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Leno holds slight lead in SF mayor’s race Lara campaign

Ricardo Lara is in the November general election for state insurance commissioner.

Lara survives primary race for insurance commissioner by Matthew S. Bajko

ay state Senator Ricardo Lara (DBell Gardens) survived Tuesday’s primary for state insurance commissioner and will now vie in November to become the first LGBT person to be elected to statewide office in California. In a statement, Lara said he was “extremely proud” to be the first openly LGBTQ candidate to make it to a statewide general election in California. Previous out candidates failed to survive their primary races. “As LGBTQ people, we must fight for our place at the table and show the world we have the right to pursue our dreams!” stated Lara. “I look forward to working together with grassroots leaders to advance a progressive, inclusive, and effective agenda for all and make history in California.” According to the unofficial returns Wednesday morning, Lara was in second place with 40.6 percent of the vote, while Steve Poizner was in first place with 41.3 percent. With more votes to be counted, particularly in Los Angeles County where a printing snafu impacted the ballots of more than 100,000 voters, it is possible Lara could still snag the roughly 23,000 votes he needs to somersault over Poizner and take the lead. The other Democrat in the race, Dr. Asif Mahmood, landed in third place with 13 percent of the unofficial vote. He had suspended his initial bid for lieutenant governor to instead run to be the state’s insurance czar and hammered Lara in television ads. Poizner, a former Republican who ran as an independent, had been expected to take the lead Tuesday as he formerly held the insurance commissioner position. But he faces an uphill climb in November if Democrats coalesce around Lara. The two Democrats garnered roughly 450,000 more votes than Poizner did Tuesday. In a Facebook post Tuesday Lara had See page 13 >>

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percent plus one of the vote. Board President London Breed, who represents District 5, ended up in second place with 49.58 percent of the vote after the ranked choice voting was tabulated. She was trailing Leno by 1,146 votes as of Wednesday morning. Addressing roughly 250 people who had See page 16 >> Bill Wilson

Mandelman takes D8 supe seat in blowout by Matthew S. Bajko

ay attorney Rafael Mandelman trounced gay District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy in the special election on Tuesday’s ballot to serve in the seat through the end of the year. It all but ensures that Mandelman will win a full fouryear term in November. And it means the progressives will once again have a 6-5 majority on the board when Mandelman is sworn into office sometime in early July. Sheehy had been aligned with the moderates since joining the board in early 2017. A gay married father and longtime AIDS activist, Sheehy was appointed to the vacant supervisor seat by the late mayor Ed Lee, making him the first known HIV-positive person to serve on the board. Gay former supervisor Scott Wiener, who endorsed Sheehy in Tuesday’s election, had resigned in late 2016 after being elected to the state Senate. Sheehy and Mandelman were running to serve out Wiener’s term through early January. The two had also launched campaigns to run in November to serve as District 8 supervisor through 2022. But due to Mandelman garnering 60 percent of the vote compared to Sheehy’s 37.55 percent, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday, Sheehy now faces questions on the viability of his remaining a candidate in the fall race. With the deadline for candidates to file Tuesday, June 12, Sheehy is expected to announce in the coming days if he will drop out or compete for the seat.

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Rafael Mandelman, center, thanked supporters at his Election Night party Tuesday at Cafe Du Nord.

He declined to take questions from the Bay Area Reporter at his Election Night party in the recently opened Hamburger Mary’s. His campaign consultant, Ben Tevelin, said he was unsure when Sheehy would make his decision known. “It is a conversation he will have with his

family,” said Tevelin. At his election night party at Cafe Du Nord, Mandelman said voters in the district, which includes the gay Castro neighborhood as well as Noe Valley, Diamond Heights, and Glen Park, are See page 13 >>

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ay mayoral candidate Mark Leno was holding on to a slight lead Wednesday morning in his bid to become San Francisco’s first out LGBT mayor. If the results stand, it will see progressive leadership of Room 200 in City Hall for the first time in decades.

According to the unofficial returns, Leno was the top finisher with 50.42 percent of the vote after nine rounds under the city’s ranked-choice voting system. Because none of the eight mayoral candidates received a majority of the votes in the first round, the third and second place votes of the candidates with the least number one votes are tabulated until a winner emerges with 50

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our incumbent San Francisco Superior Court judges were overwhelmingly re-elected in their campaigns against four deputy public defenders Tuesday. San Francisco Judges Andrew Cheng, Curtis Karnow, Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee, and Jeffrey Ross were each re-elected to a six-year term. In Alameda County, lesbian Superior Court Judge Tara Flanagan bested bisexual former public defender Karen Katz. All results are based on unofficial returns Wednesday morning.

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In San Francisco, the legal establishment was shocked earlier this year when four deputy public defenders announced they were challenging the four sitting judges because they had been appointed by Republican governors. But ultimately, that message did not gain traction with voters. Cheng won against Deputy Public Defender Phoenix Streets, with 64.9 percent of the votes, the largest lead of the four races. Lee reigned over Deputy Public Defender Kwixuan Maloof and attorney Elizabeth Zareh, who was also running for the seat, with 62.9 percent of the vote. Karnow won with 55.2 percent of the vote over Deputy Public Defender Maria Evangelista, who would have been the first Mexican-American woman elected to the bench. Lastly, Ross took 61 percent of the vote against challenger Deputy Public Defender Nicole Solis, a lesbian. “The judges are feeling very positive tonight,” said John Whitehurst, the political consultant for the incumbent judges’ campaigns late Tuesday night. “The results are overwhelming. The people of San Francisco have showed their confidence in the fairness, independence, diversity, and quality of our Superior Court judges.” Incumbent judges in San Francisco – and most counties – usually do not draw challengers. This year was an exception in both San Francisco and Alameda County. The campaigns of the four deputy public defenders were criticized by their opponents as being politically motivated. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) early on supported the incumbents, while their colleagues on the bench offered broad support. The bench’s lesbian and gay judges all supported the incumbents, as did many retired jurists, like Donna Hitchens, a founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In their campaigns, the challengers cited the need for a new perspective on the bench, the implicit bias of the incumbents, and that they were

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appointed by former GOP governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson. All the incumbent judges are registered Democrats. At a post-election party held at Slate bar on 16th Street Tuesday night, the challengers were in high spirits as the first round of results came in. Solis, who was at the party with her mom, said she was happy with the results. “It’s fantastic,” Solis, who has been an attorney and public defender for more than 20 years, said. “21,000 people voted in favor of making change and holding the judges accountable.” She also expressed her frustration with the judges’ and other opposing parties’ opinion of the public defenders’ campaign. “The strong effort of the opposition to talk about us as the boogeyman and that we are attacking the judges is wrong,” she said. “We are just people of color who are using our voice for change. That’s not an attack, that’s democracy.” Streets said regardless of who comes out on top in the race, it’s a win-win. “I feel good about the results,” Streets said at the election celebration. “We got our message out there. For the first time, people are learning that they can vote for their judge and seeing the bias of the system.” Streets, who is black, also expressed his frustration for the disparate treatment of people of color in the judicial system of San Francisco. “People of color wait in custody longer. People of color have longer sentences. It’s the judges who make those sentences,” he said. Evangelista was optimistic about the results early in the night. She also talked about the unfair treatment of people of color and that the judges were not doing enough to combat the issue. “I feel like the seats are empty,” she said. “I don’t feel like I am running against anyone. There is a systemic problem in the system. It’s time for us to find solutions to the problem.”

Maloof was not at the party when the Bay Area Reporter attended. Zareh, an attorney who was not part of the public defenders’ campaign, received 10.8 percent of the vote. She said she hopes the campaign sent a message to the incumbent judges about the need for change. “I hope they learn a lesson,” she told the B.A.R. Wednesday morning. “At some point they will have to face the voters and make change. I hope they can hear the initiatives I raised and pursue a filing system and raise the limits on small claims. The decisions they make affect people’s everyday lives.”

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Voters split on Props C, D by Alex Madison

an Francisco voters had a lot on their plate when it came to ballot measures this primary election. They decided to ratify the ban on the sale of flavored tobacco, produce more clean energy for the Bay Area, and leave Taser policy-making in the hands of the Police Commission. They also decided that tax money will be spent to fund subsidized child care and higher wages for teachers, among other things. Regionally, voters in most of the Bay Area counties agreed to higher bridge tolls to fund traffic and public transportation improvements. All voting results are based on unofficial returns Wednesday morning.

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Although Proposition D targeting homelessness received more votes, Proposition C, funding subsidizing child care, will go into effect after winning 50.3 percent of the vote. Because Supervisors Jane Kim and Norman Yee gathered signatures to get Prop C on the ballot, it only needed a majority vote of 50 percent plus one. Prop D required two-thirds and only received 44.6 percent. Because Prop D and C both depended on money from raising the gross receipts tax, only Prop C will go into effect, leaving Prop D to swallow the poison pill. The Universal Childcare for San Francisco Families Initiative will implement a 3.5 percent tax on commercial landlords, generating about $146 million annually to fund child care and education subsidies for children up to 5 years old and increase wages for early childhood educators and other child care workers. “This is the first time we have ever provided subsidies to middle-class families who are also struggling in San Francisco,” Kim said in an editorial board meeting with the Bay Area Reporter. Kim could not be reached for comment Wednesday morning. Parents whose income is less than 85 percent of the state area median income would be eligible for subsidized child care and education for children 5 and younger. Parents whose income is less than 200 percent of AMI would be eligible for subsidized child care and education for children 3 and younger. The remaining funds would be used to raise the wages of child care workers.

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“[This] is investing in the positivity of our workforce and it’s appropriate for employers to invest in their workforce,” Kim said. The losing Prop D would have generated approximately $70 million annually to fund low and middle-income housing and homeless services. The measure included a 10-year funding plan that would dedicate $450 million specifically for resources to lessen homelessness, including navigation centers, transitional housing, supplemental housing, and programs and wraparound services for mental illness and substance abuse. Another $350 million was dedicated to middle-income housing, mainly subsidized housing. The remaining $200 million was to fund low-income senior housing and more singleroom-occupancy housing.

Tobacco-Free Kids, say the sale of flavored tobacco products target minors and minorities, including the LGBT community and African-Americans. “This will protect kids and keep tobacco out of their hands and out of the retail environment,” Cohen said. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company spent nearly a million dollars gathering signatures to get the referendum on the ballot. R.J. Reynolds is the owner of the popular menthol cigarette brand Newport and claimed the ban is harmful to small business owners who sell tobacco products and calls it prohibition. A group called Let’s Be Real San Francisco, which was backed by the Arab American Grocers Association and the American Vaping Association, also led efforts to oppose the ban.

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In what many city officials saw as a battle between the San Francisco Police Commission and the powerful San Francisco Police Officers Association, Proposition H failed at the ballot box. The public safety measure, sponsored by the union, formulated a policy for the use of Tasers by San Francisco Police Department officers. According to early returns, 60.1 percent of voters voted no on Prop H. Although the commission approved the department’s use of Tasers last November – and SFPD is supposed to have them by the end of the year – it did not adopt a policy for their use until March of this year, after the ballot measure

San Franciscans overwhelmingly reaffirmed the Board of Supervisors’ ordinance to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes, by voting yes for Prop E. The measure took 68.4 percent of the vote. The proposition will uphold the ordinance, authored by Supervisor Malia Cohen, that was passed in April 2017. “Prop E has made history,” she said in an interview with the B.A.R. early Wednesday morning. “The message that I’ve shared since day one is resonating across California. No more breaks for big corporations while the rest of us suffer.” Cohen and other proponents, including the Campaign for

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alifornia voters easily passed four out of five ballot measures Tuesday, June 5, according to unofficial results. Proposition 68, which allows the state to sell a total of $4.1 billion in general obligation bonds for various natural resources-related programs, passed with 56 percent of the vote. “Prop 68’s success sends a clear message from voters about the need to address the state’s most critical parks, water, and natural resource needs,” the Yes on 68 campaign said in a statement on its website late Tuesday. Environmental groups hailed the victory. “The success of Prop 68 at the polls is an enormous win for all Californians, a win for our natural resources, and a win for our future,” Mike Sweeney, executive director of the Nature Conservancy in California, said on the campaign website. Proponents said the initiative will protect the state’s water, parks, and natural resources.

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Proposition 68 will allow the state to sell general obligation bonds for natural-resources programs.

Proposition 69 is a Legislative Constitutional Amendment to require that the Legislature spend revenues from the new diesel sales taxes and transportation improvement fees (Senate Bill 1) on transportation purposes. It overwhelmingly passed with 80.4 percent of the vote. It had wide support from local governments, businesses, labor, and infrastructure and transportation advocates.

Proposition 70 did not pass, as 63.6 percent of voters rejected the measure. It would have required a legislative supermajority vote approving cap-and-trade reserve funds. Opponents said it would weaken California’s clean energy program. An initiative that would set effective dates for ballot measures easily passed, with 76.8 percent of the vote. Proposition 71 is a constitutional amendment that states approved ballot measures will take effect about six weeks after Election Day. The proposition was needed, proponents said, because sometimes election results are not clear right after ballots are counted. With more people voting by mail, it can take elections officials longer to certify results. Voters also approved Proposition 72, with 83.3 percent of the vote. This initiative had no formal opposition and excludes newly-constructed rain-capture systems from property tax reassessment. Prop 72 is an incentive for homeowners to save water in a state that is regularly hit by draught.t

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nti-gay baker Jack Phillips may have won his battle to discriminate against same-sex couples, but he lost the war. That was the consensus among LGBT legal experts Monday, when the high court ruled 7-2 for Phillips, who had refused to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple in Colorado. But it’s a narrow ruling that focuses on what the court s a i d was hostile treatment toward Phillips by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority decision, said the commission demonstrated “clear and impermissible hostility toward the sincere religious beliefs that motivated [Phillips’] objection.” That’s because someone on the commission said this: “Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust ... we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And, to me, it is one of the most despicable piece of rhetoric that people can use – to use their religion to hurt others.” Significantly, the court did not decide that any business has a right to discriminate against customers because of who they are. The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the gay couple, Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, said, “[T]he court’s decision affirms again and again that our nation’s laws against discrimination are essential to maintaining America’s open society and that states can pass and enforce those laws, including in the context of LGBT people.” The majority opinion ruled for the Phillips’ Masterpiece Cakeshop because “it was entitled to the neutral and respectful consideration of its claims in all the circumstances of the case,” the ACLU stated. The majority of justices believed the bakery didn’t receive that basic fairness. “These disputes must be resolved with tolerance, without undue disrespect to sincere religious beliefs, and without subjecting gay persons to indignities when they seek goods and services in an open market,” the decision read. Of course, right-wing groups that support Phillips were quick to claim total victory and that

businesses have a right to discriminate – that’s not what the court said. This will cause confusion and the false belief that businesses can turn away LGBT people. “We dodged a bullet today,” said gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) in a statement, “in that the Supreme Court did not reach the ultimate question of whether people have a constitutional right to violate anti-discrimination laws based on their religious beliefs. That radical argument will be decided another day.” He’s right about that. One of the concerns Kennedy raised in the opinion was that at the time of the incident, in 2012, Colorado did not recognize same-sex marriage. (Mullins and Craig had gotten married in Massachusetts, which did allow such unions, and wanted the wedding cake for a reception in Colorado.) Now, of course, thanks to Kennedy and the high court in 2015’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. This means similar cases could make their way to the court, where the broader issues of religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws could be decided. One of those cases is Ingersoll v. Arlene’s Flowers, out of Washington state, in which a florist

refused to sell flowers to a gay couple for their wedding. The ACLU noted that the Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the shop had no constitutional right to turn the couple away, and a petition for review by the U.S. Supreme Court is pending. In February, a Kern County Superior Court judge ruled in another case that Tastries Bakery owner Cathy Miller can continue to discriminate against same-sex couples after she refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple, who filed a complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. However, that ruling is not final and the case is expected to continue this month in Bakersfield. The judge’s ruling relied heavily on the First Amendment. In court Miller’s attorney, Charles LiMandri, made the argument that her free speech rights and her right to free expression of religion trump the state’s arguments that she violated a law against discrimination, the Bakersfield Californian reported. One thing the Masterpiece Cakeshop case did expose is that appointees to various boards and commissions, whether state or local, should be unbiased and respectful. Candidates for civil rights commissions should be able to determine whether rights are being violated without resorting to bigoted statements. That’s something on which we could all agree on. t

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David Mullins, left, and Charlie Craig did not get the victory they were hoping for in their Supreme Court case.

Gay & Lesbian Review marks 25 years by Richard Schneider Jr.

s we sprint toward the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots next year, we at the Gay & Lesbian Review are celebrating our 25th year of publication, which means that this magazine, which was founded in 1994, has been around for exactly half of the so-called modern LGBT rights movement. If we look at the arc of LGBT history over this 50-year period, I think it’s possible to see a turning point somewhere near the halfway point in the early to mid-1990s. It was a time of both danger and possibility – not unlike the present, perhaps – in which new cultural institutions were bursting forth even as we suffered some major political setbacks. It was against this backdrop that the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review was founded. So, let me take you back to 1993, the year in which the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, as we were known until 2000, was being invented. To start with the setbacks: • Bill Clinton had just taken ofﬁce and was immediately hit with the “gays-in-the-military” crisis that resulted in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” compromise. • The Supreme Court of Hawaii legalized same-sex marriage for the first time anywhere, but then the Legislature amended the constitution to reinstate the ban, which launched the nationwide campaign to preclude same-sex marriage that haunted elections for the next decade. • The AIDS epidemic was in full swing; 1993 was the peak year for new infections. But LGBT people weren’t taking all this lying down. There was a huge march on Washington in 1993 to protest all of the above, to which a million people showed up. We’ve all heard the cliché that one Chinese character means both crisis and opportunity. So, on the “opportunity” side of the ledger, it was in this era that LGBT culture and commerce were exploding as never before. • The G&LR wasn’t the only new magazine on the block. Out and Genre were both founded in 1992; others would soon follow. These were

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glossy magazines rather than “rags,” boasting full-color photos and corporate advertising. • This was the era of the gay publishing boom when a trickle of gay books turned into a tsunami, with many venerable publishers participating. • The LGBT travel business, with companies dedicated to an expressly gay clientele, is largely a product of this period. • Suddenly there were trade expos and conferences of all kinds, such as the LGBT Expo in New York. The annual OutWrite Conference in Boston brought together writers from around the country and was immensely helpful in getting the Gay & Lesbian Review off the ground. These new opportunities were essentially commercial enterprises aimed at a newly discovered LGBT consumer market, and there was much discussion about the “mainstreaming” of gay culture. This controversy erupted in the first several issues of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review. David Bergman wrote an open letter to Bruce Bawer, whose newly published book “A Place at the Table” advocated what Bergman saw as an “assimilationist” agenda. Bawer replied; then

Michael Bronski and Sarah Schulman, among others, got into the act. This argument has animated our pages over the years, but I think most people would agree that greater acceptance and equality have brought greater assimilation into the larger social fabric. The “liberation” model that prevailed after Stonewall has largely succumbed to the “identity politics” model of today. The Gay & Lesbian Review was a product of this transitional era, but it belongs to the second half of that 50-year arc: a cultural magazine that may have leftish sympathies but sets out to explore LGBT history and culture with a cool, probing eye. Many of the crises cited above have been settled, more or less favorably, over the past 25 years. Gays are serving openly in the military, and same-sex marriage is established law in the U.S. The HIV epidemic has been dramatically tamed through the introduction of antiretrovirals in 1996, and new prevention treatment in recent years. The majority of LGBT people live in states or cities that protect them from overt discrimination in housing and employment – though a national law remains a (distant?) dream. Indeed, complacency at this stage would seem foolhardy, this being the age of President Donald Trump and all that that implies. American institutions are under assault as the administration shreds traditions and the rule of law, showing that even entrenched institutions aren’t safe. For the Gay and Lesbian Review’s part, we’ve been a magazine of culture and the arts for most of our history, but lately, we’ve been returning to our more political roots as a sense of crisis returns. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, to find out more about the Gay & Lesbian Review, check our website at http:// www.GLReview.org.t Richard Schneider Jr. is the founder of the Gay & Lesbian Review.

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Gay men lead Bay Area county education races by Matthew S. Bajko

wo gay men running for county education posts in the Bay Area took the lead in their races Tuesday night, according to unofficial returns. In the East Bay, Joaquin J. Rivera breezed to victory in his race for reelection to his Area 1 seat on the Alameda County Board of Education. On the Peninsula, Gary Waddell, Ph.D., was holding on to a slight lead in his contest for San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools. With nearly 87 percent of the vote as of Wednesday morning, Rivera easily secured a third four-year term. His opponent, Berkeley scientist and entrepreneur Abdur Sikder, a father of three who is from Bangladesh, garnered just over 12 percent of the vote. “Looking forward to continuing working with you,” Rivera told the president of the county board Tuesday night in response to a Facebook post congratulating him on his victory. Rivera is one of the highest-ranking non-judicial LGBT elected officials in the East Bay. In 2010 he first won his seat on the education board, representing the cities of Albany, Berkeley, and Emeryville, as well as the Oakland neighborhoods of North Oakland, Temescal, Rockridge, and the northern portion of West Oakland. The first, and so far only, out LGBT person to serve on the oversight body, Rivera lives in Berkeley with his husband, Joel Cohen. He is a chemistry professor at Skyline College, located south of San Francisco in the hills of San Bruno and part of the San Mateo County Community College District. In the Peninsula race for county superintendent, Waddell had 50.2 percent of the vote as of Wednesday morning. His opponent, Nancy Magee, a lesbian, was trailing with 49.8 percent of the vote. San Mateo County elections officials will release an updated vote count late Thursday afternoon. But it will likely be days before a final outcome is known, as for the first time the county held an all-mail election. Ballots had to be mailed by Tuesday and any received by Friday will be counted. “That is the question. We are checking with the elections office today,” Waddell told the Bay Area Reporter early Wednesday morning when asked if his campaign knew how many ballots were left to count. “I am pleased we ended up in the lead. Obviously, it is a very close race.” In a post on Facebook Wednesday morning, Magee wrote she was waiting for more ballots to be counted to see if the results would swing her way. “As we step into this new day, there are 188 votes separating the outcome with a significant number of ballots yet to be counted. It’s going down to the wire!” wrote Magee. The two out candidates are

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was submitted. Newly-appointed president of the POA, Tony Montoya, a gay man, said he was disappointed with the results. “It’s not the results I wanted,” he said in an interview with the B.A.R. early Wednesday morning. “There is still a proposal out there to draft a policy that the Police Commission has had since March. It’s time to lift that off the ground and get some conferences set up with the city and see what we can do to put the best policy forward that gives everybody

colleagues at the county education office and are running to succeed lesbian San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools Anne E. Campbell. After serving two four-year terms in the position, Campbell opted not to seek re-election. Waddell, a resident of Pacifica, currently serves as deputy superintendent of the instructional services division at the county education office. Magee, a resident of Half Moon Bay, is the county’s associate superintendent for the student services division.

