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Vol. 48 • No. 46 • November 15-21, 2018

Clair Farley, left, Melanie Ampon, and others wave from the Mayor’s balcony at San Francisco City Hall after the transgender flag was raised for the first time Tuesday, November 13.

by Ed Walsh

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he Bay Area Reporter has learned that Robert Noel, convicted along with his wife, Marjorie Knoller, for the 2001 fatal dog mauling of lesbian neighbor Diane Whipple, died over the summer on his 77th birthday.

The case against Noel and Knoller was one of the most publicized trials in Bay Area history, generating international news attention and dominating local headlines for months.

According to a death certificate obtained by the B.A.R. late last week, Noel died of heart failure June 22 in a nursing home in La Jolla, about 12 miles north of downtown San Diego.

by Alex Madison

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ayor London Breed surprised the audience Tuesday, November 13, at a flag raising ceremony to commemorate Transgender Awareness Week by declaring November Transgender Awareness Month in San Francisco.

For the first time, the transgender flag was raised outside City Hall.

Tuesday night, the building was lit with the pink, blue, and white colors of the trans flag, which has occurred before.

Members of the Office of Transgender Initiatives, Transgender Advisory Committee, city officials, and LGBTQ community leaders, including gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, joined the mayor.

“Today, we are a part of making history,” Clair Farley, director of the city’s

Office of Transgender Initiatives, said at the event. “As the Trump administration continues to attack our communities, in San Francisco we stand up against these attacks and celebrate each other here. In San Francisco we don’t erase people, we understand that our differences are what makes us special.”

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SF Lesbian /Gay Freedom band Lara, Thurmond looks to score musical coup edge out opponents T

by Matthew S. Bajko

by Matthew S. Bajko

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emocrats a p p e a r h e a d e d to declaring a full sweep of California’s statewide races as two contests that had been close for days are now trending toward the party’s candidates.

As the Bay Area State Senator Reporter first re- Ricardo Lara ported online last Thursday, gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (DBell Gardens) is poised to make history as the first out candidate to win a statewide post in the Golden State. He continues to hold a commanding lead in the statewide insurance commissioner race.

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he San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, for two decades now, has called itself the city’s official band. As proof to its claim, the 40-year-old musical group points to two city proclamations it has received.

Gay former supervisor Tom Ammiano authored both, first in 1998 and again in 2003, on the occasion of the band’s 20th and 25th anniversaries. Each noted that the ensemble was the first openly gay music group anywhere in the world.

“We are very proud of it and have been using it ever since,” Doug Litwin, the band’s board president, told the Bay Area Reporter of the honorary designation as the city’s official band.

Yet, honorary is basically what the accolade has been for the last 20 years. Now, the band and gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman want to make it legally binding.

Mandelman has introduced an ordinance that, once signed into law, would amend the city’s administrative code and formally declare the LGBT band as the official band of the city and county of San Francisco. The Board of Supervisors Rules Committee is scheduled to vote on it Wednesday, November 28, before being taken up by the full board in early December.

Courtesy Castro Street Fair

Members of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band perform at the Castro Street Fair.

“I think because of the role it’s played in the city,” Mandelman told the B.A.R. when asked why he wanted to grant the LGBT band such an honor. “It is a quintessential institution in the city. Plus, the role it has played nationally and internationally, it makes sense to name it San Francisco’s official band.”

The last time the city officially declared anything, according to the city attorney’s office,

was in 2000 when it made the California quail San Francisco’s official bird, 21 years after black and gold were made the official city colors. City leaders have also declared the dahlia as San Francisco’s official flower (1926); “San Francisco” with music by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann and lyrics by Gus Kahn the official See page 12 >>

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t LGBTs can soon apply for senior housing 2nd phase 2 • Bay Area Reporter • November 15-21, 2018

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Construction of the 95 Laguna Street housing project is on schedule.

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he window to apply for the second phase of an affordable housing project aimed at LGBT seniors in San Francisco is expected to open in early December.

Construction on the $40 million project, which will include 79 units of housing and 7,000 square feet of community space, is so far ahead of schedule. The residents selected by lottery for the housing are expected to move into their apartments April 1.

The seven-story building at 95 Laguna Street is a collaborative effort between affordable housing developer Mercy Housing and Openhouse, a nonprofit provider of LGBT services in San Francisco.

The two agencies in late 2016 opened the project’s first phase, which saw a former college building on the edge of the city’s gay Castro district remodeled into 40 rental units, one of which is for the resident manager.

It is known as the Openhouse Community at 55 Laguna. While any senior, LGBTQ or straight, who met the eligibility requirements could apply to live there, a majority

of the residents selected, 68 percent, identify as LGBTQ. Openhouse officials are hoping to see a similar majority of LGBTQ residents move into the new building, being built on the site of a former surface parking lot. It will be called the Marcy Adelman and Jeanette Gurevitch Community at 95 Laguna after the agency’s co-founders.

Already, Openhouse has compiled a list of more than 1,200 LGBTQ seniors who have expressed a desire to live there.

“My hope and commitment is that, with strong community support and working with my staff, we will have a majority of residents in the new building who are LGBTQidentified,” said Openhouse Executive Director Karyn Skultety, Ph.D., who is bisexual and took over the agency in February last year.

Openhouse focuses on senior housing needs year-round, noted Skultety, and has routinely reminded the 2,500 people it served during the 2017-2018 fiscal year about the opportunity to apply to live at 95 Laguna. It expects to see at least 3,000 seniors, both LGBT and straight, enter into the lottery for the new units.

The interest has been “overwhelming,” said Skultety.

“I would love to tell you the need for affordable housing has gone down in the last two years but I would be lying,” she said.

As of this week, the exact dates had yet to be finalized for the seven-day period when applications for 95 Laguna will be accepted. Skultety told the Bay Area Reporter it should be sometime in early December, with the lottery to randomly select residents being conducted in early 2019.

Kate Hartley, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, was traveling out of the country and could not be reached for comment.

Doug Shoemaker, president of Mercy Housing California, told the B.A.R. this week that they are expecting to have people move in come April.

“The project is on schedule. It is a little too early at this point to say it will be ahead of schedule, as too many things could happen between now and then,” he said. “We are feeling good about where things are.

We are feeling great we are going to make an April move in.”

The Openhouse project continues to be the only one Mercy is building that is LGBT-friendly senior housing.

“In this environment we are really excited to open up all these new housing opportunities,” said Shoemaker. “It has been fantastic; we would love to work on more.”

than one member, at least one person must be 62 at the time the applications are due.

Anyone who entered the lottery for 55 Laguna and did not get accepted must submit a new application for 95 Laguna. The age limit for the new building is higher than it was for 55 Laguna, which was set at 55 years old, due to changes in the rules governing the financing of the new building.

The other eligibility criteria are largely the same, such as applicants must meet certain income thresholds and either live or work in San Francisco. Applicants who were displaced by redevelopment in the city’s Western Addition and Hunters Point neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970s will be given first preference.

Those seniors who were displaced by an Ellis Act or owner move-in eviction will be given second preference. Residents of the District 8 supervisorial district or seniors living within a mile and a half of the building will be eligible for up to 40 percent of the units.

The rent for the building’s studio units is expected to be $1,036 per month, in the range of $1,100 to $1,184 for 1-bedrooms, and between $1,320 and $1,333 for 2-bedrooms. The rents are not finalized, however, and may change.

Eligibility criteria

Of the 79 new units at 95 Laguna, one will be the living quarters of the property’s resident manager, and 15 units will be designated for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Another six units will be specifically for people living with HIV or AIDS. The remaining 57 units will be selected by the lottery. Seniors living alone must be 62 years of age in order to be eligible to apply. For couples or households with more

Courtesy Openhouse

A rendering of the new 95 Laguna senior housing complex.

While any senior, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, can apply to live at 95 Laguna, Skultety is working with the city’s housing officials to make sure they know that Openhouse will be overseeing the services offered to the residents as well as programming the new community spaces on the first and second floors of the building.

The building will share an outdoor courtyard with 55 Laguna, which not only houses residents but also Openhouse’s staff offices at 65 Laguna Street. It is known as the Bob Ross LGBT Senior Center due to a $1 million donation from the foundation of the B.A.R.’s founding publisher.

“I don’t want someone applying to live here who is not OK with living in an LGBTQ-welcoming space,” said Skultety, who has advocated for all the marketing material about 95 Laguna to note that fact. “It is important that is emphasized.”

Of the straight seniors who live at 55 Laguna, many are allies who either grew up with LGBT family and friends or have children who are LGBTQ, said Skultety.

“The straight allies who live at 55 Laguna are such a vital part of our community,” she noted. “They’ve participated in allyship the way I hoped they would.”

For those with questions about the lottery for 95 Laguna or applying for other senior housing options, Openhouse is holding several workshops this month. The next ones will be at 3 p.m. Friday, November 23, and at 11 a.m. Tuesday, November 27.

They are both an hour long and will be held at 65 Laguna Street.

An RSVP is required and can be made by contacting Theresa Mullen at (415) 685-0886 or theresa@ openhouse-sf.org.

People with questions can also call the Openhouse Housing Hotline at (415) 230-0634. To sign up for email updates about the approaching application deadline, visit www.openhouse-sf.org/join95.t

Latest CA school battle is over LGBT sex-ed classes

by Matthew S. Bajko

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s school districts across California introduce new LGBTinclusive curriculum materials into history and social science classes, another battle is brewing over the teaching of sexual health courses that cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 2015, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) authored the California Healthy Youth Act, which required that all comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention instruction and materials in grades K-12 be inclusive of LGBTQ students. It took effect January 1, 2016.

Under the law, schools must teach students, in a positive way, that people have different sexual orientations and that they may enter into same-sex relationships. The sexual health lessons must also cover gender, gender expression, gender identity, and how negative gender stereotypes can be harmful.

The law stated that school districts must teach students “to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family.”

Governor Jerry Brown in September signed into law Weber’s Assembly Bill 2601, which requires charter schools in the state to also teach the LGBT-inclusive sexual health curriculum as required by the California Healthy Youth Act.

A battle is brewing in California over teaching sexual health courses that cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

Jennifer Chou, a reproductive justice and gender equity attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, explained in a recent interview with the Bay Area Reporter that the law requires students be taught “comprehensive sex ed” at least once in middle school and at least once in high school.

“It allows comprehensive sex ed to be taught prior to middle school so long as it is done in an age appropriate way,” said Chou. “If a school does decide to seek comprehensive sex ed before the seventh grade, it has to be LGBTQ inclusive. Specifically, that means it has to acknowledge people have different sexual orientations.”

Over the last two years the ACLU has heard “anecdotally,” she said, that many school districts are

following the law.

“Our sense is a majority of districts are already complying with the law or are on their way to complying with the law,” said Chou. “Unfortunately, there is no mandated reporting requirement associated with the California Healthy Youth Act. As far as I know, no agency is sort of tracking that granularly.”

But parents concerned, and at times confused, about what their children will be taught have been speaking out at their local school board meetings as districts around the state work to adopt the new guidelines for sexual health classes.

Controversies have engulfed schools this year in Chino, San Diego, and Orange County over the teaching of the new LGBT-inclusive sexual health curriculum.

It has also been an issue in the more liberal Bay Area. As the B.A.R. reported in May, the Fremont Unified School District voted against adopting a new sex education program for fourth through sixth graders due to parental complaints about the LGBT-inclusive instruction. A majority of the district’s fiveperson school board voted to adopt the comprehensive sex-ed program for seventh through ninth grade students and to exclude sex education entirely for elementary school students.

The educational news website Ed Source noted in a recent story that parents in Palo Alto and Cupertino also voiced objections to their school districts moving to update their sex-ed curriculums. While Palo Alto moved forward with its new sexual health curriculum, Cupertino’s school board revised what its middle school students are learning in response to the parental outcry.

Anti-gay groups’ falsehoods

Anti-gay groups, meanwhile, have been falsely warning their supporters that the state is now requiring children to learn the LGBT “birds and the bees” when it comes to sex.

They have also been claiming that the new curriculum requirements downplay abstinence-based lessons in favor of teaching heterosexual sex practices to students.

The Capitol Resource Institute, for example, has stated in emails

to its supporters in recent weeks that “California liberals think that Planned Parenthood should teach your daughter about anal sex.” The text is superimposed on a photo of a teenage girl and boy holding hands.

The conservative groups have also been pushing for parents to be allowed to opt-out their children from the classes during which the LGBT lessons are discussed. Current state law allows for parents to opt their children out from the sexed classes completely, but not on a piecemeal basis based on what is being taught on a certain day.

“Capitol Resource Institute is proposing districts in California adopt such a policy by expanding their current notification and opt out policy to include ALL sensitive subjects mandated as a result of the California Healthy Youth Act,” explained Karen England, head of the group, in a recent email. “Our policy takes the current Sexuality Education opt out notice and extends that to all Family Life Education.

Although the law says that Family Life Education issues are not subject to mandatory notification, that does not prevent a school district or charter school board from providing notification and opt-out on those subjects.”

The state’s anti-discrimination laws preclude school districts from granting such an opt-out option, said Chou.

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Mayor Breed should name Satya to SF school board

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lthough Matt Haney was not San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s preferred candidate for District 6 supervisor, his victory will give her yet another opportunity to appoint his successor to the school board. We urge her to appoint someone we believe would bring a fresh perspective to the board that oversees the San Francisco Unified School District: Mia Satya, a trans woman who fell short in her own campaign for one of three seats on that body last week.

At 28, Satya may be young, but that doesn’t mean she lacks experience or ideas about how to make the city’s public schools safer for all students, including LGBTs. Haney appointed her to the district’s Quality Teacher Education Act Oversight Committee, which advocates for better teacher salaries. She was a member of the district attorney’s Bye, Bye Bullying campaign and in that capacity did outreach to schools and judged student-produced public service announcements.

Queer youth are the largest cohort among young homeless people in San Francisco, and Satya ran her campaign in part to make sure the educational system includes and serves them. She has taught students how to become involved in their governance, registered them to vote, and empowered them. As a survivor of transphobia, homelessness, and hate crimes, Satya wants to advocate for trans civil rights.

As most people know, President Donald Trump wants the opposite: no rights for trans people.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reportedly has a proposal that would limit the identification of a person’s gender to include only “male” or “female” in accordance with their birth certificate. In 2017, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded protections for trans students that had been issued during the Obama administration. This year, she said her department would not investigate any complaints filed by trans students.

In short, the federal government is hell bent on erasing trans people – students included.

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Mia Satya, center, was joined by supporters during her school board campaign.

Satya can provide a visible counter to the hatred emanating from Washington because she is the embodiment of San Francisco values.

We’re not alone in advocating for Satya. Jordan Davis, a trans woman who sits on the city’s Single Room Occupancy Task Force, wrote a letter to Breed last week asking for Satya to be appointed to Haney’s seat.

“Mia would provide a perspective on the school board that is often missing, that of youth,” Davis wrote. “She served on the youth commission and has been an effective advocate, not just for the LGBTQ community, but for racial and economic justice, as well as disability justice.”

Davis framed her letter to the mayor to suggest that Breed could make amends with the LGBTQ community for endorsing transphobic school board candidate Josephine Zhao and not withdrawing her endorsement even after Zhao exited the race. (Zhao’s name remained on the ballot, but she did not win one of the three open seats.) We, too, were disappointed that the mayor backed Zhao, and she definitely

shouldn’t be appointed to the vacancy. But by and large, Breed, who defeated gay former state Senator Mark Leno for the mayoral race in June, remains popular with a large segment of the LGBTQ community, as most people are willing to give her a chance to succeed. We’ve been impressed with her work so far.

This will be Breed’s fourth appointment since she became mayor in July. All of her appointees have been straight allies: Vallie Brown to Breed’s former District 5 supervisor seat, Ivy Lee to gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s former City College board seat, and Faauuga Moliga to the vacant school board seat following the departure of Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell. (Moliga, who was a candidate for the school board, won a seat last week so he will continue to serve on the body.) We say it’s time for the mayor to appoint a trans person to fill the vacancy on the school board, because issues affecting trans students are front and center – and in today’s political climate, there’s a lot to fear from the federal government. Having Satya on the school board will give her a platform to speak out for students’ welfare and against the discriminatory actions of the federal government.t

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ast week, I was honored to be elected as the next supervisor for District 6, representing the Tenderloin, South of Market, Mission Bay, South Beach, Rincon Hill, and Treasure Island.

I am proud to have won in every neighborhood and every precinct across our diverse district. Thank you so much to District 6 residents and voters for your support and trust.

Throughout the course of the campaign, I committed to D6 residents to be laser-focused, block-by-block, on the day-to-day challenges facing our neighborhoods: street homelessness, dirty streets and sidewalks, open air drug use and dealing, vacant storefronts, a failing public transportation system, and skyrocketing rents.

I’ve spent my entire career in public service here in San Francisco – as school board president, a housing rights attorney, and criminal justice advocate. I ran for supervisor because I believe that our city still has what it takes – the values, commitment, resources, and creativity – to effectively tackle our toughest challenges.

There is no doubt that our city’s biggest failure and shame is street homelessness. We continue to abandon people to live on our

streets, including people who are sick or mentally ill. It’s not right for them, and it’s hurting our neighborhoods, residents, and small businesses. District 6 is bearing the brunt of this crisis, and it is completely unacceptable.

After this election, there is finally some hope on the horizon: With the passage of Proposition C, I will fight to quickly expand Navigation Centers, provide more streamlined mental health services and beds, and move to immediately get people off the streets and into housing. We also need to double down on homeless outreach services; right now, it is too often only the police that are our front line responders to homelessness. This is both wrong and ineffective.

It is critical that we adopt services that acknowledge the needs and protect the safety of the 40 percent of homeless people who are LGBTQ. We urgently need an LGBTQ-serving Navigation Center and an end to out-of-date models for shelters rooted in turn of the century religious organizations.

On the school board, I was a strong and vocal ally to the LGBTQ community. I secured funding for the nation’s first high school LGBTQ studies class and expanded our LGBTQ inclusive curriculum. I authored a policy to ensure access to gender inclusive restrooms, ended outdated, discriminatory dress code policies, and expanded sexual health education and services.

