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Out men dominate LGBTQ CA leg races by Matthew S. Bajko

t was a good night Tuesday for out male legislative candidates in California. Of the dozen LGBTQ contenders who survived their primary contests, just three were female. Two more female candidates are hoping the counting of additional ballots will lead to their advancing to the November general election, while the campaigns of three male and one nonbinary candidate are now over. Based on the results of the June 7 races, it appears the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus could grow from its current eight members to having a record 15 members, at least, in the next legislative session. In the East Bay race for the open 20th Assembly District seat, gay Dublin City Councilmember Shawn Kumagai was in second place with 25% of the primary vote, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday. Should his standing hold then he is poised to compete in the fall against labor leader Liz Ortega, who is straight and landed in first place with 31.1% of the vote. Gay nurse and union leader Jennifer Esteen was in fourth place with 20.8% of the vote behind Republican Joseph Grcar, who was in third with 23.1% of the vote. The quartet was vying to succeed Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), who opted against seeking reelection and endorsed Ortega in the Alameda County contest. Should Kumagai win the seat in the fall, the Navy veteran would be the first LGBTQ legislator of Japanese descent in Sacramento. Esteen on Wednesday was holding out hope that her bid to be the first out Black female to serve in the Legislature was not over. In a tweet thread Wednesday Esteen noted that “over half the ballots” still need to be counted and was waiting to see if the additional vote tally would boost her standing in the race. “When those numbers come in from the registrar of voters we’ll be watching and counting. And until then, conserve your energy, refresh, renew, reinvigorate because Team Esteen will be calling on you to join the movement and keep building power for a California that works for all,” she wrote. See page 16 >>

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Readying AIDS quilt for park display

early 3,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be displayed this weekend, June 11-12, in Robin Williams Meadow in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. On Monday, June 6, five of the panels were temporarily hung from the Mayor’s balcony at City Hall, and Kory Powell-McCoy took a selfie joined by volunteers and supporters, including quilt co-founder Gert McMullin, second from right, and gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, right. This weekend’s

free, public installation takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days and is being overseen by the National AIDS Memorial Grove, which took over stewardship of the quilt in 2019. This year marks the quilt’s 35th anniversary and the upcoming event is the largest exhibit of the quilt in about a decade, and the biggest ever in San Francisco. For more information, go to https://www.aidsmemorial.org/ or see the Bay Area Reporter’s coverage at https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//314150.

Voters recall SF DA Boudin by Eric Burkett

ithin 45 minutes of the polls closing, progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who spent half of his two years in office battling recall efforts, had lost his effort to keep his job. Proposition H, which aimed to recall the district attorney, passed with 60% of the vote, according to unofficial returns. See page 16 >>

Gay CA insurance czar Lara survives primary challenge by Matthew S. Bajko

ay California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara survived an intraparty challenge in his primary race Tuesday to advance to the general election in November where he could be running against a Republican opponent. Because several other out candidates did not fare as well in their primary races, Lara is expected to remain California’s lone LGBTQ statewide leader should he win reelection. His election four years ago marked the first time an LGBTQ person had been elected to statewide office in the Golden State. But following a rocky first term beset by ethical scandals dating back to 2019, Lara faced not only a challenge this year from several Republicans but also from Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-Greenbrae), who ran attack ads against Lara that painted him as unfit to remain the state’s insurance czar. Yet the power of incumbency and the strength of the Democratic vote, as Lara had secured the endorsement of the California Democratic Party, appear to have helped the Latino politician from Los Angeles County fend off Levine. Lara took first place in the primary with 37% of the vote, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday. “I want to thank California Primary voters for sending me to the General Election by a 2:1 margin! I look forward to continuing to build on the important work we’ve done for consumers,”

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Gay state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara survived a primary race and will advance to the November election.

Lara, a former state legislator, tweeted. He could be facing in the fall election Republican Robert Howell, who was in second place with 17.8% of the vote as of Wednesday. As for Levine, he was in third place with 16.8% slightly ahead of the fourth place finisher, GOPer Greg Conlon, who had 16.5% of the primary vote. In a statement released on election night, when he was in second place, Levine expressed optimism that he would advance to the general election ballot to compete head-to-head with Lara.

“We’ll be watching the results closely over the coming days, and if we are fortunate to make it through to the general election, we look forward to consolidating support behind our campaign, continuing to make the case for change, and winning a victory for California consumers in the fall,” stated Levine. As for transgender nurse Veronika Fimbres, a Green Party member who also ran in the primary for insurance commissioner, she received 2% of the vote based on the unofficial returns. The San Francisco resident was the first known transgender statewide office seeker to make it onto a primary election ballot in California, as well as the first person living with HIV to do so.

Other out candidates fall short

Gay Los Angeles city controller Ron Galperin fell short in his bid to be elected the state’s controller. He landed in fifth place with 10.7% of the vote. Lesbian Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who left the Republican Party and ran as an independent to be the state’s attorney general, came in fourth place in her primary contest with 7.5% of the vote. The Democratic incumbent, Rob Bonta, who was appointed to the position, landed in first place with 54.5% of the vote. See page 2 >>

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Out candidates headed to runoffs in supe races by Cynthia Laird

GBTQ representation on Bay Area county supervisor boards could increase dramatically now that three out candidates are headed to November runoffs in Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Mateo counties as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote. Meanwhile, a gay man’s effort to be elected Contra Costa County clerkrecorder fell short. In Alameda County, lesbian Rebecca Kaplan finished first for the open District 3 seat that that includes the cities of Alameda, San Leandro, a portion of Oakland, and the unincorporated communities of San Lorenzo, Hayward Acres, and a portion of Ashland. If elected this fall, she would be the first out member of the Board of Supervisors. Kaplan has served on the Oakland City Council since 2008 representing the at-large seat and is its only out member. She decided to seek the supervisor seat following the death last November of longtime supervisor Wilma Chan, who was struck by a driver while walking her dog in Alameda. According to unofficial returns, Kaplan leads with 6,405 votes, or 38.98%. Former Alameda city councilmember Lena Tam was in second

with 4,935 votes, or 30.03%. The two will face each other in November. The other two candidates, former Oakland school board member David Kakishiba and former San Leandro city councilmember Surlene Grant finished with 18.48% and 12.52% of the vote, respectively. Kaplan said that she and her campaign are “mobilizing for victory in November.” “I am incredibly honored and thankful to the voters of Alameda County for our strong first place finish in the primary election for supervisor,” she texted the Bay Area Reporter Wednesday morning. “With the significant challenges facing community health, and the right wing attacks on our rights from the Supreme Court and others, it is more important than ever to bring dedicated pro-public health, pro-LGBT, and prochoice leadership to our county.” In Contra Costa County, gay Pleasant Hill City Councilmember Ken Carlson finished first for the open District 4 seat, which spans the cities of Concord, Pleasant Hill, Clayton, and parts of Walnut Creek. According to unofficial returns, Carlson received 7,471 votes, or 27.7%. BART board director Debora Allen was in second, with 6.902 votes,

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Supervisor candidates Rebecca Kaplan in Alameda County, left, Ken Carlson in Contra Costa County, and Laura Parmer-Lohan in San Mateo County have all advanced to November runoff races

or 25.61%. But third place finisher Carlyn Obringer was close behind, with 6,513 votes, or 24.17%. There are still more votes to be counted. Two other candidates, Roxanne Garza and Ed Birsan, appeared to be

out of the running, finishing with 13.28% and 9.22 %, respectively. Carlson served as a police officer for 29 years, retiring as a sergeant in Concord. Reached Wednesday morning, Carlson said he was “a little relieved.” “I feel humbled,” he said in a brief phone interview. “I was a little nervous going in, but coming out number one gets momentum.” Over in San Mateo County on the Peninsula, lesbian San Carlos City Councilmember Laura Parmer-Lohan is in second place for the open District 3 supervisor seat. The district sprawls from the coastal towns along Highway 1 to the suburban cities of Atherton, San Carlos, and parts of Menlo Park and Belmont. The top finisher, according to unofficial returns, was Menlo Park City Councilmember Ray Mueller, who received 5.341 votes, or 35.81%. Parmer-Lohan garnered 4,555 votes, or 30.54%. Two other candidates, Virginia Kirby and Steven Booker, received 18.65% and 15.01%, respectively. “I feel fantastic about our positive campaign on my vision to address climate change and the unique needs of working moms and families. The response from voters has been terrific and I am excited about how the vote is trending!” Parmer-Lohan tweeted Wednesday. “The results show voters want someone who takes leadership in addressing the devastating impacts of climate change. I look forward to further election updates and thank District 3 voters for participating in this important election.” In a brief phone call Wednesday, Parmer-Lohan touted her endorsements of fellow supervisors, including the current D3 occupant Don Horsley, and former supervisors Rich Gordon, a gay man who went on to serve in the state Assembly, and Ted Lempert. She also said she’s been endorsed by District 2 Supervisor Carole

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Come November, he is likely to compete against GOPer Nathan Hochman, who was in second place with 18.5% as of Wednesday. Efforts by Bonta’s supporters to boost Republican lawyer Eric Early’s chances in the primary appear to have fallen short, as he was in third place with 16.8% according to the unofficial returns. After being appointed as the state’s junior U.S. senator, Democrat Alex Padilla easily won his special election Tuesday to serve out the remainder of his term by capturing 54.3% of the vote. He was also the first place finisher in his primary race for a full sixyear term with 53.5% of the vote and will run in November against GOPer Mark P. Meuser, who took second

Groom, the only woman currently on the board. “I’m proud of the district-wide grassroots campaign I’m running,” she added, noting the “unique diversity of coastal and inland areas” in D3.

Clerk-recorder candidate falls short

Devin Murphy, a gay Black man who was elected to the Pinole City Council two years ago, decided to run for the open county clerk-recorder seat, which oversees elections. But Murphy came up short, finishing in third place. Two candidates are expected to advance to a November runoff: Kristin Connelly, who received 34,049 votes, or 34.42%, and Vicki Gordon, who received 24,152 votes, or 24.41%. Murphy garnered 20,371 votes, or 20.59%, while Nick Spinner, a bi pansexual man, received 20,359 votes, or 20.58%. In the closing days of the campaign, Gordon was accused of stealing Murphy’s campaign signs. According to an editorial in the Mercury News, Gordon apologized but the editorial board wrote that her explanation “doesn’t make sense.” Apparently, Gordon was confronted by the Pleasant Hill homeowner supporting Murphy, apologized, and left the sign. She explained that she thought it was in a public right of way. “Gordon’s explanation doesn’t make sense,” the editorial board wrote. “We’ve looked at a photo of the sign placement. It’s hard to imagine anyone mistaking the location as being in the public right of way.” While the paper did not mention it was Murphy’s signs that were stolen, Equality California political director Tom Temprano tweeted that news, adding that Murphy was the only Black and LGBTQ candidate in the race. Early Wednesday morning, Murphy tweeted, “So much to say, but for now just two words – Thank You.” t place with 14.3% of the primary vote. Republican Lanhee Chen now has the best chance of any GOP candidate in several years to be elected to a statewide office. He took first place in the controller primary race with 37% of the vote. But he will face a fierce Democratic opponent in Malia Cohen, a former San Francisco supervisor and police commissioner. Now a member of the state Board of Equalization, Cohen secured second place in the controller primary race with 21.3% of the vote. California Treasurer Fiona Ma, also a former San Francisco supervisor, appears headed to reelection in November despite accusations she improperly treated her staff by making them share hotel rooms with her. See page 17 >>

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SF Pride officials, police step up

e’re glad that San Francisco Pride officials and the San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance reached a compromise that will allow LGBTQ peace officers and other first responders to proudly march in the June 26 parade, albeit with only the leaders and command staff in uniform. At a time when so much of the country is polarized it was heartening to see the two sides come together, apparently largely with the help of gay small business owner Manny Yekutiel, who met with SF Pride leaders and SF Pride Alliance members at his eponymous cafe in the Mission district. According to our reporting, the agreement was reached shortly before Mayor London Breed’s ceremonial Pride flag-raising ceremony June 2, giving her some good news to announce after leadership of the city’s LGBTQ cultural districts all said they would skip the event because Breed had stated she would not march in the parade if police were not allowed to march in uniform. (The Transgender District sent representatives after it became aware that a deal had been reached.) It’s important to note that this was not a new policy – we reported in the fall of 2020 that SF Pride had decided that uniformed San Francisco Police Department personnel would not be allowed to march in uniform in 2021. But the parade was canceled last year due to the COVID pandemic, meaning that the parade’s return this year is the first time the policy is being tested. The reasoning behind SF Pride’s decision, according to its leaders, was that the organization was “disappointed and frustrated” following a 2019 incident when police used force against anti-police and anti-corporate protesters who blocked the parade route for almost an hour. (One of the protesters, Taryn Saldivar, alleging violations of their constitutional rights, battery, and false arrest and imprisonment, later sued the City of San Francisco and the police department, receiving a settlement of $190,000 in September 2021.)

