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10 out candidates win legislative primary races by Matthew S. Bajko

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SF residents get priority for senior housing by Matthew S. Bajko

reference will be given to seniors living or working in San Francisco for the city’s first affordable housing development aimed at LGBT elders, under a significant change from what was previously announced. Those 55 and over will have until next Thursday to turn in their applications to be entered into the lottery that will select residents for the See page 16 >>

Strut director resigns by Seth Hemmelgarn

he executive director of Strut, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s gay and bi men’s health center in the Castro district, is leaving. Tim Patriarca, 47, Liz Highleyman who joined SFAF in 2013, before Strut Tim Patriarca opened, submitted his resignation last week. It will be effective July 1. Patriarca, who doesn’t have a new job lined up, said Monday it’s been “a complete and utter honor” to lead the center, which provides free services, including HIV and other sexually transmitted disease testing, to thousands of people a year, but with the facility established, “It seemed like a great time to leave.” Patriarca’s resignation comes just a month after Joe Hollendoner started as SFAF’s new CEO, but he said he hasn’t had any trouble with his new boss. “I’m really happy we have a permanent CEO,” Patriarca said, adding, “Joe’s on board, See page 5 >>

f the 14 out California statehouse candidates running this year, 10 survived Tuesday’s primary, where the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, advance to the general election in November. As expected, gay San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener was in first place in his bid for the 11th Senate District seat. The current officeholder, gay state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco), is termed out this year and has endorsed Wiener to succeed him. Based on unofficial returns Wednesday, Wiener was leading with 46 percent, or 83,310 votes. But his Democratic opponent, Supervisor Jane Kim, made a strong showing, likely boosted by the endorsement of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, whom she campaigned with in the Mission district this week. Kim took second with 44 percent, or 79,682 votes. Republican candidate Ken Loo was in third with 9.9 percent, or 17,927 votes. In a statement he posted to Facebook, Wiener took a swipe at the support Kim received from Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont. “We will continue to work hard toward November in our deeply grassroots local campaign. Unlike my opponent, who needed a lot of outside, non-Bay Area support and money to stay competitive in this race, our campaign is fueled by local supporters – community members,

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Supervisor Scott Wiener celebrates his state Senate primary win with Assemblyman David Chiu.

Supervisor Jane Kim is all smiles after advancing to the November election against Scott Wiener.

elected officials, and donors,” wrote Wiener. At her election night party Tuesday at gay nightclub Oasis, Kim criticized Wiener’s support from independent expenditures financed by corporate interests who, she claimed, want to “abolish rent control” throughout the state. She asked her supporters to continue to campaign for her over the next five months as “we fight our way to Sacramento.”

vanced past Tuesday’s primary and will now compete in November. All four of the incumbent out Democratic lawmakers seeking re-election this fall landed in first place in their contests. The group includes gay Assemblyman Evan Low of Campbell; lesbian Stockton lawmakers Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman and Senator Cathleen Galgiani; and Senator Ricardo Lara, who is unopposed for his Los

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Clinton clinches Dem nomination analysis by Lisa Keen

illary Clinton made history Tuesday when she became the first woman in U.S. history to secure the presidential nomination of a major party. Clinton unofficially secured the Democratic presidential nomination June 6, a day before votes were tallied in the six states that held primaries June 7. She convincingly won California, 55.8 percent to Senator Bernie Sanders’ 43.2 percent, according to unofficial returns from the secretary of state’s website. Speaking from her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, Clinton linked her nomination to the historic movement to gain the right to vote for women and promised to help “write the next chapter” in American history. In another historic first, California voters on Tuesday advanced two Democrats, both women, to contend in November for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by longtime LGBT supporter Barbara Boxer. It is the first time the state’s general election ballot will include two candidates of the same party for a Senate seat and is the result of California’s jungle primary, in which the top two finishers, regardless of party, advance to the general election. State Attorney General Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (Garden Grove) were the top two vote-getters. Both are strong supporters of LGBT civil rights. Sanchez scored 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign’s Congressional Scorecard for the 113th

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Congress, and 85 and 88 for the previous two sessions. The lesbian political action committee LPAC endorsed Harris, as did Equality California. The Human Rights Campaign did not endorse a candidate in the race. Harris has the early lead, as she finished with 40.3 percent of the vote, while Sanchez received 18.5 percent, based on preliminary returns.

Clinton reaches delegate goal

The Associated Press reported Monday night that Clinton had secured enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Counting delegates she won in primaries and superdelegates who have committed to voting for her at the convention, Clinton could count

on more than the magic number: 2,383. The Sanders campaign was upset with the AP story because it feared people wouldn’t vote in California if the race had been called. It’s unclear what affect the early call had on voting in the state. In the six states that voted Tuesday, Clinton won four: California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. According to a New York Times tally, that gave her a total of 2,184 delegates earned in the primaries. Adding in 571 superdelegates, she now has 2,755 delegate votes. Sanders won the Montana primary and the North Dakota caucus on Tuesday, and now has a total of 1,852 – 1,804 earned in primaries plus 48 superdelegates. While Sanders blamed Clinton’s lopsided superdelegate support on her “establishment” status, it may also be due, at least in part, to the fact that he was not a member of the Democratic Party during his terms in Congress. In a speech to supporters in Santa Monica, California, at 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sanders said his campaign would “continue the fight” in the next, and final, Democratic primary, June 14, in Washington, D.C., and would continue to fight for “every vote and every delegate.” Sanders sent mixed messages Tuesday about how vigorously he would continue his fight for the nomination. He surprised many when he said during his speech Tuesday that he had called Clinton “and congratulated her on her See page 16 >>

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Plea deals reached in hit-and-run case by Seth Hemmelgarn

test plea has the same legal effect as a guilty wo men charged in plea, but it can’t be used the hit-and-run death against the defendant in of a well-known, gay San a civil suit. Francisco financial planner Wallace and Cortado have agreed to plea deals in were arrested in April. the case. Cortado turned himself Brendan Wallace, 33, and in. Heinz Raimol “Rymo” CorIn a jailhouse interCourtesy SFPD tado, 34, both of Daly City, view that month, WalBrendan Wallace were charged after Wallace lace said he didn’t learn allegedly killed Dennis Nix, that he’d hit a person 60, in a November 22 car crash and until days after the crash, and he fled. Nix, 60, had been riding his didn’t turn himself in because he scooter near his Ingleside district home. Cortado was accused of picking up Wallace from the scene. In court Friday, June 3, Wallace, who’s in custody on $400,000 bail, pleaded guilty to a felony count of fleeing the scene of an accident. He’s expected to be sentenced to a year in county jail, followed by three years of probation. He may have his likely jail sentence cut in half. During the first year of probation, he won’t be allowed to consume alcohol. Cortado, who’s Wallace’s brotherin-law and bailed out of custody shortly after his arrest, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of being an accessory after the fact. He will likely be sentenced to serve three years of probation. A no con-

didn’t want to leave his Deputy Public Defender 2-year-old son. Abigail Rivamonte, WalWallace originally lace’s attorney, said, “This pleaded not guilty to was a tragic accident, and charges including veour condolences go out to hicular manslaughter. the Nix family. We hope Cortado had pleaded not that all of the parties can guilty to charges includfind closure. Mr. Wallace ing being an accessory is taking responsibility Courtesy SFPD after the fact. and taking the right steps Heinz Raimol The original charges “Rymo” Cortado to comply with the crimifor both men were disnal justice system.” missed Friday. They are Cortado, who was acset to be sentenced June 27. companied in court by several supOutside the courtroom Friday, porters, declined to comment, as

did his attorney, Randy Knox. Friends of Nix have described him as a gregarious, well-traveled sportsman and community fundraiser. Told of the plea deal in a phone interview Friday, Katharine Holland, 52, a friend of Nix’s, broke into tears and said, “I’m just overwhelmingly relieved.” Holland said she’d worried that Cortado and Wallace might “get off.” “I thought it was going to be a huge battle,” she said. “I’m glad that they did the right thing.”t

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and it was two years of planning and moving and delays and getting ready to move in” to Strut before the center opened in January at 470 Castro Street. “I’m feeling great about it,” he said of his departure. Patriarca said, “I wouldn’t have left if I didn’t feel comfortable with the CEO and where Strut is.” His departure coincides with that of Nancy DuBois, SFAF’s vice president of talent and operations, who has resigned after almost five years with the nonprofit. Her resignation is also effective July 1. Hollendoner, who called Patriarca and DuBois “tremendous” assets, said in an email to staff last week, “I recognize that it’s never ideal for two important agency leaders to leave the organization at the same time. But with change comes opportunity, and I look forward to having conversations with the board and staff about how we can use this moment of transition to evaluate our structure and make sure that we are well-positioned to advance our mission.” He credited Patriarca with integrating the sexual health, substance health, and community engagement programs at Strut, launching the organization’s PrEP program, and establishing TransLife and other programs. In response to emailed questions from the Bay Area Reporter, Hollendoner said Tuesday that hiring a new executive director for Strut is “a top priority.” “It is important to the foundation, our community, and to the clients we serve that we bring in someone who will be a visionary like Tim has been, and who can continue to build on the great work started under his leadership,” he said. Hollendoner said he plans to meet with program managers “to talk about an interim plan for reporting and supervision. I anticipate the plan will involve our managers at Strut sharing Tim’s current responsibilities.” Asked whether there had been any problems or disagreements between he and Patriarca, Hollendoner said, “I was saddened to learn from Tim that he was resigning. During his tenure with the foundation, he has been an incredible champion for See page 16 >>

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wo months ago, we praised Openhouse for its policy allowing LGBT seniors from outside San Francisco to apply for the very limited number of residential units in phase one of its 55 Laguna senior housing complex. As we noted, in recent years, scores of LGBT seniors were priced out of the city, forced to move to less expensive areas, leaving their friends and community behind. Only 39 units will be ready later this year, and of those, just seven will be available to the general public because of various restrictions. Our opinion of this endeavor has always been, “You’ve got to start somewhere.” The Bay Area’s LGBT community is aging, and so far Openhouse’s housing project is the only affordable one being built. There is a dire need for affordable senior housing, not just for LGBTs, but for everyone. We were surprised to learn, however, that last week’s announcement of the application period included the addition of a fourth preference that will be given to applicants: that is, those living or working in San Francisco. With this added preference, it will be virtually impossible that retired seniors who formerly lived in the city will have a chance of securing one of these affordable apartments. There will be thousands of applicants for a handful of units, and it’s likely that all of the prospective tenants will meet the preferred criteria, which also includes having a Certificate of Preference from San Francisco’s former Redevelopment Agency; a Displaced Tenant Housing Certificate from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development; and a neighborhood resident housing prefer-

ence for the 16 units set aside for people who live in District 8 or within a half-mile of 55 Laguna. Openhouse’s bait and switch occurs during a period of transition for the agency – it’s currently searching for a new permanent executive director – but it is deeply disappointing. Former Executive Director Seth Kilbourn was clear with us two months ago that it was his decision to allow non-San Franciscans to apply for the units, precisely because so many LGBT seniors had been displaced. For those seniors seeking to return to the city, the added preference amounts to being shut out again. And lest anyone agree that 55 Laguna should only be for city residents – you could be next if you’re forced from the city due to escalating rent and future affordable housing projects give preference to San Franciscans, whether they’re for seniors or others. And once again, we see an LGBT nonprofit

struggling with transparency. There was no separate communication alerting applicants to the fact that this major change had been made, nor any indication of who made it or its implications. This week we were told by Openhouse’s interim executive director, Tim Daniels, that the decision came from the mayor’s housing office and Openhouse had nothing to do with it. And in fact, a staff member there did confirm that the residency preference is the office’s standard option for projects that don’t receive federal funding. It’s apparent that Openhouse’s leadership vacuum allowed the city’s housing office to step in and opt for this residency preference, changing the organization’s previous policy. The added preference was tacked on to the other three in a statement sent out too late for last week’s Bay Area Reporter. With the application process having started Wednesday, June 8 and only eight days to apply, this change must have been made prior to the June 3 announcement by Openhouse. Too bad it wasn’t clearly explained to the LGBT senior community sooner. We realize that we’re talking about a very small number of affordable senior apartments. There are also other factors to consider, such as non-discrimination laws that enjoin Openhouse to open the lottery to LGBT and straight seniors alike, as long as they meet all the requirements. (So in theory it’s possible, though unlikely, that no LGBT seniors will get units at 55 Laguna.) But we believe that Openhouse should have been more forthcoming regarding changing the city residency preference. Seniors, whether they’re gay or not, have enough hoops to jump through for scarce affordable housing units. Last week’s dramatic switch in the 55 Laguna project added another one.t

A museum to make us proud by Terry Beswick

e have the new SFMOMA. We have the de Young. George Lucas’ museum is back on the table. This tourist-destination city already boasts a number of great museums, many of them dedicated to cultural or ethnic minorities, and some with substantial underwriting from San Francisco taxpayers. The larger museums sometimes even include queer artists or LGBTQ subject matter among their exhibits and collections. OK, often we’re just an afterthought, or our sexual orientation and gender identities actually go unmentioned. And all too often, our stories are left out altogether. So does San Francisco really need a dedicated world-class museum of LGBTQ history and culture? And how do we know people will support it? The answer is right under our noses. Now five years old, the GLBT History Museum has run into one major problem: lack of room. We struggle to accommodate curators eager to display our rich history. Those who succeed in getting on the calendar are often frustrated by the amount of space we can provide, leaving them to create shows with less depth than they had hoped. And the museum sponsors popular public programs, only to turn away many who wish to attend because we lack adequate seating. The heart of the problem – and the opportunity – is the wonderful diversity and range of our history. We come from everywhere and we have so many stories to tell. Our museum has accomplished a great deal with limited resources. But as GLBT Historical Society founding member Gerard Koskovich recently remarked, “We tested a rowboat – and found out so many people want to come aboard that we need a full-scale cruise ship.” The current museum is an offshoot of the GLBT Historical Society’s archives and research center. Our storefront galleries in the Castro were never intended to be permanent. They were a trial balloon to see if we could launch a stand-alone museum of queer history – and to measure San Francisco’s willingness to support such an enterprise. Last year, over 15,000 individuals visited the

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People checked out the 2013 exhibit marking the 25 years of the Real Bad fundraising parties that was on display at the GLBT History Museum.

GLBT History Museum to take in the exhibitions or attend programs, with more than 60 percent of these coming from out of state or out of the country, and with many Bay Area schools and other groups coming for guided tours. It’s an easy way for people from all backgrounds to discover LGBTQ history and go home with a new understanding. Over the years, there have been a number of efforts to create a fullfledged museum of LGBTQ history and culture – some of them involving the GLBT Historical Society. These efforts did not come to fruition, perhaps because the time or place was not right. Over the last 35 years, an incredible amount of our community’s resources have been appropriately directed toward our very survival in the fight against HIV/AIDS and toward winning our basic civil rights. Much of this work continues today. At the same time, we have won some major victories and have identified new directions for our movement for social justice. And that means the time has come to fully honor the struggles that have brought us here by creating a new and larger LGBTQ museum and archives – a world-class institution where we can tell our stories in the ways they merit and can welcome everyone who wants and needs to learn about them. I’m proud to be a part of the GLBT Historical Society – an organization that understands the

importance of collecting and sharing the diverse stories of our past. We do this not just to honor our elders and inspire young people, but also to show our full selves to others who may not yet appreciate our history or even our humanity. With the recent move of our archives to a much larger space in the mid-Market neighborhood, we’re delighted that we finally have room to expand our collections – and we’re committed to using this opportunity to strengthen our documentation of diversity, including the lives of people of color, women, and other underrepresented groups. But if we’re going to create a full-scale museum to display these collections and other treasures of the LGBTQ past in San Francisco, we need leadership from City Hall and we need to build our capacity for growth. So this month, we’re launching the first phase of our initiative to create a new museum of LGBTQ history and culture. We’ll be taking the following steps: Forming partnerships with the city and with private developers to identify potential sites for a building that will bring the museum and archives together and will provide greatly expanded gallery and program space. Establishing an international advisory board of prominent individuals to offer guidance as we plan a world-class museum. Building the historical society’s capacity for substantial development by increasing revenues and diversifying income streams. We have four years left on our lease for the GLBT History Museum in the Castro. We plan to use this time to move forward with creating a new, full-fledged museum of LGBTQ history and culture. We believe our community has earned it, we believe the time is right, and we believe San Francisco is the place to build it. We invite you to join us in this quest.t Terry Beswick is executive director of the GLBT Historical Society. For more information about the historical society, go to http://www.glbthistory.org or visit the GLBT History Museum at 4127 18th Street, near Castro Street.

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Glad pink brick is gone

Kudos to SF Pride for not having a pink brick award [“SF Pride withholds pink brick,” June 2]. Let’s make this Pride, and every future Pride celebration, about us and not about the haters. They get too much press as it is. Let’s stay above the mudslinging that happens ev-

eryday and emphasize the positive in our lives. Here’s to Pride and celebrating all that we have accomplished. Now, where can I find something in rainbow? I have a parade to go to. Joe Mac San Francisco

Mixed results for Bay Area gay Dem Party chairs by Matthew S. Bajko

hile the gay Democratic Party chair in Contra Costa County squeaked to a close re-election victory Tuesday night, his counterpart in San Mateo County fell short in his bid for another term on the local county central committee. Redwood City resident Jeffrey Adair landed in fifth place in the race for four seats from his county central committee’s 4th District. The gay married florist has served as chair of the Democratic Party in San Mateo County since January 2015. He co-founded, and served as the first chair of, the Peninsula Stonewall Democrats, a political club for LGBT people in the county. Nonetheless, he fell short by 289 votes of capturing re-election to his seat on the DCCC, based on the unofficial returns. “In shock. Losing doesn’t feel too good,” Adair posted to his Facebook account early Wednesday morning. Winning her bid for a seat on the San Mateo County DCCC was Sabrina Brennan, a lesbian who serves on the San Mateo Harbor Commission. In her contest for one of six seats from the county’s 3rd District, Brennan landed in fourth and will be the sole LGBT person serving on the oversight body. “I’m honored to have an opportunity to represent the San Mateo County Democratic Party. I’m passionate about our environment, public transit, equality, and social justice,” Brennan, who is married to biologist Aimee Luthringer, told the Bay Area Reporter. “I care deeply about both local issues and the future of our country.” In Contra Costa County, Concord resident Jeff Koertzen, chair of the county’s Democratic Party, had a slight lead of 38 votes for fifth place, based on the unofficial returns, to win his re-election bid. Like Adair, he was elected chair in January last year. The race for five seats from the county’s District 4 drew 11 candidates, largely due to Koertzen’s efforts as chair to drum up more interest in serving on the DCCC. Four years ago when he first ran, there were five people competing for four seats in his district.

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Angeles-area seat. In San Diego lesbian Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who is running for the 39th District Senate seat, easily won first place against her GOP opponents. And gay San Diego City Councilman Todd Gloria easily took first place in his bid for Atkins’ Assembly District 78 seat. Sabrina Cervantes, a lesbian who is trying to oust Assemblyman Eric Linder (R-Corona) from his 60th Assembly District seat centered in northwestern Riverside County, took second in the three-person race with 40.1 percent of the vote. Linder earned 47.1 percent, while third place finisher, Democrat Ken Park, had 12.7 percent. Should Park’s voters swing to Cervantes in the fall then she could

Gabriel Quinto was re-elected to the Contra Costa DCCC Tuesday.

Koertzen had 4,868 votes as of Wednesday morning, compared to sixth place finisher Harmesh Kumar’s 4,830 votes. Coming in second place this year to secure his re-election to his DCCC seat was Greg Sanborn, a gay man who is the local party’s treasurer. He had 6,698 votes based on the unofficial returns. Gay El Cerrito City Councilman Gabriel Quinto also won reelection to a four-year term on the Contra Costa DCCC. Quinto, the sole HIV-positive elected official in the Bay Area, landed in first place among the eight candidates seeking five DCCC seats from the county’s 1st District. He had a total of 9,209 votes based on the unofficial returns. “Thank you to West County voters,” wrote Quinto on his Facebook page, for giving him the most votes. Richmond resident Joey D. Smith, an African-American lesbian who is an at-large state board member of Black Women Organized for Political Action, lost her bid for a DCCC seat. She landed in seventh place in the 1st District race with 4,607 votes. In Alameda County, gay Berkeley resident Andy Kelley was holding on to a slim lead to claim re-election to his DCCC seat. In the race for nine seats from the county’s 15th Assembly District, Kelley was in ninth place with 10,355 votes, according to the unofficial returns, giving him a 111-vote edge over the 10th place finisher. Coming up short in her bid to win an upset and defeat the sitting lawmaker. Palm Springs resident Greg Rodriguez, a gay married father who is HIV-positive, took second, with 40.8 percent, in his race against Assemblyman Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) in the 42nd Assembly District. Mayes came in first with 51.9 percent. Republican Matthew Craffey, president of the Log Cabin California Los Angeles chapter, will square off against Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) for his 50th Assembly District seat this fall as he was the sole challenger to enter the race. He secured 20.1 percent of the vote Tuesday compared to Bloom’s 79.9 percent tally.

Out non-incumbents fail to advance

Losing Tuesday were a number of out non-incumbent legislative candidates.

join Kelley on the Alameda DCCC from AD 15 was lesbian graphic artist Cecilia “Ces” Rosales. She was in 12th place with 8,881 votes based on the unofficial returns. Also losing her DCCC bid was Oakland resident Peggy Moore, who had taken a leave of absence as a special adviser to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to work on Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. In the race for 10 DCCC seats in AD 18, Moore landed in 14th place with 11,588 votes.

