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AIDS Walk grants cut by Seth Hemmelgarn

acing a budget gap of $750,000 next year, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation has decided not to distribute grants to partners in this year’s AIDS Walk, set for July 21. The AIDS foundation, the largest HIV/AIDSrelated nonprofit in the city, has been the primary beneficiary of the annual AIDS Walk San Francisco for over 20 years. But MZA Events, which produces the walk, announced late last year that it’s switching JB Higgins to another nonprofit, Project Inform, in SFAF CEO Neil 2014. This year will be Giuliano at last SFAF’s last year as the year’s AIDS Walk walk’s lead agency. SFAF will maintain its community partners program, which encourages teams to raise money on their own and generally provides more funds than the smaller grants. Agencies that responded to the Bay Area Reporter’s inquiries about the change indicated it’s not a huge concern for them. Last year, SFAF distributed about $250,000 through the grants program. “We’re facing a significant hole in next year’s fiscal budget,” James Loduca, the AIDS foundation’s vice president for philanthropy and public affairs said. The foundation, which has a budget of about $25 million, shared months ago that it would take a big hit from losing the AIDS Walk. “We’ve had a lot of conversations” about how to fill the gap “and ensure that none of the services we provide the community that are so important go uninterrupted,” Loduca said. The AIDS foundation provides testing, counseling, and numerous other services. “Our top priority is making sure the services we provide to thousands of people in the community for free aren’t harmed because MZA selected a new beneficiary for the walk,” he said. With the community partnership program, there’s no limit on what groups can raise. All of the money each team raises passes through SFAF and goes directly to each organization. Normally, about 30 groups apply. The AIDS foundation absorbs costs such as credit card and bank fees, which can amount to 6 percent of every dollar raised, so that those expenses aren’t passed on to community partners. “We thought long and hard about this,” Loduca said. “We thought the appropriate balance to strike was to keep the program that has limitless revenue potential for community partners.” SFAF, which is paying MZA Events $212,000 this year, expects to raise about $3 million from the 2013 AIDS Walk. Loduca attributed the deficit solely to MZA Events taking the AIDS Walk away. He said it See page 17 >>

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Pride meeting ends amid chaos by James Patterson

he San Francisco Pride board of directors faced off against an angry crowd of about 125 Bradley Manning supporters Tuesday evening at a meeting intended to hear public comments on its reversal of Manning as a Pride grand marshal. But the meeting came to an abrupt end after SF Pride CEO Earl Plante, noticeably shaken, said he had been assaulted and ordered his staff to call police for what he called a “riot.” Manning supporters, who gathered at SF Pride’s offices and filled the hallway, were angry about a statement released by the Pride board shortly before the May 7 meeting that explained its “longstanding policy” that defined a community grand marshal as “a local hero (individual) not being a celebrity.” Manning, 25, is the gay soldier who leaked 700,000 classified government documents to WikiLeaks. He has confessed to some of the charges against him but remains in a military prison awaiting a courtmartial. Manning had been named a grand marshal for this year’s Pride parade, and was chosen by the Pride’s electoral college, a

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Supporters of honoring Bradley Manning as SF Pride parade grand marshal shout “Let us in” in the lobby of the Pride offices after being locked out of the Pride Committee’s board meeting.

group of former grand marshals. But two days after the April 24 announcement, Pride board President Lisa Williams issued a terse

statement saying that Manning would not be a grand marshal. She attributed his selecSee page 16 >>

Homes sought for foster youth

by Seth Hemmelgarn

ay is National Foster Care Month, and Jill Jacobs, the head of an Oakland-based agency that works to find permanent, loving families for youth in the foster care system, says there are plenty of them who need support. “We really need folks to come forward” and “find out if they’re up to this wonderful challenge,” Jacobs, the executive director of Family Builders by Adoption, said, particularly when it comes to LGBT kids in foster care. Family Builders is one of the groups involved with a Saturday, May 11 symposium called “Building Strong Families and Communities of Hope.” The event will include foster care and adoption specialists, and first-hand experience from current parents. “There’s a huge need for families,” especially for LGBT youth, who are “disproportionately represented in the foster care system,” Jacobs, an out lesbian, said. “I think there’s a bias that foster parents wouldn’t be willing to care for an LGBT kid, and that’s not true,” she said. Sometimes, a self-fulfilling prophecy exists where people “assume that parents won’t take LGBT youth, and so they don’t even look for families,” Jacobs added. “They just automatically put LGBT kids in group homes.” Such places “are often not able to provide the care, the supervision, and the nurturing

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David Rodgers Jr., who now teaches theater, is a former foster child and plans to be a foster parent.

and support an LGBT youth needs,” Jacobs said. Gay foster youth face harassment, bullying, and abuse in group homes more than they do in families.

Challenging, but rewarding

Being a foster parent “is not for the faint of heart,” Jacobs said. “It’s hard work, and it is challenging, but the rewards are worth it.” David Lytle, 47, agrees. He and his part-

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ner, Brice Gosnell, 43, live in San Francisco’s Duboce Triangle neighborhood with their son, Miguel, who will be 4 1/2 this week. Lytle said he’d tell people entering the process, “You have to expect the unexpected,” but “don’t let the unexpected derail you. There are setbacks that happen. When kids are in foster care, they’re in foster care for a reason, but the government’s main goal is to reunify biological families.” Foster parents don’t have the full set of legal rights of biological or adoptive parents. In some cases, foster parents do adopt their foster child. Lytle and Gosnell’s adoption of Miguel went through in November 2011, just over a year after they became his foster parents. Working with Family Builders, they started the process in October 2009. Among other things they had to do, the couple went through training and a home study, which involved interviews with a social worker. Lytle said he and Gosnell, who both work in publishing, had a “long-term discussion” about having a child and talked about open adoption, finding a surrogate mother, and other possibilities, but decided to take the foster parent and adoption route. “There are kids that need homes, and we had a home to offer a child or children,” Lytle said. The couple is talking about having more children. See page 16 >>

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Sidewalk project includes Jane Warner Plaza upgrades by Matthew S. Bajko

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he Castro’s pedestrian plaza will be upgraded as part of a larger project to widen the sidewalks along a two-block stretch in the heart of the city’s gayborhood. The changes are set to be revealed at a public open house May 14. Based on public feedback, planners working on the Castro Street sidewalk widening project are incorporating several cosmetic changes to Jane Warner Plaza. The city opened the mini-parklet at the corner of 17th, Market and Castro streets in 2009. It is named after a lesbian San Francisco Patrol Special Police officer who for years provided additional security for area businesses. Warner died in 2010 after a long battle with cancer. The plaza has seen a few improvements since opening, such as permanent planting beds that serve as buffers from passing vehicular traffic paid for by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District. Visually it remains clear, though, that it is a repurposed section of the street. “Right now what we are talking about is new pavement material on the ground. We would be replacing what is out there right now with something more durable, permeable, and is able to be steam cleaned,” explained Nick Perry, a Castro resident and an urban designer with the Planning Department’s City Design Group working on the project. The plaza boundary facing Market Street would also see changes, such as “improvements to the edge treatments,” said Perry. The plaza would also receive accessibility improvements for ADA purposes, added Perry. And the

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People played a game of dominoes in Jane Warner Plaza and were undisturbed by a passing Muni F line streetcar in June 2009. The plaza is expected to see some upgrades during a sidewalk widening project planned on Castro Street between 19th and Market streets.

crosswalk northeast of the plaza on Market Street will be moved so it aligns with the sidewalk in front of the Twin Peaks Tavern straight across to Pottery Barn. “My initial reaction is I think it is really interesting. It means the community really appreciates Jane Warner Plaza and it really has become an important piece of the neighborhood,” said Andrea Aiello, the CBD’s executive director. Gay District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, who has championed the sidewalk project, said it is a “great opportunity to upgrade the plaza.” The plaza work will be part of a $4 million makeover of the streetscape along Castro Street between 19th and Market streets. It is the first project to be funded from a road-paving bond measure passed by voters in 2011. Slated to start construction in early 2014, the project aims to provide more room for pedestrians, slow vehicle traffic, and add such elements as street trees and sidewalk seating. Due to limited funding for the work, planners asked the public to prioritize which of the four intersections they most wanted to see upgraded. The budget for the changes at the chosen intersection has yet to be finalized but is likely to be in the range of $500,000. In addition to upgrades at Jane Warner Plaza, the options included redoing the bus stops at 18th and Castro streets; adding bulb-outs and a gateway median at 19th and Castro streets; or adding corner bulb-outs to the intersection north of Market Street. The survey netted 119 responses, with Jane Warner Plaza receiving 41 percent and 18th Street netting 39 percent. North of Market had 14 percent while 19th Street came in at 6 percent. “The sense we got from the community is they would like to see us do something at all the corners but it looks like Jane Warner is the top priority,” Perry told the Bay Area Reporter this week. “Of the four options, it was really close between 18th Street and the Jane Warner Plaza improvements. But Jane Warner Plaza edged out 18th Street.” Planners are talking to the developer of the gas station north of Market Street to see if the builder of

a new mixed-use housing project will incorporate a bulb-out on 17th Street into its plans. “They are seeing if there is a cost efficiency to fit that into their project too since they are doing so much work on that corner anyway,” said Perry. Moving the current bus stops on 18th Street to the other side of the intersection is no longer part of the proposed plan, though the current bus shelters may be made more flush with nearby buildings to provide extra space on the sidewalk. “We are taking a close look at 18th Street to see what we can do,” said Perry. Aiello said the CBD is hopeful changes will be made to the 18th and Castro intersection to address pedestrian safety there. “It is a very important and crowded intersection. We want to make sure significant improvements happen there,” she said. One change that will be incorporated into the final design is relocating the existing poles for Muni’s overhead catenary wire system along Castro Street so they are flush with the new street curb and not in the middle of the extended sidewalks. Sixty percent of survey respondents said doing so was “very important,” with another 22 percent calling it “important.” “We heard loud and clear from the survey results that people want to see them moved to the new curb,” said Perry, adding that the cost of doing so will be paid for with federal funds. Planning staff met several times this week to hash out other details for the project ahead of the third and final public meeting they are holding next week. They will then use the additional feedback to refine their plans for Castro Street prior to presenting the final project design to the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency board later this summer.t For more information about the project, visit http://www. sf-planning.org/index. aspx?page=3343. The open house will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 inside a vacant storefront at the Market and Noe Center at 2278 Market Street near Noe.

Corrections In the May 2 article, “Manning nixed by Pride board,” the goals of organizers of the April 29 rally in support of Army Private First Class Bradley Manning were misstated. Organizers included gay peace and social justice activists Lisa Geduldig, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, and Michael Petrelis. Their goal, Geduldig said, was to call attention to the Pride board’s nomination of Manning as grand marshal and then rescinding it. The May 2 article “Signage sought for gay man’s meadow in SF” incorrectly stated the year that the late gay political aide Bill Kraus contracted meningitis. It was during the Christmas holiday in 1985. The online versions have been corrected.

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Gay supervisors, mayor hold budget town hall by Matthew S. Bajko

t a budget town hall for District 8 and 9 residents in San Francisco, transgender activist Jovana Luna took to the microphone to implore city leaders to award funding to the 7-year-old El/La Para TransLatinas. “They need resources and services,” said Luna, whose remarks in Spanish were translated into English. “We are human beings and we want to grow. We are not just here to be forgotten. We are here to come out and let the world know we are here.” Another speaker at the May 4 town hall, Anayvette Martinez, implored city leaders not to cut funding to the school-based initiative at LYRIC, an LGBT youth agency whose acronym stands for Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center. “I am asking you to make sure this program does not go away,” said Martinez, the program’s director. Starting July 1, the city’s Department of Children, Youth and their Families is slated to defund the nearly $417,000 it awarded LYRIC in the 2012-2013 fiscal year. A 16-yearold student at Mission High School urged Mayor Ed Lee and the supervisors to reverse that decision, as the program helped him accept his sexual orientation and gender identity when he attended his former K-8 school, Buena Vista/Horace Mann. “I got to see a change of thinking at my school and within me. I thought being gay and gender-queer was a sin and a sickness,” said the student, who decided to come out during a school assembly due to the LYRIC program. “My school was an unsafe space. After the initiative, I saw a huge change in the school. ... If it wasn’t for the LYRIC seminar, I don’t know what would have happened to me.” Representing the HIV/AIDS Provider Network, AIDS Legal Referral Panel Executive Director Bill Hirsh implored the mayor and supervisors to backfill pending federal cuts to AIDS services and HIV prevention programs. The city had been bracing for a $5.3 million cut in federal allocations and could see an additional $1.7 million cut due to sequestration. While the number of people living with HIV or AIDS in the city increased by 45 percent over the last 13 years, noted Hirsh, during the same time San Francisco has lost $14 million in funding to support those nearly 25,000 residents. “We have been doing more with a lot less for a good amount of time

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Transgender activist Jovana Luna speaks at Mayor Ed Lee’s budget town hall May 4, while her colleagues from El/La Para TransLatinas Isa Noyola, Marcia Ochoa, and Andrea Manzo offer their support.

now,” said Hirsh. “San Francisco’s model of care works and we need to sustain it.” The pleas for funding from City Hall are a yearly tradition for service providers and their clients. This year is no different, as the mayor and Board of Supervisors are dealing with a $123 million deficit and an estimated $256 million next year. The mayor’s budget office is projecting budget deficits through 2017, with a $368 million shortfall estimated three years out and growing to $487 million in year five. The city’s total budget this year is $7.4 billion. “Over the next five years we expect a 13 percent increase in revenue and a 25 percent increase in expenditures. That creates the shortfall,” said mayor’s office budget director Kate Howard. Last year Lee did agree to cover with general fund dollars $7.5 million in federal HIV/AIDS funding cuts. He has yet to indicate if he will do so again this year. The Saturday meeting was one of several the mayor and District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell, the board’s budget committee chair, are holding with the other 10 supervisors throughout the city. The city is required to have a balanced budget by July 1, the start of the new fiscal year. Lee laid out generic goals for this year’s fiscal process. He did not specify programs or departments that would be priorities, other than to say that having a “safe city” and a “city that invests in our success” would be guiding principles. “What these hearings do is set us with the right attitude about what we should be paying attention to,” said Lee about the community budget forums. Gay Supervisors David Campos (D9) and Scott Wiener (D8) served

as co-hosts of last weekend’s town hall. They arranged to have certain speakers address the mayor and audience about such things as the HIV cuts and the need for more financing of public parks. Both have been urging Lee’s office to backfill the Department of Public Health’s budget to make up for the loss in federal AIDS funds. “The big issue for us is the cuts to DPH. They are significant cuts,” said Campos. “They have the potential to impact the most vulnerable in our city.” Wiener added that, “Once again, because of the extreme craziness and neglect in Washington, D.C., we are taking another huge hit to AIDS and HIV services in San Francisco of up to $7 million. Now as the federal government continues to retreat and retreat, we have to go it alone once again.” Campos pledged to also address the funding needs of the city’s transgender community, women, immigrants, and families with children in San Francisco. Muni’s maintenance backlog, a lack of public park gardeners and patrol officers, and adding more police and firefighters topped the list of Wiener’s budgetary concerns. Wiener has served on the budget committee during the negotiations over the city’s fiscal priorities the last two years. He told the crowd of more than 100 people gathered in the auditorium of Cesar Chavez Elementary School Saturday morning that “we have some real challenges” in trying to balance the budget. But he also added that, “the budget picture is better than several years ago.” For more information about the city’s budget process, visit http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=873.t

Hearing to address anti-trans violence set by Seth Hemmelgarn

ransgender people, advocates, and city officials are continuing to address violence against the trans community. San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, whose district includes the Mission neighborhood, where many of the incidents reportedly occur, has called for a hearing that’s tentatively set for Thursday, May 16 at the Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee at City Hall. “It’s a very vulnerable population, and we’re always worried about their safety and making sure we do everything we can to ensure their safety,” Campos said a few weeks ago. In late April, District Attorney George Gascón and others announced the expansion of victim services office hours to women in the Tenderloin community. The neighborhood, known for high crime and poverty rates, is home to many transgender people. The DA’s office will hold office

hours on the third Friday of each month, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Glide Women’s Healing Center, 330 Ellis Street. Residents will be able to make appointments or drop in and meet with trained victim/witness advocates from the DA’s office. Trans people shared concerns about violence, police inaction, funding, and other issues with police, prosecutors, and others at an April meeting at the city’s Human Rights Commission’s offices. Adriana Kin Romero, 42, recalled being attacked near 16th and Mission streets. “It was hard for me to call the police, but I did it,” Romero said. Her attacker spent a short time in jail. After he got out, he was near the corner “all the time,” she said, despite there being an order that he stay away from the area. When she called police, an officer asked her if she was a sex offender. “The police didn’t investigate him, they investigated me,” said Romero, who cried as she told her story through

a Spanish interpreter. “... If I’m going to be treated that way, then why should I call?” Captain Bob Moser, who heads the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station, urged people to report crimes, and said police are “trying to build that trust and trying to build that bond.” If a situation isn’t handled properly, the victim should ask to speak to a supervisor, and those who still aren’t satisfied can contact the Office of Citizen Complaints, he said. In interviews, police from the neighborhood said there have been three recent incidents where transgender people were the victims, including a robbery and an assault. It appears only one of the victims may have been targeted because of her gender identity. At the meeting, HRC Executive Director Theresa Sparks, who’s transgender, said, “We really do want to get to the bottom” of the problems people have been describing, and she hopes there can be more meetings in the community.t

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t Log Cabin GOP group announces relaunch effort by James Patterson

lockstep on the issue of marriage equality,” Angelo, who identifies as a conservative gay, said in an email. “We now have sitting Republicans in both the United States House and the Senate who have stated their support of marriage equality ...” Ohio Senator Rob Portman came out in favor of same-sex marriage in late March, becoming the first sitting Republican senator to do so. He was later joined by Illinois Senator Ron Kirk. “Now is the time to push the Republican Party toward the right side of history,” Angelo said in the relaunch statement.

og Cabin Republicans recently announced a relaunch of their organization, but it remains to be seen how much influence the predominately gay GOP group will have within the national Republican Party. On the national level, a gay Republican is believed to be working on various outreach issues for the Republican National Committee, but no one would confirm if the man is reaching out to LGBT voters. For Log Cabin, Executive Director Gregory T. Angelo unveiled a strategic vision for this year and beyond at the group’s meetings last month in Washington, D.C. About 100 people attended. Angelo said Log Cabin will “fight within the GOP for equality and would place a greater focus on empowering local chapters.” Fred Schein, 72, is president of the Log Cabin San Francisco chapter. He said the relaunch was necessary because there was a “whole new national board of directors and a new national executive director.” The local Log Cabin chapter has 38 paid members, Schein said, adding that membership includes straight allies. He estimated 20 percent of their members were “nonLGBT.” At present Log Cabin chapters in California are in San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles, according to Schein. “With the relaunch we hope to establish more chapters,” said the longtime Republican activist. Chris Bowman, a longtime member of the San Francisco chapter and a political consultant, said the relaunch was needed because Log Cabin Republicans were “for a long time” considered as an “inside the Beltway” organization. “All the focus was at the national level at the expense of chapters,” Bowman said. Chapters demanded “more attention,” he said. One of Schein’s new goals for the chapter is to encourage and support club members to run for office. He mentioned that Jason Clark, a vice president of the chapter, ran for the California Assembly against longtime gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D) last year. Clark also is vice chair of the San Francisco Republican Party. Another goal is for local members to become more involved with

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Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Gregory T. Angelo

GOPers in Marin County and with the California Republican Central Committee, Schein said. “We also want to increase our membership among the conservative LGBT community in San Francisco,” he said. He could not estimate how large that community was. Schein said San Francisco Log Cabin members were “disappointed” when the RNC held spring meetings in Los Angeles a few weeks ago and voted to continue its opposition to same-sex marriage. “It was an unnecessary action,” he said. On marriage equality, Schein said California Republicans are largely supportive, “but we have problems.” He said he hoped the GOP will come around and support marriage equality. Harmeet Dhillon, a local business attorney and California Republican Party vice chair, recently addressed Schein’s group. According to him, she spoke on “the current status of the California Republican Party.” She is the second highest ranking Republican in California, Schein said. When the Bay Area Reporter asked Dhillon if it was accurate to describe her as an LGBT ally, she replied via email, “I am not a big fan of labels.” She added: “I think it speaks for itself that my executive committee, who I helped recruit, has two openly gay members.” National Log Cabin officials pointed to changes in individual Republicans’ stances on same-sex marriage. “Republicans no longer walk in

GOP outreach to LGBTs?

