Another HIV vaccine fails in large study

by Liz Highleyman

Another large trial has been halted after Johnson & Johnson’s experi- mental HIV vaccine failed to prevent infection, according to a January 18 announcement from the National Institutes of Health. The latest results add to a long string of disappointments in the HIV vaccine research field.

The news is “disappointing but not surprising,” said Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, an organization working to accelerate the development and global delivery of HIV prevention methods. “The hard truth is the science of HIV vaccine development is extremely challenging, but this is not the time to dial back support for ongoing research. Far from it – HIV remains a global threat, and a safe, efficacious and accessible HIV vaccine is still needed to provide a durable end to the pandemic.”

The phase 3 Mosaico trial, which began in 2019, enrolled some 3,900 cisgender gay and bisexual men and transgender women in North and South America and Europe. A scheduled review by the study’s data and safety monitoring board found that although the vaccine was safe, the number of people who acquired HIV was equivalent in the vaccine and placebo groups. These participants were promptly referred for medical care and treatment.

As the study ends, trial participants – including 30 people enrolled in San Francisco through the Department of Public Health – will be informed of the findings and told whether they received the vaccine or the placebo, according to Dr. Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV, DPH’s clinical trials unit, and a professor at UCSF.

“We will also be conducting study close-out procedures, including HIV people about the community’s past,” the description stated.

Items in the William A. Longen Videotape Collection include interviews at LGBTQ marches, festivals, and parades; HIV/AIDS support groups; and the 1996 San Francisco “gay marriage” event when thenmayor Willie Brown deputized himself and presided over the ceremony for about 150 same-sex couples. (The unions had no legal status.) Most of the collection has been digitized, according to the historical society.

Mr. Longen was born on July 20, 1947, in Philadelphia.

He was hospitalized for the final two months of his life, yet his hope to survive was strong. His doctors treated him with hope and dignity. He kept his amazing humor until his last days and expected to survive this final illness once again, Gorczyca wrote.

Mr. Longen is survived by his siblings Regina, Mary, and Joe, and extended family in Philadelphia and on the East Coast. His beloved sister Susie, a Roman Catholic nun, preceded him in death. Mr. Longen will be cremated, and his ashes spread at sea at the same latitude and longitude of his life partner Schaffer off the coast of San Francisco in the Pacific. Donations in his honor can be made to Pets Are Wonderful Support/Shanti or the National AIDS Memorial Grove, both in San Francisco, or any charity of your choice.

A public memorial will be held Sunday, February 26, at 4 p.m. at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street. t testing, counseling, and linkage to HIV prevention services, as we have done throughout the course of the study,” Buchbinder told the Bay Area Reporter.

What’s next for HIV vaccine research?

The Mosaico results are not unexpected, as a companion trial called Imbokodo was halted in 2021 after interim results showed that a similar vaccine regimen did not provide adequate protection for young women in Africa.

Both trials tested four doses of a vaccine called Ad26.Mos4.HIV that uses an adenovirus vector – the same common cold virus used in the J&J COVID vaccine – to deliver a computer-designed mosaic of antigens from multiple strains of HIV. Participants also received two doses of a second vaccine containing either gp140 envelope proteins from the most common HIV subtype in southern Africa or a mosaic of gp140 proteins from a variety of HIV strains.

Earlier studies showed that this vaccine regimen induced potent antibody and T-cell responses and protected monkeys exposed to an HIV-like virus. But the vaccines did not generate broadly neutralizing antibodies that target a hidden portion

“Our organization, one of the core values is to promote diversity,” she said. “I was thrilled to see Kelli Evans appointed.”

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Tara Desautels, who was the presiding judge and administered the oath of office to Evans when she began her tenure on the lower court in October 2021, said that Evans came highly recommended from Newsom’s judicial appointments secretary.

“There was no assignment she wouldn’t be willing to take on,” Desautels said.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Evans had served as Newsom’s chief deputy legal affairs secretary. She had also worked for former state attorney general Xavier Becerra, now the U.S. health and human services secretary.

During her remarks, Evans said it was a special honor to be appointed.

“I will be forever grateful to be a judge in Alameda County,” she said, even though hers was a short tenure.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Elena Condes, a lesbian who won election to the bench in 2020, said that Evans “brings something unique” to her new role.

