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Massive AIDS quilt display set for June

by Cynthia Laird

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Sacramento County Superior Court judicial appointee Andi Mudryk

CA to see 2nd trans judge on state bench

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ith the appointment March 25 of Andi Mudryk to the Sacramento County Superior Court, California will now have two transgender judges serving on the state bench. Mudryk is the first trans person to be appointed to a judicial vacancy in the Golden State.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski in 2010 became the country’s first elected transgender trial court judge. The wife of Bay Area Reporter news editor Cynthia Laird, Kolakowski will automatically be elected to another six-year term this year as no one filed to challenge her on the June primary ballot for her seat #16 on the East Bay bench.

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed fellow Democrat Mudryk, 58, of Sacramento, to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Benjamin G. Davidian. Since 2020, Mudryk has served as chief deputy director at the California Department of Rehabilitation.

Kolakowski told the Bay Area Reporter that she’s “ecstatic” the governor appointed Mudryk.

“We finally have a state court judge that was appointed by a governor, which is long overdue, as I was elected over a decade ago,” Kolakowski stated.

“I am glad that I’m finally getting a transgender colleague on the bench here in California.”

Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization, also praised the appointment.

“We are thrilled to be celebrating another historic milestone today for California’s LGBTQ+ community in Governor Newsom’s historic appointment of Andi Mudryk to the Sacramento County Superior Court,” stated Executive Director Tony Hoang. “A seasoned civil rights advocate, Mudryk brings almost 20 years of experience in disability rights and rehabilitation to the court. As governors and state legislatures across the country attack the trans community, we applaud Governor Newsom’s continued commitment to increasing trans representation across appointments and on the bench. California continues to remind the rest of the country that LGBTQ+ voices are essential to achieve full equality.”

Between 2018 and 2020 Mudryk had served as the state agency’s chief counsel. Before being hired by the state, she was director of litigation and policy advocacy at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County from 2017 to 2018 and executive director at Disability Rights Advocates in 2017.

She is a person with a disability, brittle bone disease, stated the governor’s office in announcing Mudryk’s appointment. Between 2006 and 2017 Mudryk served in several positions at the disability advocacy organization, including as its deputy director, director of litigation, and managing attorney.

Kolakowski also noted Mudryk’s advocacy for the disability community.

“She is a longtime champion of disability rights, a highly regarded attorney, and I know from our conversations over the past year that she is proudly out as a transwoman,” Kolakowski stated. “This is a great day for the people of See page 10 >>

massive display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will take place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park during Pride Month, officials of the National AIDS Memorial Grove, which oversees the tapestry, told the Bay Area Reporter.

The news was formally announced March 29 at the San Leandro warehouse that houses the quilt.

Meanwhile, the grove has received a grant from Mayor London Breed’s office that will help cover some expenses for its new office space in the Castro, which it moved into earlier this month.

The AIDS quilt display will be the largest ever in San Francisco and the biggest display anywhere in the U.S. in a decade – the last such showing was in Washington, D.C. 10 years ago – Kevin Herglotz, a gay man who is chief operating officer for the grove, told the B.A.R. in a phone interview. The San Francisco installation will include 350 blocks of the quilt, which contain almost 3,000 panels, he said. (A block of the quilt has eight panels.)

By contrast, last San Francisco showing was of 1,920 panels in 1987, Herglotz said.

The display is set for Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12, in Robin Williams Meadow with some quilt pieces being displayed at the AIDS grove, which is also in Golden Gate Park, Herglotz said.

“The panels will tell the story of then and now,” Herglotz said, explaining that there will

Kevin Herglotz, National AIDS Memorial Grove

Jada Harris, second from left, National AIDS Memorial Grove Call My Name Quilt Program Manager, shares stories about two newly created panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt that will be displayed at an historic display in San Francisco June 11-12. Joining Harris at the March 29 announcement were, from left, Alex Kalomparis, senior vice president, Gilead Sciences; Cleve Jones, quilt co-founder; Duane Cramer, quilt community engagement director, National AIDS Memorial Grove; Marvin White, minister of celebration, Glide Memorial Church; John Cunningham, CEO, National AIDS Memorial Grove; and Gert McMullin, quilt conservator, National AIDS Memorial Grove.

be some older, iconic panels along with newer ones – all remembering people who have died of HIV/AIDS. “There are a whole lot of new panels, particularly from the Black community and the South.

“Now, they will tell the story of the last 35 years,” he added, referring to the quilt’s formal establishment in 1987 under the auspices of the Names Project.

The AIDS quilt currently has 6,007 blocks, Herglotz said. “There are over 50,000 panels of the quilt now,” he noted.

The Names Project Foundation used to be located in San Francisco. The quilt’s history dates back to 1985 when gay activist Cleve Jones had participants in that year’s annual candlelight See page 10 >>

LGBTQ archival groups seek new leaders

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he search to find a permanent leader for the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco is formally underway. It comes as the LGBTQ institution is working with city officials to find it a site to build a new, larger museum and archival research center.

After Terry Beswick resigned in September as executive director, the nonprofit named staffers Kelsi Evans and Andrew Shaffer as its interim co-executive directors. Evans had been hired as director of the Dr. John P. De Cecco Archives & Special Collections with the society, while Shaffer was directing the society’s outreach, media, and fundraising programs.

The society has engaged the firm Brakeley Search to help it conduct its search for a new executive director. It posted a six-page position specification March 20 online as it ramps up its hiring process.

“We started accepting applications this month in late March,” Shaffer, a gay man, told the Bay Area Reporter in a recent phone interview. “We are hoping to find someone fairly quickly if they can come in and check all of our boxes. We know we are looking for a unique person, so it might take a little bit longer.”

In addition to helming the efforts to construct a new museum and archival center, the next executive director needs to be adept at fundraising. The COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the closure of its current museum in a Castro district storefront and downtown archive space, impacted the historical society’s revenue streams the last two years.

It canceled moving to a larger vacant retail space in the city’s LGBTQ neighborhood at the start of the health crisis in 2020. A capital campaign for its planned new museum was also put on hold due to the pandemic.

“We want someone who understands and cares about the work we do and also has really strong leadership skills and fundraising skills. The intention behind this position is to help us grow significantly over the next few years,” said Shaffer, who doesn’t plan to apply for the position.

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Andrew Shaffer, left, and Kelsi Evans are serving as interim co-executive directors at the GLBT Historical Society.

Evans, a straight ally, also isn’t planning to apply for the position, as she told the B.A.R. she is “happy” overseeing the archives.

Museum plans

With its museum housed in a leased storefront of limited size, the historical society for some years has sought to find a larger, more permanent location, preferably in the Castro. Mayor London Breed budgeted $12 million in the city’s fiscal year 2021-2022 budget toward the purchase of a site where the society can build what is billed as the first large-scale, freestanding LGBTQ history museum in the country.

“It is a significant part, working not only with the city but private funders, corporate funders, all sorts of different people to find and program a site.

Those two things overlap but both take a lot of energy,” said Shaffer in terms of two of the main tasks the new executive director will oversee.

The institution has also worked the last two years to expand its reach online with both its museum and archives needing to be shuttered for prolonged stretches due to COVID restrictions local and state officials imposed. Those virtual efforts will continue under the new executive director, noted Shaffer.

“The last couple of years we realized we have a large audience outside of the Bay Area and outside the U.S.,” he noted. “Especially in times like now, where people are being told they can’t say gay in Florida and Texas has called in parents of transgender children for child abuse, just for acknowledging your child’s existence, we have a lot more people interested in learning about LGBTQ history broadly.”

As it happens a Florida LGBTQ historical organization is also looking to hire a new person to lead it. In February, the Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Fort Lauderdale announced the launch of its search for a new executive director. It engaged executive search firm Aspen Leadership Group to assist it in filling the position.

The LGBTQ historical institution’s current executive director, Hunter O’Hanian, had announced in November his intention to resign. He will remain in the position until his replacement is found.

“I’ve found my time working with the Stonewall collections to be exhilarating,” stated O’Hanian. “So much gay history in one place.

I look forward to learning how the collections continue to diversify and grow under the next leadership!”

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Castro Theatre plans unveiled as LGBTQ group signs MOU

by Eric Burkett

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roposed plans for the renovation of the Castro Theatre appear to be more extensive than originally implied by the historic movie palace’s new management.

Meanwhile, Another Planet Entertainment, the new management company, will partner with an LGBTQ industry association for construction and architecture as part of the renovation and restoration of the San Francisco movie palace.

APE announced in January that it will be in charge of programming at the theater, which will be expanded to include live music, comedy, and community events in addition to films.

The plans, submitted March 10 to the San Francisco Planning Department for preliminary review by San Francisco-based architecture firm Page & Turnbull as the preservation architect and CAW Architects Inc. as the prime architect, illustrate more significant changes to the historic theater than initially thought. The plans were commissioned by APE, the Berkeley-based concert promoter that manages several historically significant venues around the Bay Area, as well as produces the popular Outside Lands concerts in Golden Gate Park.

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The Castro Theatre’s planned renovations will be extensive, according to documents filed with the planning department.

While APE has stated it is committed to maintaining the theater’s status as a destination for movies, the proposed plans detail changes that physically alter the venue’s focus from filmviewing to live entertainment. Banked seats in the main auditorium, for example, will be removed and replaced with tiered platforms for standing audiences. Chairs, or what APE spokesperson David Perry described to the San Francisco Chronicle as “movable, comfortable, flexible seating,” would

be brought out for films or other events. Perry was not available for an interview when contacted by the Bay Area Reporter.

The theater’s concessions stand, which is currently situated in the lobby, would be expanded into two bars, and moved into the theater itself at the back. Other changes include converting the cinema’s basement into event space. The balcony seating would remain, although the present seats – worn with age – will be replaced with

new ones. Already, some work has been done in the main auditorium, with new lighting being installed on either side of the stage.

The actual work on the renovations is to be organized through BuildOUT California, an LGBTQ business association for the construction and architectural trades. BuildOUT was founded in 2014 after the California Legislature passed, and Governor Jerry Brown signed, Assembly Bill 1678 requiring “regulated California-based energy, water and telecommunications firms to annually report their total procurement with LGBT businesses to the state legislature,” according to the group’s website.

“The Castro Theatre is a cathedral to the LGBTQ communities,” stated Mary Conde, vice president for APE who is in charge of the overall Castro Theatre Project in BuildOUT’s news release. “It’s absolutely expected and appropriate that we partner with LGBTQ firms as we revitalize this irreplaceable icon for future generations.

We’re thrilled to partner with BuildOUT moving forward.”

Often overlooked in the fields of construction, LGBTQ contractors are getting renewed opportunities through the work of BuildOUT and partnerships such as the one with

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APE, the release stated.

“As a lifelong San Franciscan, a member of the LGBTQ community and a Latino, the Castro Theater holds a very special place in my heart,” stated Nick Colina, COO of Anco Iron and Construction, a third generation San Francisco firm based in the Bayview Hunters Point. “A very special moment in my life was when I got to take my mom, Dr. Colina, to the Gay Men’s Chorus on Christmas Eve where we celebrated family and our community! As a gay man in the steel industry a project like the improvements to the Castro Theatre comes along once in a lifetime. To work on a building designed by Timothy Pflueger is a tradesperson’s dream.”

So far, no estimates for the cost of the renovation have been released but the work, if approved, is expected to take around six months or longer. A project review meeting with the San Francisco Planning Department will take place, probably, March 29 or 30.

No plans, however, have been submitted to the historic preservation office, said Historic Preservation Commission Deputy Director Richard Sucre in a telephone call with the B.A.R. March 24.

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Concerns continue over Castro Theatre changes

by Eric Burkett

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et people talking about movie theaters, especially old film palaces, and inevitably the conversation becomes nostalgic. Get them talking about the Castro Theatre and the conversation is tinged with more than nostalgia, people remember growth.

Their growth. The Castro Theatre is, for many LGBTQ people with ties to San Francisco, the place they discovered their tribe.

The announcement earlier this year that the Castro Theatre would continue business under the new management of Another Planet Entertainment has left many LGBTQ movie fans apprehensive about what direction the historic, 100-year-old theater might go.

“As a baby gay, I was introduced to both ‘All About Eve’ and ‘The Women’ as a double feature,” Jim Gibson, who moved to San Francisco 32 years

ago, wrote in a Facebook message to the Bay Area Reporter. “I learned so much that night, but not the dialogue of either movie. The theater was packed and there was a cacophony of sound filling the theater as every member of that audience was reciting every line of both films and it was glorious. There was so much joy and a sense of community. It was a glimpse into a world that I was just discovering. I will never forget that night. Many years later, I now know every line naturally.”

Others saw themselves represented, for the first time, on the movie screen at the Castro Theatre.

