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Halloween is new deadline for Castro Street project Rick Gerharter

Cheer San Francisco entertained the crowd at last year’s Castro Street Fair.

Castro Street Fair coming up by Seth Hemmelgarn

he 41st annual Castro Street Fair is approaching, marking its first appearance in the neighborhood since the district’s gotten wider sidewalks and other improvements. This year’s event is set for 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday, October 5 at Castro and Market streets and the surrounding area. An estimated 50,000 people are expected to attend. Entertainment includes the rapper Big Dipper, performances from the cast of the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q, and choreographer Rory Davis. “We are very excited about this year’s fair,” Fred Lopez, the fair’s interim executive director, said in an email. “The Castro Street Fair has always been a neighborhood celebration and we have tried to reflect that in our plans. With all of the big changes to the physical landscape of the neighborhood, this year feels special in a completely unique way.” This year’s fair will include some changes in scenery, including wider sidewalks and the addition of trees and street furniture along Castro. Much of the $6 million sidewalk widening project in the Castro has been completed, but some work remains to be done. [See related story, page 1.] The alterations aren’t expected to impact the fair. The footprint will be the same, but before the sidewalk expansion, two rows of booths had been placed in the middle of Castro Street. Now, booths will be placed on either side of the road. “Attendees will have similar experiences as they’ve had in the past, just with wider sidewalks,” Lopez said in an interview. Fairgoers will also get to see the new rainbow crosswalks, which were installed at the intersection of Castro and 18th streets this week. Slain supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay man who owned a camera shop on Castro Street, organized the first Castro Street Fair to drum up some excitement in the business district catering to the city’s Eureka Valley area. In 1977 Milk later went on to become the first See page 18 >>

Rodney Fogle checks the rainbow crosswalk that was painted this week at the intersection of 18th and Castro streets.

by Matthew S. Bajko

ome Halloween, the Castro sidewalk widening project should no longer be scaring away traffic – pedestrian, vehicular, or otherwise – to the city’s gayborhood. Having failed to meet the initial deadline to wrap up the $6 million worth of

streetscape improvements prior to the annual Castro Street Fair, taking place this Sunday, October 5, the city’s Department of Public Works is now shooting to complete the upgrades along Castro Street between Market and 19th streets prior to All Hallows’ Eve Friday, October 31. A public celebration, with the tagline “It’s Time to Party,” is being planned from 6 to

8 p.m. Thursday, October 30. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have been asked to conduct a special blessing that evening and the Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band and Cheer San Francisco have been invited to perform. “Seven months of jackhammers, fences, noise, dust, complaining, and sluggish sales will be done,” Castro Merchants President See page 8 >>

UCSF clinic opens to provide PrEP Jane Philomen Cleland

by Matthew S. Bajko

“I don’t even know how the topic came up. I told her I was new clinic has opened at HIV-negative and she asked me UCSF aimed at providhave you heard about PrEP,” reing a once-a-day pill to called Souza, who works in highprevent the transmission of HIV tech sales. “It was something I had to those wishing to take it. been reading about.” Called the Sexual Health IniLast year, Souza’s decade-long tiative Program, or SHIP for relationship with his boyfriend short, it is housed within the came to an end and he found himuniversity’s 360: The Positive self back in the dating pool. He Care Center at its Parnassus was surprised to find not only were Heights campus. Since openmen in their 20s hitting on him, ing its doors in April, the clinic but many were HIV-positive. has seen more than 40 patients “It was clear to me something interested in starting on PrEP, was changing around safe-sex or pre-exposure prophylaxis, in practices,” he said. “When I think Rick Gerharter order to remain HIV-negative. back to being 18 years old at UC “We are asking about people’s Dr. Malcolm John, left, speaks with his patient, Craig Souza, at the Santa Cruz, guys were drilling a sexual health goals and how UCSF SHIP clinic. condom every time message into PrEP fits into the picture,” exour heads.” plained Dr. Malcolm John, diIn deciding to start PrEP, Souza rector of the 360 clinic and the said he did so not to abandon using Prevention recommended that people at submedical director for SHIP. “PrEP is an entrance stantial risk should consider PrEP to prevent condoms but in order to not be worried about to a greater discussion on men’s sexual health in HIV infection, and the World Health Organi- HIV transmission during sex. the gay community.” “For me, I see Truvada not as a way to not use zation also recently recommended PrEP as an The Food and Drug Administration apcondoms but as a backstop,” said Souza, who option for at-risk gay men. proved Gilead Sciences’ Truvada (tenofovir plus San Francisco resident Craig Souza, 44, takes the pill as part of a nightly regimen before emtricitabine) for PrEP in July 2012. Studies sought out services at SHIP three months ago bed. “I didn’t realize it until I started taking Truhave shown that when used consistently, onceand started taking PrEP. Already receiving his vada, but every time I had sex since I was 18 there daily Truvada reduces the risk of HIV infection was a voice in the back of my mind saying ‘What primary medical care through UCSF, Souza by more than 90 percent. learned about the new clinic during a visit to an if?’ For the first time ever that voice isn’t there In May the Centers for Disease Control and urgent care clinic. See page 17 >>

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riminal defendants in California won’t be able to use victims’ sexual orientation or gender identity to help fight charges, and death certificates have to reflect people’s lived gender identity now that Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law bills that address those issues, among other LGBT-related legislation. Most of the new laws are expected to take effect January 1. Saturday, September 27, Brown signed Assembly Bill 2501, which was authored by Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord) and prohibits the use of the “panic defense,” where people charged with murder try to excuse their acts by claiming the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity triggered them. “The gay panic defense was an unjust means of absolving violent criminal acts. Eliminating this excuse vindicates victims and holds predators accountable,” Attorney General Kamala Harris, who co-sponsored the first-of-its kind bill with Equality California, said in a news release from the LGBT lobbying group. “The ‘panic defense’ is a homophobic and transphobic ploy that blames the victims of horrific acts of violence for the crimes committed against them,” Rick Zbur, EQCA’s executive director, stated. “It has no place in California’s legal system.” Locally, the 2002 murder of transgender teen Gwen Araujo, 17, brought attention to trans panic defense tactics. Araujo reportedly engaged in anal and/or oral sex with Michael Magidson, Jose Merel, and his brother Paul Merel, who didn’t participate in the killing. Magidson and Merel claimed that the discovery of Araujo’s birth gender had threatened their sexualities and self-images. Another EQCA-backed bill signed into law is Assembly Bill 1577, which Brown signed Friday, September 26. Known as the Respect After Death Act, the law ensures death certificates for transgender people reflect their lived identities. The bill, authored by lesbian Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San

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Diego) was inspired by the death of Christopher Lee, a San Francisco artist and transgender advocate who had the wrong gender on his death certificate after his suicide in 2012. Transgender Law Center cosponsored AB 1577, which takes effect July 1. Masen Davis, the nonprofit’s executive director, stated it “brings us a significant step closer to making sure that all transgender people are able to live – and die – authentically in accordance with who they really are.” Also Friday, Brown signed into law AB 496, “which clarifies that existing cultural competency training for health care providers should include discussion of LGBT issues,” according to a news release from EQCA, which supported the bill by gay Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park). Another bill that Gordon authored and Brown signed Friday is AB 1678, which encourages public utilities to enter into contracts with LGBT-owned businesses by extending the Supplier Diversity Program administered by the California Public Utilities Commission to LGBT business enterprises. Gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) co-sponsored the bill in the Senate. Under current law, electrical, gas, water, and other public utilities with annual revenues of more than $25 million have to implement

programs encouraging business with enterprises owned by women, disabled veterans, or designated minorities. The new law adds certified LGBT-owned enterprises. “This legislation not only addresses economic disparities, but also empowers LGBT entrepreneurs to contribute to California’s continued economic growth,” Gordon stated. The National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce sponsored AB 1678. Michael Yamashita is the publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, which is majority gay-owned and a member of the gay and lesbian chamber. “Thanks to Assemblyman Rich Gordon and Senator Mark Leno, California is starting to enlarge the contracting process to include LGBTowned businesses,” Yamashita said in an email. “Hopefully this will eventually include all contracts, and expand to other states and the federal government. LGBT entrepreneurs need to be identified and quantified, because our businesses pay taxes and contribute to the economy of our communities and should be recognized for it.” Brown also signed another LGBTrelated bill into law Friday. AB 2344, authored by gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), will help “reduce unnecessary legal actions involving families who use assisted reproductive technologies” such as surrogacy or in vitro fertilization. It primarily benefits LGBT couples who have families through assisted reproductive technologies, according to Ammiano’s office. Finally Friday, Brown signed AB 966, which requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop a five-year plan to distribute condoms in all state prisons. The law is aimed at decreasing HIV transmission and other sexually transmitted infections. Assemblyman Rob Bonta (DOakland) authored the bill. “As the first California governor to sign a bill to mandate the distribution of condoms in prison, Governor Brown has demonstrated the courage to directly address this unsettling and sometimes disturbing topic,” Bonta stated.t

Facebook to change name policy by Sean Piverger

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ollowing a second meeting with Facebook officials, San Francisco Supervisor David Campos announced Wednesday that the social media giant would be making changes to its policy requiring real names to be used. “The drag queens spoke and Facebook listened,” Campos, who is gay, said in a statement released by his office and the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. “Facebook agreed that the real names policy is flawed and has unintentionally hurt members of our community. We have their commitment that they will be making substantive changes soon and we have every reason to believe them.” Campos said that Facebook also apologized to the community. “They’re working on technical solutions to make sure that nobody has their name changed unless they want it to be changed and to help better differentiate between fake profiles and authentic ones,” Campos said. Drag queens, transgender people, performers, and survivors of abuse and stalking and others were upset about Facebook’s policy of requiring real names, saying it put members of the community at risk. A Facebook spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment, but a post on the Valleywag blog prior to the October 1 meeting

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indicated that the company would be making changes to its name policy. Wednesday’s sit-down was the second meeting with Facebook at its Menlo Park headquarters. An initial meeting last month with low-level communications officials did not result in any changes to the name policy. Facebook has long required users to register with their real, or legal, names, as they appear on a driver’s license or credit card, for example. The social media site last month deactivated the pages of several prominent drag queens because the performers were using their drag, or stage names, instead of their legal names.

According to the Milk club’s news release, community members brought a letter with them signed by nearly 100 organizations calling for an end to the real name policy. “The real name policy hurts the people that it’s supposed to protect,” stated Milk club Co-President Tom Temprano in the news release. “We’re asking Facebook to evolve their policy to ensure that all of us are able to be our authentic selves online. We believe that if Facebook hears how this policy has been affecting so many people that they will reconsider.” See page 17 >>

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Walker for City College board

ity College of San Francisco is has held the District 9 seat for many years. tions in their firms after completing in a unique situation. The electFang is also one of the original authors 10 to 20 units. ed board of trustees is currently not of domestic partnership policies at BART, a Walker completed 70 units at meeting, having been suspended strong advocate of BART’s participation in CCSF; in short, he is extremely aware when the California Community local Pride festivals, and works to increase outof the college’s current situation and reach to the community. Colleges Board of Governors aphas solutions to make needed changBART is at a high point now: ridership is way pointed the Special Trustee. Voters es. He is the only African American up; new train cars are due in a couple years; and will choose four people to sit on the man running for the entire board, its Oakland Airport connector will open this college board, even though right but more than identity politics, he’s fall. Stations in San Francisco and Oakland are now there are no meetings and the a former student who can bring that Courtesy William Walker being renovated and BART expects to connect trustees can take no action. knowledge to bear. He pointed out City College of with Levi’s Stadium next year, Fang said. Recent Two years ago, we did not recom- San Francisco that he could provide a unique perinitiatives such as BART’s revamped bicycle mend any of the incumbents for board candidate spective, as most of the board trustpolicy have also proved popular with riders. re-election. We continue to hold William Walker ees’ experiences are not typical of a Areas of improvement include ramping up that position. Three seats are up for City College student. service for the San Francisco Pride parade. four-year terms; two candidates are There is another gay City College Fang said that this year he talked to riders and incumbents. student in the race (for one of the knows there were many complaints. Fang said In an odd twist, there is also a four-year terms), and that’s forthe error this year was the result of a miscalcutwo-year seat on the ballot, as mer Army Lieutenant Dan Choi. lation by operations control, and that next year former Trustee Chris Jackson While he would bring passion to supplemental trains should be available in the resigned. In that race, we endorse the board and is running on a platmorning as well as late afternoon. William Walker, a gay man who form of helping veterans get back But one of BART’s consistent problems is previously was the student trustee on their feet, we believe that Choi, its contentious labor relations. Last year there on the board. who is brand new to San Francisco, were two work stoppages and two BART workWalker is a graduate of City doesn’t have the experience that ers were struck by a train and killed during the College and has spent several years the school needs in addressing its second strike. Fang told us that last year’s conin student organizing. He has a myriad issues. tract negotiations were acrimonilong history of involvement with James Fang for BART board ous because of a new management CCSF’s student government. In the race for the District 8 BART strategy that deliberately removed In his Bay Area Reporter questionnaire, board seat, James Fang, the only Rethe BART directors from participatWalker said that he believes that the college’s publican elected official in the city, ing in the negotiations. accreditation needs to be retained. He also inshowed he’s adept at handling tough “That was a fatal error,” he said. dicated that CCSF had suffered a loss of 15,000 issues, including the strikes that Since then, a new BART board students, which could result in a loss of nearly crippled the transit system last year. president has been elected, and $10 million in apportionment revenue. That, His ability to work with labor unions Fang was appointed to lead a newly of course, will affect how many employees the only underscores how he was able to formed Labor Negotiations Review college can afford to keep. Courtesy Fang for BART forge alliances to reach consensus. Committee. Fang said he already In addition to the accreditation problem board campaign We recommend his re-election. brought labor, management, and facing City College, which is expected to be BART District 8 Fang has served on the BART board Board member board members together to begin to resolved by a trial, Walker pointed out that ensince 1990, and is being challenged by James Fang create a new dialogue to prevent anrollment usually declines when the economy Democrat Nick Josefowitz this time. other BART strike when the current improves, as people often trade school for But Fang’s support from labor and contract expires. jobs. Walker said that CCSF needs to continue some rookie missteps by the Josefowitz camFang also noted that labor-management to negotiate labor contracts and find ways to paign highlighted Fang’s long-standing ties to committees are now being instituted to obensure it pays a living wage while determining major Democrats, like Senator Dianne Feinstein, jectively look at outdated work rules that are a staffing plan should it lose that nearly $10 Mayor Ed Lee, and Public Defender Jeff Adachi. burdensome and inefficient. million in funding. In his questionnaire, Fang told us he has Those are steps in the right direction. If City College succeeds in reversing the aclong championed the LGBT community. One As more people use BART to get around creditation dispute, Walker has several excellent of the first things he did when joining the the Bay Area, an experienced board is needed ideas for increasing enrollment, including forgBART board was to make sure the agency had a to maintain and improve this vital transporing a stronger connection to employers in the district that would be represented by the LGBT tation link. Fang has shown that he has that region to develop career and technical curricucommunity, and a gay man, Tom Radulovich, experience.t lum that will place students in entry-level posi-

Recapping primary endorsements With absentee ballots due to hit voters’ mailboxes next week, the Bay Area Reporter offers a recap of the endorsements we made previously in the primary.

David Chiu, Assembly District 17

This San Francisco Assembly race is the most competitive on the ballot. And while both candidates, David Chiu and David Campos, are qualified, we endorse Chiu, who is currently the president of the Board of Supervisors. Jane Philomen Cleland Chiu is a straight Assembly candiman who has long date David Chiu been an ally of the LGBT community. He has demonstrated the ability to work with divergent interests and achieve consensus, something that will be necessary in Sacramento. Chiu pledges to champion new legislation and groundbreaking programs for the LGBT community. His platform calls for more state resources for building senior affordable housing that includes LGBT elders, as well as supporting LGBT-specific aging in place programs. For LGBT youth, as we noted previously, state policies need to ensure students are safe from bullying and that foster youth are well-served. His other priorities include adequate funding for HIV/AIDS patients, fair drug prices, and the health care needs of lesbians and transgender people. We thought long and hard about this endorsement, since Campos is a gay man and has also done much for the community during his two terms on the board. In the end, however, we feel that Chiu is better able to bridge divides, and being one of 80 lawmakers means constantly having to solicit support from colleagues. We think Chiu is the better candidate for the office.

Other Assembly races

We also recommend candidates in several other Bay Area Assembly races. Starting with Assembly District 19 in San Francisco, we endorse incumbent Phil Ting, a straight ally who has had several pro-LGBT and HIV/ AIDS bills signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Ting is a hard worker and attuned to his constituents. In the South Bay, we endorse Evan Low in the Assembly District 28 race. Currently a member of the Campbell City Council, Low is a rising star in the Democratic Party. A gay man, Low is also becoming a leader in the fight against the federal government’s ban on blood donations from gay and bi men. Low is running to succeed his boss, Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino), who is termed out. As a legislative staffer, Low is knowledgeable about the workings of Sacramento and will hit the ground running. On the Peninsula, we endorse incumbent Rich Gordon in Assembly District 24. Gordon, also a gay man, has come into his own while in the Legislature, taking on a leadership role in the Legislative LGBT Caucus and authoring bills to help advance equality in state contracting. In the East Bay, we endorse Elizabeth Echols for Assembly District 15. She is running to replace Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), who is termed out. A former Obama administration official who served in the Small Business Administration, Echols is a leader on economic issues and the environment. A straight ally, Echols is committed to ensuring everyone in the state enjoys equal rights and equal opportunity. In another East Bay race, we recommend incumbent Assemblyman Rob Bonta in Assembly District 18, which covers Oakland, Alameda, and San Leandro. Bonta has also had LGBT-related bills signed by the governor. Bonta, who is straight, is a solid ally of the LGBT community.

Statewide races

The race for governor appears to be a cakewalk for incumbent Jerry Brown, who is on his way to an unprecedented fourth term. Brown, who just finished signing hundreds of bills, including several that are good for the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities, knows the state like almost no other politician. After the celebrity-focused tenure of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brown came into office four years ago and quietly set about rebuilding the economy and getting California back on track. There’s still much work to do, and Brown is vastly more qualified than his Republican opponent. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has used the bully pulpit of the office to oppose rising tuition fees at state universities and colleges, continue advocating for marriage equality, and embrace the growing tech sector. He will continue to be a tremendous advocate for the LGBT community. Attorney General Kamala Harris has overseen a broad range of investigations targeting illegal weapons, drugs, and white-collar crime. Her refusal to defend the indefensible samesex marriage ban, Proposition 8, helped undo that discriminatory amendment when it was thrown out on a technicality by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Harris will continue to be a solid ally. For secretary of state, we endorse state Senator Alex Padilla (D-Los Angeles). The recent news surrounding current Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s long battle with depression means that the person elected will have a lot of work making the office efficient and responsive to citizens. We worry that a Republican in that position could tamper with current voting processes. See page 8 >>

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PrEP debate continues

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Supervisor David Campos stated that every new HIV infection prevented saves $355,000 in lifetime treatment costs, in regards to his recent legislation to provide city funds of around $800,000 to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to residents [“Campos seeks funds for PrEP access,” September 25]. Supervisor Scott Wiener supports this legislation. Should there not be a cost analysis of what other sexually transmitted diseases a person might get if they go on PrEP and start having unprotected sex? Gonorrhea, syphilis, HPV are just a number of STDs you can get. What is the cost for that? Actually, PrEP is being subversively promoted to justify unprotected sex. Nowhere in last week’s article by Liz Highleyman does it state that PrEP should be used along with other safe-sex practices. Neither were any comments at the recent PrEP forum that she tweeted out. SF residents have a right to also know if Supervisors Campos or Wiener received any campaign donations from Gilead, the makers of PrEP (Truvada), or their employees. Before I’m bashed for shaming people, it couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m very sex-positive. I’m alarmed by the recent reports in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 26 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that HIV rates among gay men under 25 have risen 22 percent. To me, that constitutes a health crisis. Being a sexually active gay man, I’ve noticed this trend for many years. Personally, I’d never take PrEP. My safe-sex practices work for me. I fully support the decision to use it as an extra safeguard along with your safe-sex practices but not to justify unprotected sex. For months I’d see men advertise on their Grindr, Scruff or Adam 4 Adam profiles, “On PrEP, ask me about it.” As if this was some new multi-level marketing for a drug company. Recently, a 30-year-old on Scruff told me, “The epidemic wasn’t only in the 80’s bud & he lived through it.” Really, at 30 years old? He also stated, “Advertising an HIV prevention option has bad optics.” I recently asked a few people online whether they’re using PrEP to justify barebacking and received no answer. Have we as a community not learned anything from the AIDS crisis? There still is no cure for HIV/AIDS. I feel that we older gay men have a responsibility to younger gay men in sharing the history and keeping them alive and we’ve let them down. The shame is not talking about it and this issue has gone silent long enough.

David-Elijah Nahmod’s reporting on Tyler’s Suite in his article on the San Francisco Gay Men’s chorus [“Have brunch with SF Gay Men’s Chorus,” September 25] brought back some of the same unease I felt after attending the concert itself. In recounting the Tyler Clementi story the chorus floated ideas sufficiently vague as to be not quite verifiable and omitted many facts but still provided the kind of material that many, if not most, in the audience would conflate into the same erroneous narrative that Mr. Nahmod put into his article. The suicide of any young person is a tragedy and Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, was and remains a despicable slime ball who invaded Clementi’s privacy by using a web cam to spy on him. But contrary to Mr. Nahmod’s article there was no video, no online posting, no outing, and no bullying. And the suggestion of any causal link between Ravi’s spying and Clementi’s suicide is a tenuous one. There were numerous factors in Clementi’s life that might have lead to depression and suicide, including his hatred of high school, his inability to make friends, his perception of his mother as rejecting him, and his use of a prescription asthma medication believed to have a potential for producing suicidal ideation. The story was widely covered in newspapers and other media with especially comprehensive accounts in the New York Times and New Yorker magazine and even in Wikipedia. For Mr. Nahmod to get his facts so blatantly wrong is sloppy journalism, which is bad enough, but to distort the facts of a young man’s life and the tragedy of his death for the purpose of making a better story is, in my humble opinion, disrespectful of Clementi himself.

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Health laws will help LGBTs

A big thank you to Governor Jerry Brown for signing Senate Bill 964 on September 25. Wide choice of health care providers matters to all, but in some cases even more for us to have the ability to find knowledgeable specialists who are also culturally welcoming to LGBT people. This new law provides for monitoring of the so-called phantom lists of doctors in the “narrow networks” health insurance companies now offer. For example, Anthem Blue Cross’ inability to keep most Sutter and Stanford physicians in its network. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks also state Senator Mark Leno (DSan Francisco) for co-sponsoring SB 18, also signed by the governor, to provide assistance to Medi-Cal enrollment for needy Californians of all sexual and gender orientations and preferences. Obamacare was a start. California’s leaders and leadership count in making it work for all.

