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rganizers of the International AIDS Conference set to be co-hosted by San Francisco and Oakland next summer are seeking $2 million from the state.

The funding would be used for conference operations and scholarships for those who want to attend the gathering, which will take place July 4-10, 2020. The local organizing committee for the global confab is working with gay state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) on the funding request in the state’s 2019-2020 fiscal year budget.

“We are very interested in getting support from the state for this AIDS meeting because it is the largest global conference,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, medical director of Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco co-chair of the conference. “We do think it will have long-lasting economic impacts in the state, which is why we are asking for state support.”

Wiener told the Bay Area Reporter that the funding request is one of four that the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus is pushing for this year. The caucus members raised the financial asks during a recent meeting they had with Governor Gavin Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor who had a track record of backfilling federal AIDS cuts and named an unpaid AIDS czar during his time at City Hall.

“I have been advocating for it personally as well, so we are working hard to try to make it happen,” said Wiener, adding that the Legislature has until June 15 to send the budget back to Newsom to finalize.

As the B.A.R. has reported, some global HIV advocates plan to protest the decision to have the AIDS conference in the U.S. by holding an alternative meeting in Mexico City July 5-8 next summer. They had called for organizers of the Bay Area confab to relocate it outside of the U.S. due to the Trump administration’s discriminatory policies not only toward the LGBTQ community but also immigrants, Muslims, and sex workers.

The controversy, said Wiener, should not impact the request for funding from the state.

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he colors of the transgender flag have been painted on the streetlight poles around the intersection of Turk (Vicki Mar Lane) and Taylor (Gene Compton’s Cafeteria Way) streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Aria Sa’id, executive director of the Compton’s Transgender Cultural District, told the Bay Area Reporter that, eventually, all the light poles in the cultural district will be painted with the trans flag colors.

Right now, the effort involves about 12 poles in the Turk Street corridor. The project costs about $90,000, with the district receiving funding from the city that was specifically earmarked for placemaking through San Francisco Public Works’ addback process last year. “It was important to me that this not be temporary, but we did want to debut it in time for Pride,” Sa’id said.

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an Francisco Mayor London Breed has proposed more than $3 million over the next two years for transgender initiatives and LGBTQ services, including $2 million specifically earmarked for housing subsidies for transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals.

The proposal is in Breed’s two-year budget plan, which she is expected to release Friday, May 31.

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Dublin may fly Pride flag after all

by Matthew S. Bajko

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ollowing a week of intense backlash from across the country, a city councilman in the East Bay city of Dublin has changed his mind about flying the LGBT community’s rainbow flag during June, which is Pride Month.

The California city’s five-person City Council had unanimously voted May 21 to issue its first proclamation in support of Pride. But on a 3-2 vote it denied a request from gay City Councilman Shawn Kumagai to also raise the rainbow flag on one of the three flagpoles in front of City Hall.

The decision caused a media sensation last week and led to the local LGBT community to organize a response. The Emeryville City Council announced it would fly a second rainbow flag at its City Hall on behalf of Dublin at a ceremony June 8.

Now, the Dublin City Council is expected to readdress the matter when it meets Tuesday, June 4. Councilman Arun Goel, who had initially voted against flying the Pride flag, wrote in a Facebook message he posted late Monday, May 27, that he had found “a path forward to raising the Pride flag for June 2019.”

He wrote that he came to his decision after several days of “in-depth discussions” on why flying the rainbow flag matters. And he reaffirmed his support for the LGBT community.

“Dublin does not condone hatred, bigotry, or discrimination of any kind, toward any human being. We do not harbor hatred of others because

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they are different, but we do celebrate our diversity," wrote Goel. “We are proud of it. In other words, YES, I believe that we should have an inclusive flag raising policy, and YES, I believe that the LGBT pride flag should qualify.”

In addition to saying the city should fly the Pride flag, Goel wrote he supported also flying flags on behalf of the transgender community and a rainbow flag with added black and brown stripes to signify support for LGBT people of color.

He urged the council to take up implementing a new flag policy that would allow for all sorts of

flags, such as for Black History Month and Women's Day, to be flown by the city.

“When we revisit this issue, we should also discuss a time, whether at that meeting or a subsequent one, a policy and/or framework to allow all of our constituents to submit an application to fly a flag that matters to them,” he wrote.

Goel also apologized for not understanding the importance of the issue prior to his vote last week.

The city’s mayor, David Haubert, and vice mayor, councilwoman Melissa Hernandez, had voted with Goel in rejecting the Pride flag request.

“Regarding the public discourse surrounding this discussion, all of us on council had the opportunity, but none of us, including myself were proactive as we should have been,” he wrote. “In hindsight, I personally apologize for not better explaining my position and for engaging in negativity, and I personally apologize for not being a more proactive voice in directly addressing any inappropriate comments made by residents during public comment.”

In a letter posted Tuesday afternoon to the website Patch, Haubert wrote that he supported seeing the city adopt a flag policy that would allow for the Pride flag to be flown. He added that it was “good governance” for the council to wait until the policy was in place before voting on flying the rainbow flag.

“Our city has flown the U.S., California, and Dublin City flags exclusively for as long as anyone can remember,” wrote Haubert, noting he

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t County, civil rights groups file suit over HHS rule 2 • Bay Area Reporter • May 30-June 5, 2019

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anta Clara County has joined Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and other civil rights groups in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ newly unveiled protections for religious and consciencebased objections to providing care.

The plaintiffs allege that the new rule is unconstitutional and too broad, and will likely lead to widespread public health risk as people are denied health care, or fail to seek it for fear of discrimination from health care providers.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, May 28, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in response to the 440-page policy, which was published May 21, and includes protections for objections to providing care for everyone from doctors and administrators to EMTs, janitors, and hospital receptionists. Previous protections enacted in 2008 allowed for religious objections to providing care, but the plaintiffs in this case said this new ruling upsets the balance of those rules, distorting religious freedom into a weapon.

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The suit alleges that this new policy dramatically expands the current protections for religious or moral refusal of care, increasing the number and type of instances in which health care organizations, providers, insurers, and others could refuse to provide or pay for services that they say violate their individual moral and religious beliefs.

President Donald Trump announced the rule during a speech on the National Day of Prayer May

2, before an assembly of American faith leaders. Proponents of the policy claim that the current protections for faith-based refusal of care are insufficient and lack clear enforcement in cases of violation.

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit also include the Center for Reproductive Rights, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Trust Women, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center (PA), and Whitman-Walker Health. These organizations represent a diverse group of health care providers and concerns, with a focus on LGBTQ and women’s health care rights. All plaintiffs in the case agree that, while transgender Americans are most vulnerable to policies like these, the rights of all residents and public health will be impacted by the outcome of this ruling.

The Bay Area Reporter covered the local response to the initial announcement when San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced he had filed suit against the Trump administration, seeking to invalidate the rule.

James R. Williams, county counsel for Santa Clara County, opened up in a Tuesday conference call about his

specific concerns for health care systems in the South Bay. “The County of Santa Clara has a population larger than 14 states, offering critical health care and functioning as a public health safety net. Our current policies protect belief while centering patients, requiring advance notice for refusal of care. At all times, patient care comes first. In an emergency, a provider cannot refuse care until they can be relieved. That this ruling offers no emergency provision is alarming. Many of the services our county provides operate on an emergency basis.

“We cannot wait,” he added. “This rule offers unprecedented breadth, dramatically expanding what a person could object to doing. Someone could refuse to tell a patient what treatments are available or where, or refuse to connect patients to the care that they need.

This rule privileges certain religious views over all medical and public health requirements. The county is involved in this lawsuit because this is a public health risk. Accommodating it poses insurmountable staffing challenges.”

When asked how the county will adapt its actions to this ruling as the lawsuit moves forward, Williams admitted they would have to wait and see.

“We will continue with our current policies, following the course of litigation,” he said. “We have a unionized workforce, and it is not easy to make last minute staffing adjustments. We want to appropriately handle necessary accommodations, but this [rule] could make that impossible.”

Richard B. Katskee, legal director at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, noted that the breadth of provisions in this policy could allow for baseline refusal of service, including receptionists and appointment schedulers denying the first level of access.

“This could create a cascade of logistical issues by allowing people at the most basic levels of scheduling and intake to refuse care, making care impossible to access,” he said.

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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t was a discernible ray of light flashing across an otherwise dark and stormy sea: The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday declined to accept an appeal from a group of students challenging a public school’s policy of allowing transgender students to use high school restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

After weeks of escalating attacks on the rights of transgender people by the Trump administration, the Supreme Court announcement in Doe v. Boyertown Area School District felt like a win to LGBT activists.

“This is an enormous victory for transgender students across the country,” said Ria Tabacco Mar, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Project. The ACLU represented Aidan DeStefano, a trans student, and a coalition of LGBTQ youth groups that intervened in the lawsuit to support the Boyertown, Pennsylvania school district’s pro-transgender policy.

But it’s also a confusing development. While the Supreme Court left

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a transgender bathroom case.

intact a pro-transgender student policy, two years ago, it essentially vacated one.

In the 2017 case, the high court vacated a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Gloucester v. G.G. in which the lower court ruled that Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 – which prohibits discrimination based on sex by federally funded educational institutions – also prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. The 4th Circuit ruling would have allowed Gavin Grimm, a transgender student in Gloucester, Virginia, to proceed with his challenge against

the school district’s policy of requiring students to use a restroom that corresponds with the gender listed on the student’s birth certificate.

In the current case, the high court simply refused to hear the appeal of a 3rd Circuit ruling that upheld the constitutionality of a Boyertown school policy that allowed students to use a restroom of the gender with which the students identify.

In the Virginia case, said Mar, Grimm “was asking for his school to allow him to use the same restrooms as other boys.” The Pennsylvania lawsuit was “the inverse,” she said, because it asked that “school districts be forbidden from allowing boys and girls who are trans to use the same restrooms and locker rooms as other boys and girls.”

Petitioner Joel Doe and other students challenging the pro-trans Boyertown policy argued that it violates their right to privacy and amounts to sexual harassment. They were represented by the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom.

“No court has accepted the notion that transgender people are a threat to others,” Mar said Tuesday.

“In the few challenges that have arisen to transgender-inclusive policies, courts have uniformly allowed those policies to continue. Today’s announcement from the Supreme Court reflects that consensus.”

Eden Heilman, legal director for the ACLU of Virginia, which is representing Grimm in the second goround of the Gloucester case, said Tuesday’s Supreme Court action in the Boyertown case is a “victory for trans students because the [lower] court upheld a decision that found trans-inclusive policies do not violate anyone else’s privacy rights.”

But, she said, the ACLU will continue to press the Virginia case “because we are asking the district court to decide schools are not only permitted, but required, to treat trans students equally under the law.”

Asaf Orr, transgender youth project staff attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, also called Tuesday’s Supreme Court action a “major victory” for transgender students.

“The vast majority of people in this country support equal treatment of all students, including those

who are transgender,” Orr said in a statement. “The lawsuit challenging Boyertown’s supportive school policies was a political stunt brought by an anti-LGBTQ organization whose agenda is to strip transgender people of basic legal protections. The lower courts rightly rejected that hateful agenda, and we are relieved that the Supreme Court has allowed their decisions to stand.”

Tuesday’s action stood in stark contrast to a long litany of attacks by the Trump administration against transgender people, including students. In May alone, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed to revise regulations under the Affordable Care Act that would allow discrimination based on gender identity in health care. And, HHS finalized a rule to enable health care providers to refuse certain services by citing personal religious and moral beliefs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule to allow homeless shelters receiving federal funds to turn away transgender people seeking help. t

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t Rome’s dazzling architecture shouldn’t be missed 4 • Bay Area Reporter • May 30-June 5, 2019

by Charlie Wagner

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ome is famous for its grand public architecture, like the greatest amphitheater ever built, the largest church in the world, and a Baroque fountain big enough to jump in.

Size has mattered for millennia in Rome.

But Romans in the last 2,000 years also produced an amazing variety of domestic architecture. Ancient Romans coined the Latin word “domus” to indicate a place for living.

In Rome, you can now visit one of the largest domus ever constructed, Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea, or Golden House, built in 65 A.D. The tour starts with an introductory movie projected on the wall, continues through frescoed passageways, and then enters a room with black boxes on the floor. My husband and I selected and opened a box, removed a virtual reality headset, then sat down.

Moments later, we saw what archaeologists believe Nero would have seen; as we turned our head, the view shifted to the same degree. Though not highdefinition, the experience was thrilling and unforgettable. VR can be dizzying, but you remain seated throughout.

Soon, the view moves out the palace’s door and you see the decorative lake that was in front. The guide explained that the lake was drained by a later emperor to build the Colosseum.

Be sure to turn around to see the palace as it originally looked.

The last stop is the octagonal room at the center of the palace. Architects boosted natural light by aiming windows high on the walls against highlyreflective surfaces, some covered with gold and embedded with jewels. After the palace was completed, the Roman historian Suetonius quoted Nero’s stunning understatement: “Now at last I can live like a human being.”

When Nero died after years of increasingly bizarre and murderous behavior, he was so hated that most of his palace was filled in with dirt and rubble or dismantled.

The first rediscoverers of the Domus Aurea in the 15th century thought the curved tops of barrel vault ceilings (another Roman innovation) were underground caves (“grotto” in Italian) so the fresco style decorations were named “grotesque.” Visitors included Renaissance artists Raphael, Perugino, and Ghirlandaio.

Directly overhead is popular Parco Oppio. Admission tickets help fund plans to remove the soil above the Domus, waterproof the palace ceilings, and general restoration.

Because it’s an active excavation site, all visitors must wear hard hats and it’s open only on weekends. Reserve well in advance.

A century later, wealthy Romans built several smaller residences next to Trajan’s Column, under what is now the Palazzo Valentini. This underground tour is named Le Domus Romane and includes portions of several homes plus a small baths complex.

As lights guide your attention during the automated tour, the audio describes what you are seeing while videos are projected on ceilings, walls, and floors, restoring the original appearance, including furnishings. Our guide led us over glass-covered floors because the light level is very low. It’s not VR, but the presentation was astonishing.

At the end of the tour, a short video reconstructs Trajan’s Column, a 112 foot monument whose bas-reliefs celebrate Trajan’s successful military campaign against Dacia, current day Romania.

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Jumping ahead to the 15th century, we next visited a Renaissance palace still privately owned by one of Rome’s oldest families: the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, worth considering if other sites are packed with tourists.

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The Hall of Mirrors graces the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj.

From floor-to-ceiling, the four luxurious galleries show works by Caravaggio, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Bernini, Bruegel, and others. The collection was started in 1651 by Pope Innocent X’s nephew; one painting was donated by the pope when it was judged too racy for the Vatican, according to the audio guide.

Our guidebook called Velazquez’s portrait of Innocent X – suggesting a dictatorial and vengeful character and considered very unflattering in its day – the star of the collection.

The self-guided tour included an excellent audio guide, narrated by a charming descendent of the family who still lives in the palace’s private apartments, which can also be visited. Roma Opera Omnia organizes concerts in the Palazzo several times a month.

Another option for dodging crowds is a Renaissance villa designed as a cool summer pavilion on the Tiber, surrounded by gardens. This “house museum” is called the Villa Farnesina, honoring the ancient Roman villa on the same site.

Commissioned in 1508 by a Sienese banker to impress and delight visitors, the vivid- ly-colored wall and ceiling paintings convey a glorious version of domestic living with its combination of architecture and decoration.

Artworks include Rafael’s painting “Triumph of Galatea,” a mythological scene on the ceiling filled with nearnaked deities by Baldassarre Peruzzi, also the architect, and beautiful paintings of New World plants such as corn and pumpkin.

Don’t miss the “Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne” by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, painted in 1516, a riot of luscious bodies, including Alexander the Great’s handsome male lover, Hephaestion. Bazzi was called Il Sodoma (the Sodomite) by his peers, as he was assumed to be homosexual. He reportedly used the name himself with pride, though whether it had a sexual connotation for him is not documented.

The audio guide enriches the selfguided tour, followed by a stroll in the gardens. Once a month, one tour includes a concert of Renaissance music.

Decades later, a completely different Renaissance villa called Villa Giulia (named for Pope Julius) was built just outside the city in 1550 to escape the summer heat.

Since 1889, this slightly shabby villa has housed a museum of antiquities from the pre-Roman era: the Museo Nazionale Etrusco (National Etruscan Museum). The Etruscans were an advanced civilization that predated the Romans on the Italian peninsula; Etrusca was partly located in present day Tuscany and is the source of that name.

The well-organized collection with excellent labels in English contains the largest collection of Etruscan artifacts in the world.

The treasure of the collection is a nearly-life-size sarcophagus in painted terracotta called the Sarcophagus of the Spouses, showing a husband and wife reclining as if at a banquet.

The partners are portrayed as equals, rather than the wife being portrayed as a smaller person, a radical contrast to

Greek culture, which banned women from dinner parties.

Another masterpiece is a krater, or chalice, which illustrates an episode of the Trojan War as described by Homer; it was stolen in 1971, later sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and returned in 2006, as were several other objects in the museum.

Etruscans had elaborate funeral ceremonies. One burial mound or tomb (called tumulo) from the fifth century has been reassembled on the lower floor; you can walk inside and feel the eerie ambiance.

Wall frescoes include some in the “grotesque style” inspired by the Domus Aura; surrounding gardens were designed to imitate the imperial Roman style.

The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art) is located across the street. For a scenic ride to the Colosseum, take Tram #3 just outside the villa.

Adjoining the Villa Giulia gardens is the Villa Borghese, 200 landscaped acres surrounding the Galleria Borghese, a spectacular and very popular museum built in 1613 by the nephew of Pope Paul V to house his extensive collection of Roman, Renaissance, and Baroque art. The nephew oversaw papal fees and taxes and was an avid art collector.

The Galleria has artworks by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Bellini, and more Caravaggio paintings than any other collection in the world; many works were commissioned by the Borghese for the gallery. Highlights of the collection include lifelike marble sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, so don’t miss his astounding “Apollo and Daphne,” which depicts Apollo reaching toward Daphne at the moment her father transforms her into a tree to save her from being assaulted by Apollo.

On the upper floor, Titian’s “Sacred and Profane Love” portrays Profane modestly dressed as a bride, and Sacred as a mostly naked Venus. (Our Puritans would not approve.) Hung nearby is a painting of pierced and hunky St. Sebastian.

If you want to avoid the masses inside the museum, start on the second floor, which is permitted though not encouraged.

Timed tickets allow exactly two hours to roam the museum’s two floors; outside that, however, you can visit the cafe and shop on the lower floor. Reserve far in advance.

Other museums and sites worth visiting, particularly when Rome is overcrowded, include: Centrale Montemartini, a huge collection of ancient statues and large mosaics in a former 1912 power plant; MAXXI, a “museum of the 21st century” designed by Zaha Hadid, with loud video art and vertigo-inducing catwalks; and the Palazzo Massimo al Terme, the most interesting of the four-building National Roman Museum, with beautiful ancient statues and mosaics, rare lifesize bronzes, and you can walk into a reconstruction of the infamous Livia’s delightful, frescoed dining room.

