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ive decades ago San Francisco’s Ringold Alley was the go-to place for gay and bisexual men to engage in late-night sex once the leather bars scattered about South of Market had closed. Dingy and dark, the roadway was far removed from more heavily populated areas and offered a modicum of privacy.

Today the alley, which runs between 8th and 9th streets and parallels Harrison Street, borders a massive redevelopment project that will bring hundreds of new residents as well as new businesses to the neighborhood.

Known as LSeven, the first residents of the apartments fronting 8th Street have started to move in, and work on the other buildings is near complete.

Developer 4Terra Investments, as part of the capital improvements it is required to pay for, has worked with leather community members and city officials to reimagine Ringold Alley into a streetscape that honors local leather aficionados and their colorful past. Construction on the $2 million redesign should soon commence with an official ribbon-cutting likely in early 2017.

“This is going to make a big difference for this neighborhood,” Amir Massih, 4Terra’s northern California president, told the Bay Area Reporter during a recent interview at the site of the project. “This was such a neglected, beat up street. It needed some love.”

The location is a fitting spot for such a commemoration of the local leather community as the neighborhood since the 1960s has served as its heart. The alley also parallels Folsom Street, which at one time was known as the “Miracle Mile” for the gay bars, sex clubs, and bathhouses clustered on or near it.

But the advent of AIDS in the 1980s led to the closure of many of the businesses, while the growth of the internet in the 1990s, and more recently social media and hookup apps, have continued to eat away at SOMA’s leather and fetish scene.

The alleyway project, officially known as the San Francisco South of Market Leather See page 13 >>

Frank, Polis endorse Wiener’s Senate bid

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A schematic drawing shows proposed pavement treatment for Ringold Alley.

Alley project to highlight leather history

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wo gay national leaders have endorsed Scott Wiener’s bid for a California state Senate seat, with both noting the significance of having LGBT representation as playing into their decision.

This week CongressJane Philomen Cleland man Jared Polis (DFormer Colorado) and Barney Congressman Frank, a former Mas- Barney Frank sachusetts congressman who retired in 2013, announced their support for Wiener, a gay San Francisco supervisor running to be the city’s lone representative in the state Legislature’s upper chamber.

Wiener and fellow Supervisor Jane Kim are locked in a tough race to succeed gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who this year is termed out of his Senate District 11 seat, See page 13 >>

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he 25th annual LeatherWalk Sunday, September 18 marked the start of San Francisco Leather Week, with balloons in the colors of the leather flag adding to the festivities. The walk started outside the Castro Theatre and from there, participants stopped at several bars and businesses in the South of Market neighborhood, including the Powerhouse, Mr. S Leather, the Lone Star Saloon, and the SF Eagle, where a closing beer bust was held. Demetri Moshoyannis, executive director of Folsom Street Events, which now produces the walk, said there were about 200 marchers and is confident that the walk will reach its $20,000 fundraising goal between online donations and other gifts. He said that Haus of Starfish raised $9,500 alone by staffing coat checks at the Eagle and Powerhouse and doing fundraisers. The Folsom Street Fair takes place Sunday, September 25, along Folsom Street between 8th and 12th streets. For more information, see the BARtab section.

New prez takes the helm at Mills Rick Gerharter

by Sari Staver

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rowing up in a middle class neighborhood in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Hillman’s family didn’t rub shoulders with academics, lawyers, or college presidents.

But her parents constantly emphasized the importance of higher education, a message Hillman took to heart.

Armed with four degrees, including an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Duke University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a joint Ph.D.-law degree from Yale, Hillman, 48, is, among other things, an internationally recognized expert on military law, history, and culture. She moved to California in 2006 to teach at UC Hastings College of the Law and in 2013 was named provost and academic dean of the school.

On Friday, Hillman, a lesbian, will be inaugurated as president of the prestigious Mills College in Oakland. Her wife and five children have already moved onto campus with her, following her appointment July 1.

“One of my goals,” said Hillman in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter, “is to make sustainable the kind of education Mills offers to the kinds of students we have now,” she said. “We face the same financial challenges” as other institutions of higher education and are “under siege to prove we are worth it,” she added.

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Mills College President Elizabeth Hillman

Hillman aims to help the college stabilize its enrollment, now fewer than 900 undergraduates. Mills is an undergraduate women’s college with graduate programs for women and men.

According to Hillman, some 40 percent of Mills’ students identify as LGBT or other gender fluid identities.

As a child, said Hillman, she didn’t have her eye on any particular career.

“I remember my mother telling us that she gave my father an ultimatum ... she wouldn’t accept his marriage proposal until he agreed to get his college degree,” she recalled.

Her dad, a mid-level manager at U.S. Steel, went on to become an accountant after he got his degree, thanks to the G.I. Bill, Hillman said.

Her mom worked as a dietician, taking time off to raise Hillman and her four siblings, a twin sister and three older brothers.

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Taking a cue from her father, Hillman obtained an ROTC scholarship that enabled her to get a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, which landed her an assignment as a space operations officer at the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.

At first, said Hillman, her interest in the Air Force was merely as a means to college tuition.

But her experiences in ROTC, “seduced me hook, line, and sinker and I really wanted to be successful” in the military, she recalled.

“I was exposed to the values of people working together in public service,” Hillman said. “I liked the leadership opportunities and found that a lot of the experiences were fun for me.”

But after six years in Colorado, including two teaching at the Air Force Academy, “I was ready to go back to graduate school,” said Hillman.

While in Colorado, she had married a man, another Air Force officer, she said.

This time, the Air Force Academy awarded Hillman a scholarship that allowed her to get her master’s degree in history, “my second degree on their nickel,” she noted.

Coming out

When she arrived in Philadelphia to begin her studies at Penn in 1997, “it was really the first time I’d lived in a big city,” she said. “The world really opened up for me.”

“I had never been in an environment with open LGBT people,” Hillman said. “Of course they had been there all along but it wasn’t until I See page 13 >>

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“I am so pissed about this,” Gerry told the Bay Area Reporter in an email.

“Not only are we not safe these days in the Castro, ... but the police are unwilling to protect us from bodily harm, and further unwilling to take action when bodily harm does occur,” Gerry wrote.

The alleged assault took place Wednesday, September 7, at the front entrance to Cafe Flore, at the corner of Market and 16th streets.

Two employees spotted a man, identified as Vincent Raval, walking into the cafe and approached him to tell him he wasn’t welcome at the restaurant.

“We’d had trouble with him before,” Gerry said in an interview.

But Raval wouldn’t leave and allegedly punched and kicked the employees. As he walked away from the cafe, one of the men took his picture, which was immediately turned into a circular that was delivered to local businesses and posted on social media, said Gerry. A police report was also filed.

Later that evening, police notified the Cafe Flore employees that they believed they had located the man, less than half a block from the eatery. The employees identified him and left, “glad that our quick response would take this man off the street,” said Gerry.

But on Tuesday, September 20,

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Cafe Flore owner Stu Gerry holds a flier warning customers about a man who had reportedly caused problems at the eatery.

Raval was spotted in Dolores Park, apparently “high as a kite,” running around without pants, Gerry said.

It turned out that Raval had been cited by the police and released.

When a reporter told this to Gerry, he said, “I cannot believe they did not arrest him. Seems like the SFPD wants a dead body before they will take any action here.”

Gerry later said he learned that it is “solely at the officer’s discretion as to whether they take him in,” a fact confirmed by Officer Giselle Talkoff, a San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman. Talkoff told the B.A.R. that a citation, or ticket, is considered a “citizen’s arrest” and is routinely issued by SFPD when an officer does not personally witness the crime.

In this case, Raval was cited for

misdemeanor trespassing and battery and released. The San Francisco District Attorney’s office will review the evidence to see if Raval should be formally charged with the offenses, according to spokesman Max Szabo. If he is charged, his court date would probably be in October, Szabo told the B.A.R. Raval could not be reached for comment.

Gerry has written to police officials and the DA’s office “to get some answers about this.”

“Everyone in the community needs to know who Vincent Raval is and needs to be on the alert,” Gerry said. “No doubt about it. It’s like a kick in the teeth to business owners in San Francisco who respect the police and try to work with them.

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rogressives think that state Senate candidate Jane Kim is on their side in the big issues facing San Francisco. But a closer look at her record indicates she has voted the same as her opponent, gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, on the big issues.

For instance, both supported the Twitter tax deal in 2011. At the time, the city was desperate to keep tech companies here and Twitter was threatening to move out of San Francisco if it didn’t get a tax break. Under a proposal crafted by then-Supervisor David Chiu and Kim, who co-sponsored it, a split Board of Supervisors passed the deal, allowing Twitter and other Mid-Market companies to receive an exemption from paying the payroll tax on new employees for six years. Wiener also voted for it.

At the time, those opposed to the tax break – Supervisors John Avalos and David Campos and former Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi – said it was a form of corporate welfare that could result in the loss of revenue to the city. They also warned that it could lead to the displacement of poor residents and small businesses.

And in fact, residents, many of them poor, were displaced in the last few years. As the economy heated up, the housing market exploded as expensive fair-market condos were built. What’s unclear is whether the Twitter tax break is solely to blame; the company itself has hit a rough patch, with the return of Jack Dorsey at the helm and a board shakeup. Its stock price is basically in the toilet at about $18 per share, far below its debut at $40 per share when it went public a few years ago. At the time the city needed to keep companies like Twitter from relocating, and arguably, the tax break has helped other businesses in the

Mid-Market area, which is showing signs of revitalization after years of empty storefronts.

Housing is another issue where Wiener and Kim are more in agreement than not. Both support increasing affordable housing stock.

But we believe Wiener has more realistic plans for achieving that, especially when authoring legislation at the state level. In Sacramento, it’s critical that our representative be able to work with others and secure enough votes to pass bills. Wiener is more of a consensus builder who will do that by attempting reform or repeal of the state Ellis Act law, a crucial part of any workable housing policy in San Francisco. Just this week, a state appeals court blocked the city’s latest attempt to restrict tenant evic-

tions under the Ellis Act. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the city’s ordinance, sponsored by Avalos and enacted in 2013, was in conflict with the Ellis Act by penalizing property owners who were within their lawful rights. A judge ruled that the city’s ordinance amounted to “local intrusion,” which is precisely the problem when cities try to tweak state law. It’s clear from this decision that the only real way to fix the Ellis Act lies at the state level.

Candidates can reap lots of favorable press by holding splashy news conferences. But the hard work is governing. Wiener is the candidate who will do the nuts and bolts work to benefit his district. And those LGBT Kim supporters who revel in criticizing Wiener at every possible turn should keep in mind that on the big issues, the two candidates have often voted the same way.t

36,000 young adults are being left behind in higher education

by Nick Resnick

an associate’s degree or vocational certificate, a person is expected to hen it comes to higher edumake $500,000 to $1,000,000 in adcation in America, the old ditional earnings throughout their wives’ tale is that we do a good job lifetime in comparison with only a of getting our students into colhigh school diploma. This earning lege, but have a hard time retaining potential could be a game changer a number of them once they are for our city – affording those who enrolled. In Alameda County, our grow up here to contribute back to Courtesy Facebook most recent census data indicates our local economy. In other urban that there are 36,000 young adults cities throughout California, the Peralta College between the ages of 18-25 that board candidate move toward codifying and formalhave reported high school gradu- Nick Resnick izing the relationship between K-12 ation but no higher education. As institutions and our local higher a previous Oakland middle and high school education space has proved to drastically imteacher and current educator who works with pact the percentage of students who move school districts across the state, I know this on to higher education and thereAmerican story does not currently play out fore, are provided access to a life of for all our children, especially our students of choice and opportunity. color. This stark reality that has plagued our Through unprecedented colfamilies of color in Oakland for far too long, laboration between the mayor’s is prohibiting all our students from reaching office, Alameda County Office their true potential and having a life of choice of Education, Peralta Coland opportunity. lege District, Oakland Unified As a teacher and community member, I have School District, East Bay Eduworked with and mentored over 20 students cation Fund, and other comwho currently attend schools in the Peralta munity organizations, we have Community College District. These students an opportunity to establish a systematic bridge and families have informed me that without from our K-12 system to local higher educathe efforts of teachers going above and beyond tion opportunities. The Oakland Promise to support their children, they would not have states: “We as a community will ensure every made it to higher education. Attending higher child in Oakland graduates high school with education cannot and should not be left to the expectations, resources, and skills to comchance. Our incredibly capable students deplete college and be successful in the career of serve a system that establishes an expectation, his or her choice.” and clear pipeline, for every single student We must hold ourselves responsible, as a who enters Alameda County to have access to community, for operationalizing this vision. and knowledge about our higher education In some urban cities throughout the country, opportunities. the “Promise” initiative has come and gone Our community has responded to this without leaving a clear mark on the system. In stark reality with a new initiative, the Oakland places like Long Beach, California, however, it Promise, which was launched last year. The has led to unparalleled results. As part of their Oakland Promise recognizes that in order to Long Beach Promise, high school graduates make a life-sustaining wage and have a shot are guaranteed a tuition-free year at their local at true prosperity, higher education for our community college. Additionally, if students young people cannot be left to chance. With meet minimum requirements while in the

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community college system, they are matriculated into the state college system. This clear move to reduce barriers and provide students and families different access points is a solution to help dismantle years of institutionalized racism. As a middle school teacher in Oakland, I developed mathematics programs that lead to unprecedented results, those that tripled the state averages for our most at-risk students. Breaking this vicious cycle of oppression for our students and families of color is possible through deliberate efforts to do something differently.

Some of the most successful approaches to transformative change are not unique. They learn, borrow, and build upon other successful endeavors. I urge our community to consistently collaborate with and convene a diverse set of leaders, from cities like Long Beach, to learn and grow with and alongside them.

Because our current efforts leave so many children behind, our learning curve must be quick– our young adults don’t have time to wait for us to figure this out.

Their lives depend on it.

Our city has bet on an initiative that has proved to work in other places and now it is our responsibility to hold it sacred and nourish its development.t Nick Resnick is a candidate for the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees in November. As a member of the LGBT community, he feels a strong commitment to lift up all voices and ensure equitable outcomes for all students. With his significant experience in Oakland, and across California, working in Title I K-12 school districts, he hopes to support the board’s effort in building systematic partnerships between the K-12 system and the Peralta Community College District. He also has prioritized issues around outreach, recruitment, and retention, which would considerably increase the enrollment at Peralta.

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Clearing up hypocritical info

I would like to clear up hypocritical information that Bruce Mirken reported in his letter to the editor in the September 15 issue of the Bay Area Reporter.

In 2014, EQCA supported Supervisor David Campos for state Assembly. (As did I.) In fact, Campos personally solicited me to donate to the annual EQCA dinner last April.

So in your opinion it’s OK to support the progressive candidate when it suits you and your causes, but when they support the moderate gay candidate it’s war on queer SF? With the exception of naming two streets in the Tenderloin for transgender activists (which I applaud), Jane Kim has done nothing for the LGBT community in San Francisco.

If it was not for EQCA and its leadership, you would not have the freedom to marry, you would not have equal protection laws in California for our LGBT community, and EQCA continues to fight for our community.

Scott Wiener has been in the front fighting for our rights alongside other gay activists such as Campos, Tom Ammiano, Harry Britt, Harvey Milk, Carole Migden, Bevan Dufty, and Mark Leno for many years, which is why I, and

most in the LGBT community, are supporting him.

Remember, Kim took funds from PG&E for her primary race. Where was the outcry from the progressives then?

We all have the right to support our candidates in this election and reasons. But get your facts straight and don’t be hypocritical about it.

Stephen Adams San Francisco

Yes on Prop 62

I grew up in former Soviet Union, where during the dictatorship of Stalin, millions of people were killed. So, even today’s Russia doesn’t have the death penalty anymore because of the horrible brutality of this practice [“Two state props address death penalty,” September 15]. People were so horrified of such the mass killing during Stalin’s rein they totally rejected it. Why not here in the U.S.? The more we kill, then more killings. I support Prop 62 to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment in California. This is the right decision.

Georgy Prodorov San Francisco

Gay Richmond resident seeks council seat

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esar Zepeda has called Richmond, California home since he moved there from Mexico when he was 8 years old.

Now 35, he is seeking to become the first out gay man to serve on his city’s council alongside lesbian City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles. Zepeda is one of nine people on the November ballot running for three council seats, with two incumbents running for reelection and a person appointed to fill a vacancy seeking a full term.

A homeowner and neighborhood leader in the East Bay city’s Hilltop district, Zepeda is facing an uphill climb as a first-time candidate for political office. Aware of his long odds, he began his campaign for a council seat last fall.

“People tell me we don’t see you as a newcomer because you have done so much already,” Zepeda told the Bay Area Reporter.

President of his homeowner’s association since he bought his home 13 years ago, Zepeda has fought for more city resources to be designated toward his Hilltop neighborhood and has been heavily involved in the redevelopment of the area’s shopping mall.

He would now like to use the skills he has acquired working on neighborhood concerns to tackle

Richmond City Council candidate Cesar Zepeda

“We have a large LGBT population but people are not out in the community,” said Zepeda, who is single and does marketing for an insurance brokerage firm in Oakland.

Last week Equality California, the statewide LGBT advocacy group, endorsed Zepeda, noting that, “if elected, Zepeda has pledged to help enact a gender-neutral restroom ordinance, establish programs aiding LGBT seniors, youth, and people living with HIV, and appoint an LGBT liaison to the city council, mayor’s office and police department.”

“I believe I have the experience in being able to build community and allow them to have a voice.”

– Cesar Zepeda, Richmond City Council candidate citywide issues, such as building more affordable housing and improving transit links between Richmond and San Francisco.

“Why not do for the city what I have done for Hilltop,” Zepeda said in explaining his decision to run for City Council. “I believe I have the experience in being able to build community and allow them to have a voice.”

He has also sought to organize Richmond’s LGBT community, co-founding Richmond Rainbow Pride, the city’s first organization to advocate for its LGBT residents.

For the last two years the group has hosted a Pride event in early June.

Zepeda told the B.A.R. that he has not sought endorsements from any of the city’s council members, as he is trying to stay neutral and not align himself with any council faction. He did accept the endorsement of Councilman Jael Myrick, who is up for re-election and seen as a centrist on the body, since Zepeda said, “We share particular views.”

His city’s embrace of out leaders has been a mixed bag in recent years.

Beckles garnered headlines two years ago after she faced repeated harassment due to her sexual orientation from public speakers at City Council meetings.

Yet Richmond’s former police chief, Chris Magnus, who departed earlier this year after a decade on the job, was a married gay man who won high praise for his leadership of the department.

Zepeda praised Beckles for the “really strong shoulders she has built for the LGBT community. I hopefully will be standing on those with my campaign. She laid out the ground work there, but even with that said, there is still homophobia out there.”

When he received the endorsement of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the national organization devoted to helping elect LGBT people to public office, and promoted it on his Facebook account, Zepeda said it resulted in some antigay comments.

“My campaign team’s reaction was this is horrible. I said, yes, it is, but that it validates the reason we are doing what we are doing,” he said. “There is still work to be done.”

He has been public about his own family’s struggle to accept his being gay and how he contemplated suicide after his parents kicked him out of their house when he came out to them. Zepeda, the youngest of five siblings and 20 years old at the time, moved in with a sister who lived across the street from his parents.

“I think my dad was afraid people would laugh at me. He wasn’t sure what gay was; back then he thought if you were gay, you wore a dress,” said Zepeda, who reconciled with his parents four years later. “Now he is starting to realize being gay is not just one thing. You can be a truck driver and be gay, a pro wrestler or a politician and be gay. They never really saw that before.”

Zepeda said he wanted to be open about his own struggles as a candidate so he can serve as a role model for others in his community.

“For me, growing up and not really knowing anyone who was gay made it difficult. I didn’t have someone I could go and talk to. There was no one there to look up to for role models and no one to relate to,” said Zepeda. “Coming out and going through what I have gone through, I need to let people know. Through sharing my stories, I hope I have been able to help other people.”

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Men at high risk of STIs seek PrEP

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“We cannot say that PrEP is causing the high rates of STDs, only that these things are correlated.”

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ay and bi men who use PrEP often do not use condoms and are at risk for sexually transmitted infections as well as HIV, suggesting that those men who seek PrEP are the ones who need it most, recent data show.

“Seeing a correlation between high rates of [sexually transmitted diseases] and PrEP use is what we expect – individuals with high rates of STDs are exactly the people we want to be considering and starting PrEP,” Dr. Susan Philip, director of disease prevention and control at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, told the Bay Area Reporter.

The latest SFDPH HIV epidemiology annual report, released September 1, showed that new cases of HIV continue to steadily decline.

The 255 newly diagnosed HIV infections in 2015 represent the lowest number since the start of the epidemic.

But at the same time sexually transmitted infections have continued an upward trajectory, especially among gay and bi men, according to reporting by laboratories and health providers throughout the city.

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Dr. Jeffrey Klausner from UCLA, formerly director of the DPH’s STD prevention section in San Francisco, recently published in the journal AIDS a study of the association between PrEP use and STIs among gay and bi men.

Klausner’s team conducted a meta-analysis of studies that reported STI rates among men who have sex with men. They included five cohort studies in which participants received PrEP and 13 done in the prePrEP era. However, the populations were not well matched. By design, PrEP studies recruited gay and bi men who reported high-risk sexual behavior, while the non-PrEP studies had various different entry criteria.

Overall, the researchers found that men on PrEP were 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with chlamydia, 25 times more likely to be diagnosed with gonorrhea, and 45 times more likely to be diagnosed with syphilis compared to gay men not using PrEP. “[M]ore research is needed to understand if PrEP causes a higher incidence of STIs among MSM,”

the study authors wrote. “We must ensure that our efforts fighting one public health crisis do not lead to another.”

The Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has a history of criticizing Truvada PrEP, issued a news release September 8 calling attention to what it called the “damning new report” linking PrEP use with an “astronomical” increase in STIs. “This latest analysis should be a wake-up call for MSMs and other sexually active people that PrEP is not the magical panacea it’s often promoted to be,” said AHF President Michael Weinstein. “Despite some people’s desire to simply wish them away, these common STDs remain health risks that must be taken seriously and are best avoided by using condoms.”

But both formal studies and ample anecdotal evidence indicate that a substantial proportion of gay men cannot or do not want to use condoms every time they have sex.

“In reality a particular subset of gay men seem to be coming forward for PrEP who are, indeed, at very high HIV and STI risk – the right people are coming forward,” said Gus Cairns, who spearheaded community engagement in the U.K. See page 14 >>

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use has grown rapidly in recent years.

A recent informal survey by the B.A.R. found that more than 6,000 people in San Francisco have been prescribed PrEP, most of them gay men.

“In San Francisco rates of STDs among gay men and other men who have sex with men were rising several years before Truvada became the first drug the FDA approved as PrEP in 2012,” Philip said. “We cannot say that PrEP is causing the high rates of STDs, only that these things are correlated.”

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new web-based directory and search engine will help people find providers nationwide that offer PrEP for HIV prevention. The directory – http://www.preplocator. org – launched last week at the U.S. Conference on AIDS in Hollywood, Florida and so far includes more than 1,200 PrEP-friendly physicians and clinics.

“Lots of health information says ‘talk to your doctor.’ PrEP Locator goes further and reduces barriers to getting PrEP by saying, ‘this is exactly where you can get it,’” said Dan Wohlfeiler, director of Building Healthy Online Communities, which aims to improve online prevention in conjunction with dating and hookup sites and apps.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Gilead Sciences’ Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention in July 2012. Its use has grown rapidly in recent years

in cities like San Francisin protecting themselves co and New York, but in the opportunity to seek some parts of the country out professionals who are – especially outside urban considerate and skillful at areas – it can be difficult prescribing pre-exposure to find providers who are prophylaxis.” knowledgeable and nonPrEP Locator currently judgmental about PrEP. includes more than 1,200 Last year the Centers clinics and providers – for Disease Control and both public and private Prevention reported that Assistant Professor – in all 50 states and a nationwide survey had Aaron Siegler Puerto Rico. The crowdfound that one-third of sourced database allows U.S. health care providers had not users to suggest new providers or heard about PrEP, and some proupdate existing information, and viders who are aware of PrEP do not PrEP providers can add themselves. feel comfortable prescribing it.

The directory is available both as a “Even though any doctor, nurse stand-alone website and as a widget practitioner, or physician assistant that can be used on other webpages. in the U.S. is able to prescribe PrEP, California already has a directory many are not capable of displaycalled http://www.PleasePrEPMe. ing sensitivity, compassion, or reorg, initially compiled by Shannon spect,” Damon Jacobs, who started Weber of UCSF and HIVE (forthe popular PrEP Facts Facebook merly the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS group, told the Bay Area Reporter.

Center), which helps people find “The PrEP directory will give all PrEP-friendly providers in the state. men and women who are interested PleasePrEPMe is one of the part-

ners developing the new national directory.

“Lots of different organizations around the country were starting to build their own PrEP databases,” Wohlfeiler told the B.A.R. “It’s much easier for people looking for PrEP, and clinics providing it, if there’s one reliable, centralized database.”

PrEP Locator was developed by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and partners including Greater Than AIDS and AIDSVu, with financial support from the MAC AIDS Fund.

“PrEP has the potential to substantially reduce the number of new HIV infections in the United States, but only if people know how and where to get it,” said Aaron Siegler, an assistant professor at the Rollins School who led the project. “Importantly, the tool features a search function that allows users to search for PrEP providers who would prescribe to individuals without insurance.”t

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National AIDS Memorial Grove marks 25 years

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ver 200 volunteers, community leaders, and others gathered to commemorate 25 years of remembrance and pay tribute to friends and loved ones lost to HIV/AIDS at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park Saturday, September 17.

“The National AIDS Memorial is in many ways the heart of the sanctuary that is the grove. As we all know, many people in San Francisco see the grove as their spiritual place, not only out of despair or loss, but as a place of hope and remembrance,” AIDS grove Executive Director John Cunningham said.

The National AIDS Memorial, known as the grove, was created 25 years ago in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park at the height of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. It is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope, and remember.

Since 1991, nearly 25,000 volunteers have donated more than 150,000 hours participating in monthly community volunteer workdays and other events to support the grove.

The grove’s Circle of Friends memorial space was originally conceived about four years into the creation of the grove as a way for individuals to both remember those lost as well as those who have also survived the AIDS epidemic.

“The spirit of the grove and the heart of the grove is truly within the Circle of Friends,” Cunningham said. “There are approximately 3,000 names currently engraved there.

This year it will reach its capacity.”

In 1996, legislation sponsored by Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) was signed into law by President Bill Clinton that elevated the grove as the country’s sole federally designated National AIDS Memorial.

Alice Russell-Shapiro, Isabel Wade, and Jack Porter, original grove supporters and founders, came to commemorate what they helped create two and a half decades ago.

According to Porter, who referred to himself jokingly as “the volunteer who didn’t know when to go home,” he has been a volunteer with the group since it started.

Porter was 44 and living in Cupertino when he met his late partner, who died from AIDS-related complications, as did many other gay men at the time. Afterward, he got together with a group of friends.

They wanted to start something or create some kind of sanctuary or a grove in the city to remember all those they lost to AIDS during the 1990s.

Russell-Shapiro said that no one knew in 1991 what the future held for AIDS and how many people would die from the disease. Widespread treatments were not yet available.

Russell-Shapiro believed that people in the late 1980s needed a place where they could come and morn in solidarity with others who were grieving.

“Speaking of the Bay Area Reporter, every week there were perhaps dozens of names – into the early 1990s – obituaries of people who had died from AIDS,” RussellShapiro said. “There was no place for people whose lives were touched

by AIDS. We didn’t like to say AIDS victims, including those who had died or were dying.”

Speaking at the event, gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) remembered 25 years ago that the public body that represents the citizens of San Francisco recognized the need, not only for its citizens,

“We set an example for the world and this is part of it. And that is why I come to the grove often.”

–Eric Shifler but also its own individual need.

“The need to heal an absolutely broken heart of this amazing city,” Leno said. “In the early 1990s, as many of us here remember it all too well, there was sense of hopelessness and despair and deep need to join together, a search for healing, and thus was born the AIDS Memorial Grove. The civic leadership of the city of San Francisco moved by compassionate courage stepped forward to meet the need of their grieving citizens and designate nearly 10 acres of Golden Gate Park to be used as a space to remember and to heal.”

Eric Shifler had friends who died from AIDS that he still misses.

“It is nice to come up here and remember them,” he said. “I came

several years ago and I saw my name here. I didn’t understand why. A friend of mine said that the AIDS Memorial Grove is also for people who were diagnosed with HIV or affected by AIDS in some way or worked in the field.”

Shifler volunteered with the Shanti Project in 1983 and went on staff at Shanti in 1985 as the executive secretary to the board of directors. He left Shanti in 1995 after working there for 10 years. Shifler retired in 2016.

He said that when he walks in the Castro now it feels and seems so different.

“There should be people my age, and there are not many of us left,” Shifler, 67, said. “I miss this whole generation. But the city did won-

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derfully. We set an example for the world and this is part of it. And that is why I come to the grove often.”

Every third Saturday from March to October, more than 125 volunteers, ranging from the very young to the elderly, come together to help maintain the grove, clearing overgrowth, reintroducing native species, and planting new trees, plants and shrubs.

Mike Shriver, the AIDS grove board chair, attended the memorial along with Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department; Christine Pelosi, the representative’s daughter and a former AIDS grove member and longtime supporter.

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SF lesbian bar commemorated

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he Lexington Club, which for 18 years before its closure in April 2015 was an iconic lesbian bar in San Francisco’s Mission district, was fondly remembered Monday, September 19 when gay San Francisco Supervisor David Campos held a ceremony outside of the bar, at 3464 19th Street. During the event, longtime Lexington Club manager Benjamin McGrath, left, and owner Lila Thirkield, right, uncovered a plaque commemorating the role of the bar in the LGBTQ community. In a news release, Campos said he had worked with community members to create the plaque to honor the Lexington Club’s legacy. Also on hand were members of the GLBT Historical Society, which will care for the plaque; District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim; and former patrons of the club. Thirkield was also thanked for her contributions to the community.

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Castro resident pens mindfulness book for kids

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hree years ago after stepping down from his job with the New Conservatory Theatre Center, the San Francisco-based LGBT theater company where for 18 years he served as the conservatory director, Andrew J. Nance turned his attention toward the science of wellbeing and how people can achieve happiness in their lives.

He discovered one method was through the practice of mindfulness and was soon certified to teach it to school age students. In December 2014 Nance, 51, began teaching the practice on a volunteer basis to kindergartners at the Dr. Charles R. Drew College Preparatory Academy, a public alternative elementary school in the Bayview.

Using meditation and breathing exercises, mindfulness practitioners focus their thoughts on the present moment instead of past events or future tasks. It has been shown to have myriad benefits, from reducing stress and depression to improving personal relationships and cognitive skills.

“What I tell the kids is mindfulness is the practice of using our breath to force our minds and bodies to make good choices,” explained Nance during a recent interview in the Castro, where he lives with his husband, Jim Maloney.

When he sought out more materials to use with students, Nance was left wanting.

“I looked for mindfulness kids’ books and what I found wasn’t that exciting,” he recalled.

Having written and directed children’s plays, Nance decided to write his own children’s book and hit upon using a puppy as a stand-in for a wandering mind. Told from the viewpoint of a young boy, the resulting book Puppy Mind features illustrations by Jim Durk, whose past work has included Clifford the Big Red Dog and Thomas the Tank Engine books.

The two met through a mutual friend and spent about a year working on the book, whose cover features the smiling face of a puppy, which goes unnamed in the story.

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The theme received more votes, 16, than two other contenders.

The meeting itself, held at the Women’s Building, was sparsely attended, with only about 40 people present.

George Ridgely, the executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, told the Bay Area Reporter that he was happy with “A Celebration of Diversity” as the next Pride theme.

“I think it speaks to the decades of work that this organization has already done and the goal we continue to strive for,” he said. “SF Pride has a long history of celebrating diversity with more than 20 community-produced stages and venues at the Civic Center celebration, and a parade with more than 230 contingents.”

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Pride board President Michelle Meow, also known as Michelle Sinhbandith, expressed her love of Pride and her commitment to diversity as the meeting got underway.

Other action at the annual meeting saw the election of board members.

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board member John Caldera was also in the running.

Taylor, who was unable to attend the meeting, won re-election, while fellow incumbent Sanford did not.

Caldera also failed in his attempt to return to the board.

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Nguyen ‘Win’ Pham, 22 votes.

The candidates addressed members before the vote.

“I’m running to bring greater diversity to Pride,” said Connor. “I will try to increase outreach to the trans community.”

Walker said he grew up in San Francisco.

“It’s great for me to see young people embracing their identities,” said Walker, who added that he hopes to bring Pride events into neighborhoods throughout the year. “Pride doesn’t just have to be the last weekend in June.”

Bishop, who is bisexual, said that she was attending the meeting with her wife.

“I’d like to fill the treasury with my expertise as a certified public accountant,” she said.

Galisatus, who’s gay, said that he hopes to bring more youth representation to Pride.

“I want to work on expanding relationships in the community and on the board,” the 23-year-old said.

Gray, a native of Chile, is a popular DJ who has spun music at San Francisco clubs for two decades.

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which covers not only San Francisco but also a portion of northern San Mateo County.

Should Kim win, it would be the first time since 1996 that San Francisco did not have an LGBT representative in Sacramento. And it would also mark the first time that Asian-Americans have held all three of the city’s seats in the Statehouse, as Democratic Assemblymen Phil Ting and David Chiu are both expected to easily win re-election in November.

In a phone interview Tuesday with the Bay Area Reporter, Frank pointed to the importance of electing an LGBT person to the Senate seat as a reason for his endorsing Wiener, whom he has met a few times in recent years.

“I also believe it is important, in my experience, there be an openly

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found a community of intellectually engaged graduate students at Penn that I began to see myself in a different light.

“As I began the process of soul searching, I pretty quickly realized that it was not likely that I was going to stay married,” she added.

Coming out to her Catholic family “wasn’t simple” Hillman said.

“My parents really didn’t want to talk about it but they also didn’t want to punish or exclude me in any way,” she said.

“They were worried about me,” she said diplomatically.

At the same time Hillman was coming to terms with her sexual orientation, she also realized that

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History Alley, is seen as a way to capture the heyday of the city’s leather scene and educate visitors about its importance.

“The leather history installation on Ringold Alley will preserve the knowledge and memory of what was one of the most important gay areas in San Francisco. And during the 1970s, South of Market became one of the largest, densest and most visible concentrations of leather institutions anywhere,” explained Gayle Rubin, an associate professor of anthropology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who lives in San Francisco and has been documenting the city’s leather community since the 1970s. “This is a history worth remembering. And it is particularly exciting that some aspects of that history will be quite literally carved in granite and cast in bronze.”

Rubin has been one of the local leather community members advising on the project and working with landscape architect Jeffrey Miller to flesh out the final design. The initial

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Kositsky said in an email that he’s prohibited from commenting on ballot measures “while on city time.”

Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness, said Prop Q is “really absurd.”

“It will likely exacerbate the encampment situation and does not offer any solutions,” Friedenbach said.

She said that, among other problems, giving people only 24-hour notice is problematic because it takes longer than that for someone to get the tuberculosis clearance they need to stay in a shelter.

Prop Q is “completely unworkable on every level,” she said.

Farrell said, “There is no direct

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gay member of a very important state legislative body,” said Frank, who will be in town next month to headline a fundraiser for Wiener’s Senate bid. “Obviously, straight people can be very supportive, and I have never supported a gay person running against a straight supportive incumbent. But with an open seat, that is different.”

In a statement to the B.A.R. Tuesday, Polis also noted the significance of having a gay person hold the seat.

“It’s so important for LGBT elected officials to have a seat at the table,” said Polis. “Scott Wiener has a long track record of supporting the LGBT community as well as also working more broadly to address the community’s needs around housing, transportation, healthcare, and education. Scott has my full support.”

(Come December the state Senate is expected to have at least one gay member and two lesbians as Sena-

tors Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach) and Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton), as well as Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who is termed out of her seat and running for a Senate seat, are all expected to win their contests.)

In the June primary, Kim shocked the local political establishment by landing in first place ahead of Wiener. Many attributed her success to her endorsement in the race by

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who at the time was running to be the Democratic presidential nominee and campaigned with Kim in the city.

This week the group Our Revolution, which Sanders and his supporters launched after his primary defeat to Hillary Clinton in order to impact the fall elections and help progressive candidates win at the state and local level, sent out a

fundraising appeal on behalf of a number of its endorsed candidates that included Kim. “Jane Kim is a civil rights attorney who’s fought for affordable housing and fair wages and who is running for California’s state Senate. You’ve met her before: Bernie Sanders’ endorsement, along with thousands of contributions from our political revolution, helped Jane pull off a shocking win in her primary in June,” wrote Shannon Jackson, the group’s executive director, in the September 20 emailed request for donations. “Now she needs our help in her general election to secure another huge victory.”

Wiener’s fundraiser with Frank will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Thursday, October 20 at a location provided upon RSVP. The suggested donation to attend is $1,000; to RSVP call Celeste Wolter at (347) 527-3368 or email celeste@bedfordgrove.com.t

once her scholarship commitment was completed, she didn’t want to stay in the Air Force.

The turning point, she recalled, was the day she overheard another officer make a snide remark during a presentation by a general talking about the mission of the Air Force. “I heard someone say, ‘In the Air Force we kill people and blow things up.’”

“I had already started to question the values of the Air Force; what good it did in the world,” Hillman added. “I was realizing that the military wasn’t going to be a career that was going to work for me because I wasn’t the person I thought I was.”

After receiving her master’s in history at Penn, Hillman wanted to continue in graduate school, “while I figured out my career.” She enrolled in a JD/Ph.D. program at Yale with

the idea that “being an academic historian could be interesting, but so could a career in law,” she said.

When she completed the joint degree, Hillman taught at Yale and Rutgers University School of Law. In 2006, she joined the faculty at the UC Hastings School of Law and in 2013 was appointed provost and academic dean.

That same year, Hillman was tapped to serve on an independent panel, chartered by Congress, to study the U.S. military’s response to sexual assault. She received national acclaim when she was one of two members of the nine-member panel who voted against the practice of allowing commanding officers to retain prosecutorial discretion in cases of sexual assault. In arguing against it she wrote, “we should vest discretionary

authority to prosecute rape and sexual assault in the same people on whom federal, state, and many respected military criminal justice systems rely: trained, experienced prosecutors.”

After six years at Hastings, Hillman learned that the president of Mills, Alecia A. DeCoudreaux had resigned.

“I knew immediately I was interested in the job,” she said. “Had the search committee not contacted me, I definitely would’ve reached out myself.”

After a national search, Mills selected Hillman, with search committee chairwoman Katie Sanborn stating that Hillman’s academic record and reputation as a strong leader and bridge builder “made her the clear choice” for Mills.

“Her experience in the military

and subsequent work on military equity has honed her deep sense of social justice, especially regarding women and gender,” Sanborn stated.

Asked how she sees the future for LGBT people in the academic world, Hillman said, “Things have clearly changed for the better for those of us who identify as LGBTQ and lead in higher education.

“It’s easier to be ourselves in what is often a public life, and it’s easier to integrate our families into our professional lives. I think my identity has affected the topics I’ve chosen to study and teach as well as my understanding of the many constituencies – students, prospective students and their families, employers, donors and potential donors, and more – I seek to support as a leader.”t

concept for the idea came from Jim Meko, who prior to his death last year, had long pushed for a rezoning of Western SOMA that would honor the area’s leather history.

“Jim Meko kicked our asses for years. He wasn’t easy on us, but at the end of the process, he trusted what I had to say,” recalled Massih, who believes Meko would approve of the planned changes for Ringold.

Rubin added that Meko “worked very hard on finalizing it during the last year of his life.”

Meko will be among those honored as part of the alley project. The names of important participants who helped shape the history of the leather community will be etched in 28 bronze bootprints implanted in the sidewalk along Ringold Alley between 8th and 9th streets.

To get the right shape for the bronze bootprints, Rubin borrowed a pair of Dehners boots owned by Mike McNamee, the founder and former owner of Stompers, that Miller then scanned the soles of to use as a model.

Among those who will receive their own bootprints are the B.A.R.’s former leather columnist law on point regarding tent encampments,” only “a patchwork of laws,” including rules against sitting or lying on public sidewalks during the day or prohibitions on camping at night.

“It is so important as a city that we have one specific policy on the book that specifically addresses how the city is going to deal with tent encampments,” he said.

Asked about creating a wedge issue, Farrell said that “couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Prop Q is “a direct response” to legislation Avalos and Friedenbach had discussed this spring at the Board of Supervisors, he said.

Among other provisions, Farrell said, their proposal would have included a requirement that “in order to remove a tent encampment,” the city would have to provide the resi-

“It’s so important for LGBT elected officials to have a seat at the table.”

–Congressman Jared Polis

Rick Gerharter

Amir Massih of 4Terra Investments stands in Ringold Alley, soon to be renovated with commemoration of the role the alley has played in San Francisco’s leather community.

Marcus Hernandez, who died in 2009; Alan Selby, the founder of the store Mr. S Leather, who died in 2004; and leather pioneer Cynthia Slater, a founder of The Society of Janus, who died in 1989.

The names of various leather institutions, long-shuttered clubs, and community events will be etched

into granite standing stones that will be placed along the roadway. The list includes the names of long-gone bars such as the Why Not, Toolbox, Febe’s, the Ramrod, the Brig, and the No Name.

The colors of the leather flag will be incorporated into the paving treatment, and an explanatory mark-

dents with “lifetime governmentsubsidized housing.”

“Tent encampments would have grown exponentially had that law been put in place,” Farrell said.

Donohoe, who’s “heteroflexible,” said he understands that people don’t want an “eyesore,” and some encampments can be “really messy,” but “I don’t see anything wrong if we’re trying to keep it clean and trying to be respectful.”

He said he was “traumatized by the shelters up in Portland,” Oregon, where he’s from, with problems including overcrowding and fire code violations. He’s not interested in staying in any San Francisco shelters.

The tents along San Bruno Tuesday looked fairly tidy, with essentials such as shoes, luggage, a hot plate, and pet food among the items lined up outside.

Justine F., 45, who didn’t want her last name published, sat in her tent with her boyfriend, Greg Mays, 24.

Some have called the encamp-

Encampment residents oppose measure

One of the most well-known encampment sites has been Division Street, near Highway 101 in the South of Market neighborhood.

The city has worked to keep the area clear, but tents have remained.

On San Bruno Avenue near Division Tuesday, about a dozen tents lined the sidewalk.

Josh Donohoe, 26, who’s been staying with his girlfriend in a tent nearby, said Prop Q sounds like another way for city workers to enter tents “and confiscate whatever they want, whenever they want.”

er will be placed at the intersection of 9th and Ringold to welcome visitors to the street. It is expected to include a rendering of a mural once found on the wall of the Toolbox made famous by a photo in the June 1964 issue of Life magazine that accompanied the now infamous article “Homosexuality in America.”

“It will introduce people to the SOMA leather community and explain the historical significance of this community,” said Folsom Street Events Executive Director Demetri Moshoyannis, who oversees several fetish fairs held in the area, such as Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, from a nearby office on 8th Street. “There are a number of features in the Ringold project that are really cool. It will very much be a historic walk, if you will.”

