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Vets against DADT

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by Lisa Keen ith Congress set to convene in a lame-duck session starting next week, there continues to be conflicting messages out of Washington re- Senator John McCain garding repeal of the is a leading opponent Pentagon’s anti-gay of repealing DADT. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Many gay political observers and DADT repeal proponents believe the lame-duck session is the last opportunity to have a congressional vote on the policy; next year’s new Congress will

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wenty-one years ago Victoria Kolakowski did what most law school graduates do, she applied to take her bar exam. But the Louisiana State Bar Association rejected her application.

“I was initially Victoria Kolakowski denied because they said I was not of a sound mind,” said Kolakowski, who received a joint Juris Doctor (law) degree and Master of Public Administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

The problem, in the eyes of the legal group, was that she had listed herself as a transsexual in explaining why she had

LGBTs express disappointment Wiener hires City with Pelosi’s speakership

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istrict 8 Supervisorelect Scott Wiener has already lined up his City Hall staff as he prepares to be sworn into office January 8. The only question remaining is who will be joining him as a fellow Scott Wiener freshman member of the board.

As the Elections Department continues to count the remaining ballots, Wiener has maintained a commanding lead in his race

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he has been hailed as one of the most powerful speakers in the history of the House of Representatives. Her achievements since becoming the first woman to brandish the House gavel run the gamut from pushing through reforms of the nation’s financial and health care systems to increasing pay for women and tuition assistance to college students.

Yet over her four-year run as the country’s most powerful woman, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-San Francisco) much lauded leadership skills resulted in little achievement in terms of LGBT rights. The list of pro-gay bills that went nowhere under Pelosi’s watch include the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act; the Uniting American Families Act; repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act; and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Since Democrats retook control of both chambers in Congress and the White House in 2009, only one LGBT bill became law, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was passed that year. And only one other LGBT bill made it out

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of the House under Pelosi’s watch, legislation to repeal the military’s anti-gay “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

The lack of a more robust track record on advancing equality for LGBT Americans has many within the gay community expressing disappointment with Pelosi’s speakership. In interviews with the Bay Area Reporter over the last week, LGBT leaders said they expected more out of the longtime congresswoman.

“Disappointed would probably be the closest to it,” San Jose lesbian activist Gloria Nieto said when asked how she felt about Pelosi’s time as speaker.

Outgoing gay San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, a former congressional staffer, added, “While I would have hoped to see more progress on our issues, both at the executive level and congressional level, I never questioned where she stood on our issues or commitment to the cause.”

AIDS advocate and local blogger Michael Petrelis went even further and gave Pelosi a failing grade as speaker.

“I would give her the lowest grade possible,” said Petrelis.

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A plaza for ‘Officer Jane’

awn Warner, left, looks at the proposed plaque for her deceased wife, San Francisco Special Patrol Officer Jane Warner, which will be installed at the newly named Officer Jane Warner Plaza at 17th and Market streets. Jane Warner, affectionately known as “Officer Jane” by many Castro merchants and residents, lost her battle with cancer in May. She had patrolled the streets of the Castro for 18 years as part of the private neighborhood safety service. She was also the Bay Area Reporter’s crime columnist for many years.

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Medical pot advocate faces child porn charge he gay San Francisco man who authored California’s medical marijuana law has been arrested on several charges, including one related to child pornography.

But in a phone interview Wednesday morning, Dennis Peron referred to the case as a “set up.”

Peron appeared in San Francisco Superior Court Judge Donald Mitchell’s courtroom for arraignment November 2 on five counts, including possession or control of matter depicting a minor engaging or simulating sexual conduct; possession of methamphetamine for sale; possession of MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and marijuana; and “opening or maintaining a place for the purpose of selling or using any controlled substance.”

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has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

He wrote Proposition 215 in part as a eulogy for his deceased partner, Jonathan.

Peron, 64, was arrested at about 3:30 p.m. October 29 at his “Castro Castle” bed and breakfast at 3745 17th Street. He had been booked into the sheriff ’s department’s custody October 30, according to Eileen

Hirst, chief of staff for San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey.

Peron said Wednesday that he posted bail and was released Tuesday night. He said his friends gathered $20,000 for his bail, which had been set at $200,000.

This isn’t the first time Peron’s faced legal problems in San Francisco. In August 1996, before Proposition 215’s passage, police raided his Market Street Cannabis Buyer’s Club. Prop 215 allows qualified patients to grow and use medicinal cannabis as recommended by their doctors.

He said Wednesday the police have been “trying to frame me since the 1990s,” because they “weren’t too happy” about Prop 215, among his other marijuana-related work.

There’s an “element” in the police department that think “gay guys are all pederasts or all drugs addicts,” said Peron.

“This is a set up. ... It’s a total set up,” he said of the current case. He

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Davies hosts open house compiled by Cynthia Laird n anticipation of its new plans for an earthquake safe medical office building at its Davies Campus, California Pacific Medical Center will host an open house this weekend where people can meet and talk with members of the planning team.

The open house takes place Saturday, November 13 from 10 a.m. to noon at Davies, at Castro and Duboce streets, outside on the south deck.

The medical center became an issue in the N EWS heated District 8 supervisors race, with mailers from the California Nurses Association accusing Supervisor-elect Scott Wiener of “turning his back” on the center. Wiener responded with mailers saying he supports St. Luke’s and Davies and “will fight to keep them open and strong.”

In a news release about the open house, CMPC officials noted that the

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renovated Davies campus will include expanded care and services for patients with neurological conditions, such as stroke and brain tumors; enhanced rehabilitation services; an enclosed Muni pavilion; and a widened sidewalk on Noe Street.

The open house will include tours of the hospital’s rehab center and single-occupancy rooms.

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SF Pride seeks stage, venue proposals

The San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee has announced it is accepting proposals for new stages and B RIEFS venues for next year’s 41st annual parade and celebration, to be held June 25-26.

The Pride Committee will continue all plans for existing stages and venues, but wants new ideas.

“We are always looking for new ways to encourage the diversity of the event,” said board Co-Chair Nikki Calma.

There are over 20 stages and venues that make up the festival, including Soul of Pride, A&PI stage, Latin stage, women’s stage, Leather Alley, Homo hip-hop stage, queer youth space, Fairy Village, Bear Village, and the Elder Space, to name just a few.

“We are always looking for new ways to engage the community and better represent the many facets and interests that make up who we are as a people,” added Co-Chair Shawn Parker.

SF Pride defines stages as entertainment locations with amplified sound, while venues may or may not have stages, but do not have amplified sound and may include outreach, education, and special interests. Venues can also be considered pavilions, housing a variety of organizations brought together to educate on a specific issue or aspect of the community, such as the HIV/AIDS Pavilion.

Pride officials noted that there will be regular planning meetings starting in early winter that lead up to the event in June.

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Up against a wall “There’s zero chance.” he midterm elections were a disaster for That means no Employment Non-DisLGBTs and their allies on a national crimination Act, no comprehensive immigralevel. The Republicans gained at least 60 tion reform that includes same-sex binational seats in the House of Representatives, putting couples, and no repeal of the hideous Defense an end to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fourof Marriage Act. year tenure and setting the stage for one of the In April 2009 we wrote that action on the most conservative Republican majoriLGBT bills was imperative in 2009, beties – even outdoing the one that cause in 2010 all the members of the passed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” back House would be up for re-election, in 1993. along with a third of the Senate, and Before the 112th Congress is prospects for passage during an election sworn in January, a lame-duck sesyear were greatly reduced. In the end we sion of the current 111th Congress got one piece of legislation passed, the starts next week. Gay rights advocates are Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. pinning their hopes on the Senate passing Hate Crimes Prevention Act. an amendment to repeal DADT There was no vote on ENDA, deduring this session, and we certainE DITORIAL spite promises from Pelosi herself. ly want that to happen. Whether it While we have suspected for will, however, is entirely uncertain more than a year that repealing DOMA was now. There have been conflicting comments unrealistic, Congress’ inability to pass ENDA coming from the White House, the Pentagon, is shameful. And it’s an example of the types and lawmakers. On top of that, when the Senof laws that were sacrificed so Obama could ate last tried to pass the amendment in Sepget his health care reform through. While tember, the Republicans succeeded in rejecting there’s no denying that the health care law is a a motion to break their filibuster. major accomplishment, it came at a heavy A majority of Americans are not in favor of price, exacting a toll on many Democratic lawDADT, which prohibits gays and lesbians from makers. Conservative Tea Party activists serving openly in the military. Some top milistormed town halls last summer, putting Detary leaders have spoken in support of its remocrats on the defensive over health care. The peal, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates administration failed to communicate clearly and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the to voters and dragged the process out for a year Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet others, such as Marine – at the expense of legislation like ENDA. Commandant General James Amos, are conWhile exit polls from last week showed that the sumed with the idea of men showering together and sharing sleeping quarters as they argue for retaining DADT. “There is nothing more intimate than young men and young women – and when you talk of infantry, we’re talking our young men – laying out, sleeping alongside of one another and sharing death, fear and loss of brothers,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “I don’t know what the effect of that will be on cohesion. I mean, that’s what we’re looking at. It’s unit cohesion, it’s combat effectiveness.”

This old red herring is the primary impediment to stopping repeal of DADT, and as long as top brass continue with this retrograde argument, we’ll have an uphill battle with only about eight weeks until Congress ends.

But the lame-duck session is the last real opportunity for getting rid of DADT. When the new Congress convenes, you can be sure that bills supporting LGBT equality will go nowhere in the House. Gay Congressman Barney Frank, who survived a close re-election bid himself last week, minced no words when he told the Washington Blade Monday that LGBT legislation would have a “zero chance” of passing in the Republican-controlled House.

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health care law itself wasn’t really a factor in people’s voting, the atmosphere created by those caustic town halls only intensified the frenzy, further polarizing the electorate.

The main stumbling blocks in passing ENDA are the issues of which bathroom transgender people will use and the false assumption that transgender women will accost other women, two absolutely ridiculous obsessions that the far right has seized on, and that our national LGBT leaders have wanted to ignore rather than confront. Let’s hope they have learned some lessons. ENDA, as we have written several times, should have been framed as an economic issue from the start – preventing discrimination on the job for LGBTs. But that argument failed to gain traction and for all the Democrats’ talk about “jobs, jobs, jobs,” they did not deliver, another reason the party went down in flames last week.

What’s next? We know that the national LGBT organizations need to reassess and retool. And the grassroots groups need to stop badgering Democrats who are supportive of LGBT rights. All the infighting in the community this past year didn’t help advance equality one bit. There may be an adrenaline rush associated with chaining yourself to the White House fence or protesting outside Pelosi’s office, but at the end of the day such actions don’t help get the legislation passed. These groups will have two years until the next national elections to figure out a more effective strategy.▼

Honor vets by fighting to repeal DADT

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his Veterans Day, we have a unique opportunity to thank the countless men and women in uniform who have risked their lives to defend the freedoms we take for granted.

As we commemorate our nation’s brave patriots – past and present, gay and straight – it is also a time for those who believe in the American values of justice and equality to speak up for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the 1993 federal law that mandates qualified service members be fired on the basis of sexual orientation. Since DADT was enacted, the armed forces have lost more than 14,000 patriots with countless others denied the opportunity to serve.

Today the question of whether DADT will be repealed this year hangs in the balance. This week, critical discussions took place among key senators including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator Carl Levin (Michigan) and ranking member Senator John McCain (Arizona) about voting on DADT repeal during the upcoming lame-duck session.

McCain wants repeal language stripped out of the defense bill so he is not forced to take an on-the-record vote against funding the troops, and he wants the Democrats to give in to his outrageous demands. His tactics are out of line, out of the mainstream, and do not support the troops we should be honoring.

Congress has passed a defense bill every year for 48 consecutive years. In addition to repealing DADT, the defense bill would also increase pay to all service members, authorize needed

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benefits for veterans and wounded warriors, and launch military construction projects at bases nationwide. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called on Congress to end DADT this year by passing the defense bill during the Senate’s lame-duck session.

Repeal supporters in all 50 states must make sure Secretary Gates’s call for repeal is heard by every senator. Stand up against Senator McCain and call both your senators right now. Urge them to vote on the defense bill as reported out of the Armed Services Committee and pass it before the Senate goes home for the year.

Opponents of repeal are trying to dominate the debate, but we cannot let them have the final say on the future of DADT. Earlier this week, the American Family Association sent out an action alert that called repeal part of a “dangerous agenda” by Congress.

G UEST We have to push back now.

The clock is ticking and the stakes for repeal happening this year couldn’t be greater. We are counting on advocates like you to pick up the phone today and tell your senators they need to repeal this law, this year. Call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Calling your senators is only the first step.

Have every member of your family contact their senators too, and tell your friends to spread the word. The numbers matter. Calls to Senate offices are tracked and can have a real impact on legislation.

Far too many Senate offices are inundated

with calls from a vocal minority who don’t believe gays and lesbians should have the opportunity to serve the country they love. Letting fear and bigotry win the day is not an option. If the Senate fails to repeal this terrible injustice this year, our military will lose even more of the fine patriots it needs during a time of two wars.

We simply cannot let that happen. The cost of continued DADT discrimination is too high, and our service members do not deserve yet more delay on repeal.

If Americans from coast to coast push the call for DADT repeal to senators in all 50 states, we can achieve victory for our patriots and ensure that the American promise of liberty and justice for all is a reality.

Starting this Veterans Day we can show respect for all patriots. Our two California senators are firm repeal supporters. Urge Majority O PINION Leader Harry Reid (Nevada), Senator Levin and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to pass the defense bill as reported out of committee during lame-duck session by calling the Senate switchboard today at (202) 224-3121.

Gays and lesbians have served with honor and distinction throughout American history, and continue to serve with pride in every branch of the armed services. It is well past time to honor them by voting for repeal of DADT this year.▼

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Rain can’t stop a parade Thank you to all who took part in and who came out to watch the Veterans Parade on Sunday, November 7. It was great and inspiring as always. A special mention must go to state Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), who was the only elected official that I saw who took part.

I was concerned that the weather might have canceled the parade. It’s nice to know the rain can’t keep a good parade down.

Columnist misses the point

I read Gwendolyn Ann Smith’s Transmissions column of November 4 on “Glee, peek-a-boo, and what really matters” with great disdain. She completely misses the point about trans stereotyping and the outrage that should come from it. It is obvious and insulting for her to state that we should be outraged by murders of trans women and proud of trans people winning in elections. What she fails to recognize is that these media misrepresentations and the disgusting “Peek-a-boo Tranny” apRyan Meek plication are the seeds of dehumanization of San Francisco trans people and the perpetuation of a stereoReader’s musings type. Would she be outraged by reprehensible depictions of “Little Sambo” from the Here are my ramblings on your November 1920s if shown today? Smith addresses the 4, 2010 issue. symptom, the murders. She does not address 1. The writings on my friend Glenn underlying disease, the dehumanization.

Burke are welcomed [“Documentary brings M AILSTROM the Bigotry is learned, not genetic.

Glenn Burke home,” Jock Talk]. He was a paFinally, she proudly says she will “gleefultron of our store, as we were the only place ly play peek-a-boo.” Is the label “Uncle Tom” appropriate? he could get baseball cards of himself. He twice commented to me that the prejudices against him for being Eva Kraus black were still greater than those for being gay, although Gloucester, Massachusetts neither was good. Shocking!

2. Kriss Worthington defeated another gay candidate, Happy 40th anniversary George Beier, for city council in Berkeley by not engaging I would like to send a 40th anniversary message to my him on the issues and ignoring Berkeley merchant meetpartner Raymond Laird. He has worked at the Sausage ings, where Beier was warmly received [“Worthington reFactory on 18th street for many years. He has many friends tains seat on Berkeley council”]. As a 71-year resident of in the Castro and I would like to let them know it is our Berkeley, I find Kriss Worthington unworthy of any office. anniversary on November 15.

FYI: Mayor Tom Bates and Kriss Worthington often work I would also like to let him know that it has been a wontogether on the wrong side of many Berkeley issues. derful 40 years. We have lived through some of the worst 3. Legalize pot (Proposition 19) went up in smoke beyears for gay men, lost many on the way. I would like to cause the clubs (at least the one next door to us) did not let him know, one more time, that I love him and I am campaign much for it [“Effort to legalize pot goes up in looking forward to many, many more years together. smoke”].

Robert Blair Kurtz Berkeley, California

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New book recounts rise of marriage equality movement arly on in her intense but highly readable tome, author Davina Kotulski, Ph.D., shares a story from 2003, when she and her wife Molly McKay made their annual trek to San Francisco City Hall to request a marriage license.

The women had a marriage ceremony several years before that visit to City Hall. They were formally wed in 2008 during the brief period when same-sex couples were allowed to marry before the passage of Proposition 8, California’s same-sex marriage ban.

That 2003 event was part of Freedom to Marry Day, a grassroots direct action day when same-sex couples, often with television cameras in tow, shared their personal stories and desire to wed, culminating with a visit to the county clerk’s office. Kotulski and McKay were, of course, turned down, as were the two gentlemen who stood in line behind them.

Kotulski asked the clerk if she and McKay could marry the two men, whom they didn’t know.

“One man, one woman,” was the reply.

This is one of many anecdotes in Kotulski’s new book Love Warriors: The Rise of the Marriage Equality Movement and Why it Will Prevail (345 pages, $24.95, softcover), which illustrate the absurdity of not allowing same-sex couples to wed.

Kotulski and McKay were in a loving, long-term, committed relationship, yet the law denied them the right to marry each other. That same law would allow them to enter into onthe-spot marriages with total strangers, simply because those strangers were men.

For over 300 pages, Kotulski shares one anecdote after another about the injustices LGBT couples face because lawmakers, religious leaders, and even their own families refuse to acknowledge and respect their love. The financial costs can be devastating: during their working lives unmarried samesex couples are denied tax breaks and other benefits that married heterosexual couples take for granted. When gay couples reach their retirement years, things can get much worse: Kotulski

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offers stories of gay senior couples who were denied the right to live together in assisted living facilities because of policies regarding co-habitation between unmarried persons.

Kotulski said she took on the book project to help explain why marriage is a civil right.

“I started writing Love Warriors soon after Prop 8 passed because I felt like we were missing a comprehensive book in favor of ‘gay marriage’ able to address why marriage is a civil right, an institution that benefits LGBT people, and compelling stories and talking points on the issue of marriage equality,” Kotulski said in an e-mail. “I also felt like the Prop 8 campaign was homophobic and failed to use basic psychology to create effective commercials and talking points. In Love Warriors, I combine my expertise as a psychologist and my over 10 years of experience as a grassroots marriage activist to show how we can create more effective campaigns and messaging.”

Kotulski is also the author of Why You Should Give A Damn About Gay Marriage, which was published in 2003.

Kotulski, a former executive director of Marriage Equality USA, also uses Love Warriors to illustrate how hollow domestic partnerships and civil unions can be, especially when a couple travels to a state or a municipality where their union is not recognized. In one heartbreaking anecdote,

she tells the sad story of Bill Flanigan and Robert Daniel, a San Francisco couple who traveled to Washington, D.C., where their marriage was recognized. But when Daniel became ill due to HIV complications, he was rushed, unconscious, to a trauma unit in neighboring Maryland, where the marriage was not recognized.

Daniel died in that trauma unit, while Flanigan was kept out of the room, because he wasn’t “family.”

Stories like these are sprinkled throughout Kotulski’s book as she relates the history of the now-escalating marriage equality movement. In this valuable history lesson, Kotulski gives a state-by-state, country-by-country overview of the successes and failures of the movement. Also included are stories from America’s past, when mixed-race marriages were illegal.

One such story hits very close to home and may be familiar to people in the Bay Area. San Francisco resident Stuart Gaffney, a plaintiff in the California marriage equality lawsuit decided by the state Supreme Court in 2008, is biracial. He recalls a time when his parents’ marriage wasn’t recognized in all states because they were an interracial couple. His mother recalls when, before the California ban on interracial marriage was lifted in 1948, a friend of hers in the Chinese Students Club at UC Berkeley had to leave the state in order to marry her white fiance.

But as the author recounts, all bans on interracial marriage in the U.S. were eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, giving LGBTs hope that the fight for marriage equality will one day be successful. Already, same-sex marriage is legal in five states and the District of Columbia. And in spite of recent setbacks, Kotulski tells readers that it does appear the day many yearn for will be coming sooner rather than later. More and more countries are offering their LGBT citizens the rights of marriage, while more and more people are supporting marriage equality.