The best preserved ancient building in Rome is Emperor Hadrian’s Pantheon, with the largest unsupported dome in the world. The circular opening in the dome was inspired by the oculus in Nero’s palace, but Hadrian’s was bigger.

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A ceiling fresco at Villa Farnesina shows the myth of Perseus by Baldassarre Peruzzi.

out the Ara Pacis on Friday or Saturday night. The square marble monument honored the goddess of peace and has raised sculptures on all four sides. VR redraws the original sculptures using what archaeologists believe were the original, bright colors.

If you have a half-day to spare, visit Scavi di Ostia Antico, about 30 minutes by train. It’s a fascinating look at Rome’s ancient port, in use for 600 years. Rick Steves’ “Rome 2019” calls it “Pompeii without the crowds” and has an excellent walking tour.

Allow two-plus hours for the selfguided tour walking on ancient (hard) basalt roads.

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We left for Rome with the virtuous intent to eat sensibly (gelato once a day!), but conveniently forgot about that when our plane touched down. Fortunately, our Roman friend Maurizio Pettitti had sent a list of his favorite restaurants. Those we patronized were all 30-40 euros per person with wine.

After Domus Aurea, we had lunch at Antica Taverna, which Pettitti described as “everything cooked the way it should be.” Fried zucchini flowers with anchovies were perfect and tonnarelli fatti in casa (house-made pasta plus tiny pieces of cheese with tomatoes) and cacio e pepe (pasta with tiny bacon pieces and pecorino cheese) were even better.

Dessert was torta della nonna (your grandmother’s torte): pine nuts, a layer of vanilla cream, delicate pastry, and two dollops of whipped cream on top.

Near Villa Farnesina, we had lunch at “vegetarian-friendly” Trattoria da Enzo where everything is made inhouse. Chicory sautéed in olive oil was delicious, the Lasagne Classico was delectably creamy and a simple pasta with cheese and pepper was perfect. It’s small and popular; try to arrive before they open. The street is full of tiny artisan shops.

After visiting Le Domus Romane, we strolled over to Via San Giovanni in Laterano, which LGBTQ Romans call “the gay street,” and had lunch at Coming Out. The restaurant is open seven days a week, 7 a.m. to 5 a.m., serving breakfast to late dinner.

This proudly gay-owned restaurant was opened in 2001 by three women who identified as lesbian, but now is owned by only one, Annalisa Scamera.

Her menu describes the restaurant as, “A meeting place, a chill out zone, perfect for an after work drink or chat with a stranger,” and features sandwiches with names like Gym Bunny, Twink and Bear (hamburger). The menu cover displayed two women kissing passionately.

Scamera organizes “speed dating” nights for women and men, a drag show every Sunday, and other theme nights.

She was proud to note, “Coming Out was the first bar in Rome that you didn’t have to ring to get inside.” Her clientele at first were mostly lesbian, she recalled, but now are mostly gay.

The restaurant’s high visibility at first provoked “lots of harassment and even demonstrations,” Scamera said, “but that stopped around 2008.” During Roma Gay Pride in June, the road is closed and a stage erected for entertainment.

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Coming Out owner Annalisa Scamera, left, stands with waiter/bartender Andrea Aparp.

Every summer from June to September, another longer LGBTQ celebration called Roma Gay Village takes place in the EUR district.

After visiting Galleria Borghese, we had dinner with Pettitti at his favorite restaurant, Hostaria da Enzo, next to the Piramide Metro stop. This traditional trattoria features dishes like house-made thick pasta with seafood, calamari, shrimp, mussels and clams, and pork chops cooked in beer with rosemary.

For a night of music, we enjoyed Gershwin’s “Un Americano in Parigi” in easy-to-find and reasonably-priced Auditorio Parco della Musica, a Renzo Piano-designed building nicknamed “the three bugs.” After traversing many staircases, we were rewarded with excellent sound and sight lines. Piano was the architect of San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences.

Wrap-up

Sunday is the best day for the evening stroll or passagiata. Follow Steves’ Heart of Rome Walking Tour for some marvelous people-watching; his route includes the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navonna, and the Pantheon.

Pettitti did not recommend driving in central Rome and noted that two bridges over the Tiber are called English bridges because you drive on the left. We saw few parking garages, but taxis were inexpensive and easy to hail.

Our best bargain was the Roma Pass, available at tourist offices, subway stations, and many tabacs. For 48 or 72 hours, you have free transportation by bus, tram, or subway and some intra-city trains, free admission to one or two museums, and reduced or free admission to over 100 museums and attractions.

This was not our first visit to Rome, but once again we found there’s always something new to be discovered in the Eternal City. t For more information

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School districts must complete EQCA survey E arlier this month, Equality California Institute released its long-awaited report card on school districts that responded to its first attempt to examine state schools. Unfortunately, only 130 out of 343 unified school districts responded to EQCA’s survey, even after the statewide LGBT rights group extended the deadline for the surveys, meaning nearly 62% did not take part.

The 213 school districts that did not participate must be made to do so for the next report card in two years. According to EQCA’s report, Bay Area districts that did not respond were: Emery (Emeryville), Fremont, Gilroy, Livermore Valley, Mt. Diablo, New Haven (southern Alameda County), Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Sonoma Valley, and Vacaville.

EQCA’s “2019 Safe and Supportive Schools Report Card,” which was based on voluntary selfreporting from the districts, provides a baseline for future surveys, and gives state residents an opportunity to determine if their local district is implementing various state laws involving LGBTQ issues. But the overarching conclusion of the report, as we previously reported, is that most California schools are failing queer students. Most public schools have yet to implement state laws that aim to protect LGBTQ pupils and requirements that schools teach about LGBT history.

There was some good news in the report. For example, all 130 responding districts had an existing policy prohibiting discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying against students. And, 82 districts reported that they regularly collect data regarding student sexual orientation, gender expression, and gender identity.

For trans students, 64 responding districts reported having established a process for changing

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a transgender or gender-nonconforming student’s name and gender for purposes of official school records or databases (i.e., student transcripts). While it’s a sign of progress that over 60 districts have such a policy in place, it’s woefully inadequate in a state as large as California, where trans and nonbinary students are coming out at younger ages. All districts need a formal policy that mandates respecting a student’s name and pronoun preference.

EQCA identified three areas for improvement: requiring LGBTQinclusive cultural competency training that empowers teachers and other school staff with the tools and language they need; establishing the aforementioned policy allowing trans and nonbinary students to change their name on school records; and requiring all districts use educational materials that are compliant with the FAIR Education Act, which amended the state education code and compels the inclusion of the political, economic, and social contributions of

LGBT people and persons with disabilities into textbooks and social studies curricula in public schools.

San Francisco, Oakland, and Alameda unified school districts did well on the report card, scoring in the top tier. In all three, work remains in the cultural competency training area, according to the report. One of the reasons why districts aren’t doing better in this regard is because training and purchasing textbooks cost money.

But school boards and district administrators must make it a priority to conform to state law if students are going to be successful – and that is the ultimate goal. The Berkeley school district scored in the middle tier, along with most of the responding districts, and the report showed that many of them need to begin cultural competency training. (Berkeley did score well in the name change category.)

EQCA Executive Rick Zbur summed up the importance of this first report: “Improving school climate benefits all students, but doing so is particularly important for LGBTQ youth, who continue to face bullying, harassment, and discrimination at school simply because of who they are. When students feel unsafe at school, they are more likely to miss school, see their academic performance suffer, drop out, or even encounter the juvenile justice system than their non-LGBTQ peers, perpetuating the cycle of economic insecurity the LGBTQ community faces.”

He’s right.

District officials and school board members across the state must start planning to establish the policies mandated by law and they should be required to participate in EQCA’s next report in two years. That is why we support state lawmakers’ passing and funding Assembly Bill 2153 to train educators in the state on how to support LGBTQ students in grades seven through 12 and address issues they face in school like bullying and harassment. t

Why the Pride flag still matters

by Shawn Kumagai

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requested at a recent Dublin City Council meeting that the rainbow flag be flown outside City Hall throughout June to honor Pride Month. My goal was to raise awareness about the progress our LGBTQ community has made and about the important work still unfinished. The subsequent debate – and the decision not to fly the LGBTQ Pride flag in Dublin – are strong evidence that there is much more work to do.

The opinions voiced in response to my request to fly the Pride flag were as varied as the colors of the rainbow, with the vast majority making homophobic and transphobic comments. While some people said they were inspired by my composure in the face of some of the statements made, others criticized me for not speaking out. I can certainly understand some people’s disappointment.

However, the sad truth is that I wasn’t surprised by the homophobic and transphobic remarks. I have been hearing these types of comments my entire adult life, and generally believe they are relegated to the fringes. I did not want to lend these statements any validity by acknowledging them publicly. It is also my belief that the hard-fought LGBTQ rights we have achieved were at least partially born out of tolerance, not outrage. Through deep empathy and difficult dialogue we have slowly changed public opinion, and we will continue to make progress toward LGBTQ equality by having open conversations that seek mutual understanding, rather than by screaming at each other.

I am also mindful of the second-order effects that polarizing and intolerant discussions have on the most vulnerable in our LGBTQ community. A recent study published in Pediatrics provides evidence that debates around LGBTQ public policy may lead to increased bullying among LGBTQ youth. That is not to say that we must accept abuse or be any less resolute in our demands for equal rights, but we must be mindful that how we speak impacts others.

I grew up in the 1990s. My adult life has been consumed by the battle for marriage equality and serving in the military under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the transgender military ban.

Despite this personal history, I consider myself extremely privileged. I was raised in a family that embraces me for who I am. My friends, colleagues, and neighbors have largely accepted me, and I feel very fortunate to say I have never once feared for my own safety because I am gay.

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Despite the subtle challenges of serving under DADT, I was not discharged or targeted while in the military. Yet, I have witnessed my friends and colleagues being denied their fundamental rights, and pay the subsequent emotional price for that denial.

So, while I understand the struggles of the LGBTQ community, I do not speak for the entire LGBTQ community. With that said, for me, displaying the Pride flag does two things.

First, it represents our LGBTQ history, as a marginalized community and as a distinct subculture. That is why I asked for the council to discuss this at our meeting the day before Harvey Milk Day. It has been four decades since Milk was assassinated, but it has only been four years since the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land. The LGBTQ community is still not afforded basic antidiscrimination protections under federal law and transgender service members have been stripped of their right to serve openly in our armed forces. There is still major concern for our most vulnerable LGBTQ, including our youth, elderly, and people of color, but especially for our transgender community members. So, it is a storied history of struggle and triumph, but one that still continues to this day.

Second, the Pride flag symbolizes safe haven.

Recent studies by Horizons Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign highlight some disturbing realities. Members of our LGBTQ community are not only more likely to suffer from depression and more likely to attempt suicide, but they are more likely to feel unsafe within our own neighborhoods, businesses, and schools.

Feelings of physical and emotional safety are a fundamental human need, supporting healthy emotional well-being. While flying a flag does not address all of these serious problems, seeing a flag at a public building, residence, or business sends the signal that LGBTQ people are welcome, embraced, and, most importantly, safe.

When a city or government agency raises the Pride flag, elected officials are exercising their government speech, to send an unequivocal message that they stand in support of the LGBTQ community. As elected representatives we get to decide how we exercise that government speech, and we should do it in a way that uplifts the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. However, raising a Pride flag is just the beginning of what we, as elected officials, must do.

In the East Bay suburbs LGBTQ communities are undercounted and underrepresented. Basic services are unavailable or do not attend to the unique needs of LGBTQ people. Government programs for LGBTQ communities are nonexistent or severely underfunded.

Despite the homophobic and transphobic comments, I remain hopeful. After the City Council meeting, members of the community banded together to display Pride flags at their homes, allies organized a Pride flag rally at City Hall, people from across the Bay Area and state wrote in to express their support, and Dublin will soon have its very first LGBTQ Pride Picnic in June. The council did unanimously pass a proclamation declaring June LGBTQ Pride Month in Dublin for the first time in its history, and I’m hopeful that we can still find a way to raise the Pride flag in Dublin.

I call on my fellow elected officials in the East Bay suburbs to raise the LGBTQ Pride flag in June and to continue to discuss, within your communities, how we can identify the needs of our LGBTQ community and address those needs with services and the requisite funding.

It is so evident from the recent events in Dublin that we need to continue to have this conversation and that LGBTQ allies play a crucial role in advancing that discussion. It is also evident that, even in the Bay Area in 2019, raising the Pride flag still matters.t Shawn Kumagai is a member of the Dublin City Council.

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Ellis for CA Dem chair

by David Campos

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n a few days all eyes will be on San Francisco. The California Democratic Party is coming to town. While the media will be mesmerized by the presidential candidates, we will be looking inward at who we elect to be the next chair of the California Democratic Party.

In December, allegations of harassment and abuse prompted the resignation of Eric Bauman, the first openly gay chair of the party. Many of us in the queer community supported him in his run. Many did not. This time we do not have a candidate from our community, but we have a clear champion.

Kimberly Ellis ran against Bauman and energized the progressive base of the party. Her narrow loss was heartbreaking for a large segment of newly activated Democrats. Luckily for us, she has thrown her hat in the race, again. She has a renewed fervor and a real plan to address a culture of the party that has long turned a blind eye to bullying and harassment. As an African American woman, her life experiences – fighting in a political world run by white men – places her among the most ardent of allies.

Ellis is the one candidate who speaks with authenticity to her own inspiring example of not backing down to bullying, racism, and sexism and stepping up to the imperative for better governance in our state party.

Honest oversight and accountability are essential to creating modern and inclusive operations where all talented Democrats are welcome to step up, serve, and contribute as volunteers, donors, candidates, and voters.

Ellis formerly ran the incredible Emerge program, which has trained

State Democratic Party chair candidate Kimberly Ellis

thousands of women, primarily of color, to run for office. During her tenure at Emerge she doubled the size of the program. She raised millions of dollars. And her graduates now serve in the state Assembly, city halls, school boards, and city councils.

Walking the talk is an overused saying – she RUNS the talk.

It is meaningful to me how she embodies intersectionality. I am gay but also an immigrant. I crossed the border at 14 years old. Now I see cages for children who are separated from their families. It matters that we have the strongest leaders to stand up to President Donald Trump.

We must have leaders who reflect and represent the entire breadth of our party and, indeed, our country. Elections are won and lost by who shows up and who stays home. Ellis will use her time, talent, and treasure to help Democrats defeat Trump in swing

states. And she is the only candidate for chair who can actually do it.

I am a progressive Democrat and Ellis speaks to me and the grassroots members in our party who don’t see a leadership structure that means anything to them. But her message is unifying to all Democrats as she says, “because we need a party that means more to everyday people.” Just look at the news conference she had two weeks ago – she brought together Mayor London Breed, union activist Gabriel Haaland, Tom O’Connor of the firefighters union, Board of Equalization member Malia Cohen, and the California Nurses Association. I don’t think a group of Democrats from such diverse shades of blue has ever been so united by one person.

As the Democrats descend on San Francisco we must be the community Harvey Milk fought and died for. We must unify around a leader who will represent us in the true sense of the word. We must show Democrats no matter their shade of blue that we have the right leader to give them hope. Ellis would be the first African American and only the third woman to ever lead the California Democratic Party. She has my vote; she has my support. She earned the endorsement of the San Francisco Democratic Central Committee, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, and the Lambda Democratic Club of Contra Costa County.t

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Pride continues to grow in Solano County

by Matthew S. Bajko

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his June marks the 10th year since Vallejo became the first city in Solano County to recognize June as Pride Month. While its doing so sparked protest from conservative religious leaders in the bayside city, much has changed over the ensuing decade.

It now flies the rainbow flag in honor of Pride Month at City Hall – it will go up Monday, June 3, with a formal ceremony to be held at 11 a.m. June 8 – and is host to an LGBT film festival. Last year, city officials waived the fees for organizers of the annual county Pride event, known as Up Bay Pride, to hold it in a waterfront park. It saved them $4,000.

“We’re on a total 180-degree footing with the city now,” said Vallejo resident Thomas Bilbo, board chair of the Solano Pride Center in Fairfield. “We have a good relationship with the City Council and new city manger in Vallejo.”

So as to not compete with the numerous Pride festivals held throughout the Bay Area during June, the LGBT community center decided to push back Up Bay Pride to September 28 and relocate it to the city of Vacaville. They are hoping the city will follow Vallejo’s lead in waiving the several thousand dollars it will cost to rent out a downtown park for the event.

“We reached out to the City Council to see if they will make it a citysponsored event,” said Solano Pride Center Executive Director Jonathan Cook, who lives in Vacaville.

His hometown issued a Pride proclamation for the first time last year after the council pushed off doing so in 2017 so that city officials could come up with a policy for issuing proclama-

tions. It is expected to do so again this year June 7, though it is not expected to fly the rainbow flag.

Solano County’s Board of Supervisors now routinely issues a Pride proclamation and, as of last year, flies the rainbow flag in June. It flew for two days last June and will be flown for a full week next month beginning Tuesday, June 4. The Solano Community College District board for several years now has also celebrated Pride Month.

Last summer, former vice mayor of Dixon, Ted Hickman, caused an outcry when he declared July “Straight Pride American Month” in his weekly newspaper column. It led to his losing his re-election bid in November.

This year Solano Pride Center officials have reached out to the current council about issuing a proclamation in support of Pride Month and are waiting to hear back, said Cook.

They also put in a request with officials in Rio Vista, he said, “so we are able to have coverage throughout all of Solano County.”

“We still have a long way to go,” acknowledged Bilbo. “But with more staff, we are growing the Pride center. It is looking more positive than it has looked in a long time.”

To see a full schedule for this year’s Vallejo Stonewall Film Festival, taking place June 13 and 14, visit solanopride.org/vallejo-stonewall-film-fest.

LGBT caucus seeks state funding

As noted in this week’s story about the global AIDS confab being hosted

by San Francisco and Oakland next summer, the Legislative LGBT Caucus is seeking $2 million in the state’s

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2019-2020 fiscal year budget to help cover the cost of the conference.

It has three other fiscal priorities it is seeking to be added into the budget as lawmakers hash out a final version to be sent June 15 to Governor Gavin Newsom for final sign off. One already was included by Newsom in his May budget revise, $500,000 to support LGBT archival work by institutions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

It is also seeking $500,000 to support the new arts center the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus is constructing inside the Valencia Street building it recently purchased. The caucus’ biggest ask, of several million dollars, is to fund Assembly Bill 2153, which if adopted this year would support annual training sessions for educators in the state on how to support LGBTQ students in grades seven through 12 and address issues they face in school like bullying and harassment.

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Milk club early endorses SF candidates

As expected the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club Tuesday night early endorsed tenants rights activist Dean Preston in the District 5 supervisor race this November. He is aiming to unseat Supervisor Vallie Brown, who was appointed to the seat by Mayor London Breed when she resigned last summer to move into Room 200 of City Hall.

The progressive political group also gave an early endorsement to district attorney candidate Chesa Boudin. He is seeking to succeed George Gascón, who opted not to seek re-election this fall.

