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he new heads of a San Franciscobased nonprofit that provides meals to people living with AIDS and other diseases are preparing for the release of data linking nutrition’s impact on health as the agency marks its 30th year. Simon Pitchford and Mark Ryle took over as co-chief executive officers at Project Open Hand in April after former executive director Kevin Winge stepped down to help care for sick family members. Pitchford and Simon, who are both gay, have been with the agency for years. Pitchford indicated the agency doesn’t have any major changes on the horizon. Rather, he said, it will be “continuing the momentum” it’s built. Part of that involves a study called Food=Medicine, which was conducted in partnership with the UCSF School of Medicine in an effort to show good nutrition’s ability to improve health and well-being for people living with critical illness and lead to reduced medical costs. The data are currently being analyzed to help understand health outcomes based on the food provisions. The results are expected this summer. The pilot study will help determine “what the right level of nutrition is to provide the maximum health benefit to our client base,” Pitchford said. People who are living with HIV might have different needs than those living with diabetes, for example, he said. The agency is “trying to be more tailored to the individual’s needs,” Ryle said. POH spokeswoman Maria Stokes said in an email, “We aren’t yet ready to share any findings from the pilot study,” but she pointed to comments Dr. Sheri Weiser, who’s leading the evaluation, made in a news release announcing the study in July 2014. Weiser is an associate professor of medicine at UCSF’s Division of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital. “We know that inadequate access to nutritious food can lead to increased hospitalizaSee page 8 >>

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Protest outside Catholic picnic

small number of protesters showed up outside Sue Bierman Park Saturday, May 16 where San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was holding a free family picnic that was designed to show support for the controversial Catholic leader. Erin Zanthe, left, joined Billy

Bradford, Breana Galvan, and Jeanz Galvan. The group was critical of Cordileone, who in recent months has proposed morality clauses for the teacher handbooks for Catholic high schools in the diocese and wants to reclassify school faculty as “ministry” so that they are exempt from anti-discrimination laws.

project has been launched in California to focus on the state’s LGBT history as work advances on a National Historic Landmark LGBTQ Theme Study and proposed framework for the National Park Service. Called California Pride: Mapping LGBTQ Histories, the online, crowdsourced archive will feature, according to organizers, the “memories, stories, and images related to sites throughout the Golden State associated with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer experience.” A series of statewide meetings, called pinning parties, is being held to collect information on sites across the state that are of special significance to the LGBT community. The launch event will take place in San Francisco Wednesday, June 10 and will focus on the Bay Area’s lesbian history. Attendees will learn how to “pin” their favorite See page 9 >>

Police bias the focus at LGBT club meeting by Yael Chanoff

out of this one and that it’s not going to go away.” n May 11, San Francisco Panelist Susan B. Christian, a police Sergeant Yulanda lesbian who is an assistant disWilliams was pulled over. trict attorney and chair of the Williams lives on the north San Francisco Human Rights slope of Potrero Hill. It’s the maCommission, also commented jority white half of a sharply dividon law enforcement’s issues as an ed neighborhood, and Williams is institution. black. That seemed to be the only “It’s difficult sometimes to be a reason she was pulled over while part of a system that has so many driving her Mercedes near her problems,” she said. “Systemic Alana Perino home. Williams said she waited problems, hidden problems.” for the cop to get out of his car and San Francisco Police Sergeant Yulanda Williams, center, spoke Christian is currently working begin to approach her before tak- about race and law enforcement at a recent meeting of the Alice B. against these systemic problems ing out her badge and holding it Toklas LGBT Democratic Club as Assistant District Attorney Susan with a program addressing individup to the window. She says the of- B. Christian, chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, ual bias. She led the effort to begin ficer didn’t give any reason for the and Police Commissioner Julius Turman look on. an implicit bias training program stop. He just said, “Sorry, Sarge. I for city employees. The first traindidn’t know that was your car.” were revealed in March. The texts made several ing took place April 1, and about “Young man, I don’t think you know all the references to Ku Klux Klan-style violence and 50 department heads attended, including police cars I do have,” was her reply. disparaged women and LGBT people. Williams Chief Greg Suhr. Another session, specifically for Even if Williams had been spared that act of was insulted by name in the texts. high-ranking police, was held May 5. racial profiling that day, she still would have had “The things that are going on in the police Christian said the training addresses not just plenty to say when she spoke later that night at a department right now are systemic. It’s a cul- racial bias, but a long list of different types of panel on race and law enforcement at a meeting ture that has tolerated racism, sexism, and every biases, including homophobia and transphobia. of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. other -ism for the last 150 to 200 years,” Wil“It’s about bias. It’s not limited to race, genAs president of the local organization Officers liams said at the panel. der, sexual orientation,” Christian said. for Justice-Peace Officers Association, a group But after scandals like “Textgate” and the Two more training dates are scheduled as representing African American officers, Wilpower of the Black Lives Matter movement, part of the pilot, which will be over in July. liams has focused on diversifying the police she said, “there’s a realization that we have to be After that, Christian said, “My goal is for it department for decades. And she herself was held far more accountable.” to be mandatory training for all city employees attacked as part of a series of racist text mes“It’s a conglomeration of everything,” Williams in an ongoing way,” – but she expects a fight, sages sent by San Francisco police officers that said. SFPD “realized that they can’t talk their way See page 10 >>

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Castro audio tour with AIDS quilt creator debuts by Matthew S. Bajko

he audio tour begins in front of the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, where listeners learn why naming the public school in San Francisco’s Castro district after a gay icon was such a “radical idea” for Cleve Jones, a longtime resident of the neighborhood. “I came to San Francisco in the 1970s when people were trying to ban gay people as teachers,” recalls Jones, 60, a gay man who created the AIDS Memorial Quilt and today is a labor organizer. Over the course of the next 90 minutes, Jones provides a roaming personal reflection on the events of the late 1970s and early 1980s that had a lasting impact on not just himself but the city’s LGBT community. Stops include the apartment off the hidden Vulcan stairs where Jones once lived, Pink Triangle Park, businesses Hot Cookie and gay bar the Mix, and the GLBT Historical Society’s museum. Along the way Jones runs into neighbors, including celebrated gay author Armistead Maupin, and Terry Asten Bennett, whose family has long owned Cliff ’s Variety store on Castro Street. Earlier this year Jones recorded the audio for the tour after being approached by Detour, a company launched last year by the founder of Groupon. Debuting Thursday, it is the company’s 10th walking tour focused on a San Francisco neighbor-

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hood that users of the Apple Store app can download for $4.99. “The concept appealed to me right away. I thought it was genius,” said Jones, who had back surgery in February and thus has yet to take the completed version of the tour. “The project was a little bit more intense than I was expecting. I didn’t realize it would involve so much.” Jones walked the route of the tour several times with Detour staff and spent a day in a studio being interviewed by Marianne McCune, a former reporter for public radio shows who was hired by the startup last year after moving to San Francisco.

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estimates, 13 ADAP clistill qualify for ADAP. ents will be treated for Anne Donnelly, direcdvocates for people living with hepatitis C this year, under tor of health care policy HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C are the current guidelines. at the San Franciscocheering some aspects of CaliforNext year, according to the based Project Inform, nia Governor Jerry Brown’s revised agency, access to hepatitis said that since ADAP budget proposal and expressing C “treatment for all ADAP was constructed at a time confidence that more gains will be clients will result in 199 when AIDS primarily made to ensure access to care. clients being treated.” The hit gay men who weren’t Rick Gerharter The changes mostly involve the net expenses for ADAP supporting families, “it state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Profor the increased coverage, Governor never has counted family gram, which helps people who’re after rebates from drug Jerry Brown members.” That means living with HIV and AIDS and uncompanies are factored in, single people have had insured or under-insured get access would be $6.5 million. the same income requirements as to medication. The state Department of Public people with children. Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, diHealth estimates that for the 2015Donnelly pointed to one example rector of state and local affairs at 16 fiscal year, which begins July 1, where, years ago, a man who made the San Francisco AIDS Foundatotal expenditures for ADAP will be $51,000 a year didn’t qualify for tion, said the state will start “cover$389 million. ADAP because the program didn’t ing hepatitis C treatment through Mulhern-Pearson said advocates consider that he had a family of four. ADAP for all clients who are dually are also working with the state LegThe money for the change would diagnosed for HIV and hepatitis C” islature on getting funding for other come mainly from drug rebates, regardless of how far their condition areas, “so we’re hopeful those will rather than the general fund. has progressed. be included in the final budget the Advocates are also proposing that “Before, they had been requirgovernor signs.” the income eligibility level for ADAP ing people to be at a certain disease One change advocates expressed be increased to 500 percent of the stage,” Mulhern-Pearson said. confidence will be coming is how federal poverty level. Currently, the According to state Office of AIDS much money a person can make and figure is capped at $50,000. The federal poverty level for individuals is about $12,000. PAWS presents... Making the income ceiling a percentage would be “more consistent with how other high-cost states cap their program,” and it would allow for “more flexibility,” MulhernThursday June 11, 2015 Pearson said. Among other proposals, she said, 6:30-9:30pm advocates are also asking for money Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center to hire “navigators” who would asSan Francisco, CA sist people to enroll in programs that would help them pay for preTickets: $185 exposure prophylaxis, commonly www.pawssf.org/petchitecture-2015 referred to as PrEP. The treatment involves taking support PAWS programs that keep Proceeds will suppo Truvada, which is manufactured by people and their pets together. Gilead and costs thousands of dollars, once a day. The regimen has Learn more at www.pawssf.org been shown to be effective at reducThank you to this year’s sponsors: ing HIV infection rates if used as prescribed.t

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“I thought it was going to be a broad history like Cruisin’ the Castro. They had a totally different plan of action,” said Jones, referring to the longtime operator of LGBT history tours of the neighborhood. The May 21 launch of Jones’ tour is timed to coincide with the annual commemoration of Harvey Milk Day this Friday, May 22. The day of special significance in California celebrates Milk, whose November 1977 election to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors marked the first time an out LGBT person won elective office in the city and state. Archival audio recordings of Milk are interspersed into the narration provided by Jones, who was a campaign organizer for Milk and later worked for him at City Hall as an aide. Also included are snippets of then-Supervisor Dianne Feinstein announcing to the news media the morning of November 27, 1978 that Milk and then-Mayor George Moscone had been killed by Dan White, who days before had resigned his supervisor seat. “I jumped in a taxi to get to City Hall. I was yelling, ‘Harvey, where are you?’ Then I see Dianne holding her hand out and there was blood on her hand,” recalls Jones. “I could see Harvey’s feet.” At a later stop on the tour, inside the restaurant Harvey’s where a photo of Jones and Milk hangs on the wall, Jones describes the rioting that occurred the

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Beneficiaries receive checks from AOF Jane Philomen Cleland

oard members and beneficiaries of Academy of Friends gathered at the Oasis nightclub Sunday, May 17 as the nonprofit groups shared $35,000 that was raised through AOF’s Oscar viewing party and other events. The amount is down from the $90,000 that was raised last year. The 2015 benefiting groups

are AIDS Legal Referral Panel, HIV Nightline, the HIV Story Project, Huckleberry Youth Programs, LGBTQ Connection Napa, Positive Resource Center, and Project Open Hand. The party also thanked volunteers. For more information about AOF, visit www. academyoffriends.org.

SF Pride kicks off with party event will be an opportunity for attendees to meet many of the 2015 community grand marshals and other honorees. The benefit will include hosted bars and hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and performances by SambaFunk and Cheer-SF. “The anticipated Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage in late June will be a huge draw for attendance at this year’s Pride events,” board President Gary Virginia said in a statement. “After 45 years, SF Pride continues to be a significant platform for advancing our LGBT movement and celebrating our victories.” Tickets for the kickoff party are $100 and can be purchased online at www.sfpride.org/fundraiser. Information on participating in the parade or becoming an exhibitor is available at www.sfpride.org or by calling (415) 864-0831.

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People waved rainbow flags along the route at last year’s LGBT Pride parade in San Francisco.

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he board of directors of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee will hold a 45th anniversary kickoff party Saturday, May 30 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the grand ballroom at the Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 Market Street (at 8th). The party serves as a prelude to the Pride parade and festival, which takes place June 27-28. This year’s theme is “Equality Without Exception.” Pride officials said that the kickoff

Queens Fundraising Committee that benefits several organizations will take place Sunday, May 24 at 4 p.m. at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, 133 Vicki Mar-Lane (Turk Street) in San Francisco. Benefiting groups include the Trans March, the 49th and 50th anniversaries of the 1966 Compton Cafeteria riots, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Howard Grayson elder conference, and San Francisco Pride. Organizers Felicia Elizondo (also known as Felicia Flames) and Collette LeGrande said that food will be served at 4 p.m., followed by a show and raffle drawings at 5. Raffle tickets are $1 each and available at the door or in advance by messaging Elizondo on Facebook. Organizers said that all performers are welcome.

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Sanchez stumbles out of the gate

e were intrigued when we heard southern California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D) was planning to challenge state Attorney General Kamala Harris for the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Barbara Boxer. Sanchez’s entrance in the 2016 contest would enliven what had been an inevitable path to a coronation for Harris, as she has raked in millions of dollars and numerous endorsements being the only declared Democrat in the race. Democracy is best served by a competitive race in order to adequately debate the issues and where the candidates stand. Harris’ declared Republican opponents, Assemblyman Rocky Chavez (San Diego) and former California Republican Party Chair Tom Del Beccaro haven’t exactly matched her money or political star power. Never mind the fact that California is a solid blue state and thus overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats. Sanchez earned the support of many LGBT community members 20 years ago when she shocked the political establishment by defeating Republican Congressman Bob Dornan to become the first American of Mexican descent to represent Orange County in Congress. She has easily won re-election ever since. But Sanchez hadn’t even formally declared her entry into the Senate race when she stumbled. And again, at last weekend’s state Democratic convention in Anaheim – Sanchez’s district – she made a gaffe that seriously calls her judgment into question. Let’s start with Sanchez’s campaign announcement. Last Wednesday, word leaked via Twitter that she was going to announce her entry into the Senate race at a news conference the next day. But shortly after several political reporters re-tweeted the news, Sanchez’s camp backtracked, saying that she hadn’t decided whether to enter. This seeming indecisiveness is unsettling. Officially announcing one’s candidacy is the one bit

of news a politician can control, and yet Sanchez sent mixed messages less than 24 hours before the news conference. Was she in or not? It turned out that she’s in. And while political observers had a chuckle over the “willshe-or-won’t-she” moment, Sanchez was still poised to make a splashy entrance as a newly minted candidate at the party convention. But on Saturday that narrative changed dramatically after a cellphone video surfaced of Sanchez describing Native Americans by putting a hand over her mouth and mimicking a war cry as she met with some delegates. “I’m going to his office, thinkin’ that I’m gonna go meet with woo-woo-woo-woo, right? ‘Cause he said ‘Indian American,’” she said, using the gesture to try to discern between Indian Americans (whose ancestry is from the Indian subcontinent) and Native Americans. To add to the awkwardness, Harris herself is of Indian American ancestry. Asked by reporters, Harris called the episode “shocking,” leaving Sanchez to squirm and run away from reporters who were seeking comment (never a good sign for a politician). Of course, Sanchez issued the standard non-apology apology Sunday morning during her convention speech, and added that she is

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Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez runs from reporters at Sunday’s Democratic convention in Anaheim.