Gay man loses congressional bid

Gay Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen fell short in his bid for a southern California congressional seat. Nguyen, who publicly came out last year, was seeking the 46th Congressional District seat in Orange County. The current officeholder, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove), is running for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s seat. In the eight person race, where the top two vote-getters in the primary advance to the November election, Nguyen came in third with 13.7 percent, or 7,414 votes, based on the unofficial returns. He fell behind second-place finisher Republican Bob Peterson, who garnered 14.5 percent, or 8,446 votes. The winner of the primary, who is now assured of the seat come the fall, is former state Senator Lou Correa. The Democrat secured first place with 41.6 percent, or 24,184 votes. In San Diego gay Marine veteran Jacquie Atkinson, a member of Log Cabin Republicans, failed to survive the primary contest in the 52nd Congressional District. She landed in third with 13.4 percent, or 14,785 votes. Fellow GOPer Denise Gitsham, who secured second place with 16.1 percent, or 17,761 votes, will face off in the fall against the incumbent, Congressman Scott Peters (D-San Diego), who placed first with 58.6 percent, or 64,811 votes. The results mean that Congressman Mark Takano (D-Riverside) is likely to remain the sole out member of California’s congressional delegation. He easily placed first Tuesday with 62.8 percent, or 36,700 votes against his three Republican opponents and is expected to easily secure a third term in November.t

In San Jose gay Republican Anthony Macias fell short in his bid for the 15th Senate District, coming in fourth. Incumbent Senator Jim Beall (D-San Jose) took first with 49.2 percent, and termed-out Assemblywoman Nora Campos (D-San Jose), whose husband was involved in a homophobic tirade, came in second with 26.3 percent. Katherine Perez-Estolano, a married lesbian Pasadena resident, fell short in her bid for the open 25th Senate District seat. She came in third with 13.8 percent. Bryan Urias, a gay man seeking the 48th Assembly District seat located in the San Gabriel Valley, also landed in third place with 23.1 percent, according to the unofficial returns. The second-place finisher, Blanca Rubio, had 25.1 percent. Teacher Andrew Blumenfeld was in fourth place in the race for the Assembly District 43 seat in the Los Angeles area.t

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ited to the occasional email or phone call. Eventually I further cut off contact until my parents finally relented, allowing me to talk to my sister and others in our family. During that time, my dad changed as well. Dad was now attending church on a regular basis. His political beliefs – always on the Republican end of the spectrum – became further to the right. He also divorced my mother, and started to live with another woman, and with another family. A handful of years ago, a change happened. He had a customer come through his workplace – Disneyland – who knew me. My father told him how proud he was of the things I’d done – and me. My dad also told me the same, acknowledging the name I had taken for myself for the first time. Not long after that, he had his first bout with bladder cancer. This turned into a second bout, and a third. He and I talked in between the treks to treatments and such. It’s been so many trips to hospitals that it’s all a bit of a blur now. He talked a lot about his faith, but he also discussed those times in the 1980s when he was attending a church in West Hollywood. He was pressed into attending by a former employee of his, who had recently begun serving at that church. His other friends – just as conservative as him – told him to avoid the place and to certainly not touch anyone there. This was the earlier days of the AIDS epidemic. He refused, and reached out, providing a bit of support to those who may have been gone in weeks or days. He finished his story with a simple statement. “Love is love,” he said. Just days ago, I spoke with the woman he lives with now. She called with an update on my dad’s health. The cancer that he has fought for so long was on the move again. Not content to take his bladder from him, it has now spread into his liver, and spots have been discovered on his lungs. It’s really uncertain what lies ahead for him, but to say the prognosis is bad is to vastly understate things. Father’s Day is soon, and I hope he will see this one. During the late 1990s, when he and I were first reconciling, he told me how much a failure he felt he was for raising a transgender child. I told him that, no, he was no failure. He raised me to understand who I was, and to be strong in the face of the adversity I might face. He gave me what I needed to survive. Happy Father’s Day, dad: thank you for making me who I am.t

n the summer of 1939, my father was born. He was a farm boy from a time when the suburbs in California actually had farms. At an early age, his father left, leaving him to become the patriarch of the family before his first chin hair. In the late 1950s, while they were both still in high school, my father met my mother. They wed in 1960, spending their honeymoon around North Beach in San Francisco, where they ended up catching the “female impersonator show” at Finocchio’s. Seven years later, I was born. My father, a longtime fan of trains, had his “Little Engineer.” He named me after a friend of his who died in a cement mixer accident. Twenty-seven years after it was put on my birth certificate, I changed that name to the one I have now. Throughout my childhood, there were plenty of clues to my future. For example, my attempts to get stereotypical girl’s toys, or the times my parents cleaned my room for me, revealing a cache or two of clothing more appropriate to a gender different from the one in which they were raising me. I learned, much later, that many in my family assumed I was gay for years, though the euphemism applied at the time was that I was a “sensitive child.” One night, my dad took me with him to scout out a church where he would be photographing a wedding the next day. This wasn’t something he usually did, and I could guess this was a subterfuge. He wanted to talk to me about some clothing they had discovered concealed in my room. “Your mother and I discovered something in your room,” he began, sucking the air out of the family’s 1979 Buick. “I don’t know why you have these. I don’t want to know. You can have these back, and it is up to you to either get rid of this, or keep it. But I don’t want to hear any more about it.” So he did not hear another word – for about a decade. I remained deeply in the closet, including to myself, until I met my spouse. The day I came out to my parents was not an easy one. The four of us – mom and dad, my partner and I – sat in the living room of the house they shared at that time. In the back of my mind, dad’s words still reverberate to this day. “I half thought you were going to tell me you had an incurable disease and were going to die,” he said, trying to hold back tears, “and in some VALENCIA CYCLERY PROUDLY SUPPORTS ways that might have been easier.” VALENCIA PROUDLY SUPPORTS We did not talk a lot in the next de- CYCLERY Project Open Hand is a will nonprofit Gwendolyn Ann Smith al- organization cade. I was not allowed to come by the ways be his kid.meals You’llwith hertoatseniors that provides love and Project Open Hand isfiand nonprofit organization www.gwensmith.com. house, and communication was limthe critically ill. meals Every day, prepare 2,500 VALENCIA CYCLERY that provides with we love to seniors and

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10 • BAY AREA REPORTER • June 9-15, 2016

SF Pride president pushes corporations on LGBT issues by Matthew S. Bajko

n October Michelle Meow traveled to Bentonville, Arkansas as a guest speaker at Wal-Mart’s annual Emerge Summit. She was one of scores of diverse invitees at the event, where she discussed LGBTQ issues with executives of the international retailing behemoth. Meow, a gender-nonconforming lesbian television and radio show

host, was free to give her “unvarnished feedback” about the company, which she readily admits she rarely, if ever, shops at and disagrees with on a host of issues. At the same time, many of her family members in Stockton, California, are frequent Wal-Mart shoppers. “In some regions people don’t have a choice. They have to shop there. So I did some soul-searching,” said Meow, 34, on if she should ac-

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cept the company’s invite. “If I were to ban Wal-Mart, I would be turning my back on the same people who don’t have a choice or the same resources I have to understand why I wouldn’t shop at a place like Wal-Mart.” And if the company is willing to hear from her and then translate that into policies that benefit its LGBT employees, Meow determined it was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up. “They employ over 1.3 million people. How many of them are LGBT or can’t come out?” said Meow, currently the president of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board. Meow, whose given name is Michelle Sinhbandith, produces and hosts the weekly Michelle Meow Show Sundays at 9:30 p.m. on local cable channel KOFY. Formerly known as Swirl TV, the show launched in 2013. Since 2007, except for one year, Meow also has anchored the live broadcast of the city’s annual Pride parade. Her broadcasting career opened the door for Meow to begin addressing corporate audiences about LGBT issues a decade ago. Her first meeting was with New York Life agents based in San Francisco. The company was an early sponsor of her Swirl Radio show and had invited her to speak with its employees about LGBTQ issues. She recalled discussing her father’s death when she was very young and how it impacted her family’s finances. The tone mirrored the discussions she conducted on her show, of authentically speaking about the LGBT community. “In network media, there is always someone else telling our story in a certain way,” said Meow. Since then, speaking engagements before corporate audiences have come through on a regular basis. The invites are largely unpaid, as Meow doesn’t promote herself as a motivational speaker for hire or have an agent. “I never thought of myself as that caliber or that significant that someone wants to hear from,” she said. “It wasn’t until I began working with Pride that I saw how significant it is to push this visibility.” Last year during Pride Week in San Francisco she moderated a conversation with transgender AfricanAmerican actress Laverne Cox before a crowd of 200 Visa executives and employees. The “fireside chat,” as she called it, highlighted the need for more companies to hire not only transgender people, but also people of color from all communities. “She said, ‘You don’t hire people like me,’ and asked them if Visa was giving to organizations that support black trans women,” recalled Meow. Following her talk at Wal-Mart headquarters last fall, Meow is now working with the company on how it can adopt pro-LGBT policies. Her behind-the-scenes work comes as the company has avoided media inquiries on what its policy is on usage of its store restrooms by transgender customers in light of Target and other stores publicly announcing their policies following the passage of a transphobic bathroom bill in North Carolina earlier this year. Bob Witeck, a gay man who for more than a decade has consulted on LGBT issues for Wal-Mart, suggested the company fly out Meow for the Emerge event. “I would send her anywhere. I would send her to North Korea if I thought she could talk some sense into them,” said Witeck, who is based in Washington, D.C. and

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Trans actress Laverne Cox, left, is interviewed by SF Pride board President Michelle Meow during an appearance before about 200 Visa executives and employees.

praised Meow’s ability to listen to others. “She identifies, as many of us do, as an activist but also as an activist who thinks there isn’t a bridge too far. She builds bridges where others don’t even try.” Take for instance her encounter with Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon, who at first misgendered Meow when she approached him to say hello. Yet Meow also noted that McMillon had publicly spoken out last April against a bill Arkansas state lawmakers had passed that would have allowed residents of the state to cite their religious beliefs to validate discriminating against LGBT people. McMillon joined a chorus of business leaders calling on Asa Hutchison, the state’s governor, to veto the law, which he ended up doing. “I got to meet the CEO and spoke to him. I thanked him for standing up for LGBTQ people and for not supporting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” recalled Meow. “But I also asked him if he would stand up for all of his stores and support the Equal Rights Act. He couldn’t answer that for me but invited me back to continue that conversation.” To date she has yet to score the one-on-one meeting with McMillon to discuss the omnibus federal LGBT rights legislation. But she remains undaunted. “I am not going away. I will keep asking for that meeting,” Meow said.

Campaign urges hiring of trans applicants

The call for companies to hire more transgender applicants received a public push this month with the launch of the #TransAtWork campaign from the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s Transgender Employment Program. It is accompanied by the #HireTrans hashtag. A June 2 email from the center announcing the campaign noted employers use a host of excuses for not employing trans people, from them lacking skills or qualifications to their personalities being “too dramatic.” “All of them have one thing in common: They’re not true!” stated the email. A number of companies have been supportive of the center’s program, with Bank of America and Bank of the West financially backing it, and LinkedIn recently hosted the center’s spring career fair. And members of Google’s Gayglers LGBT employee group will be working with the center’s jobseekers one-on-one June 15 to offer them interviewing techniques and reviewing their resumes. “I think, for me, and for the community, it is just showing that all the visibility campaigns the center

has been promoting, I think the message is getting through,” said Juliette-Marie Isabella Somerset, a transgender woman who is a center intern. “That means if the trans community needs employment services, let’s provide funding so it is there and it is dynamic.” In February the center’s Transgender Employment Network launched its own group on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/ groups/7036509. Since then its membership has grown to nearly 90 members. “I think it is definitely moving in the right direction. I think part of it is, for a long time the companies, they just didn’t understand the issues or how they could support employees either transitioning on the job or not,” said Somerset, who moderates the LinkedIn group. “I think there is just a greater awareness and acceptance that, yes, why not hire a trans person or gender non-conforming person.” To see the center’s #TransAtWork video, visit https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=cgc-AlcYDrA.

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LGBT consultants headed to SF

Roughly 200 LGBT employees of the Boston Consulting Group will be in San Francisco this weekend for their biennial LGBT Network Global Meeting. The two-day gathering will bring together employees of the international company’s offices from across the U.S. as well as Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. “For our members in Russia and China it is so much more difficult to be out. To come to San Francisco is like coming to the promised land,” said lesbian Chicago resident Gabrielle Novacek, 40, a partner and managing director who joined BCG in 2007. A co-leader of the LGBT Network, Novacek said the conference will focus on both internal topics at BCG and the role its members can play in the greater business world. Speakers will include staff from OutRight Action International and Liam Klenk, a transman who works for BCG in London and authored the autobiography Paralian: Not Just Transgender. See page 16 >>

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12 • BAY AREA REPORTER • June 9-15, 2016

LGBs in SF Dem Party posts decrease by Matthew S. Bajko

n another sign of the LGBT community’s diminishing political clout in San Francisco, the number of LGB people overseeing the local Democratic Party is set to decrease. There are currently 11 lesbian, gay, and bisexual members – there are no elected transgender members – on what is known as the Democratic County Central Committee, or Dtriple-C for short. The body exerts significant influence on city politics, as it endorses candidates in local races and often is used as a steppingstone to running for elected office. Yet the outcome of the race Tuesday for 24 elected seats on the body will see the number of LGB members drop by three and has thrown into doubt the electoral chances for several out DCCC members with ambitions to be elected to supervisor seats. Also, for the first time in four years, the DCCC will not have an HIV-positive person serving on it, based on the unofficial election returns Wednesday morning. Castro resident Gary McCoy, who is HIV-positive and in recovery due to a meth addiction, conceded Tuesday night.

“As a first time candidate, I feel like it was a successful run. I got my message out, and had the opportunity to speak about many of the issues important to me and so many others,” McCoy wrote in a Facebook post. He had been seeking one of 14 seats representing the 17th Assembly District covering the city’s eastern neighborhoods. A number of out candidates fell short in their bids for DCCC seats in AD 17, including Frances Hsieh, a lesbian who is a legislative aide to District 11 Supervisor John Avalos; gay Sunshine Ordinance Task Force member Shaun Haines; bisexual union organizer Alysabeth Alexander; gay former DCCC member Arlo H. Smith; and gay party activists Michael Edward Grafton and Rick Hauptman. Incumbent lesbian DCCC members Library Commissioner Zoe Dunning and attorney Rebecca Prozan, who currently works for Google, as well as gay mayoral spokesman Francis Tsang all lost their re-election bids. On her Facebook page Wednesday morning, Prozan wrote, “I’m happy I had the chance to serve

likely he will be able to oust from office this fall District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee, who landed in second place in the AD 19 DCCC race. The lone out DCCC member from AD 19 will be Keith Baraka, a gay black firefighter who has served as an alternate on the body. He was in eighth place Wednesday morning with 100 percent of precincts reporting. Rick Gerharter

Supervisor David Campos, who was re-elected to the Democratic County Central Committee Tuesday, introduces some of the candidates who were on the Reform slate during their election night party at Oasis.

on the DCCC and look forward to what’s to come, including making sure we keep the White House blue, officially calling Kamala Harris our next senator, and doing big things during the day.” In the race for 10 DCCC seats in Assembly District 19, gay DCCC appointee Joel Engardio failed to win his bid for a full term on the body. His loss makes it highly un-

LGB Dems win big in AD 17

In the AD 17 race, LGB candidates won half of the 14 elected seats on the DCCC, with gay incumbent District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener landing in first place based on the unofficial results. His opponent in the race for the city’s state Senate seat, District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim, came in third place. (Should Wiener win his state Senate bid, it is now questionable due to Dunning’s defeat if Mayor Ed Lee would tap her to fill the vacant D8 supervisor seat. She has long been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed Wiener.) In second was gay former Assemblyman Tom Ammiano and in fourth place was gay District 9 Su-

pervisor David Campos. Rounding out the top five was gay former D8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty. Incumbents gay college board president Rafael Mandelman and lesbian Police Commissioner Petra DeJesus won re-election to their DCCC seats, coming in 13th and 14th place respectively. Newcomer Kaiser OB-GYN Dr. Pratima Gupta, a queer married mother who also serves as the volunteer medical director of the St. James Infirmary, a clinic for sex workers and transgender individuals, took 12th place. Rounding out the list of straight winners in AD 17 were Supervisors Aaron Peskin (D3), London Breed (D5), and Malia Cohen (D10); former D10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell; state Democratic Party Chair John Burton; and Planning Commissioner Cindy Wu. In the AD 19 race, the first place finisher in the primary was former Supervisor Angelo Alioto; current Supervisors Eric Mar (D1) and Mark Farrell (D2) landed in third and fifth place, respectively. In fourth was school board member Sandra Lew Fewer. See page 17 >>

Gay man takes second in SF judge race by Matthew S. Bajko

gay mayoral aide and former prosecutor is headed to a November runoff in his bid for a judicial seat after landing in second place in Tuesday’s primary. Paul Henderson, who is Mayor Ed Lee’s deputy chief of staff and director of public safety, was at 34.6 percent, or 50,381 votes, Wednesday morning, according to the unofficial returns posted by the election’s department. In first place was San Francisco Police Commissioner Victor Hwang, 48, also a former prosecutor, with 47.55 percent, or 69,237 votes with all precincts reporting. Because he fell short of the 50 percent plus one threshold to win the seat outright, Hwang will now face off against Henderson for Seat 7 on the San Francisco Superior Court. The vacancy is due to the retirement of former Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith in April. The race for his

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seat had also attracted trial attorney Sigrid Irias, 54, who had secured the endorsement of the city’s more progressive Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. She ended up in third place with 17.18 percent, or 25,016 votes, Tuesday night. Henderson, 48, had the support of the city’s Democratic Party, the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, and Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, the LGBT legal group. A San Francisco native and Tulane Law School graduate, Henderson went to work at the

district attorney’s office in 1995. He worked his way up to become the highest-ranking LGBT person and African-American male in the DA’s office, serving as chief of administration under former DA Kamala Harris. When she was elected in 2010 as the state’s attorney general, he openly campaigned to be named her replacement. Former Mayor Gavin Newsom instead chose the city’s then-police chief, George Gascón, and Henderson went to work for Lee, who had been named by the Board of Supervisors to replace Newsom after he became the state’s lieutenant governor. Henderson also announced he would not run against Gascón that fall to be DA. If elected, he would be the first LGBT African-American to serve on the local court. Lee dual endorsed both Hwang, who helped elect him mayor, and Henderson in the primary race. Hwang is also a former San Fran-

an uncontested election cisco assistant district for a seat on the Alamattorney who prosecuted eda County Superior hate crimes. The UniverCourt. She was the first sity of Southern Califoropenly transgender trial nia School of Law graducourt judge and is the ate began his career as a only openly transgender deputy public defender in person to have ever held East Los Angeles and then elected governmental ofworked for a number of fice in California. Asian legal nonprofits The wife of Bay Area Rebefore joining the DA’s Judge Victoria Kolakowski porter news editor Cynthia office. Laird, Kolakowski currently He now has his own presides over a civil trial department. private practice, and during the She was first elected six years ago in a judicial campaign, has touted his November runoff election. courtroom experience as being “I am deeply honored to be remore substantial than that of his opelected unopposed to serve the peoponents. The Judiciary Committee ple of Alameda County for another of the Bar Association of San Fransix years,” stated Kolakowski in a cisco gave Hwang its highest rating release issued shortly after the polls of “exceptionally well-qualified,” closed Tuesday night. “I pledge to whereas Henderson earned a “wellcontinue to honor my commitment qualified” rating. to judge fairly, treat all people who Trans judge wins re-election appear in front of me with dignity As expected Judge Victoria Koand respect, and to promote access lakowski was re-elected Tuesday in to justice for all people.”t

SF voters approve money for public health, parks by Seth Hemmelgarn

an Franciscans voted to spend more money on public health and parks, and also approved measures meant to boost affordable housing, among other proposals, preliminary data from Tuesday’s election show. Proposition A, the Public Health and Safety Bond, was passing with 78.6 percent of the vote as of Wednesday morning. The measure, which needs two-thirds of the votes cast, authorizes general obligation bonds in the amount of $350 million. The funds are to be used for public health and safety measures including seismic stability for the old San Francisco General Hospital (Building 5), as well as repairs and upgrades at neighborhood fire stations and health clinics. It won’t require an increase in taxes, as it will be funded by the retirement of previous bonds. “We are so appreciative of the community’s support of Proposition A,” Health Director Barbara Garcia, a lesbian, said in a statement. “This bond will allow the Department of Public Health to renovate the old

hospital into a state of the goal is not attainable due art outpatient health cento economic restraints, ter, provide for stronger then the Board of Supermental health services in visors may set a different the Bayview and support affordable housing reseismic safety for several quirement that economiHealth Centers, including cally permits the developour Castro Mission Clinic.” ment of new housing to Proposition B, which go forward. had 60.4 percent of the Inspired in part by the vote, restores the share of recent, fatal police shootthe general fund that preing of stabbing suspect ceded the recession and Mario Woods in the BayRick Gerharter will extend the current view district, Proposition park fund, which is set Rock outcroppings and views of downtown San D mandates a review of all to expire in 2030, for an Francisco are two pleasures found in Corona Heights officer-involved shootings additional 15 years until Park, which stands to benefit from Proposition B. resulting in death or inju2045. ry by the Office of Citizen A news release from Complaints, even in the Encouraging the maximum the San Francisco Parks Alliance absence of a citizen’s complaint. The amount of affordable housing is the Wednesday said, “In a city expected measure had garnered 80 percent of purpose of Proposition C, which to reach 1 million population by the vote by Wednesday morning. was passing with 67.3 percent. City 2040, protecting, preserving, and Proposition E amends city law law mandates at least 12 percent acquiring new open spaces for citifor the purpose of providing greater affordable housing in any new zens to relax, exercise and socialize is protections for employees who seek residential development. Prop C of paramount importance. Proposipaid sick leave. It was passing by removes the 12 percent mandate in tion B sets the Recreation and Park 78.3 percent. current law and substitutes a goal of Department on an improved path, San Francisco voters also approved 25 percent affordable units. It proand ensures that citizens will have regional District Measure AA by 77 vides for a case-by-case review by more oversight than ever over the percent as of Wednesday morning. the planning commission and the management of our cherished park The measure, which requires a cuBoard of Supervisors. If the review system for the decades to come.” mulative two-thirds majority vote, process reveals that the 25 percent

allows for a $12 a year parcel tax for 20 years to raise $25 million a year for clean water, pollution prevention, and habitat restoration projects in nine Bay Area counties. It’s supposed to generate about $500 million over its 20-year term to be used for leveraging funding from state, federal, and philanthropic sources. With state Proposition 50, a ballot measure that 75.3 percent of the state’s voters were supporting, if a member of the state Legislature is suspended by a two-thirds vote of the body’s membership for misconduct, the Senate or the Assembly would be able to suspend the legislator’s pay and benefits for all or a part of the suspension. The proposition also prohibits a suspended legislator from voting on proposed laws or otherwise taking actions as a legislator during the period of the suspension. James Mayer, president and CEO of Prop 50 backer California Forward, said in a statement that his group “believes this is a right step not only in allowing our lawmakers to hold themselves accountable but also moving towards restoring the public trust.”t

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14 • BAY AREA REPORTER • June 9-15, 2016

Outgoing SFO director honored by SF Travel compiled by Cynthia Laird

he San Francisco Travel Association honored the outgoing director of San Francisco International Airport at its recent luncheon for his contributions to the city’s visitor industry. John L. Martin received the Silver Cable Car Award at SF Travel’s 106th luncheon, which was held June 2. Martin, a gay man, will be retiring this summer after 35 years at SFO. He was first appointed airport director by then-San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan and has served as SFO’s chief executive under Mayors Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, and current Mayor Ed Lee. Prior to assuming that job, Martin served as SFO’s deputy airport director for business and finance. SF Travel’s President and CEO Joe D’Alessandro, also a gay man, praised Martin in his remarks at the luncheon. “Keeping SFO not only operational but also exemplary is a job that

takes tremendous dedication, vision, and leadership.” D’Alessandro said in a news release. “For 20 years, SFO had all that and more in its airport director. John Martin believed just as strongly as any of us that San Francisco is the greatest destination in the world. And he believed that an indispensable part of bringing people here was making sure that there was a stateof-the-art airport waiting to serve them.” During his tenure at SFO, Martin oversaw the completion of a $3.5 billion capital plan that included construction of the now-iconic International Terminal, the BART extension to the airport, new parking garages, and the Air Train people mover system. A series of world events, starting with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, precipitated a dramatic 26 percent drop in SFO’s traffic from 40 million passengers per year in 2000 to around 26 million a few years later, just as many of the new facilities were coming online.

several low-cost airlines, including the home-basing of Virgin America (soon to merge with Alaska Airlines). For the past seven years, SFO has been one of the fastest growing airports in the world – currently approaching a record 50 million passengers per year. It is also the top concession revenue producer per passenger of any U.S. airport. Martin did not respond to a request for comment sent through SFO’s communications director.