I plan to bring this same vocal allyship to the Board of Supervisors. SOMA and the Tenderloin both have large LGBTQ communities and long histories as hubs for LGBTQ culture, arts, and nightlife. I’ll fight for legacy protection for LGBTQ venues and businesses. I’ll fully fund and support our two LGBTQ cultural districts, The LGBTQ and Leather District, and the Compton’s Transgender District. And I’ll fight for stronger rent control and more affordable

housing for the LGBTQ community.

District 6 also has one of the largest populations of people living with HIV in the country.

The D6 supervisor must take the lead to fight for resources and ensure that San Francisco becomes the first major city to have no new HIV infections. I believe that PrEP needs to be free and easily available to any men who have sex with men or at-risk individual who wants it. As supervisor, I’ll focus on lowering the barrier to entry to health care by working to make points of entry to services as simple and unbureaucratic as possible.

San Francisco is one of the most progressive, wealthy, creative cities in the world; but when thousands of our neighbors are living without housing, our sidewalks are filthy, and economic inequality and rent continue to move rapidly in the wrong direction, we know we are not meeting our full potential.

I do not believe we can solve our toughest problems if we continue to recycle the same political divisions of the past. With all the dysfunction and hatred coming out of Washington, D.C., San Francisco has a responsibility to demonstrate that there is another way. We have to show our own residents that we can model governance that is compassionate, inclusive, and effective.

As supervisor, I will work with anyone who will help my district get clean, safe streets and build more affordable housing. And I will stand up to anyone who is trying to underserve or take advantage of this community and its people. My commitment to you is to be a strong ally to the LGBTQ community, be accessible and responsive, and tackle our toughest problems head-on.

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NRA’s willful, destructive misguidance

In the medical intensive care unit, I don’t see the results of gun violence as frequently or freshly as those who’ve responded to the National Rifle Association’s recent tweet telling “doctors to stay in their lane,” but sometimes I do: maybe when I float to the trauma ICU. Maybe when I’m packing the bullet holes in the limbs or sides of my patients, or changing the dressings around rods drilled into the body to hold shattered bones in place. Maybe when I’m monitoring the drainage of fluid from the stitchedup soft spot at the side of someone’s head where part of their skull used to be, or when I’m trying to explain to someone in human terms how his or her son or mom or lover who was shot in the head isn’t winking at them, but rather having seizure-like activity in a brain that is all but destroyed. Maybe when I’m caring for the 30-year para- or quadriplegic who was shot in the spine, who is now dying of complications from years of immobility – pneumonia, or an infected pressure ulcer that’s spread, perhaps.

I’ve never been out in the field or in the emergency department when a gunshot wound trauma patient arrives, or been part of those incredibly intense and heroic efforts.

I’m no stranger to death, but I’ve not yet had to change

out of scrubs soaked in a person’s blood to tell someone that their loved one is dead. I have friends and colleagues who do so regularly. I’ve seen the bloody war zones of trauma resuscitation rooms. We wage war on death itself in those places, and, in sometimes less dramatic fashion, in the rest of the hospital. I haven’t even touched on the psychological toll that the violence takes on victims, perpetrators, family members, friends, and the healthcare teams involved.

Yes, trauma comes in many forms from many sources, and in general people do have the right to bear arms. But the NRA spreads willfully destructive misguidance when saying that those in health care step beyond their professions when calling for reasonable, sensible, and ethically valid policies around gun ownership and control. Fighting the discussion, study, and creation of good policies reeks of a “blind faith” that closes the believer to the possibility that the idea might be wrong, needs improvement, or is simply misunderstood or misapplied.

The NRA and its politicians better believe this is our lane.

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CA LGBT legislative caucus set to decrease

by Matthew S. Bajko

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he California Legislative LGBT Caucus will see its membership shrink in the next legislative session for the third time since it was established in 2002. Come December it will have seven members, should the current outcomes as of Wednesday remain the same in two legislative races with lesbian candidates and a statewide contest with a gay state senator.

Currently, there are eight out members of the state Legislature, four each in the Assembly and Senate. Set to depart in early 2019 is gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), as he now holds a commanding lead in the statewide insurance commissioner race. Lara is poised to make history as the first out candidate to win a statewide post in the Golden State.

As of Wednesday morning, Lara had seen his vote count increase to 4,480,114 votes for 51.5 percent of the total. His opponent, Republican turned independent Steve Poizner, trailed behind with 4,221,931 votes or 48.5 percent of the total. Poizner, who had previously held the position from 2007 through 2011, has seen his lead in the race on Election Night steadily decline as more ballots are tabulated.

With a record-setting 18 out candidates seeking legislative seats this year, LGBT political leaders had hoped to see an increase in the LGBT caucus’ ranks when the winners of the November 6 election take their oath of office in early December. To hit a historic high of nine LGBT legislative caucus members, two out non-incumbents would need to be elected.

Following the June primary, there were 12 legislative races with candidates who identified as lesbian, gay, or queer. Of those, only a trio of out Assembly members easily defeated their opponents on Election Night.

(None of the four out state senators were seeking re-election this cycle.)

The fourth incumbent in the lower chamber, lesbian Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes (D-Corona), awoke the morning of November 7 to learn she had a three-vote lead over her Republican opponent, federal prosecutor Bilal “Bill” Essayli, for her 60th Assembly District seat. Over the next few days the vote count yo-yoed between the two, but

by Monday afternoon Cervantes had begun to break away.

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Assemblywoman Sabrina Cervantes is holding onto a lead in her re-election race.

According to Riverside County elections officials, Cervantes continued to be in first-place as of Tuesday evening with 36,011 votes, or 50.66 percent of the total. Essayli had 35,066 votes, or 49.34 percent of the total.

There were still approximately 164,000 vote-by-mail and 45,000 provisional ballots left to count, county officials reported.

In another Riverside County contest, lesbian aging expert Joy Silver appears headed for defeat in her race for the state Senate 28th District seat. Senator Jeff Stone (R-La Quinta), one of the most anti-LGBT members in the Statehouse, has continued to see his vote count edge upward since Election Night.

As of late Tuesday Stone was headed for reelection with 96,713 votes for 53.15 percent of the total. Silver continued to trail with 85,262 votes for 46.85 percent of the total.

The seven other non-incumbent out legislative candidates all lost their races. Most were not expected to win, as they were either running against incumbent lawmakers or outspent by their opponents for an open seat.

In the Bay Area the only competitive legislative race with an out candidate was the contest for the open 15th Assembly District seat, which stretches from Richmond south into parts of Oakland. Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) opted to run for state superintendent of public instruction, a race he now holds a slight lead in, rather than seek re-election. [See related story.]

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Beckles has yet to concede, as her campaign announced last week that it would make a final statement when there was a “full accounting of the votes.” She did thank her supporters in an email sent Friday, in which she wrote she was hoping to still hear “good news” as the ballot count continued.

“Whatever the result, we are victorious. We’ve shown what we’re capable of when we come together,” wrote Beckles, who would have been the first out state lawmaker from the East Bay, as well as the first Free Legal Help LGBT immigrant and out AfricanAmerican elected to the Legislature.

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acquelene Bishop, a bisexual woman who had been serving as San Francisco Pride’s interim president since the October 3 departure of former board president Michelle Meow, was elected to the post at the organization’s November 7 board meeting.

Bishop, a certified public accountant, won the election as president of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee’s board with eight votes, while board members Carolyn Wysinger and William Walker got two votes each. Bishop had previously served as Pride’s treasurer.

In order to win an election, a candidate must receive at least 50 percent plus one of the votes from the board members present at any given meeting.

“I feel very humbled by the many people who have worked tirelessly to gain the progress that we have accomplished over the last decades,” Bishop, 31, told the Bay Area Reporter after the meeting. “I want to thank them, and they will be in my mind and heart as I serve in this role.”

In addition to Bishop, Wysinger, and Walker, board members Suzanne Ford; Nguyen Pham; Bruce Beaudette; Nikki Calma, aka Tita Aida; DJ Gray; Elizabeth Lanyon; Jake Little; Kerby Lynch; and Manuel Perez; were in attendance. Board member Amy Sueyoshi was absent.

The choice for vice president was put off until the December meeting due to the board’s inability to elect a clear winner for the office. In the first round of voting there was a three-way tie with candidates Gray, Little, and Calma getting four votes each. In the second round of voting Gray received three votes, Calma received four, while Little received five.

Gray was eliminated for the third round of voting, and Calma and Little tied with six votes each.

The board voted to revisit the vice president position at its next meeting.

The board then moved on to the position of treasurer. Bishop withdrew her candidacy, leaving Ford as the sole person for the office. She won with 11 votes. Ford, a 53-yearold transgender woman, was elected to the Pride Board for the first time

at the annual general meeting in September.

“I feel honored and a little in awe of being treasurer of such an iconic organization,” Ford said. “I look forward to continuing to keeping Pride fiscally successful. I want to thank former board member Melanie Nathan for pushing me to get involved.”

When she was running for a board position in September, she said that if elected, she would “strive to maintain that blueprint while looking for ways to be more inclusive and responsive to our people.

I pledge to be a supportive team member who always looks to advance SF Pride.”

The final vote of the evening was for secretary of the board, for which there were two candidates. Current secretary Pham was declared the winner with nine votes, while Lynch received three.

Pham, a 34-year-old gay man, was thrilled with the result.

“I’m proud to be starting my second term on the Pride board, continuing in my role as secretary,” he said. “I have marched in the past 18 San Francisco Pride parades, 16 of those with Cheer SF, and I look forward to continuing to give back to an experience that has given me so much.”

George F. Ridgely Jr., executive director of San Francisco Pride, said the organization welcomed its new and returning executive officers on the board.

“We are fortunate to have a board who is active, engaged, and committed to open dialogue,” Ridgely wrote in an email. “A group of exceptional individuals, as a collective they bring experience, compassion, and a keen eye on the health of the organization and the annual event. Elevating all of the voices around the table can be challenging, but the board admirably works together to find creative solutions. I look forward to presenting a great season of programming alongside the board, staff, and contracted talent for the 49th annual San Francisco Pride celebration and parade this coming June.”

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iery Skipper, Gray Hairstreak, and Western Pygmy Blue may not be familiar names to many urban dwellers, even those living near the Presidio National Park.

All are butterflies native to Crissy Field and all are the passion of Liam O’Brien, 57, the writer and illustrator of the new Flying Pansy column that was published October 3 in the new online magazine Bay Nature. The column will be published monthly.

The self-taught lepidopterist and former actor chose to proclaim not only his sexual orientation, via the column’s name, but also his HIVpositive status in a remarkably candid essay titled “On Butterflies, Parasites and Viruses.”

In a field where O’Brien has noticed most of his fellow lepidopterists (person who studies butterflies) are “old straight guys,” his column is unique. Feedback to his column has been phenomenal, he said. Some saluted how “he was connected to nature in an exalted way,” though he admitted, “I’ve never thought about it like that.”

The butterfly chapter of his life began about a year later after his HIV diagnosis in October 1998.

O’Brien was living in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco. He saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail fly into his yard and feed from a fuchsia flower.

“I ran back upstairs and got some paper and started sketching – something I hadn’t done in many years,” he wrote in his column. O’Brien acknowledged he had no formal education in art, but his innate talent attracted the notice of the butterfly community.

His watercolors were soon published in print magazines such as

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In 2010, he was commissioned by the Presidio Trust to provide all the illustrations for its book titled “Butterflies of the Presidio.”

O’Brien began his working life as an actor after studying theater in college for two years. A union member by age 22, he enjoyed many aspects of his drama career.

“Coming out was not a big deal in the theater,” he offered as one example.

His first big success was in the play, “Sharon and Billy” at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre in 1986.

“I fell in love with the playwright Alan Bowne and wanted to bring him home to dinner,” he recalled.

“That was how I came out to my family.” (Bowne, who wrote “Sharon and Billy,” died in 1989.)

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The position is vital, Woods added, “It’s, for me, an amazing way to make progress. In order to make change we need reform in criminal justice especially in the trans community.”

Officer Johnna Watson, public information officer for OPD, praised Woods’ work with the department.

“Tiffany has been instrumental in helping us really bring awareness and education of the LGBTQ community,” she told the B.A.R. “When we look back at Brandy Martell or Sasha Fleischman and the Ghost Ship fire, all three were major incidents that happened in our community that Tiffany was instrumental in helping us to bring awareness, education, and community messaging and being able to

their eggs are eaten, then 80 percent of the caterpillars (larvae) are fatally parasitized by flies and wasps, then in their adult (butterfly) phase, 80 percent are eaten by birds and spiders.”

While expressing an impulse to “crowbar some of the emotion” from butterflies, O’Brien quickly added, “I don’t want to suggest you’re not allowed to love the beauty of butterflies, because I do.”

Robert Pyle is the founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, named after the Xerces Blue butterfly, once native to the coastal sand dunes of San Francisco’s Sunset district, but last seen in 1946 at the Veterans Hospital in Lincoln Park. Many consider it the first butterfly driven to extinction by humans.

Pyle wrote the preface to “Butterflies of the Presidio,” whose watercolor illustrations are entirely by O’Brien. Pyle credits O’Brien with creating “the most remarkable butterfly art” and more significantly, driving the successful efforts to save the Green Hairstreak and Mission Blue butterflies from extinction.

O’Brien has spearheaded efforts to relocate the endangered Mission Blue butterflies back to Twin Peaks.

O’Brien himself considers the reestablishment of San Francisco’s Green Hairstreak Butterfly Corridor, extending from Hawk Hill in the Forest Hill neighborhood to the tiny 15th Avenue Steps Park in the Sunset, as one of his biggest successes in life.

“We missed the ball on Xerces Blue,” O’Brien lamented, “so I want to be part of the group to try to save this wildlife.”

The Butterfly Corridor project started while O’Brien was working on a San Francisco butterfly survey in 2007. After he met people at SF Rec and Parks who were also

interested in butterflies, he was off and running.

Each element in the “corridor” now has enough butterfly-friendly plants to allow these fragile creatures to fly from one to the next.

Invasive non-native plants like ice plant and Pampas grass are slowly being replaced by butterfly-friendly plants like Coast Buckwheat and Wild Strawberry, under Rec and Parks’ Nature in the City Program.

O’Brien, who has coordinated the city’s annual butterfly count since 2007.

He said the profusion of non-native plants in San Francisco is more threatening to butterflies than even pesticides.

“The Green Hairstreak only lays eggs on one plant,” he pointed out.

In his first Flying Pansy column, O’Brien revealed a journal entry he made at the time of his HIV diagnosis: “As the virus progresses, I hope it can’t get to my spirit.” Reflecting on this recently, he described the emotions behind this statement as “a feeble attempt to deal with my fear.”

In the column, O’Brien celebrates what he’s discovered in the last 20 years with these words: “The virus gave me ... butterflies.”

And in an interview he declared, “I still find butterflies absolutely enthralling.”

O’Brien enjoys meeting other LGBTQ people who share his interest in nature and butterflies. His art and photography can be viewed on Instagram at www.instagram.com/ robber_fly. He uses and recommends the iNaturalist crowd-sourcing app owned by the California Academy of Sciences.t

executive branch.

Lara had yet to declare victory in the race, however, as of the B.A.R.’s press deadline Wednesday morning.

Nor had Poizner conceded.

His defeat is all the more remarkable considering that Poizner had won the endorsements of 24 newspapers in the state and Lara, as Politico noted last week, “barely campaigned for the job.” Lara’s campaign, for instance, never was able to schedule an in-person interview during the last months of the race with the B.A.R., which was one of the few newspapers to endorse him, despite Lara’s making several swings through the Bay Area.

It also likely sinks any chances of Poizner running against Governorelect Gavin Newsom in four years.

As Politico noted, “had Poizner been successful, he would have been immediately on track to mount a decent, and possibly expensive

challenge to Newsom for the top spot in 2022.”

In the other statewide race that remains too close to call, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) has now surpassed charter school supporter Marshall Tuck in their contest for state superintendent of public instruction.

According to the updated tally Wednesday morning, Thurmond is leading with 3,993,685 votes or 50.5 percent of the total. Tuck, who had been in first place on Election Night, continued to be in second place with 3,918,984 votes or 49.5 percent of the total. With more ballots still to be counted, neither candidate has yet to comment on the status of the race.

County elections officials must report their final results to the Secretary of State by December 7. Then the secretary of state will certify the results by December 14.t

communicate with our community about what happened and what we are doing as a department,” Watson said, referring to the murder of a trans woman and the incident where Fleischman was set on fire on a bus.

Two years ago, Woods assisted the Oakland mayor’s office, OPD, and the Alameda County Sheriff ’s Office and Coroner’s Bureau on the deaths of the three young transgender people who lost their lives in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire. Feral Pines, 29, Cash Askew, 22, and Em Bohlka, 33 were killed in the 2016 blaze. Woods issued guidance on respectful and accurate reporting and coordinated media interviews.

In the past, she has been a member of the Alameda County HIV Planning Council; a consultant with the Transgender Law Center working on the Health Care Access Project; and in the 1990s she was

at the forefront of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the East Bay as the first transgender empress of the nonprofit Imperial Court of Alameda County.

“Tiffany was one of TLC’s first community partners, championing health services and transitionrelated care in Alameda County at a time when health care access for transgender people was scarce,” said Cecilia Chung, Transgender Law Center’s co-director of programs and policy.

But to Woods, one of the most challenging things in her life is being a mom. Living in Sacramento with her wife of more than 20 years, the two have hectic schedules with school pick-ups, and everything that comes with being a mom of three.

“At the end of the day, I am just a mom.”t

To read O’Brien’s column, visit http://www.baynature. org/2018/10/03/on-butterfliesparasites-and-viruses.

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Bi political glass ceiling shattered with Sinema’s Senate win

by Lisa Keen

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edia organizations called the Arizona U.S. Senate race Monday night for Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, who will become the first openly bisexual person to be elected to that body.

Sinema’s victory is a major one for the LGBT community, which has only one other member of the Senate: lesbian Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), who easily won reelection last week.

LGBTQ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker called Sinema’s victory a “game changer.”

“An LGBTQ woman winning a U.S. Senate seat in a state that voted for Trump is a game-changer, both for the LGBTQ community and the Democratic Party,” said Parker, referring to President Donald Trump’s 2016 election. With both Baldwin and Sinema in the Senate, Parker said, “the U.S. Senate will certainly find our community more difficult to ignore.”

