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Pope to resign

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Masculinity, made mobile

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n Valentine’s Day, why not allow celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz to deconstruct the concepts of masculine and feminine with his new iPad app, Pretty Masculine?

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Celebrating Mardi Gras!

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rewe de Kinque’s 10th annual Bal Masque party was held a few days before Mardi Gras but the festivities were spirited in the tradition of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Ginger Snap, left, and Art Sanchez were among the nearly 200 people who attended the February 9 party at the ARC in San Francisco, said organizer Gary Virginia. This year the party benefited the Transgender Law Center. A new king and queen were also chosen. For the dish, see the On the Town column on page 24.

Pride CEO discusses plans

by Seth Hemmelgarn

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he new head of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and Celebration Committee has a lot of ideas for making Pride a year-round event.

“Pride is much more than just that weekend, that week, or that month,” Earl Plante, 40, said, referring to the annual June celebration. Ideas include a speaker series and discussions on topics Jane Philomen Cleland like marriage equality.

Earl Plante But first, Plante, the openly gay CEO of San Francisco Pride, said the group has to get through this year’s festivities, which are planned for June 29-30.

Officials are “on target,” Plante, who officially started the job December 17, said in a recent interview.

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Concord couple Kelly Whitney, left, and Trisha Pulido, shown with their cat Buddy, are participants in San Francisco State University’s same-sex couple study.

SFSU study seeks same-sex couples

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n today’s world belonging to a sexual minority population often means experiencing invisibility, marginalization, and discrimination, making day-to-day life challenging. Imagine taking on twice that burden, as is what happens when people enter into

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same-sex relationships – your partner’s stresses often become your own, too.

In partnership with the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, San Francisco State University’s Health Equity Institute is spearheading Project SHARe:

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ay and lesbian Catholics offered measured reaction this week to the unexpected news of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation and decision to step down at the end of the month.

The announcement surprised, if not shocked, the one billion Roman Catholics worldwide.

News of his resignation came during a meeting of Vatican cardinals Monday. “After having repeatedly examined my conscience Pope Benedict XVI before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” Benedict said, according to the English language text of his remarks from Reuters.

Benedict’s departure marks the first time in six centuries that a pontiff has resigned.

The 85-year-old pope spoke of his decision to resign as one of “great importance for the life of the church.”

A March conclave, a meeting of the College of Cardinals, will convene to elect the pope’s successor, perhaps before Easter, March 31.

Benedict, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was elected pope on April 19, 2005.

From 1981 until his election, Ratzinger served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church’s doctrinal enforcement arm. In both roles as prefect and pontiff, he was a decidedly conservative theologian, crafting increasingly hardline doctrine against homosexuality.

Nevertheless, Benedict’s resignation prompted muted reactions from some LGBT Catholics.

“I think the pope’s resigning is one of the noblest things he had done in his papacy,” said Ernest L. Camisa, secretary of Dignity San Francisco.

Another gay Catholic, Eugene McMullan agreed. “I can only feel a profound sense of relief, gratitude and renewed hope on hearing the news that Pope Benedict has resigned,” he said.

“This should be good news for everyone,” added McMullan, who is a lead organizer with the advocacy group Catholics for Marriage Equality in California.

Francis DeBernardo, executive director of New Ways Ministry, said in a statement that while members of his organization “are praying for the future of the church and for the pope’s health,” they “are praying, too, for LGBT Catholics and their families and friends, whose lives were made more difficult living under Benedict’s reign.”

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an Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, left, presented a commendation Tuesday, February 12 to the 16 members of the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Band and Color Guard who participated in the Presidential Inaugural Parade January 21 in Washington, D.C. The band members were just some of the LGBT musicians from around the country who marched as a contingent in the parade.

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Final Dolores Park design unveiled

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early a dozen renderings of the Mission Dolores Park redesign from 2013 were placed next to a redesign from 2012 at an open house last week like a game of spot the difference, but few visitors could tell discern the distinctions.

The differences are due to 16 months of environmental review and debate with the Planning Commission over the historical preservation of the park, which nearly resulted in the design’s demise.

“We could have moved faster had we not honored the community input,” which spanned eight months of exhaustive workshops, project manager Jake Gilchrist said.

The renderings showed an entirely redesigned park with new buildings, two new restrooms on opposite sides of the park that would replace existing graffiti-riddled facilities, and a wide promenade that would traverse the span of the park diagonally.

What surprised visitors to the February 6 open house was the subtlety of the changes, which Gilchrist said was a cause of the delay.

The planters that will adorn the stairway to the historic Muni station below the Church Street pedestrian bridge were to be buried in dirt, but the station may be designated as a historic landmark.

And other components of the redesign, like a bathroom that would have been built on top of the hill adjacent to the new playground, have been changed so as not to disrupt the park.

Steve Cancian, an architect and an organizer of community outreach for Dolores Park Works, described the steps to the historic train platform as an “attractive nuisance” that invite public sex and said they should have been buried under soil like the community had decided.

Other changes to the park are more apparent.

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Steven Cancian, from Shared Spaces and Dolores Park Works, explains some of the proposed changes to Dolores Park during a community open house about the rehabilitation of the park.

A 10-foot-wide promenade will be paved diagonally across the span of the park, working as a transportation artery for maintenance vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, and the disabled, to meet ADA compliance of a 5 percent grade or lower across the span of the park.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, wheelchair-bound pedestrians will traverse the park at less than a 5 percent grade starting from the intersection at Church and 18th streets to the intersection at Dolores and 20th streets and will surmount a low, railed grade to the bell at the park’s 19th Street entrance.

Robin Lewis, a 59-year-old antique shop manager who lives on Dorland Street, expressed grievances of what she considered diminishing grassy areas and the addition of concrete.

“I would be dismayed by more roads being put in,” Lewis said at the open house. She had attended three previous workshops and didn’t know that there had been nearly 50 meetings.

A new irrigation system will replace the old rusted and broken pipes that cause the ubiquitous flooding in the park, which turns the soccer field adjacent to the tennis courts into a sodden marsh.

The total cost of the park’s redevelopment will amount to $11.7 million – $8.5 million for construction of new buildings like the operation and maintenance center near the Church Street Muni station, which will feature amenities like a kitchenette and a caged storage space for maintenance equipment.

Operations are presently conducted in an office riddled by graffiti near the existing bathrooms, and equipment is stored in portable containers on a ridge of the park.

Construction on the southern half of the park is scheduled to begin this October, leaving the northern half open until March 2014, when that side will close for construction.

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Senate OKs inclusive VAWA

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penly lesbian Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) was in the chair’s seat February 12 when the Senate voted 78-22 to approve a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, including provisions for gay male victims of domestic abuse.

The Human Rights Campaign praised Senate passage of the bill and its 34-65 rejection, during debate last week, of an amended version of the bill that would have eliminated language including LGBT victims.

The House is now expected to take up the measure but is also expected to do what it did during the

last congressional session. Last year, the House passed a version that omitted language enabling gay men to access services funded by the program. The House also eliminated new language to make the program more accessible to immigrant and Native American tribal victims of domestic abuse. The congressional session expired before a HouseSenate conference committee came to a resolution.

The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, reported this week that there may be a small movement afoot in the House to gain Republican support for the Senate bill this time. Last year, the House vote was 221-205. The Hill says 17 Republican members of the House have written a letter to Re-

publican House leaders urging them to support a bipartisan bill.

Democrats see the Senate version as an attempt to expand protections for more victims of domestic abuse, including LGBT people, immigrants, and Native Americans, who are disadvantaged under the current law. Republicans see the Senate version as an attempt to funnel federal funds to progressive groups, such as LGBT health clinics.

A final version was never hammered out but funding for the existing program has been continued temporarily in the expectation that the program will eventually be reauthorized.

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Rise in cellphone thefts spurs hearing

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s cellphone thefts continue to surge citywide, Supervisor Scott Wiener convened a hearing and heard from city officials who said they are aware of the “alarming” rise in robberies but presented limited options to deter the frequency of what is sometimes called Apple picking because the company’s iPhones are such a popular target.

“It seems like everywhere I go, every community meeting I go to, people are talking about this,” Wiener said. “They know someone or know someone who knows someone who’s been robbed and feel a high level of concern.”

The February 7 hearing included members of the Board of Supervisors’ City Operations and Neighborhood Services and Public Safety committees and officials from the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency, the San Francisco Police Department, and the district attorney’s office. Law enforcement officials pointed to existing strategies to combat the rise of smartphone theft but did not present any new strategies to identify or to prosecute the thieves who officials say are professional and working largely unorganized.

“We need to employ a prevention strategy,” Wiener said, adding that he is interested in a public aware-

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San Francisco Police Commander Mikail Ali discussed an increase in cellphone thefts at a hearing of two Board of Supervisors’ committees.

ness program that highlights the vulnerability of using smartphones in public.

Public outcry regarding a rise of cellphone theft in particular has resonated citywide. According to a police department CompStat report, robberies have increased 11 percent overall since 2011, and police say 40

to 50 percent of these crimes involve cellphone theft.

Last year’s holiday season between October and November witnessed a jump of 70 percent in theft compared to the year prior, the report noted.

The trend is nationwide. The Federal Communications Commission reported last year that 38 percent of thefts in Washington, D.C. and 40 percent in New York City were cellphone-related.

Officials say thieves look to snatch devices from unsuspecting and distracted victims then turn around and sell them for several hundred dollars. Some of the phones are sold in hand-to-hand transactions or sometimes overseas.

Particular worry of crime in the Castro and Bernal Heights districts culminated in community meetings where upset members of the public sought more police intervention.

Tracking stolen phones

The major cellphone carriers, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, introduced a database last year initiated by the FCC, allowing customers to report the theft of their phone, which is then added to a database to prevent it from being reappropriated.

This database works only on devices with Mobile Equipment Identity numbers, unlike the coveted

iPhone, which uses a replaceable SIM card, making it desirable to thieves.

San Francisco Police Commander Mikail Ali said a range of efforts by officers help curb cellphone theft but admitted that the number of distracted cellphone users has outweighed plainclothes officers, who attempt to lure perpetrators by haphazardly using smartphones.

An inquiry by Supervisor Eric Mar highlighted a dearth of ethnic or age demographics of cellphone thefts. He noted “suspicion” by his Chinese constituents who feel that they are being targeted after an armed robbery of employees of a Clement Street pharmacy.

And Wiener, whose district includes Noe Valley and the Castro, said that even concealed smartphones in bags are susceptible to theft, like the January stabbing of a man walking a block from his home at 14th and Noe streets. His backpack was subsequently stolen, which contained a tablet and an iPhone.

In Ingleside last month, an armed robbery of an iPhone with a “Find My Phone” application led a Bayview officer to the Tenderloin, where the suspect was apprehended.

This uncovered an organized group of thieves that Captain Timothy Falvey suspects are connected to six or seven other robberies.

In a Sunset robbery last month, a

Mixed views on Obama speech

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resident Barack Obama continued his trend of including references to LGBT people in his State of the Union address, but he got mixed reviews from the community itself.

Early in the one-hour speech February 12 he told Congress and the national television audience, “It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country – the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love.”

Later, in talking about the military, he said, “We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families

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– gay and straight.”

Neither the Republican response to the address, delivered by Florida Senator Marco Rubio, nor the response offered by Tea Party Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) addressed any gay specific issue.

Family Equality Council Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler singled out the president’s general comment for fairness, saying, “Tonight the president made clear that every American deserves to have a shot at the American dream regardless of where they live, what they look like or who they love.”

Allyson Robinson, head of the OutServe-SLDN, applauded the military-specific statement, saying “President Obama was very clear tonight in his assertion that lesbian

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piece of legislation with both political parties since 1994, when it was first passed. But this year, the Senate version of the bill to reauthorize the program includes language specifying that VAWA-funded programs cannot discriminate based on the sexual orientation or gender identity of a victim. It includes funding for “underserved” populations “who face barriers in accessing and using victim services because of various reasons, including because of sexual orientation and gender identity.” And it provides that certain grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act can be used for “developing, enlarging, or strengthening programs and projects to provide services and responses targeting male and female victims of domestic violence ... whose ability to access traditional services and responses is affected by their sexual orientation or gender identity.”

VAWA provides $650 million annually for programs to prevent domestic abuse, to train law enforcement personnel on how to handle incidents, and provide shelter and other services to victims.

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According to a 2010 report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, almost 45 percent of LGBT people and people with HIV who sought help from domestic violence shelters in 2010 were turned away because of “institutionalized anti-LGBTQH discrimination.”

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and gay service members and their families must be treated equally by the nation they serve.”

But Rea Carey, head of the Na-

tional Gay and Lesbian Task Force, sounded a disappointed tone.

“We have often said that President Obama is the most pro-LGBT

woman’s stolen iPhone was used to help police find three men who were later arrested and booked for armed robbery.

Ali suggested at the meeting that Apple product users enable iCloud, which can track a stolen phone via GPS. An advertising campaign by SFMTA last fall showed a train platform where a man wearing a suit and oversized headphones used a tablet PC while shadowy figures loomed from behind.

“The public needs to be educated that when you’re holding up a tablet it’s an opportunity for someone to take it and go,” Commander Lea Militello of SFMTA Special Operations said.

Militello said that when bus operators suspect a thief onboard, they’re encouraged to announce phone safety tips without identifying the perpetrator, as it would be “inappropriate.”

Sharon Woo, the chief assistant to District Attorney George Gascón, said that there are 220 open robbery property cases that include cellphones. She added that juvenile thefts are on the rise but couldn’t provide age or ethnic demographics.

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UCSF should restore LGBT center

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or the first time in more than 10 years, it appears that UCSF will no longer have a standalone Center for LGBT Health and Equity, an office that was the first-of-its-kind in the country.

The center’s most recent director, Shane Snowdon, left last summer to take a position with the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C. Since then, her position hasn’t been filled, and according to a recent job announcement, it won’t be. Instead, the university is looking to hire a diversity program manager/LGBT specialist, which is a significant step down from a director. Additionally, this new program manager/LGBT specialist won’t be focusing solely on LGBT concerns.

Rather, the job overview states that the person “is responsible for the design, execution, and assessment of diversity and outreach programs that advance the strategic goals of the Office of Diversity and Outreach and the UCSF campus, including UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.” In other words, the position will have a “special focus” on the LGBT community, but that won’t be exclusive as it was in the past. A more detailed job description reveals that the specialist would spend only 25 percent of their time managing the health center.

It appears that the position has been downgraded. As Snowdon wrote on the UCSF LGBT Facebook page, UCSF will be the only UC campus (except Merced) without an LGBT Center director. “Since 1999, there has been a fulltime LGBT director at UCSF, and the center ... has been a major campus, Bay Area, and national resource.” It’s not even clear the UCSF Center for LGBT Health and Equity still exists, as it’s not mentioned in the current job posting, Snowdon noted.

A concerned member of the UCSF LGBT community who sent us an anonymous email because of fear of retaliation pointed out that the change – dividing the time between general diversity work and LGBT concerns – will “significantly damage

the substantial progress made at UCSF since the LGBT center’s creation in 1998.”

We are, of course, aware of the devastating state budget cuts to higher education over the last several years, but the LGBT center ran on a budget of $100,000 to $150,000, from internal and external sources – a drop in the bucket of the overall budget. Considering UCSF is located in San Francisco, which has one of the highest percentages of LGBT residents in the country, the move to lessen the focus of the LGBT center is a headscratcher. It represents a significant cutback in UCSF support for the LGBT community – both on its campus and at large – and is not acceptable.

Vice Chancellor Dr. J. Renee Navarro told us this week that she

remains committed to the center, and that the changes were made so that diversity issues would be approached in a combined fashion. While there are benefits to coalitions in diversity work, the fact remains that LGBTs at UCSF and elsewhere continue to have unique health and education issues.

UCSF is a world-class learning institution, and has one of the best medical schools in the country. It works closely with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital. The LGBT community in San Francisco has benefitted enormously from UCSF research, programs, and the like. Now, the university wants to diminish its LGBT health center for no apparent reason.

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Monogamy with your long-term Valentine

by Adam D. Blum

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here’s a widespread myth that gay men can’t, won’t, or don’t maintain long-term monogamous relationships. The reality, according to good research, is that hundreds of thousands of gay men in long-term relationships are enjoying sexually satisfying monogamous relationships.

If you are interested in maintaining a longterm monogamous relationship, here are four tips to help you along the way.

Talk about sex

Perhaps we learn from the movies that good sex should just happen immediately and automatically, with lots of passionate bumping into tables and knocking pictures off walls. In reality, like all aspects of a relationship, it gets much better if we talk about it.

For some couples this is difficult. Sex for gay men – as well as for everyone else – can be doused with a heavy serving of shame, which can make it embarrassing to discuss. It takes practice and courage. For many couples it is safer to talk about sex with your clothes on. For best results give the conversation a spirit of playfulness and flirtation rather than criticism. After all, the whole purpose of sex is to have fun.

The best topic for conversation? Simply tell each other what you like.

Unleash creativity

Over time, sex with your partner can become boring. Doing something the same way over and over again can make anything dull.

To add variety to your sex life together, consider accessing your creativity or your bravery and start exploring some of your private sexual fantasies together.

You and your partner can create the experience of something new by pretending that your partner is someone else.

It’s no secret that newness is a turn-on for most people, so why deny it? Fantasy takes the familiar and makes it fresh and exciting again.

Perhaps you may be thinking that it is distancing or unromantic to think about someone else when you are having sex with the man you love.

Consider this: it can actually be very intimate to share your fantasies with your mate. It becomes

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intimate when your partner knows that you are engaging in a fantasy together.

For more inspiration you might consider taking a couples workshop at the Body Electric School (www.thebodyelectricschool.com). It is a respected organization that offers powerful erotic education workshops.

Resolving resentments

I believe the number one reason couples stop having sex is due to resentments that have built up over the years that have not been worked through. Nothing kills a sex life faster than feeling annoyed or angry with your partner.

If on the surface you and your partner get along well but have stopped having sex, then it may be time to look deeper to discover what is blocking this important expression of intimacy. Ignoring your sex life for years often leads to trouble and crisis in a relationship.

