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ver Pride weekend Governor Jerry Brown nominated one of the key litigators in the state’s marriage equality lawsuits to a seat on the California Court Rick Gerharter of Appeal. His appointment Therese M. Stewart of Therese M. Stewart to Division Two of the First District Court of Appeal marks the first time an out lesbian has been named to the appellate bench. She would fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice James R. Lambden. If confirmed by the Commission on Judicial Appointments sometime this summer, Stewart would become the second out judge on the First District Court of Appeal. The first See page 18 >>

A year later, marriage rulings elicit pride by Khaled Sayed and David-Elijah Nahmod

n the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the legalization of samesex marriage in the Golden State, hundreds of thousands of people descended on San Francisco to show off their pride during the city’s 44th annual LGBT celebration.

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There were more than 200 contingents in the parade, which took a record six hours to complete its procession along Main Street. Some of the notable names marching in the parade this year included House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), who last participated in 2001; Apple CEO Tim Cook; and lesbian state Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who was sworn

in to the powerful post in May. “It’s all perfectly lovely,” Pelosi told the Bay Area Reporter as she walked along the parade route. “It’s freedom to love.” For many wedding bells were in the air at this year’s Pride celebrations, as couples old and new marked the first anniversary of two See page 7 >>

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by Matthew S. Bajko

nding a yearlong funding fight, Oakland officials recently finalized the awarding of $1.3 million to fund LGBT youth programs in the East Bay city. As the Bay Area Reporter detailed in several stories last year, LGBT youth leaders were outraged last spring to learn that out of $10.5 million overseen by the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth only $48,187 had been allocated to an LGBT-specific program. Critics of the decision had charged that homophobia and personal vendettas were behind the paltry funding amount, while OFCY officials rejected the charges and insisted the process was based on an oversight committee’s deliberations and the agency’s evaluation process for proposals. Last June, at the urging of LGBT advocates and youth service providers, City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, an out lesbian elected to the at-large seat, worked with her See page 6 >>

his week marks the 50th anniversary of historic legislation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law on July 2 of that year. The landmark legislation banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The law also ended racial segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. The importance of the groundbreaking civil-rights legislation - and the promise it holds out for LGBT equality - cannot, perhaps, be overstated. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is responsible for eradicating much of the discrimination that minorities have faced in almost every walk of life including employment, public education, and public accommodations like restaurants and theaters,” among others, said Franita Tolson, a law professor at Florida State University. “Its 50th anniversary invites us to revisit not only its success, but also the continued need for the act to ensure that the most vulnerable members of society continue to have access to the American dream.” Tolson is the Betty T. Ferguson Professor of Voting Rights at FSU’s law school. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on election law, constitutional law and employment discrimination. That protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity are not included

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in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not lost on Tolson. Nor is the omission lost on a group of LGBT activists and faith leaders, who marked the 50th anniversary of the historic legislation this past Monday, June 30, with a candlelit event at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial, located in Washington, D.C. In fact, the LGBT Civil Rights Vigil, as organizers of the event dubbed it, served as the official launch of a nationwide initiative for what a coalition of grassroots activists are naming a “new campaign for full LGBT equality.” The theme of the candlelit vigil was “Add 4

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Words,” which is a call for adding the language of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the federal legislation. Already, the effort has garnered support from more than 245 organizations in 44 states, including any number of statewide LGBT equality groups and individuals. The overarching goal for the organizing effort is to get the LGBT caucus in Congress to file a bill that would add sexual orientation and identity protections to existing civil-rights laws, all at once. The all-in-one approach differs from the Human Rights Campaign’s push for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would only offer protections in employment and not more broadly to include public accommodations and facilities, credit, education, federally funded programs or activities, marriage equality, and employment in the armed forces, among others. “Seeking full equality is not just a legislative agenda, but is the antidote to the vast harm LGBT Americans endure under discrimination, which causes children to commit suicide, and keeps 53 percent of LGBT workers in the closet, living in daily fear,” said Todd Fernandez, campaign manager for The Equality Pledge Network, which is spearheading the campaign effort. A lawyer and human rights activist, Fernandez is based in New York City. He also serves as executive director and board chairman of See page 6 >>

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ransgender activist Felicia Elizondo celebrates the renaming of the block at Turk and Taylor streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood after Vicki Marlane, a legendary transgender performer and activist who was a long-time resident in the neighborhood. Marlane, who died in 2011 at the age of 76 due to AIDS-related complications, hosted a popular drag revue show at gay bar Aunt Charlie’s located on the renamed 100 block of Turk. The sign unveiling marked the first time the city had named a street in honor of a transgender person, and the Friday, June 27 ceremony took place at the culmination of the 11th annual Trans March. Rick Gerharter

Under One Roof to close by Seth Hemmelgarn

nder One Roof, the charity retail shop that was founded more than 20 years ago to benefit HIV/AIDS-related nonprofits, will shut down July 31, the nonprofit announced last week after struggling financially for years. In a Friday, June 27 news release, Under One Roof board Chair Tim Smith said, “The decision to close our doors is incredibly difficult and painful. Our goal is to provide 100 percent of our profits to over 10 communitybased AIDS/HIV and LGBT organizations throughout the Bay Area.” Smith pointed to how expensive it has become to rent retail space in the city’s gay neighborhood as a major factor in the board’s decision to cease operations. “Financially maintaining a nonprofit retail space in the Castro where rents have skyrocketed has become unsustainable, and we can no longer achieve our goals,” stated Smith. “Experimenting in other retail locations has proven unsuccessful. The Castro has been our home and is where we have experienced the strongest sales.” Under One Roof, which vacated its space at Crocker Galleria last Monday, June 23, relocated its remaining inventory to 541 Castro Street where it had operated its popup shop last year. It plans to permanently vacate that space at the end of the month. People who’d worked with the store, which was created in the Castro in 1991, have said that after the agency paid for operating expenses, all the money shoppers spent on everything from books to shot glasses went to the store’s community partners. Over the years, the shop has donated over $4 million to local charities. The partner agencies weren’t required to do anything but were asked to promote UOR’s work. However, after the shop moved from a smaller location to 518A Castro Street in 2008, the annual rent went from $85,000 to more than $200,000. A former board member helped with those costs, but the space became a money pit. The agency closed the large Castro location in January 2013 and moved into the Crocker Galleria in the Financial District about three months later. In a generous deal with the landlord, the shop’s rent at the shopping mall was less than 20 percent of sales, according to Smith. In a June 27 interview, Smith, who joined UOR’s board last May, repeatedly refused to disclose many financial details, including the most recent monthly expenses, saying things like, “That’s not our story.” Instead, he emphasized the shop’s hope that people will buy merchandise in the remaining weeks in order to help beneficiaries. The shop hopes to distribute $50,000 to remaining community partners in August or September. Smith said the last check distribu-

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Under One Roof shuttered its Crocker Galleria store in late June as it prepares to cease operations.

tion was in November, when 21 agencies split over $48,000. As of Monday, UOR’s website still listed 21 beneficiaries. But, in an email Monday, Smith said there are now just nine: HIV/AIDS Nightline (part of San Francisco Suicide Prevention); AIDS Housing Alliance/ San Francisco; AIDS Legal Referral Panel; Maitri; Mission Neighborhood Health Center; National AIDS Memorial Grove; New Conservatory Theatre Center; Project Open Hand; and Shanti. As of Tuesday morning, however, 21 beneficiaries were still listed on the nonprofit’s website. The partners who were dropped “were notified in May,” Smith said in his email. “UOR had decided to reduce the number of beneficiaries in order to leverage our limited resources more effectively.” In the phone interview, Smith said the biggest factor in the shop’s closing was “skyrocketing rents.” Officials with the nonprofit have described being located in the Castro as key to the store’s success, but it can’t afford to be in the gay neighborhood. Last June, the shop moved back to the area, setting up a pop-up store at 541 Castro Street, where it remained through December. “We did generate a lot more sales,” said Smith, but the shop wasn’t able to get an affordable long-term lease in the neighborhood, where he said the average monthly rent for the type of space UOR would need is $15,000 to $20,000. The shop returned to 541 Castro late last month, where landlord Les Natali is allowing the nonprofit to stay rent-free “so we can have 100 percent of proceeds go to beneficiaries,” said Smith. In an email to Smith sent Saturday, June 28, which he copied to the Bay Area Reporter, Natali wrote he was “very sorry” to hear about plans to close UOR. “I hope you will have tremendous success this month, and I would like to offer to continue Under One Roof ’s present rent-free use” of the space “for an additional six months if you feel you can continue through the end of the year, or possibly longer,” wrote Natali, who owns several gay bars and the long-shuttered Patio restaurant space in the Castro. “I appreciate the good work Under

One Roof has done for the community for so many years.” In response, Smith thanked Natali for his “generous offer,” but wrote the board “had a thoughtful discussion” and couldn’t accept it. “… [T]he primary reason is that the decision to close on July 31st was made some time ago and there are now many wheels in motion to wind down the organization that can’t be thrown into reverse at this point,” wrote Smith.

‘End of an era’

Mike Smith is the executive director of AIDS Emergency Fund, which has a budget of $2.1 million and provides cash grants to people living with disabling HIV/AIDS so that they can pay rent and other expenses. Smith said the last check the agency received from UOR was for $1,200 in October. “It’s the end of an era,” he said of UOR’s closing. “When they began in 1991, it was a fantastic business idea, it was a fantastic community service, and it raised tremendous amounts of money early, early, early in the epidemic. This closing is a sign that the world has changed. Rents are skyrocketing, staff costs are increased, and fewer and fewer cents on the dollar are making it back to AIDS charities.” He added, “I’m sure it was a hard decision, but I think it was the right one.” Smith said AIDS Emergency Fund is one of the groups that UOR cut as a beneficiary. He declined to comment on why his agency had been dropped. Other beneficiaries approached by the B.A.R. for comment didn’t respond by press time Wednesday. Tim Smith said UOR has three paid employees, all salespeople. According to Smith, who wouldn’t share how much they’re paid, or the shop’s total monthly expenses or sales, all three figures are “very low.” UOR’s most recent tax filing says that total expenses for the fiscal year ending in February 2013 were $461,426, while total revenue was $437,192. Asked how much remains to be paid to vendors, Smith said, “We’re not here to talk about that. We’re talking about how much money we can raise.” However, he said the amount left to pay out is “very little.”t

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ollowing a weeklong brouhaha over the appointment of antigay activist Timothy Busch to lead the Napa Fourth of July parade, Busch has apologized to the LGBT community and will remain as the parade’s grand marshal. Deb Stallings, a Napa lesbian who started an online petition demanding Bush’s ouster, calls it “a better outcome” than if Busch had just been removed without any discussion. “I feel that we have a story with a happy ending,” she said in a phone interview last Thursday, June 26. The Napa Sunrise Rotary, sponsors of the annual parade, selected Busch because his hotel, the Meritage Resort and Spa, is an important part of the town’s economy. Busch lives in Orange County and owns seven other large hotels around the state as a partner in the Pacific Hospitality Group. Stallings said she was dismayed when she read about Busch’s selection on the Napa Valley Patch, a local news website, two weeks ago. “I knew he had given money to Prop 8,” said Stallings, referring

to the 2008 voter-approved ban against same-sex marriage in California that was struck down a year ago June 26 on a technicality by the U.S. Supreme Court. So Stallings, who lives in Napa with her wife and works as director of development for Horizons Foundation, the LGBT grant-making organization based in San Francisco, decided to find out more about him. What she learned was that, in addition to the $10,000 he donated to the Yes on 8 campaign, Busch also had railed against LGBT people in an article on the Catholic World Report in 2011. “So many people, including those of faith,” he told the website, “miss the point that (homosexual) relations are categorically wrong. Throughout history, any civilization that has embraced open homosexuality has failed. Ours will fail, too, if we continue in this direction.” A stalwart supporter of the right-wing element of the Catholic Church, Busch is also the founder of several Catholic think tanks, organizations and private schools. And he heads the Busch Firm, an Irvine legal group that specializes in estate planning, business dealings, religious or-

Timothy Busch

ganizations and private schools. “I felt my neighbors who had chosen him (Busch) did not know about this,” Stallings said. “And after a couple of days it was clear to me that the folks involved in this (the parade organizers) didn’t share these opinions.” According to Stallings, the LGBT community marches openly in the Napa Fourth of July parade and always receives a warm welcome from

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colleagues to direct OFCY to allocate an additional $1.36 million specifically for programs that serve LGBTQ youth. Part of the funding came from an additional $1 million that Kaplan’s office said the city was unaware existed until the councilwoman discovered it had not been earmarked. The new funds were allocated to the Kids First! Oakland Children Fund for the 2013-2014 fiscal year to help cover the cost of the LGBT youth programs. “It’s vital that we stand up for all young people in our community by providing the resources and support they need for success,” stated Kaplan, who is making a second run to be mayor of Oakland this fall. “As Oakland’s first out lesbian to serve on the City Council, I understand the struggle of LGBTQ youth - including disproportionate levels of homelessness and victimization and I want them to know that our community is there for them.” The city agency that administers the fund and its Planning and Oversight Committee were instructed last summer to determine how

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A number of young adults marched with Oakland’s contingent in the San Francisco Pride parade Sunday, June 29.

much money to award to individual programs, after which the city council would sign off on the spending plan. The OFCY renewed funding last July for two agencies that had been receiving grants. Youth UpRising received $146,500 for its Queer and Allies Initiative, and the AIDS Project of the East Bay received $150,000. The AIDS agency subcontracts with the Sexual Minority

of Alameda Alliance Youth Center, known as SMAAC, to run its Save Our LGBTI-Youth program, which trains up to 200 LGBT youth in various life skills. Then in February OFCY issued a request for additional proposals for LGBT youth programs and received

the crowd. “So, I wondered,” she said, “ did anyone call him to see if he still feels that way.” The result, following a flurry of emails between Stallings and parade organizer Doris Gentry, was a written apology from Busch that the Napa Valley Register printed in its opinion pages last week. Busch wrote, “I am honored to be serving with my wife, Steph, as grand marshals for the Fourth of July parade in Napa. While offering thanks, please know how deeply saddened I am for offending anyone due to past statements. As a Christian, I strive to love our neighbors as ourselves - regardless of belief. “I realize I sometimes did not express myself well and that my words are hurtful. For that, I am sorry. Taking a cue from Pope Francis, we need to lead with love, not judgment,” added Busch. “I hope the parade can remind us of our common values of finding strength in diversity as we celebrate one another as a united community.” Stallings said she found out about the apology when she ran into Gentry at a local restaurant. Stallings and her wife were taking her wife’s

93-year-old father out for breakfast. There was a table full of young boys and one of them addressed a woman at the table as “Doris.” Stallings thought it might be Gentry, whom she had never met, so she told the woman who she was and got a big hug in response. “I’ve got great news to tell you,” Gentry said, according to Stallings. Gentry did not respond to requests for comment from the Bay Area Reporter. Then Busch called Stallings to speak with her directly, and she asked him if he would say the same things about LGBT people today as he did in the Catholic Report three years ago. His response was “absolutely not,” she said. “That was all I needed to hear. I don’t know if his heart is changed, but we can’t change someone’s heart,” she said. “I feel like this is one of the hardest things I’ve done,” Stallings said. “People were saying, ‘This isn’t Napa. He doesn’t represent Napa. Why are you making such a big stink about this?’ But, this is not just a gay thing. I would have done the same thing if it had been about Hispanics or African-Americans.”t

funding requests from 10 different East Bay agencies. After reviewing the applications, it selected three to fund. OFCY also recommended renewing the funding for both Youth UpRising and the AIDS Project of the East Bay. The three new programs receiving funding include Health Initiatives For Youth, known as HIFY for short. It will receive $138,258 for its LGBTQIQ Youth Safe Space Initiative. The funding will allow HIFY to expand its drop-in space from one to four days a week and reach an expected 85 LGBTQ youth. La Clinica De La Raza will receive $45,129 for its Juntos program, which will provide 40 Spanishspeaking LGBTQ youth a weekly support group with bicultural and bilingual services. An additional 40 LGBTQ youth will receive peer support through three-part educational workshops offered by the agency. The Destiny Arts Center will receive $53,988 for its Moving in the Movement program. An expected 90 young people ages 14 to 20 will receive youth-led performance art

experiences through the program. “We know kids in Oakland are dealing with so much,” stated Cristy Johnston Limon, the arts center’s executive director. “Together, we can provide powerful tools to address issues of bullying and violence and the day-to-day struggles of being a young person.” In a report to the Oakland City Council, city staff noted that the five combined programs selected by OFCY would provide direct services to an estimated 540 LGBTQ youth ages 14 to 20 in Oakland during the 2014-2015 fiscal year. The total annual cost for the programs is $533,875. Over a three-year grant cycle, the total funding provided for LGBTQ youth services will approximate $1.3 million, noted the city staff report. At its June 17 meeting the Oakland City Council approved the allocation request for the grants covering the 2014-2015 fiscal year, which starts on July 1. The council will need to vote next year on renewing the funding for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.t

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LGBTequality.org, a recently formed group to facilitate the pledge network. In California, attorney Stephen Zollman, formerly of the National Equality March, serves as a state lead for the network. “I would like to say that everyone needs to do this for your youth,” he said in a press statement. “None of our youth should ever feel lesser than. Full federal equality now.”

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During a recent telephone interview, Fernandez spoke about the organizing efforts behind the campaign and the necessity of securing comprehensive civil-rights protections for LGBTs on Capitol Hill. “The whole point of coming up with a much more powerful goal,” he said, is to address the lack of progress in the U.S. Congress to enact legislation “even as simple as ENDA when 90 percent of Americans think we have” employment non-discrimination. “It is a sign of [the LGBT community’s] strategic and political weakness” that ENDA has failed to pass, Fernandez explained. “And so the hope is that with the pledge of support from 245 groups, we

Equality Pledge Network leader Todd Fernandez

come up with a principled goal that gives us equality” at the same time “we speak to our own people with a voice of dignity that will inspire people to take action and build the mass movement.” Fernandez is well aware of the obstacles to full LGBT equality. While ENDA passed the U.S. Senate on November 7, 2013 by a 64-32 vote, marking the first time that legislative body approved federal civil rights legislation banning anti-LGBT employment bias, House

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has said over and over that he would not bring ENDA to a vote, claiming the legislation is unnecessary and would lead to frivolous litigation. And a growing number of national and statewide LGBT organizations are coming out against the proposed ENDA, saying that while it bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the federal law also would allow religious organizations to discriminate against LGBTs even in nonministerial or pastoral capacities. Currently, 21 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have laws barring workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, with 17 states and the District also barring discrimination based on gender identity. A corrective to legislative resistance, Fernandez said, “is building a movement in the states relying on grassroots activists. What we are trying to do is instill in them a sense of entitlement to full LGBT equality.” For her part, Tolson sees the wisdom of a state-by-state approach, much along the lines of marriage equality advocates, who have brought same-sex wedlock to 19 states and the District of Columbia. “Same-sex marriage has had sucSee page 7 >>

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t SF mural created thanks to social media connection by Khaled Sayed

he use of social media has been evolving, and artists have been finding new ways to take advantage of it. Many use it to connect to friends and family, but for some these connections can help promote other ventures. Elliott C. Nathan, 28, a gay artist in San Francisco, found a new way to use social media to connect with another gay artist, Randy Edward Penird, 21, in Florida. The two met online and collaborated on a mural that was recently completed in the Mission district. Nathan and Penird met through the popular photo-sharing site Instagram. They decided to collaborate after following each other’s work because they both used similar hashtags to identify the kind of work they do. “We would never have met had he used a different hashtag, or if he or I posted at a different time of day,” Nathan said. “I feel like meeting people on Instagram isn’t the norm, but it’s fun to follow the interesting paths that present themselves. When we were working on the mural we had our Instagram handles clearly labeled out on our drop cloth. We also Instagrammed the creation process and final product.” The three-panel mural, located at Bartlett and 24th streets, was completed during Pride month in June.

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cess,” she said over the telephone, because the effort “was all about pushing the states to do more.” A state-by-state strategy for LGBT protections “is a good idea,” Tolson added. “It’s the same blue-print that same-sex marriage advocates used.” Given the current GOP control of the House, she said, securing comprehensive protections – even ENDA’s passage – “is probably not going to happen.” Meanwhile, for the remainder of 2014, the Equality Pledge Network’s campaign goals include increasing support up to 500 organizations, establishing state leads in all 50 states, and conducting an equality tracking

Nathan did life drawing and black and white photography in high school and has been doing street art since 2007. “I started doing sticker art in Barcelona, and later progressed to wheatpastes and ephemeral installations and murals,” he said. After putting a portfolio together, Nathan applied to the University of Connecticut’s School of Fine Arts and was accepted. “I followed the path of life drawing and photography while always keeping my own random doodles and weird drawings on the side,” Nathan said. “My second passion has always been business. I was inspired to apply to the University of Connecticut’s School of Business, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in business administration and marketing. I continued to take art classes and vowed that leaving the School of Fine Arts would not stop me from creating art.” Penird is a self-taught street artist from Florida. “I’m constantly working on my craft. I’ve never stopped drawing and it was never a chore for me,” Penird said in an email from Florida, where he returned after the project. “I’m anticipating my move to San Francisco in the next few months to try and get some classes in. I’ve always wanted to go to school for art, and I’m just getting to a point where I can afford it.” After following each other’s work

system to document support among lawmakers.

Highlighting ‘minority stress’ impacts

Another goal is undertaking a public awareness campaign to highlight the societal discrimination and its effect on “minority stress,” which manifests as suicide and mental health disparities, including depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and family rejection, among others. The public awareness campaign draws upon the work of Ilan H. Meyer, Ph.D., a psychiatric epidemiologist, author, professor, and a senior scholar for public policy and sexual orientation law at the Williams Institute of UCLA. Meyer studies public health is-

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on Instagram, Nathan and Penird started a conversation on Facebook, and then met in Connecticut during Thanksgiving. “That was when we actually started considering working together,” Nathan said. Penird drove across country to San Francisco to work with Nathan on the mural. “We both felt our styles would mesh well and had discussed doing a collaborative work. To what capacity we would not realize until Randy decided to make the trip out to San Francisco,” Nathan said. It took both artists a few days to

finish the three garage door panels on the building. “I have done a couple murals in this space since becoming friends with the owner of the building, Ernie Milan, a few years ago,” Nathan said. “When I did the first rendition we agreed that it would be an ever changing wall and that I would return to it every so often to create something fresh.” When they started the project, however, they didn’t have a clear idea what the mural was going to be. “We went to the art store together with the most basic plans of picking out a color palette, with no clue what we were actually going to paint,” Na-

than said. “We ended up choosing red, teal, black and white. When we got to the building we collaged over the panels and hosed them down, scraped off the previous work, and painted it white. Randy drew out a border around the whole piece and we agreed to each go to one side and just start drawing. We then switched sides, then switched back again. We continued doing this until we ended up in the middle.” Penird described the collaboration as “awesome.” “I’ve never had such a good connection,” Penird said. “Also, anyone who walked by threw out some suggestions, and I gladly listened and considered working what I could into the mural. The kids walking by really loved it, it was awesome to see their faces light up as they pointed out their favorite pieces on the mural and tugging on their parent’s pant leg. I’m glad we can generate content that is upbeat and fun, because if you can get both kids and adults to find joy in your art, I feel like you are hitting those spots in the soul that are universally alive from birth till death.” The finished mural can be seen on three garage doors of a building near the corner of Bartlett and 24th streets. Both artists have their Instagram handles on the work and have published images of the painting on the website for their followers to enjoy.t

sues related to minority health, specifically research on stress and illness in minority populations, such as LGBTs, including the relationship of minority status, minority identity, prejudice and discrimination, and mental health outcomes in sexual minorities and the intersection of minority stressors related to sexual orientation, race/ethnicity and gender. Myer has developed a model of “minority stress,” which helps to describe the relationship of social stressors and mental disorders and helps to explain LGBT health disparities. Altogether, Fernandez said, the Equality Pledge Network’s campaign approach relies on two fundamental principles, a human rights

imperative and a public health emergency. “It is the primary duty of the government to protect” its citizens, he said, “from the harms of discrimination. That’s what human rights and civil rights are all about.”

The LGBT community is indeed facing a public health crisis, Fernandez added. “What other minority group has [youth] suicide by its members just because of their belonging to that group?” he asked.t

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Artist Elliott C. Nathan stands in front of a mural in the Mission district that he created with Randy Edward Penird.

