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The decision cleared the way for the newly constituted Board of Supervisors to make the pick official at its meeting Tuesday.

“I have known Ed Lee for many years, and I am confident in his steadfast commitment to San Francisco’s shared progressive values and in his deep knowledge of City government,” stated

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by Seth Hemmelgarn n his last act as mayor before leaving San Francisco to be sworn in as the state’s lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom on Sunday named Police Chief George Gascón to be the city’s district attorney, replacing Kamala Harris, who became state attorney general.

Gascón became police chief in August 2009, and his last-minute selection as DA seemed to surprise everyone.

His appointment raises the possibility of the city having its first out police chief. However, it could also affect the chances of either of two gay men winning the DA’s race in the November election. Gascón has said that he’ll run for a full term.

Last August, out lesbian Denise Schmitt started work as the police department’s assistant chief of the office of administration. Schmitt seems to be well regarded by other officers, and she could be promoted to the top job. Jeff Godown, whom Gascón brought with him from Los Angeles, is serving as interim chief.

Paul Henderson, who has served as Harris’s chief of administration since late 2007 and worked as a deputy DA under two other district attorneys, made no secret that he wanted to be appointed to fill Harris’s job. The move would have given him a

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George Gascón, left, is sworn in as San Francisco’s new district attorney by Mayor Gavin Newsom on Sunday.

leg up in the fall election for a full four-year-term as DA. Henderson sent an e-mail to supporters last week noting that he has already raised more than $63,000 for his campaign.

Jim Hammer, a current police commissioner and former assistant district attorney, is also seen as a likely DA candidate.

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Now, Gascón is viewed as the frontrunner for the November election.

As police chief, Gascon brought an LGBT advisory board and forum, among other changes, to the San Francisco Police Department. In an interview this week, he also noted that he’s promoted LGBT officers, including Schmitt.

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ed and, in another way, went back to what I thought was in the best public interest.”

Dufty’s reversal led to the board postponing to last Friday, January 7 its deliberations on whom to name to serve out the remaining year of Newsom’s second term. By then 10 supervisors had decided to throw their support to Lee, with only former Supervisor Chris Daly voting against the appointment.

Gascón as district attorney impacts LGBTs’ chances for top offices

Brown’s budget would hit PWAs overnor Jerry Brown proposed a budget this week that could have big impacts on low-income people living with HIV/AIDS. Brown’s budget, which cuts spending by $12.5 billion, calls for in- Governor Jerry creased cost-shar- Brown ing in the AIDS Drug Assistance

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he young congressional intern who provided critical first aid to Representative Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head Saturday is a gay Latino man, Daniel Hernandez Jr. Dallas Voice, a Daniel Hernandez Jr. gay newspaper in Texas, broke the story, saying Hernandez confirmed to them that he is gay.

New Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott Wiener, Jane Kim, Malia Cohen and re-elected Supervisor Carmen Chu await their installation in the board chambers Saturday, January 8.

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he city welcomed its first Chinese American mayor this week as four freshmen supervisors settled into their new roles at City Hall.

Former City Administrator Edwin Lee took his oath of office as interim mayor Tuesday, January 11 following months of speculation over who would succeed former Mayor Gavin Newsom, who stepped down Monday to become the state’s new lieutenant governor.

The longtime San Francisco bureaucrat emerged as the surprise pick last week after former District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty switched course from saying he would back Sheriff Mike Hennessey as mayor to instead voting for Lee. The openly gay Dufty told the Bay Area Reporter that Lee, who began his two-decade-long City Hall career in the administration of former Mayor Art Agnos, had always been his number one pick to be mayor. But up until last week, Dufty said he had been told repeatedly that Lee did not want to give up his job to become mayor.

Unless the law is changed, Lee is barred from returning to his $254,000-a-year city administrator job when he relinquishes Room 200 next January.

“Ed took himself out of consideration so I stopped talking about him. I was only advised Tuesday [January 4] by Supervisor Carmen Chu and the mayor that Ed had reconsidered,” said Dufty, who is running to be elected mayor this fall. “In a way, yes, I changed what I publicly stat-

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by Seth Hemmelgarn San Francisco hospice that serves men and women living with HIV/AIDS has hired a new executive director.

Michael Smithwick said he was “thrilled and honored” to be selected to run Maitri, a 15-bed hospice and 24-hour care facility.

Smithwick, 54, started in his new job Monday, January 10. He said Maitri is “a very nurturing environment with a lot of emphasis on serenity, a lot of emphasis on acceptance, and frankly a lot of love for people who are in some pretty challenging circumstances in their lives.”

He becomes Maitri’s sixth executive director, replacing Traci Teraoka, who had served as interim director since the departure of previous Executive Director Tim Patriarca last May. Smithwick’s salary will be $95,000.

Smithwick said his priorities include identifying additional places from which to secure funding and diversifying funding sources.

“The whole AIDS care landscape has changed since Maitri was founded and continues to change,” said Smithwick, who is HIV-positive. The hospice was founded in 1987, “when HIV was a death sentence for everyone,” he noted.

He indicated he wanted to examine using technology to help people living with AIDS who aren’t ill enough to need a residential facility but might be able to get help in their homes.

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Maitri’s new Executive Director Michael Smithwick meets former interim director Traci Teraoka.

Schwab Charitable Fund, Smithwick has a strong financial background, which should be helpful at Maitri. Like many other nonprofits, the hospice has seen a decline in contributions.

In 2009-10, Maitri received $609,000 from third-party events, individuals, foundations, and similar sources, according to Teraoka. The previous year, that figure was $653,000, she said. Maitri’s budget is about $2.6 million.

Smithwick said that although “every charitable organization has struggled a bit with the downturn in the economy,” he didn’t get a sense contributions to Maitri have been “dramatically dropping off.” Maitri appears to be “solid and not at risk of having to reduce services,” he said.

Teraoka, who’s becoming part of Maitri’s advisory council, said Smithwick’s selection “speaks very well of the confidence the board has in his potential to take the lead and help us through this next couple of years. Between health care reform, potential government funding changes, and finding new areas for grants and fundraising opportunities ... he’s got his work cut out for him.”

Smithwick learned of the job opening from his mother, who volunteered at Maitri after moving to San Francisco several years ago to take care of his partner, Jerry Wilder, who is living with AIDS. Wilder, who is not a Maitri client, has been with Smithwick for 18 years.

Smithwick’s mother, who now lives in North Carolina, “raved” about Maitri, he said.

However, her move to San Francisco also contributed to some legal trouble for Smithwick.

San Francisco Superior Court records show that Smithwick was a defendant in a wrongful eviction complaint filed in 2001 involving his property on Scott Street. He and Wilder still have a cottage there and rent out spaces in a building on the property.

Smithwick said that the eviction was legal, since it involved his mother moving in to one of the units.

The city’s rent ordinance applies to most rental housing built before June 1979. Under that ordinance, an owner or their immediate family member can move in and evict the current tenant.

The case involving Smithwick was eventually settled for $175,000, which he said his insurance company paid.▼

NCLR launches photo campaign compiled by Cynthia Laird he National Center for Lesbian Rights is gearing up for its 35th anniversary in 2012 and has launched a photo campaign under the tagline “I am NCLR.” The yearlong promotional effort is designed to reflect and showcase NCLR’s clients and supporters, the organization said in a press release.

Photos will be accepted in each of the legal areas NCLR focuses on, including asylum and immigration, elders, employment, families and parenting, marriage, sports, and youth. A sign or poster with the phrase, “I am NCLR and I am ...,” should N EWS be visible in each photo. The poster should explain how the subject of the photo reflects NCLR’s work.

There will be five selection rounds, with the deadline for the first one being March 31. Complete rules and guidelines are available online at www.ncl-rights.org. Got to the photo campaign section under “Get involved.”

The photo campaign continues through March 2012.

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program, the San Francisco LGBTQ speakers bureau, and Hands on Bay Area. Donated food will benefit the San Francisco Food Bank.

New this year will be the announcement of the recipient of the 2011 Sylvester Award, which will recognize an individual for their singular long-term service to the community.

Workshop on business plans The San Francisco LGBT Community Center will host a free workshop on business plan writing on Wednesday, January 19 from noon to 2 p.m. at the center, 1800 Market Street.

The session will include a discussion of ways to write business plans and allow participants to B RIEFS get started on that task. The first hour will include a review of templates and examples of business plans; the second hour will include a question and answer session, how to search for free or low-cost industry research, and creating a business plan.

To attend the workshop, RSVP by January 17 to Tracey Williams at traceyw@sfcenter.org. People can also sign up for individual appointments with the business development team by e-mailing Williams.

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Power of One benefit Saturday Former San Francisco Emperor John Weber is hosting his third annual Power of One benefit on Saturday, January 15 to celebrate the National Day of Community Service. The event, which coincides with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at Trigger bar, 2344 Market Street.

Those who attend are asked to donate $1, bring one non-perishable food item, and commit to one day (four hours or more) of community service. Beneficiaries of the event will be the Stop AIDS project’s Our Love

Allgaier memorial announced Friends and family members of AIDS advocate Randy Allgaier, who died in November, have announced plans for his memorial services. The memorial will be held Sunday, January 23 at 3 p.m. at First Congregational Church, 1300 Polk Street (at Bush) in San Francisco.

The memorial is timed to coincide with the business meeting of the Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief Coalition CAEAR, which beings the following day in the city.

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An example of what the folks at NCLR are looking for in photos submitted for its “I am NCLR” campaign.

board member of the coalition.

Mr. Allgaier, 53, died November 27 at Davies Medical Center of complications of intestinal obstruction and organ failure. He had been a longterm HIV and hepatitis C survivor.

In lieu of flowers, Mr. Allgaier’s husband Lee Hawn has asked that people honor his wishes by donating to Pets Are Wonderful Support and Shanti, which were two of Mr. Allgaier’s favorite organizations.

Portantino memorial announced Memorial services for former San Diego gay newspaper publisher Michael Portantino have been scheduled for Saturday, January 15. A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. at St. Didacus Catholic Church, 4772 Felton Street in San Diego. A community memorial will follow at 1 p.m. at the San Diego LGBT Community Center, 3909 Centre Street. Both services are open to the public.

Mr. Portantino died December 8 after jumping to his death from a building in San Diego. He was 52.

Mr. Portantino had been the publisher of the Gay and Lesbian Times, a leading LGBT publication in San Diego. The paper ceased publication last October after experiencing financial problems. Mr. Portantino was a former resident of San Francisco.▼

▼ COMMUNITY NEWS Plans for LGBT shelter ongoing

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by Seth Hemmelgarn lans to open a homeless shelter space in San Francisco designed specifically to be welcoming to LGBTs are in the works, but it’s unclear when the site will be ready.

Out Supervisor David Campos appeared to jump the gun a bit in a December newsletter when he said, “We helped create the first LGBT friendly homeless shelter in San Francisco.”

But in an e-mail this week, Trent Rhorer, executive director of the city’s Human Services Agency, said more time is needed.

“Late February is the earliest these beds may become active in the shelter system but an actual draft timeline is only now being developed by [Dolores Street Community Services] as they begin to seek bids on components of the renovations,” he said.

Scott Walton, manager of adult programs for the Human Services Agency’s housing and homeless division, said in an e-mail that the agency is working with DSCS to add 12 bunk beds to the Dolores Street Shelter at 1050 South Van Ness. That would allow room for 24 people.

Rhorer said those involved are exploring how to make the new beds, as well as the entire Dolores Street shelter, LGBTQ-friendly.

In a brief interview in late December, DSCS Executive Director Eric Quezada said he didn’t want to comment until the contract has been finalized.

Last March, dozens of people testified at a Board of Supervisors committee hearing about harassment in San Francisco’s shelters.

The abuse is often met with indifference by the facilities’ staff, many said, and nearly everyone testifying called for a shelter for LGBTs. “The current shelter system is not addressing the needs” of homeless LGBTs, Campos said at that hearing.

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Dolores Street Community Services’ homeless shelter at 1050 South Van Ness may be expanded to be welcoming to LGBT homeless people.

Having an LGBT-friendly shelter would be “an important step.”

Rhorer said in his e-mail this week that his agency is also working with DSCS “to define and obtain bids for the needed renovations to make the additional space functional.”

He said, “The Human Services Commission has approved the funding for the current fiscal year that will be used to cover the costs of renovations and the subsequent operations of the site through the end of this fiscal year. The renovation costs and timeline will determine how quickly these new beds can be added.”

Joyce Crum, program director of the Human Services Agency’s housing and homeless division, said in an e-mail that $163,000 a year is being provided for the expansion at the South Van Ness site.

“The funding this current fiscal year will be used toward renovations and operations of the shelter,” said Crum. Next year, the funding will only cover the operation of the shelter, she said.

Rhorer said his agency and DSCS are also talking about how the program will operate.

“Until now, DSCS has been a male-only shelter,” he said. “Adding

Ugandan court rules for gays in outing case and to privacy of the person and the home (Article 27). “[P]ublishing the identities of the ganda’s Kampala High Court applicants and exposing their homes ruled January 3 that media coupled with the explicit call to hang outlets cannot out gays or urge them because ‘they are after our kids,’ that they be hanged. the respondents extracted the appliThe case stemmed from an Octocants from the other members of the ber 2010 article in Uganda’s community who are regarded Rolling Stone newspaper (no as worthy, in equal measure, relation to the American of human dignity and publication of the same who ought to be treated name) that published as worthy of dignity and photos of 100 alleged respect,” the court said. homosexuals and sug“Clearly the call to hang gested that gays could be gays in dozens tends to hanged to discourage altremendously threaten leged recruitment of W OCKNER’ S their right to human digchildren. nity. ... [T]he exposure, of W ORLD The newspaper the identities of the perwrote: “The mighty sons and homes of the apRolling Stone is glad to replicants for the purposes of fighting veal some of the most horrible secrets gayism and the activities of gays, as can in gay community, which is bent on easily be seen from the general outlook recruiting at least one million memof the impugned publication, threatbers by 2012. Dishearteningly, gays are en the rights of the applicants to priafter young kids, who are easily brainvacy of the person and their homes.” washed towards bisexual orientation.

The court issued an injunction ... The leaked pictures of Uganda’s top prohibiting publication of the identihomosexuals and lesbians have reties and addresses of homosexuals and newed calls for the strengthening of awarded each plaintiff 1.5 million the war against the rampage that shillings ($643) in damages, and paythreatens the future of our generation ment of their court costs. by hanging gays. ‘Unless government The Civil Society Coalition on takes a bold step by hanging dozens of Human Rights and Constitutional homosexuals, the vice will continue Law in Uganda “applaud[ed]” the deeating up the moral fiber and culture cision “as a landmark in the struggle of our great nation,’ ... said a radical for the protection of human dignity church leader who preferred and the right to privacy.” anonymity.”

The group said the newspaper’s beThree people who were named havior was no doubt influenced by the sued the newspaper. “climate of fear” created by the pendThe high court determined that the ing Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 in three suffered violations of their constitutional rights to life (Article 24)

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beds, expanding the population that is served, informing clients, training staff, and determination of the access process are all being explored in ways that fit the overall emergency shelter operation policies.

“HSA will be looking to use this effort to build and raise awareness that the entire adult emergency shelter system is welcoming to all adults who need and want to use it, including members of the LGBTQ community,” said Rhorer.

It’s apparently still unclear whether the shelter space would be restricted to specific age groups.

“We are working now on defining the program and how to make this an LGBTQ friendly site. We don’t have program details yet,” Walton said.

AIDS Housing Alliance Director Brian Basinger, who’s been involved in the negotiations, said in a recent interview, “One of the things that’s very important to me is that we’re able to create a trans-sensitive bathroom and shower facilities, so as soon as we get the contracts signed, we’re remodeling the bathrooms.”

He also said once the deal is finalized, “We’ll begin gaying up that space and prepping it for folks to be able to move in there.”▼

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The Tucson tragedy he shocking shooting rampage outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona last Saturday was tragic. Six people were killed, including a federal judge, a 9-year-old girl, and a congressional staffer. Thirteen others were wounded, including Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a staunch ally to the LGBT community.

Giffords most recently attended the signing ceremony of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal bill. She also is a member of the LGBT Congressional Caucus. As a representative of a swing district in southern Arizona, however, Giffords had seen her share of political mudslinging. She received threats and her offices were vandalized last year after she voted for health care reform.

The alleged gunman, Jared L. Loughner, is just 22 years old. It’s sad that for whatever reason – and it appears more and more that he suffers from mental issues – he went to Giffords’s “Congress on Your Corner” constituent event and started shooting people. But it’s the aftermath of trying to find an explanation for Loughner’s alleged actions that, as usual, misses the mark. People from Sarah Palin (who used symbols that looked remarkably like gun sights on a political map last year targeting various Democratic politicians, including Giffords) to Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (who ran a TV ad showing himself firing a rifle during his recent campaign) are now scrambling to distance themselves from the toxic political environment that they helped foster. Palin, as usual, went off the deep end in a video statement released Wednesday, accusing her critics of “blood libel.”

As the Washington Post reported, Palin called efforts to attribute blame for the shooting “reprehensible,” saying that “especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.”

The phrase “blood libel” refers to a centuriesold anti-Semitic slander: that Jews use the blood of Christian children for religious rituals. Given that Giffords herself is Jewish, Palin’s statement is even more disingenuous and cynical. Every time Palin is called on to respond she takes the posture of a victim.

Now that the Tucson shootings have sparked a dialogue about political rhetoric, let’s keep in mind that both sides excel at the verbose, overthe-top sound bites and talking points. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont) quickly sent out a fundraising letter asking for support against what he called “right wing reactionaries” that led to the Arizona shootings. Couldn’t he wait until the bodies were buried?

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that we’d like to highlight is that of Daniel Herincludes being the only justice to dissent in the nandez Jr., a 20-year-old intern who just started court’s 2009 decision that upheld Proposition 8, working for Giffords January 3. His presence of the state’s same-sex marriage ban. mind and quick thinking likely helped save GifIt’s crucial that Brown fill the seat with a Defords’s life. Hernandez, who is Latino and openmocrat. And, as we wrote last summer when ly gay, is a member of the Tucson Commission Chief Justice Ronald George announced his refor Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Istirement and presented then-Governor Arnold sues. On that Saturday morning, just a few Schwarzenegger with his second appointment, it days on the job, he exemplified humaniis also time for an openly LGBT justice. ty at its best during a crisis.

Equality California has also urged The unassuming Hernandez has Brown to fill the vacancy with an out done several media interviews in LGBT judge. At the superior court level which he has stressed that he just wantthere are out LGBT judges in several ed to help the injured. He saw Giffords counties, including San Francisco, had been shot and rushed over to help.

Alameda, and Contra Costa.

It’s heroism like Hernandez’s that are far There will be a lot of pressure on more significant than Palin’s latest Brown to nominate a Latino. tweet or Facebook posting. He put his Moreno was the first Latino to be E DITORIAL named to the state’s high court, and own life on the line that day, which is more than we can say for most of the Latinos make up 37 percent of the pundits who have been filling the airstate’s population, according to the waves with nonsense.