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wo Bay Area transgender trailblazers are among those who will be honored at the Palm Springs Pride celebration November 7-9. Shannon Price Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work advocating on behalf of transgender people, while Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski will be the 2014 Spirit of Stonewall Special Guest in recognition of being the first out elected trans trial judge in the country. Businesswoman Mariah Hansen will also receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Other honorees are: the Desert Rose Playhouse, organization of the year; Fiona Foyston, Pat Bergmann, and Tony Marchese will receive the Spirit of Stonewall Community Service Award; and Pennie Feenhan and Gordon Elkins will be honored as volunteers of the year. Riverside County Sheriff Chief Deputy Raymond Gregory and community activist Wes Rankins will be recognized with the Spirit of Pride Award for advancing equality, while the Friend of Pride Award will be presented to student advocate Tori S. Johns. This year’s Pride parade will be held Sunday, November 9 in downtown Palm Springs on Palm Can-

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Pacific Center benefit in Berkeley

Supporters of the Pacific Center for Human Growth will gather for Queerly Berkeley, a benefit for the LGBT community center, Sunday, October 5 from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Brazil Cafe Rose Garden, 1960 University Avenue. The event will feature food, drinks, music, and good cheer. Leslie Ewing, executive director of the Pacific Center, noted in the organization’s recent newsletter that the center has seen an uptick in volunteers, which has resulted in it growing several programs. The

Food for Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS food bank, will host its annual Calabash fall gourd and art festival Sunday, October 5 from 1 to 5 p.m. at 6550 Railroad Avenue in Forestville. The event was recently voted best nonprofit fundraiser by the North Bay Bohemian. The event will feature a silent auction featuring fine gourd art by over 70 artists. There will be fine food and wines, garden tours, and live gourd music. Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door. For more information, visit www.fftfoodbank.org.

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The American Fertility Association and California Cryobank will hold its Gay Women’s Gathering, geared toward lesbians considering pregnancy, Wednesday, October 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bananas, 5232 Claremont Avenue in Oakland. The seminar is focused on familybuilding safety for LGBT families from legal and medical perspectives, as well as information about sperm See page 18 >>

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Vigil to mark Castro Sweep 25th anniversary by Seth Hemmelgarn

ext week marks the 25th anniversary of the Castro Sweep, the October night in 1989 when police flooded San Francisco’s gay Castro neighborhood, arresting and injuring numerous people. The takeover will be remembered at a vigil from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday, October 6 at Castro and 18th streets. The night of the sweep had been expected to be a routine rally organized by the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP, but before the night was through, the police had shut down an entire city neighborhood and arrested 53 people and injured 10. Four police officers also were injured during the several hourslong occupation of the Castro. The ordeal rocked the San Francisco Police Department and reverberated throughout City Hall. The incident would become known as the “Castro Sweep” and prolong a rift between

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A single demonstrator confronts San Francisco police officers in the middle of Castro Street on October 6, 1989.

the city’s law enforcement and LGBT community that had begun a decade earlier with the White Night riots that were sparked by a lenient sentence for the killer of the city’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and Mayor George Moscone.

The 1989 AIDS protest began at the federal building a few blocks from City Hall. By the time the rally reached the Castro, the marchers were met by hundreds of police officers. Unable to hold their planned rally, the ACT UP protesters instead held

a sit-in in the middle of Castro Street and drew into the pavement their own version of the AIDS quilt. Another group of protesters held a die-in on the street. As the police began to arrest those blocking the street, someone knocked over a police motorcycle and the situation quickly escalated. The police eventually declared the protest an unlawful assembly and tried to clear the streets. They lined up shoulder-to-shoulder along the entire stretch of Castro Street and began marching in unison toward 18th Street, sweeping the crowd along as they proceeded. The night after the sweep, 1,500 people took to the streets in the Castro to reclaim the neighborhood. Among other actions, the police chief at the time, Frank Jordan, moved to demote his brother, Deputy Police Chief Jack Jordan, for his handling of the incident. But in November Jack Jordan abruptly resigned from the force.

A group of citizens, including several of the people injured that night, sued the city and eventually settled for $200,000. Local gay activist Michael Petrelis, who’s helping to organize Monday’s vigil, said in a blog post co-authored by Todd Swindell that the aim is to remind people of the sweep and “contemporary concerns,” including “the dwindling diversity of the Castro” and “harassment of homeless and poor people.” In an emailed response to a question about whether he thinks something like the Castro Sweep could happen again, Petrelis said, “All LGBT and HIV social justice activists must be on guard for another Castro Sweep occurring or other abuses by the SFPD and other law enforcement agencies. Regardless of gay police officers or liaisons, we must remember they are paid to control and contain street dissent and the responsibility See page 18 >>

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ith a few more days to go, community leaders are asking LGBT people to weigh in on safety issues through an online survey. In an effort to understand more about the types of violence affecting the LGBT community, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center is working with the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Learning for Action, and a group of 12 community-based agencies serving the LGBT community to conduct the LGBTQI Community Safety Survey. The goal is to find out where LGBT people seek support when they experience violence, and what the city can

do to keep people safer. There is currently too little data about the LGBT community, and a lack of information about what types of violence LGBTs face in San Francisco. The survey is available in English and in Spanish. “We need to know what kind of violence LGBT people experience more or differently than the general population,” said Rebecca Rolfe, executive director of the LGBT center. “What the experience is with service providers if they have experienced violence in their life, what we can do as community to make ourselves safer and how we leverage existing resources like law enforcement and crisis intervention agencies.” San Francisco LGBT people do

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face violence despite the fact that the city is very gay-friendly and has a variety of agencies and community

groups that offer services. “There have been gay bashing incidents,” Rolfe said. “We also know that there has been a lot of violence targeting transgender women, and transgender women of color. A lot of that is on the street.” The survey is an attempt to quantify some data behind people’s experience of violence in the city, according to Rolfe. “In some ways this will reinforce what we believe to be true, but it will also give us some hard data,” Rolfe said. “This kind of research will give us some information that we didn’t have before.” Last year another survey, the biennial San Francisco Homeless

Point-In-Time Count and Survey, was released and, for the first time, included statistics on LGBT people. The report found that out of a total of 7,350 homeless people, more than one in four (29 percent) identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or “other” for a total of 2,132. “In spite of the myth of gay affluence, LGBT people really face significant economic hardship and are really overrepresented in our homeless population,” said Rolfe. The current safety survey has been going on for a few weeks, and LGBT people can participate online or fill in the survey in person.

not Prop. G is not the law envisioned by the late Harvey Milk. Milk’s measure was carefully crafted while Prop. G is riddled with loopholes and leaves many vulnerable to this massive housing tax. Milk’s measure levied a fee on profits gained by owners.1

Prop. G imposes a tax of up to 24% on the total sales price of residential property.2

Milk’s measure speciﬁcally excluded single-family homes with in-law units.

Prop. G aﬀects residential properties with 2-30 units, meaning that the estimated 50,000 single-family homes with in-law units could be subjected to this tax.

Milk’s measure exempted owners 62 or older, understanding that many seniors use their homes as retirement nest eggs.

Prop. G does not protect seniors. It does exempt the tens of thousands of residents in buildings with 31 or more units, making them a target for exactly the kind of “ﬂipping” the authors say they want to stop.

San Franciscans deserve thoughtful solutions to our housing crisis, not Prop. G. Find out why the Bay Area Reporter, Supervisors Scott Wiener, Mark Farrell and Katy Tang, San Francisco Alliance for Jobs and Sustainable Growth, City Democratic Club, Noe Valley Democratic Club and many others say no on Prop. G.

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Apologies and arguments by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

ormer Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) recently spoke out about a speech the current president of the Human Right’s Campaign, Chad Griffin, gave at the annual transgenderfocused Southern Comfort Conference in Atlanta. In doing so, Frank has put me in an odd position: I find myself having to defend HRC while, at the same time, continuing to be more than wary of the nation’s largest LGBT rights organization. To say that the transgender

community and HRC have a long, acrimonious history is to say that Superman is not a big fan of Lex Luthor. This is a feud that dates back more than two decades, when HRC – then the Human Rights Campaign Fund – pushed for the removal of transgender people from the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994. That bill, which died in committee that year, has come back through Congress 10 additional times. It was not until the 2007 version that ENDA included transgender-inclusive language. It died in a subcom-

mittee that year, with none other than Frank reintroducing a nontransgender inclusive version that did pass the House before dying in the Senate. Over many of those years, it has been HRC that has spoken of its support of transgender rights, yet at the same time backtracked on its support of a transgender-inclusive ENDA. Griffin is not the first HRC president to go to the Southern Comfort Conference. In 2007, the same year Frank introduced a non-inclusive ENDA after the failure of an inclusive version, then-HRC President Joe Solmonese spoke. He again was contrite and apologetic, and promised those present that HRC would from then on only support transgender inclusive legislation. Two weeks later HRC stated it would “neither support nor oppose” Frank’s non-inclusive version. Most other organizations had gone on record in opposition, supporting the full LGBT community in the face of a bill that would not cover us all. This is just scratching the surface on years of issues between the transgender community and HRC. I am also not an innocent bystander, having stood with a small gathering of transgender protesters out in front of HRC’s Washington, D.C. offices, and chairing a particularly tense meeting in that office later that day. Now, I am glad that Griffin went to Southern Comfort this year, and apologized for the actions of the organization he heads. “HRC has done wrong by the transgender community in the past, and I am here to formally apologize,”

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Griffin said, according to his speech, which was posted on HRC’s website. “I am sorry for the times when we stood apart when we should have been standing together.” It’s heartening to hear that. At the same time I once again feel a bit like Charlie Brown from the old “Peanuts” comics, looking at Lucy Van Pelt and her football, knowing that we’ll yet again find the ball pulled out of the way at the last second before we kick it. It’s not that I don’t trust Griffin – it’s just that we’ve been burned so many times before that it’s near impossible to trust HRC as a whole. In the days following Griffin’s apology, though, Frank weighed in. To him, Griffin has nothing at all to apologize for. “Chad Griffin’s one of those people whose political judgment seems a bit off,” Frank said in an interview with the GA Voice. Indeed, Frank’s view is that transgender people don’t have rights for a simple reason: because we would not help lobby. It’s baffling to me. I mentioned earlier protesting in front of HRC’s offices – but I did not go to our nation’s capital simply to protest.

I was there as part of the annual Transgender Lobby Days. You know, when transgender people go to Washington, D.C. to help lobby on Capitol Hill for bills such as ENDA. To me, it seems that Frank is the one whose political judgment is askew. As I said before, the difficult history between the transgender community and HRC is not simply over transgender inclusion in the ENDA of 2007. This is about trust. This is an organization with a history of saying one thing to transgender people, but doing quite another. It would be nice to boil everything down to a single legislative session and a single bill, but the history is far deeper and longer. This is like reducing World War II down to D-Day, ignoring anything that happened before and after June 6, 1944. Unlike Frank, I think HRC has plenty to apologize for. I’m glad that Griffin has reaffirmed the importance of “a broad, inclusive ENDA.” I’m happy to hear HRC is going further, with a far more comprehensive LGBT civil rights bill. But as a friend of mine once told me during a different debate, “acta non verba” (deeds not words). Griffin’s words are nice, but it will be HRC’s deeds that will make the difference. Much like HRC’s shenanigans in 2007 helped cement distrust between the organization and transgender people, HRC’s future actions make all the difference here. I want to see a time when I, as a transgender person, can feel that HRC’s logo, the familiar yellow equal sign on a blue background – or even its red pro-marriage counterpart – truly includes me. I’ll also admit that I’m not sure I’ll ever truly feel that. Maybe my trust has been abused one too many times for it. I’d like to think I’m wrong, though. I want to see Griffin’s era with HRC make good on his apology, while moving the organization away from the attitudes of the Barney Franks of the world.t Gwen Smith’s earliest activism involved the 1994 ENDA fight. You’ll find her online at www. gwensmith.com.

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Daniel Bergerac promised in a recent email to members of the neighborhood business association. John Dennis, a designer with DPW who is acting as the project manager, told the Bay Area Reporter this week that, “We could be out there up until the last second” on the 30th. “We have asked the contractor to be prepared for the ribbon cutting and to

not be allowed to work on Halloween weekend,” he added. “We expect this project finished by then and are working together to get it done.” District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who has championed the project since being elected four years ago, called the additional three and half weeks of work “a minor delay” for such a complicated project in a heavily trafficked area of the city. See page 18 >>

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Next mayor of San Jose will back same-sex marriage by Matthew S. Bajko

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o matter which of the two candidates voters in San Jose elect as their next mayor, the winner will be a supporter of same-sex marriage. It will mark a stark turnaround from the stance of outgoing Mayor Chuck Reed, who has repeatedly refused to publicly back marriage equality for same-sex couples. Having survived their June primary, first-place finisher Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese and San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo, who placed second, will face off in the November runoff election to be the leader of the 10th largest city in the country. Both men’s campaigns told the Bay Area Reporter this week that they would sign on to Mayors for the Freedom to Marry. The national nonpartisan campaign announced last week that Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, South Carolina became the 500th mayor to join. “If elected mayor of San Jose, I would be proud to join other Mayors for the Freedom to Marry to continue making the case for marriage nationwide,” Liccardo, who recently officiated at a gay couple’s wedding at City Hall, his second time presiding over a samesex marriage, said in a statement his campaign provided to the B.A.R. Cortese, who has yet to officiate a same-sex wedding, would also join the mayoral marriage initiative. “I’ve been a strong proponent for marriage equality dating back to my time on the city council where I helped pass a law in 2004 for San Jose to recognize same-sex marriages. Now that many states recognize same-sex marriage we need to make this civil right available nationwide,” Cortese said in a statement provided by his campaign. Even though same-sex marriage is now legal in California, and the federal government recognizes those marriages for tax purposes and other federal rights, LGBT advocates argue it is still important to have mayors in the Golden State publicly support marriage equality, especially with the issue still being litigated before the federal courts. “I think it is still a huge issue for the mayor of the 10th largest city in America to not be supportive of equal rights in marriage. It still sends a signal it is okay to discriminate,” said James Gonzales, president of the South Bay’s LGBT political club known as BAYMEC, which stands for the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee. “And for decades we fought to have our leaders support equality. For someone to not do that has an effect on their community. If Chuck Reed were to come around, even if he did it in a way that was just accepting of what the law is now, would be a step in the right direction.” When Freedom to Marry launched its mayoral initiative in 2012, Reed stood out among the mayors of the Bay Area’s three largest cities for refusing to sign on. Both Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee were among the inaugural members. As the B.A.R. has reported over the years, Reed has drawn fire from his LGBT constituents for a number of actions he has taken related to the marriage equality fight. In 2008 Reed refused to take a stance on Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage

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California voters passed that year. He then turned down entreaties for San Jose to join other cities in various legal challenges to the anti-gay measure. When he was a city councilman, Reed was the lone vote against asking members of the state Legislature to pass a same-sex marriage bill. During a closed door meeting with LGBT advocates in September 2012, Reed said he supports domestic partnerships and civil unions for LGBT couples but not marriage, as the B.A.R.’s Political Notebook reported at the time. With his days in office as mayor numbered, Reed is again facing pressure from LGBT advocates on the issue. The group Marriage Equality Silicon Valley is urging people to sign on to a petition at Moveon.org (http:// petitions.moveon.org/sign/mayorreed-support-your.fb1?source=s. fb&r_by=248854) that urges Reed to join the national mayoral group. As of Tuesday it had 1,187 signatures. “Time is running out to ask the soon to be former mayor to come to his senses,” wrote Rick Infantino, a member of the group, in a recent Facebook post. Added Gonzales, a San Jose police officer who lives in Sunnyvale, “It is unacceptable for our leaders to support discrimination in our lives, and that is what Chuck Reed is doing. Now is the time for him to recognize that, as a mayor, he at least recognizes the laws that we have.” Reed spokeswoman Michelle McGurk told the B.A.R. this week that, “He hasn’t made any plans at this time” to join the mayors for marriage equality group. As for the mayor’s race, BAYMEC is endorsing Cortese. The group’s decision, said Gonzales, was influenced by a variety of issues that San Jose is facing, particularly public safety concerns, and how the candidates would address them. “I think both candidates are very supportive of our community,” he said. “Dave Cortese has been a little bit more in the forefront of our efforts of late.” Noting that San Jose “took a big leap” this year with all five candidates who ran for mayor in June supportive of marriage equality, Gonzales said whoever is Reed’s successor has the potential to be a regional and national leader for LGBT rights. “The mayor here, even though his vote is lost sometimes in the nest of the rest of the council, he has the bully pulpit that is loud and reaches far beyond our community,” said Gonzales. “San Jose’s mayor is a leader among other mayors in California and across the nation and can advance their agenda all over.”

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

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t Revisiting Annual Reminders, nearly 50 years later

14 • Bay Area Reporter • October 2-8, 2014

by Jen Colletta

each year for the next four years; the final Annual Ren July 4, 1965, John James minder demonstration took traveled to Philadelphia place just days after the Stoneto march among a group of wall Inn riots of 1969. gay and lesbian demonstrators While the 1965 demonstracalling for liberty for LGBT tion is now credited as being people. Nearly 50 years later, one of the first public LGBTJames is again surrounded by rights demonstrations, the LGBT people in the City of weight of the event wasn’t as Brotherly Love – this time in a apparent at that time, especialvery changed world. ly since James’s activism focus Earlier this year, James, 73, was a bit different than that of moved into the John C. Anthe organizers’. derson Apartments, an LGBT“It was kind of just matfriendly senior-living facility ter of fact, I did this thing. I Scott A. Drake in the heart of Philadelphia – knew there was a symbolic John James, who once lived in San Francisco more specifically in the gayborimportance at the time, but it and started AIDS Treatment News, now lives in hood section. The building, the John C. Anderson Apartments, an LGBTwasn’t necessarily the kind of just one of a few affordable friendly senior housing complex in Philadelphia. movement I would have done LGBT senior-living complexes, myself if I hadn’t been asked, is the largest publicly funded but yet again I wasn’t an orthe Independence Hall picket, LGBT building project in the ganization person anyway. So James said he decided to join up nation’s history. The complex is home I went along with how Frank and despite not being a strong backer of to a vast cross-section of the LGBT Warren wanted to do it,” James said. demonstrations. elder community – businesspeople, “My philosophy was a little different; “It was kind of the thing to do; I artists, activists, researchers, social Kameny’s was to pick one issue and went along and did it because that was workers, and everyone in between – do just that issue, where my idea was the thing to do right then,” James said, who lived through, and at times led, to mix all the issues – anti-war, gay noting it was the first public demonthe birth and growth of the modern rights, civil rights, whatever you had stration in which he participated. LGBT rights movement. the opportunity to do.” And, since the demonstration That movement is largely thought was in a different city, fears over to have begun at the Stonewall Inn Putting philosophy being outed were lessened. At the in New York City in 1969. But, four into practice time, James was only out to a small years earlier, a different sort of proJames had the opportunity to put circle of family and friends. test calling for LGBT freedom germithat philosophy into practice years Demonstration participants were nated on the steps of Philadelphia’s later. asked to consent to having their Independence Hall – fittingly, the After leaving federal employphoto taken, and he declined. birthplace of American freedom. ment, James said he went out to the “It was more of a commitment The 1965 Annual Reminder West Coast to have the customary for the local people, because they march was conceived by Craig “Haight-Ashbury experience” and, could be recognized, whereas those Rodwell and organized by such pioas the HIV/AIDS epidemic flourof us from Washington wouldn’t,” neering activists as Frank Kameny, ished in the 1980s, went on to found James said. “But we were asked by based in Washington, D.C., as well AIDS Treatment News. photographers working with the as the Philly-based Barbara Gittings In the beginning of the epidemic, demonstration if we wanted to be and her partner, Kay Lahusen. (Kathe publication explored alternative photographed, and I said no bemeny died in 2011, while Gittings medicine and experimental treatcause I liked my job.” passed away in 2007.) The demonments and went on to publish more At the time, the federal government stration was set for Independence than 400 editions. largely operated under a policy of terDay to call attention to the notion “When treatments were becoming minating “known homosexuals.” that gays and lesbians were being available, no one wanted to cover it. “They would fire anyone who deprived the basic rights guaranteed So we were talking to patients, docwas known to be gay,” James said. “I to them in the nation’s founding tors, scientists. That was my main didn’t want to lose my job.” documents. project,” he said, noting that he found The federal policy also prevented At the time of the march, James his true passion lay in that type of James, who worked at NIH until was a 24-year-old working as a combehind the scenes activism, rather 1967, from pursuing other federal puter programmer at the National than the public nature of actions like positions – which he said ended up Institutes for Health. He moved the Annual Reminders. “I was never being fortunate. back to D.C., where he grew up, in much into demonstrations so I think “I never considered applying for 1963, after earning his undergraduthat, by far, my most important activa security clearance because they ate degree from Harvard University. ism was AIDS Treatment News. That would’ve found out and that would James’s father was a federal antiwas my contribution. I like to work have complicated things. But, I trust attorney and he followed in his on long-term projects that don’t have didn’t want to do military work footsteps in seeking federal employa particular day where they culmianyway,” he laughed, “so not having ment after abandoning his plan to nate. I realize with demonstrations a security clearance was one way to pursue medicine. that they work to build up relationmake sure I stayed away from that.” “I was always interested in science ships, which is really important. And In advance of the demonstraand went to college intending to do get publicity. Demonstrations help to tion, organizers ensured that parpre-med but I decided it wasn’t for get issues talked about that should be ticipants would both dress and act me,” he said. “I had a summer job at talked about, but that way just wasn’t professionally. Sloan Kettering and just wasn’t immy thing.” “We all wore suits and ties. That pressed with what I saw there, with all After years of operating on the was Kameny, that was his philosothe bureaucracy. So I figured I needed West Coast, living in San Francisco phy,” James said. to make a living and got into computbecame unaffordable, and James About 40 people participated in ers; in those early days, there was no packed up ATN and headed back the inaugural picket and marched possibility of home computers but east, deciding to settle in Philadelfor about an hour and a half behind over the years things changed totally.” phia, where he had a number of a police barricade, holding such James said he began coming to colleagues and friends. ATN now signs as “Homosexuals should be terms with his sexuality in his early operates as an independent project judged as individuals” and “Homo20s and, upon returning to D.C., housed at Philadelphia FIGHT, an sexual civil rights.” joined the fledgling Mattachine AIDS service organization. James said there was “some deSociety, a homophile group whose James returned to a city that, like gree of fear” about the public reacWashington chapter was the brainmost of society, views LGBT people tion to the demonstration, but they child of Kameny and Jack Nichols. in a wholly different light than in were met with no real pushback. At group meetings, James said 1965. Illustrative of that are the “People took it in stride. I didn’t he was more of an observer, while city’s plans for a large-scale celebranotice any expressions of either hosKameny and Nichols ran the show. tion next year to mark the 50th antility or support,” he said. “It turned “Jack went on to be a well-known niversary of the start of the Annual out peaceful, we weren’t attacked by gay writer but, at the time, he used a Reminders pickets. people in the streets or anything. pseudonym, Warren. His father was “We never would have thought Things could have happened, but an FBI agent, and Hoover had a real of any official recognition like that. they didn’t.” thing about homosexuals. His faThat would have been inconceivWhile James stayed out of phother told him he’d kill him if the FBI able,” James said. “We were just tos, it turned out he may have been found out about [his being gay], so happy to be more tolerated. We captured – in part – in a photo of we always used the name Warren,” weren’t looking for anything out of Gittings that ran on the front page James said. “So he and Kameny and the government besides just letting of the Philadelphia Inquirer. some others came up with the idea us live how we wanted to live and “I suspect my leg is showing in the for the demonstration.” leaving us alone.”t picture. But I’m not sure,” James said. James only participated in that Decided to join up Jen Colletta is the editor of the first event, but picketers returned As plans began circulating for Philadelphia Gay News.