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U.S. Supreme Court decisions issued on June 26, 2013 that struck down Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban, and a section of the anti-gay federal Defense of Marriage Act. Chris and Daniel Ellenberger were married last Thursday at San Francisco City Hall and were honeymooning at the parade. Both are in the military: Chris serves in Florida and Daniel is stationed in Arizona. They’ve applied for a transfer so that they can be together full time. “All my sergeants helped me out so we could do this,” said Daniel Ellenberger. “I’m so happy and excited to have the ring.” Together for 48 years, David Young and Donald Bird reiterated that joy. “Equality feels good!” Bird exclaimed. “Marriage wins, nobody loses,” added Young. Among the celebrity grand marshals in the parade this year was Roberta Kaplan, the lawyer who represented Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the landmark United States v. Windsor case that struck down Section 3 of DOMA. Since last June more than a dozen state level bans against same-sex marriage have been struck down by federal judges due to the Windsor decision. In an interview with

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the B.A.R. Sunday while she waited to march in the parade, Kaplan said she is optimistic that same-sex marriage will soon be nationally recognized. “I’m virtually certain that gay marriage will soon be legal in the rest of the states,” said Kaplan, who is married to Rachel Lavine. “So far there are 28 decisions post-Windsor, relying on Windsor, to extend rights to gay people and not a single case went the other way.” It is only a matter of time, she said, before same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. “The gay marriage cases so far are going our way. There are cases pending in the fourth, fifth, and

sixth circuit. Any one of these cases could go to the Supreme Court,” Kaplan said. “There is a stay that has been issued in the tenth circuit in Utah and other states that have passed laws saying gay couples can’t get married. My sense is that there will be a lot of pressure on the Supreme Court to lift that stay or to take that case. And if they take it, it will be the next term, and that would be in September.” At this year’s Pride parade, many California couples were celebrating their recent marriages. Mauricio Perez and Daniel Wilbur, who married last year, marched with a contingent See page 14 >>

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Time for a change on Cathedral Hill T

he symbolism could not have been more striking on Sunday. There, for the first time in 13 years, was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi marching in San Francisco’s Pride parade. One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic politicians, the Democratic lawmaker was one of many who celebrated the one-year anniversary of samesex marriage being legal again in California and married samesex couples’ gaining access to myriad federal rights and benefits that come with saying “I do.” Ten days prior, another of the city’s ranking Catholic leaders took a diametrically opposed stance on the issue of samesex marriage. Salvatore J. Cordileone, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, participated in the so-called “March for Marriage” in Washington, D.C. organized by several anti-gay groups. Against the protests of numerous local leaders, including Pelosi, who had personally written the archbishop asking that he not attend the rally, Cordileone stood side-by-side with members of the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group. In his remarks at the rally outside the U.S. Capitol, which he insisted was not an anti-gay event, Cordileone proclaimed “the truth of a united family based on the union of the children’s father and mother in marriage as the foundational good of society.” Ignoring countless studies showing children of same-sex couples do just as well as, if not better than, their peers raised by heterosexual parents, the archbishop impugned same-sex adoption. “The truth is that every child comes from a mother and a father, and to deliberately deprive a child of knowing and being loved by his or her mother and father is an outright injustice,” declared Cordileone. And he repeated a canard oft promulgated by opponents of marriage equality that they have been harmed or victimized due to their stance. “But even those from whom we suffer retribution - and I know some of you have suffered

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in very serious ways because of your stand for marriage - still, we must love them,” said Cordileone. It is impossible to reconcile Cordileone’s words and actions with Pope Francis’ much heralded comment, “If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?” It is even harder to imagine how Cordileone, who serves as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, can enact new directives from the Vatican calling for church leaders to soften their stance toward LGBT households. As reported last week by Reuters, a working paper released ahead of the October synod of Catholic bishops that will focus on family issues maintained that the Church must find a way to balance its opposition to same-sex marriage with “a respectful, non-judgmental attitude towards people living in such unions.” The 75-page document was guided by responses from ordinary Catholics around the world who were asked about their knowl-

edge and acceptance of the church’s teaching on such hot-button issues as sexuality, homosexuality, contraception, marriage and divorce. As noted by the Associated Press, the document recommends new pastoral guidelines to confront the increasing reality of legal recognition for same-sex unions, stressing that gays must be treated with dignity, respect and spared discrimination. Despite the increasing gap between what the church teaches and beliefs held by society – a majority of Americans, including increasing numbers of Catholics, support same-sex marriage – we are under no delusions that the Vatican will fully come around on the issue of marriage equality anytime soon. We do believe that for the church to articulate a softer stance on same-sex marriage and gay parenthood, it will need to have a new public spokesman. For that reason it is time for a change on Cathedral Hill and within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Pope Francis should therefore replace Cordileone as archbishop in San Francisco, and the U.S. bishops should remove him as chairman of their marriage subcommittee. It is time for less polarizing figures to be installed in both positions.t

Proposed SF minimum wage hike a concern by Terry Asten Bennett

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an Francisco Mayor Ed Lee recently put forth a ballot measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2018. That means a 40 percent increase over four years. This has many of us in the small business community very concerned and frustrated. Concerned because many of us can’t see how we will be able to sustain such a high starting wage. Concerned because we are worried about the unintended consequences, and there will be consequences. Concerned because this is really going to hurt the vitality of the small and interesting businesses that constitute so much of what makes San Francisco special. Frustrated because even though so many of us gave up hours of our lives away from our businesses to give the mayor feedback this spring on the proposal, it feels like we weren’t heard. Frustrated because we asked for safeguards to protect small and micro businesses and got nothing. Frustrated because we asked for the increase to be implemented over a longer period of time and it is being rushed. Frustrated because we work so hard to support our employees and our communities and our city and we are treated like we have unlimited resources. Frustrated because the mayor’s office tells us we are supposed to cover the increase by raising our prices but doesn’t account for Amazon and Google Express and customers checking prices with smartphones. Frustrated because we want to take care of our employees but might not be able to anymore. For Cliff’s Variety, the store in the Castro my

family has owned and operated for nearly eight decades, this increase to the minimum wage will, for the first time ever, turn us into a minimum wage job. And after having run the numbers, without making drastic changes, we won’t be making a profit in less than a year. We don’t want to lay people off, we don’t want to cut our benefits, and we don’t want to raise our prices, but what are we supposed to do? Is this going to change how my employees feel about their job? Are my higher-end employees going to feel cheated because all the resources are being expended on the new hire? I have spent countless sleepless nights trying to process how we will take care of our people, and I don’t have answers. We have always prided ourselves in taking care of our employees. We currently start at $12 an hour. After a probationary period we provide, at our cost, 100 percent health insurance, 50 percent dental insurance, 100 percent long-term disability insurance and 100 percent life insurance, and employees start accruing sick pay and vacation pay. We have a profit-sharing plan that after three years sets up a SEP-IRA for employees so they will have something for retirement. We realize this is a retail job with retail wages, so we do things like give our employees set schedules and sell to them at our cost. We want them to be able to count on a predictable paycheck and have a life outside of work. Our average employee has been with us for 14 years, and I’m sure you can think of a few that have been here much, much longer. How am I supposed to pick and choose

which benefits they no longer are going to receive? Medical insurance goes up astronomically every year, should we only pay a percentage of it, or a flat rate? Well that doesn’t seem right; my average employee is well over 50 years old. Do you have any idea how expensive insurance is for a 50-year-old, a 55-year-old, or a 60-year-old? Vacation pay isn’t mandated; should I cut that? Well that doesn’t seem like a very good idea either. Our employees work really hard and they deserve a break. The reality is we are going to have to work out options and let them choose, because it all just feels so ugly. And if it is this ugly for us, what is it going to do to the other shops in the Castro? It seems inevitable that the voters will pass this ballot measure. So all I can do is ask these same voters to make conscientious choices to shop at small local businesses and increase their local spending by 20 percent. By each and every one of you committing to shop at small local businesses and to increase that local spending by at least 20 percent, then the worst case scenarios can be avoided. But it means you have to change too. If you want the corner store to be there for you, you need to be there for them. If you want all the quirky shops to survive, you have to spend your money there. If you can’t commit to this then you should think really carefully about why you are voting for this proposed ballot measure. t Terry Asten Bennett is the general manager at Cliff’s Variety, which her family has owned and operated for 78 years on Castro Street.

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SF playwright portrays Eleanor Roosevelt’s female lover by Matthew S. Bajko

new one-woman show, written and performed by lesbian San Francisco playwright Terry Baum, portrays the little known romantic relationship between pioneering journalist Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “It is not widely known,” Baum said of the women’s love affair and lifelong friendship. In 1928 Hickok, while working for the Associated Press, was the first female reporter to have her byline appear on the front page of the New York Times. In 1932 the AP assigned Hickok to cover the Roosevelts during his first presidential campaign. Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt became friends first before they were lovers, Baum told the Bay Area Reporter during an interview in her home office in early June. “I think Hick fell in love with Eleanor really quickly. That is how we portray it in the play,” said Baum. “She had to quit the AP because of her relationship with Eleanor.” Hickok spent three years traveling the country and documenting the impact of New Deal projects on the lives of everyday Americans during the Depression. Her job title was chief investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, and her reports were sent directly to President Roosevelt. He in turn would forward on Hickok’s reports to recalcitrant members of Congress. Meanwhile, when not on the road, Hickok lived at the White House and vacationed with Eleanor Roosevelt. “Hick helped her became a media savvy, progressive first lady,” said Baum. “She taught Eleanor how to

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get attention and take advantage of it.” Born in 1893 in rural Wisconsin into desperate poverty, Hickok’s mother died when she was 14 and her father kicked her out of the house. An aunt took her in and helped her complete high school. She would go on to have a successful career writing for a number of papers in the Midwest, but Hickok was filled with self hatred, said Baum. “Hick was a fat bull dyke. She was really an outsider her whole life,” said Baum. Yet, she added, “Hick had a charisma; everyone loved her.” During her lifetime Hickok dated several women but remained devoted to Eleanor Roosevelt. She lived out her final years at Hyde Park near the former first lady and published several books, including a biography of Mrs. Roosevelt. She died in 1968. Later biographers of Eleanor Roosevelt downplayed the evidence of romantic ties between her and Hickok. In 1978 a researcher discovered a

cache of 2,336 letters Roosevelt wrote to Hickok, between 1933 and 1962, the year Roosevelt died. Hickok had willed the letters to the FDR Library. In September last year Baum spent a week at Hyde Park in New York State at the presidential library to research source material for her play. She read only a portion of the first lady’s letters. “Her hand writing is so unbelievably bad,” Baum said. “You have to decipher it yourself.” She had to seek permission from the Roosevelt Estate in order to use several of Eleanor Roosevelt’s later letters in the play. The trustee asked her what she thought about the two women’s relationship, recalled Baum. “I said they were in love,” she said. “It makes her more relevant now that she was willing to take these chances in the 1930s. It makes her more interesting to people now.” Reading descriptions of Hickok in other people’s letters gave Baum a sense for how personable she was. “You realize how Hick thinks of herself is not how she was thought of in the world. She was warm, funny,” said Baum. By writing her play, Baum wanted to bring their life together to greater attention. “It is a story people should be familiar with because, in my opinion, she was the most important woman of the 20th Century,” Baum said of Eleanor Roosevelt. “She was supported and shaped by a lesbian she had a passionate relationship with and was friends with for the rest of their lives.” Directed by Carolyn Myers, HICK: A Love Story features recordings of Roosevelt’s letters to Hickok read by the actress Paula Barish. Baum, who portrays Hickok, first workshopped the play at last year’s National Queer Arts Festival. She excised material from Lorena and Eleanor a Love Story written by See page 16 >>

Club hosts East Bay LGBT local candidates compiled by Matthew S. Bajko

he East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club is hosting a get together next week with a number of out candidates seeking local elected offices in Alameda County. According to the club, there are eight LGBTQ Democrats running in November races this fall who are under consideration for early endorsements from the political group. One of the more high profile candidates is lesbian Oakland AtLarge City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who is making a second bid to be mayor of her hometown. Also on the ballot in Oakland is Abel Guillen, who identifies as two spirit. He is seeking the city’s open District 2 council seat. Currently an elected member of the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees, Guillen had sought an Assembly seat two years ago but came up short. A number of out candidates are running for seats on Berkeley’s City Council. The most high profile is longtime gay City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who is seeking re-election in the recently redrawn District 7. In the contest for the council’s District 8 seat are Lori Droste, who is

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Oakland At-Large City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan shares an embrace with her fiancée, Pamela Rosin, during the San Francisco Pride Parade Sunday, June 29.

raising two kids with her wife and has served on a number of Berkeley commissions, and gay community activist George Beier, who twice ran against Worthington but was redistricted into a new council district this year. Three candidates are seeking seats on countywide boards, including bisexual East Bay Municipal Utility District board member Andy Katz, who is running for re-election to his Ward 4 seat on the board. Katz last year had announced a run for state Assembly

but abandoned his bid earlier this year. Also running for the EBMUD board is Marguerite Young, who is running for the Ward 3 seat. A lesbian and former director of Clean Water Action, Young lives in Oakland with her teenage son. Lastly, Richard Fuentes, a gay Oakland resident, is seeking Guillen’s Area 7 seat on the Peralta community college board. Fuentes, who is opening a new gay bar in downtown Oakland called the Port with his partner Sean Sullivan, ran unsuccessfully for the Oakland school board two years ago. While Stonewall’s candidate event will serve as an early endorsement meeting for club members, members of the public are invited to attend. Candidates will need to secure 60 percent of the membership vote to clinch the early endorsement. The meeting takes place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the South Berkeley Library, 1901 Russell Street (at MLK) in Berkeley. For more information, visit www. EastBayStonewallDemocrats.org.

Bay Area LGBT tech groups visit White House

Three LGBT-focused technology groups based in the Bay Area will take part in a White House forum next week. The White House Office of Public Engagement and Office of Science See page 16 >>

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- disopyramide (Norpace®) - estazolam - ethosuximide (Zarontin®) - flecainide (Tambocor®) - flurazepam - fluticasone (Flovent®, Flonase®, Flovent® Diskus®, Flovent® HFA, Veramyst®) - itraconazole (Sporanox®) - ketoconazole (Nizoral®) - lidocaine (Xylocaine®) - mexiletine - oxcarbazepine (Trileptal®) - perphenazine - phenobarbital (Luminal®) - phenytoin (Dilantin®, Phenytek®) - propafenone (Rythmol®) - quinidine (Neudexta®) - rifabutin (Mycobutin®) - rifapentine (Priftin®) - risperidone (Risperdal®, Risperdal Consta®) - salmeterol (Serevent®) or salmeterol when taken in combination with fluticasone (Advair Diskus®, Advair HFA®) - sildenafil (Viagra®), tadalafil (Cialis®) or vardenafil (Levitra®, Staxyn®), for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED). If you get dizzy or faint (low blood pressure), have vision changes or have an erection that last longer than 4 hours, call your healthcare provider or get medical help right away. - tadalafil (Adcirca®), for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension - telithromycin (Ketek®) - thioridazine - voriconazole (Vfend®) - warfarin (Coumadin®, Jantoven®) - zolpidem (Ambien®, Edlular®, Intermezzo®, Zolpimist®) Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of all your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Do not start any new medicines while you are taking STRIBILD without first talking with your healthcare provider. Keep STRIBILD and all medicines out of reach of children.

- atorvastatin (Lipitor®, Caduet®)

This Brief Summary summarizes the most important information about STRIBILD. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can also ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about STRIBILD that is written for health professionals, or call 1-800-445-3235 or go to www.STRIBILD.com.

- bepridil hydrochloride (Vascor®, Bepadin®)

Issued: October 2013

- Medicines to treat depression, organ transplant rejection, or high blood pressure - amiodarone (Cordarone®, Pacerone®)

- bosentan (Tracleer®) - buspirone - carbamazepine (Carbatrol®, Epitol®, Equetro®, Tegretol®) - clarithromycin (Biaxin®, Prevpac®) - clonazepam (Klonopin®) - clorazepate (Gen-xene®, Tranxene®) - colchicine (Colcrys®) - medicines that contain dexamethasone - diazepam (Valium®) - digoxin (Lanoxin®)

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14 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 3-9, 2014

Pride

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celebrating marriage equality. “It feels great! I never thought in my lifetime we would be able to be married and have a baby,” Perez said. The couple said they also believe that soon marriage equality will be recognized nationally. “It is going to be a battle. We never would have thought of seeing this in 2004, when a lot of people were against same-sex marriage. But now there are a lot more people in support of it,” Perez said. “It is going to be a victory we are going to win. I don’t know how long it will take for the rest of the U.S. to follow our footsteps, but I’m pretty sure it will be soon.”

Local honorees, politicians celebrated Pride

Local dignitaries were out in force in this year’s parade. Openly gay state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) noted with a smile that this years event was “forty-five years from Stonewall,” the gay bar in New York City where a standoff between patrons and police marked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. “We’ve gone from being mentally ill outlaws to the red carpet of San Francisco,” said Leno. Stopping to talk with the B.A.R. and KTVU Channel 2, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee made quite a fashion statement as he sported a pair of rainbow colored sunglasses. “It’s a great Pride march,” he said. “I’m having a wonderful time. San Francisco is shining upon our great diversity. I’m proud to be mayor.” Two of the most popular floats were those of community grand marshal Jewlyes Gutierrez and Netflix’s impressive display for its popu-

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The annual Dyke March makes its way up 16th Street as it heads toward the Castro district Saturday, June 28.

lar lesbian-centric prison drama Orange is the New Black. Holding court on the Netflix float was actress-singer Lea DeLaria. The out lesbian plays Boo on the company’s critically acclaimed series. Gutierrez, a transgender teen from Hercules Middle/High School, made headlines earlier this year when she was charged with battery after defending herself against school bullies who were not also charged in the incident. After a public outcry, a juvenile judge recommended that Gutierrez participate in a restorative justice program rather than face the battery charge and a possible juvenile sentence. She successfully completed the program and the judge dropped the charge May 1. Gutierrez rode in an open-air limo in the parade and was joined by her parents and her attorney Kaylie Simon. “I’m very humbled, honored and grateful,” Gutierrez said to the B.A.R. “It’s overwhelming. Thanks to the community.” Some used the parade as a platform to advance their causes. Community

grand marshal Tommi Avicolli Mecca was surrounded by dozens of housing activists. As they passed by members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who were judging the contingents, Mecca’s marchers collapsed onto the street, performing a “die-in.” Each participant represented a person evicted from his or her San Francisco home. Mecca won this year’s “Fabulous Theme Contingent” award from the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee. KOFY TV’s edited rebroadcast of the parade, shown Sunday night, however cut Mecca’s contingent. “It’s ironic that a TV station broadcasting the Pride parade would cut out footage of an activist contingent doing what those at Stonewall did, protesting injustice,” Mecca told the B.A.R. “In this case the evictions that are displacing so many in our community and throughout the city. Our community’s legacy is one of speaking out against injustice. Is KOFY trying to sanitize our parade and only show which contingents it deems safe to whatever audience it thinks it’s reaching?”

Rick Gerharter

Hunky dancers entertained the crowd from San Francisco Supervisor London Breed’s Great Britain-themed float in the Pride parade.

When reached by phone, KOFY president and general manager Kemp Nichol informed the B.A.R. that cuts had to be made in the Pride parade footage due to time slot allowances and for commercials. “We have never aired the entire parade,” he said. “We are neutral.” For the most part, the parade proceeded without controversy. The crowds cheered as LGBT religious organizations marched side by side with families. Schools and universities were represented. South East Asian and Latino groups danced down the parade route, many of them dressed in their traditional cultural garb. Gay friendly businesses such as Whole

Foods and Safeway displayed their own rainbow colors, while LGBT employee groups from Facebook and Apple signified the tech industry’s growing embrace of the LGBT community. There were also marching bands, disco dancers, cheerleaders, and AIDS organizations. Some of the most thunderous applause was awarded to the contingent for honorary grand marshal Chelsea Manning, the former army intelligence expert who is now serving a 35year prison sentence for releasing sensitive documents regarding the U.S. war in Iraq. Manning, once known as Bradley Manning, came out as transgender shortly after her conviction.t

Violence mars San Francisco Pride weekend by Seth Hemmelgarn

here were at least two anti-gay attacks and several other violent incidents during Pride weekend, although it’s not clear if several of the crimes were directly related to the party and celebration. One of the incidents occurred Saturday night, June 28, during the Pink Saturday street festival in the Castro neighborhood, which was attended by thousands of people and organized by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Sister Maryin A Mann, 43, who asked that his real name not be published, and his husband, Frank Capley-Alfano, 38, said they were

attacked at about 9:30 p.m. near 18th and Castro streets, an intersection packed with people. Mann said the crowd seemed “tense” and as they walked through, they heard the words “cocksucker” and “bitch” coming in their direction. He said a white man with a “long ponytail” was “strutting back and forth gesturing at people.” Mann said he “wanted to try to dispel” some of the “hostility,” and he introduced himself to another man using his sister name. The man said, “I’m not gay. Get the fuck away from me,’” said the sister, who tried to explain the nature of the event to the man. But the man told him, “I said get the fuck away from me.”

Mann said he tried to call police but his phone was knocked out of his hand, and “there were no police” in sight. He then felt blows against his head, jaw, neck, and shoulder. The sister, who was in full garb that night, said that as he was attacked “there were all sorts of people saying things, people rooting them on,” but he didn’t remember what specifically was said. “My veil got knocked over my head,” he said, and he had trouble seeing and hearing what was going on. Capley-Alfano said there had been “about seven to 10 people,” who he described as “young, thug kids” with “the worst look on their faces of disgust” when they were walking through the crowd. He said he “got pulled away” from his husband and “the next thing I know I was on the ground being kicked in the head for quite some time.” He said he was also dragged, punched, and “thrown around.” Capley-Alfano, whose injuries included scabbed knees and pain in his jaw, said the word “faggots” was used before and during the attack. He said, “I remember some people cheering it on,” but there were “a few people saying ‘Stop, stop.’” After the attackers “took off,” he said, a woman “sucker punched me.” When he asked her why, he said she continued hitting him and pulling him around. He got the woman into a headlock. There had been “no police around whatsoever,” said Capley-Alfano, but when police arrived, he said he was detained while the attacker was released. The police indicated to him that they’d asked the woman if she wanted to press charges against him, and she declined, he said. Like Mann, Capley-Alfano could provide only vague descriptions of the others. He said the attack involved a “mixed group” that included one African American man in a green tracksuit, while the rest were “pretty much”

Rick Gerharter

Protesters upset with a prison-themed Pride dance party gathered outside the Armory Saturday night.

light-skinned Hispanic people. Two, who had “the same long ponytail,” appeared to be brothers. Mann and his husband were treated near the scene. The sister said he’s experienced soreness since the incident and his eye has been “a little puffy.” The couple plans to file a complaint with the Office of Citizen Complaints, said Mann. He said the sergeant who’d detained Capley-Alfano had refused to give her name. Captain Dan Perea of Mission police station, which oversees the Castro, “assured me” he and other police officials “were aware of the situation,” said Mann. Perea was on vacation Tuesday, July 1, when the Bay Area Reporter called, and the acting captain wasn’t available for comment. Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman, said officers have “attempted to verify” Capley-Alfano’s statement that police had let the suspect go but there’s “no way to verify that occurred through our Mission command.” Another incident, which police

called a “possible hate crime,” occurred earlier Saturday at 5:33 p.m. at Ninth and Mission streets, as people in the neighborhood headed toward the Pink Saturday celebration. Esparza said in a summary that two women, 27 and 24, were walking south on Ninth when six men approached them. The men punched the victims, and the younger woman “was kicked and punched several times.” Esparza said one suspect “made derogatory comments” to the women, and the suspects fled the scene. In a phone interview, Esparza said the remarks had been anti-gay. The 27-year-old suffered a broSee page 18 >>

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San Francisco resolution supports LGBT El Salvadorians by Heather Cassell

GBT El Salvadorians are set to receive a huge boost from San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors this month. The city’s leaders, at their July 8 meeting, are expected to adopt a resolution calling on the newly elected government of the Central American country to respect and uphold the rights and protections of its LGBT community. Last week openly gay San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, District 9, introduced the resolution to support LGBT Salvadorian rights at the board’s June 24 meeting. Co-sponsoring the resolution are Supervisors John Avalos, District 11, and Scott Wiener, District 8, who is also gay. Salvadorian LGBT community leaders and solidarity workers worked with Campos’ office to craft the resolution. It addresses three key issues the local queer community, in particular the transgender community, are fighting for: non-discrimination and hate crimes laws, investigation of violence against LGBT people, and voting rights. It’s not illegal to be gay in El Salvador, and the government has made advancements with creating a division to address LGBT rights issues and protections in health care for LGBT people and people living with HIV/AIDS. Yet enforcement and violence against LGBT people continue to be an issue. The supervisors’ resolution also comes at a time when there has been a tremendous influx of people escaping Central America, many from El Salvador, due to civil unrest and violence as has been reflected in media reports within recent weeks. President Barack Obama men-

tioned the issue - particularly regarding the estimated 90,000 Central American children fleeing the region - during his address to the nation June 30 about pushing through immigration reform. While the issue of unaccompanied children - primarily from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras - seeking refuge in the U.S. from violence and being recruited into gangs has received mainstream media attention, LGBTs have also been escaping the country, according to advocates. The flood of Central Americans fleeing their homeland due to civil conflict and violence is reminiscent of the mass exodus during the 1980s. That flood of Central Americans led to San Francisco opening its Golden Gates and embracing thousands of asylees and refugees - LGBT included - and launched the city’s sanctuary movement and policy, said Campos and Salvadorian advocates. Today, nearly 50,000 Salvadorian people call the San Francisco Bay Area home, according to Campos. At the same time there’s been a massive migration north to the U.S. and south to Costa Rica, there is also hope in El Salvador, according to Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, executive director of the Central American Resource Center. President Salvador Sanchez Ceren, 69, a former guerilla commander was sworn into office June 1, followed by his newly appointed administration. Ceren is the first former guerilla leader from El Salvador’s long civil war to lead the country after a narrow victory and a runoff election. Among his key platforms in the campaign were championing human rights, making political changes to fight corruption, ending the gang violence in his country, and working closely with the U.S.

