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Lyon-Martin on life support

Farrell touts business acumen

by Seth Hemmelgarn yon-Martin Health Services, the San Francisco-based clinic that provides health care to women and transgender people regardless of their ability to pay, needs to raise $250,000 within the next month or it will close, according to board treasurer Peter Balon.

The news caught city health officials and community members by surprise. The clinic is named after pioneering lesbians Phyllis Lyon and her wife, the late Del Martin.

The board had planned to close the clinic today (Thursday, January 27), but after word of the board’s decision leaked early in the week, many community members, including staff, expressed concern about what would happen to patients.

The clinic expected to see 2,500 patients this year.

The budget for 2010 was about $2.2 million.

Balon, who said Lyon-Martin also has up to $1 million in debt, said that it appears the clinic will close “unless we can fundraise or get assistance from the city, everything else remaining equal.”

Asked if the board had thought it could just close the clinic today and be done with it, Balon said, “Yeah, we did, actually. We just didn’t know about all the rules.”

As of Wednesday morning, key staff were trying to craft a plan to ensure patients could continue to somehow receive care.

Balon said besides the loan, there’s also

s San Francisco grapples with a budget deficit of roughly $400 million and ballooning pension costs that could decimate funding for city services, freshman District 2 Supervi- San Francisco sor Mark Farrell Supervisor touts his election as Mark Farrell being particularly propitious due to the business smarts he brings to the board.

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Dr. Nick Gorton, a volunteer doctor at Lyon-Martin Health Services, stands at the entrance to the clinic Tuesday morning.

money owed to a “plethora” of vendors. He estimated that the overall debt is $800,000 to $1 million. That includes a $600,000 loan the clinic took out in 2009 to cover operations. They’ve been paying that off, but a large amount remains, he said.

In addition to the loan, in the last year, about $500,000 in debt has piled up. Balon said part of that was because of the clinic’s billing system.

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Obama urges military recruiters on campuses

by Lisa Keen resident Barack Obama once again brought up the issue of gays in the military during his annual State of the Union address Tuesday. Last year, he called for repeal of the federal law barring openly gay President Barack people from serv- Obama ing. This year, just a month after having signed a bill to repeal that law, the president urged universities that have barred military recruiters over the gay ban now allow recruiters back on campus.

“Our troops come from every corner of this country – they are black, white, Latino, Asian and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.”

That drew applause.

“And with that change,“ continued Obama, “I call on all of our college campuses to open their doors to our military recruiters and the ROTC. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.“ That drew a brief standing ovation.

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Diane Alexis Whipple was a lacrosse coach at St. Mary’s College at the time of her death in 2001.

Sharon Enlowsmith, left, joined NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell at a fundraiser for Enlowsmith’s civil court case in May 2001, just four months after the death of Diane Alexis Whipple.

10 years later: The San Francisco dog-mauling case’s lasting LGBT legacy

by Ed Walsh t was one of the most publicized criminal cases in San Francisco history. Ten years ago this week, on January 26, 2001, two Presa Canario dogs attacked and killed Diane Alexis Whipple, 33, outside her Pacific Heights apartment. The case made headlines around the world. Only the terrorist attacks of September 11 later that year took the story off the front page.

Beyond the media circus, for gay-rights advocates the case helped galvanize support for domestic partner rights. Whipple’s surviving partner, Sharon Smith, put a human face on what otherwise was an abstract concept of same-sex partner rights.

“I think for a lot of Americans, and a lot of people in California, Diane Whipple might have been the first lesbian, the first LGBT person, whose human story they heard,” said Jim Ham-

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Hammer, along with then-prosecutor Kimberly Guilfoyle, convinced a jury that the couple was culpable because they knew their dogs were dangerous but did little to mitigate the danger. Noel was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Knoller, who was with the dogs during the attack, was found guilty of seconddegree murder.

Kate Kendell, the executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, noted that Smith, who changed her last name to Enlowsmith after committing herself to a new partner, struck a chord with the public and the legislature.

“The human face that Sharon put forward in the mix into what truly was an unspeakable horror, I think, moved people in ways that nothing

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else could have done,” said Kendell.

Kendell, along with private attorney Michael Cardoza, helped fight for Enlowsmith’s rights as a surviving partner.

In July 2001, Enlowsmith made gay rights history when San Francisco Superior Court Judge A. James Robertson allowed her to proceed with her wrongful death lawsuit although she was not a legal spouse.

Kendell said it was not a case they had expected to win.

“We knew it was an uphill battle,” she said, “but we knew if there was any case and any plaintiff that could win as a same-sex partner for the right to sue for wrongful death it would be this case and it would be [Enlowsmith].”

Enlowsmith also successfully lobbied in support of a bill authored by then-Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) to bolster the

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Lawsuits chip away at DOMA

by Matthew S. Bajko ith President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unlikely to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act anytime soon, LGBT leaders are increasingly turning to the federal courts to help chip away at the anti-gay law.

The latest assault on the legislation, which bans the federal government and its agencies from recognizing same-sex marriages deemed valid at the state level, involves LGBT employees of the state of California who are suing the California Public Employees’ Retirement System for excluding them and their partners from the pension fund’s long-term care plan.

While CalPERS will cover opposite-sex spouses under its long-term care plan, it does not extend the same coverage to a same-sex spouse or registered domestic partner and cites DOMA for the exclusion. As explained in her agency’s response to the lawsuit, CalPERS Chief Executive Officer Anne Stausboll stated, “They have no choice but to follow federal tax law.”

The three couples in the case all married in 2008 when same-sex marriage was legal in California. The workers’ lawsuit maintains that DOMA is unconstitutional.

Their attorneys are also arguing that the exclusion of gay and lesbian spouses and domestic partners from the CalPERS plan, at the directive of the federal government, violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.

Last week Oakland federal district court Judge Claudia Wilken rejected the Obama administration’s request that she dismiss the lawsuit. Lawyers with the justice department had argued that, due to DOMA, CalPERS was right in its excluding the LGBT workers. But the judge denied the

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federal government’s request and will allow the lawsuit, which was brought by the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center last April, to proceed. Oral arguments in the case will be heard February 24.

In her ruling, Wilken dismissed the federal government’s argument that by passing DOMA, federal leaders sought to maintain the status quo in terms of marriage only being between a man and a woman.

“Section three of the DOMA, however, alters the status quo because it impairs the states’ authority to define marriage, by robbing states of the power to allow same-sex civil marriages that will be recognized under federal law,” wrote Wilken.

“Federal defendants concede that section three of the DOMA effected a departure from the federal government’s prior practice of generally accepting marriages recognized by state law.”

Wilken added that she found validity in the plaintiffs’ claims that “section three of the DOMA bears no rational relationship to a legitimate governmental interest. The section does not preserve the status quo

of the states’ authority to define marriage because it instead impairs their customary and historic authority in the realm of domestic relations. The act’s contemporaneous justifications have been found not to constitute legitimate government interests. Because neither federal defendants’ current justification, nor the actual contemporaneous reasons, for the exclusion of same-sex couples from the federal definition of marriage can be found as a matter of law to be rationally based on a legitimate government interest, plaintiffs have asserted a cognizable claim for an equal protection violation.”

The arguments being made in the CalPERS case are similar to the ones raised in the lawsuit seeking to have California’s ban against same-sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, deemed unconstitutional. In that case, which is now before a federal appellate court, attorneys for two same-sex couples contend the law also violates their clients’ federally sanctioned equal protection and due process guarantees.

While the lawsuit is singularly focused on the state law, it could have implications for the federal DOMA legislation. The federal justices hearing the case could issue a broad ruling striking down all or parts of DOMA in addition to Prop 8.

A third federal case generated in California involves the health benefits offered to the same-sex partners of employees of the federal 9th Circuit. The court has been battling the refusal of the federal government to allow it to cover the spouses of its LGBT employees, citing DOMA as the reason.

The impasse led Karen Golinski, a 19-year employee of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, to sue in order to gain employer-provided health insurance for her wife, Amy Cunninghis. A ruling in the case from U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White could come any day and could limit DOMA’s scope.▼

Gay men dispute beating details

by Seth Hemmelgarn gay San Francisco man says he was recently beaten by another gay city resident, along with another man, who had called him and his boyfriend “faggots.”

Jaime Seca-Poot, 25, was cited for misdemeanor battery after the incident and released. He disputes many details that the alleged victim offered.

John Freiman, 44, said the incident started at about 9:30 p.m. on Monday, January 10 at the underground Castro Muni station.

He and his boyfriend, Jason LaBouyer, were waiting for a train when two men walked by, “pointing out how gay the two of us looked,” said Freiman. He said they then complained “about all the fags in the area.”

Freiman said LaBouyer made a comment to the men, but he then appeared to reconsider that and said, “Jason didn’t say anything to them.”

He said the two men sat down further down the platform and continued talking about “faggots.”

One of them got up and started putting his arm around a fifth man and asking him if he was gay, said Freiman.

Freiman said after he stood up, Seca-Poot shoved him, and he shoved back. Seca-Poot and his companion then punched Freiman, who said his boyfriend counted three or four punches but he could only recall being punched twice.

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He said he followed Seca-Poot and the other man up the stairs and eventually wrestled Seca-Poot to the floor and held him until police arrived.

Freiman, who told the Bay Area Reporter that both he and LaBouyer are white, said during the incident the men repeatedly called him a “racist.” Freiman said he never said anything to them about their race.

He couldn’t recall whether they had said anything to him as they punched him. LaBouyer said in an e-mail Tuesday that his grandmother is of Mexican descent.

Seca-Poot’s companion left as soon as the police appeared, said Freiman.

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Queer family groups uniting

by Seth Hemmelgarn San Francisco-based agency that works with LGBTQ-headed families is looking to provide more help on the Peninsula, south of the city.

Our Family Coalition and Queer Parents for the Love and Advocacy of Our Youth have announced their merger and will be operating under the support and direction of the coalition.

The groups will be hosting the first Peninsula “Family to Family” event from 2 to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, February 5 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 East Charleston Road.

“There’s really a growing presence and growing awareness on the Peninsula for the needs of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer]headed families to come together and support one another, and also a growing desire to work in their schools to help make them more welcoming and inclusive to all kids,” said Judy Appel, executive director of Our Family Coalition.

Appel said the goal is to have a staff person working on the Peninsula to increase programs and work in the schools. Appel said one small grant has already been obtained, and that she’s working with her agency’s grant writer and helping to identify other revenue sources. They’re trying to raise $75,000. Our Family Coalition’s budget is about $675,000.

Dave Chandler, an Our Family Coalition board member, said he formed the Facebook group Our Family Coalition-Peninsula Parents last year, as “a really low-cost, high-

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QPLAY’s Joy Caneda, left, with her wife Leleh Monta, and daughter Julian Caneda-Santos

impact space to get Peninsula parents connected, at least electronically.”

Then, he met Joy Caneda, a QPLAY founder, and they decided to join forces.

Chandler and his husband, Jeff, have two sons, Jacob, 7, and Taylor, 3.

The family lives in San Mateo.

Caneda said her volunteer group started in 2008, around the time of the Proposition 8 campaign. California voters passed the same-sex marriage ban that November.

Children of LGBTQ-headed families on the Peninsula can face isolation in schools, she said, and administrators might not know how to address issues such as anti-gay comments.

She said her daughter, Julian, 9, was once told, “I hate gays.”

Caneda, who is six months pregnant, is married to Leleh Monta. The

SF Pride seeks grand marshals compiled by Cynthia Laird he San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee is now seeking nominations for community and organizational grand marshals for this year’s Pride Parade.

Nominations will be accepted until Monday, February 7. Following that, the Pride board will narrow the list down to 10 names, which will be placed on a ballot for the community to vote on during March.

Last year the committee, board, and Pride members selected all of the grand marshals and did not have community voting.

The Pride Committee is also seeking nominations for the Pink Brick, a dubious award given to someone deemed to have caused harm to the LGBT community. Last year’s recipient was Roy Ashburn, a Republican state senator who had just come out as gay. Ashburn was termed out of office last year.

Pride officials noted that the community grand marshal is someone who is not a celebrity and who N EWS is a “local hero.” Organizational grand marshals need to be nonprofit groups.

Anyone can submit nominations, which should be sent via e-mail, gmnominations@sfpride.org; fax, (415) 864-5889 (must be received by January 31); or mail, 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 (postmarked by February 5).

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mestic couples and married same-sex couples must split their income equally on their federal tax returns.

Stogdill is offering two-hour seminars on February 12, March 5, 26, and April 2. Each runs from 10 a.m. to noon at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. The cost is $100 per person, which is payable by credit card in advance.

Those attending are encouraged to bring their tax forms and documents to the seminar.

To RSVP, e-mail admin @taxkaren.com and type “Do it Yourself” and the seminar date in the subject line. Provide a daytime phone and someone will call for payment information.

New digs for SFAF The San Francisco AIDS Foundation is moving to a new building next week, just a block west of its current location at 6th and Market streets downtown.

As of Tuesday, February 1, SFAF’s offices will be located at 1035 Market Street.

Officials said the move enables the foundaB RIEFS tion to accommodate an expansion of client services, which include the recent addition of clients formerly served by New Leaf: Services for Our Community, which closed last fall.

“The move couldn’t come at a better time for us,” CEO Neil Giuliano said in a statement. “As the lease on our current space neared its end, we were able to leverage the downturn in the real estate market to secure a new space that holds great promise to grow client services, and accelerate efforts to radically reduce new infections in San Francisco.”

SFAF will occupy three floors in the newly renovated building in the

Tax seminars offered Tax preparer Karen K. Stogdill, of KKS Tax Associates Inc., will be offering do-it-yourself seminars on community property and federal tax returns. Recently the Internal Revenue Service clarified that registered do-

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family lives in San Bruno.

Geographically, the southern Bay Area is “wide and dispersed, so it’s hard to really find other LGBTQ families, so we wanted to create those spaces,” said Caneda. Families have been meeting at a Hobee’s restaurant every other month, and there have also been trips to museums and parks.

Caneda said there are about 100 families involved with QPLAY and the other Peninsula group. There are members from Brisbane to Santa Cruz. Most are in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, she said.

At the February 5 event, LGBTQheaded families can meet others and learn about services and other upcoming events. The afternoon will feature children’s activities, food, and prizes. Allies are also welcome.

Chandler said upcoming events would include discussions on topics including estate planning, and parenting and gender identity.▼

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Health clinic falls down yon-Martin Health Services, which has provided low cost health care to women and members of the transgender community since 1979, was set to close its doors at the end of business January 27. But the community wouldn’t have known anything about it had word not leaked out on Tuesday. After a hastily called meeting that night, clinic officials committed not to close as scheduled. Lyon-Martin’s board should be ashamed of itself for the stealthy nature of its decision a few days ago to close suddenly without a transition plan for patients or notifying staff.

Lyon-Martin provides health care to women and transgender people regardless of their ability to pay. The clinic saw 2,300 people in 2009.

The board’s actions were especially jarring since another local health nonprofit provided a model for successfully managing its own closure less than six months ago.

Last summer, New Leaf: Services for Our Community, a substance abuse and mental health organization that also included programs for seniors, ran out of money and closed. But while people were angry, saddened, and disappointed at New Leaf’s closure, at least everyone was given time to prepare for it. Staff made the announcement in late August and the agency remained open for about six weeks until mid-October. Those weeks were spent working with the Department of Public Health to identify other organizations willing and able to step in and take on some of New Leaf’s programs and clients. The agency’s staff worked with health officials and others to mitigate the harmful effects of closing.

New Leaf gave itself enough time to execute a dissolution plan. Thom Lynch, then the executive director, told us that while it was difficult, he was “really proud of the organization for taking a really hard look at itself and making a tough decision.”

At Lyon-Martin, the agency’s board threatened to shut down under the cover of darkness.

There was no advance warning to their patients.

At least one staffer was ordered not to comment and board members, who apparently voted unanimously Monday night to close the clinic, were not talking. Up until Tuesday night, there was no information about the recent develop-

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meeting Tuesday night need to seriously explore ments on Lyon-Martin’s website. Board memalternatives to continue these services. bers Lauren Winter, Peter Balon, Kimberly It is also very apparent that Lyon-Martin’s staff Gillette, Maggie Trevor, Dr. Alison Jacoby, and was less than honest with us last month when we Patrick Noonan owe the clinic’s staff, clients, and reported on the resignation of Executive Direcdonors – and the community at large – tor Teri McGinnis. While Dr. Dawn Hara thorough explanation of what led to batkin acknowledged that Lyon-Martin their decision to close so abruptly. was experiencing a decrease in funding, The news release issued by board there was absolutely no urgency or menchair Winter states that the clinic tion that the clinic might have to close just needs to raise at least $250,000 to reweeks after we published the story. The truth duce immediate debt and to continue is that the clinic did not honestly confront operating. Additionally, the agency is about the severe financial issues it faced. In $1 million in debt. Why didn’t board the news release, Winter acknowlmembers publicize this situation edges that Lyon-Martin has made months ago, when they could have E DITORIAL “painful and drastic” cuts in its held fundraisers and examined staffing and budget in order to keep whether this agency is worth salits doors open. It seems like McGinnis’s departure vaging? Now, the community is left in a “hurrywas indeed an effort to save money and Lyonup-and-wait” situation. To us, the fact that the Martin should have been up-front with the comdeficit is so large indicates mismanagement or munity about that. other budget overruns. That should give the Nonprofit organizations have an obligation community pause. Lyon-Martin may provide to be transparent and honestly inform its clients, unique services, and we’re among the first to acdonors, and supporters. In that regard, Lyonknowledge that health care options for trans peoMartin has failed. Its board should resign immeple are sorely under-represented in the city, but diately.▼ those 150 people who attended the emergency

New model needed for nonprofit executive director compensation survive the downturn?

It is possible that our system of executive compensation undermines organizational staith all of the news of LGBT and HIV bility while at the same time weakening the miscommunity institutions struggling sion. Compensation is often tied to organizaand even closing, the sustainability of tional budgets so that executive directors bethese organizations that anchor our movement come focused on fundraising at the expense of for social justice and equal rights is a relevant the mission. topic worthy of community dialogue. Let’s start We must take into account the reality of the the conversation by focusing on our current dynamics of social class. Human beings have a model of executive director compensation and strong tendency to adopt the values and interests envisioning more sustainable models that better of their social class. As executive directors start serve and lift up all members of our communities making six-figure salaries, they spend more time now and into the future. with their high-income peers and naturally start To be clear, directing a nonprofit is truly one adopting those class interests. In order to mainof the toughest jobs you will ever love. Our comtain an ever increasing revenue stream, and their munities need to do more to uplift and supincreasing personal income, directors spend port these courageous individuals who more time courting wealthier donors, leading to have the strength, intelligence, will power, a type of social climbing. They don’t want to ofstamina, and naiveté to step into public fend the needs, values, and interests of an service. We can support the individuals increasingly wealthier slice of society to making this sacrifice while at the same maintain access to that social class and time examining the systems in which its money. “Don’t bite the hand that they must operate to determine feeds you.” if there is a better way to ensure High incomes also lead to a that community needs are being G UEST O PINION tendency to no longer live in the addressed effectively and efficommunities they serve, if they ciently. ever lived there in the first place. They become There has been an exodus of LGBT leadership disconnected from the realities, values, and priin our community organizations. We have reorities of those they are supposed to be serving. cently seen executive director departures in at What happens when the economic interests of least nine organizations: Under One Roof, the poor is in conflict with the economic interMaitri, New Leaf, Equality California, Academy ests of wealthy donors? of Friends, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, One might argue that this is the price we Lyon-Martin Health Services, Tenderloin Health, must pay and is a fair tradeoff for “professional” and San Francisco Pride. (One of those, New leadership. While there are certain plusses in Leaf, ceased operations altogether and Lyonhaving an educated, corporate-style leadership, Martin is teetering.) While I understand an indiit is not the only measure of value. Are we getting vidual’s need to change and grow and appreciate leadership that avoids taking on the tough issues, organizations sometimes need fresh ideas, I am that avoids vigorously promoting the interests concerned at what seems to be a rather large and of poor people? Are we getting leadership that rapid draining of our executive experience. It is silences their voices and moderates their posiimportant to ask if there is something more than tions so they don’t offend wealthy donors? Are just the ordinary ebb and flow of individual cacreating a culture in which this corporate style reers. Most, if not all, of these departures are tied of leadership leaves when revenue declines? In to a decrease in organizational revenue. What is too many instances, the answer is yes. it about our system that leads to executive direcWhat value do we place on loyalty, stability, tor departure just when the organizations and and consistency, especially when times are community need their experience most to help tough? What value do we place on creating sys-

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tems that allow us to be truthful, to not look the other way, to linking ourselves with the struggles of the poor and disenfranchised?