The art of resolving conflict is an essential relationship skill. In a healthy relationship it can’t be avoided, but it can be learned.

Know what you are yearning for

If you find yourself secretly looking for sex outside of your monogamous relationship it is important for you to understand why.

We may tell ourselves that we are looking for

hot sex but more commonly we are looking for validation. In fact, most people I work with report that sex with that cute stranger is ultimately disappointing but the chase and knowing that he finds you attractive is delicious.

When it comes to sex with strangers, the truth is our fantasies are often more exciting than reality.

If you are looking for validation (who isn’t?) then you might want to take some time to explore what is missing in that sphere. Do you and your partner validate each other regularly? If not, why not?

Many gay men have an unmet need to be validated as sexual beings. Most of us spent puberty and beyond feeling that something was wrong with our sexuality. So we can be especially hungry for messages that remind us that we are sexually desirable.

How do you merge your need for validation and your desire for monogamy? You create relationships with your partner and friends that are abundant with mutual validation. You develop your talents and skills at work and in hobbies.

You confront and soften your inner critic so that you get a steady stream of self-validation.

And perhaps, after discussing it with your partner, you engage in eye contact and light flirtation with other men. This allows you to get much of the benefit of an open relationship (validation) without the drawbacks (hurt feelings, disappointing sex, and the risk of exposure to sexually transmitted diseases) that can accompany hook ups. It also brings “out of the closet” a universal truth: we all appreciate looking at beauty in its many forms.

While you won’t find much talk about it on Grindr or Manhunt or at most gay bars, many gay men prefer monogamy. If you haven’t found a man willing to join you in your desire for monogamy then you may be looking in the wrong places. You’ll find them volunteering at gay community organizations, finding inspiration at gay cultural events, or building their skills at gay recreational or educational clubs.t Adam D. Blum, MFT, is a San Francisco psychotherapist specializing in relationship and self-esteem issues for gay men.

He writes a blog on these topics at http:// www.gaytherapist-sanfrancisco.com/ blog. He can be reached at (415)255-4266 or on his website at www.gaytherapistsanfrancisco.com.

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How about Milk Boulevard?

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Many years ago, as construction was about to start on the remodel of Octavia Boulevard and the new Central Freeway on- and off-ramps, I sent letters to several San Francisco supervisors, requesting a rename of Octavia from what is now Patricia’s Garden between Fell and Hayes to Market Street.

The new name would be Milk Boulevard, in honor of the impact Harvey Milk made for all the citizens of the city and beyond. I didn’t hear back, and thought maybe I’d try through the Bay Area Reporter.

The northern portions of Octavia would remain with the old name, which is the first name of Charles Gough’s sister. Her brother was on a committee to name streets, and used his sister’s name for the street west of the one that was named for him. Mr. Gough was a city alderman who made his living as (no kidding) a milkman.

Wouldn’t it be a kick if part of the early milkman’s legacy took on the name of Supervisor Harvey Milk?

Perhaps there would be little readjustment needed to Octavia residences or businesses. If it were too much trouble, the frontage roads on each side could continue with the Octavia Street name. The interior through road, now known as Octavia Boulevard could be renamed Milk Boulevard.

Being along the route from Castro Street to City Hall seems like a great location. Though there is expense in

any change, it would likely be far less costly than an airport rename.

I would be glad to see more use of Milk’s name to represent the LGBT community and all San Franciscans, and the exercise of political and civil rights for all. Supervisor David Campos’s intent is good. Perhaps this location in the heart of the city might be better to remind us of Milk’s energy and dedication.

Dan Harrington San Francisco

Truth is important in scouting

It is very confusing to me how an adult should tell a young boy who wants to be a Boy Scout and is learning right along with his fellow scouts that it has been determined that he is gay and he needs to leave and not come back.

What should his buddies then think has happened? I believe that two of the qualities scouts are taught is to be “mentally awake and morally straight.” This implies that the truth is important. Should a scout be taught to lie or tell the truth about what they may be discovering about themselves?

And, of course, what about being “helpful, friendly, courteous and kind,” which all gay men are.

Gene Elder San Antonio, Texas

E. Bay LGBT Dems to meet compiled by Cynthia Laird

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he East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club will hold its annual general membership meeting and have a film screening Wednesday, February 20 in the auditorium at Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street in downtown Berkeley.

The membership meeting starts at 5:30 p.m., followed an hour later by a reception. At 7, longtime club member Jim Chambers will show his film, Citizen Change, a documentary about domestic partnerships in Berkeley. Chambers and his partner, Eric Hsu, will be on hand to answer questions after the screening.

The business meeting will include election of club board members. To date, nominations include, Brendalynn Goodall for president (she is currently the group’s president); Joel Cohen, vice president; Joseph Greaves, secretary; Joaquin Rivera, treasurer; Karen Anderson, membership chair; and Michael Colbruno, political action committee chair.

At-large board nominations include Dollene Jones, George Perezvelez, Berkeley City Councilmembers Darryl Moore and Kriss Worthington, Peggy Moore, and Gabriel Quinto. Other nominations can be taken at the meeting.

The club also announced a contest for a new logo and tagline, which should describe the club in no more than six words. The winner will receive a year’s membership in the club. Ideas can be sent to eastbaystonewalldems@ gmail.com.

Ballroom dance night in SF

Vima Dance Studio will hold its eighth annual Vima Ball Saturday, February 23 from 7 to 11 p.m. at 820 26th Street (at Third) in San Francisco.

The studio is the largest private ballroom dance space in the city and the upcoming dance night will be the first in its new location. The evening includes performances by some of the best dance teams in California, including same-sex dance titleholders Jose Comoda, Citabria

Phillips, and Angie Esswien. Group performers include the Vilma Vice Squad, Halau Ha’a Kea o Kinohi, and Freeplay Dance Crew.

There will be dancing throughout the evening led by DJ Marina Garza.

Tickets are $20 if purchased before February 16 or $25 afterwards.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call (415) 977-0203 or visit www.vimadance.com.

Fertility seminar for gay potential dads

The education center at Pacific Fertility Center will host a special free seminar, “It Takes 3 to Tango” for gay couples and future dads on Thursday, February 28 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at 55 Francisco Street, fifth floor, in San Francisco.

The evening’s special guest will be gay dad Bevan Dufty, a former supervisor and currently director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships, and Engagement for Mayor Ed Lee. The evening is sponsored by the fertility center, Swirl Radio, and Our Family Coalition. For more information and to RSVP, visit www.pacificfertilitycenter. com/events.t

Most benefits extended to military same-sex partners

by Lisa Keen

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efense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a memorandum to the armed services branches this week ordering the extension of 22 educational, survivor, travel, and transportation benefits to the “same-sex domestic partners” of service members.

The February 11 two-page memorandum with attachments includes a “Declaration of Domestic Partnership” form that service members can use to identify the domestic partner.

The benefits Panetta identified include newly extended dependent identification cards, access to commissaries and exchanges, emergency leaves, joint duty assignments, disability and death compensation, child care, and space-available travel on military aircraft.

OutServe-SLDN, a group that works with LGBT military personnel, hedged somewhat in its reaction, praising the moves but noting that the Pentagon did not extend two to three benefits OutServe believes it could extend, despite the existence of

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

the Defense of Marriage Act. Those missing benefits include on-base housing, burial rights at national cemeteries, and travel to visit service members overseas.

Panetta said the additional benefits mark the full implementation of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t

Tell” – a repeal enacted by Congress in 2010 to end the ban on openly gay service members initially passed by Congress in 1993.

“Today, our military leaders are ensuring that all America’s sons and daughters who volunteer to serve our nation in uniform are treated with equal dignity and respect, regardless of their sexual orientation,” said Panetta.

Panetta noted that implementation of the changes in benefits will require “substantial policy revision, training and in the case of identification cards, technical upgrades.” But he set October 1 as the department’s deadline for issuance of the identification cards.

Panetta’s memo noted that some benefits – such as on-base housing, burial, and certain overseas sponsorship designations – present “complex legal and policy challenges due to their nexus to statutorily-prohibited benefits and due to ongoing reviews about how best to provide scarce resources.” But he said the Defense DeSee page 10 >>

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The app is a reinterpretation of his 2011 book of the same name.

The book sold out quickly after release, and now Ruiz is leveraging modern technologies to bring his fantastical images to readers in a new, augmented way.

“My goal ... is to introduce a new way for people to consume art. The app is unique in the way that it combines a photography showcase with interactive functionality. It is the first of its kind to be released by a photographer,” stated Ruiz in a news release.

The app includes a large selection of images from the book, and Ruiz anticipates adding new images every few weeks. Moving be-

yond the static format of a book, the app also includes behind-thescenes videos, interviews, information on the models, and links to social media.

Readers can join in on the creative fun by uploading images to the app and applying special Pretty Masculine filters, makeup and lighting effects, and props. The images can then be saved or shared on Facebook and Twitter.

When asked his thoughts on romance and Valentine’s Day, Ruiz let his work speak for itself.

“When you look at my entire body of work, the overarching characteristics in it are beauty, fantasy, and empowerment. Within those elements are traces of the romantic in me.

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part of my work,” Ruiz said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter.

And how is this romantic spending his Valentine’s Day? “Like the good soldier, I’m working that day. I have a commercial shoot and will also be shooting some more models for the app. After that, I plan to have a low-key dinner with [fiance] Martin [Berusch],” said Ruiz.

The Pretty Masculine app is available on the iTunes App store for $4.99. Ruiz can also be seen on the premiere episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 5, currently streaming at www.logotv.com.

Tip top Tomboy

On February 2, Tomboy Tailors (50 Post Street) opened the doors of its elegantly appointed showroom, offering a new choice for women who prefer the look and fit of traditional men’s suiting.

Tomboy Tailors is the brainchild of Zel Anders, and was born out of Anders’s own dissatisfaction with the suit-buying experience.

“I’ve always liked the look of a suit, and because I’m a tall, bigger woman, it’s difficult to find suits for women my size,” said Anders, an out lesbian who lives with her

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Owner Zel Anders welcomes you to Tomboy Tailors, located on the first floor of the Crocker Galleria. From left, models Bobbi Vogel, Stacey Rodgers, and Alex Orozco show examples of the new company’s line of suiting for women.

wife in Sausalito.

“But even in San Francisco, I had a hard time with customer service when trying to shop for a man’s suit. And of course, proper fit was also an issue.”

So Anders decided to create what she calls “a space that is ours” – where women can shop for shirts, suits, and accessories with a masculine flair, and receive the style advice, fitting, and tailoring to complete the look.

Currently the shop only carries bespoke suits, which are created by partners in Massachusetts and Hong Kong. But soon Tomboy Tailors will also carry ready-towear choices, along with Anders’s own line of shirts, bowties, and pocket squares.

Anders plans to begin monthly events partnered with local nonprofits, and is also considering occasional weeknight classes on various style issues.

Right now Tomboy Tailors is working toward a March fashion show, produced by local event organizer Runway Couturier. The SF-based company creates quarterly fashion shows highlighting local designers, with the aim of propelling local labels to nationwide wholesale contracts, according to executive producer Fritz Lambandrake. The shows are free, supported by various outside sponsorships.

To begin a fitting or style consultation, visit the Tomboy Tailors showroom in the Crocker Galleria or online at http://www.tomboytailors.com.

Transforming bicycling

With bicycles or relationships, there are three types of people in the marketplace. There are people looking to find their perfect bike, ready for the lifestyle changes that will come with the purchase.

There are people who already have a long-favorite bike, but who are looking for a tune-up or maintenance to keep things rolling smoothly. And then there are people who are just looking for a little fun for an hour or two.

Regardless of which category best describes you, the new business A Tran’s Bay Bike Shop (1 Avenue of the Palms, Building One, Suite 021, Treasure Island) may have the answers you need.

(About bicycles, not about relationships.)

Owner Tammy Powers is ready to help you pick out a new bike, but as a former automotive mechanic Powers is also ready to service your current ride. And within the next few weeks, the shop, located on the beautiful Treasure Island waterfront, will begin renting a fleet of bicycles for visitors to the island.

“Treasure Island is so much fun, and once people finally see it and its beautiful views of the city, they see it’s a great way to spend the

day,” said Powers.

The cheeky name of the shop refers to Powers being a transgender woman.

According to Powers, it was important that her trans identity be a strong element of the business’ identity as well. “I wanted to be out there representing transsexuals, and showing that we can be capable, that we can be successful in business too,” she said.

A Tran’s Bay Bike Shop is currently in soft opening, with a full grand opening celebration featuring a vegetarian feast coming in May. During February, Powers is offering a complete tune-up for $35, with mention of this column.

For more information on sales, service, and rentals, call A Tran’s Bay Bike Shop at (415) 573-4797.

Two years of style

Sui Generis Illa (2265 Market Street) invites the public to celebrate its second anniversary Saturday, February 16, from noon to 4 p.m. Enjoy a free mimosa and see how to attain high style at affordable prices, thanks to the Sui Generis consignment boutique.

Have your cake and Yigit, too

Tout Sweet Patisserie, the creation of local celebrity chef Yigit Pura, has announced two new tasty offerings.

Beginning with Valentine’s Day, the shop, located on the third floor of Macy’s Union Square, will begin hosting monthly dessert tastings. In a news release, the event is described as “a three-course dessert menu featuring a rotating selection of seasonal offerings, each paired with local artisanal wine and beer.”

The cost is $55, and reservations can be made by calling (415) 3851679.

In addition, Pura has debuted a line of wedding cakes, examples of which are on his website at http://www.toutsweetsf.com. The cake creation process begins with a consultation, where Pura works with couples to find the perfect pastry for the important day. According to posts on the store’s Facebook page, the openly gay Pura has already created a cake for a same-sex wedding.

Eatery seeks support

Castro bar/coffeehouse/restaurant Cafe Flore (2298 Market Street) is looking for help from the community and City Hall to keep its food service operation running.

On February 21 the Planning Commission will be considering legislation authored by Supervisor Scott Wiener that will effectively grandfather in an unpermitted, off-site prep kitchen for the Castro hotspot.

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t UCSF faces questions on commitment to LGBT issues

by Matthew S. Bajko

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campus debate at UCSF over the university’s commitment to LGBT concerns has broken out publicly due to questions about the status of its Center for LGBT Health and Equity.

First created in 1998, the center was the first-of-its-kind in a health education setting. Founding director Shane Snowdon is credited with pushing forward LGBT-inclusive policies and curriculum both at UCSF and medical schools across the country.

Last summer Snowdon resigned after being hired by the Human Rights Campaign to oversee its LGBT health initiatives. Since then UCSF has yet to hire a new person to oversee the campus center, which is technically just an office and not a full-fledged LGBT resource center found at many universities.

The delay in hiring for the job spawned speculation among UCSF faculty and staff that the LGBT center could be eliminated. The issue prompted a meeting last fall between the UCSF Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on LGBT Issues and Dr. J. Renee Navarro, vice chancellor for diversity and outreach, to discuss the status of the position.

In recent weeks, as word spread on campus that the job was being recategorized from that of a director to being a diversity program manager/ LGBT specialist, it sparked further alarm because LGBT issues would no longer be the sole focus for the new hire.

Critics of the decision lashed out at both Navarro and UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellman in an email they sent anonymously to staff of the Bay Area Reporter and to aides of several gay lawmakers in Sacramento.

“In an era when campuses around the country are expanding their LGBT services and LGBT health concerns are receiving widespread attention, we suspect you’ll agree that this dramatic cutback in UCSF support for LGBT people and concerns is not acceptable, particularly in the city with the highest percentage of LGBT residents in the country,” stated the email, whose author declined an interview request fearing they could be disciplined or fired for speaking out.

Snowdon told the B.A.R. that she shared the concerns that her former position was being diminished.

“I think it would be a loss to UCSF both on the education side and the medical center side,” said Snowdon.

“Speaking as someone now doing work nationwide, it is UCSF LGBT curriculum that has informed the LGBT curriculum work at most of the nation’s medical schools. I would be concerned about the future of that.”

The campus posted a hiring notice about the revamped job last week, and it caused further alarm as nowhere in the online posting does it mention by name the Center for LGBT Health and Equity.

It states that the job’s main responsibility will be “the design, execution and assessment of diversity and outreach programs that advance the strategic goals of the Office of Diversity and Outreach and the UCSF Campus including UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Beniofff Children’s Hospital.”

A more detailed description on a seven-page employment form for the position explains that it will have “a special focus on the LGBT

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UCSF Vice Chancellor Dr. J. Renee Navarro

community” but also be working on “general diversity programs” for people with disabilities and veterans.

According to the form, the person should spend only 25 percent of their time managing the LGBT health center.

The bulk of the time – 50 percent – the new manager will be expected to oversee a wide range of diversity events and programs, including LGBT specific ones. Another duty is to “enhance UCSF’s image in local/national LGBT communities so UCSF is seen as a top choice to work or study for people who identify as LGBT.” Criticism of the job posting led Navarro to send out an email to LGBT staff and faculty Tuesday, February 12 to clarify the person’s duties and address the concerns.

She emphasized in bold lettering that the job includes being director of the LGBT center for health and equity.

“This is a very important position for diversity work at UCSF and I am excited about the fact that we are moving LGBT issues into the core of our diversity efforts,” wrote Navarro.

In a phone interview with the B.A.R. Navarro reiterated her commitment to maintaining the LGBT health center and said the changes being made to the position are because the campus’ diversity work should not be done in silos but as part of a team.

“It will allow us to really move it to the next level so it is integrated in our conversations on diversity,” she said.

She delayed hiring a new person partly because of the uncertainty surrounding UC’s budget prior to the passage of a tax measure on the November ballot. Navarro also said she “needed time to do my due diligence” and seek guidance from the UCSF LGBT community “to understand from them what is needed in this position.”

She found it “hard” to read the sentiments aired in the email sent to the paper and lawmakers.

“It means people don’t understand what I am creating here,” said Navarro, who started in the vice chancellor role in December 2010.

“Shane has done an amazing job and laid a really strong foundation at the university here as well as regionally and nationally. I want to do that foundation justice.”

