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EQCA to fight SB 48 referendum

DA charges suspect in gay man’s murder

by Cynthia Laird

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he suspected killer of a gay San Francisco man whose burned body was found in Buena Vista Park was expected to be arraigned Wednesday, July 27 on four felony counts that included murder and robbery charges.

San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón’s office announced Courtesy SF Police Department Tuesday, July 26 that Suspect David it had charged David Munoz Diaz, 22, with Munoz Diaz allegedly murdering Freddy Roberto Canul-Arguello, 23, who was found dead at 4:39 a.m. Friday, June 10 in the park near the city’s famed Haight Street neighborhood.

In addition to the felony counts of murder and robbery, Diaz has also been charged with one felony count of arson of a recycling bin and one felony count of mutilating/maiming/ disfiguring a body, as Canul-Arguello’s body was left either in or near a garbage receptacle.

Diaz is also charged with one misdemeanor count of destruction of evidence.

The D.A.’s office also announced that Harry Dorfman, an assistant district attorney, is currently handling the prosecution of the case.

D.A. spokeswoman Erica Derryck declined to say if Diaz identifies as gay when asked about his sexual orientation by the Bay Area Reporter. She did disclose that he has not been charged with a hate crime because there is no evidence to suggest animus toward the victim based on his sexual orientation.

As the B.A.R. noted in a Saturday, July 23 blog post, San Francisco police homicide inspectors arrested Diaz, a San Francisco resident, at the city’s Hall of Justice Friday, July 22.

What led police to arrest Diaz and his being charged this week, said Derryck, was a combination of reviewing the crime scene, phone records, and conversations with Diaz.

“Various items of personal property belonging to the victim were not found when police searched the crime scene,” she said, referring to Canul-Arguello’s wallet and cell phone.

So far, few details have been released about how the two men met that night, if they were friends or lovers, and how Canul-Arguello was killed.

Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman,

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oping to prevent a referendum repealing the state’s new Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act from reaching the ballot, Equality California and about 40 other organizations will join forces to mount a decline to sign campaign, officials said Wednesday, July 27.

“We are definitely doing a decline to sign campaign, getting ready Lydia Gonzales to launch a website, and Roland Palencia will be doing a social media decline to sign campaign as well,” EQCA communications director Rebekah Orr told the Bay Area Reporter.

On Monday, opponents of the FAIR Act, or SB 48, were given the go-ahead by the secretary of state’s office to begin collecting signatures in See page 13 >>

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New York City residents Bryan Gregory, left, and Mike Humberstone, got their marriage license Sunday in Lower Manhattan; the couple plans an August wedding.

by Chuck Colbert

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he marriage equality movement enjoyed a burst of new energy on Sunday, July 24, as jubilant samesex couples across New York state began marrying under a new law that took effect at midnight.

From Niagara Falls to Albany to New York City hundreds of gay and lesbians applied for marriage licenses – and wed.

“Today those families were told they matter and that the state of New York cares about them as much as anyone else,” New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who is openly gay, told NBC Nightly News.

The first couple to marry under the new law was Kitty Lambert, 54, and Cheryle Rudd, 53, of Buffalo, who exchanged vows in a religious ceremony at honeymoon See page 12 >>

LGBTs praise CA high court pick

by Matthew S. Bajko

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Dineathea Graves Jackson, left, and her spouse, Dawn Laverne Jackson-Graves, held their dogs as they left the clerk’s office in Lower Manhattan following their wedding ceremony.

overnor Jerry Brown’s pick for a seat on the state Supreme Court, Goodwin Liu, is winning high praise from LGBT leaders in California.

Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT bar organization, told the Bay Area Reporter following the announcement Tuesday, July 26 that, “We are proud that the governor is committed Goodwin Liu to having a judiciary that reflects the diversity of the citizens of California.”

Out lesbian Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, (D-San Diego), who sits on the Assembly Judiciary Committee, told the B.A.R. that Liu See page 10 >>

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handful of proponents of the anti-circumcision ballot measure that is set for November’s election disrupted a July 21 news conference announcing state legislation that might halt the proposition before San Franciscan residents have a chance to vote on it.

And in related news, there will be a hearing today (Thursday, July 28) in San Francisco Superior Court on a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Jewish and Muslim groups seeking to remove the proposition from the ballot.

The proposition, which qualified for the ballot in May, seeks to criminalize anyone practicing circumcision on boys under the age of 18 within San Francisco. Violations would result in a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000 or imprisonment in county jail for up to one year, or both.

The proposition allows for a welldefined medical exclusion, but not a religious exception.

Last week, Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles), who was joined by Speaker Pro Tempore Fiona Ma (D-San Francisco) and state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), announced a bill that would hand oversight of male circumcision to the state, preempting local jurisdictions from enacting local regulations or bans.

The legislators were joined by Dr. Kenneth Tai, a pediatrician who also works in internal medicine at North East Medical Services in the Sunset, which hosted the news conference.

Protesters, many of whom call themselves “intactivists,” converged on Leno, an out gay legislator who joined the bill as a principal co-

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Anti-circumcision activist Tina Kimmel, left, confronted state Senator Mark Leno before a press conference announcing his support for Assembly Bill 768, which would prohibit local jurisdictions from banning male circumcision.

author on the Senate side, prior to the start of the press conference.

Agitated, they closed in on Leno as he calmly listened and began to debate the protesters until Ma began the news conference.

The protesters hovered over the elected officials throughout the news conference as they stood at a podium in front of the clinic. They held large signs with pictures of babies asking, “You’re going to cut off what?” among other slogans.

Police officers attempted to move the protesters back on the sidewalk next to the clinic, but they continued to crowd the legislators. Gatto politely asked the demonstrators to move away from the podium reminding them it was the lawmakers’ press conference.

Unsatisfied, the protesters continued to pressure the legislators to answer their questions, attempted to debate the issue, and requested a public debate throughout the event.

Several times, police officers requested the demonstrators to refrain from disrupting the event.

“Why are they so intent on taking away the people’s right to vote? That’s what I would like to know,” said David Lane, a Fairfax resident, one of the vocal protesters upset by the legislators’ attempts to circumvent the ballot proposition.

Brian Levitt, a San Francisco gay Jewish activist with Jews for the Rights of the Child, agreed.

“It should be outlawed,” said Levitt of male circumcision. “It’s important for people to know that not all Jews believe in this.”

Political moves Introduced earlier this year, AB 768 originally amended the Health and Safety Code to provide bio-fuel incentives, but Gatto did what is known as a “gut and amend” to the bill July 7 to take on San Francisco’s anti-circumcision ballot measure, reported Capitol Weekly.

The bill now regulates the practice of male circumcision by “precluding” local community and government attempts to pass anti-circumcision laws, giving the state authority over regulating the practice.

If signed by Governor Jerry Brown, the law will take effect immediately, said Gatto, who put an urgency clause into the bill. The lawmakers are confident the bill will garner the support it needs to make it to the governor’s desk, Gatto and Leno said.

It is anticipated to reach Brown’s desk before October 7, added Ma. “One can easily imagine the mischief and the confusion that would occur if each of the 481 cities in the state of California tried to regulate medical procedures by the ballot box,” said Gatto, mentioning a similar circumcision ban that had been proposed in his district in

Santa Monica. That measure was immediately dropped after the release of the controversial comic book Foreskin Man in June, according to media reports.

Foreskin Man was created and published by Matthew Hess, the national leader of the anticircumcision movement and a proponent of the San Francisco proposition. In one installment of the comic, the Mohel, who performs the Brit milah, or the “covenant of circumcision” and a naming ceremony for Jewish boys, is named “Monster Mohel.” Arriving on the scene is the blond haired, blue-eyed “Foreskin Man” action hero who saves the day, leaving the child in the care of Amazon and biker intactivists.

Gatto’s bill was inspired by the introduction of the Religious and Parental Rights Defense Act of 2011, HR 2400, June 24 in Congress by Representative Brad Sherman (DCalifornia), he said.

Sherman, who is Jewish, proposed the legislation in direct response to San Francisco’s anti-circumcision ballot measure, according to a June 14 news release from the congressman’s office.

HR 2400 is currently being reviewed by a congressional committee.

California already prohibits local jurisdictions from limiting medical professionals’ practices in the Business and Professions Code, Leno pointed out. Gatto’s legislation amends the law, clarifying it to specifically include male circumcision, he said.

The legislation shouldn’t interfere with the current lawsuit, Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco et al. v. John Arntz. Arntz is director of the San Francisco Elections Department.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the San Francisco Medical Society have both filed amicus briefs in support of the pre-election challenge.

Haunting propaganda Leno called out proponents of the anti-circumcision bill on the anti-Semitic propaganda that the campaigned unveiled last month.

“You would have thought that Matthew Hess would have apologized, backed away from this hateful literature, and taken down from his website when it was brought to national attention, but he did not,” said Leno, who is Jewish. “He stood by it. He defended it. He even made a comment that he saw some of himself in the superhero. This is reason enough for San Franciscans to be concerned about the proposed measure.”

Gatto agreed with Leno.

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Representing a larger group of pickets, Rajasvini Bhansali and Harsha Mallajosyula attempt to enter the Indian Consulate in San Francisco July 21 to deliver a letter to the consul general protesting the recent homophobic remarks of the Indian Health Minister Ghulam Azad.

Indian official’s anti-gay remarks galvanize queer South Asians

by Heather Cassell

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utraged by homophobic comments made by India’s health minister at an HIV/AIDS conference in Dehli earlier this month, members of Trikone, the South Asian LGBT organization, staged a protest outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco July 22.

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad reportedly made homophobic comments July 4, when he claimed that gay sex is “totally unnatural” and a disease brought to India from overseas. The remarks sparked a global firestorm, said protest organizers.

Azad later said he had been quoted out of context.

“I did not use the word ‘homosexuality’ and I didn’t use the word ‘gay,’” he said in English. “I was referring disease, but HIV, which is a disease.”

Local South Asians were upset with the remarks.

“There is absolutely no excuse for such an ignorant statement to be made at this time,” said Rajasvini Bhansali, 36, a queer woman angered by the health minister’s statements.

“To actually say it at the AIDS conference is pretty irresponsible,” added Jawahar Sudhamsu, 30, a gay man, who was protesting outside the consulate. “If for a person of his stature as the health minister to say something that irresponsible, we want to call it out.”

Queer South Asians were further angered when Azad claimed the media took his statements out of context.

“The media did not take his comments out of context,” said Harsha Mallajosyula, a 29-year old gay man who is Trikone’s advocacy director. He told the Bay Area Reporter that raw footage of the conference disproved the health minister’s claims.

Official response Many queer South Asians in India and abroad are demanding a public apology or Azad’s resignation, but officials within India and at San Francisco’s Indian Consulate didn’t responded to the global outrage aimed at Azad, said queer activists in India and the U.S. Mallajosyula said that he tried to schedule an appointment with Susmita Gongulee Thomas, consul general of India in San Francisco, for two weeks, but his requests went unanswered.

The situation appeared to change once nearly 20 activists gathered in the early morning sun outside the unassuming building on Arguello Street in the Inner Richmond.

People lining up to enter looked on in curiosity at the protesters’ signs written in English and Hindi.

Indian officials entering the building nodded or hurried past the peaceful protesters, who said they weren’t going to leave without getting a meeting with an official.

Sudhamsu held up a sign in Hindi playing on Azad’s name that loosely translated into “Free the slave from God,” according to one of the protesters who translated the sign.

Kumar Tuhin, the deputy consul general, invited Mallajosyula to meet with him after Bhansali and Mallajosyula attempted to gain entry into the consulate in an effort to secure an appointment with an official after an hour of protesting.

The five-minute meeting appeared to be the first acknowledgement made

by Indian officials to address the issue, according to activists. Mallajosyula requested Azad’s resignation along with a public apology after educating Tuhin about Trikone, he said. The deputy consul general agreed to forward letters Mallajosyula handed him to the proper authorities, he said.

Members of Trikone are now waiting for a response from the consul general.

Queer power The health minister’s comments came near the two-year anniversary of when the Delhi High Court struck down Section 377, a sodomy law from 1881 enacted during British rule of India. Since then queer Indians in certain areas have continued to gain support from their families, according to Bhansali.

“The fact that we are not seen as having a strong voice is often the reason that these kind of homophobic remarks and, in fact, homophobic policies go unchecked,” said Bhansali.

“By calling it unnatural and a disease, he had violated the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalizing homosexual practice between consenting adults and disgraced the values upheld by the Indian constitution of equality and freedom of expression,” wrote Akanksha, who only disclosed her first name, co-founder and chief coordinator of Sappho for Equality in India.

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ell, it was to be expected. No sooner had Governor Jerry Brown signed state Senator Mark Leno’s SB 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act, than the right wingers at Capitol Resource Family Impact announced that they would mount a referendum campaign to overturn the new law. The group stopsb48.com has a website up and was cleared Monday to begin gathering signatures to place a referendum on the ballot next year.

According to the secretary of state’s website, the proponents have only 90 days from the enactment of the law to request and receive a title and summary, print petitions, gather the required number of signatures, and file the petitions with county elections officials.

The clock is ticking, and the proponents now have only 77 days (state law allows 10 days for the preparation of title and summary).

That’s not much time to collect 504,760 valid signatures, but you can bet that proponents have hired signature gatherers and are mobilizing.

Equality California is sending out alerts asking for money and needs to raise $50,000 to begin its education effort in collaboration with other organizations such as GSA Network. It’s going to take a lot more than $50,000, given the size of California and vast amount of work that must be done to counter the distortions and outright fabrications coming from stopsb48 about the FAIR Act, as it is known.

We met with new EQCA Executive Director Roland Palencia last week and, among other things, asked him about this referendum campaign and the fact that once again LGBT groups are on the defensive. Palencia said something telling about the anti-gay proponents: “It’s important to know what their real motivation is.”

We believe that the LGBT and allied communities know, like Palencia, that their motivation is to relegate LGBT people to secondclass status by minimizing our contributions. Of course, this reality is obscured by the stopsb48 folks, who are attempting to whip people into a frenzy just like Yes on 8 did during the Proposition

8 campaign three years ago. You can see the same images on the stopsb48 website of “traditional” (read: opposite-sex) families and claims – falsely – that the new law “undermines the traditional family” – just like the Yes on 8 campaign with its claims that same-sex marriage would harm traditional families.

The message that EQCA and its coalition partners must get out is the importance of the FAIR Act and how it will help all students, gay and straight alike. If the anti-gay groups have their way, educational materials will continue to omit LGBT people from textbooks rendering us invisible. Leaders like Harvey Milk should not be censored from the history books just because he was gay.

EQCA, GSA Network, and the other organizations involved need a strategy to combat the misinformation of the anti-gay groups quickly. In the aftermath of the Prop 8 campaign,

EQCA has made progress working with the faith community. Now we will see if those efforts will pay off in increased visibility and in portions of the faith community standing with us.

Palencia told us that he wants to work with communities of color and build coalitions.

That, too, is extremely important and must be accomplished if we are to be successful. LGBT issues are not issues in isolation. All of us face discrimination and bias. We must reach out beyond the confines of our comfort level. The LGBT community must work with communities of color and stand with them on issues such as immigration or health care.

The problem is it’s going to be difficult to do all that while at the same time raising money to fight the referendum or to orchestrate a decline to sign campaign to encourage people not to sign those petitions.

That’s the challenge that EQCA faces. It must act quickly, and LGBT people and our allies must help. We cannot be complacent this time around. ▼

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Like the Yes on 8 campaign in 2008, in which supporters rallied in Portsmouth Square in Chinatown about a month before the election, a new group is attempting to relegate LGBTs to second-class status by moving ahead with a referendum aimed at overturning SB 48, the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act.

DPH’s risk behaviors: A case study

by Billay Tania

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oon San Francisco will face some of the biggest changes in the ways that HIV prevention programs have been funded for decades. In its 2010 document,“New Directions in HIV Prevention,” the San Francisco Department of Public Health outlines its plans to restructure, refinance, and refocus the ways that HIV prevention services are provided.

While SFDPH has not been transparent to the public about the plans or reasons behind the shift, HIV prevention workers have been told that the changes threaten to defund culturally competent, peer-led, and participant-driven programming, while sending money to large agencies with a focus on wide-scale testing and medication compliance. SFDPH also intends to implement aggressive and widespread HIV screening and treatment based on the idea that, on medication, poz people are less likely to transmit the virus.

Currently, HIV prevention funds support a huge network of unique, culturally competent services that are often led by those most impacted by HIV within the communities they serve. Agencies like Bay Area Young Positives, Homeless Youth Alliance and El/La have used HIV prevention funds to creatively address the multiple, complex roots of HIV such as stigma, poverty, trauma, racism, and transphobia. This has resulted in HIV agencies forming a safety net of services for SF’s most vulnerable and marginalized – case management, culturally relevant community building, health education, housing assistance, peer counseling, food, clothing, and more.

These services empower participants to make positive changes in their lives. They also create spaces, resources, jobs, and volunteer opportunities that under-served communities can use to support themselves.

Although difficult to capture by the type of research SFDPH uses to shape its policies, HIV agency staff and participants know that effective prevention takes way more than pills and doctor visits. The current San Francisco

model has already proven successful. HIV has decreased over the last decade with a 30.8 percent reduction in rate and a 24.6 percent reduction in number (see H. Fisher Raymond’s HIV Update 2011). Herein lies the crux of the question: why the switch to a test and treat model? HIV intersects with some of the most complex needs of SF’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities.

Doctors are trained to fix health issues. As a highly stigmatizing and complex social issue, HIV cannot simply be “fixed.”

So we must ask: under the new paradigm will doctors be able to perform the community building, essential crisis interventions, and the innovative case management currently performed by peer counselors and advocates?