Courtesy of Carolyn Goossen

Carolyn Goossen, third from the left in the back row, a legislative aide for San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, traveled with the CARECEN/SHARE Delegation and LGBT community advocates to El Salvador this past January.

“This new government was elected on the promise of promoting civil rights and it seems that, even though they talk about that, they are not doing anything around LGBT rights,” said Campos, who believes it’s important to send a message to El Salvador’s new government. “We can’t talk about civil rights without talking about LGBT rights and doing something about the mistreatment and the abuse and the violence that is happening against members of the LGBT community in this country.”

Bringing LGBT Salvadorian issues home

LGBT Salvadorian issues came to the attention of Campos, 43, who is running for a California state Assembly seat this fall and is originally from Guatemala, earlier this year when San Francisco-based Salvadorian solidarity workers invited him to visit the Central American country. Campos couldn’t attend the trip, but he sent Carolyn Goossen, one of his legislative aides, on the weeklong fact-finding mission to El Salvador

in January. Goossen, a 35-yearold bisexual woman, traveled with members of the Central American Resource Center, ALDES/LGBTI Justice Clinic, SHARE Foundation and representatives from several other San Francisco-based solidarity organizations. The group met with local Salvadorian LGBT community members. The delegates and local LGBT community leaders discussed the top issues the Salvadorian LGBT community, especially the country’s transgender community, faced while observing the country’s elections. Goossen’s memory of the people she met is still vividly fresh as she described the transgender women activists as some of “the bravest women” she’s ever met. She was impressed with their bravery to “not only to be who they were, but to fight for their community,” said Goossen, who noted that people would throw bags of urine and glass at LGBT demonstrators when they took to marching through the streets for their rights. She was also struck by the wom-

en’s stories of being victims of attacks with no follow through by authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators to justice, as well as being discriminated against in employment, health care and housing. They are also not able to vote due to the gender they want to be identified as doesn’t match their legal documents, said Goossen, therefore authorities deny them their right to vote. An estimated 149 LGBT Salvadorians have been reportedly murdered between 1999 and 2013, but there could be many more unreported and uninvestigated murders of queer Salvadorians, according to multiple Salvadorian LGBT organizations and advocates. Yet, “they would continue on and live as who they are,” said Goossen.

Standing in solidarity

Four years of reporting and advocacy and regular delegations to El Salvador appear to have not made an impact on progress for LGBT rights in the country. It’s not due to a lack of government efforts and policies, said Ana Montano, a staff attorney at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, who originally is from El Salvador and heads up the ALDES/LGBTI Justice Clinic. It is because of the deeply religious and machismo culture, she said, that LGBT issues remain very taboo. Montano has been returning to her homeland for the past six years several times a year working with local LGBT community leaders and advocating on behalf of LGBT rights in the country from the states. During a trip to El Salvador at the beginning of June, LGBT activists told her that more members of the community have been leaving the country due to the violence. The Sexual Diversity Directorate, under the Social Inclusion Secretary, hasn’t See page 17 >>

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16 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 3-9, 2014

Man-whores of the World Cup by Roger Brigham

e’ve survived Pride Month and the culminating Pride Weekend, with all of their inspirational documentaries, fabulous floats and casual nudity. With the past few years in sports having brought historic progress in breaking down homophobia, sexism, racism and transphobia, it seems a good time to review just how far we have or have not come in the world of all things jock. Never mind that some wing nut named Ann Coulter blogged recently that the growing American fascination of soccer showed an alarming socialist influence from people whose ancestors committed the sin of not eluding immigration by arriving on the Mayflower. (Blogging, by the way, is a relatively new verb, referring to an activity of verbal diarrhea usually accompanied by a vacuousness of thought.) We begin our contemplation with the biggest sports fest going on at the moment, soccer’s World Cup, aka Luis Suarez’ impromptu buffet lunch. Like the Olympic Games, the World Cup is advertised as a gathering of the world’s most elite athletes on the biggest stage, symbolically unifying the world in peace, acceptance and tolerance for all - in other words, the very things Coulter loathes in modern America. As with the Olympics, this blissful mission is achieved by the governing body awarding the event to the highest bidder with no concern of the cost to be born by the host nation’s citizenry and demanding construction of expensive, highly specialized facilities that will be of little use to the people displaced. Also with no concern as to the host country’s treatment of its minorities as long as it can foot the financial bill. And if there are pesky government rules that get in the way of the commercial interests of one of the event’s sponsors, say, regulations that forbid the sale of alcoholic beverages in stadiums filled with tens of thousands of violently emotional sports fanatics supporting clashing teams because

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and Technology Policy has invited Maven, Trans*H4ck and Lesbians Who Tech to join other entrepreneurs, innovators, and community leaders for an LGBT Innovation Summit on Monday, July 7. The event aims to bring together individuals to tackle major challenges faced by LGBT communities

of the almost inevitable potential for bloodshed, well, those, too, can be whisked away by decree because, you know, gotta be able to sell beer. We are told there is no place in sports for politics - you know, politically-charged things such as same-sex couples in Russia kissing in public, or people protesting the $11 billion spent by the Brazilian government that triggered a troubling growth in inflation - so such protestors are rounded up into isolated gulags of protest, as in Russia; or are arrested en masse in the streets, as in Brazil. This assures that the television commentators do not need to worry their pretty little heads about any social unrest behind the scenes because, well, you know – it’s behind the scenes, not in the camera shot. Of course, sometimes the cameras do pick up an objectionable sight or sound and then the event organizers are quick to step in to make sure nothing will upset the sensibilities of millions of their viewers, hopefully sitting safely far away at home on their couches consuming the sponsors’ products. Before the Winter Olympics were under way this year, for example, a female skier was spotted with her fingernails each painted a different color. She was warned never to do such a politically volatile act again because, you know, parents would then have to explain to their daughters that those multicolored fingernails meant that they would either have to marry other girls or else have sex-change operations. What other reasonable explanations could there possibly be? Thankfully, Brazil experienced few problems with that during this year’s World Cup because that kind of fabulous fashion statement is usually done earlier during Carnival. But those damned furriners who come in to the stadiums and drink too much of the sponsors’ product can occasionally chant things that border on the offensive, because, you know, this global unity thing brings in a lot of furriners, as Coul-

ter has lamented repeatedly. Then organizers must really be ready to respond quickly and decisively.

through new solutions using technology, partnerships, mentorship, media, networks, and creative, market-driven, scalable models. Maven CEO Monica Ann Arrambide, Kortney Ryan Ziegler from Trans*H4ck, and Leanne Pittsford from Lesbians Who Tech are expected to take part in the meeting with Obama Administration officials and national community leaders. The Kapor Center for Social Im-

pact donated funds to Maven and Trans*H4ck in order for tech leaders of color to attend the leadership opportunity at the White House.

Puto foot in one’s mouth

We saw such a demonstration when Mexican fans bombarded opposing goalkeepers with the chant “¡Puto!” during games. Now, puto is one of those funny little four-letter Spanish words that does not translate beautifully. At its literal core it means a male prostitute. It was being shouted at the opposing goalkeepers during World Cup games to suggest they were faggots who were going to be dominated by the macho Mexican players and would be scored upon. It was a metaphoric reference to receiving anal sex, although in fairness to the fans, they were probably too inebriated by the sponsor-sold beverages to be thinking about metaphors of social tolerance, or the message sent to a global community that was supposed to be celebrating inclusion and all of the trappings of this grand commercial, I mean, sporting event. FIFA, the sanctioning body, said it would analyze the usage of the word and take appropriate action; and ESPN, which was televising the games, said it would mute the audience sound if the offensive chant was repeated. Now, FIFA could have made a quick study as to the street usage of the term puto by sending 10 of its representatives into almost any Hispanic neighborhood and had each of them walk up to a man and say simply, “¡Puto!” The responses might not have been articulate, but I think the cumulative data of broken nose cartilage would have given ample anecdotal proof that the term is offensive. But instead, the aptly named Seth Blather and his FIFA colleagues decided that there would be no sanctions, even though slurs against race, gender, or sexual orientation or identity are violations of FIFA code; and that in “this context,” i.e., in a game globally televised to millions of viewers around the world, puto was just an affectionate joshing meant to inspire good sportsmanship. ESPN nodded and did not mute the repetitions when they, of course, recurred.

AIDS foundation getting new testing RV

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation is getting a new RV that will allow it to increase capacity and perform about 1,000 more HIV tests a year, the nonprofit announced as

An Italian parody ad makes fun of Uruguay’s Luis Suarez, who landed in hot water with FIFA for biting an Italian player during a World Cup match.

FIFA did find more offense when a Uruguayan player, smelling garlic and thinking for a moment he was in a trattoria, bit an Italian player in a round-robin game. FIFA suspended him for four months and sent him a thank-you note for giving the fans something to distract them from the tournament’s egregious officiating. At first the puto inaction might seem a setback for tolerance, but perhaps not. Perhaps we should, like FIFA, focus on the “whore” part of puto - that is the enterprising profit aspect, not the “male” part of the slur. Perhaps the Mexican fans were praising the goaltenders, such as the Dutch keeper who held Mexico to one score in its karmic quarterfinal elimination defeat, for their ability to cash in on their athletic talents. Thus, when I say that Blather is the biggest puto of all the putos in FIFA, I am complimenting him on his ability to squeeze so much in the way of cash and concessions out of Brazil and expressing my confidence that FIFA putos will be able to do the same in four years when they hold the Cup in Qatar, a scorchingly hot and homophobic place that will make the past Winter Olympics seem like one big Gay Pride Festival. For precedence to back up their inaction on the word puto, the FIFA putos needed look no further than the putos who own and run the NFL’s Washington R—————ns.

In that case, the ruling putos were able to determine that at the precise moment when its racist, segregationist founder originally decided on the moniker, he wasn’t being racist. Never mind that the term is patently, horrifically offensive: the psychics who currently run the team were able to determine by reading tea leaves that the racist founder wasn’t being racist when he named the team in honor of the practice of violently scalping native people’s heads for bloody trophies. In that context, it was that kind of great thinking that made him the marvelous puto he was. Oh, and you remember all the global pressure that was being brought on Olympic-level sporting bodies last winter not to award future major events to homophobic hosts, and the assurances that keeping a stiff upper lip while we competed in Russia would help soften the government’s stance? Since Sochi, government pressure on businesses to drop LGBT clients have stiffened in Russia and laws to remove children from LGBT parents are still being debated, the international ice hockey championships were held in human rights abuser Belarus, the world fencing championships will be held in Russia this year and next - and FIFA will bring its quadrennial putoact to Russia in 2018. Can hardly wait to see what Coulter blogs about that!t

part of a National HIV Testing Day event Friday, June 27, at the Magnet health center for gay and bisexual men in the city’s Castro district. James Loduca, the AIDS foundation’s vice president for philanthropy and public affairs, said the recreational vehicle will help the group reach out through venue-based testing. It will travel to places like The Crib, a regular South of Market area party that’s “very popular with young people,” said Loduca. The new vehicle is “being configured right now,” he said. The plan is for it to “come online by the end of the year.” Once it’s ready, the RV will replace the current mobile unit,

which is more than 12 years old. The new unit, which will have at least one additional counseling room, will also allow the AIDS foundation to screen for other sexually-transmitted infections, which staff hadn’t been able to do with the old vehicle. Loduca said the cost is just over $200,000. The corporations Chevron and Gilead Sciences provided a total of $175,000. The AIDS foundation raised the balance privately. Also Friday, the nonprofit announced that its board would match donations made by July 30 up to $30,000. See page 17 >>

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Cheering up child burn survivors

heer San Francisco, the philanthropic cheerleading team, presented $10,000 from its Cheer for Life Foundation to the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation at an event June 27. The funds will be used to send approximately 15 child burn survivors ages 5 to 16 to the foundation’s weeklong residential

Champ Camp. Pictured from left are Anthony Alston and Darwin Choy of Cheer SF, Samantha Zepeda with the burn foundation, Chris Saul of Cheer SF, the burn foundation’s Daniel Chacon, and Cheer SF members Ryan Allen, Steve Burke, and Michelle de la Paz.

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Pat Bond, a lesbian monologist and close friend of Baum’s, to incorporate into the script. “Pat was in love with Eleanor Roosevelt since she was 5 years old,” Baum said. The play is a passion project that Baum has been preparing for her entire life. A bookcase in her office includes a shelf brimming with a dozen titles focused on Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt. “I feel I have been called to do this,” said Baum. “I want people to know more about Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a gutsy, adventurous person who went after her own personal development and pleasure.

That has been concealed. “I want people to also know about Hickok. Her life is an amazing story,” added Baum. An anonymous patron is covering the production costs in order for the shows to be free of charge to attendees. “I want all the old lesbians in the Bay Area to come and see this,” said Baum. The play, a co-production of The Crackpot Crones and Theatre Rhinoceros, will be performed Thursdays through Sundays starting July 10 for three weekends at the Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson Street in San Francisco. To reserve tickets visit http:// www.brow npaper t ickets.com/ event/602947.t

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LGBTs plan Merced community center by Seth Hemmelgarn

GBTs in the Central Valley are working to establish a community center in Merced. Gay Central Valley, which already operates a center in Fresno, is working with the LGBT group Merced Full Spectrum to open a space. The California Endowment is granting $20,000. Chris Jarvis, Gay Central Valley’s board president, said that most of that money would go toward programming in Merced, which has about 81,000 residents. The funding is “not going to be spent in Fresno at all,” said Jarvis. California Endowment spokesman Jeff Okey said the grant is meant “to support the health, safety, and success” of LGBT Merced high school students. The one-year grant was made to Gay Central Valley, of which Merced Full Spectrum is listed as a project. The funding started June 1 and ends May 31, 2015. Gay Central Valley’s 2012 tax filing listed total expenses as $9,214. Merced Full Spectrum “came to us a couple years ago,” wanting “to open a community center,” said Jar-

vis, who’s gay. Gay Central Valley brought on the Merced group as a division. Jarvis said he and others have been “constantly fundraising.” Marissa Chavez, 24, who identifies as lesbian and queer, is the president of Merced Full Spectrum. “We want to focus on youth services” at the center, said Chavez. Support groups and Parents, Friends, and Family of Lesbians and Gays meetings are among the activities she imagines. The space would be open “to any organization that wants to have meetings,” she said. “There’s a huge need” for a center in Merced, Chavez said. “The LGBT population is growing really, really fast.” Merced would be the fourth city in the state’s Central Valley region to have an LGBT community center, according to CenterLink, the national association for LGBT centers. It lists affiliate centers in Bakersfield, Chico, and Sacramento. An LGBT center had operated for several years in Modesto, but it shuttered it doors several years ago. Merced Full Spectrum has “a space in mind,” said Chavez, “but

and human rights throughout the country and the world,” said Campos about introducing the resolution.

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been as effective as hoped for due to lack of funding and education about LGBT issues, she said. A shadow report by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission to the United Nations in partnership with Salvadorian LGBT rights organizations in 2010 - followed by reports conducted by the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2012 and the Solicitors’ International Human Rights Group in 2013 - all describe similar situations brought to Campos’ attention. The Salvadorian LGBT activists were equally inspired to learn about Campos and to know he was standing up in solidarity for them, said Goossen. The stories Goossen brought back prompted Campos to champion the resolution with the assistance of Salvadorian LGBT activists and San Francisco-based Salvadorian advocates. “It was really just disconcerting for me to hear [discrimination and violence against TGBTs was still happening in [that] country,” said Campos about discussing what Goossen experienced and witnessed during the trip. The resolution continues San Francisco’s tradition of standing up for human and LGBT rights at home and around the world. “It’s important given the connections to that country to send a message to that government that the rights of LGBT people need to be protected,” continued Campos, pointing out that it’s consistent with San Francisco’s tradition of standing up for civil and human rights locally, nationally and globally. “It’s really about the city of San Francisco continuing to play a leadership role in promoting LGBT rights

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The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company is celebrating Half Moon Bay Pride with its second annual, family-friendly drag show taking place this year on Saturday, July 12. Held in the seaside eatery’s heated, dog-friendly Mavericks

ily trafficked streets in the city” and accessible by bus routes is what the organization has in mind, she said. Chavez said her group would partner with another organization to split the space. She wasn’t sure how much the rent would be, and she didn’t know exactly how much money Merced Full Spectrum has. “Right now we just have the funds from a couple of fundraisers and what we’re getting from the grant,” said Chavez. She’s hopeful the center will be open in a couple months, “but there is no guarantee on that.” Zoyer Zyndel, 27, is board chair of Fresno’s Trans-E-Motion, which Zyndel said is “a group that endeavors to improve the lives of transgender people through education, outreach, advocacy, and support.” Zyndel expressed enthusiasm for the community center in Merced, which is about 58 miles north of Fresno. He said most of his organization’s networking in the area has been south of Fresno.

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Gay Central Valley board President Chris Jarvis

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“We do want to work more with the North Valley,” he said. For one thing, it would help to have a place to hold meetings in the area. Zyndel identifies as “pansexual female to male transsexual with gender-fluid tendencies.”

In other news

In other Central Valley news, California State University, Frenso’s LGBT-plus student organization, United Student Pride, hosted its first-ever graduates’ recognition ceremony May 16. The event included about 20 graduates, as well as faculty, staff, and others. Peter Robertson, 51, a founding member of United Student Pride who is now director of alumni marketing and engagement for the Fresno State Alumni Association, spoke at the ceremony. In an interview, Robertson, who’s gay, said the event “celebrates the campus’s diversity, but it also honors and respects the adversity that we’ve overcome as a community.”t

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Campos, Goossen and other advocates are hopeful that the new Salvadorian government will listen due to Ceren’s history of advocating for human rights, and the policies and administration currently in place protecting LGBT Salvadorians. It appears it will. Goossen told the Bay Area Reporter that after the B.A.R. called the ConsulateGeneral of El Salvador in San Francisco, Campos’ office received a call. Consulate officials told Goossen that once the resolution passes they will forward it onto the appropriate heads of departments and state. A representative of the Consulate-General of El Salvador forwarded the B.A.R.’s questions to representatives in El Salvador, but a response for comment wasn’t received by press time. Campos’ office plans to continue putting pressure on El Salvador’s new government through solidarity meetings and raising LGBT issues on an ongoing basis, Goossen said. “The new government is addressing a large number of issues,” said Goossen, well aware of the fact that since the country’s LGBT community is small, its issues could easily get lost in the fray of larger issues. “This is something that we as advocates and members of the queer community need to put pressure on them so that this becomes a priority.” To contact the El Salvador Consulate, write to 507 Polk St #280, San Francisco, CA 94102; call 415-7718524, or email info@elsalvadorsf. com.t Got international LGBT news tips? Call or send them to Heather Cassell at 00+1-415-2213541, Skype: heather.cassell, or oitwnews@gmail.com.

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was San Francisco resident James M. Humes, a longtime gay aide to Brown whom the governor named to the appellate court in 2012. On the same day Brown named Stewart as his pick to fill the vacant court seat, he also announced the appointment of Humes, 54, as the presiding justice of the First District Court of Appeal’s Division One. He would fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice James J. Marchiano. Humes will also need to be confirmed by the appointments commission, which consists of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and First District Court of Appeal Senior Presiding Justice J. Anthony Kline. Stewart, 57, of San Francisco, has served as chief deputy city attorney at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office since 2002. In that role she led the office’s successful litigation through the state court system to win marriage rights for same-sex couples in 2008. After voters reversed that decision at the ballot box that fall, Stewart represented the city in the federal lawsuit against the anti-gay ballot measure, known as Proposition 8. On a technicality the U.S. Supreme Court in June last year upheld lower court rulings that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, paving the way for same-sex nuptials to resume

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ken left wrist and the other woman had an abrasion on her head. They were treated at San Francisco General Hospital. The volunteer group Castro Community on Patrol encouraged witnesses to the incident involving Mann and his husband to contact Mission police station at (415) 5585400. The station’s email address is sfpdmissionstation@sfgov.org.

Kink party protest turns ugly

Also Saturday night, a prisonthemed party drew protesters to porn company Kink.com’s Armory building at 1800 Mission Street. The protesters felt the party glorified being imprisoned amid high rates of incarceration within minority communities. Kink.com spokesman Michael Stabile said several people threw rotten fruits and vegetables at security guards and people entering the party. Among other problems, one security guard was punched twice in the stomach, said Stabile, who didn’t witness the incidents. People with Kink called 911. According to Esparza, three people were arrested and three others were cited. Erin McElroy wrote on 48Hills. com that “As far as I saw, the protest was peaceful, and no one was hurt,” but “Several protesters were clubbed and beaten to the ground.” In a news release after the incident, the group Gay Shame said that Kink had “ordered a brutal police attack against trans and queer activists, many of whom are people of color.” The group urged people to call the District Attorney’s office and demand that charges against the three who’d been arrested be dropped. DA spokesman Alex Bastian said Tuesday that he didn’t know how many people had called, but formal charges against the three people who’d been arrested wouldn’t be filed “pending further investigation.”

