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Cookie Dough performed at the 2010 Castro Street Fair.

Castro fair to honor Cookie Dough

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his Sunday’s Castro Street Fair will be dedicated to Cookie Dough, the beloved San Francisco drag queen who died earlier this year. The drag star, also known as Eddie Bell, 51, had regularly taken part in the fair, hosted the neighborhood’s popular Monster Show, and appeared in the annual drag show “Golden Girls” before he died in January after being diagnosed with meningitis. The theme for the 42nd annual fair is “Queen,” to celebrate “all things drag and the life and work of Cookie Dough,” said Fred Lopez, the fair’s executive director. “Come wig out with us,” Lopez said. “We’re really hoping the public will show up in any number of drag paraphernalia.” As usual, this year’s fair is expected to include music and dancing, among other entertainment, along with food and exhibitors. In a letter set to be part of the festival’s program this year, board President Juan Garcia talked about why the fair, “and especially the 18th Street stage,” is being dedicated to Cookie Dough, who he described as “my sweet friend.” “I only had to share with her the theme and she would round up an army of wild drag kings and queens to invade our Market Street Stage ...,” Garcia said. “She was a true professional and always made my life so easy leading up to and during the fair.” Around five years ago when fair organizers moved the Monster Show closer to the Edge, at 4149 18th Street, the show’s “weekly home bar,” the new spot “was an immediate success, rivaling the Market Street stage in popularity,” Garcia said. One entertainment highlight this year will be the electronic pop duo Ejector, who will appear on the 18th Street stage. “They had worked with Cookie on a number of things, and they were excited to be able to pay tribute,” Lopez said. Ejector’s Ben Holder, 45, said in a Facebook message, “Cookie’s kindness, love, and generosity has touched so many of us. She was always willing, and excited, to give performers their first stage. Ejector’s first stage was at the Monster Show when it was at Harvey’s,” the restaurant at 500 Castro Street. “We will be forever grateful for her kind, warm love and support.” See page 13 >>

Kink takes a front seat at Folsom T

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he annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood brought out the leather and kink as hundreds of thousands of people attended the September 27 event. Above, Sean Monroe from Tiger Paddles demonstrated how it’s done as he paddles a fairgoer. One highlight for veteran

leather folks was when Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, presented the Key to the Folsom Street Fair to Bay Area Reporter leather columnist and longtime leatherman Race Bannon and kink educator, BDSM coach, and activist Cleo Dubois. See more photos in the BARtab section.

Natali draws ire of Castro merchants by Matthew S. Bajko

ith the number of vacant storefronts he owns set to increase, Castro landlord and bar owner Les Natali has drawn the ire of nearby business owners for what they contend is a “huge and rapidlygrowing blight” on the gayborhood. The board of the Castro Merchants, the business association for the gay district, sent Natali See page 14 >>

Sacto LGBTs push Lavender Heights project by Seth Hemmelgarn

Lavender Heights moniker. “A handful didn’t like the name,” he GBTs in Sacramento are said. “... They had no history with working to establish an ofwhat the area had been called.” ficial gay district in the city, But the name has stuck. complete with rainbow crossThe boundaries would be 19th walks and a rainbow flag. to 21st and I to N streets. The area The area in the city’s Midtown includes several gay bars and the neighborhood is already known city’s LGBT community center. by many as Lavender Heights, but Ferderer said when the Whole efforts are being made to formalFoods opens in the neighborize the name so the area can be hood, along with more than 100 marketed to gays from outside apartments, he imagines new resthe city, and to help preserve idents complaining about noise the district’s heritage as a Whole from the neighborhood bars. He Foods Market and other changes wants it so that “nobody can say Courtesy Gary Ferderer, Jameson Parker, and City of Sacramento are expected. they weren’t aware they moved One benefit to identifying the into an LGBT neighborhood.” An artist’s rendering of the rainbow crosswalks that are expected to neighborhood now, said Bonnie soon be completed in Sacramento’s Lavender Heights neighborhood. The first phase will be the develOsborn, a lesbian who’s backing opment of the rainbow crosswalks, the project, is it gives the LGBT which are planned for 20th and K He thought it was important for the district community a way to lay claim streets. Ferderer said the crosswalks to it “before someone else comes along and to have established boundaries, so he contacted will cost about $39,000, and the funds have been gay City Councilman Steve Hansen, whose Disbrands it for us.” raised. An unveiling is planned for October 10, the Gary Ferderer, 57, a gay man, has lived most trict 4 includes Lavender Heights, after Hansen day before National Coming Out Day. was elected in 2012. of his life in Sacramento, and initiated the LavNext will be street signs and banners that In an emailed statement, Hansen’s office said, say “Lavender Heights,” at an estimated cost of ender Heights project. “The Lavender Heights neighborhood has been $4,000 to $6,000. Ferderer, a building inspector, said people and will continue to be a place for everyone to had informally given the name to the neighThen, backers want to have an arch greetborhood years ago, but as that generation has feel safe and welcome. Our hope is to educate the ing people to the neighborhood, similar to San been “moving off and dying off and pretty public about the history of the neighborhood Diego’s gay Hillcrest district. That would cost and celebrate those who have come before us.” much staying home,” the mention of Lavender about $40,000. Ferderer said initially “there was some conHeights “was starting to go away, and I didn’t See page 13 >> fusion with the younger gay men” around the want that to happen.”

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man involved in work on an Oakland mural designed by an LGBT man was fatally shot Tuesday morning. Antonio Ramos had been taking photos of the Superheroes mural under Interstate 580 when the September 29 incident occurred. Gay artist Javier Rocabado, of Richmond, designed the mural. Rocabado said he was on a scaffolding painting a section of the piece at 35th and West streets when he saw a man approaching the area. He heard Ramos ask, “What did you do?” Then, he heard a single gunshot. Ramos, who’d been five or six feet away from Rocabado on the sidewalk, screamed and said that he’d been shot, and told others to call the police. Rocabado said he then saw Ramos lying on the ground. He said the man put what he thinks was a gun in the waistband of his pants, although he didn’t actually see a gun. The man then walked south on West. Rocabado could only describe the man as a “slender” black male in his late 20s to early 30s, who is six feet tall and wearing black pants and a black sweatshirt. He couldn’t recall what the man’s face looked like. The man didn’t say anything during the incident, Rocabado said. He didn’t know what the man had done to prompt Ramos to question him. Workers had had out acrylic paint and other supplies, and the man hadn’t taken anything. Paramedics arrived about 20 minutes after the shooting, Rocabado said, and as Ramos was taken to the hospital, “he was turning pale and vomiting.” Ramos was “very generous” and a “sweetheart,” Rocabado said. There’s no indication Ramos was LGBT. According to media reports, he was 27 and lived in Emeryville. Others had been working on the mural at the time of the shooting but couldn’t be reached for comment. The Superheroes mural is about school children and their experienc-

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A man, who declined to give his name, lights a candle near the mural where Antonio Ramos was shot Tuesday.

es in West Oakland, said Rocabado, who described the piece as “a community service” meant to help make West Oakland “beautiful.” The mural, commissioned by Oakland’s Attitudinal Healing Connection, shows people’s faces, some houses, and trees. Early Tuesday afternoon, just after police left, several people came to the site. A woman who declined to give her name but said she owns the Fort Gallery said she’d come to offer Ramos a show based on the Superheroes project. She’d been following Ramos’ progress and said he was “fully dedicated to the work he was here doing day and night, at all hours.” Others came to light candles at the base of the mural. One man who placed several votive candles to spell out “AR” also declined to give his name but said Ramos had been his friend and was “a great person.” As the man spoke, a woman walked up and leaned against the mural for several minutes, moaning. Aisha Higgins and Chaketha Sneed, 28, live just down the street and pass the site every day as they walk their children to school. Higgins, who wouldn’t share her age, said of the area, “Some days it’s nice, and some days it’s like this.”

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“We weren’t expecting this to happen,” Sneed said. Sneed had gone to high school with Ramos and said, “He was a real nice kid. He didn’t bother anybody.” Higgins said the mural is “beautiful. ... I hope they finish it.” A staffer at the Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office Coroner’s Bureau referred questions to Oakland police, who weren’t able to respond to several questions Wednesday morning. A crowdfunding page to support Ramos’s family is at h t t p s : / / w w w. yo u c a r i n g . co m / antonio-s-parents-442193.t

Report details trans woman’s stabbing death by Seth Hemmelgarn

San Francisco transgender woman killed earlier this year died from a stab wound to the chest, the medical examiner’s office has concluded. Taja Gabrielle de Jesus, 36, who’s been recalled as a “beautiful,” deeply religious person, died February 1 outside her Bayview district apartment. The medical examiner’s report, released Wednesday, September 23, reveals some of the final details of her life. Citing information from police, the filing says that at about 9 a.m., a neighbor heard “a scuffle,” on the stairway “followed by somebody yelling for help.” The tenant went outside and found de Jesus on the stairs, naked and “covered in blood.” Nearby were a “large kitchen knife” and “multiple blood soaked footprints.” Paramedics pronounced her dead about 10 minutes after she was found on the stairs, which were outside her home at 1440 McKinnon Avenue, apartment 310. The medical examiner’s office lists a stab wound to the chest as the cause of death and determined it a

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homicide. De Jesus had also been stabbed in the lower back, and she had cuts to her back and face, as well as abrasions on her arms, among other injuries. On February 2, the day after de Jesus was killed, James Hayes, 49, a suspect in her death, was found hanging in a storage unit at 4040 Third Street, a few blocks away from de Jesus’ apartment.

Police have declined to say explicitly to the Bay Area Reporter that they think Hayes, who was wearing bloodstained shorts when he was found, killed de Jesus. However, his status as a suspect is confirmed in his medical examiner’s report, which was released in September. The agency has ruled his death a suicide. Danielle Castro, 40, of San Francisco, a friend of de Jesus’, said of her Tuesday, “I just wish this wouldn’t have happened. It’s hard to even digest that such a sweet soul would be stabbed to death. ... There’s a hole in my life where Taja used to be.” While people who knew de Jesus have praised her outgoing nature, they have also said she suffered harassment and housing problems similar to what many trans people face, and some who knew her said she’d used drugs. The medical examiner’s office found methamphetamine and signs of marijuana use in her system. (Hayes had been using methamphetamine and cocaine, the agency found.) Shortly after de Jesus was killed, the group Trans Activists for Justice See page 13 >>

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AG touts improved policing in Richmond by Cynthia Laird

nited States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch visited Richmond last week, where she toured a youth center and announced to a room full of local community leaders that she was awarding a $625,000 grant to the East Bay city to expand its police body camera program. Lynch told the roundtable of law enforcement, political, faith, community, and youth leaders September 25 at Richmond City Hall that she stopped in Richmond because it was not perfect, but that the city had “come up with mechanisms” to improve. The attorney general had stopped in other cities, such as Pittsburgh and Seattle, as part of her tour to discuss community policing. Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus, a gay man, acknowledged that the city has room to improve, but that strides have been made. “There are a lot of good things here,” he told the Bay Area Reporter during a brief interview before Lynch’s remarks. “But we still have challenges. Promising things here are how we connect ... to bring crime down and have good community relations.” Magnus said the police department has tried to be sensitive. “We don’t want to be an occupying force,” he told reporters. “It’s not so much about community policing but good policing. We’re expecting some very candid conversations from the community.” Brian Stretch, the acting U.S. attorney of the Northern District of California, accompanied Lynch into

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U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch spoke to community leaders during a visit to Richmond last week.

the meeting and opened by noting that community policing is about building trust. “The events of Ferguson are never far from our thoughts,” he said, referring to the unrest that has rocked the Missouri city since a young black man, Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death by a white police officer in August 2014. The U.S. Department of Justice later issued a scathing report on law enforcement in Ferguson. Mayor Tom Butt said that Richmond “for decades” has lived with the reputation of crime and blight and that it was deserved at the time. “Unfortunately, the reputation still lingers,” Butt said, “and having the attorney general here today is a big step forward.” He also said that in terms of community policing, “at the end of the day the most important thing is trust with the community.” See page 12 >>

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Horizons to honor Wolfson, LGBT refugees compiled by Cynthia Laird

reedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson and LGBT refugees and asylees now living in the Bay Area will be honored by the Horizons Foundation at its 35th anniversary annual gala dinner Saturday, October 3 at the Fairmont San Francisco, 950 Mason Street. Wolfson, who will receive the Leadership Award, founded and was president of Freedom to Marry, which worked with national and state organizations and allied individuals to build a critical mass of states where same-sex couples can marry and organized campaigns in support of marriage equality. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, Freedom to Marry announced it would close. LGBT refugees and asylees now living in the Bay Area will receive Horizons’ Courage Award. These refugees often have to escape dangerous conditions, leaving behind

their families, to start anew in the U.S. But as the Bay Area Reporter recently noted, services for LGBT refugees are scarce, and where they are available, such as in the Bay Area, the high cost of living adds to challenges they face. Horizons supports the LGBT movement in the Bay Area and beyond by providing grants and other programming. The Horizons gala includes a reception and silent auction at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and the program at 7, and a dessert buffet and casino party in the Tonga Room at 8:30. Individual tickets are $300 for the dinner and casino party, or $75 for the party only. For more information, visit www. horizonsfoundation.org.

‘Revival 2’ community dance party

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Kendell to receive human rights award

National Center for Lesbian Rights Executive Director Kate Kendell will receive the 2015 CEDAW Women’s Human Rights Award at a luncheon Monday, October 5. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women represents an international bill of rights for all women that was ratified by 186 countries, though not the U.S. In 1998, San Francisco became the first, and so far only, city to adopt a local ordinance reflecting the principles of CEDAW. Kendell is receiving the award for her vision in promoting women and the CEDAW principles in innovative and collaborative ways that have resulted in fundamental change. NCLR is a national legal organization that advances the civil and human rights of LGBT people and their families through litigation, public policy, and public education. The luncheon is being held by the Friends of the Commission on the Status of Women and honorary CEDAW Chair Anita Lee, first lady of San Francisco. It takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Ballroom at the Merchants Exchange Building, 465 California Street. Tickets are $160-$200, depending on membership. For more information, visit http://www. friendscosw.org/event-1943943.

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Two priorities for Army secretary

resident Barack Obama made history last month when he nominated Eric Fanning, a gay man, to be secretary of the Army. If confirmed by the Senate, Fanning will continue the integration of gay soldiers in this post”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. Fanning is not new to the administration nor to the Defense Department. He is currently serving as acting undersecretary of the Army and serves as special assistant to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. He has acquired the experience of a long list of other civilian positions within the military, including a stint two years ago as acting Air Force secretary, and deputy undersecretary in the Navy. In short, Fanning has exceptional qualifications for the top civilian Army post and should be swiftly confirmed. That said, there are two issues we’d like him to make initial priorities. First, coordinate with Carter and the other service branches to open up the armed forces to transgender people as the Pentagon formalizes such service and changes rules that Carter has called “outdated.” A few months ago, the Pentagon announced the change, which will likely occur next year. Carter is proceeding slowly, as officials did when they decided to call on Congress to scrap DADT. Unlike that battle, however, allowing trans people to serve openly in the military does not require congressional action, and can be accomplished within the Pentagon. The change in rules is an acknowledgment that trans people already serve in the military, although they cannot be public about their authentic identities.

“We have transgender soldiers, pected back in court this week to sailors, airmen and Marines – real, establish a plan for moving the case patriotic Americans – who I know are forward. being hurt by an outdated, confusing, This summer, Manning lost prisinconsistent approach that’s contrary on privileges for 21 days and was to our value of service and individual threatened with solitary confinemerit,” Carter said in June. “The Dement because she had an expired fense Department’s current regulatube of toothpaste in her cell and tions regarding transgender service possessed “prohibited property,” inmembers are outdated and are causcluding the issue of Vanity Fair with ing uncertainty that distracts com- Eric Fanning Caitlyn Jenner on the cover. Punishmanders from our core missions.” ment for old toothpaste is inexpliAs Army secretary, Fancable and petty. But we suspect the ning can help facilitate the process in Army, particularly officials at the prison, will that branch, showing his colleagues do everything it can to make an example out that sexual orientation and gender of Manning and delay recommended medical identity do not harm unit cohesion treatment for her at every turn. We have other – one of the main objections military terms for the military’s behavior toward Manbrass had to overcome during hearning: harassment and transphobia. ings over DADT repeal. When Fanning takes over, he should meet The second issue is the treatment with Ft. Leavenworth officials and direct them of Chelsea Manning, a former to follow the various court orders that allow Army intelligence analyst servManning to receive proper treatment. He ing 35 years in a military prison at should take an active role in this case and insist Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas for providing secret that officials allow Manning to practice female documents to WikiLeaks. Shortly after her congrooming standards, and that she receive other viction, Manning came out as transgender, alcare as necessary. It’s ridiculous that the Army though she was diagnosed with gender dysphois sticking to this rigid gender binary for prisria in 2010. In February, prison officials agreed oners even as it allows gays and lesbians to to allow Manning access to hormone therapy. serve openly and will likely soon allow transAccording to the American Civil Liberties gender people to serve openly as well. The inUnion, which represents Manning, the military tegration process of trans troops is a good time has also agreed to provide Manning with speech for the military to review all of its procedures therapy and cosmetics as recommended by her for prisoners and adjust them accordingly. providers at Ft. Leavenworth. Once confirmed, Fanning will be in a pivRecently, however, the military denied – otal role to expand equality in the Army by again – Manning’s ongoing request that she be actively promoting the issue of transgender allowed to follow female grooming standards, service and improving conditions in military including growing her hair. The ACLU is exprisons for transgender inmates.t