2010 census. The San Francisco Daily Journal, a legal newspaper, noted this week that Brown likeA Supreme opportunity ly would need to look beyond the traditional recruiting ground of the state appellate courts for Governor Jerry Brown hadn’t even been in ofa Latino appointee. The same can also be said for fice a week when he was presented with an opan LGBT nominee. In a state that has been domportunity to make an appointment to the Caliinated in recent years by Republican governors, fornia Supreme Court. Last week, Associate Justhe fact is that the bench is full of Republican aptice Carlos Moreno announced that he is steppointees many of whom do not reflect the diverping down, effective at the end of February. sity of the state’s citizens.

Moreno, who gave up a lifetime appointment on Brown can add to the diversity of the bench in the federal bench when he was tapped by former several ways with this opportunity; we urge him Governor Gray Davis, is the court’s only Demoto consider LGBT candidates.▼ crat. He leaves behind a distinguished legacy that

Ring in the new year by kicking the habit

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ark Twain once said, “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” This couldn’t have been more true for me back in 2003 as a pack-a-day smoker trying desperately to kick the habit. Some folks can successfully quit “cold turkey” the first time. However, for many smokers, multiple quit attempts are simply part of the overall quitting process. So what does 2011 have in store for you? Are you ready to kick the habit once and for all?

Many people in our community smoke cigarettes and as a result suffer from greater rates of disease and death. In fact, 30,000 queer and transgender people will die prematurely in the United States this year alone from tobacco-related causes.

This is the equivalent of 75 filled G UEST jumbo passenger jets or 13.5 Titanic disasters. That is a lot of our partners, our friends, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, and community members. The National Coalition for LGBT Health considers tobacco use to be one of the greatest health issues affecting our community today and for good reason when you consider that LGBT people smoke at rates almost 50 percent to 200 percent higher than non-LGBT people. In California, for example, queer and trans youth smoke at a rate of 44 percent. That is almost half of LGBT youth and two and a half times the smoking rate of their heterosexual peers.

What is going on?

Last year the American Lung Association put out a report entitled, “Smoking Out a Deadly Threat: Tobacco Use in the LGBT Community.”

The report highlighted a number of contributing factors to the high smoking rates in the LGBT

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community including stress and stigma, lack of health insurance coverage (suggesting a decrease in access to competent smoking cessation support), and the historical role bar culture plays in our social interactions. These high smoking rates can also be attributed to the heavy advertising and marketing by tobacco companies. The tobacco industry has actively reached out to the LGBT community through direct and indirect advertising since the early 1990s. We see it within our news publications, at our community events, and in our bars. Tobacco advertising is something that occurs in mainstream populations, but the difference is the tobacco industry found a niche in the queer community and is exploiting us for profit.

On one hand, tobacco companies pour money into many of our political causes such as AIDS charities and our media watch dog group, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against O PINION Defamation. They’ve aligned themselves with us politically promoting values of personal freedom and pride; an example of this is a Lucky Strikes advertisement aimed at queer youth that simply reads: “When someone says, ‘Dude, that’s so gay’ we’ll be there.” Yet, on the other hand, in 1994 RJ Reynolds launched a marketing campaign aimed at gay men in the Castro and the homeless population in the Tenderloin. The project was called Sub Culture Urban Marketing or “Project SCUM.” Scum? How do they really feel about us?

In order to successfully reduce the high rates of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure, and ultimately the high rates of tobacco-related disease and death that affects LGBT people, we need to challenge the values that we as a community place upon tobacco.

I don’t know how many times I’ve walked into a queer bar or gone to an LGBT community event

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where folks are outside puffin’ away on their cigarettes. “Got a light?” “Hey man, can I bum a cigarette?” At what point did tobacco use in our community become so normalized? As a recent health awareness marketing campaign by the California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership asks: “When did smoking become part of us?” Moreover, how do we break this community trend?

LGBT tobacco control advocates are working toward ensuring that queer and transgender smokers have access to culturally appropriate smoking cessation services. We are working within local communities to create greater protections from secondhand smoke exposure so we all have the right to breathe fresh air in the cities where we live, work, and socialize. Additionally, LGBT health advocates are providing relevant health education on the negative effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure to members of our community and working to remove tobacco industry sponsorship and marketing items from our bars and other social venues.

Widespread norm change around tobacco use within the LGBT community starts with individual lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people taking charge of their own health. It’s not too late to make and keep that New Year’s resolution. There is no need to sugar coat it – quitting smoking is difficult; in fact it may very well be one of the most difficult things you do. But with preparation, the right support, and enough determination it can be done. 2011 is your year! For free help quitting smoking call the California Smokers Helpline: 1-800-NO-BUTTS or go to http://lastdrag.org for information on smoking cessation classes in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.▼ Lee Staub is a health education coordinator at the Tri-City Health Center in Fremont.

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Lesbian aunt watches Wiener take oath he was there when he was born 40 years ago, and as his godmother, has stood by him ever since.

She proudly watched him graduate high school in southern New Jersey and supported him when he came out as gay while an undergraduate at Duke University.

She has been a constant supporter throughout his life, so there was no question about her being there to see her nephew, Scott Wiener, take his oath of office as one of San Francisco’s newest supervisors.

“He is my godson and I have always supported him from the day he was born,” said Leah Chaplin, 70, a native of Philadelphia.

During his remarks at the Saturday, January 8 swearing-in ceremony, Wiener singled out his aunt for being a role model in his life.

“My aunt came out as a lesbian in the 1960s before P OLITICAL there was Will and Grace, before it was cool to be gay and it was still considered a mental illness,” said Wiener.

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Supervisor Scott Wiener greets his aunt, Leah Chaplin, in his City Hall office.

come out as a gay man.”

Chaplin said she has always felt a close bond to Wiener, the first grandson in the family to be named after her father, who died at the age of 40 when she was 13 years old. Wiener’s mother, Elaine, is Chaplin’s sister.

Their mother Dorothy Chaplin, N OTEBOOK 96, lives outside Philadelphia.

Leah Chaplin said she wasn’t surprised when Wiener came out of the closet.

“He called me from Duke to tell me. I had my suspicions growing up,” said Chaplin. “The family has always been very supportive of me and him. My mother is very proud I am her daughter and that Scott is her grandson.”

Chaplin, who came out in her 20s, marveled that back then “it was a very different time.”

She has been with her partner, Eileen Gildea, 32 years. A retired city worker in Philadelphia, Chaplin was part of a group of LGBT employees who pushed the city to create domestic partnerships 12 years ago.

Wiener said it was “incredibly meaningful” to have his aunt join his parents and sister in coming out to San Francisco to observe his first day as an elected official.

“She is such an inspiration, she always has been,” said Wiener, who also has a cousin who is gay. “She helped me develop as a gay man and made me understand it is okay to be gay.”

He also acknowledged that he follows in the footsteps of the gay men who have previously held the supervisor seat that represents the Castro at City Hall. From Harvey Milk and Harry Britt in the late 1970s to Mark Leno and Bevan Dufty in more recent years, Wiener said, “I am keenly aware of the lead-

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Seeking recognition for gay hero

ous news articles about Pride’s current situation, many of the veteran contractors – those intrinsic for a successful My new year started out at City Hall as I attended the event – still remain involved and committed. Their collecBoard of Supervisors meeting January 4. I wanted to bring tive experience with SF Pride exceeds 100 years, and a good to the attention of city officials that I thought the city owed number of those years without an executive director. a posthumous honor to a resident and hero.

Additionally, since the review of the controller’s report, I must admit these mostly young, whippersnapper the sitting board of directors has started to put recompoliticians were too fast for me. I could keep up with the mended changes and controls into place, to remedy highspeed of city politics but there was something weird or diflighted issues and help resolve the debt. ferent at this particular meeting. I could be wrong but it Does that really sound like an organization in disarray? might have been the fact that they just could not wait to get No. to the part of the agenda where they were trying to name a What kind of organization would we – or any new mayor for the resigning Mayor Gavin Newother nonprofit – be if the departure of one som. or two people, even those with specific duties, The board rearranged procedure, where crippled them? Shouldn’t there be a built-in they took comments before the calendar item sustainability? With SF Pride, there is no hole of possible nomination for a successor or vacuum, someone else who is entirely camayor. I stood in line to speak my two minpable picks up the slack until such time as a utes, which was a follow-up to my earlier ereplacement is found – if one is even needed. mail to all board members, which went none of the local nonprofits something like this: M AILSTROM Remember, started out with full staff upon inception, I am 54 and have been a resident of San they grew into those numbers – and while Francisco for nearly 50 years. For as long as doing so, operated more or less capably.

I could remember, I have always been ashamed of the fact The continued painting of SF Pride (and other finanthat I am a homosexual. Then I read the sad story of forcially challenged nonprofits) by the B.A.R., the Examiner, mer marine and decorated Vietnam veteran Oliver Sipple. and whoever else picks up these erroneous stories, as being My shame has shifted. in jeopardy of crumbling into nonexistence or unable to On September 22, 1975, Oliver W. Sipple grabbed the produce the 2011 (or future) events, is not only wildly inhand of Sarah Jane Moore as she attempted to assassinate accurate, it’s irresponsible.

President Gerald R. Ford outside the Westin St. Francis Especially in light of the current economic climate, Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco. Oliver Sipple was casting this pall upon them squarely places some of the renever honored for his heroics simply because he was hosponsibility on the media, for the subsequent financial immosexual and I believe San Francisco owes him a special pact it creates with regard to community fundraising, kind of thank you. sponsorship funding, and tourism. You’re not only atHow can a man save the life of the president in of all tacking SF Pride and other nonprofits, you’re sabotaging places, San Francisco, and instead of being honored, he the efforts of the city of San Francisco and the San Franwas dishonored. cisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, which in turn afI finished speaking feeling ignored and 99 percent sure fects all residents. SF Pride alone brings in over $100 milthat none of them even heard of Tony Bennett. lion in revenue for the city of San Francisco, and has done San Francisco should honor Oliver Sipple by naming a so even during downturn years – no other single city event street, cable car, or the soon to be completed Powell Street can boast this.

Promenade near where his heroics took place, in his The media often takes way too much delight in touting honor. negative news stories, and seldom is willing to report on I believe in the power of a little thanks. Moreover, if the the positive and proactive actions of those experiencing city of San Francisco could say, “Thank you Oliver Sipple difficulty. We challenge you to write a series of articles that for saving the life of the president of the United States” do so, and give those struggling in this economy – regardloud enough, the whole nation could hear it and look into less of the reason why – a platform for explaining how they its own shameful treatment of gays. plan to rise up out of the perceived ashes.

Nevertheless, if San Franciscans cannot say thank you Finally, SF Pride isn’t out for personal gain. SF Pride is a or show respect to a homosexual for his bravery, then it world-class event that draws people internationally. It proshould be no surprise that when Tony Bennett sings “I Left vides a much-needed fundraising, education, and awareMy Heart in San Francisco” more people wonder why. ness venue for many facets of the LGBTQI communities, as well as our allies – particularly in the mentoring of youth Allen Jones and carrying forward the legacy of our rights movement.

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Pride contractors respond Your recent categorization of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Committee as being in disarray is not only unfounded, it is untrue [“Fundraising skills sought for top jobs,” January 6].

While a couple of key departures have occurred within the organization, it does not leave SF Pride floundering or with a lack of leadership.

As reporter Seth Hemmelgarn pointed out in his previ-

The contractors of SF Pride Marsha H. Levine, Parade Manager; Joe Wagenhofer, Event Director; Scott Shuemake, Operations Manager; Audrey Joseph, Main Stage Producer; Richard Kravitz, Exhibitor Relations Manager; Bill Montgomery, Exhibitor Relations Manager; Andy Copperhall, Beverages Manager; Brian Probst, Donation Partners Manager; Clint “Tig” Sallings, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services Coordinator; May Briosos, Recycling Manager

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Newly sworn in Supervisor Scott Wiener signs the oath of office, surrounded by well-wishers on January 8.

Wiener gets down to business

by Raymond Flournoy n January 8, Scott Wiener was sworn in as the new supervisor for District 8, which encompasses the historic Castro neighborhood. The openly gay Wiener succeeds Bevan Dufty, an out politician widely seen as pro-business who regularly appeared at the monthly Merchants of Upper Market and Castro meetings to interact with small business owners directly.

The Bay Area Reporter spoke with Wiener on the eve of his swearing in to hear his take on businesses in the Castro and across San Francisco, and what he hopes to accomplish during his tenure in office.

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ness,” with his opponents characterized as “progressive” in contrast. However, to Wiener this is a false distinction, and he considers himself both pro-business and progressive.

“You can be very progressive and still want to attract businesses and create jobs,” Wiener said. “I’ve been very supportive of working people and of creating new jobs for San Franciscans. And that means bringing jobs downtown and elsewhere throughout the city, and also attracting and promoting small businesses in the neighborhoods.”

“We need to make the neighborhood vibrant,” he said. “I support implementing the Upper Market plan, and the various initiatives to make the neighborhood more walkable and visitor-friendly.” This includes the Castro Community Benefits District proposal to widen the sidewalks along Castro Street between Market and 19th streets.

Wiener also supports the proposed Rainbow Honor Walk, which would install plaques into the sidewalks around the Castro district to honor heroes of LGBT history. Wiener noted, “It is very important for the Castro to maintain its gay identity.

Reforming the payroll tax The Castro is open to everyone and should never be exclusive, but we do Wiener’s top priority for helping have a distinctive LGBT identity out small businesses is his plan to rewhich we need to maintain.” form the city’s payroll tax. Under the On the subject of empty storecurrent system, businesses with a payfronts, Wiener said that he is currentroll below $250,000 are exempted ly discussing the possibility of from the tax, but once a expanding the definition of business grows beyond this blight to include “long-term level it is taxed at the full commercial vacancies which amount of the payroll. are malicious in nature.”

Wiener said that he Wiener listed the locations knows of businesses that of the former Patio have held off on hiring Cafe (531 Castro because the additionB USINESS B RIEFS Street) and Real al employees would Foods (3939 24th push the business beStreet) as examples of properties that yond the $250,000 mark, exposing the might fall under such a definition. company to a large tax bill.

“I’m incredibly frustrated that the To fix this situation, Wiener proPatio Cafe is still closed. It’s unconposes changing the payroll tax exscionable,” he added. emption to a deduction, so all businesses would receive a tax break on Different Light and the first quarter-million dollars of Magnet book club their payroll. As businesses hire and the payroll grows beyond that level, In other neighborhood business the tax burden would grow gradually news, gay bookseller A Different Light based only on the amount above the (489 Castro Street) has joined with $250,000 deduction. men’s health center Magnet (4122 However, that tax break across the 18th Street) to lead a monthly book board has significant budget repercusclub for gay men. The book club startsions. “Any proposal needs to be reved last year as an event for Magnet volenue-neutral, so that is the complicaunteers, but the group opens to the tion,” Wiener conceded. “There are general public with this month’s read, various proposals of ways to offset the National Book Award-winning Just lost revenue, and that is something Kids by rock musician Patti Smith. that I am working on now.”

According to A Different Light Another priority for Wiener is to event coordinator Oscar Raymundo, bolster the city’s Small Business Assis“The club is a great social outlet for tance Center (City Hall, Room 110), a those residents in the Castro who’d program of the Office of Small Busilike to meet new people in a more soness that provides information and phisticated atmosphere than, say, a counseling for entrepreneurs and small nightclub or bar, and discuss great, big business owners in San Francisco. In ideas with other like-minded men.”

Wiener’s estimation the center needs And he added, “We welcome more case managers and more reeveryone – gay, straight, male, female – sources to better serve small businesses. but we are currently focusing on ficBut how will the city pay for those tion and memoirs that appeal to a gay increased services in this time of budmale perspective.” get deficits? “Even a small boost in The book club meets the last Tuesfunding would help to encourage the day of each month (January 25) at number of businesses operating and 7:30 p.m. at Magnet. All book club sehiring, and the resulting tax revenue lections are available at A Different would pay for the increase in services,” Light at a 10 percent discount for club he explained. members.

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Wiener, himself a Castro resident, has many thoughts on ways to improve the commercial district and reduce the number of empty storefronts.

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No license to deride the request of Demartini.

This was not the first time Demartini used his position to harass transn late 2010, a woman filed papergender people. A year earlier he rework at her local Department of fused to help another transgender Motor Vehicles office. This spewoman, telling the transperson in cific time, it wasn’t the typical driquestion, “God will send you to hell.” ver’s license paperwork, but a CaliThe acting regional administrator fornia DMV form DL-328. This of the DMV at that time, Linda piece of paper, filled out by you and Bryant, did respond to San Francisco a medical professional, allows the Human Right Commission back California DMV to change your then, indicating, “appropriate name and gender marker on personnel action is in your driver’s license or state process to ensure that your identification card. experience is not repeated.”

This woman, Amber Yust, I suppose it wasn’t repeated was doing what I once did, per se, but I’m not sure if at the same DMV office. It Yust’s experience was any is simply part of the better. process to get one’s Needless to say, identification paT RANSMISSIONS Yust filed some other perwork in order paperwork in light when one transiof this incident: a claim against the tions. In California, unlike most other DMV, seeking damages for emotionstates, one can get all this paperwork al distress as well as a court-ordered sorted out in full without the need for injunction. The latter is to prevent fuany surgical intervention – something ture leaks of private information by that not all states provide for.

DMV employees.

When I filed my DL-328, the While on administrative leave and process was fairly simple. I turned it during the DMV’s internal investigain to the fellow behind the counter, he tion, Demartini filed some paperwork briefly consulted with a supervisor, of his own: his resignation letter. The took my 12 bucks, snapped a new DMV accepted. Demartini will not be photo of me, and I was on my way. A receiving benefits of unemployment. few months later, my freshly minted It’s cold comfort, knowing that by redriver’s license arrived in the mail: signing he can now go onto other poeasy peasy. sitions without the termination on his Yust’s visit to the San Francisco record, and realizing that the DMV DMV went quite differently. The feldid not do the right thing by termilow behind the counter for her was nating an employee who has harassed named Thomas Demartini. On her transgender people before. first visit, Demartini turned her away, As a transgender person, I’m all citing a “records mismatch” between too used to people feeling they can her preferred name and gender and have an opinion about my gender government records. preference. Most of the time it might After she made a trip to a local Sobe a disapproving glance, whispers, cial Security office, she returned with stares, laughs, or even a shouted epiproof of her legal name change. Dethet. Sometimes it takes the forms of martini then reluctantly processed her people trying to somehow “save me” paperwork. in the name of this or that form of Four days after her visit to the spirituality.

DMV, Yust received a letter from DeEarly in my transition, a form letmartini. It was not any official notice, ter from a local ministry showed up but rather sent “in charity” by Deon my desk, telling me the story of an martini. “ex-gay” named Perry Desmond, who “On Thursday, October 21, 2010, I had transitioned in the 1970s before helped you get a driver’s license or ID finding God and detransitioning. I card at the San Francisco DMV,” Dehave had many offer their opinions as martini wrote. “I noticed that you to my salvation and ways to ensure I were changing your name and had would turn away form my sinful besupporting documents for the havior. Not all of these were prayer change. As I recall one of those docubased: one acquaintance suggested I ments outlined something to do with follow macrobiotics in order to no a gender change.” longer feel cross-gendered.