At its June membership meeting, the club will vote on early endorsing Public Defender Mano Raju. Breed appointed him to the position following the unexpected death of Jeff Adachi in February.t

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he San Mateo County Fair will be rocking when Queen tribute band Queen Nation performs Monday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m.

Fair officials said the day has been designated its inaugural Pride Family Day, when all children 12 and under will be admitted free, from opening to closing.

The theme for this year’s nineday fair, which runs June 8-16, is “Celebrating the Best of the Bay.” “The lines to see the movie ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ late last year are evidence of the timeless love for Queen’s music,” Dana Stoehr, CEO of the San Mateo County Event Center and Fair, said in a news release. “We are delighted that Queen Nation will bring Queen’s music to our free concert series in June.”

Actor Rami Malek won an Oscar this year for his portrayal of the late bi Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the film.

Queen Nation’s live 90-minute production of the band’s greatest hits preserves the image, sound, and stage persona of vintage Queen, the release stated.

The fair has multiple concerts lined up during its run; all are included with paid admission to the fair, which is $10 for adults, $8 for kids ages 6-12 (except Pride Family Day), and $6 for seniors. Children 5 and under and military (with ID) are free.

The fair, located at 2495 South Delaware Street in San Mateo, is open from noon to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends. It features a carnival midway, kids’ activities, community stage acts, and more.

The San Mateo County Pride Center is planning for a group to go on June 10. For tickets, contact the Pride center at (650) 591-0133 or info@sanmateopride.org.

For more information on the fair, visit www.sanmateocountyfair.com.

San Mateo Pride celebration

The aforementioned San Mateo Pride Center will hold its Pride celebration Saturday, June 15, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in San Mateo Central Park, 50 East Fifth Avenue in San Mateo.

This year’s theme is “Rooted in Resilience.” Organizers said that this year’s seventh annual event will be

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family-friendly and inclusive. Admission is free.

The festival will feature live music, entertainment, activities, resource booths, food trucks, local art, and merchandise.

The festival is a sober space.

For more information, visit http://www.sanmateopride.org.

GLBT Historical Society Latinx exhibit

A new exhibition opening next month at the GLBT Historical Society Museum displays photography, ephemera, and text to center both biological and chosen Latinx LGBTQ family connections as structures that build hope and resilience.

“Chosen Familias” examines queer Latinx stories by documenting real-time, real-life Latino/a relationships. By appropriating and queering the concept of the traditional family photo album, the exhibition reframes documentation of queer mothers, daughters, fathers, children, aunts, and uncles, a news release stated.

Additionally, the exhibition features a video station that will play interviews with, and footage of, Bay Area LGBTQ Latinx activists and artists of the past four decades.

The exhibit is curated by Tina Valentin Aguirre, a genderqueer poet, movie director, and opera producer.

In the early 1990s, Aguirre helped set up AIDS programs at Mission Neighborhood Health Center’s Clinica Esperanza and Community United in Response to AIDS/SIDA. They currently serve as the associate director for institutional giving at the Shanti Project. Aguirre is also chair of the GLBT Historical Society’s board of directors.

A public reception will take place Friday, June 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the museum, 4127 18th Street in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. The curator will offer introductory remarks and light refreshments will be served. Admission is $5; free for historical society members. For tickets, visit https://bit. ly/2HSaqgW.

Oasis to hold gala event

Oasis Legal Services, a Berkeleybased nonprofit that helps LGBTQ people gain legal status through asylum, will hold its annual gala Saturday, June 8, at the top of Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street in San Francisco.

Organizers said they would be highlighting achievements of the past year, and raise funds for the road ahead.

The evening begins with a VIP reception at 5 p.m., followed by the program from 6 to 9. The keynote speaker will be Yosimar Reyes, a

queer undocumented immigrant, poet, and activist.

Tickets are $250. RSVPs are needed by Friday, May 31. A valid, government-issued ID with photo is required for entry to the building.

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SF police panel OKs updated rules for citizen complaints

The San Francisco Police Commission recently adopted the Department of Police Accountability’s proposed revisions to General Order 2.04, the rules and regulations governing citizen complaints against San Francisco Police Department officers.

These revisions, the first since 1994, implement U.S. Department of Justice recommendations and affirm DPA’s independent authority to investigate police misconduct, according to a news release from the agency.

“I am proud that the DPA took the lead in the first updates to General Order 2.04 in more than 20 years,” agency director Paul Henderson, a gay man, said in the release. “These revisions clarify and reaffirm the Department of Police Accountability’s independent jurisdiction to investigate peace officer misconduct and are an important step to building public trust in our civilian oversight system.”

The police commission approved the changes at its May 15 meeting.

The new General Order 2.04 recognizes DPA’s historical practices and clarifies its jurisdictional authority. The revisions acknowledge DPA’s independent jurisdiction to investigate officer-involved shootings. They permit DPA to accept and investigate complaints from other city agencies. The revisions affirm the department’s right to investigate complaints regarding conduct of off-duty officers if the officer has represented him or herself as law enforcement.

Every police station must now make DPA materials and complaint forms easily accessible to the public. Citizens will no longer have to request complaint forms or DPA contact information from station keepers or other officers, according to the release.

The order establishes a quarterly disciplinary board that will hold meetings between DPA and SFPD to identify and address disciplinary trends and training deficiencies.

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Book traces history of SF’s Civic Center

by Veronica Dolginko

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ivic Center has a checkered reputation to match its history but James Haas, author of the new book, “The San Francisco Civic Center: A History of the Design, Controversies, and Realization of a City Beautiful Masterpiece,” wants everyone to know how unique and important it is.

“This beautiful city built a place that was the heart of functions,” he said. “There’s not much understanding of what this was about.”

Haas, a gay man and lawyer by trade, has been an advocate for the planning, reconstruction, and use of the Civic Center since 1984, when he was asked to do so by the women’s group the Friends of the Library, which was organizing for a new main library. (The Friends group now welcomes all.) At the time, he noted, Dianne Feinstein was mayor, and she was not particularly interested in approving a $100 million bond simply because a special interest group was asking.

“I suggested in a letter I wrote to her,” Haas, 72, said in an interview at his Civic Center apartment, “that she not think of what needs to be done just in terms of the library but in terms of all of Civic Center.”

Feinstein, now California’s senior U.S. senator, wrote the foreword for the book. She recalled Haas’ involvement in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter.

“When I was mayor, Jim championed the renovation of San Francisco’s historic Civic Center, including building a new main library and renovating the old library into a new Asian Art Museum, a plan I supported and was approved shortly after I left office,” Feinstein wrote. “I had my staff work with city departments on a plan that ultimately resulted in a new courthouse, new public library, repurposed old main library and other public improvements like park beautification and new playgrounds. Jim had great foresight and I was always happy to work with him.”

The buildings around the center had been neglected, and most of the area was not in great shape. After Feinstein’s staff did a comprehensive study of the cost and condition of the plaza, she agreed to

Courtesy David Perry

James Haas has written a book about San Francisco’s Civic Center.

the bond to build a new library, as well as several other buildings. With the plans, a building would be constructed for the new library and the old library would be turned into the Asian Art Museum. The Pioneer monument had to be moved as well, and historical preservationists had to be convinced that this was all necessary. (Part of the Pioneer monument, the “Early Days” statue, was removed by the city last fall due to its racist depiction of Native Americans.)

“Their two big issues were with the monument and the old library becoming the Asian Art Museum,” Haas said of preservationists.

One of the main points of contention was that the Asian Art Museum entailed removal of the site-wedded landscape murals by Bay Area tonalist painter Gottardo Piazzoni (1872-1945). They finally found a suitable home within the new de Young Museum, San Francisco Chronicle critic Kenneth Baker wrote in a 2013 article when the museum’s new home turned 10.

Former mayor Art Agnos was also a supporter of the new library before he was elected, Haas said.

“I was eager to get Mayor Feinstein to complete her report endorsing the new library bonds before she left office to ensure that there was no serious opposition,” Haas said. “It took nearly two years to get the bond issue on the ballot. When it was and we organized the campaign, Art was a great supporter and his wife, Sherri, was the honorary chair of the campaign. It passed with 76.2 percent of the vote.”

Agnos did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Then-state Senator Quentin Kopp was opposed to the bond.

Kopp told the B.A.R. in a phone interview Tuesday that he’s “satisfied with how it worked out” but thought “the initial bond proposal, which I opposed, was an unnecessary expenditure of taxpayer money.”

From the window in his 19th floor apartment, Haas has a view of City Hall, the courthouse, and most of Civic Center. This high up, the roofs of all the buildings stand out, and he pointed out the unique quality of the architecture.

“We went through this period of modernism after the war,” he explained, referring to the French baroque style of the courthouse and the grandiose City Hall. “A lot of this design was mocked as being foreign.”

Haas appreciates the distinct and distinguished nature of these buildings, City Hall in particular.

“Most city halls don’t have the dome like that. You see those on state capitols,” he said.

With his appreciation for what Civic Center should be, not to mention his daily view, it’s not surprising that he wrote a book exploring the story and function of this place.

The book is a historical narrative of the Civic Center starting with the early city planning of a San Francisco people today wouldn’t recognize. It tells the story of a growing metropolis through the perspective of one singular spot within its borders.

The final chapter, entitled “Recent Decades and the Present Day,” is where Haas’ own involvement comes into play.

Haas is cautiously optimistic about the future of Civic Center. He’s seen it go from “wind-swept and empty and nobody used it” to the current iteration, which is not without its troubles.

The new playgrounds and cafe have brought more people to the area; improvements are being made but there’s still a ways to go.

“Make this a living, acting space,” Haas said, gesturing out the window to the expanse of city below him.

He talked about the remodeling of old office buildings into apartments around Civic Center, excited about the fact that the neighborhood is becoming “24 hours” with more residents and activity. t

James Haas will discuss his book Tuesday, June 4, at 7 p.m. at Manny’s, 3092 16th Street.

World gay basketball championships set for 2020

by Roger Brigham

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ark Chambers of southern California has been a leader in gay basketball for decades. He’s played in multiple Gay Games and is a founder of the National Gay Basketball Association. Now, his dream to have the international LGBT basketball community to come together more often seems to be about to come true with the launch of the World Gay Basketball Championships next year in southern Florida.

“Having been a longtime ballplayer and being able to meet other LGBT players every four years at the Gay Games, I wanted to see if I could bring together people biennially,” Chambers told the Bay Area Reporter. “This will be the first time LGBTQ+ players from across the world will meet outside the Gay Games.”

The 2020 championships are scheduled for May 24-29 to be held in DS Sports Plex in Deerfield Beach, Florida, just north of Fort Lauderdale.

Initially, Chambers said, the championship is expected to be held quadrennially during even-number years that fall between Gay Games.

If enough support is generated he hopes to cover the other years as well.

“We got a grant from Nike for this year and we have people working on getting sponsorships for the event,” Chambers said.

“We’ll see if this is a pipe dream or the response I was hoping for.”

Chambers said the $25,000 grant will be used for seed money for the tournament and it marks the first time NGBA has received funding from a company.

Chambers is organizing the event with fellow volunteers from NGBA. Based on talks with the Federation of Gay Games, he projects the tournament may draw about 500 athletes from 13 or more countries.

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Book captures stories of LGBT trailblazers

by Brian Bromberger

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t all began with a sleepless night in June 2014. Mason Funk, a writer and producer of nonfiction TV programs for Discovery Channel, A&E, Fox Sports, and others, began reviewing his life from the time he knew he was gay, realizing how much it had changed through the decades.

Funk, 60, felt connected for the first time to a profound societal shift, a movement from which he had benefited, though he had done little to contribute to it himself. However, as an interviewer, he wanted to find people who had made a difference to LGBTQ equality and liberation and served on its front lines, documenting the remarkable changes that he had witnessed.

This was the birth of OUTWORDS in 2016 to collect and share these stories; to capture professional quality, in-depth, on-camera interviews with those pioneers still alive.

Those 75 original interviews resulted in “The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed The World” (HarperOne). Funk, who will be in San Francisco Thursday (May 30), explained his reasoning to the Bay Area Reporter in an e-mail interview.

“I was struck once again by the difference between my profound fears of being gay (during my teen years and into my early 20s), and the presentday reality of my life as a gay man – a wonderful partner/husband/soulmate, good friends, and the ability to openly embrace my sexuality. I was just moved to run around the country finding the people who had braved tremendous odds and found courage within themselves to come out and fight back against the prevailing attitudes and

laws regarding homosexuality.”

To counter any criticism about the need to document the LGBTQ past, Funk wrote, “Recording out elders’ stories will serve as a critically important bulwark against the fake news crowd. To this day there are people who deny the Holocaust ever took place. What’s to prevent people 50 or 100 years from now from denying the queer community’s collective journey, our vitality, our very existence?”

In fact, he said it was his deep admiration of the USC Shoah Foundation project interviewing Holocaust witnesses and survivors from all around the world that helped inspire OUTWORDS. Funk used a variety of ways to find participants.

“I consulted LGBTQ history books, talked to folks with deep connections to the community, and dug around on the internet,” he wrote. “I steered toward folks who were older, for obvious reasons – they had lived more, and had less time to share their stories.

“I also systematically sought out folks from the ‘B’ (bisexual) community, which often gets overlooked within our community, as well as ‘T’ (transgender) folks whose stories are so rich and varied,” he added. “This community’s elders are a bit harder to find, but well worth the extra effort. And overall, I was intent that OUTWORDS and ‘The Book of Pride’ reflect the full diversity of our community.”

Funk said some people were uncertain when contacted.

“Many interview subjects were nervous to have me show up on their doorstep,” he wrote. “The vast majority had never met me before. You spend time making small talk while deciding where to set up the camera.

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Gradually, they get more comfortable; but some were still very nervous by the time the interview started.”

Funk added that most of the interviewees had decided ahead of time how much they were going to share with him.

“Or, they hadn’t decided, but it was clear they were going to only open up so far. That was fine. I respected that,” he wrote. “I wasn’t there to dig up painful stuff that they’d rather leave buried.”

Funk’s husband, Jay Edwards, a psychotherapist, gave him some pointers.

Along the way, Edwards told him, “Don’t think that people are necessarily telling you the ‘Truth’ with a capital T,” Funk recalled. “They are telling you their truth; the truth they can live with.”

What struck Funk was that most interviewees didn’t worry as much that their contributions had been forgotten, but some didn’t recognize the importance of their individual journeys.

“Donna Burkett in Milwaukee is a great example of this,” Funk wrote.

“What difference did it make that she and her girlfriend, Manonia, applied for a marriage license in Milwaukee in the early 1970s? Not much, really. But it was one more act of courage. (And for the record, it was cited in a marriage equality decision in 2014.) But I think for most individuals, it’s really hard to see how your individual decisions and acts can add up to something bigger.”

Famous and unsung heroes

The book is a balance between some well-known LGBTQ personalities such as Troy Perry, Fenton Johnson, Evan Wolfson, Diana Nyad, Dean Hamer, Margarethe “Grethe” Cammermeyer, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Donna Sachet, John James, Shannon Minter, and Karla Jay, and lesser known heroes, reflecting how one single solitary individual, living in complicated circumstances navigated a path forward, such as K.C. Potter, who in 1987 created a safe place for gay students at Vanderbilt University.

Others include Ada Bello, who helped launch the Philadelphia chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis; Kylar William Broadus, who founded the Trans People of Color Coalition in Missouri; Jewel Thai-Williams, who opened up Jewel’s Catch One, one of America’s first black discos in 1973; Alexei Romanoff, who in 1966 organized one of the first protests at the Black Cat gay bar against police raids, pre-dating Stonewall by years; Phyllis Randolph Frye, who in 1991 created the International Conference on Transgender Law and Employment; and Eric Julber, a lawyer who in 1958 won a landmark anti-obscenity case in the Supreme Court against ONE magazine.

Still others are Jim Toy, who helped create the Lesbian-Gay Male Programs office at the University of Michigan, the first staffed university office in the world for addressing sexual orientation issues; Mary Morten, who co-created the documentary “The Nia Project: Images of African American Lesbians;” Kay Lahusen, who through the 1960s and 1970s established herself as America’s first openly gay photojournalist; Jamison Green, whose prize-winning book, “Becoming A Visible Man,” has

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The announcement reflects the goals of Our Trans Home SF, a proposal by trans advocates and the city’s Office of Transgender Initiatives. The Bay Area Reporter previously reported that Our Trans Home SF requested close to $1 million for the housing subsidies.

With the city’s two-year budget cycle, that appears to be what the mayor in-

“The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed The World”

become a classic text, informing and inspiring transgender and cisgender people worldwide; Diana Rivers, a pioneer of women-only spaces, especially the 280 acres Ozark Land Holding Association, and organizer of women’s conferences and festivals; and Blackberri, singer-songwriter and HIV activist, composer of “Beautiful Black Man,” the centerpiece of Isaac Julien’s movie “Looking for Langston.”

Funk was most moved by James Credle of Newark, New Jersey, who was a decorated Vietnam veteran and helped found the National Association of Black and White Men Together and the Newark LGBTQ Center.

“The rawness of his emotions; his stories of serving in Vietnam, and the systematic racism that black soldiers faced upon returning to the U.S., leading to higher rates of ‘bad paper’ (dishonorable discharges).

The fact that he was entrusting his rage and his stories to me, a white reporter whom he had never met before. I almost couldn’t breathe,” Funk wrote.

Funk has many favorite interviews, but mentioned Gigi Raven Wilbur as particularly memorable.

“Gigi is intersex and also calls herself a hermaphrodite.

Gigi also refers to himself with both pronouns. This was on the outskirts of Houston, at the end of an isolated country road. Gigi is just incredibly brave. She has had to fight hard to find a safe place in the world,” Funk wrote.

“I also love how Gigi embraces his sexuality and his BDSM practice (she wrote ‘The Dominant’s Handbook: An Intimate Guide to BDSM Play’), and how he has a late-night radio show where people can call in and talk about their sexuality, ask questions, share stories, in a respectful environment. Gigi refuses to be classified, and in doing so, she helps other people to feel more comfortable on the journey to discovering exactly who they are (and who they are not).”

Not surprisingly, Funk observed there are many differences of opinion within the queer community.

“As alluded to in my intro, not everyone agrees about the importance of marriage,” he wrote. “Others said openly, why the hell would we care so much about serving in a ‘killing machine’ called the U.S. military? I thought this was great. I love strong opinion. But finally, the idea that to create lasting change you have to work both inside and outside the system.

In the areas where I work to create corporated into her spending blueprint.

The $2 million will fund a two-year pilot program to provide housing subsidies to 75 transgender individuals, according to the mayor’s office, which said the funding would create the first program of its kind in the nation.

“We are inspired and grateful for Mayor Breed’s ongoing commitment to our trans and LGBTQ communities,” Clair Farley, director of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, said in a statement released by the mayor’s office.

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change, I’m more of an ‘insider.’ But a movement also needs angry outsiders. It’s fascinating to me, and I think it’s one of the ‘lessons’ that the queer community has to offer to the world at large as a model of how to create enduring change.”