Sinema flipped the seat that’s held by retiring Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican who has been critical of President Donald Trump, but nevertheless usually votes in line with Trump’s position, most notably for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Information from the Arizona secretary of state’s office Monday night showed Sinema more than 38,000 votes ahead of her opponent, Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally. Sinema was behind when the polls closed November 6, but Arizona had an unprecedented number of early ballots handed in on Election Day, causing a delay in reaching a final count.

The Associated Press called the race for Sinema at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, and several other major media outlets followed suit. McSally soon thereafter posted a video message on Twitter, saying she had just called Sinema to congratulate her for becoming Arizona’s first female U.S. senator. Sinema is also the first Democratic senator from Arizona since 1976.

The credit for Democrats’ success in the heavily Republican state is being given largely to Sinema’s moderate record and approach to issues. According to the political analysis group at http://www. fivethirtyeight.com, the three-term congresswoman voted “in line with” Trump’s position 57.4 percent of the time. That compares with the liberal Baldwin’s 22.1 percent.

Sinema is the highest-ranking out bi elected official; Oregon Governor Kate Brown, who was re-elected last week, is the only other.

McSally may yet find herself in the Senate. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) is expected to have an opportunity to fill a vacancy. Shortly after Arizona Senator John McCain’s death, Ducey named former Senator Jon Kyl to the seat, but Kyl made it clear he wanted to serve only until the end of the year. Political observers say McSally has the edge to being named to that seat.

LGBT caucus grows

Sinema’s win brings to 10 the number of openly LGBT people who will be serving in Congress next session: two senators and eight members of the House of Representatives. It will represent the largest number of openly LGBT people ever to serve in any Congress, surpassing

Senator-elect Kyrsten Sinema made history with her win in Arizona.

2013 when there were seven. All are Democrats.

Of the eight House members, four are first-time members: Chris Pappas of New Hampshire, Sharice Davids of Kansas, Angie Craig of Minnesota, and Katie Hill of California. Hill’s race, another cliffhanger, was called the day after the election. She defeated well-known anti-LGBT incumbent Steve Knight.

The five incumbents re-elected included Baldwin and Congressmen David Cicilline of Rhode Island, Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, and Mark Takano of California.

The outcome of one important LGBT candidate’s race is still in limbo. In Texas, election officials have until November 20 to call the winner for the 23rd Congressional

District. Initial media reports indicated Republican incumbent Representative Will Hurd had beat his lesbian Democratic challenger, Gina Ortiz Jones. But within hours of that call, Jones had a surge in votes that put her on top. Then, election officials said they made a clerical error and that Hurd was still in the lead. At last report, Jones was trailing by about 1,100 votes but had indicated she would make sure all votes were counted and, if necessary, ask for a recount.

According to the Dallas Morning News, Jones must pay for the recount, an expense that could amount to $100,000.

Two of the four House incumbents are now planning to run for leadership positions in the next session of Congress. Cicilline is one of

two announced candidates now for the House leadership position of assistant Democratic leader. And Maloney is one of four candidates for chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which oversees the party’s efforts to elect Democrats to the House.

In the Senate, where the Democrats are in the minority, Baldwin is expected to hold onto her sixthranking position as secretary of the Senate Democratic Conference.

Although the outcomes of two Senate races are still in limbo – in Florida and Mississippi – Republicans have won enough seats to retain the majority and, therefore, control of confirmations to judicial seats. The importance of that role was underscored two days after the election when news emerged that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been hospitalized following a fall and suffered three fractured ribs.

(She is now out of the hospital.)

Ginsburg has been one of the court’s strongest supporters of equal rights for LGBT people, unlike both of Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees thus far.

But the wins by Democrats pushed them into the majority of the House, a development that brings some relief to the LGBT community, observers said.

In another important win for the LGBT community November 6, lesbian attorney Dana Nessel won her race to become Michigan’s attorney general. Nessel beat her Republican opponent by 3 percentage points.

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The rise of D Lit in publishing

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n a chilly November afternoon in 2008, I tapped my white cane down Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California and entered Pegasus Books. At that time, I had only been blind for a year, and often found a lot of my questions about disability answered by disability stories.

A charismatic woman greeted me, and I explained I was looking for books written by people with disabilities. “You want Crip Lit,” she said, helping me walk to another section of the store.

While Crip Lit allowed me to put a name to the genre of books I wanted to read, I quickly noted that it was a term not used by everyone in the disability community. Moreover, it was a label the publishing and arts communities did not want to use.

Thus, I began to use D Lit to describe narratives about disability that were written by authors with disabilities.

Now, 10 years later, I am the founder of Oleb Books – a publisher of D Lit. But whether someone calls it Crip or D Lit, no one can ignore this genre is growing. It is now a literary category of its own, and several organizations are helping to drive it.

Deaf and gay writer Raymond Luczak is the founder of Squares and Rebels – a queer and disability press based out of Minneapolis. He said that he started his publishing house because he felt as though it was time for newer disability and queer titles.

“I’d noticed that more than a decade had passed since Bob Guter and John R. Killacky’s ‘Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories’ was published. Wasn’t it time for a new queer disability anthology? Indeed it was,” said Luczak.

Luczak went on to publish “QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology,” as well as several other titles, through Squares and Rebels – helping many LGBTQ and disabled writers find an audience. When it comes to the publishing industry at large, Luczak believes disability is not considered chic; he even had a literary agent tell him it does not sell. Still, he believes it is important.

“Disability challenges the many ableist assumptions about the world we all live in, and in order for the world to become a better place for everyone, we need more stories about disability out there,” he said.

Queer and disability advocate Corbett O’Toole co-founded Reclamation Press – a publisher exclusively publishing authors who identify as having at least one disability. Like Luczak, O’Toole recognized there was a need for more disability books.

“Although one in five people living in the U.S. have a disability, less than 0.003 percent (one-third of 1 percent) of the 22 million books sold on Amazon are related to disability. There is a huge need for books by disabled people where we can share our ideas in both fiction and nonfiction forms,” O’Toole said.

“We know,” continued O’Toole, “that there are many people with disabilities writing extraordinary works. They might be crafting a science fiction world with a genderqueer, autistic lead, such as ‘Troubleshooting’ by Selene dePackh, or exploring ways to nurture ourselves while doing social justice work, such as ‘Sustaining Spirit’ by Naomi Ortiz.”

Since its launch in 2017, Reclamation Press has published three books with the help of donations, and has a list of projects it is seeking

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Raymond Luczak, founder of Squares and Rebels, published “QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology.”

funding for on its site at www.reclapress.com.

Katherine Schneider, Ph.D., founded the Schneider Family Book Awards, with the American Library Association, to celebrate disability in children’s literature. The award came about as a result of her own experiences growing up as a blind child in the mid-20th century.

“In the 1950s, when I was in grade school, the only media mentions of blind people were of Helen Keller, Louis Braille, and the seven blind men who went to see the elephant – other disabilities fared no better,” she said, referring to the parable. “Fifty years later, the situation had improved somewhat. But the stories were often one-dimensional, still with an inspirational character with a disability overcoming the disability as the plot line. Since I established these awards with the American Library Association 15 years ago, the number and quality of books has greatly improved.”

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he Rosie the Riveter Trust has received a challenge grant and is seeking donations, which will be matched up to $20,000 until December 31.

The grant, from a generous donor, is for one of the trust’s programs, Every Kid in a Park.

Since 2016, the trust and the Rosie the Riveter/WW II Home Front National Historic Park have brought more than 3,500 underserved fourth graders to learn history at the park. For many of the children, this is their only field trip of the year.

Donat ions through the challenge grant will help provide materials,

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Don’t rely on Dems, anti-fascists say

by Christina A. DiEdoardo

for rebellions around the world that have taken place since World War II, but one that many on the left find hard to swallow. Still, the trend of more and more people being willing to accept direct action as a valid tactic is positive – and after all, as Jyn Erso in “Rogue One” teaches, “Rebellions are built on hope.”

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ust as Malcolm and Macduff gathered their forces for the final assault on Macbeth’s castle, antifascists in San Francisco and around the country continue to rise regardless of the outcome of last week’s midterm elections.

“We have to confront the reality of it,” said Barry Thornton, an organizer with Refuse Fascism, at a rally at San Francisco’s City Hall Wednesday, November 7. “This is a fascist regime, and it has to be called out for what it is.

“We need a force of millions to drive this regime from power,” he added.

On one hand, the midterms – as expected – returned control of the House of Representatives to the Democratic Party. On the other, the fascists retained control of the Senate – and promises to engage in “bipartisanship” from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (DSan Francisco), the former House speaker who is the front-runner to resume that position when the next Congress is seated in January, have left many activists cold.

“We need to break out of the whole framework of relying on the Democratic Party to stop fascism,” said Rafael Kadaris, an organizer with the Revolution Club. “It is the system which produced the fascism

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Demonstrators took to the streets of San Francisco November 8 to demand that special counsel Robert Mueller be protected from political interference with his investigation of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

in the first place.

“Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere,” he added. “He came out of the whole ugly history of this country.”

Some of that ugliness was playing out in Washington, D.C., where Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had long outlived his usefulness to the regime, finally resigned under pressure last Wednesday. The news was greeted with relief by many, given Sessions’ key role in the Department of Justice’s attacks on the rights of trans people and on the regime’s policy, which many contend violates international law, of intentionally separating immigrant children from

their parents. However, some worry that his successor will find a way to restrict or terminate the investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Protests took place in San Francisco and around the country Thursday, November 8, to demand that Mueller be protected from political interference with his investigation.

Of course, the bigger question is whether those who answer the call to go out into the street for an event will stay there until the regime is removed, especially when that requires them to break the law.

That’s been a necessary ingredient

At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 15, the UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative and La Peña Cultural Center will host the last installment of their fall Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic series, which will take place at the La Peña Cultural Center at 3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Organizers are requesting a $5 donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

#EnoughIsEnough

At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 20, organizers of 2018’s Transgender Day of Remembrance will lead a march from San Francisco City Hall to the Louis B. Mayer Auditorium at UC Hastings College of the Law, 200 McAllister Street. The TDOR program, which honors the memories of those trans people lost to violence in the previous year, will begin at 6 p.m. Admission is free,

and organizers are asking attendees to use the hashtag #EnoughIsEnough when discussing the event.

We won’t be erased

At 5 p.m. Monday, November 26, French-Canadian cartoonist Sophie Labelle, who draws the acclaimed “Assigned Male” comic strip, will release her latest book “We Won’t Be Erased” at Comix Experience, 305 Divisadero Street in San Francisco.

Labelle, who is also a trans woman, has broken new ground in telling the stories of both binary and nonbinary trans characters with humor and love. Unfortunately, that has also made her a target for transphobes on both sides of the border, who have responded with threats, doxing, and worse. Even so, Labelle has been praised within the community for her grace under pressure and steadfastness in the face of these provocations, as well as her decision to respond by creating even more art.

The release party is her first public event in San Francisco. Admission is free, and she will have books and other merchandise available for sale.t Got a tip? Email me at christina@ diedoardolaw.com.

Renamed Rainbow Sierrans ramp up activities people are looking to meet friends.

You’re around like-minded people.”

In addition to the holiday party, the Rainbow Sierrans will have a hike Saturday, November 17, in Sonoma Coast State Park; and meet up in the Castro district Saturday, December 1, to start an urban walking tour of Mount Sutro Open Space, Twin Peaks, and Glen Canyon Park.

Membership in the Rainbow Sierrans is $15 a year. For more information, visit http://www.rainbowsierrans.org.

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he recently renamed Rainbow Sierrans will hold its annual holiday party Saturday, December 8, at the Muir Beach Community Center.

The club, formed in 1986 under the name San Francisco Bay Chapter Gay and Lesbian Sierrans, is part of the Sierra Club and changed its name to better reflect community diversity and inclusion.

“We have about 350 active members,” board chair and outings leader Beth Bittle told the Bay Area Reporter. “Currently we have a majority of women, but several years ago it was mainly men. The balance seems to change every two or three years.”

The club’s activities are as diverse as its membership.

“We usually have about three or four outings a month,” Bittle said.

“We have hikes, kayaking, cycling, bird-watching, camping, cleanup trail restoration. ... It’s a broad range of activities. And you don’t have to be a hardcore hiker. We have a variety of hikes of different distances and difficulty.”

Bittle said some new members hear about the chapter through the Sierra Club and others find the club through its meet up page.

Bittle, 41, said she has been in the club about five years.

“I love, love, love being out in nature,” she said. “This is a really good way to be out and be social. People know it’s a safe space. And a lot of the

Farewell, USA Gymnastics

I’d say it will be interesting to see when the other shoe drops for USA Gymnastics, but gymnasts generally do not perform in shoes.

In the wake of the enormous Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal and the mountains of evidence of USA Gymnastics’ culpability in enabling a culture of athlete abuse and exploitation, the U.S. Olympic Committee has moved to strip USAG of its national governing body status. In the short term this means reports will be submitted to the USOC board for a final determination on USAG’s fate.

If the board decides to boot USAG, the USOC would, for the time being, assume direct responsibility of managing the national team programs.

USAG was already on the ropes. It has lost its sponsorships, been teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, and has dropped executive officers as though they were talcum powder. Right now USAG should be basking in the glow of Simone Biles’ incredible year, in which she won her fifth national championship, her fourth world all-around title, and set records for most world gold medals and total world medals for a female gymnast. Instead it is suing to try to get its insurers to help cover the estimated $75 to $150 million in damages it expects to have to pay in settlements with its sexual abuse victims, faces further criminal charges, and apparently saw an

executive arrange to have evidence destroyed.

Somehow, I don’t think it’s going to stick the landing.

Update on trans wrestlers

Earlier this year I reported on two transgender high school wrestlers, one of them a boy who was forced to wrestler in a girl’s state championship and the other a boy who was outed by a coach to his teammates and bullied off the team. (See the March 15 Jock Talk, “Wrestling Transgressions,” at https://www.ebar. com/news/news//257171?ch=news& sc=news&sc2=&id=257171.)

Mack Beggs was a senior and won the state title in Texas and now wrestles on the men’s team at Life University in Georgia.

Aidan Pogue-Krabacher was a freshman at Wilmington High School in Ohio and had been wrestling with other boys since the sixth grade, when he started his transition. He left the team last year when his coach, Kelly Tolliver, called him a girl in front of his teammates and told him to change in the girls locker room, and then his teammates started to bully him.

Tolliver’s actions were an apparent violation of Ohio High School Athletic Association policies that protect the medical privacy of transgender students. The school board president assured a local television station and an investigation into the coach’s actions was launched.

The result? Well, my calls to the school district were not returned, the results of the investigation are not publicly available, the coach was given a written warning – and he’s still the coach. Krabacher is still not allowed to use the boys locker room or restroom. Krabacher has said he still wants to wrestle – but not for that coach and not under those conditions.

“The school should do what they said they would do, which is to provide all staff, parents, and students education on transgender

and LGBTQ students,” Sheila Pogue-Krabacher, Aidan’s mother, told reporters. “They must support these students and give them ability to succeed. People fear what they don’t understand. Everyone wants to feel accepted in their own skin;

the most important thing we could get out of this is to have policies put in place that protect students.

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She was referring to the Trump administration’s efforts to strip federal recognition of trans people.

The New York Times reported last month that the administration prepared a proposal to limit the identification of a person’s gender to include only “male” or “female” that is listed at birth.

Individuals and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week, which officially began Monday, November 12. Its purpose is to help bring visibility to transgender and gender-nonconforming people and address the issues the community faces, including violence. The Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 20, focuses more on the unprecedented fatal violence against trans people and remembering those who have lost their lives in the past year. Bay Area Reporter Transmissions columnist Gwendolyn Ann Smith started it.

Speakers at the City Hall event focused on the achievements made for the trans community in the city, including Breed’s recent directive that ordered all city agencies and

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Dog mauling case

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His ashes were scattered off the San Diego County coast June 28.

Noel was paroled in 2003 after serving more than two years on a conviction of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Whipple, his neighbor who was mauled by one of his two Presa Canario dogs in the Pacific Heights apartment building where he and Knoller lived.

Knoller, who was with the dogs during the hallway attack, was convicted of second-degree murder. Now 63, Knoller is up for parole next year after having served more than 17 years in jail and state prison.

Noel had lived in relative obscurity in the 15 years since being paroled in the Solano County city of Fairfield, about an hour northeast of San Francisco. He worked as a baker and in lived in a small apartment in Fairfield for years. But in recent years, Noel’s Facebook posts reflected a downturn in his life with health problems, a brush with homelessness, and a deep depression after having to part with a service animal in late 2016. The animal, a German Shepherd, had apparently become his closest companion. His profile photo showed the dog, Nikko, and most of his recent posts were about the animal, with occasional political posts against President Donald Trump and in support of former President Barack Obama. His writings also noted a recent reconciliation with his only son and namesake, Robert Noel.

It is unclear when Noel relocated to San Diego but he was still living in Solano County at least through late 2016, according to his Facebook posts. The disbarred lawyer had connections to San Diego. He

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song (1969); and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” with music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglass Cross the official ballad (1984).

Storied history

The LGBT band has a storied history, with its first public performance pegged to when it marched in front of the late gay supervisor Harvey Milk in the 1978 Pride parade. Originally called the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps, its founder was the late Jon Sims, who also formed the San Francisco Gay

departments that collect demographic data to include the option of nonbinary on all forms; the first cultural district in the country to be named in honor of trans people, Compton’s Transgender Cultural District; and the first trans-led office.

As well, the speakers emphasized the continued struggles trans people face, especially at a time when the Trump administration continually rolls back LGBT rights.

“I wanted to do something really special to commemorate this time. I am not only committed to making sure we celebrate our trans community, but that we honor it by doing something that has not been done anywhere else in our country,” Breed said, commenting on her proclamation declaring November as Transgender Awareness Month.

For the first time this month, Breed met with the Transgender Advisory Committee. Maceo Persson, civic engagement and operations manager for the Office of Transgender Initiatives, told the B.A.R. in an email that important issues were discussed including the need for trans-specific housing, health care, mental health services, and arts and cultural programs. lived and worked there in the early 1980s as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of California.