Native American on her mother’s side. But the fact that a 10-term congresswoman and U.S. Senate candidate made the offensive gesture in the first place is troubling. And we wonder how Sanchez views other minority groups, including LGBTs. We don’t see Sanchez gaining much momentum now. Social media was abuzz with her missteps at the convention, and it’s going to be hard for potential supporters to take her seriously. We’re frustrated with politicians who deliver perfunctory apologies that don’t address the mistake or the core offense. Sanchez should have been more forthright with a sincere acknowledgment and apology: “What I said and did at the convention was indefensible. I’m of Native American heritage myself and should not have made fun of any minority group.” In the span of about 48 hours, Sanchez went from serious contender to bumbler. Whether she can re-boot her Senate campaign and become a formidable opponent remains to be seen. It’s too bad because a competitive race would benefit Californians with wide ranging discussions of myriad issues affecting the Golden State.t

Much to do to keep SF’s edge in fighting HIV by Bill Hirsh and Lance Toma

cisco that is unacceptable and requires action. Our priorities are clear. ur city is a national leader when Funding and resources must init comes to effective and highcrease. We applaud the efforts of the quality HIV programs and services. mayor and the Board of Supervisors There are many responsible for our to backfill continuous and relentcity’s vigilant responsiveness and less reductions in federal funding. positive impact for people living Our city’s ongoing efforts to sustain with and at-risk for HIV, but one funding levels is unprecedented, person stands out – longtime HIV but flat funding in real-time means advocate Mike Smith. service reductions as organizations We want to publicly acknowledge face increased costs and service deJane Philomen Cleland Smith as he steps down from his mand. We must reverse this downposition as the longtime executive Bill Hirsh ward curve. We must identify ways director of the AIDS Emergency to increase investment in our curFund/Breast Cancer Emergency rent HIV infrastructure to reach our Fund and president of the HIV/ goal of “getting to zero” – zero infecAIDS Provider Network. HAPN is tions, zero deaths, and zero stigma. the association of the many HIV Accessible and affordable housorganizations in San Francisco ing must increase. San Franproviding essential services rangcisco’s most recent HIV/ ing from primary care and mental AIDS Housing Plan health services to emergency fistates that over 77.6 nancial and legal assistance to HIV percent of people living Jane Philomen Cleland prevention and education. As the with HIV are at risk of new co-chairs of HAPN, we share Lance Toma becoming homeless, Smith’s commitment to the San due to being very low Francisco Model of Care that is a income. Currently, model for our nation and the world. We have only 998 government-subsibig shoes to fill and a lot of work ahead, but dized slots are available. This is we remain committed and inspired by the an impending crisis. We know prospect of an imminent future where HIV that housing is health care and prevents HIV, transmission is eliminated. as people are much less likely to transmit the Over the past 11 years, the number of people virus when they are stably housed and viral living with HIV in San Francisco has increased loads are suppressed. Many of those who are by 45 percent. Currently, almost 16,000 San newly diagnosed with HIV are homeless. Franciscans are living with HIV, with approxiAccess to HIV medications is game-changing mately 1,000 of them unaware of their HIVand necessary. HIV testing followed by immepositive status. Over this same period, San diate access to HIV medication if one tests posiFrancisco lost $14 million in federal and state tive has made this impact. Treatment is preventfunding for essential HIV prevention and care ing HIV transmission because most who are on services. Roughly one of every four gay men in medications have undetectable levels of HIV in San Francisco is HIV-positive. African Ameritheir system. They are healthier and they are not cans in our city are infected with HIV at a rate transmitting the virus to others. What many three times higher than their proportion of the still don’t know is that individuals who are atpopulation. Homeless residents are four times risk for HIV should also be taking HIV medicamore likely than people in stable housing to be tions to prevent contracting HIV. This one pill HIV-positive, and persons 50-plus years of age a day regimen for HIV-negative individuals is now comprise over 50 percent of people living known as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis). We with HIV. need to get the word out and address the stigma These statistics reflect a reality in San Franthat we know comes with this clinically effective

prevention option. We must target PrEP education, support, and access to those at highest risk – HIV-negative gay men of color and transgender women and men. Communities we can no longer ignore include our older adults, our transgender community, and our youth. The lives of long-term survivors of the HIV epidemic need to be a clear focus in our service delivery system. Many will soon be losing long-term disability benefits, which will drastically reduce their income and place many at-risk for losing their housing. The transgender community must be a priority. If we know that over 40 percent of transgender women are HIV-positive, we must be doing more for our transgender sisters. If we know that the transgender community was not involved in PrEP research, we must correct this so that there is equal access to PrEP. And finally, our youth. For the past several years, HIV prevention efforts have shifted away from youth. Young people are still testing positive for HIV at high numbers. We must bring back targeted HIV prevention education to young people – particularly youth of color at highest risk for HIV. Despite all these challenges, San Francisco is ahead of our nation in preventing, testing, and treating HIV. Nationally, of the more than 1.2 million individuals living with HIV, only 30 percent have an undetectable HIV viral load. In San Francisco, 68 percent of those living with HIV are in this category because of our robust system of prevention and care. More than 30 years into the epidemic, the San Francisco community still turns out committed armies of volunteers, donors, and service providers in a sustained response to the epidemic that still inspires the nation. This is what makes San Francisco so special. Let’s continue to roll up our sleeves and keep fighting.t Bill Hirsh and Lance Toma are the new cochairs of the San Francisco HIV Providers Network. Hirsh serves as executive director of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel; Toma serves as executive director of the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center.

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US postal museum to include Harvey Milk stamp by Matthew S. Bajko

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he National Postal Museum is planning to add the Harvey Milk stamp to its collection, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The 49-cent forever stamp, featuring a black and white photo of the gay icon, had its unveiling at the White House last May 22, to coincide with Milk’s birthdate and annual celebrations of Harvey Milk Day, a day of special significance in California. The Milk stamp is the nation’s first to honor an American for their role in the fight for LGBT rights. Milk was a community activist, business owner in the gay Castro district, and a political columnist for the B.A.R. during the 1970s. His election to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 1977 marked the first time an out LGBT person had won elective office in both the city and the state of California. His life, and that of then-Mayor George Moscone, came to a tragic end on the morning of November 27, 1978 when disgruntled former supervisor Dan White killed the progressive politicians in City Hall. The first calls for a stamp honoring Milk came in the late 1980s, and again in 2005, when all 11 San Francisco supervisors at the time petitioned the U.S. postmaster general to issue one for the gay rights leader. In 2010 the postal service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee began working with Milk’s family on issuing the stamp. Linn’s Stamp News, a publication for philatelists, broke the news in 2013 that the Harvey Milk stamp had been approved for release the following year. Now the National Postal Museum, overseen by the Smithsonian Institution, is preparing to include the Milk stamp in its collection. Sometime later this year it will be added to the museum’s awardwinning Arago website – http:// www.arago.si.edu – and will also be included in the virtual display of modern stamps in the interactive kiosk located in the museum’s William H. Stamp Gallery. “We wait for the Postal Service to officially transfer each year’s stamps,

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which normally happens in batches,” Marshall F. “Marty” Emery, the postal museum’s manager for public relations and internet affairs, told the B.A.R. in response to questions about the inclusion of the Milk stamp in the museum’s collection. “After we receive the stamps, we create database records, scan the stamps in high-res and generate meta data for each stamp. From there, the stamps are added to Arago. We must work with a contractor to update the interactive in the Gross Stamp Gallery.” There are no plans to physically display the Harvey Milk stamp, “as is the case with most modern issues,” explained Emery, who could not offer an exact timeline for when the Milk stamp would be added to the website or the kiosk. “Our workload is extremely taxed right now, so I won’t be addressing the new stamps until things die down a bit,” he wrote in an email in early May. The Postal Service printed 30 million Harvey Milk stamps, with 20 stamps to a sheet. A spokesman declined to provide details on how many of the stamps have been sold, citing concerns that doing so could impact the value assigned to it by collectors. “The Harvey Milk stamp is on sale and will continue to be on sale until we’re sold out,” spokesman Mark Saunders told the B.A.R. The National Postal Museum is

Interim zoning controls for upper Market Street west of Octavia Boulevard aimed at limiting the amount of office-type businesses opening in ground floor retail spaces along the commercial corridor are set to become permanent, likely in early July. The rules will now also cover the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street after the Board of Supervisors voted 10-0, with Supervisor Jane Kim absent, at their May 19 meeting to adopt legislation introduced earlier this year by gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener. Due to neighborhood concerns that developers of new mixed-use housing developments along upper Market Street would seek out banks, title companies, and other nonretail uses to fill up the new storefronts in their buildings, Wiener pushed through temporary rules in the summer of 2013 requiring such businesses to seek a conditional use permit from the city’s planning commission in order to open in a ground floor space. Doing so would trigger public notification of the businesses’ plans and provide the public a way to express opposition at a hearing if they felt it would have negative impacts. Because of similar issues with non-retail uses taking over sidewalk-fronting storefronts along 24th Street in Noe Valley, Wiener included that neighborhood’s retail corridor between Diamond and Chattanooga in his legislation.

Glazer wins East Bay Senate seat

An opponent of allowing BART workers to strike easily captured an East Bay state Senate seat in a special runoff election Tuesday, May 19. Orinda Mayor Steve Glazer (D) won with nearly 55 percent of the vote against his opponent, state Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (DConcord), who received 45 percent of the vote, according to unofficial returns Wednesday morning. He will now represent the 7th Senate District, which covers eastern See page 6 >>

Dyke March to start with noon rally by Seth Hemmelgarn

rganizers of next month’s Dyke March in San Francisco have announced an earlier start time for this year’s event. The annual march, which has typically ended in the Castro district to mark the beginning of the Pink Saturday street festival, will begin with a noon rally Saturday, June 27 at 18th and Dolores streets, near Dolores Park. Marchers will leave 18th and Dolores at 3:30, head north on Dolores, then east on 17th Street and north on Valencia Street before finally going west on 16th Street into the Castro, according to Dyke March chair Elizabeth Lanyon. Attendees will arrive in the Castro by 5 to join the Pink Party. People involved with the Pink Party, formerly known as Pink Saturday, are hoping to avoid the violence that’s marred recent years by starting

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People visit and enjoy the Dyke March rally at Dolores Park before the march in 2011.

and ending the festival much earlier. Dyke March and Pink Party organizers have worked together to coordinate times for their events. Last year’s

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Why the FAIR Education Act matters by Belo Cipriani

was never interested in literature as a kid. In fact, language arts class, as it was called then, was my least favorite. It wasn’t until I got to Ms. Bell’s 10th grade English class that I began to appreciate books. And, in great part, this was because we read books with characters that had names and storylines I could relate to. We read Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits. We explored the works of Junot Diaz and Cristina Garcia. For the first time in my education, I felt that my experiences mattered. But as I came to terms with my sexuality and later came out to friends and family, I began to crave queer literature. Although I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and burst into the infamous gay scene of the 1990s, getting LGBTQ-themed books was not easy as a teen. Eventually, I discovered the Billy DeFrank Center, and its vast book collection, and made the trip to this West San Jose gay hub every week. In secret, I read Gore Vidal and Felice Picano. In secret, I whispered the words of Edmond White and

nia curriculum. Students, teen who visited his office starting in history classes through one of the youth in the third or fourth grade, programs. The young are now able to learn about woman was the daughter queer and disabled people of a lesbian with a drug who have contributed to problem, and until the our societies. teen learned about the “Currently,” Leno late San Francisco supershared, “we don’t have visor Harvey Milk, who the mechanics to enforce was assassinated just a the law. However, it’s now year after taking office, official and parents can State Senator she thought that, as a Mark Leno enforce it by attending lesbian, she would have district meetings.” no choice but to follow in Leno, who authored the law, her mom’s steps. said there were many stories and Leno admitted it will take a few anecdotes that served as a catalyst years to purchase new textbooks due to further diversify California’s to the budget, but he explained there curriculum. But one that came imare supplemental materials for teachmediately to mind was of a lesbian ers and parents that are available.

James Baldwin. At that time, the colorful gay characters didn’t just give me a glimpse into gay life, but also healed my loneliness. Ten years later, I found myself in a similar situation; I was newly blind, had no role models and was desperate for a little inspiration. With some help of friends, I found the books of lesbian and blind Stanford professor Susan Krieger. Still, like I experienced with queer lit, it was tough to find people I could relate to in popular culture, and I wish I could have learned about positive gay and disabled figures earlier in life. One day in 2012, I received an email that invited me to the FAIR Education Act Conference organized in conjunction with the Hayward Unified School District and Community Resources for Independent Living, also in Hayward. In a room full of teachers, activists, and students, we discussed the law, formally known as the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, that gay state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco) had just passed. To everyone’s delight at the summit, the FAIR Education Act added queer and disability studies to the Califor-

Political Notebook

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Contra Costa County and Alameda County’s Tri Valley area. The former occupant of the seat, Democrat Mark DeSaulnier, resigned after being elected to Congress in November. LGBT political groups snubbed Glazer in the race, with the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club backing Bonilla. Equality California, the state-

He encourages anyone interested in learning more about the FAIR Education Act to contact his office. As someone who identifies as queer and disabled, it makes me deeply happy to have laws like the FAIR Education Act in our public school system. After all, it is through stories and histories that people truly get a peek into other communities.t Belo Cipriani is a freelance journalist, the award-winning author of Blind: A Memoir and Midday Dreams, and a spokesman for Guide Dogs for the Blind. He was voted best disability advocate in the Bay Area in 2015 by SF Weekly. Learn more at BeloCipriani.com.

wide LGBT advocacy group, also endorsed Bonilla in the runoff. It initially had supported former Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan (DAlamo) but switched its endorsement after Buchanan came in third in the special election in March. Bonilla had faced criticism from some LGBT advocates for supporting an anti-gay Vallejo city council candidate in 2013 and voting in 2008 with a majority of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors,

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night of May 21, 1979 after a jury convicted White on the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. “Dan White’s trial was a farce,” says Jones. Outraged gay residents erupted in anger outside City Hall, where police cars were set on fire. In retaliation, police raided the Elephant Walk, a gay bar where Harvey’s now sits at the corner of 18th and Castro streets, and began beating up patrons. But rather than retreat, gay residents of the neighborhood fought back. Their message, recalls Jones, was “we won’t be acquiescent sissies taking your abuse anymore.” The tour wraps up in front of 2362 Market Street, where in 1987 the offices for the AIDS quilt were housed. Now the site of Catch restaurant, a section of the quilt hangs from the ceiling in the entranceway. “It changed the way America looked at AIDS and changed the way America looked at gay people,” recounts Jones, who has long lived with HIV. To learn more about Detour and its tours of the city, visit https:// www.detour.com/.t

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meter run and include hurdles and a 4x400 meter relay. Field events include discus, javelin, shot put, hammer throw and high, long, and triple jumps. Andrew Bundy has been on the Pride Meet organizing committee since the beginning and this year he sees big changes – in the meet, and his own life as well. His life will change when Bundy, 34, weds triathlete Chris Hastings, owner of the Lookout bar, in October. His track meet, in the meantime, is looking for increased registrations this year after being named part of the Pacific Association USATF Grand Prix series for the first time. Competitors in the grand prix races can earn points toward cash prizes distributed at season’s end. “I think when we first started the Pride Meet, the intent was to bring something of the Gay Games experience home for the track and field athletes,” Bundy told the Bay Area Reporter. “We wanted an environment that was very inviting for LGBT athletes. That first year we had

POH leaders

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tions and emergency room visits among low income, HIV-positive individuals,” Weiser said. “We believe this study will help us to solidify the important connections between good nutrition and health care. By providing full nutritional support, we aim to show that when we address food insecurity and poor nutrition we improve the health and wellbeing of people who are critically ill.”

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More than 450 people recently attended POH’s inaugural Taste of the City gala May 7, which the agency has forecast will bring in just over $300,000 after expenses. The total cost of the gala, which celebrated the organization’s 30th anniversary, hasn’t yet been finalized, Ryle said. Other activities centered around the anniversary include what Pitchford called “honeymoon meetings” with donors, elected officials, and others. Ryle said they’re “making sure people are aware of all the exciting

about 50 percent LGBT participants and 50 percent non-LGBT. What we found was an untapped local market for track meets and since then we’ve drawn a greater percentage of nongay masters athletes.” Attracting more elite athletes would parallel the changes in the club’s membership through the years. “We’re not so much about attracting someone who is necessarily gay, but creating a place where everyone is accepting,” Bundy said. “At the end of the day, it’s about support. Ultimately it shouldn’t matter what someone’s sexual orientation is.” The club surveyed meet participants last year looking to see what they liked about the meet, what they’d like changed, and ways to grow. “We’ve been averaging 90 to 120 but have been kind of stagnant,” Bundy said. “June 20 is the earliest we’ve ever done it and puts it right in the heart of the Bay Area track season.” SF Track and Field holds small practices Tuesday and Thursday evenings, usually at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park. Full practices, coached by Mark Jellison, are Sunday mornings at Cox Stadium. “Since Jellison has been coach the last couple of seasons, we offer structured workouts and a more formalized practice structure,” Bundy said. “Our regular attendance has grown to about 15 to 20 people regularly for Sunday practices and anywhere from 5 to 10 for the weekday practices, which is an improvement from before. We’re training properly so we don’t have so many injuries. I think people are pretty excited about where we’re headed.” The club also offers occasional specialty clinics. For more information about the club, visit www. sftrackandfield.com.t things happening here.” Discussions have included the pilot study. Among those they’ve met with are gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose District 8 includes the Castro neighborhood. In a text message, Wiener said, “I met with Mark and Simon and was impressed with their knowledge and passion around the nutrition and health challenges facing our community and how Open Hand is part of the solution. We’re already working together to make sure no one falls through the cracks when it comes to good nutrition.” As the Affordable Care Act national health care reform law provides funding opportunities, Pitchford said the study data will help his agency “go out to insurance companies and Medi-Cal providers to help them understand why they should reimburse for the types of services that POH provides.” The nonprofit is currently in the budgeting process. The budget for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, is $10.7 million. Next year’s See page 10 >>

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LGBTQ historic sites to the web-based California Pride map. The National Trust for Historic Preservation and the California Preservation Foundation are supporting the project. It is similar to the interactive online map of U.S. LGBT historic sites created as part of the National Park Service’s ongoing LGBTQ Heritage Initiative. The map, which can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/ l5mz3pg, now includes more than 650 sites in 48 states. As the Bay Area Reporter first noted in a January 2014 story, the national effort is aimed at having more LGBT sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, be designated as a National Historic Landmark, or both. To date only five properties in the country have been granted some form of federal historic preservation recognition specifically due to their relationship to LGBT history. The documentation for properties already listed on the national register or that have landmark status are being reviewed to see if their connections to LGBT history can be added. It is one piece of the National Park Service’s initiative to highlight LGBT history throughout the hundreds of properties, national monuments, conservation areas, and park sites that are under its jurisdiction. Megan Springate, who is overseeing the creation of the National Historic Landmark LGBTQ Theme Study and proposed framework, was in San Francisco in early April to update local advocates of preserving LGBT history about the project. She is racing to complete the more than 600-page-long document by June 2016, months ahead of the presidential election that November, which could marshal in a less gay-friendly administration in early 2017. “We want it done and released before the administration changes in D.C.,” said Springate, who identifies as queer and is seeking a Ph.D. in archaeology at the University of Maryland.