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Lesbians win DA races

Gary Waddell, Ph.D. Sacramento District Attorney

Gay Santa Cruz supervisor candidate headed to runoff

Gay Watsonville City Councilman Jimmy Dutra is expected to vie in November to become the first LGBT person to serve on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. He is seeking the board’s District 4 seat and landed in second place in Tuesday’s election. With none of the five candidates securing more than 50 percent of the vote to win outright, the top two finishers will face off in the fall general election. The incumbent, Supervisor Greg Caput, was in first place with 33 percent of the vote, while Dutra was in second with 26 percent of the vote. “We are in a strong second! Thanks you!!!” Dutra wrote on his Facebook page shortly after the first election returns were announced Tuesday night. In San Jose, lesbian married mother Shay Franco-Clausen fell short in her bid for the District 9 seat on the City Council. She had been aiming to become the first out woman, and only second LGBT person, to serve on the South Bay city’s governing body. But Franco-Clausen landed in third place with nearly 17 percent of the vote, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday morning.

what they need.” The measure was criticized by Police Chief William Scott, who called it “the antithesis of the spirit” of the reforms recommended by the United States Department of Justice after its investigation of the SFPD following several controversial killings by the police. Former supervisor and leading mayoral candidate Mark Leno and Board of Supervisors President London Breed, also a mayoral candidate, criticized how Prop H undermines the commission’s power to make amendments or other changes. If Prop H passed, any changes to the Taser policy would

Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, a Republican and one of two lesbian district attorneys in California, secured a second four-year term Tuesday night. She fended off a challenge from Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Noah Phillips, a Democrat and straight married father. According to the unofficial returns Wednesday morning, Schubert captured 63 percent of the vote while Phillips received 36 percent. In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s vote, Schubert had seesawed from being confronted by protests to basking in the national media spotlight. After Sacramento police in March killed an unarmed black man in the backyard of his grandmother’s home, protesters took to the streets of the state capital and targeted Shubert, who will decide if the officers will face charges once the police turn over the case to her office. Shubert more recently caught a break with the capture of the suspected Golden State Killer, garnering glowing media attention just weeks ahead of the election. The state’s other lesbian DA is Jill Ravitch in Sonoma County. A Democrat, she was assured of a third term Tuesday as the only person who had filed to run against her dropped out of the race, though his name still appeared on the ballot. She won with nearly 75 percent of the vote, while Scott J. Murray garnered 25 percent despite suspending his campaign.t

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Proposition F passed with 55.6 percent of the vote, providing residential tenants facing eviction with city-funded legal representation. Its passage makes San Francisco the first city in California to guarantee tenants facing eviction the right to counsel. “This will stop more evictions in our city than any measure since San Francisco passed rent control,” See page 13 >>

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by Matthew S. Bajko

n the only competitive state legislative race in the Bay Area with out candidates, all three of the challengers appear to have fallen short in Tuesday’s contest for the open 15th Assembly District seat, which stretches from Richmond south into parts of Oakland. As of Wednesday morning, it appeared that two straight candidates will compete in November to succeed Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), who is running to be the state superintendent of public instruction. According to the unofficial returns, former Obama staffer Buffy Wicks was in first place, with 31.1 percent of the vote. Oakland City Councilman Dan Kalb finished second, with 14.9 percent of the vote. Jovanka Beckles, a lesbian who sits on the Richmond City Council, was narrowly behind Kalb, with 14.6 percent of the vote. Their margin of difference was 182 votes, meaning there is a chance that once the remaining ballots are counted in the coming days that Beckles could secure the secondplace spot. Judy Appel, a lesbian who sits on the Berkeley school board, finished fourth with 11.6 percent of the vote, while bisexual East Bay Municipal Utility District board member Andy Katz trailed with 5.5 percent of the vote. Earlier Tuesday night, at her campaign party at Doc’s Refresher in Berkeley, Appel said she was feeling optimistic, though early returns had her behind. “It was such an amazing campaign,” Appel told the Bay Area Reporter. “We had a team of incredible, creative, hard-working people behind me.”

Other races

There were 16 LGBT candidates known to be running for state Assembly or Senate seats in Tuesday’s primary races, two fewer than the high seen in 2012. Yet the eight lesbian legislative candidates on the June primary ballot was a record number. In Riverside County, Palm Springs resident Joy Silver, an expert on aging issues, came in second place with nearly 35 percent of the vote in the state’s 28th Senate District seat. She is aiming to unseat Senator Jeff Stone (R-La Quinta), one of the most antiLGBT members of the Statehouse,

who placed first in the primary with nearly 56 percent of the vote. In Placer County former San Jose resident Jackie Smith is running to oust freshman Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Granite Bay) from his 6th District seat. She moved with her wife, Darlene Smith, to Rocklin six years ago and founded the LGBT political group Placer Stonewall Democrats. Smith took second Tuesday with close to 39 percent of the vote. Kiley came in first with 61 percent of the vote. In San Diego, lesbian real estate agent Sunday Gover, who lives with her partner and their four children in Scripps Ranch, is running against Assemblyman Brian Maienschein (R-San Diego). The former San Diego city councilman was first elected to his 77th Assembly District seat in 2012 and has been very supportive of LGBT legislation over the last six years. He came in first in the primary race with 58.5 percent of the vote. Gover was in second place with 41.5 percent. Two of this year’s out candidates ran for seats that were vacated by the incumbents. Montebello City Councilwoman Vivian Romero, who identifies as gay, was in the odd position of running in two elections for the same Senate seat on the June 5 primary ballot. Due to sexual harassment allegations, Tony Mendoza resigned from his Senate District 32 seat earlier this year. The Los Angeles County district covers the cities of Artesia, Montebello, Whittier, Pico Rivera, Downey, and Norwalk. The special election to serve out the remainder of Mendoza’s term through December of this year was held June 5. Since none of the candidates captured 50 percent plus one of the vote, the top two vote-getters will face off in a runoff election August 7. Both Romero and Mendoza, who ran to be re-elected to his seat, came in behind the top two finishers. Nor did they survive the primary to compete in November for a full four-year term in the Senate seat. In the other primary race where the incumbent resigned, Steve Dunwoody failed to make the November ballot for the 54th Assembly District seat in Los Angeles. It became vacant when Sebastian RidleyThomas resigned in December due to health issues. After failing to make the ballot

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Jovanka Beckles is narrowly trailing in the 15th Assembly District race.

for the special election earlier this year, Dunwoody ran as a write-in candidate but lost to Sydney Kamlager, who had been serving as a Los Angeles community college trustee. The assemblywoman finished first with 54.5 percent of the vote Tuesday. Dunwoody, who had hoped to become the first gay African-American man elected to the Legislature, was far behind with just 8.5 percent of the vote.

Out incumbents all advance

Facing relatively easy bids for re-election come the fall are gay Assemblymen Evan Low (DCampbell) and Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), as they are facing token opposition from Republicans in safe Democratic districts. Low, chair of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus, represents the 28th Assembly District in Silicon Valley. He received almost 69 percent of the vote Tuesday, while his opponent, Michael Snyder, garnered 31 percent. Gloria, who represents the 78th Assembly District, netted close to 70 percent of the vote Tuesday. His opponent, Maggie Campbell, received 30 percent. Lesbian Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) is also expected to win re-election this year to her Central Valley seat. She received almost 52 percent of the primary votes. She will face a Republican opponent, Antonio M. Garcia, in the fall as the GOPer landed in second

Judy Appel spoke to supporters Tuesday in Berkeley.

place with 31 percent of the vote Tuesday. Democrat Carlos Villapudua fell short in his bid to take on Eggman, receiving roughly 17 percent of the vote. Lesbian Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona) is facing a tough road to re-election in November, as she came in second place Tuesday behind her Republican opponent, federal prosecutor Bill Essayi. He took first place with 53 percent of the vote, while Cervantes netted nearly 47 percent. The GOP has targeted the freshman lawmaker for defeat, using her vote for the state’s controversial gas tax increase against her. It is sure to haunt her into the fall election, when voters will decide on a ballot measure seeking to repeal the gas tax.

Out Republicans also advance

Henry Gomez Nickel, a gay man who serves on the San Bernardino City Council, presents the best chance in years for LGBT Republicans seeing one of their own win a state legislative seat. Nickel, who husband is an immigrant from El Salvador, is seeking the 40th Assembly District seat. The current officeholder, Assemblyman Marc Steinorth (R-Rancho Cucamonga), is running for a San Bernardino County supervisor seat rather than seek re-election. He took first place Tuesday with nearly 47 percent of the vote. Democratic San Bernardino County Supervisor James Ramos was in second with 40 percent, while Democrat Libbern Gwen Cook, a teacher, came in third with 13 percent.

This is the second time Nickel has sought a legislative seat. In 2010 he lost a bid for the state’s then 63rd Assembly District seat. Four years later he won election to a partial term on the San Bernardino City Council representing the city’s Ward 5. The next year he won election to a full four-year term. On the board of the California League of Cities LGBT Caucus, Nickel is facing an uphill climb to win in November, as Democratic voters are likely to coalesce behind Ramos. Should Nickel win the Assembly seat, he would be the first out Republican elected to the state Legislature. (In 2010 former Republican assemblyman and senator Roy Ashburn came out as gay after being pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving with a younger male passenger he reportedly had met at a Sacramento gay club. He was termed out of his Senate seat that fall.) Gay GOP Ontario resident Matthew Munson will run against state Senator Connie M. Leyva (DChino) in the 20th Senate District, which encompasses parts of the Inland Empire. He came in second place with close to 36 percent of the vote Tuesday, though he has no chance in November of defeating Leyva, who took first place in the primary with 46 percent. Two other gay GOP candidates are expected to be on the November ballot having run as write-in candidates Tuesday against Democratic incumbents who did not draw official opponents in the primary. It will be several days until elections officials announce how many votes either received. Joshua Herr, president of Log Cabin’s Los Angeles chapter, is vying for the 50th Assembly District seat against the incumbent, Assemblyman Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica). Anthony Macias is seeking to challenge freshman Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) for his 27th Assembly District seat. Currently, there are eight out members of the state Legislature, four each in the Assembly and Senate. The membership of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus is also split evenly between men and women at the moment. Gay Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) could depart at the end of the year if he wins his race for state insurance commissioner in November. t

Mixed results for out CA congressional candidates by Matthew S. Bajko

uesday’s primary was a mixed bag for the out candidates in congressional races in southern California. There were three House races with known out candidates this year. Gay Representative Mark Takano (D-Riverside) was the only one to easily survive his primary contest. He received nearly 57 percent of the vote, according to unofficial returns Wednesday morning, in his re-election bid for the state’s 41st Congressional District seat. Takano was the first, and so far only, LGBT member of the Golden State’s congressional delegation. He is expected to easily defeat his Republican opponent, Aja Smith, in November. Smith garnered 43 percent of the vote Tuesday. In the race for the 25th Congressional District seat north of Los Angeles, bisexual homeless advocate Katie Hill eked out a second-place finish to take on anti-gay incumbent Representative Steve Knight (R-Lancaster) in November. As of Wednesday morning, Hill had 20.2 percent of the unofficial vote, while Knight was in first place

with 52.8 percent. Democrats Bryan Caforio was in third with 18.3 percent and queer geologist Jess Phoenix took fourth with 6 percent. “From the bottom of my heart – THANK YOU! I couldn’t be more proud of my team and all of the volunteers and supporters who have built this movement from the ground up,” Hill wrote in a Facebook post. “Now, all we can do is celebrate the hard work put in the past 15 months!” Should Hill win in November, she would become the first openly LGBTQ congresswoman from California and just the second openly bisexual person elected to Congress. “Katie’s victory sets up a general election battle between her positive, solutions-oriented vision for the district and the politics of hate and destruction her opponent thrives on,” stated Annise Parker, president and CEO of LGBTQ Victory Fund. “Steve Knight and his family made careers out of attacking LGBTQ people and working to rollback equal rights. Now, voters have an opportunity to defeat him with an openly bisexual woman who has pledged to represent all her constituents. Katie will make history in

percent, while former Republican state Assemblyman Tim Donnelly was in second with 22.6 percent of the vote. As of press time Wednesday, Doyle had yet to concede the race. In a Facebook post Tuesday, she wrote that running for Congress “was a humbling and overwhelming experience.”

Pelosi wins big

Congressman Mark Takano

becoming the first openly LGBTQ congresswoman from California if elected in November, but more importantly, she will head to Capitol Hill determined to reduce the divisiveness and produce actual results for all Americans.” Lesbian health care leader Marge Doyle appears to have fallen short in her bid to compete against Representative Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) for his 8th Congressional District seat this fall. She entered

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Katie Hill advanced to the November election.

the race facing an uphill battle in a district that favors Republicans but had attracted wide support and donations from Democrats and LGBT groups. Yet it was not enough to advance her to the November election, where the top two vote-getters in the primary will compete. Doyle was in third place with 21.5 percent of the unofficial vote Wednesday morning. Cook took first place with 41.5

In San Francisco, longtime ally House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi easily took first place in the primary for her 12th Congressional District seat, receiving 68.39 percent of the vote, according to unofficial returns. Two Democratic challengers, both straight men, had waged campaigns to try and finish in second place to run against Pelosi in the fall, but neither was successful. Shahid Buttar, a progressive lawyer and DJ, finished with 7.74 percent of the vote. UC Hastings College of the Law student Ryan A. Khojasteh received 4.27 percent of the vote. Pelosi will face Republican Lisa Remmer in November. She received 9.95 percent of the vote.t

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Research and reality by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

fascinating study has come out of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study, which uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to study the brains of transgender people who have and haven’t been on hormone treatments, compares them to the brains of non-transgender-identified men and women. What researchers discovered is both intriguing and expected: the brains of the transgender people showed differences that are more in line with their gender identity than with their birth-assigned gender. This study corroborates what others have done over the last two decades that show that the “trans” of trans people tends to associate with those of their non-trans counterparts. It also further supports the work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfield on transgender people in the first part of the 20th century, that of Dr. Harry Benjamin in the mid-century, and countless other caregivers and researchers. More importantly, it also matches a lot of what transgender people have said for, well, as long as we’ve existed. We are who we say we are, and the genders we’re assigned at birth aren’t the ones we actually are. The study is a welcome balm in an era when forces from all over conspire against transgender people, painting us as mentally ill at best, and criminal at worst. We live in a time when the Trump administration is constantly chipping away at transgender rights, while others on the right continue to push the belief that our inalienable rights lead directly to sexual assault. So, this study gives yet another big piece of evidence that transgender people are backed by science, and are a natural, real thing – not some subterfuge or illness. For myself, I’ve known for decades that I was a transgender woman. I’ve been certain it was the foundation of my identity, as core as that of any other woman I’ve known. I’ve been well aware of who and what I am, and what I needed to do to feel comfortable in my own skin. This research would seem to validate what I, and so many other people, have said all these years. Now that I’ve praised the research for what it is, let me tell you why it doesn’t matter. When one is left-handed, it was determined that this condition was simply a part of human variation. While the world is right-handed dominant, left-handedness is simply accepted at this point. It doesn’t require a study to legitimize it. Likewise, while there has certainly been a lot of study done into homosexuality, one doesn’t need such to prove that they, themselves, are homosexual. We know what attracts us. It’s fine that it was studied, sure, but in the end we are validated by those who love and care for us, and ourselves, not by anyone with a clipboard and lab coat. The same should be just as true for transgender people. I’m glad researchers found these things out, but their existence doesn’t tell me anything I don’t already know to be true for myself. If you, dear reader, are not transgender, I’ll give you this experiment. Think for a moment how you know what gender you are. First and foremost, I suspect the very question sounds silly to you. You may never have thought about it. You just are a man or a woman, and there’s no need for you to think any further on it. Going deeper, you might point to your body, what you were assigned at birth, the gender of those who would associate with it, and so on. All valid enough: I’m not here to challenge your identity. The one thing you did not feel the need for, I suspect, is a study that said that your brain was in line with other men or women. You didn’t feel the need for a scientific validation for the gender that you know you are on an innate level. The very notion that you might need decades of scientific

research into the brain structures of people within your gender identity to legitimize your existence may feel more than a little insulting. Now you know how it feels to be in my shoes, and hear people hold up this research as somehow proving that I am allowed to exist as a transgender woman – as if my continued existence isn’t all the proof I need. It’s not to say there’s no place for such research. Certainly, anything that helps

us as a whole to understand how we all go together is worth exploring. But these studies only serve to verify the truths we already live. I think the bigger concern for many, too, is the notion that research like this could lead to a “transgender test” to determine if one is, indeed, a candidate for trans-affirming care. A brain scan that could determine if one is “trans enough” could cause undue harm.

It’s not a concern without merit, given the history of transgender care. Our past is rife with gatekeepers holding transgender people back from care, and labeling us in hurtful ways that have served to further marginalize transgender people. There’s no reason to allow this research to further disenfranchise transgender people of all stripes. So I’m glad this research has been done, and it takes our understanding of being transgender that much further. It shows that, yet again, transgender people really are just what we say we are.

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GBTs and others looking for a unique Pride weekend experience can help install the giant pink triangle atop Twin Peaks. The 23rd pink triangle display will occur June 23-24. Patrick Carney, co-founder of the project, said that it takes at least 125 people to install the public art, and 50 to take it down after the Pride festivities have concluded. Carney; his husband, Hossein; and sister, Colleen Hodgkins, will make the triangle’s outline Friday, June 22. Then, it’s all hands on deck early Saturday morning for the installation, followed by a ceremony featuring community leaders, Pride grand marshals, elected officials, and the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band. Musical theater star Leanne Borghesi is also scheduled to attend. The pink triangle, now a symbol of LGBT pride, was once used by the Nazis in concentration camps to identify, shame, and persecute homosexual prisoners. Gays were forced to wear the pink triangle on their pockets in the camps as a way to set them apart from other prisoners. This year’s special guest at the 10:30 a.m. ceremony will be new German Consul General Hans-Ulrich Suedbeck, a gay man, along with his husband and two children, Carney said. Suedbeck is expected to talk about how far Germany has come since the dark days of the creation of the pink triangle, but that people must remember what occurred because all nations do not have the freedom and equality that Germany today enjoys, Carney said in a news release. The triangle will be installed Saturday, from 7 to 10 a.m. Those interested in helping out should bring

a hammer and gloves. People should wear closed-toe shoes and sunscreen. The display consists of 175 bright pink tarps, held in place by nearly 5,000 12 inch long spikes. The display is 200 feet long on each leg and can be seen for 20 miles, as long as Karl the Fog doesn’t intrude. Getting people to help take down the triangle is more challenging, Carney noted, because it follows the Pride parade and celebration. He said that even if people can help out for an hour between 4:30 and 8 p.m. it would be appreciated. Those installing the triangle will receive pink triangle T-shirts. This year’s shirts are being donated by the Bob Ross Foundation, which is overseen by Thomas E. Horn, publisher emeritus of the Bay Area Reporter. (Ross was the founding publisher of the long-running LGBT publication.) For more information, including directions to the site, visit http://www. thepinktriangle.com.

North Bay Pride events

Calistoga will hold its inaugural Pride in the Park Saturday, June 9, from noon to 3 p.m. at Logvy Park, 1401 N. Oak Street. Organizers with LGBTQ Connection’s Calistoga Youth Leadership Team said this is the first family and community picnic event in the town. There is no cost to attend. There will be food, music, and activities. People can bring their own picnic blankets and lawn chairs if they wish. Later this month, on Saturday, June 30, LGBTQ Connection will hold its Napa Pride Community Cookout from noon to 3 p.m. at Kennedy Park, 2295 Streblow Drive. People should bring a blanket and beverages or sides. LGBTQ Connection will

wrote in an email that filmmakers are especially looking for women and people of color with compelling and developing stories who are participating in SF Pride or any Pride-related events. Filmmakers are expecting to do a shoot at SF Pride later this month. Those who are interested can complete a submission form at https:// www.portal-a.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/State-of-Pride-Casting-Notice-San-Francisco.pdf.

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Assemblyman David Chiu, with his son, Lucas, spoke at last year’s pink triangle ceremony.

take care of the grill and main dishes (with meat and vegetarian options). For more information, visit http:// www.lgbtqconnection.org.

Tickets on sale for Pride Brunch

Tickets are now on sale for Gary Virginia and Donna Sachet’s 20th annual Pride Brunch, which takes place Saturday, June 23, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hotel Whitcomb, 1231 Market Street in San Francisco. The brunch features the San Francisco Pride parade community grand marshals and honorees. It started in 1999 when Virginia, former president of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee board, and Sachet, a community leader and fundraiser, inaugurated the event to raise much-needed and unrestricted funds for the Positive Resource Center. Now known as PRC, the agency helps people living with HIV/AIDS access disability income, employment, and other services. It has since merged with the AIDS Emergency Fund and Baker Places. The brunch raises about $40,000

for PRC. “Our loyal partners, guests, and volunteers love coming together to honor those who have made a significant impact in our community,” Virginia said in a news release. “At Pride Brunch, honorees speak from the heart and share stories that resonate and make us reflect on how far we’ve come. This year marks our 20th anniversary, and we’re excited to celebrate with fun surprises.” Tickets start at $75 and can be purchased at https://bit.ly/2LMXIRQ.

Directors looking for talent for Pride doc

A documentary film team is looking for young LGBTQ people who will be attending San Francisco Pride this month and who are interested in possibly appearing in the film. Portal A, a production company, is currently creating a feature-length documentary about the state of Pride for young LGBTQ people across the U.S.. The film is directed by gay Academy Award-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Portal A talent producer Ellie Loarca

San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen has announced that several events will take place in District 10, which she represents, to celebrate LGBTQ Pride. There will be a robot dance party at the Bayview Farmers Market Saturday, June 9, at 9 a.m. at All Good Plaza, 1605 Jerrold Avenue. Other activities include a slow and oak barbecue Thursday, June 14, at Gratta Wines, 5273 Third Street, and a free screening of “Moonlight,” the 2017 Academy Award-winning film, Thursday, June 21, at 7 p.m. at the Bayview Opera House, 4705 Third Street. Additionally, Cohen invites people to join the District 10 float in the Pride parade, Sunday, June 24. To RSVP for events, visit the “D10 Pride” Facebook page.

Pulse anniversary vigil planned

June 12 marks the second anniversary of the mass shooting at the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida and, locally, community members are planning a vigil in San Francisco. Gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at Pulse before he was fatally shot by police. It is one of the worst mass shootings in history. The horror unfolded in the middle of Pride Month on the club’s See page 16 >>

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bout 30 kids and their parents gathered in the Mission Sunday afternoon for the first TwoSpirit Storytime. The Pride Month event served as a book launch for “47,000 Beads,” a new children’s book by Angel and Koja Adeyoha (Eastern band of Cherokee and Lakota). The book tells the story of Peyton, a Native American girl who loves to dance, especially at powwow. When Peyton shares that she can’t be comfortable wearing a dress anymore, her auntie Eyota asks some friends for help to get Peyton what she needs.

“47,000 Beads” was read aloud to the kids by drag queen Landa Lakes, who identifies as two spirit. Lakes said there was a reason why she participated in the storytelling time. “Currently one of my nephews, age 13, is dealing with his own gender issues,” Lakes told the Bay Area Reporter. “I think it would have been great to have something like this during my time growing up. We hope for good things for the next generation so good representation in these kinds of stories can help build self-esteem.” The authors noted that all kids should be able to see themselves in books.

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new Spanish-language PrEP campaign has launched to raise awareness about the HIV prevention pill in Latino communities. Viva PrEP, developed by San Franciscobased Instituto Familiar de la Raza, features street and public transportation ads and a Spanish-language website, http://www.vivaprep.org. “Solutions for the Latino community must be driven by the community itself,” said IFR Executive Director Estela Garcia, doctor of mental health. “Many of the staff members who contributed to the campaign are part of our target population. They understand firsthand the barriers many Latinos face and are committed to community health and empowerment.” Outreach events to introduce the campaign, which began in May, and promote PrEP use will take place over the next several months, according to IFR program manager Rafael Velázquez. Often campaigns that aim to reach Spanish-speaking Latinos fail because they are first designed for an Englishspeaking audience and then translated, Velázquez told the Bay Area Reporter. But Viva PrEP is different. “From the get-go, Viva PrEP was designed with our community in mind,” he said. “Our community knows when something is designed for them, and it is powerful to see yourself represented.” IFR’s Si a la Vida program offers PrEP services for the Latino LGBT community in partnership with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, focusing on men who have sex with men and trans women. Services are available for documented and undocumented people with or without health insurance.