Market Street shootings

This weekend’s incidents also included shootings that occurred fairly close to the Pride festival area but after the party had concluded each day. The first incident occurred at 7:08

in the Golden State. Last fall it was revealed that Stewart had applied with Brown’s judicial secretary to be considered for any vacancy that occurred on the First District Court of Appeal, which is based in San Francisco and is located kitty-corner to San Francisco City Hall in the city’s Civic Center area. She received the call from the governor’s office at 2:30 p.m. last Friday, June 27 at the start of the city’s annual LGBT Pride weekend. “I am really excited,” Stewart told the Bay Area Reporter in a brief phone interview Monday, June 30 from Massachusetts where she was helping her daughter move. “It is bittersweet as well because my time with the city has just been amazing.” Hired in 2002 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera to help oversee his office’s litigation, Stewart had been a director at Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk and Rabkin PC, which she first joined as an associate in 1982. “Dennis is just wonderful to work with,” she said. “There are so many brilliant and lovely people in the office I have gotten to work with.” In a statement Herrera praised Stewart and noted the historic nature of her appointment to the appellate bench. “Terry Stewart was my very first hire after I was elected city attorney, and it has been an extraordinary honor to have someone with her intelligence, dedication and passionate commitment to justice serve as my chief deputy for more than a dozen

years,” stated Herrera. “I’d be lying if I didn’t concede a degree of personal disappointment in knowing that she won’t be standing by my side in the City Attorney’s Office anymore. But I am incredibly proud of Terry for all she has accomplished in her career, for her appointment to the California Court of Appeal today, and for shattering one more historic barrier as California’s first lesbian-identified appellate court justice.” Noting that “on a weekend in which San Francisco celebrates LGBT equality,” Herrera stated “Terry Stewart’s historic appointment is still more cause to celebrate - not just for the LGBT community, but for all Californians who’ll be so ably served by her remarkable gifts on the judiciary.” Stewart graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UC Berkeley’s School of Law. She married her wife, attorney Carole Scagnetti, in August of 2008 at a City Hall ceremony prior to the passage of Prop 8 that November. Stewart and Humes, both Democrats, would earn $207,463 in their judicial positions. The appointments commission will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 17 to consider Humes and at 11 a.m. that morning to consider Stewart. It is highly unlikely that the pair will not be confirmed to their respective seats on the bench. “I just am lucky and honored to be able to have yet another great adventure in the law,” said Stewart.t

the city’s LGBT Pride Celebration Committee in San Francisco Superior Court, claiming organizers neglected to provide adequate security. The Pride Committee’s response was filed Thursday, June 26. Among other defenses included in the court filing, the organization claims Gardner had failed “to use diligent care.” The documents also say the shooting “should have been prevented” by the city, “who had security responsibilities for the patrons of the event where the incident occurred.” Gabriel Zitrin, a spokesman for the City Attorney’s office, declined to comment. Pete Thoshinsky Police Lieutenant Toney Attendees of Pink Saturday in the Chaplin, who was superCastro had their bags checked and metal vising a platoon at Pride detectors passed over them prior to entry. Saturday, said, “The staffing is a whole lot better than last year.” With three times p.m. Saturday at Mason and Market the number of officers present, streets, according to police. A sus“We have it staffed pretty nicely for pect, described only as a black man once,” said Chaplin. in his 20s, shot a 19-year-old man in the hip. Car crashes into Cliff’s Then, at 7:29 p.m. Sunday, June At the very end of the weekend, a 29 at Golden Gate Avenue and car crashed into the front of Cliff ’s Market, a 22-year-old woman was Variety at 479 Castro Street. shot in the wrist near the Warfield “Nothing says Monday like that Theatre at 982 Market, said police. 4:30 a.m. phone call that a Mercedes Arriving officers took a boy, 16, and has parked in the front window of two men, 19 and 20, into custody. the annex!” Terry Asten Bennett, Both victims were taken to San whose family owns Cliff ’s, wrote in Francisco General Hospital with a June 30 Facebook post. non-life-threatening injuries. Esparza said, “There was some Suspects Robert Smith and blood left behind” but the driver Kawme Williams were expected to be fled and nobody had been arrested arraigned Wednesday afternoon on as of Tuesday. felony charges of attempted murder, In a Facebook exchange with the assault with a firearm, and negligent B.A.R., Bennett said, “The front discharge of a firearm, among other windows were pushed about three counts. It wasn’t clear whether they inches back,” and the “entire winwere being charged in connection dow structure has to be rebuilt,” with both of Sunday’s incidents. Bay among other repairs. City News reported that Smith is 20 On her page, she said, “It is a mirand from Hayward, and Williams is acle that no one was asleep in our 18 and from Oakland. doorway.” In an email Tuesday, Esparza said People with information in any of that, over the weekend, there had the weekend incidents may call the been 70 public intoxication arrests, anonymous tip line at (415) 57515 felony arrests, 11 misdemeanor 4444 or text a tip to 847411 and type arrests, and three guns seized. SFPD, then the message.t Concerns about security at Pride were highlighted in May when Pete Thoshinsky contributed to Trevor Gardner, who was shot at last this report. year’s festival, filed a lawsuit against

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Maritime madness by Philip Campbell

he San Francisco Symphony closed the 2013-14 season recently with a belated three-week mini-festival honoring the centenary of gay British composer Benjamin Britten’s birth. Better late than never, especially when the fete culminated in beautifully realized semi-staged performances of Britten’s masterpiece opera Peter Grimes. In a surely coincidental but appropriate bit of timing, the SFS production of the work, called “a powerful allegory of homosexual oppression” by the late musicologist Philip Brett, happened during Pride Week. The original 1945 London premiere of Grimes featured Britten’s life-long mate and muse Peter Pears in the title role. The legendary couple was as “out” as realistically possible, considering an attitude of “don’t ask, don’t tell” was just about as liberal as the law allowed. Remember what the British court and public opinion had done to Oscar Wilde 50 years before. See page 22 >>

Tenor Stuart Skelton (right) in the semistaged production of Peter Grimes at the San Francisco Symphony. Stefan Cohen

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“Wood panel for collage show” (2014), acrylic and ink and sari cloth silk with gold-thread embroidery by Rina Banerjee.

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ummer has officially arrived, and that means leisure time to check out what’s new, as well as to catch exhibitions you may have missed before they disappear. The clock is ticking on two extraordinary, not-to-be missed gems at the Legion of Honor: Matisse from SFMOMA, departing the premises Sept. 7; and the fabulous Intimate Impressionism, a collection of divine, small-scaled paintings from the National Gallery of Art. This cavalcade of French art, one of the best shows of the year so far, leaves town Aug. 3. See page 23 >>

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Putting the LGBT back in LGBT Pride by Roberto Friedman

ow that Pride Week 2014 is over, a time for a little reflection: Why don’t we go back to calling it Gay Pride Week? Or LGBT Pride Week? What does it really mean when the TV, the webcast, and the media all call it the Pride Parade, and never say the word gay? What does it really mean when you wish someone, “Happy Pride!?” So we’re going to tell you about our gay Pride weekend, and we’re going to include the adjective gay just as often as we can. It started last Friday night at our home away from gay home, Davies Symphony Hall, which is in fact less than a block away from our home. We were there for the San Francisco Symphony’s semi-staged production of gay composer Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece opera, Peter Grimes, with the home band led by gay maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. Look for gay music writer Philip Campbell’s review in this week’s gay issue.

Peter Grimes

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Parliament’s Sexual Offences Act was not enacted until two more decades had passed after the opening of the composer’s pivotal work. It made his (and his lover’s) international reputation. Of course, the importance of Peter Grimes, like any other great work of art, is in the depth and complexity of its meaning. There is no need to be literal about the anti-hero’s sexuality, especially when his brutish and anti-social behavior doesn’t exactly shout good mental health. There are many possible reasons

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Even in the world of opera, homophobia raises its ugly head. Wrote

Debbie Cuthbertson in The Sydney Morning Herald, “Opera Australia is facing pressure to sack a Georgian opera singer due to perform with the company next month over comments in which she compared gay and lesbian people to faecal [sic] matter. The soprano, Tamar Iveri, had been rehearsing with Opera

Australia in Sydney for several weeks before a performance in Opera Australia’s Otello, in Sydney, in July and August.” OT is happy to say she has now been released from her contract. “Iveri’s comments surfaced after she posted a letter on Facebook in May last year to Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili. Her letter

followed a protest in the Georgian city of Tbilisi by gay activists on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. During the protest, activists were assaulted – some beaten severely – by Orthodox Christian demonstrators. The violence was condemned by Margvelashvili, which prompted Iveri’s letter to the president. In the letter, Iveri pleads with Margvelashvili to ‘stop vigorous attempts to bring West’s fecal masses in the mentality of the people by means of propaganda. Do not try to wrap this mass in beautiful packages, pour Chanel perfume on it and present it to people as if it was something of medical, recreational qualities,’ she wrote. “‘No matter how unhappy the friendly West might become, fortunately, the Georgian people are well aware of what fruits, offered by the West in their menu, to eat and what to discard. Just like my small dog guesses it.’” Hey Tamar, our little dog can sniff out ugly, stinking bigotry, and right now he’s barking his gay head off. Forget ever performing in gay San Francisco.t

for his loneliness and self-imposed exile. Foremost among them is the cruel gossip and ignorance of the denizens of the borough where he lives as a hermit fisherman. The climate is toxic enough for an already troubled soul, but it is worsened by Grimes’ refusal to learn from his own mistakes. The Prologue of the opera introduces him facing charges after losing his second apprentice boy (both from the workhouse) to death under suspicious circumstances. Some in the borough refuse to convict Grimes without more proof, and Ellen Orford, the schoolmistress, convinced the deaths were acciden-

tal, rushes to help in supervising the procurement of a third child. She wants to help him out of love as much as to secure the safety of the new boy. It is a recipe for disaster, and the following three acts show us the complete disintegration of Grimes amid the growing hostility of his neighbors and his own inability to change. The scenes of child abuse and violence towards women hardly make Grimes a sympathetic character, but we do understand the horribly claustrophobic atmosphere that has made his problems stagger out of control. Tenor Stuart Skelton as Grimes

in the SFS production is obviously going towards a bad end from the get-go. His noticeable psychological tics immediately tell us he has the character’s back-story in place, but also telegraph prematurely where the interpretation is heading. Ultimately, Skelton’s bearish and uncouth demeanor, tempered by moments of great lyrical softness and wonderment, proves convincing. I have seen others stress one aspect of Grimes’ temperament over another, but Skelton’s rather scary reading of the role ends in an almost childlike submission to the forces of nature and circumstance, and it is deeply moving. We feel as sorry for Grimes as is humanly possible. Despite some hoarseness and vocal strain, Stuart Skelton’s portrayal will linger in memory for a long time to come. The other singers in the production showed some real luxury casting by the SFS. Soprano Elza van den Heever was in superb voice as a youngish and very sympathetic Ellen Orford. She, too, offered fresh insight to a part that is subtly complicated. Baritone Alan Opie made a believable and impressive Balstrode, displaying a firm and pleasing voice as the closest friend Grimes could possibly allow. Ann Murray was a delightfully warm Auntie, publican to the borough and caring relative to her two nubile “nieces.” An interesting aside: Murray was married to the late Philip Langridge, an acclaimed interpreter of Peter Grimes in his own day, who was noted for playing him

in the more introspective and poetic mold originally cast by Peter Pears. Others in the large cast – Kim Begley, John Relyea, Richard Cox and Nancy Maultsby – filled the stage with detailed and well-sung characterizations. They were the borough folk to a person, but they were more than a little likeable, if the truth be told. Eugene Brancoveanu as the pharmacist Ned Keene was especially affable, and his gleaming baritone filled Davies Symphony Hall. It was left to the SFS Chorus (Ragnar Bohlin, director) to give us a requisite sense of repressive menace and impending doom. Costumed simply and appropriately by the excellent stage director James Darrah, the choristers could easily transition across the street to the War Memorial Opera House. Their credible contribution to the performance was greatly responsible for the shattering impact of the final moments. Of course, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas was center stage to make sure the musical values were always to the fore, and I can’t remember ever hearing a more purely beautiful and evocative reading of the score’s famous Sea Interludes. Peter Grimes is as much about the massive forces of nature as it is about the human condition. Britten’s music is moody, pictorial, moving and exciting. MTT caught every nuance. It was a long evening, but truly satisfying as both a tribute to a genius composer and an exploration of a great and complex opera.t

Then Saturday night you could have found us at the opening night for gay theatre master Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at SF Playhouse. Look for gay theatre writer Richard Dodds’ review in this week’s gay issue. Sunday night, after a full day of gay Pride activities on gay Christmas itself, we were ensconced in that gay cathedral the Castro Theatre for the closing-night attraction of the gay Frameline film festival, gay German director Axel Ranisch’s gay film, I Feel Like Disco. The gay afterparty transpired at Temple Nightclub downtown, where we danced with our gay pal Pepi, and schmoozed with other gays and lesbians we know and love, gaily. Whew! That’s a lot of gay to pack into one gay Pride weekend! Excuse us, we need a gay cigarette – the kind with no gay filter!

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SF Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and tenor Stuart Skelton as Peter Grimes in the semi-staged production of Peter Grimes at the San Francisco Symphony (James Darrah, director; Adam Larsen, projection designer).

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Fairy-tale consequences by Richard Dodds

tories don’t really end. They just stop. And wherever that stop is placed informs all that came before it. Immediate situations may have been wrapped up when Into the Woods stops, but the musical has already shown us not to count on any of the usual notions of finality. In a world where “people may leave you halfway through the wood,” one’s journey is always, paradoxically, utterly singular and totally dependent. In the years since the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical opened on Broadway in 1987, its messages seem even deeper as ephemeral allegiances have moved so clearly into a global setting. The fairy-tale-based Into the Woods goes to dark places, and delves into existential issues, but is never far away from a comic turn, sardonic comment, or playful interlude. While not undercutting the serious side, San Francisco Playhouse’s production makes sure that laughter holds a big part of the equation. And while there are a few staging issues that can diminish impact, Stephen Sondheim’s score of complex melodies and even more complex lyrics can be savored thanks to accomplished musical accompaniment from music director

Dave Dobrusky and a cast that not only has conquered the lyrics, but also knows how to land both their humor and pathos. For his libretto, Lapine has created his own fairy-tale world that mashes up familiar stories with a few of his own invention. The first act gives us, more or less, what we expect in a fairy tale, with princes rescuing damsels, curses being lifted, and a boy named Jack entering the land of giants. The second act is all about the law of consequences, as happiness proves elusive, allies realign, and valor is in the eye of the beholder. Director Susi Damilano has brought original touches to her production, introducing prop and costume anachronisms that go just far enough, and giving the narrator a mute boy companion to witness and react to the proceedings. Nina Ball’s papery-looking unit set of gnarly trees works just fine when the action is at stage level, but when the director uses the upper levels, focus can grow soft, especially when Rapunzel’s old tree-house is repurposed to frame some of Sondheim’s most poignant songs. There is an inviting, airy individuality to the performances, which are cast-wide commendable and often much more than that. Note should be made of Corinne Proc-

tor’s snarky Little Red Ridinghood, the honey-voiced Keith Pinto as the baker, the comically infused expressions of El Beh as his snappish wife, Jeffrey Brian Adams and Ryan McCrary as the vainglorious princes, Monique Hafen as a somewhat clumsy Cinderella, Noelani Neal who brings unsettling madness to Rapunzel, Safiya Fredericks as the commanding witch, Tim Homsley as the charmingly naive Jack, and Louis Parnell as the dapper narrator. The whole cast handles well Kimberly Richards’ choreography that brings a tongue-in-cheek to some of the steps. Into the Woods is a long show, which doesn’t mean it would benefit by being cut. Sondheim and Lapine have a complicated story to tell, and their skills never flag. Nor does the story’s power of involvement. When the creators stop the story of the sadder-but-wiser survivors, there is a hint of a better world to come, while still, as the baker sings, “all the wondering what even worse is still in store.” The end. But not really.t Into the Woods will run at SF Playhouse through Sept. 6. Tickets are $20-$120. Call 677-9596 or go to sfplayhouse.org.

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A prince (Jeffrey Brian Adams) seduces the baker’s wife (El Beh) as both search for a marauding giant in Into the Woods, now at SF Playhouse.

Altering theatre by Erin Blackwell

hen I reach Jeanette Harrison by phone, she’s on her way to talk to someone about a job. That’s because her real job, as co-founder and executive director of AlterTheater in San Rafael, doesn’t pay a living wage. That’s because there’s no money for arts in this country. Nonetheless, Alter is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary with its 15th world premiere. The Fellowship, by local scribe Ignacio Zulueta, is the fruit of Alter’s in-house residency program, AlterLab. How do they do it? I’m not sure it can be explained how people without money can work overtime to produce works of beauty and meaning often ignored or overlooked by their fellow humans, for whom they’re creating these marvels of imagination and psychic daring. The kneejerk explanation is, They’re crazy! Well, then, thank the sprites for crazy people, because without them there’d be nothing to write about in the B.A.R. arts section, no subjective, irrational, nonquantifiable models of humanity to bounce our own individual experiences off. I take that back. There is some funding for theater. Once Manilaborn Zulueta was welcomed into AlterLab (an aesthetic incubator favoring process over product), the

Summer galleries

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If you’ve been dreaming of Paris in the 1920s, William Odiorne’s Paris at the Robert Tat Gallery may be just the ticket. It features a dozen vintage prints by a little-known American photographer overlooked by all save for a small group of aficionados. Odiorne, who landed in Paris in 1924, smack in the middle of the moveable feast, did receive a measure of recognition for his impressionistic, pictorial portfolios of the City of Light, images strikingly reminiscent of Eugene Atget’s gauzy, soft-focus Parisian street scenes. Odiorne himself maintained a stubborn throwback to the 19th century with a nostalgic yearning for Atget’s Paris, even as modernism

Horizons Foundation stepped up to fund the exploration of the play’s transgender character. Starting life as a satiric, stereotype-subverting 10-minute play for PlayGround in Berkeley, Fellowship “has evolved into something much more honest, a still very funny but authentic” fulllength. Along the way, the Marin Community Foundation took out its checkbook. A big round of applause for people who give money to artists. Especially queer artists. After several workshops over three years involving dramaturg Scott Hornstein and director Hugo Carajal, Fellowship tells the story of “a young man coming out in a small town who feels himself turning invisible. This should be a story that doesn’t need to be told,” says Harrison. “We have marriage equality, but some of our kids can’t express who they are.” Joining cast members Federico Andrade, Robert Ernst, Nick Garcia, Jack Nicolaus, Carla Pauli, and Kyle Stoner is MTF SaBah Leilee, a recent UC Berkeley grad who was born and raised in Morocco. “Even though we’re not an LGBT organization the way most people define it, [diversity] has always been the core of our work. We’ve produced a number of coming-out stories. We’re really about bringing everyone together,” says Harrison. was overtaking the medium. Magnetized by its beauty, history and romance, he photographed the city as if it were an unattainable object of desire, whether shooting the towers of Notre Dame hovering above the river, the Place de la Concorde Fountain, artists’ stalls festooned with prints, a black car approaching the majestic Arc du Triomphe, the sensual arch of a centuries-old stone bridge framing a boat making its way down the Seine, or alleyways lit by street lamp. It’s enough to make you want to jump on a plane. Through Aug. 23. If reincarnated, I’d like to come back as a collage artist, but the creative activity we once engaged in as children is a different matter entirely in masterful hands, as is readily apparent in Holding it Together: Col-

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Trans performer Gail (SaBah Leilee) discovers small towns can be home to big characters (Kyle Stoner) in AlterTheater’s world premiere of The Fellowship.

“Anyone can sit at our artistic table and feel welcome. We’re creating a model where all voices can be included in an equitable way.” AlterTheater’s unique approach to production is to stage its shows in commercial spaces in downtown San Rafael, much as the cuckoo lays eggs in nests built by other birds. Fellage, Montage, Assemblage, a group exhibition at the Hosfelt Gallery. Most of us don’t have the ingenuity or talent to produce what this roster of accomplished artists – Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, William T. Wiley, Ed Ruscha and others – render with silicone, human hair, odds and ends, and the occasional refrigerator. Jess, a former chemist who turned to artmaking after being plagued by apocalyptic nightmares, serves up “Untitled (with Symphony Conductor)” (c. 195253), a dense collage with imagery, clipped from magazines or book illustrations, of a masked Chinese opera performer, a war victim with bandaged face, a stone basement stacked with cadavers in various See page 31 >>

lowship is staged “in a beautiful old building, circa 1878, an old vaudevillian opera house. We start in the patio, take a tour through a sort of labyrinth, winding up in the performance space.” Unlike the cuckoo, Alter works not as a parasite, but in symbiosis with its hosts, showcasing each other’s good points. Quite

a trick to pull off, again and again, in a small town, juggling diplomacy, temperaments, and logistics. This low-flying approach takes a special kind of craziness. Harrison, asked her age, says, “I’m whatever age you think I am.” The Brooklyn-born, Chicago-raised transplant is an actress, after all, and actresses are shape-shifters for whom objective reality is counterintuitive. She somehow juggles being an enigma with running a theater. The success of her communityfriendly, “artist-centric” company is an implicit challenge to the chiseled-in-stone subscription season of brick-and-mortar theaters now fighting for dwindling support as dinosaurs around a tar pit. She’s even using crowd-funding site Indie-Go-Go. Harrison’s alternative style gives her company flexibility and rapid response time. “When we have the desire, and the artists, we produce,” she says. “In 2014, our 10th year, we’ve already done four shows in the first six months. Suddenly, our three-play season pass only lasts half a season.”t Through July 13, AlterTheater, at Art Works Downtown, 1337 Fourth St. (at D St.), San Rafael. Tickets at www.altertheater.org or (415) 454-2787.

Courtesy Robert Tat Gallery

“Fountain, Place de la Concorde, Paris” (1920s), photograph by William C. Odiorne, now at Robert Tat Gallery.

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24 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 3-9, 2014

Summer of our dystopia by Victoria A. Brownworth

hen we watched Gail (Charlotte Sullivan) and Holly (Aliyah O’Brien) kissing in a bar on the June 26 episode of ABC’s cop drama Rookie Blue, we thought how perfect the timing was: first-year anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision on DOMA, and 45th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Go Pride! But we also wondered, as we often do, if there would be the same sort of extended, public, get-aroom kind of PDA scene in a prime time drama if the characters were 20something male hotties. It’s a rhetorical question, but we intend to keep asking it until someone responds. Because much as we like seeing pretty women kissing on TV, and much as we think it’s great for budding lesbians to see, we also are continually bothered by the fetishizing and appropriation of lesbian sexuality. We’re hoping to see some liplocking on NBC’s Night Shift when Dr. Drew Allister’s (Brendan Fehr) boyfriend returns home from Afghanistan. Drew was so excited at the prospect in this week’s episode, all he could say was, “He survived. He made it. He’s coming back to me.” Wow. Makes one think about all those gay and lesbian soldiers suffering in silence under DADT. Night Shift is uneven, but we really like the fact that everyone has seen war. Since most Americans don’t even know that two million American men and women have served in either Iraq or Afghanistan or both, it’s a necessary reminder. So there had better be some kissing when those two reunite after being separated by war. And if it’s still making producers anxious to have guys kissing, we’re nowhere near equality. (We’ve said before, sitcom kissing is not the same as drama kissing, so please don’t tweet us about Cam and Mitchell.) Speaking of the conflict of the closet, if you missed the PBS Independent Lens documentary The New Black, you can now see it online at PBS.org. Directed by Yoruba Richen, it details the drama and conflict in the African- American community over marriage equality and LGBT civil rights. Interviews with activists, families dealing with LGBT family members, clergy in the black church all examine or exemplify homophobia in the black community, with the church at the center. Richen’s film depicts New York, California and Maryland, and is very compelling. Richen says, “While the debate around gay rights has deepened some divides within the black community, it has also opened a space for new conversations about overcoming oppression for everyone.” Her film is wellworth a look, this is not a film for African-Americans only. Richen explores how the right has exploited homophobia within the black community to bolster their own anti-gay agenda, which has affected all of us. This film is every bit as powerful as HBO’s The Case Against 8, which is running on demand throughout the summer. Speaking of those pesky equality issues, did we really see this exchange on the June 26 Today show? We admit we are an anti-fan of Matt Lauer, we don’t know why he makes twice what ABC’s Diane Sawyer makes for actual news anchoring, and we don’t find him very personable. We found him even less so after this. Lauer interviewed new General Motors CEO Mary Barra about the continuing recall problems at GM.

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Stephen King’s sci-fi drama Under the Dome has had gay characters right from the start.

Lauer asked if she felt she could run a company and be a good mother. “I want to tread lightly here,” Lauer said, then proceeded to do anything but. Laurer asked why she got the job. “Some people are speculating that you also got this job because people within General Motors knew this company was in for a very tough time, and as a woman and a mom you could present a softer image and softer face for this company as it goes through this horrible episode. Does it make sense, or does it make you bristle?” Well, it made us bristle. Barra was clearly somewhat taken aback, this being 2014. She said, “Well, it’s absolutely not true. I believe I was selected for this job based on my qualifications.” Barra was clearly ending that aspect of the interview, but Lauer was not. “You’re a mom, I mentioned, two kids, you said in an interview not long ago that your kids said they’re going to hold you accountable for one job, and that is being a mom,” Lauer said. “Given the pressure at General Motors, can you do both well?” Barra responded, “You know, I think I can. I have a great team, we’re on the right path, we’re doing the right things, we’re taking accountability, and also I have a wonderful family and a supportive husband, and I’m pretty proud of my kids the way they’re supporting me in this.” Barra has worked at GM since she was 18. She is now 52. She is the first woman in the world to run an automobile manufacturer. The idea that she was given the job because somehow a woman would be sympathetic defies belief. Not surprisingly, Lauer got blowback for his questions, and a Twitter storm erupted that ended with him trending because so many women were demanding a boycott of Lauer and the Today show. Lauer defended himself by saying he would have asked a male CEO the same questions. Except he never has. In 2009, Lauer interviewed Ford CEO Alan Mulally, and of course never asked him how he could balance fatherhood (Mulally has five kids) with being a CEO. We would note that Lauer has three kids and travels the world for his job. No one’s ever said it’s improbable that he can do both.