Currently, San Francisco residents have access to non-judgmental, harm reduction-based support. HIV workers have the time to listen, develop trust, advise, and bear witness – all crucial elements of behavior modification. When medical professionals are given primary responsibility for HIV testing and prevention, as is the push, will they also take on transforming the root causes of HIV? When organizations like BAYPoz, HYA and El/ La lose their funding, these issues will still need to be addressed.

While SFDPH’s “New Directions” may seem tantalizing in its promise to reduce new HIV cases, it opens the doors for coercive and nonconsensual testing and treatment. The SFDPH is developing the PHAST program as part of this new paradigm, the stated purpose of which is to connect new positives to medical care and to facilitate increasingly vigilant partner disclosure. In 2010 the recommendations to start antiretrovirals changed to no longer depend on an individual’s general health, their viral load, or their CD4 and T-cell counts.

People are now being encouraged to start meds immediately after testing positive. Easily accessible medical care for all positive people

is imperative, however, we are concerned that PHAST will mean coercive pressure for poz people to go on meds. Based on hearing clients’ stories, we are also concerned that the SFDPH’s partner disclosure tactics could bend standards of confidentiality through invasive attempts to notify sex partners. This is reminiscent of a quarantine – it institutes a paradigm of treatment for the good of the public while the individuals most impacted pay the highest cost.

SFDPH is engaging in risky behavior! It wants to put BandAids on poz people and money in the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry, but SF deserves more. If it abandons an essential network of San Francisco’s social services and sets the stage for a paradigm that fails to combat the root causes of HIV, the results could be disastrous. Vital elements of HIV prevention must include culturally competent, peer-based services and non-medical spaces that address the complicated ways that HIV spreads.

There will be a forum for questions and comments regarding SFDPH’s plans on Monday, August 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the SF LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street (resource tables will be available a halfhour preceding and following the forum).

Please attend! Help to re-center the voices of the people most affected by HIV, instead of leaving it to bureaucrats to decide where our funding goes.▼ Through the past decade, Billay Tania has been a client and a service provider at many San Francisco mental health, substance use, and HIV prevention services. He is currently an MSW student at UC Berkeley and works with Off the Grid, a rebellion of HIV prevention workers, activists, and backroom divas who want widespread AIDS activism back in the Bay Area. Members of Off the Grid also were involved in writing this piece. Contact them at off.the.grid.sf@gmail.com.

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Former Tenderloin Health director responds In response to your article [“Tenderloin Health works to fix problems,” July 21], I would like to provide some context for my work both as development director (February 2004 to May 2009) and my short tenure as executive director (May-Nov 2009) at Tenderloin Health and to address some of the difficulties faced by the agency and what we did to resolve them successfully.

During my time as development director I successfully led the agency’s efforts to diversify its funding and grew private income to $1.1 million annually to support our programs and services (12 percent of the overall budget), while supporting government contracts and reporting.

Private revenue included foundation grants, support from individual donors and an average of $100,000 net profit from our annual fundraising event.

Under Tracy Brown’s direction and vision, the agency became strongly positioned to tackle the synergism of plagues that conspires to increase the spread of HIV and AIDS in the Tenderloin, which was the second leading cause of premature death in the neighborhood at the time.

The agency became a federally recognized model for the engagement, stabilization and treatment of residents designed to address basic needs such as: transitional and permanent supportive housing programs; a community drop-in resource center; dental care services; HIV prevention programs such as syringe exchange; workforce development programs; and expanded existing services and hours of operation where possible to reach the maximum number of residents.

Six months after Brown resigned at the end of 2008, to take care of his health full time, the board asked me if I was interested in stepping in, which I did.

During my subsequent five-month tenure, I dealt with the most pressing and practical issues that had arisen to improve the overall fiscal and programmatic position of the agency. Essentially, financial management and oversight was key to the agency’s future success. I did that by: • Collecting $350,000 on an outstanding receivable owed by the state for services provided under our Medical Waiver program; • Putting a four-year turnaround plan in place with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to address the debt owed them, which was in the region of $800,000 at the time; • Executing a sub-contract with SFDPH required by a federal contract that was at the center of why the agency was in debt to SFDPH; • Drawing the board’s attention to the need for increased financial oversight and for a change in the day-

to-day accounting management practices needed to put the agency back on track.

• Renegotiating our Part C federal contract; • Opening an on-site dental care services program for people living with HIV/AIDS; • Working with vendors to develop payment plans and realigning the agency’s payables schedule; • Raising the private capital funds needed to support the deliverables required for our Center of Excellence in HIV care and; • Closing the community drop-in resource center that had been gradually defunded over a year by San Francisco Human Services Agency due to a shift in its strategy to provide basic shelter for homeless residents.

It is certainly heartening to read that this great agency and its exemplary staff, particularly those on the front line, continues in its mission and work. It’s important for the gay community to remember and understand that the homeless, marginally housed, and poor who are living with HIV/AIDS under the direst of circumstances are battling a “chronic” illness that for them is more likely to mean worse health outcomes than our more fortunate gay brothers and sisters with stability in their lives.

I encourage everyone to support Tenderloin Health’s clients in whatever way you can until their services are no longer needed.

Colm Hegarty San Francisco

SB 48 repeal initiative Time after time those opposed to LGBT rights and interests propose initiatives which put the LGBT communities on the defense and in a reactive mode [“New ballot battle coming to CA,” July 21]. Meanwhile LGBT services struggle and close their doors for lack of funding, because, in my opinion, time, money, and effort is deflected from supporting our LGBT community services into costly culture war political battles not of the LGBT communities’ choosing. History, time, and social development are all on our (LGBT people) side, as is the case of steady increase in same-sex marriage rights across the country and the passage of SB 48 here. Let’s let the anti-LGBT people spend their money and time on their campaigns and let us not take the bait. Let us send the money that might have been spent reactively on fighting anti-SB 48 initiatives and instead proactively spend our LGBT dollars to keep places like Lyon-Martin Health Services open or support LGBT affordable housing initiatives at Openhouse.

Loren Meissner San Francisco

Quan to co-host Pride fundraiser compiled by Cynthia Laird

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ayor Jean Quan and out City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan will co-host a fundraiser for Oakland Pride in the mayor’s office at City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, on Thursday, August 4 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Oakland Pride had a successful resurgence in the East Bay city last year – under a new organization after a hiatus of several years – with about 50,000 people attending the afternoon street festival.

This year’s Pride event will take place Sunday, September 4, under the theme “We Are Family.”

Organizers are expecting about the same level of participation as last year.

Tickets for the mayor’s event are $50 per person or $75 per couple.

Organizers said that there are also Pride sponsorships available.

All proceeds benefit projects of Oakland Pride, a nonprofit organization that is fiscally sponsored by the East Bay AIDS Advocacy Foundation.

Contributions are taxdeductible to the extent allowed by law. Funding will serve to not only help in producing the Pride event, but also eventually provide funding for the support of services at a future community center.

To RSVP for the City Hall event, contact haguilar@oaklandnet.com or (510) 238-7072. For more information on Oakland Pride, visit www.oaklandpride.org.

In related news, out comedian

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Oakland Mayor Jean Quan will welcome LGBTs and their supporters to City Hall for a benefit for Oakland Pride.

Marga Gomez, mistress of ceremonies for Marga’s Funny Mondays, will co-host an Oakland Pride benefit August 1 at 8 p.m. at the Marsh, 2120 Allston Way in Berkeley.

Detroit comedy powerhouses Karinda Dobbins and Thandiwe DeShazor will perform, along with Phillip Huang and Melanie Case. Poets Dazie Rustin Grego and Marvin K. White wound out the night.

Tickets are $10 and partial proceeds will go to Oakland Pride.

For more information, visit www. themarsh.org.

‘Flagging in the Park’ at AIDS grove Legendary DJ Susan Morabito

will be the special guest at this summer’s third Flagging in the Park, Saturday, July 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

As with every flagging event, a community-based organization is designated as the beneficiary; the AIDS grove will be the benefit of Saturday’s festivities.

Flagging in the park takes place four times each summer, with DJs, organizers, and participants donating their time to help raise funds for charities. Flagging in the Park started in 1996 when a group of flaggers started the tradition by gathering in the newly dedicated National AIDS Memorial Grove.

“This year marks both the 20th anniversary of the founding of the National AIDS Memorial Grove as well as the 15th anniversary of Flagging in the Park,” said John Cunningham, executive director of the grove. “We are incredibly fortunate to have Susan Morabito here for this special event, one that promises to be very memorable.”

There is no set donation amount, but all gifts are welcome.

Additionally, Grove board members and staff will have silent auction items on hand for bidding, including tickets to the Real Bad party in September and signed CDs from Morabito.

For those wishing to attend, there will be free shuttle bus service to the grove on Saturday. Buses will depart from in front of the Castro Theatre beginning at 12:30 p.m. and continuing until 3 and will run every 20 minutes. Individuals wanting to See page 6 >>

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Identity, +1

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

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ecently, Google decided to outFacebook Facebook, launching its own social networking site, Google+. While still technically in beta, the site had had a meteoric rise, attracting over 20 million users in a mere three weeks since its announcement.

I, like many others, begged myself into Google+ (a person has to be invited during this beta phase). A friend of mine was kind enough to pass me an invitation hidden in a shared story a day or two after the public announcement. While I’ve yet to find the site to be the amazing game changer many have hoped for, it is a refreshing experience in the wake of what is often an overwhelming experience with Facebook.

Yet not all is perfect. On the relatively minor end of things is Google’s insistence on a gender marker on site. In its initial form,

it offered male, female, and other as options, but required these to be seen by all users of Google+. It wasn’t long after that launch that officials revised this policy, allowing users to hide gender altogether, much like they allow Google+ users to hide their education, work histories, or other personal information.

When I first read about these options, I was happy, but reserved.

I felt it was great that they were allowing an option beyond the typical binary. I was less happy that the third option was practically a textbook example of “othering” people who opt out of said binary. While I personally am more than happy to choose a female option in such forms, not all wish to.

Many might like to fill in their own options, or have other systems in place allowing for a wider spectrum of possible identities.

That Google has also made it an option to hide gender altogether is a step in the right direction, but aside from marketing and demographics, I see little reason for such a question in the first place. In reminds me, in a way, of the eternal question of gender markers on driver’s licenses.

Why are such things needed, given they do not change any rules or allowances for driving?

It wasn’t long after Google+ launched in beta – but before it had even resolved the visibility of gender markers on the site – that a bigger issue cropped up. Accounts were being suspended over the “realness” of some people’s names on the site, with Google contradicting already established company policy on the use of pseudonyms within Google properties, and at least one Google employee asking people to report “fakes” on the site.

Initially this seemed largely limited to Second Life avatar accounts and a few business accounts, but soon it spread to celebrities like William Shatner and longtime tech figures like 3ric Johanson. As I write this people are still seeing their accounts shuttered due to claims that their name is not valid, with many of them reopened hours later without comment.

I have not to date heard of a case of a transgender person facing a challenge of the validity of their name on Google+, but I’m sure it’s going to happen sooner or later.

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guarantee seating on a bus can reserve a spot online at www.pastcurfew.tumblr.com/fitp1107.

Same-sex speed dating at SF library Looking for the literary love of your life? LGBT book lovers of the baby boom era are invited to participate in the San Francisco Public Library’s Literary Speed Dating for Boomers on Tuesday, August 2 from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. in the Latino Hispanic room at the main library, 100 Larkin Street. (A program for opposite-sex couples is planned for August 9 at the same time.)

In classic speed dating style, people will have four to five minutes to talk with every participant about their favorite, most loathsome, perplexing, or intriguing book and have an opportunity to possibly meet their next sweetheart.

Due to space limitations, orga-

prove such if you are suspended.

For a transgender person, this could be difficult. Some may not be able to prove their name is in “common use,” depending on how they’re presenting their gender identity in their dayto-day lives.

Some localities can make it difficult for them to gain legal paperwork in their name, requesting surgery before updating a birth certificate, or even turning down legal name changes based on illfounded concerns over the reasons for doing so.

For a transgender person, much of what we do is create our own identity. We step away from the constructions and conventions that were started when we were both – or even before – and forge our own path in this world.

We choose our own name, our own gender, and our own identity. We become exactly who we wish to be.

One of the most fertile grounds for transgender people to explore their identity has been the Internet.

Rather than being burdened with their birth name, one could choose whatever pseudonym they wished.

One could create a self that they wished to be, and experience – in some fashion – what life was within that being. Heck, you did not need to even limit yourself to a singular form, and could change identities as often as some change their socks.

In this era of social media, however, we are being slowly pushed to conform to an identity. Facebook requires a real name, though it is uneven in enforcement. Google+ has a policy that seems to be shifting daily, and even people using their real, legal names have had to prove they truly exist.

For many transgender people, we simply do not have the luxury or desire to use a real – as in the name one was born with – name. For those just coming out of the closet, that could also be disastrous. For us, it’s not about any attempt to defraud others, but to finally be ourselves in the digital world at large.

So to Google+ and others out there: police what you feel you need to police to keep your network viable, but let us be ourselves. Our identities are ours, and we’re the ones who get to decide if we wish to share it with you, and how we wish to do the same.▼ Gwen Smith has yet to see her Google+ page taken down – so far.

You can also find her online at wwww.gwensmith.com.

nizers are limiting the event to 36 people. Pre-registration is required and can be done by contacting jjasper@sfpl.org. The event will be as gender balanced as possible. People are encouraged to arrive early as “no shows” or those who are late will forfeit their place in line to those on the wait list. Don’t forget to bring your favorite book.

HIV prevention panel seeks members The membership committee of the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council is currently recruiting new council members.

The deadline to apply is August 12.

Minimum requirements are: individuals must live or work in San Francisco and be able to commit up to 10 hours a month to HPPC business.

For more information about the HPPC and to download an application, visit sfhiv.org/community_get_ involved.php or contact Betty Chan Lew at (415) 554-9492.▼

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Dufty hires former Herrera consultant

by Matthew S. Bajko

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n the latest shakeup at the Bevan Dufty for Mayor campaign, the openly gay candidate has hired Alex Tourk to be his new campaign manager. Tourk a couple months back abruptly resigned from the same position with City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s mayoral campaign after he reported he had also lobbied Herrera, a violation of city campaign rules.

For those keeping count, Tourk is the fourth person Dufty has named as his campaign manager since launching his bid for Room 200 at City Hall. The last person expected to oversee the day-today management of his campaign, Dan Kelly, never came onboard as negotiations over his contract apparently collapsed.

“Dan did not sign the contract, so I reached out to Alex and he was open and interested. Alex and I have been good friends for years,” Dufty told the Bay Area Reporter this week.

Their friendship dates back to the administration of former Mayor Willie Brown, who broke the news of Tourk’s hiring in his San Francisco Chronicle column Sunday, July 24. Tourk and Dufty both worked for Brown in his Office of Neighborhood Services.

In a release sent out that morning, Dufty called Tourk’s hire “the final piece of the puzzle” for his campaign team, which is being led by local political consultant Michael Terris of Terris, Barnes and Walters.

Terris came on board in February.

Dufty called Tourk “a veteran of many hard-fought, successful campaigns in San Francisco. I am thrilled to have his leadership, experience, and talent managing my campaign.”

Others aiding Dufty’s bid include local pollster David Binder, an out gay man, and Joyce Newstat, an out lesbian who was former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s policy director.

Newstat is overseeing Dufty’s national fundraising efforts.

Although the news about Tourk raised eyebrows among political insiders, it likely will have little impact on how voters view Dufty, said Corey Cook, the director of the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco.

“That inside baseball stuff just isn’t relevant unless it becomes difficult to maintain a consistent message and campaign strategy ... or, far less likely, it becomes part of the campaign narrative itself,” Corey told the B.A.R., adding that he doubts that will happen with Dufty.

Besides, far bigger news broke this week that has the potential to overshadow Dufty and the other leading candidates in the mayor’s race. Interim Mayor Ed Lee admitted to reporters Tuesday, after he signed the city’s budget, that he is considering running for a full fouryear term.

“There’s a lot of people that are talking to me about it, including members of the board, and so I’m going to respect those discussions,” Lee was quoted as saying. “I just want to continue those discussions and see where they go.”

Pressure has been building

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Mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty

for months for Lee to break his pledge that he wouldn’t enter the race. Several shadow campaigns have been urging Lee to run and conducted polling this month to gauge what voters thought about a Lee candidacy.

The mayor is on vacation until Sunday and an announcement could come as early as next week.

The deadline to officially enter is August 12.

The first mayoral debate to feature Lee could turn out to be the one several Castro neighborhood groups are hosting from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, August 8 at the Castro Theatre.

In other mayoral race news, queer backers of District 11 Supervisor John Avalos were able to push through a vote on having the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club solely endorse him as its mayoral pick.

The club agreed at its meeting Tuesday, July 26 to hold an up or down vote on endorsing Avalos at its August membership meeting.

Helping Avalos’s supporters where Milk Club members backing Herrera’s campaign. They teamed up in order to block state Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) from getting the progressive club’s endorsement. But Yee has been stacking the club with his own people, so it is possible Avalos will be unable to reach the 60 percent vote threshold needed to clinch the endorsement.

If that happens, it is anyone’s guess what candidate the club will endorse.

Clarification While the city election department’s online report for the 2004 race for Nancy Pelosi’s (D-San Francisco) House seat didn’t include a breakdown for write-in candidates, as reported last week, the secretary of state does.

Lesbian Green Party candidate Terry Baum, who is now running to be mayor, netted just 2 percent of the vote, meaning 5,446 people wrote her name down.▼ Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check www.ebar.com Monday mornings around 10 a.m. for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. The column returns Monday, August 1.

Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ twitter.com/politicalnotes.

Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

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It’s a party at the Abbey Beach at Vdara in Las Vegas.

Courtesy MGM Resorts International

Gay Vegas!

by Heather Cassell

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ow is the time for LGBT travelers to head to Las Vegas to experience its extravagance. The Strip is rolling out the rainbow carpet, hosting a number of allgay weekend getaways at the city’s biggest hotels and resorts, and

offering package deals.

The extravaganza begins with Gay Nights in August followed by Las Vegas Pride and Shedonism, a women’s event, in September.

Another gay party, Flaunt, is in the works, but a date hasn’t been set yet, according to the Encore and Wynn Las Vegas’ Michael Bertetto,

the openly gay niche marketing and public relations manager.

Gay Days is already planning to hit Vegas over Labor Day weekend next year.

LGBT travelers not planning on heading to Vegas for any of the gay weekends can still find great deals at the high-end resorts, along with a friendly welcome by hotel staff throughout the year.

‘L’ is for ...

Perhaps because it starts with “L,” Las Vegas is the top vacation destination for lesbians for the fifth consecutive year, said David Paisley, senior research director of Community Marketing Inc., which published the results of its 15th Annual Gay and Lesbian Tourism Report in November 2010.

Gay men ranked the desert oasis as a close second after New York, according to the report.

“We don’t go so much for the gaming. We are going for the restaurants, shows, etc.,” said Paisley of the city that sprung from a meadow and whose metropolitan area now has nearly 2 million residents, according to census figures.

Vegas, like New York City, is one place where there is no time to be bored. It offers nearly everything for everyone with its dazzling array of entertainment options. My only disappointment would be that I wouldn’t be able to do everything on my list of things to see and do, but that only leaves one other option: Another trip to Vegas.

The city offers a plethora of day and nighttime entertainment to please any queer arts, music, or theater lover, from the exhibits at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (Vegas’ last standing fine art gallery); the Titanic Artifact Exhibit, and the Erotic Heritage Museum to the many shows offered by Cirque du Soleil, like Zumanity; and others such as Le Reve, Fantasy, Thunder Down Under, Celine Dion, and Cher.

During the day we went on tour with award-winning guide Babs Daitch, an out lesbian who owns Thanks Babs, The Day Tripper.

Daitch put together an action packed day combining a sampling of her gay Vegas, historic Vegas, and fun attractions Vegas tours.

LGBT outdoor enthusiasts will also be entertained at two of Nevada’s state parks: Red Rock Canyon and the Valley of Fire. The Grand Canyon West and Hoover Dam are nearby, too.

After spending the days running around the Strip, LGBT travelers might want a little pampering at the Aria’s spa, which has a private pool overlooking the main pool. Or enjoy a romantic couples’ massage at the Encore’s AAA five diamondawarded spa.

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Members of Betty’s Outrageous Adventures stop to relax while on an outing in the Las Vegas region.

Gay Nights

Flaunt it!

Gay Nights Las Vegas, formerly Gay Days and Nights Las Vegas, returns to the desert August 4-7 after a two-year hiatus due to the economic downturn.

Kenneth Smith, who also shares a home in San Francisco with his partner of six years Jean Francois, hopes that San Franciscans will want to escape the cold for a few days of fun in the sun.

Smith and Earl Shelton of Shelton and Smith, a new nightlife strategic consulting and marketing company based in Las Vegas, are producing the gay party weekend hosted at MGM Resorts International, which received a 95 score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.

Shelton, 32, and Smith, 37, who launched their business nine months ago, leased the licensing agreement for the name of the event from Thomas Roth, president and founder of Community Marketing, which produced the original Gay Days and Nights from 2006 to 2008.

“The recipe was there for success in terms of there is a good track record, there’s an appetite for it in Las Vegas, [and] there’s a lot going on in Las Vegas,” said Smith, who is inspired by his “desire to help further build the gay community in Las Vegas.”

Gay Nights partners with the local community while also attracting queer travelers for a fun weekend, said Smith. Proceeds from the event will be donated to the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada and the Southern Nevada Association of Pride Inc. Las Vegas Pride, produced by the Pride association, hosts the only nighttime Pride Parade and celebration in the U.S., according to locals. This year’s celebration is September 16-17. The festival is hosted at the Clark County Amphitheater from noon to 10 p.m.

September 17. The parade begins the same evening at 8, making its way north from West Charleston Boulevard along 4th Street and ending at Ogden Avenue, according to the Las Vegas Pride’s website.

A Pride representative didn’t respond to a request for an interview by press time.

Jim Holborow, the director of brand partnerships of MGM Resorts International, is a straight ally who led the initiative to host Gay Nights at the suite of hotels clustered at the southern end of the Strip. The parties are mostly spread across Aria, Bellagio, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Mirage, Monte Carlo, and other resorts under the MGM brand.

In years past, Gay Nights attracted up to an estimated 2,000 queer partygoers, Smith said.

Holborow and Smith are aiming for 300 queer travelers this year.

Holborow estimated 1,000 attendees throughout the weekend at the pool parties, but said it’s “hard to measure.”

“The part that excites me the most about [Gay Nights] is the ability to showcase gay Las Vegas in a fun, allinclusive way,” said Smith.

On the other side of the Strip, the gay-friendly Encore and Wynn towers, located near old Vegas, are also getting in on the gay action with Flaunt, a gay weekend party hosted at the extravagant casino and resorts, located next to one another. The first party hosted earlier this year during the spring was a success, Bertetto said.

The Wynn – and its sister tower, Encore – is really a mini-city with much to boast about, not only because of its perfect 100 score on HRC’s corporate index or its gay touch with openly gay interior designer Roger Thomas. Thomas designed the resort’s decadent interior and selected and purchased the original artwork from around the world on display throughout the resorts, said Bertetto during a tour.

The Encore and Wynn, owned

by Wynn Resorts Limited, received their first guests in 2008 and 2006, respectively.

Gay and lesbian representatives of the resort, Bertetto and Stephanie Rosol, who is vice president of human resources, are also very active in Las Vegas’ LGBT community along with Thomas, they said.

Queer vegetarians and vegans will delight that the Encore and Wynn’s five upscale restaurants offer an alternative menu to meet their needs.

In spite of the amenities provided to guests, the Encore, with its 2,034 rooms, and the Wynn, with 2,716 rooms, they are reasonably priced by luxury standards ($250 per night and some offering deep discounts to $100-plus per night). The double queen rooms are very popular for groups of friends traveling together, said Bertetto.

Social networking The gay weekends only add to Vegas’ active queer social life that is home to two lesbian and two gay men’s social clubs that host a variety of events on any given day of the week.

“What better way to be a strong community than to go out and have fun together?” asked Cindi Hall, president of Betty’s Outrageous Adventures and founder of the L Group Newsletter, a listing of weekly events for women.

Started in 2000, the lesbian social group has an estimated 1,700 members and welcomes Las Vegas visitors to attend up to 12 monthly events produced by BOA volunteers, said Hall. Membership is free and members are only charged a cover for BOA-produced events.

“We have a lot of people from out of town, especially in California,” said Hall about the many women who come to Vegas for a week and attend BOA events.

Queer women seeking a more activist minded social group can check out the Women’s Empowerment Network of Las Vegas, which started in 2007.

Six years ago when Frank Del Toro and Terry Hernandez, life partners and founders of SinCityQSocials, arrived in Vegas they wanted more than the gay bar scene, Hernandez said.

“We allow people to engage in an atmosphere that is more inclusive,” said Hernandez. “That’s where our success has been.”

SinCityQSocials describes itself as a professional social mixer with an estimated 6,300 active members that pay either a general monthly membership fee of $27 or a premium annual membership fee of $268, according to its website.

The events, which include pool parties, martini mixers, Sunday brunches, and more attract up to 150 guests, Hernandez said.

Gay men also have an alternative social group, the Las Vegas Gay Athletics, Arts and Activities. The LVGA3 recently revamped itself and has picked up its activities program producing events centered

around “arts, athletics and activities,” according to the organization’s website.

Vegas’ gay boom is the city’s most recent incarnation of the heat wave of queer activity, according to Las Vegas gay historian Dennis McBride, 55, author of the forthcoming Out of the Neon Closet: A History of Gay Las Vegas.

“The community has always been here,” said McBride. “I always look at it as a theater performance.”

Much of Vegas’ queer history was a performance with the old West as its stage. Nearly 40 years after Nevada instituted its sodomy laws in 1861 a man was arrested. But throughout the 20th century female impersonators graced many of Vegas’ stages, said McBride, who is a

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researcher, writer, and archivist.

“I’m writing about myself. I’m a native Nevadan and I’m a gay person,” he said. “That’s been a great motivation more than that the suppression. Historically speaking, they want to make us go away. I’m determined not to allow that to happen.”

Where to stay During our trip to Vegas, my girlfriend and I stayed courtesy of the Vdara, also owned by MGM Resorts International, at the new CityCenter, the largest green-certified cluster of resorts built to date, and the Encore.

Finding a good night – or morning – to sleep in Vegas isn’t See page 13 >>

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Cleveland to pay $450,000 in Gay Games settlement

by Roger Brigham

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s reported on the Bay Area Reporter’s blog Monday, dueling lawsuits and countersuits over who holds the license to stage the 2014 Gay Games were settled separately out of court just days before they were scheduled to begin trial in Cleveland this week.

Cleveland Synergy Foundation had been awarded the Gay Games IX license in 2009 by the Federation of Gay Games, but the FGG terminated the license in 2010, alleging CSF had failed to submit required information in a timely fashion. FGG named Cleveland Special Events Corporation as the new host entity. In September 2010, CSF sued the FGG, the city of Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Sports Foundation, and Valarie McCall of the mayor’s office to retain the rights to the event.

It is believed the FGG was the first to settle and the city of Cleveland the last. The trial had been scheduled to begin July 26.

“We resolved each entity separately,” Andre Kabat, attorney for CSF, told the B.A.R. “The terms of the settlements are confidential, except for the settlement with the city of Cleveland, which is a matter of public record.”

Kabat said the city agreed to pay CSF $450,000.

“CSF will not be involved going forward,” said Kurt Dahl, copresident of the Federation of Gay Games. “They will not be part of the host organization.”

FGG Co-President Kurt Dahl

But that does not mean CSF will be rooting against the event.

“We are pleased with the resolution and look forward to helping the city of Cleveland promote the games,” Kabat said.

In the months of preparations for the trial, allegations were raised by CSF of homophobic behavior and comments by members of the groups that were moving forward with Gay Games IX. “It’s very important to say that the accusations of homophobia in the straight people that are taking up some of the leadership roles with the host organization are exaggerated and misguided,” said Robby Davis, the FGG officer of development who has helped oversee Cleveland operations. “I have not encountered any disrespect or disregard for LGBT people or blatant homophobia. I see the folks we are working with here, whether they are out or not, to be the most incredible allies. They are

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told the B.A.R. this week that police do know how the two men met but could not disclose the information as doing so could “compromise a successful prosecution.”

“We don’t release a lot of details in homicides because we are held accountable and often the information is unusable in court if they see this information in the media,” he added.

Derryck also would not say if they were friends or lovers but did reveal that the police investigation “established a prior relationship between the defendant and the victim.”

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“has an excellent reputation as a thoughtful and knowledgeable legal scholar and professor. I congratulate Governor Brown on the appointment.”

In a statement released by Brown’s office, Liu stated he was “deeply honored” to be chosen for the position and looks “forward to the opportunity to serve the people of California on our state’s highest court.”

Liu, 40, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Law School, had been President Barack Obama’s nominee for a seat on the liberal San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But he withdrew

so proud that Akron and Cleveland are going to be hosts of these games.”

Thomas Nobbe, a founder of the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland and an active swimmer and volleyball player, became executive director of CSE effective July 1.

“I can’t respond to those allegations, but I can say those of us from the LGBT community who are actually taking the lead haven’t noticed anything but real collaboration,” Nobbe said. “I was relieved this was resolved and glad that we can focus on making the 2014 Gay Games the best ever. As long as the lawsuit was out there it was a cloud that made it difficult for us to go out there and raise money, whether it was corporate sponsorships or individual donations. Now that this is out of the way we can focus on telling our story.”

Team 4 HIV Hope places 8th Team 4 HIV Hope, whose four riders included three infected by HIV, placed eighth out of 32 teams in June’s Race Across America. The four cyclists covered the 3,000-mile race in six days, six hours and 34 minutes.

“We are determined to eliminate the stigma that society has attached to HIV/AIDS and to show that people with HIV/AIDS can do anything with the proper medications,” team member Jim Williams said. “We have already started planning for next year. Our mission is not over; we still have work to do.”

The team plans to have its blood drawn daily next year in the race for research on how their immune systems are affected and the absorption rates of their medications during the race.▼ For more information, visit www.team4hivhope.com.

Canul-Arguello, who worked at Pi bar, an artisanal pizzeria on Valencia Street, had last been seen alive near 18th and Castro streets at 3 a.m. the morning his body was found. Earlier he had been drinking with friends at the Cafe, a popular gay dance club on Market Street near the heart of the city’s gay district.

Friends and family have described him as kind and hard working. Born in Mexico, he had lived in San Francisco for more than three years, most recently with his brother, Ivan Canul-Arguello, 27, in the Tenderloin neighborhood.▼ Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this report.

his nomination two months ago due to a filibuster by Republican senators that prevented a vote being taken on his confirmation.

The opposition was partly based on Liu’s affiliation with LGBTfriendly legal groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

He was also critical of Proposition 8, the voter-approved 2008 ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in the Golden State.

He was one of 59 legal scholars who signed on to what was deemed a “rare joint statement” released by the No on 8 campaign that called the pro-Prop 8 side’s electoral tactics false and misleading.

After the anti-gay constitutional amendment passed, Liu penned See page 12 >>

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Obama, officials sign DADT certification

by Lisa Keen

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resident Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen signed and submitted a one-page written certification to Congress Friday, July 22 that the military is ready to implement repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Following the required 60-day waiting period stipulated by the bill approved by Congress last December, repeal of the federal law that banned openly gay people from military service for 18 years becomes a reality on September 20.

“Today, we have taken the final major step toward ending the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law that undermines our military readiness and violates American principles of fairness and equality,” Obama said in a statement. “In accordance with the legislation that I signed into law last December, I have certified and notified Congress that the requirements for repeal have been met. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ will end, once and for all, in 60 days, on September 20, 2011.”

The president signed the statement after receiving written confirmation by Panetta and Mullen on Thursday night that all conditions of the DADT repeal bill passed by Congress last December had been met.

During a press briefing at the Pentagon Friday afternoon, Clifford Stanley, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, noted that almost 2 million troops had received training in preparation for repeal of DADT. “It remains the policy of the Department of Defense that sexual orientation is a personal and private matter, to treat all members with dignity and respect and to ensure maintenance of good order and discipline,” said Stanley. “There will be zero tolerance for harassment, violence or discrimination of any kind.”

U.S. Marine Corps Major General Steven Hummer, head of the repeal implementation team, said that eligibility for benefits “remain the

Official White House photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama signs the certification stating the statutory requirements for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” have been met, in the Oval Office, July 22.

same” as before passage of the repeal measure. He noted that service members are able to choose their beneficiary for many benefits but that the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law banning federal recognition of same-sex marriages, prohibits “extension of many military benefits to samesex couples,” including health care and allowances for housing and transportation.

“The department will continue to study existing benefits to determine those, if any, that should be reviewed based on policy, fiscal, legal and feasibility considerations, to give the service member the discretion to designate persons of their own choosing as beneficiaries,” said Hummer.

Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department’s general counsel, said the administration on Friday also submitted a brief to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which recently allowed for a temporary stay of an order to stop implementation of DADT. Johnson said the brief argues that, once repeal takes place, the existing legal challenge to DADT in the case Log Cabin Republicans v.

U.S. becomes moot.

Hummer also noted that there have been no reports of compromises in unit cohesion since Congress passed the repeal measure

and that the response of the military has been “very, very positive.”

Approximately 14,000 service members were discharged under DADT. Members of Congress who supported DADT repeal applauded the certification.

“The certification of the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ marks another historic milestone in our struggle for equal rights for all Americans,” Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) said in a statement. “For the first time, lesbian and gay service members will be accorded the rights and dignity they deserve. Our national security will no longer be diminished because of a discriminatory policy that wasted valuable resources and cost us the services of valuable personnel.”

Representative Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) said the country is one step closer to making DADT a policy of the past.

“We are finally on the brink of ending this discriminatory policy once and for all,” Speier said in a statement. “’Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ has weakened our national security and runs counter to the values we stand for as Americans.

A person’s fitness for service should be determined by their patriotism, valor, and ability to carry out the mission, not sexual orientation.”

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ILGA achieves UN status

by Rex Wockner

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ollowing a 17-year battle, the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council on July 25 restored the consultative status of ILGA, the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.

ILGA had ECOSOC status from 1993 to 1994 but was stripped of it following a scandal, orchestrated by the U.S. right wing, in which a small number of ILGA’s 700 member organizations were accused of not taking a strong enough position on age of consent. The group later expelled those members and made the wording of its constitution stronger on the issue.

“ILGA has applied to regain the status ever since ... but a small group of countries sponsoring homophobia had been able to influence the votes in the ... committee examining the applications for a long time,” ILGA said in a statement.

Only 11 other LGBT organizations have ECOSOC accreditation, which allows nongovernmental organizations to attend U.N. conferences and meetings, submit written reports and oral

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ILGA, which held its world conference in Oakland in 2001, last week was granted consultative status by a United Nations panel.

statements, and host panels in U.N. buildings.

Although the official tally was not available at press time, LGBT activists who attended the ECOSOC session believe that at least 29 nations voted to restore ILGA’s status: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Norway,

Peru, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.

Thirteen nations voted against the group: Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Senegal.