Continuing, Demartini argued Yet these experiences were not at that the majority of people who under the hand of an official governmental “gender change operations” do so beagency – or anyone acting on their because of “the client’s homosexual orihalf. entation.” It quickly went downhill Demartini is welcome to have the from there, with quotations from sevbeliefs he has – but having those beeral biblical passages, as well as Deliefs does not give him the right to martini’s own claims that “Jesus clearturn away customers, to send them ly prohibits gender change operaletters off-duty, and presumably share tions” and that Yust had “made a very their personal information with third evil decision.” parties in order to “help with anothThe same day as the letter, a DVD er’s salvation.” That’s a clear crossing and religious pamphlet were sent to of the line.

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ership in this district that came before me. I have huge shoes to fill.”

Leah Chaplin suspects it won’t be the last time she watches her godson take an oath of office.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if he runs for mayor,” she said. “He has always worked at that next step in his career.”▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column profiles a gay Republican running for a seat on the West Hollywood City Council this March.

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Correction The January 6 article “Heart sculptures recharge SF General’s lifeline” contained incorrect sponsorship information. The tabletop hearts are auctioned to benefit the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The large hearts are given to sponsors of $50,000 or more. Major sponsors this year include AT&T, the Ashlyn Dyer Foundation, and Bank of America. The companies can choose to donate them back to the foundation for purchase by private collectors, often for tens of thousands of dollars. The online version has been corrected.

I can understand – though I do not approve of – the way the DMV handled the situation after the first incident. They likely did not want any messy personnel issues to deal with, and likely told Demartini not to refuse people in the future, not tell them they were going to hell in the office, and let him keep right on working.

To Demartini, this simply meant to take his crusade outside of the office – and break the privacy of another citizen in the process.

This is when the DMV should have stepped up. It was fine that they put him on administrative leave, but nothing short of terminating Demartini’s employment would have been acceptable. Simply accepting his resignation smacks of yet another attempt to brush it all under the carpet.▼ Gwen Smith did not need to look up DL-328 or Perry Desmond before writing this. You can find her online at www.gwensmith.com.

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Shooting prompts calls for a more civil Congress

by Lisa Keen he 112th Congress went barreling into all-out partisan warfare, as expected, in its opening week, and then the unexpected took over.

A man gunned down a member of Congress on Saturday, January 8, in broad daylight at a meet-and-greet the member was having with constituents in Tucson, Arizona. The suspect, Jared Loughner, 22, shot 20 people, killing six – including a 9-yearold girl and a federal district court judge – and leaving Representative Gabrielle Giffords with a critical wound to the head.

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matory partisan rhetoric that has prevailed over many of the nation’s most contentious issues.

Newly sworn in House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) immediately announced that normal House business scheduled for this week would be postponed. That included postponement of a politically charged vote in the House on a measure seeking to repeal the newly enacted health care reform legislation.

That law, which President Barack Obama signed last March, has no gay-specific provisions but does prohibit insurance companies from dropping a person who develops a particular disease, such as HIV or breast cancer. It also prohibits insurance companies from setting a cap on how much coverage they will provide over the lifetime of a patient. The legislation also includes $8.5 billion for community health centers.

Before the shocking news of Saturday’s shooting, partisan rancor had been escalating, particularly in the House. Republicans who took control of the House January 5 were squaring for knock down, drag out fights over health care reform, debt ceilings, and even a re-examination of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Representative Buck McKeon (RCalifornia), who took over as chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had vowed to hold hearings to scrutinize the Pentagon’s No-

vember 30 report about implementing repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay people. But he has made no further statement since November on such hearings. Obama signed the DADT repeal measure last month and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said at a press conference January 6 that he hopes preparations for implementing repeal can be done “within a matter of a very few weeks.”

Those preparations, said Gates, include finalizing changes in regulations, policies, and benefits, then preparing training materials and conducting the training.

“We will do that as expeditiously as we can,” said Gates.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who was at the press conference with Gates, added, “We certainly are focused on this and we don’t dawdle.”

Shooting aftermath On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers are focused on the Saturday shooting of Giffords, a Democratic member of the House from a heavily Republican Arizona district. The shooting prompted U.S. Capitol Police on Sunday to urge all members of the House and their staffs to take “reasonable and prudent precautions” to ensure their own security.

Openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) declined, through a spokesman, to talk about specifics of threats to his security but at an interview in Boston in 2009, after he had assumed the chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee, he was accompanied by a bodyguard.

“It would not be a good idea to discuss anything about security,” Frank told a Boston public radio station, WBUR, Monday, “but what I can say is this – I can’t believe that any of us are going to allow this to result in a reduction of availability to the people we represent.”

Out Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), in a telephone news conference with home state reporters Sunday, acknowledged having received threats “during my course in public office” but declined to provide any specifics. She and other members of Congress pointed to the increased hostility displayed at routine town meetings during the debate over health care reform in 2009 as a time when many felt escalating concerns for potential violence.

Baldwin said she was glad that both Republican and Democratic leaders have “noted that this tragedy calls upon us all to re-examine our words, to re-examine how we disagree in public debate and set a new course of civility and appropriate rhetoric.”

“We have to, in a democracy,” said Baldwin, “be careful with our words.”

Baldwin praised Boehner for setting the proper “tone” in reaction to the shooting. Baldwin said Boehner told members of Congress in a telephone call Sunday that it is “time we have to reconsider the very incendiary rhetoric that has been occurring and that we must stand together ... as a Congress.”

Boehner also released a statement saying, “An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Such acts of violence have no place in our society.”

Baldwin said she hopes the reaction to the tragedy will enable members of Congress to “come together next week ... and say how, moving forward, can we do better, can we bring renewed civility to consequential debates and create a new environment in which people can differ without endangering people’s security and safety.”

In San Francisco, the Alice B. Tok-

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Triple R resort is up for sale

by Lois Pearlman f you’ve always wanted to own a gay resort, and have an extra $1.25 million jangling around in your pocket, there’s a woman in Santa Rosa who would like to sell you the Triple R. Long famous as the center of the Russian River LGBT vacation scene, the 23-room Russian River Resort in Guerneville now belongs to Sterling Savings Bank in Spokane, Washington. The bank foreclosed on the RRR September 16, when former owner Ray Shahani, an attorney in the South Bay, failed to make his payments.

Mary Agneberg, producer of the Women’s Weekends on the Russian River, and a member of the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, said she watched the foreclosure action from a second floor restaurant across the street and it was “quite a scene.”

The big front gates have been padlocked ever since, except when Rhonda Deringer, a real estate agent with Keegan and Coppin in Santa Rosa, showed the place to a handful of perspective customers.

According to Deringer, one perspective new owner – a woman – went as far as opening escrow on the RRR, but the deal fell through. Derringer said she had intended to maintain it as a gay resort, although other inquiries have come from people who have a variety of plans for the RRR, some wanting to turn it into a family place and others wanting to keep it gay.

In addition to the 23 cabin rooms, the resort includes a newly remodeled circular bar, a small restaurant, a spacious pool and front patio area, an outdoor stage with seating, and an outdoor bar.

Built in the 1940s, the resort was originally a “family” place called Hetzels Motor Lodge. It was renamed the Russian River Resort in 1980 and has been gay-identified ever since.

Guerneville resident Jeff Bridges, who managed the Triple R from 1992 through 2006, said that the 1990s and the early part of this decade was its “heyday” as an LGBT mecca.

Over the years the resort served as the main venue for the river’s popular events, such as Lazy Bear Weekend, Women’s Weekend, and Wigstock, and fundraising events like the celebrity pie throw and the celebrity bartender’s nights.

It also hosted a variety of performers, including the burlesque show, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad; the popular lesbian comic and monologist, Marga Gomez; a troupe of dragsters that spoofs the Golden Girls; and the infamous Shirley Q. Liquor (Chuck Knipp).

“It was the heartbeat of the community,” said Michael Preaseau, coowner of the Woods Resort, down the street from the RRR. Agneberg, and others involved in the Russian River tourism business, attribute the sad demise of the once glamorous queen of the river to absentee ownership, which allowed the

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sored rainbow banners to adorn the light poles along Market Street indefinitely.

“MUMC is pleased that the banners got approved for Market Street.

We can now have a universal tie-in across the business district,” President Steve Adams said in an e-mail to the B.A.R. In related news, Adams was appointed to the city’s Small Business Commission at the end of December. The appointment was one of former Mayor Gavin Newsom‘s final acts before resigning his office to become lieutenant governor.▼

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premises and the services to fall into disrepair.

And they are hoping that somebody will purchase the place and return it to its former glory.

“All the resorts are going to feel it if that place doesn’t open up by the summer,” said Preaseau.

He said it complemented rather than competed with other gay businesses in Guerneville, because you could have a drink at the RRR and

then walk to any other place in town.

“We desperately need this venue,” agreed Agneberg. “It is the best outdoor venue on the river for events.”

Taking an optimistic point of view, Margaret Kennett, owner of Fern Grove Resort just west of Guerneville, said she believes somebody will come along who will understand the value of the resort and snap it up.

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Dorothy’s newest friends hope that even just one person can gain strength from my story,” Weir said.

I could not help but think of my own coming out three decades ago.

In sports terms, I was in a triple whammy situation at the time: an athlete, a sports journalist, and a coach. I knew of a modest number of lesbian athletes in volleyball and basketball, but I had no gay male athlete friends, and knew of no gay sportswriters, sports editors, or coaches.

And I was in perhaps the most visible position in Alaska sports, but I was no celebrity and had no desire to become one.

So I did not publish a story or go on a broadcast. I told colleagues and that was that.

Coming out was not as easy for my boyfriend at the time: a young serviceman from the south. Tired of hiding his life from his fellow soldiers, he told his superiors he was gay but wanted to stay in the service.

What followed was an invasive and demeaning interrogation in which I was asked to explain the nitty-gritty details of positions and acts to the interrogators in charge of drumming him out of the service. He has never regretted coming out – but he loved the service dearly and never wanted to leave it.

Thirty years down the Yellow Brick Road, I think I can safely say neither Buckley nor Weir will regret their coming out. Coming out has become so politicized over the years and triggers bursts of media frenzy, the pressure to come out is nearly as great as the pressure to stay in, but ultimately it remains a personal choice: a choice for integrity, a choice for candor, a choice for freedom from repugnant restraints. It is a personal choice for empowerment taken when the timing and situation feel right.

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by Roger Brigham uddenly it seems as if the Good Witch of the North has descended in her bubble to the world of sports, where one and all are heeding her call to “Come out, come out, wherever you are.” Last week word spread from Kansas to Oz of two well known sports figures coming out of the closet: Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley (surprise!) and figure skater Johnny Weir (well, duh!).

The revelations could not have been more different, reflecting their respective personalities and professions. As a journalist, Buckley tells the stories of sports celebrities in the spotlight. As a skater, Weir is both celebrity and spotlight; he is the story.

Buckley came out in a column in which he admittedly buried the lead; “It’s no big deal,” the column seemed to murmur, “just thought you should know.” Weir’s coming out is an ongoing multimedia event, leading up to publication of his autobiography that screams, as always, LOOK AT ME! Their revelations also reflect their different generations, illustrating a shift of cultural perceptions over time. For Buckley, 56, being gay was something he felt he needed to hide, and which he revealed only to an intimate few. When he told his mother years ago, she urged him not to come out publicly for fear it would hurt his career.

J OCK As he reports in his column last week, seven years ago she changed her mind and urged him to write about his sexuality, but died shortly thereafter right before he had planned to publish his story. For seven years he put it out of his mind. “During this same period,” he wrote, “I have read sobering stories about people who

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came undone, killing themselves after being outed. These tragic events helped guide me to the belief that if more people are able to be honest about who they are, ultimately fewer people will feel such devastating pressure.”

For Weir, 26, the closet was more of an open-air walk-in made of crystal clear ice. He showcased his flamboyance while refusing, until now, to admit to a label. He was criticized for living the life but not coming out, but the criticism only made him more adamant. “Pressure is the last thing that would make me want to ‘join’ a community,” he told Peomagazine, his print TALK ple medium of choice. “The massive backlash against me in the gay media and community only made me dig my ‘closeted’ heels in further.”

Ultimately, however, he said he came out for the same reasons Buckley did.

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Lynch to lead LA Gay Men’s Chorus hom Lynch, who formerly led the San Francisco LGBT Community Center and most recently the now-defunct New Leaf: Services for Our Community, is packing up as he heads to his new job as executive director of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.

Lynch starts his new position January 18.

Los Angeles and San Francisco are playing musical chairs with their gay men’s choruses. The San Francisco chorus in November hired Tim Seelig, who recently served as the artistic director-in-residence of the GMCLA. “I’m looking forward to welcoming [Lynch] to the gay choruses’ family,” said Teddy Witherington, executive director of the Golden Gate Performing Arts Inc., the home of SFGMC. “San Francisco’s loss is L.A.’s gain.”

The two chorus leaders met at the end of last year to discuss potential opportunities for the groups to work together, they both said.

“Music has been such an important part of my life,” said Lynch, 51.

“To be the executive director of a well respected arts organization is truly exciting.”

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He spent his formative years singing and acting, which blossomed into his first career. After graduating from a Bible college he was a gospel singer

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with the Assemblies of God, touring the United States for about four years, he said. After he came out and left the church, he took his singing to smoky nightclubs and did a turn as a commercial actor before devoting nearly 30 years of his life working toward social justice.

In 1991, Lynch left his position as a licensed social worker and substance abuse counselor on the East Coast and moved to San Francisco with nothing.

He spent his first few months sleeping on the floor of a friend’s apartment, but since then he has worked at some of San Francisco’s most well-known and respected nonprofit organizations, such as the city’s Food Bank and Project Open Hand, before becoming

the executive director of the LGBT center for four years.

He briefly moved to Madrid, Spain, where he lived in Chueca, in 2007, after leaving the center, only to return to San Francisco a little more than a year later. He then became interim executive director of New Leaf, the city’s LGBT mental health services agency. But the agency ran out of funds and closed in October 2010.

“I’m kind of doing the tour of great gay cities and gay neighborhoods of the world,” said Lynch, excited about his move to West Hollywood.

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles emerged more than 30 years ago on the heels of the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk in San Francisco. Inspired by the newly formed group of gay men singing “Thou, Lord, Our Refuge” on the steps of San Francisco City Hall after the killings, nearly 100 men responded to a call to raise their voices in song three weeks later at a community center in Los Angeles, in what is now West Hollywood, said outgoing Executive Director Hywel Sims and board chair John Duran.

Today, the chorus produces performances with 200 choral members that tour the globe, and helps keep music alive in Los Angeles’ public schools through its Alive Music Project, all on a $730,428 annual operating budget, according to its 2009 IRS filings.

Lynch will earn close to what he did leading New Leaf, he said, but neither Lynch nor Duran would disclose

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Mac Esperon, Empress Maxine, dies

by Cynthia Laird he Imperial Court of San Francisco has lost one of its most beloved empresses. Mac Maximo Esperon, who reigned as Absolute Empress VIII Maxine, died Friday, December 24, 2010 after a brief hospitalization. He was 77.

Mr. Esperon was born on January 11, 1933 in the city of Kona, Hawaii.

He moved to San Francisco from Honolulu in early 1967.

He was elected the Imperial Court’s eighth empress in 1973 from a field of five candidates. As Maxine, he served with two emperors, the first being Emperor I Marcus Hernandez, and then Emperor II Russ Higginbotham. Maxine’s court was the Imperial Court of the Bird of Paradise and her flower was the Bird of Paradise.

Mr. Esperon was a member of the Tavern Guild of San Francisco and worked in gay bars for more than 40

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“Maxine was always active in the Imperial Court and her last time in drag was at my birthday party in November,” said bar owner Marlena.

He is survived by his two children a son, Ross Esperon and a daughter, Kelly Lynn Esperon, both from Southern California. Mr. Esperon is preceded in death by his partner of 25 years Donald Haisher, who was Viscount II of San Francisco.

Mr. Esperon will be interred in Woodland Memorial Park just a few steps away from Emperor Joshua Norton’s gravesite. An Imperial state funeral will be held Sunday, January 23 at 2 p.m. at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 100 Diamond Street in San Francisco. A reception will immediately follow at Marlena’s, 488 Hayes Street. For more information about the state funeral please contact Marlena at (415) 864-6672.

Donations in memory of Mr. Esperon (Maxine) can be made to the AIDS Emergency Fund.▼

Obituaries >> Thomas Hayhurst May 6, 1951 – November 19, 2010

Thomas Hayhurst died November 19, 2010 of cancer in Fresno.

Hayhurst and his husband Dan Waterhouse were frequent visitors to San Francisco, and are known to many in the Castro, and in Bear and recovery circles.

Hayhurst was born May 6, 1951 in rural Kern County, and lived in Bakersfield or Fresno most of his life.

He spent time as a civilian worker in South Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War after high school. He lived and worked in Napa Valley wineries in the 1970s following college, and tended bar for many years.

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las LGBT Democratic Club condemned Saturday’s shooting.

“When the shooting occurred, Representative Giffords was participating in the most fundamental and critical aspect of our American democracy, communicating with her constituents at a local grocery store,” said club Co-Chairs Charles Sheehan and Bentrish Satarzadeh. “This shooting sends reverberations throughout our entire system of government, but we simply cannot bend to fear.”

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (DSan Mateo), whose former boss Representative Leo Ryan was gunned down during the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978, expressed shock at the shootings in Tucson.

“This horrendous act of violence

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his exact salary. Lynch’s salary at New Leaf was $104,000.

Duran simply said, “It’s a personnel issue. We don’t disclose the salary of our staff.” Sims, who led the Los Angeles chorus for six years, is ready for a “new challenge,” he said. According to 2009 IRS filings, Sims earned $90,000.

Sing for change GMCLA’s selection of Lynch after a nationwide search marks a new style of leadership and direction for the chorus. Rather than the traditional musical leadership the chorus chose

After entering recovery in 2000, he became a drug and alcohol counselor and had returned to university to further his education in the field.

He and Waterhouse first met in 2002, became partners in 2003, and legally married a few days before the November 2008 election. They were among the visible faces of marriage equality and equal rights in the Central Valley, long before Prop 8 and Meet In The Middle.

Diagnosed with throat cancer in 2007, Hayhurst battled it into remission. In January 2010, esophageal cancer was discovered during a routine procedure. After primary treatment, that cancer returned sometime during the summer. He died at home where he wanted to be, with his husband looking after him.

Hayhurst helped organize Fresno’s Pride Parade for several years,

until his health wouldn’t allow it. He was part of the Pink Triangle volunteer crew four years ago. He was also a member of the Golden State Bears.

A celebration of life is planned for early this year. Remembrances can be made to the donor’s favorite community non-profit.

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is unspeakable and an assault on our democracy,” she said in a statement issued last weekend.

Other gay legal and political organizations this week issued statements acknowledging how important Giffords is to the LGBT community.

HRC President Joe Solmonese called Giffords “a champion for LGBT equality and a principled leader for Arizona.”