Kotulski covers a lot of ground in her meticulously researched work. In spite of the heaviness of the subject matter, Love Warriors is an easy read.

It’s a scholarly book, yet the historian

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Pride in the desert

unny skies were the order of the day Sunday, November 7 in Palm Springs for the 24th annual Pride Parade.

Above, the contingent from Michael’s House, an in-patient recovery center, makes its way along the parade route.

Jose Sarria, a.k.a. the Widow Norton, was also a crowd favorite. Thousands of people lined the streets to celebrate.

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Proposals should include a statement of purpose for the organization, be relevant to the mission statement of SF Pride, and should present a new idea or an improved approach to an already existing presentation. The request for proposals will be available online at www.sfpride.org this week.

Proposals should be e-mailed to event_manager@sfpride.org by December 3 at 5 p.m. Final decisions about any new proposals are expected to be made in January.

AmfAR gala Friday The American Foundation for AIDS Research will hold its San Francisco gala Friday, November 12 at the Four Seasons, 757 Market Street. The evening begins with a reception at 6, followed by dinner and the awards presentation at 7:30 and performance and a live auction at 8:30.

AmfAR’s annual event pays tribute to Bay Area citizens who have made significant contributions to the local community and to help advance the global battle against AIDS. Proceeds from the evening will benefit the organization’s AIDS research programs.

This year’s honorees include John and Marcia Goldman for their steadfast financial support of amfAR and their broad philanthropic work through the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation; and San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas for his dedication to HIV education, treatment, and advocacy through local organizations such as Project Inform and Shanti’s Life Project.

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be controlled by Republicans in the House, and the Senate will lack the 60 Democratic votes necessary to block a filibuster.

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer issued a statement Monday night saying, “The White House opposes any effort to strip ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ from the National Defense Authorization Act.” The news comes on the heels of an unsourced report in the Wall Street Journal Monday saying that Republican Senator John McCain (Arizona) and Democratic Senator Carl Levin (Michigan) were “in talks” about “stripping the proposed [DADT] repeal and other controversial provisions” from the annual defense authorization bill.

While the House approved an amendment to repeal DADT in May, the Senate in September rejected a

Kressley, Betty Buckley, Cheyenne Jackson, Maggie Rizer, amfAR Chairman Kenneth Cole, and many more.

Tickets start at $350 and can be purchased online at www.amfar.org /spotlight/event.aspx?id=8497.

DIFFA marks 10th Dining by Design DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, brings its 10th annual Dining by Design to San Francisco for two days of events at the Galleria at the San Francisco Design Center, 101 Henry Adams Street, on Wednesday, November 17 and Thursday, November 18.

Dining by Design brings together professional leaders from the worlds of furniture, interior design, fine art, architecture, fine dining, and high-end catering to create two evenings of spectacular creativity and gastronomy.

The event will feature awe-inspiring dinner table installations created by designers and underwritten by corporate and private table hosts.

On Wednesday is the table hop and taste party from 6 to 10 p.m. The event is open to the public and tickets are $100.

On Thursday is the gala dinner from 6:30 to 11 p.m. and individual tickets are available for $500. Tickets for both events can be purchased at www.diffasf.org or call (415) 4905865.

Proceeds from the events go to support low-income patients at the UCSF Positive Health Program, also known as Ward 86, located at San Francisco General Hospital.

“Given the Positive Health Program’s prominent role as a first responder to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and its notoriety today as an innovator in compassionate patient care, it is motion to break a Republican-led filibuster against the annual defense spending bill that included language aimed at ending the policy that prohibits gays and lesbians from serving openly.

The Washington Post also ran a story Monday saying Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a supporter of DADT repeal, and McCain, who has been leading the filibuster against it, “are exploring ways to introduce a revised version of the bill that could be debated and approved in two to three days, according to several sources familiar with the matter.”

The Post did not identify its sources either.

Aubrey Sarvis of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network issued a statement Sunday saying, “Any talk about a watered down defense bill, whereby the ‘Don’t Ask’ revisions would be stripped out, is unacceptable and offensive to the gay and lesbian service members who

truly gratifying to again produce this event,” said Marc Vincent, local DIFFA marketing chair.

Reservations available for Walgreens Window for 2011 Walgreens has again offered 26 13day reservations for nonprofit window displays for 2011 at its store at 18th and Castro streets. Reservations will become available beginning Monday, November 15, said Patrick Batt, who handles the calendar on behalf of Walgreens. This rare and unique opportunity is offered on a first come, first served basis with the exception of those groups who, in 2010, demonstrated remarkable and eye-catching use of the space. Those groups will be given preferential accommodation with everyone who reserves being encouraged to use this prime advertising space to its maximum.

With only 26 slots available, this 9 foot by 8 foot by 20 inch-deep space located on the 400 block of Castro Street fills up in a very short period of time. Requests always exceed availability and are limited to one per group or organization.

Interested 501 (c)3 nonprofits should send requests including: name and mission of the group, contact name, phone number and a first and second choice of dates via e-mail to mmosf@aol.com. The only caveats to the displays are nothing pornographic, political or provocative.

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There have been confusing news reports and conflicting comments within the administration about what it considers the likelihood of passing DADT repeal language in the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress.

The Associated Press reported on Sunday, “Defense Secretary Robert Gates is encouraging Congress to act before year’s end to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military. It’s a position shared by his boss, the president.”

At a press availability in Australia Sunday a reporter asked Gates, “Do you see any prospect for passage of START [Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty] and repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ in the lame duck?”

“I hope that the ... Senate will ratify a new START,” said Gates. “I think it’s in our interest. Both the chairman and I have testified why we

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Naming of DADT repeal bill sought for SF gay vets

by Matthew S. Bajko t is one of the highest honors Congress can bestow upon a person, naming a major piece of legislation after them. So it should come as no surprise that efforts have been made to see that the bill repealing the military’s anti-gay policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly honors an out veteran.

Since the spring San Francisco native Allen Jones has tried to convince several senators, including Dianne Feinstein (D-California), as well as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to name the repeal of the policy, known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” after Oliver Sipple. A United States Marine and Vietnam War veteran, Sipple saved President Gerald Ford from an assassination attempt during his visit to San Francisco on September 22, 1975.

Harvey Milk, himself a veteran and a leader at the time of the city’s gay rights movement, outed Sipple to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who ran with the story. Sipple was not out to his family and his parents disowned him, for a time, following the national media frenzy that resulted from Caen’s piece.

Dubbed an “accidental hero” by the press, Sipple died from pneumonia at the age of 47 on February 2, 1989. He never received a face-to-face meeting with Ford, who did send him a thank you note.

To this day, Jones said he feels Sipple, whom he never met, is still owed P OLITICAL better by his country. Naming the DADT repeal legislation would be a start, said Jones.

“There are so many that could be honored. The reason I picked Oliver Sipple is because of the way he was treated just for being gay in 1975, where his own parents and hometown turned their back on him,” said Jones, 45, who refers to himself as homosexual. “Saving the president of the United States, that is no small feat. I am saying it is a cut above over other decorated veterans. Connect that with the way he was treated after he saved the life of the president 35 years ago, of people not giving this guy any real respect for what he did as just a normal person, it deserves some sort of recognition.”

Jones said his entreaties have so far gone nowhere. He did get an e-mail reply from Feinstein’s office that did not address his suggestion of naming the bill after Sipple but did note the senator is a co-sponsor of the legislation, which is officially titled the Military Readiness Enhancement Act. Jones isn’t the only San Franciscan who has pushed to see DADT repeal honor a local gay military hero.

Michael Bedwell has tried in vain for two years to enlist the support of national LGBT groups to have the legislation be named after his friend and onetime roommate Leonard Matlovich.

A decorated member of the United States Air Force, Matlovich became the face of the military’s antigay stance when he appeared on the cover of Time magazine in September 1975 underneath the headline “I Am A Homosexual.” The onetime Castro resident had sued following his being kicked out of the military for being gay.

His out-of-court settlement resulted in gay service members being honorably discharged rather than being dismissed dishonorably. Matlovich died of AIDS in 1988 one month shy of his 45th birthday and is buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington.

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Should the policy remain in effect and the legislation be punted to the next Congress, then Bedwell said he will continue to advocate for an out gay veteran’s name be attached to it.

“As far as going forward, if it does fail in the lame-duck session, which I think it will, and someone has the grit to reintroduce it either as a stand alone bill, which it originally was, or as an amendment to the Defense authorization, I would certainly lobby again for it being Leonard’s name,” said Bedwell.

“But the more important thing is it be somebody’s name added to it. Again, just like Matthew Shepard, every time the name is mentioned it subconsciously communicates to the listener

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“Sipple deserves some type of honor, I unquestionably support that.

But he was not a functional victim of the ban,” said Bedwell, who maintains a list of famous LGBT veterans at the website www.leonardmatlovich.com.

“It should be named after somebody who ran smack into the ban.”

Bedwell likened the naming of the DADT bill to that of the hate crimes bill, which honored gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and left for dead by his attackers. Having a person and their story attached to the DADT repeal measure could help get it passed, argued Bedwell.

“Lots of gays were killed in gay bashings after Matthew Shepard but he was the person the public most identified N OTEBOOK gay bashings with so his name was attached to the hate crimes bill,” said Bedwell. “Every time we said we want you to vote for the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill, it would trigger in people’s mind this story, a face to the issue so it was not something abstract ... One of our biggest obstacles is personalizing all of our rights to the nongay public.”

Not everyone agrees the bill needs a name attached to it. Openly gay San Francisco Veterans Affairs Commissioner John Caldera, who served in the Navy, said he doesn’t care if the bill honors an LGBT veteran.

“Who you name the bill after really means nothing to me,” said Caldera.

“Who they name it after really is a waste of energy. Getting rid of it is the priority.”

Alex Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United, an LGBT advocacy group, noted that there have been many people floated as deserving of having their name attached to the DADT repeal bill, including lesbian National Guard Chief Nurse Colonel Grethe Cammermeyer, who successfully challenged her dismissal under DADT in court.

Because of the numerous suggestions, it would be impossible to find consensus around one name, wrote Nicholson in an e-mail response.

“Bottom line is that there are WAY too many people on this issue who could qualify, so I don’t think it will be named for anyone. In fact, naming it after one person would be a huge slight to many more,” wrote Nicholson. “It’s not like there is any one case here that really propelled the issue forward all on its own, which is usually the qualification for naming a bill after someone.”

It remains to be seen if the Senate will be able to repeal DADT as part of a military reauthorization package during the lame-duck session later this month. The House passed it earlier this year, and this week the White House signaled it wants to see DADT repeal included in the legislation Congress sends it.

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by Seth Hemmelgarn his summer, John Tighe and Ngu Phan adopted a baby.

Tighe, 46, said he’s always loved children, but he’d spent years telling himself, “I can’t be a parent.

Gay men can’t parent. It’s not going to work.”

But having Phan, 41, in his life helped.

“I realized, among other things, that I was ready to make a commitment in terms of a relationship and making a home in a way I had not before,” said Tighe.

Phan had fears, too. But he said Tighe “always believed I could be a parent.” With Tighe’s help, “I was able to open my eyes and dream beyond what was right there in front of me,” he said.

Their son Gabriel was born June 26, on what this year was “Pink Saturday” just before San Francisco’s LGBT Pride festivities. The couple brought Gabriel to their Castro home the same day thousands of people gathered in the neighborhood’s streets to celebrate.

November is National Adoption Month, and Randie Bencanann, codirector of the San Francisco-based Adoption Connection, said an increasing number of gays and lesbians, both single people and couples, are adopting. She said her agency handles about 100 adoptions a year, and she estimated 20 to 25 of those were for gays and lesbians.

Adoption through a private agency like Adoption Connection usually costs from $15,000 to $25,000, according to Bencanann.

Adoption Connection is a program of Jewish Family and Children’s Services and started 26 years ago. JFCS was one of the first agencies to work with LGBT families interested in adopting, noted spokesman Robert Miller.

Birth parents are “very receptive” to gays and lesbians adopting, said Bencanann, whose agency worked with Tighe and Phan.

“I feel like there’s every reason for lesbians and gays to be optimistic about the adoption process,” she said. “It’s been successful, and I think it will continue to be successful for them.”

However, she said, “I think it’s pretty hard for a single man to adopt, gay or straight. Our society, or culture, just isn’t really ready to look at the motivations of single men as being good to raise children. I think it’s just not there yet.”

She also said some transgender people have approached the agency, but none has started the process yet.

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said it stems from a raid of the house in August. At that time, police seized seven or eight computers, only one of which was his, he said.

Lieutenant Troy Dangerfield, a San Francisco Police Department spokesman, said he didn’t know all the details of Peron’s case, but said, “The police department has not been trying

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Ngu Phan and John Tighe play with their son, Gabriel, whom the couple recently adopted.

San Francisco,” she said. The remainder lives in the East Bay and other areas.

“I think more and more, gays and lesbians are moving into the suburbs,” she said, adding that’s “a reflection of people feeling more comfortable in other communities, and more comfortable as parents in other communities.”

After they both decided they wanted to be parents, Tighe and Phan started the actual adoption process about two and a half years ago. Their path included attending workshops and a social worker visiting their home.

Eventually, they had to write a “dear birth mother” letter to pregnant women who were considering placing children up for adoption.

This June, a woman who was eight months pregnant contacted them for a meeting. The woman chose them to be Gabriel’s adoptive parents, and he was soon part of their family.

Tighe said the couple has an open adoption arrangement with the woman, whom he referred to only by her nickname, “Lala.”

Gabriel will know the woman is his birth mother.

Being part of a same-sex couple raising a child isn’t what Tighe had thought it would be in at least one way.

When the couple took a road trip with Gabriel to see Phan’s family in Southern California, Tighe had expected to hear comments like, “Where’s the mom? You can’t be the dads” at stops along the way.

But “We saw none of that,” he said.

Instead, people approached them and shared their parenting stories.

Rich Brown, 51, said he and his partner, Chris Nordstrum, who’ll soon be turning 40, decided to adopt after talking through it for about a year.

Their son Myles was born on

June 17, 2006 in Mississippi. Samesex couples can’t legally adopt in that state, so when Brown and Nordstrum traveled there to wait for Myles’s birth, they had to put on “a mini-charade,” said Brown.

Brown was in the delivery room with the birth mother, pretending to be a cousin or a friend.

“We didn’t know what they would do,” he said. Nordstrum stayed at a hotel, “then he came to visit her under the ruse that he was a friend or co-worker giving added support,” said Brown.

When Myles was four days old, the new family flew back to California. Brown said the birth mother relinquished Myles to Adoption Connection, and the agency placed him with the couple.

Brown said the mother lives in a poor county in Mississippi and has two older children. “We recognized immediately this was an economic burden for her,” said Brown. He and Nordstrum live in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood.

Nordstrum said that with all the obstacles involved in the process, part of him was ready to say, “No way, I can’t handle this. ... There are too many things that could go wrong.” But now, he said, “I can’t even imagine [Myles] not being our son. ... I really think he was meant to be in our family.”

Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman, who live in the city’s Mission area, are happy with their adopted son, too. And busy. Their son Max was born in March 2009.

Hibbert-Jones, 47, said having a baby “is the most amazing thing we’ve ever done,” but it’s also “exhausting.”

Talisman, 44, said, “It takes every single inch of attention that you can ever imagine you could produce,” plus more, but it’s also “more rewarding than I would ever imagine.”▼

to frame him, and we don’t do set ups.”

Dangerfield said the department does things legally, and there’s “absolutely no benefit to us framing a person.”

An ounce of methamphetamine, which was not his, was seized, said Peron. He said that he thinks two hits of MDMA were his, and 14 ounces of marijuana they found also belonged to him. He said he doesn’t sell pot but smokes it for health-related reasons.

Peron said the Castro Castle is a bed and breakfast with eight rooms that range in price from $65 to $100 a night. A link to the castle’s website refers to it as “the world’s only bud and breakfast.”

He indicated that the others in the house in August had rented rooms for a night and he hadn’t known any of them personally. He said other people had been let go, and he also couldn’t immediately say what their names

were.

Peron said there was no pornography on his computer and he never saw the pornographic material in question. He said police returned in October because they had found pornography on one of the computers.

“I’m not exploitive of children,” he said. “l love children, and I would never exploit them.”

Seth Steward, a spokesman for the District Attorney’s office, said he couldn’t provide more detail on the charges.

“The case is still under investigation,” Steward said last week.

Assistant District Attorney Lisa Culbertson of the child assault unit is prosecuting the case.

David Wilton, the lawyer appointed to represent Peron, did not respond to a request for comment last week.

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The Very Reverend Dr. Jane Shaw, dean of Grace Cathedral, walks across the courtyard of the cathedral complex shortly before her installation.

Out lesbian new head of SF’s Grace Cathedral

by Seth Hemmelgarn n out lesbian has become the dean of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, making her not just the first lesbian, but the first woman ever to head the church.

The Very Reverend Dr. Jane Shaw showed her humor when asked what exactly her duties are.

“I think I run the cathedral,” she said. “I have oversight of everything that goes on here.”

That includes presiding at services and overseeing a staff of about 80 people, including those who run the preschool and cathedral school. Shaw estimated about 800 people come to services at the cathedral each Sunday.

“I’m myself and people can take me as I am,” said Shaw. “I’m many things, not just a lesbian, not just a woman. I’m an intellectual, I am a new immigrant in this country, I love music ... . I’m happy they called me to Grace Cathedral.”

Shaw, 47, who holds a Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley, previously served as dean of divinity at New College, Oxford University.

She was installed to her new position Saturday, November 6, becoming Grace Cathedral’s eighth dean since it was founded in 1906. She follows Alan Jones, who was dean for 25 years until February 2009, when he retired from

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the position. Jones is now the cathedral’s dean emeritus.

Shaw was named dean June 25, after being nominated by the Right Reverend Marc Handley Andrus, Episcopal bishop of California. The cathedral’s board of trustees unanimously approved her nomination that day.

Heidi K. Zuhl, a Grace Cathedral spokeswoman, declined to state Shaw’s salary.

In a phone interview this week, Shaw said she’s building on Jones’s legacy.

“He really made the cathedral very important in the city,” she said.

She said she wants to make Grace a place “people absolutely come to for discussion of key ideas.” The cathedral will re-launch its Forum program, a series of panel discussions and speakers, in 2011, said Shaw.

She hopes the church will keep working on social justice issues and continue outreach to people including seniors, people who are unemployed, residents of single-room occupancy hotels, and residents of the city’s Bayview neighborhood.

Shaw also said, “I want to take a role in many communities,” including the LGBT communities. She said she’s “in the process of beginning to talk to people,” although she hesitated to say what she’d do specifically because “it’s important I hear what people need.”

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think it’s in our security interest to ratify the treaty.”

But his words regarding DADT were more guarded.

“I would like to see the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ but I’m not sure what the prospects for that are and we’ll just have to see.”

Neither START nor DADT repeal have 60 votes to break a Republicanled filibuster.

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Campaign on Monday launched a

“I’m looking forward to talking to lots of people” in and out of the congregation, she said.

Shaw said that sometimes “inclusion” is “a codeword for LGBT, but there are other forms of inclusion too.”

She added, “I hope we would have inclusion mean that we genuinely include everybody.”

That hasn’t always been the case with the Episcopal Church. There’s been unhappiness in the church since at least the 1970s, when women were first allowed to be ordained as ministers. The national Episcopal Church has recently been supportive of gays, lesbians, and women, sparking rebellion from some churches.

The Episcopal Church, which had more than 2 million members in the

United States as of 2008, is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

In 2003, openly gay Gene Robinson was elected as the bishop of New Hampshire. That helped lead to a call from some Anglican Church leaders for the Episcopalians to stop authorizing same-sex unions and stop allowing lesbians and gays to take high positions in the church.

Robinson announced over the weekend that he would retire as bishop in January 2013.

Asked about Robinson, Shaw said, “I think he’ll go on working in all kinds of important ways in the Episcopal Church” and “I think his important voice will continue to be heard” even after he leaves his position.

She also said, “The Episcopal Church has taken the lead on inclusion, compared to the rest of the Anglican Communion, and that’s fantastic, and of course we’re going to keep building on that.”

Shaw is domestic partners with Sarah Ogilvie.

Louise Brooks, a board member of the LGBT Episcopalian group Integrity, said she doesn’t know Shaw personally, but she spoke favorably of Shaw’s reputation.