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SF Pride officials, now that they’ve agreed to the compromise for this year, need to explain to the public what their plans are going forward. More importantly, they need to tell people what they can expect if protests occur at this year’s parade, which seems likely. In a June 1 statement, the police department’s Pride Alliance said that it was parade organizers who called upon police to break up that 2019 protest. SFPD provides security at the parade – which was unaffected by the uniform policy and subsequent compromise – and SF Pride needs to be clear about what its current safety plan is. While we understand some details might not be public, SF Pride leaders should at the least inform people about the basic security parameters. The modern Pride parades were born out of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. LGBTQ patrons, tired of homophobic and transphobic treatment, fought back in what became a defining moment for the nascent community. San Francisco had the Compton’s Cafete-

ria riots three years earlier, in August 1966, when fed up trans patrons fought back against police harassment. And even after Stonewall, there remained a tense and, at times, violent relationship between LGBTQs and police in San Francisco. The White Night riots in May 1979 and the infamous Castro Sweep a decade later attest to that. Still, many police departments across the country have been positively impacted by the addition of LGBTQ officers, including members of command staff and even chiefs of police. These community members have worked to change the culture of law enforcement organizations from within. In San Francisco, they have provided wider cultural competency, as the pride alliance stated. Many police officers – LGBTQ and straight, in cities across the country – were shocked themselves by the brutal police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020. Locally, a nonbinary SFPD officer even faced disciplinary action when they were reprimanded for wearing earrings on the job while kneeling in solidarity with protesters outside Mission Station. Fortunately, that outdated and transphobic dress code was changed by the Police Commission a few months later – yet another example of positive change coming out of a bad situation. Not everyone is happy about the compromise between SF Pride and the police, just as the original stalemate upset a lot of other people. But it’s important to put this in a larger context than a protest at the parade three years ago. SF Pride should be welcoming to all. LGBTQ officers and other first responders have marched in San Francisco’s Pride parade for decades. SF Pride officials and the SFPO Pride Alliance deserve credit for reaching an agreement. t

With skyrocketing STI rates, LGBTQ+ Californians need a pathway to equitable health care by Tami Martin and Nomsa Khalfani

s COVID-19 cases are back on the rise, California and the U.S. continue to face another public health epidemic that is going in the wrong direction – sexually transmitted infections. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released data that reported nearly 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in 2020 nationwide. California has the most reported cases of STIs across the nation, and San Francisco has the unfortunate distinction of having the third-highest STI rate in the state. Nearly 350,000 Californians contracted an STI in 2019 – a 30-year high. In recent years, gonorrhea rates have increased by 211% and chlamydia rates by 56%. Since 2010, there has been an alarming rise in syphilis and congenital syphilis rates, with increases of 265% and 600%, respectively. The San Francisco Department of Public Health reported that by the end of February 2022 the city’s gonorrhea cases were up 55% over the same time the previous year. When left undetected and untreated, STIs can lead to serious and long-term health complications including infertility, cancer, and blindness. Across the country, state lawmakers and politicians have advanced a historic number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills and policies, with roughly half of them targeting transgender folks. While states move to restrict and discriminate against our LGBTQ+ communities, California has the opportunity to align with our state’s values by protecting and expanding health equity for our most impacted community members. Over the past year, California took meaningful legislative action to expand access to STI screening, testing, and treatment. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) co-authored Senate Bill 306 with Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) to expand and increase access to remote STI care for LGBTQ+ Californians. The measure passed last October and became law in January. Additionally, last year’s budget significantly boosted investment in local health jurisdiction capacity to enhance STI prevention activities. Despite this progress, we still have a long way to go to address the strain of STI rates on our public health and the disproportionate impact on LGBTQ+ Californians, which is caused by a range of factors that include economic disparities, stigma, high rates of incarceration, racial

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segregation, racism, and lack of access to health care and community support. According to the California STD Control Branch, men who have sex with men (MSM) made up over 50% of reported male gonorrhea cases in 2017. MSM living with HIV are 11 times more likely to contract syphilis. The new CDC data show that rates of gonorrhea have increased over 110% since hitting a historic low in 2009, with a third of cases experienced by gay and bisexual men. A bill introduced this session by Pan addresses this health inequity, and makes STI care more accessible for LGBTQ+ patients with low-incomes and individuals without health insurance to use STI services through the Family PACT (https://familypact.org/) program. It would also allow other uninsured incomeeligible patients with coverage gaps and people with confidentiality concerns to obtain STI care. The measure, the STI Prevention + Treatment Fairness Act (SB 1234), recently cleared the state Senate and will be considered by the Assembly Health Committee in the coming weeks. Family PACT has a network of more than 2,200 culturally competent, qualified providers and is a resource for high quality, nonjudgmental contraceptive and STI care for income-eligible Californians. However, the program is restricted to individuals at-risk for experiencing an unintended pregnancy. Many low-income and uninsured LGBTQ+ individuals are excluded from

Family PACT services and benefits, and the state lacks an alternative program to serve LGBTQ+ patients who need no-cost STI care. LGBTQ+ patients deserve to receive the same level of dignity and expertise of care from trusted providers. Expanding Family PACT would create a more equitable health system and maximize a program that offers a cost-effective pathway to STI coverage, rather than creating a separate program to meet the STI prevention and treatment needs of LGBTQ+ patients. In addition to advancing SB 1234 through the legislative process, state leaders must also invest in implementation through the state budget. Our state spends approximately $1 billion annually on health costs associated with STIs. t Tami Martin is the legislative director at Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization that works to achieve full LGBTQ+ equality by electing pro-equality leaders, passing proequality legislation, and fighting for LGBTQ+ civil rights and social justice in the courtroom. Nomsa Khalfani, Ph.D., is the chief strategy and equity officer at Essential Access Health, (https://www.essentialaccess.org/) which champions and promotes quality sexual and reproductive health care for all and leads the STI Prevention Center, a leading resource for best practices in STI testing and treatment.

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Out Catholics vie for SF supervisor seat by Matthew S. Bajko

urged from their home country of Ethiopia following a Marxist takeover of the east African country in 1974, the parents of Honey Mahogany found refuge in San Francisco. Unable to continue his medical school studies, her father became a taxi driver to make ends meet and afford sending Mahogany and her siblings to local Catholic schools. The St. Gabriel Catholic Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory alumna grew up in the Outer Sunset and attended mass at St. Gabriel Church a few blocks from her family’s apartment. It was where her parents married and where she and her siblings were baptized. “Fun fact, my family is devoutly Catholic; pre-Vatican II Catholic,” noted Mahogany. “We were brought up to be very, very, very good Catholics.” Mahogany made a point to discuss her family’s religious leanings at her June 2 kickoff of her campaign to be elected in November to the District 6 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors because those roots and the lessons her father imparted onto her at an early age are behind why she is now seeking the elected office. “I am still a good Catholic girl at heart. I say that as only a transgender, pro-choice, drag queen can,” Mahogany, 39, told the several hundred people who had joined her to officially launch her supervisorial bid. If elected Mahogany, the current chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, would be the city’s first transgender supervisor and first out Black supervisor. Mahogany would also be the first queer and nonbinary supervisor in San Francisco and the first drag queen elected as a supervisor. She credits her Catholic upbringing for leading her to first pursue a career in social work. Mahogany earned a master’s in social work from UC Berkeley and spent two decades working in the field here in the Bay Area. “I’ve spent decades working to get homeless folks off the streets and into care, getting people struggling with addiction into recovery, and getting people who have committed crimes on a path to accountability,” said Mahogany. For the last four years Mahogany had worked for former District 6 supervisor Matt Haney, serving as his chief of staff this past year. He re-

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Honey Mahogany spoke to supporters at her kick-off event for the District 6 supervisor seat June 2

signed from the seat after being elected in April to the city’s 17th Assembly District seat. Although Mahogany had sought to be appointed to fill the vacancy, Mayor London Breed instead chose Matt Dorsey to serve out the remainder of Haney’s term through the end of the year. Dorsey, 57, a gay man living with HIV, had been serving as chief spokesman for San Francisco Police Chief William Scott. He is now seeking to be elected to a full four-year term on the November ballot. Like Mahogany, Dorsey grew up one of three siblings in a Catholic household. Raised in Massachusetts by his Irish and Italian parents, Dorsey is a practicing Catholic to this day. He is a longtime parishioner at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the LGBTQ Castro district. He asked Father Donal Godfrey, the author of the 2007 book “Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish,” to do the invocation at his supervisorial swearing-in ceremony last month that doubled as an unofficial kickoff for his own supervisorial campaign. “I think spirituality is part of my recovery journey,” Dorsey, who is in recovery for alcohol and drug addictions, told the Bay Area Reporter in May. “I have quarreled with the Catholic Church since childhood. I have accepted I am going to have quarrels with any religious tradition I seek to be a part of.” Despite the ongoing division over LGBTQ issues within the larger Cath-

olic Church, Dorsey told the B.A.R. he has felt embraced at Most Holy Redeemer since he started regularly attending mass there in 2004. For three years he served on its parish council. “I am really lucky to be part of a spiritual community at Most Holy Redeemer that has an incredible history with our community going back to the AIDS epidemic,” said Dorsey, noting that members of the church early on began an AIDS ministry. Unlike Dorsey, Mahogany is an infrequent church attendee these days. “I consider myself a black sheep Catholic,” Mahogany told the B.A.R., adding that she will also describe herself as a recovered Catholic. “I say that too. It’s a toss up. I still practice – not often.” Not since gay former supervisor Tom Ammiano served on the board in the 1990s and 2000s has there been an out member of the board who’s Catholic upbringing and faith has been so entwined with their political career. Over the years Ammiano has engaged in headline-grabbing feuds with local Catholic Church leaders, while more recently he generated global news attention when he finally received his varsity letter in track that his Catholic high school in New Jersey had denied giving to him 64 years ago. Ammiano’s successor to his District 9 seat, gay former supervisor David Campos, was also raised Catholic but was only a practicing member of the church “to some extent,” as he told the B.A.R. in 2012. Appointed District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, a bisexual Latina raised Catholic, ended up only serving a year. She lost her bid for a full term in 2012. This Friday is the filing deadline for candidates wanting to seek the District 6 seat or any of the other even-numbered supervisor seats that will also be on the November 8 ballot. The city’s other current gay member of the board, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is Jewish, is seeking a second four-year term this fall. Also mounting a campaign for the District 6 supervisor seat is Ms. Billie Cooper, a longtime transgender advocate in the city. But with either Mahogany or Dorsey expected to win the contest, it is near guaranteed that an out Catholic will be serving inside City Hall for years to come.t

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Letters >> LGBTQ officers broke barriers

I have an issue with SF Pride not letting San Francisco Police Department LGBTQ officers wear their uniforms while marching as a contingent in the parade. These are LGBTQ officers who are not only gay but have consciously chosen their profession as a SFPD officer. We, as a community, have fought for decades to be able to be open and proud within departments of government like the police, firefighters, sheriffs, and other government agencies as well as elected officials. To disrespect these groundbreaking folks who have broken barriers in the name of the LGBTQ community is just not right. I stand with Mayor London Breed and all those who will boycott this move. Our LGBTQ officers are not the people who are committing violence against our community or sister communities of color and other ethnicities, and to punish them in this way is reprehensible. Audrey Joseph San Francisco/Palm Springs, California

Shame on SF Pride board’s decision

I’m 84 years old. I have marched in, walked with, or watched every Pride parade in San Francisco. I also walked down Polk Street with the earliest gay parade back in the early 1970s. If the parade organizers don’t reverse their prejudicial decision not to allow police officers to walk in uniform, then I will have nothing to do with the LGBTQ parade this year. Shame on your decision. You insult my city, our many fine police officers, and the concept of acceptance. I thought we had evolved but now I am embarrassed to be a gay man. Dick Allen San Francisco

[Editor’s note: As the Bay Area Reporter reported online last week and in Thursday’s issue, a compromise has been reached between San Francisco Pride and the San Francisco

Police Officers Pride Alliance that will see first responders march in the parade.]

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6 • Bay Area Reporter • June 9-15, 2022

SF Pride, police reach compromise for parade by Eric Burkett and Cynthia Laird

an Francisco Pride and LGBTQ police officers have reached a compromise for the upcoming parade that will see some personnel marching in uniform. Both the city’s mayor and newly appointed gay supervisor will now march in the Parade. The police chief and command staff of the San Francisco Police Department will be able to wear their uniforms while other officers will wear casual attire, according to a June 2 tweet by ABC7’s Lyanne Rick Gerharter Melendez. The television station San Francisco Mayor London Breed raises the Pride flag during a is this year’s official Pride media June 2 ceremony at City Hall. sponsor and will be broadcasting live coverage of the parade. “I want to first apologize to the years. The San Francisco Police OfAccording to the mayor’s ofmany members of the LGBTQ comficers Pride Alliance will work with fice, the casual attire could be SFPD munity who were hurt by the deciChief William Scott’s office to reinbranded polos or T-shirts. sion that I made to stand by our vigorate the chief’s LGBTQ Police SF Pride officials and the San various public safety officials of the Advisory Forum, working with San Francisco Police Officers Pride AlliLGBTQ community. And I apoloFrancisco Pride to ensure that comance issued the following statement. gize for not also recognizing the hurt munity members selected for the “Pride grew out of conflicts beand pain that I know some feel as a forum represent the diversity of San tween LGBTQ communities and result of their own interactions and Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community. police at Compton’s Cafeteria and engagements with law enforcement.” San Francisco Police Officers Pride Stonewall Inn. Ever since then, we She called the compromise one all Alliance and San Francisco Pride, have attempted to bridge that divide. parties in the dispute could be proud over the next year, will host a series That is why we are grateful to have of, adding “the understanding and of community discussions bringing reached a compromise solution torespect from both sides is a symbol together the LGBTQ+ community day. It shows everyone is working in of love, bringing us together.” and LGBTQ+ officers. These discusthe spirit of Pride to come together!” The compromise resulted from an sions will take place in San Francisco stated SFPD Officer Kathryn Winters almost impromptu discussion faciliLGBTQ+ communities in order to with the officers Pride alliance, Carotated by a local restaurateur, Manny ensure that the forums are accessible lyn Wysinger, board president of SF Yekutiel, a gay man who owns to all,” the statement concludes. Pride, and Suzanne Ford, interim exManny’s, a hybrid cafe and comThe compromise was announced ecutive director of SF Pride. munity space in the Mission district. at Mayor London Breed’s ceremonial “We have agreed that all first reYekutiel, 31, also serves on the San raising of the Pride flag on the balsponders will march together in one Francisco Municipal Transportation cony outside her office, overlooking contingent. Most law enforcement the front entrance of City Hall. Agency board. officers marching will be in casual “I have a very, very big happy anDistressed by how the dispute bedress. Police and fire department nouncement today,” Breed said in a tween law enforcement and SF Pride command staff will march in their presentation following the flag raisseemed to be escalating, Yekutiel declass AA uniforms as regulated,” the ing. “I almost want to cry, I’m so cided to offer his cafe as a place to statement continued. “There will be happy. But I, along with our LGBTQ meet. 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perspective on the issue,” he said. “I asked them what they needed to see in order to make a compromise, what would a compromise look like to be able to get everyone to march together.” He added that “a compromise was proposed and in the room, it was not accepted, but it seemed that we were able to actually find a path forward that allowed officers to feel comfortable marching and, prior, to allow them there. And so I stopped in the middle of the conversation. I said, did this just happen? Is this OK with you? Is this OK with you?” The conversation between the two sides continued the following day and wrapped up just hours before the flag-raising ceremony.