She has formed an eight-person search committee to help select qualified candidates for the job and expects to have hired someone “sooner rather than later.” She will be meeting with the LGBT advisory committee to discuss the selection process February 20.

“I want to make sure people are

assured of our strong commitment to the LGBT community,” said Navarro. “We have a long history of that commitment and we will continue to excel at and remain committed to that.”

Navarro insisted in both the interview and the email she sent out that the campus LGBT advisory committee vetted the job description and “it was received positively.”

UCSF biochemist Christopher Waddling, a member of the LGBT committee, told the B.A.R. that most of the concerns initially raised about the position were addressed.

“Vice Chancellor Navarro listened and she heard what we were saying. She changed the qualifications to meet a lot of our needs,” he said. “I don’t think we got everything in the job description we wanted, but that is fine.”

It is to be expected that the job would change with the hiring a new person who can shepherd it into new directions, said JoAnne Keatley, director of UCSF’s Center of Excellence for Transgender Health.

Keatley is a member of the LGBT advisory committee and was asked to be on the search committee reviewing applicants for the new job.

“I do feel there is ample opportunity to create additional goals and organizational aims depending on the candidate chosen and that person can create their own involvements in this position,” said Keatley.

With Snowdon continuing to advocate for LGBT health issues nationally in her new job, and a variety of organizations also focused on the same goals, Keatley said there is less need now for the UCSF job to have the same national scope as it did when it was first created.

“I don’t think for a minute whoever goes into this position will be restricted from taking part in those discussions,” said Keatley, board cochair of the National Coalition for LGBT Health. “I also don’t think it is realistic for the university to fund that position for advocacy nationally.”

There is a greater need, said Keatley, to have someone tackling the needs on campus of LGBT students, faculty and staff.

The new person’s focus, at first, should be internally on UCSF, agreed Waddling.

“I think the idea initially is to have the person looking a little bit more at the university itself, and by university that includes the whole UC system,” he said. “It is going to be different than what the previous person did.”

Waddling expects there will many qualified candidates applying for the job.

“To be perfectly honest this is a position that a lot of people are going to apply for who are highly qualified for it and any one of whom will make a good person,” he said.

Nonetheless, the brouhaha over the status of the center job has led to a public airing of concerns that UCSF leaders do not want the campus to be out front on LGBT issues.

As the school’s focus increasingly turns toward its new campus in Mission Bay and advances in biotechnology and other emerging health fields, some contend areas UCSF has long been a leader on, such as AIDS and LGBT health, are being shunted aside.

“I am LGBT myself and I don’t think the campus is concerned about LGBT issues at all. The leadership is not really concerned about that,” said one gay faculty member who did not want his name used because he is not tenured and was fearful of repercussions from speakSee page 13 >>

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by Seth Hemmelgarn

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San Francisco nonprofit that prepares and delivers meals to critically ill homebound clients, seniors, and those living with HIV/ AIDS is pulling out of a rough patch.

Just over a year ago, Project Open Hand, which has a budget of about $9.3 million, was facing a wide deficit, while longtime Executive Director Tom Nolan prepared to leave.

Not long after Kevin Winge, 54, took over the top job last January, he announced four staff positions were being cut, and adjustments would be made to services for some clients.

The nonprofit eventually had to pull $750,000 from its reserve in order to fill a budget gap in the 2011-12 fiscal year.

Since then, however, the fiscal outlook has improved for the agency, which delivers 2,600 meals a day. So far, the 2012-13 budget is balanced, and “December was the most successful single month for fundraising in our 27-year history,” Winge said.

“The staff, our volunteers, the board – everyone seems really encouraged, and we’re ready to keep building on what Tom Nolan worked so hard to put in place,” he added.

Along with delivering meals, POH also distributes groceries weekly to about 1,500 people, mostly in San Francisco, but also about 300 in Alameda County. The organization has over 100 staff, and there are more than 100 volunteers every day.

Positive signs

In a recent interview, Winge said the agency ended the first six months of the current fiscal year “slightly ahead of revenue projections and slightly below on the expense side.”

Through December 31, projected revenue was $5.1 million, but actual revenue was $5.6 million. The agency anticipated $4.76 million in expenses, but spent only $4.5 million.

Additionally, December was Project Open Hand’s best month ever in terms of gifts from individual donors. The agency raised $645,193 from individuals through direct mail and email solicitations, which is up from the $527,209 raised in December 2011.

The positive figures are the result of “a whole lot of work,” Winge said.

“I hope a part of it was being totally transparent about the deficit” the agency faced last year, which it seems “motivated the staff and our board of directors to really be proactive on watching expenses.” He said that people “really being out there and raising money” was another part of it, and volunteers and donors “were really rising to the occasion to support Project Open Hand in light of the deficit,” among other factors.

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the zoning change for Cafe Flore, located at http://www.helpcafeflore.com. The website encourages supporters to write letters to the Planning Commission and to attend the February 21 hearing.

Open and shut cases

The past month has seen the closing of the Diesel store at the corner of Castro and Market streets, as well as barbecue restaurant the Dancing Pig (544 Castro Street). A notice is posted on the door of the former Dancing Pig that a change of ownership and transfer of alcohol license is under way. A handwritten note adds,

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Project Open Hand Executive Director Kevin Winge

Service changes, combined with efficiencies in purchasing, have enabled Project Open Hand to reduce program costs by $300,000 for the first half of the fiscal year, according to the agency.

Last April, the nonprofit announced some programmatic changes, asking clients with HIV who were in better health to choose between grocery service and meals, rather than continuing to receive both. The agency began implementing the change in June.

The agency doesn’t plan additional service cuts.

POH client Sylvia Britt, 49, goes to Project Open Hand once a week for groceries.

Britt, who’s HIV-positive, has a job, but she’s on a limited budget.

Going to POH helps “to make sure I have some healthy food in the house, and not have to worry about having money to get it.”

Britt praised Winge. She said he’s met with clients and sought their input.

“You just don’t find that everywhere,” Britt said. “... It makes a lot of difference. He actually cares about the services, and how service is being rendered to the clients.”

Looking ahead

People at Project Open Hand are also looking ahead. The board is hoping to approve a three-year strategic plan in March. Winge talked about some of the highlights.

“We continue to be focused on providing the most nutritious meals possible,” he said. The agency is working with more local farmers’ markets when possible, “trying to source local and organic ingredients.”

The nonprofit is looking at improving clients’ experience, including by giving them a choice in the meals they get. In the past, they got a four-pack of meals that had already been packaged.

Now, “they can select the meals they want,” Winge said.

He said the hours when meals are available are also being examined so

“We are making improvements.

Thanks for your patience!”

Moving in to fill the void two new restaurants aim to open this month. As of press time, Fable (558 Castro Street) was targeting opening on February 12. Pica Pica Maize Kitchen (3970 17th Street) is the third location for the local chain, and the first tenant to move into the space that was created during renovation of The Cafe (2369 Market Street) over three years ago. Pica Pica’s media representative informed the B.A.R. that unnamed delays have moved the expected opening to the week of February 25 at the earliest.

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that clients can have more chances to take advantage of other services, including meeting with caseworkers.

Winge acknowledged some recent complaints about bad produce, but “that’s just the nature” of such food. The agency does quality control and takes complaints seriously, he said.

The biggest challenge Project Open Hand faces involves the number of people who aren’t aware of the agency, Winge said.

He added, “Many more people aren’t aware of the fact we serve more people than people living with HIV/AIDS.” As part of the strategic plan, the agency wants to launch an awareness campaign.

“The challenge becomes getting the message right and finding ways to do it that don’t cost a lot of money,” Winge said.

Shortly after he joined the agency, Winge said he wanted to stop making bequests part of POH’s general operating budget. When someone will die and how long it will take to settle the estate can’t be predicted, so agencies can’t be sure when that money will come in.

Project Open Hand budgeted for $400,000 in bequests last fiscal year “and didn’t come close” to getting that much, Winge said. This year, there’s $200,000 in the budget, and the agency has received approximately $250,000, so it’s already exceeded that goal. No bequests are planned for the 2013-14 operating budget. Instead, that money will go into the reserve fund.

Winge said he’s “determined” that this year there won’t be a need to dip back into the reserve, which still holds about $1.9 million.

“Our plan is eventually we could start to put some money back in the reserve,” he said. “We’ll see how this fiscal year ends come June 30."t

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There’s a lot to prepare for. San Francisco’s Pride celebration is one of the world’s largest, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to the city’s streets every year. Since 1997, Pride has granted over $2.1 million to nonprofits through its community

partner program. This year, the organization has a budget of about $1.7 million.

Much of that revenue comes from sponsorships. This year, Pride has budgeted $690,000 from sponsors.

So far, more than $500,000 has been committed. Last year’s sponsorship goal was about $500,000 to $600,000.

Plante said a lot of the money tends to come in May through July, and

“we need the money more on the front end.” Sponsors have been “very responsive” to that message, he said, and many have committed to increasing their support.

Last year, the board decided to replace Executive Director Brendan Behan, a decision that caught many, including Behan, by surprise.

Behan became Pride’s interim executive director in April 2011 and eventually gained the permanent position. The top post had been vacant since former Executive Director Amy Andre left in November 2010, just over a year after she started the job.

Soon after the 2010 celebration, several community partners complained that Pride had shortchanged them. In December 2010, the city controller’s office revealed that the nonprofit was $225,000 in debt. As of September, most of that had been paid down.

The move to replace Behan seemed to be based on a desire for him to be an at-will employee, meaning the board could terminate him at any time.

“I honor Brendan’s contributions to Pride,” said Plante, whose contract is also at-will. Any issues there were around Behan’s tenure “are in the past,” and Plante indicated he plans to stay for a while.

“This is a dream job for me,” he said during a January 11 interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

Plante has several years of experi-

ence in the nonprofit sector, including development and communications work. His most recent job before joining Pride was the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York. Plante wouldn’t disclose his salary at Pride.

Possibilities outside June

At the time of the interview with Plante, he said he’d been meeting with people to get their input and “share my vision for the organization.” A large part of that vision seems to include developing programming throughout the year.

Plante said among the options he’s been thinking about are a speaker series and discussions on topics such as marriage equality. Those plans would wait until after this year’s events, he said, with a speaker series possibly being rolled out in 2014 or 2015.

He said he wants to reach out to organizations that the nonprofit hasn’t traditionally worked with, including sports teams and other businesses.

Plante also spoke of “bringing new resources to the table” and explaining to potential supporters, “this is an organization that needs to be on your radar screen,” and why.

He’d also like to see a study on Pride’s economic impact on the city.

Such a report hasn’t been done in several years, he said.

‘Critical juncture’

Plante, who previously lived in San Francisco, said the Pride organization

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“is at a critical juncture.”

There’s been a lack of strategic planning in recent years at Pride as it recovered from serious leadership and financial troubles, and he eventually wants to “map out the next three to five years.”

He said the LGBT movement is also at a “critical moment,” with one example being the U.S. Supreme Court potentially deciding in June – around the time of the Pride festival – on whether same-sex marriage should be legal. He said despite “dramatic progress,” there’s “still work to do,” including gaining employment protections for LGBTs nationwide and addressing hate crimes.

Plante, who comes from a mixedrace family, spoke of his own childhood experiences with poverty and homelessness and his obligation to advocate for social justice.

He noted that in 2015, Pride will mark its 45th anniversary, and he said he sees “an opportunity to build on the strong legacy of service.” Pride’s “hallmark” is inclusion of people in marginalized communities and others, Plante said.

He said he wants everyone to have “an opportunity to engage,” and to know their opinions are valued and respected.

“I’m open to what the community wants,” he said.

Unfinished business

The Pride organization had planned to give people a chance to deliver their input in person at a forum last Friday, February 8, at the San Francisco Public Library, but the event was canceled.

In a phone message that day, Plante said, “We decided internally to open it up to a larger group of community stakeholders, so that’s why we postponed the event. We’re in the process of looking for a larger space.”

Others are also waiting for some news from the nonprofit.

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partment would continue to review these benefits “to determine how best to ensure that all service members are treated equally regardless of sexual orientation.”

Panetta noted that DOMA prevents the department from extending certain benefits, such as health care and housing allowances, because they are “currently only available to spouses and therefore cannot be made available to same-sex domestic partners. ...”

“In the event that [DOMA] is no longer applicable to the Department of Defense,” said Panetta, “it will be the policy of the department to construe the words ‘spouse’ and ‘marriage’ without regard to sexual orientation, and married couples, irrespective of sexual orientation, and their dependents, will be granted full military benefits.”

Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin issued a statement Monday, calling Panetta’s memo a “historic step toward righting the wrong of inequality in our armed forces.” But he, too, noted “there is still more work to be done,” including repeal of DOMA. “Gay and lesbian service members and their families make sacrifices every day,” said Griffin, “and this country owes them every measure of support we can provide.”

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Couple from UAE make new home in Bay Area

by Heather Cassell

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ince coming to the San Francisco Bay Area as asylees from the United Arab Emirates, Cherifa and Maisaa Feddag have celebrated their freedom and love for each other.

A month after the couple’s arrival in the U.S., the two women wed in a small ceremony before a justice of the peace in their Boston hotel room in April 2012. Maisaa took Cherifa’s last name, she said.

The women’s wedding was an act of exercising their rights as a loving lesbian couple, said Cherifa, 32.

For Maisaa, 25, their wedding was about her commitment to Cherifa as well as forming a family in the U.S. after leaving her relatives behind in Dubai, where they both met. Cherifa left her family in Algeria long before she met Maisaa, she said.

“When we decided to get married, it was about the symbol of what gays want. It is a symbol of equality, respect, and appreciation of years and years of fights and suffering of gay[s] who [didn’t] live to the moment of marriage equality,” Cherifa said.

Maisaa agreed, but it was also more personal for her.

“Marriage was the best way to feel the commitment [and] settlement after days and days, of suffering, hiding feelings, hiding love and respect toward the person I love,” she said.

The couple plans to renew their wedding vows among friends in March to mark their third anniversary, they said.

Since receiving their asylum status in the U.S., they’ve recorded their lives in the Bay Area, producing 28 short episodes, mostly in Arabic and some in English, and posted them on YouTube and Facebook for other Arabs to watch.

“We came here and we are happy, but we don’t want to forget why we are here,” said Maisaa. “We don’t want to forget that. We want to do something.”

The response to their videos

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Cherifa and Maisaa Feddag have been making short videos about their new life in the Bay Area.

showing their daily lives in the “gay mecca,” including celebrating at last year’s San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade, has been enormous, the couple said. Their videos have also inspired other Arabs within the UAE to publicly come out online. Still others have left their homes in the Middle East to go to countries where they will be safe.

“We speak about our daily life and how we are just Arab and we are gays and lesbian. We have a normal life. We don’t have anything to be ashamed [of],” said Maisaa.

“There is a movement now because of our videos,” said Cherifa.

“There are a lot of people who came out and [are] broadcasting videos, ‘We are gay and we [are] living in the Arab countries.’”

Cherifa and Maisaa’s goals with the videos are to share their own life experiences and show other Arabs that they don’t have to live in a world of charades and masks, as many do, and that being gay is okay.

Veiled

In the UAE, sexuality isn’t allowed to be discussed and LGBT individuals are in constant fear that the person they meet on the other side of the

computer screen might actually be a police officer who will arrest them.

Living in a virtual world online in Dubai, the two women found each other through social networks using aliases and false photos in 2010, they said. Maissa was so terrified that Cherifa wasn’t real, she repeatedly canceled dates to meet in person several times for fear that she was being set up, she said.

Fortunately, the virtual world was real for Cherifa and Maisaa. The veil pulled back, Cherifa, a human resource coordinator for a company in Dubai, and Maisaa, a mechanical engineering student at a local university, fell in love.

After nearly three years together, Cherifa and Maisaa complete each other’s sentences, as evidenced when the Bay Area Reporter spoke with them during a recent interview at the Oakland office of the International Rescue Committee, an organization that helps asylees and refugees settle into the U.S. Dubai is a small oil and trade wealthy city-state that is a part of the UAE on the Persian Gulf.

In 2012, representatives of the UAE protested the United Nations Human Rights Council’s first-ever discussion about LGBT rights. The discussion was based on the U.N.’s adoption of the “human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity”

resolution, passed in June 2011. A follow-up report “Study on discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity,” authored by Navi Pillay, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, was published in December 2011.

Representatives of Islamic and African nations spoke out in opposition to the reports’ stated goals. Several representatives walked out of the discussion at the meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

Pillay wasn’t moved by their arguments or self-dismissal from the discussion.

“We already know that [U.A.E. leaders] have not reached a point to discuss the human rights and accept the LGBT rights because if they accept the LGBT rights” then officials have to accept rights and “being equal at all of the levels,” said Cherifa.

Escape

Cherifa and Maisaa realized that they needed to leave Dubai as the couple became more serious about each other and Maisaa’s family suspected the true nature of their relationship.

They believed that their lives might be at risk if they didn’t leave. Separating wasn’t an option for them, they said.

Maisaa’s family began harassing and threatening her after suspecting that her relationship with her “friend” Cherifa might be more than friendship, she said.

Cherifa had lived what Maisaa was experiencing and escaped it once before. Years earlier, her family abused and threatened her when they suspected she was a lesbian and she ran away to Dubai. But for her it was only a temporary solution. “[It was a] terrible time with them.

I had been beaten and threatened and a lot of horrible things happened to me,” said Cherifa, not going into detail. “This is why when the problems started with Maisaa we decided that we don’t need a temporary solution.”

Maisaa agreed, recalling her family threatening her and telling her, “You don’t have a right to see her.”

One of Maisaa’s brothers threatened, “If you stay meeting this girl you will

see something that you ... can’t even imagine what would happen to you,” said Maisaa.

That was the final threat. That night Maisaa went to Cherifa, “Let’s leave.”

Two years into their relationship, the couple was already dreaming of living together. They were already making plans to find a permanent solution by escaping to the U.S. or another Western country, they said.

It simply happened sooner and faster than they expected after applying for asylum at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai. They were immediately accepted. For the first time in their lives they tasted freedom rather than fear.