Kevin Cathcart, executive director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, said she has been “an effective leader and a steady friend to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”

Giffords is one of 91 members of the LGBT Congressional Caucus, cochaired by Frank and Baldwin. She holds the seat once held by openly gay Representative Jim Kolbe, a Republican who retired a few years after he came out.

Police have yet to nail down a mo-

tive for the shooting and there has been no indication she was targeted for her pro-gay voting record. In a search of the suspect’s home, police uncovered evidence that he had targeted and planned the “assassination” of Giffords specifically. Comments he placed in text on a video he posted on YouTube suggested he had some hostility toward “the current government.”

“You don’t have to accept the federalist laws,” wrote Loughner. “I can’t trust the current government. ... The government is implying [sic] mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.”

Those comments and the fact that Loughner targeted a member of Congress who narrowly won a tough reelection campaign against a Republican Tea Party candidate, has prompted widespread debate over whether Loughner acted out of mental instability or political extremism.▼

an advocacy leader, said Duran, in order to fulfill the arts organization’s new focus: a social justice mission.

“Our organization has been moving out of art and more into an advocacy position rather than ‘art for the sake of art,’” said Duran, who is also the mayor pro tempore of West Hollywood. “Our mission is about delivering a message of eradicating homophobia throughout southern California through music.”

“We believe that music is a strong tool to change people’s minds,” added Sims. “I think [Lynch’s] experience in LGBT advocacy will help us carry on work that we’ve been doing with Equality California and the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles.”

The chorus is also seeking a new artistic director. Lynch is expected to lead that selection process, Duran said.

Lynch doesn’t sing anymore, but he’s looking forward to expanding the chorus’ purpose and extending the reach of its music.

“I’m very connected to the idea of changing people,” said Lynch.

Lynch also believes music can be a tool for social justice.

“What would it have been like if the chorus reached out to African American choruses during Prop. 8?” he asked, speaking about California’s anti-same-sex marriage ballot measure voters passed in 2008. “Music builds bridges, it’s a universal language.”▼

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Uganda’s parliament.

The legislation would imprison for life anyone convicted of “the offense of homosexuality,” punish “aggravated homosexuality” (repeat offenses, or having gay sex while being HIV-positive) with the death penalty, forbid “promotion of homosexuality” and incarcerate gay-rights defenders, and jail individuals in positions of authority for up to three years if they fail to report within 24 hours the existence of all LGBT people or sympathizers known to them.

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Hernandez was the subject of numerous news stories, interviews, and photos this week as news organizations reporting on the January 8 shooting that took six lives, injured several others, and left Giffords with a critical head wound.

Hernandez, 20, is a student at the University of Arizona and had begun work as an intern in Giffords’s Tucson office on January 3. He ran toward Giffords when the shooting broke out and, once he saw her head wound, used his hand to apply pres-

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“I don’t promote people lightly,” said Gascón. “... I have the utmost confidence in the competence of Denise.

She’s an incredibly bright individual and a true professional.”

If she were selected as the next chief, he would support that, he said, but he added selecting the next chief is up to the Police Commission and Mayor Edwin Lee, who was sworn in Tuesday, January 11 as Newsom’s replacement.

He also said he thinks “very highly” of Henderson, and he can remain in the job he’s held if he wants to. He said Henderson is “evaluating his options” but declined to say whether Henderson wants to keep the job, referring that question to Henderson himself.

Neither Henderson nor Hammer responded to interview requests.

The police department’s press office didn’t arrange an interview with Schmitt or Godown.

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Board President David Chiu, who is also considering a mayoral run. “As a Chinese American son of immigrants, I am proud of the history we are about to make together, but I also know that Ed Lee will continue to be a dedicated public servant as the mayor of all San Franciscans.”

At the swearing in ceremony Saturday, January 8, after the five newly elected supervisors took their oaths of office, the board voted 8-3 to re-elect Chiu as its president after Supervisor Sean Elsbernd took himself out of the running following the first round.

The vote signaled that the once formidable six-person progressive majority on the board has splintered and that a new dynamic is at work, as the incoming supervisors are seen as being more moderate.

The board and the new mayor are facing a nearly $400 billion budget deficit this year, the redrawing of supervisorial districts based on the 2010 census, plans for a new hospital on Cathedral Hill, and the ongoing redevelopment of Treasure Island and the Hunters Point shipyard.

District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of two gay men serving on the board, said he wanted to see the board make city services be its signature priority this year. He pointed to public transit, the city’s pension

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Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is sworn in as lieutenant governor in Sacramento Monday by his father, retired Judge William A. Newsom, as his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom looks on.

costs, and job creation as his main concerns.

And he expressed faith that he could work with his new colleagues no matter their politics “There is always common ground,” said Wiener. “We need to work on the basics.”

In voting to elect Lee as interim mayor Tuesday, apart from noting that Lee resides in District 8, Wiener said the city needed someone who could hit the ground running.

“It is not the time for someone to have a learning curve to manage the city. You don’t even get a few months

to be acclimated to the job. You need to step up day one and Ed Lee is qualified to do that,” said Wiener.

Supervisor Mark Farrell, whose District 2 covers the Marina and Pacific Heights, is a lifelong resident of the city and his district. He brings to the board his experience as a venture capitalist and has made job creation one of his main priorities.

“I ran for office because I felt I could make a difference,” said Farrell.

“We are a city that celebrates our diversity, our labor community, our small business community.”

District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim,

ment to explicitly reassure all people in Uganda, wherever they come from, that they intend to protect people against threats and violence regardless of their real or alleged sexual orientation,” said Chris Dolan, director of the Refugee Law Project at Makerere University, which is part of the coalition. “This important ruling goes at least some way in the right direction.”

Gay newspaper boxes bashed Someone attacked 14 downtown newspaper boxes belonging to the Vancouver gay publication Xtra between December 25-29.

The boxes’ front windows were dismantled and the papers were stolen.

Xtra spokesman Gareth Kirkby said that 14 of the paper’s boxes were vandalized last month.

Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein of the San Francisco Superior Court swears in Edwin Lee as the city’s interim mayor.

who served as president of the city’s school board, said her priorities include public safety, economic development, and improving the public schools. She spoke of wanting to work collaboratively with her colleagues.

“We have a lot more in common than we don’t,” said Kim, who is Korean American and one of four Asian Americans serving on the board.

Malia Cohen, the new supervisor from District 10 and the board’s only African American member, said she had always wanted to enter public service since she was a kid.

“I stand before you so humbled, so filled with appreciation and gratitude,” said Cohen. “I am a San Francisco native. It is a responsibility I take very seriously since there are so very few of us here. I will work with my colleagues so more San Francisco natives can stay here.”

District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, speaking this week about the selection of Lee as interim mayor, said it marked a chance to recalibrate the tenor of the city’s politics.

“It gives us an opportunity to relax the partisanship that is required of all sides,” said Mirkarimi. ▼

“The energy that’s required, the persistence to rip out a part that is very deliberately anchored in, suggests that this person has some significant issues,” said newspaper spokesman Gareth Kirkby. “Somebody walking the streets out there has a real hate-on for the gay and lesbian community. ... We need to get this person help as fast as possible.”

Police said the incidents appeared to be “targeted” at the gay community. Kirkby estimated the damage at $3,000.

was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year Honours, for his voluntary service.

Toni Montinaro received an MBE “for services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Derbyshire.”

Veteran lesbian activist Lisa Power was awarded an MBE “for services to sexual health and to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”

And social worker Barbara Ross received an MBE “for services to gender dysphoria.”▼

Gay sports figure, others honored by queen Aslie Pitter, a founder of Britain’s first gay soccer team, Stonewall FC,

Bill Kelley contributed to this report.

sure to curb the bleeding and held her upright to prevent her from choking on the blood.

Hernandez told Fox News that he was signing up constituents in line to speak with Giffords during her meet-and-greet event outside a grocery store in Tucson when he heard gunshots. He said he hurried to the spot where he knew Giffords was positioned both out of concern for her safety and that of others.

Hernandez said that, during high school, he took a course to become a certified nursing assistant and had a few months’ experience in hospitals.

“I had basic triage and basic first aid; it was nothing that I was really

prepared for,” said Hernandez.

When Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked Hernandez what prompted him to run toward the congresswoman during a moment of such danger, when most people would have run away, he said, “I wanted to help those who had been injured, even if there was a little bit of risk. I wanted to make sure that, if I could do anything, I did.”

“You’re 20 years old. You have such composure. You’re an example for a lot of young people, Daniel, in terms of your courage, and your responsibility,” said Kelly, concluding the interview. “What’s your message for other folks out there tonight

watching you thinking, ‘How can I raise a boy to be just like Daniel?’”

Hernandez said he thought viewers should understand that the real heroes are Giffords and her staff, who have dedicated their lives to helping others. A Giffords staffer, Gabe Zimmerman, was among those killed in the shooting.

Although Hernandez was new to Giffords’s office, he said he had known her for years and had worked on her campaign for Congress. In Tucson, Hernandez serves on the city’s Commission for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transsexual Issues.

On Monday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer led a standing ovation for

Hernandez during her State of the State address, crediting him with saving Giffords’s life.

John Wright, news editor of the Dallas Voice, said he started Googling for information about Hernandez after reading about his actions in an Arizona paper.

“I immediately saw that someone with that name was a member of the Tucson LGBT commission, and then I found a number on his Facebook page so I could call and confirm,” said Wright. “I was surprised I got him and the connection was pretty bad, but sure enough it was him.

Then, about an hour after I posted it, our website went down.”▼

Gascón, whose salary in his new job is $213,365, offered some insights into what his relationship with the LGBT community should be like as DA. “I share Kamala’s concerns to ensure that LGBT issues and the LGBT community is offered the full availability of the DA’s office,” he said.

He also said, “I want to make sure we’re very aggressive” in dealing with hate crimes, saying the issue “has always been on the front burner for me.”

Gascón said he has a history of supporting the LGBT community, even when that hasn’t been “particularly popular,” such as when he was the police chief in Mesa, Arizona, the position he held before coming to San Francisco.

Gascón, who has a law degree, is also seen as someone who can improve relations between the police and DA’s office. Harris, who ran on a platform of improved relations with SFPD when she first sought the job in 2003, saw that support collapse after she de-

clined to seek the death penalty in the case of a man who murdered police Officer Isaac Espinoza in April 2004.

“His ability to coordinate police and DA efforts is just unprecedented,” added Dufty, who also pointed to “his commitment to innovation and to ensure we get people out of the justice system that have the potential for success.”

City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who is also running for mayor, called Gascón a “stellar choice” for DA. Asked about the possibility of Schmitt becoming police chief, Officer Lenny Broberg, vice president of the police department’s Pride Alliance, said, “Who knows at this point? There were so many changes that were made so quickly. ... Her chances are just as good as anybody else’s.”

He said, “The general consensus is they’re not going to pick somebody from outside the department, because that individual would have to pass muster with the next mayor elected in November.

“I find it difficult to believe someone would be wiling to give up a position to come here for something that

could possibly be only temporary,” said Broberg.

In response to an e-mailed request for comment, David Waggoner, copresident of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, pointed to Gascón’s support of the death penalty, among other concerns.

Gascón is the first San Francisco district attorney in recent memory to support the death penalty. Asked if that could hurt his chances of winning election in November, Gascón said, “I would hope not.”

However, Gascón mentioned concerns he has about the death penalty and said, “I don’t believe the death penalty is a tool to be used lightly or often, even in cases where it’s legal.”

He added, though, in some cases, such as where the circumstances of the crime are particularly “heinous,” the death penalty “should not be completely taken off the table.” ▼

Varied views Former District 8 Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is running to be mayor, said Schmitt is “deserving of consideration” for the chief’s job.

“I know Ed Lee will consider her,” said Dufty.

He said many people “were shocked” by the surprise pick of Gascón to be the new district attorney.

But he gave the former police chief high marks for his leadership of the department.

“He has done more to modernize and improve the functioning of the police department than what I have seen in the decade prior in terms of technology, accountability, and openness with the media,” said the out gay mayoral hopeful. “George Gascon is at 80 percent popularity in San Francisco. He will be a transformative district attorney.”

Matthew S. Bajko contributed to this report.

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Program and reduces funding in Medi-Cal and other programs.

“What I propose will be painful,” Brown said in announcing his budget Monday, January 10. “It will take sacrifice from every sector of California.”

However, he said, the “gimmicks and tricks” used in recent budgets have only plunged the state deeper into debt.

He said he realized many would object to his proposal, “but there will be even more people who will say, ‘Thank God we’re facing the music.’”

One area of sacrifice will be the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which the state estimates will provide services for over 42,000 people in 2011-12. Many rely on the program for lifesaving medications.

The budget would increase the client share of cost in ADAP to the maximum percentages allowed under the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act. That maximum is 5 percent of gross income.

The change would mean someone with a gross income of $11,000 would have a co-pay of $550.

Jason Villalobos, a 31-year-old San Francisco resident who was diagnosed with AIDS six years ago, said in an e-mail, “Unfortunately, my work status recently changed to unemployed, so I’m unclear if I’ll have to find money for a co-pay. If the program looks at money from the previous fiscal year (and I’m not sure that it does), then I’ll most likely have to pay the co-pay, which could be challenging to say the least.”

Anne Donnelly, director of health care policy at Project Inform, said in an interview Monday that the proposed cost-sharing is among advocates’ concerns.

“It can stop [people] from picking up their medications,” said Donnelly. She noted that the state’s estimated the cost-sharing increase would result in net general fund savings of $16.8 million.

She’s concerned about how much of that figure includes money the state will save from people dropping out of ADAP altogether because of the rising costs. State officials don’t quite have an answer for that question yet.

When asked about the figure in an e-mail, Matt Conens, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health, responded that the agency “is evaluating the best means of implementing the expanded client share of costs including the estimated impact from individuals dropping out of ADAP.” Donnelly said advocates would like to work with Brown and the Legislature “to see if we can find other savings in ADAP.” In what looks like an odd twist, Brown’s proposal could lower costs for people in ADAP who have private insurance or Medicare Part D. Conens said in an e-mail that the agency is evaluating “the fiscal impact of different options including co-pays and a monthly premium system. The precise income percentage to be applied to these clients for their costsharing obligation is still being determined.”

He said that federal law enables ADAP “to bill manufacturers for rebates when ADAP pays any part of a prescription, including co-pays and coinsurance. One of the largest drivers of ADAP’s annual cost increases is the continuous increases in drug pricing.”

Federal funding for ADAP has been essentially flat as far back as 2004-05, he said, adding, “Without the ability to collect these full manufacturer rebates, ADAP will no longer be viable. Thus it is critical that we maintain these clients in ADAP.” Proposed funding for ADAP in 2011-12 is $518.5 million, with $163.8 million coming from the state’s general fund.

Brown’s budget also calls for requiring co-payments in Medi-Cal rather than leaving them as voluntary.

Co-payments on physician, clinic, dental, and pharmacy services are estimated to save $294.4 million in 2011-12.

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He’s also proposing that prescriptions be limited to six per month, except life-saving drugs. That limit would save an estimated $11.1 million next fiscal year.

Donnelly said that advocates have been assured that antiretroviral drugs are counted as life saving drugs, “but people do have broader prescription needs.”

She also expressed concerns about the impact a weakened Medi-Cal system could have on expansion of the program. According to Donnelly, Medi-Cal serves almost half of HIVpositive Californians, with up to 70 percent of uninsured HIV-positive individuals expected to become eligible for the program when health care reform is fully implemented in 2014.

Additionally, Brown wants to cut maximum monthly cash grants through Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payments from $845 per month to $830 per month for individuals.

Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, director of state and local affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said, “A lot of folks with HIV depend on that money” Fifteen dollars might not seem like much of a cut, but she said for low-income people who receive the funding, “every dollar cut is potentially devastating.”

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Lawmakers weigh in State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who chairs the Senate’s budget and fiscal review committee, said Monday that details about the budget were still coming in, but it was clear there could be some pain.

“We know this is going to be difficult and painful across the board, but certainly I and our LGBT legislative caucus will be very vigilant” in their support of ADAP and other HIV/AIDS funding issues, said Leno.

“We need to have pharmaceutical companies, for example, provide appropriate rebates to the state for ADAP,” he said.

Leno also said California needs to receive its “fair share” of federal funding through the Ryan White system.

Out Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park), who’s on the Assembly budget committee, said that generally, “for the first time in years,” the state budget “doesn’t rely on gimmicks.”

However, Gordon said the budget is also a “painful” one.

“I think one of the areas that requires the most examination is in the health care arena where there are these cost-share proposals and limits proposed on utilization, and I think we have to closely look at what are the implications of that before we adopt this budget,” said Gordon.

He said Brown has “established the framework within which we can discuss some specifics.”

Gordon said it’s “instructive” that the budget committee doesn’t normally meet before March or April, but “in an unprecedented step” the committee is set to start its work on the proposal today (Thursday, January 13).

The governor’s also calling for $12 billion in revenue extensions and modifications. He wants to ask voters for a five-year extension of several taxes, including personal income taxes.

Brown’s spending plan assumes that all statutory changes to implement budget actions will be adopted by the legislature in March, allowing the necessary ballot measures to be put before voters at a June special election.

The proposals close an 18-month gap estimated at $25.4 billion. A combination of $26.4 billion in actions is needed in order to have a $1 billion reserve, which Brown has proposed.

According to Brown’s office, the deficit will grow to $26.6 billion if the proposed sale of state office buildings, does not proceed, requiring $27.6 billion in budget actions in order to have a reserve. The governor’s also offered $1.9 billion in other solutions.

Brown’s budget proposes total spending of $127.4 billion for the 2011-12 fiscal year. Of this amount, proposed General Fund spending is $84.6 billion.▼

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as GOLDEN GATE FLOORING, 1630 39th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Tony Phui. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/11/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/11/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as KOMATER ELECTRIC,214 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-3207. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Mark Komater.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/03/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/17/10.

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To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ROUND VEL, LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 345 Spear Street,Suite 115, San Francisco, CA 94105-1674. Type of license applied for:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as RAZORS, 4249 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Everett C. Stone III. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/31/06.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/20/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033215200

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ELBERT MICHAEL THOMPSON. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 3630 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA 94121-2604. Type of license applied for:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS, 760 Church Street,#3, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Charles M. Williams. 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 12/20/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as CLIMB REAL ESTATE GROUP, 251 Rhode Island Street,#105, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Tiffany Combs. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/22/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/10.

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: AMPARO VIGIL, WILLIAM VIGIL. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 546 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110. Type of license applied for:

47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: AKINAI INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2092 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. Type of license applied for:

47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SWEET LIME INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2100 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94115-3120.

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41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE DEC 30,2010 JAN 06,13,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033205300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LBE TRANSPORTATION, LLC, 660 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an limited liability company, signed Jagtar Chandi.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/14/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/14/10.

DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033196600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NICE COLLECTIVE M.S.U., 2544 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an limited liability company, signed Riley JohnDonnell. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/09/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/09/10.

DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033215800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TARSIER TRAVEL & TOURS, 1048 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an husband and wife, signed Crisostomo Ibarra. 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 12/20/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033218800

DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033221700

STATEMENT FILE A-033226000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.WHIMSY MEDIA, 2.GIRLS THAT ROAM, 3.SIGNATURE NOTARY PUBLIC, 322 12th Avenue,#3,Street, San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Heather Cassell. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/23/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/23/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE CAFE, 2369 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Suchitra Hutachuda. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/28/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/10.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033226400

STATEMENT FILE A-033219000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STAGE LOUNGE CATERING, 408 29th Street, San Francisco, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Tom Basso. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/22/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/10.

DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033192200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as NOBLE, 600 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Naresh Ahadhal. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/07/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/10.

DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033214000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANNEX FUND MANAGEMENT, 14 Jersey Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Moe Alsumidaie. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/22/10.

DEC 30, 2010, JAN 06,13,20,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: IGOR LITVAK, ALEXANDRE TCHERNIKOV. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 427 S Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94103-3629. Type of license applied for:

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STATEMENT FILE A-033213800

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: VOLARE INVESTORS LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 561 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133-2801. Type of license applied for:

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DEC. 23,30,2010,JAN.06,13, 2011 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOTTERSHEAD CONSULTING, 101 Lombard Street, #409W, San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Terri Mottershead. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/30/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/20/10.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FAMILY LAW DEPARTMENT SUMMONS FAMILY LAW NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: EDGAR KHACHATRYAN PETITIONERS NAME: YEVGENIA OSIPOVA AND CASE NO. FDI-10-773553

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JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRIPLE R EXPRESS, 1000 Franklin #401, San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Robert Rice. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/28/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/28/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033221800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SWEETOOTH STUDIOS, 2565 3rd St. Studio #303, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Alisha Wilson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033191300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOSES LIMOUSINE SERVICES, 888 O’Farrell St. #W809, San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Musa Jaradie. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/07/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/07/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033236900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PSR ENTERPRISES, 1522 Vandyke Ave., San Francisco, CA 94124.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Henry Jr. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/03/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033237000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE WINE SHERPA, 571 Pointe Pacific Dr. #3, Daly City, CA 94014. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Edmund Guelld. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033237500

STATEMENT FILE A-033238000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MJR CONSTRUCTION, 255 Valdez Ave., San Francisco, CA 94127.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Matthew Ruffer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033238000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHINATOUR.COM INTERNATIONAL, 918 Clement St. #101, San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Bo Wang. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/21/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033222500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1. GIANT BOMB; 2. ANIME VICE; 3. COMIC VINE; 4. SCREENED; 5.

TESTED; 921 Front St. #100, San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Shelby Bonnie. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/2010. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033220400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BETFAIR US, 201 Mission St., 9th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Martin Cruddace. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/23/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033240500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LINE UP, 398 7th St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Leticia Luna. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033239200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OZIMO, 3150 18th St. #429, San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Richard Freitas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033232900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE MAS METHOD, 425 1st St. #2802, San Francisco, CA 94105.

This business is conducted by an indivisual, signed Jessica Mas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/30/10 The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/30/10.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-032509400 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as E2 TUTORING SERVICE, 2600 Judah St., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Samuel Kwong Ho. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/10.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-11547411 In the matter of the application of PATRICK JOSEPH SHANAHAN for change of name. The application of PATRICK JOSEPH SHANAHAN for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that PATRICK JOSEPH SHANAHAN filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to FAUSTINO MENDONÇA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 8th of March, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033235300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.BIKE AND ROLL SAN FRANCISCO, 2.ADVENTURE BICYCLE COMPANY, 899 Columbus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Darryll White. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/31/10.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033243200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as 5 STAR CARPET CLEANING, 7707 Geary Blvd.,Apt. 2, San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Inadze Irakli. 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 01/04/11.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033242100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SUN VALLEY PRODUCE COMPANY, 2000 McKinnon Ave.,Bldg. #417, San Francisco, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kenny Eng. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/11.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033240800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as UNCOVER, 98 Martha Ave., San Francisco, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Samantha Bergeron.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/15/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/11.

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JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033243100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SUN BEADS, 1650 11th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Li Li Zhang. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/11.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033241100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COMAR LAW, 901 Mission St. #105, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Dave Inder Comar. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/03/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/04/10.

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JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033243800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ELECTRIFY, 3080 Alemany Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Catherine Wright. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/24/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/05/11.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033253400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as NORTH BEACH BAKING COMPANY, 1501 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed David Seto. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/11.

STATEMENT FILE A-033233600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LITTLE CITY DAYCARE, 443 Peninsula Ave., San Francisco, CA 94134.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Caitlin A. Sharp. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/01/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/30/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE GARDEN OF IAN, 219 Brannan Street, Unit 14H, San Francisco, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Charles P. Ellington, lll. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/11.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/07/11.

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Scene from Bjorn Richie Lob’s Keep Surfing.

GERMANY, AUSTRIA & SWITZERLAND PLAY THEMSELVES >> by David Lamble ow lucky are we to be blessed each year by two German film festivals. Longtime programming wizard Ingrid Eggers (for many years the brains behind the Goethe Institute’s Berlin and Beyond showcase at the Castro) last year demonstrated her survivor’s instincts with a sublime one-day

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film banquet, the aptly titled German Gems. This year Eggers regains her old slot of first festival of the new year, completing a triumphant comeback with a full weekend at the Castro (Jan. 14-16), as well as a one-day set of encore screenings at Point Arena.

This weekend’s program, nine features (including three docs) and one short, is like a deluxe survey course in modern German-language cinema, with fiction/nonfiction, history and modernity all getting their moments on screen.

Keep Surfing: The gem of the Gems is Bjorn Richie Lob’s hypnotically-lensed exploration of Munich’s river-surfing culture, which provided a delicious way to baptize my new high-

def TV. In a 10-year work in progress – it apparently took Lob a chunk of that decade to convince his river-surfing pals to share their stories on camera – Lob demonstrates why “surfing” the Eisbach River became, first, a pastime, then a veritable addiction for a core of “river rats” of all ages.

After spending the first chapter establishing how this oddest of sports got its footing with Munich youth plunging their boogie boards off the back of tourist boats plying the Eisbach – including boys who rode the wave with a sausage and a beer to fortify them – the filmmaker plumbs the mythology of river surfing, demonstrating ways in which it can more than com-

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COMING SOON TO AN ART GALLERY NEAR YOU athering from what’s on view at several local galleries in these, the early months of the fledgling New Year, artists have plenty pressing on their teeming brains, from volatile pumpkins and the politics of fashion to playful miniature monsters and warriors in hot pink designer underwear. The following is a taste of gallery shows around town.

Toomey Tourell Fine Art: Michael Ajerman: Glossolalia. It’s impossible to overstate the furious vitality and Van Gogh-like intensity that Ajerman brings to his oil paintings of inanimate objects, fantastical creatures and scenes of authentic humanity.

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Voluptuous brushstrokes of thick, rich color look like they were applied to the canvas as if the artist’s life depended on it. (Ajerman, an American based in London, has called his approach “aggressive surface control.”) A riot of bottomless deep purples, vivid reds and flaming oranges calls up visions of a primitive harvest, and his dramatic color contrasts stop short of garish, conveying warmth and depth.

In “My Friends” (Petite),” a rustic space appears illuminated by the glow of unseen firelight as two buddies kneel on the couch across the room. Ajerman shares his apparent fetishes, ranging from

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Looking critically at queer film

by Roberto Friedman he Queer Film Classics series is an ambitious project by Arsenal Pulp Press from Vancouver, BC, to critically explore 21 films that have been important in LGBT film history. The series of monographs began in 2009, and will continue at a rate of three titles issued per year until 2015. The three queer film-study books released late last year recently found their way to our desk. They are Farewell My Concubine,

by Helen Hok SzeLeung, about the O UT Cannes Palme d’Orwinning Chinese film by Chen Kaige; Fire, by Shohini Ghosh, on the Indian-Canadian lesbian film

by Deepa Mehta; and Montreal Main, by Thomas Waugh and Jason Garrison, about the Canadian cult film from 1974.

This trio presented Out There with somewhat of a challenge. The previous three books issued in the series –

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on Pedro Almodovar’s Law of Desire, Paul Morrissey’s Trash, and Bill Condon’s Gods of Monsters – were all about films that we have seen, indeed that have been important cultural markers in our own queer development. But we’d never screened any of these second three films of the series. Is it possible to read critical essays on films that remain unseen, and be rewarded by fresh insights? We can report that the answer is a qualified yes.

Kaige’s 1993 Chinese film concerns a triangle among two male Peking opera stars and a woman, set against the T HERE Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. This critical study is dedicated to the memory of actor Leslie Cheung, one of the stars of Concubine, who committed suicide in Hong Kong in 2003. “Ten years before, his confident star turn in Farewell My Concubine despite vicious rumors surrounding his sexuality was heartening for many queer audiences, myself included,” writes Leung. “He has since come to embody, paradoxically, both openness and secrecy, assertiveness and reticence, great courage and shattering shame. His contradictions exemplify how queer lives are often led in a deeply ambivalent society like Hong Kong.”

The film is also an examination of transgender identity, specifically as it plays out in classical Chinese opera.

Cheung plays Cheng Dieyi, a famous performer of female roles in the Beijing Opera. His counterpart Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) recognizes that Dieyi’s role, that of the King’s Concubine Yu, belongs to the realm of art, not life. “In Xiaolou’s eyes, Dieyi’s unwillingness to distinguish between the two has rendered him unfit for the harsh reality of modern life.”

Leung places the film’s story (based on a 1985 novel by Hong Kong author Lillian Lee) in the context of modern China trying to distance itself from the Beijing Opera’s traditional associations with male prostitution and cross-dressing. Interestingly, the film was initially not well-received by gay critics, who saw a “homophobic and sexist rendition of the feminized Dieyi as ‘a hysterical faggot,’” faulted the film for “attributing homosexuality to enforced gender inversion,” and “suggested that the inflation of Juxian’s [Gong Li] role in the film prevents it from deal-

ing with Dieyi’s homosexual feelings for Xiaolou.” But the author clearly takes the other side of this debate.

“Farewell is a ‘queer classic’ not because it portrays realistic or positive images of gay and transgender lives in the present day,” she writes. “Rather, the film shows us a queer way of being that we can barely recognize, that may even offend our modern sensibilities, but that deserves to be remembered and understood in all its human complexity.”

Mehta’s Fire is about two middleclass sisters-in-law in a Hindu household in Delhi who fall in love. As Ghosh suggests, it’s impossible now to separate the film from its tumultuous reception upon its Indian release in 1998.

“For the first time in the world’s largest film-producing country, lesbian love became visible in the public sphere. A few weeks after Fire was released, the Hindu Right unleashed their fury upon the film.

Rampaging mobs vandalized theaters and attacked the film for promoting ‘perversion’ and insulting Hindu religion. The widespread reporting of the controversy and the ensuing debate gave queer sexuality nationwide visibility. Queer sexuality had tumbled out of the closet, and was in no mood to go back in.”

Ghosh describes gay activist gains in India since the Fire controversy. “In a historic judgment delivered on July 2, 2009, the Delhi High Court decriminalized non-heterosexual sex between consenting adults. When Delhi held its first Queer Pride Parade in 2008, Deepa Mehta was quoted as saying, ‘I wish I could be there. My heart swells with pride when Fire is mentioned as a favorite film. If it has inspired the homosexual community, I guess I have much to be proud of.’”

With Montreal Main, Waugh and Garrison have taken on a relatively obscure film from 1970s bohemian Montreal that explores an intergenerational relationship (Waugh is the entire series’ editor, with fellow film scholar Matthew Hays). The movie’s central character is “a 20something photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main [a Montreal neighborhood], and his growing obsession with 12-year-old Johnny.” O Canada!

As the study’s authors acknowledge, the film’s subject matter, though treated non-sensationally and nonexploitatively, “would make the film virtually impossible to produce

today.” It was released on DVD for the first time in 2009.

As these brief descriptions perhaps make clear, there is much to be gleaned from critical studies about queer life and struggles, even without great familiarity of the films under discussion. But the good news is that we know a slew of the films that will be explored in the books still to come in this series. See how many from the list you have seen!

Publication date, 2011: Death in Venice (by Luchino Visconti, 1954/51); Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993); Word Is Out (Mariposa collective, 1977).

Female 2012: Trouble (John Waters, 1974); Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990); Ma vie en rose (Alain Berliner, 1997).

2013: Before Stonewall/After Stonewall (Greta Schiller, 1985/89); Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951); L.A. Plays Itself (Fred Halsted, 1972).

2014: C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2005); Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974); I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987).

2015: Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Lynn Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman, 1992); Manila by Night (Ishmael Bernal); and finally – the best for last – Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963). Thank you, Arsenal Pulp!

Cold case We hope you found ways to keep warm during this recent cold snap. OT came in from the cold into various cultural venues and screening rooms.

We were in the house for last weekend’s opening of Jewish Theatre San Francisco’s production of Lost in Yonkers, directed by Nancy Carlin, at the JCC-SF. It’s perhaps Neil Simon’s most unsentimental play, and at any rate it won him the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for Best Play (1991). Its litany of familial horrors include quasiabandoned children, a gangster uncle, developmentally disabled adults, breathing problems, and, at the root of it all, a truly malignant matriarch, created on Broadway by Irene Worth, and here given a memorable turn by veteran JTSF actress Naomi Newman.

The generally strong cast includes Deb Fink as a terrorized daughter, and Noah Silverman St. John and Zachary Freier-Harrison as the young brothers left to the mercies of Yonkers. Through Jan. 16 at the JCC’s Kanbar Hall. ▼ More at www.tjt-sf.org.

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Displaying queer Jewish writers

by Heather Cassell t is quite rare to see writers in their environment, but a quarter-century ago, when the closet was still very real and death was knocking on gay men’s doors, a photographer took it upon himself to show queer writers’ lives. The photographer was the late Robert Giard, who traveled throughout the United States at the height of the AIDS epidemic, during 1985-97, to capture 600 known and emerging LGBT writers.

The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is now presenting an exhibit of Giard’s Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Writers, 23 black-and-white portraits of queer Jewish writers selected from Giard’s collection. The portraits of writers Lillian Faderman, Tony Kushner, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, and others are striking and simply extraordinary. Taken in natural lighting, they capture the complexity of the subjects and reflect the photographer’s depth and skill. The photos stand alone without any explanation from Giard’s notes about his thoughts of the writers or their works. His meticulous records are now housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, his alma mater.

The exhibit hits close to home for the queer Jewish community. Jonathan Silin, Giard’s partner of 30 years, was inspired by an exhibit of Cuban musicians at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre in Toronto, Canada. He felt it would be “interesting and important” to create an exhibit of queer Jewish writers from Giard’s collection.

Giard was not Jewish and didn’t follow any faith, Silin said.

“I had a desire to speak to other Jews about the range of queer writing, and to have people look at the portraits,” said Silin, 66, a gay Jewish man. An education writer, Silin is a fellow at the Center of Sexual Studies at the University of Toronto, where he resides with his husband, medieval scholar David Townsend.

Particular Voices, created by the Robert Giard Foundation, founded

by Silin with the assistance of their longtime friend, art and photogra-

Poet Allen Ginsberg with his own portrait of author William Burroughs (1986), by the late Robert Giard.

phy critic Allen Ellenzweig, opened at the JCC-Toronto. This is the first time the exhibit is showing on the West Coast.

“Bob never had funding to go anywhere or do anything,” said Silin about Giard’s struggles to fund his work. The foundation protects and exhibits Giard’s work, and provides scholarships to new and emerging scholars and photographers. The scholarships are important to “artists who are outside of institutions and trying to make it on their own.”

Lenore D. Naxon, director of the Eugene & Elinor Friend Center for the Arts of the JCC, who curated the exhibit, said she chose it as part of the Jewish values that greet visitors when they enter the Center. The photographs represent the embodiment of tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repairing the world,” said Lisa Finkelstein, director of the LGBT Alliance at the Jewish Community Federa-

tion, a co-sponsor of the exhibit. The writers embody Jewish values “through their activism, their writing, and their curiosity.“ “We need to look at people for who they are,” said Naxon, “and be truthful and honest about it. That’s one of the things about these portraits, they’re so honest. There’s no affectation about any of them. It’s all about understanding, and it’s about celebrating.”

Giard “captured the defining moment in the birth of modern queer literature,” said queer arts historian Jonathan D. Katz. “We can’t really understand this work separate from the social impact of AIDS.” Katz was the chair of the GLBT Studies Department of City College of San Francisco, and executive coordinator of Yale’s Larry Kramer Initiative in Lesbian and Gay Studies, at the time the collection was acquired, in large part due to his influence. In 2010, Katz became Dean of Graduate Studies of LGBT Studies at SUNY Buffalo.

Silin agreed that the show speaks to the “flowering of gay culture” and “documenting AIDS as it happened.

Many of the writers were writing about AIDS. Significant writers were dying of AIDS.” “[The writers] wanted to speak to a public, and anger a public like they were angry,” added Katz. “Their work changed the direction of American culture.”

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Author Doris Grumbach (1991), by the late Robert Giard.

tography that really moves you,” said Finkelstein. “You are gazing at these change-makers, the people who have shaped our history. They transformed our lives in a way that we can live out loud.”

A self-taught photographer, Giard was working on landscapes and nudes when he was inspired by two plays that dealt with the AIDS crisis in 1985, William Hoffman’s As Is and Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.

After seeing The Normal Heart and looking at a wall of names of individuals who died of AIDS, Giard told Silin, “I want to do something to document and celebrate this community, which is so threatened.”

Then he set out to do his work.

“It’s a critical document because he did such a wide range of photographs of all different kinds of people, and all different kinds of literary arts,” said Naxon.

Giard passed away on a bus while on assignment taking portraits of women for a new project in 2002. He was 62. Giard never learned to drive.

Instead, he crossed the country by public transportation, photographing his subjects.

Born in 1939, he grew up in a working-class family in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Yale University on a full scholarship, and earned a master’s degree at Boston University in comparative literature.

He went on to teach middle school in New York City, where he met Silin,

also a teacher, when he was moving from teaching to photography fulltime. The two men moved to Amagansett, NY, in 1974. Giard returned to teaching photography for a while to support his work.

Giard’s photos create a “visual memory” and represent the possibility to new generations “that our lives could also be great, honored and valued,” said Finkelstein.

To celebrate the exhibit, the JCC will partner with the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library to present lesbian Jewish writers Elana Dykewomon and Teya Schaffer reading from their works on Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. at Gallanter Hall in the JCC. “Our literature and our history are important,” said Karen Sundheim, program manager of the Hormel Center. “We can admire them through the photographs, and bring their significance to the public.”

“I’m gratified to know this gives an occasion to discover that we have a history, that we didn’t come out of nowhere,” said Ellenzweig. He said Giard’s work can “keep people informed about the past and the present.” The exhibit is also co-sponsored

by Congregation Sha’ar Zahav.▼ Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Writers, through Feb. 27, free to the public, at the JCC-SF, 3200 California St., SF. Info at www.jcc-sf.org.

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THEATRE

Stephen Sondheim keeps score Playwright spotlight

by Richard Dodds s someone who has been offering my opinion in print about theater productions since Richard Nixon was our leader, I predictably zeroed in on what Stephen Sondheim has to say about theater critics in his delicious new book Finishing the Hat – Collected Lyrics (1954-1981). To paraphrase, summarize, and infantilize, he thinks they are dog doo. You’d think the guy never got a good review in his life, and if he ever read a critic whose viewpoint he respected, he ain’t saying here.