“I genuinely believe that all of us in Alameda County will benefit from her perspective and intellect on the bench,” Condes said.

Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Bowen, now the assistant presiding judge, summed up Evans’ new position succinctly.

“It’s exciting,” he said.

Former chief justice praised During her remarks, Guerrero praised Cantil-Sakauye.

“Tani Cantil-Sakauye was the first person of color to serve as chief justice,” Guerrero said, adding that she had a “constant focus” on ensuring access to justice.

“She never lost that focus,” Guerrero added.

She also acknowledged the late associate justice Cruz Reynoso, the first

Latino to serve on the state’s high court.

“I look forward to this challenge,” Guerrero said of her new position.

Contra Costa judge honored Landau, the Contra Costa judge who was recognized, has served on the bench for 20 years. During her law school years and early career, she said, she never had a woman or person of color as a law professor and there wasn’t a woman on the U.S. Supreme Court until Sandra Day O’Connor was appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

“Things change,” she said, adding that the best decision she ever made, aside from marrying her husband, was leaving her law practice for the bench.

“We make decisions that affect real people in real ways,” she said of herself and her judicial colleagues.

She nodded to the diversity on the Contra Costa bench since she first began serving, noting that there are gay judges now.

She also commented on changes in the public’s perception of judges.

“Judges used to be revered,” she said. “Not so much anymore. Judges are now threatened and stalked.”

Landau outlined her guiding principles: integrity matters, decency matters, and perspective matters. “Let’s all do something,” she said. “Let’s resolve to do more.” t

Members who wanted to remain connected with the church joined LGBTQ-welcoming parishes, like Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro. Dignity/SF partnered with the church for some actions, especially supporting people suffering from HIV/AIDS.

“San Francisco is unusual in having welcoming parishes,” said Riofski, such as Most Holy Redeemer, St. Agnes, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Chinese Mission, and St. John of God.

Other members followed Dignity/ SF to its popular midnight Christmas masses at the Castro Theatre in 1986 and 1987 and to its home at Dolores Street Baptist Church in 1989. The community dwindled to 150 members at that time, said Riofski. The Baptist church burned down in 1993. Dignity/SF found a permanent home at Seventh Avenue Presbyterian Church in the Inner Sunset in 1994.

Unwelcomed

The San Francisco archdiocese hasn’t been as welcoming. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who was appointed to the seat in 2012 by Benedict, has actively worked against LGBTQ rights, reported the New York Times. The Human Rights Campaign called him out on this publicly in 2015 for characterizing LGBTQ sexual relationships as “gravely evil” and his attempt to insert anti-LGBTQ language into teacher contracts at Catholic schools in his jurisdiction.

Many Dignity/SF members, who still feel the sting, expressed displeasure about conservatives in the church scapegoating the LGBTQ community during the sexual abuse scandal but were hesitant to talk about it on the record.

Current Pope Francis hasn’t neces- sarily disavowed LGBTQ Catholics, but he hasn’t put the Vatican’s full weight toward advocating for queer Catholics either.

Duddy-Burke expressed hope “that Dignity/SF finds a way to influence the Archdiocese of San Francisco to be as welcoming and affirming as the Catholics of San Francisco, and as the rest of the community,” she wrote.

The San Francisco archdiocese and Cordileone did not respond to the B.A.R.’s request for comment about Dignity/SF’s 50th anniversary by press time.

Gratitude

Dignity/SF members expressed gratitude for the organization. Those who struggled with their faith and sexuality, those seeking a spiritual connection, those who wanted social justice aligned with their Catholic faith, and those who wanted a social community found a home at Dignity/SF.

Angelo, a 76-year-old gay man who only wanted to be identified by his first name, believes that without Dignity/SF, he would have “gone crazy.”

“Dignity was instrumental in the acceptance of myself because I could finally put my faith and my sexuality together,” he said.

Seeking gay Catholic community in 1973, Trela, the community’s oldest member, discovered Dignity/SF in an advertisement in a local paper.

“I was just surprised and we all kind of looked at each other,” said Trela, recalling the group of about 25 people.

“It was the first time a group of Catholics wanted to have something to do with a gay Catholic group.”

Angelo, who joined Dignity/SF in 1979, was pleasantly surprised to “see that many gay Catholics, to see a priest that was talking about God loving us as we are,” he said.“I just kept coming back.”