Safe

Cherifa dreamed of coming to San Francisco after reading Isabella Allande’s Daughter of Fortune. She loved the richness of the diversity and history described in the story and wanted to see it for herself. Then she learned about Harvey Milk, the city’s LGBT history, and the resources available to the couple, Cherifa said.

The women currently live in the East Bay. “Honestly we [were] meant to be here. Everything was pushing us to be here, like everything was easy. We couldn’t even dream about it,” said Maisaa.

The women are settling into life in the Bay Area making new friends with local LGBT Arabs and the LGBT community, and in general building their lives, they say.

Maisaa has opened the line of communication with her family in Dubai on a limited basis, she said, but has no plans of returning. The Bay Area is their home now and she plans to return to college to complete her education, she said.

Cherifa plans to continue to work and settle into her American life, she said.

To watch the videos, visit http:// youtu.be/dFJb-6d9cVA.t Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at 00+1-415-2213541, Skype: heather.cassell, or oitwnews@gmail.com.

Ammiano responds to homeless bill critics

by Dan Aiello

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n an interview with the Bay Area Reporter, openly gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano responded to critics of his legislation aimed at decriminalizing homelessness in California ahead of its first hearing in Sacramento next month.

It’s not the first time that Ammiano, a San Francisco Democrat, has quietly introduced controversial legislation. The bill, AB 5, is the Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act, and is intended to decriminalize homelessness.

But even Ammiano, who’s used to criticism from religious and social conservatives, was surprised by the visceral reactions to AB 5, especially by the media.

“We anticipated some of it and I will say it was not monolithic,” Ammiano told the B.A.R., but in many cases he saw what he believed to be, “a total abuse of journalistic license.”

Ammiano believes the critical response from many local elected officials, law enforcement, and editorial boards was rooted in how long the issue has gone unaddressed.

“I think so many reacted the way they did because we’ve neglected the situation so long,” he said. “Over

the years many Californians have experienced bad actors – like those engaging in aggressive panhandling – and that experience has stuck with them. But the homeless are LGBT youth, they’re mothers, and they’re veterans, but these ‘quality of life’ laws have meant we don’t see the population as a whole.”

Many newspapers ran with the story that AB 5 was intended to allow the homeless to urinate in the streets.

“That’s not what it’s about,” said Ammiano. “There was a lot of distortion. There will always be haters.”

As chair of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, Ammiano said he is not seeking a reduction in quality of life for Californians, but instead an end to so-called quality of life laws that make basic human needs like sleeping, bathing, and going to the bathroom illegal.

He notes that while newspapers throughout the state sensationalized the decriminalization of public urination, few acknowledged that nearly every commercial business forbids use of restrooms to non-customers and cities lock up public restrooms at night, leaving no place for the homeless to address basic bodily functions. By passing laws against public urination, for example, communities turn homelessness into a crime for

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which offenders are ticketed and fined.

According to Shahera Hyatt with the California Homeless Youth Project, “those fines usually go unpaid and warrants are then issued for the offender.”

Once introduced to the criminal justice system, “many homeless find it difficult to find a job, housing, or a way out of poverty,” Hyatt told the B.A.R. Ammiano said a main problem is that policymakers aren’t addressing poverty.

“Nobody’s really talking about

the two Americas, those who have and those who live in poverty,” said Ammiano. Although the country once embraced President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the 1960s, Ammiano says society now “fights wars against the poor.”

Among those who would benefit most from Ammiano’s proposal would be LGBT youth.

Hyatt said that her organization utilized 40 homeless or formerly homeless youth in 2008 to conduct a survey of 200 California youth who were homeless. Of those surveyed, 73 percent reported being encountered, questioned or harassed by local law enforcement.

Five percent reported daily encounters.

“Compared to the general population, that is a lot,” Hyatt said. Hyatt said that many LGBT youth, especially those who are transgender, are “re-traumatized” after being thrown out of their family homes when they encounter discrimination at faithbased shelters or from law enforcement because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Hyatt also said that homeless people suffering from drug addiction often don’t have access to rehabilitation services and are also denied shelter because they are not yet clean, making them much more likely to become arrested and

jailed without ever being given the opportunity to get clean and sober. Once arrested for felony drug possession, the likelihood that the individual will be able to change direction in his or her life is greatly reduced, Hyatt said.

Ammiano pointed out that while drug rehabilitation services cost taxpayers, it is financially foolish not to pay for it since the expense to house a single inmate in California’s prison system is $72,000 per year, far more than the price of outpatient drug rehabilitation.

Dina Wilderson, chief of research and evaluation for Larkin Street Youth Services, said San Francisco is especially hard hit by the homeless youth issue because it “is still a destination city” for those escaping “more conservative or less tolerant” communities. Larkin Street serves around 4,000 youth, with more than 1,000 utilizing the higher education and job placement services. Although successful, Wilderson said the need is greater than they can accommodate.

Although Wilderson said her organization still needs to see AB 5’s final language, “we support the idea in general.”

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Can do

by Roger Brigham

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f you are a typical American sports fan, your attention the past two weeks was probably focused on the battles leading up to the meeting of the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl; the delayed start of the National Hockey League season; and the endless inability for any men’s college basketball team to hold onto the top spot in the rankings for more than a game or so. But a federal administrative letter released a fortnight

ago with little fanfare could bring a triumphant climax to a 40-year fight to make sports more inclusive.

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter on January 25 outlining the obligations of school districts and universities to provide equal access to sports and physical education activities to disabled students.

Schools are told in the letter that they must make reasonable accommodations to provide access and cannot deny access based merely on “presumptions and stereotypes.”

The letter follows a 2011 document from the Department of Education calling on districts to explore ways to make curricula, venues, and coaching styles more inclusive, and is based upon the Rehabilitation Act (signed into law by President Nixon in 1973) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990).

“It’s incredibly exciting,” said Stephanie Wheeler, an out lesbian who was recently named national women’s wheelchair basketball coach for the next quadrennial cycle. “It’s something we’ve been waiting for for a few years. I think you’ll see more [disabled] students competing with their teammates, with more schools and more regions developing more sports like wheelchair basketball.”

Equal access doesn’t mean limiting the involvement of disabled students to the roles of equipment managers, scorekeepers, or cheerleaders. It means, where possible, without undermining the essential underpinnings of the sport, having them in the playing field battling, running, and scoring with their peers.

Of course, the push for equal opportunity in sports triggered predictable backlash with troglodyte pundits who characterized it as political correctness run amok and without consideration of financial impact. Just as same-sex marriage will lead to group sex with farm animals, they warned us, this will force

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Stress, Health and Relationships, a National Institutes of Health-funded study to better understand how same-sex couples experience social stress together.

SFSU sociology Professor Allen LeBlanc, 49, the study’s principal investigator, explained that traditionally, scientific research has focused on how individuals are affected by stress. This study is starting at the unit of the couple, specifically samesex couples, not only to study how they experience stress together, but to determine how being part of a sexual minority group can amplify that stress.

“All couples worry about things like money, sex, kids,” LeBlanc, who is gay, said. “Those are normal stressors.

Minority stressors are rooted in the unique experience of being in a disadvantaged population – social stigma, rejection from society, experiencing everyday discrimination and prejudice in the forms of one-on-one interactions and institutional barriers.”

People also experience sexual minority stress in the form of internalized homophobia, he explained, where rejection from society is internalized and leads to hiding sexual orientation and subsequently intimate relationships, too.

Also important, LeBlanc emphasized, is addressing the experiences of various minority populations that exist within the broader sexual minority population.

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cash-strapped high schools to allow any person with any handicap to play any position in any sports he or she wants.

“I’m not surprised,” said Title IX blogger Erin Buzuvis, director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Center at Western New England University School of Law. “I predicted on my blog there would be backlash similar to Title IX, but as I also pointed out, Title IX disproved a lot of those negative concerns, like the end of football or the undermining of men’s sports.”

Ahh, yes, that other 40-year-old legacy of the Nixon years which has done so much to alter the scholastic athletic landscape the past few decades. Buzuvis said the sexist battles fought to bring gender equity to campus sports and the means in which many administrations used Title IX as an excuse to make unpopular budget cuts will better pre-

pare activists as they work to make sure the newest federal guidelines for equal access are pursued properly.

“We’ve seen the law can be used as a cover for political decisions,” Buzuvis said. “I think advocates should be better prepared now. We don’t need to drastically overhaul sports as we know it. But schools can do a more effective job meeting their obligations and advocates can be more watchful. They won’t catch anyone by surprise.”

“You’re going to have your bumps in the road, just like with Title IX,” Wheeler said. “We got through it with Title IX and we’ll get through it now.”

My hope is that sports activists work together rather than at crosspurposes as institutions embrace the task of opening up their sports opportunities. Although Title IX has not diminished the total number of sports opportunities, clearly the diversity of sports choices for male athletes has decreased as programs in smaller, individual sports have dried up in order to preserve the massive number of scholarships allocated for football.

As we try to make our sports more accessible, and thereby of benefit to more of our citizens, let’s focus in the diversity of those sports options as much as their quantity of options.

The most basic lesson I learned in sports was the power of the word “can” and the uselessness of the word “can’t.” Let’s hope school administrators greet this new era of sports with a “can do” attitude and leave “can’t do” in the dustbins of our past.t

diverse population,” he said. “There’s a growing awareness in the minority stress research field that you have to think about multiple minority stressors simultaneously and that’s why we’re reaching toward diversity.”

While SFSU is the home institution for the project, Atlanta’s Emory University will also be identifying couples in keeping with the guideline of diversity.

“Both Atlanta and San Francisco have large gay and lesbian populations but they’re fairly different in their sociodemographic populations,” LeBlanc said.

During the first year of the fiveyear study, Project SHARe’s goal is to interview 60 same-sex female couples and 60 same-sex male couples recruited from all over the Bay Area.

Five months into the project, the study’s team is currently looking for more participants. Couples must have spent a minimum of six months together to enroll. The one-time interview consists of up to two hours of self-guided relationship reflection which, LeBlanc said, has been really enjoyable for couples.

“They really determine the focus of the interview,” he said. “We ask them what’s been significant in their relationship and we have exercises to facilitate that conversation.”

Kelly Whitney, 43, and Trisha Pulido, 35, a same-sex couple from Concord that has been together for seven years, enjoyed their interview.

“We were there for three and a half hours,” Whitney said, “because we just kept talking. It was so much fun.”

As a small incentive, each partner is given $30 for participating. After

the first year of interviews, Project SHARe’s team hopes to use the social networks of those 120 couples to identify additional couples for the study’s next phase.

The first of its kind, Project SHARe exists as a starting point not only for understanding how stress is shared in same-sex relationships (and other types of relationships, too), but also for developing better social services that take into account the complex experiences that accompany belonging to a sexual minority population.

“It points to the places where we can intervene,” LeBlanc said, “where social services and clinical providers can identify where people are most vulnerable to stress and where they need the most support.

“It’s also a means of educating the general public,” he continued, “about the challenges placed on people’s lives by virtue of being in a minority group.

Stressors like blocked access to marriage could actually be something that becomes a public health issue.”

While still relatively new, the study is having a positive impact on the morale of some participants. Feeling excited, recognized, and validated are a few sentiments couples have relayed.

“It’s different for same-sex couples because the only support we get is from each other,” Whitney said. “It’s nice to get acknowledgement beyond our community.”

LeBlanc and his colleagues also hope that this study will lead to future studies that include transgender people.

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life, John was a passionate advocate for ideas and causes in which he believed.

After a successful career in advertising, in response to the AIDS crisis he obtained a nursing degree and practiced nursing during the worst of the epidemic.

He will be remembered not only for his ability to take on new challenges, but more importantly as a brave, charming, funny, spontaneous, loving, deeply involved friend. He kept in touch with those he knew in all parts

of the world and was devoted to his friends of Bill W. He loved opera, symphony, ballet, film, and theater. He loved life.

He is survived by his four children, 10 grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.

Friends of Bill W. will host a celebration of John’s life and a potluck meal on February 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1707 Gouldin Road, Oakland.

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Obituaries >> John Wylie Hall July 16, 1929 – January 14, 2013

John Wylie Hall, 83, died January 14, 2013 in a traffic accident in Paris.

He moved there in 2006 from San Francisco and taught at the American Business School. His ashes will be scattered in Paris by his family on February 16.

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As DeBernardo noted, “For the last three decades, Benedict has been one of the main architect’s of the Vatican’s policies against LGBT people.”

Based in Mount Rainier, Maryland, New Ways Ministry is a national gay-positive ministry of education, healing, reconciliation, and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics, families, and friends and the wider church.

It was under then Cardinal Ratzinger’s leadership, for example, when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a 1986 “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.”

LGBT Catholics often refer to the document as the “Halloween letter” because of its October issue date.

The letter speaks of “objective disorder” to describe the “homosexual inclination” and “intrinsic moral evil” to explain “homosexual acts.”

Those harsh words influenced recent 1990s editions of the Catholic Church’s Catechism, calling gays to chastity, which in effect requires of them mandatory lifelong celibacy as the only way to sexual morality.

Dignity San Francisco’s Camisa took issue with the call to chastity.

“To enforce a vow of celibacy or chastity on gay people who have no

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ing publicly. “People are dismayed and troubled about where the campus is headed given where we have been.”

Laurie Wagner, an administrative assistant at UCSF and former member of the LGBT advisory committee, blamed the lack of communication about the status of the LGBT center director job for raising tensions on campus.

“I think its unfortunate that they haven’t been more forthcoming with the overview of how the decisions were made. That is one thing I think has made many people anxious,” said Wagner.

Having the position divided into various focuses in addition to LGBT concerns, added Wagner, could make it difficult to find someone with the same “caliber of leadership”

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choice in the matter of being gay is inhumane,” he said.

Ratzinger’s word choices – “disordered” and “evil” – in the pastoral care letter prompted Dignity chapters to leave Catholic worshipping space and to declare to church leaders that “our same-sex relationships were loving and good,” said Camisa.

As McMullan put it, “The animus of the Halloween letter made homosexual orientation a special disposition to evil, almost a second original sin.”

Under Cardinal Ratzinger’s tenure, the Vatican articulated its unambiguous opposition to same-sex marriage.

“There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar to or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and the family,” he wrote in the June 2003 CDF document entitled, “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons.”

“Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural law,” Ratzinger explained.

The same 2003 document also denounced gay and lesbian couples who are parents. “Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children,” Ratzinger wrote.

More recently, in his January 7, State of the World address, Pope

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tion of support for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples,” said Carey. “But the state of the union for many LGBT people remains one of economic inequality and insecurity.

We urge President Obama to use his leadership to help get us over the finish line during his second term.”

Carey said the president should issue an executive order banning companies that contract with the federal government from discriminating in employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And she said Obama should “pressure” Congress to pass the Employment NonDiscrimination Act. Anthony Martinez, executive director of the Civil Rights Agenda, a statewide LGBT group in Illinois, expressed disappointment that Obama did not use “some of his political capital to push for passage of ENDA, immigration reforms that help same-

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money had been distributed yet.

“We’re still waiting for some audit information before we can release any of the grant,” Schulman said. “... It’s to their advantage to submit [the au-

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President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

sex couples, and marriage equality in states, such as Illinois.”

And Heather Cronk, managing director of the national activist

For years the Vatican has steadfastly stood against the use of condoms in the fight to stop the spread of HIV infection. During a 2009 trip to Africa, Benedict said condom use might even make the AIDS epidemic worse.

But in what appeared to be a slight relaxing of church policy, the pope said that in the case of male prosti-

tution, condom use might be acceptable.

“There can be single justified cases,” Benedict said, “for example when a prostitute uses a condom, and this can be the first step toward a moralization, a first act of responsibility in developing anew an awareness of the fact that not everything is permissible and that we cannot do everything we want.”

The pope’s comments, reported by any number of mainstream media outlets in November 2010, came from a lengthy interview with a German journalist.

Not all Catholics agree Benedict’s departure is good news.

“I think not,” said Phil Attey, a gay man and pro-equality Catholic activist and former executive and cofounder of Catholics for Equality.

“What it means to me is that the most hateful and mean-spirited antigay pope in the history of the Catholic Church is so determined to continue his reign of terror beyond his life on earth, that he’s going to orchestrate his succession, ensuring the next pope carries on his mission to demonize, marginalize, and oppress every gay man who comes out of the closet and demands to be treated as equals among God’s children,” Attey said. “In short, it’s likely the next pope is even more hateful and mean-spirited than this one.”

And yet for all the Vatican’s anti-gay rhetoric over several decades, pro-LG-

BT Catholic advocacy organizations voiced hope.

“We pray the new pope will listen to, and know or get to know LGBT people, particularly those who have established loving and faithful households with children, and that he will encourage bishops to do likewise,” said Mary Ellen and Casey Lopata, cofounders of Fortunate Families and parents of a gay son.

The Rochester, New York-based Fortunate Families is resource and networking ministry with Catholic parents of LGBT children.

For its part, the Catholic group Equally Blessed also voiced hope for a brighter future with a listening pope.

Equally Blessed is a coalition of four LGBT-friendly Catholic advocacy organizations, including DignityUSA, Fortunate Families, Call to Action, and New Ways Ministry.

“With the pope’s impending resignation, the church has an opportunity to turn away from his oppressive policies toward LGBT Catholics, and their families and friends,” the coalition said in a statement.

It continued, “We pray for a pope who is willing to listen to and learn from all of God’s people. We pray for a pope who will realize that in promoting discrimination against LGBT people, the church inflicts pain on marginalized people, alienates the faithful, and lends moral credibility to reactionary political movements across the globe.”t

group GetEqual, said the president’s remarks amount to “lip service.”

“Time and time again, President Obama continues to pay lip service to employment equity,” said Cronk, “but refuses to take the simple step of signing an executive order that would end LGBT discrimination by federal contractors – and that would prevent taxpayer dollars, including taxpayer dollars from LGBT Americans, from going to discriminatory companies.”

In his first State of the Union address, in 2010, Obama called for repeal of the federal law barring openly gay people from serving in the military. In 2011, just a month after signing into law the bill that repealed DADT, the president used his State of the Union address to urge universities that had been barring military recruiters over the gay ban to start allowing recruiters back on campus.