A new public mini-park will also be built adjacent to Ringold at the intersection of 8th. It will abut the entrances to a restaurant on the ground floor of the residential building fronting 8th Street and that of a cafe in a building of townhomes entered from Ringold.

For more information about the LSeven development, visit www. l7sf.com.t ments “inhumane,” but Justine said, “I think it’s inhumane to kick us out of the tent. It’s my choice to be here.”

She’s created a family here, she said.

“I’m an unconventional person,” she said. “I don’t want to be living by the standards of society.”

She and Mays get general assistance and have just started the process to get into housing. In the meantime, she doesn’t want to be in a homeless shelter.

Mays said shelters tend to have lice and other bugs, and Justine, who prides herself on keeping clean, said being in such a place is “not the way I want to live my life.”

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Pride theme

From page 12

Pride continues being the pilot and leader of the inclusive movement in our country and our planet.”

Ekanem, a black, gay Bayview resident, said that his goal is to bring Pride into neighborhoods like the Bayview, Hunters Point, and the Outer Mission.

“I want to bring Pride forward, connecting different communities,” he said.

Pham was unable to attend the meeting.

Candidates were also asked if they thought Facebook should continue as a corporate sponsor of Pride in the aftermath of the “real names” controversy, in which some people’s accounts were suspended because they were flagged, as they didn’t use their legal names. Many transgender people, drag queens, and domes-

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SF props

From page 13

side an empty tent. The occupant, who wasn’t at the tent, was in the process of moving her belongings.

The guard, who declined to share her name, said she asks people in tents to move “pretty much every day.”

She appeared to have mixed feelings about Prop Q. “Giving them 24 hours is giving them a ticket to stay here,” she said, but giving people the option of going to a shelter “is a good thing.”

Other propositions

Another proposal that will be before voters in November is Proposition R, which would establish a Neighborhood Crime Unit in the police department.

Under the proposal, sponsored by gay Supervisor Scott Wiener, the police chief would be required to establish the unit if city chartermandated staffing levels “are met or exceeded.”

The legislation says that “the city is on track to meet” the minimum

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PrEP

From page 6

PROUD PrEP trial. “No one is denying [STIs] are a big health problem, but in my opinion they will still be if we stop giving out PrEP. I think we need a mature discussion about what our messaging and norms should be about condoms in the era of treatment-as-prevention and PrEP, rather than retreating to a message of 100 percent condom use.”

Faster STI detection

The higher rate of STIs among PrEP users could be due to a variety of factors, including increased regular STI screening while on PrEP – thus detecting more of the cases that were already out there – or PrEP users having more sex partners or using condoms less.

Controlled clinical trials of PrEP for gay men generally did not see a rise in condomless sex. But some studies of PrEP in real-world use – including at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and the San Francisco

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Book for kids

From page 11

which is based in Richmond, California and teaches mindfulness to students throughout the East Bay, introduced Nance, who sits on the project’s board, to the publisher.

“I loved the idea, first of all, of getting kids any literature that has a great character. He had what kids love most: a dog,” said Larochette. “I love the whole concept for how to teach young kids, 5-, 6-, 7-year-olds, how to be present or in the here and now. It can be challenging for a kid that age.”

Larochette said he was most impressed by the fact that Nance has created a way to teach mindfulness

tic abuse survivors have said they were locked out of their Facebook accounts for not using their birth names on their profiles.

Galisatus feels that Pride should continue engaging with Facebook.

“If we walk away from the table then nothing gets done,” he pointed out.

“We need a corporate scorecard,” suggested Ekanem.

Also on the agenda was an amendment to the SF Pride Committee’s bylaws, which would place term limits on how long board members may serve.

During public comment, SF Pride member Joshua Smith expressed concerns that imposing term limits might force people of color and members of other marginalized communities off the board without guaranteeing that members of those communities would remain represented on the body.

The term limits change to SF

Pride’s bylaws passed with 30 in favor, six opposed, and four abstentions.

Before the voting took place for board members, Meow introduced Dominique Washington, manager of US Bank’s Castro branch. Washington presented SF Pride with a $10,000 donation.

“Strength and diversity are core values of US Bank,” Washington said.

Ridgely said that he was looking forward to working with the new board members.

“I am grateful that the bylaws amendment passed,” he said. “Ultimately the term limits will help us accomplish two very important goals.

First, to ensure there is consistent leadership on the board for a reasonable number of years, and secondly, to ensure that there is an opportunity for new people to join the board when those terms have been fulfilled.”

San Francisco Pride 2017 will take place June 24-25.t

level of “1,971 full duty sworn officers ... by the end of 2017.”

In an interview, Wiener said that once the staffing levels were reached, the police department “must push more officers into the neighborhoods as beat cops to address the explosion of property crimes we are seeing,” including auto break-ins, burglaries, and other problems.

The elections department lists Avalos as the author of Prop R opponents’ argument that will appear in the ballot. Avalos didn’t respond to requests to comment on the measure.

Other proposals on the ballot involve voting.

Proposition F would lower San Francisco’s minimum voting age from 18 to 16.

Supervisor Eric Mar is one of the measure’s supporters and the father of a 16-year-old.

Prop F would “ensure 10,000 to 13,000 young people would be eligible and allow them to become more involved in their communities as they educate themselves about elections and voting,” Mar said, and it would be “a first step” for youth ages 16 and 17 “toward becoming more

engaged in government and really taking ownership of the city as well.”

In the opponents’ argument against the measure, the San Francisco Taxpayers Association, said, “Voting at 18 at least attempts to ensure informed, mature decision makers. This doesn’t.”

Another measure on the ballot, Proposition N, would allow noncitizen city residents who are of legal voting age and are the parents, legal guardians, or caregivers for children in the San Francisco Unified School District to vote in Board of Education elections.

Wiener said this is the third time such a measure has been on the ballot, and he’s supported it each time.

“We know that schools succeed when parents are involved in the school. ... We have a lot of noncitizens in our public schools, and they deserve a voice,” Wiener said.

In the Prop N opponents’ ballot argument, Terence Faulkner, a local Republican, said it’s “a bad proposal” that “calls for noncitizens and illegal aliens to vote in San Francisco elections for the Board of Education. Vote ‘no!’ on Proposition N.”t

AIDS Foundation’s Magnet program at Strut – have seen condom use drop off over time.

STI rates in these studies were typically around 20 percent at enrollment and did not change much over time. What did change is faster STI detection and treatment thanks to regular screening of PrEP users.

“PrEP is an opportunity for people to be tested and treated for sexually transmitted infections,” PrEP researcher Dr. Robert Grant from the UCSF Gladstone Institutes told the B.A.R. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that gay men should get tested for STIs at least every six months. But PrEP users should be seen every three months for HIV testing and to monitor for kidney side effects, and some providers – including Strut – already do quarterly STI screening as well.

In the PrEP Demo Project, which enrolled 557 mostly gay men in San Francisco, Miami, and Washington, DC, SFDPH researchers

found that 40 percent of chlamydia, 34 percent of gonorrhea, and 20 percent of syphilis cases detected during quarterly screening would have been missed – and treatment therefore delayed – if screening had been done only every six months.

They calculated that screening every three, instead of every six, months prevented an average of eight sex partners from being exposed for each STI diagnosis.

Most experts and advocates concur that PrEP’s protection against HIV – reducing the risk of infection by more than 90 percent if used consistently – is worth its drawbacks.

“PrEP is an extremely effective and important tool for decreasing HIV infection in persons at highest risk – we must continue to expand access to PrEP as part of our efforts to get to zero in San Francisco,” Philip told the B.A.R. “At the same time, we must consider holistic sexual health and work on better ways to assist San Franciscans to prevent, identify, and be treated for other STDs as well.”t

to children “without saying the word mindful,” as it doesn’t appear in the book.

Nance has already written several more children’s books on the subject featuring children of different ethnicities. Should Puppy Mind do well, he hopes to collaborate with a new illustrator for each additional book in the series, the second of which is called Just Stop and Breathe and focuses on a boy who is a crossing guard.

The lesson it imparts, explained Nance, is “when you have big emotions, it is helpful to stop and take a breath.”

He is using the release of his first book to publicize a new organiza-

tion he founded, Mindful Arts San Francisco. It aims to expand the teaching of mindfulness in local schools, and Nance is recruiting other mindfulness practitioners willing to volunteer and teach in kindergarten through third grade classes.

To learn more about it, visit http://www.mindfulartssf.org.

His publisher is hosting a book launch party for Puppy Mind from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, October 4 at Dog Eared Books, 489 Castro Street. To RSVP, visit http://evite. me/4At6n2r3z3.

Copies of the book can be purchased online for $16.95 at www.parallax. org/product/puppy-mind/.t

Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552368

In the matter of the application of: GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, 45B WRIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, is requesting that the name GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN-HICKEL, be changed to GAELAN HALEIGH MCKEOWN HICKEL SPOR. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 3rd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037216100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ABSOLUTE ABUNDANCE, 261 OXFORD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KENNETH DAIGLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/15/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037237000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BINBIN WINDOWS, 272 BAYSHORE BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUBIN CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037222700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KTIM LOVE, 754 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHAO QIANG LIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/18/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/18/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037228800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POLYGON VISUALS, 2750 42ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TONY MAC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/23/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037230800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YEARNING 4 LEARNING, 1946 10TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MELISSA SILVER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/25/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037226800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STRUT THE MUTT, 2695 44TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ADAM DOV TEITELBAUM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/19/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/22/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037227500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO INTEGRATIVE MASSAGE, 1733 LARKIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARL ALEXANDER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037229300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHIVE PRINT CO., 115 BYXBEE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PAOLA CHRISTINA MARTINS JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/24/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/24/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037227100

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINSTER ESTATE OF RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-16-300186

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RAYMOND JAMES DARBYSHIRE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that CHRISTOPHER DARBYSHIRE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: OCTOBER 18, 2016, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MICHAEL YEE (SBN 258811) MEYER & YEE, LLP, 950 RESERVE DR, SUITE 110, ROSEVILLE, CA 95678; Ph. (916) 599-7297.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-16-552377

In the matter of the application of: LANI NAHLEEN PANG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LANI NAHLEEN PANG, is requesting that the name LANI NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI WAH PANG AKA LANI LAI WAH PANG AKA LAI WAH PANG AKA LANI N. F. PANG AKA L. NAHLEEN PANG AKA LANI SEKTA, be changed to LANI NAHLEEN PANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 22nd of November 2016 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037233600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BROADWAY LIQUORS AND COMPANY, INC, 460 BROADWAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BROADWAY LIQUORS AND COMPANY, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037243300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LACHINECN, 1047 STOCKTON ST #301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIA KONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037222600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ST. FRANCIS DENTISTRY, 697 MONTEREY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL W. HING. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/18/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037224800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANKO KITCHEN ESSENTIALS, 1758 BUCHANAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JPT AMERICA, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/23/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SPIRALS AND SPRINGS, 49 ZOE ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MONA SALINAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/19/16.

SEPTEMBER 01, 08, 15, 22, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037220800

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037238600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY STAR REALTY, 462 JOOST AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ADVANCED FINANCIAL GROUP INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/17/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOWN AND OUTLAWS, 378 2ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed PETER DANZIG, CHRIS DANZIG, KYLE LUCK & JON CARR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DISCOUNTED OUTLET, 4802 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed VY NGUYEN, PHUONG HOANG NGUYEN & CALVIN LU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/31/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 2705 JACKSON STREET, 2705 JACKSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by joint venture, and is signed WILLIAM T. BOATRIGHT, KENNETH E. BOATRIGHT, RAYMOND E. BOATRIGHT & TIMOTHY A. BOATRIGHT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/14. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037240400

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037255600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON MACIAS, 1757 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SALON MACIAS INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/31/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037244300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOGHORN HOLDINGS, 250 KING ST #474, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ANNELYSE FINLEY & JEN NORVELLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037241700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NANDE-YA, 1737 POST ST #375, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed M&M INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT LLC (OR). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/01/16.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-033818000

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: SALON MACIAS, 1757 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by JUAN CARLOS MACIAS CHAIRES. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/2011.

SEPT 08, 15, 22, 29, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037248800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTISANA, 3927 24TH ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TEJINDER GREENHILL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037249700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOGACI CLEANING, 6248 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VIOLETA VELAZQUEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037245900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL; SWELL CREAMERY; SWELL COFFEE; 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BENSON Y. CHIU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037219700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OBA JANITORIAL, 3207 MISSION ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RUDIS E. AMAYA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037234900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUN RUN MOVING COMPANY, 1720 15TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZHI JIA JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/29/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/29/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037252000

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEST LAID FILMS, 1574 HAYES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WILLAIM POOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037245400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HELLOOFFICE, 1415 CHESTNUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HELLOOFFICE, INC (DE).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037246000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SWELL CREAM & COFFEE, 1534 19TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CREAM & COFFEE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/06/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/06/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037253000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BIRD, 115 NEW MONTGOMERY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 115 NEW MONTGOMERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/08/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/08/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037269700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MACH ELECTRIC, 20 PRECITA AVE #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ERVIN ROLANDO MACH BOCH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/19/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037268900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLD STAR CLEANING SERVICE, 75 CAINE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MAURICE YAROSLAVA LUCAS VILLAGRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/25/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/19/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037243000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DRAPERY SERVICE, 4721 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DIANA G. SANCHEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/02/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037259000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAMBINO’S TREATS, 2261 MARKET ST #15, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANNA ORTIZ SELJUK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037258400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RODEUS, 619 BOSWORTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROEL DEUSS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/13/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037263200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREENSURGE, 1000 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SERGIO NOVOA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/07/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAYSIDE PLUMBING, 1218 GILMAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ZULMA CRUZ-LOPEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/16.

SEPT 15, 22, 29, OCT 06, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037222900

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037257100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OVER THE MOON, UNDER THE SUN, 2335 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDEN TRENOR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/18/16.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMON’S PAINTING, 969 PINE ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE L. SIMON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037257300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MHS HOSPITALITY, 280 NEWHALL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROCHELLE MITCHELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/12/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/12/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037237500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONNIE Y. CHAN ATTORNEY AT LAW; AYNI LAW GROUP, 405 SANSOME ST 2ND FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CONNIE CHAN & ASSOCIATES PC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/30/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/30/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037233200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BERTI PRODUCE SAN FRANCISCO, 1960 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/26/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037266900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NABE, 2151 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 2HW INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/16/16.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037263400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHIPELAGO; LINDSEY MILLER, 115 DUBOCE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DEMETERRA, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/13/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/14/16.

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SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037271400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MILLER’S REST, 1085 SUTTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MILLER’S REST LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/20/16.

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SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036684200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CONNIE Y. CHAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW; LAW OFFICES OF CONNIE Y. CHAN. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by CONNIE Y. CHAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/17/15.

SEPT 22, 29, OCT 06, 13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037200000

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ieces from an innovative French porcelain manufactory that served under Louis XV’s royal patronage are displayed in a new exhibition at the Legion of Honor.

Sevres and Vincennes Porcelain from the Gustavo Serina Collection will be on show through Jan. 22, 2017. Under the nom de plume Tavo Amador, Serina is a frequent contributor to Arts & Culture, so we asked him to engage in a brief Q&A about the exhibit via email.

Roberto Friedman: How did you become interested in 18thcentury French porcelain? When did you first start collecting it?

Gustavo Serina: My BA and MA are in Early Modern European History, with an emphasis on France from 17151815. During that period, French decorative arts dominated Europe.

From about 1750, the Sevres Royal Factory produced porcelain that set the standard for that art form. I began collecting it in 2001.

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Do you have a favorite piece?

I don’t have a favorite piece, but a few items on display are extremely rare, notably the petit vert (pale turquoise) tray that probably was part of a tea service purchased by Louis XV on Christmas Eve, 1761, and the roze (pink) ground plate from the 1758 dinner service purchased by the Duc de Richelieu. These items have an intimacy that other

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into an aerospace flight center and a Japanese tea garden, among other things. Rest assured it’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. Sachs chose YBCA as a launch pad because he regards it as “the punk rock institution of San Francisco,” and the show is at its funky best as a showcase for his ingenuity and mad-genius, off-kilter imagination.

Take the spray-painted steel lobster with a pair of red pliers for claws; a

art-forms lack. They were held, used, and admired by their original owners and subsequent generations. This is very appealing to me.

What’s the buzz?

As a desk editor, our least awesome, superexciting correspondence comes from business agents promoting the perfect online service for us. For the most part we will spare you all the details. But we do make an exception for a recent cold call.

“Roberto, “We’re updating prbuzzsaw.com, our automated jargon and buzzword removal tool.

This free tool automatically hacks PR buzzwords out of press releases.

Terms like repurposing, solution, robust, best of breed, mission-critical, next-generation, webenabled, leading, value-added, leverage, seamless, etc., are struck out by the Buzzsaw. It also takes a scythe to cutesy hipster-style words and phrases like totes amazeballs, awesome and superexcited.

“If there are any new words or phrases that you’d like us to add to the database, please let me know.

“Best regards, “Hamish Thompson.”

“Hamish, “First, thank you for all the hard work and dedication. Been to the site, and let’s just say your Hall of Shame resonates. Oops, there’s one from us: resonates. Also there’s: thanks for all the hard work. But really, don’t get us started. Can we just say this about that?

“As much as we appreciate your pointing out the inanity of such phrases as ‘manage expectations’ and ‘expedite the deliverables,’ we’d be much happier if we could add whole buzz categories to your list of buzz words, namely: sports and military metaphors. We feel like sports and the military are already foisted upon us rather more than we’d like, and we mean more than simply in manners of dress and sex. We mean in whole strings of words, and after all, words are just signposts, manifestations of

tiered, re-cut Samurai helmet, actually an orange hard hat with a rear neck-guard and a feather duster serving as a warrior’s plume; or the Pez dispenser with the pistachiocolored head of the Jedi Master, Yoda. Admit it: you wouldn’t have dreamed these up, but when you think about it, the concepts make perfect, semi-nutso sense.

Sachs, who briefly apprenticed with architect Frank Gehry and started out embracing the abstract formalism still evident in his work, is a practitioner of bricolage, the building of functional

thoughts. So start the buzzsaw, please!

“First up there’s ‘my team’ and ‘your team.’ Now, Out There hasn’t relayed a foul ball to one of our colleagues or kicked one through the goalposts since we were forced to wear cleats on the playing fields of high school phys. ed. So can we get off the turf already?

“Then, we are not proud that our national government is the largest arms provider in the world. Or that our military is by far the biggest suckler on the meager teats of our taxes. So we do not want to hear ‘mission: accomplished’ or ‘over and out’ about anything from you or your team. Instead, we want to give peace a chance.

“We mean, this is where the buzz words ‘win rates’ (sports) and ‘Roger that!’ (military) come from. We’re already suckers for a military cut. But if only we could eliminate the competitive, zero-sum mindset, we’ll surely (you should excuse the expression) expedite the deliverables. And that will be totes amaze-balls.

“Gay peace & love, “Roberto.”

The American Dream

RIP Great gay playwright Edward Albee, 88. Who’s afraid of George and Martha?

Years ago, at an OutWrite LGBT writers’ conference, Out There asked Albee his feelings about a gay sensibility in front of a room full of people. Albee replied snippily that there was no such thing, something along the lines of, he wasn’t a gay playwright, he was a playwright who happened to be gay. Well, okay. Last week in The New York Times, Dick Cavett was quoted as saying that in the 1970s, Albee ambushed him in a Montauk deli and told him to lay off the “fag jokes.” So he was sort of on both sides of the issue.

Anyway, no doubt he was a theatre immortal. Virginia Woolf, Zoo Story: everyone knows the early plays. But his later work was equally great. A few seasons ago, ACT staged a production of The Goat that knocked our socks off. So for Edward: Baa-aah!t contraptions with found or accessible objects some might consider junk, refashioned into something new and unexpected. He has made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape, a toilet forged from once-prized Prada shoeboxes, a baby blue “Tiffany” Glock pistol, a Chanel guillotine that he calls “a synthesis of France’s two greatest exports,” and a Barbie slave ship. (Next to space, Barbie is Sachs’ magnificent obsession.)

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ypecasting is a term widely accepted as a pejorative, but whenever actors are typecast, at least it means they are working. What to do, then, when you don’t fit even into the types that casting directors want to project onto you? – never mind the notion of color-blind casting that would open doors to all roles. If you’re a talented performer like Rotimi Agbabiaka, you take matters into your hands.

In his one-person show Type/ Caste, Agbabiaka takes us on both personal and professional journeys that reveal his versatility as a performer, satirize the casting process, and share his own story as a gay man from Nigeria whose father believed his son was possessed by demons. The richly packed 60-minute show, subtitled A Solo Show About Acting While Black (& Queer), is now running at Brava Theatre Center in a co-production between Brava and Black Artists Contemporary Culture Experience.

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Rotimi Agbabiaka opens his solo show Type/Caste at Brava Theatre Center with a full-out rendition of Sondheim’s “Broadway Baby.”

Agbabiaka’s frustrations with landing good acting gigs. “Human experience is limitless,” he says, until you become a professional actor.

Then you’re no longer “an artist, but a product.” Agbabiaka cleverly illus-

“I have been typecast since birth.”

–Rotimi Agbabiaka “I have been typecast since birth,” Agbabiaka says near the top of the show, after donning a white dress as he flashes back to the day as a boy he put on his mother’s wedding gown and felt a rush of liberation and confusion. “It took me many years to name it and confess it,” he says of his sexuality, and it’s a topic he turns to with poignancy that can still incorporate a big dollop of outrageousness. It turns out that God bears a striking resemblance to Grace Jones when Agbabiaka plays the deity in an earthly incarnation.

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trates this with a recurring set-piece that riffs off the TV series Shark Tank, in which actors have replaced entrepreneurs pitching ideas to investors.