“There’s been very little press hoopla around the fact that [Shaw] is an open lesbian,” and that “speaks to the fact of where the Episcopal church is today, that sexual orientation has little to do with the choice of people for this position,” said Brooks.

She said Shaw “will be the voice of a different type of Christianity ... conveying a message that everyone is a beloved child of God, and that there is no asterisk that says ‘unless you’re gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.’”▼

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a couple of days, he wrote back on official Olympic letterhead endorsing the project as an ideal legacy event.” he bumps and bruises of this That was all the introduction Haryear’s Gay Games VIII are bourne needed. rapidly fading as we await final “I went to Cologne with my piece financial figures for the quadrennial of paper, and was invited to some of event to be released. A territorial court the official receptions,” he said. “When battle must be resolved before we will I came back to London, the prime know who will have the honors as minister’s office called and invited me hosts in Cleveland in 2014. Nevertheto Number 10. The PM’s senior press less, wheels are already in motion for secretary met with me, for the 2018 event: wherever that may over an hour, in one of the be, whatever it may be called, staterooms, and asked me whatever it may look like. about the Gay Games and One thing is certain: my experience in Cologne. this will be a Gay Games I had come back so inspired by unlike any before it, with the my week’s experience, and he strongest effort to re-direct the was very supportive and enlegacy of founder Tom Wadcouraging, seeing what a difdell that the global sports ference such an event and cultural festival has make. Since then, ever seen.

J OCK TALK would I have formed a leaderAfter sending repreship committee with sentatives on a fact-findsome amazing people who have come ing mission to Cologne during this forward to offer their support, some year’s Gay Games, London launched a of them involved with the 2012 website this month announcing its inOlympics, and all involved with LGBT tent to bid for Gay Games X. London sport. We are in discussions with City has never bid for the Gay Games beHall’s major events team and also the fore, but rumors of London’s interest Olympic Legacy Company. I’ve been have swirled ever since the city won blown away by how people immedithe 2012 Summer Olympics, which ately get this project – and how they have required construction of imwant to see it happen.” proved infrastructure and new sports In what is a first for a bidding orgafacilities. nization, London 2018’s home page inOn its Back the Bid site (www. loncludes a link to the Gay and Lesbian Indon2018.info), London 2018 lists a ternational Sports Association, which seven-member bid committee headwas founded to market the rival World ed by co-chairs Jonathan Harbourne, Outgames after drastic disagreements a member of the steering committee with the Federation of Gay Games of the National LGBT Sports Network about the size and scope of the global in the United Kingdom; and New sports and cultural festival.

Zealand native Suran Dickson, a triple Which brings us to the whatevers gold medalist in Cologne who met and wherevers of 2018. As reported her partner, comedian Rhona last month (see October 14 Jock Talk), Cameron, while they were soccer the FGG and GLISA are choosing 14 teammates. representatives to discuss the goal of Harbourne got into LGBT sports ending the World Outgames after one out of the same impulse that drives more iteration, holding a unified sinmany. gle quadrennial event for 2018.

“I started the London Raiders softHalf of the working group will be ball teams over 20 years ago when I named by GLISA. An ongoing vote by moved to London, wanting to particthe FGG membership assembly to ipate in a social LGBT group that was designate its two co-presidents as not exclusively about pubbing and members of the working group is exclubbing,” he told the Bay Area Repected to pass easily this week. That porter. “A couple of weeks before the would be followed by a ranked-choice Gay Games in Cologne this year, I membership vote on 24 nominees for wrote to the minister for sport and the the remaining five positions.

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ties or politics: it involves fundamentally different views of the value of sports in our lives, the relative importance of creating a unique, sports-centric event to empower the community, and how much of an event should be entrusted in the hands of the global LGBT sports community.

Outgames hosts have been virtually autonomous; the Gay Games have been run with ongoing oversight of the host organization by the FGG. Much of the sports operations at the Outgames are outsourced; Gay Games competitions are usually organized with the involvement and support of FGG sports member organizations. There have never been multiple bidders for the Outgames; Gay Games bidding has been highly competitive for the past two decades. Outgames sites (Montreal, Copenhagen, Antwerp) have been chosen for preexisting LGBT tourist appeal; Gay Games voters have consciously considered cities such as Cleveland that were not as well known but promised better value for low-income athletes.

Both have participatory cultural events, but Outgames has an equally balanced trio that includes sports and human rights conferences, with the conferences essentially being subsidized by athlete fees. The Gay Games do not have conferences as an integral element, concentrating on the success of sports as their unique contribution to human rights. The Games, they say, are the time for doing, not talking.

Past attempts at offering major conferences in Gay Games have resulted in massive budget deficits for the hosts, and the results of a participant survey after the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney overwhelmingly supported the Gay Games model, codified in a white paper issued in 2003 as Montreal organizers were walking away from negotiations to organize a more ambitious but financially ill-fated event. After Gay Games VII in Chicago broke even while the inaugural World Outgames were losing millions, the calls began for an end to the dueling events.

But those most invested in the legacy of the Gay Games and their ability to bring together a critical mass of athletes and artists are wary about sinking limited resources into conferences at the risk of lower sports attendance and accompanying decreased athlete and sports diversity. Numerous organizations have called for the Gay Games to hold onto its sportscultural formula and resist efforts to change the mission, content, or name.

The latest to join the fray was Team Rehoboth Beach. In September the Rehoboth board unanimously said that it “supports the concept of one quadrennial event in 2018. However, the board would prefer separate, competing events if the only path to one event involves compromising the ‘Gay Games’ brand or diverting scarce resources away from sports. More specifically, we direct our delegates to vote against any motion which might result in either of the following two conditions: 1) Changing the name of the ‘Gay Games’ to something else; 2) a human rights conference organized by the Gay Games host organization.”

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The euphoria of the past weeks for me was diminished by just one very sad note: the passing of former Reds and Tigers manager Sparky Anderson at the age of 76. It may be hard for folks on the coasts to understand just how deeply Anderson resonated with folks in the heartland. In the crazy atmosphere of the 1970s, he was a reassuring figure of stability and calm competence. Not Mr. Cool, but Mr. O.K. G’night, Sparky.

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The Glenn Burke story

If you live in California and you watch a lot of sports on television, you have probably noticed just a tad bit of bias in the coverage – enough so that many fans feel that ESPN might very well stand for Eastern Sports Programming Network.

Perish the thought! Last week, when the San Francisco Giants crushed the Texas Rangers to capture the World Series just weeks after many ESPN analysts were writing off the Giants after their horrendous pitching in August, ESPN gave the Giants a prominent role in its newscasts.

The lead? Well, not quite. In ESPN world, the more earth-shattering story was the Minnesota Vikings’ decision to put receiver Randy Moss on waivers.

But at least the Giants got a quick appearance in second slot in the newscasts – right before the feature stories speculating about which free agents the New York Yankees need to sign to restore sanity to the world order.

Note to Bristol, Connecticut, where ESPN is based: This postseason was decided by one of the most dominating pitching staffs in the history of the game. Period. One hiccup in a field of annihilation.

I grew up in Ohio rooting for the Big Red Machine. It was a team so offensively and defensively dominant that it pretty much spoiled me for what I’ve seen elsewhere since.

But I have never gotten to see the quality of pitching I’ve been blessed to see on both sides of the bay in recent years. I don’t care how much the Yankees spend: they won’t be able to match either the A’s or the Giants in pitching in 2011. This year was great.

Next year? I can hardly wait.

Since writing my column last week on the documentary Out: The Glenn Burke Story (Nov. 4 Jock Talk), which premiered Wednesday at the Castro Theatre and will be rebroadcast November 16 on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, I had a chance to share some reflections on Burke’s life after major league baseball and LGBT sports: the challenges gay athletes face, the empowerment competition can provide individuals, and the explosive growth of LGBT sports since Burke’s playing days for the Dodgers and A’s.

Have to say, though, that I was more than a little disappointed by a quote I read Tuesday in a Ron Kroichick article in the San Francisco Chronicle to publicize the film. A question and answer interview with film producer Doug Harris quotes him as saying: “He was an icon in the gay community, and once he has this car accident – and he can’t run, jump, and dunk a basketball anymore – then he’s not an icon anymore. ...

Once he got hit by that car and he couldn’t perform, they kind of shoved him to the side. To me, that spiraled into his heavy drug use and his crash and burn. So that’s the part that really grabbed my heart. People have to realize the gay community turned on him just as much as baseball did, if you really look at it.”

I think it is inaccurate and unfair to say the gay “community,” which at the time was just beginning to acknowledge the athletes in its midst and had only begun to build its sports organizations and events, “turned” on Burke. Would one say the same thing of communities that knew Burke better and longer, such as the folks of Berkeley, or of African Americans in the Bay Area?

For his part, Harris said he was not misquoted, but that the full context was not contained in the story. Harris said the comment was based upon conversations he had with Burke’s sister, Lutha, relating the observations of the late Jack “Irene” McGowan, the longtime gay softball leader who was close to Burke. “According to Lutha,” Harris said, “McGowan felt that the gay community could be doing more to support Glenn. In turn, that’s why McGowan reached out to Sandy Alderson and the A’s to help Glenn.”

“I in no way meant to offend or single out the gay community,” he added.

There was no turning, no betrayal of trust: there was a collective failure by all of Burke’s communities to reach him and help him in the ways and times he needed it the most. The efforts that were made failed or were rejected or were insufficient.

The tragedy is not betrayal, but rather the knots of ignorance, fear, hostility, and apathy that led to his fate.

The things that surround us all, the things each of us must always strive to rid from our hearts. The communities of decades past fell short; today we can only strive to do better.▼

tumors for 24 years.

He was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1950; was graduated from Philadelphia University in 1972; was an OR specialist in the US Army, Honolulu; and honorably discharged. He managed Gap stores in Philadelphia and San Francisco before becoming a business services representative for Computerland. In San Francisco, Bob volunteered with Project Open Hand and at Ralph K Davies Medical Center.

In addition to his partner, Bob is survived by his aunt Mary McGoldrick of Houston, brothers John

Carr, Harrisburg and Francis Carr, Houston; sisters Maryanne Carr Kozempel, Hatfield, Elizabeth Carr Crawford, New Jersey, and Rosemary Carr Luczejko, Whitehall; and by his friends John Downey, St. Petersburg, Patricia Chung, Tampa; Michael Amaro, Les Young, Dione Bowers, and Arthur McDonald, San Francisco.

He will be remembered for his warmth, great wit, charm, and courage in the face of his disease. He will be missed greatly by his many family and friends whose lives he so enriched with love.

Jonathan Harbourne is co-chair of a bid committee to bring the Gay Games to London in 2018.

(or semi-concurrent) human rights conference as an officially endorsed Gay Games event, provided that it is done at the sole risk and expense of GLISA and provided that GLISA and their members cease to offer global quadrennial sports events like World Outgames.”

And hey: it’s a formula that has worked well enough to capture the attention of the politicos of London and the athletes they represent. Harbourne said his team is eager for a chance to stage it.

“Our vision for London is very exciting, we know we will have the best facilities, some great talent, ideas, experience and the creativity to put on the most amazing show, as well as providing a lasting legacy and a world-class example of a truly diverse and inclusive event,” he said.

World Series perspective

Obituaries >> Robert Joseph Carr July 8, 1950 – October 24, 2010

Robert Joseph Carr, 60, died peacefully October 24, 2010 at his home in Henderson, Nevada with his partner of 28 years, Arthur Murphy, at his side.

Bob succumbed to a glioblastoma multiforme after battling brain

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NEWS itive about this judgment is that the court accepted part of the decision we just won last week at the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the Moscow Pride ban on the issue of morality and the right of minorities,” said Moscow Pride founder Nikolai Alekseev. “The ECHR decision has already been used only 10 days after being given.”

On October 21, the ECHR ordered Russia to stop banning gay Pride parades, ruling that former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s yearly bans violated guarantees of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the areas of freedom of assembly and association, right to an effective remedy and prohibition of discrimination.

Alekseev said activists also will pursue a case in Moscow over authorities’ refusal to register the group Marriage Equality Russia.

“We’re very happy that the Moscow Pride decision can be used for non-Pride issues,” he said.▼

Berlusconi disses gays minister that with this statement shows that he belongs to a really old culture. Silvio Berlusconi’s way of t the November 2 opening of representing the institution dishonthe International Bike and ors Italy, and his ‘macho Latino’ Motorbike Show in rudeness is among the causes Milan, Italian Prime Minisof the grotesque climate in ter Silvio Berlusconi, apthe country.” parently defending himArcigay also wrote to self against sex scandal Italian Equality Minisallegations, said, “It is ter Mara Carfagna urgbetter to have a passion ing her to denounce the for beautiful girls than comment. She replied to be gay.” that Berlusconi had just Leading Italian joking around and W OCKNER’ S been LGBT association Arcihadn’t intended to offend gay demanded that W ORLD homosexuals.

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for the quip and meet with the organization.

“It is unacceptable that a prime minister, in an obvious situation of difficulties because of his senile passions, pronounces such a homophobic and vulgar nonsense statement,” said Arcigay national President Paolo Patanè. “We are not willing to become the scapegoat of a weak prime

Rights group rejects African lesbians The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has rejected an application for observer status from the Coalition of African Lesbians.

A recent letter from the commission’s secretary, Mary Maboreke,

provided no reason for the decision, saying simply, “The ACHPR has deliberated on your application and decided not to grant observer status to the Coalition of African Lesbians.”

CAL said it was “outraged” by the “discriminatory, unjust and unfair” determination.

The group called on all organizations that have ACHPR observer status to denounce the decision and send statements, letters, and petitions demanding that commissioners reconsider CAL’s application.

For more information, see www.cal.org.za.

Russian gay group wins registration case The regional court in Arkhangelsk, Russia, ordered local authorities to register the LGBT organization Rakurs (Perspective) on November 1.

The group had been denied registration by the regional Justice Ministry on the grounds it fomented extremism and religious hatred, dis-

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was criticized for what an LGBT group called an anti-gay remark.

seminated homosexual propaganda, discriminated against heterosexuals and undermined state security.

The denial came after the group amended its charter to make clear it is an LGBT organization. It was registered previously but not as an openly gay group.

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Bill Kelley contributed to this report.

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GBT youth advocates at Gay Straight Alliance Network have launched the “Make It Better Project,” an initiative that confronts bullying head on by showing students and adults what they can do to improve school safety.

“We’re focused on connecting people in the public who want to do something and take action,” said Executive Director Carolyn Laub.

GSA Network, based in San Francisco, has been working to promote LGBT youth safety around the country for over a decade. The organization helps schools train their employees to intervene in cases of bullying, and also pushes for non-discrimination policies.

Consequences of harassment in schools include absenteeism, lower grades, mental health issues, and substance abuse.

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to succeed termed out Supervisor Bevan Dufty. According to the latest unofficial returns this week, the deputy district attorney had received 16,433 votes or 56 percent, while second-place finisher local attorney Rafael Mandelman had 13,025 votes or 44 percent.

“All of my opponents have conceded in very gracious ways,” said Wiener, who will be one of two out supervisors on the board, working alongside District 9 Supervisor David Campos.

In an e-mail to his supporters Wednesday, Mandelman acknowledged that he had come up short in his supervisorial bid and thanked those who had worked on his behalf.

“I cannot express just how incredibly grateful I am to all of you who have been a part of my campaign for supervisor. Unfortunately, after two years of dialing for dollars, knocking on doors, chasing after endorsements, and harassing the bejeezus out of every registered voter we could track down in the district, we are firmly in second place,” wrote Mandelman.

He added that Wiener would be a “a very capable and excellent supervisor” and that he was “so glad and grateful for the opportunity to represent you and your values in this campaign.”

Having taken time off to focus on his campaign, Wiener plans to return

Adults who don’t work in the school system can also be of help, Laub said. She recommended that interested residents attend school board meetings and pressure elected officials to institute anti-bullying programs, both in their local system and in the schools that they attended.

GSA Network is about to launch a collaboration with Write Your Principal, a new grassroots website that encourages citizens to push for LGBT protections in their hometown schools.

As the Make It Better project launched, local resident Ian Stallings approached GSA Network and organized a fundraiser that took place last week. Money raised at the event will help continue the initiative over the next year.

Students in school districts in the Bay Area and beyond have welcomed the organization’s assistance.

“My school does not tolerate any

form of bullying,” said Max Phillip, a student and activist at Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton. “The faculty and administration are also proactive in calling out any students who bully in any form. Currently, my school is having a ‘Be The Change’ month, where teachers are supposed to give lessons each week about bullying, and there will also be a school wide assembly addressing the issue of bullying.”

Laub said that some school admin-

istrators are becoming more aware of bullying. A spate of recent suicides by young people, reportedly because they were bullied at school because they were gay or perceived to be gay, has only added to the urgency.

“There are a lot of examples where school administrators already understood that bullying was an issue on their campus, but the headlines have reinforced that they need to be proactive in fixing the climate of their schools,” said Laub.

to work at the City Attorney’s office next week. His resignation from his current job will become effective the day he takes office as a supervisor.

Joining him at City Hall as his two aides will be Gillian Gillett, a straight woman who chairs the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association’s transportation policy committee, and Adam Taylor, a gay man who was Wiener’s campaign manager.

As for what his first priorities would be, Wiener declined to offer specifics but did list several key areas he wants to focus on, such as pension reform and job creation.

“I don’t want to assume what I am going to be introducing when everything is a process and you want to build support. I do want to work on ways of creating new jobs and supporting small business,” said Wiener. “We talked a lot during the campaign about reforming the payroll tax so we incentivize job creation, so that is something I do intend to work on. But any kind of major reform like that is a process.”

As for the other members of the incoming freshman class of supervisors, Wiener said he has yet to talk to any of the other leading candidates in the races. Several of the contests continue to be too close to call, while it appears that Jane Kim, a straight woman who is president of the school board, will be the new District 6 supervisor.

According to the latest returns as of Wednesday morning, Kim had a sizeable lead over her opponents, coming in first place with 7,727 votes or 54 percent. In second place was Debra

Walker, a lesbian on the city’s Building Inspections Commission, who received 6,526 votes or 46 percent; in third was Theresa Sparks, a transgender woman who heads the city’s Human Rights Commission, with 3,809 votes or 23 percent.

In the District 2 race venture capitalist Mark Farrell continued to hold on to a small lead over Janet Reilly, a Golden Gate bridge board member.

Farrell had 8,200 votes or 50.30 percent and Reilly had 8,100 votes or 49.70 percent.

In District 10 Malia Cohen, a former staffer for Mayor Gavin Newsom, was holding on to her lead with 3,693 votes or 51.51 percent. Theater producer Tony Kelly was in second with 3,477 votes or 48.49 percent, while BART board member Lynette Sweet was in third place with 2,741 votes or 23.51 percent. Should Cohen be declared the winner, she will ensure there is African American representation on the board.

Should the three first-place finishers hold on to their leads after all the ballots are counted, the balance of power on the board is unlikely to change, with progressives maintaining a majority against the more moderate supervisors.

But Wiener predicted the new board would be less politically divided than the current supervisors.

“If you look at the returning members and new members, it is a very independent group of people. From what I can see so far, it will be a less ideological board,” said Wiener.

“Everyone is going to have to work together. No one is going to be able to assume anything or ram anything through. It is exactly how the Board of Supervisors should function.”

As for who should be board president, or if he gets to decide, who

Staff at GSA Network are working on new antibullying efforts. From left: Carolyn Laub, Monica Canfield-Lenfest, Danielle Askini, Geoffrey Winder, and Laura Wadden.

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GSA Network’s advocacy is guided by five steps that education experts know decrease harassment. Those steps include instituting a well-publicized non-discrimination policy, training teachers to intervene, establishing a gay-straight alliance on campus, having highly visible resources for LGBT students, and including LGBT issues in the curriculum.

“I actually have seen things get better,” Phillip said. “Once teenagers are actually aware of the consequences of their actions, they are more likely not to use hurtful words or slang. ... After the administration, faculty, other students, and I at my high school addressed the issues of anti-gay harassment and bullying, the atmosphere at my school has been much more open and inviting for LGBTQ students.”

“This has evolved into a different story than just an It Gets Better video,” said Laub, referring to the popular YouTube video project that was started by columnist Dan Savage. “This is about new resources being invested. ...

People in our own community finding out what they can do.”▼ More information can be found at www.makeitbetterproject.org and www.writeyourprincipal.com.

should be interim mayor, Wiener wouldn’t disclose his choices.

