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SF Pride courts sports teams by Matthew S. Bajko

omophobia in sports, both on the field and off, has been a hot topic of late, garnering widespread media coverage. It has also caught the attention of officials with the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, who are courting the area’s professional sports teams. Jane Philomen Cleland They are seeking greater partnerships Rick Welts with the San Francisco 49ers football team, the World Series champion San Francisco Giants baseball team, and the Golden State Warriors basketball team, whose owners want to build a brand new arena along the city’s waterfront on a dilapidated pier. None have yet participated in the annual parade, which takes place the last Sunday of June. But Pride officials hope that is about to change. San Francisco Pride CEO Earl Plante said the 49ers and Giants would be asked to participate this year, as sports teams are part of Pride’s “overall strategy of engaging nontraditional partners.” Asked whether Pride will be requesting money from the teams, Plante said, “Certainly we’re open to money, but we’re open to partnerships at all levels.” One team that has pledged to participate in Pride is the Golden State Warriors, whose president, Rick Welts, is openly gay. Welts attended the March meeting of the Castro merchants’ association to discuss the team’s planned arena at Piers 30-32. Asked by the Bay Area Reporter if the team would participate in Pride, Welts replied that the Warriors would have a presence at the event “going forward” and disclosed that Mayor Ed Lee had invited him to walk with his parade contingent last year. Welts said he had to decline the offer because of a previous commitment but noted that Lee’s “whole staff was in Warrior’s shirts” as they marched in the parade. Plante said he had reached out to Welts’s office to set up a meeting with him, and last week, the two met during a Warriors game in Welts’s box inside the Oracle Arena. Matt Chisholm, media relations manager for the Giants, was unaware if the team See page 5 >>

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Pride grand marshal noms named

Mario Benton

Solange Darwish

Veronika Fimbres

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he San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee has announced its 2013 nominees for the public

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Jason Galisatus

Michelle Kim

Nikolas Lemos

Paul Olsen

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choice for community grand marshals. Online voting began this week at http:// www.sfpride.org/vote. Several polling places will also be available. The deadline is April 15.

Nominees’ lives and work seem to be reflective of this year’s theme, “Embrace, Encourage and Empower.” “We are excited to release to the public See page 12 >>

Supe proposes end to Walesa street

by Heather Cassell

San Francisco supervisor is fed up with anti-gay sentiment from former Polish President Lech Walesa and wants to rename a city street that was named for him decades ago. District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim this week proposed that Lech Walesa Street, a small alley located near Civic Center in her district, be renamed for the late gay rights advocate Dr. Tom Waddell. The alley was renamed from Ivy to Lech Walesa in 1986 to honor the Nobel Prize-winner, who founded the Solidarity union and led the battle for democracy against the former Soviet Union. Kim’s proposal was in response to Walesa’s recent televised homophobic and transphobic rant. During a March 1 appearance on TVN 24 responding to questions about current proposed legislation for civil partnerships for LGBT individuals, Walesa stated that LGBT politicians should “sit at the back of the parliament” or even “behind a wall.” “They have to know that they are a minority and must adjust to smaller things and not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling things for the others and taking [what they want] from the majority,” he told the newscaster. “I don’t agree to this and I will never agree to it.” Kim’s proposal to change Lech Walesa Street to Tom Waddell Place was supported by gay Supervisors Scott Wiener (D8) and David Campos

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An unidentified activist from Queer Planet tried to remove the San Francisco street sign for Lech Walesa alley on August 3, 1990.

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Waddell was an Olympic athlete and founder of the Gay Games. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1987. A health clinic named for him is located at 50 Lech Walesa. Kim’s staff said that members of the LGBT community and others have contacted the supervisor’s office requesting the change. “His recent comments [are] not representative of the city that I am a part of and its value of inclusiveness,” Kim said as she introduced the proposal Tuesday, March 19. “This city is also a place that is a refuge for many members of our LGBT community. We didn’t feel it was appropriate to continue to have his name on one of our streets.” Kim also acknowledged the importance of the Tom Waddell Health Center, which serves many in the LGBT community, particularly transgender patients. “Tom Waddell is a commendable choice for the street, both because of his contributions to the LGBT community, and because the health center there bears his name,” said Jeff Cretan, a legislative aide to Wiener. The resolution will now undergo a 30-day review and a public approval process before the Board of Supervisors vote on it. If approved it would be sent to Mayor Ed Lee for his signature. Lee was out of the country this week on a sister city visit to Cork, Ireland and Paris. If approved, Walesa’s name won’t fully be gone from the street, which would bear Waddell and Walesa’s names for five years during a transition See page 12 >>

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Actions to coincide with Supreme Court hearings by James Patterson

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liers abound in the Castro announcing a historic event planned for next week. On Monday, March 25, marriage equality supporters will rally at Castro and Market streets at 6:30 p.m. before marching to San Francisco City Hall. The march comes on the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in two pivotal same-sex marriage cases: Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, scheduled for March 26-27. The court will then decide if the laws violate the Constitution, with decisions expected in June. Planners chose March 25 for the rally as it marks “the 48th anniversary of the day the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marchers arrived at the Alabama state capitol,” according to United for Marriage’s Facebook posting. Speakers are planned at the Castro gathering and at City Hall. “We are expecting a very large crowd,” planner Billy Bradford said in an e-mail, “but we have deliberately not spent much time inviting VIPs because we want more marching and less talking.” Still, having politicians at rallies is as old and as American as apple pie. Gay Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Campos “will be there,” said Bradford. Focus, he said, will be on “gay couples who are denied equality and multi-national couples denied immigration equality.” Julie Harris, a marketing assistant at Grace Cathedral, said, at press time, plans were not finalized but that the Episcopal church would send a “large delegation” to the rally and they will be wearing T-shirts that say “Faith demands Justice.” “Our delegation includes LGBT parishioners and straight allies,” she said. Harris, who identifies as lesbian, also said Grace marchers will be inspired by a quote from the Very Reverend Dr. Jane Shaw, the openly lesbian dean of Grace Cathedral: “As all are loved by God equally, we look forward to the day when Grace can conduct legal marriages for all.”

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Thousands of activists took to Market Street protesting the passage of Proposition 8 on November 7, 2008. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether Prop 8 violates the Constitution.

Should the Supreme Court uphold lower court decisions that found Prop 8 unconstitutional, Grace Cathedral will begin conducting same-sex marriages, Harris said. At press time, she could not confirm Shaw’s participation in the march or rally. Wednesday morning, the church announced that Bishop Marc Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese of California would participate in the rally. Harris also said that the Reverend Jude Harmon is scheduled to be at the rally. The Reverend Victor Floyd of Metropolitan Community ChurchSan Francisco said that congregants would be marching with an MCC banner. Marriage Equality USA and GetEqual plan vigils March 26 and 27 to show support for marriage equality on the days of the Supreme Court arguments. Activists will gather at the California Supreme Court Building (Earl Warren Building) at 350 McAllister Street in San Francisco from 4 to 8 p.m. both days. LGBT civil rights activists and allies are scheduled to participate, according to Bradford. “These vigils will demonstrate that support for marriage equality runs deep in our community – re-

gardless of one’s age, race, religious beliefs, or political affiliation,” Bradford said. The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument on these days for Prop 8 and DOMA, respectively. At press time, Brian Silva, executive director of MEUSA, said 150 events are planned in all 50 states, including Jackson, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Closer by, the Berkeley City Council approved a recommendation by gay Councilman Kriss Worthington that the city fly the rainbow flag March 26-27 in solidarity with the LGBT community across the country. “The Berkeley City Council was the first city council in the United States to endorse marriage equality in 1997,” he said. On Wednesday, the East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club announced that the cities of Oakland and San Leandro will also fly the rainbow flag. “Flying the rainbow flag – a symbol of pride and affirmation to the LGBT community – will send an important symbolic message that all loving families are welcome here,” Brendalynn Goodall, president of East Bay Stonewall, said in a statement. See page 16 >>

CA needs more LGBT judges, justice says

by James Patterson

n openly gay California appellate judge called for more LGBT lawyers and judges to work for justice and equality in the state as it faces many challenging and historic LGBT legal issues, including full legal equality, in the coming years. Justice Jim Humes, appointed associate justice to the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate Division in December by Governor Jerry Brown, is the state’s first openly gay appointment to the California Court of Appeal. As a panelist for a local judicial conference called The Color of Justice, he spoke of the need for judicial diversity. The conference, presented by the National Association of Women Judges, took place March 15 at the State Building in San Francisco. Humes served on the panel, “View from the Bench,” with state Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu and Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte. In his remarks, Humes, 53, called for young professionals to consider

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careers in government service. He said he has had “a happy government career” and he has had the opportunity to give back to the community. Humes said he found the Democratic process “exciting.” He called on young professionals to opt for careers where they could “work for the greater good.” He said too many

young professionals think only about money. “Access to justice,” Humes said, “is what we strive to give to people who get into the court system without regard to their nationality, religion or economic status.” He said the court system needed to be as open as possible and people who appear before the court need to see people like them on the bench. A native of the Midwest, Humes, in questions after his panel remarks, said he has experienced discrimination as a gay man and as an attorney. He said unlike African Americans and other minorities “we don’t have legal equality yet. There is plenty of work remaining for us to do on that.” Though modest in his conference presentation, Humes said he is bullish on the legal profession. “The law is a great area to work in,” he said. Concerning the many legal local and national issues affecting the LGBT community, Humes said there is “a great need for more LGBT lawyers.” He agreed that “legal needs See page 16 >>

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Majority wants changes to Castro-Market intersection by Matthew S. Bajko

ata collected from surveys about the planned street widening project along Castro Street show that a majority of respondents believe the Castro and Market Street intersection needs a total makeover. Considered the heart of the city’s gayborhood, the streetscape at that crossroads is anything but fabulous. Cars, pedestrians, bicycles, and Muni vehicles all converge at the multi-pronged intersection, where a corner gas station is slated to become a mixed-use housing and retail development. It is dotted with public parklets at three points, two of which are in need of upgrades and the third connected to a weirdly situated bus stop wedged in the middle of the road. “We are seeing a lot of interest in the Market and Castro intersection,” said Castro resident Nick Perry, an urban

designer with the Planning Department’s City Design Group working on the project. Asked to prioritize the three intersections included in the street widening project’s parameters, 56 percent said Castro and Market Street should be given “top priority.” Coming in second, with 39 percent, was the Castro and 18th Street intersection. Just 5 percent picked the Castro and 19th Street intersection as their top priority. The findings are based on 140 survey forms submitted to city planners working on the design for the street improvements, which planning staff shared with the Bay Area Reporter at the paper’s request. The makeup of the respondents broke down to 64 percent residents, 19 percent merchants, 27 percent property owners, and 17 percent visitors. Those living or owning a business or property in the Castro’s 94114 Zip code made up

Elder conference to focus on trans issues

by Matthew S. Bajko

orn in San Francisco in 1949, Tamara Ching has lived throughout the U.S., spending time in Chicago, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. In 1993 the transgender activist moved back to her hometown. Today, Ching is one of two transgender people she is aware of who were born in San Francisco and still living. The 63-year-old is multi-racial, having German, Hawaiian, and Chinese ancestry, and a former sex worker. She has consulted about trans and HIV/AIDS issues with a number of health organizations, from the Vietnamese government to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As part of Women’s History Month, state Senator Leland Yee (DSan Francisco) announced last week that he had selected Ching to be included in a book being published by the upper chamber’s women’s caucus titled Women With Impact: A collection of stories about women who made a difference in the lives of Senators. “Tamara’s life has been anything but traditional,” Yee writes in his submission for the book. He added that for as long as he has known her, “nothing can keep this lady down.” She will be sharing details about her life, from transitioning from male to female to navigating the city as a senior with mobility issues, during the second annual Howard Grayson LGBT Elder Conference. The March 30 event, hosted by the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, is focused on transgender issues this year. Grayson was a longtime Milk club member who died in 2011. He worked for many years as a home care provider and was involved in senior issues. Ching will be taking part in a panel discussion titled “Getting Old Ain’t For Sissies: Trans Life in Our 60s, 70s, and Beyond.” She plans to discuss “how aging with grace is only one perk, but will mention some of the negative stuff. As a Milk club member, nothing needs to be whitewashed ... only the truth should be told so our younger generations can benefit from our endeavors. It is also very empowering.” As the Bay Area Reporter has noted in several stories about LGBT

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Sue Englander, shown here during an Occupy rally, is organizing this year’s Howard Grayson LGBT Elder conference.

seniors, information about transgender elders and the issues they are grappling with are often missing in studies researchers and academics have conducted. If they are included, the sample size is often miniscule. It is something the city’s LGBT Aging Policy Task Force hopes to correct with a survey it will be conducting in April. It is pushing to see many transgender seniors fill out the online questionnaire. The issue is one that has been front and center over the last year for Sue Englander, a Milk club board member who is organizing this year’s elders conference. She said she was struck last summer when she heard trans activist Felicia Elizondo, also known as Felicia Flames, speak on a panel during a Milk club meeting. “Felicia said, ‘I am very frustrated. The T in LGBT is silent.’ I think it was a very decisive moment,” said Englander, 60, who is bisexual and a former nurse. By making this year’s conference trans-focused – it is titled “Transitions” – Englander said the organizing committee aimed to give voice to trans people and “hoped the rest of the community would listen too.” The program includes welcoming remarks by Veronika Fimbres, a transgender activist and veteran who was embroiled in a fight last year over her request to fly the transgender flag over the Castro. Joining Ching for the panel discussion will be Steve Toby, a certified See page 13 >>

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Reconfiguring the busy intersection at Castro and 18th streets ranked highly in a recent survey of neighborhood improvements.

72 percent. Based on the feedback, it is likely the plan will include a realignment of the crosswalks at the Castro and Market intersection. One idea that has been proposed is to redraw the crosswalk from Jane Warner Plaza across Market Street toward the Pottery Barn building. It could be moved south in front of the plaza boundary flush with the entrance to the Twin Peaks bar. Sixtythree percent said they “strongly like the crosswalk realignment” idea, with 28 “somewhat” liking it. Another idea is to close off 17th Street where it meets Market and reconfigure the bus stop there, which is adjacent to Market Street and leads into Pink Triangle Park. Currently, cars traveling south enter 17th Street from the intersection in front of the gas station on the corner. The proposed plan would reconfigure westbound 17th Street so that the curbside lane on Market Street that feeds directly onto 17th Street would be removed. In its place would be a new

15-foot bulb-out for pedestrians that vehicles would need to first pass and then veer right onto 17th. And the bus stop would no longer extend completely to the crosswalk; access to it would be moved further up 17th Street where a crosswalk would be created. Sixty-four percent “strongly like(d)” the concept for reconfiguring vehicular access to 17th Street. Another 23 percent said they “somewhat like” it. Perry told the B.A.R. the proposal for 17th Street could be slated for a secondphase of the project to be financed later, as there is a limited amount of money for the sidewalk expansion project and some changes will have to wait. The city has earmarked $4 million toward upgrading Castro Street from a roadpaving bond measure passed by voters in 2011. “We don’t have an infinite amount of resources to spend on the project so we want to make sure we get what people want to see the most there,” said Perry, adding that the design is still a month away from being finalized. Planners will be meeting with the community again April 3 to review the survey results and seek feedback about specific proposals for the improved streetscape. A more detailed version of the proposed changes for the street will be presented at the meeting. “We want to see what the community thinks about some of the options we will talk about,” said David Alumbaugh, a former Castro resident who is the manager of planning’s City Design Group. A third public meeting will be held at the end of April to present the final plan to the community before it heads to both the Board of Supervisors and the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s commission for approval in May. Work is slated to begin in January 2014 and be completed by October of that year.