But those scribes who dissed him, even decades ago, he remembers them well – and by name. But first an overview: “The sad truth is that musicals are the only public art form reviewed mostly by ignoramuses.” The “mostly” provides the inkling of a hedge that a few sentences later he trims to the ground. “Musicals continue to be the only art form, popular or otherwise, that is publicly criticized by illiterates.”

Stephen Sondheim, at one of his 80th birthday celebrations, provides the last And then there are the specifics. laugh on carping critics in his new book Finishing the Hat. New Yorker critic Arlene Croce, Sondheim recalls from 1971, misunderstood a lyric to one of his most guess you’re right,’ he replied.” Sond“When I wrote [Davis], asking innocuous songs to accuse him of heim said that he stopped reading rehim if he would be surprised to learn perversity. “Beauty celestial/ The best views at that point, save for The New that Bergman had liked the show so you’ll agree,” from the opening nummuch that he had asked me to colYork Times, which he acknowledged ber in Follies, entered into Croce’s laborate with him, I suspect it will can affect the box office. ears as “Beauty celestial/ The bestial shock no one to learn “When I look back at the [reviews] will agree.” “Disgusting,” that he didn’t respond.”

I’ve encountered over the years, howshe wrote. Time has not In the case of ever, I have the dismaying thought tempered Sondheim’s own that if, as the saying goes, a man is best Sweeney Todd, notable disgust: “willful bitchery or measured by the size of his enemies, theater essayist John natural stupidity.”

I’m in a lot of trouble.” But, by golly, Lahr also comes under When A Little Night I’ve always thought Sondheim was the gun for claiming that Music was first revived in aces, but I’m thinking my reviews didSondheim represented New York, it was by the n’t much blip on his radar. “the death of the musiNew York City Opera. As To be fair to the book, it is mostly cal theater, having noted above, Broadway a collection of lyrics from his shows, taken all the joy out of musicals are reviewed by with alternate and cut versions beloved, exuber“illiterates.” Now it fell to B ACKSTAGE this adding to the heft. And most of his ant American art hear from serious music analyses pertain to the process of form.”

Sondheim critics, who, according to lyric writing and production histomight have rolled with that punch, if Sondheim, “do not take well to this ries, and it’s fascinating stuff. The only Lahr had actually seen the mucrossover from frivolous to serious tome does come with the subtitle sical instead of merely having read a art.” He hasn’t forgotten New York rehearsal draft of the script. SondWith Attendant Comments, Princimagazine critic Peter G. Davis for heim sent Lahr a letter to this point, ples, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and stating that Ingmar Bergman would and this time he got a reply. “The Anecdotes. Some of the grudges are have been “disgusted” by what Sondnote was succinct, not to say dismishighlighted above. The heresies, to heim et al. had done to Bergman’s sive of such a trivial objection. ‘I me, are more shocking. Among the movie Smiles of a Summer Night.

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Utah saints

by Jim Piechota Perfect: The Journey of a Gay Mormon, by Joseph Dallin; $15.95 paper, $9.95 download, www.lulu.com

or Joseph Dallin, born in Provo, Utah, being raised Mormon was one predetermined destiny he couldn’t escape. Another was being Mormon and gay, which became the most complex contradiction he’d ever faced. His youth, his coming out process, and the long, laborious journey away from the rigid structure and strictures of his religion are beautifully detailed in his memoir Perfect.

Named after the prophet Joseph Smith, Dallin was one of six children in a family that rigidly followed the Mormon belief system from birth.

These philosophies were so deeply ingrained in him that he admits to finding difficulty comprehending other spiritual viewpoints outside of his own. He describes enjoying a lucky “privileged childhood” hunting and fishing with his father while striving for personal perfection at age 8 after his mother explained the Mormon doctrine of “translation” to him (the idea that if a human is too righteous to be Earthbound, God will whisk them up to heaven without dying first).

But no amount of familial nurturing or religious dogma could intercept Dallin’s early childhood crush on his fourth grade teacher, a feeling he was

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sure would dissipate once the yearnings of puberty took hold. Terrified to masturbate (a “crime against nature” in his Bible) and convinced he was a sinner if he tried, Dallin writes of his attempts to corral burgeoning same-sex feelings while listening to his grandfather’s rants about homosexual “pigs” or reading the Mormon scriptures’ condemnation of them. His father offered a more liberating stance on sex – that it was natural and should be enjoyed, as long as it remained within the bounds of heterosexuality.

His radical dress code (from “preppy, pretty-boy fag” to the Mormon temple garments) and secret love of boys bled through into his adolescence, where college life stealing glances at towel-clad muscled boys in the common bathrooms “threw a match to the combustible hormones that coursed through my blood vessels.” Dallin stayed the course of Mormonism, volleying letters back and forth with his “girlfriend” Emily, until finally all of the strained pageantry, forced convictions, and faked heterosexuality became overwhelmingly hypocritical and he came out at 23.

Dallin’s journey is long, rich, infinitely courageous, and multifaceted; joyful at times, but taking a sad turn at others. He highlights the church’s lack

of acceptance and violent abhorrence toward those with alternative perspectives, and the torture he put himself through for years, believing he was sick, crazy, or, in his Mother’s words, following a “Satanic plan,” and that the only release would be to take his own life.

The book opens with Dallin’s suicide attempt during a blizzard along a treacherous Rocky Mountain pass, and ends with several moving epiphanies, like the declaration of his parents’ “confidence, support, and love” after a healing, transformational Christmas visit, and the balance he acknowledges within his current life in Hawaii surrounded by unfettered, natural beauty.

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Opportunity has been knocking at the door of local playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb.

lyricists he disses are Noel Coward, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Ira Gershwin.

I nearly gasped when he took Ira Gershwin to task for one of my favorite lyrics of all time: “Into heaven I’m hurled,” from “How Long Has This Been Going On.” Convoluted phraseology, Sondheim says. Into heaven I’m now curdled, forever to think of Sondheim’s knock when I hear Gershwin’s words.

Good things are happening for Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, the gay San Francisco playwright who first attracted big attention in 2006 with Hunters Gatherers, produced by Killing My Lobster. That play won several big-bucks awards, and now he has scored a $25,000 grant from the National New Play Network to create a new work. Nachtrieb is the first recipient of the grant funded by New York’s New Dramatists and administered by NNPN, an alliance of non-profit theaters.

Additionally, the Actors Theatre of Louisville will stage the world premiere of Nachtrieb’s BOB this spring as part of its prestigious Humana Festival of New American Plays. It’s the story of the title character from his birth and abandonment in a White Castle restroom through rags, riches, fame, more rags, and big life lessons. Nachtrieb is also the author of boom, Colorado, and T.I.C. (Trenchcoats in Common), all of which have been staged in the Bay Area in recent years.▼ Richard Dodds can be reached at BARstage@comcast.net.

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The boy-girl blues

by David Lamble f you plan on seeing what is likely the best and most brutally honest new film of the year, Derek Cianfrance’s robust, haunting and unexpectedly funny autopsy of a marriage Blue Valentine, be prepared to see it more than once. Also, see it with somebody who likes to chew it over afterwards rather than pretending that they didn’t see pieces of themselves up on the screen.

Granted, it’s in a very hetero zone, and maybe a queer-friendly director will come along and frame the argument more precisely to fit same-sex couples, but then, maybe not. Maybe that’s our job.

By now you’ve heard the buzz about how the crazy director, haunted by the fallout from his parents’ divorce, spent 12 years, unpaid at that, reworked his script more than 50 times, got and lost his financing and his dream cast, finally finished the movie only to be slapped with the commercial kiss of death, an NC-17 rating, got that overturned, and is now facing his toughest test, actual married couples.

As the film opens, Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) are barely talking to each other after six years of a hardscrabble union that finds them holed up with a kid, Frankie (the scene-stealing Faith Wladyka), two dead-end jobs – he’s a house painter, she’s a nurse working for an opportunistic doctor boss (Ben Shenkman) – and a large dog (who’s AWOL) in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where workingfolks supposedly cling to their guns.

Blue Valentine is gun-free, but the movie does swerve among a minefield of soul-killing obstacles: an abusive ex- boyfriend, a rage-prone dad, an unwanted pregnancy, a precarious moment of truth atop the Brooklyn Bridge. But ultimately, Dean and

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Cindy’s worst enemies are the people they’ve become six years in. He’s losing his hair and has grown a grotesquely bad mustache to compensate, he drinks, and he lacks any visible ambition. She’s put on some pounds, sulks, seems to resent the kid, and is obviously looking for an excuse to pack it in. That excuse arrives unexpectedly when the dog turns up dead by the roadside and Dean proposes they get their marriage-bed mojo back at an X-rated motel whose unbelievably funky ambience inspires the title. In the windowless motel suite, everything that could go wrong does, and after the failure of shower sex, Dean and Cindy find themselves engaging in the thing they dread most: a meaningful chat about their future, which Cindy kicks off by needling Dean about his lack of ambition.

“You have all this potential.”

“Why do you fucking have to make money off your potential?”

“Can we ever sit down and have an adult conversation, because every time we do, you take something I say and turn it around into something I didn’t mean. You just twist it.”

“If you’re not interested in any thing I’ve got to say, then maybe I just shouldn’t say anything.”

“I’d like to see you think about what you’re saying instead of saying what you think all the time. Good luck.”

“You want to fight me?”

“Yeah, I want to fight you.”

Dean and Cindy’s last bid to save their marriage is mostly for our benefit. We sense this relationship is headed for the dustbin of history.

Blue Valentine is most fun in the flashback moments when a thinner, still hopeful couple are still feeling each other out. There’s a glorious moment when Dean and Cindy surprise each other with their “special talents.” His silly take on Tiny Tim wailing “You only hurt the one you love” is accompanied by her stab at tap-dance. The couple is at their silliest and most vulnerable, and it is here that the boy who got his big break on The Mickey Mouse Club, and the ballsy blonde from Dawson’s Creek steal our hearts. It’s a rare treat to see two young pros so good at feigning failure at the one life project where most of us fall short with a good deal less grace.▼

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Galleries

Haines Gallery, San Francisco

“Prince Charming” (2010), by Libby Black. cept for his fuchsia underwear. My money is on him. Through Feb.12. www.hainesgallery.com Steven Wolf Fine Arts: Walt Disney Was Homosexual: Billy Bowers; Cockette Close-up: Roger Arvid An-

Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco

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Study for La Destitution de la Jeune Fille #70 (2010),

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women’s shoes, preferably red ones, erotica and monsters that have leapt out of night terrors, to abnormally blue snowmen. “Scary Monsters II,” in which a beast with giant hairy feet and razor-sharp claws for toes plods across a chrysanthemum yellow surface, and “Citadel,” a pulsating fiery orange pumpkin so intense it could explode or burst into song, are among my favorites. Stepping into Ajerman’s universe is like entering the heart of darkness led by a guide with a macabre sense of humor.

Through Jan. 31. www.toomeytourell.com Marx & Zavattero: Fabrications.

Women rule in this intriguing group exhibition of works on paper by five female provocateurs. Critiquing society, fashion, women’s roles and media images, Melissa Manfull, Taravat Talepasand, Serena Cole, and gay artists Jennifer Celio and Libby Black traffic in fantasy rooted in sober reality. Iranian-American Talepasand goes for the jugular with “Death to Bitches,” a graphic depiction of a male executioner wielding a sword in one hand, and clutching the heads of two decapitated women by their hair in another.

Black and Cole satirize the tyranny of fashion, albeit in their own subversive ways, while questioning the allure of pricey objects of desire and the models they adorn. A chance for women, trapped by the ways others insist on seeing them, to inhabit alternate lives, perhaps? Black’s “Life as a Tale” is a disquieting pencil drawing of a masked female superheroine pausing for a moment of reflection. If we are indeed what we wear, Supergirl here has it made. In the artist’s “Untitled (Balenciaga),” a chic woman with mussed, dirtyblond hair, wearing green gaucho pants, a cropped purple jacket and shoes with dazzling yellow accents, stands in an elegantly appointed drawing room worthy of a Ralph Lauren campaign. Forget the pants. I wanted the shoes and jacket. Black may not have intended to inspire retail lust, but there you go. This piece and others challenge the incongruity of a prevalent message in fashion advertising – snazzy pumps, designer glasses and blasé attitude equal old money, or just money, period.

In Cole’s “Burning Down the World I,” a fetching willowy model in fashionable military garb, the tails of her jacket blowing in the breeze, poses triumphantly next to a flaming bush. Cole’s coltish girl with giraffepatterned tights and reddened eyes standing at the edge of a forest clearing in “I’m an Animal I,” and what looks like the same model unmasked, sullen and skinny in a tank top and lank hair in “I’m an Animal II,” are simultaneously seductive and troubling, which is, after all, the point.

Through Feb. 5. www.marxzav.com Haines Gallery: La Destitution de la Jeune Fille (The Deposition of the Young Girl) To judge from this show, comprised of studies for the densely populated wallpaper installation of the same name recently at YBCA, if you pried open the head of The Old Boys’ Club (the new moniker for French mixed-media artist Katya Bonnenfant), you’d find a very busy place indeed. These colorful miniature gouache portraits, informed by Asian art and pop culture, are anchored by Euro-intellectual, sociopolitical subtext. Sound heavy? It’s not. OBC takes a whimsical approach to the notion that the young girl is the embodiment of capitalist society and the emptiness therein, a concept originally advanced by Tiqqun, an anarchist collective behind a controversial essay Bonnenfant and her cohorts interpret and find humor in. Costumed masked characters, donning headdresses, feathers and traditional Japanese sarongs or Native American garb, engage in battle with all manner of horned devils, clowns and cartoon monsters, as well as Zorro and Batman. Then there’s the warrior resting on his spear, naked ex-

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derson. “I was born to be cheap and vulgar,” declared Billy Bowers, who has made good – and made hay – on that prediction over the course of his 40-year career. (He has also described himself as “a tramp and a

slut and a drug addict,” but let’s not go there.) Bowers, the creator of costumes dubbed “art-wear,” an amalgam of the hallucinatory, the glittery and the truly trashy, has designed clothes tailor-made for nightclub acts, parade floats, glam rocker Alice Cooper, the Rolling Stones, Salvador Dali and the drag queen in your life.

A fleet of new works are displayed here on mannequins, along with studded leather wall-hangings incorporating photos of S&M scenes.

Bowers also dressed and was once a member of the notorious Cockettes, who are featured in a series of backstage photographs shot in 1972 by Roger Anderson. Asked to imagine they were posing for a Vogue magazine spread, the resulting images of

the uninhibited, antic “troupe” fuse high-fashion camp and backstage carnival glitz. Shows run concurrently through Jan. 29. stevenwolffinearts@gmail.com San Francisco Center for the Book: Cuba n Artists Books a nd Prints 1985-2008. SFCB isn’t usually at the top of the average person’s gallery crawl, but the center, dedicated to book art, merits a visit. Their upcoming show features the work of 13 Cuban artists and over 50 handmade books which provide insight into Cuban identity and the sensibility of a country that, despite its proximity to the US, remains an enigma for most Americans. Jan. 21-Apr. 23. www.sfcb.org ▼

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Gregory Douglass at the Trevor Project Benefit at Café duNord, Sunday.

OUT&AFRI BOUT 14 > The Real Americans @ The Marsh

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Dance showcase and competition, with the audience voting on awards of up to $10,000.

Jan. 13, 8pm, works by Scott Wells, Stacey Printz, Pearl Marill and Kara Davis. Jan. 14, 8pm, works by Alex Ketley, Jacinta Vlach, Dominic Duong and Jodie Lomask.

Jan 15, 8pm, all finalists from previous nights performs. $20. 3153 17th St. 8639834. www.ocdtheater.org

Clue @ Boxcar Playhouse Boxcar Theatre’s stage adaptation of the dark comedy murder mystery film based on the classic board game. $10-$25. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat 7p, & 10pm. Thru Feb. 19. 505 Natoma St. at 6th.

Coraline @ SF Playhouse trange and horrible news inspires fear. But hopefully, you can push through that and find renewed bravery by daring to enjoy some truly unusual performances this week.

For incendiary art, attend the 12th Anniversary Benefit at The Crucible, Oakland, a gala pyrotechnical show at the fire arts school. Performers include dance, music, aerial, theatre, and fire arts acts by Mark Growden, Loop Station, Axis Dance Company, Iron Monkey and many more.$60-$120. VIPs get premium seating, and a hosted bar with hors d’oeuvres.

It’s flamingly good. Friday, Jan. 14. 7pm-11pm. 1260 7th St. (510) 444-

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Evangelion at Viz Cinema

0919. www.thecrucible.org Lost Animation VI at Oddball Film screens award-winning and strangely fascinating short animated films from the 1960s and ‘70s. $10.

Jan. 14, 8:30pm. Also, Jan. 15, Steampunk: Imagined Futures, with short films about H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, by George Méliès, and clips from The Wild Wild West. $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. www.oddballfilm.com Performance art, when good, is always a bit odd. At It’s all a Blur at SOMArts Cultural Center, La Pocha Nostra performs Corpo-Ilicito: The Post Human Society 6.9 as the live part of the exhibit of works

by Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Dale Hoyt and Tony Labat. $10-$12.

Saturday, Jan. 15. 8pm. Exhibit Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm. Sat 12pm5pm. Thru Jan. 28. 934 Brannan St. at 8th. www.somarts.org www.pocha.eventbrite.com If recent mass animal deaths have got you thinking apocalyptic, take it a step further. Evangelion screens at Viz Cinema. The pair of popular Japanese postapocalyptic anime films about giant robots and a destroyed earth should thoroughly scare away any real life worries, right? $10-$12. Jan. 18 & 19.

Evangelion 2.0 plays Jan. 21Jan 27. 1746 Post St. 525-8600.

La Pocha Nostra at SOMArts www.vizcinema.com ▼

Musical stage version of the story and animated film about a girl whose family changes in an alternate reality; extended thru Jan. 15. $30-$40. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. Some 7pm weeknights. 533 Sutter St. 677-9597. www.sfplayhouse.org

Dirty Little Showtunes @ New Conservatory Theatre Tom Orr’s wicked and wacky musical revue of campy parody songs includes six special guest performers. $24-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru Jan. 16. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

German Gems @ Castro Theatre Mini-festival of German films includes themes on river surfing, David Lynch, Gustaf Mahler and more. Jan 14, Mahler on the Couch. Jan. 15, Keep Surfing, Intern for Life, The Architect, She Deserved It. Jan. 16, Celebration of Flight, David Wants to Fly, Mountain Blood, Disenchantments. $10.

429 Castro St. www.germangems.com www.castrotheatre.com

Gush @ Brava Theater Joe Goode curated this three-week dance-theatre-fest of works performed by his company, Ledoh and Axis Dance Company. $25-$30.

8pm. Thu-Sat thru Jan. 29. www.brava.org

A Hand in Desire @ Viracocha EmSpace Dance’s movement-theatre interpretation of the poker scenes and romantic tension in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire; with intimate audience seating near the performance. $10-$20.

