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Pride parade shows love, resistance A city panel has recommended that Terminal 1 (shown here as an artist rendering) at San Francisco International Airport be named after slain gay supervisor Harvey Milk.

Panel says name SFO Terminal 1, access road for Harvey Milk

Community grand marshal Alex U. Inn leads the Resistance contingent in Sunday’s San Francisco Pride parade.

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he advisory panel tasked with naming a terminal at San Francisco International Airport after gay icon Harvey Milk is recommending it be the under renovation Terminal 1. It is also advising city leaders to name the airport’s access road after Milk.

It is now up to the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee to decide to accept the See page 10 >>

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his year’s San Francisco Pride parade was big on love and resistance, as hundreds of thousands of people lined Market Street to take in colorful contingents and those that vowed to keep fighting the policies of President Donald Trump.

As the 10:30 a.m. start time neared

Sunday, June 25, people of all ages, races, and backgrounds, many decked out headto-toe in the colors of the rainbow, lined the street waiting for the 47th annual San Francisco Pride parade.

The parade was a chance to celebrate individuality, freedom, and, as this year’s theme stated, “A Celebration of Diversity.”

With this, however, came a strong message

Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks at the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club’s Pride Breakfast June 25.

CA adds 4 states to travel ban list

by Matthew S. Bajko

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tate employees in the Golden State are now banned from using taxpayer money for nonessential travel to eight states with the recent addition of Texas, Alabama, Kentucky, and South Dakota to California’s prohibited travel list. Professors, students, and athletic teams at state universities and colleges must also abide by the restriction.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the expansion of the states covered by the travel prohibition policy at a news conference in San Francisco last Thursday, June 22. The move came just days prior to the city’s annual Pride parade and less than a week after the Bay Area See page 10 >>

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Struggle with tents for SF’s homeless continues

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of resistance against the Trump administration and its derailment of rights and its policies that affect the LGBTQ community such as his travel ban, his promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the spread of hate-filled rhetoric against marginalized communities.

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an Francisco officials are continuing to struggle with addressing the issue of homeless people whose only shelter are the tents lining many city sidewalks. Specific data on the size of the problem and how much change there’s been is hard to find, but progress appears to be slow.

Last year, then-Supervisor Scott Wiener wrote to city agencies asking them to provide data on how many tents there were, and how many people were occupying them, among other queries.

In their April 2016 response, Human Services Agency Director Trent Rhorer and other officials said, “While we do not have a specific count for tents on our streets, we know there are approximately 3,500 people living unsheltered and there are estimated to be 100 encampments,” which the city defined as “groups of more than two staying together.”

Sam Dodge, deputy director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said in an email to the Bay Area Reporter this week that according to the city’s Homeless Outreach Team “and recent survey efforts, we found nearly 600 tents in San Francisco. This is a very dynamic number with some tents being used as storage and others with two or more people. We’ve found an average of one person per tent.”

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Keith Devill sits in his tent on Division Street.

Asked in an interview whether he thinks there are more tents or fewer than last year, Dodge said, “It’s hard for me to have an objective view on it, to be honest. I spend a lot of time in encampments. ... There’s definitely been a huge rise in the use of tents over the last five years, that I can say unequivocally, and not just in our community, but also in communities up and down the West Coast.”

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Dodge added, “I think that the goal of the city is to have no one living unsheltered,” but “it could take a while” to get there.

“To the extent that someone may use a tent in the middle of the night is relatively less controversial than the idea that people are going to set up permanent camp sites or semi-permanent campsites that make accessibility difficult” for people in wheelchairs or parents pushing strollers, along with other issues, he said.

“To have people step into the street to walk around encampments ... that’s a problem,” said Dodge.

In their April 2016 letter to Wiener, who’s now a state senator, city officials said there were “1,203 beds in the adult shelter system. In March 2016, there was an average vacancy of 59 beds or 5 percent per night.”

According to data Dodge provided this week, the average vacancy rate is still 5 percent, indicating that anyone who wanted to get one of the city’s shelter beds may have a hard time.

The number of adult shelter beds hasn’t changed, but the city has opened two new Navigation Centers, which offer homeless people a place to bring their belongings and pets and stay with their partners. The city now has 231 navigation or temporary shelter beds, See page 10 >>

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ver the past 33 months members of San Francisco’s Homeless Outreach Team have routinely been engaging with homeless individuals in the Castro district to offer them a wide array of services. It can be as simple as handing out a free pair of clean socks to more involved assistance such as medical care or locating a place to stay for the night.

Known as Castro Cares, the initiative launched in the fall of 2014.

It is a joint effort by the Castro/ Upper Market Community Benefit District and a number of other Castro-based neighborhood groups.

Between September 2014 and April of this year, the most recent month for which data has been released, the outreach workers have encountered 4,154 people as they made their rounds through the city’s gayborhood.

An overwhelming majority, 63.5 percent, has engaged with the HOT members. One offer of assistance the outreach workers can usually make is to reserve a person a bed

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Homeless Outreach Team members Charles Garcia, left, and Elester Hubbard offered assistance to a man sitting on a Castro district sidewalk in this 2016 file photo.

at a shelter for the night. (On 23 occasions as of the end of April, a reservation could not be made due to there not being a bed available.)

As the Bay Area Reporter noted in a December story about the program, a significant number of the people living on the streets that the HOT members encounter agree

to be referred to one of the city’s homeless shelters for the night.

Through the end of April a shelter reservation had been made for 480 people, or 18.2 percent of those who engaged with the outreach team.

But according to the most recent Castro Cares encounter report, just a fraction of those individuals, 20, had

utilized their shelter reservations. In most cases, the individual is required to arrange their own transport to the shelter later that day.

“Shelter bed referral does mean that a reservation is actually made and it is guaranteed, but only the most frail get driven to the shelter,” noted CBD Executive Director Andrea Aiello, adding that even if a reservation is made “the individual may decide not to go.”

Aiello told the B.A.R. she believes a main reason for why so few people make use of their shelter reservation is because they are not provided with transport to the shelters. It is an issue she has discussed with the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, “because I think it is better to actually take them there if a reservation is made ... no matter what their ambulatory status is. ... this has not been HOT’s policy... but as you can see, something on the city’s end is not working.”

This spring, during an editorial board meeting with the B.A.R., the director of the city department, Jeff

Kositsky, said he doesn’t have the funds to provide such transport.

“We have a limited amount of resources and we deploy them where we can,” said Kositsky. “We do have a contract for therapeutic transport but it has limited availability.”

On Monday Kositsky’s department released its first progress report and disclosed it would issue a strategic framework in August “outlining a radical transformation of the Homelessness Response System and clearly defined, obtainable goals for the next five years.”

The department has also been working with the city controller’s office on restructuring the Homeless Outreach Team. Randy Quezada, a spokesman for the homeless department, said Tuesday it has heard from the community of the need for better transit services.

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Burrito Project SF delivers to the hungry

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nce a month, Jimmy Ryan and his crew of volunteers cook and deliver 600 burritos to hungry people, most living on the street.

Ryan, a gay man who is a line cook at Mission Bowling Club, started Burrito Project SF last year, after helping start a similar effort in Los Angeles for several years.

“It’s people coming together to help people,” said Ryan as he prepared 50 pound pans of rice at the Martin de Poores House of Hospitality, where volunteers come together on the last Monday of each month. Martin de Poores, or Martin’s, as it is affectionately known, is an intentional community that serves meals and provides other services to the needy and homeless at its headquarters at 225 Potrero Avenue.

Ryan, 29, first got the idea to cook and deliver meals while working at his family’s Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles, when volunteers from a nonprofit asked the Ryans to donate food for the homeless.

“I wanted to see what they were up to,” said Ryan, “and thought there might be others, like me, who’d like to get together to help

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Burrito Project SF volunteers Michael Walters, left, Eric Tuvel, and Jimmy Ryan.

hungry people.” He started a burrito project in downtown Los Angeles, where there are now a handful of people delivering food to the hungry and homeless.

When Ryan moved to San Francisco a few years ago, he decided to launch a group here, which quickly attracted volunteers and donations, allowing it to feed 600 people.

More than one-fourth of the volunteers are people who knew Ryan

from his volunteer work at the Castro Country Club, the LGBT hub for the recovery community in San Francisco.

Among those is Billy Lemon, the country club’s executive director, who volunteers regularly at Burrito Project SF. “It’s the best of San Francisco coming together,” Lemon said in an interview at the project.

Monday night, Lemon was among the 50 volunteers who cooked, assembled, and delivered 600 burritos, adding two single-room occupancy hotels to the dozens of homeless encampments where the project normally delivers.

Volunteers begin to arrive at 4 p.m., and, after donning aprons and hairnets, are put to work cooking.

By 5, a line forms to assemble, fold, and wrap the homemade burritos.

“We are so happy to have the Burrito Project working here,” said Naji Ali, a longtime member of the Martin’s community. “What they’re doing is very close to our heart. Now some of their volunteers also volunteer with us and ours volunteer with them.”

The final task each evening is coordinating the delivery of the burritos to locations nearby where people are known to be living on the street.

That job is handled by Eric Tuvel, a volunteer who is a city planner for San Francisco and formerly worked at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Tuvel heard about the project through a bicycle group email list, came to help with deliveries, and “was immediately hooked,” he wrote in an email to the Bay Area Reporter.

Thanks to social media, volunteering with the Burrito Project has increased dramatically, to the point where slots for the delivery squad fill up within days of issuing an announcement, said Tuvel, a straight ally.

“I think the simplicity of the project really speaks to people.

Make a burrito and deliver it to someone who is hungry. Many people walk by people on the street who are hungry or marginally housed and they want to give them some food. Burrito Project SF is giving people a way to do that and start a conversation with someone on the street,” he said.

“I’ve definitely seen how the project has helped change the perceptions of our volunteers,” he added.

“Maybe now they are less likely to cross the street when walking down a sidewalk with a lot of tents or

maybe they’re more likely to say hi and start a conversation.”

As the project grew, a few of the regular volunteers help Ryan organize each month’s event, and also work on ways to expand their reach through partnerships with other homelessness and housing service providers, Tuvel said. Two months ago, the Burrito Project began partnering with the Tenderloin Community Housing Clinic to deliver burritos to residents at two of their buildings, he added.

For Ryan, the work with the burrito project introduced him to Martin’s, where he now volunteers at least once a week.

Volunteering with the burrito project has had a “ripple effect,” said Ryan.

“I find it is helping me to have more empathy for people from all walks of life and I am having more conversations with people about the insecurities of life in San Francisco,” he said. “And now, this group has become my family.”t For information on volunteering or donating, visit www.burritoprojectsf.org.

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resident Donald Trump scored a victory this week when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of his travel ban that denies entry to some people from six majority-Muslim countries. It’s scheduled to go into effect Thursday. And while it likely won’t be as chaotic as the sudden start to his first travel ban in January, it will probably be contentious and lawyers who work with travelers expect litigation.

Monday’s decision by the justices, which came in an unsigned order that also stated the court will take up the travel ban case this fall, shows once again that the Supreme Court grants significant leeway to presidents’ power in matters of national security. Trump, of course, wasted no time in declaring a “clear victory.” What’s not so clear is what will happen to LGBT refugees from those countries. Based on what the justices wrote, it appears many of them will be unable to come to the U.S. The countries named in Trump’s order are Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Under the parts of the travel ban that the court allowed to go into effect, anyone from the six countries is prohibited from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Refugees won’t be able to come to the U.S. for 120 days, and the ban limits their numbers to 50,000 per year (down from 110,000). But the justices put some limits on the ban, ordering that people from those six countries can come to the U.S. as long as they have what the court called a “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.” Such relationships are ties to family members, students accepted by an American university, those

accepting jobs in the U.S., or those invited to give speeches. The problem, of course, is that the majority of LGBT refugees have no such “bona fide” relationships here; most of them are fleeing homophobic governments, religions, or families in an effort to live safely in this country.

“They usually don’t have a close familial relationship (unless they have their partners/spouses in the U.S.),” immigration attorney Okan Sengun told us. “This is very alarming.”

In the six countries that Trump lists, being gay is punishable either by death or imprisonment. According to a 2016 article in the Guardian, in Iran, sodomy is a capital offense, as it is in Sudan and Yemen. In Libya, Somalia, and Syria, people can be imprisoned for being gay. As the paper noted, the problem in these countries is that even if the laws aren’t regularly enforced, their existence sends a chilling message to LGBTs and is evidence of official disapproval of homosexuality, reinforced by the fulminations of religious scholars.

Two years ago, gay Syrian refugee Subhi Nahas addressed the United Nations Security Council and recounted his government’s anti-gay campaign and raids of known gay social hangouts, arrests, tortures, and said some people were not heard from again at the beginning of Syria’s civil war in 2011. Things got worse in 2012, Nuhas said, when Jabhat Al Nusra, a branch of al-Qaida, infiltrated his small town of Idlib, north of Damascus. At a mosque, the militants promised to cleanse the town of “those involved in sodomy,” and used as their example an effeminate man they had arrested, Nahas said. More sweeps followed, in which people were arrested, tortured to confess their sins, and killed.

International LGBT organizations were mostly silent on the travel ban developments this week. But they should quickly join with other organizations and speak out against Trump’s discriminatory measure. Federal Judge Derrick Watson said earlier this year that there was “significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus” behind Trump’s revised ban.

When he was a candidate, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of the entry of Muslims to the United States.” Now that he’s president, Trump says it’s not a Muslim ban. And, conspicuously, the list of banned countries doesn’t include any in which Trump does business.

Once the 120-day limit has expired, LGBT refugees from the six listed countries likely will have to look elsewhere if they don’t have a connection to the U.S. Trump and the Supreme Court are undermining the notion of the U.S. as a country that welcomes immigrants and stands as a beacon of freedom for people seeking a better life. In front of the entire world, we are seeing how fleetingly fragile our freedom really is.t

A data-driven approach to ending homelessness

by Jeff Sheehy

living with one or both parents prior to experiencing homeor 17 years, I worked at lessness. It is worth noting that UCSF’s AIDS Research each situation is unique and Institute helping tell the many of these young people story about groundbreaking are fleeing some type of abuse. research on HIV prevention Nevertheless, 38 percent of and treatment. That experiyouth reported having a supence led me to help found portive adult in the Bay Area. the Getting to Zero InitiaFor some of these young tive, which is dedicated to people, immediate intervenending new HIV infections tions like Homeward Bound Jane Philomen Cleland in San Francisco, ending can end the cycle of homepreventable HIV deaths, and Supervisor Jeff Sheehy speaks lessness. In Fiscal Year 2015at a news conference earlier ending HIV stigma.

2016, some 880 homeless inThrough our Getting to this month announcing money dividuals benefited from this Zero work, we have seen for transitional youth housing crucial program that links firsthand that the toughest programs. homeless people to a parent challenges in HIV prevention or other caring person and and care are linked to issues related to housing pays their transportation to return home. instability. Homeless individuals face far greater Another interesting data point shows that barriers to accessing primary health care services just 18 percent of unaccompanied youth 24 and taking the necessary steps to prevent new and under are sheltered, compared to 97 perinfections. The co-morbidity of homelessness cent of families and 42 percent of single adults. and injection drug use contributes to countless That’s why I believe it is so critical that the hepatitis C infections and hinders our efforts to city’s next Navigation Center focus end new HIV infections. on transitional age youth. This As I began this job as District 8 supervisor, requirement was written into the I realized just how few decisions on homelessBoard of Supervisors’ legislation ness are made based on data and proven apmandating Navigation Centers. proaches. If we want to end homelessness in The location of a transitional San Francisco, we must review the data and youth Navigation Center is less act on it. The best report in our limited data important to me than the cominventory is the Point-In-Time mitment to address Count, a federally mandated a group where more report that is updated every two than four of five people years. Here are my observations are living on our streets. on the report, and its impact on Finally, the budget process providour LGBTQ communities. ed a bit of relief for homeless young Young people are more likely people, especially those in District to be LGBTQ and from outside 8. Together with Mayor Ed Lee, we of San Francisco. Of the 1,363 funded $1.54 million of localized seryouth under 25 years of age on vices in District 8 – dedicated youth our streets, 49 percent identify as LGBTQ. outreach, expanded service and meal hours at Only 56 percent of these youth said San the LGBT Community Center, and subsidies Francisco was their place of residence at that provide exits from homelessness for these their time of housing loss – 28 percent reyouth. While the funding is important, I also ported another county in California and 16 believe we are bringing much greater attention percent come from out of state. Among all and focus to these young people. homeless individuals, 69 percent were from Although the Board of Supervisors’ San Francisco originally. phase of the budget is not yet over, I worked Of note, 50 percent of homeless youth reported hard on the budget committee to focus our

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recommendations to the full board to further tackle the homelessness crisis based on data: • During the hearing I called on homeless youth earlier this year, we learned that there are no dedicated beds in residential substance abuse or mental health treatment specifically dedicated to transition-age youth. The budget committee recommended $800,000 for this purpose.