Plaza fixes and street trees rank highly

The survey also asked respondents

to rank their top priorities for improvements to the streetscape. Fixes to Jane Warner Plaza, a parklet carved out of 17th Street at Market where the Muni F-line stops, and street trees scored highly. When asked to pick three possible improvements, 61 percent included street trees and 39 percent included upgrades for Jane Warner Plaza. Sidewalk greening placed third with 30 percent, while a new mini park on the 400 block of Castro garnered 29 percent. When asked to pick just one improvement, street trees were at the top with 34 percent, while special crosswalk paving netted 11 percent. Jane Warner Plaza and the 400 block mini park both received 10 percent. Based on those rankings, an initial suggestion to place mini parks on both sides of the street, with two each for the 400 and 500 blocks, will likely be abandoned, said Perry. It remains to be seen if one such parklet somewhere in the 500 block will be included. It was included in 17 percent of the surveys among the top three items, but fell to 3 percent support when the question was narrowed to picking one thing. Wayfinding signage, public art, and bike racks all ranked at the bottom of the list for both questions. One idea receiving wide support is to install corner bulb-outs at Castro Street’s intersections with 19th and 18th streets, though a higher number of respondents (77 percent) favor seeing them installed at 18th over 19th (61 percent). Including them in the plan would require relocating the bus stops on 18th Street so that Muni vehicles picking up passengers would not block traffic on Castro Street. Yet the proposal did elicit concerns about the queuing behind stopped busses, with one-third of respondents saying they “either somewhat dislike or strongly dislike” the concept.t

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New bills address gender ID, LGBT data by Seth Hemmelgarn

alifornia lawmakers have introduced several LGBT-related bills that address issues ranging from making name changes easier for transgender people to getting a count of gay residents. The statewide LGBT lobbying group Equality California is sponsoring five of the proposals up for action in the 2013-14 legislative session. In a March 13 statement, EQCA Executive Director John O’Connor called the package “broad and fundamental.” O’Connor said working with the bills’ authors, “we will continue to Rick Gerharter advance our mission of full equality Assemblywoman Toni Atkins for LGBT people and nothing less.” Assemblywoman Toni Atkins gone transition and lived consistent (D-San Diego) authored Assembly with their gender identity, there are Bill 1121, the Name Changes and occasions when the family has reBirth/Death Certificates Act, to simfused to accept that gender identity plify the processes people have to and instead insisted that the death go through to legally change their Advertising Director Advertising Director e c certificate list the wrong sex,” Atkins name and gender. la p scott@ebar.com scott@ebar.com to re eek! Call me 0 . w rs said. “AB 1121 will prevent that.” “The bill would remove the costly r e e p m u s con 82.8 She added, “The newspaper pubnewspaper publication requirement 00+ LGBuTrs for as low as $ ,0 0 2 1 H REAC sage with yo lication aspect [of the bill] is infor name changes that can be unafs my me tended to only apply to transgender fordable for low-income transgenpeople.” der people and can put their privacy The The The Transgender Law Center, a and safety at risk,” an EQCA news San Francisco-based nonprofit, is release says. 395 Ninth StreetNinth • San Francisco, CA 94103 395 Street • San Francisco, CA 94103 co-sponsoring AB 1121. In an email, Atkins, an out les415.861.5019 • www.ebar.com 415. 861. 5019 • www.ebar.com “Many of the calls we get on our bian, said, “I introduced AB 1121 legal helpline are from people who after community members told me need assistance with the complihow time consuming and financialcated court procedures required to ly burdensome it can be to have to change a person’s name and gender go to court to ensure that one’s bain California,” TLC legal director sic identity documents reflect one’s Ilona Turner said in a statement, gender identity. It can cost as much “This bill will simplify those proas $400 and take many months.” cesses to make them less expensive The proposal also would ensure and provide more protection for that a transgender Californian’s people’s privacy and safety.” gender identity is honored when Another bill addresses data. Senthey die. ate Bill 280, the Sexual Orientation “I have heard stories that despite and Gender Identity Data Colleca deceased person’s having under-

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tion Act, takes on the lack of accurate information on LGBT Californians. Openly gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach) and state Senator Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) authored the bill. EQCA calls the issue “one of the biggest barriers to effective health care for LGBT Californians,” since the lack of good data “means that too often, state services are allocated based on scant information about the size, geography, and diversity of the LGBT population.” Out gay Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park) is taking on an aspect of health care, too, with AB 496, the LGBT Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers Act. The proposal is designed to improve health care delivery for LGBTs by increasing cultural training for doctors, dentists, and other providers. EQCA noted that many LGBTs report delaying care or avoiding the system altogether due to providers’ lack of understanding of LGBT issues. People in the LGBT community ought to receive “medical care that is appropriate and specific to [their] needs,” Gordon said in an interview. He said he wants a task force on cultural competency. A similar panel that issued a report 10 years ago cost about $100,000, Gordon said, but he suggested funding could be sought from professional boards to help pay for it. EQCA previously announced its backing of Lara’s SB 323, the Youth Equality Act, which would remove a special tax emption for youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America that fail to comply with the state’s anti-discrimination policy, and Assemblyman Phil Ting’s (D-San Francisco) AB 362, which See page 12 >>

Trans youth bill proposed by James Patterson

he California Legislature will soon consider a first-in-the-nation bill that would specify how public schools must accommodate transgender youth, including the right to use restrooms and participate in school activities that correspond to their expressed gender identity. Out Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) introduced AB 1266, the School Success and Opportunity Act, last month with support from LGBT legislative colleagues, including state Senators Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Ricardo Lara (D-Long Beach). Ammiano spokesman Carlos Alcala said the bill would allow transgender youth “to participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities” regardless of their gender assignment by school officials. Alcala said Ammiano considered the bill “cost neutral” as school programs and non-discrimination protections for transgender students are already in place. He suggested the bill might even reduce school costs if implementation resulted in fewer expensive discrimination lawsuits from parents of transgender students. Conservative Republican activist Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute, a Sacramento-based organization, told the Associated Press AB 1266 was “a radical mandate on the schools for an extremely rare situation” and said it amounted to “hijacking the school system.” CRI’s website was down at press time and telephone messages for

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comments from England were not returned. Alcala said CRI was the only group so far that “vocally opposed” the bill. “There might be others,” he said. England’s implication that accommodating transgender youth is a “rare situation” is becoming less so as more students are determining their gender identity earlier in life, according to Ilona Turner, legal director of San Francisco’s Transgender Law Center. “More transgender children are coming out early due to increased understanding, openness, and acceptance from families,” Turner said. Turner said many transgender students in the past did not graduate on time due to failure to complete required physical education courses due to gender identity issues. Though she did not have an estimate

on dropout rates for transgender students, she said a national study found the unemployment rate for transgender adults to be twice the national average and four times the national average for transgender adults of color. Respect for transgender students in school will clearly foster respect for them from their classmates and into adulthood, Turner, who identifies as bisexual, said. She said AB 1266 is historic in that it details school obligations to meet the needs of transgender students and prevent discrimination and harassment. The bill is needed, she said, because many concerned parents contact TLC with school issues related to the gender identity of their children. Shannon Minter, legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and a trans man, said in an e-mail, “We strongly support this bill and applaud Mr. Ammiano for his leadership in standing up for transgender youth and their families.” Minter said that educational rights for transgender students in California schools are protected by longstanding non-discrimination laws but “this bill will provide much needed guidance” for schools and teachers on treatment of transgender youth. Other states, said Minter, including Massachusetts and Colorado, are leading California in their efforts to make public schools accepting and respectful learning environments for transgender youth. Alcala said the bill “is unlikely to be discussed before April.” The next legislative step will be when it is submitted to the Assembly Education Committee for consideration.t

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had ever been asked to participate in Pride. He suggested contacting Staci Slaughter, the team’s senior vice president of communications. She did not immediately respond to emailed questions from the B.A.R. Tuesday. Bob Lange, director of public relations for the 49ers, told the B.A.R. that the team has been contacted by KOFY, which broadcasts the Pride Parade, about having it participate this year and is awaiting a proposal from the local TV station. “In general, we would absolutely consider participating, as we do with a number of community events,” said Lange, adding that the team would also welcome a call from Pride officials. “Obviously, the Pride parade is a significant event. Once we get some more facts, we will definitely see what we can do.” Another team that is looking at how to have a presence at Pride is the San Francisco Bulls professional minor league hockey team that started calling the Cow Palace home in October. A farm team for the San Jose Sharks, the Bulls had looked into having a float in last year’s parade but found it to be cost prohibitive. “We really wanted to participate and be a part of it,” Jason Lockhart, the team’s director of media relations and broadcasting, said this week in a phone interview. “It was a little too out of our budget.” Lockhart added that the team is “going to see if we can participate this year now that we have gotten things rolling.” He doubted if any of the players would be part of a Pride contingent since the parade happens after the hockey season is over and most of the team lives in Canada or on the East Coast. “It would just be representatives of our organization, our mascot and some of our ice girls” – named the Cowbelles – who go on the ice and clean it up during stoppages, explained Lockhart. The team is holding its first LGBTQ Night this Saturday, March 23, and one of the benefitting nonprofits is SF Pride. For each special group ticket priced at $25 that is sold, $7 will be shared between SF Pride and the You Can Play Project, an organization dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation. The Bulls were the first minor league hockey team to tape a 48-second video for the project. (For more, see Jock Talk.) Its co-founder is Patrick Burke, whose brother Brendan came out as gay and was publicly supported by his father, Brian Burke, the former general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL hockey team. Brendan Burke was involved in a car accident in Indiana in 2010 and died from his injuries sustained in the crash. “Playing in a city with such a vibrant LGBT community, it is great to see that the Bulls are reaching out to embrace their fans, both gay and straight. We hope to see the city return the embrace,” stated Patrick Burke in a press release about the LGBTQ night. Since 2011 the Sharks have had an unofficial LGBT night of their

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own, which is mainly coordinated by the San Jose Pride committee. Last year the special game raised money for Pride, and this year’s will do so again, with $8 from tickets sold to the April 18 game benefiting the LGBT event in August. During the last Pride parade held in San Jose the Sharks had a contingent but it did not include any players, said Gloria Nieto, a lesbian fan of the team who has pushed them to address LGBT issues. “I just think homophobia is strong in locker rooms,” she said. “We need to be breaking down the barriers that exist between professional athletes and regular league hockey and softball players.” Sharks players have worked with the You Can Play Project. The Sharks were one of the first hockey teams to sign up and played a PSA about the project during a game. Player Tommy Wingels, who went to college with Brendan Burke, sits on the nonprofit’s board and rode in last year’s Chicago Pride parade, where he lives during the off-season. He also taped a video for San Jose Pride last year, said Nieto. Such efforts at outreach, said Nieto, are “like breaking down the shame. There is no shame in participating with folks who idolize you who happen to be LGBT.” Of the six professional sports teams in the Bay Area, all but the Oakland Raiders football team host special LGBT-focused events. Both the Giants and Oakland Athletics baseball teams host LGBT game days. The San Francisco 49ers started holding LGBT fan appreciation nights in the gay Castro district after a player in 2002 told a newspaper reporter that he didn’t “want any faggots on my team!” Four years later a racist and homophobic video produced by a team media official led to the creation of a community advisory group that included a number of LGBT representatives. The team began sponsoring the San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s annual galas and honored the LGBT community during a halftime celebration, recalled Thom Lynch, a former center executive director who served on the panel. “I went on TV and was pretty critical of the 49ers,” recalled Lynch in a recent interview. That led to then team co-owner John York calling Lynch. At the time Lynch said he doesn’t believe anyone suggested that the 49ers participate in the Pride parade. “It might be now a no brainer. I think it is really possible they would do it,” he said. “Things have changed so much over the last few years in terms of support” for LGBT rights among sports figures. Yet the 49ers were embroiled in an anti-gay controversy during this year’s Super Bowl week when a player once again said they didn’t want a gay teammate. Then the team’s video for the It Gets Better Project, aimed at reducing LGBT teen bullying, was pulled ahead of the championship game when several 49ers in the video told reporters they didn’t know it was related to reducing homophobia. Should the team or some of its players march in the Pride parade, “it would be really symbolic and have an impact because it is San Francisco,” said Lynch. Current center Executive Direc-

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tor Rebecca Rolfe told the B.A.R. that the local teams should be fostering strong ties with both their gay fans and the LGBT community atlarge in the Bay Area. “I do think it is important,” said Rolfe, who has also been in contact with Warriors officials as the team curries support for its arena proposal. “I think San Francisco is a deeply loyal community and is deeply supportive of their sports teams. It is great to see those teams connect to the community on all levels and be a part of the fabric of the city.” Plante said seeing the sports teams have a “straight ally presence” at Pride would be “very powerful,” especially if in the parade. To purchase the special Dress Circle seats tickets to the Bulls’ LGBTQ Night this Saturday call Jason Breiter at 855-SF-BULLS or email him at JasonB@sfbulls.com. Be sure to indicate you want the group seats for the LGBTQ Night game against the Stockton Thunder, which starts at 7:15 p.m. Attendees can take free shuttles provided by the Bulls from the Balboa Park BART and Muni station to and from the Cow Palace. Tickets for the Sharks’ LGBT Night can be purchased online at http://tinyurl.com/csth2wf.t Seth Hemmelgarn contributed to this story. Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column disclosed new policies the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund adopted for attack ads against straight allies. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 8615019 or e-mail mailto:m.bajko@ ebar.com.

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Building a case for marriage

n a few days, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases and the timing is fortuitous. Ever since last May, when President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage (after being beaten to the punch by Vice President Joe Biden), other high-profile leaders have also indicated that they favor allowing same-sex couples to wed. These have included the leadership of national organizations (NAACP), prominent Republicans (former Governor Jon Huntsman and Ohio Senator Rob Portman), and this week, former megachurch pastor Rob Bell and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Professional athletes have stood in support, and celebrities have come out of the closet (Anderson Cooper just received a GLAAD Media Award in New York City). A new ABC News-Washington Post poll shows a record high 58 percent of registered voters nationwide supporting marriage equality. In a side note that the Supreme Court justices (or their clerks) will undoubtedly notice, that same poll has voters agreeing that the U.S. Constitution should be the basis for deciding if gay couples can marry rather than leaving the decision to individual states (64 percent to 33 percent). The high court, not known for getting ahead of public opinion, can issue favorable rulings on the Proposition 8 and Defense of Marriage Act cases this year with the realization that a majority of the public is now on the side of equality. Forward momentum is growing in spite of the passage in California of Proposition 22 with 61 percent of the vote 13 years ago. Chad Griffin, who helped orchestrate the federal Prop 8 case that the court will hear Tuesday and who is now president of the Human Rights Campaign, said this week that “there can be no doubt that this country is on a one-way road to marriage for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples.” “This new poll reflects the continued evolution of people’s attitudes through thoughtful conversations over dinner tables and water coolers,” he added.

In many respects he is correct. For years state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and other political leaders have maintained that as more of these conversations happen – and as more LGBT people come out to friends, family members, co-workers, and neighbors – attitudes will shift. The president famously cited his “evolution” on the marriage equality issue, but he is by no means alone. When Portman reversed his position on same-sex marriage, he said he had changed his mind because his son is gay and came out to him two years ago. Since then, Portman told reporters, he has talked with friends and clergy and concluded that he wanted his son to have the same opportunities his siblings have, “to have a relationship like Jane and I have had for over 26 years.” In short, that evolution is happening with more frequency. Among Republican voters ages 18-49, support for the freedom to marry is 52 percent to 43 percent, according to the Republican National Committee’s “Growth

and Opportunity Project” report, which takes a critical look at why the party lost the last presidential election. By coming out in support of same-sex marriage, Clinton is clearly keeping her options open for a presidential run in 2016. And she has an excellent record working to expand LGBT rights around the world during her four-year tenure as secretary of state. In the announcement, which she made directly in an HRC video, Clinton argues that gays and lesbians are “full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law.” The timing of Clinton’s statement was “natural,” a spokesperson told CBS News, given the Supreme Court’s upcoming arguments. The Supreme Court is expected to announce its decisions in June – but no matter the outcome we can be confident that public support for same-sex marriage is growing as more states are in line to pass marriage equality laws and public opinion continues in our favor.t

Horrified by anti-Islamic Muni ads by Daniel Redman

e, the undersigned, are members and allies of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community in the city of San Francisco. The LGBT community is a vibrant patchwork of many communities, and this includes LGBT people in the Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities. Like many, we are horrified by the hateful signs posted on city buses attacking our Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian neighbors. The purpose of the signs is clear: to use racist and vicious language to tell Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian people that they are less than human, that they are not welcome, and to support violence and hatred against them. These signs are symptomatic of an atmosphere of prejudice across the country that we must all fight. We’ve seen the results of this dangerous rhetoric. Hate crimes against Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian people remain at a decade high. A racist gunman attacked a Sikh temple in Wisconsin last year and brutally murdered six people. Muslim students form the largest category of religious discrimination cases handled by the Department of Justice’s education division. A recent newspaper article stated, “in today’s hateful climate, a sense of fear pervades ... fear of violence, bigotry, and hate that might cost [people] their lives.” Against the forces of hate, we must stand even stronger in solidarity. In our own LGBT communities we refuse to forget our own history facing hateful speech and the terrible consequences of that speech. For decades, LGBT people have faced violence and discrimination because of rhetoric that painted us as less than human and as a

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The anti-Islamic ads seen in recent days on Muni buses have provoked criticism from many in San Francisco, including LGBT leaders.

threat. Anita Bryant’s “Save the Children” campaign painted us as sexual predators. The fight to exclude LGBT people from the military argued that we posed a threat to national security. Our opponents demonize our families – in all their various shapes and sizes – and cast the mere right to be a parent or partner as a threat. That rhetoric has brutal consequences. There were 1,500 hate crimes last year against LGBTQ people across the country. Names like Tyra Hunter, Matthew Shepard, Billy Jack Gaither, and Brandy Martell ring in our ears. Hateful speech gives permission and justification for violent actions. And hateful signs targeting Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian people do the same thing. Harvey Milk – the city’s first gay supervisor – had a guiding philosophy as an activist. It was that all social justice movements are interconnected and that the fight for LGBTQ equality could not be pursued in a vacuum.