This system is not the fault of those in charge. There is a better way and those in charge have the power to make the change. The answer is to create alternatives to the current compensation model and expand the definition of success for executive directors.

My ideal is that leaders of nonprofits take an oath of poverty, live in the communities they serve, and consciously make themselves reliant on the same systems of care as the people they serve. However, every leader is not prepared to follow this model. There are alternative forms of nonprofit executive compensation in which all boats rise. Some of these models are already working at a variety of organizations and we should examine them for appropriateness for all city-funded agencies.

Tying executive compensation to a multiple of the lowest paid worker allows all boats to rise and will garner a broad base of popular support. Providing contract bonus points tied to the percent of total agency salaries dedicated to positions for people on disability will increase the visibility of the disabled as organizational assets. This moral imperative makes business sense and is achievable by San Franciscans.

Finally, there is the possibility of an absolute cap on nonprofit compensation. Such legislation is currently under review in Canada and New Jersey. Caps will remove the upward pressure on salaries, freeing up time and energy to focus on the mission. We are witnessing how tying executive compensation to increases in revenue leads to a loss of leadership when revenues decline. In some ways, capping compensation might smooth out the ups and downs of the business cycle and lead to greater stability.▼ Brian Basinger is the executive director of AIDS Housing Alliance/SF. At $690 per month, his salary is nowhere near six figures; AHA does receive funding from the city of San Francisco, and 67 percent of every dollar raised directly benefits people with HIV/AIDS, either in salaries or rental assistance.

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Equality Federation welcomes new executive director

by Matthew S. Bajko he hiring of Rebecca Isaacs as the new executive director of the Equality Federation is a coming home of sorts for the former San Francisco resident and graduate of UC Hastings College of the Law. Isaacs first worked with the federation of state LGBT organizations in 1997 in her capacity as political director at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. At the time, the umbrella group for agencies working on LGBT issues at the state level was a project associated with the task force.

Now the federation is its own entity, and Isaacs officially took over leadership of the organization Tuesday, January 18. One of her first duties will be representing the Equality Federation at the task force’s National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. The annual confab, now in its 23rd year, will be held in Minneapolis February 2-6.

“The task force provided backup and support until the Equality Federation formed its own separate 501(c)3,” explained Isaacs, who left the task force in 2000.

While mingling with LGBT leaders from across the country, Isaacs will not only have a chance to introduce herself in her new role but will also be gathering information about what assistance she and her staff, currently two employees, P OLITICAL can provide the leaders of various statewide LGBT groups.

Isaacs, 55, has been hired specifically to help facilitate the growth and organizational strength of state-based equality groups. She will oversee a budget of $1 million and her starting salary is $150,000.

“The goal is to take the Equality Federation to the next level so we have the ability and the resources to make even more of a difference in the states,” said Isaacs, who is succeeding founding executive director Toni Broaddus.

“I want us to have a bigger voice and visibility.”

Isaacs would like to increase the federation’s funding, which partly comes from grants, foundations, and fees paid by the state groups, the amount of which is weighted by their size. And not every state is represented in the federation, said Isaacs, something she plans to work on.

“A few states don’t have their own organizations,” she said. “One of the big goals and reason why the Equality Federation exists is to help the state organizations share best practices and expertise.”

Two of the strongest state groups in the federation are Equality California and New York’s Empire State Pride Agenda. Unlike in those two states, where the Legislatures and governors are particularly gay-friendly, other

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Rebecca Isaacs hopes to facilitate the growth of state-based equality groups.

groups are facing anti-gay backlashes this year, such as fights over same-sex marriage in both Iowa and New Hampshire.

“There are states that are facing a more hostile atmosphere,” said Isaacs, adding that one of her first tasks is determining which state groups will need the most help over the next few years in defending LGBT laws or blocking anti-gay legislative efforts.

“Often it is easier to pass legislation at the state level,” she said. “I think we can continue to make progress even in tough times.

We will continue to play some defense, but more than anything, we want to be proactive and hold on the gains we N OTEBOOK to have made.”

Isaacs lives in Santa Monica and plans to telecommute with the federation’s staffers, who work out of rented office space near Union Square in San Francisco.

She plans to visit the city often and has strong ties to the Bay Area.

Isaacs and her wife, Vanessa Schwartz, met 20 years ago while she attended law school and Schwartz earned a graduate degree in history at UC Berkeley.

Their 15-year-old daughter, Rachel Schwartz, spent last summer studying with the San Francisco Ballet and lived on the University of San Francisco campus. Isaacs is her biological mother, while Schwartz became her legal guardian through a second-parent adoption.

The couple married in 2008 at a joint ceremony with a gay male couple they are friends with; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officiated. Isaacs and Schwartz had registered as domestic partners in San Francisco in 1991.

Isaacs lived in the city from 1981 until 1993, when she moved with Schwartz to Washington, D.C. due to Schwartz being hired to teach at American University. They stayed throughout the Clinton administration and the Republican takeover of Congress, with Isaacs leading the task force’s lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill.

“I was there for the drafting of ENDA, hate crimes, and the Violence Against Women Act,” recalled Isaacs.

“Some of the things we did people never heard about because we worked to block some terrible, terrible things such as all these anti-gay amendments they were trying to attach to different legislation.”

In 2000 they moved back to California when Schwartz was hired to teach European history at the University of Southern California. Isaacs was hired as the interim executive director of the LA Gay and Lesbian Center and served as a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission.

Her resume includes stints as the executive director of various agencies, including the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the Inner City Law Center; and Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. Isaacs also worked as communications director and legislative aide for Democratic Los Angeles Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard and was a member of the executive committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. She was a founding director of the Coalition for LGBT Health and served as a policy director of People For the American Way. Isaacs also was a national board member of AIDS Action.

“Her long history of both growing effective organizations and working across broad social justice platforms makes her the ideal choice to advance and elevate state-based equality organizations,” stated Jody Cofer, board co-chair of the Equality Federation Institute, in announcing Isaacs’s hiring earlier this month.

Brown taps lesbian for energy post Last week Governor Jerry Brown appointed out lesbian Nancy Ryan as deputy executive director for the California Public Utilities Commission.

The 49-year-old Berkeley resident has been a commissioner on the Public Utilities Commission and previously served as deputy executive director.

Ryan, a Democrat, will earn $134,808 and serves at the pleasure of the governor. She has had a long career working on energy issues.

She served as chief of staff and chief energy advisor to the commission’s president, Michael R. Peevey, from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, Ryan was a senior economist and California deputy regional director for the Environmental Defense Fund from 2001 to 2005, deputy director for the Ecosystems Program in 2005 and visiting assistant professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2007. She was an independent energy consultant for conservation groups, public agencies and electric utilities from 1997 to 2001.

Ryan received her Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in economics from Yale. She and her

An honor for an AIDS advocate ee Hawn, the husband of the late AIDS activist Randy Allgaier, accepts a Partnership Award on his behalf during a Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief reception Monday, January 24 at San Francisco City Hall. Mr. Allgaier, who died in November, was a longtime participant and leader in the CAEAR Coalition. The establishment of the Randy Allgaier Positive Voices Fund was also announced at the reception. This fund will provide travel and accommodation subsidies for AIDS activists to participate in advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C. Further information is available at www.aef-sf.org/donatenow.

Other advocates were also honored at the event, including Scott Boule, senior adviser to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; Representative Mike Honda; Ernest Hopkins, director of legislative affairs at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation; California state Senator Mark Leno; and Project Inform.

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Milk Club welcomes new co-chairs The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club this week ushered in brand new leaders for the progressive political group.

Leading the group as it marks its 35th anniversary this year and overseeing its involvement in the fall races for mayor and district attorney will be co-chairs Nathan Allbee and Stephany Ashley. They are succeeding David Waggoner and Denise D’Anne, the first two-person team to lead the club.

Last year Allbee and Ashley over-

saw Rafael Mandelman’s unsuccessful bid for the District 8 supervisor seat.

Ashley served as Mandelman’s campaign manager and Allbee was his deputy campaign manager.

The two bring not only fresh faces but also a youthful spirit to the Milk club, as Allbee is 31 and Ashley is 25.

They will serve one-year terms having been elected by the club’s members at its meeting Tuesday, January 25.

“We’re very excited that our slate this year is mostly made up of new, young activists and we’re looking forward to bringing energy and fresh ideas to the board. It’s going to be a great year for the Milk Club,” stated Allbee.▼

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Mark Hunter, left, and Greg Kafka are in the process of updating their new resort, Escape Palm Springs.

Resorts rule in Palm Springs

by Ed Walsh espite the continued bad economy and more recently, anger over a botched gay sex sting, gay Palm Springs is alive and well. The city boasts more than twodozen gay resorts and the resort owners have been constantly updating and refurbishing their properties.

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For gay folks, Palm Springs’ gay resorts may be the city’s biggest single attraction. The city enjoys an embarrassment of riches in the quality and variety of its accommodation choices.

Three properties, the Casitas Laquita, Queen of Hearts, and its sister property, Desert Hearts Inn, are for lesbians, but the nearly two-dozen others are for gay men. The upscale (but not stuffy) East Canyon Hotel and Spa is the only gay hotel that is not clothing optional. But in March, a brand new resort, Pura Vida, will open in Warm Sands and it will become the second gay resort that will insist you wear at least a Speedo at the pool. The Canadian owner of the Pura Vida promises to make it one of the most upscale resorts in the city. He has completely rehabbed the old Bacchanal Resort after he bought it last year.

Just across the street from Pura Vida is the superb INNdulge resort. It changed hands last month. The new owners, Jon Jackson and Sandy Miller, plan to upgrade the rooms and are keeping the great staff who have made the resort so popular with repeat visitors. Amenities include an early evening cocktail hour, which is a great way to meet other guests. You will feel like family after only a few days there.

The Vista Grande in Warm Sands is four resorts in one. Owner Bob Mellen likes to say the resort is “provocative but not sleazy.” It is also one of the most beautifully landscaped properties in Palm Springs. Amenities include a steam room, dry sauna, three hot tubs, and four pools. The rates there are the same all year round, so be sure to book ahead if you plan to visit during the busy winter and early spring months.

The Century Palm Springs in Warm Sands consistently ranks near the top of the lists of quality gay resorts in the country. It is a hip, modern

property with one of the best mountain views in Palm Springs. If you appreciate great design and luxury, you will find a lot to love about this place.

The biggest concentration of resorts outside of Warm Sands is along San Lorenzo Road. That’s where you will find four great resorts, the Triangle Inn, Santiago, Escape Palm Springs, and Tortuga del Sol. Escape Palm Springs used to be called Chestnutz. The new owners, Mark Hunter and Greg Kafka, bought the resort over the summer and are in the process of completely renovating all the rooms with flat screen TVs and an upscale retro 1950s look. Check out their website for some great deals to get acquainted with this wonderful property.

With 24 rooms, the Santiago Resort is the largest gay hotel on San Lorenzo Road. Everything is big at this quality resort. The pool is the largest of any gay resort and all the rooms are either suites or studios, so you will never feel cramped.

You will see the distinctive triangle shape of the Triangle Inn at the start of San Lorenzo Road. The Triangle boasts nine spacious suites and is another resort that deservedly has a strong repeat clientele. If a room is not enough, you can rent a whole house next door.

The Tortuga del Sol has a beautiful southwestern theme in its spacious rooms. A special pet-friendly room has a fenced side yard making it a perfect place for your dog to enjoy the Palm Springs sunshine.

The aforementioned East Canyon Hotel and Spa consistently ranks as one of the best gay resorts in the country. The property is maintained with all the amenities and quality bedding and furnishings that you would find in a Four Seasons Hotel but at a fraction of what you would pay for such a room. If you want to pamper yourself, stop by for a spa treatment.

If you would prefer to stay in a mixed, rather than an exclusively gay property, you can do no better than the Pool House. It is a six-room boutique hotel that just opened last May on the north side of town. It is just steps from the popular gay Toucan’s bar, making it very convenient for night owls who want to avoid driving after they have had a few. This beauti-

fully designed property is attached to the Blue Pear Texx Mexx Restaurant.

The hotel’s owners welcome the public and guests alike to hang out at the pool.

The Chaps Inn, just north of downtown, is celebrating its 10th anniversary as the premier resort for leathermen and bears in Palm Springs.

It’s a very friendly 10-unit property owned and operated by a British couple.

The biggest resort in the Palm Springs area is not in the city itself but in neighboring Cathedral City. The Cathedral City Boys Club is on three and a half acres and is open 24 hours a day for day and night passes. It has a large steam room and dry sauna as well as a “nature walk.”

Nightlife The biggest concentration of gay nightlife is along Arenas Road, just off Indian Canyon Road in downtown Palm Springs. It’s there where you will find the video bar SpurLine, the video and dance bar Hunters, the neighborhood bar known for its people-watching patio, Streetbar, and Score, another friendly neighborhood bar. Plans are in the works to reopen the old Rainbow Cactus as the Rainbow Bar and Grill sometime later this year.

The popular Toucans Tiki Lounge is on the north side of Palm Springs.

It’s famous for its Tuesday and Thursday two-for-one drink nights. Tuesdays and the weekends are almost always packed.

There are a couple of leather and Levi cruise bars in the Palm Springs area: the Tool Shed in Warm Sands and the Barracks in Cathedral City.

Club Whatever in Cathedral City changed its name to Digs recently. But the bar still attracts the same friendly neighborhood crowd. Also in Cathedral City, Sidewinders and the neighboring piano lounge bar, Studio One 11, also draw a neighborhood crowd.

Since all but one of the gay resorts is in Palm Springs, the Cathedral City bars tend to draw more locals.

There are no full-time lesbian bars in Palm Springs but Hunters hosts a women’s party, “Pink,” on the last Saturday of every month. Toucans, although mostly gay men, is very lesbian friendly. For information on special events for women, including monthly mixers, visit www.lspotpalmsprings.com.

Dining The gay-owned Trio on Palm Canyon Drive continues to be one of the hottest restaurants in town. The Trio bar is almost always packed for happy hour and the restaurant draws a crowd even on weeknights. Trio’s owners have added a number of new dishes, so you will never get tired of eating there.

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Lesley Gore set for PS Follies

by Ed Walsh esley Gore has one of the more dramatic overnight success stories in show business history. She sometimes says that her overnight success took a week. And it literally did.

Her mega-hit, “It’s My Party (and I’ll cry if I want to)” soared to the top of the charts just over a month after she recorded it nearly five decades ago. Gore was just 16.

“We recorded ‘It’s My Party’ on March 30, 1963,” Gore told the Bay Area Reporter in an interview last week. “I was driving home from school on April 6, exactly seven days later, and I heard it on a New York radio station for the first time. About six weeks after that it was the number one song in the nation.”

Gore was taking singing lessons at the time. Her teacher had her make some test recordings. Through a couple of degrees of separation, those recordings were heard by producer Quincy Jones, who was looking for a teenage singer. After she recorded “It’s My Party,” she was told not to be disappointed if it was never released. She didn’t think much would become of it until she heard it on the radio.

While Gore’s rise to stardom was dramatic, her coming out as a lesbian was decidedly more subtle. She told the B.A.R. that she has been out to her colleagues and friends since she was in her 20s, but she never really took a more public stance until she hosted the PBS show, In the Life, in 2004. She gave an interview in the show in which she said “we” instead of “they” when referring to gay people.

“It was the moment where I basically became public.” Gore said. “Then in 2005, I released a record on a small independent label and much of the press that I did at the time was about being gay.”

Gore added, “I am very proud of being gay and I am very proud of the wonderful friends I have made and so

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I think it’s important to stand up and be very proud together.”

Gore, now 64, has lived in New York with her partner, Lois, a prominent jewelry designer, for 31 years.

(Gore declined to provide her partner’s last name.)

The 1960s icon is performing through March 5 at the Fabulous Palm Spring Follies, a variety show styled after old-fashioned vaudeville shows of the past, but with a twist. The performers must be of a “certain age.”

This year’s dancing girls and dancing boys are aged 56 to 81. The show features song and dance numbers with a patriotic finale. The glue that holds the show together is emcee and Follies’ cofounder Riff Markowitz, who does a brilliant job of good-naturedly poking fun at Palm Springs’ biggest demographic groups, gays and older people.

The show won over Gore.

“This is the first time I’ve been involved with something so spectacular

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rant is the newest gay-owned restaurant in Palm Springs. It just opened last May but has already drawn a loyal following for its delicious Tex-Mex cuisine. Be sure and try the sweet dessert burrito.

Wangs in the Desert is still a gay favorite for its upscale Asian food. Friday night’s happy hour is a gay institution in Palm Springs.

The sights The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway takes you through the four seasons in just 10 minutes. The recent abundant rain in California has translated into a deep snowpack in the mountains.

That means you can sit by the pool in 80-degree weather and go cross-country skiing at the top of Mt. San Jacinto all in the same afternoon.

One of the biggest attractions in the Palm Springs area is Joshua Tree National Park. The entrance to the

park is just a 50-minute drive from downtown Palm Springs. If you only have a couple of hours to spend there, the two things you should do are: take the easy half-mile walk around Caprock and take the short walk up to Key’s View. The Caprock trail takes you by some beautiful Joshua trees as well as some amazing rock formations. Key’s View offers a spectacular view. For the best view, go in the morning. On a clear day, you can see the Salton Sea and the mountains in Mexico, 90 miles away.

The high desert makes a great day trip from Palm Springs but you don’t have to leave the city to see some desert beauty. The Indian Canyons are about four miles from downtown. The reserve is owned by the Aqua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, who have charted out three hikes through some of the most magnificent desert scenery you will see anywhere. The Indian Canyons are also a perfect place to spend a day even on a rare rainy day.

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as the follies to be honest with you. It’s beyond compare,” she said.

Gore performs a 20-minute set in the show with her most famous hits including “Sunshine and Lollipops,” “You Don’t Own Me” and of course, “It’s My Party” and its sequel, “Judy’s Turn to Cry.” The singer said her favorite hit is “You Don’t Own Me.” It was the finale of her set. The lyrics also make it obvious why the song has long been popular among gays.

“I’m free and I love to be free “To live my life the way I want “To say and do whatever I please” What’s next for Gore? She told the B.A.R. that she plans to produce a musical based on her life. Considering the success of musicals like Jersey Boys, a show with her music weaved around stories from her remarkable life could prove to be a winning combination.▼

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by Gwendolyn Ann Smith n unnamed transgender woman went to the San Antonio, Texas police station in 2010.

Some time before she visited the station, a police officer, Craig Nash, had picked her up for prostitution. It would seem, according to investigators, that Officer Nash did not take this woman directly to lockup. Instead, after cuffing her he told her to lie down in the back

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He then dropped her off near a school back in town.

Once she was dropped off, it was a local bus – not Nash’s squad car – that took her to the police station. There, a rape kit would be administered, showing that Nash did indeed leave his DNA on the victim. Later, GPS records would place his squad car at the scene at the time the acts occurred.

This was not necessarily an isolated incident. A second person has come forth, claiming to have also been sexually assaulted by Nash back in 2008. clared their own records lost in 2008 – In another alleged incident, from hence the reason the commission is 2009, Nash had a complaint filed now trying to get the DA’s copies of the against him by the Texas Civil Rights records.

