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SF leaders detail plan to cut HIV infections to zero by Matthew S. Bajko

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Last year’s Rainbow World Fund Tree of Hope in City Hall.

Tree of Hope moves to cathedral by Cynthia Laid

ity Hall’s loss is Grace Cathedral’s gain. Rainbow World Fund’s Tree of Hope, an annual holiday display promoting global unity, will be installed at Grace Cathedral next week, after the nonprofit agency was told it would have to pay $15,000 to have the tree in San Francisco City Hall. The tree has been displayed in City Hall for the past eight years. But a communications snafu left the San Francisco-based LGBT humanitarian agency scrambling to find an alternative site and City Hall looking for a Christmas tree for inside the Beaux Arts building. “It was a bit of a misunderstanding,” city Administrator Naomi Kelly told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview November 20. “We’re working through to make sure we get it back next year. “I’d love to have the tree back next year,” she added. At issue, according to Kelly, was $15,000 to cover security and overtime costs by the San Francisco Sheriff ’s Department, which provides security in City Hall and has deputies on hand whenever the building is open. Senior Sheriff ’s Deputy Enrique Luquin said he wasn’t aware of the security cost for the tree. “We haven’t given anybody any estimates,” he told the B.A.R. “We never quoted that amount.” Jeff Cotter, the executive director of RWF, was disappointed that the tree won’t be in City Hall this year, but praised Grace Cathedral for its wonderful space. The tree lighting will take place on World AIDS Day, Monday, December 1, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. “We are not able to have the tree at City Hall this year due to policy changes that made it cost prohibitive for us,” Cotter said in an email. The Rainbow World Fund Tree of Hope, as it is formally called, is unique in that it is decorated with thousands of origami cranes See page 18 >>

an Francisco leaders have mapped out an aggressive plan to cut new HIV infections by 90 percent come 2020. The ultimate goal is to get to no new HIV infections, though backers of the plan have Jane Philomen Cleland yet to commit to a tarProject Inform get date for meeting it. Executive “Our hope is this is a Director Dana plan that really makes Van Gorder San Francisco the first city in the nation, and essentially the world, to really virtually drive the epidemic out of existence,” said Project Inform Executive Director Dana Van Gorder. “This is something I hope everyone will want to embrace and participant in.” For the last year a group of 25 leaders, representing the public health department, city hall, community groups, private health care providers, and UCSF officials, have been meeting regularly to devise a multi-pronged strategy to dramatically reduce new HIV infections in the

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A chart from the San Francisco Department of Public Health shows new HIV diagnoses, deaths, and prevalence in the city between 2006-2013.

city. Their work has led to the creation of a plan dubbed “Getting to Zero: Zero HIV Infections, Zero AIDS Deaths, and Zero Stigma.” Three of the key components are rapid enrollment in treatment for those who test pos-

itive for the virus; retention of people once they are in care; and ensuring those who are HIV-negative and at risk for HIV have access to pre-exposure prophylaxis. Known as PrEP, See page 17 >>

Events to mark World AIDS Day

by Seth Hemmelgarn

Ermet AIDS Foundation, and Joe Seiler, the group’s board vents are planned around chair, with its Light in the Grove the Bay Area in the coming Lifetime of Commitment Award. days to mark the 26th anREAF began 20 years ago nual World AIDS Day. under Henderson and Seiler’s As he prepared for the occasion, leadership with Help Is On the which commemorates the lives lost Way: San Francisco Cares. Help and the work that remains to be Is On the Way has become “the done in fighting HIV and AIDS, Bay Area’s largest annual AIDS John Cunningham, executive dibenefit concert and one of the rector of the National AIDS MeBay Area’s primary sources of morial Grove, spoke of Ebola. The funding for many local AIDS recent outbreak of the disease in service agencies,” according to several West African countries has the foundation’s website. Rick Gerharter killed more than 5,000 people; two In a brief call, Henderson people who contracted the disease Flowers and a candle were left at the Circle of Friends during 2013’s noted the AIDS grove organizaabroad later died in the U.S., where World AIDS Day ceremony in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in tion has honored “some pretty San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. they were brought for treatment. high-profile people, and we just “I think that as we again apfeel very honored to be included The AIDS grove will hold its fifth annual proach World AIDS Day, it’s inin that kind of presence.” Light in the Grove fundraising gala from 6:30 cumbent upon all of us that have fought the Seiler, who said the award is “really special,” said to 9:30 p.m. Sunday, November 30. The VIP fight over the last 30 plus years to not only reREAF is “going to just keep trying to keep things reception is from 5:30 to 6:30. The grove is lomember those we lost far too young, but most going until there’s a cure. That’s the key thing.” cated in the eastern end of Golden Gate Park at importantly, as a community and a society, to Individual tickets for Light in the Grove are the intersection of Bowling Green and Middle make sure we apply the lessons learned both $200. Host level admission starts at $500 and inDrive East, across from the tennis courts. from the heartache and the struggle” and “based cludes the VIP reception. Tickets at both levels The event will feature cocktails, dinner, in love and compassion,” Cunningham said in were available late last week, but Cunningham music, and “brilliant displays of creative lightan interview. “As our society faces a new epiexpected them to sell out by early this week. ing throughout the grove,” Cunningham said demic in the form of Ebola, we already see the Funds raised through the event ensure the in an email promoting the event. stigma being placed upon that, and it’s imporcontinued maintenance of the memorial through The grove this year is honoring Ken Hentant that we who have already walked this path its community volunteer workday program, alderson, executive director of the Richmond/ don’t let it happen again.” See page 18 >>

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shutting down the event altogether, but many seem determined to try to fix it rather than end it. In an interview last week, Wiener, who’s previously said he doesn’t support canceling Pink Saturday, continued to back the Sisters. “I very much hope the Sisters will continue to participate,” he said. “They’ve done terrific work, and we want to work with them and support them in continuing the event.” The Sisters have been working with police and others to address concerns about safety, which have grown since Stephen Powell, 19, was shot to death around the time the festival ended in 2010. This year, one of the Sisters was attacked in an apparent hate crime. Captain Daniel Perea, who oversees the Mission police station, which includes the Castro and other neighborhoods, expressed support for the drag nuns and the party. “The Sisters have an exceptional amount of operational and logistical knowledge of Pink Saturday,” Perea said in an email. “I think everyone has recognized the value of evaluating the event and discussing changes and improvements for the benefit of all.” He also credited Wiener for bringing together the Sisters, merchants, and residents together to talk about improvements. “I believe our meetings have been productive and yielded strategies which could improve Pink Saturday even further,” Perea said, adding that he’s looking forward to working more with Wiener and the others “to secure the type of Pink Saturday desired by all involved.”t

Mixed reaction to Obama immigration order by Yael Chanoff

GBT organizations involved in pushing for immigration reform had mixed reactions to President Barack Obama’s executive order that would shield millions of people from deportation. In a nationwide address last week, Obama said he was taking the action because he had grown frustrated with congressional gridlock on comprehensive immigration reform. The main part of the president’s announcement is a new program for unauthorized immigrants who are the parents of United States citizens. About four million people will be eligible for a new legal status that would defer their deportations and allow them to work legally. Officials said that they must pass background checks and pay taxes. But LGBT groups, who have been pushing for reform for months, remain disappointed. In July, a coalition of LGBT immigrants rights groups held a sit-in in the offices of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. They asked that the caucus urge the president to include protections for LGBT immigrants in any action he might take. Their demands: relief for all LGBT immigrants, including those that “have been criminalized for their survival;” eliminating the use of solitary confinement in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers; and ending all programs that allow ICE to work together with law enforcement to profile people based on race, gender and sexuality. The Equality Caucus agreed to their demands and promised to issue a statement. But Obama’s executive action,

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Heather Cronk, co-director of GetEqual, said much more remains to be done for LGBT immigrants.

announced November 20, doesn’t include those LGBT protections. The announcement “was a great organizing win and victory, and we can’t downplay what an amazing victory it is,” said Paulina HelmHernandez, whose organization Southerners on New Ground helped organize the sit-in. “But as far as the LGBT community is concerned, we could have gone much further.” In Obama’s immigration announcement, he said that he would instruct ICE to prioritize who to detain “just like law enforcement does every day.” “We’ll deport felons, not families,” Obama said. This is troubling for many LGBT people, whose families often look different than the strict definition in the executive order, and who are more likely to be caught up in the criminal justice system. “Relief will be offered to parents

of U.S. citizen and permanent legal residents. That’s the only family tie that will be recognized,” said Heather Cronk, co-director of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit GetEqual. Many LGBT youth find supportive family environments with extended family members like aunts and uncles, friends, or other types chosen families. And many LGBT parents raise children not biologically their own. “Those parents would not qualify,” Cronk said. “That’s part of the problem.” Then there’s the “felons” part. LGBT youth are more likely to be criminalized than youth in general. A 2012 study from the Equity Project showed that LGBT youth compose 13 percent of the juvenile justice system population but only 5 percent the general population. And a report released in May by Columbia Law School found that LGBT people and people living with HIV/AIDS are “significantly overrepresented in all aspects of the penal system.” Exactly what criminal record exclusions will apply in the relief program are still forthcoming. “A lot will be determined by the details of what criminal exclusions will be put in place. The devil will be in the details,” Helm-Hernandez said.

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“LGBTQ people and especially transgender women of color are disproportionately excluded from the president’s relief both because we are less likely to have children or have relationships that are legally recognized and because we conSee page 8 >>

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PrEP is key to SF ‘Zero’ plan

his week, HIV/AIDS leaders in San Francisco unveiled their latest plan to dramatically cut HIV transmission in the next several years. We have seen these plans before, and – like the futile efforts to develop an HIV vaccine – many have not delivered on their promises. Most recently, in 2010 the Department of Public Health had set a goal of reducing new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2015. But, as we report this week, the date had to be extended two years because it took so long to implement the various programs contained in that plan. In addition to using condoms to prevent HIV, we have reported on community-embraced strategies such as serosorting (where men choose to have sex only with men of the same HIV serostatus) and seropositioning (where men determine what sexual behaviors they will engage in based on their partner’s HIV status). Yet despite these practices, San Francisco still sees several hundred new infections annually – while the number of HIV cases is declining, it’s not at zero, or even close to it. This new plan, called “Getting to Zero,” has one component that previous versions did not – PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis. The once-a-day pill, produced by Gilead Sciences, Truvada has shown remarkable success in preventing HIV when taken as recommended. It’s clear after reporting on the numerous clinical trials that PrEP is the key to lowering HIV cases, not just in San Francisco, but also around the world. For PrEP to have a significant impact, however, two things must happen. Doctors must start prescribing it to patients who are at-risk for HIV or others who ask for it. And Gilead Sciences needs to expand its patient assistance program so that more people can afford to take it. At a cost of about $8,000 to $14,000 per year, the drug is well out of reach for those it could benefit the most: low-income people in the U.S. at risk for HIV, and impoverished people globally who live in places without a reliable medical infrastructure. (Most private insurance

companies and state Medicaid programs cover Truvada.) This week, the AIDS United Public Policy Committee, a longtime national coalition of community-based HIV/AIDS organizations, called for a scale-up of PrEP. The committee noted that while PrEP may not be appropriate for everyone, “it is clear that when taken as directed, PrEP can significantly reduce new HIV infections. The time for debate on the effectiveness of PrEP is over.” We agree. Locally, Project Inform, a member of AIDS United, secured funding for demonstration projects to determine how to deliver this intervention most effectively, and produced educational materials to assist HIV-negative gay men with their decision to use PrEP. “Project Inform is deeply concerned that those who could most benefit from PrEP are not yet sufficiently aware of it, and that a campaign of misinformation attempts to dissuade them from considering it,” Dana Van Gorder, Project Inform’s executive director, said in the AIDS United statement.

The committee pointed out that a September survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 80 percent of gay and bisexual men know “only a little” or “nothing at all” about PrEP. “People most at risk for HIV infection need to have full and accurate information to make an informed decision about PrEP, as well as support for access to and adherence to the daily medication,” AIDS United noted. Van Gorder’s reference to a misinformation campaign is aimed squarely at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Its president, Michael Weinstein, has become a loud – and lonely – voice against PrEP, but has spun his argument carefully as more and more evidence is brought forward showing that Truvada is effective. His latest scare tactic is to run ads in gay publications, including this one, warning that HIV infection rates will dramatically increase if people go on PrEP. That’s simply nonsense. PrEP has proved to be effective when taken as directed. And that’s the clincher. No one would suggest PrEP would be effective otherwise. Adherence is key, as with any other medication. AHF is also causing confusion with is its statements that rates for other sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, are up. They may be in some places; in San Francisco the rates have mostly stabilized, as we reported this summer. In any event, it’s an apples and oranges comparison. Truvada has not been marketed as a drug to combat other STIs. AHF has a point that condoms do protect against HIV and other STIs, but it’s not accurate to conflate the two, as it’s doing in its latest ad. More to the point, AHF’s practice will contrast with what it preaches. It just relocated its medical clinic in the Castro, and when we covered the opening last month, we were told by AHF officials that the nearby AHF pharmacy would fill Truvada prescriptions and that AHF would neither encourage nor discourage the use of Truvada. If AHF really believed its own ads, it would not allow PrEP prescriptions to be filled at its pharmacies. The research is in. Truvada PrEP is effective. People at risk for HIV should talk with their doctor about taking it.t

Seeing the color red in a new way by Mathew Rodriguez

he last time I saw my father, before he passed away from an opportunistic infection in his liver, I went to go visit him at Rivington House, a hospice care facility on New York City’s Lower East Side. We were only a few blocks away from where he had grown up – the Governor Alfred E. Smith Houses, or “The Smith” as my mom and he would call them. My father, a man who was living with diabetes, cirrhosis, hepatitis C, and an AIDS diagnosis, had finally begun the slow march toward death and had moved back to NYC after years in Cleveland, close to members of his immediate family. The color red reminds me of the very last request of my father – a man who knew he was dying, who had grown incontinent – for an orange soda and some Mike and Ike candy. My sister, older by seven years, refused to give her father the junk food. His response was, “What about diet orange soda?” As I left the building, he put a dollar into the vending machine in Rivington House’s foyer – peanut M&Ms. Had I known my father was going to die – a really silly thing to say, given that the nurses had alerted us to his incontinence and, you know, everyone dying eventually – I probably would’ve given him the candy, no hesitation. I would’ve let him enjoy himself and eat a few kernels of finely processed non-food. And wash it back with a soda that was named for color and flavor, not fruit and vitamins. This year, for World AIDS Day (December 1), http://www.TheBody.com is launching a social media campaign and contest called #RedRemindsMe that asks people to submit photos of something red and to explain why that red image reminds them of HIV. Personally, I’m submitting a picture of a heart made out of red Mike & Ikes, because it reminds me of the last request of my ill father, and that in the future, it’s okay to let people find comfort in any way possible, even if I don’t understand it. The color red is a primary color, which means

Mathew Rodriguez

it’s one of the colors on which our understanding of color is built. Everything we see is mediated by the color. When we see a color, our body discerns how much red is in that color, if any red at all. As a young gay man of color whose dad died from an AIDS-related illness, my life is very much like that when it comes to HIV. In my job, I talk about HIV; in my family, the illness has taken away my father. I have many friends and lovers who are living with HIV. It’s what scares me, what thrills me, what gets me out of bed – it’s how I afford to buy everything I eat. It’s as much a part of me as are my glasses, my shoes, my handwriting. In the years since his death, my life has changed immensely. Besides the fact that I carry my father’s genes with me everywhere I go, we also now have Type 2 diabetes in common. I was diagnosed just one week shy of the twoyear anniversary of his death. I don’t eat Mike & Ike, but if anyone got between me and my Re-

ese’s, I’d probably throw a child-sized tantrum. I’m now a full-time journalist who writes about HIV every day. I’ve joined ACT UP. I’ve spoken about HIV nationally and internationally. I never knew this would be my life, that I’d be able to do a job that was so fueled by love, that would connect me with my father every day – even after he had passed away. Of course, not everyone’s connection to HIV may not be as omnipresent as mine. Everyone has their own path and their own relationship to it. That’s something that we celebrate at TheBody.com. We know that everyone’s history with HIV is different, but we also know that difference of experience – and the sharing of that difference – is what creates life’s riches. Diversity of experience, and sharing that diversity, is how we find meaning in life. It’s how we create relationship with one another. It’s a way to bridge the inevitable gaps that exist between humans – and yes, differences can build bridges. What does red remind you of? It’s a deceptively simple question that may ask you to dig down a little deeper than the average social media campaign. Perhaps you’ll uncover a lost picture of a loved one. Maybe you’ll see an old letter written in red pen in a whole new way. Maybe you’ll uncover something new about yourself – not only in your own entry, but in someone else’s. You really never know. But the distance between what you know now and what you’ll soon know is a short one – only a camera click away.t Mathew Rodriguez is the community editor at TheBody.com. His writing has been featured in Slate, the Advocate, the Huffington Post, the International Business Times, and more. To take part in the #RedRemindsMe campaign, visit visit www.thebody.com and post a photo by December 12.

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Clubs should work to elect gay mayor

I have been pondering what it might be like if the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, the Bayard Rustin LGBT Democratic Club, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, and the Log Cabin Club of San Francisco would all come together on January 1 to spend the next 11 months working together to elect the first openly gay mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Those of us who have been toiling in San Francisco life, hope, and opportunity for many, many, many generations have a dream. Before I leave this planet. The time is now! Ken Jones San Francisco

AHF extends villainization

The fear that was pressed on people my age (36) in school about HIV/AIDS has not changed since the 1990s, even with the advancements in treatments. So even with condoms, treatment advances, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), they still make HIV-positive people to be villains no matter if they were undetectable or not. The whole AIDS Healthcare Foundation ad spread controversy and AHF President Michael Weinstein’s “party

drug” comment extends this villainization. I don’t want to do this to my many HIV-positive friends, that’s why I am using every opportunity to show love to them, by keeping myself HIV-negative. That is why I am on PrEP. Because of educators who use science that has been peer reviewed, and accepted by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When I first came to San Francisco it was Hank Wilson and Blackberri at the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center, then the amazingly compassionate Cleve Jones. But today we have a new generation of HIV educators. Like Jorge Vieto Jr. and Eric Paul Leue educating people in safer play practices and medical advancements like PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) and PrEP alongside condoms. These are the Lorax telling the truth about the Forest of Trees and Weinstein is selling us the Sneed and can’t see anything but greed. Not a single one of these educators will ever see a paycheck like Weinstein’s. But the lives they have comforted and the lives they saved with education are priceless to them. Kirk Linn-DeGrassi San Francisco

Holiday trees light up SF compiled by Cynthia Laird

s San Francisco gets into the season, holiday tree lighting ceremonies are taking place around the city that will be enjoyable for the whole family. First up is Macy’s, which will hold its 25th annual Great Tree Lighting Ceremony in Union Square Friday, November 28 at 6 p.m. San Francisco’s most recognizable Christmas tree – at 83 feet – is actually reusable, said Megan Pardo, Macy’s media relations manager, and will have 33,000 energy efficient lights and 1,100 ornaments. “It’s a special event and kick-off for the holiday season,” Pardo told the Bay Area Reporter in a phone interview. “It’s our gift to the city of San Francisco and brings the nostalgia of the holidays to San Francisco residents and visitors.” Headlining the festivities is Quintavious Johnson of America’s Got Talent (Season 9), the 12-year-old singer also known as “The Little Man with a Strong Voice.” Also set to perform are the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Boys Chorus, Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, Tap Dancing Christmas Trees from Alameda, and the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. The tree will be lit at the end of the ceremony, at about 6:40 p.m. After that, people can go across the street to Macy’s and explore the store’s festive Holiday Lane and kids can visit Santa in Macy’s Santaland, both on the seventh floor. The store is also continuing a tradition it began seven years ago with its Believe campaign in partnership with the MakeA-Wish Foundation. Children of all ages are invited to mail letters to Santa using the store’s Santa Mail letter boxes. Macy’s will donate $1 for each letter mailed in-store, up to $1 million, to Make-A-Wish, bringing the holiday spirit to children throughout the year. The mailbox is located on the seventh floor, and mail is sent to the North Pole. Macy’s will be open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Pardo said that the store has generally received positive feedback from customers who shop on the holiday, even as some people decry that more and more stores are opening on the holiday itself instead of the traditional Black Friday shopping day. “People like shopping,” she said, “and a lot of people eat an early dinner. It’s more convenient than getting up at 4 a.m.” on Black Friday. Of course, Macy’s will be open that day as well, with extended hours through the holiday season.