Last year, he made one direct reference to something gay, saying that, when service members put on their

uniforms, “it doesn’t matter if you’re black or white; Asian or Latino; conservative or liberal; rich or poor; gay or straight.”

As in past years, the White House again included an openly gay person among its two-dozen special guests sitting with first lady Michelle Obama in the House gallery. This year, it was Tracey Hepner of Arlington, Virginia, and a co-founder of the Military Partners and Families Coalition. The coalition provides support and advocacy for LGBT military partners and their families. She also works full time for the Department of Homeland Security as a master behavior detection officer. She is married to the first openly gay or lesbian general officer in the military, Army Brigadier General Tammy Smith.

The Human Rights Campaign noted that Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) invited a same-sex couple, Kelly Costello and Fabiola Morales, to be his guests at the event.

The White House released a “President’s Plan for a Strong Middle Class and a Strong America,” in conjunction with the address Tuesday night. The plan made no mention of LGBT people specifically, but included one section called “Encouraging and strengthening families” in which the president proposes “to remove financial deterrents to marriage for low income couples, and to support and encourage fatherhood including working with the faith community and the private sector.” The plan also called for passage of the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act but made no specific mention of the new provisions that would make the program available to victims of domestic abuse regardless of their sexual orientation.

Senator Tammy Baldwin (DWisconsin), the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, issued a brief statement applauding the speech. She did not highlight either of Obama’s gay-related remarks.t

Benedict spoke out against global efforts to extend civil-marriage rights to same-sex couples, naming same-sex marriage a threat to “human dignity and the future of humanity itself.”

Boston-based Charles Martel, cofounder of Catholics for Marriage Equality, an advocacy organization, offered an assessment of the pope’s marriage equality legacy.

“In terms of marriage, one of the things that Benedict has done is to speak about gay people in the language of being less than what God intended,” said Martel. “The pope seemed incapable of recognizing that any ministry to gay people requires not merely respect, but to acknowledge a sense of wholeness in the person. That is a very sad legacy indeed.”

The executive director of DignityUSA, an LGBT Catholic advocacy organization, was even more pointed.

“I think it would be difficult to think of a religious figure who has a more damaging legacy for LGBT people than Benedict,” Marianne DuddyBurke told the Boston Globe.

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For decades San Mateo County has had its share of elected LGBT politicians, but the central section of the Peninsula has been lacking its own LGBT political club.

Now a Redwood City resident wants to give the area’s LGBT Democrats a stronger voice politically.

Jeffrey Adair, the southern vice chair for the San Mateo County Democratic Central Committee, is starting the countywide group.

The club will be called Peninsula Stonewall Democrats. It will be open to any registered Democrat – members don’t have to live in San Mateo County – and cost $25 to join. Adair said the group would issue endorsements in local races and assist out officials such as gay state Assemblyman Rich Gordon (DMenlo Park).

“This is needed because of the growing LGBT population in and on the SF Peninsula and lack of representation and a voice in local and state politics from this area. It’s getting better, but we’ll make it better,” Adair, who has owned J Floral Art in Menlo Park for 23 years with his husband, Craig Kozlowski, told the B.A.R. in an email last week.

The group’s first meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 19 at Sammy Zelcer’s 1258 Hair Studio, which is located at 1295 El Camino Real in Menlo Park.t

dits] as soon as possible.” She said her agency was waiting on the audits for 2010 and 2011.

Plante has said an auditor has been working on the audits for the fiscal years ending in September 2009, 2010, and 2011.

In an email Wednesday, February

13, he said as soon as the audits were completed, his organization would share them with the B.A.R. The theme for the 43rd annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and celebration is “Embrace, Encourage, Empower.” For more information, visit http://www.sfpride.org.t

as Snowdon.

“In addition to the process being painful, Shane had such a high profile nationally and within the UCSF system that it is a real loss that we are reduced to having someone advocating for us whose position covers LGBT issues only part of the time as opposed to the full-time position she had,” said Wagner.

New Peninsula LGBT political club forming

On the web Online content this week includes the Bay Area Reporter’s online columns, Political Notes and Wedding Bell Blues; and articles on gay congressional candidates on the East Coast and the president’s nomination of a gay man for a federal judgeship. www.ebar.com.

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Dated 01/17/12 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: PLAYLAND ABC, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2545 24TH ST., SF, CA 94110-3508. Type of license applied for

Dated 01/23/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: WALGREEN CO. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2238 WESTBOROUGH BLVD., SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA 940805405. Type of license applied for

48 - on-Sale general pUblic preMiSeS Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034829600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOLLOW MY LEAD, 3935 18TH ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Sonia Martinez. 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 01/15/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034862400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANDY BLUM MASSAGE & WELLNESS, 129 FILLMORE ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Andrea Blum. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/29/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034852800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REBALANCED SF, 1543 MCALLISTER ST. #2, SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Justin Grinius. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/25/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/25/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034862300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MIKMOI, 1666 GOUGH ST. #306, SF, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Michael K. Coyle. 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 01/29/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034851000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHOU CHOU BAKERY BISTRO, 400 DEWEY BLVD., SF, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Sarah National Enterprises (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/24/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034817200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOT GRAFFITI?, 696 AMADOR ST., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed San Francisco Bay Distributors Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/09/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/10/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034843900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PSOAS MASSAGE + BODYWORK, 333 3RD ST. #205, SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Psoas Massage + Bodywork LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/03. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/22/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034823900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEDINA TRUCKING, 1238 12TH AVE. #1, SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed Suad Felic & Mirzeta Kuduzovic. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/14/13.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034846600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AHF PHARMACY, 4071 18TH ST., SF, CA 94114.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AIDS Healthcare Foundation (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 01/23/13.

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20 - off-Sale beer & Wine feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 notice of application to Sell alcoholic beverageS Dated 01/08/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: PMAB-5, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 60 31ST AVE. #1000, SAN MATEO, CA 94403-3404. Type of license applied for

47 - on-Sale general eating place feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034861900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PERFECT STORM GROUP; PERFECT STORM PARTNERS; 1865 GOLDEN GATE AVE. #3, SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Robert F. Eisenbach. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/29/13.

feb 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034870400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARACELY RESTAURANT, 1201 8TH ST., SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Aracely Hospitality Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/31/13.

feb 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034869900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACE LEGAL SUPPORT, 938 GEARY ST. #505, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Adam Clarke. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/30/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/31/13.

feb 07, 14, 21, 28, 2013 orDer to ShoW caUSe for change of naMe in SUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of San franciSco file cnc13-549239 In the matter of the application of: KRISTIN LEE DOYLE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KRISTIN LEE DOYLE, is requesting that the name KRISTIN LEE DOYLE, be changed to KRISTIN DOYLE MCKENNA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 28th of March 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034894500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RKMT SERVICES, 680 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Sanjukta Mukherjee.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/11/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnerShip of alcoholic beverage licenSe Dated 02/05/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MAGSTEAD, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1225 FOLSOM ST., SF, CA 94103-3816. Type of license applied for

48 - on-Sale general pUblic preMiSeS feb 14, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnerShip of alcoholic beverage licenSe Dated 02/08/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ITSHIN LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 4036 BALBOA ST, SF, CA 94121-2517. Type of license applied for

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notice of application for change in oWnerShip of alcoholic beverage licenSe Dated 02/08/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SANDER BROTHERS ENTERPRISE INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2217 MARKET ST., SF, CA 94114-1612. Type of license applied for

41 - on-Sale beer & Wine - eating place feb 14, 2013 notice of application to Sell alcoholic beverageS Dated 01/31/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: LORIS DINER INTERNATIONAL INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 449 POWELL ST. 3RD FL., SF, CA 94102-1503. Type of license applied for

47 - on-Sale general eating place feb 07, 14, 21, 2013 notice of application to Sell alcoholic beverageS Dated 02/06/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SAMI BETTAIBI. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 257 3RD ST., SF, CA 94103-3123. Type of license applied for

41 - on-Sale beer & Wine - eating place feb 14, 21, 28, 2013 orDer to ShoW caUSe for change of naMe in SUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of San franciSco file cnc13-549254 In the matter of the application of: ANDREW ALEXANDER TARCIN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ANDREW ALEXANDER TARCIN, is requesting that the name ANDREW ALEXANDER TARCIN, be changed to ANDREW ALEXANDER GREEN. 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 2nd of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 orDer to ShoW caUSe for change of naMe in SUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of San franciSco file cnc13-549255 In the matter of the application of: JONNA GREEN GANE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JONNA GREEN GANE, is requesting that the name JONNA GREEN GANE, be changed to JONNA ALEXANDER GREEN. 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 2nd of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 orDer to ShoW caUSe for change of naMe in SUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of San franciSco file cnc13-549277 In the matter of the application of: JEANNE CAUGHELL, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JEANNE CAUGHELL, is requesting that the name JEANNE CAUGHELL, be changed to JEANNE STEWART. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 9th of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnerShip of alcoholic beverage licenSe Dated 02/04/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: PETR SECKAR. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 3324 24TH ST., SF, CA 94110-3825. Type of license applied for

41 - on-Sale beer & Wine - eating place feb 14, 2013 orDer to ShoW caUSe for change of naMe in SUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of San franciSco file cnc13-549238 In the matter of the application of: GLENN ROBERT MCELHOSE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner GLENN ROBERT MCELHOSE, is requesting that the name GLENN ROBERT MCELHOSE, be changed to GLENN ROBERT MCKENNA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

514 on the 28th of March 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034881300

fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034895400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACORN MEDICAL PRACTICE, MARJORIE A. SMITH, MD; 490 POST ST. #1536, SF, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Marjorie A. Smith. 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 02/05/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UBER TAXI CAB, 999 PENNSYLVANIA, SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Waleed Alshuraidah. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/12/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/12/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034897200

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034877800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INTEGRITY IN MOTION, 3689 18TH ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Sonja Yount Seckinger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/10/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/12/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MASON LIQUOR,530 MASON ST., SF, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Anton Daher. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/04/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/04/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 notice of hearing by pUblication (Minor naMe change), State of MinneSota DiStrict coUrt, St. loUiS coUnty, SiXth JUDicial DiStrict, coUrt file nUMber 69DU-cv-12-3680, caSe type: naMe change In the matter of the application of RACHEL CAROLINE PETERSON, on behalf of ELI THOR HARKNESS, for a change of name to ELI THOR PETERSON; to SCOTT FISHER, parent, homeless.

An Application for Name Change has been filed by RACHEL CAROLINE PETERSON for a change of name for the minor child ELI THOR HARKNESS to ELI THOR PETERSON. A hearing on this Application will be held at St. Louis County Court House, 100 N. 5th Ave. W., Duluth, MN 55802 on March 11, 2013 at 9:00 a.m.

You may obtain a copy of the Application for Name Change from St. Louis County Court Administrator, 100 N. 5th Ave. W., Duluth, MN 55802. If you do not appear at the scheduled hearing, the Petitioner’s Application for a Name Change for the minor child may be granted. January 11, 2013, Marieta Johnson, Court Administrator, by K. Carlson, Deputy.

Jan 31, feb 07, 14, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034830700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEIS KAI BOOM PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, 21 COLUMBIA SQ. #205, SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Alicia Q. Salvador. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/16/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034853700

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034893000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUA DU CHICKEN SHOP, 112 WAVERLY PLACE, SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Qui Thuy Mao. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/11/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034860500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LILY MASSAGE THERAPY, 1473 PINE ST., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Li Chun Song & Guoan Zhao. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/28/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/28/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034872000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEOPLE POWER MEDIA, 366 10TH AVE., SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed People Power Media (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/01/13.

feb 14, 21, 28, Mar 07, 2013 fictitioUS bUSineSS naMe StateMent file a-034862800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CITY UNWIND, 447 SUTTER ST. #426, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Kristopher Cloud. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/25/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/25/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DRIFTWOOD, 1225 FOLSOM ST., SF, CA 94103.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Magstead Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/29/13.

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SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: SANDRA jAMILET MARTINEz, YOU ARE BEING SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS RUBEN CABRAL CASE NO. FDI-12-776833 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

NOTICE: The restraining orders following are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, 400 MCALISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; PREPARED BY ROSS MEYERS, LDA #2, SAN MATEO COUNTY, 520 SO. EL CAMINO REAL #650, SAN MATEO, CA 94402, 650-347-2500; the name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, is: RUBEN CABRAL, 1352 HAMPSHIRE ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110; 415-509-0614; APR 09, 2012 WARNING: California law provides that, for the purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

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by Sura Wood Demonstration in Milan, Italy, against the US Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a state sodomy law (July 1, 1986). Antonio Frainer is the nun on the right.

Linda Eder will draw from her diverse songbook as she returns to San Francisco for an engagement at Yoshi’s.

Country girl at heart

by Richard Dodds

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new and unusual exhibition has landed at the GLBT History Museum. Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates from Other Collections, despite a cumbersome, confusing title, is original in conception and illuminating in its execution. It brings together the personal histories of queer individuals, most of them deceased, that have been stored in the archives of LGBT organizations based in multiple countries. The US, Hungary, Belgium, England, Italy, South Africa, Australia and the Philippines each selected one or two people, and contributed materials about them to a show

he’s a little bit country and a little bit rock ’n’ roll, a little bit Broadway but not to be pigeonholed.

Linda Eder dances to one kind of music, dreams in another, and knows that many fans expect a diva in her soul.

“I have very loyal fans,” said the singer who possesses a voice of dynamic dimensions, “so you get this dilemma of people who want to hear the same things all the time, and the ones who want to hear something new. I can’t please everybody, so I just have to go with what I need to do to make this work for me.”

Local audiences will get a new chance to hear how she puts it all together in the nightclub intimacy of Yoshi’s San Francisco for two performances on Feb. 16.

While previous area engagements have brought her to larger venues, there isn’t a concert-hall Linda and a cabaret Linda. “I kind of treat them all the same,” she said of whatever venue in which she finds herself. “Even if I’m in a 2,000-seat

that’s more complicated to describe than to enjoy. The project is the brainchild of E.G. Crichton, the museum’s artistin-residence and an art professor at UC Santa Cruz, who has generated a novel approach to sharing how LGBT people have lived in different parts of the world.

What’s displayed in San Francisco is less than half of an extensive installation she designed for a conference in Amsterdam, where 23 groups provided biographies, news clippings, journal entries, excerpts from scrapbooks and first-person accounts, along with descriptions of their See page 26 >>

hall, it’s like you’re at my kitchen table.”

Eder still thinks of herself as the Minnesota country girl singing in a local joint, even though her breakthrough role came as a doomed prostitute in the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde. The score included signature power ballads written by former husband Frank Wildhorn, and she went on to channel the likes of Streisand and Garland on records and in concerts.

“I wasn’t born in Brooklyn like Barbra, and I wasn’t born in a trunk like Judy,” Eder said recently from her home outside New York City. “When I do those songs, and I know I do them well, it’s really like slipping on a role. But when I do my own stuff, it just feels like the blue-jean-wearing Linda.”

So what can audiences expect at Yoshi’s? Her current show doesn’t have a title or the kind of unifying concept that she offered last year in her Songbirds See page 18 >>

Courtesy Felix Co, Cassero Gay and Lesbian Center (Bologna, Italy)

Ohad Knoller as the title character in director Eytan Fox’s Yossi.

Heart-broken in Tel Aviv

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sraeli director Eytan Fox’s Yossi is the powerfully moving yet understated sequel to his 2003 tragic gay romance set on a battlefield Yossi & Jagger. In Yossi (opening at Landmark Cinemas), Fox raises the stakes for his depressed survivor while expanding on his story’s parallels to the restless cowboys of Brokeback Mountain.

Based on events from the War in Lebanon, Yossi & Jagger thrust us into the beehive of a co-ed Israeli Army platoon patrolling a dangerous slice of the Golan Heights, bordering Syria. Anticipating Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, the American-born Fox brought a two-year clandestine gay affair between the

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closeted Yossi and the more accepting, rockstar handsome Jagger to an equally grim climax. Yossi & Jagger ended with the clinically depressed Yossi preparing to hunker down at medical school, and in a stint as a Tel Aviv heart surgeon.

The sequel opens as our now-pudgy doctor Yossi (Ohad Knoller) is awoken from a nap by a shy hospital receptionist with more than a slight crush on him. The woman’s passive-aggressive invite for a “romantic” theatre date is rudely interrupted by Yossi’s womanizing buddy, Moti. Moti is a believable chauvinist essayed with diabolic glee by See page 26 >>

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Mrs. Vreeland’s world

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he documentary portrait Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel gets a special screening on Wed., Feb. 20, at the Castro Theatre, sponsored

by Banana Republic and hosted by Mark Rhoades. Director Lisa Vreeland, married to the grandson of the immortal fashion editor (Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue), will be in the

house for an onstage Q&A with fabulous fashion icon Joy Venturini Bianchi. A cocktail party (7 p.m.) will precede the film (8 p.m.).

Dress in red. Out There spoke by phone to director Vreeland as she was stuck in a traffic jam during an epic snowstorm in New York City last week.

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facade is going to be festively lit up in red, famously Mrs. Vreeland’s favorite color.

She saw colors the way other people didn’t see colors. She looked at the world without any closed doors, that’s why she was so open. She had a lot of gay friends.

Yes, let’s see: Yves Saint Laurent, Halston, Giorgio Armani, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton. Not a bad party-list.

Yes! She could have a conversation with [director] Joel Schumacher when he was still doing windows at Henri Bendel! And she lived in a time when society women were not like that.

Do you think her sense of style has held over to the new century?

Her eye, her inspiration have endured, her sense of originality.

There’s no originality anymore. She was steeped in history, the ultimate teacher. [At the Met’s Costume Institute,] she picked her favorite things to show, not like traditional museum shows. She brought in music, did a show about fragrances. But she always said, “I want a nine-yearold girl from Harlem to understand this!” Although she never wanted to be given any kind of label, she was a living example for women of that time. Her life was her work.

Mrs. Vreeland remains an icon whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty, art, publishing and culture forever. The screening should be molto fun.