Project. In the complaint, it was alleged When I was young, I was taught that that Nash had threatened witnesses the police were here to protect us from with arrest after responding to a dothe bad guys. My family would watch mestic assault. Nothing apparently ever Dragnet or Adam-12, huddled around came of this report. the glow of the television. On my bookNash has since lost his badge, and is shelf was a copy of the children’s book, behind bars for his crime – but this is Policeman Dan. My schools would have where things get muddy. You see, in days where the local police would come spite of very clear evidence against him, over, educating us about safety, and adNash was allowed to enter into a plea monishing us to report suspicious acagreement. In exchange for pleading tivity in our town. From my earliest guilty to a misdemeanor charge of offidays, everything conspired to teach me cial oppression, the prosecutor agreed that the police were the good guys. not to pursue felony charges for sexual Maybe if I was not transgender, I assault. More than this, the prosecutor could still live with that belief. Frankly, would not even pursue charges stemI’d like to live in a world of heroes ming from the 2008 case. swooping in to save the day, protecting Nash is serving one year in jail for us from all of society’s so-called ills. Yet his crimes. Presumably he could even what happens if the guy with the get time off for good behavior. badge isn’t the good guy at all, Meanwhile, in Washington, and clearly does not want to D.C., a transwoman named protect you?

Chloe Moore was verbally and In each of the above physically assaulted. In recases, it is at least likely – if sponse, Moore pepper not downright obvious – that sprayed the man. Undethe officers acted interred, he chased her, appropriately. Nash’s forced her to the were sexualground, and pulled T RANSMISSIONS victims ly assaulted, and he out his badge. His used his position as a name is Raphael police officer to commit his crimes.

Radon and he’s an officer with the Radon allegedly assaulted a transgenWashington, D.C. police department. der woman before getting a face full of Radon was off-duty at the time of the pepper spray, then used his badge to alleged incident. further assault her.

Two other police officers responded What of Morris? We may never to the scene, and determined that know the whole story. Philadelphia acRadon was indeed at fault, even noting tivists and others have spent the better that he may have committed a biaspart of a decade pointing out the few based assault. Yet these two officers facts in this case, noting that Morris was were not allowed to charge Radon healthy when she got into the police car, thanks to police Captain Michelle yet had severe head trauma a few minWilliams. She interceded in the affair, utes after getting out. Could a random insisting that Moore be charged with assault have happened between the few assault while Radon goes free. moments she got out and when she The internal affairs unit is investiwas found? Yes – but Occam’s razor gating, but meanwhile Moore is still the would suggest otherwise. one facing charges.

In both Nash and Radon’s cases, the Finally, in Philadelphia, members of officers got off with reduced sentences a police advisory committee are seekor no charges at all. While there is still ing yet more information about the the matter of an internal investigation killing of Nizah Morris. in the latter incident, it’s plenty likely it Morris died in December 2002, the will end up with Radon still wearing the victim of a skull fracture. Shortly before badge he hides behind. her death, police had given her a courI want to believe the cops are the tesy ride. The committee has sent letgood guys, but is it even possible when ters to District Attorney R. Seth those whose job it is to uphold the law Williams and Police Commissioner can so flagrantly break it, and not face Charles H. Ramsey, requesting more punishment? I think not.▼ materials, including “any and all 911 tapes, transcripts or other documents or materials” in the murder.

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mid-Market area, bringing the majority of the agency’s services into one unified space. An open layout of offices will allow for greater collaboration across program and professional staff, officials said.

SFAF spokesman Ryan McKeel said the agency’s rent will increase slightly, from $21.99 per square foot at the old location to $24.06 per square foot at 1035 Market. He added that the landlord covered 85 percent of the build-out costs, with generous support

from the foundation’s real estate broker; Studly, Pollack Architects; and Skyline Construction, the contractor for the new construction.

McKeel added that the foundation faced the prospect of a rent increase and seismic retrofit work at the old location.

“Our address is changing but our mission remains the same – to end the HIV epidemic in the city where it began and, eventually, everywhere,” said Giuliano. “Now we’re in a much stronger position to make that goal a reality.”▼ More News Briefs are online at ebar.com.

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HUD announces proposed new LGBT anti-bias rule

by Dana Rudolph he federal Department of Housing and Urban Development last week announced proposed new regulations intended to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in its core housing programs – programs that impact 4.4 million units of housing in the country.

The proposed new rule would: • Clarify that families who are otherwise eligible for HUD programs may not be excluded because one or more members of the family may be an LGBT individual, have an LGBT relationship, or be perceived to be such an individual or in such relationship.

• Prohibit owners and operators of HUD-assisted or HUD-financed housing from inquiring about applicants’ sexual orientation or gender identity.

• Prevent lenders from using sexual orientation or gender identity of an applicant as a basis to determine eligibility for Federal Housing Administration mortgages. FHA mortgages represent one-third of all new mortgages in the country.

The first two policies would apply to HUD’s rental assistance and home ownership programs, including FHA mortgage insurance programs, community development programs, and public and assisted housing programs.

In total, there are currently 4.4 million HUD-funded units of housing in the U.S., said a department spokesperson, including public housing, housing subsidized by the Housing Choice Voucher program (Section 8 housing), and multi-family housing assisted by HUD funding.

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan called the move “a fundamental issue of fairness” and said in a January 20 press briefing that he wants HUD to be a “leader” in the fight for LGBT equality, as it has been in other civil rights battles.

Last October, HUD announced its intent to institute the new rule as part of a series of measures to address housing discrimination against LGBT people.

HUD also announced last July a clarification of existing policy, stating that, although the Fair Housing Act – a pivotal civil rights act that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status – does not specifically cover sexual orientationor gender identity-based discrimination, it may still cover them in other ways. For example, gender-identity discrimination may be seen as sex discrimination.

HUD has also instructed staff to inform individuals about state and local LGBT protections that may apply to them. And HUD has told its grant applicants – who seek a total of $3.25 billion in federal funding – they must comply with such state and local laws, where they exist.

There are currently no explicit federal protections that ban housing discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Twenty states plus the District of Columbia have housing protections specific to sexual orientation, and 13 states plus the District have protections specific to gender identity. Approximately 150 cities, towns, and counties have LGBT protections as well, according to HUD. No national study has quantified how many LGBT people have faced housing discrimination, although several smaller studies and examples have indicated pervasive discrimination, especially against transgender people and LGBT seniors.

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study to fill this gap. The agency collected input for the study last year via a national listening tour and online submissions. A HUD spokesperson said the target date for reporting findings is late 2012.

HUD may additionally include LGBT discrimination in its decennial study of housing discrimination, which has, in the past, looked at racial- and ethnic-based discrimination.

There is also a move in Congress to prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in all housing, not just HUD programs. At the end of the last session of Congress, Democratic Representatives Jerrold Nadler (New York), John Conyers (Michigan), and Edolphus Towns (D-New York) introduced the Housing Opportunities Made Equal Act, which would amend the Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or marital status in the sale, rental, financing, or brokerage of housing.

The bill would also expand the housing act’s definition of “familial status” to include “anyone standing in loco parentis“ to a minor – thus providing protection to same-sex couples and other families where one parent may not be legally recognized.

Individuals seeking redress under the act may bring a lawsuit in federal district court or file an administrative complaint with HUD. Ilan Kayatsky, a spokesman for Nadler, said Nadler hopes to reintroduce the bill in this session of Congress “within the next couple of months.”

Nadler praised HUD’s proposed new rule in a statement, saying that he “[welcomes] the administration’s more inclusive and expansive view of what defines an American ‘family.’”

With Republican control of the House this session, however, Nadler lost his chairmanship of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. The new chair for the renamed Subcommittee on the Constitution is Representative Trent Franks (R-Arizona).

Trent received a 0 percent score from the Human Rights Campaign for each of the past two Congresses, indicating he never voted in favor of legislation to further LGBT equality.

The proposed HUD rule must go through a 60-day period of public comment, January 24 to March 25.

The date of publication for the final rule will depend upon the volume of comments received, but is expected by the end of 2011, said a department spokesperson.

Comments may be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov, or by mail to the Regulations Division, Office of General Counsel, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW, Room 10276, Washington, D.C. 20410-0500.▼

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The locker room closet: It gets better

by Roger Brigham ighly publicized suicides in recent years are grim reminders of the pervasive risks LGBT teenagers face every day of their lives.

Swamped by feelings of isolation and condemnation, not knowing whom to turn to or even what to say if they found someone to talk with, many live a cold and vulnerable life, desperate with the uncertainty of whether it indeed will ever get better.

Those feelings of “Am I the only one?” can be especially powerful for young LGBT athletes. Professional role models in elite sports are few and far between, not the subject of the stories they read in sports sections on a daily basis. They see flamboyant displays in annual Pride parades, they are exposed to caricatures in sitcoms, and they read about the comings and goings of gay celebrities from the world of cinema and music, but the only time they encounter a mention of gays in sports may be when the gym teacher calls for a game of “Smear the Queer.”

Paradoxically, while gay-centric recreational and competitive sports have blossomed over the past three decades in most of the Western world, adolescent sports remain a lonely and hostile environment for the vast majority of young queer athletes.

But things are indeed getting better. Here and there, young athletes are reaching each other through blogs (check out www. bradrobertben.wordpress.com, a J OCK blog created by two high school soccer players and a runner); the “Fearless Campus Tour” brought photos of out college athletes to high school and college campuses and the 2010 Winter Olympics (see www.fearlesscampus-tour.org); and several advocacy groups are out there trying to make the world safer for the new generation.

Pat Griffin, a longtime LGBT sports activist who is now heading up the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s Sports Project, one of the newest initiatives to counter homophobia in youth sports, told the Bay Area Reporter that lack of visibility in top-level sports contributes to a sense of isolation for younger athletes, subconsciously feeding the myth that queers

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can’t cut it or be accepted by “real” athletes.

“They don’t have that many role models in the pros or college ranks,” Griffin said. “What we’re hoping to do is to make this issue more visible – make life for LGBT young athletes more open and respectful.”

Previously Griffin had been in charge of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s “It Takes a Team” education project. Last summer she made a proposal to GLSEN for the sports project.

“I came on board in October and have been working on pulling this together,” Griffin said. “The purpose is to extend the GLSEN mission making schools for students, taking TALK safe it into an athletic context.”

Griffin said the organization is compiling and reviewing resources.

“Our primary target groups are coaches, athletes, and parents of athletes,” she said. “Those are the people we want to influence the most. We’re trying to create resources that are accessible and practical. The next challenge is getting the word out. I’m involved in engaging coaches and athletic directors.”

She said she hopes to launch a “Team Respect” challenge next school year.

“In essence, we’re hoping individual teams will take the respect challenge,” Griffin explained. “It’s about treating each other with respect and taking a stand against bullying. We’ll invite them to take that challenge. We’ll have T-shirts or baseball caps with a logo and some kind of cool slogan like, ‘Respect: Are You Bringing It?’” Proactive alliances with athletes who identify as straight are seen as a crucial building block, and one of the most visible allies to step forward has been Hudson Taylor, a heterosexual three-time All-American wrestler for the University of Maryland, who wore a Human Rights Campaign logo on his singlet during competition. Now an assistant coach at Columbia, he created a whydoyoufight.org blog to publicize personal LGBT sports stories, and more recently has created the Athlete Ally Pledge at www.athleteally.com.

“I have such big dreams for the pledge,” Taylor told the B.A.R. “My hope is to create a database of safe athletic spaces across the country. I think it would be a really amazing resource for young LGBT athletes. If enough people in the athletic community take the pledge, we can start to really define for ourselves a new standard of athletic integrity. This can then help influence NCAA policies to take a more hands-on approach to creating a safe and respectful athletic environment.

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I didn’t start out as an ally. For a long time I sat complacently in locker room after locker room as I heard my teammates and people I considered my friends use derogatory and homophobic language.”

Then Taylor decided enough was enough.

“When I finally decided to start speaking out I was largely focused on trying to create a respectful athletic environment for everyone,” he said.

“I saw myself as more of a feminist than a gay-rights activist. It wasn’t until I started receiving hundreds of e-mails from young LGBT athletes that I truly understood how void the athletic community was of straight LGBT allies. In many ways, those emails were the genesis of my ‘activism.’ Whydoyoufight.org was my first stab at trying to make a real proactive difference. My hope was to encourage members of the LGBT community and their allies to tell the world why they fight for equality. If enough non-allies were to see their stories and reasons for fighting, maybe they would come a little closer to being an ally themselves. As time progressed, I realized that my blog wasn’t really addressing or helping to mitigate the homophobia in athletics. The Athlete Ally Pledge was my solution to that problem.”

Taylor sees the issues facing lesbian and gay athletes as different sides of the coin toss.

“For male athletes, we have to address the stereotypes behind masculinity, homosexuality, and athletic success,” he said. “Young male athletes have been taught that homosexuality is feminine and that to be a successful athlete you must strive to be masculine and thereby heterosexual. We need to teach our young male athletes that being gay and masculine are not mutually exclusive and that athletic success is determined by your actions on the field, not your attractions off the field. For women, we have to address the stereotypes behind femininity, homosexuality, and athletic success. Many young female athletes equate being a lesbian with masculinity. In this way, because athletic success is seen as an aspect of masculinity, many successful female athletes are assumed to be lesbians. This creates a team culture that unnecessarily keeps some female athletes closeted. Just as in men’s sports, to overcome this we are going to have to redefine the pervasive stereotypes that allow homophobia to continue to occur.”

So far, more than 1,200 people have signed Taylor’s pledge.

“If every athlete in this country took a stand against homophobia and ant-LGBT bullying,” Taylor said, “I truly believe that we would no longer have to tell LGBT teens that it gets better. Instead, athletes could actually make it better.”▼ Next week: The B.A.R. talks with a local gay high school athlete and team captain.

▼ Laurence (Larry) Robert Fenton August 2, 1960 – January 4, 2011

Laurence (Larry) Robert Fenton, 50 years old, passed away suddenly at his residence in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 4, 2011.

Larry, the son of Thomas Edward Fenton and Patricia Elizabeth Fenton was born on August 2, 1960 at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood, California. Larry attended grade school in Yorba Linda, California and middle school in Fullerton, California. Larry graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton and from La Verne University in La Verne, California. Larry worked for State Fund in San Francisco.

He is survived by his three siblings Jeanne Cavazos, Michael Fenton and Daniel Fenton.

Larry will be remembered for his sharp wit, great sense of humor and compassion for others. Larry was a son, a brother and a friend to countless people. He will be missed by all.

Larry will be interred during a private memorial service at Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton, CA, immediately adjacent to his parents.

The family asks that Larry’s memory live on through friends sharing funny stories and happy experiences. There will be a celebration of Larry’s life at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge (133 Turk St., between Jones & Taylor) Sunday, January 30 at 4:00pm. All are welcome to attend.

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OBITUARIES Don Hart

Joel E. Jorgensen

March 15, 1946 - January 9, 2011

July 19, 1946 – December 31, 2010

Don Hart died on January 9, 2011 at home in Bernal Heights. He was 64. Don graduated from Haddonfield High School in Pennsylvania in 1964. He was a varsity wrestler at Haverford College where he earned a BA. He served in the Peace Corps and received a MA in International Affairs from Ohio University and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

In 1974, he began his banking career with Banque National de Paris (BNP), as a credit analyst and became their vice-president and treasurer in 1984. A merger created BNP Paribas and Don became treasurer of the San Francisco branch in 1986. He retired in 2010 as director of asset and liability management.

Don loved to teach and volunteered in Operation Hope’s financial literacy program in San Francisco. He was a life master of bridge and was passionate about trivia and Jeopardy!.

He ran football and Survivor pools, enjoyed foreign travel and reveled in organizing reunions of his high school classmates.

He joined Will Leber as domestic partners in 2009. They lived with long time friend Tom Tricarico in the city and also enjoyed a country home in Hopland where Don tended his yucca and cactus groves.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend Joel Jorgensen. Joel was a fixture in the Castro district where he lived for 16 years.

He often referred to the Castro as his downtown where he loved visiting with shopkeepers, hanging out with old friends and welcoming opportunities to make new ones over a cup of coffee.

Throughout his life, Joel fulfilled many roles: teacher, caregiver, counselor, designer, director, confidante, salesman, and volunteer. To those who knew him (and even those he had often just met!), Joel was unabashedly irreverent, delightfully depraved, and generous to a fault.

A native of South Dakota, Joel taught English, Speech and Theatre at Lincoln Senior High School in Sioux Falls for more than 10 years. Before embarking on his teaching career, Joel was an intake technician for the U.S. Army at what was then called the Mental Hygiene Clinic at Fort Ord, California. He also served honorably in Vietnam.

Like most of us, Joel’s life took some unexpected detours and he endured his share of disappointment, but his spirit and light persevered. Joel was a grateful steward of the precious present and he eagerly shared it with everyone he met.

Leatherman, activist Michael Gelpi dies

by Cynthia Laird ichael Gelpi, a leatherman who was one of the first out gay candidates for Congress, died in his sleep at his San Francisco home Sunday, January 23. He was 70.

Friends said that Mr. Gelpi suffered from heart and lung disease.

Mr. Gelpi was born in Ohio on December 28, 1940. He was raised there and early on developed a passion for fine art.

A proud Democrat, Mr. Gelpi was very involved in the Human Rights Campaign Fund (the organization later became the Human Rights Campaign) in the 1980s and 1990s, said spokesman Paul Guequierre. Mr. Gelpi ran for Congress in 1990 but lost to Congressman John Kasich, a Republican. Kasich became Ohio’s governor this month.

Friends recounted that Mr. Gelpi excelled in business and was once president of a large cancer foundation in Ohio. He moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s and later became the owner of Treasure House Miniatures

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in San Francisco.

He was very proud of his work within the civil rights movement and he remained passionate about politics throughout his life.

Clean and sober for 25 years, his love for and work within the recovery community was his gift. After Mr. Gelpi came to San Francisco he became a proud member of the San Francisco leather community and was a staunch supporter of many leather charitable causes and organizations.

He was the loving guardian of a variety of pets over the years. His last four-footed and feathered friends, Tracy and Lily, will surely never forget their lives with him, friends said. A gifted interior decorator, he was known for his good taste and his skill at gracious entertaining.

Mr. Gelpi was also active in his church, Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. He helped with the hunger program on Wednesdays, and he did outreach to Catholics who had separated from their faith and fellowships.

His “Reconnect” programs were valuable to all in attendance. There will be many who will miss Mr. Gelpi but especially his dear friends of a lifetime, particularly those he came to know as his “Tuesday night dinner bunch.”

Mr. Gelpi will be laid to rest in Columbus, Ohio after the San Francisco services. There will be Vespers on Friday, January 28 at 7:30 p.m. and a funeral service on Saturday, January 29 at 2 p.m. Both will take place at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 100 Diamond Street at 18th.

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British gay couple wins hotel bias case British gay couple, Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy, who are in a civil partnership, will receive $2,872 each in damages from Cornwall Hotel owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull, Christians who refused to rent them a room with a double bed.

The ruling was handed down January 18 by the Bristol County Court, which found that the Bulls violated the nation’s ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation.

In court, the couple claimed they hadn’t discriminated based on sexual orientation because they also refuse to rent such rooms to unmarried heterosexual couples.

Gay leader Peter Tatchell commented: “People of faith should not be

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permitted to use religion as an excuse to discriminate against other people. ... If the court had ruled that the Bulls were allowed to ban gay couples from sleeping together in the same room, it

would have opened the floodgates to a deluge of similar religious-motivated claims for exemption from the equality laws.”

The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement’s chief executive, the Reverend Sharon Ferguson, added: “Peter and Hazel Bull may well have sincere convictions about the nature of marriage – this ruling does not deny them these convictions. But if you are running a business you must make your services available to all without discrimination ... and excluding people, especially when our scriptures are full of exhortations to welcome the stranger ... is no way to defend and uphold Christian values.”

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Joe Solmonese welcomed Obama’s words concerning the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but added, “there remain a number of pressing issues for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community when it comes to economic security.”

“The president and Congress can do much more to ensure the economic empowerment of LGBT people including ending the unfair tax-

ation of partner health benefits, prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, and ensuring that all married couples have access to the same federal benefits and protections for their families,” Solmonese said in a statement released before the president delivered his address to Congress but after the remarks were sent out. “We look forward to working with this president and allies in Congress on the challenges ahead.”

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ly gay man as one of his special guests in the House visitors’ gallery Tuesday night.