End of stalemate

The deal brings to an end a stalemate that started May 23 when members of the San Francisco Police Officers Pride Alliance stated they would not participate in the parade because the board that oversees the Pride parade had instituted a policy whereby they could not march in uniform. That policy, first adopted in September 2020, was because SF Pride board President Carolyn Wysinger and former SF Pride Executive Director Fred Lopez “concluded that in 2021 we cannot welcome the participation of the San Francisco Police Department’s Pride Alliance – which is to say, uniformed SFPD officers marching as a Parade contingent.” The SF Pride leaders said the organization was “disappointed and frustrated” following a 2019 incident when police used force against antipolice and anti-corporate protesters who blocked the parade route for almost an hour. Due to the COVID pandemic, this year is the first time the policy is being tested because there was no inperson Pride parade in 2021. In last month’s announcement, the police officers alliance was joined in solidarity by LGBTQ members of the San Francisco Fire Department and San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. Breed and gay District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey then said they would skip the parade if SF Pride did not reverse its decision. In a text to the B.A.R., Dorsey wrote “Yes!” when asked if he would now march in the parade. The flag-raising ceremony was attended by SF Pride leaders, including Wysinger and Ford, lesbian Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, and others. “Here in San Francisco, we em-

brace our diverse communities to ensure that everyone can live freely as who they are,” Breed stated. “While other states attack the rights of LGBTQ individuals, here in San Francisco, we fly the Pride flag proudly to celebrate the history and honor the accomplishments of this community. Today reflects and the entire month of June reflects the strength of the LGBTQ community and our city’s commitment to LGBTQ rights and equality.” While the city’s LGBTQ cultural districts had previously said that would not send representatives to the flag-raising, Aria Sa’id, president and chief strategist of the Transgender District, was in attendance. “When they reached out to me and said they had reached an agreement that their board was satisfied with, it was enough for us at the Transgender District in particular,” said Sa’id. “Because it’s not our event but we wanted to support another trans-led organization that puts on one of the largest festivals in San Francisco every single year.” (SF Pride leader Ford is a transgender woman.) Noting the agreement had come together rather quickly, Sa’id said, “We just got alerted an hour before” the flag-raising ceremony, and they just walked over from their offices in the Tenderloin. Gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) also attended the event at City Hall. “The LGBTQ flag raising at City Hall is always a banner moment kicking off Pride Month in San Francisco,” Wiener stated. “Particularly now – with so many vicious political attacks against LGBTQ youth around the country – San Francisco must be a beacon of hope for our community. The rainbow flag represents the hope, safety, and joy that San Francisco has come to mean for the LGBTQ community.” In San Diego, police and other law enforcement officers faced a similar predicament as the Southern California city’s Pride organization had also banned them from wearing their uniforms in the parade. After numerous, lengthy discussions, San Diego Pride’s Healing & Safer Communities Committee in April made the recommendation that encouraged law enforcement personnel to wear some other type of “unique” uniform, such as T-shirts designed for the Pride event. It does not ban the wearing of uniforms. It is unclear whether San Diego Pride officials will revisit the issue ahead of next year’s event. t

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8 • Bay Area Reporter • June 9-15, 2022

Out San Jose, Sonoma candidates advance by Matthew S. Bajko

and Spartan Keys neighborhoods. Peralez came up short in his bid to be San Jose’s next mayor, landing in fourth place Tuesday. Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez was in first place and City Councilmember Matt Mehan was in second, according to the unofficial returns. They will now compete to lead the state’s third largest city on the November ballot.

gay man running to be the first out person of color on the San Jose City Council and a gay married mother seeking to become the first female Sonoma County superintendent of schools are one step closer to being elected. Omar Torres placed first in his race for San Jose’s 3rd council district seat on Tuesday’s primary ballot. He received 40.66% of the vote, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday. Since he did not surpass the 50% threshold to clinch the seat outright, Torres will face off on the November general election ballot against the second-place finisher, Irene Smith. The mediator and volunteer attorney with Santa Clara County’s Pro Bono Project received 20.52% of the vote in the June 7 contest. It has been 16 years since the council for the Bay Area’s largest city has had an LGBTQ person serving on it. Ken Yeager, San Jose’s first gay councilmember elected in 2000, departed in 2006 when he became the first, and so far only, out member of the Santa

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Omar Torres, left, and Amie Carter, Ph.D., finished first in their respective races for San Jose City Council and the Sonoma County Superintendent of Schools and will face their challengers in runoffs this November.

Clara County Board of Supervisors. Torres is currently an elected member on the board of the San Jose Evergreen Community College District and a regional director for the California Democratic Party. Like recently appointed gay San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Torres is open about his struggles with alcohol and

drug addictions and has been clean and sober for more than five years. He had the endorsement of the incumbent, City Councilmember Raul Peralez, who was term limited from running again to represent the district, which includes downtown San Jose, San Jose State University, and the Japantown, Washington-Guadalupe,

Amie Carter, Ph.D., took the top spot in her contest Tuesday to be the next Sonoma County superintendent of schools. She landed in first place with 44.53% of the vote, according to the unofficial returns. She, too, will now compete on the fall ballot since she didn’t receive more than 50% of the vote. Challenging Carter will be Brad E. Coscarelli, a school principal in Santa Rosa. The straight married father came in second with 33.53% of the vote, ahead of Mark West Union School District Superintendent Ron Calloway. Also a straight married father, Calloway took third place with 21.94% of the vote.

Steven D. Herrington, after first being elected superintendent in 2010, decided not to seek reelection this year. Should Carter, the first openly gay candidate to run for the education post, be elected then she would be the first woman to hold the position in Sonoma in almost 100 years. She would also be the second out woman to lead a county education office. San Mateo County superintendent of schools, Nancy Magee, a lesbian elected four years ago, ran unopposed Tuesday for a second four-year term, thus she netted 100% of the vote. According to Magee, she is currently the only known LGBTQ county schools superintendent in the state. Another out Bay Area county education leader was also unopposed this year, Joaquin Rivera, who holds the Area 1 seat on the Alameda County Board of Education. Since no one ran against Rivera, a gay man, his name didn’t appear on Tuesday’s ballot. First elected in 2010, he has said this will be his last term on the county board. t

Voters narrowly reject SF Muni bond by Eric Burkett

ransit advocates were disappointed Wednesday after Proposition A, a $400 million general obligation bond for San Francisco’s beleaguered public transit agency, was narrowly rejected by voters, while most other ballot measures appeared to be passing, according to unofficial returns. Prop A, the Muni Reliability and Street Safety Bond, required a two-thirds majority to pass. Unofficial returns showed it falling short by 3%, garnering only 63.3% of votes. After plummeting from a high of more than 700,000 riders per weekday in February 2020 to a low of just over 100,000 in April that year, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has struggled since the start of the COVID pandemic to lure riders back. To be sure, they are returning, but it’s been slow going and even now, weekday ridership is lower than pre-pandemic levels, reaching a high so far of just under 400,000 riders last April. Prop A, which had the unani-

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A $400 million general obligation bond to help San Francisco’s struggling Muni system fell short at the ballot box Tuesday.

mous support of Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors, was intended to help the transit agency get back on its feet by allowing the City and County of San Francisco to issue general obligation bonds to fund improvements such as increasing reliability, safety, and frequency; reducing delays; improving disabled access and equity; increasing subway capacity; and improving pedestrian,

bicycle, and traffic safety. There are many other goals as well, such as improving Muni’s deteriorating bus yards and redesigning streets and sidewalks. Transit advocates were upset by the loss although, at press time, Breed – not giving up entirely – is “still waiting for more votes to come in,” according to the mayor’s communications aide Jordan Wilson.

“Anyone and any club that went No or No Position on Prop A should be ashamed,” tweeted queer transit advocate Janice Li, who’s an elected member of the BART board of directors. Propositions B, E, and F were attempts to fight corruption. Prop B would revamp the city’s Building Inspection Commission. It passed with 58.9% of the vote, early returns showed. The vote came four months after Mohammed Nuru, the former director of San Francisco Public Works, pleaded guilty to a federal fraud charge. His arrest in 2020 touched off a wide-ranging corruption scandal. Prop B would change the structure of the Building Inspection Commission by removing designated industry seats and allowing qualified members of the public to serve instead. Three seats would require subject matter expertise, much like the Historical Preservation Commission. Nominees would also be required to go through a public hearing process, while the mayor would have the power to hire or fire the director, providing greater accountability,

according to proponents’ statements in the voter guide. Prop C, which would place new restrictions on recall efforts in San Francisco, and Prop H, which sought to recall embattled progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin, are detailed on page 1. A new Office of Victim and Witness Rights and legal services for domestic violence victims will be created under Prop D, which passed with 60%, early returns showed. Faced with recalling a district attorney who, many felt, wasn’t doing enough for victims of violent crimes, Prop D passed with almost the same number of votes that brought down Boudin. The new office would establish a one-year pilot program to provide free legal services for domestic violence victims starting July 1, 2023. The Board of Supervisors will determine subsequent funding through the city’s budget process. Currently, victims must navigate a maze of bureaucracy through several departments, proponents argued, which Prop D would streamline. See page 16 >>

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t COVID leads massage advocate to adapt business 10 • Bay Area Reporter • June 9-15, 2022

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practitioner who has had trouble obtaining the needed permits. “It is really tough,” said Combs, for massage practitioners, most of whom are women or immigrants with limited financial resources, to get the required permits and approvals from city agencies to open a business in San Francisco. “San Francisco has no clue what a small business is.”

n business for 22 years, Candace Combs moved her In-Symmetry Spa to San Francisco’s Mission Creek neighborhood 11 years ago. One of the first merchants to open in the thenemerging residential neighborhood, Combs found a ground-floor space in a new mixed-use housing development on Florida Street to lease and transform into a tranquil setting for massage services and other treatments. As additional businesses opened in the area between the Mission district and Potrero Hill, Combs founded the Mission Creek Merchants Association to help foster connections among the new shop owners and advocate for their needs with various city officials and departments. “We were among the first things here. I could see how the neighborhood was changing,” said Combs, 51, a lesbian and New Orleans native whose gay brother also now calls San Francisco home. While the spa’s relocation didn’t result in any drop-off in business, it did give Combs an education on the city’s rigorous rules and conflicting stances about massage practitioners. It was solely due to her “tenacity,” said Combs, that she was able to navigate the headache-inducing permit process in less than five months so she could open the doors at her new address. “Even to find out if I could do massage here was like an act of God. I called everyone,” recalled Combs, who noted at that time she dealt mostly with male city staffers who were “sexist and didn’t understand massage.” The negative attitudes were rooted, she said, in seeing all massage businesses as “massage parlors” where male customers would receive a “happy ending.” Seen as being connected to so-called red light districts, explained Combs, there was little un-

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Candace Combs sits in the lobby of In-Symmetry Spa.

derstanding for how a massage spa like hers operated. “We are not a massage parlor. We are a spa,” she said. “We are a results-driven day spa.” Her experience navigating the city’s byzantine permitting process and restrictive rules for massage businesses led Combs to take on an advocacy role for the local industry. Because of rules enacted in recent decades aimed at ensuring massage businesses weren’t fronts for human trafficking and prostitution, legitimate massage practitioners found it difficult to operate in San Francisco. Many either did so without permits or opted to set up shop in nearby cities. “The massage laws are archaic in this city. We always get lumped into sex work. It has nothing to with massage and body work, nothing,” said Combs. “We all got lumped into one tiny box. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and that is San Francisco. San Francisco said, ‘Let’s take care of this human trafficking issue,’ but they did that basically by crushing the massage industry.” Combs and several other massage

practitioners founded the San Francisco Massage Community Council to press city officials to reexamine how they approached the industry. She became its president and has helped lead the discussions that have brought about a lessening of the restrictions for legitimate massage practitioners, who are licensed by the state, to operate in the city. In 2021, city leaders loosened the zoning controls around massage providers so they could partner with other medical providers and work out of their offices. This year they extended the new rules to include chiropractic and acupuncture offices. “Massage is now part of health, which is amazing,” said Combs. “It opens up a lot for massage therapists.” Yet difficulties remain for massage practitioners who want to operate in the city and follow the permitting rules, said Combs, as the fees the city charges are expensive. Just this month she contacted city leaders on behalf of one solo

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been another source of frustration, said Combs, due to it leading to monthslong closures for businesses providing massage services in 2020 and ongoing concerns among customers about returning each time there is a surge in COVID cases. Combs closed her spa from March until October 2020 and was able to obtain various government loans, grants, and donations from longtime customers to help cover her bills, pay staff, and never miss a rent payment. “I wanted my employees to know we were not closing,” recalled Combs, who posted videos online and spoke to national press outlets as a way to continue her advocacy for the massage industry during the forced lockdowns. “I made it work enough to say, ‘OK, we are not going out of business.’ But I did blow through my savings.” The massage council partnered with representatives from other impacted industries, such as tattoo parlors and hair salons, to work with local, state, and federal health officials on how they could safely return to working with clients. “I was working more than ever but for zero pay,” recalled Combs. When she did reopen, Combs ended up letting go her front desk staff. She

now uses online scheduling tools to book appointments and also lets her employees handle their own scheduling. From a high of 15 employees, the spa now employs six massage therapists and one esthetician who offers facials, peels, and waxing services for both women and men. “We do the whole nine yards,” Combs told the B.A.R. in terms of what areas of the body, in particular the genital region, clients can have waxed. This past January, due to another wave of COVID cases, was her worst month she has ever had in business, said Combs. Many customers opted not to book appointments and stayed home due to the winter surge. “People were just frightened,” said Combs. “My poor staff was getting really depressed.” Since February business has steadily picked up, she said. But her profits overall are down 50% from pre-COVID levels, and Combs doesn’t expect them to revert back to those totals anytime soon. A new service she offers is a 30-minute session called “Real Talk With Candace Combs.” It is part massage and part life coach session. “We are really here to balance your mind, body, and spirit,” said Combs, who plans to marry her partner of four years, Marianne Doyle, in a small ceremony over Pride weekend. The couple is raising Doyle’s 10-year-old daughter in the city’s Bayview neighborhood. Engaged since July 2020, they are planning a bigger ceremony in England where Doyle’s family is from this July. As for her spa business, Combs plans to continue fighting to keep it open for both her customers and her employees. “I am doing it because I love my staff. I love having a spa in San FranSee page 16 >>

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t SFO Museum showing Pride-themed short films 12 • Bay Area Reporter • June 9-15, 2022