A tribute to Father John McNeill by Jim Mitulski

them. Here are a few remembrances: Gay journalist Andy Humm recalls here are a few surviving first hearing McNeill speak to a Dignity/ generation pioneers in the field NY meeting prior to the publication of religion and homosexuality: Troy of his book, when he started his talk by Perry, Freda Smith, Sally Gearhart, saying, “First of all, no serious moral William Johnson, and Janie Spahr, theologian considers masturbation as to name some. Last week another of sin.” those leaders, Father John J. McNeill, “And an audible group sigh of relief 90, died peacefully in Fort Lauderdale, went up in the room – because he had Florida. He is survived by his lover and said it was OK,” Humm said. “But Mchusband of nearly 50 years, Charles Neill wanted to forge a church where Chiarelli, and by countless LGBT the faithful didn’t look to the hierarchy people who found freedom from and for guidance but to each other and to freedom within the Roman Catholic their own consciences.” Church to celebrate their God-given Joseph Kramer, founder of Ero LGBT identity. Spirit Research Institute (http://www. You will find many tributes to this erospirit.ca/education/free-onlinegreat man who was pastor, priest, education/sex-and-spirit/), said, “I theologian, therapist, activist, counfirst met John on the Feast of St. Igselor, and leader. The year he was disnatius Loyola at the 98th Street Jesuit ciplined by the Vatican, and Cardinal residence in NYC, where I had gone to Josef Ratzinger (who later became celebrate the founding of the Jesuits. Pope Benedict), he was named grand Over the next few years, I experienced marshal of the New York City Pride first hand his relentless passion for jusparade. Metropolitan Community tice and human liberation. He inspired Church-San Francisco, the church I and motivated me and countless othBill Wilson served in the Castro for many years, ers to commit to a life of service. He declared him a Living Saint. His Father John McNeill, in wheelchair, attended EuroPride in was a man for others.” greatest achievement was writing the June 2011. He was accompanied by his husband, Charles Robert John Wolff, of New York groundbreaking book The Church and Chiarelli, right, and Brendan Fay, pushing wheelchair, who City, recalled, “When I left Boston Colthe Homosexual, which declared that made a documentary about him. lege in spring 1975 a few credits short the sacred character of homosexual of a degree, a priest named Tom Oddo relationships should be measured by ( Paulist, I think!) told me to look up He used his priesthood to emancipate us from the same standards as heterosexual John McNeill. After some meanderreligion. relationships, that they were essentially the ing I ended up at one of Dignity’s Masses and In the 1970s McNeill and the Jesuits of the same, and thus ushered in a new era for how became friends with Bob Carter, Andy 98th Street Community in New York the world saw us. Humm, Rob Riley, James Osborne, City helped us form Dignity for McNeill blended impeccable training as a and dozens of others. John and Lesbian and Gay Catholics. We theologian and as a psychotherapist and helped Bob were co-founders of Dignity. organized underground Masses bring to an end the tyranny of a worldview that ... The remarkable thing that Bob and we protested at Saint Patsaw us as both sinful and pathological. He used and John did in their work was rick’s Cathedral. I remember his scientific training and his religious trainshow people a way home. By those illicit communion servicing, his experiences as a pastor and as a therathat I mean a way back to the es held in apartments, because pist to proclaim our goodness. And for this the arms of Christ. Dignity gave me it was there I learned to love Roman Catholic Church tried to silence him, hope and solace and consolation myself as a gay Christian, and I ordering McNeill not to speak to gay people or during some very unsure, lonely learned to love other men as well. about his theology that embraced our gooddays.” I learned from McNeill to stand up and speak ness and the healthiness of sexual expression. Tom Morris of San Francisco said, “I was a out against authority, which has served me in When he refused to obey them, they ordered client in John’s therapy practice in the 1980s. I a lifetime of working in LGBT communities the Jesuits to expel him, and they did. He – and was gay and a very conservative, homophobic who don’t always show the same commitment we – never left the church. It left us. And it was Catholic. I was afraid to the point of panic at to ending racism, or sexism, or for expressing the best possible thing for us. times believing that John was evil, because he solidarity with immigrants as they do to advoMcNeill taught us about developing a sense contradicted church teaching when he said cating for LGBT equality. of inner authority, to cultivate our own conbeing gay was not a sin. That was too good to I reached out to some of my friends from sciences and that this was healthy and normal. be true; probably what the devil wanted me to those early days in Dignity/NYC and asked He modeled for us individuating from the them to express how McNeill’s life had affected See page 10 >> church because it was an unhealthy parent.

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Pink Party costs

So, let me get this straight: the City and County of San Francisco spent $188,143 to cover the expenses for the Pink Party, gate donations are estimated at $60,000 and festival organizers distributed (gasp) only $14,581.25 to 13 beneficiaries (out of, one assumes, the gate donations) [“SF spent almost $200K on Pink Party,” September 24]? I am, admittedly, not a master of “the new math”; however, it appears there is some sort of shortfall here. And Supervisor Scott Wiener is quoted as saying, “The hope is for Pink Party to eventually be financially self-sustaining.” Really, and on which planet does he live? As a longtime Castro retail merchant I can tell you my business was off 80 percent from the year before solely because the good supervisor decreed the event needed to begin and end earlier to help stem the increasing spiral of violence. To that end, parking was curtailed for virtually the entire day rather than only the late afternoon, as had been the policy in the past when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence ran an event called Pink Saturday. As a result shoppers were hard pressed to be found in the Castro on what, historically, has been a very lucrative day for those of us who are weathering the increasing lack of shoppers in an aging and rapidly changing neighborhood. Reports this year indicated the streets were still blocked and not passable until well after 10 p.m. So much for starting and ending earlier. One can only hope that the impact on everyone will be taken into account should the supervisor, and by extension, the city, insist on “putting on a day and night long

party” the day before Pride in 2016. I, for one, won’t be holding my breath. Patrick Batt San Francisco

Stonewall not without value

Thanks for your interview with the director of the movie Stonewall [“Like a Roland Stonewall,” September 24.] The criticisms elsewhere of the film’s focus seems valid; but they don’t render the film without value, information and/or entertainment. My suggestion is that people see the movie and make up their own mind about its pluses and minuses. Having walked into it Saturday night in San Francisco (opening weekend and not seeing a big crowd) with only some knowledge of the controversy, I later checked out (and recommend) KOFY’s Michelle Meow’s interview with one of its actors, Otoja Abit, and Larry Kramer’s comments on Facebook, and other reviews and critiques. In my mind, it is good to get the feature film seen, particularly outside San Francisco. We need to consider how to get the maximum LGBTQ content out in many arenas we are not in, to the extent it is not damaging us, which we also need to consider. And to be transparent about myself, I was a white boy coming out in the 1970s and 1980s in New York after Stonewall, so the movie’s focus – to the extent it is too weighed in that direction – did also have specific resonance for my own experiences in New York. I say that not to detract from the need to show wide varieties of others’ experiences in our movement, and other movies and documentaries on this subject. Plus, it is so ready for the Peaches Christ treatment. Charlie Spiegel, Esq. San Francisco

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unning to retain the seat he was appointed to in April, City College of San Francisco Trustee Alex Randolph is facing questions on how long he plans to serve on the oversight body for the troubled community college district. Mayor Ed Lee appointed Randolph to fill the vacancy created when longtime trustee Natalie Berg stepped down due to personal reasons. Should he be elected this November to serve out the remaining year of Berg’s four-year term, Randolph would again find himself on the ballot next fall seeking to be elected to a full four-year term. Yet there is a chance that Randolph could land on the Board of Supervisors come 2017 rather than the community college district’s board. Should gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener be elected next November to the city’s state Senate seat, many suspect that Lee would tap Randolph, who is also gay, to succeed Wiener and serve out the remaining two years of his supervisor term. Asked about such a possibility during a recent editorial board meeting with the Bay Area Reporter, Randolph sidestepped the question. He repeated his pledge that he intends to seek a full four-year term on the community college board in 2016. “Where I can best serve my community right now is on the City College board,” said Randolph. Challenging Randolph for his seat this fall is gay nightlife promoter and Mission bar owner Tom Temprano. He told the B.A.R.’s editorial board that his decision to enter the race was not motivated by how long Randolph intended to serve but by his own concerns about the fate of the college as it fights to maintain its accreditation and remain open. “If he is elected, I would like to see him serve the full term. When you appoint someone to positions like this, there is the potential for something to happen like the District 8 supervisor seat,” said Temprano. “But I am not

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running because I think Alex is being groomed for the District 8 supervisor seat. I am running because I am concerned about City College.” Fellow candidate Wendy Aragon told the B.A.R. that she doesn’t view the community college board “as a stepping stone where you run for it and then run for supervisor.” Aragon, a straight woman who came in fifth place in last November’s election for three four-year seats on the college board, said she would emulate the late trustee Milton Marks III, who died while in office in 2012, 12 years after he first won election to the college board. “It should not be a turnstile for higher office,” said Aragon of serving on the oversight body. The three candidates, along with Jason Zeng, who is also seeking Randolph’s seat, will have a chance to outline their priorities for City College at a candidate’s forum Tuesday, October 6 hosted by the League of Women Voters San Francisco. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. in ART X 164 (Studio A) in the Creative Arts Extension Building at City College of San Francisco’s Ocean Campus, located at 50 Phelan Avenue.

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Stonewalled by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

irector Roland Emmerich has released his latest disaster movie. This time, though, rather than space aliens blowing up American landmarks, or a freak ice age freezing American landmarks, or even Godzilla entangling hirself in American landmarks, it’s the movie itself that ends up the disaster. Emmerich’s stab at making a film about the Stonewall rebellion will be long remembered on every webbased listicle as one of the worst attempts at making a historical recreation, up there with Lifetime’s Liz & Dick biopic or Oliver Stone’s horrid Alexander. The film was panned practically from the day it was announced, as people wondered why a man best known for blockbuster disaster porn would be doing a film about Stonewall. It wasn’t until the first trailer came out, however, that people could really see how bad things could be. For nearly as long as the riot itself, there has been a debate as to who in the community “owns” what happened at that bar in Greenwich Village in June 1969. The Stonewall rebellion became a pivotal moment of the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, which included the whitewashing of transwomen of color – among others – from the narrative. Over the last decade, the history of Stonewall has become much more inclusive, recognizing the importance of people such as Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, Miss Major GriffinGracy, Storme DeLarverie, and others who were a part of the riot. Enter Emmerich. Seemingly unsatisfied to tell a story centering on the heroes who were there, he feels the need to cut an imaginary protagonist

out of whole cloth. His stonewall hero is a young, attractive, Caucasian man who is intentionally in contrast to the others he has cast. Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) – who appears to have walked off the set of a Rebel Without A Cause remake only to find himself in a casting call for an off-Broadway production of Hair – is the typical “farm boy from Indiana who hopped a bus to the big city.” It’s a trope large enough that another character alludes to it. That character is “Ray/Ramona” (Jonny Beauchamp), who is credited second on the bill and yet still doesn’t manage to have a last name. The film is little more than a coming of age tale for Winters, set against a backdrop of the riot, with the character even being handed the first brick to throw. The film itself is awkward and does little to actually provide a real sense of the importance of that moment. Emmerich defended his film from critics of the trailer. In an interview by Shannon Keating of BuzzFeed, Emmerich seemed surprised by the reaction. “When (criticism) happened it wasn’t about the film, it was about the trailer,” he said. “And I thought, that’s not right.” But the trailer really was a good example of what the movie would be, with the oh-so-white and heteronormative Winters serving as some sort of savior for the trans, queer, and people of color surrounding him on a set that resembles Christopher Street. In response to the critics, Emmerich had this to say: “You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this movie only for gay people, I made it also for straight people,” he said. “I kind of found out, in the testing process, that actually, for straight people, (Winters) is a very easy in.

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Danny’s very straight-acting.” He also said, “As a director you have to put yourself in your movies, and I’m white and gay.” And there’s the big problem. I’m not saying that you need a Roman emperor to film a story about Nero, but if you cannot see a story to tell without having to impose your gender or race on it, perhaps you are not the right person to tell this story. If you have to whitewash a story in order to try and fit it into a demographic that will likely not be interested in a story unless you do so, then there’s a very good chance they won’t come at all regardless. For decades, movies about transgender people have featured actors and actresses chosen from a heteronormative viewpoint. John Hansen portrayed Christine Jorgensen in 1970; Hilary Swank very nicely played Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry; and later this year, we’ll get to see Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe. These and many others give us a mixed bag of good and not-so-good portrayals, but where are the transgender actors and actresses? Why must transgender people so often be portrayed by members of their birth genders, rather than by those of their own hard-won ones? Not only this, but where are the movies about transgender people of color? Why isn’t there a film about Johnson being released by a major studio, or a big budget biopic on

Griffin-Gracy? There are some great community-funded ones on both in the works, but in the era where Straight Outta Compton can break the box office, why must we endure the Stonewall mess? Oh, and let’s speak about the box office for a moment. Emmerich’s film isn’t a “disaster flick” simply for bad story telling, but for its first week’s receipts. The film cost an estimated $17 million to create, yet it’s first weekend brought in an embarrassing $112,414, according to Box Office Mojo. Even Ishtar, a film that is practically synonymous 100% Black

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with bad movie making, made $4.2 million and opened at number 1. So perhaps this film can help us turn a corner. Much like Emmerich attempted, let me say that this has united both straight, white males and trans people of color. It’s not “straight enough” nor is it “queer enough.” Now, let’s see a real story about Stonewall, and send Winters packing.t Gwen Smith will now be waiting for Michael Bay’s Compton’s Cafeteria movie. You’ll find her on Twitter at @gwenners.

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by Matthew S. Bajko

n a locked storage room at the San Francisco Public Library’s annex building South of Market sit 94 white cardboard boxes. A yellow Post-It note affixed to one reads “Jenni’s high priority list.” Inside is a collection of rare and notable LGBT films that filmmaker Jenni Olson, a lesbian who codirected the city’s Frameline LGBT Film Festival in the early 1990s, has deemed to be of significant importance to the LGBT community’s cinematic heritage. “It is really emotional to be here. A lot of these films are from my time doing Frameline,” said Olson as she showed off the cinematic archive to a reporter and photographer from the Bay Area Reporter. “If you pick some up, there is my handwriting.” Being among the VHS tapes brings to mind her co-director at Frameline, Mark Finch, who died by suicide in January 1995 after jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Olson funneled her grief over Finch’s death into her 2005 film The Joy of Life that brought renewed attention to the fight to install a suicide barrier on the iconic structure, which she noted, “we are finally about to get.” One film in the archive that Olson has deemed to be of particular interest is Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s Abuse (1982), a film about child abuse with a gay love story that a reviewer for the B.A.R. called “a miracle of independent filmmaking.” “The film was not in distribution, so no one knows how to get a hold of it,” said Olson, noting that

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Filmmaker Jenni Olson, left, and James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center director Karen Sundheim are working to preserve and digitize a trove of LGBT films donated by Frameline that are currently stored in the library annex.

it was one of gay film historian Vito Russo’s “favorite gay films.” Bressan’s iconic title is just one among roughly 6,000 films now in the collection of the public library’s James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center. In 2005 Frameline donated nearly 5,000 videos from its collection to the center. “This included not only the movies shown in past festivals, but films submitted to the Frameline festival which were never screened,” according to an online description of the Hormel center’s Frameline Movie Archive Project. “It’s been a pretty huge process,” said Olson of curating the collection and tracking down the copyright holders for each title. Without the permission of the filmmaker or owner

of the copyright, the library is barred from publicly screening the title. “There is a category of orphan films where it will be extremely unlikely we will find whoever made them or who owns the copyright,” said Olson, noting that Abuse is one such film that is available for researchers to watch but can’t be publicly screened. Four years ago the library’s trove grew by another roughly 1,000 titles after Frameline donated the films it had received between 2006 and 2011. That year the Hormel center brought on Olson to help it process the film titles and determine which of the movies should be digitized for use by researchers and historians. “We own films even the filmmaker didn’t have anymore. It is a really

big deal,” said Karen Sundheim, the Hormel center’s director since 2007. “We heard from a man in China about a film he made about being gay in China. He didn’t even have it, and it turned out, we had it.” Prior to her leaving Frameline in 1994, Olson had already suggested that the festival partner with the Hormel center to serve as a repository for its film archives. The idea came to fruition when the film festival relocated its offices, forcing it to address what to do with the aging VHS tapes and other outdated film formats it had saved over the years. “Being based at the library, this recognized center of LGBT research where we knew that LGBT researchers already come there or contact them about various projects, it just made sense,” said Olson. “They would be able to take care of the materials and help people connect with the work.” To date, just 38 films have been digitized, which cost the center $10,000, by the Bay Area Video Coalition. “It may not seem like a big number, but truthfully, it is very expensive to do,” said Sundheim. “We look for materials of importance to our history and save things in danger of deterioration.” In addition to Abuse, Olson has selected the 1985 British documentary A Plague on You by Cas Lester to be among those next on the digitization list. “It is no longer available,” explained Olson. Some of the rare film gems in the collection – as identified by Olson and highlighted online by the Hormel center – include the censored 1986 BBC TV production Two of

Us; the 1988 Thai gay feature, I Am a Man (described as the Thai remake of The Boys in The Band); and the obscure 1980 Japanese lesbian feature, Afternoon Breezes. There is also a copy of another Bressan film, Buddies, the first ever American feature film about AIDS. Released in 1985, it starred Geoff Edholm and David Schachter. “The HIV/AIDS collection in particular we highlighted as important,” said Olson. “So many short films, documentaries, and activist stuff from the 1980s people would otherwise be unaware of.” Due to the condition of the films, anyone who wants to watch them, particularly those still on VHS tape, needs to make an appointment to do so with the Hormel center. “Some of these are too precious to handle right now,” said Sundheim. The Hormel center would like to raise another $15,000 to digitize the next batch of film titles. It plans to highlight its film holdings next April when it celebrates its 20th anniversary and is currently seeking funds to assist with the film preservation project. “Some people have donated already to that project,” said Sundheim. “It would be wonderful if more people did.” The Hormel center is working on putting the entire database of its Frameline film holdings online by mid-October. It has already uploaded three short documentaries in its collection for viewing on its website. For more information about the project, or to watch the trio of films, visit http://sfpl.org/index. php?pg=2000360401.t

Photographer Honey Lee Cottrell dies by Cynthia Laird

oney Lee Cottrell, who pioneered lesbian erotica in the 1980s through her contributions to the women’s sex magazine On Our Backs, died September 21 in Santa Cruz, California. She was 69. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from Cornell University, where Ms. Cottrell’s papers will be held. Ms. Cottrell revolutionized the female nude, validated women’s right to pleasure, and opened possibilities for women to see themselves and their new desires in new ways through her engagement in a variety of feminist, artistic, and sex education projects. Ms. Cottrell studied at the National Sex Forum and was a member of San Francisco Sex Information in the 1970s. She was an early member of the Lesbian and Gay History Project, founded in late 1978 in San Francisco. She was one of the “core four,” along with Debi Sundahl, Nan Kinney, and Susie Bright, who gave On Our Backs its style and success. When the magazine started in 1984, Ms. Cottrell proposed a “Bulldagger of the Month” centerfold for the first issue. She explained that the idea was “to stand this Playboy centerfold idea on

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think. I thought he was putting my soul in danger. “Over time, working with John, meeting other gay and lesbian Catholics, I came to accept myself as 100 percent equal to straight people,” Morris said. “John was such a cheerleader for LGBT people, trying to impart to us self-love and even pride. I remember how John lit up whenever I told him I was dating someone. He was tickled to know gay sex was part of my life. And he wanted us all in loving relationships. I think his favorite expression was

its head from, I would say, a feminist perspective ... what would I do if I was a centerfold and how can I reflect back to them our values?” Her idea was not to be “the regular kind of centerfold, but something that will make a difference, shake people up, show the other side of the mirror.” Ms. Cottrell was a contributing photographer to the magazine for seven years. She photographed her lovers and friends and documented queer and kink cultures for decades with her first camera, a 35 mm Nikkormat. She was exacting and precise in the photographs and collages she created, as well as in her darkroom work. She studied with Ruth Bernhard, who invited Ms. Cottrell to be her printer. In addition to On Our Backs and the 1978 feminist book she coauthored, I Am My Lover, her still photography has appeared in publications including The Blatant Image, Coming to Power, Sinister Wisdom, and Nothing But the Girl. Born in Astoria, Oregon on January 16, 1946, the elder of two children, she grew up in Michigan. After completing a year at Michigan State University in 1964-65, Ms. Cottrell worked at the Technicolor photo-processing lab. As she later learned, a number of lesbians were the quote of a saint, I think Iraneus, who stated the greatest glory of God is humans fully alive. I think that full life is exactly what John wanted for me and other gay and lesbian people.” There are many more testimonies about how McNeill changed the church, the world, and many individuals for good. Last week, as the country fawned over Pope Francis, I kept thinking that Francis, a learned Jesuit, could learn from McNeill, expelled from the Jesuits for telling the truth. Then the pope would show more understanding about LGBT people, about women and the gifts they bring to ordained ministry, and

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working there, having discovered it was a fairly safe place for butch women to work. Ms. Cottrell was invited to visit one of these women, Harriet DeVito, who had moved to New York City, and then ended up driving across the country with her to California in 1966. Along the way, Ms. Cottrell discovered what her feelings for women meant to her, and DeVito became her first lover. Once Ms. Cottrell arrived in San Francisco, she made it her home and to the need to respect women’s reproductive choices, and how much more a force for healing and liberation the church would be. Thank you, John McNeill, for teaching us about conscience, about faithful dissent, about the Holy Spirit, and her power to redeem and reclaim even the church. Thank you for loving Charles Chiarelli openly and for risking all for love. Thank you for taking a chance on God, and on us.