The man was, as McGehee noted, Daniel Hernandez Jr., who was singled out by many news accounts as one of the heroes to take action during the January 8 shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D) in Tucson. Hernandez, who is serving as an intern in Giffords’s Tucson office, rushed to her side and provided first aid that many have said saved the congresswoman’s life.

A number of Twitter messages from various people noted that Tuesday was also Hernandez’s 21st birthday. One Twitter message was from the account of Giffords, saying: “From the entire Giffords team: Happy 21st Birthday Daniel Hernandez! Sounds like you have fun plans tonight.“ CNN indicated it was the first Twitter message from Giffords’s account since she was critically injured

in a shooting January 8. It was almost certainly sent by a staff member. Giffords is still recovering from her wounds and is at a rehabilitation hospital in Houston.

Cameras scanning the gallery showed Hernandez early during the broadcast of the State of the Union.

But Hernandez appeared to be standing near the back of the gallery, not seated near first lady Michelle Obama, as expected.

In response to concerns about the hostile political environment, many members of Congress eschewed the usual seating arrangement of Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other, and sat together.

Three of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices chose not to take seats at all and did not attend the State of the Union address. They were the three most conservative—Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas.▼

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different story. However, he also said he felt sorry for what happened.

He and his friend didn’t use the word “faggot” or punch Freiman, he said.

He said his friend, whom he would only identify as “Mario,” had said something to the bystander on the platform but he indicated he hadn’t heard what Mario said. They then decided to walk rather than wait for the train, he said.

As they left, the bystander started to talk to Mario, but Freiman got between them and pushed Mario, saying “Leave him alone,” and, “You’re not gay, and you don’t belong in the Castro.”

Mario told Freiman, “I don’t have any problems with you,” and asked to be left alone, said Seca-Poot.

He said Freiman pushed him, and he pushed back, then ran up the stairs.

Freiman pushed him again, he said, and held him down.

Seca-Poot, who appears to be about 5 feet 6 inches tall, said he might have accidentally hit Freiman as he was pinned down. He said he also screamed, “Why are you a racist?” while he was down. Freiman is 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Seca-Poot said he’s right-handed, but his range of motion in his right arm is limited due to an old injury. He provided a recent chiropractor’s note that appeared to confirm that.

Police spokesman Officer Eric Chiang indicated the incident is not being investigated as a hate crime.

Medical records provided by Freiman show his injuries include a broken jaw.

Muni spokesman Paul Rose didn’t respond to an e-mail from the B.A.R. requesting details from any surveillance video.

Seca-Poot is due in court March 1.▼

clinic stops, [the health department] steps in,” said Balon.

Balon said he was “virtually certain” the board will approve the plan the staff was developing, which he said the health department and the consortium would also review.

at a meeting at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Tuesday night was raising funds through Facebook.

There is now a “Save Lyon-Martin” Facebook page that promises “organizing updates” and another meeting.

Harbatkin said Wednesday about $14,000 had been raised.

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the activist group GetEqual, expressed disappointment.

“Tonight, President Obama missed an opportunity to lay out an agenda and strategy that continues progress made toward LGBT equality – removing the burden of being second-class citizens and acknowledging our families,” said McGehee in a statement. “Sadly, while national hero Daniel Hernandez sat with the first lady to witness this historic speech, he did not have the luxury of sitting there as an equal – for that, our elected officials should be ashamed. It is time for the president to put the power of the White House behind the passage of legislation that would give the right of full federal equality to LGBT Americans.”

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According to the police report, which Freiman provided a copy of, Freiman initially told San Francisco police Officer Nicolas Pena that “no derogatory comments were said to him” during the incident.

Freiman told the B.A.R. that he’d explained to officers that the men had said “faggots” repeatedly and that he would ask police to correct the report.

The report also says Seca-Poot had “spontaneously stated that he attacked Freiman because he thought that Freiman was ‘messing’ with him because he was ‘gay and brown.’”

In an interview with the B.A.R., Seca-Poot, who left Mexico in 2008 and has worked at the Castro diner Orphan Andy’s for three years, told a

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wasn’t able to collect through MediCal and Medicare, he said.

The debt also accumulated because it was costing more money to operate the clinic than it had in the bank.

Balon also said that the board had received “clean audits every year, so the assumption was the numbers were indeed good.” But in April 2010, they hired a finance director. That position had been open for “quite a long period of time,” he said. Around August, he said, the finance director “reported that the receivable balance would need to be written down.”

Board attempts to fix problems Balon said the board had done “everything it could” to make LyonMartin “viable.” He said the board tried to resolve the problems by finding additional funding sources and working with the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, the group of nonprofit clinics of which it is a member. The board’s also been working with the city’s health department. Staff had been cut, among other measures, he said.

Over the last few weeks, however, “We weren’t sure we had the wherewithal to pay our staff. It didn’t seem ethically responsible to carry on the business,” he said.

According to Balon, it wasn’t until after the board announced its resolution this week to shutter the clinic that it learned there was more it needed to do.

“There are regulations in place the board didn’t know about,” he said.

“We’re not clinical practitioners.”

However, Balon said, the board wants to “do this totally appropriately and responsibly and ethically.”

He noted that the health department had helped New Leaf: Services for Our Community transition patients to other providers when that organization shut down last year.

Lyon-Martin had received many New Leaf patients and the clinic had had the impression that “when the

Clinic director speaks out Elizabeth Sekera, Lyon-Martin’s clinic director, said in an interview Tuesday morning, when it sill looked like the clinic would close Thursday, that the board had “tied the staff ’s hands behind their back. We’ve been unable to fundraise in a proper manner at this point because of them.”

She said that “without a clear closing plan” that addresses legal and other needs, closure would mean “abandonment of one of the most marginalized populations and communities.”

Wednesday morning, Sekera didn’t agree that the board had done everything it could. “I don’t want to answer that question,” she said when asked about the idea.

She also said there was more to the debt than the loan, billing, and operating expenses that Balon discussed, but she said she couldn’t explain further. She did say staff hadn’t done anything wrong.

“My hunch is the community will expect an audit of our finances, and I believe an audit will be done of what’s really happened here,” she said.

She also said, “At this point, in order to gain the trust of the community, I think yes, [the board members] should resign,” According to the clinic’s website, there are six board members. Board chair Lauren Winter and member Kimberly Gillette didn’t respond to interview requests and other board members couldn’t be reached for comment.

Sekera said that the goal was to complete the plan by the end of Wednesday. She said the plan would include reaching out to other clinics to make sure patients have places to go.

She said based on the community response she’s seen, she has “high hopes” the clinic will be able to raise enough money to stay open. She said among other things people discussed

Health director ‘surprised’ San Francisco Public Health Director Barbara Garcia said Wednesday morning that her department was “quite surprised,” of the Lyon-Martin board’s decision to close. “They gave us no announcement until they were about ready to close,” she said.

“We’re committed to trying to see how we can try to help them,” Garcia said, but Lyon-Martin also needs to help itself.

“A lot of it’s going to have to do with their own leadership issues and financial management,” said Garcia.

“We’re going to have to do some reorganizing of the organization,” said Garcia. She said Lyon-Martin “might have to get a bit smaller for the costs to meet expenses.”

Garcia said that the department had given Lyon-Martin money about two or three months ago to help it find a financial consultant so they could get help with its billing issues. She said the clinic is a federally qualified health center and gets “a pretty high reimbursement rate for their care,” but “they did not bill for two years.”

As for closing today, “We basically asked them to delay that decision,” said Garcia. “…We were in the midst of trying to get them a three-month turnaround loan” of “several hundred thousand dollars,” she said.

She also said her agency “could probably advance [Lyon-Martin] some dollars,” but her department is facing a potential $60 million deficit “so we have no new dollars to give them.” She didn’t know how much the department might be able to advance.

Asked if Lyon-Martin’s board should resign, Garcia said, “I think they’re going to have to reconfigure

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– earned his law degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and spent time in Belfast studying the Irish legal system. Upon returning to the Bay Area he landed a job with a law firm in Palo Alto and then became an investment banker with Thomas Weisel Partners in San Francisco.

Two years ago he helped launch his own venture capital firm, Quest Hospitality Ventures, which focuses its investments in the tourism and hospitality sectors.

“Having that business background, especially given our budget problems we face now, not just here in San Francisco but the state and federal levels as well, I thought I could make a difference in the dialogue and debate at City Hall,” said Farrell during a recent editorial board meeting with the Bay Area Reporter.

As for how to cut the city’s budget, Farrell is short on specifics, saying he is still figuring out what the specific costs are and what cuts would be palatable.

“There are a lot of details to figure out,” said Farrell, who sits on the board’s government audit and oversight committee. “That process is going to start right now.”

He predicted, though, the city is facing very difficult fiscal choices.

“We are at a point of time where most departments feel they have cut where they can. Now we are at the point where we will have to cut into the muscle of our services,” said Farrell.

One piece of the budget puzzle that needs to be addressed is the city’s pension costs, said Farrell, adding that is “the biggest issue we face right now.”

He said he finds it “embarrassing” that the city’s retirees are set to receive cost-of-living bonuses totaling $170 million this year despite the news that the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System has an unfunded liability of $1.6 billion.

“We need at City Hall to make sure that can not happen again,” he said.

“Those types of things frustrate everyone else with our city government. I think it is a big deal.”

Farrell opposed the pension reform measure Prop B on last November’s ballot because he saw it as a “backroom deal” that was not equitable in how it treated city workers.

Now in office, he demurred when asked how he would solve the pension issue. He said he prefers to wait to see what comes out of meetings between city leaders and labor union representatives who are discussing various pension reform proposals.

But there is one change Farrell would likely support.

“I am part of the city employees who doesn’t pay anything for my pension at all. That is wrong. We all should pay into it,” he said.

Farrell, 36, is the first to acknowledge he is a political novice. His entry into the city’s often hard-knuckle pol-

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rights of domestic partners. “[Enlowsmith] is such a lovely person that when she testified before the Assembly Judiciary Committee, people were crying,” said Kendell.

“I think she is not only instrumental in getting greater domestic partnership legislation in California but in softening people to who we are and how we are denied equality under the law,” Kendell added. “I think most people had no idea you couldn’t sue for wrongful death.”

The California Supreme Court last month rejected Knoller’s latest appeal but her attorney, Dennis Riordan, had promised to take her appeals through federal court.

Hammer told the B.A.R. that although it is impossible to know what a federal court will do, he is confident that Knoller’s trial was fair and the verdict was correct. He noted that because of a change of venue, Noel and Knoller were convicted by a group of

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jurors from Los Angeles who were very diverse.

“It’s not like they were all some kind of cabal from San Francisco,” Hammer said.

Noel, who was paroled in 2003,

itics was largely due in part to he and his wife Liz’s two children, Madison, 5 and Jack, 3.

“For me, personally, it was a large part being born and raised here and making that commitment to raise our children here in San Francisco,” said Farrell, who graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory, a private Catholic high school. “A lot of young families have that dialogue if they want to be in the Bay Area and work here do we stay in the city or leave. We made a commitment to stay.

“Once that happened I really started to look at our city government and paid closer attention to it. I became increasingly frustrated with the personalities at City Hall and the policies,” added Farrell, who is aligned with the city’s more moderate political faction and served on the board of Plan C, whose founders included many LGBT people looking for a more middle-ofthe-road political approach.

His winning the seat representing the city’s Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods came as a surprise to the city’s progressive political establishment that had lined up behind Golden Gate Bridge district board president Janet Reilly. While Reilly appeared to hold a slight edge on election night, her lead evaporated once the city’s ranked choice voting kicked in and Farrell eked out his victory with 258 more votes.

During the campaign Reilly was attacked by another candidate in the race, assistant United States attorney Abraham Simmons, for garnering endorsements from the city’s gay community, including the B.A.R., the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club and various out public officials. The implication being not only that the concerns of LGBT people somehow didn’t warrant attention from the District 2 supervisor but that only straight people reside in that part of town.

Asked recently about the comments, Farrell disavowed them, saying that he “absolutely, without a doubt” sees the LGBT community as being a part of his district.

“Not only my district but the whole city of San Francisco,” said Farrell, who plans to have his children walk with him as part of his official contingent in the Pride Parade, which will be the family’s first time attending the LGBT event. “We need people here on the Board of Supervisors who can represent the entire city of San Francisco and, obviously, the LGBT community is a huge part of that. I look forward to working with the community and supporting their rights and moving forward together as a whole.”

A practicing Catholic, Farrell nonetheless supports marriage equality. And while in office only a matter of weeks, he artfully dodged a question about what he thought of his archbishop’s leading the charge to pass Proposition 8, the ban against samesex marriage voters adopted in 2008.

“That is a great question. For me, from a personal perspective, I am a Catholic; that is my community. I am

told the B.A.R. last week that Knoller remains hopeful that her case will eventually be overturned on appeal.

He said he visits her every other week or so and is pleased that she has finally received counseling that she needs to cope with the posttraumatic stress she still suffers as a result of the incident. In a previous interview with the B.A.R., Knoller has said she is very sorry for what has happened but has reiterated that it was an accident. She is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence in state prison. Noel still lives in the Bay Area and works as a baker. Both had been attorneys.

Kendell said Enlowsmith is no longer in a partnership with Michelle Enlowsmith but that they both have retained their joint names and that they co-parent their three children, who are living with Sharon. Enlowsmith did not respond to a request for comment sent via Facebook.

Said Kendell, “She is doing great and the kids are doing great and she’s still an incredible person and now a remarkable parent.”▼

part of a Catholic family. But that doesn’t mean, much like being part of a political group or party, you are going to agree with every single tenet that the church believes in,” said Farrell. “To me, the LGBT community is part of the fabric of San Francisco. I believe we need to do all we can to support the community. I will do my part to support the community. It is who we are as San Franciscans.”

Farrell is a proponent of changing how the city elects the 11 members on the board. Rather than having all of them come from their own districts, he instead favors a bifurcated approach, with some representing designated districts and the others elected citywide.

While not his intent in pushing such a change, the approach could in fact increase LGBT representation at City Hall and make it easier for lesbian candidates to win office. Since the city switched to district elections in 2000, no lesbian has been able to be elected a city supervisor. And some argue district elections impede out supervisors’ ability to seek higher offices.

To Farrell’s mind, splitting how the board is elected would bring more balance to debates on policies and eliminate the provincialism that comes with having supervisors accountable to only their own constituents and not residents citywide.

“We need to move to a hybrid system in San Francisco on board elections with a 6/5 split for districts and citywide supervisors which ever way.

That, to me, would make a lot of sense,” he said.

And although he benefited from ranked-choice voting, Farrell also supports “tinkering with” the system in order to prevent a winner emerging who a majority of voters did not support on their ballot. While he feels the system worked in his own race, he pointed to the outcome in District 10 last fall, where Malia Cohen emerged the victor after 19 rounds of ranked voting, as problematic.

“I think there are problems with it.

From my point of view District 2 and District 10 were very different how ranked choice voting played into it.

Because District 2 had two clear frontrunners in terms of who ended up getting the votes. I think it worked,” he said. “But ultimately it was a close race, no doubt about it. I have all the confidence to say we would have prevailed in a runoff.”

While he stressed that he believes Cohen “will be great as a supervisor without a doubt,” Farrell questioned if the process was fair in the end to voters in District 10.

“A majority of District 10 voters did not put the winner on their ballot. Intuitively, that does not seem right,” he said. “I would be open to tinkering with it but not sure about specific changes.”

He does believe that last fall’s election has brought a change to the city’s political discourse.

“I think the civility, the tone has changed without a doubt,” said Farrell.▼

LEGAL NOTICES SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for Calibration and Repair of Mechanical Tools and Measuring Devices, Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 6M3178, on or about January 20, 2011, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, February 15, 2011.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is soliciting the services of consulting firm to provide Calibration and Repair of mechanical Tools and Measuring Devices.A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 3, 2011. The Pre-Proposal Meeting will convene at 10:00 AM in the District office located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 17thFloor, Conference Room No. 1700. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting the District's NonDiscrimination Program for Subcontractingwill be explained. All questions regarding participation should be directed to Ms. Ruby Smith, Office of Civil Rights at (510) 464-6324 – FAX (510) 464-7587. Prospective proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District's Contract Administrator, telephone (510) 464-6543, prior to the date of the Pre-Proposal Meeting.

WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after January 20, 2011) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: (1) By written request to the District's Contract Administrator, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612.

Reference RFP No. 6M3178, Calibration and Repair of Mechanical Tools and Measuring Devices and send requests to Fax No. (510) 464-7650.

(2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District's Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6543 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By E-mail request to the District's Contract Administrator, Aminta Maynard, amaynar@bart.gov Dated at Oakland, California this 14th day of January, 2011. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 1/27/11 • CNS-2026713# BAY AREA REPORTER

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: SF OCEANIC RESTAURANT. 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: 101 Utah St.,Suite A, San Francisco, CA 94103-4839. Type of license applied for:

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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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NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

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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STATEMENT FILE A-033226000

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.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033226400

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

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICTNOTICE TO PROPOSERS - GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for proposals for the Lease of Walk-on Mats and Scraper Mats for the BART Shops, Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 6M3173, on or about January 14, 2011, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, February 15, 2011.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is soliciting the services of a Contractor to furnish, clean, and provide weekly deliveries of walk-on mats and scraper mats to the BART Shops (Hayward Shop, Hydraulics Shop, Concord Shop, Richmond Shop, and Daly City Shop) and other associated services.

A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held on Friday, January 28, 2011. The Pre-Proposal Conference will convene at 10:00 AM in the Main Conference Room 1700, located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, California 94612. At the PreProposal Conference the District's NonDiscrimination Program for Subcontracting will be explained. All questions regarding MBE/WBE participation should be directed to Ms. Ruby Smith, Office of Civil Rights at (510) 464-6324 – FAX (510) 464-7587.

Prospective proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District's Contract Administrator, Helen Price, telephone (510) 464-6570, prior to the date of the Pre-Proposal Conference.

WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after January 14, 2011) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: (1) By written request to the District's Contract Administrator, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612.

Requests may be sent to FAX No. (510) 464-7650. Please reference RFP No. 6M3173.

(2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District’s Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6570 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By E-mail request to the District’s Contract Administrator hprice@bart.gov.

Dated at Oakland, California this 14th day of January, 2011. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 1/27/11 • CNS-2027303# BAY AREA REPORTER

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

You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a response (Form FL-120 OR FL123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affection your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) or by contacting your local county bar association.

The name and address of the Court are:

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SF, CA 94102 THE NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE OF THE PETITIONER’S ATTORNEY: IRINA AEROV, 789 CABRILLO STREET, SF, CA 94118 415-387-9028 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.

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The embassy expressed “great concern” about the killings and said, “the protection of Honduran law extends to all citizens regardless of sexual orientation.”

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their board.” She said the department has “a great deal of confidence” in interim Executive Director Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, but Teri McGinnis, the former executive director, “never provided them with adequate financial oversight.”

Garcia said Lyon-Martin is “critically important, but the city “can not continue to support organizations that are not managed well.”

McGinnis resigned in November, and Harbatkin, Lyon-Martin’s medical director, had been appointed to also serve as interim director. Harbatkin has previously said McGinnis’s resignation was voluntary and not related to Lyon-Martin’s finances.

McGinnis couldn’t be reached by phone Wednesday.

Richard Hodgson, vice president of policy and planning for the Community Clinic Consortium, said Wednesday that his group would continue to work with the clinic. He said a statement the board released

Tuesday makes it clear “they’re taking a more responsible position on closing.”

The consortium has a contract with the city’s health department that Lyon-Martin is a subcontractor on, he said.

He said he had “no opinion” on whether the board should resign. In an earlier interview, he’d said, “Every organization in the consortium has autonomous management.”

Debra Benedict, who’s 53 and lives in San Francisco, first heard about the possibility of the clinic closing today from the Bay Area Reporter on Tuesday, just after she’d been to the clinic.

Benedict expressed disbelief, saying, “They’re definitely not going to be closing down,” because she’s supposed to check in with them by phone in a month.

“That’s a terrifying concept,” said Benedict, who said she’s been a patient at Lyon-Martin for two or three years and identifies as “questioning.”