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t Gay playwright talks about being part of theater history

October 2-8, 2014 • Bay Area Reporter • 15

by Henrik Eger

Children, were performed not only in the gay and obert Patrick is the pro-gay environment of author of Kennedy’s the Village, but also on Children and The Haunted Broadway, in London, Host, one of America’s and Amsterdam, which oldest gay plays, now celseemed to exist almost ebrating its 50th anniverin a vacuum at that time. sary. He was one of the How do you explain the leading lights of the Offmovement toward a much Off Broadway, fringe, and wider portrayal of gay gay theater movements in people and other minority the United States. When members in our own time, he was younger, he made 50 years later? Courtesy PGN the mistake of selling his Gay playwrights Harvey Fierstein, left, Robert The spread of education, copyrights and now, at Patrick, and Doric Wilson sit under their posters at with many more people age 76, he survives in Los Phebe’s bar in New York City in 1980. going to college, and readAngeles by writing porn ing history, and through reviews, even though he is radio and TV and newsreels relationships. I alternated between still very creative and sup– knowing more about the trying to bully or charm people into portive of gay theater arts. world than our parents did. sharing my arts interests and clumHenrik Eger: Because your parents Given the many remarkable sily attempting to ingratiate myself were migrant workers in Texas, and things that you’ve done in your by imitating their behavior. moved around so often in search of life, is there anything you have What did you experience at that new jobs, you never finished a year not done, but would like to institution? of school until your senior year. experience? There was a padded cell in one Robert Patrick: I fiddled around True love. And I would like to corner occupied by a muscular as a child, drawing comics in school have the money to build or buy a young man who spent all his time tablets and making up little songs, but theatre in L.A. with enough ground screaming and cursing and bangwith the onset of puberty, I suddenly space that I could call it “Robert Pating the padded walls. An orderly began writing completed songs and rick’s Free Parking Theatre,” because confided to me that this patient was poetry in great numbers. My childin L.A., the theater would fill up for the son of a rich politician who had hood loneliness certainly made me every performance no matter what arranged that the youth, his son, be appreciate the Caffe Cino and Off-Off show was on, just because of the institutionalized, rather than jailed Broadway, not only for their artistic magic words “Free Parking.” Then for some ghastly drunken auto acopportunities, but for the gregarious I could do whatever plays I liked.t cident he had caused. The orderly friendliness of the artists and patrons, also hinted that the guy was gay. This who were my first “family of friends.” Philadelphia Gay News conis reflected in one speech in my play tributor Henrik Eger is editor How supportive was your father Nice Girl, when a character explains of Drama Around the Globe and of you when you grew up? why he fled his small New Mexico author of Metronome Ticking and My biological father turned into four textbooks. Born and raised town: “Rich people in this state with an ugly drunk after a telephone pole in Germany, he earned a Ph.D. queer kids can get them thrown into he was working on fell and crushed in English from the University an asylum for life, do you know that? his legs. He beat us until someone of Illinois and went on to teach We were, like Jews in Nazi Germany, asked my mother why she didn’t call English and communications on we lived in terror.” [My stay] was exthree continents. Contact him at the police. She replied, “Can I?” She tremely interesting, but at two weeks at HenrikEger@gmail.com. didn’t know women had any retalito the minute, they discharged me, ation against such things. She had saying, “There’s nothing wrong with him arrested and he disappeared you. Just move to a bigger town.” from our lives until mother once On a visit to New York, you decided to return to him, taking me followed a young man into Caffe with her. He got drunk, beat me, Cino, unaware that you had and left me for dead. I saw him just entered what was to become twice after that and was scared to the birthing place of both Offdeath to be near him. Off Broadway and gay theater. Did any people with Playwright Lanford Wilson, your fundamentalist religious beliefs roommate, wrote The Madness of ever attack you for your atheism? Lady Bright, which was to become The only religious attack I can rethe first gay play in America. call was when my stepfather, for what Seven months later, you wrote he called “blasphemy,” broke my nose your first gay play, The Haunted with a cast-iron crucifix. I was in my Host (1964) – contributing to a early 20s. I fled but had nowhere to whole new movement. go, so I secretly sneaked back in and We were not consciously or proslept in my closet for a few days. grammatically creating gay theater. The freedom Joe Cino gave to playAs a young man, you joined the wrights just happened to give us the Air Force, but got kicked out courage to write what was on our after two weeks because a love minds, and we both had gay stories poem was found in the wallet of we wanted to tell. So, it turned out, another airman. did several other writers at the Cino. Roswell, New Mexico’s resident homosexuals often had affairs with When homosexuality was still lonely airmen from the local Air a de-facto crime in New York, Force base. Me and my best friend, owners of gay establishments George, each had a “flyboy” lover. like Caffe Cino, who wanted to Our lovers discovered each other and keep their theaters running, were dropped us. I was such a romantic forced to do so through illegal that I joined the Air Force in San activities. Some corrupt police Antonio, Texas just to be in the same officers apparently demanded branch of the service with mine, bribes and sexual favors for Bobby. After about two weeks, I was protection of the establishment. called into a tiny, file-filled shack and Could you tell us more about told that I was being discharged dissome of those clandestine honorably because they had found activities that you observed? my poem in Bobby’s wallet. I once saw a cop come out of

After the Air Force affair, you chose to commit yourself to a mental institution. I simply couldn’t get along anywhere. My family’s constant moving had left me without social skills at friendship, school, and work situations. My obsessive absorption in the arts left me without means to relate to people whose interests were family, work, and religion. The enforced secrecy of my sex and love lives mitigated against stability and lasting

the back room of the Cino zipping his pants and tucking $10 into his pocket. That’s my only acquaintance with such things. We always suspected Joe’s Sicilian relations had something to do with the Cino not being harassed. After Joe’s death, we received summonses daily. In the early days of American theater and film, most black and gay characters were stereotyped. Your plays, including Kennedy’s

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16 • Bay Area Reporter • October 2-8, 2014

Ah, La Potencia! by Roger Brigham

or a sports fan such as myself, raised on sunny summers of baseball yielding annually to an autumnal postseason and then cold passage into the first signs of spring training, this is always the most emotionally disquieting time of the year. Particularly this year when our two local Major League Baseball franchises have spent the summer alternately thrilling us with the best records in baseball, the worst records in baseball, and some of the most brain-puzzling, gut-testing trades possible – only to end up in one-game crapshoots in Kansas City and Pittsburgh.

By the time you read this, either Jon Lester will have come through for Oakland and I’ll be getting ready to watch the A’s continue their good fortunes Sunday at the Coliseum – or I’ll be flopped out on a stool at the White Horse wondering why in the world Billy Beane ever tinkered with a fragile offense by trading away Yoenis Cespedes (La Potencia). And as frustrating as things got at times for the Giants and A’s this year – just 90 innings for Matt Cain? Flashbacks of Angel Pagan going down with de-

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bilitating injury? Coco Crisp’s back turning into something less than crisp? – things could have been a lot worse: they could have both ended up with Dan Uggla and Yunel “Tu Ere Marico” Escobar playing middle infield. For more cheerful thoughts, I turn to the news coming out last week in the sport of basketball, where an announcement was made toward curbing acceptance of bullying and homophobia in boy’s and men’s basketball. The National Association of Basketball Coaches, a national association of men’s and boy’s scholastic basketball coaches, released a statement at the end of September opposing “all forms of discrimination against any individual on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, disability, sexual orientation or religion,” and saying, “There is no room for such actions in the sport of men’s basketball.” The policy statement was developed in part by my friend, Anthony Nicodemo, a high school basketball coach in New York who came out at the LGBT Sports Coalition a year ago. “To have the NABC put out such a powerful statement on inclusion shows the importance of the issue,” Nicodemo said. “I have been a member for over 15 years and the organization was so supportive with the concerns. So many coaches will receive the statement and I hope it continues to promote a change in athletics overall. It really makes me proud to be a member.” In encouraging athletes who feel they have been subject to bullying to reach out to coaches or administrators for assistance, the NABC further stated, “The NABC’s stance against bullying goes beyond treating someone less favorably because of his or her race, color, national

High school basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo

origin, ethnicity, sex, disability, sexual orientation or religion. The NABC opposes any action or inaction that has a tendency to cause or is intended to cause emotional or physical harm, an unequal or disproportionate effect, or unreasonable requirement because of any particular trait. Further, the NABC opposes any behavior toward players that is offensive, abusive, belittling, intimidating or threatening.” Of course, sometimes people are bullied or belittled not because of their orientation but because they are perceived as being weak or effeminate or just not fitting in. That is why some of us urged NABC’s statement to include “sexual expression or identity” in its statement. Still, it’s a great start. University of Maine Coach Bob Walsh said he thinks the policy statement will help push the effort to get the word “faggot” out of everyday use in practices and games. “It’s an accepted insult that’s considered funny by some people,” Walsh said. “I hear it a lot in team settings with males, and I immediately address it. I help them understand the connotation and the hurt

in that word. I think that’s where you start the conversation.” Speaking of conversations, National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell took time off from one of his endless press conferences to visit the headquarters of the National Domestic Violence Hotline in Austin, Texas, Saturday, September 27 to spend a few hours learning about the personal stories of domestic abuse. “At one point he was physically moved to tears as he heard stories from our advocates about what women were encountering, that we took today,” said, Katie RayJones, CEO of the hotline. “It was emotional.” The hotline number is 1-800799-SAFE or can be reached online at http://www.thehotline.org. For information on the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, visit www.ncadv.org. And for what it’s worth, this Friday, October 3 will mark the 19th anniversary of the day O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of the June 12, 1994 murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Just thought it was worth remembering.

Profit-making and scare-mongering

With Minnesota State High School League officials getting ready this week to discuss a transinclusion policy that would lay the ground rules for allowing athletes to compete safely in scholastic sports regardless of their gender identity or expression, the self-proclaimed Minnesota Child Protection League ran a full-page ad in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that reads, “A male wants to shower beside your 14-year-olddaughter. Are YOU ok with that?” The policy is one already adopted by numerous states and is consistent with federal Title IX requirements.t

Atkins applauds success and eyes future at BAYMEC gala by Heather Cassell

alifornia Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins energized nearly 500 people who attended the Bay Area Municipal Elections Committee’s recent 30th annual dinner in San Jose, and celebrated political successes while also looking to the future. Candidates for various offices, elected officials, and community members filled a banquet room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose September 27 as Atkins (D-San Diego), the first lesbian Assembly speaker, gave the keynote address. Atkins, who became the second LGBT Assembly speaker in the California Legislature when she succeeded Outgoing Assemblyman John A. Perez (D-Los Angeles) in May, was introduced by gay Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park), a past president of BAYMEC. She told the audience that yes, much has changed since 1984 when Apple launched the Mac; Dallas, Dynasty, and The Cosby Show ruled television; shoulder pads were in style; and gays often hid in the shadows. “Back then anyone still in the closet would probably be sharing it with a lot of shoulder pads and brightly colored sweaters,” Atkins quipped. Today, many LGBT people are out, same-sex marriage is legal in 19 states and the District of Columbia, and there are eight LGBT elected officials serving in the California Legislature. But that doesn’t mean that it’s easy for LGBT candidates and elected

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California Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) addressed nearly 500 guests at BAYMEC’s 30th anniversary gala in San Jose September 27.

officials. Pockets of homophobia and anti-gay individuals remain. Atkins pointed to anti-gay online comments about an outdoor wedding of two men, Derrick Jackson and Oscar De La Salas, that took place in her Coronado district and the four years of homophobic and racist attacks in the Bay Area against lesbian Richmond Vice Mayor Jovanka Beckles, who is running for re-election in November. Atkins quoted an unknown online commentator about a heckler near the men’s wedding who said, “At least we are in a time when the gays are out and open and it’s the homophobes who have to hide in the shadows.”

Atkins said that she was well aware of nasty comments while serving as a lesbian public official and as a woman heading up a reproductive health clinic, but it was nothing compared to the “scope or duration” of what Beckles has endured, she said, advocating for people to stand up against similar treatment. Atkins talked about the need to continue to fight for competent LGBT senior care, anti-discrimination employment protections, violence against transgender people and LGBT youth as well as reproductive health and women’s rights. Atkins also applauded legislative successes, as Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 496, authored by Gordon, which requires LGBT cultural competency training for health care providers. Brown also signed Atkin’s bills, AB 1121, which simplifies the process required for a name change to reflect a person’s gender identity, and went into effect July 1, and AB 1577, would make sure death certificates for transgender Californians accurately reflect their authentic, lived identity. “In a lot of ways there have been a lot of changes in 30 years, but we still have a long ways to go,” said Atkins, emphasizing “we” as the community. “We can’t quit fighting until the day that everyone in our community has an equal place in our society and a safe place in our society. No one gets left out and no See page 18 >>

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Group drafts agenda for AIDS survivors by Matthew S. Bajko

San Francisco-based group is putting forth an agenda for long-term survivors of the AIDS epidemic it hopes will gain traction among local and national leaders. Known as Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survivor Syndrome), the group released a draft version of the document it is calling “A Vision for Our Future: AIDS Long-Term Survivors Proclamation” at an event September 25 celebrating its one-year anniversary. “San Francisco once again is leading the programs and models,” said Matt Sharp, a co-founder of the volunteer-run group. Among its first priorities is seeing that AIDS Survivor Syndrome “is recognized, understood, and treated appropriately.” Studies have shown high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, or

PrEP clinic

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anymore and it is kind of nice.” According to preliminary 2014 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance data, among the 130 gay and bisexual men in San Francisco who have taken part in the survey to date, 82 percent of the HIV-negative participants had heard of PrEP. When asked if PrEP was shown to be effective would they take it, more than 51 percent said they were willing to, said H. Raymond Fisher, DrPH, the deputy director of surveillance at the city’s Department of Public Health.

Facebook

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The letter, a copy of which was unavailable at press time, outlines three requests of Facebook, the news release said. Those items include: publicly commit to fixing the policy to ensure people can be their authentic selves online; end the requirement for people to show forms of identification; and establish clear and easy procedures for users to appeal account suspension. Artist and drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess, who didn’t want her legal name published, was one of those who were affected by the policy. She along with Campos, drag queen Heklina (given name Stefan Grygelko), Sister Roma (given name Michael Williams), and others have organized an October 2 rally at San Francisco City Hall. “We’re meeting with Facebook, we’re organizing protests, we’re talking to the media, and taking to the streets,” Lil Miss Hot Mess said in an email. “I think everyone has a stake in maintaining control over their digital identities, and we invite everyone to join us.” In a phone interview, Lil Miss Hot Mess said that the Facebook policy is “deeply flawed” and that a solution must be reached so that people who use their stage names, including

Safety survey

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“The deadline for the survey will be October 8, or when we get 400 participants,” Rolfe said. At that point the site will direct visitors to a page where they can get the results of the survey once they have been released. Theresa Sparks, a transgender woman who is executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and gay Supervisor David Campos had discussions about the needs of the San Francisco LGBT community, and that helped lead to the safety survey. “One of the needs identified in our previous interactions was the

PTSD, among people living with HIV. Leaders of Let’s Kick ASS argue that people, whether HIV-negative or HIV-positive, who have lived through the now three-decade-long AIDS epidemic are grappling with their own form of trauma stemming from seeing so many of their friends and loved ones die due to AIDS complications while they have survived. “While we have lived with it and see it in others every day, our goal is to be catalysts for gathering research and data for the betterment of our lives,” reads the group’s vision statement. The document also calls for longterm survivors to have a greater say in developing HIV policy at all levels and greater leadership roles in the AIDS nonprofit sector. “We demand central leadership roles in our local and national AIDS service delivery systems,” states the

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Let’s Kick Ass co-founder Matt Sharp

four-page document. It also calls on the growing number of people 50 years of age or older living with HIV, estimated at more than 218,000 people nation-

Unmet need

As interest in PrEP has steadily increased, UCSF officials saw there was an unmet need in the community in terms of where people wanting to start on the drug could access it. Thus, it was important to open SHIP, said Dr. Robert Grant, a physician and the clinic’s director, “because more people want PrEP in San Francisco than can get it.” Housing it at the 360 center made sense, he added, because “we have a very sex-friendly and gay-friendly environment at the UCSF 360 clinic. They know the medications extremely well as they use Truvada for treatment for HIV.”

By offering HIV-negative patients PrEP, as well as a host of other sexual health services, including testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, the 360 clinic is now fulfilling the focus implied by its name, pointed out Grant, who is also an investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and served as the protocol chair of the iPrEx study that looked at Truvada’s efficacy. “The clinic is called 360 and this really allows us to complete the full circle. Demand for HIV PrEP has reached a tipping point,” said Grant. “Really, starting from late last year, more people have heard of PrEP and want to be on PrEP. But there

members of the LGBTQ community, and abused and battered women can maintain their privacy. Roma, a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence drag nun group, plans to fight the policy. Like others, Roma was locked out of her account and was forced to use her legal name to regain access to it. “Facebook is denying my right to express my true identity,” said Roma before the meeting. Wednesday, Roma praised Facebook for “doing the right thing.” In a phone interview prior to the meeting, Campos said that this is an “issue that impacts people throughout the world.” In an e-mail prior to the meeting, Roma said that Facebook’s policy is being used to hurt the LGBT community. “Facebook’s own policy, which was intended to create a safe user experience free from harassment and bullying, is being used as a weapon, essentially harassing and bullying the LGBT community,” Roma said. “The only way for this to end for the LGBT community, as well as the millions of other users who require privacy and safety, is for Facebook to do away with their legal name policy.” In an email Monday, Facebook spokesman Andrew Souvall said the company’s name policy was created

for several reasons. “Having people use the names they use in everyday life on Facebook makes them more accountable, and also helps us root out accounts created for malicious purposes, like harassment, fraud, impersonation, and hate speech,” Souvall said. “We look forward to continuing the conversation with the LGBT community later this week, so that we can work to ensure they can continue to connect and engage on Facebook using their everyday names.” In the wake of the controversy, many users are ditching their Facebook accounts to join other social media networks such as Ello and Dragbook. Ello has been used privately for a year. It is ad-free and doesn’t sell personal data. However Ello, which is still in its beta stage, has no privacy settings and is invite only. The one-year-old Dragbook is similar to Facebook. It shares photos, videos, and other features. It also doesn’t require users to use their legal names on their profiles. Its slogan is “Your other face” in regards to an alter ego. In an e-mail, Dragbook officials said that it has no policy for names. Users “can use their real name or make one up.” “We do, however, have a zero tolerance policy for spam and/or harassment. Most high-profile acSee page 18 >>

transgender Latina community and the violence that is happening there,” Sparks said. “We decided that we needed do a survey about the violence in the entire LGBT community in the city, for the first time, I think, and see if there is violence occurring elsewhere in the city and among LGBT groups other than Latinos.” The survey is looking into violence on the street, as well as domestic abuse at home. “We are looking into all the various types of violence perpetrated within the LGBT community,” Sparks said. “It could be street violence, domestic violence, it could be violence against disabled people, or violence against individual segments of the LGBT community, like violence against

transgender or bisexual people; it hopefully will be comprehensive.” A spokeswoman for Campos did not immediately return a message seeking comment. According to Sneh Rao, a policy coordinator with the San Francisco HRC, “A lot of LGBT organizations offer safe spaces, and we are trying to see how effective they have been. This assessment seeks to see what the gaps look like between available services and the needs, and how the city can effectively fill that gap.”t To take the survey in English, go to https://www.surveymonkey. com/s/3LHG2J8. For Spanish, go to https://www.surveymonkey. com/s/CFNRL9L.

ally, to become their own advocates. “It is now time to become fully engaged elders, teachers, and leaders,” states the document. A nine-person group has been meeting over the last 12 months to write the document. In presenting it to the more than 75 people who attended last week’s meeting at the LGBT Community Center, Let’s Kick ASS leaders stressed it was not a final plan and asked for input on what was missing from the statement. It is modeled after a document drafted by people living with AIDS who were attending the 1983 National Lesbian/Gay Health Conference and AIDS Forum and felt their voices were not being heard. “This could set up a good boilerplate for where we go over the next 10 years,” said Mike Shriver, a onetime AIDS czar to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown who

helped draft the Let’s Kick ASS vision statement. Russell Deason, 51, who has lived with HIV since 1987, said the document “needs some fine-tuning,” such as expressing that long-term survivors are not only fighting for their needs but also for those people in their 20s who are just now being diagnosed with HIV. “We should be fighting for them too,” said Deason. Overall, he said he was “very pleased” with the draft version. “The aims and objectives are important,” he said. “This being our legacy is very true.” Let’s Kick ASS plans to post the document to its website at http:// letskickass.org to gather more feedback. Leaders of the group will consider the suggested changes and could present a revised version at a community town hall it is planning to host in December.t

are very few clinics in the city that are providing PrEP.” John told the Bay Area Reporter that he and Grant estimate there are 20,000 gay and bisexual men in San Francisco eligible to take PrEP and that upwards of 30 percent would decide to take it. “We could take on a third of that and go up to 400 new patients easily at 360,” said John. “Right now, we have the capacity to see up to 170 new PrEP visits in the first year.” Named this year the medical director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Grant said that the agency is reviewing how to offer PrEP at Magnet, its gay men’s health clinic in the Castro that will be moving into an expanded facility now under construction. “We hope to do it sometime in the next year, though I hope it will be sooner than that,” he said. In the meantime, gay District 9 Supervisor David Campos is seeking $801,600 in city funds to hire “navigators” to help people access PrEP through existing funding mechanisms – including private insurance,

Medicaid (Medi-Cal), and Gilead’s patient assistance programs – and to provide co-payment assistance for people who fall through the cracks. Grant has estimated that less than 1,000 city residents are currently taking PrEP. For there to be significant reductions in new HIV infections, which numbered 359 in 2013, at least 6,000 people should be on it, said Grant. “There is this idea you have to use condoms and that is the only way HIV is prevented. That is not true; using PrEP is a responsible choice,” he said. “Condoms clearly have a role to play to prevent HIV and other STIs. PrEP is also an important way to prevent HIV and it is a responsible choice.” Anyone with insurance accepted at UCSF can make an appointment at SHIP, as well as people willing to pay out of pocket, said John. Currently, the clinic is not able to see people who are uninsured or members of Healthy San Francisco. The clinic is open Tuesdays from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. To make an appointment, call 415-353-2119.t

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Castro Street project

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“Even though we are not getting everything done before the Castro Street Fair, we came very close to that goal,” said Wiener. “The entire project will be done by late October. I am very pleased by the progress and timetable.” Nonetheless, Wiener acknowledged the work, particularly portions done overnight and on weekends, has been a hardship for Castro merchants and residents. “I apologize to people for having to deal with these disruptions and thank them for persevering,” he said. “This is a permanent, long-term, significant upgrade for this neighborhood that we are all going to be able to enjoy for decades and decades to come.” City construction officials and the project contractor, Ghilotti Brothers of Marin, have made considerable

News Briefs

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donors, conceiving at home or in a doctor’s office, and fertility health. Attorney Ora Prochovnick will lead the session. “Three years and close to 20 events later, the American Fertility Association continues to expand

Political Notebook

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nounced his resignation from the Washington, D.C.-based group. “I have no doubt she will continue to be an unwavering advocate for the people of Oakland as mayor.” Meanwhile, Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group that earlier had endorsed Kaplan for mayor, announced this week it was also supporting Berkeley City Council candidate Lori Droste. She is facing off against three male opponents, including gay neighbor-

Castro fair

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out person elected to public office in San Francisco only to be murdered in 1978, a year later.