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Macy’s annual Great Tree Lighting Ceremony takes place Friday, November 28 in Union Square.

Another holiday tree lighting will take place Tuesday, December 2, at the former Bank of America building at 555 California Street. The eighth annual tree lighting ceremony begins at 5 p.m., and is being held by Vornado Realty Trust, a New York-based real estate investments trust, which reinstated the event in 2007 when it acquired the iconic building. Headlining the ceremony, which is free and open to the public, will be Phillip Phillips, an American Idol winner (Season 11). He will be joined by former San Francisco 49er legend Ronnie Lott and his wife, Karen; and musician, bandleader, and emcee Dick Bright. Additionally, the Pacific Boychoir Academy will perform. The ceremony will benefit All Stars Helping Kids, an agency started by Lott that encourages innovation by seed funding start-up nonprofits in the Bay Area so that kids can thrive regardless of where they come from by disrupting the cycle of poverty. Finally, as previously reported, there will be a tree lighting ceremony in the Castro Monday, December 1, which is World AIDS Day. The event, which is free, starts at 6 p.m. in the plaza fronting Bank of America branch at 18th and Castro streets.

Thanksgiving beer bust at the Eagle

The San Francisco Eagle bar is inviting community members to a Thanksgiving beer bust dinner Thursday, November 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. at 398 12th Street. Owners Mike Leon and Lex Montiel said the dinner will benefit the San Francisco Gay Softball League. A full

dinner will be offered for $6 per plate or a beer bust and dinner for $12. The Eagle also announced that this is the final sign-up period for nonprofits to book dates in 2015 for the bar’s world-famous weekend beer busts. Sign-ups are available only to registered 501 (c)3 nonprofits and requests must be submitted by December 31. Leon and Montiel also suggested that the nonprofits improve the food quality that is distributed during beer busts, which will “result in a positive response from patrons and generate an increment attendance and funds raised.” The cost of the beer bust is determined by the nonprofit’s choice of food and should translate to an increment of $1 to $2 per bust. “We have feedback that $15 for beer and food is still a great bargain – especially when it also benefits a wonderful nonprofit group in our community,” the men wrote in a letter. Nonprofits interested in signing up for a beer bust can visit www. sf-eagle.com and click on the “Beer Bust Sign Up” link. The page will have an introductory letter that can be downloaded with the beer bust guidelines. It will also have a calendar showing available dates.

SF Pride food and toy drive

The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee is holding its second annual food and toy drive to benefit the Homeless Children’s Network and the local community. New toys and canned and dried goods will be accepted at the SF Pride office, 30 Pearl Street, fourth floor, through Friday, December 12. To end the drive, on that day SF Pride will have a booth at Jane Warner Plaza See page 14 >>

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Honoring silenced trans voices

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ommunity members released biodegradable purple balloons from the fourth floor rooftop deck of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center as part of the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance observance Thursday, November 20. The event featured speakers and recollections of those who have died as a result of anti-transgender violence.

One moment in time with Leslie Feinberg by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

et me set the scene. It was early in the fall of 1998. I was at the Southern Comfort Conference, a large transgender-themed convention in Atlanta. At the time I was overseeing the jump of the Transgender Community Forum from its days on America Online to a much more restrictive format on the then still very new World Wide Web. I was still a couple months away from launching the Remembering Our Dead project, and looking back, I was also still pretty green when it came to transgender activism. The event was what you’d expect from any convention built around an affinity group. There were breakout sessions throughout the day on transgender issues, big-ticket speakers at the luncheons, and even a “vendor room” stocked with everything from breast prosthetics to books. The latter was my interest. I’ve always been a fan of a good book, and to this day I have several shelves full of transgender-themed texts practically spilling out over the floor. At that time, one of the newest

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ones being sold was a thin text by Leslie Feinberg titled Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. It was the third or fourth published work by Feinberg, depending on how you choose to count the even thinner pamphlet of a similar name, Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come from about five years previous. Feinberg who used the alternative pronouns “hir” and “ze,” had other groundbreaking books, including the novel Stone Butch Blues as well as Transgender Warriors: Making History, Drag King Dreams, and Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba. Feinberg, and hir partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, were both speaking at the conference. There was also a book signing later that day. I had hoped to get a copy of this book signed for my shelf. I was already a fan of Feinberg. I devoured Transgender Warriors, a book about transgender history. It was a seminal work on the subject, covering transgender people from the earliest reaches of recorded history all the way up to the modern era. It was a powerful read that showed that being trans was not some new invention at the hands of Western medicine, but something with a long, complex past full of strong, incredible people. At the time, the transgender community was really only starting its long, slow venture out of the shadows: while we had stood with the larger LGBT community at the Compton’s Cafeteria riot and the Stonewall rebellion, ours was a community that retreated – or was pushed – into the shadows while the largely gay and lesbian movement gained ground. The notion of being proud to be transgender was a novel, frightening one for many. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue was the follow-up, of sorts, to Transgender Warriors. It is, at heart, a collection of speeches focusing on the liberation of transgender people and, by extension, all people. Feinberg had long identified as a revolutionary communist, and this book intertwined hir fight to for the rights of the worker with those of us who identify as transgender. It is a powerful and strong read that deeply affected my own left-leaning worldview. At the conference, though, I had yet to crack the spine. I was about to pony up a fresh $20 bill when I realize that – eyeing the books to my left – there were Feinberg and Pratt. I paused, awed. I had no idea what I should say. We had met before, sort of. When I ran the Transgender Community Forum all those years ago, Feinberg had spoken one evening to the online chat I moderated on a Sunday night. Still, this was a pretty slim connection, and – of course – one forged in a faceless medium. Why should I think I could bother the

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two of them, knowing they’d both be swamped in just an hour or two by everyone else at the conference wanting their own copy of Trans Liberation signed? As I mused, probably looking like the proverbial deer in the headlights, Feinberg saw me – and the convention name-badge on my chest. Ze smiled broadly, and exclaimed to Pratt who I was and what I did. I smiled proudly, taken totally offguard to find out that this person whom I admired so much also felt a great amount of admiration for me. Yes, ze signed my book. On the front flyleaf, Feinberg wrote, “To Gwen – Our trans cyber maven – stay strong, proud & active. Warrior – we need you! Les Feinberg.” On November 15, Feinberg passed away at the age of 65 due to complications from several tick-borne diseases and many years of illness. Ze had been fighting ill health – and ill treatment from the medical establishment – for nearly as long as we’d known each other. Even while fighting for hir life, ze was still active enough to keep changing the world, championing CeCe McDonald, a black transwoman who was sent to jail for defending herself against a white neo-Nazi during a brutal street assault. At the time of ze’s death, Feinberg was working on a free online version of Stone Butch Blues and a slideshow about the Free CeCe campaign. I’ll never forget that moment of warmth and recognition all those years ago. It wasn’t that I felt like I got to be with a star, or that I felt important enough to warrant Feinberg’s attention. Rather, it was a moment where two people, one who was known for hir words, the other who was then known for code and community, were able to share a moment of solidarity. It is a moment I reflect on often – especially now, in loss.t Gwen Smith owes a debt of gratitude to Leslie Feinberg. You can find her at www.gwensmith.com.

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November 27-December 3, 2014 • BAY AREA REPORTER • 7

by Matthew S. Bajko

earing a zip-up jacket, with an American flag visible behind him, Jan Beck explains to a reporter why he is sitting outside the Federal Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center in December 1985. “This is one more instance where united we stand, divided we die one by one,” Beck says in the taped interview. Beck was one of the hundreds of people who took part in the decadelong protest of the U.S. government’s failure to address the needs of people, mostly gay men, who were dying from a mysterious new disease. Dozens of people camped out in front of what then were the local offices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and countless more were arrested over the years for chaining themselves to the building’s entrance. The long-running act of civil disobedience was known as the ARC/ AIDS Vigil, with ARC standing for AIDS Related Complex. Begun by two gay men demanding government action on AIDS, the vigil would last for 10 years until the last participants decamped from the site sometime in December 1995. Nick Aquilino, a graduate student in San Francisco State’s broadcasting program in the mid-1980s, was part of the small crew who interviewed Beck and several other vigil participants 29 years ago. Their footage was used for a piece that ran on the Gay Cable Network. “I have the original footage on VHS. It runs about 45 minutes,” said Aquilino, explaining he held on to the tape all the years because “I thought it was going to be of historical use.”

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Protester Bucky Stewart chained himself to the door of the former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building during the ARC/AIDS Vigil in 1985.

Three decades later Aquilino is again turning his camera lens on the vigil. Now 60, and living in Sausalito, the gay, HIV-positive filmmaker is working on a documentary, titled Not With Standing, about the protest that he hopes to screen on October 27, 2015 to mark the 30th anniversary of the start of the vigil. “I would like to see if KQED would have a local showing on the anniversary and possibly for PBS to screen it nationally on World AIDS Day next year,” he said. He has already filmed interviews with several vigil participants, including a nurse who worked at San Francisco General Hospital treating AIDS patients and a man who was part of a group of volunteers willing to get arrested for blocking the building. Using his own archival footage of the interviews he helped tape when he visited the vigil, including shots of a wedding that happened to take place that day, Aquilino cre-

ated a film trailer he posted to the San Francisco Film Society’s website earlier this year in hopes of attracting donations to cover the costs of creating a 54-minute film. He estimates he needs to raise $200,000, and with the first attempt at raising funds unsuccessful, Aquilino is now launching a crowdfunding appeal on Indiegogo in hopes of raising $50,000 by December 27. If successful, he can then leverage the publicly donated financing to apply for matching grants from larger funders like Cal Humanities. “Funding has been very hard to get,” he said. “One funder I approached said to me that nobody cares about AIDS anymore.” As a longtime survivor of HIV, the documentary is of personal importance to Aquilino, who visited the AIDS Vigil several times in the winter of 1986 before dropping out of grad school and moving to Los Angeles. “I got my HIV diagnosis in 1993, I didn’t feel like there was a future at that time,” said Aquilino, who moved back to San Francisco that year but doesn’t recall much about

the last two years of the AIDS Vigil. Last year he started researching for the film, visiting the GLBT Historical Society’s archives and collecting photos and images of the AIDS Vigil. At gay street fairs and film festivals, Aquilino has also been recruiting people who took part in the vigil and are willing to be interviewed for his documentary. He is still interested in talking to other participants and meeting with people who have any ephemera related to the AIDS Vigil, particularly photos or their own homemade movies of the protest. He can be contacted through the documentary’s website, http://notwithstandingfilm.com/, where two trailer videos about the film can be viewed. To donate toward the crowdfunding campaign, visit http://www.igg.

me/at/aidsvigildoc or go to http:// www.Indiegogo.com and access it using the title “Not With Standing” or simply “AIDS Vigil.” The campaign ends January 23.

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Memories of the AIDS Vigil have ebbed over the years. As time passed, many participants died and it was largely forgotten. In 2010, Terrrie Frye, who served as an on-site cook in the early years of the vigil, marked its 25th anniversary by creating a scrapbook of archival photos she displayed at that year’s Pride celebration. Her efforts renewed interest in the protest, and in 2011, Frye and others worked with gay Supervi-

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HRC co-founder charged with boy’s sex abuse by Seth Hemmelgarn

board member and co-founder of the national Human Rights Campaign with connections to San Francisco is facing charges that he and his ex-boyfriend had sex with a 15-year-old boy. Terrence “Terry” Patrick Bean, 66, the HRC co-founder, and Kiah Loy Lawson, 25, were booked into custody last week after Lane County, Oregon grand jurors indicted them on two counts of sodomy in the third degree and sex abuse in the third degree, Sergeant Pete Simpson, a Portland, Oregon police spokesman, said in a news release. Simpson said detectives from the Sex Crime Unit arrested Bean

Wednesday, November 19 at his Southwest Portland home “after a Lane County Grand Jury indicted him on charges related to a 2013 incident with a juvenile male.” Bean was booked into Multnomah County (Oregon) Jail Wednesday, Simpson said. He was released the same day on $50,000 bail, according to Lieutenant Steve Alexander, a spokesman for the Multnomah County Sherriff ’s office. He is expected to be arraigned December 3 in Lane County. Simpson said Lawson, who according to media reports is Bean’s ex, “turned himself in to police” and detectives booked him into Multnomah County Jail Thursday, November 20. Lawson pleaded not guilty to the

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charges Friday, according to a Lane County court staffer. Alexander said records indicated he was extradited to Lane County last Thursday. Information from the Lane County Sherriff ’s office wasn’t immediately available Monday. Kristen Winemiller, Bean’s attorney, said in a statement, “Over the course of several months in 2013-2014 Terry was the victim of an extortion ring led by several men known to law enforcement. This current arrest is connected to the ongoing investigation of that case in which Mr. Bean has fully cooperated. No allegations against Terry Bean should be taken at face value.” Asked for more details about the extortion ring, Alexis Dane, a spokeswoman for Winemiller, said in an email, “ All I have to give you right now is that statement. ... [W]e can’t answer any questions that could interfere with the investigation.” The public defender representing Lawson didn’t immediately respond to an interview request. Neither Bean nor Lawson directly responded to requests for comment. Jimmy Green, Bean’s personal assistant, said Bean “is not taking any press calls at this time.” According to media reports, the juvenile victim was 15. As the Advocate magazine noted, the Oregonian (Portland) newspaper reported that Bean and Lawson met the boy through the Grindr hookup app and had sex with him in a Eugene hotel in September. Lori Deveny, the boy’s attorney, told the Bay Area Reporter that the hotel meet-up “was a one-day event.” She wouldn’t say where the teen lives, and she couldn’t comment on whether there are any other victims. “I only represent the 15-year-old boy,” Deveny said.

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tinue to be profiled, targeted, and criminalized for our survival,” wrote members of the Not One More Coalition in a statement. Members of the coalition, which includes such organizations as SONG and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, did celebrate the achievement represented by the executive order. “We can see the direct result of our organizing work to force politicians to see us as human beings and not disposable political pawns,” the statement reads. That coalition, along with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and other groups, were crucial

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paign Fund, which merged to become the Human Rights Campaign. He was also a major fundraiser for President Barack Obama and others. HRC said that Bean has stepped down from the organization’s board. “Mr. Bean has decided to voluntarily take a leave of absence from the HRC board until the matter is resolved,” HRC said in an email sent from staffer Jason Rahlan. Grindr sent the B.A.R. a statement that said the company “treats the age restriction per our terms of policy very seriously and require users to be at a minimum age of 18 years old. ... However, as a matter of policy, Grindr does not disclose details of specific incidents that are pending investigation.”

She wouldn’t discuss what the boy had been doing on Grindr. “Frankly, that’s not the focus,” she said. “That’s making it about the victim. It’s not about the victim.” Deveny said the boy’s “been traumatized because two adults had sex with him. … Those adults need to be held accountable.” Copies of indictments and affidavits in the case, which would likely provide details supporting the allegations against Bean and Lawson, weren’t immediately available. Simpson, of the Portland police, didn’t respond to emailed questions Monday about the case. A Lane County court staffer said Friday that Lawson had previously faced charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen vehicle, and possession of methamphetamine, but those had been dismissed in September due to a lack of evidence. According to Bean’s website, he co-founded the Gay Rights National Lobby and the Human Rights Cam-

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in the push to eliminate the Secure Communities program, or S-Comm. S-Comm required law enforcement to cross-reference fingerprints with the ICE database after making arrests. If ICE deemed the person a threat, it could then detain them, even if nothing came of the charges on which they were originally arrested. In his executive action last week, Obama moved to end S-Comm. However, the program that will replace it – the Priority Enforcement Program – may continue to criminalize and endanger LGBT immigrants. Gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), long a critic of S-Comm, applauded Obama’s announcement. “I have been calling for this kind of bold move for years, including

when I sat down with Obama’s previous Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,” Ammiano said in a statement. “We have had too many good people trying to build better lives in this country, but having to suffer under the shadows of deportation threats. The president’s actions will cast some sunshine and remove some of those shadows.” Ammiano’s TRUST Act legislation, which was signed by Governor Jerry Brown last year, took aim at SComm by creating a statewide standard for how local law enforcement agencies comply with it. “I am especially gratified,” Ammiano added, “to see that the administration has recognized the horrible failures of the so-called See page 18 >>

Locally, Bean is also known as the executor of the estate of Charles “Chuck” Holmes, the founder of the Falcon Studios porn company. Holmes died in 2000. Gay San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener worked with Bean when Wiener was on the board of the city’s LGBT Community Center. The center’s campus was named after Holmes in 2002. Wiener also served with Bean as an HRC board member. Wiener didn’t know about the allegations against Bean, who was also a friend of late B.A.R. co-founder Bob Ross, and declined to comment on the charges. However, he said, “I always experienced [Bean] to be a wonderful person.” He was “very smart and generous and engaged, someone who was a true leader in the national LGBT community.”t A longer version of this story is online at ebar.com.