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San Francisco International Airport director John L. Martin speaks at the SF Travel Association luncheon.

SFO responded by cutting costs, finding new sources of non-airline revenue, and increasing the number of international and low-cost carriers. Since then, the airport has added 25 new international carriers and

There are several LGBT Pride events coming up in Solano County. The Vallejo Pride Comedy Show takes place Friday, June 10 at 7 p.m. at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, 734 Marin Street. Tickets are $20 in advance, available at http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/2531123. The event is a benefit for the Solano Pride Center. On Saturday, June 11, the Stonewall Democrats of Solano County will sponsor the Vallejo Pride Prom. The event takes place from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at San Pablo Lodge #43 of the

Independent Order of Odd Fellows. There will be a no-host bar, dancing, and entertainment. Tickets are $35 or two for $60 and can be purchased at https://secure.actblue.com/ contribute/page/2016prideprom. Sunday, June 12 will see the Pride Picnic in Alden Park on Mare Island, 8th Street and Walnut Avenue in Vallejo. People are asked to bring a dish to share and their beverage of choice. A grill will be available. Organizers said there will be youth activities and a meetup for LGBTQ families. The picnic takes place from 1 to 5 p.m. and is sponsored by the Vallejo Gay Network and the Solano Pride Center. Finally, there will be a Juneteenth Pride Bash Saturday, June 18 from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Artiszen Cultural Arts Center, 337 Georgia Street in Vallejo. There will be a screening of the film Brave Faces, followed by dancing with DJ Rhadika. For more information, visit www. solanopride.org. See page 17 >>

Queer comic fans can geek out at expo by Sean Piverger

t started as an idea without a name. In 2014, Queer Culture Center Co-Founder Rudy Lemcke and artistic director Pam Peniston were at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco and spoke to former museum bookstore manager Heather Plunkett about how great it would be for the museum to have a queer comic convention. Once the idea was mentioned to Plunkett, she, along with then-volunteer Nina Taylor Kester, who heard what was going on, dedicated themselves to the idea, which transformed into the annual Queer Comics Expo. This year’s third annual event takes place June 18-19 at the SO-

MArts Cultural Center. The Queer Comics Expo brings together artists, comic fans, social activists, and creative thought leaders from different walks of life “to celebrate queer culture and promote diverse queer representation in comics, animation, and other great ways to tell stories,” according to its website. It’s also a fundraiser for the Cartoon Art Museum and money raised will support educational programs, community events, daily operations, and partner exhibitions. (The Cartoon Art Museum temporarily closed its doors on September 12, 2015 due to a rent increase from the property owner. Work is still underway to find a new location. In the

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meantime, its programs continue.) This year the expo will not only have new exhibits but will also reside at the SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco’s Design district. The center was chosen by the QCC to provide more space for the expo’s exhibits and programs. “The Cartoon Art Museum is appreciative of these three years of collaboration and partnership with the Queer Cultural Center to bring the Queer Comics Expo to life, including QCC’s significant role of securing this year’s location at the SOMArts Cultural Center,” Kester, now the museum’s program coordinator, said on the expo’s Facebook page. The expo is part of the National Queer Arts Festival, which is organized by the QCC. Lemcke is also one of the founders of NQAF. Every June during Pride Month, the arts festival provides support for events for up-and-coming queer arts groups. This month is the NQAF’s 19th year. “We started having it during Pride Month because that’s when everyone’s attention is on queerbased events,” Kester, a lesbian, said in an e-mail. “I almost think [that] it makes the event more open to people of all identities, queer or otherwise, because it’s ordinary at that time for someone not in the queer community or someone who is questioning to seek out a queer

Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago

event as a cultural activity.” Although the QCC isn’t financially supporting the expo, Lemcke said that it provides the “publicity and marketing support” for the event. “We [the QCC and the NQAF] are always looking for new, innovative queer art,” said Lemcke. He also said that comics are “a big part of queer culture” which should be “represented” in the festival. The comic festival has been popular. About 200 people attended the first event in 2014. Last year, it brought in 275 people. This year the expo is looking at least 500 people attending the event. Lemcke said that he received positive reactions from the expo and

that seeing the expo come to life was a “dream come true.” This year’s scheduled guests include creators Ajuan Mance (Gender Studies, 1001 Black Men, and The Little Book of Big Black Bears), Alex Woolfson (Artifice and The Young Protectors), April Pierce (The Prince and the Swan), and Josh Trujillo (Love Machines, Death Saves, Adventure Time from Boom Studios). There will also be a special pop-up exhibit of video game and media production MidBoss’ Read Only Memories, Stacked Deck Press’ ALPHABET by CAM, and the Kumalicious exhibit that’s curated by E. Salvador Hernandez and presented by QCC. Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago said in an email that what makes the expo different from other comic book conventions – such as WonderCon and Comic Con – is that while the bigger conventions focus on comics, anime, and television, the expo’s mission statement is “more straightforward, and it’s a more focused, curated event.” “The great thing about smaller shows like QCE is that attendees are encouraged to spend more time getting to check out all of the exhibiting artists, and the artists have more opportunities to check out each other’s work,” said Farago. See page 17 >>

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rendan Patrick, right, who’s been HIV-positive for 20 years, is one of the 2,700 participants in this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle ride that departed the Cow Palace Sunday, June 5 and will arrive in Los Angeles on Saturday. The 545-mile ride this year raised

more than $16.1 million for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Among notables on this year’s ride are former SFAF CEO Neil Giuliano, current CEO Joe Hollendoner, and LA LGBT center CEO Lorri Jean.

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Senior housing

From page 1

first 39 units at 55 Laguna Street. As expected, the period to turn in applications for the lottery has been truncated from the normal monthlong window to just eight days. The first day applications became available was Wednesday, June 8 and the completed forms must either be postmarked by June 16 or turned in by 5 p.m. that day. But in a significant change from what had been announced earlier this year, it is unlikely any seniors residing outside San Francisco who do not work in the city will be moving into the renovated building. According to a flier produced by Openhouse, the LGBT senior agency spearheading the project, households that submit acceptable documentation that at least one member lives or works in San Francisco will be given the fourth highest preference in the lottery ranking process, as the Bay Area Reporter noted on its blog June 3. “If the number of units available exceeds the number of qualified applicants in the above listed preference, the units will become available to other qualified applicants outside of San Francisco,” states the flier. It is a marked policy change from what Openhouse had announced in April, when the agency’s former executive director, Seth Kilbourn, said he had rejected instituting such a preference since many LGBT

Business Briefs

From page 10

Topics, she said, would cover “how do we support each other in our careers as we progress in BCG” and “how we can support each other, especially as a global firm with offices in different countries.” In light of the public focus on bathroom access by transgender people, the firm has informed its employees they are free to use whatever bathroom they are most comfortable using. And due to its global footprint, BCG has also made it companywide policy that its LGBT employees are to be respected no matter what the laws are in the countries where it operates.

Strut

From page 5

GBT men’s health, and for all of our programs. I’m hopeful that Tim will stay involved with our work in some capacity, and thank him for all that he did to lead the opening of Strut.” Hollendoner replaced Neil Giuliano, who served as CEO for five years before leaving in December to become CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership, a business organization focused on civic improvement activities. Tim Jones served as interim CEO after Giuliano left.

Magnet confusion

Patriarca joined SFAF in September 2013 as the executive director of what eventually became Strut. After years of delays that included licensing issues, the center opened this year. Long before the site opened, SFAF announced it would locate

Clinton

From page 1

victory tonight,” an act most candidates resort to only after they have decided to leave a race. But Sanders also said during that same speech that he would take his “fight for justice” – not his fight for the nomination – to the convention in Philadelphia next month. He has also asked, and received approval Tuesday, for a meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday. And earlier in the evening, the Times reported that Sanders campaign sources said his campaign would be laying off at least half of his staff.

be given to people who have a Displaced Tenant Housing Preference Certificate from the mayor’s housing office, as eight units have been set aside for such applicants. Since 2010 those have been given, explained Benjamin, to people who were displaced either by an owner move-in or Ellis Act eviction. Third highest preference will go to applicants who meet the neighborhood resident housing preference for the 16 units set aside for people who live in District 8 or within a half-mile of Richardson Hall. Benjamin said the city expects a large portion of applicants will fall under this category. Asked about the likelihood of LGBT seniors moving into the building, Benjamin said, “If those seniors fall in those categories, it increases their chances. If they don’t, or already had to move out of the city, then it is going to be tough for somebody from the LGBT community who does not live or work in San Francisco any longer to get into one of those units.” Even if people do not fall under the four preferences, Daniels said any LGBT seniors interested in moving into 55 Laguna should turn in an application. Openhouse has targeted getting at least 3,000 LGBT seniors to do so. “What we are wanting to stress is, regardless of the preferences, we are encouraging people to apply,” said Daniels. Rents for studios will be $943 a month, one bedrooms will range

from $922 to $1,078, with two bedrooms priced $1,107 to $1,213, according to Openhouse. The income limits will range from $37,700 for a single person living in a studio up to $58,150 for a five-person household in a two-bedroom unit. The second phase of the project, expected to break ground next year, will see 119 units of affordable senior housing be built on what is now a surface parking lot. The age limit for seniors able to apply will rise to 62 due to a change in policy attached to the financing for the building, which will have an address of 95 Laguna. One unit will be given to a resident manager and 14 will be designated for people living with HIV or AIDS at risk of homelessness. The lottery to select residents for those units should take place sometime in 2018. The applications for 55 Laguna can be picked up in person at the Francis of Assisi Community Senior Center at 145 Guerrero Street. The site is also where the applications will need to be returned to by June 16 and where the lottery will be held next month. Applications can also be downloaded from Openhouse’s website at http://openhouse-sf.org/. Openhouse is hosting a community information meeting about the applications and lottery process for 55 Laguna from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9 at Francis of Assisi.t

Francisco was a decade ago. It now co-locates its global meetings so they coincide with the firm’s meeting for its global partners, thus BCG CEO Rich Lesser and other top executives are expected to attend. “It has been enormously, enormously valuable,” Novacek said of the interactions the meeting fosters. “In that conference people can be unfiltered and people will share a lot. That kind of insight and visibility you don’t get unless you sit in a room with LGBT people talking about things that matter to them. Our senior leaders walk away with their eyes wide open.” To learn more about BCG’s LGBT employee network, visit http://lgbt. bcg.com/.

Sleep with pride at SF Ritz-Carlton

concierge, complimentary amenities and four food and beverage presentations throughout the day including breakfast, light lunch, evening hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Guests also receive guestroom internet, garment pressing, and access to the Club Business Lounge. Room rates begin at $849 per night for a guestroom and $1,249 per night for a suite. Reservations can be made online at http://www. ritzcarlton.com/sanfrancisco or by calling (800) 241-3333.t

its popular gay men’s health center Magnet, the Stonewall Project drug counseling program, and the Stop AIDS Project there. After the center opened, SFAF officials insisted that Magnet be referred to as sexual health services, but some, including Patriarca, have still been using the Magnet name. “My recommendation to Joe all along [has been] to keep both brands Stonewall and Magnet,” he said, adding that Strut’s community advisory board is also making that recommendation. (Members of the board approached for confirmation of that didn’t respond Tuesday.) What to call the program will ultimately be Hollendoner’s decision, Patriarca said, but “Internally we have continued to use Magnet and Stonewall.” Hollendoner said, “I’ve given the foundation staff direction that we will continue to use the name Mag-

net for the foreseeable future as it is a strong brand that the community trusts. I’m eager to hear from our community advisory board on this topic and hope to meet with them in the near future so that I can get their input on this topic.” He added that he’s working with staff “to identify ways we can increase capacity in [sexually transmitted infection] testing and treatment, build on and expand our PrEP navigation program, and broaden the scope of our community engagement programs.” Patriarca said he’s “so proud of what we’ve achieved at Strut,” and “I’m going to miss everyone,” but he’ll still get to see the staff sometimes. He’s been a client of Magnet and said he’ll continue to go to Strut for regular checkups every three to six months. He said he’s HIV-negative. As for his future plans, Patriarca, whose salary is about $188,000 and

who lives in the Castro with his husband, said, “I’m going to go to Bear Week in Provincetown. That’s the only thing I have planned.” He said that after some time off, he’d “think about what my next steps will be.”

Sanders camp disses Frank

Frank has been a supporter of Clinton since the start of the primary season. In a May 27 letter to the Democratic National Committee, the Sanders campaign called Frank and the other co-chair of the Rules Committee “aggressive attack surrogates” for Clinton and said they harbor “political and personal hostility” against Sanders. The letter also said Frank’s “animosity” toward Sanders “dates back decades” and it called for his removal as rules committee co-chair. Convention officials said there was no evidence Frank or the other co-chair had violated any rules of the convention. Last Thursday, on MSNBC’s

Hard Ball, Frank said his role in the convention is a very small one, primarily focused on parliamentary procedure. With only 45 delegate votes left to be divided up in D.C.’s primary next week, Sanders’ strategy can now rely only on convincing superdelegates pledged to Clinton to switch their support to him. Some LGBT superdelegates have yet to declare who they will vote for. They include Representatives Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, DNC official Andy Tobias, former state Representative Glen Maxey of Texas, and state party chairman Ray Buckley of New Hampshire.

seniors in recent years have left the city either due to being evicted or priced out of their housing. Tim Daniels, Openhouse’s interim executive director since May 25, told the B.A.R. this week that he couldn’t speak to why the change had been made, saying it came from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “I was not privy to how that decision was made,” said Daniels. Maria Benjamin, director of homeownership and below market rate programs at the city’s housing office, explained that the preference is a standard one implemented for projects that do not receive federal funds. “While anybody in the whole world can apply, and we can’t stop them if they can, yeah you are right the chances of them being successful if they live in Arkansas are much slimmer than if they live in Noe Valley,” said Benjamin. Openhouse is working with Mercy Housing California, which develops below-market-rate housing, to build what will be a $40 million two-building campus of 159 apartments at the corner of Laguna and Hermann just off Market Street and a block away from the LGBT Community Center. The first phase, set to open in September, will feature a total of 40 pet-friendly rental units built inside Richardson Hall, a former college building whose address is 55 Laguna. Any senior, whether LGBT or straight, at least 55 years of age and meets the

income requirements can apply. Sixteen of the units will be given to seniors who live in District 8, which includes the gay Castro neighborhood, due to a rule the city adopted that sets aside 40 percent of the units in new affordable housing developments for people who live in the supervisorial district the project is located in, or within a half mile of the site. Another eight units are designated for people living with HIV at risk for homelessness, an additional eight are for people recently evicted from their apartments in the city, leaving just seven units up for grabs to the general public. (An additional unit will house an on-site resident manager.)

“We have worked very closely with office administrators to make sure in those markets they understand the issues and what the needs are of LGBT employees,” said Novacek. Also, BCG’s LGBT employees have the right to refuse to work with clients that make them feel unsafe. They can also request to be relocated out of a country, or refuse to be assigned to work in a country, that has anti-LGBT laws. “They have the full right to say no. I myself have done that,” said Novacek, who turned down an assignment that would have sent her to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The last time the LGBT employee group, founded in 1998, met in San

The Sanders campaign has been focusing its attention on late May polls that showed he could beat presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump by a more sizeable margin than Clinton could. A Quinnipiac University poll showed Sanders would beat Trump by nine points; Clinton by only four (with a margin of error of 2.5). Armed with this information, the Sanders camp went to war in the past week with “the entire Democratic establishment,” including Frank, co-chair of the Rules Committee for the Democratic National Convention.

Lottery

A random drawing lottery will be held at 10 a.m. July 7 to select the order for all of the applications deemed eligible. Of those, up to 400 applicants will be placed on a waiting list for the units in the order their names are pulled. The flier also states that first preference will be given to people who have a Certificate of Preference from San Francisco’s former Redevelopment Agency. Benjamin explained those are people who were displaced by government action in the 1960s, 1970s and some in the 1980s, largely because of city-sponsored redevelopment. However, Benjamin said such applicants securing most of the units at 55 Laguna is “very, very minimal.” Second highest preference will

Visitors headed to San Francisco for Pride later this month can raise money for the LGBT Community Center by staying at the Ritz-Carlton’s Club Level. The only AAA Five Diamond hotel in the city is offering a Lion’s Pride package this year where it will donate 10 percent of the per room night rate to the LGBT center. It has set aside all of its 46 Club Deluxe Guest Rooms and 20 Club One Bedroom Suites on the eighth and ninth floors – the top two floors of the hotel – during the dates of June 19-26 as part of the special offering. The deal features a full-service

DuBois departure

Hollendoner told staff DuBois’ leadership was “instrumental” in constructing Strut, and “Together with her team, she restructured the way the foundation approaches employee compensation,” which resulted in all employees now having the week between Christmas and New Year’s as paid time off, among other benefits. DuBois has accepted a new job as vice president of human resources at MidPen Housing, which focuses on stable housing for low-income people on the Peninsula. In his email to the B.A.R., Hol-

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lendoner said Megan Arganbright, SFAF’s senior human resources generalist, would lead HR efforts during the transition. With DuBois’ position, “I want to use her departure as an opportunity to re-evaluate how this area of our organization is structured,” Hollendoner said. I believe that our greatest resource is our staff and I want to make sure that we assess how we can best support them in the areas of human resources and operations.” Like Hollendoner, DuBois, a lesbian, is on the AIDS/LifeCycle bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which raises money for SFAF and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. In a Facebook exchange, DuBois, 55, said, “My reason for leaving SFAF had nothing whatsoever to do with Joe’s arrival, in fact I find him quite competent and personable. However, I had been in discussion with MidPen Housing since April.”t Although he’s not saying it, common sense also suggests Sanders is probably hoping that sometime between now and the convention, Clinton will be saddled with a scandal too difficult to overcome. And some media reports are beginning to analyze the likelihood of Sanders making a third party bid.

A third option emerges

But an independent bid by Sanders seems very unlikely now that the Libertarian Party has put forth an unusually strong third party ticket: two former Republican governors. See page 17 >>

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News Briefs

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Obergefell to appear in SF, Marin

Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in last year’s landmark same-sex marriage case, Obergefell v. Hodges, will be in the Bay Area later this month as he promotes his new book, Love Wins. The book, co-written with Debbie Cenziper, recounts Obergefell’s efforts to make the state of Ohio recognize his marriage to his late husband, John Arthur, after the state insisted on listing Arthur as “single” on his death certificate. The

Queer comic fans

From page 14

Farago also said that queer representation in mainstream media “is undeniably important.” “Getting to know people, even fictional people, outside of your own culture and upbringing is an incredibly powerful tool in promoting tolerance and understanding,” he said. For Kester the appeal of the expo “brings attention to an audience that doesn’t get the majority of attention at these other events.” “It would be nice to feel like there didn’t have to be a ‘Women in Comics’ panel at a [comic] convention or a ‘People of Color’ panel at a comics convention or a ‘Queer Cartoonist’ panel at a comic convention. So at Queer Comics Expo instead of doing that kind of introductory

SF Dems

From page 12

DCCC incumbents Tom A. Hsieh, current party chair Mary Jung, and Kat Anderson won re-election. In 10th place was school board member Rachel Norton, who this week revealed for the first time she had been raped in college in response to the outrage over a lenient sentence given to a former Stanford swimmer convicted of a raping a woman. The defeat of DCCC AD 19 ap-

Clinton

From page 16

Some gay Republicans and perhaps Sanders supporters may be pondering whether to support Gary Johnson of New Mexico and William Weld of Massachusetts, who were voted onto the Libertarian Party ticket over the Memorial Day weekend. Some political observers believe the ticket could potentially siphon support away from Trump, and some believe it may appeal to Sanders supporters who are bitter over his loss to Clinton. Johnson and Weld, both fairly strong pro-gay supporters, could attract LGBT Republicans and even some Democrats. Gregory Angelo, president of the national Log Cabin Republicans group, said he knows of a number of gay Republicans who plan to vote for the Johnson-Weld ticket. And that’s no surprise, he said. “Every election cycle there is always potential for a Libertarian presidential candidate to attract gay Republican voters,” said Angelo. The Libertarian Party has a fairly strong pro-gay history. Its first presidential nominee, in 1972, was a gay man, and the party took progay positions before the Democratic Party did. When Johnson ran for the Republican nomination in 2012, he supported the right of same-sex couples to marry, called the National Organization for Marriage’s “Marriage Vow” statement “offensive,” and said that discriminating against people “for the way they were born” was un-American. After Republicans settled on Mitt Romney as their nominee, Johnson

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lawsuit Obergefell filed in response ultimately led to the groundbreaking U.S. Supreme Court victory that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. In San Francisco June 21, Obergefell will appear at the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street at a benefit for the GLBT Historical Society. A VIP reception will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. hosted by Equality Wines, which will serve “The Decision” pinot noir and a special-release “Love Wins” sparkling wine created as a tribute to Obergefell and his late husband. From 7 to 8:30, Obergefell will discuss the lawsuit in conversation with Shannon Minter, legal director

for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which was also involved in the case, and read from his book. A book signing will follow the program. Admission is $100 for the VIP reception. General admission for the book discussion and signing is $20. All proceeds benefit the historical society. Tickets can be purchased online at www.eventbrite. com/e/love-wins-meet-the-manwho-won-marriage-equality-tickets-25535674891. On Wednesday, June 22, at 1 p.m. Obergefell will be at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard in Corte Madera for a book reading.t

level interactions with fans, you can delve deeper,” such as body diversity panels at Emerald Comicon, said Kester. For Lemcke, the expo “builds community” and he hopes that this expo will gain an “international” crowd. “It is bringing people who are interested in queer comics and queer graphic novels and queer games and video production. It creates a space at a community where people can come together and identify with a group of people,” he said. While Kester hopes that the expo will continue to be annual, Farago hopes that it will be a place for inspiration. “It’s our sincere hope that some of this year’s attendees will be next year’s exhibiting artists,” said Farago. “If QCE encourages creative people to make their own comics,

that’s a wonderful thing.” This year’s expo budget is $3,000 for the weekend show and $5,000 for the gallery exhibit. Sponsors include Northwest Press, Oni Press, BOOM Studios, California College of the Arts, MidBoss, CAM, and Prism Comics.t

pointee Marjan Philhour in her bid for a full term also raises doubts about her ability to defeat Fewer in their race to succeed Mar on the Board of Supervisors. And the defeat of Joshua Arce in the AD 17 DCCC race is certain to raise questions about his chances this fall in the race for Campos’ D9 supervisor seat. Who will become the next chair of the local Democratic Party when the new DCCC members are seated in July is also unclear. While progressives won more seats on the