• After meeting with LYRIC at its Collingwood Street space, I became convinced we should do more on youth employment.

As part of our district budgets, I proposed $175,000 of additional funding in District 8 for this priority.

• Working with Theresa Sparks, the mayor’s senior adviser on transgender issues, and community members, we committed to fund greater support as trans people leave incarceration and require specialized re-entry assistance. We invested $300,000 for in-custody trans services and another $330,000 to assist once trans individuals re-enter society. These investments will prevent homelessness in this very vulnerable population.

Earlier this year, I told the Bay Area Reporter that I supported subsidies for seniors and adults living with disabilities. The Dignity Fund provided $500,000 and the board added $1.5 million to meet this critical need identified by leaders in our LGBT community.

Spending more money on homelessness without demanding real results must not be our approach. However, these new and targeted investments recommended by the board give us a chance to finally use data as we develop a plan to end homelessness in San Francisco. I look forward to reporting to the community on the impacts of these vital investments in the years ahead.

Finally, I always welcome your views on homelessness policy and my office is prepared to provide direct assistance to neighbors, business owners, and homeless individuals in District 8.

Please don’t hesitate to call (415) 554-6968 or email me at jeff.sheehy@sfgov.org.t District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, who was appointed by Mayor Ed Lee in January, is running in the June primary to serve out the term.

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For me, homelessness is personal

by Rafael Mandelman

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and sent right back out the door. The city spends millions of dollars a year on emergency treatment for chronic alcoholics and drug addicts who pass out on the streets but hasn’t fully invested in getting people sober. That needs to change.

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omelessness has been a problem in San Francisco for most of my life. I was a high school intern working in City Hall over the summer of 1990, as Mayor Art Agnos struggled to resolve the giant homeless encampment that had taken over Civic Center Plaza. Agnos eventually cleared the plaza but he wasn’t able to solve the larger problem, and neither have the four mayors who succeeded him.

Although there have been homeless folks on our streets for decades, a number of factors – development in areas of the city where the homeless were formerly concentrated, the rise of the tents, the spread of opioid and meth addiction, the loss of facilities for the treatment of the mentally ill – many San Franciscans sense that the situation on our sidewalks and other public spaces is worse today than ever before.

San Franciscans are rightly horrified by the misery we see on our streets. Sick and addicted people are living in encampments and on our doorsteps, and people suffering from severe mental illness have been abandoned to wander our neighborhoods, each in their own private hell.

We need an independent voice in City Hall who is laser-focused on solving this crisis, who will go beyond rhetoric and isn’t afraid to hold the bureaucracy accountable. I will be that person, because for me, it’s personal.

I was 11 when my mother’s mental illness started her spiraling down a path that led her into repeated hospitalizations, and, eventually, homelessness. I had to grow up fast, finding myself housing, getting myself on MediCal and to doctor’s appointments, and finding my way through middle school and high school.

As an adult I was able to secure a guardianship for my mother, and find her the long-term care she needed.

I’ve experienced firsthand how sick people can fall into homelessness and what it takes to get them off the streets, and I know that with hard work from our elected representatives, San Francisco can end the tragedy that’s playing out every day on our sidewalks and in our parks, plazas and transit stations.

Here are my top three priorities for homelessness in San Francisco:

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3. End the cycle of chronic homelessness.

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1. Get severely mentally ill people off the streets and into care.

Leaving mentally ill people on the streets is dangerous and immoral.

San Franciscans are a compassionate people but we’re not qualified to deal with people suffering from psychotic breaks on our sidewalks.

During the last eight years the number of emergency psychiatric beds at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital was cut from 88 to only 44 beds. That means that hundreds of mentally ill men and women have been released directly on to the streets with little to no support, many of them still in hospital clothes.

As supervisor I will work to dramatically expand our capacity to care for people with severe mental illness.

That means investing in more public psychiatric beds, requiring private health care providers in the city to shoulder their fair share of the burden, and establishing new facilities for longer term in-patient care.

2. Support sobriety.

Every person who has a friend or family member who’s gotten clean will tell you when an addict is finally ready to end the cycle of addiction, there isn’t a moment to lose.

Unfortunately, a homeless person who’s hit rock bottom and walks into a hospital in San Francisco is shown the way to a two-week waiting list

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Not everyone who needs care is going to seek it voluntarily. There are people like my mother, who are unable to make the decisions that can save their lives – and these people can’t be just left on the streets to slowly die alone.

We need to do a far better job of tracking the so-called frequent flyers, who are regular users of emergency medical services, and who are regularly revolving in and out of our jails. And we need to use that data to secure public guardianships for individuals who simply cannot be left to care for themselves.

We are a city of tolerance in a nation of laws, and no one wants to revive the horrific mental institutions of the past.

But San Francisco should be leading the charge to change state law to allow us to secure treatment for individuals who may resist it, but are clearly incapable of caring for themselves.

Converting our streets and jails into the mental institutions is neither humane nor cost-effective and it’s making our neighborhoods unlivable.

Too often politicians focus on aspects of homelessness that score them political points but shy away from addressing the inconvenient reality of a growing chronically homeless population. While focusing on youth and families is admirable and important, City Hall’s failure to bring in the thousands of sick adults on the streets has left everyday San Franciscans fed up with half-answers and false starts.

We simply cannot continue to spend this much money and have so little to show for it.

As Mayor Ed Lee’s administration enters its final years, it’s time to bring fresh minds to the homeless problem and create a plan to end street homelessness for good.

But that means bold new leadership in City Hall that will demand solutions – I’m ready to do that work. t

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SRO task force calls for gender-neutral bathrooms

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ingle-room occupancy hotels in San Francisco would be required to designate their single-stall bathrooms and shower facilities as gender neutral under a policy the Board of Supervisors is expected to take up later this year.

The San Francisco SRO Task Force voted 6-3 at its meeting June 15 in support of updating the city’s housing code to require genderneutral bathroom signage on singlestall facilities in SRO hotels, which house many low-income and formerly homeless individuals.

“If they have gender-based signage they have to change it,” said Jordan Davis, a transgender woman who serves on the SRO oversight

body and has been advocating for the code change. “Whether it is single toilet rooms, shower rooms or a combined toilet and shower, they have to remove the gender-specific signage and not have signage or have signage making it be gender neutral.”

Doing so would bring the SRO hotels in line with city and state laws that require businesses and government-run buildings to mark all single-stall toilets as for use by anyone. San Francisco’s policy went into effect last summer, while the state provision became law in March.

The laws are meant to protect

transgender people, as well as gender nonconforming individuals, who may feel uncomfortable using gender-specific public facilities for fear they will be harassed or attacked for doing so.

Neither the local law nor the state law, however, covered SRO hotels.

“I’ve seen a couple incidences in hotels with single-use bathrooms and DBI said the law didn’t apply,” said Davis, referring to the city’s Department of Building Inspection. “We need to clarify shower rooms are included and this applies to SROs as well.”

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Arkansas high court rebuffed in birth certificate case

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Gay singer makes his debut with SF Opera

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arking his debut with the San Francisco Opera during its summer season has been Reginald “Reggie” Smith Jr. The gay black baritone from Houston has been performing as Count Monterone in the celebrated company’s production of “Rigoletto.”

His character in the Italian opera puts a curse on the title character and a duke with mixed results.

Reviewing the production in the San Francisco Chronicle, critic Steven Winn described Smith as “firm-voiced.”

In the second act “they are leading me off to the dungeon. It doesn’t end well for me,” joked Smith, 28, who met with the Bay Area Reporter at a Castro coffeehouse to talk about life as a globetrotting opera singer.

For the last two years he has traveled the world singing with different opera companies and symphonies. During the 2016-2017 season, Smith made his company debuts with Opera Memphis, Dallas Opera, and Opera Carolina. He also traveled to Russia last spring and performed in three different cities, including Moscow.

“It was an interesting culture that in some ways reminded me of growing up in the South,” said Smith, who saw his first opera at the age of 16. “Atlanta is still the belt buckle of the Bible Belt.”

Born and raised in Atlanta, Smith is the youngest of five siblings. He graduated from the University of Kentucky, where he earned degrees in vocal performance and choral music education (K-12), and in 2013 was accepted into the Houston Grand Opera Studio. He spent two years in the program, which serves as a paid internship for young artists.

“They help guide your career,” he

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Reginald Smith Jr. performs as Count Monterone in San Francisco Opera’s production of “Rigoletto.”

explained. “You also perform on stage with mainstream artists. These are the top performers in the world. You go from singing with them on YouTube to singing with them on stage.”

He went on to be a grand finals winner of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a prestigious competition for upand-coming talent.

“You get immediate exposure, for sure, with companies, agents, managers. People like to hear who the new singers are,” said Smith, who has since been recognized on the street by strangers who saw him compete. “It is like someone put a gigantic magnifying glass over you.”

The exposure from performing with the Bay Area company helps to draw interest from other opera houses around the world, noted Smith, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. He has already booked several roles with opera companies for the 2017-2018 season and will be making his debut in October with Opera Hong Kong playing the role

of Amonasro in “Aida.”

“It is important to make these big opera house debuts. It can lead to other major opera house debuts,” Smith said.

His sexual orientation has never been an issue, said Smith, pointing out that the operatic art form has long attracted gay men to it, as both performers and audience members.

“Do you think something this fabulous would have flourished without the gays?” asked Smith, saying of his current role, “You get to put on knee-length leather boots, a cape and a fierce hat and you get paid to do it!

“The nature of our business is so open, welcoming, and accepting. I found a home in opera,” he added.

“If you can sing and act, we don’t care who you are doing your business with.”

Opera also attracts many black male performers, he added. But it is a challenge to be cast in a leading role as a black man, acknowledged Smith, saying he can count “on one

hand” the prominent black male opera singers of today. In 2015 the Associated Press reported that Opera Philadelphia had made history for being the first to cast two African-Americans, Eric Owens and Morris Robinson, in the lead roles of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

“What’s cool about this event is that we do spend an awful lot of time being the only black person in a room, in a company, in a town sometimes,” Owens told the news service.

Smith called the men “trailblazers” for opening doors for younger black male singers like himself.

“I find it interesting, and always have, that being gay is no big deal.

Hell, in some places it might help you,” he said. “And being black is no big deal, until it comes to certain roles or doing certain things.”

Smith pointed out to the B.A.R. that the script for “Rigoletto” doesn’t specify his part is that of a “while Italian man.”

“It doesn’t matter what your skin tone is. We are telling stories of people,” said Smith.

He lamented the fact that, despite their talents, black male opera singers who do break through are often not well known. He pointed to Robert McFerrin Sr., who is less well known than his son, Bobby McFerrin, and isn’t found on music-listening services.

“He was the first African-American male to sing at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera. He had a huge career; he sang Rigoletto. It is outrageously good,” said Smith, who tracked down a recording of the performance on eBay. “But the only way to hear it is on LP and you need a record player to hear it. You can’t hear it on Spotify. You can’t listen to it on CD or re-watch it on YouTube.”

His weight has also been an issue at times, with some casting directors preferring someone skinnier

for certain roles, particularly if the production will be broadcast on TV. It also is reflected in the adoration of “barihunks,” with websites fawning over muscled opera singers, the majority being white men. (A search of the barihunks blog found it had twice mentioned Smith but had not used his photo.)

“Yes, I deal with it a lot as a big person,” said Smith, who complimented those opera companies that eschew such casting decisions. “They understand what moves people is not how you look but how you perform on stage. People appreciate good singing.”

Despite the challenges, Smith hopes he can breakthrough with his career.

“You be the best you can be and strive to be the best person in the room. I try to let everything else play out and don’t get caught up in people not hiring me because I am gay or black,” he said. “You learn to just do your thing.”

When not on the road performing, Smith lives in Houston with his cat Leo and his partner of two years, Gregory McDaniel, 30, a musician, choral teacher, and conductor.

Smith also enjoys teaching young singers and can see someday working as a music professor.

“I like to say when I feel my voice, my brain, and my body telling myself it is time to go back to the classroom I will work with high school kids teaching them jazz, opera, R&B, and great classical music,” said Smith. “As much as I wanted to do that, it is not how life worked out.”t To learn more about Smith, visit his personal website at www. reginaldsmithjr.com.

Tickets to the final performance Saturday, July 1, of SF Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” can be purchased online at sfopera.com/.

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overnment workers and others gathered at San Francisco’s Federal Building to discuss progress for LGBTs and their personal stories at “Federal Pride: The State of Pride 2017.”

Although he was barely referred to directly, President Donald Trump and his anti-LGBT administration provided a reality check for those celebrating Pride Month.

Roberta Steele, regional attorney for the San Francisco district of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told the 70 or so people attending the June 22 event, “At times we feel hopeless and fear we are moving backward,” but with the efforts of the EEOC and others, “hate will not prevail, ultimately.”

After the national anthem was sung, Elizabeth Kristen, an attorney with Legal Aid at Work, said, “We need to come together as the home of the freer and the home of the braver. ... I know that we all can achieve equality and that we all have to continue this fight together.”

Gay California Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) provided a legislative update that included several bills he authored or co-authored, including Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act of 2017, which would allow people to choose “non-binary” as the gender on their birth certificates and other documents.

Although the state “has not always been on the leading edge of LGBTQ equality,” that’s changed, and “the Legislature at this point is absolutely on the cutting edge,” said Wiener.

Some indicated an event such as Federal Pride couldn’t have happened when they first started working for the government.

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Panelists at the Federal Pride 2017 event included, from left, Elizabeth Kristen, an attorney with Legal Aid at Work; moderator Roberta Steele, regional attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity commission; state Senator Scott Wiener; and FBI employees Lisa Gentilcore and Bertram Fairries.

Bertram Fairries, who joined the FBI in 1990, said that he couldn’t be out then because of “the possibility of being compromised,” and there was “constant fear of being outed.”

Among other roles over the years, Fairries served as a sniper, and, “I think I went out of my way to be hard,” he said. He eventually came out after being assigned to New York, though.

“It wasn’t this big, earth shattering moment. ... It was handled professionally,” and, “It took such a lift off me,” said Fairries.

He added that the event was the first time he’d openly discussed his personal experiences in a public forum, and “this was a challenge.”

However, he said, “I have a responsibility to each of you.”

Lisa Gentilcore, a lesbian who’s also worked for years for the FBI, recalled that when a question came up early on about her “alternative

lifestyle,” she first thought about how “I had been a vegan in college.”

She said she responded that the question about her “lifestyle” was true, but after the experience, “I was very careful about who I told I was gay. ... It colored how I entered the FBI.” Now, however, she said she can “interact authentically with the community we serve.”

The event also featured a memorial for transgender women who’ve been killed in the past couple of years and a list of the names of the people who were fatally shot in Orlando, Florida’s gay Pulse nightclub massacre in June 2016.

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The panel was established after voters last fall approved Measure LL with 83 percent in favor of it.

“The city of Oakland and our residents demand the highest ethical standard from our officers, whether they are in uniform or off-duty,” Schaaf said in a news release. “As an organization that is committed to constant self-examination and improvement, the creation of our first police commission is an important step in the process of moving our department forward and restoring public trust.”

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Kirkpatrick said she was not given an advance copy of the report and is now reviewing it.)

The new police commission, once it is up and running, will oversee OPD policies and procedures.

Measure LL also created a separate community police review agency to investigate police misconduct and recommend discipline.

Those interested in applying for a seat on the commission need to be Oakland residents and at least 18 years old. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 30.

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Diego County) in the evening hours of June 23, 2017.

In his early days in San Francisco, Danny was better known as the escort to Empress Cristal, the Black Swan.

During the first year of the existence of the Bay Area Reporter, Danny wrote short, pithy pieces under the pseudonym Cecil Knockher Worst Weatherbee.