Online records show that his son lives in San Diego County. The son’s Facebook profile also states that he works there as deckhand. The B.A.R. was unable to contact the son for comment.

Noel had kept in contact with this reporter over the years since the case began in 2001, mostly through email and Facebook messages. In 2016, he reiterated his support for Knoller and said he supported her until his “last breath.” He added: “I’m here after fifteen years ... not leaving her now.”

Noel wrote on Facebook about his struggles with various health issues and by the fall of 2016, his life appeared to be on a downward spiral.

Noel wrote on November 1, 2016 that he was living out of a van and wanted to die but that he was happy that he still had his dog with him.

On November 4, 2016, he wrote, “Been living in a van for six weeks with my registered service dog ...

Turned to Mission Solano about four weeks ago ... Call today, 11/04, can’t or won’t help me if I don’t get rid of my pal ... No thanks.”

Noel had apparently changed his mind about separating from his dog. By late November he wrote that it had been three weeks since he had to give up the dog. He later wrote that his doctor told him the chills and other physical symptoms he was experiencing were the result of being separated from the animal.

Last year, eight months before his death, his resentment over Trump’s election was still very much on his mind, he wrote in an email to this reporter. “On every one of Trump’s properties or partnerships around the world are insurance policies for liability and property damage

Men’s Chorus that year.

(The choral group’s first public performance was on the steps of City Hall at a vigil the night Milk and then-mayor George Moscone were killed inside the building the morning of November 27, 1978.)

As much a part of San Francisco history – having performed at the inaugurations of mayors Art Agnos, Willie Brown, and the late Ed Lee – the LGBT band has taken part in seminal moments in both U.S. and LGBT history. It marched in the 1979, 1987 and 1993 marches for LGBT rights in Washington, D.C. and performed at the inaugurations of Presidents Bill Clinton (on the sidelines) and Barack Obama (as an

Tuesday’s ceremony also comes as Breed is being pressed by some LGBT advocates to name a trans person to the school board. Current school board Commissioner Matt Haney won the District 6 supervisors race last week and will soon resign his position, giving the mayor an opportunity to appoint someone.

Two trans people ran in the November race for the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education, though both lost their bids. Mia Satya, a trans woman, and Martin Rawlings-Fein, a trans man, would be the first transgender public officials in the city if Breed were to appoint either candidate to the upcoming vacancy.

As previously reported by the B.A.R., there is currently only one LGBT member of the school board, Mark Sanchez, a gay former school principal in the district who won re-election to a seat on the governing body in 2016. He had previously served on the school board in the 2000s.

Additional speakers at the event included Mandelman, members of the Transgender Advisory Committee Honey Mahogany and Melanie Ampon, Youth Commission

member Jose Ty, and co-creator of the play, “The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot,” Donna Personna.

Mandelman said, as the only out supervisor on the board, he has a special responsibility to represent and advocate for the trans community.

“In San Francisco, as I think we all know, the trans community continues to face disproportionate and unacceptably high rates of violence, homelessness, and unemployment,” he said. “Despite the advances made as a city, it’s clear we need to invest in additional support services and resources to address these disparities.”

Ampon spoke about the importance of engaging the younger trans community.

“Trans and gender-nonconforming youth need to see more representation that they identify with.

They need to see and believe that they can be leaders too,” Ampon said.

Personna, 72, talked about the historic 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot that happened in the Tenderloin district, an event many echoed in their speeches. The riot began at the all-night diner after one transgender woman resisted arrest. It

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is one of the first recorded LGBTrelated riots in United States history.

Personna hung out at the cafeteria and was friends with those involved in the riot.

“They put in place the foundation for liberation,” she said. “I wasn’t brave enough to do that. They came before us and they are our models.

Their lives are not in vain.”

Niko Kowell, 34, a transmasculine, queer San Francisco resident, attended the ceremony.

“I am super excited that the entire month is going to be Transgender Awareness Month,” Kowell said.

“That’s pretty historic and exciting and big. I look forward to seeing what kind of events they will do next year for it.”

Kowell, who works at the San Francisco Community Health Center, grew up in Ohio.

“I’ve been in San Francisco for 10 years and the city never ceases to amaze me,” Kowell said. “I remember going to the first Trans March and just seeing the amount of support behind it.

“San Francisco plants the seeds for a lot of other places,” Kowell added. “Once San Francisco does it, it opens the door for other places to start building these things out.” t

The case against Noel and Knoller was tried in 2002 in Los Angeles. A change of venue had been granted because of the intense publicity in the Bay Area. The original trial judge, San Francisco Superior Court Judge James Warren, once told the couple in court that they may be the most hated people in San Francisco.

Immediately after the January 26, 2001 attack, the couple were widely perceived as being coldly defensive, unsympathetic, and unremorseful.

In a “Good Morning America” interview in early February 2001, Knoller said the attack became deadly when Whipple struck her in the eye after she tried to get between the dog and

Whipple after the dog had lunged at her. But after the couple’s arrest, in several jailhouse interviews with the B.A.R., they did express sympathy and remorse for Whipple’s death.

In the 2002 trial, the jury ultimately sided with prosecutors who had argued that the couple knew their dogs were dangerous but did little to mitigate the danger.

Both Noel and Knoller were lawyers. The couple’s legal practice involved a number of lawsuits against the state prison system. They legally adopted prison inmate Paul “Cornfed” Schneider, who had directed a dog-breeding business from prison.

The high-ranking Aryan Brotherhood gang member is serving three life terms. In interviews with reporters, Schneider, 56, expressed sympathy and regret over Whipple’s death.

Schneider, Noel, and Knoller maintained that Schneider owned Bane, the dog that attacked Whipple, as

well as Hera, the female Presa Canario that was Bane’s designated mate. Noel and Knoller said they were the dogs’ caretakers.

Aside from the tabloid headlines, the case made LGBT history when Whipple’s partner of seven years, Sharon Smith, was allowed to proceed with a wrongful death suit as a domestic partner. The National Center for Lesbian Rights joined attorney Michael Cardoza to fight for Smith’s right to sue.

“In 2001, there were hardly any protections for our relationships under state law,” NCLR’s outgoing Executive Director Kate Kendell wrote on the organization’s blog in 2011 memorializing Whipple and praising Smith’s courage on the 10year anniversary of Whipple’s death.

Kendell added, “Sharon became a very unlikely, and in some sense, unwilling, activist. Sharon made the decision to attempt in every way she could to vindicate Diane’s death. ...

Up until Sharon’s case, it was virtually unheard of for a same-sex partner to be permitted to sue for wrongful death. In every prior case, the surviving partner was deemed a ‘legal stranger,’ regardless of the length or depth of the relationship.”

Two books were written about the case and it made celebrities out of the attorneys involved in the trial.

The lead prosecutor on the case, Jim Hammer, is a gay man who has since left the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and is now in private practice. The other prosecutor on the case, Kimberly Guilfoyle, went on to prominence as a Fox News host and legal analyst. She left the network in July to work for a pro-Trump super PAC and is dating Donald Trump Jr. She had married Governor-elect Gavin Newsom, then a San Francisco supervisor, in December 2001 before divorcing in 2006.t

official parade contingent).

In 1982, it was one of the seven founding member bands of the Lesbian and Gay Band Association, which now numbers 37 musical groups from around the world. For years it has performed during the San Francisco Giant’s LGBT game; this month it was invited for the first time to the Golden State Warriors’ LGBT night.

Litwin, a member of the band since 1985 who is “bi-sectional,” i.e. he plays both clarinet and percussion, had approached city leaders about getting a new proclamation to mark the group’s 40th year after running into Lee and gay former District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy

at the 2017 AIDS Walk where a small group of band members had performed. The proclamation that Sheehy presented this past June during the band’s anniversary dinner gala, however, didn’t mention the LGBT band being the city’s official band, said Litwin.

After Mandelman won the special election in June for the District 8 seat on the board, his staff has been working with Litwin on the official city band designation for the group. Legislative aide Tom Temprano told the B.A.R. they hope to have all 11 supervisors as co-sponsors of the ordinance as well as the support of Mayor London Breed.

“We hope this is a non controversial ordinance that can pass unanimously at the board, and that the mayor will gladly and proudly sign it,” said Temprano.

As for Breed, who used to play the French horn as a child and has a standing invitation to rehearse with the LGBT band, her spokesman Jeff Cretan told the B.A.R. that the mayor supports designating it as the city’s official band.

“I’m a huge fan of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, which represents the best of our city with their message of inclusion and pride that they carry throughout San Francisco and beyond,” Breed said in a statement to the B.A.R.t

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Robert Noel, left, listens with his attorney, Bruce Hotchkiss, as the verdict is delivered in his 2002 trial.

written for risks significantly different than having the POTUS personally involved,” Noel wrote. “Why are his insurers not pulling coverage putting him out of business?”

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Turkey time at Tessie’s, Glide

People in need can go to free Thanksgiving meals Thursday, November 22, in San Francisco.

Longtime LGBT community stalwart Tenderloin Tessie’s will hold its meal from 1 to 4 p.m. at First Unitarian Church, 1187 Franklin Street at Geary. Attendees can expect turkey and all the trimmings in a festive atmosphere.

To volunteer, contact tenderlointessie@yahoo.com or (415) 584-3252.

Meanwhile, Glide Memorial Methodist Church will serve meals from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the dining hall at 330 Ellis Street.

There will be a Thanksgiving celebration service in the sanctuary at 10 featuring guest speaker Marvin K. White, a gay man who is a local preacher, poet, and activist, and the Glide Ensemble and Change Band.

Glide’s holiday programs will continue through the end of the year. They include the annual grocery bag giveaway Wednesday,

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Schneider pointed out that ablebodied writers do not always get disabled characters right.

“I think,” she said, “they sometimes graft their new-found knowledge of a disability onto the character, rather than having a character whose identity includes the disability. For example, they make sure the blind child has a talking computer, but don’t have the depth of understanding to know that emojis are sometimes misread, websites are not always accessible, workarounds have to be found, etc.”

In 2009, Laura Perna and Susie Angel launched the disabilitywriting contest Pen 2 Paper (P2P),

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“Schools cannot allow parents to selectively opt their students out of LGBTQ content,” she explained.

“The school would then be facilitating discrimination.”

Educating parents

In response to the pushback against the LGBT-inclusive health curriculum mandate, LGBT advocates have been working to educate parents, as well as the larger community, about what the new sexual health instruction actually teaches children. They are closely tracking how state education officials update the instructional guidelines and classroom materials to ensure they not only include the required LGBT topics but are also accurate and based on sound science.

“I think it is important for our entire community to continue to engage in this conversation on the updates of the sexual health framework,” said Our Family Coalition Executive Director Renata Moreira.

“Our goal is for it to be honest, accurate, and inclusive.”

Despite the fearmongering by conservative groups, Moreira stressed that the sex-ed curriculum is being developed so that it is age-appropriate.

“No one in the fourth grade is going to teach kids how to have sex. It is about health and honest health education classes based on the facts, science, and accurate information, not a political agenda,” she said. “We do not want to antagonize those who do have fears. But it has been a very long process with a lot of community engagement. It is not coming out of the blue.”

Our Family Coalition, since last year, has been holding forums for

December 12, from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church.

For volunteer opportunities, or to donate, visit http://www.glide.org.

Help decorate World Tree of Hope

The Rainbow World Fund is seeking volunteers to help decorate its World Tree of Hope, which this year will be installed at Grace Cathedral.

As previously reported, Mayor London Breed’s office informed RWF Executive Director Jeff Cotter in August that the tree, which contains messages for peace that are hand-folded into origami cranes, would not be at San Francisco City Hall this year.

Cotter, a gay man who heads the LGBT-focused humanitarian agency, said in an email newsletter to supporters that Grace Cathedral is a “beautiful venue that is open to the public.”

“Grace Cathedral has a tradition of welcoming people of all faiths and spiritualties (including non-belief) and they are a strong supporter of the LGBTQ community,” Cotter added.

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Grace Cathedral hosted the Tree of Hope four years ago when a communications snafu prevented it from being in City Hall in 2014.

There are several dates and times available for volunteers beginning Saturday, November 24, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and continuing through Friday, November 30. Decorating will be done at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street. For a complete list of days and times, and to sign up, visit https://www. worldtreeofhope.org/help-us/.

The tree lighting ceremony will be held Monday, December 3, at 6:30 p.m.

SF Women’s Building wins grant

The San Francisco Women’s Building won a $150,000 grant through the Partners in Preservation program.

The money will be used to retrofit the building’s windows.

“We’re really happy,” Noemi Zulberti, facilities manager for the Women’s Building, told the Bay Area Reporter.

Zulberti said the staff is now in the process of obtaining the

as an arts program of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. The competition accepts submissions of fiction, memoir, and poetry, and has grown into a global forum for writers with disabilities. Each year, hundreds of writers submit their work for a chance to win a grand prize, which in 2018 was $500. In addition, the contests give writers a chance to share their work with a large group of readers who are looking for disability stories.

“People who are able-bodied (ABs),” said Angel, “often think that people with disabilities are suffering through life and they aren’t capable of contributing to society. Through reading stories written about, and by, people with disabilities, ABs can learn how people with disabilities

see themselves, and realize that there aren’t as many differences between the two groups. ...”

Angel believes not every disability story is meant to teach anything or benefit anyone.

“Sometimes disability writing has no other purpose than to entertain,” she said.

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parents and educators to talk about the new requirements for sex-ed classes. Children are not allowed at the sessions so that attendees can have frank discussions.

“We now work with parents and educators across the state to have their fears and concerns addressed,” said Moreira.

Similar to how the state’s Board of Education reviewed and approved updates to the history and social science framework that led to the adoption of new textbooks with LGBT content, California educators are now working to update the Health Education Framework and sex-ed teaching materials so they include the required LGBT lessons.

The state agency’s Instructional Quality Commission in September held its first hearing on a draft of the new Health Education Framework that, once adopted, will provide guidance to educators and curriculum publishers about how they should be teaching and including the LGBT-inclusive health education lessons.

As Our Family Coalition warned ahead of the meeting, “opponents of sex ed have submitted hundreds of comments demanding that LGBTQ-inclusive language be removed from the framework, making arguments like it discriminates against students from ‘traditional families’ and makes cis and straight students feel excluded from classroom discussion.”

The ACLU’s Chou told the B.A.R. that the hearing “went really well” and that the commission members “commended the people who came and spoke in support of LGBTQ students for their support for inclusivity.”

The commission also heard from advocates from the conservative groups fighting against the new

LGBT sexual health lesson plans.

Nonetheless, Chou said she is “cautiously optimistic” of seeing them be adopted in 2019.

LGBT parents and advocate need not wait until then to ensure their local schools are meeting the requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act. “For LGBT parents, students, and allies, we really encourage them to check in with what their own schools are doing and make sure their schools are aware of the law and are implementing it in a way that meets the needs of their students,” said Chou. “Communicate with either their district and also with us if they have concerns about their schools to be moving slow to implementation or needing support for implementation.

We are really trying hard to be a resource for both community advocates and school districts who are trying to effectively implement the law.”

The instructional commission is currently gathering more input on the proposed LGBT-inclusive Health Education Framework. The second public comment period started November 1 and will close January 11.

At its March 22-23 meeting the commission is expected to vote on whether it will recommend that the state Board of Education adopt the revised framework. The state education board is scheduled to vote on the new framework at its meeting in May. The proposed Health Education Framework can be reviewed online at https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/he/cf/.

The website includes a Public Input Template for those interested in submitting public comments. Once filled out, it should be emailed to healtheducationframework@cde.ca.gov.t

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necessary city permits for the work.

The Women’s Building, at 3543 18th Street, is a city landmark, though it was listed for its historical significance predating the modern LGBT rights movement. In May it became the second location in the city to be deemed a national historic site due to its LGBT cultural significance.

Because of its historical significance, Zulberti said the staff is “having conversations about the kind of retrofitting we can do.”

As of now, there are no plans to add signage to the building recognizing it at a national historic site, she said.

Zulberti said the Women’s Building hopes to have the window retrofit work completed by next summer.

Partners in Preservation is a community-based partnership, created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express, to raise awareness of the importance of preserving historic places and their role in sustaining local communities.

The Women’s Building won the grant through an online vote.

Legals>> ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554343

In the matter of the application of: KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, 1651 MARKET ST #414, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, is requesting that the name KEVIN SCOTT COLEMAN, be changed to KEVIN SCOTT DARLING. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 6th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038354700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GAIA SPLENDOR, 3601 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed VALERIA BYKOVA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355300

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: REAL. RAP. RECORDS, 2906 JENNINGS ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MANDON O’NEAL. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/12/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038363000

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE RIGHT ONE, 3131 26TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MARQUISE DAWAYNE GLOVER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/18/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038352700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WK STUDIO, 2624 15TH AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WYNNE KWEE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/11/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ATTIC BOX PRODUCTIONS, 1450 UNION ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed LUKE WILLIS. 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 10/15/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANDY’S BING, 496 INVERNESS DR, PACIFICA, CA 94044. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed WEIXI WEI. 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 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038355500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALPINE RUG, 2261 MARKET ST #341, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SAMIULLAH NAZAR. 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 10/12/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038327300 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EVERYDAY SKATE SHOP, 936 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a general partnership, and is signed JUSTIN MARKS & JOHN GRIFFIN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/02/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 09/26/18.

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Sing carols on cable cars

Cable Car Caroling returns for the 34th year and people can sign up to participate and help raise funds for the Institute on Aging.

People travel on motorized cable cars and bring holiday cheer to isolated seniors across San Francisco at assisted living centers, skilled nursing facilities, and individual homes.

Last year over 500 carolers visited more than 1,000 seniors.

This year’s event takes place Saturday, December 1, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. and begins at Roosevelt Middle School, 460 Arguello Boulevard.

There are a couple of donation options. Until November 16, early bird pricing is available for adult tickets, $75, and various family packages, starting at $100. Tickets for seniors and students are $50, while children ages 6-12 are $25. People can also choose to participate in the Cable Car Caroling challenge, in which the ticket is free and people commit to fundraise a minimum of $200.