DCCC in Tuesday’s primary over more moderate candidates, it isn’t certain that they will have a majority of votes on the reconfigured body. Democratic state officeholders also have voting seats on the panel, and when they are added to the list, it appears moderates may hold a one-vote majority on the panel. Wednesday morning the elections department announced it still had 78,000 ballots to count, so the final results of the DCCC race could change in the coming days.t

switched to Libertarian, became the nominee, and won 1.5 million votes in the 2012 general election. Rich Tafel, former head of the national Log Cabin Republicans group, said he thinks the JohnsonWeld ticket may appeal to some gay Republicans and that it “isn’t much of a stretch.” “I do think they offer an alternative that some gay Republicans are interested in. Many gay Republicans are more libertarian in their outlook, so this isn’t much of a stretch.” But in the “hyper-partisan culture” that exists today, said Tafel, many gay Republicans “will line up with the Republican Party at the end of the day.” A national poll of 808 registered voters taken by Investor’s Business Daily May 31-June 5 found only 11 percent support for Johnson. Most were for Clinton (39 percent) or Trump (35 percent). In nationwide polls taken just prior to Tuesday’s primaries, Clinton held a sizeable lead (14 points) over Sanders among registered Democratic voters. And Reuters’ poll in early June showed Clinton surging 11 points ahead of Trump.

to defend itself against North Korea. He’s said that he wants to bar Muslims from entering the U.S. And he wants to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep immigrants out. But the wheels on the Trump bandwagon appeared to come loose this week as Trump doubled down on his insistence that a federal judge should recuse himself from a civil trial involving Trump because the judge is of Mexican descent. The litigation against Trump claims the defunct Trump University was guilty of fraud. Trump said the fact that he plans to “build a wall” between the U.S.-Mexican border makes it an “inherent conflict of interest” for Judge Gonzalo Curiel to preside over his trial. By Tuesday evening, the fallout over Trump’s remarks about the judge prompted the candidate to re-couch his position. In a statement released to the press, Trump claimed his earlier comments had been “misconstrued” as an attack on people of Mexican descent even though media outlets quoted him directly. What he was really trying to do, said Trump, is point out that “unfair and mistaken rulings” by the judge gave Trump reason to question the judge’s impartiality, given Trump’s well-publicized plans to block immigrants from Mexico. Ryan said Tuesday that Trump’s comments about the judge are “the textbook definition of a racist comment” and were “absolutely unacceptable.” And Senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois), who is in a tight re-election race, issued a statement saying Trump’s statements about the judge were “dead wrong” and that Trump doesn’t have the temperament to be president.t

GOP reeling behind Trump

After Trump won enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, many GOP leaders began slowly climbing aboard his brash bandwagon to November. House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wisconsin) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) each endorsed Trump, while simultaneously speaking out against many of the things Trump has said and done. He’s said that Japan “might be better off ” if it had nuclear weapons

Queer Comics Expo will take place Saturday, June 18 and Sunday, June 19 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street. Online tickets (until June 15): Adults $8/day, $16/weekend; youth $4/day, $8/weekend. Tickets at the door: Adults $10/day, $20/ weekend; youth $5/day, $10/weekend. For more information, visit http://qcexpo.tumblr.com, http:// qcc2.org/queer-comics-expo, or check the “Queer Comics Expo” Facebook page.

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MAY 19, 26, JUNE, 02, 09, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552121

In the matter of the application of: QI JIANG, 4239 21ST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner QI JIANG, is requesting that the name QI JIANG, be changed to ROGER QI JIANG. 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 19th of July 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037077500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CRÈME DE CLEANING SERVICE, 940 MCALLISTER ST #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SIDON SOLOMON ABAI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037106800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DAMONO DESIGN, 26 COSO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAMON O’DONNELL. 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 05/23/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INNER CITY HAULING & JANITORIAL, 47 MINERVA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARIA M. MEJIA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037102500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VISCERAL PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC, 750 GRAND VIEW AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VISCERAL PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/19/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037109700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMPIRE MOVERS USA INC, 1888 GENEVA AVE #504, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EMPIRE MOVERS USA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037101000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAUSE STORIES; ALLY VAULT; 1471 5TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THE SAFDAR GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037094000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TACOLICIOUS, 2031 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LAIOLA LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/13/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037099600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GENJI, 1765 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GENJI PACIFIC LLC (PA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/16.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREAM QUEEN, 63 VALLEY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LAURA L. KONNER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/23/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/23/16.

The Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the PanTerra D’Oro Ecclesiastical Court of the Ekklesia, county San Bernardino, California, on the April 5, 2016, bearing Court Record No. COTE.WRIT.0316.0016, a viewing of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, by written request sent for appointment posted to Clerk of Court, 305 North Second Ave, #197, Upland, California, near [91786] Non-domestic, zip exempt. Said Writ of Entry removes all temporary tenants from the Landed Estate of the body based on Petitioner’s right to secure his religious beliefs to assume the name of ‘Darren’ and/ or ‘Darren DeLeon’ (for identification purposes) forever sanctified from the ens legis legal styled name, ‘Darren James Michaels’ or any combination. Petitioner is forever detached from any reassignment of any liability associated to and not clothed with representative capacity with the said former legally styled name, ab initio. All persons possessing an interest in this shall timely petition the court to show cause, why the court’s decree is not a settled matter and failing to do so, be it resolved that the matter is forever settled, Res Judicata. Any correspondence for Darren can be posted to General Post 300621, Fern Park, Florida near [32730] Non-domestic, zip exempt. Petitioner’s place of nativity is on the land of New York City, borough Brooklyn, union State of New York. Nativity day is December 30, 1960.

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MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037111000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STEVEN BALLINGER FINE ART, 1459 18TH ST #281, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed STEVEN BALLINGER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/04/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/16.

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MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037118500

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JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036769000 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: P.J. CONNNOLLY CONSULTING; LIBERTY HILL COMMUNICATION; METAMORA NETWORK SYSTEMS; 862 DOLORES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by P.J. CONNOLLY. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/09/15.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552093

In the matter of the application of: ISABELLA BORJIGIN SUN, 132 SANTA ANA ST, SAN PABLO, CA 94704, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ISABELLA BORJIGIN SUN, is requesting that the name ISABELLA BORJIGIN SUN, be changed to QIWEN BAO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 30th of June 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552152

In the matter of the application of: LILLY WHITE, 1049 HOWARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LILLY WHITE, is requesting that the name LILLY WHITE, be changed to TONY LATRONE WHITE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 26th of JULY 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037127500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAGIC UNDERGROUND; MAGIC UNDERGROUND SAN FRANCISCO; MAGIC ON THE SQUARE; SEBASTIAN BOSWELL III; 684 20TH AVE #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual and is signed REED KIRK RAHLMANN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/03/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/03/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037129300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO MAGIC UNDERGROUND; SF MAGIC UNDERGROUND; MAGIC UNDERGROUND SF; 684 20TH AVE #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed REED KIRK RAHLMANN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/06/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037093300

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552153

In the matter of the application of: JIEYING WU, 5 SONOMA ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JIEYING WU, is requesting that the name JIEYING WU, be changed to JOSIE JIEYING WU. 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 28th of July 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IRMA’S BARBER & BEAUTY SALON, 5465 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IRMA ELIZABETH TRIGUEROS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037128500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SORTIE, 1001 TENNESSEE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed SASKIA MAURO & RACHEL HOOPER. 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 06/03/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037018900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AUDREY 3 PLUS 1, 1034 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation and is signed AUDREY ROSE CO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037125600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAREZONE INSURANCE SERVICES, 3175 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CAREZONE FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/27/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037122900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GENJI SUSHI PTH, 450 RHODE ISLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GENJI PACIFIC LLC (PA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/16.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037102300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DREAM HOLIDAY, 775 JACKSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIA HUANG JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/13/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUMPHREY’S JOINER LAW GROUP, LLP, 584 CASTRO ST #720, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, and is signed JONATHAN JOINER & BENJAMIN HUMPHREYS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/11/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/19/16.

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eads up for an amazing 12-day public piano project called Flower Piano, which is set to return this July 7-18 to the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park. Event organizers Sunset Piano transform the Garden into an outdoor concert hall with 12 fullytuned pianos tucked into its many flower-filled gardens, all available to play by the general public, free with regular admission (or totally free for SF residents). Out There happened to be wandering through the Garden last year and came upon the pianos by chance. It was one of those magical moments in Golden Gate Park, with or without medical marijuana! Most of the time during the event the pianos will be available for the public to play, but at specific times on the weekends there will be professional performers at the keys, including classical powerhouses Allison Lovejoy and Serene Han, composer Alex Conde, the slightly naughty Kitten on the Keys, and new music specialist Sarah Cahill, who will be accompanied by violinist Kate Stenberg. Bonus points as well for the 80-piece Awesöme Orchestra, a sing-along choir, piano duets, and family-friendly activities with costumed performers. You can find a full list of performances at sunsetpiano.com/flowerpiano/ and at sfbotanicalgarden.org/flowerpiano/. Go forth and play piano!

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Robin Flower and Libby McLaren will be performing their annual concert at the Freight & Salvage on Sat., June 18 at 8 p.m. With Flower on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and strumstick, and McLaren on piano and accordion, both of them sharing vocals, this duo create their own blend of Celtic and American roots music. Flower and McLaren have been partners musically and in life for almost 30 years. Both had successful musical careers when they first met in 1987. At that time, McLaren was playing piano and singing harmonies with The Roches, and Flower had played and recorded with Holy Near’s band on her first CD More Than Friends. In 1987 they met when

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The Flower Piano event, seen here last year, returns next month to the San Francisco Botanical Garden.

Flower hired McLaren to help produce the vocals on her album Babies with Glasses. A professional musical partnership and eventual romantic one developed. The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse is at 2020 Addison St., Berkeley. Info: thefreight. org.

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Local Absolutely Fabulous impersonators and Bestie winners Christian Heppinstall and Terry McLaughlin have been chosen by Fox Searchlight, the studio handling the new AbFab film coming out this summer, to promote the film. They were in Sacramento last weekend for their Pride Parade, in which they rode in a convertible as the indefatigable Edina & Patsy. This coming weekend they will be in LA to do the same for that Pride Parade on Sunday. Our ersatz “Eddy” and “Patsy” will ride in the SF LGBTQ Pride Parade this month as well. Then, in July, they’ll do two film premiere promotional events in SF. All of which aims at promoting their own 15th & 16th episodes of AbFab, coming to the Exit Theatre Oct. 27-Nov. 19, their first fourweekend run of 8 p.m. primetime shows. Look for the episodes Sex and Small Opening. Heppinstall told Out There about getting the gig of all these promotional appearances, “This news is shocking, to say the least. London reached out to us out of the blue. But sometimes the meek do inherit!”

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Foggy night in the old cowtown last week. Pepi & OT are high upon Nob Hill, invited to a cocktail party at the Ritz-Carlton to celebrate the opening of the first Wellendorff boutique in North America. For 123 years, the Wellendorff Jewellery Manufactory has created handcrafted 18-karat gold jewelry. Fourth-generation managing director Christoph Wellendorff was in SF to unveil the commemorative white gold San Francisco Ring, a limited edition piece that features an elaborate silhouette of the Golden Gate Bridge. Pepi & OT were also entranced by the Wellendorff Golden Belt, a hand-woven masterpiece of 18-karat gold. Rarely shown in North America, the Golden Belt is a 33-inch belt designed with the signature Wellendorff Rope, intricately crafted in Germany using four miles of 18-karat gold filament. Safe to say we were bedazzled. Heading down California St., Pepi took a flyer when the slick soles of his urban cowboy boots slipped on a metal grate. Fortunately, after years of dance classes, he knew how to fall. Next stop was CBS SF headquarters on Battery St., where KPIX 5, CBS Radio SF staff (Alice 93.7, 99.7, KCBS AM & FM Radio, Live 105), and CBS-TV, in collaboration with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), Northern California chapter, celebrated the kick-off to LGBTQ Pride month. We were happy to put back a few with our friends in broadcast journalism. Bring on the Pride!▼

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Embarcadero photography pilgrimage by Sura Wood

ince opening in 2010 in a vast, superbly renovated warehouse on the waterfront, Pier 24 has been a unique venue for photography. Its policy of admitting only 30 visitors at a time to the cathedral-like space affords a contemplative viewing experience unlike anything else in the city. But the size of the 28,000 sq. ft. facility and the volume of photographs it takes to fill it make the task of mounting cohesive shows there and the traditional reviewing of them a challenge. Though Pier 24 has primarily been a home for the expanding collection of its founder, San Francisco investment advisor Andy Pilara, it has featured small guest shows and recently curated its first exhibition devoted to the work of a single artist. For their current outing, Collected, they’ve devised a novel and effective structure that incorporates a host of photographs from the Pilara Foundation, and works belonging to nine Bay Area collectors, organized into what are essentially independent satellite shows that reflect their particular predilections and interests. Most sections are quite strong and filled with enough high-value treats to justify a pilgrimage to the Embarcadero. As per Pier 24’s purist experiential philosophy, none of the gallery images are accompanied by titles or attribution. The practice can be frustrating, but fortunately, a printed guide with the information is available at the reception desk, right next to Yasumasa Morimura’s “Vermeer Study: Looking Back (Mirror)” (2008). The notorious, gender-bending, Japanese “sexual appropriation” artist has cast himself variously as Frida Kahlo and the reclining courtesan in Edouard Manet’s “Olympia.” Here he masquerades as the Dutch painter’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” and nearly pulls it off. Richard Learoyd, an artist cultivated by Pier 24, is represented by a grouping of predominantly large-scale color portraits of people and animals, made with the laborintensive, antique photographic process camera obscura. Among the standouts: an ineffably sad yet exquisite pink flamingo (“Flamingo 3,” 2012), electrocuted after a tragic entanglement with power lines in South America. The British artist tapped his connections at a natural history institution, which froze the exotic creature and shipped it to Learoyd. He suspended the lifeless bird on white cord, its feathers still vivid pink, its graceful neck and legs limp but intact, effectively resurrecting the beautiful corpse it left behind. In another image, a huge, bloody, white stallion’s head, freshly decapitated from the look of it, rests on a white slab (“Horse Head,” 2012). The selections from Carla Emil & Rich Silverstein’s Solitude convey aloneness or separateness. In Richard Barnes’ “Unabomber Exhibit A” (1999), for instance, Ted Kaczynski’s simple wooden shack, shot against a velvety black background, seems to float in a sea of impenetrable darkness, like the troubled psyche of its former occupant. The subject of Diane Arbus’ “Woman at a Counter Smoking, N.Y.C.” (1962), a trueblue New Yorker smoking a cigarette at the counter of a Manhattan coffee shop, emanates a “Don’t bother me, get lost” attitude, and the ruggedfeatured Georgia O’Keeffe, attired in black and a skull cap, appears imperious and monastic, even when wedged between walls in a 1948 portrait taken by Irving Penn as part of his series on artists in corners. Marcia Resnick re-imagines her boring adolescence as an infinitely

Estate of Garry Winogrand

“New York, 1950” by Garry Winogrand.

Elena Dorfman, courtesy of the artist and Modernism

“Rebecca 2” (2001) by Elena Dorfman.

sexier, more interesting affair in a pair of 1978 images: “She scotchtaped her nose up before dates hoping it would stay that way,” and “She would demurely sip cherry Kool Aid from a wine glass and puff on bubble gum cigarette.” Both are contained in Dancing with Myself,

Winn Ellis & David Mahoney’s collection of rarely if ever exhibited female self-portraits of the 1970s. Be sure to check out Chara Schreyer’s provocatively titled section Danger, Disaster, and Beauty, where you’ll find Elena Dorfman’s “Rebecca 2” (2001), a color photo of a sexy

woman’s crossed legs. But wait: what’s that tell-tale seam above her well-turned ankle? Why, it’s a sex doll, and judging from the wear and tear, one that’s gotten a whole lot of love. Dan Holland & Patrick Printy contribute a set of fine black & white prints by Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who worked as a Kentucky optician when not photographing sinister images of rural children donning masks in dilapidated buildings. The rural setting is a constant in these

pictures, as is a creeping sense of menace, but not the masks, save for one where a young man, standing alone in the woods, holds one away from his face as if he’s just removed it. Though Meatyard’s work has something akin to a secret society of admirers, it’s shown infrequently. The same cannot be said of revered Swiss photographer Robert Frank, who has a gift like no other for the arresting image, and the ability to distill an unfolding narrative from an See page 29 >>

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June brings Castro Theatre attractions

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by David Lamble

he Castro Theatre is rocking later this month with the Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival. But first there’s an exciting week of repertory cinema, described below. Under the Cherry Moon (1986) A B&W extravaganza from Prince (writer-director-star), which divided the room at the time of its release, is now perfectly positioned as a piece of funky diva nostalgia. Co-stars Kristin Scott Thomas & Francesca Annis. Absolute Beginners (1986) Julien Temple reinvents the British musical with this high-energy opus that captures the emergence of a swinging London pop scene, marred by a growing sense of racial enmity between white workingclass Brits and Commonwealth immigrants. Film benefits from a spunky ensemble: Eddie O’Connell, David Bowie, James Fox, The Kinks’ Ray Davies, and Mandy Rice-Davies. Memorable for its spectacular opening scene and a literate narration by O’Connell’s Colin. “I remember that hot, wonderful summer. When the teenage miracle reached full bloom and everyone in England stopped what they were doing to stare at what had happened. The Soho nights were cool in the heat, with light and music in the streets. And we couldn’t believe that this was really coming to us at last. Nobody knew exactly why. But after so many dreary years of bombs and blitz and slow rebuilding; no sugar, no jam, nothing sweet anywhere; with the whole English world dressed in gray, it seemed, forever. “Suddenly life broke out in warm colors again, so young and beautiful that a lot of people couldn’t stand to look at it. For the first time ever, kids

Writer-director-star Prince in Under the Cherry Moon (1986).

were teenagers. They had loot, however come by, and loot’s for spending. And where there’s loot, trouble follows.” (both 6/9) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) John Carpenter’s tribute to horror masters Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft features Aussie star Sam Neill as a psychic detective in a mystery that taps into a kind of postmodern horror funk. Prince of Darkness (1987) John Carpenter’s exploration of Satanic forces is not for everyone. With Alice Cooper and Donald Pleasance. (both Midnights for Maniacs, hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, 6/10) Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder practically invents the film noir genre with this star-crossedlovers murder-for-hire gem. Fred MacMurray is the nice-guy insurance salesman who falls into the well-laid trap set by seductress Barbara Stanwyck, who wants her older, wealthy hubby out of the way. Relying on a technicality in the life insurance policy her husband carries,

MacMurray and Stanwyck plan a murder so insidiously clever that it even fools the company’s eagle-eyed claims investigator, Edward G. Robinson. An early example of Wilder’s penchant for creating twisted hetero male buddy relationships. Strangers on a Train (1951) Alfred Hitchcock devises a masterpiece from a Raymond Chandler script. Tennis pro Farley Granger meets a charming psycho (Robert Walker) on a Northeast Corridor express train. Walker, cruising his male prey in the club car, proposes a diabolical deal: Walker will kill Granger’s disgruntled wife if the tennis player agrees to murder Walker’s domineering dad. This one pivots on pitch-perfect acting, photography and plot twists. Among the stellar touches are a tennis match where the good guy (Granger) must up his game, a a strangulation murder on a carnival-island lover’s retreat, and the director using his daughter as a doppelganger standing for a murdered woman. To top it off, Granger,

Tennis pro Farley Granger meets a charming psycho (Robert Walker) in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951).

a gay man offscreen, plays the hetero lover, while Walker, in his last screen role, delivers a marvelously twisted, queer-acting killer. (both 6/12) Miles Ahead (2016) If nothing else, this Miles Davis biopic has attitude to spare. The legendary jazz trumpeter started blowing professionally around 1944, led a too-cool-for-school quintet in 1955 with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, picked up 23 Grammy nominations along the way, before suddenly disappearing from public view between 1975-80. Filmmakerstar Don Cheadle is as qualified as anyone to take on the man and the legend. Unfortunately, getting to the man can be a little like broiling a juicy steak and smothering it in ketchup or chocolate sauce. Employing the now-classic fractured fairy-tale structure so effective in boxing bio Raging Bull and in last year’s sweet literary two-hander The End of the Tour, the film catches Miles at several career pit-stops, as

when he first started blowing for Billy Eckstein’s orchestra. Bird (1988) Director-jazz fan Clint Eastwood creates a flawed but significant modern classic from the tortured life and career of sax great Charlie Parker. Bird is a tad long, but it’s a sincere attempt to memorialize a life marked by high art and bad habits, with a gut-wrenching performance from Forest Whitaker, who makes even the long digressions into Bird’s heroin habit bearable. This is a great opportunity to become acquainted with a master actor, Whitaker having set the bar high with a three-decadelong resume that includes inhabiting Ugandan mass murderer Idi Amin while conducting an affair bordering on romantic with a straight Scottish physician, slyly charming James MacAvoy (The Last King of Scotland); a comic sidekick to Robin Williams’ manic Armed Forces Radio DJ (Good Morning Vietnam); and a martyred British soldier in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. (both 6/15)▼

of this neglected film. Thomas and Allen recall the making of the film in newly shot interviews. The original theatrical trailer is also included. I Saw What You Did (1965) is one of a number of films that were said to have tarnished the reputation of Joan Crawford during the waning days of her career. This was the post-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? period when the only offers La Crawford received were from the producers of low-budget horror movies. I Saw What You Did is the work of William Castle, who had called the shots on Crawford’s axmurderer cult film Straight Jacket the year before. Whether or not these films were a sad step down for the screen legend remains open to debate. All of Crawford’s screamqueen titles were moneymakers and were brought to theaters by major

Hollywood studios. I Saw What You Did was a Universal picture. Around 60 when the film was made, Crawford was probably too old to play the seductive vamp her 40ish character was supposed to be. But she retains her incomparable screen presence nonetheless. The diva gives a strong supporting performance as Amy, a wealthy, desperately lonely woman who doesn’t realize that the man she’s throwing herself at is a psychotic killer. Even though her role is small, Crawford is the film’s top-billed star. The actual leads in I Saw What You Did are Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane, two cute and perky teens who were gone from the movie biz by the early 1970s. Neither is a particularly strong performer, yet they offer adequately entertaining line deliveries. The girls like to make prank phone calls. They bite off a lot more than they can chew when they call Crawford’s BF to say: “I know who you are, and I saw what you did!” moments after he stabs his wife to death. The gentleman soon comes looking for them. I Saw What You Did is a Hitchcock wannabe that never quite lives up to its potential, though it has its moments. The crank phone call scenes are genuinely amusing, and the isolated ranch house where the girls play their games is an atmospheric delight. The main problem is that the film feels like an expanded TV episode – it moves too slowly. By the time the action picks up, some viewers might be snoozing. But then there’s Crawford, who’s always a mesmerizing sight to behold. The lady gives her all, and we expect nothing less of Joan Crawford. Scream Factory’s Blu-ray release offers two original theatrical trailers for I Saw What You Did. There are no other extras.▼

Divas deeply in danger by David-Elijah Nahmod

scar-winners Joan Crawford and Patty Duke star in a pair of semiforgotten chillers, both of which are making their Blu-ray debuts courtesy of Scream Factory, a horror-movie subsidiary of Shout Factory. Duke, who recently passed on, is a gay icon due to her starring role in the camp classic Valley of the Dolls (1967) and because of her unwavering support for LGBT equality. Though small in physical stature, Duke was a powerhouse onscreen. In addition to her 1962 Oscar for The Miracle Worker, she was also honored with two Emmys and a People’s Choice Award. But it was Duke’s tireless advocacy for mental health that earned her the respect of millions around the world. Duke lived with bipolar disorder. You’ll Like My Mother is one of Patty Duke’s lesser-known titles. A minor hit in 1972, the film was shot at an isolated mansion in wintry Duluth, Minnesota. The cold, dark setting sets just the right mood for this tale of terror.