“I have my views on who should be board president but I am not going to comment publicly on that,” he said. “I am not going to comment on interim mayor.”▼

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changed her legal name. Kolakowski appealed the decision to the Louisiana State Court, which unanimously voted to allow her to take the exam.

She passed and went into solo practice, moved to the Bay Area to practice patent law, was hired as an administrative law judge, and last week, became the first transgender person to be elected a judge by winning her race for a seat on the Alameda County Superior Court.

“My first victory after law school was to take the bar exam, so this has been quite a journey,” Kolakowski told the Bay Area Reporter in an interview this week. “To go from that point of suspicions about whether I was mentally stable enough to be an attorney to a majority of people look at my expe-

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the personal story of a victim of the ban that makes no sense.”

Nava rules out second run for judge Openly gay attorney Michael Nava, who lost his bid for a seat on the San Francisco Superior Court last week, has ruled out a second stab at running for judge.

In an e-mail to supporters a day after the Tuesday, November 2 election, the celebrated crime novelist wrote that he did not intend to launch another campaign to be elected to the bench.

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After watching Pelosi three years ago allow the House to pass a version of ENDA that excluded transgender issues and then promise LGBT leaders this spring to bring the fully inclusive ENDA up for a vote this year, then fail to make good on that promise, many in the transgender community, in particular, view Pelosi’s reign as speaker as a lost opportunity.

“In general, most members of the transgender community are incredibly disappointed that the employment discrimination issue was not addressed,” said Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center. “For many transgender people employment and access to support services remains their number one issue. It is very disappointing that issues of basic fairness in the workplace were not addressed.”

In response to the B.A.R.’s request for an interview with the speaker, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill issued a statement outlining her achievements.

“Speaker Pelosi has been a staunch advocate for the LGBT community in her over 20 years in the Congress; helping lead the fight against HIV/AIDS, opposing efforts to enshrine discrimination in the United States Constitution and served as a leading voice against Proposition 8 in California. Under her leadership as speaker, fully-inclusive hate crimes legislation is now the land of the land and the House passed the historic repeal of the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” wrote Hammill.

“Nancy Pelosi will continue to be a friend, advocate, and staunch ally to the community and the leading voice in the Congress for LGBT equality.”

Despite LGBT leaders’ desire to have seen Pelosi achieve far more in terms of LGBT rights, they nonetheless agree that she remains one of the most vocal backers of the gay community on the national political stage.

Human Rights Campaign spokesman Fred Sainz, in response to the B.A.R.’s request for an interview with the national LGBT group’s pres-

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rience over my career to say I am qualified to be a judge that is a very positive statement for our community.”

According to the latest unofficial returns from the Alameda County Registrar of Voters, Kolakowski now has 7,392 more votes than her opponent, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney John Creighton, for the superior court’s vacant office #9.

While there are upwards of 30,000 ballots remaining to be counted, Kolakowski has what appears to be an insurmountable lead.

“Yes, I now feel comfortable saying I won this and I am very happy and deeply honored,” said Kolakowski, 49, who is married to B.A.R. news editor Cynthia Laird.

LGBT groups such as Equality California and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund had made electing Kolakowski a top priority in last week’s elections. For the transgender com-

munity, whose interactions with the justice system oftentimes are negative experiences, it is a particularly significant win.

“Vicky’s win is just incredibly historic for us as an LGBT community.

She is the first out transgender trial judge in the United States,” said Transgender Law Center Executive Director Masen Davis. “The fact she won shows we are at a place where people can judge someone by what they bring to the table as entire people as professionals.”

While Kolakowski didn’t hide her transgender status, she focused more on her professional experience out on the campaign trail. Her win is proof that what mattered more to voters was her legal career and not her personal story, said Davis.

“She was out about her transgender identity but was equally focused on her credentials as a judge,” said Davis,

adding that he will miss having Kolakowski co-chair his agency’s board. “I love that now young LGBT people can look to people like Vicky and know they have a possibility of becoming a judge and becoming a professional who is respected in a community while also being true to themselves.”

In 2008 when she first ran for judge, Kolakowski was seen more as a transgender activist than as a qualified judicial candidate. This time out she focused more on wanting to make the courts accessible and bring a different perspective other than as a prosecutor to the bench.

“Two years ago most of the media attention on the race was calling me a transgender activist. The words ‘activist’ and ‘judge’ in the same sentence can be toxic,” said Kolakowski, who is also an ordained minister in the LGBT-focused Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. “I emphasized

my experience as an administrative law judge and attorney. I wasn’t just running as a novelty candidate. I have real experience relevant to the job.”

Kolakowski’s win has attracted local and worldwide attention, from headlines on international news sites to residents of 77 different countries logging onto her campaign website.

She has been invited to address several Bay Area groups to discuss her race, including the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley Law School and the Eastern Alameda County Bar Association.

Sometime before or on January 4, Kolakowski expects to be sworn into office and is planning to have a public celebration. Already several judges have called to welcome her to the bench.

“I am really looking forward to getting started and working with my new colleagues,” she said. ▼

I will look for other ways to be of service,” wrote Nava.

After coming in first place in the three-person primary race in June, Nava landed in second place in the runoff election last week. According to the latest unofficial returns, he received 80,959 votes or 46.64 percent.

Judge Richard Ulmer held on to his seat 15 on the court with 92,622 or 53.36 percent.

Had he won, Nava would have been the first out gay Latino to win a judicial race in the state. And his loss is all the more a stinging defeat for the fact that if another gay attorney, Daniel Dean, had not gotten into the primary race, Nava likely would have won the seat outright five months ago.

In the end, the soft-spoken and bookish Nava admitted that he was

not up to the task of seeking out votes on the campaign trail. But the experience did draw him out of his shell, he told supporters.

“I started this race as an introverted intellectual, more comfortable with his books and thoughts than with other people, but this election drew me out into my communities in a way that has changed me – I will never be a back-slapper but I feel a greater ease and empathy with people than I did before,” wrote Nava.

He added that he does not see his defeat as a personal disappointment because he still has the “life I had before I ran, filled with wonderful friends, a loving partner, and the great gift of intellectual curiosity.”

He wrote that he is upset he could not be victorious for the people who

backed him in the race over the near unanimous opposition of the local judiciary.

“I hoped to win for my communities, LGBT and Latino/a, and for all of us who have felt disenfranchised and disrespected by the powers-that-be. So I am sorry I could not win for you.

And I am grateful and humbled by the expressions of support and love I received during the campaign,” wrote Nava.

Nonetheless, Nava proved to be a strong judicial candidate and could still find himself serving on the bench.

With the election of a Democratic governor, Nava may just be appointed to fill a vacancy on the superior court, or perhaps an appellate court, after Jerry Brown takes office in January.

Meko honored for his work

ident, Joe Solmonese, who was unavailable, issued a statement in which he called Pelosi “a consistent ally and advocate not just for LGBT people but for all fair-minded Americans throughout her congressional career.”

“She has vigorously supported full and equal rights for LGBT people long before it was politically acceptable to do so. She came to Congress to be a leader on HIV treatment and funding and has distinguished herself mightily on that important issue,” stated Sainz. “More recently, she fought for DADT repeal and it passed with over 35 votes to spare. She has championed an inclusive ENDA, domestic partnership benefits for federal employees and voted against the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. It’s certainly helpful to have an ally like her as the leader.”

In a phone interview, Sainz said that many of the speaker’s legislative achievements that are not LGBT-centric will benefit the gay community, in particular opening up access to health care and financial reform.

“LGBT people, we are not an island. We benefit from the whole host of progressive agenda Nancy Pelosi stewarded from that House. Speaker Pelosi did very good things on behalf of all Americans,” he said. “Would we have preferred to see more progress on LGBT centric issues? Absolutely, no doubt about it this Congress should have done more. But when history is written on her LGBT bona fides, I think history will remember her as a great champion on behalf of our community.”

Rick Jacobs, the openly gay founder and chairman of the progressive Courage Campaign, told the B.A.R. that LGBT people can be proud of Pelosi’s time as speaker because she took risks on behalf of the community.

“As a progressive, as a gay man, as a Californian, I feel very indebted to Nancy Pelosi,” said Jacobs.

He pointed to her pushing to see the House repeal DADT only to see the Democratic congressman who led the effort, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, be defeated in his bid for re-election last week.

“From an activist, organizer perspective, and as somebody who lives

in California, here is what I see. I see that the House, time and time again, including and especially with DADT, stuck its neck out and, in general, got it chopped off at the Senate,” said Jacobs. “Asking the speaker to keep pushing stuff that was going to get killed in the Senate doesn’t make a lot of sense. Anybody who is complaining about what she did ought to think three times about it.”

He added that, “It is myopic to say, ‘You didn’t do that and that and that, therefore you didn’t do anything for me.’”

Pelosi is likely just as disappointed as the LGBT community that more pro-gay bills didn’t get enacted, said Ernest Hopkins, legislative director for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

“She would be the first to say she wished there had been more movement on other LGBT bills,” said Hopkins.

One of the main problems Pelosi faced, said Hopkins, was a Democratic caucus that included many conservative so-called Blue Dogs who were not in support of such things as ENDA. “We certainly had a lot of promise and expectation that many of the more progressive policy issues that had been hanging around for a while were going to finally be addressed.

What none of us took into sufficient account was the challenge that exists in managing a caucus of the size of her caucus with the diversity of policy perspectives of the caucus,” said Hopkins.

“It was challenging for her to be responsive to progressive members and at the same time listen to the Blue Dogs and even more conservative Democrats than the Blue Dogs.”

prevention strategy; lifting the travel ban for people with HIV or AIDS; increasing federal funding for AIDS research; and reauthorization of the landmark Ryan White CARE Act, now known as the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act. While she and her Democratic majority have been attacked for the health care reform they pushed through this year, they have won praise from AIDS leaders for numerous aspects of the legislation. The bill increased access to Medicaid for people with HIV; ended health insurers’ ability to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions such as HIV; and ended annual and lifetime caps on health benefits.

“I think it will be hard for most people to see the impact she has had until we get further along the road to full implementation of the health care legislation. We are still figuring out the details of what will be covered and what won’t,” said Davis. “If LGBT people across the board are able to access nondiscriminatory care or competent care, and if transgender people can get care for all the services they need, then I believe the speaker will have quite a legacy.”

Randy Allgaier, director of the San Francisco HIV Health Services Planning Council, praised Pelosi and her staff for giving AIDS advocates “better access to the leader of the House of Representatives than we ever had. That can’t be overstated.”

“I don’t think her impact on people living with HIV AIDS can be understated. I think it has been huge,” added Allgaier, who is on the board of the Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief, or CAEAR, Coalition.

While the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation ran ads this fall in her district critical of Pelosi for the under-funding of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Allgaier said the blame was misplaced.

“I know that folks recently have attacked her for not finding the money for ADAP that is needed by the states.

The issue is bigger than Congress or the president, it is an issue states must address,” he said. “I think that was poorly targeting her.”

Hopkins said one of the biggest changes Pelosi helped to bring about was ensuring that the Ryan White

CARE Act was written in a way to help urban cities with large populations of people living with HIV and AIDS. “I think she gets credit for all the provisions related to making the formula more responsive to places like California. For many years it was responsive more to states and jurisdictions that did not do a good job of keeping people alive,” said Hopkins.

Pelosi built on AIDS achievements If there was one area of concern to the gay community where Pelosi did make great strides while speaker, it would be on AIDS related issues.

Over the last four years she was able to secure $4 million in federal funding for AIDS services around the Bay Area that would have been cut due to a complicated formula that benefits jurisdictions outside urban areas.

Her legislative achievements included lifting the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange, a key HIV

Another electoral loser last week has been named a winner by the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services.

Openly gay Entertainment Commissioner Jim Meko, who came up short in his bid for District 6 supervisor, will receive the 2010 Neighborhood Empowerment Network award for lifetime achievement. In addition to helping oversee the city’s nightlife, Meko has long been involved in planning issues in the South of Market neighborhood.

Meko and the other NEN Award winners this year will be feted at a November 17 ceremony at San Francisco City Hall. The free event is open to the public and will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in the North Light Court.▼

Support for seeing her continue Despite the hand wringing over the paucity of LGBT achievements while she was speaker, Pelosi has wide support among the gay community for her decision to run for minority leader and not retire from Congress.

“She has been a longstanding and ardent supporter of the LGBT community and I will do anything to help continue her leadership,” stated openly gay Congressman Jared Polis (DColorado). “The speaker has led the Democrats out of the wilderness before and I am confident she can do it again.”

The Transgender Law Center’s Davis agreed that Pelosi has been an “incredibly strong” leader on Capitol Hill.

“She has been pragmatic and strategic in what she has pursued,” said Davis. “In the long run, I think she will be remembered for being the first female speaker in the House that endeavored to bring San Francisco values to Washington. It seems that was a harder task than she anticipated, especially in the current political environment.”

Nieto said she is looking forward to watching Pelosi spar with Republican Speaker in waiting John Boehner, whom she referred to as “the orange man from Ohio.”

“I think Pelosi is a great politician and I wouldn’t want to go into a knife fight with her,” said Nieto. “I am glad she is going to stay in leadership. We need that progressive thinking there.”

At the same time, Nieto echoed comments Petrelis has long made about the need for Pelosi to hold town hall meetings in San Francisco with her constituents like other Bay Area congressional members.

“It is the same criticism Obama is getting. They are not hearing from regular folks like us,” she said.▼

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.MALIBU LENDING, 2.WWW.BAYBANKERS.COM, 88 Kearny Street,3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Brett McGovern.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/05/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033118300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BIOLOQUE, 1566 Guerrero Street,Apt. 3,San Francisco, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Mary B. Rager. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/02/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/02/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033123700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GREAT WESTERN BUILDING MATERIALS, 3000 3rd Street,San Francisco, CA 94107.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Shaun Radcliffe. 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 11/04/10.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as LUSTRAN CLEANING SERVICES, 1300 Golden Gate Ave.,#405,San Francisco, CA 94115.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Fernando Puglisi. 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 11/09/10.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate or both of RODNEY CARL BILLINGS A petition for probate has been filed by DOUGLAS HEAPS in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County.

The petition for probate requests that DOUGLAS HEAPS 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.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as DOES ARCHITECTURE,22 Montezuma Street,San Francisco, CA 94110.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Eric D. Staten.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/09/10.

The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as SF GOLD RUSH, 1920 Market Street,San Francisco, CA 94102.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Dmitriy Bluvshteyn. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/09/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/09/10.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RODNEY CARL BILLINGS: CASE NUMBER: PES-10-293997 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO 400 MCALLISTER, SF, CA 94102 PETITIONER DOUGLAS HEAPS

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 a contingent creditor of the decendent, you must file with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code scetion 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. 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.

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STATEMENT FILE A-033134800

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LEGAL NOTICES SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT DISTRICT NOTICE TO PROPOSERS GENERAL INFORMATION EXTENSION OF TIME FOR PROPOSAL SUBMISSION TheSANFRANCISCOBAYAREARAPID TRANSITDISTRICT(“District”),300Lakeside Drive, Oakland, California, has extended the proposal submission date for proposals to provideconsultingservicesforBART'SRegional Anti-TerrorismandIntegratedLawEnforcement System,Request for Proposals (RFP) No. 79HP120, with proposals due by 2:00 PM local time, Tuesday, December 7, 2010.

Proposers may request a copy of the Request for Proposals (electronic or hard copy) by directing an email to Gary Leong, Contract Administrator, email address: Gary.Leong@bart.gov. The email request shall include the following information: company name, address, city, telephone number, fax numberanddesignateacontactpersonandtheir emailaddress.TheemailrequestfortheRFPwill automaticallyplaceeachProposeronaregistryto receiveanyaddendum(s)andotherdocument(s) that may be issued under the RFP. Any addendum(s) or other document(s) that may be issued under the RFP will be transmitted to all persons who have requested the RFP through the Contract Administrator in a manner that provides verification of receipt.

FirmsthathavereceivedtheRFPfromsources other than directly from the Contract Administrator are required to register with the Contract Administrator, as described above, for theirproposals to be considered responsive.

Proposals received from firms that did not register with the Contract Administrator, as described above, to receive the official RFP and other documents, may be considered non-responsive.

The District will not accept proposals that are submitted by email or by facsimile.

For any additional information regarding this project, please call the District's Contract Administrator, Gary Leong, (510) 287-4717.

Dated at Oakland, California this 2nd day of November 2010.

Kenneth A. Duron, District Secretary San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District 11/11/10 • CNS-1980615# BAY AREA REPORTER

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are:LUMAT INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:1001 S Van Ness Ave., Sa n Fra ncisco,C A 9 4 1 1 0 - 2 6 1 5 .

Type of license applied for:

47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE NOV. 11, 2010 NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are:FURIOUS FERRET, INC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500,San Francisco, CA 94105 to sellalcoholic beverages at:1760-72 Market Street.,San Fran cisco,C A 9 4 1 0 2 .

Type of license applied for:

47 ON-SALE GENERAL EATING PLACE NOV. 11, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0315834-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as 1.SCENTS OF JAPAN,2.JAPAN INCENSE , 2370 Market Street,#321, San Francisco, CA 94114.This business was conducted by a limited liability company, signed Jay Cowan. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/21/08.

STATEMENT FILE A-033094700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAK HUNG COMPANY,279 28th Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94121.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Lai-Lai Lau. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/20/10.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033083500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as K.K.W WHOLESALE, 15 Boutwell Street, San Francisco,CA 94124.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Hameed Aziz. 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 10/14/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033052500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as COP N BLOW INTERNATIONAL, 2595 43rd Avenue, #7,San Francisco,CA 94116.This business is conducted by an individual, signed David Green. 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 09/29/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033094800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as YOUR BEST SKIN, 595 Buckingham Way, #301,San Francisco,CA 94132.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Susan A. Upton. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/10/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/20/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033101900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as HARKINS BUILDERS, 124 20th Avenue, San Francisco,CA 94121.This business is conducted by an individual, signed John P Harkins. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/01/05.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033102800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as POLENTA PUBLISHING, 110 Pacific Avenue,#268, San Francisco,CA 94111.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Maria Vezzetti Matson.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033092600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as GROUNDSWELL RAINSCAPES, 245 Noe Street, San Francisco,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Kathyrn L. Sawyer.

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/18/10.

41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE OCT. 28, NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547240 In the matter of the application of SEE HIN LIM for change of name. The application of SEE HIN LIM for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that SEE HIN LIM filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to HARVEY LIM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 21st of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547236 In the matter of the application of MINDI SU MATSON for change of name and gender. The application of MINDI SU MATSON for change of name and gender having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that MINDI SU MATSON filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to MIN ROBERT KELLY-MATSON and his/her 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 Room 218 on the 30th of November, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547238 In the matter of the application of NADEZHDA VIKTOROVNA MASHARIPOVA for change of name. The application of NADEZHDA VIKTOROVNA MASHARIPOVA for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that NADEZHDA VIKTOROVNA MASHARIPOVA filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to NADIA MASHAR. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 16th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033079600

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033104600

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as 1.B.E.E., 2.BETTER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, 1271 Capitol Avenue,#2, San Francisco,CA 94112.This business is conducted by a general partnership, signed Alan Wong. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/26/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/26/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033073000

OCT. 28,NOV. 4,11,18, 2010

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10-547207

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547268

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : ANNIE SHIHCHU SUN. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at: 2819 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94115.

Type of license applied for:

The following person(s) is/are doing business as WAROE,2843 Geary Blvd., San Francisco,CA 94118.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Daniel Asfaha. 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 10/13/10.

OCT. 14,21,28,NOV. 4, 2010

In the matter of the application of NFN ZERENWENGXU for change of name.

The application of NFN ZERENWENGXU for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that NFN ZERENWENGXU filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to TSERING WANGCHUK DENMA. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 7th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

In the matter of the application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name. The application of DENICE MARIE TUCKER for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that DENICE MARIE TUCKER filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to DEN KIRKWOOD TUCKER. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 30th of December, 2010 at 9:00 am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAG/CMWEST, A JOINT ASSOCIATION, 930 Montgomery Street, Suite #302, San Francisco,CA 94133.This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other that a partnership, signed Lionel Recio. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/26/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/08/10.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033081000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as ORBITECH VENTURES, 31 Romain Street, San Francisco,CA 94114.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Richard Utting. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/14/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/13/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033062500

STATEMENT FILE A-033117100

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAVE THANGS ENT., 40 Murray Street, San Francisco,CA 94112.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Austin Smith. 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 10/04/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PAINT AND PLASTER SCENIC 1020 ‘B’ Alabama Street,San Francisco,CA 94110.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Scot Velardo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/01/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033105300

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0323514-00

The following person(s) is/are doing business as BOISLAND ENTERPRISES, 84 Entrada Court, San Francisco,CA 94127.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Den Tucker. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/26/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/26/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033109900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as READ GLOBAL, 1016 Torrey Avenue, First Floor, San Francisco,CA 94129.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Nathan Joblin. 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 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as PHOENIX WORKSHOP, 271-15th Ave.,San Francisco, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual, signed Vivian Ju. The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/28/09.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTICIOUS BUSINESS NAME: #A-0325004-00 The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name known as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103. This business was conducted by a general partnership, signed Steven M. Maraccini.