Schein, who considers himself a politically conservative gay man, said it was a “misperception” that the RNC opposed LGBT issues. He said the Bay Area’s Stephen Fong was working on LGBT outreach for the RNC. An April 9 RNC press release at gop.com stated Fong was hired as Asian and Pacific Islander field director. It was silent on his SF Log Cabin Republican membership and his sexuality. The B.A.R. confirmed with Schein the paper had the right person. When the B.A.R. asked Schein why the RNC said Fong is its Asian and Pacific Islander field director while he said Fong was working on LGBT outreach, Schein said in an email, “Because I thought we were talking about Log Cabin people and the RNC and somehow it must have become confused.” The B.A.R. contacted RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s Washington office to reach Fong. Jason Chung, who said he is communications director for Asian and Pacific Islander Engagement, responded. According to Chung, Fong was “on a 36-hour retreat” and “unavailable” for comment. Chung would not confirm Fong’s membership with Log Cabin Republicans and his email reply was non-responsive to the B.A.R.’s questions. Schein later provided the B.A.R. with Fong’s zoominfo.com page that stated Fong was past president of San Francisco Log Cabin Republicans. An April 10 posting at the conservative Townhall.com said Fong and Chung “worked minority outreach” for Mitt Romney’s failed 2012 presidential campaign. The RNC press release was also silent on Fong’s work for Romney. Schein emailed the B.A.R. a

Bias complaint filed against Pride

by James Patterson

GBT unrest over the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s controversial selection and retraction of imprisoned Army Private First Class Bradley Manning as a Pride grand marshal has now escalated to the legal arena with a complaint to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. In a six-page filing prepared by local gay attorney and District 8 resident David Waggoner, 38, nearly 30 signatories initiated a Complaint of Unlawful Discrimination against the San Francisco Pride board of directors with the HRC on May 7. Former parade grand marshals Gabriel Haaland and Gary Virginia, and Swords to Ploughshares staff attorney Becca Von Behren were among the 21 individuals who signed on to the complaint. [Full disclosure: attorney Paul Melbostad, who serves as the Bay Area Reporter’s legal counsel, also signed the complaint.] Among the five LGBT organizations to endorse the complaint are the Bay Area Military Law Panel and the

Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild. The complaint said the board had “repudiated San Francisco Pride’s electoral college’s selection of Bradley Manning as a 2013 grand marshal for the Pride parade.” This action violated city administrative codes, arts funding guidelines, board marshal selection policy, and board non-discrimination policy, the complaint charged. “Pride is subject to the city’s nondiscrimination laws because it receives city funding,” Waggoner said in an email. He confirmed to the B.A.R. that the complaint had been officially filed with the HRC with copies emailed to Pride officials. “If SF Pride reverses its decision [on Manning], the complaint will be withdrawn,” said Waggoner, a former president of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. He is not planning any actions or charges against any individual on the SF Pride board. He said he did not ask any local LGBT elected officials to sign on to the complaint. The complaint states, “Bradley Manning is a gay and possibly trans-

gender soldier who is currently facing court-martial for his role in giving classified [government] documents to WikiLeaks.” It stated the materials leaked exposed “war crimes committed by U.S. service members in Iraq, as well as embarrassing diplomatic cables.” The complaint also states “the Pentagon’s treatment of Manning has amounted to torture under international law.” “SF Pride received $58,400 from the City and County of San Francisco’s Grants for the Arts program in fiscal year 2012-2013,” the complaint stated. The complaint includes some of the inflammatory language of Pride board President Lisa Williams used in an April 26 statement when she clumsily explained the Manning selection decision was a “mistake” by a rogue employee who she said was “disciplined.” In a May 7 statement, SF Pride acknowledged it received the complaint. “SF Pride will be responding to that complaint in the proper forum, not in the press and/or at board meetings,” the board said.t

cached link to a 1996 article in the Advocate that reported Fong was gay and addressed the Republican National Convention that year but “didn’t mention it [his homosexuality] during his minute-long speech.” Twenty years ago Fong spoke to the Advocate on being silent about his sexuality as a Republican. “It’s unfortunate, but many of us have had to put aside that part of us which is gay – our concerns, our issues, our feelings about being gay – put it aside just for a moment. There’s a future battle ahead.” Fong did not respond to the B.A.R.’s requests for clarification on his work. The RNC press release, however, indicated Fong had experience “at the grassroots level, which will be invaluable in building our new and unprecedented community-based field operation to engage with all voters.” Angelo said that Log Cabin did not issue a statement on Fong’s

RNC appointment. “Press releases are not required to mark every occasion,” he said. Angelo said Fong’s appointment was unrelated to the relaunch. It was a “complete coincidence,” he said, that the two events occurred only days apart. The basic core values of the San Francisco Log Cabin chapter will not change, Schein said. Those include a smaller, less intrusive government and a strong national defense, he explained. He said he could not understand how an LGBT person could not be a conservative. “Politics is a complex business,” Schein said. “Likeminded people will be comfortable with SF Log Cabin Republicans.”t The San Francisco Log Cabin Republicans hold monthly meetings in the Castro. Check http://www. logcabinclubofsanfrancisco. org.

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SFO compromise is a win-win

he compromise brokered by Supervisor David Campos and Mayor Ed Lee to name a single terminal at San Francisco International Airport instead of the entire airport after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk is a good solution that should please almost everyone. LGBTs will be proud for a terminal named after a gay rights icon; city residents will be spared a costly and potentially divisive ballot fight; and it will cost less money to make the changes to signage and affected material. When we editorialized against Campos’s plan back in January, it was because we feared that the airport renaming would be an unnecessary fight that potentially could pit residents against one another. In fact, not only did polls show that a majority of San Franciscans was against the idea, but that opinions even in the LGBT community were mixed. Faced with underwhelming momentum for an airport name change, those supervisors who had not announced support for Campos’s plan stayed on the sidelines because he did not have a sixth vote on the board to allow his proposal to proceed to the ballot for a public vote in November. To Campos’s credit, however, rather than let the idea fade away, he began working with Lee to craft a compromise. As we reported online Tuesday, a committee will be appointed to recommend which of the airport’s terminals should be named after Milk, the city’s first gay elected official. The supervisors will name four individuals to the panel and the mayor will name five. It will have three months to present its recommendation. According to a statement from Campos, the committee will have a few more months to make further recommendations for names for the other terminals (there are three domestic and one international), towers, or boarding areas. Once a terminal is selected for Milk, the committee’s decision will be voted on by the board and signed into law by the mayor. Campos told us that according to the city

charter, the San Francisco Airport Commission does not have the authority to name any facilities. However, an airport spokesman said this week that the commission will go ahead with its own committee, which will review naming its facilities. Perhaps that panel can provide some feedback to the committee created by the board and mayor. There was broad agreement among city residents that Milk was deserving of some honor. The problem was that most people felt that SFO should retain its name and not be named after anyone. That was also our position. “Everyone does agree that we need to honor Harvey Milk,” Campos told us this week. “It is an important legacy that should be recognized.” More importantly, Campos said, “many people believe that in the process of honoring Harvey Milk we need to make sure we do it in a way that brings the entire city together.” As we approach the 35th anniversary of

Milk and then-Mayor George Moscone’s assassination on November 27 by ex-Supervisor Dan White inside City Hall, it would be a fitting tribute indeed, if the Harvey Milk Terminal could be approved in time for the ceremony that usually is held to commemorate their deaths. Compromise is not a dirty word. Just compare Campos’s actions to forge a positive solution with San Francisco Pride’s board of directors, which has sunk to new lows in its determination to keep Bradley Manning, a gay soldier and WikiLeaks whistle-blower, from being recognized as a community grand marshal. Rather than heed the advice of many (including us) to reinstate Manning as a grand marshal, the Pride board this week doubled down on its decision to rescind the honor over some obscure rule that no one’s ever heard of: that community grand marshals selected by Pride’s electoral college (former grand marshals) must be local residents. SF Pride CEO Earl Plante and board President Lisa Williams could benefit from a crash course in diplomacy as the Manning issue continues to spin out of control.t

Include UAFA in immigration bill by Camiel Becker

hen the “Gang of 8” senators announced the details of a comprehensive immigration reform bill on April 16, immigration advocates rallied behind the bill’s proposed widereaching benefits for the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the U.S. without legal permission. After more than 25 years without a major immigration reform of this scale, the moment for action seemed to have finally arrived. Introduced by a bipartisan group of senators, the compromise bill is widely considered the best chance for major immigration reform in decades. To reach the compromise, however, benefits for same-sex couples were stripped entirely from the bill. LGBT rights groups have been lobbying heavily to pass an amendment to the bill that would include benefits for same-sex couples before the bill enters full debate on the Senate floor, where it is less likely that any LGBT-inclusive amendment would survive. The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently considering amending the Senate’s immigration reform bill to include the Uniting American Families Act. If passed – either as part of a comprehensive immigration bill or on its own – UAFA would permit U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to sponsor their “permanent partners” for permanent resident status in the U.S. UAFA also would recognize immigration benefits for children and stepchildren of same-sex couples. If the current Senate bill were to be amended to include UAFA and become law, same-sex couples would have the same rights and benefits under immigration law that heterosexual couples now enjoy. Religious groups have threatened that their support for the immigration reform bill would be jeopardized if UAFA were added to the current

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Senate bill. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida), one of the Gang of 8 senators, insists that the bill would not survive Congress if protections for same-sex couples were added, and has warned that he may withdraw his own support for the bill. Without his support, many see the prospects for comprehensive reform significantly reduced. It is tempting not to rock the boat and to accept the existing compromise in order to get such a broad and much-needed bill through Congress. However, this means asking LGBT couples to keep sitting quietly and to continue suffering serious violations of their constitutional rights. Rubio and other Republicans have not forgotten the November election: Most conservatives agree that in order for the Republican Party to remain competitive and relevant, a re-messaging of its immigration platform is essential. Successfully passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill is far too important for Republicans to drop the entire bill just because it includes protections for LGBT couples. And

for the estimated 35,000 LGBT couples and their families who are affected by discriminatory immigration laws, too much is at stake to sit aside and sacrifice while the existing bill moves through Congress, leaving them behind. Waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act is a major gamble. While it is possible that either of these cases will be decided on broad grounds that would include federal immigration benefits for same-sex couples, it is just as likely that the decisions will not go far enough. The last major immigration reform of this scale occurred in 1986 under President Ronald Reagan. Another opportunity for comprehensive reform of this size may not come again for several decades. Introduced in the Senate a little over four years ago, UAFA has slowly gained support in Congress, but realistically UAFA remains unlikely to pass on its own in the near future. For far too long, discriminatory immigration laws have ripped apart families, destroyed relationships and forced LGBT couples to relocate to other countries. It is time to call Rubio and his Republican colleagues’ bluff. Please call Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) at (202) 224-3841 to request that she support the proposed immigration bill to include protections for LGBT couples before the bill leaves the Senate Judiciary Committee. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Feinstein needs to know how important it is to her constituents that the bill be amended to include LGBT benefits before it leaves her committee and enters full debate on the Senate floor. t Camiel Becker is an immigration attorney and partner at Becker and Lee LLP in San Francisco. He serves as the LGBT coordinator for the Northern California chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. For more information about Becker, visit www.BLimmigration.com or contact him at camiel@BLimmigration. com or (415) 863-3910.

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Congrats to Pacific Center

Congratulations to the Pacific Center on its 40th anniversary of service to the Bay Area LGBT community [“Pacific Center turns 40,” May 2]. I had the pleasure of knowing two of the center’s founders – Richard Boxer (deceased) and Jim Green (now a psychotherapist living in Charlotte, North Carolina). Like so many early LGBT agencies, the center started as a help line operated out of a volunteer’s living room. In 1974, the group received a seed grant from the forwardlooking San Francisco Foundation, and was one of the first community-based LGBT agencies in the country to hire professional staff. One of the untold stories of Harvey Milk’s legacy is the role he played in ensuring the future of the Pacific Center. When I arrived at the agency in early 1978 as an intern, the center’s seed funding was about to expire. Unless new funding could be found, it faced closure. The center had previously applied to the United Way of the Bay Area for funding three times and been rejected. So, working with the center’s director, future state senator Carole Migden, we devised a community organizing campaign to convince UWBA to do what no United Way in the country had done before: fund a gay agency. We sought support from LGBT business leaders, unions, and politicians, and organized a letter-writing campaign. To present a united front, we formed an alliance with other LGBT agencies seeking funding. Tim Sampson, a community organizer at San Francisco State University, provided excellent advice: ask newly-elected Supervisor Harvey Milk to be our spokesman. Milk readily agreed: “Just tell me what you need,” he said. As the deadline for the decision approached, it appeared that UWBA was not going to fund any of the LGBT agencies that had submitted applications. That’s when Milk’s office kicked in. His aide, Anne Kronenberg, sent a telegram to the UWBA executive director announcing a time and date at which we would be in his offices for a meeting. But as the meeting proceeded we seemed to be at an impasse, when an offhand comment from a UWBA executive triggered Milk’s famous temper. He rose from his chair, his finger wagging (we called it “the point”), and gave a passionate argument for the rights and dignity of LGBT people. The meeting broke up soon after. As we debriefed on the street, Milk confessed he was afraid he would raise his arm too high and reveal the fact that his famous second-hand suit had no lining in the pocket. His boxers showed through. But it did the trick. UWBA accepted the Pacific Center as a member agency, ensuring that it would go on to serve queer people in the Bay Area up to the present day. Community-based social services and LGBT student groups were at the vanguard of queer liberation in the 1970s. The existence of grassroots agencies like the Pacific Center – and the experience we gained creating them – laid a foundation for our response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Thank you Richard, Jim, Carole, Harvey, Anne, and so many others whose vision made this possible. Will Roscoe San Francisco

Answers needed from Pride prez

The removal of Bradley Manning as grand marshal is troubling, regardless of how one feels about the man [“Manning nixed by Pride board,” May 2]. If, indeed, the selection was “a mistake,” as Pride board President Lisa Williams said in her statement, this mistake should have been rectified at the time of the announcement of his selection, if not before. To wait until two days later when he has been selected raises some questions. Why wasn’t this mistake caught earlier? If it’s because Williams was not aware that he had been named a grand marshal, it calls into question her effectiveness as president of the Pride Committee board. It would seem more likely that this retraction is in reaction to some pressure that has been brought to bear. If that is the case, pressure from whom? The government? The LGBT community? Sponsors of the event? I’m afraid this has been handled badly, and since an explanation was not provided at the time of the announcement, any future explanation will not be as convincing. David Lowe San Francisco

Manning’s no criminal

Letter-writers Frank La Fleur and Thomas Busse [Mailstrom, May 2] echo the U.S. government in calling whistle-blower Bradley Manning or his acts “criminal.” But not long ago, the same government called all of us criminals who made love to people of our own sex – up until 2003, when Bowers v. Hardwick was overturned. Yesterday’s crimes are not always crimes today. In 1946, U.S. judges at Nuremberg ordered Nazis hanged for starting a war. “[T]o initiate a war of aggression,” stated the court, “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” By this standard, not Manning but rather George Bush, David Petraeus, and Barack Obama, who continues Bush’s wars, are criminals. It was the U.S.

government, not Manning, that put troops “in harm’s way” when it started the illegal war in Iraq. As an army researcher there, Manning uncovered many instances of the accumulated evil. Following the military code of conduct, he informed his superiors. They told him to keep quiet. Only then did he contact WikiLeaks. Watch the WikiLeaks video, Collateral Murder (http://www. collateralmurder.com/), in which U.S. helicopter snipers massacre Iraqi civilians and then those who came to help them. You will realize why the U.S. government caged the man who revealed this atrocity – one of so many in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jay Lyon San Francisco