Emmanuel Romero, a 38-year-old Filipino gay man, was raised Catholic but didn’t pay attention to the church’s anti-gay rhetoric until he came out as an adult. The moment his family’s parish priest led an anti-gay sermon during a mass, he walked out, he said.

“I immediately knew that what the church was saying about gay people was wrong,” Romero said. “People should not be forced to choose between who they are and their spirituality.”

Romero still wanted the Catholic spiritual community.

“I very much grew up with that as part of not just my spirituality, but also my cultural identity,” said Romero who found Dignity/SF.

Activism

Dignity/SF members were active in political movements, but Dignity/ SF as an organization rarely got involved in movements, Riofski said.

The LGBTQ Catholic community’s priests supported social justice issues through sermons. Community members participated in “prayer of the faithful,” where members would pray for issues of the day.

Some Dignity/SF members organized the now-defunct Catholics for Human Dignity, a political action organization to mobilize against the 1978 Briggs initiative, which attempted to bar LGBTQ teachers in schools. It was ultimately defeated, Riofski said.

Dignity/SF members also responded quickly to the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

“Dignity was the first one to offer support for the HIV crisis,” said Angelo. “Then the group was just decimated by AIDS.”

Dignity/SF partnered with Most Holy Redeemer to respond to the epidemic and eventually turned the operation over to the church, “because they had greater resources,” Riofski said.

Some Dignity/SF members participate in social justice movements independently.

Responding to modern-day attacks on the LGBTQ community is one of Dignity/SF’s goals to be more in line with DignityUSA and its members.

“Dignity/San Francisco, as a chapter of DignityUSA, really offers younger Catholics an opportunity to learn about the history of social justice within the Catholic Church,” Romero said. He would like to see “DignityUSA take a more active role in promoting social justice causes that aren’t necessarily related to the Catholic Church,” he said.

It is something Dignity/SF could offer to young queer Catholics as it steps into its next 50 years.

Future

In its 50th year and starting to bring the community together for inperson gatherings amid the ongoing COVID outbreak, Dignity/SF leaders and members are excited about the community’s future.

“We’ve found a way to be of service here to the larger community and we want to expand that in the coming years,” Riofski said.

“Our goal is to think big,” he continued. “Our goal is to welcome everyone to the table.” t to have had, and of being open to learning and teachings from all members in the community, including the young and aging,” Fabian stated in a news release.

For information about Dignity/ SF’s future events, visit https://dignitysf.org, although the site was not updated at press time.

A powwow is a traditional Native American event that gathers all tribes as well as inviting non-Native guests to learn more about Native culture, the release noted. Last year about 5,000 people attended. Vendors will be on site selling frybread, buffalo burgers, Native art and jewelry, and other crafts. The powwow features several hours of ceremonial honor dances, contest dances, and a drum contest. All powwow dancers and drummers are welcome. of HIV’s envelope protein, which may be necessary to confer broad protection. Mosaico was the last large trial testing a traditional vaccine approach for HIV prevention, and most experts now think more sophisticated strategies will be needed.

Two-Spirit is a Native American term for people with both female and male energies, the release explained. Two-Spirits may or may not identify as LGBTQ.

The powwow is family-friendly and a clean and sober event. Street attire is encouraged for non-Natives. Organizers ask that costumes be left at home.

Fort Mason is located at 2 Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. For more information, go to baaits.org.

“We don’t yet know why the vaccine didn’t provide protection, but studies are underway to evaluate the immune response generated by the vaccine,” Buchbinder told the B.A.R. “The results of this trial suggest that other approaches, such as those that are designed to generate broadly neutralizing antibodies, may be a more successful path forward.”

Studies exploring different HIV vaccine strategies are already underway. For example, scientists with IAVI (formerly the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) and Scripps Research in La Jolla, California are testing a series of vaccines that aim to encourage the development of specialized B-cells and train to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies. The same mRNA technology used in the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech CO-

Aging with Pride conference

The Alzheimer’s Association will host a half-day conference focused on resources and support for LGBTQIA+ caregivers, community members, and families taking care of their loved ones. The conference will take place in-person Thursday, February 9, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the California Endowment Regional Office, 2000 Franklin Street in downtown Oakland. The event is free.