Agbabiaka plays both himself and a panel of supercilious judges who poke holes in his commercial viability. He’s not thuggish enough for most black roles, plausibility could suffer if he appeared in a period play, and his name is a disaster.

Through most of the production, inventively staged by Edris CooperAnifowoshe, the tone is either humorous or touching, but with a bitter vein that occasionally shows

itself. One of the judges on this Shark Tank famously staged a controversial all-white production of A Raisin in the Sun, explaining, “I’m just a white dude working my privilege for good.”

And Agbabiaka has a specific bone to pick with Trevor Nunn, celebrated director of Shakespeare and Cats, whose London production last year of The War of the Roses kept minorities out of even supporting roles on the grounds of “historical verisimilitude.” The phrase becomes part of the lyrics to a mocking rock song.

But mostly, it seems that Agbabiaka just wants his chance to be a Broadway baby. Indeed, he opens the show with a straight-ahead, high-heeled rendition of Sondheim’s aspirational showbiz anthem from Follies, and ends it with the same tune set to new lyrics reflecting his mission to slay whatever internal and external demons stand in his way.

Through the 60 minutes leading up to this point, Agbabiaka amply convinces us that he’ll win the battle.t Type/Caste will run at Brava Theatre Center through Oct. 1.

Tickets are $20-$25, available at brava.org.

Insatiable appetite

by Richard Dodds

is a competent and agreeable performer. Vocally, he best gets ittle Shop of Horrors is a to shine in “Suddenly Seymour,” crowd-pleasing perennial that a duet that he shares with Mary is having its durability reaffirmed Kalita, who also soars on this in Ray of Light Theatre’s current power ballad limned with unexproduction at the Victoria Thepected sincerity. Mary Kalita plays atre. Even 34 years after it first Audrey, and she’s the best thing in came to life in off-off-Broadway, this production as the ditsy but the musical maintains a youthbig-hearted flower shop colleague ful, slightly subversive feel with who believes she deserves to be its collection of characters who abused by her dentist boyfriend, define themselves by their adslickly played by Brendon North. dress on Skid Row and an overlay Seymour sees to it that Orin of monster-movie morality. It’s Scrivello D.D.S. is the first victim a spoof of musical tropes based fed to his ever-growing carnivoon a movie that was a spoof of rous plant that he has dubbed B-movie tropes. In other words, Audrey II. As the kvetching shop two spoofs in one.

Erik Scanlon owner, Tom Hart is fine, at least Creators Howard Ashman and Mary Kalita and Sam Faustine have reason before he becomes another meal Alan Menken based their musi- to fear the flowers in Ray of Light’s Little for Audrey II (a monstrous puppet cal on a 1960 cult favorite from Shop of Horrors at the Victoria Theatre. designed by Devon LaBelle and Hollywood schlockmeister Roger manipulated by Josiah Minued Corman, who filmed The Little and Billy Raphael). There is conThe musical tells a story comShop of Horrors in two days on a sistently entertaining work from plex enough to have a hero with budget of $30,000. The musical cut Jacqueline Dennis, Phaedra Johnson, the kind of fatal flaw that is key in back on the number of characters and Katrina McGraw as tough-girl classic tragedy. Not that Little Shop (Jack Nicholson was in the movie Skid Row denizens who, as a kind of ever wastes a moment on tragic in a role that didn’t make it into the Greek chorus, sing in the style of 60s sentiments, but a taste of fame and musical), streamlined the plot, and girl groups. Ben Prince provides the fortune is enough to lead Seymour added songs that have a peppy, vintuneful musical direction, although Krelbourne on the road to ruin. tage rock sound. acoustics leave some of the songs’ An orphan rescued by a Skid Row At the Victoria, where it has prelyrics in a muddle. florist, Seymour tinkers with floral sented boldly staged productions In one break from tradition, genetics to create a plant of such of such unconventional musicals as Audrey II is voiced by a woman, Jesunusual appearance that it saves the The Wild Party, Lizzie, and Heathsica Coker, instead of in a booming failing flower shop (set design is by ers, Ray of Light seems to be pulling Barry White kind of voice that can Chrissy Curl) and turns him into a its punches a bit with Little Shop. shake the rafters with his commands media sensation. He also gets the Director Jason Hoover’s staging is to “Feed me!” Coker does fine, but girl of his dreams, but not before as good as it needs to be, but not it’s just funnier the other way.t getting blood on his hands. often transcending that rating with If Sam Faustine isn’t fully conperformances and a production to Little Shop of Horrors will run vincing that he’s channeling the push the reliable material to the next through Oct. 8 at the Victoria geekiness that is Seymour, the nerdy Theatre. Tickets are $25-$40, level. Still, it’s enough to provide a available at rayoflighttheatre.com. eyeglasses notwithstanding, Faustine consistently entertaining evening.

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Anna Magnani, diva of humanity

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ard to believe, but in 1946 actual Nazis were being tried for war crimes in Nuremberg at the insistence of the United States. Nazi Germany, having started and lost World War II, was in big trouble for spying, torturing, bombing, and occupying other people’s countries, and the U.S. was rubbing their collective and individual noses in it.

Hard to believe, but 70 years ago we were the good guys. All that has now changed, but there are movies to remind us of our erstwhile moral clarity. On Saturday, the Castro Theatre salutes actress and prototypical anti-Nazi Anna Magnani, with a one-day festival of films, all shown in fabulous 35mm prints.

Anna Magnani (1908-73) was an Italian actress whose onscreen persona epitomized Italian and theatrical temperament, the two being very closely aligned. Highly volatile emotions, indomitable spirit, deep Catholic faith, childlike innocence, huge heart, passionate and uncompromising, earthy as a peasant, strongly rooted in tradition, authentic. Magnani was a star unsullied by the star system, whose glamour was vital, tragic, poignant, who never lost touch with the reality of the human condition, who laughed loudest at her own follies. She’s one of those people who make humanity seem like something worth fighting for.

Rome Open City (1945), directed

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Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster in Tennessee Williams’ screen adaptation of his The Rose Tattoo (1955).

by Roberto Rossellini in a legendary feat of filmmaking and propaganda while Rome was recovering from Mussolini, is formal, earnest melodrama glorifying the Resistance and vilifying the Occupation. Magnani plays one of her stock characters: a single mother about to marry a great guy. She’s also pregnant, so when the Nazis shoot her for running down the street, we know what evil is. We are shown that civic virtue in an occupied country consists of planting bombs, picking off

convoys, and enduring grisly torture in the name of humanity’s highest ideal: freedom. It’s weird, but Rossellini’s Nazis are now much easier for most Americans to identify with than his Italians. Watch for the drug-addled, evil-lesbian, Nazi collaborator. (1 p.m., 100 min.)

Bellissima (1952), directed

by Luchino Visconte, is a loosely plotted epic detailing the schemes and sacrifices a mother puts her husband through to promote their young daughter’s film career. This

sentimental melodrama doubles as a clear-eyed homage to the great Roman film studio Cinecittá. Anyone fascinated by film production will eat up the behind-the-scenes look at the industry and its noxious by-product, mothers ambitious for their daughters. Magnani does her shtick, and the kid, ironically, gives a sublimely understated performance. (3 p.m., 115 min.)

The Rose Tattoo (1955), directed

by Daniel Mann, is a sprawling adaptation by Tennessee Williams

of his own Broadway hit, played onstage by Maureen Stapleton, but originally written for Magnani. Film unfortunately allows the backstory to be shown, so it takes forever for co-star Burt Lancaster to make his entrance. Appealing as Magnani’s crazy Italian widow-lady is, Williams’ overheated theatricality rings ludicrously false amidst the semi-tropical palm fronds. Falsest, perhaps, is the sailor boy with Billy Budd overtones declaring starry-eyed heteronormative true love for Magnani’s 15-yearold daughter. Despite or because of the claptrap, the Italian diva won the Oscar. (6 p.m., 117 min.)

The Passionate Thief (1960), directed by Mario Monicelli, is the day’s unheralded treasure, a sophisticated film that recalls the best screwball comedies of the 1930s.

Lonely on New Year’s Eve in Rome, Magnani goes blonde and winds up on a non-date with legendary clown Totó, whose sad dignity belies his petty criminalities and basic inability to feed himself. The trivial squabbles of these old friends, universally recognizable as the human comedy, are glamourized by their bewitching talent. Third wheel Ben Gazarra unwittingly seduces the highly susceptible Magnani, playing straight man to two comic geniuses until in a stunning burst of pride, he defends the honor of thieves in a Rome infested with foreign interests. Wow. Scheduled right after the party on the intimate Castro mezzanine. (10 p.m., 106 min.)t

Fuller pictures

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he Roxie Theater presents A Fuller Life, a multi-film retrospective of an American original, filmmaker Sam Fuller (1911-97), Fri.-Sun., Sept. 2325. It includes A Fuller Life, a 75-min. showcase of his writings read by notable fans and directed by his daughter Samantha; and several of his 24 featurelength films.

A Fuller Life (2015) Samantha Fuller introduces her dad through a biographical compendium of his writings read by celebrity fans including actorfilmmaker James Franco, actor Jennifer Beals, actor Bill Duke, filmmaker James Toback, actor Robert Carradine, actor Mark Hamill, director Wim Wenders, actor Constance Towers, and writerdirector William Friedkin. They bring this iconoclastic artist into sharp relief, even for younger viewers for whom his body of work remains unspooled. The

readings are projected against fragments of the millions of feet shot by Sam Fuller over a career that spanned more than half-a-century.

Shock Corridor (1963) Fuller wrote and directed this raw melodrama about a journalist (Peter Breck) who has himself admitted to a mental hospital to get an inside perspective. The gimmick backfires when Breck suffers a mental breakdown. Imaginative cinematography, mostly in B&W, with three color sequences. (both 9/23) Underworld USA (1961) A man (Cliff Robertson) reacts to the mob murder of his father by undertaking a lifetime plan of vengeance against the thugs responsible. With Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Robert Emhardt, and Larry Gates.

Pickup on South Street (1953) A pickpocket (Richard Widmark) accidentally acquires secret microfilm that makes him the target of government agents.

Philly grit

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he search for connection, through sexuality or art, underlies the gloomy film Beautiful Something, screened at last year’s Frameline and just released on DVD by Ariztical Entertainment. In one cold, desperate night, four artistic gay men’s lives intersect as they seek love and companionship on the gritty streets of Philadelphia. The city has never looked more bleak. Dark emotions pervade, and even when the characters are having torrid sex (which happens often, their attractive bodies beautifully lit), they seem lonely and depressed.

There is no joie de vivre here, only rambling, confessional speeches on regret, lost love, lust, self-hatred, and art as salvation that might have been penned by Eugene O’Neill if he were gay and incoherent after a weeklong bender. Oddly, though Beautiful Something supposedly occurs now, it seems trapped in a pre-Internet time warp. There are no cell phones, and

characters use typewriters.

Brian (Brian Sheppard), an awardwinning poet with writer’s block, goes to a gay bar, and brings a man home for sex. But the bi guy, after begging for hot man-on-man action, walks away angry post-coitus. Brian is still brooding over Dan, a straight guy with whom he had a brief affair.

Desiring a relationship, he seems to find only hookups. He meets early 20-something Jim (Zack Ryan), a vapid aspiring actor (he does one of the worst renditions of Romeo ever committed to film) and muse/ lover of 40-something Drew Tiger, a famous sculptor. Jim feels Drew (Colman Domingo) is neglecting him despite his protestations of love, and ponders leaving him. Drew is oblivious, preoccupied with being an artiste. Not feeling a connection with Brian, Jim runs into Bob (John Lescault), a sleazy Hollywood agent cruising around in a white limousine.

He calls Jim his beautiful something.

Bob offers to pay for sex with Jim,

who, in addition to dancing naked around the room, must earn his wages by listening to Bob’s weepy tale of his first lover dying in Vietnam.

When Bob passes out in an alcoholic stupor, Jim must decide whether or not to abandon Drew. Can Brian find true love? Will the viewer care?

Director Joseph Graham, aided by cinematographer Matthew Boyd, knows how to create a desolate mood, and the idea that people who have sex are really seeking companionship seems promising. But Beautiful Something suffers from pretentiousness and caricatures. Only Brian and Jim are given any breadth: Brian the moody poet stalker, Jim the freeloading twink. Zack Ryan is gorgeous, and shots of him naked may well be worth the price of the DVD. But none of these guys engender much empathy or rise above the cliche of the tortured gay artist. A labor of love with earnest intentions, Beautiful Something becomes Exhibit A for the case that beauty alone is never enough.t

One of Fuller’s best stabs at unmasking a Big Brother world. With a top-notch supporting cast: Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley, Murvyn Vye and Milburn Stone, the veteran character actor known to millions as Doc Adams on the long-running CBS adult Western Gunsmoke.

The Naked Kiss (1964) This Fuller provocation stars Constance Towers as a one-time rent gal hoping to start a new life in a small town. Fuller pulls out all the stops, engaging us romantically, violently and fearlessly. For a major director he’s not afraid to let his sentimental side show through.

The Crimson Kimono (1959) Two LA police detectives attempt to solve the murder of a stripper. Fuller broaches the then-taboo subject of interracial dating and romantic affairs. Bi-racial casting that was highly unusual for the time. With James Shigeta as a Japanese American LA cop, and Anna Lee, Paul Dubov, Gloria Pall. (all four 9/24)t

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Gay for pay, and that’s OK

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ctor/filmmaker Charlie David, best known for his work in gay independent cinema, takes on a fascinating, sometimes controversial subject in a new hour-long documentary. In I’m a Porn Star: Gay4Pay, David chats with guys who identity as straight but are willing to have sex with men, including performing as bottoms, on camera for money. The filmmaker also interviews gay-identified performers, who say they have no problem working with straight guys. It’s a job, after all.

“There is such intrigue and interest into what the real sexuality of these performers is,” David told us, explaining what drew him to the project. “Our society still has this insane urge to label each other in every conceivable way. It’s completely reductive and often destructive.

With this documentary I knew the expectation of many viewers would be to reveal all these straight guys doing porn as closet cases. I’m more interested to provoke the audience to reflect on why this is happening and what are the ramifications of having straight producers, directors and performers creating fantasy material for gay men.”

Some of the models were hesitant to speak out. Most haven’t told their families about their careers.

“Certainly it was a smaller group of models who were willing to be

“Our society still has this insane urge to label each other in every conceivable way.”

–Actor/filmmaker Charlie David interviewed for the film, and it took a few months of actively searching to find subjects who trusted me and wanted to tell their story,” he said. “Of course it’s understandable.

There is a huge stigma around this.

To discuss publicly how they have sex with men for money but may have a wife or lead a hetero-normative life otherwise is unfortunately a courageous act. What they are doing is a big societal taboo.”

David was able to find a diverse array of models who were willing to talk, like Curtis, a blue-collar dude with a wife who supports his porn work. The recently married couple are starting a new business and saving up for a house, so Curtis’ extra income is much-needed. Though he says he’d never have sex with a man off-camera, Curtis admits he’s begun to enjoy his on-camera gay sex. The film shares a heartwarming Skype call between Curtis and his wife.

“In my opinion they are the type

of people who have lost a lot of family and friends over this, and so now they live completely openly with an ‘If you don’t like it, FU’ attitude,” David explained. “It sounds harsh and in ways it is, but what they have as a couple is actually quite beautiful. I think a lot of people would be immensely happier in their relationships if they could be as honest with each other as this couple.”

Gay porn star Brodie swears he’s in it strictly for the money, but model Dennis West admits that his gay porn experiences have made him “hetero-flexible” in his private life.

Perhaps the sweetest story in I’m a Porn Star involves two gay performers. Alex Mecum and Diego Sanz had enjoyed a romantic onenight-stand a few years back. They each felt something for the other but lost touch. Imagine their delighted surprise when they met each other again on a porn set, scheduled to perform together.

According to David, the gayfor-pay models who insist they are straight aren’t lying to themselves, regardless of what they’re willing to do on film for money.

“I think the biggest challenge for our society to overcome is its obsession with reductive labeling,” he said. “People may go through many types of sexual experimentation during different phases in their life. I

think a more healthful way forward would be to respect that there’s a broad spectrum of experience. Let’s put away our labeling machine unless an individual expressively requests that we address or recognize them in a specific way.”t I’m a Porn Star: Gay4Pay can be viewed online at Amazon, Vimeo and Google Play.

Queer soundtracks

by Gregg Shapiro

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f you haven’t seen the Oscarnominated 2015 lesbian love story Carol yet, what are you waiting for?

Not only does it have two of the best performances ever given by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, it also has a stunning and effective score

written by Carter Burwell, who received an Oscar nom for it. Newly available as a two 10” LP set, Carol (Varese Sarabande) smartly divides the soundtrack. The first LP contains Burwell’s stirring, gorgeous score, including the unforgettable “Opening” theme. The second LP includes the period songs heard in

the film, including “Easy Living” by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra, “You Belong to Me”

by Helen Foster & The Rovers, and “Smoke Rings” by Les Paul & Mary Ford. Additionally, three vinyl-only tracks not found on the CD or digital editions – “Slow Poke” by PeeWee King, “A Garden in the Rain”

by The Four Aces, and Patti Page’s “Why Don’t You Believe Me?” – have been added to the soundtrack.

A longtime ally of the LGBT community, feminist icon and musician Kathleen Hanna is well-known for surrounding herself with talented queer people, beginning with some of the folks involved with the riot grrrl scene, followed by her groundbreaking all-female electro act LeTigre featuring out lesbian J.D. Samson. When Hanna revived her The Julie Ruin project with the marvelous Run Fast in 2013, it signaled Hanna’s return to performance and the expansion into a full band, featuring out musician Kenny Mellman of Kiki & Herb renown. Hit Reset (Hardly Art), the second disc by The Julie Ruin, owes more to Hanna’s days with punk band Bikini Kill than it does to LeTigre. Not that there aren’t songs that inspire dancing (“I’m Done,” the funky “Time Is Up”), but the mood

is definitely darker on “Hello Trust No One” and “Let Me Go.” “Calverton” might be the most heartbreaking song you’ve ever heard Hanna sing.

Gay actor-singer-Broadway star Jose Llana has some nerve. On his debut English-language album Altitude (Yellow Sound) he tackles part of The King and I medley “We Kiss in a Shadow”/”I Have Dreamed” made famous by Barbra Streisand.

Llana has the chops to pull it off.

Altitude blends contemporary pop (Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud,” Billy Joel’s “Lullaby Goodnight, My Angel”) with Broadway tunes from shows in which Llana has appeared, David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s Here Lies Love (“Child of the Philippines”)

and William Finn’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (“Chip’s Lament”), alongside stage classics “Marry Me a Little” (Company and “Lonely Town” (Company) Town (On the Town).

Camille Bloom brings a lot to the table. She’s got a powerful, emotive voice. She’s a confident musician, comfortable with guitars and piano.

She also writes songs that stay with the listener after the first spin. All of this is true of her new album Pieces of Me (camillebloom.com). Evocative opener “Lift Me Up” is followed by the torchy twang of “Turn Back to You,” the gorgeous ballad “Everywhere But Here,” the rocking of “I Refuse To” and the personal “In Another Life.” Bloom closes the disc with a dance remix of “Lift Me Up.” Dedicated to his husband, Guatemalan artist Jorge HernandezTevalan, who did the cover art, Bay Area legend Jim e Sparkle Pants is back with the album Drawing Me Into Your World (cdbaby.com). Best described as an acquired taste worth acquiring, Sparkle Pants is never predictable. The jazzy “Yellow Dog” is his collaboration with gay writer Trebor Healey, reading excerpts from his novels A Horse Named Sorrow and Faun. Also worthy are the subtle Latin rhythms of “The Earth as Their Lover” (dedicated to “eco-sexuals” Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens), the surreal funk of “Walking on a Frozen River,” and the bizarre rap of “My Brain’s Not Wired for These Times.”

A Little Single (Yellow Sound), the five-song EP by Drew Brody and Lance Horne, might be the gayest thing you’ll hear this summer. “The Grindr Song” is clever and catchy, destined to become a standard in cabarets. Brody and Horne bring things to an affecting close with the poignant ballad “Do You Think We Can Dance Now?” Now?”t

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Armed with her sewing machine

by David Lamble

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he new Australian film The Dressmaker pivots wildly between slapstick comedy and revengeorientated tragedy. This includes the sometimes wacky relations between the sexes, particularly as they play out in a still raw, frontier society.

The film’s present tense is 1951, when a regally glamorous adult woman, Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage, appears in a small nasty town, Dungatar, a frontier village from which she was rudely expelled many years before. The opening scene begins on an aerial shot of an intercity bus speeding across an arid plain. It’s a scene that could have come from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 agrarian thriller North by Northwest.

We soon discover that Tilly, in a commanding, Oscar-worthy turn from Kate Winslet, is out for revenge. Her weapons are a sewing machine and a hard-won knowledge of high fashion, particularly of haute couture, acquired from her travels in sophisticated European capitals.

Under the direction of Jocelyn Moorhouse, adapted by Rosalie Ham from her novel, the film has a top-flight Aussie cast including the

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The opulent co-production with Hong Kong Arts Festival, based on the canonic 18th-century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin and directed by highly regarded man of the Asian theatre Stan Lai, will also be performed at that 45th annual festival in March 2017.

Much has been riding on the opera’s success, and it is amazing the assembled dream team has been able to come up with anything like a finished product on time. Critical response has been respectful, if slightly mixed, but audiences are obviously pleased. Dream of the Red Chamber may be too big to fail.

Some re-working of the current libretto should help create an equally extraordinary Hong Kong debut.

Distilling the vast work into an evening’s entertainment has necessitated cutting hundreds of characters and story lines. The focus is on the simpler central love story, emphasizing mystical insights into the troubled world of earthly existence amidst the strife of dynastic intrigue. Hwang employs some clever framing devices, ghostly beggars and a narrator monk, which make certain sense of the complicated politics and symbolism, but only go so far.