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he museum at San Francisco International Airport is showing several Pride-themed short films during June, and passengers can check them out while waiting for their flights or watch some of them online. “Join us in celebrating Pride Month at SFO,” a description on the SFO Museum website stated. The films are all 20 minutes or less and the website gives a brief synopsis. “Unity Mosque” is a 2021 film by Nicole Teeny. It celebrates one of the world’s first queer-affirming and gender-equal mosques in Toronto, Canada that was co-founded by Imam ElFarouk and his husband Troy. “La Amante” (“The Mistress”) (2020) is by Puerto Rican-born filmmaker Pati Cruz Martínez. The 2020 short is about Maritere (Tete), who receives a visit from an old friend during her husband’s funeral that reawakens old feelings from the past. In “Wishes” (2021), multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Amy K. Jenkins reveals the secret yearnings of a child for an alternate identity by tracing a decade of birthday wishes. Finally, in “Queen Harold” (2019), London-based filmmaker Balan Ev-

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“Wishes” is one of the LGBTQ-themed short films now screening at the SFO Museum Video Arts Room at the airport.

ans reveals the fierce determination, resilience, and hope of the LGBTQ community in Sierra Leone, where homosexuality is illegal. Timothy O’Brien, assistant director at SFO Museum, stated in an email that two of the films, “Unity Mosque” and “La Amante,” have restrictions preventing them from being shown on the museum’s website, though excerpts are available. The other two can be viewed online. As the Bay Area Reporter has pre-

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American Institute of Architects, San Francisco’s People’s Choice Award for projects over $10 million. “Harvey Milk Terminal 1 set a new benchmark for the airport experience at SFO,” stated airport director Ivar C. Satero in a May 4 news release. “This facility embodies the very best values of our region and celebrates the legacy of pioneering civil rights leader Harvey Milk. We are truly honored to receive the People’s Choice Award from the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco. My thanks go out to the entire project team for this achievement.” The $2.4 billion Harvey Milk Terminal 1 project is comprised of four phases. The first phase opened in July 2019 with the nine departure gates, followed in April 2020 by nine additional gates, an exterior façade with Harvey Milk signage and a new ticket counter area. The third phase opened in May 2021 with the final seven departure gates, a new post-security connector to the International Terminal, a new museum gallery and a new display of exhibit content honoring the life and legacy of Harvey Milk. The fourth and final phase of Harvey Milk Terminal 1, which will create a new North check-in lobby, was postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but has now resumed. Originally scheduled for completion in spring 2023, this final phase is now expected to be completed in spring 2024, the release stated, and will see two artworks inspired by Milk installed at the terminal.

Commonwealth Club Pride mixer

The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco is having its Pride mixer Friday, June 10, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. at its offices, 110 The Embarcadero. “Bay Lights Mixer: Be Bold, Loud and Prideful” will feature emcee MZ am Erika, founder of Fiestas Fridas; DJ Mike Biggz and DJ Rosa La Rumorosa; and drag entertainment by Haus of Moore Productions and many more throughout all four floors of the building, which looks out on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and its lights. This is an in-person only program and COVID protocols will be followed. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for non-members.

To purchase tickets and for more information, go to https://bit. ly/3tjSnJb.

Author of gay DC history book at Commonwealth Club

James Kirchick, the author of the just-published “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington” (Henry Holt and Company), will be at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco for a special free program Monday, June 13, at 6 p.m. Kirchick used declassified documents, interviews with more than 100 people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries to tell the story of how homosexuality shaped presidential administrations starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt through the end of the 20th century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement, a synopsis stated. This program is free thanks to generous supporters of “The Michelle Meow Show” at the Commonwealth Club, officials stated. There are two types of tickets available: in-person and online-only. People can pre-register to receive a link to the livestream event. Copies of the book will be available for sale at the in-person event and online. COVID protocols are in place for the in-person event, which is at 110 The Embarcadero in San Francisco. For more information and to register, go to https://bit. ly/3NquI1F.

Sisters to hold drag show at Alameda brewery

Almanac Beer Company in Alameda is having its Summerfest June 17-19 and has enlisted the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to spice up the weekend with a drag show for Pride Month. A news release from Sister Tilda NextTime stated that the Sisters will be participating Saturday, June 18, from 2 to 5 p.m.; the drag show is at 3. See page 16 >>

Below Market Rate (BMR) Rental Apartments Available 793 South Van Ness Apartments at 793 South Van Ness Street, San Francisco, California 94103 11 Below Market Rental Units Available

Five-1 bedroom rental units available at $1,465.00 per month Three-2 bedroom rental units available at $1,649.00 per month Two-1 bedroom rental units available at $2,131.00 per month One 2-bedroom rental unit available at $2,398.00 per month Five parking spaces available to BMR renters for an additional $100/$175 a month and will be offered to households in lottery rank order. Must be income eligible and must not own a home. Households must earn no more than the maximum income levels below: 55% AMI 1 person-$51,300; 2 persons-$58,600;3 persons - $65,950; 4 persons - $73,250; 5 persons- $79,100; 6 persons-$85,000

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he pink triangle atop Twin Peaks was lit June 1 to kick off Pride Month. Ben Davis, left, founder and chief visionary officer of the arts nonprofit Illuminate, joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), Mayor London Breed, and Patrick Carney, co-founder of the installation that is now in its 27th year. Illuminate worked on the LED lighting installation, as it did last year. Speakers included the aforementioned Breed and Pelosi, along with Consul General of Ukraine in

San Francisco Dmytro Kushneruk, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco), trans “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), and gay Supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey of districts 8 and 6, respectively. The San Francisco Lesbian/ Gay Freedom Band (the city’s official marching band) performed, as did singer Leanne Borghesi. The pink triangle will remain on display through June 30.

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Business Briefing

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cisco. I love my clients,” she said. “We are the only place that does what we do, so I am not going to let it go away.” The spa is open by appointment seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. It closes annually on the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. To book an appointment for its myriad services, visit www.insymmetryspa.com

News Briefs

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Other weekend activities include DJs, beer, and food. Almanac has recently released Beyond the Binary, a German-style dark lager brewed by trans and gender-nonconforming beer professionals in support of the National Center for Transgender Equality, the release stated. The weekend is free to attend, no

Boudin

From page 1

In a related matter, Proposition C, which would have changed the rules for recalls in San Francisco and affected whom Mayor London Breed appoints to replace Boudin, fell by the same percentage, 60%, early results showed. The Prop H results were pretty much in step with polls before the election routinely showing that more than 60% of San Franciscans wanted Boudin out of office. Fourteen months after Boudin became the city’s top prosecutor in January 2020, he was targeted with the first of what would be two efforts to recall him. Launched by failed, sometimes Republican, mayoral candidate Richie Greenberg in March 2021, the first recall effort fell 1,714 signatures short of the required 51,325 signatures needed by that August to spark a recall. Despite overall lower crime figures, images of organized thieves raiding and stealing from Union Square boutiques which went viral online, and a shocking increase in violent crimes against the city’s Asian community proved to be strong fodder against the district attorney. “Voters weren’t asked to choose between criminal justice reform and something else,” Boudin told his supporters Tuesday night, reported the San Francisco Standard. “They were given an opportunity to voice their outrage and their frustration and they took that opportunity.” On Tuesday morning, Boudin was greeting people outside the Castro Muni station, where he was joined by gay former supervisor and assemblymember Tom Ammiano. Boudin said he was feeling confident of his chances. “We’ve got energy and momentum,” he said.

Voters

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Voters passed Prop E, which deals with behested payments, with 66.8% of the vote, preliminary returns showed. Behested payments are donations solicited by a public official to benefit either a government agency or a private organization. Prop E will amend the city’s existing law with two additions: members of the board could not

Leg races

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UC Santa Cruz student Joe Thompson fell short in their bid to be California’s first nonbinary state legislator. While successful in organizing employees at several Starbucks locations in the state, Thompson failed to survive the primary race for the 28th Assembly

Local businesses offer Pride specials

featuring such flavors as Hazelnut Praline, Strawberry, Raspberry (Vegan) and 70% Single Origin Ecuador Chocolate, and the 2022 Birthday Heirloom 70% Dark Chocolate Bar ($12.95), decorated with a rainbow paint-splash and made with cocoa, red fruits, macadamia, and molasses. In honor of her heritage and June 1 celebrated as Philippine Independence Day, Gancia also created the Freedom 1896 Artist Palette Heirloom 70% Dark Chocolate Bar ($12.95). Her signature chocolate frog is seated on a chocolate lily pad decorated with sev-

eral shapes in the colors of the Philippine flag. The Love x 3 Lolly ($5) is a three-tiered heart-shaped lollipop celebrating the store’s anniversary, Pride Month and Philippine Independence Day. It comes in dark or milk chocolate with cocoa nibs and rainbow sprinkles. For a full list of the specialty items and to order them online to be shipped within the continental U.S., visit www. kokakchocolates.com. The queer-owned Barb, which created a pomade specifically for women, transgender, and nonbinary individuals with short haircuts, is donating 20%

of its Pride shirts bought this month to GLSEN, the national nonprofit that works to foster an LGBTQ-inclusive environment in K-12 schools. The company based in the Bay Area has two Pride SAY GAY unisex shirts for sale ($40 each) in either a tri-blend tee or a tank. Both can be ordered online at https://thebarbshop.com/collections/all. t

ticket needed, no entry fee, no reservations. All space is first come first serve, and food and drink are pay-asyou-go, the release stated. Donations to the Sisters are welcomed and appreciated, and they all come back to the community, the release noted. Almanac is located at 651 West Tower Avenue in Alameda. For more information, check out the event’s Facebook page at https:// bit.ly/398pkS4

News is Out newsletter goes live

News is Out: A Queer Media Collaborative on June 7 launched its first newsletter highlighting the seven LGBTQ publications that are part of the project that’s supported by a Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge. The Bay Area Reporter is one of the seven LGBTQ outlets that make up the group. The weekly newsletter includes ex-

clusive pieces by the various publishers, as well as news stories from the different outlets and collaborative articles from the participating publications. In addition to the B.A.R., the other media outlets in the initiative are Tagg, a national Black queer-owned magazine; the Dallas Voice, the premier media source for LGBTQ Texas; Philadelphia Gay News, a weekly LGBTQ newspaper; Q Voice News in Long Beach, California, an online

publication; the Washington Blade in Washington, D.C., a weekly LGBTQ publication; and the Windy City Times in Chicago, an LGBTQ newspaper and website that covers Chicago and its suburbs. The newsletter is free. The B.A.R. gets a small payment for each subscriber it signs up. To do so, go to https:// go.localmedia.org/NIO-BAR t

Mary Jung, chair of the Safer SF Without Boudin campaign, stated that the election results showed San Franciscans “of all stripes” wanted a different top prosecutor. “San Francisco voters sent a clear message that they want a district attorney who prioritizes public safety for every community,” Jung stated in a news release after the polls closed. “San Francisco voters are engaged and well-informed. They know that we can have important criminal justice reforms and public safety for all, but that neither was being achieved with Chesa in office.”

Boudin, 41, was one of a wave of progressive prosecutors elected to office around the country, beginning with Philadelphia County District Attorney Larry Krasner in 2017, and including Rachael Rollins, the first Black woman to be elected to the office in Boston in 2019, and Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr., the first Black DA for New York County (Manhattan) in 2021. Running on promises to reform the criminal justice system, they sought to reduce prison populations by downgrading the severity of punishment for some crimes such as petty theft and drug possession, with a stronger focus on rehabilitation and crime prevention. (Diana Becton, another progressive prosecutor, was easily reelected Tuesday in Contra Costa County with 56% of the vote, according to preliminary returns. In Alameda County, Pamela Price, a progressive attorney running for a second time, finished first in the primary for the open DA race and will advance to a November runoff.) In his election to office, Boudin narrowly outpaced Suzy Loftus, who had been appointed interim DA just days before absentee ballots were sent

out in October 2019. Breed, who endorsed Loftus, named her to the interim post after former DA George Gascón abruptly resigned in early October. He moved to Southern California and is now DA in Los Angeles County, where he faces his own recall efforts. As of June 4, 500,000 of the necessary 566,857 valid signatures needed to place a recall of Gascón on the November ballot had been collected. Recall supporters have until July 7 to reach their goal. Several San Francisco Democratic leaders, dissatisfied with Boudin, launched their own recall effort as the first recall was still collecting signatures. Theirs succeeded while the prior effort fizzled. Easily reaching the 51,325 signatures needed, organizers eventually collected more than 83,000, paving the way for the recall on the June 7 primary ballot. Boudin fought back hard, particularly focusing attention on the city’s large Asian electoral bloc. Some of the earliest support for his recall came from Asian voters angered by the string of seemingly racially motivated street attacks, particularly against senior citizens. But those types of cases are notoriously difficult to prosecute. From 2020 to 2021, reported Asian hate crimes leapt from nine to 60 – a 567% increase – but roughly half of those cases were attributed to a single person who allegedly vandalized almost two-dozen Chinese-owned businesses, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The suspect, Derik Barreto, was charged with 33 criminal counts including vandalism and second-degree burglary, which included extra penalties for alleged hate crimes. But a judge ordered Barreto to be released as part of the Mental Health Diversion program despite objections from the district attorney’s office. Despite that, and despite support from many leaders in the Chinese commu-

nity, anger among Asian voters proved too strong a force for Boudin. San Francisco’s two LGBTQ Democratic clubs also split on the recall. The more progressive Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club backed Boudin, while the more moderate Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club took no position. The Alice club said the membership vote didn’t meet the threshold for an endorsement. “Without disclosing specific details of our political action committee discussions, the club was largely divided between wanting to stay out of yet another recall, not being happy with his performance as DA, or their support for Chesa – the bulk of which being the latter. Ultimately – a 60% threshold to make a recommendation wasn’t met by our PAC, and our membership vote followed suit with no position,” co-chair Gary McCoy stated back in April. Throughout the race, Boudin continued to blame Republicans for driving the recall efforts. Safer SF Without Boudin, the recall campaign led by Jung, a former San Francisco Democratic Party chair, was funded largely in part by a political action committee called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, which raised more than $5.74 million and put more than $3 million into the recall effort, according to figures from Ballotpedia.org. The PAC is funded in large part with money from Republican billionaire William Oberndorf, as well as money from real estate and tech interests. Jung, the San Francisco Examiner noted in 2016, “was a lobbyist who often met with Mayor [Ed] Lee on behalf of the San Francisco Association of Realtors – a group who frequently lobbies against rental protections in a renter-majority city.” Opponents of the recall, however, raised only $2.67 million and spent a

little over $1.5 million in their efforts to beat the effort. Throughout the race, various polls showed almost overwhelming support for recalling the district attorney, but those numbers seemingly began to tighten up in the days before the election. While previous polls showed as much as 67% of voters saying they would vote in favor of the recall, a late poll of 3,000 voters conducted by Telegraph/TSG Research suggested a dead heat with 47% of voters likely to support the recall and 47% opposed, according to the news site 48Hills.org. Those numbers were, as it happens, wrong. Unless he resigns earlier, Boudin will leave office 10 days after the votes are certified by the Board of Supervisors, allowing Breed to pick his replacement. Given the failure of Prop C, whomever she appoints will be able to stand for election in November 2023, when the DA office would be on the ballot.