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Brief summary of full Prescribing Information. For more information, please see the full Prescribing Information, including Patient Information. What is STRIBILD? • STRIBILD is a prescription medicine used to treat HIV-1 in adults who have never taken HIV-1 medicines before. STRIBILD is a complete regimen and should not be used with other HIV-1 medicines. • STRIBILD does not cure HIV-1 or AIDS. You must stay on continuous HIV-1 therapy to control HIV-1 infection and decrease HIV-related illnesses. • Ask your healthcare provider about how to prevent passing HIV-1 to others. Do not share or reuse needles, injection equipment, or personal items that can have blood or body fluids on them. Do not have sex without protection. Always practice safer sex by using a latex or polyurethane condom to lower the chance of sexual contact with semen, vaginal secretions, or blood. What is the most important information I should know about STRIBILD? STRIBILD can cause serious side effects, including: 1. Build-up of lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis can happen in some people who take STRIBILD or similar (nucleoside analogs) medicines. Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Lactic acidosis can be hard to identify early, because the symptoms could seem like symptoms of other health problems. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms which could be signs of lactic acidosis: • feel very weak or tired • have unusual (not normal) muscle pain

• Do not stop taking STRIBILD without first talking to your healthcare provider • If you stop taking STRIBILD, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your HBV infection. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or unusual symptoms you may have after you stop taking STRIBILD Who should not take STRIBILD? Do not take STRIBILD if you also take a medicine that contains: • adefovir (Hepsera®) • alfuzosin hydrochloride (Uroxatral®) • cisapride (Propulsid®, Propulsid Quicksolv®) • ergot-containing medicines, including: dihydroergotamine mesylate (D.H.E. 45®, Migranal®), ergotamine tartrate (Cafergot®, Migergot®, Ergostat®, Medihaler Ergotamine®, Wigraine®, Wigrettes®), and methylergonovine maleate (Ergotrate®, Methergine®) • lovastatin (Advicor®, Altoprev®, Mevacor®) • oral midazolam • pimozide (Orap®) • rifampin (Rifadin®, Rifamate®, Rifater®, Rimactane®) • sildenafil (Revatio®), when used for treating lung problems • simvastatin (Simcor®, Vytorin®, Zocor®) • triazolam (Halcion®) • the herb St. John’s wort Do not take STRIBILD if you also take any other HIV-1 medicines, including: • Other medicines that contain tenofovir (Atripla®, Complera®, Viread®, Truvada®) • Other medicines that contain emtricitabine, lamivudine, or ritonavir (Atripla®, Combivir®, Complera®, Emtriva®, Epivir® or Epivir-HBV®, Epzicom®, Kaletra®, Norvir®, Trizivir®, Truvada®)

• have trouble breathing

STRIBILD is not for use in people who are less than 18 years old.

• have stomach pain with nausea or vomiting

What are the possible side effects of STRIBILD?

• feel cold, especially in your arms and legs • feel dizzy or lightheaded

STRIBILD may cause the following serious side effects:

• have a fast or irregular heartbeat

• See “What is the most important information I should know about STRIBILD?”

2. Severe liver problems. Severe liver problems can happen in people who take STRIBILD. In some cases, these liver problems can lead to death. Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis). Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms of liver problems: • your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice) • dark “tea-colored” urine • light-colored bowel movements (stools) • loss of appetite for several days or longer • nausea • stomach pain You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking STRIBILD for a long time. 3. Worsening of Hepatitis B infection. If you have hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and take STRIBILD, your HBV may get worse (flareup) if you stop taking STRIBILD. A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. • Do not run out of STRIBILD. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your STRIBILD is all gone

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• New or worse kidney problems, including kidney failure. Your healthcare provider should do blood and urine tests to check your kidneys before you start and while you are taking STRIBILD. Your healthcare provider may tell you to stop taking STRIBILD if you develop new or worse kidney problems. • Bone problems can happen in some people who take STRIBILD. Bone problems include bone pain, softening or thinning (which may lead to fractures). Your healthcare provider may need to do tests to check your bones. • Changes in body fat can happen in people who take HIV-1 medicine. These changes may include increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the middle of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms and face may also happen. The exact cause and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known. • Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having any new symptoms after starting your HIV-1 medicine.

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The most common side effects of STRIBILD include: • Nausea • Diarrhea Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. • These are not all the possible side effects of STRIBILD. For more information, ask your healthcare provider. • Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking STRIBILD? Tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including: • If you have or had any kidney, bone, or liver problems, including hepatitis B infection • If you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if STRIBILD can harm your unborn baby. Tell your healthcare provider if you become pregnant while taking STRIBILD. - There is a pregnancy registry for women who take antiviral medicines during pregnancy. The purpose of this registry is to collect information about the health of you and your baby. Talk with your healthcare provider about how you can take part in this registry. • If you are breastfeeding (nursing) or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take STRIBILD. - You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. - Two of the medicines in STRIBILD can pass to your baby in your breast milk. It is not known if the other medicines in STRIBILD can pass into your breast milk. - Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby. Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements: • STRIBILD may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how STRIBILD works. • Be sure to tell your healthcare provider if you take any of the following medicines: - Hormone-based birth control (pills, patches, rings, shots, etc) - Antacid medicines that contain aluminum, magnesium hydroxide, or calcium carbonate. Take antacids at least 2 hours before or after you take STRIBILD

- disopyramide (Norpace®) - estazolam - ethosuximide (Zarontin®) - flecainide (Tambocor®) - flurazepam - fluticasone (Flovent®, Flonase®, Flovent® Diskus®, Flovent® HFA, Veramyst®) - itraconazole (Sporanox®) - ketoconazole (Nizoral®) - lidocaine (Xylocaine®) - mexiletine - oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) - perphenazine - phenobarbital (Luminal®) - phenytoin (Dilantin®, Phenytek®) - propafenone (Rythmol®) - quinidine (Neudexta®) - rifabutin (Mycobutin®) - rifapentine (Priftin®) - risperidone (Risperdal®, Risperdal Consta®) - salmeterol (Serevent®) or salmeterol when taken in combination with fluticasone (Advair Diskus®, Advair HFA®) - sildenafil (Viagra®), tadalafil (Cialis®) or vardenafil (Levitra®, Staxyn®), for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). If you get dizzy or faint (low blood pressure), have vision changes or have an erection that last longer than 4 hours, call your healthcare provider or get medical help right away. - tadalafil (Adcirca®), for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension - telithromycin (Ketek®) - thioridazine - voriconazole (Vfend®) - warfarin (Coumadin®, Jantoven®) - zolpidem (Ambien®, Edlular®, Intermezzo®, Zolpimist®) Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking STRIBILD without first talking with your healthcare provider. Keep STRIBILD and all medicines out of reach of children.

- atorvastatin (Lipitor®, Caduet®)

This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information about STRIBILD. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can also ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about STRIBILD that is written for health professionals, or call 1-800-445-3235 or go to www.STRIBILD.com.

- bepridil hydrochloride (Vascor®, Bepadin®)

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- Medicines to treat depression, organ transplant rejection, or high blood pressure - amiodarone (Cordarone®, Pacerone®)

- bosentan (Tracleer®) - buspirone - carbamazepine (Carbatrol®, Epitol®, Equetro®, Tegretol®) - clarithromycin (Biaxin®, Prevpac®) - clonazepam (Klonopin®) - clorazepate (Gen-xene®, Tranxene®) - colchicine (Colcrys®) - medicines that contain dexamethasone - diazepam (Valium®) - digoxin (Lanoxin®)

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Say ‘I do’ with a romantic Hawaiian getaway by Heather Cassell

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s winter approaches, all I can think about are beaches and sun. And visions of hanging out with my girlfriend, Mai Tai in hand, on a veranda overlooking waves softly lapping at the white sand on two of the most romantic islands in Hawaii: Kauai and Maui. Well, that vision is fairly recent, as we did enjoy a romantic getaway to the islands not too long ago. I just want to go back. Kauai and Maui both offer romance in abundance as well as plenty of fun outdoor activities. Since the wedding bells began to ring for same-sex couples in the Rainbow State nearly a year ago, LGBT wedding planners on Kauai and Maui have noted the increase of gay and lesbian couples saying, “I do.”

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“Maui has actually been the foremost location for same-sex couples,” said Chuck Spence, the gay owner of Maui Sunseeker, the largest LGBT resort in the islands. Maui is a popular wedding and honeymoon destination for gays and straights alike. For 21 consecutive years Maui has nabbed the top spot in Conde Nast Traveler’s annual Reader’s Choice Awards as the best island in the U.S., until this year when it dropped to third place followed by Kauai, which took fourth place. (First and second place winners were Palawan, Philippines and Kiawah Island, South Carolina, respectively.) Other publications rank Maui as a top destination for vacationers, said Kevin Rebelo, who, with his husband, Frank Miholer, co-own Gay Hawaii Wedding. LGBT honeymooners rated Hawaii as the number one destination, according to Community Marketing Inc.’s 18th annual LGBT Travel Survey. Hawaii made the Top 20 U.S. destinations for LGBT travelers in general, according to the survey. So far this year, the Maui Sunseeker team has performed more than 125 same-sex weddings, Spence said. Gay Hawaii Wedding has helped 485 LGBT couples tie the knot this year, said Rebelo. “This has been our busiest year

Political Notebook

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sor David Campos to seek official city support to erect an historical marker commemorating the AIDS Vigil in front of what is now known as 50 United Nations Plaza. As the Bay Area Reporter reported in June of that year, the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution authorizing the creation and placement of a plaque in United Nations Plaza. In 2012 backers of the project were unsuccessful in their effort to secure $100,000 in funds from the city’s community challenge grant program to help pay for the design

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(17th and Castro streets) from noon to 4 p.m. and people are welcome to stop by with their donations. For more information, visit www. sfpride.org or www.hcnkids.org.

Small Business Saturday coming up

Following Black Friday is Small Business Saturday on November

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Two San Francisco men had their wedding on Maui.

almost since we began,” said Rebelo, who founded the wedding planning company with Miholer in 1994 after they couldn’t find someone to perform their commitment ceremony. In more than two decades since they have performed more than 1,000 weddings. During the first half of 2014, a total of 2,939 same-sex marriage licenses were registered throughout the state, according to statistics from the Hawaii Department of Health. Maui came in with 861 and Kauai tallied up 436, with 376 and 200 of those listed as “non-resident,” respectively. “It’s been very successful,” said Spence, who believes the natural beauty and romantic glow of Maui will continue to attract LGBT couples as marriage equality spreads throughout the U.S. Why has Maui been such a popular wedding destination? The people are sincere and are “naturally welcoming to all walks of life,” said Spence. In Maui, the “sense of the aloha spirit is so prominent, much more so than the other Hawaiian islands,” said Spence, who works with the resort’s partners to “make sure everything goes flawlessly” and everyone feels accepted. One of the most moving weddings Spence witnessed this year was a triple beach wedding of two gay couples – one was a longtime guest at the resort who became Spence’s friend – and one lesbian couple. The couples from Utah

never believed that they would ever be allowed to legally wed, especially coming from a conservative state and the Mormon faith, he said. (Hawaii also has a sizeable Mormon population, and protests by church members were one of the reasons legislative approval of the state’s same-sex marriage law took so long.) “It was just so beautifully done,” said Spence, talking about the Hawaiian-style wedding on the Secret Beach in Kihei. “It was just glorious. I would say that was probably the most impactful wedding that I’ve ever experienced here.” The most touching wedding Rebelo witnessed this year was between a lesbian couple from Texas, who brought their children with them because they were afraid that they might lose their children due to having very few, if any, rights in the Lone Star State. “Everyone was crying because they were afraid of losing their children because how Texas is,” said Rebelo, getting emotional. “Now they were married and they didn’t have to worry anymore about losing their kids. Coming to Hawaii and getting married changed their life.” Rebelo noted that all of the weddings he and his husband perform are special for him and many of the couples have been together for 20 years or more.

and installation of an AIDS monument at the site of the AIDS Vigil. Since then the project has remained dormant as proposals to revamp the Civic Center area have been floated amid a revival of the Central Market Street corridor. “The effort we take needs to be part of the larger planning process going on for the space,” said Brian Basinger, the executive director of the AIDS Housing Alliance who volunteered to help shepherd the AIDS Vigil monument project through the planning process. “If we moved forward with just our piece and did not take part in the holistic approach for the whole area

it would be disjointed.” At this point it is unlikely the city will have a marker in place by next fall in time for the vigil’s 30th anniversary. Nonetheless, Basinger said supporters of the idea are committed to seeing it come to fruition.t

29 when people are encouraged to do their holiday shopping at locally owned stores, which help to create jobs, boost the local economy, and preserve active neighborhoods. In the Castro, Books Inc. will be hosting local author Rabih Alameddine as guest bookseller. Alameddine, a Castro resident, will be at the store, 2275 Market Street, from noon to 2 p.m. chatting with customers and recommending

his favorite books, including his latest, An Unnecessary Woman, which was a fiction finalist for this year’s National Book Award. (The winner, announced November 19, was Redeployment by Phil Klay.) In related small business news, the Castro Merchants group has coupons and special offers on its website at www.castromerchants. com.

Allure of Kauai

“I think next to Kauai, Maui is the most romantic,” Joe Moore, a 54-year-old gay man who owns the See page 15 >>

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Hawaiian getaway

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Mahina Kai Ocean Villa, Kauai’s only gay bed and breakfast, said half-jokingly. Kauai is very welcoming of its LGBT community. “It’s definitely a gay-friendly island. I’ve never had anybody be the slightest bit unkind to me and I’m very open,” said Moore, an Atlanta native, who bought the bed and breakfast with his then-partner 16 years ago. He was simply looking for a vacation home when Mahina Kai Ocean Villa literally presented itself to them while they were vacationing. The “For Sale” sign caught the couple’s eye. They called the number on the sign. The real estate agent knew the original owners, who were gay, before the second owner, a woman, bought the inn in 1992. The place was vacant for five years before she bought it, but it continued to wane under her management. It was a “diamond in the rough,” said Moore, when the couple bought it in 1999. The bed and breakfast has a clothing optional pool, but doesn’t advertise itself as “adult only.” There’s a cottage on the property for families. “I believe it is one of the most beautiful places in the world,” said Moore, who moved to the island after escrow closed. The Garden Island, as Kauai is known, is full of natural beauty from luscious mountains to pristine semi-private beaches, many of which are only accessible by foot, attracting couples seeking their dream beach weddings. An interesting fact, Kauai offers more beach per mile of coastline than any of the other Hawaiian islands, according to the Kauai Visitor Bureau’s website. “The sky is always beautiful colors,” said Moore, who is also an officiant and plans weddings. He regularly climbs over the rocks to rel-

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atively untouched beaches to watch the sunset. “It’s really a remote island, how romantic can that be?”

More than romance

Both Kauai and Maui offer more than just romance. The outdoors entices just as much as moonlit gourmet dinners along the beach or beautiful resorts. We took rides on all-terrain vehicles, went horseback riding, checked out a zip-line, as well as golf, culinary sailing, and farming events. In Kauai, we enjoyed a playful baby whale that couldn’t get enough of showing off to us. At one point the whale was so curious it charged up to the two yachts filled with observers, eyeing us before diving deep into the Pacific Ocean to catch up with its family swimming out to sea. We sat down to dine on a gourmet meal on Captain Andy’s Sailing Adventures along the northern coast of Kauai. Maui offers a similar sailing adventure filled with champagne and sunsets aboard Alii Nui Sailing Charters. We got muddy during a fun-filled day on a Kauai ATV Tour with a couple of fun-loving guides who were pranksters and hung out with the cowgirls at Princeville Ranch Adventures riding horses. My girlfriend even got in a day of golfing at Puakea Golf Course, where she played an invigorating game with the course’s general manager, Kellie Hines. Maui’s Piiholo Ranch Zipline, a family-owned ranch, expanded its offerings and now offers ATVs and other outdoor adventures, as well as weddings. Maui Sunseeker partners with many of the island’s LGBT and LGBT-friendly activities and tours, check out www.sunseekeractivities. com/page/welcome. My girlfriend and I have great memories of Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm, which has grown, and O’o Farm, which recently added a “Seed

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One of the cowgirls at Princeville Ranch Adventures shows guests how to zip-line through Kauai’s tropical ravines.

to Cup” coffee tour. The farmer’s experiment in coffee was only a seedling when we were last there. Hawaii is also enticing tourists with stunning celebrity-filled events alongside its traditional luaus and hula dancers. In recent years the islands have hosted a fashion month during October, sports boot camps with the pros from cycling to tennis in November, and wine and culture in December. The Four Seasons will host the third annual Vintage Wine Weekend December 5-7, featuring select wines and culinary delights, and live performances by virtuoso violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn, owner of the famed “Red Violin” and legendary Hawaiian guitarist Makana. Tickets are $165-$295 per person depending on the event, not including gratuity or taxes. For more information, contact 800-334-6284 or reservations.mau@fourseasons.com. Maui Pride presents Grammy legend Thelma Houston December 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Maui Theater, 878 Front Street, Lahaina. Tickets are $25 per person. For more information, contact 808-446-0549 or visit, www.mauipride.org.

Sweet dreams in paradise

After all of our adventures, we rested up as guests of the Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa. If sprawling resorts with pools separating adults and children; plenty of dining and nightlife options; and spas is your cup of tea this is the place for you. It was definitely impressive, from the offerings to the view. We even burned off the calories from dessert and drinks hiking back to our room. Travelers can’t go wrong with the LGBT-friendly resort chain on Kauai and Maui. Looking for something extra special on Kauai? I suggest staying at the St. Regis Princeville. The top of the line of LGBT-friendly Starwood Hotels, as guests of the hotel we were treated to butler service. They do everything from making fresh French-pressed coffee to ironing and packing your suitcase, whatever you need. The resort is set in an exquisite location, built into the side of a mountain overlooking Hanalei Bay. Eco-conscious travelers will appreciate the LGBT-friendly Aqua Kauai Beach Resort, which runs on solar energy. Its pools operate on geothermal energy, said Stacy Manzo, director of sales of the resort

as we walked around the property. In Maui, all of the hotels that we have stayed at or visited – the Fairmont Kea Lani, Hotel Wailea, and Maui Sunseeker – have undergone multimillion-dollar renovations. In 2012, Maui Sunseeker underwent its renovations with the help of the Travel Channel’s Hotels Impossible. To get the type of privacy we experienced in Kauai in Maui, I suggest checking into the Napili Kai Beach Resort. This resort is on the tip of the western side of the island at Napili Bay before Highway 30 becomes a single lane road. Another alternative is to rent one of the privately owned luxury villas through Tropical Villa Vacations.

Paradise’s culinary delights

In recent years, Hawaii has emerged as a culinary epicenter in Polynesia with the annual Hawaiian Food and Wine Festival, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this year. The festival is celebrated throughout the islands radiating out from Oahu and Maui. While I always think of Maui as the Sonoma of Hawaii, Kauai also is an epicurean’s dream. During our visit we enjoyed a private romantic dinner courtesy of Chef Maxime Michaud at the Kilohana Plantation. It was the highlight of our culinary adventures in Kauai, which included dinner at Kaua’i Grill at the St. Regis, Tidepools at the Hyatt, another gourmet meal on the sunset dinner sail and our more casual, but delightful lunch at Merriman’s. In Maui, hands down, foodies can’t go wrong with Lahaina Grill or Pacific’o Restaurant, but we highly recommend DUO Steak and Seafood, Mama’s Fish House, Plantation House in Kapalua, and Sarento’s on the Beach.t See the online extras at ebar.com for tips on planning a Hawaiian wedding, and quick resource guides for Maui and Kauai.

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HIV infections

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the once-a-day pill marketed by Gilead Sciences as Truvada (tenofovir plus emtricitabine) has been shown to prevent HIV transmission when taken properly. “We can make gains as a municipality we have never been able to do before. We can be the first municipal jurisdiction to achieve our vision of getting to zero,” said Dr. Diane Havlir, chief of the UCSF Division of HIV/AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act this spring, and the expansion of Medicare in California, have also bolstered health officials’ belief that eliminating new HIV infections is doable as more people now have access to health care. “I think the ACA makes it a great achievable goal,” said Barbara Garcia, the city’s health director. “Prior to this, trying to get people into care was sometimes hard. Not everyone was covered, so that is a major component.” Garcia stressed that buy-in to the plan cannot come from health providers and local officials alone. The community, particularly gay men who account for the majority of new HIV cases in San Francisco, needs to embrace the Getting to Zero initiative. “The health department couldn’t do this on its own,” she said. “It is really a collaboration.” Van Gorder said he is confident that gay men, especially, will find the plan’s elements “fairly logical” steps that can be achieved. “I think there is evidence from a lot of sources that, between the advantages of HIV treatment for personal health and prevention, and with the advent of PrEP, we could really finally lift the cloud that has been hanging over our lives for 30 years,” he said. “Both for guys like me, who have been around from the very beginning, and for young men just coming here that still find HIV plays a significant role in their lives.”