Up at dawn

From the Vreeland biography Empress of Fashion (reviewed in this issue), we devoured the following anecdote: While at Vogue in the early 1960s, Vreeland published a Richard Avedon photograph of Rudolph Nureyev dancing naked.

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an agony of action, could have been the inspiration for many of Michelangelo’s sublime realizations of the human form.”

What was not shown in the shot is what made it so memorable. Nureyev arrived at the studio straight from an overnight flight.

He warmed up by dancing, surrounded by assistants. He then dismissed them. Only Vreeland and Avedon remained. Nureyev emerged naked from the dressing room. Vreeland recounted what happened: “You know how it is with men in the morning,” said Diana to the writer Richard Solomon when in

her 80s, startling him with an extraordinary vertical gesture. “And it was like that. And it stayed that way for such a long time. And there was nothing we could do but wait for it to go down! And it was very strange, but it was impossibly beautiful!”t

On the web This week, find Victoria A. Brownworth’s Lavender Tube column, “Weather or not,” and Tim Pfaff ’s review of Hercule mourant (Hercules Dying) online at www.ebar.com.

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tour, but she said the current repertoire draws heavily from it. “For that, I learned some really iconic songs from some really iconic singers,” Eder said, referring to such performances as Etta James’ “At Last,” Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” and Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man.”

Linda Eder starred on Broadway as a doomed prostitute in former husband Frank Wildhorn’s musical Jekyll & Hyde.

In addition to the Songbirds offerings, Eder will draw from her numerous albums and include some of the songs that “people consider my greatest hits.” Those songs include “Man of La Mancha,” “Someone Like You,” and “Vienna,” with the latter two composed by Wildhorn. “I sort of took a break from doing those big songs for the last year or so,” she said.

“I’ve been getting a lot of requests for them, so I figured I’ve had my break so let’s put them back in.”

Another thing that helped recharge her big-song batteries was a CD sojourn to the country-pop album The Other Side of Me. “Left to my own devices with just a guitar, that’s really who I am,” Eder said of the lightly twanging sound. She wrote one song for the album, a driving heartbreaker titled “Waiting for the Fall,” and it will be part of the songbook at Yoshi’s.

Eder is working towards a CD made up entirely of her own com-

positions, but her most recent release was something of a throwback surprise. Now is a collection of recent compositions by former husband Wildhorn, whose musical visions had once defined her.

Divorced in 2004 after six years of marriage, they have remained companionable, have a teenaged son together, and after Eder had a chance to choose her own path for most of the past decade, she felt ready to again collaborate with Wildhorn. And there will be a song from Now in her SF show.

Before she met Wildhorn, Eder had been building a career first through pageant performances (she was a runner-up in the 1980 Miss Minnesota competition), local club dates, a lounge act in Atlantic City, and then a winning streak in the late ’80s on the preIdol TV talent show Star Search.

Wildhorn, a pop songwriter with See page 25 >>

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Passion & technique

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o stranger to Bay Area audiences or to the San Francisco Symphony, current Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Charles Dutoit recently wrapped a two-week guest stint at Davies Symphony Hall. After almost three decades of appearances with the orchestra, Dutoit has never disappointed with his repertoire choices, his clear interpretations or his expert baton technique. He may not be a particularly showy or striking personality on the podium, but his deep experience and a life spent in association with some major musical institutions – the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, the Montreal Symphony (25 years!) and the Orchestre National de France – have made him a respected master and an ever-welcome visitor here.

It was easy to forgive the one dicey bit of programming performed during the first week of his stay. It was probably more a concession

to his guest soloist than anything else. Edouard Lalo’s ambitious but highly forgettable Symphonie espagnole for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 21, became the mediocre centerpiece of a program that was constructed as something like a postcard tour of Europe that ended with Edward Elgar’s nobly British Enigma Variations. Canadian violinist James Ehnes returned to DSH after two years of absence to essay the virtuosic demands of the attractive but obstinately pedestrian Lalo score.

The evening opened with a vibrant and evocative Rapsodie espagnole by Ravel that suggested a thematic link for the concert.

Unfortunately, Lalo’s pretty and only occasionally arresting music couldn’t maintain the leitmotif. It wasn’t without a valiant attempt by young Ehnes. He has the ability to make all the points, ingratiate himself to an audience, and show passion as well as technique. Why he was trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear may show an attempt

at making surprising repertoire choices. Still, if you are opting out of the usual concerto fare, there are a lot better offbeat picks out there.

His encore, the Largo from Bach’s Sonata No. 3, said more in five minutes than in 30 of Lalo.

Last week was the crowning achievement of Dutoit’s stay and a real evening-long chance for the superb San Francisco Symphony Chorus under director Ragnar Bohlin to both impress and elevate.

The selection of Francis Poulenc’s lovely Stabat Mater (1951) would have been enough to cheer my senses, but the second half of the bill was given to a towering performance of the Te Deum by Berlioz that took anyone’s expectations for a choral performance way over the top.

To say the Poulenc was cheering might seem odd in the context of an extended piece regarding a mother’s grief, but as Rossini managed in his treatment of the same subject, Poulenc invests so many moments with such tender sweetness (and frankly

Pat & Patti get going!

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t’s no accident that new cabaret recordings from out diva Patricia Racette and gay icon Patti LuPone arrived for review just two days apart. On one disc we have a beloved opera star, Ms. Pat, going on 47, making an astonishing showing with her first recorded foray into the world of cabaret; on the other we have an equally cherished Broadway/cabaret idol, Ms. Patti, going on 64, proving that at an age when most female opera stars have already

taken up residence in the House of Retired Diva Devotion, she remains supremely capable of commanding the stage, getting intimate with her audience, and belting it out like nobody’s business.

Patricia Racette’s Diva on Detour first. Recorded live in April 2012 before a presumably invited studio audience, Pat joins pianist Craig Terry to intersperse 18 standards, including three that became the property of Edith Piaf, with a lot of patter. Anyone who thinks that it’s just gay men who are obsessed

with their mothers needs to hear Pat go on and on about Mother Jackie.

But you’ll also learn that young Pat cut her teeth not on opera, but on jazz and torch songs she sang on weekends in the basement of a few retired “jazz guys” who lived in her New Hampshire hometown. It was there she developed the chest voice and idiomatic styling heard on her revelatory new recording.

“Which do I prefer, opera or cabaret?” she asks during the performance. “There is no difference.

Gershwin and Puccini, I love them

Guest conductor Charles Dutoit, respected maestro.

catchy tunes), one can’t help feeling a little better for the whole experience. Soprano Erin Wall was just right in her solo role, and the SFS Chorus sounded beautifully rehearsed and quite in tune with the subtle and strikingly modern harmonies.

After intermission, Dutoit, the SFS Chorus joined by the Pacific Boychoir (Kevin Fox, director) and

all.” Opening with a medley of “I Got Rhythm/Get Happy” (respectively by the Gershwin brothers and the team of Arlen and Koehler), Racette blows away the cobwebs with her boundless energy, impeccable diction, and natural delivery. A born See page 20 >>

tenor Paul Groves returned to the stage for a remarkably tight rendition of Berlioz’s glorious choral work with organ and orchestra.

There was no weak link in the huge performing forces, but there were some suitable standouts. Organist Jonathan Dimmock should have been listed alongside solo vocalist Paul Groves in the program notes.

Each of them made excellent contributions. The ardent and beautiful singing by the Boychoir was also wonderful to see and hear. Their fresh and earnest faces coupled with genuinely surprising strength made all the more impact as the members of the SFS Chorus powered their own way through the huge and complex writing.

To the maestro’s credit, the orchestra remained perfectly audible and in balance. To hear such a rich edge and sweetness in the strings with all that commotion around them was truly amazing.

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Wild, wild West

by David Lamble

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est of Memphis Like all too many of us, Damien Echols was brought up on soothing but misleading clichés about the fundamental fairness of the American criminal justice system. Before the West Memphis, Arkansas-born and raised Echols was 18, he would have sworn that the old Perry Mason TV series had it about right, that truth and justice would be served before the final commercial.

Echols’ pale-white skin, jet-black hair and love of heavy-metal rock bands like Metallica made him a suspicious character in the eyes of his rural town’s deeply conservative establishment. In May 1993, he was watching TV when the law came knocking. Echols was riveted by the same tabloid-TV clips as the rest of

his neighbors, accounts and grisly footage of the discovery of the naked bodies of three local grammarschool kids: Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers. The boys’ bodies were found mutilated and partly submerged in a local creek. The local TV anchors were hawking an angle that in my Texas radio days we used to call “rock-nroll news”: the boys were the victims of a “satanic cult,” and the mutilations of their bodies were the work of sex-crazed, heavy-metal devilworshippers.

When Echols found West Memphis homicide detectives at his door, he wasn’t entirely surprised. “Most people assume the case starts with the murders of the three 8-year-old boys, but for me it actually started a good two years before I was arrested. I had been harassed by police juvenile officers. They would come through our neighborhood and pick up teenage boys and say, ‘Either you give me a blowjob, or you’re going to jail.’

“One of them was forced to resign after he was caught molesting a teenage boy. These were some incredibly corrupt and morally bankrupt individuals who made my life a living hell. They were the ones who pointed the real police, the West Memphis Police Department, in my direction in the first place. They

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Damien Echols in director Amy Berg’s West of Memphis.

were saying, ‘We think we’ve got your guy over here, this is the one you need to look at.’”

What young Echols couldn’t have known was that the local constabulary was building a criminal case against him and two other teens, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, that would result in his spending the next 18 years on Arkansas death row, while his friends got life without parole.

The case of the West Memphis Three would reverberate around the English-speaking world, and 8,000 miles away in New Zealand, the Oscar-winning team that gave us the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, would launch a full-scale investigation, refuting ev-

ery one of the prosecution’s claims.

Since the original trial judge dismissed their findings out of hand, Jackson and Walsh appealed to the court of public opinion, hiring veteran doc-maker Amy Berg to mount a defense for the West Memphis Three in the form of a passionate and exhaustively researched film.

West of Memphis has a huge cast: 50 on-camera interviews ranging from friends and supporters of the three defendants – including musicians Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) and Henry Rollins – to friends and family of the victims, as well as a gaggle of attorneys, prosecutors and even the once-reticent and politically ambitious trial judge. You’ll see a panel of the nation’s top medical examiners shoot holes through the local examiner’s report, including a unique finding that the mutilations were caused not by knife-wielding Satanists but by hungry creek turtles.

Ultimately the filmmakers not only absolve the Memphis Three, and force the State of Arkansas to resort to desperate measures to avoid a costly false-imprisonment lawsuit, but build a convincing circumstantial case against the stepfa-

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ther of one of the victims.

Free at last, Damien Echols hails the film’s profound sensitivity to its often-mocked subjects. “Amy Berg was able to get people who have refused to talk to anyone else in the past to talk to her, including the judge and the prosecutor. She doesn’t degrade anybody; when you’re dealing with people who live in a world with that level of poverty and illiteracy, it’s easy to almost turn it into a caricature, to make it look like the latest episode of that Honey Boo Boo show.” (Now playing.)

Shanghai Calling Close to a century ago, my British dad used to make China’s largest city a port of call as a ship’s purser for the Blue Funnel line. At that time of Chinese humiliation, the city was carved into spheres of influence by the U.S., Britain and France. Director Daniel Hsia puts this history on speed dial in a super-savvy satire/rom-com.

Sam, a Stanford-educated, American-born corporate lawyer (ironically cast with Korean American Daniel Henney) is sent by the New York home office to be their resident legal beagle. A hunk approaching his 30th birthday, witty but distracted, arrogant and master of neither Mandarin nor Cantonese, Sam trips through a series of cultural pratfalls, alienating potential friends and allies before he wises up.

Against the backdrop of an exploding metropolis, Hsia enables his charmer to bluff and bully his way past an attractive supporting cast including Titanic’s Bill Paxton and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’s Alan Ruck. While it would over-the-top to claim “the Lubitsch touch” for Hsia, this very smart and oddly touching tale is entertaining and a useful hedge against “China-bashing.”

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storyteller, she sounds totally in her element. She even manages to sneak in a reference to women loving women.

Her Piaf medley reveals the essence of her style. Racette seizes on “La Vie en Rose” as an opportunity to open her voice and vibrato, and sing with operatic fervor. As powerful as Racette’s delivery may be, it can prove relentless when every song gets the full-out treatment. This makes her collaboration with Terry on “Come Rain or Come Shine” – a brilliant arrangement that mixes Arlen’s classic melody with Bach’s C Major Prelude, and allows her to end softly – all the more extraordinary. It’s also one of the few tracks where you really focus on the piano. Otherwise, on an

album that shamefully fails to credit its composers and songwriters, Terry’s piano is so undermiked that it’s hard to hear the magic he brings to the performance.

“I love singing sad songs,” Racette declares at the start of a final medley that has her voice trembling in See page 21 >>

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Fashionista supreme

by Tavo Amador

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t is too bad that you have such a beautiful sister, and that you are so extremely ugly and so terribly jealous of her. This, of course, is why you are so impossible to deal with.”

Those words, spoken by her exquisite mother, permanently scarred the young Diana Dalziel. Yet as Diana Vreeland, she responded to that cruelty with long tenures at Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, influencing generations of women on how to look attractive. Amanda Mackenzie Stuart’s riveting Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland (Harper, $35) recounts her remarkable story.

Her wealthy, socially prominent American mother, Emily Key Hoffman, married Englishman Frederick Young Dalziel, who was barely middle-class. Although lack of money probably limited his studies at Oxford to one year, he inevitably referred to himself as an “Oxford man” and became a successful stockbroker. Her parents married in London and were living in Paris when Diana was born in 1903. She would always claim she grew up there, but in truth she was raised in comfortable circumstances in Manhattan. Her parents’ marriage was unconventional – Emily had affairs, Frederick remained faithful.

When one of Emily’s liaisons made newspaper headlines, he steadfastly denied the allegations.

Diana, highly imaginative, did poorly in school, a sharp contrast to her younger sister Alexandria, whom she adored. Diana kept a diary and created an alter ego: “The Girl,” who would be fashionable, popular, admired, celebrated, and happily married to a handsome man. The life she imagined for “The Girl” became the one she led.

After her society debut, she met the exceptionally good-looking, charming Thomas Reed Vreeland.

“I believe in love at first sight, because that’s what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry,” which they did in 1924.

Vreeland’s father was President of New York’s Metropolitan Street Railway Company, climbing his way to that position after quitting school and beginning as a gravel shoveler.

Unlike the Dalziels, the Vreelands were proud of their humble roots. A Yale graduate, Reed was elegant and stylish. She ignored perceptions that she had wed beneath herself.

His work took them to London, where their two sons were born. Despite his wealthy connections, Reed wasn’t especially successful. Often, it was Diana’s money that financed their comfortable life. Her fashion sense made her well-known. They cultivated socialites, artists, designers, aristocrats, and rich businessmen.

Among those impressed was Carmel Snow, the revolutionary managing editor of Harper’s Bazaar, the upstart rival to Vogue. In 1936,

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“Where Do You Start?” And indeed she does. Her entry on “Mon Dieu” is fabulous, her energy unbounded.

But whether you will ultimately believe her, or come away thinking that she has put on a really good show, can only be determined by listening.

When it comes to Patti LuPone’s Far Away Places, a live recording of the show she prepared for the very grand opening of New York City’s Live at 54 Below, there are no reservations. Conceived by Scott Wittman, written by Jeffrey Richman with band arrangements and direction by pianist/vocalist Joseph Thalken, the disc intersperses four songs by Kurt Weill

she hired Diana as a representative of the international set. They worked well together.

When the aging, increasingly alcoholic Snow was forced to retire, Diana succeeded her.

Diana discovered a tall, striking, 19-year-old aspiring actress and model named Betty Joan Perske, whom she put on a 1943 cover. That cover resulted in a legendary Hollywood and Broadway career as Lauren Bacall.

More importantly, Diana advocated clothes designed to fit women’s natural bodies. She championed Coco Chanel, for example, although the French designer thought her the “most affected woman” she ever met. Despite her belief that French fashion was best, she helped make American sportswear popular. Her dictatorial style was the basis for Kay Thompson’s character in the musical film Funny Face (1957), with Audrey Hepburn as the unknown model and Fred Astaire as a Richard Avedon-like photographer. Unamused, Diana denied any similarity.

In 1962, she left Harper’s Bazaar for Vogue, working with top photographers to produce landmark pictures in exotic locations. In 1963, she advised Francophile Jacqueline Kennedy on which American designers to use while traveling with her husband on the Presidential campaign. They became lifetime friends. Diana embraced the Beatles, Twiggy, Penelope Tree, and women like Barbra Streisand who, like herself, were far from classically beautiful.

She had little business sense and often disregarded the demands of Vogue’s important advertisers. Her perfectionist, imperious manner offended many, although she had lots of admirers. Eventually, she was forced out. Her husband had died.

Their marriage had survived his infidelities. Despite Vogue’s generous severance package, money was a concern. Friends helped her become a well-paid consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this final phase of her astonishing career, she supervised blockbuster shows of the museum’s great costume collections. The exhibits were hugely profitable, but curators criticized her sloppy scholarship. Typically, she ignored them.

Diana focused on ever-changing fashion, but never altered her style: lacquered, dyed ebony hair, heavily rouged cheeks, red lipstick, flat shoes, and ensembles that flattered

with others by Willie Nelson, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Stephen Sondheim, the Gibbs, and yes, Edith Piaf.

Beginning with Boland and Jaffe’s attention-grabbing “Gypsy in My Soul,” and ending with a memorable version of Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “September Song,” it reveals the great LuPone totally in her element.

That element, it should be noted, includes the gay community. Patti knows her gay fans well, and treats them to lines whose meaning some may miss. She also knows her way with a song, wrapping her amazing voice and large range around every word, note, and meaning. Her energy is so positive, and her conviction total, you will likely rejoice that we can still enjoy her at her peak.t

her thin figure. Although a distant mother, she got along well with her sons and daughters-in-law. She adjusted to one grandson becoming a Buddhist monk. She was so much of this world that she had difficulty understanding his wanting to escape it.