Theme study

The theme study, largely funded by a $25 million grant from the Gill Foundation, has been broken into 32 chapters written by various authors from across the country. As of last month 22 people had signed contracts to write one of the sections. The topic headings run the gamut from “health,” “military,” “art and artists” to “spirituality and religion,” “leisure and sport,” and “sex, love and relationships.” Demographic groups receiving their own chapters include twospirit, Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and transgender people. Each chapter will be capped at 20 pages. “A lot of history written for the LGBTQ community tends to focus on white, middle class history,” said Springate. “All of the writers need to recognize the breadth of diversity under the LGBTQ umbrella.” Some have questioned the absence of a dedicated chapter about bisexuals, but Springate said the authors of all chapters have been instructed about “bisexual erasure and how not to do it.”

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Megan E. Springate, left, primary consultant for the National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Initiative and Elaine Jackson-Retondo, history program manager at the National Park Service Pacific Coast Region, talked about the heritage initiative at the GLBT History Museum.

Elaine Jackson-Retondo, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based history program manager for the National Park Service’s Cultural Resources Pacific West Region, said historic context statements often leave out specific groups due to space constraints. The documents, she noted, can be revised in the future. “We know it doesn’t always satisfy everybody,” said Jackson-Retondo. “The studies are not the end all, be all. They can be amended.” New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, and Reno will each have their own chapters. One will be titled “rural,” and many cities will be mentioned throughout the document, said Springate. “We wanted to represent different regions of the country. When you talk about LGBT history, a lot of people think of New York City and San Francisco. But our history is all over the place,” said Springate, who chose Reno to represent the Southwest. “These regional histories are different from each other. And people are often left out in rural places.” The San Francisco chapter is being co-written by Donna Graves and Shayne Watson, the authors of a citywide LGBTQ historic context statement now under review by San Francisco planning and historic preservation staff. Several other authors have Bay Area ties. Sonoma State University history professor Steve Estes, Ph.D., is writing the military chapter, while Stanford University historian and archivist Drew Bourn, Ph.D., is covering spirituality and religion. Will Roscoe, Ph.D., a San Francisco-based community organizer, is writing the two-spirit chapter, while a former resident of the city, Susan Stryker, Ph.D., is authoring the transgender section. Stryker is a professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona and director of the Institute for LGBT Studies. Bill Lipsky, a gay man and author of the 2006 book Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, attended the April 13 meeting, and afterward, told the B.A.R. “the project is excellent and very much needed.” Visitors to the country’s historical sites and monuments need to be informed about their connections to LGBT history, added Lipsky. “Because our gender identification and sexual orientation imbue us with everything we are, it needs to be part of the narrative told to people visiting businesses, homes, and places of importance,” he said.

Gay former Hayward City Councilman Kevin Dowling, who also was at the meeting, said chronicling LGBT history is particularly important as gay neighborhoods in cities throughout California, and across the country, are fading away as longtime establishments such as gay bars and bookstores close. “I think the gay community is under assault. The gayborhoods across the country are shrinking and changing rapidly, especially the bars really. In Hayward we have lost four of our five bars,” noted Dowling, who is active with the Hayward Historical Society and a supporter of the San Francisco-based GLBT Historical Society. “It is important to honor where we have come from and the pioneers in civil rights, the people starting businesses, and politicians.” The first California Pride: Mapping LGBTQ Histories pinning party will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 at the California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street in San Francisco. To RSVP, go to http:// capridepinningparty.eventbrite.com. For more information about California Pride, visit http://www.historypin. org/project/469-california-pride/. For more information about the National Park Service LGBT initiative, visit http://www.nps.gov/history/ heritageinitiatives/LGBThistory/.t

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POH leaders

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expected figure “is not much different than that,” Ryle said. As of the 2013-14 fiscal year, the most recent figures available, the organization had 8,421 unique clients. Fifty-five percent of those people, or 4,645, were in the senior lunch program, which is for people who are over 60. Ryle said one issue that “we’re paying close attention to” is the population of people living with HIV who are aging. POH is beginning to work with other groups to see how it can expand programs for seniors who are living with HIV. Ken Prag, 72, and his partner of 28 years, Steve Collins, 67, are both POH clients and have been going to senior centers where the nonprofit provides meals for years. “We especially like the Castro Senior Center” because it’s “the most friendly,” Prag said. Additionally, he said that Collins, a retired gardener, is living with HIV and has disabilities, and he’s been

Police bias

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Christian said. “I don’t want it watered down.” Meanwhile, Williams has faced a fight in recent work with the Officers for Justice. “We have attempted to collaborate with each police employee group. The San Francisco Police Officers Association, the Pride Alliance, the Asian Police Officers Association, the Latino Police Officers Association, etc.,” Williams said. “In doing so, our attempts have been fragmented,” she said. “I clearly see that it’s been by design.” She also talked about Not on My Watch, a program to encourage police who see corruption and racism to come forward. It’s one of many current efforts to exorcise policing in San Francisco. The district attorney’s office is currently reviewing 3,000 cases that involved the 14 officers involved in the text messages to investigate whether bias influenced those cases – it says it will also “evaluate whether there is a deeper culture of bias at the SFPD, and what the impact of such bias may be on prosecutions made by the district attorney’s office.” And on April 30, Mayor Ed Lee announced a budget plan for several reforms, including $21.3 million to hire 250 more cops and $6.6 million to fund police body cameras. The implicit bias training could help, said Thea Matthews, president of the City College of San Francisco

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up restaurant dining benefit for the Youth Empowerment Summit Thursday, May 28 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. at the Institute of Possibility, 3359 Cesar Chavez in San Francisco. Kitchit, an online platform that connects diners with chefs to create effortless dinner parties, is hosting the dinner. More, who works as a caterer in addition to her drag and emceeing gigs, will be designing the Mexicanthemed five-course meal. The event will also celebrate the company’s collaboration with three gay chefs who will be featuring guest menus on Kitchit Tonight in June. Tickets for the dinner are $100 and can be purchased at http:// www.eventbrite.com/e/pride-dinner-party-with-kitchit-and-juanitamore-tickets-16847109157.

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getting seven “nutritionally balanced, delicious” frozen meals from the nonprofit once a week. The couple has been contributing money to the agency for more than 20 years, although Prag wouldn’t say how much they’ve given altogether. Prag, who buys and sells antique picture postcards and other items, said Pitchford and Ryle are “absolutely fantastic. They’re going to explore with me ways to get the word out to LGBT seniors at how great the senior centers are.” He said the two co-CEOs are “a little more interested in finding out what people like about the senior centers, how they can improve,” and they’ve been “extremely” interested “in getting the word out to LGBT seniors. I did not sense this before.” The nonprofit will debut “Toast and Jam,” a brunch event, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 13 at Preservation Park, 1233 Preservation Park Way, in Oakland. The benefit will feature East Bay chefs and live music. Tickets are $65. Visit toastandjam.openhand.org for more information.t Black Student Union and a student activist who has been involved in Black Lives Matter. “I think it’s definitely a step in the right direction, in terms of accountability in the police force,” Matthews said. But the program’s success will be in the details. “Will there be any ramifications if people fail to uphold what is supposed to be achieved by going through this program?” Matthews said. This increased spending on the police department is at odds with some demands associated with Black Lives Matter, including the “repurposing of law enforcement funds to support community-based alternatives to incarceration.” Shaun Haines, a member of the Alice club and a Democratic Party delegate who has been involved in the local Black Lives Matter movement, also spoke on the panel. He said that he wants to see policy changes that address racial disparities in housing and jobs. The panel gave Haines and other Alice club members a glimpse into how the city’s criminal justice system is reacting to scandals and grassroots movements that lay bare systemic racism in the police department. Haines said events like these are useful, and mentioned a panel that featured local Black Lives Matter organizers, held by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club in January. “I haven’t noticed any other Democratic clubs getting out there, speaking about Black Lives Matter. It would be nice to see more,” Haines said.t 31 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street in Oakland. Feinberg was widely recognized for her theoretical work on transgender history, her anti-racist activism, and as a fighter for social justice. Feinberg was best known for her first book, the novel Stone Butch Blues, and a nonfiction book, Transgender Warriors: Making History. Her activism work included support for formerly incarcerated transwoman CeCe McDonald; Feinberg was arrested in 2012 at a protest at a time when McDonald was in jail. Feinberg was also a longtime supporter of activist and prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted for the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer. Feinberg, 65, died November 15, 2014 at home in Syracuse, New York, of complications from tick-borne infections, including Lyme disease. Her spouse and partner of 22 years, Minnie Bruce, was at her side. Scheduled speakers for the celebration include Feinberg’s comrade, Bob McCubbin, and Gloria Verdieu, with the Coalition to Free Mumia. For more information, visit www. tinyurl.com/pne2rzy.t

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This notice is required by law. This notice does not require you to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing if you wish. Notice is given that Donna Marie Madison-Bell has filed Amended Petition for Probate. You may refer to the filed documents for more information (Some documents filed with the court are confidential.) A HEARING on the matter will be held as follows: June 8, 2015, 9:00 a.m. Room 204 in Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. Attorney for petitioner: Hilary Hedemark (SBN255882), Law Offices of Hilary Hedemark, 601 Van Ness Ave., Ste 2056, San Francisco, CA 94102; (415) 692-1503

MAY 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 MC ALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 FILE CNC-15-551170

In the matter of the application of: CINDY LEE, 5429 B GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CINDY LEE is requesting that the name CINDY LEE; CYNTHIA LEE ENG; CYNTHIA LEE FENG, be changed to CYNTHIA LEE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room. 514 on the 23rd of July 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 21, 28, JUNE 04, 11, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036441100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIN CHERRY 2, 2093 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDGAR LITTLETON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/20/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/21/15.

APRIL 30, MAY 07, 14, 21, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036437300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RESCUE HR, 736 THORNTON AVE, SACRAMENTO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LANITA WILLIAMS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/14/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/15.

APRIL 30, MAY 07, 14, 21, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036452100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY ATHLETICS, 1737 GOLDEN GATE AVE #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed KAJARI BURNS & MATTHEW ILARINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/27/15.

APRIL 30, MAY 07, 14, 21, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036443800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUENA VISTA MOTOR INN, 1599 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GAJANAN, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/15.

APRIL 30, MAY 07, 14, 21, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036443900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COUNTRY HEARTH INN, 2707 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MANGAL, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/15.

APRIL 30, MAY 07, 14, 21, 2015 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036020200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: SIN CHERRY 2, 2093 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by ALLAM BITAR & IMAD BITAR. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/28/14.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIVINO SPUNTINO, 646 CORBETT AVE, #508, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KRISTEN CONNOLLY. 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 04/13/15.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON DE BAR, 322 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIFER DE BAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/04/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/04/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036418700

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036466900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIXMETTLE, 156 2ND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAPIL DEV DHINGRA. 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 04/08/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036455000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE RELAXATION LAB, 830 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ITAI ARGAMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/28/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/28/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036464500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHRONICLED, 609 MISSION ST, #300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ARTCOA, INC. (DE). 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 05/04/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036418800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EL MAJAHUAL REST., 1142 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed HERNANDO LEDESMA & REGINA LEDESMA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/09/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/09/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036453900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIRE ROAD, 42 WINFIELD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FIRE ROAD LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/28/15.

MAY 07, 14, 21, 28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036433500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHIROPRACTIC FOR HUMANITY, 126 WAVERLY PL., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WARREN ZHAO. 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 04/16/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036463800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRIEF COUNSELING, 1400 GEARY BLVD #1402, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BETTY J. CARMACK. 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 05/04/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036457900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTMAR HOTEL, 433 ELLIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AKSHAY AMIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/28/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036439400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLD BAY APP, 359 11TH AVE #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FREDERICO SILVA RESENDE COUTRIM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/20/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/20/15.

In the matter of the application of: JEFFREY STEPHEN MARCUSJOHN, 451 KANSAS ST #505, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JEFFREY STEPHEN MARCUSJOHN, is requesting that the name JEFFREY STEPHEN MARCUSJOHN, be changed to ANXO MAXXUM FLYNN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 7th of July 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITY SLICKERZ; CITY SLICKERS, 1151 WEBSTER ST #3, SAN FRANCICO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMAR M. COLBERT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/15.

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MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036437600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO, 607 MARKET ST, 3RD FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed UOYE LLT, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/05/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036437500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIVANO HOME, 3251 20TH AVE #209, SAN FRANCISCO, C A 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIVANO HOME INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036468200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IN TICKETING, 660 MARKET ST, FLOOR4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed VENDINI, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/06/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036435700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 60 FOOT FARM, 1746 33RD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by co-partners, and is signed JEFFREY G. FOSTER & RICHARD P. CABLER. 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 04/17/15.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals on or about May 11, 2015 for General Environmental and Planning Services in the areas of station area planning, system expansion and strategic and policy planning with proposals due by 2:00 P.M. local time, Tuesday, June 23, 2015. DESCRIPTION OF WORK TO BE PERFORMED The request for General Environmental and Planning Services shall be for a five (5)-year period and the District intend to make three (3) awards resulting from this RFP. It is anticipated that each of the three (3) Agreements awarded under this RFP shall not exceed the amount of Eighteen Million Dollars ($18,000,000.00); however, there is no guaranteed minimum level of compensation as more particularly described in the RFP No. 6M6091. A pre-Proposal meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. in the BART Board Room, located in the Kaiser Center 20th Street Mall, Third Floor, 344 - 20th Street, Oakland, CA 94612. Prospective Proposers and subconsultants are urged to make every effort to attend this only-scheduled pre-Proposal meeting. Networking Session: Immediately following the Pre-Proposal Meeting, the District’s Office of Civil Rights will be conducting a networking session for subconsultants to meet with the potential prime consultants for DBE participation opportunities. Proposals must be received by 2:00 P.M., local time, Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at the address listed in the RFP. Submission of a proposal shall constitute a firm offer to the District for One Hundred and Eighty (180) calendar days from date of proposal submission. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after May 11, 2015) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: A PDF version of the RFP will be sent to all firms on the Interested Parties List at time of advertisement; or, 1. By E-mail request to the District’s Contract Administrator, Gloria AbdullahLewis, at gabdull@bart.gov. 2. By arranging pickup at the above address. Call the District’s Contract Administrator at (510) 464-6547 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By attending the Pre-Proposal Meeting and obtaining the RFP at the meeting. Dated at Oakland, California this 8th day of May, 2015. Jacqueline R. Edwards Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 5/21/15 CNS-2750849# BAY AREA REPORTER

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOBSON’S CHOICE BAR, 1601 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PINE & DAVIS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/07/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/07/15.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EAST BAY SIGN CO, 870 HARRISON, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed IMAGEWORKS MANUFACTURING INC. (IL). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/12/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/15.

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MAY 21, 28, JUNE 04, 11, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036487900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: HOBSON’S CHOICE BAR, 1601 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by GOOD TIME LAST NIGHT LLC. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/12.

MAY 14, 21, 28, JUNE 04, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036487100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VICTOR’S SNACK SHOP, 2380 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VICTOR RODRIGUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/15.

MAY 21, 28, JUNE 04, 11, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036488000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANI-PEDI SPA, 1545 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed QUYNH LAU. 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 05/18/15.

MAY 21, 28, JUNE 04, 11, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036488600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUZZAMMAL K. QURESHI DBA QURESHI TRANSIT, 118 DECATUR COURT, HERCULES, CA 94547. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MUZZAMMAL K. QURESHI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/2014. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/15.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STORIE’Z STYLE BBQ MOBILE, 2261 MARKET ST #643, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed STORIE’Z STYLE BBQ MOBILE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/14/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/15.

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spinner of tales, a visual novelist, a dream weaver, John Bankston is a San Francisco-based, gay African-American artist who, like the characters in his adventures, prefers not to be pigeonholed by race or sexual orientation. His work often bends pop-culture icons – pirates, cowboys, magicians – that tend to be white and straight, opening the door to fantasy and imagination, realms the artist believes are largely closed off for African-Americans. His figures are black men who have departed a place that has stymied and labeled them for another where they can determine their identity and destiny through performance dress or costumes. The Explorer, a new show of his whimsical paintings and drawings at Rena Bransten Projects, continues the ongoing saga of the Rainbow Forest, a land in which a man – perhaps Bankston’s alter ego – can become the avatar of his dreams. See page 22 >>

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oin RuPaul sidekick Michelle Visage and a collection of impeccably dressed if raucously funny drag superstars for a night of wild and wacky comedy at the venerable Castro Theatre. The Drag Queens of Comedy returns on Sat., May 23, tickling your funny bone at 7 and 10 p.m. The show’s press release describes the event as “epic,” as 10 drag superstars will appear in the boisterous lineup. Performers include Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio, film actress Coco Peru, superstar Lady Bunny, and San Francisco icons Peaches Christ, Heklina, and Sasha Soprano, who serves as the event producer. See page 14 >>

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onight begins the three-week run of this year’s edition of the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 21-June 7 at Fort Mason Center). There’s a lot of excitement on offer, with 70 arts groups giving almost 150 performances. SFIAF executive director Andrew Wood put together a list of some LGBT artists and content to be found among the bounty. We pass along some highlights. Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, a multicultural Bay Area dance company with LGBT artists, collaborates with Mezoamerika, a group of Salvadoran artist-activists, to present Andares Part One (5/29-31). This is an interesting mix of cultures, as the FMLN in El Salvador has been

known to be as homophobic as the Zapatistas in Mexico (i.e., “Homosexuality is not a problem here because none of our members is gay.”) Detour Dance Company offers Beckon (excerpt) (6/5-7), which according to its release “portrays the dehumanized, colonized effect of catcalling, and brings to light the subversive cruising culture that, for gay men, is a necessary means to communicate in an oppressive society. Beckon presents the very different ways in which women and gay men have developed behaviors in response to the dominant heterosexual male voice.” One of the major factors in Aine Ryan’s play Kitty in the Lane is the suicide of the title character’s gay brother in rural Ireland (Republic of Ireland; U.S. premiere) (5/21-24, 29-31, 6/5-7).