Helping the community

There’s a suggested donation of $5 to $10 at the gate for the fair. Lopez said “the vast majority” of that money goes to beneficiary groups, which provide volunteers. Organizers are hoping to raise

Castro Sweep

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of activists is to act up loudly and proudly in the streets for change. Yes, another Castro Sweep is in the realm of possibility in San Francisco.” Petrelis is running to unseat gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, whose District 8 includes the Castro. In an interview, Wiener said, “The

Facebook

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counts are Dragbook-verified and we monitor this closely,” said the officials, who only identified themselves as the Dragbook team. Facebook has a list of community standards that protects users from unwanted content such as violence, bullying, and hate speech. When it comes to identity, Facebook wants people to “connect using their real names and identities” and to “refrain from pub-

BAYMEC

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one gets left behind.” Congressman Mike Honda (DSan Jose), who is locked in a tight re-election race, joined Atkins as keynote speaker for the evening. Honda, a straight ally, called BAYMEC a “teacher” and a “guide”

Walk’s first 20 plaques celebrating LGBT luminaries. Officially known as the Castro Street History Walk, the project will feature 20 facts about the neighborhood placed into the sidewalks on the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro Street. It is being funded at a cost of $10,000 by the Castro Upper Market Community Benefit District, which also paid for the rainbow crosswalks. The local history walk is meant to cover the breadth of the neighborhood’s 230-year history, beginning with the Native Americans who called it home, then the various Europeans who moved into what became known as Eureka Valley, and later migrations of LGBT residents who referred to it as the Castro. The unveiling will be held at 6 p.m. Friday, October 3 with a ceremony at Harvey Milk Plaza near where the history walk begins.t

progress in recent weeks following a number of delays this summer that required them to push back their initial deadline. New trees have been planted, two blocks of Castro Street have been repaved, and street furniture such as lights and leaning posts have been installed. “I am feeling really good. It is exciting to see it come together in just the last few days,” Dennis said late Monday afternoon. “In the next few days it will be even more of a transformation once the paving and crosswalks go in.” Wednesday saw the installation of rainbow crosswalks at the 18th and Castro Street intersection. Also, a special tile pattern in front of the Castro Theatre was extended to the edge of the new sidewalk. The city had San Jose-based Stonelight Tile, which produced the original tiles, supply the new scarlet and red Ironspot tiles. Among the items remaining on the 400 and 500 blocks of Castro

Street are realigning the poles for the overhead Muni wires and additional street lighting. Preliminary work on the repaving of Jane Warner Plaza at 17th Street and Market is soon set to begin. One of the final pieces of the project will be a reconfiguration of the crosswalks at the intersection of Castro and Market streets. “Their last piece of work is the Market Street intersection and repaving it. That is the part they are having a real hard time fitting in before the 30th,” said Dennis. “They have to fit it in before the 30th.”

our family building work with the LGBT community through the support of our generous sponsor, California Cryobank,” AFA Executive Director Ken Mosesian said in a news release. “As the only familybuilding nonprofit in the infertility space with a core commitment to working with all people, the AFA looks forward to hosting many

more Gay Women’s Gatherings and receiving an ongoing stream of happy baby announcements from former attendees.” While the event is focused on the lesbian community, all are welcome to attend. A drawing for one free vial of sperm, valued at $595-$795, will take place, compliments of Califor-

nia Cryobank. Refreshments will be served and educational gift bags given to all participants. The event is free, but reservations are preferred. Contact Corey Whelan at (718) 853-1411 for more information.t

hood activist George Beier, for the open District 8 council seat. “Lori Droste has been a champion of LGBT rights her entire career,” stated EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur. “Her work on public safety for women, on addressing the housing affordability crisis and on bolstering Berkeley’s economy highlights what a strong candidate she is for Berkeley City Council.” Should they win their races, Kaplan would be the first out elected mayor in the Bay Area, while Droste would be the first lesbian to serve on the Berkeley City Council.

Pelosi expected at HRC SF event

Oscar for his biopic about the late gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, is also scheduled to attend. For more information and to buy tickets to the event, which begins at 6 p.m. at the Westin St. Francis, visit http://www.sfhrcgala.org.t

at least $70,000 this year, similar to past revenues. The fair also helps fund the giant rainbow flag at Castro and Market streets. Among this year’s 23 beneficiary organizations is AIDS Housing Alliance-San Francisco. Brian Basinger, the alliance’s director, said his agency, which provides housing referrals, rental subsidies, and other services, would “probably” get about $1,500 from the event. “For our organization, especially, the majority of our private fundrais-

ing comes from these community events,” Basinger said. “Those dollars help us fill in the gaps for all of our services, and especially activities that are not paid for through our contracts.”

Castro Sweep was a significant overreaction by the police, and I hope it never happens again. Anything is possible, but the San Francisco Police Department of today is very different than the SFPD of 25 years ago. The department is much more diverse,” Wiener said, adding that the force includes “high-ranking LGBT people” and an “incredibly progressive, forward-looking police chief.”

Wiener added, “A lot of progress has been made.” That’s “not to say there isn’t more work to be done, but there has been enormous progress,” he said. Police Chief Greg Suhr didn’t respond to an emailed request for comment. But asked about the sweep, Officer Albie Esparza, a gay SFPD spokesman, said in an email, “Our department encourages people to

exercise their First Amendment right. SFPD now even facilitates such activities to promote a safe atmosphere. The department has evolved with better crowd control training since and cultural training to all of our officers to respect every community we serve in SF. The SFPD has also recruited many officers from the various communities that reflect the city of SF and diversified our agency.”t

lishing the personal information of others without their consent.” “Claiming to be another person, creating a false presence for an organization, or creating multiple accounts undermines community and violates Facebook’s terms,” the policy states. In an e-mail, entertainer, columnist, and activist BeBe Sweetbriar (given name Kevin Junious) said that she has “one identity” and she wants the public to see that. “I do have one identity, and it is the one I choose,” Sweetbriar said.

“If it happens to coincide with the name given to me at birth, well hallelujah, but if not, then my identity is what I tell the public who I am.” The irony was not lost on some drag queens that they are using Facebook posts to protest Facebook’s name policy. “It’s a great tool for spreading messages and organizing people,” said Lil Miss Hot Mess. “So we’re using Facebook in our campaign to change Facebook – some may see it as a contradiction, but that’s why

we’re fighting back because it’s so central to people’s lives.”t

for policymakers to help them to stand up as allies and deeply understands issues affecting the LGBT community.

launching the political action committee 30 years ago. BAYMEC is a four-county LGBT political action group serving San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey counties. It lobbies for LGBT civil rights and works to elect LGBTs and supportive allies to political office. Three decades ago, only one

elected official came to BAYMEC’s gala fundraiser, recalled BAYMEC leaders. This year, more than 50 LGBT and ally candidates and elected officials lined up to announce themselves at the opening of the gala.t

Long history

BAYMEC founders lesbian Wiggsy Sivertsen, 78, and gay Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, 61, were honored at the gala for

History facts to debut

A series of historical factoids about the Castro district etched in concrete along Castro Street will have its official debut prior to this weekend’s fair. It follows on the heels of the premiere in early September of the Rainbow Honor

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) is expected to address the 30th annual Human Rights Campaign’s gala in San Francisco this month. It will be the second major LGBT event in town Pelosi has attended this year, having marched in the Pride parade in June. The Washington, D.C.-based LGBT advocacy group’s local fundraiser will take place Saturday, October 11, coinciding this year with National Coming Out Day. Gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an

Milky Way

Another change at the fair this year is that Barnaby’s World of Wonderment, which had been curated by Max Barnaby, will be replaced by Milky Way, since Barnaby has moved. Milky Way will be curat-

Full disclosure: Victoria Kolakowski is the wife of B.A.R. news editor Cynthia Laird.

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ed by Uel Renteria and will feature artists’ work on 18th Street between Noe and Sanchez streets. “I plan on turning the Milky Way into a magical place, filled with worlds of wonder and art,” Renteria said on the fair’s website. For more information about the fair, visit http://www.castrostreetfair.org.t Full disclosure: The Bay Area Reporter is a lead sponsor of the fair and will have a booth there.

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t sounds like an unbeatable concept: an exhibition marrying the work of Ai Weiwei, the world-famous Chinese political dissident artist, and Alcatraz, the notorious federal “ghost” prison with spectacular vistas of San Francisco Bay. But the results, alas, are nebulous and underwhelming. The premise has certainly proven irresistible for journalists, and an avalanche of publicity preceded the opening last weekend of the wryly titled @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. See page 22 >>

The dragon kite, part of With Wind, one of seven site-specific installations in @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. Rick Gerharter

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he 37th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (Oct. 2-12 at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, Cinearts Sequoia and 142 Throckmorton in Mill Valley, Lark Theater in Larkspur, and Century Cinema in Corte Madera) features an excellent array of feature films, and some scheduling changes to its famed 5@5 daily shorts programs.

Scene from co-directors Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman’s States of Grace.

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lthough we weren’t born here, Out There has lived in San Francisco for 31 years, so we think we qualify as a bona fide Bay Arean. But we’ve always had a secret longing, a lust in our heart if you will, for our next-door neighbor, Nevada. Something about its shape, broad-shouldered up top, tapering off to a wasp waist down bottom, has always appealed to us. At first it looks like it’s going to be one of those “square states,” but then you realize it’s got the most distinctive profile in the Union. The 36th Star: Nevada’s Journey from Territory to State, now on show at the Nevada Museum of Art (through Nov. 2), set us straight, so to speak, on many of our misconceptions about the Silver State. We assumed it gained statehood on the basis of its mineral wealth, the silver mines that brought adventurers to the Sierra Nevada range. Nope. President Abraham Lincoln needed the vote of one more state in 1864 to help push through the 13th

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But the wealth of media attention is both blessing and curse, raising expectations for seven site-specific installations that deal with freedom of expression and prisoners of conscience. The visual and audio works are located in four areas of the prison, most of which are usually off-limits to the 5,000 tourists who trundle onto the island each day; the price of a regular ferry ticket ($30) includes access to the exhibition. Ai is best-known as part of the design team that developed the Bird’s Nest Stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and for a 2010 installation in which millions of ceramic sunflower seeds carpeted a floor of the Tate Modern in London. His natural constituency is the art community, but the attraction for him of this particular venture, spearheaded by Cheryl Haines and the For-Site Foundation, was its ability to reach a wider audience. How tourists, drawn by the infamy of former inmates like Al Capone

Amendment and advance his proUnion project. The Nevada State Constitution was quickly drafted, and all 175 pages were sent off by telegram to Lincoln, the longest telegram ever sent at the time. As part of the exhibition, the National Archives in Washington, DC, is allowing the NMA to display the original Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln for 36 hours during its run. Because of its fragility, the EP can only be loaned out a limited number of hours a year, so its inclusion it this show is significant and unusual. (NMA, 160 W. Liberty St., Reno, Nev. Info: Nevadaart.org.) Look at that map of the Western states again. California is spooning Nevada! Isn’t that just adorable? OK, full disclosure, the real reason we are enamored with Nevada has little to do with its fighting-fit shape. It just so happens that our #1, Pepi, was born and raised there. His father and sister still live there, and Pepi’s life has been inextricably bound up with Nevada. He worked as an aide to a U.S. Senator from and Machine Gun Kelly, will respond to serious issues around the imprisonment of individuals for their beliefs is anyone’s guess. What’s inarguable is that atmosphere is so thick at Alcatraz you can practically inhale it, one of the reasons the site has been a magnet for Hollywood directors. The dank, oppressive buildings with peeling paint, cruddy dark cells, cracked sinks and toilets and broken, dirty windows are surrounded by awesome natural beauty and a sparkling metropolis in the neardistance, which were as remote as the moon to the forsaken “worst of the worst” once incarcerated there. If only those walls could talk, the stories they’d tell, but @Large doesn’t especially capitalize on the creepy resonance of the place, and with one stunning exception, the artworks, executed in a range of mediums, are overpowered by the potent ambience. For Ai, the political is personal, and his consuming interest in freedom and his intimate knowledge of repression come from first-hand

play in the NMA’s gift shop. We’ve spent some time in Reno and Las Vegas. Friends roll their eyes at this. But really, we’ve enjoyed our visits to both cities. As long as you keep out of the casinos, they have a lot to offer. And since gambling is that rare vice that holds no interest for OT, this isn’t difficult. So Nevada, here we come!

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Nevada on Capitol Hill. His duties included organizing and accompanying the Senator on a proto”listening tour” of all the inhabited areas in Nevada: Carson City (the capital), Virginia City, the so-called “cow counties.” His sister Sweetie is a Nevada artist who makes her own paper and crafts pieces with it. She recently created a series from handmade paper formed into the shape of the state; they’re on dis-

Furniture artist Roy McMakin was interviewed in The New York Times’ Home section last week, resulting in this unlikely exchange: NYT: “‘The Chest of Drawers Behind James Jameson and Jimmy Fanz in Raging Stallion Studios’ Timberwolves’ may be the longest name ever given to a piece of furniture.” McMakin: “My art titles are long. Sometimes there’s content important to a piece, and I find the best way it sticks with a piece is to make it the title.” NYT: “So you were watching porn.” McMakin: “At key moments two of the actors are right in front of the dresser. Blocking it, showing it. And I’m staring at this scene going, ‘Would you guys just move?’”t

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The Chelsea Manning portrait, part of Trace, one of seven sitespecific installations in @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz.

experience. His father, a renowned poet, was exiled during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and then there are his own ongoing conflicts with

the Chinese authorities. An activist, outspoken advocate for human rights and a vocal critic of his government, he was detained on questionable charges for 81 days in 2011, and watched over 24 hours a day by guards. His passport was confiscated; he’s under constant surveillance, and is currently prohibited from leaving the country. Though Ai never saw Alcatraz in person, he was able to compensate but not completely overcome this obstacle through copious digital correspondence with Haines; a cadre of assistants and local volunteers helped with the enormous task of installation. Three installations are in the New Industries Building, where inmates on good behavior were allowed to work at various jobs. Upon entering, you’re met by the colorful head of a Chinese dragon kite made of silk and bamboo with a long tail of circular kites that wind through the space. Some are emblazoned with quotes from Ai, Edward Snowden and other figures who have defied their governments. Covering the floor of another large room, Trace consists of over 1.2 million Legos that form 176 portraits of political exiles and prisoners of conscience from over 30 nations. (Six are from the U.S., and not surprisingly, 38 are from China.) Martin Luther King, Jr., Mandela, Snowden and Chelsea Manning are included, but most of the names will be unfamiliar, suggesting that silencing dissenters by im-

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Now on exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.

prisoning them may be an effective strategy for authoritarian regimes. The work is intended to convey the global extent of repression, but the impact is blunted by being unable to get an overview of the entire floor from above. Refraction, a spectacular, eightton, 15-foot-tall, 30-foot-long bird’s wing composed of reflective panels (suggesting feathers) used in Tibetan solar ovens, looks like the fossil of a giant pterodactyl trapped in a dilapidated airplane hangar, unable to take flight or escape, a powerful metaphor for confinement that can be felt and understood. The stationary construction can only be seen through shattered glass window-panes that line a narrow second-floor walkway or “gun gallery,” where guards used to patrol the prisoners below. In Cell Block A, each of a dozen rusting claustrophobic cells contains a stool enabling visitors to sit and listen to recordings of spoken word, poetry and music performed and composed by artists imprisoned for their beliefs. Audio from a string orchestral piece by Jewish Czech composer Pavel Haas, who was sent to Terezin and eventually perished at Auschwitz; and “Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away” (Punk Prayer) by Pussy Riot, among others, waft along a tier of decrepit iron bars, though the noise of tourists intrudes on the eerie spell. Alcatraz had a functioning hospital that provided medical care, but mentally ill inmates landed in psychiatric cells like the pair of dreary tiled observation rooms where recorded Buddhist chants and the traditional song of the Hopi tribe now emanate (Illumination). Elsewhere, piles of small, intricately designed white porcelain flowers (Blossom) fill broken toilets, chipped bathtubs and sinks to the brim, but the meaning is vague. Neither of these installations takes advantage or acknowledges the hideous practice by totalitarian regimes of punishing political dissidents by incarcerating them in mental institutions. The final installation, located in a section of the Dining Hall, has shelves stocked with postcards that are addressed to political prisoners and can be filled out by visitors. One is left wishing there were more to it, something that could be said of the entire exhibition.t Through April 26.

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with how they completely changed the story. It became this story of a spinster who has never had love, and she goes to Italy and this is her last chance. That’s not the story. Leona is a broad. She’s a woman who’s had life experiences and is a little bit tough, but she doesn’t know how to open herself up to find a real connection with people.” Perhaps a play on words is inevitable here, but Skinner definitely found a connection with costar Alice Ripley in Side Show. In the 1997 musical, Skinner and Ripley played conjoined twins who find work in sideshows and vaudeville while trying to have individual romantic lives. Skinner and Ripley shared a single nomination for a best-actress Tony Award, so intertwined were their performances. The musical only ran

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Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley were nominated together for a single Tony Award for their performances as conjoined twins in Side Show.

a few months, but became a cult favorite, and a Broadway revival is due this season. “I don’t think Side Show really got its due,” Skinner said. “It’s a piece that has something to say, and should be seen by a new generation.” Skinner has been back to Broadway several times since Side Show, most recently as the title character’s dance instructor in Billy Elliot. She’s often on the road, singing with symphony orchestras and headlining in big musicals at regional theaters. Skinner had expected to be back on Broadway last year in a revue built around the many successes of producer-director Harold Prince. But financing fell apart, and now Prince of Broadway, with Skinner still aboard, is set to debut in Osaka, Japan in 2015, with New York the intended final destination. But that delay did mean Skinner was available when 42nd Street Moon’s Artistic Director Greg MacKellan invited her to perform at its Frank Loesser tribute last year. “I was charmed by everybody when I came out here, and then Greg asked me if I’d be interested in doing Do I Hear a Waltz? I was, like, that’s wild because I’ve always been interested in that show, but it’s never done.” Director MacKellan and company are working with a revised script that author Laurents prepared for an earlier revival. “The original production had a big ensemble playing all the people of Venice, and they stripped all of that away,” Skinner said. “Now it’s just the core eight characters. It’s more of a chamber piece, which is really what the story is.” Doing this production of Waltz is obviously not about padding bank accounts. “I had some other things offered to me this fall that certainly would have made me more money,” Skinner said. “But I’m at the point in my life and career where I’ve done a lot of great things and I hope to do more great things, but I’ve had that experience. What I want is to do now things that are interesting and exciting to me, and this is interesting and exciting to me.”t Do I Hear a Waltz? will run Oct. 1-19 at the Eureka Theatre. Tickets are $21-$75. Call 255-8207 or go to 42ndstmoon.org.