Dome drama

Stephen King manages to be a husband, father, one of the most successful writers in the world, musician and now, actor and TV screenwriter. The new season of CBS’ Under the Dome began June 30, now written by co-creator Stephen King. We loved this dystopian

sci-fi drama last season (with gay characters right from the start) and we’ve been waiting for its return for months. Well worth the wait. Speaking of dystopian, HBO has its own dystopian drama, The Leftovers, which debuted June 29. It joins several other end-of-the-world dramas (it must be the summer of our dystopia). We mentioned TNT’s The Last Ship and FX’s The Strain in our last column. Syfy has Dominion, a sequel to the 2010 film Legion. CBS debuts another sci-fi dystopian thriller, Extant, starring Halle Berry on July 9. We’re excited by The Leftovers because we love the show’s creators. Taking a page from Stephen King, award-winning novelist and screenwriter Tom Perrotta is screenwriter for the HBO drama based on his novel. He is also the show’s co-creator, with Lost alum Damon Lindelof. We were die-hard Lost fans right to the bitter non-end. The show stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Liv Tyler and Ann Dowd. The Leftovers takes place in the wake of a global “rapture,” and centers on the people who were not taken but were left behind in a suburban community, the fictional town of Mapleton, NY. People are unsettled to their core. Some join cultish churches, some find other ways to distract themselves. All of it is complicated, atmospheric and creepy. The show begins with a flashback to the day of the disappearances. We see a mother, clearly overwhelmed, with her baby, about to go somewhere in her car. The baby disappears. There are some other chilling disappearances, then The Leftovers returns the viewer to the present, where a third-anniversary memorial of the disappearances just riles everyone up. This a slow-arcing but not plodding drama, and the stellar writing puts it in contention for one of HBO’s best shows. It’s been a good year for HBO, with Game of Thrones in major Emmy contention (the nominations will be announced July 9, and the awards ceremony is Aug. 25). Plus GOT now ranks as the most-watched series HBO has ever run, more than The Sopranos and The Wire. Showtime is another channel with many Emmy contenders. Back for another season is Ray Donovan, with Jon Voight so good, we almost forget he’s a Republican. The show returns July 13. We keep telling you to watch Showtime’s period drama, Penny Dreadful. It’s fantastic. There’s isn’t a more iconic gay character from the period than Dorian Gray, is there? No. Although Josh Hartnett’s portrayal of Ethan Chandler is a whole new level of gay. Speaking of gay, TNT’s Major Crimes (The Closer spinoff) has

just returned for its third season. And it’s returned with a gay storyline that will be at the center of the drama all season as Rusty (Graham Patrick Martin) comes to terms with his sexual orientation. We were waiting for this storyline to evolve last season, then thought our gaydar was off. It wasn’t. We’re hoping Major Crimes finds a way to link Rusty to the show’s sarcastic gay medical examiner, Dr. Morales (Jonathan Del Arco). Del Arco has been with the series since it was The Closer, and we’d like to see the out gay actor playing the out gay medical examiner involved in more action outside the morgue. And not just because he’s hot. But because it’s time. For pure trash fun with a gay edge, Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth are playing at “detectiving” on ABCFamily’s Mystery Girls. The shtick here is that the duo are former 90s TV stars who are now solving crimes. We admit, it’s enjoyable seeing the former Beverly Hills 90210 ladies together again. They aren’t a lesbian love match like Rizzoli and Isles, but they are very engaging. Speaking of fun, we just loved this. On June 26, British comedian Russell Brand, a frequent guest on the American late-night talk-show circuit, called Fox News “a fanatical terrorist propagandist organization.” We just couldn’t have put it better ourselves. Speaking of news, we were shocked by ABC’s major shake-up when, on June 26, the network announced a changing of the guard for its three main anchors, Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos and David Muir. According to ABC, “Sawyer will lead new programming, tackling big issues and extraordinary interviews. Stephanopoulos, Anchor of Good Morning America and This Week, has been promoted to Chief Anchor of ABC News, handling special reports and breaking news. Muir, Anchor of 20/20, will become Anchor and Managing Editor of World News starting Sept. 2.” It’s the biggest change in a news lineup since 2011, when Katie Couric stepped down as the first solo female anchor of a network news program, CBS Evening News. Senior Correspondent Scott Pelley was promoted to that anchor spot. Unlike when Couric left CBS, however, Sawyer leaves in the top ratings position. May sweeps left her in first place. Sawyer has been taking more and more time from the anchor seat in the past two years to do in-depth, award-winning investigative pieces for ABC. She has focused on hunger in America, poverty in America, the hidden drama of Appalachia, and the broken school system in Philadelphia. Her series on Appalachia and hunger won her Peabody

Awards, and she has won the Daytime Emmy several times. We’ve written about Sawyer’s compelling series here over the past five years she’s been doing those investigative pieces. Her work has been both breathtaking and heartbreaking. But while we’d love to see more of that kind of serious journalism from her, the ABC shakeup does exactly what the CBS shakeup did: returns the evening news to a white guy line-up with Pelley, NBC’s Brian Williams and Muir. If you’re not a news junkie like we are, you may think it doesn’t matter, the news is the news, but Sawyer and Couric both shaped their newscasts to be more inclusive of women’s issues and issues others might consider “marginal,” like the very things Sawyer has been devoting her investigative pieces to. Or, of course, gay news. We like Muir and he’s a fantastic reporter, having done amazing work from around the globe. But it’s difficult not to see his promotion as a clear grab for a younger demographic (even though ABC already owns the coveted 2554 demographic) since at only 40 (and looking younger), Muir will be by far the youngest anchor. Sawyer is 68, Williams is 55, and Pelley is 56. According to ABC, “Stephanopoulos will add the duties of Chief Anchor of ABC News to his responsibilities. For the last four years he has helped lead Good Morning America to #1, and after returning to the program two years ago, has driven This Week to its best competitive position in a generation. In his new role Stephanopoulos will also lead the network’s coverage of special events and breaking news. The best political journalist on television, Stephanopoulos will also lead ABC News’ election coverage starting with the mid-terms this fall, the 2016 presidential race and beyond.” ABC has consistently replaced women with men in promotions, which we find concerning. We understand seniority, but we also question how seniority is earned for women at ABC. Christiane Amanpour took over This Week, where her skills as a global foreign-affairs reporter and war correspondent made her appear smarter than her guests. She was replaced with Stephanopoulos, and sent back to the war zones. She was assaulted on camera during the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt. Martha Raddatz has filled in for both Sawyer and Stephanopoulos, but she, too, despite her years in the same post at ABC that Pelley was in at CBS, has never landed an anchor position. She has, however, seen more war zones than any other correspondent at ABC, except Amanpour. The whiteness and maleness of news is an issue that is consistently raised by women and people of color in TV journalism, but never seems to get addressed. So while we admire Muir, we view him, rather than Raddatz, replacing Sawyer as problematic. Another shake-up at ABC occurred the same day as the news announcement. The View, which has been a ratings-grabber since it debuted in Aug. 1997, is ditching two of its co-hosts, African-American comedian Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy. Unlike with Sawyer, we could not be happier to see these two go. Shepherd’s a proponent of the flat earth. McCarthy is notable for her anti-vaxxer philosophy. There was a huge controversy over McCarthy being chosen for the show’s roundtable, but Barbara Walters apparently wanted someone as out of touch with political reality as Elisabeth Hasselbeck, whom McCarthy replaced. See page 31 >>

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26 • BAY AREA REPORTER • July 3-9, 2014

Out &About

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Sat 5

Chomp! @ Conservatory of Flowers They Came From the Swamp, a new floral exhibit of carnivorous plants, includes exhibits, docent talks, and a giant replica model so you can feel like a bug about to be eaten. Thru Oct. 19. Reg. hours, 10am4pm. Free-$7. Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 19. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

Thu 3

American Buffalo

July 4 Celebrations @ Jack London Square, Oakland Enjoy kid-friendly daytime fun (interactive activities for both parents and children including a special petting zoo, juggling, bubble wrangler, face painting, balloon artists, hula hoopers and more) before the evening fireworks. 11am-4pm. Broadway at Embarcadero. (510) 645-9292. www.jacklondonsquare.com

San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford poses with SF Opera singer Zanda Švēde to promote Opera in the Ballpark

Sparkle motion

Scott Wall

by Jim Provenzano

f you’re exhausted by last week’s multiple Pride events, many art shows and performances, then perhaps a few patriotic fireworks displays should offer a post-rainbow jolt to your July week. After all, the up and down civil rights struggle against/with/sponsored by our corporatic overlords is best celebrated through symbolic violence, i.e. pyrotechnics, or in the case of Opera in the Ballpark, baseball, hot dogs and tragic romance set to music.

Thu 3 American Buffalo @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley Aurora Theatre Company performs David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1977 drama about three desperate men who plot to steal a valuable coin collection. $35-$60. Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm & 7pm. Extended thru July 20. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.auroratheatre.org

David Barnett @ Hotel Triton The local gay artist exhibits his popular animal/pet portraits and landscapes at the stylish hotel lobby. Mezzanine, 342 Grant Ave. www.hoteltriton.com

Designing Homes @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Jews and Midcentury Modernism, an exhibit of architectural, furniture, dinnerware, photos, and interior design in post-WWII. 2pm-5pm. Free (members)-$12. Fri-Tue 11am-5pm, Thu 11am-8pm (closed Wed). 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Into the Woods @ San Francisco Playhouse Local production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s acclaimed musical that takes an ‘after Happily Ever After’ look at fairy tales. $20-$120. Tue-Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm & Sun 2pm. Thru Sept. 6. 450 Post St., 2nd floor of Kensington Park Hotel. 677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org

Mugwumpin @ Costume Shop The innovative eperimental theatre company celebrates ten years with several revivals; This Is All I Need and Super:Anti:Reluctant in repertory with the new Blockbuster Season, also later this summer. Thru July 13; other shows thru August and Sept. $20-$40. 1117 Market St. www.mugwumpin.org

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre The post-Frameline schedule returns. July 3: Jaws (7pm) and The Towering Inferno (9:20). July 5: Disney’s Frozen sing-along (1pm). July 5: Midnights for Maniacs presents the Back to the Future trilogy, with actor Jeffrey Weissman (“George McFly”). July 6: Scary Cow Film Festival, a day of funny and odd short films. 2pm10pm. (www.scarycow.com). July 8: Her (7pm) and Under the Skin (9:20). July 9: Beatles films A Hard Day’s Night (5:30, 7pm) and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (9:15). July 10: The Servant (7pm) and Accident (9:10). $11. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

Life X 3 @ Phoenix Theatre

David Allen

Dan Hoyle @ The Marsh

Broadway West performs Tony and Olivierwinning playwright Yasmina Reza’s comic drama about a dinner party gone wrong, where family truths are revealed. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru July 19. 414 Mason St. #601. (510) 835-4205. www.offbroadwaywest.org

The award-winning solo performer premieres his new show, Each and Every Thing, a multi-character play about the search for real community in a hyperconnected world. $20-$50. Thu & Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Extended thru August 24. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Intimate Impressionism @ Legion of Honor

Derek Jarman, Visionary @ BAM/Pacific Film Archive

The exhibition includes nearly 70 paintings from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., featuring the work of 19th-century avant-garde painters such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh. Also, the Salon Doré, a reconstructed room from the Hotel de La Trémoille, has re-opened. Free/$25. Thru Aug. 3. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 7503600. www.famsf.org

San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Dolores Park, Various Venues Ripple Effect, the newest play produced by the politically-themed satirical theatre company now celebrating its 55th season, takes on eviction, Google Glass-sporting hipsters techies and economic disparity in the Bay Area. Half-hour music set preshow. Premieres in Dolores Park, 18th St. at Dolores. 2pm. Also July 5, 2pm. Other indoor and outdoor locales thru Sept. 1. 285-1717. www.sfmt.org

Screenings of the works of the late gay filmmaker who defied trends and created his own unique cinematic style, most often with explicitly gay themes. July 5: Sebastiane, 8:20pm. $4-$6.50. Saturday screenings Thru Aug. 28. 2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley. (510) 642-0808. www.bampfa.berkeley.edu

Farima Dance Company @ The Garage Improvisational dance, music, poetry, and Sufi Whirling. $10-$20. 8pm. 715 Bryant St. 518-1517. www.715bryant.com

Feisty Old Jew @ The Marsh Charlie Veron’s new solo show about a fictional elder man who hitches a ride with surfer-hipsters, and rants about what he hates about the 21st century. $25-$100. Sat & Sun 5pm. Extended thru July 13. 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Fri 4 San Francisco Mime Troupe

Sat 5 As You Like It @ Forest Meadows Ampitheatre, San Rafael Marin Shakespeare Company kicks off its 25th anniversary summer series with William Shakespeare’s gender-bending romantic comedy. Ampitheatre open one hour prior to showtime for picnicking; Bring overwear; it gets chilly. $12-$240 (season pass). Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Aug. 10. 499-4488. 715 Bryant St. www.marinshakespeare.org

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. Beer/wine served; cash only; 21+, except where noted. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. beachblanketbabylon.com

Burger Boogaloo @ Mosswood Park, Oakland

Sat 5

As You Like It

Shrek the Musical @ Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley Berkeley Playhouse’s youth-inclusive production of the stage musical based on the animated film about an ogre who enters the world of a royal kingdom. $17$60. Sat 1pm & 6pm. Sun 12pm & 5pm. Wed & Thu 7pm. Thru Aug. 3. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

La Traviata @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera’s new production of Verdi’s classic opera stars Nicole Cabell, Simir Pirgu and Vladamir Stoyanov; in Italian with English supertitles. $24-$379. July 5 (8pm; live simulcast at AT&T Park), 8 (7:30pm), 11 (8pm) and July 13 (2pm). 301 Van Ness Ave. 863-3330. www.sfopera.com

Fury Factory Festival @ Various Venues

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival @ Esplanade

Multi-gallery art walk is part of a fiveblock street festival, with music, food trucks, drinks, and more. 6pm-9pm. Art Walk’s also Sat 1pm-5pm. www.OaklandArtMurmur.org

Join GLBT hikers for a 3.5-mile leisurely stroll around Lake Merritt. Eat lunch by the shore of the lake. After lunch, visit the Oakland Museum of California. Bring water, lunch, hat, sunscreen, good walking shoes. Meet 10:45 on the front steps of the Oakland Museum, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, near the Lake Merritt BART station. 740-9888. www.sfhiking.com

The intimate talent competition’s fifth fabulous season continues with the Best Female Crooner contest. Katya SmirnoffSkyy and Joe Wicht cohost/accompany, and 2013’s Cabaret Performer Sheelagh Murphy guest-judges. $7. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Enjoy wacky offbeat vintage short films. July 3: Wacky patriotic parade flicks! Thu & Fri, each $10, 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Art Murmur @ Oakland Galleries

SF Hiking Club @ Lake Merritt, Oakland

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni’s

Unusual Shorts @ Oddball Films

Fri 4

San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants present a simulcast of Verdi’s La Traviata in the ballpark; grounds and stadium seats available. Free. 8pm. 24 Willie Mays Plaza. www.sfopera.com

Sun 6

Thrillpeddlers’ hilarious Cockettes revival returns, with new choreography, costumes, performers, and some of the original cast members. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Extended thru June 28. 575 10th St. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

The months-long free performance series has commenced, with weekend outdoor dance, music and theatre concerts, on various days and evenings. July 3: Les Gwan Jupons, 12:30pm. July 6: San Francisco Mime Troupe, 2pm. July 10: Musical Aert Quintet, 12:30pm. Shows thru Oct. Mission St. at 3rd. 543-1718. www.ybgfestival.org

Opera in the Ballpark @ AT&T Park

Ronnie Spector headlines the eclectic two-day music festival, with (Saturday) Milk N. Cookies, Nobunny, Reigning Sound, Phantom Surfers and more. Sunday includes Spector, Shannon & the Clams, The Muffs, Gizmos, Pookie and the Poolez and more. Beer garden, burgers and other food and drinks for sale. $35-$45. 12:309pm. Broadway at MacArthur. www.burgerboogaloo.com

Foodies, the Musical @ Shelton Theater Morris Bobrow’s musical comedy revue of songs and sketches about food. $32-$34. Fri & Sat 8pm. Open run. 533 Sutter St. (800) 838-3006. foodiesthemusical.com

Frank Pietronigro @ Johnston Gallery

Fifth annual festival of theater, with companies from several countries performing innovative new works at Z Space (420 Florida St.), Z Below (470 Florida St.), Joe Goode Annex (401 Alabama St.) and NOHspace (2840 Mariposa St.). $16-$55. Thru July 20. (866) 811-4111. www.foolsfury.org

God Fights the Plague @ The Marsh

Exhibit of gay-themed paintings (“Great American Patriots”) and “Documents,” an unusual installation that uses antigay words. Thru Sept. 2327 Market St. pietronigro.com johnstontaxgroup.com/art

18-year-old playwright Dezi Gallegos (who made a splash at 14 with Prop 8 Love Stories) performs a solo show with multiple gay and straight characters of different faiths, each searching for God. $15-$100. Sat 8:30pm. Sun 7pm. Thru Aug. 10. 1062 Valencia St. at 21st. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Olympus @ Modern Eden Gallery

New Exhibits @ Museum of Craft and Design

Third annual portrait invitational, this year, with a Contemporary Portraits of the Ancient Gods theme, including large paintings by more than a dozen artists. Thru July 5. 403 Francisco St. 956-3303. www.moderneden.com

Queer Harlem @ African American Art and Culture Complex Fifth annual showcase of music, dance and theatre, with women of Queer Rebels ensemble and guests performing interpretations of classic Harlem cabaret variety shows; with TuffNStuff, Sonya Renee Taylor, Kirya Traber, Campbell X, Crystal Mason, Indira Allegra, Jezebel Delilah X, Joshua Merchant, Lambert Moss, Gabriell Wilson Sealy and others . $15-$20. 8pm. Also July 6. 762 Fulton St. queerrebels.com

Dogpatch warehouse is now a museum store, gallery and program space. Exhibits include Stoney Lamar sculptures (thru Mar. 23). Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm. 2569 Third St. 773-0303. www.sfmcd.org

The World of Mary Blair @ Walt Disney Museum Magic, Color, Flair, an exhibit of original art work from the innovative production design artist for Disney’s Peter Pan, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and other films, and the iconic attractions at Walt Disney World like the “It’s a Small World” ride; thru Sept. 7. Also, Leading Ladies and Femme Fatales: The Art of Marc Davis, including original drawings of Cruella DeVille, Tinkerbell and other iconic characters; thru Nov. 4. 104 Montgomery St. www.waltdisney.org

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Tours and Exhibits @ The Old Mint New Sunday program offers tours and exhibits about San Francisco’s history. Explore the fascinating building’s grand halls and vaults. $5-$10. Weekly, 1pm4pm. 88 5th St. 537-1105. www.SFhistory.org

Mon 7 10 Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s weekly online talk show’s rebroadcast through the week. This week, Perry chats with author, raconteur and legendary San Francisco host, John Newmeyer. He also interviews attorney Elizabeth Kristen about the current legal landscape vis-a-vis LGBT issues and gender equity. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 12/13 at 10:30pm. www.comcasthometown.com

Biconic Flashpoints @ GLBT History Museum Four Decades of Bay Area Bisexual Politics, thru Aug. 15. Also, the new exhibit of fascinating historical items and how their legacies are still with us; includes queer youth, Harvey Milk, José Sarria, AIDS and gay bar ephemera and the lesbians of The Ladder. Reg. hours Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. ($5/free for members). 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

Chicks with Shticks @ SF Public Library The Kinsey Sicks and 20 Years of Dragapella Activism, a new exhibit about the musical ensemble; thru July 10. 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

David Hawkins @ Glama-Rama Exhibit of spooky child-like pen and ink and digital images by the local gay standup comic. Exhibit thru July 27. 304 Valencia St. 861-4526. www.glamarama.com

Tue 8 Anthony Friedkin: The Gay Essay @ de Young Museum Exhibit of photos –and an audiovisual installation–by the Los Angeles artist who focused on gay underground culture of the late 1960s and early 70s in SF and LA. Thru Jan. 11, 2015. Lines on the Horizon : Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection, thru Jan. 4, 2015. Free/$10. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoungmuseum.org

It’s Everything @ KOFY-TV Local nightlife host and singer BeBe Sweetbriar’s new streaming web talk show welcomes local celebrities. 7pm. Audience welcome at KOFY-TV, 2500 Marin St. www.BeBeSweetbriar.com

Meditation Group @ LGBT Center Weekly non-sectarian meditation group; part of the Let’s Kick ASS AIDS Survivor Syndrome support group. Tuesdays, 5pm, 1800 Market St. www.letskickASS.org www.sfcenter.org

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Science Exhibits @ The Exploratorium

Woods to Wildflowers @ SF Botanical Gardens

Visit the fascinating science museum in its new Embarcadero location. Free-$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu

See blooming floral displays, trees and exhibits. Also, daily walking tours and more, at outdoor exhibits of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a centuryold grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free-$15. Daily. Golden Gate Park. 66121316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

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Bawdy Storytelling @ Verdi Club Size Queens (& Kings), a sexy reading and performance night, includes lesbian werewolf tales, stories of big and bigger ones, music by Lucky Dave, cocktails, lube and other giveaways. $20-$30. 8pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.bawdystorytelling.com www.verdiclub.net

Maureen Whiting, Jesse Barber @ The Garage Dance works in-progress are performed by the two choreographers and their dancers. $10-$20. 8pm. Also July 10. 715 Bryant St. 518-1517. www.715bryant.com

Not a Genuine Black Man @ Osher Studio, Berkeley Brian Copeland’s tenth anniversary run of his compelling autobiographical solo show gets restaged at Berkeley Repertory’s studio theatre. $14-$430. Wed 7pm. ThuSat 8pm. Extended thru June 28. Osher Studio, 2055 Center St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

Twelfth Night @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players’ production of William Shakespeare’s romantic classic includes live music and a jaunty-sexy staging. Previews. Opens July 12. $20-$35. Thru Aug. 17. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

William Odiorne’s Paris @ Robert Tat Gallery Photo exhibit of the artist’s 1920s prints of the beautiful French capital. Tue-Sat 11am5:30pm (1st Thursdays til 7:30). Thru Aug. 23. 49 Geary St. #410. 781-1122. www.roberttat.com

Forbidden Broadway @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Alive and Kicking! , Gerald Alessandrini’s newest edition of the show tune parody revue, comes to the Bay Area, with musical send-ups and satirical vignettes of The Book of Mormon, Once, Newsies, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patankin and more. $45$60. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Thru July 27. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Gorgeous @ Asian Art Museum New exhibit about 2,000 years of unconventional visualizations of beauty (thru Sept 14), at the contemporary and historical museum. Permenent exhibits as well. $15. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

Hick: A Love Story @ Eureka Theatre Terry Baum and Pat Bond wrote and perform in a two-woman play about the romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok; co-presented by Theatre Rhinoceros and Crackpot Crones. Free. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru July 27. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. www.crackpotcrones.com

Magic Parlor @ Chancellor Hotel Whimsical Belle Epoque-style sketch and magic show that also includes historical San Francisco stories; hosted by Walt Anthony; optional pre-show light dinner and desserts. $40. Thu-Sat 8pm. 433 Powell St. www.SFMagicParlor.com

Sharknado @ Bay Area Cinemas Rifftrax (some of the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 cast) make fun of one of the worst unintentionally hilarious action movies ever made, with Ian Ziering battling flying tornado-swept sharks. $12-$15. 8pm. www.FathomEvents.com

Skulls @ California Academy of Sciences

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Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth, including the new popular exhibit of animal and human skulls (thru Nov. 30). Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties most Thursday nights. $20-$30. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Wrong’s What I Do Best @ SF Art Institute Group exhibition of works that push the boundaries of social, political and personal fault lines. Tue 11am-7pm. Wed-Sat 11am6pm. Thru July 26. Walter and McBean Galleries, 800 Chestnut St. www.sfai.edu

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Fighting for the working class by Brian Bromberger

A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren; Metropolitan Books, $28 here is a new sheriff in town, and her name is Elizabeth Warren. The town is Washington, D.C., and in her new book, Warren proves how one person can make a vast difference. If you hate politics, Warren’s story might just inspire you to take another look at our partisan capital. Her memoir is an entrancing mix of autobiography and policy. It reads like the plot of the classic 1939 Jimmy Stewart movie Mr(s.) Smith Goes to Washington, with the committed crusader advocate for the struggling middle-class underdog fighting against the entrenched, wealthy, greedy world of high finance, who do not have your best interests at heart. A longtime supporter of LGBT rights before it became fashionable, Warren’s story resembles a gay/lesbian coming-out saga, the outsider seeking salvation and identity in the big city. She grew up middle-class in Oklahoma until 12, when her father suffered a heart attack and lost his job. Her mother looked for work, but their finances plunged, and the family teetered on poverty. She wanted Elizabeth to focus on finding a husband, but Warren decided to go to college, so she secretly earned a debate scholarship to George Washington University. She then dropped out of college to marry her high school sweetheart.