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Gay statesman Tom Ammiano’s daughter Annie Jupiter Jones is executive director of Loco Bloco, which presents Bay to Bahia, rooted in community expression and Mission District street arts (world premiere) (5/30-31). Per Wood: “Devorah Major has a hunch that two of the leading historical characters in her play Classic Black, about African Americans in 19th-century San Francisco, might have been queer. How fabulous would it be if the man who gave his name to Folsom Street was actually gay?” The play stars actor Brian Freeman of Pomo Afro Homos fame, with musical accompaniment from the Destiny Muhammad Trio (6/4, 6-7). More information on all festival offerings can be found at sfiaf.org.

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Topsy-Turvy queer circus showcases transgender and queeridentified artists of color working in circus art-forms. Topsy Turvy co-founder India Davis said in a

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Coco Peru spoke to the B.A.R. about the rough-and-tumble childhood that inspires her comedy. “I was an effeminate boy growing up in a pink house in a working-class neighborhood on a small island in the Bronx,” she said. “How the hell do you think my childhood was?” It was no doubt a challenging child-

press statement, “As a queer circus, it’s about more than just LGBTQ identity, it’s about being subversive and affirming stories that fall outside of white male heteronormativity. There is a vibrant radical queer community and queer people of color community in the Bay Area, but in the circus world those stories aren’t represented.” Topsy-Turvy appears at Brava Theater Center on June 5 & 6 as part of the 2015 National Queer Arts Festival. As ringmaster, drag chanteuse Honey Mahogany will host former Cirque du Soleil performer Marshall Jarreau, Essence magazine featured artist Kiebpoli Calnek aka Black Acrobat, youth performers from Destiny Arts Center Youth Performance Company, Bay Area-born circus artist and educator SAM Luckey, and single-point trapeze artist Xochitl Sosa. More info can be found at qcc2.org.t hood, but it made Peru the drag queen she is today. “My material is always autobiographical, and I try to pull from all areas of my life,” she said. “What’s most important to me is that it be truthful and relatable. When I hear an audience laugh because they know exactly what I am talking about, that is deeply satisfying.” See page 15 >>

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ne joke, two acts. Even the author of One Man, Two Guvnors acknowledges the dramatic dilemma at hand. At the top of the second act, the central character addresses the audience, noting that his character’s primary motivation has been sated and some new incentive is needed. That the replacement drive is not equal to what has come before it is understandable when farce is pushed to unsustainable limits, but playwright Richard Bean squanders some of the goodwill that could carry the play along by duping the audience for the sake of some big laughs. When the ruse becomes apparent at the end of the first act, it’s harder not to see the comic machinery cranking away during the second act. It’s still funny, but a little tarnished. Berkeley Rep is presenting the West Coast premiere of One Man, Two Guvnors, an updated variation on Carlo Goldoni’s 1753 comedy Servant of Two Masters. Now the setting is Brighton, the slightly seedy English seaside resort, and the time is the ready-to-rock early 1960s. But 18th-century commedia dell’arte conventions are still in play, as a down-on-his-luck musician stumbles his way into the employ of both a gangster and a dandy who are looking for each other for very different reasons. Francis Henshall must maintain the secret of his dual employment that becomes a comedic high-wire act culminating in

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a dinner scene in which he divides one meal into thirds, with tiny portions for each of his two guvnors and a generous helping of each course for himself, with a little help from the audience. Further detailing the plot would be of little purpose here, for it is all in the service of giving the actor playing Francis bountiful opportunities to provoke laughter. The play-

wright has done a lot of the work, both with quirkily skewed dialogue and situations crafted for broad physical humor, but he has also placed a considerable burden on the actor playing Francis, whose dexterity must encompass an enormity of comedic skills. And that actor must also win our affections. Dan Donohue might seem an unlikely choice for these duties. His

resume is filled with Shakespearean tragedies, and his physical type is far removed from the roly-poly James Corden, who played the role to thunderous acclaim in London and New York. The wiry Donohue projects a Dead End Kid wiliness while Corden was more the genial buffoon. But Donohue pulls it off, and much of the production’s pleasure derives from watching how he

Desperate television executives by Richard Dodds

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mously wrote Victorian poet William Ernest Henley. “I am the captain of my soul.” But what about God? Or reality television? Or even a combination of the two? Who’s really pulling the strings? Richard Dresser’s new play Trouble Cometh goes down a rabbit hole of scenarios in a time when success is a cynical construction, eternal vows are to be negotiated, and language is a tactical weapon. San Francisco Playhouse is presenting the world premiere of Trouble Cometh in a handsome production that genuinely surprises as the truth comes out in a spectacular reveal that, by its very nature, may not really be revealing the truth. To say more about the resolution would be an unconscionable spoiler. Dresser’s play is set alternately in a conference room at a soulless television production company and a trendy restaurant where the characters repair for post-work socializing. Dennis is a mid-level executive from the Mamet school of management who keeps his new associate in a perpetual state of unbalance. The newly hired Joe, long out of work, is desperately eager to please as the two face a looming deadline for a new reality-TV series. It’s pretty much do-or-die, according to Dennis, who himself lives in fear of those on the forbidding 11th floor. Kelly, an office assistant, is power-

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Peru addressed the claim by some that drag queens are “too bitchy.” “The drag community is diverse, and you can’t say that all drag queens are bitchy, because it just isn’t true,” she said. “In fact, the queens in this show, even the ones whose stage personas have that bitchy quality, are all actually very nice and supportive people.” Peru observed that many of the queens know that cre-

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Liz Sklar, as a seductive assistant, delivers unsettling news to Kyle Cameron and Patrick Russell as desperate TV reality-show producers in a scene from Trouble Cometh, having its world premiere at SF Playhouse.

fully seductive, while Susan, Joe’s fiancee, is a joyless nag who somehow wrangled the new job for her beau. “Let’s tweak that part about forsaking all others,” says Joe, as he discusses their coming marriage vows with Susan. Dresser is often playing with the malleability of language and belief, demonstrating how words and ideas can be sliced and

diced into an acceptable truthiness. Dennis declares that fruitful negotiations with his superiors are underway, even if they are “not yet up to the level of words.” When Dennis proposes that rape be part of the reality-show concept, Joe draws a line in the sand. Murder is the acceptable compromise. It’s all amusing, clever, disturbing,

and vaguely surreal, and these tones have been captured in director May Adrales’ finely detailed production. Nina Ball’s ingenious set becomes a breakout star of the production after serving as an efficient means of quickly changing scenes punctuated with sharp musical cues from sound designer Theodore J.H. Hulsker. Tatjana Genser’s costumes also viv-

ating offstage drama doesn’t make for a long and successful career. Michelle Visage pointed out that, in spite of the show’s title, Drag Queens of Comedy is not a drag show. “As far as I know, there will be no lip-syncing and no tip-pandering,” she said. “These are men in women’s clothing who happen to fancy themselves not only beautiful, but funny.” Visage, who co-hosted RuPaul’s late, lamented VH1 chat show, said that she’ll be performing similar

duties at the Castro. “I am hosting the Drag Queens of Comedy show,” she said. “The audience can expect a rebellious, laugh-out-loud night of raucous fun, one they won’t soon forget.” She said that the show would appeal to a cross-section of audiences, gay and straight alike. “The appeal is the same across the board, which is why the mainstream world is eating drag up of late,” she opined. “The irreverence of it gives people, for lack of a better term, balls. It reminds

people not to take life so seriously.” Visage agrees with Peru about the myth of “bitchy” drag queens. “I think it’s ridiculous,” she said. “Lighten up. They’re drag queens, not nuns.” “I feel that drag queens are modern-day court jesters, and we are there to be clowns and to celebrate the ridiculousness of everything and anything,” said Peru, who also said that she loves to perform at the Castro. “Getting to perform in the Castro Theatre is always such a treat

handles every line, movement, and gesture – always with a knowing wink to the audience. Berkeley Rep is presenting One Man, Two Guvnors in a co-production with South Coast Rep of Costa Mesa. A producing partner is desirable because of the surprising size of the show, with a large cast, multiple settings, and even a four-piece band that performs between scenes in a kind of music-hall fashion. Director David Ivers keeps tight rein on what cunningly can seem like pandemonium, and the supporting cast often brings its own inspired lunacy to the mix. There is especially entertaining work from Brad Culver as a self-inflated romantic swain, Sarah Moser as a gangster’s airhead daughter who is twice engaged, William Connell as the swaggering Oxbridge sort who is one of Francis’ guvnors, Helen Sadler as the cross-dressing second guvnor, Ron Campbell as a dangerously doddering waiter, and Danny Scheie as the head waiter. One Man, Two Guvnors is a smart take on an old farce, with a showcase role that only those of specific talents or serious foolishness would undertake. Donohue pulls it off, and he so expertly performs the playwright’s bit of trickery on the audience that almost all is forgiven. But not forgotten.t One Man, Two Guvnors will run through June 21 at Berkeley Rep. Tickets are $29-$89. Call (510) 6472918 or go to berkeleyrep.org.

idly communicate each character’s self-perceived status – something that radically changes before the play’s end. The cast expertly inhabits those costumes, perhaps none more evocatively than Liz Sklar as the dressedto-kill Kelly, a role she plays with mesmerizing flair. As Joe, the wannabe power player, Kyle Cameron is a delightful mess of insecurities, selfishness, ambition, and lust. Patrick Russell is scarily mercurial as Dennis, the demanding boss, and Marissa Keltie is comically dour as bride-to-be Susan. Nandita Shenoy crisply offers an unexpected surprise as a high-level executive far outside the corporate mold. In many ways, Trouble Cometh mirrors the themes of another SF Playhouse world premiere, last year’s Ideation by Aaron Loeb, in which a management team of tangled allegiances grows aware that they are being played by unseen forces. These are plays coming from a society of increasingly cynical savvy, when the proof of dissembling in high places can be transmitted worldwide with the touch of a button. We are masters of our fate only as far as we are allowed to be. It’s an uneasy notion, but Trouble Cometh illustrates it with smart, dark humor.t Trouble Cometh will run at San Francisco Playhouse through June 27. Tickets are $20-$120. Call (415) 677-9596 or go to sfplayhouse. org.

because of its history, its beautiful grandeur, and because it has that magic that I longed for as a kid,” Peru said. “I know that we’re all up there acting like fools, but I never take the opportunity to perform in that theater for granted.”t The Drag Queens of Comedy, Sat., May 23, 7 & 10 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St. Tickets ($45-$250; $250 tickets include complimentary drinks, meet and greet, signed poster): dqoc.com.

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Catching a wave at the Castro Theatre by David Lamble

he second half of May at the Castro Theatre offers a birthday party for Harvey Milk (5/22, his 85th), an evening of Drag Queen Comedy (5/23), the 2015 edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (5/28-6/1), and an eclectic collection of recent releases. Point Break (1991) Bay Arearaised (San Carlos, 1951) actionfilm “Queen” Katherine Bigelow created the first surfer chase-flick that manages to be gloriously airborne while still catching the wave. Among Bigelow’s near-genius strokes is the casting of her “separated-atbirth twin brother” Keanu Reeves (Beirut-born, Toronto-raised from

English mom and Chinese-Hawaiian dad), who is dead-on hip as the world’s first surfer big-screen cop. Point Break zaps back and forth between hyperviolent melodrama – the late Patrick Swayze steals his subplot as a rogue surfer who lives off robbing banks dressed up as exprez Ronald Reagan – and hypnotic aerial ballet. A sequence where Bigelow has Keanu jump from a plane and dance across the sky before his chute opens is one of modern cinema’s great out-of-body moments. The whole experience is a little like discovering that SF Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum was doubling as a “vampire poet” in-between haircuts and starting mound gigs. (5/21) Road House (1989) Patrick Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in director Katherine Bigelow’s Point Break.

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an electoral movement whose impact is still evolving. During his tragically short (1973-78) stint as an LGBT “pied piper” leader, Milk, never far removed from his secular Jewish roots, demonstrated how charismatic leaders emerge from grass roots activism. (5/22; consult the Harvey Milk Club website for full schedule: milkclub.org.) The Drag Queens of Comedy Miss Coco Peru is among the cross-

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dressing luminaries in this twoperformance standup show. (5/23) Info: DQOC.com. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick’s incendiary treatment of an Anthony Burgess dystopian novel was for many years banned in the UK. A young Malcolm McDowell’s greatest screen triumph (supported by a Wendy/Walter Carlos electronic score) demonstrates how scary and difficult it is to guard against a modern nihilistic movement. This film delivers a remarkable showcase for arguments pro and con “brain-washing” that are all the more pertinent in our present siege state regarding radical Islamic terrorism. (5/24) Immortal Beloved (1994) Bernard Rose uses Gary Oldman to illustrate themes in Beethoven’s life (based on a mysterious letter found after his death) that both fascinate and raise hackles among keepers of the flame. (5/24) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Kubrick’s two-punch effort to illustrate how the dehumanization of a Marine Corps recruit (Matthew Modine) at Paris Island reflects on his survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive against US forces in Vietnam. (5/25) Birdy (1984) British director Alan Parker follows two Vietnam-era battle-scarred American vet, played by Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine, as they try to reassemble their brains and psyches in a US military hospital. Peter Gabriel’s music takes this one to another level. (5/25) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Lewis Milestone directed this devastating pacifist anthem starring a baby-faced Lew Ayres (1908-96), who captures the innocence and tenacious idealism of the young WWI German soldier from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel. The recently restored silent version of the film opens this year’s SF Silent Film Festival, accompanied by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. (5/28) Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) Fred Niblo’s 141-minute silent epic showcases the incendiary, sexually-charged star power of Ramon Novarro as the Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur, who has a fateful encounter with Jesus. Screened with a Carl Davis-scored soundtrack, plus film historian Kevin Brownlow chats onstage with Serge Bromberg. (6/1) Days of Heaven (1978) Terrence Malick cemented his reputation as a visual genius in this Nestor Almendros-lensed agrarian drama set during a harvest around the turn of the 20th century. Its beauty almost overwhelms a story featuring the thenyouthful cast of Richard Gere, Brooke Adams and Sam Shepard. (6/3) Out of the Blue (1980) Director Dennis Hopper’s drama love-child of Easy Rider finds the daughter (Linda Manz) of ex-biker Hopper and a drug addict mom (Sharon Farrell) unable to cope with her See page 17 >>

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’Affaire Le Roux, or more vulgarly, the Le Roux Affair, is a real court case involving a young heiress on the French Riviera whose body never turned up, whose inheritance was absorbed by her lawyer lover who didn’t love her, and whose mother ran a sumptuous casino the Mafia wrangled from her grasp with the aid of said lawyer. It’s a case that is still working its way through the courts today, 28 years after the young heiress vanished. Director André Téchiné has made an intimate melodrama of the sensational facts, starring Catherine Deneuve in a stunning performance as Maman. In the Name of My Daughter opens May 22, at Opera Plaza Cinemas. The original French title, L’homme qu’on aimait trop, or The Man One Loved Too Much, is a saucy wink towards real-life sleazy lawyer Maurice Agnelet (Guillaume Canet), who skillfully played mother off daughter and vice versa in a series of high-stakes switchbacks no judge or jury could ever satisfactorily wrap its judicial head around. American viewers might feel similarly challenged by the fast-paced intrigue of the film’s first 90 minutes, since we don’t know the backstory and must field subtitles and worry about Deneuve’s Botox use, even as we relish drop-dead views of la Corniche, the Bay of Angels, and the legendary Palais de la Meditérranée in Nice. The American title, In the Name of my Daughter, suggests U.S. distributors reckoned this motherdaughter-lawyer triangle would be received as “a woman’s picture.” No one, except possibly women, enjoys women’s pictures. Variety’s review complains that viewers are denied the spectacle of grande dame Renée Le Roux being whacked on the head by a thug, being forced instead to