The ficticious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 01/19/10.

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033111200

STATEMENT FILE A-033117900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HAYES VALLEY INN, 417 Gough Street, San Francisco,CA 94102.

This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Stephan Forget. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 08/03/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as JACK TRUX,660 Toland Place, San Francisco,CA 94124.This business is conducted by a corporation , signed Richard Springer. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 04/03/00.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/01/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033108800

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

The following person(s) is/are doing business as PARSIA PRINTS, 1333 Gough Street, #4C San Francisco,CA 94109.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Fargollyla Nazemi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/28/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033107800

To Whom It May Concern: The name(s) of the applicant(s) is/are : COOKHOUSE LLC. The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control at 71 Stevenson Street,Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105 to sell alcoholic beverages at:253 Columbus Ave., Sa n Fra ncisco,C A 9 4 1 3 3 - 4 5 0 8 .

Type of license applied for:

41 ON-SALE BEER AND WINE EATING PLACE NOV. 4,11,18, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENRY’S HUNAN RESTAURANT, 4753 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112.This business is conducted by a limited liability partnership, signed Jeff Zhu. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/27/10.

STATEMENT FILE A-033125800

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

NOV. 11,18,24,DEC.2, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033103100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as BASIN, 310 Berry Street,San Francisco,CA 94158.This business is conducted by a limited liability company, signed Man Mohan Sahi. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 03/27/09.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/25/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033109600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as TAX TREATMENT, 4346 18th Street,San Francisco,CA 94114.This business is conducted by an individual, signed Laine Ballard. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/28/10.

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010 STATEMENT FILE A-033101400 The following person(s) is/are doing business as SAN FRANCISCO NURSING CENTER, 5767 Mission Street,San Francisco,CA 94112.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed James R. Preimesberger. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/22/10.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

STATEMENT FILE A-033078600

STATEMENT FILE A-033113300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HEAVEN QI & EARTH, 2906 Lyon Street, San Francisco,CA 94123.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Elizabeth McDowell. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/04/06.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/13/10.

The following person(s) is/are doing business as HENDERSON DESIGN GROUP, 380 Alabama Street, #23, San Francisco,CA 94110.This business is conducted by a corporation, signed Eric Henderson. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/18/08.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 10/29/10.

OCT. 21,28,NOV. 4,11, 2010

NOV. 4,11,18,24, 2010

The following person(s) is/are doing business as CALABRIA BROS., 2249 17th Street,San Francisco, CA 94103.

This business is conducted by an individual, signed Michael Tufo. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/10.The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco ,CA on 11/04/10.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE# CNC-10547225 In the matter of the application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name. The application of BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY for change of name having been filed in Court, and it appearing from said application that BRENDAN MICHAEL MOLLEY filed an application proposing that his/her name be changed to BRENDAN MICHAEL MCGARRY. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Room 218 on the 9th of December, 2010 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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42nd Street Moon’s musical ‘Murder for Two’ at Eureka.

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Creator Normand Latourelle on ‘Cavalia’ • by Richard Dodds

Sylvia Zerbini works with horses “at liberty” in a scene from Cavalia , returning to San Francisco in an expanded production.

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Across the gay/ straight divide

Scene from Ferzan Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons.

‘New Italian Cinema’ & American Indian Film Festival ~ by David Lamble ~

eflecting its 1957 origin as a festival that highlighted the post-war Italian film movement then emerging, the San Francisco Film Society presents a week of work by new Italian directors in its New Italian Cinema series (Nov. 14-21 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema).

This year’s offerings include two terrific, erotically charged dramas from openly gay filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek.

Loose Cannons In his 1999 debut feature Steam, the Turkish-born, Italian-residing director Ozpetek told the story of a young Italian man who becomes ensnared in the complex history of an old Turkish bathhouse, and the seductive young man who is a caretaker to its secrets.

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he creator of Cavalia doesn’t think of his show as Cirque du Soleil with horses. But Normand Latourelle, a co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, often finds himself in a situation similar to the one he faced when he was first trying to explain what the new-age circus was all about.

“I was reading an interview I did in 1988 when we first brought Cirque du Soleil to San Francisco, and I used the negative a lot,” Latourelle said. “It’s dance, but it’s not a dance show. It’s theater, but it’s not a theater show. It’s acrobatic, but it’s not a traditional circus. Today, when I talk to people who haven’t seen Cavalia, I go the same way. It’s a show with horses, but it’s not a horse show, and so on. Then I created a shortcut, and when I say it’s like Cirque du Soleil with horses, then people can see an image.”

When Cavalia made its US debut in San Francisco in 2004, it was still a young show. “I would say the show has become an adult,” Latourelle said during a visit to San Francisco ahead of the Nov. 16 opening under its multi-peaked big top pitched near AT&T Park. “It’s the same philosophy, same structure, but a different show.”

And definitely a bigger show. The equine cast has increased from 30 to 55, and their human counterpart from 29 to 40. And better sound, better projections, and better special effects, Latourelle added.

What the show doesn’t have are the two centerpiece performers around whom the show was originally designed. Frederic Pignon, often billed as a horse whisperer, and his wife Magali Delgado, a dressage champion, gave reality to Latourelle’s

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by Roberto Friedman n Wednesday night, long after our press deadline, Out There went to the party given in honor of the Bay Guardian’s 2010 Goldies awardees. Why were we at another Bay Area publication’s celebratory affair? Because our longtime pal, the creative dynamo producer Marc Huestis, was being bestowed with a well-deserved Goldie Lifetime Achievement Award.

Huestis has been the brains and brawn behind many a Castro Theatre film extravaganza with stars of the screen and stage, a co-founder of SF’s original gay film festival, and the auteur of Sex Is, Whatever Happened to Susan Jane? and other inspired artifacts of gay history. He’s what is known in the biz as a key queen.

We’ve known Marc for a few hundred years, and when we began working as this paper’s arts editor sometime back in the Paleolithic Era, he was one of the first people to congratulate us and “show us the ropes.” Also where the bit fit. In our new position, we soon discovered that everyone in town wanted something from us, just like that old Eurythmics refrain. Some of them want to use you, some of them want to be used by you. Some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused. And some of them want their oneman show reviewed.

Into the vortex of this publicity-starved O UT world, Marc extended the true hand of friendship, and we’ll always be glad of it.

Congrats to the original Hostess with the Mostes’, and sincere wishes for many more triumphs to come!

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Out There was in the house last week for the opening reception of More Life! Angels in America at Twenty at SF’s Museum of Performance & Design. A project of MPD curator Brad Rosenstein, the exhibition is devoted to the phenomenal success of playwright Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, the sevenhour epic in two parts (Millennium Approaches, Perestroika ) that premiered at SF’s Eureka Theatre and went on to receive a Tony Awardwinning Broadway run and the

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Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer, the Tony and an Emmy earned by the TV-movie version are all part of the exhibit.

There are also costumes, props, photos and designs from many of the play’s productions, some of Kushner’s notebooks and manuscripts, plus audio and video clips. In the gallery’s entrance there’s even the red Formica kitchen table on which Kushner wrote the play, which he says he “found on the streets of Brooklyn in the mid-80s, and T HERE schlepped four flights up to my little Carroll Gardens apartment.” Kushner was present at the press party, along with other theatre luminaries and a whole lot of television people.

OT’s own entourage included our friends Ann Feehan, who was part of the Eureka staff for the first Angels, Wilder O’Wonders, and the always impeccable Pepi. All of us were absorbed by the offerings. See for yourself, as the show remains up through next March 26, at the MPD, 401 Van Ness Ave., 4th floor. More info is at www.mpdsf.org.

Holliday in SF Broadway star and R&B songstress Jennifer Holliday returns to SF for one night only at the Castro Theatre, Friday night, Nov. 12. Her fan-base is definitely LGBT, and she’s been one of the most staunch supporters in show business for the fight against AIDS. “For myself and Sheryl Lee Ralph, one of the other original Dreams, we set out many years ago to help with this AIDS fight, because of the fact that AIDS really took the lives of a great deal of the cast members of Dreamgirls,” said Holliday.

“Pretty much all of the male chorus, all of the creative people – the director Michael Bennett, the co-choreographer (with Bennett) Michael Peters – all died from AIDS. And it really wiped out an entire Broadway community as well. So we were greatly affected by it.”

Ticket info: (415) 392-4400 or www.theRRazzroom.com.

Bullied in SF Gay Artists & Writers Kollective will show the film Bullied on Sat., Nov. 20, 7 p.m., at Magnet, 4122 18th St., SF. GAWK’s Jon Sugar explained how it came to be. “Bullied is the film I received when I wrote GLSEN and asked how I could respond to the six suicides in two weeks caused by gaybashing. I was a fat queer kid, and beat-downs were routine when I entered 7th grade in 1964. After being on the psychiatric treadmill for two years, I was given electroshock so I could assimilate at 14. I thought about suicide every day. Six months after I graduated, I realized I’d never see my tormentors again.

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Original Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday.

“Bullied is a teaching-tolerance documentary produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center about Jamie Nabozny, whose ordeal began in 6th grade and only got worse. He and others endured years of unrelenting terrorism. He went to court and fought for their rights to be safe in school.”

Danger in Lagos The iconic Paul McCartney & Wings album Band on the Run gets a re-release this month in deluxe editions on Concord Records. We found its interesting “creation story” in the p.r. material’s “deep background.”

“Intrigued with recording abroad in the summer of 1973, McCartney searched for a list of studios around the world. Spotting one in the remote location of Lagos, Nigeria, he became enthralled with the idea of recording in Africa. Days before departure, lead guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the band, leaving the entire project to the three core members: Paul, his wife Linda McCartney and band member Denny Laine. Recording in Aug. and Sept., 1973, they persevered through a tumultuous recording process battling difficult studio conditions, oppressive heat and a dangerous mugging at knifepoint. The thieves made off with the demo tapes (among other valuables), forcing the band to record the entire album from memory.”

Wow, that whole back-story is so Helen Wheels. Speaking of musical legends, coming up this weekend, Nov. 11-13, is the world premiere of pop icon Rufus Wainwright’s Five Shakespeare Sonnets, sung by their composer, with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall. We live in a such a cultural hotbed.

RIP x3: film actress Jill Clayburgh, 66. Opera star Shirley Verrett, 79. SF society doyenne Dodie Rosekrans, 81. The world turns.▼

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Margo Hall, in one of her three roles, plays the wise Aunt Elegua opposite Richard Prioleau’s title character in Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet at ACT Theatre.

Sweet boy in the bayou ‘Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet’ delights at ACT

by Richard Dodds here is, unsurprisingly, considerable homophobia, both external and internalized, in the society where 16-year-old Marcus is coming to terms with his gay feelings.

It’s a close-knit, isolated community where the African-American population is far from progressive on samesex attractions – “blackmophobia,” as one character calls it. But even more than homophobia, Marcus’ friends and family are mostly frustrated by his inability to grasp the obvious.

The perplexing thing about the secret of his sweetness, he says, is that “ain’t nobody think it’s a secret except me.” He’s on his own timetable for self-discovery, and the peer pressure to conform is not the predictable conformity to prevailing standards, but rather pressure to conform to the role his community has already boxed him into. It’s an intriguing upending of the usual coming-out stories, made all the more so by the singularly theatrical atmosphere that playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney brings to his story.

Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet, now at ACT, finishes off The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy that saw Marin Theatre Company and the Magic Theatre successively presenting the first two parts of McCraney’s acclaimed breakthrough work. While having attended the first two plays provides a detailed context for characters and situations referenced in Marcus, it is by no means necessary to have seen them to get a full theatrical charge from the ACT production.

Each of the three plays has its own distinct tone, with some stylistic continuity provided by McCraney’s idiosyncratic use of spoken stage directions. At one point, the title character might say something as simple as, “Marcus exits,” before he leaves the stage. But the stage directions are usually far more evocative. “Shun looks at her daughter like she’s lost her mother-fucking mind,” says Shun to the audience, before directing an appropriate glare at said daughter.

It’s a device with textured effect, both reminding the audience that it is watching the artifice of theater while also engaging the audience as privy to the characters’ thoughts.

Marcus is being raised by his single mother in a housing project near a Louisiana bayou, and he is desperate to know more about his late father who died when he was a toddler.

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The father was a major presence in the first two plays, siring Marcus despite his primary attraction to men in In the Red and Brown Water, and reappearing in the town after a prison term in The Brothers Size to resume his jailhouse romance with one of the two title brothers before skipping town – with that history reemerging as Marcus pokes for grudgingly offered answers. Mainly he wants to know if his father was “sweet,” as if some marker gene could help Marcus understand why he is so different from the society surrounding him. He also wants some explanation of a haunting dream that seems to presage both past and future traumas.

If Marcus was simply a comingout story, its unique presentation would be intriguing enough. But it is much richer than that, as a particular but recognizable community is created through McCraney’s own brand of dialogue evocative in alchemy of naturalism and stylized truth. While none of the trilogy’s three plays seems attached to the concrete reality of a housing project – the plays, to me, exude rurality – Marcus is more specifically attached to a bigger world through pop-cultural references.

When the likes of Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marlene Dietrich, and Lauren Bacall are invoked, it can be startling to someone expecting more of the purposefully worldly disconnection of the earlier plays.

Both Marin and the Magic presented exquisite representations of their respective parts of the trilogy, and director Mark Rucker’s production matches these high standards.

Richard Prioleau, an MFA student in ACT’s conservatory, creates a charmingly conflicted Marcus, who blossoms and then wilts in the reality of his first sexual encounter. Ozome Idehenre and Shinelle Azoroh are simply delicious as a pair of Marcus’ magpie friends, and there is strong work from Tobie L. Windham in the dual roles as the centerpiece of Marcus’ dreams and as the down-low northerner who seduces both Marcus and one of his (platonic) girlfriends, and from Gregory Wallace as a forlorn acquaintance of Marcus’ father. And all hail the magnificent Margo Hall in the triple role of Marcus’ scolding mother, the foulmouthed mother of one of his friends, and a shaman figure who is undone by details of Marcus’ dream.

Playwright McCraney, only 30,

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Whodunit? Whoever! f Agatha Christie hadn’t been so bloody prolific, it might seem there are more spoofs of her detective formula than the novels that begat them. Add to the list of these homageparodies the slight but frothy meringue of a show titled Murder for Two: A Killer Musical.

Not yet a year old, the musical is definitely not typical fare for 42nd Street Moon, where the age of the musicals it presents is usually in the double digits – even the high double digits. But as the company has evolved from barebones staged concerts of seldom-seen musicals, it has become less hidebound to its original format. Still, Murder for Two is probably its first offering that quite arguably nobody in its audience has ever heard of, unless you happened to be hiking near the Adirondack Theatre Festival this past summer.

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While Agatha Christie may have provided the framework for the musical, it is mere latticework for other theatrical sports. In typical Christie fashion, a detective arrives at a stately mansion where any member of the household or guests could have caused a corpse to be in the parlor. But there’s a twist: All the suspects are played by Kinosian, in quick-change fashion that actually doesn’t involve any changes in costume. It’s all done through voice and body language, and Kinosian essays his multiple roles with an inviting subtlety – though distinctions among the characters at times begin to blur.

As the detective (actually a police officer angling for a promotion), Adam Overett has but one character

to play, which he does efficiently, but he’s mainly the straight man to Kinosian’s multi-emoting. Both sing the untaxing score with enough musicality to put across songs that could just as well be called ditties. The two men also take turns at the piano.

Murder for Two also has fun with theatrical conventions, making light of its own format, miscuing sound effects, and snapping the obligatory photo of the audience member lured to the stage with an imaginary camera.

The hoary jokes are affable enough, and a stream of the freshly clever buoys us along for the 90 minutes of a show that doesn’t really care whodunit. But audiences should be happy that they are doing it.▼ Murder for Two: A Killer Musical will run through Nov. 21 at the Eureka Theatre. Tickets are $39-$44. “Glitter and Be Gay” LGBT performance on Nov. 12 has a pre-show discussion at Elephant & Castle Pub. Call 255-8207 or go www.42ndstmoon.org.

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Joe Kinosian, left, is a prima ballerina, one of numerous characters he plays opposite Adam Overett, in Murder for Two: A Killer Musical at the Eureka Theatre.

Coyote courage & urban dramas Now playing in Bay Area cinemas: ‘127 Hours,’ ‘For Colored Girls’ & ‘Fair Game’

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James Franco in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours: this is a glimpse of the actor that we’ve never seen before.

who better to save than James Franco’s jittery jumping jack? Director Boyle, a past master at putting us inside thrilling if cringe-inducing messes (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) has, with his screenwriting partner Simon Beaufoy, figured out some ingenious devices for opening up and lending gravitas to the story. The best trick, a mesmerizing internal-narrative device, is having Aron keep a video diary of his ordeal to provide his parents with a dignified keepsake of his final hours. Just as effective are Franco’s hallucinations, where Aron leaves his boulder-trapped body and re-imagines all his young life’s peak moments, and the folks he’ll never see again.

A highlight allows us to glimpse what the character had intended his

trip to be before disaster strikes: playfully diving into a deep canyon pool with two female hikers who invite him to a college kegger later that night.

Despite our appreciation of his versatility in Milk and Howl, this is a James Franco we’ve never glimpsed before: the gorgeous, reckless, stonedout fool duking it out with the closetintellectual, evolving grownup. This film brutally conjures up many of my worst fears and phobias: dismemberment, tight places and dying alone.

But it will probably make my top list, while never tempting me to sit through it again without looking away.

For Colored Girls Attention, all you Tyler Perry-haters out there: our clownish, self-taught playwright/filmmaker/drag artist has produced a mini-masterpiece that includes a glimpse of the down-low, child murder, back-alley abortions and the sight of an all-star female ensemble finding the perfect way to get inside the skin of poet Ntozake Shange’s 1974 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Not unlike an earlier autodidact, the late Preston Sturges, Tyler Perry has amassed a small fortune and fervent fan-base by creating his own hybrid of genres: in his case, gritty urban dramas about the travails of AfricanAmerican women at the hands of good-for-nothing boyfriends and husbands, with the stew flavored with heavy dollops of camp, drag (his signature terrorist black-diva ghetto ma-

triarch, the pistol-packing, jive-talking Madea) and any rambunctious theatrical device he can pull out of his ass and folk-humor imagination.

With influences as eclectic as Oprah and Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, Perry might not seem the ideal choice to adapt a 70s feminist classic stagework that was both a product of and wildly ahead of its time. Perry has thoroughly revised, expanded and updated the playwright’s selfproclaimed work-in-progress, while not undermining its multiple messages or cheapening its unique poetic style with coarse melodrama.

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27 Hours As a child, when I began taking myself to movies that were perhaps a tad too much for my squeamish soul – Christopher Lee’s riveting Count in the Hammer Films’ supersaturated blood-red Horror of Dracula comes to mind – I would carefully calculate when the icky, too scary stuff was about to the hit the screen. I’d duck down below the seat in front of me or even prance out into the lobby until I figured it was safe to watch again.

Those childish, self-protecting instincts took hold during a Mill Valley Film Festival screening of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. Based on Aron Ralston’s memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place, the film essentially expands on the fable of the coyote who, when caught in a trap, chews off his leg in order to escape. In this case, the coyote is a red-blooded American, grown-up kid who recklessly throws himself up against nature’s most pitiless scenery, and bets that he’ll just bounce out of trouble like the cartoon character Wiley E. Coyote. In the book, the author loses the bet, performs an agonizing act of self-mutilation, and becomes the man he always needed to be. For audiences, the trick is daring oneself to sit through, eyes wide open, that awful obligatory moment – in the film, an almost unbearable four minutes – to experience the epiphany one critic describes that “pins you down, shakes you up, and leaves you glad to be alive.”