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ome like it hot, and some like it odd. Put Broadway star Emily Skinner in the latter category, at least for the next few weeks. Skinner is starring in Do I Hear a Waltz?, the opening show in 42nd Street Moon’s new season of infrequently revived musicals. “What’s interesting to me is the script,” Skinner said in a recent phone interview. “It’s really odd, and it’s odd with this music, and the music is odd with these lyrics.” Three of the most celebrated names in Broadway musical history collaborated for the first and only time on Do I Hear a Waltz?, and a miserable time was had by all. Both librettist Arthur Laurents and lyricist Stephen Sondheim have written frankly about their difficulties in working with a defensive, dictatorial Richard Rodgers, who equipped theaters with hidden bottles of vodka and feared he’d be called out on diminishing talents as a composer. Little wonder that the results were “odd.” “The story has a kind of edge to it,” Skinner said. “The music is classic Richard Rodgers, but Sondheim’s lyrics can be very dark and very dry, and at the end of the story it takes a sharp and ugly turn in what turns out to be a sort of aborted love affair. It’s tonally a kind of weird match, but I like that it’s not just a winsome musical theater take on romance.” Skinner plays Leona Samish, an unmarried American on vacation in Venice, who finds her frozen romantic urges thawing under the glow of a handsome and debonair Italian merchant. In the original Broadway production of The Time of the Cuckoo, Laurents’ own play on which he based the musical’s libretto, Shirley Booth played Leona Samish and, unlike Skinner, was afraid to go to some of the material’s darker places. “Arthur Laurents says she sort of niced-up the material because she was terrified the audience wouldn’t like her.” Nor was Laurents pleased with Hollywood’s adaptation, retitled Summertime, that became a vehicle for Katharine Hepburn. “Arthur Laurents didn’t get to write the screenplay, and he was very upset

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the touring production of the hit revival is in residence, as a cirquesensibility bewitches us as a surprisingly Faustian tale unfolds. Director Diane Paulus, who indeed went on to direct a Cirque du Soleil production, brought in the services of Quebecâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Les 7 Doigts de la Main, another new-age Canadian circus company, to provide acrobatic splendors that enhance the story of a prince in search of a purpose. Although Pippin grew into an audience-pleasing hit in its original run, the material was dismissed as largely a vehicle on which Bob Fosse could affix his own brand of razzle-dazzle to Stephen Schwartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s songs and Roger O. Hirsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical fantasia. And so its reputation remained, as countless schools and community theaters staged the musical, with little thought given even by revival-hungry producers to bring the show back to Broadway. But when Paulus staged Pippin at American Conservatory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where she is artistic director, the reaction was so positive that a Broadway production became inevitable. Fosseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature moves are quoted by choreographer Chet Walker, but neither he nor Paulus are slavish to the original. Perhaps this lets Hirsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, the least respected element of the original production, find more clarity. The script hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been much changed for the revival, but still a lot of it feels fresh, as the fourth wall is regularly broken and the ringmaster known as the Leading Player increasingly loses control of her players. The revival is running in New York at the Music Box Theatre, one of Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smaller theaters, but its theatrical pageantry expands well to fill the much larger Golden Gate. Beyond that, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to how the touring company stacks up against the Broadway version, though there

is nothing on stage here that suggests anything other than a full-out production with top-rate performers. In fact, several veterans of the Broadway cast have moved into the touring company, including Matthews James Thomas, who originated the title role in the revival. When the Leading Player tells the audience to forgive this actor his tentative ways because this is his first night in the role, you might think for a moment that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fact, as Thomas is convincingly callow as Pippin, before exuding increasing confidence in the role that leads to a breakout dance number. John Rubinstein, Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original Pippin in 1972, is now playing Pippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, Charlemagne, with a kind of King Lear buffoonery. Lucie Arnaz basically has just one scene as Pippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandmother, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a doozy of scene. (Arnaz will swap out the role with Andrea Martin from the Broadway company for the latter part of the SF run.) The Leading Player was a starmaking role for a silkily seductive Ben Vereen in the 1972 original, a role that has now been turned into a domineering and edgy interlocutor. Sasha Allen, a recent finalist on The Voice, forcefully establishes her domain in the touring production. In the end, Pippinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest to find the meaning of life sets up an impossible goal for the musical: basically, to find the meaning of life. After exploring sex, war, power, and other worldly temptations, he makes the most conventional choice as if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best of a bad lot. Even if Pippin ends up affirming a mainstream choice of comfortable domesticity, we arrive at that destination happy to have been bedazzled by this cardboard world covered in glitter.t Pippin will run at the Golden Gate Theatre through Oct. 19. Tickets are $45-$210. Call (888) 746-1799 or go to shnsf.com.

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Carrie Paff, Mark Anderson Phillips, and Michael Ray Wisely play members of an increasingly paranoid corporate team with a gruesome assignment in Aaron Loeb’s Ideation at SF Playhouse.

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hey are professionals with a job to do, a dirty business, to be sure, but they tell themselves they may be contributing to the salvation of humanity. If there are moral issues, they can be charted on a graph. If there are legal issues, the money to make them disappear can be figured into the budget. But what if –? A kernel of personal doubt introduced into such an equation becomes an exponential accelerant for paranoia as members of a management team begin to question who is, in their business jargon, the ultimate “vision holder.” This is the intriguing premise of Aaron Loeb’s Ideation, a comically dark boardroom thriller that is having its official world premiere at San Francisco Playhouse after being presented by the theater last year in its Sandbox series. The central challenge presented to this management team: How to preemptively contain

a theoretical viral epidemic by identifying, collecting, containing, and disposing of millions who may have contracted the virus. Ideation starts off with a Mametlike bonhomie among three corporate guys (Jason Kapoor, Mark Anderson Phillips, and Michael Ray Wisely) and the efficiency-minded woman (Carrie Paff) whom they tolerate as their leader. One of their mission’s basic tenets, spelled out on a whiteboard as the team assembles, is, “No ‘N’ word.” It’s not the obvious case of PC sensitivities being invoked, but it’s a while before we learn what other unspeakable “N” word is being referenced. That whiteboard almost becomes a character, as increasingly obsessive scenarios are plotted out and just as quickly wiped away. A cocky office boy (Ben Euphrat) seems to be ill-suited for this environment, and he is soon drummed out of the group, only to return to further stoke the what-if chasm into

which they all have fallen. Loeb has a keen ear for the snap-crackle-pop dialogue of self-satisfied entitlement and its subsequent fearful inverse, and the cast under Josh Costello’s direction is in close harmony. Bill English’s glossy set adds to the stylish, slightly inhuman world in which these characters operate. Finding a way to turn theoretically infected hordes into “toxicwaste sludge” is just part of their assignment. “No such virus exists,” a team member points out. But in the time since Ideation was first staged, a virus has arisen that does seem capable of engulfing a continent. Perhaps some agencies are prudently working on secret contingency plans right now should the virus threaten our shores. What if?t

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show,” jokes composer-conductor Mark Alburger in our phoner about his 12-year-old baby the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, which will be giving its first of two concerts of its 2014-15 season this Saturday, Oct. 4, at San Francisco’s Old First Church. “Erling Wold has been with it from ground zero, and so has Lisa Scola Prosek. Michael Cooke came out of the blue. And Rachel Condry, who plays clarinet and composes, took it upon herself to find Old First. The other part was forming the board of directors,” Alburger says. “But basically, when I founded it, it was a solo endeavor and came out of a conversation I had with Erling at a Vietnamese restaurant in the city.” As composer Alexis Alrich put it, “Mark, the composer’s club is now the SFCCO.”

“I also learned over the years,” Alburger continues, “that there was a desire to found an orchestra for composers to get their work done. So I made an e-mail list of composers who also played instruments. I thought, ‘If you put it on the Internet, they will come,’ and there was a big response. We were able to put together an orchestra with up to three flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, three bassoons, a string quintet, two trumpets, one French horn, one piano, and one OFF percussionist.” Every orchestra needs WITHa conductor/music director, and the SFCCO has three conductors: Alburger, John Kendall Bailey and Martha Stoddard. Of course, there’s a story. “I was involved in the last John Cage piece, Ocean, in Berkeley, which Andrew Culver completed according to Cage’s instructions. The Merce

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Fri 3 Absolutely Fabulous @ Stage Werx Live stage versions of three episodes (one each night) of Jennifer Saunder’s BBC comedy show stars local talents. $15-$25. Thu 8pm. Fri 11pm. Oct. 2 & 3, 9 & 10. Nov. 6 & 7, 13 & 14. Dec. 4 & 5, 11 & 12. 446 Valencia St. www.stagewerx.org

Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe @ Brava Theater Center Studio

Fri 3 Terry Furry’s art

Octomorphic by Jim Provenzano

ne of the things former East Coasters miss here in the Bay Area is the smell of autumn. Yes, we love the fog so much, it even has a Twitter account. But that musty, earthy scent that clings to your clothes after a roll in a pile of leaves, the scent you can almost taste. You can’t do that with succulents. But you can enjoy the colorful pile of arts events that make fall fun.

Thu 2 Butch @ Austin Gallery Butch: Not Like Other Girls, the local installation of Los Angeles-based SD Holman’s touring photo exhibit of butch women. By appointment thru Nov. 18. 799 Castro St. 282-4511. www.austinlawgroup.com

Derek McCullogh @ Books Inc. The author of Displaced Person (with artwork by Anthony Peruzzo) discusses his much-anticipated graphic novel (murder, love and time travel in San Francisco) in a slideshow reading. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Do I Hear a Waltz? @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s production of the rarely seen Rodgers-SondheimLaurents musical, about a lonely tourist in Venice, stars Tony nominee Emily Skinner. $25-$75. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. 42ndStMoon.org

Feathers & Filth @ Cobb’s Comedy Club A tribute to Joan Rivers, with Scott Capurro, Kelly Price, members of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus and others. $20. 8pm. 915 Columbus Ave. www.cobbscomedy.com

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Lavay Smith @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The local big band songstress performs at the intimate nightclub. $25-$40. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.ticketweb.com

Lest We Forget @ YBCA Remembering Radical San Francisco, a films series of documentaries. Oct. 2, 7:30pm: The Times of Harvey Milk. More films thru Oct. 26. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

Lorde @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley The enchanting New Zealand vocalist performs at the scenic outdoor ampitheatre. $60-$80. 7pm. Also Oct. 3, 7pm. UC Berkeley campus, 2001 Gayley Road, Berkeley. (510) 6429988. www.lorde.co.nz www.thegreektheatreberkeley.com

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Oct. 2: 3D double feature, Jaws 3-D (7:30) and Drive Angry (9:25). Oct. 3: Stephen King’s Christine (7:15) and Carrie (9:25). Oct. 4: Frozen sing-along (1pm), The Bad Seed (7pm) and Village of the Damned, (5:30, 9:30pm). Oct. 5: Gandhi (7pm). $12. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

The New Electric Ballroom @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of Tony Award-winning playwright Edna Walsh’s drama about the fantasy of youth between sisters determined to live in the past. $20-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm (some Wed & Thu 7pm). Sun 5pm. thru Oct. 5. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. shotgunplayers.org

Noises Off @ Shelton Theater

Jason Mecier’s art at Glamarama

Jason Mecier @ Glamarama The prolific mosaic artist’s new exhibit of selected celebrity portraits (many seen on TV and in films) must be seen up close to be truly appreciated. Thru Nov. 9. 304 Valencia St. 861-4526. www.jasonmecier.com www.glamarama.com

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Z Space Performances of two acclaimed dance-theatre works: Wonderboy (with master puppeteer Basil Twist) and the brilliant solo, 29 Effeminate Gestures. $15-$100. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 4. 450 Florida St. (866) 811-4111. www.zspace.org www.joegoode.org

Michael Frayns’ hilarious theatre comedy of onstage and backstage pratfalls returns. $20-$48. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 25. 533 Sutter St. at Powell. (800) 838-3008. www.sheltontheater.org

Thievery Corporation @ Fox Theater, Oakland The multi-cultural eclectic duo and their festive 15-member band perform live. $52.50. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave. www.thieverycorporation.com www.thefoxoakland.com

Yeast Nation @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre company’s West Coast premiere of Tony Award winners Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman (Urinetown) lively new comic rock musical, set three billion years ago, about yeasts. Yup, yeasts. $25-$36. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm. Thru Nov. 1. 2961 16th St. at Mission. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

Adventures of a Black Girl: Traveling While Black, the solo performers new show about African migration, contemporary and historic. $15. FriSat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Oct. 26. 2781 24th St. at York. 641-7657. www.brava.org

An Audience With Meow Meow @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre Musical comedy features songs, sequins, satire and star Meow Meow. $29-$89. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 19. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.BerkeleyRep.org

Bell, Book and Candle @ Spreckels Performing Arts Center The 1950s comedy about witches in love, with a gay subtext and McCarthy era paranoia, is performed by the East Bay theatre company. $22-$26. Fri-Sat 8pm. Thu 7:30pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 12. Bette Condiotti Theater, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. (707) 5883400. www.spreckelsonline.com

Cock @ New Conservatory Theatre Center Michael Bartlett’s controversial play about a gay couple, one of whom falls in love with a woman, gets a West Coast premiere. $25-$45. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 12. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Company @ Town Hall Theatre, Lafayette Town Hall Theatre Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s classic 1960s urban musical about a single man facing pressures from his married friends on the brink of his 35th birthday. $15-$29. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 12. 3535 School St., Lafayette. (925) 283-1557. www.townhalltheatre.com

Cops and Robbers @ The Marsh, Berkeley Jinho “The Piper” Ferreira’s compelling multi-character solo show about his life in the worlds of hip hop (he’s toured with Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes and others) and law enforcement. $20-$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru Oct. 19. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Detour Dance @ CounterPulse Choreographers Kat Cole and Eric Garcia’s Filaments, an expansive work with pageant queens and eccentric characters, and the outdoor dance film Rawhide. $20-$30. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 7pm. 1310 Mission St. www.detourdance.com www.counterpulse.org

Glass Pumpkin Patch @ Cohn-Stone Studios, Richmond 25th annual exhibit and sale of beautiful gourd-shaped glass sculptures will be the last, ending a quarter century of pumpkiny decorative beauty. Harvest your faves Fri. & Sat., 10am-4pm thru Oct. 26. 560 South 31st Street, Richmond. (510) 234-9690. www.cohnstone.com

Ideation @ SF Playhouse Aaron Loeb’s darkly comic play about corporate consultants undergoing a dubious project. $20-$120. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm & Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 8. 450 Post St. 6779596. www.SFplayhouse.org

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Varla Jean Merman @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

Crowded Fire Theater’s world premiere production of Christopher Chen’s theatrical rumination on multiple ritualistic interpretations of weddings (gay, straight, etc.), inspired by the writings of Italian fabulist Italo Calvino. $15-$35. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 11. 1695 18th St. at Carolina. 746-9238. www.crowdedfire.org

The statuesque comedic singing, dancing drag talent (aka Jeffery Roberson) makes her debut with a new show at the intimate nightclub, with pianist Tom Shaw and drummer Roberta Drake. $35-$50 ($20 drink/ menu min.). 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 6631063. www.varlaonline.com www.ticketweb.com

Life Could Be a Dream @ Center Rep, Walnut Creek Song-filled musical about a doo-wop band that undergoes problems when a woman manager changes their lives. $37-$66. Tue & Wed 7:30pm. Fri-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. Thru Oct. 5. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek. (925) 9437469. www.CenterRep.org

Lovebirds @ The Marsh, Berkeley Marga Gomez’ hit solo show, about the various lives of nightclub patrons as told by an ageless photographer, returns, now at the Marsh’s Berkeley stage. $20-$100. Fridays 8pm; Saturday 8:30pm. Thru Oct. 18. 2120 Alston Way, Berkeley. themarsh.org

Miss Richfield 1981 @ St Aiden’s The Midwest drag queen’s comedy show raises funds for the church’s ministries; beer, wine and sodas available. $30-$50. 8pm. 101 Gold Mine Drive. 285-9540 www.saintaidan.org

Old Hats @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre presents Bill Irwin and David Shiner’s clownish two-man comedy, with music written and performed by Shaina Taub and her band. $20-$120. Tue-Sat 8pm (some Tue 7pm). Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Oct. 12. Geary Theatre, 415 Geary St. 7492228. www.act-sf.org

Peter Berlin @ Magnet Opening reception for the solo exhibit of photographs and autoportraits by the reclusive ‘70s art porn model; curated by Eric Smith and Mark Garrett. Thru Oct. 31. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Pippin @ Golden Gate Theatre The touring company of the awardwinning Broadway revival of Stephen Schwarz’s classic musical about a young prince’s death-defying quest to find meaning in his life, stars Matthew James Thomas (original Pippin in the revival), Lucie Arnaz as Berthe (Andrea Martin Oct. 7-19) and a talented cast of singers, dancers and acrobats. $45-$210. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 19. 1 Taylor St. at Market. (888) 746-1799. shnsf.com

Sistah Sinema @ New Parkway Theatre, Oakland Friday Shorts program features four women of color queer zombie-themed films. Free. 6pm. 474 24th St. www.sistahsinema.com www.thenewparkway.com

Smuin Ballet @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre 21st season of the local modern ballet company includes the West Coast premiere of Garrett Ammon’s Serenade for Strings, Amy Seiwert’s Objects of Curiosity, and Smuin’s Frankie & Johnny. $24-$67. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 11. 3301 Lyon St. 912-1899. smuinballet.org

Terry Furry @ Loakal Art Gallery, Oakland Opening reception for Vulnerable Gods, an exhibit of the gay artist’s Greco-Roman myth-themed paintings. 6pm-10pm. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 560 2nd St., Oakland. www.terryfurry.com www.ebxloakal.com

Welcome, Foolish Mortals @ Glamarama, Oakland Opening reception for a fun and spooky group exhibit of artwork inspired by Disney’s Haunted Mansions, curated by Flyyn DeMarco. 6pm-9pm. Exhibit thru Nov. 3. 6399 Telegraph Ave. (510) 655-4526. www.glamarama.com

Sat 4

The Addams Family

Sat 4 The Addams Family @ Contra Costa Civic Theatre Bay Area premiere of the Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa Broadway musical based on the spooky offbeat Charles Addams comics. $15-$35. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 19. 951 Pomona Ave., El Cerrito. www.ccct.org

Among Dreams @ LGBT Center Chelsea Rae Klein’s multimedia exhibit of works that interpret the once-closeted lives of LGBT military members, and the anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. An online archive of the exhibit includes bios, photos and multimedia. Thru Nov. 11. 1800 Market St. www.amongdreams.com www.sfcenter.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Chomp! @ Conservatory of Flowers They Came From the Swamp, a new floral exhibit of carnivorous plants, includes exhibits, docent talks, and a giant replica model so you can feel like a bug about to be eaten. Thru Oct. 19. Reg. hours, 10am-4pm. Free-$7. Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 19. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. conservatoryofflowers.org

Miss Gay California Pageant @ The Arc of SF 3rd annual drag pageant and competition, with Mercedez Munro, Mahlae Balenciaga, guest performers, DJ Guy Ruben, and performances by Simone Gemini and Cassandra Cass. $25-$50. 7pm. 180 11th St. www.vendini.com

Semi-Famous @ The Marsh Don Reed’s new solo show, SemiFamous: Hollywood Hell Tales From the Middle, includes tales of panicridden auditions and almost being shot by the Secret Service. $20-$100. Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. Thru Oct. 19. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

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Wed 8 Art/Act: Maya Lin @ David Brower Center Exhibit of new works by the sculptor/ designer (Vietnam Memorial). Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Sun 10am-1pm. Thru Feb 4, 2015. 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.browercenter.org

Broadway Bingo @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

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Aerial Dance Fest

Sun 5 Aerial Dance Festival @ Zaccho Studio Inaugural festival of the best aerial performers and companies, plsy classes, including Bandaloop, Flyaway Productions, Zaccho Dance Theatre, with new works by Karl Gillick, Shannon Gray, Sandia Langlois and Chelsea O Riley. $15-$25 shows (Oct. 9-12, 8pm). $28-$100 classes (Oct. 5-11, various times). Thru Oct. 12. 1777 Yoesmite Ave. at Lane. www.zaccho.org

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s Season Five of the cabaret singing contest continues with the Best Showtunes Singer night, featuring guest-judge Barry Lloyd, Jesse Cortez, pianist Lynden Bair (SF Gay Men’s Chorus), and hosts Katya SmirnoffSkyy and Joe Wicht. $7. 4 Valencia St. at Market. 241-0205.

Castro Street Fair @ Castro & Market The annual celebration fills Castro Street and part of Market with food, live and DJed music, arts, crafts and nonprofit booths, line-dancing with Sundance Saloon, and other fun. Performers include Aiden James, Big Dipper, Pop Rocks, the Avenue Q cast, The Monster Show drag acts, MCs Honey Mahogany and Vivvyanne Forevermore; DJs MC2, Jim Hopkins, Pete Avila, Two Dudes in Love, Stefanie Phillips, Oscar Pineda and more. 11am-6pm. Castro Street from Market to 19th. www.castrostreetfair.org

John Lahr @ Geary Theatre The New Yorker’s senior drama critic discusses, with A.C.T. Artistic Director Carey Perloff, Lahr’s new biography, Tennessee Williams, Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh. Free/RSVP required. 7pm. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org/lahr

Tue 7 20th Century Salon Photography: A Tribute @ Robert Tat Gallery Group exhibit of vintage photography by famous artists like Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and others. Thru Nov. 29. 49 Geary St. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay @ de Young Museum Exhibit of photos, and an audiovisual installation, by the Los Angeles artist who focused on gay underground culture of the late 1960s and early ‘70s in SF and LA. Thru Jan. 11, 2015. Lines on the Horizon : Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection, thru Jan. 4, 2015. Free/$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. deyoungmuseum.org

Circle of Life Cabaret @ Martuni’s A C.O.L.T. Following, the disability and LGBT-inclusive theatre company’s music and variety show, includes raffles and tickets to their upcoming shows. No cover. 6:30pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St. circleoflifetheatre.org

Cheesecake & Demerol @ Stage Werx Theatre

The months-long free performance series continues, with weekend outdoor dance, music and theatre concerts, on various days and evenings. Classical Persian Music Ensemble 1pm. 701 Mission St. at 3rd. 543-1718. www.ybgfestival.org

Mon 6 At Large: Ai Weiwei @ Alcatraz Island The internationally acclaimed Chinese sculpture’s exhibit of seven sitespecific multimedia installations; the largest art exhibit ever hosted by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. $18-$30. Daily except major holidays thru April 26, 2015. www.AiWeiWeiAlcatraz.org

1964: The Year San Francisco Came Out @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit focusing on San Francisco’s emerging gay culture at the time of the pivotal LIFE magazine feature “Homosexuality in America.” Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm5pm. ($5/free for members). 4127 18th St. 621-1107. glbthistory.org

Project Mah Jongg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum New exhibit about the popular Chinese game and Jewish culture’s affection for it. Thru Oct. 28. Also, Designing Homes : Jews and Midcentury Modernism, an exhibit of architectural, furniture, dinnerware, photos, and interior design in postWWII. Also, Hardly Strictly Warren Hellman, thru Oct. 18. Other exhibits, 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

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

Sweeney Todd @ Mountain View Center for the Arts TheatreWorks’ production of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical mastepriece about The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a serialkilling barber in the 19th-century; reset in 1940s London. $19-$74. Tue & Wed 7:30pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Also Sun 7pm. Thru Nov. 2. 500 Castro St., Mountain View. (650) 463-1960. www.TheatreWorks.org

Thu 9 Flamenco Festival @ La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley 9th annual concert of flamenco dance and music, with Jose Mendez, Mari Peña and Antonio Moya. $30$50. 8pm. 3105 Shattuck Ave. (510) 849-2568. www.lapena.org

Gene Gore’s one-woman autobiographical show about pregnancy, women’s health issues, all told from her truelife experiences. $15. Sundays, 3pm. Thru Oct. 19. 446 Valencia St. www.genegore.com

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival @ Esplanade

The monthly musical trivia night returns, with Joe Wicht and J. Conrad Frank. Oct. 8 includes a special performance with Jessica Coker, Katy Stephan and Leanne Borghesi. $15. 7pm (doors 5:30) Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason st. www.ticketweb.com

Imelda May @ The Fillmore

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

Lodro Rinzler @ Books Inc. Shambhala Buddhist teacher discusses The Buddha Walks Into the Office, his book about finding fulfillment in your career. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 8646777. booksinc.net

The News @ SOMArts Cultural Center Fresh Queer Performance, the monthly showcase of LGBTQ arts (1st Tuesdays), this time features Annah Anti-Palindrome, Silk Worm (Eric Eich), Bernadette Herself (Eli Mc Nally), Shaunna Vella and Kat Marie Yoas and others. $5, 7:30pm. 934 Brannan St. at 9th. www.somarts.org

The gorgeous UK pop rockabilly singer performs music from her new album Tribal. $25-$35. 8pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. 346-6000. www.imeldamay.co.uk www.thefillmore.com

Jessica Merchant @ Books Inc.