For more information and to sign up, visit https://give.ioaging.org/event/cable-car-caroling/ e199727.t FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038347200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER; SF CHINATOWN VISITORS INFORMATION CENTER; SFCVIC, 625 KEARNY ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94108. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SING TAO NEWSPAPERS (S.F.) LTD (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/09/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/09/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SENDERGEN, 625 8TH ST #F05, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed OPENSENSE INC. (DE). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038358900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PREMIUM REMEDIES, 2443 FILLMORE ST 380-5637, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MARK VENTURES LLC, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038356000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 49 SQUARE CATERING, 1760 CESAR CHAVEZ #M, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed SF FOODLAB LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/05/13. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/15/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038359000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE LITTLE CHIHUAHUA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, 1431 POLK ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TLC COCINA LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/16/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/16/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038336700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEFTY O’DOULS; LEFTY’S BALLPARK BUFFET, 145 JEFFERSON ST #400, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed LOD BALLPARK BUFFET LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 09/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/01/18.

OCT 25, NOV 01, 08, 15, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554370

In the matter of the application of: XIAO CAI, 187 LELAND AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94134, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner XIAO CAI, is requesting that the name XIAO CAI, be changed to XIAO JIANG. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 13th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038376900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TOUR GALLERY, 95 JEFFERSON ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133.

This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JIMMY GRUBBS. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038369700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONSULT MD TODAY, 1750 VALLEJO ST #601, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DMITRY MELNIKOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/23/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SMO CERAMICS, 744 OAK ST #6, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed SARAH M. OGDEN. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/05/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038369900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LINEA CALIFORNIA, 3445 GEARY BLVD #410, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EVGENY SHKURATOV. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371600 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WAH MAY INTERNATIONAL TRAD CO, 1008 PACIFIC AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHAN KAT HUNG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CANDY’S & BOBA, 1352 HAIGHT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed AMANDIP GELLON. 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 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038367500 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TASTY RESTAURANT, 5550 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MYO MIN THANT. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/20/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/22/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAMILA KOWALSKA PHOTOGRAPHY, 355 BERRY ST #228, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KAMILA KOWALSKA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/22/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038368500

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIX AUTO DIVISADERO, 1745 DIVISADERO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed F. LOFRANO & SON INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038368600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FIX AUTO 17TH STREET, 3355 17TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed F. LOFRANO & SON INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/23/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038370700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SF SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, 1560 DAVIDSON AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 01/05/83. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038371900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MISSION BAY DENTAL, 588 MISSION BAY BLVD NORTH, UNIT 4, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94158. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed NONNA VOLFSON DDS, PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/24/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038374200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 333 & 335 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE HOA, 333 & 335 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership, and is signed ALICIA JOHNSON & TASANAPORN PITIYANUVATH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038374900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEATFREEZER APPS, 205 16TH AVE #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed MEATFREEZER LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 06/25/12. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-037049100 The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: CAFE SIS, 402 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business was conducted by an individual and signed by JIYEON LEE. The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 04/14/16.

NOV 01, 08, 15, 22, 2018 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LYNN MCKANNAY, AKA LYNN BLASKOWER MCKANNAY IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO: FILE PES-18-302353

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of LYNN MCKANNAY, AKA LYNN BLASKOWER MCKANNAY. A Petition for Probate has been filed by RICHARD H. MCKANNAY JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. The Petition for Probate requests that RICHARD H. MCKANNAY JR.

be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: November 28, 2018, 9:00 am, Dept. 204, Room 103, Superior Court of California, 400 McAllister St., San Francisco, CA 94102. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the latter of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined by section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: Mr. Richard H. McKannay Jr., 170 Avila St, San Francisco, CA 94123; Ph. (415) 217-9696.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 2018 SUMMONS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: PAUL JOHNSON CONNELL AND DOES 1 THROUGH 10, INCLUSIVE, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BANK OF STOCKTON CASE NO. CGC-17-559950

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You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MARTINEZ ELECTRIC CO, 1318 QUESADA AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed EDWIN MARTINEZ. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/05/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/05/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038386200

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COME HITHER BEAUTY, 1500 VALLEJO ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MICHELLE A. SMITH. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/05/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/05/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038381600

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FASHION FORMULA, 1716 OCEAN AVE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94112. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed MIAOTIAN JIANG. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/30/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038363800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COINECT, 414 BRANNAN ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CARL WU. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/18/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038381800

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RICK’S BARBERSHOP, 5349 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JERVIEN VELASCO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/01/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038377900 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOUSE OF CLAY, 584 CASTRO ST #458, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CLEUTON DE ARAUJO. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038377000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HEALING KITCHEN, 2948 FOLSOM ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed KANA CARLISLE. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/29/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038379900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PLAYLAND 33, 1049 MARKET ST #403, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HSF HOLDINGS, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038381500

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038379400

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NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038385900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KAZUO KITCHEN, 4036 BALBOA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121.

This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed KAZUO KITCHEN (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/24/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FITNESS SF TRANSBAY, 425 MISSION ST #212, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed TRANSBAY FITNESS, INC. (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038385000 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FOODIE BOX, 2800 LEAVENWORTH ST. STE A09, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed TANCHAN LLC, (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/02/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/02/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038383100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NICHI NICHI MAKANAI, 612 18TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed THE 4TH MONKEY, LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on NA. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

NOV 08, 15, 22, 29, 2018 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE A-035535500

The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name known as: OF ARCHETYPE LLC, 348 HYDE ST #11, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business was conducted by a limited liability company and signed by OF ARCHETYPE LLC (CA). The fictitious name was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 12/12/13.

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STATE OF DELAWARE CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION (SECTION 275): State of Delaware Secretary of State Division of Corporation Delivered 08:05 AM 10/31/2018 FILED 08:05 AM 10/31/2018 SR 20187405495 – File # 2979471 The corporation organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows: 1. The dissolution of ERIDE, INC. has been duly authorized by the Board of Directors and Stockholders in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of Section 275 or by unanimous consent of Stockholders in accordance with subsection (c) of Section 275 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. 2. The date of filing of the Corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation in Delaware was January 4, 1999. 3. The date the dissolution was authorized is September 30, 2018. 4. The names and addresses of the directors and officers of the corporation are as follows: Yukio Furuno, Director, 2-20 Nishinomiyahama, Nishinomiya-shi Hyogo 662-0934 Japan; Rikio Mishiro, Director, President, Treasurer, 2-20 Nishinomiyahama, Nishinomiya-shi Hyogo 662-0934 Japan; Tatsuyuki Okamoto, Director, Secretary, 2-20 Nishinomiyahama, Nishinomiya-shi Hyogo 662-0934 Japan. By: Rikio Mishiro, Authorized Officer.

NOV 15, 22, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILE CNC-18-554392

In the matter of the application of: PHUONG TRANG THI PHAM, 1501 19TH AVE #1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94122, for change of name having been filed in Superior Court, and it appearing from said application that petitioner PHUONG TRANG THI PHAM, is requesting that the name PHUONG TRANG THI PHAM, be changed to TRANG PHUONG THI PHAM. Now therefore, it is hereby ordered, that all persons interested in said matter do appear before this Court in Dept. 514, Room 514 on the 20th of December 2018 at 9:00am of said day to show cause why the application for change of name should not be granted.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038391100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: NOMADNIGHTCLUB, 839 POST ST #107, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94109. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed JAMES KEITH HARPER. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/08/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038365700 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PARK GYM GEARY BLVD, 4801 GEARY BLVD, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed DAVID PARK. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/19/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/19/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038390400

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GENESIS JANITORIAL SERVICES, 5734 HARMON AVE, OAKLAND, CA 94621. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed FRANCISCO J. MOLINA. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 02/24/05. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038383200 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HYDEOUT TALENT AGENCY, 1545 A PERSHING DR., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129. This business is conducted by an individual, and is signed CHRISTOPHER MCGREW. The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/15/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/01/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038390900

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EARLY CARE EDUCATORS OF SAN FRANCISCO (ECESF), 445 CHURCH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94114. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed SAN FRANCISCO EARLY CARE EDUCATORS RESOURCE PROGRAM (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/07/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/08/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038389800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CINDERELLA BAKERY & CAFE - THE MISSION, 2937 24TH ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed 24TH CINDERELLA BAKERY, INC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/02/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/07/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29 DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038380100 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FAMILY STONE CHOCOLATE, 1049 MARKET ST #103, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103. This business is conducted by a corporation, and is signed HSF HOLDINGS, INC (CA).

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/29/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/30/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038374800 The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CROSSROADS PIZZERIA CAFE, 1596 MARKET ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed UNIVERSAL CAFE DELICANCIES LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 10/25/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 10/25/18.

NOV 15, 22, 29, DEC 06, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE A-038387700

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BREAKTHROUGH PERSPECTIVES, 950 LINCOLN BLVD #29095, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94129. This business is conducted by a limited liability company, and is signed CTMG LLC (CA). The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the above listed fictitious business name or names on 11/06/18. The statement was filed with the City and County of San Francisco, CA on 11/06/18.

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Taylor Mac in a Machine Dazzledesigned holiday ensemble.

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equiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite” will have its San Francisco premiere on Nov. 16 & 17 at Grace Cathedral. The piece is an evening-length choral work by singer-composer Holcombe Waller, created to honor those who have suffered persecution due to their sexual orientation or gender expression. “Requiem Mass” is presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in collaboration with Grace Cathedral’s Ghiberti Foundation.

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“Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite” composer/ conductor Holcombe Waller.

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16 • Bay Area Reporter • November 15-21, 2018

Pacifica holiday

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Sam’s Castle, high above the Pacific Coast shoreline, was a highlight of a stay in Pacifica.

by Roberto Friedman

“P

acific” has always seemed a complete misnomer for the wild, raging, tempestuous ocean that pummels our western coast.

But “Pacifica” is a fine name for the small community nestled beside it in the coastal fog, straddling Highway 1 just south of San Francisco.

Out There spent a couple of days there last month, representing gay media on a wee press trip.

A veteran of many a press jaunt, OT finds they are generally misunderstood by civilians. It’s not like

we’re lounging by the pool, sipping daiquiris all day. Our itineraries are usually packed full, from early in the morning until late at night, with sightseeing highlights, site tours and other media availabilities. We really learn about a place, in this case a small city just 10 minutes’ drive time from our southern flank.

It’s also a good opportunity for us to meet our colleagues in the media world. Over the years this has gone from publishers, fellow editors, reporters, columnists and travel writers to bloggers, micro-bloggers, tweeters and “influencers.” In Pacifica we

made the acquaintance of a young woman who changed clothes several times a day, celebrating her Size 0 wardrobe for Instagram moments; a retiree who parlayed his love for outdoor grilling and Stateside travel into a popular leisure blog; a website editor specializing in listicles; and a pair of correspondents from the largest Chinese-language TV network in North America, who disappeared shortly after the first “getting-toknow-you” dinner.

All of these people were worth meeting. Like most journos, they have curious minds and ask plenty

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of questions. We’ve met freelance writers this way who became contributors. We’ve absorbed wisdom and expertise from more experienced editors. We’ve learned what not to do.

We also learned new skills at a workshop for travel writers splashing around in the ever-expanding Twittersphere. It was so hashtag easy to generate meaningless hashtag content, which was then hashtag fodder for other hashtag writers and editors to respond to or hashtag retweet! All for one, and one for all, some valuable lessons logged.

Pacifica itself welcomed us with open arms. Our room at the Lighthouse Hotel overlooked the breakers of Rockaway Beach.

We dined at Nick’s, home of a famous Dungeness crab sandwich. We savored varietals at the wine bar A Grape in the Fog, and wondered at the providence of tarot card readings underway. We also visited Puerto 27 at the Pacifica Beach Hotel, the Devil’s Slide Tap Room for a yummy lunch, and Pacific’s holistic cannabis dispensary, the aptlynamed Seaweed.

At the Pacifica Coastside Museum, a history museum in the Little

Brown Church built in 1909 as a Presbyterian church, we learned that the original Monterey Jack cheese recipe was swiped from Pacifica. This trauma led us to try samples from Jason Tripp’s local hooch distillery.

Sharp Park Golf Course is owned by the City and County of San Francisco, operated by our Rec and Parks Dept. The course Clubhouse we visited, built as a WPA project in 1932, houses a bar, restaurant and golf shop, and feels vintage.

The climax of our stay in Pacifica was an evening soiree at Sam’s Castle. Henry McCloskey, the late grandfather of anti-war Congressman Pete McCloskey, built the great Gothic castle towering over the sea, which then saw lives as a speakeasy, an illegal abortion clinic, a brothel, and Coast Guard barracks during WWII. Bought and restored by the late Sam Mazza in 1958, the castle is now owned by a foundation and used for charitable purposes.

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to the Method by her Malibu neighbor, Lee Strasberg, who told her she had talent. She headed to New York to get stage experience. Eventually Hollywood discovered her and gave her boring GirlNext-Door roles (“The Tall Story”). Desiring change, she escaped to France, where she met and married Vadim, a ladies’ man who introduced her to free love, exploited her name in films (the campy sci-fi “Barbarella,” with nude scenes), and gave Fonda her daughter Vanessa.

She was exposed to people who made her more politically aware, leading to her embracing the antiVietnam War movement.

This involvement resulted in the biggest regret of her life, posing with North Vietnamese soldiers sitting on an anti-aircraft gun, using polarizing language about POWs and American military that earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane” and the enmity (still) of almost half the country. While she acknowledges her failures, she doesn’t regret the overall mission. Her activism allowed her to meet Hayden, becoming peacemovement royalty through their grass-roots organizing. With her aerobic exercise workout, the bestselling videotape ever (and accompanying book), she funded Hayden’s Campaign for Economic Delivery, and finally overcame decades of bulimia. Hayden resented her success and Hollywood career, which by the time of her divorce was in decline, despite her two Oscars, for “Klute” and “Coming Home.” She was happy to be a trophy wife for Ted Turner, but couldn’t quite muster the total devotion he required, though the sex was great.

Shot from 2015-17, including interviews with admirers Robert Redford (they made three films in 50 years), best friend producer Paula Weinstein, Hayden (before he died in 2016), Turner (despite his dementia), gorgeous son Troy Garrity (with Hayden), stepdaughter Nathalie Vadim, and adoptive daughter Mary Luana Williams,

the principal focus is Fonda herself, commenting on her life. Director Susan Lacey (known for American Master specials and a Steven Spielberg documentary) gives her space to show her evolution, but at times the film has a therapy-session feel to it, and Fonda’s proclivity toward speechifying can be wearying.

Fonda regrets being a poor mother.

Daughter Vanessa wasn’t interviewed. Nor was her brother Peter, both noticeable gaps. But the parts relating to her mother, especially as she visits her grave for the first time, are unexpectedly stirring.

One wishes there had been more commentary on her movie roles, though Lacey’s emphasis on her dramatic rebirth in “They Shoot Horses Don’t They,” her greatest performance, as a turning point is spot-on. In her superstar years, Fonda often picked roles to reflect her politics, i.e., in the anti-nuclear “China Syndrome.” Fonda’s almost confessional honesty about her flaws, fears, failures, and her final observation about herself – being perfect is a toxic journey, good enough is good enough – reveal her complex maturity minus her younger stridency. Viewers will empathize with her quest to find her authentic real self after a rollercoasterlike trajectory, even if it took almost eight decades to arrive at her own shaky enlightenment.t

Becoming Jane Fonda

by Brian Bromberger

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hen they turn 80, most people would probably love to look like Jane Fonda, who appears more like 50. Yes, she’s wealthy and has had cosmetic surgery, but like Barbara Stanwyck she’s one of those women who has grown even more attractive as they’ve aged, both in looks and temperament. She loves lived-in faces like that of her friend Vanessa Redgrave, but admits didn’t have the courage to let nature take its course. Her appearance, by her own admission, is one of the contradictions at the heart of her life and of a new HBO documentary, “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” now available on the cable channel.

The film starts with a recording of President Richard Nixon asking, “What in the world is the matter

with Jane Fonda?” Answering Nixon’s question indirectly structures the movie, which is concerned less with her acting career than with her personal evolution and activism. It uses the effective gimmick of framing each of the major periods of her life through the man that controlled and molded her: “Henry,” for her father Henry Fonda; “Vadim,” for first husband, French director Roger Vadim; “Tom,” for second husband, activist/politician Tom Hayden; “Ted,” for third husband, media mogul Ted Turner; and finally, “Jane.” This structuring leads to the inevitable conclusion that Fonda has become her own person, not needing a man to define her. But the journey, despite having already been essayed in her 2005 bestselling memoir “My Life So Far,” with the assistance of archival footage, is a

fascinating if ambivalent one.

The first segment, the longest and probably most consequential, was being born into Hollywood royalty, which defined Fonda’s early life. Henry Fonda was a cinema icon, the Nation’s Monument, but apparently incapable of expressing any emotions, except perhaps anger, without the aid of a script.

Jane was very much Daddy’s Girl despite his criticism, especially about her weight. She had a distant relationship with her mother, Frances, whom she would later discover was bipolar, and who killed herself when Jane was 12. Henry, who’d had affairs with other women during the marriage, remarried a younger woman, and sent Jane to a posh boarding school where she learned how to become bulimic. She returned home, and was introduced

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18 • Bay Area Reporter • November 15-21, 2018

French Noir: Cinquieme Fois!

by Sura Wood

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t would seem to defy the laws of probability that there could still be undiscovered gems in the vaults of Film Noir, or that the insatiable audience appetite for the dark shadowy genre remains abated, but here comes the fifth iteration of the immensely popular series “The French Had a Name for It,” screening at the Roxie, Nov. 15-21.

Although both American and French Noir teem with wicked, smoldering women and Machiavellian, black-hearted men on their way down or out of town, the focus of this series is a mostly unknown canon its programmer, Don Malcolm, calls “a lost continent of French Noir (close to 600 works) hidden in plain sight for nearly a half-century.” The films are characterized by class consciousness, sexual frankness, cynicism in some cases exacerbated by the German occupation and WWII, and the early use of unconventional leading

men or “monstres sacres” like Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon and Pierre Brasseur, whose forceful, eccentric personalities were more persuasive than their looks. Brasseur appears in three of the 20 tasty movies on a program that includes a double dose of the remote, reliably sultry Jeanne Moreau, circa 1957, and Jean Gabin in his late-career, eminence gris phase. All were made in the 1950s, an era when, according to Malcolm, “French Noir got its fingernails dirty, and covered a wider range of themes than in any other decade in any other country,” reaching its peak just as American Noir was beginning to wane.