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Instituto Familiar de la Raza has launched a new Spanish-language campaign to promote PrEP for Latinos.

“Campaigns like Viva PrEP are important for immigrant trans Latinas because we are some of the most impacted by HIV,” IFR transgender services health educator Yazmin Macias told the B.A.R. “Most times information about health and wellness services is not tailored to transgender women and we rarely see ourselves portrayed accurately and with dignity.” The federal Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada (tenofovir DF/emtricitabine) for HIV prevention for adults in July 2012, and last month approval was extended to adolescents. Clinical trials show that,

when taken consistently, Truvada reduces the risk of HIV infection among men who have sex with men by around 90 percent, with infection rates approaching zero for people who take it at least four times a week. PrEP use has scaled up rapidly in San Francisco, especially among white gay and bisexual men in their 20s through 40s, but adoption has been slower among African-American and Latino gay men and among youth. Nationwide, about a quarter of new HIV diagnoses in 2015 occurred See page 16 >>

Correction The May 31 article, “Mayor’s proposed budget axes expanded Q Groups,” should have reported Jodi Schwartz, executive director of the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center, met with Mayor Mark Farrell’s budget staff, not the mayor directly. The article also reported that 59 percent of youth who enrolled in a Q Group came out after enrolling. All Q Group youth self identify as LGBT before enrolling, but 50 percent came out to close friends and family after enrolling in a Q Group, according to Schwartz. The online version of this article has been updated.

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dedicated his candidacy “to every child who feels lost & different, has been bullied, been told you aren’t normal and has taken their life.” In the race for the District 2 seat on the state’s Board of Equalization, lesbian state Senator Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) appears to have fallen short of making it to the November general election. She was in third place with 26.2 percent of the vote Wednesday morning. But with more ballots yet to be counted, she could still beat out second-place finisher Mark Burns, a Republican, who had 28.6 percent of the unofficial returns. Either will face off against San Francisco District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen in the fall to represent the sprawling tax board district, which stretches from the Bay Area to the state’s northern coastal counties. Cohen took first place with 36 percent of Tuesday’s vote. “I look forward to making history in November as the first

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said Dean Preston, the author and official proponent of the measure in a press release. “And it will help San Francisco with its out-of-control homeless crisis.” More clean energy will soon come out of San Francisco with the passing of Proposition A, a charter amendment. It passed overwhelmingly with 75.9 percent of the vote. The amendment authorizes the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to issue revenue bonds for facilities to produce hydroelectric power for city and port land, including developments on Treasure Island, the Hunters Point Shipyard, Pier 70, and Mission Rock. Another charter amendment on the ballot that passed was Proposition B, with 69.1 percent of the vote. The measure formalizes an unenforced policy that members of city boards and commissions resign

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“tired of the squabbling at City Hall” and want to see the city’s leaders work together to address issues such as homelessness and affordable housing. “I am eager to go into City Hall and work with whoever our next mayor is and the 10 other supervisors on the board,” said Mandelman, a member of the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees. Despite his overwhelming victory Tuesday, Mandelman told the B.A.R. he expects to face a moderate challenger in November, whether it is Sheehy or another candidate. “We are planning to have an opponent,” said Mandelman, noting that he has already raised $200,000 for the fall campaign.

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Lesbian former San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis appears headed to a fall runoff for a county Board of Supervisors seat since no candidate won 50 percent of the vote Tuesday. Should she be elected to the board’s District 4 seat, Dumanis would be the only LGBT person serving on it and one of the highest-ranking out Republican elected officials in California. The district covers nearly all of San Diego, including the gay neighborhood of Hillcrest, the beach community of La Jolla, and inland areas from Kearny Mesa south to Encanto. Dumanis would be the second openly LGBT person elected to the county board and the first lesbian to serve on it. Dave Roberts, a gay man and Democrat, was the first out San Diego County supervisor but lost his

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African-American woman elected to the BOE,” Cohen told the Bay Area Reporter Wednesday morning. She said it was too premature to share her goals for the troubled state agency. Cohen said she was “tired” from staying up late watching the election returns come in, “but extremely grateful for the overwhelming response” from voters to her candidacy.

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Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, joined by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, addressed supporters in San Francisco Tuesday.

their seat when they decide to seek elected office. Former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown was known to kick people off of city boards and commissions when they entered a race, but the policy was never codified. Another tax measure that passed is Proposition G, coming in with 59.2 percent of the vote. The $298 parcel tax will be used to fund the San Francisco Unified School District, including increased teacher salaries, staffing, technological advances, and charter schools.

Proposition I

A big disappointment to the homeless man Allen Jones who fought to get the initiative on the ballot is the defeat of Proposition I: a declaration of policy that states City Hall will “not endorse or condone the relocation of any team with an extensive history in another location.” The language also asks the city to submit a formal apology re-election bid in 2016. Dumanis was in second place Wednesday morning with 27.52 percent of the vote. In first place was former state assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who had close to 29 percent of the vote. The two also ran against each other in the 2012 San Diego mayor’s race, which they both lost. Now a registered Democrat, Fletcher in recent weeks had faced questions about his being a Republican with an anti-gay voting record when he served in the state Legislature. Questioned about his past stances by the San Diego Union Tribune’s editorial board, Fletcher said he had changed his views on a number of issues since leaving the Republican Party. The attacks against his record appeared to be aimed at boosting support for the other Democrats in the race in order to provide an advantage to Dumanis, as she is the only Republican on the ballot. It seems to have worked, as Democratic former assemblywoman Lori Saldana was in third place with nearly 22 percent of the vote. In another San Diego County race, David Myers, a commander with the San Diego County Sheriff ’s Department, where he has worked for 32 years, lost his bid to oust his boss, Sheriff Bill Gore, from office. Gore won a third term Tuesday with nearly 54 percent of the vote, while Myers took second with 43 percent, ending his chance of being the first out elected sheriff in California. In Los Angeles County, lesbian Supervisor Sheila Kuehl easily won a second term representing the board’s District 3 with 74 percent of the vote. t

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with 23.4 percent of the vote Wednesday morning, while state Senator Dr. Ed Hernandez (DWest Covina) was in second with 20.8 percent. Secretary of State Alex Padilla appears headed to re-election this fall, as the Democrat came in first place with 51 percent of the vote Tuesday. Republican Mark P. Meuser took second place with 32 percent of the primary vote. Controller Betty T. Lee also is expected to win re-election come November, as the Democrat took first place Tuesday with close to 61 percent of the vote. Her GOP opponent, Konstantinos Roditis, was a distant second with 35 percent of the unofficial vote. Board of Equalization member Fiona Ma took first place with 43 percent of the vote Tuesday in the race for state treasurer. The Democrat will likely run against Republican Greg Conlon, who was in second with 22 percent of the vote, as fellow GOPer Jack M. Guerrero was in third place with 19.8 percent of the vote.

Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra, appointed to the position last year by Brown, is all but assured of winning election to the position in November having taken first place Tuesday with 45 percent of the vote. Republican retired Judge Steven C. Bailey came in second with 25 percent, besting current Democratic Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who had 14.5 percent, and fellow GOPer Eric Early, who had 14.9 percent. In the race for superintendent of public instruction, charter school backer Marshall Tuck took first place with 37 percent of the vote, while state Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) was in second with 34 percent. Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein appears headed to an easy re-election this fall after coming in first place Tuesday with nearly 44 percent of the vote. In a far distant second was termed out state Senator Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), who garnered 11 percent of the vote. t

to the city of Oakland for wooing the Golden State Warriors, who are constructing a new arena in Mission Bay. More than half of voters, 57.4 percent, said no to the measure. “I am not going to give up regardless of the outcome,” Jones, who identifies as homosexual, said. He gathered about 14,686 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. “I will continue to get the message out there that San Francisco is better than taking from their neighbor when they have so much,” he said. The measure did not garner much public support. Only one local media outlet endorsed the measure, the online San Francisco Bay Guardian, and it received support from the San Francisco League of Pissed off Voters. Opponents of the initiative

included David Campos, a gay man who’s chair of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee. Every member of the committee, except one who voted to abstain, voted for a recommendation of no on Prop I. “The general sense that people had was that they didn’t understand what the point of it was,” Campos said in a previous interview with the B.A.R. “If you go to the ballot, there needs to be a point to try and accomplish.”

Traffic Relief Plan, Regional Measure 3 would increase Bay Area bridge tolls (on all but the Golden Gate) by $3 by 2025 to fund $4.5 billion in capital improvements to Caltrain, BART, Muni, and several highways. The measure would add new BART cars, extend BART through downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, expand ferry services, extend Caltrain to the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, and add new carpool lanes on the Marin-Sonoma Narrows on U.S. Highway 101, and maintenance. Unofficial returns showed Regional Measure 3 did not pass in Contra Costa and Solano counties, but it only required a simple majority when all nine Bay Area counties’ results are tabulated. The plan includes 35 projects and programs to help relieve traffic and enhance public transportation. t

Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom appears headed to winning the governor’s race this fall after taking first place in Tuesday’s primary and helping a Republican land in second. It all but assures that the Democrat will succeed Governor Jerry Brown, who is termed out of office this year. Newsom, who highlighted in television ads his support of samesex marriage while mayor of San Francisco, was the top finisher in the crowded primary race with 33 percent of the vote. In second was GOP businessman John Cox with 26 percent of the vote. Landing in a distant third was former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa with 13.5 percent of the unofficial returns. In the race to succeed Newsom as the state’s second-in-command, two Democrats will square off in November. San Francisco resident Eleni Kounalakis, a former ambassador to Hungary in the Obama administration, was in first place

Regional Measure 3

Needing a majority of votes in all nine Bay Area counties combined, Measure 3 looks to be headed for success with 53.9 percent of votes. San Francisco County had the highest amount of yes votes with 64.7 percent. Known as the Bay Area

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Concerns expressed over Castro pot retail store by Sari Staver

committee of the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association has expressed concern about a proposed cannabis retail store in the Castro. If approved by the city’s planning commission, the Flore Store could open later this year and be the second location for marijuana sales in the city’s gay district. Another gayowned cannabis retail store, to be called Castro Place, is also seeking to open nearby. Currently, the upscale medical marijuana dispensary Apothecarium, at 2029 Market Street, is the only place to legally buy pot in the neighborhood. If approved, the 900 square foot Flore Store will be located at 258 Noe Street, currently the home of Gloss and Glam Nail Salon. It will be operated by a team headed by Terrance Alan, a gay man who also owns Flore, a cafe located at Castro and Noe, just across the street from the proposed retail store, and Luke Bruner, a longtime Humboldt County cannabis farmer and straight ally who is director of compliance at the store. Alan signed a lease for the property at the

same time he bought the restaurant, in 2017. As previously reported by the Bay Area Reporter, Alan first disclosed the project publicly at the Castro Merchants meeting May 3. Four days later, less than an hour after the city issued permit applications for cannabis retailers, Alan and his team had submitted a change of use application that would enable them to convert the nail salon to a cannabis retail outlet. The city notified Alan several weeks later that the application was approved. He is scheduled to take the next step, a hearing before the city’s planning commission, July 12. If the planning commission approves, the proposed new business would apply to the state for a license. But at least one neighborhood group has raised concerns. On June 4, Alan presented details of his plan to the Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association’s land use committee. In an email to the B.A.R. the following day, DTNA land use committee chair, David Troup, detailed the concerns residents have expressed about the store proposal. “I think most of the concerns are about the compatibility of the use

with the location (i.e. right next to a public park and the residential neighborhood) and the proposal to take the rent-controlled apartment upstairs and make it a ‘hotel,’” wrote Troup. “The reasons they give for wanting to do that don’t pass the sniff test, and there is a lot of suspicion about what their actual plans for that space might be, should they receive that entitlement. “I don’t think people are worried about another cannabis store in the neighborhood, if it’s run well and under appropriate conditions, but there is concern about this specific location and the broader (and possibly undisclosed) plans of its sponsors,” Troup added. Troup also said people at the meeting felt the process “is moving too quickly,” and that neighbors need more time to evaluate the proposal to see if concerns can be addressed or mitigated. “I don’t think people are being NIMBYs on this issue, and I didn’t hear anyone speaking against the idea of another cannabis store generally, so I hope you won’t portray us as anti-pot or something,” Troup wrote. “But neighbors and DTNA only learned about this proposal very recently, and it will take some time for stakeholders to work together and, hopefully, get to a point where the project can be supported.” On Tuesday, Alan responded that he and the Flore cafe have been actively “and very publicly pursuing cannabis activity at this corner for 18 months.” “We have been on the front page of the B.A.R. and many other publications, both print and digital, sharing our plan and vision for cannabis cuisine, beverages, hospitality, and sales,” Alan wrote in an email. “We are happy with both the outpouring of support we have received over the last 18 months and maybe more importantly the concerns we have taken in and used to make our plan better.” Alan said the store will serve both the neighborhood and the tourist communities who currently eat at Flore at 2298 Market Street. “People will use public transportation above and below the street, along with ride sharing, to minimize traffic,” he wrote. “It will bring in shoppers to spend money around the neighborhood. It will

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Terrance Alan, left, and Luke Bruner hope to open the Flore Store in the Castro.

have a compassion program for those patients unable to pay for their medicine.” Regarding the flat above the store, Alan said it’s proposed to be an artist-in-residence space. “We have not talked about the artist-in-residence program idea, which has led to the unfortunate label of a hotel for the flat above our storefront,” he wrote. “We are listening and modifying our plan now. We hope this process shows our commitment to the neighborhood.” “Flore Store has a plan to co-create products for the home chef like cannabis-infused olive oil and cannabis chutney, a different kind of edible,” he added. “We won’t have products that encourage immediate consumption of cannabis such as rolling papers and glassware.” Alan will appear before the Castro Merchants meeting Thursday (June 7) hoping the group will endorse the new business. At the meeting Ray Connolly will also present his plan for a proposed cannabis location at 2352 Market Street, the former location of Worn Out West. In a brief telephone interview, Connolly, a gay man, said he is also looking at other locations in the Castro. In an interview with the B.A.R. this week at Flore, which Alan purchased last year in hopes of turning it into the city’s first cannabis cafe, the entrepreneur talked about his plans. Alan, who is the chair of the city’s

task force on cannabis legalization and previously chaired the city’s entertainment commission, began growing cannabis in Humboldt County in the 1970s, shortly after he arrived in California from Illinois. From his earliest days growing, Alan said he became a part of the activist movement that supplied free or low-cost medical cannabis to people living with AIDS and other illnesses. “Many of our earliest meetings took place right here at Flore,” said Alan. Like many of the other activists, Alan was arrested for growing cannabis, which ironically qualified him to apply for a permit now, three decades later, after the city passed regulations giving priority to San Franciscans who have been jailed for a drug offense, the so-called equity program aimed at leveling the playing field for those who were adversely affected by the war on drugs. Alan predicts the planning commission will approve the Flore Store application, “because we’ve been reaching out to the neighborhood from day one and I think we are considered good neighbors,” he said. Alan said the new store will be stocked with a carefully curated selection of cannabis flowers and infused products, mainly provided by small farmers in Humboldt County. Prices will be competitive with other dispensaries in the city, he said. The Flore Store is part of Alan’s long-term plans to organize advocates to press for legal changes that will allow restaurants to cook with cannabis, he said. Just after he took over Flore last year, Alan created a menu of cannabis “mocktails” made with CBD, the non-psychoactive component of cannabis, and was also serving a CBD-infused beer. Those menu items had to be removed after state and city regulations banned any cannabis-infused food or drink at restaurants, Alan said. Cannabisinfused edibles are widely available at dispensaries, he pointed out. “I’m not giving up on working toward legalizing cannabis cuisine,” said Alan. “It will happen eventually.”t For more information on the city’s cannabis regulations, visit https:// officeofcannabis.sfgov.org.

Former B.A.R. book critic Jim Nawrocki dies by Cynthia Laird

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im Nawrocki, a gay man who wrote book reviews for the Bay Area Reporter, died May 31 at his home in San Francisco. He was 54. The cause of death was liver failure, which was a complication of metastatic colon cancer that was diagnosed almost three years ago, his husband, Jason Wong, told the B.A.R. in an interview. Mr. Nawrocki wrote book reviews from 1998 until the mid2000s, B.A.R. arts editor Roberto Friedman said. “Jim Nawrocki was a great pleasure to work with and a dependable byline,” Friedman said. “He was quite well-versed in the gay literature of our time, and was always up for interviewing major literary figures. His colleagues here will miss him.” Wong said that Mr. Nawrocki had fond memories of writing for the B.A.R. and especially enjoyed the paper’s holiday parties, which gave him an opportunity to meet the other writers. Wong said that Mr. Nawrocki was a voracious reader. “He loved to read, he enjoyed

Jim Nawrocki

shopping for books to read and collect,” Wong said. Mr. Nawrocki also liked traveling. Mr. Nawrocki was born May 7, 1964, in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Bowling Green University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in English, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received a master’s in English. He moved to San Francisco about 22 years ago. In addition to writing for the

B.A.R, Mr. Nawrocki’s poetry appeared in the Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, Poetry, Nimrod, Chelsea Station, the website www. poetrydaily.com, and other journals. Wong said that, for more than 10 years, Mr. Nawrocki worked in corporate communications for Wells Fargo. There, he did community engagement and other communications duties. Wong and Mr. Nawrocki were together for almost 15 years. The couple were married in September 2008, during the brief time same-sex couples could get married in California before the passage of Proposition 8. (The U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 threuout Prop 8, the state’s same-sex marriage ban.) Wong said that Mr. Nawrocki could be “quite reserved.” “But once he interacted with you, he had a great wit about him,” Wong said. “We created a world together.” In addition to Wong, Mr. Nawrocki is survived by two older brothers, Bernard Nawrocki of Toledo, and Jeff Nawrocki of Milwaukee; a niece, Grace Nawrocki of Toledo; and his cat, Phillip Lorenzo. Plans for a memorial have not yet been announced.t

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t Queer cannabis activist wants equity in industry

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by Sari Staver

s an increasing number of states legalize cannabis, activist Christine De La Rosa has watched as dispensary owners line their pockets with the profits from cashing in on a high margin product. De La Rosa, 44, co-founder of the cannabis collective, Benefit Health, to be sure that LGBTQ people, people of color, and the formerly incarcerated don’t get left behind, either medically or financially. Now on a hectic cross-country tour to spread the word about the potential of cannabis to help minority communities, the Bay Area Reporter caught up with De La Rosa at her East Bay bungalow, just before leaving for Portland, where she and her colleagues are doing due diligence on purchasing a dispensary in that location. Within the next few years, the Benefit Health founders also hope to have licensed dispensaries in San Francisco, Richmond, Stockton, Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and as-of-yet unidentified locations in New York, New Jersey, and Michigan, De La Rosa said. “I want to get the message out that the queer community, people of color, and minority groups should have the opportunity to benefit from cannabis as well as partake in the profits,” said De La Rosa, a queeridentified femme. De La Rosa explained her cannabis journey. Ten years ago, while she owned a busy event planning company, De La Rosa was working 60-plus hour weeks, “nonstop work,” she said.

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Christine De La Rosa co-founded Benefit Health Collective and the People’s Dispensary.

In excellent health, De La Rosa suddenly became violently ill when she developed two blood clots in her lung and was diagnosed with a severe case of the autoimmune disease lupus. Physicians wrote numerous prescriptions for anti-inflammatory medications and painkillers, with De La Rosa eventually taking 11 pills and monthly infusions to fight the illness. “I went from being a busy business owner to being a bedridden, depressed patient who was completely unable to get out of bed, let alone hold down a job,” she said. “At one point, I was convinced that suicide would be better than living with that level of pain every day.” With a wide circle of friends in the Bay Area, several already involved with marijuana, De La Rosa was encouraged to try holistic approaches to healing, including cannabis. “I started wondering what my life was going to look like at age 65

if something pretty dramatic didn’t change,” she said. She tried various holistic approaches, but none helped, she explained. De La Rosa then tried cannabis, which she had used “maybe once as a teenager,” experimenting with various forms and dosages. She found that capsules of CBD – the nonhallucinogenic cousin of THC, the psychoactive compound found in most strains of marijuana – seemed to be making her feel better than she’d been in ages. Within nine months, De La Rosa was able to get off all medications except for a 10 mg capsule of CBD daily. “Cannabis saved my life,” she said. Ready to get back to work, De La Rosa knew that her future “had to involve cannabis.” So in 2016, along with three LGBT friends – Charleen Caabay, Chaney Turner, and Michael Schlieker – De La Rosa founded a private cannabis collective, Benefit Health Collective. Looking to obtain a license, the Benefit Health founders received a dispensary delivery license in

Changes needed for USOC to protect athletes by Roger Brigham

he endless blather between Trump fanatics and critics, although of considerable constitutional importance, can be so bombastic and irrational as to make even folks with strong stomachs for political discussions and reform want to tune all political discourse out. So maybe you weren’t paying attention recently when congressional leaders were grilling representatives of the Olympic sports world about sexual exploitation scandals. That would be a shame, because the exploitation of young athletes is widespread – even protected by the very institutions your tax dollars support that should be supporting and protecting those same athletes. The stories that have been told in court by the myriad young women who fell prey over the decades to the predatory sexual acts of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar were shocking to hear and absorb. More disturbing is the realization that, again and again, the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics provided the cover and protection for Nassar that enabled his repeated abuses. And even more disturbing than that is to realize that this pattern of protected abuse has not been limited to one individual in one sport, but instead is an example of a sick and ignorant institutional culture in sport after sport, such as is now becoming public in taekwondo and swimming. Let’s face it: we should not be surprised that institutions tend to protect their own. We’ve seen it with unions, we’ve seen it with religious

Former Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar

organizations, we’ve seen it with legislative bodies. There is a tendency to protect those in power at the cost of those who are allegedly being served. It is imperative that such tendencies be addressed, exposed, and countermanded. Which brings us to the USOC and the national governing sports bodies it allegedly oversees. So much policy and energy in those organizations is invested in job security of their representatives and damned little in the empowerment and protection of the athletes who invest their lives and their ambitions. Legislation sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) was passed in February requiring the governing bodies of amateur

sports to report sexual abuse allegations to child welfare agencies or law enforcement; and extending the statute of limitations on sex crimes. That’s a good first step, but much more needs to be done to change the culture and practices of those sports organizations – beginning with the timorous USOC. Former Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, whom I am blessed to call a friend and who herself was a victim of sexual abuse by a coach in her younger days, has been the most vocal of activists on the issue of sexual assault and exploitation in sports. She founded Champion Women (http://championwomen.org/) in 2014 to provide legal advocacy and services for women and girls in sports. Hogshead-Makar, a straight ally, wrote on Huffington Post that during the recent congressional hearings, the USOC was forced to acknowledge that it “was not that the USOC and national bodies were unable to protect athletes; it was that they were unwilling to.” She argues several changes need to be made in amateur sports to address the sexual exploitation and empower the athletes themselves: • The USOC should require governing bodies to publish lists of banned and suspended coaches rather than leaving that up to the discretion of the governing bodies, most of which don’t – and those bans and suspensions must be enforced, See page 16 >>

Oakland under their new name the People’s Dispensary, hoping they will be able to continue serving their patient community and eventually get a license for a brick-andmortar dispensary, said De La Rosa. In the meantime, they have created a limited liability company, or LLC, that enables small investors to put money into that model, which they hope to replicate elsewhere, under the name the People’s Dispensary. In their two years in the cannabis business, De La Rosa concluded that their club was popular because “we welcomed all people, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation,” she said. “We created a space for everyone to feel safe.” De La Rosa also concluded that the so-called equity program, which was established in Oakland to give minorities a chance to operate cannabis businesses, is “an entrepreneurial program, not real equity,” she said. Although Benefit Health is owned by people who identify as LGBTQ – three of whom are women of color – the organization does not qualify for one of Oakland’s four equity licenses, which require that an applicant either has been convicted of a cannabis-related offense in the city or has spent 10 of the past 20 years living in a neighborhood with a high rate of cannabis-related arrests. “There is no financial support or investment for equity license holders after they get their license,” she said, “so we’re going to try to provide

equity ourselves as a business.” De La Rosa plans to do this by enabling small investors to buy a stake in her company. Most cannabis businesses raising funds currently require investors to be accredited – meaning they have a net worth of $1 million as well as an annual income over $200,000 – she said. “That pretty much cuts out almost everyone in my community,” she explained. Large investors will also be welcomed, she said, as long as they agree to earmark a portion of the profits to an impact fund that will go back into the community where the dispensary resides. “Think about how much wealth was created by the tech boom,” she said. “Cannabis is larger. It’s expected to be a $44 billion market by 2020.” “I’m on a mission,” said De La Rosa. “I want to give the LGBTQ community, people of color, and those formerly incarcerated an opportunity to create generational wealth, while at the same time making a contribution to their own community that will affect change at the grassroots level.”t For more information, visit http:// benefithealthcollective.com/. Bay Area Cannasseur runs the first Thursday of the month. To send column ideas or tips, email Sari Staver at sari@bayareacannasseur.com.