8pm. Fri & Sat thru Jan. 29. 998 Valencia St. at 21st. www.emspacedance.org

Jess Curtis/Gravity @ YBCA Local dance company performs site-specific dances in advance of their full concerts in February. 4pm-8pm thru Jan. 15. Several visual art exhibits, too: Nina Bier: Agents of Change (thru Jan. 23) and Lauren DiCioccio: Remember the Times (thru Mar. 27), ongoing Middle East videos and more.$5-$7. Thu-Sat 12pm-8pm. Sun 12pm-6pm. Free first Thursdays. 701 Mission St. at 3rd. www.ybca.org

The Lion in Winter @ Actors Theatre Local production of James Goldman’s intriguing play about 1183-era English royalty. $26-$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Extended thru Jan 15. 855 Bush St. at Taylor. 345-1287. www.actorstheatresf.org

Lost in Japan @ YBCA

PICK OF THE WEEK

Mini-fest of the existential comedies of Yuya Ishii. First, Sawako Decides (7:30pm and Jan. 15, 1pm). To Walk Beside You, Jan. 14, 7:30pm, Jan 15, 4pm. $6-$8 (includes gallery admission). 701 Mission St. www.ybca.org

Lost in Yonkers @ Jewish Community Center

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Martha Reeves @ The Rrazz Room

Raz-B @ Bench and Bar, Oakland Club Rimshot presents the cutiepie hiphop singer Raz B (Demario Thornton). Known for his boy band singing, his solo career, and playing a gay character on the Logo series Noah’s Arc, Raz will perform live at his CD release party. No stranger to controversy (nude pics, Twitter wars with other singers, and telling of his abuse by boy band managers), the straight but gay-friendly Raz

Neil Simon’s comic coming-of-age play is performed by the Jewish Theatre of San Francisco. $20-$39. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Jan. 16. Kanbar Hall, 3200 California St. 292-1233. www.jccsf.org/arts

Motown great performs R&B, jazz and blues classics. $40-$45. 8pm thru Jan. 15. Also Jan 16, 7pm. 2-drink minimum. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. at Ellis. (800) 380-3095. www.therrazzroom.com

Michael Michaud @ Books Inc will surely deliver a hot show. Saturday, January 15. 9pm-4am. 510 17th St. Oakland. (510) 444-2266. www.bench-and-bar.com

Co-authors of Sal Mineo: A Biography read from and discuss their book.

7:30pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. www.booksinc.net

Dan Hoyle’s (Tings Dey Happen) multiplecharacter solo show based on his road trip to Middle America to explore the profound disconnect in a politically polarized country. $15-$50. Thu-Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru Feb. 12. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. (800) 8383006. www.themarsh.org

SF Sketchfest @ Various Venues Month-long comedy shows with dozens of famous andupcoming comics, at clubs and theatres. $15-$30. www.sfsketchfest.com

Women on the Way Festival @ Shotwell Studios, The Garage 11th anniversary festival of women choreographers, with 23 works premieres, favorites and more. $15-$20. All shows 8pm. Thru Jan. 30. 3252-A 19th St. and 975 Howard St. 920-2223. www.ftloose.org

Yoga Journal Conference @ Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Large-scale four-day conference with panels, workshops, shopping, celebrity authors, live music, and of course, yoga products and classes. $29-$99. Thru Jan. 17. www.yjevents.com/sf/

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Lemony Snicket’s The Composer is Dead @ Berkeley Rep Strangely amusing musical comedy based on the author’s orchestral narrative work; starring Geoff Hoyle and 100 puppets; developed

by Phantom Limb Company; music by Nathaniel Stookey; directed by Tony Taccone. $14.50-$73. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Jan. 16. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Meat Sluts @ Thee Parkside Female punk band performs, along with Reducers, Complaints and the Paper Bags. $7.

9pm. 1600 17th St. www.theeparkside.com

Mike Daisey @ Berkeley Rep Master storyteller tells tall tales The Last Cargo Cult (natives who worship shipments from overseas) and The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (computer guru’s precarious trip to China). Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Thu, Sat, Sun 2pm. $15-$73. Thru Feb. 27. 2025 Addison St. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Night Market @ Public Works

African American GIs and Germany @ African American Arts Complex Exhibit about the role of African American soliders in World War II by researchers Maria Hohn and Martin Klimke. Thru April 22. 762 Fulton St. at Webster. www.sfartscommission.org

Architectural Bike Tour @ Citywide San Francisco Bicycle Coalition’s tour of the buildings designed by Canadian brothers James and Merritt Reid (Fairmont Hotel, Cliff House). Free/$5. Meet 1:30pm at David Hewes Bldg., 995 Market St. at 6th. www.sfbc.org

Curious George Saves the Day @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Fascinating exhibit of 80 drawings by Margret and H.A. Rey, cocreators of the impish monkey books, and how their daring escape from the Nazis in Europe was aided by their drawings. Also, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker and Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations (both thru March). Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Thu 1pm-8pm.

736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800. Thru March 13. www.thecjm.org

Ethnic Dance Festival Auditions @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley Four days of acts in audition by more than 130 (nearly every) ethnic dance company in Northern California. $10 per day (kids under 12 free; in-out privs). Jan. 14. 10am-6pm.

Jan 15 10am-7:30pm; Jan 16 10am-7pm.

Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave., UC Berkeley campus. 474-3914. www.worldartswest.org

Gay & Lesbian Sierrans @ Briones Hills Share a 6-8-mile hike in the East Bay with LGBT hikers. Meet 9:15am at Rockridge BARt station. (510) 451-4867. www.glshikes.org

Gay Shamanism Class @ LGBT Center Meet your “power animal” and share spiritual focus with LGBTs. Bring a drum or rattle.; 3rd Saturdays. $20. 10am-12pm. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

My Dog Tulip, Sunday

Innovative food vendor event at the new bare-bones warehouse nightclub, with pizza, dim sum, desserts, music (Josh Cheon, HoneySoundsystem, others), drinks and more for sale from dozens of local eateries. $5-$10.

11am-4pm: take-homeables and gifts. 6pm2am: hot food and 21+ drinks. 161 Erie St. at Mission. www.foragesf.com

Non-Stop Bhangra @ Rickshaw Stop Indian hiphop, drum-driven DJed music, dance lessons, and performances by the Dholrhythms Dance Troupe. $10-$20. 21+. 9:30pm-2am.

155 Fell St. www.rickshawstop.com

Peter Alexander Welch @ Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay Pianist-singer performs songs from his original musicals. Guests Melissa O’Keefe and Cliff McCormick also perform. $25. 8pm.

311 Mirada Road, Half Moon Bay. (650) 726-1390.

SF Hiking Club @ Mount Tam Join GLBT hikers for a strenuous, 11-mile hike to Carson Falls. Hike along Pine Mountain Ridge and past Kent Lake. Bring water, lunch, snacks, layers, hat, sturdy boots. Carpool meets at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores, 9am. Also, Jan. 16, urban hike across San Francisco (9 miles). Also 9am Safeway meet-up. 279-5570. www.sfhiking.com

Strobe @ Deco Lounge Miss Star Search winner Tweaka Turner hosts a new event at the Polk hotspot, with classic disco diva music, performances by BeBe Sweetbriar and Duplicity Dilemma, a retro hip ambiance, gogo guys, Jager shots and more. $5. 9pm-2am. 510 Larkin St. at Turk. www.decosf.com/events/strobe/

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Design & Wine 1976 to Now @ SF MOMA Exhibit of the rich culture of wine, with historical artifacts, art, installations designed

by Diller Scofidio and Renfro. Special contests with prizes, including hotel stays in Napa, SF and Sonoma. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Dot 429 Brunch @ Orson Enjoy a delicious meal, drinks, and LGBT business pro networking at a local event sponsored by the national gay networking group. $35. 12pm-3pm. 508 4th St. www.dot429.com/events/orson2

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Ice Skating @ Union Square Rink Celebrate the post-holidays, or gift returns, with a round of ice skating. $4.50-$9. 10am-10pm. Powell St. at Geary. Last day’s Jan. 17. www.unionsquareicerink.com

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nal costumes, props, manuscripts, video clips, photos, designs and audio interviews.

Wed-Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru Mar. 26. 401 Van Ness Ave. 255-4800. www.mpdsf.org

Breakfast at Tiffany’s @ Rec Vic Movie House Audrey Hepburn stars in the de-gayed yet charming film based on gay author Truman Capote’s novella. $6-$9. 2pm, 7pm, 9:25pm. Also Jan. 20. 1727 Haight St. 668-3994. www.redvicmoviehouse.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items on display. Free. 7pm-9pm. Reg, hours: Free for members-$5. Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Acoustic Minds, also at the Trevor Project benefit, Sunday

Fresh @ Ruby Skye

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104

Reprise @ Robert Tat Gallery

Moto Blanco and DJ Luke Johnstone spin tunes at the popular monthly T-dance. Proceeds benefit Stop AIDS Project and Horizons Foundation. $20-$25. 420 Mason St. at Geary. 21+. www.freshsf.com

David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Favorite photographs on display at the fine art gallery of historic prints. Thru Feb. 26.

Tue-Sat 11am-5:30pm. 49 Geary St. #211.

781-1122. www.roberttat.com

My Dog Tulip @ Rec Vic Movie House Christopher Plummer star-voiceovers the heartwarming animated film about an elderly man who befriends a German Shepard dog. $6-$9. 2pm, 4pm, 7:15pm, 9:15pm.

Thru Jan. 18. 1727 Haight St. 668-3994. www.redvicmoviehouse.com

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

What Is Your Dream? @ Museum of the African Diaspora Activities and programs celebrating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including lectures, art exhibits, activities and interactive exhibits, and an outdoor Selma march recreation in downtown SF. Free. 11am-6pm. 685 Mission St. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

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Special benefit show Jan. 16 for the Castro Country Club, 7pm. 100% of all proceeds go to the LGBT sober space. Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Scrumbly Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30$35. 18 and over only! Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm.

Extended again thru April 9. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Grease @ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Martin Freeman @ Visual Aid

National tour of the new Broadway production of the 50s-style hit musical. $20-$79.

Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also 2pm Sat., and 1pm & 6pm Sun. Thru Jan. 23.

255 Almaden Blvd. (408) 792-4111. www.sjtix.com

Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly 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

Exhibit of works by the local creator of funky collage sculptures. Thru Feb. Tue-Fri, 2pm6pm. 57 Post St. #905. www.visualaid.org

Trevor Project Benefit @ Café duNord

Exhibit of lush dreamlike paintings. 5:307:30pm. Thru Jan. 31. 49 Geary St. 4th floor. www.toomey-tourell.com

Out gay singer Gregory Douglass, and twin sister folk-rock duo Acoustic Minds perform at a benefit for the LGBT Youth nonprofit that focuses on suicide prevention and youth issues. $10-$25. 8pm. 2170 Market St. 861-5016. www.gregorydouglass.com www.cafedunord.com

Van Gogh, Gauguin, ezanne and Beyond @ de Young Museum Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee d’Orsay, the second of two exhibitions from the Paris museum’s permanent collection, Thru Jan. 18. Also, Developed and Undeveloped: Photographic Landscapes, thru March 6. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. Thru Jan. 18, 2011. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, www.famsf.org

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Jeremy Novy @ LGBT Center Exhibit of gay street art stencils by the local artist. Thru Jan. 18. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

A Penis Show @ Magnet Jack Davis’s exhibit of crocheted penis sculptures. 8pm-10pm. Thru Jan. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.magnetsf.org

Singing Classes @ Congregation Sha’ar Zahav Eli Conley teaches weekly LGBT singing classes for all skill levels. $280 for eightweek class. 7pm-9pm. 290 Dolores St. at 16th. Thru Mar. 7. Also Tuesdays thru Mar. 18 at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.eliconley.com

AWARD Show, Friday

Michael Ajerman @ Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Paula West @ The Rrazz Room Popular local singer performs with The George Mesterhazy quartet on various nights for eight weeks thru Mar. 13. $35-$45. Mostly at 8pm.

Check online schedule. 2-drink minimum.

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. at Ellis. (800) 380-3095. www.therrazzroom.com

Prostate Play @ Good Vibrations, Berkeley Learn about posterior pleasure techniques with or without toys and/or a partner, from Dr. Charles Glickman. 6pm. 2504 San Pablo Ave. at Dwight Way. www.events.goodvibes.com

Radar Readings @ The Luggage Store Author Michelle Tea’s eclectic reading series moves to the gallery, and welcomes Vendela Vida, Ali Liebegott, Tara Jepsen, Sara Seinberg and more. 7pm. 1007 Market St. www.radarproductions.org

Yoga Classes @ The Sun Room Heated, healing weekly yoga classes in a new location. Suggested donation $10-20. 12pm1pm. Tue & Thu. 2390 Mission St, 3rd floor.

794-4619. www.billmohleryoga.com

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Angels in America at 20 @ Museum of Performance & Design Exhibit documenting the award-winning Tony Kushner drama, with an array of origi

Roger Arvid Anderson, Bill Bowers @ Steven Wolk Fine Arts See rare Cockettes-era photos, collages and costumes by the two veteran gay artists. Thru Jan. 29. 2747 19th St. A. 263-3677. www.stevenwolffinearts.com

The Social Network @ Castro Theatre Darkly comic film about Mark Zuckerberg’s monster Facebook and its origins. $10. 2pm, 4:30pm, 7pm, 9:20pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Smack Dab @ Magnet Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts cohost the eclectic often queer open mic show. Featured reader is Andrew Ramer (Two Flutes Playing). 8pm (sign-up by 7:30 to perform).

4122 18th St. at Castro. www.magnetsf.org

Whatcha Doin’ Wednesdays @ Castro Bars Monthly promotional events (each 3rd Wed.) at Castro bars, and live performances in Jane Warner Plaza. 7pm-11pm. www.lookoutsf.com

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David Richo @ Books Inc Psychotherapist and author of Daring To Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy discusses his book. 2275 Market St. at Noe. www.booksinc.net

Gantz @ Century 9 World premiere (simulcast in 300+ screens worldwide) of the new Japanense science fiction movie, with live action sequences (PST tape delayed). $12.50. 8:30pm. 835 Market St. www.fathomevents.com

Photo Show @ Good Vibrations Closing night reception for an exhibit of works by photographers Rink Foto and Kija Lucas and painter Sholeh Asgary. Thru Jan. 20. 1620 Polk St. at Sacramento. 3450400. www.events.goodvibes.com

Sketchfest @ Castro Theatre Live version of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show with Shandling and Alan Zweibel at 7pm.

Then Rifftrax does voiceover jokes to short films, with Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (MST3K), Zach Braff, Maria Bamford and more. (9:30pm). $25 each. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

For more bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com

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Mama’s Sandy Reinhardt and Ray Tilton announce new family members at the SF Eagle this past Saturday afternoon.

Mama gives birth to #1,000 be located at the former site of The Triple Crown (1760 Market), and will cater to everyone, not just one partichis past Saturday afternoon beular crowd, including those who are fore a packed crowd at the SF looking for an alternative space to Eagle, Mama Sandy Reinhardt dance. The bar will not be a “dance pinned 14 new members into her bar,” but will be open after hours to 4 family, including her 1,000th, which a.m. with ample dance space. As a was shared by Mr. Alameda bonus, they’ll feature food provided County Leather “Pony boy” and by the popular Sneaky’s BBQ Christopher (Sister Jezebel). (www.sneakysbbq.blogspot.com).

It’s the first time two Don’t worry, Truck isn’t people have shared the going anywhere. Miller will same pin number. In still lend his sexiness there. spite of the winter cold, I’ll provide more info as we everyone had a blast while get closer to the opening. munching on steamy, Speaking of Miller, I’m sweaty hot dogs. Congrats happy to report that Reneto Mama and her new gade is continuing this members! For a complete L EATHER year. Last year was the first list of all of Mama’s famifor this new contest event, ly members, and informawhich celebrates all kinks and fetishes. tion about upcoming happenings, go This year we’ll be treated to a full to: www.MamasFamily.org. weekend of events beginning with the I’m excited about the upcoming Renegade 2011 contest on April 8 opening of Paul Miller’s new bar (again at The Cat Club on 1190 FolRebel, scheduled for Feb. 28. Miller is som), followed by a dance party on co-owner and manager of the popular April 9, and a possible event on April Truck Bar (1900 Folsom). Rebel will

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10. The Seattle Eagle is having a Renegade contest this Saturday night, with the winner competing for Renegade 2011 here in SF. For more information, check out Renegade’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pages/TheRenegade-City/277940386804). The winner has the option of competing at International Mr. Leather (IML) in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend in May. This time of year is most definitely contest season for the leather/kink community here in San Francisco. It could be argued that perhaps we’re simply mirroring Hollywood’s awards season. Both celebrate the best of each community, in our own unique ways.

Coincidence? First up is the Mr. Hayes Valley Leather Contest on Jan. 22 at Marlena’s (488 Hayes). Lenny Broberg (Mr. SF Leather 1992, IML 1992) continues his tradition as emcee, with judges Lance Holman (Head Judge, First Runner-up IML 2010, Mr. SF Leather 2010), Queen Cougar (Ms. SF Leather 1993), Ray Tilton (Mr. SF

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thu., Jan. 13: Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom), 10 p.m. Wet undie contest and drink specials. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Jan. 15: Uniform at Chaps Bar. Wear your uniform for drink specials. Featuring DJ Jim. Fun starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thu., Jan. 13: Edges Wet Munch at Renegades Bar (501 W. Taylor St., San Jose). 7 p.m. Happy hour for the sexpositive and alternative communities: 4-7 p.m. Go to: www.edges.biz or www.renegadesbar.com.

Sun., Jan. 16: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Thu., Jan. 13: Locker Room at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Featuring DJ Hotwire. Pumping music at 9 p.m.

Comp clothes check provided by the SOMA Guardians.

9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com Thu., Jan 13: Grand Opening of the GLBT History Museum (4127 18th St.) 7-9 p.m. Go to: www. glbthistory.org.

Thu, Jan. 13: EduKink – Paideia (Learning through Play) at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). This is a monthly series of playshops, more than 20 topics rotate. 7:30-10:30 p.m., doors open at 7 p.m. $15 - $25 admittance, sliding scale. Go to: edukink.tribe.net or www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Jan. 14: Fuzz at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). Hairy men and the men who love them! Featuring DJ Sam, bootblack on duty. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Jan. 14: Invasion: A Queer Take Over of the SF Citadel. Hosted by Asher and Char. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25, or volunteer for an hour to get in free. $10 membership required. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Jan. 15: Back Bar Action at The Eagle Tavern (398 12th St.) Back patio and bar opened to all gear/fetish/leather. 10 p.m. to close. Go to: www.sfeagle.com.

Sat., Jan. 15-Sun., Jan. 16: A Rope Bondage Dojo Weekend Intensive at the SF Citadel. With Midor and DeLano. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. both days. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org or www.ropedojo.com/home/?p=10.