For further reading, viewing:

All of McNeill’s original manuscripts, his correspondence with the Vatican regarding his being

became deeply involved in the creative lesbian community of artists, photographers, and filmmakers in the Bay Area, as well as the progressive sex education activists. She opened her apartment on Bessie Street to friends and artists, helping find jobs and shelter for people in need. To support her artistic work, Ms. Cottrell worked in two unions. As a member of the Marine Cooks and Stewards, she was able to fulfill her dream to travel to the South Pacific where her father, Duane Cottrell, had served in World War II. She worked as a banquet waiter in the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union in the 1980s and 1990s, retiring in 2012. A proud union member, she walked many a picket line protesting the mistreatment of workers, especially recent immigrant populations working as room cleaners at San Francisco hotels. “[Honey Lee] was never someone who put herself out front,” anthropologist and theorist of sex and gender politics Gayle Rubin said in a statement. “She was more of a quiet observer, but a persistently potent presence. She had a kind of strength and solidarity that seemed to anchor things around her; as if she provided the gravity that held various circling

planets in their stable orbits. And she just kept generating images, events, relationships, connections.” Ms. Cottrell loved the outdoors and studied herbal medicine, native plants, and botany. With this perspective and her photographer’s training to notice interesting small moments of daily life, she went through her illness and death with a combination of butch swagger and serenity, a confidence that everything would be all right. She continued to direct photo shoots and art installations. Two weeks before her death, Ms. Cottrell had the energy one day for a road trip, lunch at a favorite Middle Eastern deli with longtime and new friends, and a walk in the redwoods, said Brenda J. Marston of Cornell. No one was surprised that she crawled under caution tape and a Do Not Enter sign to get to her favorite tree, a spot where she had often brought her daughter, Aretha Bright. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recognized Ms. Cottrell with Certificate of Honor September 8. In addition to her daughter, Ms. Cottrell is survived by her mother, Patricia Cottrell; brother, Michael Cottrell; and life companions, Melinda Gebbe, Amber Hollibaugh, and Susie Bright.t

silenced and later expelled from the Jesuits, transcripts and recordings of speeches, and other original source materials are archived in the John J. McNeill and Charles Chiarelli Gay Liberation Collections at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ findaid/ark:/13030/kt4x0nd25q/ entire_text/). Link to the speeches at the dedication of the archive: http:// lifelegacyphotography.com/mccr/ w p-content/uploads/2015/04/ Tribute-to-John-McNeill.pdf. Taking a Chance on God is a documentary directed and produced by Brendan Fay (www.

takingachanceongod.com). All of his books are cited on his website, www.johnjmcneill.com. His final book, Sex as God Intended (Lethe Press, 2008) also includes a Festschrift with a dozen tributes by LGBT theologians.t Jim Mitulski has pastored churches in the MCC, the United Church of Christ, the Disciples of Christ, and the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries. He is currently the interim pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Rockies in Denver (www.MCCRockies.org). He can be reached at revmitulski@gmail.com.

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he World Health Organization released updated guidelines Tuesday calling for antiretroviral therapy for everyone diagnosed with HIV regardless of CD4 T-cell count, and pre-exposure prophylaxis – better known as PrEP – for people at substantial risk of infection. WHO estimates that if the recommendations are widely adopted worldwide, they could avert 21 million deaths and prevent 28 million new infections by 2030. “These new recommendations will have tremendous impact on people’s lives, if rapidly implemented,” said Gottfried Hirnschall, director of WHO’s Department of HIV/ AIDS. “So we must work together to support countries to translate them into action and results.” The new guidelines put WHO’s global recommendations in line with U.S. treatment recommendations. San Francisco was the first city to offer antiretroviral treatment for everyone diagnosed with HIV starting in early 2010. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ guidelines followed suit in 2013. In May 2014 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that people at substantial risk should consider PrEP to prevent HIV infection. “These timely recommendations will make it easier for the poorest and most vulnerable populations everywhere to access the best treatment and services that modern science can provide and that are already available in the world’s richest countries,” said UNITAID Executive Director Lelio Marmora. Reaction from local AIDS leaders was positive. “Great,” said Dana Van Gorder, executive director of Project Inform. “What took so long? Let’s get on with it.”

HIV treatment for all

Hirnschall and others gave a preview of the new recommendations and explained the process behind them at the International AIDS Society Conference in Vancouver in July. This week’s early release of the guidelines was done ahead of a full release expected later this year, due to its public health importance. The new WHO guidelines state that, “Antiretroviral therapy should be initiated in all adults living with

AG in Richmond

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“We’ve made some tremendous strides but still have a long way to go,” Butt said. Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles, an African American Latina lesbian, praised the AG’s visit and noted that the Department of Justice provided funds to the city to hire four additional police officers. “I think the attorney general was very open and committed to emulating what Richmond does regarding community policing and reducing violence in our community,” Beckles told the B.A.R. She praised Magnus’ leadership,

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Bob Grant, left, and WHO official Gottfried Hirnschall spoke at the International AIDS Society Conference in Vancouver in July.

HIV at any CD4 cell count.” The same recommendation applies to infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant women with HIV. People with advanced immune suppression or clinical symptoms of AIDS should be prioritized for treatment. The recommendation for universal treatment was informed by the large START trial, which showed the benefits of early antiretroviral therapy. The WHO guidelines team had advance access to these study findings after a data monitoring committee stopped the trial ahead of schedule because there was already enough evidence to show an advantage of early treatment. At the IAS meeting, Jens Lundgren from the University of Copenhagen reported that people with high CD4 counts who were randomly assigned to start treatment immediately had a 57 percent reduction in serious AIDS-related events, non-AIDS events, and death, compared with those who waited until their T-cells fell below 350 or they developed clinical symptoms. Another presentation at the conference confirmed previous results from a study of heterosexual couples in Africa, showing that HIVpositive people who start treatment immediately instead of waiting for their T-cell count to drop had a 93 percent lower risk of transmitting HIV to their partners. “[START] clearly indicates that antiretroviral therapy should be provided for everyone regardless of CD4 count,” Lundgren told the Bay Area Reporter this summer. “Now we have evidence that aligns

individual benefit and prevention benefit without evidence of harm.”

and said that the city shifted to a community-policing model after he was hired in 2006. “People can see a police officer and know them by name,” Beckles said. But she added that at last week’s meeting, some of the attendees expressed that the work is not finished. Still, Beckles said, “It’s a big turnaround” from before Magnus came to the department, when the city had “that ugly reputation” that the mayor referred to. Beckles also explained that it’s not just the police department that’s improved. “It’s the community taking responsibility,” she said. “It’s the community that feels they can trust the police. That’s what’s really

made the difference.” Lynch, Beckles said, sees that Richmond is taking a “holistic approach” and that services are combined, “making it a better city.” Lynch said during her remarks that she toured the RYSE Youth Center, where several youth “talked openly about the challenges they have.” Those include interactions with police officers who don’t always take an interest in the young people. Dan Reilly, director of media arts and innovation at RYSE, told the B.A.R. that the center, which works with people age 13-21, offers a variety of programs, including skill building and counseling, to address various issues. It is open to all youth, including LGBTs.t

beloved uncle, brother, and friend. Growing up as an artist in Memphis, Tennessee, John was a maverick. Conformity ran counter to his nature, though, and rather than strive to fit in, John expressed himself by playing in experimental rock bands like Panther Burns, teaching himself Japanese by ordering manga and Japanese Vogue through the local library, likely sporting the first mohawk in Memphis in the early 1980s, and creating avant-garde art. His adventurous spirit eventually led him to San Francisco, where he clearly belonged.

John connected with people everywhere he went. At the end of his life, he was especially close to his health advocate and friend, R. Ruth Linden; his health care provider, Robin E. McBride; and his friend and supporter, Ronaldo Madeira of Episcopal Community Services. John is survived by two sisters, Joan and Jane Ann; a nephew, Trevor; two nieces, Cassandra and Olivia; and his grandnephew, Arlo. A memorial was held for John on September 4.

PrEP for those at risk

The new WHO guidelines state that, “Oral PrEP (containing [tenofovir]) should be offered as an additional prevention choice for people at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination prevention approaches.” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gilead Sciences’ Truvada (tenofovir plus emtricitabine) for PrEP in 2012, and it remains the only approved option in the U.S. Generic versions of tenofovir are available elsewhere and it may be used for PrEP alone or combined with stand-alone emtricitabine. The updated guidelines reaffirm an earlier recommendation, released prior to the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, that PrEP could be used as part of a “comprehensive prevention package” for at-risk men who have sex with men. WHO did not then – and does not now – recommend that all gay men should take antiretrovirals for HIV prevention. The new revision extends this recommendation to all population groups. While WHO broadly defines “substantial risk” as an HIV incidence greater than three per 100 person-years – a level seen in some groups of gay and bisexual men, transgender women, and heterosexual men and women with untreated HIV-positive partners – it acknowledges that individual risk See page 13 >>

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Castro fair

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Michael Chu, 53, Cookie Dough’s partner, said in an interview, “I’m very amazed and very grateful that [organizers are] paying tribute to Cookie.” Chu choked up while speaking about Cookie Dough and the trouble he had getting his partner of 14 years back to the United States after he became ill while on a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. “He was the love of my life and brought me tremendous joy, and I miss him terribly,” Chu said. In an email, Heklina, the drag queen who starred in and coproduced the “Golden Girls” with Cookie Dough, said, “Performing at

Sacto LGBTs

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Finally, they’d like to get “a big huge rainbow flag,” as well as a walk of fame, Ferderer said, although “We haven’t got a price on that yet.” They hope to have the work completed in two to three years. Ferderer said funding for all the projects is coming from private donations. “We’re not asking the city for anything,” he said. Although he’s concerned about preserving the neighborhood name, Ferderer doesn’t seem too worried about the area losing its gayness any time soon. “On any Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night after 10, there’s a

Castro church

From page 3

The service was the final one that McClure, 70, would be celebrating at the church. According to a September 22 story published in the National Catholic Reporter, McClure was told that he could no longer celebrate Mass at the church. The edict reportedly came from San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who has come under fire from the LGBT community for his opposition to same-sex marriage and to the ordination of women priests. A few days earlier McClure had appeared on an all-male panel at the annual Women’s Ordination Worldwide conference in Philadelphia. The other panelists, Tony Flannery, Roy Bourgeois, and Paul Collins, are all priests who were either excommunicated or

WHO

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varies within groups. “The new recommendation will enable a wider range of populations to benefit from this additional prevention option,” according to the guidelines. “It also allows the offer of PrEP to be based on individual assessment, rather than risk group, and is intended to foster implementation that is informed by local epidemiological evidence regarding risk factors for acquiring HIV.”

Ensuring access

Under the new recommendation, the number of people eligible for treatment will increase from 28 to 37 million worldwide, according to WHO. UNAIDS estimated that 15 million people were on treatment as of March 2015, representing 41

Trans woman

From page 2

and Accountability Coalition, better known as Taja’s Coalition, was formed to help address violence and housing needs, among other issues. Castro, a coalition spokeswoman, said, “We’re applying for funding from the [city’s] Human Rights Commission to stop the genocide of transgender women of color through identifying areas where trans women of color feel safe so we

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the Castro Street Fair was a highlight every year for Cookie, and something she was immensely proud of. She spent a ton of time and energy each year” curating the show with Chu, who’s also known as DJ MC2. Heklina, who’s also known as Stefan Grygelko, added, “I always thought she was crazy doing all that work for free, but that’s me – I’m the bitchy one and she was always the sweet one. I learned a lot about patience and giving back to the community from Cookie, and I miss her terribly and always will.” She said fair organizers “could not have picked a better person to honor. Cookie embodied everything positive about our community – caring, supportive, generous,

and selfless. She would be thrilled! I know she’ll be looking down on all of us on October 4.” The fair, which has an operating budget “just over $200,000,” Lopez said, has more than 25 local beneficiaries. Lopez said organizers hope to give away at least as much as was distributed last year, when beneficiaries combined received approximately $74,000. New this year is the Kink Karnival Alley, a fun adult-oriented area presented by kink.com. It will include midway-style games and amusing contests, alongside some of San Francisco’s bawdiest vendors, go-go dancers, and more. Another change is the country

and western area, named Sundance Way, will be located on 18th Street between Hartford and Noe streets. This year, vendors are being encouraged to activate both sides of their booths, which will be placed on the sidewalks, in order to help draw people in to local businesses. Vendors used to be in the street but moved after Castro Street’s sidewalks were widened before last year’s fair. “We want to make sure the local merchants are being highlighted as much as possible,” Lopez said. Prices for nonprofits, arts and craft vendors, and fine artists to have booths will remain the same, but costs for forprofit businesses have increased to $1,500 this year. Lopez couldn’t recall

what last year’s price was. Anyone hoping to catch a glimpse inside Strut, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s new men’s health center at 470 Castro Street, will likely be disappointed. The center isn’t expected to be open to the public until later in October, but it will have two booths at the fair. For more information about the fair, visit www.castrostreetfair.org.t

line half a block long to get in to all the bars,” said Ferderer, who spoke to the Bay Area Reporter on a recent Friday afternoon in Lavender Heights as people gathered outside at numerous restaurants and bars despite the grueling heat. Ferderer also said the city has seen more gays and lesbians relocating from the Bay Area for the cheaper housing prices. Osborn, 64, who’s the business manager for Sacramento’s Rainbow Chamber of Commerce, said people want the Lavender Heights designation because other areas in the city “have branded themselves” and are able to use that for marketing. It’s also “an expression of LGBT pride, and it’s a way of making a state-

ment for youth ... a way of connecting them to the history of the movement and our community,” Osborn, who lives in nearby Antelope, runs the public relations operation Write Away. Osborn said she sees the changes coming to the neighborhood as positive, especially since “it’s better than the opposite trend, where businesses are moving out.” Michael Kennedy, 48, who’s gay, owns the Kennedy Gallery, which has been exhibiting art in the neighborhood for years, said, “I’m excited to see things develop.” “I don’t think anybody is being pushed out of the area,” he added, but “gays need to do a better job at supporting their own businesses.”

One business gays seem happy to support is the bar Faces, which is near the gallery and close to where the rainbow crosswalks are planned. When the B.A.R. visited, workers were preparing for the club’s 30th anniversary celebration. Men tinkered around the swimming pool in the back patio, while others blew up balloons on the main downstairs dance floor. A 30th anniversary news release from the bar, which is owned by Terry Sidie, touts the Lavender Heights project. The club “has cemented its place as the ‘bulls-eye’ in the heart of Sacramento’s Lavender Heights,” the statement says. “… And Faces continues to push to make ‘Lavender Heights’ the LGBT-

focused Sacramento entertainment district (watch for those rainbow crosswalks) where people can have fun and be safe.” The community center is also a strong supporter of the Lavender Heights project. “It is a necessary move whose time has come,” Donald Bentz, the center’s executive director, said in response to emailed questions. “The formalization of a Lavender Heights district is an important step toward cementing the LGBT community’s presence and history in the Midtown district and Sacramento as a whole. This sends an inclusive message to young people as well as helps enshrine LGBT influence in the community as a whole for years to come.”t

forced to resign after they expressed support for women priests. Although the Mass was a joyous celebration, a number of congregants said they were sorry to see McClure leave Most Holy Redeemer. “It’s a shame that his legacy is being cut short,” said gay worshiper Joseph Fernicola, 49, who described McClure’s legacy as uniting different kinds of people. “He has a sense of open-mindedness and embraces new ideas,” Fernicola added. Fernicola also had a message for Cordileone. “He should reconsider what he’s done,” Fernicola said. “He should think about what Jesus would do.” Kate Scherschel, 27, attended the Mass with her girlfriend. “I really appreciate Father Jack’s homilies,” she said. “He’s been a big

part of my experience at Most Holy Redeemer. I admire his courage. We’re all going to miss him.” McClure tried to comfort the congregation during his homily. “I will always be a part of your life, and you will always be part of mine,” he said. “I am privileged to have spoken God’s words to you. You have enlightened me.” Members of the congregation signed a giant farewell card to McClure at the conclusion of the service. “I’m very sorry about Father Jack being forced to leave,” said congregant Richard Dunphy as he signed the card. “We are an inclusive church. I wonder why the archbishop can’t be more inclusive. I wonder how often he listens to the Holy Father.” Mike Brown, the director of communications for the San Francisco Archdiocese, spoke to the Bay Area

Reporter after the service. Brown said that McClure was told by Father Matthew Link, pastor at Most Holy Redeemer, not to attend the WOW conference. When McClure said that he would attend, he was asked to turn in his resignation, which he did prior to Sunday’s service. According to Brown, Cordileone was informed by Link that McClure had resigned. “Everyone in the church from the pope on down says that women priests is a closed issue,” Brown told the B.A.R. “It is well accepted theological teaching that the priesthood is a male calling.”