That’s one way of looking at it. I have long nurtured a serious grudge against those hormonal daredevils who expect the rest of us to save their reckless asses when they get themselves into Oliver Hardy’s proverbial fine mess. But if you have to go there,

Working with a brilliant female cast – his film regulars Janet Jackson and Kimberly Elise, joined by such well-proven talents as Kerry Washington, Thandie Newton, The Cosby Show’s Phylicia Rashad, and the astonishing Whoopi Goldberg, playing it perfectly straight as a scary religious fanatic – Perry gives us a complicated poetic urban musical drama directed at the soul, while not insulting one’s other faculties. Not for the faint of heart the R rating: “contains scenes of child murder, rape, domestic abuse and an illegal abortion” should be carefully considered before choosing one’s film companion.

P.S. If you want to sample the wildly improbable path Perry took to pulling off For Colored Girls, get a DVD of his triple-threat screen debut, Diary of a Mad Black Woman.

Fair Game While this political spy thriller will have many reaching for their Bush-bashing software, it’s a little annoying for those who remember post-Watergate efforts to reform the CIA to find ourselves rooting for a CIA operative as the hero of a tangled story about the hotly contested Iraq invasion. That said, English-born, Aussie-raised Naomi Watts hits all the right American-accented notes as veteran spy Valerie Plame, who finds herself caught between the Cheney/Bush disinformation machine and her excitable ex-diplomat hubby Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) and his penchant for turning the battle over Saddam’s WMDs into a personal pissing contest with Bush bloggers. Watts and Penn nimbly get to that excruciating moment when a private marriage goes toxic in the full glare of our 24/7 news cycle.▼

Kimberly Elise and Michael Ealy in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.

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‘Carmina burana’ forever & ever, amen usic Director of the Oregon Symphony Carlos Kalmar made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony last week. The repertoire included the SFS premiere of Alfred Schnittke’s Moz-Art a la Haydn, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 97 in C Major, and Carl Orff’s monster choral work Carmina burana.

The Schnittke allowed Kalmar some amusing face-time with members of the orchestra and audience, and the selection from Haydn’s London symphonies proved the conductor likes a plump orchestral sound.

Not unexpectedly, the Orff blockbuster dwarfed the first half of the concert. By the time the night was through, it was difficult to tell just who Carlos Kalmar is.

Most music-lovers have strong opinions about Carmina burana .

Such an enduring mega-hit is bound to excite criticism. There are many who revel in the score’s bold rhythms, memorable tunes and earthy philosophy, and naysayers who complain it is simplistic and inordinately loud.

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There is no denying the impact of the work. Orff ’s setting of secular medieval poetry has a crossover appeal that has assured it more than 70 years of popularity, and countless performances and recordings. It brings crowds to their feet, and critics scrambling for the door.

Musical snobbery aside, Carmina burana always reminds me of that old crack about the musicals of Jerry Herman, “You walk in whistling the songs.” That is not necessarily a bad thing, and there are worse crimes than pleasing an audience. If Orff aimed for a popular and career-defining composition – and it appears that he did – his results were immediately obvious, both to him and to throngs of admiring listeners. Another quote comes to mind. “Resistance is futile.”

Some conductors feel there is room for artistic interpretation in the varied moods of the cantata, but I cannot help thinking they are hoping for a larger share of the credit. Keeping the huge assemblage of choristers, orchestral musicians and three vocal soloists in some semblance of control is enough of a job to disallow much in the way of personal insight.

hen Christophe Rousset burst onto the scene a quarter-century ago, his first apparition was as the harpsichordist we had all been waiting for. It wasn’t long before the out-from-the-start keyboard wizard had committed most of the major music for his instrument, particularly by the Baroque masters from his native France, to disc, in consistently “last word” versions.

Then, with the establishment of his own instrumental and opera ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, in 1991, he became not only one of the most important but reliable and reliably good genies of the burgeoning early-music movement. Most of his colleagues who have made that leap have left their instruments of origin behind in grasping the enhanced wizardry of the baton. You don’t need all the fingers of one hand to count the conductors who still “dance with the ones that brung em” – only Daniel Barenboim comes quickly to mind – but Rousset has never ceased working miracles with the solo harpsichord, while carrying on a dizzying schedule with his ensemble.

The fact that his Pancrace Royer and Rameau Les Indes Galantes (harpsichord transcription) solo-harpsichord CDs for Ambroise passed their review-by dates while I was otherwise distracted doesn’t mean they won’t knock your socks off. And, as his latest releases show, he still plays the harpsichord better than any other earthling, thinks more clearly about the music written for it, continues to grow in repertoire he’s long lived with – and just plain dazzles with showmanship of the highest order.

Ambroise has now released a CD of six suites by Johann Jakob Froberger, the hugely influential mid-17thcentury keyboard genius whose spellbinding music has been a career-long preoccupation of Rousset’s. His first Froberger CD, for Harmonia Mundi, was so brilliant and viscerally exciting that it made the short stack of “desert island” CDs that came to Asia with me in my luggage. This latest, performed on the same remarkable harpsichord

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– a 1652 Flemish instrument by Joannes Couchet that was completely refitted in France in 1701, and now is counted a French national treasure – reveals a Rousset no less exciting but considerably more thoughtful and, for that reason, satisfying.

His supreme freedom with the rhythms and sly delectation of the passing pungent harmonies (made the more savory by mean-tuning) of Froberger’s stylus phantasticus are still everywhere in evidence. But the heightened confidence with which Rousset explores this singular music gives it

both more spaciousness and depth. As but a single example, the C Major scale that goes right to the top of the instrument’s range at the end of the Lament for the death of King Ferdinand – the music is going to heaven – is purged of any sense of “stunt,” and simply leaves you quietly breathless.

But the CD that really “changes things” – alters our perception of music better known by reputation than actual exposure – is Rousset’s new disc of six suites of music by Louis Couperin (Aparte). As Rousset explains in his masterful and characteristically fascinating note, the “suites” are of his own devising, in that Couperin’s music, most of which has been lost, exists in manuscripts that do not place the individual movements into such suites, though the composer himself would likely have played them in that way.

So Rousset, with no pretense of “authenticity” or claim (or for that matter desire) for completeness, has arranged the pieces into meaningful assemblages that powerfully make his case for Louis Couperin (uncle of the more famous Francois) as one of the most important keyboard composers of the 17th century. He’s again abetted

grabs you from the start is the protracted nature of the rhythms as realized by Rousset. For a remarkable amount of the recording, it’s the virtuosity of slowness that is on display as, spiderlike, Rousset creates ensnaring webs of rhythmic relationships.

Not that there’s any backing off from prestidigitation when it’s called for, but it’s mostly the musical imagination at its most evanescent.

To experience the cumulative power of music this densely layered, go directly to the eight minutes of the “Tombeau

de M. de Blancrocher,” whose dissonances build with disarming naturalness as the music follows its shockingly direct expressive course.

Rousset writes of the discipline required to realize the expressive potential of the composer’s “unmeasured” preludes – and provides fascinating proof in the final “Prelude a l’imitation de Mr. Froberger,” which neatly ties together the two CDs. But ever the showman, Rousset leaves it for the final Pavane on the disc to make the most ear-bending case for the greatness of this music.▼

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Kalmar was fortunate to have the SFS in a pliant mood, willing to bend to his sometimes surprisingly willful direction. The brass and percussion were especially thrilling, but the conductor was mostly directing traffic.

Ragnar Bohlin’s SFS Chorus ran the gamut from lusty abandon to cooing seductiveness, and the power of the writing was served with thrilling sonority. The Crowden School Allegro Con Brio Chorus (Laura Kakis

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Serper, director) and Pacific Boychoir (Kevin Fox, director) also made a strong and charming showing. Good that the words are in Latin for their young ears, but even translated, they only deserve a PG rating.

For those craving more intimate vocal expressions, there was an attractive trio of vocalists on hand.

Baritone Keith Phares, assigned most of the songs, sounded terrific. A little tight at times and slightly forced at

the top, he nevertheless displayed an impressive range. His attempts at characterization may have been a trifle unsubtle, but hey, did he really have a choice?

Tenor Nicholas Phan certainly went willingly over-the-top with his single contribution, a very funny “Lament of the Roast Swan.” His last appearances with the SFS were in the Schubert/Berg Festival, and I would love to hear more of him in future seasons.

Soprano Joelle Harvey has a lovely clear tone and alluring personality.

Her big moment, the gorgeous “In trutina,” was slightly marred by a broken note, but it did not make her performance any less appealing. A recent participant in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, Harvey supplied one good answer to an audience member’s overheard question, “Where do they keep finding all these great soloists?”

I hope Carlos Kalmar will return to the podium at Davies in order to achieve a higher local profile. There is little doubt we will be hearing from Carl Orff and his bawdy manuscript from Benediktbeuern again.▼

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by the ideal instrument, an exquisitely restored 1658 Parisian instrument by Louis Denis, whose luscious sound contains no hint of jangle.

His contemporaries prized the elder Couperin for the richness and exoticism of his advanced harmonies, which are evident from the very first track of this transfixing CD. What

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Red state, blue state, Q state that ABC had, in a moment of “fair and balanced” insanity, hired sleazebag Andrew Breitbart to be a comome of us are still reeling from mentator. Breitbart was the rightthe election. The President isn’t wing “reporter” who got Shirley one of them, nor is Nancy Pelosi, Sherrod fired for being a racist, causbut then the buck hasn’t stopped there ing a(nother) nasty little PR mess for since Truman, so what can one expect? the Obama Administration. BreitSome races we kind of wanted to bart wasn’t there, but his buddy see go the other way, just for comedic Dana Loesch was, tag-teaming effect. Imagine how much fun it Donna Brazile. Oy. would have been if Linda McMahon We usually think ABC has the best had won the Senatorial smackdown coverage on election night, but Diane in Connecticut! WWF goes Sawyer was on some kind to Washington: wouldof pep pills and George n’t that have put a Stephanopoulos had spin on the filibuster? taken George Will’s But McMahon lost, cranky pills. So we went and Connecticutians over to CBS, where Katie got Blumenthal, the Couric had her glasses on, Democrat who lied and was proving about having once again that tryserved in Vietnam. ing harder because L AVENDER T UBE So the blues won, you’ve been tagged or did they? Beas too perky for real cause when people lie about things news makes you an ace reporter. that are that easy to check, and the lie After checking out CNN and is that egregious and despicable, one NBC, we went back to CBS, which can only imagine that they have stayed on til Midnight in California, many more lies in them. And Conwhich is what should be done on a necticut already has Joe Lieberman night like election night. Couric got as their other senator. Talk about the gold star. Not a single network feeling blue. mentioned queer voters or the imAs we looked at the wizened but portance of the queer vote, especialwinning face of Jerry Brown on the ly given the President’s screwing of tube on election night, we could not queers on DADT, ENDA, DOMA help but wonder how, in a state the and the Massachusetts marriage case. size of California, the Democrats Memo to the networks for 2012: weren’t able to find a single other African-American voters represent person to run, and had to get a Re11% of the demographic. Queer votAnimator thing going. Perfect redux ers represent 10%. We are a seriousto Schwarzennegger. ly important demographic. Start reWas it just us, or did Meg Whitporting that fact. man look a lot like the Red Queen in In the aftermath of the DemocraAlice in Wonderland on election tic hair-on-fire hand-wringing, night? Must be that forehead. And which is what the center left does the hint of fascism. best, and the Republicans’ smug In keeping with the evening, we gloating, which is what they do best, ran the table on the tube, because we both sides managed a big bipartisan like to see who’s doing their job and put-down of Sarah Palin because who isn’t. We started out with Shepeveryone can agree that she wears ard Smith on Fox, because he’s cute skirts and has a vagina. and rational (begging the question of Let’s review: In less than two why he’s on Fox), and rumor has it years, Palin has managed to become he’s queer. At least for the half-hour one of the most powerful political we watched, it looked like normal voices in America. She’s the white, news. Which was scary. working-class Oprah. Anyone still Then we went over to ABC, beacting like she doesn’t matter was on cause there had been a big brouhaha

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a different planet on election night.

Palin got a Republican Latino Tea Partier elected senator in Florida, with over 2 million votes. She also got the first woman (who is also the first person of color and a Sikh) elected governor in South Carolina, and Rand Paul elected in Kentucky.

Even if these were the only races she influenced, and they weren’t, the TV punditry’s attitude that she’s irrelevant is as out of touch as Obama.

George Bush was asked by Oprah, who is turning her farewell season into a dramatic TV event, if he thought Palin was “the One.” (Remember, it was Chicagoan Oprah who brought Obama out of obscurity and into the political and celebrity limelight. When she introduced him at an event in California that brought out thousands, she referred to him as “the One.” Her influence remains vast.) On the show, which coincided with the release of his memoir on Nov. 9, Bush demurred.

He said a lot can happen between now and 2012. But Iowa looms.

Meanwhile, Meghan McCain has been everywhere as the spokeskitten for the moderate right (which, we would like to remind everyone, was an oxymoron even before the Tea Party). She was asked by Jay Leno if she thought Palin would run for president. Now, we liked it when Meghan took down Ann Coulter, and we love that she’s so pro-queer.

And we’ll like it even more when she comes out of the closet. But we think she’s pithy rather than smart. So, honestly, is she a pundit? She thinks Palin is running. She also thinks Palin’s TV show on Alaska (which is actually pretty fabulous, we have to say, and will definitely make you want to travel there) isn’t very presidential.

Meghan also thinks Palin’s kid, Bristol, who is likely next to be voted off Dancing with the Stars, is an embarrassment to her mother, and typifies what’s wrong with American youth, because she didn’t vote. Bristol admitted she neglected to do an absentee ballot, and just, you know, forgot. At least this time, her forgetfulness won’t lead to a baby and a loser boyfriend.

Meghan excoriated her on Leno, saying that “the only voting she cares about is Dancing with the Stars.” To which we can only say, one fewer Republican voter who doesn’t seem to have a clue about politics doesn’t really bother us. But we get Meghan’s point.

Suspended w/out pay But we’re not so sure what happened over at MSNBC. In case you have been off the planet, MSNBC suspended its highest-paid pundit, Keith Olbermann, for a few days. The

Bristol Palin on voting: Oops, I forgot!

reason? Olbermann violated parentnetwork NBC’s rules about mixing politics with punditry. Olbermann contributed the maximum amount to three separate Democratic campaigns. He was suspended without pay, and the pay is big.

The center-left blogosphere has been in a state over the suspension, pointing out that Fox pundits have contributed to political campaigns with no such qualms. Well yes, dears, that’s what makes MSNBC and Fox different. No one but the birthers take Fox seriously when it comes to news. Not so for MSNBC. So buddy Rachel Maddow was very adamant that the network should bring him back posthaste because everyone knows Olbermann is a liberal.

Having spent years as a reporter for daily newspapers being told by editors that you can’t cover the circus if you’re screwing the elephants, it’s difficult for us to understand what Olbermann was thinking. But the outrage over his actions, which were not hidden but right out there, seemed excessive, given that he’s not a reporter. NBC’s brief suspension was a necessary wrist slap. The bottom line is that no one was hoodwinked here: not viewers, not management. If keeping an ethical boundary is the issue, then make the rules clear for the future, because they have been muddy in the past with conservative pundits.

Now back to Oprah. The interview with Bush was actually her least dramatic moment in the past week.

On Nov. 5, Oprah had on 200 men who had been sexually abused. At the opening, all the men were standing, holding photographs of themselves at the ages they were when they were assaulted, some no more than toddlers.

It was a grim and incredibly painful hour. Oprah’s intention, in tandem with filmmaker Tyler Perry, himself a survivor of sexual abuse, was to break the silence. One in six men is a survivor of sexual abuse, a staggeringly large number. But boys are disbelieved even more often than girls about such assaults. And like girls, one in three of whom is a victim of assault, the perpetrators are almost always people they know: a father or stepfather, an uncle, a brother, a parish priest, a family friend, a neighbor. And as with girls, the impact on these boys as they become men is life-long.

The brutality these children and teens experienced led to them becoming adults who have difficulty maintaining adult relationships. On Nov. 12, Oprah will air a follow-up show with the partners, wives and family of the abuse survivors. Any

man who has been abused or who loves a man who has should check this show out at Oprah.com. But be forewarned, it’s as gut-churning as it is heart-rending.

So, too, was Oprah’s interview with actress and model Portia de Rossi, Ellen DeGeneres’ wife. On the Nov. 1 show, de Rossi detailed her concomitant battles with eating disorders and being a closet lesbian. To see de Rossi, beautiful and poised, sitting across from Oprah and reading from her new memoir, Unbearable Lightness, while tears ran down her face was difficult to watch.

Take this excerpt she read on the show: “You’re an ugly fat disgusting dyke. You’re a fat disgusting stupid bitch.” This was de Rossi excoriating herself after eating six ounces of nonfat yogurt. At her sickest, de Rossi, who is 5’6”, weighed 82 lbs. and nearly died. When she met Ellen, she weighed her “top weight,” 168. She told Oprah that the effort it took to hide her life-long lesbianism was excruciating, and no one should have to do it. “Having to hide something like that just really, really ruined me.”

She noted that when Ellen came out, it was a litmus test for all closeted queers in Hollywood to see what would happen, and reminded us that Ellen’s sitcom was cancelled almost immediately after she came out.

Oprah added this shocking tidbit: “I got more hate mail just for playing the therapist on the episode of Ellen when she came out than I ever got for anything else.”

De Rossi noted that she “would never do talk shows” because she was afraid of being tripped up about her personal life. “Hiding who you are is just the most horrible way to live,” she said.

Oprah followed the de Rossi interview with an interview with Ricky Martin. His coming-out story was less rife with torment, but he echoed many of de Rossi’s comments. Unlike de Rossi’s experience, when Martin came out to his mother, she embraced him. But the struggle to come to terms with his own sexuality as a Latino man was hard for him.

Oprah asked him about his much-publicized affairs with women, and if he was bisexual. Martin replied that he had loved some women, but that he was a gay man, not bisexual, and that he identified wholly as being gay. At the end of the show, a series of Latino gay men explained how Martin’s coming out made it easier for them to come out.

Be sure to check out both interviews at Oprah. com.

TV is best not just when it entertains us, but when it tells us the truth.

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everal arts events this week involve animals, specifically chimps and horses. Unleash your inner animal instincts by enjoying some intrinsically human and humane, art.

Curious George Saves the Day at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, a fascinating exhibit of 80 drawings by Margret and H.A. Rey, cocreators of the impish monkey books, shows how their daring escape from the Nazis in Europe was aided by their drawings. Also, Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker (thru March), Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations (thru March).

Thu-Tue 11am-5pm. Thu 1pm-8pm.

736 Mission St. at 3rd. 655-7800.

Thru March 13. www.thecjm.org David Cale’s multi-character solo show Palomino at Aurora Theatre, Berkeley, about a Central Park carriage driver, doesn’t bring a horse onstage, but some very interesting behaviors are dramatised. $10-$55.

Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm, Tue & Sun 7pm. Thru Dec. 5. 2081 Addison St. (510) 843-4822. www.aurora theatre.org Nothing freaks most people more than violence against animals. But when it’s more of a stage metaphor, David Cale’s Palomino and the actor doing it is naked and cute, voila! Hit play. See Equus at Boxcar Theatre, a local production of Peter Shaffer’s disturbing drama about a teenage boy’s obsession with horses, and his shrink’s obsession with his obsession. Adults only/nudity. $10-$25. Wed-Sat 8pm. Thru Nov. 20. 505 Natoma St. at 6th. 776-1747. www.boxcartheatre.org For much more humane treatment of horse – real ones, big beautiful ones – Cavalia opens at AT&T Park Nov. 16.