Six nations abstained: Bahamas, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Philippines, and Rwanda.▼ Read more about this story on ebar.com.

Bill Kelley contributed to this report.

DADT was adopted by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 as a compromise, but it was really an early political loss for the Clinton administration. Candidate Clinton had won much support from the LGBT community during his campaign, in part for his promise to end the military’s discriminatory policy against gays.

But a growing acceptance of openly gay people, coupled with the escalating strain on the military’s troops fighting multiple wars, moved the political climate toward allowing gays to serve openly.

Candidate Obama also promised to repeal the law and, when elected, was under strong pressure from the LGBT community to do so. But the Obama administration appeared acutely aware of the missteps of the Clinton White House and Obama directed a deliberate strategy of careful cooperation with Pentagon officials and Congress to forge a joint resolve to repeal the law.

In his statement Friday, Obama commended Congress and the Pentagon for their “moving forward in the careful and deliberate manner that this change requires, especially with our nation at war.”

And he thanked service members, “including those who are gay or lesbian,” for their “professionalism and patriotism during this transition.”

“Every American can be proud that our extraordinary troops and their families, like earlier generations that have adapted to other changes, will only grow stronger and remain the best fighting force in the world,” said Obama, “and a reflection of the values of justice and equality that define us as Americans.”

Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which worked vigorously for repeal, said service members “celebrate this historic announcement, and they are ready for this change.”▼

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Couples wed in NY From page 1

famous Niagara Falls shortly after midnight.

In New York City alone, all 823 couples who registered through a lottery system were granted marriage licenses. City clerks’ offices opened in all five boroughs with judges on hand to officiate and to waive the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period between licensure and wedding ceremony. By day’s end, 659 couples had picked up their licenses and 484 wed in city marriage bureaus, according to the New York Times.

The first couple to marry legally in the city was Phyllis Siegel, 77, and Connie Kopelov, 85. The Chelsea couple has been together for 23 years.

Even the mayor got into the act Sunday afternoon. On the lawn of Gracie Mansion, his official residence, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg officiated the wedding of his chief policy adviser, John Feinblatt, 60, and Jonathan Mintz, 47, the city’s commissioner for consumer affairs. The couple’s two young daughters were with them and a photo of the four of them hugging with Bloomberg standing off to the side ran in newspapers across the country on Monday.

Bryan Gregory, 41, and Mike Humberstone, 43, who have been together for 12 years, obtained a marriage license Sunday. Gregory, who works as a legal trainer, and Humberstone, director of technical operations for a nonprofit that does urban development, said they wanted to be part of history.

“Today we wanted to be part of a historical moment so we went in and got our marriage license and we’re going to get married next month, with our friends and our chosen family,” Gregory said outside the marriage bureau on Worth Street in Lower Manhattan.

Humberstone said he was “overwhelmed” at being able to legally marry.

“When you’ve lived your whole life being told by the whole world

that you are somehow second-class or not worthy of the kinds of joys and happiness that you see around you; to wait so many years to be able to do something that is so simple, which is to marry your love, it’s an overwhelming thing, and there are many, many couples in that situation today,” he said.

Dineathea Graves Jackson, 47, the owner of a moving company, married her partner, Dawn Laverne Jackson-Graves, 45, on Sunday. The couple brought their dogs and left the clerk’s office to a throng of wellwishers cheering as couples emerged from the building.

Courtesy Philip Trzynka

Waiting a bit Notwithstanding the initial rush of same-sex marriages, other couples are waiting for the just the right time.

One couple is the Reverend Philip Trzynka, 52, and Brett Henry, 52, of New York City.

Trzynka grew up in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and is an ordained minister of word and sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He currently serves as pastor of Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran.

Henry grew up outside of Chicago in the suburb of Glen Ellyn and works in sales for Federal Express.

Before moving to New York, Henry lived in San Francisco from 1978 to 1989. He moved to California shortly after visiting a lesbian cousin, who took the then-high school student and his sister on a tour of the Castro and told them, “This is where gay people from all over the country are coming to live and are accepted.”

The couple met in September 2000 at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center in New York City. In 2006, they celebrated with two religious commitment ceremonies, one in Glen Ellyn, the other in their Manhattan home parish.

At the time, “We decided it was important to us that our family and friends were able to publicly hear about our commitment to each other and were able to show their support for our relationship,” Trzynka said.

“I think, like most couples, we

Philip Trzynka, left, with Brett Henry, their son Joey and Otis, their dog who died a few months ago. The couple plans an October wedding in New York City.

wanted our families and our church to give us a sign of support and acceptance of who we are and the family we were creating,” he added.

In 2008, the couple adopted a son, Joey, now 11.

“Our reason for wanting a civil ceremony in New York is the same as it was when we had our religious ceremonies. We want to give our family the opportunity to receive a sign of support and acceptance from the state in which we live and have grown to love,” Trzynka explained.

“Of course, we also desire the protections and safeguards that legal recognition of the state can give our family,” he said.

The couple has tentative plans to have a civil marriage ceremony October 7 – five years to the date of their religious commitment ceremony.

Protests, lawsuit There were a smattering of protesters in locations around the state Sunday, but figures were hard to determine.

On Monday, July 25 a group called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify the New York law.

New York is the third state to legalize same-sex marriage by legislative action. The other two are New Hampshire and Vermont.

The path to marriage equality in New York was fraught with delays. But on June 15, New York’s Democraticheld Assembly voted 80-63 in favor of the marriage equality bill. On June 24, the Republican-led Senate passed

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an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in which he wrote, “There is no question that it targets a historically vulnerable group and eliminates a very important right.” He added that the more people see married same-sex couples “... the more gay marriage will become an unremarkable thread of our social fabric.”

He also filed a brief with the state’s highest court in which he backed the legal challenge to Prop 8. When asked about it during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March, Liu insisted that his brief did not argue for same-sex marriage on a national level, but rather was only talking about California law at the time.

“I have not previously expressed any view on whether the federal Constitution confers a right to same-sex marriage and because that issue may come before me as a judge if I am confirmed, I believe it is not appropriate for me to do so now,” said Liu. Susan Bluer, who chairs BALIF’s Judiciary Committee, stated that “so many of us were saddened by the politics that prevented Professor Liu from being confirmed by the Senate to the 9th Circuit due in part to his affiliation with progressive organizations such as the ACLU,

it by a vote of 33-29. Immediately, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo (D), who championed the bill, signed the measure into law, which required a 30-day waiting period before taking effect.

The legislative victory breathed new life into marriage equality advocates after attempts to enact same-sex marriage fizzled in Maryland and Rhode Island.

Although last week Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) announced he was sponsoring a same-sex marriage bill.

The win in New York is indeed a big prize. The state, the nation’s third most populous, joins five other states – Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont – and the District of Columbia in allowing same-sex couples to wed.

Altogether, New York’s population of 19 million is greater than the combined total of those five states plus the nation’s capital. With New York now among the marriageequality fold, the number of Americans living in states where same-sex marriage is legal more than doubles – from 16 million to 35 million people.

But for now those couples who do wed – in any of the states or in DC – still do not have federal benefits of marriage because of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriage.

DOMA is being challenged in several court cases.

Despite the lawsuit filed Monday, marriage equality seems secure in New York. Unlike California and

and we feel justice is served by this appointment.”

Jennifer Pizer, the legal director and Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law, wrote in an email from Barcelona, where she is currently teaching, that Liu has “a brilliant legal mind, and is sensible, focused on solving problems, and an awfully nice person.”

Pizer added that, “I think people found him impressive during his federal confirmation hearings, both in substance and in temperament. Many continued to hope he’d become a judge, despite his confirmation having become blocked in the Senate.”

Liu is likely to face a more welcoming reception to the state court. He is set to replace former Associate Justice Carlos Moreno, a strong backer of LGBT rights, who retired from the court earlier this year.

The State Bar’s Commission of Judicial Nominees Evaluation must first review Liu’s nomination before it goes to the Commission on Judicial Appointments, consisting of state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Kamala Harris, and Justice Joan Dempsey Klein, senior presiding justice of the state Court of Appeal.

The three women will consider

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other states with referendum and initiative provisions, New York law does not permit voters to repeal at the ballot box statutes approved by the legislature. Amending the state constitution is a cumbersome process requiring approval twice in two legislative sessions, one before and one after a biennial election of the Assembly. Only then would a proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage go before voters.

Still, New York’s marriage equality law is unique insofar as it has the most extensive religious exemptions of any same-sex marriage law so far enacted. For example, the law makes explicit that no member of the clergy is required to marry a same-sex couple.

In addition, the Marriage Equality Act and other New York law exempt religious organizations and “benevolent orders,” like the Knights of Columbus, from nondiscrimination requirements of public accommodations, for instance, commercial banquet halls.

As lawmakers in Albany, the state capital, debated marriage equality, media gave extensive coverage to church opposition to it and to detractors’ insistence on exemptions to protect religious liberties.

Trzynka voiced frustration over the media coverage leading up to last month’s legislative votes. “Much of the news coverage made it feel as though religious people were against [same-sex] marriage – period,” he said, adding, the media gave the impression, moreover, that “the church” wanted religious exemptions “so that it did not have to support gay marriage in any way.”

Trzynka knew differently, he said, referring to his own denomination and pastors’ support of marriage equality, as well as that of Episcopal priests, United Church of Christ pastors, and Presbyterian clergy.

Partly out of frustration, he explained, “I decided to put out a sign in front of our church, saying that here at Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish, the pastor – me – would perform free LGBT marriages for the coming year.”

Apparently, “It got a lot of buzz,” Trzynka said. “I hope it caused people to hear again that many religious people believe God loves to bless such marriages.”▼ Mary Richards contributed to this report.

the proposed appointment at 3 p.m. Wednesday, August 31 in San Francisco. Atkins said she “fully” expects Liu will be confirmed and “will go on to serve with distinction for many years to come.”

It is unclear if he will be seated in time for when the court hears oral arguments on whether Prop 8 can be defended in federal court by its backers. Due to his involvement in the fight over Prop 8 three years ago, it is likely the law’s supporters would request he recuse himself should his nomination be approved prior to the hearing, expected to take place as early as September.

Liu, who has a daughter and son with his wife, Ann O’Leary, is of Taiwanese descent and was born in Georgia. He moved to Sacramento in 1977. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University and a master’s from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Liu received his Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and was a special assistant to the deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.

Prior to joining the Berkeley faculty in 2003 Liu was an appellate litigator in the Washington, D.C. office of Los Angeles-based law firm O’Melveny and Myers.▼

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Azadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments galvanized a network of coalitions among LGBT and allied organizations in India and the U.S., said community activists. Mallajosyula told the

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their effort to place a referendum on the 2012 ballot to overturn the law.

The group pushing for the referendum, stopsb48.com, has until October 12, less than 90 days, to collect 504,760 valid signatures.

SB 48 was authored by openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). It amends the state Education Code to require that schools teach about LGBT peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and contributions to â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the economic, political, and social development of California and the U.S. It also prohibits classroom instruction and schoolsponsored activities that promote a discriminatory bias on the basis of sexual orientation, and requires that social-sciences textbooks and other social-sciences instructional material used in California adhere to the billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s requirements.

The bill passed out of the legislature July 5. Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed the bill July 14. The next day, Paulo Sibaja, director of communications and legislation at the Capitol Resource Institute, filed paperwork with the attorney generalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office to begin the referendum process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Governor Brown refused to listen to the calls of pro-family voters asking him to veto SB 48,â&#x20AC;? stated Karen England, executive director of

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hard to come by these days and bargain rates abound at many of the high-end hotels and others.

Currently, there are two gayowned and -operated boutique hotels catering mostly to gay men: The Blue Moon Resort, which has a clothing optional pool and onsite spa, and the Lucky You Bed and Breakfast.

Queer travelers on a rollicking weekend romp, honeymooning, or on romantic getaways also have the option of selecting from a variety of gay-friendly packages and concierge service offered by many of the luxury hotels.

Environmentally conscious LGBT travelers can save some bucks and the planet by looking up where to stay on Travelocityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s list of green tagged hotels. Look up â&#x20AC;&#x153;green hotelsâ&#x20AC;? on the website to find the latest ways to be eco-conscious.

Travelers who are sensitive to cigarette smoke will also be pleased to find new ventilation and vacuuming

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parental religious liberties,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The stereotypes in this comic book one might expect to see in 1911, but not 2011. They have no basis and they are totally inappropriate in modern political discourse.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen some very hateful ballot initiatives in the last decade, measures that have amounted to declarations of war on certain groups,â&#x20AC;? continued Gatto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want our great state to degenerate into a back and forth war where groups use the ballot box to attack and take away other groups rights, beliefs or practices.â&#x20AC;?

Proponents of the anticircumcision bill claim they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t involved with Foreskin Man. Jonathan Conte, a 30-year-old anticircumcision activist with the Bay

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B.A.R. that he is working with other queer South Asian organizations that are organizing protests across the U.S. Queer South Asian organizations in New York, Los Angeles and other major cities in the U.S. didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t respond to a request for interviews

by press time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Indians in the Diaspora, we have a particular role to play in making sure that our voices are heard in solidarity with our folks back on the ground, who have been fighting this struggle for a long time,â&#x20AC;? said Bhansali.â&#x2013;ź

the Capitol Resource Institute and its affiliated Capitol Resource Family Impact.

LGBT organizations wasted no time alerting their members about the signature gathering effort.

Roland Palencia, executive director of Equality California, sent an email alert to about 400,000 people Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They plan to run a multimillion dollar signature-gathering effort to make sure they succeed,â&#x20AC;?

Palencia said in his email, referring to stopsb48.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need your immediate support.â&#x20AC;?

The alert asks for contributions to reach a $50,000 immediate goal, volunteers to work with coalition partners, and to report signature gatherers.

Orr said Tuesday that about 40 organizations were on a conference call to talk that day about what a potential campaign might look like.

Palencia was on the call, she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the first of many, many discussions,â&#x20AC;? Orr said, adding that groups representing communities of color, faith, disabilities, and youth and families were on the call.

Orr said that the discussions included various roles for the groups, but that ultimately, EQCA will take a leadership position on any campaign.

The coalitionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first priority is to keep the measure from reaching the ballot, Orr said Tuesday, so

discussions included what a decline to sign campaign might look like.

Palencia, in an interview with the B.A.R. last week, said the organization had already begun talks with campaign consultants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking to political consultants as we speak,â&#x20AC;? he said.

EQCA is the only statewide LGBT lobbying organization in California, and it has more infrastructure and a political action committee so that it can engage in political work. Many smaller nonprofits donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that capability.

Palencia and Orr both told the B.A.R. in the interview last week that they are mindful of the pitfalls EQCA encountered after the No on 8 campaign, in which EQCA played a leading role. One of Palenciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals is to build more coalitions in the state between LGBTs and allied groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have already built coalitions,â&#x20AC;?

Palencia said, explaining that EQCA worked with GSA Network on SB 48.

Orr echoed that Tuesday, saying EQCA is ready to defend the bill. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand it feels a little nebulous at the moment,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but just because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not making announcements doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean there are not substantive conversations taking place and making sure itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collaborative.â&#x20AC;?â&#x2013;ź

systems that rapidly suck the smoke out of the casinos, making some places virtually smoke free.

Dining isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a gamble in Vegas.

There is no shortage of casual, such as the Border Grill, and fine dining, such as Sage or Botero, options before heading out for a night on the town. Celebrity chefs and their restaurants present a bounty of dining options and at times are a spectacle to observe, like women flying through the air to get a bottle of wine at Aureole Restaurant. There are specialty bars to experience, like Minus 5 Ice Lounge, after a show.

Getting there Flying to Vegas is a party plane on a dime â&#x20AC;&#x201C; honestly, any plane heading to Vegas is a party and many of the flights are cheap and plentiful from the Bay Area. Travelers can catch any one of the estimated 25 flights that take off daily from San Francisco, Oakland, or San Jose airports and be in the heart of Sin City partying within two hours.

A car is needed if you plan to

Area Intactivists, said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the project of â&#x20AC;&#x153;one individual.â&#x20AC;?

But Hess, the comic book author, was critical of his critics last month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smear tactic,â&#x20AC;? Hess told the B.A.R. at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are trying to protect Jewish boys just as we are trying to protect all boys.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The literature that they are suggesting [we are] supposedly using to promote [the] SF [male genital mutilation] bill is a lie, or at the very least extreme[ly] misleading,â&#x20AC;? said Conte. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been promoted or used in literature here or on the SF MGM bill website.â&#x20AC;?

The San Francisco City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has also weighed in on the matter, saying the proposition would be unconstitutional even if approved by voters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The City Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office had to acknowledge that the proposal would be patently unconstitutional

For more information on EQCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts, visit www.eqca.org.

get around the basin that makes up Vegas, which is surrounded by five mountain ranges. Many of the gay spots, especially the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Fruit Loopâ&#x20AC;? where two of Vegasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hottest nightclubs, Piranha Nightclub and 8 1/2 Ultra Lounge are located, are off the main drag. The only gay nightclub on the Strip is Krave Lounge. The Strip isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a dearth of queer energy or parties. Many of the resorts host a string of gay circuit and pool parties, with Mandalay Bay being one of the most popular, according to locals.

Once on the crowded Strip, public transportation is easily accessible.

Travelers can purchase a $5 pass for two hours or a $7 day pass on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Deuceâ&#x20AC;? bus that runs up and down the Strip and into downtown Las Vegas. The monorail that runs behind seven resorts along the main drag starting at MGM Grand and ending at Sahara Station costs $5 for a single trip or $128 for a three-day pass.â&#x2013;ź Online extra: A comprehensive listing of Vegas attractions is online at ebar.com.

if narrowly applied to religious practices â&#x20AC;&#x201C; particularly against the backdrop of discriminatory political advocacy advanced by the measureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proponents,â&#x20AC;? said a news release from City Attorney Dennis Herreraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office.