Williams seems confused

Among Lisa Williams’s many gaffes as she tripped over herself to reverse the past grand marshals’ election of Bradley Manning, she came up with a new one: that Pfc. Manning was merely gay, but not an activist for gay causes. By this standard, whom else might she have disrespected? Walt Whitman almost lost his job as editor of the Brooklyn Eagle for being a radical “barnburner” Democrat, as opposed to his conservative Democrat publisher. Emma Goldman, early gay liberationist and anarchist, was jailed for two years for urging young men to refuse the draft during World War I. Harry Hay was an ex-Communist Party member before organizing the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles and continued to care as much about Native Americans as he did about homosexuals. James Baldwin not only wrote the most openly gay novels of his time, but also carried on a political romance with the Black Panther Party. And our own Harvey Milk made it to San Francisco by quitting his stockbroker job at disgust at the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. Might it be that Williams is confusing the role of heroes with that of director of a for-hire public affairs “boutique consulting firm,” her day job that is listed on the board page on Pride’s website? It is not too late for her to change and support political diversity. This would begin with apology and go on to a reversal of a rash decision. Mark Freeman San Francisco

CBD’s process on land use issues

Patrick Batt’s recent letters regarding the Castro and Upper Market Community Benefit District’s positions on land use issues are misinformed [Mailstrom April 25, May 2]. There is no other greater and more permanent impact on the entire district than land use. Land use impacts the area’s economic vitality and district identity for years to come. Land use also impacts the area’s quality of life and experience of those who live, work, and visit in the district. It is for these reasons the Castro/Upper Market CBD is involved in land use issues. Other organizations, like Merchants of Upper Market and Castro, and neighborhood groups, including Eureka Valley and Duboce Triangle, regularly take positions on land use issues. The CBD doing so is, therefore, not unusual. The CBD’s land use committee researches conditional use applications carefully. We are especially cognizant of the importance of transparency in our decision making process. The committee’s mission statement, guidelines, and evaluation tool are available on the Castro CBD’s website (http://www.castrocbd.org/index.php/our-services/land-use-economic-vitality). The Castro CBD voted to oppose the new Starbucks from moving in to 2201 Market Street. As posted on our website, the decision summary states: “The application competes with existing small businesses; adds no new or needed community-serving retail; displaces an existing small-business; will increase retail rents in the district, thereby negatively impacting the potential for new, local, small-businesses.” The issues regarding Bank of the West at 2229 Market Street were different. First, no businesses were being displaced. Second, planning regulations require retail space at street level for any new, multi-story residential building. Third, the developer was required to have a national anchor tenant to get financing for constructing much needed new housing. Fourth, negotiations with the builder, Supervisor Scott Wiener’s office, and the CBD resulted in Bank of the West agreeing to occupy less footage and to construct three smaller retail spaces that could be used by other businesses. These storefronts and the residential building will replace the long existing “hole in the ground” at the intersection of Market and Noe streets, which most reasonable people realize will be a huge improvement to the neighborhood. This area has a great deal of foot traffic and should attract small, independent businesses to occupy these new retail spaces. The CBD assesses land use issues on an individual basis. Any board members who have an actual or perceived conflict of interest recuse themselves from voting or discussing proposals. We have a transparent, public process and welcome all interested parties to attend our meetings to make their views known to our board of directors, all of whom are uncompensated volunteers. Andrea Aiello, Executive Director Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District

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t Transgender legislative aides break down barriers 8 • Bay Area Reporter • May 9-15, 2013

by Matthew S. Bajko

dam Spickler has been a fixture within Santa Cruz County political and LGBT circles for years. He is the current board president for the Diversity Center, Santa Cruz’s LGBT community center. Since 2008 he has worked for state Democratic lawmaker Bill Monning, first as part of his Assembly district office staff and, since December, as part of his Senate district staff. “Working in the district office I am the face of the senator when he is out of town, which is most of the time,” said Spickler, 42, who lives in Santa Cruz with his fiance, Scottie Johnson. The couple met when both started transitioning their gender from female to male. Three years ago Spickler decided it was time to come out at work about his gender status and, somewhat apprehensively, disclosed his decision to Monning. “It was difficult for me to come out. As supportive as Bill has always been, the idea of telling your boss, who is a state Assemblyman, you are transitioning is really scary,” recalled Spickler in his first news interview about being a transgender legislative staffer. In the end, his nervousness was for naught. “He went to do a smile and high five, but he ended up giving me a big hug and telling me he is proud of me,” recalled Spickler of Monning’s reaction to his news. “From that moment on he has said if I need anything to call him.” Monning told the Bay Area Reporter that he considers Spickler to be a “tremendous employee” and never questioned having him be his district representative following his transition. He was more concerned about community reaction, as Spickler had worked as a female employee for former gay Assemblyman John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) and was well known throughout the area. “I would say I think we both had a certain amount of confidence in the Santa Cruz community. It is pretty progressive,” said Monning. “At the same time it is not a monolithic community, and there was probably a little bit more adjustment for some. But I never received any negative feedback at all.” Last January Livermore native Evan Minton went through a similar coming out process when he decided to transition from female to male while working as a legislative staffer in the statehouse in Sacramento. Then-Assemblyman Ricardo Lara (D-Los Angeles), a gay man who is now in the state Senate, hired Minton to be his legislative aide in his Capitol office. “I was struggling so much with my gender identity, I thought to

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Legislative aide Adam Spickler

myself, ‘Oh my gosh, I need to let them know before I start working there,” recalled Minton, 32, who at first opted to shorten his given name to Heath. “A couple Assembly members knew I was coming out as transgender and so did some staffers. I wanted Ricardo and his staff to know before they heard it from anyone else.” He, too, was nervous about what the reaction would be, but both Lara and his chief of staff, Erika Contreras, were both supportive and helped Minton navigate the process of having his I.D. and work email changed to reflect his new identity. “I thought she wouldn’t want to take me on at that point because I had internal transphobia,” said Minton, adding that he also questioned if the statehouse would be an ideal workplace. He had previously worked for former Democratic Assemblyman Dave Jones, the current state insurance commissioner, as a female employee. “I didn’t think I could come back and work as an openly transgender person. I didn’t see anyone else like me here,” said Minton in his first press interview about his transitioning on the job. “It is a really conservative atmosphere.” Minton is the first legislative staffer to transition while working in the Statehouse, according to several sources. There have been transgender aides in the past, these sources said, but they were hired after they had transitioned. Freshman Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) told the B.A.R. it was one of the reasons why he hired Minton to work for him this past January, as he wanted an aide well versed in LGBT issues. “Evan was hired far and away because he was an excellent candidate to do the job. He has a great background, having worked in the building for Ricardo Lara and community-based groups that are near and dear to my heart,” said Ting. “On top of that was the fact Evan was going through this change and

Evan Minter, left, reviews papers with his boss, Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) in his Sacramento office.

I thought it was something I wanted to be 110 percent in support of.” While Minton has received support from colleagues and lawmakers, there have been several incidents of male employees criticizing his name change that prompted him to file complaints. Last May, a staffer for an Assembly committee told him that Heath was a “weird name” and asked, “Isn’t that a guy’s name.” Another male employee objected to using Minton’s new name. “It was hostile. He kind of yelled at me in front of other staff members in the building,” recalled Minton. “There are rules so I have reported it each time.” Using the public restrooms has also presented unique challenges, as Minton is concerned about the reaction he would receive from other male staffers uncomfortable with his being in the men’s room. The Legislature’s human resources department did change a bathroom in the Capitol to be gender neutral, but it is located in the basement of the building and not easily reached. Due to a request from the office of gay Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) offered Minton the use of a private bathroom in her nearby office. Minton said Skinner “couldn’t be more gracious” and that her staff has been very accepting, with one telling him “it is awesome what you are doing” after he came out to them as transgender. “There are tremendous people here. They love me and they have my back; some don’t even know me personally,” said Minton. Spickler’s usage of the men’s bathroom after years of using the women’s room at his workplace played a large part in his coming out process, not only to his government coworkers but also to community members at large. “I got called into the general services department for the county by their director because some folks had complained. They had no idea why I was using the men’s bathroom,” said Spickler. The women’s restroom he had been using was located next to the

sheriff ’s office, and at times, used by female victims of domestic abuse or other crimes. “I noticed more and more I was scaring the bejesus out of the women and realized I needed to use the men’s room,” he said. “A couple men who knew me didn’t know why I was in the bathroom and complained. It started my official coming out.” To help make the process easier, Monning suggested that he send out an email explaining Spickler’s decision to the rest of his staff. In addition to relaying his support and congratulations for Spickler, Monning included several tips on how to respond to constituents who had questions. “I also want to reaffirm my respect for Adam as he consciously and intentionally pursues this journey,” wrote Monning. “I hope that the challenges inherent in such a choice will be matched and surpassed by his future happiness and growth as an individual.” Over the ensuing years Monning said he has tried to be respectful of Spickler’s privacy and has only mentioned having a transgender staffer once during a committee hearing on a transgender-related bill. “I don’t want to be inappropriately exploiting the fact that I have a transgender staffer,” he said. “I make sure to talk with Adam and be consistent with his comfort level.” At the same time, Monning said that issues impacting the transgender community have “probably the lowest level of awareness among many members of the Legislature.” Ammiano agreed more education is needed and planned to conduct a transgender 101 session for Democratic lawmakers during their caucus meeting this week. He praised Spickler and Minton for having the courage to be out about being transgender for it helps to educate lawmakers and the public. “We have to be grateful of people like Evan and Adam. They help focus attention on the issues,” said Ammiano, who is carrying a bill this session that would better define the accommodations public schools need to make for transgender students. “I am looking forward to having the first transgender member, too. Who

knows when that will happen, sooner rather than later I guess.” Diego Sanchez, the first out transgender congressional staffer who worked for former gay Congressman Barney Frank, told the B.A.R. it is important for transgender legislative aides to understand that while they are breaking down barriers by being themselves, they were also hired for a reason. “You were hired because of your skillset and experience. In government, your skills serve constituents, so honor your constituents by giving them room to value those skills ... and your boss’s wisdom for hiring you,” Sanchez, who is PFLAG national’s director of policy, wrote in an emailed response. “You might be the first transgender person in your workplace, so take pride in that achievement: you are paving the way, creating future opportunities for other trans people who will follow in your footsteps.” Spickler and Minton pointed to their unique positions to impact state policies and be public role models as for why they agreed to speak publicly for the first time about their experiences at work. “I want people to realize we are here, we are blazing trails and they can be here too,” said Minton, who spoke to Ting about supporting Ammiano’s bill. “They don’t have to go through the whole process of can I work there because of who I am.” As a white, well-educated man, Minton said he understands he comes from a certain place of privilege that makes it easier for him to be out. He doesn’t experience the same discrimination many transgender women of color face. “It is easier for me to live in a conservative area with my sister. If you are a transgender woman, you can’t really hide that,” he said. “I understand my place and want to bring other people up.” As hard as it is to repeatedly come out publicly, said Spickler, the experience has been “really positive.” “I have been able to share my story with people who have never been exposed to a trans person before,” said Spickler, who only recently met Minton in person during the Democratic Party’s state convention. “We are respected by our peers and our bosses. I hope it builds bridges to stronger allies. It does need to get better and that is why I am doing this.” t Web Extra: For more queer political news, be sure to check http:// www.ebar.com Monday mornings at noon for Political Notes, the notebook’s online companion. This week’s column previewed the Planning Commission vote Thursday on a new Starbucks for upper Market Street. Keep abreast of the latest LGBT political news by following the Political Notebook on Twitter @ http:// twitter.com/politicalnotes. Got a tip on LGBT politics? Call Matthew S. Bajko at (415) 861-5019 or e-mail m.bajko@ebar.com.

API Wellness Center to ‘Bloom’ next week

compiled by Cynthia Laird

he Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center will hold its annual event, “Bloom,” Friday, May 17 beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the newly renovated Mer at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street in San Francisco. Organizers said that the event, coinciding with Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, is designed for enjoyment, with food and drinks, entertainment, and a silent auction. The money raised at the event ensures that API’s clients, who include people of color, gay

and bisexual people, and transgender people, continue to have access to compassionate and effective medical and holistic care that the agency provides. API Wellness will honor San Francisco Health Director Barbara Garcia, an out lesbian, whose innovations recently have included an overhaul of the department’s organization relating to HIV/AIDS and other diseases.

Entertainment will include local singer-songwriter and electronic dance artist L10, X-Factor finalist Jason Brock, and Project Runway star Ariyaphon Southiphong, who transitioned after her stint on the show. API Wellness has come a long way since its establishment in 1987, board member Jack Song said. Under the leadership of Executive Director Lance Toma, the agency has transformed

into an anchor health institution for persons living with HIV/AIDS in the Tenderloin and has taken over for organizations that no longer exist, such as Tenderloin Health, at the request of the health department. Its health services department has been robust in providing existing and new clients, regardless of background, with free primary medical care, nutrition and wellness education, as well as mobile testing. With 33 percent of San Francisco’s population of Asian American ancestry, the agency also continues to serve the community that is dispropor-

tionately impacted by health conditions including HIV and hepatitis. Tickets for Bloom are $100 and can be purchased online at http:// www.apiwellness.org.

Don’t forget Give Out Day

LGBT community members and their supporters are going all out for Give Out Day, which is Thursday (May 9). As recently reported in the Bay Area Reporter, the national fundraising effort is harnessing the power of social media to raise money for numerous LGBT orgaSee page 15 >>

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Fashion forward by Raymond Flournoy

an Francisco may take a backseat to New York or Los Angeles when people talk about the fashion industry in the U.S., but a number of entrepreneurs and new designers are working to increase the fashion profile of the city by the bay. Sam Shan, a new gay fashion designer, will be debuting his first collection this month at the Runway Couturier fashion show. The event will serve as the finale of the ninth annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, a fitting backdrop for the young designer who emigrated from Burma three years ago. A recent graduate of City College of San Francisco’s fashion design program, Shan won Runway Couturier’s competition last September with a collection inspired by the women who entered the workforce during the 1940s. The collection for this month’s show is inspired by a Burmese folk tale about a princess whose kingdom is conquered and enslaved by evil, but who fights back to regain her royal seat. A common thread through Shan’s design is presenting women who are strong in the face of challenges. “I’m inspired by the strength of women who lead, and I want my clothes to empower women to be confident and independent,” Shan said. Shan is currently apprenticing under San Francisco designer Victor Tung and preparing to continue his design education. He is working toward creating a line of dresses to sell through local boutiques. To see some of Shan’s designs, visit http://www.samshanboutique. com.

A fashionable clan

Shan’s designs are all handmade by him in his garage studio, which he shares with his partner in life and fashion, William Miller. Miller specializes in leather accessories, and markets his creations under the brand name Wm. Shaw Leathercraft. Miller draws upon his Scottish background for his creations, which include sporrans (Scottish kilt bags) and kilt belts. His line also includes wallets, flasks, and other accessories, many festooned with Celtic and Scottish designs. For the Runway Couturier show, Miller will be creating accessories to accompany Shan’s presentation. In addition, he is creating leather headdresses, armbands, and other accessories as part of a section of the show devoted to reinterpreting Asian folk costumes in futuristic ways. A leatherwork hobbyist since his Boy Scout days, Miller’s primary occupation is in medicine. He is working to expand his line of accessories and to increase the number of retailers carrying the Wm. Shaw line, with the goal of working in leather full time. To see Miller’s creations, visit http://www.wmshawleathercrafts. com. His accessories are carried locally at Wm. Glen and Sons (360 Sutter Street) and Telford’s Pipe and Cigar (664 Redwood Highway, Mill Valley).

Runway Couturier presents

The Runway Couturier presentation featuring Shan and Miller’s creations will take place on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The outdoor stage will be located at the intersection of Larkin and Eddy streets. The driving force behind Runway Couturier is executive producer Fritz Lambandrake. Lambandrake, who is gay, produces the free quarterly shows to encourage young designers and to create business and merchandising

opportunities for the San Francisco fashion industry. The May show will also include a presentation by Tomboy Tailors, founded by lesbian businesswoman Zel Anders, and a fashion design competition with judges, including District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim and Bay Area Reporter society columnist Donna Sachet. The show is free for festival attendees, but for tickets to the seated section or for sponsorship opportunities, visit http://www. gofundme.com/RUNWAY-at-AHSC-May18.