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News Briefs

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popular Latin Night. Many of those killed and injured were young LGBTQ people of color and allies. On Tuesday, people will gather at 18th and Castro streets from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The event is being organized by those with Day of Decision SF and Castro Community on Patrol. At press time the schedule of events was still being finalized. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend.

LGBT center seeks hygiene supplies for youth

The San Francisco LGBT Community Center is accepting donations of hygiene items for the participants in its youth program. Center officials pointed out that the program serves more than 300 youth

Rainbow center

From page 11

expanding youth services at RCC. “I am coming in with that knowledge and that approach and I will look at what the needs are and how the center can provide additional services not only to young LGBT, but to all LGBT,” he said. McAllister was also the director of

PrEP campaign

From page 12

among Latino and Hispanic people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In San Francisco, Latinos account for 28 percent of new diagnoses, according to the latest SF DPH HIV epidemiology report, and in California this figure rises to 44 percent statewide.

Jock Talk

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preventing clubs from hiring them or allowing them to attend events. • Standardized training on how to handle sexual abuse needs to be created, and SafeSport educational materials need to focus more on educating athletes on how to spot predatory behavior and report it. I’ve written before on how obtuse the current materials are; they need to be improved as soon as possible. “USA Swimming’s dangerous SafeSport materials encourage athletes to blindly trust their coach, an attitude that is a common precursor

Road rage

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on Gough, the driver then allegedly hit Donahue with her car from behind. “She deliberately ran me over,” he said. “100 percent intentional. 100 percent deliberate,” he said. After being hit, Donahue got up from the ground, and the woman then got out of her car and the two continued shouting at one another. It was less than a minute that the driver then got back in her car and left the scene, Donahue said. “I thought I broke my hand,” he said. Donahue could not identity the car specifically, only that it was a large, white

Leno

From page 1

assembled in Jane Warner Plaza, the public parklet in the heart of the city’s gay Castro district, Tuesday night to watch the election returns come in, Leno said it had been an honor to run for mayor as an out gay man. “I couldn’t be more proud standing here tonight,” said Leno. At her election night party at the Delancey Street Foundation, Breed

a year, many of whom are homeless or marginally housed. The center offers food, a warm place to rest, and free hygiene supplies to the youth. “We are asking any of you who may have travel-size hygiene supplies laying around to please donate these items to our program,” the center said in an email to supporters. Items that can be dropped off at the center, 1800 Market Street, include shampoo, conditioner, lotion, body wash/soap, face wash. Deodorant, lip balm, hand sanitizer, sunscreen, razors, and shaving cream. The center is also in need of new or unused socks (adult sizes) and underwear (new), all sizes and genders. There will be a donation bin in the lobby and people can drop off the items during operating hours. For more information, visit http:// www.sfcenter.org.

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operations at Beyond Emancipation, helping youth in the foster care system achieve success in housing, education, and employment. His motivation to hit the ground running is something Ken Carlson, president of the board of directors at RCC and a Pleasant Hill City Councilman, is excited about. Carlson said with Barr’s retirement comes an opportunity for change and that

McAllister’s roots in Concord, ability to connect with people, and fundraising skills will be an asset to RCC. “I can’t put into words how excited I am to have him,” Carlson said. “He’s very active with stakeholders, funding, and exposure. With his energy and enthusiasm, he’s going to go at it, and we are excited to bring that with us.” Arca, a straight ally, also commented about McAllister joining the team.

“He shares our passion for honoring all of our unique identities and preferences, while concurrently supporting our most vulnerable community members and strengthening our networks with allies,” Arca wrote in an email to the B.A.R. “He will bring a unique combination of high level thinking, on the ground implementation skills, and a sincere, empathetic, passionate

energy to our team and work.” Carlson announced McAllister’s new role at Concord’s Pride celebration June 2. The rainbow flag was raised in front of City Hall at Civic Center Plaza, where it will remain all month, a first for Concord. As for McAllister, he said he is stepping into his dream job and can’t wait to get started. t

“Although enormous progress has been made in treating people with HIV, thousands of new HIV infections occur every year, and people of color continue to be disproportionately impacted,” Velázquez said. “The only good news about health disparities is that they are preventable. And if we’re able to continue messaging correctly – in a language and through a culture that’s familiar

to those we serve – we can do our part to solve this.” PrEP is offered through San Francisco City Clinic, all clinics in the San Francisco Health Network, and many other providers, including the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s Magnet sexual health services at Strut. Truvada for PrEP is covered by Medi-Cal and most commercial insurance, and manufacturer Gilead Sciences offers

patient assistance and copay programs to help offset the cost. San Francisco’s Getting to Zero initiative considers expanded access to PrEP – along with rapid initiation of antiretroviral treatment and retaining HIV-positive people in care – to be a key component of its three-prong strategy to make San Francisco the first city to eliminate new HIV infections, deaths due to HIV/AIDS, and

stigma against people living with HIV. “In order for the epidemic to end in San Francisco, Latinos need to get to zero as well,” Velázquez told the B.A.R. “This requires community-specific funding, awareness campaigns created by the community for the community, and strong partnerships across all communities impacted by HIV.” t

to abuse,” wrote Hogshead-Makar. “Even though the largest risk of sexual abuse comes from coaches, the materials encourage athletes to confide in their coaches about their personal problems and to trust their coaches to set appropriate conversational boundaries. What they don’t do is give bright-line rules on coaching behavior, and the information that is helpful is drowned out by materials designed to sell the sport to more families. SafeSport training materials should be well-publicized and contain clear expectations for appropriate relationships and ethical behavior. Athletes of all ages should know that their coach will never text them individually, will

not befriend them on social media, will not be alone with them and will not give them gifts. It is not sufficient to prohibit ‘sexual misconduct’ when that phrasing makes it appear that some sexual conduct might be appropriate. Athletes should know that coaches will not pursue a romantic or sexual relationship regardless of age or consent; that these overtures are an abuse of power and are harmful.” • The folks in charge of identifying sexual abuse in sports and eradicating it need autonomy from the sports organizations whose brands depend on the achievements of athletes as developed by its coaches. And they need the experience and

knowledge to deal with the task. • Finally, the USOC and its governing bodies need to realize their collective job is to represent the athletes, not themselves, and that they should empower those athletes fairly and equitably. They cannot fool themselves into believing they are doing that when they do not distribute salaries and resources between men and women and when they are deaf to the allegations and alarms that reach their ears. Let’s hope that the USOC gets its act together and does a better job of looking out for its athletes. That would be something even the most jaded of us would be happy to hear.

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sedan that was new. The car did not have license plates on either the front or the back of the car. Donahue said he did see a license plate on the dashboard, but that he saw the driver remove the plate during their second altercation. After the altercation, Donahue went home, where he called 911. San Francisco police officers from Northern Station showed up at his house around 7:30 p.m., Donahue said. San Francisco Police Department spokesman Officer Michael Andraychak said the officer who responded to the call, “could not find any indication that the driver intentionally struck the bicycle.” Andraychak added, “Officers will be looking at it as a hit and run.”

The front wheel of Donahue’s bike was mangled. He went to the doctor the day after the incident June 1. He received a splint for his sprained thumb, which will take about three months to fully heal, Donahue said. He also has scrapes on his legs and left elbow. “I was so lucky,” he said. “I’m a piano player. I would have been devastated if my hand would have been broken. What kind of person runs over a bicyclist with their car?” Donahue said during the altercation he remembered seeing people watching and even someone recording the scene with a cellphone, but as soon as the altercation was over, Donahue said no one was around. He did not get contact information

of any of the witnesses. “It was a quick altercation,” he said. “The whole thing was like, 45 seconds. When she took off, I was frantic. I looked around and no one was around, like nothing had ever happened.” A few days after the incident on Saturday, Donahue walked to the San Francisco Bike Coalition located at 1720 Market Street and spoke with employees about the incident. Brian Wiedenmeier, executive director of the coalition, was not in the office when Donahue stopped by, but did say the number one complaint of the coalition’s members is unsafe driving behavior by people who drive for ride-hailing

companies like Uber and Lyft. “Lyft and Uber are adding tens of thousands of vehicles to the streets of San Francisco everyday,” Wiedenmeier told the B.A.R. “Data from the San Francisco Police Department show they are disproportionately responsible for violating traffic rules like parking in the bike lane.” He added, “We have called on Uber and Lyft to take responsibility for the safety issues they are causing on the streets and this example highlights what the problem is in the city.” Lyft’s corporate communications lead Kate Margolis was not able to identify the driver and asked for a copy of the police report to be able to further research the incident. t

told her supporters that, “no matter what happens we are winners.” Tuesday’s special election was called due to the late mayor Ed Lee’s sudden death in December. Due to her position as board president, Breed had become acting mayor but was ousted from the position in January by a majority of the Board of Supervisors. In her place they elected former District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell to serve as mayor until the result of Tuesday’s election is certified and

the new mayor is sworn in sometime in July. Farrell’s supporters said they did not want Breed to have an advantage in the mayoral race in explaining why they chose to make Farrell mayor. Breed’s supporters used the vote to attack Leno with helping to oust a woman of color as mayor. And, for a time, the tactic appeared to be working, as early polls showed Breed in first place. But then Leno and District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim teamed up

to urge their supporters to vote for the other one as their number two choice in the race. The strategy ended up benefiting Leno, as a large majority of Kim’s voters gave him their second choice votes. Kim ended up in third place with 26.65 percent of the vote under the instant runoff voting system. At her election night party, Kim said she was “incredibly proud” of her mayoral campaign.

The Commonwealth Club will hold several LGBT Pride-related programs on both “The Michelle Meow Show” and Inforum, its group for young professionals. Thursday (June 7) will feature Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, a queer woman who is special projects director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She will speak at noon. On June 13, at 6:30 p.m., gay author Darnell Moore will discuss his new memoir, “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America.” Tam O’Shaughnessy, the widow of lesbian astronaut Sally Ride and executive director of Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego, will speak Thursday, June 14, at noon. Finally, on Tuesday, July 17, Katie Sowers, a lesbian and assistant coach

of the San Francisco 49ers, will speak. Locations and ticket information are available at www.commonwealthclub.org.

Tenderloin Museum marks three years

The Tenderloin Museum will celebrate its third anniversary with a free community day Saturday, June 9, from noon to 10 p.m. at 398 Eddy Street in San Francisco. The day will include family-friendly programming at the museum that celebrates the diverse and impactful efforts of the Tenderloin community, both past and present. Anniversary programming will center around the world premiere of “Tender,” a site-specific dance celebrating 100 years of outcast activism in the Tenderloin. It is a multi-year collaboration with Flyway Productions, an aerial dance troupe.

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Other activities include a drag queen story hour at noon, a presentation by Larkin Street Youth Services clients at 2 p.m., and Vietnamese traditional folk song and dance at 3. “Tender” will be performed at 8:30 and 9:30, and continues through June 16. For more information, visit http:// www.tenderloinmuseum.org.

San Mateo fair opens Sat.

The San Mateo County Fair opens Saturday, June 9, at the San Mateo County Event Center, 2495 S. Delaware Street in San Mateo. The fair will feature entertainment, carnival rides, concerts, and animals. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for kids between 6 and 12, and $8 for seniors 62 and older. The fair runs through June 17. For a complete list of activities and concert schedule, visit https://www. sanmateocountyfair.com/. t

The North American Same-Sex Partner Dance Association says it has four scholarships for 2018 that can be used for financially challenged members competing in any of its sanctioned events. The next qualifying event is the New England Championships in September in Rhode Island. The application deadline is June 30. Information on the association, the scholarship program, and application forms are available at http:// www.nasspda.org.t

Jane Philomena Cleveland

Mayoral candidate Jane Kim addresses supporters Tuesday night.

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Mayoral candidate London Breed

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“In five months we knocked on 100,000 doors and held 101 house parties,” said Kim, who is termed out of her supervisor seat this year. “I’m proud of the vision and agenda that we put forward. Regardless of who wins so many people want to see that agenda move forward.” At 1:33 a.m. Wednesday, about an hour after the city elections department had released the IRV tabulation showing Leno in the lead, Equality California issued a statement saying it appeared that Leno “was poised to make history” as San Francisco’s first openly gay mayor. “Tonight, we are cautiously optimistic that Senator Mark Leno may finally break San Francisco’s rainbow glass ceiling,” stated Rick Zbur, executive director of the statewide LGBT advocacy group, which endorsed Leno and campaigned for him. “We’re proud to have stood with him in this critical race and look forward to the final results.” Meeting with reporters Wednesday afternoon, Leno was asked what it means to possibly be the city’s first gay mayor. Leno told a story about being asked by a reporter if he thought his sexuality would have an impact on a campaign. “I hope that the people of San Francisco would care about my sexual orientation and the experience I bring. To the LGBTQ community, this is a very big deal,” he said. “The majority of voters voted for change, new direction, and much better for San Francisco than we’ve seen in years, whether it be on the issues of homelessness and affordable housing or the increase in property crime,” Leno said. “We can do better and we will do better.” Leno said the race remains “very close,” and that there are about 90,000 ballots to be counted. He said he was “on pins and needles” at midnight on Tuesday at his campaign headquarters. “I literally walked out the front door with my sisters when we heard hoots and hollers of joy” from inside the building. He turned around and went back, finding out he was ahead. Early Wednesday afternoon, Kim issued a statement saying she had congratulated Leno on the early

returns. “Right now, it looks very likely that Mark Leno will be elected San Francisco’s next mayor,” Kim stated. “Out of respect for the ballots still being counted and received, we will wait for a final announcement, but should these returns hold true, I look forward to working with his administration and I’ve called him and congratulated him on these early results.” Breed was scheduled to make a statement at 3 p.m. Wednesday after the B.A.R.’s press deadline Forty years ago saw Harvey Milk be sworn in as the city’s first openly gay elected leader when he took his oath of office in January 1978 as a supervisor. Tragically, he was killed that November inside City Hall along with then-mayor George Moscone by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. Leno, who served in both the state Assembly and Senate, was first appointed to the Board of Supervisors in 1998. He was elected to Milk’s former supervisor seat in 2000 when he ran to represent District 8 at City Hall. The supervisors that year reverted back to being elected by district rather than citywide. Milk confidante Cleve Jones said Tuesday night that “God willing,” Leno “will be the next mayor of San Francisco.”

San Jose mayor’s race

There was little drama in the South Bay Tuesday, as San Jose voters overwhelmingly re-elected Mayor Sam Liccardo to a second term. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Liccardo received 74.12 percent of the votes, according to unofficial returns. Liccardo, a straight ally, has sought support from the LGBT community during his term. He joined the Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination Coalition, which was started after same-sex marriage became legal nationwide, as a way to organize coordinated responses to other types of discrimination against the LGBT community, such as housing and jobs. There were three other candidates in the race. None received more than 15 percent of the vote. t David-Elijah Nahmod, Cynthia Laird, and Alex Madison contributed reporting.

SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF MARIN NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JANINE MIDORI FUJIOKA; ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO NAMED AS DOES 1 THROUGH 10, EXCLUSIVE, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BRECKENRIDGE PROPERTY FUND 2016, LLC CASE NO. CIV 1801182

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 Self-Help 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 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: MARIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT, 3501 Civic Center Dr., San Rafael, CA 94903. The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or the plaintiff without an attorney, is: Elaine Yang, Esq. 2015 Manhattan Beach Blvd., #100, Redondo Beach, CA 90278, (310) 640-3070 Date: April 09, 2018. Clerk of the Superior Court, by James M. Kim, T. Jones, Deputy.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038104600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: K-9 KARMA, 209 PERSIA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CURTIS CHOW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/19/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038142100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APPLY PRESSURE, 760 WEBSTER ST #D, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LARRY GEORGE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/10/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/11/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038128900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOTOTALKING.COM, 2719 VICENTE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HUI HE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/03/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/04/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038134600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OFFBEAT PRODUCTS, 3041 MISSION ST #2076, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KENNETH LUI. 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 05/08/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038139200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BENTO BOX COMMUNICATIONS, 2130 MARKET ST #11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JUSTIN KNEPPER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/10/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/10/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038138800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PALACE OF FINE ARTS GALLERY, 245 JEFFERSON ST, SF CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD SOFFER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/10/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/10/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038128700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ESSENTIAL ORGANIZING SOLUTIONS, 766 22ND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JINA JUE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/04/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038138100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE KELLY LAW FIRM, 345 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLE C. KELLY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/08/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/09/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038129500

Rick Gerharter

Mark Leno greeted supporters on Election Night.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLOCKBUSTERS, 270 DIVISADERO ST #24, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PATRICE WILLIAMS JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/04/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/04/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038137100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEOPLES BARBER, 133 TOWNSEND, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PEOPLES TOWNSEND, INC. (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 05/09/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038138200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEILSON & MACRITCHIE INVESTIGATORS, 1161 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SPECIALIZED INVESTIGATIONS, INC (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 05/09/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038133500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRUBMARKET WHOLESALE, 1925 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/01/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/07/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038139300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EXCALIBUR FINE MEN’S SALON; SPARGO, A PLACE FOR MEN, ONE EMBARCADERO CENTER, LOBBY LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JB DESTINY PARTNERS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/10/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/10/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038106200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AGORA LENDING, 222 KEARNY ST #650, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ETHOS LENDING LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/23/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/23/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038136700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOLDEN STAR TATTOO COMPANY, 850 CLAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed GOLDEN STAR TATTOO COMPANY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/09/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/09/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038105500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VENUS CAFE, 700 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed M&W NOODLE SHOP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/20/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/20/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037627600

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: NATALIA’S BUSINESS, 2 GENEVA AVE #11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by JAIRO ALONSO GIL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/06/17.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038044900

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: NEILSON & MACRITCHIE INVESTIGATORS, 1161 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by DONALD T. MACRITCHIE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/18.

MAY 17, 24, 31, JUNE 07, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-553793

In the matter of the application of: CARMEN OCHOA, c/o Ghervy Jhon Tesoro (SB: 298501), Tesoro Law, 1630 TARAVAL ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CARMEN OCHOA, is requesting that the name CARMEN OCHOA, be changed to MARIA MAGDALENA DIAZ GUZMAN. 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 26th of June 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038111500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TASTEBUDS, 600 FIFTH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CATHERINE TROOSH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/24/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038152400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRANCH & SQUIRE, 3301 CLAY ST #204, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANUAR RAMIREZ-MEDINA. 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 05/18/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038140200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SABAI SABAI THAI MASSAGE, 326 LA GRANDE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PRIYALON BORANRAT STRASSER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/10/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/10/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018

SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: FRANCIS “FRANK” XAVIER DONNER, YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. PETITIONER’S NAME IS AMANDA EUAN CASE NO. FDI-17-788762

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnerships, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org) , or by contacting your local county bar association. NOTICE – RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them. FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party. The name and address of the court are SUPERIOR COURT SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY 400 MCALLISTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: AMANDA EUAN, PRO PER, 252 BOCANA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110, 415-933-1982 NOV 15, 2017 Clerk by Jocelyn Wong, Deputy. STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasicommunity, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party. You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs. NOTICE – ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California. Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care. For more information, visit www.coveredca.com. Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506 WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION: California law provides that, for the purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038146200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FINANCIALSOLUTIONS.IO; FINANCIALSOLUTIONS, 404 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOHN H. FULLEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/14/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038151100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLUMEN, 548 CASTRO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BRUCE ALLEN SCARROW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/09/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038145600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NAILS FOR ME, 17 DRUMM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LONG CAM TIEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/15/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/15/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038119300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROBBINS FAMILY LAW, 44 MONTGOMERY ST #3750, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KELLY J. ROBBINS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 10/06/05. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038153300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TIERRA BIOSCIENCES, 953 INDIANA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SYNVITROBIO, 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 05/21/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038154200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHANVI, 1063 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BHUWAN FOOD INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/21/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/18.

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038138600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PORTOLA SMILES DENTAL OFFICE OF DR. ARIELLE LIBERMAN, 2497 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ARIELLE LIBERMAN DMD, INC. (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 05/10/18.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RENA SANGIACOMO IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES18-301947

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SPIRITS; PROOF COCKTAIL CO; GREAT WESTERN SPIRITS; OLD KENTUCKY ROOH, 849 AVE 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 05/08/18.

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of RENA SANGIACOMO. A Petition for Probate has been filed by ADRIENNE LANGENHAN & MICHAEL SANGIACOMO in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that ADRIENNE LANGENHAN & MICHAEL SANGIACOMO 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: JUN 26, 2018, 9:00 am, Dept. 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 latter 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 petitioner: Terrence P. Murphy SBN 104739, 5 Third St #1100, San Francisco, CA 94103; Ph. (415) 495-3950 Ext 103.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038137200

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MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038147500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POLYCHROME INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, 2732 36TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POLYCHROME INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/25/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038147600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JESSICA SCLAMBERG, LLC, 3322 BUCHANAN ST #310, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JESSICA SCLAMBERG LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/04/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038135700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLACK PEPPER, 1555 YOSEMITE AVE #8, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BLACK PEPPER NATION LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/17/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/09/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038087800

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: RAAVI EATERY, 1063 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by BHUWAN FOOD INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/01/18.

MAY 24, 31, JUNE 07, 14, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-553916

In the matter of the application of: CARIE LYNNKESSEL PAGE, 44 20TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CARIE LYNN-KESSEL PAGE, is requesting that the name CARIE LYNN-KESSEL PAGE AKA CARIE LYNN PAGE, be changed to CARIE LYNN PAGE. 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 July 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IPOWER SF ELECTRIC, 77 NORTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GERMAN MATIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/16/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038160300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SOKC CO., 3251 20TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICHARD MA.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038153500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: T.HAYNES LIGHTING, 1322 47TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSHUA PINE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/21/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038150100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JOSE’S HAULING & HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES, 126 PRENTISS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSE M. DELCID. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/17/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENGINEER.AI, 600 CALIFORNIA ST 11TH FLR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SD SQUARED NORTH AMERICA LIMITED (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 11/06/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038153600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIEM’S PRODUCE, 1901 JERROLD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed GRUBMARKET INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/18/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038146800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YO TAMBIEN CANTINA, 205 HUGO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed YO TAMBIEN, 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 05/16/18.

MAY 31, JUNE 07, 14, 21, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18553945

In the matter of the application of: BIMALA GURUNG THING, 255 HYDE ST #619, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner BIMALA GURUNG THING is requesting that the name BIMALA GURUNG THING, be changed to BIMALA THING. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 19th of July 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038170000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THATCHER’S GOURMET POPCORN, 1201 MINNESOTA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed X GOURMET PLUS INC (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 05/31/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038166900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAKESIDE NAIL BAR, 2671 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LAKESIDE NAIL BAR (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/14/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/29/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038166500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIZZA FLIRT; CYBELLA’S, 464 BROADWAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CITY PIZZA AND BURGER INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 04/20/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/18.