Yet when her health began failing, she retreated to her bedroom and saw few people. Her death in 1989 was front-page news.

Throughout her life, Diana focused on the positive, ignoring, often to her peril, unpleasant realities. She frequently embellished events – what she called “faction.” In compelling prose, Mackenzie Stuart scrupulously sorts out the truth. Although Diana wasn’t a feminist, her life personified many of feminism’s goals. She triumphed on her own terms and changed the way women saw themselves. It’s a remarkable legacy.t

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Tue 19: Green Sneakers @ Southside Theater

Oakland Black Film Festival

West Coast premiere of composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s mini-opera, a 19-part song cycle for baritone and string quartet about love, loss and finding solace.

Gordon’s most personal composition deals with the death of his lover, Jeffrey Grossi, from AIDS. $45-$75. 7pm pre-concert Q&A. 7:30pm curtain. Fort Mason, Bldg. D. Buchanan at Marina.

345-7575. www.fortmason.org

Sat 16: Kit Yan, Joe Stevens @ El Rio Queer trans slam poet and singersongwriter (of Coyote Grace) share the stage at the cool nightclub. No cover.

6pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

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et’s see; the Pope’s quitting, photos of the blizzard back east made us pine for snow (for, like, a minute). Meanwhile, local LGBT singers, filmmakers, artists and archivists blossom year-round.

Sun 17: Hella Gay Comedy @ Rebel Charlie Ballard hosts a special extra edition of the stand-up laughfest with Eloisa Bravo, Kate Willett, Justin Lucas, Steve Post, Queen TT, Scott Simpson; part of Noise Pop Festival; sponsored by LOGO and Comedy Central. $10. 21+.

8pm. 1760 Market St. 433-4202. www.rebel-sf.com

Fri 15: Hear Me Roar @ La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley Queer feminist hip hop literature and spoken word event with Aya de Leon, Chinaka Hodge, Raquel Gutierrez, Carrie Leilam Love, Kit Yan and Dawn Robinson. $15-$18. 8pm. 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.radarproductions.org

Fri 15: Oakland Black LGBT Film Festival @ New Parkway Theatre 9th annual festival of Black-themed feature and short films. $10 each. Thru Feb 17. 474 24th St. near Telegraph.

(510) 658-7900. www.blacklgbtfilmfest.com www.thenewparkway.com

Thu 14 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof @ Buriel Clay Theatre African-American Shakespeare Company performs Tennessee Williams’ classic play of an injured drunk Southern heir and his fiesty wife, trapped in a mansion for the birthday celebration of the family patriarch. $10-$35. Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Feb 17. 762 Fulton St at Webster. (800) 8383006. www.african-americanshakes.org

Classical Recitals @ SF Conservatory of Music Instrumental and vocal concerts by students and faculty. Free-$20. Feb 14, 8pm: students of Bettina Mussumeli perform violin masterworks. Feb 16, 2pm: trombone works. Feb 16, 8pm ($15-$20), Conservatory Orchestra performs works by Mendelssohn and Shostakovich. Feb 19, 8pm: cello students. Feb 20, 8pm: viola students. Feb 21, 8pm: violin students. 50 Oak St. at Van Ness Ave. 503-6275. www.sfcm.edu

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha The weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. This week, a special Valentine’s Free Love and Comedy special, with Yayne Abeba, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Kurt Weitzmann, Frankie Quinones and Sandra Risser. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. www.comedybodega.com

Hot Mess @ New Conservatory Theatre Sketch comedy show. $15. 8pm. Thru Feb 16. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 8618972. www.nctcsf.org

Joe Goode Performance Group @ Joe Goode Annex Irresistibly Drawn: The Songs of Joe Goode Performance Group, music, dance and monologues performed with Holcombe Waller, other musicians and dancers. Comp wine, chocolate and hors d’eouvres. Thru Feb 16. $50. 8pm. 401 Alabama St. (800) 838-3006. www.joegoode.org

Out in the Bay @ KALW 91.7 Radio program with interviews of Daughters of Bilitis founders and life partner Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. 7pm. www.OutintheBay.org

Wed 20: Legendary: African American GLBT Past Meets Present @ GLBT History Museum Opening reception for a new exhibit focusing on African American words, images and sounds that connect inspirational commentary by local queer community leaders with historic artifacts.

7pm.-9pm. Thru April 2013. Another new exhibit, Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Other Collections, features historical items from nearly a dozen countries and archives, each showcasing an archive of prominent LGBT person. $5. Reg hours Mon & Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

4127 18th St. glbthistorymuseum.org

Thu 21: What’s the T? @ New People Cinema Cecilio Asuncion’s documentary about five transgender women: Cassandra Cass, Nya Ampon, Rakash Armani, Vi Le, and Mia Tu Mutch. $15-$40.

5:30pm. 9pm (VIP screening with afterparty). 1746 Post St. brownpapertickets.com/event/320632

Sat 16: FourPlay @ ATA Gallery Screening of sections of Kyle Henry’s film about couples delving into sexual adventures; with Paul Soileau (Christeene); film performer and sex worker Chloe in attendance at Q&A; part of Other Cinema’s Eros Show. $7.

8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. fourplayfilm.com www.atagallery.com

Joey Arias @ Castro Theatre The legendary nightlife icon and chanteuse performs Love Swings, an evening of song, seduction and celebration. Guest performers include Veronica Klaus, Connie Champagne, plus a fashion show by Mr. David. VIP post-show event in the mezzanine. $22-$75. 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

One Billion Rising @ First Congregational Church, Oakland Night for the One Billion : a performance ritual ‘mash-up’ featuring Dance Brigade, Youth Speaks, Destiny Arts, Holly Near, Hand to Hand, Afia Walking Tree, Gina Breedlove & Shelly Doty and more. $10$100. 7pm. 2501 Harrison St at 27th. www.bayarearising.org

One Sexy Valentine @ Oddball Cinema Strange Sinema 61, a collection of bawdy vintage burlesque film clips, animated crossdressing cartoons, and kinky bits.

8pm. Also, Stop Motion Explosion, great short claymations from 1925-1978. Feb 15, 8pm. $10 each. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Rise Beyond Borders @ El Rio Fundraiser for collaborative political groups working for global women’s rights; performances by Kaylah Marin, Vixen Noir, Isis Starr, Voodoo Cabare, etc., plus DJed music. $3-$20.

6pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

SF Indie Fest @ Roxie Cinema Annual independent film festival, with annual fun parties (Roller Disco party Feb 15). $10-$90 (full pass). Thru Feb 21. 3117 16th St. Also other events at Brava Theater (2781 24th St.) and other venues for parties. www.sfindie.com

Spin the Bottle Nightlife @ Cal. Academy of Sciences Special Valentines’ Day with micro-brewery beer-tasting galore; science exhibits, plus food, cocktails and DJed dancing. $10-$12.

6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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Cloud Atlas @ Castro Theatre Epic and visually striking film stars Tom Hanks and many others. $8-$12. 1pm, 4:30, 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Hot Tub, Planet Booty, Double Duchess @ SF Public Works Fun R&B, soul and queer-hop bands perform retro super funk, including Manitous Ryury. Also, DJs Assault, Becky Knox, Matt Haze, and Stay Gold. $5-$10. 9pm-3am.

161 Erie St. http://ticketf.ly/WpSlrA

The Kinsey Collection @ MOAD Opening reception of a new exhibit of works: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, Where Art and History Intersect offers an inspirational journey through five centuries of African American history, culture and heritage, including a collection of rare books and manuscripts, paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs, an early version of the Emancipation Proclamation, correspondence between Malcolm X and Alex Haley, slave shackles and artwork. Thru May 19. Free-$10. WedSat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Local Vocals @ Progressive Grounds Café Twice monthly open mic hosted by Brian Vouglas, with singers, readers, poets and more. Sign-up 6:30pm. Show 7pm-9pm.

2301 Bryant St. (1st & 3rd Fridays). 6470103. www.progressivegrounds.com

Moon Trent @ Brainwash Café Gay folk music, with the local artist, plus Rob & Ray and Carl With Records. Free.

8pm. 1122 Folsom St. 861-3663. www.brainwash.com

Our Practical Heaven @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Mon 18: Jason & DeMarco @ Phoenix Theater Gay singing duo performs a concert “celebrating families of diversity” with their parents and kids along the tour; kid-friendly show, under 17 admitted free. $20-$25. 7pm. 414 Mason St. www.jasonanddemarco.com

Thu 21: Pansy Division @ El Rio The fun pop-punk queer band, together again, temporarily, perform with Zbornak, and DJs Brown Mary and Carnita of Hard French spinning ‘60s soul and 45s. 8:30pm. 3158 Mission St. www. pansydivision.com www.elriosf.com

Marcus Shelby Trio @ Intersection for the Arts

Conversation 6 @ SF Arts Commission Gallery

Terrific local jazz trio performs at the art space fundraiser. $10-$250. 8pm. 925 Mission st. #109. www.marcusshelby.com www.theintersection.org

SF-based Jason Hanasik and Amsterdam artist Berndnaut Smilde’s dual installation about home, dislocation and impermanence. Public reception Feb 15, 6pm-8pm.

Thru April 27. Main gallery, 401 Van Ness, Veterans Bldg. Hours Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm. www.sfartscommission.org

Symptom @ CounterPulse Body Cartography’s multi-media dancetheatre work explores reproductive technologies, twins and the idea of what is “natural.” $20-$30. 8pm. Thru Feb 17. 1310 Mission St. at 9th. www.counterpulse.org

Upstairs @ Metropolitan Community Church Wayne Self’s touring multi-character musical drama-in-progress about the the 1973 arson of a New Orleans gay club, and the 23 people who died. $20. 7pm. 150 Eureka St., San Francisco. www.upstairsthemusical.wordpress.com

Fri 15 Ainadamar @ YBCA Osvaldo Golijov’s opera gets its San Francisco premiere, directed by Brian Staufenbiel, with singers Lisa Chavez, Marnie Breckenridge and Maya Kherani, joined

by La Tania Baile Flamenco and members of the SF Music Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble. $35-$85. Feb 15 & 16, 8pm and Feb 17, 2pm. 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Batman on Robin @ Mission Comics & Art Group exhibit of Batman and Robin artwork that outs them as a gay erotic couple, with works by dozens of artists.

Reg hours 12pm-8pm (6pm Sun). 3520 20th St. 695-1545. www.missioncomicsandart.com

Dear Harvey @ New Conservatory Theatre Patricia Loughrey’s play recounts the life of the groundbreaking gay activist and politician, based on dozens of interviews of friends and those inspired by Harvey Milk; with music by Thomas Hodges. (Special post-show discussion Feb 17 with Patricia Loughrey, Dan Nicoletta, Cleve Jones and Tom Ammiano). $18-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru Feb 24. 25 Van Ness Ave at Market, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

A Doll’s House @ Hastings Studio Theater American Conservatory Theatre MFA student production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama (thru Feb 15), in repertory with Molier’s farce, Tartuffe (Feb 12-16). $20 two-show deal. Variuous nights, 7:30pm.

77 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Anthony Clarvie’s drama about a family facing the decline of their beach home, and the changing nature of generations, family and gender roles. $35-$60. Tue 7pm. WedSat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

San Francisco Ballet @ War Memorial Opera House The Hamburg Ballet performs John Neumeier’s 2000 dance, Nijinsky. $35-$255.

7pm pre-show talk. 8pm curtain. Feb 15, LGBT Nite Out post-show reception. 301 Van Ness Ave. 865-2000. www.sfballet.org

Without Reality There Is No Utopia @ YBCA Group exhibit/installation of politicallythemed art focusing on the clash of Capitalism/Communisim, propaganda/ disinformation, financial lies and truths, and other global issues. Opening party Feb 15, 6:30-8pm. Free/$10. Thru June 2. 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org

Early Plays @ YBCA The Wooster Group and New York City Players perform a collaborative staging of the Glencairn Plays by Eugene O’Neill ( Early Plays recounts the tales of a group of sailors on a tramp steamer, exposing the underbelly of turn-of-the-century maritime life and the longing and loneliness of life at sea.); directed by Richard Maxwell. $10$25. 8pm. Thru Feb 16. Forum, 701 Mission St. at 3rd. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Sat 16 Dance Discourse Project @ CounterPulse Scholar Judith Butler discusses gender and performativity with CounterPulse’s Julie Phelps at the discussion group. Free. 1pm.

1310 Mission St. at 9th. 626-2060. www.CounterPulse.org

Circus Oz.

See Fri 15.

Circus Oz @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley Australian circus troupe of jugglers, acrobats, musicians and comic performers returns. $22-$76. 8pm. Also Feb 15, 11am; Feb 16, 2pm; Feb 17, 3pm. Bancroft Way at Telegraph, UC Berkeley campus. (510) 6429988. www.calperformances.org

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Silent Winter includes F.W. Murnau’s Faust.

See Sat 16.

Tue 19 Filip Dujardin @ Highlight Gallery (Dis)location, an exhibit of photomontages of altered urban and rural landscapes.

Tue-Sat 11am-6pm. Thru Mar. 29. 17 Kearny St. 986-4308. www.highlightgallery.com

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

Life of Pi @ Castro Theatre Ang Lee’s visually stunning film based on the bestselling book. $8.50-$12. 2pm, 5pm, 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm.

(Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Migration @ Visual Aid Estudio Nomada exchange show from Barcelona, Spain, featuring works by Iris Tonies, U.B. Morgan and Kirsten Campbell.

Thru Feb 28. 57 Post St. 777-8242. www.visualaid.org

Smack Dab @ Magnet

Mascara @ Castro Country Club

Veteran journalist Randy Alfred discusses his new book, Mad Science: Einstein’s Fridge, Dewar’s Flask, Mach’s Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World. Larrybob Roberts hosts.

Open mic sign-up 7:30pm. Show 8pm.

4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

U-Phoria hosts a drag show, Amendments, at the LGBT sober space. $3-$6.

10:30pnm. 4058 18th St. www.castrocountryclub.org

The Motherf**ker With the Hat @ SF Playhouse Gabe Marin and Carl Lumbly costar in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ verbal cage match about love, fidelity and misplaced haberdashery. $30-$100. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru Mar 16. 450 Post St., 2nd floor. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Navigating Queer Pacific Waves @ Galeria de la Raza Group exhibit of new works in various media by Jean Melesaine, Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Jorge Manuel Gonzales, Joy Enomoto, and collaborating artists who focus on their Pacific Islander roots and explore colonialism and LGBT oppression.

Exhibit thru March 2. Tue-Sat 12pm-6pm.

2857 24th St. at Bryant. 826-8009. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Silent Winter @ Castro Theatre The Silent Film Festvial presents a a day of classic cinema; comedies One Week, The Scarecrow and The Play House ; gay director F.W. Murnau’s magnificant Faust (a masterpiece of German Expressionism, as boldly distinctive as his Nosferatu ), Douglas Fairbanks’ classic The Thief of Bagdad, and Mary Pickford’s My Best Girl; live piano and organ accompaniment. $5-$15. 429 Castro St. www.silentfilm.org www.castrotheatre.com

The Wild Bride @ Berkeley Rep Return engagement of the hit play, a ‘fairy tale for adults’ about a young woman’s adventures, with visually striking storytelling, humor and music. $35-$89. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm; Sat & Sun 2pm.

Thru Feb 17. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Leonidas Kavalos.

See Sun 17.

Thu 21 Cassandra Wilson @ Yoshi's

Sun 17

Classy R&B singer-guitarist performs. $36-$45. 8pm & 10pm. Thru Feb 23. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Leonidas Kavalos @ Hertz Hall, Berkeley Celebrated violinist performs an allBeethoven concert, with piano accompanimist Enrico Pace. $48. 3pm. Bancroft Way at College Ave., UC Berkeley campus. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit @ Castro Theatre Enjoy a full two-day dose of the Peter Jackson films based on the J.R.R. Tolkein books. The Fellowship of the Ring, 1pm.

The Two Towers, 4:15pm. The Return of the King, 7:30pm. Feb 18, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (in 3D), 1pm, 4:30pm, 8pm. $10-$13. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

SF Hiking Club @ Matt David Trail Join LGBT hikers on an 8-mile trek on Mt. Tam, with ocean views; lunch on Stinson Beach and a hike up Steep Ravine. Carpool meets 9am at the Safeway sign, Market St. at Dolores. 242-4376. www.sfhiking.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square.

395-8595. www.harrydenton.com

Mon 18 Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm-1:30am. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm.

Sat/Sun 10:30pm. comcasthometown.com

Vagabondage @ House of Happy Walls Museum, Oakland

The Kinsey Collection.

See Fri 15.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, a documentary about the pioneering “Empress of Fashion,” Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar editor. $12. 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

New exhibit, The World Stage: Israel, with special events as well. Reg hours Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (closed Wed). Exhibit thru May 27. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Broadway and cabaret singer performs classics, jazz and even a little country music. $36-$46. 8pm & 10pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5611. www.yoshis.com

Selection of strange short films exploring sexuality, Folsom Street Fair, sex junkies, Jack Smith and more. $6. 8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. at 21st. www.othercinema.com

Diana Vreeland @ Castro Theatre

Kehinde Wiley @ Contemp. Jewish Museum

Linda Eder @ Yoshi’s

Polymorphous Perversity @ Other Cinema

Wed 20

The folk-Americana band performs in a concert with refreshments and beer served at intermission. $20. 6pm. 2400 London Ranch Road, Jack London State Historic Park, Glen Ellen. (707) 938-5216. www.jacklondonpark.com www.vagabondageband.com

China’s Terracotta Warriors. See Thu 21.

China's Terracotta Warriors @ Asian Art Museum The First Emperor's Legacy, an exhibit of ten of the famous life-size sculptures of guards of China’s first emperor, and 100plus other treasures from 2,000 years ago.

Opening evening party Feb 21 features turf war antics from party-makers Cheryl and several DJs. ($15-$18; 7pm-11pm). Reg Free-$22. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Thru May 27. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.terracotta-warriors.asianart.org

Kronos Quartet @ Lam Research Theater Local music ensemble performs world premieres And the Movement of the Tongue by Pamela Z, String Quartet No. 3, The Mezzanine by Nathaniel Stookey, and the West Coast premiere of Carrying the Past by Dan Becker, and arrangements

by Stephen Prutsman. $20-$35. 8pm.