HIV rates have been in decline

Since 2006 new HIV infections in San Francisco have dropped dramatically, going from 517 diagnoses 12 years ago to 359 last year, according to the 2013 HIV Epidemiology Annual Report released this summer. The latest data was welcome news to HIV officials, who earlier this year expressed concern at seeing a slight uptick in new HIV infections between 2011 and 2012. The number of deaths attributed to HIV has also been dropping precipitously. There were 327 in 2006, and by 2013, the number had fallen to 182. The city estimates there were 15,901 people living with HIV in San Francisco last year. In 2010, when new HIV infections totaled 434, the city health department had set a target of cutting new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2015 as one of the goals of the San Francisco HIV Prevention Plan. Because it took several years to implement programs called for in the plan, the health department pushed back achieving its goal of cutting

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Neighborhood holiday lights competition

San Francisco Travel, the city’s convention and visitors bureau, is urging neighborhoods to get into the holiday spirit and is offering cash prizes for the best holiday lights. This is the second year of the friendly competition, in which businesses and neighborhoods decorate creatively with outdoor lights for the holidays. “We are supporting the city’s neighborhoods and small busi-

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new HIV infections in half to 2017. Tracey Packer, the health department’s director of community health equity and promotion who oversees the city’s HIV prevention efforts, told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent interview that getting down to 217 new HIV cases in three years is achievable. “The number of new infections, or newly diagnosed infections, is trending downward,” said Packer. “I think we would expect the numbers to continue to go down.” At the same time the health department has significantly ramped up the number of HIV tests that are performed per year. It also began encouraging sexually active gay and bisexual men to get tested every three to six months, as opposed to yearly, and recommending those who do test positive to start treatment immediately. Not only would doing so benefit their own health, but by ensuring their viral loads were suppressed, they would be less likely to transmit HIV to their sexual partners. It was part of a new model, dubbed “test and treat,” that the city’s former HIV prevention director, Grant Colfax, pushed through three years ago amid strong reservations from nonprofit HIV service providers. Testing has since increased from 17,000 annually to roughly 27,000, said Packer, falling just shy of a target of hitting 30,000 HIV tests per year by 2013. “I think we would expect at least 27,000 in 2014, and it could be higher than that,” predicted Packer.

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San Francisco Health Director Barbara Garcia

Those initiatives laid the groundwork for the new Getting to Zero plan, and the growing faith in the efficacy of PrEP has culminated in the expectation that San Francisco can halt the transmission of HIV locally. “I think we have a very strong foundation for getting to zero,” said Packer. “We see newly diagnosed infections trending downwards. We see linkage to care and retention to care rates are high.” Packer added that “PrEP is an additional prevention tool in our toolbox. There are many tools we have and PrEP has added to that. I think the addition of PrEP will help us get to zero.” It is estimated that less than 1,000 city residents are currently taking PrEP. For there to be significant reductions in new HIV infections in the

city, officials with UCSF’s 360: The Positive Care Center have estimated at least 6,000 people should be on it. This fall the Board of Supervisors, at the urging of gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos, allocated $301,600 to hire “navigators,” or counselors, who will help people obtain PrEP through existing channels such as private insurance, Medi-Cal, or Gilead Science’s patient assistance programs. The funds will not directly pay for PrEP medications. “To me probably the most challenging part is expanding access to PrEP because of the costs, because of the number of people who have inadequate insurance, and because of the stigma that continues to be associated with PrEP,” said gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who revealed in September that he is taking Truvada. “We still have a lot of work to do around stigma and increased access to PrEP. That to me is going to be the biggest hurdle.” Yet tackling the stigma issues, whether it is doctors who refuse to prescribe PrEP to their patients or men feeling ashamed and being criticized for taking it, will be tricky to address, said Dr. Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV at the San Francisco Department of Public Health and a clinical professor of medicine, epidemiology at UCSF. Nonetheless, doing so is key to achieving an end to HIV transmission, she noted. “We won’t get to our goal unless we address the stigma issues,” said Buchbinder. “Without addressing stigma we will not get to our goals with treatment and prevention.” The reason, she added, is that “stigma is a big issue that prevents people from accessing appropriate care around HIV, as well as preventing open communication between people about their HIV status and what their health is like.” There are those who question focusing so much attention and resources on the expansion of PrEP. Officials with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation have been the most vocal about raising concerns about the effectiveness of PrEP when not taken as recommended. Others have cautioned about seeing ongoing spikes in the rates of sexually transmitted infections if people forego condoms because they are on PrEP. The medication does not prevent against STIs, and the city continues to see yearly in-

nesses by bringing more attention to the beauty of San Francisco’s many different districts during this holiday season,” Joe D’Alessandro, the gay president and CEO of SF Travel, said in a news release. “This competition will help attract more visitors to local businesses.” The competition is open to merchant groups and individual retail businesses located in San Francisco. Entries will be accepted through December 16 at http://tinyurl.com/ nclcysp. A photo of the decorations must accompany each entry. There is no fee to enter. Entries will be posted on SF Trav-

el’s website, www.sanfrancisco.travel, where visitors to the site can vote for their favorite lighting display. Voting will be open December 9-18 and the winners will be announced December 22. The displays with the most online votes will win $5,000 in cash and prizes. The neighborhood merchant group prize is $2,500 and a oneyear partnership with San Francisco Travel valued at $750. The individual business prize is $1,000 with a one-year San Francisco Travel partnership. The Union Street Association was the winner of the inaugural compe-

PrEP a key piece of the puzzle

Rick Gerharter

Great Tan Salon owner Craig Joyner put up what is believed to be the largest display of the Healthy Penis characters in his Castro business in August as a way to urge gay and bisexual men to get tested for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

creases in cases of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia. During a recent presentation about the Getting to Zero plan before the city’s HIV Prevention Planning Council, member Cyd Nova voiced worry about an overemphasis on PrEP as part of the strategy to cut new infections. “I don’t think this tool will work for everybody,” said Nova. “I am concerned all this focus on PrEP will take away from other HIV prevention tools.” In an interview with the B.A.R. Van Gorder said that it is not incumbent upon all HIV-negative men to use PrEP in order for the city to achieve its goal. “I don’t believe PrEP is for everyone by any stretch of the imagination,” he said. “There are many people who can clearly benefit from it and help us prevent further infections.” Wiener cautioned that relying on people who are HIV-negative using PrEP is not enough to achieve the goals of the Getting to Zero initiative. “PrEP has been a major step in allowing us to envision a future without HIV. But PrEP by itself is not enough,” said Wiener, who with Campos has been taking part in the consortium meetings to devise the plan. “We have to continue to ramp up our testing efforts to make sure people are getting tested regularly, that people know their HIV status, and for those people who do seroconvert that they get quickly connected to treatment so they suppress their viral load.” Buchbinder told the B.A.R. that PrEP has a key role to play in achieving the getting to zero goal. While community-embraced strategies such as serosorting, where men choose to have sex with only men of the same HIV serostatus, or seropositioning, where men determine what sexual behaviors they will engage in based on their partner’s HIV status, have helped kept HIV rates low in San Francisco, they alone are not enough to stop transmission of the virus. “I do think the PrEP piece is incredibly exciting. This is the most effective new intervention we have had for HIV, particularly in our population of men who have sex with men, really since the community developed their own strategies

for driving down new infection rates,” said Buchbinder. “They are a 10th or 20th of what they were at the start of the epidemic. But we have either been level or rising and not able to get down as much as we want. We haven’t had these types of new interventions for negatives. It brings together the entire community so everyone can see something they can do, whether for themselves, for their partners, and with their friends, that can achieve this goal.” The Getting to Zero plan is a living document and can be updated and revised as new developments occur or aspects of it need to be tweaked. It also remains unclear what sort of additional funding will be needed, both from the city’s general fund and private sources, to fully implement the plan. Retaining people in care could alone require an additional $800,000, said Van Gorder. “We are still working on the total cost,” he said. Other factors that contribute to people putting themselves at risk for HIV, such as homelessness and drug use, will also need to be factored into the plan at some point. “We need to beef up housing, substance abuse, and mental health services in San Francisco. But those are huge, big ticket items that may take more time to address,” said Van Gorder. A meeting will be held the evening of World AIDS Day, Monday, December 1, to gather community feedback about the Getting to Zero proposal ahead of an informational hearing before a San Francisco supervisor’s committee that is scheduled to take place Thursday, December 11. “This is very much a work in progress,” said Buchbinder. “We need to ensure this encompasses people’s health and wellness overall. It is not just HIV-focused. Our goals are HIV-related.” The community meeting about the Getting to Zero plan will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, December 1 in the 6th floor conference room at 25 Van Ness Avenue. To RSVP, register online at http:// www.eventbrite.com/e/world-aidsday-forum-tickets-10123219823. The hearing before the Board of Supervisors’ Government Audit and Oversight Committee will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 11 in San Francisco City Hall, Room 263.t

tition in 2013. For more information about the competition, contact Carol Perry at (415) 227-2623 or cperry@sanfranciso.travel.

under health care reform. DJ Olga T will spin tunes, and light bites and drinks will be served. Attendees are encouraged to wear their most dazzling outfit, and they could win an award. The event will benefit LyonMartin, which provides health care to women, trans people, and genderqueer people. Services include primary care; HIV primary care; gynecologic care; mental health services, including group therapy; and integrated behavioral health. Tickets start at $75. For more information, visit www.lyon-martin. org.t

Lyon-Martin ready to ‘Dazzle’

Lyon-Martin Health Services will hold its third annual Dazzle party Thursday, December 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Salle Gallery, 1632 C Market Street. Organizers said that the party will celebrate successes of the past year and gear up for the clinic’s electronic records implementation that will enable it to serve more patients

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Tree of Hope

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and stars that contain messages for peace and the future of the world. RWF is an LGBT-led humanitarian group that partners with other agencies to provide financial relief during natural disasters and other services. It has donated over $4.1 million in humanitarian aid over the years. The tree gets its inspiration from the story of Sadako Sasaki, who contracted leukemia 10 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. While in the hospital, a friend told her about a Japanese legend that the folder of a thousand paper cranes would be granted one wish. Sasaki started folding, but died 356 cranes short of her goal. Her classmates folded the rest and all 1,000 cranes were buried with her. Cotter said that Grace Cathedral welcomed the opportunity to host the tree. “They are very supportive of the tree’s purpose as a symbol of global unity and hope and of Rainbow World

World AIDS Day

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lows the organization to produce its annual World AIDS Day observances, and support the Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship Program. Funds will also be designated for the costs of making repairs following the “devastating vandalism” that happened at the grove this summer. In one incident someone struck the Circle of Friends, where people’s names are engraved in granite, as well as several memorial benches and trees. It appeared the vandal had used “large river rocks” to cause damage to approximately 70 names, “basically obliterating” them, Cunningham has said. The branches of several trees were also broken off. Previous vandalism around the same time, which had mainly involved trees, had also been reported. Officials believe the same person was responsible for the incidents, based in part on how the damage was inflicted, according to Cunningham, who said last week that the perpetrator hadn’t yet been caught. Since this summer, he said there hasn’t been more vandalism at the AIDS grove. “Much of that is due first to the diligence and support” of the San Francisco Police Department, which had two officers monitor the area for 12 weeks. For the past four weeks, the AIDS grove has paid for two security officers to watch the memorial space. Cunningham estimated the cost for that security is $10,000 a month. “The repair from the vandalism will begin in 2015,” he said. “We’re assembling a community advisory group that will help us to make certain decisions around certain pieces of damage.” The panel will include park officials, loved ones of people

Immigration

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Secure Communities program.” But Ammiano’s praise was not unqualified. “There are still millions of others we need to bring under the protected umbrella,” he said. “It seems to leave out undocumented spouses of citizens and parents who brought their children to the U.S.” And Obama’s executive order did nothing to address the conditions of people in ICE detention. These immigrant prisons are especially dangerous for LGBT detainees. Transgender people face disproportionately brutal treatment in ICE detention centers, transgender advocates say. One of every 500 detainees are transgender, but one in five victims of sexual abuse immigrant detention facilities are trans, according to a report released last week from Fusion.net. And when victims report that sexual abuse, they are typically thrown into solitary confinement,

Fund’s philosophy that we are all one human family,” Cotter said. “They also loved the idea of working with an LGBT international organization that is dedicated to serving humanity.” The Reverend Lesley Hay, acting vice dean and canon of operations at Grace Cathedral, said the Episcopal church was honored to host the RWF Tree of Hope. “Grace Cathedral has always been a landmark institution in the Bay Area and we’re known for our support of the LGBT community,” Hay said in a brief interview. “Rainbow World Fund was seeking a new venue and we said ‘yes.’” Hay added that the tree is now erected and that next week’s lighting ceremony coincides with the one that will take place at Huntington Park, across the street from the church. Kelly said the city typically waives the $10,000 City Hall rental fee for the tree, but that her office didn’t have control over security fees. She said that Rainbow World Fund had not been charged in the past. As for City Hall’s Christmas tree,

Kelly said one would be unveiled December 4. It is being decorated by public school students and provided by the Guardsmen, a group that sells Christmas trees to help support its work with at-risk youth. For the RWF Tree of Hope lighting ceremony at Grace Cathedral, Mayor Ed Lee is expected to attend, along with the Consul General of Japan, Masato Watanabe; the Rt. Reverend Marc Handley Andrus, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California; longtime LGBT and human rights activist Cleve Jones; the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence; and ABC’s Cheryl Jennings, who will serve as emcee. The San Francisco Boys Chorus will perform, as will Veronica Klaus and pianist Tammy Hall. The event is free and open to the public.t

honored in the grove’s Circle of Friends, and others. “It will not be made up of internal grove board or staff,” Cunningham said. He said the “total cost the grove will incur” for fixing the damage and paying for security will be about $250,000. The nonprofit is hoping the city will help with the expenses. Monday, December 1, the official World AIDS Day, the AIDS grove will hold its World AIDS Day observance from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The program begins at noon. AIDS activist and actress Judith Light will be honored, as will Paul Boneberg, the executive director of San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society. Boneberg will receive the Thom Weyand Unsung Hero Award. Weyand, the longtime former executive director of the AIDS grove, died in August at the age of 63. The cause of death was acute leukemia. Also Monday, the Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship awards will be presented, and there will be a reading of names. A musical performance by Parris Lane will also be featured. For more information, visit www. aidsmemorial.org.

est of times; they exemplified the heart-felt response San Francisco is known for providing,” the nonprofit said in a news release. The free event will include celebratory dancing with legendary DJ Page Hodel following a short program. People who want to attend may RSVP at www.shantialumni2014. eventbrite.com. Questions may be directed to volunteerservices@shantialumni. org. More information is available at https://www.facebook.com/ events/1500070733594281/.

Gratitude in the grove

Shanti Project, the San Francisco nonprofit that enhances the health of people living with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer by offering practical support and other services, will host an evening for current and former Shanti volunteers and other HIV/ AIDS volunteer caregivers at the AIDS grove from 5:30 to 8 p.m. December 1. “During the early days of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, Shanti Project volunteers provided courageous love during the dark“for their own protection.” This situation has led GetEqual and others to call for ICE to stop detaining LGBT immigrants. “The U.S. government cannot keep LGBTQ immigrants safe in detention,” Cronk said. “If they’re putting folks into detention where they are more likely to be abused, where they’re being denied medication, that’s not a system the government should tolerate.”

The fight continues

In light of the executive action, Cronk said that GetEqual will be focusing on a specific goal in upcoming months: adding LGBT immigrants to the “low priority list” for deportation. This list, laid out in the memo Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants, includes people with serious physical or mental illness, people will disabilities, pregnant and nursing women, and the elderly.

Grace Cathedral is located at 1100 California Street. People are welcome to submit a wish for the RWF Tree of Hope and can do so by visiting www.rainbowfund. org/tree.

Your ‘do’ can make a difference

Hairdressers Against AIDS, which works with salon professionals worldwide, will be doing haircuts for men and women, blowouts, brow waxes, and other work to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. The event, which will include raffles and prizes, will be Monday, December 1 from 3 to 8 p.m. at Sola Salon, 660 Market Street, 2nd floor. Cuts start at $40. Rebekah Nummer, a hairstylist and salon owner at San Francisco’s Sola Salon studios, is teaming up with other salon owners to host the “glam-a-thon.” “When clients are having intimate conversations with us, we have real information” to share about HIV and AIDS, Nummer said of the group’s efforts. The hairdressers anticipate brining in at least $3,000 through the event, Nummer said. All the money will go to SFAF. No appointments are necessary. Nummer may be reached at (415) 779-6866. More information is available at https://www.facebook. com/events/1544934472388968.t

Meanwhile, GetEqual will also be pushing to include LGBT protections in any immigration reform bill that the House of Representatives might pass. But that process isn’t promising – the comprehensive immigration reform bill would have to be passed in the house in the next month before it disappears. “Do I hope that John Boehner has a change of heart in the next month? Absolutely,” Cronk said, referring to the House speaker. But she’s not holding her breath. Still, groups organizing for LGBT immigrants will continue to pressure Congress to pass an immigration bill that addresses the needs of the community. “There’s going to be a dedicated focus on Congress to make sure that they deliver,” said Helm-Hernandez. “So many of our people right now are still sitting inside of detention centers and will not be affected by the executive order at all. Congress is still responsible for that.”t

Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-14550693 In the matter of the application of: LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑAORNELAS, 529 LAIDLEY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑA-ORNELAS, is requesting that the name LUIS FERNANDO AVIÑA-ORNELAS, be changed to LUIS FERNANDO AVINA-ORNELAS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 13th of January 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036127200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DETAIL GARDENING, 2141 GEARY BLVD., #303, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERIK ING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/13/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/31/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036115800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AN EYE FOR ART, 621 BANKS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTINA MARIA MADRID MILLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

NOV 06,13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036128900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACORN COFFEE CO., 448 VICKSBURG ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICHOLAS JAMES DOMBROWSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036126500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LESLIE KARAS DESIGN, 1745 PACIFIC AVE, #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LESLIE KARAS DESIGN, 1745 PACIFIC AVE, #203, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/30/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036115400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUBBLE UP, 1364 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LARRY TOY. 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 10/27/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036125700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NATIONAL SOCIAL ANXIETY CENTER-SF, 1801 BUSH ST, #18, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN R. MONTOPOLI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036109500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOME CAFE, 1222 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 1ST, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036109600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE UP, 1232 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUNSET DRIFT IN LOUNGE, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036133600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEW UPPER TERRACE MARKET, 4499 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a trust, and is signed MAUREEN MELENDY-SALMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/04/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/04/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036097400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEST IN CLASS EDUCATION CENTER, 4451 MISSION ST, #101, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SUPER & SIMPLE LEARNING, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036131300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLESH AND SPIRIT COMMUNITY, 924 PRESIDIO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JOURNEYS THAT EMPOWER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/03/14.