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JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038159300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN BLUE LAUNDRY & CAFE, 8 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARJORIE V TOBILLO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/30/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/18.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038167200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMPAWTHY, 3215 20TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed EMPAWTHY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/15/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038168400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RAW VINO, 1307 DE HARO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed RAW VINO 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 05/30/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038168700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROYAL OIL COMPANY, 704-708 BRYANT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed H4L 3 LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 05/16/18. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/30/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038167400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTFARM PRODUCTIONS, 40 POND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BRET PARKER & KATRINA BARMA. 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 05/30/18.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 Statement of abandonment of use of fictitious business name FILE A-037005201 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: EUROGIRLS, 537 JONES ST #2166, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by VITA CAMPISI. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/16.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037841300

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: 18/8 FINE MEN’S SALON SAN FRANCISCO, 1 EMBARCADERO CENTER, LOBBY LEVEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by JB DESTINY PARTNERS LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/13/17.

JUNE 07, 14, 21, 28, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037119200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: T HAYNES LIGHTING, 1322 47TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LUIS H. PINE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/16.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUMINATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC, 16B FUNSTON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUMINATE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 12/13/17. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARLEQUINN TOURS, 333 JEFFERSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DEREK DEWITT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 08/18/03. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/05/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SELA MAC, 550 SPRUCE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SARAH MCNAMARA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed ﬁctitious business name or names on 03/01/12. The statement was ﬁled with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/25/18.

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In the matter of the application of: STACEY CHONG, 227 MOSCOW ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112, for change of name having been ﬁled in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner STACEY CHONG, is requesting that the name STACEY CHONG, be changed to ALEX KOI CHONG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, RM. 514 on the 17th of July 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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une is bustin’ out all over. LGBTQ Pride Month always brings with it a cornucopia of new books of special interest to our community. Among them this June are “The Unpunished Vice – A Life of Reading” by Edmund White (Bloomsbury; publication date: June 26) and “Tinderbox – The Untold Story of The Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation” by Robert W. Fieseler (Liveright; June 5). White is the preeminent gay man of letters of our time. Among the 27 books listed by his authorship in his new one are novels; story, novella and essay collections; his great autobiographical trilogy (“A Boy’s Own Story” and its sequels); the nonfiction “The Joy of Gay Sex” (coauthored); his monumental biography of poet, novelist and playwright Jean Genet; shorter bios of titanic literary figures Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and many memoirs of his long working and cultured life in New York City, Paris, and elsewhere. “Unpunished Vice” is really another memoir by way of bibliography. White writes about books, and authors, that have mattered most to him in the course of a long and lively literary career. “I wasn’t a compulsive reader, nor was I as widely read as many of my friends,” he writes. “My feeling of fraudulence has diminished somewhat now that I’ve outlived everyone; just by dint of reading (no matter how slowly and without discipline) for many decades, I give the illusion of being well read.” Wethinks the lady doth protest too much. Authors whose oeuvres White expounds upon with real understanding and insight include of course Proust, Colette, Andre Gide, James Merrill, Stephen Crane and Walt Whitman. Among authors he can call friends are John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Howard, and Susan Sontag. He read Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her gondola in Venice. Vladimir Nabokov called White his favorite American writer. This is name-dropping on an Olympian level. White makes brief mention in passing of his two strokes and heart attack, of his younger husband Michael Carroll, of teaching, and of giving dinner parties, but it’s all ancillary to what books he was read-

ing (or not reading) at the time. It’s a life of the mind. The last few chapters are essentially book reports on some favorite authors including Rebecca West, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Ronald Firbank, whose Cardinal Pirelli goes in drag “disliking to forego altogether the militant bravura of a skirt.” And Leo Tolstoy, whose “Anna Karenina” White calls the greatest novel in all of literature. An accomplished novelist, White knows the novel as the art-form that most ceaselessly portrays the life inside our heads.

New Orleans story

Out There only really learned about the Up Stairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, LA, in June 1973 a few years ago, when a documentary about the tragic event became widely available. It’s amazing that it’s still not as wellknown a gay civil-rights landmark as the 1969 Stonewall Inn rebellion. So the publication of author Robert W. Fieseler’s new “Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation” is an important corrective. The arson fire killed 31 men and one woman, making it the largest mass killing of gay people in the U.S. until the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. But as Fieseler shows, newspapers of the time hardly covered the tragedy. The very real pressures of violence and retribution hung over many closeted lives in that time and place. A review of “Tinderbox” in The New York Times, “Gay Sanctuary, Then an Inferno,” gave deserved media attention to the book. It also unfortunately was brutally honest about its drawbacks, pointing out “lamentable efforts to introduce local color (the ‘ragamuffins’ who ‘do-si-do’ around the place until they need to ‘vamoose.’)” But any book editor knows there is never a manuscript that couldn’t use some editing for style. We’d count the book’s flaws as faults of editing (or no editing). In the meantime, the new volume is an important record of research and attention brought to bear on a tragic and important event in gay history.

Milk time

“Pride at the JCCSF” will present “Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death,” authors Lillian Faderman and Michelle Tea’s kick-off to Pride weekend with a look back at

the life and legacy of Harvey Milk (1930-78), Thurs., June 21, 7 p.m., Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California St., San Francisco. Free, advance reservation required. Please consider donating as you RSVP to this free event. www. jccsf.org. “Born to a Jewish family, Harvey Milk struggled to find his place in the society that surrounded him. Faderman and Tea explore the many complexities of Milk’s fascinating life, from his Jewish childhood on Long Island to his final years as one of the most revolutionary politicians of the 20th century.” Lillian Faderman is a distinguished scholar of LGBT and ethnic history and literature. She has received numerous awards for her previous 11 books, including three that have been named by the New York Times as Notable Books of the Year, “Surpassing the Love of Men,” “Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers” and “The Gay Revolution.” Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen works of memoir, fiction and poetry, most recently “Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions and Criticism.”

On the rocks

Bay Area Rainbow Symphony (Dawn Harms, Music Director & Conductor) will celebrate gay pride on June 9, 8 p.m. at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music by performing music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Serenade for Strings) and Leonard Bernstein’s opera “Trouble in Tahiti” in the original full orchestra version. This eclectic opera mixes jazz scat singing with opera arias and musical songs. Former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows Renee Rapier and Eugene Brancoveneau star. In “Trouble in Tahiti,” Bernstein wrote of a marriage in trouble in the 1950s. Bernstein was particularly fond of this opera, so when he wrote a sequel 30 years later called “A Quiet Place,” he used “Trouble in Tahiti” as flashbacks. In the sequel, Dinah, the mother in “Tahiti,” has just died, and the family comes for the funeral. By the 1980s homosexuality was more openly talked about, and one of the major characters is gay. Tickets: 1.800.595.4TIX. Correction: In the DVD review of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film “Medea,” based on the Euripides tragedy and starring Maria Callas in her only movie role, Pasolini’s death date was erroneously given as 1961, in an obvious typo. Lamentably, the great filmmaker met his tragic end in 1975.t

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hen I first went in to audition for ‘How To Get Away with Murder,’ it wasn’t a part written for an Asian actor,” says Conrad Ricamora, the gay actor who plays Oliver Hampton, a gay HIV+ lawyer on the hit CBS series. Ricamora will be in San Francisco through July 8 as part of the cast of the new musical “Soft Power” at the Curran Theatre. “The guy who auditioned right before me was white, and the guy after me was black. To me, casting like that is an important breakthrough in American pop culture,” says the 39-year-old. “The character’s story has nothing to do with his Asian-ness. It’s felt good to be a part of this kind of representation. When I was a kid, I saw all of these demeaning stereotypes, like Long Duk Dong in ‘16 Candles.’” Along with the progress indicated by an increase in colorblind casting, Ricamora is also pleased to be part of a major production like “Soft Power,” by playwright David Henry Hwang and fellow Tony winner, composer Jean Tesori, 10:51 AM that is addressing Asian and Asian American perspectives in a far more nuanced manner than past works of musical theater. “This is very different than being in ‘Miss Saigon’ or ‘The King and I,’” both of which Ricamora has done. “‘Soft Power’ is written from the perspective of an Asian person. When you watch ‘The King & I,’ you’re looking at the Asian characters through the eyes of white people. They represent ‘the other’ to the white characters. ‘Soft Power’ actually gets the audience to look through Asian eyes and see the otherness of the white world of the U.S.” Among the show’s almost indescribable interwoven plotlines, set in the present and 100 years in the future, is the story of China becoming the world’s dominant power in the wake of the 2016 election. An actress playing Hilary Clinton sings and dances. The majority of the cast is Asian American, but many of the characters they play are citizens of China. Ricamora recognizes some deeply embedded ironies in that fact. “I was called ‘chink’ all the time growing up,” says Ricamora, whose father, an adoptee, is assumed to be of Filipino descent. His mother has Irish and German bloodlines. “The cast of this play includes actors with Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Hawaiian backgrounds,” he says. “White America tends to lump all Asians together. “In ‘Soft Power,’ I play a Chinese character,” Ricamora explains. “But the play doesn’t try to explore the Chinese psyche; it focuses on what it’s like to encounter the racism and stereotypes that are traditionally placed on all Asians and AsianAmericans.” Ricamora was raised by his father, who worked for the U.S. Air Force, after being abandoned by his mother when he was seven months old. Growing up in the macho environment of military bases, he never imagined he would be an actor. “If you were artistic, you were ridiculed and shamed,” Ricamora recalls. He channeled his restless energy playing competitive tennis. “I grew up idolizing tennis players. Being an athlete was a way to avoid having my ass kicked all the time.” It was not until his junior year of college, where he was a psychology major, that Ricamora took an elective theater class and had an epiphany. “We had to do monologues, and I chose a piece from Lanford Wilson’s ‘Lemon Sky.’ The character is talking about being estranged

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from his biological father, and I connected with that, thinking about first meeting my mother when I was 8 years old. “I stood on that stage with a sense of authority and just ripped into it. There was this huge electricity. The whole room went dead silent. And I was like ‘Holy shit! This is for me.’” It was also not until his junior year that Ricamora began to open up to his own sexuality. “Allowing myself to do theater and to come out were related,” he says. “I was paying my own tuition. I wasn’t dependent on my family. And I thought, if I’m paying for myself I really should be myself. Ultimately, I don’t really think it’s possible to make genuine connections with other people unless we’re true to ourselves.” Today, while Ricamora sees progress being made in portrayals of gay

men and Asian Americans in theater and film, he is painfully aware that the two are rarely seen in a single character. “The experience of gay Asian men just hasn’t been shown in mainstream media,” he says. “It’s incredibly important to me. There were years of online dating where I’d get messages and blocks from white guys who wanted to totally rule me out of their world just because I was Asian.” Ricamora and two friends from the theater world are currently working to assure that the gay Asian-American experience doesn’t remain hidden. They’re four episodes into the writing of a serial called “No Rice.”t Soft Power plays the Curran Theatre June 20-July 8. sfcurran.com.

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SFS: Yesterday, today & tomorrow by Philip Campbell

he San Francisco Symphony is currently performing a final week of season concerts featuring a guest conductor and instrumental soloist. Susanna Malkki, named 2017 Conductor of the Year by Musical America Worldwide, and virtuoso Nikolaj Znaider are bringing Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto to Davies Symphony Hall before Michael Tilson Thomas returns to conclude his 23rd year as Music Director. MTT has got some treats in store: a semi-staged performance of Mussorgsky’s epic “Boris Godunov,” and Mahler’s exalting Third Symphony, with favorite mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. Both of the events bookend an enticing concert that features two Sibelius symphonies. Pianist Daniil Trifonov, concluding his seasonlong residency, will perform Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 3. That’s a lot to look forward to, but life at DSH has been pulsing with energy and enjoyment all year. Finnish conductor Malkki has made her mark with the SFS before, and if she isn’t being considered as a possible contender to replace MTT after he departs, she ought to be.

She is back to partner with violinist Znaider for the major favorite by Tchaikovsky, and to showcase Scriabin’s infrequently heard but glittering and original “The Poem of Ecstasy.” As a bonus, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s “Laterna Magica” is receiving its first SFS performances. We’ll report soon on Susanna Malkki’s latest results, and also go into more detail on MTT’s plans. Last week the SFS also featured some off-the-beaten-path repertoire and soul-stirring Tchaikovsky when guest conductor Semyon Bychkov returned to DSH with the renowned sister act the Labeques, Katia and Marielle. Marielle is married to Semyon, but Katia is hardly a third wheel onstage. It was a pleasure to welcome the talented siblings back to Davies after years of warmly recollected visits, and also family member Bychkov, who has enjoyed his own successes here. The Russian maestro, newly appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, made another fine impression with a precisely molded but affectionate interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian.” Tchaikovsky works have become a major career highlight

age, and it kindled a life-long love of classical music, especially the Russians. Bychkov opened the concert with a rarity. Sergei Taneyev’s “Oresteia” Overture showed Tchaikovsky’s influence, but the suitably weighty piece, a stand-alone concert work, related to the composer’s huge opera with the same name, blossomed into a surprisingly cinematic sort of tone poem. It was an intriguing taste of an esoteric composer whose style

foreshadowed the film scores of the early 20th century. The lovely Labeques followed with another performance of an obscure work. They didn’t revive much interest in exploring other scores by Max Bruch, famous mostly for his compositions for violin and orchestra, most notably the well-loved Gminor Concerto. Bruch’s Concerto for Two Pianos in A-flat minor turns out to be little more than a rather busy divertissement, but the prodigiously talented sisters gave it their considerable all, and the relatively brief (25 minutes) score whizzed happily in one ear and out the other. At least we got to hear the first (and probably last) SFS performances of a quirky showpiece, filled with tunes and a rousing finale. Semyon Bychkov will return to the Bay Area this fall as part of a 10city U.S. tour with the Czech Philharmonic. On November 11 and 12, they will be at DSH in Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony and Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein, and at the Mondavi Center in Davis in several Tchaikovsky works, including “Francesca da Rimini,” Serenade for Strings, and First Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein.t

the 80s that weren’t met with much fanfare. Everything changed with the 1991 release of his breakthrough album “Girlfriend,” with a vintage Tuesday Weld pic on the cover and an irresistible string of hit singles including “Divine Intervention” and “I’ve Been Waiting.” Beginning in 2006, Sweet teamed up with Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles for a

series of “Under the Covers” album on which they performed renditions of songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s. In 2017, Sweet returned with the solo recording “Tomorrow Forever,” and has followed it up with “Tomorrow’s Daughter” (Honeycomb Hideout), both of which sound as strong as the best of Sweet’s earlier work.t

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The Labeque Sisters, Katia and Marielle, were part of a San Francisco Symphony program conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

for Bychkov with his “Tchaikovsky Project” recording series on Decca with the Czech Philharmonic; as part of his “Beloved Friend” Tchaikovsky festivals in London and New York last year; and as part of his regular repertoire. He has said, “I’ve loved Tchaikovsky’s music ever since I can remember. Like all first loves, this one never died.” I’m in agreement. My parents wisely introduced me to the deeply emotive Tchaikovsky at an impressionable

Voices from the past by Gregg Shapiro

ll hail Liz Phair! Kicking the male-dominated Chicago rock scene in its tender nuts with her steel-toe boots, Phair’s 1993 debut album “Exile in Guyville” didn’t mince words when it came to the battle of the sexes. It was a bruising felt round the world, as dudes and bros moved to cover their privates. Twenty-five years later, the 18 songs on that album, as well as those on the preceding Girlysound home demo tapes, still sound fresh and ring true. The restored triple-disc set “Girly-Sound to Guyville” (Matador), a provocative musical history lesson if there ever was one, is a potent reminder of female resilience in these #MeToo days. With songs “Fuck and Run,” “Stratford-OnGuy” and “Divorce Song,” Phair essentially left Madonna in the dust while planting the seeds for Alanis Morissette. Regardless of what you think of Phair’s later output (2003’s eponymous disc, we’re talking to you!), nothing compares to this masterwork. It’s no exaggeration to say that when Gomez released its debut album in 1998, it didn’t sound like anything else. Newly reissued in an expanded four-disc 20th anniversary edition box set, “Bring It On” (Vir-

gin) still doesn’t have any match in unusual sonics. A big factor is the shared vocal duties by Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball. Ottewell’s vocals in particular, alternately warm and ragged, provide the songs with a bluesy soul that’s hard to match (“Make No Sound”). “78 Stone Wobble,” “Whippin’ Piccadilly,” “Tijuana Lady,” the twangy “Free To Run” and the jazzy “Bubble Gum Years” provide Gomez with its distinguishing edge. A 2018 remaster of the original album, the box set also includes a disc of remastered single B-sides, a record company demo tape, 4-track recordings, live recordings and more. Back when it was a quartet known for its sassy harmonies, En Vogue owned the early 90s. En Vogue’s first two albums “Born to Sing” and “Funky Divas” contained a string of dazzling hit singles: “Lies,” “Hold On,” “My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It),” “Free Your Mind” and a cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “Sparkle” tune “Giving Him Something He Can Feel.” They even teamed up with female rap outfit Salt-N-Pepa for “Whatta Man.” The departure of Dawn Robinson changed the group’s fortunes as they added and removed members. En Vogue returns with the delicious “Electric Café” (eOne), its first album in 14 years, with an incarna-

tion featuring Cindy Herron, Terry Ellis and Rhona Bennett. Sounding very au courant, En Vogue returns to form with outstanding numbers “Blue Skies,” “Déjà Vu,” and “Have a Seat,” featuring Snoop Dogg. Like En Vogue, Matthew Sweet has a storied past in music. Sweet released a couple of albums for a couple of different labels in

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Melania, Samantha & Roseanne, oh my! by Victoria A. Brownworth

here is no downtime during the Trump Administration. We keep waiting for it, the week where there’s no news or even limited news, where the TV isn’t abuzz with the latest “Wait, WHUT?” from the folks who hijacked the White House back in January 2017, even though most of us voted for Hillary Clinton. But every day there’s a new drama, every day there’s a new outrage, every day we move further into a zone we had hoped never to see again where racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia and any other phobia we’d hoped was dying a necessary death are being revived, embraced, and becoming a focal point yet again. The latest drama centering on TV stars Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee shouldn’t have become the days-long TV news event they have been, except without a Pres. Trump neither incident would have happened, and without a Pres. Trump the swirl of TV news wouldn’t be nonstop Trump drama. Our other journalistic hat is politics, and we had weekends off during the Obama Administration, Mondays were slow news days, news didn’t break at 9, 10 and 11 p.m., and we slept through the night without fearing nuclear or other holocaust. As we write this, First Lady Melania Trump has been missing for nearly a month. Unseen by anyone in the media since she launched her grammatically incoherent “Be Best” campaign on May 7. After that, she entered the hospital for a kidney embolization, a relatively uncommon procedure used to either “starve” kidney tumors of blood supply from the renal artery in cancers or stop bleeding into the kidney from injury. While not a benign procedure, embolization usually requires an overnight stay to monitor bleeding, then the patient returns home. Melania was in the hospital for six days. Now we don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories, but we’ve spent a lot of time in the hospital over the past 18 months, and we know that six days in the hospital, especially one devoted mostly to military personnel like Walter Reed, is a big deal. On May 31 we had a brief Twitter exchange with New Yorker TV columnist Emily Nussbaum, who wrote, “I’m genuinely concerned about the Melania thing & it’s really bugging me. Maybe nothing is going on but it feels WEIRD, right? Where is she?” As someone dealing with cancer, we are reminded of the bravery of two first ladies whose politics we abhorred, but who really stepped

up to address health issues they themselves faced in order to further national discourse on their cancers. Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford both were diagnosed with breast cancer while in the White House, and both talked about their experience extensively. Ford also revealed her subsequent substance abuse problems. Melania is a reluctant First Lady not given to public appearances, but she could have used her platform to discuss kidney disease or even issue a statement about it, since it is very common in the U.S. There are currently more than 100,000 people waiting for kidney transplants, and the number of people on dialysis has doubled over the last 10 years, according to the Living Kidney Donor Network. But none of that happened. Although there have been numerous news pieces in places as disparate as CNN, People magazine and The New Zealand Times Herald querying “Where’s Melania?,” the White House has been silent about her whereabouts, only adding to the controversy by announcing on June 1 that the First Lady would not be joining Trump at Camp David. We’re with Nussbaum: it’s weird. Try as we might, we can’t help thinking of “Rear Window” when we see that alleged sinkhole in the White House garden. Also disturbing, but differently so, were White House calls June 1 for TBS to cancel Samantha Bee’s show “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.” Bee has long been a critic of the Trump administration and the president in particular. In the midst of a rant about Trump’s grotesquely brutal immigration policy of separating children from parents at the border, Bee implored first daughter Ivanka Trump, her father’s favorite child, to “put on something tight and low-cut” and “do something about your father’s immigration policies, you feckless c-nt.” There were wild cheers from the audience, but since Bee’s attack was less than 24 hours after the Roseanne Barr firing (more on that in a moment), conservatives and Trump were eager to find a liberal scapegoat for their ire. Alas, Bee was it. Our POV on this is consistent with what we’ve been writing since high school: misogynist language is the tool of oppression. Period. Don’t call women bitches, whores/hoes, sluts or cunts. Ever. No matter who they are and how much you despise them. Some words are off the table. The substance of what Bee said was spot-on. Ivanka promised to be

a voice for women and children in her still vague and unclear role in the White House (she’s back to playing First Lady in Melania’s absence). Ivanka posting a photo on Twitter on May 27 of her holding one of her children when the crisis at the border was exploding on the news was tone-deaf at best, and it was against that photo backdrop that Bee spoke. Any other descriptive – and there are so many to draw from that don’t require bleeping, monster comes to mind – would have done just as well and not brought the White House down on Bee, and by extension, on the left. Sadly, that substantive message about an issue that was in the news cycle for all of two days before fading into the oblivion of the next Trump-inspired drama, was utterly lost by Bee’s quest for cheap applause. The fallout was swift and intense. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders exemplified the White House’s double standards by calling Bee’s comments “vile and vicious.” Bee posted an apology on Twitter: “I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last night. It was inappropriate and inexcusable. I crossed a line, and I deeply regret it.” TBS issued their own statement: “Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it.” But Trump went after both comedian and network (part of one he has tried to buy in the past), demanding that Samantha Bee be fired and her show be cancelled. Herein lies the daily problem with this presidency: Trump doesn’t get that whole Constitution thing. While it’s unfortunate that Bee chose to use that word and clearly regrets it, at most Trump could request an apology for his daughter, had Bee not already given it. But to demand a network cancel a program that offends him or members of his family is full-on dictatorship mode, and as such, unacceptable in a free society. We’re not in Russia, yet. At press time, several advertisers had pulled their ads from “Full Frontal.” The debacle will no doubt play out over the coming weeks, likely fueled by random rabid Trump tweeting. It’s to be hoped TBS stands behind Bee and doesn’t accede to either Trump or advertisers. But money is always the bottom line with TV programming. Trump’s low intellect is one reason he conflated the slur used by Bee, a well-known feminist, and the pattern of racist commentary by Roseanne Barr, who was fired the day before Bee’s outburst for calling former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who is black, a terrorist ape. Full disclosure: we were briefly friends with the comedian, but broke off that connection in 2015 over her increasingly right-wing politics and her embrace of conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton and Obama, among other disturbing commentary. We have witnessed the spiral ever since, and are on record here and elsewhere saying we didn’t understand why ABC was rebooting the show given Roseanne’s political views, which have very much included regular racist commentary on social media, as well as extremes of Islamophobia. In April, Jewish groups called for the comedian’s firing when a photo essay of her dressed as Hitler and

holding a tray of burnt cookies in the shape of humans re-surfaced. The spread was supposed to be satire (Roseanne herself converted to Judaism some years ago) but it was unsuccessful. For those of us who lost family in the Holocaust, it will always seem too soon to jest about Jews and ovens. At that time, “Roseanne” coproducer Bruce Helford dismissed the controversy. “My feeling is that people should just watch the show and judge it on its merits,” said Helford. “Watch the show without the accompanying background noise.” The “noise” apparently being Roseanne’s extremist political views. That ABC was going for ratings and the concomitant ad revenue was apparent, because the network also ignored the things we could not, like Roseanne’s embrace of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that had Hillary Clinton running a pedophile sex ring out of the basement of a Washington, D.C. pizza place owned by a gay man. Roseanne also made equally absurd and dangerous claims that Trump was breaking up “trafficking rings in high places everywhere,” and that he was freeing “hundreds” of “children held in bondage to pimps” each month. If this were actually true, that Trump were freeing kids from sex traffickers, Trump would be congratulating himself on social media 24/7. Roseanne was also one of the first conservatives to attack the Parkland students as they began their anti-gun violence activism in the wake of the Feb. 14 massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Florida. We’re not sure what the tipping point was between the attacks on students who survived a massacre, dressing up as Hitler, calling Hillary the leader of a pedophile sex ring or Roseanne’s previous racist tweets comparing former Obama Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, who is also black, to an ape, but apparently it was reached with the tweet about Jarrett. Roseanne and Bee have been conflated, but they are in no way similar. Bee made a vulgar gaffe. Roseanne has a regrettably long history of racist comments among other disturbing views. The question isn’t whether ABC should have fired Roseanne, but why she was hired in the first place. Co-stars and writers have made statements about their disappointment in the comedian. But much of this, we feel, is disingenuous. No one who knew the comedian even rudimentarily was unaware of her views. She expressed them daily on social media, had her own radio show, gave interviews on TV talk shows, and was a strident supporter of Trump. So for lesbians like Sara Gilbert and Wanda Sykes to agree to co-star with her and write for her was quite disappointing to witness. Their post-cancellation comments ring hollow in the aftermath. We have long said when we are behind the camera, we are in front of the camera. But what was in front of the camera on “Roseanne” was not the feminist writing of Whitney Cummings who also helmed the show, nor Sykes’ often biting commentary on race and sexuality, but Islamophobia writ large, Trump “values” and Roseanne herself. Everything else receded into the background of her and her politics. It’s notable that Trump never decried Roseanne’s comments about Jarrett, but rather demanded an apology from ABC chairman and CEO Bob Iger for remarks made about Trump on ABC talk shows. Again, dictatorial behavior. Roseanne was in trouble long before Trump, but Trump’s support

for her emboldened her behavior and her hate speech, as it has so many others. And for the record, Ted Nugent, one of the first guests to a private party at the Trump White House, has regularly called Hillary Clinton a cunt, whore and bitch, and posed in front of her portrait while at the White House with Trump and Sarah Palin, photos of which were posted all over social media. So if there’s a double standard, it originates with Trump, whose supporters wore “Trump that bitch” and “Vote for Trump, because she’s a cunt” T-shirts to his rallies.