Link did not respond to a message seeking comment. When he spoke to the B.A.R., McClure appeared to be at peace with what had happened. “I appreciate very much the opportunity to have served at Most Holy Redeemer,” he said. “The people are welcoming and inclusive. I’m grateful to have been included.” McClure said that he would be moving to Berkeley and would find a parish there where he would worship. “I’m open to invitations,” he said. “I want to see how things unfold. I have no plans at this time.”t

percent of adults and 32 percent of children living with HIV. The new guidelines stress that in order to effectively implement the recommendations, countries will need to ensure that testing and treatment for HIV infection are readily available and that people on treatment are given support to stay in care and maintain good adherence. Expanded access to treatment and PrEP are key tools to reach the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets, which include 90 percent of people living with HIV being aware of their status, 90 percent of those receiving antiretroviral therapy, and 90 percent of those having undetectable viral load. “Everybody living with HIV has the right to life-saving treatment,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe. “The new guidelines are a very important step toward

ensuring that all people living with HIV have immediate access to antiretroviral treatment.” San Francisco has a related set of goals, dubbed “Getting to Zero,” which aim to make it the first city to eliminate new HIV infections, HIVrelated deaths, and HIV stigma, using a three-prong strategy of expanded access to PrEP, rapid access to antiretroviral therapy, and retention of HIV-positive people in care. “San Francisco continues to play a leadership role in pioneering and scaling up ways to contain the HIV epidemic, most recently with universal therapy and broad use of PrEP for all people at substantial risk,” PrEP researcher Robert Grant of the UCSF Gladstone Institutes told the B.A.R. “The new WHO recommendations are inspired by this leadership and the abundance of evidence that is now available.”t

can make recommendations for safe housing.” The group also hopes to start a media campaign. It’s unclear what Hayes’ relationship with de Jesus was. Castro didn’t know Hayes and said she’d never heard de Jesus talk about him. Officer Grace Gatpandan, a police spokeswoman, declined recently to confirm that Hayes was the person police think killed de Jesus. However, Gatpandan said, “The suspect is not a threat to public safe-

ty. We have identified the suspect, and at this point there are no outstanding suspects in that particular homicide investigation.” She said she couldn’t confirm the investigation is closed, and she couldn’t discuss details of the case, including what Hayes’ relationship had been to de Jesus and the possible motive for her killing. Police didn’t respond Tuesday to emails requesting further comment. De Jesus’ death hasn’t been investigated as a hate crime.t

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News Briefs

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Jennings and other contributors to the book will be at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, Tuesday, October 6 at 6 p.m. The event is open to the public.

Night Ministry fall gala

The San Francisco Night Ministry will hold its Festive Fall Gala Saturday, October 17 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell Street. The event will feature auctions, food, and entertainment in a redesigned event that is sure to be a crowd pleaser, organizers said. The theme this year is “Back to the Future.”

Natali

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a letter last week due to its “grave concerns regarding recent and continuing issues with properties” he controls in the Castro. In response to the Bay Area Reporter’s request for comment for this story, Natali forwarded several letters from his legal counsel. In a letter responding to the Castro Merchants, Natali’s attorney Steve Goldstein wrote that Natali “wholly embraces” the association’s “credo to make the neighborhood alive and thriving.” As for the vacant storefronts, Goldstein wrote, “Look for positive contributions to neighborhood business he will be making in the near future.” The September 21 letter from the merchants group was prompted by the recent news that Natali had refused to offer a multi-year lease to Zapata Mexican Restaurant, leading the business to announce its last day of operation at 4150 18th Street would be October 16. It opened in the corner storefront in 1993. “Zapata needs and (we believe) deserves a renewal lease with reasonable time and other terms to justify its continued investment in capital assets and to assure reasonable security for its owners and many longtime loyal employees,” wrote Castro Merchants President Daniel Bergerac, at the unanimous direction of the group’s 15-member board, in the letter to Natali. He also implored Natali to work “in an expedient manner to secure a mutually-beneficial long-term lease for this successful and much loved local business, so it can continue to thrive and serve as part of the Castro’s interconnected business support network.” Bergerac added that the merchant group is “equally concerned about the years and years of extended vacancy” at three other storefronts owned by Natali: 531 and 541 Castro Street and 4144 18th Street. The vacant Patio Cafe space, at 531 Castro, has been closed since 2002. In February 2014 Natali, who owns both the Badlands and Toad Hall gay bars on 18th Street, announced he intended to open a Hamburger Mary’s franchise in the closed eatery space. He secured city approval to open the business, which is considered formula retail due to its having more than a dozen

Political Notebook

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Drag queen fails to land in CA Hall of Fame

An effort to have gay icon and drag queen Jose Julio Sarria inducted into the California Hall of Fame this year has come up short. The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday on the nine inductees for 2015,

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Bergerac said that merchants are also concerned about the calls by some for boycotts of Natali’s bars in response to the pending closure of Zapata, which was first reported by Hoodline in early September. Such a result, Bergerac told the B.A.R., would be “counterproductive” for the Castro’s reputation. As he wrote in his letter to Natali, there is already “a growing negative image of the Castro as a dying neighborhood with too many empty storefronts and lacking vibrancy.” According to Natali’s attorney, an agreement with Hamburger Mary’s, which was purchased in 2007 by Dale Warner of West Hollywood and brothers Ashley and Brandon Wright of Chicago, has been finalized. The company’s co-owners were recently in town interviewing prospective staff, wrote Goldstein, and plan to “return soon to continue the interviews and the process of opening the restaurant.” Natali expected to meet with a potential owner-operator for the restaurant Wednesday. The adjacent storefront will be available for lease as of October 1, and Natali expects it “will rent quickly,” wrote Goldstein. As for the small space on 18th Street, he wrote that Natali is negotiating with a pop-up tenant who should open “within the next 30 days.” In terms of Zapata’s lease, Goldstein emphasized that Natali “has no legal obligation to extend” it

but is willing to offer an extension through October 31, 2016. He noted that Zapata has known for some time that Natali did not intend to renew its lease beyond December of this year. Tuesday afternoon Goldstein sent a new offer to Zapata owner Jorge Perez, informing him if he remained in the space for another year then Natali would refund him his last three months rent, a total of $27,900, as well as the remainder of his security deposit “not used for material harm to the property.” “Mr. Natali is sympathetic to the challenge of finding a new location,” wrote Goldstein. John J.R. Richards, Zapata’s attorney, informed the B.A.R. Wednesday morning that he and his client “just received this offer and it is under consideration,” adding that they have five days to respond. Perez, who in August had asked for at least a 10-month lease extension, informed Natali last week that without a five-year lease renewal, with a five-year option to renew, he saw no option but to close the doors of the restaurant his father and uncle launched 22 years ago. He told the B.A.R. Tuesday that since 2008, after Natali bought the building, it had been evident that he wanted the restaurant to vacate its space. Since that time they have repeatedly been at odds over the restaurant’s lease. “His intention was always to get rid of us, but we weren’t going away,” said Perez, who suspects Natali’s intention is to expand the adjacent Toad Hall bar into the corner storefront. The reaction from his customers and fellow business owners at the news of the eatery’s pending closure has been “very humbling and overwhelming,” said Perez, who is straight and uncertain of what he will do next. He has been unable to locate a new space to reopen Zapata in the Castro, and longtime employees have already quit for other jobs. “At this point, it is looking kind of difficult just because San Francisco is experiencing high rents in living and commercial spaces,” said Perez, who took over the business from his uncle in 2005. While Perez “would love to reopen in San Francisco,” he said that, “looking at the numbers and feasibility, it doesn’t look very promising.”t

selected by Governor Jerry Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown. While Sarria did not make the cut, the list does include one person from the LGBT community. It is the first time the Brown administration has named an LGBT inductee to the hall. Gay British artist David Hockney is being honored, reported the Bee, due to his stylized paintings of swimming pools in Los Angeles. He will receive the Spirit of California medal during a ceremony at the California Museum on October 28. Other honorees this year include the late Peanuts cartoonist Charles Shulz; NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, who grew up in Rancho Cordova; and astronaut Ellen Ochoa, who in

1993 became the first Latina in space. As the B.A.R. reported in January, a community effort had been launched to see Sarria be named to the hall this year due to it being the 50th anniversary of the Imperial Court System, which he established in San Francisco and has become a major LGBT philanthropic group throughout North America. Sarria, who died in 2013 at the age of 90, made history in 1961 with his unsuccessful bid for a San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat. It marked the first time an out gay person had sought elected office in the U.S. Backers of seeing Sarria in the Hall of Fame now hope to see him be among the 2016 inductees.t

locations in the U.S., yet the space remains dark. This past February Natali took out ads in the B.A.R. saying he was hiring chefs and a kitchen manager for an “anticipated opening AprilMay 2015.” Signs on the windows today merely say a Hamburger Mary’s is “coming soon” and that the hiring process is still underway. The storefront at 541 Castro Street is vacant again now that the real estate firm that had been using it while its nearby offices were remodeled moved out. Natali had advertised the 4144 18th Street space as ideal for a hot dog stand but it remains vacant. “If Les has a plan, he is not sharing it with anybody,” Bergerac told the B.A.R. in an exclusive interview this week. “To have four vacant buildings sucks the vibrancy out of the neighborhood. We are all reliant on each other.”

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRAND FINISHES LLC, 500 QUINTARA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GRAND FINISHES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/20/15.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 24, OCTOBER 01, 08, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036679900

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VISION GRAPHICS, 1207 PLYMOUTH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANUEL AMILCAR SAAVEDRA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/10/15. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/15.

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OCTOBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036690000

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OCTOBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-036696900

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Gender fluid playwright-performer Taylor Mac, in costume for A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, will present part of the epic project as an entry in the Curran: Under Construction series.

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The Curran’s Carole Shorenstein Hays and artist Aaron De La Cruz, whose artwork is now featured on the building’s exterior, greet arrivals at the stage-door alley entrance being used for Under Construction productions.

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uring the curtain speech at her 2004 engagement at the Curran Theatre, Dame Edna Everage announced that that sweet little possum Carole Shorenstein Hays had just signed the deal the buy the theater. For theatergoers, it didn’t make much difference, because the Curran would continue along with the Orpheum and the Golden Gate as one of the venues where SHN presents its series of touring theatrical productions. But all that changed two years ago, when SHN and Shorenstein Hays parted company for still-unexplained reasons. SHN kept her initials, while Shorenstein Hays kept the Curran. See page 27 >>

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Some enchanted evening by Philip Campbell

he Opening Gala of the San Francisco Symphony’s 104th season has left some pleasant memories, a few unanswered questions, and perhaps most importantly, a confirmation of Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas as party host par excellence. The glittering crowd last week wasn’t really in the mood for a concert offering much more than an amusing respite after dinner and a chance to re-fuel on champagne before the afterparty in the elegant tent pavilion. MTT has made sensible note of this attitude over the years, and has accordingly developed a carefree musical ambience on opening night that feels more like an evening at the Pops than a program showcasing the orchestra’s serious musical ability. See page 18 >>

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with immigration authorities. No one writes quite like he does, but his life echoes the experiences of many. We’re all suffering under the postmodern indignities of Very Late Capitalism. This might just be Gary’s muchdeserved moment in the sun. Semiotext(e) is reissuing his three great novels based on true crime stories: Resentment, Three Month Fever and Depraved Indifference. Itna Press has a new edition of Do Everything in the Dark and will reissue Rent Boy. That these gems, and his first novel Horse Crazy, have gone out of print is a literary crime. Gary Indiana writes the forensic reports on our murdered society.

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Alexandra Silber performs at the San Francisco Symphony opening gala.

describes last Thursday night’s concert in this issue. We accompanied him to the event, managed to step on the train of another young woman’s dress as she clogged the aisle of premium orchestra (it’s getting to be a syndrome), schmoozed it up with pressies in the green room, boozed it up in the party tent. It’s really a most civilized affair, and the outdoor set-up of the afterparty was perfect for the still-summery fall equinox. Ever the dipsomaniac, OT was among the wrecked revelers who closed down the party, but then had only half-a-block to roll on home. The cup has been drained. The party favors have been dispensed. The tux has been returned to the closet. Now bring on the symphony season!t

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Stephanie Blythe was a special guest star at the San Francisco Symphony opening gala.

there was still a lot of good-natured fun to be gleaned from the light bill of fare. Opening with an uncharacteristically wordy anecdote – something about Marlene Dietrich telling Judy Garland of her greatest European standing ovations – Fearless Leader managed to connect it to the recent tour. His delivery and gift for mimicry sold the joke, and an easy in-crowd tone was set for the rest of the night. The orchestra launched into a 25-minute tour through Ottorino Respighi’s musically negligible Roman Festivals to take us briskly to intermission and (I guess) to allow the artists scheduled for the second part of the show to get out of makeup and their dressing rooms. There are better Respighi works, but the performance was good, and hearing the echoes of Italian song with a cinematic sweep proved blandly appealing, like eating pasta at Olive Garden. How it related to the main event remains a mystery, but I was more than willing to stop wondering in order to settle in for a big-band wallow with some “Broadway in the Golden Age” hits after the break. Beloved favorites Rodgers and Hammerstein were on the playlist, and that was fine by me. The brilliant Carousel Waltz from Carousel got things off to a promising start, and I couldn’t help thinking how much more sense it would have

made to present an entire concert celebrating the great waltzes and ballet music of Richard Rodgers, alongside the operetta-like melodies of Frederick Loewe. Add some of the great vocals, arias and duets for rhythmic contrast, and it could have been great. It’s too late to complain now and pointless fantasizing, considering the pleasing quality of what we did hear and the obvious enjoyment of the opening-night crowd. Baritone Nathan Gunn appeared to sing “Some Enchanted Evening” as his only solo of the night. The handsome star, looking sharp as ever, was overamplified and ended up sounding like an unusually accomplished karaoke singer. The recent trend towards “sound design” on both sides of Grove Street is acceptable on occasions when untrained voices or singing actors appear, and the gala was also being broadcast live on the radio, but I’m hoping the increasing use of electronics gets perfected pretty darn pronto. Gunn ordinarily doesn’t need a mic, and lovely soprano Alexandra Silber would have sounded better without one herself. Her first number, “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy,” was way too bright. She has more than enough bounce to sell a song without so much augmentation. MTT announced the surprise appearance of magnificent See page 24 >>

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Fearsome Lizzie Borden by Richard Dodds

ll it takes to unleash your inner Joan Jett is a bit of patricide with some step-matricide thrown in for good measure. Before doing in her father and stepmother, Lizzie Borden is a dowdily dressed young woman who is repressed, abused, and seething with inner turmoil. But once the gasket is blown – after delivering, respectively, 40 and 41 whacks with an axe to Mr. and Mrs. Borden – Lizzie gets a rock-star makeover and a fierce F.U. personality. Oh, this is not the historical Lizzie Borden, accused of the two murders in 1892, but the title character of the hard-rocking musical Lizzie at the Victoria Theatre. Never mind that the real Lizzie Borden was acquitted, this Lizzie did the deed, and the musical raises her from eccentric outcast to girlpower role model. Creators Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner, and Alan Stevens Hewitt have massaged the facts in a way that gives Lizzie the moral high ground and makes

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Jessica Coker and Elizabeth Curtis play sisters Emma and Lizzie Borden, who rock out after their parents’ murder in the musical Lizzie at the Victoria Theatre.

concrete the old rumors of her lesbian affairs to further her rebel creds. While the rock-concert amplification and the thrash-rock songs are not likely to appeal to the Naughty Marietta crowd, the relatively

youthful audience provided decibels of approval than could overpower even the mega-watt sound system. With those qualifiers out of the way, this Lizzie is a fearsome production, tuned into both small details

and emotional eruptions with nonstop invention from director Eliza Leoni and a cast that surrenders to the musical’s throbbing energies. Lizzie is another entry in Ray of Light Theatre’s productions of uncommon modern musicals, with Heathers, Carrie, and Jerry Springer: The Opera as past examples, with the current show perhaps its most professionally polished to date. This really is a rock musical, not the theatrically tempered sounds of, say, Rent or Spring Awakening. It’s told mostly through song by four women (Lizzie included) who were historically wrapped up in the preand post-murder events, and the performers in these roles are a fearsome quartet. The score requires vocal pyrotechnics that are delivered with full-out passion and commensurate physical expression that Nicole Helfer helps provide with high-voltage choreography. Elizabeth Curtis heads the cast as Lizzie, whose body jerks uncontrollably as she tries to cope with a life that includes a perhaps-sexually

abusive father, a hated stepmother, and a sequestered life. Curtis, even as her voice can go shrill when reaching for the heights, doesn’t hold back for a moment in her blazing performance. The other characters each get one or two showcase songs, but most powerfully perform as a quartet. Jessica Coker is Lizzie’s old sister, with a matronly veneer that Coker blows away. Melissa Reinertson gives the Bordens’ housekeeper a mischievous edge, and Taylor Iman Jones is a shy neighbor who beautifully delivers one of the show’s softer ballads, expressing her secret love for Lizzie. Melissa Wortman’s evolving costumes, Angrette McCloskey’s set that is both elaborate and austere, and a bursting six-piece band led by David Moschler substantially contribute to putting across the powerhouse that is Lizzie. But kids, please don’t try this at home.t Lizzie will run through Oct. 17 at the Victoria Theatre. Tickets are $25-$36. Go to rayoflighttheatre. com.