NOV 06, 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036124200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NVI INVESTMENTS, 1215 FILBERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EUGENE R. HENRY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036111500

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARGAIN OUTLET 88, 201 WAYLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KIN CHOY LOW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/17/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/20/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036125000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOCK MAN PRESS, 654 5TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JASON BRADLEY THOMPSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036105800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC FINANCIAL GROUP, ONE EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMUEL A. SHUMMON. 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 10/22/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036133300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DESIGN DECOROUS, 267 A COLLINGWOOD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIFER KING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/04/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/04/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036116600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOBILE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY, 1058 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DARIEN DE LORENZO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/27/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/27/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT RFP NO. 6M5078 EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the General Manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District has extended the time for receipt of Proposals until the hour of 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 23, 2014, at the District’s Offices, Attention: District Secretary, 300 Lakeside Drive, 23rd Floor, Oakland, California 94612 (by Hand Delivery), or to the District Secretary’s Office, P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, CA 94604-2688 (by U.S. Mail), for Consultant Services to Conduct A Disparity Study in Support of the District’s DBE Program, RFP No. 6M5078, as more fully described in the RFP Documents. DATED AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, THIS 19TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2014. Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 11/27/14 CNS-2691190# BAY AREA REPORTER

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, on or about November 21, 2014, a Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 6M5087 to provide General Environmental Services to Support BART’s Hazardous Materials Program. Proposals will be received until the hour of 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at the District Secretary’s Office, 23rd Floor, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California 94612 (mailing address: P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, California, 94604-2688). Proposers are responsible to ensure that their proposals are received at the time and location specified. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED The selected consultants shall provide services to assist and advise BART with environmental services in support of BART projects, including, but not limited to: hazmat program management services and environmental consulting services; site, facility and field investigations; environmental and remediation engineering; regulatory compliance; emergency support services; technology implementation/ construction management; and public information support. Further details regarding the Scope of Services are provided in the RFP document. The services will not be required on a constant or continuous basis, but rather on an as-needed, on-call basis during a three-year term with the District’s option to extend the term up to two additional one year periods. No services may be required of any consultant selected and no minimum services are guaranteed. No individual consultant will receive compensation greater than Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000). Although there is no Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Goal for this Contract, Proposers are encouraged to take all steps necessary to provide an equal opportunity for DBEs to participate. PRE-PROPOSAL MEETING A pre-proposal meeting will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2014. The pre-proposal meeting will convene at 1:30 PM. at BART’s Administrative Office located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 15th Floor, conference room no. 1500, Oakland, CA. Prospective proposers are urged to make every effort to attend this only scheduled pre-proposal meeting. A presentation addressing the services and the procurement process will be made. In addition, the District’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Participation Program will be discussed. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after November 25, 2014) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: By written request to the District’s Contract Administrator, Gary Leong, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. Reference RFP No. 6M5087: General Environmental Services to Support BART’s Hazardous Materials Programs and send requests to Fax No. (510) 464-7650. By arranging pick up at the above address after November 25, 2014, call the District’s Contract Administrator on (510) 287-4717 prior to pickup of the RFP. By E-mail request after November 25, 2014, to the District’s Contract Administrator Gary Leong, Gary.Leong@BART.gov. By attending the Pre-proposal Meeting and obtaining the RFP at the meeting.Dated at Oakland, California this 18th day of November, 2014. /s/ Kenneth A. DuronKenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 11/27/14 CNS-2690348# BAY AREA REPORTER

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LORRAINE KATHERINE MANNERING, LORRAINE MANNERING. A Petition for Probate has been filed by JERRY MANNERING in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that JERRY MANNERING be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: December 03, 2014, 9 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Patricia A. Mayer, Law Offices of Julia P. Wald, 1108 Fifth Avenue, Suite 202, San Rafael, CA 94901; Ph. (415) 482-7555.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036157200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EHLOH, 272 FREDERICK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CELINE MONGET. 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 11/17/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEWHEADSPACE, 1800 WASHINGTON ST #816, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JHANNA CULVER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036154800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LONELY LIGHT, 375 DOUGLASS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DANIEL RENE EIBA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036155200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JT TRANSPORTATION, 2718 WAWONA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JACKY TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/14/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036149300

NOVEMBER 13, 20, 27, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036143600

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036140400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STONE KOREAN KITCHEN: FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, STREET LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed STONE AGE GROUP, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/15/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/04/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RADIANT STRATEGIES, 4096 17TH ST, #315, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW BYRD PERRAUT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/06/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036133000

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036150000

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036104901

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE UPS STORE 6609, 1225 4TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JING STORE, 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 11/12/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036144100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PICKWICK HOTEL; PICKWICK CAFÉ; 85 FIFTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed YHB SAN FRANCISCO LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/15/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036146000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALLWOOD RECYCLING LLC, 1801 EVANS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ALLWOOD RECYCLING LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/13/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INTERO REAL ESTATE SRVS SF SUNSET: APRIL REALTY, 1788 - 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed APRIL FINANCIAL, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MINISTRY OF PRESENCE INSTITUTE, 556 JONES ST, #304, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DIOCESE OF CHAPLAINCY SERVICE (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 11/07/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOPTENTOPTEN.COM, 530 HOWARD ST, 2ND FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BEANSTOCK MEDIA INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/07/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/10/14.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033974700

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: NVI INVESTMENTS, 1215 FILBERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by JON H. KOUBA, EUGENE R. HENRY. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/30/2011.

NOV 13, 20, 27, DEC 04, 2014 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC14550742

In the matter of the application of: KATHRYN ELIZABETH BROKER-BULLICK, 2059 FULTON ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KATHRYN ELIZABETH BROKER-BULLICK, is requesting that the name KATHRYN ELIZABETH BROKER-BULLICK, aka KATHRYN E. BULLICK, aka KATHRYN E. BROKER-BULLICK, aka KATY BROKER-BULLICK, aka KATHRYN ELIZABETH BROKER BULLICK be changed to KATHRYN ELIZABETH BULLICK. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 3rd of February 2015 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036146500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIPS AND RHYTHM RECORDS; LIPS & RHYTHM RECORDS; 432 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JESSE L. SZYMANSKI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/10/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/10/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036157600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALISSA MADDEN DESIGN, 1101 OAK ST #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALISSA MADDEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/17/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/17/14.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NIMBLE VR, 164 TOWNSEND ST #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 3GEAR SYSTEMS, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/12/14.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WORKERS’ RIGHTS LAW OFFICE, 71 STEVENSON ST, #422, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL DAVID NELSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/07/14.

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NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036113400

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036153300

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036152000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BARBARY COAST, 478 GREEN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed OASIS ENTERTAINMENT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/13/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/14.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-034625500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: TAXI MAVEN, 335 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by CRAFTY CANINES LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/04/12.

NOV 20, 27, DEC 04, 11, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036145300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SL THERAPY, 2057 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHEENING LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/28/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/10/14.

NOV 27, DEC 04, 11, 18, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036155500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SABO, 1328 27TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SABRINA LIAO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/08/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/14/14.

NOV 27, DEC 04, 11, 18, 2014 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036148900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUNA ALINEA - FLORAL AND BOTANICA ENDEAVORS, 1832 48TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JUNALENE ALINEA DEMAVIVAS. 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 11/12/14.

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NOV 27, DEC 04, 11, 18, 2014 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033359900

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Getting to know Pacifica by Roberto Friedman

ime was, Out There tripped the light fantastic. Press trips took us all across Europe, Asia, South America and Australia. Post-financial collapse, dem days are gone. But in recent years we’ve made a concerted effort to go on more locally-oriented getaways, with our trusty consort Pepi in tow, close to San Francisco but worlds away. That pretty much describes a recent press trip we took, all the way to Pacifica, CA. It’s a place we usually pass through on our way to somewhere else. We already knew about Gray Whale Cove and “Taco Bell beach.” But a weekend spent in its embrace convinced us there’s more to Pacifica than we imagined. Our weekend began with a press reception at Sam’s Castle, up on the top of a hill overlooking the ocean. The eccentric edifice was built by Henry McCloskey, grandfather of Congressman Pete McCloskey, over a century ago. It then served variously as a speakeasy, an illegal abortion clinic, a brothel and Coast Guard barracks during WWII. Now it’s owned by a foundation in the name of its last owner, the late Sam Mazza, and has become a tourist attraction, though a highly limited one. It’s open for just a few tours, one day a month, led by Sam’s Castle author Bridget Oates. Find info at sammazzafoundation.org. We ended the night drinking wine

and enjoying music by local band Fingerpuppets at A Grape in the Fog, a Pacifica pub popular with locals and adventurous sorts. When our press group arrived, a band member announced, “Oh, the bus tour is here!” and threw handfuls of its namesake puppets at us. Some pressies brought these handcrafted creations along for kicks and laughs the rest of the weekend, but we’ll spare you the sordid details. Bay Areans will remember the treacherous stretch of Highway 1 known as Devil’s Slide, often closed because of landslides. After the Tom Lantos Tunnels replaced it, the Devil’s Slide Trail opened this year, a 1.3-mile hike that brings you close to geology and wildlife. We think more freeways should be repurposed like this. Trailhead parking is severely limited, but there’s a free weekend shuttle to the trail from Pacifica. Go to cityofpacifica.org, and select “Devil’s Slide Ride.” Post-hike, we enjoyed a superb lunch at Lovey’s Tea Shoppe, including yummy tea sandwiches, shepherd’s pie, scones, crumpets and lemon curd, and bottomless teas and tisanes. We highly recommend this place, in an unlikely location right on the Coast Highway. Then we sequestered ourselves in our Holiday Inn motel room to edit the issue for you, dear readers, while our estimable companion P. enjoyed an adventurous Segway tour of Pa-

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their unique father/daughter relationship and unconventional lifestyle. Her father was the gay poet/ author Steve Abbott, who wrote for many San Franciscan publications, including the B.A.R., and died of AIDS in 1992. One of the few qualms I have towards this marvelous book is Alysia’s subtitle, A Memoir of My Father. Fairyland is as much a memoir of her own life, as well as the story of San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s, especially queer bohemian life in the Haight Ashbury, and the AIDS epidemic. She seamlessly weaves these strands into a captivating tapestry. Relying primarily on the papers her father left, including his journals, poetry, prose, letters, drawings and cartoons, as well as interviews with family, friends, and her own recollections, she has not only recreated an era, but captured the zeitgeist of the period. It took her 20 years to process her feelings concerning her father before she could write about them. Alysia begins with a traumatic event for which she has no memory: the death of her mother in an automobile accident when she was two years old. Her parents, both hippies, had met in Atlanta, GA, at an SDS party, and married a year later, despite Steve being bisexual. He would date men while they were together, as did she, including a suicidal patient she counseled as a psychologist, and who survived the crash that killed her. Living off her mother’s social security checks and Steve’s meager earnings as a poet, they started a new life in San Francisco. Fairyland charts her erratic upbringing, with several incidents that would cause any social worker to wince. Alysia, 4, al-

most drowns in a pool because no one was watching her, was exposed to rampant drug use at a very early age, and climbed into bed with her father’s naked lovers. Steve was illequipped to be a parent, though he had the kind assistance of her maternal grandparents. Alysia spent summers at their Kewanee, IL home. Steve wanted a place in the burgeoning SF literary world, and to find a man with whom he could share his life, who never materialized. They both grow up together as Steve learns fitfully to balance his responsibilities as a father with his own needs and desires. Alysia starts to define herself on her own terms. She enrolled in the French American bilingual school, where she is bullied by other kids, yet slowly makes friends. She wanted a “normal childhood” and didn’t know any other children raised by a single gay father. She hid her father’s sexuality from her grandparents and her friends, telling them her father had See page 23 >>

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Swashbuckling thespians

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Kirsten Peacock and Justin Lucas play young Japanese lovers about to be split apart by war in Theatre Rhino’s The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage!

by Richard Dodds

hat’s worse than overhearing critics dissing your play during intermission? How about hearing from your donors that they are withdrawing their support after seeing the first act of the new play? Or perhaps it’s having a board member suggest you fire yourself halfway through the opening-night performance because it’s not gay enough for an ostensibly gay theater. These scenarios play out right after the audience has returned for the second act of Theatre Rhino’s The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage! That the artistic director and playwright under fire is played by John Fisher, who happens to be the artistic director of the company presenting his play, is perhaps strategic, defensive, combative, or diversionary – apt analogies for a play that’s, sort of, about war. Or maybe it’s just another joke in a show that’s got a million of ‘em. And a few kitchen sinks as well. The intimate confines of ACT’s Costume Shop become a theatrical sandbox where grownups often behave like children even as the basic facts surrounding the pivotal 1942 naval battle somehow get told amid

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been so devastated by grief over her mother’s death that he had no interest in pursuing another relationship. All the confusion and pain of being unconventional is detailed here. One of the strengths of Fairyland is Alysia’s fearlessness in revealing her father’s flaws, his narcissism and neglectfulness, as well as her own deficiencies as a temperamental, selfish teen. Ultimately we admire her courage, resilience, and independence. Alysia never quite accepted his HIV+ and later AIDS diagnosis (which he reveals in a letter), especially that she would have to care for him, and he would probably die. She stays away in Paris or New York, where she attends NYU, as he wastes away in San Francisco, insensitive to his loneliness and fear. Since they can’t afford long-

wild stylistic mash-ups. Largely it’s a boys-with-their-toys story, the toys being battleships and aircraft carriers that are rendered in miniature models that the opposing sides giddily destroy by pounding them with their fists. The generals who have the most toys in the end are the winners. Despite boys-toys analogies, it’s a co-ed cast with men playing the Americans and women the Japanese. “We decided to use the battle of the sexes as a metaphor,” a character tells the audience in one of the asides from the theatrical narrative. It’s not clear exactly how that metaphor functions, but since another cast member quickly dismisses the comment, we don’t have to spend much time pondering its actual relevance to the story being told. This production revels in pushing its metaphors into burlesque proportions. As jealousies arise among the generals strategizing the American campaign, a successful mission by a showboating Admiral Halsey, played by the young and toned Justin Lucas, leads him to rip off his shirt and go into a disco dance. When Fisher, playing Admiral Fletcher as a pouty perennial runner-up, tries the same, the redistance phone calls, they write each other poignant letters, finally able to express their feelings and secrets to each other. Towards the end of Fairyland, Alysia notes, “Dad could always make me feel better when the outside world made me feel strange. Dad was the one who loved me best of all.” She attends to him in his final days at Maitri Hospice, dying four days before her 22nd birthday. A sense of sadness, loss, and waste pervades the book, though Alysia is never sentimental.OFF Her complex emotions toward WITH her father and mother run the gamut, and though she hasn’t lived in San Francisco in 20 years (she resides in Cambridge with her college professor husband) she concludes, “I still feel a part of this queer community. This queer history is my queer history.” Fairyland will now become a vital part of the narrative history of our San Franciscan queer culture.t

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sults are less glorious. Fisher often puts himself out on a comic limb with his performance as Fletcher. His instincts feel right, and you can see what he’s going for with his outlandish mugging and campy delivery, but his resources don’t quite scale the ambitious comedic peaks he has created for himself. Donald Currie, as Admiral Nimitz, offers his easier-going style of comedy that does involve occasional outbursts of humping nearby objects. It’s hard to single out others in the nine-member cast, who play an array of characters, not to mention fighter planes and a ballet corps who dance a Swan Lake-like sayonara to a sinking ship, although JD Scalzo has some memorable moments as a less-than-commanding commander and Daile Mitchem is an imposing Admiral Yamamoto. Several songs with lyrics by Fisher and music by Don Seaver (who’s at the onstage piano) are fun, and sometimes catchy, especially in a love-song send-up between a Japanese pilot (Kirsten Peacock) and his Tokyo sweetheart (Justin Lucas, now in drag). The “Rosie the Riveter Was a Big Dyke” number is too painfully obvious, but an anthemlike “War” cleverly combines both a Sesame Street lesson-of-the-day message with a melody that can invoke the score from Rent. Scenery and props by Gilbert Johnson, costumes by Lara Rempel, and lighting by Sean Keehan are in step with the swashbuckling comic tone Fisher has devised. The Battle of Midway itself was filled with hits and misses, and this theatrical Midway accurately reflects that.t Theatre Rhino’s The Battle of Midway! Live! Onstage! will run at ACT’s Costume Shop through Nov. 30. Tickets are $15-$20. Call (800) 838-3006 or go to therhino.org.

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Loosey-goosey time by Richard Dodds

he silhouetted cut-outs of louche businessmen and the women who like louche businessmen are projected on a large screen, greeting us like opening credits as we take our seats for Promises, Promises. The television series Mad Men is obviously being invoked at San Francisco Playhouse, where the 1968 musical is having a rare revival in a production that hits its best moments when it tries least at being a splashy evocation of a big musical. Put Jeffrey Brian Adams, as how-not-to-succeed businessman Chuck Baxter, alone on stage exuberantly delivering one of the brash Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs, and we are in a good place. Or put Adams, now in a state of romantic dejection, in a sad saloon with a deviously reluctant floozy, deliciously played by Corinne Proctor, and the show again hits its stride. But bring on the dancers for a production number choreographed by Kimberly Richards, and it can feel like we’re at a regional trade show as a new car is being introduced – more

Rambler than Cadillac. There is good news-bad news all along the way. The six-piece orchestra led by Kevin Roland creates a sound that comes surprisingly close to the original orchestrations that introduced studio-quality sound to Broadway. Where the news is unexpectedly disappointing is in the awkward and mismatched scenic design, unexpected because Artistic Director Bill English’s sets are usually highlights of any SF Playhouse production. Projections on the large screens flanking the stage can be fun when suggesting an elevator’s ascent and descent, but are often a confusion of period styles which occasionally give way to drab set-pieces that must be cumbersomely maneuvered on and off in English’s staging. Slick it is not. Librettist Neil Simon took liberties as he adapted Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s sardonic screenplay from the 1960 movie The Apartment, but the snappily clever dialogue that has defined Simon’s career is tempered since the story still deals with some pretty crummy behavior, even from our hero, at a

Jessica Palopoli

Jeffrey Brian Adams plays a downhearted businessman trying to brighten his New Year’s Eve with a newly acquired friend (Corinne Proctor) in SF Playhouse’s Promises, Promises.

company where executives largely see female employees as quasi-call girls. Chuck Baxter, Adams’ character, is more nebbish than Lothario, and doesn’t directly partake in the spoils of superiors. But he starts climbing the corporate ladder by lending out his apartment for his

colleagues’ trysts. Adams still manages to hold our sympathy in selfeffacing confessionals delivered directly to the audience. Simon gets to display his familiar funny side in several scenes with Baxter’s sardonic neighbor, an elderly physician, who cracks wise in

a comically shrewd performance from Ray Reinhardt. The good doctor marvels at his neighbor’s sexual exploits, mistakenly thinking the sounds of ecstasy are emanating from Baxter and his conquests, rather than the parade of adultery that usually finds Baxter waiting it out on the front stoop. Baxter does have a crush on one of his officemates, but she has been more intimately involved with his apartment than with him. Fran Kubelik, sensitively played by Monique Hafen, is the plaything of the married big boss (a portentous Johnny Moreno) who has his own designated nights at Baxter’s apartment. Chuck and Fran finally connect, first by declaring, in song, “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” before promptly doing just that. This Promises, Promises doesn’t quite deliver on its title, but it still has possibilities, possibilities.t Promises, Promises will run through Jan. 10 at San Francisco Playhouse. Tickets are $20-$120. Call 677-9596 or go to www. sfplayhouse.org.