Duke gives a strong performance as Francesca, a young, pregnant widow being held against her will in the

family manor by her insane motherin-law (creepy Rosemary Murphy). But is Mom really mad, or is she just an overly protective mother shielding her other offspring from danger? Is she even who she says she is? You’ll Like My Mother is a small film with a small cast. Shot primarily inside the old house, it’s an oldfashioned, old-school suspense film. Duke and Murphy play a magnificent game of cat-and-mouse as the story unfolds. Both women are brilliantly on-point throughout the film. Richard Thomas, about to become worldfamous as John-Boy Walton, steals a few scenes as Murphy’s other son, a deranged maniac who has already killed, and wants to kill again. The now-forgotten Sian Barbara Allen, then a rising star, is superb as Murphy’s mentally challenged daughter. Scream Factory offers a pristine print

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Under a doctor’s care by Richard Dodds

y definition, reality is incontrovertible. Yet there are as many realities as there are people on the planet. Yes, we may agree that we starve if we don’t eat, or can travel faster if we sprint rather than amble. But beyond those truths that we hold to be self-evident, much of what we call reality can range from fuzzy around the edges to supposedly fundamental at its core. In Joseph Dougherty’s riveting Chester Bailey, having its world premiere at ACT’s Strand Theatre, reality is in the ring for 10 rounds, and a knockout punch never quite connects. “If there’s one thing that reality can’t handle, it’s competition,” says a doctor who thinks it’s his duty to pull a gravely injured patient from his steadfast belief that he is of sound mind and body. Each moment in the play, told through a series of short encounters between doctor and patient, provides new revelations that may be horrific or seemingly mundane. By the end of the 95-minute play, the doctor is ready to accept reality as a situationally mutable concept. Director Ron Lagomarsino’s deft production is one of growing intensities, enhanced by the actors playing the frustrated Dr. Cotton and the determinedly upbeat Chester Bailey. David Strathairn brings a quiet authority to his performance as the doctor, with a basic goodwill that can cross over into slightly cruel trickery. As Chester Bailey, Dan

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David Strathairn, left, plays a doctor trying to break through to a delusional patient (Dan Clegg) in the world premiere of Joseph Dougherty’s Chester Bailey at ACT’s Strand Theater.

Clegg creates a pulsating character with moments of guilt that punctuate his general optimism. The year is 1945, and Chester’s guilt derives from a military deferment arranged by his father that has him working as a civilian at a naval shipyard. He feels a streak of yellow emblazoned across his chest, a cowardice he thinks radiates to all around him, and his non-combat injuries provide no honor. Even kind gestures can trigger self-loathing. “There is a war on, and your mom is still putting an apple in your lunchbox everyday,” he testily tells the doctor. Nina Ball’s set suggests New York’s old Penn Station, and Dr. Cotton tells us of the phobias

evoked when he must pass through its towering industrial grandeur. But for Chester, the upper reaches of the concourse always made him feel closer to heaven. The lines between the physician and the patient can get tangled in Dougherty’s scenario that eschews theatrical bells and whistles but builds to unexpected levels of insight. “He is the author of his own mercy,” the doctor says of Chester toward the end of the play. In this situation, reality finally can find a soothing balm within fantasy.▼ Chester Bailey will run through June 12 at ACT’s Strand Theater. Tickets are $25-$80. Call (415) 7492228 or go to act-sf.org.

They won’t grow up

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Kathleen Chalfant, reliving her childhood role as Peter Pan, helps her younger sister (Ellen McLaughlin) take flight in a fantasy scene from For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday at Berkeley Rep.

by Richard Dodds

arents, be they good, bad, or indifferent, provide an innate if unintended benevolence. “They stand sentry between us and death,” says a character in playwright Sarah Ruhl’s newest work now at Berkeley Rep. Once the old folks are gone, the approaching cliff no longer has its guardrail, and, actuarially speaking, the kids are next being pushed toward the edge. In For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, five grown children dutifully hold vigil at their father’s deathbed. But when they gather round the kitchen table for a whiskey-washed quasi-wake, the sentiments aren’t so much about their departed dad as about them. The siblings banter about death, religion, politics, afterlife, and even the possible reality of Santa Claus. Even though a new parentless reality is settling in, it’s not particularly gloomy talk. “I’d like it if Canada was heaven,” says Ann, the oldest of the brood. “Then I’d get to go to the Shaw Festival.” Ruhl is a smart writer, and her plays that have found fans among local audiences include Eurydice, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Stage Kiss, and In the Next Room, or

the vibrator play. So the palaver in the new play is thoughtful, playful, and yet never particularly revelatory. They display mildly distinct personalities as they share stories, but it’s still just a bunch of people sitting around a table talking as a bottle of Jameson makes the rounds. Actually, there is one ambulatory character moving about in this scene, but he happens to be dead. Invisible to the other characters, their father is also oblivious to them and serves a mildly comic function with his silently grumpy countenance. It’s in the next scene when matters begin to take off, and in more than one way. As Anna goes foraging for attic memories, she pulls from a trunk a Peter Pan costume she wore years ago in a community theater production of the J.M. Barrie play. The specter of aging and death recently arrived at their doorstep can perhaps be deferred by invoking the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Moving into a kind of fantasy state, the radiant Kathleen Chalfant as Ann dons the musty Peter Pan outfit and enlists her siblings to play the other characters (the adroit ensemble of Charles Robinson Shaw, Keith Reddin, Ellen McLaughlin,

and David Chandler) as they stumble through fragments of the story. They’re play-happy enough to play fondly remembered roles, though they have dark moments when they want out of this dream world where they know their grownup sensibilities don’t belong. It’s amusing and poignant, but only mildly so. The 70-year-old Ann is the only true believer in the brood, stabbing at the air with a second-tier Tinker Bell prop or hurling glitter at her earthbound charges. A potentially stirring final moment is instead rendered with a wispy wave. Les Waters, formerly of Berkeley Rep and now artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville where For Peter Pan originated, proved himself during his years at Berkeley as a firstclass director. But the ingredients in this return visit are very thin. Nothing is ever less than pleasant, and with hints of sagacity coloring the edges, but no amount of pixie dust can quite elevate this production.▼ For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday will run through July 3 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets are $29-$89. Call (510) 647-2949 or go to berkeleyrep.org.

June 3 - 8pm

First Congregational Church, Berkeley

June 4 - 8pm

Mission Dolores, San Francisco

June 5 - 5pm

St. Francis Church, Sacramento

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St. Stephen’s Church, Belvedere

June 10 - 8pm

Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, San Jose

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O&A

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Plan 9 From Outer Space @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Impact Theatre’s wacky stage adaptation of Ed Wood’s cult classic scifi horror film, considered one of the worst of all time. $15-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru June 18. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. (510) 224-5744. www.impacttheatre.com

Rotimi Agbabiaka’s Type/Caste @ AAA&CC

Dramatis personae by Jim Provenzano

an you believe how talented our local artists are? Plays take on serious issues in innovative ways, films represent our diversity, new books share our collective gay past, and dances beguile with energetic interpretations. Check out the bursting June bouquet of talent. For even more, visit us online at www.ebar.com. For nightlifery, check out On the Tab in BARtab.

Thu 9 The Amazing Acrocats @ Fort Mason Tuna and the Rock-cats perform in the lighthearted animal act where cats play musical instruments, sort of. $25$35. 3pm. Various dates/times thru June 19. 2 Marina Blvd. CircusCats.com www.fortmason.org

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; now with new characters like Sia and Bernie Sanders. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. Wed-Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm & 9pm. Sun 2pm & 5pm. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. beachblanketbabylon.com

The Business of Pride @ Four Seasons Hotel Companies and leaders advancing LGBT equality in the workplace are honored at a reception with food, a hosted bar and plenty of schmoozing. $185 and up. 5:45pm. Veranda Ballroom, 757 Market St. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/ event/140402

Colette Uncensored @ The Marsh Lori Holt’s new solo show tells the story of the famed French novelist’s pioneering feminist life. $20-$100. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Extended thru June 25. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. themarsh.org

Lightning in the Brain @ The Marsh Corey Fischer (cofounder of the traveling Jewish Theatre) performs his music-theater work with tales from his long life of Hollywood, Paris and roaming through America. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm. 1062 Valencia St. Thru July 9. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Mark Abramson @ Books Inc. Castro The prolific local gay author reads from and discusses his memoir sequel More Sex, Drugs & Disco, in what will be one of the last readings at the Castro district store before it closes. 7pm. 2275 Market St. booksinc.net

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre June 9 Prince in Under the Cherry Moon (7pm) and David Bowie in Absolute Beginners (8:55). June 10: John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness (7:20) and Prince of Darkness (9:!5). June 12: Frozen Sing-Along with hosts Sara Moore and Lauries Bushman (12pm). June 12: Double Indemnity (3pm, 7pm) and Strangers on a Train (5pm, 9pm). June 15: jazz biopics Miles Ahead (7pm) and Bird (8:50). June 16: Frameline LGBT Film Festival opening night Kiki (7pm) and Holding the Man (9:30). $11-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

The author of Frisco, a mystery set in 1930 San Francisco, reads from and discusses his book. 7pm. 3515 California St. 221-3666. www.booksinc.net

Bay Area premiere of Ayad Akhtar’s political drama about a banker in Pakistan forced to show his kidnappers how to play the stock market. $10-$58. Tue-Sun 7:30pm. Thru June 26. 397 Miller Ave. Mill Valley. www.marintheatre.org

Lee Roy Reams @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The veteran Broadway star (The Producers, Hello, Dolly!, Applause, La Cage aux Folles, Sweet Charity) makes his debut at the intimate upscale cabaret nightclub. $40-$60. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. hotelnikkosf.com/feinsteins.aspx

The talently openly gay handsome Broadway star performs his new cabaret show. June 10 (8pm) and 11 (7pm). $45-$65. $20 food/drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.hotelnikkosf.com/ feinsteins.aspx www.ticketfly.com http://nickadams.biz/

The new musical by Scrumbly Koldewyn takes us back to Weimarera Berlin, with a Cabaret/Cockettes styled two-act show of songs, dances and bawdy pre-Fascist abandon, with special guest performers each night. $15. Thu-Sat 8pm. Extended thru June 11. 575 10th St. at Bryant. 377-4202. www.hypnodrome.org

Supernatural @ CounterPulse Swiss performers Simone Aughterlony, Antonija Livingstone, & Hahn Rowe’s textural queer dance performance. $10-$30. Fri & Sat 8pm. 80 Turk St. www.counterpulse.org

Type/Caste @ African American Art & Culture Complex Rotimi Agbabiaka’s solo show about typecasting and racism in the theatre world. $15-$20. 7:30pm. Also June 11. 762 Fulton St. www.aaacc.org

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The Village Bike @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ new production of Penelope Skinner’s drama about intimacy and connections. $23-$35. Wed-Sun Thru July 3, then in repertory with Hamlet. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. www.shotgunplayers.org

Fri 10 The Big Hot Mess @ Exit Studio Catherine Debon’s satirical noir theatre take on soul-searching. $20$30. Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru June 18. 156 Eddy St. www.divafest.info

Blank Map @ Dance Mission Theater World premiere of Circo Zero and performers Adee Roberson, Brontez Purnell, Keyon Gaskin, Tasha Ceyan, and Wizard Apprentice, along with Stephanie Anne Johnson, Sampada Aranke, and Keith Hennessy, in a new work about race, punk, queer and feminist perspectives. $15-$25. 8pm. 3316 24th St. Thru June 12. circozero.org www.dancemission.com

Chester Bailey @ Strand Theatre

LA’s Cambodian rock band returns, with music from their new LP, The Deepest Lake. $18-$20. 9pm. 777 Valencia St. www.denguefevermusic. com www.thechapelsf.com

World premiere of local playwright Garret Jon Groenveld’s new play about parents whose lives change after their youngest child leaves for college. $25$30. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru June 11. 470 Florida St. www.zspace.org

The Invisible Hand @ Marin Theatre Company

The Untamed Stage @ Hypnodrome

Nick Adams @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

SF Playhouse’s production of Lolita Chakrabarti’s drama about Ira Aldridge, the 1833 first British African American stage actor. $20-$120. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru June 25. Kensington Park Hotel 2nd floor, 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Dengue Fever @ The Chapel

The Empty Nesters @ Z Below Theatre

The innovative local choerographer presents the world premiere of the animal-themed Manifesting and 2015’s Stay. $30-$45. 8pm. Thru June 11. 3153 17th St. www.odcdance.org

Exhibit of works by local artists (Andrew Fisher, Thomasina DeMaio, Brian Moore, Matt Pipes, Morris Taylor, Elliott C Nathan & James Swainson) at the intimate gallery. Thru June 30. 611 Hyde St. www.facebook.com/611Hyde/

Kathleen Chalfant stars in Sarah Ruhl’s drama about a family facing a father’s death and reconnecting to childhood dreams. $29-$61. Tue, ThuSat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 3. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Red Velvet @ SF Playhouse

David Straitharn stars in Joseph Dougherty’s drama about a psychiatrist in 1945 trying to find the cause of a young man’s distress after a traumatic accident. $25-$65. WedSat 7:30pm. Sun 7pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru June 12. 1127 Market St. www.act-sf.org

Daniel Bacon @ Books Inc. Laurel Village

Hope Mohr Dance @ ODC Theater

Pride Art Show @ 611 Hyde

For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday @ Berkeley Rep

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A Dreamplay @ Exit on Taylor

Thu 16 Ernesto Palma and Robbie Tristan at the Fresh Meat Festival @ Z Space Kegan Marling

Night at the Jewseum @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Celebrate Shavrot with “Flower Power,” the nightlife cocktail event with live music by Sugar Candy Mountain, groovy projected visuals, pop-ups shops and crafts, specialty cocktails and exhibit viewings. $5, 6pm-9pm. Exhibits: Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution, an exhibit of photos and documents of and about the prolific rock concert promoter. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 6557800. www.thecjm.org

Cutting Ball Theater’s production of August Strindberg’s innovative surreal play about a woman who dreams of becoming Indra’s daughter, and descends to earth to experience human emotions. $10-$50. Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru June 19. 277 Taylor St. www.cuttingball.com

Mighty Reels @ GLBT History Museum Mighty Reels: Pride ‘Til You Drop, a collection of vintage Gay Freedom Day film footage from 1973-1981. 7pm. Also, Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS, a new exhibit of photos and ephemera, curated by Glenne McElhinney, about Bay Area dancers who died of AIDS. Thru Aug. 7. Also, Feminists to Feministas : Women of Color in Prints and Posters, a new exhibit of illustrations depicting LBT women of color from the 1970s to today. Thru July 4. $5. 4127 18th St. www.dancerswelost.org/exhibit/ www.glbthistory.org

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Not Just Another Pretty Face Contributors @ Books Inc.

The Wild Party @ Victoria Theatre

Authors Lewis Di Simone, Jim Provenzano, Alan Martinez, James Metzger, David Pratt and Editor Louis Flint Ceci read from the new gay anthology about gogo dancers and other objects of desire. 7pm. 2275 Market St. www.booksinc.net

Ray of Light Theatre Company’s production of Andrew Lippa’s dark musical based on Joseph Moncure March’s epic poem about a Manhattan party gone horribly wrong. $15-$40. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru June 11. 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever @ New Conservatory Theatre Center The Alan Jay Lerner/Burton Lane musical gets a new gay adaptation by Peter Parnell; a gay florist, past lives and love triangles collide with comic flair. $30-$50. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun2pm. Thru June 12. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. nctcsf.org

Queer Women of Color Film Festival @ Brava Theater 12th annual screenings of 38 alternative independently produced films, with a focus on queer and trans films from Latin America; with ASL captions and subtitles for all films. Free! Thru June 12. 2789 24th St. at York. www.qwocmap.org/festival

Sat 11 Approaching American Abstraction @ SF Museum of Modern Art See the restaged installations and new exhibits of Pop, Abstract and classic Modern art at the renovated and visually amazing museum, with two extra floors, a new additional Howard Street entrance, café and outdoor gardens. Free-$25. 10am8pm. 151 Third St. www.sfmoma.org

Arts Festival @ Yerba Buena Gardens Weekend concerts of music, dance, poetry and more, thru October. Mission St. at 4th. ybgfestival.org

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Queer Women of Color Film Festival @ Brava Theater

SF Hiking Club @ Borel Peak Join GLBT hikers for a 10-mile hike in the Russian Ridge Midpeninsula Open Space Preserve. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen, hat, layers, sturdy shoes. Carpool meets 9:00 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores. 740-9888. www.sfhiking.com

Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen @ Exploratorium New exhibit of the amazing walking sculptures that resemble giant insectlike creatures. Thru Sept. 5. Free-$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest

the future of the T community. I’m 26 and transitioning. I have a lot going on - I don’t need to be mocked, misgendered, or marginalized, and I don’t have time to hunt out news that matters to me. That’s why I read EDGE on my Android tablet. I’m being true to my future and that’s where it will be.

Butch: Portraits by Meg Allen @ Glamarama Allen’s exhibit of photo portraits of masculine lesbians. 304 Valencia St. Thru July 3. www.megallenstudio.com www.glamarama.com

Ethnic Dance Festival @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre 38th annual festive fascinating and diverse array of local and international ethnic dance companies perform in three programs. $33-$48. Thru June 19. 3301 Lyon St. 392-4400. www.worldartswest.org

The Grace Jones Project, Dandy Lion @ MOAD Dual exhibitions of video, performance and artwork about the iconic singer and queer identity; and Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity. Free-$10. Both thru Sept. 18. Wed-Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 685 Mission St. at 3rd. www.moadsf.org

Lesbian/Gay Chorus of SF @ First Unitarian Universalist Church A Choral Gala, the music ensemble’s annual Pride concert includes the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, the Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus and members of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus. $20-$25. 7pm. 1187 Franklin St. www.lgcsf.org

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza The outdoor performance series returns, with varied acts each weekend. June 11: Sundance Saloon line-dancing. 12pm. June 12: The P’s & Q’s Americana band, 1pm. June 15: The Castro Bazaar with Mert Ozel, 4pm. Castro St. at Market. www.castrocbd.org

Present Laughter @ Eureka Theatre Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of Noël Coward’s comedy of a man with a boyfriend and girlfriend vying for his attention. $10-$15. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru June 18. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. (800) 838-3006. www.therhino.org

From Piss to Bliss @ The Marsh

Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials celebrating two decades of the LGBTQ collections. Thru Aug 7. 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.sfpl.org

Ady Lady’s solo show explores the search for happiness and higher consciousness amid daily life. $20$100. Wed 7:30pm, Sat 5pm. Thru July 9. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

San Francisco in Ruins @ Tenderloin Museum Exhibit of paintings by local artist Jacinto Castillo depicting old San Francisco. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, $6-$10 ($15 includes walking tour). 398 Eddy St. 351-1912. www.tenderloinmuseum.org

Thomas Morphis @ Spark Arts

Visual Activism @ Modern Times Bookstore

Abstractions on the Human Figure, an exhibit of paintings; thru June 22. Classes and painting parties, too. 4229 18th St. 887-2207. www.sparkarts.com

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer A. González and Dominic Willsdon discuss their contributions to the new publication focusing on activist visuals. 7pm. 2919 24th st. 282-9246. www.mtbs.com

The Wild Bunch @ SF Conservatory of Flowers New Spring exhibit of oddly-shaped succulents, cacti and fat plants. Thru Oct. 16. 100 John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden Gate Park www.conservatoryofflowers.org

New exhibit all about the Disney classic about a puppet who longs to be a real boy. Also, Mel Shaw: An Animator on Horseback, an exhibition showcasing 120 artworks and designs by the prominent Disney animator, whose own life was full of adventures. Free (members)-$20. Thru Sept. 12. 104 Montgomery St., The Presidio. 345-6800. www.waltdisney.org

Writers With Drinks @ The Make Out Room Eclectic readings by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Jim Morton, Juan Alvarado Valdivia, Anne Gross, and guest host Bucky Sinister. $5-$20. 7:30pm. 3225 22nd St. www.makeoutroom.com

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

Maria Grazia Affinito returns with her comic solo show about ItalianAmerican family life and her mother’s history. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sun 5pm. Thru July 24. 1062 Valencia St. 2823055. www.themarsh.org

Floral Exhibits @ Conservatory of Flowers Beautiful floral displays, plants for sale, and docent tours. Tue-Sun 10am4pm. $2-$8. Free for SF residents. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park, 8312090. conservatoryofflowers.org

The Future of the Past @ Legion of Honor Mummies and Medicine, thru August 2018. Also, World in a Book, A Princely Pursuit and other exhibits. Free/$15. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Mon 13 Perfectly Queer @ Books Inc. The new monthly reading series presents the annual Pride Poetry Panel, its last event at Books Inc. Castro, which is closing two days later. Poets MK Chavez, Natasha Dennerstein, Nico Peck, and James J. Siegel read new work. Champagne and chocolate at 6:45pm. Reading at 7pm. In July, the series moves to Books Inc. Opera Plaza. facebook.com/perfectlyqueerreadings www.booksinc.net