Sheng’s numinous music supports director Ian Robertson’s spooky chorus, but Japanese-American Bay Area

hunky Liam Hemsworth, the sly Hugo Weaving (vividly cast in the cross-dressing Aussie classic Priscilla Queen of the Desert), and most deliciously, Judy Davis, a veteran of the Australian 70s New Wave (Gillian Armstrong’s pioneering feminist fable My Brilliant Career).

The townsfolk are as happy to see Tilly as the residents of another tarpit town were to see Spencer Tracy’s one-armed vet in Bad Day at Black Rock. In fact, a good guide to decoding The Dressmaker is to bear in mind its resemblances to modern American frontier classics, with the warning that Australians operate from their own much darker frontier origin myth.

One thing that will rile film buffs who like their comedy and drama kept in separate buckets is that throughout its two-hour running time, the movie jumps between serious drama and high-spirited camp, farce and slapstick. Plot points that might resonate sadly or comically often veer wildly off-course, such as a romantic sequence where a ruggedly masculine lover falls to his death by suffocation in a silo full of winter grain. Or a flashback scene where a handsome boy who turns out to be a bullying rat is done in.

He tries to crush a young girl, she neatly sidesteps his charge, and he slams into a building, breaking his neck. Tilly is accused of killing the boy, who was out to terrorize her.

A manly game of Australian-rules football is interrupted when the mud-splattered players are distracted

by Tilly’s appearance in one of her own gowns, in vibrant red. There are jolly moments too, with a male official who likes to crossdress. But The Dressmaker contains enough plot twists and mood changes for a whole season of TV drama.

The great Australian actor Jack Thompson taught me the rules of the road in complicated tales like this by citing the one he starred in, Bruce Beresford’s 1979 Boer Warera drama Breaker Morant. Unlike Americans, who largely wiped out the aboriginal peoples they found upon their arrival, other Britishsettled frontiers were often settled with a more live-and-let-live attitude. But sometimes human nature knows no civilized solution to its inter-tribal conflicts, and all residents must try to survive on the brink of terror. Perhaps Tilly’s solution, as she leaves a town up in flames, is the best: When in doubt, it pays to outdress the bastards.t

actor Randall Nakano (SFO debut) is left on his own in the speaking part of the Monk/Dreamer. His presence can sometimes be intrusive as he underlines points already made clear, but Nakano’s dry voice and eloquent delivery supply some of the few moments of humor, and he is essential to the plot’s denouement.

The composer fills the pageant with music that attempts a fusion of East and West to uneven effect. Lyrical duets and arias are haunting, but tailored to Western operatic tradition. When Sheng turns to Eastern influences, especially when he uses the qin, an ancient zither meant to symbolize the union of heaven and earth, the score blooms with exquisite subtlety. Action scenes (surprisingly few in the long first act) and the exciting rush to the end of Act II sound like accomplished film music.

No snobbism implied; the composer actually comes closest to a convincing synthesis in the instrumental writing. Conducted by George Manahan (no stranger to new operas) with awesome suavity, the glowing orchestration, with pulse-pounding percussion, is strikingly effective and manages to propel the sometimes repetitive episodes to a satisfying conclusion.

The long cast list, mainly comprised of notable Asian singers, with many making their SFO debuts, includes Chinese tenor Yijie Shi

in the leading role of the impetuous and poetic Bao Yu, and South Korean soprano Pureum Jo as his starcrossed love Dai Yu. They are both well-cast, and easily meet the strong demands placed upon them. They are helped by some of the work’s most characterful writing.

Japanese-American mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts, last summer’s unforgettable Carmen at SFO, completes the love triangle as the tragic Bao Chai. Her physical beauty is matched by the clear purity of her voice and the impressive range of her acting skills.

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Kate Winslet as Tilly in director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker.

South Korean mezzo-soprano Hyona Kim is a powerful presence as Lady Wang, itching to assume matriarchal supremacy, and Chinese contralto Qiulin Zhang is a touching Granny Jia, trying her best to make things right for the embattled clan.

Taiwanese soprano and Merola Opera Program alumna Karen Chia-ling Ho makes the most of her appearance as Princess Jia. Though pivotal to the family’s fate, her character is still forced to tell her story in hurried exposition.

American mezzo-soprano and

former SFO Adler Fellow Yanyu Guo is also fine in the similarly underwritten role of Aunt Xue. In the already ponderous first act, a sensuous erotic dream ballet went over big with the audience, but could easily have been cut – or at least where the awakening Bao Yu sings, “I am aroused.” We know he is torn between two lovers, and unfortunately it reminded me of a similarly corny sequence in Flower Drum Song. It was David Henry Hwang who wrote the radically See page 24 >>

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24 • Bay area reporter • September 22-28, 2016

Melodies from the past

by Jim Piechota Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-1983 by Tim Lawrence; Duke University Press, $27.95 n September 13, the Legends of Vinyl institution held its awards ceremony in New York City in a hall-of-fame tribute commemorating legendary DJs, recording artists, remixers, record promoters, and panels of distinguished music industry professionals and performers. In ways too numerous to count, these talented artists greatly contributed to dance and nightclub culture from the early days of disco to splashy contemporary EDM dancefloors across the country.

Another unforgettable nod to the evolution of dance music and club life is a new book by Tim Lawrence, a professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He has had his finger on the downbeat of the music scene for decades. His previous book published in 2004, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979, was named in honor of private party innovator David Mancuso (the socalled father of the Disco revolution),

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whose underground, invitation-only galas were held at The Loft in Manhattan in 1970. This book was a groundbreaking commemorative volume of “NYC’s Disco Decade,” and is now thrillingly followed up with Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, marking the party days of the early 1980s. Through a comprehensive and lushly detailed text stuffed with original photos from dance floors, DJ booths, and parties, Lawrence imparts the mood, the music, the faces and the places from that remarkable era, with a nostalgic nod to nights where “a new kind of freedom was set to rule the night.”

He begins with the “recalibration of disco” in 1980 and continues through the Electro-Funk and Punk Funk fusions, which changed the way DJs programmed, dancers danced, beats reverberated, and heads nodded. Danceteria, The Roxy, Arthur Baker, Larry Levan, Afrika Bambaataa, The Pyramid Bar, Mark Kamins, Sylvester, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, and many more are spotlighted. This kaleidoscopic, diverse musical tapestry takes readers from the B-52’s in 1979 to the flashy “techno funksters,” and describes how the party

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was soon blighted by the specter of AIDS, originally dubbed “the Saint’s disease” due to the rapid decimation of that club’s members from the plague.

Even for those who aren’t into reading about the history of dance music in the early 80s, this book is invaluable for its wide array of portraits and DJ playlists. A casual flip through this scrapbook shows Ann Magnuson bloodied after a “Ladies Wrestling Night,” Klaus Nomi on stage, Grace Jones mugging for the camera with Keith Haring, and the biggest hits played by John “Jellybean” Benitez from The Funhouse club, who helped launch Madonna’s career by producing “Holiday.”

There are ghosts galore within this literary rosette to the New York dance floor of 1980: many of them stare out from black-and-white photographs or voice perspectives and opinions. Dance music historians will want this book for reference, while others who recall these days with a sense of longing will close its covers and dream of the days when nightlife amounted to a line of cocaine, a Madonna remix, and a dark, packed dance floor in a basement club in the Village.t

Britten’s excruciating ‘Rape’

by Tim Pfaff

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atching Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia has never been a comfortable experience, nor did the great gay composer intend it to be. The rape pretty much has to be staged, and it’s not the gratuitous, downstage, off-libretto divertissement you find in many an edgy, modern opera production, say, of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (“They’re All Like That”).

The onstage rape of Lucretia is violent, and personal, and while both Lucretia and her rapist, Tarquinius, can be said to have been changed by the experience, the remorse and agony are, unsurprisingly, virtually hers alone.

Strangely, two renowned singers who performed the title role with Britten disagreed on that thorniest of rape topics, whether Lucretia really “wanted it.” But this is not a moment to let Trump have another day in the court of foul opinion. The music, and its composer, demonstrably do not condone rape, even when it’s to prove a point – here, weirdly, as in Cosi, the point being that all women are fickle and thus ultimately, or “peen”ultimately, fuckable. Not only was Britten not misogynist, he had close women friends, collaborated with women and got along with them as well as could be expected for a gay man with colossal mother issues.

There were many reasons I

found watching the latest video of The Rape, the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival production (Opus Arte) excruciating, but the main one was that the PC police – that fierce force that Trump’s vileness has necessarily enlisted – were watching it with me. For those new to the piece, for a long stretch after the Male and Female Choruses (two solo singers) have thoroughly confused us about what it is we are watching, the principal men – three Roman soldiers of various degrees of nobility and roughneckitude – “spit verses” about women that would make the

most misogynist rapper blanch. Talk about triggering. Where’s the paying public’s safe space?

One might have thought it would have helped to hand the piece to a woman director, but that woman would not be Fiona Shaw, who can’t do enough to literally bury the story. In a masterstroke of dramatic evasion, Shaw adds a plot overlay wherein the choruses (and an assortment of silent actors strewn about for good measure) are archaeologists, investigating these ancient, primitive goings-on. The immediate yield is that Lucretia makes her much-delayed entrance from an excavation in the dig, looking like nothing more than a fairytale princess brushing lumps of coal off the bodice of her nightie.

Dirty girl. Anyone seen a dramaturge around this place?

There are visual compensations, largely by way of Duncan Rock’s burly-boy Tarquinius, a Prince Harry lookalike (and occasional act-alike), who’s an even more smoldering menace than Christopher Maltman was for the BBC. One would say “Woof ” but for the raging PI of it. The cast is consistently up to the tortured, angular music, none more so than the liquid-voiced Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), and conductor Leo Hussain is strong in the pit. The orchestra pit, I mean.

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Britten’s already cerebral music as “theater of the mind,” I’m becoming persuaded that his Rape is better heard than witnessed. There are lots of choices, but none better than the Oliver Knussen-led Aldeburgh Festival sound-only CD (Virgin Classics, ironically).

Thank heaven Britten also wrote “absolute” music, text-free, nondramatic stuff. Unable to realize his dream of studying with Alban Berg, Britten did hear the premiere of Berg’s violin concerto, and the effect on him was incalculably powerful. It came at a time when he was also coming to terms with his slightly more complicated than usual homosexuality and, more typically for a young gay man, getting out from under the overwhelming influence of his mother, who had suddenly died. (The Aeschylean labor of Lucretia was still a decade in the offing.) It is with his Violin Concerto of 1938 that Britten came fully into his own as a composer, particularly with the excoriating passacaglia in its final movement. The score mattered to him enough that he continued tweaking it until the

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revised book for that show’s Broadway revival, but I doubt if he kept the dance sequence in.

Another reminiscence of Broadway is conjured by the narrating Monk.

Remember the Reciter in Pacific Overtures? In LA that very effective part was reenacted at the David Henry Hwang Theater in 1998. Just saying.

A playwright as original and daring as Hwang will likely do some judicious editing with Bright Sheng and director Stan Lai before the Hong Kong Festival, but one element of the production should definitely remain

1950s, well after the premiere of Peter Grimes. If it were programmed in proportion to its music merits, we’d all have it as an earworm.

It’s never lacked for advocates among serious violinists, each of whom, tellingly, has made a highly individual response to it. The latest up is Vilde Frang, who just won the Gramophone Concerto Award with her new recording with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under James Gaffigan (Warner).

The violin part, as intricately implicated in the orchestral score as is Berg’s, is strong, almost shockingly clear and wildly varied, including some strumming and plucking. It’s not meant to sound difficult as much as to sound like a struggle, and Frang approaches it as an equal, someone not frightened off by the challenge but rising to it. It’s a scorching, soulful and sometimes fun performance, yet remarkably of a piece. She couples it with a contemporaneous concerto, Erich Korngold’s, that could hardly be more different, luscious, melodious and heart-on-sleeve. Frang lends it an almost indecent beauty.t frozen. The jaw-dropping scenery and costumes by Academy Awardwinning art director and designer Tim Yip (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) are impeccably lit by Gary Marder and a very good reason to see this production. Known for highquality scenic design and execution, the SFO has lavished the new opera with exceptional style. Sheng’s engrossing music fits the ravishing visuals to a point where we wish we could join the dreamers onstage.t Dream of the Red Chamber is sung in English, with English and Chinese supertitles. Performed in repertory through Sept. 29.

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Tom Sachs

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thinking big, fine-tuning his very own space program, whose previous iteration Space Program 2.0: MARS sent a pair of female astronauts in Tyvek space suits on an expedition to the Red Planet. For that elaborate project, Sachs and his team constructed a sophisticated outer-space mission with everyday materials like tape, plastic, steel, glue and plywood, and put on a live demonstration on the vast floor of New York’s Park Avenue Armory in 2012.

He has now embarked on a third DIY voyage to the far reaches of the solar system, demonstrating how to take a trip to space without congressional funding. One of his largest and most detailed ventures to date, its objective is the colonization of Europa, the icy sixth moon of Jupiter, which scientists believe harbors oceans and evidence of life.

It should be noted that Sachs is on track to beat the competition there, including NASA, which won’t launch its own mission until 2020. “I don’t have time to waste,” quips Sachs, who recently turned 50. “I want to go now.” That impatience to acquire things and experiences he craves has fueled his inventiveness since childhood. As a kid growing up in Westport, Connecticut, he made toys he wanted, and as an adult he created versions of lust objects like

cameras, luxury cars, Brancusi sculptures and the off-white “Grace Kelly” handbag on view here. The original, produced in France, can sell for as much as $50,000; Sachs’ rendition substitutes plywood for the joys of supple leather. That work and others are emblematic of his mischievous humor and playful though pointed indictment of the consumerism with which he has a love/hate relationship.

In the age of slick high-tech, Sachs touts the imperfections of objects that make no attempt to conceal the “fingerprints” of their maker. “It’s as if he forcibly removed himself from the 20th century and put himself back in the 19th,” observed his friend, author Malcolm Gladwell. “[His work] is concerned with the personal act of production at a time when the rest of us are preoccupied with the impersonal act of consumption.”

At the exhibition, visitors will encounter a tongue-in-cheek “wall of fame” overview of Sachs’ career: a functional, foamcore, “incinerating” lavatory; a welded bronze bonsai tree cast from 3,500 individual tampons and Q-tips; and a 23-foot-tall landing excursion module (LEM) modeled on the Apollo program.

One can climb up a ladder to enter the two-level, air-conditioned LEM, which is like a tree house for space nerds, with a liquor cabinet fully stocked with Jack Daniels and a computer whose knobs and gizmos trigger thunderous booms.

The frat-boy tenor is reinforced by a couple of nude pinups and a tall, refrigerated vending machine dispensing cans of beer and chilled vodka via a gun operated by a red button. Draped in black and crowned with a Darth Vader helmet, it’s tucked away behind the “Mission Control” hub, a bank of 50 video monitors that coordinate landing and launch sequences. Nearby, the “Rescue” exhibit, a hollowed-out pinball machine built with striped ConEd barriers, is outfitted with a toy aircraft carrier floating in Saran Wrap and a Vertibird helicopter parked on the deck; a strip of masking tape warns: “Don’t fucking touch.” The “Launch” display features a small model rocket ship that emits steam, accompanied by sound effects, as it’s propelled up its plywood scaffolding.

In the mood for Europa Ice Balls served with Yamazaki scotch and OCD rehab? On your way out, stop by the Logjam Café, where the tip jar is festooned with a miniature, bloodied butcher gleefully waving a cleaver. Coffee, anyone?

A five-hour marathon demonstration of the mission’s operations conducted by Sachs last Saturday sold out, but the event will be reprised closing weekend; be sure to book passage for lift-off ahead of time.t Through Jan. 15, 2017. Info: ybca. org.

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26 • Bay area reporter • September 22-28, 2016

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Tom Sachs NASA-styled installation takes you to Jupiter’s moon. $10. Thru Jan. 15, 2017. 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

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o the world a favor. Invite one of your younger friends, or someone who’s never seen a a classic or contemporary play, to go with you.

Take them on a trip through time and space through art. Be The Doctor.

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19th & Lexington @ Qulture Collective, Oakland Photos and from San Francisco’s Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015, an exhibit of photos and comics from the popular and much-missed Mission bar. Thru Oct. 7 (closing celebration 6pm-9pm).

Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 12pm-4pm.

1714 Franklin St., Oakland. www.qulturecollective.com

Big Book Sale @ Fort Mason Center Friends of the Public Library’s annual massive book sale, with books and other media for $3 or less. 10am-6pm.

Thru Sept. 25. Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Blvd. www.friendssfpl.org

Caught @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of Christopher Chen’s drama about a real-life Chinese dissident who was jailed over a work of art, and the conflicting accusations of fictionalized accounts. $25-$35. Oct. 2. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. www.shotgunplayers.org

Flirting With Camus @ Incline Gallery Horea’s multimedia installation about Albert Camus and his fascination with the provocative artist. Performance Sept. 22 8pm. Reg hours: Sun-Thu 2pm-7pm. Fri & Sat 3pm-9pm. Thru Oct. 2. 766 Valencia St. at 18th. www.inclinegallerysf.com

Flyaway Productions @ Fort Mason Center Jo Kreiter’s new acrobatic dance, Grace and Delia are Gone, premieres, with seven daring dancers and a commissioned sound score. $22-$30.

Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7:30pm.

Thru Oct. 2. 2 Marina Blvd. www.flyawayproductions.com

King Charles III @ Geary Theater American Conservatory Theatre’s season premiere is Mike Bartlett’s multiple-Tony-nominated royal drama about Britain’s current remaining family troubles after Queen Elizabeth’s death. $20-$105. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Oct. 9. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Kirk Frederick @ SF Public Library The author of Write That Down! The Comedy of Male Actress Charles Pierce, the biography of the legendary drag performer, discusses his book and the performer with Chris Freeman. 2pm. James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, 3rd floor. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Little Shop of Horrors @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre Company’s new production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s long-running Off-Broadway hit based on the ‘50s B-movie about the nerdy owner of a man-eating alien plant. $15-$40.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Oct. 8 (Oct. 8, 2pm w ASL interpreter). 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

Annual festival of comic, satiric and dramatic show plays, including solo shows and works with LGBTQ themes. $10 each, or passes for $45 and $85.

Thru Sept. 24. www.sffringe.org

Space Program: Europa @ YBCA

The Brothers Size @ Eureka Theatre

Thu 22

San Francisco Fringe Festival @ Exit Theatre, PianoFight

Mincing Words @ The Marsh Tom Ammiano returns to the stage with his comic solo show about his life in politics. $20-$100. Thu 8pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 25. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

New & Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Sept. 22: Alan Cumming (see Thu 22).

Sept. 23: Chinatown (7pm) and The Two Jakes (9:25). Sept. 24: Anna Magnani film series with Rome Open City (1pm), Bellissima (3pm), The Rose Tattoo (6pm), food and drinks party (8:30pm), and The Passionate Thief (10pm). ($12-$60).

Sept. 25: Back to the Future trilogy (Part 1, 2:30, part II 4:15, part III 6:30; $10-$13) Sept. 27: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (3pm, 5pm, 7pm, 9pm). Sept.

28: Some Like It Hot (3pm, 7pm)and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (5:10, 9:15). Sept. 29 & 30: Reel Rock outdoor adventure film (7pm). $11-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Raised By Gays and Turned Out OK! @ Exit Theatre Stand-up comic Elizabeth Collins’ touching solo show about growing up in Texas with two gay dads; part of the SF Fringe Festival. $12. 9/22, 7pm.

156 Eddy St. www.elizabethcollins. com www.sffringe.org

Through Knowledge to Justice @ GLBT History Museum Through Knowledge to Justice: The Sexual World of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), about the early gay rights pioneer and scholar. Thru Nov. 23.

Also, Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall. Thru Oct. 16. $5.

4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Fri 23 Chanticleer @ Various Venues The Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble performs a new concert, My Secret Heart. 9/23 & 24 at SF Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak St. 9/25, 5pm at Marin Osher Jewish Community Center, 200 N. San Pedro Road, San Rafael. chanticleer.org

Epic Art Show @ ArtSavesLives Gallery Celebration of local artists, including gay painter René Capone, plus performers. 6pm-10pm. 518 Castro St. www.thomasinasmurals.blogspot.com

Friday Night Mic @ MCC SF Open mic show with featured artist Jeffrey Tokarz. 7:45-pm-10pm. 1300 Polk St. www.mccsf.org

Othello @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s classic tragedy or betrayal and jealousy. $10$35. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Sept. 25. 890 Belle Ave., San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Queer Open Mic @ Modern Times Bookstore Blythe Baldwin and Baruch PorrasHernandez cohost the eclectic vibrant reading and performance series. 7pm.

2919 24th St. www.mtbs.com

The Art of Fire @ Harvey Milk Photo Center Fighting the Beast: Photographs of San Francisco Firefights at Work, a collaborative exhibit curated by Dwayne Newton. Thru Oct. 25. 50 Scott St. harveymilkphotocenter.org

The Brothers Size @ Eureka Theatre

Tue 27 Jonathan Safron Foer @ Nourse Theater City Arts & Lectures and Books Inc. present a talk and booksigning with the popular author ( Everything is Illuminated ) who discusses his latest, Here I Am. Partial proceeds benefit the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program. $28. 7:30pm. 275 Hayes St. www.booksinc.net www.cityarts.net

Marga’s Comedy Salon @ Spark Arts Marga Gomez’ monthly series this time includes Irene Tu, Matt Lieb, writer Barry Walters, and Anita Drieseberg. $10. 8pm. 4229 18th St. www.margagomez.com www.sparkarts.org

Seared @ SF Playhouse World premiere of Theresa Reback’s play about a Brooklyn chef who deals with the pressures of sudden success.