Danny was also unofficially granted Dore Alley as the illegitimate son of the Emperor Norton and the Widow

Norton, Dowager Empress Jose.

Danny was a world traveler and in the 1980s owned two side-by-side residences in the old canal district of Amsterdam. He was a personal friend of the artist Frank Webber, better known as “Bastille,” and the leather designer, Rob of Amsterdam.

Danny will be missed by his partner, family, and friends.

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“We have to make a stand to ensure our rights don’t go backwards,” said Nick Parker, a 47-year-old gay man from San Francisco who proudly walked with the Resistance contingent, one of the first in the parade lineup. “We must stand our ground.”

Parker was among many people who walked with resistance groups at the beginning of the parade, including When We Rise activists and the board of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee. The groups exuded a more serious, political tone as members yelled into megaphones, “The people united will never be divided” as others passed out fliers to the crowd on information about universal health care.

Marchers held signs that read “Black Lives Matter,” “No Ban, No Wall,” and “Gay Rights are Human Rights,” as others raised their fists encouraging the crowd to chant along, “No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA.” One gay man, a spectator, removed his sunglasses revealing tears coming from his eyes as he watched the resistance crowd pass by. Standing next to his husband, Steve Mallory of Burlingame wiped away tears. When asked why he was emotional he answered, “Just seeing this large group stand up against this horrible situation we find ourselves in.”

He talked about the struggles he has faced as a gay man, and how amazing it felt to be around so many like-minded and passionate people willing to fight against discrimination, fear, and exclusivity. He spoke of the importance of protesting.

“We’ve seen the options if we do nothing,” Mallory, 61, said.

It was the roar of more than 300 motorcycles that got the resistance groups’ powerful energy going.

Dykes on Bikes, a nonprofit lesbian motorcycle organization, opened the parade. This year’s Pride was especially important for the group.

It was marking its 41st anniversary and members also applauded a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing groups to trademark names that some might find disparaging. Dykes on Bikes had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Slants, an Asian-American band that sought to trademark its name. Last week the court ruled 8-0 that it could.

“This changes everything for us,” said Kate Brown, president of Dykes on Bikes. Brown, 38, said this year the group is representing its strength no matter what forces are against it.

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Men walked with the leather contingent in Sunday’s Pride parade.

“No matter what’s going on in the world, everyone here is out and proud and brave enough to say ‘I’m a dyke on a bike.’”

As Dykes on Bikes rode past the crowd, fists up and some dressed as World War II icon Rosie the Riveter, the resistance movement followed.

“Forty-seven years ago Pride started out as a protest,” SF Pride board President and KOFY personality Michelle Meow said during the televised broadcast, which aired Sunday evening. “We expect our community to come together.”

Cordell speaks out

At the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club’s annual Pride Breakfast Sunday morning at the Hyatt Embarcadero, retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell delivered a blistering critique of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans.

“I want to give a shout-out to Crystal Griner,” Cordell said, referring to the married lesbian Capitol Police special agent who helped save the life of Congressman Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) after he and others were shot on a baseball field outside

of Washington, D.C. “Let’s see what his voting record on LGBT rights looks like now,” Cordell added.

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recommendations or reject them and name a different terminal in honor of Milk, who was gunned down in City Hall the morning of November 27, 1978 along with then-mayor George Moscone by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. Milk was the first openly gay elected official in both San Francisco and California, having won a supervisor seat in 1977.

The Airport Facilities Naming Advisory Committee unanimously voted 8-0 on its recommendation at its third meeting Monday, June 26. Member Maggie Weiland was unable to attend due to an illness, and Bill Barnes, a gay man now working as an aide to gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, joined the committee to replace a gay mayoral appointee who was unable to make

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Reporter had inquired with Becerra if he would be adding the quartet of states to the list.

“In California we take seriously discrimination against any American,” said Becerra.

In recent months the governors in all four of the states signed antiLGBT legislation, which triggered Becerra’s taking action. Under a California law that took effect this year, he is required to add to the “no fly list” for state employees any state that passes laws that trample on the rights of LGBT people.

Becerra said he did not take the action “lightly” and hoped it would send a message to lawmakers in other states not to enact anti-LGBT laws. If they do, he vowed to add them to California’s travel ban list.

He said his preference would be to remove states from the list, which also includes Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas.

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of the agency responsible for overseeing development on Treasure Island.

Dunlop’s reappointment as a director for the Treasure Island Development Authority was approved by the Board of Supervisors June 6 and he was sworn in prior to the TIDA meeting June 14, according to the mayor’s office.

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The decision was expected, since the committee members at their first two meetings had indicated they would select Terminal 1 as their preferred choice. A consensus had also quickly emerged behind the road naming idea, first broached by Jim Lazarus, the senior vice president for public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

“We need to consider the airport access way,” said Lazarus this week, noting that the terminal naming idea is still controversial and the road naming could be an acceptable alternative.

Designating the first of the airport’s four terminals after Milk could present a unique marketing opportunity, panel members had indicated, since Terminal 1 is currently undergoing a $2.4 billion remodel that will be unveiled in stages through 2024 and draw years

of media coverage. They also had noted that christening the airport’s access road as Harvey Milk Way would mean all four of the terminals, as well as the airport itself, would be attached to the former supervisor’s name.

“There are some people in the community who may want something else,” said panel member Alex Walker, a gay man who is an aide to state Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco). “I hope the community makes its voice heard because this is the first step not the last.”

In May, airport commission President Larry Mazzola sent the naming committee members, the supervisors, and mayor a letter expressing his opposition to its naming a terminal after Milk. Four years ago the airport’s board created its own policy for naming areas of SFO, with one criterion being the person

had to have a direct connection to the airport, noted Mazzola. Unsaid but suggested by his letter was that Milk did not.

“I’m confused and frustrated that the board would spend time and resources on a duplicative policy body, overriding the hard work of our committee without ever consulting our committee, and believe the board committee’s mission to recommend a terminal be named at (SFO) flies in the face of the established Airport Naming Policy,” wrote Mazzola.

Gay former Supervisor David Campos had said he prefers seeing the international terminal be named after Milk. The airport naming committee arose from Campos’ initial proposal in 2013 to rename all of SFO after Milk.

But it would require voters passing a charter amendment, and Campos was unable to secure the

necessary votes at City Hall to place the idea on the ballot.

Lee and Campos ended up striking the compromise to name just a terminal after Milk. They proposed forming a naming committee and tasked it with recommending to the board and mayor which of SFO’s four terminals should bear Milk’s name.

Yet the panel had sat dormant because Lee did not name his five appointees to the nine-person body until earlier this year. The committee had three months to vote on a Milk terminal and opted not to discuss naming the other three terminals or any other airport facilities.

“I don’t think there is a need for another meeting. Our work is done,” said retired airport director John L. Martin, a gay man who was elected chair of the naming committee, at the end of Monday’s meeting. t

to clear this list and not be adding to it,” said Becerra. “This is the 21st century. There is no reason for states to deny their citizens rights.”

In an email to the B.A.R. John Wittman, a spokesman for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, expressed doubt that the travel ban imposition would have much impact on the Lone Star State.

“California may be able to stop their state employees, but they can’t stop all the businesses that are fleeing over taxation and regulation and relocating to Texas,” wrote Wittman.

Gay Assemblyman Evan Low (DCampbell), who authored the legislation creating the travel ban policy, praised Becerra’s decision.

“AB 1887 was enacted to ensure our taxpayer dollars do not fund bigotry or hatred,” stated Low, who also chairs the Legislative LGBT Caucus. “Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s action today sends a strong message that discrimination beyond our borders will not be tolerated.”

The addition of Texas to the state list is likely to present numerous issues for collegiate athletic teams.

Schools have tried to avoid scheduling games in the states governed by the ban, while a few have reportedly used private dollars to travel for games that could not be relocated.

As the Associated Press noted last week, Fresno State is scheduled to play football against the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa this fall.

A request for a legal opinion on whether public university sports’ travel is exempt from the ban has been filed with Becerra’s office, added the AP, but no ruling has been issued.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is reviewing whether to restrict employees of his county from traveling to Texas, as well as Kentucky and Alabama, for nonessential business.

The city’s policy also bans city departments from contracting with companies headquartered in the banned states.

Lee is expected to announce his decision within weeks. As of March the city’s list included Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas, and South Dakota.

Santa Cruz County bans Texas travel

Santa Cruz County officials last Wednesday banned the use of taxpayer money for nonessential travel by county employees to the state of Texas due to Abbott’s signing into law House Bill 3859, which allows child welfare organizations – including adoption and foster care agencies – to cite their religious beliefs as the basis for not working with LGBTQ couples and other individuals.

The Lone Star State now joins North Carolina and Mississippi on the central coast county’s prohibited travel list.

Because the county is at work passing a budget for Fiscal Year 2017-2018, Supervisor John Leopold had told the B.A.R. he would confer with the county counsel office in August about updating the states on the banned travel list. He co-sponsored the legislation that established it.

But after the B.A.R. went to press last week, county spokesman Jason

Hoppin informed the paper that county staff had reviewed the original resolution and determined they did not need the board’s permission to act.

The supervisors “delegated those decisions to staff. It’s official as of now,” wrote Hoppin in a June 21 email about the addition of Texas to the list.

He explained the county did so because “HB 3859 is totally inconsistent with the values of Santa Cruz County. Every jurisdiction should reexamine their business relationships with states that pass bills perpetuating discrimination.”

Hoppin added, “Beyond that, this bill does not have the best interests of children in mind. For example, Santa Cruz County has been very involved in foster youth issues and the difficult hurdles foster youth face as they transition into adulthood. The idea of allowing our community-based partners to rule out loving families based on sexual orientation goes against everything we stand for.”t

decisions “critical to the future of the former naval station,” the website noted.

free for seniors (AC Transit line 46 serves the zoo), and all other guests pay regular admission.

For more information about the zoo, visit oaklandzoo.org.

Rivera is a queer Latinx writer who penned Marvel’s latest series, “America Chavez” and is the author of “Juliet Takes a Breath.”

Adeyoha is a longtime two-spirit activist, educator, and community leader.

Other workshops, presenters, and performers are expected to be announced soon.

The conference will be held at Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, near the 19th Street BART station.

Until July 15, registration is $175

for a four-day pass, and $100 for a one-day pass. Organizers also offer financial aid, including scholarships, and help connect attendees with community housing.

For more information on the conference, visit http:// www.butchvoices.com/.

For financial aid and scholarship information, click on http:// www.butchvoices. com/financial-aid/.

For community housing information, visit http:// www.butchvoices.com/communityhousing/. t

from being constantly in the public eye, which is really tiring for folks, especially women,” said Friedenbach.

every week, and a re-encampment prevention team that works with the San Francisco Police Department and Public Works to ensure that encampments that have been “resolved” don’t re-form.

This August, the Homelessness and Supportive Housing Department will release its strategic framework, “outlining a radical transformation of the Homelessness Response System and clearly defined, obtainable goals for the next five years.”

Mayor Ed Lee has proposed a $245 million budget for the Homelessness and Supportive Housing Department, a 12 percent increase over the agency’s 2016-17 budget.

Dodge said that the city has several plans to address the crisis, including a 30-unit family shelter that’s supposed to open in July in the South of Market area and a Navigation Center with space for about 130 people that should be open in March 2018, also planned for SOMA.t

Oakland Zoo’s free senior days

The Oakland Zoo and City Council President Larry Reid have announced a series of free admission days for seniors (age 65 or older) who currently live in the city.

The dates for the summer program – all Mondays – are July 17, August 21, and September 18.

The zoo is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seniors should bring Oakland resident identification. Parking is

Butch Voices confab coming to Oakland

Butch Voices, a group for women and trans people who identify as masculine-of-center, will hold its national conference August 17-20 in Oakland and tickets are now available.

The theme is “Reconnect. Recharge. Resist.” Organizers said that the keynote speakers will be Gabby Rivera and Koja Adeyoha.

be interested.” He isn’t quite sure how to get into one, but “I could find it if I really put my efforts into it.” said Dodge. There are also Jennifer Friedenbach, ex59 units where families can ecutive director of San Franstay for three to six months, cisco’s Coalition on Homeamong other spaces for lessness, said that only “about homeless families, he said.

5 or 6 percent” of the city’s But people who are living homeless population are livon San Francisco’s streets ing in tent encampments. regularly say they don’t want “We don’t see a huge into go into one of the city’s crease in the number of peoshelters, citing fears rangCynthia Laird ple in tents, but we see them ing from getting robbed to Tents crop up on Stevenson Alley, near Gough being pushed into different bedbugs. areas,” said Friedenbach. As One of the most common Street. people get displaced from areas for encampments has and identifies as bisexual, said that encampments, they often have no been the sidewalks along Division he doesn’t want to be around other place else to go, and “they move to Street in the South of Market area. people “because 99 percent are on another location ...That has been A long, elevated section of Highway drugs and alcohol.” the predominant feature of our tent 101 stretches over many of the tents, City workers told him to leave the encampments, just being constantly providing shade and shelter from spot three to four weeks ago, but he moved around.” the rain when it comes. doesn’t want to go to a shelter.

She’s surprised there aren’t actuMany of the tents sit in rows, one “I like to be by myself,” he said. ally more people staying in tents. right next to the other, but Keith “ ... Tight quarters. Lots of people.

“So many others don’t have even Devill, 46, has placed his tent in a Drugs. Bullshit. I don’t need it.” that little modicum of shelter and spot that’s at least half a block from Asked about going into a Navigalevel of privacy to change your any of the others. Devill, who first tion Center, Devill said, “I guess I’d clothes and just have some respite came to the spot a few months ago

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Report on homeless agency’s first year

The city’s Homelessness and Supportive Housing Department started forming in June 2016 and officially launched last August.

This week, the department released a report with data from last June until May 2017.

According to the report, the agency “Worked to resolve encampments at 11 sites.” Staff engaged 461 people and made 329 placements in a Navigation Center or “other safe places.” About 25 percent “of encampment clients found permanent housing,” the report says.

In August 2016, the department launched its Encampment Resolution Team “to identify and resolve encampments based on the size, public impact, and acuity of need.”

There’s also now an encampment working group that meets

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Wild, happy party

While the Pride parade started on a serious note, later contingents were intent on celebrating, and some, like Equality California, combined the exuberance with “Resist” signs. The elaborate floats came out, each more colorful than the next, the music began to blare, and the sequined costumes started to shine as the sun broke and the fog cleared.

Floats from major corporations came one after the other in the parade’s estimated 250-contingent lineup. Netflix, McDonald’s, Salesforce, PG&E, and Amazon, or in the parade, “Glamazon,” were there in support of the LGBTQ community.

The city was also well represented with groups representing the San Francisco Fire Department, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), and many members of the Board of Supervisors, including board President London Breed, who used the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love as her theme.

Nonprofits taking part included the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which received this year’s Heritage of Pride Community Award.

One 16-year-old girl rode on the Next Generation Scholars float, an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities to underserved youth. Miya Matsuishi, who identifies as bisexual, was a couple inches taller on parade day in her gold boots with knee-high rainbow-colored socks.

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Sistah Boom, now in their 36th year, took part in the 25th annual Dyke March.

She danced and waved on top of the colorful float adorned with hundreds of paper flowers and youth from all over the Bay Area holding signs they spent hours making. Matsuishi said this year was especially important for NGS to be here because of what some of her fellow students hear on TV and in the hallways at school.

“Pride is especially important this year,” said Matsuishi who attends San Francisco University High School. “This administration is dredging up a lot of transphobia, homophobia, and racism, that has been hiding under the surface and our community feels that. It’s been a rough couple of months, but this is a time for us to escape that for a few hours.”

Confetti filled the streets as the parade went on for hours. People took photos of themselves with selfie sticks, ate hot dogs from the stands, and watched as colorful vehicles passed by and men

Political Notebook

From page 5

It is already city policy for SRO hotels to provide a water closet, a lavatory, and a bathtub or shower situated either within individual rooms or off the exit corridor on the same floor. For single-stall facilities situated outside of a hotel guest room, the housing code would be updated to specify they “shall be made available for the use of all residents regardless of gender appearance or identity” and that the “signage on single stall facilities shall indicate the same, or state only ‘toilet’ or ‘shower.’”

“This is an important issue,” James Sanbonmatsu, the acting chief housing inspector for the Department of Building Inspection, told the SRO task force members.