Usually the office refrains from issuing a position on the merits of challenges to duly qualified ballot measures, but the propaganda created by proponents disturbed the office, it stated in a July 20 news release.

The city isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;reaching a legal conclusionâ&#x20AC;? on behalf of the plaintiffs, said Therese Stewart, chief deputy city attorney, in a statement on the website. At the same time, the voters couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;be asked to voteâ&#x20AC;? to prohibit religious practices while the same practices were being performed â&#x20AC;&#x153;under nonreligious auspices,â&#x20AC;? she said.â&#x2013;ź

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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 BURGER URGE 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 1599 Haight St., San Francisco, CA 94117-2912. Type of license applied for:

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JUL 7,14,21,28, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033657400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MUDPUPPYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S, 536 Castro St.,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Daniel Bergerac.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 6/29/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/29/11.

JUL 7,14,21,28, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033662400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as Q-CUTS, 4035 18TH St.,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Thomas Karabin.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/01/11.

JUL 7,14,21,28, 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 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 701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103-3138. Type of license applied for:

64- SPECIAL ON-SALE GENERAL THEATER JUL 21,28,AUG 4, 2011 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : YAC & AT CORP. 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 1849 Union St., San Francisco, CA 94123-4307. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER AND WINEEATING PLACE JUL 21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-11-547882 In the matter of the application of JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD for change of name. The application of JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD for change of name having been ďŹ led in Court, and it appearing from said application that JEAN PIERRE MICHAUD ďŹ led an application proposing that his/her name be changed to JOHN PETER GAUDINO Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 15th of September, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-11-547865 In the matter of the application of KALLIE ANN LEWIS for change of name and gender. The application of KALLIE ANN LEWIS for change of name and gender having been ďŹ led in Court, and it appearing from said application that KALLIE ANN LEWIS ďŹ led an application proposing that his/her name be changed to KALEB WESLEY LEWIS and his/her gender be changed from female to male. 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 September, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUL 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 STATEMENT FILE A-033654000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as STUDIO GALLI PRODUCTIONS, 5173 Diamond Heights Blvd., #119,San Francisco, CA 94131.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Andrew J. Galli.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ďŹ ctitious business name or names on NA. The statement was ďŹ led with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/28/11.

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jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033671100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE HAPPY COLLECTIVE,158A Yukon St.,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Myke E. Reilly.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/06/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033661000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KING DRYWALL, 275 5th St.,Suite 409,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Gary King.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033661100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CONSTRUCTION CONSULTING UNLTD.,INC.,275 5th St.,Suite 409,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Renee A. Clark.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/30/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/30/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033672400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CHAO TIAN ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS, 1503 Pershing Drive, Apt. B, San Francisco, CA 94129.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Shun Chao Deng.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/06/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/06/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033679700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ANIMEZINGWORLD, 530 Francisco St.,Unit 418,San Francisco, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Edward Young.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/08/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033681300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WEN XING BILINGUAL FAMILY DAY CARE, 1153 Goettingen St.,San Francisco, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Bi Xian Zhu.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/14/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033679300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as H & A COMPUTER SERVICES,870 Market St.,Suite 1056, San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Serge Ulyanov.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/08/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033679800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MELA TANDOORI KITCHEN, 536 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Sohel Subedar.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 07/08/11.

jul 14,21,28,AUG 4, 2011 statement file A-033676500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LATKER DESIGN SOLUTIONS,80 Uranus Terrace,San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Craig Latker.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/13/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/07/11.

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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 : ROXIE THEATRE THE. 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 3117 16th St., San Francisco, CA 94103. Type of license applied for:

40- ON-SALE BEER jul 28,AUG.4,11,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : FRONT PORCH RESTAURANT 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 65 29th St.,A, San Francisco, CA 94110-4910. Type of license applied for:

47- ON-SALE general eating place jul 28,AUG.4,11,2011 nOTICE OF APPLICATIoN to sell AlCOHOLIC BEVERAGEs To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : FRANCO MONTARELLO. 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 1106 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102-3804. Type of license applied for:

41- ON-SALE BEER and wineeating place jul 28,AUG.4,11,2011 state of california in and for the county of san francisco file# cnc-11-547879 In the matter of the application of ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL for change of name. The application of ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that ANTHONY JOSEPH NEAL filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to TONY QUINTERO 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 September, 2011 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033683600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GRAND CENTRAL FURNITURE,353 9TH St., San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Jhovani Manzanares.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/21/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/11/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033690300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as URBAN GARDEN SF,237 Kearny St., #289, San Francisco, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, signed William Hoag.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/14/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/14/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033690700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ENCYCLOMEDIA OUTPUT GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO, 1504 Bryant St., Suite 101,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Timothy M. Cheng.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 07/14/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033692800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY AREA SPECIALITY SUPPLIES,8 Meadowbrook Drive, Pittsburg, CA 94565. This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Areeb Sa’Aadat.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/11.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.PATTIWAGON, 2.PATTICAKES, 121 Kensington Way, San Francisco, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Patricia Doyle.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 07/12/11.

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jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033691900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WILLI’S WILD FLOWERS,2469 27th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Julie Martin.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/15/111. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/15/11.

jul 21,28,aug 4,11, 2011 statement file A-033698600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DAR AL FIKER LP, 1116 Polk St., San Francisco, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an limited partnership, signed Adris Algohem.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 07/19/11.

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jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033700800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DAKINI AYURVEDA, 43-B Vicksburg St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, signed Courtney LaCava.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/10/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/19/11.

jul 28,AUG.4,11,18,2011 statement file A-033703400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FORK CAFE,469 Castro St., San Francisco, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Bassem Sirhed. 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 07/20/11.

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Bosom buddies The Kinsey Sicks: Trixie (Jeff Manabat), Winnie (Irwin Keller), Rachel (Ben Schatz) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown).

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he Kinsey Sicks, America’s favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet, return to San Francisco, the city from which they sprang 17 years ago, for 12 performances of their Greatest Tits at the Rrazz Room, from August 2-14.

The group’s mastermind and ringleader Ben Schatz, who plays the Minnie Mouse-bowed Rachel, admits that the group originally formed quite by accident. “Bette Midler was in town, and a bunch of us went in drag. We got applause during intermission, and someone asked if we’d sing – but we didn’t sing. On the way home we started singing, then stayed up

The Kinsey Sicks sing their ‘Greatest Tits’

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until three in the morning, and discovered we really could sing.”

For the uninitiated, their repertoire includes both original tunes and song parodies on topics running the gamut from love to politics to plain old raunch – in glorious four-part harmony. While their song list includes numerous nods to STDs (such as “I’ve Been

Through Parasites, But I’ve Never Had VD”), the Sicks have literally gone viral with YouTube videos, including their “Bad Romance” spoof “Bedroom Ants.”

Schatz describes the Greatest Tits performance as “some of our least-despised material. We’re doing 13 songs, including some brand new ones and some golden moldies.

We’re putting the show together specifically with a San Francisco audience in mind.”

But the Kinsey Sicks have performed in many locations that are not as gay or dragfriendly as San Francisco – with mixed results.

“We did a county fair in Salina, Kansas, soon after the shooting of the abortion doctor there, but at some of those places we’ve had our most gratifying performances. There’s such a hunger for satire there, and you can get away with a lot if you’re funny.”

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railing the stink of sweat and dirt accumulated on the fiveday, cross-country journey, I ran straight toward the inviting ocean and plunged into the surf, just as I would have done on Long Island. The frigid water was my first exposure to the deceptive nature of the West Coast.

I encountered the second when I surfaced to confront the blackmasked face and two unblinking eyes of a sea lion staring directly at me.”

That’s author Philip L. Fradkin describing his first impression of the California coast, at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, from his

book The Left Coast: California on the Edge, with his text, and photos

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Press). Father (Philip) and son (Alex) look at the coastal region in eight different ways: as “The Wild Coast,” “The Agricultural Coast,” “The Residential Coast,” “The Tourist Coast,” “The Recreational Coast,” “The Industrial Coast,” “The Military Coast” and “The Political Coast.” Beneath it all, there are barely repressed reminders that this rim of the continental plate likes to shimmy and shake.

“There is a small overlook maintained by Daly City with interpretative signs that mention in a general manner the massive landslide University of California Press

“New and ‘improved’ fence, U.S.-Mexico border, Border Field State Park, 2006,” photo by Alex L. Fradkin.

and the nearby presence of the San Andreas Fault. The city council of Daly City refused an effort endorsed by the U.S. Geological Survey to erect a sign in 2006 stating that the epicenter of the 1906 earthquake was just offshore. The city did not seek this type of notoriety.”

The chapter on tourism, now the dominant industry on the coast, focuses on Monterey, whose literary connection goes beyond the expected John Steinbeck link. “The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson lived in Monterey for three months during the fall of 1879, when the town was about to be transformed – from the decrepit capital of Spanish and Mexican California, and a small American fishing village with dirt streets and wooden sidewalks, into the first large-scale destination and recreation resort on the Pacific Coast.”

Hotel promoters “altered the Monterey climate to fit what was advertised as ‘the Riviera of America.’

Monterey’s ‘vast, wet, melancholy fogs’ (Stevenson’s words) were transformed by the promoters into a ‘perennial spring’ that lacked a harsh winter or summer, a concept appealing to eastern visitors.”

The canneries’ arrival necessitated more p.r. massaging. “Citing a changeless quality about Monterey, Steinbeck wrote: ‘Every day the

canneries send a stink of reducing fish into the air.’ A city odor ordinance, a ‘smelling committee’ known also as the ‘sniff patrol,’ and a city inspector were all unable to halt the stink that hung over the area, despite the raging of the hotel’s management.”

It’s a refreshingly blunt and unvarnished look at the region’s history, with each chapter zeroing in on one or a few emblematic communities. For the chapter on recreation, for example, Fradkin shows how the invention of the polyethylene wheel for skates in the 1970s revitalized Venice, a place that had fallen on hard times as a real estate gambit of canals and bungalows evoking the charm of its Italian namesake, largely in vain.

The photographs, like the text, are frank and unblinking. Landscape photos cover the waterfront from tourist meccas like La Jolla to sewage pipes at Fort Funston. Human subjects range from models posing on Malibu Beach to the homeless encamped under the Great Highway at Ocean Beach. In an afterword, Fradkin fils writes, “What I found was beauty and tranquility, death and danger, which occur close together on the coastal edge.”

Arts & letters 1. A collection of cards and letters written by the late Edith Bouvier Beale (1917-2002), first cousin of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, was put up for sale this past month. Beale was better known as Little Edie, the subject of the David and Albert Maysles documentary Grey Gardens (1976), a Tony Award-winning musical of the same name (2006), and a similarly titled Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning HBO film starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange (2009).

Recipient of the 100 pieces of correspondence (1976-85, 2000-01) was author and publicist Walter Newkirk, who offered them for sale. Newkirk has certainly made

his mark in Bealeiana, as producer of the CD Little Edie Live! A Visit to Grey Gardens and author of the books memoraBEALEia: A Private Scrapbook about Edie Beale of Grey Gardens and Letters of Little Edie Beale: Grey Gardens and Beyond.

Little Edie discusses such boldfaced names as Jackie O. and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill, Andy Warhol, Osama bin Laden, Elian Gonzalez and Pat Loud of the landmark PBS series An American Family (1973). That’s one media darling considering many others. As the U.S. Postal Service struggles to stay afloat and everybody texts, we fear for future letters collections.

2. From Dwight Garner’s New York Times review of the new biography David Bowie, Starman,

by Paul Trynka (Little, Brown & Co.): “About Mr. Bowie’s flamboyant alter ego, Ziggy Stardust, and his band, the Spiders from Mars, Mr. Trynka writes, these guys were ‘dangerous, a warning to lock up not only your daughters but also your sons.’

“Writing about an early sexual experience Mr. Bowie supposedly had with a boy named Mike, the author doesn’t simply say the two of them made out. He writes, ‘Mike had investigated the contents of David’s trousers.’”

3. One last word, or maybe two.

We have to share this press release, which arrived with the header, “How One Beauty Business is Celebrating New York’s Gay Marriage Law.” “One unique beauty company aims to capitalize on New York’s gay marriage law with ‘Just Married’ Ta-ta-toos, temporary tattoos worn on your ta-tas.” (Illustrating photo: a buxom bosom showing plenty of cleavage, the word “Just” tattooed on one breast, “Married” on the other.)

“For Spanish couples, they also launched ‘Mi Amor’ (‘My Love’) and ‘Todas Tuyas.’ (‘All Yours.’)”

We’re so glad no one is out there exploiting our civil rights gains.

RIP Amy Winehouse, 27.▼

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Jeff Greenwald tells us about the unusual people he encounters during his journeys in Strange Travel Suggestions, part of the SF Theatre Festival.

Julia Jackson explores the hurdles of gay adoption in I Didn’t Sign Up for This, one of more than 100 shows that will be offered in the 2011 San Francisco Theatre Festival.

Free to be theatrical

by Richard Dodds

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erhaps by next year there will be an app for the theatrical freefor-all known as the San Francisco Theatre Festival. But for now, you’ll have to figure out your show-going the old-fashioned way: with a schedule and map that are actually printed on paper. More than 100 performances presented on 12 stages will make up the eighth annual festival where admission is totally, completely, and absolutely free.

It’s a one-day affair, taking place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 7. There is a big change from the festivals of the past. After seven years performing in various locales around the Yerba Buena Gardens and Arts Center, the festival is heading to the Fort Mason Center for the 2011 edition, using both indoor and outdoor venues.

With so many performances on

tap, many by artists whose profiles aren’t in the mainstream, only a sampling can be mentioned here.

You might want to check out one or more of the following: Creatures of Impulse’s Tri-Valley High: The Musical, an improvised, teen soap opera; Love & Humiliation by Enzo Lombard, who has been described as the David Sedaris of San Francisco; Global Women Intact’s selfexplanatory comedic exploration of What Mama Said About Down There; and Jeff Greenwald’s true tales of offbeat sojourns in Strange Travel Suggestions.

And then there’s J’La Chic’s tribute to Motown in Top Shelf’s Uptown, Downtown, Motown Madness; Julia Jackson’s look at a queer couple’s rollercoaster ride toward adoption in I Didn’t Sign Up for This; Mick Berry’s exploration of the late Rolling Stones drummer in Keith Moon, the Real Me; No Nude Men’s theatrical adaptation of Walt Whitman’s homoerotic poetry in Bring Boys Together; Thao P. Nguyen’s surrealistic look at being Vietnamese and queer in Fortunate Daughter; and Women’s Will’s production of Pride and Joy, Paul Rudnick’s one-act comedy that blends gay and Jewish humor.

To get more details on the shows, venues, and full schedule. go to www. sftheatrefestival.org.

cabaret star Shawn Ryan and a special guest still to be announced. Tickets are $25-$75, with another $20 gaining you access to a post-show dessert party with the cast. Call 273-1620 or go to www.helpisontheway.org.

End of ‘Vice’ All good things, which doesn’t necessarily equate good with propriety, must come to an end.

So it is with Vice Palace: The Last Cockettes Show that ends its run at the Hypnodrome on July 31 – and completes Thrillpeddlers’ two-yearsplus odyssey with the legendary Cockettes troupe that burned brightly but briefly at the cusp of the ’60s and ’70s.

Thrillpeddlers revived the Cockettes musical Pearls Over Shanghai in the summer of 2009 for a limited run that was eventually extended to 22 months. In the midst of the Pearls run, Thrillpeddlers also interlaced a repertory run of the Cockettes’ Hot Greeks. Original Cockettes member and composer Scrumbly Koldewyn has been at the piano throughout, and he crafted Vice Palace from pieces of its original one-night-only 1972 production with material from other Cockettes shows, as well as original material.

Thrillpeddlers’ main mission has been exploring the traditions of Grand Guignol theater, which has been in hibernation during the Cockettes phenomenon. Presumably the blood drive will be back as Thrillpeddlers readies its next show.

Tickets to Vice Palace are available through www.thrillpeddlers.com.

Imported from UK The University of Chichester is sending two solo artists – “lesbians of English persuasion” – to New Conservatory Theatre Center in a benefit performance for the theater’s New Plays Program. When It Settles is the umbrella title for a solo dance and a solo theater performance taking place at NCTC on July 29-31.

Carrie Whitaker, a Chichester graduate who went on to found the experimental Lila Dance Company, will perform the solo dance piece Here, Still Here, Still, about a woman who examines her disturbing past within a claustrophobic framework.

Louie Jenkins, a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, offers the solo theatrical piece Smoke for Dust, which is described as “a story of love, loss, and Lysol.”

NCTC’s New Play Program helps LGBT writers cultivate, workshop, and produce their plays. Tickets to the benefit are available at 861-8972 or www.nctcsf.org.

You gotta have Faith Tony Award-winner Faith Prince and fellow castmates from the touring production of Billy Elliot will headline a One Night Only cabaret evening to benefit the Richmond/ Ermet AIDS Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The July 31 event at Marines Memorial Theatre will also feature homegrown

‘Pinafore’ play The Bay Area’s greatest proponent of all things Gilbert and Sullivan is opening its 59th season with an operetta it has produced six times in just the past 10 years. The latest voyage of H.M.S. Pinafore will dock at the Novellus Theater in the Yerba Buena Center on Aug. 5-7 as part of a cruise throughout the region.

Pinafore officially opened in London in 1878, and before Gilbert and Sullivan could open their own production in New York the following year, it is estimated that 150 unauthorized productions had already played across the continent.

In addition to reasonable facsimiles of the original, these illegal stagings included children’s productions, Yiddish productions, black productions, burlesque productions, and drag productions.