In a 1979 speech rallying people to fight off the Briggs initiative that would have thrown LGBT teachers out of the public schools, he called on his audience not just to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation, but to proclaim – in his words – “No more racism, no more sexism, no more ageism, no more hatred. No more.” If these hateful signs prompt us to a more fervent embrace of that goal, we will have truly defeated their purpose.t Daniel Redman is the legal issues workgroup chair of the San Francisco LGBT Aging Policy Task Force (title for identification purposes only). Co-signers include San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón; Supervisors David Campos and Scott Wiener; Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center; Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Rebecca Prozan, director of community relations for the district attorney’s office; and Theresa Sparks, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (title for identification purposes only).

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Muni disgraces us all

As a longtime San Francisco resident active in the creation of gay culture, it’s difficult for me to say if my disgust outweighs my personal dismay, or if disappointment trumps my outrage at the news that Muni is allowing 10 buses to trumpet hateful anti-Islamic messages. To use the phrase “how dare someone” is strong stuff. That said, how dare Muni – or anyone – disparage anyone else on the basis of their race, gender, sexual preference, national origin, faith, or privately held ethos? And if we allow an action which Joseph Goebbels might design or sanction, who’s to be targeted next? Catholics? “Illegals?” Laplanders? The reaction of politically correct “keepers of the flame” would be predictable if Muni flaunted anti-gay ads. The Anti-Defamation League or American Civil Liberties Union would – rightly – jump in if Muni slurred Jews or blacks. Well, as this is our home, every single activist and leader should weigh in right now or lose forever any claim to credibility. That the city has come to this is a sad sign of compromising its founding spirit of tolerance and inclusion. But a relevant community cannot fail to defend Muslim friends and neighbors from ugly public assault, every bit as much as we’d defend gay kids from schoolyard bullies. The message of history is clear: what comes to one, comes to us all. For Muni to knowingly and consciously collude in displaying such venom is a disgrace and degradation to us all. As such, it’s urgent that every decent person condemn such viciousness.

Inappropriate cover

Generally, I am a fan of the Bay Area Reporter and its quality reporting. But the recent above-the-fold photo is below what I expect from you [“Porn company faces new barebacking complaints,” March 7]. The newspaper is displayed in stands on public sidewalks and the image is not appropriate for all of those who might see it. Would it have been the end of the world to put it below the fold or on page 2? Nicolas King San Francisco

The naked truth

Regarding Victoria A. Brownworth’s column “Positively palpable” [Lavender Tube, February 28]: who is this “cop who’s constantly naked on Golden Boy? You mean the title character played by Theo James? I wish. I watched and waited till the third episode just to see him shirtless for all of four or five seconds. James may be even more beautiful than Matt Bomer, probably TV’s hottest actor (until now). Is it that you have seen other episodes that have yet to air? I will keep watching if so. Also, there are no hot guys on The Voice – not with the bar set so high by Mr. James and Mr. Bomer. Sorry, A. Levine. Anthony Rhody San Francisco

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Nudists resubmit complaint compiled by Cynthia Laird

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group of urban nudists last week filed an amended complaint in federal court challenging San Francisco’s nudity ban. The plaintiffs allege that arrests of nudists made last month were illegal under the First and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The five nudists – Mitch Hightower, Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, George Davis, Rusty Mills, and Russell “Trey” Allen III – contend in their complaint that the nudity ban is unconstitutional and has been selectively enforced. Taub, Davis, and Allen were cited for being naked in front of City Hall on February 1, the day the law went into effect. Davis and Taub were also cited following a February 27 incident when they were naked at 17th and Castro streets. All have pleaded not guilty. The new complaint is based on those February 1 and 27 incidents. Allen has joined the other four nudists, who filed the initial challenge to the law. In a statement, the group said that there were no arrests at two other actions, filming for a parody porn on February 17 and the World Naked Bike Ride on March 9. “Police were present but no arrests were made and no one was cited, even though WNBR was not a permitted ride,” the group stated in a news release. On January 29, U.S. District Court Judge Edward M. Chen denied a request from the urban nudists seeking an injunction against the law. They had argued it violated their free speech rights and that the city has no authority to tell people they should be clothed. He dismissed the lawsuit. Despite his rejection of their initial lawsuit, Chen left the door open for the nudists to re-file their legal challenge after the law went into effect. He had hinted during the oral arguments in the case of just such a possibility, questioning what impact the nudity ban would have on constitutionally protected political speech. “This ruling does not bar plaintiffs from bringing a class claim in an asapplied challenge, if they can ...,” wrote Chen. A spokesman for the city attorney’s office had no immediate comment on the amended complaint. Under the law, exposing one’s genitals, perineum or anal region is

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George Davis was among the activists detained by San Francisco police in front of City Hall on February 1, the first day of the city’s nudity ban.

banned on city streets, transit vehicles and at Muni stations. Children under 5 years old are exempted and the restrictions do not apply to a woman’s breasts nor ban such things as chaps or other ass-bearing clothing.

EQCA marriage

Several LGBT advocacy organizations will host a free training on the “Breakthrough Conversation” Saturday, March 23 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at 730 Polk Street in San Francisco. The Breakthrough Conversation is a research-based advocacy project that was launched by Equality California in September 2011 as a way for LGBT people to continue working to shift public opinion on equality issues, including same-sex marriage. Now, other organizations are also involved, including Our Family Coalition, Gay-Straight Alliance Network, and API Equality of Northern California. During the training, participants will learn the tools, messages, and skills necessary to change hearts and minds of family, friends, and neighbors on LGBT equality. Such messaging can lead to a reduction in antiLGBT prejudice, deepen people’s personal relationships, and build lasting support for LGBT equality, according to an event flier. To sign up for the training, visit http://tinyurl.com/BCPTrainingReg. For more information, contact Our Family Coalition at

Castro Community on Patrol, the volunteer neighborhood crime prevention group, will offer a training session on Sunday, March 24. People are asked to arrive by 12:45 p.m. for the session, which will go until 4:30. Greg Carey with CCOP said the training is for new volunteers or for existing volunteers who need to re-certify. The training will take place in the Castro Community Meeting Room, above the Bank of America branch at 501 Castro Street. To reserve a spot, email training@ castropatrol.org.

Botanical watercolors benefit AIDS grove

During the upcoming Macy’s Flower Show, an array of botanical watercolor illustrations will be on display and for sale in the Tabletop Department (sixth floor) at Macy’s Union Square to benefit the National AIDS Memorial Grove. The illustrations, made by Mary L. Harden and master artists in the Mary L. Harden School of Botanical Illustration, portray a delicate and plaintive view of hydrangeas, magnolias, and other flowers found in the grove in Golden Gate Park. The illustrations are the product of an eight-session workshop at the Miraloma Club House in Diamond Heights. The exhibition occurs in conjunction with the Macy’s Flower Show, which runs from March 24 until April 7, and includes live illustration and shopping assistance from the artists themselves. Harden, whose workspace often contains several graphite pencils and a palette caked in watercolors, is a former special education teacher for the San Francisco Unified School District and a curator for the Conservatory of Flowers. There will also be a seminar about botanical watercolor illustration March 27 at 6 p.m. and live artist sessions March 30 and April 6 from noon to 2 p.m., all on the sixth floor of Macy’s.

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New bills

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would end the state taxation of the reimbursement pay that employers are providing to their workers in same-sex relationships. The bill would apply to both private sector workers and employees of public entities.

Other proposals

Other out lawmakers have also proposed bills. State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced SB 635, which could lead to expanded bar hours. Current state law limits the sale of alcohol between 6 a.m. and 2 a.m. for on- and off-sale establishments. Leno’s proposal would allow a county to submit a local plan to the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to extend hours up to 4 a.m. The expanded hours would apply only to on-sale establishments such as restaurants and nightclubs. It would not apply to off-sale establishments such as liquor stores. “This legislation would allow destination cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego to start local conversations about the possi-

Walesa Street

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period, according to city policies. The Bay Area Reporter was unable to reach Jessica Waddell Lewinstein, Waddell’s daughter, for comment by press time.

Long time coming

This isn’t the first time Lech Walesa Street has come under attack. More than 20 years ago, in August 1990, activists from Queer Nation’s affiliated group Queer Planet tried to take down the street sign in protest of Walesa’s homophobic comments earlier that spring. Photographs from the action showed one of the signs hanging after activists succeeded in removing one screw. The activists were outraged after Walesa said that if he were elected president of Poland he would “eliminate” homosexuals from Polish society, reported the Los Angeles Times. The group also petitioned gay Supervisor Harry Britt, who was on the board at the time, to rename the street, but the attempt failed.

Grand marshal noms

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our 2013 slate of grand marshal nominees, whose work aligns with San Francisco Pride’s mission and our LGBT community’s values,” Pride board President Lisa Williams stated. Grand marshals typically appear in the Pride Parade and take part in other activities. In addition to individual community grand marshal there is an organizational community grand marshal. A pink brick prize also usually goes to a detractor of the LGBT community.

Individual community grand marshal

Individual community grand marshal nominee Mario Benton, 47, said he’s produced the Soul of Pride float for five years, among other accomplishments, and describes himself as a community leader. His work has included helping high-risk and foster care youth. His nomination signifies that one can be a leader “no matter what struggles or challenges you may face or you may have had in the past,” Benton, who’s gay, said.

bility of expanding nightlife and the benefits it could provide the community by boosting jobs, tourism and local tax revenue,” Leno stated. A report last year by San Francisco officials found that the nightlife industry generated $4.2 billion in spending in 2010 and at least $55 million in tax revenue for the city. Leno introduced a similar bill in 2004, when he was in the Assembly, but it died in committee. That proposal would have extended hours to 4 a.m. for all of San Francisco. The new bill gives cities and counties in the state the choice to work with the ABC to develop a plan for extended hours. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) is also invoking the ABC in one of his proposals. Ammiano’s AB 473 would establish a Division of Medical Cannabis Regulation and Enforcement within the ABC. The unit would be responsible for monitoring supply and sales of medical cannabis. In 1996, voters passed Proposition 215, the California Compassionate Use Act, which regulates medical marijuana. Many people use the drug to help ease pain related to HIV and AIDS and other illnesses.

“Where marijuana rules are concerned, California has been in chaos for way too long,” Ammiano stated. “Cities have been looking for state guidance, dispensaries feel at the mercy of changing rules, and patients who need medical cannabis are uncertain about how their legitimate medical needs will be filled. This is a concrete plan that will keep medical marijuana safe. We will get it into the right hands and keep it out of the wrong hands.” ABC spokesman John Carr said his agency hasn’t taken a position on either SB 635 or AB 473. “ABC will be available to provide facts and information to the Legislature as the legislative process moves forward,” Carr said in an email. Ammiano is also introducing a resolution asking the federal government to give the state “breathing room to get its medical cannabis house in order without the threat of new widespread prosecutions of medical providers,” according to his office. Starting in 2011, the Obama administration has worked to crack down on medical cannabis dispensaries in San Francisco and other cities around the state.t

A little more than 20 years later, Walesa spewed another round of anti-gay comments without apology. Instead of taking to the streets, LGBT activists and San Francisco city officials are looking to change the street name. “I’m very supportive of it,” said Mark L. Duran, 57, a gay man who was one of the original Queer Planet protesters in 1990. The activists were disappointed that the city didn’t take up the cause then, he said. “It’s wonderful, it’s late, but hooray, it became an issue for them again,” said Duran. In spite of Kim’s statement during Tuesday’s meeting that the street name change doesn’t take away from Walesa’s achievements, some LGBT activists feel that Walesa’s decades of homophobic and transphobic comments will forever tarnish his legacy. Others are relieved that the change is being made. Polish gay activist Gregory Czarnecki, the LGBTI program officer of Open Society Foundations, approved Kim’s proposal. “The international condemnation is very important,” Czarnecki said in an email interview. “In a city known

for championing LGBT rights, having his name on there is a scandal. It’s like naming a street Mugabe in Harlem: although he was a freedom fighter in Africa, his current record almost negates the past.” Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has long been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights. “[Walesa] needs to understand that the world is watching and his balloon needs to be deflated a bit,” Czarnecki added. San Francisco resident Julie Dorf, senior adviser of the Council for Global Equality, agreed. “I doubt that the name change will do much to change the bias of Lech Walesa, but it could provide solidarity to the LGBT movement in Poland,” said Dorf. “It’s so unfortunate that President Walesa has tarnished his long-standing, pro-democracy reputation with his regressive views on LGBT people.” She praised Poland’s elected LGBT members of parliament: Robert Biedron, who is gay, and Anna Grodzka, who is transgender. “They are fantastic politicians who not only deserve Walesa’s respect – but are symbols of the best of Polish democracy, which is what he fought so hard to achieve,” said Dorf.t

Solange Darwish, who is part of the family that’s owned the Cove Cafe on Castro since 1972, said she was “shocked” at her nomination. “I don’t think I do anything for the community that warrants this,” said Darwish, 63, a straight ally who came on board at the 434 Castro Street eatery in 1988. “I just have had this restaurant for many years and felt part of the community.” She acknowledges the history she’s seen, though, especially since so many in the neighborhood succumbed to AIDS throughout the 1980s and 90s. “I’ve been here so long, and known so many people that have passed on, and people that are still around,” said Darwish, who’s donated to many LGBT causes and thrown several benefits over the years. Veronika Fimbres, 60, a trans woman, said she’d like to have her parents ride down Market Street with her in the parade. She said it would show transgender people who don’t have family “that everybody’s not thrown out on their ear” because they’re LGBT. Fimbres, a licensed vocational nurse, was a veteran’s affairs com-

missioner for several years and worked at San Quentin State Prison. As a member of the San Francisco HIV Health Services Planning Council, the 26-year HIV/AIDS survivor said in her bio that she allocated funding for the first educational symposium to train providers to work with trans patients. Jason Galisatus, 19, is the executive director of the Bay Area Youth Summit, which is also an organizational grand marshal nominee. The Stanford University sophomore, who is gay, hopes that if he were chosen as a grand marshal, “it would send a message to youth and hopefully encourage them and inspire them to get involved in the community.” Michelle Kim, who is 24 and identifies as queer, said she’s “very passionate about queer youth activism and empowerment.” At UC Berkeley, Kim co-founded a Queer Youth Alliance. Through that group, she founded a statewide youth leadership development program for low-income queer youth. Nikolas Lemos, Ph.D., 42, is the forensic laboratory director and chief forensic toxicologist at the See page 16 >>

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Spring into sports by Roger Brigham

– You Can Play.”

Early April: Breakthrough in the NFL?

ou’ve finished marking up your tournament bracket, some madness having possessed you to pick Western Kentucky versus Iona for this year’s NCAA men’s basketball championship. Now it’s time to start marking your calendar for some upcoming dates.