Sanbonmatsu, who oversees code enforcement outreach and is the SRO Collaboratives program manager, said once a supervisor signs on as a sponsor of the code amendment then the city attorney’s office would draft the required legislation.

It would first need to be approved by the DBI code advisory committee then by the seven-member citizen Building Inspection Commission before being taken up by the supervisors.

“Amending the housing code is a process,” said Matt Luton with DBI’s Housing Inspection Services, who helped craft the proposed wording for the housing code amendment.

“What we want to achieve is to make sure all the facilities are made available to everybody.”

The SRO task force sent all 11 members of the Board of Supervisors an email last Wednesday, June 21, to inform them of its request about amending the housing code.

It is unclear how many transgender people reside in the hundreds of SROs in the city, as that information is not tracked.

“As for the number of trans people in SROs, it would be hard to say in terms of concrete numbers, but given our general economic

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A city task force has recommended gender-neutral bathrooms in single-room occupancy hotels.

marginalization plus the significant trans populations in the TL, SOMA, and Mission, I’d venture a lot,” wrote Davis in an emailed reply.

The office of District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission where a number of SROs are located, is looking into the bathroom signage issue. Her aide Carolina Morales told the Bay Area Reporter she could not give a timeframe, however, for when Ronen would introduce any legislation.

With budget negotiations underway, Morales indicated it likely wouldn’t be until after the board’s summer recess.

“The issue is very important for the supervisor,” said Morales. “We need residents of all genders to have access to the bathrooms they need to utilize regardless of how they identify.”

Bi candidate enters East Bay Assembly race

For the second time in four years, bisexual East Bay Municipal Utility District board member Andy Katz is running for the open 15th Assembly District seat. The incumbent, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), is running to be the state’s superintendent of public instruction after serving two two-year terms in the Legislature.

“We need leaders in Sacramento who will continue to push California to a strong future for our environment, our schools, and our

in stilts wearing red speedos and wings waved to the crowd. Balloon Magic, always a colorful contingent, this year paid tribute to rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker, who died in March.

Straight allies embraced their LGBTQ friends and stood along the sidelines with smiles on their faces.

For one parade participant, Alex Azevero, 39, who walked with Latinos de Ambiente, a nonprofit San Francisco group that supports gay Latinos, it doesn’t matter who is in charge or the challenges the LGBTQ community will face. Azevero believes as long as the communities stay united, they will be OK. “It doesn’t matter who’s the president,” he said. “There will always be change and issues to fight against, but we must always stay united. If the community stays together there is nothing they can’t do.”t Cynthia Laird contributed reporting.

community. In the Assembly, I will put my experience as a workers’ rights attorney to work for you, so we can fight for single-payer health care, improve our public education system for our kids, and strengthen our climate protection laws,” wrote Katz, 37, in a June 21 Facebook post announcing his candidacy.

A Berkeley resident, Katz is the government affairs director at Breathe California. He abandoned his first bid for the legislative seat in 2014 due to a lack of financial support and endorsements from community groups and local leaders.

He instead won re-election that fall to his EBMUD seat, in which he has served for 11 years now, and his current four-year term expires December 31, 2018. If Katz does not survive next year’s June primary, where the top two votegetters regardless of party affiliation in the Assembly race advance to the November ballot, he could opt to run for re-election to the EBMUD board.

The Assembly district includes the cities of Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Hercules, Kensington, Piedmont, Pinole, Richmond, San Pablo, Tara Hills, and a portion of Oakland.

Katz is the second out candidate to enter the race. Lesbian Richmond City Councilwoman Jovanka Beckles is also running for the seat and last week won an early endorsement from the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club in San Francisco. Lesbian Berkeley school board member Judy Appel also plans to join the race but has yet to officially do so.

Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb is running for the seat, as is former Obama campaign aide and White House staffer Buffy Wicks, who lives in Oakland.

Should one of the out candidates win the seat, they would be the first LGBT state legislator from the East Bay. If Beckles is elected, she would be the state Legislature’s first out black LGBT member, while Katz would be its first bisexual legislator.t

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037627500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOES N PAWS SITTERS, 101A CLAY ST #316, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PHILIP RODGER ARCA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/23/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/06/17.

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037629900

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JIN POT, 5158 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAY FOODIE CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037613500

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037620800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KARISSA BIESCHKE DESIGNS, 106 PARNASSUS AVE #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KARISSA NICOLE BIESCHKE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037613100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO BOOTBLACK & MS. SAN FRANCISCO BOOTBLACK, 10439 SW 42ND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97219. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELIZABETH SIBLEY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037611400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J POWER ELECTRICAL, 742 KIRKWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARLOS JIMENEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/25/17.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037620900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO SEGWAY TOURS, 2545 POWELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed EVLOGIA AP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037623700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAYES CLEANERS, 68 EVERGLADE DR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed MANPING ZHOU & ZAITONG TANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037616900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR LLC, 1150 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/24/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/17.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037415200 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: LUCKY CAT DESIGN CO.; LUCKY CAT DESIGN, 2411 CHESTNUT ST #304, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by SARAH WOHL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/09/2017.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037346600 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: LUCKY CAT DESIGN COMPANY, 2411 CHESTNUT ST #304, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by SARAH WOHL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/09/2017.

JUNE 08, 15, 22, 29, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037630800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: L K HEALTHCARE, 551 FAXON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YANG LI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/17.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PARC 55 SAN FRANCISCO A HILTON HOTEL, 55 CYRIL MAGNIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PARC 55 LESSEE LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/04/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/17.

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037620200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOTEL TRITON, 342 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed DCP JL TRITON SF, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/17.

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037632000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PETER GOWLAND PHOTOGRAPHY LLC, 3171 25TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PETER GOWLAND PHOTOGRAPHY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/07/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/17.

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037637100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SEA SCAPE INN, 4340 JUDAH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed RASAN INVESTMENTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/17.

JUNE 15, 22, 29, JULY 06, 2017 SUMMONS LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: COOMBS PROPERTIES, ET AL.” YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: ANGIE BAGDASARYAN AND ZARUI ADJIAN CASE NO. LC104582 Notice: You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service.

If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Los Angeles Superior Court 6230 Sylmar Avenue Van Nuys, CA 91401.

The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is:

MARVIN LEVY, ESQ.; (SBN 101042) 12340 SANTA MONICA BLVD., STE. 234, LA, CA 90012 (310) 571-2320.

Date: 09/01/2016; Clerk, by Sherri R. Carter, Executive Office Clerk.

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Classifieds>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-17-553111

In the matter of the application of: IN HWAN HO, 880 43 RD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner IN HWAN HO, is requesting that the name IN HWAN HO, be changed to IN HWAN HEO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 10th of August 2017 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037639900

Th e f o l l o w i n g p e r s o n ( s ) i s / a r e d o i n g b u s i n e s s a s : AC R I D D C, 7 5 9 2 0 T H AV E , S A N F R A N C I S C O, C A 9 4 1 2 1 .

Th i s b u s i n e s s i s c o n d u c t e d b y a n i n d i v i d u a l , a n d i s s i g n e d D AV I D AC R I . Th e r e g i s t ra n t ( s ) c o m m e n c e d to transact business under the above listed fictitious business n a m e o r n a m e s o n 0 6 / 1 4 / 1 7 . Th e statement was filed with the City a n d C o u n t y o f S a n Fra n c i s c o, C A o n 06/14/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037645500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A-TRACK CLEANERS, 5442 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LE HIEN THNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/19/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037642200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KANNON GOODS, 1201 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HOVIN WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/16/17.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/16/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037631000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEREZ CONSTRUCTION, 551 44TH ST, RICHMOND, CA 94805. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVERSON PEREZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/17.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037639300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO ATM NETWORK; SF ATM NETWORK, 3473 17TH ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JACOB MALEKZADEH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/05/17.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLASH DRAFT, 239 DUNCAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DRAFT PARTY INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037629100

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037637700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PERFECT EDGE, 562 BANKS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALIREZA SABOURI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/07/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037639400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: UNIVERSAL FLOW MONITORS (CHINA), 2211 YORBA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DAPRO CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/14/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037639200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 1243 28TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CIVIC SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/04/17.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037634200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLACKWELL INC., 3173 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BLACKWELL INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/09/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037613800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC UNION PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, 1699 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PACIFIC UNION INTERNATIONAL, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/05/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/13/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037639000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PERFECT PUFF, 1376 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PERFECT PUFF, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/08/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/14/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037641900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAXFIELD’S HOUSE OF CAFFEINE, 398 DOLORES ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MAXFIELD CAFE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/17.

JUNE 22, 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037650800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SNOW, 2175 MARKET ST #K, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL HO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/20/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/20/17.

JUNE 29, JULY 06, 13, 20, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037652700

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF OTTO E. HOFFMAN IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-17-300996

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of Otto E. Hoffman. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Werner Heisserer in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that Mario Avila and Werner Heisserer be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: July 19, 2017, 9:00 am, Probate Dept. Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioners: Mr. Aaron M. Palley (260544), 6200 Antioch St. #202, Oakland, CA 94611; Ph. (510) 339-0233.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037644700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GROW YOUR FUNNEL, 44 TEHAMA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PETER CHENG WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/13/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/17.

JUNE 29, JULY 06, 13, 20, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037641300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BERRIES, 566 YALE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHAUN MITCHELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/15/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/15/17.

JUNE 29, JULY 06, 13, 20 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037655600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TREECRAFT DISTILLERY; TREECRAFT SPIRITS; TREECRAFT CRAFT DISTILLERY, 849 AVENUE D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TREEHOUSE CRAFT DISTILLERY, LLC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/23/17.

JUNE 29, JULY 06, 13, 20, 2017 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036310700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: BUREAU, 498 WALLER ST #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LAWRENCE LI. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/17/15.

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JUNE 29, JULY 06, 13, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-037646000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA CORONA WELLNESS CENTER, 3326 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BCOK, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/25/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/26/17.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MANAGE, 1203 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JU LEE KANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/21/17.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BUREAU, 498 WALLER ST #9, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PHILIP TRAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/17. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/19/17.

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Edvard Munch: Me, myself & I

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“Self Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed” (1940-43), one of several selfportraits in “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed,” now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

he camera cannot compete with painting as long as it cannot be used in heaven or hell,” opined Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, who invites us into his tormented psyche, a private Hades that’s an unsettling but riveting place to be. Munch survived two world wars, lost his mother and teenage sister to tuberculosis, and was hospitalized in 1908 following a breakdown induced by alcohol abuse and hallucinations, events that may or may not explain the brewing subterranean disturbance that erupted in his most famous painting, “The Scream” (1893), an oftreproduced visual embodiment of a primal cri de coeur. Aside from that remarkable masterwork, Munch has been woefully under-recognized in the U.S., a situation remedied in part by the arrival of “Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed,” a thoughtful reassessment of the artist’s late career at SFMOMA. Organized along existential themes – love (or something like it), sickness, death and despair, howling visions, the bed, and the hour of the wolf – it features 45 paintings created between the 1880s and 1940s, with an emphasis on the last 30 years of his life.

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Mezzo-soprano Measha Brueggergosman, with backup vocalists Kara Dugan and Mikaela Bennett, in performance at Davies Symphony Hall.

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Marker our words

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it, gin. Delicious gin! Even sive features from the straight up or on the rocks! original architecture are hen Tratto restaurant in the Now Tratto was playing its high-domed lobby Hotel Marker asked Out our song. So we rolled into ceiling, two-story French There if we wanted to swing by for the Marker for dinner one inglenook fireplace, and a meal during Negroni Week earlier recent evening when their grand marble staircase. this month, we uncharacteristically charity beneficiary was the Our room for the night hesitated. First, what is Negroni SF-Marin Food Bank, a very turned out to be a junior Week? Turns out it’s a worldwide worthy cause we were glad to suite up on the 6th floor, promotion with over 6,000 particisupport. its windows overlookpating venues raising funds for the The eatery, in the space ing impressive views of charities of their choice, and formally the Grand downtown San Francisco. this year it raised over Café, offers what The sitting-room was $400,000 in a single they call “ruscomfortable, and the big, Courtesy Hotel Marker week. tic Italian fare barn-sized bed in the bedSecond, what is a with a modern Interior of Tratto restaurant in the Hotel Marker, room more than accomSan Francisco.

Negroni? The classic s e n s i b i l i t y.” modating. In true Joie de recipe has but three We started with Vivre style, the furniture ingredients: Campari, a plate of Ginwas quirky and diverse. octopus. We sure were baby-killers gin and vermouth. But Pickled Vegetables If it were a dinner service, nothing that night!

Tratto was offering (Beefeater gin, carrots, would match, but it would still feel Dessert offerings, if we ate destheir own variations: fennel, leaks), because like someone got out the good china. sert, but we don’t, included Italian the Negroni Rabarwhat can we say? We A thoughtful someone had put out a donuts in a bourbon-caramel sauce, baro, with rhubarbrelate to gin-pickled vegnice bottle of Californian wine, so we polenta almond torte, or houseinfused gin, Lo-Fi sweet vermouth etables. They were yummy, baby got comfortable. To the Marker and made gelato or sorbet. Tratto also and Campari; and the Negroni Tratto, color us much obliged. We carrots absolutely pungent with makes limoncello in-house, and Float, with Pixie Tangerine Sorbet, had a grand San Francisco adventure. gin. And you know, baby anything boasts quite a decent dessert wine Campari Granita and Campari. is a delicacy. Then we enjoyed some list from California and Italy.

The problem: OT doesn’t drink Close finish Oregano-Orange Salami Pizza To our surprise and delight, the anything that could be characterized Closing night of Frameline 41, (charred spring onions, Nduja-toMarker offered us a room for the by the words “sweet,” “vermouth” or the San Francisco International mato sauce, Fontina, spicy honey), night so we didn’t have to stumble “pixie.” But we were assured that we LGBTQ Film Festival, topped off a tasty appetizer. For our entrée we home in a gin- and cephalopodcould order instead anything with a festive LGBTQ Pride Day last couldn’t resist the special, a perfectly besotted haze. Also, now we have that magical third ingredient in Sunday night at the Castro Theatre. composed Risotto topped with baby more to describe.

First-time feature director Vincent Best Wedding Photographer An iconic turn-of-the-century Gagliostro’s “After Louie” screened, building at the corner of Geary and as voted by BAR readers and the film’s star Alan Cumming Taylor streets, the Marker, a Joie was presented the 2017 Frameline de Vivre hotel, was built in 1910 as Award by SF film-world fixture the Bellevue Hotel. Dapper in its Marc Huestis. The flick, the Castro Beaux Arts style, the most impres-

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This will serve as your reminder that San Francisco Opera’s free Opera at the Ballpark simulcast of “Don Giovanni” is happening this Friday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. at AT&T Park. Renowned (and sexy!)

Italian bass-baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo ignites the stage with his celebrated portrayal of the libertine Don Giovanni. The international cast also features Erin Wall as Donna Anna, Ana María Martínez as Donna Elvira, Sarah Shafer as Zerlina, Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Don Ottavio, Erik Anstine as Leporello, Michael Sumuel as Masetto, and Andrea Silvestrelli as the Commendatore.

The simulcast performance will transmit live from the stage of the War Memorial Opera House using state-of-the-art technology in highdef to the 103-ft.-wide scoreboard at AT&T Park. Concert-quality audio, combined with the ballpark’s massive screen, should make for a thrilling open-air operatic experience.

The simulcast is free and open to the public. Pre-registered attendees with printed confirmations will be given early entrance to the stadium at 5 p.m. The rest get into the ballpark beginning at 6 p.m. Info: sfopera. com/simulcast.t

Head over heels

by Richard Dodds

in-headlights stage fright to an increasingly confident purveyor t’s not surprising when Casey of Edith Piaf angst before creatloses his gig as an Elvis impering his own confident countrysonator at a bar along the Floriwestern persona with costumes da Panhandle. What’s surprising created from his spangled Elvis is that he was ever hired at all. At jumpsuit. least that’s the impression after The costumes designed by Adam Magill performs a few Kara Harmon are something of moments of “Jailhouse Rock” a starring character in their own at the start of “The Legend of right, and they are offered up in Georgia McBride.” It’s not likely careful coordination with Jason that playwright Matthew Lopez Sherwood’s shape-shifting set, WINNER intended this character to be Kurt Landisman’s lighting, and Best Wedding Photographer quite such an unconvincing Chris Houston’s sound design.