According to a news release from the Alzheimer’s Association, in California there are currently 690,000 people living with that disease or de- mentia and the number is expected to double by 2040. LGBTQIA+ seniors are twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to develop dementia, the release stated, and may face additional challenges and discrimination compared to non-LGBTQIA+ individuals with the same illness.

VID vaccines could help this process move faster.

In a recent early study, all but one of the 36 participants who received the initial vaccine developed specialized precursor B cells. However, it could be years before this approach is ready for large trials, and a vaccine regimen that requires multiple shots would be difficult to roll out worldwide.

What’s more, HIV vaccine research has become more challenging now that experimental vaccines must measure up against PrEP pills or longacting injections, which are highly effective when used consistently.

Additionally, LGBTQIA+ people may have a past discrimination that can be triggered by the cognitive decline associated with dementia, the release stated.

The upcoming conference is open to everyone, as dementia doesn’t discriminate based on race, national ori-

“We only enrolled participants not on PrEP after they had been given an authentic choice to go on PrEP, with barriers removed to accessing these drugs,” Buchbinder said. “One thing we’ve clearly learned from study participants is that people want a choice, and that a vaccine will be an important option for those who don’t want PrEP.”

The latest disappointment has led some to question whether an effective and widely accessible HIV vaccine will ever be available, making other prevention tools even more crucial. Despite its effectiveness, PrEP is still not widely used outside urban gay communities gin, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. The event will focus on dementia in the LGBTQIA community, the 10 signs of dementia, community resources for caregivers, and overcoming barriers: caregiving while Black and queer.

The conference is being presented in partnership with the Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, Lavender Seniors of the East Bay, and Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, and Openhouse, the LGBTQ senior agency in San Francisco. To register, go to https://bit.ly/3XLsP4u t in the United States and Europe.

“[W]e now have more proven HIV prevention options than ever before, but they are not reaching everyone who needs and wants them,” Warren said. “Even as researchers continue the necessary work of accelerating HIV vaccine research, the broader HIV response must act as if we may never have a vaccine and prioritize the rollout of existing prevention options and research for additional ones. Ending this pandemic requires simultaneous action on multiple fronts of research, development and delivery.” t them to offer new tenants a reasonable rent.”

He was referring to legislation he spearheaded that changes bars’ zoning status from not being permitted at all to being permitted conditionally in the Castro Street neighborhood commercial district, or NCD, as the Bay Area Reporter previously reported.

In Milk’s day, Harvey’s was called the Elephant Walk, which first opened in 1974. The disco diva Sylvester performed there, and it was a site of reprisal early May 22, 1979, when San Francisco police officers came in and attacked patrons following the White Night Riots downtown, which were a response to Milk’s killer, Dan White, receiving only a seven-year sentence for his crimes. (White ended up serv-

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Hirsch told the B.A.R. he voted for Wade after meeting her at a candidate event and liking her platform’s focus on environmental issues. He faults current city leadership for not doing anything to address the impacts Seal Beach faces from climate change, coastal erosion, and pollution from the San Gabriel River, which serves as a natural border between the town and Long Beach, which is in Los Angeles County.

“I tried for years to get the city council to address it and bring it to their attention,” Hirsch said of the polluted river. “Everyone will not, or cannot, deal with it.”

Environmental issues are a major concern for Wade, a longtime member and leader of the Surfrider Foundation who specifically moved to Seal ing five years and later died by suicide.)

After a fire almost destroyed it in the late 1980s, the Elephant Walk required extensive remodeling. Harvey’s was opened in the space in 1996 by Paul Langley, the property owner, who had refused to renew the Elephant Walk’s lease.

Harvey’s closure was announced to the public early January 22 via a statement written on a chalkboard on the side of the business, where happier messages had been common.

“This is our last day being open,” the statement read. “What is next? We don’t know, But we know we will miss all of you!”

A spokesperson for Harvey’s declined to comment to the B.A.R. for this report with a further statement about the closure, other than to say more will be coming soon to inform the community.

Beach in order to live near the ocean. It is a major part of her campaign platform.

“I am a surfer. This is really where I wanted to live for years, but I worked for a congressman in northeast Orange County,” said Wade, who had been employed by Congressmember Gil Cisneros (D-Anaheim) and moved to Seal Beach on September 15, 2021.