The sweeping acclaimed multimedia show in a gargantuan tent, with 100 human performers, 50 horses, music and pageantry, aerialists and acrobats, offers family entertainment that’s nice to its hooved talent. $64.50-$229.50. Thru Dec. 12. 24 Willie Mays Plaza at Embarcadero. (866) 999-8111. www.cavalia.net Lacking opposable thumbs, animals don’t make the best Cavalia dinner dates. So bring a few human pals out Wednesday, Nov. 17, for Dine Around, Shop Around, Drink Around, the fundraiser with an easy plan. Shop, eat, or have drinks at participating businesses (see web site list), and a portion of your bill goes to the the AIDS/Breast Cancer Emergency Fund. www.dineshopdrink.org www.aef-sf.org▼

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PICK OF THE WEEK

African Dance and Drum Festival @ African American Art and Culture Complex Five-day festival of dancing, drumming workshops and and performances. Free (kids)$15. Also at Ella Hutch Community Center, 1050 McAllister St. Thru Nov. 14. 762 Fulton St. at Webster. www.global womenintact.org

Ampey! @ CounterPulse

Cozy up to LGBT takes on fairy tales as performers, singers and drag queens (Donna Sachet, Sister Roma, Marga Gomez, Mercedez Munro, Raya Light) Sister Roma tell bedtime stories at the elegant dinner gala fundraiser for Bay Positives, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, with after party DJs Grind, Anita Lofton and Floozy Flo. $125-$175. November 18, 6pm-2am. 657 Harrison St. at 3rd. www.baypozgala.eventbrite.com www.supperclub.com

UT cert with several singers, host Angie Coiro (KQED); silent auction. $10-$100. 8pm. 424 Monte Vista Ave. Also Nov. 13, 8pm, at Metropolitan Community Church, 150 Eureka St. SF. www.onevoiceforequality.org

Or @ Magic Theatre West Coast premiere of Liz Duffy Adams’ crossdressing political comedy inspired by 17th-century writer Aphra Behn, who may have also been a government spy. $30-$60.

Tue 7pm. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2:30pm.

Thru Dec. 5. Bldg D, Fort Mason Center, 3rd floor. www.magictheatre.org

Paul Drescher Ensemble @ ODC Theater

Adia Tamar Whitaker’s ensemble dance-theatre work about the disconnect between African Americans and Continental Africans.

Part of the Performing Diaspora Festival. $14-$24. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 8pm or 3pm.

Thru Nov. 21. 1310 mission St. at 9th.

(800) 838-3006. www.counterpulse.org

Grand re-opening concerts at ODC’s renovated space continue, with the celebrated acoustic music sextet. $15-$18. 8pm. Also Nov 13. 3153 17th St. www.odctheater.org

Habibi @ Intersection for the Arts

Terrence McNally’s drama about two women who go on a trip to India in search of enlightenment. $22-$40. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm.

Thru Dec. 19. 25 Van Ness Ave, lower level.

861-8972. www.nctcsf.org

Sharif Abu-Hamdeh’s drama about three generations of Palestinian immigrants. $15$25. Thu-Sun 8pm. Thru Nov. 21. 446 Valencia St. at 16th. 626-2787. www.theintersection.org

Hamlet @ Alcatraz Island We Players’ innovative site-specific staging of the classic Shakespeare play on the former prison-turned state park. $40-$80. Sat & Sun 11:30am & 5pm. Thru Nov. 21. www.weplayers.org

Hecho in Califas Festival @ La Peña Cultural Center Showcase of progressive art made in California bypeople of color and LGBT artists. Nov. 10-12, 8pm, Victor in Shadow, a dramatic play about a survivor of the Pinochet regime.

Nov. 13, 9pm, Queendom, women performing hiphop and DJed music. Nov. 14, 3:30pm, poster-making workshop. Nov. 14, 8pm, women’s night of music, poetry and hiphop. $10-$12. 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.

(510) 849-2568. www.lapena.org

Jennifer Holliday @ The Castro Theatre The Rrazz Room presents Dreamgirls‘ original Effie performing her classic and new songs. $30-$80. 8pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com www.therrazzroom.com

Keiko Matsui @ The Rrazz Room Contemporary jazz musician performs her instrumental works with her band. $35-$48.

8pm. Thru Nov. 14 , various times. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 4683399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Kiss of Blood @ Hypnodrome Theatre Thrillpeddlers presents three “Shocktoberfest” one-act plays with macabre comic themes; Aragny/Neilson’s 1929 Kiss of Blood, and Lips of the Damned and The Empress of Colma, new plays by Rob Keefe.

Also, The Forsaken Laboratory, a one-act performed by Brazilian theatre ensemble Vigor Mortis (Oct. 21-31). $25-$35. Thu & Fri Thru Nov. 19. 575 10th St. at Bryant.

(800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Manifestival @ Dance Mission Theatre Like Oil and Water, Dance Brigade presents more than a dozen local politically-focused dance and theatre ensembles in two different programs over 4 nights. Nov. 12 & 13: Jessica Damon & Dancers, Jose Navarrete, Naked Empire Bouffon, Sri Susilowati and others.

Nov. 19, 20; Dance Brigade, Facing East Dance, Labayen Dance, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers and more. $20-$36. All shows 8pm.

3316 24th St. at Mission. 273-4633. www.dancemission.com

Marcus: or The Secret of Sweet @ American Conservatory Theatre

Bedtime Stories @ Supperclub

Curious George

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s acclaimed trilogy of African-American gay-themed plays concludes at ACT. $10-$89. Tue-Sat 8pm. Wed, Sat, Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 21. 415 Geary St. 749-2228. www.act-sf.org

A Perfect Ganesh @ New Conservatory Theatre

The Play About the Naked Guy @ La Val’s Subterranean, Berkeley

Benefit Auction @ SF CameraWork Annual photo auction of amazing art prints by famous and acclaimed photographers. Advance previews and bids online. $30. 11am6pm. 657 Mission St. at 3rd, 2nd floor. 5122020. www.sfcamerawork.org

Big Deal @ SOMArts Cultural Center Visual Aid’s annual massive art auction, with hundreds of interesting works of art donated, plus other items; wines, vacations, gift certificates and lots more. DJed music, drinks, food and a fab artsy crowd. $40 and up. Preview 4pm. Auction 6pm-9pm. 934 Brannan St. www.visualaid.org

Burning Libraries @ Z Space

Evren Odcikin directs David Bell’s hilarious Off-Broadway hit about schlocky empresarios who produce a Naked Boys show and strike a deal with a porn star to save their theatre.

Yes, there will be male nudity. $10-$20. ThuSat 8pm. 1834 Euclid Ave. www.impacttheatre.com

Stories from the New Ellis Island, Helen Stoltzfus and Albert Greenberg’s theatre, puppetry, aerial and dance show takes a fantastical approach to real-life immigrant stories. ). $15-$30. Fri-Sat 8pm. Sun 3pm, 7pm. Thru Nov. 14. Theater Artaud, 450 Florida St. (Also Dec. 3-5 at Laney College Theater, 900 Fallon St., Oakland. (800) 8383006. www.alicepresents.org

Sankai Juku @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Cinderella Enchanted @ Julia Morgan Center, Berkeley

Amazing Japanese butoh company performs the West Coast premiere of Hibiki: Resonance From far Away; public talk with director Ushio Amagatsu, Nov. 13, 1pm ($7-$10). Remembering Kazuo Ohno, films about butoh founder, screen thru Nov. 21 ($6-$8). Concerts: $31$54. 8pm thru Nov 14. 2pm on Nov 14. Novellus Theater, 978-2787. www.ybca.org 3922545. www.sfperformances.org

Grammy nominee Frenchie Davis stars in Berkeley Playhouse’s production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, with aerial dancers, kids, animals and a diverse cast. $15-$25. Thru Dec. 6. 2640 College Ave. (510) 845-8542. www.berkeleyplayhouse.org

The Tempest @ Exit on Taylor Cutting Ball Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s classic, about an exiled king, his family, and a big storm. $15-$50. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 28. 277 Taylor St. (800) 838-3006. www.cuttingball.com

Theatre Flamenco @ Cowell Theater The company and guest artists perform their 44th anniversary dance and music concert. $26-$30. Fri & Sat 8pm. Sun 2pm. Thru Nov. 14. Marina at Buchanan. 345-7575. www.theatreflamenco.org

West Side Story @ Orpheum Theatre

Country Western Dance @ Humanist Hall, Oakland Women, trans and friends queer dance night with lessons, music, a buffet and free parking. $5-$10. 6:30-11pm. 390 27th St. www.texasrosedance.com

Deviations @ UC Berkeley Joe Goode collaborates with students of the theatre and dance department to create a work about veering off course, wrong directions, and unexpected results. $10-$15. FriSun 8pm. Thru Nov. 21. 101 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley campus. (510) 6428827. www.tdps.berkeley.edu

Devo @ The Warfield Whip it good with the whimsical robotic pop quintet. $35-$97. 9pm. 982 Market St. www.thewarfieldtheatre.com

Touring production of the classic Robbins/Bernstein/Sondheim musical update of Romeo and Juliet set in 1950s New York. $30-$180. Wed-Sat 8pm. Sat & Sun 2pm.

Sun 7:30pm. Thru Nov. 28. 1192 Market St. at 8th. (888) SHN-1799.www.shnsf.com/ shows/westsidestory

Forbidden Iran @ ATA Gallery

Sat 13>>

Forrest Williams @ Marx & Zavattero Gallery

Musical comedy revue, now in its 35th year, with an ever-changing lineup of political and pop culture icons, all in gigantic wigs. $25$80. Wed, Thu 8pm. Fri, Sat 6:30, 9:30pm.

Sun 2pm, 5pm. (Beer/wine served; cash only). 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd.

421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com

Marilyn Pittman @ The Marsh

Beach Blanket Babylon @ Club Fugazi

Becoming Britney @ Center REPertory Company, Walnut Creek Molly Bell and Daya Curley’s wacky musical parody of the weird life of Britney Spears. $15-$25. Thu-Sat 8:15pm; Sun 2:15pm.

Thru Nov. 21. 1601 Civic Drive. (925) 9437469. www.becomingbritney.com www.centerREP.org

Video clips screening about the Bay Area hikers kidnapped by Iranian forces; and, Forbidden Iran documentary excerpts. Proceeds benefit Free the Hikers.org $7-$100.

8:30pm. 992 Valencia St. 648-0654. www.othercinema.com

Fourth solo exhibition of contemplative male figure studies by the New York painter. Thru Dec. 18. Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30. Sat 11am5pm. 77 Geary St. 2nd floor. 627-9111. www.marxzav.com

Popular local lesbian stand-up comedian and NPR host performs her personal and darkly comic solo show, It’s All the Rage, about a tragic family murder-suicide. $20-$50. Saturdays 8:30pm, Sundays 7pm. Thru Dec. 5.

1062 Valencia St. (800) 838-3006. www.themarsh.org

Mary Stuart @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley Shotgun Players presents an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s play about the royal intrigue between Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I, with strikingly modern perspectives on terrorism and politics. $15-$28. Thu-Sat

Murder for Two @ Eureka Theatre 42nd Street Moon’s production of A Killer Musical by Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian. $24-$44. Wed 7pm, Thu-Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm. Thru Nov. 21. 215 Jackson St. 255-8207. www.42ndstmoon.org

One Voice @ Plymouth United Church, Oakland Fundraiser for Marriage Equality USA; con-

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8pm. Sun 5pm. Thru Nov. 14. 1901 Ashby Ave. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org

States of Kinesis @ Nieto Fine Art Exhibit of works by a trio of artists –Eric Bailey, Peggy Gyulai and Fernando Reyesusing colorful imagery of the human form.

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. Thru Dec. 11. 565 Sutter St. 393-4511. www.nietofineart.com

Midnites for Maniacs @ Castro Theatre Special day of robot-themed scifi classics. WestWorld (2:30), The Terminator (4:45), RoboCop (7pm), The Transformers (animated movie) (9:45) and special late night flick at 11:45pm. $13 All-day pass. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

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Pearls Over Shanghai @ The Hypnodrome

Dining by Design Galleria

Thrillpeddlers’ revival of the comic mock operetta by Link Martin and Richard Koldewyn, performed by the gender-bending Cockettes decades ago, and loosely based on the 1926 play The Shanghai Gesture; with an all-star cast. $30-$69. 18 and over only! Extended, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm, thru Dec 19. 575 10th St. at Division. (800) 838-3006. www.thrillpeddlers.com

Cabaret theatre work, Night at the Black Hawk, recreates the 1960s Tenderloin nightspot with a musical tribute; Geoffrey Grier hosts. 6pm-8pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. www.sfrecoverytheatre.org

Josh Klipp, Jenni Bregman @ The Garage Fernando Reyes

Recovery Theatre @ Martuni’s

Gala benefit dinner for the design industry AIDS nonprofit, with local designers, stores and caterers creating unique display table settings. $500. 6:30pm-11pm. 101 Henry Adams St. (preview party Wed. Nov. 17, 6pm-10pm, $100). www.diffasf.org

States of Kinesis at Nieto Fine Art, Tue.

Reluctant @ Brava Theater West Coast premiere of Joel Israel’s noir radio thriller play, with multilayered soundscapes and intrigue. $15-$35. 8pm. WedMon, with Fri & Sat 10pm. Thru Nov. 13.

2781 24th St. at York. 647-2822. www.brava.org

Sunset Boulevard @ Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto Palo Alto Players’ local production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on the classic film. $23-$34. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sun 2:30pm. 1305 Middlefield Rd. Thru Nov. 21.

(650) 329-0891. www.paplayers.org

Writers With Drinks @ The Make Out Room Author Larry-bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy) and others read, with host Charlie Jane Anders. $5-$10. 7:30pm.

3225 22nd St. www.writerswithdrinks.com www.makeoutroom.com

Zenshinza Theatre Company @ Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley Japanese Kabuki ensemble performs [Program A] Chatsubo (“The Tea Chest”) a classic comedy, and [Program B] Honen and Shinran, a historical drama set in 13th-century Japan. $48-$86. 8pm. Also Nov. 14, 3pm. Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave. (510) 642-9988. www.calperformances.org

Sun 14>> Bijou @ Martuni’s

Fundraiser concert for hospitalized local nightlife host BeBe Sweetbriar; pals Erika Von Volkyrie, Shakey Gibson and Virginia Suicide perform. $5 and up. 7pm. 4 Valencia St. at Market. 241-0205. www.dragatmartunis.com

Club Foot Orchestra @ Castro Theatre Modern music ensemble performs its three most popular silent movie scores to the films Sherlock Jr. (4pm) the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (6pm) and Nosferatu (8pm). $15 (each) $25 (all films). 429 Castro St. www.clubfootorchestra.com/castro

Happy Hour @ Energy Talk Radio Interview show with gay writer Adam Sandel as host. 8pm. www.EnergyTalkRadio.com

Nicholas J. DiBlasio @ Ruby’s Clay Studio Exhibit of pottery and paintings. Thru Nov. 16. 552A Noe St. 437-1642. www.rubysclaystudio.org

SF International Arts Festival Dinner @ Fly Trap Restaurant Enjoy dinner, performances by Rhodessa Jones, Paul S. Flores and Denizen Kane at this fundraising dinner. $50. 6:30pm. 606 Folsom St. at 2nd. 399-9554. www.sfiaf.org

Single Women’s Cooking Class @ ITK Culinary, Sausalito Betty’s List hosts a mingle party with lessons on cooking, plus a delicious wine tasting from Nine Vines and wine expert Vivian Gay. $70-$80. 1pm-4pm. In The Kitchen, 300 Turney St. 503-1375. www.bettyslist.com

Sunday’s a Drag @ Starlight Room Donna Sachet and Harry Denton host the fabulous weekly 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

Mon 15>>

One Night Only @ Marines Memorial Theater Cast members from the touring production of West Side Story, Erich Bergan of Jersey Boys, Jai Rodrigez, Kalil Wilson, and cabaret chanteuse Wesla Whitfield perform at a benefit for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation. $25-$75. 7:30pm. 609 Sutter St. 2731620. www.HelpIsOnTheWay.org

Chet & Ella: music and dance celebrating the voices of Chet Baker and Ella Fitzgerald, features Klipp, Freeplay Dance Crew, Sarah Bush Dance Project, Funk4Soul, and Dylan Martin. Bregman performs Intimate City. $10-$20. 8pm. Also Nov. 18. 975 Howard St. www.975howard.com

Sam Irvin @ Books Inc. Hollywood director and producer discusses his new book, Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise, about the larger-than-life subject; singer, songwriter, arranger, vocal coach and author. 7:30pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 864-6777. www.booksinc.net

Ruben Studdard @ The Rrazz Room American Idol winner performs R&B, Gospel and pop music songs. $40-$45. Thru Nov 20 at 8pm. Nov 21, 7pm. 2-drink min. Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St. (866) 468-3399. www.TheRrazzRoom.com

Tantric Sex Talk @ Good Vibrations

Sing-Along Grease @ Castro Theatre

Reid Mihalko discusses and shares tips on prolonging your lovemaking through ancient techniques. $20-$25. 6pm-8pm. 1620 Polk St. www.reidaboutsex.com www.events.goodvibes.com

Enjoy singing along to the 50s musical starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. $10-$15. 7:30 nightly Sat & Sun also 2:30pm. Thru Nov. 23. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Ten Percent @ Comcast 104

Smack Dab @ Magnet

David Perry’s new talk show about LGBT local issues. Mon-Fri 11:30am & 10:30pm, Sat & Sun 10:30pm. www.davidperry.com

Kirk Read and Larry-bob Roberts cohost the eclectic, often gay, reading and performance open mic showcase. Roberts reads from his new book of essays, The International Homosexual Conspiracy. 8pm. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Tom Hill @ Magnet Exhibit of pop art-styled works by the gay painter. 8pm. Exhibit thru Nov. 4122 18th St. www.magnetsf.org

Tue 16>>

Angels in America at 20 @ Museum of Performance & Design

Exhibit documenting the award-winning Tony Kushner drama. 401 Van Ness Ave. 255-4800. www.mpdsf.org

Ask the Docs @ Good Vibrations, Berkeley Sex-positive doctors explain and provide tips on making your sex life better; including anal sex advice for the nervous novice. 6:30pm.

2504 San Pablo Ave. at Dwight Way. www.events.goodvibes.com

Chasing Legends @ Castro Theatre Action-filled documentary about the Tour de France cycling competition. $10. -$14.

6:30pm, 9pm. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

Michael Alenyikov @ Magnet Author of Ivan and Misha, about Russian gay and bi immigrant brothers in New York, will read excerpts from his novel with members of Guy Writers. 7pm. 4122 18th St. at Castro. www.guywritersonline.org www.magnetsf.org

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Thu 18>> Broadway by the Year @ San Mateo Performing Arts Center

West Coast premiere of the longrunning (10 years in NYC) musical and historical snapshot of the best of Broadway, with show-stopping songs from the 1930s to today. $20-$48. Thu-Sat 8pm. Sat 2pm, Sun 1:30 & 5pm. Thru Nov. 21. 600 North Delaware Ave. (650) 579-5565. www.broadwaybythebay.org

EATING OUT PUB GRUB • NIGHT BITES BUNCHES OF BRUNCHES

Celebrating Fabled Asp @ SF Public Library Fabulous Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities: a 40 Year Retrospective, an exhibit of photographs, ephemera, and related events. Exhibit thru Nov. 23, 6th floor Skylight Gallery. 100 Larkin St. www.fabledasp.com www.sfpl.org

Cynthia Hopkins @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts The Success of Failure (Or, the Failure of Success), a music theater projection performance and scifi folk tale about the pros and cons of evolution. $20-$25. 8pm. Thru Nov. 20 (2pm). Novellus Theater, 700 Howard St. 978-2787. www.ybca.org

Thomas Gladysz @ Books Inc. Benefit Auction at SF CameraWork, Sat.

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Director of the Louise Brooks Society discusses Margarete Bohme, biography of the silent film actress, Diary of a Lost Girl.

7:30pm. 2275 Market St. at Noe. 8646777. www.booksinc.net

Unveiled @ Femina Potens

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enter to win one of five (5) $25 gift certificates to Bursa.

Winners will be randomly selected from BARtab registrants through November.

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Women and Power in the Middle East, a group exhibit of photos and art about Arab women’s struggles. Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm thru Nov. 28. 2199 Market St. at Sanchez. www.feminapotens.org

To submit event listings, email jim@ebar.com.

Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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Undiminished energy

by Donna Sachet ive entertainment returns to the opulent, storied Venetian Room of the Fairmont Hotel for the first time in 21 years with Bay Area Cabaret, the creation of local musiclover Marilyn Levinson. We caught the legendary Chita Rivera there last Friday in a fast-paced revue featuring songs from her many Broadway shows, a few show business anecdotes, splashy red costuming, and an amazing demonstration of her undiminished energy and physical agility.

Although the room has undergone some regrettable alterations, including the obstruction of the painted Venetian scenery on the walls and the elimination of the tiered seating and banquettes, its ambiance remains impressive. An unfortunate seating mix-up prevented our more extensive review of the attendees, but we enjoyed the concert in the pleasant company of Joe Mac, Emperor Steven Rascher, and the B.A.R.’s own Tom Horn. Next in the series are Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp of Broadway’s Rent fame on Nov. 21, followed by John Pizzarelli, Jessica Molaskey, Anika Noni Rose, and Lillias White next spring. By all means, take advantage of the three-course prix fixe pre-theatre dinner at the adjacent Laurel Court restaurant for a complete Fairmont Hotel evening.