Macho men by Richard Dodds

hree sailors about to be shipped out have 24 hours of shore leave in New York. Three Marines about to be shipped out have 24 hours of shore leave in San Francisco. Women are the designated targets for all, but with a big difference. Two musicals, two wars, with the former group headed to the battlefields of World War II in On the Town, and the second trio on its way to the early days of the Vietnam War in Dogfight. While death may await all these characters, the sailors in On the Town are a joyous lot, but the Marines of Dogfight are a gnarly bunch. Battles were still raging when On the Town opened on Broadway in 1944, and while it was a time of rah-rah war sentiments, the musical is regularly revived with the offstage war providing hardly a ripple of worry. But invoke the Vietnam War and there is an auto-response of gathering clouds. The Marines of Dogfight have a grim sense of fun, and this is in 1963, when Vietnam was not yet a trope for senseless

failure. San Francisco Playhouse is currently presenting this uneven musical, seen off-Broadway in 2012 and based on a 1991 movie that starred River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The musical tries to suggest a hard-bitten aura, but it can only go so far if the sweet little love story that dominates the second act has a chance to breathe. The SF Playhouse production partially succeeds in putting the material across in a way that helps make it all work. The dogfights of the musical’s title refer to a Marine tradition of contests to see who can recruit the ugliest woman to come to a party at which they will be judged on their unattractiveness. We figure out pretty quickly that Eddie, whom we first meet in a flash-forward traveling back to San Francisco after four years, is going to develop feelings for the woman he enlists as his dogfight date. This is a tough story to musicalize, and the score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul reflects that challenge but doesn’t conquer it. Musical

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Jeffrey Brian Adams plays a Marine who enlists a lonely waitress, played by Caitlin Brooke, as his date for a cruel party in the musical Dogfight at San Francisco Playhouse.

styles are all over the place, but seldom achieve what the disparate scenes need. The tough-guy songs aren’t really convincing, and the love ballads are mostly bland and end up slowing down the story rather than helping illuminate it. Peter Duchan’s

book has some humor amidst all the macho posturing, and there is one truly laugh-out-loud scene that seems out of place for its wit. The performers are a gung-ho bunch, more persuasive in their acting than in singing. As Eddie, Jeffrey

Brian Adams is convincingly conflicted as the jarhead with a heart, and Caitlin Brooke deftly handles the unenviable role as the woman Eddie enlists for the dogfight, but who must also radiate an overarching attractiveness. Brandon Dahlquist and Andrew Humann effectively play Eddie’s buddies laden with toxic mixtures of testosterone. Amy Lizardo stands out with her comic passion as a brazen call girl enlisted as a ringer for the dogfight. In several roles, Michael Gene Sullivan displays welcome versatility. Director Bill English’s staging lacks the crispness that could help drive the material, and his set, usually a highpoint of SF Playhouse productions, is an incohesive arrangement of scaffolding, projections, a turntable, and what looks too much like a shower curtain. Already an uneasy blend, Dogfight needs to be more in step than it is here.t Dogfight will run through Nov. 7 at San Francisco Playhouse. Tickets are $20-$120. Call (415) 677-9596 or go to sfplayhouse.org.

Intimate rewards by Jason Victor Serinus

hamber Music of David Conte, the latest CD from the longtime San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member, gay composer, and Composer-in-Residence for CappellaSF, exemplifies the best that classical music has to offer. It takes you on a compelling journey through shifting emotions and swelling currents. If, at the end of listening, you cannot summarize your experience in pithy soundbites that fit neatly into a tweet or two, you nonetheless come away thoroughly sated by the beauty of the music. The recording is also a family affair. The first piece, the first Sonata for Violincello & Piano (2010) that Conte has composed, is dedicated to a longtime San Francisco Opera Orchestra cellist, the prodigiously talented (could anyone possibly question that he’s gay?) Emil Miland. Performing at his side is another Bay Area musical mainstay, pianist Miles Graber. Conte’s String Quartet No. 2 (2010), composed a mere 31 years after his first string quartet, was commissioned by the Bay Area’s

Ives Quartet, and recorded by another up-and-coming Bay Area ensemble, the Friction Quartet. The final work on the CD, Conte’s Piano Trio (2011), finds Miland united with his fellow San Francisco Opera Orchestra member, violinistconcertmaster Kay Stern, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pianist-in-Residence Keisuke Nakagoshi. For gay choruses across the country, Conte has composed 11 pieces since 1986, including an Elegy for Matthew (Sheppard) that was commissioned by the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus and performed in Carnegie Hall. If there were ever a question that his specialty is vocal music, choral music, and opera, virtually every movement of his rare foray into the world of chamber music resounds with song. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his unabashedly romantic and lyrical Cello and Piano Sonata. The first movement opens with passages of unsettling chromaticism before transitioning into music of romantic seething. The second movement may include all 12 tones of the chromatic scale, but it’s anything but forbidding. Passages filled with heart-tugging

sadness and lyrical yearning predominate. With the sonata’s third movement, modeled on the songs of Schubert and Schumann, Miland takes flight. His love for Conte’s writing shines through his tonally effulgent playing.

“This music fits me like a glove,” Miland told the B.A.R. by phone. “David lets the cello do everything the cello’s best at.” The lied (song) movement may sound intentionally “old-fashioned,” but that’s precisely the point. All of this makes the

more modern-sounding, vigorous fourth movement a perfect ending for a piece from one musical soul brother to another. Much too soon after the sonata ends (whoever engineered the CD forgot to count to five), String Quartet No. 2 begins. Again, the music alternates between rapid passages of excitement and slower, more mournful expression. Pain intensifies in the fourth movement, an elegy to one of Conte’s friends, the late singer Ruth Knestrict Smith. Then it is banished in the final fugue, where the Friction Quartet bows away as though their very identity depended upon it. “If you listen to the second movement of the Piano Trio, you’ll discover how well the cello and violin phrase together,” said Miland. “Kay and I didn’t need to go over bowings. As two longtime colleagues, our sense of timing came naturally.” Perhaps that’s what makes the aching tenderness and touching romanticism of the trio’s middle movement so touching. Its quiet ending is simply gorgeous. As for the rest of the piece, hopefully you’re sufficiently primed to want to find out for yourself.t

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The Nance @ New Conservatory Theatre Center

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chre in autumn, brisk breezes and seasonal arts events about; camp’s in decline, history as histrionics? Find out as the curtain rises. For plenty more, go to www.ebar.com Lois Tema

Avenue Q @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley Berkeley Playhouse’s production of the Tony-winning musical comedy with naughty puppets. $17-$60. ThuSun, various times thru Oct. 11. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 8458542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

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

Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters @ The Marsh Echo Brown’s comic solo show follows a young women’s impending sexual encounter, and its political implications. $20-$35. Thu 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 29. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Eurydice @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Sarah Ruhl’s update on the Orpheus myth, from the viewpoint of his love, who is lost in the Underworld. $20$30. Wed-Sun. Extended thru Oct. 4. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 8416500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Dogfight @ SF Playhouse Bay Area premiere of Peter Duchan, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s musical adaptation of the film about a young Marine in the Vietnam era who dares to ask an “ugly” girl on a date, only to find empathy and love. $20-$120. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 7. Kensington Park Hotel, 2nd floor, 450 Post St. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Joe Goode Annex The innovative dance-theatre creator presents Poetics of Space, an interactive work inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. $30. Thu & Sun 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 7:30 & 9:30pm. Thru Oct. 11. 401 Alabama St. at 17th. (866) 811-4111. www.joegoode.org www.zspace.org

The Lion King @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts The touring production of the Disney megahit Broadway musical, based on the animated film about African wildlife, with amazing puppetry, music, choreography and costumes. $33-$138. Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. 255 S. Almaden Blvd. Thru Oct. 4. (800) 982-2787. www.lionking.com www.broadwaysanjose.com

Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley The Russian ballet company and orchestra performs a modern version of Cinderella (music: Prokofiev, choreography: Alexei Ratmansky). $45-$175. Oct. 1-3, 8pm. also Sat 2pm & Sun 3pm. UC Berkeley campus, Bancroft Way at Dana St., Brekeley. www.calperformances.org

Ray of Light Theatre’s production of Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Alan Stevens Hewitt and Tim Maner’s daring rock musical adaptation of the story of 1890s (alleged!) axe-murderess Lizzie Borden. $15-$36. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 17. 2961 16th St. at Mission. rayoflighttheatre.com

Mud Blue Sky @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

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Lizzie @ Victoria Theatre

Moments of Truth @ Royce Gallery World premiere of Caroline Altman and Patricia Milton’s musical comedy about two artists whose collaboration on a “truth detector” art project disprupts their lives. $20-$30. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 18. 2901 Mariposa St. at Alabama. 527-0301. 3girlstheatre.org

Monstress @ Strand Theatre American Conservatory Theatre’s staging of Philip Kan Gotanda and Sean San José’s drama about FilipinoAmerican Bay Area life and struggles. $20-$100. Tue-Sat 7:30pm. Wed & Sat 2pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Nov. 22. 1127 Market St. 749-2228. act-sf.org

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Oct. 1: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (7pm) and High Anxiety (9pm). Oct. 2: They Live (7:20) and Assault on Precinct 13 (:930). Oct. 3: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with a Peaches Christ and Bianca del Rio drag show, 3pm & 9pm. Oct. 4: Magic Mike XXL (7pm) and Tangerine (9:10). Oct. 6: Dr. Strangelove (7pm) and How I Won the War (8:50). Oct. 7: Freeheld, the lesbian-themed film, with director Peter Sollett and costars Julianne Moore and Ellen Page ($30 for VIP reception; 7:30, www.sffs.org). Oct. 8: Sweet Smell of Success (7pm) and The Night of the Hunter (8:50). $10-$15. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Bay Area premiere of Marisa Wegrzyn’s edgy comic play about the early days of air travel. $32-$60. Tue & Sun 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sun 2pm. Extended thru Oct. 3. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

Mugwumpin @ Intersection for the Arts The innovative theatre ensemble presents Joe Estlack and Christopher White’s Blockbuster Season, a comic critique of Hollywood disaster movies. $25-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 18. 925 Mission St. 626-2787. www.mugwumpin.org

The Nance @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Douglas Carter Beane’s heartfelt dramedy about the real-life Vaudeville actor Chauncey Miles, who played effeminate stock characters before the 1939 pre-World’s Fair crackdown on burlesque. P.A. Cooley stars, with musical direction by Scrumbly Koldewyn. $25-$45. Previews. Opens Oct. 10. Thru Nov. 1. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 861-8972. nctcsf.org

Oakland Symphony @ Paramount Theatre, Oakland The symphony performs Mason Bates’ Devil’s Radio (West Coast Premiere); Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no. 2 (Kenneth Renshaw, violin); Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes selections conducted by Lynne Morrow, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. $15-$75. 8pm. 2025 Broadway. www.oaklandsymphony.org

Smuin Ballet @ Palace of Fine Arts

Karen Ripley @ The Marsh Berkeley

Under the Golden Gate @ Oasis

The veteran lesbian comic returns with her solo show, Oh No, There’s Men on the Land, her stories of self-discovery and life in 1970s Berkeley. $15-$100. Saturdays, 5pm. Thru Oct. 3. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

The cable show featuring LGBT guests, hosted by Dan Karkoska and Maria Connor, presents SF Political Squares, a local comic take on politics with Heklina, Tom Ammiano, Marga Gomez, Tom Temprano, Broke-Ass Stuart, Marke Bieschke, Scott Weiner and more. $15-$20. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Scott Capurro @ Magnet The scathingly funny gay comic pops in for a show. 8pm. 4122 18th st. www.magnetsf.org

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (and Bianca Del Rio?) @ Castro Theatre Peaches Christ presents yet another wacky drag stage show that precedes a screening of a camp film, this time the classic Bette Davis/Joan Crawford film about two reclusive former child star sisters in ‘50s run-down Hollywood. $32-$140. 3pm & 9pm. 429 Castro St. www.peacheschrist.com www.castrotheatre.com

Sun 4 Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s Season 6 continues with Best Comedic Singer, guest-judge Marga Gomex, and cohosts Joe Wicht and Katya Smirnoff-Skyy. $9. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Castro Street Fair @ Castro & 18th Streets The annual outdoor street fair includes booths, food, beverages, live performances (Peaches, DJs Two Dudes in Love, Pete Avila, Jim Hopkins, Stefanie Philips and more). Gate donations. 11am-6pm. Castro Street at Market, to 19th. castrostreetfair.org

The Waiting Period @ The Marsh Brian Copeland returns with his acclaimed solo show about gun rights, suicide attempts and his personal struggles. $30-$100. Sundays 5:30pm. Thru Oct. 25. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Well-Strung @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

The San Francisco company performs Dance Series One, works by Amy Seiwert, Ben Needham-Wood, Ma Cong and Michael Smuin. $24-$204. Oct. 1-4 , 8pm & 2pm shows. 3301 Lyon St. at Bay. www.smuinballet.org

The pop-classical string quartet returns for a concert of new musical arrangements. $35-$50. 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 6631063. www.well-strung.com www.ticketweb.com

Truck Stop @ Thick House Crowded Fire Theater’s U.S. premiere production of Lachlan Philpott’s dark comedy about two girl prostitutes who lure truckers at rest stops. $15$35. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 24. 1695 18th St. 523-0034. crowdedfire.org

Fri 2 Amélie @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre World premiere of Craig Lucas and Daniel Messé’s new musical based on the popular French film about an enchanting young woman who creates magic and joy in Montmartre. $29-$97. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Extended thru Oct. 18. 2025 Addison St. (510) 6472949. www.berkeleyrep.org

For the Love of Comrades @ New Conservatory Theatre Center U.S. premiere of Micheál Kerrigan play about the 1980s British group of gay rights activists who joined striking mine workers in a rural town. $20$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 11. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Kyle Dean Massey @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The Broadway star ( Pippin, Wicked ) and TV actor ( Nashville ) performs his new cabaret show, Things That Weren’t. $35-$50. 8pm. Also Oct. 3 at 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Wed 7 Freeheld @ Castro Theatre

The Phantom of the Opera @ Orpheum Theatre The new lavish touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony-winning hit musical based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 book, about a mysterious man who haunts a Paris opera house and kidnaps a beautiful singer. $40-$225. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat 2pm. Sun 2pm & 7:30pm. Thru Oct. 4. 1192 Market St. (888) 746-1799. www.shnsf.com

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? @ Belrose Theater, San Rafael Edward Albee’s classic drama about a troubled childless couple and their trapped guests. $22-$25. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm, thru Oct. 24. 1415 5th Ave., San Rafael. 279-2287. www.kenbaconproductions.com

Sat 3 Ella Wolfe & Mike Spellman @ Hotel Rex Songs From a Suitcase, the duo’s cabaret show about the traveling life. $35-$60. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. (800) 982-2787. www.societycabaret.com

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

Amy Winehouse @ Contemporary Jewish Museum A Family Portrait features images of and ephemera from the estate of the deceased soul singer; Thru Nov. 1. Also, Tzedakah Box, Bound to be Held: A Book Show, Lamp of the Covenant; and Hidden in Plain Sight! T-Shirts and the Curation of Identity (thru Nov. 1) Lectures and gallery talks as well. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Tue 6 Dear Armen @ NOH Space Kamee Abrahamian’s experimental theatre work about the struggles of queer and gender nonconforming Armenians, with dance, live music and stories. $15-$20. 7:30pm. Also Oct. 7. 2840 Mariposa St. Oct. 8 at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.deararmen.com

Wed 7 Curse of the Cobra @ Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers’ new Halloween season spine-tingling show offers terror and titillation! Previews. Opens Oct. 10. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 21. www.hypnodrome.org

Freeheld @ Castro Theatre Director Peter Sollett and costars Julianne Moore and Ellen Page will attend the screening of the lesbianthemed film. $30 for VIP reception; 7:30. www.sffs.org. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Garbage @ Fox Theatre Oakland The power-pop band, led by the amazing Shirley Manson, celebrates “20 Years Queer” with a new album and classics faves along their U.S. and European tour. $5. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave. thefoxoakland.com

LGBT Stories in Foreign Lands @ Books Inc. Three authors with new books set in other countries read from and discuss their new novels; Kunal Mukherjee ( My Magical Palace ), Wayne Goodman ( The Seed of Immortality: Mahjong at Changshou Shan ) and Carolina De Robertis ( The Gods of Tango). 7pm. 2275 Market St. www.booksinc.net

Michael Helquist @ Books Inc, Berkeley, SF Public Library The author of Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions discusses his biography of the lesbian radical of the late 19th century. 7pm. 1491 Shattuck Ave. www.booksinc.net Also, Oct. 8, 6pm at the SF Public Library, James Hormel Library, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Michael Feinstein @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The acclaimed singer-pianist, and the namesake of the upscale cabaret, performs five nights of Ira Gershwin & Me, his tribute to the prolific composer. $80-$95 ($20 food/drink min.). Wed & Sat 7pm; Thu & Fri 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 11. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Thu 8 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s online interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. Check for times on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/10Percent/66629477326 www.ComcastHometown.com

Barnaby’s Babes @ Oasis The saucy variety show, with live music, drag, comedy and burlesque, takes on a movie theme. $15-$25. 10:30pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com

San Francisco Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Theatre David Facer’s solo magic show, The World of Paradox, entertains and beguiles. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. Openended run. 433 Powell St. at Post. www.MagicParlor.blogspot.com To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. For bar and nightlife events, go to On the Tab in our BARtab section, online at www.ebar.com/bartab

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Amazing Grace by Sampson McCormick

op-rock diva Grace Jones is timeless, a master of song, and an icon. If there were any doubt about that going into her concert on Saturday night at Oakland’s famous Fox Theater, her performance sent them home believing. Known for her androgynous appearance, high fashion, and spontaneity, there’s no doubt why so many in attendance of the sold-out performance included gay men, drag queens, and gender-queer people dressed for the occasion in their best sequins, feathers, glitter and beads, who could be heard in line before the doors opened reminiscing about parties years back, and having seen Jones and other divas, including disco queen Sylvester. As Jones is known for doing things the way that she wants, it was no surprise the show started an hour late. But the audience, heavy with anticipation of seeing the diva, didn’t mind at all, cheering loudly between the songs over the speakers until the show, which started abruptly. The curtains pulled back to reveal