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Fair leather, friends

For openly gay accessory designer Seth McGinnis, the inspirations for his line of leather goods come from his own social life. Getting ready to go out, he found he had a choice between the traditional thick wallet, or a thin card case that would not hold everything necessary for a night out. McGinnis wanted to find a choice that would hold exactly the bare necessities – cash, ID, a credit card – and so he decided to make one himself. Suddenly his circle of friends wanted the thin wallets too, and a new business, M Seth Goods, was born. “My products are about efficiency, and making your clothes look good. If you have a good butt, you can’t wreck See page 16 >>

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Courage in numbers: 42, 93 by Roger Brigham

ne man is celebrated for having the courage not to respond to malice, the other for having the courage to respond. One man’s drama was played out publicly before the entire world; the other’s drama unfolded in a small compartment with a handful of now-dead witnesses in a rural area and is known to us only through the piecedtogether bits of fragmentary recordings. The stories of these two iconic athletes, Jackie Robinson and Mark Bingham, are inspirational tales told compellingly this spring by two wonderful but very different movies. Robinson we celebrate as the man who broke the color barrier in professional baseball in 1948 when he was Rookie of the Year for the Brooklyn Dodgers, wearing the uniform number 42. Bingham we celebrate as the gay rugby player who fatally helped thwart terrorists’ attempts to smash United Flight 93 into a strategic Washington, D.C. target on 9/11. Neither Robinson nor Bingham acted alone, and their success depended on the actions of others, but the drama 42 and the documentary The Rugby Player do credible jobs of showing why the public memory of them is so strong and loving. Each of us owes a debt to both men on a very personal level. After Robinson’s historic breakthrough the number of African American players slowly grew over the next year before climaxing at around 25 percent in the mid-1970s. In that first year, he endured endless threats and epithets at a time when behind such words, violent actions such as lynchings and burnings were frequent. The hurtful actions and words he was asked to endure without response were bad enough. Just as harmful were the hands not shaken, the congratulations not offered. The best teams have a supportive family dynamic that is often as strong or stronger than the biological family. Robinson was treated by his peers like he was an eccentric aunt locked in the attic when polite company came around. I was born in 1953 and was 3 years old when Robinson retired from baseball. I went to my first game at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, with Roberto Clemente patrolling right field. I grew up never knowing a racial barrier in baseball, but I was constantly bombarded by racism and racial divides in my everyday life throughout my childhood. I remember waiting in traffic for a Shriners parade and seeing a drunken derelict in an adjacent alleyway, holding a scribbled sign telling folks to “get them n---s out of the hotels.” I remember noticing the only black people I saw in the suburbs were maids getting off the buses but that downtown seemed to be filled with black men. I grew up hearing people questioning whether blacks had the courage or the intelligence to be starting pitchers in baseball and quar-

Courtesy The Rugby Player

Mark Bingham during his college rugby-playing days.

terbacks in football. On vacation at a resort in South Carolina I saw all of the white locals jump out of the pool the moment a black person got in. And though my parents taught us growing up that all forms of prejudice were wrong, their teachings were always put to the test by the ubiquitous racism, whether callous or casual, that seemed to permeate every aspect of life. It was that racism, more than the symbolic barrier he broke, that Robinson was fighting. Similarly, Bingham found himself confronted not just by the handful of terrorists mingles in with his fellow passengers on Flight 93, but rather the army and history of hate teeming inside them. He had just minutes to say final farewells to his mother, then seconds to join his comrades in their suicidal mission to crash the jet short of its intended target. The symbolism of Bingham’s actions is based on its timing. In 2001, the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” exclusion of gays and lesbians was alive and well, propped up by the assertion that gays lacked the courage to fight and that straights lacked the willingness to fight alongside them. Suddenly, in the most dramatic event in recent years, one followed devotedly by virtually every breathing person in the country, we had a big gay athlete in the thick of the fighting, disproving both DADT assertions at the most critical time. The family bonds that it took a year for Robinson to forge on the Dodgers occurred in the time it took to crash the United jet into the farm fields of Pennsylvania. The film 24 has been playing in major theaters; The Rugby Player is currently making its way through film festivals and just was named best documentary by the audience in Miami. So far it has not been scheduled for San Francisco’s LGBT film festival, but there is one fundraising screening scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, at Delancey Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero Street. Tickets for the event start at $35 and are available through the event’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook. com/events/148545195317316/. Proceeds will help finish the project.t

Obituaries >> Craig Pierce August 19, 1949 – April 28, 2013

Craig Pierce passed away April 28, 2013 in San Francisco, California, from myelodysplastic syndrome. Craig died at home surrounded by his loving friends. He is survived by his spouse, Daniel Milne; sisters, Kandra Pierce, Patricia Lee Koenig and Kimera Lee Walsh; brother, Steven Robert Farrow; former wife, Margie Garnhart; daughter, Heather Pierce; grandchildren, Dylan Brandt and Haley

Lewis; and great-grandson, Julian Brandt. Craig served as a medical corpsman in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War; this experience led to a lifetime of compassionate service in nursing. After moving from Sacramento to San Francisco, he worked at St. Mary’s Hospital and then at Mt. Zion Hospital. Early in the AIDS epidemic, Craig worked in the Shanti houses and then at Coming Home Hospice. Later he worked for CPMC Visiting Nurses and Hospice and San Francisco General Hospital. A memorial gathering for Craig will be held on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at First Congregational Church of San Francisco, 1300 Polk Street (corner of Bush Street), 94109, at 1:30 p.m.

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Queer Asians have Spirit this weekend by Elliot Owen

group that showcases queer artists of color is having an event this weekend that includes edgy and experimental performance pieces designed to spotlight 100 years of queer Asian activism. Queer Rebels Productions, a local five-year-old production company that showcases queer artists of color, is continuing to break ground. Its newest production is called Spirit: A Century of Queer Asian Activism. The two-day event, May 10-11, features over 23 artists and activists, and is unprecedented in both content and format. “Spirit is groundbreaking because we are showcasing so many innovative, risky, experimental, and accomplished artists and activists,” said queer femme-identified Queer Rebels co-founder Celeste Chan. “Queer Asian arts and activism are underrepresented and this event carves out space for our diverse, complex histories, spanning generations, ethnicity, and life experience.” Purposefully coinciding with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Spirit is part of the 16th annual United States of Asian America Festival, a six-week long event that aims to increase San Francisco’s Asian and Pacific Islander visibility through the arts. Increasing the visibility of queer Asian Americans, said Chan, 33, is a major intention of Spirit, one coupled with combating single-dimensional representations of Asian and Pacific Islander people as “model minorities.” “The myth of the model minority and its enduring legacy hurts all

Maxwell Leung, courtesy Queer Rebels Productions

Tina Takemoto, award-winning filmmaker, will be featured in Spirit: A Century of Queer Asian Activism.

communities of color,” Chan said. “It surfaces in mainstream media and robs us of resources and visibility, and denies our struggles and our full humanity.” Genderqueer Spirit performer Tonilyn Sideco, 31, echoes the concern over mainstream representations of Asian American identity and is excited to be a part of a production that both expands perceptions of the API community, and highlights queer API people. “There’s a stereotype that Asian folks are quiet, that we’re not sharing stories and performing – but we are,” Sideco said. “We tend to be fetishized, objectified, and tokenized in particular ways that are very silencing. Spirit is about saying we’re smart, we have something to say, we’re sassy, and talented. Our experience is not one-dimensional.”

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nizations. Locally, there is now a section on the main Give Out Day website dedicated to Bay Area organizations (http://www.giveoutday.org/ bayarea) so that donors can more easily select a participating organization. There is also information on how to participate, and prizes for nonprofits that attract the most individual donors in the 24-hour period, which ends Thursday at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time). At press time, over 50 Bay Area organizations had signed up to participate, the largest number of any place in the country, according to Bolder Giving, which is helping organize the crowdfunding initiative.

Still time for LGBT seniors to take survey

LGBT seniors living in San Francisco still have time to participate in a survey being conducted by a city task force tasked with advising the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on matters relating to this population. Survey participants need to be age 60 or older. The San Francisco LGBT Community Center’s cyber center, now on the first floor, will provide a couple opportunities where seniors can come and take the survey, as well as enjoy socializing and snacks with others. Those who have already taken the survey are encouraged to stop by with a friend who hasn’t taken it yet. Members of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force are especially interested in hearing from LGBT seniors of color, lesbians, and transgender people. People can stop by the center, 1800 Market Street, Thursday (May 9) between 2 and 4 p.m. or Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to noon. The online survey, available in several languages, can be accessed at http://caringandaging.org/survey.

Ariyaphon Southiphong, who transitioned after her appearance on Project Runway, will be at “Bloom” in San Francisco next week.

Frank at Commonwealth

Former Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) will be in San Francisco next week speaking at the Commonwealth Club. The openly gay Frank, who retired in January, will speak Monday, May 13 at 6 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason Street. Frank is known for his outspoken style and will reflect on his career in office and share his take on the current state of the U.S. government and hopes for solutions to the economic crisis and various world conflicts. Tickets for the event are $25 for non-members and $15 for members. Priority seating is available for $45 non-members and $30 members. To purchase tickets, visit http:// www.commonwealthclub.org.

Scholarship collaborative to honor students

The eQuality Scholarship Collaborative has announced that it will honor 16 students for their service to the LGBTQ community at the 24th annual eQuality Scholarship Awards dinner Friday, May 17 at the

Joining Sideco for Friday’s performance section of Spirit is EliCoppola Award-winning poet Ryka Aoki, slam poet pioneer Regie Cabico, orchestral flutist Sarah Cargill, installation artist and performer Genevieve Erin O’Brien, Lambda Literary Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and spoken word artist Manish Vaidya. Hosted by the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, the show starts at 8 p.m. The second day (May 11) will take place at San Francisco’s Brava Theater Center. A free panel discussion beginning at 3 p.m. will feature participation by conscientious objector and Veteran Arts founder Stephen Funk; Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project founder Madeleine Lim; film studies doctoral candidate Munira Lakhandwala; scholar and

Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street in San Francisco. A no-host reception begins at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7. This year, 12 graduating high school seniors will receive $6,000 scholarships toward their postsecondary education. Two nursing and two medical scholarships also will be awarded. The 2013 recipients were selected in communities ranging from Willits in the north to Bakersfield in the south. The scholarship collaborative is supported by LGBTQ employee resource groups from Genentech, Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, and PG&E, as well as nonprofit members Gay-Straight Alliance Network and Out and Equal Workplace Advocates, and numerous individual volunteers. Tickets are $87.50 each and can be purchased online at www.equalityscholarship.org.

DesiQ confab coming up

Trikone will present DesiQ, a conference on South Asian LGBT issues, in July and early bird registration closes soon. The conference, Trikone’s fourth since 1995, will be a time to meet, strategize, and connect with fellow attendees, as well as to celebrate each other. The conference takes place July 4-6 at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, 600 16th Street in San Francisco. A separate gala will be held the evening of July 6 at the Scottish Rite Center, 1547 Lakeside Drive, in Oakland. The full conference schedule and registration is online at http://desiq. org. Early bird registration, until May 15, is $175 for three days and the gala; the gala only is available for $75.

Milk at Castro Theatre

A special program on the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk will take place Wednesday, May 15 See page 16 >>

longtime activist Trinity Ordona; and San Francisco State University ethnic studies dean Amy Sueyoshi. Moderated by Margaret Rhee, a 30-year-old queer-identified posthumanist feminist and UC Berkeley doctoral candidate, the panel will include audience participation and, said Rhee, is an extremely important element of the Spirit production. “By including a panel,” she said, “we’re opening up dialogue around queer Asian American identity and community, which helps support an avenue for organizing more possibilities. We’re also making space for those that have utilized curation, organizing, and teaching as part of their praxis, which is so important in building and expressing as an Asian American queer community.” Also happening on May 11 at the Brava Theater Center, is a showing of films by Chan, who is also a Voices of Our Nations literary fellow; educator Erica Cho; internationally-screened filmmaker Yvette Choy; feminist

educator Miki Foster; poet Vanessa Huang; absurdist artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim; activist So Yung Kim; experimental artist Jai Arun Ravine; award-winning filmmaker and educator Tina Takemoto; and interdisciplinary artist Vu T. Thu Ha. The film section starts at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets ($12-$20) for the May 10 performance section of Spirit at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/372352. To purchase tickets ($7-$10) for the May 11 film section at the Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, visit http:// www.brow npaper t ickets.com/ event/372831. Queer Rebels Productions is also putting out a call for submissions of experimental films made by queer people of color. To inquire or learn more about future productions, visit http://www.queerrebels.com.t

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SF Pride

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tion to a “mistake.” Tuesday, the Pride board’s latest statement attempted to explain that “Because Mr. Manning is not local, by definition under the grand marshal policy, he may not be nominated or elected by the electoral college as its community grand marshal.” In the statement, the board also apologized to Manning “and for any harsh words that may have been said about him,” a reference to Williams’s language in her statement when she said the leadership of SF Pride would not tolerate “support for actions which placed in harm’s way the lives of our men and women in uniform ...” The May 7 statement did little to quell the controversy, and Manning supporters turned out in force ahead of the scheduled board meeting. Denise D’Anne, 80, was among those who planned to comment on what she called Pride’s “very specious argument” against Manning. D’Anne, a transgender woman, is retired and uses a scooter to get about. She never got a chance to comment. Neither did dozens of others. About half the group crowded into a foyer on Pearl Street, attempting to get to the small upstairs room where the board was meeting. Two elevators of about 10 people were allowed up, including some former grand marshals and reporters. But dozens of others – including photographers and videographers for the Bay Area Reporter and KTVU – were shut out, prompting the protesters to chant, “Let the media in!” and “Stop the lies!” Many people expressed their frustration, stating that the issue was no longer just about

Foster youth

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When children enter foster care, they’ve already faced hard lives, Jacobs suggested. “All kids that come into foster care are there because there’s been some kind of traumatic abuse or neglect,” she said. But gay youth may end up in foster care when they get kicked out of their home after they come out or are found out. “That happens right here in the Bay Area,” Jacobs said. It was abuse that brought David Rodgers Jr., 34, and his siblings into the foster care system when

The annual Small Business Week takes place May 13-18 with a series of events designed to support, educate, and celebrate small businesses within San Francisco. The events kick off on Monday, May 13 with Flavors of San Francisco, a networking event featuring close to 40 restaurants, caterers, and bars from across the city. The event runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Cityview Room at Metreon, 135 4th Street.

Tickets cost $20. Advance registration is required. On Tuesday, May 14, the Board of Supervisors will honor small businesses across the city in a ceremony at City Hall at 3:30 p.m. This year’s honorees from District 8, which includes the Castro, are QBar (456 Castro Street), Midnight Sun (4067 18th Street), and the Edge (4149 18th Street). Later Tuesday evening, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro and Golden Gate Business Association will co-host a mixer at the LGBT Community Center (1800 Market Street). The centerpiece of Small Business Week comes on Wednesday with a day of seminars and workshops on subjects from basic business plans and branding to social marketing and international trade. The seminars are held at the San Francisco State

University’s downtown campus (835 Market Street). The week wraps up next Saturday with sidewalk sales throughout the city, including in the Castro district. MUMC president and Cliff’s Variety general manager Terry Asten Bennett said during May’s MUMC meeting that the Castro’s sidewalk sale is one of the most popular in the city. She said that the event produced so much extra foot traffic that Cliff’s sales within the regular stores increased 25 percent, not counting the sidewalk sale totals. For more information and registration for Small Business Week events and seminars, visit http:// www.sfsmallbusinessweek.com. t

The meeting did not begin at its scheduled time of 7 p.m., as activists rushed and shoved their way into the office as a board member entered. Plante, stationed by the door, announced no one with press cameras or recording devices would be allowed in. Angry supporters got angrier. SF Pride had one security person to cover the event. Plante also announced only 15 people would be allowed in the meeting room. After these people made comments, he said, they would be rotated out and another group of 15 would be allowed in. Those in the meeting room loudly protested they wanted TV cameras to film their comments but the board held firm on its no camera policy. Bay Area Reporter photographer Rick Gerharter, despite his objections, was barred from the meeting room even though virtually all of the people present had cellphones with cameras and were taking pictures, Gerharter said. Protests grew louder when SF Pride board President Lisa Williams said commenters had one-minute to speak. A sign on the wall behind her read: “Maximum Capacity 22.” Some in the room took video and photographed the proceedings with cellphones in clear view of Williams and the board members. SF Pride legal counsel Brooke Oliver was on speakerphone. Board members refrained from answering questions. When a commenter made legal charges about the meeting, Oliver responded.

Board secretary Lou Fischer read the board’s statement that was released shortly before the meeting. She said she would read the statement for every group of 15 rotated into the room. As Fischer read the statement, Manning supporters shouted, “Grand marshal! Not court-martial!” outside the window from the median strip on Market Street. She had to read loudly to be heard over the outside noise. Manning supporter and Pentagon papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg told the board 60 seconds was not enough time to make a serious statement in support of Manning. He said the April 26 statement from Williams that Manning “placed in harm’s way the lives of our men and women in uniform” was false. Ellsberg told the board that Manning placed no one in harm’s way. He said fewer troops are in Afghanistan because of Manning’s courageous action and Manning had saved lives. He said nearly 60,000 people have signed a petition for Manning to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Sexologist and former grand marshal Carol Queen said the Manning controversy “hurts my heart.” She said the LGBT community has become conservative. Longtime activist Jerry the Fairy shouted, “SF Pride is on the wrong side of the LGBT community and on the wrong side of social justice.” He told the board, “The Manning decision will follow you all if you expect political careers.” Lisa Geduldig said in the past Pride was about freedom and gay politics and “we need to be true to that.” She said it was more important to her to have Manning as grand marshal than someone from

The L Word. Starchild, an at-large representative of the Libertarian National Committee, told the board he was disturbed by its lack of transparency. He said board members failed to adhere to the rules and they should make Manning grand marshal this year. “Put it to a public vote,” he said. After the first 15 members of the public had commented, Fischer abruptly announced the board “needed to go into executive session for five minutes.” It lasted 25 minutes and the decision reached by the board was to allow TV news cameras into the meeting room. During the closed session, however, actions by the angry Manning supporters on the street, in the building lobby, and in the stairwell escalated to the point that the single security man announced to the board that the crowd was out of control. All of these things were said in the meeting room but the door was open and the B.A.R. overheard them. Plante was not present during public comments. Suddenly he appeared and told the board he had been assaulted and he directed a staffer to call the police. He described the situation to the board as a “riot.” Plante appeared shaken and angry. He said someone on the street had shouted in his face and shoved him to the ground “to make his point.” Again, the B.A.R., stationed by the door to the room, overheard Plante as he described the alleged assault to the board. When the board realized the paper’s presence, someone closed the door and locked the board away until police arrived. About 20 police arrived amidst the shouting crowd and several frightened board members. It took

a bit for police to understand what had happened and why they were called. Plante told officers that he wanted to file charges against his assailant, if the person could be found. Board members wanted police to escort them away from the building. They said they were afraid they would be assaulted by the crowd. Plante announced to the few journalists trapped there with them that the board would hold another meeting with better security and in a larger venue. Neither he nor Williams could give a date for the meeting. It fell to board treasurer David Currie to tell the crowd that the meeting was over and that another meeting would be held. He requested police protection to make the announcement to the angry protesters in the stairwell. As Currie spoke, the crowd shouted him down. Outside the building, San Franciscan Bruce Beaudettte, 53 and a security professional, said he had been one of the 15 people to make public comments before the meeting ended. He said he told the board that “Pride should inspire people not shame them.” He said he did not consider the crowd violent. “We were vocal,” he said. San Francisco Police Officer M. Shea said there were no arrests. He said the crowd was “cooperative and compliant.” He said the official reason for ending the meeting was too small a venue. Ellsberg was one of the last people to leave. He said the board had held the meeting “in a large closet.” “They made no real effort to hear comments,” he said, adding, “maybe they will next time.”t

he was 9. Rodgers, who’s gay and lives in Fairfield, said they had faced “severe physical abuse” by their father. Rodgers estimated that over the nine or so years he was in foster care, “we were in maybe a dozen homes.” He sometimes stayed with his maternal grandmother. He said he realized he’s gay when he was 17, but “I never really had a coming out.” His foster families may have known, too, “but we never discussed it,” he said, and he didn’t face abuse as a result of his orientation. “For a gay foster kid, I think

there’s an additional layer of insecurity and a validation that is needed, just as with any regular gay or lesbian kid coming out,” Rodgers said. Foster youth don’t get that validation unless they have “a very supportive foster family.” But children in the system can already have a lot to worry about already. “Most of the time, you don’t ever find that place where you can call home,” Rodgers said. Rodgers, who works in theater, doesn’t have children, but he plans to be a foster parent himself.