We finished the night at Marlena’s in Hayes Valley at the first of the new Friday night 10 p.m. drag shows, hosted by the gracious Empress Galilea and the dynamic Kitty Glamour. If the longrunning success of their Saturday night shows is any indication, this new Friday night O N T HE show should draw large audiences and add to the growing menu of drag entertainment opportunities.

Saturday night pulled us in a variety of directions, starting with a surprise birthday party and baby shower at a private home for Liz Herren, the charming daughter of peripatetic entrepreneur Betty Sullivan. Cohosted by Jim Freeman and Mae de la Calzada, the Mexican-themed party included Kate Laws, Manny Apolonio, Don Berger, Kathleen McGuire, Ricki Anaya, Cathy Blackstone, Jen Viegas, Donna McMahon, Patrick Carney, and Hossein Sepas.

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the beloved waiter at The Cove, current Bare Chest calendar model, and artistically creative friend of so many.

Although we only caught the last few moments of the marathon celebration, we understand that the ongoing hospitality of the bar and the planned periodic entertainment, including original music from Chuck himself, kept the celebrants happy and engaged, and raised some money for the Rainbow World Fund.

Also on Sunday, we co-hosted with Gary Virginia an early evening fundraiser at The Edge for Harry Lit, recently struck by a shocking medical emergency while in Mexico, flown back to San Francisco at great expense, and currently struggling through a difficult recovery at Davies Medical Center. In a rare demonstration of unified support, a great variety of fundraisers have cropped up over the last week to help this muchloved individual with mounting financial burdens. From the Lone Star South of Market to 440 and The Cove in the Castro, bars, restaurants, and other businesses and individuals have rallied to help assist this gregarious gentleman who has raised so much money himself for so many worthy charitable organizations. Our

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Marlena’s for a 75th birthday celebration for Patricia Evans, the mother of Phillip Evans, aka Empress Chika. The bar was bubbling over with well-wishers, including Empresses Renita Valdez, Galilea, China Silk, and Alexis Miranda and Emperors Fernando, Berlin, and T.J. Istvan, many performing special musical tributes, co-hosted by Patty Schutzman and Stephen Garcia and emceed by Emperor Jason Ladd. We arrived T OWN in the nick of time to present a Certificate of Recognition on behalf of State Senator Mark Leno. Phillip’s heartfelt rendition of “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” brought the party to a fitting close. Then it was on to another birthday celebration, this one for award-winning adult-film producer and popular DJ Chi Chi LaRue at Look-Out, hosted by her good friend Sister Roma and attended by a splendid panoply of adult-film stars and up-and-coming talent.

The final birthday party of the weekend for us was at Trigger on Sunday from 3 p.m. until Midnight (unbelievably) for Chuck Sanderson,

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The velvety mafia

by Gregg Shapiro eleased just shy of its 25th anniversary, the expanded reissue of Faith (Epic/Legacy) by gay singer/songwriter George Michael is that rare solo debut disc that sets the bar terribly high for others contemplating doing the same.

As one half of 1980s Brit-pop sensation Wham!, Michael was the more audibly and visually compelling of the two. It was his lead vocal on songs such as the laughable “Wham Rap!” and “Bad Boys,” and on more memorable hits like “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” “Careless Whisper,” “Everything She Wants,” “I’m Your Man” and “A Different Corner” that first led us to believe he was destined for bigger things. His 1987 Faith disc delivered that and more. Of the 10 songs on the album, at least half of them were hit singles. That alone speaks to Michael’s talent. The 2 CDs/DVD reissue of Faith has the album’s 10 songs on the first disc, and moves the Shep Pettibone mix of “Hard Day” to the second Bonus Tracks CD, along with

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including “I Want Your Sex” (in both uncensored and censored versions), “Faith,” and “Father Figure?” Recent and current legal troubles aside, George Michael has earned and deserves our faith in him.

At around the same time that Michael was becoming a superstar, out power-pop singer/songwriter Tommy Keene was working the college radio/indie rock market. He garnered a devoted cult following, became a critics’ darling, and even released a few major-label albums. The double-disc anthology Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983-2009 (Second Motion) functions as both an excellent introduction and refresher course, depending on where you stand on Keene. As is expected, the set includes his breakout singles “Back Again” and “My Mother Looked like Marilyn Monroe.”

Another voice from the past still going strong belongs to Rick Berlin of Orchestra Luna and Berlin Airlift fame. It sounds like the third time’s the charm for Berlin on Paper Airplane (Hi-NDry), his third and most immediately accessible studio album since 2005. Still in possession of his distinctive sense of humor, Berlin has a gift for making us smile, but not without making us think. When he gets serious, he can stir up a range of

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Suck it, soldier!

by John F. Karr ith the latest delay to the end of DADT, my long-simmering Obama-anger boiled over. I just wanted to shout, “Fuck you, Obama!” When the Prez chastised China’s Premier Leader for not recognizing that his citizens had Universal Rights, I thought, well, hey, Mr. Prez – how about recognizing the Universal Rights of my people right here?

And yet we’re stuck. Let me quote Tony Kushner on Obama, from an article in New York mag, 10/25. “I consider his decision to appeal the Federal Court ruling abolishing DADT to be unethical, tremendously destructive, and potentially catastrophic. But is Obama really supposed to say, as the first AfricanAmerican president, that same-sex marriage is his first priority? Clearly he believes in it: he’s a constitutional scholar. But do I think he should have lost the election for the chance to say he supported same-sex marriage? No. Given that we would have had John McCain and Sarah Palin, I would have said, ‘Say anything you need to.’ So if he’s moving very cautiously, with two wars he’s inherited and a collapsing global economy and the planet coming unglued, Okay!”

I can intellectualize all that, but quite unrealistically, I want Obama to use some Presidential fiat, just be a stand-up man, and say Stop! Here’s D.O., a star of the military-themed sexo Don’t Ask, Just Fuck. another personal feeling I have. Do I think he would have acted more quickly, like say, immediately, if it Once again, the basically str8 Rusty that, I’m str8, blah-blah that despoils were black people not allowed to wed displays how greatly he gets off makthe encounter of Girth Brooks and or serve their country? You bet. ing it with men. Like in the scene’s Jake Tyler. The scene, sharply out of What has all this got to do with culminating moment, when Defendi step with the rest of the movie, porn? The sexo industry continues to shoots his load over Rusty’s torso should have been “Don’t Talk, Just produce movies with military right toward his face, and Rusty’s Fuck,” perhaps with something like themes. Many are based on or titled tongue automatically and instantly this for a set-up: “Listen, buddy. I’m after DADT, yet none show actual sticks out as a cum-catcher. Rusty not askin’ any questions. I connection to the issue, or take also delivers mad cocksucking and don’t want you to tell me a stance of any kind on it. receptive ass. And his orgasm comes nothin’. Matter of fact, Where do porn and politics the way I like – brought on during it’s better if you don’t intersect? Should they?

Defendi’s fine fucking. This is one of talk at all, ya know what How could plots depict the last scenes Rusty filmed before I mean? Just get those or comment on DADT? announcing his retirement from lips over here quick and So I’m thinking all porn, and it’s a suitable valedictory. kiss me. Then I wantcha this, and along comes I’ll miss him. to suck my dick.”

Raging Stallion’s Another excellent scene has Still, Jake seems unafDon’t Ask, Just Fuck.

Kennedy Carter topping Chris Porter. fected by Girth’s running Sure, its title is only a K ARRNAL Carter gazes so lovingly into Porter’s monologue of stupidipeg for classic miliK NOWLEDGE ties, and after some eyes that you’re smitten. He makes tary strophes, but I’m out as if in love, and his fucking super-slurpy cocksucknot taking RS to task. churns up Porter’s massive orgasm. ing of Girth’s super Don’t Ask, Just Fuck had me standing The five-star finale brings us remeaty cock, he takes a rockin’ rude at attention. It’s firmly directed and markably rapt virtuosos, glamorous ride atop it, his bouncing dogtags bekeenly filmed by Tony Dimarco, well D.O. and ravenous Angelo Marconi. coming a carillon. edited by Raging Stallion stalwarts, The nearly pornographic snake The movie’s three other swell and has sexy music by JD Slater. It’s tongues of their kissing blew me scenes take place in sexy silence with full of excitements, with a great cast, away; I was mesmerized by their inminimal and suitable bits of huskily intense, gung-ho sex, and scenes that cantatory sucking; and oh, the deeply whispered sex talk. In a boffo scene, are generously long – not slow wondrous things D.O. does to AngeRusty Stevens and Tommy Defendi enough to bore, but slow enough to lo’s asshole.▼ drew me in with their silent sizing get lost in. up, and I loved how Tommy slowly What should have been lost is the acquiesces to Rusty’s sly advances. www.RagingStallion.com nonstop chatter of bitch-this, pussy-

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event on Sunday included Jello shots, raffle prizes, and a bit of entertainment, both male and drag, to shake out a few more dollars towards the cause. This beloved corner bar and neighborhood gathering place proved the perfect spot for a little

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strong emotions.

Those who claim to be surprised by the dance direction of The Boxer (Glassnote), the solo debut by Kele (Okereke), the out frontman of Bloc Party, need look no further than Silent Alarm Remixed, the remix disc of Bloc Party’s 2005 debut disc. Clearly, Kele and his bandmates were open to the concept of taking Bloc Party’s already danceable songs and expanding on the

mayhem to wrap up the weekend and to raise a few hundred more dollars to assist Harry. We send out supportive wishes to his partner Allen Egglit.

Highlights of upcoming events include Dreamgirls’ Jennifer Holliday at the Castro Theatre tomorrow night, Fri., Nov. 12, the annual big birthday bash for Emperor Matthew Brown and Empress Marlena at her

bar on Sunday, Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation’s One Night Only with the cast of West Side Story on Mon., Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA)’s Dining by Design 10th Anniversary Gala Wed. and Thurs. at the Design Center Galleria, and the holiday grand re-opening of Under One Roof in the Castro on Thurs. night from 6-9 p.m. No rest for the weary, indeed!▼

concept, beginning with the call-andresponse cheer of “Walk Tall.” But that’s nothing compared to what follows on dizzying dance-floor workouts such as “On the Lam.” How’s this for a pedigree? Gay singer/songwriter Matt Morris is the son of country singer/songwriter (“Baby Bye Bye”) and Broadway actor (Les Miserables) Gary Morris.

Matt Morris’ major-label debut album When Everything Breaks Open (Tennman/Interscope), co-produced

by Charlie Sexton and Justin Timberlake, shows that he’s inherited his fa-

ther’s singing abilities. The first few songs indicate that Morris has listened to his fair share of Timberlake as he mines a modern blue-eyed soul vibe. Once he shakes that off, Morris comes into his own.

A number of other gay male singer/songwriters have recently released discs worthy of your attention.

They include The Blur of Green & Blue (Dean May Music) by Jody Shelton, Peaceful World by Steve Gellman (hiddenpoet.com) and The Fool by Cassidy Haley and the Sunshine Rebels (cassidyhaley.com).▼

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Canadian landscaping

by Jim Piechota Missed Her by Ivan E. Coyote; Arsenal Pulp Press, $16.95

t’s joyous when authors not only take pride in their hometowns, but incorporate this appreciation into the fruits of their craft. Ivan Coyote’s appreciation for Vancouver and her Canadian roots has been obvious in story collections like Loose End and The Slow Fix, but even more so in the new story collection Missed Her, her fifth.

There are warm, humorous, and often emotional tones rushing

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throughout the 30 personal vignettes drawn from the past several years of Coyote’s life. The wonderful opener (“Resident Expert”) details the spontaneous education of an Ottawa Valley salesman and coffee-shop regular

by Coyote, who graciously answers questions about fellatio and transgender porn actor Buck Angel. The sweet juxtaposition of two fans (one 12, one 50something) whom the author encounters at readings is touching, and demonstrates that Coyote’s writings have widespread appeal spreading beyond the LGBT community.

Touring six weeks on the road (“over 20 gigs and 12 airplane rides

an effeminate boy at a summer camp in the Northwest Territories (“This Summer, at Gay Camp”), or her return to rural Whitehorse to mourn her grandmother’s death (“The Rest of Us”).

No one is allowed to feel out of place in Coyote’s ruminations, since, as in situations regarding her family, “it’s not so much about blood in the veins as it is water under the bridge.”

Coyote continues to produce works of great literary dexterity, traversing her ultra-rural Canadian roots and the love of family and friends, and exploring the lush fluidity of gender and sexuality.▼

in 40 days”) brings the urgent need for a medical checkup (“Which Doctor”), where comfort issues surface following the “prickly lump of panic” that often arises for transgender folks who don’t really “fit into a gender box.” Stories about her two dogs and gender identity (“Je Suis Femme”), her longtime barber (“Hair Today”), and the reevaluation of her current relationship, where “foreplay is the new black” (“Boner Preservation Society”), are engaging. But no stories are more poignant than those detailing her childhood playing hockey (“She Shoots, She Scores”), the precious time spent with her beloved grandmother, a new friendship with

Cavalia

Extra-wide wing space allows horses to arrive on stage at full gallop in Cavalia.

art, and perhaps bored those without that knowledge. “What she was offering was so high quality that I couldn’t stop her,” the producer said.

“Maybe we lost a little bit of technique in the dressage, but now it’s more happy-going.”

Latourelle knew very little about horses when the first inklings that led to Cavalia were germinating.

After leaving Cirque du Soleil around 1990 to become an independent producer, he noticed in a summer outdoor spectacle he presented

in Montreal that a single horse used in one scene drew attention away from the actors. It took several years to put together concepts, artists, horses, and financing to introduce Cavalia .

Now Latourelle and his longtime companion Dominique Day own a horse farm in Quebec where new horses are trained and veteran horses go either for vacation or retirement. It’s also where his new horsecentered show is being developed, though he said it was too early to

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Francesco’s decision to take up with the boyish Mehmet sealed not only his fate, but also that of his young bride-to-be. Ozpetek has a knack for making the past appear like a dream from which his characters can’t awake. In Steam, the old bathhouse spoke to centuries of furtive male love, the guilty secret of an ancient culture still at odds with modernity.

In his latest piece, set in the very traditional village of Lecce, Ozpetek launches into the screwball antics of a pasta plantowning clan who discover, to their initial horror and subsequent confusion, that the oldest son is gay. Antonio’s (Alessandro Prezosi) operatic coming out at a family dinner upstages his younger brother Tommaso’s plans for a similar declaration. Embarrassed by the row – their mercurial father Vincenzo (Ennio Fantastichini) suffers a minor heart attack – Tommaso allows himself to be cajoled away from his plans to pursue a writing career in Rome with his doctor boyfriend, Marco.

Anyone expecting an Italian La Cage Aux Folles will be disappointed, as Ozpetek has a very different dramatic agenda: demonstrating the obsolescence of the great gay/straight divide. The longer Tommaso dallies tending to the pasta

Scene from Ferzan Ozpetek’s A Perfect Day: a domestic tragedy.

plant – with the assistance of her family’s new business partner, the rebellious young woman Alba – the more he starts to waiver in his loyalty to Marco, and to wonder about his life’s true purpose.

Tommaso’s dithering is punctuated by his grandmother’s regret and dreamlike reveries about her long-ago wedding, and the pratfall romantic adventures of a spinster sister who accuses her nightly boyfriend visitors of being thieves in the night.

You may grow exasperated with Tommaso, but hang in for an unusual queer/straight showdown when his flamboyant Roman friends pay a surprise visit.

A Perfect Day This harrowing urban drama finds an unusual way to provide a riveting autopsy to a domestic tragedy. We flash back on the last hours of a couple undergoing a separation after a violence-prone marriage. Ozpetek surprises us with a double punch of gut-wrenching violence: first, almost a rape by an enraged husband of his desperate wife; and later, an almost unbearable unfolding of a scene of primal domestic carnage, ironically framed by an innocent distracted by watching the travails of animated penguins on TV. Not for the emotionally squeamish.

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idea of building a new kind of show around horses, a show in which they could move “at liberty” around the stage or arrive in the audience’s view at full gallop, in addition to maneuvers coordinated with a team of acrobats.

After touring with the show for five years, the couple decided they wanted to return to their home in France. Pignon and Delgado gradually transitioned themselves out of the show, while new trainers and headliners were brought into the show, though Pignon and Delgado are still billed as the equestrian choreographers.

“It was a big challenge for us,” Latourelle said. “Like, if someone said, would it ever be possible to have the Rolling Stones without Mick Jagger?

People would say no. Was it possible to do Cavalia without Frederic and Magali? The answer is yes, and by them going away, it actually helped create a bigger Cavalia, because it’s not just focused on one or two people.”

And if some of the expert subtlety is gone, it has been replaced with increased spectacle. “One of the strongest parts of the show is when you see Sylvia Zerbini come on stage with nine horses at liberty, while Frederic was doing it with three. She doesn’t have the same approach, but I’d say it is as spectacular if not more so than what Frederic was doing.”

Latourelle says he knew at the outset that Magali’s extended dressage exhibition most impressed those familiar with that particular

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Normand Latourelle, who helped create Cirque du Soleil, has become dedicated to horses, thanks to Cavalia .

talk about concepts except to say it will be “a lot” different from Cavalia .

The Cavalia website and press materials offer exhaustive descriptions of the special care afforded to the horses in the show. The treatment of the horses, and even the basic concept of using animals at all in an entertainment, is a subject that Latourelle is eager and prepared to discuss.

“First of all, we are talking about horses, which have been domesticated animals for 5,000 years,” he said.

“I would never work with elephants, lions, tigers. Those animals should

not share space with humans. We have to share the space and respect the horses, and I think we are the best of the best in those terms.”

Latourelle has become a horse showman because, he said, “They challenge my creativity. A horse never makes a mistake, because whatever it does is natural. Once you understand that, it’s much easier to work with them. Easier than working with people, in fact.”▼

The 35th Annual American Indian Film Festival concludes this weekend at the Palace of Fine Arts with an awards show on Sat., Nov. 13, at 6 p.m. From the fest: Buffy Sainte-Marie Type the first name Buffy, and Google will send you merrily along to the Vampire Slayer kingdom. If you persist and add Sainte-Marie, you’ll uncover a renaissance woman singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, and pacifist, in many ways a veritable female Bob Dylan. Getting her start in the same early-60s Greenwich Village coffeehouse haunts as Mr. D, the Saskatchewanborn (1941, on the Piapot Cree Indian reservation, later adopted and raised in Maine by relatives of her parents), University of Mass./ Amherst-educated young woman started touring with her guitar in her teens, eventually developing a live performance/Vanguard Records “folkie” niche, along with an image that she once joked came across as “Pocahontas-with-a-guitar.”

Joan Prowse’s intimate, Canadian-produced doc charts SainteMarie’s journey back to her Canadian reservation, her adoption by a tribal leader, her pioneering work in early childhood education for Native kids (including a Sesame Street stint where she demonstrated breast-feeding with her infant son) and interna-

tional fame as a recording artist. The film uncovers the weird way we come to identify certain songs with certain artists: Donovan’s expressive cover of Sainte-Marie’s “Universal Soldier” led some casual fans to think he had penned it, while her early identification with Joni Mitchell’s “The Circle Game” caused a similar “branding” confusion.

Ultimately, Sainte-Marie, much like friend and fellow folkie Pete Seeger, declined higher profile gigs, like NBC’s The Tonight Show (where she says they wanted her to avoid the Native protest stuff and stick to her pop hits), in favor of developing a principled career promoting Native rights and more personal expression.

The film’s celebrity fan interviews demonstrate how much “Canadian content” the 60s music scene featured: Joni Mitchell, the Band’s Robbie Robinson, Steppenwolf’s John Kay all sing her praises. The film skirts the extent to which Sainte-Marie may have been a target of US government blacklisting: reportedly, LBJ wrote radio stations urging them to ban her records. It’s also clear that SainteMarie (who now lives with a white surfer dude in Hawaii) has benefited significantly from Canada’s more enlightened policies supporting Native empowerment. (Palace, 11/12)▼

Cavalia will run Nov. 16-Dec. 12 near AT&T Park. Tickets are $39.50$139.50, available at www.cavalia.net.

Info at www.aifisf.com.

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