Angels in Antarctica by Erin Blackwell

adio communications engineer Anthony Powell works all year long in Antarctica, perhaps the most hostile environment for humans on planet Earth. Since he’s also a filmmaker, he had the good idea to document an entire year at Scott Base, one of 30 international bases on the continent. The result is 91 minutes of fascinating, breathtaking, and sometimes viscerally alarming glimpses of how humans manage to survive in places we were never designed to exist. Antarctica: One Year on Ice (2013) opens on Fri., Nov. 28, at Opera Plaza Cinemas. Powell grew up on a dairy farm but has spent his adult life in Antarctica, wintering there nine times. He met his wife Christine there. They married there in 2003. She’s credited as second-unit director on the film and is one of a handful of talking heads whose firsthand experience of Antarctica forms a mosaic tribute to the icy land, bigger than the entire United States, at the South Pole. Christine’s job is listed as Finance. There’s also Keri, Retail Store; Josh, mechanic; Tom, administration; Dave, fireman; Matt, chef; George, operations manager; Gen-

Christine Powell in Antarctica: A Year on Ice.

evieve, firehouse dispatch. These people support the scientific work that motivates governments to pay for their presence and expertise. There are few films as rich in visual information as Antarctica, partly because Powell includes so much time-lapse footage of shadows on ice, clouds moving across plains, the Moon moving along the

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horizon, and the eerie green lights that dance in the sky in the dead of winter’s two-month long night. These shots are seamlessly integrated into a narrative that is inherently fast-paced, since it covers 365 days in an hour-and-a-half. There’s nothing trick-photography about it. The self-determining motion of the elements is breathtaking,

Carnal knowledge by David Lamble

oaz, do you want to have a bath together?” First-time Israeli director Yariv Mozer sets Snails in the Rain (TLA), his powerful carnal drama based on a short story by Yossi Avni Levy, at a Tel Aviv university where a hunky linguistics student anxiously passes the summer of 1989. Boaz (Yoav Reuveni) is fearful about his chances for a scholarship to finish his education in Jerusalem; he’s in an intensely sexual relationship with an emotionally needy girlfriend; and his bitter old mom keeps dropping by to needle the girlfriend about how inadequate she is in meeting the needs of her son. “What’s that smell? Oh, you’re cooking again.” Most disturbing of all are the love letters from an old army buddy, sent to the same PO box where Boaz is expecting the scholarship letter. “Hello Boaz, It’s now the afternoon, and I’m here at my desk. I’m about to

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water my plants. I’m growing geraniums, along with spiderworts and a giant plant called a yucca. A tempestuous name with an Indian tone, don’t you think? Yucca. I generally stay at home. Sometimes I’m mustering up the courage to do bolder things. “But I will not burden you with such embarrassing tales. Inside the walls of this house I stay with my most loyal friend, loneliness. It and I hold hands at night, watching television. Time is our great enemy. It has no mercy, Boaz. You’ll understand that one day. And maybe you will not. I’ve said too much already. I can no longer hide my secret. I think about you incessantly.” His pen pal goes on to describe lonely nights without Boaz’s arms around him. The letters, secretly read by his girlfriend, culminate in a plea that the men meet and start a life together. Snails in the Rain is a poignant homage to Drifting, Israel’s first gay-themed feature, by Amos Gut-

man (1954-93). That film’s hero, Robi, was emotionally paralyzed by homophobia and his own feelings of disassociation and ennui. By contrast, Snails is a virtual symphony of male-on-male lust and longing. Everywhere Boaz goes, he feels male eyes observing him, beckoning. In one scene, a darkly handsome young man says that Boaz has beautiful “female” eyes, then attempts to kiss him. Boaz is driven close to a breakdown by his inability either to accept or completely turn his back on the chorus of randy guys all around him. Not everyone will enjoy the ending, but director Mozer makes an incendiary statement not only about homophobia, but by extension about the blanket of sexual repression that engulfs the region, Jew and Arab alike. Caution: steamy hetero and homo love, and references to long-haired Israeli boys attacking adult men in parks. Features: Hebrew with English subtitles; widescreen; color; Dolby Digital Stereo.t

awe-inspiring, humbling. Still, the scariest shots are of real-time wind storms. These frequent events are viscerally terrifying, even through the filter of film. Powell’s focus is on the human community of Scott Base, which belongs to New Zealand, and sits cheek-by-jowl against McMurdo Station, which belongs to the U.S. He spends little time on wildlife and none on the science that serves as pretext for the presence of these outposts. He shows living conditions in detail. And he gets inside the heads of these pioneers in some detail: specifically, as concerns their ability to withstand such extreme conditions, and their willingness or perverse desire to do so. Why do humans seek hostile conditions? One resounding reason in Antarctica is to avoid other humans, to hear the sound of silence, to participate in a community where the spirit of cooperation rules, to witness the sublime and terrible energy of elements far beyond humans’ power to control. When the last plane leaves at the end of February, those who are staying look forward to six months without the possibility of reprieve. This is some kind of ultimate Zen

retreat, without the daily zazen. At the end of April, the sun sets for four months, although only June and July are in total darkness. Wind and storm conditions are truly terrifying, even from this distance. Snow finds its way through every crack, and wind blows it into any open area. There’s a condition called T3 which leaves colonists unable to think, or remember, stranding their consciousness in the present moment – again, very much in keeping with the Zen value of being here, now. Westerners without this philosophic perspective can only laugh at themselves and each other. Repeated exposure to these winters does not, however, seem to have dulled the filmmaker’s wit. The perks to hunkering down include the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, what Keri describes as “a giant curtain of green fairy dust undulating over me.” As she describes this phenomenon, we watch time-lapse visions of limeJell-O green waves brushing over the sky. She was so taken by this vision that wasn’t a hallucination, it took her a moment to remember she was still in her body, on earth. When she came to her senses, she found herself on her knees and crying.t

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Movies to watch for this holiday season by David Lamble

f holiday movies make the holiday season itself more than just bearable for you and yours, there are great treats awaiting. Upwards of 130 films hit screens large and small, as well as every possible streaming and downloading device, between now and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. One reason for the rush is the desire for filmmakers to qualify their wares in the officially sanctioned Oscar markets (NYC & LA). Also, a quarter of all the money spent at the box-office arrives at this time. We begin with a very promising LGBT entry. Life Partners Director Susanna Fogelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rom-com comes with a queer twist: best friends, straight gal Paige (Gillian Jacobs, Community) and lesbian Sasha (Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl) find their codependent bond both a blessing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; texting, phoning and a favorite tabloid TV show â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and a complication, as Paige nabs a boy (the very comely Adam Brody) while Sasha finds herself at loose ends. (1/9/15) Beloved Sisters Director Dominik Graf dramatizes a chapter from the early salad days of romantic poet Friedrich Schiller (his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ode to Joyâ&#x20AC;? concludes Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ninth Symphony) in a story of aristocratic sisters seeking a proper marriage. (12/24) The Immortalists â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re interested in not just slowing aging down, but actually reversing it, turning back the biological clock. The future that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about here is not science fiction.â&#x20AC;? What if we could â&#x20AC;&#x153;cureâ&#x20AC;? humankindâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimate dilemma, and end death and dying? This discussion is framed by filmmaker David Alvarado as a debate between bearded Brit Aubrey de Grey, looking like he stepped out of a time machine, and the bubbly, jogging American Bill Andrews, who gets his mission onto the American talk-show circuit by undertaking a personal daily marathon. (Opens nationally 11/28) Point and Shoot In 2006, a meek little guy from Baltimore gets a hold of a camera and decides to challenge himself and friends who thought his Obsessive Compulsive Disorder would undermine any meaningful career. Matt VanDyke returns a 26-year-old battle-scarred veteran of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Gaddafi wars,â&#x20AC;? the long guerrilla battle to oust Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The dictatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death serves only to open up an even more perilous period of chaos and civil war in the North African nation. An eye-of-the-storm vantage point from a young man who opted to both film and fight. (12/5) National Gallery Nonfiction auteur Frederick Wiseman brings his unique observational sensibility to Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed art institution. From Leonardo da Vinci to J.M.W. Turner, we are treated to an impressive tour of five centuries of Western Civilizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treasures. As usual, the Wiseman touch includes a behind-the-scenes view that only the rich and Gallery employees are normally privy to. (12/19) 21 Years: Richard Linklater The Austin, Texas dude who gave us Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused), and Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy and Matthew McConaughey, is profiled by doc-maker Tara Wood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not every day that a still-boyish-looking Lone Star filmmaker gets to coin a new word (â&#x20AC;&#x153;slackerâ&#x20AC;?) and break new boundaries on capturing a beguiling phase of the human lifecycle (Boyhood). Features insightful views of this artist still in mid-career from Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Black, Parker Posey and Zac Efron. (Thanksgiving week) Zero Motivation This Tribeca Film Festival narrative film winner is set inside an Israeli desert military

Scene from Director Susanna Fogelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rom-com Life Partners.

base staffed by female soldiers. Talya Lavie wrote and directed this peacetime comedy, where the soldiers amuse themselves with every imaginable diversion, from video games to staple-gun shootouts. (12/12) Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles The long-awaited profile of a widely misunderstood and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; despite his

fame, or rather, infamous reputation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; still-neglected film artist. Chuck Workman brings together glimpses of almost-lost work and conversations with cinema giants who still hold Welles in awe nearly three decades after his death. (12/12) The Interview James Franco and Seth Rogen should probably never be caught alive in the clutches of

representatives of the Democratic Republic of North Korea after this candid and unflattering road comedy debuts. (12/25) Flamenco Flamenco Carlos Saura, the man who gave us a trilogy of Flamenco films (Blood Wedding, Carmen, El Amor Brujo), returns with what promises to be his masterwork, combining dance, music

and classical painting. (12/26) Two Days One Night If you think your job sucks, try this trialby-fire tale from the Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The sublime Marion Cotillard is a wage slave just back from sick leave who learns that her job has been eliminated. Her boss informs her that her only option is for her union co-workers to forgo their annual bonuses. The story beats run from bleak to bleakly funny as she and her grumpy husband make the rounds in their frugal little compact. After this one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a fresh appreciation for the phrases â&#x20AC;&#x153;anal retentiveâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;barely suppressed rage.â&#x20AC;? (12/25) Into the Woods Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a long time coming, but Stephen Sondheimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fairytale-based Broadway musical arrives as a Christmas Day treat. Adapted by James Lapine from his stage book, the story may be a tad grim, but the stars are luminous: the saucy Anna Kendrick is Cinderella, Chris Pine her charming prince, Johnny Depp is the wolf (from near Grandmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house), and the masterful Rob Marshall directs this Disney release. So how grim can it be? (12/25) See page 26 >>

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Berlin stories by Tim Pfaff

lthough the Spartacus guides get mentioned in an oblique way in it, Gay Berlin is the farthest thing from one. If anything, Robert Beachy’s masterly new study, subtitled Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Knopf), errs on the side of being scholarly. But the University of Chicago-trained historian of Germany joins an ever-increasing number of researchers who have learned how to turn complex studies into pageturners. As you read Gay Berlin, you may find yourself mentally casting its superbly drawn principal actors for the movie version. I’d plump for Zachary Quinto as Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, who appeared before the Association of German Jurists in 1867 and, in Beachy’s words, “started something important with the first public coming-out in modern history.” It’s no surprise that the fourth, fifth and sixth words of Gay Berlin are “Wystan Hugh Auden,” naming

the poet laureate of Berlin sex tourism and the inductor of Christopher Isherwood into the demimonde that would become the Berlin Stories and Cabaret. It’s the obvious intro. But before he’s midway through his Introduction, Beachy takes on Michel Foucault. You might think, from this particular joust, that the whole of Beachy’s argument is that this episode in gay history was, more than anything else, specifically German, even Berlinish. But it’s hardly that parochial, and provides instead a deep and endlessly fascinating look at one of the crucial stages in gay-rights activism, to use our lingo. The enormously courageous Ulrichs was ultimately unable to achieve the legislative reform he sought, the overthrow of the Prussian anti-sodomy statute, and was twice imprisoned for his trouble. However, Beachly writes, Ulrichs was able to advance his “central thesis,” that “Uranian love [between men] was inborn or natural, caused neither by pathology nor will-

ful perversion, and as such its expression could not be criminalized.” Furthermore, the legal review he instigated, based on facts rather than prejudices, resulted in a new word, Homosexualität, or homosexuality, a neologism coined by “the enigmatic author and journalist Karl Kertbeny.” “Perhaps Ulrichs’s greatest contribution to the cause he championed,” Beachy writes later, “was the inspiration for [Berlin medical doctor Magnus Hirschfeld’s] founding the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Berlin, just two years after his death in 1897.” The HSC became the largest and most important gayrights advocacy organization in Germany, and the lion’s share of Beachy’s study traces the myriad developments between Ulrichs’ coming-out in Munich and the savage destruction

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Selma It was one of the bloodiest chapters in the 1960s civil rights movement, but one that got the nation’s attention, culminating in LBJ’s signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Ava DuVernay directs a stellar Anglo-American cast: David Oyelowo (The Butler) is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Tom Wilkinson is President Lyndon Baines Johnson; Carmen Ejogo is Coretta Scott King; Tim Roth is Alabama Gov. George Wallace, “standing in the schoolhouse door for segregation forever”; Andre Holland is civil rights leader Andrew Young; and Coleman Domingo is the Rev. Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (12/25) Annie Does anybody read “the funny papers” anymore? In case you wondered what Little Orphan Annie was up to these days, Will Gluck (Friends with Benefits) directs the adorable tyke Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) in an adult update of the venerable comic strip. The supporting cast is probably the best reason to catch this one: Jamie Foxx is the story’s “Daddy Warbucks”-like character, Cameron Diaz is a mean orphanage

doctor, who entertained the notion of a “third sex,” turned his attention to transvestitism (another German neologism), he became, Beachy says, “the first to argue that cross-dressing had no direct relationship to sexual orientation.” “With the publication of Die Transvestiten titen,” he continues, “Hirschfeld no longer asserted that there was a discreet ‘third gender,’ but claimed instead that human sexuality could be mapped on an intricate spectrum from ‘absolute woman’ to ‘absolute man.’” The fact that Germany now, in the vanguard of nations, once again recognizes a “third sex” is not a refutation of Hirschfeld so much as evidence of his pioneering work. The intellectual differences between Hirschfeld and another pro-gay group of “masculinists” produced what Beachy calls “the creation of a homosexual cultural canon,” from Alexander the Great to Frederick the Great by way of Michelangelo and Oscar Wilde. The figures in it, including Walt Whitman – outed, Beachy argues, by “Berlin activists” – make for rich reading, as do the big names in Beachy’s deep study of extra-Auden gay tourism to Berlin, including American architect Philip Johnson, who, during his 1928 excursion to study Bauhaus and the International Style, “availed himself of Berlin’s male prostitution.” The Reichstag’s elimination of the infamous anti-sodomy Paragraph 175 in 1929 was trumped by the National Socialists’ subsequent, more draconian measures to suppress homosexuals. “In 1994, four years after reunification, Paragraph 175 was finally stricken completely from the German criminal code, and the legal age of consent was set at 14,” Beachy notes in his Epilogue. “The supreme irony, perhaps,” he concludes, more provocatively, “is that the gay pride parades held every summer since the 1970s in Berlin and other major German cities are referred to colloquially as CSD – ‘Christopher Street Day,’ an allusion to the Stonewall riot, birthplace of the ‘modern homosexual rights movement.’” What’s in a name? you say, but Beachy has convincingly given Germans abundant reasons to celebrate not just reunification but their place in the modern gay-rights movement.t

director, and the lovable Bobby Cannavale (Paul Giamatti’s wrestlingcoach buddy from the under-appreciated Win-Win) and Rose Byrne round out the ensemble. (12/19) Big Eyes Although I’ve not yet viewed Tim Burton’s latest, I’ll hazard a bet that Christoph Waltz won’t cop his third Best Actor Oscar for his take on kitsch painter Walter Keane. Remember the dude who gave us canvasses with the waifs with sad eyes that were so ubiquitous in mid-century America? This is another piece where the proof in the pudding will probably come from the supporting cast, in this case the distinguished quartet of Amy Adams, Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman and Terence Stamp (Billy Budd). (12/25) The Sleepwalker While it’s not Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Mona Fastvold’s Sundance Festival-buzzed horror story does come with the standard haunted house ingredients, as well as at least one pretty male face, 20-something character actor heartthrob Brady Corbet (the very frisky younger brother from Catherine Hardwicke’s classic teens-behaving-badly opus Thirteen). (Thanksgiving week)t All release dates subject to change.

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Eternal princess by Tavo Amador

ll great stars are unique, but few transcend their eras. Audrey Hepburn (1929-83) did, and it’s easy to see why in a newly released Blu-ray DVD set of three of her outstanding movies. Sabrina (1954), directed by Billy Wilder, followed her star-making, Oscar-winning performance in Roman Holiday (1953). She’s a chauffeur’s daughter, which seems unlikely, except that her father is that consummate English patrician John Williams. They live above the garage of the Long Island estate of the Larrabee family. She has a crush on the younger of the Larrabee brothers, David (William Holden). He’s engaged to society girl Elizabeth Tyson (Martha Hyer), a romantic and

business arrangement. The workaholic older Larrabee brother, Linus (Humphrey Bogart), has no time for women. Sabrina is sent to Paris to study cooking, and returns as a chic beauty. At a party, she catches David’s attention. Initially he doesn’t recognize her, but he’s soon smitten by her elegance, beauty and charm. David’s infatuation threatens his engagement to Elizabeth, so Linus decides to steal Sabrina away from his brother. Nothing, however, turns out as planned. Hepburn, who would earn an Academy Award nomination for her performance, is enchanting. Only she could convince audiences that Sabrina is torn between humorless, homely Linus and hunky, charming David. Holden is superb. Bogart,

Salutes & tributes by Gregg Shapiro

rganized by 8-Bit Operators, Tribute to Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Science (Receptors Music/Definitive Gaze) salutes electro superstars Depeche Mode through interpretations of 15 songs using chip-crunching tech. You might think that Depeche Mode already made admirable use of the synthesizer expertise available to them, but the “chiptune” wizards Gameboymusicclub, ComputeHer, Yerzmyey, Inverse Phase and Herbert Weixelbaum will have you rethinking the way you listen to DM classics “Dreaming of Me,” “I Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Enjoy the Silence.” The late head-banger/hairband mastermind Ronnie James Dio, who put in time in Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow and Black Sabbath before stepping out with his own band Dio, is given the tribute treatment on This Is Your Life (Rhino). The line-up of those paying homage reads like a heavy metal Who’s Who featuring legends of the scene, old and new. Gay Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford takes the lead vocals on “Man On the Silver Mountain.” Metallica performs a four-song “Ronnie Rising Medley.” Tenacious D takes its place with “The Last in Line.” Halestorm rains down on “Straight Through the Heart,” Scorpions add their sting to “The Temple of the King,” and Killswitch Engage electrifies “Holy Diver.” The songs of Jason Molina, of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Company, gone too soon at 39, are performed with affection by an assortment of modern music’s hippest acts on the double-disc compilation Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina (Rock the Cause/The Orchard). That’s My Morning Jacket on the title track. Other hipster stars include Communist Daughter (“Hold On Magnolia”), Catherine Irwin (“Steve Albini’s Blues”), Jim and Jennie & the Pinetops (“Hammer Down”), Murder by Death (“7th Street Wonderland”), Sarah Jaffe (“Alone with the Owl”), Wooden Wand (“Don’t This Look Like the Dark”) and Matt Bauer and Mount Moriah’s out lead singer Heather McEntire (“I Cannot Have Seen the Light”). Legendary jazz vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur turns her attention to “mentors and friends” Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra on I Remember You (Jazzheads). Subtitled With Love to Stan and Frank, the album features Schuur’s intuitive interpretations of standards “Watch What Happens,” “Didn’t We,” “For Once in My Life,” “How Insensitive” and “Here’s That Rainy Day.”