seek behested payments if the board had approved a beneficiary’s contracts; and the board can only amend the behested payments law if the city’s Ethics Commission approves proposed amendments by a majority vote and then the Board of Supervisors approves them with a two-thirds vote. Voters approved Prop F, which addressed garbage collection and disposal, by the largest margin of any of the propositions on the bal-

lot, 67.4%, early returns showed. For nearly a century, Recology – a private company that provides refuse services – has held the monopoly on trash and recycling pick up in San Francisco. Prop F will restructure membership of the Refuse Rate Board, change the process by which rates and regulations are set, and implement rules governing how future changes are made. The city controller will assume new duties as the refuse rate

administrator. Most recently, it was revealed that Recology was allowed to overcharge customers by up to $200 million and agreed to refunds. Voters were inclined to expand leave for public health emergencies. Prop G was approved with 60.7% of the vote, early returns showed. Prop G requires private employers and the city to provide paid leave to employees for public health emergencies. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously

to place Prop G on the ballot and stated in the voter guide that the COVID pandemic revealed massive gaps in protections for essential workers and increased wildfires are causing more unhealthy air quality days each year. Such emergency leave would kick in during any public health emergency. Notably, the measure was rejected by voters in the city’s highest income ZIP codes, election results showed. t

District seat that straddles Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. Thompson, 19, came in last with 9.8% of the vote. As expected, former Santa Cruz County clerk Gail Pellerin, a Democrat who retired in 2020, took first place with 34.2% of the vote. She is expected to easily defeat in November the second-place finisher, GOPer Liz Lawler, who gar-

nered 30.6% of the primary vote. Bisexual Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-San Jose) beat back an onslaught of negative attacks to win his primary race for the newly drawn 24th Assembly District. It continues to straddle Alameda and Santa Clara counties like his current 25th Assembly District does. Lee, elected two years ago as the first bi member of the Legislature, captured

first place with 39.9% of the vote Tuesday. He is expected to easily defeat in November the second-place finisher, Republican Bob Brunton, who received 21.8% of the primary vote. Kansen Chu, whom Lee succeeded in the Legislature, was in third place with 18.1%, while fellow Democrat and Fremont City Councilmember Teresa Keng was in

fourth with 11% of the vote. Palm Springs City Councilmember Christy Holstege is set to join Lee in Sacramento as the first bisexual female LGBTQ caucus member. Running for the new Assembly District 47 seat, which former Republican Assemblymember Chad Mayes (I-Rancho Mi-

To mark her second anniversary this month, Kokak Chocolate owner Carol Gancia has concocted six “Prideversary” treats on sale throughout June. The queer Filipina chocolatier opened her first shop at 3901 18th Street in San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro district and recently announced she is expanding with a second location in the city’s Japantown. Among the special treats on offer this month are the 16-piece Say it Louder Truffle Collection ($47.95),

Wave of progressive prosecutors

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Prop C falls

Had it passed, Prop C – which seemed tailor-made as a counter to Prop H – would have changed the rules for city recall elections. If a city official were recalled, the candidate appointed by the mayor would only be a placeholder and unable to run for the seat themselves in the next regular election if that election is more than 12 months away. Sponsored by Supervisors Aaron Peskin (District 3), Shamann Walton (District 10), Hillary Ronen (District 9), and Dean Preston (District 5), the charter amendment was approved to be added to the ballot February 25 7-4, with gay Supervisor Rafael Mandelman (District 8), and Supervisors Myrna Melgar (District 7), Ahsha Safaí (District 11), and Catherine Stefani (District 2) in opposition. t

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Primary

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She easily took first place in her primary race with 57.6% of the vote and will face in the fall GOP challenger Jack M. Guerrero, who placed second with 21.3% of the primary vote. Also expected to easily win reelection is Democratic state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony K. Thurmond, who took first place in his primary race with 45.7% of the

Leg races

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rage) opted against seeking reelection to this year, Holstege came in first place in her primary with 50% of the vote. She is expected to easily defeat in November the second-place finisher, Republican Greg Wallis, who received 30.9% of the vote Tuesday. The third other bisexual legislative candidate, South San Francisco City Councilmember James Coleman, fell short in his bid for the open 21st Assembly District seat on the Peninsula. He netted just 9.3% of the vote in the primary for the seat being vacated by Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (DSouth San Francisco) due to his vying to succeed retiring Congressmember Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo/San Francisco). Having placed first with 44.7% of the vote Tuesday, San Mateo City Councilmember Diane Papan is set to succeed Mullin by easily defeating in November the second place primary finisher, Republican Mark Gilham. Papan’s late father, Lou, had held the seat in the 1970s. In the South Bay gay Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell) appears headed to victory in the new 26th Assembly District that includes Cupertino, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and parts of San Jose. He was the first place

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vote. With three of his challengers all at roughly 11% of the vote as of Wednesday, it remains to be seen who he will be running against in November. After decisively beating back last year’s attempt to recall him, Governor Gavin Newsom is facing a relatively easy reelection bid this year. Without much of a campaign ahead of the primary race, the former San Francisco mayor and supervisor took first place in Tuesday’s contest

with 56.3% of the vote. He will now face off against state Senator Brian Dahle (D-Bieber), who landed in second place with 16.8% of the vote. Among the 26 candidates in the gubernatorial primary was independent Reinette Senum, a lesbian and former mayor of Nevada City who netted 0.6% of the vote, for a total of 21,670 votes, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday. Democratic Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis also placed first in her

primary, with 52.1% of the vote. She will face Republican Angela E. Underwood Jacobs, who was in second place with 19.9% of the primary vote, in the fall. Democratic former state legislator Shirley Weber, appointed by Newsom as secretary of state, also was the firstplace finisher in her primary contest Tuesday with 58.8% of the vote. Competing against her in November will be GOPer Rob Bernosky, who placed second with 19.5% of the primary vote. Gay Green Party member

Gary Blenner finished in fifth place with 2.6% of the vote. For District 2 of the state Board of Equalization, which includes the Bay Area and much of the California coast, Democratic former state assemblymember Sally Lieber was in first place with 51.5% of the vote. She will face off against Republican Peter Coe Verbica, who received 28.7%. Former San Francisco supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier (D) was in third with 19.8%. t

finisher in his primary race with 65.7% and should easily defeat in November his GOP opponent, Tim Gorsulowsky, who took second place Tuesday with 24.8% of the vote. Low had to move out of his current 28th Assembly District after he was redistricted into the newly drawn 23rd Assembly District along with Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Palo Alto). Berman is set to easily win reelection to that seat in November.

California’s first gay Black state senator, fell short in his bid for the open 28th Senate District seat. The Democrat placed last with 4.1% of the vote. Although she is currently losing in Tuesday’s special election for the vacant Assembly District 80 seat, queer former San Diego City Council president Georgette Gómez is leading in the primary contest for a full two-year term. In an odd electoral predicament Gómez was trailing fellow Democrat David Alvarez, also a former San Diego city councilmember, in their runoff race to serve out the remainder of former assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher’s term through the end of the year. She had endorsed Gómez to succeed her in Sacramento. But Alvarez was in first place with 56.1% of the vote, while Gómez had 43.9%. He will now be sworn into the Assembly seat, which could boost his chances of winning in November when he again runs against Gómez. In their primary race for the full term, Alvarez was in second with 31.9% of the vote slightly behind Gómez, who was leading with 35% to take first place. Should Gómez be elected in November, she would be the first queer member of the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus. Another queer candidate, Bulmaro “Boomer” Vicente, did not prevail in

the primary for the 68th Assembly District seat covering his hometown of Santa Ana plus the cities of Anaheim and Orange. Vicente landed in last place with 11.8% of the vote. Los Angeles County is assured of once again having LGBTQ representation in the state Senate due to the contest for the newly drawn 20th Senate District seat. Gay hotel manager Daniel Hertzberg is poised to become the first out state legislator elected from the San Fernando Valley and succeed his father, state Senator Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), who is termed out this year. The younger Hertzberg was in first place with 31.8% of the vote as of Wednesday. In second place was Republican Ely De La Cruz Ayao with 29.5%. Close behind in third place was lesbian social worker Caroline Menjivar with 24.9% of the vote. Should those results hold and Menjivar not advance to the fall contest then Daniel Hertzberg is all but assured of winning the heavily Democratic Senate district. Set to return leadership from Los Angeles to the Assembly is Rick Chavez Zbur, the gay former executive director of statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization Equality California. He took first place in the primary for the open Assembly District 51 seat with 62% of the vote Tuesday. The seat was newly drawn to run

from Santa Monica east to Griffith Park and includes the LGBTQ enclave of West Hollywood. Zbur is expected to easily defeat in November fellow Democrat Louis Abramson, who netted 38% of the primary vote. Lesbian Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona) was the top finisher, with 56.8% of the vote, in the primary Tuesday for the new 58th Assembly District seat. Gay Assemblymember Chris Ward (D-San Diego) also took first place, with 67.1% of the vote, in the primary contest for his slightly redrawn 78th Assembly District seat. Both are expected to easily win reelection in the fall. Joining them will be gay Chula Vista City Councilmember Steve Padilla. He took first place, with 61.9% of the vote, in the primary for the open Senate District 18 seat in San Diego County. He is expected to easily win in November against his Republican opponent, Alejandro Galicia. Facing long odds of victory, however, is gay veteran Joseph C. Rocha of Escondido. He is trying to oust state Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) in the newly drawn 40th Senate District in San Diego County. Jones took first place in their primary contest Tuesday with 53.9% of the vote, compared to Rocha’s 46.1%, and is favored to win reelection in November. t

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Corey Jackson, a gay man running for the Assembly District 60 seat in the state’s Inland Empire, is moving on to the fall contest. The Riverside County Board of Education trustee came in second place with 27.7% of the vote Tuesday and is likely to become the first LGBTQ African American elected to the California Legislature. He will be running against Republican Hector Diaz-Nava, who netted first place in the primary with 37.4% of the vote. But with three Democratic candidates receiving a combined 62.6% of the vote Tuesday, Jackson is favored to be the next assemblymember for the district encompassing Moreno Valley and Perris and parts of Riverside, Hemet and San Jacinto. South Los Angeles resident Jamaal Gulledge, who was also aiming to be

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In the matter of the application of RANDY GORDON SAKSTRUP, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner RANDY GORDON SAKSTRUP is requesting that the name RANDY GORDON SAKSTRUP be changed to RANDY GORDON ANDREASEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 23rd of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

In the matter of the application of BUTCH BERRY AKA CLARENCE SHIRLEY BERRY, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner BUTCH BERRY AKA CLARENCE SHIRLEY BERRY is requesting that the name BUTCH BERRY AKA CLARENCE SHIRLEY BERRY be changed to BUTCH BERRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 14th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557125

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039712800

In the matter of the application of JENNY LOK-TING FARABEE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner JENNY LOK-TING FARABEE is requesting that the name JENNY LOKTING FARABEE AKA JENNY FARABEE be changed to JENNY LOK-TING GARRITY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 23rd of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557124

In the matter of the application of SIRIA MARLENY ALVAREZ GARCIA, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner SIRIA MARLENY ALVAREZ GARCIA is requesting that the name SIRIA MARLENY ALVAREZ GARCIA AKA MARLENY ALVAREZ be changed to MARLENY ISABELLA ALVAREZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 23rd of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557127

In the matter of the application of GERVASIO GAYOSO DE OCAMPO, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner GERVASIO GAYOSO DE OCAMPO is requesting that the name GERVASIO GAYOSO DE OCAMPO be changed to GERRY DEOCAMPO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 12th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039706900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN, 61 KISKA RD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124-5608. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROSALIND K. JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022

The following person(s) is/are doing business as EKLYPZE ENFUZHENZ, 900 FOLSOM ST #159, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ORIEYONNA QUNEE JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/26/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039713300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as RELIC VINTAGE, 1475 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ORAN R. SCOTT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039706100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as RIMMA REALTY; RIMMA REALTY TEAM, 75 BROADWAY #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RIMMA REALTY (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/03/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039711600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CRUSADER PLUMBING CO., 1100 26TH ST #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed CRUSADER PLUMBING CO. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/11/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/22/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039713000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TULIPS SPEECH THERAPY INC., 1640 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TULIPS SPEECH THERAPY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/27/16. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO COUNSELING COLLABORATIVE; SAN FRANCISCO COUNSELING COLLECTIVE; SAN FRANCISCO COUNSELING COOPERATIVE; SAN FRANCISCO COUNSELING CO-OP; 1829 MARKET ST #202, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BARTON SHULMAN PSYCHOTHERAPY, A PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL COUNSELOR CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/11/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039708500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AAHA INDIAN CUISINE, 3316 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed SRI GANESHA SF RESTAURANT LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/03/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/06/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039714500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AROMA NAIL SALON, 1414 CASTRO ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed LOC TIEN PHUNG & BAO NGOC THI NGUYEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/16/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039711400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CULTURE CANNABIS CLUB, 5801 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JHD INVESTMENTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/11/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039713100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JERRYPOP, 534 WALLER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed JERRYPOP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/12/22.