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Food writer and blogger discusses Seriously Delish, her new recipe book. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Stranger Than Life @ Cartoon Art Museum The Cartoons and Comics of M.K. Brown (thru Feb 15). Other exhibits and events. Free-$8. Tue-Sun 11am5pm. 655 Mission St. 227-8666. www.cartoonart.org

Sondre Lerche @ The Independent The New York indie pop-rock singer performs his new music. Teen opens. $15. 9pm. 628 Divisadero. 771-1421. www.theindependentsf.com

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f novelist Sinclair Lewis (18851951) returned from the dead, he might ruefully note how little certain aspects of American culture have changed. The man who gave us “babbitry” as a synonym for petit bourgeois smugness and provincialism would note that it has barely diminished. The hucksterism of tin-cup-rattling Christian Evangelicals that he satirized in his 1927 epic Elmer Gantry is still an influential social force. In 1960, Richard Brooks adapted one part of that book for the screen and directed the film, which has just been released in DVD. Elmer Gantry (a charismatic Burt Lancaster) is a smooth-talking, Bible-quoting salesman who becomes fascinated by Sister Sharon Falconer (a lovely Jean Simmons). Sister Sharon draws huge crowds to her evangelical revival meetings, collecting donations from those in attendance, many of whom believe she can cure their ills. Gantry is drawn to Sister Sharon’s saintly persona and physical beauty. He charms his way into her circle. Her manager, Bill Morgan (Dean Jagger), convinces Sister Sharon that she and Gantry would make a powerful team – he could open the meeting by evoking terrifying images of what will await those “sinners” who do not see the light before their deaths: they will be damned to eternal hell-fire. Sister Sharon could then offer them salvation in the form of her precepts. The crowds would open up their hearts, souls, and wallets for her. Morgan is right. The pitch works. Newspaper reporter Jim Lefferts (Arthur Kennedy) is impressed by Gantry’s talents, but loathes religious charlatans and the whole fraudulent revivalist movement. He writes an exposé, revealing that neither Gantry nor Sister Sharon has any credentials. She admits to a phony background and is seduced by Gantry. They become lovers. Despite Lefferts’ revelations, the Falconer/Gantry team does standing-room-only business. When Gantry shows up at a brothel, he sends the women working there packing, but unexpectedly encounters an ex-girlfriend, Lulu Baines (Shirley Jones). Their affair resulted in her minister father disowning her, forcing her to turn to prostitution. The two meet privately, and she appears to have forgiven him. He embraces her, but seems determined to remain faithful to Sister Sharon. Lulu has, however, carefully planned her revenge. Suddenly, Sister Sharon and Gantry are facing the potent anger of their once-faithful follow-

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Cunningham dancers were on the floor, and the musicians were randomly assigned to platforms by using the I Ching. That’s where I met Marty [Martha Stoddard], who’s an out lesbian, though she remembers it a bit differently. I think we were on risers in the gym.” The orchestra has grown by leaps and bounds. Their ensemble work is solid, their solos expressive, and they sound fine even within the confines of Old First’s high brick walls, which often manage to make the massed overtones in even clearly scored works sound congealed. And their repertoire? The band has performed pieces of nearly every composi-

ers. The film builds to a shattering climax, which reveals the differences between the two preachers. Brooks’ Academy Award-winning script captures the desperate need of so many people for tangible evidence of Christ’s existence. Told from birth that they are products of sin, they long for forgiveness, redemption, and life-everlasting in heaven. Some also seek miraculous cures for illnesses and afflictions. They think Sister Sharon can and will save them. Their humanity is touching, even if their naiveté is hard to fathom. Lancaster, who would win his only Oscar and get a second New York Film Critics Award for his performance, is breathtaking. He uses his physicality, acrobatic grace, still-powerful muscular virility, intelligence and self-mocking wit to deliver an amazing characterization. Playing a larger-than-life role made him larger-than-life on screen. Yet he also has moving moments in which he conveys moral confusion and self-doubt with exceptional sensitivity. The gifted Simmons’ teenage performances as Estella in David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946) and as Ophelia opposite Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) promised major stardom that didn’t materialize. She was, however, a well-regarded leading lady who appeared in important films. Hollywood rarely gave her the parts that create indelible impressions on the public, but Sister

Sharon was an exception. She is superb, rising to the challenge of such a demanding role. Her Sister Sharon believes in her own messianic gifts. Her sincerity and confidence make her all-the-more frightening. Simmons is totally convincing. Her final scenes are unforgettable. She and Brooks were married at the time, and that may have given her more confidence, more of an edge than she usually showed. Jones, previously best-known as the star of wholesome musicals like Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956) and April Love (1957), jumped at the chance to change her image. The result: she would win the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award. Jagger used his normally folksy, warm manner in a different way. His Morgan is a shrewd realist with one eye on the gross receipts and the other on the sheriff. Kennedy’s Lefferts is a bemused cynic who is sickened by the exploitation of suffering and loneliness that brings financial rewards to evangelicals as a whole, and Sister Sharon and Gantry specifically. The movie was nominated for Best Picture, losing to The Apartment. Andre Previn’s original score earned him a nomination, but that prize went to Ernest Gold for Exodus. Despite the subject matter, the film was a commercial success, which Lewis would have found gratifying, even if the pious, judgmental phoniness he despised remains a shameful, powerful political and social force in American society.t

tional stripe, which isn’t surprising, given the fact that the 12-note wall erected by Schoenberg and his disciples collapsed in the late 1980s. As Steve Reich wryly observed, “We’re not in Vienna anymore,” or as Virgil Thomson put it, “Write anything you want.” The first of the SFCCO’s four rehearsals, which I caught last Thursday at the United Methodist Church on Geary, goes off without a hitch. When I enter the low-ceilinged room, a strenuous march is in progress. Michael B. Kimbell’s “The First Line” is clear, bare, and definitely tragic, with Alburger offering quick, pointed suggestions to the troops in the trenches. Three excerpts from Lisa Scola Prosek’s opera The Lariat, set to premiere at San Francisco’s Thick House

in January, is next, the orchestra slowly getting into its groove. Alburger’s “abducted by aliens” piece, which he told me has a steal from Messaien’s Turangilla Symphony, is vivid and full of surprises, and Stardust and Loren Jones’ piece makes its points simply, and he’s not above suggesting spurof-the-moment changes to make it work, proposing shakers instead of maracas to Alburger, who acquiesces pronto. It’s inspiring to see a group as focused and collegial as the SFCCO giving their all. “Ego-less” teamwork is always the way. It’s not who’s on top, but who’s pulling as one, and the SFCCO makes intense collaboration seem effortless, easy as pie.t

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Celebrating an iconic, erotic life

Peter Berlin

Peter Berlin: a vision of male beauty and identity.

by David-Elijah Nahmod

orty years ago, Peter Berlin achieved worldwide fame by starring in two iconic gay porn films: Knights in Black Leather and That Boy. Audiences were mesmerized by Berlin’s stunning beauty and by the free and unashamed manner in which he celebrated his sexuality. Born in Europe, the longtime San Francisco resident made a living by photographing himself in hundreds of carefully designed erotic poses. Nothing in any of the skin magazines could match the visual beauty and eroticism of Berlin’s artfully staged, lit and colored images. Berlin was equally famous for his cruising, often posing for hours on end at the corner of 18th and Castro. He never spoke to anyone when he was immersed in the Peter Berlin character. Berlin’s unusual career will be celebrated with an exhibition of many of his photos at Magnet, throughout October. Berlin spoke to the B.A.R. about his legacy, admitting that he was surprised by his popularity, and by the fact that people are still interested in him. “Peter Berlin was never young,” he said. “I was too old for this when it happened, but I always looked young. It was never my intention to be famous. My only intention was to have a good time, and I had a good time as Peter Berlin.” His photography was always a one-man operation. “I work differently than most people,” he said. “I never hire anybody. I have a hard time hiring a cab. I have a very definite idea of what I want to see and experience. I’m very aware of the impact I had, because people tell me I have.” In recent years, Berlin has lived a quiet life of semi-retirement. The Magnet show is his first exhibition since 2005, when his work was shown in New York. “My friend Eric is worried about my financial situation,” he said. “You have to worry about your old age, he tells me. The exhibition is all Eric’s doing, he put a lot of energy in it. I’m amazed but not excited. I was only excited when I went cruising.” Eric would be Eric Smith, who’s co-curating the Berlin exhibit with Mark Garrett. “I think that most people are fascinated with his image of male sexuality that in the 70s redefined a new masculinity that celebrated the male form,” said Smith. “I think there’s a new generation of young people who are finding the images of Peter Berlin and realizing the impact these images had on the sexual freedom that paved the way for the open expression of our sexuality that we take for granted today. At a time when it was still illegal or dangerous to be gay in public, Peter Berlin created a vision of male beau-

ty and identity that helped many men find their own sense of selfcelebration and sexual liberation.” Berlin, Smith says, was ahead of his time in more ways than one. “Before the advent of the digital selfie phenomenon, Peter created thousands of self-portraits in film,

when the whole process of film photography required time and skill. Peter spent hours preparing for each shoot, setting up the camera, creating the outfits, developing the negatives and printing the photos himself. This level of self-portraiture has unlikely ever been matched in the pre-digital era of photography.” Smith and Berlin have become close friends who often go to lunch together. “We talk for hours about the world, life, sex, human nature, aging, the good old days of the 70s, family and many other subjects,” Smith said. “What I soon discovered was a gentle, sensitive man who lived on the periphery of our society and had unique observations of the world around him. I found in him a friend I could talk to about anything. He had a supportive and non-judgmental nature that I responded to.”t Peter Berlin: A Solo Exhibition of Photographs, through Oct. 31, Magnet, 4122 18th St., SF. Opening reception: Fri., Oct. 3, 8-10 p.m. Special event: Peter Berlin Talks!, Sat., Oct. 18, 7 p.m., free. magnetsf.org That Man: Peter Berlin, a documentary about Berlin’s life, is available on DVD (Water Bearer Films).

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Marc Davis is best known for creating beguiling, dynamic, and marvelously-designed characters, such as Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent, Peter Pan’s Tinker Bell, and One Hundred and One Dalmatian’s Cruella de Vil. Fall under the spell of these leading ladies and femmes fatales with an exhibition of Davis’ work for The Walt Disney Studios and Disneyland Park, celebrating his ability to bring these beauties to life.

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Marc Davis, visual development for Sleeping Beauty, ca. 1959; Collection Mike Glad; © Disney | Leading Ladies and Femmes Fatales: The Art of Marc Davis is organized by The Walt Disney Family Museum. | © The Walt Disney Family Museum® Disney Enterprises, Inc. | © 2014 The Walt Disney Family Museum | The Walt Disney Family Museum is not affiliated with Disney Enterprises, Inc.

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30 • BAY AREA REPORTER • October 2-8, 2014

Courtesy California Film Institute

Scene from director Jonathan Wysocki's Adjust-a-Dream: discovering new rules to live by.

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States of Grace The notion that extreme suffering is good for the soul is one of many themes in this captivating, medically graphic doc that tracks the near-death experience of an AIDSera heroine. Dr. Grace Dammann almost dies in a head-on accident on the Golden Gate Bridge. After caring for a generation of AIDS patients, Dr. Dammann is herself the focus of every life-saving trick in the book. Co-directors Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman combine a sensitive depiction of invasive surgery with a heartfelt look at a new kind of family: Dr. Dammann’s supportive wife, their winsome, disabled daughter, and the family mutt. (Sequoia, 10/5 & 9; Rafael, 10/7) Adjust-a-Dream Jonathan Wysocki’s wry short follows a gay couple shopping for a mattress and, in the process, discovering new rules to live by. (Part of Round and Round, Sequoia, 10/6; Rafael, 10/8) Cowboys Croatian director Tomislav Mrsic assembles a sad-sack collection of misfits, a mostly male conclave of wannabe actors who try the patience of a veteran theatre director. Fleeing his impoverished nation’s Kafkaesque controls on artistic freedom, the embittered man hopes to restore his faith by assembling a small stage troupe. To his chagrin, the open audition attracts a group of unemployed idiots. The gay content emerges slowly. (Rafael, 10/2 & 7) Disaster Preparedness Melissa Finell explores the weakest link in a female couple’s bond in this subtle comedy/drama that could have been hatched from the febrile minds in the Seinfeld writers pool. The Right To Love Barbara Zemljic explores the emotional arc of a dying mother in this Slovenian short. (Both part of A Matter of Time, Rafael, 10/9; 142 Throckmorton, 10/11) Plastic Man: The Artful Life of Jerry Ross Barrish William Farley’s sensitively lensed doc is a bio-pic of a Bay Area renaissance man who, as a child, mingled with boxers, mobsters and glorious fools. (Sequoia, 10/5; Rafael, 10/8) Racing to Zero: In Pursuit of Zero Waste Christopher Beaver discovers how the “zero waste” zealots

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Scene from director Tomislav Mrsic's Cowboys.

at SF’s Dept. of the Environment are pressuring local residents to recycle up to 80% of their garbage. Beaver’s cameras trace food scraps from Chinatown bins to Sonoma County farms where they are transformed into nutrient-rich mulch. (Rafael, 10/4 & 8; 142 Throckmorton, 10/6) 3 Still Standing Robert Campos and Donna LoCicero profile comics Will Durst, Johnny Steele and Larry “Bubbles” Brown in the shifting landscape of the SF standup-comedy scene, devastated by the competition of cable TV. Dedicated to and with participation from the late Robin Williams, this well-made piece shifts between funny and elegiac. (Sequoia, 10/4 & 10; Rafael, 10/8) Like Sunday, Like Rain In actorturned-director Frank Whaley’s improbable platonic romance, Eleanor (Leighton Meester), an aspiring musician trapped in a bad match with a manipulative rock-singer boyfriend (Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong), becomes an unlikely companionteacher-crush to Reggie, a bratty prodigy given a complex spin by newcomer Julian Shatkin. With a bow to Harold and Maude, the actors convince us that unlikely pairings can nourish. (Rafael, 10/4, 6 & 9) Timbuktu (France) Abderrahmane Sissako provides a complex companion piece to headlines about world terror networks. Shot due to safety concerns next-door in Mauritania, the story recreates the chaotic period when jihadists terrorized a community of herdsmen. Sissako updates his film’s Lawrence of Arabia feel with modern devices and humorous references (a beloved cow is named “GPS”). (Rafael, 10/5; Sequoia, 10/6) Beloved Sisters (Germany/Austria) Director Dominik Graf sets a chapter from the early years of romantic poet Friedrich Schiller (“Ode to Joy”) in a story of aristocratic sisters seeking a proper marriage. (Lark, 10/10; Rafael, 10/12) Capturing Grace KQED radio talkhost Dave Iverson uses a dance-world setting to demonstrate how physical activity can hold back the crippling symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. (Sequoia, 10/10; Rafael, 10/11) Diplomacy (France) Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum) brings

a piece of history to the screen in which a Swedish diplomat finds himself begging a German general not to destroy Paris as the Nazi forces flee an impending Allied incursion in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 25, 1944. (Sequoia, 10/4; Rafael, 10/8) Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary “We’re all going to die. Why not learn how to do it with class, style and friendship, as the climactic expression of a life?” Gay Dillingham revives some old cultural controversies in this meeting of spiritual minds, LSD advocate Leary and his old Harvard-faculty buddy Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass. (Rafael, 10/4 & 10; Sequoia, 10/7) Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel) Ronit Elkabetz writes, directs and co-stars in this austere drama as a woman who desperately seeks to have an Israeli Rabbinical court free her from a loveless marriage. (Sequoia, 10/6; Rafael, 10/8) The Immortalists “We’re interested in not just slowing aging down, but actually reversing it, turning back the biological clock. The future that we’re talking about here is not science fiction.” What if we could “cure” humankind’s ultimate dilemma, and end death and dying? This discussion is framed by filmmaker David Alvarado as a kind of debate between bearded Brit Aubrey de Grey and the bubbly American Bill Andrews. (Rafael, 10/10; 142 Throckmorton, 10/11) A Wolf at the Door (Brazil) Fernando Coimbra draws us into the plight of a family whose young daughter is abducted under circumstances that increase the pain and suffering for all concerned. Based on a real-life event, it has been updated to contemporary Rio de Janeiro, depicted differently from the normal film tropes of extreme wealth or poverty. (Sequoia, 10/4; Lark, 10/5) Soul of a Banquet Veteran Wayne Wang (Chan is Missing) profiles the culinary expert behind SF’s famed Mandarin restaurant. We learn Cecilia Chiang’s personal philosophy about food, as well as some preparation shortcuts from her kitchen. (Screening with Wang & Chiang, Rafael, 10/5; Sequoia, 10/7)t Info: mvff.com

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Music at the heart of things by Paul Parish

ark Morris came to Berkeley with his dancers last weekend, as he has done pretty much every year for the last quarter-century. From the mixed bills we saw, I don’t see any signs of his imagination or his invention getting stale. It was a bewildering weekend, since his short pieces are the most intense. Each one has its own style and way of being, and they’re as different as gold bugs are from birds, snakes and trees. Only one of them, his version of The Rite of Spring (“Spring Spring Spring”), which had its world premiere here in summer 2013 at the Ojai North Festival, had we ever seen before. Morris is widely regarded as the greatest choreographer alive. The Telegraph (UK) recently claimed he’s “the greatest living artist in any art-form.” He was probably the first major performing artist to be able to say, “Yes, I’m gay, get over it,” and make work that was gay, but not of the ghetto at all. The gay element is always there, but it’s never the reason for being. He is one of the architects of the modern attitude, with gay rights more or less taken for granted by all younger people as part of a larger humanity. He hit his stride in the 70s in New York as a youth from Seattle with Hyacinthine curls and a phenomenal dance-gift, out-dancing everyone else in the companies he was part of, then making piercingly beautiful dances to phonograph recordings. He worked against the grain of post-modern dance by putting the music he used at the heart of things. While others were using the hypnotic music of Reich and Glass to freeze the mind, Morris used country songs, Indian ragas, Baroque oratorios, music that was widely loved, somewhere. His nearest predecessor in this was Paul Taylor, the bisexual jock who became Martha Graham’s young star before breaking away to make dances in her idiom with a true musical drive, using anything from Bach to the Andrews Sisters for his motor impulse. Two of Morris’ latest works had echoes of Taylor, but he’s stolen from everybody and made everything new, always with a level of musical insight that outstrips anyone’s except Balanchine’s. Cal Performances has given him a second home. They’ve commissioned a lot of his work, presented the Western Hemisphere and world premieres of his most important works, and made him musical director of the Ojai Music Festival, the first time a dancer has ever been given such a post. Balanchine could have done it, but nobody ever thought of giving him a job like that. The seven pieces we saw this past weekend were set to music by, Program A: Ludwig van, Ivor Cutler, Henry Cowell, and Mozart’s student and Beethoven’s friend Johann Nepomuk Hummel; and Program B: Samuel Barber, Franz Weber, and Igor Stravinsky/the Bad Plus; they were all “about the music.” Program A was likeable in the extreme; Program B was brilliant but headachy. Let’s start with the latter, which felt like an extension of Ojai North, in which Morris made a big deal out of the West Coast maverick composers Lou Harrison, Cowell, and Hollywood émigré Stravinsky. They were all iconoclastic, and made many rude noises that set the tired businessmen’s teeth ajar. Cowell was perhaps the first to attack the piano with his entire forearm; he was a rhythmic genius. Morris reprised his fabulous dance to Cowell’s quartets Mosaic and United (which Cowell composed in San Quentin, where he’d been imprisoned for homosexuality) as a prelude to his version of The

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Rite of Spring, which concluded last sure you remember what you think weekend’s program. Frankly, I wish you saw. Morris’ imagination is he’d repeated that format instead of teeming with images. I always feel substituting another experimental at a Morris premiere like one of the American piece, Barber’s Excursions, blind men in the Sufi story of “The another worthy maverick piece of Blind Men and the Elephant.” The music, to which he’s choreographed one who touched the tail said, “It’s a well-made dance that’s too much hairy”; the one who touched the of the same thing as the piece de ear said, “It’s leathery”; etc. With a resistance. Excursions is full of osnew piece of Morris’, I never know tinato bass – the English for this is what’s hit me till I’ve seen it more obstinate, and it’s the predecessor than once. About Program A, which to Pink Cadillac, a lot of the same I adored, I don’t know what to say, damned thing, like head-banging except that Laurel Lynch as Sally in so far as I’m concerned. The only our Alley danced like a fairy, and pleasant section was one based on that the polka of Festival Dance is the cowboy tune “Streets of Laredo,” a glorious piece of choreography.t in which the dancers threw their legs over their (invisible) horses and spun (invisible) lassos, echoing Agnes de Mille’s Rodeo. In the next section, one guy rolled into the center and held his head in his hands as the othNEWSPAPER: ers gestured “Why me?” to insistent, blaring chords in the piano. Periodi- PUBLISH DATE: cally, dancers marched around the ART DUE: perimeter. This was followed by Crosswalk, CONTENT: set to a brilliant grand duo for clariSIZE: net and piano by Carl Maria von Weber, with dancers walking, skipART PRODUCTION: ping and bothering each other. In particular, the eight guys bother the three girls, and the girls get their revenge. They particularly mess with Laurel Lynch, who by the end is mad as hell at them and gets the last gesture, alone center-stage and furious at the black-out. I do not at this stage understand how it fit the music, but it always did, with the guys (especially Brandon Randolph) clarifying the attitude, skipping off as if whatever had just happened was nothing. It seemed to be about defense of territory. Morris abandoned the virgin sacrifice of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and transformed the whole into geometric magic. The original scenario was propitiatory magic – we give you, O God of the Sun, a virgin for your bride, in hopes that you will bring an end to the winter and renew the cycle of fertility. Morris understands that nobody nowadays thinks like that. He’s made his dance a fantasia of rhythms and trajectories that scores the face of the earth in diagonals and circles, stomping some patterns in and making others light and springy. He’s made the only dance to this score since Pina Bausch’s that is not an embarrassment. Dallas McMurray’s solo in the middle of it was heroic. Program A was much more delightful, but the pleasures were so evanescent and specific they are almost indescribable – you can’t be

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ouble Duchess, the San Francisco-based duo consisting of davO and Krylon Superstar, has been steadily building a fan base since their debut in 2012. Their music is an eclectic mix of beats that is irresistibly catchy, combined with sassy lyrics that celebrate being queer in every sense of the term. Their performances, both in their videos and live, are campy sexy goodness. I caught up with this dynamic duo recently to discuss their origins, the creative process, their fantastic new single and video “Good Girl Freak Out,” and their show this Friday, October 3 at the Elbo Room. See page 34 >>

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ast week, interviews with three people who have different disabilities brought up aspects of how able-bodied staff and management of bars and restaurants treated them. Some faced outright discrimination in some bars, but enjoyed a welcoming attitude elsewhere. This week, we focus on a few more people’s experiences in bars and other public venues, and how they can improve accessibility. See page 36 >>

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Saturn Jones, Double Duchess, and Joquese Whitfield performing at the 2014 Folsom Street Fair.