Best Wedding Photographer as voted by BAR readers Elvis, but the good news is that’s But finally it is Kraig Swartz, all we ever see of Magill’s Elvis. as Miss Tracy Mills, who gives 415 As a straight, married, ever-optithe play a heart. He delivers the Kevin Berne mistic father-to-be, Magill turns top-drawer drag entertainment 370 out to be much more persuasive Kraig Swartz as a veteran drag (his Streisand in her see-through 7152 as Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, entertainer prepares an out-of-work Elvis WEDDINGS, HEADSHOTS, PORTRAITS Oscar-night pantsuit emoting to impersonator played by Adam Magill for stevenunderhill.com · stevenunderhillphotos@gmail.com and even, after a clumsy start, “Don’t Rain on My Parade” is a sudden performance as Edith Piaf in some French lady he’s never choice stuff), and he also deliv“The Legend of Georgia McBride” at Marin heard of named Edith Piaf. ers on the hard-won gravitas Theatre Company.

The antediluvian man-inthat centers the play amid the Steven-2x5.indd 1 6/26/17 4:09 PM a-dress device gets a happy backstage wisecracks. inspired moment, Magill starts out reprieve in Lopez’s play, now Jason Kapoor definitely with Dolly quietly singing “I Will at the Marin Theatre Company, displays versatility as both Tracy’s Always Love You” before transformwith the comedy enhanced by the flakey, hard-drinking, and ultimateing into Whitney for the pull-outsensitivity of a mentor-mentee ly injured stage partner, and as Casey the-stops version. I do wish somerelationship that develops between and Jo’s brewski-straight friend and thing fresher than the Weather Girls’ a veteran drag queen and the conlandlord. It’s not Kapoor’s fault that “It’s Raining Men” was used for the flicted Casey, who hides his new gig his drag character must deliver a big production number. from Jo, his pragmatic wife played heavy-handed sermonette on hoCasey has been pressed into drag with spasms of warmth by Tatiana mophobia. John R. Lewis completes service when half of the drag act Wechsler. The play shuttles between the cast as the bar owner in beachhired to replace his Elvis show falls humdrum scenes of Casey’s home bum togs whose outfits increase in victim to a roller-skating DUI aclife and scenes at the bar, where luxury as business somewhat imcident. But Miss Tracy Mills, the Casey blossoms as a star attraction probably booms among all the fans leader of the drag act, has a show under the drag name Georgia Mcof drag in Panama City.t Best Breakfast & to put on, and Casey hardly has Bride. That’s where the production Best Late-Night Restaurant time to register his hetero shock as blossoms as well, and energy wanes “The Legend of Georgia he is being thrust into wig, stockwhenever the play returns to life at McBride” will run through July ings, dress, and makeup before 9 at Marin Theatre Company. home with Casey and Jo. being pushed on stage. In a kind Tickets are $25-$60.

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Magill’s Casey moves from deerdoesn’t always smooth over those 40th year! obstacles. But if this isn’t a particularly slick production, it delivers when it needs to. Working with choreographer Dell Howlett, Gash cranks up the energy in several cavalcades of lip-synced drag turns that This week, find arts writer Tim Pfaff’s review of involve quick changes and bravura Benjamin Taylor’s new memoir, “The Hue and Cry at Our House: performances. There’s Judy and A Year Remembered,” online at ebar.com.

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Originally scheduled as an “American Mavericks” concert, the title was changed to more appropriately describe the concept of the program, and also to entice new listeners into the mother ship. Adding a lot of bells and whistles with costuming, theatrical lighting and video projections also added to the appeal and actually worked remarkably well for everyone in the larger audience. Regardless of varying attention spans, this was a night intended to entertain and provoke all.

Stationing musicians onstage and throughout the hall created a dreamlike ambience for the opening pieces by Charles Ives, the greatest American maverick composer of them all. “From the Steeples and the Mountains” served as a thrilling prelude to the following “The Unanswered Question.” Trumpeter Mark Inouye was spot-on with his haunting solo, and Christian Reif conducted the mysterious offstage string ensemble. Atmospheric video

by Adam Larsen was projected on four large sail-like panels behind the orchestra, and subdued lighting by Luke Kritzeck re-created the moody feel of the more intimate SoundBox experience.

Of course, everything on the bill was meant to attractively frame the West Coast premiere of SFS Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas’ own composition, “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind” (2016), text by Carl Sandburg (1920). Frequent SFS collaborator James Darrah directed soloist soprano Measha Brueggergosman and vocalists Mikaela Bennett and Kara Dugan in a curiously cheerful semi-staged performance of MTT’s setting of Sandburg’s dystopian poetry.

The once-intensely-relevant writer has been underserved by musicians, despite the inherent musicality of his verse. The dark vision of “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind” is sharply pertinent today. MTT has been tinkering with it since 1976, and has finished at just the right moment. In the wake of current world events, the vision of a crumbling nation, and of a great city left to the crying of crows and the surviving rats and lizards, is an impassioned and timely alarm.

In Darrah’s staging, the Cassandra-like soloist sheds her initially somber costume by Dona Granata to walk more resplendently about the stage with equally glamorous back-up singers punctuating her sobering pronouncements. Brueggergosman has an astonishing range that covers everything from sultry band singer to operatic diva, and she seemed perfectly at ease with all of MTT’s demands.

With the fascinating visuals of Larsen and Kritzeck enhancing the trio’s impact, it was a little harder to assess the music itself. Even

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upon first hearing, and despite the admittedly attractive window dressing, MTT’s music resonates with impressive force. One can hear some Gershwin and maybe even Bernstein at the edges, but there is individuality to the score that has only been hinted at previously. It is a substantial piece that deserves repeated listening. With a storied career and fabulous musical influences to inspire him, it was thrilling to see MTT conducting his own composition.

The second half of the exciting night was given to SFS Associate Concertmaster Nadya Tichman in a repeat of her highly praised appearance at SoundBox performing Music from Suite for Violin and American Gamelan by gay icon and American maverick Lou Harrison (with Richard Dee). Tichman was mesmerizing once more, and the exquisite score offered a lovely interlude before the concert’s raucous finale.

George Antheil’s “A Jazz Symphony” (1925, original version) really let MTT’s theatrical instincts take off with his own conception for the stage. Co-directing with Broadway legend Patricia Birch, who added characteristically professional choreography, fearless leader set DSH aglow with all of the panache of the Roaring Twenties.

Pianist Peter Dugan was in the foreground; SFS musicians were seated bandstand-style, with Tilson Thomas conducting. The terrific dancers were Kiva Dawson, an adorable kewpie-doll chorine, and Erin N. Moore, a naughty and sexy temptress, seducing members of the orchestra and cheering the audience. The video by Clyde Scott was stunningly appropriate.

I don’t know how their union felt about SFS musicians joining in the dance, but they were surprisingly adept, and if they don’t tell, we won’t, either.

Previous weeks at DSH were also filled with knock-out performances by guest conductors Susanna Malki in a heart-pounding Stravinsky “The Rite of Spring,” and Vasily Petrenko emphasizing the elegance and rhythmic precision of Rachmaninoff ’s Symphony No. 1.

Guest artist superstar violinist Joshua Bell was another highlight of Petrenko’s visit, with a predictably flawless and sinuous rendition of Lalo’s “Symphonie espagnole.”

This week brings some more dream-casting center stage at DSH as personal and Northern California favorites, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Nicholas Phan, and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni join Ragnar Bohlin’s rightly admired SFS Chorus and the Orchestra for Berlioz’s wonderful “Romeo et Juliette.”

The performances are being recorded for later release by SFS Media.

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Deep in the heart of Dixie

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lesbian women and their children, whose constitutional and human rights are put on hold while the state’s white Christian oligarchy fights a rearguard battle against justice, led by a right-wing state judge, Roy Moore.

Cari and her wife fight a nineyear battle for joint custody of their

son, born with a potentially deadly heart condition. Meanwhile, an African American mother, Kinley, has to battle her ex-hubby for custody despite evidence that his new wife has physically abused their young son. The filmmakers make clear that this campaign for the legal rights and humanity of Alabama’s

“Alabama Bound” filmmakers at Frameline 41, including director Carolyn Sherer (center, with glasses).

LGBTQ minority is an extension of the historic fight for equality of the races, although, happily, this new struggle is being fought largely without the bitterness and violence that marked earlier battles for racial justice.

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The richness of their stories is greatly enhanced by the film records that some have kept of their embattled family units. It’s impossible, while watching these families fight power-hungry autocrats like Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, not to reflect on how their battle for freedom tracks cases from earlier struggles, such as the 1954 Supreme Court ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education, or the 1973 court opinion Roe vs.

Wade, a ruling that opened a Pandora’s Box on abortion rights that is still playing out in the courts, in the legislatures, in the halls of Congress, and in every presidential election.

Films like “Alabama Bound” may teach us what legal language such as “all deliberate speed” means in a place where generations of good country people have been taught to view Supreme Court edicts with the same suspicion their parents and grandparents once held towards news from distant lands like Russia. The film contains, in its 83-minute running time, an encapsulation of every great step towards a more perfect union in this nation of laws. The B.A.R. recently spoke with filmmaker Carolyn Sherer about the implications of her film.

David Lamble: How did “Alabama Bound” come to be made?

Carolyn Sherer: The film sprang from a 2011 photography exhibit at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. People liked it. It put a human face on these very personal stories. There was an Associated Press [AP] story, and we started getting calls from all over the country. I made the film not because I had a great desire to be a filmmaker, but because I wanted LGBTQ Alabamans to be able to tell our own story.

The story has a classic villain, Judge Roy Moore.

Yes, he got removed from the bench once for keeping a copy of the 10 Commandments in the state capitol building, and he wouldn’t remove them even in the face of a Federal court order. Then he was reelected as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and he was removed again for telling judges not to marry gay people, basically.

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Further reading: Summer 2017

by Gregg Shapiro

edited by Kevin Bowen and Nora Paley, with an introduction by George Saunders, compiles 34 of Grace Paley’s poems, along with some short stories from Paley’s acclaimed collections “Later the Same Day,” “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute” and “The Little Disturbances of Man,” as well as a number of her essays.

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hether you read at the beach, in the backyard, in bed, or in the bathtub, these books will definitely enhance your summer reading experience.

Novel ideas

The second installment in magazine editor and cultural writer Georgette Gouveia’s The Games Men Play series, “The Penalty for Holding” (Less Than Three Press) tells the story of backup quarterback Quinn Novak, whose triumph on the playing field gets him noticed by Mal and Tam, players on opposing teams, leading to a different kind of scoring.

Lesbian Y/A author Nina LaCour, who collaborated with gay Y/A novelist David Levithan on 2016’s “You Know Me Well,” returns with her new book “We Are Okay” (Dutton), in which best friends Marin and Mabel are reunited in New York after Marin left California with only her wallet, her phone and a photo of her mother.

Queer Canadian visual artist and writer Shani Mootoo’s latest novel “Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab” (Akashic) follows the journey of writer Jonathan as he searches for the mother who left when his parents divorced.

“My Cousin Rachel” (Sourcebooks Landmark, 1951/2017) by bisexual writer Daphne DuMaurier (“Rebecca,” “Don’t Look Now”), is now a film directed by Roger Michell, and starring Rachel Weisz in the titular role. The novel has been reissued with an introduction by Michell.

The tumultuous, creative and ultimately tragic life of Isadora Duncan, the bisexual mother of modern dance, is given the novel treatment in “Isadora” (FSG) by Amelia Gray.

A fertile “crop” of writers, including Keith Glaeske, James Penha and Evey Brett, contributed to the “men and vegetation” anthology “His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica” (Unzipped), edited by Steve Berman.

More words & pictures

Marianne Moore, one of the pioneers of poetic modernism, finally gets the thorough compendium that she has long deserved with the fully annotated and comprehensive “New Collected

Poems” (FSG), edited by Heather Cass White,.

Award-winning CaribbeanAmerican writer and Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Champion Aja Monet takes us from East New

York to the South Side of Chicago and beyond in her latest poetry collection “My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter” (Haymarket Books).

“A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry” (FSG),

Endorsement blurbs from Alison Bechdel and Roz Chast adorn the back cover of “Everything Is Flammable” (Uncivilized Books), the full-length graphic-memoir debut

by Gabrielle Bell, about the New York-based alternative cartoonist’s attempts at improving her mother’s life following a fire that destroyed her home.

Fans of Garbage (the band, of course) are going to be happy (and not only when it rains, as the song says) with the coffee-table book “This Is the Noise That Keeps Me Awake” (Akashic), written by Garbage (Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker) with Jason Cohen, and crammed full of color and black & white photos, band interviews and much more.t

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“The Songs We Know Best: John Ashberry’s Early Life” (FSG) by Karin Roffman is described as “the first comprehensive biography of the early life” of gay poet John Ashbery, who turns 90 this summer.

The author of 20 volumes of poetry, Ashbery received the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.”

“The Dog’s Last Walk (and Other Pieces)” (Bloomsbury) by Howard Jacobson, author of the 2010 Man Booker Prize-winning novel “The Finkler Question,” is the second collection of the writer’s weekly columns for the Independent, which he wrote for the paper until it ceased publication in 2016.

“Roger Ailes’s New Enlightened Code of Sexual Conduct,” “What I Saw at the Movies” and “Dream On, You Motherfucking Mother” are just a few of the hilarious essays in writer-performer Jenny Allen’s new book “Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas” (FSG).

Mary Mann, author of “Yawn: Adventures in Boredom” (FSG), combines “interviews, research and personal experience” in writing about lethargy, tedium, mundanity, monotony and disenchantment.

Poetic style

“Jackknife: New and Selected Poems” (University of Pittsburgh Press) by Jan Beatty opens with 22 new poems, such as “The World Between Jim Morrison’s Legs,” and features poems from her four prior books “Mad River,” “Boneshaker,” “Red Sugar” and the acclaimed “The Switching/Yard,” including “Dear American Poetry.”

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French revenge

by Erin Blackwell

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oka is what the French call mocha, and it’s also the color of the Mercedes at the center of the intrigue of a film called “Moka” (2016). The car has killed a child, and the child’s mother goes rogue, turns detective, and tracks down the car’s owner. The police are nowhere in sight, giving free rein to Mom’s revenge fantasies. Mom buys a gun with the help of a young drugdealer she picks up on a ferry. That’s about all I can tell you about the plot because the rest would be spoilers.

The rest you can see for yourself starting this Friday at Opera Plaza in San Francisco, and the Shattuck in Berkeley.

“Que la bête meurt” (1969), a film

by Claude Chabrol based on the book “The Beast Must Die” (1938)

by Nicholas Blake, is a masterpiece of cinema. I only watched it because “Moka” is considered its softer female version. Strange that I’d been wishing while watching “Moka” that Chabrol had directed it. Turns out he already had, with his signature mix of fine detail contextualized by sophisticated social critique. But that was then, and this is now. There’s no point holding up every feature film released to the standards of 50-yearold films, is there? So I’m focusing on gratitude to “Moka” for revealing to me its superior predecessor.

The newer version of what is fundamentally a very old revenge story is based on a 2006 book of the same name by Tatiana de Rosnay, which flips the protagonist’s gender.

We first see Diane rummaging around for her dead son’s cell phone without having the slightest idea what she’s doing. The film’s simplified intrigue is dribbled out to make it last. Diane lives in Lausanne, Switzerland, the death-car is registered in Evian, France, so she takes the ferry across Lake Emmanuelle Devos in director Frédéric Mermoud’s “Moka.”