Years past

On Memorial Day, while Trump tweeted not about the service of the fallen to our nation, but about witch hunts, Hillary and spies, we watched CNN’s brilliant series “1968.” It was a revelation, and we urge you to watch it. (It can be viewed in its entirety at CNN.com.) We were too young for 1968 to have any clear meaning for us at the time, but we definitely recall the trauma of the back-to-back assassinations. Our parents were wellknown Civil Rights workers, so the murders of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy resonated through our household like deaths in the family. “1968” is a tightly woven 4-hour chronicle, divided by season, of the evolution of turbulence. The pivots are San Francisco’s Summer of Love, the breadth of the anti-war movement (California politician Tom Hayden is featured prominently), Nixon’s rise and the Democrats’ fall post-RFK, and the expansion of the Vietnam War, even as LBJ said he would wind it down in an effort to help Hubert Humphrey’s election. The scenes of Vietnam, the riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, footage of the preWatergate Nixon few of us are old enough to have known (a smart, focused, intellectual politician): it’s all fascinating history. Thoroughly researched and brilliantly laid out, it’s one of those histories that is close enough to touch, despite being 50 years past. There are messages throughout the four hours that are cautionary for today, and vital to recall. The series is unapologetically skewed toward reason and facts, and deserves a careful viewing or two. “1968” presages now in so many respects. Highly recommended. As summer begins to sizzle, we recommend some frothy TV to watch with an umbrella’d drink. The contestant shows are all starting, including our personal fave, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” now in its 13th season, which always features some gay contestants with stories for all of us. NBC also premieres season 2 of Jennifer Lopez’s stunning “World of Dance,” again with gay contestants and stunning displays of amazing dance. (No Adam Rippon, but he can’t be everywhere.) The cooking shows are also in abundance, with “Master Chef ” kicking it up a notch after an adorable non-binary contestant won “Master Chef Junior” in May. Martha Stewart is joining “Chopped” as a judge, which will no doubt be delightful. Also, if you’re thinking it’s time to renovate over that summer staycay, “Nate and Jeremiah by Design” is the gayest help you can get to make your place look gay, gayer, gayest. And of course, the summer and Pride leads with FX’s “Pose,” which began airing this week. So for the relentless Sturm und Drang, the high-toned and the lowbrow, for catching delights where you can, you know you really must stay tuned.t

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June art gallery walk by Sura Wood

une is the official start of the summer gallery season. Here are a few outstanding choices to check out this month. Hosfelt Gallery: “Frankenstein’s Birthday Party” arrives just in time for what may be the summer of Mary Shelley, the author and unconventional woman behind the monster that’s haunted us for centuries. This provocative show coincides with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Shelley’s prescient, gothic novel about hubris, science run amok and a reanimated corpse, and the release of “Mary Shelley,” a new bio-pic opening this Friday. Through a bevy of macabre, fascinating, bedeviling and alarm-sounding works, (which, full disclosure, are right in this writer’s wheelhouse), the exhibition’s artists address themes raised by the tale: advances in technology, the drive to overcome limitations of the body and mortality, and the inability to control what human ambition has unleashed. “Bombhead” (2002/1989), Bruce Conner’s surreal portrait of a man whose head has been replaced by the image of a nuclear blast, for instance, speaks to the book’s core idea; a monstrous creation with the power to annihilate its creator, while Edmund Clark’s chilling documentary picture “Camp 6, Mobile Force-feeding Chair, Guantanamo” (2009) offers a horrific reminder of inventions harnessed for diabolical purposes. Cornelius Volker’s “stilllife” oil painting “Reck Goliath” (2009) is a rendering of a handgun whose cold, gleaming, blue-steel surface is so seductive it dares the viewer to pick it up and take it for a test drive. Kiki Smith, a sculptor long obsessed with functions of the body and its various parts, is

David Stroud, courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery

Patricia Piccinini, “Egg/Head” (2016), silicone, human hair, edition 1 of 3.

represented by “Answer” (1996), the ceramic “fossilized” remains of a forearm connected to a detached hand with exposed wire – or is it her take on a primitive prosthetic limb? Then there’s Patricia Piccinini’s wiggy, simultaneously repellent and compelling “Egg/Head” (2016). The squat, oval-shaped silicone sculpture, with the unsettling appearance of pinkish flesh, has a belly button, stringy hair and intestinal innards whose tiny openings are sucked closed, at least for the moment, protruding from its back. It’s the kind of grotesque hybrid creature that might have been hatched in a mad laboratory experiment gone wrong, though, by this point, a litany of late-night, low-budget horror movies was cranking through my brain. The piece is actually a cross between a human belly symbiotically attached to a bicycle helmet, and a real animal called a Sea Squirt that has a bizarre backstory all its own. Sometimes it’s better not to ask too

many questions. June 23-Aug. 11; hosfeltgallery.com SF Camerawork: “Focal Points,” the first show launched by CatchLight, a Bay Area-based nonprofit supporting photography as a vehicle for social change, is an exhibition noteworthy for both the high quality and timely nature of work by the three photographers awarded fellowships by the organization. San Francisco photojournalist Brian L. Frank, whose photo essays have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, drew on his personal history – he was in and out of juvenile facilities from the age of 14 for theft and violent crime before turning himself around – for “Out of Bounds: Coming of Age in Gang Territory.” His beautifully composed color images, complemented by descriptive captions, examine the criminalizing of minority youth and the brotherhood and loneliness of teenage inmates at Pine Grove, a prison camp located in the foothills of Lake Tahoe. Frank is definitely a talent to watch. For her illuminating series “Beckon Us from Home,” New York-based documentary photographer Sarah Blesener visited patriot camps and clubs across the country to photograph some of the 400,000 children receiving a mix of religious and military-style instruction. She found that for many of the young, vulnerable-looking attendees she captured on camera, the strict regimentation imposed by the camps was a welcome relief from the responsibility of developing their own individual identity. In “Lines and Lineage,” Tomas Van Houtryve documents an alternative visual history of the U.S./ Mexican border, which, before 1848, was located 700 miles farther north

than it is today. He imagines how the area, once home to indigenous people of the region, might have appeared under Mexican rule, a period from 1839, the year photography was invented, to 1848, when the US attacked Mexico and seized half its land. Using wet plate-glass negatives and a 19th-century wooden camera, he took antique black & white photographs displayed in a diptych format. Retaining scratches and detritus of the chemical process, they freeze time in a zone where the imagination is free to roam. Through June 30; sfcamerawork.org. Fraenkel Gallery: “The Poetry Machine and Other Works” features several collaborative projects from the ingenious husband-and-wife team Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, who share an interest in the properties and possibilities of sound and the menace of machines. For those lucky enough to have experienced it, Cardiff ’s installation at Ft. Mason in 2015, “The Forty Part Motet,” a recorded choral

performance of a reworked 16thcentury composition by Thomas Tallis, was an ecstatic tour de force. Among the pieces on view here: the U.S. debut of “The Poetry Machine,” the duo’s interactive homage to the late Leonard Cohen. Its components include a vintage organ, an assortment of speakers and the unmistakable sound of Cohen’s voice reciting a catalog of poems from his “Book of Longing,” which the couple received six months after he died. Seated in a conveniently placed chair, visitors can reconfigure the poet’s voice and texts for themselves. Like a bewitched character out of a dark fairy-tale ballet, the robotically manipulated marionette of “Sad Waltz and the dancer who couldn’t dance” appears to play a miniature grand piano, providing “onstage” accompaniment for a woe-be-gone, human-like puppet who dances, as if possessed, to a score by Armenian composer Edward Mirzoyan. Through July 5; fraenkelgallery.com.t

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CatchLight Fellow Tomas van Houtryve, “Anastacio Bonnie Sanchez and San Geronimo Church Massacre Site” (2017)

Castro & Roxie in June by David Lamble

hile the bulk of June (14-24) at the Castro Theatre is devoted to Frameline 42, the 2018 edition of the San Francisco LGBTQ Film Festival, regular rep has its innings with encore screenings of some audience faves. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) It’s rare that a 50-year-old film can generate buzz with the grandkids of the generation that once greeted it as cinema head-trip. This Stanley Kubrick gem (screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke) was a decade-defining spectacle for folks who had heard a young president (JFK) promise that Americans would reach the moon by 1969. Kubrick daringly begins with cavemen fighting over bones. An act of violence dominates the first act, climaxing with an abrupt segue to a 21st-century space station. most of whose crew is in hibernation to save on power. The cast is headed by two stolid figures, astronauts Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, who meet their match in the scene-stealing ship’s computer, HAL (the voice of a spooky calm Douglas Rain: “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.”) Even the intermission, a standard feature in widescreen Oscar-bait features, is beautifully timed, as we wonder whether robotic-acting humans can put one over on a diabolically inclined machine. (6/7-13) Frameline 42 (6/14-24; full coverage in our next issue)

“Sing-Along Sound of Music” (1965) The hills are truly alive in this Robert Wise-directed, Julie Andrews-starring Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on the real-life experiences of the Austrian-raised Von Trapp clan, who fled Nazi terror through the Swiss

mountains in 1938. (6/29-7/2; 7/5-6) The Roxie Theater has been in the indie film business since 1909. June begins with the theater screening SF DocFest. From 6/15-23, the Roxie joins the Castro and the Victoria as a venue for Frameline 42. Meanwhile the Roxie uses its second screen for a zesty selection of offbeat features. “Nossa Chape” The Zimbalist Brothers track the reconstruction of a Brazilian soccer club after all but three members were killed in a 2016 plane crash. (6/15) “The Doctor from India” This doc traces the attempt by a health crusader to introduce an experimental India healthcare system to the U.S. (6/16-17, 23) “On the Seventh Day” Indie filmmaker Jim McKay’s feature is about a man who divides his life between food delivery and soccer. (6/22-26) “The Lair of the White Worm” (1988): When he was good, he was very, very good. Eccentric British filmmaker Ken Russell brings a Bram Stoker (“Dracula”) novel to the screen. The story begins when scientists unearth an old skull shaped like a worm. From there, things get really crazy. A great cast: Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Capaldi and Paul Brooke. (6/24) “To a More Perfect Union: US v Windsor” The case that allowed

LGBTQ survivors to collect Federal benefits after the death of their worker spouse partner is examined. (6/25) “Black Panthers in 68” This double-feature bill includes Agnes Varda’s “Black Panthers” and Amiri Baraka’s “The New-Ark.” “Film School Drop Outs presents Pink Flamingos” (1972) The most infamous John Waters freaky feature, with Divine attempting to

be “The Filthiest Person Alive” eating you-know-what. (both 6/28) “The Pink Panther” The cartoon character who began his life as a title-sequence character for the immortal Peter Sellers goofy French cop series. “The Ladies Almanack” A collection of Super 8 films documenting lesbian literary writing from Paris in the 1920s. Screening followed by Q&A. (both 6/30)t

Final Concert of 10th Season

Dawn Harms, Music Director & Conductor Tickets & Info: http://BARS-SF.ORG

Saturday, June 9, 8pm SF Conservatory of Music 50 Oak Street (at Van Ness)

Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti one-act opera Renée Rapier, Dinah Eugene Brancoveanu, Sam Heidi Moss, soprano Bradley Kynard, baritone Andres Ramirez, tenor

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Outrageously out by David-Elijah Nahmod

n his day, producer Allan Carr was known as “flamboyant,” a code word for gay. This was at a time when being openly gay in Hollywood could mean career suicide. Yet Carr (1937-99) flaunted his sexuality, which didn’t stop him from rising to the upper echelons of the film industry when he produced “Grease” (1978), then the top-grossing movie musical of all time. Now filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz chronicles Carr’s colorful life in “The Fabulous Allan Carr,” an entertaining documentary available on digital platforms. Carr was a plain-looking fat kid who was obsessed with Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s. He yearned to bring that kind of glamour back to the screen and into his daily life. He often threw lavish parties during which Hollywood’s elite

would mingle with the young pretty boys of Carr’s fantasies. He lavished gifts on these young men even as he wished that he could look like them. Carr was a lonely man. These parties were his personal life. His flamboyance could often be a bit much for the conservative suits in Hollywood, but he was forgiven because he was a moneymaker. At a time when Ann-Margret’s career was floundering, Carr became her manager and turned her into one of the highest-paid acts in Las Vegas. But there were failures. After the unprecedented success of “Grease,” Carr lost his touch when he produced the mega-bomb “Can’t Stop the Music” (1981) starring the Village People. People also stayed away in droves from “Grease 2,” Carr’s sequel to his biggest hit. But Carr wasn’t quite through. He won a Tony Award for bringing “La Cage Aux

David Alexander

Scene from “The Fabulous Allan Carr.”

joyable film. Carr’s friends and colleagues’ memories offer an intimate portrait of a complex man. Interviewees include Bruce Vilanch, director Randal Kleiser and choreographer Patricia Birch of “Grease,” Steve Guttenberg and Valerie Perrine from “Can’t Stop the Music,” Lorna Luft, Michael Musto, Paramount Pictures executive Sherry Lansing, and others. Carr’s homosexuality was a big part of who he was. He’s seen flaming on a late-70s appearance on “The Mike Douglas Show.” Douglas looks uncomfortable. Carr obviously doesn’t care. “The Fabulous Allan Carr” is a look inside the life of a man who lived, worked and played on his own terms. He succeeded in Hollywood even as he refused to play the game. Available for viewing on iTunes, Amazon, Google and Vimeo.t

Folles” to Broadway. But his next big project, producing the overblown 1989 Oscars, resulted in Hollywood stars and directors signing a letter of

protest to the Academy, effectively ending Carr’s career. Schwarz presents all these highs and lows in a fast-paced and en-

casions by the LGBT community, including the 2015 Equality Illinois Freedom Award for her work as “a On Wednesday evening, cutting-edge performer June 13, the actor-comedianwho has used her talent to jazz singer will perform at the entertain and enlighten milSF Jazz Center, her first visit to lions of Americans.” Withthe cozy venue in Hayes Valley. out question, DeLaria is at The music is from her most rethe top of her game as she cent release, “House of David,” enters her seventh decade, a tribute to the late David with two Screen Actor Guild Bowie featuring her smoky, awards for her role in the swinging takes on Bowie claspopular Netflix series about sics including “Space Oddity,” life in a women’s prison, “Rebel Rebel” and “Fame,” which begins its sixth season among others. The stand-up this month and has already between numbers is DeLaria’s been renewed for a seventh. classic, in-your-face commenThe show, she points out, tary on the state of the world, “is the #1 TV show in the similar to the style she first Courtesy the subject world,” watched by 100 mildeveloped in San Francisco lion people in 190 countries. in the early 1980s, where her Rebel Rebel: Lea DeLaria When I congratulated her on career was launched. her midlife success breaking We caught up with DeLaria cocktail party where she recently into television, she points out that by phone at her Brooklyn apartment, met Oprah Winfrey. she has succeeded despite carrying where she said she was busy planDescribing herself as a “lesbian herself as “the old cool dyke” that she ning her upcoming 60th birthday feminist dyke queer activist,” Deis. “I made history as the first openly party celebration (taking a group of Laria says she still knocks her head gay comic to perform on late-night friends to Puerto Vallarta) and getagainst the proverbial “glass ceiling” TV,” she said, referring to her apting ready for her new tour, which that exists in the entertainment pearance on the Arsenio Hall Show stops in Australia before landing in industry. When DeLaria recently in 1993. San Francisco and points east. asked her manager whether she But she has also gained the The apartment, she notes, “is a might be a good fit for a tryout call respect and admiration of audirental in the ‘ghetto side’ of Bushfor a “butch dyke,” “He said to me, ences and critics worldwide with wick. I’m the only white person in ‘I don’t think they’re looking for her Broadway shows, movies, and my building.” She emphasizes that someone that butch.’ television gigs. DeLaria received despite her career success, “I’m “My politics are important to Obie and Theater World Awards not rich, I swear,” although she me,” she said. “I may not work as and a Drama Desk nomination concedes she does enjoy a lot of the much, but that’s okay with me.” for her portrayal as Hildy in the perks of celebrity, such as the Soho She’s been honored on many oc-

Public Theatre’s revival of “On the Town,” an Ovation nomination for “The Boys from Syracuse,” and has played both Eddie & Dr. Scott in the gender-bending Broadway musical “The Rocky Horror Show.” While lesser-known as a vocalist, DeLaria points out she’s been singing since childhood, inspired by her father, a jazz pianist in Belleville, Illinois, where she grew up. Her singing career began in 2001 with her debut recording “Play It Cool,” which The New York Times called “the best jazz album” of the year. The [UK] Guardian said she “talks like a coffee grinder and sounds like a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and a Broadway diva.” The Times described her performance at the club Smoke as “a style that suggests a no-frills Betty Carter on steroids.” DeLaria was the featured vocalist at the 50th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival, and has performed in some of the most prestigious houses in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Chicago Symphony, Hollywood Bowl, the Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Several years ago, when deciding what her next album would be, DeLaria said she wanted to focus on the music of David Bowie. “I love him,” she said. “The hardest part was picking 12 tracks out of the 100s to choose from.” Describing her adaptations, DeLaria said, “They’re David Bowie tunes that

I’ve reinvented using the language of jazz.” Acknowledging that aging is harder on women than it is on men in her business, DeLaria notes that her feelings about turning 60 were reflected in the title of the show she performed in New York City, “This Is What 60 Looks Like, Bitches.” “Our society doesn’t allow women to grow old gracefully, whether you’re famous or not,” she said. “That’s just part of living in a heterosexist society. Producers still only want beautiful women. For all the talk about how ‘Orange is the New Black’ changed TV by offering diversity and showing the different types of women who exist in the world, it’s still businessas-usual in Hollywood.” While work is important to her, DeLaria said her social life keeps her really busy, “dating, playing Words with Friends, smoking pot, hanging out with friends, and don’t let me forget daytime drinking. I really, really like good tequila.” As to the future, she said, “My motto is, ‘Now is the time.’ I don’t tend to think about the future, although I do open off-Broadway on Sept 12 in Jen Silverman’s new play, ‘Collective Rage.’” And as for retirement, “There is no such thing in this business. We tend to die with our boots on, and I plan to uphold that tradition.”t

Lear”: “Expose yourself to feel what wretches feel.” He bullies the audience like a preacher, then lulls us until the next outburst catches us off-guard. But the whole has been brilliantly prepared, and I for one go along for the sake of the argument, and because in 30 years he’s never steered me wrong. He uses audience-participation as a revivalist would: once one person comes down to get saved, the rest will follow. First a dozen of us come onto the stage to put the life-jackets on, then everybody else ends up ringing the space, a little dazed as we look at each other and seek something more appropriate to focus our Keith Hennessy in his dancework “Crotch.” gazes on. The kind of gaze you’re allowed to train on up looking like vanilla ice cream, actors is called “leering” if complete with blonde wig, and you do it to a stranger. He keeps us swaying with uncharacteristic lulprecarious, and that’s the point. If laby softness. He’s really a wizard you were born here, it doesn’t make of a performance artist and fully the land yours, even if you love it. deserves the Guggenheim FellowHennessy knows very well when ship, the numerous Izzy Awards he’s to make us wait and when to rewon in the Bay Area over the last 30 appear, when to change costume years, and the Bessie he won in New in front of us and when to show

York (that city’s highest award for contemporary dance) for “Crotch.” It’s characteristic of performance art to transgress the audience’s boundaries. Suggestible sap that I am, I was drawn into the induction that had begun very subtly, at the beginning, as he instructed us in the proper etiquette for performing on land that once belonged to the Ohlone, and had us converse with a neighbor “whom you don’t know already” about where you came from, and whose lands they had been before our families brought us into this world. “Sink” has had its run; Yi-Chun Wu this weekend he revives “Crotch” for its 10th anniversary, the piece that won him the Bessie. “Crotch” will be shown at the Lab, 2948 16th Street, SF. Buzz is fantastic, so it might be smart to get your tickets soon. One last remark: nothing I saw at San Francisco Ballet’s festival of contemporary dance last month felt as contemporary as “Sink.” Just sayin’.t

Lea Delaria

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Keith Hennessy

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You get the picture. This kind of performance art actually uses the torturer’s methods to create sympathy, to put you in the situation, let you imagine what horrors await you, and then give you a small taste of it and leave it to your imagination. It was only in hindsight that I realized the whole piece was about sinking, for we sank into lulled states again and again, memorably a) to a lullaby made by Marc Kate by extracting samples from a neo-Nazi heavy-metal song, which Hennessy danced to in a mellifluously lulling way, and even more memorably b) as he climbed up and up a silverglistening tree, with fruit of Mylar emergency blankets, via a series of hammocky-slings, a soft-rope circus-art dance that put me in mind of “Swiss Family Robinson” or even more of “Green Mansions”: Rima, the bird girl, swinging through the trees of the Amazon. Hennessy rigged it himself. Only for us to be hauled out of the calm to alarming bouts of neoshamanist stomping or ranting: first, as he strapped on spring-stilts and sprang about among us – did I mention that the whole audience

was now on stage, ringed about this stomping ground? – to Sylvester’s disco anthem “Make Me Feel” while wearing a fringed, piebald corset and a huge leafy mask. It’s a heady remix of ritual dance and tribal-rock/disco that distinctly referenced the stilt-dancers’ costumes worn by Les Ballets Africains. The last outburst was the climax of the event, a huge rant in the style that Ginsburg used to recite “Howl,” accompanied, Ginsburg-style, with a harmonium wheezing out a drone bass. Hennessy chanted in an operastrength voice a long litany of place names: “Orlando,” “Las Vegas,” “Sandy Hook” – which I realized with dismay was a name I’d found on Genealogy.com where my family once lived. “You can’t save them! You can’t even defend yourself.” A friend feared for Hennessy’s vocal cords, hearing echoes of Tibetan throat-singing in his tones, though I didn’t. Hennessy is as much a dramatic poet as a movement-artist; he knows how to mix the media. Or should I say, a snake-oil salesman. But his style is answerable – the ends do justify the means. I believe that. He works in the tradition of William Blake (“Songs of Innocence”) and the prophecies that go back to “King

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Broadway Bares III’s celebs strip & sing for a cause

by Jim Gladstone

hen Deb Leamy blew into town on the winds of a bad breakup four years ago, she brought the seeds of a new San Francisco tradition: Broadway Bares SF. The third annual production will bring an evening of song, swivel and sweat to the DNA Lounge on Sunday, June 17, with guest stars including Jai Rodriguez of the original Queer Eye.