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free-love parents’ values and volatile lifestyles. Raymond Burr fills out the supporting cast. (6/3) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Roman Polanski’s film finds a shockingly young Mia Farrow, in a role that prompted divorce papers from pissed-off hubby Frank Sinatra, moving into an old gothic Manhattan apartment house with a dangerously ambitious actor husband (fiendishly callous John Cassavetes). Polanski raises this one to the top of the horror/thriller genre by allowing the viewer to sort out how much faith to place in the film’s pact-with-the-devil climax (based on Ira Levin’s bestselling novel). A saucy comic turn won Ruth Gordon

submit to a restrained retelling of the incident by Deneuve at a swanky press conference in her casino. It seems your typical American male turns petulant when an ounce of violence is denied him. All I can say is, thank God for the French. Of the film’s 116-minute run time, the first 90 minutes make a splendid neo-noir built on a classic triangle, like something out of Liaisons Dangereuses. The mother and the lawyer both have hard heads, the daughter is the weak link. When the lawyer tries to push Maman around, she shoves him back in his place. Suddenly the daughter’s unresolved Electra complex, her past-due-date adolescent rebellion, makes her vulnerable to the lawyer’s machinations. The intrigue is spell-binding. Then Agnès disappears. No more triangle. Instead of ending the film here, Téchiné wanders into the vagaries of a still-unresolved legal battle and the camp value of facial prosthetics and wigs. Bad idea. In the Name of my Daughter, a terrible title, is based on the mother’s memoir, A Woman Against the Mafia, but Téchiné, who co-wrote the script, gives as much or more screen-time to the daughter. Adèle Haenel plays the tragic Agnès as a slapdash, brooding, needy, waterygreen-eyed tomboy-cum-siren whose bourgeois bubble has illequipped her to deal with an arriviste rat like Agnelet. We watch her swim, like Alice swims in her own tears, while Maurice bides his time on the sand, and never was there a more astute rendering of the battle of the genders, or the Romantic vs. the Mercenary, or the spoiled hippie child vs. the sociopath. Agnès reminded me of François Truffaut’s Adèle H., memorably played by Isabel Adjani as a woman shamelessly in love, who similarly loses first her self-respect and then her reason. That 1975 film, also based on real a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, which she turned into a series of comic oldster roles. (6/4) The Stepford Wives (1975) Another American suburban black comedy classic is Bryan Forbes’ treatment of William Goldman’s script based on an Ira Levin novel. Katherine Ross and Paula Prentiss play newcomers unable to grasp the secret bliss exhibited by their Stepford, Conn. neighbors. (6/4) Walt Disney’s Dumbo (1941) One of the gems from the Disney vault, this 64-minute animated feature can still frighten young viewers as it dramatizes the plight of a young elephant who loses his mom but is rescued by a brave, mentoring mouse. (6/5-6)t

life, came two years before the 1977 disappearance of Agnès. Interesting that an actress named Adèle H. should incarnate Agnès Le Roux. Catherine Deneuve is, of course, well worth the price of admission, as a platinum blonde businesswoman on the Côte d’Azur. It’s a different country down there, a stone’s throw from Monaco, where the big criminals have their empty apartments, and it’s a short hop by motorbike to a Swiss bank, as the film splendidly demonstrates. Deneuve’s beauty isn’t right for the character, and it’s a distraction, but a fascinating one so who cares, and it does work to establish the daughter’s hatred of the mother, who is visibly everything she is not. I was regretting the fillers in her cheeks and rooting for her muscles’ ability to still deliver real human expressions. The muscles did pretty well. The eyes do the rest.t

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In the shadow of the Gare du Nord by Brian Bromberger

hat does it mean to be dislocated not only in terms of your homeland, but also emotionally? This seems to be the theme of Eastern Boys, a new French-language DVD to be released by FirstRun Features on June 2. A complex, multifaceted film that manages to operate on a myriad of levels, Eastern Boys successfully switches gears twice in its triptych action, reinventing itself from a crime caper to tender love story, finally settling into a tense thriller. The film starts in almost documentary fashion, devoid of dialogue for the first eight minutes, with a gang of very young-adult male Eastern European grifters loitering around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, stalking their next victim. As illegal immigrants, they are fearful of being caught by the police and deported. A French businessman in his 50s, Daniel Mutter

(Olivier Rabourdin, a dead ringer for Kevin Spacey) captures the eye of one of these youths, Marek (Krill Emelyanov). Setting a price (50 euros), they agree to meet for a sexual dalliance at Daniel’s apartment the next day. Daniel foolishly gives his address to Marek. The next day, a 14-year-old boy knocks at Daniel’s door, and unaware of the ambush ahead, Daniel lets him inside. Then the teenager accuses Daniel of trying to seduce a minor. Slowly the whole gang appears, and a compromised Daniel cannot call the police or stop the slowly enfolding ransacking of his apartment, as every valuable item will be stolen and loaded onto an outside truck. The psychotic head of the gang, called the Boss (bloodcurdlingly portrayed by Daniil Vorobjev), both intimidates and seduces his victims. This 18-minute hypnotic sequence of a home invasion is the piece de resistance of the movie. It’s filmed like a party, complete with disco music and erotic dance move-

ments, climaxing with a violent interplay between the Boss and one of the gang members. One can wonder why Daniel submits to this humiliation. Is it just fear or perhaps shame over paying for sex, or even guilt about his affluence and privilege? The film switches gears when, the next night, Marek returns to fulfill his original sexual promise with Daniel, for the same price. The chemistry between the two actors is quite tender, even as the sullen Marek barely speaks. The sex scenes are delicately rendered without being explicit. It becomes apparent that Marek was probably pressured into giving Daniel’s address to the Boss. Still Marek keeps returning, and a relationship develops as they settle on an ongoing paid arrangement, with Daniel eventually giving him a key, and later buying him an iPhone. Marek attempts to keep his relationship with Daniel hidden from the other gang members, who live in a cheap motel inhabited mostly by other illegal immigrants, all in wretched circumstances. Daniel teaches Marek to speak more fluent French, and wants him to pursue residing in France legally, though his passport is locked away by the Boss. Marek reveals his desperate story as a Ukrainian, brought up in Chechnya, but losing both his parents during the war there. He discloses that his real name is Rouslan. Daniel decides he wants a more paternal bond rather than a sexual alliance, giving Marek his own bedroom. This generous act frustrates Marek, who fears losing his sexual

grip over Daniel. Eventually this idyllic phase ends as the Boss becomes aware of what’s transpiring between them. Marek is held captive at the hotel. Can Daniel rescue Marek, and if so, what kind of life could they fashion? There are so many issues percolating below the surface in this movie, such as wealth, social status, the plight of illegal immigrants, class differences, sexuality and power dynamics. Moroccan-born French

director Robin Campillo never hits you over the head with these concerns, but they linger in your memory. No one is a winner here, as each character is trying to develop a life under gut-wrenching circumstances, even the lonely Daniel, who seems as trapped as the gang members. Eastern Boys keeps you guessing till the final frame, a stinging critique of the treatment of all people living on the margins, politically, economically, and sexually.t

Mother’s day by Jim Piechota

The Book of Joan by Melissa Rivers; Crown/Archetype, $26 t 47, it is up to Melissa to keep the Rivers legacy of boundarypushing, fearless vitality alive, both hers and her mother’s. In doing so, she delivers The Book of Joan, a touching hybrid of comic anecdotes and cathartic, personal autobiography. Comedienne, writer, personality, 50-year entertainment veteran, and the true Queen of QVC, Joan Rivers died last August at 81 from complications following a routine outpatient procedure on her vocal cords, which were becoming damaged by a chronic acid-reflux condition. Her death cast a long shadow on a family already stunted by Rivers’ husband Edgar Rosenberg’s suicide several decades earlier, in 1987. So here we have another unfathomable death, and one that leaves daughter Melissa alone, not to wallow, but to reprint practical yet heartbreaking passages like this, excerpted from Joan’s commencement speech to the University of Pennsylvania graduating class of 1989: “Don’t think just because you’ve gotten your degree, your childhood is over. As long as you’ve got a parent left, you can always be a child to someone. The light is in the window.” Though the guiding light in Melissa’s life has faded to black, she had the foresight to know Joan’s audience would love these pages of intimate details. For instance, Joan was a terrible speller yet loved her puzzles, so Melissa placed crosswords, Joan’s favorite pens, and her reading glasses in her casket. She loved airplane food (granted, it was the First Class cabin variety) and kept a constant supply of American Airlines chocolates in her immaculately clean, “Marie Antoinette-like apartment.” Helter Skelter was among Joan’s favorite books, she was a stickler for table manners and an

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admitted “looksist,” and she had an obsession with death, needlepoint, and career embellishments (“Why bore people if you don’t have to?”). About to embark on a European comedy tour before her unexpected demise, Rivers’ career was careening along at its usual frantic clip, as evidenced by her round-the-clock work schedule of Fashion Police meetings, E! network conferences, and 90-minute live comedy acts. Melissa dissects her mother’s performance history in chapters detailing her first appearance on Johnny Carson and her ballsy ascent up the Hollywood ranks. Some of Melissa’s zingers become forced, as if she were required to temper the sadness of Joan’s death with cheeseball asides. Leave the comedy, for now, to Joan and her dating tips: “Never give it up on the first date.” “Google him before you do him. Make sure he’s straight.” A recent appearance on The Howard

Stern Show found Melissa at peace with Joan’s passing yet struggling with her own identity. Surely there will be pot-stirring questions regarding the timing of Melissa’s publication. Was Rivers writing this in anticipation of her mother’s death, or while she was in mourning? Or did she pound it out on a laptop just a few months after Joan left us? Turns out editors at Crown Publishing asked Joan’s grief-stricken daughter if she felt like penning her memoirs, a request she swiftly declined. Instead she settled on this book of comic essays sprinkled with liberal doses of intimate Joan-ography. As Melissa steps out from behind Joan’s shadow, she continues to search for her own voice. Meanwhile, this memorable literary keepsake forms a lovely tribute and a reminder of the diminutive yet formidable woman who made us laugh until we cried.t

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GLBT history is told through art by David-Elijah Nahmod

he Castro, aka the Gayborhood, has been part of the LGBT landscape for many decades. But local queer history didn’t begin at the corner of Market and Castro Streets. LGBT people of all stripes have been breaking down barriers and making San Francisco history for much longer than many people realize. 30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories is a current exhibition at the GLBT History Museum that recalls some of the community’s semi-forgotten groundbreakers and the times in which they lived. These are stories that have been told by local artists. The “beatnik” movement of artists and poets flourished in the North Beach of the 1950s. The election of Harvey Milk to the City’s Board of Supervisors was still two decades away. LGBT people of the pre-Milk era found a relatively safe and welcoming haven in the beatnik community. Bruce Balfour (19202005) was an artist who flourished at that time. Two of Balfour’s penciland-ink sketches, one set in a bar, the other a street scene, beautifully capture the aura of the period. Nearly 20 years later, Audre Lorde (1934-92) became a lesbian icon after her haunting poetry spoke to an entire generation of lesbians. Lorde, an African American, achieved acclaim at a time when lesbians and African Americans were barely visible in a culture dominated by gay men. Lorde, in a photograph taken by Jean Weisinger 23 years after her passing, gazes out at museum attendees. Photos of art curator Adrienne Fuzee (1950-2003) and writer/ artist Tee Corinne (1943-2006) hang next to Lorde. These three lesbians made their voices heard long before there was an Ellen, a Rosie or a Melissa Etheridge. They now reach out to us from the distant past. “The exhibit starts with a few drawings that highlight San Francisco’s counterculture from the 1950s and 60s,” explained Elisabeth Cornu, who serves as the curator of 30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories. “We quickly move on to creative outpourings from the women’s community along Valencia Street in the 1970s and 80s.” The women’s section of the exhibit recalls the Artemis Cafe, once a cherished women’s hangout. Many lesbian artists and musicians launched their careers at the Artemis. Some of the earliest gay celebrities are seen in portrait as the exhibit

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“Interior of the Ambush Bar” (1983), oil on canvas by Mike Cassidy, part of 30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories.

continues. The unforgettable Divine and Philip Mills, who as Doris Fish became one of San Francisco’s first drag superstars, come alive in paintings and posters that were commissioned many years ago. Divine was felled by a heart attack in 1988, while Mills succumbed to AIDS in 1991. The generation that followed Divine and Fish might not have a complete understanding of how courageous it

was for them to be who they were in those more conservative times. Today’s community also might not realize how prominent the leather community was in decades past. Leather men were perhaps the first group of gay men who publicly celebrated their sexuality without shame. Thirty Years of Collecting offers a bit of leather history through the drawings of Chuck Arnett, a

ballet and Broadway chorus dancer who helped to create the masculine iconography of the leather culture. “Only a few of these artists are still alive,” Cornu points out. She notes that parts of the exhibition are “a little racy,” such as the murals that were once on display at the Bulldog Baths. These drawings have not been seen in over 20 years. “They might bring people into

the museum who are ordinarily not excited by looking at historic documents and photographs,” Cornu said. “They might make you reminisce about old times.”t 30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories is now on display at the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th St., SF. Info: (415) 621-1107, glbthistory.org.

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“Fe-Be’s Leather David” (1966), cast plaster sculpture, with FeBe’s plaque on base, by Michael Caffee.

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Fri 22

Training days by Jim Provenzano

O&A Heathers the Musical

Out &About

Thu 21 Barbary Coast Revue @ Balancoire The third season of the popular cabaret show returns, with Danny Kennedy as Mark Twain, a cast of diverse performers, and new guest performer Connie Champagne. Thursdays weekly thru June. $14-$64. 8pm. 2565 Mission St. at 22nd. www.BarbaryCoastRevue.com

Heart Shaped Nebula @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Marisela Trevino Orta’s magical realist drama about the aftermath of a tragic accident. $5-$28 Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru June 14. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley.(510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Jillian Lauren @ Books Inc. The author of the bestselling memoir Some Girls: My Life in a Harem reads from and discusses her new book, Everything You Ever Wanted. 7pm. 2275 Market St. www.booksinc.net

John Bankston @ Rena Bransten Projects Exhibit of of colorful cartoon-like paintings by the local gay artist. Thru July 3. 1639 Market St. 982-3292. www.renabranstengallery.com

John Waters @ Nourse Theatre The celebrated filmmaker (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray) and author (Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America) has a discussion with Isabel Duffy. $15-$35. 7:30pm. 275 Hayes St. 392-4400. www.cityarts.net

The Oregon Trail @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Bekah Brunstetter new play’s about a computer whiz who’s an ace at survival games, but not in reality. $10-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru June 7. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. (510) 224-5744. impacttheatre.com

ocal voices, theatricalities, simmering synchopated dancing; there’s more than enough to keep you off the tube and your phone. Click off to get it on. Click on www.ebar. com to get more listings. Erik Scanlon

Complete Female Stage Beauty @ New Conservatory Theatre Jeffrey Hatcher’s stylish period dramedy about 1660s crossdressing Shakespearian actors whose lived change when women are allowed to act. $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 14. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Head of Passes @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poignant poetic drama about a Mississippi family’s trials of faith and tribulation. $29-$79. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sun 2pm. Thru May 24. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Heathers the Musical @ Victoria Theatre

Fri 22 30 Years of Collecting Art That Tells Our Stories @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit of collected drawings, paintings and sculptures from three decades of queer donations, guestcurated by Elisabeth Cornu. Free (members)-$5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Absolutely Fabulous @ Exit Theatre Terence McLaughlin, Raya Light and other local drag talents perform two episodes of the popular BBC comedy show. $25. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also June 19 & 20, 26 & 27. 156 Eddy St. www.brownpapertickets.com

Richard Bean’s comic update on Carlo Goldini’s The Servant of Two Masters, with biting one-liners, satire, live music and a bit of cross-dressing, is about a doltish butler who’s trapped between two bosses. $29-$89. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru June 21. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Queer Open Mic @ Modern Times Bookstore Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Blythe Baldwin cohost the vibrant eclectic reading series, this time with guests Andre Wilson and Celeste Chan. Signup 7pm; words 7:30pm. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. www.queeropenmic.com www.mtbs.com

Smuin Ballet @ YBCA The local modern ballet company performs world premieres and repertory works in its 21st season, including the balcony pas de deux from Michael Smuin’s Romeo and Juliet, his Hearts Suite, Helen Pickett’s Petal, and a new work by Adam Hougland. $24-$67. May 21-24 in Mountain View, May 29-30 in Walnut Creek, and June 5 & 6 in Carmel. www.smuinballet.org

Talley’s Folly @ Harry’s Upstage, Berkeley Aurora Theatre Company restages Lanford Wilson’s lyrical uplifting two-actor drama. $30-$50. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 7. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 8434822. www.AuroraTheatre.org

Melancholy, a Comedy @ The Marsh Sara Felder’s solo show about a lesbian college student’s romantic entanglements while researching Abraham Lincoln’s depression. $15$100. Sat 5pm. Sun 7pm. Thru June 28. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Michael Smith @ Modern Times Bookstore The author of gender-bending memoir My Body Is Yours reads from and discusses his new book. $5. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. www.mtbs.com

Nelly Frittata @ Center for Sex & Culture Jack Davis and TT Baum’s queer brunch and male stripper show. Bring your dollars and your appetite. $40. 11am-1pm. 1349 Mission St. www.nellyfrittata.eventbrite.com

Trouble Cometh @ SF Playhouse Richard Dresser’s dark comedy about two executive stuck in an existential crisis as a deadline looms. $20-$45. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 27. 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Vegas Showgirl @ Angelicas, Redwood City Enjoy a splashy Las Vegas-style show at the restaurant-nightclub (See feature on page 25). $55-$85. 8pm. 863 Main St, Redwood City. (650) 679-8184. www.angelicasllc.com

A Little Night Music @ Geary Theatre Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s lilting musical (based on the Ingmar Bergman Swedish film Smiles of a Summer Night) gets a lavish local production by American Conservatory Theatre. $20-$140. TueSat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. (Out With A.C.T. June 3). Thru June 14. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Thu 28 Hope Mohr Dance