In New York alone, eight illicit Pinafores were playing within five blocks of each other. When G&S finally mounted their own New York production, a saturated public kept it open for barely a month.

The other shows making up the new Lamplighters season include Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers in January, and a Pirates of Penzance sing-along in March. For tickets go to www.lamplighters.org. ▼ BARstage@comcast.net.

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Pair of Pauls

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aul McCartney’s intimate 1970 solo debut disc McCartney (MPL/Hear/Concord) opens with the sweet if insubstantial “The Lovely Linda,” and features a multitude of family-oriented photos, many of which were taken by his photographer wife, the late Linda McCartney. That’s something of a tip-off that McCartney was as interested in being a musician as he was in being a family man. As with each of the Beatles’ initial solo records, the guys sound determined to make their individual mark, and McCartney is no exception.

Solid selections such as “Every Night,” “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “That Would Be Something” and even “Teddy Boy” ground the disc, adding weight and room for the lighter tunes. The special twoCD edition includes a seven-track bonus disc with outtakes, live cuts and more.

Arriving a little more than 10 years later, McCartney II (MPL/ Hear/Concord) is essentially a oneman affair. McCartney, who arrived late to the synth/dance scene, although he did have something of a disco hit with the 1979 Wings 12” single “Goodnight Tonight,” sounds a bit out of step here – as if he were creating in a bubble, minus the “winged” influence. The single “Coming Up” was certainly catchy, and “Waterfalls” washes over

listeners, while the instrumental “Frozen Jap” could almost function as influence for what was to come during the synth-powered early 1980s. A bonus disc includes live, full-length and edited versions.

Like McCartney, Paul Simon also had his work cut out for him when releasing his 1972 self-titled Columbia Records solo debut disc, newly reissued by Legacy in expanded editions with four other titles (1973’s There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, 1974’s Live Rhymin’ and 1975’s Still Crazy After All These Years). With a little luck and a lot of talent, this bold post-Simon & Garfunkel recording allowed Simon to stretch and strut in different directions, laying the groundwork for his future output. The album delivered accessible hits (“Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” “Mother and Child Reunion”) amidst the deeper cuts (“Peace Like a River,” “Run That Body Down.”)

Simon maintained this level of mastery over the course of the next two studio discs, striking a balance between being a hit-maker and a

singer/songwriter of substance, and throughout the course of his career, right up to the present day.

Dueling divas: The late Teena Marie was as beloved by followers of soul and R&B as she was by the gay men who shook their bodies to “Behind the Groove,” from her reissued and expanded 1980 album Lady T (Hip-O Select/Motown).

As comfortable belting out a ballad

(“Aladdin’s Lamp”) as she was “dancing all night long” (“You’re All the Boogie I Need”), Marie wasn’t just an interpreter of others’ songs, but an accomplished songwriter.

And in her most prolific year, 1980, she also released Irons in the Fire (Hip-O Select/Motown), newly reissued and expanded to include five live cuts. It not only featured the dramatic title cut and “Young Love,” but also the amazing dance classic “I Need Your Lovin’.”

Piano-playing goddess Alicia Keys wasn’t born until a year after Teena Marie’s 1980 double whammy, but you can hear Marie’s influence on Keys. The a attractively packaged 1 10th anniversary c collector’s edition of K Keys’ 2001 major-label d debut Songs in A Minor ( (J/Legacy) includes t the original album, a s second CD of mostly u unreleased tracks, and a DVD containing m music videos and a doc a about the making of the album. Songs in A Minor was a thrilling introduction to a talented artist which earned Keys Grammy awards and still sounds fresh today. In addition to her brilliant rendition of Prince’s “How Come You Don’t Call Me,” the album features hits such as “Fallin’” and “Girlfriend,” and more.

Dueling dudes: With his 2001 debut album Musicforthemorningafter (Columbia/Legacy), Pete Yorn set the bar pretty high for himself.

None of the discs that followed really matched the promise of his first record. The expanded 10th anniversary edition features a remastered version of the original disc, including hits “Strange Condition” and “Life on a Chain,” and a second live disc with four bonus songs.

Surf-pop stud Jack Johnson’s 2000 debut disc Brushfire Fairytales (Everloving) receives the reissue treatment via an edition remastered by studio legend Bernie Grundman using the original analog tapes. The album, which includes “Bubble Toes” and “Flake,” still sounds like the soundtrack for a late-night beach bonfire and getting busy in the sand.▼

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nd ye shall know them by their enemies. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows – Part 2, the final rip-roaring installment of his screen adventures, Harry Potter, boy wizard, confronts Death Eaters, Horcruxes and the demise of dear friends; battles foes with delicious vowel-hogging names: Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix LeStrange, Professor Severus Snape, and he who previously must not be named: Lord Voldemort; and in the far nastier off-screen world, provokes the wrath of grumpy old guys Professor Harold Bloom and the Pope. Oh, you kid!

As my web buddy Claude and I settled in for what proved to be a remarkably taut final chapter, some folks in our row at San Francisco’s Metreon excused themselves repeatedly for having to disturb our knees passing back and forth for refreshments. The Harry Potter fan base has got to be among the friendliest and most polite crowds in the American pop kingdom.

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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in the fantasy adventure Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows – Part 2.

Definitely, these are the folks you’d want to share that proverbial desert island with.

Long before Mistress J.K. Rowling dropped the bombshell that Professor Albus Dumbledore was gay – probably as much to bug the Pope as to please the likes of us – queers instinctively grasped that this might be the most welcoming of the superpop franchises for our kind. Throughout the sevenbook, eight-movie marathon, there were repeated lessons, analogies, and allegories for the plight of disenfranchised outsiders. From Harry’s battle for respect with his Muggle biological clan to the Counting Hat’s decision to place the most sensitive of the aspiring young wizards into the Gryffindor House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to the painful rites of puberty (and that marvelous British term “snogging”) to life-and-death lessons on the fields of Quidditch, to the zombie-like creepiness of Hogwarts’ chamber of secrets, the Potter series has allowed plenty of room for queer kids to insert themselves into the adventures without denying or falsifying their true nature.

The question arises, particularly after the Sunday punch of Part 2’s good-over-evil conclusion, of whether Harry Potter has been unfairly seated at American pop culture’s kids’ table. Pop is America’s ultimate nonsectarian faith of choice: it’s here where believers and non-believers can freely mingle without fear or prejudice. And it is this question in part, whether Harry Potter is merely a profitable brand that must be tolerated for the sake of the business it generates, that has prompted its most notorious critics to take extreme umbrage.

Professor Harold Bloom has dismissed Rowling’s authorial prowess in part out of snobbery and also out of fear that American Pop culture might finally be developing its own alternative Great Books series to overthrow his beloved

Shakespeare. As for the Pope, as the New York Times headline “Priests Challenge Vatican on Ordaining Women” indicates, his domain is coming under fire for all sorts of sins of the flesh. Maggie Smith’s awesome turn as Professor Minerva McGonagall is inspiration for many gender-busting changes among the clergy.

Ultimately the series’ claim to full adult status lies with the movie franchise’s brilliant team of adaptors: from directors Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, and finally and most magnificently, the underrated David Yates, to the miraculous screenplays by Steve Kloves, and the army of visual magicians. The Potter creative team has earned the right to insert overtones from Dickensian to Orwellian that have allowed each successive episode to fully engage the dark themes of the age of terror. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Parts 1 & 2 have been especially marvelous at suggesting mischievous analogies: between, say, the Potter world’s at times evil and absurdly bureaucratic Ministry of Magic and the Murdoch empire’s attempts to infiltrate and corrupt the British police institution Scotland Yard.

The Potter series allowed a world public to appreciate the talents of the series’ adult support cast: particularly Ralph Fiennes’ gloriously nasty Voldemort, the villain whose evil costs him his nose before it claims his soul. But for most of us, it’s the magnificent Potter trio that captivates. Daniel Radcliffe overcomes the inherent passivity in his character’s plight to create a plucky protagonist, the first time the archetypal English schoolboy has been raised to godlike status. The elastic-faced Rupert Grint has come into his own as a comic character genius, and the lovely Emma Watson allows herself to risk coming off as an annoying little wench in the cause of bailing out her men, time after time.▼

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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley in the fantasy adventure Harry Potter and the Deathly Harrows – Part 2.

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Cameraman @ Balboa Theatre The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff, a fascinating documentary about the cinematogapher of classic films such as The African Queen, The Red Shoes, Barefoot Contessa and Black Narcissus. $7.50-$10.

Thru Aug. 4. 3630 Balboa St. 221-8184. www.balboamovies.com

Cultural Encounters @ de Young Museum

Chapped

Special evening event with museum access, to see Masterpieces from the Museé National Picasso, Paris, an exhibit of classic early modern works by the Spanish master painter; with live music by the Cypress String Quartet. Free/$12. 5pm-8:45. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

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The Dislocation Express @ East Bay BART Stations

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AXIS Dance and Dandelion Dance Company share an unusual site-specific traveling dance at BART stations, about homelessness, mobilility and mobile devices. Performances start at the new Ed Roberts Campus at Ashby BART, then continue on trains and at the Walnut Creek station. 6pm. Also July 30. www.axisdance.org/TDE.php

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t’s a slutastic weekend. If you’re taking the time and effort to get strapped and chapped, get a great portrait at Mark I. Chester’s Open Studio (photo above). The veteran leather community photographer lets you be as kinky as you wanna be. He’ll also be exhibiting some of his favorite prints. Free/Donations. Friday July 29, 7pm11pm. July 30, 1pm-5pm. July 31, 11am-6pm. Exhibit thru Aug. 1229 Folsom St. 621-6294. www.markichester.com Saturday, July 30, Bay of Pigs at Club NV, the annual leather-sexy dance party, precedes the Up Your Alley Street Fair by bringing slutty with a capital S with its live shows and back room action. Stellar DJs Frank Wild and Paul Goodyear will have you sweating in –and out of– your chaps. This always sells out, so get your tickets now. $40-$50. 9pm-3am. 525 Howard St. 5387977. www.folsomstreetevents.org You can also have cruisy fun at Bearracuda at the Cat Club, the 4th annual Dore Alley Eve Bearracuda dance party, with beartastic fun and ultrafab DJ Ted Eiel. $10-$15. 9pm-3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.bearracuda.com/ Dore.html Blowoff at Slim’s returns with DJs Rich Morel and Bob Mould sharing cool groovy mixes at the dance night popular with bears (but all are welcome). $15. 10pm-2am. 333 11th St. www.blowoff.us www.slims-sf. com Sunday, slutty Sunday, Up Your Alley Street Fair at Folsom St. at Dore Alley, the open-air pleasantly naughty day of debauchery, includes beer and beverages, kink and clowns, leather and lust, sling beds and silliness. $5 and up donations at the gate. 11am-6pm. Most SoMa bars will be also packed and cruisy. Folsom St. between 9th 7 11th. www.folsomstreetfair.org/alley ▼

For a full list of Dore-licious events, see Scott Brogan’s leather column on page 26.

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and ‘70s showing wacky and prophetic visions of technology. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilm.com

American Buffalo @ Actors Theatre of SF

Boys: Trials and Tribulations @ Oddball Film Short films from the 40s-to the 70s about boys in trouble. $10. 8:30pm. July 30, Yesterday’s Futures, short films from the ‘60s

Necessary Monsters @ Novellus Theater Composer-vocalist Carla Kihlstedt and poet Rafael Oses’ contemporary song cycle inspired by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings. $15-$25. 8pm. Also July 30. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard St. 978ARTS. www.ybca.org

San Francisco Symphony @ Davies Hall Music From the Movies, a special concert of excerpts from classic film scores like Lawrence of Arabia, Jaws, Diamonds are Forever and more, hosted by Inside the Actors Studio’s James Lipton (no film clips will be screened). $15-$115. 201 Van Ness Ave at Grove St. 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org

It’s also your last chance to see Thrillpeddlers’ restaging of the last Cockettes musical, a very loose Fellini-esque parody of Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. $30-$35. Fri & Sat 8pm Sun 7pm. 575 10th St. at Bryant/Division. Thru July 31. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Bay Area Playwrights Festival @ Thick House

Wuvable Oaf @ Goteblud Release party for the new funny bear comic and an exhibition of art by creator Ed Luce; plus Oaf-inspired works by Erik Erspamer, John Murasky, Skinner and Brad Rader. 7pm. 766 Valencia st. at 18th. www.wubavleoraf.com www.goteblud.livejournal.com

Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance @ Asian Art Museum Expansive exhibit of more than 100 historic art works in exhibits that showcase the practicality of the performing and visual arts in this beautiful culture. Special music concert with Gamelan Kori Mas, July 30 & 31 12pm-4pm. Reg. admission: $7-$17. Reg. hours Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. Thu til 9pm. Thru Sept. 11. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

Bay Area Now 6 @ YBCA Group exhibit of local visual artists in varied media. Special Push Play event today, 12pm78pm, with performances, workshops, food, drink and special events. Exhibit thru Sept. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2700. www.ybca.org

Enjoy a week of classic films all scored by the brilliant Austrian composer. July 29, Mildred Pierce (3pm, 7pm) and The Letter (5pm, 9pm). July 30, Casablanca (2:30, 7pm) and The Treasure of Sierra Madre (4:30, 8:55). July 31, Gone With the Wind (2pm, 7pm). Aug 1, Now, Voyager (2:40, 7pm) and Dark Victory (4:55, 9:10). Aug 2, White Heat (2:50, 7pm) and Angels With Dirty Faces (5pm, 9pm) Aug 3, The Big Sleep (2:50, 7pm) and Key Largo (4:55, 9:05). Aug 4, King Kong (2:40, 7pm) and The Searchers (4:35, 9pm). $10. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Vice Palace @ Hypnodrome

Stage actress-singer performs Blue Champagne: The History of the Torch Song. $35-$45. Tue-Sat 7:30pm. Sun 5pm. Thru July 31. 2-drink min. 21+. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (800) 380-3095. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Elton John and Lee Hall’s hit Broadway musical adaptation of the wonderful film about a boy who takes up dance lessons; starring Tony Award winner Faith Prince. $35- Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat, Sun & some Wed 2pm. some Sun 7:30pm. Thru Aug. 21.

1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) SHN 1799. www.shnsf.com

Max Steiner-Scored Films @ Castro Theatre

It’s your last chance to see American Conservatory Theatre’s innovative musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin’s first novels in his popular series. Closes July 31.

Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Andrea Marcovicci @ The Rrazz Room

Billy Elliot @ Orpheum Theatre

Marin Shakespeare Company performs creepy and tragic “the Scottish play” in repertory with the comic three-man romp about US history. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm.

Thru Aug 14/Sept 25. $20-$75 (season tix).

1475 Acacia Ave., Dominican Universaty, San Rafael. www.marinshakespeare.org

Tales of the City @ A.C.T.

David Mamet’s intense drama about three petty crooks. $26-$38. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Sept. 3. 855 Bush St. at Taylor. 345-1287. www.ActorsTheatreSF.org

Diverse array of seven new plays taking on all kinds of themes. $15 (single) $85 (full pass). 8pm. Plays from 10am-8pm thru July 31. 1695 18th St. 626-2176. www.playwrightsfoundation.org

Macbeth, The Complete History of America @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre

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point read sexy lit. Dr. Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard read and cohost. $10-$15.

7:30pm. 1349 Mission St. www.simonsheppard.com www.sexandculture.org

The Road to Hades @ John Hinkel Park, Berkeley Shotgun Players presents Jeff Raz’s circus stunt-filled pratfall parody of war between the ancient gods. $10. Sat & Sun 3pm.

Thru Sept. 11. Southhampton Ave. at The Arlington. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

Seussical the Musical @ Julia Morgan Theatre Berkeley Playhouse revives their recent production of the wacky kid-friendly musical based on the Dr. Seuss books. $15-$30.

Fri-Sun various times. Thru Aug. 14. 2640 College Ave. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

Teatro Zinzanni @ Pier 29 Joan Baez returns to Teatro in Maestro’s Enchantment, the new show at the theatre-tent-dinner extravaganza, with Ukranian illusionist Yevgeniy Voronin, clown Peter Pitofsky, aerialist Bianca Sapetto, trapeze artists The Collins Brothers, a five-course dinner, and a lot of fun. $117-$145. Saturday 11:30am “Breve” show $63-$78. Wed-Sat 6pm (Sun 5pm).

Thru Oct. 9. Pier 29 at Embarcadero Ave. 438-2668. www.teatrozinzanni.com

Tigers Be Still @ SF Playhouse

Fri 29 When It Settles @ New Conservatory Theatre Center A dual show of work by two British lesbian performers; Carrie Whitaker performs a solo dance work Here, Still Here, Still and Louie Jenkins performs a solo theatre work Smoke for Dust.

Proceeds benefit the NCTC’s New Plays Program. $32. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru July 31. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Golden Gate Men’s Chorus @ St. Marks’ Lutheran Church The chorus performs Bohemian Rhapsody, a celebration of the ‘bohemian’ life (and, yes, the famous Queen song). $20. 8pm.