March 23: Bulls hockey LGBT night

Did you notice the most successful season in Cal women’s basketball passed this year with no designated LGBT Night for the first time in recent memory? Don’t fret, we are not forgotten. The San Francisco Bulls ice hockey team, which earlier this year became the first ECHL (mid-level pro hockey league) team to make a You Can Play antibullying video, will hold its LGBTQ Night Saturday, March 23. (For those who don’t know, ECHL used to stand for East Coast Hockey League. How we ended up on the East Coast is anyone’s guess, but then in the NCAA tournament, San Jose is hosting East regional games featuring Nevada-Las Vegas, Cal, and Montana, and Midwest regional games featuring Oregon and New Mexico. Suffice it to say the world of sports is geographically challenged.) Back to the ice: the Bulls have put the message out there that anyone can play, and now we are invited to watch them prove it. The 7:15 p.m. game against the Stockton Thunder at the Cow Palace will include auctions of game-work Bulls jerseys. “We are grateful to the San Francisco Bulls for becoming the first ECHL team to join the You Can Play movement,” said Patrick Burke, founder of the organization. “Playing in a city with such a vibrant LGBT community, it is great to see that the Bulls are reaching out to embrace their fans, both gay and straight. We hope to see the city return the embrace.” The Bulls said $7 from each special $25 Dress Circle seat will be spilt between the You Can Play Project and San Francisco Pride. To order, contact Jason Breiter at JasonB@ sfbulls.com or (855) SF-BULLS. Specify LGBTQ Night tickets when ordering. The Bulls’ video is available on YouTube under the name “SF Bulls

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therapist who has helped transgender clients during their transition, and Sandra Hall, director of mental health at Lyon-Martin Health Services, which has long served both trans women and lesbian patients. “We think that the community can learn from the specific approaches to trans life,” said Englander. “While the issues can be different, they can also be similar.” The event will also feature a resource fair with informational booths by a number of local agencies and groups. Among those participating are the California Alliance for Retired Americans; the Asian Pacific Island Queer Women and Transgender Community; the city’s Department of Aging and Social Services; and Senior and Disability Action. Castro store Hot Cookie will be handing out samples, while Bolerium Books, where Englander works, will be advising people on how to donate or sell their papers of historical value. As the B.A.R. reported last week, historical archives need clear instruc-

One of the major themes to come out of a groundbreaking LGBT sports leadership summit at Nike international headquarters in Oregon last June was the call for activist organizations to work collaboratively to help topple the barriers of homophobia in sports. The months since then have seen numerous success stories, with a raft of celebrity public service announcements denouncing discrimination and bullying. It will be interesting to see how that plays out next month when the National Football League is scheduled to meet with representatives from You Can Play, Athlete Ally, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Initial reports of who will be speaking for the community included only one gay male athlete, former NFL player Wade Davis. But still waiting for a response from Commissioner Roger Goodell is the lesbian-founded the Last Closet project, which last year requested commissioners of all the major pro sports leagues to make video statements encouraging gay players to come out and pledging their support. One hates to be critical of well-intentioned steps forward. One hopes the NFL’s initial proposed invite list is colored more by geographic logistics than ingrained cultural bias and sexism. But considering the lengthy history of lesbian activism to fight homophobia and sexism in pro sports, and considering that almost all of the early work in the fight was conducted by women’s groups far more than men’s, there will be a kind of bitter irony if those first steps have ingrained in them a gender bias – however well intended.

April 27: April Follies dance championships

The 11th annual April Follies Same-Sex Dancesport Classic will be held Saturday, April 27, at the Just Dance Ballroom, 2500 Embarcadero in Oakland. The longest-running same-sex dance competition in North America is offering expanded country, western, and Argentine tango portions in the competition. Competition is open to dancers regardless of sexual orientation.

tions in a deceased person’s will or other directive in order to accept their collected ephemera and papers. Without such documentation, it can be difficult to safeguard such material. “We will be encouraging LGBT elders to donate their papers and remembrances,” said Englander, “or sell them if you really need the money.” The conference is free and open to the public. It will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 30 at the LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street, San Francisco.t

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Couples must be either two men; two women; or a woman leading a man. Some same-sex couples switch who leads and who follows, sometimes even mid-dance. For reverserole couples (female lead, male follow), the female must lead at least 75 percent of the time. Organizers say this rule is to allow role-switching while reserving the space for those couples who are not permitted to enter mainstream competitions. Tickets and more information are available at http://www.aprilfollies. com.

April 28: Last Closet fundraiser

The above-mentioned Last Closet, whose campaign effort was endorsed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (see November 1, 2012 Jock Talk),

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Members of the SF Bulls hockey team participated in a You Can Play anti-bullying video, including, from left, goaltender Thomas Heemskerk, forward Hans Benson, and goaltender Taylor Nelson.

is continuing its fight to get the commissioners on record by approaching team owners and other cities, with talks in Chicago coming up next. They’re also collect-

ing sponsors for a fundraising party that will take place at the Lookout bar, 3600 Market Street, San Francisco, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April 28.t

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MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-03372760

In the matter of the application of: VICTORIA LEIGH ROBINSON, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner VICTORIA LEIGH ROBINSON, is requesting that the name VICTORIA LEIGH ROBINSON, be changed to VICTORIA ROBINSON SALEEM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 30th of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034941500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF HUSTLERS SOFTBALL TEAM, 4323 20TH ST. #7, SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Reuben Arthur Brown. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/04/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034942000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOUNDS GET AROUND, 744 OAK ST. #8, SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Thomas E. Kilduff. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034934600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LTI BOOKING, 251 KEARNY ST. 4TH FL., SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Liftopia, Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034936400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VALOR SECURITY SERVICES, 590 BUSH ST., SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Mydatt Services Inc. (OH). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034935400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VALOR SECURITY SERVICES, 750 SUTTER ST., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Mydatt Services Inc. (OH). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/09. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034937300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OCEAN BEACH YOGA SF, 3925 A JUDAH ST., SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed Christina Beer & David Beer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/01/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034939500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NEAT ASIAN THINGS, 1825 POST ST., SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a trust, and is signed Steven T. Taylor, Shuji Shimada & Rieko Shimada. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/13/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549336 In the matter of the application of: MERCEDES KEARNS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner MERCEDES KEARNS, is requesting that the name MERCEDES KEARNS, A.K.A. MERCEDES MORGAN KEARNS, A.K.A. MERCEDES M. KEARNS, be changed to MERCEDES KEARNS HOGLUND. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Rm. 514 on the 9th of May 2013 at 9:00 am 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: YAN YANG BEAUTY SALON, 864 JACKSON ST., SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Timothy Vong. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034942800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE MADELEINE, 149 NEW MONTGOMERY ST., SF, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed San Francisco Madeleine Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/04/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034942900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE MADELEINE, 300 CALIFORNIA ST., SF, CA 94104. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed San Francisco Madeleine Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/09/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034943000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE MADELEINE, 43 O’FARRELL ST., SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed San Francisco Madeleine Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/99. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034950500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AVRORA LOGISTICS, 3626 GEARY BLVD. #206, SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Atlant Consulting Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/07/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034941700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VIRGIL’S SEA ROOM, 3152 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Triple Digits, Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034947000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LITTLE PAPER PLANES, 855 VALENCIA ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Little Paper Planes, Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/13.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: YAN YANG BEAUTY SALON, 864 JACKSON ST., SF, CA 94133. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Yan Miao Chen. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/01/11.

MAR 14, 21, 28, APR 4, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGE lICENSE Dated 03/08/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: JAE SUP CHOI. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 2101 INGALLS ST., SF, CA 94124-3302. Type of license applied for

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41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING PlACE MAR 21, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGE lICENSE Dated 03/15/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: L’ACAJOU LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 498 9TH ST. #C, SF, CA 94103-4411. Type of license applied for

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549307 In the matter of the application of: EDMOND PENDLETON GAINES III, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner EDMOND PENDLETON GAINES III, is requesting that the name EDMOND PENDLETON GAINES III be changed to COOPER GAINES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 514, Dept. 514 on the 30th of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034958000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AL JAZEER MARKET, 1209-1211 SUTTER ST., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Mohamed A. Abdullah. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034948300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CUT TO CONTRAST, 1907 OCEAN AVE., SF, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Jerry Jay Tupas. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/06/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/06/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034970900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRECISION HAIR DESIGN, 1622 POLK ST., SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Yan Li Lu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034965900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMAGINARY DEN, 640 MASON ST. #503, SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Karan Jain. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034964800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AARON SIGN & CONSTRUCTION, 4 DORMAN AVE., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Harun Cetin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034968900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EMPEROR’S KITCHEN, 418 LARKIN ST., SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Ben Gu Yu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034965500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE HAPPY EGG COMPANY, 50 FRANCISCO ST. #203, SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Noble Foods Inc. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034945600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D&H SUSTAINABLE JEWELERS, 2323 MARKET ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Daunell and Higgins Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/05/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034967400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REGROUP, 709 NOE ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Dais, Inc. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034956200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YOUR COMMUNITY FOODS, 1711 REVERE AVE., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed The Center for Self Improvement and Community Development (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/08/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/13.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034971100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARROW, 256 SUTTER ST. 4TH FL., SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Queen of Clubs LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034969300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TAPS, 1516 BROADWAY, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Red Stick Enterprises, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/13.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-031881300 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: EMPEROR’S KITCHEN, 418 LARKIN ST., SF, CA 94102. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Sharon V. Tran. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/27/09.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-033292100 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: AL DESIGN, 239 CERVANTES BLVD. #1, SF, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Ana Lazaro Campos. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/24/11.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-032975000 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: MISSION DELI & CAFE, 5457 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94112. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by Po Ka Yim & Yim Fan Li. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/17/10.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FIlE A-031312300 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: FRANCES LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING, 1484 33RD AVE., SF, CA 94122. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Frances Woo. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 07/17/08.

MAR 21, 28, APR 4, 11, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT (“District”), 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, is advertising for technical proposals for the Recovery of Sales Tax Revenue Collection Services for the District, Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 6M5059, on or about March 14, 2013, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED The District is soliciting the services of a contractor to provide Sales Tax Revenue Collection Services. A Pre-Proposal Meeting will be held on Thursday, March 28, 2013. The Pre-Proposal Meeting will convene at 10:00 AM in the District’s Offices located at 300 Lakeside Drive, 18th Floor, in Conference Room No. 1800, Oakland, California 94612. At the Pre-Proposal Meeting the District’s Non-Discrimination Program for Subcontracting will be explained. All questions regarding MBE/WBE participation should be directed to Mr. Ron Granada, Office of Civil Rights at (510) 464-6103 – FAX (510) 874-7587. Prospective proposers are requested to make every effort to attend this only scheduled Pre-Proposal Meeting, and to confirm their attendance by contacting the District’s Senior Contract Administrator, Ms. Irene G. Gray, telephone (510) 464-6390, prior to the date of the Pre-Proposal Meeting. WHERE TO OBTAIN OR SEE RFP DOCUMENTS (Available on or after March 14, 2013) Copies of the RFP may be obtained: (1) By written request to the District’s Senior Contract Administrator, 300 Lakeside Drive, 17th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. Reference RFP No. 6M5059 and Title, and send requests to Fax No. (510) 464-7650. (2) By arranging pick up at the above address. Call the District’s Senior Contract Administrator, (510) 464-6390 prior to pickup of the RFP. (3) By E-mail request to the District’s Senior Contract Administrator, igray@ bart.gov. Dated at Oakland, California this 11th day of March, 2013. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 3/21/13 CNS-2457346# BAY AREA REPORTER

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San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office. He’s also a clinical professor at the UCSF School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Lemos, an out gay man, says he’s been promoting diversity and equality within San Francisco, UCSF, and the profession of forensic science for years. “This is very thrilling for me,” Lemos said of the Pride recognition. “Incredible, actually. It makes everything worthwhile to know that the community has honored me with this kind of nomination.” Amos Lim, who’s 42 and identifies as gay, emigrated from Singapore to the United States in 1999 to be with his husband, Mickey. The struggle to stay in the United States and have his marriage recognized led Amos to co-found Out4Immigration, which works to raise awareness about the discrimination same-sex binational couples face in the U.S. “If I am one of the grand marshals, I will be able to shine a light on immigration reform and why we need inclusive immigration reform,” Lim said. Bobbi Lopez, another nominee, shares similar concerns. Lopez is a U.S. citizen who emigrated from Mexico. She works with youth and families in the Tenderloin and Mission at La Raza Centro Legal, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and Service Employees International Union Local 1021. Lopez, who’s 34 and identifies as queer, said in an email to Pride that as a community grand marshal, she’d want to highlight “the right to marry and the right to immigrate to the U.S. to find safety and love.” She said these struggles in the LGBT community “are paramount for our equal rights.” Through the longtime bar Marlena’s, which she recently sold, Marlena – also known as Garry McClain – has given many nonprofits a place to raise money and have fun.

Actions

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Interested individuals are encouraged to check MEUSA’s website, http://www.marriageequality. org, for late breaking details on local events. As the clock winds down to the Supreme Court hearings, other

Justice

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are going unmet” in the community. His reason for pursuing law, he said, was to help people find justice and have their voices heard. “People should not pursue law thinking about power,” he said. Serving as an associate justice, if only for three months, for him is “not about power, but about fairness and justice.” Praising Brown for his commitment to judicial diversity, Humes said, “The court system is well represented with a diversity of judges, including African Americans, Hispanics, women, Asians, and LGBT

News Briefs

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cisco LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street, Tuesday, March 26 from 8 to 9 p.m. Woo’s book is a comprehensive look at the design of hookup apps and the potential effect they have on user behavior. The book argues that although such apps are efficient, there is still much room for improvement. Woo maintains that the solution for happier hookups starts by having users ask for features that better fit their needs. Woo will be reading from his book, which will be followed by a discussion on how to improve

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<< Community News Among other achievements, Schiller, owner of Randall Schiller Productions, was an original member of Beach Blanket Babylon and fought against anti-gay zealot Anita Bryant. William Walker, who’s 33 and identifies as gay, has helped to spearhead numerous organizations and initiatives to support the livelihoods of youth and their civic engagement. He’s also the student trustee for City College of San Francisco, which has been struggling to stay open. “I think being queer and being a person of color demonstrates that we do have role models that are people of color doing positive things in our community,” Walker said.

“It truly is a special honor to even be considered for this,” said Marlena, 73, whom many know as Absolute Empress XXV of San Francisco, Marlena the Magnificent. “I’m overwhelmed. I’m full of warmth from all the people who talk about it.” Paul Olsen, 58, has supported thousands of volunteers in raising funds and awareness for the HIV/ AIDS and the LGBT communities. Among other positions he’s held, Olsen is a former executive director of Under One Roof and board member of San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. “In my mind, I represent the people that are behind the scenes,” said Olsen, who’s gay. “Most of my work in the community for the last 20 years has been with volunteers who want to make a difference but are largely overlooked. I think my role has been in supporting them.” A native San Franciscan, Randall Schiller has seen a lot of history in the city. “As a gay man, I am grateful for the opportunity to have been able to work within my community for the past 40 years,” Schiller, 64, said in a statement. “As a nominee for community grand marshal I hope to bring a first hand account of the evolution of the LGBT Movement and culture to everyone.”

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events may be announced. Nationally, there will be a noon (Eastern time) rally on March 25. Retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, who is gay and married, and his daughter from his first marriage will speak. Planners could not confirm if other marriage equality supporters including former President Bill Clinton,

former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, or former Congressman Barney Frank would attend. The antigay National Organization for Marriage will have a counter-rally.t

people.” He said there are “better quality decisions with diversity on the court.” Of his long political friendship with Brown, Humes said his friend “was demanding and hard to work for.” When Brown was elected governor in 2010, Humes successfully led his transition team and ensured a smooth transfer of power from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Humes then served Brown for two years as his executive secretary for legal affairs, administration, and policy. Prior to that, Humes served four years as chief deputy to Brown when he was state attorney general. In this capacity, according to his bio from

the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom website, Humes, under Brown’s guidance, managed the 5,000 employees at the California Department of Justice. But Humes is more than a political ally to Brown. He holds a J.D. from the University of Denver and has practiced law for more than 30 years. His background impressed even Republicans. According to the Los Angeles Times, Schwarzenegger considered appointing Humes to the state bench before he joined the Brown gubernatorial campaign. Justice Humes and his husband, Jim Quinn, also an attorney, reside in San Francisco.t

hookup apps. The event is free.