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Russian drag diva (aka actor J. Conrad Frank) returns to the intimate cabaret nightclub for a special concert of recreated Continental Baths disco and Broadway classics from her 70s heyday. $30-$50. 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1100. www.russianoperadiva.com www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Thu 16 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s online & cable interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. www.ComcastHometown.com

Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters @ The Marsh Berkeley

Wish Upon a Star: Pinocchio @ Walt Disney Family Museum

Eating Pasta Off the Floor @ The Marsh

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Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries

Tue 14 Author Christopher Pullen discusses his new book, Pedro Zamora, Sexuality & AIDS Education @ GLBT History Museum

Tue 14 Christopher Pullen @ GLBT History Museum The author discusses his new book, Pedro Zamora, Sexuality & AIDS Education: The Autobiographical Self, Activism & the Real World ; 7pm. $5. 4127 18th St. www.dancerswelost. org/exhibit/ www.glbthistory.org

How Has Hollywood (Mis)Represented Homosexuality? @ SF Public Library Potrero Branch Author Jim Van Buskirk shows trailers from 1960s-’70s films that depict LGBT characters, for better and worse. 6pm. 1616 20th St. http://sfpl.org/ index.php?pg=1023433201

Will Durst @ The Marsh The political comic’s updated solo show, Elect to Laugh: 2016, adds topical jokes about the bizarre election season. $15-$100. Tuesdays, 8pm. Extended thru July 26. 1062 Valencia St. 282- www.themarsh.org

Wed 15 Altered State: Marijuana in California @ Oakland Museum The first-ever museum exhibition to focus on pot, with art, political documents, scientific displays. Thru Sept. 25. Other exhibits as well. Free/$15. Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). 1000 Oak St., Oakland. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org

Echo Brown’s hit solo show about desire and doubt moves to the company’s East Bay theatre. $20$100. Thu 8pm Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru June 18. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Comedy Returns @ El Rio Tom Ammiano, Karen Ripley, Ronn Vigh, Yuri Kagan and Lisa Geduldig perform stand-up at this stellar supergay Pride comedy night. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. at Precita. (800) 8383006. www.elriosf.com

Frameline 40 @ Castro Theatre Opening night of the 40th anniversary San Francisco International LGBTQ Film festival. Kiki (7pm), gala (10pm) $75. 429 Castro St. www.frameline.org www.castrotheatre.com

Fresh Meat Festival @ Z Space The 15th annual festive variety concert of queer and transgender modern and traditional dance (Hula, Flamenco, ballroom, voguing, bachata), live music, circus acts and more features AXIS Dance, Sean Dorsey Dance, Star Amerasu and many more. $15. 8pm. Thu-Sun. (ASL interp. June 17, gala recepton June 18). 450 Florida St. at 17th. www.freshmeatproductions.org

Queer as Fuck @ Bindlestiff Queer Asian and people of colorthemed and performed short works of theatre and performance. $10-$25. June 16-18, 23-25. 8pm. 185 6th St. 255-0440. www.bindlestiffstudio.org

SF Public Canvas @ Hasting School of Law Amazing outdoor vertical dance project on the walls, with projections; performed by Bandaloop, The Village Impacts and Illuminate. BYO chair/ mats. Free. 9pm. Thru June 19. 333 Golden Gate Ave. www.sfpubliccanvas.org

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Hope Mohr Dance @ ODC Theater

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Warm-weather mayhem: summer mysteries by Tavo Amador

ummer is the peak travel season. Expect delays, cancellations, long lines, and crowded planes. Reading a good murder mystery is one way to cope. Classic Hollywood’s costume designer Edith Head won a record eight Oscars for dressing the stars. She’s one of two amateur sleuths in Renee Patrick’s Design for Dying (Forge, $24.99), set in 1937 Los Angeles. The other is Lillian Frost, a once-aspiring actress who finds the financial security of being a department store salesgirl appealing. Alas, she’s a suspect in the murder of a former roommate, who was found dead wearing a gown stolen from Paramount Studios, the realm of Miss Head. Miss Head has yet to establish herself. Indeed, her position is far from secure. A scandal won’t help. Neither will a Hungarian princess traveling incognito; a private investigator who can’t be trusted; or a narcissistic director looking for sexual adventures. Frost and Head get help from Barbara Stanwyck and Bob Hope, but mostly have to rely on their own instincts and courage. Patrick captures the glory and absurdity of Golden Age Tinseltown while simultaneously weaving a very entertaining mystery. Late Victorian London provides an evocative setting for the latest Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery from Anne Perry, Treachery at Lancaster Gate (Ballantine, $28). When an explosion kills two Bobbies and wounds three others, the obvious conclusion is that anarchists have struck. But Thomas, now a Commander of the Special Branch, thinks the bombing may be the work of someone else. His investigation leads him to a member of Parliament and an opium-using aristocrat, among others. Those doors would normally be closed to him, but Charlotte’s upper-class background and her family connections gain the couple entree into the most rarified places. As Pitt digs deeper into what happened, he finds that the establishment’s underpinnings

are rotting. If they collapse, they may bury him. Perry remains an inventive writer, superbly depicting all levels of London society. It has been a joy watching the orphaned but well-educated Pitt rise from a low-ranking cop in the first of this terrific series, The Cater Street Hangman, where he first met the well-born Charlotte, to his present position. France’s Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret is one of the most admired and original sleuths in the entire mystery genre. Happily, Random House/Penguin has reissued Inspector Cadaver ($12), with a translation by Will Hobson. Maigret goes to a small French town to help an old friend’s brother-in-law, who has been accused of murdering his daughter’s lover. As Maigret delves into the case, he fears he may harm those whom he has come to assist. Maigret’s anxiety increases when he discovers that an old enemy, an excop known as “Inspector Cadaver,” is doing everything he can to prevent the truth from being revealed.

Majoring in Meryl by Brian Bromberger

Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep by Michael Schulman. Harper, $26.99 y almost universal critical consensus, Meryl Streep is considered the greatest living movie actress of her generation, and with the possible exception of Katharine Hepburn, many rank her as the greatest of all time. Everyone, that is, except Streep herself, who regards this accolade as a curse for the working actor. After reading the gay New Yorker arts editor Michael Schulman’s analysis of Streep, one doesn’t doubt his admiration and respect: “Superlatives stick to her like thumbtacks: she is a god among actors, able to disappear into any character, master any genre, and Lord knows, nail any accent.” Her Again is not so much a biography as it is an artist’s founding myth, covering only her early career through 1980, how she evolved into an “acting factory” (to quote the late actor Raul Julia), so by 30 she was rising to the top of her profession. Yet her success did not come without cost. Born Mary Louise Streep on June 22, 1949, and raised in Bernardsville, New Jersey, her mother called her Meryl as there were already three Marys in the family. It was at 12, singing in a school concert, that she first felt the “intoxication of applause.” Bossy as a child, she didn’t care that much how she looked or whether people liked her. However,

at 16 she almost willed herself to be beautiful and popular, being elected home queen at 17, with the quarterback boyfriend at her side. She attended Vassar College and discovered the stage. She was accepted at the Yale School of Drama in 1971, and her fabled classmates included Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Durang, and playwright Wendy Wasserstein, referring to their time there as the Yale School of Trauma. The training was grueling as students were expected to be skilled in any theatrical genre, so one day you were acting Shakespeare and the next thrown into a madcap student-written spoof of The Brothers Karamazov. Her fellow Yalies, like her high school friends, began to realize “that Meryl Streep could outdo them in almost anything (she famously pantomimed performing an abortion on herself in class),” and some resented her getting all the lead roles. Joseph Papp mentored her, casting her in productions of Shakespeare in the Park, Lincoln Center, and his own Public Theater, recognizing her genius, even trying later unsuccessfully to entice her to be his successor. She was interested only in theater, as opportunities to

Simenon’s astute psychological portraits and Maigret’s remarkable balance of cynicism and altruism remain refreshing. A whole new generation of readers may discover the magic of this series. In 1948, Gore Vidal (1925-2012) shocked the literary establishment with The City and the Pillar, a landmark novel about homosexuals in and out of Hollywood. The reaction was so intense that The New York Times refused to review his work and publishers closed their doors to him. Needing to earn a living, he, writing as Edgar Box, published three elegant murder mysteries set in the world of classical ballet. He happily acknowledged those novels before his death. That was not the case with 1953’s Thieves Fall Out, which he authored as Cameron Kay. It has been republished by Hard Case Crime ($9.99). Set in Cairo, where Vidal had spent time in 1948, it shows how the author was able to string together staples of the genre and still entertain the reader. American drifter Pete

Wells arrives in Egypt on a freighter he boarded in France. He’s penniless and desperate to earn some money. Before long, he’s involved with local jewel thieves who want him to smuggle out a very valuable necklace that belonged to Ancient Egypt’s Queen Tiy. The hyper-macho Wells battles a local inspector named Mohammad Ali, as well as a variety of local brutes, as he tries to save himself and his beautiful German-born anti-Nazi girlfriend, who is also a singer. (Shades of Marlene Dietrich.) The fast-moving plot is enhanced by the superbly rendered Cairo settings, evoking the era of King Farouk. This curiosity is another clue that helps complete the complex puzzle of Gore Vidal’s personality and talent. Donna Leon’s 25th Guido Brunetti mystery, The Waters of Eternal Youth (Atlantic Monthly Press, $26) is cause for celebration and a great read, both for travelers and those staying at home. Leon brilliantly exposes the corrupt world of Venice and how its past and present

are often linked. Fifteen years ago, a young girl nearly drowned in a canal. She was rescued by a drunk. Alas, she suffered severe, permanent brain damage. The drunk claimed what happened was no accident – someone tried to kill her. Now, while Brunetti and his socialist, patricianborn wife Paola are at a swank charity dinner, the girl’s grandmother asks him to reopen the investigation. The grandmother, who is his aristocratic mother-in-law’s closest confidante, is guilt-ridden over the fate of the girl. Brunetti initially feels the situation is hopeless and wonders about the statute of limitations, assuming a crime was committed. But, touched by the elderly lady’s pain, he agrees to look into it. To his dismay, pieces of the past begin to fit together. The portrait that results shocks the humane, sympathetic Brunetti. Leon knows Venice and consistently proves that life in La Serenissima is far more complex, troubled, and dangerous than tourists flocking to St. Mark’s Piazza can ever imagine.▼

play modern independent women were rare in movies, but her reputation preceded her to Hollywood. Despite being an unknown, she was cast in a small but noticeable part in Julia. She only accepted the breakthrough role of Linda in Deer Hunter so she could act with her lover, actor John Cazale, having met

him as Angelo to her Isabella in Papp’s Measure for Measure. They seemed to share a common laserlike intensity and brilliance. He only acted in five films, all nominees for Best Picture Oscars, though criminally he was never nominated. He would die of lung cancer at 43 on March 12, 1979, nursed by Streep, devastated, never fully recovering from the loss. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Deer Hunter, an Emmy for her starring role in the Holocaust miniseries and a showy part as Woody Allen’s lesbian ex-wife in Manhattan – all gave her huge exposure, so she was cast as the divorced mother who abandons her child to find herself in Kramer vs. Kramer Kramer. Her Joanna would win her first Oscar, but she insisted the part be rewritten to represent real women facing divorce and child custody battles. She had to endure the verbal and physical abuse of the Method-obsessed perfectionist Dustin Hoffman, who slapped her across the face during filming. She had become a star in less than a decade, deploring the trappings of celebrity, preferring to speak through her characters, who are fashioned

from her own life experiences and imagination. In addition to being a gay icon, she always had close gay friends, especially at Yale in the early 1970s (Durang and Albert Innaurato), and met gay hairstylist-makeup artist Roy Helland in her first (and only) Broadway production. He has been with her for 37 years. Schulman etches a mostly flattering portrait, though he mentions criticism, especially by Pauline Kael, that Streep was cold (“Ice Princess”), overly heady, and technique-driven. Schulman uses conversations with Streep’s colleagues, friends, and interviews given over the decades, though she didn’t meet or help him. She didn’t stop him, either. The book’s pace and liveliness pick up in the second half, which concentrates on her movie career. The account of her chance encounter and marriage to Don Gummer, a sculptor, six months after Cazale’s death, is brief and unsatisfying. Streep’s abandonment of the theater for movies is neither explained nor explored, despite her passion for the stage. But this is a fine first portrait of Streep, maintaining a sense of mystery about her, not attempting to over-dissect her magic. Schulman excels at demonstrating how difficult it was to be an actor during the 70s in grimy, bankrupt New York. Streep could do far worse than trust the rest of her life story to Schulman; in fact, she would be wise to do so.▼

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Have you met Mr. Jones? by Gregg Shapiro

making music in a different way. That evolved into electronic dance music. Right now that’s a massive scene with its own momentum. I was trying to do something different, and it did contribute to people being interested in the new technology.

hat’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the longstanding British new wave musical influences of the 1980s? The holy trinity of The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths? You’d be remiss if you left out Howard Jones. A vocal presence since the early 1980s when his first hit single “New Song” was in rotation on the radio and on MTV, Jones lived up to the promise of that track with a series of unforgettable singles. “What Is Love?,” “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life in One Day,” “Everlasting Love,” and his biggest hit, “No One Is To Blame,” established his lasting legacy. Not one to sit on his laurels, Jones continues to make music to this day, including songs heard in the 2016 Hugh Jackman film Eddie the Eagle. I recently spoke with Jones, currently on a US concert tour, about his career. Gregg Shapiro: In “New Song,” your first single as a solo artist, you sang, “I don’t want to be hip and cool.” But in a way, that happened because of “New Song” and your music, which was very much of the 1980s new wave moment. Do you think that’s a fair assessment? Howard Jones: Yes. We were doing something different. We were using new technology. We were using video. It was new and, I guess, quite cool and hip! But it wasn’t the intention to do that. It happened by accident.

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Pop star Howard Jones: “Live performing is dangerous!”

“New Song” was heard in an episode of Breaking Bad. How do you feel about the way songs, old and new, are incorporated into TV shows and movies, usurping radio as a means of introducing listeners to music? I think it’s part of music being sidelined quite a bit, to be honest. Music is now co-opted into other art-forms, whereas it used to be its own thing. Now music is just associated with other things. I don’t think there’s anything that can be done about it. The focus has gone away from the audio side, from what

music can do for you. Echoes of 80s synth-pop and new wave continue to be felt today, especially with the popularity of electronic dance music. What does it mean to you to be a part of the musical legacy that launched that trend? Obviously I had no conscious awareness of doing that. I just loved the new technology, and I wanted to make sounds that people hadn’t used before in pop. Loads of young kids went out and bought synthesizers and drum machines and started

Are there any EDM artists with whom you might consider collaborating? I really like an American artist called BT, I think he’s super-talented and wonderful. Cerdri Gervais recently did a great remix of “Things Can Only Get Better” that I really like. I don’t have many people remix my stuff because I’m not keen on a lot of it. I wait until there’s somebody I really think is good, then I work with them. I very much like to do things myself. I work with a small team of people. I feel I’ve earned the right to be independent. Set the agenda and the direction, and go for it. Some of your biggest hits could be considered “advice” songs. What’s the best advice you were ever given? In those songs I’m probably talking to myself just as much as to anyone else! There’s a lot of self-therapy going on there. I always thought it was important to be yourself. It doesn’t matter what other people do. I was always trying to be different from what other people were doing. You want to be striking out in a new direction.

live performance experience? Live performing is dangerous! It’s very much in the moment. You have to be on your game all the time. If it goes wrong, it’s up to you. It’s about risk-taking and enjoying that. Even though you may have done this for many years, you still get nervous. “Suddenly, tonight, it’s all going to go wrong! I won’t be able to sing! I won’t be able to remember anything!” I enjoy that walking on the edge, it’s exciting. It’s a great way to live. Have you been incorporating music from Engage in your sets? Yes, when I get to do my own shows, there’s new music from Engage. There’s also brand-new music from the Eddie the Eagle film. I think it’s important to be playing new things that you’re doing. It would be wrong not to play all the big hits. People really want you to do that, I totally get that. You did a tour with Andy Bell, Erasure’s gay frontman, a few years ago. What was that like? It was great! I love Andy. He’s such a lovely man. We got on very well together. We did that tour together, and I see him at the English festivals. He also had a track on the Eddie the Eagle film. I think Andy’s brilliant! Are you aware of your own following in the LGBT community? Yes, I am. I’m extremely honored!▼

As an artist who tours regularly, what do you like best about the

Howard Jones performs at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga on July 19.

hooked on and hard to kick. Synth keyboards and a fat bass place narcotic opener “Do It, Try It” smack-dab in the Me Decade. “Moon Crystal” is the best theme song to an 80s TV cop-show that never aired, while “For the Kids” is sheer power-ballad homage. “Road Blaster” will have you searching for your Reebok Freestyles and the nearest aerobics class, and the harmonica on “Sunday Night 1987” is as nostalgic as the song’s title. The Walkman, brightlycolored track suit and big hair on the cover of Centerfold (Washington Square Music) by Mothxr are pure 1980s. The fiercely funky “Touch,” “Fight the Feeling” and “Wild Ride,” with its synthetic claps, definitely have an 80s-by- way-of-2016 vibe to them. Mothxr even tips its hat to the early 1990s with the ominous Angelo Badalementi-like Twin Peaks keyboard on “Stranger.” Oh, and

that’s pretty Penn Badgley of Gossip Girl fame on lead vocals. You’re probably wondering where the female vocalists are. Fear not, the Ariel Pink-produced Phases (Manifesto) by Cellars (aka Allene Norton) is right here. For someone not even alive during the 80s, Cellars has an insightful grasp on the musical arrangements and vocal qualities inspired by the decade. Phases is at its most appealing when the dance beats are prominent, on tracks “Curse Your Love,” “Nervous” and “Toys.” The eponymous full-length debut by Canadian band Van Damsel (Factor) is a good reminder that, in spite of exporting Justin Bieber, there is still interesting music coming out of Canada. After all, this is the country that gave us classic new wave acts such as Martha & the Muffins, The Parachute Club and Jane Siberry. Van Damsel has a strong appreciation for the 80s, best exhibited on “Jericho,” “Sentences” and the instrumental “Post Script.”▼

Sounds like the 1980s by Gregg Shapiro

or a decade as reviled as the 1980s – the Reagan presidency, the first Bush presidency, countless unnecessary deaths during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, shoulder pads – it inspired some of the most enduring music. The music is so resilient that it’s influenced musicians and bands well into the 21st century. Take the album New Swirled Order (Manifesto) by Drinking Flowers, for example. The LP, released on white vinyl, opens with the droney dance of “Bending Halos,” followed by the modern rock of “Black Monday,” both sounding as if heavy doses of The Cure were consumed by the L.A. band. Not for nothing, the band also has a song called “Cure” on the album. The aptly named “Your Own Sounds” merges Drinking Flowers’ various new wave influences with its own distinct style, while “Public Servants” owes a debt to Joy Division and early New Order. The excesses of the 1980s came to vivid and brutal life onstage in the Tony-nominated musical American Psycho. Based on the controversial 1991 novel by queer writer Brett Easton Ellis and the subsequent

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instant. He observes a congregation of gray middle-aged power brokers in overcoats and hats, facing sideways on a podium in “City Fathers Hoboken, New Jersey” (1955-56), and a less entitled gathering of black men in straw boaters and their Sunday best milling around old American sedans parked on grass (“Funeral - St. Helena, South Carolina,”1955-56), two of three pictures here from Frank’s influential tome The Americans. On a lighter note, an inflated strongman is buoyed skyward by a hot-air balloon sailing over a parade on a city street (“Men of Air/New

2000 film, American Psycho – London Cast Recording (Concord Music) features Matt Smith in the title role of Patrick Bateman. The original music and lyrics by singersongw riter-turned-Broadwaycomposer Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) combines period beats with the designer names and popular products of the era (“You Are What You Wear”). The show and cast recording also incorporate music closely associated with the decade, including New Order’s “True Faith,” Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me?” and Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight.” All in all, it’s a twisted twist on stage musicals. It’s easy to forget that Underworld first crossed our radar with

Underneath the Radar in 1988 because the music for which it’s best-known from its prolific and creative mid-to-late 1990s period is so different from the band’s debut. The fantastic Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future (Astralwerks) is more closely aligned with Underworld’s peak 90s period, especially on the dance-floor-destined “Nylon Strung,” the sizzling “Low Burn” and pleasing “Ova Nova.” But it’s the massive beat of opener “I Exhale” that’s the definition of a breath of fresh air. Arriving five years after M83’s breakout album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (containing the inescapable “Midnight City”), the addictive Junk (Mute) is easy to get

York #25,” 1948). All of the above are part of the Bluff Collection, noted for having the most significant holdings of Frank’s perfectly composed works in private hands. Hiroshi Sugimoto can be cerebral and vague, teasing with riddles only he knows the answers to in works that seem like intellectual exercises, but “The Last Supper: Acts of God” (1999-2012), alone in a theatrically lit, darkened alcove, is enthralling. The piece, a five-panel rendering of the solemn scene of Jesus flanked by robed men, was damaged when the artist’s storage facility was flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Sugimoto not only didn’t repair the damage, he celebrated it as divine intervention.

The stains, tears and deteriorating emulsion, looking like a peeling fresco in the background, give the work and the Biblical passage it’s based on, distance and gravitas. In one panel, Jesus sits at the table with his palms turned upward in a supplicating gesture, a diagonal crossing his torso like a sword of fate. The image is reminiscent of the doomed targets of the devil’s disciples in the 1976 film The Omen, who appeared in photographs with a similar sign that marked them for death.▼ Through Jan. 31, 2017. Appointments for two-hour slots can be made online at Pier24.org. Admission is free.