MAY 19, 26, JUNE 02, 09, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557129

In the matter of the application of MARIA CRISTINA THOMPSON, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner MARIA CRISTINA THOMPSON is requesting that the name MARIA CRISTINA THOMPSON be changed to CRISTINA TOLENTINO SANCHEZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 30th of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557147

In the matter of the application of EVAN JOHNVINCENT GRANGE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner EVAN JOHN-VINCENT GRANGE is requesting that the name EVAN JOHNVINCENT GRANGE be changed to EVAN JVG TOLOSA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 30th of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557146

In the matter of the application of DANIEL JOSEPH MERCED, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner DANIEL JOSEPH MERCED is requesting that the name DANIEL JOSEPH MERCED be changed to DANIEL JOSEPH CALABRO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 30th of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557134

In the matter of the application of MICHAEL CORNELIUS PHELAN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner MICHAEL CORNELIUS PHELAN is requesting that the name MICHAEL CORNELIUS PHELAN be changed to CORNELIUS M. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 28th of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557152

In the matter of the application of RONALD EUGENE DUDLEY, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner RONALD EUGENE DUDLEY is requesting that the name RONALD EUGENE DUDLEY be changed to RONALD SHABAZZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 28th of JUNE 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

In the matter of the application of DEREK EDWARD LLOYD, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner DEREK EDWARD LLOYD is requesting that the name DEREK EDWARD LLOYD be changed to DEREK EDWARD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022

In the matter of the application of MALISA TRUONG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner MALISA TRUONG is requesting that the name MALISA TRUONG be changed to MALISA EDWARD. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 21th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039714700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SHEARBLISS 360, 380 SANCHEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW LUCIDO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/03/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039705600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ACSA JANITORIAL SERVICES, 880 CAMPUS DR #301, DALY CITY, CA 94015. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed BENIGNA MUNOZ RUFINO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039720200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as GLOBAL BUILDERS CLUB, 76 FAIRFIELD WAY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JONATHAN JUDE ACUNA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039716700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as KEARNY DENTAL ARTS AND AESTHETICS, 133 KEARNY ST #301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BAYSAC DENTAL GROUP SAN FRANCISCO 133 KEARNY PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/19/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039714200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as ON THE RUN MARKET, 4800 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NADA MOUSA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/22.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039703300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as REALESTATEAGENTS.COM; TOPAGENTSRANKED, 425 BUSH ST #200, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed REFERRALEXCHANGE, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039716100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SOLOMON CONCIERGE SERVICE, 138 MARY TERESA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed 6 TWO 3 LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039713900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as TINEKE TRIGGS, 2152 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed ARTISTIC DESIGNS FOR LIVING LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039718400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SPHERES BAY AREA COMMUNITY IMPACT; SPHERES STAFFING SERVICES, 4342 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SPHERES ENTERPRISES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/20/22.

MAY 26, JUNE 02, 09, 16, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557160

In the matter of the application of MING-PO LAWRENCE LI, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner MING-PO LAWRENCE LI, is requesting that the name MING-PO LAWRENCE LI, be changed to LAWRENCE MING-PO LI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 7th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557169

In the matter of the application of HUY VU DANG PHAN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner HUY VU DANG PHAN is requesting that the name HUY VU DANG PHAN be changed to HUYVU DANG PHAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 26th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557162

In the matter of the application of PETER RALLOJAY WOODROW, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner PETER RALLOJAY WOODROW is requesting that the name PETER RALLOJAY WOODROW be changed to PETER RALLOJAY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 7th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557177

In the matter of the application of JEFFREY WALTER GUEMPEL, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner JEFFREY WALTER GUEMPEL is requesting that the name JEFFREY WALTER GUEMPEL be changed to JEFFREY WALTER BLAKE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 2nd of AUGUST 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557176

In the matter of the application of ROBIN BLAKE WOOD, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner ROBIN BLAKE WOOD is requesting that the name ROBIN BLAKE WOOD be changed to ROBIN WILLIAM BLAKE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 2nd of AUGUST 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039721000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BLUM D’MART, 1 MARKET PLAZA, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANDREW POULOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039721600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FRANKLIN MARKET, 1528 FRANKLIN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed IBRAHIM ABDOSALEH ALDABASHI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039725400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DORCHESTER DOG TRAINING, 185 SAN CARLOS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RUI DIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039725500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as EMERALD SPA, 441 STOCKTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALLAN NUTTALL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/27/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039711500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JAMII YA NYUKI, 2550 FULTON ST #10, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SORAYA MATOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/11/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039726000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LOVING PHOTOGRAPHY, 271 MANGELS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL LONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/29/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039726100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as REVIVING TOUCH THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE, 1640 BUSH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed THANAWAN THUCHSUMRITH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/31/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/31/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039721800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FESTA COFFEE; AFRICAN TRADE NETWORK, 1075 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed AFRICAN TRADE NETWORK (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039708700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BW & COMPANY, 56 SANTA FE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BWCO (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/06/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039718900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as THIRD CULTURE BAKERY, 2701 8TH ST #101, BERKELEY, CA 94701. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed THIRD CULTURE FOOD GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/23/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039719200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as O. CANTTOLAO SF, 266 ATHENS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed O. CANTTOLAO SF CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/23/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039723300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as LOTUS NAIL SALON INC, 11 MAIDEN LANE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LOTUS NAIL SALON INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/28/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/26/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039721100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DIVA INTERNATIONAL SALON, 1 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ANDREW POULOS & DIVA POULOS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/21/99. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039715900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOKKAEBIER, 1195 EVANS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HUNTERS POINT BREWERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/04/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/18/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039717600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF NAIL BAR LLC, 2275 MARKET ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SF NAIL BAR LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/05/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/19/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039724600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as AKIRA JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 1634 BUSH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed AKIRA RESTAURANT (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/27/22.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039514500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as SF NAIL BAR, 2275 MARKET ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by GIANG HUYNH. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/06/19.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038325100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as MUGUBOKA RESTAURANT, 401 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by KYE SOON LEE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/25/18.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038040200

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as LOTUS NAIL SALON, 11 MAIDEN LANE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by PHUONG THI QUE TRAN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/09/18.

JUNE 02, 09, 16, 23, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF HAYDEE MARIA HALE IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-22-305383

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of HAYDEE MARIA HALE. A Petition for Probate has been filed by REX J. HALE in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that REX J. HALE 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: JUNE 27, 2022, 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: PAUL H. MELBOSTAD (SBN#99951), GOLDSTEIN, GELLMAN, MELBOSTAD, HARRIS & MCSPARRAN LLP, 1388 SUTTER ST #1000, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109; Ph. (415) 673-5600.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 2022 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DAVID I-H. SHAW IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-22-305385

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID I-H. SHA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by ROBIN S-H. SHAW in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that by ROBIN S-H. SHAW be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. 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: JUNE 27, 2022, 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: BADMA GUTCHINOV, ESQ. (SBA#140040), LAW OFFICE OF BADMA GUTCHINOV, PO BOX 16431, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116; Ph. (415) 572-7075.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 2022

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557179

In the matter of the application of ELIZABETH OSTERMAN BROWN AKA ELIZABETH OSTERMAN AKA ELIZABETH BROWN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner ELIZABETH OSTERMAN BROWN AKA ELIZABETH OSTERMAN AKA ELIZABETH BROWN is requesting that the names ELIZABETH OSTERMAN BROWN AKA ELIZABETH OSTERMAN AKA ELIZABETH BROWN be changed to ELIZABETH SUZANNE OSTERMAN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 14th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557186

In the matter of the application of TING LI, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner TING LI, is requesting that the name TING LI, be changed to SOPHIA LI. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 14th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557185

In the matter of the application of YOU JIN HA, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner YOU JIN HA is requesting that the name YOU JIN HA be changed to JENNIFER YOUJIN HA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 14th of JULY 2022 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 MUGUBOKA RESTAURANT, 401 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed JAE YOUNG BYUN & EUN HEE PARK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039727600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PRIK HOM, 3226 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SUWAAN LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/01/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039685100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as JOY NAIL SPA, 3636 CESAR CHAVEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by DOMINIC CAY NGUYEN. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-039481600

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as HALAL SPOT, 201A TURK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by EMAN M. DIAB. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/10/21.

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JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22557159

In the matter of the application of PAIGE MACINTYRE, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner PAIGE MACINTYRE is requesting that the name PAIGE LONDON MACINTYRE MCBRIDE be changed to STEFON DONELL MCBRIDE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 5th of JULY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039728400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as INTEGRITY TELECOM SOLUTIONS, 301 EXECUTIVE PARK BLVD #502, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PABLO MEMBRENO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/03/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/03/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039727500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JH COMPANY, 1242 NORTHPOINT DR #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94130. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JESSE CHUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039727400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DA HOT SPOT, 201 TURK ST #A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EMAN M. DIAB. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/02/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039727800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SHAPUR; SHAPUR MOZAFFARIAN; MOZAFFARIAN; SHAPUR MOZAFFARIAN FINE JEWELRY; MOZAFFARIAN FINE JEWELERS; ST. FRANCIS BOUTIQUE; PARTIEH; 155 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SHAPUR MOZAFFARIAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/84. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039727300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BON BON SPA 2, 3636 CESAR CHAVEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed DOMINIC CAY NGUYEN & THUYAI BUI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/02/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/02/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039723500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as MARTELLLS LIQUOR & GROCERY, 5615 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed MARTELLLS LIQUOR & GROCERY INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/17/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/26/22.

JUNE 09, 16, 23, 30, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039723900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as URBANA SOMA, 122 10TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed URBAN FLOWERS, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/26/22.

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rameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, returns to its fullest in-person programming since its prepandemic 2019 festival. For its 46th incarnation from June 16-30, Frameline will present 132 films including 46 feature narrative titles, 30 documentaries, three episodic series and 61 shorts. Last year, the only theater showings were during Pride weekend at the Castro Theater. While continuing there and the Roxie Theater, Frameline will now also be partnering with SFMOMA, AMC Kabuki, and Oakland’s New Parkway Theater for the first time. Also, the festival is premiering an at-home viewing opportunity, Frameline Streaming Encore (separate price), where more than half of the films will be available to stream nationwide from June 24-30.

However, during the May 24 launch party at the Mission’s El Rio bar, Frameline executive director James Wooley (his first predominantly non-virtual festival since helming it in 2020) in his opening remarks, issued a warning, “Cinema is in a bit of a struggle in the Bay Area with the Landmark Theater in Berkeley closing and articles mentioning that the movie ‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ didn’t do well at the box office,” meaning audiences are not returning in full force to theaters and film festivals in general. “This time, showing up is more important than ever,’ said Wooley. “The attendance we have this year will shape how well we come back next year. What I’d love you to do is to spread the word of letting people know we’re back, as this year we really need to urge people to attend.” Frameline46’s tagline is The Coast Is Queer. We asked Allegra Madsen, director of programming, why it was chosen.

“The tagline was the brainchild of our inhouse creative team and our amazing design team, Tomorrow Partners (queer, womenowned),” said Madsen. “This year we wanted our message to be that it is time to safely and responsibly come out and experience film with each other again. We also wanted a theme that rooted us in the Bay Area and said to our national streaming audience that there are places where we still strive to celebrate people because of their individual queer identities.”

Prime viewing

The festival kicks off with the first two episodes of a streaming update of Penny Marshall’s 1992 classic on women’s baseball during World War II, “A League of Their Own,” which will debut later this summer on Amazon Prime Video, produced by and starring Abbi Jacobsen. The show takes a deeper look at race and sexuality

Altered Innocence

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Agata Buzek in ‘After Blue (Dirty Paradise)’

Planet Queer

Bertrand Mandico’s ‘After Blue (Dirty Paradise)’ by Brandon Judell

magine Hieronymus Bosch as a lesbian filmmaker on acid, and you’ve almost visualized “After Blue (Dirty Paradise).” Yes,

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it’s sort of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ redux. However, while the feature’s French director Bertrand Mandico might heartily agree, his main intention is to realize his celluloid philosophy in a spectacularly visual sci-fi/surrealist-western venture sprinkled throughout

with frontal female nudity plus ejaculating tree branches. You see, he’s co-creator of “The Incoherence Manifesto,” a philosophical treatise on how to make a movie. To be “incoherent,” according to Mandico, “means to have faith in cinema. It means to have

featuring a whole new ensemble of characters following their lives on and off the field. An onstage Q & A with ‘special guests’ will follow. Closing night will screen the prolific gay French director Francois Ozon’s latest, “Peter von Kant,” which reimagines Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s lesbian classic “The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant” on its 50th anniversary (also to be shown at the festival). He reverses the gender spectrum of the all-female original, while recasting the actress who portrayed Petra’s object of desire, Hanna Schygulla, as Peter’s mother. This year’s Frameline Talk is “A Conversation with Michael Urie (“Ugly Betty,” “Torch Song,” Netflix’s holiday rom-com “Single All the Way”)” about his acting career and the evolution of queer representation in film and television. See page 20 >>

a romantic approach, unformatted, free, disturbed and dreamlike, cinegenic, an epic narration. Incoherence that’s an absence of cynicism but not irony.” In other words, just go with the flow. If you don’t comprehend exactly what’s occurring on-screen, you’ll still be having a hoot asking yourself, “Does that blind android really have tentacles for a penis that can strangle you?” “Do Poles really piss in their boots to keep warm?” “Why are all the pistols named after clothing designers?” So don’t drop your pearls when someone indeed threatens, “I’ll shoot you with my Gucci.” None of the above will be surprising to those who’ve viewed the director’s “The Wild Boys” (2019). In that award-winner, a group of wellto-do lads, all portrayed convincingly by young women, are punished for defiling their female instructor after acting out “Macbeth.” Sent off by their parents for sadistic treatment aboard a ship whose captain has tattooed privates, the teens are marooned on an island where they diet mainly on a vagina-like fruit that causes groin transformations. When one character’s genitals fall off, he is asked, “What will you do with your dick?” He responds stoically, “What should I do with it? Bury it with dignity.” Dignity is hard to find, even on a picturesque planet called After Blue. Here the new inhabitants are women who’ve left Earth because it was “sick, rotten.” Wouldn’t you have joined them? Seemingly, all the males have died off because their hair started growing inwardly. The gals, on the other hand, got hairy necks that constantly have to be shaved. See page 24 >>

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Frameline

From page 19

In observance of Juneteenth, Frameline will screen the documentary “BLACK AS U R” exploring homo/ transphobia within Black communities. The film is also the first recipient of Frameline’s annual Out in the Silence award given to “an outstanding film project that highlights brave acts of LGBTQ+ visibility in places where such acts are not common.” There will be a free community showing of Disney/Pixar’s upcoming “LightYear,” a sci-fi action adventure and origin story of the legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) and “Attack, Decay Release,” a sci-fi hybrid film chroni-

cling the migrations of humans to the moon after a deadly pandemic, the latest from local filmmaker H.P. Mendoza (“Colma: The Musical”).

