy line from a nasty jam asking whoever to “Sop it up like a pig eats slop.” When all attention turns to Christeene, an Austin native with her Southern drawl still intact, it is the equivalent of watching a train wreck delightfully sparkle on stage in all her politically incorrect glory and opinionated commentary for and about the audience. She refers to us as “faggots,” complains that she can’t get an abortion in Austin and goes into her song, “Fix My Dick” like a hip-hop, drag, Marilyn Manson-hybrid all rolled into one burping mess. See page 31 >>

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Gogo guy on the bar at Truck in 2012.

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Finalists in Truck’s 2009 Mr. Deviant contest.

Roy in the kitchen at Truck’s opening night.

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The muddy float participants at Truck’s flatbed at the 2007 Pride Parade.

Truck’s Stop

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I’m genuinely startled when she snatches an iPhone 6 out of an audience member’s hands from the front row and proceeds to place it down whatever kind of hosiery she’s wearing for some blurry dick pics. The best part is when she’s about to hand it back, but changes her mind and jokes that the phone needs to be charged. That’s when the iPhone goes where the butt-plug once was. Gasps can be heard throughout the room. Sticking with her Southern charm, Christeene quips, “Lemme clean it for

you,” before giving it a spit shine and handing it back to the owner. She kept referring to us as “real estate agents,” and while her criticisms of San Francisco and its thriving tech industry were playful and in jest, they were also on point for a venue that has embraced the fringe behaviors of many people’s inner freak (something many long-time residents say we need more of), but is now on the brink of closure and about to undergo a makeover for better or worse. “So many factors create what I think is a somewhat bland period for nightlife right now,” Ringhofer-

Miller says. “I think people have come to expect other people to create the fun and provide a wild night out. I don’t think they realize that what creates that environment is people, like them, going out and having a wild, fun time. We can create the space and give them permission, but they have to go for it.”t The Final Days of Truck event info, including Soul Stomp on Friday, July 11, can be found on the bar’s Facebook page. 1900 Folsom St. at 15th. 252-0306. www.facebook.com/ pages/Truck/42186809524

A tasty meal at Truck

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A Truck afternoon.

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Wedded in Leather

by Race Bannon

his past Sunday I marched with many others in the Leather Contingent as part of the San Francisco Pride Parade. As it turned out, the lineup wait before we stepped out on to Market Street was long. So it ended up being a time for lots of conversation with my marching cohorts. I noticed that a word popped up in conversation quite a bit that day – family. On the heels of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage, the often referenced “leather family” seemed like a natural discussion point. The concept of leather family, or the less often used alternative “kink family,” is not new. Leatherfolk and kinksters of various stripes have been alluding to the chosen familial bonding idea, centered on their kink commonalities, for as long as I have been in the scene. But I think the same-sex marriage ruling has made some think about it even more. Questions arise in kinksters’ minds such as how does marriage equality expand or limit our options, will marriage equality nudge us toward embracing monogamy more than we have historically as a community, have kinksters already redefined marriage enough for themselves so that the ruling has only modest impact on how we define family going forward, and so on? Of course there’s no right or wrong answers to these questions because we simply won’t know the outcome for a long time. On The View From My Window blog an article was recently posted titled, “We can say ‘I do,’ but should we?” In that article was this: “Our relationships and sexual practices, collectively if not individually, have been honest, even courageous. We have been loving and commit-

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Leathermen Jack Goodall and Roger Sullivan (of the Golden Gate Guards) were wedded at an outdoor celebration in Yosemite in 2014.

ted in the face of hate and fear; we have been outrageously promiscuous and unashamed; we have explored the furthest reaches of kink, sex magic, and polymorphous perversity; we formed genuine families of choice that range from straitlaced monogamous suburban couples to a man and his lover and his slave and his lover’s boy and the boy’s pup and the man’s former Master and the various house guests who invariably end up in somebody’s bed. Being cast outside the bounds of Respectability however painful, also set us free!”