Geneva and stakes out the owner’s house and minutes of “haute tension” (high her brilliant regard, her calm, nay tracks her to a beauty salon. Frédéric tension) in “Moka.” Otherwise, she’s serene delivery, she stuns the viewer Mermoud’s fluid direction specialdriving a car, sleeping in a car, not with the sixth sense that is beauty. izes in close-ups that supply scant answering her dead son’s vibrating There are women like that in real visual details to ground the action. cellphone, resisting her long-suflife, and some of them run pricey Emmanuelle Devos was such a refering husband’s attempts at reason, boutiques in lakeside resorts, which liably eccentric supporting actress in and stalking a blonde beautician in a makes Nathalie Baye perfect castfilms like “A Christmas Tale” (2008), picturesque spa town. ing. She’s the other half of the film’s I thought I couldn’t get enough of Nathalie Baye plays the blonde. emotionally charged five-minute her. I was wrong. While her oddly She’s 68, but in that miraculous showdown, and one regrets there’s shaped eyes and the downturned French way has preserved a radiant not juicier material for these two corners of her wide mouth still beauty that shoots out from her eyes tigresses to claw into. exercise their quirky charisma, as a like fireworks. Every time she enters The film’s dénouement, especially leading lady of bland melodrama the frame, as a blandly charming given the early introduction of an she mostly frustrates. She’s got five creams-and-lotions purveyor with automatic, is practically unimagi-

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That’s perhaps to its credit, perhaps not. The film’s home stretch does finally intensify in terms of switcheroos, and though I admired their cleverness, I can’t say they paid off in the “Aha!” department. If the anticlimax was designed to confound my thirst for vengeance, it succeeded.t

Folk artist’s story

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y pleasure at viewing “Maudie,” a beautifully crafted biopic of the 20th-century Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-70), was tempered by a tinge of guilt over a long-running private joke of mine.

It’s that anyone who irritates me for reasons profound or petty should be consigned to living in permanent exile in Nova Scotia. Why did this isolated Canadian maritime province exert this fiendish hold on my imagination? Hard to say, but after viewing British director Aisling Walsh’s personal tale(scripted

by Sherry White), I will forever see these hardscrapple folks in a different spirit.

The real-life artist Maud Dowley Lewis was born on March 7, 1903, in South Ohio, Nova Scotia, to a blacksmith and maker of horse harnesses father, Jack, and a folk artist mom, Agnes. Crippled by childhood arthritis, Maud developed a gift for painting comparable to the renowned American folk artist Grandma Moses. Maud suffered the

and not kill each other would be remarkable enough, but that Maudie actually wins him over to indulging her artistic pursuits, paying her for poor broom skills, and allowing her to sell her early work is nothing less than astonishing.

Warning: there’s one brutal slap by Everett against Maudie as they’re sorting out their odd-couple relationship.

The paintings and small postcards Duncan Deyoung, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Lewis created have Sally Hawkins as Maud Lewis, and Ethan Hawke as Everett Lewis, in “Maudie.” been painstakingly reproduced, but the biggest hand has to be devastating loss of both parents at (an unrecognizable Ethan Hawke), reserved for the leads, who are both 14, after which she was consigned to a man who had been booted out completely made over from the imthe home of a stern aunt. by his parents as a child, and who, ages we have of them from long, It’s at this point that the film picks when Maudie arrives, is living in a successful careers. Sally Hawkins up her story. We watch as Maudie tiny shack, sans electricity or runrenders Maudie as simultaneously (Sally Hawkins) is sent away to bening water. The story of how this endearing and annoying, much as come a kind of maid/housekeeper incompetent housekeeper and this she probably first appeared to her to a 40ish recluse, Everett Lewis angry bachelor manage to coexist

unlikely housemate/future husband. Hawkins is well-known for her work with directors as diverse as Woody Allen (“Blue Jasmine”) and Mike Leigh (“Happy Go Lucky”), but as Maudie she creates a truly free spirit, very likely an Oscar nod.

Ethan Hawke first burst on the film scene as one of the literary angels from Peter Weir’s “Dead Poet’s Society,” was a remarkable member of the ensemble gathered by Richard Linklater for his 12-years-in-themaking narrative bio “Boyhood,” and did a remarkable turn as one of the brothers who plot to rob their family’s jewelry store in Sydney Lumet’s chilling swan song “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” Aided by the filmmakers’ agile use of available light, Hawke absolutely disappears into this role, like none other on his resume.

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First-date material

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ot many sitting presidents have a movie made about them while they’re still in office. That’s an honor that was bestowed upon Barack Obama in writer-director Richard Tanne’s feature-length debut film “Southside with You” (Miramax/ Lionsgate), now out on DVD. The course of one day, the first date of Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers, who nails Obama’s speech pattern) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter), unfurls before our eyes with awkward and romantic moments alike. While Michelle dresses for her date with “another smoothtalking brother,” Barack talks to his supportive grandmother on the phone. They have vastly different ideas of how the day is supposed

to go. Michelle is Barack’s advisor at the law firm where he is a summer associate. Because they work together, she feels it’s inappropriate to call it a date.

A smoker who drives a beat-up Datsun with a hole in the floor on the passenger side, Barack arrives late. Michelle remarks on that, and reminds him that he was late for his first day of work, too. Over the course of the day, which includes taking in an art exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center, a community meeting at the Altgeld Gardens housing project, and seeing the Spike Lee movie “Do the Right Thing,” he wins her over. Clocking in at under 90 minutes, “Southside with You” has an undeniable “made-for-TV” feel. But Tanne gets first-rate performances from his lead actors.t

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Broadening the TV landscape

by Victoria A. Brownworth

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hile we hold our collective breath to see how many of us women, people of color and LGBT get to die under Trumpcare, the Television Critics Association is giving us a high five. It’s not health insurance or Medicaid or, heaven forfend, single-payer, but we’ll take any nod to the not-just-str8, notjust-white, not-just-male world we live in, thanks.

One aside about the News You’re Not Seeing: Why did we hear absolutely nothing on CNN, MSNBC or any network news about Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s and Sen. Kamala Harris’ alternative Senate health care bill? (We’re on record as saying Harris is the likeliest and best contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination.) Seems like someone other than us should have noted it. Not just because California has more people than about 15 of those red states combined plus the economy that’s keeping those same states afloat, but because Feinstein is one of the lions of the Senate.

Feinstein’s also the only woman to have chaired the Senate Rules Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence.

She’s been in the Senate for 25 years. Someone should have bothered to talk to her about hers and Harris’ bill.

Someone. It’s almost as if women are being silenced. Almost.

But we digress. Back to TCA 2017 and the glorification not just of fantastic TV, but of some of those key women and actors of color we’ve told you about in recent months.

“This was truly a landmark season for diversity in television, and the TCA nominations reflect this. Our members have chosen a variety of series that celebrate and represent a wide spectrum of performances,” said TCA president Amber Dowling.

Landmark because the more women, people of color and LGBT get behind the camera, the more our lives will be reflected in front of the camera. Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, Lee Daniels, Jill Soloway, John Ridley and Oprah have all changed the face of TV in recent years by broadening the landscape to include us.

The TCA noms included the phenomenal Carrie Coons, who made history with a double nomination for individual achievement in drama for her very different turns in two of our fave quirky, dark, what-was-that series: “The Leftovers” and “Fargo.”

That category really signals what a year it was for women. Every nomination is female except for the stellar Sterling K. Brown, who left us sobbing every week in NBC’s best new drama, “This Is Us,” as the son of a complicated black gay musician and white adopted mother.

In addition to Coons, both Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon were nominated for their very different yet pitch-perfect portrayals of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Bette and Joan.”

Also in the category are Nicole Kidman for “Big Little Lies,” Claire Foy for “The Crown,” and the incredible Elisabeth Moss for “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

The comedy category is similarly female and men of color. Two standouts for us are Aziz Ansari for “Master of None,” which we love, and Donald Glover for “Atlanta,” which we also love but aren’t quite sure why it’s in the comedy category.

Kristen Bell in the very underrated “The Good Place,” perennial fave Julia Louis-Dreyfus for “Veep,” Issa

Rae for “Insecure,” and the phenomenal Phoebe Waller-Bridge for the wild “Fleabag” round out that category.

We don’t know whom to root for among these fabulous picks, but we do know you have to put these shows on your binge radar if you somehow missed them. Just thinking about Sterling K. Brown’s Randall makes us want to watch (and sob) through all 18 episodes of season one of “This Is Us” again.

Brown’s Randall is the very antithesis of toxic masculinity with his devotion to his wife and daughters, his complicated relationships with the three men in his life – his birth father, his adoptive father and his adopted brother. We see Phoebe Waller-Bridge stars in “Fleabag.” him searching for his birth father, William (played with heartbreaking nufight has made us even more of a ance by Ron Cephas Jones), we see devotee. “The Mist” is prime King: him being the perfect dad terrifying, full of social commenand husband, we see him tary, exemplar of Hell as a Small having a panic attack in Town. Within the first five minutes the corner of his office as we were introduced to a main gay his carefully constructed character, and with just a one-liner black-man-in-a-whitehere and another there, a stage was cor por ate-st r uc ture set for a small-town crime. Then the world begins to crack mist rolled in. open, we see him achAlex (Gus Birney) is straight, ing for his losses even and Adrian (Russell Posner) is her as he tries to hold onto best gay friend. They do everything all that he’s gained. together like, well, girlfriends. Their Every one of these actors deserves households are juxtaposed: He’s an award for their performances, sitting at the dinner table with his and Brown has already won an parents and asks if he can be exEmmy for his, but just recounting cused to go to the game. His father these scenes, we think he’s the oddsglares at him. His mother sighs. He on favorite. asks again. Dad gets up, tosses his In the comedy category we have plate on the counter and leaves. to go with Waller-Bridge. Her FleaMom says, “You know your father bag is such an extraordinary charcan’t hear you when you’re wearing acter in a year of amazing female make-up.” Oh. comedic bits. She’s arch, caustic, Alex’s family is looser, on the gritty, smutty, hilarious, sad. She’s surface. Her mother, Eve (Alyssa the comedic flip of Brown’s Randall.

Sutherland), has just been put on If there’s one comedy performance leave from her teaching job for talkwe would not want to have missed ing about safe sex, showing how this season it is hers. She’s brilliant. to put a condom on a banana and Go binge. suggesting oral sex as an alternative to intercourse. So when everyone is Finders ‘Keepers’ at the football game and Adrian is The TCAs have some other inquipping to Alex about the players’ triguing nominations, but the one bodies, her mother is being glared at series we somehow forgot about by the mothers who signed the petithat the nominations reminded us tion to have her ousted. of is “The Keepers.” As Dowling Post-game, Alex is invited to a noted about winnowing down the party by the football player she’s nominations in a plethora of faninterested in, but Eve says she’s too tastic TV, it’s become harder and young (she’s on the verge of turnharder to cram all the worthy viewing 17), causing an altercation with ing into each column.

Dad, Kevin (Morgan Spector). At “The Keepers” is definitely worthy home, Kevin tells Alex she can go viewing, nominated for outstanding to the party after her mother goes achievement in reality programto sleep, but she has to take Adrian, ming. The Netflix series debuted and she can’t drink. last month, and the seven-episode When Alex takes Adrian to the documentary is both thriller and party, things go bad almost immesocial commentary. The story of the diately. He turns up the music, they unsolved murder of Sister Catherine dance, so obviously cooler than the Cesnik, who taught at Archbishop other teens at the party. But Adrian, Keough High School in Baltimore a slight, fey boy who yearns for a in 1969, is reminiscent of “Making love affair with one of the tight ends, of a Murderer.” gets shoved by one of them and The series investigates why Cesncalled faggot. Alex’s would-be guy, ik may have been murdered, and if Jay (Luke Cosgrove), steps in before her killing was part of a cover-up Adrian is bloodied. of sexual abuse by a priest at the Jay offers both teens a drink, school and his connections in the Alex says she can’t, and then things Baltimore Archdiocese. The series go bad. Really, really bad. And moves between the 1969 murder, that’s before the mist rolls in. Rerevelations of sexual abuse in the plete with some flesh-eating bugs 90s, and the current investigation, as and something else unseen. This well as efforts by the Maryland State is what happens when we ignore Legislature to expand the statute of climate change. Birney is compellimitations on sexual abuse. ling as Alex, Posner is a welcome Spike TV’s new original series relief as a recognizably gay-maybe“The Mist” is everything we needed bisexual teen (unlike some we’ve for summer. It debuted June 22, seen on the tube recently), and and if you missed the first episode, the stuff that happens in the fog is, they repeat on Saturday afternoons, well, gruesome. so set the DVR. We’ve always loved BBC America’s gripping “BroadStephen King, but admit his seethchurch” returned for its third and ing against Trump and their Twitter final season on June 28. Back are

think of the faster pace of “Atlanta,” the more compelling characters (and tighter direction and writing of Ava DuVernay) of “Queen Sugar,” or the more blood-and-guts drug crime-family story of “Queen of the South” when viewing the opening episodes. But we have always admired Singleton’s work, so we’ll keep you updated. But in a hot summer of great TV, this may be one to set aside to binge later.

Zoo story

Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman).

It’s now five years after the murder of 11-year-old Danny Latimer, and the small town on the Dorset coast is still riven from the fallout of that gruesome crime. The final season of “Broadchurch” is as much about the aftermath of crime as it is about the new crime that is the pivot.

Trish (Julie Hesmondhalgh) is a 49-year-old shop worker, and has a sketchy local history. But when she is brutally raped, the town is stunned anew by what its citizens are capable of. Complicating the investigation into Trish’s rape is the leftover anger and grief of David Latimer’s death.

In small-town Broadchurch, Trish’s counselor is Beth Latimer (Jodie Whittaker). And it was Ellie’s husband Joe who killed the boy after his obsession was revealed. Joe was acquitted and has moved away, but the breadth of the sadness and shame lingers. This new crime opens old wounds. It also exposes a disturbing sexual undercurrent in the town, and a culture of toxic masculinity that threatens everyone and shocks Hardy as he and Ellie search for the rapist.

As in the two previous seasons of this exquisite and brutal series, everything is pitch-perfect, from the anguished performances to the haunting musical score by Ólafur Arnalds to the beautifully wrought script.

The much-anticipated FX drama”Snowfall” premieres on July 5. The baby of John Singleton, the series is set in Los Angeles in 1983, and revolves around the first crack cocaine epidemic and its impact on the culture of the city. The series follows the stories of several characters whose lives are doomed to intersect: 19-year-old drug dealer Franklin Saint (Damson Idris), who is seeking power and props; Mexican wrestler Gustavo Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), who is entangled in a drug-running crime family; CIA operative Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), who has a complicated past and is involved with the Nicaraguan Contras; and Luica Villanueva (Emily Rios), the daughter of a Mexican crime boss.

Singleton was the first African American and youngest person (he was 23) to be nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for his 1991 film “Boyz n the Hood.” Singleton says “Snowfall” is very much a story from his own youth in Los Angeles. The series is sprawling, and the story is one we both know and don’t know. Idris is strong as Franklin, and the other main players give solid performances, but there seems to be a lot of backstory to get where we’re going. It was difficult not to

“Zoo” returns to CBS (yes, CBS) for a third season on June 29. This James Patterson thriller with its climate change, animals gone wild, whatdid-they-do-to-thatD NA- on - t h e - i s l a n d of-Dr.Moreau plot has been a guilty pleasure of ours since its first season in 2015.

It’s perfect summer viewing: lots of really good and surprising scares, an international plot, good-looking characters (including the odd gay one) involved in making the world either a much better place or a total corporatist hell hole. The special effects are tremendous, and the series has a big-screen quality to it that makes one’s living room feel like Saturday at the cinema.

“Gypsy” premieres on Netflix June 30, and Naomi Watts is brilliant as Jean Holloway, the pansexual shrink who has some boundary issues and gets way too involved with her patients. Also returning for a fifth season is “The Fosters” (July 11, Freeform), because we do need to have Stef and Lena back with an LGBT family drama to keep us grounded.

For frolicsome fun, ABC’s “Boy Band” is an enjoyable romp, with 30 cute boys competing for the chance to be another NSYNC, Backstreet Boys or Jonas Brothers. Everyone can sing, which is a blessing, and everyone is adorable, and there’s still a lot to be said for eye-candy.

Finally, America’s dad’s rape trial ended in a hung jury after 52 hours of deliberation last week.

Bill Cosby’s attorney announced this was a vindication when it was anything but, especially as jurors began leaking the information that the final tally was 10 to 2 for conviction. On June 23, Cosby’s attorney Andrew Wyatt declared that Cosby would be beginning a series of town halls in July to warn young men how not to be accused of sexual assault, and what to look for in potential accusers.

According to Wyatt, Cosby said young men, especially athletes, need to “know what they’re facing when they’re hanging out and partying, when they’re doing certain things that they shouldn’t be doing.” Like drugging women and raping them?

Cosby and his attorney seem to forget that depositions were part of the trial in Pennsylvania, and Cosby acknowledged buying and using Quaaludes and other drugs on his alleged victims. So the simple town hall is: Don’t drug women. Don’t rape women.

