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Vol. 48 • No. 22 • May 31-June 6, 2018
AIDS museum in visionary stage Courtesy Facebook
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Amtrak suspects suicide attempt in train incident by Alex Madison
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mtrak police investigating the case of a gay man who was found critically injured adjacent to the train tracks near Truckee, California, said this week that they believe the young college student was “very distraught” while on the train and may have attempted suicide. Aaron Salazar, 22, was found lying near the railroad tracks at the far east end of Truckee May 15, Truckee Police Chief Rob Leftwich said in a statement last week. Salazar had suffered significant injures and was transported to a See page 2 >>
The Circle of Friends, which remembers those who have died of HIV/AIDS, is the centerpiece of the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park. Rick Gerharter
by Alex Madison
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t’s been just over a year since the National AIDS Memorial Grove announced plans for an AIDS museum, and since then the project is still in a visionary stage, according to grove Executive Director John Cunningham. Meanwhile, the GLBT Historical Society is moving ahead with its plan for a museum of its
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own and has received a $50,000 grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission to conduct a feasibility study. The status of both projects comes on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS when an article appeared on June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
DISTRICT 8 SUPERVISOR Rafael Mandelman EAST BAY ASSEMBLY Dist. 15: Judy Appel
STATE OFFICES Governor: Gavin Newsom Lt. Governor: Eleni Kounalakis Attorney General: Xavier Becerra Secretary of State: Alex Padilla Treasurer: Fiona Ma Controller: Betty Yee Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara Superintendent of Public Instruction: Tony Thurmond Board of Equalization (District 2): Malia Cohen STATE ASSEMBLY (SF) Dist. 17: David Chiu Dist. 19: Phil Ting
State Assembly (Bay Area) Dist. 18: Rob Bonta Dist. 28: Evan Low Congress (Bay Area) US Senate: Dianne Feinstein Dist. 2: Jared Huffman Dist. 3: John Garamendi Dist. 5: Mike Thompson Dist. 10: Michael Eggman Dist. 11: Mark DeSaulnier Dist. 12: Nancy Pelosi Dist. 13: Barbara Lee Dist. 14: Jackie Speier Dist. 15: Eric Swalwell Dist. 17: Ro Khanna Dist. 18: Anna Eshoo Dist. 19: Zoe Lofgren
Alameda County Bd. of Ed. Area 1: Joaquin Rivera San Mateo County Superintendent of Schools: Gary Waddell, Ph.D. Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Dist. 4: Jimmy Dutra San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo
SF PROPS Yes on: A, B, E, F, G No on: C, D, H, I Regional Prop 3: Yes
JUDGES SF SUPERIOR COURT Seat 4: Andrew Cheng Seat 7: Curtis Karnow Seat 9: Cynthia Ming-Mei Lee Seat 11: Jeffrey Ross
CA. PROPOSITIONS Yes on: 68, 69, 71, 72 No on: 70
Alameda County Superior Court Office 11: Tara Flanagan
Remember to vote June 5!
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SF POA elects gay prez
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SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR 1: Mark Leno 2: London Breed 3: Jane Kim
Although the AIDS museum is in the beginning phase, Cunningham said it is more important than ever to capture the stories of HIV/ AIDS survivors and others who lived through the global epidemic that hit San Francisco particularly hard in the 1980s and early 1990s. “It’s a necessity to capture the stories of the epidemic,” Cunningham said in an interview
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New SF POA President Tony Montoya
by Alex Madison
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he San Francisco Police Officers Association swore in its first gay president, Tony Montoya, May 16. He inherits the police union during a time of tension among city departments, the possible loss of a police chief, and major policy reforms in the San Francisco Police Department. With that, Montoya said that his number one priority is the union membership. “It’s not about me, it’s about the members and making sure I do my job and continue to
represent their voices on the many issues we face,” said Montoya, who is also a member of the Latino community. Tension and the city’s lack of respect is reportedly why the union’s former president, Martin Halloran, stepped down, according to what Gary Delagnes, a former association president, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Montoya said Halloran didn’t step down because of any particular reason or person and that it was simply the right time. Montoya, 50, has a long history with the association, formerly serving as vice president and sat on its executive board for 18 years. He was also a police officer stationed in the Mission district where he led the undercover unit for six years. When the Bay Area Reporter spoke with Montoya over the phone he said it had been a “crazy first week” and he was getting settled. Although just getting started, Montoya had a lot to say about use-of-force, Tasers, and said he brings an open mind to the association and hopes to foster a more positive and respectful relationship among the city and the more than 2,000-member union. “Some people say relationships are fractured, and, yes, we are going to be separate on many issues,” Montoya said of various city departments. “But I have an open-door policy and want to focus more on our commonalities and See page 14 >>
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