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Going full-on Cameron Carpenter by Tim Pfaff

ne of the unobviously startling things about All You Need Is Bach (Sony), Cameron Carpenter’s new CD, is that it’s the organist’s first all-Bach recording, or the first all-Bach recording on his self-designed International Touring Organ (ITO). Or something. Pretty much everything else about it is startling in all the usual, obvious ways. As regular (and otherwise) habitues of Davies Hall can attest, Carpenter – who “reads” gay to most people, in no way denies his sexual interest in men but identifies as “radically inclusive” in the sexual-orientation category – is as flamboyant a showman as today’s “classical music” world has to offer, a trait not unheard of in previous American organists but taken to new dimensions by this 35-year-old American. Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s trademark red socks cannot begin to compete. But Carpenter is, in no particular order, a consummate technician, a man on a mission and a self-styled, self-described “revolutionary.” The thunder that follows the lightning makes an even greater impact. With artistic proclivities at least as radically inclusive as his carnal ones, he’s an object lesson in how vastly far beyond the Three B’s music ventures – a trait, it bears noting, of the greatest musicians. His B1 has the seriousness of Ferruccio Busoni and the singularity of Glenn Gould, both amplified (literally, too, of

David Gockley

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The SFO Orchestra and Chorus are joining an impressive line-up of stars and colleagues for a glamorous retirement party, Celebrating David!, Thurs., June 16, at 7 p.m. at the War Memorial Opera House. A pre-performance reception at the new Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera, and a post-performance black-tie dinner with the artists in the Wilsey Center for Opera’s new Taube Atrium Theater are added parts of the event. Tickets for the concert-only part of the one-night affair, emceed by old favorites mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and bass-baritone Samuel Ramey, are available at sfopera.com, the Opera Box Office or by phone at (415) 864-3330. Divas Renée Fleming, Ana María Martínez, Karita Mattila, Patricia Racette, Nadine Sierra, Heidi Stober, Susan Graham, Daniela Mack, and

course) by the abandon of our techmad age. It’s a ride. The point of his self-designed International Touring Organ, completed by Marshall & Ogletree in 2014, is that it allows him, unusually for a concert organist, an intimate relationship with a particular performing instrument, and to tour with it. In the accompanying booklet, Carpenter explains it as fully as a lay reader could take in. But (and here is the full Carpenter) this new CD was recorded in Berlin’s JesusChristus-Kirche, one of the world’s premiere recording venues. Musicians have always gravitated to, and from, Bach, but it’s startling the degree to which – specifically in recordings – solo-instrument Bach is again ubiquitous, core. Smart musicians, including Carpenter, don’t minimize the significance of historically informed performance on our understanding of Bach, but no musician in her right mind today would claim that Bach is absolute music, or that there is one right way to perform it – or perform it without the most deeply personal spin. Seconds into the Contrapuntus IX from The Art of the Fugue, which opens the disc, you’re up to your ears with the fury (but not rage) of Carpenter’s playing. It’s a work for which Bach left few specific performing instructions (including what instrument to play), and Carpenter attacks it fingers flying, with registration as saturated as the music could bear. Yet what stands Dolora Zajick will rock the rafters with Michael Fabiano, Brian Jagde, Simon O’Neill, Eric Owens, René Pape and other special guests joining them for selections from some milestone operas in Gockley’s career. Arias and ensemble numbers will be backed from the pit by conductors Nicola Luisotti, Jiří Bělohlávek, John DeMain and Patrick Summers. The starry roster shows the gratitude of the many artists who have been discovered, nurtured or promoted (sometimes all three) by Gockley during their own careers. Possibly the last of an amazing breed of American impresarios, David Gockley is part showman and go-getting producer, part savvy businessman and genuine opera devotee. He makes his exit at the peak of his powers. When he first signed on in 2006 after 33 years at Houston Grand Opera, he already had an international reputation, with 35 world

out is not the welter of sound but its pellucidity. The intricate ITO software allows Carpenter to change the organ’s tuning – its sound world, basically – between works, and the only didactic aspect of this recording is that he plays each of the pieces in a different tuning, which you don’t need to be any kind of instrumental expert to appreciate. Two Organ Trio Sonatas, in D minor and E-flat Major, some of the densest and most inwardly coiled of Bach’s compositions, exude specific character to an uncommon degree. Not surprisingly, that makes premieres and six American premieres under his belt. Of his tenure in San Francisco, he has said he is most proud of the establishment of the Opera’s Media Suite, the Wilsey Center for Opera on the fourth floor of the Veterans Building, and the well-received Wagner Ring Cycle in 2011. We would add the creation of Opera at the Ballpark, free live simulcasts of summer productions at AT&T Park; the commissioning of eight world premieres and two West Coast premieres; and making the Wilsey Center an intimate venue for adventurous programming. Some of the commissions have been flops, and a few successful revivals returned too soon, but the SFO got a big piece of the credit for Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick, and Gockley also brought two of his earliest triumphs in Houston, Porgy & Bess and Nixon in China, to the War Memorial in productions that deserve to endure in the repertory. Ever the determined advocate and pragmatic idealist, David Gockley leaves the SFO in better shape than he found it, and the benefits of his tenure are more than financial. He has laid an organizational groundwork meant to assure the very survival of the art.

the concentrated following of their intricacies vastly more inviting. Did I mention that Carpenter is, in some circles, controversial? Part of his radically inclusive program on this disc is the appropriation of one of Bach’s most beloved pieces for harpsichord (oops, or piano), the Fifth French Suite in G Major, in his own transcription for organ. It’s the kind of thing Bach did all the time, and Carpenter does it fearlessly and with an exuberant, wholesale lack of modesty. It’s at the very least ear-cleansing, and I found it revelatory.

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But keeping organ freaks happy means reaching for the sonorities found nowhere else, and nowhere does Carpenter conjure more sheer magic than in the B-Minor Prelude and Fugue, BWV 544. The Prelude alone – which opens and closes at a dynamic near inaudibility, and rambles around some of those organ sounds a former boyfriend of mine called “spook house” – is spellbinding. The Fugue is a model of clarity that begins in sonic earnest and then, like its harbinger, transmutes into an intricate knot in antique silk and hikes high up Mt. Messiaen. The view is fabulous, but take oxygen. Modern ears wrestle with the “churchy”-sounding chorale preludes, and Carpenter lands on one no less intimidating and theologically less au courante than “O Mensch, bewein dein’ Suende gross” (“Man, lament your great sins”). If you can check your vestigial religious guilt at the door, it’s one of the disc’s most involving episodes. The Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, the best-known piece on the disc, comes through with the requisite fireworks. But Carpenter signs off with humor. His arrangement of the Invention No. 8, which the Beatles used as a sign-off to the tune “All You Need Is Love,” is a raucous, Charles Ives-ish take that starts with a drumroll and then rolls through the rest of the “orchestra,” breathlessly. No one would call this “centric,” but it’s not just show. It makes you listen.▼

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While the lights blaze bright for Celebrating David! in San Francisco, another important musical event will be happening on the Cal campus in Berkeley. The 70th Ojai Music Festival is taking the show on the road for Ojai at Berkeley, June 16-18, with the US premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone (chamber version), Josephine Baker: A Portrait, and a concert with Dina El Wedidi and band. By startling coincidence, the director of the much-anticipated Saariaho opera is Peter Sellars, Ojai festival music director, ageless wunderkind, eternal revolutionary and original director for David Gockley’s legendary Houston premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China. That was almost 30 years ago, but Sellars has never lost his enfant terrible reputation, even as he has matured to international fame and respect.

He has also proved a perfect match for collaboration with composer Kaija Saariaho. Saariaho is the recognized star of a generation of Finnish composers, and her unique musical language continues to make an impact on classical music. Her electronic music, mostly in combination with acoustic instruments, has been combined to create many extraordinary pieces, ranging from chamber music to large orchestral scores and operas. When Peter Sellars was scaring the horses in Texas in 1987, Saariaho was fulfilling an early commission from Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet: Nymphéa for string quartet and live electronics. Her first opera L’Amour de loin (Love from Afar) received a US premiere in Santa Fe in 2002, and now it becomes the first opera composed by a woman to appear at the Metropolitan Opera

in more than a century, next season (2016-17). After years of planning, she took up residence in Berkeley as the 2015 Bloch Professor in Music. The upcoming US premiere at Cal seemed inevitable. La Passion de Simone has been called more a meditation or oratorio than opera. Originally written for Dawn Upshaw (as was L’Amour de loin), it charts episodes in the life of Simone Weil – French philosopher, Christian mystic, feminist and political activist. Subtitled A Musical Journey in 15 Stations, the piece models the life and writings of Simone Weil as a passion play. Albert Camus famously called Weil “the only great spirit of our times.” How could Saariaho (and later Sellars) resist the inspiration? For that matter, how could we?▼ Info: calperformances.org

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Holy homophobia! by Jim Piechota

Boy Erased by Garrard Conley; Riverhead, $27 n his searing and unfailingly honest debut memoir Boy Erased, Garrard Conley describes his experience in a Southern ex-gay reparative therapy program dedicated to molding boys into a prefabricated image of masculinity and suppressing just about everything else. Raised by Missionary Baptist parents in small-town northern Arkansas, the author was a good son to his father, who sold cars then morphed into a preacher. His beloved mother was, as he describes her, “all blond hair and heavy blue mascara, blue eyes and a perennial floral-print top: a spot of Technicolor in this drab place.” Keeping hidden his burgeoning confusion about other men and his sparkling attraction to them,

Ben Vereen

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Short of a tsunami, earthquake, or hurricane, it’s likely that Vereen would come back with a similar answer. He returns time and again to his philosophy – it’s not about religion, he stresses – that the glass-ishalf-full concept of spirit will bring blessings. “Someone once said, ‘Do not lean on man. Lean on spirit. Man will let you down every time, but spirit will never let you down.’” Vereen, 69, is headed our way, for performances June 17 and 18 at Feinstein’s at the Nikko. The official title of the cabaret show is Steppin’ Out, but Vereen prefers to call it “my gratitude show.” He first began performing an earlier incarnation in 2012, but he said it has metamorphosed since then. “I realized about two years ago that the show is really about a thank you to you, the audience, who has been with me all these years. This career has been a gift, and the public has been saying we like you and want to hear more from you. So all the songs I pick for the show have a direct link to that place of gratitude.” In the earlier parts of his career, when he was winning a Tony Award for Pippin, playing to millions of television viewers as Chicken George in Roots, and headlining on the Las Vegas strip, he said, “I was riding high and not having the understanding of what goes along with it.” Having played Judas in the original Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar, he can still quote from The New York Times review. “The reviewer said, Jeff Fenholt, who plays Jesus, gets lost in the scenery, and Ben Vereen, who plays Judas, tears up the scenery looking for him. I was so excited, all the raw energy, but the director asked me to

things were workable: intensive feelings placated, smoldering passion snuffed out, and a “half-hearted commitment” through high school to pseudo-girlfriend Chloe, whose “predilection for French kissing ran a cold blade through the bottom of my stomach.” An episode of forced sex with his college roommate when he was just 19 set a series of events in motion that would forever change how he viewed his life, his family, and his role in the world. Like some sort of “deserved punishment,” Conley’s life went haywire. Once the roommate angrily called his mother and outed him, friends, family, and the local community pointed fingers and ostracized him to the point of his needing some sort of desperate deliverance. This “rescue” came in the form of enrollment in Love In Action (LIA), a 12-step program with a branch in Memphis aimed at cleansing the

“sin” from those whose inner lives had become corrupted by “sexual deviance” and homosexual “perversion.” The program was led by John Smid, a fired-up religious nut who believed Conley and the others in the program (unfaithful married men and women, and former educators “shamed by rumors of their sexuality”) were guilty of “using sexual sin to fill a God-shaped void” in their lives. Smid advocated stern adherence to the rules and regulations printed in the LIA’s 274-page handbook on the proper way to take one’s Moral Inventory, and to dress, behave, believe, and carry oneself as an authentic man or woman in God’s eyes. Conley’s memoir oscillates between his revelations, good and bad, during time spent in the fold of the ex-gay ministry during his two-week stint in the “Source”

trial program, and his personal and familial history leading up to an induction in the program. Particularly moving are his fleeting moments

calm it down a bit.” spends time working Temptations began with students and to ferret their ways into schools trying to mainthis heady life. “Someone tain art curriculums, and points a finger at you and has programs set up in says come this way, and Sacramento, Tucson, and you get caught up in the New York, with hopes to swirl of things, and you move into the Bay Area fall into the pits of life, sometime soon. In addibut here’s the good news. tion to his philanthropic I was able to raise myself work, Vereen recently up, and to this day it spent four months diamazes me.” recting an updated Drug addiction, diproduction of Hair in Courtesy ABC vorce, illness, a late, acFlorida, several months Ben Vereen gained millions of fans playing Chicken cidental discovery that in Canada filming a new George in the enormously popular ABC miniseries Roots. he had been adopted as TV movie of The Rocky an infant, the death of his Horror Picture Show, and daughter in an automodeveloping a new movie Hotel in New Orleans, he said, “You bile accident, and his own horrific based on the 2010 Kenyan film The took the time to talk to me. I don’t injuries sustained when he was hit First Grader, in which he would know whether you were assigned to by a car walking on a highway near play an 84-year-old man who must do it, but you showed up, and we got his Malibu home finally all came to start his educational quest at the to share together, and now we’re still a head as he began arduous rehabilivery beginning. Then there’s an talking 40 years later. Thank you.” tation to let him walk again – never autobiography that’s slowly making When not performing, Vereen mind singing and dancing on a stage. “I can’t do cartwheels or splits like I used to, but even on a small stage like Feinstein’s, you feel the movements.” Some of the songs Vereen is expected to perform are from Broadway musicals that featured him in the original casts or as replacements in long-running hits. He doesn’t limit himself to songs that his characters performed, and a recent song list includes “Defying Gravity” (Wicked) and “Corner of the Sky” (Pippin), plus such songs of uplift as “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,” “I’ve Got a Lot of Livin’ to Do” and his signature signoff, “Mr. Bojangles.” “We get to talk,” Vereen says of between-song patter. “We get to share. We have a conversation.” Reminded that he had had an interview 40 years ago with me when he was appearing at the Fairmont

Ben Vereen was the Leading Player in his star-making performance in Pippin in 1972.

of same-sex attraction, feelings he was too young and fearful to recognize as genuine and natural, and of coming home to his parents after rejecting the program on his own and fleeing the increasingly negligent influence of Smid’s psychological tactics. He also provides a timeline of the ex-gay movement itself, which presents an eye-opening history on these “reparative” ministries from their genesis to their current floundering state of disrepair. Well-written, compelling, disturbing, and ultimately quite bracing, this is an important, refreshingly unsentimental perspective on the dangers and abuses of ex-gay therapy ministries, an atrocious, damaging, hypocritical network that still operates today. Only a small handful of U.S. states have outlawed the practice.▼ its way to fruition. “Bob Fosse said to me during All That Jazz that the hardest thing is not to make yourself the hero of every scene.” On top of all that, he is working on expanding his Steppin’ Out show into a full-blown Broadway musical. “I had this whole nonstop year, and I figured I needed to decompress before I came to San Francisco.” He was speaking from the Optimum Self Institute in San Diego, where people with various ailments come to cleanse out their systems. And is Vereen cleansing as we speak? “Why, yes, I am.” It’s a far cry from when he was appearing in Hair at the Orpheum Theatre and living in a beat-up mail truck behind the theater so he could send the usual per diem home to his family. “One night I woke up because I was being towed. I thought maybe it was finally time to move out of the mail truck.”▼

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oberto Lopez had a very bad night. On August 31, 1958 he stopped by the Whoo Cares at 782 Haight and asked a couple of girls to dance. His request caused a jealous argument among the women and Mr. Lopez wound up surrounded by eight women wielding broken beer bottles on the sidewalk outside the bar. In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled “That Was No Lady, That Was…” from September 1, 1958 the bar was described as being “frequented by many sexual degenerates, lesbians and homosexuals.” Regarding the women that attacked Lopez the article says, “some of the women in the group wore men’s clothing…others wore pedal pushers.” See page 33 >>

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The Haight had gay bars as far back as the 1950s (the Whoo Cares had been open since 1951). The bar existed at least up through June 1961 when the owners faced revocation of their license because of “cooing and caressing” an officer witnessed

between members of the same sex. In an article in The Chronicle entitled “Whoo Cares?...The Liquor Board,” the patrons are described by an investigator in this manner: “The majority of the males affected swishy-hipped walks, limp-wristed gestures and high-pitched voices and wore tight pants. The women were ‘mannish.’”

Regarding the case, the attorney for the bar owners, Richard and Sophie Guthrie, said: “None of the customers are shocked by anything that goes on there. It’s only the tourists from the liquor board that are.” The Haight was hopping before the Missouri Mule, the first bar in the Castro, opened in 1963, and it was a gay neighborhood well before the Summer of Love. Bill Plath, one of the founders of the Tavern Guild, opened the D’Oak Room (350 Divisadero at Oak) in February 1962. In an oral history done by the GLBT Historical Society, he described the bar as, “sort of campy Victorian” atmosphere. In the interview, Plath says that the bar was quite busy, which surprised other bar owners who thought no one would go as far out as Divisadero to drink (most of the city’s bars were downtown at the time). It featured nickel beers on Wednesdays and was the first gay bar to advertise an Academy Awards Party (on April 13, 1964). The bureau of Alcohol Beverage Control closed the bar in December, 1964. By 1964 the neighborhood was already starting to form. My Place at 1784 Haight opened in spring 1963 and featured weekend beer blasts and Sunday buffets. Bligh’s Bounty opened in November 1964 in the same space that had been the Whoo Cares. It featured both gogo boys and drag shows and was fortunate in the timing of its opening. It opened a month before the New Year’s Eve drag ball cosponsored by the Council on Reli-

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Top: Halloween at The Golden Cask, 1725 Haight Street, 1966 Left: Patty Flynn (left) and Trudy behind the bar at Maud’s on Halloween, 1987. Bottom: Billy Boy Boulter bartending at Trax Bar in the Haight neighborhood in June 2007. Rick Gerharter

Gay Love/Haight

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gion and the Homosexual (CRH) that exposed the police harassment of gay people in the city. The lawyers for the CRH were arrested on the night of the ball and after being acquitted they counter-sued the police for damages and won. Following that victory, police harassment of bars dropped off significantly. Bligh’s Bounty remained in business till 1974. A mainstay of the neighborhood, Bradley’s Corner, opened on 900 Cole Street in February 1965. It was a neighborhood bar with a piano and special drink nights (an ad from the time says that Wednesday was hat night: “Wear a hat and pay 50 cents for bar drinks.”). Ron Williams, author of San Francisco Native Sissy Son told me, “I was just 21 when I hung out there. Lots of military personnel both gays and lesbians from the Presidio fre-

quented the place and played pool. There were beer busts and spaghetti during the week nights.” José Sarria also performed in the neighborhood. The Black Cat closed in 1963 and in 1965, he began performing his operas at Romeo’s Pizzeria (1605 Haight). José placed advertisements for his performances in the Business Personals section of The Chronicle (a practice carried over from The Black Cat). The performances included Carmen, The Merry Widow and Wolf and Peter (the ad noted that it had a cast of 1,000s). José’s presence in the neighborhood was particularly noteworthy in that, on Halloween in 1965, he proclaimed himself Empress of San Francisco. Prior to the proclamation he performed “San Francisco” at Romeo’s and led a motorcade from there to The Black Cat to lay a wreath in honor of the third

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Top: Jackie David (front) at a Christmas party at Maud’s in 1987. Bottom: Rikki Streicher (2nd right) and pals as a Marlene Dietrichdressed campy group at Maud’s, Halloween 1987.

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Recurring ads in Vector magazine from 1965 to 1967 included: The Lucky Club, Bradley’s Corner, Golden Cask, Whatever’s Right, Romeo’s (featuring Empress Jose Norton I, and Maud’s.

anniversary of its closing. Romeo’s closed in 1966. One block down from Romeo’s was the Golden Cask (1725 Haight), a bar run by Charlotte Coleman (who would go on to open The Mint in 1968). The Golden Cask was one of the last bars to run into a police attempt to shut it down (in February, 1965). It was particularly well known for its restaurant (in an oral history with the GLBT Historical Society, Bay Area Reporter cofounder Bob Ross mentions that it was a very good restaurant – and as he was also a chef he knew his restaurants). However, when Coleman opened bars in the Castro and Polk neighborhoods, her attention and energy were drawn away from the Haight and the Golden Cask was closed by 1972. Rikki Streicher opened Maud’s at 937 Cole (across the street from Bradley’s Corner) in October, 1966. Part of the secret to the bar’s long life was the care Rikki showed towards the women who came to her bar. In the days before widespread acceptance she would have holiday dinners at the bar. And the bar would go all out on Halloween with performances by notoriously bad singing groups like the Pussies and the Maudettes. Maud’s remained a warm and friendly bar until 1989. Why the Haight didn’t outshine the Castro in the ‘70s with such luminaries and astounding bars and restaurants: In large part that was due to a downturn in the luck of the neighborhood which came after the hippie era which did so much to endear the neighborhood to many. In Season of the Witch by David Talbot, there is a succinct passage which describes this period: “Life in the Haight grew more violent and disturbing. The drugs got harder. By 1971, 15 percent of the servicemen returning from Vietnam were addicted to heroin.” Still, the neighborhood persevered even through these times. The Question Mark (which had been at 1437 Haight since the ‘40s) became a gay bar in the early ‘70s, and in the early ‘80s changed its name to Trax. Gus’ Pub at 1446 Haight was a bar that incorporated what the Haight had been in the ‘60s into gay culture.

Top: Go-Go dancer at Bligh’s Bounty, November 1965, from LCE News, the newsletter of the League for Civil Education. The caption reads, “GO GO DANCERS AT BLIGH’S BOUNTY. A contest was staged every week with cash awards to the best dancer. This place at 782 Haight Street has seen some wild swinging in recent weeks.” Bottom: Mr. Chuck takes it off with “You’ve Got To Have a Gimmick,” Citizen News, February 1965.

Mark Abramson, author of many books (including his most recent More Sex Drugs & Disco), said this about the bar: “What I remember best about Gus’ Pub was the outrageous wallpaper. A gay hippie named David Morgus must have done a lot of acid back in the ‘60s and decided to cover every inch of the walls and ceiling, not just with ordinary wallpaper, but with layers and layers of many different patterns of wallpaper cut out and pieced together in an elaborate mosaic of flowers and patterns and colors. “Gus’ was across the street from another gay bar called the Question Mark, which later became Trax and still exists. I tended bar at Trax for about a decade and remember that we had a huge framed photograph of Gus’ Pub inside our front door. It was always so filled with smoke in those days when it was rocking that you could barely see the wallpaper. “When my friends and I went to Gus’, it was to smoke pot in the back yard. I don’t think they served anything stronger than beer and wine, so we’d get stoned there and then head across the street to the Question Mark for shots or mixed drinks.” Abramson also mentioned some of the other important bars from that era. “The I Beam was more my style, and the DeLuxe was new and very trendy for playing pool and cruising in the late ‘70s.” Sanford Kellman opened the I-Beam in 1977, which was well known for amazing (and packed) Sunday tea dances as well as concerts by groups like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Duran Duran and the Cult. Along with the DeLuxe (which opened in ‘78 and was gay through the late ‘80s) it caused something of a gay renaissance in the neighborhood. But by 1990, The I-Beam was threatened with permit revocation because of noise complaints. Steve Fabus, who was a DJ at the I-Beam from 1978 to 1980, told me, “Sound complaints were always a thorn in the I-Beam’s side and kept the I-Beam from getting its afterhours permit. It couldn’t compete with South of Market clubs that went all night.” The club closed for good in 1992.

A cartoon in the LCE News poking fun at Haight district discord.