Originally from New York, where she first took up surfing, Wade served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain, infantry officer and a combat engineer corporal. She then taught social studies and physical education at a public school for 14 years and was its founding track head coach.

She initially moved to California with her former wife in 2013 to Culver City in Los Angeles County. The couple finalized their divorce in 2020, but the co-parents of a teenage daughter and adult son remain close friends.

Business closures have been a persistent problem in the Castro for many years, and the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated it. Up the block from Harvey’s, the Badlands nightclub shuttered in 2020 and has not reopened, and a location of El Capitan Taqueria at the intersection of 18th and Collingwood streets closed just one week before Harvey’s.

Longtime gay activist Cleve Jones told the B.A.R. he visited Harvey’s late Sunday, where they gave him a photo of himself and Milk at his own 24th birthday party on October 11, 1978 that’d been hanging on the wall.

“I didn’t loot the building,” Jones said, adding that he would be happy to return it if they want it back, or to a successor business.

“Last night was a pretty sad night for me,” said Jones, who worked for Milk and founded the AIDS Memo-

Anti-trans attacks

Last year, with no one seemingly interested in seeking the council seat, Wade decided to mount her first bid for elected office and announced her campaign in May. During the general election Wade said she was misgendered by one male speaker at a candidate forum and faced what she described as “dog whistle” coded antiLGBTQ language about “family values” from Landau and her supporters.

It wasn’t until she came in first place in November, said Wade, when the blatant anti-trans attacks began against her.

“The transphobic attacks on social media started hot and heavy right away,” said Wade. “Now Lisa Landau’s supporters are canvassing door to door saying to people, ‘You don’t want this place to turn into West Hollywood, do you?’”

She refutes suggestions from her rial Quilt. “I went down to Harvey’s, which still in my mind is Elephant Walk, and I can still hear Sylvester’s voice echoing in there, and it makes me very sad. Then I went for a little walk. I walked past the Castro Theatre, which appears to be shuttered. I saw Cafe Flore still empty. So those were three places that were so hugely important to me and to everyone during the time this neighborhood was so important. There’s going to be more to come.” opponent and detractors that her ambition is to use being a councilmember to seek higher office.

(David Perry, a gay man who is a spokesperson for Another Planet Entertainment, reached out to the B.A.R. after the initial publication of this report to clarify that the Castro Theatre is running programming. It has not been consistent, however, and sometimes the theater goes weeks without an event or screening.)

“I did not move to the city with this in mind,” Wade told the B.A.R. about being a council candidate.

Rather, she had become concerned about what plans the city had to address the frequent flooding it now faces, said Wade. The morning she spoke to the B.A.R. she was dealing with a flooded home and had turned off a dehumidifier in order to talk to a reporter.

“I live on the first floor of a building with a slab foundation on the river. The house is flooded as we speak,” said Wade. “My district floods several times a year, and the city doesn’t even manage that very well.”

Having worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and spent years in federal and local government, Wade felt she had the skill set needed to be an effective city councilmember. Open

“After that he traveled around and ended up in Orange County. Coming back to SF was like a homecoming for him.”

According to an essay of memories written by Russell’s spouse, Hannah Russell Laws, who is also nonbinary, Boston was born February 7, 1982.

“His childhood was complicated,” Russell Laws stated. “Much the youngest of a family of six, he was born to a working-class white mother and a Native American wanderer – while the husband that would help raise him languished in prison. He came out as gay as a young teenager in the 1990s, in a religious household, in a small town.”

Russell said that the two met at a coffee shop in Orange County, and they got along initially because “he was very protective of me.”

“There were lots of different kinds of people who went there to hang out and there were some people there who weren’t super

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JAN 05, 12, 19, 26, 2023 trustworthy and he saw me as a lost kid,” Russell said. “He always made sure I had something to eat and, you know, looking out for me. He respected what I had to say even though he was older than me. He encouraged me to say what was on my mind.”

The two loved movies and museums, Russell said. It irritated them that strangers assumed the two were a couple even though they were both queer.

For a brief time, Boston went to live in Paradise, in Butte County, and was there “when it burned down in 2018” during the Camp Fire, recalled Russell. He went there to take care of his sister’s dogs and “because he wanted to get out of the city for a while and be in nature. Sharing art and being outside were the ties that bind with everyone,” Russell said.