Indeed, it was in the leather community that I was first exposed to the notion that a “relationship” does not need to be defined as just between two people. Perhaps driven by our already maverick and radical sex perspectives, our kind has figured out ways to honor the multitude of ways we configure love and connection to form groupings of people who truly do consider themselves a family, be that a core 24/7 family or a more extended family orbiting around one or two central members, or simply a pack of highly connected people who love and bond with each other tightly. What is “family” seems to be increasingly in the eye of the beholder, at least for us kinky types. Since so many leather families are comprised of more than two people, strongly bonded by various flavors of love and connection, and configured uniquely in so many instances, it’s probably a good idea for us to wrestle with the potential impacts, if any, same-sex marriage will have in our kinky lives. Some preemptive thought is always a good thing. I will be the first to say I do not know how this will all shake out. I don’t know if more kinky gay men and lesbians will feel pressured to marry now that the option is available. I don’t know if the focus on governmentally codified relationships will impact the extended intimate families that many leatherfolk have in their lives.

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Above: Another personalized leather cake with grooms at Roger Hunt and Rod Wood’s wedding in 2014. Right: Leathermen Roger Hunt and Rod Wood.

What I do know is that these questions are already popping up and that we should openly and honestly discuss them. This is new territory for us, and with that new territory will come change. Change can be bumpy for some. The less bumpy we can make it, the better. As for my opinion, I’m choosing the optimistic perspective. While the institution of marriage has never had a strong appeal for me personally, I know it does for many and I must celebrate for those who now have a choice they once did not have. That is the respectful thing to do. And apart from the marriage ruling itself, the ruling also serves as a symbolic and huge civil rights win for our community. One really can’t deny that aspect and upside to the Supreme Court’s decision. One local leatherman whom I respect highly offered to me his belief that same-sex marriages will influence opposite-sex marriages more than the other way around. I think that’s worth considering. Perhaps people will look to our marriages and see that we don’t need to always be constrained by historically acceptable ways of expressing the outcome of marriage through monogamy, exclusivity of love, and so on. I think this is a fascinating theory and I hope it ends up being true. Within the LGBT community itself, perhaps the same thing may happen via the leather/kink realm’s influence. Perhaps as other LGBT people see how us kinksters configure our chosen family situations they will see that marriage need not keep them from creating exactly the kinds of relationships they want, convention be damned. Perhaps as same-sex marriage quickly normalizes in our society, the entire marriage issue will deprecate over time and greater focus can be given to how individuals can best configure and, if necessary, codify their relationships to best fit their own needs.

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Top: Roger Sullivan and his husband Jack’s amusing ‘Happily Married’ patch. Bottom: Their personalized wedding cake.

Maybe the increasingly popular topic of polyamory will begin to gain greater traction and legitimacy. Perhaps those who choose a more traditional married and monogamous life will more easily co-exist now amid their fellow kinksters who have sometimes sadly seen such relationships as running counter to a robust kink life. In short, I choose to believe that same-sex marriage being the law of the land, while absolutely giving people a right they should have always had, may also prompt deeper discussion among kinksters regarding relationships and family configurations. Someone pass me the popcorn, because this is going to be truly fascinating to watch unfold.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. www.bannon.com

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Panorammin’ sold on Playing with Scott from its first frame. We’re looking upward at Scott as he walks down a stairway, his steely bone bobbing with each step. In two subsequent scenes over the course of an hour, Scott masterfully parades and pounds his thick tool, and palms his straining scrotum. He sits on a vibrator while getting a blow job. He puts his leg up on a stepladder so his tightly bound and terrifically pinched package can

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Falcon’s Moving Up.