Jai Rodriguez (center) at the first Broadway Bares: San Francisco, in 2016, at Club Fugazi.

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Summer Spirits Libations for lovely longer days and nights

Alexander Rubin

by Jim Gladstone

s we head into summer, the Bay Area Reporter has ordered up a round of fresh libations. Whether you’re looking for a new haunt, a new drink of choice, a wine country escape, or intellectual rationale for an impending hangover, we’ve sourced a miscellany of potable pleasures for your enjoyment. See page 28 >>

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A Kendall Jackson dinner

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In the pink at Kendall-Jackson

We saw the end of May, so break out the rosé. Raise a glass of Kendall-Jackson’s 2017 Vintner’s Reserve Rosé to the continuing recovery of Sonoma County. With just a tincture of pink, it’s a pleasingly pale vintage with a refreshing citric bite. Evocative of slightly under-ripe strawberries, it has light green vegetal notes that keep sweetness in check. It will taste all the more delicious when enjoyed amidst the vineyards as part of Kendall-Jackson’s monthly farm-to-table Saturday night dinner series, served al fresco at long communal tables in the estate gardens throughout the North Bay’s warm weather months. Each evening pairs a half dozen or more wines with dishes that spotlight ingredients from local farmers and purveyors, who will be on hand to chat about their Northern California specialties. On June 9, Costarella Seafoods and Marin French Cheese are featured, followed by Snake River Farms’ American Waygu beef and Kurubuta pork (July 14), Liberty Duck and Dry Creek Peach and Produce (August 11), Ward Ranch Beef and Bleating Heart Cheese (September 8) and Devil’s Gulch Ranch meats and Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese (October 13) More information and full menus at www. kj.com

Nokturnal

Summer Spirits

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Bars on our radar

Look beyond SoMa, the Mission and the city’s other expected cocktail zones to find two stylish new watering holes that deserve high spots on your summer to-booze list. Blow the minds of your out-oftown visitors, by following a traditional tourist dinner in Chinatown with a climb up the tucked away staircase at 644 Broadway to Cold Drinks, the drop-dead gorgeous cocktail bar from George Chen, above his China Live retail and restaurant emporium. Behind a non-descript doorway marked only by crudely drawn bats is a sexy chrome and leather hideaway staffed by tuxedo-jacketed bartenders serving remarkably thoughtful and well-balanced cocktails in heavy, cut-crystal glassware. Adding to the air of the unexpected is the fact that, while mix drinks of all sorts are available, the specialty cocktails here are all made with Scotch whiskies drawn from a collection of nearly 100. The Old Fashioned Breakfast is

built around Speyburn that’s been infused with green onion—it’s a savory cocktail the likes of which you’ve never experienced before. On the sweet (but not-too-sweet) side, the Black & Red finds Johnny Walker Black splashing around with chocolate stout and Campari. If you’d prefer spooky psychedelia to Shanghai chic, check out Nokturnal at 708 Polk Street. A perfect post-show option for folks whose revelry has been kickstarted at the Bill Graham Auditorium or Regency Ballroom, the bar features an illuminated, touch-sensitive bar that allows you to create colorful star showers and futuristic floral patterns beneath your drinks. Textured black iridescent wallpaper adds to the overall goth-in-space atmosphere, fueled by cocktails with names like Chupacabra and Nosferatu. Hello darkness, my old fiend. www.nokturnalsf.com w w w. i n s t a g r a m . co m / Co l d DrinksBar

A perfect summer spirit —for San Francisco

At last there’s a good excuse to drink yourself into a fog. Or, more accurately, to drink a fog into your-

Blue Angel, Stoli focus on the fabulous

Blue Angel Vodka

focusing on local LGBT nonprofits as part of his new campaign. The company’s sponsorships include the Frameline film 50 Years of Fabulous, about the history of the SF Imperial Council, which screens June 13. Enjoy Blue Angel Vodka drinks at the party following the screening, 6pm-9pm at Beaux (2344 Market St.) Blue Angel Vodka will also sponsor the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus cast party and fundraiser on June 16 (6:30-9:30pm) at Lookout, 3699 16th St., which takes place a week before their Pride concerts on June 22 & 23 at Davies Symphony Hall. www.sfgmc.org www.blueangelvodka.com

self. Let’s explain. After a trial run in 2016, Alameda’s own Hangar One Vodka has just released a limited edition bottling of Fog Point, a premium offering distilled from bits of Karl’s anatomy that have been captured by giant fog catchers installed at a number of area locations. The Bay Area Reporter recently accompanied Chris Fogliatti—a A succulent research volunteer for new drinker’s non-profit FogQuest— curriculum to the base of Sutro One of our local Tower to examine one winemakers’ great of these strangely beaumarketing gambits is tiful contraptions: a appealing to the intelframed metal filament lect as well as the palate. net specially designed Blending science, histo trap airborne water tory and propaganda, vapor and funnel the rethey inform the public condensed liquid into about fruit varietals, recollection bladders. gional appellations and Back in Alameda, production techniques. chief distiller Casey The result is that, in Shoemaker blends the addition to growing fog-sourced water with a grapes, they cultivate vodka base distilled from Fog Point’s self-styled connoisanother local resource— slim bottle seurs who savor each Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc pour with their minds + Viognier. The result is as well as their palates. a slightly floral spirit with virtually Now, Mexican spirits are getting no sharpness. Its easy to imagine that the soft edges of a fog bank have been translated into this unexpectedly smooth mouthfeel. It’s also easy to imagine that this is an elaborate marketing gimmick. So what!? It’s genius. Fog Point makes a perfect Bay Area gift and cocktail party conversation starter. And to boot, all profits from Fog Point sales are being donated to FogQuest’s global efforts to develop fog-capture techniques to provide sustainable water solutions. Fog Point can be sampled at Hangar 1’s Alameda headquarters or orRevel Avila and Blanco Reposado dered online. www.hangarone.com/ fogpoint.

into the game and San Francisco, with its familiarity with the wine world and Mexican-American population is a key U.S. market. “Many consumers and even some industry professionals aren’t aware there is a whole world of agave spirits outside of tequila,” says Micah McFarlane, a former music executive and co-founder of Revel Spirits with Hector Ruiz, the Mexican-born owner of four critically acclaimed Minneapolis-area restaurants. “They each have their own distinct qualities and characteristics.” You’ve likely sampled tequila and mezcal, but are you familiar with sotol, bacanora or raicilla? Grown in different governmentdesignated and regulated regions, produced with particular species of agave and related succulents, and distilled after pit-roasting, aboveground baking, high-pressure steaming or a combination of techniques, they offer educated palates a nuanced range of flavor and finish. McFarlane and Ruiz were recently in town to promote the newest appellation of agave spirits, avila, made from the same blue agave as tequila, but exclusively in Ruiz’ tiny home state of Morelos, where the soil is more alkaline than in designated tequila regions. Avilas are also made from a combination of pit-smoked and pressurecooked plants, for a unique blend of smoothness and smokiness. “Getting people to appreciate the differences between the spirits and the brands of each is definitely a challenge,” admits McFarlane, “but that’s part of what’s so interesting about working in this category. We can really bring some much-needed positive attention and appreciation to these traditional Mexican businesses.” Introduced earlier this year Revel’s Avila Blanco and oak-aged Avila Reposado are the first and only commercially available avilas in the U.S. Both medalists in the 2018 San Francisco World Spirits competition, they’re available for purchase online (www.oldtowntequila.com) and are just beginning to be stocked at local bars, including District (216 Townsend) where crackerjack mixologist Ashley Plasterer has created some deliciously complex cocktails, including an Indian-food friendly gem combining Revel Avila Blanco with over half a dozen ingredients, including pistachio orgeat and rosewater. It’s Mexico and Mumbai in a single drink. www.revelspirits.com

long with Stoli’s release of a Harvey Milk limited edition vodka bottle (see B.A.R. last week’s issue), another spirit that’s worth noting is the new brand, Blue Angel Vodka. Distilled and bottled in the San Francisco Bay Area, Blue Angel is an ultra-premium vodka made from all-American corn, distilled six times, and uses reverse osmosis and deionization to ensure that it’s pure and clean tasting. The brand is the idea of philanthropist Maurice Kanbar, who’s

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Cassandra Cass greets a fan at last year’s Broadway Bares II: San Francisco, at DNA Lounge.

Both photos: Steven Underhill

Left: Steve Grand’s now-famous strip & singing number at the 2017 Broadway Bares II: San Francisco, at DNA Lounge. Right: One of many dancing stripping hunks at the 2017 Broadway Bares II: San Francisco, at DNA Lounge.

Broadway Bares

From page 27

“I wanted to get involved with a project that would help me get rooted in a new city and connect to a community,” says the dancer and choreographer who, during her New York years performed in three Broadway shows, including the Tony-winning Fosse. In New York, Leamy had also participated in several editions of Broadway Bares. To date, 27 editions of the show, featuring

Above: Chanteuse Leanne Borghesi Middle: Choreographer Deb Leamy Below: Broadway Bares creator Jerry Mitchell.

Broadway cast members performing burlesque acts and benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, has raised over $17 million dollars. “I wondered if I could possibly mount a West Coast version,” recalls Leamy who called Jerry Mitchell— the Tony-winning director, choreographer and founder of the New York event—to ask for his blessing. “I thought it was a brilliant idea,” says Mitchell, currently represented on Broadway by Kinky Boots and On Your Feet! and preparing for the August opening of Pretty Woman. “San Francisco is such a touring town. So many shows go through that I thought there would be a built-in audience and that some of the performers in town on tour could make appearances.” Mitchell never imagined that Broadway Bares would become a multi-million dollar, bi-coastal endeavor when he produced the original event back in 1992. “I was dancing in The Will Rogers Follies at the time,” he recalls. “I was in my twenties and I had already lost eight of my best friends from college. It wasn’t the Broadway dream we’d all had. I wanted to do something to help fight AIDS, but I didn’t have money to throw at GMHC. So I put together that first show, with just seven of us dancing at [gay club] Splash.” This year’s New York edition will feature over 100 performers in the 2200 capacity Hammerstein Ballroom. Mitchell pointed Leamy to the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation, which signed on as the local cobeneficiary, and Leamy began to cultivate a now-thriving success. This year’s theme—following 2016’s digitally stimulated Tech Tails and 2017’s literarily lascivious ManuStrip’d—is Top Shelf CockTails, in which the show’s stripteases will take place in settings inspired by some of the city’s favorite watering holes (Keep an eye out for product placement, and congratulate REAF on a brilliant little marketing angle to defray production costs). Additional performers include Cassandra Cass and vocalist Leanne Borghesi. “The show follows a few days in the life of a bartender and his older woman sidekick,” explains Leamy. “Sometimes they’re bemoaning the loss of San Francisco ‘back in the day,’ so we’re able to include historical as well as contemporary vignettes.” After the 2016 debut of Broadway

Bares SF at Club Fugazi in North Beach, demand allowed a move to the larger 250-capacity DNA Lounge, which features two large staircases flanking the stage, which are particularly conducive to razzle dazzle. “It’s taken us a couple of years to train the audience,” says Leamy, who confesses she was slightly surprised at San Franciscans’ unfamiliarity with Broadway Bares, which is by now a well-known brand among New York’s gay and theater communities. “Getting the word out was a bit of a challenge in the beginning.” As cheeky as the title Tech Tails was intended to be, even the first year’s poster—featuring a musclebootied scooter dude—didn’t quite connect with potential patrons. “Somehow,” says Leamy. “People didn’t realize that this was a show that featured a lot of flesh and burlesque.” In response, posters for this year and last year’s events have emphasized the stripping. That said, Jerry Mitchell points out that Broadway Bares needs to be experienced to be fully understood. “Humor is the number one quality of the shows,” he explains.

“Burlesque isn’t about just taking your clothes off. You’ve got to have your tongue firmly in cheek. Also, the performers need to be real dancers, not just strippers.” “The first year,” says Leamy, “there were plenty of gogo guys, but we couldn’t find a lot of local men who could really dance. This is like a mini-Broadway show. We need a cast that can sing, dance, and act. After two years, there are now so many more people auditioning.” A highlight of last year’s show included gay singer Steve Grand’s jock strap strip and singing number, clips of which went viral online. Three years is just enough history to allow for flashbacks, and Leamy is delighted to have Jai Rodriguez, who performed in the first Broadway Bares SF returning for this year’s show. Like Leamy and all of the performers, the LA-based Rodriguez is volunteering his time. “I’ve been doing REAF benefits for over a decade,” says Rodriguez. “I grew up acting and singing and dancing.” Rodriguez was on Broadway in Rent and The Producers and performed at Lincoln Center in the ac-

claimed drama Spinning Into Butter. “I love live performance, but after Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” Rodriguez explains, “People in the business didn’t see me that way. Back then, doing a reality show was actually bad for a performing career. I’m actually the first male from a reality show who’s gone on to become a television series regular,” he says referring to his role in the 2012-2013 ABC sitcom Malibu Country, on which he co-starred with Lily Tomlin and Reba McIntire. Rodriguez recently guest starred in an episode of the FOX medical drama, The Resident. Broadway Bares SF will certainly showcase his multiple talents. “I’m the emcee and narrator. But I’ll also sing. And they’ve asked me to take my clothes off.” “Jai is such a delight to work with,” says Deb Leamy. “He’s so lovely, and a great team player.” The Broadway Bares SF team will, alas, be losing its captain after this month’s third edition. Leamy has been offered a faculty position teaching dance in North Carolina. “I hope it will continue,” she says. “But the quality and integrity needs to remain at a high standard. I wouldn’t want to let down Jerry Mitchell.” “Deb has done a great job,” Mitchell says, confident that she’s built a durable platform that captures the celebratory, generous spirit of the franchise. “She’s gotten the ball rolling in San Francisco. I don’t see any reason that it shouldn’t go on for years.”t ‘Broadway Bares: San Francisco Strips III: Top Shelf Cocktails: Tales of Sipping and Stripping’ happens on Sunday June 17 at 8pm at DNA Lounge, 375 11th Street. Tickets are $45-$100. All proceeds benefit Richmond Ermet Aid Foundation and Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS. www.reaf-sf.org www.dnalounge.com

THE IMPERIAL COUNCIL HAS ALWAYS RAISED THE BAR. ON JUNE 13TH, LET’S RAISE A GLASS. Sip a Blue Angel martini with Donna Sachet and Khmera Rouge and give back to the Imperial Council of San Francisco. June 13 | 6-9 p.m. Beaux on Market St. | Free Admission

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Arts Events June 7-14

Talk Story @ Exit Theatre Storytellers festival, with Ed Wolf, Clara Bijl, Randall Denham and Ada Chenge. Thru June 9. 156 Eddy St. http://www.theexit.org/

Velocity Entertainment @ Gregangelo Museum Magician Jade is the featured performer at the colorful magical venue’s special night, with soft drinks and dinner. $75. 7pm-10pm. 225 San Leandro Way. www.gregangelo.com

Thu 7

What the Constitution Means to Me @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Flyaway Productions @ Hotel Cadillac

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 7 Castro Art Walk @ Castro Venues Monthly (1st Thursdays) strolling events at participating bars and galleries, with artist exhibits and mini-chats, including Dog Eared Books, Blackbird Bar, Spark Arts and more. 6pm-9pm. www.castroartwalk.com

Heidi Schreck’s Obie-winning solo show about her childhood speeches abouit the Constitution, and the document’s multi-generation effect it had on women in her family. $17$62. Thru June 17. Peet’s Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Count Basie Orchestra @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Flyaway Productions @ Hotel Cadillac

The classic jazz stage band performs big band hits at the elegant restaurant-nightclub. $34-$40. 8pm. Also June 8, 8pm & 10pm. 510 Embarcadero west, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Tender (n.) A Person Who Takes Charge, visualizes 100 years of Tenderloin activism with Jo Kreiter’s gravity-defying choreography set on the outside walls of the Cadillac Hotel, 380 Eddy St. Thu-Sat 8:30pm, select matinees 12:30pm. Thru June 16. www.flyawayproductions.com

An Entomologist’s Love Story @ SF Playhouse Melissa Ross’ play about two bug scientists at the Museum of Natural History. $30-$100. Tue-Sun thru June 23. 450 Post St. sfplayhouse.org

The Humans @ Orpheum Theatre

Fri 8 Angels in America @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

and Ron, & host Lady Forbidden. $25 (single event) - $175 (full pass). Trilliant Studios 130 Linden St., Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St., Club BNB Nightclub 2120 Broadway. https://www. queerlatindancefestival.com/

RAW Presents @ SAFEhouse June 8 & 9: Silk Worm, Jose Abad and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Bottom Bride. June 14: Octavia of Earth, a biographical scififilm/theatre work by Octavia E. Butler. Each $15-$20. 8pm. 145 Eddy St. www.safehousearts.org

Sat 9 Bay Area Rainbow Symphony @ SF Conservatory of Music Dawn Harms conducts a concert of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, with five vocalist-soloists. $10-$35. 8pm. 50 Oak St. http://bars-sf.org/

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ The Stage, San Jose

Tony Kushner’s multiple awardwinning two-part epic drama about the 1980s, AIDS and politics, returns to the Bay Area. $40-$100. Tue-Sat 7pm. Most Wed, Thu Sat & Sun also 1pm. Thru July 22. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

South Bay production of the John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Tony-winning hit trans rock musical. $30-$65. Wed & Thu 7:30pm, Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Thru July 8. 490 South 1st St., San Jose. www.thestage.org

Richard Thomas ( The Waltons) stars in Steven Karam’s comic family story set in a lower Manhattan duplex with a spooky past. $40-$110. Sun, Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru June 17. 1192 Market St. https://www.shnsf.com

Keith Hennessy @ The Lab See page 19 for full description. Free, $10-$20. Crotch : June 7-9, 8pm, at The Lab, 2948 16th St. Audio description June 2. www.circozero.org

MORE! as Muse @ Apothecarium Opening reception at the famed pot store for a group exhibit of art about and inspired by nightlife and community icon Juanita MORE!, including Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, Criket, Doug Sandelin, Gooch, Grey Lux, John Foster Cartwright, Mr. David, Mutha Chucka, Sean Freitas and Spike. 6pm. Thru July 3. 2029 Market St. https://apothecarium.com/

Nicole Klaymoon, Embodiment Project @ ODC Theater The Resident Artist Program presents a new work, Music of the Actualized Child. Other resident artist commissioned works thru June. $30. Thu-Sat 8pm. 3153 17th St. www.odc.dance

Radar Quinceañera @ SF Public Library Arisa White, Jewelle Gomez, Grace Towers and Brontez Purnell read at the celebration of the reading series, with host Julian Delgado Lopera. 6pm. 100 Larkin St., Koret Auditorium. www.sfpl.org

Sat 9

When Pigs Fly @ NCTC

The Gospel According to André @ Landmark Cinemas

LGBTQ Fiction Collection @ SF Public Library

Kate Novakc’s intimate documentary about the style icon André Leon Talley from his childhood to his career as a fashion guru. Lamndmark Embarcadero SF and Shattuck, Berkeley. www. thegospelaccordingtoandre.com

A Kid Like Jake @ Balboa Theatre Jim Parsons and Claire Danes star in the drama about parents with a transgender child. Thru June 14. 3630 Balboa St. www.cinemasf.com/balboa

Queer Latin Dance Festival @ Various Venues, Oakland Two-day first-ever festival of professional and social dancing, clases, competition and parties, with guests Andre Veloz, DJsMigz

Opening celebration of a new designated LGBTQ section of literature, with live music, prizes and activities. 2pm-4pm. 1st floor, Stong Room, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Live in the Castro @ Jane Warner Plaza The outdoor entertainment series returns, with musicians and MC Donna Sachet. 12pm. Castro St at Market. www.castrocbd.org

Magnificent Magnolias @ SF Botanical Garden Visit the lush gardens for winter Magnolia displays, plus many other trees and plants. Free entry with SF proof of residency. $5$10 for others. 7:30am-closing. 9th Ave at Lincoln Way. https:// sfbotanicalgarden.org/

Shipwreck @ The Bindery Baruch Porras-Hernandez hosts the literary fan fiction night, where authors are given one classic work of literature to ruin with a sordid erotic spin. This month, Call Me By Your Name, re-interpreted by Stephanie Lacy-Price, Chris Philpot, Jared Schwartz, Stephanie Smith, Joe Wadlington, and May Winner Adriana Vazquez. $12-$15. 1727 Haight St. www.booksmith.com/Bindery

Six Characters in Search of a Play @ NCTC Del Shores’ new solo show with half a dozen characters who never made it into his other plays. $25-$30. June 6-10. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun & Sun 2pm. Also Sun 7pm. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Mon 11

Well-Strung @ Oasis

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Pride! @ Spark Arts Group exhibit of LGBT-themed paintings and other art work by Ramon Pablo Vidali, An Luke Nguyen, Alan Beckstead, Susan Voix, and Sabrina Reid. Thru June 25. 4229 18th St. www.sparkarts.com

Various Events @ Oakland LGBTQ Center Social events and meetings at the new LGBTQ center include film screenings and workshops, including Bruthas Rising, trans men of color meetings, 4th Tuesdays, 6:30pm. Film screenings, 4th Saturdays, 7:30pm. Game nights, Fridays 7:30pm-11pm. Vogue sessions, first Saturdays. 3207 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland. oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/

Thu 7

Radar Quinceañera @ SF Public Library

Wed 13 Book Swap @ The Bindery

Priscilla Queen of the Desert @ Gateway Theatre

Xian Rui: Ten Years @ Chinese Cultural Center

Encore run of Theatre Rhinoceros’ hit 2017 production of the comic drag play based on the Australian film about queens on a road trip, with plenty of costumes and dance numbers. $15-$20. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 3pm. Thru June 30. 215 Jackson St. www.therhino.org

Exhibit of works representing the Center’s first decade. Thru Aug. 18. CCC Visual Art Center, 750 Kearny St., third floor. www.cccsf.us