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STATEMENT FILE A-033242100

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.

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.

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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.

STATEMENT FILE A-033237000

STATEMENT FILE A-033243100

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.

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

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033241100

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.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 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.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033275800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FAMOOLY PRODUCTIONS,845 Treat Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jose Leon. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/18/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/18/11.

JAN 20,27,FEB 3,10, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033236900

STATEMENT FILE A-033237500

LEGAL NOTICES

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.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 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.

JAN 06,13,20,27, 2011 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.

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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.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033230700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY CITY SMOG, 4850 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Paul Li. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/21/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/29/10.

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 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.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033262100 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.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033211700 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.

JAN 13,20,27,FEB 3,2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: XINH BISTRO LOUNGE 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: 680 8th St., Suite 170,San Francisco, CA 94103-4942. Type of license applied for:

41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE JAN 27,FEB 3,10,2011 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-033103100 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as BASIN, 310 Berry St., San Francisco, CA 94158. This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Man Mohan Sahi. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/25/10.

JAN 20,27,FEB 3,10, 2011

STATEMENT FILE A-033220200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PRESTIGE TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS, 600 Persia Ave., San Francisco, CA 94112.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Raul Lumbi. 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.

JAN 20,27,FEB 3,10, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033263800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STANDARD STUDIO LLC.,366 Clementina St. San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Michael Dolan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/12/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/12/11.

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JAN 27,FEB 3,10,17, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033288100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as RENE BUSINESS MACHINES, 2940 16th St. Suite 322, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Rene F. Salinas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/85. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/21/11.

JAN 27,FEB 3,10,17, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033286100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EXTERNAL PROCESSES, 153 Bartlett St., San Francisco, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, signed William Sherman. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/20/11.

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JAN 27,FEB 3,10,17, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033289200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COURTHOUSE CHRISTY,1097 Howard St.,Suite 209, San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Christy Bergman. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 1/21/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/24/11.

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JAN 27,FEB 3,10,17, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033292800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DTS GROUP USA, 1151 Post St.,#7, San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Atif Khan. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 1/24/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/24/11.

JAN 27,FEB 3,10,17, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033288000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GLOBAL REAL ESTATE CONSULTANTS,306 28th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Erich Struzyk. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 1/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/21/11.

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Getting ‘Biutiful’ Javier Bardem stars for director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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order, Uxbal!”

Awakening from this dream is akin to being kicked out of purgatory and thrown back into the messy specifics of life in early-21st century Barcelona – the slummy part, not the part they keep nice for foreign tourists. Uxbal finds himself dealing with a whole lot of woe. As a member of a despised minority – it’s almost as if he’s an illegal immigrant in his own country – one of Uxbal’s many shady jobs is running interference for and extracting money from undocumented workers, mostly African and Chinese, dealing with corrupt employers. The most in-

teresting are a couple of deeply closeted Chinese gay lovers. Uxbal also has venal cops, bipolar wife Marambra (a wickedly carnal, disorienting turn by Argentine newcomer Maricel Alvarez), two kids who love him ferociously and need him desperately, and a treacherous brother with whom he’s negotiating construction scams and the sale of their late father’s burial plot.

Uxbal is also oddly a bit of a psychic, who is called upon by the parents of three dead boys to help guide their souls into the afterlife, for which he accepts a small gratuity from the father and curses from the mother, who regards

him as worse than a charlatan. The story takes a halting turn towards grace when Uxbal learns he’s dying – cancer has metastasized through his organs and into his bones – and his affairs are anything but in order.

Inarritu’s reputation rests on a trilogy of films: Amores Perros, featuring the debut of Gael Garcia Bernal, hot as a pistol; 21 Grams, with career highs from Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro; and Babel, with a world-class cast: Brad Pitt and Bernal. In each, it’s a real question whether the characters’ lives or souls are in

Voice from the beyond Remembering Joan Sutherland in San Francisco ~ by Tim Pfaff ~ f all the diva deaths of the new century, few could have hit San Franciscans harder than that of Joan Sutherland’s, last Oct. 10. For nearly a quarter-century, the singular soprano – whose voice, once you heard it, you could summon in your mind almost as effortlessly as she seemingly produced it – sang the roles for which she was most famous at the War Memorial Opera House.

On Sept. 23, 1961, less than two years after the Covent Garden production of Lucia di Lammermoor that catapulted her to international renown, she made her San Francisco debut, also as Lucia, appearing here regularly until 1984.

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sang the title role in Massenet’s Esclarmonde, which she considered the greatest achievement of her career, at the War Memorial in 1974, in a fabled production that went on to the Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden. There were endless disputes about the quality of Massenet’s opera, but none whatsoever about the prima donna making the case for it, then at the zenith of her career.

Around the time of her death, the Glyndebourne Festival made the first-ever issue (on its own house label) of its live performance of Bellini’s I Puritani, with Sutherland in the role of Elvira, from June 5, 1960, the latest in its in-

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iutiful (Beautiful) is director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s operatic fable of how a simple, almost primitive slum-dwelling hustler finds his soul at the brink of his extinction. We meet Uxbal (Javier Bardem) in the dream state. It’s his dream, and he’s standing in a winter landscape dotted with denuded trees, striking up a conversation with a handsome young man. The talk is jovial but oddly ethereal: what do owls do before they die? Answer: spit out a hairball.

“I’m not going to die.”

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Paula West is in the house For all of her command of the stage and easy charisma, West is notably low-key in her patter and preast week, beloved jazz and sentation, bordering on self-effacing. cabaret singer Paula West She is an anti-diva diva, if you will, began an eight-week residency but no less than utterly captivating at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco, when she is selling a song and makand all lovers of the American songing it hers. In this set she gives us, book beautifully sung should note back-to-back, Porter’s “At Long Last the dates of West’s run, through Love,” Berlin’s “Suppertime” and March 13. She is known for Bob Dylan’s “Shelter from her intelligence and taste in the Storm.” Other highchoosing a play list, and lights include Hoagy on opening night she Carmichael’s “Baltimore offered up 12 songs Oriole” and, “in a miniand two encores backed Perry Como tribute,” by a crack jazz ensem“Don’t Let the Stars Get in ble, the George MesterYour Eyes” by Slim Willet. hazy Quartet.

The musicians onstage were in West’s vocals are full the groove – they swung. of power and character, were Mesterhazy, and she also has the O UT T HERE They who did the arrangements, enunciation and dicat the piano; Barak Mori tion to tackle songs completely in charge on the bass fiddle; from Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Ed Cherry impressive on guitar; and, on dependent as they are on the delivdrums, the endlessly inventive Jerome ery of sharp lyrics and wordplay. She Jennings. opened her set with “Come RunOut There remains somewhat nin’” by Roc Hillman, which she told unconvinced that Jimmy Webb’s us was a fixture of Lena Horne’s sup“Wichita Lineman,” made famous by per-club act.

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Operatic anticipation There’s an awful lot of talent and excitement on tap for San Francisco Opera’s 2011-12 season, its 89th, the specifics of which SFO announced last week. The headlines will no doubt be made by the world premiere of Heart of a Soldier by Christopher Theofanidis and Donna Di Novelli, and company premieres of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia, Handel’s Xerxes and John Adams’ Nixon in China. There will also be new production premieres of Mozart’s The Magic Flute designed

by visual artist Jun Kaneko, Mozart’s Don Giovanni by director Gabriele Lavia and designer Alessandro Camera, and a new Teatro alla Scala co-production of Verdi’s Attila.

But let’s hear it for the operatic warhorses, because often they turn out to be the surprise highlights of the season. SFO Music Director Nicola Luisotti launches the fall festivities with Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot at the gala opening on Sept.

9, a revival of David Hockney’s celebrated production. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production of Bizet’s Carmen will also get an encore.

Leading singers coming to the War Memorial include Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Marco Berti, David Daniels, Nathan Gunn, Thomas Hampson, Lucas Meachem, Samuel Ramey, Paulo Szot and Ramón Vargas. Those are some major players. In addition, Maestro Luisotti will conduct the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in two orchestral concerts of their own at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley.

Herbst Theatre will be the venue for a tribute concert to beloved mezzosoprano Frederica von Stade, in celebration of her storied career.

“The Company’s 89th season offers a nice balance of repertory, with a healthy mix of debuting and returning artists,” said General Director David Gockley in a press statement. “I am particularly pleased that despite these continuing hard financial times, seven of our nine productions will be new to the War Memorial Opera House stage.” Bring them on! More info at www.sfopera.com.

O Susannah Of all the obituaries which followed the recent lamented death of British film actress Susannah York, we’re pleased to report that the very best ones included mention of York’s indelible role as “Childie, the immature young lover of the protagonist (played by Beryl Reid) in The Killing of Sister George (1968).” This is from the NY Times obit.

“The Killing of Sister George, directed by Robert Aldrich, centered on characters who were lesbians, a taboo subject at the time. It drew especially wide controversy for an erotic scene between Ms. York and the actress Coral Browne. (The scene was cut from screenings in Connecticut, for instance, by order of the state police.)” The cops knew just how irresistible the lesbians of Connecticut found Ms. Coral Browne.

Google her.

Finally, a little show biz dish. Film star Michael Douglas told Extra he is ready for his next role as pianist and King of Bling entertainer Liberace.

“It’s just nice to play a nice guy after playing all the villains,” Douglas said.

“Part of Liberace’s charm – yes, his piano-playing was wonderful – but people kind of inherently just picked up on his joy and graciousness, on how much fun he was having!”

Matt Damon is onboard to play his young lover. Douglas joked about how he and Damon will prepare for their kissing scenes. “Every once in a while we send little e-mails back to each other and ask, ‘What flavor ChapStick do you wear?’” And, we surmise, “Tongue or no tongue?”▼

Soprano Renée Fleming in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia.

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Glen Campbell, deserves a hallowed place in the cabaret canon, but West made as good a case for it as anyone could. “And I need you more than want you”: what lover in their right mind would ever want to hear that?

But this is a minor quibble, for the show is a delight. Find info at www.therrazzroom.com.

P.S.: West and other stars of the nightclub stage could not have been nurtured and given the room to grow as artists without the support (and bookings) of dedicated venues like the Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, and others. The Bay Area Cabaret season, for example, continues on March 13 when John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey play the recently reopened Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel. The jazz guitarist and his Broadway actress wife will bring their Café Carlyle (NY) show Heart of Saturday Night; find info at www.bayareacabaret.org.

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THEATRE

Amateur ‘Angels’ alight near the Castro

by Richard Dodds

and Moss Hart’s fruitful collaboration.

The remainder of the 2011-12 season will be announced in March, when season tickets to new subscribers will go on sale. Current subscribers can re-up at this time by calling 7492250 or by going to www.act-sf.org.

he idea was to pay tribute to the 20th anniversary of Angels in America with a new production in the Castro, just a few blocks from the theater where Tony Kushner’s transformative play was first staged in 1991. The production is still happening, and it will still be just a few blocks from the old Eureka Theatre where Angels debuted, but it will not be in the Castro. Instead, the Rainbow Room at the LGBT Community Center will host the Theatre Shark production opening in April.

“Our original dream was to use one of the many empty businesses in the Castro, but the process became Lorenzo Pisoni in a scene from very cumbersome even with [SuperviHumor Abuse, his solo tale of sor] Bevan Dufty working with us,” growing up in a circus trunk that said John Steen, a Theatre Shark will be part of ACT’s coming season. founder and a featured actor in the upcoming Angels. In addition to finding reluctance from landlords who gels in America last summer, and royfeared losing a longer lease should a alties have been paid. In the meantime, space be temporarily committed to the a major professional venue in the East theater production, Steen said the perBay decided to present Angels in 2012, mits and hearing processes to get an and the licensing agent apparently forintended-use waiver was got it had given Theatre beyond the small theater Shark permission for a company’s grasp.

2011 SF run. If this is inWhat the Theatre Shark deed the scenario, the troupe knew going in was lower the profile the betthat it didn’t want to ter for the earlier amateur restage the play in a tradiproduction, as the licenstional theater space, and ing firm protects the prothe center’s Rainbow Room fessionals paying higher will still allow for a nonroyalties, and documentraditional approach to tary film could complithe material. “There’s bacated that. It is also why B ACKSTAGE sically three stories going Theatre Shark can preon in the play, and we’ll sent only the first part use the whole room to stage the difof Angels in America. ferent parts of the story,” Steen said.

Whatever the fate of the documenThere are plans for ancillary events, tary, Millennium Approaches, the first including a photo project planned part of the epic play, will run April 20with Magnet to encourage people to May 14 in the Rainbow Room. Laura get tested for HIV, and a behind-theLundy-Paine, the artistic director of scenes documentary directed by Marc Alameda’s Virago Theatre, will be stagSmolowitz. In recent days, however, ing the Theatre Shark production. some uncertainty has arisen on Cast members include Adam Simpwhether the play-licensing firm that son, Dara Yazdani, Liz Ryan, Anthony controls Angels will permit backstage Rollins-Mullens, T.J. Lee, Donald Curscenes from the new production to be rie, Cary Cronholm, and John Steen. filmed.

The Theatre Shark company was Here matters become a bit vague, founded following the death of Jeffrey though according to Steen, Theatre Hartgraves in 2008 as a way to memoShark secured amateur rights to An-

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The original Broadway cast of playwright Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as captured by artist Al Hirschfeld; the LGBT Community Center will be the site of a 20th anniversary production.

rialize the playwright-director’s work.

The 12 founding members helped put on Shades of Gray, a previously unproduced Hartgraves play inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray. Five of the original team have regrouped for the Angels project: the aforementioned actors Ryan, Lee, Steen, and Currie, and artistic director Lara Rempel.

Tickets for the Theatre Shark production will go on sale in March, and will be available at www.angelsinamericasf.com.

Getting a head start For reasons of unknown strategy, ACT is announcing three of the productions that will make up its 201112 season – but not when these titles will appear within the season. The trio includes a comedy classic, a contemporary social drama, and a circus memoir.

Humor Abuse is Lorenzo Pisoni’s solo show about growing up in a circus world as the son of Pickle Family Circus cofounder Larry Pisoni. David Mamet’s Race is the social drama, re-

Keeping it together

by Richard Dodds n musicals, when emotions become intense or complicated, the characters will break out into a song. In opera it’s an aria, and in Shakespeare it’s the soliloquy. In a Sara Felder show, she breaks out into a juggle.

Out of Sight is a recent solo work from the actress-comedian-juggler, who has been away from SF stages for seven years as she lived and developed new works in Philadelphia.

That’s where Out of Sight had its premiere, and it’s a treat to have her back in our city — and notably at the Marsh, where she performed many of her previous projects.

In the 80-minute piece, Felder digs into her personal scrapbook to build a story of a mother’s passions, opera, Jewish history, lesbian love, and the state of Israel. With juggling.

And, occasionally, with puppets, too.

The result is a heartfelt collage that is always engaging and often imaginative. The stories that Felder weaves together have charged underpinnings, but she adopts mostly a mild tone coupled with easy-going humor. If the pieces actually fit together, it isn’t snugly, but the goodwill that Felder generates helps caulk most of the gaps.

The piece’s title, Out of Sight, finds its most literal reference in her mother’s failing eyes, a progressing blindness that she managed to hide

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from her daughter for several years, and props up a loose bit of physical comedy involving multiple pairs of eyeglasses, binoculars, and a telescope.

“But my mother read me bedtime stories,” Felder says, before realizing that her mother told her bedtime stories. In this recounting of the past, those stories often involved the plight of the Jews and their need for a homeland – though sometimes with bunnies, squirrels, and gerbils standing in for the human protagonists.

This segues to Felder’s own ju-

cently seen on Broadway, as a black and a white lawyer team to defend a white man accused of assaulting a black woman. The classic comedy is Once in a Lifetime, a 1930 satire of the talkies that began George S. Kaufman

Two long-run champs will carry on some more. Dirty Little Showtunes, which played multiple venues in its initial late-1990s run, is proving popular again in its updated version at New Conservatory Theatre Center.

The new closing date is Jan. 29. Go to www.nctcsf.org.

After a holiday hiatus, Pearls Over Shanghai has resumed performances at the Hypnodrome. The Thrillpeddlers’ production of the Cockettes’ musical has been extended to April 9, and meanwhile the troupe is working toward a spring production of Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Musical.

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FILM

Gay eye for 2011 Sundance Fest films allelujah! Reports that the lesbian-centered feature movie is as much a dinosaur as Top 40 radio, TV variety shows or pro-choice/gun-adverse Republicans are greatly exaggerated. That’s part of the news you can use from the 2011 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, running from January 20-

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30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The number of lesbian films, combined with at least a mild revival of gaymale-generated films, as well as female-directed and/or -written features, augers well for queers at arthouses and boutique-mall houses this year – that is, of course, if Hollywood feature-buying bucks match Park City buzz. What follows are my hunches on the films to watch out

for, based on early festival tweets and buzz, filmmaker/cast track records, or, in some cases, the allure of weird or consciously funny titles/synopses.

We Were Here In 2001, David Weissman and Bill Weber evoked the prank-filled, campy spirit of late-60s San Francisco, when a mischiefprone band of cross-dressing, druggy merrymakers, calling themselves the Cockettes, planted their freak flag in a North Beach movie palace.

By the time that party crested in the early 70s, queer communities had spread through the Tenderloin along Polk Street, from South of Market to the Castro, to Bernal Heights. An exuberant ex-hippie, Harvey Milk, was building an unlikely coalition of gays, lesbians, trade unionists, and anti-war, anti-skyscraper, pro-neighborhood activists who started to feel that they could wrestle the city back from a pro-business entrenched political machine.

As their new film We Were Here opens, Weissman (producer/director) and Weber (editor/codirector) recreate the sickening moments when this new coalition, fresh off the heady triumph of defeating the anti-gay-schoolteacher Briggs ballot measure, was hit by an unimaginable tsunami of deadly setbacks: the Jonestown massacre, the City Hall assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Milk, and then the inexplicable news of a mysterious “gay cancer” that was acquiring a body count and, worse yet, creating a palpable sense of fear that the LGBT community’s human enemies had never fostered.

In the tradition of Word Is Out and The Times of Harvey Milk, We Were Here is cradled in the direct address of intimate storytelling. Five people, who by film’s end feel like

The Castro, San Francisco, photograph by Crawford Barton, from David Weissman’s We Were Here, having its world premiere at Sundance.

personal friends, describe how the AIDS epidemic challenged everything they knew about themselves and their adopted hometown. Illustrated by heartbreaking video/photo albums of men who perished in the earliest days of the plague, sometimes after undergoing excruciating drug trials (I caught a poignant glimpse of a close friend whose odyssey included ingestion of Chinese cucumbers), We Were Here is the rare film where the slow drip of shocking, almost unbearably sad anecdotes – details we might be loath for people to know about our last moments – provide the human underpinning for the fabled “San Francisco model” of AIDS treatment that held a community together until effective, life-saving drug cocktails arrived.

We Were Here is in the Sundance U.S. Documentary Competition, and will be back in town for a late February run at the Castro Theatre.

Ticket to Paradise Cuban director Gerardo Chijona Valdez nestles a teens-on-the-lam story in the unlikeliest of places, an AIDS hospice, as teen rockers find a sweet haven in 1993 Havana while the Cuban economy goes into post-Soviet Union aid withdrawal.

Kaboom Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin) lets his boundless appetite for sex-crazed nimrod characters from every possible gender/fetish express itself in a silly romp. Breaking down the walls between comedy and horror, Kaboom becomes a spoof of the very idea of social networking.

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by Gregg Shapiro n The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Summit Entertainment), graduating high school senior Bella (a slightly less sullen Kristen Stewart) is still obsessed with brooding vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). She accepts her true love’s marriage proposal in exchange for his promise to “change” (read “kill”) her so that they can be together eternally.

Wait, let’s get this straight. Mormon author Stephenie Meyer thinks it’s all right for white-trash teenagers to marry vampires, but GLBT folks should be deprived of the same expression of love and commitment. Talk about Twit-light.

Still, it’s probably an easy shot to take, and the third installment in the ongoing saga of the vampires, wolves and humans of Forks, Washington, eclipses its predecessors. It’s got plenty of skin, courtesy of stud (wolf) cub Taylor Lautner (who continues to do most of his acting with his abs) as Jacob, and his pec pack of wolves.