Sat., Jan. 15: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Mon., Jan. 17: Dominant Discussion Group (DDG) at the SF Citadel. Doors open at 7 p.m., discussion 7:309:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Jan. 18: Flogging Styles with Sir Nik at the SF Citadel. 8-10 p.m. $20. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Jan. 18: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Tue., Jan. 18: Skins n Punks at Chaps Bar. Drink specials. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Jan. 19: Underwear Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). Wear your slutty undies! Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Jan. 19: Bare Bear, a night at the baths at The Water Garden (1010 Alameda, San Jose). 6-10 p.m. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com.

Wed., Jan. 19: Nipple Play at the Powerhouse (Dore & Folsom) 10 p.m. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com Wed., Jan. 19: Naughty Knitters at the SF Citadel. 79 p.m. $5. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org Wed., Jan 19: Tea with a Twist: How to Host a Kinky Tea Party with Ms. Margaret and slave Erich at the Center for Sex & Culture (1519 Mission). 8-10 p.m. $5 for members, $15 for guests. Go to: www.soj.org.

Wed., Jan. 19: Busted! at Chaps Bar. This week’s edition: Pits. Celebrate sexy pits and man scents. The fun starts at 9 p.m. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Wed., Jan. 19: SoMa’s Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, the Eagle) have specials for those who wear the Men’s Club dogtags.

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Merging men ahead

by John F. Karr ould I care to comment on Chris Ward in 2000: the merger of Falcon Stuonce a performer, dios and Raging Stallion? Of now a mogul? course. You must have heard about it by now. It was announced several days before Christmas. As I was preparing to write about it this week, my editor phoned in an excited state. He’d heard the news, too. “Everyone’s saying that Chris Ward bought Falcon Studios!” he said. “Please cover this right away!”

Well, I hadn’t thought of that, although it did seem a possibility. As my mother would have said, Mr. Ward is quite the business kopf. He has a head for business. Even so, I quickly found out, he did not buy Falcon. Although I’ve been assured Ward was the driving force behind the deal, it was completed by AEBN, a streaming video corporation that hardly needed Ward’s urging to grow.

AEBN stands for Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network. Formed in 1999, its early appreciation of VOD nearly created and certainly domisionally,” he said in a press release. “We nates its field. Like a certain Mr. Turnwill raise the bar to new heights, achiever, it amassed an incredible amount of ing more together than either company content by merging in 2007 with could on its own.” And though Ward is NakedSword.com, and in 2009 with given to extravagant statements, this Raging Stallion. So it wasn’t too big a time I’ll second that emotion. Fasten surprise when last month AEBN puryour cockrings, boys – it’s going to be a chased Falcon, which had been up for humpy ride. Also a bumpy ride. Indussale for quite some time. The surprise try insiders have another story altowas AEBN’s plan to merge Falcon and gether, more on that next week.

Raging Stallion into one supergroup, what its press release accurately calls Test study “the single largest all-male erotic proAs encouraging as the Falcon/RS duction company in the world.” Chris merger is, there’s another developWard will head the combined studios, ment in the sexo world that seems and current Falcon President James greatly discouraging. The box cover Hansen will remain as CFO. Employfor a new movie from a ees of both studios will be intepopular company has grated into a single staff resome strange punctuasponsible for the production, an asterisk next to tion of nearly 60 new titles the come-on pitch for a per year. sexo. This one reads, It’s a little hard to tell “Hot Bareback Action,” how all this will play out. with the word bareback asPooling the company literisked. Looking down braries is an obvious at the bottom of the box benefit to viewers. And K ARRNAL (ah yes, it’s a porn box we’ve been assured that K NOWLEDGE with footnotes!), we the companies and their read, “All models tested various product lines through Adult Industry will remain unchanged, Medical Clinic.” their individual identities respected.

The not-for-profit organization’s Putting the staffs together should correct name is Adult Industry Medspark higher creativity as well as proical Healthcare Foundation. For 12 duction standards. My hunch is that years, in its Sherman Oaks facility, with Chris Ward at the helm, the AIM has provided medical assistance, movies are going to get better. Falcounseling, and STD and HIV testing con’s long run of often middling dito sex workers. Test results are kept on rectors just may yield to the sort of file, thus providing the straight industalent Ward has attracted and try with a regulating device to curb the groomed at Raging Stallion. I hope transmission of HIV. While I believe his new title doesn’t curtail his own some gay performers have made use directing efforts. of AIM’s services, I don’t know of a gay Ward is understandably excited. “I porn company having its performers cannot begin to express what this tested as a prerequisite for work. So the means to me personally and profes-

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instance referenced on the box in question may be a first. It sounds like a good idea, and you know gay companies are just itching to put their peckers where the money is. But how smart is that?

Condom-free, regulated sex has worked for the straight industry. Why shouldn’t it work on the gay side? It would be nice for the performers’ assurances. But wouldn’t viewers begin to think barebacking is acceptable, that condoms are passé? Wouldn’t that undo porn’s effectiveness as an educational tool for safe sex? But wait, certainly porn as propaganda should be incidental to porn as entertainment.

I initially thought gay testing was a swell idea. Wouldn’t you just love to see condoms disappear from filmsex?

I’m sad to say that I just don’t think we’ve reached that day yet. I’d love to know how you feel.▼

Leather + Leather 1990) and Jason Ladd (SF Leather Daddy VI, Emperor XXXIV After Norton), with tally master duties provided by Jorge Vieto (SF Leather Daddy’s boy XXII). That’s a mouthful (and I should know). Mark Paladini and Miss Galilea (Absolute Empress XLI) will provide the entertainment.

This is always a fun contest, Marlena is the best sponsor anyone could ask for (she’s pretty damn nice, too), and the brotherhood of the Hayes Valley Leather Men is second to none.

At long last, The Edge Bar (18th & Collingwood) is bringing back the Mr. Edge Contest! “Resurrection – A New Decade in Leather, Mr. Edge Leather 2011” will take place on Sun., Feb. 13, from 3-6 p.m. Shan Carr (International Ms. Leather 1988) will emcee, with judging provided by Lenny Broberg, Queen Cougar and some as yet unannounced. The Mr. Edge title has a long and respected history. I’m glad it’s back, and I’m looking forward to see who steps up to carry on this

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Think you look like Febe’s “Leather David” statue? Be at the Powerhouse on Sun. night, Feb. 13, and win your fame and fortune!

very missed tradition. For info, go to: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 31228856939967. You don’t want to miss this one!

Mr. Hayes Valley, Mr. Edge, Mr. Powerhouse (more info coming later) and possibly some independents will compete for the title of Mr. SF Leather on Sat., March 5, at the

Hotel Whitcomb. The Mr. SF Leather Contest is the centerpiece of the Leather Alliance Weekend. The weekend begins with the 45th Annual SF Leather Community Awards Dinner at 6:30 p.m. on March 4. Go to: www.leatheralliance.org for details.

Last but not least, at 7 p.m. on Sun., Feb. 13, my buddy Jose Guevara is celebrating the latest phase of his South of Market map and game with “Forever Folsom Valentine Party” at The Powerhouse (Folsom & Dore). The map and game center on the storied, sordid history of Folsom Street from the glory days of the 60s & 70s to today. Featuring an Off Ramp Leathers mini-store, kinky games for $1, music by DJ Throbbing Cock, and a first-ever (that we know of) Febe’s “Leather David” Statue lookalike contest. The prize is a Forever Folsom belt from Off Ramp Leathers.

The winner should look and pose like the statue, and have a sense of humor.

This will be one crazy, fun (and perhaps even educational) event.

Those are the highlights for now.

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Too short: the life of Sal Mineo

by Tavo Amador any teenage movie actors flame brightly, then fade away, unlamented. Some are talented but can’t convince producers to give them adult roles. Additional complications arise if the youth is gay or bisexual. These issues run through Michael Gregg Michaud’s Sal Mineo: A Biography (Crown Archetype, $25.99).

Mineo (1939-76) was born into a working-class Italian-American family in the Bronx. To keep him out of trouble, his protective, controlling mother Josephine enrolled him in dancing and acting classes. He had a bit part in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo (1951), and understudied – then played – the Crown Prince in The King and I (1952-54), starring Yul Brynner. He appeared on television and minor films before Nicholas Ray cast him as Plato in Rebel Without a Cause (55), opposite James Dean and Natalie Wood. This hugely popular and influential movie vividly portrayed teenage angst. Mineo’s performance as the sensitive, lonely rich boy with an unspoken crush on Dean was superb, earning him a Best Supporting Oscar nomination.

Despite knowing nothing about the business, Josephine insisted on managing his career, taking 15% of his earnings and using much of what was left to lavishly support the family. He got excellent reviews in Somebody Up There Likes Me (56), starring Paul Newman. He had a small role in Giant (56), a smash, and leads in films aimed at teenagers, resulting in a successful if brief recording career. Josephine, however, didn’t want

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him playing “juvenile delinquents,” yet prevented him from getting competent professional management. He scored in The Gene Krupa Story (59), then earned another Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as a Jewish teenager used “like a woman” by the Nazis in Otto Preminger’s Exodus (60), another hit. No one realized it, but his career had peaked.

Fifteen-year-old Jill Haworth (later the original stage Sally Bowles in Cabaret) was his romantic interest in Exodus. They began an intense affair.

Late in 1962, she introduced Mineo to 19-year-old pop singer Bobby Sherman. Two years later, she found them in bed. Mineo would claim that before Sherman, he didn’t know what two men did together sexually, and asked his gay hairdresser for details. The hairdresser showed him. Devastated, Haworth ended their relationship, although eventually they became friends. Mineo insisted he was bisexual. Most of his relationships, however, were with younger males.

He was among many stars playing cameos in The Longest Day (62), a success, but along with Richard

Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Ricardo Montalban, and Dolores Del Rio, was trapped in John Ford’s ghastly Cheyenne Autumn (64). He had another cameo in George Stevens’ all-star life of Christ, The Greatest Story Ever Told (65).

His baby face, dark, curly hair, big brown eyes, and 5’8” frame made him look younger than he was. Trying to change his image, he played a voyeur in the terrible Who Killed Teddy Bear? (65), revealing a well-

muscled torso. He worked on television and lived fairly openly, frequenting gay bars in New York and Los Angeles.

In 1969, he directed and starred in the Los Angeles production of the controversial Fortune and Men’s Eyes, set in prison, featuring openly gay characters and depicting a homosexual rape. Although not very good, the play was a landmark, and Mineo got excellent notices as the rapist. A young Don Johnson played the violated prisoner. The straight Johnson insisted there was no physical relationship between them. Another actor, Courtney Burr, would also work with Mineo in the play, and they became lovers. Their tempestuous, open relationship – sometimes involving threeways – was the most significant of Mineo’s life. Born into a prestigious family, Burr was educated and cultured, which impressed Mineo, who felt insecure about his own background.

Television provided some employment, although Mineo was usually broke, and no longer supported his family. Gay former child star Roddy McDowell, who had made the transition to adult character parts, got him a role in Return to the Planet of the Apes (71), but Mineo found it humiliating. McDowell, whose sexual orientation was known but who was rarely seen in bars, cautioned Mineo to be discreet, and dis-

approved of Burr and his other friends.

Mineo tried to interest producers in several projects, often involving homoerotic themes, without success.

In 1974-75, he directed and starred in James Kirkwood’s P.S. Your Cat Is Dead in San Francisco. The play, which featured homosexual characters, was a hit. Mineo was preparing to star opposite Keir Dullea in a Los Angeles production in 1976, but was stabbed to death outside his apartment building by a would-be thief.

He was 37 years old.

Michaud’s biography is obsessively detailed, yet often misses the big picture. For example, the reader is almost as shocked as Haworth was to discover Mineo in bed with Sherman. It strains credibility that Mineo was unaware of his attraction to men until meeting the teenager. (Sherman isn’t among the sources Michaud cites.)

Michaud touches on important themes – how homophobia, the failure to get competent management, and refusing to be typecast, all contributed to Mineo’s later disappointments – but doesn’t fully develop them. Mineo was ambitious, impulsive, often undisciplined (although not professionally), and naive about practical issues. He was charming, charismatic, intelligent but uneducated. The result is a flawed but fascinating story of unrealized potential.

Mineo died in debt. His family denied his homosexuality, but claimed as much of his estate as they could. A judge ruled that Josephine wasn’t entitled to “excessive” expenses incurred in burying him. Ironically, his senseless killing and his family’s response to it were reminiscent of Plato’s death in Rebel.▼

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pete in thrills and hazards with its better-established ocean cousin. A surfing dad nervously recalls how he saved his young daughter, the tongue of whose boot got caught between submerged rocks; other river vets delight with tales of evading surf-banning cops; and then there’s the story of how a grouchy river-surfing convert figured out an ingenious way to keep the waves coming 24/7.

Lob’s cameras frame unique close-up perspectives on the torsos of young German men who completely abandon themselves, with long hair flying (this is the place for those hungering for a full menu of blonde German guys), to the glory of riding the Eisbach til they drop or run out of money. One fascinating story shows how a local boy learns his moves on the river, then graduates to the “adult” world of ocean surfing, becoming fluent in French for an Internet sports channel. The film climaxes in a unusual pilgrimage by German surfers to a special and especially dangerous British Columbian site where the skills of ocean and river surfing converge. This largely Ger-

man language doc features English guest spots from famed world-class surfers Nick Carroll and Kelly Slater.

(Sat., 1/15, 2 p.m.)

Mahler on the Couch: It’s hard to believe that Gustav Mahler found time in 51 years to create 10 of the world’s most compelling symphonies, switch religions (from Jewish to Catholic, to evade the 19th Century’s ominously rising tide of nationalistfueled bigotry), become a world-acclaimed opera conductor, and, in his final decade, marry a young aspiring composer frau – whose career he would squelch – and then wind up, in his final year, on the couch of Sigmund Freud. Veteran Percy Adlon (co-helming with son Felix) provides a goofy if passionate depiction of the Mahler/Freud summit: both men lived in their heads, and were the product of large families. This couch talk serves mostly as a framing device for the Adlons’ portrait of Mahler’s April/September marriage to his rambunctious young bride Alma nee Schindler (Barbara Romaner), who gave up her musical ambitions to give Mahler two daughters and the sheltered summers he needed to set free his composing juices.

Adlon, whose eccentric 80s comedies Sugarbaby and Bagdad Café provided chuckles and the inspiration

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Scene from Lara Juliette Sanders’ Celebration of Flight.

for a long-running Castro eatery, doesn’t hesitate to give his story touches of operatic excess and farcical bedroom high-jinks, the most effective being Mahler’s attempt to ward off the advances of a much younger suitor, famed architect Walter Gropius (the virile, handsome Friedrich Mucke).

While this may disappoint hardcore Death in Venice fans seduced by Visconti’s lush rendering of Mann’s novella into believing that Dirk Bogarde’s Mahler impersonation and hankering for the young Tadzio was torn from life, it should prove diverting on the Castro screen. (Opening night, Fri., 1/14, 7 p.m.)

David Wants to Fly: What happens when a naïve but talented and doggedly persistent young filmmaker discovers that his idol, Blue Velvet genius David Lynch, is both more and less than the man he looked up to? David Sieveking (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Aussie wunderkind actor Noah Taylor) gives us as much as we can stand to see about the Potemkin village that is the mod-

ern Transcendental Meditation movement. The English-fluent director will be on hand for a post-film Q&A. (Sun., 1/16, 4 p.m.)

Celebration of Flight: An elderly pilot (Daniel Rundstrom) relives his career flying for kings (including Emperor Haille Selassie) while, in the present, engineering one final dream: the construction of a single-prop plane to enter into a Florida fight show. The nearly 80-year-old Lundstrom amazes with his stamina and the patience with which he tutors a 16-year-old assistant. Both director Lara Juliette Sanders and pilot Lundstrom appear for a Castro Q&A. (Sun., 1/16, 2 p.m.)

She Deserved It: The pitiless killing field of adolescence is harrowingly framed by Thomas Stiller in a fractured melodrama that is for neither the squeamish nor the afterschool-special crowd.

Stiller makes the controversial call to frame the piece from the perspective of a cold-hearted teen killer. Liv Lisa Fries is uncomfortably charismatic as a punk girl gone bad who

commits a stomach-churning crime: killing her high school rival with the help of her hunky boyfriend. The film’s peak moment comes in a prison confrontation between Fries and the mother of the dead girl. As always with films that threaten to “glorify” the bully, this one will divide audiences, but, courageously, it goes a lot further than Hollywood would in providing edgy entertainment and some plausible catharsis. With director Q&A. (Sat., 1/15, 9 p.m.)

Mountain Blood: Philip J. Pamer’s lavishly mounted history drama draws on the German fetish for “mountain films” with a scary reminder that the wars that ravaged Europe in the 20th century had their roots in the Napoleonic era. The composer and editor will do an afterfilm Q&A. (Sun., 1/16, 6:30 p.m.)

Disenchantments: Andreas Pieper’s film-school debut shows a talent for eliciting naked passion from an unknown cast. (Sun., 1/16, 9 p.m.)▼ More information: www.germangems.com.

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by Gregg Shapiro ivorce and ending a once-loving relationship are ugly, painful processes. Laws of Illusion (Arista), the most difficult album of Sarah McLachlan’s career, drives the point home over the course of a dozen tracks. The album opens with “Awakenings,” as McLachlan sings about how “cracks began to show as soon as things got hard.” It’s more or less downhill from there on songs “Illusions of Bliss” and “Heartbreak.” The disc’s saving grace is McLachlan herself. That voice and the way she sings the songs elevate the subject above the potential dirge-like affair that could have been.

In many ways, KT Tunstall is the opposite of McLachlan, and not just because of the surface difference in their vocal qualities. Tunstall takes her tough-cookie persona to new and astounding heights on her third album, Tiger Suit (Virgin/Relentless), easily surpassing the achievements of her first two studio recordings. The disc gets off to a roaring start with “Uummannaq Song,” which has an enticing beat and a message of empowerment.

The appealing rhythms don’t let up, but Tunstall has more up her striped sleeve, as you can hear on the gorgeous closer “The Entertainer.”

Three years have passed since Sara Bareilles’ major-label debut Little Voice was released, but that disc’s hit single “Love Song” can still regularly be heard on the radio. That’s saying something. If you’re looking for its

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In the 1990s, Tracy Bonham and Paula Cole made significant contributions, and they continue to make music worthy of attention. Bonham’s Mast of Manhatta (Engine Room) finds her with violin still in tow, while Cole turns up the drama on Ithaca (Decca).

Tift Merritt brings a touch of twang to the party on See You on the Moon (Fantasy). That’s not to say she’s a regular Miranda Lambert or Carrie Underwood, for Merritt doesn’t get bogged down in the country swamp.

Chanteuse Jane Monheit has been working her way through the standards in the American songbook for years. On Home (Emarcy), she touches on both familiar and lesser-known tunes, sharing the spotlight with guests John Pizzarelli (on “Tonight You Belong to Me”) and Peter Eldridge (“It’s Only Smoke”). The album’s centerpiece is Monheit’s heartfelt reading of “I’ll Be Around.”

Few dance-music enthusiasts would dispute Kristine W’s place in the pantheon of disco divas. But it’s easy to understand how she might want to display her amazing talents in other ways. On the double-disc Straight Up with a Twist (Fly Again), the divine Miss W slows things down a bit and goes for a lounge feel. The concept is especially intriguing when we get to hear her originals in this setting.▼

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