Ultimately, it was AIDS which would end the gay era in the Haight. A New York Times article from 2010 referred the Haight’s gay identity as a “near-forgotten casualty” of the epidemic. Nearly, but not quite gone, for Trax still remains. Underground SF’s monthly gay Cockfight was popular for several years since its start in 2010. The weekly Hella Tight draws queer party-goers. Maud’s is remembered annually in a reunion at Finnegans Wake during Pride week. Look closely and you will find that signs of an era that lasted fifty years can still be seen.t

The author would like to thank Ron Williams, Mark Abramson and Steve Fabus, and the SF History Center of the SF Public Library Mark Abramson will be reading from ‘More Sex, Drugs & Disco’ at Books Inc. Castro June 9 at 7pm. 2275 Market Street. www.booksinc.net

Ads for the I Beam from April 1978 and June 1987 in the Bay Area Reporter.

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Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

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Enjoy Latin, hip hop and electro, plus hot gogos galore, and a big dance floor. April 29: Violeta and Jacqueline La Gata. $10-$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

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

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

Lee Roy Reams @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The veteran Broadway star ( The Producers, Hello, Dolly!, Applause, La Cage aux Folles, Sweet Charity) makes his debut at the intimate upscale cabaret nightclub. $40-$60. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.hotelnikkosf.com/ feinsteins.aspx

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

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

Night at the Jewseum @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Celebrate Shavrot with “Flower Power,” the nightlife cocktail event with live music by Sugar Candy Mountain, groovy projected visuals, pop-ups shops and crafts, specialty cocktails and exhibit viewings. $5, 6pm-9pm. Exhibits: Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution, an exhibit of photos and documents of and about the prolific rock concert promoter. Other exhibits about Jewish culture as well. 736 Mission St. 6557800. www.thecjm.org

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. June 9: Twilight Zone Nightlife with DJ Mark Gorney, artist Andrew Zuckerman and marine magic. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall Enjoy hard rock and punk music from DJ Don Baird at the wonderfully divey SoMa bar. Also Fridays. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www. hitws.com

Sex and the City Live @ Oasis D’Arcy Drollinger and crew perform new episodes of the HBO comedy about four women in Manhattan. $25 and up. 7pm and some 9:30pm extra shows. 2-drink min. Thu Sat Thru July 2 (some nights off). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

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

Fri 10

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

Boy Bar @ The Cafe Gus Presents’ weekly dance night, with DJ Kid Sysko, cute gogos and $2 beer (before 10pm). 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Force @ Oasis Ragertom’s Pride dance night, with DJs Mohammad Vahidy, Andrew Gibbons and Shane Young. $10. 10pm-2a, 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Friday Nights @ de Young Museum Season 12 of the fun art parties returns, with the Oscar de la Renta exhibit, live music and drinks. 5:30pm9pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, www.deyoung.famsf.org

Friday Nights @ Oakland Museum The family-friendly night events returns, with exhibit tours, dancing, food, drinks, and live music. $7-$15. 5pm-9pm. 1000 Oak St. www.museumca.org

The New York-style leather dance event returns, with DJs Peter Napoli and Philip Grasso. $10. 10pm-4am. 314 11th St. www.brutparty.com www.beatboxsf.com

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland The weekly hip hop and R&B night. 8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Comedy iFiesta @ Brainwash Café Jesús U. BettaWork hosts a night of comedy with a queer edge. 8pm. 1122 Folsom St. www.jesusubettawork.com

House Party @ Powerhouse Guy Ruben and Mohammad spin at his birthday bash, with groovy tables, lamps andlove seats. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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

Nick Adams @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The talented openly gay handsome Broadway star performs his new cabaret show. June 10 (8pm) and 11 (7pm). $45-$65. $20 food/drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.hotelnikkosf.com/ feinsteins.aspx www.ticketfly.com nickadams.biz/

Fri 10 Nick Adams @ Feinstein’s

Red Hots Burlesque @ Beatbox The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux. May 20 is a Dolly Parton tribute night. $10. 7pm-10pm. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf. com Also Sunday brunch shows (see Sun.) www. redhotsburlesque.com

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

Sat 11

Mascara @ Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy Castro Country Club’s fun drag show with Intensive Claire, DJ Hardhat and the CCC Panhandlers. $20. 7:30pm. 4235 19th St. www.castrocountryclub.org

Men’s Room @ Codeword

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland Latin, hip hop and Electro music night. June 11, Banda Tierra Del Sol performs live. $5-$25. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Juan Garcia and Brian Urmanita spin at the male-centric dark, cruisy circuity dance event. $10. 917 Folsom St. www.guspresents.com www.codeword-sf.com

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Dinner & Bikes @ The Women’s Building Enjoy a six-course vegan, glutenfree spread by chef Joshua Ploeg! Dinner is paired with discussions on local issues and advocacy –as well eight short films looking at a range of broader topics such as gentrification and cycling as a solution– led by Portland publishers, Joe Biel and Elly Blue. $17-$22. 7pm-9pm. 3543 18th St. www.dinnerandbikes.com

Gogo Fridays @ Toad Hall Hot dancers grind it at the Castro bar with a dance floor and patio. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.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

Sat 11 Intensive Claire hosts Mascara @ Harvey Milk Civil Rights Acadamy

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Kent-ertainment Kent James’ best music re-issued by Jim Provenzano

Kent James shows off some recent tattoos. Inset: Kent James in his Nick Name and the Normals days.

ant a hot round-up of the best songs by Kent James? The former punk-pop stud, one of few out gay musicians during his ‘90s Mohawk tight pants heydey as Nick Name, has released some of his best songs from that era (“I Fucked Your Boyfriend,” “Who’s Your Daddy”), the dance mix of “Physical,” along with more recent songs with more mellow tempo and style (after dumping his punk name) like “Paperback Romeo.” The ex-Mormon, former Country music singer, now punker turned rock daddy, has certainly evolved over the years. So has his music. The subject of Howard Skora’s 2007 documentary Nick Name and the Normals, the film includes footage of James’ last days performing with that band, and the various controversies of their final tour. Two new songs (“Money Thing,” “Nutcracker”) in collaboration with Sunshine, should get your toes tapping. Check them out on Amazon.com, and visit www.bestofjames.comt

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

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

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

Dyke March Fundraiser @ Lone Star Saloon Bevan Dufty and Sister Roma co-host a beer bust benefit for the SF Dyke March. $10. 4pm-7pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Sunday Brunch @ Thee Parkside

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

Bottomless Mimosas until 3pm at the fun rock-punk club. 1600 17th St. 2521330. www.theeparkside.com

Sat 11 Brian Urmanita DJs at Men’s Room @ Codeword

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

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 Weekly two-stepping and linedancing fun, with lessons and DJed music (not just country). 5pm10:30pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunsation Sundays @ Oasis Tea dance on the roof with DJs Brian and Scott Shepard. $7. 3pm-9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Sun 12

BeBe Sweetbriar Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire

Werk Qween @ Oasis

Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. 920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

LA’s Lady Red Couture and homo hip hop singer and TV show host Jonny McGovern cohost a wild fun show of naughty songs, comedy, drag and more. 9pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

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Jock @ The Lookout

Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Stanley Frank spins house dance remixes at the intimate Castro dance bar. $3. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

The classic leather bar’s most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (Check the website for a list of recipients). 3pm6pm. Now also on Saturdays. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Saturgay @ Qbar

Soul Delicious @ Lookout

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Join baritone Erik Chalfant and his Pygmalion, Vanessa Bousay, as they present a witty musical commentary on narcisissm, gender stereotypes and the fine art of duplicity. $15. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

The Grass Roots Gay Rights Foundation’s margarita party and beneficiary announcement. Donations. 1pm-4pm. 314 11th St. www.grassrootsgayrights. org www.beatboxsf.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

Enjoy outdoor flow arts, DJ Phil B, picnicing, at a fundraiser for ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration). 1pm-4pm. Nancy Pelosi Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.flaggercentral.com

Me & Mr. V @ Martuni’s

Real Bad Kick-Off @ BeatBox

Soul Party @ Elbo Room

Flagging in the Park @ National AIDS Memorial Grove

Sun 12 Erik Chalfant’s Me & Mr. V @ Martuni’s

Xtravaganza @ Balancoire Latin music, drag shows, dancing and more. 7pm1am. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. 920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

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Hysteria @ Martuni’s

Underwear Night @ Club OMG

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

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

Meow Mix @ The Stud The weekly themed variety cabaret showcases new and unusual talents; MC Ferosha Titties. $3-$7. Show at 11pm. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.studsf.com

Wed 15 Bedlam @ Beaux

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Lady Red Couture and Jonny McGovern at Werk Qween @ Oasis

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Gaymer Night @ Eagle 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

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

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

Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 6523820. www.whitehorsebar.com

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Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm. 2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

Strip down as the strippers also take it all off. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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

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

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women and men’s R&B hip hop and soul night, at the club’s new location. No cover. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. www.bench-and-bar.com Juanita More! presents a new weekly scenic happy hour event, with host Rudy Valdez, and guest DJs. No cover, and a fantastic panoramic city view. 5pm-9pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

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

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

New weekly punk-alternative music night hosted by Uel Renteria and Johnny Rockitt. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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New weekly event with DJs Haute Toddy, Guy Ruben, Mercedez Munro and Abominatrix. Wet T-shirt/jock contest at 11pm. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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Wed 15 Katya Smirnoff-Skyy @ Feinstein’s

The Russian drag diva (aka actor J. Conrad Frank) returns to the intimate cabaret nightclub for a special concert of recreated Continental Baths disco and Broadway classics from her 70s heyday. $30-$50. 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1100. www.russianoperadiva.com www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with guest host Nick Radford. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun Honey Mahogany’s weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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

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

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www. dragatmartunis.com

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Bandit @ Slate Bar New weekly queer event with resident DJ Justime; electro, soul, funk; cocktails and food available. $3. 2925 16th St. www.facebook.com/ BanditPartySF www.slate-sf.com

Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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IML 2016 International Mr. Leather; the annual wearing of the hides

by Race Bannon

ach year brings a few opportunities for all segments of the gay men’s leather and kink world, and some of their friends and supporters, to convene in one spot. Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend, Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend (CLAW) and Folsom Street Fair Weekend (which is very mixed, but has many gay men’s elements) are but three of them. But for a

convention-style weekend event, International Mr. Leather (IML) (www.imrl.com) is still the granddaddy of them all. The 38th IML was held May 26-30 over the Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. The Congress Plaza Hotel served as the headquarters hotel for the weekend. Located in the hotel alongside the registration desk and many parties and meetings was the world-famous vendor market, likely the largest gathering of leather and

kink vendors in the world. I defy anyone to walk through the doors of this mart and not immediately feel compelled to start reaching for your credit card. It’s truly something to behold. Since the Congress Hotel can’t possibly hold all of the people attending this huge weekend event, there were official and unofficial satellite hotels in the area overflowing with IML visitors. Many consider the IML contest, and the International Mr. Bootblack (IMBB) contest than runs concurrently, to be the centerpieces of the weekend. However, many challenge that notion, since for so many who attend it’s primarily about the opportunity to meetup with friends, old and new, in a fun and kink-embracing atmosphere. Indeed, as I talked with people and scanned the various social media feeds from those attending IML, without a doubt this was the sentiment expressed. During IML a number of clubs and organizations host an assortment of events and parties to give attendees the opportunity to socialize, learn, dance and play. This year there were: the roast of the outgoing IML and IMBB (held at the Leather Archives and Museum); Chicago Rubbermen Meet and Greet; Gear Blast for guys into sports, racing, rubber, leather, lycra and other pervy gear; Leather Archives and Museum President’s reception; a puppy panel; erotic hypnosis reception; People of Color caucus; puppy yoga; Chicago Hellfire Club cocktail social; Leather Archives and Museum Women’s Leather History Program reception; pup and Handler party; sober recovery party; BLUF social; MCC church services; and more. One of the more popular events at IML is the San Francisco Party hosted every year by Folsom Street Events. I’ve always been impressed that IML makes available a number of leather recovery meetings for sober attendees. As someone who has many close sober friends, I know how important those meetings can be when those who practice sobriety are mingling with many who are, shall we say, indulging over the weekend. Kudos to IML for making sure such meetings happen. Each year the founder of IML, Chuck Renslow, delivers a short speech during the final day’s competition. Mr. Renslow shared how he started the Leather Archives and Museum after the death of his partner, Dom Orejudos, also known as the erotic artist Etienne. He also pointed out the important roles two leathermen I admire considerably, Tony DeBlase and Joseph Bean, played in the Archives founding. He also thanked the current and past Archives Board members.

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David “Tigger” Bailey (left), the new International Mr. Leather (IML), and Erick Joseph (right), the new International Mr. Bootblack (IMBB), shortly after their names were announced as winners.

Mr. Renslow wanted to single out some of the people who have collected and saved the history of our leather and kink scene and he thanked everyone who has done and currently does this important work. This year 59 men competed to be International Mr. Leather 2016 and four men competed to

be International Mr. Bootblack 2016. Among the IML competitors were our own Bay Area’s Cody Elkin (Mr. SF Leather 2016), Kippy Marks (Mr. Friendly SF 2016), Element Eclipse (Mr. Powerhouse 2016), Harry Kong (Mr. SF Eagle Leather 2016), and Ray Sherwin (Mr. Bolt Leather 2016). Running

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Top: (from left to right) IMBB 2016 Erick Joseph, IML 2016 Second Runner-up Adam “Pup Vino” Henderson, IML 2016 Winner David “Tigger” Bailey, IML 2016 First Runner-up Todd Harris. Bottom: Patrick Smith, IML 2015, and Bamm-Bamm, IMBB 2015, during a particular humorous moment at their roast.

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The Mr. S Leather gang at the San Francisco Party at IML.

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for IMBB was Bootblack Beta from Oakland. All of them did a great job throughout the competition and represented us well. As always, IML/IMBB works hard to gather a selection of esteemed judges who they believe will judge contestants honestly and fairly. Judges for the IML contest this year were Patrick Smith (IML 2015), Joe Barlow, Jeff Gruenberger, Derek Harley, Jeff Henness, Penelope Jones, Steve Laviolette, John O’Brien, and Michael Shorten. Tallymasters were Don Leach and Dominion Onyx. Judges for the IMBB contest were Bamm-Bamm (IMBB 2015), Meghan (IMsBB

2016), and the Bay Area’s own Joan Norry. The contest this year was masterfully co-MC’d by the Bay Area’s Lenny Broberg and Thib Guicherd-Callin. David “Tigger” Bailey (Mr. New Jersey Leather 2016), stood atop the podium as the new International Mr. Leather. First runner-up was Todd Harris (Mr. Chicago Leather 2016) and second runner-up was Adam “Pup Vino” Henderson (Mr. Midwest Leather 2015). Based on what data I could gather, I believe Tigger is the oldest man to win IML at 51. As an older man myself, I loved seeing more mature men reflected atop the podium.

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Erick Joseph (Alaska State Bootblack 2015) is the new International Mr. Bootblack. First runner-up was Bootblack Beta. Second runner-up was Brooklyn Davenport (Gulf Coast Community Bootblack 2013). The new International Mr. Leather and Bootblack I asked the new IML, Tigger, if he had any thoughts about what the year ahead might be like for him. “I have thoughts on where I’d like to add value and be of service, because for me this is a service commitment, but I’m trying to keep those in check,” said Tigger.

Leather Events, June 9-26, 2015 Thu 9

Mon 13

Sun 19

Red Hanky Nite @ Powerhouse

Ride Mondays @ Eros

SF Band of Brothers Beer/ Soda Bust @ SF Eagle

Fri 10

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

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club

SF Ring – Box Ties with Naturalturn @ Club Eros

Bar night for men into fisting. 1347 Folsom St., 7-9pm. hellholesf.com

Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members, 4058 18th St., 9:30pm. www.castrocountryclub.org

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

Sat 11 Woof @ SF Eagle Come romp, play and socialize at the monthly pups and Handler mosh event, with mats out to pup out on and snacks to munch on. Five mats outside if the weather is clear, three inside if it rains. 398 12th St., $3 entrance, $7 for puppy pass, 2-5pm. www.SFK9Unit.org

Leather Contingent Final 2016 Meeting @ SF Eagle Discussion about parade placement, Leather Marshals, and other preparations at the last meeting of the year. 398 12th St., 2pm-3:30pm. www.sfleather.org

Leather Happy Hour and Pride Contingent Fundraiser @ Powerhouse Join the San Francisco Leather Pride Contingent at one of our favorite SOMA spots. Powerhouse hosts a Leather Happy Hour, with gear on hand to purchase for that perfect Pride outfit. 1347 Folsom St., 4-7pm. www.sfleather.org

In this class, learn and practice a few varieties of takate-kotes as well gain valuable insights into the rationales for their construction and when to use them. 2051 Market St., 7:30-9:30pm. www.sfring.org

Thu 16 Night Scenes @ Mr. S Leather Rubber play and objectification with Michael Christopher. Night Scenes is an in-store event to give customers the opportunity to see gear in use in a live ‘scene’ by experienced players. 385 8th St., 6-8pm. www.mr-s-leather.com

Fri 17 Mommy Playshop @ Center for Sex & Culture Come and participate in a uniquely feminine style of play. There will be a presentation on the kinds of Mommies and play, reasons people are drawn to this play, aspects of age play, different kinds of play from light and nurturing, to sexual and darker, and how Mommy play can include service. Bring your own tools or toys or play with ours. All women (and those whose gender self-identification is other than male) over 18 are welcome. 1349 Mission St., 8-10pm. www.theexiles.org

Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club See Fri 10

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma

Brüt @ Beatbox

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Express your sex-sports, leather, jocks, muscle, chubby, rubber, sleazy, freaky or whatever divulges your confidence as a sexual being at this dance party. Every headspace has a place at Brüt. 314 11th St., $10 in advance, 10pm-4am. www.brutparty.com

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Sun 12 South Bay Bike Ride @ Renegades Bar 16th annual ride through the South Bay and the gorgeous peninsula. At the end point there will be food, drink, raffle prizes, vendors, and sexy kinky people. Registration at the start point opens at 8:30am and Kick Stands Up is 10am. The ride will arrive at the end point around 1pm. Start: Starbucks, 2370 El Camino Rd., Santa Clara. End: Renegades Bar, 501 W Taylor St., San Jose, CA. 8:30am5pm. www.renegadesbar.com

Fog City Pack Presents Beta @ 626 Jessie St. An evening of seductive sounds, steamy guys, low inhibitions and dirty deeds. Whether you’re looking to play or you just want to pound the dance floor, follow your instincts and see where the night takes you. Clothes check available with two fully stocked play spaces provided by Mr. S Leather. 626 Jessie St., $10-$15, 10pm-3am. For tickets visit www.eventbrite.com and search for “Fog City Pack.”

Men’s Play Party @ The South Bay Spot Men’s Play Party @ Spot. A men’s play party at The South Bay Spot dungeon in San Jose. Sponsored by Leather Masters, this play party is for men only. 7pm-midnight. For details, see http://goo.gl/lvWDf7. Tickets online at www.brownpapertickets. com/event/2561661 or purchase at Leather Masters’ San Jose Store (https://goo.gl/o88tNf). Questions? Contact UncleAbdul@ TheSouthBaySpot.com

Celebrate Father’s Day with the SF Band of Brothers. Bring your Daddy, bring your boy and bring $15 for the beer/soda bust and some great grub. 398 12th St., 3-6pm. sf-eagle.com

Mon 20 Ride Mondays @ Eros See Mon 13

Wed 22 Leathermen’s Discussion Group @ Mr. S Leather The Story Of You: Giving and Getting a Great Oral History with Pup Spike. 385A 8th St., 7:309:30pm. www.sfldg.org

Leather/Gear Buddies @ Blow Buddies Erotic fun for leather and gear guys, $15, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Thu 23 Locked @ SF Citadel A men’s dungeon party hosted by CastroKink. A regular men’s kinky play party at the SF Citadel, equipped with crosses, bondage tables, cages, slings, spanking benches, suspension beams, puppy mats, and more. 181 Eddy St., $20, 7pm-1am. www.sfcitadel.org

Fri 24 Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club See Fri 10

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma See Fri 10

Sat 25 GearUp Weekend’s Black is the New Pink Play Party @ Alchemy SF Men’s play party hosted by the men of GearUp Weekend. 1060 Folsom St., $20, 8pm-1am. www.gearupweekend.com

BLUF Invasion @ SF Eagle Throw on your gear and come out to the monthly BLUF night in San Francisco. 398 12th St., 9pm-2am. www.bluf.com

Sun 26 Walk with the Leather Contingent @ SF Pride Parade March with the leather contingent in the SF Pride Parade. Meeting location and exact step off times are not known yet, but will be early in the parade. Expect the 11am time to drop and expect to be somewhere close to Speare or Main Street. More information at www.sfleather.org. After the walk in the parade, visit Leather Alley at Hyde Street between McCallister and Golden Gate. See www.leatheralley.net for details.

“I can make this about me and talk about a vision, strategy and plan of action. Or I can make this about my community, however and wherever that is defined, and listen to what their needs are and then respond. It’s like giving my husband a gift. While I may want to give him Broadway tickets, he might really want a new power tool [laughs]. I want my year to be about responding to what is needed and wanted, and not just what I am prepared to give. That might mean showing up in places off the beaten path, in ways that may not be glamorous to the masses, but are important and meaningful to a few.” I also asked the new IMBB, Erick, what he thought his year ahead might be like. “My year is full of edge play. Continuous travel. Last year I traveled out of Alaska more than a dozen times as the Alaska State Bootblack. I’d like to continue with that momentum. I’m looking forward to connecting on an individual basis while reaching out to the community at large. I want to put a ‘fun’ public face to International Mr. Bootblack while additionally having some really hot scenes.” A unique new element this year

was the addition of a robust social media team who continually pushed out information about the weekend in real time via Facebook and Twitter. It gave those who could not attend, and those attending but who could not be in multiple places at one time, a running stream of news and information that was masterfully done. In the future other IML social media platforms will also be launched. IML clearly understands how vital social media is to the overall experience, and I give them a lot of credit for undertaking this new component of the weekend. Congratulations to Tyesha Nicole Best, IML Coordinator of Social Media, and her team Issa Arden, Patty, Dee, VouDou Onyx, Zach Stitch, Andrew Bertke and Aurora Lee. I hope IML sees the wisdom of continuing this great addition to the weekend. Another IML season comes to an end. I hope to see many of my friends next year in Chicago for the 39th IML weekend.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him on his website, www.bannon.com.

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Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle Kollin Holts hosts the weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm-8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

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So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall The weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

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Keshet Pride Hapy Hour @ The Residence Join members of the LGBTQ Jewish social organization for pre-Pride drinks. 6pm-8pm. 718 14th St. www.keshetonline.org

Kingdom! @ Beatbox The award-winning drag king hip hop vocal ensemble performs at a benefit for the SF Trans March. $10 and up. 7pm. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

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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. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

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Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels Groove on wheels at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the “Godfather of Skate.” Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

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