Funk wants readers to leave with several takeaways once they’ve finished his book.

“Break out of your stereotypes; be curious about people who are different than you. Big changes are more often the result of small, individual, seemingly insignificant actions – not big, splashy, ‘newsworthy’ actions.

Be courageous,” he wrote. “Even on a personal level, I had no idea when I conceived of OUTWORDS that it would become anything significant.

With the encouragement of friends, I stuck my neck out and announced what I wanted to do. And somehow, stuff started to happen.”

After all the interviews, Funk felt his understanding as a gay man had been transformed.

“I’m so humbled to be keeping the company of the people in this book.

Being with them has given me a sense of pride that I never had before. Also outrage at the way queer people were treated in not-so-distant times here in the U.S.,” he wrote. “Being with the subjects of the book (along with lots of other events happening concurrently in our country) has also heightened greatly my awareness of myself as a privileged white guy. I truly feel honored to be a historian of this incredible movement.”

For Funk, what unites and defines the LGBTQ community is that “we are all rule-breakers in one of mainstream society’s most deeply entrenched and ferociously protected systems: the roles of women and men.

“Frequently, we take things a step further, asserting that the basic rules of engagement – either/or, fixed notions of gender and gendered behavior – are flawed,” he wrote. “We are helping the human race move toward more freedom, openness, transparency, and integrity. In living by our own rules and being exactly and unapologetically who we are, we are helping create a world where other people can do the same.”t Funk will appear Thursday, May 30, at 7 p.m. at Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Avenue.

OUTWORDS ultimately conducted 131 interviews, not all of which could be included in “Book of Pride.” Eventually, all of them will be available on its digital platform, theoutwordsarchive.org.

“Trans communities have spearheaded a call for TGNC-specific housing programs through the Our Trans Home SF campaign to assure TGNC individuals can find and keep their housing.”

Farley also said that “one out of two TGNC San Franciscans have experienced homelessness.”

“When TGNC San Franciscans do experience homelessness, there is no safe places for us to go,” Farley, a trans woman, added.

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SF Eagle co-owner Mike Leon dies

by Cynthia Laird

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Courtesy Eduardo Wagar

SF Eagle co-owner Mike Leon

riends are grieving the loss of SF Eagle co-owner Mike Leon, who died May 17.

Mr. Leon, who was three days shy of his 53rd birthday, died after sustaining a fall down the stairs at a friend’s house in San Francisco, said his former partner and roommate, Eduardo Wagar.

It was after the former Eagle Tavern closed that Mr. Leon and his business partner, Alex Montiel, acquired the lease to the South of Market leather-themed bar. After about nine months of work it reopened as

the SF Eagle, keeping the focus on the leather and bear communities.

The bar recently marked its sixth anniversary.

Mr. Leon was also involved in the Eagle Plaza project, which Montiel will now continue. City officials formally approved the public parklet, which will front a portion of the bar on 12th Street, earlier this year.

It will honor San Francisco’s LGBT and leather communities.

Wagar, who has known Mr. Leon for about 25 years, said his friend was unflappable.

“Nothing rattled him,” Wagar said. “He was very empathetic. He

could sit with a total stranger and be a shoulder to cry on or offer advice.”

Mr. Leon was born May 20, 1966 in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Otis Parsons School of Design (now known as the Otis College of Art and Design), he came to San Francisco 25 years ago and became an apprentice for a jewelry maker. He then opened Mea Cinis, a jewelry store in North Beach. The store closed when Mr. Leon became involved with working on the bar, Wagar said.

Wagar said he moved to the city in 1997 and met Mr. Leon “almost immediately.”

“He was the most patient person,”

Wagar recalled. “Everyone loved him. He loved people.”

Montiel was traveling and did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

In addition to Wagar and Montiel, Mr. Leon is survived by his husband, Ben Ames; his parents, Margarito and Evelia Leon; a sister, Nancy Copeland (Glenn); two nephews; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

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Gay Games is all about facing challenges

by Roger Brigham

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he venerable Gay Games, having survived a perilous journey that offered ever changing marketing, financial, and mission challenges, now face a seemingly secure future rich with exciting possibilities. In reality, a long road still lies ahead for the mission – a road that can be conquered only by reinvigorated focus and commitment to the mission and the athletes the Gay Games serve.

The 11th quadrennial Gay Games are scheduled to be held November 12-19, 2022 in Hong Kong. That will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Gay Games – San Francisco, 1982 – and would be the first time the event is held in Asia. For Hong Kong itself, 2022 will be the 25th anniversary of the British ceding control of Hong Kong to China in 1997 (effectively bringing the British Empire to an end) in an agreement that created Hong Kong’s current semi-autonomous status with the mainland government. It will also be the halfway point to the end of Hong Kong’s special status before it is fully integrated with the mainland in 2047.

All of which means symbolism would be the biggest event on display in Gay Games XI. Each era of Gay Games has had its own set of challenges for the brand.

In Gay Games I through III (San Francisco twice and Vancouver once), the original organizers, San Francisco Arts and Athletics, were faced with marketing the brand; developing a critical mass of participants to give the movement significant impact and appeal; and offering support and compassion at a time when the onslaught of AIDS was picking off some of our community’s finest individuals.

For Gay Games IV through VI (New York City, Amsterdam, and Sydney), the newly formed licensing body, the Federation of Gay Games, had to create a global organization; define mission standards; and try (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) curbing hosts’ overly ambitious plans that resulted in repeated massive financial losses that nearly led to the cancellation of the Gay Games.

With Gay Games VII through X (Chicago, Cologne, Cleveland, and

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Paris), the FGG needed to overhaul its structure to make it more stable and proactive; fend off a concerted effort by a new rival brand to co-opt its mission, and hold onto participants’ trust in the mission until the bloody war was over.

The result? The Gay Games have gone from Dr. Tom Waddell’s threadbare San Francisco dream in 1982 to a major global reality. Half of the first 10 Gay Games drew 10,000 or more participants; half of the Gay Games, including three of the past four, have turned a profit; the past two have left the local LGBT communities with legacy funds; and post-event participant surveys consistently show overwhelming support for the Gay Games inclusive-sports focus.

All of which brings us to the challenges the FGG faces now.

Immediate needs

For the immediate future, the FGG needs to figure out how best to support the host operating in a constantly changing and unpredictable political regime; market its brand in previously untapped geographic markets that have minimal LGBT-sports infrastructure; and (as is the case in almost every Gay Games cycle) help organizers new to the movement understand that previous experience running LGBT events or previous experience organizing sports events is helpful, but that an LGBT multi-sport event is going to require approaches they have never experienced.

For the longer range, the FGG needs to figure out how best to manage the behemoth event it has created. Past experience of Gay Games hosts and organizers of other major global sports events such as the Olympics show that a host’s bandwidth maxes out at about 10,000 to 12,000 participants, and the Gay Games have shown with Chicago and Paris their model can succeed at that size. But the constant fear of a tourism-dependent event such as the Gay Games is that it becomes such a long and expensive festival that it effectively prices out the inclusive diversity that exists at the core of the mission. How big is too big and how much is too much?

The FGG also needs to upgrade its technology, an area in which it has backslid even as technology bounds forward; and more effectively recruit The center will connect youth experiencing homelessness to safe and stable housing with adult hosts in the community, utilizing existing housing stock. Assistance will be available for between three and 12 months, the mayor’s office stated.

Officials at the LGBT center did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

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Gay Games founder Dr. Tom Waddell

skilled volunteers to its board of directors so it can more effectively manage fundraising, marketing, technology, and outreach.

I’ve often compared the FGG and the work involved in awarding and staging Gay Games to a sausage factory. The event depends on thankless and often unpleasant labor year in and year out in closed rooms far from the view of the public, who then get to feast on the tasty sausage without too much inquiry into its manufacture.

So, here’s some of the stuff that needs to be cut up and squeezed into the skins the next few months in the factory.

• Contingency plans need to be formed for various political scenarios that may play out between now and November 2022. The Chinese government has been working to solidify its sway over lands to which it has ties but no sovereignty (such as its efforts to force corporations to refer to Taiwan as Taipei, China, even though the communist government has never had possession of that nation); and to tighten its authority over Hong Kong, where sovereignty becomes less autonomous by the day.

This month, for instance, an extradition bill was introduced and is being strong-armed through that will allow individuals in Hong Kong to be extradited to the mainland for criminal prosecution – and that prosecution is controlled by communist party officials, who don’t exactly embrace LGBT rights.

Add the shutting down of expression and autonomy to the muted response the Hong Kong government had when the Gay Games were awarded and you see the sticky situation for the Gay Games: the need for a Gay Games is greatest where suppression is strongest, but that same cusing on problem-solving and family reunification interventions, based on a peer-to-peer service model and additional training for nonprofit providers operating shelters that serve LGBTQ youth.

“Transgender and gender-nonconforming San Franciscans are almost 18 times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population in our city,” Breed said in See page 12 >>

suppression can be the greatest force to keep the Gay Games from succeeding – or from even happening.

So the FGG must figure out how best to support Hong Kong organizers (from helping them to reach potential LGBT athletes in Asia and ensuring that events are properly focused on sports inclusion and diversity) while at the same time preparing for a worstcase scenario that could undermine the possibility of holding the Gay Games in Hong Kong at all. If worse comes to worst, an escape plan is needed.

• The FGG needs to reexamine the scope and structure of the Gay Games themselves for future cycles. At a town hall meeting in San Francisco a few years back, when the FGG was contemplating a joint venture with the now defunct World Outgames, stakeholders identified a lot of the underlying problems that threaten the sustainability of the Gay Games. With an increase of LGBT sports competition opportunities being offered in smaller

or single-sport events, the Gay Games by comparison seem too long and too expensive for many would-be participants. This especially hurts participation by women, minorities, and athletes from more repressed regions.

The FGG needs to talk with sports federations to see ways the length of the competitions can be shortened while remaining appealing.

• It also needs to be able to lower the costs of the Gay Games, and the best way to do that is to line up stable sponsorships. An event with the scope and mission of the Gay Games has a lot of potential appeal for sponsors, but major sponsorships have never been successfully developed and maintained, leaving a large burden on host cities.

• Developing and maintaining financial backing, in turn, will require better board recruitment. The FGG underwent a membership restructuring in 2004-06 in large part because the old structure lacked board stability and imposed an unsustainable volunteer demand on member sports organizations. Implicit in the new structure was the need for more proactive recruitment of portfolio officers. People with the lingo, connections, and know-how to manage communications, marketing, and development, for instance.

The challenges are as great as any the Gay Games have ever faced. The job doesn’t get any easier and there is never a chance to take a break.

But the rewards? The changes that can be made in lives as yet unmet, the attitudes that can be turned from suspicion to support?

More than you could ever dream of. t

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Dublin

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is a signatory to the U.S. Conference of Mayors statement against LGBTQ discrimination. “The decision to move toward a policy, which would allow the Pride flag, and other flags, is what I supported. To me, it makes sense to set ground rules for everyone.

And no matter how obvious some might think the answer to be, I've learned that rushing into a decision is never a good idea.”

In light of the negative comments that have been made about LGBT people, Haubert added, “Like all members of our community, LGBTQ are equally cherished and deserve to live here as every Dubliner, worthy of equal love and equal respect and to be fully included.”

Kumagai told the Bay Area Reporter Tuesday he would continue to push for the council to back flying the flag for at least one day in June. Initially, he had hoped it would be June 1, which was a compromise proposal after his initial request that it fly the entire month of June lacked support to pass. Since any vote to do so would now occur at a later date, he said he was unsure of a date, though it could be tied in to the community Pride picnic being held at noon Saturday, June 15, in Dublin Heritage Park.

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AIDS 2020

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important for our progress against the epidemic,” he said.

Gandhi told the B.A.R. she was “hopeful” of seeing the state funds come through for the conference. It is expected to draw 20,000 participants from more than 170 countries to the Bay Area next summer.

“I am respectful of my colleagues who have different opinions, however, I think we are all on the same side,” she said. “I don’t think in any way fighting each other is helpful. I think we should focus on common enemies like stigma and stereotypes.”

Plus, with California being in the vanguard of pushing back against the Trump administration’s various discriminatory policies and rollback of LGBT rights, Gandhi argued it makes sense for the state to financially support the AIDS conference.

“California has been a leader in fighting these policies, especially around immigration and being a sanctuary state,” she noted. “This being the largest global health meeting that is held globally anywhere, and being held in our two sanctuary cities, it will highlight diversity, inclusiveness, and innovation of our state.”

The 130-member local planning group is also looking to raise another $2 million from donors to pay for various activities it intends to offer concurrent with the conference, such as art installations and other cultural programs. According to organizers,

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Breed budget

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the release. “Housing subsidies and navigation services for our city’s trans community will help individuals remain housed and will provide a much-needed safety net for those who are at risk of homelessness.

“With the ongoing affordability crisis in our city and the constant attacks on trans people from the White House we must remain united to make sure no one is erased,” Breed added, referring to multiple attacks on the trans community from the Trump administration. “This budget proposal shows that we’re committed to keeping our communities housed and assuring our most vulnerable residents can thrive in San Francisco.”

According to the mayor’s office, nearly half of the homeless youth in San Francisco identify as LGBTQ

“It’s been encouraging because of the outpouring of support from the community and raising of awareness around these issues, and I think a lot of thought and reflection in the case of the council members,” said Kumagai.

“Those are all positive outcomes.”

The freshman lawmaker, the first out person to serve on his council, had told the B.A.R. ahead of the council’s vote that he expected to receive some pushback to his Pride proposal.

In a guest opinion piece he submitted to the B.A.R., which he requested run in the paper’s May 30 issue ahead of the council’s June 4 meeting, Kumagai wrote he remains “hopeful” despite the homophobic and transphobic comments his flag request generated. Many residents of Dublin flew their own rainbow flags in support, he noted, and the city will host its first LGBTQ Pride picnic in June.

He also issued a call of action to elected officials in other cities across the East Bay. Kumagai wrote, “I call on my fellow elected officials in East Bay suburbs to raise the LGBTQ pride flag in June and to continue to discuss, within your communities, how we can identify the needs of our LGBTQ community and address those needs with services and the requisite funding.”

As the B.A.R’s Political Notebook reported May 16, the number of East

San Francisco Travel, the city’s visitors bureau, has waived the fees for the conference’s use of the Moscone Convention Center. (Events and conference sessions will also take place at the Oakland Convention Center.)

Local organizers said they were unsure of the total costs for the conference. The IAS is expected to turn its full attention toward fundraising for the 2020 gathering in August following the smaller biennial scientific gathering it is holding this July in Mexico City.

“The fundraising is just starting,” said Gandhi.

According to a sponsorship guide the IAS released, it is looking for up to three “diamond sponsors” donating at least $250,000. There are another four sponsor levels ranging in price from $25,000 to $150,000 or more.

Biotech companies can also apply to become donors through a special package costing $10,000 that gives them branded booths and a stage for programming in an area of the conference’s exhibition hall dubbed the Innovation Hub. The conference materials explain that “only emerging life sciences and biomedical companies” can apply.

Attendee registration for the conference will open October 1. There will be four different prices for attendees based on the income levels of their country as determined by the World Bank. The pricing has yet to be announced.

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and 30% of homeless adults identify as LGBTQ. Other items in Breed’s budget document include a new training officer for the Office of Transgender Initiatives to implement Breed’s executive directive to track the expansion of gender options on all city forms and provide trans inclusion training to city employees who work with the public; establishing an ongoing LGBTQ immigrant fellowship program through the trans initiatives office; and continuing to backfill federal HIV funding cuts and supporting the city’s Getting to Zero initiative to reduce HIV transmission.

The announcement follows a year of planning from Breed regarding the prioritization of the needs of queer and trans youth, and delivering on promises made by the late Mayor Ed Lee. t

Bay cities officially recognizing the annual LGBT celebration is growing. In addition to issuing Pride proclamations, many cities are now also raising the rainbow flag in June.

This week Lafayette and Concord joined the list, with Lafayette’s City Council approving flying the rainbow flag for the first time Saturday, June 1.

Concord’s council voted to raise the Pride flag every June for Pride Month.

Brentwood, meanwhile, issued its first proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month. Antioch leaders pushed off voting to do the same as well as fly the rainbow flag to the June 11 City Council meeting after being informed

there was a bureaucratic problem with it doing so at its May 28 meeting.

A number of religious conservatives spoke out against the proposal, while LGBT advocates remain hopeful the council will pass both in two weeks.

Jack Rednour-Bruckman, interim executive director of the Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County, told the B.A.R. they were “disappointed that the City Council didn’t make any statements of support for their LGBTQ residents including me.”

Gay Emeryville City Councilman John Bauters told the B.A.R. that he still plans to raise a rainbow flag on

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behalf of Dublin’s LGBT community next weekend no matter what the council decides to do in regard to flying a Pride flag.

“The opportunity here is for solidarity and even if Dublin hangs it, we still need to speak our values as a region for those whose communities don’t yet understand the importance of supporting the LGBT community,” said Bauters. “I will probably offer to take the flag we hang down and bring it to Dublin for them to hang at their event if they do vote to do it.”

The controversy, said Bauters, is a reminder that “hate is still here, in case people forgot.” t

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All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants.

Case No. CGC-19-574377 SUMMONS ON SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT [CCP § 751.05] The people of the State of California, to All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, defendants, greeting (See Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] attached.): You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, plaintiff, filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court and county, within three months after the first publication of this summons, and to set forth what interest or lien, if any, you have in or upon that certain real property or any part thereof, situated in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, particularly described as follows: REAL PROPERTY, SITUATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COMPRJSED OF SIX (6) PARCELS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING A PORTION OF PARCEL A, AS SAID PARCEL A IS DESCRJBED IN THAT CERTAIN GRANT DEED RECORDED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2016-K334613 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE BEING ALL OF MARYLAND STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VA CATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRJBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (ON 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO BEING ALL OF LOUISIANA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016- K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE BEING A PORTION OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 200 l-G897578), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 200 l-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 406.42 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 3, AS SAID PARCEL 3 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A 127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 (Al27 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 18.79 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 125.39 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 63.85 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET; PARCEL FOUR BEING A PORTION OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MICHIGAN STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 rs DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001- 0897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 157.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 4, AS SAID PARCEL 4 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 2 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016- K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 9.01 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 11.12 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596); THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 6 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON SAID WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 143.4 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (ON 2001- 0897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-0897578), EASTERLY 18.62 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FIVE BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K3346 l 3), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID MICHIGAN STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY I, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-0897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (ON 2001-0897578), WESTERLY 18.62 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (2001-0897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (ON 2016- K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (ON 2016K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: I) NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 1.31 FEET, AND 2) NORTH 87°24’17” EAST 18.63 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (ON 2001-K334613) AND SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY I .12 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL SIX BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (ON 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID GEORGIA STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY I, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (ON 2001-0897578), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PARCEL 1 (2001- 0897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL I (ON 2001-0897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 33 FEET TO THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF HUMBOLDT STREET, EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 33 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCELS ONE THROUGH SIX BEING PORTIONS OF APN 4175-017. ATTACHED HERETO IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE INDEX MAP, AND BY THIS REFERENCE, MADE A PART HEREOF. And you are hereby notified that, unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, to wit: quiet title to the Property consistent with the legal description above, against all adverse claims of all claimants, known and unknown, as of the date the Complaint in this case was filed. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] The following persons are said to claim an interest in, or lien upon, said property adverse to Plaintiff: 1.