“Every time we walked through the neighborhood, we would stop and check out the posters and upcoming shows,” Bacha Jan, a gay man now living in Tucson, Arizona, wrote via a Facebook message. “Cuz they were our shows. I didn’t get to see my life on the big screen the way my straight

classmates took for granted except for places like here.”

In a sense, the growth of the theater as an icon of LGBTQ San Francisco paralleled the growth and changes in the community itself. From the early 1960s, when gay men began to arrive in Eureka Valley and the theater was little more than “a huge crumbling movie palace, an ̈impressive if decaying building with the same movies as in other neighborhoods” in the words of queer historian Gerard Koskovich, to the 1970s, when the neighborhood began to assume its identity as the Castro.

When future event producer Marc Huestis arrived in San Francisco in 1975, not much had changed, but two significant events would soon shape the theater for years to come: the release of the gay-produced documentary “Word Is Out” in 1977, and one year later, the beginning of the installation of the Mighty Wurlitzer organ.

Whereas “Word is Out” put the

Castro on the map as a center for gay filmmaking, the Wurlitzer brought silent films, as well as countless other repertory films, to an increasingly LGBTQ audience eager to watch them.

“That’s really when we can say the Castro began to make its mark,” said Koskovich, who lives in San Francisco. Where gay people can go and find themselves in a public place with 1,200 other gay people, he said, that´s really an important moment. As the theater was also the largest facility of its type in the immediate vicinity, and affordable to rent, it came to assume a crucial role in the life of the neighborhood.

It was, after all, at a showing of “East of Eden,” starring James Dean and Julie Harris, that event producer and filmmaker Huestis decided to come out to his father. Over the following decades, Huestis, who now lives in Palm Springs, would launch his own film premieres, as well as some 25 live

shows, at the theater. It’s that point that gives him pause as he considers the physical changes planned for the theater by its new managers.

The stage isn’t big enough for the performances APE wants to bring in, Huestis said, and plans to remove the stairs leading up from the seats along either side of the stage would make it impossible for stars and performers to make “triumphant” entrances onto the stage.

Even more worrisome to Koskovich is the loss of a reasonably inexpensive place to stage shows or hold community events, such as memorial services.

“The amount of money APE is investing into the space,” Koskovich said, “they will engage in massive gentrification of the space, and it will be lost to small budget film producers and drag performers.”

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SF LGBTQ districts could be split among 3 supe areas

by Matthew S. Bajko

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an Francisco’s current three LGBTQ cultural districts could end up into three distinct new supervisorial districts under the map advanced Friday by the city’s citizen redistricting panel. But talks will continue in the coming weeks before a final map is approved.

Under the proposed map the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force voted 5-4 in favor for at its March 25 meeting, dubbed Map 3B, the Tenderloin and Western South of Market would no longer be together in District 6. Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors’ lone LGBTQ member would remain in his current district.

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who is up for reelection this fall, lives on the block of Valencia Street between 24th and 25th streets.

One proposed map would have drawn him into District 9 represented by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.

But the newly proposed eastern boundary between Districts 8 and 9 would maintain that portion of Valencia Street in District 8. The line would be moved west to Guerrero Street starting at 22nd Street and going north to Duboce Avenue. The eastern boundary would run down Guerrero Street but veer west at 17th Street to Church Street and then go back to Guerrero Street to 18th Street in order to incorporate Mission High School into District 9.

Mandelman, who so far faces little opposition to his reelection bid, noted to the B.A.R. that “if the boundary jogs back ... to Valencia at 24th and stays on Valencia going south that does include me back in District 8.”

Stephen Torres, Castro LGBTQ Cultural District advisory board executive co-chair, thanked the task force for largely keeping the current neighborhoods of District 8 together.

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Wrangling is underway at San Francisco City Hall, seen lit in rainbow colors, over new boundaries for the city’s supervisor districts.

He seemingly called for the district to include where Mandelman resides by saying that the Mission Dolores neighborhood should be “kept whole” in District 8.

At the northern and western ends of the district, the neighborhoods of Duboce Triangle, Buena Vista, and Corona Heights would be included in District 8, after members of those communities argued they wanted to remain tied with the Castro LGBTQ district by the same supervisorial boundary. A previous map would have split them off into District 5.

“Thank you for keeping our cultural district whole in the new map,” said Torres. “There are a few places along these current boundaries we do feel need to be more inclusive of these neighborhoods.”

The map a slim majority of the task force advanced last week goes against the wishes of LGBTQ residents of the Transgender LGBTQ district in the Tenderloin and SOMA’s western areas long home to the leather and LGBTQ communities.

They have argued the two cultural districts should remain connected in one district.

An earlier map had proposed that the Tenderloin be joined with Chinatown and North Beach in District 3.

Now the redistricting panel is looking at combining the Tenderloin in District 5 with Japantown, the Fillmore, and the Haight.

The ping ponging of the transgender neighborhood between supervisorial districts has angered residents and trans leaders.

“What I gathered was the Tenderloin is not a priority but a variable used to offset populations in surrounding districts. This disregard to the Tenderloin is incredibly alarming to the soul of this city,” Jupiter Peraza, the Transgender District program associate, told the redistricting panel.

Another speaker criticized how the Tenderloin keeps “getting chopped up” in the various map proposals considered by the redistricting task force.

Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District

Executive Director Robert Goldfarb echoed the calls to reject the “slicing off” of his district from both the transgender district and the SOMA Filipinas cultural district into separate supervisorial districts. He also asked that the area around Division and Harrison streets be maintained with the rest of Western SOMA in the same supervisor district.

“It is extremely important the cultural districts remain together otherwise our influence and these communities of interest are being divided unfairly. They really need to stay together,” said Goldfarb, adding of the triangular area bordered by Division Street, “there is no real reason to cut out one of the most important aspects of the leather district from our district and put it in another supervisor’s district.”

Task force member Jose Maria (Chema) Hernández Gil indicated he favored keeping the Tenderloin connected with SOMA in the new maps. He voted in the minority Friday against the map proposal favored

by a majority of the panel.

“A new District 6 must include populations that live north and south of Market Street,” he said. “We have no flexibility on that.”

But task force chair the Reverend Arnold Townsend argued that connecting the Tenderloin with the Fillmore, two of the city’s largest Black communities, would ensure an African American person could be elected to the Board of Supervisors.

“Most set upon and diminished voting bloc and power in the city is the Black community and it has been that way for 20 years and getting worse,” he said.

Member Lily Ho stressed that the maps will continue to be tweaked over the coming weeks.

“We know we have a long way to go regardless of which map we advance,” she said.

Townsend echoed that sentiment after the vote and stressed, “this is not the final map.”

On March 20, members of the transgender and leather cultural districts held a news conference urging the task force to keep the entities in one district.

San Francisco’s 11 supervisorial districts are redrawn every 10 years based on census data so that they each have roughly similar populations. Things the task force considers include boundaries, neighborhoods, and communities of interest.

The task force is to submit a map to the Board of Supervisors by April 15. Its next meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 2.

To learn more about the panel’s work, maps and meetings, visit its website at https://sf.gov/publicbody/2020-census-redistrictingtask-force To view the latest maps, go to https://bit.ly/3tPJFmM t

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Gay doc offers injectable PrEP in SF compiled by Cynthia Laird

Exploratorium to hold trans visibility events

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r. Nasser Mohamed is believed to be the first physician to offer Apretude (injectable PrEP) in San Francisco outside of a clinical trial.

Mohamed, a gay man, founded Osra Medical in 2019 “to take back my relationship with my patients and empower myself to be the doctor I set out to be,” his website states.

The medical center in the city’s Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood strives to improve health outcomes for the LGBTQ+ community by offering access to comprehensive primary care, a news release states. Mohamed stated that the advent of injectable PrEP is important.

“I am really excited to utilize my resources to adapt cutting-edge HIV prevention methods and to be among the first to bring it to my community,” he stated.

The federal Food and Drug Administration approved Apretude last December, as the Bay Area Reporter previously reported.

Apretude (extended-release cabotegravir) is the first long-acting injectable option for HIV prevention.

The shots, which are administered by a health care provider every two months, were more effective than daily PrEP pills in two large studies of gay men, trans women, and cisgender women.

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation also plans to offer Apretude, according to a recent newsletter.

Mohamed is a member of the Golden Gate Business Association, an LGBTQ chamber of commerce. Osra Medical is a member of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce and a certified LGBT Business Enterprise. For more information on the medical group, go to https://www.osramedical.com/

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Osra Medical founder Dr. Nasser Mohamed

the event,” stated Kristofer Eisenla, spokesperson for the center.

The event begins at 3:30 Pacific Time. Ticket prices range from zero to $1,000 and can be reserved at https://bit.ly/3JKgqY1.

The Exploratorium along San Francisco’s waterfront is having two events to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility. The programs will highlight the contributions of transgender individuals in the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM); offer cultural and scientific context for trans experiences; and celebrate the diversity of human expression, a news release stated.

The Exploratorium’s After Dark program (ages 18 and over only) takes place Thursday, March 31, from 6 to 10 p.m.

The Trans Day of Visibility program for all ages will be held Saturday, April 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Both take place at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero.

Tickets for the After Dark program are $19.95; tickets for the daytime event are $24.95. Tickets need to be purchased in advance, and the science museum is adhering to COVID protocols, including patrons showing proof of vaccination.

For more information, go to https://www.exploratorium.edu/.

Presidio sites opening

Two new sites in the Presidio will soon welcome visitors. The Presidio Trust has announced that the historic Battery Bluff will open Saturday, April 23, inviting people to enjoy six acres of restored park land that features gardens, picnic tables, overlooks with sweeping views of the Golden Gate, a multiuse trail and access to historic military batteries not seen by the public since 1936.

According to a news release, Battery Bluff marks a milestone in the completion of a 30-plus year, multi-agency construction effort to replace the outdated Doyle Drive freeway with the Presidio Parkway. Federal, city, and state agencies came together to fund and deliver the Presidio Parkway, which utilized a communitybacked design by designer Michael Painter that fulfilled transportation needs, improved access to the Presidio, and upheld standards for a national park setting.

In related news, the long-awaited Presidio Tunnel Tops will open to the public Sunday, July 17. The

project was overseen by a gay man, Michael Boland, chief of park development and visitor engagement for the Presidio Trust, as the Bay Area Reporter previously reported.

The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, a nonprofit group led by lesbian Christine Lehnertz, helped fund the project by raising $98 million, a news release stated.

Between May 2015 and August 2016 Lehnertz served as the first female superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the federal park that surrounds the Presidio, which is a separately managed national park site.

The Tunnel Tops features 14 acres of new parkland at the heart of the GGNRA and includes scenic overlooks, trails, picnic areas, and gathering spaces with stunning bridge and city views, surrounded by gardens and meadows that include 180 varieties of plants native to the Presidio, the release stated.

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Castro Art Mart returns

The Castro Art Mart returns Sunday, April 3, from noon to 5 p.m. at Market and Noe streets in the Castro. Formerly called the Noe Street Art Mart, the event will feature live music and works by local artists that will be for sale. The art mart will take place the first Sunday of the month, organizers noted.

Palm Center to hold virtual event; will close this year

The Palm Center, which worked for decades to repeal the anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy and helped advocate for the removal of the transgender military ban, will hold a virtual program Thursday, March 31. The center also announced that it would close later this year now that military service is open to all in the LGBTQ community.

The center will honor Ray Mulliner, a gay man who’s been a longtime advocate of LGBTQ equality and worked alongside the late ambassador James C. Hormel, a gay man and philanthropist who died last year.

Political leaders scheduled to appear include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), lesbian Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), Congressmember Barbara Lee (D-Oakland), and gay Congressmembers Sean Patrick Maloney (D-New York) and David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), chair of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. Gay Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will also speak, as will trans veteran Charlotte Clymer.

“It is a special evening for Ray and the Palm Center, one that coincides with Transgender Day of Visibility, which we will also raise up during

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It’s students who’ll suffer under Florida law

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court challenge is almost certain for Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill that Republican Governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis signed March 28, although that doesn’t mean the law will be thrown out anytime soon. The Parental Rights in Education bill, or House Bill 1557, will not allow classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3, while “age-appropriate” teaching would be allowed in older grades – though it is not clear what is considered “ageappropriate.” The bill would also permit parents to sue schools or teachers who violate the legislation; it affects public schools and goes into effect on July 1.

Equality Florida, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization in the Sunshine State, noted that DeSantis picked a dubious venue in which to sign the bill. “Governor DeSantis chose Classical Preparatory school in Spring Hill, a charter school exempt from the bill’s impacts, as the backdrop for signing the legislation that has provoked international condemnation,” the

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It’s students who’ll suffer under Florida law.

organization stated in a news release. “Governor Ron DeSantis signed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in the most cowardly way possible today,” Equality Florida Executive Director Nadine Smith stated. “He hid his agenda from the media and the public until the last moment, skulking onto a charter school campus that is exempt from the law and away from students who would protest his presence.”