“Under a blackened sky, he would drive down the only road out-oftown, coagulated with smoke and traffic, flanked by exploding gas pumps, with his sister’s two terrified dogs barking in the backseat,”

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JAN 05, 12, 19, 26, 2023 the essay stated about Boston’s experience surviving the Paradise fire. “And he would survive.”

Russell learned their friend had died from Boston’s roommate, who sent a mass text message to friends.

“He was just a purely creative person,” they said. “He created the life he wanted and was always striving to make his dreams come true, and summoned the dreams of others without judgment or trying to make you fit into what he thought. … He could be very stubborn, because he wanted you to stick to your dream.”

Russell Laws wrote in the essay that Boston “had little, and gave a lot.”

“At any one time, Gavin owned only four shirts, two pairs of pants, and two pairs of shoes,” the essay stated. “He assigned value to people and nature, but never to things. He was incredibly generous, with friends, family, and strangers alike. Instinctively compassionate and nurturing, Gavin especially loved giving his time towards helping kids, and kids truly loved him right back.”

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Jones said that while COVID was a “devastating and protracted mess,” some businesses (he named Anchor Oyster Bar and Catch) were able to survive because “they had good, strong management, consistent quality, and a really dedicated loyal staff.”

“I have been trying to sound the alarm about the death of the gayborhoods for a few years now, and I don’t see anything productive in blame games but people have to realize this isn’t just a phenomena in San Francisco,” Jones said. “The gayborhoods are going away and with that we risk losing political power, cultural vitality and the ability to provide specialized social services for the most vulnerable.”

The Castro Merchants Association did not respond to a request for comment for this report. t about her gender identity, Wade said her becoming the first trans elected official in Orange County was never the motivation behind her candidacy.

“I saw a way of life here under threat. The government needs to protect us and our property and way of life,” said Wade. “I can help with that.”t

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Regarding the criminal case, since a minor can only be charged as an adult once they reach 16, as per state law, proceedings are taking place in juvenile court. The San Francisco Public Defender’s office accused the San Francisco District Attorney’s office of leaking information to the media, and asked the judge to order the prosecutor’s office to preserve all communication about the case, the Chronicle reported.

“The Public Defender’s office will be exploring all avenues for holding the District Attorney’s office accountable for violating state law,” the office stated. The public defender’s office also requested a gag order on future hearings regarding the minors.

San Francisco Superior Court Judge Roger Chan ordered that the 15-year-old boy remain in custody.

The District Attorney’s office did not respond to a request for comment for this report regarding the status of the suspects, or regarding the allegations by the public defender’s office.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHRISTA SWEET MARKET, 3001 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed JAMELA MOUSA INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/14/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/14/22.

JAN 05, 12, 19, 26, 2023

NOTICE OF AMENDED PETITION TO ADMORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-557651

In the matter of the application of HALEY LARKIN ELIZABETH READ, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner HALEY LARKIN ELIZABETH READ AKA HALEY LARKIN ELIZABETH GRANOFF is requesting that the name HALEY LARKIN ELIZABETH READ AKA HALEY LARKIN ELIZABETH GRANOFF be changed to HALEY LARKIN READ GRANOFF. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 16th of FEBRUARY 2023 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted. JAN 12, 19, 26, FEB 02, 2023

Gavin Boston

Boston had only been working as a security guard at the location of his death for two months, Russell said.

“I just needed to do what I could to try to make sure the real Gavin is out there,” Russell said. t

Fictitious Business Name Statement

FILE A-0399020

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE CITY COUNTRY GROUP, 2501 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD LESTER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/12/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/16/22.

JAN 12, 19, 26, FEB 02, 2023

Fictitious Business Name Statement

FILE A-0399134

The following person(s) is/are doing business as URBAN FLOWERS, 4029 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VERONICA REYNOSO GUTIERREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/02/23. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/03/23.

JAN 12, 19, 26, FEB 02, 2023

Fictitious Business Name Statement

FILE A-0399154

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TALAVERA-BALLON STUDIO, 3712 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CLAUDIO TALAVERA-BALLON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/23/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/05/23.

JAN 12, 19, 26, FEB 02, 2023