Also July 31 at 4pm. 1111 O’Farrell St. www.ggmc.org

Perverts Put Out @ Center for Sex and Culture Charlie Jane Anders, Sherilyn Connelly, Gina de Vries, Philip Huang, Jim Provenzano, Lori Selke and horehound still-

Quirky endearing comedy about an art therapist whose family and work life is complicated; oh, and a tiger’s escaped from a local zoo. $40-$50. 8pm. Tue & Wed 7pm. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm. Thru Sept. 10. 533 Sutter St. near Powell. 6779596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Twelfth Night @ Theatre in the Woods, Woodside Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy about cross-dressing loves, heartache and romance, is re-set in colonial New England at the scenic outdoor ampitheatre. $15$25. Sat & Sun 1pm thru Sept. 4. 2170 Bear Gulch Road (West), Woodside. www.theatreinthewoods.com

The Verona Project @ Bruns Ampitheatre, Orinda California Shakespeare Theatre’s production of Amanda Dehnert’s rock music hybrid revisioning of Two Gentlemen of Verona, the Bard’s romantic comedy of errors. $35-$66. Tue-Wed 7:30pm. Fri-Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru July 31. 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way (formerly 100 Gateway Blvd.), Orinda. (510) 548-9666. www.calshakes.org

Sun 31 >> Lisa Lindley @ The Rrazz Room Jazz singer performs classics from the 1940s-50s, accompanied by the Kelly Park

Sat 30 >> Fri 29 Work More! @ CounterPulse Eleven drag queens, 15 numbers, and 140 costume changes; Vivianne ForeverMore (photo) presents April Mei Joon, Diamanda Kallas, Elijah Minnelli, Honey Mahogany, Honey McMoney, Loren Robertson, Mona G Hawd, Nikki Sixx Mile, Phatima and Trixxie Carr in a theater/performance spectacular. $15-$20. 8pm.

Also July 30. 1310 Mission St. at 9th. (800) 838-3006. www.counterpulse.org

The Art of Howl @ Cartoon Art Museum Exhibit showcasing Eric Drooker’s drawing and animation for the film about Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem. Gen admission Free-$7. Tue-Sun 11am-5pm. 655 Mission St. (415) CAR-TOON. www.cartoonart.org

Assisted Living, the Musical @ Imperial Palace Rick Compton and Betsy Bennett’s witty musical about senior lives and the joys and woes of aging; Dim Sum banquet with each show. $79.59-$99.50. Sat 12pm. Sun 12 & 5pm. Thru Aug 14. 818 Washington st. (888) 885-2844. www.assistedlivingthemusical.com

Fri 29 David Hawkins @ Deco Lounge Attend a taping of the hilarious gay comic’s show Desperate But Not Serious at the fun nightclub. $5. 21+. 9pm. 501 Larkin St. www.decosf.com

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crafted works. 7:30pm. Thru Sept. 18. Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St. at 3rd. 358-7200. www.moadsf.org

Wed 3 >> Behind the Scenes @ Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley

Sun 10 Eli Conley @ Actual Café, Oakland Transgender Americana-folk singer performs with Hip for Squares. $5. All ages.

8pm. 6334 San Pablo Ave. www.eliconley.com

2-drink min. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason st. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Exhibit of personal artwork, collected work and archival materials showing how the lesbian poet’s life, mostly in Paris, changed over the decades before and after WWII. Free-$10. Thru Sept. 6. 11am-5pm daily (closed Wed), Thu 1pm-8pm. 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

The Steins Collect @ SF MOMA

Picklewater Clown Circus @ Stage werx Theatre Physical comedy show about sex and the silliness that surrounds it. $10-$15. 7pm & 9pm. 533 Sutter St. www.picklewater.com

Russ Lorenson @ The Rrazz Room Local crooner performs a tribute to Tony Bennett. $30. 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 394-1189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

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

Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian AvanteGarde, an exhibit of pivotal artworks originally collected by lesbian poet Gertrude Stein and her family. 4th floor galleries.

Free (members)-$25. Thru Sept. 6. 11am5:45pm daily. Closed Wed.; open til 8:45pm Thu. 357-4000. www.sfmoma.org

Opening reception for a new mini-exhibit about the San Francisco LGBT Democratic political organization as it celebrates its 40th anniversary; part of Our Vast Queer Past, the exhibit from the GLBT Historical Society, with a wide array of rare historic items on display. Free for members-$5.

Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm.

4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Jotas, Home After Dark @ Galeria de la Raza Two group exhibits focusing on Latin home life, and Two-Spirit Native American queer youth. 7:30pm. Reg. hours Tue 1pm-7pm.

Wed-Sat 12pm-6pm. Thru Sept 17. 2857 24th St. www.galeriadelaraza.org

Marga’s Funny Mondays @ The Marsh, Berkeley Marga Gomez brings her comic talents and special guests to a weekly cabaret show. $10. 8pm. 2120 Allston Way. (800) 8383006. www.margagomez.com www.themarsh.org

Mark Kleim Photos @ The Cove Lavender Lounge host’s video slideshow of sexy amusing candids from Up Your Alley street fairs 2003-2009. Daily 434 Castro st. www.LavenderLounge.com

Beartastic fun at most all Guerneville venues.

Thru Aug. 7. www.lazybearweekend.com

Tango Q Class @ 151 Potrero Queer Ballroom presents a special class in Argentine Tango basics. 6pm, 7pm & 8pm classes in different styles. Other classes in different syyles through each week. $5$40. 151 Potrero Ave. at 15th. 305-8242. www.QueerBallroom.com

Thu 4 >> Ailey Camp @ Zellerbach Hall More than 50 students from the 10th anniversary local edition of the dance, music and theatre summer camp led by Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre present a group performance showcase. Free. 7pm. Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

Celebrate and view two exhibits, Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories and The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde with cocktail receptions and special programs at both museums, including live music by Ensemble Parallele and Kalup Linzy. $15-$25. 5:30pm-8:30pm. www.sfmoma.org/gayparis

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

Alice B. Toklas Club @ GLBT History Museum

Lazy Bear Weekend @ Russian River

An Evening in Gay Paris @ SF MOMA, Contemporary Jewish Museum

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room

Mon 1 >>

Animation director John Musker speaks and shows clips and drawings in a series of lectures about his work on popular Disney films (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Princess and the Frog, Hercules). 6:30pm.

Also, screenings of The Princess and the Frog (Aug 4, 6:30pm) and Pinocchio (Aug 7, 3pm).

2575 Bancroft Way. (510) 642-1412.

Sun 31 One Night Only @ Marines Memorial Theatre Faith Prince (photo) and other members of the touring cast of the Broadway hit musical Billy Elliot, along with Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young, Shawn Ryan, Wesla Whitfield and other talents perform at this musical benefit for the Richmond Ermet AIDS Foundation. $20-$75 (dessert party with the cast $20 extra). 609 Sutter St. 2731620. www.HelpIsOnTheWay.org

The Hootenanny @ SF Arts Commission Group exhibit of art work by 13 city and council employees of San Francisco. 6pm8pm. Thru Aug. 27. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfartscommission.org/gallery

Katya Presents @ Martuni’s Katya Smirnoff-Skyy hosts a night of cabaret musical delights. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Not a Genuine Black Man @ The Marsh, Berkeley Brian Copeland’s longrunning autobiographical solo show about racism in San Leandro. $20-$50. 7:30pm. Thru Sept 24.

(800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Picasso @ de Young Museum

Tue 2 >> 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

Jeffrey Long @ Toomey Tourell Gallery Birds of California, the West and Other Places, an exhibit of watercolors with a subtle social commentary. Tue-Fri 11am5:30pm (Sat til 5pm). 49 Geary St., 4th fl.

989-6444. www.toomey-tourell.com

The Kinsey Sicks @ The Rrazz Room Hilarious dragapella troupe returns! $35-$40. 2-drink min. 8pm. Thru Aug. 7 (at 7pm). Then Aug 9-13, 8pm & Aug 14 at 7pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. 3941189. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Masterpieces from the Museé National Picasso, Paris, a new exhibit of classic early modern works by the Spanish master painter. Free (members)-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Wed 9:30am-8:45pm (the Aug). Thru Oct. 9. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Smut Capital of America @ YBCA Ongoing series of artistic and historic adult films made in SF. Tonight, Hard Shorts at 7:30pm includes artsy stag flicks and works by Jame Broughton. The Meatrack (Aug 5, 7:30pm) Straight erotica and documentaries thru August. $6-$8. 7:30pm.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 978-2700. www.ybca.org

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

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Literary Speed Dating @ SF Public Library

Mon 1

Enjoy mini-meet-ups with other LGBT literature fans (36-person limit) Pre-registration required. Email jjasper@sfpl.org (Straight night Aug 9). Free. 5:45-7:45pm.

Latino Hispanic Community Room, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Q Comedy @ Martuni’s

A Thin Line @ Visual Aid

Karen Ripley, (photo) Bob McIntyre, Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Tammy Powers, Cookie Dough serve up the funny lines at the monthly (1st Mondays) gay comedy night. $5-$15. 8pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.Qcomedy.com

Works by Daniel Goldstein, David King, David Wojnarowicz and Philip Zimmerman.

Thru Aug 31. 57 Post St. 777-8242. www.visualaid.org

Soulful Stitching @ MOAD Patchwork Quilts by African (Siddis) in India, a new exhibit of 32 colorful hand-

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A scene from Up Your Alley 2010: Fun at the Mr. S Leather booth.

Alley cats

by Scott Brogan

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he one-and-only Up Your Alley (a.k.a. Dore Alley) street fair is this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thanks to the gang at Folsom Street Events, this year’s fair will be better than ever. For the fourth year in a row, the fair is being expanded to accommodate the crowds of “primarily gay male leather and fetish enthusiasts” encompassing Folsom St. between 9th and 11th streets, Dore Alley from Howard (past Folsom), and 10th St. from Howard to Sheridan.

The Magnitude dance area will be at Folsom and 10th, and will feature the winners of San Francisco’s Next Top DJ Contest – Up Your Alley Edition. The schedule for the winners is: DJ Brian Maier: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., DJ Byron Bonsall: 1 p.m.-3 p.m., and DJ Russ Rich: 3 p.m.-6 p.m.

All of the exhibitor booths are sold out, so you have no excuses for not finding something to trip your trigger in one way or another. Likewise, the weekend is packed with enough events to root out even the most agoraphobic shut-in.

This week’s column is an expanded calendar to help guide you through the weekend’s events via the major events I had details for at press time. Go to www.FolsomStreetEvents.com for more information. Enjoy, and party responsibly!

Thurs., July 28: 10 a.m. International Leather Sir/boy/Bootblack Weekend (through Sun., July 31), Holiday Inn Golden Gateway (1500 Van Ness). Features the Leather Sir/boy/Bootblack contests on Fri. and Sat. nights. Day passes are $45, contest-only tickets are $20 for each night. Go to: www.LeatherSir.com for details.

9 p.m. BLUF (Breeches & Leather Uniform Fan Club) Dinner at Don Ramon’s (225 11th St.). This is an Official Up Your Alley Event. Join the San Francisco BLUF guys as they host a pre-Up Your Alley dinner to welcome visiting leathermen and gather the clan. Space is limited! Request your invite early by e-mailing BLUFsf@yahoo. $25 for dinner, drinks extra. Go to: www.

BLUF.com.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Nakedsword’s Golden Gate Release Party, hosted

by Race Cooper at Kok Bar SF (1225 Folsom). Giveaways, sneak previews, drink specials, freebies, and

more! Go to: www.KokBarSF.com.

10 p.m. Underwear Night at The Powerhouse (1347 Folsom). Wet undie contest and drink specials, plus some sexy men in soaked underwear. Go to: www.PowerhouseSF.com.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Meet the Porn Studs from Raging Stallion at Kok Bar SF. Giveaways, drink specials, and more!

Go to: www.KokBarSF. com.

Fri., July 29: 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Hell Hole “Up Yours” Fisting Party at the Mr. S Leather Playspace (385 8th St.). Doors close at 12 a.m. $25. This is a safer sex, drug-free environment. Go to: www.HellHoleSF.com.

8 p.m.-1 a.m. Open Play Party at the SF Citadel (1227 Mission). $25.

Go to: www.SFCitadel.org.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. SF Cockpit Dore Alley Pig Session. Doors close at 12 a.m. Wear gear, jock, or be naked! Beer & drinks available. First five people get in free! Door prizes for the first 25 attendees. You must RSVP through the site: www.SFCockpit.com.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Truck Wash at Truck (1900 Folsom). Live shower boys and drink specials. Go to: www.TruckSF.com.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Pec Night at the Powerhouse. Go shirtless for drink specials, Go to: www.PowerhouseSF.com.

10 p.m.-4 a.m. Rub – Up Your

Alley at Beatbox (314 11th St.), the Official Friday Night Dance Event.

Muscled go-go studs, sexy flaggers, and dark corners, DJ/Producer John LePage & DJ James Torres. Wear your jocks, gear, sports & straps. $30 online, retail & at the door (if available). Tickets at Body/Citizen or Mr. S. Leather. Go to: www.RubSF.com or www.TheDiscoSF.com.

9 p.m.-Midnight. BigMuscle BigMuscleBear BigMuscleLeather meet & greet at Kok Bar SF. Meet the guys from the website. Go to: www.

KokBarSF.com.

Sat., July 30: 3-8 p.m. Treasure Island’s Raw Underground Party at Kok Bar SF. Brad McGuire, James Roscoe, Blue Bailey, and Blake Daniels will be there. Go to: www.KokBarSF.com.

8 p.m.-2 a.m. 15 Association Men’s Dungeon Party Up Your Alley Edition at the SF Citadel. Doors close at 11 p.m. Go to: www.15sf. org.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. Dore Alley Black Saturday at the Powerhouse. Hosted by Mr. SF Leather 2011 Darren Bondy. Leather, Rubber, Fetish attire is encouraged! Dark & Dirty Demos! Sleazy Hot GoGo Dancers!

Music by Bud Chism. $9. Benefits San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance, Mr. SF Leather Fund. Go to: www.Powerhouse-SF.com.

9 p.m.-3 a.m. 4th Annual Bearracuda Dore Alley Saturday Party at the Cat Club (1190 Folsom). Sponsored by Scruff for iPhone & Android. $10 advance (www.BearracuSee page 28 >>

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The late Mister Marcus with Remi Collette at a previous Up Your Alley street fair.

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Sex delivery

by John F. Karr

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he naturally ebullient performances of Steve Cruz have evolved to nearly egregiously ebullient filmmaking. With spouse Bruno Bond, Cruz has been making idiosyncratic videos for their boutique label, Hard Friction, which is released by Raging Stallion.

His (their?) high spirits show in two new movies – to the detriment of one.

For the first scene of All Access, Cruz has two willing performers in Drew Cutler and Logan Scott, but he made me a less-than-willing viewer. The movie’s four scenes are edited versions of the live shows broadcast on Cruz’ website, and purport to show what goes on during the filming. This amounts to interruptions of every sort, which are aggrandized by a weird editing choice, in which a sizzling sound accompanies an earthquake of camera jiggles while the scene changes. Clever, once. Annoying after that.

Similarly, Cruz’ exertions to show creative directorial choices become an harassment of interruptions.

Cruz kibbutzes to the audience.

He instructs the performers, and grades the resultant sexplay. He has his second cameraman roaming over the lighting set-up, the bank of monitors and other assorted pieces of equipment, and even the actions of first cameraman. He doesn’t seem to notice that the result of all his flim-flam is Brecht’s alienation effect, in full action. Boy, does he get in the way. In the process, he chops the scene into pieces, although even that can’t dampen the effectiveness of a gregarious performer like Drew Cutler.

And true, some of this distraction is entertaining. But you can have sex, or you can have the antics of Late Night with Steve Cruz. Doing both at the same time makes me wanna echo Miss Ross.

You know, “Take another pill, Flo.” Or perhaps Cruz did know what he’d done, for the subsequent three partnerings thankfully deliver their sex in more straightforward fashion.

Samuel Colt tops Angelo Marconi, both of them neatly cockringed.

Colt’s fans will like his sexing in this outing a lot, perhaps most when he’s got a couple of fingers as well as his cock up Marconi’s plump and pleasing ass. Damien Stone, in his second movie, doesn’t build too much on his debut performance (see below), but he’s got a swell partner in Troy Daniels, an elongated fellow with a moon-white body, elegant tattoo, and capacious butthole. The ass on this guy is a firm beauty, a perfect complement to the gorgeous cock on his front side. In the final scene, meaty muscle dude Shay Michaels, with his meaty dick, slams it to pro bottom Dominic Sol, who gladly drinks the cum from

Mi h l ’ cock. k Y Michaels’ Yum. All four scenes of All Access have strong, concentrated action; it’s too bad the first scene was so splintered.

The Cruz-directed He’s Got a Big Package is a swell movie, devoid of the shenanigans that marred All Access. It’s strictly traditional in form and excellent in content, with four all-star pairs, who fuck intensely and are intently observed. We get to size up Erik Rhode’ss recently circumcised cockk n a good deal better than in the movie in which it wass formally introduced, as hee and partner Samuel Colt (in choker cockring) flip-fuck with brutal, picturesque passion.

Damien Stone’s appeal is understandable. He’s got looks, physique, cock. Although he’s a somewhat placid performer, you gotta give him a break – this was his debut performance (although he’s not too much more dynamic in All Access). Wilfried Knight gets to suck Stone’s fine cock, and slobber he do, before welcoming it up his ass and happily sitting upon it.

Angelo Marconi wears a clear and tight cockring (an accessory I’m thinking should be mandatory for all performers) when getting banged

by Bo Dean. This guy’s a striking performer, so solid of muscle and cock, and so blond-bruiser

handsome. But still, I wonder why RS hired him. Not that I minded watching the stud throw his thrillfuck. But he’s famously G4P. Not bi, just G4P. He’s not as emotionally distant as another recent RS hire, the G4P Jason Adonis (distant? he’s usually so far off he needs inoculations and a passport to get back), and he’s gorgeous. I’m just saying, ya know?