Singles welcome, too

with teenagers.” Both LGBT and straight foster parents are needed. “We’re looking for both, because not every gay kid wants a gay family, and not every gay family wants a gay kid,” Jacobs said. She also said that while “It’s been our community that’s been more willing to step up and take care of gay kids, we also need our allies to be there, too.” Saturday’s symposium begins at 9 a.m. at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland. For more information about Family Builders, visit http://www.familybuilders.org.t

Ourselves and the Allstate Foundation in partnership with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and Harvey Milk 2013: Living the Legacy. This free event will explore the life and legacy of Milk, the first openly gay person elected to office in San Francisco. On Novem-

ber 27, 1978, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by ex-Supervisor Dan White. The evening will feature a performance by the gay men’s chorus, and a panel discussion exploring how Milk’s legacies continue to shape the community. Panelists include Anne Kro-

nenberg, co-founder of the Harvey Milk Foundation, who served as campaign manager of Milk’s historic 1977 campaign and was his political aide in City Hall; Cleve Jones, a longtime HIV/ AIDS activist who conceived of the AIDS Memorial Quilt; and Daniel Nicoletta, a photojour-

nalist and gay rights activist. RSVP is required and can be done by contacting www.facinghistory.org/ communityconversations or (510) 786-2500, ext. 226.t

tirely within San Francisco. Currently the leather goods are available online and at Schatzi (791 Valencia). McGinnis is looking to expand the number of retailers carrying the items. He is also busy designing iPad and iPhone cases to add to the product line. For more information, visit http:// www.msethgoods.com.

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it by putting a huge brick in your back pocket,” joked McGinnis. McGinnis made his first wallets in 2011, and took the steps to formalize his business at the end of last year. Currently his line of accessories includes the signature slim wallet ($70) and a cigarette case that holds exactly seven smokes ($70). M Seth Goods is truly a local endeavor. McGinnis creates all of the items by hand in San Francisco, sourcing the leather from Napa and performing the laser cutting at the TechShop (346 Howard Street). He received advice and encouragement from SFMade (www.sfmade.org), a nonprofit encouraging the development of a local manufacturing sector. As McGinnis expands the business, his goal is to keep the production en-

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from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street in San Francisco. The evening, billed as a community conversation, is presented by Facing History and

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Designer Sam Shan, left, with model Selin Sintac wearing one of his creations, backstage at the Wells Fargo Junior Fashion Show, May 2012.

Manning, but about the board’s lack of transparency and failure to represent the LGBT community.

Chaotic scene

Rodgers doesn’t have a partner, but Jacobs indicated that doesn’t mean he couldn’t foster a child. Single parents are welcome, too, she said. Jacobs herself is the adoptive, single parent of two daughters. The process for a family to become certified usually takes about six to nine months. Family Builders offers a stipend of about $700 to $900 to most parents, depending on the age of the child. “We work with kids of all ages,” but the greatest need is for families who will work with youth 10 and over, Jacobs said. “There’s a great need for families to work

The Business Briefs column will take a short break for the months of June and July, returning during the second week of August.

Liz Highleyman contributed to this report.

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isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t related to the health center the agency is developing in the Castro neighborhood. That project, which will combine three of SFAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs at one site, has a cost estimate of $8 million to $10 million, up from the initial estimate of roughly $7.9 million.

Filling the gap

After cutting the grants, a budget gap of about $500,000 remains. Loduca said that the AIDS Walk Revenue Replacement Committee, which is comprised of staff, board members, and top participants from fundraisers like the AIDS Walk and AIDS LifeCycle, has been appointed to look at options for replacing revenue from the walk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been decided yet,â&#x20AC;? he said. Among the possibilities are expanding existing platforms, such as the AIDS/LifeCycle, the annual bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, or SFAF launching a walk of its own. The 2013-14 fiscal year budget is due to be presented to SFAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board in June. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when a final decision would be made,â&#x20AC;? Loduca said. Salary cuts are â&#x20AC;&#x153;not something that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at,â&#x20AC;? he said. According to tax documents covering the 2011-12 fiscal year, AIDS Foundation CEO Neil Giulianoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total compensation was about $270,000. Loducaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was approximately $167,000, the records say. Several other people at the agency also made more than $100,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are committed to our staff,â&#x20AC;? Loduca said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re some of the best staff that we think exist in the HIV/ AIDS space, and they work very, very hard to ensure the services we provide are there for the community. ... It wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fair to balance our budget on their backs because MZA Events selected a new beneficiary.â&#x20AC;? He said â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too soon to speculateâ&#x20AC;? about layoffs. Since Giuliano joined the agency in 2010, several strides have been made to increase efficiency. Among other changes, two vice president-level positions have been eliminated in recent years.

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without the grant, Gale said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The community support here in Contra Costa has been amazing.â&#x20AC;? The center plans to build a team again this year. AIDS Walk funds help support the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and home visitor program for people with HIV/AIDS, weekly HIV testing clinics, and several other services. The agency has a budget of about $1.2 million. Of that, about $300,000 consists of pass-through funding for other community organizations for which the center acts as the fiscal agent. North of San Francisco, Andy Fyne, client and community relations manager for Marin AIDS Project, said the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grant last year was $7,500. The impact of losing it â&#x20AC;&#x153;wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be significant,â&#x20AC;? he said. However, Fyne, whose agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget is less than $900,000, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The walk is extremely important to us.â&#x20AC;? In 2012, the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team raised about $43,000 through the community partners program. The AIDS foundation â&#x20AC;&#x153;has been more than generous by allowing us to fundraise under their banner,â&#x20AC;? he said. In an email, Project Inform Executive Director Dana Van Gorder said his agency, which does HIV/AIDS advocacy and education work, â&#x20AC;&#x153;has committed to the 40 HIV/AIDS organizations that rely on the walk for support that we will make direct grants in 2014 and every year we are lucky enough to

lead it. We will also continue the community partners program.â&#x20AC;? He added his agency would work to increase the amount of support going to HIV/ AIDS services. In an interview, Van Gorder said Project Inform, which has a budget of almost $1.6 million, received a grant of $10,000 last year. The nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team raised about $23,000. Losing the grant â&#x20AC;&#x153;obviously represents a little hole in our budget for next year, but we, unlike the other partners, also are inheriting a lot,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That will have revenue implications on us not so much in the coming fiscal year, but certainly in the following one.â&#x20AC;?t

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APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035017800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAGE STAGING & DESIGN, 1730 KEARNY ST. #L2, SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Sage Johnson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/17/04. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/04/13.

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APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-034976400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HARAJUKU, 22 PEACE PLAZA #511, SF, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Yoo-Gyeong Shim. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/19/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/19/13.

APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-035040900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALLEN STYLE, 55 GRANT AVE. 4TH FL., SF, CA 94108. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Allen Fu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/13.

APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-034988000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DOLLY DECO, 1059 PAGE ST. #1, SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Nicole Patricia Aguilar. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/22/13.

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APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-031394900 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: THAI CORNER EXPRESS, 545 SANSOME ST., SF, CA 94111. This business was conducted by a corporation and signed by Dupont Thai Inc. (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 08/25/08.

APR 18, 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Dated 04/19/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ALBERT KINWAY LEE. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1599 HOWARD ST., SF, CA 94103-2524. Type of license applied for

41 - ON-SALE BEER & WINE - EATING PLACE APR 25, MAY 2, 9, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME & GENDER IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549422 In the matter of the application of: CAROL MARTIN MAALOUMI, for change of name & gender having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner CAROL MARTIN MAALOUMI, is requesting that the name CAROL MARTIN MAALOUMI be changed to MARTIN MAALOUMI, and requesting a decree that the petitioner’s gender be changed from female to male. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 13th of June 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 25, MAY 2, 9, 16, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549438 In the matter of the application of: ZAKARY KATHRYN BAIRD SZYMANSKI, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner ZAKARY KATHRYN BAIRD SZYMANSKI, is requesting that the name ZAKARY KATHRYN BAIRD SZYMANSKI be changed to ZAKARY BAIRD SZYMANSKI. 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 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

APR 25, MAY 2, 9, 16, 2013 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC13-549448

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D’MAIZE, 115 HARVARD ST., SF, CA 94134. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Zenaida Merlin. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/21/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 03/21/13.

In the matter of the application of: LESLIE ZIANI, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner LESLIE ZIANI, is requesting that the name LESLIE ZIANI be changed to LESLIE ENNIS. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514 on the 27th of June 2013 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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Legal Notices>> notice of petition to adminster estate of earl gene copeland in sUperior coUrt of california, coUnty of san francisco: file pes13-296650 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of EARL GENE COPELAND. A Petition for Probate has been filed by MARK SIPPEL in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that MARK SIPPEL 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: May 06, 2013, 9am, 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: Mr. Dimitri Panagopoulos Esq., 8880 Rio San Diego Dr. 8th Fl., San Diego, CA 92108; Ph. (619) 209-6030.

apr 18, 25, may 2, 9, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035047100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BAY AREA RELATIONSHIP CENTER, 538 HAYES ST., SF, CA 94102. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Anna Schuessler. 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 04/17/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035046800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CADRE GELATO, 1650 QUESADA AVE., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Robert Davis. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035046100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: E LIMO SF, 280 CHARTER OAK AVE., SF, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Luan Viet Nguyen. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/16/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035048600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PANTHERS MARKET, 2955 CLEMENT ST., SF, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Basima Dabit. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/13.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BATTER UP, 428 11TH ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Batter Up Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/15/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MAKE UP OR BREAK UP, 212 FAIR OAKS ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Heather R. Baker. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/13.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CWESTE; SFIBC; SFIACC; 5 3RD ST. #1010, SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Nowruz At City Hall (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TWINKY PUPPY PALS, PUPPY PALS; 33 HIGUERA ST., SF, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Eric Michael Moren. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/13.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CDM SMITH & A-T-S, 5 3RD ST. #1010, SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a joint venture, and is signed CDM Smith Inc. (CA) & Elahe Enssanil. 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 04/22/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LAGUNA CAFE, 1821 HAIGHT ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Khaled Hegazy. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/15/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/16/13.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CAFE ST. JORGE, 3438 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed St. Jorge 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 04/22/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GRUENWALD PRESS, 1663 MISSION ST. (BACK MEZZANINE), SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed John Gruenwald. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/06/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035033400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HANDY SANDY, 2514 3RD ST., SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Sandy Katrina Lazzari & Tyler Christopher Marcic. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/11/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/11/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a035056300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BAY SUPER NANNIES, 291 MUNICH ST., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Rebecca J. Meyer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/19/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035052400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PUG WINE, 2455 3RD ST., SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Pug Wine LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/06/10. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/18/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035059600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SHOESOFSPAIN, 3387 MARKET ST., SF, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Susana Conde-Guadano. 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 04/22/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 notice of application to sell alcoholic Beverages Dated 04/19/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ELKS LODGE SAN FRANCISCO 3. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 450 POST ST., 3RD FL., SF, CA 94102-1526. Type of license applied for

47 - on-sale general eating place may 02, 09, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035065500

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035020300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA PROMENADE CAFÉ, PROMENADE CAFÉ; 3643 BALBOA ST., SF, CA 94121. This business is conducted by a married couple, and is signed Eanly L. Thong & Vichetr Thong. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/05/13.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035065400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLOUDY CATE QUILTS, 690 HEARST AVE., SF, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Catherine C. Sherman. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 12/31/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/13.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035064100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NIC CRUSH, 201 MISSION ST., SF, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Maria P. Aleman. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/24/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/13.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035067200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TEXTIZEN, 155 9TH ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Vox Metropolis Inc. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/02/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/13.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035063700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASIT NAVIGATION & INTERNATIONAL CO. LTD., 600 OAK ST., SF, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Hazem Akleek. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/23/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/24/13.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035073300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO JUICERY, 408 29TH ST., SF, CA 94131. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Tom Wayne Basso. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/22/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PALM BEACH ARCADE, 1043 KEARNY ST., SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Inter-Regional Service Corporation (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/01/08. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/25/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOTALLY NON TOXIC, 3156 MISSION ST. #3, SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Randen D. Kane. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/29/13.

apr 25, may 2, 9, 16, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035050500

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035075000

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 statement of aBandonment of Use of fictitioUs BUsiness name file a-032385800

statement of aBandonment of Use of fictitioUs BUsiness name file a-033616700 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: KINDRED NURSING AND REHABILITATION-VICTORIAN, 2121 PINE ST., SF, CA 94115. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by Kindred Nursing Centers West LLC (DE). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 06/08/11.

may 02, 09, 16, 23, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnership of alcoholic Beverage license Dated 04/30/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: NAEL M ALSHAYEB. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1813 FULTON ST., SF, CA 94117-1213. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnership of alcoholic Beverage license Dated 04/29/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ANDALE MANAGEMENT GROUP INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 2 BOARDING AREA D, SF, CA 94128. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnership of alcoholic Beverage license Dated 05/01/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ANDALE AIRPORTS. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at SF INTL AIRPORT, DOM TERMINAL 3 BOARD AREA F, SF, CA 94128. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 notice of application for change in oWnership of alcoholic Beverage license Dated 04/16/2013 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: MIKADO SUSHI, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1684 BRYANT ST., SF, CA 94103-4809. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 notice of application to sell alcoholic Beverages Dated 04/25/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: ELIAS SHATARA. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 1191 PINE ST., SF, CA 94109-5104. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 notice of application to sell alcoholic Beverages Dated 04/30/13 To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are: S B HOUSE INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 33 New Montgomery St. #1230, SF, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at 5158 GEARY BLVD., 1ST & 2ND FL., SF, CA 94118-2816. Type of license applied for

41 - on-sale Beer & Wine - eating place may 09, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035072700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GEORGETTE CRIMSON, 199 NEW MONTGOMERY ST. #1004, SF, CA 94105. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Tina Lorayne Reith. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/29/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/29/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035080700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MULTITEK GROUP, 306 RANDOLPH ST., SF, CA 94132. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed George Ehigiator. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/18/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/18/13.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCHATZI LLC, 791 VALENCIA ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed Schatzi LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/22/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/13.

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: ITALIAN HEART CYCLING, 1370 CHESTNUT ST., SF, CA 94123. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by Luca Ortolani. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/16/09.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: APARTMENTSINSF.COM; POST REAL ESTATE ADVISORS; 1895 JEFFERSON #306, SF, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed Chuck Post. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 05/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/02/13.

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fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035047000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HIGH ROAD PARTNERS, 3746 20TH ST., SF, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed Paul R. Hurley & Cynthia Cummins. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/17/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/17/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035078200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: POCKET CHANGE, 657 HOWARD ST., SF, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Lunch Money Co. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/23/11. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/01/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a-035074700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BASQUE HOTEL; 15 ROMOLO; 15 ROMOLO PL., SF, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed Galileo Inc. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/01/00. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/30/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a- a-035083100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TAHBAZOF LAW FIRM LLP, 1256 HOWARD ST. #201, SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership and is signed Sufi Tahbazof Hariri & Yosef Tahbazof. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/03/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 fictitioUs BUsiness name statement file a- a-035090200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SST APARTMENTS, 1256 HOWARD ST., SF, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SST Investments, LLC (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 05/07/13.

may 09, 16, 23, 30, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT RFP NO. 6M4280 EXTENSION OF TIME FOR RECEIPT OF PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the General Manager of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District has extended the time for receipt of Proposals until the hour of 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at the District’s Offices, 23rd Floor Receptionist, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California 94612 (by Hand Delivery), or to the District Secretary’s Office, P.O. Box 12688, Oakland, CA 94604-2688 (by U.S. Mail), for Utilization Review Services and Bill Review Services for the District’s Workers Compensation Program, RFP No. 6M4280, as more fully described in the RFP Documents. Dated at Oakland, California, this 1st day of May, 2013. /s/ Kenneth A. Duron Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 5/9/13 • CNS-2480941# BAY AREA REPORTER

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Cream rises to the top by Paul Parish

S Faye Dunaway played Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest.

Dunaway Dearest by David-Elijah Nahmod

utanya Alda has enjoyed a long and varied career. Her impressive list of acting credits includes appearing in works by filmmakers Brian DePalma and Michael Cimino. She counts Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn and Christo-

pher Walken among her co-stars. She’s appeared extensively on the stage, and teaches. Alda has had a career many would envy. Yet she remains best known for her portrayal of Carol Ann, loyal housekeeper and companion to movie star Joan Crawford in the 1981 film adaptation of Christina Crawford’s shocking memoir See page 22 >>

San Francisco Ballet dancers Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada in Cinderella.

an Francisco Ballet’s Cinderella (choreography: Christopher Wheeldon) is already sold out. Before it opened, rumor has it, it was sold out. Don’t let that stop you. You must go. Somebody’s mother-in-law always gets sick, and you can get her ticket on the stairs outside. The show is fabulous – there are moments when your hair stands on end and you feel like your head is going to explode. The deep coherence of the show is tremendous, but it’s tricked out in delicacy and fancy. It’s as good as Toy Story, with overwhelmingly wonderful music by Serge Prokofiev, one of his most visionary and mysterious scores. Every turn of the story has been freshly imagined, fitted to the music in an original way. Opening night was a sensational hit; it will be fascinating to see See page 30 >> Erik Tomasson

Joan Crawford and Cliff Robertson in the film noir Autumn Leaves.