Warren finished her college degree, then attended law school in Trenton, NJ, while raising two kids. She specialized in bankruptcy law, and researched why people declare bankruptcy, usually due to a job loss, a medical problem, or a family breakup depleting all their resources. Warren led the fight to keep the law from being altered so banks could gain more profits while restricting access to bankruptcy protection. When Obama set up the bank bailout, known as TARP, Warren led the COP Panel that oversaw how $700 billion was allocated, though the committee’s power was limited to issuing reports. Because of Warren’s leadership, she was able to ensure that the Treasury’s cut with big banks was smaller, saving taxpayers billions of dollars. In 2007, she proposed the creation of a new government agency to protect consumers, and after the 2008 economic meltdown, she persuaded gay Congressman Barney Frank, in charge of the bill to reform banks, to include a strong new agency, which became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

(CFBB). Opposed by the big banks that tried to destroy or disempower it, only after Sen. Scott Brown ensured a $19 billion break for the banks was it approved. Warren served as the agency’s acting head to get it up and running, but the banking industry was deadset against her being confirmed as the permanent head, which required Senate ap-

proval. Fortunately, one of her protégés, Richard Cordray, was appointed director. Warren was encouraged to run for the Senate in Massachusetts in 2012, against Brown. Her family opposed her running, as they feared vicious attacks against her, and she had never held political office. But after engaging in informal talk sessions with state residents, she became convinced that working-class people needed a strong advocate, so she opted to run. One incident is indicative of why she elicited the popular support she received. A man in his 60s, a Vietnam veteran, came over to her. “‘Yeah, you talk about building a future,’ he said, ‘but what about transgender? What about them?’ I said, ‘We build a future for all our children. And that means transgender children. All our children – no exceptions.’ He held my gaze for a moment and said, ‘Damn right.’ He explained that he had a grown son who was transgender. ‘In a million years, you’ll never know the special kinds of hell he has gone through. I want somebody who fights and doesn’t back off!’”

Warren started off in the polls behind the popular Brown, but after a nasty (on Brown’s part), hardfought campaign, she wound up winning, 54% to 46%, becoming the first woman Senator in Massachusetts’ history. It isn’t hyperbole to say that Elizabeth Warren may be the best thing to happen in American politics in a generation, especially as a warrior for the middle class, a champion for consumer rights, and as an impassioned idealist for fairness, with her down-to-earth folksiness and her determination to fix our democracy. It is not that she is anti- or pro- capitalism as much as she wants equal opportunity for all, and to put the brakes on wealthy, greedy people and provide a social safety-net for the less fortunate. One of the triumphs in her book is that she takes a complicated subject, finances, and provides clear, nontechnical explanations that seem relevant to our daily lives. Towards the end of her book, Warren writes, “Some say the rich and powerful now control Washington and always will. I say the battle isn’t over yet. The playing field isn’t level, and the system is rigged. But we’re putting up a heck of a fight, and we intend to keep on fighting.” With Elizabeth Warren representing the concerns and dreams of the 99%, perhaps we can believe that a government standing for all the people might just have a “fighting chance.”t

woman named Cherifa. With his successful novel, Paul puts Tangier on the literary map, establishing it as a harbor for the wealthy, and playground for those with alternative lifestyles. Paul begins transcribing and translating traditional stories told to him by Mrabet, publishing them in multi-volumes. He also goes into the desert to tape-record traditional Moroccan music that would otherwise have been lost. The Beat writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs), beatniks, hippies, and other outcasts all flock to Bowles’ sanctuary, eager to push the boundaries of nonconformity. Paul smokes hashish and eats mahjoun daily, has visions, and continues to write novels and poetry, none of it

as successful as Sheltering Sky. Jane becomes an alcoholic, has breakdowns requiring shock therapy, suffers a stroke in 1957 at 40, with a continual decline in her health until Paul sends her to a Catholic insane asylum in Malaga, Spain, where she will eventually die in 1973. Paul, the individualistic outsider, still immerses himself in the collective Moroccan culture, which largely condemns his lifestyle. Kerouac called Paul a man comfortably devoid of bullshit. He had little ego, but as a confirmed atheist and Communist, he possessed a bleak, hostile view of the world, from which he kept himself separate. He eluded definition, and ultimately this documentary allows him to remain ineffable, though it does convey a sense that he didn’t quite live up to his full potential, his talents wasted on excess and distractions. There is also a kind of sadness sticking to him like Velcro, with Young asking him towards the film’s end what comes to mind when he hears the word love. After a long period of silence, Bowles answers, “I don’t know what it means. I suppose it is a positive emotion.” More than this wellresearched but slightly inscrutable documentary, to discover the real Paul Bowles, one must return and reread his books. In my mind’s eye, I see Bowles beyond the grave, laughing hysterically at all our attempts to understand him.t

Ineffable Paul Bowles by Brian Bromberger

n 1939, Winston Churchill described Russia as a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. This same phrase could aptly apply to the author and composer Paul Bowles, the subject of Daniel Young’s documentary Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open, just released on DVD by First Run Features. Young conducted the last interview with Bowles in 1997, two years before his death. Sprawled on his (death) bed, Bowles is a sick old man, shrouded in a fog of smoke, and pontificating into the air. Known primarily for his landmark 1949 novel A Sheltering Sky, Bowles does reveal in the film that the reason he wrote was that he needed to express himself, say what he thought should be said. When Young asked him whether he felt he had succeeded, Bowles replied, “No, but slowly it came not to matter.” The interview with Bowles is short and not particularly revealing. Young treats these nuggets of “wisdom” as if they were Zen koans, but they mostly sound like off-thecuff ramblings. More fascinating are the interviews done with Bowles’ friends and collaborators sharing their anecdotes, including John Waters, Edmund White, William Bur-

roughs, Bernardo Bertolucci, and especially Gore Vidal (also near the end of his life), petting his cat while purring his usual insightful comments dipped in sulfuric acid. Born in New York City in 1910 to an upper-middle-class family, Bowles described his father as a monster, very strict, controlling, and abusive. Paul had a gay uncle who would invite him over to his apartment filled with men dancing with each other. Paul began having outof-body experiences at an early age, as well as hanging out in bohemian Greenwich Village, writing poetry. Forever the cryptic, aloof observer of life, he flips a coin deciding either to kill himself or move to Paris and become a composer. Escaping to Paris (after throwing a butcher knife at his father and fortunately missing), he finds himself in Gertrude Stein’s literary salon, ensconced as her protege. Telling him he is not a poet, she recommends he visit Tangier in Morocco. Discovering any vice is possible there, Paul falls in love with the city, because unlike the rest of the rapidly changing world, Tangier evolved slowly, still maintaining its traditional culture. With war inevitable, Bowles returns to New York, where he meets Jane Auer at a jazz club in 1938. They have intense sexual experiences,

fall in love, marry in 1938, despite each having had previous homosexual relationships. They lived separately, but met daily. Paul continued to write music that Leonard Bernstein would later describe as perfect miniatures, especially for piano, that today we would term ambient. Snippets of the music are played throughout the documentary, setting its daydreamlike tone. Jane publishes a novel, Two Leading Ladies, in 1943, which was loved by Tennessee Williams, but it doesn’t sell. After the war, Paul dreams of Tangier, and the couple eventually move back there. They live on different floors in the same apartment building, more as brother and sister than as man and wife, each with their own coterie of same-sex partners and admirer friends. Eventually Paul finds companionship in a muscular houseboy boyfriend, Mohammed Mrabet, and Jane becomes embroiled with a bossy masculine

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Summer flashback by Gregg Shapiro

or a while there, it looked like Canadian singer/songwriter Loreena McKennitt might become as trendy as Enya. The similarities in their Celticinfluenced musical styles certainly make them worthy of comparison. McKennitt did have some hits, earning her a devoted following and a reason to release a compilation such as The Journey So Far: The Best of Loreena McKennitt (UMe/QR). Drawing on songs from her 1990s period, when she was at her most popular, from albums including The Mask and the Mirror, The Visit and The Book of Secrets, the collection features “The Mummer’s Dance,” “The Mystic’s Dream” and “The Lady of Shallot.” The deluxe edition includes a second disc containing highlights from McKennitt’s 2012 Midsummer Night’s tour, recorded in Germany. Debbie Harry and the current incarnation of Blondie take an interesting approach to some of their biggest hits on Blondie 4(0)-ever (Noble ID). A celebration of one of American punk/new wave’s greatest success stories, the double-disc set features Greatest Hits: Deluxe Redux, on which the band rerecords favorites “Heart of Glass,” “Dreaming,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” “The Tide Is High” and “Maria.” Harry sounds good for someone who’s been at it for this long, but these renditions won’t replace the original versions. Ghosts of Download, the second disc, contains more than a dozen new songs, including a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax,” the rock en Español of “Sugar on the Side,” and electro club tunes “Rave,” “Mile High” and “Take It Back.” The Bee Gees parted ways with Robert Stigwood (the man who rejected U2 – what a douche!) and his

RSO Records label after a lengthy and prosperous relationship during the 1980s. In 1987, 10 years after the release of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, the Bee Gees released the first of three albums for Warner Bros. The five-disc box set The Warner Bros. Years 1987-1991 (WB) compiles three studio discs (E·S·P, One and High Civilization), along with two discs containing previously unreleased live material from the trio’s 1989 concert tour. The Bee Gees seemed to have run their course when it came to hit singles. E·S·P produced one modest hit, “You Win Again,” as did One (the title cut). For a band that had managed to stay timeless for more than 20 years at that point, they sound tired and dated. Cassandra Wilson had been recording for more than a dozen years when she finally released an album that got her the attention she so justly deserved. Produced by Craig Street, Blue Light Til Dawn (Blue Note/UMe), now available in an expanded 20th-anniversary edition with three previously unavailable live tracks, was a career turningpoint. With originals (“Redbone”) and a stellar assortment of covers (Joni Mitchell’s “Black Crow,” Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen,” Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” Van Morrison’s “Tupelo Honey”), Blue Light Til Dawn still glows brightly today. Brit rockers Oasis, from Manchester, also celebrate the 20th anniversary of a seminal disc, its majorlabel debut Definitely Maybe (Big Brother), newly reissued in a deluxe three-disc set. Snotty and snarly as they want to be, Oasis, led by the feuding Gallagher brothers (Noel and Liam), heralded the British invasion of the 1990s (see also Blur). The band leaves little doubt about their

ambitions, beginning with blistering and loud album-opener “Rock n Roll Star.” You can also find the hit “Live Forever” and “Supersonic” on the remastered album. The second disc includes B-sides and extra tracks, while the third disc is made up of unreleased demos, out-takes & live recordings. Hip-hop master Nas joins the 20th-anniversary party with the expanded reissue of his groundbreaking debut Illmatic (Columbia/ Legacy). Listeners will find Nas essentials “Life’s a Bitch,” “One Love” and “New York State of Mind.” Homophobic rhymes in a track such as “Halftime,” while not unusual in the hip-hop of the era, will cause some listeners to bristle. The second disc includes demos, remixes and live radio selections. The Complete Original Dunhill/ ABC Hit Singles (Real Gone) collects two dozen Grass Roots tracks, including “Where Were You When I Needed You” from 1966, both the uncensored and censored versions of “Let’s Live For Today” from 1967, and the trio of 1971 hits “Temptation Eyes,” “Sooner or Later” and “Two Divided by Love.” Artists such as Glen Campbell, Mavis Staples, Loretta Lynn, Bobby Womack and Bettye LaVette are just a few of the “old-time” artists who been rediscovered by younger musicians and given the chance to be heard again by new generations of music-lovers. Shortly before his sudden death in 1992, the late Roy Orbison had a similar experience. A 1988 album recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne as The Traveling Wilburys got the ball rolling, and was followed by an all-star concert, then 1989’s Mystery Girl (Legacy), Orbison’s first studio album in years. The

double-disc expanded 25th anniversary reissue consists of the remastered album (including the hit single “You Got It” and the Elvis Costello tune “The Comedians”) with nine bonus tracks and a DVD featuring music videos, the Mystery Girl: Unraveled doc and more. Longtime friend of the LGBT community and animal-lover Doris Day celebrated her 90th birthday this April. The expanded edition of Doris Day Sings Her Great Movie Hits (Real Gone/Columbia) is a 24-track CD featuring classics “Pillow Talk,”

“Move Over Darling,” “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera),” “Teacher’s Pet,” “Send Me No Flowers” and “Lover Come Back.” The Doors’ 1972 out-of-print (on vinyl) collection Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine (Elektra) debuts for the first time as a doubledisc set, as well as digitally. Released following Jim Morrison’s death in 1971, WSITGM isn’t as thorough as 2007’s The Very Best of The Doors, but it does contain material not found on the VB set.t

In the realm of the spirit by Tim Pfaff

et us now praise famous dykes. Meredith Monk, a central force in new music for as long as she has been able to emit sound (the cryingbaby tapes, I’m told, are still under seal), is, in her early 70s, still a force to be reckoned with, and savored if not craved. It speaks to this latest transitional phase in her career – which can be viewed as a single, ripe, everunfolding transitional phase – that her long-term recording producer, ECM Records, has just issued a CD, Piano Songs, on which Monk herself does not perform. It’s one of those the-earth-moved-under-our-feet moments, made slightly less jarring by knowing that Monk was involved in every instant of its creation. Herself a serious pianist since childhood, Monk has placed the scores in the safest imaginable hands, of new-music maven Ursula Oppens and pianist-polymath Bruce Brubaker. An uncredited voice chanting “hey ya” in the 1996 “Folk Dance” could be that of the hieratic, alliteratively named, supreme vocal artist herself, but since Oppens has proved herself as good at playing the inside of the piano and its case as she is its keys and pedals – and yes, has made extra-piano noises – I’m good with its being her. From whosoever’s throat, the sound emanates from the voice that has influenced the shape of contemporary music more than any other. There’s none of the thunder of Rzewski or the finger-twisting of Babbitt, but Monk’s piano music, in which the twin influences of Bartok and Satie are readily felt, is killer stuff to play. The tendonitis-threatening repetitions and atomic-clock rhythms are nonetheless in service

of a depth and complexity of musical impulse that it is the pianists’ business to cloak, and these two, playing both solo and as a duo, never once draw your attention from the hypnotic music to their feats of prestidigitation. Like all of Monk’s music, it’s addictive stuff, not only revealing more at each listening, but whetting a spiritual appetite for more of the involvement, and release, these pieces from four decades uniquely offer. The transfixingly spare – then jarringly noisy – rhythmically completely sprung “Paris,” an Oppens solo, marks Monk’s 1972 return to the piano after years of work with the unaccompanied voice and extended vocal techniques, and “Ellis Island” (1981) hails from the film of that name she directed. Brubaker solos in two pieces, “Window in 7’s” (1986) and “Railroad (Travel Song)” (1981), respectively the most complex composition (yet never losing the willing listener) on the disc and its simplest, showing Monk’s roots in folk. What’s most remarkable about this set of pieces is, beneath the superficial similarities of their sound worlds, how strikingly individual they are. “Phantom Waltz,” the seven-minute 1989 duo that

ends the disc, exists wholly in the realm of the spirit. Piano music of, you could say, a “straighter” nature – by Tchaikovsky, the iconic gay composer – appears on a new Hyperion disc that showcases the composer’s fine if lesser-known solo-piano music, the so-called “cycle” The Seasons and the Six Morceaux, Op. 19. It also introduces 24-year-old pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, yet another musician who walked out of Siberia young, and into greatness, and yet another brilliant new pianist to follow. There’s always been a glut of extraordinary pianists, but our communications-heavy world must leave a lot of these youngsters wondering where all their work will be coming from in a finite universe. Like Monk’s piano works – and conspicuously unlike Tchaikovsky’s big-boned, extroverted concertos for piano – these pieces rely relatively little on pianistic display. The 12 installments (that’s what they were, for his publisher) of The Seasons are in fact each named for a month of the year, and they were composed with the amateur, home player in mind. By Russian standards, Tchaikovsky was not a great pianist, though he See page 30 >>

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Martyr to the freedom of information by David Lamble

it’s time for a new system of regulation, of checks and balances.

t’s a cruel irony when a person of heroic stature, somebody you would have been proud to know, dies more than a year before you stumble upon his digital remains. The Internet’s Own Boy, Brian Knappenberger’s moving account of the life and premature death of tech prodigy Aaron Swartz, is a masterful portrait of such a lost soul. Not since my first exposure to the martyrdom of Matthew Shepard or the role Twitter appears to have played in the suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi has a story of a young man’s demise moved me to want somebody’s head on a pole. It’s unlikely that many reading this will be unaware of the Jan. 11, 2013 suicide in his Brooklyn apartment of a boy wonder whose achievements had included hobnobbing with the techno geek elite and fighting off a serious stab at Internet censorship by old-media blue meanies. What makes The Internet’s Own Boy special is the circumstantial case it builds for the Obama Justice Dept. creating its own enemies list, following in the footsteps of King Richard Nixon. The case against Attorney General Eric Holder and the authorities at M.I.T. might or might not be enough to persuade a jury, but it surely deserves much wider exposure. In brief, Swartz, an advocate of a free and open Web, had issued a challenge to government secrecy (in this case involving the clearly unethical practice of charging the public high fees for access to federal court records), and had apparently been targeted for draconian punishment as a warning to the growing hacker underground. As a film, Boy has the DNA of a classic martyr’s tale, with haunting childhood videos of the child genius astonishing parents, siblings and friends with his insights about the media revolution. Later, the story moves forward with a pit-stop at Stanford (whose jock-school envi-

What got you interested in this kid, Aaron Swartz? I had made a film called We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivist, which is the story of the hacktivist non-group Anonymous. The funny masks. Yeah, the funny masks. I was talking about hackers and hacktivism, about a week after Aaron died, on a panel with Quinn Norton, an ex-girlfriend of his. It was the beginning of this time [Jan., 2013] when there was this huge surge of anger, frustration and sympathy for Aaron, even far beyond the communities in which he was this kind of quasi-celebrity. I started filming a week after he died, trying to understand his personal life, this broad kind of connection that people felt towards him, and also the biggerpicture issues he was fighting for.

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Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz in director Brian Knappenberger’s The Internet’s Own Boy.

ronment drove Swartz to quit and head east). All through the 105-minute piece we are entertained and seduced by a bright, shaggy-haired Jewish boy with a seemingly endless future ahead of him. My chat with director Brian Knappenberger covered issues raised by his film’s investigation into how the Obama Administration’s move to prosecute Aaron Swartz resembled the Nixon Administration’s abuse of American civil liberties in the 1970s. Brian Knappenberger: I think the Nixon era has echoed in a particularly poignant way in the last couple of years. I did a piece about NSA overreach, and I started to talk to Daniel Ellsberg, who said, “You know, the reason I never went to jail was

that what the Nixon Administration did to me was illegal, and they got into trouble for that.” And now that same behavior is institutionalized. We’re in a time where our massively networked world has changed the way we communicate, yet we seem to have forgotten how off-the-rails government can be with its snooping. Obviously, they’ve stepped over the line. The idea that these constitutional protections that we have, that we’re protected against searches by our government without due process, that’s something that needs to exist in the digital age, too. Just because we live here, we don’t throw out the Constitution, throw out freedom of expression. Obviously these tools are so powerful that they

will be misused. David Lamble: If the Supreme Court hadn’t ruled against Nixon and allowed The New York Times to publish the Pentagon Papers, things would be very different now. In the 70s, the investigation of the CIA led by Idaho Senator Frank Church was really important, in that it basically lifted up this rock, and a bunch of nasty things slithered out. Nothing seems to change in respect to government overreaching. Unless you force change. The FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Courts came out of the 70s, and seemed effective for that era. The FISA Courts are outdated, so

As a gay man, I grew up on Long Island with guys who looked like Aaron. In the film you see he had those “bedroom eyes,” hooking people into his emotional orbit. Many would agree with you. In effect, he goes through puberty on film, and the later, gentler guy is post-puberty. I agree. Why do you think the government behaved so badly? One clue is that they told Aaron’s dad that they wanted to make an example out of him. Which only deepens the mystery: what kind of behavior were they trying to deter? Do you have a theory of why Aaron was driven to kill himself? You have to understand this twoyear legal nightmare that he went through. He committed suicide almost two years after he was arrested. You can’t separate this legal nightmare from his choice.t Opens Friday at the Roxie Theater.

Harvesting pratfalls by David Lamble

n the cheeky, offbeat date-night comedy Obvious Child, the characters toss off “pee-shy” and “fart” jokes as if they were out to create a special adult division for Walt Disney Pictures. While it’s true I never thought I’d put the words abortion and comedy in the same sentence, neither did I expect to be so high on a film whose humor is so politically charged, pivoting on a woman’s right to choose, while framing the story like a pilot for a female-centric revival of Seinfeld. “Is this illegal?” “You’ve never peed in public before?” Donna pauses a beat, then blurts out, “Did you just fart in my face?” “No, ah, yeah.” Like most comedies whose charms are underhanded, Obvious Child gets its hooks in with a most unlikely pairing: Donna, an over-the-top Jewish stand-up comedienne (Jenny Slate from TV’s Parks and Recreation and House of Lies), who shamelessly harvests her romantic pratfalls for material; and Max (Jake Lacy, whose TV credits

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did play his concertos for others by way of auditioning them, and the tripping rhythms, repeated notes and fine filigree of “August – La Moisson” would leave a typical home-player in the lurch. They do hint at Tchai-

include The Office and Better with You), a hunky grand slam of a guy who in real life would be playing in a much higher league. As Donna confides to her best female chum, “He’s just so Christian! He’s like the angel on top of the Christmas tree. I’m not the angel on top of the tree, I’m the menorah on top that burns it down.” Perhaps writer/director Gillian Robespierre is unconsciously mining the playbook that buddy team John Turturro and Woody Allen created for their Brooklyn inbred farce Fading Gigolo. Both Donna’s and Woody’s characters introduce themselves while sitting Shiva for those grand old bookstores that everyone claims to love, but few still patronize. As her day job fades into oblivion, Donna clings to her standup gig, both as an ego life-raft and for the million-in-one chance that she’ll meet a male fan of pouty-mouth needy female comics. That Max appears to fill that odd niche is a classic rom-com movie conceit: if such a fantasy wish-fulfillment creature does not appear, there’s no movie. Once you’ve created the impossible

love interest, the job is to allow us to enjoy these creatures suffering the rubbish most of us call everyday life. Obvious Child is at its laughinducing best when Donna keeps retaking the pregnancy test, each one revealing that she has been “knocked up” by a guy she may never see again, a guy she refuses to involve in the decision to abort, a guy who exists to lure us into watching this kind of movie. Donna’s troubles are augmented comically by that new staple, the sympathetic queer-guy friend, in this case a fellow stand-up artist. It’s a happy sign of the times that this character is no longer cringe-worthy and actually gives the appearance of having a real life of his own outside the frame of this story, even if we never get to sample it. Veteran Richard Kind, the hilarious sad-sack needy brother from the Coen Bros.’ A Serious Man, provides genial ballast as Donna’s non-judgmental dad; Polly Draper is marvelous as the toughlove mom whose shoulder is available to cry on. To Robespierre’s credit, she follows another of Woody’s comedy tenets: less is not only more, but

also funnier at a brisk 83 minutes. If those savvy Castro Theatre programmers are on their game, Ob-

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kovsky’s deep love of Schumann, but he eschews the fundamental off-kilteredness of his idol’s music. In Kolesnikov’s playing, they move along brightly and engagingly enough until the “Barcarolle” of June, where the young pianist’s depth of soul first sends up smoke signals. Lest such inwardness seem a one-

off, October’s “Chant d’automne” takes you (like Dante’s Beatrice, but through a quieter hell) into that melancholy only a true Russian knows, or so, anyway, many of Kolesnikov’s countrymen have convincingly argued. Even December’s “Noel” has a Wertherian cast, a waltz of seasonal sadness that tries for a happy ending,

but in Kolesnikov’s canny reading dissolves into the mist. The touch of a master pianist is evident from the first bars of “Reverie du soir,” the first of the Six Pieces, another deeply reflective work that finds Kolesnikov trading in innumerable exquisite shades of soft. The two pieces marked viva-

cissimo sparkle, and the Andante sentimentale “Nocturne” will wind its way into your heart. Then comes the concluding Original Theme and (12) Variations, which, like a set of variations by Beethoven, open up an entire world. Kolesnikov speaks all of its languages, eloquently and accent-free.t