PG&E, 245 Market Street, NlOA, Room 1015, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, CA 94177 2.

City and County of San Francisco, Office of the City Attorney, Room 234 City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102 3.

Trans Bay Cable LLC, One Letterman Drive, C5-100, San Francisco, CA 94129 4.

San Francisco Port Authority, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111 5.

California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region, 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94612 6.

NRG Potrero LLC, c/o GenOn, 1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 2000, Houston TX 77056

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May 30-June 5, 2019 • Bay Area Reporter • 13

LGBT Kenyans dealt double blow

by Heather Cassell

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ast week was a harsh week for LGBT Kenyans.

Kenya’s high court upheld colonialera anti-sodomy laws and the community lost Binyavanga Wainaina, a beloved, award-winning writer and gay activist.

“It’s a dark day not just for Kenya, but also for Africa,” Andrew Maina, program coordinator at HIVOS, told Reuters.

He hoped Kenya would set a precedent and be a beacon of hope for other African countries that have similar anti-sodomy laws.

The court ruling came a few days after Wainaina’s death on May 21.

NPR reported that Wainaina, who came out as being HIV-positive in 2016, died of an illness. Reports are unclear if it was an illness due to HIV. He was 48.

Wainaina came out as gay in 2014 in a lost chapter of his memoir, “I Am a Homosexual, Mum.” He published the essay largely due to Kenya’s criminalization of LGBT people.

Courtesy AP Photo/Ben Curtis

An activist wearing a rainbow flag in support of the LGBT community walks past a gathering of Christians opposed to the decriminalization of homosexuality, after a May 24 ruling by the high court in Nairobi, Kenya.

“I felt this is one of the most successfully, put-together and honest pieces I’ve ever written,” he told NPR at the time.

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Presiding Judge Roselyn Aburili declared that Kenya’s anti-sodomy laws didn’t violate the country’s constitution, arguing that there was “no conclusive scientific proof that LGBTQ people are born that way.”

In a statement, she said that decriminalizing homosexuality would “open the door for same-sex unions,” an argument that has been made mostly by Christian and Muslim opponents of LGBT rights.

The ruling came the same day an estimated 300 Taiwanese same-sex couples tied the knot in a mass wedding celebrating the country becoming the first Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Eric Gitari, a gay activist and former president of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission who challenged Kenya’s anti-sodomy laws petitioning the courts three years ago, called the ruling “very biased” and vowed to appeal the decision.

In 2016, Gitari filed a case against Kenya’s anti-sodomy laws, arguing

that they violated the country’s 2010 constitution guaranteeing equality, dignity, and privacy for all citizens.

Around the same time, two other organizations, the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya and the Nyanza, Rift Valley and Western Kenya Network, and individual petitioners filed a case citing similar issues.

The cases were consolidated by the high court and referred to a three-judge panel.

LGBT and human rights advocates were hopeful Kenya would strike down the law like India did in September 2018, but it didn’t happen.

Under Kenya’s laws, LGBT people, mostly gay men, face 14 years in jail if convicted under penal code articles 162 and 165.

The laws are rarely enforced, according to Human Rights Watch senior LGBT researcher Neela Ghoshal.

There have only been two prosecutions against four people under article 162 within the past 10 years, she noted in

a statement from the organization responding to the court’s May 24 ruling.

The laws’ existence allow for an environment of homophobia and persecution, she said.

The Kenyan government reported 534 people were arrested for same-sex relationships between 2013 and 2017.

Kenya’s NGLHRC, one of the petitioners in the case, recorded more than 1,500 attacks against LGBT people since 2014, reported Devdiscourse.

Homophobia in widespread in Kenya.

Last year, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that LGBT rights were not of “major importance” to Kenyans.

“This is not acceptable, this is not agreeable,” he said. “It is not human rights issue as you want to put it, this is an issue of society; our own culture as a people irregardless of which community you come from.” t Longer version online at ebar.com

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiff, v.

All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, Defendants.

Case No. CGC-19-574377 SUMMONS ON FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT [CCP § 751.05] The people of the State of California, to All Persons Claiming Any Interest in, or Lien Upon, the Real Property Herein Described or, Any Part thereof, defendants, greeting (See Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] attached.): You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint of CALIFORNIA BARREL COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, plaintiff, filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court and county, within three months after the first publication of this summons, and to set forth what interest or lien, if any, you have in or upon that certain real property or any part thereof, situated in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, particularly described as follows: REAL PROPERTY, SITUATE IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COMPRISED OF SIX (6) PARCELS, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING A PORTION OF PARCEL A, AS SAID PARCEL A IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN GRANT DEED RECORDED SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2016-K334613 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE BEING ALL OF MARYLAND STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF MARYLAND STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO BEING ALL OF LOUISIANA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, SOUTHERLY 279 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID EASTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF LOUISIANA STREET, NORTHERLY 279 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE BEING A PORTION OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT IN THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 406.42 FEET TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 3, AS SAID PARCEL 3 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 3 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 18.79 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 125.39 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 63.85 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 271.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FOUR BEING A PORTION OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID MICHIGAN STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 157.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 4, AS SAID PARCEL 4 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT QUIETING TITLE RECORDED MAY 26, 1960 IN BOOK A127 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 596, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 2 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°10’16” WEST 9.01 FEET, AND 2) SOUTH 86°49’44” WEST 11.12 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596); THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 4 (A127 OR 596), NORTHWESTERLY 6 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A POINT ON SAID WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 143.4 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613) WITH THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID SOUTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), EASTERLY 18.62 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL FIVE BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, AS SAID MICHIGAN STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 2, AS SAID PARCEL 2 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 2 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 18.62 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID NORTHERN LINE OF PARCEL 2 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), THE FOLLOWING TWO (2) COURSES: 1) NORTH 03°41’19” WEST 1.31 FEET, AND 2) NORTH 87°24’17” EAST 18.63 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID WESTERN LINE OF PARCEL A (DN 2001-K334613) AND SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF MICHIGAN STREET, SOUTHERLY 1.12 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL SIX BEING A PORTION OF HUMBOLDT STREET, AS SAID STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, LYING WITHIN SAID PARCEL A (DN 2016-K334613), MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET (33 FEET WIDE) WITH THE EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, AS SAID GEORGIA STREET EXISTED PRIOR TO THE VACATION THEREOF, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF PARCEL 1, AS SAID PARCEL 1 IS DESCRIBED IN THAT CERTAIN JUDGMENT RECORDED FEBRUARY 1, 2001, AS DOCUMENT NUMBER 2001-G897578 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, IN SAID OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO; THENCE, FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING, ALONG THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578), WESTERLY 80 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION OF SAID PARCEL 1 (2001-G897578) AND THE WESTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF SAID PARCEL 1 (DN 2001-G897578); THENCE, ALONG SAID WESTERN LINE GEORGIA STREET, NORTHERLY 33 FEET TO THE NORTHERN LINE OF SAID HUMBOLDT STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID NORTHERN LINE OF HUMBOLDT STREET, EASTERLY 80 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID GEORGIA STREET; THENCE, ALONG SAID EASTERN LINE OF GEORGIA STREET, SOUTHERLY 33 FEET TO SAID POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCELS ONE THROUGH SIX BEING PORTIONS OF APN 4175-017. ATTACHED HERETO IS AN ILLUSTRATIVE INDEX MAP, AND BY THIS REFERENCE, MADE A PART HEREOF. And you are hereby notified that, unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, to wit: quiet title to the Property consistent with the legal description above, against all adverse claims of all claimants, known and unknown, as of the date the Complaint in this case was filed.

Witness my hand and the seal of said court, DATE: APR 15 2019 Clerk, By JUDITH C. NUNEZ, DEPUTY [SEAL], CLERK OF THE COURT Memorandum Disclosing Adverse Interest [CCP § 751.07] The following persons are said to claim an interest in, or lien upon, said property adverse to Plaintiff: 1. PG&E, 245 Market Street, N10A, Room 1015, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, CA 94177; 2. City and County of San Francisco, Office of the City Attorney, Room 234, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102, 3. Trans Bay Cable LLC, One Letterman Drive, C5-100, San Francisco, CA 94129; 4. San Francisco Port Authority, Pier 1, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94111; 5. California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region, 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94612; 6. NRG Potrero LLC, c/o GenOn, 1360 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 2000, Houston TX 77056 SUMMONS_revised041619.indd 1

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Legal Notices>> FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038634400

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038638200

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038615000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARI HAIR, 1538 PACIFIC AVE #113, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARICRUZ ZAMORA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TIMOTHY MOUSE HOUSE, 601 DIAMOND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAREN MARGARET BURYN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038635600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VELOCETI, 746 11TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT JON MOON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038603200

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038612200

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038639000

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038634800

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038624100

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038559900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PAYO’S KITCHEN, 548 MARKET ST #15585, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94104. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FARIMA SAFDARI. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/16/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OASIS LAW GROUP, 100 PINE ST #1250, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94111. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHELSEA M. WANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/03/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BULGARA, 279 COLUMBUS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed BULGARA GROUP LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PINPOINT LOCAL, 2443 FILLMORE ST #380-6582, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TOUCH A STAR, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/10/19.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OXBRIDGE, 2115 VAN NESS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed POLYAK PRECIOUS METALS, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/19.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOBS ON BAKER STREET, 601 BAKER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, and is signed BOB’S LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/19.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: A GENTLE REST, 3450 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business was conducted by a limited liability partnership and signed by A GENTLE REST VETERINARY CORPORATION PC (CA).

The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/14/19.

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Legal Notices>> SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 400 MCALLISTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: MARY LOUISE CABALLERO, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PETITIONER: JOSE DAVID ESQUIVIAS CASE NO. FDI-19-791213

Notice!

You have been sued. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call, or court appearance will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTICE – RESTRAINING ORDERS FOLLOW BELOW: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. They are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court for the State of California, County of San Francisco, 400 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA 94102. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney is: JOSE DAVID ESQUIVIAS, 1450 THOMAS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124 (415) 724-6448, Date: FEB 22, 2019 Clerk of The Court, Dennis Toyama, Deputy.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS: Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in the manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasicommunity property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

WARNING – IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e. joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption.

You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554812 In the matter of the application of: TRUNG HIEN LE, 1356 THOMAS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner TRUNG HIEN LE, is requesting that the name TRUNG HIEN LE, be changed to HIEN TRUNG LE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 20th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038630700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BALL BUSINESS CONSULTING, 124 KIRKWOOD AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DONTAYE BALL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/29/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038633200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLYNN PTA, 3125 CESAR CHAVEZ ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS LEONARD FLYNN ELEMENTARY PTA (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/19.

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038637000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A GENTLE REST, 3019 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed A GENTLE REST VETERINARY CORPORATION PC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF DAVID LORENZ IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302783

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of DAVID LORENZ. A Petition for Probate has been filed by LENKA LORENZ in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that LENKA LORENZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 05, 2019, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MILLA L. LVOVICH 225589, LVOVICH & SZUCSKO, P.C., 50 OSGOOD PL #500, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133; Ph. (415) 392-2560.

MAY 16, 23, 30, 2019 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF FORTUNATA L. OLIVA IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-19-302835

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of FORTUNATA L. OLIVA. A Petition for Probate has been filed by VIRGINIA OLIVA THOMPSON in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that VIRGINIA OLIVA THOMPSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: June 03, 2019, 9:00 am, Rm. 204, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: STEPHEN J. BROOKS 122764, 2001 UNION ST #300, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123; Ph. (415) 434-3323.

MAY 16, 23, 30, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554835 In the matter of the application of: CAMILA SUSANA FABERSUNNE, 1419 PALOU AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CAMILA SUSANA CRIBB FABERSUNNE, is requesting that the name CAMILA SUSANA CRIBB FABERSUNNE, be changed to CAMILA SUSANA CRIBB FABERSUNNE. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 25th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038632500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CORONA HEIGHTS MARKET & DELI, 4400 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROSSETE SABA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038634300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PERFECT SHAPES MAID SERVICE; PERFECTLY TOUCHED CLEANING SERVICE, 1706 OAKDALE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ELISHA WOOTEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038633700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 148 PRINT, 1275 FAIRFAX AVE #203B, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RICARDO S. CRUZ JR. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/30/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/19.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038640400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NKG CREATIVE INSIGHTS, 274A 29TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed NATALIE GUNN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/06/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038646200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IZAKAYA MAYUMI, 2221 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed IZAKAYA MAYUMI, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/08/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/08/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038625300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POPPY’S PETALWORKS, 2860 LAGUNA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed POPPY’S PETALWORKS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/04/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/23/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038638100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CANNABIS COMPANY; CANNABIS COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO; ENTOURAGE EFFECT, 2130 OAKDALE AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TOP HORTICULTURAL CONCEPT (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038618000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONEY EXPRESS CENTER, 4601 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed ROBERT AVELLAN & YADIRA D. ESCOBER PACHECO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/11/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038637200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VELA CAPITAL GROUP, 43 ELLERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CRV VENTURES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/19.

MAY 16, 23, 30 JUNE 06, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038357700

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: REGENT THAI RESTAURANT, 1700 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by REGENT THAI INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/18.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038366700

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: POPPY’S PETALWORKS, 2860 LAGUNA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LAURA H. AUYEUNG. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/18.

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) SUPERIOR COURT STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, UNLIMITED CIVIL JURISDICTION NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: STEVEN KARIKER AKA STEVEN D. KARIKER; AND DOES 1 THROUGH 50, INCLUSIVE, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, A CORPORATION. CASE NO. CGC-18-569648

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, UNLIMITED CIVIL JURISDICTION, 400 MCALLISTER ST, ROOM 103, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102; The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: ROBERT L. POLLAK #083950, GLASSBERG, POLLAK & ASSOCIATES, 1000 4TH ST, #570, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901-3118 415-291-8320 CLERK OFF THE COURT, DE LA VEGA-NAVARRO, ROSSELY NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554850

MAY 09, 16, 23, 30, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-038079600

MAY 16, 23, 30, JUNE 06, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038625900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SULLIVAN & SONS, 1067 TENNESSEE ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ALISON R, SULLIVAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/23/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/23/19.

In the matter of the application of: KATE AMELIA REBER, 357 ALLISON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KATE AMELIA REBER, is requesting that the name KATE AMELIA REBER, be changed to KIT REBALSKY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 27th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: 3201 OCTAVIA ST APTS, 3201 OCTAVIA ST #102, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by INTER-COUNTIES REALTY CO INC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/03/18.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554847

In the matter of the application of: ALISON ROSS, 525 BAKER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ALISON ROSS, is requesting that the name ALISON ROSS, be changed to ALISON SASHA DE VRIES. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 9th of July 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554842 In the matter of the application of: NINA RAMOS HARRISON, 334 NOE ST, #2, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner NINA RAMOS HARRISON, is requesting that the name NINA RAMOS HARRISON, be changed to NINA RAMOS COSTA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 25th of June 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038651300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as:ASPIRE HEALTH CARE & NURSING EDUCATORS PRIVATE TRAINING INSTITUTE, 511 HEAD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94132.This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JENNIFER SHIA.The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/10/18.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038650500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APJ CONSULTING, 2503 POST ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed TIMOTHY EDWIN JOHNSON. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/13/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038652600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SALON 828, 2004 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed RHODA LEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/14/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038643800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARENA SF, 2565 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed QUALIA ENTERTAINMENT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/29/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/07/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038656300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CALIFORNIA AUTO GLASS, 1880 EVANS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SARAT FAMILY ENTERPRISES GROUP (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/15/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038656400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARCHE ENTERPRISE, 201 WEBSTER ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed ARCHE ENTERPRISE (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/08/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/15/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038657200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SULTANS KEBAB, 3915 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed B&F RESTAURANT INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/16/19.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036340100

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: COUPLES THERAPY COLLECTIVE, 3237 SACRAMENTO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a general partnership and signed by VANESSA WATT & DOROTHY JANE WALTER. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/15.

MAY 23, 30, JUNE 06, 13, 2019 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-19-554871 In the matter of the application of: ROY FRANCIS JADRYEV, 448 DOUGLASS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ROY FRANCIS JADRYEV, is requesting that the name ROY FRANCIS JADRYEV AKA ROY F. JADRYEV AKA ROLAND PETER JADRYEV, be changed to ROLAND FRANCIS PETER JADRYEV. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 11th of July 2019 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038668300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KIND EARTH PRODUCTIONS, 139 CORBETT AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER C. JONES. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038664900

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038660800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION K, 77 BLUXOME ST, UNIT 112, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KHANH MONG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/20/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/20/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038664700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUZZAH STUDIO, 778 30TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SARAH JUTRAS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/22/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038663100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PIXTRANSFER, 33 ELLERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed ROBERT ADLER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/21/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038662300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUCKY CAB, 1407 IRVING ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUCKY TAM, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/15/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038658800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: INNER SUNSET PUBLISHING; KRONOS ARTS PUBLISHING; KRONOS QUARTET, 1242 9TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KRONOS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 07/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038661100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THANH PHAN; TONY PHAN, 1343 21ST AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed LUNA PIENA INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/09/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/20/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038663200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION CURRY HOUSE, 2434 MISSION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed O&R RESTAURANT GROUP INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038663400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF TOWN BUILDERS, 3450 SACRAMENTO ST #157, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SF TOWN BUILDERS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/21/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/21/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038659500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YUKOL PLACE, 2380 LOMBARD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MCGEM LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/17/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038655800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: VOSS GALLERY, 3344 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed VOSS GALLERY LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/15/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038667700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE AVENUES SPA, 3929 CALIFORNIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TAS LIMITED LIABILTY COMPANY (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038667900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOLY GELATO, 1392 9TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company and is signed HK KINGSMAN (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038668000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARAJUKU SUSHI AT 1920 BAR, 1812 CLEMENT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed HK KINGSMAN (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/24/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/24/19.

MAY 30, JUNE 06, 13, 20, 2019 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-036970600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAZ AUTO GLASS, 1880 EVANS AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DARIO SARAT-GUZMAN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/22/19. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/22/19.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: RPM (RICHMOND PLAZA METASPACE), 275 6TH AVE #109, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by LAUREL LYNN CONNELL. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/03/16.

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Vol. 49 • No. 22 • May 30-June 5, 2019

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. /Artists Rights Society(ARS), NY

www.ebar.com/arts

Extraordinary gay artist: Andy Warhol for our times

by Sura Wood

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ary Garrels was raised on a farm in rural Iowa, a long way from SFMOMA, where he has been the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture since 2008. The latest show to bear his elegant, scholarly imprint is “Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again,” a wide-ranging retrospective of 40 years of prodigious output from the influential gay artist, originally organized by the Whitney Museum.