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Michael Feinstein & Lorna Luft @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The piano master and singer-actress perform a special salute to the music of Judy Garland (Luft’s mother). $80$100. 7pm. Sept. 29 & 30, 8pm. Oct. 1 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Thu 29 Intersecting Film, Music and Queerness @ SF Public Library Author-composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky discusses his book about queer representation in film and music. 6:30pm. Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level.

100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s musicfilled gay-themed drama about African American brothers and their unbreakable bonds. $15-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. Previews; opens Sept. 29. Thru Oct. 15. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. www.TheRhino.org

Holding the Edge @ The Marsh Berkeley Elaine Magree’s insightful and funny solo show returns to the AIDS wards of the mid-1980s, and how an outraged lesbian fought to save lives. $20-$100. Thu 7:30pm, Sat 5pm. Thru Oct. 15. 2120 Allsont Way, Berkeley.

282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Perverts Put Out @ Center for Sex and Culture Sexy readings by Jen Cross, Gina DeVries, Daphne Gottlieb, Philip Huang, horehound stillpoint, Na’amen Tilahun and Xan West, with cohosts Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard. $10-$25. 8pm. 1349 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org

SF Hiking Club @ Portola Redwoods State Park Join GLBT hikers of the SF Hiking Club for a 12-mile hike in Portola Redwoods State Park. Bring lunch, water (at least 2 liters), hat, sunscreen, sturdy hiking shoes. Carpool meets at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores, at 8:15am. 740-9888. sfhiking.com

SF Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band @ Everett Middle School Rimsky Korsakov’s 1888 Scheherazade and Other Exotic Tales, James Hosay’s Persis and Germaine Tailleferre’s Suite Divermento are performed by the local band. $15-$20. 4pm. 450 Church St. www.sflgfb.org

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The Wild Bunch @ SF Conservatory of Flowers Exhibit of oddly-shaped succulents, cacti and fat plants; also other regional tree and plant displays. 100 John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden Gate Park www.conservatoryofflowers.org

$35-$75. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sat 3pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 12. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Will Durst @ The Marsh

Mon 26 Color of Life @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park.

379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

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

Wed 28 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s online and cable interviews with notable local and visiting LGBT people, broadcast through the week. www.ComcastHometown.com

Dial It Up @ Starlight Room Juanita MORE! hosts a meet & greet with local political candidates and activists. No cover. 6pm-10pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.juanitamore.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s James J. Siegel’s monthly reading series at the popular martini bar welcomes Cyrus Armajani, Yvonne Campbell, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Hollie Hardy, David Welper, and singer-songwriter Kim Lembo. No cover. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

A Roof Over My Head @ SF Public Library Alison C. Wright and Tommi Avicolli Mecca’s new musical about the San Francisco housing crisis gets a staged reading. Free. 6:30pm. Latino/ Hispanic Meeting Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Trebor Healey @ Dog Eared Books The award-winning and former Bay Area author reads from and discusses his new book, the gay-themed short story collection. Eros & Dust. 7pm.

489 Castro st. www.treborhealey.com www.dogearedbooks.com

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Goings-on in the hospital

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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e want to begin this week with a thank you to all the readers who tweeted and emailed us while we were in the hospital. It’s been a difficult time and we are now paralyzed in the leg that had the huge bleed.

But we are recovering at home, learning how to “walk” with a brace, a walker and a physical therapist who would set many a gay male heart aflutter. It’s going to be a long road, but we are so grateful for your support and for that of our fab editor, Roberto Friedman – many thanks!

During our three weeks in the

hospital we watched entirely too much TV, lived on Twitter because there’s not a lot going on in ICU, and interviewed hospital staff for our other work. It was not Grey’s Anatomy or Chicago Med. We did not have a miracle recovery like on Saving Hope.

But we caught up with a two-part story arc on Code Black that featured what else but the homophobic stabbing of the show’s lesbian character (also a woman of color, because, well, we’ve been down this two-for-one road before) as well as another woman of color in the cast.

In “Diagnosis of Exclusion,” Gordon Heshman (Jesse Bradford)

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developed an obsession with the lesbian resident Malaya Pineda (Melanie Chandra) and began stalking her, coming to the ER under various pseudonyms. He approaches Malaya in the parking garage and asks her out. When she tells him she is a lesbian, he doesn’t believe her. He becomes enraged and tears at her clothes, attempting to rape her. When she fights him off, he begins to stab her. He then stabs Gina Perello (Christina Vidal), the acting head of the ER, who has come out of the elevator. Another doc, Angus Leighton (Harry Ford), goes looking for Malaya, and tackles Heshman as he’s stabbing Perello, wrestling him to the ground.

Both women and Heshman are rushed into the ER, and the desperate attempt to save their own begins. Perello doesn’t make it. Malaya does, but just barely, left with survivor’s guilt and horror at the fact she was targeted.

Plus it puts her lesbianism front-andcenter. This was a story “ripped from the headlines.” Hate crimes against lesbians are way up, if largely ignored by the media, and “corrective rape” of lesbians is a disturbing commonplace, as we write about in our upcoming book, Erasure: Silencing Lesbians. So “Diagnosis of Exclusion” really resonated for us.

Code Black handled the scenes well. The interaction between the two women and Heshman makes their fear palpable. The scenes in the ER had real verisimilitude. Code Black has a diverse multi-racial cast – half the cast is non-white – and a strange yet compelling lead in Oscar winner Marsha Gay Harden as Dr. Leanne Rorish, the ER Residency Director. She’s known to her students as “Daddy,” which we love.

In this two-part arc Rorish gets promoted to Director of Emergency Medicine after Perello dies from the stabbing. We’ve seen quite a few LGBT storylines on Code Black, including the emotional episode “You Are the Heart,” which detailed the dying of an aging queen with AIDS. That episode illumined the issues that still obtain around the disease in an ER setting when Leighton gets a needle prick and gets terrified of transmission.

There’s no easy segue to the untimely death of actor and trans activist Alexis Arquette. She had been a mainstay on the tube for years, the lesser-known of the famous Arquette acting family that includes Patricia, David and Rosanna. Alexis had been on many reality series and was an early face of transactivism on MTV and VH1.

Arquette started acting early, appearing in music videos at 12, and she built her career playing genderbending roles, even as a teenager.

She didn’t transition until her 30s, so she was often playing men playing women. She played a trans woman in Last Exit to Brooklyn and co-starred in more than 40 films.

She appeared on Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Friends and Californication. She was one of the celebrities on season 6 of VH1’s The Surreal Life and was a guest judge on Bravo’s Top Design.

We were stunned to hear Arquette succumbed to complications of AIDS. Arquette was most famous for being famous, but she always came across as a genuine, sweet and loving person. We hope her early death will raise awareness of the higher percentage of HIV infection among trans women and start new conversations about how AIDS is not over. HIV/ AIDS remains a constant within our community, and many of us have a long memory of the endless dying in the 80s and 90s of so many we held dear. We never want to see that kind of pandemic again.

From the tragic to the sublime, we watched the finals of NBC’s

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America’s Got Talent and were so moved. This season has been the most impressive talent we can recall over the past 11 seasons. We love that AGT makes space for LGBT performers and their stories. Season 11 was no exception. Grace Vanderwaal, the young singer we predicted would win the first time she performed, in fact did. Vanderwaal’s unique voice made her compelling. She’s only 12, a YouTube sensation, and she’s going to be a major star. We just hope the industry doesn’t change her.

Brian Justin Crum and Viktor Kee were two other amazing talents in the final 10. Crum reminded us of Morrissey (only in good ways) and Adam Lambert (yes, in those ways).

Kee reminded us of Nureyev, with his exquisite body, balletic moves and sinewy perfection. Kee belongs in Vegas already: his act is pure theatre and ultimate stagecraft.

Crum, who spoke at length on AGT about being bullied as a gay teen, has been a performer for years, but AGT is his big break. Crum told Billboard, “[Judge] Simon [Cowell] came off camera a couple of times to talk to me and he said that he is so proud that I really embraced myself and what I can do. I have zero qualms about it anymore.”

As the new fall season starts rolling out, we were thrilled to see two actors of color we love join Greg Berlanti’s thriller Blindspot for its second season. Michelle Hurd (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) are adding a layer of intrigue that takes the show in an entirely different direction.

We have a love-hate relationship with Keifer Sutherland due to our love-hate relationship with 24, which debuted only six weeks after 9/11 and ran through spring 2010. Joel Surnow’s apologia for torture and American imperialism and Sutherland’s hyperrealistic portrayal of terrorist hunter Jack Bauer served as a weekly cheerleading squad for the egregious extremes of the Bush-Cheney war machine. That said, Sutherland’s latest vehicle, Designated Survivor, another political thriller, looks very good. ABC says, “In political terms, a ‘designated survivor’ refers to a candidate selected by each party to be sequestered during a State of the Union address. The reason behind this is, if by chance the entire ascendency towards the presidency is somehow killed, there will be one candidate from each party remaining from whom one would ultimately be selected to lead. Keifer Sutherland said, ‘I play a housing minister who is about to be fired and, as punishment, is made to be the designated survivor during the State of the Union.’”

Terrorism and mayhem ensue. The series co-stars Virginia Madsen, who just ended her run as the monstrous matriarch in CBS’ queerish American Gothic. Co-starring are Kal Penn and Maggy Q, longtime lesbian heartthrob. The show premiered on Sept.

21, and is madly compelling.

Also compelling is the extraordinary Queen Sugar, executive

produced by Oprah Winfrey for her OWN Network and created by Ava DuVernay (Selma), one of the hottest young directorial stars in Hollywood right now. Queen Sugar is an acting tour de force. It’s lushly atmospheric and beautifully wrought. As OWN describes it, QS “follows the lives of three siblings: two sisters, Nova Bordelon (Rutina Wesley), a formidable journalist and activist from New Orleans, and Charley Bordelon (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), a modern woman, who, with her teenaged son Micah, leaves her upscale home in Los Angeles and moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father, an 800-acre sugarcane farm, and their brother Ralph Angel, a single father struggling with unemployment and an absentee, former drug addict mother of his child.”

Three other new shows that are must-see: The CW’s Frequency is based on the film and is a lot of fun.

NBC’s The Good Place has a fab cast and an intriguing Good v Evil plot.

Hulu’s steamy noir feast Chance, with Hugh Laurie and Gretchen Mol, is fantastic.

In the TV tidbit category, oh-sogay Project Runway alum designer Christian Siriano was making news on Nightline Sept. 14 with plus size models on the runway during Fashion Week in New York. Siriano is changing lives since the average runway model is a size 2 and the average American woman is a size 14.

We can’t express how much it means to have top designers recognize that most women do not look like teenaged boys. Bravo Siriano!

Ellen DeGeneres debuted her show’s new season, her 14th, with an appearance by First Lady Michelle Obama. Ellen took FLOTUS to CVS to help her re-enter civilian life.

From boxed wine to back-to-school supplies, it was a howl. It will give you a pang, however, as FLOTUS has been the quintessence of both the proverbial good sport and a whole lotta class. We shall miss her.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture was debuted prior to its opening in a two-hour special on CBS This Morning Sept. 13. NMAAHC was 100 years in the making, and the sheer volume of material is extraordinary. This is our collective American history as well as the history of black America, slavery, civil rights, Pres. Obama, Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick. In a world where Gary Johnson never heard of Harriet Tubman, Dr. Jill Stein held an all-white Juneteenth celebration at a stop on the Underground Railroad, Donald Trump still isn’t sure if Obama is American and Hillary Clinton gets called to account for telling a huge gay audience that Trump’s a racist homophobe and many of his supporters belong in a “basket of deplorables” (and did the gays cheer at that? Yes they did!), we need NMAAHC more than ever. It’s not enough to stay tuned–you need to read us here.t

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ow does a year go by so quickly? It seems like I was only recently penning a column extolling the wonderfulness of Folsom Street Fair and all of the events surrounding it. Anyway, here we are again, just days away from the largest kink/BDSM/fetish event in the world, the Folsom Street Fair.

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Just two of the tens of thousands of sexy people who strutted their hotness at last year’s Folsom Street Fair.

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The Fair Once again, the centerpiece of the week, Folsom Street Fair, produced by the nonprofit organization Folsom Street Events (www. folsomstreetevents.org), will be on Sunday, September 25, 2016, from 11am to 6pm, on Folsom Street from 8th to 13th Streets and the adjoining side streets.

This year the folks at Folsom Street Events have created an extremely helpful Fair map that you can view by visiting their website on the Folsom Street Fair page.

You can quickly determine where the entrances, porta potty facilities, music and dance areas, performance and main stages, clothes check, bicycle check, beer booths, food, and more are located.

Check it out before the big day so you know exactly where you’re going once you get there.

On the same page, the entertainment lineup is listed.

As always, Folsom Street Fair offers its visitors a wide array of music and performance entertainment sure to appeal to the diverse demographics who attend this mega street fair every year.

All the same basic Fair rules are in place again this year. That includes nudity being permitted on the fairgrounds. So come to the fair dressed and take advantage of the coat and clothes checks located on both 10th and Both photos: Rich Stadtmiller 12th Streets. Stay geared up Top: The always lovely Queen Cougar or strip down to as little as won this year’s Pantheon of Leather makes you feel hot and sexy.

2016 woman’s Mr. Marcus Hernandez But remember, no actual sex Lifetime Achievement award. can take place on the fair- Bottom: Erik Will, Chairman of the SF grounds. So strut your naked Leathermen’s Discussion Group, won or nearly naked self, watch all one of the Pantheon of Leather 2016 the hot flesh, but save the sex President’s Awards. for later. And remember, donating $10 at the gate gets you a sticker that entitles you to $2 LGBT Bay Area kinksters. Along off each drink you buy. with the Folsom Street Events calLeather Week Leading up to the Fair is what has been termed Leather Week, which is chockfull of more places to go and things to do than any kinky person has a right to expect. But, lucky for us, here it is, in our own backyard.

So while the Fair itself is the focal point around which other events revolve, there is still an embarrassment of riches for other offerings throughout Leather Week. Here is just a smattering of them. I also recommend you make use of the Folsom Street Events calendar on their website for a useful listing of details about many of the Leather Week events.

Accompanying this column is a calendar of events of interest to

endar, I recommend you scan this column’s calendar listings too. Between them you should be able to fill your date book with enough to keep you busy nonstop if you so choose. Here are a few event highlights, but really, do look at the calendars and see everything there is to do. There’s just so much.

I’m going to tout one of my own events that’s happening Thursday, September 22. I’m one of the coexecutive producers for Divine Deviance (www.divinedeviance.com), an exciting new multi-part documentary project about kink/BDSM/fetish around the world. We’re having a big kickoff fundraising party at the Armory, 1800 Mission Street, 8-11pm.

There’s a lot going on during the evenings of Leather Week, but what’s there to do during the day? One of our local leather/kink retailers has a great option. Mr. S Leather (www.mr-sleather.com) is hosting their Geared Up in-store parties Friday and Saturday, September 2324, 385 8th Street, from 11am-8pm. Mingle and shop with some of the hottest guys around in one of the world’s most amazing fetish stores.

While so much of Leather Week happens South of Market, the Castro is still a hotbed of sexy people, both local and visiting, during these kinky high holy days. The Edge hosts their monthly Code party on Saturday, September 24, 4149 18th Street, 9pm-2am. This is the only regular leather/kink party in the Castro and this one’s sure to be hopping.

Magnitude, the iconic dance party the night prior to the Fair, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. 20 years! How many of such events can say they’ve been around that long? This year it’s at Midway SF, 900 Marin Street, 9pm-4am.

Typically it pays to get tickets to this event in advance.

Finally, after the Fair, dance and frolic at Deviants Adult Arcade, the official closing party of Folsom Street Fair. It’s at Mezzanine, 444 Jessie Street, 6pm-2am. This is always a great party and a wonderful way to end the busy weekend.

I’ve listed just a few of the dozens of things you can do during this busy time. Check out everything in the calendars and have a blast!

Local award winners The Pantheon of Leather Awards 2016 hosted by Dave Rhodes and The Leather Journal are, to the best of my knowledge, the longest running community awards that span the entire country’s leather/kink/ BDSM/fetish scene. This year the awards ceremony was held on September 1 in Dallas, Texas as part of the International Leather Sir/ boy and International Community Bootblack contest weekend.

I was honored to receive this year’s NorCal/Northwest Regional Award, but much more importantly some amazing people and an organization were honored with awards.

One of the biggest awards Pantheon of Leather bestows is the Mr. Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement award. One each is given to a man and women annually. And yes, that award is named after the originator of this very column you’re now

reading, the forever memorable Mr. Marcus. This year’s woman’s award went to Queen Cougar.

Queen Cougar has a long history of tireless work in our scene. She’s well known not only locally here in the Bay Area, but also nationally and internationally, as a classy, intelligent and thoughtful leader. I asked her for her reaction upon receiving the award.

“I am particularly proud to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award because so many years of my adult life were spent in the company of Leather Fetish people. When your fellows appreciate the work and play you have demonstrated among them and offer their respect to you, then you can never complain that your time was wasted or not well spent.

Also, when you do not campaign for accolades and yet they are offered to you, it is much more appreciated and feels valid. I hope Marcus would have been proud of me.”

I can assure you, Queen Cougar, Mr. Marcus was always proud of you and I know he’d be the first person standing and applauding for this deserved recognition.

Another local kink notable received a Pantheon award. Erik Will, Chairman of the Leathermen’s Discussion Group (www.sfldg.org), received one of the four President’s Awards given at the ceremony. Erik had this to say.

“I have the utmost respect for so many people honored by The Pantheon of Leather Awards. I am touched and humbled that I am included in those names this year.”

Erik does amazing world in our local kink scene and he deserves every recognition he gets.

The Pantheon of Leather awards also recognizes organizations and events as well. This year they honored the IMsL (International Ms. Leather) Foundation (www.imslfoundation.org) with the NonProfit Organization of the Year.

While IMsL is an international competition and its annual event draws women and their friends from around the world, it’s held and produced right here in the Bay Area.

The Foundation is tied closely to the event itself.

The Foundation, established in 2014, supports the development of sex-positive communities, provides education on alternative sexuality and sexual freedom, and enables leaders to

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articulate the values, goals and visions of their diverse communities.

Congratulations to Pat Baillie and everyone she works with as part of the IMsL Foundation for being recognized for the important work you all do.

Iconic leather artist show I was able to attend a recent huge art opening at Strut (www.strutsf. org) for the Becoming Tom show featuring unique works by Tom of Finland, perhaps the most famous kinky artist in the world.

Becoming Tom is a selection of source materials that served as Tom of Finland’s inspiration for finished artworks. Tom (real name Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991) combed a wide variety of visual resources from around the world such as Norman Rockwell’s work in the Saturday Evening Post from the 1940s, Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial from the 1950s and 1960s, and porn magazines such as Drummer and others in the 1980s and 1990s.

For Tom to create his ideal men and perfect his drawing skills, he first needed images of them. In the early years of post-war Europe, magazines were not readily available, so Tom learned how to photograph models and develop and print what he shot.

He added the pictures to his catalog of print material he used as reference for his drawings.

After a preliminary sketch, Tom would draw a finished work, then he would need to document it. He would photograph these works and create contact sheets to mail to customers from which they could order prints; prints which Tom produced in his own darkroom.

Tom enlisted his friends, geared them up, often in his own leathers, and posed them to capture the exact way he wanted the body and gear to look in his realistic drawings.

The Becoming Tom show is a fascinating collection of work that provides you with an insight into this brilliant artist’s mind and process. Anytime you can see a Tom of Finland art show, or one sponsored by the Tom of Finland Foundation (www.tomoffinlandfoundation.org), do it. You’ll be happy you did.t Race Bannon is a local author, blogger and activist. You can reach him through his website, www.bannon.com

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September 22 – October 8, 2016 Thu 22 Divine Deviance @ Armory Social fundraising event for an upcoming kink/BDSM/fetish documentary project. 1800 Mission St., 8-11pm. http://divinedeviance. eventbrite.com

SF Weekend Kick Off Party

by Whitaker & Man Up @ SF Eagle A weekend kick off party with a Cigar & Pipe Men Meet & Greet.

398 12th St., 8pm-12am. www.sf-eagle.com

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Twisted Leather Bear Edition @ Lookout From its home at London’s infamous fetish venue The Hoist, Twisted is fast becoming one of Europe’s most exciting fetish parties; now it’s in San Francisco. 3600 16th St., 9pm2am, $6. www.lookoutsf.com

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Geared Up: The Folsom Party @ Mr. S Leather If you’re in town for the Folsom Street Fair, a stop at Mr. S Leather is a must. 385 8th St., 11am-8pm. www.mr-s-leather.com

Folsom Sunset Cruise @ Pier 40 Brian Kent and Chris Hastings team up once again to bring another unique San Francisco experience, with a leather cruise around the Bay. 6-10pm. $65. www.folsomsunsetcruise2016. eventbrite.com

Fog City Pack Presents: Man’s Best Friend @ Powerhouse Join the pups sporting gym shorts and harnesses for some pre-Folsom flirting and socializing. 1347 Folsom St., 6-9pm. powerhousebar.com

Exiles All Genders Folsom Social @ Center for Sex and Culture The Exiles welcome people of all genders and identities to come enjoy our hospitality. Stop by before your evening party and enjoy demos and delicious refreshments. Each attendee receives a free raffle ticket (and can buy more) for fabulous toys and prizes. Free to Exiles members, suggested donation of $5-20 for non-members. No one is turned away for lack of funds. 1349 Mission St., 7-10pm. www.theexiles.org

Fri 23 Recon @ SF Eagle

Brüt @ The Great Northern

Leather Buddies @ Blow Buddies

Payasos Pre-Folsom Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

Erotic fun for leather and gear guys, $15, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

Join the Los Angeles Payasos for a special Saturday afternoon, pre-Folsom beer bust. Benefits SF Suicide Prevention. $15 for Beer bust and food, $5 for food only, 3-6pm. www.sf-eagle.com

Recon @ SF Eagle Recon brings the official Friday Night Gear Event of the Folsom Street Fair Weekend. 398 12th St., 9pm-2am, $15 (guys in gear) / $20 (guys without) – tickets on the door. www.sf-eagle.com

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

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma Gear play party (leather, rubber, harnesses, etc.) for gay men.