The Times of Harvey Milk @ Castro Theatre The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club hosts a special screening of Robert Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary about Harvey Milk (on his 85th birthday), with Tom Ammiano, Harry Britt, and tohers. $12-$40. VIP reception 6pm. Screening and onstage chat with people from the film, 7pm. 429 Castro St. www.milkclub.org/birthday

The Birthday Party @ Phoenix Theatre

Gautier Capuçon with the SF Symphony

Mount Misery @ Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theatre’s production of Andrew Saito’s drama about the Edward Covey plantation, where Frederick Douglass lived as a teenage slave; the property was later purchased by U.S. Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The play brings the two men together. $10-$50. Thu 7:30pm, Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 5pm. Thru June 7. 277 Taylor St. 5251205. www.cuttingball.com

Ondine @ Sutro Baths We Players, the innovative environmental theatre ensemble, presents an outdoor production of Jean Giraudoux’s fairy tale drama about an ocean-dwelling mermaid and her affair with an arrogant knight. $40-$60. Fri-Sun 4:30pm. Thru June 7. 680 Point Lobos Ave. weplayers.org

Local nightlife host and singer BeBe Sweetbriar’s streaming web talk show welcomes local celebrities. 7pm. Audience welcome at KOFY-TV, 2500 Marin St. www.BeBeSweetbriar.com

Wed 27 Gautier Capuçon, SF Symphony @ Davies Hall The celebrated cellist performs Stravinsky’s Jeu de Cartes, Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, and Mussorgski/Ravel’s Pictures at an Exhibition. $15-$168. 8pm. Thu & Sun 2pm, Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru May 31. 201 Van Ness Ave. 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org

Lava Thomas @ Museum of the African Diaspora Exhibit of contemporary works. Also, The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, and historic exhibits of African cultures. Free/$10. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

Tosha Silver @ Books Inc The author of Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender reads from and discusses her new book. 7pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. www.booksinc.net

Fundraiser gala dinner for the Imagine Bus Project, an arts education project for teenagers at risk in juvenile detention centers; with Rita Moreno, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Jeff Adachi and other notable people. $250 and up. 6:30pm. 1300 Fillmore St. 675-1104. www.imaginebusproject.org

Sat 23 Wed 27

It’s Everything @ KOFY-TV

Fly On @ 1300 on Fillmore

Karen Ripley @ The Marsh Berkeley The veteran comic performs her solo show, Oh No, There’s Men on the Land, her witty account of being a young lesbian in 1970s Berkeley. $15$100. 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru May 30. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

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Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s dark musical comedy adaptation of the cult favorite 1989 film about conniving high school girls. $25-$36. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 13. 2961 16th St. at Mission. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

SF International Arts Festival @ Various Venues Fascinating new works by artists from around the block and around the world, in dance, theatre, music, visual arts and film, including several LGBT creators and performers. Events include Companie Artara’s La Chagrin des Ogres, Inferno Theatre’s Quantum Love and Aine Ryan’s Kitty in the Lane. Various times, admissions ($20-$30) and venues. Thru June 7. sfiaf.org

One Man, Two Guvnors @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

The Yellow Wallpaper @ Berkeley City Club Central Works’ production of Gary Graves’ adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s early feminist work, published in 1892, which follows a Victorian woman’s descent into madness when she sees a ghost. $15-$28. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru June 21. 2315 Durant Ave., Berkeley. (800) 838-3006. centralworks.org

Sun 24 Hot & Hunky Comedy @ Pa’ina Lounge

Harold Pinter’s darkly comic play about two strangers who invade a private party is produced by the award-winning Off Broadway West Theatre Company. $25-$40. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru June 27. 414 Mason St. #601. (800) 838-3006. www.offbroadwaywest.org

Hella Gay Comedy’s night of cute straight comics (Chris Naasko, Perry Evans, Anthony De Guzman Jr., Taylor Made, Logan Wildey, Trevor Shane Rogers) performing shirtless. $10-$20. 8pm. 1865 Post St. www.painasf.com

The Drag Queens of Comedy @ Castro Theatre

New bi-monthly LGBT dance lessons and ballroom party. $5-$20. 4pm lessons, 5pm-6:30pm social dancing. No partner or experience needed (next: June 7 & 21). 672 South Van Ness Ave. 305-8242. www.QueerBallroom.com

Eleven of the funniest drag performers, together for one show. $45-$300. 7pm & 10pm. (6pm preshow) 429 Castro St. www.thedragqueensofcomedy.com

Hookman @ Z Below Lauren Yee’s new play about a young woman facing college after losing her best friend to a serial killer. $20-$30. Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru May 30. 470 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.encoretheatresf.org

Lear’s Shadow @ The Marsh Geoff Hoyle’s new solo take on Shakespeare’s King Lear, from the perspective of the unemployed Fool. $15-$35. Wed & Thu 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru May 30. 1062 Valencia St. 2823055. www.themarsh.org

Leather Soles @ Symbolic Dance

Mon 25 Margaret Keane @ Keane Eyes Gallery Paintings, prints and other items by the creator of the famous kitschy “big eyes” paintings of children and animals; featured in the recent Tim Burton film. By appointment. 3040 Larkin St. 922-9309. keane-eyes.com

Hope Mohr Dance @ ODC Theater Eighth spring season of works by the innovative local choreographer, who’s danced for Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs and others; three world premieres include a collaboration with Christian Burns. $20-$45. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru May 31. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. hopemohr.org www.odcdance.org

Much Ado About Nothing @ Flight Deck, Oakland Gritty City Repertory Youth Theatre performs a groovy ‘70s take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of romantic errors. $5-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm. Thru June 6. 1540 Broadway, Oakland. www.grittycityrep.org

Pride Dinner Party @ Institute of Possibility Juanita More! and Kitchit host a fundraiser dinner for SF Pride’s Youth Empowerment Summit; enjoy a delicious five-course dinner and wines. $100. 7pm-10:30pm. 3359 Cesar Chavez. www.juanitamore.com

Richard Reeves @ Modern Times Bookstore Bestselling author and New York Times and New Yorker journalist reads from and discusses Infamy, his book about the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. $5. 7pm. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. mtbs.com

Storm Large @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Musician, actor, playwright, author; the multi-talent performs her new cabaret show, Taken by Storm. $35$50. ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Also May 30, 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.stormlarge. com www.ticketweb.com

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga @ Concord Pavilion, Concord The veteran jazz vocalist and the glam pop star hit the stage in their elegant duo concert tour. $45-$600. 8pm. 2000 Kirker Pass Road, Concord. www.livenation.com

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Autumn rhapsody

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Sam Elliott and Blythe Danner in director Brett Haley’s I’ll See You in My Dreams, opening Friday.

by David Lamble

he new big-screen soap opera I’ll See You in My Dreams from director Brett Haley (co-written by Haley and Marc Basch) is 95 mostly inoffensive minutes long (rated PG-13 for sexual material, drug use and brief strong language). Its message is that life for a widow in sunbelt America is a pretty empty affair without an afternoon bridge game with three loyal girlfriends – in this case, three scene-stealing pros: June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place, a loyal pet (this category subdivides into “dog people” vs. “cat people”). Also a big lug with a block-long cigar – here, Sam Elliott, a fine B-movie character actor whom some will recall from such cable-TV fillers as The Hi-Low Country, Murder in Texas, Gone to Texas, The Quick and the Dead, Tombstone – in other words, male soap operas, usually with bigger names and larger talents dropping by for a quick payday, like Gene Hackman or Leo DiCaprio. Not surprisingly in America,

what happens to the dog trumps the human characters nine ways to Sunday. I’ll See You in My Dreams ignites when 20-years-a-widow Carol (Blythe Danner) loses her dog in the first act, strikes up an oddly comfortable friendship with her much younger pool guy (Martin Starr), stumbles across the white-haired dude with the cigar and a nice big fishing boat (Elliott), and all it costs her is some well-meaning hectoring from her grown daughter, who lives in another city (Malin Akerman). Dreams is that Hollywood staple so easy to poke fun at that has furnished generations of writers with cigars, pools and East Coast schools for the kids since movies learned to talk. Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion) and Billy Wilder (Witness for the Prosecution) could practically write these tales in their sleep. It helped to spice up the stew to toss in a well-timed murder, and it was ever so more delicious to set the whole thing in London with the boys from New Scotland Yard, climaxing with a juicy trial at the Old Bailey as the cigar-smoking barrister (Charles

Reissue roulette by Gregg Shapiro

he 1970s were a festival of double studio albums, from Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street through Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, the Who’s Quadrophenia and the Clash’s London Calling. Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti (Rhino/Swan Song) came in right in the midst of these albums, in 1975. The expanded and remastered reissue honors the album’s original design right down to the cut-out windows. PG followed career high points Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy and successfully recalls both discs, expanding on the band’s legend with “Kashmir,” “Trampled Under Foot” and “In the Light.” The deluxe expanded CD reissue includes a third disc featuring alternate versions of songs. Brit head-bangers Judas Priest picked up the metal mantle and have been running with it for more than 40 years. There were things about JP that distinguished it from LZ, none more so than leather and spandex-clad openly gay frontman Rob Halford. On the remastered 30th anniversary deluxe edition of 1984’s Defenders of the Faith (Columbia/Legacy), Halford is front-

Laughton) nails down his case with a trumped-up third-act surprise from a flashy dame with a scar (Marlene Dietrich). “Want to kiss me, Ducky?” Frankly, the only reason to catch Dreams before it hits the Hallmark Channel is the low-key spark from Danner, whom I recall most fondly as being married to an impossibly loud if charming blowhard (Robert Duvall) in the Lewis John Carlino male weepie The Great Santini. Santini took an extra 20 minutes to cover the waterfront, from the Old South, the New South, high school basketball, rude bathroom pranks at the expense of cute GIs, to Danner getting to tell her hot teenage son why he shouldn’t kill the old man just yet. I’ll See You in My Dreams could have been oh so much more fun if its makers could have found another juicy Pat Conroy novel to spin it off, but I guess military-base America is less of a hoot these days. At least Dreams doesn’t screw up the scenes with the mutts or the cigars. That much is still sacred.t

the hits “Nights on Broadway” and “Jive Talkin’.” Children of the World (1976) hinted at what was to come on Saturday Night Fever (1977): “You Should Be Dancing,” “You Stepped into My Life” (a huge disco hit for Melba Moore), “Boogie Child” and “Love Me” (a hit for Yvonne Elliman). Spirits Having Flown (1979) cashed in on SNF popularity with “Tragedy,” “Love You Inside Out” and the ballad “Too Much Heaven.” An 11-track bonus disc, The Miami Years, borrows from SNF as well as hits comps and B-sides. If you don’t recognize the name John Hall, you probably recognize his 1970s band Orleans, responsible for two of the biggest soft-rock hits of the decade, “Still the One” (1976) and “Dance with Me” (1977). As a solo artist, Hall was more of a message musician, never more so than on 1979’s Power (Real Gone Music), debuting on CD with one bonus track. A diehard activist, Hall was a vocal presence in the No Nukes movement of the late 70s. You can hear some of that spirit on the antiwar “So,” the anti-drug “Cocaine Drain,” and the bonus cut “Plutonium Is Forever.” Hall later put his words into action when he ran for office and was elected as a Democratic congressman in the 21st century.t C

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and-center on razor-sharp, rapidfire numbers “Freewheel Burning,” “Jawbreaker” and “Eat Me Alive.” The reissue includes two live CDs recorded in 1984 in Long Beach, CA. Love them or loathe them, the Bee Gees’ lengthy recording career, beginning 50 years ago, had a staying power as strong as the Beatles. The Bee Gees were marked by stylistic shifts and uneven albums that were either masterpieces or messes. The five-disc box set 19741979 (Reprise) focuses on the trio’s third chapter, including its massive 1975 comeback Main Course, with

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Installation photo of Intention Machines (2015) by Kal Spelletich, at Catharine Clark Gallery.

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In the story’s latest chapters, mechanical birds accompany him on his journey, he encounters strange diminutive men in animal masks who initially welcome him before taking him captive, and a robot creature called an Abstracticator, inspired by Bankston’s visit to an abandoned blast furnace in the Deep South, may or may not hold the key to his emancipation. Though his work is playful with the hues and childlike simplicity of a coloring book, and a gentle humor that’s disarming, the subtext hints at shifting racial and sexual identities. (May 21-July 3) You Are You, an exhibition of color inkjet prints, documents an annual weekend summer camp for gendernonconforming children and their families. The camp is a non-judgmental, free-expression zone for kids – mostly boys – exploring their evolving sense of gender away from ostracizing cliques, bullying and the

I am the future of the LGBT community. I’m gay. I’m 20 years old. I’m out to my parents. I love parties, the beach, and believe it or not, sports. I have a boyfriend, and we like to laugh at dumb online videos.

pressure to conform. The show, on view at RayKo Photo Center, grew out of the experience of photographer Lindsay Morris, who attended the camp with someone close to her in 2007. Her images, shot with a medium-format camera and published with some trepidation on the part of both parents and children in a 2012 New York Times Magazine photo essay, now comprise a book that was released last week. What the photographs convey in living color is that kids are kids, whether dressing up in a butterfly costume for a play or participating in talent and fashion shows, doing handstands, hamming it up for the camera or just hanging out. Viewers, though, may feel a pang, understanding that these particular children may face challenges from a world that can be cruel when it comes to those who proclaim their difference and don’t fit into society’s proscribed notions of male and female. Morris hopes to fund a touring multimedia project showcasing this dimension of LGBT youth, and perhaps follow the same subjects as they move into adulthood. (Through June 19.) As Is Is, a title that sounds like it owes something to Clintonian parsing, actually refers to the name of a short by Saul Levine, one of seven films on a program that includes pieces on hustlers, the trauma of a disfiguring accident, rhythm & blues titan Big Joe Turner, and a brief profile of the late artist Anne Truitt, from gifted New York filmmaker Jem Cohen, who directed the memorable Museum Hours. In addition to films, the show at Altman Siegel features works in a range of media by a dozen artists who approach portraiture in their

own idiosyncratic way. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil painting “Butter and Sugar, Sugar and Butter” (2012), for instance, is a shadowy portrait of a woman who may well be a figment of the artist’s imagination, while George Condo’s cartoon cheesecake “Reclining Woman with Pearls” (2004) offers up a Picassoesque tits-on-the-table Vargas girl. (Through June 27.) Who can resist bizarre contraptions, hubris, and technology gone awry? That crackerjack combination, along with headless robotic mannequins in wrinkled, unwashed clothes, kneeling or standing on platforms and hooked up to the kind of apparatus one might find in a mad scientist’s laboratory, form the essence of Kal Spelletich’s Intention Machines, a slightly freaky yet fascinating interactive exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery. An inventor, musician, Zen philosopher, activist, and founder of an interactive machine-art performance collective, Spelletich combines art and mysticism with science and high tech for a new body of work that veers away from the mechanized fiery pyrotechnics he’s known for, and toward the spiritual. By touching a sensor, visitors can operate the robots, which twirl, change positions and pray. Evidently, they respond to proximity, force, background noise and the alcohol content of your breath, among other triggers, but fortunately, they cannot read your mind or retain memories – at least, not yet. In the oncoming era of driverless cars, the rise of machines and Artificial Intelligence – phenomena that are worrisome even to Tesla’s Elon Musk – a little paranoia might be a good thing. (Through May 30.)t

But I also read the news. I care about the planet. I’m studying Engineering at college. I voted in the last election and and I campaign for marriage equality. Someday I might want to have kids. I am the future of the LGBT community. And I read about that future every day on my smart phone. Because that’s where I want it to be.

Lindsay Morris, courtesy RayKo Photo Center

The person depicted here is a model. Their image is being used for illustrative purposes only.

“Untitled” from Lindsay Morris’ book/exhibition You Are You.

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Connie, artist John Cantwell’s wild performance art at Oasis by Jim Provenzano

hile it’s difficult to convey the sheer wildness of John Cantwell’s performance art/drag act in Fade to Connie, I’ll attempt it with excerpts from our hilarious phone interview. Cantwell’s shows are paired with another part of this weekend’s Los Angeles gay-vasion of nightclub Oasis. Nightclub producer Mario Diaz, a fellow performer and pal of Cantwell, has a screening of a documentary about him, with a Cantwell/Connie short show. And Cantwell’s May 22 full show at Oasis is followed by Diaz’s sexy nightclub event Big Fat See page 24 >> Dick (featured in last week’s B.A.R.)

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John Cantwell backstage, preparing to become “Connie.”

Storm Large Sultry songstress is back in SF by Jim Gladstone

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John Cantwell in Fade to Connie.

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The 48-year-old actor, whose film work includes a scene-stealing small part in Legally Blonde, and TV shows (Pushing Daisies, Will & Grace, Dharma & Greg), has been performing in various media for decades, including with the acclaimed gay sketch comedy group The Nellie Olesons. Cantwell is one of many actors who’ve also created his own works. His autobiographical show Saltine

Crackers premiered in LA in 2004. For Fade to Connie, which Cantwell brings to Oasis, he culls dance, projected imagery, and performance (but not lipsynched) character sketches based on Brian DiPalma muse Debbie Allen, the film Flashdance, and other not-sofrequently parodied yet deserving female camp icons. Add The Eyes of Laura Mars, Jaws and even Apocalypse Now references into the mix, and it’s a genre-defying pop culture explosion.