It’s got a fair amount of special effects, although the wolves’ pelts are wearing thin. There’s also an increase in the Native American folklore aspect. The scary factor is also ratcheted up, not only with the lingering presence of the ruthless Jane (Dakota Fanning) and her creepy crew, but also bent-on-revenge Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard), her boy toy Riley (Xavier Samuel) and his army of merciless newborn vamps.

But TTS: E gets points for cranking up the humor. That’s right, you will most likely find yourself laughing out loud on several occasions, and that appears to be the way that screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg intended it. For not taking itself too seriously and

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doing it in a respectable couple of hours, Twilight: Eclipse is recommended viewing.

Special features on the two-DVD special edition include a six(!)-part “making of” doc, audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes, and music videos.

Anyone who felt that with a necessary 30 minutes worth of editing, James Cameron’s latest cinematic epic,

Avatar (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/Light Storm) could have qualified as his best movie will find themselves overwhelmed by the Extended Collector’s Edition DVD. The three-disc DVD set features an allnew, three-hour extended cut of the film, with an alternate opening. In addition to three hours of previously unseen material, the set includes more than 45 minutes of deleted scenes, and the feature-length doc Capturing Avatar.

Avatar was more than just a special-effects feat for the senses. The film

allowed Cameron to get political, commenting on the destruction of the planet, corporate greed and the military mentality. In the not-too-distant future, paraplegic Marine Jake (Sam Worthington, of the distracting accent) is recruited to take the place of his recently deceased brilliant scientist brother on a mission on the planet Pandora. A multinational corporation has a vested interest in the mission since Pandora is rich in the valuable mineral known as “unobtanium,” and Earth needs that resource harvested for fuel. Under the guidance of the scientist Grace (Sigourney Weaver), Jake walks again in a surrogate body modeled after those inhabited by the Na’Vi, the native people of Pandora. Through a series of interactions with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), the daughter of the Na’Vi’s tribal leaders/power couple, Jake earns their trust and is accepted as one of them. However, he is also being given orders by the squarejawed, GI Joe-minded Col. Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who would like nothing more than to wipe out the Na’Vi, get the unobtanium, and return to whatever Red State he calls home.

When Jake realizes that the relationship he worked so hard to establish with Neytiri and her people is at risk, he naturally switches sides. Purposely preachy and mesmerizing, the original version of Avatar remains first-rate entertainment with a message, if overly long at more than two-and-a-half hours. Some of the extended fight sequences should have been saved for the video game.

Finally, let’s not forget about Disney’s “tales as old as time.” The 1991 Oscar nominee Beauty and the Beast (Disney), featuring the timeless tunes of Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, is now available in a Diamond Edition three-disc combo pack, including two Blu-rays and one DVD.▼

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More dark & evil doings Noir City 9 fest concludes this weekend at the Castro Theatre

by Tavo Amador his year’s annual Noir City Film Festival ends (Jan. 27-30) with more rarely seen movies about the frightening side of human nature, often concealed behind “normal” personas. Just ask Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith. They’re The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947), both married to mentally unbalanced painter Humphrey Bogart. Of course, neither knows about the other, although Stanwyck soon realizes her husband is neither well nor the man she thought he was. Bogart relishes his mad villainy. With Nigel Bruce.

Directed by Peter Godfrey. A flop upon release, it has an operatic fascination. Not on DVD. Nina Foch says My Name Is Julia Ross (45), and lands a dream job working for a wealthy widower. The dream becomes a nightmare when she wakes up to find herself living with a mad husband (the chilling George Macready) and a manipulative woman claiming to be her motherin-law (Dame Mae Whitty). She insists Julia has had a nervous breakdown. What’s a girl to do? A remarkably tense B-picture, grippingly directed by Joseph. H. Lewis. Not on DVD. (1/27) Convicts Arthur Kennedy, William Bendix, Luther Adler, Marshall Thompson, and a pre-Perry Mason William Talman Crashout (1955) of prison in search of hidden stolen payroll. Talman’s knife-wielding religious fanatic is scary. With Beverly Michaels and Gloria Talbott.

Graphically directed by Lewis Foster.

Not on DVD. Barry Sullivan desperately searches for a Loophole (54) as a bank clerk unfairly accused of embezzlement. Grim, sanctimonious, scary Charles McGraw pursues him with an Inspector Javert intensity.

With Dorothy Malone. Harold D. Schuster directed. Not on DVD. (1/28)

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Ray Milland is So Evil My Love as a charming cad.

Great noir actress Barbara Stanwyck realizes that her husband is not well.

An escaped prisoner (Chester Morris) and his moll (Ann Dvorak) travel down a Blind Alley (1939) to hold guests at a dinner party hostage while they wait for their escape to freedom. Ralph Bellamy is a psychiatrist determined to unearth the root cause of their pathological behavior. What he learns is startling.

With Melville Cooper, child actor Scotty Beckett, and Milburn Stone, long before becoming famous on television’s Gunsmoke. Directed by Charles Vidor. Not on DVD. The great Fritz Lang – in a hallucinogenic, Freudian-inspired mood – reveals The Secret Beyond the Door (48). Traveling before her wedding,

Ice queen

by Jim Piechota Welcome to my World by Johnny Weir; Gallery Books, $26

e is a three-time U.S. National Figure Skating Champion, has thrilled and entertained audiences at the 2010 Olympic Games, and, last spring, was ranked 12th in the world by the International Skating Union. Though his professional time on the ice may be over for now, Johnny Weir’s 15 minutes of fame have apparently just begun.

The list of his accomplishments that have absolutely nothing to do with figure skating is endless, and gratuitously included in Welcome to my World, Weir’s effervescent, egomaniacal autobiography. Writing with breathless prose ripe with namedropped celebrities galore (and a hotpink book cover), this 26-year-old ice queen certainly delivers the goods about his curiously eccentric childhood (“my flair for drama, or melodrama anyway, came early”), life with his tough father and stylish mother (to whom he dedicates the book), and losing his virginity to a man. He also writes of an eternity spent being a “crazy bitch” in the skating rink, wrangling coaches, costume designers, and leering, catty contest judges – all while maintaining a glittery illusion of opulence that could be likened to a primetime performance of Liberace on Ice. And that’s just in the first 50 pages.

More revelations gush forth: Pretty Woman revved his engine and shaped his ideas about sex as a boy (“Kissing

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seemed like a weird thing to do, but I knew if I were going to do it, it would be with Richard Gere”); he considers Sarah Jessica Parker an icon (“I have always wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw”); has had dinner at friend Kelly Ripa’s two-story penthouse, hugged Sir Elton John, and is the tinsel- and diamondstudded centerpiece of a documentary about his life called Pop Star on Ice. Weir’s “uniform” dress code includes “black skinny leggings and pointy black Christian Louboutins” with matching eye makeup (applied by his “beauty bears”). This doesn’t raise as many eyebrows as when he brazenly incorporates real animal fur into his wardrobe, a move that naturally draws the ire of the PETA organization and their members. One of them, Weir says, went the violent route and put a “mark” out for his life, forcing him to walk around with an FBI agent for protection. Even with an armed guard at his side, the skating champ remains gleefully unapologetic, remarking, “I wear what I like to wear.”

Weir writes with a droll sense of

Joan Bennett meets real-life bisexual Michael Redgrave, who turns out to be the man of her dreams – or nightmares. Audiences are unlikely to make sense of this bizarre mix of Bluebeard and Rebecca, but the visuals are striking, and the movie is never boring. With Natalie Schaefer and Anne Revere. Not on DVD. (1/29, matinee)

Funny uncle In The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945), George Sanders, one of classic Hollywood’s premier gentleman bitches, plays an interior decorator who at long last meets the woman of his dreams (!), Ella

honesty about his relentless pride and his unapologetic effeminacy, two attributes that have carried him through many moments of pain, shame, and unabashed anger (one group of broadcasters in Quebec dared Weir to take a “gender test,” saying that he set a “bad example” for boys who want to skate).

The author believes that while queer folks have made enormous strides toward true equality, there is a strange resistance brewing in the right-wing religious camp, a group of haters who are dead-set against allowing the gay movement to continue forth. “You have to be strong to be gay nowadays,” Weir earnestly admitted recently on the Howard Stern Radio Show.

For now, the Johnny Weir media train is running full steam ahead.

Though he demurely refers to himself as simply “an ice skater that sang a song,” Weir currently has a #1 song in Japan called “Dirty Love,” a blippy, synthesized, heavily-vocoded dance record boasting lyrics like, “Fight, don’t stop, get your war paint on; march to the beat of my dirty love song.” His verbally sharp, frolicking, self-congratulatory reality show premiering on the Logo network, Be Good Johnny Weir, looks like more of the same, and is positioned to become as much of a guilty pleasure for Weir fans as anything MTV or Bravo has been dishing up lately.

Still, as easy as it would be to dismiss this consistently engaging, glittercovered confection of a man, there’s a deeper meaning buried under all of that silliness. It has a lot to do with being true to oneself, and staying the course no matter what.

Ultimately, Johnny Weir just wants everyone to know that he’s come a long, long way – and he’s done so in sequins, black leggings, and Louboutins the entire time.▼

Raines. Alas, his possessive sister, Geraldine Fitzgerald, isn’t about to let him go. Crackling dialogue and an amazing, over-the-top performance by Fitzgerald. With Moyna MacGill, Angela Lansbury’s mother.

Directed by Robert Siodmark. Not on DVD. Ray Milland is So Evil My Love (48) as a charming cad who persuades devoutly Christian Ann Todd to help him with his crimes.

With Geraldine Fitzgerald and Leo G. Carroll, long before television’s Topper and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Not on DVD. (1/29, evening) Jean Simmons’ Angel Face (1952) conceals a twisted, father-obsessed personality. She’s a Los Angeles

heiress determined to get the man of her dreams: rugged, working-class Robert Mitchum. The tough, resourceful Mitchum is in over his head. With Herbert Marshall as Simmons’ daddy, and, as a District Attorney, Jim “Mr. Magoo” Backus. Directed by Otto Preminger at his best.

England’s Belita gained fame as an ice-skater, but later had a career in Bpictures. In The Hunted (48), she’s a femme fatale just released from prison for robbery, but claiming she was framed. Did former lover and cop Preston Foster set her up? She’s planning revenge, so he’d better be careful. With Charles McGraw. Directed by Jack Bernhard. Not on DVD. (1/30)▼

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by Gregg Shapiro aul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey, better known as OMD (a.k.a. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark), return to the fore with History of Modern (Blue Noise/Bright Antenna). OMD’s first album in nearly 15 (!) years, History of Modern does a decent job of reminding us of the band’s contributions to electropop music, going back 30 years to “Electricity” from its self-titled debut disc. OMD’s most commercial period (marked by 1984’s Junk Culture, which had a hit song in John Hughes’ movie Pretty in Pink) is echoed in songs such as “If You Want It,” and dance-oriented tunes such as “Sister Marie Says” and “Pulse.” That doesn’t mean that OMD (including Martin H. Cooper and Malcolm A. Holmes) can’t rock out with the best of them. OMD also takes advantage of technology they might not have used much in the past on “Save Me” (featuring a fierce Aretha Franklin sample).

Folk-pop duo The Weepies (Deb Talan and Steve Tannen) have found a tasty and satisfying musical recipe, and continue to whip up batches of easy-to-devour songs. Be My Thrill

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(Nettwerk), their fourth full-length, begins with a musical request, “Please Speak Well of Me.” Other cuts sure to thrill include “When You Go Away,” “I Was Made for Sunny Days” and “Empty Your Hands.”

If you like The Weepies, then folky/rootsy duo The Winterlings (Amanda Birdsall and Wolff Bowden) just might be your cup of herbal tea. The 11 timeless songs on their new album The Animal Groom (winterlings.com) serve to remind listeners of the power of two voices in an acoustic setting.

A pair of duos came into being when two musicians with their own solo (or band) careers joined forces.

I’m Having Fun Now (Warner Brothers) by Jenny and Johnny is the combined talents of Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) and Johnathan Rice. If you like She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) or Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn’s collaboration, then you’ll like this sweetly sexy set of songs, including the standouts “While Men Are Dreaming,” “New Yorker Cartoon,” and the 21st century surf of “Big Wave.”

As unlikely couplings go, Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age) are high on

the list. And yet their partnership has proven to be a fruitful one, with Hawk (Vanguard) being their third release together. Somehow Campbell’s sweet purr when crossed with Lanegan’s raw growl creates a pleasing concoction, as you can hear on “Come Undone” and “Lately.”

The dance music world is familiar with electro duos, from the Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and Yaz to The Ting Tings and The Knife. On their self-titled Warp debut, The Hundred

in the Hands get the dance party started right with the dizzying disco of “Young Aren’t Young,” which practically dares you not to dance.

Matt & Kim put a Brooklyn spin on the dance-oriented songs on their third album Sidewalks (Fader Lablel), beginning with the white funk of “Block After Block.” This loft-party soundtrack keeps the good times coming with the electric march of “Wires,” the shiny thump of “Silver Tiles” and the slippery hip-work of

“Ice Melts.”

Encounter (Knightingale Entertainment) by the duo The Green Children opens with the rhythmic, other-worldly title track, which suggests a sort of new age disco. The gently persuasive beats continue on “Dragons,” but are more or less abandoned for a less interesting style of Euro-pop favored by people who watch American Idol and buy Katy Perry songs on iTunes because they haven’t yet discovered LaRoux.▼

wages. It was all very heady – not the least Pavarotti’s much-vaunted high F, sung, less than beautifully, in head voice – and I wouldn’t have missed it.

That’s because the point was, whenever possible, to be in the house with Sutherland when she sang. It’s not just that the voice was so pre-possessingly beautiful that you could have been forgiven for thinking it was the creation of the engineers. It’s more that you couldn’t really appreciate its penetration until you were in the room with it. It would take an acoustician or physicist to explain the overtones her voice set ringing, but you had to feel the way it could saturate the room – even, and sometimes especially, at a floating pianissimo hush.

But what you most couldn’t miss in a live Sutherland performance was what could only be called its truth.

Sutherland’s was singing at its most genuine – undeniably the real thing and giving, reliably, 100%. That’s what this Glyndebourne Puritani is. Suther-

land’s onstage, working, and you’re in the room (and in orbit).

The performance as a whole plays well. Vittorio Gui, Britain’s house conductor for the Italian wing of the repertoire at the time (and conductor of the famous 1950 Callas Norma at Covent Garden, in which Sutherland sang Clotilde), shapes the performance masterfully. Sutherland’s fellow cast members may not have gone on to anything like her fame, but today we’d kill for a tenor like her Arturo, Nicola Filacuridi.

Besides singing the spots off the notes, Sutherland gives us an involving Elvira, and the mad scene is breath-catching. But everything Sutherland was ever to become as a musician arrives fully formed in this performance, the voice (shortly after a sinus operation that had the opera world on tenterhooks) the definition of limpid beauty, yet with a bounce.

It’s the “voce sua soave” Elvira hymns, before it vanishes.▼

falls in love with an impassioned Zionist who rejects Felder’s political hesitations about Israeli politics.

But while the relationship is still burning bright, Felder shows how juggling can be a sensual art form as she manipulates several orbs as the old Duke Ellington song “Hit Me with a Hot Note” plays. Later, when she visits a Palestinian refugee camp, Felder creates a poignant visual metaphor manipulating a pile of wooden blocks.

David O’Connor directed the

evenly paced production, with the enchanting, if not clearly pertinent, shadow puppets created by Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews. The biggest pleasure of Out of Sight is simply having Sara Felder back in town, where her humanistic message is again in a mutual embrace with local audiences.▼

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creasingly distinguished series of archival performances. As it happened, my copy arrived soon after the news of the diva’s demise.

It was almost like a communication from beyond the grave. In the opera, we first hear Elvira offstage. It is her wedding day, but she is joining her devout fellow Puritans (as envisioned by an Italian Catholic composer) in singing morning hymns, not as soloist but as a congregant.

And there, from a half-century ago, came that mesmerizing sound, so exquisitely in ensemble with the other singers – as Sutherland always was – yet that voice of almost unearthly beauty soaring rapturously over them, worming its way into the ears and hearts of her listeners, just as Bellini intended.

The whole performance is prime, vintage Sutherland, and it needs saying that there is nothing opportunistic about Glyndebourne’s reissue. Like the other items in the series, this Puritani comes in a hard-cover set with complete archival information, including photos from the production, copies of the original program materials, and a complete libretto and notes. It was clearly long in the making. Even though Sutherland recorded the opera twice in the studio, and there are myriad live versions, there’s always room for a Puritani of this quality.

Sutherland’s Elvira for San Francisco, in 1966, marked the first time her mentor-husband, Richard Bonynge, was in the San Francisco pit – and Alfredo Krauss, no less, was her Arturo. But it was before my days in San Francisco, and I didn’t catch up with her Elvira until the SutherlandPavarotti show was opera’s biggest circus act, and a scalped standing-room place at the Met cost me a week’s

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nior-year-abroad adventures in Israel, where she reunites with an old friend who has become an Orthodox Jew. She wants to dance the hora again with him at a wedding, as they once did so joyously only a few years ago, but is shocked to find that the mixing of sexes is taboo in this culture. Same-sex unions can also be troublesome, at least when Felder

Out of Sight will run at the Marsh through Feb. 13. Tickets are $20$35. Call (800) 838-3006 or go to www.themarsh.org.

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Steven Underhill

Roadside Attractions

Javier Bardem in Biutiful.

Biutiful director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

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greater peril. With Biutiful, Inarritu limits the scope of his story while in some ways upping the moral stakes.

At first, Uxbal fancies himself a good man attempting to grease the wheels in a tiny, rotten part of a world-class city. But suddenly, his deeds acquire a body count – the most wrenching subplot finds Uxbal in a hauntingly tragic fall from grace involving the Chinese gay guys and, ironically, the life of a young mother who has sat with his kids.

Despite everything we’ve seen from Javier Bardem – the Oscar-turn psycho killer for the Coen Brothers; a wickedly funny Don Juan for Woody Allen; the martyred gay Cuban writer for Julian Schnabel – his Uxbal is still a revelation. In a film that overflows with more than its share of various human waste products – Uxbal’s bloody urine is a mild example – Bardem creates a character who achieves an unlikely state of grace.

His hustler kids himself that he’s saving his flock of migrants, while in fact he’s accidentally hastening their dates with the devil. There’s not a hint of vanity in Uxbal’s descent into an emaciated kind of anti-saint. In one grimly ironic moment, a cynical, corrupt cop mocks Uxbal’s pleas to help his charges avoid deportation with the grisly tale of a lion trainer who forgot that you can never tame a truly wild thing. Uxbal’s toughest decision is to cut off his bipolar wife from access to their kids. Alvarez, in a riveting debut, strips all the clichés from screen depictions of unfit mothers.

And without being the slightest bit homophobic, Inarritu allows the Chinese gay lovers a sad dignity, but no stay of execution.

On the record My 22 minutes with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ranged from his almost psychic casting powers to the impossibility of even imagining a

film at this point about his native Mexico’s state of siege with the murderous drug cartels.

David Lamble: You surprised me by creating a gay relationship between the Chinese guys who are exploiting their countrymen as underpaid and mistreated construction workers.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: They are part of the fabric of the story, and I wanted to portray them not as “bad” guys. It’s important to show that these guys are fathers, but they have a very complex love which we are not used to seeing because always it’s portrayed in this stereotyped way.

Your discovery of Gael Garcia Bernal to play the dog-fighter who lusts after his thuggish brother’s girlfriend brought an amazing, visceral talent to the screen.

I met Gael doing an ad for a radio station. I created a strange, very weird campaign that was basically a silent 20 seconds. I had Gael sitting in bed, and he began having a big emotion, and that’s it. When I was shooting Gael, I saw his eyes, and I was really kinetically connected to him; I said, “If I do a film in Mexico, I will do it with him.” Less than two years later, we shot Love is a Bitch (Amores Perros).

Gael is astonishing in either gay or hetero love scenes: his skin reddens, and he’s all the way in.