Don’t expect to find the likes of Henri-Georges Clouzot and JeanPierre Melville, or yet another restoration of “Rififi” here. Most of the 17 mercurial directors whose works he has rescued from oblivion “are as unjustly obscure as their films,” said Malcolm.

That description doesn’t truly apply to Marcel Carne, who came

off the bench after a dry spell following his 1945 tour de force “Les Enfants du Paradis” to direct “Therese Raquin.” His adaptation of Emile Zola’s 1868 novel of the same name tops an opening-night double bill with a tagline intoning, “Husbands Beware!” because after all, there’s nothing quite as French as adultery. The not-to-be-trifledwith Simone Signoret plays the thwarted adulteress in the tale of a bourgeois woman whose plans to jettison her ailing husband and domineering mother-in-law for a happier life with her lover (Raf Vallone) are threatened by a sinister blackmailer with a propensity for nasty mind games. The screening is followed by “A Man Walks in the City,” a sober, unsentimental movie from across the economic divide that Malcolm has dubbed “rubble noir.” Trapped in a moribund marriage, a desperate, love-starved, working-class wife subsisting in the bleak, bomb-scarred port of Le Havre seeks release and affection

from a friend of her husband. So far, so sad, until the husband in question is suddenly killed and the affair is exposed.

The perils of coupling, from fatally flawed marriages to doomed romance that can be lethal or bad for your health, are staples of noir.

A pair of 1949 films dips into romantic fatalism, presaging the style and themes that would dominate the 1950s. Miss Paris of 1930, the exotic-looking actress Viviane Romance, also known as “the slut goddess of French cinema,” stars in “Maya,” an exercise in poetic anguish, which she also produced.

Tired of being typecast as the object of desire in numerous melodramas and noirs, she got a chance to test her chops as an ill-fated beauty forced to walk the streets and sell her body in a seaside town.

She meets and falls in love with a sailor, but will she be able to escape her past? It’s shown with “The Lovers of Verona,” a “Romeo & Juliet”inspired saga of betrayal and star-

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crossed young lovers featuring a beautiful 16-year-old Anouk Aimee, who would by 1966 achieve international fame in “A Man and a Woman.”

In “Sinners of Paris,” a volatile, over-the-hill gangster with only a few months to live makes a violent escape from the hospital, alarming criminals and cops alike. Michel Piccoli is the unlucky detective assigned to track him down. The 1958 film, regarded as the pinnacle of his late-1950s work, marked the return of director Pierre Chenal. A veteran of taut French noir of the 30s, he was behind the gritty “Le Dernier Tournant” (1939), the first and probably leastknown screen adaptation of James M. Cain’s potboiler “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” which was released seven years before the American version.

Soon after scoring that coup, Chenal was forced to flee the Nazis, and languished in exile for the next two decades Offering a ringside seat to the offscreen and on-screen meltdown of a productive partnership, “Double Agents” stars Marina Vlady playing opposite her then-real-life husband, actor-writer-director Robert Hossein, in one of the four films they made together. Their tumultuous marriage is refracted through the lens of this WWII espionage thriller about two spies irresistibly, violently drawn to one another against their better judgment, an allegory of love and treachery Hossein once called “a monument to a magnificent ruin.” Vivre l’amour!t “The French Had a Name for It 5,” Roxie Theater, Nov. 15-21. roxie. com, midcenturyproductions.com.

Women fighting back

by David Lamble

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ith “Widows,” Afro-British director Steve McQueen completes the fourth in his quartet of films on topics that have shaped

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our modern world. The film shows four women, led by Viola Davis, struggling to repay a staggering debt their husbands incurred with the Chicago crime mob.

Fans of McQueen admire his unique way of concocting stories where plucky heroes and heroines take on mighty evils. “Hunger” (2008) had Michael Fassbinder giving a harrowing take on Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands’ fatal hunger strike protesting British treatment of IRA prisoners.

“Shame” dramatized a man’s (again Fassbinder) addiction to pornography against the backdrop of New York City’s adult sex industry. McQueen’s masterpiece, “12 Years a Slave,” gave a shattering account of how the 19th-century slave trade yanked a free black man from his life and family. McQueen kept us pulling for Solomon Northup (a stirring Chiwetel Ejiofor) against a robust array of villains: Fassbinder, Paul Dano and Paul Giamatti.

“Widows” delivers a huge cast in service of a female-centered crime thriller. Four women who are not initially acquainted share a common misfortune: they’re all survivors of marriages where the men died leaving large debts to Chicago’s corrupt political machine. Adapted from a popular 1983 UK TV series, “Widows” starts out with a bang, a fiery explosion that leads to the death of Veronica’s (Davis) husband Harry Rawlings (Liam Neeson). Soon after-

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Viola Davis in director Steve McQueen’s “Widows.”

wards, Veronica is paid a visit from a mob enforcer, warning that she has a month to come up with $2 million or face severe consequences to herself and her dog. As Veronica reels from the shock, she meets three other women in similar straits: Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo).

They decide to fight back by pulling off a robbery they’re convinced the hoods will not see coming.

The best performance comes

from Davis, who matches her moving turn in “Doubt,” as an African American mother pleading the case for her gay son to attend a Catholic school; and in “Prisoners,” where she gets enmeshed in an ill-advised kidnap plot. When she’s on her game, Davis comes off as an implacable force capable of going down the line to achieve her goals, no matter what the cost.

To their credit McQueen and coscreenwriter Gillian Flynn provide

an elaborate series of flashbacks that attempt to distill Lynda La Plante’s 1983 miniseries. While the sound and fury produced a robust response (including laughter) from a San Francisco preview audience, the end result felt to me like a secondrate Elmore Leonard crime caper, a little too fanciful to be either topdrawer drama or stirring feminist tale, despite first-rate harangues from veterans Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell. (Opens Friday.)t

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November 15-21, 2018 • Bay Area Reporter • 19

November reading list: Creative writing

by Gregg Shapiro

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iction frontier: “The Caregiver” (Simon & Schuster), the gripping final novel by the late gay novelist and filmmaker Samuel Park (who died of stomach cancer at the age of 41 in 2017), draws on his Brazilian birthplace, as well as his experience with illness, to tell the story of Mara, the daughter of an actress who becomes involved with rebels in Rio de Janeiro when she is a child, and of her later life as the caregiver for a woman with stomach cancer.

A collaborative effort by photographer Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), writers Zachary Lipez and Stacy Wakefield, “131 Different Things” (Akashic Books) follows bartender Sam and his sidekick Francis on the odyssey to find Sam’s ex Vicki, who has quit AA and is out on the town drinking up a storm.

Their New York journey takes them to dive bars, gay bars and rocker bars where they encounter the denizens of the night and a series of situations, combining to 131 different things keeping Sam from Vicki.

In “Nate Expectations” (Simon & Schuster), Y/A novelist Tim Federle returns to the momentum of beloved character Nate (after taking a break with “The Great American Whatever” and the self-helper “Life Is Like a Musical”) that he established with “Better Nate Than Ever” and “Five, Six, Seven, Nate!” for the third and final novel in the series.

Dan Callahan, best known for his books about acting and actresses including Vanessa Redgrave and Barbara Stanwyck, turns his attention to fiction with his debut novel “That Was Something” (Squares & Rebels), in which he is able to combine his love and knowledge of cinema in a story about “a beautiful cinephile femme fatale” and a famous Man-

hattan photographer.

The publication of awardwinning writer Janet Mason’s new novel “They: a biblical tale of secret genders” (Adelaide Books) is occurring at the right time. It’s the story of twins, “happily barren” Tamar (“from the Hebrew bible”) and fertile Tabitha, who become the aunt and mother, respectively, to intersex twins, and their encounters with people whose names will be familiar to those who have read the Old and New Testaments.

Poetry portal: The chapbook “Revelations” (Sibling Rivalry Press) by gay poet Ruben Quesada lives up to its name. Consisting of 15 numbered poems by Quesada, and incorporating translations of poems by the late gay Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (about whom Quesada is both an expert and a translator), the work in “Revelations” exists in a realm that is as sacred as it is human.

Compiled from more than 20 years of Rafael Campo’s writing life as a poet and physician, “Comfort Measures Only: New & Selected Poems 1994-2016” (Duke) features poems from six of his books (from “The Other Man Was Me” through “Alternative Medicine”) and more

than 30 new poems, as well as the powerful introductory essay “Illness as Muse.”

Divided into two sections whose titles are borrowed from songs

by Joni Mitchell (“The Urge for Going”) and David Bowie (“This Is Not America”), the 32 poems in “Midnight in a Perfect World” (Sibling Rivalry) by Collin Kelley are as musical as the title, a quote from a DJ Shadow song, suggests. Kelley calls on Joni again in “Night Ride Home,” as well as T. Rex (“20th Century Boy”), Marianne Faithfull and Tom Waits (“Strange Weather”), Kate Bush (“Kate Bush Appears on Night Flight, 1981”) and Kylie Minogue (“I Should Be So Lucky”).

Unusual punctuation aside, in her debut poetry collection “Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across” (Feiwell and Friends), queer singer-songwriter Mary Lambert skirts being the next Jewel by actually writing something akin to poetry. Definitely of the slam variety, the poems in this collection are raw and in-yourface, on subjects ranging from body image to rape, and sexual abuse to love and hate, to beauty and acceptance, and, of course, shame.

William Reichard’s “The Night

Horse: New and Selected Poems” (Brighthorse Books) is comprised of poetry from the Minnesota-based gay poet’s full-length collections “An Alchemy in the Bones,” “How To,” “This Brightness,” “Sin-Eater” and “Two Men Rowing Madly Toward Infinity,” as well as from his limited-edition chapbook “A breath in winter.” Included among the new poems in the book, you will find “American Dream: The Brief Life and Glorious Death of Klaus Nomi.”

Memorable memoirs: With an affectionate and sincere introduction by Jane Fonda, the cleverly titled “Guru” (Dey Street) by RuPaul is as radiant and resplendent as the author himself. Virtually every page features the most famous drag queen in the world in an array of drag-tastic poses dispensing various pearls of wisdom and advice, reflecting on his personal and professional experiences. It’s like having a coffee table book and a consigliore all wrapped up in one appealing package.

Only a poet such as multiple award-winner Maureen Seaton could possibly have created a memoir as poetic as the Lambda Literary Award-winning “Sex Talks to Girls” (Univ. of Wisconsin Press),

finally making its paperback debut.

Economy of language prevails in this book with pieces as short as a paragraph and as long as a couple of pages, ranging in subject from alcoholism to sobriety, from straight to gay, from New York to Chicago.

Subtitled “A toolkit for creativity and radical self-care,” the pocketsized “creative manifesto” “How to Not Always Be Working” (Morrow Gift) by queer writer Marlee Grace is “part workbook, part advice manual, part love letter,” defining “work,” “job” and “breaks,” and the connections to daily life. Grace offers a variety of “practical suggestions” and “philosophical prompts” for the creation of “sacred space.”

Soap actor turned writer and visual artist Thom Bierdz lays it all on the line in his upfront and explicit memoir “Young, Gay & Restless: My Scandalous On-Screen & Off-Screen Sexual Liberations” (thombierdz. com). Not mincing words, Bierdz writes about the stress placed on his sexual orientation due to his Catholic upbringing, then goes into great detail about his sexual exploits, all in an effort to meet three goals: pay the rent, combat sexual shaming and determine if he overcame his “personal sex shaming/issues.” You be the judge.

“Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017” (Duke Univ. Press), by longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, compiles “historical overviews” on Dionysus and the gramophone and critical analyses of musicians from Louis Armstrong to M.I.A., and includes references to LGBTQ subjects such as Joan Armatrading, Rostam Batmanglij, Culture Club, B-52s, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Sleater-Kinney, Imperial Teen, Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Melissa Etheridge, Brandy Clark, Elton John and even the Cockettes.t

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20 • Bay Area Reporter • November 15-21, 2018

Symphonic landscapes

by Philip Campbell

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fall feast of classical music performances is ongoing through November in San Francisco. Concerts large and small are providing a fine soundtrack to the days before Thanksgiving.

The opening night of New Century Chamber Orchestra’s 2018-19 season started the month at Herbst Theatre, marking an important turning point for the conductorless ensemble. Violinist Daniel Hope is beginning his tenure as Music Director, following Nadja SalernoSonnenberg’s remarkable nine years’ guidance as concertmaster.

Hope was not on hand for the recent event, having appeared at the same venue the week before as star of “Air: A Baroque Journey.” Hope took a deserved week off, allowing British violinist Anthony Marwood a chance to lead in his place. Marwood’s international reputation is based on his advocacy of living composers and frequent collaborations with other chamber orchestras.

Thomas Ades and Samuel Adams have written concertos for him, and he made the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honors List. That explains his unusual prominence on NCCO’s opening night. Salerno-Sonnenberg and Hope are also high-energy personalities, but they tend to blend better with the ensemble, even in solo turns. Marwood was the undisputed star of “Opening Night: Anthony Marwood Leads.” That’s less a complaint than an observation,

The concert’s concluding performance of Peteris Vasks’ engrossing Concerto for violin and string orchestra “Distant Light” brought Marwood back as soloist. Typical of the composer’s immersive sound world, the Concerto was an impressive finale.

NCCO returns to various Bay Area venues in February with “Program 2: Recomposed.” Daniel Hope will be concertmaster in Benjamin Britten’s arrangements of works by Purcell and Schumann, Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,” and Max Richter’s “Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons.”

Info: ncco.org.

Zbynek Maderyc, courtesy SFS Last week at Davies Symphony Hall, the San Conductor Jakub Hrusa led “Banned and Boycotted: Francisco Symphony Music of Bartok and Shostakovich” with the San Francisco Symphony. presented a thoughtfully varied concert with returnfor his leadership from center stage James Crabb, opened the concert in ing guest conductor Jakub produced a rich program featuring a haunting way. It seemed to move Hrusa and violinist Karen Gomyo. two contemporary works and a through a windswept sea into a Titled “Banned and Boycotted: lovely rendition of Dvorak’s cheermysterious landscape, a warm and Music of Bartok and Shostakovich,” ful Serenade for Strings in E Major. rowdy pub, then back outdoors into the ambitious bill included a suavely London-born Sally Beamish a luminous night. Marwood was a careful reading of Borodin’s melodihas lived in Scotland for close to sophisticated fiddler in Beamish’s ous Symphony No. 2 and Bartok’s two decades, and one can hear the delightfully roughhewn folk tunes, dark-hued Suite from “The Miracuevocative influence of her home and arranger Crabb partnered him lous Mandarin.” in Stirlingshire, famously known well on accordion.

There was no denying the appeal as the “gateway to the highlands.”

Dvorak’s Serenade ended the first of Borodin’s gorgeous orchestra“Seavaigers” (“Seafarers”), arranged half with a reminder of NCCO’s tions, and the musicians followed for violin, accordion and strings by rich tone and rhythmic solidarity.

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slightly bland performance. Conductor and players really cut loose in Bartok’s initially censored (for the lurid subject matter) ballet score.

The Suite is a tumultuous series of scenes from the violent full-length work. The composer’s startling bursts of savage energy were tempered by the orchestra in moments of strange beauty and a superb solo by principal clarinet Carey Bell.

The true center of the concert was Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto, also subject to censorship in its own way. Repressive Soviet politics made the composer self-censor and hide it away for years, before he could share it in a safer climate.

Young Japanese violinist Karen Gomyo made her SFS debut in 2007. Her recent triumph should assure a faster return next time. Starting slowly with building passion, she made wonderful sense of the composer’s deeply emotional outpouring. Hrusa and the orchestra sympathetically framed her heartstopping virtuosity. Ironic wit was blended with passages of sorrowful lament. When the long, completely involving performance ended, Gomyo summoned more strength for an encore, a pensive Etude #4 from Piazzolla’s Six Tango Etudes.

Michael Tilson Thomas’ “Diary of Anne Frank” and the Beethoven Ninth (a special United Nations Anniversary event) finish November at DSH. Both concerts offer especially well-timed meaning as music-lovers cling to hope for a better new year.

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Queer group therapy

by Gregg Shapiro

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t’s interesting that Boy George and Culture Club would call their new studio album, their first such release in almost 20 years, “Life” (BMG), as that’s the one thing it could use more of. For a group that was so groundbreaking in its early 1980s heyday, Culture Club sounds surprisingly out of touch. You have to wonder what it is they’ve been listening to all these years. At a time when electronic dance music is having a strong resurgence, “Life” would have benefited from some of the house music energy that Boy George incorporated in his 1991 “Martyr Mantras” album.

Instead we get some recycled takes on the band’s longtime flirtation

with reggae on “Let Somebody Love You” and “What Does Sorry Mean?”

The dated “Bad Blood” (not a cover of the Neil Sedaka/Elton John duet) and “Human Zoo” sound like late80s leftovers. But it’s not a total loss.

The brassy, sassy, soulful “Resting Bitch Face” deserves to be a hit.

“Different Man” is the closest thing to a dance number, and it has a powerful if repetitive message. “Oil & Water” is a moving ballad about difference.

Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers is the latest musical incarnation of Against Me! frontperson and trans icon Laura Jane Grace. The biggest challenge for Grace since the release of Against Me!’s 2014 masterpiece “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” is creat-

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ing something as good or better. “Bought to Rot” (Bloodshot) definitely has moments of divine inspiration. The divorce song “I Hate Chicago” is as humorous as it is serious. “The Airplane Song,” which may qualify as Grace’s poppiest and most accessible number, is irresistible. The cowpunk of “Apocalypse Now (& Later)” and “The Apology Song” are a nice fit for an album on a legendary alt-country record label, and “The Friendship Song” is sincere without being cloying.

One of the things that Laura Jane Grace understands about rock bombast is that variety breaks up the monotony. That’s something Honolulubased Kings of Spade, led by out, mohawked frontwoman KC, will have to learn. Some of the songs on Kings of Spade’s new selftitled album (on Soundly), which owes a massive debt to Southern blues rock, tend to blur in the bluster.