There are problems with the new law. As Vox reports, it does not define key terms like “age appropriate” or

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“developmentally appropriate.” It doesn’t even define the term “classroom instruction.” “The insidiousness of Florida’s law is that teachers who won’t understand how to comply with the new law are likely to overcensor their speech in order to protect themselves from being accused of violating the law,” the site noted.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida wasted no time in stating that the law is unconstitutional because students have a First Amendment right to receive information at school, free of political or partisan censorship.

Vox’s analysis, too, states that the new law is unconstitutional because of its vagueness. It cites a 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Keyishian v.

Board of Regents, in which the justices “struck down a web of New York laws intended to prevent communists and other ‘subversives’ from becoming teachers or professors – one statute, which barred employment of anyone who ‘advises or teaches the doctrine’ of forceful overthrow of government was so broadly worded that it could potentially have forbidden staterun universities from teaching the Declaration of Independence.”

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Addressing discrepancy in care: CA’s TGI Inclusive Care Act

by Pau Crego and JM Jaffe

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ast month, gay state Senator Scott Wiener (DSan Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 293, the TGI Inclusive Care Act. This bill will require that California health care providers and staff receive crucial training in transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex (TGI) cultural humility, in order to provide inclusive care to these communities. It will also require health care plans to indicate which in-network providers offer gender-affirming treatment. This historic bill will push California’s health care system to enact a long overdue shift, integrating TGI awareness into the mainstream health establishment. We hope this is the first legislative step of many that will begin to address the systemic discrimination and mistreatment of TGI people seeking health care.

Despite the dearth of research on TGI communities, it is well documented that we experience high rates of health inequities in California and nationwide. This is exacerbated for TGI people who are also Black, Indigenous, people of color, immigrants, disabled, sex workers, trans women, and/or other subpopulations vulnerable to systemic violence.

Existing research indicates that these inequities are caused by the pervasive discrimination that we experience in all areas of life, such as housing, education, employment, families of origin, and health care settings. For instance, the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey reported that 15% of TGI Californians were unemployed (three times the state unemployment rate at the time, 5%), and 30% of TGI people in California have experienced homelessness in their lives. Being shut out of these opportunities pushes many TGI people into criminalized activities, such as survival sex work and the drug trade, which results in high incarceration rates. Without safe housing, education, employment, and health care, TGI people continue to experience serious preventable medical and mental health problems.

Furthermore, even in California it is uncommon to find health care providers with the clinical expertise and cultural humility necessary to treat us with dignity, respect, and clinical competency. The same 2015 study reported that 22% of TGI Californians did not see a doctor when they needed to because of fear of mistreatment; of those who did see a provider that year, 33% reported having one or more negative experiences seeking health care due to transphobia, ranging from being refused treatment or being assaulted in a healthcare setting, to having to teach their provider about transgender people and the medical care they need. Likely a consequence of the minimal education on LGBTQI+ populations that health professionals receive in schools (estimated at under five hours nationwide), health care systems have further disenfranchised a population in desperate need of safe and affirming health services.

Indeed, to TGI and queer people the historical message has been clear: we must take care of our own. To this day, in the absence of bills like the TGI Inclusive Care Act, we have had to create our own

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clinics and programs to receive safe and clinically competent services. One such clinic is Lyon-Martin Community Health Services, a local and national leader in LBTQI health care. Founded in 1979 to fill a gap in care for lesbian and bisexual women, LyonMartin was created to help address the discrimination faced by LBTQI people in health settings.

Lyon-Martin, and similar services created by us and for us, are still as relevant today as they were four decades ago, so that as TGI and queer people we can receive care by providers who understand our needs and reflect our lived experiences. Today, over 65% of Lyon-Martin clients are TGI, and our services mirror that: it offers a strong gender-affirming care program with wraparound services including primary care, hormone therapy, gynecological care, sexual health care, HIV and hepatitis C care, substance use disorder treatment, hair removal, speech therapy, a free prosthetics and compression garment program, gender-affirming surgery referral navigation, mental health services, outreach and overdose prevention programming, and acupuncture.

Lyon-Martin, which is again independent as the Bay Area Reporter recently reported (https://www.ebar. com/news/news/314083), remains truly by and for TGI and queer communities, with the majority of medical providers, mental health providers, and staff overall being TGI themselves. We hear repeatedly that the reason people come to Lyon-Martin is that they know they will not be mistreated; that they do not have to justify their existence to get the care they need; that intersectionality is foundational to our mission; that we serve our communities regardless of ability to pay; and that we do not create unnecessary barriers to accessing gender-affirming care. While the existence of services specifically designed for TGI communities has been and will continue to be crucial for our survival, we should be able to receive the same level of respect, dignity, and expertise in care regardless of whether we can

access a TGI-specific setting or not. Even for those of us who can, and prefer to, access TGI-specific clinics, we unfortunately cannot rely on them for all our medical needs. For example, if Lyon-Martin refers a client to a cardiologist for specialty care, it would be life-changing to trust that the cardiologist will provide them with care without misgendering, harassing, or failing to establish rapport.

The second portion of the bill, which will require insurance companies to list in-network clinicians with expertise in TGI health care, will also greatly improve the health of TGI Californians. Lyon-Martin sees clients from all over the state because many TGI people cannot find care close to home. Even when there are gender-affirming services nearby, it involves the client strongly advocating for themselves and navigating an extremely complex bureaucratic system. So, understandably, clients give up, don’t get the care they need, and the insurance company saves money. This disproportionately impacts TGI people who desperately need gender-affirming care and are at high risk of serious health issues, such as suicide, substance use disorders, and eating disorders. By increasing transparency, SB 293 will hold insurance companies accountable to the fact that they are required to provide these life-saving interventions to TGI people.

The TGI Inclusive Care Act will address discrepancy in care, by requiring that TGI health expertise is integrated into education for all health providers, and by ensuring insured clients can find in-network gender-affirming services, two crucial issues to tackle the unacceptably high health inequities faced by TGI Californians.t Pau Crego (he/him) is the acting executive director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives. JM Jaffe (they/them) is the director of clinic operations of Lyon-Martin Community Health Services.

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1st parent of a transgender child set to serve in CA Legislature

by Matthew S. Bajko

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cross the country transgender youth and their parents are coming under attack by Republican elected officials. Even in California, anti-LGBTQ groups continue to rail against legislative attempts to bolster the rights of such children and their families.

Missing from the debates in Sacramento has been the voice of a state legislator whose child is transgender or nonbinary. According to LGBTQ advocates and lawmakers no such parent has served in the state Legislature.

But that is set to change with the expected election next week of Suisun City Mayor Lori Wilson to the open 11th Assembly District seat that straddles Solano and Contra Costa counties. She and her husband, Chavares, are the parents of a transgender son now in college.

“It seems statistically impossible to me,” Wilson told the Bay Area Reporter about her becoming the first such legislator, noting there may have been a parent who wasn’t public about having a trans child.

Nonetheless, she acknowledged that her joining the Legislature comes at “a pivotal time” and she pledged to be “a very strong ally” to the LGBTQ community. Because she is not LGBTQ herself, Wilson will be ineligible to join the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.

“Right now there are so many unprecedented attacks when I think about reproductive freedom and the same thing with LGBTQ rights. It is

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Suisun City Mayor and Assembly candidate Lori Wilson

crazy we have made so many gains in these spaces and now to see them under attack,” she said. “In some states in our nation we are going backward. It saddens me.”

Democratic former assemblymember Jim Frazier resigned in order to seek work in the transportation sector and endorsed Wilson to succeed him. She is facing little opposition in the special election being held April 5 to elect someone to serve out the remainder of Frazier’s term through early December.

Wilson’s name is the sole one listed on the ballot, while Republican Erik Elness did qualify as a write-in candidate. Thus, Wilson is practically assured of being declared the winner in the race next Tuesday and is expected to be sworn into office soon thereafter.

It will give her a leg up as the incumbent in the contest for a full two-

year term on the June primary ballot then the November general election race where she will be competing against Army veteran Jenny Leilani Callison, an independent who is a staff member for the California State Assembly Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. Because the filing deadline has passed, Wilson will not be listed as a sitting assemblymember on either ballot. Plus, under redistricting, the Assembly district is losing most of its areas in Contra Costa County other than Oakley and gaining all of Solano County.

Wilson, first elected to a City Council seat in 2012, was elected mayor of her city in 2018, becoming the first Black female mayor to serve in Solano County. As the mother of a transgender son, Wilson has made it a priority during her mayoralty to celebrate Suisun City’s LGBTQ community, as she explained to the B.A.R. in 2020 for a story about how all Solano County cities but Dixon that year were marking Pride Month in June.

Because it doesn’t fly commemorative flags on the flagpole in front of its City Hall, Wilson had installed a rainbow flag display inside the building near the entrance. As long as she served as mayor, it would remain in place, she had pledged to the B.A.R. “You have to be courageous and make sure everybody in the commuSee page 10 >>

Letters >> Milk plaza can fit with proposed site plan

In the Guest Opinion [“Milk plaza plan has broad support,” March 24] author Alex Lemberg asserts that I, along with another, are solely responsible for creating a false impression that demolition and replacement of Harvey Milk Plaza are not universally loved. “Neither of these people live in San Francisco, both have ulterior motives, and neither they nor anyone else has presented a viable alternative plan to the one presented by [Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza],” he writes. Although I do not reside in San Francisco, I practiced architecture in the city for over 30 years and was responsible for the design of five Muni Metro stations, three of which were awarded design honor awards.

Three years ago, when it became clear the FHMP intended to replace the busy transit plaza serving the Castro Muni station, I realized there was no voice in defense of preservation. As a result, a Facebook group, Advocates for Harvey Milk Plaza, was created and has over 500 followers.

Two polls of the Castro neighborhood on Nextdoor revealed that over 50% favored improving the plaza and Milk memorial over demolition and replacement. This was also the result of a 2018 San Francisco Bay Times poll.

The editorial board of Architectural Digest featured a 2018 cover story on the redesign effort for the plaza titled, “Leave Well Enough Alone!;” the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, John King, wrote an October 2018 review of the FHMP plans titled, “Harvey Milk Plaza makeover not the right change for Castro,” in which he walked the site and declared it “charming;” a Stanford professor emeritus of architectural history and long-term Castro resident presented a defense of the present plaza to the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Civic Design Review Committee. Many residents of the Castro and Duboce Triangle also appeared before that committee during the past three years to voice their opposition to demolishing and replacing the plaza. So it is a fiction that resistance to the FHMP redesign plans is solely due to “two people with ulterior motives”! (What those might be is not spelled out.)

Lemberg claims we have not presented a “viable alternative plan.”

A website for the Advocates of Harvey Milk Plaza (https://www.saveharveymilkplaza.org/) features a video that demonstrates that the existing plaza could fit comfortably within the proposed site plan while retaining all of its conceptual features: the memorial grove, the elevator beacon, and the public speaker podium at the corner of Castro and Market streets. Many opportunities to improve the plaza and memorial are also presented. An environmental impact study would obviously question the wisdom of unnecessarily sending tons of concrete and steel to landfill and subject transit patrons and neighbors to years of demolition and construction that disable the Castro station’s main entrance. Ultimately, it may be up to philanthropists to decide if raising $30 million or more for this

project is appropriate at a time the Castro is reeling from a pandemic, financial hardship, and social ills.

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of Supervisors,” Sucré, a gay man, told the Bay Area Reporter. ix years ago a summer intern Last year, noted Sucré, the city working with the San Francisco designated five city landmarks, Planning Department’s historic three of which were of importance preservation staff had earmarked to LGBTQ history. It brought the seven local properties worthy of number of sites given such a desbeing designated city landmarks ignation in the past three years to due to their significance to LG13.

BTQ history. The sites had been Two of the LGBTQ sites – Landhighlighted in the citywide LGmark #295 the San Francisco Eagle BTQ historic context statement Bar and Landmark #292 the Lyonreleased in 2015.

Martin House – were both the Yet, to this day, not a single one result of supervisors calling for has been landmarked nor are there them to be recognized due to the any immediate plans to do so. The properties being put up for sale. It septet is among dozens of properforced city planners to work on the ties of historical importance for landmark requests, as they were various reasons in the city waiting required to meet a three-month to be landmarked. timeline to complete the process.