LGBT Aging panel to hold housing hearing

The housing committee of the San Francisco LGBT Aging Policy Task Force will hold a hearing about the housing concerns of LGBT seniors Monday, April 1 from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 416 at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. Members of the LGBT community who are age 55 and over are welcome to testify about their housing concerns, no matter what type of housing they live in: a rent-controlled apartment, public housing or other subsidized units, Section 8, an SRO, a shelter, a

Bay Area Youth Summit seeks to empower LGBT and allied youth to make the difference in their communities by taking a leading role in the fight against bullying. Black Coalition on AIDS provides health education, advocacy, and services to San Francisco’s black community and works to reduce health disparities. BCA didn’t provide comment for this story. Horizons Foundation aims to fuel the LGBT movement by increasing support for diverse Bay Area nonprofits. “We’re both honored and thrilled by the nomination,” Executive Director Roger Doughty said in an email. “It’s been Horizons’ privilege to serve the Bay Area’s amazing LGBT community for 33 years, and Horizons’ board, staff, and volunteers are truly grateful to be considered for this special recognition.” For more than 25 years, Positive Resource Center has been responding to the community’s economic and health care needs by providing services that address the current needs of individuals disabled by HIV/AIDS or mental health conditions. PRC Executive Director Brett Andrews said in a phone call that the

For more on what to look for at the Supreme Court, see story online.

home that you own, etc. Homeless seniors are also invited to talk about issues in the city’s shelters or the difficulty of finding a place to live. Other areas of concern include: threats of eviction, actual eviction, or fear of eviction; landlord not doing repairs or tenant is afraid to ask for repairs; housing is not safe or secure or has an infestation; home is under threat of foreclosure or has been foreclosed. To testify, people should arrive at 9 a.m. and fill out a speaker’s card. For more information, contact Tommi Avicolli Mecca at (415) 703-8634.t Peter Hernandez contributed to this report.

nomination is “very meaningful to us. ... We are here to serve the community, and we’ve always said we’ll be here for the community for as long as the community needs us.”

Pink brick

The Boy Scouts of America is nominated for banning gays. Pope Francis could be recognized for describing same-sex marriage as the work of the devil and a “destructive attack on God’s plan,” according to Pride. Rebecca Alitwala Kadagak, the Ugandan Parliament speaker, is being considered for a pink brick for vowing to pass Uganda’s “Kill the Gays bill,” which seeks to make acts of homosexuality punishable by death or life imprisonment. Ballots may be cast at the following locations: 2 to 5 p.m., March 30 and April 13, Castro and 18th streets, San Francisco; 2 to 5 p.m., April 4, Ram Plaza at City Col-

lege of San Francisco; and 7 to 11 p.m., April 5, Bench and Bar, 510 17th Street, Oakland. Additional Bay Area polling places will be announced soon. Results from public polling will be reviewed and certified by Pride’s board during the week of April 15. Winners in each of the three categories will be announced by the end of April. In addition to the individual and organizational community grand marshals that the public selects, the Pride Committee’s electoral college, which includes all past community grand marshals, selects a grand marshal. Pride’s membership and board will also make their own selections for individual community grand marshals. There will be a total of up to five additional individual honorees. The 43rd annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade and celebration will be June 29-30. For more information, visit http://www.sfpride.org.t

Legal Notices>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549299 In the matter of the application of: NANCY BUTERA & TYRON JAMES HOOPER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioners NANCY BUTERA & TYRON JAMES HOOPER, is requesting that the name COLE HOOPER BUTERA, be changed to COLE SEBASTIAN BUTERA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 23rd of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549298 In the matter of the application of: JANE CASSELL SUMNER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JANE CASSELL SUMNER, is requesting that the name JANE CASSELL SUMNER be changed to AVERY GARLAND CASSELL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 23rd of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034874000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LIDES, 550-15 ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Armando Torres. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/01/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034918800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PER’S BIKE TOURS SAN FRANCISCO, 1200 17TH AVE. #301, SF, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Per Schwarzenberger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/21/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034912700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHICO’S GRILL, 3771 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Hilario Chico. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/19/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/19/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034911800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WIFI GRAPHICS, 737 POST ST. #1222, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Steven Haskins. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/14/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/19/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034893600

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034918100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KABUTO JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 5121 GEARY BLVD., SF, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed Eunpil Cho & Sunhee Cho. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/20/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/21/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034884300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NUTRITION FOR THE PEOPLE, 290 DE HARO ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Ellen Goodenow Garcia. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/03/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/06/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034888200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEOPLEFIRST REHABILITATION, 2043 19TH AVE., SF, CA 94116. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Kindred Rehab Services Inc. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/08/13.

FEB 28, MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION TO SEll AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGES Dated 02/26/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: VITTORIO D’URZO. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 150 W PORTAL AVE., SF, CA 94127-1306. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING PlACE MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 NOTICE OF APPlICATION TO SEll AlCOHOlIC BEvERAGES Dated 02/27/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: TAKEOFF U.S.A. INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 22 PEACE PLAZA #440, SF, CA 94115-3611. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SAlE BEER & WINE - EATING PlACE MAR 7, 14, 21, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CAlIFORNIA, COUNTy OF SAN FRANCISCO FIlE CNC13-549311 In the matter of the application of: ARIF SALEEM HUSSAIN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ARIF SALEEM HUSSAIN, is requesting that the name ARIF SALEEM HUSSAIN, be changed to ARIF HUSSAIN SALEEM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 30th of April 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 7, 14, 21, 28, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FIlE A-034935800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WIFI LEGAL GRAPHICS & CONSULTING, 737 POST ST. #1222, SF, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Steven Haskins. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/11/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLOCK BY BLOCK, 2801 LEAVENWORTH ST. 2ND FL, B-16, SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Mydatt Services Inc. (OH). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/13.

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Love Potion #9 by Philip Campbell

Nellie McKay brings her quirky song-stylings to the Venetian Room on March 23, which will have her sharing the stage with the choral group Chanticleer.

Chris Uzelac as John Wellington Wells in Lamplighter Music Theatre’s The Sorcerer.

Nellie McKay mixes it up

Kirk Stauffer

by Richard Dodds

ven by Gilbert & Sullivan standards, their third collaboration The Sorcerer has an improbable and contrived plot. Better to overlook the hasty dénouement and some of the creakier jokes. Concentrate on Sullivan’s melodious score, Gilbert’s droll tonguetwisters and barbed social satire, and just give in to the cheering silliness of it all. Lamplighters Music Theatre manages to do just that with their new “jewel box”

production, which opened last week at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. It takes pride of place in the cherished Bay Area troupe’s 60th anniversary season. Going with a semi-staged approach proves a smart decision by director Jane Erwin Hammett. Those tiresome little holes in the storyline, some of the snarkier humor, and challenges See page 18 >> David Allen

Jacks in Action, painted by Lou Rudolph in real time during a Jacks “meating” in 1983.

inger-songwriter Nellie McKay can give you answers that are straight, curvy, or looped. What may seem like the easiest questions bring the most opaque answers, while there is eloquent passion when conversation moves into trickier terrain. All this shouldn’t be too unexpected for a performer whose songs can spur double takes as you are pulled one way by popular-music riffs and another by lyrics that can slyly undermine expectations engendered. McKay was last seen in San Francisco last year at the Rrazz Room with her quirky song

cycle inspired by the movie I Want to Live, and she is returning this week as headliner of a concert that will also have her performing with the all-male choral group Chanticleer. The March 23 event is part of the Bay Area Cabaret series at the Fairmont Hotel’s Venetian Room. (Ticket info at www.bayareacabaret.org.) Chanticleer, San Francisco’s renowned a cappella chorus, is perhaps best known for its precise and formal renderings of a classical repertoire. There is curiosity as to how McKay plans to mix it up with the guys. “Oh boy, well, See page 19 >>

Jacks are wild! by John F. Karr

ock Art. That’s what the gallery show that celebrates the 30th anniversary of SF Jacks should most appropriately have been called. But hey, the occasion is momentous, so we went with a tonier title, The Art of Jacks. And by we, I mean myself, a co-founder, and the bunch of dedicated volunteer co-hosts who keep it up week after year. We’d been so busy playing with the pricks of a couple thousand guys over the years that we didn’t really notice the amount of art piling up. Things we commissioned. Things we created, and things that were presented to us. Paintings, sculptures, music, all sorts of graphics, and tons of photographs. This ain’t porn we got here – It’s Art! Although some of it does waft the divinely tainted scent of the pornicious.

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The Art of Jacks launches this Sunday, March 24, at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St., with an open house from 2 to 6 p.m., where viewers can expect to meet the artists. The show, which will run daily except Monday through March 31, focuses less on the history of Jacks, which is indeed colorful enough to entertain for hours, but on the Art. Some of which relates to that history. But you better believe the Cock Consciousness of this Art runs high. Alright, I can hear you asking, What’s Jacks? When my mom wanted to know what my ongoing Monday night commitment was, I told her I facilitated a men’s consciousness-raising therapy group (so when we were looking for a new place See page 25 >>

<< Out There

18 • Bay Area Reporter • March 21-27, 2013

Name-dropping through life by Roberto Friedman

igeon in a Crosswalk author Jack Gray (Simon & Schuster) admits, “It would not be unprecedented for me to throw the name of one Anderson Cooper around.” But that’s acceptable because Gray is an Emmy-winning producer for CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, he knows and loves the Coop, and his book about career and personal highlights is one hilarious gay romp through celebrity encounters both show-biz and news-biz. The roll call of the famous begins with Joan Kennedy cracking wise about her inlaws and CNN anchor John Roberts doing whip-its at work, but quickly goes Hollywood (“Ricky Gervais stopped by our table, because that’s what happens when I agree to go somewhere other than Olive Garden”) and NYC (Gray’s dog Sammy “once tried to sniff Calvin Klein as he walked by”). Along the

way he has Twitter feuds with Star Jones (“If you’re ever tempted to make a Twitter joke about Star Jones, I’d suggest you reconsider and find a more relaxed subject, like the Taliban”) and finds solidarity with other urban survivors (the squab of the title). Gray was an on-site producer for CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin for the now-famous incident when, inadvertently live on air, Griffin shouted to some loud hecklers in Time Square, “Shut up! You know what, screw you, I’m working. I don’t go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth!” “No one remembers anything else from that night,” writes Gray. “No one recalls that the show that year also featured a performance from a musician who, at that point, was still unknown to many people. I wonder whatever happened to that Lady Gaga.” He also has a good perspective

on broadcasting inanities. “What bothers me is how news organizations pander to people using social media. It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, here’s our Twitter address, follow us for breaking news alerts.’ It’s quite another to solicit tweets and Facebook comments from random people and then read them on-air as if they’re crucial. You might as well just say, ‘Our show sucks but stay tuned because we might say your name on TV.’” And remember to “like” us on Facebook. Out There is an insatiable reader, and let’s face it, 211 pages of light essays, however sassy, is not going to fill us. So we also recently plowed through Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central) (espionage from Cold War Russia to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan), The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott (Graywolf) (his girl-

friends beat him up), and Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron (FSG) (heartbreak and sorrow: good times!).

The Sorcerer

From page 17

in pacing are all diminished by focusing on the author’s (and the company’s) strengths. The justly admired Lamplighters Orchestra is right up there onstage, gamely joining in the action and replacing the customary old-fashioned sets with a lively human backdrop that adds impact to Melissa Wortman’s beautifully detailed and attractive costumes. The only downside is the replacement of resident music director Baker Peeples on the podium by a slightly less persuasive James Campbell. The ordinarily robust and buoyant strings

Listening to and loving: Patricia Barber, Smash (Concord) (“Discombobulation and I can cook up a storm/ I’m M i ch e l a n g e l o ’s David, tested and worn”), Ludovico Einaudi, In a Time Lapse (Ponderosa), Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960), and David Bowie, The Next Day (Columbia) (“Here I am, not quite dying,/ My body left to rot in a hollow tree,/ Its branches throwing shadows on the gallows for me.”). Now that’s an upbeat playlist! Finally, we know a TV star, too. Former B.A.R. arts writer Robert Julian is starring in a new 13-episode reality-TV series on Canadian television that was filmed entirely on location in Palm Springs, where he lives. The show is called Golden Gays, and it debuts this Friday at 10 p.m. on Canada’s Slice cable network. Slice is sort of Canada’s answer to Bravo, as they run all Bravo’s Housewives series. This is the first reality-TV show dealing with the lives of lesbian and gay seniors, and wouldn’t you know it, Julian is sort of the show’s Carrie

sounded a little thin on opening night, and there were some occasional gaffes from other members of the orchestra. It was still nothing much to fuss about, and Maestro Peeples was busy elsewhere in his handsome costume as the befuddled Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh. The story is sort of a Gilbertian take on Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love. There is a love potion and some pretty arias and duets, rollicking choruses and funny patter songs, but beyond that the sardonic wit of the librettist diverts and goes more than a little wacky when John Wellington Wells, of J.W. Wells & Co., Family Sorcerers, is introduced. The magician-charlatan is called in to dope the tea at a village gathering with the Victorian equivalent of a Roofie. Merriment predictably ensues, but there is a dark side, and what started as an egalitarian solution to prejudiced class distinctions has some unexpected and unpleasant results. Get it? Got it? Good! I won’t try to describe further. Sorting out the mess and making some dramatic sense of it is in the capable hands of the director, and even if Hammett can’t make it wholly convincing, at least she guides us to the semi-comprehensible finale, with some very funny stage business and performances along the way. Hammett has tacked a rather gratuitous mimed Prologue onto this production (something about a group of provincial actors getting ready backstage for a performance of The Sorcerer) that is only a mildly amusing diversion and distracts the audience during the Overture. She settles in and gets back to business with some of the best choreography and crowd control of the season for the rest of the show. A simple ramp running from a bare backstage platform allows for some seamless entrances and exits, and gives added punch to the stage picture overall. The curtain-like

Bradshaw. The plan is to syndicate Golden Gays internationally after its Canadian debut. For a look at three promo reels for Golden Gays that parody classic TV sitcoms, go to www.youtube.com/user/GoldenGay sOnSlice?feature=mhee.t

On the web This week, find arts writer Tim Pfaff’s review of gay composer George Benjamin’s Written on Skin online at ebar.com.

screen at the rear showcases the efficient projections and lighting design by Robert Ted Anderson. When shadows of the spirits were displayed in the incantation scene, the delighted audience broke into applause at this clever economy of means. The cast could hardly be bettered. As the title character, Chris Uzelac adds to his growing repertoire with another naturally amusing and well-sung portrayal. He may be a little more youthful than might be expected, but he is convincing, and even manages to drop his aitches with a thoroughly credible rustic accent. The Sir Marmaduke of Robby Stafford and the Lady Sangazure of Megan Stetson (in her Lamplighters debut) play off each other beautifully. Their every encounter is hilarious, and they both sing with eloquence as well. The requisite couple of young lovers is also essayed with vocal ease by Robert Vann (a regular Lamplighters go-to tenor) and Linda Thompson Roush as Aline, Lady Sangazure’s daughter. Her character holds out from taking the potion until love gets the best of her, and the resulting match with the Vicar proves a hoot. Baker Peeples is actually rather sweet and endearing as Dr. Daly, so their pairing is less odious than might be expected. In smaller roles, Kelly Powers as Mrs. Partlet, a pew opener, and Rose Frazier as Constance, her daughter (a pew opener’s daughter?) make a happy meal of their parts, and both sing especially well. There is a lot to be said for taking the jewels out of the box and displaying them in a relatively spare setting. The historically strong production values of the Lamplighters only glow with added luster.t The Sorcerer continues its run at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Sat., March 23, 8 p.m., and Sun., March 24, 2 p.m. Go to: www. lamplighters.org.