Queer anthem “Strange Bird” (about rocking to the beat of your own drum) is worth checking out, but you might find it sonically indistinguishable from “Way She Goes,” “San Antone” and “This Child.” The rap-metal (remember that?) of “Bottoms Up” changes things up a bit, but Kings of Spade would profit from playing some of the other cards in its deck.

Addie Sartino, the queer frontwoman of young Kansas City-based band The Greeting Committee, is at the opposite end of the spectrum from Laura Jane and KC on the debut disc “This Is It” (Harvest). No howling, no screaming, just pleasing singing. That’s one of The Greeting Committee’s trademarks. Whether

Sartino’s singing about when she was “just a kid” and wondering whether this is all there is on “Is This It?” or settling down after spinning out on “Pull It Together,” The Greeting Committee sounds older and wiser than you might think. The band’s wonderful use of piano and horns gives them a sophisticated sheen. When the band rocks out, as on “Flint,” it’s a welcome distraction. Make a point of saying hello to The Greeting Committee.

Named for their “aged arch top

guitars,” Roscoe & Etta is a duo featuring out singersongwriter Maia Sharp and Anna Schulze. Sharp is comfortable sharing the spotlight (she recorded an album with Art Garfunkel and Buddy Mondlock), so it’s not surprising to hear she has teamed with another singer-songwriter to form a duo. The outstanding eponymous 11-song Roscoe & Etta debut album (Crooked Crown Records) showcases both artists’ songwriting and performance chops, with “Broken Headlights,” “Chocolate Sauce” and “Somebody” among the highlights.

Bay Area duo Book of J (Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess and Jeremiah Lockwood of The Sway Machinery) combines their talents on their selftitled debut (3rd Generation Records). The baker’s dozen “bible-haunted,” queerly political tunes that crossbreed Americana with Jewish folk music might make some listeners proclaim, “Funny, you don’t look blues-ish!” If you have daring taste in music, Book of J might be your cup of kasha varnishkes.

For a different kind of group effort, check out “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie: Original West End Cast Recording” (Broadway). Dan Gillespie Sells, the gay frontman of the band The Feeling, wrote the music for the musical. The book and lyrics are by Tom MacRae. It’s based on the BBC documentary “Jamie: Drag Queen at 16,” and stars John MacRea as the titular character Jamie New. The songs on the cast recording alternate between contemporary musical theater fare (“Over the Top”) and dance-oriented numbers (“Work of Art”).t

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Towards better trans understanding

by Tim Pfaff

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s Masha Gessen said in print before I could, things happened and were said at the interment service for Matthew Shepard at Washington Cathedral on Oct. 26 (YouTube has several complete videos) that surpassed expectation. In his sermon, Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man to become a bishop in the Episcopal Church, didn’t just say but emphasized, “Violence takes lots of forms, and right now the transgender community is the target. There are forces about that would erase them from America, deny them the right they have to define themselves, and they need us to stand with them.”

Columbia University assistant professor of sociology Tey Meadow responded to that same, ripe-forelection-season government bluster with a blog post, “America the Bully: What the Trump Administration Memo on Gender Means for Trans Kids” (https://www.ucpress.edu/ blog/39314/america-the-bullywhat-the-trump-administrationmemo-on-gender-means-fortrans-kids/).

I provide the link because it is a necessary appendix to Meadow’s new “Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” (UC Press). Despite being one of the most essential reads since “trans” went, in her words, from “just an identity” to “an industry,” it never

resorts to the sensational to be gripping, compassionate and itself intellectually fluid. Even the necessary first chapter, which performs duties more typical of a Ph.D. dissertation, takes the trouble to be interesting and engaging. It feels dated only in its expectation of yet richer things to come and its wariness of future blowback by governmental blackand-whiters.

As for the Bishop’s injunction, it bears noting that while the LGBTQA+ community has been overall commendable in its support of trans individuals and causes, such deficiency as is there is directly owing to the fact that, however sympathetic, the majority of LGBTQ in-

dividuals nevertheless have scant idea of what it is like to be not just an outsider in society but to feel, function and live fully a gendernonconforming life, say nothing of one in which gender identity is neither singular nor binary, and sometimes in lifelong flux.

The cast of characters in Meadow’s book ranges well beyond her (her preferred pronoun) own, deeply reflective self – which, she concedes, has its own intermittent problems listening without defaulting to culturally deep-seated ideas about gender as something not just binary but fixed. The book’s candor is its strength.

It’s hard to quantify what you don’t know, but my best guess is that “Trans Kids” answered far more than half my questions (including many I hadn’t articulated), then evinced the courage to raise even more than it answered, not because it left things out or because it’s operationally aware that what we know now remains provisional.

It invites readers – and anyone genuinely interested in studying or understanding gender-nonconforming people – to ask questions that reach beyond readily available vocabulary, arguing that that’s the next right, respectful thing to do.

With no pretensions to be comprehensive – rather, with full knowledge that a fixed comprehensiveness is precisely the wrong goal – Meadow has studied select gender-nonconforming and “gendering” indi-

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“Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century” author Tey Meadow.

viduals and their mostly supportive families and social worlds in the eventual understanding that they were, simultaneously, studying her.

Intuitively, that feels like an appropriate application of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Statistics, some presented graphically, mostly appear in a chapter called “The Gender Clinic.” Two softer statistics linger in the mind while reading Meadow’s book. It is estimated that 1% of the population (US, anyway) is gender-nonconforming. And that trans people make up a disproportionate number of people in so-called ex-gay

therapy programs and facilities.

Late in the book, when Meadow has already enthralled you with stories drawn largely from her own work in the field, so rich and individual, she declares: “The new stories told about transgender and gendernonconforming children are changing the very terms by which gender categorization happens. Whereas once we understood gender to be the social expectations that adhere to biological sexual differences, we now understand it to be a fundamental, immutable part of the psychic self that needn’t cohere, in any predictable way, with the materiality of the body.”

Far from a catalogue of pedantic case histories, in Meadow’s stories characters reappear as they do in novels, treated with the same compassion irrespective of the thorniness of particular personalities. Late in the book you learn about how Meadow and two study participants – a mother and daughter, both differently gendered – selected the wonderful photo for the cover, and a great deal suddenly coheres.

The book’s title is equally deliberate, because Meadow’s focus is on the children gendering and being gendered in a new and boundarypushing culture in which the kaleidoscope calls the colors. If, like me, you yearn to push your own, personal, operational understanding of gender in flux beyond slobbering fandom of Virginia Woolf ’s “Orlando,” this is where to start.t

Season of award contenders

by David Lamble

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his time of year is rich with wannabe Golden Globe and Oscar contenders, films that are looking for some box-office love and awards-season hardware.

Some key dates for your awardsseason calendar: Golden Globes Nominations (12/6); Oscar shortlist announced in nine categories, including Best Foreign Film (12/17); Golden Globes Awards on NBC-TV (1/6/2019); Oscar nominations announced (1/22); 90th Annual Academy Awards on ABC-TV (2/24).

Here are a dozen award candidates, followed by their tentative national release dates, as of presstime. Bay Area release dates may and will vary.

“Vox Lux” This latest version of “A Star is Born” stars “Black Swan” star Natalie Portman as a troubled pop icon in actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s second narrative.

Corbet, you may recall, was one of the boys in peril in Gregg Araki’s screen version of gay novelist Scott Heim’s “Mysterious Skin.” (National release date: 12/7)

“At Eternity’s Gate” Artist Julian Schnabel, who helmed 2000’s “Basquiat,” about the short life of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, is back with a biopic on Dutch master painter Vincent Van Gogh, with Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh. The actor recently received an acting award at the Venice Film Festival. (11/16) “Cold War” Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski’s memoir about the post-WWII adventures of his mom and dad is a Foreign Language Oscar contender set for national release on Dec. 21.

“Destroyer” The ubiquitous Nicole Kidman returns to big screens as a world-weary LA private eye, directed by Karyn Kusama, who debuted with the 2000 boxing film “Girlfight.” (12/25) “The Favourite” A drama concerning backstage intrigue at the court of Queen Anne from director Yorgos Lanthimos, featuring performances from Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone. (11/23) “The Front Runner” A little post-election nostalgia may be stirred up by director Jason Reit-

Willem Dafoe as Dutch master painter Vincent Van Gogh, in director Julian Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate.”

man’s drama about the scandalaborted 1988 presidential bid by then-Colorado Senator Gary Hart.

(November) “If Beale Street Could Talk” The work of gay African American novelist James Baldwin gets a boost in this drama from “Moonlight” helmer Barry Jenkins. The story concerns the problems facing a young Harlem straight couple when the man is falsely accused of a crime.

(11/30) “On the Basis of Sex” On the heels of “RBG,” a popular bio-doc about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mimi Leder helms this narrative feature, with Felicity Jones as the scrappy young female attorney working her way up the legal totem pole. (12/25) “The Mule” Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as both actor and director, in the true-life adventure of a 90-year-old man who became a drug runner for a notorious Mexican drug cartel. Eastwood, who has a track record dating back into the 1950s, was last represented in the award-season sweepstakes by 2014’s “American Sniper.”

(12/14) “Green Book” Fresh off its People’s Choice Award at the Toronto film festival, director Peter Farrelly presents the 1962-set road comedy about the friendship between a black pianist (Mahershala Ali) and his Italian American chauffer (Viggo Mortensen). (11/21) “Mary Poppins Returns” Director Rob Marshall (2003’s “Chicago”) provides this Poppins reboot with Emily Blunt in the Julie Andrews role and LinManuel Miranda filling CBS Films Dick Van Dyke’s shoes as a cockney song-anddance man. (12/19) “Mary Queen of

Scots” Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”) and Margot Robbie (“I Tonya”) are dueling monarchs in director Josie

Rourke’s costume drama, with a screenplay by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon. (12/7)t

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Costume designer Machine Dazzle at the Curran Theatre.

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Machine Dazzle

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During Mac’s interview two nights before Halloween, the MacArthur-winning theater artist specifically name-checked Dazzle as the creator of his costume, a shimmering, multi-colored tinsel haystack surrounded by a small galaxy of floating orbs. Then, during a rousing performance of Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power,” Mac called for the designer to join him onstage. In the last few seconds of the network-sanctioned video clip, you can see an out-of-focus Dazzle, still hard to miss at 6’5” with Caution-tape yellow sashes around a sparkly frock, making his way onstage behind the back-up singers,

tossing confetti as Colbert bids his audience goodnight.

But viewers who saw the original broadcast know that as the band continued to play under the closing credits, Dazzle worked his way downstage, where his embrace of Mac went quickly horizontal as Mac spread his legs and Dazzle’s prismatically gleaming ass arched up and thrust down in the camera’s gaze. It was among the queerest moments ever televised.

Bay Area audiences can expect 11 sessions of be-Dazzled faerie festivity when “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” pours onto the stage of the Curran Theatre like so much glittery gravy, beginning November 21.

The seasonally-themed spectacle is an appendix of sorts to Mac’s opus,

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Composer Holcombe Waller leads a group of workshop attendees rehearsing “Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite.”

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Requiem Mass

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“‘Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite’ is a radical appropriation of a European, patriarchal tradition, the formal Latin Mass, which we reinterpret through the lens of the marginalized LGBTQ experience,” Holcombe Waller told the Bay Area Reporter. “In many ways, the result is like an alternate universe in which the millennia of queer leadership in communities of faith have been out all along, shining their example of loving equity across all people. This is what the piece seeks to dream into being.”

Waller said that it was the Mormon and Catholic Churches’ support for Proposition 8, the California ballot measure of a decade ago that sought to define marriage as between one man and one woman, that inspired him to create the work.

“At that time, I realized that the queer arts owed it to organized religion to intervene,” he said. “It’s so misguided to apply Christian

tenants against equitable social justice. It’s sort of a no-brainer to offer some ceremonial counterpoint.

Music brings people together. It creates fellowship and shared experience. It disarms, it softens, it connects with heart. A Requiem calls on our common mortality. These were all points of inspiration.”

Waller noted that he wasn’t terribly concerned with how Catholic Church leaders might feel about the Requiem Mass. He feels the Church has its hands full with its history of supporting and covering up sex crimes against children. “I can’t really imagine how they might feel about this work, but I can say that the Catholic Church should immediately and irrevocably end all discrimination against LGBTQ people,” he said. “End the bans of intimacy, end the judgment, end the discrimination. There is no theological basis for it, the quoted ‘clobber passages’ are never in the spirit of the original texts anyway. Everyone knows it.”

The Requiem Mass is, first and

“A 24-Decade History of Popular Music”, a highlight of the Curran’s 2017 season.

“Visually, San Francisco audiences are in for more of a treat,” said Dazzle (born Matthew Flower), comparing the show’s 10-day residency here to the two- and one-night-stands that will follow next month in Los Angeles and New York. “I’ll be doing a set there [in SF], as well as the costumes and being onstage as part of the show.

You’re basically going to be getting a triple whammy, looking at me and my work the entire time.

“Some of my friends wish that I’d gotten more recognition,” said Dazzle of his collaborations with Mac, which date back to “The Lily’s Revenge,” Mac’s 2009 play, which they brought to the Magic Theater here in 2011. But far from feeling as if he’s working in service of another artist’s vision, Dazzle said that Mac’s confidence in his own work allows him to generously share the spotlight. Prior to working with Mac, Dazzle cobbled together a living through a variety of artistic endeavors, including jewelry design and creative work in the downtown New York nightlife scene.

“Taylor could afford any designer, and he chooses me,” said Dazzle.

“Most performers are insecure, which means that designers don’t necessarily get their say. The performers want to have their hand in everything. They’re very controlling. Taylor likes to go outside his comfort zone.”

Dazzle said that in preparing for “Holiday Sauce,” Mac simply gave him a loose, overall description of “Christmas as calamity. Everything you love and hate about it: the shopping, the hustle-bustle, the magic, the changing season, the Solstice, the family. And he thought there was room for him to wear two looks.”

“And that,” said Dazzle, “is how we collaborate. He doesn’t tell me how to do the job. I hear him out and come in with a look. And then he goes with it.”

Dazzle said that he and Mac have a certain degree of inherent aesthetic harmony. “We have lots of the same friends, we’ve gone to the same clubs and parties and bars for years.” But his costume designs spring from his own mind.

“I get to make the decisions,” he said. “The costumes are in tune with what Taylor is saying, but they don’t illustrate specific songs. I’m a conceptualist, the costumes are full of ideas.”

For the first of Mac’s two outfits in “Holiday Sauce,” Dazzle decided to lean on traditional colors – red, green and white – and a shiny prettiness, but to incorporate negative “Grinch elements” into the superficially cheerful appearance. “When you look closely, the outfit becomes grotesque,” he said. “There are green Medusa snakes slithering around in the wig. The hoop skirt has little elf hands that are reaching down as if they’re going to grab something.”

foremost, a prayer for the peaceful repose of the dead who suffered persecution for their sexual orientation or gender expression.

“The AIDS crisis was a particular reckoning with how oppression and judgment, often amplified by nonLGBTQ-affirming religious institutions, can literally wrest compassion and understanding from the grasp of humanity,” Waller said. “I believe in my heart that people are innately loving.”

He pointed to the lyrics of “Carefully Taught,” a song from the classic musical “South Pacific.” “You’ve got to be carefully taught to hate, you’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, before you are six or seven or eight.”

“AIDS would have been a crisis with or without the mainstream culture’s marginalization of gay men at that time,” he said. “But layering cultural judgment and oppression on top of the crisis did everything from cast blame to slow tactical response for years and years. So of course the work invokes the peaceful repose of those we lost in the AIDS crisis, but it also specifically addresses the general and quite ancient arc of LGBTQ oppression and persecution that flowed through the AIDS crisis.

In this way, the Requiem’s prayer for the peaceful rest of those who suffered persecution is also a cry for an end to the cultural construct of LGBTQ persecution.”

The piece conveys the true, loving and inclusive messages of the Christian texts, Waller said. “For many who grew up in religious contexts who felt alienated for their gender expression or sexuality, the piece may feel cathartic and surprisingly uncanny in how it intersects the familiarity of High Church with the incredibly queer-affirming love, despite the fact that it’s right there in all of the most basic Christian ideals.”

The Mass will be performed with an all-abilities choir, he added. “Be-

cause the Requiem prays for those persecuted for their marginalized gender or sexual identity, the supporting panel of advisers to the project here in the Bay Area felt that we must measure our success by the total accessibility of the community engagement process. Otherwise we would be turning our backs on those who are most marginalized even within our contemporary LGBTQ space. That would be out of line with the project’s mission.”

The choir, Waller pointed out, is the heart and soul of Requiem Mass.

“They are the embodiment of loving, spirit-driven queer identity that the Requiem dreams into being.

And they can be atheists, Christians, or any strand of religion,” he said. “I myself am not religious. The music brings the focus together.”

Waller acknowledged that even today many LGBTQ people contin-

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There are photos of this first outfit in promotional materials, but Dazzle declined to discuss the second, hoping it can remain something of a surprise.

From Mac’s late-night television shout-outs to a short profile in The New Yorker by Hilton Als, to his recent gig as Grand Marshal of the Village Halloween Parade, Dazzle has, in fact, been getting a little more public recognition of late.

“But it’s not part of any career advancement plan. I’ve always survived doing my own thing. I’ve never applied for an artist’s grant.

And now, these last few years have been great. I’m 45 years old. I get to travel and make art, and I get paid for it.

“I’m not really part of the New York theater world,” Dazzle explained. “My work all happens in my head. In some ways I’m an artist trapped in the role of a costume designer. I’m not going to be hired to design Broadway shows. People want to know what they’re getting, and that’s not the way I work. I can’t do sketches before I do a costume, I just have to start building it.”t

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Costume designer Machine Dazzle shows off a shoe.

ue to face persecution. “Despite all of the strides we’ve made, it is still a challenge to be LGBTQ today, even in the Bay Area, for many people, particularly queer people of color and trans people,” he said. “The lack of equity is so real. The barriers span cultural, socio-economic and geographic space. It takes real work to overcome these barriers. Speaking as a cis white male, we who don’t face these challenges can forget this.