We’ve stayed connected, by the way. We got drunk together just a few weeks ago.

Javier Bardem so disappears into playing Uxbal that if we didn’t know better, we’d think you just found him fresh off a Barcelona slum street.

This film is character-driven, and basically Javier consumed being that character for five exhausting months.

Both of us are intense, neurotic perfectionists – I can be unbearable as a director, I can ask for 40 takes for a single glance to one side.

I had met him seven years before, during the Oscars at the “losers” party, and we got drunk together. I needed a character who is primitive,

with a great presence and also a very sensitive, fragile human soul, and Javier has this kind of gladiator physical presence, but he’s also a poet in a way.

I know you and your friends want to tell the story of the horrible drug wars in your homeland, but are probably stuck for an approach.

There’s so much information and sensational experience that it’s hard to metabolize it. It’s like we’re in a storm on the surface of the sea, but nobody’s looking at what’s creating it, at the epicenter – there’s no perspective now. All of us are intoxicated by the violence and the pain – it’s out of control. It’s the lack of education, the

lack of culture that we promised 100 years ago during the [Mexican] revolution, and we never delivered.

I feel as if my country’s been kidnapped by violence and outrageous ignorance. We’re going to get something very interesting from this crisis.

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OUT&ABOUT Fri 28 >> BOOM Fest @ Off-Market Theater Throw Rotten Veggies at the Actors Night, PianoFight’s raucous sketch comedy night. $20-$30. 8pm & 10pm. 965 Market St. www.pianofight.com

Clybourne Park @ American Conservatory Theatre Bruce Norris’ sardonic comedy takes on gentrification and racial tensions in a Chicago suburb. $10-$80. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Feb. 13. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Lois Tema

Collapse @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Treefall at New Conservatory Theatre

Weapons of love

by Jim Provenzano

ouTubers unearthed a clip of rightwing psychopath and Fox “News” monstrosity Glenn Beck saying in a recent show (before the Tucson massacre) of Democrats and Liberals, that the only way to deal with us is to, “Shoot them in the head.”

The rightwing gun-toting mob continues to fashion its ranks as the victim, not unlike that … hideous Alaskan creature.

The Vatican honchos have yet again been exposed for covering up child-molesting priests, while at the same time, a U.S. Catholic diocese now offers an anti-gay 12-step program to make you straight.

How do we fight back against such horrid lunacy?

These are our weapons: YouTube, drum sticks, guitars, angel wings, paint and posters, protests, sarcasm, open-throated songs, and truth. Oh, and lawsuits.

How else do we fight back?

Marga We survive.

Gomez See a chilling yet darkly funny take on post-apocalyptic queeriosities in Treefall at New Conservatory Theatre, which stages the San Francisco premiere of Henry Murray’s postapocalyptic drama set in the Pacific Northwest. Four characters form a makeshift family, and gender and desire shift with the unusual setting. LA Weekly called it one of the Top Ten plays of 2010. $15-$36. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Jan. 28 thru Feb. 27. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. 8618972. www.nctcsf.org How do we defend ourselves? We laugh.

Marga Gomez’s Funny Mondays at The Marsh in Berkeley is just the latest of several weeknight events hosted by gay comics where we can laugh at and with ourselves. Gomez, who Robin Williams dubbed “the lesbian Lenny Bruce,” brings her comic talents, and special guests, to a weekly cabaret show. $10. 8pm. 2120 Allston Way. (800) 838-3006. www.margagomez.com www.themarsh.org How do we unite? We build community.

An example is the Queer Shabbaton at the Women’s Building this weekend, the Jewish Community Federation’s “urban retreat” events about Jewish culture in San Francisco, with scholars, writers, activists and rabbis, for LGBT Jews and friends. $125 includes all programs, meals and events. Jan. 28-30. 3543 18th St. 871-7113. www.qjew.org www.nehirim.org/qssf How do we march? To the beat of a different drummer.

Get inspired by Kodo at Zellerbach Hal. While not a gay ensemble, the outstanding Japanese drumming, dance and music group, celebrating its 30th anniversary, rumbles its way back to Berkeley, and should inspire some serious drumming of your own, be it spiritual, literal or personal. $22-$52. 8pm. Feb 3 & 4. Bancroft Way at Telegraph, UC Berkeley campus. www.calperformances.org ▼

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Kodo at Zellerbach Hall

Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Allison Moore’s family comedy, set in Minneapolis and inspired by the 2007 Mississippi River Bridge collapse. $10-$55. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Thru Mar. 6. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.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. Extended thru Jan. 29. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Fifi & Fanny @ Kanbar Hall Comedy duo (Stephanie Lynne Smith and Carolyn Edson) perform “A Mass of Fanny” with other actors and singers, celebrating the work of Smith, an MCCSF volunteer.

“Collections” at the door. 8pm. 44 Page St. at Gough. www.fifiandfanny.com

Dark, mysterious, sultry and criminal forgotten films of the noir era, with different double features each night. $10. Thru Jan. 30. 429 Castro St. www.noircity.com www.castrotheatre.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh 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

Swing Frolic @ Cellspace Same-sex (or not) dance night with lessons, open dancing, and performance. 7pm beginners lesson, 8pm dance show. 10pm more dancing. $2-$15. 2050 Bryant St. 3058242. www.QueerJitterbugs.com

Textural Rhythms @ Museum of the African Diaspora Constructing the Jazz Tradition, Contemporary African American Quilts, a new exhibit of quilts by the Women of Color Quilters Network that visualize jazz artists. Opening reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres with live jazz music, 7:30-9pm. special events throughout the weekend. Reg hours: $5-$10. WedSat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

A Hand in Desire @ Viracocha

Hedda Lettuce @ The Rrazz Room Witty New York drag comic and Queen of Green “Gives Great Hedda” in a gay night of jokes and songs. In conjunction with EDGE SanFrancisco, one of Hedda’s wigs will be auctioned each night, with all proceeds going to The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). $25. 10:30pm. Also Jan. 29, 10:30pm. 2-drink minimum. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. at Ellis. (800) 3803095. www.therrazzroom.com

Jazz on Film @ Oddball Film Short films, rare documentary shorts featuring Gene Krupa, Anita O’Day, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and other early jazz greats. $10. 8:30pm. Also, Jan. 29, 8pm, Norman McLaren: Genius of Animation.

275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

Labayen Dance @ Dance Mission Theatre Enrico Labayen premieres four new works, with guest dancers David Chase (Martha Graham), Clover Mathis (Alvin Ailey, Dance Theatre of Harlem) and choreographer Folawole Oyinlola. $20. 8pm. Also Jan. 29, 8pm. Jan 30, 7pm. 3316 24th St. at Mission. 273-4633. www.enricolabayen.com

Opening reception for the U.S. debut of the gay German painter’s contemporary take on male nudes, Impressionism, privacy and voyeurism. 251 Post St. 2nd floor. 5431550. www.CainSchulte.com

Marlena Teich Band @ Savanna Jazz Club Singer-guitarist performs with her swingin’ quartet at the bar and restaurant. $5-$8.

7:30-11:30pm. 2937 Mission St. 2853369. www.savannajazz.com

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

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

‘S Wonderful @ Jewish Community Center

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

Actors Ensemble of Berkeley’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s fancifully comic play set just before World War I, about love, game-playing and illusions. $12-$15. Fri & Sat 8pm. Thru Feb. 19. 1301 Shattuck Ave. (510) 649-5999. www.aeofberkeley.org

Paula West @ The Rrazz Room

Month-long comedy shows with dozens of famous and upcoming comics, at clubs and theatres. $15-$30. www.sfsketchfest.com

Joe Goode curated this three-week dancetheatre-fest of works performed by his company, Ledoh and Axis Dance Company. $25$30. 8pm. Thu-Sat thru Jan. 29. www.brava.org

Heartbreak House @ Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley

Popular store known for sex toys and more opens a new branch. Enjoy live music, wine, nibbles and treats. Free. 6pm-9pm. 899 Mission St. www.goodvibes.com

SF Sketchfest @ Various Venues

Gush @ Brava Theater

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

Opening Reception @ Good Vibrations

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 local 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

Women on the Way Festival @ Shotwell Studios, The Garage

Lars Theurkauff @ Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

Shizuka Minami

Noir City 9 @ Castro Theatre

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

Sat 29 >> African American GIs and Germany @ African American Arts Complex Exhibit about the role of African American soldiers in World War II by researchers Maria Hohn and Martin Klimke. Thru April 22. 762 Fulton St. at Webster. www.sfartscommission.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

New Gershwin musical dance review currently on tour includes 40 of the composerbrother duo’s classics in a series of short stories. $50-$60. 8pm. Also Jan. 30, 2pm.

Kanbar Hall, 3200 California St. 2921233. www.jccsf.org/arts

SF Hiking Club @ Marin County Join GLBT hikers for a 6-mile hike along broad and flat Crown Fire Road, steep and narrow Huckleberry Trail, rolling Blithdale fire road with spectacular views, and narrow Hoo-Koo-E-Koo Trail. Carpool meets 9:15 at Safeway sign, Market & Dolores.

(510)985-0804. Also, 8-mile hike to Point Reyes and Bolinas Point Jan. 30. 9:15am carpool meet. www.sfhiking.com

Tom Shaw Trio @ Martuni’s Local jazz combo plays classics and standards, with special guest vocalist Cindy Goldfield. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.TomShawTrio.com

Sun 30 >> The Art of Dr. Seuss @ Dennis Rae Fine Art Fascinating exhibit of rarely seen prints, paintings, sculptures and a few of the more known drawings by Theodor Geisel, the author/illustrator of the immensely popular children’s books. Ongoing, with updates and new items. 351A Geary St. 391-1948. www.dennisraefineart.com

Animation Exhibits @ Walt Disney Museum See biographical exhibits about Walt Disney, early sketches and ephemera from historic Disney movies. Frequent lectures and film screenings. $12-$20. 104 Montgomery St., The Presidio. www.waltdisney.org

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

Colla Voce @ Old First Presbyterian Church

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio

Gay men’s a cappella ensemble performs British vocal works. Proceeds benefit the Lambda Literary Foundation. $20. 7pm.

1751 Sacramento St. at Van Ness. Also Jan. 30, 2pm, at University Lutheran Chapel, 2425 College Ave., Berkeley. www.collavoce.squarespace.com

Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

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

Hotties 4 Homo Healthcare @ El Rio Fundraiser for Lyon-Martin Health services, with performances by Kentucky Fried Woman, Brock Cocker, Drew Montana and Jake Danger. DJ Booty Klap from Party Hole!!!/Ships in the Night and DJs HLAWS and Jxn James. $5-$20. 7pm-10pm. 3158 Mission at Precita. www.lyon-martin.org www.elriosf.com

Our Vast Queer Past @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items

Labayen Dance, Friday

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

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Lars Theurkauff ’s exhibit, Friday.

Wed 2 >> Angels in America at 20 @ Museum of Performance & Design Exhibit documenting the award-winning Tony Kushner drama, with an array of original 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

Candice Bergman @ Castro Theatre The actress, and Murphy Brown creator Diane English, get a tribute for the Emmywinning comedy show, and Bergman’s career. $25. 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.sfsketchfest.com

Literary Speed Dating @ SF Public Library

on display. Free for members-$5. Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 Country-western dancing for the LGBT community and friends two night a week, every Sunday and Thursday. $5-$8. 21+. Sundays 5pm-10:30pm, lessons 5:30–7:15pm.

Thursdays 6:30–10:30pm, lessons 7pm8pm. 550 Barneveld Ave., near Bayshore and Industrial. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room 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

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 License to Kiss II is the show at the theatretent-dinner extravaganza with Kevin Kent, twin acrobats Ming and Rui, Vertical Tango rope dance, plus magic, comedy, a fivecourse dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145.

Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63— $78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm). Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Various Exhibits @ Oakland Museum of California Bay Area figurative art, Dorothea Lange archive, Early landscape paintings, Gold Rush Era works, California ceramics.

Gallery of California Natural Sciences focuses on California’s unique status as a region of extreme biological and geological diversity. $6-$12. 1000 Oak St. Oakland.

(510) 238-2200. www.museumca.org

Various Exhibits @ YBCA 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

Mon 31>> Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale @ Roxie Cinema Special free community screening of the documentary about how a “miracle” treatment for hemophilia was sold by its makers, who knew it was contaminated with HIV and hepatitis, resulting in the death of thousands; directed by Emmy Award-winning producer Marilyn Ness. 7pm. Free, but RSVP to resvp@badblooddocumentary.

3117 16th St. www.roxie.com www.badblooddocumentary.com

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

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Tue 1>> Adi Nes @ Jewish Community Center Gay Israeli photographer known for homoerotic male imagery in conversation with the Israel Center’s Donny Inbar. $10-$20. 7pm. Kanbar Hall, 3200 California St. 292-1233. www.jccsf.org/arts

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu

item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Gay Speed Dating @ The Press Club Four-minute short chats with other single bachelors, plus a glass of wine. $25.

6:30pm. 20 Yerba Buena Lane. www.DateDistrict.com

JD Samson @ Amoeba Music Cocreator of the bands Le Tigre and Men brings her DJ talents to the popular music store. 5pm. 1855 Haight St. www.amoeba.com

Karel @ The Rrazz Room Enjoy the gay comic “Uncensored, Unfiltered, Unhinged.” $25. 8pm. 2-drink minimum. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. at Ellis.

(800) 380-3095. www.therrazzroom.com

Laugh, Sing, Dance, Care @ San Jose Improv Comic Dat Phan headlines a benefit for the PACE Clinic, which provides HIV/AIDS treatment to uninsured patients in Santa Clara County. Jon Talbert, Marty Grimes, Sasha Stephane and others also perform. $45. 7pm. 62 S. Second St. San Jose.

(408) 280-7475. www.improv.com

Meditation Classes @ Kadampa Buddhist Temple Tessa Logan teaches drop-in meditation classes. $10. 7-8:45pm. 3324 17th St. 503-1187. www.meditationinnortherncalifornia.org

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

Michael Ajerman @ Toomey Tourell Fine Art Exhibit of lush dreamlike paintings. 5:307:30pm. Thru Jan. 31. 49 Geary St. 4th floor. www.toomey-tourell.com

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

Five-minute mini dates for LGBTs, focusing on a favorite book (bring it) as an ice-breaker. Limited capacity. RSVP ddrummond@sfpl.org Straight version is Feb. 1.

5:45-7:45pm. 100 Larkin St. at Grove. www.sfpl.org

Reprise @ Robert Tat Gallery 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

Thu 3 >> Adah Bakalinsky, Tom Downs @ Books Inc. Authors of Stairway Walks in San Francisco and Walking San Francisco discuss their books and the scenic routes in our fair city.

7:30pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 8646777. www.booksinc.net

Courage Group @ ODC Theater Three new dance works by Todd Courage, including The Dance of Listening, with a commissioned score by Ryan Anderson. $25.

8pm. 3153 17th St. Thru Feb. 6. www.couragegroup.org

Group Exhibit @ Michael Rosenthal Gallery Greer McGettrick’s Faulkner by Hand (The Sound and the Fury hand-written on wallsized panels) and works by Narangkar Glover, Meghan Gordon and James Benjamin Franklin. Thu-Sat 11am-6pm. 365 Valencia St. 55201010. www.rosenthalgallery.com

Holly Hughes @ The Marsh Ascerbic solo performer (and famous lesbian) performs her new show Dog and Pony, a blend of autobiography, animal behavior and pure lies. $15-$50. Thu 8pm, Sat 8:30pm, Sun 7pm. thru Feb. 27. 1062 Valencia St. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Jess Curtis/Gravity @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts World premiere of Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies, a visually witty and unusual performance-dance work exploring societal ideas of bodies, beauty and its misperceptions. $20-$25. 8pm. Thru Feb. 6. 701 Mission St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Weekly parties with different themes at the new museum of life sciences. Enjoy the exhibits while drinking and schmoozing; Life: A Cosmic Story, narrated by Jodie Foster in the Planetarium. $12.

(Reg, admission $20$30). 21+. 6pm-10pm.

Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy .org/nightlife

Particular Voices @ Jewish Community Center Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Writers, selected portraits from Robert Giard’s two-decade-long projects photographing over 600 gay and lesbian writers. Thru Feb. 27. 3200 California St. 292-1200. www.jccsf.org

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

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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by Scott Brogan he 10th annual Mr. Hayes Valley Leather Contest took place at a packed Marlena’s this past Saturday. I haven’t seen that many leather men and women in one place outside of my Facebook page in a long, long time. It’s great to see so many people come out for the communal experience one can only get in person (hint, hint), as well as lending support to the four contestants, sponsor extraordinaire Marlena, and the fraternity of the Hayes Valley Leather Men. In the past 10 years, the Hayes Valley Leather Men have consistently proven themselves to be some of the best in our community.

The prevailing theme of the evening, as evidenced by the four contestants’ well-executed speeches, focused on the need of our community to work together in engaging and teaching those new to or exploring the scene, regardless of appearance or sexual identity. Emcee Lenny Broberg eloquently brought the point home, reminding the crowd of the struggles and perseverance that brought us to where we can attend a Folsom Street Fair without the fear of being thrown in prison just for expressing ourselves. It wasn’t that long ago when two men or two women could be arrested just for publicly Pup Rogue wins Mr. Hayes Valley Leather 2011 at Marlena’s on Sat., Jan. 22. holding hands, let alone wearing bare-assed chaps. Many who were a part of that struggle were in the auwelcome. After a check presentation Lady Gaga number, complete with dience, and were given a much-deof $500 to Magnet and some final Gagaesque outfit.

Mark Paladini served round of applause and cheers. thanks from Marlena, it was time for sang to outgoing Mr. Hayes Valley Judges Lance Holman, Ray the announcement. First Runner-Up Leather 2010 Gary Rhoades, with Tilton, Sean Kline, Queen went to Rick Lopes, and the title of special lyrics just for Rhoades.

Cougar, and Jason Ladd (assisted Mr. Hayes Valley Leather 2011 went Rhoades gave a very nice, very by young, yummy, sexy to Pup Rogue. He’ll compete at IML short step-down speech.

Judge’s boy Chris Swanin May. Congratulations to you both!

That’s a good thing.

I was son) had the difficult task We all know that “in the event backstage at IML in 2002 of choosing just one man [the winner] cannot fulfill their duand had to endure what I as the winner. Contestants ties the first runner-up will step in.” think is still the longest Lexx King, Rick Lopes, In spite of the jokes, the job of the step-down speech in IML Kelly Hart Rivera and J.B. First Runner-Up is important. Just history. Talk about Kern (Pup Rogue) breezed last week in Sacramento, Mr. Bolt shrinkage from standing like champs through the L EATHER for too long in the cold 2011 relinquished his title due to percategories of jock, on-stage sonal reasons just over a month after backstage, wearing question, leather image, winning. First Runner-Up Lance nothing but a jock and a smile! So a and speech. Absolute Empress XLI short step-down speech is always Miss Galilea wowed the crowd with a page 31

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Coming up in leather & kink >> Thu., Jan. 27: 2012 Bare Chest Calendar Semi-Final #2 at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). 9:30 p.m. Go to: www.barechest.org or www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sat., Jan. 29: Boots! Hosted by Stomper’s Boots at Chaps Bar. 9 p.m. Bootblack on duty. Featuring DJ Jim. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Thu., Jan. 27: 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.

Sat., Jan. 29-Sun., Jan. 30: Cleo Dubois Erotic Dominance Weekend Intensive for Dominant Women and Women Who Switch at the SF Citadel. Go to: www.smarts.com.

Thu., Jan. 27: Cheap Ass Edition of Locker Room at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom). 9 p.m.-close. Cheap Ass Contest at Midnight, $100 to winner. Featuring DJ Hotwire.

Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Sun., Jan. 30: Castrobear presents Sunday Furry Sunday at 440 Castro. 4-10 p.m. Go to: www.castrobear.com.

Fri., Jan. 28: Shirts Off at Chaps Bar (1225 Folsom).

Go-go studs at 10:30 p.m. Featuring DJ Sam. Take your shirt off for drink specials. 9 p.m.-close. Go to: www.chapsbarsanfrancisco.com.