Dark times in Hollywood by Erin Blackwell

{ SECOND OF TWO SECTIONS }

he Roxie Theater, an oasis of subversion in the hyper-gentrifying Valencia Corridor, celebrates our roots in crime and over-determined gender roles with passionate programmer Elliot Lavine’s annual I Wake Up Dreaming festival. This fortnight of B-movie double bills, most in lustrous 35mm prints, May 10-23, is a bargain-priced piñata full of beautiful and troubling images. Warning: too many film noirs backto-back induce a trance state in which plots dissolve in a montage of blondes in distress, tough guys, cigarette smoke, flashbacks, inky silhouettes, Venetian blinds, rainy nights, drinks, tables for two, nightclubs, big cars, barroom brawls, double-breasted suits, funny farms, prisons, shoulder pads, torch singers, rhumba bands, deadpan repartee – and a femme fatale’s snub-nose plugging a creep. Noir, as first defined by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton, evolved throughout 1941-53. This pivotal period, from the U.S. entry into World War II to the end of the Korean War, included the 1945 Hiroshima bombing and the 1947 betrayal of the Hollywood 10 by colleagues naming “Communist” names to Joe McCarthy’s Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Noir, mostly filmed in L.A., marks the point of no return for Hollywood’s Golden Age. See page 23 >>

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Mommie Dearest

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Mommie Dearest. On Sat., May 11, Alda will appear live on stage at the beautiful Castro Theatre when master showman Marc Huestis presents Mommie Dearest on the big screen. It’s a film Alda is proud to have been part of. “A lot of the people who worked on the film had worked with Joan Crawford,” she recalled in a telephone interview with the B.A.R. “Everyone who worked with Joan loved her. She knew their names, she sent them birthday cards.” Faye Dunaway, who played Crawford in Mommie Dearest, wasn’t so beloved, according to Alda. “People despised Faye,” she said. “Joan got her way in a ladylike way. Faye was despised because she was so rude to peo-

ple. Everyone was on pins and needles when she worked, and everyone relaxed when she didn’t. I wish Faye had learned from Joan.” Dunaway now refuses to discuss the film. “If I were Faye, I would own the film,” Alda said. “I think she’s good in the film, she should talk about it.” Alda admires Dunaway’s acting ability, pointing to the superb work she did in films like Bonnie and Clyde, Network, Chinatown, and Three Days of the Condor. She expressed her sorrow, however, that Dunaway has no humor in her life. She told the B.A.R. that Mommie Dearest almost didn’t get made. “Production was shut down for a week,” she recalled. “Faye wanted a producer credit for her boyfriend Terry O’Neill, even though he had nothing to do with the film’s production.”

Rutanya Alda played Carol Ann in Mommie Dearest: ‘I’m glad it’s a cult classic.’

Alda had nothing but kind words for close friend Christina Crawford, whom she’s in fairly regular contact with. Alda reports that Crawford today is a happy woman who’s made peace with the past. Alda believes Christina’s story, and feels that there was more than one Joan Crawford. Joan’s behavior at home was completely unlike her interactions with her colleagues at MGM and Warner Bros. “Helen Hayes, who was one of Joan’s best friends, said she should have never been a mother,” Alda observed. “When she was at home, she took the pressures of stardom out on the kids.” Alda points out that Crawford’s two younger daughters, who recall Joan as a loving mom, were adopted after the spotlight had faded. When living with less stress in her life, Joan was able to be more of a loving mother. Alda told the B.A.R. that she kept a diary during the filming of Mommie

Dearest. She’s now editing it and hopes to see it published. She expressed her disappointment regarding a scene that was cut from the final film in which Carol Ann all but expresses her love for Crawford during their first meeting at the studio gate. “Get in,” said Dunaway’s Crawford, opening her car door. We wondered if Carol Ann, who devoted her life to serving Crawford, might have been a lesbian. “My performance leaned in that direction,” Alda said. “You’ll have to read my diary for the full story.” The actress is also in the process of putting together a one-woman show. “It’s about my eight-year journey to the USA from Latvia, where I was born,” she said. “It’s told from the point of view of a child.” Alda is now prepping for her appearance at the Castro, which she says she’s greatly looking forward to. “I like Mommie Dearest,” she said. “I’m proud of it. I’m glad it’s a cult classic.”

Alda will be joined on the Castro stage by drag superstar Matthew Martin, who will appear as Crawford. “I’m reviving the surreal production number ‘Two Faced Woman’ that Crawford did in the film Torch Song,” Martin told the B.A.R. “Paying homage to Hollywood royalty at the Castro Theatre in Marc Huestis’ shows is always a special interactive event. For a performer, it’s like playing the Palace! Having Rutanya Alda share her personal experiences making Mommie Dearest will provide interesting insight into Faye Dunaway as Crawford.” Part of Alda’s sharing will include reading excerpts from her Mommie Dearest Diaries. She will also be available for autographs.t Mommie Dearest, with special guest Rutanya Alda (Carol Ann), Sat., May 11, 7:30 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., SF. Tickets ($15): http://www.ticketfly.com/ event/244201. Info: (415) 863-0611

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Time after time by Roberto Friedman

y now we’ve had the chance to experience artist Christian Marclay’s masterpiece of video editing The Clock at SFMOMA during three different visits in its 24-hour duration. We’ve dipped into it from 11:50 a.m.-2:20 p.m., from 3 p.m.6:30 p.m., and from 8:15 p.m.12:10 a.m. This last spell was thanks to a special late-night viewing for Director’s Circle and Artist’s Circle members, but the museum is hosting all-night screenings for the general public on all Saturday nights in May. From these hours of viewing – really, meditating on – The Clock, we’ve come to certain conclusions. The unprecedented “real-time” nature of the artwork – that is, when it’s 8:23 p.m. onscreen, it’s 8:23 p.m. in the screening room as well – perfectly shows how we’re all caught up in this giant web together that we call Time. Everyone in The Clock is checking their wristwatch, or a clock, all the time – criminals, cops, call girls, socialites, gunslingers, goons. Time is what we all have in common, above all else. Time is also the only dimension that we can’t move through at will, so it is constantly defeating us, upstaging us, showing us who’s boss. We’re all Time’s bitch.

We’re considering returning to The Clock during one of its allnight runs. We’re curious to see what could be happening onscreen at, say, 4:36 a.m. But we also like the fact that there’s a huge part of this artwork, in the wee hours, that will be seen by very few – that will remain the dark side of the moon. Here are a few ways Out There did spend our time recently: We attended a special concert featuring Michael Feinstein at the all-new Feinstein’s at the Nikko. Backed by a five-piece combo, Feinstein opened the new cabaret room in grand style. We joined JuntoBox Films along with the San Francisco Film Society in celebrating the new A2E: Artist to Entrepreneur program for filmmakers, last Thursday night at 1300 Fillmore. Co-chaired by Forest Whitaker, JuntoBox is a collaborative film studio that ties social development into film production, including financing and distribution. Maybe it was because most of these filmmakers were young, or because OT is old enough to be their biological daddy, but we kept on misreading the company name as “Juice Box.” We caught up with director Terrence Malick’s new film To the Wonder, which we enjoyed for its visual sense and use of music.

Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Video still from The Clock (2010) by Christian Marclay; single-channel video with stereo sound, 24 hours.

It’s more about abstract concepts – light, love, restlessness – than about any linear story that might involve its characters. That was OK with us, personally we find narrative overrated, but we were brought to the wonder: If you’re going to

Dark times

From page 21

And yet. Film fanatics refuse to limit this fecund genre or style to a particular period or place, since its themes are as timeless as corruption. Noir is a state of mind: drunk, delusional, doomed, amorous, avid, amoral, paranoid, power-mad, parasitic, crass, corrupt, cynical. Or as the Frenchies put it, “Oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel.” Noir reveals transgressions – illegal, amoral, irrational, insatiable – that disturb the volatile teeter-totter of interpersonal power dynamics. Noir locates the fine line between respectability and scandal, and erases it. Baby boomers, raised by noir parents, have it in their DNA. The current crackdown on civil liberties in the name of Terror plunges a new generation into the dark. Films include: Fri., May 10: I Wake Up Screaming (1941) Peroxide typist Betty Grable falls for swarthy promoter Victor Mature, wanted for offing her sister, Carole Landis, for whom big, breathy Laird Cregar carries a creepy torch. Noir mascot Elisha Cook, Jr. is an insolent desk clerk sent ’round the bend by the old haunted-switchboard trick. Sat., May 11: Johnny O’Clock (1947) Leisurely hat-check girl whodunit sees post-Busby Berkeley Dick Powell act tough opposite febrile Evelyn Keyes in a beret. Group Theater alum Lee J. Cobb is a big, dogged cop, three years before fingering Commies for the feds. The Monster and the Girl (1941) Sublime urban nightmare proves a man’s brain in a gorilla’s body can avenge his sister’s forced prostitution in the big city. Mad scientist George Zucco heads all-star character actor cast. Sun., May 12: Pulp writer Cornell Woolrich’s triple-bill. Black Angel (1946) Heartless bitch Constance Dowling gets hers in the film’s stunning opening sequence, leaving uptight June Vincent to elude alcoholic Dan Duryea while category-melting Peter Lorre hires the musical duo for his Sunset Strip club, flaunting “M” matchbooks. See extras lunching at Studio Drugstore in costume!

Joan Crawford and Ruth Donnelly in the film noir Autumn Leaves.

Sweaty-eyeballed delirium tremens in the loony bin justifies an undulating flashback of strangle-the-bitch before big, wry Broderick Crawford collars perp. Wed., May 15: Five (1951) Prolific radio-drama pioneer and arch antifascist Arch Oboler wrote, directed, produced, and designed this al fresco meditation on post-atomic dystopia. Sat., May 18: Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Burt Lancaster, in glasses and military buzzcut, plays a new American villain: columnist-aspatriotic bully. Spineless press agent Tony Curtis does his dirty work, like bartering Beverly Michaels’ flesh for favors. This anti-McCarthy fable doubles as an insider’s cinéma verité romp through Broadway-centric Manhattan nightlife. Group Theater playwright Clifford Odets generates urban poetry, scored by Elmer Bernstein. Sun., May 19: Autumn Leaves (1956) Catching wife Vera Miles in bed with dad Lorne Greene traumatizes unstable baby-faced Cliff Robertson, 33, who seeks solace with self-supporting spinster Joan Crawford, 52, who takes a chance on codependency. Married in Mexico, he moves in and regresses until he’s ripe

for a straitjacket, shock treatment, and a drip. Comedienne Ruth Donnelly as an ironic iconic landlady. Female on the Beach (1955) Rich widow Joan Crawford, 51, cynical but sex-starved, succumbs to beach bum Jeff Chandler, 36, whose well-to-do confederates Natalie Shafer and Cecil Kellaway are comic card sharks. But Joan’s beachhouse is haunted by the last lonely lady Jeff seduced. Jan Sterling as an invasive blonde realtor. Thurs., May 23: Criss Cross (1948) Earnest dope Burt Lancaster, under the spell of cat-in-heat Yvonne de Carlo, pries her loose from brainless gangster Dan Duryea with the perfect armored-car heist that’s a tragic flop. Tony Curtis, uncredited, as Yvonne’s rhumba partner.t I Wake Up Dreaming, May 10-23, Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St. $11 per double bill. www.roxie.com

On the web This week, find Victoria A. Brownworth’s Lavender Tube column, “Class act on the tube,” online at ebar.com.

eliminate character, story, any sort of meaningful dialogue from your film, why would you go ahead and cast stars of the Hollywood and in-

ternational film worlds? Also, we missed the dinosaurs from Malick’s The Tree of Life. Now, those mothers knew how to twirl.t

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May days at the Castro Theatre

by David Lamble

he Castro Theatre uses the month before Pride to showcase films we love, love to hate, and hate to admit we love for all the wrong reasons. There’s camp and kitsch, pathos and tragedy, satire and ridicule. Mommie Dearest Honestly, if you aren’t familiar with this camp classic, catch it on video first because chances are, 1,450 or so of its biggest fans will make it bloody near impossible to hear anything but them on the night. In 1981, heretofore “serious actress” Faye Dunaway inducted herself into the camp pantheon by signing up to do Miss Joan Crawford, an actress she professed to admire, based on a bestselling memoir by Joan’s adopted daughter Christina. Purportedly angling for an Oscar, Dunaway accepted a script that had been rejected by Ann Bancroft as a vulgar travesty. A few questions: Would a Bancroft version have been too sincere and ruined our fun? Would camp auteur John Waters have been a better ringmaster than Frank Perry, long past his prime? Would a Meryl Streep version today give us a Joan we could admire and giggle at for another century? (5/11, 7:30 p.m.) Mildred Pierce Despite being temporarily overshadowed by the snazzy new HBO/Todd Haynes re-imagined miniseries, this 1945 Joan Crawford/Ann Blyth/Michael Curtiz Oscarwinning warhorse remains one hell of an entertaining ride. If you’re a fan of Crawford’s underplayed career comeback, sans the mannerisms that marred parts of her later career; if you relish Blyth’s monster vixen and Jack

Faye Dunaway as Miss Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest.

Leslie Cheung, left, and Tony Leung in Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together.

Carson and Eve Arden’s pushy best friends, then return to this delicious shotgun marriage of feminine melodrama and manly noir. (5/11, 2:30 p.m.) The Master Paul Thomas Anderson keeps the real-life subject of this galvanic meditation, Tom Terrific’s little cult, buried beneath layers of surreal mindgames between a guru and his disciple. Masterful turns from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix add to our pleasure. (5/14, 2, 5, 8 p.m.) Happy Together Leave it to Hong Kong master Wong Kar-Wai to cast the former British colony’s top male performers, Tony Leung and the late Leslie Cheung, as expat, soon-to-be ex-boyfriends in Buenos Aires. The duo, good only

at making each other miserable, spend their last days together seeing if the pungent mix of bars, tango-dancing and waterfalls can give their relationship a new purpose. (5/16, 7 p.m.) The Bad News Bears This 1976 gem is my favorite on the schedule for its bow to the reckless 70s spirit of questioning authority. Berkeley-raised Michael Ritchie had previously developed iconoclastic projects for Robert Redford (The Candidate, Downhill Racer) in which the pretty-boy hero discovers what a perverse joke the American style of winning has become. Bears ups the ante by having an absurdist male authority-figure – broken-down, alcoholic ex-ballplayer Walter Matthau – attempt to instill “hab-

its of winning” in a gaggle of preteen “losers” whose sassy leader is a pint-sized shortstop with a Napoleonic complex. Only Matthau, an incredibly versatile performer,

could complete his character’s arc from bullying blowhard to wiseto-himself mentor. Three cheers for a terrific supporting cast, parSee page 25 >>

Rebel rebel by David Lamble

irector Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is a provocative and intimate documentary observing her title characters’ bid to become a single “p a n- i ndiv idual.” While it stands on its own as a singular piece of filmmaking, it helps to know the back story of its surviving subject, Genesis P-Orridge. Born Neil Andrew Megson in a 1950 Great Britain still suffering the privations of wartime rationing, this son of a traveling salesman would recall for an adult biographer (Simon Ford, Wreckers of Civilisation) memories of his mom guiding him to school through a lush forest, memories that he would later revise to hint at life’s cruelties. “Epping Forest was still untouched – rabbits, squirrels and deer were always around. There were pools, frog ponds, deep shadows. It was a magical place, and a favorite haunt, I learned later, for rapes, flashing and the dumping off of corpses.” This perception of a natural order of things, a world rife with injustice where a rebel would be punished, would be confirmed at his private prep school in four years of “torture and bullying.” Nonetheless, young Andrew became an anti-Christian rebel at school, a lad destined to join a commune of pranksters later cited for soft-core porn collages that included portraits of the Queen. Megson’s rebels were convicted of indecent conduct towards Her Majesty, and branded “wreckers of civilisation” by a vexed Scottish MP. After making his mark with signature avant-garde bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic

TV, Megson adopted the moniker Genesis P-Orridge and embarked on a life as a trans-gender rebel, meeting his soulmate while sleeping in the basement of a dominatrix. Genesis uses the royal “we” as part of his bargain with Lady Jaye. “We’d slept in the dungeon overnight, and when we woke up we saw a light go on in a doorway and this beautiful, tall blonde woman walked across the doorway. She was dressed in a 60s outfit, with a Brian Jones haircut, a cigarette in her hand, and gradually she got undressed and started to put on all this fetish outfit. We were riveted: ‘Who is that?’ And then, strangely, I found myself saying out loud, ‘If I could be with that woman, that’s all I want for the rest of my life.’ We went out that night, and we were together from then on.” The relationship would last until Lady Jaye’s untimely death in 2007 of stomach cancer, a moment that comes off as abruptly in the film as it did in life. Bonus features: Chats with Lady Jaye, Orlan, Gibby Haynes and Sleezy; outtakes featuring Psychic TV, PTV3, Tony Conrad and Peaches; theatrical trailer; photos from Genesis’ archives; plus two short films.t

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Constant cravings by Jim Piechota

Autobiography of My Hungers by Rigoberto Gonzalez; Univ. of Wisconsin Press, $19.95

edicated to three nieces, a nephew, and a godson, the “smallest biggest joys” in his life, gay Latino poet and author Rigoberto Gonzalez’s trim yet artistically potent Autobiography of My Hungers combines poetry, musings, memories, pleasures, pains, and most importantly, the yearnings that have made him the exacting artist he has become today. His passionate 2006 memoir Butterfly Boy was a stirring coming-of-age portrait of the author as a firstgeneration Mexican-American struggling with his heritage and his homosexuality through powerful language and imagery. This book looks at these same (and other) struggles through the physical and psychological “hungers” Gonzalez experienced. Most of these ruminations are no longer than a few pages in length, yet each word has been placed with

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ticularly the plucky Tatum O’Neal as the Bears’ fastball-wielding pitcher. (5/17, 7:30 p.m.) Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock, resenting control-freak producer David O. Selznick’s meddling, decides on artistic revenge. His 39th film, second of four with Jimmy Stewart, features a fat villain that film-biz insiders would spot as a truly hilarious Selznick. Stewart’s photographer, immobilized after an accident, becomes

great care. Several opening pieces describe the author’s childhood tasks of cleaning beans of their “undesirable, inedible stowaways,” doing laundry by hand in Michoacan, Mexico, or posing for a family photograph with feelings of disappointment toward an absent father who drank too much. It’s all representative of his hunger to be useful to his family, while harboring feelings of separateness. Gonzalez’s vignettes can be joyful to read as they illuminate his rich Mexican heritage. His stories about his grandparents and their new life in California range from his abuela’s love of gardening to his retired abuelo’s revenge for a neighbor in their housing project who continually stole a prized parking spot. But mostly these remembrances are deep, sentimentally dense flashbacks, the scar tissue from an emotionally unfulfilled childhood. His father’s gift of a baseball glove is translated as a last-ditch effort to masculate his oldest son, who has become “nothing of a jock in my baby fat, my soft voice, my gentle nature.” Quite the opposite of his father’s

intentions, he “collected stamps and books. I held my girl cousin’s hairpins while she tightened her braids.” He also has a burgeoning appetite for food, a physical hunger to bury emotional needs not met by birthdays without parties, a sickly mother, or a father who called him fat. Writings on his early adult life convey a clear-eyed self-awareness. Gonzalez ponders his collegiate years fumbling with heterosexual sex, absorbing the crush of his family’s decision to return to Mexico, his subsequent visits back there as a “homesick immigrant,” and his father’s unspoken acknowledgment of a son who would bear no offspring, a man who’d become “a citizen of the unattached, the people who left no footprints after they died.” There is glorious love to be found in the closing pieces of this moody collection. Amidst Gonzalez’s memories of living in Manhattan with a boyfriend, his hunger for the touch of another man recognized, the real love he discovers is a love for himself, which unifies and beautifies all the sadness that dark-

ened his early years. Gonzalez’s self-analysis by means of mixed

media is stimulating, enlightening, and well worth the journey.t

addicted to spying on his neighbors, particularly a pudgy salesman (Raymond Burr) sporting Selznick’s trademark grey hair and rimless glasses. Our current addiction to social networking is anticipated in the dangerous phone-tag Stewart plays with the frightened killer who may become his executioner. (5/18, 2, 4:30, 7 p.m.) Milk begins on a silent scream as a middle-aged man, hiding his face behind a newspaper during a police raid on a gay bar, tosses a drink directly into the lens of a

newsreel camera. We next observe a middle-aged man talking into a 1970s tape-recorder. “This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday, November 18. This is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination.” It’s a trick from Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard: a dead man tells the story behind his untimely demise. This Greek tragedy made in San Francisco, nimbly staged by Gus Van Sant from Dustin Lance Black’s passionate, meticulously researched screenplay, becomes a human political

thriller with a grasp of the nuts and bolts of government intrigue and their crushing impact on real lives. Mexican star Diego Luna invests Harvey’s last love Jack Lira with carnal energy and pathos mixed with unexpected humor. The Harvey/Jack subplot illustrates the neediness of even the most together political activist. (5/22, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.) Black Swan If you love a mad trip with a wildly insecure heroine who’s as likely to be fitted for a straightjacket as a tutu, then Darren Aronofsky’s acrobatic

soap is for you. It doesn’t hurt if you think that after all the years when Hollywood denied the queer side of the dance world, it’s time to inject some narcissistic lesbian sex into the story. (5/23, 7 p.m.) Spring Breakers Cinema rude boy Harmony Korine’s bid to return to the circle of cool features four cable-TV dropout vixens whose performances qualify as camp in the worst way. James Franco redeems as a foulmouthed, tattooed, gun-toting drug pimp. (5/29, 7 p.m.)t

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Indulge at ODC Theater, Tue 14.