Van-Anh Vanessa Vo @ St. Cyprian’s Church The virtuoso dan tranh (zither) composer and performer plays traditional and new works. $20-$25. 8pm. 2097 Turk St. SFlivearts.org

A Walk on the Moon @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre presents the world-premiere musical by Paul Scott Goodman and Pamela Gary, based on her 1999 screenplay of the film about a woman’s affair at a 1960s summer camp, with a cast of Broadway actors. $10-$100. TueSat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru July 1. 415 Geary St. www.act-sf.org

When Pigs Fly @ NCTC Revival of Howard Crabtree’s hilarious hit music revue chockful of wacky songs and costumes. Thursday night Happy Hour singalongs, costume crafting nights and more. $20-$55. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru June 10. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level. www.nctcsf.org

Sun 10 Benjamin Beilman @ Various Venues The talented violinsit performs works by Mozart, Beethoven, Kriesler and Dvorák, with pianist Andrew Tyson. $30-$50. June 10, 3pm at Del Valle Theatre, Walnut Creek. June 11, 7:30pm at Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto. June 12, 8pm, at Herbst Theatre, SF. chambermusicsf.org

Queer Tango @ Finnish Hall, Berkeley Same-sex partner tango dancing, including lessons for newbies, food and drinks. $5-$10. 3:30pm6:30pm. 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

Unique Derique @ The Marsh The comic juggling solo performer’s new family-friendly show, Fool La La! Over the Rainbow includes a free juggling workshop after each show. $15-$100. Sundays, 1pm. Extended thru June 30. 1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Womxn, Omen, Women in Chinatown @ Chinese Cultural Center Exhibit of works by Bijun Liang, Shisi Huang and Vida Kuang that challengen gender roles and equity in communities. Thu-Sun 11am-4pm, thru June 17. 41 Ross Alley. www.cccsf.us

Pride edition of the monthly booksharing cocktail party. Bring your LGBT titles and trade them for new/ used ones. 7pm. 1727 Haight St. www.booksmith.com/Bindery

Thu 14 The Art of Rube Goldberg @ Contemporary Jewish Museum Art work and ephemera by the creative contraption illustrator and comic artist, thru July 8. 736 Mission St. https://www.thecjm.org

Audiovisual Archiving Workshop @ GLBT History Museum At this hands-on workshop, research resident Magnus Berg will discuss how to effectively handle, store and preserve audiovisual materials. $5. 7pm-9pm. $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Pride Comedy @ Ashkenaz, Berkeley Veteran gay and lesbian comics Karen Ripley, Irene Tu, Nick Leonard, Dom Gelin, and Lisa Geduldig perform at a special Pride night. $15-$20. 8pm. 1317 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley. http://www.ashkenaz.com

Mon 11 Expedition Reef @ Cali. Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth; Deep Reefs, Giants of Land and Sea, Gems and Minerals, and more. $20-$35. MonSat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am-5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

Rae Senarighi @ Strut Transcend, the artist’s exhibit of large portraits of various transgender people. Exhibit thru June. 470 Castro St. www.transpainter.com

Well-Strung @ Oasis The popular string quartet of hunky singers returns for two nights. $30$45. Also June 12. 7pm. 298 11th St. http://well-strung.com

Westward @ City Hall Exhibit of large-scale photos by women photographers focusing on West Coast communities. Thru May 2019. North Light Court, Ground Floor, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place. www.sfartscommission.org

Tue 12 Alexander Nowik @ Et Al Gallery The local artist’s paintings and drawings. Thru June 23. 620 Kearny St. http://etaletc.com/#/galleries/1/ shows/83

Hank Wilson Doc Fundraiser @ El Rio

Tue 12

Pride! @ Spark Arts

Divine Bodies @ Asian Art Museum New exhibit of sculptures and works about the Buddha, humans and their environments; thru July 29. Free$20. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. www.asianart.org

René Magritte: The Fifth Season @ SF MOMA New exhibit of 70 artworks by the master Surrealist painter; thru Oct. 28. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-6pm. 151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Respect: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom @ Oakland Museum New exhibit that visualizes the movement and sound of the music genre, with many live events through the run, including Friday night parties and performances. Free-$16. WedSun. Thru Aug. 12. 1000 Oak St., Oakland. www.museumca.org

Trans Resistance is Beautiful @ SF LGBT Center Group exhibit of original art from trans liberation activist-artists Micah Bazant, Chucha Marquez, Ethan X Parker, Art Twink, Amir Khadar, and others. Thru July 27. 1800 Market St. www.sfcenter.org

Film Screenings @ BAM/PFA Artistic and award-winning films, including documentaries about artists; ongoing. 2155 Center St., Berkeley. www.bampfa.org

Intimate Aphorisms @ Mission Cultural Center Exhibit of works by 15 queer Latinx artists. $5. Thru June 30. 2868 Mission St. missionculturalcenter.org

Samuel Miller @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza Signing by the Paradise Fears vocalist and debut author of the acclaimed YA novel, A Lite Too Bright. 7pm. 601 Van Ness Ave. https://www.booksinc.net

Shortlived VII @ PianoFight 48 plays by Bay Area theatre companies are performed in a 9-week competition for a $5K prize. Thru Aug. 25. $20-$40. 144 Taylor St. www.pianofight.com To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

Tom Ammiano, Karen Ripley and Laurie Bushman do stand-up, plus music from Blackberri, Joe Wicht and guests, at the fundraiser for Thanks to Hank , the film-inprogess by Bob Ostertag and Jeremy Rourke, about the late SF community HIV activist. $20-$100. 8pm-11pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Thu 14 LeeAnn DiCicco’s art at Intimate Aphorisms @ Mission Cultural Center

Lucy Jane Bledsoe @ Books Inc. Berkeley The local author discusses her new novel, The Evolution of Love, about a post-earthquake East Bay and its survivors. 7pm. 1491 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. www.booksinc.net

Thu 14

Samuel Miller @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza

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Fri 8 Queer Latin Dance Festival @ Various Venues, Oakland

RuPaul’s Drag Race @ Various Venues

Prism @ Qube Bar & Grill, San Mateo

Green Eggs and Bam! @ Flore

Watch Season 10 of the competing drag queens show, with yet again no Bay Area contestants (eyeroll). At Oasis, Beaux, Moby Dick, Oakland’s Port Bar, and other bars. May 31 with guest Eureka O’Hara. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

New weekly LGBT night at the Peninsula restaurant and bar. 8pm11:30pm. 4000 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. https://qubelyfe.com/

Drag shows and brunch at the central restaurant-café, with hostess Camille Tow. Shows at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Red Hots Burlesque @ The Stud

House Party @ Powerhouse

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The Country-Western line-dancing two-stepping dance event celebrates 20 years. Free thru April 29; $5 after. 5pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays. 550 Barneveld Ave. sundancesaloon.org

Nightlife Events June 7-14

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 7 Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Karaoke Dokey @ Flore Monty Quilla hosts the new weekly amateur singing night. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.com

Long Island Thursdays @ White Horse Bar, Oakland Get snockered with cheap drinks at the historic gay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

Mommie Queerest @ Oasis

Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Picante @ The Cafe Lulu and DJ Marco’s Latin night with sexy gogo guys. 9pm-2am. 2369 Market St. www.cafesf.com

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG 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

Peaches Christ and Heklina’s campy drag musical parody the Joan Crawford biopic. $27-$40. 7pm. Wed, Fri & Sat 7pm, thru June 9. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Rice Rockettes @ Lookout

The Monster Show @ The Edge

Royal Variety Show @ Moby Dick

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

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

Queen Dilly Dally’s weekly fun variety show of drag, music and even puppets. 9pm-11pm. 4049 18th St. www.queendillydally.com

Disco guru DJ Bus Station John spins grooves at the intimate retro music night. 10pm-2am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Yuhua Hamasaki @ The Café The RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 competitor performs at the Castro nightclub. 2369 Market St http://www.cafesf.com/

Fri 8 Beards & Booze @ The Edge

The saucy women’s burlesque show will titillate and tantalize. $10-$20. 7pm-9pm. 399 9th St. www.redhotsburlesque.com

Queer Latin Dance Festival @ Various Venues, Oakland Two-day first-ever festival of professional and social dancing, clases, competition and parties, with guests Andre Veloz, DJsMigz and Ron, & host Lady Forbidden. $25 (single event) - $175 (full pass). Trilliant Studios 130 Linden St., Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 9th St., Club BNB Nightclub 2120 Broadway. www.queerlatindancefestival.com

The Speakeasy @ Secret Location The ongoing ‘theatre, booze, gambling and retro costumes’ participatory experience takes you back to Prohibition-era debauchery. $50-$90. Fri & Sat thru June 16. https://www.thespeakeasysf.com

The weekly happy hour event for bearded guys and the beard fans who like them, with DJ Brian Kent. 5pm-9pm. 4149 18th St. www.edgesf.com

Boy Division @ Cat Club

Queer bands play live at the popular Mission bar; also DJ Olga. $5. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Cubcake @ Lone Star Saloon Bears and treats, plus DJ Spaz, at the popular monthly party. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Ellen Nicholas @ Hotel Rex The vocalist’s cabaret concerts of torch songs and swing numbers, with the Dave Austin Trio de Swing. $30$50. 8pm. 562 Sutter St. www.societycabaret.com

Fantasy Friday @ Divas Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Thursdays and Saturdays. Thursday karaoke night. $10. 10pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

Friday Night Live @ El Rio Enjoy the weekly queer and LGBTfriendly live acoustic concerts. $5pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Gaymer Night @ SF Eagle Johnny Rockityt hosts the monthly nerdfest of video and board games. $5-$10. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.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

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club includes drag shows, with gogo guys, drink specials and table reservations available. $10$20. 10pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Lick It @ Powerhouse Kink, leather, DJ Blackstone. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www. powerhousebar.com

DJs Dan, Nominus, Mason Bates and others play at the outdoor, headphones-only listening/dance party, with live Yoga sessions, Burning Man art cars, down-tempo grooves. $15-$25. 12pm-7pm. Great Highway at Balboa Ave. hushconcerts.com

Lips and Lashes Brunch @ Lookout Weekly show with soul, funk and Motown grooves hosted by Carnie Asada, with DJs Becky Knox and Pumpkin Spice. The yummy brunch menu starts at 12pm, with the show at 1:30pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Lobos Fundraiser @ Club BnB, Oakland The East Bay gay soccer team raises funds for their trip to Paris Gay Games in August. $20-$30 includes drinks and raffles. 6pm-9pm. 2120 Broadway. www.club-bnb.com Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes. DJ MC2 plays grooves. June 9 is a Janelle Monae tribute. $10-$20. 10pm3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Drag show with DJ Jaffeth. $5. 9pm-2am. 43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Copy Slut, Homobiles @ El Rio

Hushfest @ Ocean Beach

Mother @ Oasis

La Bomba Latina @ Club OMG

Countdown to Pride, the New Wave dance night, celebrates Erasure with guest DJ Bus Station John, plus host/resident Xander spinning Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell, Bronski Beat and more. $5-$8. 9:30pm3am. 1190 Folsom St. www.sfcatclub.com

Underwear Nigh at the groovy house music party, with DJ Philip Grasso and Mohammad Vahidy. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. powerhousebar.com

Pound Puppy @ SF Eagle

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Tygapaw @ The Stud

Uhaul SF @ Oasis Dree and Jess the Ripper DJ the popular women’s dance party. $15. 10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Vibe Fridays @ Club BnB, Oakland House music and cocktails, with DJs Shareef Raheim-Jihad and Ellis Lindsey. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway. (510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Vivvy’s Grand Opening @ The Stud Blush, the retro queen night, hosted by VivvyAnne Forevermore. $5-$10. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Sat 9 Bootie @ DNA Lounge Resident DJs and guests spin at the mash-up DJ dance party, with Adrian A, Mysterious D; four rooms of different sounds and multiple DJs; The Monster Drag Show hosted by Sue Casa. $10-$15 and up. 9:30pm-3am. 375 11th St. www.bootiesf.com

Bounce @ Lookout Dance music with a view at the Castro bar. 9pm-2am. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

La Bota Loca @ Club 21, Oakland Banda Los Shakas performs live at the LGBT Latinx night. $10. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. club21oakland.com

Disenchanted @ Public Works Glamcocks gay dance party, with a dark fairy tale theme and dress code; DJs Andrew Gibbons, Lee Decker and Cat Denton. $15-$20. 10pm-3am. 61 Erie st. http://www.publicsf.com

Primo (Club Lonely) is the featured guest DJ (with resident Kevin O’Connor) at the groovy cruisy pups, cubs, queers and bears night. $10. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Soul Party @ Elbo Room DJs Lucky, Paul, and Phengren Osward spin ‘60s soul 45s. $5-$10 ($5 off in semi-formal attire). 10pm-2am. 647 Valencia St. 552-7788. www.elbo.com

Studio 5’4” @ Lone Star Saloon Sergio Fedasz, plus Omnibot and Patty Meltdown, play grooves at the bear bar’s disco party for short guys and their fans. Pocket gay gogo studs! Limbo pole! Shot in the City photo booth! $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison st. www.lonestarsf.com

Tenth Anniversary @ Contemp. Jewish Museum Celebrate a decade at the museum, with Jessie Square illuminated, DJ King Most, piano bar, lounge, and noshes; black tie creative attire. $90 and up. 5pm (VIP reception and seated dinner) General 9pm -11pm. 736 Mission St. https://thecjm.org/

Trans Pride Benefit Show @ Laughing Monk Brewery Polythene Pam, Soft Vowel Sounds, Mya Byrns and The Secret Emchy Society perform at a benefit for the Trans March at the spacious brewery. 6pm-10pm. 3221-1439 Egbert Ave. www.laughingmonkbrewing.com

Tygapaw @ The Stud Molly House Records presents the Brooklyn-based eclectic dance DJ, with DJs DavOmakesbeats and 8Ulentina. $10-$15. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Writers with Drinks @ The Make Out Room Charlie Jane Anders hosts the popular drinks and literary-storytelling night, this month with Chandler Klang Smith, Joanna Angel, Adam Becker, Molly Sanchez, Vernon Keeve III and Nitasha Tiku. $5-$20. 7:30pm9:30pm. 3225 22nd St.

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Trivia Night @ Port Bar, Oakland Cranny hosts a big gay trivia night at the new East Bay bar; drinks specials and prizes. 7:30pm. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

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Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femme and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm-2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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Sun 10 Apocrypha @ SF Eagle DJ Spazatron’s dark rock night, after beer bust (3pm-6pm). $7. 7pm-12am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Blessed @ Port Bar, Oakland Carnie Asada’s fun drag night with Carnie’s Angels Mahlae Balenciaga and Au Jus, plus DJ Ion. 2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Dirty Musical Sundays @ The Edge Sing along at the popular musical theatre night, with a bawdy edge; also Mondays and Wednesdays (but not dirty). 7pm-2am. 2 for 1 cocktail, 5pm-closing. 4149 18th St. at Collingwood. www.edgesf.com

Domingo De Escandal @ Club OMG Weekly Latin night with drag shows hosted by Vicky Jimenez and DJ Carlitos. (Comedy Open Mic 5:30pm). 7pm-2am. 43 6th St. clubomgsf.com

Drunk Drag Broadway @ Oasis Celebrate The Tony Awards with the drag performing crew. $10-$20. 5pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

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

PoleSexual @ The Stud Sexy acrobatic burlesque and vaudeville-style acts, plus dancing with DJ Dakota Pendent. $5-$10. 7pm-2am. 399 9th St. studsf.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room The weekly brunch and drag show with a panoramic view. $45. 11am, show at noon; 1:30pm, show at 2:30pm. 450 Powell St. in Union Square. 395-8595. www.starlightroomsf.com

Mon 11 Epic Karaoke @ White Horse, Oakland Mondays and Tuesdays popular weekly sing-along night. No cover. 8:30pm-1am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. whitehorsebar.com

Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with host Beth Bicoastal, plus prizes, local celeb judges, and $2 draft beer. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Munro’s at Midnight @ Midnight Sun Drag night with Mercedez Munro. No cover. 10pm. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. www.midnightsunsf.com

Pillows @ Powerhouse Glamamore’s crafts and creative drag night. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht. 9pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Club 88 @ Flore New weekly piano bar sing-along night with alternating hosts Maria Konner, Kitten on the Keys and Alan Choy. 9pm-12am. 2298 Market St. www.flore415.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

Dick at Nite @ Moby Dick Grace Towers’ weekly drag show at the fun local bar. 9pm-12am. 4049 18th St. http://www.mobydicksf.com/

Gigante @ Port Bar, Oakland

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

Juanita MORE! and DJ Frisco Robbie’s new weekly event, with Latin, Hip Hop and House music, salacious gogo gals and guys and a drag show. $5. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portoakland.com

Well-Strung @ Oasis

Karaoke Night @ Club 1220, Walnut Creek

Underwear Night @ 440

The popular string quartet of hunky singers returns for two nights. $30$45. Also June 12. 7pm. 298 11th St. http://well-strung.com/

Tue 12 Hank Wilson Doc Fundraiser @ El Rio Tom Ammiano, Karen Ripley and Laurie Bushman do stand-up, plus music from Blackberri, Joe Wicht and guests, at the fundraiser for Thanks to Hank, the film-in-progess by Bob Ostertag and Jeremy Rourke, about the late SF community HIV activist. $20-$100. 8pm-11pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge Weekly drag and variety show, with live acts and lip-synching divas, plus DJed grooves. $5. Shows at 10:30pm & 12am. 133 Turk St. at Taylor. www.auntcharlieslounge.com

Hysteria Comedy @ Martuni’s Open mic for women and queer comics, with host Irene Tu. 6pm-8pm. 4 Valencia St.

Naked Night @ Nob Hill Theatre Strip down with the strippers at the clothing-optional night. $20. 9pm. 729 Bush St. at Powell. 397-6758. www.thenobhilltheatre.com

The Sea And Cake @ Great American Music Hall The pop music masters performs songs from their 11 albums; L.A. Takedown opens. $18-$43 (with dinner). 8pm. 859 O’Farrell St. www.slimspresents.com

Thu 7

Sing along at the East Bar gay bar; dance nights on weekends, and drag shows, too. 9pm-1am. 1220 Pine St., Walnut Creek. www.club1220.com

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly fun night at the Bernal Heights bar includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover. 7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. www. wildsidewest.com

Pan Dulce @ Beaux Drag divas, gogo studs, DJed Latin grooves and drinks. 9pm-2am (free before 10:30pm). 2344 Market St. www.clubpapi.com

Queeraoke @ El Rio Dulce de Leche and Rahni NothingMore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and Thee Pristine Condition perform, plus karaoke. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Thu 14 Buffy Sing-Along @ Lone Star Saloon Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical scenes sing-along, with MC Jimmy Swear, DJ Suppositori Spelling, drag, trivia and vampire-slayin’ fun! 9pm1am. 1354 Harrison St. lonestarsf.com

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com Want your nightlife event listed? Email events@ebar.com, at least two weeks before your event. Event photos welcome.

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t’s rare in porn that you meet someone who’s so fully integrated with who he is, where he is and how he wants to get there. In the field of sexuality, as it is made manifest in pornography, Mr. Davilla is a transcendent figure. As a Latino man, he has withstood the shifting winds of preconceived notions of what a gay, Latino man should be past the age of 40, because bottom line, a stud is a stud is a stud. The Nob Hill Theatre knows one when it sees one. With his equally bodacious performance partner, Dolph Dietrich, there will be a connection that puts Gay Pride 2018 into The Zone. Cornelius Washington: Congratulations on your Nob Bill Theatre debut. How did you celebrate when you heard the news? Brian Davilla: I first told my partner who was stoked to hear. He will be in the audience (and he’s just made his porn debut). Then, I contacted Dolph. We are really excited to be a part of Pride Month. Are you aware of the theatre’s rich cultural history? It’s quite an establishment, isn’t it? We know it as a destination spot for adult industry entertainment and porn, but it was an independent theater at one time and owned by Joe DiMaggio at one time, I hear. What will you and performance partner Dolph Dietrich do on the NHT stage that’ll show ‘em all how it’s done? Dolph and I have had a year of intersecting paths. I’ve directed him on a shoot recently. So, now at NHT, we get to connect one-to-one. What have your previous live porn performance experiences been like? I’ve performed at bathhouses across the country and for Magnitude here in SF. There really is something exhilarating about performing with the audience so close to the action.

What’s surprised you most about the porn industry? How quickly the economy of the industry and technology has changed the way the public consumes content. I kind of miss going to the neighborhood video store to “shop behind the curtain.” You cover the waterfront of porn. To what do you attribute your amazingly diverse and successful career? Relationships come first. I have met and stayed friends with some pretty incredible people in my ten years in porn. I’ve also been open to moving with the changes in the industry and trying to stay open to shifting public interest. In your career (so far), have you ever been intimidated by a scene partner? Oddly enough, my most challenging scenes were with my then ex-husband, Shay Michaels. You would presume obvious chemistry, but I really had to really commit to performing to the needs of the director. In your time in the industry, you’ve seen plenty of changes. What do you think will be the next big gay porn trends, and where do you see yourself in them? We are already experiencing a shift to models creating their own content to the customer versus studio-directed porn. I do believe that we continue to see live shows grown in interest, because models want to be more accessible. And that’s why Dolph and I will be at the Nob Hill Theatre. What do you discuss with scene partners before shooting? (Laughs) Probably everything except porn. On-set chemistry starts with connection. Once that exists, then it’s all about your director and listening and delivering. How have your fans responded to your bareback scenes? I have previously worked for condom-only studios. I made the

shift to bareback about six years ago. most is the curious ways we use to My fans have been really positive connect with each other; a common about both condom and bareback language, familiar energies and conwork. Ultimately, as a performer, I joined needs. It’s been exciting. feel a responsibility to communicate You’ve appeared in your share a supportive, educated and nonof leather scenes and festivals. judgemental position on this issue. What’s your reaction to San FranWhat’s the best part of being a cisco establishing an LGBTQ and mature porn stud in the LGBTQ Leather Cultural District? community right now? It’s certainly a question of incluThe best part about maturing siveness and common understandin this industry is to let the masses ing. Yet, establishing a cultural disknow that we can be confident, sexy trict to accord protections for such a and humble about it all. rich and important extension of our community’s identity is important. What advice do you have for As a Latino man, what stereoother mature men who want to types, stigmas and discriminaenter the porn business? tions have you encountered in the I typically shy away from giving business and in life? advice about entering the industry. I’ve really been fortunate to have It’s such a personal decision, that I not been the subject of stigma and encourage people to reflect on their discrimination as a Latino. I think needs and listen to their intuition. addressing ageism in the industry Compare sex in your 20s with sex in your 40s. With age comes new ways of looking at your impulses. In my 40s, at the end of my day, I don’t know if I want sex or a burrito. I guess what I mean by that is that you obsess about sex less and food more (Laughs). Compare sex with other men in their 40s with sex with younger men, professionally and privately. Hands down, I’m all about the sexual energy of sexy and confident mature guys. Let’s face it, us old guys have had more times at bat! What led you to begin escorting? What do you love most about the profession? For many porn actors, escorting is an extension of Dolph Dietrich performs with Brian Davilla performing. What I love the

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Fundraising is a Drag @ LevyDance

he sixth annual festive fundraiser for LevyDance, the local dance company celebrating its 16th anniversary, featured a ‘Not So Sweet Sixteen’ theme, a runway full of fabulous drag queens (Mahlae Balenciaga, Anna Rexie, Derek Rushin, Gypsy Munro and Nicki Jizz), and some groovy dancing by company members, all at their studio at 19 Heron Street. Upcoming events include studio salon shows on June 23 & 24. https://levydance.org/ See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.