442 Natoma St., $15 (requires $5 membership), 10pm. www.442parties.com

Brüt @ The Great Northern Hot and sexy dance party for geared up, kinky and kink-curious men. $20.

119 Utah St., 10pm. brutparty.com

Sat 24 Big Muscle Party @ DNA Lounge

The Bare Chest Calendar guys and the website www.BigMuscle.com cohost a fundraiser for the AIDS Emergency Fund; expect a hunky horde of big men. $10. 1pm-6pm.

375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

Geared Up: The Folsom Party @ Mr. S Leather If you’re in town for the Folsom Street Fair, a stop at Mr. S Leather is a must. 385 8th St., 11am-8pm. www.mr-s-leather.com

Leather Cruise on the San Francisco Bay @ Pier 40 Annual leather cruise on the Bay for leather, gear and kink men and women. Complimentary cap, pin, lei and photo. Food service and cash bar. Check in at pier at 4:3opm.

Boarding 5:15pm. Return 8:15pm. $75. www.ggguards.org

The 15 Association Men’s Play Party @ Alchemy A men’s BDSM play party. Advance tickets required. 1060 Folsom St., 6pm-12am. www.the15sf.org

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Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club See Fri 23

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Ride Mondays @ Eros See Mon 26

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

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With the kinkiest one of the year, Code is sure to be a big one this month. Check out the only monthly leather party in the Castro. 4149 18th St., 9pm-2am.

11:43 AM www.edgesf.com

Device @ SF Eagle Leather, BDSM, Fetish, Industrial, Electro and Techno night. 398 12th St., 9pm-2am. sf-eagle.com

Magnitude @ The Midway Complex The official Saturday night dance event of Folsom Street Fair. DJs Chus and Ceballos, Joe Gauthreaux, and Citizen Jane in the Big Room with DJs Paul Goodyear and Jack Chang in the Legacy Room. $110 online, $120 retail, and limited door sales. 900 Marin St., 9pm-4am. www.folsomstreetevents.org

Sun 25 Aftershock @ City Nights

Put on your dancing shoes, bring your friends and join the sexiest men, boys and dancing queens from around the world at San Francisco’s epic after hours Folsom dance party. 715 Harrison St., 4am-10am, $40/$60. www.thediscosf.com

Pre-Fair Sober Folk Meetup @ Wicked Grounds

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

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Kinky Bingo @ Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center Debut of new kinky Bingo, now the fourth Wednesday of every month. Anyone wearing leather, fetish or kink gear will receive a free blackout bingo card. 938 The Alameda, San Jose, CA. 6:30pm.

Wed 28 Leather Buddies @ Blow Buddies

Erotic fun for leather and gear guys, $15, 933 Harrison St., 8pm. www.blowbuddies.com

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Red Light District @ Powerhouse Ky Martinez Productions with Race Bannon and Phil Hammock host Red Light District. Cruising, cheap drinks, hot men and dirty beats.

Be prepared to go back to a time when we cruised the bars in an atmosphere of dark lights, horny venue and masculine hard beats.

1347 Folsom St., 9pm-2am, $5. www.powerhousebar.com

Exiles Monthly Munch @ Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe Whether you’re an Exiles member or not, we welcome you to come hang out with us and enjoy the company of like-minded kinky women (along with those self-identifying as other than male) who are 18 and over. 1805 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 6:308:30pm. www.theexiles.org

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Sober Kink Together @ Castro Country Club See Fri 23

Gear Party @ 442 Natoma See Fri 23

Fri 7 – Sun 9

Mr. Bolt Leather 2017 Competition Weekend @ The Bolt, Sacramento Attend the meet and greet, contest and victory BBQ and beer bust over this contest weekend.

2560 Boxwood St., Sacramento. www.sacbolt.com

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Woof! @ SF Eagle Come romp, play and socialize at this monthly pups and Handler mosh event. Mats will be out to pup out on and there are snacks to munch on. Cover is $3 to get in, or $7 for the puppy pass that includes Frolic! Frolic is the monthly furry/puppy/animal dance party at The Stud (399 9th St, San Francisco, CA 94103) from 8pm2am. 398 12th St., 2-5pm. www.SFK9Unit.org

Newly sober and wanting to go to Folsom? Been sober for a while, taken a break from Folsom, and you’re now returning? Perhaps you just want to be with a safe group away from the legions of drunk people that are sure to be throughout the fair? If all, or any of this applies to you then come join us for the pre-fair sober folk meetup. 289 8th St., 10-11:30am. www.wickedgrounds.com

Folsom Street Fair @ Folsom Street from 8th to 13th Streets World’s largest leather and fetish event, attended by thousands, includes multiple bands, booths, and more. $10 suggested donation at the gates gets you $2 off each drink you purchase all day. 11am6pm. www.folsomstreetevents.org

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The official closing party of Folsom Street Fair. Hosted by Honey Sound System with DJ sets

by Roi Perez and Tuff City Kids as well as many others. $30 online, $35 retail, $40 limited door sales.

444 Jessie St., 6pm-2am. www.folsomstreetevents.org

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Folsom Street Fair 101 A primer to help you enjoy the annual kinkfest

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went to my first Folsom Street Fair eleven years ago. I was a little shy and awkward, suffering from PTSD, due to my recent evacuation from New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina. My house hosts told me that I definitely had to wear gear, because, otherwise the leather men would not let me take pictures of them.

As I have grown as a man, I’ve come to celebrate Folsom Street Fair as my favorite San Francisco holiday. The bodies, the music, the clothes, the sex; it’s bigger and better every year. Asked to create a how-to, when-to and where-to during Folsom Street Fair, here are some tips to enjoy the maximum amount of fun suspending reality on one of the most dynamic days of the year.

Now, I didn’t want to be selfish, so I enlisted two very knowledgeable friends to help me out: Cooper, the manager of Worn Out West (www.worn-out-west-2ndgeneration.myshopify.com); Bob Mathis-Friedman, M.A. (Cultural Anthropology) and former “warden” of the now-defunct Mack’s Folsom Prison; and Paul Johnson, owner and operator of Off Ramp Leathers (www.offrampleathers.com).

Cooper’s Tips

Be mindful that this is a charity event. Be polite and give the recommended attendance fee. Remember, we’re helping people with HIV and AIDS. This is San Francisco. Let’s know the world that we know how to take care of our people.

Don’t be sloppy. I won’t tell other adults not to do drugs, but, if you get stupid, you have no one but yourself to blame if you pass out and find images of yourself all over the internet. That is not sexy.

Recycle.

Ask before you touch. Ask before you take pictures. Be very nice to the police, and all of the people working at the fair; the EMTs, the janitorial staff and, of course, the volunteers. Just thank them. Have class and show your appreciation.

Eat before you go and eat after you arrive at the fair.

Make sure to hydrate.

Play. Don’t be too serious.

Be confident and sexy, but, don’t be arrogant. Try something new. Do something fun...and slightly forbidden, but, be safe.

If you aren’t quite sure what to wear, of course, come see us at Worn Out West. We can definitely help you with those last-minute gear decisions, and we have them at very reasonable prices.

sex. Bring menthol cough drops or breath spray. Your partners will thank you. Also, be safe and look out for cuts, sores and bleeding gums, a leading avenue for transmission.

Wear knee pads beneath your pants. Be aware of your glasses.

Place them on a chain, if you like.

They are expensive and the secondmost lost valuable item. Wear contacts, instead.

Should you desire anal sex, prelubricate your anus, before you come to the fair. You’ll last longer.

Further, with water-based lubricants, blend peppermint and/or menthol oils. You’ll thank me later.

Poppers. Keep up with them.

People drop and lose them so easily.

Paul Johnson’s Tips

I have attended both Folsom Street Fair and IML for many years, as a vendor, and these are my tips.

Invest in a belt, something beautiful and powerful. Tight black jeans and black boots always complement the look. If you add a black bandana and aviator sunglasses, you’re good to go.

The bear movement is huge! A bear is a well-groomed, highly masculine, confident, big man, not someone who’s a greasy slob with Momma and KFC issues. Make sure that your jeans and/or gear

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down the middle. I can make it with pockets, to hold all of your belongings. If you’re feeling adventurous, go naked beneath it or wear it with black jeans or a jockstrap.

All boots and shoes must be polished! Arms bands must be correct/ worn on the appropriate arm. If you’re a bottom, I make incredible slave collars. Combine it with just a jockstrap and polished boots (or ragged black jeans) and you’re good to go.

For comfort, it’s best if your boots have rubber soles. This is a job for Doc Martens.

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Bob Friedman’s Tips

When I worked at Mack’s Folsom Prison, we facilitated a lot of orgies. Here’s how to get your freak on right.

If your bilingual, try to advertise that. Put it on a t-shirt, etc. Print it out.

You’ll get more sex that way. If you’re looking for a particular type of sex, print that, too. It pays to advertise.

If you’re really serious about your sex, get business cards printed, with your picture on them. They’re cheap and they work.

Vitamin supplementation, beginning 30 days before the fair, combined with vitamins B, E and zinc, for better erections and more ejaculate. Take the vitamins before bed, every night, so that they’re in your system all night long. The day of the fair, fortify your immune system with Emergen-C, taken with either water or juice. You may want to also garner a penicillin prescription from your doctor.

The number one sex act performed in orgiastic situations is oral

7. is immaculate. Represent yourself and bear culture well!

Another trend I see is this haute couture version of leather genderfuck. That must look extremely expensive and you must have an incredible waistline and glutes to pull it off. Thigh-high hooker boots with six-inch high platform heels must be immaculate, and you’d better know how to walk in them and, yes, that means all. day. long.

Aviators look good on everybody, with everything. The trend that I see and think is modern (and that no one makes better than me) is the big, ankle-length, hypermasculine, post-industrial leather apron, with complimenting or contrasting trim. The color combination that I recommend is oxblood with black leather trim, that zips

Cornelius Washington’s Tips

To prepare themselves for the fair, some people will do a full-body workout. Here’s a quick FSF workout that really works: A: 4x16 lunges. 10 seconds rest between each set.

B: 4x16 squats. 10 seconds rest between each set.

C: Take a three-minute break.

D: 5x16 push-ups. 10 seconds rest between each set.

Take a nice warm bath, for at least 20 minutes, to your favorite soothing music, to create a sensual mood.

Dress to sensual music, as well.

Medium-size nylon, black backpack. You can get them at the thrift store. This is to carry your hotel keys, water (in your own water bottle), protein and candy bars, lube (and plenty of it), condoms breath

1. A Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and another volunteer at the gate of a recent Folsom Street Fair (FSF).

2. Making a great entrance at a recent FSF. 3. A guy in motorcycle gear and two gal pals in a booth at last year’s FSF. 4. Getting a boot polish at the 2015 FSF. 5. A smiling couple at last year’s FSF. 6. A hand-holding couple on their way to last year’s FSF. 7. Group selfie time at last year’s FSF.

mints/sprays and sunscreen. The sun does not discriminate. Put it on every exposed body part, at least twice, during the event.

Definitely go early, so that you may walk around freely and actually see and meet all of the fair’s vendors and their merchandise, and their nerves won’t be so frazzled.

Thank them for participating. As you can imagine, a Folsom Street Fair booth is not cheap, and some have traveled great distances in order to participate. Support your vendors!

Make sure that you are aware of the fact that everyone around you will look their very best. Envy is

never attractive. People come from all over the world to live out their fantasies in the joy, sensuality, sexuality and mood. This is Folsom Street Fair, not a re-boot of Mean Girls. If you cannot act like an adult, in an adult situation with real adults, provide a service to the community, then stay your ass at home!

Dance! Even if you can’t, do it anyway. Shake whatcha mamma gave ya! Wait until the dance area becomes really crowded, get in the middle and, at least try to clap your hands to the beat; movement is life!

Don’t just push your sexual boundaries. Try introducing yourself to at least five people, with a firm handshake and direct eye contact. A great way to begin a conversation is to complement them on what they’re wearing. Another great way to meet people is while you’re eating, during sit-down breaks.

Complement all of the beautiful naked people. To be naked in the sun during Folsom Street Fair is a very courageous act of freedom and sensuality. Encourage them. Thank them.

You process everything better, remember more and enjoy it more holistically if you remain on the sober side. However, if you must partake in drugs and/or alcohol, don’t just accept drugs from anyone, or do them with or around just anyone. If you are in a bar, watch the bartender make and sell your drink to you. Don’t leave your drink unattended. Do not wander the streets, clubs and bars so high that you become a target and wind up a victim. As you can imagine, hospitals, doctors, EMTs, lawyers, bail bondsmen, the court system and jail cells will be quite busy. Be smart.

Have fun. Play safe.

Use a separate debit gift card for your spending at Folsom Street Fair.

Do not take your credit card to the fair. An easy PIN number to remember is a loved one’s birthday.

Water is your friend. Drink it.

Ask for permission. Do not touch or slap anyone’s naked body without their permission. Respect others’ boundaries.

For some reason, gay men are ambivalent in highly masculine situations. There’s no need to discuss the following topics at Folsom Street Fair: A: Your bitterness at not being able to go naked whenever you want, and blaming Scott Weiner for it.

B: The unattractive naked people.

They have every right to their sensuality, too.

C: Complaining about not being to have public sex.

D: Whatever is going on in an episode of The Real Housewives (of any city), and/or fair music critiques.

Folsom Street Fair is a celebration of the leather-fetish culture. Yes, there will be tourists, heterosexuals and people wearing gear “incorrectly.” Change is a part of life. If you see something that may not have been appropriate at The Powerhouse Bar, circa 1999, get over it!

Puppy play and CosPlay are parts of the leather-fetish community.

Embrace them.

Folsom Street Fair comes only once a year. It is an experience that transcends reality, social and cultural norms. Do not try to control the horizontal. Do not try to control the vertical. Release yourself and let a bit of your inner animal come out to roar!t

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Gwynn Villegas (left) and trainers from SF Fitness served as hunky lifeguards at last year’s Celebrity Pool Toss, here with co-host Donna Sachet (center).

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he annual Celebrity Pool Toss at the Phoenix Hotel is one of our favorite unique San Francisco events, offering participants the opportunity to see local celebrities, executives, elected officials, and others tossed into the outdoor pool, raising vital funds for the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.

We attended their preparty last week on the patio of the Phoenix Hotel, where this year’s dunkees were announced, as cocktails flowed and hors d’oeuvres were snapped up. We were reminded

by Jim Losi, one of the event’s cochairs, of the far-reaching impact of the TDNC, building and developing below market housing, providing

after school programs and recreational space for Tenderloin kids, and generally improving the lives of so many. Among the attendees were Lewis Sykes & Jim Connor, Beth Schnitzer, Neil Figurelli, John Rosin, and Chuck Whelon, the creator of this year’s whimsical cartoon advertising image.

The main event is on Tuesday, October 18, starting at 6PM, with tasty bites from Bob’s Steak & Chop House, Brenda’s French Soul Food, Chambers, Farallon, P’Nosh Catering, and many more.

The Fabulous Bud E. Luv Show will once again provide perfect musical entertainment, followed by DJ Pause. If we haven’t sufficiently enticed you yet, consider this: Assemblyman David Chiu and Speaker Emeritus Toni Atkins are

among the confirmed individuals to be tossed into the pool. Come, eat, drink, and bid!

Congratulations to LookOut on its ninth anniversary, celebrated last Saturday all day long with complimentary buffets, special drinks, and their well known exemplary customer service. Gary Virginia accompanied us there that night where we ran into Richard Landry, Ken Henderson, Skye Paterson, Dan O’Leary, Ron Huberman, Brian Kent, and his distinguished father visiting from out of town. We arrived in perfect time for the happy and crowd-pleasing music of DJ Christopher B. From there we toddled down Castro Street, popping into 440 Castro and later The Edge. The warm weather had drawn people out of their homes and other events and into the bustling streets of the Castro neighborhood. Summer has indeed arrived in San Francisco!

If you were out and about on Saturday, you were bound to sense the excitement of Voting Day for the Grand Ducal Council with candidates for Grand Duke Colby Michaels and Peter Griggs and candidate for Grand Duchess Migitte Nielsen canvassing the City in colorful costumes supported by teams of volunteers. The results of the voting won’t be known until this Saturday night at Grand Ducal Coronation 43 at Hotel Whitcomb, starting at 6PM. Come join in the pageantry of this charitable organization and say thank you to hardworking, outgoing Grand Duke Aja Monet Ashton and Grand Duchess Olivia Hart.

Sunday was the long-awaited, first-ever reunion of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, titled On the Shoulders of Heroes, created by Phil Neal Walker which we co-chaired and emceed with Tom Burtch. After months of planning, over 100 chorus alumni attended, joined by nearly as many current members. The setting was The Hall, 1028 Market Street, a central courtyard surrounded by numerous food suppliers and a wine and spirits bar.

As with most reunions, the room buzzed with conversations between reacquainted friends, catching up on months or even years of separation. From the steps of City Hall, where a small band of singers led by John Sims mourned the senseless assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk 38 years ago, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has grown into the internationally recognized, artistically accomplished, community resource and band of brothers it is today.

As many of you may know, we sang with the SF Gay Men’s Chorus for nearly 10 years in the 90’s, under the direction of Dr. Stan Hill, who flew in from his home in Palm

Above: A cute couple at The Lookout on Labor Day Weekend. Last weekend, the bar celebrated its 9th anniversary. Middle: Grand Ducal Council candidates Peter Griggs, Migitte Nielsen and Colby Michaels. Below: Members of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus sang at the 25th anniversary ceremony of the National AIDS Memorial Grove, one of many activities during their alumni weekend.

Springs to be honored by the chorus Over the years of his public serhe helmed during those often dark vice as City Supervisor, State Assemand tumultuous years. blyman, and State Senator, has Mark Stan spoke of dwindling memLeno not attended your birthday, bership, constant hospital visitaanniversary, or other celebration tions, and weekly memorials, all or that of a friend’s, certificate of taking a severe toll on the original recognition in hand, perfect speech and oldest openly gay chorus in prepared, and always conveying the the world. But through it all, Stan professional, yet warm image for and the chorus found strength in which he has become known? music, watching audiences grow, We may not be able to underlaunching successful tours, comstand how he has covered so much missioning original scores, and territory, but we certainly know supporting each other. why: this elected official genuinely Other speakers included current cares about the people he repreArtistic Director Tim Seelig, who sents. As his service in the State has taken the chorus to new heights.

Senate ends due to term limits and All are invited to their upcoming he decides what’s next for him, let’s 39th season of concerts with someall be sure to tell Mark Leno how thing for everyone, starting with much we appreciate him. We love holiday concerts December 9 & 10 you Mark Leno!t at Nourse Theater.

From the reunion, we dashed to The Starlight Room in time to catch most of the second show of Sunday’s a Drag for the very first time as an audience member. Holotta Tymes emceed and performed masterfully, while Lady Tia, Kendra Monroe, and Mahlae held the attendees spellbound. We’ll be back emceeing in October, after Folsom Street Fair this weekend.

Also upcoming is the Horizons Foundation annual gala at the Fairmont Hotel on Saturday, October 1, honoring Bishop Yvette Flunder and State Senator Mark Leno. What better time to express our appreciation for all Mark has done for San Francisco and for the State of California, not to mention State Senator Mark Leno our LGBTQ Community!

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Eat Real Festival @ Jack London Square

Fri 23 Baloney @ Oasis

Eighth annual festival of local food, chefs, and products. Free entry; items $8 and up. 1pm-9pm. Sat 10:30am9pm. Sun 10:30am-5pm. 65 Webster St. at Embarcadero, Oakland. www.eatrealfest.com

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

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

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

Johnny V & Joey D @ Nob Hill Theatre

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Thu 22

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

Circle Jerk @ Nob Hill Theatre Hot porn stud Kurtis Wolfe leads a very interactive event in the downstairs playroom of the famed strip club. $15. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Flume @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium The Australian multi-platinum pop singer-composer performs. Wave Racer and Chalres Murdoch open. $46. 8pm. Also Sept 23 & 24. Civic Center. www.apeconcerts.com

The Gay Agenda @ El Rio

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle

Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

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

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Viewing @ NoMan Coffee Enjoy weekly screenings of the fun drag show at the new queer and artist-owned coffee shop. 8pm. 55 Duboce St. www.nomancoffee.com

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

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Brüt @ The Great Northern

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. auntcharlieslounge.com

Fri 23

Hot and sexy dance party for geared up, kinky and kink-curious men. 119 Utah St., 10pm. www.brutparty.com

Cyndi Lauper, Indigo Girls @ Thunder Valley Resort, Lincoln The pop icon favorite and the folk duo perform. $45-$190. 7pm. 1200 Athens Avenue, Lincoln. www.ticketmaster.com

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

Fri 23 Bearracuda @ Public Works

Juanita MORE! hosts a new ongoing event to promote a crowdfunding campaign for a new book about LGBTQ current affairs and history, with a pop-up gallery of artwork by Terry Furry, performance by Ryan Hayes, DJ Siobhan Aluvalot. 6pm-9pm. GayFace dance party follows thru 1:30am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Mary Go Round @ Lookout Mercedez Munro and Holotta Tymes’ weekly drag show. $5. 10:30pm show.

DJ Philip Grasso. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Michael Di Franco @ Hotel Rex The crooner sings Frank Sinatra classics with piano and bass accompaniment. $30-$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. www. societycabaret.com

Weekly drag shows at the last transgenderfriendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers.