Local stories

The Bay Area figures in two movies. “All Kinds of Love,” an intergenerational gay rom-com set in Northern California features all sorts of romances queer life (i.e. an aging straight throuple) makes possible, directed by local former SF Chronicle staff writer David Lewis. “Impresario,” is a profile of gay San Francisco original and Frameline founder Marc Huestis about films (“Sex Is”) he made and the shows he produced at the Castro Theater honoring Hollywood legends (Jane Russell, Kim Novak and many more).

Two features set in San Francisco are the documentary “The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook,” concerning two long-term AIDS survivors (Mrs. Vera and Mr. Tina) and how their relationship has shaped a community of artists honoring those lost during that pandemic and the narrative “Vulvetta” about a ’90s riot grrrl band poised for a comeback, desperate to bring back the alt music scene to the Bay Area, featuring some local icons and queer punks. The Centerpiece Narrative is the Finnish “Girl Picture” reporting over the course of three weekends on a trio of young women who experience a series of firsts, including one woman’s whirlwind fling with a female figure skater vying for championship status. The Centerpiece Documentary is France’s “Last Dance” starring the iconic drag queen Lady Vinsantos (the persona of Vincent DeFonet who launched her career at SF’s Trannyshack) ready to break up with that persona by giving a final farewell show in Paris. After the film there will be a party at Oasis. Several films will be showcased. A reboot of Russell T. Davies’ groundbreaking British series, “Queer as Folk,” explores a diverse group of friends in New Orleans in the aftermath of a tragedy. The first two episodes of Peacock’s new original series will be screened, along with an onstage conversation of the ensemble cast.

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Another highlight is the documentary “Loving Highsmith” about the life/career of lesbian crime novelist Patricia Highsmith (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Carol,” one of the first lesbian novels with a happy ending), with spoken diary excerpts and interviews with surviving girlfriends. The documentary “Framing Agnes” details the discovery at UCLA of a trove of transcripts of interviews with transgender people in the 1950s and ’60s, read by a star-studded team of trans filmmakers and actors, an astute hybrid of fiction and nonfiction. “Moneyboys” from Taiwan spotlights a naïve young man from a poor village who moves to the big city to send money back home by becoming a hustler. They take his money, but cannot accept him. “Three Tidy Tigers” from Brazil revolves around three cheerful young queers exploring the vibrant underside of Sao Paulo, complete with fleeting romances. “El Houb-The Love” from The Netherlands, chronicles a successful Moroccan-Dutch businessman so panicked about coming out to his traditional Muslim parents, he barricades himself in their closet where he revisits childhood memories and negotiates a budding romance with a new Ghanaian boyfriend. “Unidentified Flying Objects” is a road movie about an unemployed curmudgeonly gay dwarf who lends his car for cash to his neighbor a buxom and bubbly sex worker. Their adventures will include alien encounters and unexpected romantic suitors. “Nelly & Nadine” is a moving documentary about two women who meet in a concentration camp and begin a passionate love affair, later discovered by one of their granddaughters who uncovers the family secret through an archive of hidden letters and photos. “Please Baby Please” heralds the return of Demi Moore to the screen, which investigates the sexual and philosophical awakening of Lower East Side bohemian newlyweds Suze and Arthur, following a run-in with a greaser gang of misfit queers, pulling influences from John Waters, Kenneth Anger, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. There will be the usual assortment of Shorts programs featuring “Because the Night” with the hookups and breakups that occur at night; “Cool for the Summer” about the unpredictable dog days and sweltering affairs that can occur during this hot season; and “Homegrown: Perfect Day,” celebrating Bay Area stories from Bay area makers.t

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Must-see summer films

Left: Cheryl Isheja and Eliane Umuhire star in the mesmerizing ‘Neptune Frost’ Middle: Madeline DeFreece and Rachel Sennot in ‘Tahara’ Right: Many fans see more than friendship implied in this scene from ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ with Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth.

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new films. And there are many truly worthwhile films coming out this summer, like “Bros” and “Fire Island.” But here are a few LGBTQ films that may not yet be on your radar screen.

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Neptune Frost - Watching this sci-fi punk, Afrofuturist musical is like entering another dimension. When an intersex runaway and an escaped miner find each other, powerful reverberations are unleashed. This film is a wake-up call to the urgent need to reclaim technology for good lest it be used to enslave us all. Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, it opens June 3 in NYC, at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles on June 10, with a national rollout to follow. Tahara - Set in Rochester, the film begins with the suicide of a Hebrew school classmate whose funeral proves to be the perfect setting for a romantic encounter. The soundtrack brilliantly punctuates the uniquely Yiddish humor that runs throughout the film. Winner of the Award for Best Directorial Feature Debut of a Black LGBTQ+ Filmmaker at NewFest 2020, directed by Olivia Peace, opens June 19. Wildhood - This is a poignant film that stays with you. When Link finds out

his mother, long presumed dead, could actually be alive, he and his younger half-brother leave their abusive father. On the road, they meet a pow-wow dancer who persists in befriending him despite his reluctance, allowing the boys to find community, love, and belonging. Directed by Bretten Hannam, it begins streaming on Hulu on June 24. What’s In a Name? - What makes a person worth loving? This is one of many fascinating questions posed by phenomenal singer Lady Zen in her introspective film about her extraordinary life. In a hypnotically beautiful speaking voice, she confides in us. Watching the film is like being in an irreverent confessional with her. She was born in Brazil, given away by an abused teen mother, and adopted by Arkansas missionaries. In retrospect, a major life’s trauma occurred when she was 11 or 12 when her born-again father told her she looks like dyke and to stop it. This particular form of child abuse is yet to be

recognized by the far-too-new field of psychology. But through the power of her art, she manages to heal her life. Directed by Jon Tracy in Guanajuato, Mexico, it begins streaming on www. theatrefirst.com on July 23. Thor: Love and Thunder - Is Thor gay? Fans want to know. He is, after all, an archetype of manhood itself, so it wouldn’t be a stretch. And the film’s trailer features a brief moment where Chris Hemsworth is stripped naked. Beyond that, this much-anticipated sequel delves deeper into the sexuality of queer superhero Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson). Directed by Taika Waititi, it’ll be in theaters July 8. My Policeman - A bisexual policeman marries a woman even though he’s in love with a man. Set in the 1950s and filmed in the U.K., the film fast-forwards to the gay ’90s when the love of his life at last returns, with life-changing consequences. Directed by Michael Grandage, the release date is not yet set.t

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top-notch scene-stealer since she was a child while appearing in TV commercials and as Opal on “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse,” Natasha Lyonne reached the pinnacle when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” in May 2022. In between Pee-Wee and “SNL,” Lyonne established herself as a versatile actress in the movies “Slums of Beverly Hills,” “But I’m a Cheerleader,” and even “American Pie,” as well as respected streaming series such as “Orange Is the New Black” and “Russian Doll.” In 2010, Lyonne played the lead role in “All About Evil” (Severin Films), debuting on Shudder and bowing in a special edition Blu-ray. Considered to be a long-lost cult film, “All About Evil” was the featurelength directorial debut by Joshua Grannell, better known as local drag legend Peaches Christ. Shrinking violet Deborah (Lyonne) feels it’s her duty to carry on the work of her late father by running and revitalizing the Victoria Theatre, a cinema in San Francisco known for showing horror movies. She even goes so far as to neglect her day job as a librarian where she works with Evelyn (Mink Stole). When Deborah’s evil mother Tammy (Julie Caitlin Brown) confronts her at the concession stand about signing paperwork for the sale of the theater, she flips out and stabs her to death. Shortly thereafter, instead of the scheduled movie, the black and white CCTV footage of the murder is accidentally shown to the impatient audience who cheers for it, thinking it’s a new, short feature.

Among the audience members is Steven (Thomas Dekker), a high school student with a fondness for scary movies. His friend Judy (Ariel Hart) teases him about it. But his mother Linda (Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira) and English teacher Mrs. Moorehead (Gwyneth Richards) are more than a little concerned about him. Meanwhile, Deborah is transforming into Mae West with bloodlust. She and projectionist Mr. Twigs (Jack Donner) become partners in the movie murder spree, enlisting juvenile delinquent Adrian (Noah Segan) and violent twins Veda (Jade Ramsey) and Vera (Nikita Ramsey). The attic above the theater is piling up with corpses and captives, all of whom have appeared in Deborah’s movies. For the premiere of her magnum opus, “Gore and Peace,” Deborah invited her faithful fans to the theater. With the exception of Steven, who has caught on to her act, the attendees are unaware that they are subjects of her latest movie massacre. Let’s just say that, in the end, good triumphs over evil. One of the most notable things about “All About Evil” is the way that Grannell managed to make the movie timely, particularly in the ways that it addressed the subjects of school shootings, as well as homeless youth in San Francisco. Additionally, whether or not it was intentional, Grannell was frighteningly prescient when it came to the topic of anti-Asian violence. Rating: BAll About Evil’ will screen at the Victoria Theatre on June 11. www.peacheschrist.com

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he annual Fresh Meat Festival, created and produced by Sean Dorsey, has been an annual sold out series of concerts for more than two decades. It’s also the most inclusive showcase of trans, queer, disabled and gender-nonconforming artists taking center stage. This year it’s online June 16-19 streaming, with five programs of recorded performances in music, dance, performance and other genres. Over two weeks, more than 40 artists will share their new commissioned works. And best of all, it’s free. From hip-hop to modern dance, vogue, contemporary R&B, tap dance, Folklórico, comedy, storytelling and more, the five programs offer an unprecedented range of styles. Six commissioned works will be created by Alex “Glamputee” Locust, B Noel Thomas, JanpiStar, Jocquese Whitfield (SirJoQ), Silk Worm and Landa Lakes.

Among the other performers are amara taborsmith, Angelica & Jahaira, Angie & Audrey, Ballet 22, Cindy Emch, Cuauhtémoc Peranda, Dandy, dani tirrell + J Mase III + Randy Ford, David Slaney, Dear Queer Dancer, Detour Dance, Felipe & Tiago, Folclórico Colibrí, Lottie Riot, Luna Ninja, Naka Dance Theater, Marcus Zebra Smith, Omar and Milton, Pioneer Winter Collective, Sean Dorsey Dance, Shawna Virago, Shrouk El-Attar, Tajah J, Tina Cavvichio, Tosha Jorden, Toby MacNutt, Truc Nguyen, Una aka EXhotIC Other, and Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla, and many more. All programs will be closed-captioned for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing audiences. Streaming shows are June 16-19 at 7pm, with an extra June 18 2pm show. After that, from June 20 to 26, programs can be viewed on-demand. It’s all free, but registration is required.t www.freshmeatproductions.org

Pure ‘Baloney’ by Cornelius Washington

ombining social commentary with saucy sexy strip sketches, SF Baloney, seen mostly locally at Oasis, has received the documentary treatment from auteur Joshua Guerci, who directed, shot and edited the 75-minute film, now viewable online. The film is both charming and poignant and should stand the test of time, just in time for Pride. It breaks boundaries, politically, socially and sexually. It’s great to see such purpose, drive and identity from co-creators (and partners in life) Michael Phillis and Rory Davis, who create ingenious ways to remain afloat in today’s uncertain climate in art and entertainment. Here in the Bay Area, unlike other major metropolises, we will allow ourselves to sit back and be entertained, give the artists their shot to perform for us. We attract talent from all over the world. It’s also a tradition for that talent to try out their material and refine their acts here for a discerning and kindly critical crowd, before premiering it to less friendly but more lucrative markets. We especially have a fondness for the bohemian, the bent and the bizarre; the formula that creates camp, leading to long, loving affairs we have had with The Cockettes (which begat The Singing Saint of San Francisco known as Sylvester). The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, with their stunning nuns surpassed by none; “Beach Blanket Babylon,” and the all-Asian troupe, The Rice Rockettes. They all state the case for talent, lust for performing and benefit caring to a knowing crowd. Added to this list will be the all-male gay strip show, and now a documentary film, about Baloney, which former Oasis co-owner Heklina called “like

Magic Mike meets Mork & Mindy.” The show began in 2014, giving a more ballsy approach to burlesque bump-and-grind, with a side order of serious queer flavor. The current cast of performers includes all races, body types, sexual orientations. There is even a cisgendered woman (Beth Miles) and –gasp!– a straight man (Aaron Sarazan), lots of singing and dancing and a whole lot of positions. Together they exude the sensual and whimsical vibe that one can get only in San Francisco. The film’s most romantic aspects are that despite the cast’s day jobs (some quite interesting.), they long for life onstage. They do it from their hearts, and it all comes through with every eight-count and eyebrow arch. Technically, the film is quite imperfect and beautifully seamless, simultaneously. Along with rehearsal and performance footage, we see Phillis and Davis work on scheduling, casting, and

taping posters around the Castro. The cast is quite engrossing, some of whom I’ve seen around town, just living their lives (Andrew Slade and his boyfriend Jules Llavore, “Daddy” Will Tantra, Joe Andrews, Ryan Patrick Welsh, Pablo Escobar and others). In offstage interviews in their homes, they reveal personal struggles, from quitting dot com jobs to mental health and eating issues, each trying to balance artistic creation with making a living. Still, there are more than a few unanswered questions about them, perhaps to leave room for another film? There are no standouts among the cast or their musical numbers, as they are all singular, and the film makes you care about each of them. In their rehearsals, their concern for each other is palpable and gives a romantic peek into how to ‘put a show on the boards.’ My favorite part of the film was their riff on a Dolly Parton song from the film, “Best Little Whorehouse In Texas,” which I suspect would make her titter with glee. The cast going out into the audience to execute some lap-dancing, and their ingenious 2021 mid-pandemic outdoor car wash events, is the film’s perfect grace note to celebrate the city by the Bay. The film is a manifesto of queer culture. I can only wish lots of love and success to everyone involved, the performers, especially. Their humanity shows that life is truly a cabaret and while Oscar may not call, Oscar Meyer should be very proud.t ‘Baloney’ is available on iTunes, Amazon Video, Vudu, Spectrum, and inDemand. Baloney.film SF Baloney’s next live shows at Oasis are July 7-16. www.sfbaloney.com

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Tyler Miclean as Christopher and Denmo Ibrahim as Bella in Marin Theatre Company’s ‘The Sound Inside’

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eta, the corporation, says its name is shorthand for a fully immersive virtual world. That’s a far cry from our previous definition of meta: Self-referential, as in a play about producing a play or a novel about writing a novel (Aswim in winky cleverness, such works rarely feel immersive). “The Sound Inside,” making its West Coast premiere in a polished Marin Theatre Company production directed by Jason Minadakis, is neither fish-meta nor foul-Meta. It’s shaggy dog-meta; a mind-bending 11:34 AMpiece about a novelist writing a novel that opens with the novelist directly addressing the audience of the play. Playwright Adam Rapp’s suspenseful two-hander finds Bella Baird (Denmo Ibrahim) a novelist and Yale creative writing professor in her early 50s falling into an unexpectedly intimate relationship with Christopher (Tyler Miclean), an impetuous undergraduate who is writing a novel of his own.