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Andy Warhol, “Self Portrait (in drag)” (1980-82), Polaroid.

School mastery

by Paul Parish

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San Francisco Ballet School students dance in Maya Wheeler’s “Ne me quitte pas.”

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Lindsay Thomas

he whole thrust of the San Francisco Ballet School’s graduation recital (three shows last week; I saw Thursday night’s) was to display the competitive edge the school gives its graduates. They looked technically outstanding, both in classical and “contemporary” work, and their mastery made them proud and eager to present themselves.

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<< Out There

16 • Bay Area Reporter • May 30-June 5, 2019

Whatcha reading?

by Roberto Friedman

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ut There has access to review copies and early galleys of published works, so when we’re not at work, or attending theatre, musical events, film screenings or art openings five nights a week, or at a press conference on one of our “days off,” we’re often found with our nose in a book. Which ones?

The following.

“Life of David Hockney,” a novel by Catherine Cusset, translated

by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Other Press), is a biography in the form of fictional narrative, an intriguing hybrid form that seems appropriate to its subject, the prolific, long-lived artistic talent most associated with beautiful young men and swimming pools.

“The Cook,” a novel by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Sam Taylor (FSG), is the minimalist telling of the making of a modern chef. Early chapters describe Mauro’s cooking talents as a boy, and his apprenticeship and employment in first restaurants. Like

many ambitious chefs, he works up to owning and running his own restaurant. Like many others, he suffers a nervous breakdown and collapse, then makes a comeback. All of this is related in simple prose over the course of exactly 100 pages. Points for compression!

“Mr. Know-It-All, The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder,”

by John Waters (FSG). Unstoppable wit.

“And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?” a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler (FSG, Aug.).

“The Book of Flora” by Meg Elison (47North), our B.A.R. colleague.

“The Journalist of Castro Street – The Life of Randy Shilts” by Andrew E. Stoner (U. of Illinois Press, June).

“Forty-five Thought Crimes,” new writing by Lynn Breedlove (Manic D Press).

“Alfred Stieglitz – Taking Pictures, Making Painters” by Phyllis Rose, part of “Jewish Lives” biography series (Yale U. Press).

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of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation” by Perry N. Halkitis (Oxford U. Press, June).

“Pride – Fifty Years of Parades and Protests from the Photo Archives of The New York Times,” introduction by Adam Nagourney (Abrams).

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“Rabbits for Food” by Binnie Kirschenbaum (Soho Press). Hilarity.

“Bosom Friends – The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King” by Thomas J. Balcerski (Oxford U. Press, Sept.).

“The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1808) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the

years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a 19th-century version of the modern ‘bromance?’” Gay. “JR: The Chronicles of San Francisco” with a foreword by Neal Benezra (Chronicle Books).

“The Dominance Playbook – Ways To Play with Power in Scenes and Relationships” by Anton Fulmen (Greenery Press).

“Out in Time – The Public Lives

The review of “All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson” in the May 21 edition of the B.A.R. misidentified the author Mark Griffin as “Mark Miller” throughout the review.

It’s possible that the confusion stemmed from the fact that Hudson’s close friend and secretary of many years was named Mark Miller.

In the review, “Undertow” is mentioned as the feature in which Hudson made his film debut. As the book details, it was actually “Fighter Squadron” (Warner Bros., 1948).

“Undertow,” released the following year, was the first movie that Hudson made as a contract player for Universal, though he was billed as “Roc” Hudson in the credits. We regret the errors, which have been corrected in the online version.t

Frameline 43 previews

by David Lamble

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efore you know it, LGBT Pride will be upon us in the form of the 43rd Frameline film festival, June 20-30. Here’s a preview of some highlights from this legendary queer film showcase.

“Vita & Virginia” Director Chanya Button gets star turns by Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf and

Gemma Arterton as Vita SackvilleWest, combining to bring to life one of the great lesbian love affairs of the 20th century.

“Gay Chorus Deep South” Director David Charles Rodrigues tells the story of a Southern tour by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, set against the reemergence of antiLGBTQ laws and hate crimes.

“Sid & Judy” Director Stephen

Barnett’s doc examines the fight of Kijak’s world premiere bio-doc nal songs by Cyndi Lauper, starring trans athletes to compete. commemorates a half-century since West End sensations Killian Don“Clementine” Lara Jean Gallathe death of the tragically shortnelly as shoemaker scion Charlie gher’s lesbian love melodrama finds and Matt Henry as Lola, the feisty lived entertainer Judy Garland, a blonde and brunette doing each drag queen who tries to save the facwhose perseverance and charisma other’s hair in the rural lakeside tory with her fetish creations. have made her a gay icon for gencabin of an ex-lover.

“Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts” erations.

“History Lessons” Mexican diDirector Nick Zeig-Owens offers a “Before You Know It” Direcrector Marcelino Islas Hernandez behind-the-scenes exposé of “Rutor Hannah Pearl Utt introduces provides female teacher/pupil firePaul’s Drag Race” star and country the eccentric Gurner family home, works in this love tryst, in Spanish music songstress Trixie Mattel, a perched atop their business, a comwith English subtitles. glimpse into the backstage drama of munity theater in downtown Man“Straight Up” James Sweeney a drag superstar. hattan. Type A lesbian Rachel’s dupresents the story of a relationship “You Don’t Nomi” Jeffrey ties as manager of their professional between a (possibly closeted) man, McHale spotlights local icon and private lives have prevented her Todd, and a straight-identified Peaches Christ in an enlightening from having her own life. woman, Rory. reassessment of the once-celebrated “Temblores (Tremors)” Jayro “Stray Dolls” Director Sonejuhi Hollywood disaster that has risen Bustamante focuses on sophistiSinha tracks the adventures of Riz again, Paul Verhoeven’s “Showgirls.” cated Pablo as he discloses he’s leav(Geetanjali Thapa), a young InIs it a misunderstood masterwork, ing his wife and kids to live with his dian immigrant whose life in a lowmisogynist trash, unintentional male lover. Set in an evangelical slice down motel is enlivened by teaming camp, or all three? of Guatemala. up with Dallas (Olivia DeJonge), a “Kattumaram” Director Swarna“A Luv Tale: The Series” DirecDolly Parton-quoting Texan. vel Eswaran takes us to a small tsutor Kim Oyegun’s episodic (with “This Close: Season 2” Directors nami-ravaged Indian village where writer Sidra Smith) provides a Stephen Cone & Jordan Firstman a fisherman cares for his orphaned modern remake of the classic 90s explore the world of deaf queer schoolteacher niece, Anandhi, who film “Love Jones.” The Harlem-set people. The first three episodes of refuses to be married off. When story follows four beautiful queer the Sundance Channel series’ 2nd her friendship with a fellow female women of color as they navigate season.t teacher blossoms, people begin to their friendships, love lives, and suspect why. artistic careers.

“Changing the Game” Michael “Bit” Director Brad Michael Elwww.frameline.org more’s American premiere is a summer vacation in LA that quickly turns into a fight to survive for Laurel (Nicole Maines), a transgender teenage girl who falls in with a quartet of queer feminist vampires. Unsure if they want to kill her, eat her, or recruit her, Laurel tags along with the bloodsucking clique as they rid the streets of predatory men.

“End of the Century” Director Lucio Castro’s sexy, funny, moving feature debut. Set in picturesque Barcelona, the film explores the relationship between lovers Ocho and Javi over many decades and different realities.

“Kinky Boots: The Musical” Directors Jerry Mitchell & Brett Sullivan present the world premiere screening of the Tony and Olivier IMDB Award-winning musical, in a HD-cinema, live-captured Filming Gemma Arterton as Vita Sackville-West, and Elizabeth Debicki as performance from London’s Virginia Woolf, in director Chanya Button’s “Vita & Virginia.”

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The demon butcher of Wall Street

by Jim Gladstone

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here’s an all-too-familiar glimmer of today’s San Francisco in “American Psycho,” the musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ black comic 1991 novel about a white-collar murderer, now making its West Coast debut in a sleek, chilly Ray of Light Theatre production.

On the evening of his 27th birthday, Patrick Bateman (Kipp Glass), the show’s titular investment banker, encounters a homeless man begging on a New York City sidewalk. Rather than expressing empathy, sharing a bit of his own good fortune or even just ignoring the man, Patrick addresses him in condescending tones, asking why someone who works hard for his money should give it away to someone who doesn’t work at all. Then he kills him.

If you’ve walked along Market Street recently, you’re familiar with a less extreme, but still extremely disturbing version of this vibe. You’ve felt the blithe disdain that emanates from certain members of our city’s young business elite when faced with the personal inconvenience that is other people’s homelessness.

“How dare such ugliness,” they seem to ask, “disrupt my pleasant life?”

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While the writ“American Psycho”’s soers’ choice to adapt ciocultural themes, which “American Psycho” as are actually more focused a musical (and frankly, on the micro-strata of Ray of Light’s choice upper-class status than to produce it) seem illthe gap between haves and advised, director Jason have-nots, have proven to Hoover and his creative have a longer shelf-life than team have taken a stunone might have hoped, ning run at the chalthus protecting the musilenge. Scenic designer cal’s milieu from feeling Angrette McCloskey, outdated. The book and lighting designer Weili musical’s multiple referShi and video designer ences to Donald Trump Erik Scanlon have colsuggest an eerie prescience, laborated on a stark, not a period piece. But white-walled set that, the original novel’s voice while providing utilitarand structure, too loyally ian flexibility, also sugadapted by Roberto Agugests the vast spiritual irre-Sacassa (book) and emptiness of Patrick Duncan Sheik (music and Bateman’s mind, and lyrics), are not a natural fit perhaps the padded cells for musical theater. of a mental institution.

Ellis’ novel is a streamProjected colors, images of-consciousness piped diand animations transrectly from Patrick’s brain Courtesy Ray of Light form the set throughout in a flat, monotonous tone.

Kipp Glass as yuppie killer Patrick Bateman in Ray of Light Theatre’s the show, though there’s It conveys the emotional production of “American Psycho.” intentional ambigudeadness of a character ity about whether what hypnotically entranced by we’re seeing at any time modern capitalism, with its dismissal of human connection.

Psycho” is not so much a story as a reflects a physical environment or a endless refrain of prestigious brand One can easily imagine the book state of mind. It doesn’t move and psychological one. names, toxic misogyny, reverence inspiring an installation or a brief sing like a musical. It hums in place Choreographer Leslie Waggoner of financial accumulation and arch piece of performance art. “American like a steel Frigidaire. has developed a slightly robotic physical vocabulary for ensemble dance numbers that calls to mind era-appropriate music videos, particularly Janet Jackson’s clips. It’s a fine complement to the clipped, staccato dialogue that characterizes most of the show’s ensemble scenes (cocktail parties, gym workouts, conference-room meetings). But a little “Rhythm Nation” goes a long way, and scenes begin to feel repetitious. The cast moves; the narrative is static.

While the choreography, Katie Dowse’s costumes, and a terrific pencil-drawn animated tribute to A-ha creatively evoke the 1980s, Sheik’s score only comes to life when he literally borrows that era’s hits, interpolating brief segments of Phil Collins, Tears for Fears, Huey Lewis and Human League tunes. The brief presence of these earworms emphasizes the overall flatness of the show’s electronic soundscape.

The entire Ray of Light cast nails the show’s deadpan tones and purposefully clichéd dialogue, functioning as an organic whole as much as etching individual, threedimensional characters. In addition to Glass, who shoulders the selfabsorbed burden of Bateman without ever tipping into parody, Kirstin Louie, as a snippy off-and-on love interest, and Kyle Ewalt, playing a preening business rival (and murder victim) of Patrick’s, stand out from the deadening crowd. Zoey Lytle, as a naïve ingénue inexplicably enamored of Patrick, brings a rich, limpid singing voice to her solo ballad “A Girl Before.”

Ultimately, though, talented cast and memorable staging aside, there’s no getting away from this show’s source material. Whether you love it or loathe it, “American Psycho,” like the digital crimson projected on the white walls of this production’s set, is fundamentally bloodless. The original book was an attempt at social satire, using soulless serial killing not for suspense or drama, but as an intellectual trope.

Among the aspects of our society that “American Psycho” decried was the power of popular brand names.

Ironically, over time, it’s become one. They’ve even made a musical of it! If you buy a ticket and boast you saw it, you can consider yourself Patrick Bateman’s latest victim.t American Psycho, through June 8 at the Victoria Theater, 2961 16th St., SF. Tickets ($15-$40): www.rayoflighttheatre.com.

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Un-convent-ional casting

by Jim Gladstone

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ake like a wise man and follow the beckoning star. You’ll end up not in Bethlehem, but at the Gateway Theater, where Branden Noel Thomas is beaming brilliantly as Deloris Van Cartier, singing nun, in Theatre Rhinoceros’ rib-tickling, enthusiasm-fueled production of “Sister Act: The Musical.” Move fast, though, because this is one lamentably short-lived supernova. Due to scheduling snafus, the theater was available for only a brief engagement, which ends on Saturday, June 1.

With his huge physical presence and a vocal range to match, Thomas takes complete command of a role that requires enough charisma to raise “Sister Act” above its stolid, surprise-free script. He’s Whoopi, cushioned. In addition to occasionally evoking the sly sideeye of the original movie Deloris, Thomas summons fond, gospeltoned memories of the late Mabel King in “The Wiz” and Jennifer Holliday in “Dreamgirls.”

The silly story follows minorleague R&B diva Van Cartier as the police shunt her into a nunnery after she witnesses a gangland murder. The baddies encroach. Deloris teaches the musically sheepish sisters to make a joyful noise. And a cop called Sweaty Eddie is sweet on the undercover nun.

As Eddie, Jarrett Holley brings a silky seductiveness to the Luther Vandrossian “I Could Be That Guy,” the highlight of composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glen Slater’s hokey but amusing pastiche score.

There’s a dancing-nuns number called “Sunday Morning Fever.”

Abigail Campbell, playing cleanscrubbed novitiate Sister Mary Robert, is also a standout, bringing amazing grace to a cornball epiphany ballad, “The Life I Never Led.” Still, even when Branden Thomas has lesser tunes to work with, no one can hold a votive candle to his performance. He brings a spicy fervor to even the most communionwafer-flavorless songs.

Whether undulating sensuously beneath costume designer David Draper’s glittery cocktail frocks or adding his own roof-raising vocal bedazzling to the basic black habits Deloris wears in the convent, Thomas radiates sexy selfconfidence. Smartly directed and choreographed by AeJay Mitchell, Thomas never plays Deloris as a drag queen or a joke. He makes her feel like a natural woman. Meanwhile, Curtis, the mob kingpin in pursuit of Deloris, is played by Crystal Liu, who sings in a sonorous, perfectly sustained tenor.

Where the Rhino’s last musical production, “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (also choreographed

by Mitchell) was a campy fiesta of overt genderbending. “Sister Act” offers an all-out gender shrug. It asks us to take its characters for who they are, regardless of the actors’ anatomy.

If Liu and Thomas play at one end of the shrug-spectrum, the other is occupied by the unabashedly masculine Paul Loper as Sister Mary Theresa, and Kim K. Larsen, deliciously irritable as the Mother Superior. There’s a little tittering in the auditorium when the characters are first introduced, but as this pair gets swept into the choral storm stirred up by the other nuns, their visible maleness is ignored both on stage and off as the audience quickly accepts them in the roles they’ve chosen to play.

There’s a bit of unevenness in the singing and dancing skills of the ensemble, but it’s more than compensated for by a collective, infectious, live-wire energy. Dance captain JC Quimpo moves like electric

current personified in his “Lady in the Long Black Dress” routine. The entire cast is clearly having a ball, and the feeling of fun radiates throughout the theater.

Corny but chuckleinducing, “Sister Act” is a dad joke of a musical. With Catholicism’s Holy Father as its lightly spanked butt, this particular dad joke feels especially appropriate in Theatre Rhinoceros’ non-t radit ionally-cast production.

Preaching a far more enlightened perspective on gender than the Church does, the Rhino’s twinkle-eyed “Sister Act” not only provides a star-powered evening’s entertainment, it serves up cheerful, benevolent revenge. Catch it this week, or pray for a second coming.t

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Branden Noel Thomas as Deloris Van Cartier in the Theatre Rhinoceros production of “Sister Act: The Musical,” directed and choreographed by AeJay Mitchell at the Gateway Theater.

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t’s hard to imagine the reader of Damian Barr’s debut novel “You Will Be Safe Here” (Bloomsbury Publishing) who doesn’t sense that the title portends the opposite, even without the barbed wire strung over the words on the book’s dust cover.

Acclaimed for his 2014 coming-out memoir “Maggie and Me,” Barr was writing his novel during the time Gerard Conley was writing his memoir, “Boy Erased.” The books are eerily twinned narratives of the horrors of the hideously named “exgay therapy.”

Conley’s is set in the American South and first-person narrated with a realism so gritty the book has become the canonical text of an ever-growing political movement to extinguish conversion therapy.

Barr sets “You Will Be Safe Here” in South Africa, which he visited for research, only its short first and shattering final sections set in the second decade of our century.

Between them is a chronicle of the previous century’s Second Boer War, largely expunged from both British and South African history, when the British dispatched a quarter-million soldiers to seize the land of the native farmers (Boers) in two South African states. Barr appends “A Historical Note” to his novel, but his chillingly succinct dedication says all you need to know but didn’t.

“Dedicated to all the women, children and men who died in British concentration camps and to all lost during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902,” he writes. “More civilians died in the camps than soldiers on the battlefield.”

Sentence by sentence, Barr’s writing knocks the wind out of you without once stopping to take a bow. Phrases like, “her face halfclean from weeping” and sentences such as, “He still dreams of a letter arriving telling him he’s really somebody else, a hero in another world” litter the pages, but they neither invite nor allow digression from the hurtling narrative.

The genius is in Barr’s architecture. When the reader meets his present-day protagonist, Willem, on the first page, the quiet, expectant horror of the barred gates of the New Dawn Ranch to which Willem has been dispatched, by his stepfather, “to make a man of him,” predict Willem’s grim future still hundreds of pages off.

Between those sections we have the diary of Sarah van der Watt, begun the first day of 1901. While her husband Samuel is who knows where, with a ragtag Boer army trying to prevent what’s about to happen to his family, she and her children are driven off their land by the “Khakis.” “They call it Scorched Earth,” she writes to her intended reader, Samuel; it’s a quintessential example of the way Barr reports history, by slipping in salient details.

They’re hauled off to Bloemfontein Camp, a sea of torn-tarp tents we soon realize is a prototype for Dachau near Durban. Deaths, from disease, starvation and gratuitous cruelty, are announced by the blowing of whistles, which relentlessly split the air. Sarah’s attention soon focuses on her sickly son Fred, who is taken away to the camp’s “house of death” hospital, where she unsuccessfully attempts a rescue with dire penalties for all.