On Bewitched: Perry Beekman Sings and Plays Rodgers & Hart (perrybeekman.com), the jazz guitarist bewitches listeners over the course of 15 selections. Backed by Peter Tomlinson on piano and Lou Pappas on bass, Beekman leaves his mark on classic tunes “Have You Met Miss Jones,” “Blue Room,” “Thou Swell” and “Falling in Love with Love.” Singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur honors the late punk godfather Lou Reed with his intimate new album Lou (Vanguard). Made shortly after Reed’s death in late 2013, Arthur’s distinctive readings of some of Reed’s best-known songs, “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Heroin,” “Satellite of Love,” and “Coney Island Baby,” revere Lou’s work while also allowing Arthur to leave his own mark on the tunes. Arthur’s renditions will likely lead listeners to return to the original versions, and find pleasure in both. Painted on a broad canvas, New York in the 70s (Cherry Red) by Luke Haines of Black Box Recorder and The Auteurs is the singer/songwriter’s salute to an important musical era and the artists who were at work then. Opener “Alan Vega Says” is as much a nod to Vega as it is to Lou Reed, while “Drone City” is pure Suicide, the groundbreaking electronic band featuring Vega and Martin Rev. You can’t write and sing about NYC in the 1970s without making reference to the queerness of the time, and Haines does so on the title cut and “Tricks n Kicks n Drugs.” Haines also tips his hat to Jim Carroll, Williams S. Burroughs, the New York Dolls, and Reed, among others.t

who got the part because Cary Grant rejected it, was unhappy during filming, and it shows. Wilder directs smoothly. He, Ernest Lehman, and Samuel Taylor wrote the screenplay, based on Taylor’s Broadway play Sabrina Fair. Givenchy designed Hepburn’s gowns. Funny Face (1957) is Stanley Donen’s musical valentine to Hepburn. She’s Jo Stockton, a Greenwich Village intellectual working in a bookshop that is, over her objections, occupied by Quality fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), her staff, a photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) and a model (Dovima). The store has the “sinister” look Maggie wants for a background to a shoot. Afterwards, an apologetic Dick helps Jo restock the shelves. His proofs include a shot of Jo – and Dick believes she should be the next Quality Woman. Reluctant at first, Maggie soon agrees. Although appalled by the superficiality of fashion, Jo accepts the offer because it includes a free trip to Paris. Once there, she will model gowns, but will also meet her idol, Professor Flostre (Michel Auclair), who teaches Empatacalism. Paris casts its inimitable spell over her. Misunderstandings get in the way of philosophy and romance, but quelle surprise, all ends happily. The movie kept the title of the 1927 Broadway show by the Gershwins, which starred Astaire and his sister, Adele, but had a different plot. Leonard Gershe wrote the screenplay. Hepburn is delightful singing “How Long Has This Been Going On?,” duetting with Astaire on “He Loves and She Loves” and “S’Wonderful.” She works hard during her solo dance number. Astaire is debonair, singing and dancing

as well as he ever did, although he seems uncomfortable about their age difference. He partners her effectively for the charming finale. Thompson’s “Think Pink” number, written by Gershe and Roger Edens, has become legendary, but she’s marvelous in every scene. The three stars are sensational singing “Bonjour Paris!” by Edens and Gershe. Givenchy designed Hepburn’s exceptional gowns. The other costumes are by Edith Head. Donen’s direction is adroit, and the film is enhanced by Paris locations. George Axelrod adapted gay author Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the screen, and in 1961, Hepburn starred as Holly Golightly, her most famous role, under Blake Edwards’ direction. Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the backwoods Alabama girl who is transformed into a Manhattan sophisticate, earning her living as an “American geisha.” He felt Hepburn was miscast. The film deviated so much from the book that it became another, far more conventional story. It none-

theless works very well on its own terms. Although Hepburn’s Holly accepts money for the powder room from gentlemen who take her to dinner, there is no suggestion that she’s a hooker. She is, however, determined to marry a rich man. She’s also determined to help her adored brother, Fred. Holly fascinates her new neighbor, writer Paul Varjack (handsome George Peppard). He’s being kept by society matron Emily Eustace “2-E” Fallenson (Patricia Neal). Paul, called Fred by Holly, learns about her background from Doc (Buddy Ebsen), who arrives in Manhattan looking for her. Paul ends his affair with 2-E when he falls in love with Holly. Although attracted to him, she remains determined to marry for money. She seems to have found the right man, an elegant Brazilian (Villalonga), but when she’s involved in a scandal, he backs out. Still, all ends well in this supreme romantic comedy. Hepburn is glorious, earning her fourth Best Actress Oscar nomination for Holly. Peppard is terrific. The droll Neal is fantastic, especially when offering Paul “vacation” and “severance” pay. Ebsen is touching. Martin Balsam as Holly’s agent, and John McGiver as a clerk at Tiffany’s, are memorable. But Mickey Rooney, playing a Japanese photographer, is atrocious, giving a racist performance, the worst of his long career. Otherwise, Edwards’ direction is sure. Manhattan never looked better. Henry Mancini’s famous, Oscarwinning score included the popular “Moon River,” hauntingly crooned by Hepburn. Givenchy designed her wardrobe, and Pauline Trigere created Neal’s stylish ensembles. When the American Film Institute named its top 25 women screen legends, Hepburn finished third. Monroe was sixth.t

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hether you’re having a feast with family, an orphan’s party, or skipping Thanksgiving altogether out of political conviction or other reasons, you can still enjoy a bountiful buffet of arts events through the otherwise quiet holiday weekend.

Fri 28 The Battle of Midway @ Costume Shop Theatre Rhinoceros' production of John Fisher's comic musical retelling of the epic World War II battle, with a queer edge. $15-$20. Wed-Sat 8pm (no show Nov. 27). Sat 3pm, Nov 30, 3pm. Thru Nov. 30. 1117 Market St. at 7th. (800) 838-3006. TheRhino.org

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Breakfast With Mugabe @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Foodies, the Musical @ Shelton Theater Morris Bobrow's musical comedy revue of songs and sketches about food. $32-$34. Fri & Sat 8pm. Open run. 533 Sutter St. (800) 838-3006. www.foodiesthemusical.com

The Jewelry Box @ The Marsh Brian Copeland's solo show about his family's eccentric holiday memories, when as a six-year-old trying to get employment to buy his grandma a gift. $30-$100. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru Dec. 27. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

West Coast premiere of Fraser Grace's provocative drama about the Zimbabwe president's MacBeth-ish haunts and therapy sessions. $35$50. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Extended thru Dec. 14. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Npv. 28-30 & Dec. 5-7: Sing-Along The Sound of Music (1pm, 7pm). $11$16. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park Lot

Party People @ Berkeley Repertory

The Montreal acrobatic circus returns with their new show, Kurious: Cabinet of Curiosities, a steampunk-themed spectacle. $53-$135. Tue-Sat 8pm. Fri & Sat 4:30pm. Sun 1:30pm & 5pm. Thru Jan. 18. Third Street at Terry A. Francis Blvd. (800) 450-1480. www.cirquedusoleil.com

Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, and William Ruiz's music and theatre stage adaptation of Black Panthers and Young Lords veterans who reunite at a young activist art opening. $29-$79. Tue-Sat 8pm (Wed & Sun 7pm). Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 30. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2900. berkeleyrep.org

The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) @ Marin Theatre Company

Promises, Promises @ SF Playhouse

Reduced Shakespeare Company's production of Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor's hilarious three-man comedy work about theatre. Tue & Thu Fri & Sat 8pm. Wed 7:30pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 21. 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org

Eden Hutchinson @ Glama-Rama The hair salon hosts the artist's exhibit of works, Bitter Waitresses, Hair-Brained Hairdressers & Whirling Dervishes. Thru Jan. 4. 304 Valencia St. www.glamarama.com

Faulted @ Thick House Angela Santillo's new play about an empath and a seismologist graduate student, California's impending tectonic dangers, and cultural clashes in the Golden State. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 7. 1695 18th St. (800) 838-3006. foolsfury.org

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Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Neil Simon's lighthearted swingin' '60s Broadway hit gets a local production. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru Jan 10. Kensington Park Hotel, 450 Post St., 2nd floor. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Pussy @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Maura Holleran's acclaimed solo show is about the cat owned by a lesbian couple, and their pet's whimsical interpretations of their lives. $20-$25. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 30. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 8618972. www.nctcsf.org

Safeway Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square The seventh annual ice skating festivities, including special events (Macy's Christmas tree lighting ceremony, Nov. 28, 6pm); continues thru Jan 19. $7-$11. Skate rentals $6. Powell St. at Geary. 781-2688. www.unionsquareicerink.com

Shakespeare's R&J @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Joe Calarco's hit gay retake on Romeo and Juliet returns, this time set in dangerously antigay modern-day Egypt; staged by Ben Randle. $25$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Dec. 14. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

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Sean Ryan

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“Our neighbors like to make comments about the tree as they walk by, since our window faces the street,” he said. “But we won’t turn the lights on just yet.” Ryan will be lighting up the stage at Feinstein’s with a special holiday show packed with fun twists on some traditional, and not so traditional songs, and a witty take on Hollywood. “I have a pretty good amount of material, and it all started with an REAF holiday benefit,” Ryan said of his annual participation in the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s annual Help Is On the Way benefit concert. That show, on December 8, includes Jason Brock, Latoya London, and other music and comedy talents will perform. With so many humorous holiday songs having become well known, Ryan decided to pen a few original tunes for his new show. And yes, he will don his “gay apparel,” a wacky Christmas tree costume that he premiered at a recent REAF benefit show, as well as a few other surprises. “I have a few costumes changes, which means that I’ll have a few special guests,” he said. Ryan’s show includes the Kelly Park Band, and guest singers Carly Ozard and The Coker Sisters. And while the jokes may be a little saucy, Ryan keeps it PG-rated. “It’s funny to perform in San Francisco, because I have my adult cabaret audience, and the kids from my theatre camps. It becomes a sort of a party.”

Schoolhouse Rocks

Ryan is referring to his popular Young Actors’ Theatre Camps, which are held several times a year in the nearby Santa Cruz Mountains (www.campyatc.com). The camp is inclusive to all participants ages 8 to 18. Guest instructors have included Broadway and TV stars, composers and casting directors. Recognized as one of the top theatre camps in the U.S., Ryan speaks with a special pride when talking about the project. “Thirteen years ago, we started with a one-week camp and 34 kids,” said Ryan. “Now it’s six or seven weeks a year, with 50 kids for each session. We’re the only one that doesn’t hold auditions for admittance. We don’t focus on performance, although we do have a showcase. We do everything from acting for film to classical styles and stage combat. Students will be able to leave with a variety of options.” The next Winter camp runs from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3. Many of his former students also attend his cabaret shows.

Shawn Ryan (right) and his partner John Ainsworth

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“The really fun part for me with the cabaret show is that this is one of the rare times of year that I can do comedy where everyone’s in such a great mood,” said Ryan. “You don’t have to win over an audience on the holidays. It’s fun, but I also get to do some of the emotional fun stuff.” With his musical director, Ryan has adapted some pop songs with a twist, such as Florence and The Machine’s “Shake It Off.” “I can pretty much adapt anything for voice, but in terms of the comedy, it has to be original and make me laugh,” said Ryan. “Maybe the person delivering it doesn’t do it justice. It can’t be too over the top for me, which sounds weird. When writers send me stuff, sometimes it’s cute, and I try to use it. But I want audiences to be rolling in the aisles.” One of those songs might include his parody of “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth,” where Ryan replaced a longing for teeth with getting a replacement foreskin. “I’m not gonna call myself Rodgers & Hammerstein,” he joked. “And that song might be a time where we suggest that the kids use the rest room.” Along with his independently produced music CDs, fans may know of Ryan from his numerous TV appearances. Ryan first came to national attention as a finalist on the 2006 first season of America’s Got Talent. Despite not winning first place, he went on to continued success, and actually had several years of it beforehand. Recent roles have included a lauded 2014 portrayal of transgender character ‘Destiny Childs’ on the detective series Bones.

John Ainsworth and Shawn Ryan at their wedding

“I thought I’d end up in sitcoms, but it turned out to be murder suspects,” he said. The role was turned down by Jane Lynch. “I love getting the opportunity to play those roles,” said Ryan. “Playing roles in a female character, I’m so much less inhibited, and I got to flirt onscreen with David Boreanz, and then talk about being beat up as a kid, so the role had a great arc.” He’s taken a few similar roles, accepting the fact that casting directors rarely see beyond type, or what an actor’s just done. Ryan also has a cameo (along with his partner Ainsworth, who’s been on Glee and other TV shows) in the gay action comedy Hot Guys With Guns, where the couple play characters based on themselves. To push the limits further, the duo also finished directing, producing and acting roles in the short dramatic film, Charlie, with which Ryan and Ainsworth plan to make the film festival rounds next year. Guest stars include Jim Ohare (Parks and Recreation) and legendary cabaret singer Andrea Marcovicci. “A lot of people are creating for themselves,” Ryan said of his endeavors. “It’s all self-creation all the way. You still see Academy Award winners producing work they want to do.” Charlie concerns a man who goes hysterically mute. “It’s such a good script and fun to play,” said Ryan, who gave his costars extensive monologues that played against their type.

Sweet Smell of Success

Ryan said fans sometimes recognize him from such TV roles, but still don’t know about his extensive music successes, despite the fact that many dramatic actors, as he said, “all have musical theatre backgrounds. The industry pares us into one thing.” Before his America’s Got Talent competition, Ryan had been playing clubs for five years, and had two CDs. “And then all of a sudden, 18 million people see you, and you’re an overnight success.” Even so, Ryan is grateful. “Even if only a hundredth of viewers like you, you have 100,000 fans. Luckily

Shawn Ryan in Charlie

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Shawn Ryan in his ‘Angel on a Christmas Tree’ costume at a recent REAF benefit.

for me, I was able to produce right afterward. It was funny, because when I ‘lost’ I went on to a 35-city tour that year.” Not taking someone else’s definition of winning is part of Ryan’s continued success. “You have to make up your own rules.” Ryan describes the very different success of performing for a small audience in a nightclub. “It’s fun to have that one-on-one with your tightest fans. The greatest thing people say is, ‘Why aren’t you famous?” And while some perhaps more famous celebrities have gained headlines for coming out later in their careers, and celebrity couples can get a splashy lifestyle feature in major publications, Ryan and Ainsworth have maintained a comfortably out status for years. “Being a gay celebrity, which I guess means you hang out with Jai Rodriguez and Bruce Vilanch all the time (they do, sometimes), as a couple, it’s interesting,” said Ryan. “It takes you to that next level where people are fascinated that two people with some notoriety sleep in the same bed. We’re not very public with our relationship, but we are out. We’ve also been married for 14 years, so there’s not much to discuss. In Hollywood, 14 years might as well be 100.” By days, the couple runs their own small production company that manages Ryan’s concerts, their movie projects and the theatre camps. “We don’t have the adjustment period that other couples have, to come home from work,” said Ryan. “We’re at desks 15 feet away, so there’s no decompression. We own

the business and work together, so there are often times where we just quit for the day and go to a movie. We’re able to live here and tend to travel several months a year, to recharge and get inspired.” The two are planning to visit Germany and Switzerland in 2016. Ryan mentioned that he wrote the first draft of the Charlie screenplay while on a beach in Spain. Asked where he visits in between shows when in the Bay Area, Ryan said, “I love Union Square area. Colibri is my favorite restaurant, right across the street from A.C.T. San Francisco theatre is still some of the best.” Ryan cited New Conservatory Theatre Center and The Marsh among his favorites. As for dining out, “In the Castro, you can find me at Swirl or the Oyster Bar, I’m out in front and waiting. I’ll probably be there each night!” Who knows? He might think up another screenplay while he’s here. “Anything can be an inspiration,” said Ryan. “We’ve designed our lives to live that lifestyle. We worked for a really long time at this. At dinner, my friends have a laugh when a fan comes up while we’re out, and asks for an autograph from me or John. My friends don’t consider us famous.” But he is successful, on his own terms. And he shares that with his fans and his students. “While not everyone’s going to win an Oscar, you can have a career at this.” Ryan recalled how his parents doubted the precarious nature of show business, and wanted him to pursue “‘Something with more certainty.’ But really, even if you decide to be an accountant, is there really any certainty in anything?” Ryan described a recent audition call where he observed several young actors impatiently awaiting their turn. “Sometimes, people miss the moments of the each step of the way, how to measure true success. I have a ring on my finger with an amazing man. That is the meaning of success.”t Shawn Ryan performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, 222 Mason Street, December 6 & 7 at 7pm. $25-$40 ($20 food/drink minimum). www.shawn-ryan.com www.ticketweb.com

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An assortment of sexy calendars, including: Tom Daley’s 2015 calendar (left), The Warwick Rowers calendar (above), and The Rentboy Players 2015 Calendar (right)

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ooking for a little sexy stuff for a loved one, or for yourself? While others wait in lines at stores over the holiday weekend, you can enjoy some fun shopping locally and online to make your stocking stuffed and full of fun. First up, sexy bedsheets! Tom of Finland by Finlayson features artwork by one of the world’s bestknown artists on a series of sheets, pillow cases and towels. Imagine cuddling up next to your favorite super-hung he-man. One of Finland’s oldest textile companies, Finlayson, has teamed up with the estate of the artist for a bed and bath series of sheets, towels and accessories bearing the illustrator’s popular homoerotic drawings. The Tom of Finland by Finlayson line with two prints “Fellows” and “Face to Face” will initially be available in Europe, the US and Australia. In 2015 the selection of items will be expanded to include other items. You can even buy fabric by the yard and make your own Tom creations. www.byfinlayson.com Want to reach out and touch, or get touched? Anne Hooper’s Erotic Massage can offer tips on smoothing out tight muscles and loosening up others. The step-by-step illustrations and great tips for erotic stimulation show you how to enrich your love-making through the power of touch. The book features more than 200 all new erotic and vibrant photographs (of men and women) that demonstrate sensual touching.