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stages of decay, and an irate Buddha. The Indian-born Rina Banerjee brings her multi-cultural/racial experience to works that incorporate texture, fabric and atypical objects, from taxidermy alligators, ostrich eggs and light bulbs to fish bones, feathers and umbrellas. In her new collage, an exotic raven-haired female contortionist with turquoise limbs pointed in multiple directions sits in a gold-embroidered basket in a room papered with fuchsia peonies. The gallery promises explorations of “identity, sexuality, the subconscious and the subliminal,” but I’ll forego the analysis and take Nick Cave’s “Soundsuit” (2013) at face value. A full-body costume made of sock monkeys, sweaters and pipe cleaners, the get-up resembles a monster escaped from the pages of Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. Meanwhile, Wangechi Mutu’s mixed media Cyclops, “Chin Rest with Cut-Eye” (2012), looks like one of those alien killing machines pummeling humankind into extinction in a sci-fi film at a multiplex near you. Through Aug. 16. Here’s a seductive fantasy: a young girl floats above the earth, free from gravity, nasty cliques at school and parents, asleep while in flight. But French photographer Maia Flore, who’s a hot young artist

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The View is currently on hiatus, and will end this season in August. The show has not announced any suggested replacements. Walters retired from the show in May. We’d like to see a lesbian on that show, since there hasn’t been one since Rosie O’Donnell left, and CBS’ The Talk has the mostly silent Sara Gilbert. But most of all we’d just like the new women to not be crazy and to know that science is a thing now. Speaking of Walters, she interviewed Elliot Rodger’s director father Peter in an exclusive for ABC’s 20/20 on June 27. Rodger told Walters he couldn’t believe “my son was a mass murderer. There’s no way that I thought this. We didn’t see this coming at all. This is America’s horror story. You don’t see it.” Walters told 20/20 co-host David Muir, “They knew their son was troubled, but they didn’t think he was violent.” It’s a pretty compelling interview, not as self-serving as one might expect. Rodger is clearly suffering. Watch it at ABC.go.news.com. One series we love on ABC is NY Med, the new season of which debuted June 26. This is one of the best reality series on the tube (if you aren’t squeamish). It gives a clear if unsettling view of life inside a bigcity hospital. One of the doctors on whom the show focuses is Dr. Mehmet Oz, here in his role as top cardiac surgeon. We like that this show has a plethora of women as well as men in the medical field, that there are always gay people, patients and doctors, and that it is insightful, not glib. Not everyone survives. Which makes viewing somewhat harrowing, since it’s real life, not fiction. Highly recommended. Finally, our fave contest show this summer is, once again, America’s Got Talent on NBC. We saw one of the gayest acts we’ve ever seen on this show last week, and we expect more in the coming weeks. But there is also some amazing talent. And none of the tedium of some of the other contest shows like all the behind-the-scenes who-cares on Dancing with the Stars or The Voice. So for gay TV, for lesbian fetishizing, for white-guy-only news and for the shows we watch without critique because their brilliance blows us away, you know you must stay tuned.t

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in Europe and a regular contributor to Le Monde, is spinning a not-soidyllic narrative in Sleep Elevations, now on view at Modernbook Gallery. That she quotes Edgar Allan Poe in her artist statement hints at the series’ sinister origins: a recurring childhood dream in which Flore is ferried against her will by a mysterious man, closer and closer to an ocean that terrifies her. When she’s nearly aloft and perilously suspended above the watery surface, she awakens moments before she’s swallowed by the deep blue sea. The nighttime reveries that might be a field day for psychoanalysts or anyone unable to resist a metaphor were fodder for Flore’s latest photographs, where she’s personified by an airborne pre-teen girl with lank carrot-red hair, carried away either by balloons tied with string to her hands and feet, a set of antlers or other precarious modes of air travel. Transported up and away by unseen forces over hill and dale and metropolises, she’s cargo, a sleepy passenger voyaging through the unconscious. Through July 26. With this year marking the 50th anniversary of landmark civil rights legislation and the Freedom Summer, African American Art in the 20th Century: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond, a traveling survey exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum, couldn’t be more timely. Emanating from the

Smithsonian American Art Museum collections, it covers the vast territory of social and cultural change suggested by its ambitious title with 100 paintings, sculpture, prints and documentary photographs by 43 black artists who lived through and translated the times. Among the works on view: “Portrait of a Black Madonna” (1987), Benny Andrews’ evocative oil and collage depicting a woman in a flowered housedress and shawl seated at a table with a vase of blooms, a domestic scene that could have been painted by Bonnard if the French master had grown up in rural Georgia; a pair of lively, boldly-colored prints that re-interpret Christian themes from Romare Bearden’s Prevalence of Ritual Suite (1974); Gordon Parks’ black & white photographs of Harlem and Muhammad Ali training for a fight; and two flavorful gouache on paper by Jacob Lawrence: “Community” (1986), a study for a mural; and “Bar and Grill” (1941), a hopping downCourtesy Modernbook Gallery home hangout painted in gold and umber. Through “Sleep Elevation #12” (2014), by French photographer Maia Flore. Sept. 21.t

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by Andre Torrez “Pop art? What the hell is that?” Ronnie Spector has no qualms when it comes to telling me how she likes her music. Or in this case, what she doesn’t like. “Gaga? Give me a fuckin’ break.” It was only supposed to be a ten to fifteen-minute interview, but we went long—almost half an hour. That may not seem like a big difference, but with rock royalty on the phone, I knew that every minute with the girl-group icon counted. A few days earlier I’d finished reading her tragically titled autobiography, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette. Published in 1990, her book is mostly filled with details of her success in the recording industry, which began over 50 years ago, and delves into her career’s derailment due to the darker days of her marriage to famed producer and inventor of the Wall of Sound, Phil Spector. See page 35 >>

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or a famously foodie city, San Francisco has its culinary gaps. For all our farm-fresh produce, handcrafted beverages and meats from animals raised in the lap of luxury and comfort, we are still at our core young, without the depth of traditions and techniques that define much regional cuisine. Perhaps this explains why barbecue, that most quintessentially American of foods, has not had a great foothold here. Until now. I’m not talking about barbecue as a verb, being Yankee-speak for “throwing stuff on the grill.” Barbecue in the Southern tradition involves cooking meats low and slow for an extended period in a wood oven, until meltingly tender and perfumed with smoky goodness. While there has been an undercurrent of barbecue joints around for a while, a few new spots are making waves and raising the bar. See page 34 >>

Above: BBQ with mac & cheese at Cat’s Head BBQ. Background: Smokestack’s spacious dining area.

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4505 Burgers & BBQ

If anyone in town could top the BBQ game in town, it would have to be Ryan Farr. Since 1999, Farr and his wife have run 4505 Meats, one of the city’s most esteemed butchers and purveyors of ethical meats. 4505’s chicharrones, cloud-like pork rinds that disintegrate on the palate, are the stuff of legend. Farr’s deft hand with butchery has extended to hands-on classes and, recently, Whole Beast Butchery, a book outlining how to handle your meat. You know what I mean. A native of Kansas City, Farr has barbecue in his blood. So when the longtime barbecue joint at 705 Divisadero became available, previously home to Da Pitt and before that the famed Brother In Law’s Barbecue, Farr saw an opportunity. The place already had proper wood smoke pits built in – as was evidenced by the thick patina from countless years of smoke covering the walls. Farr and his team gave it a spit-shine, and the shimmering white tile, stainless steel and rustic wood interior of 4505 Burgers & BBQ opened this past spring. Despite Farr’s KC roots, he must have a little Texan in him. 4505’s brisket is the real deal, tender, aromatic and tinged with the telltale pink smoke ring that indicates a proper smoke job. Not surprisingly,

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it also is the first to sell out, often during lunch. But even if you miss out on that, you’re still spoiled for options. The pork shoulder, ribs and pulled chicken are equally as good. There are sauces, sure, hinting at

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the major regions: Mustardy in the paradigm of the Carolinas, sweet and spicy for KC-style, creamy white Alabama sauce, but odds are great that you’ll not even bother with them, for the meat doesn’t need it. If you really want to pig (and chicken and cow) out, opt for the Presidential, featuring all meats, sides and fixins. Speaking of sides, do not miss the spicy fries, fried in tallow and slathered with chimichurri and lemon aioli. The Frankaroni, crispfried bricks of mac and cheese with chunks of 4505 hot dog inside, is dirty good, though it might be more fairly described as cheese and mac.

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tional, Namu Gaji’s Dennis Lee draws inspiration from the old and makes it new. After accompanying Farr on a research trip, eating barbecue from Kansas City through the Carolinas, Lee spun out from the “New Korean American” restaurant he started with his brothers to take on a barbecue concept of his own, Smokestack, recently opened in Magnolia’s new Dogpatch location at 2505 Third Street. Wood-smoked meat is a mandate here – the kitchen doesn’t even have a gas line running to it. True to his California sensibilities, Lee keeps things seasonal, working with what’s available, so the menu changes accordingly, adhering to a “nondenominational” approach to barbecue. Lee also achieves a successful smoke ring on his tender brisket, as well as a toothsome “bark” on the exterior that captures the essence of wood smoke. Beautifully bronzed skin graces the chicken, and moist salmon is a nice alternative for those looking for lighter fare. Sides are decidedly lighter here, tinged with acidity to offset the rich meats. Chunks of classic sour pick-

Where Farr leans to the tradi-

les refresh the palate between meaty bites, and the tart, gelatinous pickled pigs’ ears are a highlight. On one visit, an unorthodox salad of compressed watermelon and mint was a taste of pure summer. Like 4505, the meats don’t need much help, but Lee’s sauces step outside the box a bit, with a kimchiinflected version, as well as Carolina mustard sauce and pepper-infused vinegar for a sharp kick. Best of all, you can pair it all up with one of Magnolia’s craft beers, all while soaking in the artfully rustic interior of the space.

CatHead’s BBQ

Somewhat more established, CatHead’s BBQ hews to the classics, merging the traditions of co-owners Richard Park and Pamela Schaefer’s upbringings in Tennessee and Michigan, respectively. Like 4505, CatHead’s inherited existing builtin smokers when they took over the space formerly occupied by Big Nate’s BBQ in 2012. The name derives from their butSee page 35 >>

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Michele Manfredi and her SFQ barbeque sauce.

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termilk biscuits, “as big as a cat’s head,” served with honey butter and pepper jelly. It could be a meal in itself, and definitely if you add any of their meats. Coca-Cola smoked brisket and pulled pork are very good here, but it’s the sweet tea BBQ chicken that is the surprise winner, infused with a delicate aroma from the tea. CatHead’s gets bonus points for vegetarian offerings –cornmeal crusted BBQ tofu and Maker’s Mark mushrooms– and in fact all their sides are vegetarian. Pimiento mac and cheese is a fun mashup on the classics, and the collards are fantastic, even without bacon. Honorable mentions go to Lower Haight’s Memphis Minnie’s (576 Haight St) and Baby Blues (3149 Mission St) in La Lengua, both serving up savory smoked meats since the Twenty-Aughts.t

Ronnie Spector

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The original bad girl of rock and roll turns 71 this summer, but first she has important business in the Bay Area. She’s scheduled to play an intimate evening at San Francisco’s Brick and Mortar Music Hall July 5, where the one and only Peaches Christ will serve as emcee. Spector comes across as both feisty and genuinely energized about her upcoming gigs, where she’ll be backed by a ten-piece band to reproduce those lavishly-layered signature sounds heard on many of her hits. Then it’s off to Oakland’s Mosswood Park Sunday, July 6 to headline this year’s Burger Boogaloo. The annual twoday music festival is put on by the East Bay’s Total Trash Productions in conjunction with Fullerton’s wildly popular Burger Records. Landing her as the headlining act is a major coup for the DIY-minded event that’s been over a year in the making. On the surface it may seem like a mismatch for her to be playing to a crowd of mostly twentyand thirty-somethings, but in reality she’s making dreams come true. Many independent-label artists on the bill model their sound (and some their looks) after early rock and roll acts from The Ronettes’ era. I wonder if she knows how cool it is that she’s playing the Boogaloo and why the timing is right this year. I imagine it’s relatively underground compared to shows she’s played, like at The Apollo for example. Even so, it’s great exposure, possibly making her more relevant than any of her contemporaries who are subject to being reduced to playing the casino circuit. “I don’t book them. I just go!” she says matter-of-factly in her velvety, New Yorker accent. As prepared as I was, I was still anxious in the mo-

Few among us have the capacity to fire up a serious smoker like the pros use, but you can create a reasonable approximation with a standard charcoal grill (see www.bit.ly/hotsmoker for more). If you want to slather some local flavor on your hot meat (ahem), pick up a jar of SFQ (www.sfqinfo.blogspot.com). Maker Michele Manfredi uses San Francisco-inspired ingredients like chocolate, coffee and oak-aged wine vinegar to bring balance and spark to her sauce. The result rivals anything that comes out of the great ‘Q capitals of the South. Available at specialty markets like Bi-Rite, Rainbow Market, and nearly every Whole Foods in Northern California.

Going Mobile

Sometime proper barbecue can’t be pegged down to a single location. Street food truck The Boneyard (www.theboneyardtruck.com) gets good marks for their brisket. Check their schedule for appearances at various Off the Grid pods.

Farther Afield

Barbecue lives large outside the city. Some recommendable options outside SF include these eateries:

East Bay

Everett & Jones, 126 Broadway, Oakland Phat Matt’s, 3415 Telegraph Ave, Oakland B-Side BBQ, 3303 San Pablo Ave, Oakland Sauced, 2300 First St, Livermore Slow Hand, 1941 Oak Park Blvd Suite 5, Pleasant Hill

North Bay

Bounty Hunter Wine Bar & Smokin’ BBQ, 975 First St, Napa Smoakville, 1755 Industrial Way, Napa

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Gorilla BBQ, 2145 Coast Hwy, Pacifica

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ments before she called. After all, this is the same woman that had The Rolling Stones as her opening act during The Ronettes’ first tour of England in 1964. I was nervous about asking the wrong question or being offensive. With certain topics off limits (though she’d later address her first husband herself); there certainly was room for error. As anticipated, her Connecticut number lit up my phone and it was time to talk. On the day we spoke, the U.S. Presbyterian Church voted to change their constitution to allow the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples. One day later, the Obama administration announced regulatory changes to extend samesex marriage benefits to federal employees. “I was born and raised in New York. Who gives a damn?” she says reminiscing about seeing guys kissing guys back when The Ronettes were just playing coffee houses. Returning to San Francisco hits a particular reflective note for her. “I said, ‘Oh my God!’ Gay people made us. I love it. People have caught up. People have a chance to be who they are.” In her book, she explains how gays (this being before LGBT was a term) were some of The Ronettes’ biggest supporters. To this day she attributes that to what she suspects is their shared experience of being considered other. The group, born out of Spanish Harlem, consisted of herself as the lead singer with sister Estelle and cousin Nedra on backup. The audience wasn’t really sure if they were black, white or “Spanish” (she’s black, white and Cherokee) and early on, record companies didn’t really know how to package them for marketing purposes. “We felt different in junior high and in high school. People would

Ronnie Spector at a recent concert.

pick on me before we became The Ronettes. ‘What am I?’” she thought of herself. Surely that otherness was the identifiable quality the gay community warmed up to. Spector associated coming back to California as a homecoming of sorts, but not all her reflections are looked back on as being warmly sentimental. Sure, the Golden State was where she holed up in Gold Star Studios to record mini-symphonies like “Walking In The Rain” and “Baby I Love You,” but it’s also where she was virtually locked away in a 23-room, Beverly Hills mansion; kept from the stage, studio and the rest of the world during what by all accounts was her bizarre marriage to the overly-possessive Phil Spector. The autobiography is definitely a page-turner. It reads like the stuff of legend, yet it remains a huge part of her past and is her reality. Writing it must have been cathartic, but as life goes on, you can either move along with it or stay stuck in the past. By updating her story with her one-woman multimedia stage show,

Beyond The Beehive, she continues her healing process. It’s another autobiographical project that she’s very proud of and has taken it to cities including; L.A., Chicago and London. Much of her story is set in the 1960s, but the struggle of women finding their strength still resonates. “In the ‘60s, men were producers, [women] were last,” said Spector. “The problem with a lot of girls [at that time] you don’t think about the money from royalties.” Embracing everything she’s experienced, Spector incorporates her hits with music by her own teenage idol and influence, Frankie Lymon to collaborators like George Harrison. She admits it’s an emotional ride. “It’s difficult,” said Spector. “I have rehearsal with my band, but it’s the audience that brings the emotion.” She said they make her cry when she hears them groan during some of the more expository parts of the show. Whether or not Phil Spector’s slump, which he never seemed to

fully emerge from, was by design as a way to hold Ronnie captive would be a case of he said-she said. Nonetheless, her determination to get on stage both preceded and outlasted him since he was convicted on murder charges in 2009. The rejuvenation in her voice is clear and she sounds convincing when she says she’s on her way up. She’s been married 30 years to her husband and manager, Jonathan Greenfield, and seems really happy with her life. “I feel free because I have a great husband, two adorable boys; everything I wanted in the ‘60s,” she said. Her husband Jonathan picks up on the line towards the end of our conversation to politely remind us that it’s time to wrap it up. It sounds like Ronnie has another interview lined up right after mine. The end of the call is a bit chaotic with all three of us talking over one another. Jonathan wanted to make sure I had everything I needed and started hammering out details of some of her photos he was going to send me. Meanwhile, Ronnie, being the class act she is, just wanted to be polite and say goodbye. “Andre,” she said, “I don’t talk about pictures and that kinda thing.” She told me it was a pleasure and hangs up. The next time I’ll hear her voice live will be up on stage where she’s always wanted to be.t Ronnie Spector performs at Brick and Mortar, July 5, with Nobunny, Milk N’ Cookies, Harold Ray, The Sloths, and MC Peaches Christ. 1710 Mission St. $35-$55. 10pm. www.brickandmortarmusic.com Spector headlines the Burger Boogaloo music festival, July 5-6, at Mosswood Park in Oakland (Broadway at MacArthur). www.burgerboogaloo.com www.ronniespector.com

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Circle of Life New Theater Company Brings Brings Disability To Center Stage by David-Elijah Nahmod

ircle of Life is a theater company with a mission. The idea of artistic director Joseph T. Hege and Executive Director Fritz Lambandrake is to cast disabled performers in shows where they will perform with fully abled actors. Circle of Life has booked San Francisco’s Victoria Theater for its first full scale production: the suspense thriller, Wait Until Dark. The nail-biter about a young blind artist

ing members with their physical or practical needs. I created a 32-member, round-the-clock caregiver team who provided one of our chorus brothers with the constant assistance he needed after his bone marrow transplant. During this several months-long period, Joe and I came

and a spotlight on many of the talented singers, dancers, actors and comedians and other performers discovered by Circle of Life,” Lambandrake. “The lineup of acts is completely new every week. It’s the place to meet friends for two hours of fun with no cover charge. Drop in

blind. The out singer/songwriter, who possesses a beautifully expressive voice, sat at the keyboard and performed the title tune from the musical Dreaming in Color. It was her own composition. “Nobody can erase these dreams that I create, I’m taking back my life, I’m deciding my own fate,” she sang. Hernandez spoke about what the song means to her. “Whether they have special needs or not, when a person finds the confidence to shape their own future and ignore the naysayers, the result is life-changing,” she said. “Those

ten cast able-bodied actors to play disabled characters, Circle of Life makes the disability authentic by casting actors with disabilities in their shows. I feel very excited, because we’re often not included.” At press time, Lambandrake remains in talks with several club owners about securing additional venues for A C.O.L.T. Following. It shouldn’t be too long, he said, until the cabaret shows become a weekly event. In addition to Wait Until Dark, Circle of Life has full scale productions of The Elephant Man and Big

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Pianist-singer and songwriter Caitlin Hernandez.

to know each other and we discovered our common love of theater, an art form which we have both loved since childcourtesy Circle of Life Theatre hood.” Mitch Allen performs at the premiere circle Until the curtain rises of Life cabaret show at Beatbox. at the Victoria in the Fall, Circle of Life will be defending herself against a home inpresenting A C.O.L.T. Following, a vasion will be presented for the first series of cabaret performances at time (as far as we know) with two various venues around town. These blind lesbian actresses alternating in performances will feature many of the lead role. Circle’s stock players, along with Lambandrake and Hege met guest performers. A C.O.L.T. Folwhen both were singing with the lowing will serve to introduce the San Francisco’s Gay Men’s Chorus. company to the community. “We became fast friends,” Lam“A C.O.L.T. Following is San bandrake said. “Joe is the head of Francisco’s weekly, Tuesday night the chorus ‘spirit team,’ which is fun friendly sexy cool cocktail party a small group that helps ill or dyand variety show with a great DJ

when you can.” Circle of Life is now looking for a donated office space where they can permanently hang their hats. Lambandrake is also talking to the promoters of clubs and cabarets around town so that A. C.O.L.T. Following can become the weekly event it seeks to be at a rotating series of venues. C.O.L.T. had a successful first showing at Beatbox last week, and Lambandrake is confident that additional spaces will soon be obtained. At the premiere, an audience of around forty gathered at the Beatbox for the inaugural show. The crowd enthusiastically applauded the various performers, many of whom had overcome great obstacles in order to get to where they are. Caitlin Hernandez, 24, was born

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Circle of Life’s Sam Rubin, Executive Director Fritz Lambandrake, Michael Wang, Danielle Mendoza.

first few steps and risks are often hard, but because of that, reaching your goals is even more rewarding.” Hernandez’ performance drew thunderous applause. The evening also included a few numbers from Paradox, Circle of Life’s in-house a capella singing group. Paradox voices include Hernandez, Lambandrake, and autistic performance artist Sam Rubin, among others. Lambandrake described Paradox as “a courtesy Circle of Life Theatre pop-rock vocal band with both abled and disabled Performance Artist Maia Scott shapeshifts as a moving sculpture.

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Paradox singers Sam Rubin, Mitch Allen, Fritz Lambandrake, Danielle Mendoza, Caitlin Hernandez, Rebecca Fox, Michael Wang.

singers, songwriters, arrangers and beatboxers. Paradox offers playlistworthy original songs as well as innovative covers and mash-ups of the hottest music from today’s top 100 artists such as Pink and Maroon 5. Influencing every Paradox arrangement are past and present influences from a variety of musical genres including jazz, R & B, rap, Broadway, opera, country and the American songbook of standards written by the likes of Cole Porter and Duke Ellington.” Circle of Life, A C.O.L.T. Following and Paradox have quickly won the hearts of the disabled community. “Circle of Life brings real disability to the stage,” said Belo Cipriani, an openly gay blind writer. “Unlike other theater companies who of-

River in the works. Upcoming original productions include Samlandia, an autobiographical play starring Sam Rubin, a talented and personable young man who now towers above the autism which no longer controls him. Information on all these projects can be found at the Circle of Life website, www.circleoflifetheatre.org. Lambandrake urges people who are interested in attending A C.O.L.T Following to check the site regularly. Information will be updated as performance spaces are procured. If you have a bar, a club or a small restaurant and would like to host A C.O.L.T. Following, please email Lambandrake at fritz@circleoflifetheatre.org All Circle of Life shows and events are ADA accessible.t

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Pride Panache by Donna Sachet

an Francisco’s Pride Parade and Festival could not have enjoyed better weather, attendance, or variety, making the 44th year one for the records. Our Pride started on Tuesday, June 17, when the Mayor’s Office hosted about 80 people at City Hall for the raising of the Gay rainbow flag over Civic Center. This year’s ceremony occurred on a weekday at 10AM, limiting the number of people able to get away from work and attend, but we took the Reigning Emperor J. P. Soto and were welcomed into the Mayor’s office with a small group of San Francisco leaders, including Police Chief Greg Suhr, Supervisors David Campos and David Chiu, Theresa Sparks, Matthew Goudeau, and Grand Marshal Jewlyes Gutierrez, Felicia Elizondo of Trans March, Teddy Witherington, Dr. Tim Seelig, and others. Mayor Ed Lee entered right on time, stepped out onto his outdoor balcony, and ceremoniously raised the multi-striped flag that Gilbert Baker originated in 1978 right here in San Francisco, representing the rich and beautiful diversity within our community. As the flag waved in the breeze, those gathered moved to the Mayor’s indoor balcony for Taste catered refreshments, light music, and conversation. On Friday, June 20, we started at a charming garden party at the Richard M. Cohen residence, which encompasses two of the oldest cottages in the city on Dolores Street. They have created a carefully isolated area with old-growth trees, lush flowers and other foliage, and a rippling brook surrounding a courtyard where the Imperial Court presented a short show of musical entertainment for the residences and volunteers of Dolores Street Community Services. The performers, including Reigning Emperor J.P. Soto and Reigning Empress Misty Blue, Empress Alexis Miranda, and Miss Gay Kipper, rose to the occasion, challenged by the outdoor elements and the growing chill, but resolute to entertain those assembled. The money raised with

pride celebration. Conversation was animated as many related their upcoming plans and fundraisers. We spent most of the night in the delightful company of Xavier Barrera and Jack Ryder, recounting the changes and accomplishment of the last year, both in the community and individually. The next day offered a garden party at John Newmeyer’s Gough House, frequent location for warm gatherings on special holidays. John had invited all the many people who have lived in Gough House over the past 40 years, a period rich with stories from all the attendees, stories both hilarious and sometimes embarrassing, and certainly not suitable for relating herein. Gough House is full of memories for so many who found solace in John’s generosity. What a wonderfully personal way to usher in Gay Pride! After the potluck dinner was consumed and several bottles of wine and Sangria emptied, the guests spilled into the neighborhood in search of their own homes. The week of Pride was filled for us with radio and television interviews and decisions about what to wear for the many upcoming activi-

Pride celebrity grand marshal Ross Mathews with Donna Sachet at the annual Pride Brunch, held at the Hotel Whitcomb, June 28.