Shortly after we reconnect with Willem a century later, he is on a school field trip to the deserted camp, whose residents are identified in desultory ways when they are identifiable at all. The kids are forced to re-enact the experience of their long-ago counterparts, and the card Willem is given is for Frederick van der Watt, gender male, age

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“You Will Be Safe Here” author Damian Barr.

on arrival at camp six years. The astonished reader knows what Willem does not, and a lengthy hospitalization from which Willem barely survives is foreshadowed.

In as wrenching a passage as the book contains, on the return from the field trip on a bumpy bus, Willem begs to be allowed outside to urinate but is denied and pees himself. It is at that point that the accusations of other students that he is “moffie,” gay, reach their peak, riotous clamor. Later, in the home of the sadistic New Dawn “General,” he pees himself again, with far more disastrous consequences for even more people.

After a failed attempt at escape, he and his tentmate, fellow moffie Charles, are imprisoned in the “Bird

Cage” (another echo from Bloemfontein), from whose violations only one survives.

That story emerges piecemeal in the accounts of witnesses and participants alike at Barr’s fictionalized account of a famous 2015 trial of an actual boy, Raymond Buys, a real-life Charles whose death from torture we hear in grisly fragments.

After each witness’ testimony, Barr inserts his single “writerly” touch: post-testimony incantations, variations on the bald shame of the first: “No, they didn’t know. No, they didn’t know. Know, they didn’t want to know.” As Sarah prophesied, “It’s hard to hide secrets out here with the bare soil and the bright skies and nothing but space stretching all around.”t

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The most compelling performer all night was a still-developing dancer, Zoe Zulich, who commanded the stage like a queen and drew your eye at all times. Without the technical chops of some of the stronger women, she nevertheless projected an idea, the Princess Isoline, so vividly, her light shone so bright, that whenever she was offstage you missed her, and when she came back she created the focal point. It may not be an accident that her mother, former SFB principal dancer Julia Adam, is a remarkable choreographer. Alone onstage, she seemed to hold and keep the sense of a whole ballet taking shape over time, and at different tempos. To be able to hold an idea and make it grow like that is rare these days, but it’s what marks the difference between a good dancer and a ballerina.

In the two years since SFB artistic director Helgi Tomasson appointed Patrick Armand as head of the School, the dancers have looked sharper and stronger year by year, especially the men. Now their classical strengths are largely equaled by their smooth control in contemporary ballet, which uses both the expressionist angularity of modern dance, and also the postmodern “release” technique that re-centers the body not in the pelvis but in crouches, handstands or bear-crawls, with movement swirling like water down a drain. It’s germane that a) Armand is a big honcho at the Prix de Lausanne, b) ballet competitions now require both a classical display-piece and a contemporary piece; the big prize-winners are those who excel at both, and c) the choreography for the kids going to competitions is getting gaudier and more vulgar with every passing year (e.g., a sixyear old girl dancing to “Save a cow!

Ride a Cowgirl!”)

Not that anything we saw was cheesy. Yet none of the choreography we saw was first-rate. All the dances were medium-good, but performed very well. Perhaps the best, because it had no pretensions at all, was the demonstration choreographed by the teacher Karen Gabay to show all the students from level 2 to the top, to the very danceable music from the Strauss family.

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fantastic brisees, a big guy, Gabriel Gudrun, who did grandes pirouettes, sailing around with his leg 90 degrees to the side inscribing sharp circles, the working foot pointed like a talon. Rock-solid, and he was enjoying it like a kid on a skateboard.

Gabay showed each in a manner that suited what they’d mastered, including the ability to bide their time, stay calm, wait their turn, possess themselves in patience. It was also lovely to see, in the pointework sections with dancers moving in mirror-image geometries, the natural faces of young women approaching their friends in the figures of the dance, as if this were a dance from “Pride and Prejudice” or “Soul Train.” The steps are hard, but the situation is social. It was also good to see many young people of color onstage. More would be better, but it looks like that might be the trend, especially among young men.

Balthazar Senat was impressive in Marc Brew’s “Quicksilver” solo.

A dance in the dark, moody and beautiful, abstract but dealing with painful separation of a young man from his former friends.

Advanced women danced Jiri Kylian’s “Falling Angels” with impressive control. It’s minimalist, to “Drumming” by Steve Reich.

Less rigorous but more appealing was Kylian’s “Sarabande,” in which Ruben Citores Nieto, Kobe Atwood Courtney, Johnathan Hart, Anicet Marandel-Broutin, Duc Hieu Nguyen, and Jasper T. Stafford all took the melting, flowing style to gorgeous lengths, to an electronic arrangement of Bach.

There were several nice short pieces by student choreographers, e.g., “Ne me quitte pas,” to the wellknown recording by Nina Simone, danced by Tyla Steinbach (entering SFB as an apprentice next year) with Guido Saranataro, to effective choreography by their fellow student Maya Wheeler, the school’s Bob Ross Scholar.

Helgi Tomasson’s “Ballet d’Isoline,” a big-cast neo-classical ballet in the Balanchine manner to infectious music by Messager, closed the evening brilliantly. The stage did not seem big enough for everybody. Zoe Lucich and her excellent partner Adrian Zeisel created the sense of generosity, large, clearminded spaciousness. We all went home happily dazzled.t

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he lively new documentary “Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation” kicks into high gear 13 minutes in when we hear from Peter Beren.

“When I was 20 years old, I faced my draft physical, putting down that I was a bedwetter, a homosexual, a Communist, color blind, nearly deaf in one ear, a heroin addict, a compulsive masturbator, with contagious warts, agoraphobic, acrophobic, myopic vision and ulcers.”

Beren recalls his draft-board shrink dismissing his complaints with the brusque advice to shape up in the next year in order to be morally and physically fit to fight in Nam. Beren and the half-million or so long-haired kids who found their way to rural Bethel, New York, in August, 1969, were acutely aware that the mud and rain on Max Yasgur’s farm were far preferable to the mud and napalm in a South Asian rainforest.

Veteran director Barak Goodman begins the film with the three-year Woodstock backstory. It’s the tale of how a curly-haired imp (Michael Lang) convinced a trio of trust-fund babies to bankroll the then-novel idea of luring a pack of dope-smoking kids into the woods to hear a new generation of rock bands: The Who, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, and the newly formed trio Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Following this “follow the money” first act, the filmmakers scoot through the mud and discover how people coped with alternating periods of baking sun and driving rain.

Woodstock has been likened to a huge, temporary city that magically sprang up on rolling pasture land normally devoted to dairy cows. The first rules suspended at Woodstock were American notions of private property. Once you were there, the traffic jam behind you meant you

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Garrels, who’s gay, is remarkably accessible, generous with his knowledge and free of art-world pretensions. To walk through a gallery and engage in conversation with him is to be treated to an enlightening, short course in art history. And he knows a thing or two about the subject of his current exhibition.

His connection to Warhol dates back to the late 1980s, when he was director of programs at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. There he organized an exhibition of Warhol’s “Skulls” paintings, which opened several months after the artist’s sudden death in 1987, its timing and body of work an eerie coincidence.

Two years later, Garrels was the prime mover behind “The Work of Andy Warhol,” a symposium with commissioned presentations that he edited into the 1989 book “The Work of Andy Warhol.” When he first arrived for an earlier stint at SFMOMA in the fall of 1993, he initiated negotiations to purchase “National Velvet” (1963), a monumental silkscreen painting of a fresh, young Elizabeth Taylor on horseback from the 1944 film. She’s so beautiful it makes your heart hurt.

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Scene from director Barak Goodman’s “Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation.”

were staying for the duration, making the next day’s tickets superfluous.

While the dope and music never ran out, after one day the food and drink did. It was then that a New Mexico food commune, nicknamed “the Hog Farmers,” stepped in.

Under the stoned-out bliss of their leader “Wavy Gravy” (aka Hugh Romney), they made sure that everyone had a basic vegetarian meal.

While an uptight NY Gov. Nelson Rockefeller threatened to send in soldiers – as had happened the year before in Chicago, and as would tragically transpire the next year at Kent State, cooler heads prevailed,

and the copters remained shuttles for musicians and food.

As a then-25-year-old college radio DJ, I paid for my tickets and arrived at Woodstock with my first sleeping bag, which I promptly mislaid in search of a concession-stand Coke. For the remainder of the weekend, I relied on the kindness of strangers. As the “Woodstock” film demonstrates, the same communal spirit served half-a-million kids, with only a single life lost.

What saved the day was an outpouring of aid from the residents of Bethel, NY. As one woman recalls, “We may have been hicks, but we

It has been said that when Warhol encountered a new man in the 1950s, his first question would be, “Can I draw your cock?” But despite such accounts, one of the raps on the artist has been that he was coy about his sexuality. “While never advertising his identity as a gay man, he never hid it,” says Garrels. “That identity informs a lot of his work through his entire career, from the whimsical, sexually explicit work of the 1950s, where he reveals himself most directly as gay, to the last works of 1986.”

“Although he casually acknowledged his own queerness, he was often presented (and presented himself) as asexual,” notes Stanford professor Richard Meyer, coauthor of “Art and Queer Culture,” a recently updated book whose release coincides with the 50th anniversary of Stonewall. This was part of his larger performance, a kind of mirror or camera that reflected or recorded others more than it expressed any authentic sense of himself. However, Meyer adds, “it is not possible to understand Warhol’s art and life apart from his homosexuality and participation in gay culture, from Fire Island pool parties to black and Latino drag queens.” Though his openly ho-

moerotic work of the 1950s largely disappears in the Pop 1960s, says Meyer, “he slips homoeroticism in the back door (as it were) through images of Elvis Presley as a gunslinger, Marlon Brando, and other icons of manliness.” Presley gallivants across the canvas in Warhol’s “Triple Elvis,” whose images are based on the dubious 1960 Western “Flaming Star.”

“He was about the farthest thing possible from a cowboy, but few people saw through the subtext, and they took it at face value,” remarks Garrels. “Warhol lived in a coded world in the 1960s, when homosexuality was illegal, bars were being raided, people were being arrested or blackmailed, and the desire for a male lover had to be kept under wraps.”

Back on the farm in Iowa, Garrels recalls, “No one ever discussed homosexuality. Growing up in the 50s, I sensed I was a bit of an outsider and didn’t quite fit in, though I couldn’t have said why. You watched what people did and how they interacted, trying to figure out how to make your way in the world. As a kid and an outsider, Warhol fell in love with the movies and, like a lot of young gay men, he was interested in films and fame and fashion and glamour. Those interests are deeply embedded in his work.”

As for the criticism that Warhol lacks depth and was obsessed with little other than seducing the eye with slick, appealing surfaces, Garrels disagrees.

“Most people know Warhol only through reproductions, but when you actually see the works themselves, they’re rich in visual layers, nuance and formal decisions that don’t reveal themselves instantaneously. If you slow down and stop

were sure not going to allow anything bad to happen to those kids.”

It’s no coincidence that some of the Woodstock kids had been at another seminal event, three months earlier: the week-long riot outside the Stonewall gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC. The two events bookended a summer of profound social and political change, change that is still producing enormous dividends.

If you enjoy this Woodstock doc as much as I did, you may want to check into the growing library of concert memorabilia, including the three-hour-plus concert film and record album, as well as gay author

Eliot Tiber’s 2009 memoir “Taking Woodstock” and Oscar-winning director Ang Lee’s wonderful movie adaptation (DVD from Focus Features, book from Squareone Publishers).

Opens Friday at Landmark’s Opera Plaza Cinemas in SF, Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley, Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, and 3Below Theaters and Lounge in San Jose. The film is widescreen, in color, runs 96 minutes, in English, and is not rated, although the sensitive should be aware of an abundance of nude celebrants, dope smoking, and rock stars conversing in four-letter words.t

Katherine Du Tiel, courtesy SFMOMA

SFMOMA Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Gary Garrels.

to take the time, there’s so much more that they give you.”

While a hectic, globetrotting schedule that includes scouting emerging talent and courting lenders has frequently brought Garrels into contact with the greats of contemporary art, his admiration for the multi-faceted Warhol has only grown. ”I am more convinced than ever of his importance as an artist,” he says. “He comes out of the gate in 1962 with the classic pop works everybody associates with him and captures the zeitgeist. He’s restlessly

inventive and so attuned to what’s going on in the culture that he gives you a reflection of the present tense.

Every image has an immediate punch and power to it. We’re now accustomed to living in a mediasaturated world, but Warhol was on to that when it was in its earliest stages. He was extraordinarily original, an artist in the best sense of the word.”t “Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again” runs through Sept.

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Thu 30 Gayface @ El Rio Queer weekly night out with DJed and live music, at the popular Mission bar.

10pm-2am. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Media Meltdown @ The Stud A Nicolas Cage vs Jeff Goldblum drag show. 9pm-2am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

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

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG KJ Dana hosts the weekly singing night; unleash your inner American Idol ; first Thursdays are Costume Karaoke; third is Kinky Karaoke 8pm.

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

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

Sex and the City Live @ Oasis The comic drag parody performances of scripts from the hit HBO show about four Manhattan women, adapted by and starring D’Arcy Drollinger. $27-$50. Thu-Sat 7pm thru July 13. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Sundance Saloon @ Space 550 The popular two-stepping linedancing, not-just-country music night, with free lessons. $5.

6:30pm-10:30pm. Also Sundays 5pm10:30pm. 550 Barneveld Ave. www.sundancesaloon.org

Studio 5’4” @ Lone Star Saloon Night for little guys and their fans, plus a Pride Month kickoff with DJs Jumpr and Freddy King of Pants, gogo cubs, Gummi shots. $5. 9pm-2am.

1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Woof, Frolic @ SF Eagle The canine pup early evening event precedes the full-on Furry dance and social party. $5-$10. 9pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. sf-eagle.com

Literary Speakeasy @ Martuni’s Enjoy cocktails and readings with Kimberly Gomes, E.K. Keith, Ash Tré Phillips, and Anand Vedawala and host James J. Siegel. 7pm. 4 Valencia St.

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Bedraggled Broadway @ Oasis

Ruby Blue Gender Bender at Freak Chic: TranzForMazing @ Levy Studio

New York queens Cacaphony Daniels and Sutton Lee Seymour’s drag & show tune night. $25-$30. 7pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Beer Bust @ SF Eagle

Fri 31 Big Boy @ Lone Star Saloon DJ Freddy King of Pants spins at the bear bar. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Club 90s’ Queen Night @ Great Northern Glam rock, disco dance party with Queen, Bowie and other classic music night; retro attire encouraged. $10-$13. 119 Utah St. www.thegreatnorthernsf.com

Disco Coalition @ Lookout A weekly community-building party-fundraisers for local LGBTQ nonprofits. 5pm-8pm. 3600 16th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com

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

2023 Broadway. www.portbaroakland.com

Flex @ Powerhouse Show off your muscle with DJ Brian Urmanita, buff gogos and strong drinks. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Friday Nights @ Oakland Museum

Freak Chic: TranzForMazing @ Levy Studio

Early evening weekly parties coordinated with Queer California: Untold Stories, a multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, rare historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11. Free/$15. 5pm-9pm. 1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org/

A fashionable night out with Comfort & Joy. Enjoy drinks & hors d’oeuvres while being inspired by fashion performances from Maria Konner, Alabama Slamma, Spaz, Strobe, Ruby Blue Gender Blender and many more.

Dance party with DJ CJ afterwards. $20-25. 7pm-1am. 19 Heron St. https://transformazing.eventbrite.com

Judy Carmichael @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko

GAMeBoiSF @ Rickshaw Stop

The singer-composer celebrates the music of Fats Waller, The Gershwins, Cole Porter, and other swing era greats with an evening of gems from the Great American Songbook and her own celebrated original compositions. $25-$55 ($20 food/drink min.). 8pm. Also June 1, 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. www.feinsteinsatthenikko.com

The gay Asians and pals dance party, with K-pop, hip hop and more. $12.

9:30pm-2am. 155 Fell st. www.rickshawstop.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21 The popular Latin club with gogo guys galore and Latin music. $10-$20.

9pm-3am. 2111 Franklin St., Oakland. www.club21oakland.com

Little Night @ SF Eagle Adult Baby, BabyFurs, diaper fetish night and more; go gaga for googoo. $5. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Rachel Sage @ The Lost Church The talented vocalist performs at the intimate theatre along her US/UK tour; Noe Venable also performs. $10$25. 8:15pm. 65 Capp St. www.rachaelsage.com

Sappho & Friends @ Underground SF Antiques Roadshow, Zoz and Mark O’Brien also DJ at the intimate Lower Haight club night. $5. 9pm-2am. 424 Haight St.

Stereo Argento @ The Stud Luxury theme with Jillian Gnarling and Meredeath. 10pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Uhaul @ Jolene’s The popular women’s dance party returns at the new nightclub, now weekly. 10pm-2am. 2700 16th St. at Harrison. http://jolenessf.com/

Go BANG! @ The Stud The monthly groovy dance party with DJs Steve Fabus, Sergio Fedasz, Prince Wolf, Jimmy DePre, plsu guest Gay Marvine. $12. 9pm-3am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Miki Howard @ Yoshi’s Oakland The grammy-nominated vocalist performs. $32-$64. 7:30pm & 9:30pm.

June 2 at 7pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

Mother @ Oasis Heklina’s popular weekly drag show, with special guests and great music themes. June 1 is a Madonna tribute with special guest Willam. $10-$25.

10pm-3am (11:30pm show). 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Napa, Sonoma Pride @ Various Venues Enjoy dances, cookouts, park parties, drag shows, youth dances, art shows and more; most Saturdays, Sundays thru June 28. www.NapaSonomaPride.org

Powerblouse @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE! and Glamamore’s monthly drag virgin makeover night.

This time: Stephen Delgado. $5.

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

Qtease @ The Stud Queer burlesque cabaret show. 6pm8pm. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Vibe Fridays @ Club BnB, Oakland House music and cocktails, with DJs Shareef Raheim-Jihad and Ellis Lindsey. 9pm-2am. 2120 Broadway.

(510) 759-7340. www.club-bnb.com

Sat 1 Alexander Presita @ Lone Star Saloon Opening reception for the artist’s exhibit of erotic art, with DJ Ben Stefonik. 7pm-9pm. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Dance Party @ White Horse Bar, Oakland DJed grooves at the historic East Bay gay bar. 9pm-2am. 6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

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The popular daytime party, where $10-$15 gets you all the beer you can drink, supporting worthy causes.

3pm-6pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Beer Bust @ Lone Star Saloon Enjoy beer, bears, food and DJed beats at the weekly fundraiser for various local charities. $15. 4pm-8pm.

1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Beverage Benefit @ The Edge Fundraiser and fun, with proceeds going to local nonprofits. $10. 4pm7pm. 4149 18th St. www.edgesf.com

Big Gay Beer Bust @ The Cinch Benefits and plenty of beer at the historic neighborhood bar. 3pm-7pm.

1723 Polk St. www.cinchsf.com

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

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

Gigante @ Qbar Frisco Robbie spins Latin and Hip-Hop grooves. $5. 9pm-2am (weekly beer bust 2pm-9pm). 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Polesexual @ Powerhouse Dakota Pendant and Ma Shugganuttz cohost a night of burlesque poledancers. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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

1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley. www.finnishhall.org

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The band consists of three women, two of whom are trans and one who is cisgender. They get their band name from a same named song by The Beatles, a song they find to be transphobic.