Finally, my fave, feisty Cavin Knight: a bad boy in a good boy’s body. This nasty player gets a nasty fuck from robustly cocked Tony Buff. When straddling Buff ’s broad bone, Knight gives himself a fierce ride. Their high energy fuck-lust is pretty exciting.▼ www.RagingStallion.com

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Spell-binding songs

by Tim Pfaff

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n further proof that the classical recording industry marches to a different drummer, as the world economy goes into freefall, out come three new issues of the songs of Carl Loewe. Celebrated in his day (the German mid-19th century) as a wandering minstrel who sang for the likes of Goethe and Prince Albert, Loewe was a respected composer in a broad range of standard genres whose 15 minutes of fame were, nevertheless, 150 years ago.

Once upon a time, readers of a certain age might have heard a Loewe song or two on a recital program or LP by a singer such as Hans Hotter or Dietrich FischerDieskau. But Loewe has long been a largely unacquired connoisseur’s taste and, until now, a captive of CD reissue boxes. Then along come three baritones with Loewe CDs that figure among the most exciting vocal recordings of the year so far, and surely represent the composer’s last stand in a young century that just might have room for another spinner of 3D-free gripping legends.

Any other time, Dutch baritone Henk Nevens’ Auf einer Burg: Songs

by Loewe and Schumann (Onyx), a handsomely sung set of nine Loewe songs (with Schumann’s Eichendorff Liederkreis), would have found or even created a niche market. It’s just his bad luck that it was released at the same time as Loewe Songs & Ballads with Florian Boesch and pianist Roger Vignoles (Hyperion) and Gerald Finley’s stunning new compilation, The Ballad Singer (Hyperion), with Julius Drake.

The Austrian Boesch is the only

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as successful. “It was an audience of octogenarians who were used to seeing My Fair Lady and Cats, and we were not received with open arms,” says Schatz.

“We’ve had protests at some places, but people aren’t going to heckle us, because they’re afraid of us. I’m afraid of us, and I’m one of us!” The group is quite skilled at dealing with audiences who

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da.com/Dore.html), $15 at the door.

Featuring DJ Ted Eiel. Bearracuda is the largest attended bear dance par-

one to brave an allLoewe disc, which proves that the music itself is of a class that can command and hold attention throughout a whole CD. The fecundity and richness of imagination on display in the 20 items on the disc is simply startling, and the sage programming and arresting musicianship brought to bear on it make you wonder where this music has been all your life. Or just wonder.

The best stuff, the ballads – strophic songs that tell swift, hellbent-for-leather, horseheavy stories (grim, morbid nail-biters for the most part) – also demand the most from the interpreters, who may not have to contend with the tiny attention spans and hectoring impatience of today’s fantasy audience, but do have to rise to Loewe’s advanced storytelling acumen. Boesch comes out of the gate with four in a row, the third, “Erlkoenig” (“The Elf King”), among the best and best-known of Schubert’s songs, and virtually unknown today in Loewe’s version.

Boesch’s gripping performance says why Wagner and perhaps Goethe, author of the poem the song sets, preferred Loewe’s to Schubert’s.

But to catch this narrative wizardry at its most dizzying, go directly to the fourth, “Herr Oluf,” at six-plus minutes the longest

selection on the disc. The 21 verses of the poem – which tells a story of the Elf King’s daughter, who, sirenlike, lures Sir Oluf to his death the night before he is to be married to another – fall into separate musical episodes demarcated by pregnant pauses that somehow only increase the music’s pace and overall tension.

Boesch’s virtual ventriloquism, finding a distinct voice for each of the characters, and Vignoles’ kaleidoscopic playing, riding the piano like Oluf his mount, dispatch a truly spell-binding entertainment.

But, it turns out, two can play at this game. Finley sings only two Loewe items on The Ballad Singer, “Edward” and “Die Wandelne Glocke,” but his equally magical singing only

“We’ve had protests, but people aren’t going to heckle us, because they’re afraid of us.”

– Ben Schatz (Rachel) are often too inebriated to pay attention to the show. “At a recent show in Denver, Winnie went to

the table and took all the people’s alcohol from them. The audience applauded.”

ty in the U.S. We’ve got beards, bears, cubs, pups, chubs, beefcakes, furballs and other wildlife!

10 p.m.-4 a.m. Bay of Pigs 2011 at Club NV (525 Howard St), the Official Saturday Night Dance Event.

Join in with nearly 900 hot-n-sweaty leather men and fetish enthusiasts.

DJ Frank Wild gets the party going, DJ/Producer Paul Goodyear headlines. Featuring sexy demos, loads of backroom action. Tickets: $30 (www.

points out how rich and open to interpretation the music is and, paradoxically, how much the singer has to bring to it to bring it alive.

Finley, sparring with no one but going head to head with every Lieder singer of consequence ever, delivers a Schubert “Erlkoenig” as disturbing (as much as anything because of its refusal to exaggerate) as any I know.

And on the Lieder front, he’s even more compelling with Mahler’s “Wo die schoenen Trompeten blasen” and Hugo Wolf ’s “Der Feuerreitter,” the Mahler for its sheer elevation, and the Wolf for the very qualities annotator Richard Wigmore attributes to Wolf in this particularly magisterial song about the fire-rider, its “glittering, demonic energy.”

But although all modern-day songsters are at pains to prove what good entertainers they are in the bargain, no one else does it more naturally, not to say effortlessly, and convincingly than Finley. Every time I listen to this disc, there’s another song I think is the best of all, but the most frequent blue-ribbon winner is “The Desert,” a c. 1860 song by Louis Emanuel that you instantly recognize but just can’t place, or resist. Its vertiginous chromatic scales, depicting the vulture flying over the song’s marooned hero, show Drake at his jaw-dropping best, too.

Only Cole Porter’s saucy “The Tale of the Oyster,” written for a motionpicture heroine, could follow it, and Finley puts it over deftly.▼

The performers beneath the wigs are Winnie (Irwin Keller), Trixie (Jeff Manabat), Trampolina (Spencer Brown), and, as Schatz describes, “the most beloved of all, Rachel” (Schatz). Of that other Rachel on TV’s Glee, Schatz says, “The girl can really sing, but her bows aren’t nearly big enough.”

While some audience members may have taken in a Kinsey Sicks show or two, Schatz promises that “we’re always turning out new material, so people who haven’t seen us in a while should come and see

the show.”

He attributes the group’s longevity and success to a few simple factors. “We’re fun, we’re intellectually challenging, we’re naughty, we’re musically precise – and we look hideous. It’s not easy to pull all of that off.”▼ The Kinsey Sicks, Greatest Tits at the Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., SF. Tues.-Sat., Aug. 2-13, at 8 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 7 & 14, at 7 p.m. Tickets ($35-$40) at www. therrazzroom.com.

FolsomStreetEvents.org/shop), retail tickets: $40 (at Mr. S Leather and Phantom/Chaps), door tickets: $50. www.FolsomsSreetEvents.org/bayofpigs.

10 p.m.-6 a.m. Industry and Gus Presets Damnation! 1015 Folsom St. DJs Abel & Luke Johnstone. Tickets: $33 advance, $40 at the door. Go to: www.IndustrySF.com.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Durrty Dore Jockstrap Party at Kok Bar SF. Wear your jock for drink specials. Go to: www.KokBarSF.com Sun., July 31: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Dore Alley Street Fair.

5 p.m.-Midnight. Play T-Dance at Mezzanine (444 Jesse St.), 21 or over, the Official Up Your Alley Closing Party & T-Dance. Pig Play Party includes a snack table, chill room and massage area. Wear your leather, fetish, gear. Tickets are $30 retail and online before July 30, $35 at the door, available at: Mr. S Leather, PO Plus, Sui Generis and Gold’s Gym. Online at: www.playsfo110731.eventbrite.com.

Post-Weekend: Tue. Aug. 2: Love you - Mean It! Presented by Queen Cougar at the SF Citadel. 8-10 p.m. $20. Featuring demonstrations of a

specific intense dynamic between some BDSM players: a femme sadist top interacting with bottoms or submissives in a loving way, in a scene with the bottoms experiencing anticipation, struggle, trust, through intensity and pain. Go to: www.sfcitadel.org.

Busted at Truck. 9 p.m.-close. $5 beer bust from 9-11 p.m. Great music, and the notorious Truck boys.

Go to: www.trucksf.com.

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

Wed., Aug. 3: Naked Buddies at Blow Buddies. This is a male-only club. Doors open 8 p.m.-12 a.m.

Play till late. Go to: www.blowbuddies.com.

Bear Bust Wednesdays at Kok Bar SF. $6 all you can drink Bud Light or Rolling Rock drafts. Go to: www. kokbarsf.com.

Nipple Play at The Powerhouse.

10 p.m.-2 a.m. Specials for shirtless guys. Go to: www.powerhouse-sf. com.

Wolf! for Furry Men on the Prowl at the Watergarden (1010 Alameda, San Jose). 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Go to: www.thewatergarden.com.▼

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Music for millions Film scores by Max Steiner in a Castro Theatre series

by Tavo Amador

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usic was recognized as a key element in enhancing the emotional resonance of movies from the days of silent films, when live musicians played scores accompanying the screen action.

The advent of talkies ushered in a great period of original orchestrations for pictures. Max Steiner (1888-1971), known as “the father of film music,” was among the most influential composers in Hollywood history, earning 26 Oscar nominations, winning three times. From July 29-August 4, the Castro Theatre will show 13 movies orchestrated and/or with original scores by him.

Born in Vienna, Steiner studied under Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. His first credited score was for Best Picture Academy Award winner Cimarron (1931). For the next several years, he worked at RKO, winning his first Oscar for The Informer (1935) before moving to Warners, where he composed that studio’s fanfare, introduced in 1937’s Tovarich.

The series opens with Joan Crawford’s Oscar-winning performance as Mildred Pierce (1945), a unique blend of film noir and melodrama about a socially ambitious mother plagued with the daughter from hell (Ann Blyth).

Steiner’s score enhances the action.

Many of the most intense sequences, including the famous opening murder scene, are silent. Then, when appropriate, his lush score is heard. For a romantic sequence, he composed the popular hit, “This Can’t Be Wrong.” Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, and Bruce Bennet are the men in Crawford’s life. With Eve Arden, who warns, “Alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.”

Michael Curtiz directed. Bette Davis is riveting in William Wyler’s The Letter (1940), based on gay author Somerset Maugham’s short story.

Her intensity breathes conviction

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Gone With the Wind is classic Hollywood’s most revered film.

into this melodrama about marital infidelity, set in the English colony in Malaysia. Steiner’s score suits the action and its locale. (Fri., 7/29, matinees and evenings.)

Steiner was the arranger, not the composer, for Best Picture Oscar winner Casablanca (1942), artfully incorporating popular songs from “La Marseillaise” to “As Time Goes By.” His selections convey the passion between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and their willingness to sacrifice happiness for a noble cause. Michael Curtiz directed. John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) is a celebrated study of greed, improved by Steiner’s score. Bogart and Walter Huston (Best Supporting Actor winner) are memorable. Robert Blake, 15, has an uncredited bit. (Sat. 7/30, matinees and evenings.)

Return to Tara Gone With the Wind (1939), classic Hollywood’s most revered film (eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture), contains

Steiner’s best-known score, although he lost the Oscar to Herbert Stothart for The Wizard of Oz. It’s hard to imagine Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett, Clark Gable’s Rhett, or Olivia de Havilland’s Melanie without Steiner’s passionate music. Directed with zest by Victor Fleming. (Sun., 7/31, matinee and evening.)

In Now, Voyager (1942), Bette Davis goes from a motherdominated frump to soignee sophisticate, with Steiner’s original, Academy Award-winning score illuminating her transformation.

Davis’ mesmerizing bravado transcends the campy love story.

Gladys Cooper is her controlling mother. Irving Rapper directed.

In her favorite film, Dark Victory (1939), Davis is a wild heiress: drinking, smoking, and partying too much. Then she’s diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor by George Brent. Steiner’s score matches the heroine’s mood changes. Bisexual Edmund Goulding directed. Davis is superb. With Humphrey Bogart as an Irish stable boy, and Ronald

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n Howard Hawks’ uproarious screwball comedy classic Bringing Up Baby, a shrewd but impetuous young woman (Katharine Hepburn) ambushes a stodgy, prematurely middle-aged dinosaur scientist (Cary Grant) and drives him so far out of his comfort zone that in the movie’s penultimate moment, the poor bugger greets his prospective motherin-law in drag with the exclamation, “I’ve just gone gay!”

In director/co-writer Michel Leclerc’s enchanting, screwball-like political farce The Names of Love, opening Friday, an equally impetuous young French woman of Algerian descent corners a stodgy, middleaged animal doctor who performs autopsies on dead ducks to detect the onset of bird flu.

Arthur Martin (just one of 15,207 people in France with that name), meet Baya Benmahmoud (“No one in France has that name.”) These two completely incompatible types, who would flunk every computer dating match, meet through the fickle fate of a TV call-in show. He’s the slightly pompous expert who only manages to make everybody feel more paranoid about a revenge-of-nature problem; she’s the helplessly inept apprentice talk-show phone screener who, after dismissing callers as jerks, invades the studio to confront the expert in the middle of his drone.

“But we mustn’t minimize the risks.”

“Stop bugging us with your fucking duck! You’re driving us crazy! We

Sara Forestier and Jacques Pariente are political opposites in Michel Leclerc’s The Names of Love.

Joan Crawford’s Oscar-winning performance as Mildred Pierce.

Reagan. (Mon., 8/1, matinees and evenings.)

In Raoul Walsh’s White Heat (1949), James Cagney is unforgettable as a mother-obsessed killer. Margaret Wycherly is his scary mom. Steiner’s original score is perfect for this graphic study of madness. With Virginia Mayo and Edmond O’Brien.

Michael Curtiz’s Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) was an influential look at urban poverty during the Great Depression. Cagney is a gangster, admired by street urchins (the terrific Dead End Kids), and Pat O’Brien is his boyhood pal, now a priest. With Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart.

Cagney’s redemption as he heads to the gas chamber is a highlight of a great career, as is Steiner’s score.

(Tues., 8/2, matinees and evenings.)

Despite the fact that (because?)

William Faulkner worked on adapting Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1946), the plot is confusing, but Howard Hawks’ direction is gripping.

Humphrey Bogart is Philip Marlowe, and stunning, enigmatic Lauren Bacall is one of two rich sisters whose dying father hires him to investigate

several things. With Dorothy Malone as a bookstore clerk who gives Marlowe an afternoon quickie.

Steiner’s rich score moves the action along. Bogart, Bacall (at her warmest), and Lionel Barrymore are held captive on John Huston’s Key Largo (1948) by gangster Edward G. Robinson.

Claire Trevor (Best Supporting Oscar Winner) is his alcoholic moll, forced to croak “Moanin’ Low” for a drink.

Steiner’s orchestration blends original music with popular tunes. (Wed., 8/3, matinees and evenings.)

King Kong (1933) is the daddy of all monster flicks, and, in its day, a technological marvel. Steiner’s score is perfect. Fay Wray, in a blonde wig, is the woman the sympathetic big guy wants but cannot have. John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) is a scary movie about obsessive racism. John Wayne spends five years hunting down the Indian who kidnapped his niece (Natalie Wood). He intends to kill them both. With Jeffrey Hunter and Vera Miles. Steiner’s score captures the mood of the romanticized Old West. (Thurs., 8/4, matinees and evenings.)▼

don’t care about bird flu. Give it a rest!”

“Studies show we need to remain vigilant.”

“I don’t want to be. You people make everyone Fascist! If it’s not oysters, it’s cows! Then, what?

Immigrants, right? You don’t realize what you’re doing. If you don’t trust ducks, that’s a bad sign!”

The key word in this nutty exchange is Fascist. Baya, daughter to an unbridled picket-sign-wielding mom and an Algerian-born handyman who once harbored artistic ambitions, sees Fascists in every bed, into which she hops in serial abandon. Proclaiming her aim to change her enemies’ politics in the act of sex, Baya has never before encountered a guy like Arthur Marin.

Arthur feels like the members of a South Korean soccer team who all bear the last name Kim. When Arthur tries to copulate with Baya, she keeps moving the goal-post forward. He finds himself as a kind of platonic partner, witness to Baya’s marathon effort to bed every politically incorrect oaf in Metropolitan Paris.

The humor is both physically broad and politically intricate. A delicious sequence involves Baya wandering out nonchalantly in the buff, in the process gravely offending a staid Muslim man on the subway.

Part of your enjoyment of this film will rest on how up you are on the French debate on women in Muslim veil, the hideous history of WWII Vichy France and the Holocaust, and hidden landmines concerning one’s immigrant status and where it places you on the scale between Gaulist,

Socialist, and yes, Fascist.

Sara Forestier imbues Baya with cheeky self-assurance. Her farcical sleeping with the enemy is cushioned in a good-natured zaniness that makes the term “political whore” innocuous; Jacques Pariente’s beaten-down sad sack Arthur defangs any dirty-oldman twist to this intergenerational pillow talk. Some droll moments have Arthur in bittersweet exchanges with his teenage self: the lonely boy who felt embarrassed to seem to profit from his relatives’ concentration-camp history by admitting to his snobby classmates that his nerdy identity concealed the soul of a victim.

The moments that translate best are those where Baya and Martin attempt to dine with their respective parents.

Arthur sternly warns the looselipped Maya about the topics that are definitely taboo when it comes to his nuclear power-plant supervisor dad.

“Global warming?”

“Global warming equals oil equals nuclear power. Don’t mention that to my father, you’ll only annoy him.”

“Well, what’s left? Traffic jams?”

“Are you kidding? Traffic jams equal taxis equal Grandpa equals Auschwitz. I don’t want you mentioning the subject.”

“So we can’t talk about anything with them?”

“Exactly – it took years for me to find ways to talk about nothing.”

This artfully subversive French comedy nimbly navigates political and cultural landmines, climaxing in a silly cameo by a real-life French politician who, in American terms, registers like the ghost of Al Gore.▼

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