Mark Rhoades and Brandon Hernandez at Rhoades’ Pride Party at the Fairmont Hotel.

generous tips went to the ongoing programs of Dolores Street Community Services. After that, we attended our first Pride Party, hosted by Mark Rhodes and attended by hundreds of young, well-dressed, movers and shakers of San Francisco, at the Fairmont Hotel. Up the elevator on the Garden Level, we were swept into a circular room full of platters of food, comfortable furniture, and two bars. The room opened onto the open-air garden sprawling with mature trees, trimmed shrubs, and looking out on spectacular views. Mark chose the perfect vantage point from which to kick off our

and socializing with each other. The party continued back in the Castro as everyone exchanged schedules for the remainder of the weekend. Bright and early Friday morning, we headed to Hard Rock Café at Pier 39 for the newly revamped and improved Media Event of SF Pride. Rather than simply another party, this time SF Pride created an opportunity for each attending Grand Marshal to be introduced with their credentials and to be interviewed by members of the press. We coemceed with Michelle Meow and a couple of awards were presented by SF Pride’s new Executive Director George Ridley and new President of the Board Gary Virginia. At the lunch afterwards at Hard Rock Café, everyone was talking about how professional and more productive the event had been. On our way out, we shopped the SF Pride products on display in the gift shop and also available online, using the great graphic with colored stripes and national landmarks. It’s never too late to scoop something up to commemorate the year’s Pride Week! As the week wore on, we began to miss some events which we fully intended to attend, but one must watch one’s own energy level and focus on events that demand the most. Our primary event is Pride Brunch, benefiting Positive Resource Center,

ties. Once again, Facebook served as an excellent way to look back and determine what was worn for the last several years in order to avoid the unheard-of repeats of ensembles. Our first party was on Thursday at The Starlight Room, hosted by dot.429 and benefiting the Trevor Project. Cocktails were flowing as we entered and greeted a bubbly crowd, including Skye Paterson, Rick Hamer, Ken Henderson, Arthur Allione, Doug Waggener, Chad McLauglin & John Brosnan, Donald Dewsnup, Jason Dorn, and others. At the peak of the party, there was bit of entertainment on stage, before returning to drinking

and so most of the remaining free time was spent preparing for this annual fundraiser with my co-creator and co-host Gary Virginia. All our preparations came together in the 16th annual Pride Brunch Saturday morning at 11AM. Within minutes, the ballroom of Hotel Whitcomb was packed with celebrants as they sipped Barefoot bubbly wine and Tito’s Handmade vodka cocktails, perused the silent auction, bought raffle tickets for entry to the City Hall VIP Party on Sunday, and gradually settled into their seats for the program. The room looked splendid with flowers from CoCo Butter and IXIA, balloons from Balloons A Go-Go, and rainbow flags from Tommy Taylor. Each attending Grand Marshal gave heartwarming speeches, including Judy Grahn, Dr. Ted McIlvenna, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Melanie Nathan, Jewlyes Gutierrez, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Ross Mathews, and special guest Lea DeLaria. We have no doubt that each attendee left inspired, amused, and strengthened, ready for the rest of the weekend’s festivities. That night, we couldn’t make a hard decision, so we started at the Armory for that mammoth party produced by entertainment giants Audrey Joseph, Janine Shiota, and WE Productions. Holding VVIP See page 40 >>

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Bootie SF @ DNA Lounge

Fri 4 Bad Girl Cocktail Hour @ The Lexington Club Every Friday night, bad girls can get $1 dollar margaritas between 9pm and 10pm. 3464 19th St. between Mission and Valencia. 8632052. www.lexingtonclub.com

Fedorable @ El Rio Free weekly queer dance party, with gogos, prizes, old groovy tunes, cheap cocktails. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. 2823325. www.elriosf.com

Friday Night @ de Young Museum Nightlife events at the museum take on different themes. $20-$35. 6pm-8:30pm. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. www.deyoung.famsf.org

Happy Friday @ Midnight Sun The popular video bar ends each week with gogo guys (starting at 9pm) and drink specials. Check out the new expanded front lounge, with a window view. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

The weekly mash-up dance night, with resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D. No matter the theme, a mixed fun good time's assured. $8-$15. 9pm-3am. 21+. 375 11th St. at Harrison. www.BootieSF.com www.DNAlounge.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland DJed tunes, gogo hotties, drag shows, drink specials, all at Oakland's premiere Latin nightclub and weekly cowboy night. $10$15. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Burger Boogaloo @ Mosswood Park, Oakland Ronnie Spector headlines the eclectic two-day music festival, with (Saturday) Milk N. Cookies, Nobunny, Reigning Sound, Phantom Surfers and more. Sunday includes Spector, Shannon & the Clams, The Muffs, Gizmos, Pookie and the Poolez and more. Beer garden, burgers and other food and drinks for sale. $35-$45. 12:309pm. Broadway at MacArthur. www.burgerboogaloo.com

Thu 3 Ana Mae Coxx hosts Diva @ the Longboard Bar

House Party @ Powerhouse Enjoy sparklers, hot dogs, popsicles and patriotic house music with DJ Guy Ruben, hot-doggin' gogo guys, and proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Sun 6 Landa Lakes hosts Red, White, & Blue

njoy some fireworks and holiday festivities as your post-Pride pallative. Although, we’re more interested in the queerly alt.wasy of enjoying this weekend. Because…America, Frak yeah!

Thu 3 The Crib @ 715 Dance night for the younger guys and gals. 9:30pm-2am. 715 Harrison St. www.thecribsf.com

Diva @ Longboard, Pacifica New monthly (1st Thu) drag night at the surfy margarita bar; hosted by Ana Mae Coxxx. No cover. 10pm. 180 Eureka Square, Pacifica. www.thelongboardbar.com

La Femme @ Beaux Ladies' happy hour at the Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Fuego @ The Watergarden, San Jose Weekly event, with Latin music, half-off locker fees and Latin men, at the South Bay private men's bath house. $8-$39. Reg hours 24/7. 18+. 1010 The Alameda. (408) 275-1215. www.thewatergarden.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Jukebox @ Beatbox Veteran DJ Page Hodel (The Box, Q and many other events) presents a new weekly dance event, with soul, funk, hip-hop and house mixes. $10. 21+. 9pm-2am. 314 11th St. at Folsom. www.BeatboxSF.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys and hilarious fun. July 3: a special lip-synch night of the music from Rent and Hair, with U-Phoria, Pearl Teese, Bearonce Growles, Dusty Porn and others. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Nap's Karaoke @ Virgil's Sea Room Sing out loud at the weekly least judgmental karaoke in town, hosted by the former owner of the bar. No cover. 9pm. 3152 Mission St. 829-2233. www.virgilssf.com

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Latin Explosion @ Club 21, Oakland

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Themed event nights at the fascinating nature museum, with DJed dancing, cocktails, fish, frogs, food and fun. $10$12. 6pm-10pm, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe Amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers' hilarious Cockettes revival returns, with new choreography, costumes and cast members. $30-$35. Thu-Sat 8pm. Extended thru July 26. 575 10th St. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Special 4th of July glowstick party; Enjoy eight bars, more dance floors, and a smoking lounge at the largest gay Latin dance night in the Bay Area. Happy hour 4pm-8:30pm. Dancing 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Manimal @ Beaux Gogo-tastic night starts off your weekend. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Some Thing Mica Sigourney and pals' weekly offbeat drag performance night. 10pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi The musical comedy revue celebrates its 40th year with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25-$160. 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge The intimate groovy retro disco night with tunes spun by DJ Bus Station John. $4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Thursday Night Live @ SF Eagle The weekly live rock shows feature local and touring bands. 9pm-ish. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Club Rimshot @ Bench and Bar, Oakland

Underwear Party @ Powerhouse Strip down to your skivvies at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

VIP @ Club 21, Oakland Hip Hop, Top 40, and sexy Latin music; gogo dancers, appetizers, and special guest DJs. No cover before 11pm and just $5 after all night. Dancing 9pm-3am. Happy hour 4pm8:30pm 2111 Franklin St. (510) 268-9425. www.club21oakland.com

Xotica @ Nob Hill Theatre The Other Side of the Rainbow, a fundraiser for St. James Infirmary, presented by Ducal Council's Kippy Marks and Joie de Vivre, includes an All Male Revue, a drag show and silent auction, drinks (open bar for VIPs), plus admission to the Arcade. $50-$100. 7pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

It's a hip-hop celebration at the weekly hip hop and R&B night. $8-$15. 9pm to 4am. 510 17th St. www.bench-and-bar.com

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Xotica @ Nob Hill Theatre

Beer Bust @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Beer only $8 until you bust. 4pm-8pm. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event now also takes place on Saturdays! 3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Bleaux @ Beaux Haute Toddy and Linsay Slowhands cohost and spin at the dance night in theCastro club. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Doll House; Sex & Drag & Rock n Roll @ Midnight Sun The afternoon and evening drag events include Patty McGroin's fundraiser show and beer bust with guest MC Galilea Fortyone. $10. 4pm-7pm. Then, rock out with your wigs out asMutha Chucka's night takes on a "Dame of Thrones" rock royalty theme, with Cookie Dough, Gina LaDivina, Dulce De Leche, Vivvi TheForce, and more. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Go Bang! @ The Stud The monthly groovy retro-disco night (first Saturdays), with resident DJs Steve Fabus and Sergio Fedasz, welcomes guest spinner Homero Espinosa, Allen Craig and a live set of songs by Tobirus Mozelle of The SyntheTigers. $7. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. at Harrison. www.gobangsf.com www.studsf.com

Magic Shows @ Rex Hotel New weekly magic show and cabaret act with Adam Sachs and mentalist Sebastian Boswell III. $25. 8pm. two-drink minimum. Thru 2014. 562 Sutter St. www.MagicattheRex.com

Stallion Saturdays @ Beaux The gogo-tastic night returns, with hunky dancers offering lap dances upstairs in the lounge, hosted by Sister Roma. $4. Free before 10pm. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Sun 6 Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon The ursine crowd converges for beer and fun. 4pm-8pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle The classic leather bar's most popular Sunday daytime event in town draws the menfolk. 3pm-6pm. Now also on Saturdays! 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Brunch @ Hi Tops

Jock @ The Lookout

Karaoke @ The Lookout

Enjoy crunchy sandwiches and mimosas, among other menu items, at the popular sports bar. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

The weekly jock-ular fun continues, with special sports team fundraisers. 3pm-7pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Paul K hosts the amateur singing night. 8pm-2am. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

Liquid Brunch @ Beaux

Mahogany Mondays @ Midnight Sun

No cover, no food, just drinks (Mimosas, Bloody Marys, etc.) and music. 2pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Honey Mahogany's weekly drag and musical talent show starts around 10pm, 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Cabaret Showcase Showdown @ Martuni's The intimate talent competition's fifth fabulous season continues with the Best Female Crooner contest. Katya SmirnoffSkyy and Joe Wicht cohost/accompany, and 2013's Cabaret Performer Sheelagh Murphy guest-judges. $7. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. 241-0205.

Full of Grace @ Beaux Weekly night with hostess Grace Towers, different local and visiting DJs, and pop-up drag performances. No cover. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

GlamaZone @ The Cafe Pollo del Mar's weekly drag shows takes on different themes with a comic edge. 8:30-11:30pm. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Red, White & Blue @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge

Monday Musicals @ The Edge

Landa Lakes hosts a drag show and fundraiser for Tenderloin Tessie's Holiday Dinners. Food at 4pm, show at 5pm. 133. Turk St. 441-2922. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

The casts of local and visiting musicals often pop in to perform at the popular Castro bar's musical theatre night. 7pm2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Salsa Sundays @ El Rio

Name That Beat @ Toad Hall

Salsa dancing for LGBT folks and friends, with live merengue and cumbia bands; tapas and donations that support local causes. 2nd & 4th Sundays. 3pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly musical trivia challenge and drag show. 8:3011:30pm. 4146 18th st. at Castro. www.toadhallbar.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni's Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.dragatmartunis.com

Sports Night @ The Eagle The legendary leather bar gets jock-ular, with beer buckets, games (including beer pong and corn-hole!), prizes, sports on the TVs, and more fun. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

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Showdown @ Folsom Foundry

Trivia Night @ Harvey's

Weekly game night for board and electronic gamers at the warehouse multipurpose nightclub. 21+. 6pm-12am. 1425 Folsom St. www.showdownesports.com

BeBe Sweetbriar hosts a weekly night of trivia quizzes and fun and prizes; no cover. 8pm-1pm. 500 Castro St. 431-4278. www.harveyssf.com

Trivia Night @ Hi Tops

Underwear Night @ SF Eagle

Play the trivia game at the popular new sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Wed 9 Bawdy Storytelling @ Verdi Club Size Queens (& Kings) , a sexy reading and performance night, includes lesbian werewolf tales, stories of big and bigger ones, music by Lucky Dave, cocktails, lube and other giveaways. $20-$30. 8pm. 2424 Mariposa St. www.bawdystorytelling.com www.verdiclub.net

Strip down to your skivvies at the popular leather bar. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Way Back @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of vintage music videos and retro drink prices. Check out the new expanded front window lounge. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Thu 10 La Femme @ Beaux

Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops

Ladies' happy hour at the Castro nightclub, with drink specials, no cover, and women gogos. 4pm-9pm. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Forbidden Broadway @ Feinstein's at the Nikko

Dream Queens Revue @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge The classic drag show features ollette LeGrande, Ruby Slippers, Sophilya Leggz, Bobby Ashton, Sheena Rose, Kipper, and Joie de Vivre. No cover. 2nd & 4th wed, 9:30pm. 133 Turk St. www.dreamqueensrevue.com

Mad Manhattans @ Starlight Room The new weekly event includes classic cocktails created by David Cruz, and inspired by the the show Mad Men, plus retro food classics like prawn cocktails and Oysters Rockefeller, all with a fantastic city view. 6pm-10pm. 21st, Sir Francis Drake Hotel. 450 Powell St. www.starlightroomsf.com

Alive and Kicking! , Gerald Alessandrini's newest edition of the show tune parody revue, comes to the Bay Area, with musical send-ups and satirical vignettes of The Book of Mormon, Once, Newsies, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patankin and more. $45$60. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat & Sun 7pm. Thru July 27. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.ticketweb.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops Enjoy cheap/free whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular new sports bar. 10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

The Monster Show @ The Edge Cookie Dough's weekly drag show with gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Miss Kitty's Trivia Night @ Wild Side West

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences

The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 6473099. www.wildsidewest.com

The museum's weekly cocktail parties continue with drinks, food live music and pop-up display exhibits and docent talks, plus creature, plant and science exhibits. $10-$12. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Sat 5

Queer Salsa @ Beatbox

Tobirus Mozelle performs @ Go Bang!

Red Hots Burlesque @ El Rio

Weekly Latin partner dance night. 8pm1am. 314 11th St. www.beatboxsf.com Women's burlesque show performs each Wed & Fri. Karaoke follows. $5-$10. 7pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.elriosf.com

Pan Dulce @ The Cafe Enjoy amazingly hot Papi gogo guys, cheap drinks and fun DJed dance music. Free before 10pm. $5 til 2am. 2369 Market St. www.clubpapi.com www.cafesf.com

Tue 8 13 Licks @ Q Bar

Sat 5

Weekly women's night at the stylish intimate bar. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Bingo Night @ Club OMG Michael Brandon hosts the game night and funderaiser for The Community Initiatiuve. 7pm-10pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Block Party @ Midnight Sun Weekly screenings of music videos, concert footage, interviews and more, of popular pop stars. 9pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Sunday's a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Mon 7 Cock and Bull Mondays @ Hole in the Wall Saloon Specials on drinks made with Cock and Bull ginger ale (Jack and Cock, Russian Mule, and more). 8pm-closing. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

Drag Mondays @ The Café

Sun 6 Sheelagh Murphy @ Cabaret Showcase

Mahlae Balenciaga and DJ Kidd Sysko's weekly drag and dance night. 9pm-1am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Irish Dance Night @ Starry Plough, Berkeley Weekly dance lessons and live music at the pub-restaurant, hosted by John Slaymaker. $5. 7pm. 3101 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.thestarryplough.com

Bombshell Betty & Her Burlesqueteers @ Elbo Room The weekly burlesque show of women dancers shaking their bonbons includes live music. $10. 9pm. 647 Valencia St. 5527788. www.elbo.com

Pookie and the Poodlez @ Burger Boogaloo

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

Rookies Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie's Lounge

Show off your tattoos and piercings at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

Watch newbies get nude, or compete yourself for a $200 prize. Audience picks the winner. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

Retro disco tunes and a fun diverse crowd, each Thursday.$4. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre

So You Think You Can Gogo? @ Toad Hall

Strip down at the strip joint. $20 includes refreshments. 8pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

The weekly dancing competition for gogo wannabes. 9pm. cash prizes, $2 well drinks (2 for 1 happy hour til 9pm). Show at 9pm. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Ink & Metal @ Powerhouse

Piano Bar @ Beaux Singer extraordinaire Jason Brock hosts the new weekly night, with your talented host and even you singing. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Sony Holland @ Level III The acclaimed jazz vocalist performs with guitarist Jerry Holland. Weekly 5pm-8pm. Also Thursdays & Fridays. JW Marriott, 515 Mason St. at Post. www.sonyholland.com

Underwear Party @ Powerhouse Strip down to your skivvies at the weekly cruisy SoMa bar night. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhouse-sf.com

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tickets, Keith Addy, Richard Sablatura, and this columnist explored the facility completely, finally dancing in the main courtyard which had been incredibly transformed into a dance club, complete with wooden floors, monumental visual and lighting effects, enormous speakers, and extensive bar stations. The potential for such a location is infinite. But a prior commitment took us to Beatbox for their three-year anniversary, where we co-hosted with the vivacious BeBe Sweetbriar and congratulated Brian Kent and his team on three wonderful years of fun. Around midnight, singing sensation Matt Alber showed us a new side of his talent with two dance numbers that got the crowd going. As we quietly escaped into the night, after all that had already happened, it was hard to believe that the Parade had not yet taken place. At the crack of dawn, we rose, put on our best television look, and headed to the television headquarters on Market Street for the 44th annual Pride Parade. As co-anchor with Michelle Meow, we were ready for this gargantuan parade and celebration to begin. Once strapped into our electronic equipment and settled into our chairs, supported by

John Newmeyer (tight, with Donna) hosted a party at his historic home.

Val Klein, David Williams, and a fantastic team of support personnel, we welcomed the Dykes on Bikes as the parade took off. There is really no excuse to miss this historic event anymore; whether you live here or practically anywhere in the world, our live coverage is available streamed online, giving you the chance to celebrate with us. Assisted by Joel Riddell, Dean McCarthy, and Davey Wavey, and charmed by colorful contingents, outrageous floats, lively bands, and heartwarming service groups, we

Pride Party in City Hall Photos by Steven Underhill

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an Francisco’s annual LGBT Pride parade includes a celebration in City Hall’s rotunda, with dancers, performers, cocktails and a cool break from the hot day. Drag acts, hunks and hunkettes, even one of our veteran out gay politicians, Barney Frank, enjoyed the event.

felt this SF Pride Parade was one of the very best and the hours flew by. We ended with the VIP Party at City Hall, running into Anita Martini, Deena Cartier, Daft-nee Gesuntheit, and others, quickly exhausting the last of our energy and calling an end to our celebration of SF Pride. We hope yours was incredible and encourage you to show your pride all year long and consider giving some of your time and energy to helping next year’s celebration continue. Happy Pride to all!t

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orn at Frameline38? It’s not to be expected. But documentaries about it are another thing, and this year there were two. One was the short, Wham, Bam, mr. Pam, and the other was the fulllength, Mondo Homo: A Study of French Gay Porn in the ‘70s. There is such joy to mr. Pam. Other than reliable skill, that might be the dominant quality that sets her apart from other sexographers. Since it’s unknown when or where a 27-minute documentary short may show up for your screening, I’ll encapsulate some bits of it. Most clearly, the movie shows how Pam’s enthusiastic and effervescent personality makes instant friends of most everybody, and certainly puts her male performers at ease. She was born 42 years ago, right here in San Francisco, and actually does have a last name— Doré, which she does not use professionally. She debuted as a filmmaker— don’t ask me the route that got there—by making, of all things, a fisting feature. Talk about jumping right in. Not too long after, feeling obligated to try a conventional career, she gave the corporate world a try. Talk about jumping right out—cubicles and office towers and 9 to 5 weren’t for this free-wheeling woman. So, in 1995, she directed her first feature for Falcon Studios. Since then, she’s worked for most of the mainstream companies around. In 2008 she began a fifteen-film stint at Lucas Entertainment, and then returned to her home town, where she’s been making films for NakedSword. Aware of her nearly unique status as a woman making gay porn, she quips, “As a counterbalance to being female, I like to hire hot guys” (whereas I hire hot guys to counterbalance my boner). Still, says the

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Mondo Homo: A Study of French Gay Porn in the ‘70s was a disappointment. The house was packed when the movie started, but a constant trickle of departees throughout the showing was telling. Although the film’s description in the Frameline 38 catalogue is typically overstated, it’s right in claiming the film’s importance. The movie gives a clutch of pioneering pornographers a chance to tell their story. Yet the viewing of the movie is quite a chore. The content is unfocused, the sound recording an assault (magnified by the atrocious sound system of the Victoria Theatre), and the

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it owned some seventy-three 16mm movies that were passed and certified by France’s National Cinema Centre (which would tax films depending on the type of hardcore content). The directors engaged turn out to be, in the words of one of them, “real guys just like the audience.” They were working-class gay guys doing drugs and having sex. Lots of sex. And filming it, with themselves not infrequent onscreen performers. Mondo Homo makes clear some of the trans-Atlantic cultural exchanges of the day’s porn—from France to the U.S., there were live sex shows, the S&M-ey tone of the films and the questionable claim of the French invention in the early ‘70s of “a cinema you could fuck in;” while from the U.S. to France, there was leather, PAs, and Jack Deveau. Something that was endemic to the porn of both countries was its celebration of the era’s permissions, which to one French director meant “Mad times, loads of money, and the feeling of liberation.” Yet that freedom was constrained by French taste, which didn’t include the American inclusion of romance and uplift. “Sordid is what’s typical in [French] porn,” explains one director.

bisexual director, “sometimes the lines get really blurred.” Why’s that? Her simple explanation is, “I have this gay energy.” However you quantify it, it’s her energy and unflaggingly up-beat personality that are her hallmark. Although I’m sure she was born with these traits, they were kicked into higher gear several years ago, when both her father and sister passed away within a short period. That has informed a tireless work ethic. “My role in life is to entertain adults,” she says, and explains her gung-ho nature when she warns, “Don’t regret not doing it right.” Her last words in the movie? “I’m mr. Pam and I’m a proud gay pornographer.” I’m glad to admire the filmmaker herself as much as I have her films. I hope you all get a chance to see this movie.

So, while the drone of Mondo Homo encapsulates an important verbal history, the grungy type of porn we see in its faded clips isn’t reward enough for slogging through the film.t

too-short, sexually explicit clips accompanying the director’s recollections hardly feature their movie’s best or most iconic moments. I saw many of the movies depicted in Mondo Homo when they were screened at the Nob Hill and other local porn houses. And they were just as dreary then as Mondo Homo makes them out to be now. Even so, the movie is not without its entertaining bits. The most surprising reveals a clandestine visit to a porn film set by acclaimed di-

A bootlicker tongues it, in a screen grab from Mondo Homo.

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