The band’s members are Anna Dickinson on vocals, guitar and acoustic bass, Jenn Cuddigan on vocals, acoustic bass, electric bass, uke, banjolele and kazoo, and Coda Gardner on vocals, percussion, kazoo and assorted sound effects and moans. They’re a friendly, fun bunch, easy to talk to, and it’s clear when chatting with them that they really like each other.

“Yes, we do like each other,” said Dickinson. “We’re like a goofy little three-way!”

“You have to know each other pretty well when you’re in a band,” Cuddigan pointed out. “You have to work as a team to read each other’s cues and write good music together.

If you hate someone, that’s not going to be an easy thing! We get along so well, it makes a lot of what we do feel so easy.”

“We don’t always see eye-to-eye on everything, but we tend to like and respect each other so much that there’s nothing we can’t work out,” added Gardner. “That’s what makes our chemistry so great.”

The band formed in Fall 2017, through a queer and trans kara-

oke group they were all involved in.

They’ve performed at El Rio, Ivy Room in the East Bay, Hotel Utah, and Oakland’s White Horse, among other venues. There has always been a queer and trans vibe to their music, albeit with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

“We try to take a humorous and satirical approach to a lot of things,” said Dickinson. “There are a lot of angry queer bands out there, which we get. We’re angry about a lot of things too, but we’d rather approach things with satire and try to keep things upbeat because people need to laugh about stuff. My take on visibility is that I want to be out there, showing people that you can be a trans performer having fun and laughing and singing along with your friends and giving people some hope.”

Dickinson also pointed out that there was also a bit of social commentary in their material, usually couched in humor.

“We’re the type of people who, even when there’s awkward tough things going on, our sense of humor is to make jokes about everything,” said Cuddigan. “We don’t take ourselves incredibly seriously when it comes to a lot of things and that’s the way we get through it.”

“The reaction in generally pretty positive,” said Dickinson. “People have a good time at our shows. They dance, they sing along, they laugh at our dumb jokes. I think it’s a muchneeded outlet. Trans culture is largely involved in fighting just for survival,

but as a culture develops you’ve got to have your satirists and people who are broadening it in that way. I like to think that we’re part of pushing forward some of the discourse to make people less ashamed of who they are.”

Musical influences among the bandmates include a diverse mix of artists: They Might Be Giants, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, The Violent Femmes, and electronic music.

Their album is a mixture of songs they’ve been performing in their stage shows. The album release party at The Lost Church will see the band performing an all-acoustic set, something they say they don’t usually do, so The Lost Church set will sound a little bit different from the rock/punk sound of the album.

They’ll be performing with another band, The Secret Emchy Society. They describe Emchy band

Rainbow Kitten Surprise @ Fox Theatre

Thu 6

The amazing North Carolina folk rock band –with an openly gay lead singer, Sam Melo– performs; The Greeting Committee opens. $36-$75. 8pm.

Also June 5 (sold out). 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. thefoxoakland.com

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm-2am.

456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

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Wed 5

Gym Class @ Hi Tops

B.P.M. @ Club BnB, Oakland St. James Infirmary Gala @ Terra Gallery

Gaymer Night @ Midnight Sun

Celebrate the sex workers’ health clinic at a gala party, with Dale Johannes, Jennifer Holliday, Marga Gomez, Lawrence Beaman, Sister Roma. $50-$200. 6pm-11pm. 511 Harrison St. stjamesinfirmary.org

Weekly fun night of games (video, board and other) and cocktails. 8pm12am. 4067 18th St. www.midnightsunsf.com

Swagger Like Us @ El Rio

High Fantasy @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge

Queer hip-hop and performance dance party. $10. 2pm-8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

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

Mon 3

Karaoke Cocktails @ Ginger’s

International Mondays @ Qbar Enjoy world grooves all night. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Maria Muldaur @ Yoshi’s Oakland The veteran vocalist performs at the stylish nightclub-restaurant. $19$49. 8pm. 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland. www.yoshis.com

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

Opulence @ Beaux Weekly dance night. 9pm-2am. 2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

Tue 4 Cock Shot @ Beaux The weeknight party gets going with DJ Chad Bays. No cover. 9pm-2am.

2344 Market St. www.beauxsf.com

The new basement tribute to the old Ginger’s Trois hosts weekly singing fun. 8pm-12am. 86 Hardie Place. https://www.gingers.bar/

Olga T and Shugga Shay’s weekly queer women/men’s R&B hip hop and soul night. 8pm-2am. 2120 Broadway, Oakland. bench-and-bar.com

Castro Karaoke @ Midnight Sun Sing out with host Bebe Sweetbriar; 2 for 1 well drinks. 8pm-2am. 4067 18th St. 861-4186. midnightsunsf.com

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

Queeraoke @ El Rio Midweek drag rave and vocal open mic, with Dulce de Leche, Rhani Nothingmore, Beth Bicoastal, Ginger Snap and guests. 10pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Polythene Pam’s new album, Just Listen

leader Cindy Emch as a big country music fan who performs Outlaw Queer Country akin to Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. There will be mingling with the audience before the show, as well as after.

“We’re not doing a large print run of CDs,” said Gardner. “We’re just doing CDs made to order as a novelty. People can order those, and it’ll have linear notes, a photo or two, and whoever buys it will get a copy made to order.”

There will be CDs available at the release party. The album will also be available online.

“Our message is to acknowledge the struggle we have as trans folks and to try to be able to laugh about it,” said Dickinson. “For a lot of trans folks, the idea of getting up on stage and singing, especially for trans female folks, is terrifying, because a lot of us are very uncomfortable with our voices. So I try to get up there and be a role model and say that we can do this, we can get up there and just be ourselves and use the voices we have. We can be proud of our voices, we can try to laugh between ourselves about issues in our community, and just have some fun and get through this thing together.”t Polythene Pam with The Secret Emchy Society, Friday, June 7, 7:30pm at The Lost Church, 65 Capp Street. $10-15. www.polythenepamband.com www.thelostchurch.com

Latin Explosion @ Club 21

Christina Bianco @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Internationally-acclaimed singer, actor, and impressionist (What if Julie Andrews sang Led Zeppelin?) brings Me, Myself, And Everyone Else! To the elegant nightclub. $40-$70 ($20 food/ drink min.). 8pm. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. feinsteinsatthenikko.com

Greg Holden @ Hotel Utah

Latin beats, Lulu and Jacqueline’s drag show, gogo hotties and a packed crowd. $10-$15. 9pm-4am. 2111 Franklin St. www.club21oakland.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Party night at the museum. June 6: DJ King Most, Sea Prom party, World Oceans Day celebration. $12-$15.

6pm-10pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. calacademy.org

Queer Karaoke @ Club OMG

The Brit/LA-based singer performs songs from his new album, World War Me, at the SoMa bar; Shwa Loseben and KTL open. $12-$15. 8pm. 500 4th St. www.gregholdenonline.com

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

43 6th St. www.clubomgsf.com

Gym Class @ Hi Tops

Thump @ White Horse, Oakland

Enjoy whiskey shots from jockstrapped hotties and sexy sports videos at the popular sports bar.

10pm-2am. 2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am.

6551 Telegraph Ave, (510) 652-3820. www.whitehorsebar.com

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Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre May 31: Rocketman (12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30, thru June 6). $8-$11.

429 Castro St.castrotheatre.com

Documentary Film Festival @ Roxie, Brava Theaters Fascinating films from around the world; thru June 13. 3117 16th St. and 2781 24th St. www.sfindie.com

Gay in the Great War @ GLBT History Museum Chuck Muckle performs excerpts from author/playwright Lance Ringel’s gay war novel, Flower of Iowa. $5. 7pm. 4127 18th St. www.flowerofiowa.com

Opening of the new center for immigration. 6pm-8pm. 526 Castro St. ww.lgbtasylumproject.org

John Waters @ McRoskey Mattress Loft The iconic film director discusses his new book, Mr. Know It All. $10 or free with book purchase from event sponsor Green Arcade (1680 Market St.) $10. 7pm. 1687 Market St. http://www.thegreenarcade.com/

Mason Funk @ Books Inc. Opera Plaza The author discusses his book, The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World. 7pm. 601 Van ness ave. www.booksinc.net

The Mayor of Folsom Street @ GLBT History Museum

Arts Events

The Mayor of Folsom Street: Alan Selby’s Legacy, an exhibit of the leather culture pioneer. Also, SoMa Nights: 1980s-1990s Queer Club Photography, an exhibit of prints by prolific photographer Melissa Hawkins; thru May 27. $5.

4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

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Grand Opening @ LGBT Asylum Project

Queer as F*** III @ Bindlestiff Studio Tickling Your Funny Bone(r), a two-week festival of comic plays with queer and trans themes, performed by the 26-member troupe of Filipino actors. $12-$25. Thu-Sat 8pm, Sat & Sun 3pm, thru June 8. 185 6th St. www. bindlestiffstudio.org

SF International Arts Festival @ Fort Mason

See new dance, theatre and performance works by Sha Sha Higby, Joe Landini, Tango ConFusion, OOMPH Dance Theatre, pateldanceworks, Steamroller Dance Company, Lucia August/ Everyone Can Dance, Abada Capoeira (photo). $15-$38.

Thru June 2. Various spaces, 2 Marina Blvd. www.sfiaf.org

Significant Other @ SF Playhouse Joshua Harmon’s witty romantic comedy about a gay men who endures all his friends’ weddings. $20-$100. Thru June 15. 450 Post St. www.sfplayhouse.org

Work MORE 8: Drag House @ CounterPulse VivvyAnne ForeverMore brings 23 drag acts to the experimental performance space. $20-$35. 8pm.

Also May 31 and June 1. 80 Turk St. www.counterpulse.org

Fri 31 American Psycho @ Victoria Theatre Ray of Light Theatre’s production of Duncan Sheik and Roberto AguirreSacasa’s darkly satiric musical based on the 1980s Bret Easton Ellis novel. $15-$40. Thru June 8. 2961 16th St. www.rayoflighttheatre.com

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Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson’s play about three people exploring their faith, and the very human roots of the Bible. $45-$97. Thru June 9. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Mia Nakano @ CIIS The Visability Project, the artist’s series of portraits of diverse people.

Opening reception 6pm-9pm. Desai Matta Gallery, Caliofrnia Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission St. ciis.edu

Sat 1

June is busting out all over with solos shows and full-out psycho musicals, alluring art and remarkable readings.

The View UpStairs @ NCTC

Rhinoceros @ Geary Theatre American Conservatory Theatre’s new production of Eugene Ionesco’s classic and still timely dark satire about political mendacity and cultural conformity; translated by Derek Prouse; special events thru run. $15-$110. Thru June 23. www.act-sf.org

Sat 1 Kiss My Aztec! @ Berkeley Rep John Leguizamo and Tony Taccone’s hilarious multi-genre musical comedy about woke Aztecs taking on Spanish invaders. $35-$115. Thru July 14. 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. www.berkeleyrep.org

Kitka, Kostroma @ St. Cyprian’s Church The acclaimed women’s vocal ensemble performs Slavic songs in distinctive harmonies with the Russian vocal group. $25-$30. 2097 Turk St. www.SFLiveArts.org

Mamma Mia! @ San Jose Stage Company South Bay production of the hit ABBA jukebox musical about romance and paternity queries on a Greek island. $32-$60. 8pm. Thru July 7. 490 South First St., San Jose. www.thestage.org

Napa, Sonoma Pride @ Various Venues Enjoy dances, cookouts, park parties, drag shows, youth dances, art shows and more; most Saturdays, Sundays thru June 28. www.NapaSonomaPride.org

Queer California: Untold Stories @ Oakland Museum Multimedia exhibition documenting California LGBT lives, with contemporary artwork, rare historical materials, film, photography, sculpture; thru Aug. 11.

Friday 5pm LGBT film screenings. Also, Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, Ray Troll’s colorful illustrations paired with paleontologist Kirk Johnson’s research. Also, Take Root: Oakland Grows Food and other exhibits.

Free/$15. 1000 Oak St. http://museumca.org/

Rachel Sage @ The Lost Church The talented vocalist performs at the intimate theatre along her US/ UK tour; Noe Venable also performs. $10-$25. 8:15pm. 65 Capp St. http://www.rachaelsage.com/

Porchlight Storytelling @ McEvoy Foundation for the Arts Enjoy engaging tales from Marc Capelle, Anthony Bedard, Mary Goree, Horehound Stillpoint, Scott Vermeire and Michael Warr. $7-$10.

4:30pm. 1150 25th St. Bldg B. www.mcevoyarts.org

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon @ The Lab The Oakland artist’s installation recreates and honors her father’s history as owner of SF’s first Black-owned gay bar, with archival materials and ‘hosted’ events, including a June 1, 7pm performance by Rashad Pridgen’s Global Street Dance Masquerade; thru June 30. 2948 16th St. www.thelab.org

SF Hiking Club @ Fernandez Ranch Join GLBT hikers of the SF Hiking Club for a seven-mile hike at Fernandez Ranch. Dogs are welcome. Bring water, lunch, sunscreen, hat, hiking poles. Meet at Rockridge BART at 9:15. For info, www.sfhiking.com

That Don Reed Show @ The Marsh Berkeley The award-winning solo performer returns with his acclaimed show about Black media stereotypes and his own identity. $20-$100. Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5:30pm, thru June 9.

2120 Allston way, Berkeley. www.themarsh.org

The View Upstairs @ NCTC Max Vernon’s glam-rock gospel-pop musical, about a hipster who’s transported back in time to a historic 1970s New Orleans gay bar. $35-$60. Live music pre-show Wednesdays.

Thru June 9. 25 Van Ness Ave. www.nctcsf.org

Who Killed Sylvia Plath? @ The Marsh

Wed 5

Aaron Hamburger @ Dog Eared Books

Oedipus el Rey @ Magic Theatre Revival of Luis Alfaro’s 2009 modern update on the classic Greek tragedy focuses on incarcerated youth. $15-$75. Thru June 23. Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd., Bldg D, 3rd floor. www.MagicTheatre.org

Lorri Holt performs Lynne Kaufman’s fascinating solo play about the tragic demise of the poet. $25$100. Sat 8:30pm, Sun 5:30pm. Thru June 16.

1062 Valencia St. www.themarsh.org

Sun 2 Embracing the Love @ SF Main Library LGBTQ Films from Southeast Asia, presented by Filipino Arts & Cinema International. 12:30pm-5pm. Also June 9. Koret Auditorium, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

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isco Coalition, the weekly fundraiser happy hour at Lookout, continues each Friday, 5pm-8pm. Various local nonprofits benefit from your donations while you enjoy drinks and a terrific view of the Castro; through June 21. LookOut, 3600 116th St. at Market. www.lookoutsf.com www.discocoalition.org See plenty more photos on BARtab’s Facebook page, facebook.com/lgbtsf.nightlife. See more of Steven Underhill’s photos at StevenUnderhill.com.

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ads call (415) 370-7152 or visit www.StevenUnderhill.com or email stevenunderhillphotos@gmail.com Jewish Museum Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist, Surrealist, and activist Claude Cahun (1894–1954). 736 Mission St. https://thecjm.org/

Tue 4 Abada Capoeira at SF International Arts Festival @ Fort Mason

Expedition Reef @ California Academy of Sciences Exhibits and planetarium shows with various live, interactive and installed exhibits about animals, plants and the earth. $20-$35.

Mon-Sat 9:30am-5pm. Sun 11am5pm. 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park. 379-8000. www.calacademy.org

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

Smack Dab @ Manny’s Juba Kalamka is the featured performer at the eclectic reading & open mic series, cohosted by LarryBob Roberts and Dana Hopkins.

5pm. 3092 16th St. www.welcometomannys.com

Mon 3 Bitchin’; an Art Show for Humans and Dogs @ Creativity Explored Group exhibit of amusing art works of dogs by the members of the developmentally challenged artists group. Mon-Fri 10am-5pm (Thu 7pm) Sat 12pm-5pm. 3245 16th St. www.creativityexplored.org

Rainbow Honor Walk @ Google Community Space Unveiling of new designs in the Castro district plaque series honoring LGBTs of historic merit, with food, drinks, a silent auction, and performances by actors portraying historic people. 5:30pm.

188 The Embarcadero. www.rainbowhonorwalk.org

Show Me as I Want to Be Seen @ Contemporary

Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again, a new exhibition of the iconic pop artist’s works, the first retrospective in 25 years; thru Sept 2. Also, other exhibits of Modern art. Free/$25. Fri-Tue 10am-5pm; Thu 10am-9pm.

151 3rd St. www.sfmoma.org

Early Rubens @ Legion of Honor

Exhibit of works by six muralists and 20 artists focusing on pot use, hemp, and historical elements of cannabis in communities of color.

Tue-Fri 12pm-6pm. Sat til 5pm. Thru Aug 31. 762 Fulton St. www.aaacc.org

Wed 5

Andy Warhol @ SF MOMA

Fri 31

Smoke & Mirrors: The War on Drugs @ AAACC

Aaron Hamburger @ Dog Eared Books The author of the acclaimed novel Nirvana is Here reads and discusses his book. 7pm. 489 Castro St. www.dogearedbooks.com

Gender Queer @ Cartoon Art Museum Mais Kobabe’s Gender Queer, thru July 1, and other exhibits. 11am5pm. 781 Beach St. www.cartoonart.org

Naked Mens Sketch @ Eros Get naked and take turns modeling at this popular weekly event.

Donations/no entrance fee. 7pm9pm. 2051 Market St. erossf.com

Overlooked Latinas @ The Marsh Tina D’Elia’s solo show celebrate queer Latinx culture. $15. 7:30pm.

1062 Valencia st. themarsh.org

Thu 6 Fabric Animal @ CounterPulse Local innovative dancerchoreographers Sonsherée Giles & Sebastian Grubb perform a new dance work. $20-$35. 8pm. Also June 7 & 8. 80 Turk St. www.counterpulse.org

Radar Superstar @ SF Main Library

Exhibit of epic massive paintings of biblical and mythical subjects by Peter Paul Rubens; Thru Sept 8.

Free/$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave. legionofhonor. famsf.org/

Radar Productions presents storytelling with Anastacia Reneé, Aimee Suzara, Honey Mahogany, Librexht Baker, and a farewell to Juliana Delgado Lopera. Free.

5:30pm. Koret Auditorium, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

School of Rock @ Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose

With(out) With(in) the Very Moment @ SF Arts Commission

National touring production of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Broadway hit musical based on the uplifting film about an aspiring rock musician who teaches schoolkids to enjoy music. 255 S. Almaden Blvd., San Jose. $45-$153. Thru June 9. www.broadwaysanjose.com

Thu 6 Aimee Suzara at Radar Superstar @ SF Main Library

Exhibit about LGBT lives, and surviving AIDS, featuring Alternate Endings, a series of video programs

by Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art. Thru June 22. 401 Van Ness Ave. www.sfartscommission.org To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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