For camp fun, how about the Gay Romance Coloring Book? This and many other amusing tomes are available at local bookstores, and November 29 is Small Business Shopping Day. Along with erotic bedside tomes, you can keep the sexy going year ‘round with hung hotties on your wall. Calendars next year in the sweet and sexy category range from gay Olympic cutie Tom Daley’s calendar to the Warwick Rowers, who once again strip down to nothing but their big stiff oars. For full nudity to keep each month inspired, Falcon, Titan, Colt and other porn studios have 2015 calendars for sale, and even some of the most rent-able sex workers in porn and from

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Communal Tables

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to sidestep the rules semantically, though it remains to be seen how the city reacts. Legal status aside, there are still unknowns. When you go to a restaurant or to a friend’s house, you have certain expectations around the quality of the experience. Between strangers, it’s a leap of faith. Both EatWith and Feastly insure their hosts for $1 million against potential damages stemming from the dinner, including food-borne illness. According to Naama Shefi at EatWith, all their hosts go through a vetting process, evaluating the cleanliness of the home as well as the character of the host; fewer than five percent are accepted. Conversely, hosts have the opportunity to connect with guests ahead, and confirm or deny them as they see fit. Even so, there’s a fair bit of reading between the lines. “You can find some really good chefs and home cooks on some of these meal sharing services,” says Marcia Gagliardi of the local dining scene e-column Tablehopper (www.tablehopper.com), “and while

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Chef Nik Sharma prepares desserts.

the companies claim to vet all their cooks, there can be some duds too. The difference is this is not about a restaurant meal—it’s a more communal dining experience, and a chance for strangers to come together over a meal. It’s great for folks traveling here, or singles, or people looking to make new friends. And it’s fun to be in people’s homes too.”

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A meal up close at a recent hosted dinner.

At my party, I continue to get acquainted at the table with a young tech entrepreneur, his friend who is a student at UC Berkeley, and a marketing professional. Kieran bustles in the kitchen, turning out elegant dishes like figs wrapped in prosciutto with arugula, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic with a dusting of fennel pollen. It’s only

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after he serves his deconstructed beef wellington, a medallion of filet mignon criss-crossed with strips of golden puff pastry served alongside a potato gratin and plum puree, that he’s able to sit with us and chat a bit. By then, those of us at the table are as comfortable with each other as if we’d known each other for years. Diner Alix had similar experi-

ences at a Feastly meal hosted by a husband and wife. “I liked that the ages varied, and we all got along really well,” she said. “[The hosts] later came to dinner at our house outside the Feastly framework and we still keep in touch with them.” Food blogger Nik Sharma of A Brown Table (www.abrowntable. com) recently relocated to the Bay Area with his husband, and found hosting to be a good way to find community. He’s cohosted two Feastly meals for 20 people each, and plans to do another in January. “Our dinner guests have been fun and friendly. Some were food bloggers, and others simply share our love for food. They were all open to trying new foods, flavors and ingredients, and for me that’s a win! Another fun part is the open and friendly nature of the supper club. As a gay food blogger, this is a huge plus for me. It’s important to feel comfortable to talk about your food and your thought process behind the meal, making this an excellent platform to engage and share our love for good food and conversation.” t

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We’re all in this together by Race Bannon

ne of the most beautiful things about the San Francisco Bay Area leather and kink scene is how connected and supportive everyone is with each other. I don’t want to paint a picture of a perfect kink Utopia. All communities have their challenges and areas for improvement, but the Bay Area really is special as far as I’m concerned in how we honor, acknowledge, befriend and assist others in our scene. It’s a great place to be a kinkster. Of course, I am sure many others would say that their local scene is equally connected and supportive. In many cases they are likely correct. The Bay Area is my home and it’s the local scene here with which I am most familiar. Nowhere was the “It takes a village” mindset displayed more than at the recent event hosted by the San Francisco Leathermen’s Discussion Group (LDG) (www.sfldg.org) about depression within the leather and kink communities. As I sat in that room listening to therapist professionals and fellow local kinksters explain the details of depression, how it can manifest in people’s lives and how it can be treated and managed, I realized I was sitting amidst a special group of people. ‘These folks get it,’ I thought. They understand that along with all the hot sex and play, bar gatherings, conferences, contests and other things us kinksters do, if we don’t actually care for each other both individually and collectively, can we really consider ourselves a compassionate and caring community, or a community at all really. There is a collection of maladies that inhabit our scene, as in all walks of life, that are either directly linked to depression or, as I like to say, are kissing cousins of it. Outright depression, ongoing clinical or temporary. Loneliness. Suicidal thoughts. Feelings of differentness or isolation. Being the newcomer and trying to fit in. All of these things, and more, are present within our scene just like they are in other sectors of life. Consider also that kinky people can have shame about their nonstandard sexual leanings that long outlasts any shame they may have felt as LGBT. That can be a contributing factor to feeling depressed too. But you know what? I think in many ways we are better equipped to help our fellow kinksters. We have built in mechanisms to connect us and communicate with each other that perhaps other groups do not. That gives me hope and makes me proud to be part of the leather and kink world. As I sat and listened to the presenters on the panel, and listened to audience questions and the resulting answers and cross discussion taking place, certain themes emerged for me about depression and the impacts that ripple through kinksters’ lives and the scene overall. Here are my layman’s observations. Experiencing depression is by no means rare. Many of us experience, either fleetingly or ongoing, some form of depression during our lives. Depression, in all its various ways of expressing itself, looks and feels different for different people. We can’t always know that people we know are depressed. However, when we do, there are things we can do to help. There can be a tendency for many depressed people to isolate themselves. That sometimes makes it harder to realize a friend is depressed. But if you notice someone hasn’t been around for a while, or you haven’t heard from someone who normally communicates with

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Jay Hall, Mr. SF Sober Leather 2014, Mr. SF Sober Leather 2015 Stephen, SF Sober Kinkster 2015 Robert Moore and Ms. SF Sober Leather 2015 Jackie at the SF Citadel ceremonies Nov. 15.

you, check in. Call them. Text them. Facebook them. However you do it, reach out. Just say hi. That single act of checking in can do so much for the depressed person. If it’s at all possible, try to make reaching out result in an in person, face-to-face meeting. Nothing trumps being physically present with someone. One of the important things you can do to help someone who is depressed is something pretty simple. Show up. Be there. Connect. Be a presence. You don’t have to offer any advice. In fact, at times that can be counter-productive. Just be a friend. Just be an acquaintance who cares. Talk. Hang out. See if someone wants to grab some coffee, go for a walk, or just “be” together. The

point is to foster a human connection because that’s often what the depressed person needs the most. If alcohol or substance abuse appears to be a possible issue in someone’s life, see if you can navigate them to finding some assistance. It seems that for many people depression and substance abuse go hand in hand, although you can’t always be sure which one ushered in the other. To a friend, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is to see if you can move them toward some help and support. Luckily, there is a strong presence of sober folks and meetings within our local kink scene and our scene is very open and welcoming of the sober among us. Here’s a good place for me to give a shout out to one of the local presences we have for sober folks, the contest produced by SF Bay Area Sober in Leather-SF (www.sfbasil.

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John and his buddy John share a hug.

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Ray Tilton relaxes at the Sober Leather/Kinkster event at the SF Citadel.

org). That contest was recently held and let me offer my congratulations to the winners. I hope the contest and its titleholders do some good in fostering awareness and help for those who might need to address substance abuse issues in their lives. The winners for 2015 are Mr. SF Sober Leather Stephen, Ms. SF Sober Leather Leather Jackie, and SF Sober Kinkster Robert Moore. As a result of the LDG event on

depression, local kinkster David Hegarty launched his new initiative to take the kind of active steps to combat depression that were discussed during the program. Get Out and Love is a project aimed at challenging people to get out and connect with people face to face, to share real connection with other humans, and in doing so help relieve the ever increasing effect of See page 40 >>

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Manimal @ Beaux

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

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

Sat 29 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beat to the Beat @ SF Citadel

Sat 29

lurries of fun, spiked eggnog, hustle and shake on dance floors; it may not be Buffalo, and our winter’s wet, but you can enjoy a brisk trek to find warming nightlife fun.

Thu 27

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge

Bulge @ Powerhouse

The intimate groovy retro disco night with tunes spun by DJ Bus Station John. Special Thanksgiving night party! $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Club Yass @ City Nights Frisco Robbie presents a new 18+ LGBT weekly night, with live sets by guest performers, DJ TwistMix, with a Latin room up front, gogo guys and gals. $10. 9:30-3am. 546-7938. www.sfclubs.com

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

Funny Fun @ Club 21, Oakland New weekly LGBT and straight comedy night hosted by Dan Mires. $10. 8pm. 2111 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.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

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. Special Thanksgiving Muppets, Avenue Q music tribute, and RoxyCotton Candy's birthday.$5. 9pm2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows feature local and touring bands. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland 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

Fri 28 Friday Night @ de Young Museum Nightlife events at the museum take on different themes. Free/reduced admission. 6pm-8:45pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoung.famsf.org

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun The popular video bar ends each work week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. Check out the new expanded front lounge, with a window view. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Rafael Alencar @ Nob Hill Theatre The super-hung Brazilian stud dpoes his sexy very participatory strip act. Bring some dollahs, he’ll make ya holla. $25. 8pm & 10pm. Also Nov. 29. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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

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

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle 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

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

Jock @ The Lookout The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers. 3pm7pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

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

Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event now also takes place on Saturdays! 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge Celebrate eleven years of the weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time's assured. $8-$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th St. at Harrison. www.BootieSF. com www.DNAlounge.com

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

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

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Get groovin' at the weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

Industry @ Beatbox The popular post-Thanksgiving dance party will help you sweat off the calories; with DJ Susan Morabito, hosted by the 2015 Bare Chest Calendar men. $20-$30. 10pm-4am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.beatboxsf.com

Indie Cent Movember @ Underground SF

Vance Joy @ Slim’s

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Haute Toddy plays grooves, live acts, mustache fun for the male cancer awareness campaign, 10pm-2am. 424 Haight St. www.facebook.com/ undergroundsf

Vance Joy @ Slim's

Sat 29

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

The seventh annual ice skating festivities, including special events, continues thru Jan 19. $7-$11. Skate rentals $6. Powell St. at Geary. 781-2688. www. unionsquareicerink.com

Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

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

DJs Justime and J. Maximilian's November edition of the groovy daytime dance party includes a live act with Butch Valentine, and guest DJs Robert Jeffrey and The Synthe Tigers. 3pm-8pm. 1743 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. (510) 444-7474. www.thenewparish.com

Enjoy a special bonus fifth Sunday post-Thanksgiving party, with DJ Bus Station John playing retro disco classics. The front room'll be a dance party, with the patio a breezy cruisy outdoor lounge. $5. 7pm-12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon

Safeway Holiday Ice Rink @ Union Square

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe

Rock Fag @ Hole in the Wall

Afternoon Delight @ The New Parish, Oakland

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle

Dance and play party for kink, BDSM fans. Bring your toy bag and dancing shoes, with DJ Justime playing grooves. $20. 8pm-1am. 181 Eddy St.

A John Waters Christmas @ Great American Music Hall

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

Sun 30

The handsome New Zealand vocalist stops by on his North American tour. $19-$44 (with dinner). 9pm. 333 11th St. 255-0333. www.slimspresents.com

Beer Bust @ SF Mix The popular Castro bar hosts its weekly softball team beer bust fundraiser. 3pm-7pm. 4086 18th St. 431-8616. www.sfmixbar.com

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

Brunch @ Hi Tops Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Brunch Sundays @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch, mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. 2565 Mission St. at 21st. 920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.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

Mon 1 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with Cock and Bull ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pmclosing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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

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

Irish Dance Night @ Starry Plough, Berkeley Weekly dance lessons and live music at the pub-restaurant, hosted by John Slaymaker. $5. 7pm. 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.thestarryplough.com

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

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Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's

Wed 3

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

Bromance @ Beaux

Songs of the Season @ Franciscan Room Donna Sachet's 22nd annual festive variety show of holiday music benefits the AIDS Emergency Fund. $60 and up. 8pm. Also Dec 2 & 3. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.eventbrite.com

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

DJ Kidd Sysko spins tunes for the bro-tastic midweek night, with $2 beer pitchers, beer pong, $1 shots served by undie-clad guys. It's like a frat house without the closet cases. 8:30-10pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Mon 1 Donna Sachet’s Songs of the Season @ Franciscan Room

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey's Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gay-friendly comedy night. Dec. 2; Thai Rivera headlines. one-drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Gay Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels

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LGBT night at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the "Godfather of Skate." Actually, every night is gay-friendly, including Saturday's Black Rock night (Burning Man garb encouraged). Also Wed, Thu, 7pm10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. www. churchof8wheels.com

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

Monday Musicals @ The Edge The casts of local and visiting musicals often pop in to perform at the popular Castro bar's musical theatre night. 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pmclosing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

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

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

Bombshell Betty & Her Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 552-7788. www.elbo.com

Chrissie Hyde @ Masonic Hall The veteran rocker, lead singer/guitarist for The Pretenders, performs classic rock hits and songs from her new solo album Stockholm. $45-$160. 7:30pm. 1111 California St. www.chrissiehynde.com www.livenation.com

Dare 2 Bare @ Club OMG New weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, no cover, and drink specials. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

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

Miss Kitty's Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www.wildsidewest.com

Show off your tattoos and piercings at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www. powerhousebar.com

Meow Mix @ The Stud

Watch newbies get nude, or compete yourself for a $200 prize. Audience picks the winner. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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

Trivia Night @ Harvey's BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 4314278. www.harveyssf.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos and retro drink prices. Check out the new expanded front window lounge. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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

Wrangler Wednesday @ Rainbow Cattle Company, Guerneville The Russian River bar's country music night attracts cowboys and those who like to ride 'em. 8pm-1am. 16220 Main St., Guerneville. (707) 8690206. www.queersteer.com

Sun 29

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle Marc Sanchez

Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm-1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com

Singer extraordinaire Jason Brock hosts the weekly night, with your talented host –and even you– singing. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Cocktail reception and fundraiser for the Tom Steele Clinic, a Marin County HIV services center. $40-$120. 6pm9pm. 86 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. www.tomsteelclinic.org

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

Strip down at the strip joint while onstage strippers entertain. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Women's burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5$10. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

World AIDS Day Fundraiser @ Fine Room Gallery, Mill Valley

Ink & Metal @ Powerhouse

Piano Bar @ Beaux Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio

Kollin Holts hosts the new weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox

Rainbow Skate @ Redwood Roller Rink Weekly LGBT and friends skate night, with groovy disco music and themed events. $9. 8pm-10:30pm. 1303 Main Street, Redwood City. www.rainbowskate.net www.facebook.com/rainbowskating/

Thu 4 Dining Out For Life @ Various Sonoma Restaurants Enjoy delicious meals as 80 participating Sonoma restaurants donate 25% to 50% of every bill to local AIDS/HIV nonprofits, including the Sonoma Food Bank (www.FFTfoodbank.org). www. diningoutforlife.com/sonomacounty

Kimberly Locke @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The stellar vocalist (American Idol season 2) performs her Christmasthemed cabaret concert. $25-$40. 8pm. Also Dec. 5, 8pm. ($20 food/drink min.) Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 6631063. www.ticketweb.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

Showdown @ Folsom Foundry Weekly game night for board and electronic gamers at the warehouse multi-purpose nightclub. 21+. 6pm-12am. 1425 Folsom St. www.showdownesports.com

Switch @ Q Bar Weekly women's night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www. QbarSF.com

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

Thu 27 Pussy Party @ Beaux

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depression and isolation in our community. Isolation is a frequent symptom and cause of depression. This project offers a way to reach out and touch someone in your life. Check it out at www.getoutandlove.com. Here are some other resources that can be useful to local kinksters who might be dealing with depression or have friends suffering from it. Bay Area Open Minds (www. bayareaopenminds.org) offers psychotherapy services to people who serve these Bay Area populations and issues: BDSM/kink, polyamory, trans concerns, gender identity, same-sex relationships, sex work, and more. Kink Aware Professionals is a referral service managed by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (www.ncsfreedom.org). It’s a great resource for kink-aware psychotherapists, doctors and attorneys. The San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance (www.leatheralliance.org) has partnered with Stop AIDS Project to sponsor their Suicide Prevention Project. San Francisco has its own Suicide Prevention organization (www.sfsuicide.org) and they are very welcoming of the diversity of sexualities in our city. I know this isn’t an upbeat topic, but I think along with all of the great fun and hot things we do together, us leatherfolk and kinksters have to also try to take care of our own.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him through his website www.bannon.com.

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Clammy Faye ties up Ken O in a performance at the 2015 Sober Leather/Kinkster event at the SF Citadel.

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Berlin Fisher’s gladiator act at the 2015 Sober Leather/Kinkster event at the SF Citadel.

Affectionate dudes at the 2015 Sober Leather/Kinkster event at the SF Citadel.

Leather Events, November 28 – December 13, 2014

Sat 29 Mr. SF Eagle Celebration @ SF Eagle As Gage Fisher comes to the end of his title year and with the 2015 contest quickly approaching, they are going to have a party, 398 12th St., 6pm. www.sf-eagle.com

There’s always a lot going on in the San Francisco Bay Area for leather and other kinksters.

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

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Mondays

Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies

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Sat 6 Mr. S.F. Eagle Leather 2015 Contest @ SF Eagle Contest to pick the Eagle’s leather titleholder, 398 12th St., 3pm. www.sf-eagle.com

Sun 7 December 2014 SF Holiday Puppy Park @ Mr. S Leather A male-energy holiday event for people into the Human Canine headspace scene. 12:30pm, 385-A 8th St., $25. www.sfk9unit.org

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e’re indebted to Steven Saylor, who is my second favorite author of erotic stories (sorry, Steven, but Phil Andros will always be #1) and also the popular author of a multi-volume series of novels set in ancient Rome, because he’s delivered unto us this fragment from a comedy by the third century B.C.E. playwright, Diphilos. “Three Samian girls were once propounding riddles while drinking at the festival of Adonis; and someone put to them the riddle, what is the strongest thing in the world? One of them answered, Iron, and produced the proof of this by saying, because men dig and cut everything with it and use it for every purpose. After she was applauded, the second girl proceeded and said that the blacksmith possessed much greater strength, for he, in doing his job, bends the iron, no matter how strong, and softens it, and does anything he pleases with it. But the third declared: The penis is stronger than all because, she explained, it can penetrate even the blacksmith.”

I’m going to actively seek them out, but I won’t shy away from them when they arrive. So. What of Turkish Daddies? A decently-filmed amateur flick, it will appeal only to those with a hankering for older men. These aren’t leather daddies, but seniors with all the markings—protuberant bellies, dense thickets of body hair, loose flesh on the neck. Yet the movie’s not as deadly as all that sounds, with some impressive cocks delivering experienced fucks. Hardly any of the guys are actually Turkish. Though some scenes have minimal dialogue in what I presume is Turkish, over half the dads and almost all of their guys are American (proof of age and country of origin to be found at the filmmaker’s VOD website). One definitely Turkish guy speaks the language, wears on his head a soft velvet takiyah, sort of a cousin to a fez, plus a traditional Turkish embroidered vest. What I don’t get is that all the dads, and three of the five boys, are uncut. I expected Turks to be circumcised. Yet a reliable corre-

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Presumably, that blacksmith’s proposed penetrator would not be wearing a condom. And that’s the sort of penetration that provoked me as I was watching Turkish Daddies. I’d seen a condom in a publicity photo for the movie, and I saw them in its first three scenes. But the next (and last) two were bareback, something I’d not been writing about as a matter of policy. Well, I’d been wondering when the time would come that I might adapt to the greatly shifting realities of the porn world. This movie unexpectedly drop-kicked me there. Everybody’s shouting “Truvada!” as if it makes barebacking acceptable. In some instances, it may. So, in some instances, I’ll be writing about bareback scenes. I can’t say

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