Strange Shorts @ Oddball Films

Strange Shorts, Thu 9.

Odd and vintage short films and excerpts. May 9: Czech, Please! Animated wonders from the former Czechoslovakia. May 10: Learn Your Lesson on Drugs!, camptastic anti-drug shorts. Each $10, 8pm. 275 Capp St. 558-8117. www.oddballfilms.blogspot.com

Tinsel Tarts in a Hot Coma @ The Hypnodrome Thrillpeddlers performs Scrumbly Koldewyn and Pam Tent’s new, full-length restored version of The Cockettes’ 1971 wacky drag musical comedy on the 42nd anniversary of the original production. Thu-Sat 8pm. Extended thru June 29. 575 10th St. at Bryant. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Old times by Jim Provenzano Rapt Productions, Kitfox Valentin

’m older, but that’s great, because the alternative to living old isn’t much fun. Fortunately, reliving younger cultural highpoints takes less effort, because we eldergays were already into the Time Warp back when TV comics like Ross Mathews (the younger, out gay version of Paul Lynde) were barely born. We got to watch sapphic sister Sandra Bernhard rile the Hollywood closet on TV, and some of us actually saw the original Mary Poppins in a movie theatre! Although not old enough to have lived through Homer’s Odyssey, the sexy new tribute art exhibit, and ODC Theater’s tasty benefit, remind me of fabulous festivities of days past, when we were all on the guest list. The fun continues into the future, or at least the next eight days.

Thu 9 Billy Elliot @ San Jose Performing Arts Center The touring production of the Tony Awardwinning musical with songs by Elton John, about a young boy who wants to dance amid the oppressive Thatcher regime, returns to the Bay Area. $25-$75. Tue-Thu 7:30pm. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm. Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Thru May 12. 251 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. www.broadwaysanjose.com

Black Watch @ Armory Community Center American Conservatory Theatre presents the National Theatre of Scotland’s globally acclaimed military drama-dance performance work, appropriately staged in the enormous Mission District Armory’s Drill Court. (Special bike valet nights May 9 & 23; Out with A.C.T. LGBT night May 15 post-show reception). $44-$82. Tue-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm. Sun 7pm. Thru June 9. 333 14th St. at Mission. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

Chrysta Bell @ Bimbo’s The dreamy singer performs, with equally dreamy multimedia visuals created by filmmaker David Lynch. Emily Jane White opens. $18-$20. 21+ 8pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com

Fabulous at 40 @ Bellevue Club, Oakland The Pacific Center’s anniversary gala includes a speech by Cleve Jones, and performances by the Oakland East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus; honors to local LGBT volunteers. $150. 6:30pm no-host cocktails. 7:30pm dinner and program. 525 Bellevue Ave. at Lake Merritt. www.pacificcenter.org

Little Me @ Eureka Theatre Jason Graae stars in 42nd Street Moon’s production of Neil Simon’s witty rags to riches musical comedy, based on the novel by Patrick Dennis (Auntie Mame ), with a score by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh. $25-$75. Wed 7pm. Thu & Fri 8pm. Sat 6pm. Sun 3pm. Thru May 19. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

Fri 10 Acid Test @ the Marsh Warren David Keith’s solo show, Acid Test: the Many Incarnations of Ram Dass, about the ‘60s guru, returns. Fri 8pm. Sat 5pm. Thru May 18. 1062 Valencia St. at 22nd. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

The Arsonists @ Aurora Theatre, Berkeley

Pericles, Prince of Tyre @ Berkeley Rep

Being Baz @ Fifth Floor Restaurant, Hotel Palomar

Obie Award-winning director Mark WingDavey revamps Shakespeare’s actionpacked seafaring drama full of knights, pirates, villains and kings. Special events thru the run. $29-$77. Tue-Thu-Sat 8pm. Wed & Sun 7pm. Also Sat & Sun 2pm. Thru May 26. Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St. at Shattuck. (510) 647-2949. www.BerkeleyRep.org

Enjoy a farmer’s market tour, cocktail hour and lavish five-course dinner in this experiential gourmand event. Hunky celebrity chef David Bazirgan shows you where he shops for produce at the Ferry Building (10am-12pm); bar manager Brian Means shares unique cocktail recipes and drinks (6:30pm); then, enjoy dinner and wine pairings at the swanky hotel restaurant. $49. 344-3346. 12 4th St. www.hotelpalomar.com

Aurora Theatre Company’s production of Alistair Beaton’s new translation of Max Frisch’s classic comic parable about bourgeois complacency, and an absurdist allegory of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. $35-$60. Tue & Sun 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sun 2pm. Thru May 12. 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 8434822. www.auroratheatre.org

Give Out Day @ Nationwide National day of promoting donations to charities; the Bay Area version includes several LGBT non-profit organizations. www.giveoutday.org/bayarea

Mary Poppins @ Orpheum Theatre The Broadway touring company of the Disney musical makes a limited tour of SF. $50-$185. Thu-Sat 8pm. Thu & Sat 2pm. Sun 1pm & 6:30pm. Thru May 12. 1182 Market St. at 8th. 746-1799. www.marypoppins.com www.shnsf.com

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore @ GLBT History Museum Reading and discussion with the author of The End of San Francisco and editor of Why Are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots? $5. 7pm-9pm. 4127 18th St. 621-1107. www.glbthistory.org

The Merry Wives of Windsor @ Buriel Clay Theatre African-American Shakespeare Company’s production of The Bard’s comic middle-class spin-off from the King Henry plays, reset in the urban U.S. 1950s. $10-$35. Thu 10am, Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm. Thru May 26. African American Arts & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St. at Webster. (800) 838-3006. www.African-AmericanShakes.org

Paula Cole @ Yoshi’s Grammy Award-winning vocalist performs. $28-$32. 8pm. 1330 Fillmore St. 655-5600. www.yoshis.com

Sutton Foster @ Feinstein’s at the Nikko Two-time Tony Award-winning singer Sutton Foster ( Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) opens the newly renovated cabaret nightclub. $75-$95 (includes $30 food/beverage credit). 8pm. Thu/Fri 8pm Sat/Sun 7p,m, & Sat 10:30pm. Thru May 12. Hotel Nikko lobby, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinssf.com www.ticketweb.com

Shih Chieh Huang @ YBCA Taiwanese artist’s colorful installations create sculptural ecosystems from found objects. $8-$12. Exhibit thru June 30. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org Mary Poppins, Thu 9.

Giuliano Bekor’s Odyssey, Fri 10

Giuliano Bekor, Piotr Perski @ Geras Tousignant Gallery Opening reception for two exhibits; Perski’s panoramic Bay Area and Barcelona landscapes, and Bekor’s stunning golden male nude photos series, Odyssey. 5pm9pm. Exhibits thru June 10 & 19. RSVP in advance required. 433 and 437 Pacific Ave. 986-1647. www.gtfineart.com

Hedwig and the Angry Inch @ Boxcar Theatre New local production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s popular transgender rock operetta, with multiple actor-singers performing the lead, including Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Jason Brock, Arturo Galster and Trixxie Carr. $25-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Also Sat 5pm. Extended with open-ended run. 505 Natoma St. 967-2227. www.boxcartheatre.org

Navarette x Kajiyama Dance Theatre @ Dance Mission Site-specific indoor-outdoor danceperformance work explores the frail human interactions in the face of natural and manmade disasters. $(Pay what you can). Fri-Sun 8pm. 3316 24th St. 826-4441. www.nkdancetheater.com www.dancemission.com

Rocky Horror Show Tribute Concert @ Victoria Theatre Peaches Christ welcomes Patricia Quinn, the original Magenta, at a two-night live concert tribute to the 40th anniversary of the musical; Q&A with the actress, and song performances by Jason Brock, Trixxie Carr, L Ron Hubby, Dulce De Leche, Manuel Caneri, Cousin Wonderlette, Peter Fogel and others (not a screening of the film, but a live show). $30-$35. 8pm. Also May 11 at 3pm & 8pm. 2961 16th St. www.peacheschrist.com

San Francisco Ballet @ War Memorial Opera House The U.S. premiere of Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella is followed by an LGBT after-party in the mezzanine. $45 and up. Pre-show artist interview 7pm. Curtain 8pm. 401 Van Ness Ave. 865-2000. www.sfballet.org/niteout

Sat 11 Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. Reg: $25$130. Wed, Thu, Fri at 8pm. Sat 6:30, 9:30pm. Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd (Green St.). 421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

China’s Terracotta Warriors @ Asian art Museum The First Emperor’s Legacy, an exhibit of ten of the famous life-size sculptures of guards of China’s first emperor, and 100-plus other treasures from 2,200 years ago. Free-$22 ($10 Thu eves, 5pm-9pm). Tue-Sun 10am5pm. Thru May 27. 200 Larkin St. 581-3500. www.terracotta-warriors.asianart.org

Patricia Quinn at The Rocky Horror Show Tribute Concert, Fri 10.

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From Heather’s Mommies to Tango’s Daddies @ SF Public Library Subtitled The Evolution of Family Affirming Children’s Literature, exhibit curator Randall Tarpey-Schwed shares his unique collection of children’s books that portray gay or lesbian parents. Thru Aug. 1. Hormel Center, 3rd floor, 100 Larkin St. 557-4400. www.sfpl.org

GLAAD SF Awards @ Hilton San Francisco Union Square The Bay Area edition of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation honors pop singer Adam Lambert, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, and the San Francisco Giants; enjoy drinks and dinner, plus appearances by Chippendales hunks James Davis and Jaymes Vaughan. $350 and up. 5:30pm-12am. 333 O’Farrell St. www.glaad.org/mediaawards

If Gender is a Kind of Doing @ MCCLA Gallery Group exhibit of visual art (by Regina José Galindo, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth “Oscar” Maynard, Rye Purvis, Laura Lucía Sanz, Lorraine García-Nakata and Ana Teresa Fernandez) exploring the constructions of female gender. $5-$10. Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. Thru May 25. Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St. 643-5001. www.missionculturalcenter.org

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Kehinde Wiley @ Contemp. Jewish Museum

Ross Mathews, Thu 16.

New exhibit, The World Stage: Israel, a series of vibrant portraits of Middle Eastern and African men, created by the gay artist. Thru May 27. Also, The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, Free (members)-$12. Thu-Tue 11am-5pm (Thu 1pm-8pm) 736 Mission St. 655-7800. www.thecjm.org

artMRKT @ Fort Mason Art fair, viewing and sales, with special events and receptions; proceeds benefit the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. $20-$150. 5pm-10:30pm (opening night events). Fri & Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-6pm. Thru May 19. Festvial Pavilion. Marina Blvd at Buchanon. 345-7500. www.art-mrkt.com

Loren Brown @ LGBT Community Center

Cirque de l’Arc @ the Arc

Author discusses his memoir, Storm in my Soul, a true story of two entwined chapters of his life: the final days of his lover’s existence, and Loren’s year-long quest to find closure while traveling around the world. 2pm. 1800 Market Street. www.sfcenter.org

Soirée 13 @ Maritime Museum San Francisco Architectural Heritage’s 41st annual black-tie gala benefit, with a cocktail reception, seated dinner, dancing to live and DJed music, casino games, and a lavish silent auction. $350 and up. 6pm11pm. 900 Beach St. 441-3000. www.sfheritage.com

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Girl With a Pearl Earring @ de Young Museum Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis, a new touring exhibit of Dutch Masters paintings, drawing and etching; Thru June 2. Also, From the Exotic to the Mystical: Textile Treasures from the Permanent Collection, thru Aug 4. Also, Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson, thru June 16. Also, Objects of Belief from the Vatican, thru Sept 8. Also, artist fellows Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth’s triptych mural, The Conflicts, a contemporary tribute to the historic Unicorn Tapestries. $10-$25. Tue-Sun 9:30am5:15pm. (til 8:45pm Fridays) Thru Dec. 30. Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive. 750-3600. www.famsf.org

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

Vital Signs @ The Marsh Alison Whittaker’s solo show about her career as a nurse. $15-$450. Sundays, 7pm. Thru June 16. Upstairs Studio Theatre, 1062 Valencia St. 282-3055. www.themarsh.org

Mon 13 Camile Rose Garcia @ Walt Disney Museum New exhibit of Goth interpretations of the Alice in Wonderland story. Thru Nov 3. Also, see biographical exhibits about Walt Disney, early sketches and ephemera from historic Disney movies. Frequent lectures and film screenings. $5-$20. 104 Montgomery St., The Presidio. www.waltdisney.org

California Native Plant Bloom @ Botanical Gardens Seasonal flowering of hundreds of species of native wildflowers in a century-old grove of towering Coast Redwoods. Free$15. Daily thru May 15. Golden Gate Park. 6612-1316. www.SFBotanicalGarden.org

Wed 15 Butterflies & Blooms @ Conservatory of Flowers Popular exhibit transforms the floral gallery into a fluttering garden with 20 species of butterflies and moths. Free-$7. Tue-Sun 10am-4:30pm. Thru Oct. 20. 100 JFK Drive, Golden Gate Park. 831-2090. www.conservatoryofflowers.org

Harvey Milk: Living the Legacy @ Castro Theatre Free community conversation held in partnership with the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and Harvey Milk 2013: Living the Legacy. The evening will feature a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and a panel discussion with Anne Kronenberg, Cleve Jones and Daniel Nicoletta, exploring how Milk’s legacies continue to shape our community. 7pm. 429 Castro St. www.sfgmc.org www.castrotheatre.com

Migrating Archives @ GLBT History Museum Migrating Archives: LGBT Delegates From Collections Around the World features historical items from nearly a dozen countries and archives, each showcasing an archive of prominent LGBT persons. $5. Reg hours Mon & Wed-Sat 11am-7pm. Sun 12pm-5pm. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistorymuseum.org

Mitzi Gaynor @ Feinsteins at the Nikko The celebrated entertainer performs an intimate concert at the renovated cabaret. $65-$95 (includes $30 food/drink credit). 8pm. Also May 16 & 17, 8pm. May 18, 7pm.Hotel Nikko lobby, 222 Mason St. (866) 663-1063. www.feinsteinssf.com www.ticketweb.com

Smack Dab @ Magnet Larry-bob Roberts and Kirk Read cohost the eclectic reading and performance series; this month, guest songwriter BeRn performs “Frock” (feminist folk rock!). 8pm. 4122 18th st. www.magnetsf.org

Gala fundraiser for the nonprofit that works with people with developmental disabilities; hosted bar, nibbly food, a circus-themed drag show (Donna Sachet, Alexis Miranda, Galilea and more), The Arc Superstars, members of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus, honorary chair Supe. Bevan Dufty, DJ Page Hodel, silent and live auctions, and a hosted bar. $75, $100 and up. 7pm-9pm. 1500 Howard St. 255-7200. www.thearcsf.org

Comedy Bodega @ Esta Noche Marga Gomez headlines the fun weekly LGBT and indie comic stand-up night, and performs a half-hour preview of her new solo show, Pride Baby. 8pm-9:30pm. 3079 16th St. at Mission. www.comedybodega.com

Janelle Monáe @ Davies Symphony Hall The UK singer performs a concert of music as part of the SF Symphony’s Spring Gala. After-party, dinner and VIP packages available. $100-$1000. 8pm. 201 Van Ness Ave. 864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org/janelle

Ross Mathews @ Regency Ballroom The extra-gay comic from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show performs Man Up! Tales of My Self Delusional Self-Confidence. $32-$35. 8pm. 1300 Van Ness Ave. 673-5716. www.theregencyballroom.com

Without Reality There Is No Utopia @ YBCA Group exhibit/installation of politicallythemed art focusing on the clash of Capitalism/Communism, propaganda/disinformation, financial lies and truths, and other global issues. Free/$10. Thru June 2. 701 Mission St. 979-2787. www.ybca.org

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com. Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication. For more bar and nightlife events, go to www.bartabsf.com

Piano Bar 101 @ Martuni’s Sing-along night with talented locals, and charming accompanist Joe Wicht (aka Trauma Flintstone). 9pm-1:30am. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Tue 14 The Drag Show @ Various Channels Stu Smith’s weekly LGBT variety show features local talents, and not just drag artistes. Channels 29 & 76 on Comcast; 99 on AT&T and 30 on Astound. www.thedragshow.org

Funny Tuesdays @ Harvey’s Marin Open Studios @ Various Locations 20th annual large-scale open studios event. 11am-6pm in Sausalito, Mill Valley, and other Marin County towns. Also May 12. www.marinopenstudios.com

Mommy Dearest @ Castro Theatre Celebrate Mother’s Day at the screening of the Faye Dunaway biopic about Joan Crawford, a camp classic. Matthew Martin hosts; Mark Huestis presents actress Rutanya Alda (Carol Ann in the film), plus a drag lookalike contest. $15. 7:30pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Science Exhibits @ The Exploratorium Visit the fascinating science museum in its new Embarcadero location. Free-$25. Pier 15 at Embarcadero. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm (Thu night 6pm-10pm, 18+). 528-4893. www.exploratorium.edu

UnderCurrents @ SOMArts Cultural Center UnderCurrents & The Quest for Space, a group exhibit of works by Asian American women about stereotypical depictions of Asian Americans. Tue-Fri 12pm-7pm Sat 12pm-5pm. Thru May 25. 934 Brannan St. 863-1414. www.somarts.org

Sun 12 Mommie Dearest Comedy @ 1772 Hella Gay Comedy’s Mother’s Day comedy special, with host Pearl Louise and nine funny stand-up performers. $10. 8pm. 1772 Market (formerly Rebel). www.charlieballard.com

Kippy Marks @ Martuni’s Local solo violinist performs his second show at the intimate martini bar. $5. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market.