Also Saturdays. $10.

11pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Owen @ Swedish American Hall

Design Meets the Divas of Drag @ Design Center Galleria

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Viewing @ Oasis Enjoy weekly screenings of the Logo drag show in the Fez Room, followed

by Lip-Synch For Your Life with Kylie Minono. No cover. 8pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Viewing @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy the popular Logo drag race at the new Oakland bar. 7pm. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Baloney @ Oasis The sexy fun male burlesque show returns with a new sizzling kinky Folsom-themed show. $25-$50. 7pm.

Thu-Sat thru Sept. 30. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Bearracuda @ Public Works The special Folsom weekend edition of the popular bear dance party features DJs Tony Moran and Paul Goodyear. $20-$30. 9pm-4am. 161 Erie st. at Mission. www.bearracuda.com

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

Night at the Jewseum @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Enjoy performances, cocktails, dances

by Chlo & Co Dance, musicians Shane Mrybeck and Emily Shisko, games and crafts, plus an evening viewing of the Stanley Kubrick exhibit. $8. 21+. 6pm9pm. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecym.org

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

Bonnie Raitt @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley

Iron Butterfly @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Sing along and sing out, Louise, with hostess Sister Flora Goodthyme. 8pm2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Manimal @ Beaux

Sat 24

DJ ZeroOne spins New Wave, PostPunk and Synth-Pop at the fun bar’s monthly dance party. No cover.

9:30pm-1am. 2800 24th St. at York. www.BFF.fm www.popssf.com

Karaoke Night @ The Stud

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

Midnight Show @ Divas

Hang the DJ @ Pop’s Bar

The 60s rock band (“In-A-GaddaDa-Vida”) performs. The Luke Mulholland Band opens. $27-$55. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

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The muscled porn duo perform in special Folsom weekend sex shows. $30. 8pm & 10pm. Also Sept. 24 & 25.

729 Bush St. at Powell. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Fri 23 Design Meets the Divas of Drag @ Design Center Galleria

Second annual variety and runway show with MC Terry McLaughlin, notable drag performers and judges (Tony Bravo, Deven Green, Magnus Hastings, Sister Roma, Paul Wiseman).

Partial proceeds benefit Lava Mae: mobile showers for the homeless. $40-$900. VIP reception 5:30pm.

6:30pm-9pm. 101 Henry Adams St. www.sfdesigncenter.com

DTF Fridays @ Port Bar, Oakland DJ Pacifico plays house music at the new gay bar’s weekly event. 9pm2am. 2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

American Football frontman Mike Kinsella performs folk-rock songs from his solo project.

Birthmark opens. $18-$22. 8:30pm.

2174 Market St. www.owenmusic.com www.swedishamericanhall.com

Recon @ SF Eagle The kink and leather hook-up website’s Folsom weekend night at the famed leather bar. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud The saucy women’s burlesque show hosted by Dottie Lux has moved, with new acts. $10. 8pm-9:30pm. 399 9th St. Also Sunday brunch shows at PianoFight Theatre, 4pm. www.redhotsburlesque.com

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Johnny & Joey Studly porn duo takes Nob Hill Theatre for Folsom weekend Joey D: It is my first time. I am somewhat familiar, but I’m always interested in learning more.

Johnny V: Yes, this is my first time performing at The Nob Hill Theatre. I am actually not aware of its rich history, but I do know that many big name performers have performed there, as well as some of my close friends in the industry.

How do you think you’ll feel when you see your names on the theater’s marquee, and how many pictures (for social media) will you take of yourselves beneath it?

Joey D: Possibly a bit apprehensive and nervous, but, only one picture.

Johnny V: I know for a fact that seeing our names in lights on the big sign out front will be an amazing feeling! I will be excited and jumping for joy to take a selfie in front of it, as most performers do. We will most likely be taking quite a few for our friends and fans.

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he hottest couple in gay male porn is Joey D & Johnny V. They’ve filmed fantastic work with Falcon, Raging Stallion and Hot House Studios, among others.

Their most dynamic and interesting work, of course, is with their own online adult studio, American Muscle Hunks (www.americanmusclehunks.com), where beef-

cake gets extra sexual.

In celebration of their Nob Hill Theater performances during Folsom Street Fair weekend, The Bay Area Reporter presents its first tag-team porn interview. Here’s the heat, the kink, the romance and the muscle.

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How many friends have you told on social media about your performances, and how many do you think will be there to see them?

Joey D: I have been promoting it quite a bit, so I hope a good group of people show up.

Johnny V: Well, I have close to 40,000 followers, so everyone knows about it. We already tweeted out the artwork for our appearances, so we are hoping to draw quite a crowd.

What elements will you bring to the stage that you think will make your live sex performances as a real-life couple more dynamic that those performed by mere colleagues?

Joey D: I’m not sure. I have never seen a show there, nor would I ever compare my performance to another performer’s.

Johnny V: We will definitely bring passion to the stage at The Nob Hill Theatre. We love one another, so we will most definitely bring that vibe to the stage, for all to see. This is all in addition to my amazing cock-sucking abilities, as well, as our level of intimacy we are willing to share with all of our friends and fans. It will be an amazing show!

and a fetish for ghetto boys with big cocks. We share limited kinks.

bottoms for me, something he will never do on-screen.

What kinks, if any, have you brought out in each other?

Joey D: I was always kinky, so, anything he’s tried he has done because of my interest.

Johnny V: Joey basically brought my inner freak out when we met. He taught me to not be afraid of embracing new things, especially in the bedroom. I have pretty much tried everything with Joey D, including some fist play, leather, domination, muscle worship, etc.

To what do your viewers respond most about your webcams?

Joey D: I believe they enjoy the personal aspect of being live oneon-one with an actor.

Johnny V: My viewers love watching me on webcam. They always love how dominant I tend to be while performing on cam, rather than the power bottom side of me that comes out on the big screen.

I am truly versatile in my personal life, and love to top when I can. I am a muscle dude, so they always tend to eat that up. I especially love when they want to worship my body and my big cock.

What’s you favorite gear, on both you and your partner?

Joey D: I love a great cock ring and/or ball stretcher. A nice harness and sunglasses I find hot as well.

Johnny V: I tend to get into the leather scene a bit. I love wearing a flashy harness to show off for the boys a bit. I also enjoy wearing ball stretchers and cock rings as well.

What’s your favorite thing to see your partner do onscreen, sexually?

Joey D: I do not watch his scenes.

Johnny V: I would have to say watching him pound a little muscle boy or a twink boy. He is very dominant and knows how to top, like a champ!

What’s your favorite thing to do with your partner, privately?

Joey D: Cuddle.

Johnny V: My favorite thing to do privately would have to be suck Joey’s big dick and eat his slightly hairy hole, while he sucks my cock (that tends to get me off very quickly). I also like when he

Reveal to your partner (and my readers) something you want you partner to do more of, sexually.

Joey D: I am not as sexual person as some would think. I enjoy more romance in a relationship.

Johnny V: I want my partner to let me eat his ass more and fuck him.

Have you ever been to Folsom Street Fair before, separately or as a couple, and what was it like for you?

Joey D: We went together a couple years ago and it was enjoyable. I love the fetish community. It is my favorite and I look forward to possibly getting more work that involves it.

Johnny V: Yes, we have been to Folsom Street Fair before, as a couple. It was an eye opener, hence, people basically do not hold back during this fest. All walks of life strut the streets half naked and enjoy themselves, thoroughly. I love it!

What do you want to see when you visit Folsom Street Fair?

Joey D: People enjoying themselves for who they are and not being afraid to let their kinks out.

Johnny V: I want to see the amount of people we attract to our event at the Nob Hill Theatre, and maybe shop for some new gear!t

Read more with Johnny V and Joey D online at www.ebar.com/bartab Johnny V & Joey D perform in special Folsom weekend sex shows. $30. 8pm & 10pm. Sept. 23, 24 & 25.

The Nob Hill Theatre, 729 Bush St. at Powell. thenobhilltheatre.com

How did you meet?

Joey D: Through friends.

Johnny V: We met through a mutual friend. Joey was actually dating one of my good friends, who managed a bar I worked at. So, to thoroughly answer your question, Joey and I first met at a bar in Chicago. We then started to chat on social media, and continued on from there.

How long have you been together?

Joey D: 6 years.

Johnny V: We have been together 5.5 years.

Who asked whom to be his boyfriend?

Joey D: It wasn’t really a question, we just did it.

Johnny V: The feelings and conversation was definitely mutual.

What are your kinks, separately? Do you share any as a couple?

Joey D: I have few limits and many kinks. The only one I think we may share is some ball torture, but, again, me more than him.

Johnny V: My kink is hairy buttholes. I also have a small shoe fetish

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Top: Johnny V (left) and Joey D (right), in promotional stills for Raging Stallion Bottom: Joey D and Johnny V

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

Shag @ The Stud Guido Candito’s fun retro night, with hsotess Dulce De Leche and dJ Sergio Fedasz. 10pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

ShangriLa @ The EndUp The popular Asian gay dance night features “dirty pop” Drew & Brian Chua, and the Underwear Calendar launch and runway show. $10-$15.

10pm-3am. 401 6th St. www.shangrilasf.net

Soul Party @ Elbo Room

Sat 24

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

ShangriLa @ The EndUp

Sugar @ The Cafe

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Shenanigans @ Oasis The costume theme party celebrates The Magic Kingdom; don your fave Disney drag! DJs Bradley P. Juan, Salazar and Scott Shepard. $15-$20.

10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom.

795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

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

StartOut Awards @ St. Regis Hotel

Dance Party @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy relaxed happy hour cocktails early (open at 5pm) and later dancing in the cozy back room at the newest LGBT bar. Daily 5pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Drag Me to Brunch @ Lookout Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

New Breed @ Club Six The Pound Puppy and Polyglamorous crews present a dance and sexy cruise part, with DJs Jackie House, Mark O’Brien, M*J*R, Jeffrey Sfire, Clark Price, Taco Tuesday, Kevin O’Connor, Siobahn Aluvalot and Collin Bass. $25-$40.

10pm-4am. 60 6th St. www.eventbrite.com

Dance, drink, cruise at the Castro club.

9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Hornsby @ Greek Theatre, Berkeley The award-winning singer-composer performs music from her 20 albums. $45-$125. 8pm. 2001 Gayley Road, Berkeley. www.apeconcerts.com

Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge Folsom special Black & Blue Ball, with Smash-Up derby live, DJs Mysterious D, King of Pants, Shyboy and Dada. at the mash-up DJ dance party, with four rooms of different sounds and eight DJs. $10-$15 and up. 9:30pm3am. 375 11th St. www.bootiesf.com www.dnalounge.com

Club Rimshot @ Club BNB, Oakland The weekly hip hop and R&B night celebrates Oakland Pride, with a live performance by Netta B. $15. 9pm to 4am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

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

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Luis.

7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Folsom Party @ Oasis DJs Pinky Ring and MC2 spin grooves at the Folsom-adjacent party, with BBQ and a roof deck view of the Fair.

11am-12am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Pollo del Mar’s weekly drag show takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:3011:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Hard French XXX @ The Cat Club

Andrew Whitton

Bears Den @ Rickshaw Stop

Tritonal @ Fox Theatre, Oakland

DJ Pagano spins at the fetish dance party; wear your rubber, leather, jock gear. $40. 10pm-4am. 60 6th St. www.guspresents.com

The Bare Chest Calendar guys and the website www.BigMuscle.com cohost a fundraiser for the AIDS Emergency Fund; expect a hunky horde of big men. $10. 1pm-6pm. 375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

Big Top @ Beaux

Tue 27

Underworld @ Club Six

Big Muscle Party @ DNA Lounge

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

Weekly dance night with nearly naked gogo guys & gals; DJs Chad Bays, Ms. Jackson, Becky Know and Jorge T. $4.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The monthly bathhouse-themed night with towel-clad gogos, clothes check, and a $100 wet towel contest. $10.

9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Latin, hip hop and Electro music night.

June 11, Banda Tierra Del Sol performs live. $5-$25. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

GlamaZone @ The Cafe

Steam Does Folsom @ Powerhouse

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland

Enjoy daytime partying with bears and cubs, plus fundraisers for the SF Fog Rugby team. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Nitty Gritty @ Beaux

Actor comic Leslie Jordan MCs the 5th annual local LGBT entrepreneurs awards ceremony, honoring Chip Conley, Erika Karp, Jeff Ragovin and Stephanie Lampkin, and Here Media. $300 and up. 6:30pm-11:30pm. www.startout.org

Sat 24

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon

The pop-R&B DJ duo performs; Apek opens. $30-$40. 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. www.apeconcerts.com

Sun 25

Sat 24

Tritonal @ Fox Theatre, Oakland

Garbage @ Masonic Hall The innovative alt-rock band, with elad singer Shirley Manson, perform as part of their world tour. Cigarettes After Sex opens. (See interview from last week’s issue: http://bit. ly/2cAuHKi ). $39-$55. 8pm. 1111 California St. www.garbage.com www.livenation.com

Jacquiline De Muro @ Hotel Rex The chanteuse-composer performs her new show, Songs of Love and Longing with pianist Christopher David Hewitt. $30-$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

Lera Lynn @ Slim’s The singer-composer, who’s received raves from The New York Times and Rolling Stone, performs songs from her new album, Resistor. William Wild opens. $18-$20 ($43 with dinner).

9pm. 333 11th St. slimspresents.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s weekly drag show night with different themes, always outrageously hilarious. Sept. 24 is a special Folsom Bash, hosted by SF Spikes soccer team. $10. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. at Folsom. 795-3180. www.sfoasis.com

Pretty in Ink @ Powerhouse Tattoo night at the leather bar with DJ Salazar. $10. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

BeBe Sweetbriar’s Brunch Revue, Femme @ Balancoire Weekly live music shows with various acts, along with brunch buffet, bottomless Mimosas, champagne and more, at the stylish nightclub and restaurant. BeBe hosts, with live entertainment and DJ Shawn P. $15$20. 11am-3pm. After that, Femme T-Dance drag shows at 7pm, 10pm and 11pm. 2565 Mission St. at 21st.

920-0577. www.balancoiresf.com

The soul and funk party’s Folsom edition gets a little kinky, with an all-women People of Color DJ line-up: Discwoman, Mozhgan, Olga T and Brown Amy. $10-$25.6pm-12am.

1190 Folsom St. www.hardfrench.com www.catclubsf.com

Jock @ The Lookout

Enjoy the weekly jockular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am.

NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm.

3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra @ Yoshi’s Oakland The instrumental guitarist performs. $29-$59. 7pm & 9pm. 9/26 at 8pm.

510 Embarcadero West, Oakland.

(510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

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Garbage @ Masonic Hall

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

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

Underwear Night @ Club OMG Weekly underwear night includes free clothes check, and drink specials. $4.

10pm-2am. Preceded by Open Mic Comedy, 7pm, no cover. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

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Wed 28

Squeeze @ Great American Music Hall

Bedlam @ Beaux

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

Top of the Hole @ DNA Lounge

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s

Hella Saucy @ Q Bar

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

Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht.

9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

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

Bondage-a-Gogo @ The Cat Club

Twisted @ The EndUp

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Late night dance party with DJ Paulo, plus Glovibes and Hawthorne; porn stud Boomer Banks and pals host. $40. 2am-10am. 401 6th St. www.facebook.com/theendup

11th annual Folsom dance event, with DJs Haute Toddy, Paul Goodyear, Becky Knox, outdoor disco stage with the Go Bang! guys (Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, Prince Wolf and Marcelino), plus Bambi San Juan in the Make Out Room. $15. 12pm-2am.

375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

Underwear Night @ 440

Mon 26

Bandit @ Lone Star Saloon

Drag Mondays @ The Cafe Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko’s weekly drag and dance night.

9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

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

Tue 27

New weekly queer event with resident DJ Justime; electro, soul, funk, house.

No cover. 9pm-1am. 1354 Harrison St. www.facebook.com/BanditPartySF www.lonestarsf.com

Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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

Marcus Miller @ Yoshi’s Oakland

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Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge The classic drag show features Collette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre. No cover. 9:30pm-11:15pm. 133 Turk St. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Floor 21 @ Starlight Room Juanita More! presents the weekly scenic happy hour event, with host Rudy Valdez, and guest DJs. No cover, and a fantastic panoramic city view.

5pm-9pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Latin Drag Night @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez. 9pm-2am.

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

LGBT Pub Crawl @ Castro Weekly guided tour of bars. $10-$18.

Meet at Harvey Milk Plaza, 7:45pm.

Also morning historic tours on Mon, Wed, & Sat. www.wildsftours.com

Michael Feinstein & Lorna Luft @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

The weekly gay/straight/whatever fetish-themed kinky dance night goes Rocky Horror for Folsom, with Barely Legla performing a few numbers, a costume contest, DJs Tomas Diablo, Damon and Carnierobber. $7-$10.

9:30pm-2:30am. 1190 Folsom St. www.bondage-a-go-go.com www.catclubsf.com

The piano master and singer-actress perform a special salute to the music of Judy Garland (Luft’s mother). $80$100. 7pm. Sept. 29 & 30, 8pm. Oct. 1 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Bone @ Powerhouse

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

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

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West

The two-time Grammy-winning jazz bassist performs with his band. $33$65. 8pm & 10pm. 9/28 8pm & 10pm.

510 Embarcadero West, Oakland.

(510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover.

8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Gaymer Meetup @ Brewcade

Tue 27

The weekly LGBT video game enthusiast night includes big-screen games and signature beers, with a new remodeled layout, including an outdoor patio. No cover. 7pm-11pm.

2200 Market St. www.brewcadesf.com

Marcus Miller @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Sat 24 Lera Lynn @ Slim’s

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

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

Mule Mondays @ Port Bar, Oakland Enjoy frosty Moscow Mule cocktails in a brassy mug, specials before 8pm.

2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portbaroakland.com

Musical Mondays @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night; also Wednesdays. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing.

4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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

Opulence @ Beaux Weekly dance night, with Jocques, DJs Tori, Twistmix and Andre. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Bears Den @ Rickshaw Stop The British folk-rock duo performs.

Liza Anne opens. $1. 8pm. 155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

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

Cock Shot @ Beaux Shot specials and adult Bingo games, with DJs Chad Bays and Riley Patrick, at the new weekly night. No cover.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

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

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

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

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

44 Castro St. www.the440.com

Tap That Ass @ SF Eagle Bartender Steve Dalton’s beer night happy hours. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Open Mic/Comedy @ SF Eagle Kollin Holts hosts the weekly comedy and open mic talent night. 6pm-8pm.

398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland

Pussy Party @ Beaux

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

Ladies night at the Castro dance club.

9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Dial It Up @ Starlight Room Juanita MORE! hosts a meet & greet with local political candidates and activists, including Jane Kim, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club members, Cleve Jones, Tom Temprano, Kimberly Alvarenga, Hillary Ronen, Sandra Lee Fewer, Bevan Dufty, Aaron Peskin, Rafael Mandelman, Mark Sanchez, David Campos, Shanell Williams and more. No cover. 6pm-10pm. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell St. www.juanitamore.com

Queer Fashion Week @ Various Oakland Venues Second annual conference with multiple events, including fabulous runway shows of designs by local LGBTQ designers (Kirrin Finch, Unbound Estillo, Re/Dress, Size Queen Clothing, Dapper Boi, Ricee’s Pieces Designs, Sambi Fashions, and many more), parties, performances and panels. $10 (single event)-$200 (full pass). Thru Oct. 2. Venue, 420 14th St., Starline Social Club, 2236 MLK Drive, and other venues. www.queerfashionweek.com

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Sing along and sing out, Louise, with hostess Sister Flora Goodthyme. 8pm-2am.

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

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol.

8pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

SF Drag King Contest @ Oasis Fudgie Frottage and Sister Roma cohost the 21st annual hilarious fun and sexy contest for the best drag king act, with Leigh Crow, Arty Fishal, Mason Dixon Jars, Momma’s Boyz, Madd Dogg 20/20, Klingon Vanna White, Mutha Chucka,

Clammy Faye, Rebel Kings, FellaFem, GenderQueer Society and more. Proceeds benefit PAWS (Pets Are Wonderful Support). $20-$25.

9:30pm-112am. 298 11th St. www.sfdragkingcontest.com www.sfoasis.com

Skate Night @ Church on 8 Wheels Groove on wheels at the former Sacred Heart Church-turned disco roller skate party space, hosted by John D. Miles, the “Godfather of Skate.” Also Wed, Thu, 7pm-10pm.

Sat afternoon sessions 1pm-2:30pm and 3pm-5:30pm. $10. Kids 12 and under $5. Skate rentals $5. 554 Fillmore St. at Fell. www.churchof8wheels.com

Throwback Thursdays @ Qbar Enjoy retro 80s soul, dance and pop classics with DJ Jorge Terez. No cover.

9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s Squeeze @ Great American Music Hall The British pop band performs classic hits and songs from their 14th studio album, Cradle to the Grave. Look Park opens. $50 ($75 with dinner). 8pm. 859 O’Farrell St. www.slimspresents.com www.squeezeofficial.com

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

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos, and retro drink prices. 9pm2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

James J. Siegel’s monthly reading series at the popular martini bar welcomes Cyrus Armajani, Yvonne Campbell, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Hollie Hardy, David Welper, and singer-songwriter Kim Lembo. No cover. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

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

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

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Thu 29 SF Drag King Contest @ Oasis

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

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle Music night with local and touring bands. Sept. 22: Homobiles kick off Folsom weekend. 9:30pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night; 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com Want your nightlife event listed?

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ans of the Emmy Awards enjoyed watching celebrities snag trophies on TV on Sunday Sept. 18, while enjoying the blast of sunshine and happy hour cocktails at the popular Castro bar at 4067 18th Street. www.midnightsunsf.com.

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