Cosby will always be the black actor who firmly broke TV’s color barrier. Alas, he will also be the man accused by more than 60 women of sexual assault, from young wannabe actresses to black supermodel Beverly Johnson.

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From a queer perspective

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Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele; Icon Books, $17.95

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his being Pride Month, LGBTQ people are afforded the opportunity to become better acquainted with our history, politics, and culture. Academically, this understanding of what it means to be LGBTQ and how we came to view sex, gender, and sexuality, has been termed queer theory, featuring such key philosophers as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, David Halperin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. But if you have ever tried to pick up one of their books, much of this work seems incomprehensible, too abstract and opaque, for the educated “lay” reader. Activist and senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University (UK) MegJohn Barker and feminist cartoonist Julia Scheele’s new concise, slightly irreverent, accessible, and delightful comic-illustrated introductory

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A transitional, revolutionary figure standing astride the late-19thcentury’s symbolist and expressionist movements and 20th-century modernist figuration, Munch was a self-acknowledged late bloomer who didn’t break through until he was in his 50s. By the time he died in 1944 at the age of 80, however, he was credited with an astonishing output: approximately 1,750 paintings, 18,000 prints, and 4,500 watercolors, as well as ventures into sculpture, graphic art, set design and film. By focusing exclusively on the paintings and limiting their number, this

journey through the ideas, people, and events that have shaped queer theory has eliminated the excuse not to be better informed about this essential field.

The first issue that emerges in queer theory is how one defines queer. Once-oppressive hate speech

first-class exhibition, marked by excellence on every level, including an airy installation and lucidly written scholarship throughout, offers a concentrated exposure that conveys the artist’s emotional intensity and flair for drama without exhausting our reserves or presuming on our attention. Munch has largely been defined by his psychology, which has tended to obscure his technical virtuosity, but visitors here can appreciate his mastery, and experience art whose impact is far greater and stranger in person than in reproductions.

Munch was self-referential in the extreme; obsessed with self-portraiture, he constantly took his psychic temperature and charted shifts in

used against LGBT folk that has been reclaimed, it is now an umbrella term for people outside both the heterosexual, cisgender mainstream and the conventional LGBT mainstream. Queer theory sees queer as a verb, something we do rather than something we are. Barker touches on some precursors to queer theory such as Sartre and the existentialists, Kinsey, Simon and Gagnon’s sexual scripts, Bem’s androgyny, and black feminists (Lorde, Bell Hooks). But the key features of queer theories are they “draw on post-structuralist theories to examine power relations relating to sex, sexuality, and gender, destabilizing the taken-for-granted dominant understanding that assumes that heterosexuality is the normal or natural standard of sexuality, and exposing how sexual and gender identities are constructed.”

Identity of any kind is neither essential nor fixed, but feels this way through repeated performance.

Neither sexuality nor gender is ex-

perienced as binary (clearly eitheror) by everyone, but rather fall along a continuum of sexual attraction between exclusively straight and exclusively gay-lesbian. Queer theory questions the concepts of sexual and gender identity. It challenges all binaries since they favor one pole over the other (i.e., male better than female, straight better than gay).

Queer theory questions what is meant by normal, critiquing all “regimes of normativity.” In fact, queer theory’s mission could be summed up by its resistance to the categorization (and hence judgment) of all people. Ultimately any category is contextual, based on geography, history, culture, etc.

The authors’ willingness to grapple with criticism that their ideas have no practical relevance in real life is valuable. Barker is especially strong in showing how race is central to queer theory, primarily because race categories are a way people are identified in biologically essentialist ways, policed as much as gender or sexuality. While queer

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theory is mostly anti-identity politics, in recent years it has reluctantly embraced that it’s sometimes advantageous for marginalized groups to essentialize themselves to achieve their goals or prevent assimilation.

The authors also discuss such hot-button topics as queer feminism, trans-exclusionary radical feminists, queer masculinity, genderqueer, poly-and kink-normativity, and cisgenderism. They argue that queer theory has much to offer LGBT and feminist activists about how they could organize more effectively around gender and sexual diversity rather than identity categories. All forms of sexual representations need to be subjected to critical thinking. To think queerly is a process of learning that aims to disrupt the status quo and retrieve what has been rejected, with a list of accessible print and online resources at the back pertinent. We can thank Barker and Scheele for helping us see life from a queer perspective, which can only make us more effective activists.t

his inner world, producing over 70 painted likenesses, 13 of which are on view. Just imagine if he’d had access to a digital camera and a selfiestick. One could call this narcissism or simply a case of a man finding his true subject, one he knew best, and sticking with it. Solitary, preoccupied with roiling emotions he wanted viewers to feel, he was strategic, even in confessional mode.

He painted himself suffering from a case of Spanish flu he never contracted, and reinvented his persona in the allegorical, otherworldly “Self-Portrait in Hell” (1903), assuming the guise of a winged demon or dark angel out of Dante, rising above a reddish glow presumably emanating from the flames beneath Rick Gerharter him. (He “autographed” the image, signing his name on “Self Portrait with the Spanish Flu” (1919), part of “Edvard Munch: Between the torso.) He adopted the the Clock and the Bed,” now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. suave demeanor of a cosmopolitan sophisticate for homage to the Dutch artist’s “Starry shake the sense that down this road “Self-Portrait with Cigarette” (1895), Night over the Rhone” (1888), is less lays madness – mingled with brilhis face illuminated by a bluish delusional but retains the wildness liance. smoky haze from below, suggesting and shimmer of its forebear. The Though they never met, Munch’s glamour, subterfuge, low-lit underwork is part of Nocturnes, a section instinctive kinship with Van Gogh ground nightclubs, sleek Cartier of paintings heavy with foreboding was a natural. Fellow post-impreslighters and clandestine assignations. and tinged with the supernatural. sionists who admired Gauguin’s auThere’s a power differential and They’re cast in the moody blues and dacious style, they’re similar in their more than a passing element of saferal representations of themselves, slate grays of twilight, like the dreamdomasochism in his depictions of and their ferocious application of like, deeply romantic “Night in Saintyoung women, who often were his paint to canvas. Munch’s beauteCloud” (1893), where, as nightfall apmodels or housekeepers. Burdened ous “Starry Night” (1922-24), an proaches, shadows engulf a figure at by despair and devastation, a window who’s viewing the the dejected woman at the Seine and the lights of passcenter of “Weeping Nude” ing boats. In “Moonlight” (1913-14) is posed on a (1903), a forbidding scold in rumpled divan the vulgar garments as pitch-black as ruby red of a bordello, her the night, her gleaming white head down and her long face scowling like the witchy hair cascading over her face baddie who absconded with and body. Aching vulnerToto in “The Wizard of Oz,” ability is the salient feature stands in front of a white of “Puberty” (1894), where picket fence, stalked by a one finds a frail, naked, menacing silhouette on the barely adolescent girl on a building behind her. bed in a spare, dingy room, Munch’s last major selfshoulders hunched, her portrait, “Between the Clock hands modestly crossed in and the Bed” (1940-43), her lap. She seems helpwhich anchors this show, less, frightened, submiswas made during the Gersive, perhaps in response man occupation, shortly beto the lurking shape on fore his death. Surrounded the wall to her right. It’s a by the artworks to which disturbing, unsavory scene he dedicated his life, and that could’ve been visited hemmed in by mortality by “The Night Wanderer” and a clock with no hands or (1923-24), a predatory, numerals, he seems to tranCourtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo trench-coated figure with scend time itself.t hooded eyes one wouldn’t Edvard Munch, “Self-Portrait with Hand Under want to encounter in an Cheek” (1911), oil on canvas.

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Our week began at the official raising of the Gilbert Baker created rainbow flag over City Hall on Monday. Joined by Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Sherriff Vicki Hennessey, Chief of Protocol Charlotte Shultz, and other City family members, Mayor Ed Lee spoke of the contrasting pictures in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco before raising the flag above City Hall from the Mayor’s Balcony, as Grand Marshals Chris Carnes and Dr. Marcy Adelman, George Ridgley, Matthew Goudeau, Chris Verdugo, Gretchen Fleishmann, Tommy Taylor, and many others proudly looked on.

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lowed in the Rotunda, emceed by Supervisor Jeff Sheehey and supported by Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the Honorable Mark Leno, Board President London Breed, Tom Horn, Patrick Carney & Hossein Carney, and many more. As we descended the Grand Staircase of the Rotunda afterwards with Reigning Emperor Nic Hunter and Emperor David Harrison White of Reno, we were overwhelmed with a sense of genuine San Francisco Pride.

Tuesday night, we gathered at the HRC Store in the Castro where the actual Rainbow Honor Walk brass plaque commemorating Jose Sarria was unveiled by the Reigning Emperor Nic Hunter and Reigning Empress Mercedez Monro. Other

Imperials in attendance included Empresses Emma Peel and Saybeline and Emperor Frankie.

The small gathering represented all ages and many parts of the world, appropriately beginning their SF Pride experience in the space once occupied by Harvey Milk and his camera shop. The plaque will remain on display there through the month of June, to be placed in the sidewalk in the Castro neighborhood before the end of the year.

Our Imperial “walkaround” then included quick stops at Dog Eared Books for their oneyear anniversary, the GLBT Historical Society’s Museum for the unveiling of their recent upgrade, and a final whirl through the busy Mix bar. The air was ripe with anticipation as Pride slowly gathered momentum.

Friday morning at the Hilton Hotel Union Square, we co-emceed the Pride Press Party with Pride President Michelle Meow. Most of the Grand Marshals and other honorees of the Pride Parade assembled

to answer questions from the press and public, each defining their sense of LGBT Pride, all striking a balance between the need to protest against threats to our advances and the need to celebrate our community’s beauty and diversity. Most notably, SF civil rights pioneer Roma Guy was joined by the actress Emily Skeggs, who portrays her in ABC television’s When We Rise.

Afterwards, the entire group adjourned to the Cityscape Lounge atop the hotel for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres amid sweeping views of the entire City. As photographers snapped various groupings of Grand Marshals and other community leaders, it seemed a fitting prelude to the coming weekend’s activities.

The 19th annual Pride Brunch on Saturday morning at Hotel Whitcomb brought together a diverse group of movers and shakers within our LGBT Community to salute the Grand Marshals and Honorees of the Pride Parade and to raise funds for Positive Resource Center.

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Dulay & Chris Knight, Cicero Braganca, Russ Lorenson, Emperor Kevin Lisle, Empress Marlena, and Julian Marshburn, socialized for the first hour and then enjoyed a gourmet brunch buffet and riveting program with rousing speeches, touching remembrances, and proud affirmations from Wells Fargo’s Jim Foley, Oxygen television’s Strut’s Cassandra Cass, PRC’s Brett Andrews, El/La Para TransLatina’s Jessie D’Santos, NCLR’s Ruth McFarlane, Blackberri, Bay Area American Two-Spirits’ Miko Thomas, Grand Marshals Chris Carnes, Alex U. inn, and Dr. Marcy Adelman, and SF Gay Men’s Chorus’ Dr. Tim Seelig.

We began the program with Gary Virginia, donned in outfits reminiscent of the Summer of Love, carrying peace signs and singing along to “If You’re Going to San Francisco.”

Again, the event reflected an appropriate mix of serious reflection and whimsical celebration.

That night, we experienced a world-class dance party at Audrey Joseph and Brian Kent’s Jungle: Pride at The Armory. Swathed in animal print fabric and supported by the able arms of Richard Sablatura and Jeff Doney, we stormed The Armory, joining thousands of smiling dancers and fellow hosts BeBe Sweetbriar, Carnie Asada, and Andy Lax, surrounded by the most incredible sound system, lighting and other special effects, and atmospheric details this City has seen in decades. The international DJs and gogo dancers lived up to all expectations and Betty Who’s 1AM appearance provided the perfect peak performance.

Pride Sunday, we made our first stop at the Embarcadero Hyatt for the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club Breakfast, co-chaired

by Coma Te and Gary McCoy. We caught up with Jason Brock, Rafael Mandelman, Cecilia Chung, Rebecca Prozan, Anna Damiani, Andrea Shorter, Julius Turman, and many others. Over 800 guests enjoyed the event, featuring a keynote address from California Attorney General Xavier Beccera and attended by practically every elected official in the State.

Then it was time to assemble for the SF LGBTQ Pride Parade! We joined fellow anchors of the KOFYTV coverage, Michelle Meow, Gary Virginia, Demetri Moshoyannis, and Oscar Raymundo, at Beale and Market to prepare for the cameras and the crowds. Only a few minutes late, the roar of the Dykes on Bikes greeted us and a dazzling parade of

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floats, walking contingents, musical groups, corporate representatives, elected officials, non-profit organizations, and celebrities swarmed up Market Street for five hours.

Most notably, the first contingent after the Dykes on Bikes was a newly formed Resist group, comprised of many groups and organizations dedicated to active resistance to the opposition to our LGBT civil rights, particularly demonstrated at the federal level. Grand Marshal Alex U. Inn was prominently visible among this group.

Our sincere thanks go out to the many who shouted out our name as they passed by and our apologies for missing anyone while in the throes of television production. No written description could possibly present the colorful vision this proud parade provided. Suffice it to say, the LGBTQ Community is alive and well in San Francisco and not about to crumble in the face of any opposition!

As the final contingent gleefully coasted up Market Street, we grabbed the next MUNI underground to Civic Wedding bells for this drag hopeful, perhaps, at the City Hall Pride party.

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There, amid celebrants of every color, age, persuasion, and level of involvement, we appropriately closed our weekend where it began. We took photos with Dustin Lance Black, Stephen Adams, Teresa Sparks, Sister Dana van Iquity, Anietie Ekanem, Joey Cain, and many others, as entertainers filled the staircase and Harvey Milk’s statue smiled from above.

With the spectacular dome of San Francisco’s City Hall above us and our beloved community around us, we soaked up the affirmation of a defiant and persistent people who shall not return to secondary status, but shall continue to resist and eventually overcome any opposition.

The icing on our Pride cake was LGBT Night at AT&T Park, watching the SF Giants soundly defeat the Colorado Rockies, cheered on by thousands of supporters, among them, Gary Virginia, Deana Dawn, Coma Te & Travis Wise, Andy Rose & Manuel Aguero, Karin Jaffie & Lori Howes, William Bulkley & Garaje Gooch, Sister Roma, Leandro Gonzales, and Kippy Marks. Everyone left with a warm scarf emblazoned with Pride symbols, a souvenir of the night and of the City’s relentless support of our struggle.t

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Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG

Stereo Argento @ The Stud

Woof @ SF Eagle

KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; 3rd is Kinky Karaoke 8pm.

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Drag acts inspired by horror flicks, including Fauxnique, Jillian Gnarling, Johnny Rockitt, Meredeath and Roxanne Redmeat; plus horror0themed art and DJed grooves $5$10. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Monthly pups and handlers fetish afternoon with SF K9 Unit, including a human puppy mosh. 2pm-5pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Rice Rockettes @ Lookout Local and visiting Asian drag queens’ weekly show. $5. 10:30pm show. DJ Philip Grasso. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Sex and the City Live @ Oasis D’Arcy Drollinger, Sue Casa and crew return for the sixth year of the drag parody version of the hit HBO series. $25-$35. Wed 7pm. Thu 8pm. Fri & Sat 7pm. Thru July 1. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

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Thu 29 Gayface @ El Rio Queer weekly night out at the popular Mission bar. 9pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam/Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest for sexy prizes. $5. 10pm-2am.

1347 Folsom St.powerhousebar.com

Fri 30 Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s Second anniversary of the monthly reading series at the famed martini bar, with Baruch Porras-Hernandez, Joe Wadlington, Dawn Oberg, Jase Peeples, Christine No, Andrena Zawinski and host James J. Siegel.