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a really good response, so we went from there. What made you pick the name Double Duchess? davO: We were throwing names around that we thought were similar to our aesthetic—happy, sassy, black girl sort-of vibe. “Double Dutch” stuck with us, so we queened it up by switching it to “Duchess” Is there a philosophy that guides you while you are creating together? Krylon: Our process is pretty cool. We are coming from somewhat different places musically, but it works together well. One thing we both agree on is that it should be fun to dance to. davO: Definitely. If the outline of the track is something we both vibe to initially, we’ll keep it around and work it out into a proper Double Duchess song.

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Double Duchess performing at Public Works.

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What were you up to creatively before you moved to the Bay Area? Krylon: I was heavily involved with the New York club kid scene in the early 1990s, particularly the Save The Robots party. I also did a lot of fashion modeling. I then lived in Berlin for eight years, where I focused on dance and performance art. Throughout this time I also made music as an element of my performances.

davO: I started in music at the age of 15, while I was living in the Baltimore area. I rapped and played drums with Jepetto, and we were a part of the Warped Tour in 19992000. I gained a lot of experience in music production as well, and as I got older I started gravitating more towards DJing. What made you relocate here? davO: I moved here with a longtime friend/collaborator. We were looking for a good West Coast base, and we liked how San Francisco was both compact and urban.

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Krylon: I spent a summer in San Francisco in the 1990s and had the time of my life, and figured I’d be back again one day. After Berlin, I was visiting a good friend from my hometown San Diego, and I followed her up here. Clearly, it’s a different city than what I first encountered, but there is a magic here that cannot be wiped away. How did you meet? davO: We were both fairly new to the city. A mutual friend introduced us and we started hanging out together. We kind of nonchalantly produced our first track, which got

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You send a lot of queer messaging out through your lyrics. How deliberate is that? Krylon: We want to celebrate being queer and encourage people to fly their freak flag, yes. But it’s not just for queers. We have a lot of straight fans who vibe with our music and our message. davO: It’s not so much an agenda, but as queer people we are writing from that perspective. We’re talking about love, loss and other topics that are universal, with the added layer of using queer vernacular. The fashions you sport in videos and live show are very distinct. How do you figure that stuff out?

Krylon: davO is more the music mind, the beat organizer, the creator of the pulse. I am more of the visuals person, which comes from modeling and making my own club kid and performance outfits. Fashion to me is a reflection of inner light and love, as well as a reaction to what is happening in the world. The look is very us, catchy and fun. What was your latest track, “Good Girl Freak Out,” inspired by? davO: I started working on the track a couple of years ago with Future People. The song developed into the story of a relationship between two people, and addresses the back and forth that can happen. On the one hand, you want to be in a relationship and be a good person, and on the other hand you want to go crazy and have a good time. I think everyone struggles with that. You collaborated with a lot of people on it; Future People on the track itself, JB Ghuman, Jr. directing the video, and Kelly Osborne as a special guest star. What’s it feel like having these people help create your vision? Krylon: I think it’s wonderful. Having Kelly on board—with her background, her connection to music, fashion, and Hollywood— made it more intense, and gave the whole thing a boost up. JB was also really cool to work with, and he had some amazing insights, and knowing that he heard the song and was immediately on board was really cool. davO: It’s helping to widen our reach. Working with other people who are really into what they are doing enhances what we are doing,

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and getting different perspectives on your own work helps a lot. Have you been collaborating with other people on different tracks? davO: Our upcoming new album has several collaborations. We worked with queer Baltimore rapper TT the Artist, as well as with Nicky da B (who recently passed away). We are also working with a crew for the next video in conjunction with the album’s release. When is your new album due out? davO: Tentatively Spring 2015. It will be our first full-length release. We will be running a campaign through Pledge Music starting in mid-October, where you can preorder the new album as well as get some nice Double Duchess swag. Krylon, you dance naked towards the end of the video for “Good Girl Freak Out” and your body is hella slammin’. What’s your secret? Krylon: I’m 40, so it’s no small feat. I’m vegan, I rock climb, I meditate, I don’t drink or smoke.

Working at Whole Foods has educated me a lot about healthy eating. I say food is energy. And energy is life, so if you put positive and creative food into your body, then you get a positive and creative life. I do still indulge in sugar, although I cut back drastically on that right before the shoot, because I wanted to look tight. What can we expect at your show at Elbo Room on October 3? davO: We haven’t done a lot of hometown headliner shows, so this is a great opportunity to present a full-on show with all of our songs to this date. We’ll be joined onstage by back-up dancers Saturn Rising and Joquese Whitfield. Opening for us will be Ricashay and Aima the Dreamer, and there will with DJ sets by Two Dudes in Love. We’re looking forward to performing for all our local friends and fans.t Double Duchess perform Friday, October 3 at Elbo Room, 647 Valencia Street. Show starts 9:30pm. $10 at the door. www.doubleduchess.com www.elbo.com

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Independent Businesses also lobbied against the bill, saying enforcement of the law would have “a disastrous impact on many small business struggling to survive.” Due to their forceful lobbying, most churches in the U.S. are exempt from being at all accessible. As for local nightlife and tourism, the website www.sanfrancisco. travel/accessibility/ San-Francisco-AccessGuide.html includes a recently updated guide to accessible San Francisco hotels, tourist sites and transportation, but excludes bars and nightclubs from its listings. According to www. Rich Stadtmiller disabilityplanningdata. Matthew Denney at the Eagle Tavern. com, whose data goes only to 2007, more than 44,000 county Accessing the Situation residents between the ages 21 and 64 From page 33 are disabled. The World Population Review A bit of background: the Ameri(www.worldpopulationreview.com) cans with Disabilities Act was made claims that the current LGBT popuinto law in 1990. Its several subseclation in the city is fifteen percent. tions include Title III, which focuses To figure out how many LGBT on public accomodations and accesdisabled people live in the Bay Area sibility. Under the law, businesses will be left to statisticians, but it and government buildings are recould approach a few thousand. quired to make entryways and other Any casual survey of venues would areas accessible for wheelchair users be innacurate, since many people and others with a disability or moperhaps choose not to patronize bility issues. bars and nightclubs that aren’t acBut older buildings are somecessible. A bar owner may claim that times exempt, if they prove they’re too few disabled people are among unable to make renovations without their patrons, and therefore they what are considered excessive costs, don’t need to spend thousands of or if the buildings are historical dollars in renovations. spaces. In the next interviews, disabled Before and after the ADA passage, gay and trans people share how, businesses like Greyhound, and even more often, it is they who are makthe Association of Christian Schools ing accomodations for the venues, International, lobbied for exempas they overcome barriers and some tions. The National Federation of awkward social situations.

Getting around

On a weekend night, Matthew Denney can probably be found at one of many South of Market or Castro bars. The 27-year-old, who hails from Portland, has lived in San Francisco for two years. “I go to a lot of bars,” said Denney. “The ones that are most accessible are The Eagle and the Hole in the Wall, where I go mostly because I like the music. The bathrooms are accessible, and so is the Lone Star Saloon. There are a lot of places I go that don’t have accessible bathrooms.” Denney has used crutches since he was seven years old. “It’s weird,” he said of smaller bars like The Last Call on 18th Street. “They have a bathroom that has handlebars, but stairs that are really cramped.” Asked about other Castro venues, Denney said, “I used to go to 440, but stopped. The bathroom there is really awkward, and up a set of stairs.” Denney even told of other patrons who tried to carry him up the stairs. “Random guys sometimes grab me and want to pick me up,” he said. “I’m usually not too happy about it. People also think they can carry my beer. That happens a lot of times. Or somebody offers me a seat even when I say I don’t need one.” And although The Mix’s patio is up a few stairs, Denney handles them, ignoring other people’s reactions. “I can do stairs, so I pretty much go anywhere,” said Denney. “If I have any really weird experiences, I get turned off by the bar and don’t go back.” Some of those odd interactions include people asking him, before even introducing themselves, if his disability is permanent or “’just for a while.’ I get annoyed when people ask what happened, like they think I was injured.” With so many bars having stairs to get to part of their venue, usu-

ally the area with bathrooms (Moby Dick, The Powerhouse, The Mix, and even Twin Peaks), people with disabilities have to consider their nightlife options. “That can be frustrating,” said Denney. “Certain bars, especially bars that are more dance musicoriented, or cruisy like The Powerhouse, seem to be a little more confused about how to help people with disabilities. You don’t really have a lot of choices, in terms of space.” Since we met at a street fair, I asked Denney how he navigates the outdoor crowds. “I usually go to the street fairs in the morning,” he said. “For me, it’s not about other people being drunk. It’s just the number of people. There’s often not enough space because people don’t look around themselves.” Denney said that Portland bars, many of them recently built or renovated, are much more accessible. “I can’t think of any that have stairs,” he said. We discussed the enforcement of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which is only applicable to buildings built or renovated after a certain date. “You only have to go into ADA compliance unless it’s a newer structure, and businesses don’t always have to make the modifications,” he said. For example, The Lookout’s stairs may impede some, but with other businesses next door, installing an elevator would be impossible. Denney also has quite a few critiques about the inconsistent curb cuts in South of Seeley Quest Market and elsewhere. “There are a lot of weird intersections with curb cuts only on one side.” He’s looking forward to the completion of the Castro sidewalk renovations. “It’ll be good to have wider sidewalks. That street’s always been difficult.” As for getting around, Denney said he prefers taking buses over trains or cabs. “I prefer to stay above ground, and cabs are too expensive.” He mentioned escalators and the often out-of-service elevators as problematic. “Some people think I’m crazy because I take the bus, but I actually like it.” Since he lives less than a mile from SoMa, he often walks. Denney has also met several men since he came out and started going to bars. Asked if any men may flirt with him because of his disability, he said he doesn’t think so. “I think guys are curious, and maybe that comes from the sort of desexualization of disabled people in media, the presumption that we don’t or can’t have sex. There has been a movement toward sexualizing the disabled body, in ads and elsewhere. But I don’t think of it as a separate kind of thing.” Denney said he’s learned to deal with other people’s reactions. “I do think there’s a section of the population who just won’t consider dating anyone with a disability. But I’ve had a lot of partners in my life, and I’m happy about that.”

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Seeley Quest’s performance work, poetry and essays have included aspects of various disabilities, including a strip-tease that revealed a back brace which Quest wore for a time. “The work is mostly either my own writing, or performing as a character in different roles,” said Quest. “The shows reflect multiple genres of types of artwork and re-

flect multiple experiences and disabilities.” But for the trans artist, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns, going out to bars, nightclubs and performance spaces can be a tremendous challenge. “I have multiple chemical sensitivities that have developed while living in the bay, said Quest. “The amount of exposure to cigarette and pot smoke and other strong fragrances and chemical products that are used in bars, and their bathrooms; all those things make me ill.” Hir physical reactions include fatigue, dizziness and nausea, which Quest said, impact decisions about going out to any public space. When organizing events, like the Sins Invalid performance concerts, Quest said, “It’s important to me that people try to show up as scent-free as they can, to not only support my health, but other friends who have different levels of chemical injury. Some people get more easily triggered than I do.” Quest is aware that many

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people may dismiss hir condition, but as our environment becomes more toxic, other people have developed such sensitivities. “I don’t go to bars much nowadays,” said Quest. “A lot of that is just the fact that if I try to use the bathroom, I feel like I have to avoid it. The bleach and other harsh cleansers there effect me worse than any urine smells. It’s becoming kind of a dealbreaker.” Quest does appreciate that California legislators have enacted tougher anti-smoking laws in public spaces, but the imposed distance is often not enforced near bars and nightclubs. “From my experience, people go out to a club event, and a lot of folks are drinking, then people start smoking just outside and it drifts right in,” said Quest. “I get an immediate headache; a lot of things happen physically. Quite a lot of people don’t realize the impact this has on a lot of people’s health. It’s not specific to the queer community. It could happen in any kind of urban nightlife.” Quest referenced statistics of LGBT people having greater smoking habits. “It keeps me from going out and participating in social events at the level that I’d like to.” A resident of downtown Oakland, Quest has performed in spaces that are not wheelchair accessible, but would rather not. “I don’t have a mobility disability in the way that people understand it, said Quest. “I have had points where some injuries have made it trickier to access spaces with a lot of stairs. But it’s not a dealbreaker for me so far. But politically, I’m less interested in perfoming in venues that are obviously not accessible to my friends.” Quest looks for venues with open windows, good ventilation, and a space-wide no smoking policy.

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A recent visit to Oakland’s White Horse Bar proved problematic when the smoking patio was divided from the indoor area by a panel. Smoke still permeated the venue, and Quest had to move to the far end of the bar, and eventually leave. “As more people started coming in, the environment getting more crowded, the smells became overwhelming,” said Quest. “My friends wanted to get together so we could hear each other talk. But it was next to a glass wall near the outdoor smoking area. The permeating smoke did start to get to me. As far as the chemical issue, there could be some more improvement.” When preparing for a disabili-

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ty-inclusive performance, Quest mentioned the numerous needs that can usually be met, including asking the management to refrain from using harsh chemicals or bleach to clean bathrooms, even up to a week in advance, if possible. “Some people can even have seizures, depending on what kind of chemical stuff they get overloaded by,” said Quest. “It really matters to have specific and clear communication with people who work at these venues. If you’re planning an event at a bar, a well-intended manager really needs to be asked that smoking be further away.” Despite having such specific preferences, Quest said that such awareness is gradually becoming a reasonable choice, including at major supermarkets and small independent outlets. Quest said that hir nearby shops have begun to add scent-free environmentally-safe cleaning products, vegan and gluten-free food, and others organic considerations that avoid genetically modified foods. “Some low-income people are asking for and demanding nonchemical products, with quality food, and not the heavily processed foods which are making them increasingly ill,” said Quest. “There hasn’t been enough attention on low-income people who face toxic elements,” said Quest who sees hir own specific condition as part of a larger issue. So, what are some good East Bay venues? Quest noted that most reputable theatres and performance spaces are fully accessible, such as Z Space and Brava Theatre. In the East Bay, Quest recommended the Subterranean Art House in Berkeley (at 2179 Bancroft Way, www.subterraneanarthouse.org), which includes art shows, musical acts, and dance nights. “It’s essentially run by volunteers,” said Quest, who has housemanaged several shows there. “It’s definitely queer-friendly and open to folks with various disabilities, and has featured trans performers and wheelchair dancers.” Also recommended by Quest is Flight Deck, (1540 Broadway www. theflightdeck.org), a new collabora-

tive performance space in downtown Oakland. Quest describes it as “queer and crip-friendly. I’m a theater queen, so I’m excited that this is available by transit in an East Bay hub.”

Finding a home

For Hanz Bustamante, finding a place to be comfortable didn’t take long after he moved to San Francisco in 2000. Born in New York City, he also lived for a few years in San Diego. In New York, Bustamante frequented The Spike, The Eagle and other bars in Manhattan in the late 1980s and 1990s. “I really like San Francisco,” said Bustamante, 45, who spoke with me in an interview assisted by ASL interpreter Xavier Caylor. “I’ve made a lot of friends here. It’s smaller, but that’s good.” Anyone who visits South of Market bars in San Francisco may have met or seen Bustamante, who lives on the famed Ringold Alley (known for its history of being a cruise spot). “My home is The Powerhouse,” he said, as he smiled in understanding the street’s history. “I decided that I wanted to live there, with its history, and it’s been my home since then. I go to The Eagle from time to time for special events.” Bustamante even competed for a title of Mr. Powerhouse Leather 2014. But Hanz didn’t compete to make a statement. “I’m not trying to promote deaf power; it’s just my bar,” he said. “It’s my community, and I support them, and they support me. I look forward to representing my second home. I think I’d be a good person to carry on the history, to represent. If I were to get a title, I wouldn’t want to get it because I’m deaf. I want to see the world and be part of that history. Not that many deaf people have been involved in the leather community. It would be a bit of a statement that deaf person can represent. I would be proud.” But would it raise awareness in and outside the leather community to disability issues? “Many of the contests do a good job of providing interpreters and making them accessible. They’ve taken that on,” said Bustamante. In 2010, Tyler McCormick, a trangender wheelchair user, won the International Mister Leather title. Locally, San Francisco has had contestants in the International Deaf Leather competitions off and on since the title’s inception in 1991 (www.internationaldeafleather.org). However, due to the lack of contestants, the 2014 title event was cancelled. While he may have few deaf friends into leather, or many friends who know ASL, Bustamante knows how to enjoy his nights out, even for the music. Yes, Bustamante said that he can feel the DJed music in bars. “In New York, I went to dance clubs like The Roxy, The Tunnel. I would go late at night and dance. I did that for several years. But when I got to San Francisco, I knew what that was like.” Hanz said Bud Chism has been a favorite. “I liked to watch him dance behind the DJ booth.” He also likes Guy Ruben and his House Party events. “It was similar to the type of music that I like. I’ve been enjoying him over the years.” Among his deaf friends, a few go to other bars, but since their tastes are different, they don’t always hang out. “Some deaf guys I know always visit Badlands, The Mix, or 440, but they’re not my kind of bar,” he said. “There is a community that goes out, though.” Bustamante sometimes briefly uses his cell phone to text. “But usually through body language, I do well as opposed to texting,” he said. “But if they’re not getting it, I’ll write it. Every person has their own way. For people I’ve

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known longer, I can tell what’s going on.” His connection to familiar venues is added by his often flirtatious nature. “I have a good rapport in my usual places,” said Bustamante. “Sometimes there are deaf people who don’t know what to do in bars. They don’t have my background of socialization. I sometimes wish that those people could step in my shoes and come with me.” Bustamante will sometimes go to events, with or without an interpreter, or whether or not a performance might be sign-interpreted or close-captioned. Most important to him is being with his friends, a core group of half a dozen people, “who Rich Stadtmiller know who I am. I bond with them, by hanging Hanz Bustamante at this year’s out with them. That Folsom Street Fair. group has grown, because they bring others whether I can afford it,” said Bustain and introduce me.” mante. “Money is a barrier, since I Bustamante said he feels like he’s don’t have a job. When I go to apply, part of a larger community. there are no interpreters, so I can’t Asked if he has experienced interview. I don’t have access, so I problems in bars, nightclubs or can’t get work.” restaurants, he said he rarely has a But does he limit where he goes, problem, from ordering drinks to because of past problems? communicating with others. “I’ve gone to many bars, all over “Some people can be friendly the city,” he said. “But because I like or snobbish, that’s their thing, not leather, that’s my community. I hear mine.” stories about other bars from deaf “When I meet somebody new, friends, and I’ve been there, but it’s I never know how it’ll go. I like not my thing. I like the masculinity to introduce them to my friends. of the SoMa bars. I’m not saying Whether it works out, it’s great to be everybody in Castro bars are eftogether, to be alive.” feminate, but they’re not as edgy. It’s A bigger challenge is with emnot my scene. I enjoy all the scenes, ployment. you know, people into bears, drag, “Going anywhere depends on they’re all part of our community.

But I feel very secure in my second home.” Hanz likes the sexy aspect of Powerhouse parties, including the gogo dancers, and the anticipation of seeing friends show up. Bustamante’s connection to the Leather community goes back several years, including his participation in Mama’s Family, the fundraising group of volunteer leather folk. “We honor each other, our brothers and sisters, and I feel right at home, right where I am in this community,” said Bustamante. “I’m very thankful for the support that I get. People outside of our family, they may not undertstand it, but I’m fine with that. Maybe the deaf community can see me here, and understand.”t

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ans, friends and family of recently deceased performer Arturo Galster filled the Castro Theatre on Monday, September 22. The celebration, produced by empresario Mark Huestis, included several performances and touching moments. A slideshow organized by renowned photographer Dan Nicoletta included images from Galster’s life and an amazing array of his theatre and nightlife performances. Video segments (including a montage edited by Huestis) ranged from some of his classic performances as Patsy Cline, his recent work in Pearls Over Shanghai, to the wacky film Vegas in Space, and even

Galster’s TV appearances in Japan, where he studied traditional dance and won a nationally televised music competition. D’Arcy Drollinger MCed the event with flair, and introduced speakers like Helen Schumaker, Joe Wicht and Galster’s former bandmates and friends. Singers included Leigh Crowe, Jason Brock, Veronica Klaus and Katya Smirnoff-Skye, and Galster’s fellow cast members from the longrunning local production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The evening was not without a good deal of laughter, particularly from longtime friends Miss X, Timmy Spence and Vegas in Space director Phillip R. Ford. Among

the touching remembrances was a performance by Na Lei Hulu I Ka We kiu, led by Patrick Makuakune (Galster was a member of the dance company). Following the celebration, many attendees trekked to the Eagle Tavern, which graciously opened on a Monday night. The Whoa Nellies performed an array of songs, and Galster’s castmates performed the anthem-like “Midnight Radio” from the Hedwig score. A later open mic gave way to even more passionate performances. (Read the full news article about Galster’s death in the September 4 issue of the B.A.R.) Farewell, Arturo. You were always our favorite.t

Mark Huestis (right front) with friends and bandmates of Arturo Galster outside the Castro Theatre. © Gareth Gooch Photography 2014

Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu hula dance company performs under a projection of an Arturo Galster photo.

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Veronica Klaus and Katya Smirnoff-Skye perform a touching duet at A Celebration of Arturo Galster. © Gareth Gooch Photography 2014

A floral arrangement (foreground) matches the fuscia costumes of Birdy Bob Wyatt and Galster in a video projection of a nightclub performance.

MC D’Arcy Drollinger with the Jason Mecier collage portrait of Arturo Galster.

Leigh Crowe (left) and her partner Tina Sogliuzzo at the Eagle “wake” that followed the celebration.

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Arturo Galster as Patsy Cline

Dan Nicoletta (left) with longtime friend and Pearls Over Shanghai castmate Flynn DeMarco.

Cast members from the recent local production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch perform the rousing “Midnight Radio” at the Eagle.

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Pan Dulce @ The Cafe

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun

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

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

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

Red Hot Party @ 111 Minna La Casa de las Madras' fundraiser for their campiagn Step Out Against Domestic Violence; cocktails, luxury auction packages, entertainment, and music. $60 and up. 6pm-9pm. 111 Minna St. www.lacasa.org

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

Varla Jean Mermen @ Feinstein’s

et ready for pumpkin spice everything! Events here and there have sprouted up, in particular several gorgeous female singers on their way up the show biz beanstalk.