by John F. Karr

oving Up is one of those Falcon movies where a bunch of swank guys make out in a swank living room. It’s generous at two and a half hours long, and generous with a cast that includes long-time favorites and some newish guys who have been quickly moving up to become favorite guys. They’re all impeccably groomed, and most are smooth bodied; a few sport some scruff. Three of the six men are uncut (I think half and half ’s a fair shake, don’t you?), and in several scenes, their cum shoots high. All the scenes transpire in the same all-white room. The rug is white, the sectional sofa the guys make out on is white, and the throw pillows on the white sofa are white. Wouldn’t ya know, all the guys are white, too. What with floor to ceiling windows that divulge a vast desert panorama ringed by mountains (I think we’re in Palm Springs), the setting is quite chi-chi. You’ve heard of the company whose men match the mountains. Well, Falcon’s men most frequently match the money. Exclusive Falcon performer Brent Corrigan sure is top dollar, and comes through with one of his better scenes when paired with handsome and composed Theo Ford. Brent seems hot for Theo’s uncut cock, and his alluring asshole receives its pistoning fuck. When Brent gets on top of it, he gets quite the bumpy ride. I’m completely taken with Andrea Suarez, who’s cut like a runway model. He’s so sleek he seems much taller than his 5’ 8”, but he’s just the right size for 5’ 7” Darius Ferdynand. Darius is most frequently a bottom, but in this scene he bends Andrea over the sofa arm for a slam-dunk. Following this, Andrea has an alloral scene Theo Ford; it was good thinking to put these guys together. Ford will later make a third, and not unwarranted appearance, topping rowdy Brenner Bolton. Before that, however, there’s what I call the movie’s best scene, for Darius with Owen Michaels, who makes his only appearance in the movie especially hot. I just adore this goodnatured guy, with his concentrated sexuality, nicely packed body, and (in my opinion) the movie’s best cock, a beefy thing that’s so plump and pristine. These guys are the movie’s most energetic couple, and the only pair who flip. Owen’s a thriller, riding atop his buddy, and then getting his ass riddled by Darius’ long shooter. Moving Up is a glossy movie, handsomely filmed by director Bruno Bond, who has captured some nicely engaged sex. RagingHotFalcon features are generally accompanied by three bonus scenes chosen from the company’s back catalogue. The first one on this disc features Mitch Branson. He had an assortment of fine attributes, but, oh, boy, his cock’s the thing! It’s just massive.

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Sharply cut Andrea Suarez is runway ready, in Falcon’s Moving Up.

I quivered when he whispers to his partner, “I really want to stick it in your ass.” Branson may be forgiven for not sucking cock, for giving his own such superb display—and which is superbly managed by Tom Chase, who isn’t begging in the meat department himself.

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It was my good fortune to stumble upon another swell cock, belonging to a guy you may remember from the couple of movies he made some years ago. Playing with Scott, from 2006, remains fresh and snappy in delivering a couple things

which cater to slightly kinky tastes. Tick these off your fetish register: the movie was made by a company called Jocks in Socks, so Scott’s wearing white socks. He’s got a really crisp tan line, and while that’s not so rare, his tight rubber cock ring and double-wide ball stretcher certainly are. They choke Scott’s cock to bursting, and make his balls bulge in tight agony. Mainstream porn doesn’t deliver so concentrated an experience with appendage appurtenances as is delivered here. I love seeing guys walking around while hard, but this fine sight is a sexo scarcity. So I was

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Scott Parker in a publicity shot for Playing With Scott.

swing in space. He’s blindfolded and edged. He jacks off while pumping a dildo into his ass. The image on this amateur video may be grainy, and the focus a bit soft, but the camera is steady and Scott is well lit. And boy, the wrapping of his works satisfies in its lengthy display as few fetish movies do.t www.falconstudios.com www.Pornteam.com

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Duke’s Turnabout and Royal Daddy and Daddy’s Boy Finale @ The Edge Are you ready to find out who the next Royal Daddy and Daddy’s Boy will be? Are you ready for the Dukes Turnabout? 4149 18th St., 4pm.

Sun 19 Annual SCCLA Picnic @ Madrone Picnic Area The Santa Clara County Leather Association invites the community to our annual picnic, which again this year will take place at the Madrone picnic area of Stevens Creek County Park in Cupertino. All are welcome! Noon. www.sccleather.org

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Sat 25 Sneaks @ SF Oasis The boys from Polyglamorous bring you a Berlin style sneaker and sports fetish dance party. 298 11th St., $10 in advance, $15 at door. 3pm. www.sfoasis.com

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photos by Steven Underhill Glamazone @ The Cafe Pollo Del Mar’s weekly Glamazone showcases some of the Bay Area’s classiest and wildest drag performers, and some notorious visiting queens as well. Sundays, 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com More event 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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