We can coast on privilege without doing the work to continue the march toward a more fully equitable society.”t Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite, Nov. 16 & 17, 7:30 PM, Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., SF. ($12-$32) Post-show reception with Holcombe Waller on Nov. 16. www. ybca.org/whats-on/requiem-massa-queer-divine-rite

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Holcombe Waller leads a group of workshop attendees in “Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite” at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral.

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The Return Of Lavender Country Triple bill of tasty twangin’ tunes

by David-Elijah Nahmod 1973 saw the release of Lavender Country, the first gay country album. The album was produced by Seattle-based Patrick Haggerty, a gay man who describes himself as a die-hard fan of country music, and a socialist. It was an underground album. Only 1,000 copies were produced on vinyl and sold through Fag Rag, an early gay publication. When the album sold out, Lavender Country disbanded for forty years.

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Patrick Haggerty of Lavender Country

Nightlife Events

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Fri 16 Asheq @ Oasis

Holidays approach, and with them, a buffet of nightlife appetizers, entrees, and desserts.

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Thu 15 Absolutely Fabulous Live @ Oasis Edina (Terry McLaughlin) and Patsy (Michael Phillis) return in comic drag performances of episodes from the BBC comedy favorite. $27-$50. Thu 8pm, Fri & Sat 7pm, thru Dec. 1. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Gina Yashere @ PunchLine The insightful British comic returns. $18-$22. 8pm. Also Nov 16 & 17.

444 Battery St. www.punchlinecomedyclub.com

Hoe Is Life @ The Stud Unapologetically slutastic night with hosts LaLa and Remy. $5-$10. 9pm4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Joan Baez @ The Masonic, Fox Oakland The legendary folk singer-composer performs classic and new music with her band. $100 and up. 8pm. 1111 California St. http://sfmasonic.com/ Also Nov 17 & 18 at the Fox Oakland, 1807 Broadway. $55-$125. 8pm. www.joanbaez.com

Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest, with sexy prizes. $5. 10pm2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Nightlife @ California Academy of Sciences Enjoy exhibits, cocktails and DJed grooves at the amazing natural history museum. $12-$15. 6pm-9pm. 55 Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park. www.calacademy.org

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The Orb @ The Independent The groovy “Little Fluffy Clouds” electronic music group performs; DF Tram opens. $25-$30. 8pm. 628 Divisadero St. www.theorb.com http://apeconcerts.com

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

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Thump @ White Horse, Oakland Weekly electro music night with DJ Matthew Baker and guests. 9pm-2am.

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

Van Morrison @ The Fox, Oakland The R&B/rock icon performs with his band. $89-$250. 8pm. 1807 Telegraph Ave., Oakland. thefoxoakland.com

Fri 16 Access Happy Hour @ Oasis Early fun in the Fez Room with Linty, performances, raffles and more. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Asheq @ Oasis The LGBTQ Middle Eastern/North African dance party celebrates its 4th anniversary with DJ Nile, bellydancing, gogos and grooves. $15.

10pm-2am. 298 11th St. sfoasis.com

Comedy Returns @ El Rio The monthly gigglefest this time features Bernadette Luckett, Joe Klocek, Chey Bell, Priyanka Wali and host Lisa Geduldig. $10-$20. 7pm.

3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com

Creature @ The Stud Marie Antoinette themed drag night; powder, wigs, cake and guillotines! $5-$10. 9pm-4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Gaymer Night @ SF Eagle Projected video games, board games and drink specials; it’s nerd heaven, with host Johnny Rockitt. 8pm-2am.

398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Fantasy Friday @ Divas Weekly drag shows at the last transgender-friendly bar in the Polk; with hosts Victoria Secret, Alexis Miranda and several performers. Also Thursdays and Saturdays; Thursday karaoke night. $10. 10pm. 1081 Polk St. www.divassf.com

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

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

Make Out Party @ SF Eagle Nark Magazine’s monthly smoochfest, with cool grooves by DJs Robin Simmons and Elaine Denham, Shot in the City’s Jello shots photo booth, too. $10. 8pm-2am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Whufff @ Powerhouse Pedal Pups’ kinky night and fundraiser for the SF AIDS LifeCycle, with gogo dogs and more. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Fri 16

Priyanka Wali at Comedy Returns @ El Rio

You Betta Work Comedy Feista @ San Mateo County Pride Center Jesus U Betta Work’s monthly night of queer stand-up. $5. 7:30pm. 1021 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. www.jesusubettawork.com

Sat 17 50 Years of Fabulous @ Proxy Screening of the documentary about the SF Imperial Court, with Marlena’s Follies, after-party at Dobbs Ferry Bar. $10-$20. 6pm. 432 Octavia St. www.imperialcouncilsf.org

Beatpig @ Powerhouse Juanita MORE! and her crew’s monthly diverse fun night, with DJ Stanley Frank. $5. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Macho Macho @ SF Eagle LGBTQ Latinx leather night with drag queens Kochina, Vanity, host God’s Little Princess, and Latin grooves. $5 (mustache? Free entry). 9pm-2am.

398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Sun 18 Chocolate Salon @ County Fair Bldg.

Enjoy specialty chocolates from 25+ local companies. $10-$20. 1199 9th Ave at Lincoln Way, Golden Gate Park. www.fallchocolatesalon.com

Community Well Fundraiser @ El Rio Benefit for the holistic care/wellness group, with DJs Senor Gigio, Dheen, Paki Paya, King I-Vier, raffles, silent acution, food vendors. $10-$100. 3pm8pm. 3158 Mission St. www.elriosf.com www.communitywellsf.com

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

Disco Daddy @ SF Eagle

Eclectic music night. $5-$10. 9pm4am. 399 9th St. www.studsf.com

Shake it to DJ Bus Station John’s disco treasures at the monthly T-dance. $5$7. 7pm-1am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Mother @ Oasis

Invested @ Oasis

Mixed Forms @ The Stud

Heklina’s popular drag show, with special guests and great music themes. Nov. 17 is a Janet Jackson tribute with special guest Shangela.

DJ Omar plays grooves. $15-$30.

10pm-3am (11:30pm show).

298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

House of 2019 drag ball and contest, with host Sister Phyliss, DJs Juan and TinyTim, and contestants in a variety of categories. $15. 4pm-9pm. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Jock @ The Lookout

DJ Brd spins grooves at the bear bar. $5. 9pm-2am. 1354 Harrison St. www.lonestarsf.com

Enjoy the weekly jock-ular fun, with DJed dance music at sports team fundraisers. 12pm-1am. NY DJ Sharon White from 3pm-6pm. 3600 16th St. www.lookoutsf.com

Troop Beverly Hills @ Castro Theatre

Juanita’s Drag Brunch @ MORE/Jones

Redroxx @ Lone Star Saloon

Peaches Christ’s latest drag theatrical show includes a parody show of Troop Beverly Hills followed by the film ($20-$50, 8pm. 429 Castro St.), with an after-party at Beaux (10pm, 2344 Market St.) hosted Beverly Chills with DJ Freddy Fiers. peacheschrist.com

Juanita MORE’s new daytime drag show on the restaurant’s scenic courtyard terrace. Entrees $14-$21.

11am-3pm. Wednesday Fried Chicken nights, too. 620 Jones St. www.juanitamore.com

Mon 19 Karaoke Night @ SF Eagle Sing along, with host Beth Bicoastal, plus prizes, local celeb judges, and $2 draft beer. 8pm-12am. 398 12th St. www.sf-eagle.com

Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge The weekly women’s (and a few men) burlesque show. $7-$12.

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Lavender Country

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On November 18, the now-revived band will perform at Queer Country Showcase, a country music concert at the Ivy Room in Albany.

The evening will also include performances by Velvetta, a band that features vocalists Leigh Crow and Ruby Vixen, who also cohost the Oasis drag king show Dandy. Velvetta describes itself as “purveyors of country cheese.”

Secret Emchy Society, a band fronted by Cindy Emch, Oakland’s “First Lady Of Queer Country,” rounds out the evening.

For Haggerty, his return to the stage came as a complete surprise.

“Someone put my song ‘Cryin’ These Cocksucker Tears,’ the song that sank Lavender Country, on You Tube,” Haggerty said in an interview with the Bay Area Reporter.

“A music aficionado in Chicago named Jeremy Cargill went to Ebay and found an old vinyl, so Lavender Country fell on new ears. Jeremy realized what it was, raw, gutsy and gritty music from the Stonewall era.”

Cargill took the album to Paradise of Bachelors, a small independent record label.

“They offered me a contract to reissue Lavender Country in 2014,” Haggerty said. “I’m finishing a second album now, all the good stuff that I’ve written but never used before.”

When he appears at the Ivy Room, Haggerty will be performing songs from both albums.

“A lot of the set will be original Lavender Country stuff,” he said.

“One song, called ‘Gay Bar Blues,’ was going to be on the original album, but will be on the new album.

We’ll be doing it at The Ivy Room.”

From an early age, Haggerty was destined to be a country musician.

He was raised in Dry Creek, a rural town in Washington State, situated on the Canadian border. His father, Charles Haggerty, was a tenant dairy farmer.

“I had a fun childhood,” Haggerty recalls. “I was a popular kid. My biggest childhood complaint was the hard farm labor.”

In spite of the town’s redneck environment, Haggerty said that he was loved and supported by his dad.

“My father led the pack on how to deal with me,” he said. “By 1950, when I was six he was clear on what he had on his hands. I was femme in a butch world. He was well-seasoned as a parent by the time he got to me. I’m sixth out of eleven children, so he felt it was his responsibility to love whatever child he had.

My father imbued me with self-confidence and pride as a sissy. He was a saint disguised as a bumpkin but I didn’t realize that until he was years in his grave.”

It was during his childhood that Haggerty discovered country music.

“My environment led me to country,” he said. “It was all over the radio, that was all there was. I cut my teeth on it.”

Country legends like Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Woody Guthrie, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn are among his musical influences.

“I wrote the world’s first gay country album because my dad said I could,” Haggerty said. “I didn’t fall off a turnip truck. I’m standing on my father’s shoulders.”

But Lavender Country proved to be both a blessing and a curse.

“Making Lavender Country made me poisoned in the business for forty years,” he said. “No one in the industry wanted to touch me. I did various things over the years. I have a degree in social work and I worked for the Seattle Human Rights Department, doing discrimination investigation.”

Now, at age 74, Haggerty is living in a small town near Seattle, singing

Miss Kitty’s Trivia Night @ Wild Side West The weekly night includes prizes, hosted by Kitty Tapata. No cover.

7pm-10pm. 424 Cortland St. 647-3099. wildsidewest.com

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Thanksgiving Potluck @ Lone Star Saloon

Pillows @ Powerhouse Glamamore’s crafts and creative drag night. 9pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Underwear Night @ 440 Strip down to your skivvies at the popular men’s night. 9pm-2am. 440 Castro St. 621-8732. the440.com

Tue 20 Drool @ Powerhouse Hollow Eve’s strange drag show and odd music night. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

Retro Night @ 440 Castro Jim Hopkins plays classic pop oldies, with vintage music videos. 9pm-2am.

44 Castro St. www.the440.com

Vice Tuesdays @ Q Bar Queer femmes and friends dance party with hip hop, Top 40 and throwbacks at the stylish intimate bar, with DJs Val G and Iris Triska. 9pm2am. 456 Castro St. www.QbarSF.com

Wed 21 Bottoms Up Bingo @ Hi Tops Play board games and win offbeat prizes at the popular sports bar. 9pm.

2247 Market St. 551-2500. www.HiTopsSF.com

Comedy Showcase @ SF Eagle Kollin Holtz hosts the open mic comedy night. 5:30pm-8pm. 398 12th St. at Harrison. www.sf-eagle.com

Furrplay @ Oasis Lazy Bear gear party with DJ Bryan Hughes, for bears and their pals/ admirers. $15-$25. 9pm-2am. 298 11th St. www.sfoasis.com

Gigante @ Port Bar, Oakland Juanita MORE! and DJ Frisco Robbie’s weekly event, with Latin, Hip Hop and House music, gogo gals and guys, and a drag show. $5. 9pm-2am. 2023 Broadway, Oakland. www.portoakland.com

Thu 22

(Thanksgiving Day; some bars may be closed) Junk @ Powerhouse MrPam and Dulce de Leche cohost the weekly underwear strip night and contest. $5. 10pm-2am. 1347 Folsom St. www.powerhousebar.com

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

My So-Called Night @ Beaux Carnie Asada hosts a weekly ‘90s-themed night. Get down with your funky bunch, and enjoy 90-cent drinks. ‘90s-themed attire and costume contest. No cover. 9pm-2am.

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to old people in senior homes and enjoying the revival of Lavender Country. He expressed his hope for what the audience will take away from his show at the Ivy Room.

“I want them to take away from the show what I wanted them to take away from the original album,” he said. “Lavender Country is more

than an album, it’s a vehicle for social change. It’s wonderful and profound to be able to use your art to do that.”t Queer Country Showcase at The Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Avenue, Albany. Nov. 18 8pm-11:30pm. $10 www.ivyroom.com

Above: Velvetta Below: Patrick Haggerty with band members of Lavender Country

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Arts Events

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park The amazing acrobatic circus returns for an extended stay with their new show, Volta. $54 and up. various times and dates thru Feb 3. www.circquedusoleil.com

November 15-22

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Kudisan Kai @ Gregangelo Museum

Spend the pre-holidays with some inspiration performing, visual and aural arts.

The powerful vocalist performs and discusses her new book, Memoirs of a Backup Diva, about her amazing musical career. Food, drinks, museum tours, too. $65. 225 San Leandro Way. http://kudisankai.com

Fri 16 Compagnie Käfig @ Zellerbach Hall Brazilian urban dance and capoeira company combines hip-hop, modern dance, and circus arts in its new breakneck production, Pixel. $30$85. 8pm. Also Nov 17. College ave. at Bancroft, UC Berkeley campus. http://calperformances.org/

Thu 15

Hip Hop Dancefest @ Palace of Fine Arts

Cirque du Soleil @ AT&T Park

For full listings, visit www.ebar.com/events

Thu 15 Between Life and Death @ Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Harvey Castro’s photo exhibit of Mexican peoples’ traditional ways of honoring their dead. Thru Dec 13., Tue-Sat 10am-5pm. 2868 Mission St. http://missionculturalcenter.org

Classic and New Films @ Castro Theatre Nov 15: Blue Velvet (7pm) and

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (9:15). Nov 16” snowboarding documentary Face of Winter (7:30). Nov 17: Troop Beverly Hills; Peaches Christ and Trixie Mattel costar in a drag parody show before the film ($30-$75, 4pm & 8pm). Nov 18: The Wizard of Oz (2:30, 7pm) and The Red Shoes (4:30, 8:55). Nov 19: The Sisters Brothers (7pm) and Step Brothers (9:10). Nov 20: Green Book with Viggo Mortenson in-person (7pm, www.sffilm.org). Nov 21: Sing-along The Sound of Music , with hosts Sara Moore and Laurie Bushman (2pm, 7pm, thru Nov 25). $11-$16. 429 Castro St. www.castrotheatre.com

20th annual dance festival with many ensembles performing vibrant breakdancing, popping and locking, and freestyle group dances. $25$55. Also Nov 17 & 18. 3301 Lyon St. www.sfhiphopdancefest.com

Marga Gomez @ The Marsh, Berkeley Return engagement of the comic’s hit show, Latin Standards. $25$100. Fri 8pm, Sat 8:30pm. Thru Nov. 17. 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. www.margagomez.com

Requiem Mass: A Queer Divine Rite @ Grace Cathedral Holcombe Walker’s new choral work; with ASL interpretation, supertitles in English & Spanish. $9.50-$32.

7:30pm. Also Nov 17. 1100 California St. gracecathedral.org

You Betta Work Comedy Fiesta @ San Mateo Pride Center Jesus U Betta Work’s monthly night of queer stand-up. $5. 7:30pm.

1021 South El Camino Real, San Mateo. www.jesusubettawork.com

Sat 17 It’s a Wonderful Life @ War Memorial Opera House Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s innovative operatic adaptation of the Frank Capra film. $26-$370.

7:30pm. Also Nov 20, 24, 25, 29, Dec 1, 4, 7 & 9. 301 Van Ness Ave. https://sfopera.com/

Michael Franti @ Nourse Theater The celebrated local musician (Spearhead, Disposable Heroes of Hip Hoprisy) appears at the screening of Stay Human, the documentary covering his music and activism. $ pm. 275 Hayes St. https://www.michaelfranti.com

Sun 18 Mark Abramson @ Dog Eared Books The prolific local author ( Sex, Drugs & Disco and Beach Reading series) reads from and discusses his new book, Farm Boy, A Memoir with Recipes. 4pm. 489 Castro St. https://markabramson.net/ www.dogearedbooks.com

Painting is My Everything @ Asian Art Museum Art From India’s Mithila Region, thru Dec 30. Also, contemporary works by Kim Heecheon and Liu Jianhua; also, exhibits of sculpture and antiquities. Sunday café specialties from $7-$16. Free-$20.

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm. 200 Larkin St. http://www.asianart.org/

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Mon 19 The Posters of Rex Ray @ GLBT History Museum New exhibit, A Picture Is a Word: The Posters of Rex Ray, survey of the graphic works of internationally renowned San Francisco queer artist and designer (1956 - 2015). $5. 4127 18th St. www.glbthistory.org

Tue 20 Trans Day of Resilience @ SF Public Library Screening of the documentary about Washington D.C. trans youth. Free.

4pm, Koret Auditorium, lower level, 100 Larkin St. www.sfpl.org

Wed 21 Taylor Mac @ Curran Theater The dizzyingly talented super-queer singer-performer brings Holiday Sauce to SF, a rollicking celebration and calamitous critique of Christmas. $29-$469. Thru Dec. 1.

450 Geary St. https://sfcurran.com

Thu 22 Plant Collections @ SF Botanical Garden Open Thanksgiving! Visit the lush gardens with displays of trees, flowers and shrubs from around the world. Monthly plant sales, plus art exhibits and gift shop. Free entry with SF proof of residency. $5-$10 for others. 7:30am-closing.

9th Ave at Lincoln Way. https://sfbotanicalgarden.org/ To submit event listings, email events@ebar.com Deadline is each Thursday, a week before publication.

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