Ronn Vigh hosts the weekly LGBT and gayfriendly comedy night. One drink or menu item minimum. 9pm. 500 Castro St. at 18th. 431-HARV. www.harveyssf.com

Indulge @ ODC Theater At this benefit for ODC Theater, enjoy food and drinks donated by local restaurants and shops, a silent auction (includes restaurant gift packages, dance classes and other items) and pop-up performances by Scott Wells & Dancers, LEVY dance, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Amara Tabor-Smith, and Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Scales of the City. $35-$50 and $125. 8pm. 3153 17th St. 863-9834. www.odcdance.org

Pinhole Photo Show @ Rayko Gallery Fourth biennial juried group exhibit, with featured artist Jo Babcock, of traditionallymade modern prints. Tue-Thu 10am-10pm. Fri-Sun 10am-8pm. Thru May 25. 428 3rd St. 495-3773. raykophotocenter.com

Sandra Bernhard @ Bimbo’s, Thu 16

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“I never did ‘come out,’ and yet my work spoke of total revolution and anarchy,” said Sandra Bernhard, now a partnered mother who still holds a radical cultural perspective, even after decades in show business. The sapphic sardonic songstress performs music and comedy in her inimitable style, Thursday May 16 and Friday May 17 at Bimbo’s 365 Club in North Beach. $45. 21+ 9pm. 1025 Columbus Ave. 474-0365. www.bimbos365club.com Read my interview with Ms Bernhard on www.BARtabSF.com. – J.P.

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Pre-show socializing at Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s second annual Dances from the Heart at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, where nearly a dozen Bay Area dance companies performed.

Non-stop party people by Donna Sachet

n preparation for the June 1 Mr. & Miss Gay San Francisco Pageant at Hotel Whitcomb, the current Mr. Gay Myles Cooper and Miss Gay Carla Gay hosted a rousing party at The Edge last Wednesday, packing the bar with spirited supporters. Past Mr. and Miss Gays appearing and some performing included Goldblatt, Angle Dunkelberger, Jacques Michaels, Galilea, Bebe Sweetbriar, Stephen Dorsey, Fernando Robles, Berlin Fisher, Philip Evans, and this humble columnist. This Imperial Court title dates back to 1972, but is getting a new burst of energy thanks to the stewardship of David Lassman. Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s second annual Dances from the Heart was a smashing success two Sundays ago at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Members of nearly a dozen Bay Area dance companies performed a broad range of styles, from salsa and hula to modern and classical ballet. We were particularly moved by Ballet San Jose’s opening pas de deux, Salsamania’s electrifying ensemble, a haunting modern piece by Joe Goode Performance Group, and an evocative performance by Company C Contemporary Ballet. An astounding presentation by Chitresh Das Dance Company was full of drum beats, colorful costumes, and maniacal spinning. Afterwards, VIP ticket-holders joined members of the cast for a hosted reception. Among those attending this benefit for Larkin Street Youth Services, BAY Postitives, and Dancers’ Group’s Parachute Fund were Larry Horowitz, Richard Sablatura, Jeff Doney, Drew Cutler, Beth Schnitzer, John Newmeyer, Gary Virginia, Patrik Gallineaux, Taurus Webster, and Julius Lumsden. REAF has lots coming up, including a men’s shopping night at Bloomingdale’s on May 16 and their annual Help is on the Way XIX, Aug. 18, back at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, where it all began nearly 20 years ago. Friday night, we supported Reason to Party’s Built to Last at Public Works, raising money for Dolores Street Community Services, whose goal is to establish a homeless shelter specifically for LGBT youth. This

has long been a goal of Bevan Dufty, now the Mayor’s homeless specialist, and he was there thanking producer Ari Kalfayan and attendees Shaun Saunders, Doug Waggener, Tony Moraga, Craig Fonger, Kylie Minono, Grand Duchess Paloma Volare St. James, J.P. Soto, Mark Rhoades, and others. A large silent auction of autographed memorabilia attracted generous bids, while music and acrobatic entertainment entranced the crowd. For those of you set adrift after the end of the long run of the Hayes Street Follies at the recently closed Marlena’s, good news! Galilea announces a brand-new show at OMG Club on Sixth St., every Friday at 10 p.m. At opening night, her sparkling cast included Daft-Nee Gesuntheit, Kerri Hanna, Angie Myma, and Tiger Lily. The club is modern and spacious, the talented girls perform beneath a domed ceil-

ing with great lighting, and the staff aims to please. Maybe we’ll see you at LGBT Night with the SF Giants at AT&T Park tonight! This team has consistently led the way, hosting the first AIDS fundraising effort with Until There’s a Cure Day, hosting annual LGBT nights, filming a video for the It Gets Better campaign, and inviting a drag personality to sing the National Anthem! Let’s show our support for this two-time World Series-winning and LGBT-supportive team! On Fri., SF Ballet wraps up its NiteOut series with Cinderella at 8 p.m., with music by Prokofiev, spectacular costumes and sets, and remarkable puppetry. After the performance, join members of the cast and our LGBT community at a hosted Stoli vodka reception in the upstairs bar. Sat. night brings the GLAAD Media Awards to San Francisco at the Hilton Hotel. Singing sensation Adam Lambert and Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom See page 30 >>

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Movie star Robert Wagner at the Castro Theatre last month, for a special screening of The Pink Panther.

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Toy boys by John F. Karr

emember, now: I wasn’t boycotting LucasEntertainment films, just taking a hiatus. I couldn’t reject a company that a) made such consistently good films, b) served up Adam Killian so frequently, and c) constantly hosted copious oral cum-shots. So I’m happy to once again be flagging the company’s new product. The film at hand when my hiatus from LucasEntertainment began was the enjoyable Boys and Toys. So it seems appropriate that I should resume my Lucas look-over with the sequel to its success, Toy with Me. While I’m eager to embrace any movie dedicated to the art of anal toying, I wasn’t entirely pleased with Boys and

Toys. Though it delivered lotsa thrills (sheesh, Preston Steel plowing Tate Ryder!), to my taste the toying could feel rushed, seemingly too eager to abandon such play for traditional fucking – which the film relied upon as the orgasm-inducer instead of toymanship. Mostly, though, I felt the action was more about plumbing than pleasuring. Sometimes the top’s lack of technique in this sort of movie is perplexing. Toy with Me launches in Costa Rica, a locale as divertingly hot and lush as its stars’ heinies. The action commences with top man Rafael Carreras delivering unto newcummer Fernando Torres a DP that’s comprised of human and toy. The second bottom is muscle stud Mitchell Rock, with burly top Charlie

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Charlie Harding works a colon snake on Mitchell Rock in Toy with Me.

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Charlie Harding, Luke Milan and Tyler Wolf wield the weaponry of whoopie for LucasEntertainment’s Toy with Me.

Harding deploying a thick baton with a big knobbed head, and a bulb-ended colon snake – so slinky long that as Rock kneels before Harding to suck his cock, it arches up out of Rock’s ass and over his back, so the reclining Harding can twitch it, like a marionette’s strings, and make Rock’s ass quiver before the camera’s eye. Jessy Ares commandeers foxy Tyler Wolf’s accommodating ass (with, among other things, an inflatable), and smoothie Luke Milan deploys several excitingly shaped dildos upon raunchy Mathew Mason before dumping a load in his mouth. And then, oh my. The finale is a stunner, nearly a full hour depicting the unending creativity and physical ability of its stars, Adam Killian and Rod Daily. The strong connection between them is impressive, as is their lengthy and sensationally erotic foreplay. Then they bathe in oil, and with sensitivities heightened, slide all over each other as things slide in and out of their butts. Well, this was all too much for your Mother to bear, and I had to halt the movie – freezing on such a scandalously hot sight that I jumped up to fan myself ere I got the vapors, only to fall back down, hard. And that of course just worsened my overall agita by ramming my butt-

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Mex beach twinks by Ernie Alderete

ur southern neighbor Mexico is a country ringed by beaches. Glorious resorts on the Caribbean coast include Cancun and Cozumel; along the Pacific Coast include Acapulco, Guaymas, Puerto Vallarta, Ixtapa, Zihuantanejo and Mazatlan; along both shores of the Sea of Cortez include Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point, Los Cabos, Todos Santos, La Paz, Loreto, and San Felipe. Then there’s the so-called Mayan Riviera along the Yucatan peninsula, above the Central American mini-state of Belize. What is the strongest tourist attraction at all these beach communities? The swaying palm trees, the margaritas, the palm frond-roofed palapas, scuba diving, the crystal blue waters? No, it’s the beach boys! Chicos de la playa. Young men who flock to the nearest coast from the more populous, often-mountainous inland cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Chihuahua, and dozens of others, on long puente weekends, and on spring and summer break. All these chicos are the real thing, not models, just not-so-ordinary guys catching a few rays, splashing around in the waves, and generally soaking in the tropical ambience. My favorite picture depicts five young amigos standing shoulder-toshoulder before a sea wall, wearing only Levis and sneakers, showing off their gorgeous, lean physiques, four of them sporting very similar, maybe

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Three very well-built amigos on a Mexican beach, found on the Web.

one-foot-long, but not identical single black tattoos across one shoulder. Perhaps the fifth amigo is still saving up his pesos to get his tat. Another picture depicts three very well-built amigos from just about the crotch up, with their backs to the palm-fringed white-sand beach behind them, their arms interlocked behind them in intimate same-sex camaraderie. Are they gay? Few straight men get this skin-on-skin up-close and personal. But times have changed, feelings have evolved, even in machismo-dominated traditional old Mexico. Another handsome guy is looking up towards us, standing in front of another sea wall, this one of stone construction. Rippling waves are be-

hind him, his right hand grasps his red terry-cloth towel, and his nicely manicured wrap-around beard reaches almost from one of his sparkling diamond earrings to the other. One more picture brings us several attractive Federales, members of the Mexican Army, wearing only their government-issue black-cotton boxer trunks. Three of them stand shoulder-to-shoulder, toe-to-toe, while three more are partially obscured lying in the surf behind and below them. The beaches are not indicated, so you are left to guess, or see if you recognize some resort you’ve visited, some landmark. But we really don’t need to know the exact location to enjoy the carnal sights.t

plug in even deeper. Yes, you did hear me correctly when I said the action was going on in both their butts, because this is a flip scene, and each does unto the other as he’d have done unto himself. An exception: Killian foregoes Daily’s moment of self-fisting. Then, the piece de resistance, to which neither of their butts will offer resistance – they present to view a big, black double-ender, and before long

not an inch of it is visible any longer. There they be, their butts as tight up against each other as two sides of Velcro sayin’ hello, and squirming their cheeks around as they’re strokin’ their meat, their short, sharp breaths punctuating supercharged moans. And that’s how they cum, butt buddies impaled together. I stood up to applaud, and as there was no one anchoring the far tip of my own double-ender, it shot out clear across the room and chipped the lacquer on my Chinese end-table. It’s the rarest sex scene that can sustain its focus and intensity as long as this one does. You know, I’ve watched a lot of dildo scenes. Collected them. And this, I think, is the best single scene of all. Don’t hurry into it, but let its extended action slide you in, make you feel as oiled as the stars are, and you’ll wallow in the wonder of these babes in Toyland. Toy with Me was directed and filmed with expertise by Chris Crisco and Adam Killian, and well edited by Hunter James. I especially appreciated the composition of bodies within their environment – the movie is artful as well as arousing. All these qualities are standard excellences at LucasEnt, as demonstrated by the two other movies I intended to write up before I ran out of room. Stay tuned.t

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San Francisco Ballet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella: foreign princesses flirt with the prince.

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how well the spectacle stands up to repeated viewings. The most thrilling thing was completely unexpected – instead of a Fairy Godmother, our show has (as in Grimm’s version of the tale) a magic tree, which sprouts in the first scene from her mother’s grave, watered by our heroine’s tears. All the magic forces that beautify Cinderella (Maria Kochetkova) and send her to the ball emerge from this tree. It is a gigantic marionette, designed by the brilliant puppeteer Basil Twist, that fills the entire stage, floor to ceiling, side to side, with turbulent branches, and leaves that change color and dance, as an army of nature spirits convenes and arms Cinderella with magic powers – grace, feral beauty, charisma – and sends her to the ball. Like Harry Potter’s Whomping Willow, this tree is awesome, colossal, gnarly. Its branches writhe about, it swallows up our heroine (in the nicest possible way), then sends her out swathed in gold, radiance and glamor, and generates the astounding Chariot (another Twist invention) that sweeps her off to the ball. I’ve seen many versions of Cinderella, and never have I seen a chariot that makes the audience more excited than this one. Cinderella had been so hyped, I’m a little in doubt that we didn’t suffer a collective hallucination on opening night. There were all the trappings of a gala performance – a high-society dinner and ball framed the show itself, the audience was threaded out in couturier glamor. But I have seen events like that fall flat. Not so with this one. It swept us all away. Millions were spent on this

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will be adding star power to the night, along with representatives from the SF Giants. Tickets are still available. The following weekend is packed, starting with Cirque de l’Arc, 6-9:30 p.m., Thurs., May 16, hosted by Kitty Glamour at The Arc, benefiting their programs for developmentally disabled adults. We host with Bevan Dufty, DJ Page Hodel spins, Lenny Broberg auctions, and

production, and rarely has so much money been thrown at a new ballet to better purpose. These effects are worth every penny. Everyone knows what happens in Cinderella, which is why it offers such challenges to make it seem new all over again. The oldest recorded version of the story is from 2,000 years ago, set in Egypt; there are variants in literature from all epochs all over the world. The myth underlies many a Cinderella story, such as (my favorite) John Waters’ Hairspray: total nobody/genius dancer Tracy Turnblatt goes on Baltimore’s teen-royalty TV show and not only becomes the toast of the town, but also personally ends white supremacy. It’s a populist myth that’s been working its spell “since King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.” The cream will rise to the top, and true love will recognize the soulmate when the encounter finally happens. In this version of the story, we see the prince (Joan Boada) as a child – he’s a great guy with a best friend (Taras Domitro) who’s the son of his father’s valet. The two of them like to switch roles and go on adventures. They meet the Cinderella family long before the ball, and the prince, in disguise as the commoner, hits it off with poor Cinderella early on. She thinks he’s hilarious, he thinks she’s adorable, and they dance together until he pulls her into a cuddle position – what they call “shadow position” at the Sundance Saloon – that’s too intimate and makes her push him away, though he knows she likes it. This image comes back in the very last dance, after they’re married; she stands there happily, leaning back into him, as the curtain slowly falls

and the audience leaps to its feet to applaud. Wheeldon’s choreography is not great, but it’s good enough, and at the very big moments, like this one, it’s simple, mythic, and superb. Cinderella’s solo at the ball is a revelation. His use of four male dancers, dressed in dark blue, as “Fates” who are at her side throughout her life, strikes me as inspired. “Cinders,” as they call her in England where Wheeldon comes from, is in effect a charwoman, covered in ashes, reduced by her stepmother to the status of a slave. In Wheeldon’s vision, her only friends are (I’m quoting Wordsworth’s “To Toussaint l’Ouverture”) “Powers that will work for thee, air, earth, and skies,/There’s not a breathing of the common wind/That will forget thee, thou hast great allies,/Thy friends are exultations, agonies,/And love, and man’s unconquerable mind.” It’s very subtly done, and just seems natural. The dancing was fabulous; there is not room to praise the ballerinas Katita Waldo, Sarah van Patten, and Frances Chung, who played step-mother and -sisters. Hansuke Yamamoto, Sasha da Sola, and Clara Blanco, and Jaime Garcia-Castillo brought great mystique and power to their dances as nature spirits who readied Cinderella for the ball. The courtiers, the foreign princesses, the king and queen, valet and footman created a royal realm desperately in need of new blood, with great style and verve. The story gave us a wonderful look at a new prince who seems one of us, and has certainly chosen one of us to be his queen. t

The Arc Superstars, members of the SF Gay Men’s Chorus, Kitty, Galilea, Cockatielia, and Alexis Miranda perform. With a line-up like this, how can they go wrong? Fri., May 17, API Wellness Center hosts Bloom, their annual gala and awards event at Terra Gallery, honoring Barbara Garcia. Here’s another incredible lineup, with Tita Aida emceeing, Juanita More! as DJ, L10, Jason Brock and Ariyaphon Southiphong entertaining, silent auction, and food and drink galore. Sat., May 18 brings Runway

Couturier’s fashion show at 3:30 p.m. at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration, created by Fritz Lambandrake benefiting Asian Week Foundation, and NCLR’s 36th annual gala starting at 8 p.m. at Cityview at Metreon. Finally, Sunday night we’ll be at UCSF Mission Bay for Maitri’s annual Bliss event, this year with musical entertainment by localboy-gone-international Spencer Day and one of the original Supremes, Mary Wilson. Join us at all of these wonderful upcoming events!t