To help address the backlog the “On our end, what we run into planning department is seeking fairly consistently is having the funding in its next two fiscal year staff and resources,” said Sucré. budgets, which annually begin on “We don’t have enough staff to July 1, to hire on additional staff process the amount of landmarks. to work on local and federal landWe do have to prioritize things inmark designations for LGBTQ+ troduced by the board because of and other underrepresented comthe timeline.” munities. If approved, however, it So far it does not appear any could take until 2023 to finalize such supervisorial landmark rethe hiring for the position. quests for LGBTQ properties will “It is more than we could have be forthcoming this year. As for asked for. I don’t think when Donwhich sites move forward in the na and I were writing the report future to be landmarked, they we thought there would be a fullmust be in support of the Historic time position focusing on LGBTQ Preservation Commission’s policy sites,” said architectural historian adopted in 2020 that centered the Shayne Watson, referring to her city’s preservation planning on raco-author of the citywide LGBTQ cial and social equity. report Donna Graves, a public his“Any work that we conduct on torian based in Berkeley. our landmark designation work In the meantime, there isn’t program should be in support of clear direction on which LGBTQ the HPC’s resolution. Good news, properties to next target for landthe HPC has made clear that sites marking. That decision requires associated with LGBTQ history engaging with the public and city are in support of the race and soleaders, said Richard Sucré, deputy cial resolution,” explained Sucré. director in the Current Planning With there only being eight San Division, historic preservation Francisco sites with ties to LGBTQ team lead, and Planning Informahistory designated as city landtion Counter manager. marks, Sucré said there is a com“There is no simple answer to mitment within the planning dedesignating landmarks, since it partment to see the list grow. is dependent on the site itself, its “LGBTQ history is noticeably history (and our broad underunderrepresented in the course of standing of a site’s historic sigour landmarks,” he said. “We are nificance), work with the property very mindful of that. We want to owner and/or community, and get more landmarks that represent timing with our Historic Preserour history appropriately.” vation Commission the Board DuringAndrew Shaffer, a gay man who Did Youand Overspend

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is interim co-executive director of the GLBT Historical Society, told the B.A.R. it was “great” to hear the planning department is prioritizing LGBTQ landmarks among its historic preservation work and budgetary ask.

“I know the city has been very short staffed generally right now.

It is hard to get dedicated staffing for a lot of these projects, so it is exciting they are requesting it,” said Shaffer, stressing he was speaking on his own behalf. “I am excited they are hopefully going to be hiring for that position. I think a lot of landmarks need to be recognized.”

The society’s own historic places working group has not been “terribly active,” said Shaffer, though the nonprofit did just unveil a new virtual tour of the Lyon-Martin House designed by CyArk, a Bay Area nonprofit that pioneered the application of 3-D recording technologies to the preservation and celebration of cultural heritage.

Late lesbian pioneers Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin lived at the Noe Valley home for decades and held social events there with the Daughters of Bilitis, the early lesbian group they co-founded.

Following Lyon’s death in 2020 (Martin died in 2008), the Friends of Lyon-Martin House worked with gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman to landmark the property after it was sold in 2020.

“I think why some places have gotten landmarked is they are in that crisis mode where it is being sold or about to be demolished,” said Shaffer, noting that the historical society currently does not have a staff member who can work on the lengthy documentation required to landmark a building or site. “We don’t have the capacity to do landmarking. It is a huge amount of work.”

Castro flagpole eyed for landmarking

Watson, a lesbian who co-chairs the friends group for the LyonMartin House, has been hired by the Gilbert Baker Foundation to research the history of the late gay artist’s flagpole installation at Harvey Milk Plaza in the LGBTQ Castro district. It flies a super-sized version of the rainbow flag that he

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Historians are looking at city landmark status for the flagpole at Harvey Milk Plaza that flies the large rainbow flag that was created by the late Gilbert Baker specifically for that purpose.

created based on an earlier version he had designed in collaboration with his friends Lynn Segerblom, who now lives in southern California, and James McNamara, who died of AIDS in 1999.

It is the first step toward possibly landmarking the flagpole, which was dedicated on November 7, 1997. Not part of Watson’s research is the plaza itself, which is being eyed for a revamp that would better honor its namesake, the city’s first gay supervisor, but is opposed by the gay man who designed the entrance for the Castro Muni station and others.

The flagpole, noted Watson, was Baker’s “only permanent installation.” She expects to have her report completed later this year or in early 2023. As of now, no paperwork officially requesting that the city landmark the flagpole has been submitted.

The foundation created to maintain Baker’s legacy has made no secret of its desire to see the flagpole become a city landmark.

In an email sent out in early March it noted that one of its “major goals” in 2022 was “landmarking the Gilbert Baker flag and flagpole at San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Plaza so that this amazing symbol flies freely, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in the heart of the city where it was created.”

Mandelman has said he is open to looking at possibly landmarking the flagpole. In a recent interview he told the B.A.R. that he has

no immediate plans to sponsor such a landmark request, nor is he looking at landmarking Harvey Milk Plaza, which a city report found has some historically significant aspects to it that should be maintained in any remodel of the parklet.

“There could be an independent outside nomination, that is what my understanding is, or it could be me and my office,” said Mandelman of the flagpole. “I am happy to talk to Shayne about who it makes sense to do that.”

While most landmark requests are made for sites that are at least 50 years old, Sucré told the B.A.R. there can be exceptions made to landmark properties sooner.

“We try to align as best we can with state and federal guidelines that typically say 50 years. However, a number of times a property has been deemed as having exceptional significance,” he said.

“We might landmark it when it is younger than that, but you have to do more analysis to prove the point.”

Mandelman told the B.A.R. he has not been asked to seek landmarking for any LGBTQ sites this year. He did express his support for the planning department’s budget request to have a staffer working on such landmarks.

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fter telling the Bay Area Reporter and other outlets that he was going to leave his Castro apartment rather than fight his new landlord over a large rent increase, gay longtime activist Cleve Jones has decided to fight the eviction. Jones, right, addressed a crowd of supporters March 27 at Harvey Milk Plaza. Other tenants who’d successfully fought eviction and political leaders joined him. Jones told the B.A.R. this week that he changed his mind, in part, because of other renters “far more

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vulnerable than I.” His landlord, Lily Li Pao Kue, has claimed that Jones vacated the residence and moved to Guerneville.

Jones does own a small cottage in the North Bay city and said he lived there for a time to escape the various COVID surges in San Francisco. But he calls San Francisco home and is registered to vote in the city. The next stop, Jones said, is a hearing before the rent board, though no date has been set.

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AIDS quilt

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march honoring the deaths of gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone write down the names of people lost to AIDS onto placards that were then attached to the federal building near City Hall.

Two years later Jones; Mike Smith, a gay man; Gert McMullin, a straight ally; and several other people opened a Castro storefront, now a city landmark, and the AIDS quilt was officially born. The display will officially mark 35 years since the first panels of the quilt were stitched together.

The Names Project ceased operations following its wind-down after the November 2019 announcement that the AIDS grove would become the steward of the quilt. In February 2020, shortly before the Bay Area locked down because of the COVID pandemic, the thousands of panels arrived to be stored at a warehouse renovated for that purpose in San Leandro, near the Oakland International Airport.

The AIDS grove had planned to

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Trans judge

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Sacramento, as they will be getting a superb judge.”

Mudryk was served as the director of litigation and advocacy at the Arizona Center for Disability Law from

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Castro archival group

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Political Notebook

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nity is treated fairly and celebrated,” she had told the B.A.R. “Nobody wants to be tolerated in their community; they want to be celebrated. That is not the community I want to live in; I want to live in a community that celebrates who we are.”

Her son, who at the time was not fully out and asked that his name be withheld, had told the B.A.R. his hometown is accepting of LGBTQ people almost to a fault.

“Honestly, everybody has been really so great and supportive around here when it comes to that, it wasn’t as big of a deal as I think

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Editorial

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The other troubling aspect of the Florida law is that it allows parents to bring private lawsuits against schools that violate the ban. That’s similar to the Texas abortion law that allows private citizens to sue anyone connected with helping a person obtain an abor-

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curate a large display of the quilt in April 2020 to coincide with Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary. But the pandemic put an end to those plans.

Herglotz said that the upcoming installation would be about one-third larger than that one would have been.

Herglotz said the grove envisions an opening ceremony, followed by volunteers reading names all day that Saturday. He was firm that there would be no speeches. The viewing is free and open to the public. There will be other volunteer opportunities as well, he said. A map is expected to be developed to point people to specific blocks of the quilt being displayed, which is already searchable by name on the grove’s website. (https://www. aidsmemorial.org/quilt) Gilead Sciences Inc. is the presenting partner for the installation, Herglotz said.

More than 1.3 million Americans are currently living with HIV/AIDS, with marginalized populations, particularly Black, Hispanic, Asians and Pacific Islander, and LGBTQI+ communities being disproportionately impacted, particularly in the South,

where rates of infection are rising among many of these populations, the grove stated in a news release.

New office in the Castro In other news, the AIDS grove recently moved its offices to the Castro and received a $15,858 grant from the city, Herglotz said. The funds were part of $3.3 million distributed to nonprofits through the mayor’s office, the Office of Economic Workforce Development, Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Community Vision Capital and Consulting, according to a news release from the mayor’s office. The funds are part of the San Francisco Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative and are for space acquisition or lease stabilization, the release stated.

“The pandemic has shown us just how critical the services our nonprofits provide and the important role they play in our communities,” Breed stated. “The Nonprofit Sustainability Initiative not only allows organizations to acquire and lease space during a time when it has become increasingly difficult to do so, but it

provides them with an opportunity to strengthen their resources and remain deeply rooted in the community.”

John Cunningham, a gay man who’s CEO of the AIDS grove, wrote in an email that the organization gave up its office in the Flood Building in downtown San Francisco during the pandemic.

“We started working remotely before the lockdown in late February 2020,” Cunningham said in a phone interview, adding that he saw what was coming regarding COVID and many of the staff are immunocompromised.

“In June our lease was up” at the Flood Building, Cunningham said, and the grove put its stuff in storage and employees continued remote work.

Cunningham said the grove “always had a vision to return to the Castro,” especially after it took over the quilt, which got its start in the LGBTQ neighborhood.

The grove found a location at 543 Castro Street, in a Victorian above what was formerly the Best in Show pet store (a Turkish coffee shop, Aegean Delights, is located there now, Cunningham said.) While not a storefront, Cunningham said there would

be quilt panel-making workshops held there. There are five offices and a community space, which Cunningham said would be made available for community groups to hold small meetings (six to 10 people). The offices are a little over 1,000 square feet, he added.

Two days a week, Billy Lemon, executive director of the Castro Country Club, a clean and sober space, will use the grove’s offices, Cunningham said.

Lemon, a gay man, did not respond to a request for comment.

As far as displaying portions of the quilt in the Castro, Cunningham said that is a goal.

“It is certainly our vision to have the quilt on display in one or more prominent locations in the Upper Market area,” Cunningham wrote in an email.

“At present we have not identified a specific location or partner.”

He added that panels are always presented in the restaurant Catch, 2362 Market Street, the original home of the quilt. It is San Francisco City Landmark #241, one of eight officially recognized historic properties in the city with ties to LGBTQ history. t

2002 to 2006. She graduated from the George Washington University Law School and is a member of Sacramento’s LGBTQ+ bar association SacLegal, which she also has co-chaired.

Once sworn into judicial office, Mudryk will bring the number of LGBTQ people serving on the California bench to at least 84, according

to figures compiled by the Bay Area Reporter. As the B.A.R. reported earlier this month, the number of out jurists on state courts has increased by at least 30% largely due to the appointments Newsom has made since taking office in 2019.

The Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation 2021 Statewide De-

mographics Report released March 1 revealed it had reviewed a female transgender applicant last year and found her to be exceptionally well qualified.

Mudryk was likely that person.

Kolakowski stated that Mudryk “led the pack of several extremely qualified transgender attorneys that have been seeking appointment to the

bench here in California and beyond.”

Mudryk will bring the number of known LGBTQ judges on the Sacramento County bench to two, based on the latest demographic data for the makeup of the state courts that was released on March 1. It covered those judges serving as of December 31, 2021. t

rector searches follow the hiring in January of Ben Garcia as the first executive director of the American LGBTQ+ Museum in Manhattan. He

started on Valentine’s Day. Formerly deputy executive director and chief learning officer at Ohio History Connection, Garcia and his hus-

band decided to relocate to New York City in order for him to help oversee the museum affiliated with the NewYork Historical Society. Its building is

under construction and set to open in 2024. t

it should be,” he had said of the rainbow flag display his mother installed in City Hall.

He continues to prefer to remain in the background, Wilson said, adding her son is thankful for those who are fighting so he can be himself. They did discuss Wilson taking on a more visible role as a member of the Assembly who will be looked upon to lead on trans issues.

“We as political leaders have to do what we can to protect the LGBT community as well as protect the right for everyone to exist no matter who you are,” said Wilson. “It saddens me to see people are attacking people just for existing.”

Jonathan Cook, executive direc-

tor of the Solano Pride Center, the county’s LGBTQ community center located in Fairfield, told the B.A.R. that Wilson has not only been “a good advocate” for the nonprofit facility but for the LGBTQ community in general. Her now serving in the state Legislature will be impactful for other parents of trans and nonbinary children, said Cook, particularly at this moment in time when Florida’s governor on Monday signed into law legislation that restricts teaching about LGBTQ issues in kindergarten through third grade classes.