Thu 2 Beats Reality @ Trax Resident DJs Jim Hopkins and Justime welcome guest DJs and play groovy tunes. Weekly, 9pm-2am. 1437 Haight St. 864-4213.

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

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

The Crib @ 715 Dance night for the younger guys and gals. 9:30pm-2am. 715 Harrison St. www.thecribsf.com

La Femme @ Beaux Weekly ladies' happy hour at the Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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

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

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

Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www. BeatboxSF.com

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories, is now in its third year; hosted by Walt Anthony; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Special 3rd anniversary show Oct. 4; special gala Oct. 11 and Halloween party on Oct. 31. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. www.SFMagicParlor.com

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

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge The intimate groovy retro disco night with tunes spun by DJ Bus Station John. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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

Fri 3 Miss Richfield 1981 @ St. Aiden’s

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland The Oakland nightclub continues its 22nd-year anniversary with Hip Hop, Top 40, and Latin music, gogo dancers and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $6 afterward. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Blondie, Moby, Empire of the Sun and dozens of other bands and DJs perform at the three-day music festival, which includes food, drinks and art exhibits. Thru Oct. 5. $69 (one-day)-$250 (3-day pass). Raley Field at 5th St., downtown Sacramento www.TBDfest.com

Varla Jean Merman @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The statuesque comedic singing, dancing drag talent (aka Jeffery Roberson) makes her debut with a new show at the intimate nightclub, with pianist Tom Shaw and drummer Roberta Drake. $35-$50 ($20 drink/ menu min.). 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 6631063. www.varlaonline.com www.ticketweb.com

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The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. Oct. 2: a B52s tribute night! $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 8292233. www.virgilssf.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. Oct. 2: Dance party with global world music, ODC Dance performing and a rhythm & motion dance workshop. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 2689425. www.club21oakland.com

Fri 3 Alessio Romero @ Nob Hill Theatre The local tattooed porn stud performs live onstage. $25. 8pm 10pm. Also Oct. 4. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 3976758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 863-2052. www.lexingtonclub.com

The multi-cultural eclectic duo and their festive 15-member band perform live. $52.50. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave. www.thieverycorporation.com www.thefoxoakland.com

Two-year anniversary of the house music monthly event at the cruisy bar, with Guy Ruben, BeBe Sweetbriar. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

TBD Fest @ River Walk, Sacramento

Fri 3 Blondie @ TBD Fest

Friday Night @ de Young Museum Nightlife events at the museum take on different themes. $20-$35. 6pm8:30pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoung.famsf.org

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Thievery Corporation @ Fox Theater, Oakland

House Party @ Powerhouse

Gogo-tastic night starts off your weekend. 9pm2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Miss Richfield 1981 @ St Aiden's The Midwest drag queen's comedy show raises funds for the church's ministries; beer, wine and sodas available. $30-$50. 8pm. 101 Gold Mine Drive. 285-9540 www.saintaidan.org

Some Thing @ The Stud Mica Sigourney and pals' weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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Sat 4 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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

Mon 6 Paloma Faith @ Slim’s

Club Leisure @ Cat Club

Kontrol @ Eagle

Tribute to the 20th anniversary of Suede, the 90s British rock band whose second album Dog Man Star is considered a(n overblown) masterpiece; DJs Aaron, Omar and guest Stephen Prescott spin Brit pop classics. 10pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

The leather-feitsh-gear party returns (1st Saturdays), with a strict dress code, DJ DAMnation, and leather kinky men. $5. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Sex & Drags & Rock n Roll @ Midnight Sun Mutha Chucak and pals' wild drag and rock night returns (1st Sat.) 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Sing-Along Saturdays @ Martuni's Join Joe Wicht for a weekly night of top 40 rock and pop sing-alongs. 9pm-1am. 4 Valencia St.

Sun 5 Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon The ursine crowd converges for beer and fun. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

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

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

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

The annual celebration fills Castro Street and part of Market with food, live and DJed music, arts, crafts and nonprofit booths, line-dancing with Sundance Saloon, and other fun. Performers include Aiden James, Big Dipper, Pop Rocks, the Avenue Q cast, The Monster Show drag acts, MCs Honey Mahogany and Vivvyanne Forevermore; DJs MC2, Jim Hopkins, Pete Avila, Two Dudes in Love, Stefanie Phillips, Oscar Pineda and more. 11am-6pm. Castro Street from Market to 19th. www.castrostreetfair.org

Feral, Lonesome Lester T Raww @ Thee Parkside The two America/rockabilly bands are featured at the music club's Twang Sundays. No cover. 4pm. 1600 17th St. www.musiciansareferal.com www.theeparkside.com

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

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Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland

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

Get groovin' at the weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.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

Chaos @ Beatbox Fabio Campos guests DJs with resident Tristan Jaxx. 10pm-4am. 314 11th St. www.BeatboxSF.com

Gameboi @ Richshaw Stop Gay Asian dance party and fundraiser for GAPA Foundation. $5-$12. 9:30pm-2am. 155 Fell St. www.gameboisf.eventbrite.com www.rickshawstop.com

Go Bang @ The Stud The groovy disco night this month features guest DJs Carrie Morrison and FreshStep, plus residents Steve Fabus and Sergio Fedasz. $7. 9pm3am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. studsf.com www.gobangsf.com

Hardly Strictly French @ El Rio The afternoon soul dance party includes music grooves spun by Carnita, Brown Amy, and guests Wam Bam Ashleyanne and LarSupreme. $8. 2pm-8pm. www.elriosf.com

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

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

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

Jock @ The Lookout The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers. 3pm-7pm. 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

Recovery @ Public Works The Real Bad collective presents the after-Castro Street Fair dance party, with DJs Philip Grasso, Billy Lace; 100% of proceeds benefit local nonprofits; $20-$40. 6pm-12am. 161 Erie St. at Mission. www.realbad.org/events

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

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular country western LGBT dance night; enjoy fun foot-stomping two-stepping and line-dancing. $5. 5pm-10:30pm with lessons from 5:30-7:15 pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave., and Tuesdays at Beatbox, $6. 6:30-11pm. 314 11th St. www.sundancesaloon.org

Tue 7 Maureen Langan @ Funny Tuesdays

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

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

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

Brunch @ Hi Tops

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe

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

Paloma Faith @ Slim's

Brunch Sundays @ Balancoire

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's

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

The powerful R&B UK songstress performs at the SoMa club. $15. 8pm. 333 11th St. www.palomafaith.com www.slimspresents.com

Sun 5 Aiden James @ Castro Street Fair

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni's Season Five of the cabaret singing contest continues with the Best Showtunes Singer night, featuring guest-judge Barry Lloyd, Jesse Cortez, pianist Lynden Bair (SF Gay Men's Chorus), and hosts Katya SmirnoffSkyy and Joe Wicht. $7. 4 Valencia St. at Market. 241-0205.

Calabash @ Food for Thought, Forestville The 14th annual fundraiser for the Sonoma food bank includes gourd art, fine food, local wines and other festivities. $50. 1pm-5pm. 6550 Railroad Ave., Forestville. (707) 8871647. www.fftfoodbank.org

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

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

Mon 6 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

Pop punk pair of bands perform live. $20. 8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.torchemusic.com www.sf-eagle.com

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

Tue 7 Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

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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

Circle of Life Cabaret @ Martuni's A C.O.L.T. Following, the disability and LGBT-inclusive theatre company's music and variety show, includes raffles and tickets to their upcoming shows. No cover. 6:30pm-8:30pm. 4 Valencia St. www.circleoflifetheatre.org

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

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

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

Piano Bar @ Beaux

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

Ink & Metal @ Powerhouse

Wed 8 Leanne Borghesi @ Broadway Bingo

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

Showdown @ Folsom Foundry Weekly game night for board and electronic gamers at the warehouse multi-purpose nightclub. 21+. 6pm12am. 1425 Folsom St. www.showdownesports.com

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

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

Wed 8 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

Broadway Bingo @ Feinstein's at the Nikko The monthly musical trivia night returns, with Joe Wicht and J. Conrad Frank. Oct. 8 includes a special performance with Jessica Coker, Katy Stephan and Leanne Borghesi. $15. 7pm (doors 5:30) Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason st. www.ticketweb.com

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

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

Dream Queens Revue Enjoy the classic drag show with Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre. No cover. 9:30-11:30pm. 133 Turk St. 441-2922. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Good Times @ Bench and Bar, Oakland

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

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

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

Wed 8 Lily Allen @ Fox Theater

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

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

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

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

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

Trivia Night @ Harvey's BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. Oct. 8 is a special birthday party for gay rights activist Cleve Jones. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 4314278. www.harveyssf.com

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

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

Wrangler Wednesday @ Rainbow Cattle Company, Guerneville The Russian River bar's country music night attracts cowboys and those who like to ride 'em. 8pm-1am. 16220 Main St., Guerneville. (707) 869-0206. www.queersteer.com

Zola Jesus @ Bimbo's Fascinating vocalist and selfproducing composer of atmospheric pop performs music from Taiga, her new CD, and other songs. The Operators open. $22. 8pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com

Thu 9 La Femme @ Beaux Ladies' happy hour at the Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Funny Fun @ Club 21, Oakland New LGBT comedy night hosted by Dan Mires. $10. 8pm. 2111 Franklin St. Oakland. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

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

Imelda May @ The Fillmore The gorgeous UK pop rockabilly singer performs music from her new album Tribal. $25-$35. 8pm. 1805 Geary Blvd. 346-6000. www.imeldamay. co.uk www.thefillmore.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys. Oct. 9: a Nine Inch Nails & Marilyn Manson tribute night! 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

Sondre Lerche @ The Independent

Olga T and Shugga Shay's weekly queer women and men's R&B hip hop and soul night. No cover. 8pm-2am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

The New York indie pop-rock singer performs his new music. Teen opens. $15. 9pm. 628 Divisadero. 771-1421. www.theindependentsf.com

Lily Allen @ Fox Theater, Oakalnd The stylish impish pop singer ("Smile, "Fuck You") performs. Lola Wolf opens. $35. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland. www.thefoxoakland.com

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

Mad Manhattans @ Starlight Room The new weekly event includes classic cocktails created by David Cruz, and inspired by the the show Mad Men, plus retro food classics like prawn cocktails and Oysters Rockefeller, all with a fantastic city view. 6pm-10pm. 21st, Sir Francis Drake Hotel. 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

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Johnny’s cakes by John F. Karr

ust for starters, there’s that name—Johnny V., in the grand tradition of those bad bad boys we can’t help falling for, like Johnny Angel, Johnny Hazzard, Johnny B. Goode, and Johnny Get Angry. Dirty Dancing’s Johnny Castle. “It’s My Party,” and Leslie Gore crying about Johnny. Don’t forget that “The Leader of the Pack” was a Johnny. Finally, there are those two ultimates, the Johnny that Marlene Dietrich will surrender to on his birthday for the entire night, and the Johnny who’s just a dog, that no good Johnny from Surabaya. And now, joining these exalted ranks, is Johnny V. He’s a good Johnny– his personality is iridescent, with waves of joy beaming from his body. That’s his default setting, and it’s as lovable as it is rare. But set good Johnny loose in sex, and he’s instantly bad Johnny. How he loves prying his asscheeks open to lasciviously display an asshole he knows is utterly exceptional– how he glories in it, showing it off, fingering it, urging big dicked guys to slam it without mercy. Johnny’s got other sterling qualities. He’s handsome, with deeply cleft chin and clear blue eyes. His physique is superb—this dude’s ripped. He’s a brightly orange haired ginger boy, and he’s got a ginger boy’s creamy skin, highlighted by a small patch of fire-colored pubic hair singeing the top of a silky smooth and solid cock. Ginger bush sure is something to marvel at. And talk about singe—that rod’ll sear your eyes when it’s hard and standing up. And doesn’t cocky Johnny just know it. Johnny V. started out quite recently, and right at the top, although at that time he was known as Nick DiChristina. LegendMen, which is always the ne plus ultra for reverent and hot muscle solos, filmed him in a typically glam posing and JO session. As Nick, he was photographed by Carl Proctor, Allan Spiers, and, especially, Mark Henderson. Sure, Henderson took some glorious full body shots with hard-on both veiled and revealed. And he also took a couple shots in which the remarkable splendor of Nick’s asshole fills the entire frame. They’re the sort of photos you want to plaster against your face. Somewhere after that, Nick became Johnny V., and launched a full-scale assault on the porn world. Bodybuilding competition was out, and body-baring was in. Johnny recently tweeted a request for a sugar daddy, making me think that perhaps he found that porn isn’t as lucrative as he’d expected. He got a tumblr and a blog. He sold his undergarments. He appeared in at least three (rather low rent) muscle sites, pumping his physique, fingering his ass, and jacking off. At another site, he made over 80 “private” webcam solos. And then he finally made his mainstream debut, filming two scenes for Hot House. Declining to be anyone’s Exclusive, he’s dropped in at Falcon, where Tony Dimarco has nicely captured the joy of Johnny’s beaming smile before sex, and the snarl of his lips during it. So, if he started at the top, how far, and how soon will he fall? To me, that depends on whether he assumes the stolid pose most porn stars are forced into, or if he’ll be allowed to show his full personality—buoyant and sleazy, happy and horny. And, if he’ll stay hard while getting fucked. He doesn’t in his first Falcon scene, in Naughty Pines Part 2. His

co-star, and top, is Ryan Rose, himself an inducement for wood. Not being hard while getting fucked is a natural response, to which modern day chemistry has made us unaccustomed. Fool for a distended divining rod that I am, Johnny’s otherwise visceral reaction to partner Rose’s topping proved distracting enough. Yet I hope for a hard in the future. Johnny meets up with Ryan in an outdoor shower at the Naughty Pines, an all-male, allnude, all-sex resort in northern California, where the pine trees tower, perhaps because of all the sperm dumped on their roots. The guys prime their handles separately, producing superb boners, and then come together in soulful kisses. No matter that Rose proffers his asshole

rather early in the game, Johnny’s right in there. He slurps and slathers his tongue into it with whispery flickers before his full face crams in there. When Ryan rams Johnny’s jampot, the insertion is spectacularly depicted. After Johnny sits on it with the greatest of ease, Rose is a manic pumper, while Johnny’s turn at pumping in the saddle is so heated that he nearly makes himself scream. Finally, their plentiful cum is mingled on the taut and glistening muscles of Johnny’s torso. We’re left with a memory of a shimmering six-pack. There are ten scenes total in Naughty Pines Parts 1 and 2. Nearly four hours of an all-star cast in Falcon’s expected fine filming. I’ll have to get to those soon.t www.FalconStudios.com

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Johnny V, so happy before getting hard, in Naughty Pines Pt. 2.

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Johnny V. and Ryan Rose cuddle close before the deep drilling starts, in Naughty Pines Pt 2.

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Old Guard vs. Reality by Race Bannon

s I walked through the most recent Folsom Street Fair and participated in a few of the Leather Pride Week events, it struck me how much the scene has changed in recent years. I rather like how diverse and multifaceted our scene has become. But, of course, like clockwork, I inevitably overheard some comments from a few leather traditionalists bemoaning how the modern leather and kink scene is dishonoring the Old Guard. Sacred cows can be dangerous things. Those things in life you are not encouraged to question are likely the very things you should question. So it is with the topic of this column, the leather Old Guard mythology.

For those people reading this that are not aware of what I’m referring to, many believe there were small cadres of gay leathermen who followed a universal, codified and rigid protocol of indoctrination, schooling, dress and interaction that bestowed on them a blessed membership in the leather community of the time. Was there some semblance of this in the past? Yes. Was its nature and functioning like the Old Guard mythology often promulgated upon today’s unknowing kink newcomer? No. And that is why I, and others, take issue with the constant referencing of the Old Guard as some sort of ideal behavioral and identity yardstick. It’s time we stop, once and for all, the ridiculous notion that we

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should be patterning our identities, relationships and social interactions based on the Old Guard myth. It does no one any good. It stunts meaningful explorations of our sexuality. It promotes conformity versus individuality, and erotic rebels and mavericks are supposed to shun conformity, not embrace it. In a recent speech, one of the leather scene’s greatest thinkers, Guy Baldwin, a man who many consider to have been smack dab in the middle of the Old Guard era and membership, skewered the Old Guard notions that run rampant in the leather scene today. Baldwin does indeed believe that some gay men of the leather past adhered to their own crafted rituals, protocols and other subcultural rites. He’s even referred to them as Old Guard. I agree with him on that. But I believe Baldwin and I also agree that what applied to a small group of gay men in the past were by no means the universal and monolithic things that have been romanticized far beyond their actual reality. In short, the Old Guard referenced so often today is, mostly, mythology and to claim it was otherwise is to do a great disservice to not only those men who comprised the Old Guard of the past, but especially to the contemporary leather and kinkfolk of today who often embrace such notions as the temRich Stadtmiller plate to be used for their own erotic Mr. Leather LA 2014 Eric Paul Leue and a puppy pal at this year’s lives. Folsom Street Fair. I encourage every leather you must do anything to and kink-identified person be ‘real’ or ‘true’ is basically to read Guy Baldwin’s resaying, ‘...in my Super Secret cent speech. It’s available at No Cooties Clubhouse!’ So, www.leatherati.com. If it’s anytime you hear words like not immediately visible to that, just think ‘super secret you on the site’s home page, clubhouse’ and you will use their search functionalknow instantly whether you ity to find it. It’s well worth want to continue chatting, your time and I think it let alone consider play, sex should be required reading or a relationship.” for any person who claims I’ve said it before and leather or kink community I’ll say it likely many times membership. again; the guidelines for beSo why is embracing the ing a good leather or kinky Old Guard misinformed person are essentially the mythology bad? Why is it same as being a good perdamaging? Baldwin points son. Be nice. Respect othout in his speech that as ers. Watch out for each the younger generations Laura Antoniou other. Be curious. Learn of kinksters came along what you need to know to they began to run afoul of The Middle Aged Guard pin, created by Laura best enjoy yourself. Share some old timers who were Antoniou, is a loving, humorous poke at the Old what you know generously. determined to coerce and Guard mythology. That’s about it. The rest is badger these youngsters all just a lot of noise that is and other scene newcommore about how individuals ers by insisting that the Old ‘house’ is not part of anything that choose to express their erotic selves Guard ways were the “correct” and anyone would recognize as an ‘old than it is about how things should traditional way things were done leather tradition,’ whether it’s a cusbe done by others. and how people were supposed tom or a habit. Let me close with a quotation to be and act. A few old timers, as “If your new friend wants to join from an unlikely book, considering well as some of those folks today in a group with individual rules that the topic, but one that applies so who believe them, have often exmostly come out of ‘what makes well here. William Deresiewicz, in erted strong pressure on newcomthem feel good,’ that’s awesome. his book, Excellent Sheep, says this” ers and the scene generally to conShe should ask them what all these “The past gave rise to the presform to the misguided notions that rules are and see if they make her ent, but it is also different from the the leather scene’s history brought feel good, and then do whatever she present. It shows us that things do about a rigid and systematic way feels is comfortable and sexy and not have to be the way that they are in which you enter, identify, behave positive and right for her in order now. It provides us with a vantage and play if you’re to be considered a to join their little club, knowing full point from which to see that our “true” leatherperson. What bullshit. well that should it get creepy, stupid, conventional wisdom is just conAnother great thinker, Laura Anonerous or no longer sexy, she can ventional, not wisdom – that what toniou, author of some of the leathwave bye-bye and wander off to find we think is natural is merely culer and kink scene’s most beloved more people with their own rules. tural; temporal, not eternal; parnovels, and someone who often Which will be entirely different ticular, not universal. It offers us an makes her points humorously, also from the ones she just learned and exit from the present. It tells us that takes issue with how the Old Guard experienced. things change: not only don’t they has been romanticized beyond rec“My advice would be to be very have to be the way they are, they ognition. She also refers to the mywary of anything that sounds like will not be the way they are. The thology of “houses,” a kissing cousin ‘this is the right way!’ (as opposed past, in other words, allows us to of the Old Guard mythology where to ‘this is my way, because I love create the future. If you want to be people were supposedly mysteriousit when things happen this way! a leader, if you want to find a new ly trained into the leather and kink Whee!’) and understand that evdirection, then that is where you ways. She puts it this way. erything is subject to negotiation. need to start.” “There are no ‘old leather tradiAlso, if she needs to pass tests, perGo forth and be kinky, your way. tions.’ There are behaviors that inform feats of strength and daring, Don’t let anyone tell you how you dividuals and small, isolated groups gets special clothing to wear and are supposed to be you.t developed as customs (Bob has a toys to play with and secret handnew bike! Let’s all pee on it!) and shakes, those are super fun things there are behaviors individuals esfor grownups to do, and having the Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach tablished as relationship habits (Call mindset to throw yourself fully into him on his website me Lady!) but there are no unified, the moment can be quite a rush. www.bannon.com. recognized leather ‘traditions.’ A “And ultimately, anyone who says

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Bears galore at this year’s Folsom Street Fair.

Fri 3 Ms. SF Leather Meet and Greet @ SF Eagle Meet the contestants and judges during an informal meet and greet. 398 12th St., 7:30pm. www.mssfleather.org

Peter Berlin Photographs @ Magnet Opening reception for one of Magnet’s monthly art installations. 4122 18th St., 8pm. www.magnetsf.org

SCCLA Bar Schmooz @ Renegades Bar Informal social where friends, prospective members and anyone else who wants to relax, laugh, talk and hang out with like minded people. 501 W. Taylor St., San Jose, 9pm.

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

Sat 4 Flagging in the Park @ AIDS Memorial Grove Not specifically a leather/kink event, but lots of kinky folks attend. Golden Gate Park, 1pm. www. flaggercentral.com/tag/flagging-inthe-park

Ms. SF Leather Contest @ Hotel Whitcomb The Ms. San Francisco Leather contest is back for another great year. 1231 Market St., 6:30pm. www.mssfleather.org

Kontrol @ SF Eagle Leather, gear or fetishwear required for back patio entrance, 398 12th St., 9pm. www.sf-eagle.com

Sun 5 Real Bad presents Recovery @ Public Works Dance party immediately following Castro Street Fair. 161 Erie St., 6pm. www.recoverytdance.com

Wed 8 Golden Shower Buddies @ Blow Buddies A men’s water sports party. $15 with membership, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Fri 10 Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club Officially a CMA meeting, but open to all Anonymous 12-step Fellowship members. 4058 18th St., 9:30pm. www.castrocountryclub.org

Wed 15 Red Hanky Nite @ Powerhouse Bar night for men into fisting. 1347 Folsom St., 9:30pm. www.hellholesf.com

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