With accomplished gay film director Jim Fall (Trick) and choreographer Robin Carrigan shaping the work, plus video editor Zig Gron (The Matrix and The Bourne Trilogy) Cantwell’s wild style even includes a tribute to his pet cat. Cantwell’s Connie shows first premiered four years ago at Provincetown’s Afterglow Festival and The Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Cantwell was raised in the town of Tallulah, Louisiana. “It’s not named after the actress Tallulah Bankhead, but it was auspicious,” he said. John Cantwell in Fade to Connie. As Connie, the actor is a blend of divas. acclaim than in LA. “Connie is not just drag, but “Our comedy was very un-PC, more of a misunderstood Anna Niand not just about gay and AIDS iscole Smith-Margo Kidder underdog sues,” said Cantwell. “We included who wants to be a superstar overpeople with disabilities, racial issues, night,” he explained. and even the Columbine shootings. For this fourth incarnation of We were making fun of talk shows Connie, Cantwell noted how the that obsess about these topics, but shows have evolved. SF was a harder political front.” “For the first show I did, Love, Cantwell summarized New York Connie, it was all about my cat, audiences as a different sort of ‘difVickie. That’s my real cat in the ficult.’ “They demand that you prove films. I also liked playing it up like how smart and funny you are. LA a Brian di Palma film, with Connie shows are more of a party, and I was being the girl in slasher films. Those drawn to that.” are among my influences; pop culIn LA, the actor enjoyed some ture mixed with horror. Fade to success at first bat, including a few Connie is more of the ‘70s films.” profitable commercial gigs, and the Speaking of ‘70s and female popular Legally Blonde. icons, you won’t see Cantwell fully “passing” as female. In fact, he doesn’t pass at all. His hairy manly frame bursting out of leotards adds to the visual absurdity of his act. And if you look carefully, you’ll see, on one shoulder, a tattoo of Blondie singer Debbie Harry’s signature. “I just love and adore her,” said Cantwell. “I knew the minute I saw her perform in 1979 when I was in the sixth grade that I wanted to be like her. I think our approach to art is similar. She has a comedic and satiric sense that she doesn’t get credit for – a gay sensibility – and such an underrated lyricist. I love her lyrics. “Dreaming” is my favorite. I’m big on dreams.” After getting her signature, Cantwell got a tattoo of it. “A girlfriend of mine gave me the tattoo for my birthday in the ‘90s in New York,” said Cantwell. “Debbie was there. My friend Eric had just bought one of the first mini John Cantwell as himself. DV cameras and documented the whole thing. Debbie was “I got to do some really fun stuff,” reserved, then relaxed and was absohe said. “When you first come to LA, lutely lovely, and funny. She’s playful you’re new and hot; fresh meat. It’s and is very funny, but she can freeze super fun, but ultimately, you have you out, too. I love that shit; self-proto figure out something to do to sustection from the masses.” tain yourself.” While this was a highlight of his In between some live theatre New York days, Cantwell had the shows with the Nellie Olesons, impulse to visit Los Angeles for a Cantwell said Connie began to show, and then move there in 1998, emerge in his mind. when New York life became too ex“I knew that I wanted to create a pensive. His trips north for shows femme fatale character,” he said. “I in San Francisco were met with less

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always identified with female characters. When I was four years old, I wanted to be that young girl in The Poseiden Adventure. I always wanted to be the blonde lead singer of the band. When I started creating my own stories, I also identified with Jackie Brown. I was kind of broke at the time, so I took a risk.” That risk became the acclaimed Connie Slocum shows, the latest of which he describes as “Nancy Allen, Jamie Lee, pop culture stuff, a sort of TMZ constant fame loop, and retro movies shown late at night on HBO.” Cantwell and I then diverged into an off-the-record reverie of our teenage endeavors to seek out campy and gay-subtextual –or overtly gay– films, TV shows, and books. “Gay men my age in their late 40s were the first generation to get MTV and HBO,” he explained. “We were able to figure things out. It was all discovery, not a simple Google search. That’s what makes me nostalgic for that.” Cantwell recalled being scolded by his mom for staying up late to watch films like Friday the 13th and Cruising. “’You’d better cut that shit out!’ she’d shout, but I needed to see that stuff.” His teenage obsession has blossomed into his current series of shows, and Cantwell’s eagerly anticipated return to San Francisco. “I went to the first Trannyshack, recalled Cantwell of his early ‘90s gig in SF. “After our first show, we were walking up and down the Castro in the rain. We made five dollars. We were basically homeless, like gypsies.” So, what does Cantwell, who’s returning with a bit more fanfare –and housing, hopefully– see his character Connie, in real life, bring to the Bay Area? “I wanna see her open up a can of whoop-ass on someone!”t John Cantwell performs ‘Fade to Connie’ at Oasis, Friday May 22. $15. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com www.facebook.com/connieslocum

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Glitz and glamour ‘Vegas Showgirl’ plays the Peninsula

by David-Elijah Nahmod

“But when it was time to perform, you better be ay Area native Christopher on your game, because he Childers brings some old fashwas like a flash!” Childers ioned Las Vegas razzle dazzle to the said. “An amazing switch Peninsula with his spectacular new would turn on, and he was variety show, Vegas Showgirl. The unstoppable.” glitter and the glamour will explode After years of performon Saturday May 23 at Angelicas in ing with such an impresRedwood City. sive array of legendary Childers, a dancer and choreognames, Childers was ready rapher, brings an impressive resumé to launch his own show. to the table. A member of Cirque Vegas Showgirl promises De Soleil for ten years, he has also to rival the flash and padanced alongside legends such as nache of the superstars Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna he’s toured with. This is a and Whitney Houston. And he show that takes audiences says that the rumors were true. He on a historical tour of the worked with Whitney when she was sin capital known as Las dating Robyn Crawford. Vegas. Childers recalls Madonna as be“Vegas Showgirl is a Melissa Cook. ing “funny and dirty.” very different look at the “She works her butt off, I must showgirl through the ages,” Childers said that these old-fashsay,” he said. “She would dock you Childers explains. “It’s ioned chorus girl shows are a dying $100 a minute if you were ever late.” through my eyes and the experiencbreed. Jackson, according to Childers, es I had working with these Glama“I really wanted to touch a chord was “odd.” zons in Las Vegas.” with people about the beauty, strength and sexiness of these ladies,” he said. Childers promises that the show has strong gay appeal, even if there are a few scantily clad ladies on stage. “I am a gay man who worked with all these divas, drag queens and showgirls in my career,” he said with a laugh, pointing out that his mom was a dance teacher. “The sensibilities of this show come from someone who grew up dancing all day long. Trust me, my look at the showgirl is going to be sexy and cool, but also campy and funny.” The show will also feature international drag diva Misha’Le, who Childers says is sensational. “She pushes beyond drag and takes you into a realm of performance artistry that just has to be seen in person,” he said. Fans of gymnastic beefcake will appreciate Duo Ronin, the hand-balancing act comprised of the handsome muscled Vegas and Cirque du Soleil veterans Chris (from England) and his partner Blake (from Oklahoma), who has performed as an aerialist in Planet Hollywood shows. There will even be a few BroadMisha’Le, one of the featured performers in Vegas Showgirl. way babies on hand, as Patrick Leveque (Phantom of the Opera) and Melissa Cook (Cabaret) take to the Vegas Showgirl stage to belt out a few numbers. Cook said that she was excited about being able to sing outside the boundaries of a scripted show. “Keeping within the confines of a script doesn’t always allow the sort of personal expression that one can present in a cabaret-styled performance,” she said. “This format really allows the singer to bring forward a very personal touch.” Leveque, who performed in Phantom for most of the show’s six-year Vegas run, and who currently teaches voice in Mill Valley, also noted the difference between performing a scripted show on an ongoing nightly basis and doing a show just once. “Doing a show six nights a week requires a particular stamina that helps you to recreate an experience literally over a thousand times,” he said. “Doing a brand new show requires a different energy and synergy that is more immediate.” Leveque said there could be a “danger” in performing something that he hadn’t yet brought before an audience. “Which can be a lot of fun,” he points out. The show’s venue, Childers reports, is quite a dazzler in its own right. “The room is classy and elegant in dark purples and browns and golds,” he said. “The entire room Duo Ronin performs an amazing hand-balancing act drips of eleganza, and the food is in Vegas Showgirl. delicious!”t

Broadway singer-actor Patrick Leveque. Angelicas is located at 863 Main Street in Redwood City. ‘Vegas Showgirl’ plays in the Bell Stage

Main Dining Room on Saturday, May 23 at 8pm. $55 and up. Dinner will be served. www.angelicasllc.com

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Ribbons and remembrances by Donna Sachet

Those with fond memories of Stars restaurant will welcome its reopening as The Empire Room with ambitious plans for multiple uses. Anxious to see what lay within, we attended a VIP sneak peek last week and we are delighted to report that much of the charm and ambiance of Stars remains intact, including the long bar, high ceilings, and wood details. A stunning group of chandeliers has been added to the center of the room. Among those checking out the location were Drew Cutler, Michael Pagan, Gus Bean, John Marez, Ken Hamai, Andrew Leas, Juancho Villa Leas, and Doug Waggener. Watch for exciting events to be held in this beautifully reclaimed space in Civic Center! We considered ourselves very privileged to witness the ribboncutting last week of the completely rebuilt and refurbished Strand Theater on mid-Market Street. Mayor after mayor has faced this blighted section of the city with trepidation, met with a high profile neighborhood ravaged by urban blight, populated by the poorest of the poor, and haunted by empty buildings in dilapidated disrepair. Some have taken on its revitalization as a personal project and some made minimal improvements, but all abandoned high-minded ideals in the face of such monumental disaster. Contrary to all other efforts, the American Conservatory Theater successfully raised over $34 million to purchase a hundred-year-old movie theater and to use its historic

Storm Large

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“In the early ‘90s, San Francisco was very kind to young rock musicians cutting their teeth,” recalls Large (her real name, likewise Storm). Belting it out and vamping it up as the frontwoman of Flower SF, Storm and Her Dirty Mouth, and Storm Inc., she was repeatedly approached with offers for record-

bones to create a marvelous new performance space with a spacious, bright lobby, 280-seat state-of-theart theater, and smaller showcase on the top floor. The bold facade was kept true to the original, but confidently painted tomato red. Once inside, you’ll see the Strand letters retained from the original exterior and a two-story LED marquee which dominates the lobby and will be used to promote performances as well as to commemorate special city events. A welcoming coffee shop will remain open throughout the week. The opening ceremony took place in the main theater, also featuring red paint with black accents. Emcees Anika Noni Rose and B.D.Wong introduced Mayor Ed Lee, Supervisor Jane Kim, A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff, Board of Trustees Chair Nancy Livingston, and others, demonstrating the excellent acoustics within the modern structure As a ceremonial ribbon was cut and fell to the floor, the hundreds of attendees scattered to tour the facility. The top floor showcase was set for around 60 seats with soaring ceilings and magnificent windows facing Civic Center and City Hall. Time will tell if A.C.T. will enjoy success in this new addition to its flagship theatre on Geary Street, and if the promise of collaboration with other arts organizations is realized. For the moment, all were caught up in this miraculous metamorphosis and the breath of hope to mid-Market that it represents. We can’t wait to attend our first performance within! We helped to send off Mr. SF ing contracts by major labels. “Become a rock star,” she remembers. “That was the plan. Everyone on the scene thought I was supposed to be famous. I got offered deals all the time, but just for me, not my bands. I’ve never had really commercial aspirations. I just wanted to be a really good musician. So I always said, ‘You want me, you take the boys.’ And nobody ever would, so I didn’t sign.”

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Mayor Ed Lee cuts the ceremonial ribbon opening the Strand Theatre, as American Conservatory Theatre’s Artistic Director Cary Perloff (right) raises her hands.

Leather Trevor Black to Chicago for the International Mr. Leather competition at a party at Lookout, hosted by Ray Tilton and Pollo del Mar. The bar took on a decidedly different look and even smell, due to the heavy preponderance of leather. Seen inside were Race Bannon, Jay Harcourt, Eric Lopez, and many other Leather leaders. A live auction of two baskets of goodies generated additional funds for Trevor’s Chicago experience and entertainment by Peter Feliciano and this columnist rounded out the evening. The following morning, at the crack of noon, we joined Michelle Meow, Marga Gomez, BeBe Sweetbriar, and DJ Tweaka Turner to film a KOFY-TV Dance Party episode to be broadcast before SF Pride. You may be familiar with this long-running show, featuring crazily-dressed locals dancing to a variety of music with contests and interviews scattered throughout. Naturally this week, the crowd of

dancers consisted largely of members of the LGBT community. We showed KOFY-TV our style and diversity as we boogied to classic hits, such as “YMCA,” “Born This Way,” and “It’s Raining Men.” Morris Knight was a perfect gentleman as he hosted the filming. Watch for the broadcast shortly before San Francisco Pride Week. Later that day, we joined Springlicious, a benefit for Glide Memorial Church, already in progress at Infusion Lounge. At the request of Glide supporter and volunteer Vaughn Miller, we were among the many entertainers at a lively drag show, which also included other Imperial performers Berlin Fisher, John Weber, Steven Dorsey, Chika, Alexis Miranda, and John Carillo. The crowd was electric, the raffle tickets were selling briskly, and the event looked to be a tremendous success, hopefully raising lots of money for this essential organization which does such important work for the

less privileged in San Francisco. The memorial for local DJ James Torres on Sunday was tear-filled, but life-affirming, as hundreds of men and women whose lives he had touched gathered to pay tribute to a big-hearted bear of a man. Given his popularity as a DJ, it was only appropriate that we gathered under the lasers and mirrored balls of Beatbox as violist Keith Lawrence and then one speaker after another extolled the wonderful characteristics of this man. His dear friend Brian Kent was largely responsible or this powerful demonstration of unity. One of James’ quotes from the printed program summed it all up for us: “Girl, life is short. Go after the things that make you happy.” Don’t miss the upcoming Stoli Cocktail Classic competition at Beatbox on Wed., May 27, hosted by Patrik Gallineaux and emceed by Jai Rodriguez and this columnist. Entertainers include Brian Kent and Leanne Borghesi and your chance to win a trip to Key West and other great prizes. The fun starts at 7PM. On Fri., May 29, we’ll be sending the Positive Pedalers off on their Life Cycle challenge biking from here to Los Angeles to raise money in the continuing fight against AIDS. The party takes place at Hotel Whitcomb and starts at 6PM. On Sat., May 30, everyone will be at the SF Pride Kick-Off Party, also at Hotel Whitcomb, with entertainment by Samafunk, Cheer SF, and Leanne Borghesi, extensive silent auction, hosted bars, tasty food, and introductions of some of this year’s SF Pride Parade Grand Marshals! DJ Sergio Fedasz is bound to keep us going, so don’t miss this opportunity to usher in June and SF Pride month, full of activities and opportunities.t

publicly opening up about “In 2000 and 2001, we growing up with a mother were finally being seriously who suffered mental illness. courted as a group by Chris Local fame brought her Blackwell and Island records. to the attention of PortlandBut then 9/11 came, and based retro-pop act Pink everyone’s priorities really Martini, with whom Large changed. I never heard anhas since recorded and other word from them.” toured the world. Ironically, At the same time, nightlife she’s achieved her greatest in San Francisco was under fame with genres of music siege, “Large said. “There utterly different than the rauwere fucking live/work lofts cous rock of her early career. going in on 11th Street and Patrons of Large’s shows Willie Brown was just saniat Feinstein’s are likely to tizing the city, selling it off to hear a saucy, sultry blend of the highest bidder. I looked reimagined jazz standards and around and decided it just American pop classics, inwasn’t for me anymore.” cluding compositions by Cole “I was literally driving Porter, Randy Newman, Lou over the Golden Gate Bridge, Reed, and Rodgers & Hart. moving up to Portland to “I’m glad I’ve got three start a new stage of life,” Large whole days in town,” says recalls, “when my phone Large, who is generally on the rang. It was Terry Hutchison, road performing 250 nights the manager of the Paradise a year. “I’ll have time to get Lounge. ‘They’re shutting some real dim sum and hit us down,’ he said. ‘It’s over. Taqueria Cancun. Those are We’re drinking the bar right things I miss about the city.” now.’” On the whole, though, she If San Francisco seemed feels like she’s found a haplike a tub of scum-ringed pier home up north. bathwater, Large’s music caLaura Domela “I liken San Francisco to reer was the baby she hastily Storm Large a gorgeous, refined, classy, threw out with it. worldly woman. But she can “I thought it was time I be cunty. She can be the bigshould start something new,” a cult favorite, mixing originals with gest bitch you’ve ever met.” she says. “I always wanted to cook, feverish covers of acts ranging from “I’ve found Portland to be like and there’s a great culinary instiAC/DC to ABBA. Culinary school San Francisco’s younger, chubbier, tute in Portland. I had friends up has been on the back burner ever lesbian, biodynamic farming little there, so I figured I would go make since. sister. Sweet, thoughtful, one hunenough money bartending, and In Portland, Large built on the dred percent more supportive of the then enroll in the school.” Balls, becoming a finalist on the arts. It’s a city that still recognizes It took only seven months slingCBS reality competition Rockstar: the importance of all the freaky ing booze at a club called Dante’s Supernova. Expanding into musical people.”t until the owner, Frank Faillace, theater; she earned strong notices as coaxed her into getting up on stage. Sally Bowles in a Portland Center “Seven months was a looong Storm Large performs at FeinStage production of Cabaret, which time for me to not be performing,” stein’s at the Nikko, May 28 & 29 at she parlayed into the opportunity 8pm, May 30 at 7pm. $35-$50. ($20 she laughs, recalling the brevity of to develop a one-woman autobiofood/drink min.). Hotel Nikko, 222 her hiatus. Her comeback was fast, graphical musical, Crazy Enough. Mason St. (866) 663-1063. furious, and phenomenally diversiA chronicle of sex, drugs, and rock www.stormlarge.com fied. Large put together a new band, and roll, the show, and an expanded www.ticketweb.com Storm and the Balls, which became book adaptation, also found Large

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Big Fat Dick @ Oasis Mario Diaz’ LA nightclub entourage of amazingly hunky gogos, DJs and queens invades the SoMa club. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.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

Derek Parker, Drew Sebastian @ Nob Hill Theatre The manly porn dudes perform live onstage; Parker solos at 8pm, and sex duos at 10pm. Also May 23. $25. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Fade to Connie @ Oasis

Sat 23 Matthew Martin Goes to Hollywood @ Oasis

e’re packed with fun features, so this’ll have to be a shortened Best Of for nightlife listings. But as usual, you can go online to www.ebar.com for the full expanded listings.