Grace Jones, in an unforgettable entrance, standing atop a platform like a goddess in all her glory – topless, in a skull mask, flowing black wrap, an under-bust corset, and patterned white body paint inspired by Keith Haring, opening the show with her hit “Nightclubbing.” A mother feeding her hungry babies, the diva gave the audience exactly what they came for, delivering an hour-and-a-half of sexy, soulful, funky, provocative, unadulterated Grace Jones, never faltering in energy, and flowing effortlessly from song to song, in-between reminding the audience how “F-ing awesome!” they were. The highlights of the evening, in addition to seeing the many LGBT people in attendance, and hearing a joke about the Fox Theater closing the doors and locking the straight people out, included Jones’ cover of Roxy Music’s “Love Is the Drug”; pole-dancing and hot men who accompanied her onstage during the introduction of a new song, “Shenanigans,” from her upcoming album; “William’s Blood,” a song about her strict religious upbringing, which she ended with

a soul-stirring a cappella rendition of “Amazing Grace”; “My Jamaican Guy,” for which she strapped on a humungous dildo; and “Pull Up to the Bumper,” in which she was carried through the audience, and the entire house went completely crazy. Just when she’d slayed us and we didn’t think there was anything else she could do to further undo any nerves left, we watched her climb into a hula-hoop and for the entirety of the song, deliver “Slave to the Rhythm” while shimmying across the stage and introducing her band, also stellar the entire evening. After wishing Oakland a good night to a thunderous ovation, she returned in black-caped glory for an encore with “Hurricane.” Watching this diva, it’s hard to believe there’s an age to put on her. Looking at the high-energy level of the performance, one questions whether she is superhuman. But there is one thing that can’t be questioned, and that’s the fact that she is an icon who can put on one hell of a show. If you weren’t there, you missed what I’m sure has been, for many, a life-changing experience through music.t

Armed struggle is so 1968 by Erin Blackwell

hese days, nobody’s surprised when a near-autistic student shows up at a public place with a small arsenal and starts blasting his way through a gathering of innocents. On some level, it’s perfectly okay for a lone wingnut to express rage meaninglessly. If, however, the mass murderer writes a manifesto critical of our culture hoping to foment revolution, there’s a chill factor. It’s inacceptable that an American could kill not out of semisuicidal self-and-othercontempt but on behalf of an improved situation post-bloodbath. In the 1960s, though, many Americans had hope that a revolution with or without violence would birth a more equitable society. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is here to refresh our collective consciousness of that promising era, at Opera Plaza in San Francisco, Shattuck in Berkeley, and Piedmont in Oakland, opening Oct. 2. As a white person, I always get a particular thrill hearing black people express rage over centuries of white-skinned domination, terror, and trickery. The sort of voice of the tall man in a hat shown talking in a group on the street: “We’re not gonna get nothin’. Not by sittin’ round here doin’ these sit-in demonstrations or nothin’.” Someone off-camera naively asks, “Well, how are we gonna do it?” He answers with gusto, “By violence. Violence. By uprisin’. Havin’ a revolution. Just put blood, you know. Let everybody bleed a little bit.” The way the word blood is stretched into two savory syllables is redolent of the payback white people, when considered as a pampered, clueless socio-economic group, so richly deserve. The saddest thing about MacArthur genius grantee Stanley Nelson’s new documentary is how little has changed, or how much has changed but not the way one might’ve hoped. In light of the recent spate of shootings of young black men by white cops, the

Doing things the way that she wants: icon Grace Jones performed at Rev1-2pub-BBB_BAR_100115.pdf 1 9/25/15 4:04 PM the Fox Theater in Oakland last Saturday night.

This is when people are getting drafted to go and fight in Vietnam. So if somebody comes and says, Well, if you’re going to fight, why not fight right here in L.A. or in Oakland? That made a lot of sense.” It didn’t hurt that the leaders were extremely charismatic. A young Huey Newton is shown saying with boyish simplicity, “We use the black panther as our symbol because of the nature of a panther. A panther doesn’t strike anyone, but if assailed upon, he’ll back up first. But if the aggressor continues, then he’ll strike out.” Sounds reasonable. Wearing the uniform Black Panther black beret over his mini-Afro and flashing dimples at a press scrum, Newton clearly enunciates the California Penal Code numbers then permitting a non-felon to openly carry a gun or rifle weapon on public property, and yes, he also cites the Second Amendment. The point wasn’t aggression but accountability. Today there are dash-cams, then there were Huey and the brothers. Old and withered Ray Gaul of the Oakland Police appears to admit he found them “intimidating.” Well, yeah. In response, white legislators decided to revise the penal code, so Huey and co-leader Bobby Seale took their guns to Sacramento, where then-governor Ronald Reagan was meeting with schoolchildren on the lawn. A scene unimaginable today. The rest is history. Meticulously documenting the tragic arc traced by the Panthers, this necessary film echoes the rise and fall of other revolutionary groups, including the anti-neo-Nazi Red Faction Army in Germany. The beginning is benign, but “the authorities” never let go that easily, if at all, not if they can help it. In the U.S. today, there is no meaningful political solution to any of the multitudinous crises we face. There’s not even any more rhetoric, only sound bites and shenanigans by the very rich who control the media. The Black Panthers whisks us back to an optimistic moment in the 60s when we still believed we could change the system. Power to the people, Baby.t C

neverendingness of this battle is obvious. Walter Cronkite’s face isn’t shown, but that might be him announcing in 1966 that “relations between police and Negroes throughout the country are getting worse,” and that “one of cities most troubled by animosity is Oakland, California.” The story of the Black Panthers, like other great tales of the 60s revolution, is a local story. Jamal Joseph, one of the film’s redoubtable talking heads, explains: “The thing that led to the Panthers was what we were seeing on television every day: attack dogs, fire hoses, bombings. Now we have emergence of voices within the community that say, we’re not going to continue to turn the other cheek.” One of the Panther 21, Joseph earned degrees and wrote plays in prison, going on to chair Graduate Film at Columbia University. So yeah, some things have changed. Cut to handheld footage of velvet-throated Stokely Carmichael with a microphone addressing a crowd: “You tell all the white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead. We want black power. We want black power.” Wow, yeah, right on. Another talking head evokes the Zeitgeist. “This was a revolutionary time, 50 countries gained their independence in the 50 years before the founding of the Black Panther Party.

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Timepiece treasures by Sura Wood

f you’ve ever lain awake at night wondering whether Marie Antoinette had pockets in her dresses where she stashed her priceless timepieces, you’ll find out at Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking, one of two decorative arts exhibitions now at the Legion of Honor. Watchmaker to kings, Tsar Alexander, Queen Victoria, Napoleon Bonaparte, Turkish Sultans and assorted royals including the aforementioned, let-em-eat-cake queen, Abraham-Louis Breguet, known as

the father of modern horology, was the progenitor of the most sophisticated personal technology of his time and the reliability and portability we take for granted today. He was a goto player in 18th-century Paris, where he founded his company, in 1775, which reigned supreme through the 1930s, fulfilling special commissions for elite and powerful clients. Many of the objects on display are not only functional – some came with calendar, stopwatch, thermometer, alarm and more – but lust-worthy. Empress Josephine’s (Mrs. Bonaparte) electricblue enamel medallion “touch” watch

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with diamond-set pointer and a dozen diamond studs representing the hours in a day (1800), and a beauty featuring Ottoman-style motifs and numerals in a glowing red, gold-embossed casing (1808) could inspire punctuality even in the incorrigibly tardy. But Breguet’s accomplishments extended beyond the aesthetic; among his estimable technical achievements: the self-winding watch or perpetuelle, the first big success of his career; the first wristwatch; and the tourbillion, a movement that helped alleviate the negative impact of gravity on pocket watches. The repeating watches with striking mechanisms, an invention emblematic of Breguet’s ingenuity, enabled muffled gongs to sound on the hour and fractions of the hour; high-end models chimed on the minute. No wonder that from the 1780s onward his star was ascendant in the court of Versailles and across the continent. He also made travel clocks, whose robust mechanisms could withstand the hustle and flow of horse-drawn carriage transportation, like one purchased by Napoleon in 1798, which kept the wars running on time. Military men, who valued precision, were partial to his work, as were scientists and financiers. Also of interest are the “sympathique” clocks, which have a slot at the top where one parks a watch and it winds and resets to the correct time. Needless to say, watch enthusiasts will be over the moon, but for novices who feel lost in the weeds or wish they’d hit the physics and astronomy books a little harder, a glossary of helpful terms is posted in bold letters at the entry to the exhibition. Though narrower in their appeal and not as glitzy as previous shows built around accessories for the rich, these timekeeping artifacts comment on the culture that produced them. Stories of their provenance

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“Gold pocket watch with tourbillon.” Engraved gold case; gold dial with Roman numerals for hours; three subdials; gilt metal 24-lignes half-plate movement with inverted fusée; natural escapement fitted in two-armed carriage. Sold Feb. 12, 1809, to Count Stanislas Potocki for 4,600 francs.

give the exhibition extra tang, which brings one back to Marie Antoinette, whose automatic gold watch was the most complicated timepiece of its era. In 1783, before her death, someone whose identity remains a subject of speculation commissioned the company to create a watch for her with all the bells and whistles imaginable; money, labor and time were no object – a good thing, too, because it took 44 years to make. But history had other plans, and the watch had a long, strange itinerary. Although she didn’t live to see the finished product – the revolution and her beheading interceded – it was eventually completed in 1818,

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“Mercury” (175-225), Roman. Silver and gold.

by Breguet fils, then acquired first by a collector and later a Jerusalem museum from which it was stolen in 1983. The replica, on view here, was created in 2005; the original masterpiece mysteriously surfaced in 2008. Ancient Luxury and the Roman Silver Treasure from Berthouville journeys considerably further back into the past. The Berthouville trove, consisting of 90 heavily ornamented, gilded silver pieces, was accidentally unearthed in 1830 by a French farmer in rural Normandy. The objects, dating to the 1st to 3rd centuries AD, miraculously survived despite being buried, en masse, in what was then a sanctuary in Roman Gaul, presumably by someone in a hurry to get out of town. Many of the prized drinking vessels, bowls and other wares were inscribed with appeals to Mercury, the god of commerce, and decorated with centaurs, cupids, Bacchanalian revels, scenes of the Trojan War and figures from mythology, whose stories are forged in silver. Like ancient theaters in the round, the unfolding tales and their characters can be followed by circling the various pieces, with a little help from the text labels. The show also includes additional Roman Empire luxuries such as precious jewelry, hammered gold, imperial coins of the realm, and a 23 carat gold bowl with a medallion depicting a drinking contest between Bacchus and an intoxicated Hercules. A massive red-and-white pavonazzetto (peacock) marble table leg, topped with a carved panther’s head attached to a muscular hindquarter, is a standout, as are the weighty, largescale Late Antiquity silver platters (Missoria); a pair of them were big enough to have been mistaken by early scholars for shields belonging to Roman General Scipio Africanus and his rival, Hannibal.t Both exhibitions run through Jan. 10 at the Legion of Honor.

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mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, taking a night off from Sweeney Todd, to effectively steal the show with a moving rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Gunn should have jumped in at this point to sing a solo version of “There Is Nothing like a Dame.” La Blythe has a voice and a half, and just as her Mrs. Lovett proves, she can make quite a case for show tunes as art songs.

The remainder of the night was shared by Silber (a pert Eliza Doolittle) and Kelsey Grammer, substituting nicely for the originally scheduled Patrick Stewart, in selections from My Fair Lady. Grammer has earned his musical theater credentials with a number of Broadway successes, and his droll delivery and mellifluous voice, well-remembered from his signature role on television as Dr. Frasier Crane, added authority to his portrayal of the endearingly disdainful

Professor Henry Higgins. His Mid-Atlantic accent made Alan Jay Lerner’s lyrics pop with sophisticated wit in “Why Can’t the English?” and “I’m an Ordinary Man.” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” was subtly characterized and sweetly touching. The trio of Grammer, Gunn and Silber sent the audience out to the dance floor with a rousing “I Could Have Danced All Night,” and that finally tied in to the occasion with a great big bow.t

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The riot act by David Lamble

for a handout at the supermarket. “Danny, you’re turning out to be a real New York City cocksucker!” Key roles are filled by screen actors with impressive resumes. The Irishborn Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Trevor, a fledgling gay activist who attempts to recruit Danny to the group’s meetings; Ron Perlman appears as the Mafia bar manager Ed Murphy; Caleb Landry Jones is the colorful Village denizen Orphan Annie; and Matt Craven appears in the crucial role of Police Inspector Pine. Stonewall fails to mirror the life of that day, as illustrated by an anecdote from Carter’s book. Pine kept his officers inside the bar from firing on the rampaging crowd outside

as they attempted to bash down the tavern’s door and attack the cops inside. Carter relates how Pine gently tapped his officers on the shoulder and commanded that no officer fire his weapon on the crowd without his permission. Thus this “Lexington and Concord” of our queer revolution was spared an evening of serious bloodshed. The movie does finally shift into gear in its third act, when some attempt is made to demonstrate how the crowd, both those attracted to the commotion and those who had been expelled by the police, mobilized to beat back the kind of police mistreatment that had occurred just a year earlier, at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In the end, Stonewall is a missed opportunity. One ponders how the story might have sizzled if entrusted to this generation’s Billy Wilder, the Taiwanese-raised director Ang Lee, whose Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm and Taking Woodstock all showed an ability to tell complicated social-change stories with aplomb. Those wishing to skip Stonewall’s deficiencies as both drama and history are encouraged to read Carter’s book. Its well-paced narrative is augmented by detailed footnotes, a substantial bibliography, and great period photographs, especially a color photo that depicts the ragamuffin collection of street kids who fought back that night and for the next week. Another good slice of history can be found in Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s full-length documentary Stonewall Uprising.t

one of our number who was publically coming out, and I knew in that moment, terrifyingly and exhilaratingly, what was next for me. Charles captures the milieu perfectly. San Francisco makes regular appearances throughout the chronicle, never flatteringly from the FBI’s

point of view. But no one, not even Hoover, comes off worse than President Nixon. Charles finds him railing against the homosexuals “in the ratty part” of San Francisco, adding, “I mean I don’t even want to shake hands with anyone from San Francisco.” It’s not only gay millennials who are ignorant of, or don’t remember clearly, the universe of societal opprobrium and personal self-loathing – and the secrecy and surveillance they occasioned – that were the lot of LGBT people in the nottoo-distant past. Even for people who lived through it, it can be hard to believe the extent of the darkness – a pall that still casts its shadow. History of the caliber of Charles’ incalculably important book is as necessary as the efforts of the straight Snowdens and the testimony of the gay Greenwalds in preventing it all from happening again. A man named Trump could appoint the next FBI director.t

he June 28, 1969 revolt at the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-run tavern in Greenwich Village, is hard to dramatize without committing all kinds of cinematic and dramatic sins. The German-born gay director Roland Emmerich has charged in where others have feared to tread. Sad to say, he has produced a complete travesty in Stonewall, a mishmash of campy dialogue and over-the-top acting that dances up to profound social/sexual change then beats a hasty retreat. The result may be illuminating only to gradeschool kids, and perhaps only to the dull-normal among them. The film’s first sin is its failure to establish whose story is being told. The best evidence we have, compellingly detailed in New York queer historian David Carter’s 2004 book Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution, is that the week of tumult in and around that watering hole followed the arrest and brutalization of a “butch dyke” lesbian whose plight aroused a swelling crowd outside the bar to push back against aggressive police action. In the chapter “Lancing the Festering Wound of Anger” Carter writes, “The police, who had blithely assumed that since they were dealing with a bunch of fairies they would be unchallenged, found that it was as if the fey beings had suddenly metamorphosed into raging tigers. Police Inspector [Seymour] Pine, author of the U.S. Army’s manual for hand-to-hand combat in World War II, later recalled, ‘There was never a

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Scene from director Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall: committing all kinds of cinematic and dramatic sins.

time that I felt more scared than I felt that night.’” Emmerich and his screenwriter Jon Robin Baitz get into trouble when they ignore the rebellion’s complicated roots in favor of relating the events of the three days that led up to the riot at the Stonewall bar via a handsome white boy, a fictional composite character from Indiana, Danny Winters (British-born Jeremy Irvine). A lengthy subplot is devoted to Danny’s experience of being harassed by local kids while making out in a boyfriend’s car, fighting with a bullying father, bonding with a kid sister, and finally migrating to the Village, where he gets a job as a supermarket stockboy.