“The increasing vitriol present at school board meetings and really going after trans and nonbinary stu-

dents, it is important for folks with that level of knowledge, compassion, and lived experience to advocate for our trans youth and community at large at the state level,” said Cook.

Tiffany Woods, a married trans mother of three teenagers who cochairs the California Democratic Party LGBTQ Caucus, told the B.A.R. she doesn’t know Wilson personally but looks forward to seeing her serving in the Legislature.

Her “lived experience, that firsthand knowledge” as a parent of a transgender child, said Woods, “it is extremely impactful and informed.”

A lawmaker who can speak from personal experience during debates

on bills advancing rights for trans youth and their families can have a powerful impact on their legislative colleagues and the public, noted Woods, pointing to the reaction Democratic former congressmember Mike Honda of San Jose received when he came out about being the grandfather of a trans granddaughter in 2015.

“It really speaks to the political as personal, right. We know that,” said Woods. “It changes the conversation and the narrative.”

For Wilson to be able to talk about her own parental experience “that is going to be huge and make a big difference,” added Woods. t

tion. (We’re seeing the liberal counterpart of this in California, where a bill is making its way through the Legislature that would allow private citizens to sue members of the gun industry.)

While it’s expected that the law will face a court challenge, the outcome is far from certain. For one thing, Florida courts or the state education department might remedy the

vagueness by providing definitions in the law. Vox also points out that the Florida Supreme Court is stacked with Republican justices, including three appointed by DeSantis. Even if the law is reworked to provide definitions of “age-appropriate” and “developmentally appropriate,” it will still be horrible for LGBTQ students and families. Teachers are in a difficult

situation and that’s where the erasure of LGBTQ history and culture is most effective. Afraid of being sued or otherwise disciplined, teachers will possibly just stop talking about LGBTQ issues, no matter the grade level. That’s alarming but not surprising.

This strategy was probably part of DeSantis and Republican lawmakers’ calculations all along: pass an

ill-defined bill and let the courts and bureaucrats hash it out. Meanwhile, public school curriculum will be dumbed-down to erase LGBTQ historical figures and those involved in present day events. And worst of all, LGBTQ children will become more isolated, unsupported, and stigmatized. The students ultimately lose, and that’s the tragedy here.t

Concerns about the size of the stage, for example, have been addressed with plans for a raisable movie screen, that would open up even more of the stage for live performances. And the screen itself is also going to be replaced. “It’s in very bad shape,” Perry observed.

And the organ, beloved by anyone who’s ever heard David Hegarty play “San Francisco” on it just before the feature presentation, is safe, said Perry.

“There has always been an organ in the Castro Theatre, and there will always be an organ at the Castro Theatre,” Perry said, adding that Hegarty has been involved in efforts to replace the Mighty Wurlitzer the theater has used for several years, and which he actually owns, with a fully restored Wurlitzer/Kimball theater pipe organ, which will then be part of the theater’s infrastructure. Hegarty’s website also contained that information.

Despite what might seem like

foot dragging to those watching the changes at the Castro with concern, said Perry, the reality is that APE is deeply involved in cleaning the cinema to get it in shape for Frameline46 LGBTQ+ Film Festival June 16-22.

And APE is still awaiting its first hearing with the city’s planning department after submitting plans earlier in March, said Perry. The pandemic is still a factor and has caused many of the procedural delays they’re currently dealing with.

The Castro Theatre is in safe hands, said Perry.

Fans of the movie palace hope so.

“My god, with 32 years of history with the theater there are so many memories flooding back,” said Gibson. “So many important moments, so many first viewings, so many performances. Hearing ‘San Francisco’ on the Mighty Wurlitzer has made me cry for well over a decade now.” t

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Those same changes make “this less like a movie theater,” said Tina Aguirre, a genderqueer Latinx person who is the manager of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, “and any changes needed to make it more like a movie theater experience – if there are film producers that want to change the seating back to what would normally be a cinematic experience – would probably fall on community organizations to carry those expenses, and that would be economically unfeasible.”

Despite his fond memories of the place, Huestis is neutral about the impending changes, adding “the theater is unsustainable as it is now.” Even before the pandemic, sales for his own events had been dwindling and he wasn’t making a profit on performances that cost $20,000 to produce.

“If the price gets raised, it just won’t

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Some people are concerned that the Castro Theatre’s new management company will price out performers and smaller organizations, like the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus’ annual holiday show.

be worth it,” Huestis said.

David Perry, a gay man who is the spokesperson for APE’s work at the Castro, insisted that the entertainment producer is very conscious of the public’s concerns and is, in fact,

negotiating with stakeholders for events in the upcoming years.

“Another Planet is well aware of what an icon the Castro Theatre is to LGBTQ communities,” Perry said in a phone interview with the B.A.R.

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historic value and need to be pre-

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served in some form,” he said.

The topic is likely to come up when the supervisors hold a hearing this year on the city’s plan to preserve its LGBTQ cultural

heritage. Since San Francisco’s groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Strategy was first released in draft form in 2018, Mandelman has told the B.A.R. he

would request a hearing on it.

But the COVID-19 pandemic pushed back his doing so. When the supervisors next meet April 5 Mandelman will formally request

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CISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YOSHIKO MAEKAWA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/04/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022

The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLUENT READERS SF, 469 FREDERICK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MADRID FAMILY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/02/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/22.

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from said application that petitioner KELLER CLIFFTON RINAUDO is requesting that the name KELLER CLIFFTON RINAUDO be changed to KELLER RINAUDO CLIFFTON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

103N, Rm. 103N on the 26th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022

FILE A-039652300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FACIAL PLUS – NORIEGA, 1322 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed REJUVE BEAUTY INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

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Legals>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039617200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YCAT-C, 196 MENDELL ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed YCAT-C (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/02/22.

FEB 24, MAR 03, 10, 17, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556954 In the matter of the application of JIM BRICK, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner JASON SANT is requesting that the name JIM BRICK be changed to JASON SCOTT SANT. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 14th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556963 In the matter of the application of STEPHANIE ASHLEY NEVINS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner STEPHANIE ASHLEY NEVINS is requesting that the name STEPHANIE ASHLEY NEVINS be changed to STEPHANIE ASHLEY NEVINS CLIFFTON. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 19th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556962 In the matter of the application of ABIGAIL TRINIDAD FUENTES, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ABIGAIL TRINIDAD FUENTES is requesting that the name ABIGAIL TRINIDAD FUENTES be changed to ABIGAIL TRINIDAD BADILLO. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

103N, Rm. 103N on the 19th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556960 In the matter of the application of ASTRID CHRISTIANE BECKER-CELIK & CAN SABRI CELIK, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ASTRID CHRISTIANE BECKERCELIK & CAN SABRI CELIK is requesting that the name CHIARA FRANCESCA CELIK be changed to CHIARA FRANCESCA BECKER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept.

103N, Rm. 103N on the 19th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556944 In the matter of the application of ANTOINE RITZU, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ANTOINE RITZU is requesting that the name ANTOINE RITZU be changed to ANTON RITZU. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 7th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039645100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HIWOT, 740 BUCHANAN ST #3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HIWOT KASSA GEBREGIORGIS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/23/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039644900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as REV. LILI HIBARINO, 355 SERRANO DR #11H, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIANA YUMI HIBARINO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/11/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039643600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MCGEARY PRODUCTIONS, 665 GEARY ST #304, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RYAN MCGEARY. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/28/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039648700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MOON AND SUN, 780 24TH AVE, SAN FRAN-

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039647900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BREE CHEESE MEDIA, 134 DUBOCE AVE #11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AUBRIANNE DEMASCO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/03/22.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039633500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as DYNA ELECTRIC, 401 CRESCENT CT #4308, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed DYNA MAIDS INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/16/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039645600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MONA LISA MARE E MONTI RESTAURANT AND BAR, 414 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BUONVICINO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/02/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039633400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CAMERA ZONE AND ART GALLERY, 662 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RED INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/02. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/16/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039642100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as METAVENT, 2932 BAKER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ANNA MARIE EVENTS, INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/25/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039639300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GROSVENOR COURT, 2055 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed MII, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, GENERAL PARTNER (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/80. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/23/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039639400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as CARILLON TOWER, 1100 GOUGH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited partnership, and is signed CARILLON GP, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, GENERAL PARTNER (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/10/80. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/23/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039645200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BLUE SPA, 2809 SAN BRUNO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FIRST IMPRESSIONS BEAUTY SERVICES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039643400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FLENOID JANITORIAL SERVICES, 38 MOSS ST #B301, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed FS&L REAL ESTATE GROUP, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/28/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/28/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039646100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BERGSSEN, 775 47TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed PROJECT SKYLINE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/08/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/02/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039648100

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039648800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE LAUNDRY CORNER, 700 7TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed NGO LAU LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/22.

MAR 10, 17, 24, 31, 2022 SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JOHN REYNOLDS, JR., AN INDIVIDUAL, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 10, INCLUSIVE, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: RECOLOGY INC., A CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO DO BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA CASE NO. CGC-19-578961 NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in the proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use with your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you.

If you cannot play the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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

SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102.

Plaintiff’s attorney: TERESA M. BECK, ESQ. (SBN 149763), BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY, LLP, 600 W. BROADWAY #1100, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101. Sept. 03, 2019, Bowman Liu, Deputy Clerk.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556965 In the matter of the application of CLYDE GILMORE JR, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CLYDE GILMORE JR is requesting that the name ROBYN EZRA WONG be changed to ROBYN EZRA GILMORE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 21st of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556967 In the matter of the application of YI-HSUN CHEN AKA YI HSUN CHEN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner YI-HSUN CHEN AKA YI HSUN CHEN is requesting that the name YI-HSUN CHEN AKA YI HSUN CHEN be changed to RICHARD YI-HSUN CHEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 21st of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556969 In the matter of the application of VERONICA JOANN APPLEBERRY, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner VERONICA JOANN APPLEBERRY is requesting that the name VERONICA JOANN APPLEBERRY be changed to VERONICA JEANNETTE APPLEBERRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 26th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556968 In the matter of the application of KELLER CLIFFTON RINAUDO, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556970 In the matter of the application of TOINETTE TARA ROLLINS, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TOINETTE TARA ROLLINS is requesting that the name TOINETTE TARA ROLLINS be changed to TERA TOINETTE ROLLINS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 26th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 17, 24, 31, apr 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039652100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as VILLA GROUP, 891 BEACH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FRANK VILLANUEVA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/08/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, apr 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039649600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as A&N LIQUORS, 1521 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed UDDHAB KC. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/07/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039652800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as G. ALEXANDER DESIGN, 838 22ND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALEX NORWOOD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/08/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, apr 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039653100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ART AND JEWELRY, 1012 GRANT AVE #3A, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EMAD DUAR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039654800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LOLAMILO SALON, 1645 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SARAH BOWEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/09/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039658000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LOVE LIGHT PROJECT, 1720 48TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed GERALDINE MASSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/13/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039658900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as RED ROCK HILL CONSTRUCTION, 2125 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NICOLAS GOFFO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/23/20. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039660900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ARIA PROPERTIES, 4406 18TH ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MASOOD SAMEREIE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039657900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KAMI SMOKE SHOP, 1838 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed VICTORIA HABASH, JOUNI ABU-ZAGHIBRA & LESLIE ABU-ZAGHIBRA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/22.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039656900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SHIRTIQUE/KRAZY KAPS, PIER 39 N-1, N-2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed D AND D RETAIL ENTERPRISES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039657000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as UNDER THE GOLDEN GATE, PIER 39 B-2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed D AND D RETAIL ENTERPRISES, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039659600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SPORK, 631 BROADWAY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TIPSUWON INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/14/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039655600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MIDPOINT SPORTS CHIROPRACTIC, 540 CASTRO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed RIZZO CHIROPRACTIC CORP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/09/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039650100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TBWBH PROPS & MEASURES, 50 OSGOOD PL, 4TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TERRIS BARNES WALTERS BOIGON HEATH LESTER, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039650200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TBWBHL, 50 OSGOOD PL, 4TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TERRIS BARNES WALTERS BOIGON HEATH LESTER, INC. (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039650300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PROPS & MEASURES, 50 OSGOOD PL, 4TH FL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TERRIS BARNES WALTERS BOIGON HEATH LESTER, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/08/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039639700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COTERIE CATHEDRAL HILL, 1001 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VAN NESS OPCO TENANT LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/03/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 02/23/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039660400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE KITCHEN OF EVE, 2953 HARRISON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed THE KITCHEN OF EVE LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/22.

MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039641900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MEANINGFUL INSIGHTS, 1770 POST ST #236, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MEANINGFUL INSIGHTS LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with

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MAR 17, 24, 31, APR 07, 2022 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556951 In the matter of the application of WILLIAM JOHN MARSHALL, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner WILLIAM JOHN MARSHALL is requesting that the name WILLIAM JOHN MARSHALL be changed to SHILOH BEN ISRAEL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 12th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 24, 31, apr 07, 14, 2022 AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556952 In the matter of the application of ADONIS J’QUAN MARSHALL, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ADONIS J’QUAN MARSHALL is requesting that the name ADONIS J’QUAN MARSHALL be changed to ASA BEN ISRAEL. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 12th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556978 In the matter of the application of CHAU LE NG, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CHAU LE NG is requesting that the name CHAU LE NG be changed to LE CHAU NG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 28th of APRIL 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039661800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as KAILI BEAUTY NAIL SALON, 2545 NORIEGA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed HUA JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/02/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039662300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MATERIALIST, 2432 WASHINGTON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CONOR WARD. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/15/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039649000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as WISHLIA, 160 BEMIS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRIS RICHARDSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/04/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039656200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as PHO 808, 808 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed PAK S. WAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039662900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAIRCRAFT BY SERENA, 350 WEST PORTAL AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SERENA R. GOMEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/16/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/16/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039664900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FIRST PEAK, 516A DIAMOND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOCELYN NEWMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039660600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAVOR, 401 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MOHAMED ABOGHANEM. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039666700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LUX BLACK RIDES, 2275 19TH AVE #7, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94116. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHAEL MANGIAMELE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/21/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039662500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BEAUTIFUL HANDS JANITORIAL SERVICES, 929 CONNECTICUT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed BEAUTIFUL HANDS JANITORIAL SERVICES (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/16/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/16/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039656100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EL FAROLITO #9, 1230 GRANT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TAQUERIAS EL FAROLITO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/10/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039658100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as OVERHEAD DOOR OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY; OVERHEAD DOOR COMPANY OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY, 1266 LAWRENCE STATION RD, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ENGINEERED PRODUCTS, A PAPE COMPANY (OR). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/22/21. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/11/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039664700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TERRACE CAFÉ, 2100 WEBSTER ST #108, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LEE TERRACE INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/31/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/18/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039664300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as EMPIRE PIZZA, 688 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed G680 GROUP, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/17/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039662700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SCOTT’S CHOWDER HOUSE, 1325 FILLMORE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SCOTT’S CHOWDER HOUSE FILLMORE STREET LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/16/22.

MAR 24, 31, APR 07, 14, 2022 MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, DIJON COURT OF APPEAL, CHAUMONTJUDICIAL TRIBUNAL, CIVIL PROSECUTION: EXTRACT FROM A REQUEST TO END THE DECLARATION OF ABSENCE The prosecutor of the republic of Chaumont (FRANCE) filed with the judicial tribunal of CHAUMONT a request for the declaration of the absence of Madam LAMY Régiane Julienne Jeanne Marie born on February 8, 1937 in LANGRES (52) whose last known domicile is in SAN FRANCISCO (United States) absent since May 2, 2006. FOR EXTRACT Chaumont on November 22, 2021. For the public prosecutor NATHALIE D’ANZI, substitute.

MAR 31, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556983 In the matter of the application of TAM MINH NGUYEN, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner TAM MINH NGUYEN is requesting that the name TAM MINH NGUYEN be changed to TOM MINH NGUYEN. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 3rd of MAY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556995 In the matter of the application of IRIS BERNARDA SANCHEZ, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner X IRIS BERNARDA SANCHEZ is requesting that the name IRIS BERNARDA SANCHEZ be changed to IRIS SELENA SANCHEZ. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 3rd of MAY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-556993 In the matter of the application of DANIEL OTTO WACKER, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner DANIEL OTTO WACKER is requesting that the name DANIEL OTTO WACKER be changed to OTTO WACKER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Rm. 103N on the 3rd of MAY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE

CNC-22-557007 In the matter of the application of REED WALKER HINCKLEY BARNES, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner REED WALKER HINCKLEY BARNES is requesting that the name REED WALKER HINCKLEY BARNES be changed to REED WALKER HINCKLEY-BARNES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 10th of MAY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-22-557008 In the matter of the application of MARISSA TAYLOR ELLISON, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appears from said application that petitioner MARISSA TAYLOR ELLISON is requesting that the name MARISSA TAYLOR ELLISON be changed to MARISSA TAYLOR HINCKLEY-BARNES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 103N, Rm. 103N on the 10th of MAY 2022 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039669300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as AFFORDABLE FISHING & TOURING, 26 RIDGEWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARTIN GALLARDO MACIAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/23/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039667200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TRANSWAY, 350 TOWNSEND ST #827, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VITALY DANEKIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/21/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039668500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SWITCH CONSTRUCTION, 98 PARKRIDGE DR #105, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LIAM MITCHELL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039667700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as THE PATH ILLUMINATED, 1044 PINE ST #11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KIMBERLY RICE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039667500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as AT TRAVEL & TOUR SERVICES, 245 CLEMENT ST #5, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YUI A. TUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039667300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as MICHELLE WONDER SCHOOL, 7 ACEVEDO AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHELLE VINES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/07/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039667900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as IRVING SEAFOOD MARKET, 2130 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed XIU L. CHEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/10/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039668100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SEMILLA SPEECH THERAPY, 737 LA PLAYA ST #B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ANGELA DIBERNARDO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on N/A. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039668900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BAY INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, 1660 SUTTER ST #206, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SOOTEENIE STRICKLAND. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/03/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/23/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039674100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TWIN PEAKS YOGA, 4686 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JOSEPH A. NAUDZUNAS JR. The registrant(s) commenced

to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039646900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GROOMING AND MORE, 1524 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARWAN ZEIDAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/03/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039673900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FREE ART, 341 11TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed YU LI GELLERMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/28/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/28/22.

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with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/22.

MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039668200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GHOSTNOTE WINES, 624 ASHBURY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed B.P. FRIEDMAN WINES, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/22/22. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/22.

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MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039672400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as FIGURE, 757 BRANNAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed FIGURE DESIGN (CA).

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MAR 31, APR 07, 14, 21, 2022 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-039673200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as LITTLE DUMPLING, 59 30tTH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PHO BERNAL (CA).

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Gay ASL interpreter and straight DeafBlind young man’s lives intersect

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n his debut novel The Sign for Home, author Blair Fell explores the friendship between Arlo, a young, straight DeafBlind Jehovah’s Witness and Cyril, his gay older ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter.

How the two interact and how they each help each other makes for a heartwarming and of-

ing that allowed him to play with language, where the DeafBlind and Deaf characters speak with ASL syntax.

In fact, all the characters have their specific way of speaking and/or writing in various modes. Even Arlo’s adorable guide dog Snap has her own unique way of communicating.

“I do take a kind of a Stanislavski acting approach to writing,” said Fell. “Here’s a character. What does he want, what are the obstacles and how does he get it? I think actors can make good writers, because we know what would sound good or terrible coming out of a character’s mouth.”

One real-life experience that inspired part of The Sign for Home was helping a DeafBlind friend create an online dating profile, then sending the messages to his devices where he could read them with assistive technology.

“The interface for dating apps is not good for people with low vision or who are blind,” said Fell. “So I wrote an essay about helping my friend for my MFA program. I wrote it in the second person present, and then realized that was the secret to the other narrator Arlo Dilly (the DeafBlind main character).”

Fell discussed why he used the different syntaxes of spoken word, ASL and typed syntax, along with the hearing and Deaf and DeafBlind character’s dialogue.

“There are so many variations of language occurring simultaneously in the book,” he said. “I’ve been working in the Deaf commu-

nity for decades. I remember getting a note from a Deaf girl at Gallaudet who had a crush on me and I couldn’t understand what she had written. Then someone explained that she was writing with ASL syntax. Many Deaf struggle with writing English if their parents didn’t sign to them from birth. They don’t really get a language until they go to school. It’s called language deprivation. If you look at any Deaf social media group, seeing atypical syntax is very common. There are also brilliant writers among the Deaf and DeafBlind, but they usually come from families that gave them language access (ASL) from birth.

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der maid to a group of abused wives, all rise above their oppression to emerge transcended and ethereally beautiful.

encouraged by her fascist boyfriend. Eternally single gay son Nick is placed on mitigation duty deflecting media attention that could hobble his mother’s political career. Sparkling dialogue and expert timing spin this melodrama into a frothy escapist indulgence for gay fiction fans.

masochism throughout and plenty of powerdynamic sex scenes for the fluid set, as well as mildly reflective notes on the nature of heteronormative arousal, submission, and lust.

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ten funny story. In an interview with the Bay Area Reporter, Fell talked to us from his home in Queens, New York, about his career as an interpreter and how it inspired his debut novel.

It was in a writing group and the MFA program at The City College of New York where Fell began writing his first novel, which won the prestigious Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing.

“While at City College I finished The Sign For Home and also a second novel. I really loved doing that sort of writing.

When COVID hit, I focused on polishing the first book and knew I would soon need to send it out in the world,” said Fell, “I didn’t know if it was ready, so I asked an author friend, who sent it to his agent for feedback. The agent, Doug Stewart, liked it a lot, and fairly quickly sold it at auction to Emily Bestler at Simon and Schuster. So it was kind of beginner’s luck out of the gate.”

Fell credits his years of writing for television and theater as a booster to his skills, which are evident in his novel, where dialogue –spoken, signed and written– propels the story. But it was also his years of interpret-

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Wayne Hoffman’s The End of Her

by Gregg Shapiro

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riter Wayne Hoffman’s name will be familiar to readers of gay fiction, including those who enjoy an erotic edge to what they’re reading. His novels include Hard, Sweet Like Sugar, and An Older Man. Hoffman’s journalism career has also earned him a following via publications such as The Nation, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Billboard, and The Forward, as Tablet Magazine, where he is presently editor.

For his new book, the non-fiction work The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder (Heliotrope Books, 2022), he called on his skills as a journalist and a storyteller to unravel a family mystery, all while coming to terms with his mother Susan’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis and subsequent decline. The result is a kind of PBS Finding Your Roots crossed with Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.

Gregg Shapiro: Wayne, you’re known as both a journalist and a novelist. When thinking about

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writing your new book, The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder, did you always know that you would tell the story in a non-fiction format, or had you considered writing it as a novel?

Wayne Hoffman: I knew it’d be non-fiction because my goal was to find out the facts about what really happened to my great-grandmother. Was she really murdered, and if

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so, by whom? I could have made up a story and turned it into a novel.

But that’s what other relatives had basically already done, with the outlandish legends about her that they’d passed down as family lore. I wanted to focus instead on uncovering the truth, as much as possible.

After having written three novels, what impact did creating a work of nonfiction have on you as a journalist?

I’m used to daily and weekly journalism; reporting quickly, writing quickly, publishing quickly, and moving on quickly. And I’m used to writing novels, having years to write and revise. This was a new combination: I was reporting, but without any solid deadline. I could go back and rethink things, look for new sources, change conclusions, rewrite a thousand times. That’s a luxury journalists rarely get. If I hadn’t had that time –if I’d had to publish what I’d found after the first few weeks or months– I wouldn’t have understood what really happened.

How much did your time as an editor at the Forward and Tablet come in handy in your research?

Being a newspaper and magazine editor allowed me to imagine what I’d say if a writer turned in what I’d written, and see what pieces were still missing. But working specifically in the Jewish press –the Forward and now Tablet– for the past 20 years also gave me a broader understanding of the larger context around my great-grandmother’s murder: the waves of Yiddish-speaking immigrants coming to North America from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s, how they did and didn’t assimilate, how they tried to build not just families but larger communi-

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“One thing I hope people get from this book is that hearing parents who have deaf children need to learn sign language and start signing to their children as soon as possible – at birth.”

Fell discussed the bias that starts even with pediatricians who advise hearing parents to not learn sign language as a way to force their children to try to learn to read lips or find some other way to try to make their children as close to hearing as possible.

“It’s called ‘audism.’ Fell explained. “Even the term ‘hearingimpaired’ is so problematic. It implies that hearing is what’s right, and anything other than that is what’s ‘broken.’ For people in the Deaf community, it’s not broken; this is their world, their culture.”

The unique quality of his novel is clearly worth noting for its fresh perspective.

“I hadn’t seen a book like this before, which is why I wanted to write it,” said Fell. “There aren’t many (or any that I know of) novels that focus on a fictional DeafBlind character – especially a love story. Nor

As you said earlier, The End of Her is about family lore and learning as much as possible about it while your mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, can both provide details, and benefit from the solving of your great grandmother Sarah’s murder. Do you think with this book you may inspire others to clarify longstanding family myths?

I hope so. We have so many tools now to help us understand our personal histories in terms of genetics and DNA. Those are things you can discover from a drop of blood, or a swab. But what about the parts of our history that aren’t stored in our blood or our genes, but in our memories? You can find out a lot

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from documents. whether they’re official documents like birth certificates or personal documents like letters.