Theatre>>

March 21-27, 2013 • Bay Area Reporter • 19

Interview with a titan by Richard Dodds

n theatrical jargon, a two-hander is another way of saying a twocharacter play. Fallaci is a twohander with one hand tied behind its back too much of the time. That both hands are not capable of comparable sparring might seem a given of the situation: a young, inexperienced woman sent by her newspaper’s editor to interview a titan among interviewers, Oriana Fallaci. It’s an intentional setup, creating a dramatic arc as tables are turned, but that doesn’t acquit the often-mechanical dialogue that playwright Lawrence Wright has given the reporter, a challenge for any performer and one that isn’t quite met in Berkeley Rep’s worldpremiere production. On the other hand, the good news is that the other half of this two-hander – that would be the Fallaci character – feels to have a genuine life force, and with Concetta Tomei’s convincing, entertain-

ing performance, Fallaci earns its 95 minutes on the stage. In addition to his playwriting career, Wright is also an investigative journalist with bestselling books examining such hazardous subjects as Scientology and Al Qaeda, with efforts at dispassionate balance. You can see in Fallaci that he is envious and maybe a little appalled by his subject’s disregard for objectivity in pursuit of a good story. If truth has sometimes taken a backseat as well, as her young interrogator suggests, Fallaci’s ultimate defense is that “no one has sued me.” In fact, Fallaci was sued for her published attacks on Islamic culture and religion in two post-9/11 works, but the first scene takes place in 2000, and the non-litigants who have famously been pierced by her pen include Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. One of the play’s most vivid scenes comes in Tomei’s recreation of her interview with Khomeini, in which she very much inserts herself

into the story. Watching Tomei as the querulous, self-involved Fallaci brings to mind Maria Callas as rendered by Terrence McNally in Master Class. Both are divas past their primes whose proffered help to a young generation is laden with jealous resentment. “You have to find the lie” in any interview subject’s selfcreated story, Fallaci tells her young charge, who quickly picks up on the advice to poke and prod in what become exchanging volleys over a net largely comprised of father issues. The device of using a journalist character as a means to pull biographical information from the main character is hardly new, but Wright raises the stakes by making the reporter an Iranian-American who lashes out at Fallaci in the post9/11 scene for using her exalted position to broadly condemn the Islamic world. Although this gives the reporter more of her own identity, Marjan Neshat can only occasionally convince us that she isn’t just

Joan Marcus

Nellie McKay takes a break from her New York performances with Bill Irwin and David Shriner in Old Hats for her San Francisco concert with Chanticleer at the Venetian Room.

Nellie McKay

From page 17

we’re hoping to do a Talking Heads song,” she said. “That should mix it up a little bit, and well, I hope we can mix it up. Gee, I don’t know.” Pressed for a bit more details, she said, “I arranged the Talking Heads song myself, specifically for them. And I think we’re doing the old standard ‘Yesterdays.’ I heard them perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it was beautiful.” As for her own songs that she plans to sing, McKay offered that it will include “a little bit of this and a little bit of that.” That incorporates a wide range of possibilities, considering that

she has released five albums (two of which are double-CD collections) since 2004. Most are made up of self-written songs, though a 2009 CD paid tribute to the Doris Day songbook. The CD’s title, Normal as Blueberry Pie, suggests an irony when viewed through the subjects McKay’s own songs navigate with a sometimes unnerving ambiguity. McKay (pronounced Muh-KYE) was not to be cajoled into describing her own musical

identity, but she did respond to specific suggestions like subversive (“I like subversive”) and perplexing (“Well, that’s all right”). But much of what isn’t revealed in an interview can be sussed out from her lyrics, which, set to a kind of hybrid light pop-bluesy-jazzy-folk music, may invoke gender issues, animal rights, cranky relationships, and self-esteem. “What’s the point of making something if you’re not saying anything?” she said of any messages in her music. “But I’m not sure that music does change anything. Laura Bush is a big fan of Bob Dylan, so go figure.”

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Concetta Tomei, as journalist Oriana Fallaci, exchanges a rare lighthearted moment with a young reporter (Marjan Neshat) in the world premiere of Lawrence Wright’s Fallaci at Berkeley Rep.

reciting lines. The estimable Oskar Eustis, a former SF director who now runs the New York Public Theatre, has staged Fallaci with a simplicity on Robin Wagner’s evocatively cluttered apartment set. The simplicity, and the set, give way in the final scene that practically has the title char-

acter ascending bodily to heaven, a signal from the playwright that he has decided on which side of history Fallaci belongs.t

To do her SF show, McKay is taking a quick break from her co-starring performance with Bill Irwin and David Shriner in Old

Hats. The held-over off-Broadway production has Irwin and Shriner returning to their clownSee page 26 >>

Fallaci will run at Berkeley Rep through April 21. Tickets are $29$89. Call (510) 647-2949 or go to www.berkeleyrep.org.

<< Film

20 • Bay Area Reporter • March 21-27, 2013

Road warriors by David Lamble

t took one madman almost a decade to join up with another, and still another decade to get the essence of their inscrutable bond and the adventures it inspired into

a publishable book. Called a novel for lack of a more accurate term, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has, since 1957, excited millions of readers with its unparalleled account of an America still hung over from the Great Depression.

On page 44, Kerouac’s narrator/ alter ego Sal Paradise observes his best buds Dean and Carlo sitting “on the bed cross-legged and [looking] straight at each other. They began with an abstract thought, discussed it; reminded each other of another abstract point forgotten in the rush of events. “‘We’ll just have to sleep now. Let’s stop the machine.’ “‘You can’t stop the machine!’ yelled Carlo at the top of his voice. “‘I walked out and took a trolley to my apartment, and Carlo Marx’s papier-mache mountains grew red as the great sun rose from the eastward plains.” You don’t have to venture far into this mind-bending American original to grasp how hard it would be to dumb this sucker down into a mere movie. Some of the best moments in the film are Sal alone, incensed with himself for wearing a most impractical pair of shoes in a torrential downpour; and Sal observing a Mississippi-born hobo tenderly

Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty in director Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel On the Road.

mothering a mysterious blonde teen boy on the back of a truck hurtling through the night. Director Walter Salles proved he was up to creating a road-buddy classic with 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries. In it, Gael Garcia Bernal escaped the clichés of Che Guevara. With Diaries, Sales had the benefit of Latin American locations largely unchanged both in their natural beauty and wretched poverty from 1952, when Guevara and his best friend ventured forth on an unreliable bike.

With On the Road, the America Kerouac crossed in the late 1940s with his buddy Neal Cassady, at nearly 100 m.p.h. in a sleek Hudson Hornet, has vanished, physically and spiritually. Today’s young fans of the book would likely be more than a little put-off by their heroes’ feckless self-absorption, casual criminality and utter disregard for the woman they picked up and dropped off along the road with gleeful abandon. See page 26 >>

Scholastic situations by David Lamble

irector Paul Weitz’s quirky but laugh-out-loud funny mainstream comedy Admission finds three genius comic actors – Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, and Lily Tomlin – in perfect rhythm. Fey’s Portia Nathan is a cog in the Princeton University Admissions Office, where she pokes through 10lb. application packs from emotionally needy prep-school over-achievers. Nathan is living with a stuffy prick from the English Dept. (Michael Sheen) who’s about to dump her for an equally uptight British academic. Dropping in on an absurdly bucolic alternative school run by an ex-classmate (Rudd), Nathan is lobbied to choose a supposedly prodigy boy with wretchedly bad grades (Nat Wolf). Nathan’s relationship woes and her thus-far barren womb are a reaction to the example set by her old-school feminist/back-tonature mom (Tomlin), who keeps a loaded shotgun at her rundown farm, where she lets Afghans forage in the woods for their supper. By God, it all works, and in the end we have cribbed enough tricks to game our favorite niece or nephew into Princeton. The We and the I In French-born director Michel Gondry’s experimental narrative The We and the I, 37 kids from a Bronx afterschool project spend 90 minutes giving each other verbal noogies during a long bus ride on the last day of school. The non-formula formula allows real-appearing kids to get a

lot off their chests – about teachers, parents, but mostly each other. A girl in a Day-Glo blonde wig allows the contents of a gumball machine to spill as she races after the bus. She spends the next 40 minutes hanging with three class bullies at the back of the bus. Bummed out by their cruel vibe, the girl tosses off her wig and seeks life counseling from the jolly bus driver (reallife MTA employee Mia Lobo), who advises her to toughen herself up by joining the Army. Denounced by one prickly critic as a faux doc, The We and the I is actually a special sort of fiction. Director/co-writer Gondry got 37 kids to riff on their lives, and from these tidbits distilled a series of vignettes spun out mostly by the people they’re about as the bus crawls through late-afternoon traffic. The story that should appeal to queer filmgoers is packaged as two mini-melodramas: two gay boys, Brandon and Luis, first kiss defiantly, then proceed to have a spat and potential breakup. Luis confides to some girls on the bus about a social game he and Brandon are playing. The game flows from Luis’s relationship “crime,” cheating on Brandon with a girl from school. “It’s my story, I did it. Brandon’s actually acting as me, and I’m acting as him. We kind of like switched roles to see each other’s perspective.” “So you’re telling me that in order to fix your relationship, you decide to cheat.” “No, to salvage whatever we have left. He’s playing out my fuck-ups to See page 26 >>

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Tina Fey stars as Portia Nathan in director Paul Weitz’s laugh-outloud comedy/drama Admission.

Fine Art >>

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Raw image: photography round-up by Sura Wood

s lovers of photography well know, the Bay Area is a moveable – and perpetual – feast. Here are several exhibitions devoted to the medium on view this month. Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson For many, the U.S. misadventure in Iraq represents a nadir in American foreign policy, a failure of the media and a breach of trust, but for Iraqi citizens, the effects have been visceral, devastating and lingering. Beginning in the months leading up to the 2003 invasion and spanning a two-year period, American photojournalists Anderson and Alford chose not to participate in the military’s “embed” program, opting instead for the freedom of photographing where and whom they liked, a strategy that enabled them to shoot exceptionally personal photographs. Most of the 60 color images in the show depict the war and its aftermath from the vantage point of the Iraqi people, and convey the profound impact it has had on their lives. Alford returned to Iraq in 2011 and photographed some of the same sites and subjects, several of whom were candid and remarkably receptive to her. The raw, skillfully composed imagery suggests the war left behind a legacy of pain, grief, anger, ruined infrastructure, wounds both physical and emotional, and lessons for the young on loss and armed aggression. In pictures with troubling implications shot by Anderson, a little boy, wedged between two male relatives, watches attentively as they repair a grenade launcher, and a traumatized 12-yearold, who lost her right arm, bears an implacable expression masking emotional scars unlikely to heal. A naked young girl, killed in a U.S. bombing raid, is ceremonially washed for burial on a cold tile floor, a heart-wrenching scene captured by Alford in 2003. Leyla, a radicalized 20-year-old woman dressed in a full-length black abaya, is seen here, in 2004, regarding her shrouded reflection in a mirror. Living in a cramped house in Baghdad with her mother and brother, she told Alford of her ambitions: “I can strap explosives to myself,” she said, “and be a suicide bomber.” (de Young Museum, through June 16) RayKo’s Sixth Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show,

a showcase for photographs produced with low-tech plastic cameras held together with little more than hope and pieces of electrical tape, is one of the gallery’s most popular events. With nicknames like Holga, Diana and Sprocket Rocket, and a price tag of under $50, these cameras, described as trashy even by those who love them, allow both novice and veteran shutterbugs to respond with agility free from the technical demands of high-end equipment. Whether a backlash against digital technology, a nostalgia for film, or the irresistible sound of plastic cracking while looking through the viewfinder, the competition’s “anyone can do it” ethos attracts amateurs as well as award-winning photojournalists and professionals. (RayKo Photography Center Gallery, through April 21) Invisible City Photographer Ken Schles watched the human circus passing through his Lower East Side neighborhood during the 1980s, the decade of hip hop, punk, the East Village underground performance art scene, squalid tenements, a mutating architectural landscape, violent streets, crackheads and the AIDS epidemic that claimed many of his friends. He channeled those encounters with what he calls a “post-apocalyptic New York” to create a very personal, dark verite document of his life at that time, a perception of the city visible only to him. This vital, black-and-white portrait would become his first book and the source for the exhibition’s 30 prints. Published in 1988, it’s not the New York the tourism board advertised – no belting Broadway divas here. (UCB Graduate School of Journalism Center for Photography, through April 30) Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography News reports only tell us so much about the rapid growth and revolutionary change underway in China, a nation that’s gone from rural outpost to the second-largest economy in the world in what seems like a nanosecond. Those changes and their ramifications are expressed in the visual vocabulary of a younger generation of photographers, reporters on the ground as it were, who utilize a variety of styles and techniques to interpret the transformation of their country’s economy, culture, policies and environment in the first decade

Huang Yan, Collection of Doug & Dale Anderson

“Spring,” Chromogenic print from The Four Seasons (2005) by Huang Yan, from Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography.

Kael Alford, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

“Baghdad-Falluja Highway, Iraq, September 12, 2003,” digital inkjet print by Kael Alford.

of the 21st century. The show presents over 100 photographs by 36 artists, including Liu Ren, whose “Sleepwalker – Great Hall of the People” (2007) imagines an official government building with an immense plaza stocked with thousands of sheep. Zhang Huan, a Chinese performance artist who now resides in New York, focuses on Western encroachment on traditional Chinese culture. For “Family

Tree,” he invited three calligraphers to write references to poems and ancient proverbs on his face. The nine images illustrate, in phases, how his features became entirely obscured by verse. Maleonn, who had a career in advertising before turning to photography, stages elaborate settings where Western influences collide with Chinese traditions in entertaining narratives recalling the exaggerated theatricality of Chinese

opera. In a scenario he constructed for “Days on the Cotton Candy No. 1” (2006), a brightly attired, garishly made-up woman stands in a bathtub, blowing clouds of cotton candy out of a portable vacuum cleaner hose. “In such a ridiculous age, shaped by plastic values,” opines the artist, “lots of things that are profound and noble are becoming doubtful.” Indeed. (San Jose Museum of Art, through June 30)t

<< Out&About

22 • Bay Area Reporter • March 21-27, 2013

Shen Wei Dance Arts @ YBCA

Better Than You @ The Marsh

West Coast premiere of Undivided Divided, a grid-like performance installation with 18 dancers. $20-$30 (Mar 21 only; $10). Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 5pm. Also Sun 2om. Thru Mar. 24. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, 701 Mission st. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Kurt Bodden’s satirical solo show pokes fun at self-help gurus. $15-$50. Fri 8pm. Sat 8:30pm. Thru Mar. 30. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 826-5750. www.themarsh.org

Strange Cinema @ Oddball Films Nut House Nuggets (Mar 21) includes the steam bath sequence from 8 1/2; Bradley Metzger’s retro-erotic Barbara Broadcast and more. Mar. 22, Creepy Cartoons, the Dark Side of Animation. Each night $10. 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Choir Boy

Thu 21 Bold Local Nightlife @ Cal. Academy of Sciences Local merchants, designers, craftsfolk showcase their goods at the weekly museum party. Music, DJs, cash bar. $10-$12. 21+. 6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org

Matt Alber and the Cello String Quartet. Heath Orchard

mont when Alber was living in Los Angeles, director Robin Scovill created a charmingly retro ambiance of a romance almost lost. That song is only one of Alber’s musical milestones, which include a life spent in and out of choruses, from fundamentalist church choirs to the Grammy-winning San Francisco ensemble Chanticleer. Working as both a solo artist self-accompanied by guitar or piano, Alber also enjoys singing with others, be it a string quartet or an entire choir. At his upcoming San Francisco show, Alber will perform music from the new CD and DVD With Strings Attached, with the Cello String Quartet, whom he first encountered when they were busking one night outside of Cliff’s Variety Store. As Alber tells it, a friend of his texted him to “get over” to Castro Street to hear the quartet. Soon, the musicians jammed, performed

Guys and Dolls @ Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley

The gay & lesbian professionals group hosts a cocktail & appetizer reception, with celebrity chef Yigit Pura. Proceeds benefit the LGBT Center. $35-$45. 6pm-9pm. 5 Embarcadero Center, 3rd floor Atrium lobby. www.dot429.com

Berkeley Playhouse stages the classic Loesser Swerling/Burrows musical comedy about oddball romances between New York gamblers and missionaries. $17-$60. Thu-Sat 7pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 3pm. Thru April 28. 2640 College Ave., Berkeley. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

A Lady and a Woman @ Eureka Theatre Theatre Rhinoceros presents Shirlene Holmes’ two-character drama about a late-19th-century African American lesbian couple. $15-$30. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru Mar. 24. 215 Jackson St. (800) 8383006. www.therhino.org

Little Shop of Horrors @ Regents Theatre, Oakland Producers Associates stage a local version of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s hit OffBroadway musical based on the 1950s Roger Corman film, about a talking alien carnivorous plant, and the nerd who grows it. $30-$50. Thu-Sat 7pm. Sun 2pm. Thru March 24. Valley Center for the Performing Arts, Holy Name University, 3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland. (510) 339-0241. www.woodminster.com

New and Classic Films @ Castro Theatre Mar 21: Disposable Film Festival. Mar 22: Rocky III, The Professional and Strange Days. Mar 23: Roar! a roaring 1920s movie musical. Mar 24: The Ten Commandments, Heavy Traffic and Heavy Metal. Mar. 25-26: The Master. Also, the Sing-Along Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Mar. 27-April 5, 7pm, also 2:30pm Mar. 30/31 (no shows April 1 & 2). $8.50-$15. 429 Castro St. 621-6120. www.castrotheatre.com

Flower Show at Macy’s. Fri 22.