It’s at his job that Danny meets with the film’s juiciest and historically most grounded character, the cross-dressing Ray Ramona (vividly brought to life by the terrific newcomer Jonny Beauchamp). Stonewall should be Ray’s story, supplemented by an assortment of working-class lesbians, underage kids, barely legal dancing kids, and hundreds of other Gotham residents who gravitated to the bar for its spacious dance floors and cheap if adulterated beer and liquor. Beauchamp, who’s been getting rave reviews for his emergence as a cultural force more than for his role in Stonewall, has one saucy line, when Danny refuses Ray’s request

the spine of the book, its ability to make the reader’s spine tingle is demonstrated time and again with salient, carefully prepared observations. Midway through his powerful narrative of the decline and fall of Frank Kameny (among other things, coiner of the line “Gay is good”) – an astronomer turned out gay activist who took his dismissal from his position with the Army Map Service all the way to the Supreme Court – Charles observes, “It would seem, in the end, [Kameny’s] scrupulous honesty did him in.” The defining thread in Charles’ intricate history is the FBI’s cumulative creation of what became known as its “Sexual Deviates” file, begun in the 1930s, assiduously maintained and expanded (and cunningly disseminated) thereafter – and deliberately destroyed by the Bureau in 1977-78, at which time its 330,000 pages of information required 99 cubic feet of storage. (This book holds chills for the 2015 reader, who can easily contemplate the vault’s present-day double as an infinitely copyable NSA flash drive.) But what becomes apparent over the book’s 400 pages is that it is, in addition, an invaluable, concise history of the gay liberation and rights movement in the United States. Deliberate or not, the author lets the FBI insinuate itself into the larger story of gay oppression and its discontents in an eerie replication of the way the Bureau actually did exactly just that. Along the way, we’re given a substantive account of the “Lavender Scare” and the homophile institutions, such as the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, it helped engender. Even better are the portraits of the prominent figures the Bureau monitored, some of whom became instrumental in the political struggle to free LGBT people from these very mechanisms of surveillance and, ironically, blackmail. Among them are victims, from LBJ’s chief aide, Walter Jenkins, to celebrity sacrificial lambs as diverse as Rock

Hudson and Andy Warhol; informants and infiltrators, gay and straight and, more often, individuals whose “cases” and files made them, reluctantly and not, major players in the larger story. In addition to Hoover and the succession of US Presidents he “served,” Charles offers profiles (often enough, profiles of courage) of Mattachine founder Harry Hay, Hay’s lesbian counterparts Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, and numerous others. Especially compelling is gay FBI agent Frank Buttino, whose sterling record at the Bureau, coupled with his openness under questioning about his homosexuality, caused one of the FBI agents investigating him to say, “You’re our worst nightmare.” Charles’ eight chapters marshal their stories toward what he rightly calls the “watershed” moments of the campaign to expose, stop, or at any rate, pause the FBI’s often criminal tactics in its determined efforts to keep America safe from the queers. My heart beat loudest in the final chapter, “‘I’m Ready to Die for the Cause!’: The FBI Confronts Gay Liberation.” It nails that period in the early 1970s when, fired by the examples from the civil-rights, women’sliberation and student-power movements, gays and lesbians moved from homophile, assimilation-oriented enclaves to more politicized, activist organizations, exemplified at first by the Gay Liberation Front. When I arrived in Berkeley in the fall of 1970, fresh from a Midwestern college progressive enough that students had shut it down before the end of term, my hair was “on fire” with anti-war student power. I was packing as porn the paperback script of I Am Curious Yellow with its black-and-white photos of naked actors of both sexes that I could have hid behind, despite being fully aware that only the uncut guy had my attention. My first day of class was disrupted by a chanting throng of fellow seminarians celebrating

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n his absorbing new book Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program (University Press of Kansas), historian Douglas M. Charles gets down to business with his title of Chapter 1: “Was J. Edgar Hoover Gay? Does It Matter?” Its one-sentence first paragraph answers, “We do not, and cannot, know; and no.” By throwing out the sensationalism, Hollywood and otherwise, Charles makes possible his cool but devastating chronicle of what can be known about FBI covert investigation of homosexuals in the 20th century and Hoover’s role in the design and implementation of the programs to undertake it. It’s a far more gripping story than any conjecture about the director’s intimate relationship with his second-incommand, Clyde Tolson, could be. And ultimately it allows Hoover to damn himself. Having been the man behind the curtain at Oz for the bulk of the book, Hoover’s choice of animal imagery – “skunks,” “jackals,” “vultures” and “rat[s] of the worst type” – to characterize the members of the Fourth Estate who brought him down renders his vileness in his own, low language. This is not the Penn State historian’s first book critical of the FBI, but it’s as probing a book about its stated topic as we’re ever likely to see. Many of its core findings derive from the author’s painstaking primary research: piecing together fragments of files the FBI sought to destroy completely; determining identities of the players – officials, informants and their prey – by finding names that, in error, were not, or were not fully, redacted in surviving documents; matching files with file numbers. The writing is tight and academic; it dots its i’s and crosses its t’s – and it’s plainspoken about what it does not know. But if the prose is not always of the kind that rappels up and down

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rgentine filmmaker Martin Farina creates a special privileged viewing zone with Fulboy, an 82-minute documentary whose focus is the behind-the-scenes preparation for a professional football match. First, a definition of terms: the word football in this film means the 11-man team sport most Americans have grown up referring to as soccer. In Fulboy, Farina takes advantage of the locker-room access afforded him and his camera by his pro-football-playing brother Tomas. Included in this DVD package from tlareleasing is the original two-and-a-half-minute film Farina shot with his brother, Tomas the Defender. For American LGBTQ viewers who are not into pro team sports, the appeal of Fulboy is, of course, carnal, sensual, highly erotic, as we get to see these professional male athletes totally naked as they prepare for a major match in the confines of the team’s lockers/training facility. Futbol, as seen here, is the most popular team sport in the world, far eclipsing the reach of Americanstyle tackle football. While the American game values bruising body contact, some of which is currently undergoing critical and medical scrutiny for its links to head injuries, especially life-threatening concussions, the international game eschews the protective gear worn by American football players and instead has 11 players chase a ball around a field for two 45-minute periods, with some matches ending in a tie, even (god forbid!) a scoreless tie. Filmmaker Farina is tough on the players, in the sense of revealing their nakedness with his camera, while implicitly tough on himself for wanting to film such a display for a worldwide theatrical/video audience. Ultimately, Fulboy questions why so many of us enjoy gazing at the male form, at grown men between the ages of 18 and roughly 35, when their bodies rapidly age and force their owners to retire at half the age an ordinary worker would be able to quit. A great deal of the locker-room discussion among the players concerns the insurance policies many of them purchase to ensure that their families are guaranteed a lifetime of living according to their present affluent style.

I’ll conclude this review with a few excerpts from the lengthy subtitled text that appears in the American edition of Fulboy. In this section, illustrated by Argentine soccer players showering, relaxing in the buff, or being massaged by the team trainer, Farina includes this bit of philosophy about the purpose of team sports in a modern industrial society like Argentina or America: “Someone said that sports is like the staging of a war, or the continuation of a war without having to kill anyone. That explains the love of the team shirt, because it indicates that you belong to a territory, it ties you to your fellow players. “But when the championship ends, these guys have to negotiate a new deal and go to a team that pays them more. If they don’t do well, if they don’t have a good season, they may have to go to a worse team, or they might not be hired at all. The friendship between them will dissipate. When this film is finished, they will be somewhere else, or they may have retired from football.” The next passage involves a postmodern discussion of people in a digital society who are potentially having their privacy trumped by allseeing digital apps: “Some people are good at thinking, and others at working. Those who think have an advantage. If they spend such a long time looking at themselves in the mirror, trying on clothes, styling their hair, looking at each other, it’s because they know that being a football player means being observed. “Supposedly, the most intense moment of their week is when they go out on the field and all eyes are on them. No one can see their hairstyles or cuts up-close from the stands. But the TV camera does capture them, and the players are aware of that. Playing football means being on TV. I hope I make a film that shows them in a different light.” Fulboy, with its very competent subtitling and sumptuous locker/ shower room photography, is the kind of video that many LGBTQ readers will want to add to their home libraries. Many of its inquiries apply to San Francisco Giants baseball fans, worrying about the future of our now-injured and still muchbeloved “freak,” Timothy Leroy Lincecum. (In Spanish with English subtitles; special features include the short film Tomas the Defender.)t

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All SHN touring shows now head only to the Orpheum and the Golden Gate, while the Curran went dark. Would Shorenstein Hays conclude that commerce overcame any hard feelings and make the Curran available again to SHN shows? Or would she mount a Broadway-type subscription series in direct competition with SHN? Direct answers are hard to come by from the amiably vague Shorenstein Hays, but the answer seems to point in other directions entirely. The front of the theater is now splashed with Keith Haring-style graffiti glyphs, with an array of bright red shards pointing toward the stage-door alley on the left side of the building. That alley, where All About Eve famously filmed location scenes, is now the temporary entrance to the theater and probably will be until renovations are completed in 2017 – renovations intended to be “holistic and celebratory.” Once you enter through the stage door, you are almost immediately on the stage peering into the dark theater, with its enormous chandelier eerily reflecting ambient light. Audiences are seated on risers facing the empty auditorium, during the bend-the-rules productions that make up the Curran: Under

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Construction series (more details below on the upcoming productions). The series began last week with a starkly intense play from the UK, David Greig’s The Events, in which two actors were directly in front of the audience performing on the stage floor with a few props and no scenery. There was, however, a 20-member church choir on risers opposite the audience, singing both hymns and representing the focus of the play’s horror explored in flashbacks, inspired by a right-wing extremist’s 2011 attack on a summer camp in Norway. The Events and the six upcoming Under Construction presentations, as well as Shorenstein Hays’ reputation at SHN as the artistic risk-taker, point to the most out-ofthe-box programming philosophy since the theater opened in 1922. Often seen as retiring and press-shy, Shorenstein Hays was positioned at the front of the stage-door alley through which all first-nighters had to pass. She was a smiling, accessible greeter, giddily posing for photographs with artist Aaron De La Cruz in front of his murals. Shorenstein Hays was giving De La Cruz a nice showcase, and he provided her with a friendly foil who could deflect direct questions. “Ask him,” she said jocularly several times when I tried to get specific about her post-renovation ideas for the theater. When answers did

come, they were genially nebulous. The most concrete answer I got was when I asked how the notoriously cramped lobby is going to be reconfigured. “We should have blueprints soon,” she said. A press release promises “newly remodeled lobbies [that] feature three bars, digital displays, work by local artists and festive and elegant lighting.” Another issue being addressed: the restrooms, which have previously included a memorably steep, narrow staircase down to the gents. “Generous stairs and an elevator will take patrons to the totally reinvented lower level featuring generous new restroom facilities for men and women,” reads the press release. For the auditorium itself, new carpets, lighting, and refurbished seats are planned, along with new electrical and mechanical systems to enhance theatrical flexibility. Ultimately, all of this is in service to what appears on the stage. As renovations begin, Hays Shorenstein “will be scouring the world’s stages, including London and Asia,” in curating the post-construction productions for the Curran, with a goal of “programming daring and excellent works that otherwise might not find their way to a major West Coast theater” (i.e., probably not tours of Phantom of the Opera, Jersey Boys, and Riverdance.) But maybe Fun Home, the tragicomic Tony Award-winning musical on

which Shorenstein Hays is a lead producer? “That would be nice,” she replied when asked about the chances of the tour playing the Curran. In the meantime, we can speculate on the theater’s future in which Shorenstein’s goal is “to create a beacon here for theatrical artists and audiences the world over.” But speculation is not needed about the Under Construction series, which has six diverse productions set between now and the end of January. Here’s a look at what to expect. The Object Lesson (Oct. 14-18) is an environmental performance piece by Geoff Sobelle in which the audience is encouraged to roam through floor-to-ceiling stacks of boxes before the show begins. The boxes are filled with the memories and detritus of one hoarder’s life, with each box bringing forth meditation on a life sequestered in cardboard. Ghost Quartet (Oct. 23-31) is Dave Malloy’s song cycle performed by four actor-musicians that weaves together numerous examples of ghost stories in a search for a common denominator and an answer to why we still seek out these stories. Steve Cuiffo Is Lenny Bruce (Nov. 19-21) recreates a night with the groundbreaking comedian/social commentator. Bruce performed at the Curran on Nov. 19, 1961, and

Cuiffo has crafted a one-hour set based on his Curran-period material and other samplings from a repertoire that includes still hot-button topics. Stew – Notes of a Native Song (Dec. 3-5) returns the singer-songwriter to the Bay Area, where his Passing Strange had its pre-Broadway run. The new show is an homage to James Baldwin with a collage of songs, text, and video inspired by Baldwin’s drive to air uncomfortable truths. Story Pirates’ Greatest Hits Show (Dec. 11-13) bases its sketch musical comedy on stories written by elementary school students. Some sketches will be improvised from ideas suggested by kids in the audience, and each show will include the premiere of a story written by a local elementary school student as part of the Curran’s outreach to local schools. Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Jan. 21-31) is part of the playwright-actorsongwriter’s long-term project that will culminate in a 24-hour event that offers a subjective look at the American story through song. Mac is best known to local audiences as the author of Hir and The Lily’s Revenge presented at the Magic Theatre. More information on doings at the Curran is available at sfcurran. com. t

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The quartet features Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor WadleServing the igh (viola). The classically trained since musicians put theirCastro own spin on 1981 music from Mozart, Madonna, Pink, Beethoven, Kelly 15TH ST | Ravel, Catering Clarkson and even Britney Spears. I spoke with Marchant and producer Mark Cortale in recent ST phone interviews. The16THquartet had just returned from Italy, where they performed at The Vatican, of all places. 17TH ST The Producer “We had such a fantastic time,” After meeting Chris Marchant said Marchant. “This had been in when he was playing his violin on a the works since April. We had six street in Provincetown, Mark Cordays in Rome. The prime reason tale knew he saw great potential. was a humungous 60th birthday party for a friend who wanted us as entertainment, and had parties all weekend. Then we performed at a small Mass.” And no, the Pope was not in attendance. “It was in a smaller area, not the main basilica, called the Hungarian chapel. There were about 30 people there, plus a cardinal.” Asked what they played (Bach Brandenberg concerto excerpt meets Carly Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe” wouldn’t seem appropriate), Marchant said, “We performed Pachelbel’s ‘Canon in D-major.’ They had asked if we had quartet arrangements for some hymns. We weren’t familiar with them, but we played one for the communion.” The quartet’s turf in summers includes their homes in New York City, and Provincetown, where producer Cortale premiered the act at The Art House in 2012. “We performed in Provincetown three or four times this summer,” said Marchant. “We plan those days around traveling at other gigs.” And the quartet has been on the move, touring in several venues nationwide. The quartet’s new album is out this week on iTunes. Produced with Switch Records, the songs are independently produced, and after their San Francisco show, they’ll perform at Gay Days at Disneyland in Anaheim, then back to New York City for a CD release show, and a show at the University of Las Vegas. Their fall and winter tour continues in New Orleans Top: Well-Strung’s POPssical fun and elsewhere. Bottom: Producer Mark Cortale. Asked about all this travel, specifically his colThe producer of many shows at league, Daniel Shevlin and his cello, the Provincetown Art Theatre since Marchant said that more often they 2011, including Varla Jean Merrent a local cello. “We can insure man, Grey Gardens with Peaches our instruments, but it’s easier to Christ, Cortale’s venue also brings rent a cello than bring one.” The in national talents like Lea DeLaria, other musicians bring their valuNeil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowsi able instruments as carry-on in and RuPaul’s Drag Race winners, airplanes. Cortale also produces the touring Somewhere in between their Broadway Concert series hosted by schedule, they not only released Seth Rudetsky, which will return a new CD, POPssical, but also to San Francisco’s Nourse Theater worked on their own musical arwith Darren Criss (Oct. 30) and rangements. Sutton Foster (Jan. 16: www.mark“The new album’s a good examcortalepresents.com). ple of our fusing the pop and clas“It took us both a year to get it sical pieces to find ways they overgoing,” said Cortale of the Welllap,” said Marchant. “That’s been Strung concept. “In the summer of our primary focus on arrange2010, I first met Chris, and spoke ments. Our summer show was takto him about starting a show that ing that one step further.” incorporated pop and classical muMarchant said their playful (and sic. It wasn’t until Fall 2011 that occasionally somber) mash-up we got serious, Chris found our repertory has more than doubled cellist Daniel, then I took out an since they started working together ad in Backstage and Playbill. After three years ago. two months of auditions, we met “As often as possible, we try to M AR

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Edmund and Trevor. Originally settling for a trio, they had yet to find a fourth musician only weeks before the group’s debut “I’m a firm believer in deadlines,” said Cortale. “We didn’t find Trevor until right before the show. It all worked out.” Cortale said that explaining the quartet’s concept becomes unnecessary as soon as anyone hears thier music. “People are stunned when the guys start singing,” he said. “It’s really unusual to see a string quartet that can sing. These guys have beautiful voices. They’re all vocalists who can sing in intricate harmonies. It really sets them apart.” The quartet’s proven to be quite telegenic, as numerous TV appearances have proven. That they’re also handsome adds to the appeal. “That’s one of the things we’ve discovered about launching videos,” said Cortale. “The visuals are so important to get the word out about how talented these guys are.” That all four musicians are openly gay was merely a coincidence, said Cortale. “When we met and the group formed, it was incidental, despite the fact that we started in Provincetown.” He admits that at first it was a challenge to expand their audience. “Now, when you go to a show, you see all kinds of people. There are kids in the audience, and it’s such a great show to get kids interested in classical music, to see a show where the music is accessible and fun. The greatest compliment is that a week after the show, were told that someone’s son or daughter decided to take up an instrument. That’s a really great thing to see, so gratifying.” Cortale added, “We also get a lot of classical music fans who don’t know Pink or Rihanna.” Their early repertory was aided by arranger David Levinson, including the quartet’s dramatic arrangement of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” Cortale counts that song as impressing even purist classical musicians. Now the four performers are arranging more of their own songs. “They want to have more control artistically,” said Cortale. “Plus, I think in the initial two years, they were overwhelmed with pushing things forward, and there wasn’t time to consider it. They’ve been on this crazy pace. But in the past year they decided they want to do their own arrangements, and made the time for it.” While they obtain recording and performing rights to the contemporary songs (their classical choices are royalty-free), the quartet has yet to get a response from any of the pop stars whose songs they perform. “Hopefully, the more we put out, sometime in the future, we might get their attention,” said Cortale. But the quartet’s priority is pleasing their growing audience of notso famous fans. “In the past three years, they’ve really come together and grown as performers.”t Well-Strung performs at Feinstein’s at the Nikko, Sunday October 4 at 7pm. $35-$50. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 663-1063. www.well-strung.com www.ticketweb.com

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He’s the Boss Former child star Danny Pintauro hosts Oasis after-party by David-Elijah Nahmod

ended up standing out, and I truly believe that it’s because the anny Pintauro, now 39, is fates had meeting my husband in fondly remembered for his mind.” long run on the sitcom Who’s the Like many, Pintauro is still Boss and for starring in the Steamazed that they are able to live as phen King-penned chiller Cujo a legally married couple. “When I (1983). Then a rising star, Pinfirst came out in 1997, there was tauro was perhaps the cutest kid barely a glimmer of hope when in Hollywood. it came to gay rights, never mind But Tinseltown doesn’t let the right to get married,” he said. people grow older. After Who’s “A glimmer of possibility was The Boss ended, Pintauro found starting to shine as TV and film himself out of work. was starting to portray the LGBT At a low point, he found himcommunity in a positive light.” self addicted to crystal meth. PinHe said that for a long time adtauro discussed this with Oprah hering to the traditions of marWinfrey on her cable talk show riage didn’t seem all that imporin an episode that aired Sept. 26, tant to him. “Of course as I got where he revealed that he is in older and realized all of the legal, recovery and has been HIV-posmedical and insurance kinds of Danny Pintauro as a child, with the cast reasons to have the right to marry itive for the past 12 years. “I am speaking out because I of Who’s the Boss? it became much more important want everyone who continues to to me to make sure we secured ‘tweak’ and party to know that that right,” he said. pear at Oasis as the special guest it is not worth the price,” Pintauro Pintauro said that he had good star of Motherhood: Hollywood said in a press statement. “I want my relationships with his co-stars, and Royalty. The event is the after-party community to wake up, stop being recently reconnected with Who’s for Whatever Happened to Bianca complacent and start taking care of The Boss stars Tony Danza and Del Rio, the latest Peaches Christ each other. We need to be the best Judith Light. extravaganza which unfolds earlier we can – safe and healthy.” “Tony has been a huge supporter that day at the Castro Theatre. Pintauro today is out and lives of my husband and I, going so far as “I do very much say that I moved with his husband in Las Vegas. His to send us a wedding gift,” he said. to Vegas to meet my husband,” PinHollywood years may be behind “And of course Judith is nothing but tauro said. “I was looking to move him, but he lives a full life. supportive of every endeavor.” out of LA and had a couple of opOn October 3, Pintauro will apHe urges parents of child actors tions for places to move. Vegas

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travels the world from his San Francisco base, zipping from Korea to Croatia and beyond, advocating for LGBT rights and net neutrality while promoting his business, the gay social app, Hornet. Howell, a one-time tech stock analyst and longtime social activist who has worked at an NGO in Tanzania and served as a city arts commissioner in Seattle, originally attempted to enter the gay app business by putting together a consortium to pursue a buy out of Grindr in 2011.