But some things you can only find out from relatives and friends who remember things. The more of those people you can contact – before it’s too late– the richer picture you can create of your family’s history, and your own. That might clear up mysteries and scandals, or it might reveal mysteries and scandals you didn’t know existed, which might even be more interesting.t Wayne Hoffman will read and sign books at Fabulosa Books, April 24, 5pm. 489 Castro St. http://waynehoffmanwriter.com/

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Lauren McBrayer’s Like a House on Fire

by Gregg Shapiro

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is already proving to be one of the queerest ever in terms of literature, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry titles. If it’s not already on your reading list, by all means, add lesbian writer Lauren McBrayer’s debut novel Like a House on Fire (Putnam, 2022).

Set in the gay mecca of San Francisco, Like a House on Fire seemingly begins as straight as can be. Merit and her husband Cory are the parents of two young sons. Itching to get back to the working world, painter-turned-architect Merit takes a job at a respected firm run by exotic Dane Jane. They hit it off instantly and before you know it, Merit and Jane’s working relationship becomes a friendship, and then something much more.

McBrayer deftly handles the subject matter and readers are sure to find themselves rooting for the main characters as they embark on their potentially treacherous journey.

Read our interview with Lauren McBrayer on www.ebar.com

have we seen any about an ASL interpreter, a person who works in that space between the two worlds.

We’re supposed to be just the voices in a room, even when you see stuff that is so wrong, that just goes outside the ethics of what you’re supposed to pay attention to; which can be so disturbing. But the job itself is constantly fascinating.”

Ethical dilemmas create a big dramatic point in the book where Cyril oversteps his boundaries of being an interpreter and attempts to help Arlo change his life and escape the limitations his Jehovah’s Witness uncle and primary interpreter have imposed on him.

This includes helping Arlo solve the mystery about what really happened to his beloved girlfriend from high school. Cyril soon finds that despite Arlo being hyper-religious and conservative (at first), they become very good friends, and he has his own awakenings aided by Arlo’s counsel.

“This happens all the time,” Fell said. “I have one client who is a fundamentalist Christian and he knows I’m gay, but I’m his favorite interpreter. Of course it took some time, and you’re supposed to be objective, but they ask questions.

They want to know about you. Being gay is not a declaration, but it’s more curiosity in conversation. I’m always asked if I’m from a Deaf family, if I’m married or have kids.

And then eventually, as they keep wanting to know what’s my story and what girl I’m dating, I just have to say, ‘Dude; I’m gay.’ Soon, since the job puts you in very intense life situations, you often end up sharing about your lives with each other and become friends.”

Asked if there were differences among LGBTQ Deaf or DeafBlind people in terms of syntax or signing styles, Fell said, “Not really.

There is BASL (Black American ASL), but not Queer ASL. There are lots of regional variations and people have different styles. ASL’s not a monolith. Even the mobility of their hands or the shape of them can make a difference in the production of signs. I tend to sign large because I have a large personality, I guess.”t The Sign for Home by Blair Fell, Atria/Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster, hardcover $27

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Steve Fellner’s Eating Lightbulbs

by Gregg Shapiro

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t the hands of queer male writers such as David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, and the late David Rakoff, the world of modern creative non-fiction has been forever changed. For proof of that, readers need look no further than Eating Lightbulbs and Other Essays (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, 2021) by gay writer and educator Steve Fellner.

Fellner’s book is at turns hysterically funny and cause for hysteria.

Fellner is relentlessly open in the way he details his struggles with mental illness that is alternately clinical and casual. It helps that he writes his observations, on subjects that also include familial relationships, coming out and being gay, life with his husband Phil, teaching, poetry, and his obsession with film, with great wit and without pretense.

Gregg Shapiro: Steve, because you are both a poet and prose writer, reading your new essay collection Eating Lightbulbs made me wonder if any of the essays began as poems?

Steve Fellner: Most anything

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I write comes from a dream. My dreams run the gamut, anything from the autobiographical to the surreal to embodiments of newspaper headlines: missing umbilical cords; a gay man self-immolating in a public park; books being thrown off the top of a building; Mister Magoo; the AIDS quilt; etc. These images provoke me to write something down. I don’t know what until my fingers hit the keyboard, but something. That’s what happened with the essay “How to Survive a Baby Shower.” Suddenly, a number of my friends were having babies. I was

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jealous. For some reason, I started to dream about all the bundles of thank you notes my friends would have to write. It was their punishment for having children. The image of the notes began the essay.

The essays deal with a variety of serious subjects, including mental health, AIDS, cancer, gaybashing, and family. But early on you make use of humor – I’m thinking about the scene involving the cupcakes at the sexual abuse survivors’ meeting.

I find myself to be a ridiculous

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by Aaron Foley $17.95 (Belt Publishing) Native Detroit author and journalist Foley’s debut novel follows the exploits of three Black gay millennials in Detroit who each struggle with issues all their own. Dominick is betrayed by work and love and finds himself back in town after a stint in Manhattan. Troy and Remy join him in social observations on the gentrification of the town that used to be their playground and the complex nature of race, love and sex. Detroit shines here right alongside this best buddy trio of enchanting, fully realized Black men. Foley’s debut will certainly be a sleeper hit this spring and should put him on the map as a writer to watch.

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo $26.99 (TorDotCom) Queer author Vo’s latest is a dynamic work of speculative fiction and takes place in the golden age of pre-Code Hollywood. In this urban fantasy where a star’s name could make or break them, a young Chinese American must deceive her way into being noticed and then cast in movies by taking her sister’s name, Luli Wei. It’s an initial struggle to make her mark, but once cast as a siren, she earns greater kudos playing a variety of monsters who stand tall and outsmart even the most overbearing of co-stars. This superstar on the rise is mystical and dazzling to observe throughout a unique story that never fails to enchant. Vo’s incredible debut novel was published last year and was a magical queer retelling of The Great

person. I grew up in a trailer park; I educated myself for quite some time reading stolen library books. There is something ridiculous about me then thinking I should write essays about the experiences. What right do I have? To put a book out in the world means that I feel somehow I deserve taking up someone’s time reading my essays. People are dealing with their own parents dying, their own abuse, their own problems, yet I have this strong hope that these same people will notice me. It’s sort of gross, and ridiculous. And because I want that attention, and because my life experiences aren’t anything special, it means that I have to find a way to make sure everyone feels like it’s worth it. And that’s through humor. If you’re laughing, you’re not going to notice (at least not as much) that you are letting a stranger take up your time.

Is the Phil in the “Inspiration” essay the same Phil who is your husband?

Yes. Before I started writing the essays, I never expected to have a boyfriend, let alone a husband. It is sort of weird when I look back on the essays how much he has become

Gatsby (The Chosen and the Beautiful, 2021); this new novel is further proof of her literary prowess and commanding creativity.

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Fine: A Comic About Gender

by Rhea Ewing, $21 (Liveright) This impressive debut draws on dozens of interviews with a diversity of characters all handling the issue of gender and race in different ways. The colorful portraiture and artistry distinguish the book as much more than just a mindful discussion on the delicate dynamics of queer communities. Instead, the book graphically evokes a rare, beautifully drawn reflection on how continued awareness and exposure is needed in order for the complications of gender variations to be better appreciated.

The Letters of Thom Gunn edited by Michael Nott, August Kleinzahler, Clive Wilmer $45 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Impeccably curated and crafted by a distinguished trio of fellow poets and scholars, this selection of missives by poet Thom Gunn establishes the literary artist as an enormously talented and creative powerhouse. Through his letters, readers will garner a new appreciation for Gunn through his craft and work with other poets, his personal interactions, his sexuality as a gay man in the era of AIDS, and his overall life.

His love of California in the 1950s is supremely matched by his experimentations with sex and the way he consistently finessed the written word through his oeuvre of letters.

This Body I Wore

by Diana Goetsch $28 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) The foundation for Goetsch’s memoir lies in the fact that she transitioned from male-born to female later in life in her early 50s.

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a part of them; not only “behind the scenes” with the editing and advice and ideas he gives me, but an actual character in them. He’s the guy who was always sure to bring Crime and Punishment when he drove me to the psych ER so he’d have something to do while he waited. (It was the only time he read it; he wanted to savor the words.) He’s the guy who fought me about the importance of Steven Seagal in the history of the action picture. He’s the guy who I ran to WalMart with when it became official gays could get married and we needed a pair of rings—fast and cheap.

Do you believe in ghosts?

Yes. When you are adopted, as I am, you’re always missing your biological mother, especially if you never met her. I’ve never met mine.

She is an essence, a ghost. For all I know, she’s dead. I think that’s why I became a writer. I’ve hoped that if I arrange the right words in the right way, her spirit, if not her entire being, will find me and somehow save me.t

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in a book filled with anecdotes and tender memories, chronicles her youth as a cross-dressing New Yorker wrestling with a troubled past and current feelings of simmering expressions of femininity.

This exquisite self-portrait explores gender and trans culture from an intimately personal and enlightening perspective.

Time Is a Mother

by Ocean Vuong, $24 (Penguin) Vuong, a gay Buddhist, poet, and the author of 2019’s outstanding novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, publishes his second poetry collection steeped in heavy themes of loss and trauma, yet eventually, they reflect on the liberating process of moving forward and leavened with the tang of dark humor.

This 27-poem volume comes on the heels of his poetry debut Night Sky with Exit Wounds and is certain to please fans of powerful, moving elegies on the human experience.

Menergy: San Francisco’s Gay Disco Sound by Louis Neibur $34.95 paper/$17.99 e-book (Oxford University) For readers of a certain age who were there when disco’s heyday crested in San Francisco or who witnessed Sylvester herself gracing the stages of the Trocadero Transfer and Dreamland, this is the ultimate must-have item. Neibur, a historian, educator, and musicologist, presents the indelible story of disco in all of its sequined glory, interpersonal melodrama, unforgettable music, laughter, hugs, and tears. Alongside the evolution of disco, the book demarcates seminal moments in LGBTQ history and how, with a revolution of music and movement, disco redefined liberation and freed spaces all our own where “we could dance together without being thrown in jail.” For gay history buffs and disco fans of any age, this is not to be missed.t

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March 31-April 6, 2022 • Bay Area Reporter • 17

Richie Hofmann’s new orbit of intimacy

by Mark William Norby

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riter Serge Doubrovsky first coined the term autofiction, also called autobiographical fiction, in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils. Dubrovsky was French.

Therefore autofiction is considered a French invention.

But autofiction is seen as far back as in the writings of James Joyce in his legendary novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce’s novel combines memoir and fiction in order to detail the character’s interior monolog and psychic realities over emphasis on the external.

Recently published in The New Yorker and New York Review of Books, San Francisco poet Richie Hofmann achieves all of the above.

French autofiction inspired Hofmann’s intimate new collection, A Hundred Lovers (Knopf, February 8, 2022). The grit and sacrifice required to understand the sense of beauty and sorrow are deftly captured in the book, and his poetry is an endeavor of commitment to the rendering and refinement of form.

It’s a work that encapsulates, touching environment, carnal, psychic, and deeply erotic worlds.

Hofmann was awarded a Stegner

Fellowship at Stanford University, followed by an appointment to Jones Lecturer in Poetry, also at Stanford, where he currently teaches.

Here is his “Bottom’s Dream”:

The less he can see me, smell me, hear me, and taste me the better. It’s by design, Madonna playing, my shirt open, another season entirely outside, where we spill out onto an almost-winter street: I remember smoke drifted from his lips making Rococo shapes, his mouth sticky.

The limestone walls making us so hairy and dynamic by contrast. I think of those paintings kept behind a curtain in a perverted bishop’s collection.

Don’t I know then: my death will be a thin fabric he kisses me through.

Fuck. I shouldn’t say that: I’m from New Jersey, my dad was an executive, my fantasies of violence are trite.

Still, I thought it; everything humid for a minute, the lindens shedding globby tears.

Then in “The Fables”:

In school, we read a ridiculous story by Aesop, one not involving wise or foolish animals or insects, but one in which a god allocates emotions to the parts of the body.

Intellect to the mind, Love to the heart, etc. etc., until only the asshole is left, to which the god assigns Shame. Understandably, Shame is unhappy with the accommodations, but it’s too late. Shame curses, “If Eros should ever seek to occupy that place, I will leave the body for good.”

This is why homosexuals have no shame, according to Aesop, or one of his Victorian translators. According to me, this is why there is no moral order

to my sexual imagination, and why, praising my looks and hair and white flesh as I lie with you, then falling silent for days at a time, you really are the master of my pain.

Great poetry is worth more than the sum of its parts: worth more than verse, meter, line breaks, rhythm; more than person, place, emotion, and psychic atmosphere.