Pre-show talks 7pm. Thru Feb 22. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Way Behind the Music @ 1772 Market Litquake and Noise Pop cohost the third annual hilarious celebrity bio reading series, with local musicians and writers reading from (sometimes poorly ghost-written) books by David Cassidy, One Direction, LeAnn Rimes, Micky Dolenz, Flavor Flav, Cherry Vanilla, Pete Townshend, Peter Criss, Snoop Dogg, and more. $12-$15.

7pm. 1772 Market St. (formerly Rebel). www.litquake.org

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King X Kippy Marks and Queen X Kitty Tapata greet revelers at Bal Masque X at the Arc in SF.

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ast Wednesday night, Shanti honored long-time volunteer, Board of Directors member and officer Stu Smith with the firstever title Board Chair Emeritus at a lovely reception at a private home in the Castro. This was a moving testament to a tireless activist, drawing a loyal group of friends and supporters truly representative of the diversity of San Francisco. In addition to Executive Director Kaushik Roy and Shanti event organizer Rachel Hill, the attendees included city Supervisor Scott Wiener, Bevan Dufty, Dave Earl, Janet Reilly, Josephine Lott, Christopher Vasquez, Anna Damiani, Valentin Aguirre, Rink Foto, Dennis McMillan, Bob Mitchitarian, Rebecca Prozan, Will Whitaker, and several members of Stu’s immediate family.

In addition to the festivities, a representative from Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presented Shanti with a check for $15,000 from their holiday cabaret show.

After a quick change from cocktail chic to leather casual, we headed down to the Mr. Edge Leather contest, enthusiastically revived after an eight-year absence by Erick Lopez, skillfully emceed by John Brosnan, and judged by Sister Roma, Gary Virginia, Craig Cooper, Mitch Koonce, and our last Mr. Edge Leather Will Swagger. A packed bar of rowdy patrons cheered on contestants Cooper Lambandrake and Patrick Vargas, who won the title.

Look for more complete details next week in the column of our colleague Scott Brogan.

Much to our surprise, our LGBT community extends into the Avenues of San Francisco! Last Saturday, we accepted the invitation of Troy Brunet, President of the Castro Lions, to a Crab Feed, shared with the Park Presidio Lions Club at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, benefiting AIDS and Breast Cancer Emergency Funds, Lighthouse for the Blind, and Guide Dogs for the Blind. Also accepting his invitation were Mama Sandy Reinhart, Chuck Limbert, Connie Champagne, Captain Greg Corrales of the SFPD, and LGBT Lions galore. The reception was warm, the food was delicious, and the raffle prizes were plentiful!

Immediately afterwards, we quickly changed into purple, green, and gold for Krewe de Kinque’s annual Bal Masque, held this year at The Arc on Howard Street. This 10th ball had all the color, excitement, and flavor of New Orleans,

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Steven Underhill’s Winter Model Kyle shows us what he’s made of.

Grand Marshal Cassandra Cass, and colorfully clad and masked guests, including Ken Henderson, Adam Sandel, James Holloway, Coco Butter, Frankie & Saybeline Fernandez, Deana Dawn, and Miguel Gutierrez in arguably the best costume of the night. The event benefited Transgender Law Center. Gary Virginia, founder of the club, pulled out all the stops, inviting crowd-pleasing entertainers, soliciting lots of silent auction items, and securing a bountiful creole-style buffet and Stoli, Bacardi, and Barefoot Winery bar. The standout performance was a costumed production number by nearly 20 dancers choreographed

by Cockatielia, who sang live in French. Yes, you read that right!

You had to be there! Shortly before Midnight, King Tony Leo & Queen Bebe Sweetbriar relinquished their crowns, and the new King & Queen of the Krewe were announced: Kippy Marks & Kit Tapata! As we understand it, a pretty small group of dedicated volunteers pulled this event together and should be applauded for getting the good times rolling!

The Imperial Council’s compe-

tition for Emperor & Empress is in full swing, with the candidates hosting successful fundraisers all over town. Get to know Drew Cutler, Danielle Logan, and Patti McGroin, and make your decision and vote this Sat., Feb. 16, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Project Open Hand, 730 Polk St., Noon-6 p.m. at Harvey Milk Plaza in the Castro, and 1-5 p.m. at Powerhouse, South of Market. You must prove residency in San Francisco, San Mateo, or Marin Counties to vote. The following weekend, a dizzying schedule of events leads up to the 48th annual Imperial Coronation at the Galleria Design Center on Sat., Feb. 23, starting at 6 p.m., when the new Emperor & Empress will be crowned amid pomp, pageantry, and frivolity. On Sun., Feb. 24, rise early for the Widow Norton’s annual Pilgrimage to the grave of Emperor Joshua Norton in Colma, one of the campiest and unique events in the country.

Those of us with energy to burn and true civic commitment will see you that night at the Academy of Friends annual gala Boas, Bowties & Bubbly at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison St., starting at 5 p.m. This is truly the only way to view the Hollywood Academy Awards within the beauty and creativity of San Francisco!t

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Ginger snaps

by John F. Karr

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rpad Miklas committed suicide last week in his New York apartment. He was 45 years old, and had been a porn star – a much-desired daddy, burly and furry – since 1995, when he made his first film, for Kristen Bjorn. A friend said he knew Arpad was depressed, but didn’t realize the severity “because he wasn’t a very talkative person.” Miklas was, by all accounts, quite a swell guy, described as active and charitable within the community.

In a note Miklas left, he intimated that his porn career shouldn’t be considered causation. Which made me wonder. Whenever a porn star dies, whether by illness, indulgence, or suicide, those whom Miklas called “haters” loudly declare that work in the sex industry is insidious, destructive. But I’d like to compare the percentages of those within the industry who commit suicide to those in the general population.

Such figures don’t exist, and are most likely impossible to reckon.

But I bet they’d be pretty similar. I don’t believe a porn career can be fingered as the sole culprit.

And what about Dean Monroe and Colby Keller? When the popular stars were recently offered a paycheck by Treasure Island Media – the company that promulgates barebacking, and glorifies “breeding” – they took it. And then danced a two-step to condone it.

Just how culpable are they? Their claims hardly stand up. Each says that they didn’t partake of barebacking and stayed within their previously established grounds of safer sex. I only sucked cock, said Dean; I only got milked, said Colby. I don’t find them credible; they’re too smart to be merely ingenuous. Dean said, “I’ve always been a strong advocate of safe sex.

I wanted to prove that it’s possible for an HIV negative model to be flexible and versatile in the studios he works with.” Colby said he participated because the sex he had “fits into the practices of safer sex I adhere to in my work in porn.”

The reply from Zach at Naked Sword is classic. “Treasure Island Media – the go-to studio for safe sex advocates with something to prove. Who knew?”

It’s quite a smoke screen Dean and Colby have blown up their asses. It’s not about the kind of sex they had. It’s about bringing their own, not inconsiderable renown to TIM, about their giving the company allure while exposing fans with a

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theatrical aspirations, took notice, and she became part of the long Jekyll & Hyde journey that finally led to Broadway in 1997.

Although Eder appeared in developmental productions of other Wildhorn musicals that made it to New York, Jekyll & Hyde – her only Broadway credit – gave her a theatrical identity that she hadn’t sought. And a take-it-or-leaveit attitude toward celebrity that sometimes flummoxes her most zealous fans. “There are people in the world who seem to want you to be a diva,” she said. “I don’t know how to do that. I’m just a friendly Minnesota girl, and I’m

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Appearing separately in Fire Crotch, Clayton Archer (left) and Connor Chesney buddy up at DirtyTony.com.

lure into barebacking. It’s sad that it seems they only followed the money. A porn star’s job description doesn’t include Role Model.

And it shouldn’t include Stupid, either. I’m disappointed in both of them. But especially Colby, who has been respected and even turned to for instruction.

I’m also disappointed by Fire Crotch, a new DVD of collected scenes from the Dirty Tony website. The company is known for its younger performers, its affinity for gingerboys and flaming crotches, and no doubt most especially, its oral cum-shots – which are invariably repeated in lingering slo-mo. Those hallmarks are dutifully served up in Fire Crotch.

Well, perhaps dutiful isn’t quite the right word. The scenes aren’t bad. But I guess it comes down to the fact that, despite a couple attractive guys, and a few moments of energetic thrusting, the product just couldn’t make me care much.

And the enticement of those OCS? They hit their mark, but why does director Tony nearly always get

such meager contributions from his guys?

Dirty Tony nearly strikes an amiable mood in the conversations his performers have before sex, but they are too obviously scripted and stereotypical. The sex that follows is intended to build from friendly to heated, but the scenes mostly remain at mid-temperature. Tall and fresh Chesney, with his honey of a cock, looks attractive as ever, and gets in some good licks while topping Aiden Spar. Incipient daddy Clayton Archer brings his salt-npepper touch of maturity to getting topped by two younger dudes.

Bradley Rose, with his spunky touch of attitude, rouses the most life in the collection, in a kitchen threeway that’s the movie’s best scene.

But these are only moments during two hours of otherwise none-tooimperative couplings.

I had to research the players’ identities, since few are named; the movie lacks credits. There are better redheads to be found, and there are more luxurious and copious oral cum-shots. For that matter, there are less lackadaisically directed and performed videos all over the place. www.Pornteam.com t

almost too honest.”

Sometimes she kicks herself after a frank remark, although she didn’t mind relaying a recent example. She had declined to attend the opening of a pre-Broadway tour of a revised Jekyll & Hyde, and the director asked her why. “I just told him the truth,” she said.

“I said, ‘What if I don’t like it?’

And then all these interviewers are going to ask me what I thought, and I’m going to have to stay quiet, and I don’t want to do that.”

Although it’s a big Broadway belter’s anthem, Jerry Herman’s “I Am What I Am” seems to be Eder’s credo. Her recording of the song has been released in at least six dance-club remixes, but she wasn’t impressed. “I had a top-five dance

track hit with my song ‘Something to Believe In,’ and they really did it well,” she said. “When I heard they were going to do a dance mix of ‘I Am What I Am,’ I thought that could be great, but they didn’t use enough of the song, and it loses its integrity. I think they really missed the boat.”

Not that Eder is likely to experience it in an actual dance club.

“Those places make me a little nuts because it’s all the same beat.

Just give me some old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll to dance to.”t Linda Eder will perform at 8 & 10 p.m. Feb. 16 at Yoshi’s San Francisco. Tickets are $36 & $46. Call 655-5600 or go to www. yoshis.com.

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respective archives.

Crichton writes that this crossborder concept, a vehicle for putting archival collections “in motion,” is especially important “for people whose traces are so often erased by [their] biological families, omitted from official histories, or just lost.” Her show is an attempt to make the forgotten or ignored visible, though “one or two remain anonymous, reflecting the fate of so many LGBT people whose names have disappeared” from the record. (The well-known get their moment in the sun, too.) She has found an ingenious way to rescue life stories that would otherwise languish in musty backrooms and file cabinets, and usher them into the open.

Migrating is comprised of a series of graphic wall panels with printed photos, testimonials, ephemera and text, lined up next to one another like unfurled banners at the United Nations. You can jump in and start perusing whatever catches your eye. I gravitated toward the National Archives in London, a repository of documents

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South African activist Bev Ditsie (left) poses on her 16th birthday.

related to Oscar Wilde’s trial and conviction for “gross indecency” in 1895, and the time he spent in prison that ruined his health and broke his spirit. (Homosexual acts between men were a crime in Britain from the 16th century until the 1960s.) After a year and a half in jail, he composed a desperate and eloquent plea for humane treatment and relief from “a system so

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terrible that it hardens their hearts whose hearts it does not break, and brutalizes those who have to carry it out no less than those who have to submit to it.” A copy of the petition, written in Wilde’s hand, can be seen here.

If the National Archives is the establishment big boy, Rukus! Federation, also based in the U.K., is its fying answer, offering his gay Job a well-deserved second chance at not only love, but life itself.

My chat with Eytan Fox followed his mad sprint across Paris, where he’s completing Cup Cakes, a largescale musical.

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Lior Ashkenazi. He’s the devil seducing Yossi into a pub-crawling “boys night out” that deepens his funk over the loss of Jagger, and threatens the last remnants of his self-respect.

Fleeing Moti’s debauchery, Yossi sends a dated sexy photo of himself to a cynical bar owner, who rips him for “cyberdate fraud.”

It’s at this low ebb that our miserable guy hatches a plot to steal back his soul. In a scene that’s a parallel universe to Brokeback’s third-act confrontation between Ennis and his dead lover Jack’s American Gothic parents, Yossi sits in the same tidy living room where a decade earlier he sat Shiva with Jagger’s parents, and proceeds to replace the myth of Jagger’s “Army girlfriend” with the implacable reality of himself, the doctor.

“I was with him when he died.

I held his hand. I begged him not to close his eyes. I leaned over and kissed him; his lips were still warm.

I didn’t care that there were people around, I said, ‘I love you.’ Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder whether he heard me, if he knew.”

It’s at the moment where Yossi is sitting in his dead lover’s bedroom that the emotional arcs of Yossi and Brokeback Mountain diverge. While Ennis will forever sit in our hearts doubly cursed, Annie Prouix’s eternally grieving lover and Larry McMurtry’s marginal “cowboy in suburbia,” Fox gives his paunchy doughboy an unexpected third-act reprieve. Driving south towards Sinai, Yossi spies five hot Israeli soldiers wolfing down a junk-food lunch. The guys are so into their physical pranks that they miss their bus. Yossi offers to pack the boys into his hatchback like succulent sardines. When he leaves his dead lover’s room, Yossi is existentially free. The five soldiers neither know nor care about his limbo, about the

E.G. Crichton, curator of Migrating Archives and artistin-residence at the GLBT History Museum, SF.

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Yossi director Eytan Fox.

links between his old platoon and these sassy, rude boys.

Fox uses a cultural joke to make the point. Driving through the desert, the soldiers ask him to put on some music. Yossi obliges with Mahler, the movement many of us associate with the soundtrack from Death in Venice. Bad choice! Told who this gloomy Gus is, one of the soldiers asks, “Miller?” These guys are Philistines, and proudly so. It’s as if Yossi ran into our beloved SF Giants heroes, as if Tim, Matt, Buster, Pablo and Madison were in that tiny car, just looking to chill.

One of the hitchhikers is a pushy, totally out gay boy, Tom (Oz Zehavi).

Sensing Yossi is depressed but clueless as to why, Tom suggests that he take a relaxing massage. Tom might just as well be speaking Swahili, and the balance of the movie is spent with these obstinate dudes fighting along the pleasure/pain divide.

The New York Times damns Yossi “as a soft feel-good fantasy of romantic salvation.” Wrong! Yossi & Jagger (2003) was a low-budget miracle, a 65-minute tragedy as lean and dramatically satisfying as a Golden Age TV drama. Yossi follows a decade of awe-inspiring gay rights advances. Would a depressed, damaged and deeply closeted soul like Yossi thrive in this new era? Yossi is Fox’s optimistic, emotionally satis-

David Lamble: I loved how Yossi is so entertaining as a stand-alone story, and how with Yossi & Jagger it becomes an intensely personal epic. Why extend the story a decade later?

Eytan Fox: I had guilty feelings about leaving Yossi in that unresolved place 10 years ago. It was a

but Hungary? Really? Set up in 1999, the Labrisz Lesbian Association, the first and only such group in that country, offers up the tale of Sándor/Sarolta Vay, a Hungarian journalist and writer at the turn of the 20th century. Born a biological woman into a family of Hungarian aristocrats, but identified and socially accepted as a heterosexual man, Vay, a prominent literary figure, was a member of the male gentry, having affairs and long-term relationships with women, though his situation presented the practical and psychological complications one might imagine. The black-andwhite pictures of him/her dressed in a suit are quite persuasive, but when her sex was uncovered in prison, she was dispatched to an asylum. Certainly not the only female to turn to cross-dressing and gender-bending to escape the oppressive fate that befell dependent women of the era, it was the only avenue open for a lesbian.

Crichton, who plans to expand the project and perhaps set up a website, hopes the show will stimulate discussion. “Queer history is everybody’s history,” she says. “It belongs to everyone.” (Through June 30.)t

therapeutic thing, I could go back 15 years into my past, to see where I was, which issues I resolved and which I’m still working on.

I started therapy when I was in the Israeli Army. I was dealing with the tough experience of being an openly gay guy in the Israeli Army in the early 80s, with a war going on. The word “gay” didn’t exist. We’re taking Yossi through therapy, he’s post-traumatic and he doesn’t want to deal with that.

Eventually he realizes he can’t sweep it under the carpet. Part of that is going to Jagger’s parents, saying this is who I was, this is who your son was. Then he can go on to the next phase, being pursued by a much younger man. You go through very difficult places in order to reach much better places.t

There’s a brilliant scene of Yossi confronting Jagger’s mother, a smart allusion to Brokeback Mountain.

I was reversing the classic cliché where it’s the mother who’s more accepting. Today, often it’s the fathers who find it easier.

You pull off the trick of having Yossi get a second stab at happiness late in the movie.

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wild little brother and the new kid on the block. With a focus on black GLBT artists and culture and what it calls “lived experience,” it collects moving images and recordings, posters and pamphlets in addition to producing club events, screenings, workshops, theater performances and concerts.

Born in Brussels in 1918, Suzanne De Pues was an activist with a rocky trajectory. Initially troubled by her attraction to women, she discovered gay/lesbian nightlife in the 1930s, adopted an alias, Suzan Daniel, that she took from the beautiful French film actress Danielle Darrieux, developed a fondness for male attire, and became Belgium’s youngest film critic.

After founding her country’s first gay and lesbian association, she was effectively banned by its gay members, who preferred a private all-male club. In pictures, she resembles a silent-film star, lighting a cigarette, flirting with the camera, and looking smart and sporty in a double-breasted jacket and hat.

Queer archives, says Crichton, “are an international phenomenon found in unexpected places.” Unexpected, that’s for sure. Yes, there are three such archives in London,

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