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The plan was to create a Utopia with new mandates to avoid the left-behind errors, including “no machines, no electronics, no screens, no chemistry.” They also set up micro-communities based on nationality. Not a good idea if you are seeking eternal peace. Well, one day, a young bleachedblonde, Roxy (Paula-Luna Retenfelder), along with three of her annoying friends, frolic along a beach. Mid-romp, they came across the head of a Polish woman who’s apparently buried up to the neck in sand. Only Roxy considers digging her out. She does so, and it turns out to be Kate Bush (Agata Buzek) who has one hairy arm and an extra eyeball on her crotch. (You can’t help but conclude this film is one long, crazed paean to the similarly named British songstress.) Once unearthed, Ms. Bush immediately guns down the selfinvolved partiers and then grants Roxy three desires after making out with her and forcing the girl to kneel. Eye-to-eye contact has seldom been so bizarre. Jump cut: After Bush departs, Roxy informs her community that’s dressed up as witches of

Long suffering from writer’s block and more recently suffering from the same stomach cancer that killed her mother, Bella’s most acclaimed fiction tells the story of a young man named Billy Baird, who “runs into a brick wall.” The protagonist of young Christopher’s novel –a Yale student named Christopher– falls into a relationship with a dangerous stranger who, in one of the play’s many overt nods to literary works loved by both Christopher and Bella, has striking parallels to Raskolnikov in “Crime and Punishment.” Over a taut, intermission-less 90 minutes, the play shifts between Bella’s present-day narration and scenes that initially seem to be flashbacks but may also represent her imagination. Throughout, the professor scribbles in a notepad. The duo’s entanglement ultimately incorporates both murder and suicide, but whether these occur within the characters’ novels-in-progress or the “reality” of Rapp’s stage fiction is ultimately left to the viewer.

Amidst all this tricksy convolution, “The Sound Inside” nonetheless offers moments of genuinåe emotional immersion thanks to Rapp’s elegant, poetic language, Minadakis’ directorial dreamweaving and the quiet bravura of Ibrahim and Miclean whose palpable expressions of loss, discovery and connection remain constant across the play’s shifting planes of existence. The collaborative efforts of scenic designer Edward E. Haynes, Jr. and lighting/projection designer Mike Post further emphasize the seductive, elusive movement of the piece’s multifaceted storytelling. Puzzling as it is, “The Sound Inside,” ends up feeling less like a Rubik’s Cube than a dream, one of those private metaverses, both immersive and selfreflexive, that fuel our lives from the inside out.t

the slaughter. The town’s revengeful leader insists Zora (Elina Löwensohn), Roxy’s hairdresser-mother who’s the local neck-shaver, immediately go kill the murderess and bring back her corpse: “Take your lovely daughter and a warm coat so you don’t die. You’ll wait for Kate Bush to come dance the polka.” The rest of “After Blue” is a chronicle of that quest, and quite a resplendent trek it is. Toma Baqueni’s elaborately detailed dreamlike sets,

Pauline Jacquard’s highly textured and easy-to-shed costumes, Pierre Desprats’s addictive musical notes, plus the rest of tech folks meld their warped imaginations into a highly creative vision that would have had the Brothers Grimm applauding in their lederhosen. The dialogue is also highly quotable: “She could cut her own horse’s throat while listening to disco.” “Painting exists only if the eyes can embrace it.” There’s even a memorable marriage proposal after a rather grotesque femme knows Zora for a whole minute. Grotesque Femme: I’m looking for a wife because my wife is dead. I’m not that young, but we could get along, you and I. Zora: No thanks. Clearly, those embracing “Downton Abbey: A New Era” and its inept treatment of queer wooing should probably skip “After Blue.” It’s not for all tastes. But if you idolize the early films of David Lynch and Alejandro (El Topo) Jodorowsky, if you desire a 94% testosterone-free movie experience, and if you dream now and then of owning a complete set of Crayola crayons, look no further.t

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Q-Music: The sounds of Pride, part 1

Michelle Malone

by Gregg Shapiro

his month, let’s focus on some lesser known musicians who more subtly fly a rainbow flag. The title of out singer/songwriter Michelle Malone’s new album, “1977” (SBS), is a reference to the year she first began to play guitar. It’s fitting then, that album opener “Not Who I Used To Be” opens with the bold sound of an electric guitar. A self-described “big fan of 1970s music, especially singer/songwriters from the Laurel Canyon scene,” Malone succeeds in capturing the spirit and energy of the period on standout tracks “Even The Queen,” “Georgia Made,” “Know My Name,” and “River Song” (featuring Amy Ray on backing vocals).

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Ramesh (Srivastava), the queer, former lead singer of Austin band Voxtrot, returns with “Eternal Spring” (Cult Hero), his first solo album since 2014’s “The King.” “Redemption” kicks things off to a rocking start. However, the songs that follow reveal Ramesh’s mellower (although no less energetic) side via queer power-pop tunes including the exhilarating title cut, “Wilderness of the Heart,” the synth-driven experimentation of “New Style” and “Valentino,” and the dance-beats of “Acid & Tender.” Berlin-based, Ireland-bred Wallis Bird releases her ‘summer album’ “Hands” in May 2022, between the milestone seventh anniversary of marriage equality in Ireland and Dublin’s Pride Festival. Warm as sunshine,

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this soundtrack for the season is meant to be listened to with all the windows rolled down on the car while zooming through traffic. Most of the 10-songs, beginning with the political statement of “What’s Wrong with Changing,” as well as “No Pants Dance,” “I Lose Myself Completely,” and “Aquarius,” are driven by synth-beats aimed at your feet. Bird also spreads her folky wings on “I’ll Never Hide My Love Away.” www.wallisbird.com Landing four years after her debut album, “The Fire I Saw” LP by queer singer/songwriter Jenny Parrott is a scorching effort. Thirst-quenching opener “Knocking Back Some Cokes,” while “My Hero” gives her a chance to demonstrate her vocal variations. The strings on “Georgia” are a nice touch,

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by Jim Piechota

ummer is alive with new books on or about queerness from a kaleidoscopically diverse array of subjects and authors, and from a variety of literary angles. Here’s Part One of a three-part sampling of what’s already published or is coming up in the next month to LGBTQ bookstore shelves and digital catalogs.

Fiction

So Happy For You by Celia Laskey $26.99 (Hanover Square) Laskey explores the dynamics of friendship in this tale of devilish obsession as Robin Hawkins, a queer Ph.D. student writing her dissertation, decides to feature her best friend Ellie’s wedding in the paper for dramatic, real-life effect. Once Robin agrees to be Ellie’s maid of honor, the novel unravels at full force to become a psychological game of chess with “Handmaid’s Tale” references and just enough sinister plot twists to keep the tension taut. The ending’s a shocker as well. The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley

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$19.99 (Levine Querido) Set in the late 1970s in North Carolina, southern author Grimsley’s latest depicts the passions of a gay college student as he navigates abandonment, loss, and a search for true love. Dumped by his meandering mother, Ronny must fend for himself in Chapel Hill making his own money and finally finding a boyfriend to call his own. His friend Ben, a hunky, questioning football player, isn’t a prospective suitor by any means, yet Ronny finds himself drawn into his sphere of nonchalant interest and callous treatment of him emotionally. Though their relationship ebbs and flows, the dynamics are interesting and may strike a chord with readers who courted tumultuous unrequited loves throughout their own youths. A seasoned novelist, Grimsley is, of course, best at eloquent prose and here, while the story may be unfulfilling, the writing is exquisite and well worth a look. Dot & Ralfie by Amy Hoffman, $16.95 (Univ. of Wisconsin Press) Endearing and humorously crisp, memoirist and novelist Hoffman’s latest focuses on the longstanding

relationship between two lesbians in those sunset years when bodies begin to creak with age and memory fades. Both women must endure frustrating new physical restrictions: Ralfie, a DPW worker, has had knee replacement surgery and Dot, a librarian, has a heart condition. These maladies create issues living in the third-floor Boston apartment building they live in and prompt Dot’s sister Susan to encourage a living facility for elders. Character-driven and effortlessly enjoyable, Hoffman sheds sweet light on the often-dismissed population of LGBT seniors with this very realistic and beautifully written story of lesbian elders living and loving in contemporary Boston. 99 Miles from L.A. by P. David Ebersole, $21.95 (Pelekinesis Publishing) Ebersole, a queer Palm Springsbased independent filmmaker and documentarian, crafts a serpentine tale of mystery and interpersonal melodrama with this new debut crime novel. Frank is a “self-described bisexual” music professor who dips his toes into the disgruntled life of an unhappily married woman named

Shelley. Eager to inject some spice back into his “demoralizing” placid existence “helping other people become what you never were able to do,” he becomes embroiled in a cashskimming operation with Shelley and local bartender Ramon to steal from Shelley’s husband’s cannabis empire. Naturally, Frank falls for Ramon and his “grey-green eyes against that caramel brown skin” and when jealousy, duplicity, and deadly games intermingle with gunfire and lots of blood, it amounts to an impressively paced novel brisk enough to be read in a single sitting (I did!).

Biography

George Michael: A Life by James Gavin $32.50 (Abrams Press) Though much has been written (and rewritten) about our fallen hero aka Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, this revealing (and often shocking) portrait by music biographer Gavin draws on scores of published media features and hundreds of interviews with friends, colleagues, and insiders. Exposing Michael’s past battles with the media, his rampant sexual proclivities, and probing the later years as his

personal life unraveled, this biography is moving, eye-opening, and essential, even for readers with just a casual interest in pop culture.

Poetry

Glory Hole by Kim Hyun $24.50 (Seagull Books) In this new queer poetry collection, celebrated Korean poet and wordsmith Kim Hyun provocatively defies the borders of traditional poetry to explore sexuality, gender, desire, and death. The thematic variations Hyun plays on are wonderfully diverse. From a porn star’s final ejaculation on camera to the robot-human hybrid bedmates struggling to express intimate “emotions that have been banned since the 22nd century” in a sci-fi dystopian, totalitarian universe, this titillating collection of prose and verse is uniquely sublime.

Memoir

Miss Memory Lane by Colton Haynes $28 (Atria) Best known for his role in MTV’s See page 27 >>

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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby $27.95 (Norton/Penguin) In this revealing and intensively introspective autobiography, poet, essayist, and environmental activist Brorby describes his early years growing up in Center, North Dakota, a farming town with not much else to do besides, well, farm and grow old. Unless you happen to be gay, like the author, which meant he’d had a lot more to ponder and a future outside of Center to contemplate as well. Once out to his family, though his father and mother struggled with the reveal naturally, Brorby embarked on the often-long road toward self-acceptance and the shedding of internalized shame and stigma. Boosting this memoir is the author’s natural talent for nuanced prose in chapters that are so eloquent, they can be read as standalone essays. This is brilliant, personal queer insight from the rural gritty Dakota landscape.

Non-Fiction

Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise by Jack Parlett $28.99 (Harlequin) Etching out its own place in queer history is Fire Island. This historical chronicle of the people and the places that made the place so iconic is a must-read. Author Jack Parlett published another fantastic volume this year on the intersection of urban cruising, photography, and poetry called “The Poetics of Cruising” and is a literary theorist as well as a poet. Here, his prose illuminates and educates as well as lovingly shimmers across chapters depicting the 20thcentury history of Cherry Grove and the Fire Island Pines regions as it morphed into a clandestine haven for sexual liberation, queer expression, and, well, sex and parties galore. Additional perspectives on the island from a variety of cultural queer icons like Patricia Highsmith, Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, and Walt Whitman embellish an already memorable tribute to an unforgettable queer vacation destination.

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“Teen Wolf ” in 2010, Haynes gets real in this book where he describes openly struggling to conceal his homosexuality after being told by Hollywood casting agents that he presented as “too gay to play the lead” in the features he auditioned for. The author isn’t shy about discussing his fractured adolescence either and writes about sexual abuse at the hands of an uncle as well as his beloved mother’s addiction issues. While he continued to struggle with a dependency to Adderall while on the hit CW series “Arrow,” getting sober and coming out publicly did wonders for his self-esteem and became integrally cathartic for his recovery process and his well-being. Bravery and vulnerability are both valiantly on display here in this memorable self-portrait. Playing With Myself by Randy Rainbow $28.99 (St. Martin’s/MacMillan) In his debut, comedian, actor, and writer Randy Rainbow (yep, it’s his real name) lavishly elaborates on a life in the spotlight after a flamboyant childhood spent sharing celebrity gossip with his grandmother. An obsession with Barbra Streisand drove him to New York seeking fame and

Kinky in the Digital Age: Gay Men’s Subcultures and Social Identities by Liam Wignall, $45 (Oxford University Press) From the dynamic press that published the marvelously comprehensive probe into the Bay Area’s indelible disco years (“Menergy: San Francisco’s Gay Disco Sound”) earlier this year, comes another stunner examining the psychology and the relevance of gay male kink culture. Written by Wignall, a sexologist and an academic psychology lecturer in the UK, the book features material from 74 interviews conducted with gay men about the impact online communication has had on the success of these kink groups to form and proliferate, as well as how many of them participate in activities without belonging to the community itself. The social and sexual impact these groups have on individual gay men is also debated. Among the many aspects of kink culture the book addresses is a focused case study on the “pup play” phenomenon. Aficionados and advocates of gay kink subcultures will learn and discover how these activities have become less stigmatized in recent decades, the ways in which they function from a psychological perspective, and the beneficial camaraderie and fraternal bonding blooming from within these sacred spaces.t

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