Poetry is both the analysis combined with arising emotions of bodies in space performing through subjects with objects in time.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt

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magine a world where a pandemic is mere child’s play after a new global biological plague called “t.rex.” actually turns men into cannibals! It’s the post-apocalyptic landscape you’ll find in Gretchen FelkerMartin’s smashing debut novel. The scenery is drawn with impeccable creativity and slathered with grisly gore where the remaining stragglers on the planet must fight for their lives and, when desperate enough, literally smash balls to the wall to survive.

Among the sleek legion who’ve managed to avoid infection is Fran and Beth, two tough trans women who don’t mince words and each embrace a kind of rapport where calling each other a “cunt” and saying “lick my taint” are considered terms of endearment.

They first appear with arrows pointed at a meaty cannibal in the forest, eager to slice and dice the dude’s testicles for a late-night, soul-quenching snack. They need his testosterone to fend off the plague decimating the globe.

These are among the book’s gory details that are gloriously stomachturning and definitely not for the faint of heart. The plague’s outbreak decimates the planet’s male population through a series of “reliable” symptoms: hunger pangs, fever, “dermal fissures that wept pus,” delirium, aggression, and then, “something clicked on inside whatever remained of the man’s brain and he started looking for something to rape, maim, and leave half-dead.”

Pregnancy terms are much shorter in this new world, except the fetuses eat their way out. It is a world where testosterone wreaks havoc, making monsters out of men (much more than it already does), and the enemy is trans women, a population under siege by heavily armed factions of feral TERFS (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).

This all might sound as horrorhokey as some of Clive Barker’s plotlines, but embedded deep within this universe lies a sturdy framework of resonant queer themes

including transphobia, transmisogyny, image shaming, the idealistic framework of “queer community” formation, the politics and stigma of “passing,” and the imbalance of cis power and dominance over a perennially assailable trans community.

While these deep undertones keep the book from becoming just one big selfindulgent flesh fest, the plot does get overly complicated mainly with the complexities, varying perspectives, and experiences of its characters as the narration duties oscillate and volley throughout.

As they trek across this deadly new American wasteland, Fran

and Beth bond with others. Among them are Robbie, a trans guy widowed by the death of his family and besieged by duplicity and betrayal, and Indi, a cis woman physician who provides the estrogen to those who’ve become depleted and in danger of spilling their guts to the

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Thus, we have the opportunity to wrestle with our own psychic shame and the ability to grow and free ourselves from that dark world of society and childhood. This gives way to higher self, self-respect, and respect for others.

Identity becomes personhood through the vehicle of a given artistic medium. In Hofmann’s longer poem, “The Arab Baths,” the poet breathes over us in unmitigated physicality in relation to heat and steam, to the smells of lavender, red amber, flower of pomegranate; the mint of the tea, candles in the dark, men in different stages of life together in an aural and oral cell of flesh desiring intimacy with flesh at times held at bay, but nevertheless triumphant in the ability to deliver us unity.

The great reward: presence entering self with other, in a slice out of time, the poem a little universe more than time itself. It is lasting, universal, and it is our own.

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cannibals, or, worse, becoming one themselves.

There’s also Ramona, a TERF who stealthily revolts the movement and remains on the cusp of becoming a turncoat. She emerges as a central figure in the story with her devotion to the fight for justice and to a nonbinary partner named Feather, whose bedroom smelled like that universally relatable bouquet of “sex and weed and Hunan Palace.”

For some, of course, this will be a horrifying story; any type of deadworld slasher with complex interwoven sexual dynamics may indeed provoke such reactions. But FelkerMartin is here for fun, and gore, and sexy camaraderie, and not the kind of real-world peril we’ve all spent the last two years masking and vaxxing.

As a debut talent, Gretchen Felk-

er-Martin daringly demonstrates that a first-time author can indeed write like a pro. She has conjured a gritty, grimy, desperate universe where only the strong survive, or those bold and brave enough to harvest testicles from a scrotum that, when slashed open, “exuded a stink like a bath bomb infused with rancid pork.”

You get the idea.

It’s a thrilling, brutal spectacle of gross-out splatter-core for those of you willing to take a dip into this vat of gender-fluid pulp. There’s really no way to prepare for a book like this, but once you’re in, you’ll be glad you took the plunge.t Manhunt by Gretchen FelkerMartin, Tor Nightfire, $17.99 https://tornightfire.com/

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Spencer Day Singer-pianist’s new album and Feinstein’s concert of Broadway covers

by David-Elijah Nahmod

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or the past twenty years Spencer Day has been keeping his audiences entertained by putting his own unique spin on jazz pop standards as well as with performing his own compositions. Day’s smooth jazz sound has earned him fans around the world and helped him to sell countless records.

With his new album Broadway

by Day, the singer tips his hat to the Great White Way. He’ll also perform at Feinstein’s at the Nikko April 8 and 9.

Day’s album, which is now available on CD and as an MP3 download, features Day’s cool jazz interpretations of twelve wellknown songs from some of Broadway’s finest shows.

From the very first track, Day pulls the listener into his world. His take on the show stopping “One” from the classic musical A Chorus Line evokes the aura of a smoky jazz club, circa the 1950s. Day, who is openly gay, also re-imagines another classic tune. His rendition of “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from the legendary Jesus Christ Superstar becomes, in his hands, a love

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song sung by a man to another man.

“One thing I love about having over sixteen years in the industry is being able to witness all of the profound changes that have happened,” Day said in an email interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

“I’m very glad to be at a point where I can sing a song to a man. I don’t really have to think about it being provocative. It’s just a beautiful song and I’m so glad I live in a time where I can say ‘Yeah, so what?’

Truth and beauty overcomes.”

Day covers tunes from a variety of eras, from the majestic “Bali Hai” from South Pacific (1949) all the way

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to “I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You” from Evita (1979) with stops in the 1950s such as “Getting to Know You” from The King and I and the 1960s like “It Only Takes a Moment” from the musical Hello Dolly.

“Since this is my first original cover record, it’s very important to me that we not just tread over the same material and sensibilities that so many people have done and probably better than I could,” Day said. “As a singer/songwriter I really felt that there had to be a unique stamp on it that simultaneously made the arrangements surprising, but also respected what the song is.

Digging into Broadway, especially more Broadway of the 1970s and 1980s, is rather uncharted territory.

We searched far and wide to make sure we weren’t picking songs that had been done to death. I’m really proud of the ones we picked.”

Day is joined by two friends on two of the tracks. Jazz chanteuse Jane Monheit can be heard on Day’s track of “It Only Takes a Moment,” while master saxophonist Dave Koz toots his horn for “If I Loved You” from the musical Carousel.

In the former Day and Monheit’s distinctive voices weave in and out of each other for an upbeat jazzy take on a song which was played to a much slower beat when it was heard in Hello Dolly. On the latter track, Koz’ playing underscores the romantic tone of one of Broadway’s great love songs.

Day has nothing but praise for Monheit.

“Speaking of jazz, I’ve never considered myself a jazz singer, more of a singer/songwriter who is heavily influenced by jazz,” Day said.

“But Jane, she’s a jazz singer. So effortless yet studied in her approach to the genre. Very glad to have her on the project.”

Day is also a card-carrying member of Koz’ fan club, crediting the musician with introducing him to his record label.

“He not only made the introduction, but he has been a champion of my career for years, featuring me on

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his radio show before he even knew me,” Day said. “Having him on the record is a huge honor. I have two multiple Grammy-nominated artists on my record. That’s cool.”

The singer acknowledges that there can be challenges to selling his style of music to an audience in this day and age. He hopes to attract people who have preconceived notions but haven’t been exposed to how great he feels these songs are.

“I hope the songs stand on their own out of the context of the show,” he said. “I’m hoping jazz aficionados and musicians who sometimes consider Broadway to be ‘cheesy’

or ‘gay’ realize how many gems there are to cover. I hope they lost the toxic masculinity as well. Finally, I hope the Broadway people will realize jazz doesn’t have to be esoteric, tuneless or pretentious as they often believe. Music is music.

We are all speaking the same beautiful language. It is in life’s contradictions where the most beautiful things are created.”t Spencer Day will perform at Feinstein’s at the Nikko on Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9. $90, 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. https://www.feinsteinssf.com/ https://spencerday.com/

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n closing our yearlong celebrations of the Bay Area Reporter’s 50th anniversary, our twelfth and final monthly online panel will focus on five decades of the newspaper’s history, with several current and former editors and writers. On Thursday, April 7 at 6pm PT, our Facebook page and YouTube channel will stream a live (then archived) panel.

Participants will include Publisher Michael Yamashita, Publisher Emeritus Tom Horn, News Editor Cynthia Laird, Arts & Nightlife Editor Jim Provenzano (also moderator), arts writer Cornelius Washington, arts writer Mark Norby, AIDS/Science writer Liz Highleyman, former production designer Adriana Roberts, former arts editor and porn columnist John F. Karr, former arts editor Chris Culwell, and former features editor Will Snyder, Since 1971, the B.A.R.’s reputation as an essential forum for local news about the LGBTQ community has expanded. Reviews and features in the arts have grown from a small community focus to national interest. Our reviews have been quoted by book publishers, film promoters and theater companies for decades. Our nightlife coverage celebrates our community while connecting to the paper’s bar scene roots.

The chat will also include a slideshow of articles and ads through the B.A.R.’s five decades.

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Film>>

March 31-April 6, 2022 • Bay Area Reporter • 19

How To Survive A Pandemic

David France’s new documentary as activism

by Brian Bromberger

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ith all the grim news associated with COVID, we forget that the development of vaccines for this disease in less than a year ranks as one of the greatest medical triumphs ever. Recognizing this towering achievement in 21stcentury science, acclaimed investigative journalist and Academy Award-nominated gay filmmaker David France in his new documentary How To Survive A Pandemic, currently being streamed on HBO, takes an insider’s look at the historic, multi-national race to research, develop, regulate, and launch COVID-19 vaccines.

Filming commenced in early 2020 within weeks of the lockdown, following over the next 18 months the largest public health effort in history, shooting across five continents. The documentary details the work of leading researchers, scientists, journalists, pharmaceutical company heads, government agencies, and healthcare workers on the pandemic frontlines, including interviews with Jon Cohen (senior correspondent for Science Magazine); Dr. Peter Marks (Director of Biologics Research at the FDA); Dr. Dan Barouch (lead scientist behind the Johnson & Johnson vaccine); Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett (co-developer of the Moderna mRNA vaccine); and Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director of NIAID and Chief Medical Advisor to the President), among many others.

France, 63, spoke with the Bay Area Reporter in an email interview.

France began his career as a reporter covering the fight against AIDS, culminating in his 2012 documentary How To Survive A Plague. Many of the scientists and government officials he encountered during those years would

A scene from How To Survive A Pandemic

play significant roles in the COVID pandemic, so he had extraordinary access to them, which younger media figures did not.

“When I moved into film, I set a challenge for myself to lift the stories of queer heroes up into the canon of American (or world) history.

I think of How To Survive A Plague, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, and Welcome to Chechnya as a trilogy on that theme, a study of queer activism in three different eras of our movement, and the ways that activism has shaped the larger world permanently.”

France’s new documentary emerges as a fervent defense of science.

“When COVID rolled in, my instinct was the same as it was when

HIV arrived,” said France. “Fight the disease with journalism. I went to work almost immediately.”

In the film, journalism becomes a weapon to fight misinformation and “fake news.” For media coverage, France centered on Jon Cohen of Science Magazine.

“Jon Cohen is one of the most respected journalists in the vaccine and immunology fields, and also a veteran of HIV/AIDS journalism,” said France. “I’d known him for years. And I knew he would know where the vaccine action was.

He took us to remarkable places, thanks to the respect he has earned among these researchers.”

For France, Cohen becomes an emblem to shield science from lies and conspiracy theories.

What was the aim of the film?

“I wanted to tell the long-view story of the vaccine, by which I

mean not just the work of scientists that produced these miraculous shots, but also to watch as the vaccines move to the furthest corners of the earth. We learned in HIV that the pills are only good for those who take them. For years and years, they were hoarded in the West and priced out of reach in lower income countries. I hoped we had learned the lessons from that time.

“How would history judge this scientific undertaking, the most consequential research initiative in our lifetimes? That was a subject that demanded to be documented. But it was also unseen. We take viewers behind those curtains for the first time to see what it took to bring us to the summit of scientific achievement despite the din of political intervention and corporate greed.”

The second half of the film centers on the lack of global equitable allocation of vaccines with poor countries begging for access to them.

France calls such unequal distribution, a “catastrophic moral failure,” which he views as a principal lesson the world must learn in preparation for the next plague. The documentary notes that four billion people, half of Earth’s total population, were fully immunized in 2021. While rich nations finished 2021 with surplus vaccines, doses reached only 8% of people in low-income countries.

If global distribution had been truly impartial in the first full-year of vaccine availability, experts estimate an additional one million lives might have been saved. Nationalism and greed will go down as being the central failures in the way we dealt with a virus “that recognizes no national borders.”t www.hbo.com

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