Word Week @ Noe Valley Friends of Noe Valley present a seven-day festival of Noe Valley-based and nearby authors, reading, speaking and selling their books; How I Got My Book Published, Thu., March 21, 7pm at Savor Restaurant, 3913 24th St., with Karen Joy Fowler, Thaisa Frank, Jim Provenzano and Rob Rosen. Gay author Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?) is one of several authors reading at the Mar. 23 festival, where many writers will be selling their books 2pm-5pm at St. Philip’s Church Hall, 725 Diamond St. at 24th. www.friendsofnoevalley.com

Fri 22 The Bus @ New Conservatory Theatre James Lantz' drama about two boys living in a rural conservative church town who have romantic rendezvous in an abandoned bus. $14-$45 (also pay what you can nights). Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru April 28. Also tours May 3-11 in Central California. www.nctcsf.org

The Coast of Utopia @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley

Dance Anywhere @ Multiple Venues

Freddie Jackson @ Yoshi’s

29th annual artistic display of many floral arrangements created by local designers, each inspired by a different work of modern art. Thru Mar. 23. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park. 7503600. www.deyoungmuseum.org

Dot 429 @ Hyatt Regency

New local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta, with multiple actor-singers perfoming the lead, including Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Jason Brock, Arturo Galster and Trixxie Carr. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended thru April 13. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org

Gay author of two new highly-praised novels ( A Horse Called Sorrow, Faun ) discusses his work with local gay author Mark Abramson (the Beach Reading mystery series). 7pm. 2275 Market St. www.booksinc.net

Shotgun Players performs Shipwreck and Voyage, two parts of Tom Stoppard’s shipwreck utopian trilogy, about Russian pre-Revolutionary artists and lovers, in repertory. $8-$35. Wed & Thu 7pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru April 21. 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

The classy drag revue (3rd Thursdays), now in its 12th year, features Victoria Secret, Alexandria, Chanel, Maria Garza, Mini Minerva, Kipper, Daffney Deluxe and Ruby LeBrowne, with special guest Anya; dinner seating at 7pm. Show at 8pm. No cover. 124 Ellis St. 421-8700. www.fauxgirls.com Grammy-nominated vocalist performs. $25-$42. 8pm & 10pm. Also Mar. 22. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

The Center for Asian American Media’s annual film festival, which includes several films with LGBT characters, themes and directors. $12-$175. Thru Mar. 24. Various venues and times. www.caamfest.com/2013

together at several venues, and recorded their collaborations at the beautiful (and acoustically nearperfect) San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Acoustics also figure prominently into their upcoming shared concert at the Swedish American Hall. Alber mentioned the wooden arches, the venue’s traditional design and the great sound crew as pluses. His last show there was almost a year ago. This time, with the quartet, Alber’s fans can enjoy opening musician Feona Jones, and expanded, musically lush versions of Alber’s new and recent songs, plus some of the quartet’s classical faves. But please, bring a hanky. March 28. $20. 7:30pm. 2170 Market St., (above Café Du Nord). 861-5016. www.mattalber.com www.cafedunord.com For the full interview with Matt Alber, with music videos, go to www.BARtabSF.com

Fauxgirls @ Infusion Lounge

Bouquets to Art @ de Young Museum

CAAMfest @ Various Venues

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre

Trebor Healey @ Books Inc.

by Jim Provenzano att Alber will make you cry. Take that as a warning, a good one. The multi-talented singersongwriter was asked if he knows anyone who hasn’t shed a tear or at least sniffled while watching the music video for one of his most known and utterly heart-ripping songs, “End of the World.” It’s one of many of Alber’s fearlessly romantic songs that he’ll be performing in a special concert with the Cello String Quartet Thursday, March 28 at the Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Café Du Nord). Alber admits that even he got a little emotional the last time he watched the video. Shot in 2009, “It’s really more of a short film,” he said. “I watch it and think, ‘Who’s that young guy? I also think of my dad, who was standing outside the window shot, keeping the yoga moms from passing by.” Shot at a barbershop in Larch-

Ninth annual outdoor, multiple-venue participatory celebration of dance, with simultaneous events taking place worldwide. 12pmn in San Francisco. www.danceanywhere.org

ODC. Fri 22.

ODC Dance Downtown @ YBCA The vibrant local dance company performs two world premieres and three 2012 favorite works by Brenda Way, KT Nelson and Kate Weare (in two programs). Bike night Mar. 21 includes valet bike parking. Special LGBT night out March 22, with a pre-show reception at 6:30pm (free/RSVP online). Mar 23, meet the dancers party ($15 plus drinks). $20-$75. Wed/Thu 7:30pm. Fri/ Sat 8pm. Sun 4pm. Thru Mar. 24. Lam Research Theater, 700 Howard St. www.odctheater.org

Onegin @ War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Ballet’s encore performances of last year’s romantic ballet hit, choreographed by John Cranko, based on the Pushkin novel, and set to a score by Tchaikovsky. $15-$175. 8pm. Various dates/times, thru Mar. 28. 301 Van Ness Ave. 865-2000. www.sfballet.org

Patti Lupone @ Live at the Rrazz Legendary Broadway star ( Gypsy, Evita ) performs Far Away Places, a musical journey of her travels, with songs by Sondheim, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill and others. $55-$75. 8pm. Also Mar 22, 8pm. Mar 23, 7pm & 9:30pm. Mar 24, 7pm. 1000 Van Ness Ave. (800) 380-3095. www.liveattherrazz.com

Sheila E. @ Yoshi’s Oakland Fab drummer-singer (“The Glamorous Life”) performs with her band. $28-$35. 8pm & 10pm. Also Mar 22. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Dead Metaphor @ A.C.T. American Conservatory Theatre’s world premiere of George F. Walker’s dark comedy about the politics of postwar life for a modern-day war veteran. Special pre- and post-show programs thru the run. $20$85.Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru Mar. 24. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Fallaci @ Berkeley Rep Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/ journalist Lawrence Wright’s intriguing two-person play dramatizes an interview with real-life journalist Oriana Fallaci, whose career included ferocious questions put to world leaders, but who reacts differently when the pointed questions are aimed at her. $14.50-$89. Tue, Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru April 21. Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949. www.berkeleyrep.org

Flower Show @ Macy’s Annual colorful large-scale floral displays, this year with an Asian theme. In-store events, fashion shows and other events thru the run, including a floral demo with Billy cook (Mar 28, 2pm), a National AIDS Memorial Grove Art exhibition (on the main floor), and designer Bouquet of the Day displays. Thru April 7. Geary St at Union Square. www.macys.com/flowershow

K-11. Fri 22.

K-11 @ Roxie Cinema Goran Visnjic, D.B. Sweeney and Kaye Del Castillo star in Jules Stewart's compelling film about inmates at Los Angeles County Jail's LGBT unit. $6.50-$10. Thru March 29. 3117 16th St. www.K11themovie.com www.roxie.com

The Lisbon Traviata @ New Conservatory Theatre The gay theatre company performs Terrence McNally’s (newly revised) darkly comic play about obsessed gay opera fans and their entangled relationships. $22$44. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Mar. 24. 25 Van Ness Ave., lower level. 861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Queer Open Mic @ Modern Times Bookstore Blythe Baldwin and Baruch PorrasHernandez cohost the popular open mis reading series. 5 minutes per performer. Featured artist is Danielle Evennou. 7:30pm. 2919 24th St. 282-9246. www.queeropenmic.com

The Real Americans @ The Marsh Berkeley Dan Hoyle returns with his acclaimed solo show with multiple characters based on his travels to the most liberal and conservative regions of America. $25-$50. Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru April 6. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. 826-5760. www.themarsh.org

Sat 23 As You Like It @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley Impact Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s crossdressing romantic comedy. $10-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thru Mar. 30. 1834 Euclid Ave., Berkeley. www.impacttheatre.com

Aurora Borealis Gala @ Claremont Hotel Aurora Theatre Company’s 21st season fundraiser gala, with a silent auction, cocktails, three-course dinner, live auction of luxury vacations. $295 and up. 6pm-11pm. 41 Tunnel Road, Berkeley. (510) 843-4042. www.auroratheatre.org

Batman on Robin @ Mission Comics & Art Group exhibit of erotic Batman and Robin artwork that outs them as a gay couple, with works by several local artists. Reg hours 12pm-8pm (6pm Sun). 3520 20th St. 695-1545. www.missioncomicsandart.com

The Green Wood @ Shotwell Studios A (super)natural opera, composerperformer David Samas’ woodland sound environment chamber opera, performed with several musicians. $10-$20. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Mar 24. 3252-A 19th St. (800) 838-3006. www.ftloose.org

Tia Aida MCs Studio 11. Sat 23.

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One Night Only @ Marines' Memorial Theatre The cast of the touring production of Jersey Boys, pop singer Debbie Gibson, and other vocal talents perform at the variety show fundraiser for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation. Special dessert and drinks reception ($20). $35-$75. 7:30pm. 609 Sutter St. 273-1620. www.reaf.org

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104 David Perry’s talk show about LGBT people and issues. This week, Perry interviews Arsen Ari Kalfayan, CEO and co-founder of Travel Labs, and Gena Jacob from Fountaingrove, an LGBT senior housing facility in Sonoma. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm. Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.comcasthometown.com

The cast of Jersey Boys at One Night Only. Mon 25.

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25-$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 4214222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Tue 26 Sun 24 Pop Up Piano Bar @ 144 King Cafe

Jody Watley @ Yoshi’s Oakland

Ray of Light Theate Company’s showcase of new vocal talents, with cast members from their upcoming production of Into the Woods singing a variety of Sondheim classics: Danny Cozart, Mia Fryvecind, Helen Laroche, and Kevin Singer. Admission includes drinks and food. $15. 7pm-10pm. 144 King St. www.roltheatre.com

Grammy-winning pop/R&B singer performs. $37. 8pm & 10pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square. (510) 2389200. www.yoshis.com

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hun Liu @ Oakland Museum

Kehinde Wiley @ Contemp. Jewish Museum

Exhibit of haunting paintings by the U.S.based Chinese artist. Thru June 30. Also, Beth Yarnelle Edwards: Suburban Dreams, a photo exhibit of 22 large-scale evocative portrait/tableaux of California families. Thru June 30. Wed-Sun 11am-5pm (Fri til 9pm). Thru June 30. 1000 Oak St. (510) 318-8400. www.museumca.org

New exhibit, The World Stage: Israel, a series of vibrant portraits of Middle Eastern and African men, created by the gay artist. Other exhibits ongoing. Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

Magnificent Magnolias @ SF Botanical Garden New seasonal exhibit of colorful floral displays, with special events, for evening adult events, lectures, classes, and kids events. Thru March. Also, beautiful floral drawing exhibit of watercolor works by Ernest Clayton. Thru April. $2-$15. 9am-7pm. 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park. 661-1316. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org

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

Folk/roots/rock singer-composer performs music from his new CD. Carly Ritter opens. $16 ($41 w/ dinner). 9pm. 333 11th st. 255-0333. www.slimspresents.com

A Boy Named… an exhibit of gay-themed works by the talented local artist. 151 Potrero Ave. 263-0980.

SF Hiking Club @ Berkeley Hills Join GLBT hikers for a 7-mile hike in and above Berkeley. Meet at 12pm in front of the Ed Roberts Campus on Adeline Street behind the Ashby BART Station in Berkeley. 652-4676. www.sfhiking.com

Studio 11 @ SF Design Center The SF LGBT Center celebrates eleven years with a Studio 54-themed gala fundraiser. Enjoy disco nightclub-styled fun, with performances by hostess Tita Aida, Honey Mahogany, Ambrosia Salad, Dia Dear, Alotta Boutte, Miss Rahni, Sean Dorsey Dance and other talents. DJ Bus Station John, Dr. Sleep and Sergio Fedasz spin retro classics. Enjoy drinks from sponsored beverage companies, plus nibbly things galore. Retro '70s attire would be groovy. $125. 7pm-11pm. 101 Henry Adams St. www.sfcenter.org/studio11

Matthew Martin at the Theatre Rhino benefit. Sun 24.

Charlie Ballard hosts the new and popular event where local comics and other performers (Karinda Dobbins, Morgan, David Hawkins, Zachary Toczynski, Sharon Birzer, Zack Pedersen, and Joshua Grannell aka Peaches Christ) tell amusing tales out coming out as gay. $10. 21+. 8pm. 1760 Market St. www.charlieballard.com

Wed 27 Eric Himan, Andy Moore, Jeb Havens @ El Rio The talented singing gay troubadour rolls into town on his nationwide tour; the handsome local crooners perform as well. $10. 9pm. 3158 Mission St. 282-3325. www.erichiman.com www.elriosf.com

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic @ Yoshi’s Oakland Crazy-fun funk band performs their classic get-down hits (“Knee Deep,” “Atomic Dog”). $50. 8pm. Also Mar. 28 & 29. 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square. (510) 238-9200. www.yoshis.com

Michael Nesmith @ Palace of Fine Arts The former member of The Monkees performs songs from his 50 years of writing and recording. $50. 8:30pm. 3301 Lyon St. 567-6642. www.palaceoffinearts.org

Theatre Rhino Benefit @ Eureka Theatre

Thu 28

The celebrated gay theatre company welcomes local talents at a benefit and celebration, with Connie Champagne, Dave Dobrusky, Mike Finn, Casey Ley, Matthew Martin, Jim McCunn, Tom Orr, and surprise guests. $25 includes food and drinks. 7:30pm. 215 Jackson St. at Battery. (800) 838-3006. www.TheRhino.org

The weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. www.comedybodega.com

Mon 25 San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus @ Davies Hall The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and cast members of Beach Blanket Babylon perform Snow White and Her Merry Men, a lighthearted fairy tale-themed concert. $15-$75. 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave at Grove St. Also March 26. 392-4400. www.sfgmc.org

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Nocha

GLAAD SF Kick-off Party @ Cityscape Meet National Spokesman (out gay fab actor-singer) Wilson Cruz at a meet & greet where you’ll find out how to buy tickets, tables, become a sponsor, auction donor for the upcoming 24th annual awards ceremony (May 11), and support the group’s efforts toward equal representation in media. 6pm-9pm. 333 O’Farrell St. www.glaad.org/events/sfkickoff

Out in the Bay @ KALW The gay radio program hosts a live call-in special show on DOMA and Prop 8, with Kate Kendell of NCLR, legal expert Fred Hertiz; Eric Jansen hosts. 7pm. 91.7 FM. www.OutintheBay.org

Sean Dorsey Dance @ Dance Mission Theater The Secret History of Love, Dorsey’s dancemonologue work based on the intimate oral histories of LGBT seniors, returns. $10$25. Thu-Sun 8pm. Sat & Sun also 4pm. Thru Mar. 31. 3316 24th St. at Mission. www.seandorseydance.com

We Live Here @ SF Public Library San Francisco 1960s-1970s, a new exhibit of historic local photos by photojournalist Phiz Mezey. Thru June 2. Jewitt Gallery, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

How I Came Out @ Rebel

African American LGBT Past Meets Present, an exhibit focusing on African American words, images and sounds. Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Collections Around the World. $5. Reg hours Mon & Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

Nellie McKay & Chanticleer @ The Venetian Room

Rene Capone @ Live Art Gallery

Group exhibit of drawings made at the gay men’s sketch group that celebrates 25 years of drawing sessions at Mark I. Chester’s studio. Thru March. 581-1600. markichester.com www.magnetsf.org

Legendary @ GLBT History Museum

Matt Costa @ Slim’s

Celebrated cabaret songstress and Broadway performer shares unique arrangements of familiar and lesser-known jazz titles with the Grammy-winning men’s a cappella ensemble. $40-$47 (pre-show buffet dinner at the Laurel Court; $40). Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St. 392-4400. www.bayareacabaret.org

Gay Men's Sketch @ Magnet

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus. Mon 25.