And though the author of From the Earth to the Moon might never have predicted a centuries-spanning link between his work and the undulating male moons in a distinctly non-Victorian new video from gay rapper Cazwell, so winds one unlikely path of history and technology. After Jules Verne’s success with the earlier books in his “Extraordinary Voyages” series, Verne was aggressively courted by shipping and transit companies who lobbied to have their companies incorporated in his 1873 opus, Around the World in 80 Days. —Jules Verne, From the Earth to the In addition to his prescient perspectives on travel and technology, “I was very involved in campaignVerne was also a pioneer in coming for Hillary Clinton at the time mercial product placement. and saw how many gay men were “The Biscuit,” Cazwell’s typically spending so much time on Grindr,” outlandish –and ridiculously earrecalls Howell. “I thought it could wormy– recent release features the be a powerful tool for activating 37-year-old auteur of “Ice Cream them politically.” Truck,” “I Saw Beyonce at Burger Ultimately, Howell and his busiKing,” and “All Over Your Face,” singness partners rejected Grindr’s asking ing the praises of boy booty alongprice, opting to bootstrap Hornet on side gogo guys with thick beards, their own. And while Howell now recoiled glutes, gun belts, and Pharaonic ognizes a bit of naivete in his original headgear, who wiggle it in front of dream of redirecting gay app users’ animated figures of pyramids, cambloodflow to their brains, he continels, bullets, and Arabic calligraphy. ues to play with with Hornet’s potenAmidst it all are recurring images tial to do more than the obvious. of two giant geometric hornets. Like other social apps, Hornet has GPS capabilities that can be used to “Travel enables us to enrich our arrange nearby hook-ups, but Howlives with new experiences, to learn ell takes pride in the fact Hornet’s respect for foreign cultures, to estabsix million users across six contilish friendships, and above all connents are also able to chat globally. tribute to international cooperation This international communicaand peace throughout the world.” tion among gay men can turn each — Around the World in 80 Days of them into digital simulacrum of the jetsetting Howell, using armSean Howell, a polymathic chair travel to build community Phileas Fogg of the internet age,

and understanding about the tremendous variance in gay life –and rights– around the world. In some of the countries where being LGBT is most perilous, including Egypt and Turkey, Hornet is the most heavily used gay social app. Over the four years since Hornet’s inception, Howell has also created communication opportunities around the globe for HIV awareness programs, testing services, and academic research projects. Among his eclectic interests, Sean Howell is a serious music afficionado. A close listener and regular concertgoer, he was a co-owner of the now defunct Rawspace, an idealism-fueled café, and performance venue Moon in Ellensburg, Washington. On his current heavy playlist is innovative San Francisco orchestral rock band, The Family Crest, whose core members crowdsource auxiliary players to participate in recordings and live performances. Along with HIV-positive genderfluid Mykki Blanco, Howell considers Cazwell as one of his favorite gay hip-hop artists. “I don’t know him that well personally, but I’ve been tuned into his music for years and been to parties that he’s deejayed in New York. If you go into a gay bar anywhere around the world, there’s a good chance a Cazwell video is going to come on. He’s really stuck to his guns about

“I feel we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.”

to prepare their kids for a life outside of showbiz, stressing the importance of education. “In between trying to be an actor again, I spent a lot of time trying to find myself,” he recalls. “Talent agent, casting assistant, ticket taker, server. I worked at a pet store for awhile.” The service industry worked well for him. He got into restaurant management while his husband worked as a hotel manager. They hope to open a bed-and-breakfast together. Pintauro didn’t talk too much about the Oasis show, other than

to say that he’ll be in drag. “I will be dressed as someone easily recognized, and I will perform,” he promised, saying that the show would reveal “big secrets.” “Secrets that even leave Oprah shocked!” he said, referring to his TV interview. “Big, huge, revealing secrets!” I guess we’ll have to mosey on over to the Oasis for the big reveal.t Danny Pintauro will appear at Mother’s Hollywood Royalty, Saturday, October 3, 10pm at Oasis, 298 11th Street at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Left: Danny Pintauro Right: Danny Pintauro at his wedding in 2014.

who –in addition to those hieroglyphic hornets and some subtle inclusion of smartphone images– mentions the app in brief credits at the opening and close of the video. “They paid for the production, but I pretty much had free reign.” “Before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!” — 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Sean Howell, Hornet’s CEO and founder.

being an openly gay rapper and has shown he’s had staying power.” For Howell, it was admiration more than profit motive that led to the integration of Hornet in “The Biscuit.” “I’ve always been interested in figuring out ways to get our brand out there,” he says, “But I wasn’t interested in doing anything that looked too commercial. I want to be a supporter of gay artists.” Howell struck an impossible to refuse deal with Cazwell and his management. To have Hornet incorporated in the video, he’d underwrite production and promote and link to it on the Hornet app, with its audience of nearly seven million worldwide. “They didn’t give me any specific direction at all,” reports Cazwell,

Cazwell checks his app in the video for “The Biscuit.”

When Cazwell and his team first showed him the rough cut of “The Biscuit,” Howell considered the irony –and potential pitfalls– of sponsoring it and featuring it on an app that was helping gay men find each other in conservative Middle Eastern countries. “I felt a little uncomfortable at first,” Howell recalls. “I thought, ‘Wow, could this turn into a Charlie Hebdo?’ On the other hand, I liked how it included types of men who aren’t often seen at the center of gay culture. And in the end, censorship is pretty much the opposite of what I believe in and what I’m trying to do with Hornet.” In its first three weeks of release, “The Biscuit” has drawing widely varied online comments, from the expected: “Dayumm! All dat ass” to the disapproving: “offensive racial costumes,” “insulting Islamophobic crap” to the appreciative –”props for featuring men of color,” “beards, buns, bulges… Hot stuff!” As Jules Verne once said, “Man is never perfect or contented.”t

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Duran Duran @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley

Party Nights @ Club BnB, Oakland

The classic ‘80s pop band performs their hits at the scenic outdoor ampitheatre, with Chic featuring Nile Rodgers & Clean Bandit. $5-$65. 7pm. 2001 Gayley Road, UC Berkeley campus. www.duranduran.com

Different events each week; 1st Fri: Taboo with DJ Harness. 2nd: Menage with DJ Rapture. 3rd: Seduction Feroce, a burlesque cabaret show (9pm). 4th: Bleu Sugar shows with hotess Miss Lady Lana. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun The popular video bar ends each work week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Hard Fridays @ Qbar

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

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose

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DH Haute Toddy’s weekly electro-pop night with hotty gogos. $3. 9pm-2am (happy hour 4pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Whatever Happened to Bianca Del Rio? @ Castro Theatre

Kyle Dean Massey @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

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Star Trek Live @ Oasis

The party for gay Jewish guys and their admirers. $3-$5. 9pm-1am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Enjoy another wacky parody of a TV script, this time the classic sci-fi show, with Leigh Crow, Honey Mahogany, Jordan L’Moore, Amber Sommerfield, Jef Valentine and others. $25 and up. Thu-Sat at 7pm. Thru Oct 31. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

My So-Called Night @ Beaux

Funny Fun @ Club 21, Oakland

Nap’s Karaoke @ Virgil’s Sea Room

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

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

Music with local and touring bands. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ Beatbox The saucy women’s burlesque revue’s weekend show; different musical guests each week. Sept. 11 is a special Red Hots’ Hottest at 10pm ($12-$25). Also Wednesday nights. $10-$20. 7:30pm. 314 11th St. www.redhotsburlesque.com www.beatboxsf.com

Star Trek Live @ Oasis

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

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

The Go Bang guys –Steve Fabus and Sergio Fedasz– join residents Mark O’Brien and M*J*R at the fun dance music night. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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Thirsty Thursdays @ The Cafe

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

LGBT comedy night hosted by Dan Mires. $10. 8pm. 2111 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

The Broadway star ( Pippin, Wicked ) and TV actor ( Nashville ) performs his new cabaret show, Things That Weren’t. $35-$50. 8pm. Also Oct. 3 at 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Polyglamorous @ Oasis

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

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Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Xcess Thursdays @ The Café Frisco Robbie and Persia’s dance and pop music night gets the weekend started, with gogo guys and gals, plus drink specials and guest DJs. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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Kyle Dean Massey @ Feinstein’s

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

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

Karaoke Night @ Club BnB, Oakland Sing your heart out at the free lively night. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Oct. 1: Sharktoberfest, a special shark and beer-themed with demos and games. $10-$12. 6pm10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

RedHOT Party @ 111 Minna Gallery

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

Fundraiser party for La Casa, SF’s oldest and largest anti-domestic violence provider; auction items include Las Vegas vacations, food & wine packages, Warriors tickets, and several Disney resort trips and other vacation packages. $65. 6pm-9pm. 111. Minna St. www.lacasa.org

Ladies of San Francisco @ Club OMG

SF Bay Gala @ Aquarium of the Bay

Karaoke Night @ The Stud

Miss Galilea Avila hosts the new weekly “old school drag show” with guest performers. Shows at 10:15 and 11:30pm. 43 6th St. www.clubOMGsf.com

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

Brian Boitano hosts a fundraiser for the environmental aquatic nonprofit and the fascinating aquarium, with cocktails, food, exhibits, and honors to Dr. Sylvia Earle, all with a 007: Agents of the Bay theme. Dress as your fave Bond characters. $250 and up. 6:309:30pm. Embarcadero & Beach St. 623-5300. www.sfbaygala.org

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

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

Comedy Noir @ Balancoire Valeria Branch’s weekly comedy night, where she embodies her faux queen character Pia Messing for some offbeat wit, along with guest performers. $5. 8pm-10pm. 2565 Mission St. www.balancoiresf.com

Curtain Call @ Hotel Rex Bill Cooper and pianist Barry Lloyd cohost the cabaret open mic night. $10. 7pm. 562 Sutter St. (800) 9822787. www.societycabaret.com

Fri 2

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland Lulu, Jacki, and Vicki cohost the festive gogo-filled dance club that features Latin pop dance hits with DJs Speedy Douglas Romero and Fabricio. $6-$12. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Revival 2 @ Episcopal Church of Saint John the Evangelist Page Hodel DJs the communitybuilding dance party honoring HIVsurvivors, and with nonprofits Shanti, Positive Resource Center, SF AIDS Foundation’s 50-Plus and Bridgemen. 6:30pm light dinner. 7pm-10:30pm dancing. 1661 15th St. at Julian

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

Midnight Show @ Divas

Some Thing @ The Stud

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

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

El Mundo @ Empire Ballroom

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon

The new weekly Latin night at the Civic Center renovated nightclub features drag shows, gogo guys and gals, and DJed grooves. 9pm-3am. 555 Golden Gate. www.theempireroomsf.com

Duran Duran @ The Greek Theatre, Berkeley

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

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland 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 @ Club BNB, Oakland Get groovin’ at the weekly hip hop and R&B night at their new location. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

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Songs From a Suitcase, the duo’s cabaret show about the traveling life. $35-$60. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. (800) 982-2787. www.societycabaret.com

The queer and women’s hip hop and booty jam party, with DJs Durt, Boyfriend, and Essex; plus, tamalitos and cheap drinks. $5.9pm-2am. 1743 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. (10) 4447474. www.thenewparish.com

Go Bang @ The Stud It’s a Trocadero Transfer classic disco tribute night, with resident DJs Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz and Prince Wolf. $5-$10. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Hard French @ El Rio Sweater Funk, when it’s chilly and foggy, but you know you’ll end up sweatin’ to the dance grooves at the fun patio party, but then it’s cold on the way home, so bring a sweater! DJs Carnita, Brown Amy. $10. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com www.hardfrench.com

Horizons Foundation Gala @ Fairmont Hotel 35th anniversary dinner and casino party; honorees include Evan Wolfson and LGBT refugees. $75 and up. 5:3011pm. Tonga Room, 950 Mason St. www.horizonsfoundation.org

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. Oct. 2: Hollywood Royalty, with guest star Danny Pintauro ( Who’s the Boss?). $10-$25. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Opera Parallele Gala @ Marines Memorial Club Benefit for the music ensemble includes performances by baritone Michael Mayes, plus cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, performance, and auction presented in The Commandant’s Ballroom & Lounge at the classic 1920s Beaux-Arts hotel. $350 and up. 6:30pm. 609 Sutter St. 626-6279. www.operaparallele.org

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita More! and Glamamore’s draginfused fundraiser for AIDS Housing Alliance, where butch men get femme makeovers! $5-$10. 10pm. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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

Scott Capurro @ Magnet The scathingly funny gay comic pops in for a show. 8pm. 4122 18th st. www.magnetsf.org

Sex, Drags & Rock n Roll @ Midnight Sun Mutha Chucka’s wacky monthly drag show, with BeBe Sweetbriar, Dulce De Leche, a B-52’s-Cookie Dough tribute. 10pm-1am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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

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

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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. Beer bust donations benefit local nonprofits (check website for recipients). 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays! 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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

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

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s Season 6 continues with Best Comedic Singer, guest-judge Marga Gomex, and cohosts Joe Wicht and Katya SmirnoffSkyy. $9. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Calabash @ Food for Thought, Forestville 15th annual gourd celebration and fundraiser for Food for Thought Food Bank, with silent auction featuring fine gourd art, book art, delicious food and wines, musicians, raffle prizes, garden tours. $45-50. 1pm-5pm. 6550 Railroad Ave., Forestville. (707) 887-1647. www.FFTfoodbank.org

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

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

Jock @ The Lookout Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. 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

Morning After BBQ @ Oasis The weekly barbeque brunch on the newly opened rooftop deck, with Mimosas and Bloody Mary cocktails. 11am-3pm. $10. The monthly Sunsation Sundays T-dance follows. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

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

Mon 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mash Up Mondays @ Club BnB, Oakland Weekly Karaoke and open mic night. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 7597340. www.club-bnb.com

Monday Musicals @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

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

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

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

Tue 6

13 Licks @ Qbar The “lezzie queer dance party” brings out the femmes and butches. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. 864-2877. www.qbarsf.com

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

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

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

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

Well-Strung @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The pop-classical string quartet returns for a concert of new musical arrangements. $35-$50. 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street. (866) 6631063. www.well-strung.com www.ticketweb.com

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

Gay Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels 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, 7pm-10pm. Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

Gaymer Night @ Eagle Gay gaming fun on the bar’s big screen TVs. Have a nerdgasm and a beer with your pals. 8pm. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Ink & Metal @ Powerhouse 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 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

Kingdom of Sodom/Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down at the famous strip club for interactive fun, dancer shows and refreshments. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

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

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

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

Under the Golden Gate @ Oasis The cable show featuring LGBT guests, hosted by Dan Karkoska and Maria Connor, presents SF Political Squares, a local comic take on politics with Heklina, Tom Ammiano, Marga Gomez, Tom Temprano, Broke-Ass Stuart, Marke Bieschke, Scott Weiner and more. $15-$20. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Underwear Night @ Club OMG Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials; different hosts each week. $4. 10pm2am. Preceded by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Wed 7

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

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Bondage a GoGo @ Cat Club The (mostly straight) kinky weekly dance night, where fetish gear is welcome; DJs Damon and Tomas Diablo play electro, goth, industrial, etc. 9:30pm-2:30am. 1190 Folsom St. www.bondage-a-go-go.com

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

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

Follies @ Oasis Holotta Tymes hosts the new weekly variety show with female impersonation acts, and barbeque in the front Fez Room. Also, Yuri Kagan’s comedy set. $20. 7pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

Homo Hump Day @ Various Bars The weekly roving pop-up gayvasion of notable and welcoming straight bars. www.popupgaybar.com

Latin Drag Night @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Rainbow Skate @ Redwood Roller Rink

Mary Go Round @ Lookout

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland

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/

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

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

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Rookie Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Watch newbies get nude for a $200 prize, or sign up yourself. $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

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) 869-0206. www.queersteer.com

Thu 8

Barnaby’s Babes @ Oasis

The saucy variety show, with live music, drag, comedy and burlesque, takes on a movie theme. $15-$25. 10:30pm. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 7953180. www.sfoasis.com Michael Feinstein Bulge @ Powerhouse @ Feinstein’s Grace Towers hosts the weekly gogo-tastic night of sexy dudes shakin’ their bulges and getting wet in their undies for $100 prize (with a contest at midnight), and dance beats spun by DJ DAMnation. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Wed 7

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

Man Francisco @ Oasis The weekly all-male striptease revue with a storyline of San Francisco’s history, from the Gold Rush to the tech boom, performed by sexy local hunks. $20 (plus optional $30 lap dances!). 9:30pm. Extended thru December. 298 11th St. at Folsom. www.sfoasis.com

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

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

CounterPulse Opening Party @ The Hall The dance and performance space’s move to 80 Turk Street is celebrated with tours (at 80 Turk St.)and a party nearby. Donations, cash bar. 4pm7pm. The Hall, 1028 Market St. www. counterpulse.org www.thehallsf.com

Funny Fun @ Club 21, Oakland 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 whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Karaoke Night @ Club BnB, Oakland Sing your heart out at the free lively night. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Karaoke Night @ Club OMG Dana leads the weekly amateur singing night. 8pm. No cover. 43 6th St. 896-6473. www.clubomgsf.com

Latin Legends Rock for la Mission @ Roccapulco John Calloway, John Santos, Maruc Lopez, Mission varrio Prokect, Dr. Loco, DJ Bobby A and others perform at a benefit for the Committee to Save the Mission, Proposition 1, and affordable housing nonprofits. $20-$50. 6pm-12am. 3140 Mission St. www.savethemission.org

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Oct. 8: In Motion, with performance by Alonzo King Lines Ballet, motion-inspired crafts and demos, drinks and nibbly things. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

Thirsty Thursdays @ The Cafe Drink specials, Top 40, gogo studs and no cover, 2 for 1 cocktails until 10:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Live bands- usually, rock, punk and always good- perform at the famed leather bar. 8:30pm first band. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Eleventh anniversary year of the retro disco night with a fun diverse crowd, and disco master DJ Bus Station John. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

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