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Barbary Coast Revue @ Balancoire The third season of the popular cabaret show returns, with Danny Kennedy as Mark Twain, a cast of diverse performers, and new guest performer Connie Champagne. Thursdays weekly thru June. $14-$64. 8pm. 2565 Mission St. at 22nd. www.BarbaryCoastRevue.com

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

Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Sexy interactive night in the downstairs arcade with tattooed porn hunk Derek Parker (who performs strip and sex show onstage May 22 & 23, 8pm & 10pm). $10. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Club King Screening @ Oasis See the Jon Bush film about club promoter Mario Diaz, with host Heklina, and a performance of John Cantwell’s Love, Connie. $15. 8pm. Followed by Sexitude at 10pm. (And Diaz’ very sexy Big Fat Dick SF on May 22). 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Comedy Returns @ El Rio The popular monthly comedy night features Tom Ammiano, Diane Amos, Justin Lucas, Nicole Calasich and host Lisa Geduldig. $7-$20. 8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Fauxgirls @ Infusion Lounge Classy drag show with Victoria Secret, Alexandria, Chanel, Mini Minerva, Kipper, Ruby LeBrowne, and Lulu Ramirez (and optional dinner) at the downtown club. No cover. 8pm. 124 Ellis St. 421-8700. www.fauxgirls.com www.infusionlounge-sf.com

Full Frontal Comedy @ The Lookout Sandra Risser headlines a night of gay laughs, with host/comic Yuri Kagan, Justin Lucas, Joe Gorman and guests, plus a $12 Burger special. $5. 8pm. 3600 16th st. www.lookoutsf.com

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

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

Mary Go Round @ Lookout Suppositori Spelling, Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes host the weekly night with DJ Philip Grasso, gogo guys, drink specials, and drag acts. 10pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show continues, with gogo guys and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a new weekly ‘90s-themed video, dancin’, drinkin’ night, with VJs Jorge Terez. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90cent drinks. ‘90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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

Night at the Jewseum @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Celebrate Shavuot with an after-work cocktail event featuring the band The Shes, food from The Grilled Cheese Guy, plus cheesecake, art-making, cocktails, DJed music and exhibit views. $5. 6pm-9pm. 736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Sexitude @ Oasis Aerobic dancing and cocktails led by D’Arcy Drollinger. $10. 10pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Hot & Hunky Comedy @ Pa’ina Lounge

Cemora Valentino-Devine hosts a pole dancing show, with DJ Sergio Fedasz. $8-$10. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www. studsf.com

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

Vegas Showgirl @ Angelicas, Redwood City Enjoy a splashy Las Vegas-style show at the restaurant-nightclub, with showgirls, drag star Micha’Le, singer Melissa Cook, actor-singer Patrick Levenque, the muscle hunk hand balancing Duo Ronin, plus a lobby exhibit of amazing Vegas costumes. $55-$85. 8pm. 863 Main St, Redwood City. (650) 679-8184. www.angelicasllc.com

Royal Tea @ Oasis Gus Presents’ nautical uniformthemed tea dance; Hello, sailor! No cover. 6pm-12am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 Dance it up at the popular twiceweekly country-western night that includes line-dancing, two-stepping and lessons. $5. 5pm-10:30pm. Also Thursdays 6:30pm-10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. at Industrial. www.sundancesaloon.org

LA actor John Cantwell’s ‘don’t miss’ wild performance art show about ‘70s female movie icons; directed by Jim Fall. $15. 8pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.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

Joe Wicht @ R3, Guerneville The popular singer-pianist and cabaret pro tickles the ivories and sings at the Russian River resort. No cover. 8pm. Also May 23 & 24. 16390 4th St., Guenreville. (707) 869-8399.

Fri 22 Big Fat Dick @ Oasis

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

Red Hots Burlesque @ Beatbox The saucy women’s burlesque revue’s weekend show; different musical guests each week. $10-$20. 7:30pm. 314 11th St. Also Wed nights at Oasis (298 11th St.). www.redhotsburlesque.com

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

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

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The Drag Queens of Comedy @ Castro Theatre Eleven of the funniest drag performers, together for one show: Bianca Del Rio, Coco Peru, Alaska 5000, Willam, Shangela, Jackie Beat, Lady Bunny, Heklina, Peaches Christ and Sasha Soprano, with host Michelle Visage (RuPaul’s Drag Race). $45-$300. 7pm & 10pm. (6pm pre-show) 429 Castro St. thedragqueensofcomedy.com

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

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, The Klipptones @ The Uptown, Napa The big band jazz groups perform. $35-$55. 7pm. 1350 3rd St., Napa. (707) 259-0123. www.uptowntheatrenapa.com

Big Top @ Beaux Joshua J.’s homo disco circus night, with guest DJs and performers, hotty gogo guys and drink specials. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.BeauxSF.com

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

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night at the fabulous renovated SoMa nightclub; plus DJ MC2 and guests. May 23: Bitch Slap! $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

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

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

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

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

Italian DJ Danny Verde and local talent Jamie J Sanchez spin tunes at the Memorial Day Weekend party. $25. 10pm-3am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.beatboxsf.com

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. 11th anniversary night!! $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Sunday Brunch, Xtravaganza @ Balancoire

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade

Industry @ Beatbox

The veteran actor, known for his Bette Davis and other film actress impersonations, returns with a new version of his Hollywoodthemed music and comedy show. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

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BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly musical trivia challenge and drag show. 8:30-11:30pm. 4146 18th St. at Castro. www.toadhallbar.com

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Polyamore or less

‘Marriage 2.0’ underwhelms

by Krissy Eliot

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hen I arrived at the Victoria Theater for the San Francisco premiere of Marriage 2.0, a featurelength porno about polyamorous relationships, I didn’t go in with high hopes. I had seen the trailer beforehand, and the movie came off as corny and tacky at best. But when I found out that the movie would feature famous porn star Nina Hartley and Center for Sex and Culture founder Carol Queen, I decided to open my mind to the possibility of being turned on, or at least mildly entertained. Krissy Eliot Curious about the background of the movie, I checked out interviews Columnist Krissy Eliot with porn actor Ryan Driller (aka Jeremy with Marriage 2.0’s writer and creBilder) at The Victoria Theatre. ator, Magnus Sullivan. A bold and confident man, he drew correlacause it focuses heavily on story and does what he wants with whoever he tions between the stylistic decisions human connection. Sullivan wanted wants regardless of India’s discomused in Marriage 2.0 to those used the film to introduce polyamory to fort, and India basically just endures in famous films such as The Deer the public in an accessible and relathis bad behavior multiple times Hunter and Raging Bull. In an inable way. To do this, the character throughout the film, with Eric esterview with the online publication India (played by India Summer) insentially suffering no repercussions. Badoink, he even said: “I think I use terviews Chris Ryan, real life author When I suggested to Sullivan sex in the same way that Tarantino of the famous polyamory book Sex that India got the short end of the uses violence. There’s a lot of imat Dawn, for a documentary she’s stick with Eric (so to speak), he said plication of violence, making. Ryan plays that their relationship is supposed and he doesn’t shy from himself and pops into to be a bit messy, and that his story showing things that are scenes as a polyamory needn’t adapt to my “enlightened graphically violent, but expert quite a few times perspective.” it’s used as spice in the throughout the film. That’s true; the story doesn’t need recipe.” “The movie was like to adapt to me. But if there aren’t When you liken your an advertisement for that many poly porn movies out porno-shooting techChris Ryan’s book. They there, and the creator knows this, niques to that of Tarweren’t even hiding the shouldn’t Marriage 2.0 be a tad antino, you’re setting product placement at “enlightened” in how it introduces yourself up for a cripall,” said attendee Rothe subject to the public? The best pling fall, or at best an man Leo, San Francisco comedian. part of polyamory is that both partembarrassing stumble, especially “The whole thing was an infomerners are empowered, and this movie when your movie was shot in 13 cial for Sex at Dawn – except infodidn’t reflect that. days with barely any rehearsal, most mercials are actually in focus.” It’s also very hetero-centric, with of the scenes are completely out The movie itself had its funny a little lesbian action and an extreme of focus, and the journalist you’re and even charming moments — lack of gay dude sex. And it wasn’t speaking to was a film student for with Summer, Driller and porn perlike there were no opportunities to four years and studied all the direcformer Andre Shakti bringing some include it either, since there was a tors you’ve referenced. serious charisma to the screen. But free-for-all orgy scene that could Having never seen porn in a theit was really hard for me to enjoy have easily featured man-on-man ater, let alone been to a red carpet their performances when I realized fucking, considering the inclusion porn premiere, I showed up to the how degrading the story was to Inof another cast member, bisexual event early so as not to miss a beat, dia’s character. yet mostly gay-performing porn acjerk or gulp. The guests showed up In the movie, India is with Eric, tor Christian Wilde. wearing everything from formal her lover of eight years (played by “This was not going to be an esowear to clown makeup, and they Driller). The couple decides that teric movie pushed to a niche comtook photos on the 3x5-foot red carthey want to attempt an open relamunity,” Sullivan said. “Does this pet in front of a white Marriage 2.0 tionship, even though India clearly accurately represent San Francisco’s backdrop. The female stars did Prinfeels uncomfortable and has not alternative sexuality? No. If you cess Diana waves, smiled, looked adjusted to the arrangement. Eric throw that lens on the movie, you’ll over their shoulders and be disappointed.” batted their eyelashes as I appreciate the existence of a my camera flashed. For a movie that gives visibility to polysecond, I felt underdressed amorous people; that’s great. But for the event, and almost polyamory is still a foreign conrethought my decision cept to many. And it’s important to to wear chucks and a hot show communication and fairness pink skater dress. Almost. in these relationships. Otherwise, Despite the excitement you’re just putting out another and hubbub, I managed to mainstream porno where the womsneak outside to converse an ends up mistreated, sad and on with Ryan Driller (aka gay her knees.t porn actor Jeremy Bilding). When I asked him Learn more about if he was excited to watch Marriage 2.0 by checking out the movie, he pointed to www.marriage2point0movie.com. the McDonald’s across the street and said: “I’ll be in Readers can contact Krissy by Gay/bi porn actor Christian Wilde (right) email at thekrissyeliot@gmail.com there until after the show. goes straight in Marriage 2.0. and view her previous work at I can’t watch myself on www.krissyeliot.com. screen.” When I asked him what it was like to shoot the movie, he said it was challenging, but fun. He liked performing in Marriage 2.0 because he didn’t feel like he was just a prop dick. He actually got to act. The theater was full of people from the local sex community; those who are in porn, support porn, or consider themselves “sex positive.” It was an incestuous SF sex community gathering where everyone basically came ready to suck each other’s metaphorical dicks, cheer when women had orgasms in the movie and say how great everything was to each others’ faces, only to sneak out of the movie half way through for a smoke or idle chitchat. The group action veers away from ‘the gay’ in Marriage 2.0. According to Sullivan, Marriage 2.0 is different than most porn be-

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Divulge the Bulge by John F. Karr

hey used to sing it to me at The First Pentacostal Church: “Something’s Got a Hold of Me.” If they’d only known. It’s mighty regular, and it’s got me again. So I’ll confess it: Bewitched, bothered and big bonered, am I. The first B by mr. Pam’s Naked Sword feature, Bulge, and the second B, by her feature of unsure provenance, A Wicked Game. And both movies had a hand in the big bonered part. Most everything about Bulge is enjoyable, particularly its depiction of penile distention as the obscured object of desire. Many movies claim the salient convexity, but in most it remains the raised rarity. Bulge may not make as much of a fetish out of it as I’d like, but the mounds of manhood launch each scene. And the whole thing’s very well crafted. mr. Pam makes no trumped up effort to impress us, content to do her thing with a sure hand. She’s unified the four scenes in style as well as location. She finds the warmth of a patio and pool setting in Ft. Lauderdale, and though the vibe there may be relaxed, don’t be deceived, and fear no lull; the players are intent and their sex is focused. Their concentrated coupling doesn’t let up. There isn’t any exaggerated moaning, but there is lots of naturally heavy breathing. There’s hardly any talking, and the potentially distracting sounds of nature have been muted. There are neither hordes of chattering birds nor tumultuously

crashing waves. And with videography that’s a mostly smooth complement, you can just zone out with some sexy guys. Yes, the guys show the fullest of baskets, but a decided plus of the movie is the cock eroticism Pam dwells on. Watch Sean Duran caress his stiffly upright pole, lost in cock-reverie as he spreads some saliva on it, getting it slick and shiny. Marxel Rios first has his butt clamped over Duran’s face, and then slides south so his ass can similarly grace Duran’s cock. The simmering pair of bearded brunets first get covered in sweat, and then get covered in cum. Some of which Duran feeds to Rios. Isaac Hardy is already hard in his shorts when Leo Forte starts to massage him, and Forte gets a strong grasp on the cloth-covered cannon. It’s not too surprising that Forte is the movie’s most aggressive

player. Though he plays kind of rough, there always seems to be a smile not too far beneath that stern surface. The repeated spit-n-lick he lathers over Hardy’s asshole has it good and lubed, just crying to be stuffed, and Forte sure doesn’t go easy on it. He’s an old-school ass-pounder. Easily my favorite coupling of the flick finds Jimmie Slater topping Rylan Knox. It was at the beginning of this month, only a couple days after Rylan had thoroughly pleased me with his breezy performance in Bulge that he committed suicide. I was stunned, and ached for his distress. Please, in Rylan’s honor, try to take the pleasure from this scene that he was trying to give you, and enjoy it as a fine memorial. Rylan was a 5’4” cutie, whose eager face mingled an infective boyishness with an ever growing manliness. He was a rowdy performer. Slater’s a lean, hardbodied youth. There’s a nearly shaved, concave groin above his sturdy cock, while his balls hang loosely below. Rylan gets into some accommodating positions of a most picturesque fuck, letting his cock flap while Jimmie pumps. Rylan gets pretty commanding, too, murmuring, “Fuck me harder, yeah, give it to me!” Standard injunctions, to be sure, but lusty Rylan gives them fresh imperative. He cums but a smidge, which is disappointing to a cum-greedy guy such as I. Don’t you agree that quantity gives greater validation to an event? I’ll excuse Rylan this time, since he obviously feels the proceedings so deeply. His subsequent directive to

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Top Left: The late Rylan Knox and Jimmie Slater are a feisty highlight of Bulge. Top Right: There’s no cooling down for Sean Duran in Bulge; only heating up. Bottom: This masseur knows which muscle most wants attention; Leo Forte and Isaac Hardy in Bulge.

Jimmie, “Lemme taste your cum,” is right in line with how I think a scene should end, and Jimmie gives him a face full. Then his tongue shovels some of the spunk into Rylan’s mouth. A publicist’s note tells us of the last scene, with Alex Greene and Cameron Kincaide, “Right in the middle of a passionate kiss, Alex’s huge cock drops out his of swim trunks.” Well, Cameron has helped

it a little, but it’s a big one, alright, uncut, and heavy enough to have dropped on its own. Cameron’s got a classic boy-cock, precisely shaped and cut, and a little smaller than Alex’s. But he wields it like a major cannon. Next week: the curious case of A Wicked Game.t www.NakedSword.com

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Opulence @ Beaux New 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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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

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

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down with the strippers at the cruisy adult theatre and arcade; free beverages. $20. 8pm. 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

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

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

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

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

Faux Real with Fauxnique @ Oasis The local –and internationally acclaimed– dancer and faux queen brings her new show to the SoMa nightclub. $20. 7pm. Also May 29 & 30. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.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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photos by Steven Underhill Bernal Beast @ Wild Side West

he Bernal Beast Party, held at Wild Side West on May 16, celebrated the Bernal Heights pet store’s 20-year anniversary, with drag king Fudgie Frottage, “drag thing” Kitty Tapata, raffles for Humphry Slocombe ice cream, Giants tickets and travel packages, plus a canine cutie kissing booth, music by Mountain Dojo and The Rightsiders, and general furry fun. Proceeds benefited Wonder Dog Rescue. Visit Wild Side West at 424 Cortland Ave. www.wildsidewest.com For more info on the event, and beneficiaries, visit www.bernalbeast.com/20th/ More event photo albums are on BARtab’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at www.StevenUnderhill.com.

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