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Scott Brogan

SF Eagle bartenders Joe and Troy serve it up in the back bar.

Eagle is soaring! by Scott Brogan

he SF Eagle reopened at 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 2. Since that time the bar has been bustling with events, beer busts, and parties. Some of the highlights are: the return of Thursday Night Live (featuring live acts); Michael Brandon’s Sadistic Saturdays; Monthly BLUF (Breeches & Leather Uniform Fan Club) parties; and of course, the weekly Sunday afternoon beer busts that benefit a different organization each week. The first Sunday beer bust on March 3 was so popular the line stretched all the way down the street to Folsom. Each subsequent beer bust has enjoyed lines as well. Last week’s BLUF event was packed. It seemed as though everyone was there. Our new Mr. SF Leather Andy Cross was socializing and sharing that dazzling smile. Tony Delfino (First Runner-Up) was serving drinks at the front bar. Even our old buddy Jerry Roberts and his husband were there, along with Desmond Perrotto, Seth Watkins, Steve Gaines, and many more. It’s great to see our community come out and give their support. The new staff, which consists of both new and previous employ-

ees, is friendly, hot, and handles the crowd with a pleasant, professional ease. The bar itself looks great. They moved the island-bar in the front to the far left, opening up the entire first section. The middle and back patio bars are in their same locations. Coat check has been swapped with the DJ booth – a smart move. The ceiling in the front has been opened up, giving the area a roomy feel. Luckily, the rest of the changes are minor, mostly cosmetic and upgrades (e.g., the heat lamps in the patio area are new). The bar has the same feel and overall look that it always had. They say one can “never go back,” but at the Eagle we can – while simultaneously stepping into the future. Congratulations to everyone involved in making this happen. Be sure to like their Facebook page for instant updates. Farewell, Marlena’s! The same weekend we welcomed the reopening of the Eagle we also said goodbye to Marlena’s. The entire weekend was filled with farewell shows and some final speeches and tears. I was at the last night and it was completely packed all night – and completely fun. I’m sad to see the bar go, but I suppose nothing lasts forever. Although known mostly as a drag bar,

Marlena’s was also a popular neighborhood bar that catered to all types, whether gay, straight or otherwise. Marlena’s was also home to the Mr. Hayes Valley Leather title. That’s a fraternity we’ll miss. Most of the men are still very active in the community, so the legacy lives on – proving that the title exemplified all the good qualities that a title should empower its men with. Marlena, we’re going to miss your bar, but we’ll miss you more. Thanks to you, Miss Galilea and her girls, your great staff and the Hayes Valley Leathermen, we have memories that we’ll never forget. Coming up: This weekend is LA Leather Pride Weekend. A plethora of events have already started and are planned through March 24, highlighted by the Mr. LA Leather 2013 contest. You gotta love events with names like “Probed.” The following men are competing: Kieron Axel Ryan (Mr. Christopher Street West Leather); Carl Dove (Mr. LA Leather Bear); Justin Emerick (Mr. Regiment); Bill Robertroy (Eagle LA Mr. Leather); Larry Gus Norris, Jr. (Mr. Pistons Leather); Jeremy Ronceros (Mr. Oil Can Harry’s Leather); and Christ Romber (Mr. Bullet Leather). The one and only Judy Tenuta is scheduled to entertain. LA Leather Pride brings something for everyone, plus pre-pride and post-pride events. Check out their website at: www.laleatherpride.com for details.t

Rich Stadtmiller

Marlena whoops it up with some boys at the final night of Marlena’s Bar on March 3.

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Steam heat & seamen by Jim Piechota

as Jeff Mann’s bondage kinkfest “Daddy Draden,” the cowboyinspired “Bareback Rider” by mystery writer Michael Bracken, Larry Duplechan’s pectoral fantasy “Bigchest: Confessions of a Tit Man,” and Jack Fritscher’s steamy “Father and Son Tag Team.” There are stories of farm boys, frat boys, superhero boys, and Daddy’s boys galore, each one containing just the right amount of erotic text and sly imagination to tap into the fantasies of a reader ready for a wild ride. Distinctive and a definite standout in the collection is Simon Sheppard’s closing story “Wild Night,” about San Francisco in the 70s and 80s, what he now calls the “city of horny ghosts.” It’s more an opinion piece than a statement of erotica, a nod to the author’s halcyon days in sleazy joints like The Arena, Boot Camp, My Place, Folsom Street Barracks, Jaguar Books, and the 1808 Club, all in full schwing. Nostalgic without being melancholic, Sheppard reflects upon those days gone by, and yields to their passage, writing, “It’s no use crying over spilled sperm.” Those inclined toward more seaworthy stories will be glad to behold the bounty of Cleis’ Sexy Sailors compilation, edited by prolific South Florida writer Neil Plakcy. Among the best of this bunch are stories by longtime erotic author Bearmuffin, tracking a man’s trip to Turkey via the Greek ocean freighter “Ulysses,” the decks stacked with vodka, ouzo, and a beautiful uniformed “Greek god” named Angel; Rob

Best Gay Erotica 2013 edited by Richard Labonte; Sexy Sailors edited by Neil Plakcy; both Cleis Press, $15.95

or those who like their porn more self-imagined and flattened out onto the printed page, Berkeley-based Cleis Press presents their award-winning, yearly installment of what is considered to be the Best Gay Erotica, and the 2013 edition is one of the best they’ve offered to date. Author Paul Russell has handselected these 18 stories, and is happy to do so. His introduction tells of his own fascination with erotic literature, long ago discovered in a Borders bookstore when he was 12. He’s done an outstanding job in assembling these entries, full of hot sexual passages, physically descriptive scenery, and hot, creatively imagined men sprung from a group of uber-talented writers. Not to be missed is the anthology’s fronting story by series regular Davem Verne, “The Pasta Closet.” It’s a brilliantly conceived romp of sex, muscles, and carnal longing courtesy of a “firecracker Italian jock” from Boston’s Italian North End whose “monster thighs and massive arms had been filled to magnificence by an aggressive diet of pasta and meatballs, and a body solid from hours in the gym and on the mats.” The fireworks Verne manages in just a few pages with his Italian Stallion character is representative of the other supercharged tales in the collection, such

Karrnal Knowledge

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to rent, she suggested I ask the Unitarians). When I could be more explicit, yet still proper, I’d say it was a grass-roots organization that hosted social masturbation events for men. Which, in the language that you and I speak, boils down to a jack-off club. Some guys can’t believe: Only JO? It’s not like you gotta make a life-long commitment to the exclusion of all else. For many years I supported a career in low-paying local theatre by working night-shift at Blow Buddies, where I was one busy buddy distributing oral delights amongst the men. I’m not gonna let my limber lips wither away, but c’mon, what else is there to do on a Monday night? Here’s the official verbiage: “SF Jacks is a fellowship of men who like to jack off with like-minded men. Neither a business nor a religion, Jacks is a public service organization. Traditionally loose, goofy, and semi-spontaneous, Jacks provides the space, and the players call the shots: creative peckerplay is its own reward.” Another reward is to receive the blessings of the divine by beholding its image. The show’s graphics include covers commissioned for our yearly scrapbook The Penis Mightier, and examples of our rather crazed Newsletters. In the days before digital cameras and cell phones, Jacks provided a public service by inviting its men to have sexualized photos taken of themselves by The Notorious Jim James, who was anointed The Official Jacks Photographer. His photographic studies commingle lowdown with high art. For our 20th anniversary, I invited a couple dozen fellow Jacks and local artists to “dickorate” a Balinese wooden phallus. The results were

Courtesy SF Jacks

Sex activist Buzz Bense contributed the cover for the second edition of SF Jacks’ yearly scrapbook The Penis Mightier.

a wonderment, so we’re revisiting it for the current show. The best of the earlier dicks will be back on display – work by Seth Eisen, Jack Davis, David Ross – and a dozen new dickorations will join them. Actor and horror fan Flynn Demarco provided horrification for his dick, while Pink Feather, an entirely festive Fey Boy, has whipped up a dazzling confectionary of a cock. Theatre director Allen Sawyer, who has written plays based on trashy pulp paperbacks, has pulped one cock, and then, for good measure, made another that sparkles plenty. Keith Hennessy has left behind the dance and the circus for the more meditative message of woodburned words. Forgoing his usual watercolors, Da-

vid Barnard has fabricated a tattooed tool. And I, whose memoir will be called All About the Bone, have made three (count them, three) pieces! One is a death meditation, another a comical celebration of sex. The show’s sensational centerpiece is the huge acrylic painting – it’s six feet across! – created by the late Lou Rudolph, who painted events as they transpired. There he was, in the absolute middle of masturbating mania at the very first Jacks event. The painting’s bold strokes and slashes of color seem fluid as a movie. There’s a whole lot more. All in all, The Art of Jacks is an unusually unique exhibition. Light-hearted on the outside, yet on the inside, deeply connected with cock.t More information at www.SFJacks.com.

Rosen, who contributes the sexdrenched “Shanghai Surprise,” in which a sailor illicitly shackles another on his ship, only to have the tables turned on him; and Dominic Santi’s Cruising, where two life partners find a variety of ways to overcome seasickness – a story drawn on the author’s own susceptibility to becoming sick on boats. In editor Plakcy’s “Heat Lightning,” two shipmates artfully amuse themselves onboard while they wait out a storm.

And what is there to say about a story titled “Red Alert: Weapons of Mass Erection?” Only Logan Zachary and his randy band of newly-arrived Russian sailors know for sure. While creatively inspired and executed, these stories are not the most erotically-charged offering from this series to date, but will be deliciously entertaining primarily for those who find lonely, horny sailor boys in tight white suits to be the sexiest thing on the planet. t

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On the Road

From page 20

Salles and screenwriter Jose Rivera are more successful with certain episodes than with the essence of one of modern America’s most misunderstood classics. For queer fans, there’s the erotic slapstick of Sal (Sam Riley) and Dean finessing the randy advances of Steve Buscemi’s “Tall Thin Salesman.” Garrett Hedlund scores points as the singularly

focused Dean, getting oomph out of the Hudson as if it’s an early prototype NASA rocket, intimidating his passengers into testy silence as they pillage the countryside for free gas and groceries. Despite a formidable female cast – Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst – the Beat women don’t truly register as autonomous characters because the Beat men were the original modern “boys’ club,” without as much as an embryonic awareness of their wom-

en’s needs. The missing link here – and the problem that kept producer Francis Coppola from getting a filmable script for decades – is a coherent and dramatically accessible sense of what Sal and Dean, Jack and Neal, two resolutely straight fellows, saw in each other, needed from each other and ultimately gave each other. While Salles and Rivera conveyed the political awakening of Che, the largely interior ego battles between these two damaged if charismatic souls elude them, and therefore the movie never truly lands. We know that Kerouac admired Cassady for his prodigious carnal appetites and genius-level driving skills, and we know that the unschooled ex-con Cassady envied Kerouac’s literary skills. Maybe a genius actor like Marlon Brando could have bridged this gap in sensibilities; Hedlund and Riley can’t, or at least don’t. In their oral biography of Kerouac Jack’s Book, Barry Gifford and Larry Lee quote one of Kerouac’s closest friends, the poet John Clellon Holmes, on the peculiar mix of success and soul-destroying tragedy the publication of On the Road brought him. “Most books that come out are contained. That is, people say, ‘I want to read that book.’ But what happened when On the Road came out was, ‘I want to know that man. They just wanted the experience, and all this was profoundly confus-

The We and the I

From page 20

give me a better understanding of them. That’s the game.” It turns out that Brandon is very hurt, igniting an exchange that will move both boys to tears. “You act like nothing happened. You act like it’s peachy. It isn’t peachy!” “It’s not like I act like nothing happened. I’m not dwelling on the bad things that happened in our re-

James Franco as the title character of Oz the Great and Powerful.

ing to a guy like Kerouac, who was a terribly simple and conventional genius. This so discombobulated him that for the rest of his life he never, never got his needle back on true north. Never.” Oz the Great and Powerful Why would Hollywood make a non-musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz? Only the bean counters at Box Office Mojo know for sure. This very dull movie from the usually reliable Sam Raimi is a fiasco, with none of On the Road’s good intentions. Beginning like Dorothy in the original in a square-screen, B&W Kansas, the movie gets off to a wobbly but diverting start as the dude

who’s destined to become the Wizard, a petty carnie flim-flam man (James Franco), prepares to flee his enemies with the assistance of his nervous assistant (Zach Braff). Dude hops into a hot-air balloon and hits a tornado. Whereupon the screen expands, turns into color, and the movie collapses like a clumsily conceived upside-down cake. Franco delivers a performance that varies between shambling goofball and emotional narcoleptic. The only saving grace is the wonderful Michelle Williams as a very good if lonely witch. And to top it off, the ultimate bummer: no singing little people.t

lationship. I want to move forward.” “It’s not you but what you did that I cannot let go of. And I won’t.” “When you’re alone, you act one way. When we’re in public, you act a whole other way. I’ll talk to you, and you’ll act like I don’t even exist. That hurts. I did some fucked-up shit and I’ve owned up to it, but it seems like my effort is not going anywhere.” In this most subjective of genres, it’s up to us to sort out what feels true. Is Luis a slippery bi boy? Can Brandon and Luis piece their thing

back together? It feels like a pivotal moment. Otherwise, be warned that this two-part opus is labeled The Bullies and Chaos. If you’ve ever been bullied, part one may conjure up ancient feelings. Revenge is eventually exacted as the sun goes down and the 66Bx nears the end of the line. According to Gondry, “Every great idea verges on the stupid.” His bus movie careens towards stupidity at certain moments, but is saved when the right folks jump off or are pushed. (Opens Friday.)t

Nellie McKay

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gender equality and biological inequality. “Women are never going to have full equality because we have half the time as men to choose whether or not to have children,” McKay said. “So you’re constantly having to judge whether or not that’s important to you. If we’re not going to have equality, I would at least like back a little bit of chivalry.” And McKay casts a gimlet eye on matrimony in the song “I Wanna Get Married”: “I need to cook meals/ I wanna pack you cute little lunches/ For my Brady bunches/ Then read Danielle Steele.” McKay clearly carries the weight that comes with a keen awareness. “But that’s why we have a sense of humor, because if we didn’t we’d all shoot ourselves in the head,” she said. “You have to find some way of coping with the nightly news, so sometimes you just have to have a laugh.”t

ing personae of Fool Moon, with McKay providing musical accompaniment on the piano when not singing center stage equipped with a ukulele. “They’re quite cruel to me,” McKay said of Irwin and Shriner. “They beat me with sticks and throw stones, and they’ve given me just a closet with a single chair and a bare light bulb for a dressing room. If people can’t afford to eat, what’s the sense of making art?” It’s a deadpan joke with a seemingly sober coda. As mercurial as the 30-yearold McKay can be when it comes to her talents and career, she becomes fluent discussing key social issues that are also reflected artistically in her lyrics. Like animal rights. “A vast majority of people believe it’s wrong to intentionally mistreat animals,” she said, “and the majority of people do so because they eat them.” In the song “Columbia Is Bleeding,” about animal testing at the NYC university, she sings, “They’re just animals, make good edibles/ Fester filth and disease/ Check the Bible son, we got dominion/ We can do as we please.” Nellie McKay paid tribute to the Doris Day She also talks songbook on the ironically titled CD Normal as passionately on Blueberry Pie. the subject of

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