Fri., Jan. 28: Eclipse! Women Only Party/Ms. Cat’s BDay Spanking Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Go to www.sfcitadel.org.

Fri., Jan. 28: Winter Party at Truck (1900 Folsom).

Hosted by Lucas Ringhofer, Daniel West Blackman, Race Cooper and Alberto. Music by Alexis Blair Penny and massive ice luge. Go to: http://www.facebook.com/event .php?eid=120117951394571.

Fri., Jan. 28: Steam at The Powerhouse, hosted by Walter. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Go-go studs work up a sweat in their Nasty Jocks gear (www.nastyjocks.com). $5 cover benefits Project Inform (www.projectinform.org). Go to www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183919251625846.

Sat., Jan. 29: 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. 29: Open Play Party at the SF Citadel (1277 Mission). 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Sat., Jan. 29: Boot Lickin’ at The Powerhouse, 10 p.m.

Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Sun., Jan. 30: Boys with Balls XI at the Serra Bowl (3301 Junipero Serra Blvd., Daly City). Have fun bowling while benefiting Project Open Hand. Ticket: $40 (includes dinner, entertainment, bowling fees & more). Go to: www.boyswithballs.com.

Tue., Feb. 1: 12-Step Kink Recovery Group at the SF Citadel. 6:30-8 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Tue., Feb. 1: Ink & Metal followed by Nasty at The Powerhouse. 9 p.m. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Feb. 2: Wolf! for Furry Men on the Prowl at The Watergarden (1010 Alameda, San Jose). 4 p.m.-Midnight.

Featuring adult videos of hairy guys, plus a new red zone and club music. Lockers are half-off. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com.

Wed., Feb. 2: Dominant Discussion Group at the SF Citadel. Doors open at 7 p.m., discussion from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Wed., Feb. 2: Naked Buddies at Blow Buddies (933 Harrison). Get naked! Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m. Play til late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Wed., Feb. 2: Nipple Play at the Powerhouse (Dore & Folsom) 10 p.m. Go to www.powerhouse-sf.com.

Wed., Feb. 2: SoMa Men’s Club. Every Wed., the SoMa Clubs (Chaps, Powerhouse, Truck, Lone Star, Hole in the Wall, Eagle) have specials for those who wear the Men’s Club dogtags.

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by John F. Karr hen they were new, those doggie butt-plugs really made me shoot. I thought they were just the wowser. Liked ’em so much I even wore one to work – had to cut a little hole down the bottom of my pants seat so the tail wouldn’t get bunched up inside.

But now I wonder whether the whole doggie humiliation thing – you know, the scene where Master makes his dog boy eat from a doggie dish, sleep in a kennel cage, crawl around on the end of a leash – hasn’t gotten a little out of hand. The very name now used, puppy play, may be alliterative, but denotes some degree of cutesy. Seems like it’s become a leather costume party, so elaborate that you can buy not only doggie paws, but doggie hoods in an assortDoggy performer Steven Daigle, caged in Kennel Master. ment of breeds.

Among other dogs, you can even get a poodle mask and paws. This rate. Most essential, though, is the ning a pinwheel over his tawny nips. may up the humiliation, if that’s pair of industrial grade knee-pads In other words, he smartly gets Vega what you’re in for. For me, it only Buff puts on Daigle. Since gay boys thoroughly aroused beups the hilarity of it all. Just would never go for the unaesthetic fore bringing on the imagine the puffball at the plumber’s sort, these are a swell steelheavy stuff. Throughend of poodle boy’s butt-plug and-leather pair that, like the hood, out, Caber’s severity is tail. Or buy yourself the will also set you back beaucoup spelled by a smile and pink-eared bunny mask a kiss, a moment’s bucks. and puffball tail I saw at rousing cocksucking, Some dogs behave badly on purone leather goods weba pleasant nipple lick, pose, eager for punishment. Daigle, site. If you can keep a another kiss and a cahowever, is a frisky and happy pup, straight face while your ress – what he does is and the scene is less about humiliaboy’s wearing that, almost romantion or punishment than mutually you’re way too butch K ARRNAL tic/rough. It’s a mix of rewarding role-playing. Daigle gets for words. It’s just too K NOWLEDGE tenderness and tor- some obedience training, crawling gay for me. And also ment you don’t see in and heeling, and does so well he’s reexpensive. Masks are most SMBD flicks, in warded with a bone he gobbles hunseveral hundred dollars! which unrelieved seriousness congrily. It’s Buff ’s, of course, one of the If you’re into it, you’ll enjoy Kennotes Butch. At any rate, it foreshadmeatier bones in porn. Direct from nel Master, one of Tony Buff ’s last ows what Vega’s soon gonna get – doggy’s mouth, it goes up his butt, several movies in the Rough series piss that cools over hot wax that repeatedly and to doggy’s delight. he’s been directing with Paul Wilde steams. It’s Vega’s first time with wax, When his hood comes off, Daigle for Titan (www.Rough. Titanand boy, does he scream. keeps his lapper lolling out, just like Men.com). Another recent movie in In the second scene, masculine, a dog. The climax finds him shootthe series is Invasive Procedures. Just dark and hairy Sami Damo gives ing rather cinematically into a small the picture on the box of its salineTristan Phoenix piss, a huge and jar Buff ’s capped over his cock. injected balls was too much for me; I heavy metal butt-plug and a doggyBuff ’s got a small lube injector to didn’t even take off the cellophane. style fuck. Surprisingly, since suck up the jizz, which he then And its fire play is Not For Amateurs Phoenix has such perky, erect nips, shoots up Daigle’s butt. You’d think – unless you wanna scorch your there’s no tit play. I sure woulda doggy might have liked to lap it up, buddy’s bone. Anal Assault suited me clamped something on those pupbut up-the-butt makes Buff blast. a little better, with its piss, dildo, pies.

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Leather + Navarro is now Mr. Bolt 2011, and will compete at IML this May. Next up: The Mr. Powerhouse contest on Fri., Feb. 18, then the Mr. SF Leather Contest on Sat., March 5.

The Mr. SF Leather Contest is part of the Leather Alliance Weekend beginning with the 45th Annual SF Leather Community Awards Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Fri., April 4. Go to: www.leatheralliance.org for details.

Farewell, Edge: Two weeks ago, I excitedly reported that the Edge Bar was reinstating the Mr. Edge Leather tradition. Just days later, the news broke that due to new building ownership, the Edge would be closing – and fast. Sun., Jan. 16 was its last day.

It was nice to see old friends during that final hurrah, but bittersweet that another establishment is a casualty of our greedy times. I don’t know the details of why it closed so quickly, although I’ve heard conflicting stories.

What matters is that yet another gathering place in the Castro has closed. Now no bars in the Castro except the “leather-lite” 440 (formerly Daddy’s) are welcoming to our community. How many twinkie bars do we need in that three-block radius, anyway? Not everyone is under 30,

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Doug Mezzacapo, Angel Cintron, Jr., Ryan Fisher, and Denny Garbuio say farewell to the Edge Bar in the Castro, Sun., Jan. 16.

over-coiffed and over-perfumed.

Hopefully the rumors are true that the Edge will reopen at another Castro location. I have my fingers, and legs, crossed.

Congratulations to Doug ‘D’ Pamplin of Pittsburg for winning Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) 2011 on Sun., Jan. 16 in Washington, D.C. First Runner-Up went to ‘1st

Sergeant,’ with 2nd Runner-Up going to Frank King. The 26th contest was the finale of the MAL Weekend, second only to IML as the biggest contest-geared leather event in the country. Pamplin will compete at IML in May. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there. Judging from the photos (and videos), I really missed out!

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by Heather Cassell he San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Chorus will debut its new artistic director at its 8th annual Love Bites cabaret in February. The boy soprano from Ohio William “Billy” Sauerland will kick off his first concert leading the chorus’ antiValentine’s Day, Love Bites OffBroadway cabaret. A professional vocalist since childhood, Sauerland, 28, took the artistic helm of the LGCSF on January 1.

“Music inspires me on a daily basis to be the best person that I can be,” said Sauerland, excited to lead his first performance for the LGCSF. “It’s not a traditional choral concert that people will expect.” He said the cabaret will range from sublime to downright hilarious and silly.

The LGCSF has brought gay, lesbian, and straight allies together in song and experimental performances for more than 30 years. It’s a tradition Sauerland hopes to build upon as its part-time artistic director leading the 34-member choir.

The chorus operates on nearly $64,000 a year, according to LGCSF Chorus Manager Kristen Brown, who is also part-time, and Dale Danley, board president of LGCSF. Sauerland’s salary is nearly $14,500 a year.

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“Musicals are my first love,” he said. “I’m just very excited about being able to use all of my years of theatrical skills and operas.”

Sauerland has performed in operas, concerts and choral ensembles in some of the world’s renowned concert halls, from Vienna and Moscow to Los Angeles, for more than 15 years. Sauerland’s musical studies also include research of the authenticity of countertenors in Baroque opera, as well as the technique and pedagogy of modern falsettists.

“He’s going to bring a new perspective and a lot of enthusiasm, and also a great amount of professional experience,” said Danley in an interview while on vacation in Seattle.

“He’s been a breath of fresh air for the chorus.” Danley is excited about the selection of Sauerland after a nationwide search. “He’s on his way to accomplish a lot in his career, and we want to be a part of that.”

Sauerland isn’t a stranger to the Bay Area. San Francisco audiences will recognize him. He was a countertenor with Grammy Award-winning vocal orchestra Chanticleer for two years, and performed with the

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Festival Opera Company for two seasons in San Francisco four years ago.

This was before he was accepted into the Royal College of Music in London on a Marshall scholarship in 2007, where he received his Master’s degree in advanced vocal performance. Sauerland most recently appeared in the world premiere of Dieci Giorni at the Thick House.

So how did a boy from a small, family-operated dairy farm in New Paris, Ohio (outside of Cincinnati)

get onto the world stage at the dawn of the Internet, and before viral videos?

Music came into Sauerland’s life at his local public middle school in choir class, but it wasn’t until a field trip to the opera that he discovered he “fell in love.” Passionate about his new love, he declared it to his choral teacher, who recognized a raw talent.

She took him to the audition that launched his professional musical career.

“I had a really amazing choir teacher who recognized my singing talent,” he said, very much aware of the good fortune that determined his fate.

Singing the national anthem, the only song he knew at the time, Sauerland landed the lead role, a young boy, in Amahl and the Night Visitors, an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti. His parents didn’t quite understand the life their son was embarking on.

“Like so many things in my life, I left them speechless,” Sauerland, a gay man, said of his small-town family, including his older sister. “They were very supportive in ways that they could be supportive,” he said, speaking tenderly about his hourlong commute with his parents, each way to rehearsals. “A lot of parents in the area where I grew up would have just said, ‘No.’ They wouldn’t have done it.”

Somehow, Sauerland found the

right people, who guided him in the direction he needed to go, especially when faced with personal and professional challenges.

“I’ve always been extremely lucky to have someone who understood me,” he said, especially when he was challenged by the larger community about his sexuality, and by the music community by being a countertenor.

People around him reminded him to “just keep pursuing my dreams, and in the end, it would work out.”

Like many gay men breaking out of the Midwest, Sauerland found his home in San Francisco. Not even London or the splendors of Europe could distract him from the city he claimed as his own.

“I really missed the Bay Area in London. There is something about the culture and energy here that really suits me,” said Sauerland, who returned to San Francisco in August 2010.

“I like variety in my life,” he said.

Sauerland enjoys teaching music to his youngest (8-year-old) and to his oldest (60-year-old) students. “Success is measured by the level of happiness you have in life. I’m very happy to be doing what I’m doing.”▼ Love Bites Off Broadway will run Feb. 11 & 12 at the Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St., SF. Tickets are $15-$30. For more information, visit www.lgcsf.org.

Prison rules

by David Lamble irector Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory (2000) is a taut, no-bullshit handling of a skinny young pot dealer’s struggle to avoid being a punk in a tough state prison cellblock. It’s must viewing for a queer audience eager to get a nonphobic treatment of the dicey issues of men abusing men behind bars.

You can find it on DVD (Sony Pictures).

The story opens as Ron (Edward Furlong, acing what he would later call his first adult role), a scared wisp of a boy with bags under his eyes from sleepless nights in the county lockup, gets a swift reality check as the guards explain the rules of his new home. Middle-class to the core, Ron quickly grasps that he has three choices: become some stronger con’s fuck thing, feign a psychotic reaction to scare potential predators away, or worse yet, turn up horizontal in the

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Ron is swiftly adopted by a white prison gang led by wily lifer Earl (Willem Dafoe, compelling and oddly gentle as the con who really runs the joint). Earl sees something in the boy that evokes a desire to be his guardian angel.

A beautifully underplayed moment (scripted by Edward Bunker and John Steppling, based on Bunker’s novel) unfolds without sentimentality as a platonic date. Earl and Ron enjoy the warden’s special bequest of a steak dinner to lay out their cards. Earl tells Ron that he wants him to take a job in the prison barbershop, as well as move into Earl’s special wing in the prison. Earl adds softly, almost romantically, “Half of knowing how to do time is getting the right job.”

“What’s the other half?”

“Where you live.”

“You know what, man, I feel really paranoid. Feel like I have to hold one

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“Look, I’m not scheming you. Of course, if I’m to be completely truthful I probably wouldn’t help you at all if you were ugly. But that’s my problem, not yours.

The little I’ve seen tells me you’re neither stupid nor weak.”

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“What’s the best way to explain this?

It’s a need to feel something, something I don’t get from Paul or Vito or TJ. I love those guys, but this is different. It’s not about fucking you, I could have done

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Space Seeks Same Madeleine Olnek nabs the festival’s unofficial wackiest, self-spoofing title prize with her (based on the 49-second trailer) incredibly low-tech tale of gift-shop worker Jane (Lisa Haas) who falls for lesbian alien Zoinx (Susan Ziegler) while fending off G-men (Dennis Davis and Alex Karpovsky). If this one lives up to or down to its Ed Wood sort of karma, it could give Peaches Christ a very juicy Midnight Madness play-thing.

Pariah Dee Rees plants an African-American baby butch in the limbo between a hot dyke Brooklyn club-scene and the cell-phone tether of her conservative parents. Early festival buzz suggests there’s a good story nestled in the moments when the ball cap and polo shirt give way to nice earrings and a good-girl façade.

Circumstance In potentially one of the hottest of the queer entries, Maryam Keshavarz explores the robust closet-busting antics of an Iran-

The Castro, San Francisco, back in the day, photograph by Crawford Barton, from David Weissman’s We Were Here.

ian girl whose brother is also making life miserable for their conservative parents.

HERE I have a firm rule never to overlook a film that Ben Foster graces. Foster gives almost every screen moment a sizzling intensity that can suddenly explode or implode. In HERE, he is the very up-tothe-minute international postmodern, post-industrial worker guy: a

satellite-mapping engineer, charged with “ground-truthing” one of the planet’s most trampled-over pieces of real estate, modern-day Armenia.

Braden King’s (with co-writer Dani Valent) Sundance Writing Lab’s test story gives Foster a romantic fling with an expatriate art photographer.

In the latter role, Lubna Azabal is generating early festival buzz.

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that already if that’s all I wanted. The last thing I want is for you to get a jacket as a punk, you do and you carry that with you wherever you go,

guy talking another guy down from a fatal leap could provide British Queer As Folk alum Charlie Hunnam the career reboot he’s clearly needed since wandering from the path.

Red State Another queer-friendly guy who needs a career boost is Clerks creator Kevin Smith. Smith sends three teen guys on a horrordrenched search for the perfect online blind date.

Little Birds First-time director/writer Elgin James’ own checkered past (including a recent arrest for alleged gang activities) fuels this tale of teen girls (Atonement’s Juno Temple) on the lam in L.A. Higher Ground The eternal quest to find a movie about religion that we and the fundies can agree on is undertaken by Sundance vet Vera Farmiga. She helms and stars in this ambitious tale of a mom who tries to find her own special spiritual path. Reports are that the filmmakers resist the impulse to make fun of or demonize fundamentalists, while not just miming their line.

Homework/Like Crazy Two sleepers in the cute-guy-with-substance department: In the former,

any prison you go to, even 20 years from now. All the convict has is his name among his peers, remember that.”

Animal Factory is an authenticfeeling tale of how two improbably paired buddies learn to trust each other and run the gauntlet of the worst a maximum prison has to offer. A special delight for queer viewers is Mickey Rourke’s fearless, sassy take on a con cross-dresser who confesses his dream to fly out of the prison and live in Paris.

The DVD package features excellent cast interviews and a jocular commentary from Bunker (he was Mr. Blue in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs), who takes cogent swipes at the sorry state of the California penal system (circa 2001), explaining how the system is geared to turn out two kinds of ex-cons: “girls” (men who submit to sexual abuse), or guys who resist and become total maniacs. ▼

Gavin Wiesen pulls a spin on high school rebels, employing Freddie Highmore and Snow Angel’s sweetie-pie Michael Angarano. In the latter, Drake Doremus frames a US/UK immigration love story around the talents of Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Winter Bone’s Jennifer Lawrence.

Take Shelter Fans of Jeff Nichols’ harrowing breakthrough feature Shotgun Stories will be happy to hear that Sony Classics has picked up his latest project, which reunites him with his actor/muse Michael Shannon. Shannon is a family man who’s digging a backyard shelter, fearing either an apocalyptic event or his own mental breakdown.

Vampire Transamerica ’s Kevin Zegers is the anti-hero of this edgy Canadian tale about a seemingly normal young man seeking an online companion.

Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times Andrew Rossi explains how the digital age is remaking what many people feel is our last real newspaper.▼ www.sundance.org/festival

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Political sleaze

by Ernie Alderete Getting Levi’s Johnson: A Sex Comedy; A Chris Steele Film (Jet Set Men, $59.95)

oliticos will get a chuckle out of Getting Levi’s Johnson, a searing satire from 2010 centering on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her testy relationship with her almost son-in-law, unwed father Levi Johnson. It’s hard to top the real-life soap opera between the original protagonists which blasted across the tabloids, but Getting Levi’s Johnson is amusing and entertaining.

The dark-haired dame Lisa Ann who plays soundalike Serra Paylin is superb.

She’s not quite as convincing as Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey, but she’s very adept in another direction.

Rather than emphasizing the real-life Palin’s ditzy reputation and naiveté, Lisa Ann tilts toward the carnal angle.

Her massive boobs (about the size of twin basketballs) just about pop out of her too-tight, unbuttoned blouse.

Playing the half-term governor of the 49th state has become almost routine for the busty actress who portrayed the same character in Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?, from Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video, released on Election Day 2008.

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Unfortunately, in Johnson, the delicious interaction between Casey Monroe (the faux Levi) and the make-believe Sara is all-too-brief.

Without her, the rest of the satire falls flat. Only dead fish float downstream, as a pundit once put it.▼

Smoking hot, not

by Ernie Alderete hotographs of Men, indeed!

Couldn’t the powers-that-be have come up with a title that’s just a little more creative? But the oddest thing about Photographs of Men by photographer Bill Emrich isn’t the bland, unimaginative title.

Virtually every other picture depicts a smoker!

Handsome man after handsome man blows billowing clouds of white smoke, or dangles a cancer stick from his polluted lips. And one fair-haired, wrinkled old prune could be a model for a poster representing all the reasons why not to smoke. The entire ill-advised concept is totally boring, monotonous, and unappealing, as well as deathly unhealthful, of course.

Putting that one tiny little fatal flaw aside, many of the non-nicotine-tainted compositions are magnificent, refreshing, invigorating, and just plain sexy. The best of the 11 tobacco-themed compositions features three equally handsome, clean-cut young men in nothing but snug, form-fitting swimming trunks seated on bar stools, drinking Budweisers and smoking Camel cigarettes.

The photographer is at his best contrasting shapes and forms, creating images out of darkness and light.

Extraneous props such as cigarettes and beer cans just get in the way of his evident talent and the natural beauty of his mostly choice subjects.

Why the tobacco obsession? Does the mind behind this book think it makes his models look sophisticated or glamorous? Who knows, but at least we can be grateful that the photographer didn’t oblige his models to shove cigars up their nostrils or other bodily orifices. Talk about blowing smoke out of your ass!

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