7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

The Monster Show @ The Edge The weekly drag show with host Sue Casa, DJ MC2, themed nights and hilarious fun. $5. 9pm-2am. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

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Bourbon and Ballet @ Zaccho Dance Theater Cocktail fundraiser for Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, the inventive local dance company, and their New York tour, with dance demos and discussion. $20-$60. 1777 Yosemite Ave. #330. www.asimagery.org

Friday Nights at the Ho @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Dance it up at the historic (and still hip) East Bay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com

Furr20 @ Lone Star Saloon Gay pot-friendly bear night at the famed SoMa bar. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

DTF Fridays @ Port Bar, Oakland

Sat 1 Burger Boogaloo @ Mosswood Park, Oakland John Waters hosts the annual R&B, punk soul and alternative music minifestival, with Iggy Pop, Buzzcocks, X, NRBQ, Shannon & The Clams, Jacuzzi Boys and others. $29-$99. 12pm9pm. Also July 2. Broadway at W. MacArthur Blvd., Oakland. www.burgerboogaloo.com

Frolic @ SF Eagle Furries and fursuit fun, with costumes encouraged. DJs NeonBunny, Ikkuma, Sean Bass and My Pet Rhino. $8-$12.

8pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Go Bang! @ The Stud The groovy disco + modern mix dance night celebrates veteran DJ Steve Fabus’ birthday, plus co-DJ Sergio Fedasz and guest Jimmy DePre; light effects and Carla Ann nicholson., $5$10. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.mixcloud.com/gobangsf

Mother @ Oasis Heklina hosts the fun drag show with weekly themes. June 29 Guest: RuPaul’s Drag Race star Shea Coulee.

MC2 spins dance grooves before/after show. $15-$25. 10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE! and Glamamore’s drag makeover night and benefit. $5.

10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Sun 2 As You Like It, Polyglamorous @ Midway Italian duo Tiger & Woods guest DJ the big breezy all-day outdoor event, with Mike Gushansky, Mark O’Brien, John Major, and Camdaze. $15. 2pm9pm. 900 Marin St. www.ayli-sf.com

Dark Meat @ Powerhouse Dance and performance, then DJed music (Sailor Saturn), with Cyanide, Jim Collins, and Qween. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Hoodslam @ DNA Lounge Oakland’s wild pro wrestling show returns, with an actual ring, beefy wrestlers, host Joe Brody and special guest commentator Wonder Dave. $20. 3pm. 375 11th St. www.dnalounge.com

The Point @ The Independent Concert performance of Harry Nilsson’s classic 1971 story album (later made into a film) about a young boy’s nonconformity and his non-pointed head, with Kiefo Nilsson members of the Awesome Orchestra, with narrator Mallory Ortberg. $23-$28. 628 Divisadero. http:// apeconcerts.com/events/the-point/

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm-6:30pm.

1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Various DJs play house music, and a few hotties gogo dance at the new gay bar’s weekly event. 9pm-2am.

2023 Broadway. (510) 823-2099. www.portbaroakland.com

Gogo Fridays @ Toad Hall Hot dancers grind it at the Castro bar with a dance floor and patio. 4146 18th St. www.toadhallbar.com

Hella Gay Comedy @ Club OMG Queer joke night, with host Nasty Ass Bitch. $15. 7pm. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Junk in the Trunk @ SF Eagle Underwear party with hosts Bretchen Towers and Blevine, DJ Samuel Reynolds; Big Booty contest, too.

9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Katie Nix @ Hotel Rex The talented vocalist performs Of Thee I Sing, a musical journey thorugh American and politically-themed songs, with painist Paul Dab. $30-$50. 8pm.

Cocktails and small plates available.

562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

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Shea Coulee at Mother @ Oasis

Latin Explosion/Club Papi @ Club 21, Oakland The Latin dance night also includes drag acts hosted by Lola and Dorys, with half a dozen gogo studs. $10$20. 9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Marin County Fair @ County Fairgrounds, San Rafael Ann Wilson, The 5th Dimension, The Commodores and UB40 are among the stage acts at the 76th annual festive fair, which includes Summer of Love-themed art exhibits, hands-on art projects, carnival rides, fireworks, farm animals and more. $12-$50. Thru July 4. 10 Avenue fo the Flags, San Rafael. www.marinfair.org

Sexitude @ Oasis It’s a dance party! It’s an aerobics class!

It’s a dance party and an aerobics class!

Bring your Spandex, crop-tops, tube socks and retro glam, and sweat up some fun with D’Arcy Drollinger and DJ Homebrew. $7. 10pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Queer Jitterbugs @ Fillmore Jazz Festival Same-sex partnered dancing lessons and open floor, with QJ and Leather Soles. Free. 12pm-6pm. Also July 2.

Fillmore Street at O’Farrell Fountain. www.QueerJitterbigs.com

Sex, Drags & Rock n Roll @ Midnight Sun Too Wong Foo, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! Drag mashup numbers feature at Mutha Chucka’s monthly night, with Roxy Cotton Candy, Ruby Blue Gender Bender, Beyonce Growles and Phatima Rude. 4067 18th St. 8614186. www.midnightsunsf.com

When Doves Cry @ Great American Music Hall The Prince tribute band performs the entire 1999 and Purple Rain albums. $15-$40 (with dinner). 9pm. 859 O’Farrell St. www.slimspresents.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance night. $8. lessons at 5:30pm, dancing til 10:30pm. Also Thursdays. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet often hosts the weekly fabulous brunch and drag show, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. $45.

11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Velvet Variety @ Martuni’s Pepe and Cheap’s two-man piano and storytelling show, with jazz vocalist Kalil Wilson and Craig Jacobs on drums. $10. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

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Flower Power @ Asian Art Museum

Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed @ SF Museum of Modern Art

Queerest Library Ever @ SF Public Libraries

Floral art and live plant installations celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and show how Buddhist art was an inspiration. Thru Oct. 1. Also, Saints and Kings: Arts, Culture and Legacy of the Sikhs, thru June 25. Reg. free-$25. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.asianart.org

Over the Top: Math Bass & the Imperial Court SF @ Oakland Museum

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Thu 29 La Bohème @ War Memorial Opera House Puccini’s classic opera is performed by a stellar cast of singers, with Houston Grand Opera and Canadian Opera Company. $27-$400. 7:30pm.

Also June 29 at 7:30pm. June 25 & July 2 at 2pm. 301 Van Ness Ave. www.sfopera.com

A Night With Janis Joplin @ Geary Theater American Conservatory Theatre presents the acclaimed musical about rock singer Janis Joplin, with classic hits from her era, and visits

by Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone. $20-$120. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Extended thru July 16. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

Rex Ray @ Gallery 16 Retrospective exhibit of works by the late gay artist, whose visual designs were known worldwide; Monograph Rex Ray: We Are All Made Of Light on sale. Thru June 30. 501 3rd St. www.gallery16.com

The Roommate @ SF Playhouse Jen Silverman’s darkly comic play about two Iowa women’s clashing and different lives. $35-$65. TueThu 7pm, Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru July 1. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Fri 30 Altar Boyz @ Center Repertory, Walnut Creek

In the Heights @ Contra Costa Civic Theatre East Bay production of the 2-Tonywinning musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda ( Hamilton ) about three generations of a New York City Latino family. $17-$31. Fri & Sat 8pm.

Sun 2pm. Thru July 16. 951 Pomona Ave, El Cerrito. http://ccct.org/ in_the_heights/

Katie Nix @ Hotel Rex The talented vocalist performs Of Thee I Sing, a musical journey thorugh American and politicallythemed songs, with painist Paul Dab. $30-$50. 8pm. Cocktails and small plates available. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

The Legend of Georgia McBride @ Marin Theatre Company Matthew Lopez’ comic play about an Elvis Presley imperonsator-turned drag queen star. $10-$37. Wed-Sat 7:30pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 9.

397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. www.marintheatre.org

The Mushroom Cure @ The Marsh Adam Strauss’ comic Off-Broadway hit solo show about his attempts to use hallucinogenic drugs for his OCD. $20-$100. Wed & Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru July 1.

1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

An Octoroon @ Berkeley Repertory Branden Jacobs-Jenkins acclaimed comic play combines 1800s melodrama with contemporary cultural politics. $29-$85. Thru July 23. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. http://www.berkeleyrep.org

Older and Out @ North Berkeley Senior Center

East Bay performance of the lighthearted musical about a faithbased boy band. $37-$72. Thru July 1. 1601 Civic Center Drive, Walnut Creek. www.centerrep.org

Weekly group discussion about problems for elders in the LGBT community. 3:15pm. 1901 Hearst Ave., Berkeley. pacificcenter.org

Bourbon and Ballet @ Zaccho Dance Theater

Playwright JC Lee’s modern version of the romance between Greek legends Achilles and Patroclus, based on The Iliad. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, thru July 2. “Drinks With the Artists” post-show on Fridays. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. nctcsf.org

Cocktail fundraiser for Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, the inventive local dance company, and their New York tour, with dance demos and discussion. $20-$60. 1777 Yosemite Ave. #330. www.asimagery.org

Crazy Famous @ The Marsh Berkeley Sharon Eberhart’s solo show about a young musician in search of a great song. $20-$100. Fridays, 8pm, thru July 14. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org

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You Mean To Do Me Harm @ Strand Theater Christopher Chen’s drama about two interracial Asian-White couples whose argument goes ballistic. $30.

Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 3pm, Sun 2pm. Thru July 2. 1127 Market St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Paired exhibit of works by the LA artist with archival items from the Bay Area Imperial Council royals; thru July 23. Also, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (thru Aug. 13), Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest (thru Aug. 20). Free/$15. Reg. hours Wed-Sat 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). 1000 Oak St., Oakland. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org

Priscilla Queen of the Desert @ Eureka Theatre Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of the Broadway musical stage adaptation of the hit film about Australian drag queens on a road trip, with disco hits from the film. $15-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 3pm. thru July 1. 215 Jackson St. www.TheRhino.org

San Francisco Mime Troupe @ Cedar Rose Park, Berkeley/Dolores Park Walls, the outdoor theatre company’s 58th anniversary show, confronts current politics with music and satire.

2pm. Also July 2. July 4 at Dolores Park. Other locales thru Sept. 10. www.sfmt.org

Sun 2 The Art and Science of Pinball @ Chabot Space & Science Museum, Alameda New exhibit of 35 pinball machine, historic early versions, models, diagrams and demos. $5-$15.

Thru Sept. 24. 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland. www.chabotspace.org

Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade @ Legion of Honor New exhibit of works by Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, paired with period hats from french designers. Thru Sept.

24. Free/$15. Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:15pm.

Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

Homopolis @ SF Public Library Photos from Gay San Francisco in 1981, a new exhibit curated by Ken Maley. Thru Aug. 24. James Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Rigoletto @ War Memorial Opera House Giuseppe Verdi’s romantic opera is performed in Italian (English supertitles). $27-$256. Thru July 2.

301 Van Ness Ave. sfopera.com

Mon 3 Professor Awesome @ Pianofight Weekly End of the World Good Time Revue. $10. 7:30pm. 144 Taylor St. awesometheatre.org

Unearthed @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth; new exhibit, From Stone Age to Space Age, showcases minerals through time. Special events each week, with adult nightlife parties many Thursday nights. $20-$35. Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. calacademy.org

New exhibit of 44 works by the misunderstood painter, known most for “The Scream.” Also, exhibits of Pop, Abstract and classic Modern art at the renovated and visually amazing museum, with two extra floors, a new additional Howard Street entrance, cafe and outdoor gardens. Other exhibits include Paul Klee and Rex Ray (thru Oct. 9), Larry Sultan: Here and Home (thru July 23), Diane Arbus: In the Beginning, Japanese Photography from Post-War to Now, Double Header. Free-$25. 10am-8pm. 151 Third St. www.sfmoma.org

Daniel Arzola @ Strut The gay Venezuelan artist and activist’s exhibit, whose bold visual works have been featured in installations and galleries around the world, including Madonna’s Art for Freedom project. 470 Castro St. www.strutsf.org

Dorian Katz @ Center for Sex & Culture The artist’s exhibit of multi-species erotic drawings. Thru Aug. 15. 1349 Mission St. www.sexandculture.org

Tiny Bubbles @ SFAC Gallery Group exhibition curated by Steven Wolf includes several works by the late Jerome Caja, and others with adult themes. Thru Aug. 19. SF Arts Commision Gallery, 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfartscommission.org

Todd Grey @ Museum of the African Diaspora Todd Grey: My Life in the Bush With MJ & Iggy, an exhibit of art

by Michael Jackson’s personal photographer through the 1980s, and his experience living and documenting the Los Angeles music industry. Also, The Ease of Fiction and Love or Confusion: Jimi Hendrix in 1967. Free/$10.

Each thru Aug. 27. 685 Mission St. www.moadsf.org

Hormel at 20: Celebrating Our Past/ Creating Our Future, a dual exhibit of archival materials about two decades of the LGBTQ collections. Also, Council of Elders: Portraits of Older Gay Men (thru May 4). 100 Larkin St., 3rd floor, and at the Eureka Valley Branch, 1 Jose Sarria Court at 16th St. www.sfpl.org

Ugo Rondinone @ Berkeley Art Museum The World Just Makes Me Laugh, an exhibit of wistfully interpreted various-media works featuring clowns and childhood toys. Thru Aug. 27. Also, Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos, thru Aug. 27. 2155 Center St., Berkeley. bampfa.org

Ten Percent @ Comcast David Perry’s weekly LGBT interview show, with local and visiting notables community members. Wed 7pm, Thu & Tue 11:30am & 10:30pm.

Channel 104. facebook.com/10Percent-66629477326/

Thu 6 Midsummer of Love @ Golden Gate Park We Players presents another sitespecific environmental play, this time an arboreal adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. $40-$80. July 6-9, 27-30.

Strawberry Hill, 6:30pm. Also shows in El Sobrante July 15, 16, 22 & 23 ($30-$60). www.weplayers.org

We Were Rebels @ GLBT History Museum Jae Whitaker Remembers Janis Joplin, the oft-forgotten lesbian lover of the rock icon, is interviewed by Joey Cain. $5. 7pm.-9pm. Also, Picturing Kinship: Portraits of Our Community, exhibit of Lenore Chinn’s portraits in painting/photography. $5. (thru Sept 18). Also, Lavender-Tinted Glasses, a queer Summer of Love look curated

by Joey Cain; Beartoonist of San Francisco, art works by Fran Frisch, and the overview main exhibit. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

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9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Spanglish @ Club OMG Spanish and English drag shows and dance music with DJ Carlitos. $5-$10.

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Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Tue 4 Hysteria Comedy @ Martuni’s Open mic for women and queer comics, with host Irene Tu, Tess Barry, Dom Gelin and Wonder Dave. 6pm8pm. 4 Valencia St.

July 4 @ Berkeley Marina Celebrate the holiday in a familyfriendly alcohol-free event, with a beach, panoramic view, kite-flying, the US Air Force Band, dragon boat races, food trucks, petting zoo, kids’ pony rides, and more. Free. 12pm10pm. Berkeley Pier, 201 University Ave. anotherbullwinkelshow.com

Sing Out @ Encore Karaoke Lounge Home of drag shows, and karaoke.

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Debbie Harry and her veteran pop-punk band, and the powerrock group led by Shirley Manson, perform at the scenic winery’s ampitheatre. $77-$250. 6:30pm.

14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga. www.mountainwineryconcerts.com

Comedy Showcase @ SF Eagle Kollin Holtz hosts the open mic comedy night. 5:30pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Girl Scout @ Port Bar, Oakland The weekly women’s happy hour and dance night with DJ Becky Knox. 6pm10pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Juicy @ Club OMG New weekly women’s event at the intimate Mid-market nightclub, with DJ Micah Tron. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux The hot weekly Latin dance night with sexy gogo guys, drag divas and more, returns to the Castro, with Club Papi’s Frisco Robbie and Fabian Torres. $5 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Po Hoe @ Powerhouse Nikki Jizz offers cheap drinks and cheaper men. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Rebel Kings @ White Horse Bar Enjoy the talents of the hip hop drag king troupe; dancing after with DJs Starr and Cherie. $5. 8:30pm11:45pm. 6551 Telegraph Ave. whitehorsebar.com

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Under the Golden Gate’s Maria Konner and DJ Dank’s herb-friendly night of fun, with Trixxie Carr and DJ Sergio Fedasz spinning 420 tunes. $5-$10. 7pm-10pm; followed by drag show Love (this month’s theme: Love at the Christmas Table). 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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Paula West @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko The acclaimed local vocalist performs an extended concert residency at the intimate nightclub. $28-$60. Thu & Fri 8pm. sat 7pm.

Sun 5pm. Thru July 16.

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Hard rock/punk from DJ Don Baird at the divey SoMa bar. 7pm-2am. 1369 Folsom St. 431-4695. www.hitws.com

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